Lord gow's religious leader HAS SPOKEN!!

No it's not Dr. Kennedy that blames Darwin for Nazis, abortions (and
probably homosexuals)..It's John Hagee


http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell73.html
TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now!
by Bill Barnwell
by Bill Barnwell


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If anyone still thinks that the radical end-times "prophecy" movement is
not a threat to peace and stability, think again. At the popular level, in
terms of the TV preachers and the hot-selling prophecy books, the
dispensational pre-trib stuff still reigns supreme. Most
conservative-leaning Evangelical churches in America today are heavily
influenced by popular dispensational theology to some extent. Even churches
and pastors that don't teach pretribulationalism still are influenced by
dispensationalism to varying degrees.

The most dangerous element of this prophetic paradigm, however, is its
doom-and-gloom view of the world. And in most cases, those who have a
fascination with the end of the world have a particular fascination with war
and militarism as well. More problematic, it assumes that their wars of
choice are not just their own foreign policy preferences or personal
opinions. Rather they are ordained by God. In 2003, more than a few pastors
and influential Christian figures basically said that opposing the Iraq war
was opposing God's end-time plan. According to Evangelical end-times
enthusiasts, if you opposed the Iraq war, you didn't just hate your country
and the troops, now you were opposing God and the Bible as well.

An even bigger obsession for dispensationalists has always been Israel. For
the average dispensationalist, modern-day secular Israel is going to be the
focal point in the end-times. Therefore, if the Bible really does teach in
Daniel 9:27 that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is going to be torn down for a rebuilt
Jewish Temple, why should any of us seek to prevent it? Sure, it very well
might ignite a regional war and even ignite tensions around the world, but
it's all part of God's prophetic plan. Not to worry though, things might not
get really ugly until after the "rapture," so the Christians today who are
cheering for events that would bring about World War III won't have to worry
about it anyway. Unless of course, they are wrong about the whole thing.

Enter the Rev. John Hagee. Hagee is the pastor of Cornerstone Church in San
Antonio Texas, where he has 18,000 followers right in his own congregation.
He also has a global television ministry and has sold scores of prophecy
books over the years. John Hagee is perhaps the most powerful and
influential Christian Zionist figure in America. Hagee has a long history
making strange predictions about world events that are almost always wrong.
His books in the late 90's trumped up Y2K hysteria to ridiculous levels. He
inaccurately predicted that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was the
"Beginning of the End" in the book of the same name. In every book he
writes, he is constantly warning of catastrophe in various forms right
around the corner. According to one of his fans, he supposedly just preached
a sermon predicting that 2007 would be a "significant" year in Bible
prophecy and that his prophecy claims can be "mathematically" backed up by
the Biblical text.

Given Hagee's prior success rate in making predictions, don't be shocked if
2007 doesn't shape up to be all that "significant" after all. As with all
popular prophecy teachers, they are immune from making inaccurate
predictions and false prophecies. Their followers simply forget or forgive
them. Maybe they'll even claim that God changed His mind. Most don't even
pay attention though and don't even realize their superstars are constantly
revising their predictions and end-times charts.

However, Hagee is not just another goofy eccentric on TBN. He has political
clout and regularly meets with influential national politicians. If you've
ever watched him on TV, he clearly basks in this fact and drops little hints
about his discussions with people in governmental authority and other
positions of power. For years Hagee has hosted "A Night to Honor" Israel and
is founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel. Their goals span
beyond supporting Israel, but also implementing a one-sided and radical
approach to the Arab-Israeli problems in the Middle East. There is no nuance
to their policy prescriptions and ironically (or perhaps not so ironically)
the agenda of Hagee and his group would actually make matters much worse in
the Middle East.

And he has more than a few fans out there. He has not been afraid to remind
his church and television audience, repeatedly over the years, that there
are "millions in America and around the world watching this program right
now." Whatever the number really is, what is clear is that Hagee is reaching
many people and has a networking system that spans into the rich and
powerful, some of whom are making national foreign policy decisions.

If left up to Hagee, there would be a military strike against Iran today.
Since last summer, Hagee has been practically foaming at the mouth for a new
war with Iran. Why? Because he thinks it is the rest of the world's job to
fight Israel's wars and because he thinks such a showdown is a piece of the
puzzle in regards to Bible prophecy. To Hagee, there is no middle ground on
this issue. God told Abraham he would "bless those who bless you and curse
those who curse you" (Gen. 12:3). That means if YOU aren't on board with
wars that might be in Israel's interest, but not in the United States', then
YOU will be cursed by God. At least according to Hagee.

To see just how bellicose, belligerent, and militaristic Hagee has come,
just watch his speech at the AIPAC Washington conference. Behind his
thundering prose and love for the Jewish people is a militaristic and even
fanatical mindset that is hoping and praying for the world to fall apart.
After all, Jesus can't come back unless it does, but all is well since
Christians before the "rapture" will escape the worst of it.

