The Great Ignoring

As wars for Israel’s existence rage on multiple fronts, it continues to fascinate me that so many people miss what Israel is all about. This is due to many factors.

American and European seminaries have been breeding grounds for unbelief since at least the 19^th century. That usually surprises people. We think our seminaries are “safe places.” They are not. The Germans and British were harming the faith and turning out confused pastors by 1860. This has filtered down through the modern Church Growth Movement, because the devil is very clever. He molds untruths to fit his agenda.

Too, the Bible predicts that the Church will have its share of lukewarm Christians, and those that love their soft religion.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” (2 Timothy 4:3,4)

What we are seeing now is literally a fulfillment of prophecy, and a very obvious one. But most Christians today in the pews do not know about this verse because no one has taught it to them. What they do know is Joel Osteen, Jesus Calling, and verses meant for the Jews but lifted by the Church. That is all pure trash. (Btw, if you want to understand what Jesus Calling is really all about, check out the work by Warren Smith.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

That verse is primarily for the Jews, for Israel. But American Christians have it on coffee mugs and framed prints. Ironic!

We see right now, this day, Israel besieged on every front by enemies. At least seven fronts being engaged right now. I read a report this week detailing how Hamas has reconstituted its forces, using Western weakness to do so. And mocking us as they go. Right now in Gaza, Hamas is melding battlefield strategies (and sophisticated ones) with religious ideology. Iraq, often forgotten in the modern war on terror, is shot-through with Muslim death cult ideology and extreme Jew-hatred. That’s just for starters. The Bible told us Israel would be friendless in the very last days.

But people are missing the importance of prophetic fulfillment. Sure, there are still plenty of prophecy “experts” focusing on fringe topics. That brings in the cash, as people are titillated by teachings they are told are biblical. Meanwhile, scores of prophecies already fulfilled prove the Bible’s authority. Yet these largely go unlearned because it’s not as sexy as speculating which European monarch right now is the antichrist.

Chuck Missler knew, though. He said it many times.

“The Bible is the only book that hangs its entire credibility on its ability to write history in advance, without error.”

Wow! Yes! This is the point. We sit on the very cusp of future history. But so many are blind. Even at the same time the prophecies that outline Israel ending up alone. Those pieces are being put in place.

A report from the Meir Amit Center spells out how Iran is playing the West:

• Senior Iranian officials strongly condemned the elimination of the head of Hamas’ military wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, in the Gaza Strip and emphasized that his death would not harm the path of the “resistance” until the “elimination” of Israel.
• In a statement marking Nakba Day, the Iranian Foreign Ministry emphasized its country’s support for the Palestinian people’s right “to resist occupation and apartheid” and for the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
• Senior Iranian officials reiterated Tehran’s demand for an end to the war in Lebanon as part of its proposal to end the war with the United States. The Houthi leader claimed that Hezbollah’s “resistance” operations are “legitimate.”
• Iran welcomed the formation of the new government in Iraq headed by Ali al-Zaidi.

It’s the same playbook Sadat used in Egypt, and Nasser used as well. This week, a “Captain Allen” on X posted this:

On This Day — May 18, 1967

18 days before the Six Day War, Arab leaders openly broadcast their planned extermination of Israel.

Egypt’s official Voice of the Arabs declared:

“The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence.”

Two days later, with Syrian troops already massed on Israel’s border, Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad declared:

“I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.”

All this rhetoric was predicted in the Bible, regarding Israel’s position in the last days. Yet scores of churches are missing this completely. Bible prophecy is ignored today by most of the American Church.

So we have all this momentous stuff going on around us and fewer people are biblical in their thinking. Again, that in itself is a tremendous fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It is a privilege for us in the minority to see these things falling into place.

As always, I urge you to do your part where you are. We don’t have to try and change the world. We are obligated to reach our families, friends, and others in our personal orbit. The world might be ignoring Israel but we won’t.

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I absolutely love researching stuff. Especially Israel and Bible prophecy.

From the beginning, God just put a love for the Jewish people in my heart. To paraphrase Will Rogers, “I never met a Jew I didn’t like.”

That’s the truth.

I have many Israeli and Jewish friends around the world. I literally like all of them.

I also greatly benefitted from Godly parents and grandparents. Both sides. A huge blessing.

My father taught me that critics of the Bible are really the emperor with no clothes. Their “arguments” are in reality philosophical musings and hatred. After that, and seeing it in person, I never worried about critics again. The truly great Bible scholar and apologist, Robert Dick Wilson said that he understood the heart of the matter:

“I have come now to the conviction that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness of the Old Testament. Whenever there is sufficient documentary evidence to make an investigation, the statements of the Bible in the original texts have stood the test” (Wilson, Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly? p. 10).

Another great defender, and a man that heavily influenced me was Paul Smith. The brother of Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith, Paul at the end of his life produced a book so important, I wish everyone would read it. New Evangelicalism is full of evidence of false teachers in the American Church—where they came from and what their motivations were.

Much of this speaks to the erosion of support for Israel and the Jewish people, in what now passes for Church in America. As always, I refer really to the overall model of the Church Growth Movement, which was and is an intentional effort to destroy real Bible teaching in this country. It incubated for a long time. Many of the modern proponents were young men when Bible teachers reigned, men like Oswald Allis, Walter Martin, and J. Vernon McGee. The men who would replace them in leadership have contempt for real Bible teachers.

Many of them have barely concealed contempt for Jews. Again, if you can get a copy of Paul’s book, you’ll learn much. By the way, it is shameful how Christian Media has treated his book. Even those that should have been advocates quietly quashed it. At the same time, crap was stocked in Christian book markets. Junk and drivel. The meat of the Word is held in low regard today. Paul Smith had the receipts. His research explains much about why Bible prophecy and pro-Israel fervor has largely left the building. Read it!

“Today postmodernists dismiss the idea of absolute truth; epistemology, the study of knowledge, is still a hot button issue. Why do some postmodernists stand in the pulpits of Christian churches as ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ? They are pretenders with invisible garments; they are as naked as the proverbial emperor!”

And Paul did all the research, much of it literally hated by evangelicalism. Do you think guys like Russell Moore like real Bible study? Not for a second. He isn’t mentioned in Paul Smith’s book, but only because he arrived in the last dozen years, to prominence.

Want to find out who Rick Warren really is? Read Chapter 9 of Paul’s book. Warren’s association with evolutionary business consultant Peter Drucker is quite enlightening. (It must be remembered at all times that not all the modern deceivers started out that way. Some genuinely wanted to grow the Church. But when that wasn’t possible without theological compromise, they couldn’t stand up under that pressure. They quietly made league with men like Peter Drucker by telling themselves they would simply use the tools to reach as many people with the Gospel that they could. That the true Gospel was despised by these influencers was seemingly not relevant.

“The Purpose Driven model originated from some radical philosophies about the nature of man and societies. This model is bent on transforming the nature of man and society. It was reduced to its lowest common denominator in order to carry out the most widespread worldwide appeal. The Warren message remains uniform and prefabricated to the point where Saddleback Church reports that thousands of pastors weekly download Warren’s canned Purpose Driven sermons from his website to preach and promote their church growth hopes. This is preceded by the protégé pastors having every member of their church buy and read The Purpose Driven Church, accompanied by a congregation-wide forty-day march through the Warren philosophy for church growth.

“What lies behind the Purpose Driven philosophy? It is primarily fueled by what Warren learned from Drucker and Fuller Seminary. The new evangelical seminary trains men and women to take a traditional church and mold it into a postmodern accommodating mindset that will reach a postmodern culture.”

We once had men like Noah Hutchings, who championed Bible prophecy and true Bible study. Warren targeted men like this, then waited them out.

Finally, for now, Paul Smith remembers another key association:

“Chuck Fromm arranged for me to spend three days at the Hilton Hotel in Ontario, California in the mid-eighties, where Peter Drucker addressed a group of church leaders and seminary professors. Bob Buford sponsored the meeting. At that meeting Buford explained to us that leadership communities are small groups of innovators and thought leaders pursuing a common ministry outcome, sharing ideas, developing strategy, and benchmarking measurements in the context of authentic relationships. Leadership Network discovers Emerging ministry initiatives and carefully invites strategic leaders into these communities of peers who are seeking to improve their personal and organizational performance in the focused outcome areas.

“Drucker and Buford mentored my nephews, Chuck Smith Jr. and Chuck Fromm. They have become leading change agents in the Emergent Movement and they have drawn particularly close to Rick Warren. Both have spent hours in consultation with Drucker and Warren. Chuck Fromm claims to have assisted Buford with his book, Halftime. Chuck Smith Jr. wrote The End of the World…As We know It: Clear Direction for Bold and Innovative Ministry in a Postmodern World. He claims to have received counsel from Drucker while writing the book.”

Among many other dreadful outcomes, support for Israel has eroded in this country because bad men have infiltrated the Church Visible. That community has suffered catastrophic losses in terms of real Bible study. These men do not revere Scripture, at all.

I believe the situation is indeed catastrophic. There are many, many millions of our people that do not know the Word of God at all. Apostasy rules. What I believe we have on our hands is a rescue mission, not a sweeping revival. Negative, yes, but I believe realistic.

Dismissal of the Bible as our final authority is why we see and hear weird things coming from the Church concerning Israel and the Jews. It is why people like Eric Holmberg appear to rely on the Bible for their views, but when it comes to the Jews, they ignore the hundreds of verses telling us that the Jews own a specific section of land…physical land. The people that reject the Jews, some are clever, but ultimately they come to their views from outside the Bible. Often I find that they have had a bad experience with Jewish people, or they resent the state of Israel for some reason. Most have not been there and therefore do not really understand things.

This is why we fight.

Jesus tells us to endure to the end. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

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