Unfortunately for the Jewish people, they still await another massive
holocaust, according to many dispensationalists. Anyone interested in this
subject should read our own Gary North's column, The Unannounced Reason
Behind American Fundamentalism's Support for the State of Israel. An
excerpt:

Nothing can or will be done by Christians to save Israel's Jews from this
disaster, for all of the Christians will have been removed from this world
three and a half years prior to the beginning of this 42-month period of
tribulation. (The total period of seven years is interpreted as the
fulfillment of the seventieth week of Daniel [Dan. 9:27].)

In order for most of today's Christians to escape physical death,
two-thirds of the Jews in Israel must perish, soon. This is the grim
prophetic trade-off that fundamentalists rarely discuss publicly, but which
is the central motivation in the movement's support for Israel. It should be
clear why they believe that Israel must be defended at all costs by the
West. If Israel were militarily removed from history prior to the Rapture,
then the strongest case for Christians' imminent escape from death would
have to be abandoned. This would mean the indefinite delay of the Rapture.
The fundamentalist movement thrives on the doctrine of the imminent Rapture,
not the indefinitely postponed Rapture.

Every time you hear the phrase, "Jesus is coming back soon," you should
mentally add, "and two-thirds of the Jews of Israel will be dead in 'soon
plus 84 months.'" Fundamentalists really do believe that they probably will
not die physically, but to secure this faith prophetically, they must defend
the doctrine of an inevitable holocaust.

This specific motivation for the support of Israel is never preached from
any fundamentalist pulpit. The faithful hear sermons - many, many sermons -
on the pretribulation Rapture. On other occasions, they hear sermons on the
Great Tribulation. But they do not hear the two themes put together: "We can
avoid death, but only because two-thirds of the Jews of Israel will
inevitably die in a future holocaust. America must therefore support the
nation of Israel in order to keep the Israelis alive until after the
Rapture." Fundamentalist ministers expect their congregations to put two and
two together on their own. It would be politically incorrect to add up these
figures in public.

Again, however, one can't make too big a fuss about this, since "Bible
prophecy" demands this carnage. It's "God's will" for the world to fall
apart, for tensions to further inflame between Jews and Arabs, for the
United States to lead the charge in a pre-emptive strike on Iran, to rebuild
a third Jewish Temple after tearing down the Islamic mosque, etc. All you
have to do to prove this is cut passages like Genesis 12, Matthew 24, 2
Thessalonians 2, Ezekiel 36 and 37, and Daniel 9:24-27 out of context (along
with the entire book of Revelation), make up some handy-dandy prophecy
charts, and confidently present it to Biblically illiterate Christians who
don't know any better.

While there are many doctrinal disputes amongst Christians, there are none
that have as much practical significance as this one. I strongly disagree
with those who deny the Trinity, but those who deny the deity of Christ are
not clamoring for war, bombs, and destruction. Likewise, Christians disagree
vehemently over issues like eternal security or the proper mode of baptism,
but thankfully we've grown up and stopped killing each other over those
issues in the last couple hundred years.

When it comes to questionable or inaccurate beliefs about the end-times,
however, they are shaping many people's foreign policy and worldviews for
the worse. It is causing many to hold troubling escapist views towards the
world. I know this because I am constantly told by other Christians that "we
are not in the business of fixing up the world, we are just in the business
of saving souls until the rapture!" It is in part because of faulty
eschatology that Evangelical Christians, more than any other demographic
group in America, supported the ill-advised invasion of Iraq in 2003. And it
is faulty eschatology that is causing this same group of people to believe
the militaristic agenda behind Rev. Hagee's bombastic oratory. After all, it's
all been ordained, so how can we oppose it?

But maybe, just maybe, their preciously held beliefs about future prophecy
are way off. Maybe they are dead wrong in their views and maybe all the
wars, destruction and carnage they think are inevitable aren't necessarily
mandated by God. Maybe the Bible is teaching exactly the opposite regarding
these matters than what they teach.

Alas, no matter how many false predictions these guys make, or how many
damaging theological and political beliefs they espouse, people continue to
follow their dangerous teachings. It's time for both Christian and
non-Christian alike to call this crowd out on their bad theology, false
prophecies, and deadly worldview.

Hopefully Hagee is right that 2007 is going to be a significant year in
Bible prophecy. It would be significant indeed if Biblical scholars, pastors
and laymen finally and at long last rescued the doctrine of eschatology from
the doom and destruction crowd of militaristic pretribulationists. Here's
hoping that with each passing year the theology of Hagee and his ilk is
exposed for how Biblically inaccurate and destructive it really is.

March 22, 2007

Bill Barnwell [send him mail] is a pastor and writer from Michigan. He holds
both a Master of Ministry degree and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies
degree from Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana. Visit his blog.

Copyright © 2007 LewRockwell.com




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