[Imc-cymru] FYI -- Standing at the Crossroads - of Geopolitics and Religion

Thu Aug 10 23:43:52 PDT 2006

This article addresses some of the obscure points in common, in the alliance
of the  American "Christian Right" with the Likudniks. At the intersection
of politics and religion, the author suggests that the Anglo-American
financial interests who published and promoted the Scofield Reference Bible,
(1909) were ultimately interested in the Oil of the Middle East. The "notes"
in the Scofield Bible are extra-biblical, and heretical - the "spin" on
"prophesy" contained in them might actually have been a devious long-term
scenario - under the cover of "fulfilling prophesy" - for an eventual grab
of end-game Oil...

                                   Standing  at  the  Crossroads 
                             of  Geopolitics  and   Religion

                                         by   Mark  Walter  Evans

There  is  an  unpleasant  explanation for the reason why Ehud Olmert is
aggravating an already explosive situation in the Levant. It is something
that is almost never addressed in the mainstream mass media  though often,
it  is  promoted  in American ³Christian² media.  It is hardly a secret in
the Middle East.

Just Google : River, Egypt, Euphrates, or the exact phrase: ³Nile to the
Euphrates² - scroll down, and study the vast number of articles that come
up; well over thirty thousand  from all over the Spectrum, and from many
points of view  and you will begin to see another aspect to this whole
picture; perhaps not ³the rest of the story,² but a big partŠ

Yes, it is true that a huge percentage of the people in the Levant  Arabs
and Jews alike just want to live in peace, and would love to see an end to
the seemingly endless cycles of war, and escalating conflict. But the
hardliners on both sides  those who are ³filled with passionate intensity,²
are willing and wanting to have it out  and thus  a minority  who
nevertheless control the balance  of  power - make it possible for something
resembling the prophesied, biblical Armageddon to eventually happen.

The Oil sheiks of Saudi Arabia, and the Emirs of the Gulf States - who
underwrite the pensions that fall to the families of the disposable ³suicide
bombers,² and the Mullahs of Iran who sponsor Hezbollah, bear a very certain
guilt, for their role.  And the notion of ³driving the Jews into the sea² 
or at least, back to Brooklyn  is  an idea that resonates with an
increasing number of Arabs in  the Middle East.

So there are two sides to this, yes - it takes two to tango - but the sad
truth of the matter is that Arab antipathy to Zionism, in the first place,
was nothing more than a reaction  the inevitable Hegelian Antithesis, to
the Zionists¹ stated agenda of taking the terrain from the ³River of  Egypt
to the Euphrates.²  This is revealed in the text of Alfred Lilienthal¹s
famous interview with King Saud of Saudi Arabia, back in 1954.
http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/greaterisrael.htm,

Today, in 2006, it is the in hardliners of the Likud,  and powerful
ideological factions in Israel, like Bead Artzein,
http://utenti.lycos.it/Delenda_Carthago/israel_010904.htmll
and the [Rabbi] Kook faction - the ³Greater Israel,² tradition within the
Orthodox, 
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/gush_underground.htmll,  who
support this latest bombing and invasion of Lebanon, which must, given the
desperate straits of their situation,  represent their final  and last -
attempt to achieve a Jewish Empire in the Middle East. This agenda has been
discussed among the cognoscenti, in Israel:
http://www.theunjustmedia.com/the%20zionist_plan_for_the_middle_east.htm,
and also, promoted among the Christian Zionists,  mostly in America :
http://www.israelrestored.com,

To the hardliners in Israel, Ariel Sharon fell short of attaining the Prize.
There are people in Israel who still speak of Lebanon as the Lebanon  not a
sovereign nation, but  as  a  territory  to be assimilated, and incorporated
into  Greater  Israel.  These folks are energetically  supported  by  an
³unholy  alliance² with millions of  American Christian fundamentalists.

It is a curious fact that the Agenda, and the territorial imperative of the
Israeli hardliners, hinging on what many theologians consider to be a  false
interpretation of  one Scripture in the book of Genesis, dovetails neatly
with the doctrines that many fundamentalist Christians in America have been
taught in their Sunday schools -- that the promise made by God to Abraham,
in  Genesis 15 : 18,  ³Š to your seed will I give the Land,  from the brook
of Egypt  to the  great river, the river EuphratesŠ² was made, not to all
of Abraham¹s descendents, but specifically only to Abraham¹s ³seed,² which
they interpret as being  God¹s ³Chosen² seed; that is, to Isaac, not
Ishmael; to Jacob, not Esau.

To some fundamentalists, the political fulfillment of these conquests, by
Israel, is a necessary pre-requisite for the coming of the  ³Millennium;²
indeed, they believe LORD Jesus Christ ( seven years after the mythical
³Rapture²) will descend to rule the nations with a rod of iron from the
platform of this expanded kingdom the Israelis intend  to  incorporate. At
the risk of sounding portentous, this ugly  mingling  of what are  obviously
crass imperialist objectives, with bible prophecy, is dark, dangerous, and
yes, deliberate heresy.

The roots of this heresy - including the notorious doctrine of a ³Secret
Rapture² of  the church - go back to the early eighteen-thirties, to the
pulpit of a charismatic young preacher named Edward Irving, in London. Much
of what he preached originated from the pen of a Jesuit named Manuel de
Lacunza. Irving died young, but one of his converts,  an Anglo-Norman noble,
John Nelson D¹Arby - financed by a banker named Henry Drummond - was sent to
America, to spread the new doctrines, and make converts. As Donald Wagner,
an American protestant (Wesleyan) theologian, critical of the Darbyite
fundamentalists, writes:

³Š [ an early ] Darby disciple, William E. BlackstoneŠ organized the first
Zionist lobbying effort in the U.S. in 1891 when he enlisted J. P. Morgan,
John D. Rockefeller, Charles B. Scribner and other financiers to underwrite
a massive newspaper campaign requesting President Benjamin Harrison to
support the establishment of a Jewish state in PalestineŠ²

³ Darby¹s ideas became a central feature in the teachings of many of the
great preachers of the 1880-1900 period, including evangelists Dwight L.
Moody and Billy Sunday, the major Presbyterian preacher James Brooks,
Philadelphia radio preacher Harry B. Ironsides, and Cyrus I. Scofield. When
Scofield applied Darby s eschatology to the Bible, the result was a
superimposed outline of premillennial dispensationalist notations on the
Biblical text, known as the Scofield BibleŠ²

In  1908, several  Anglo-Zionist friends of that noted Baptist Sunday School
teacher, John D. Rockefeller (who subsequently promoted it, big time)
persuaded the Dons of Oxford to publish the  Scofield  Annotated Reference
Bible. On both sides of the Atlantic there were men of finance, with
interests in Oil, whose quick minds recognized within the subtext  of
Scofield¹s spin on Bible Prophesy,  a  subtle subterfuge, and justification
for the future  grab of a vast terrain of Mid-East Oil. In this scenario,
the Zionists would become  the marcher lords, in Palestine. The Dons of
Oxford, who had spawned Cecil Rhodes, and  soon became partial beneficiaries
of his Trust, were quite willing to sponsor the ³ low church²  revisions,
and alterations to traditional Church of England doctrine that the ³notes²
of  Scofield  presented, because the Prize of Oil beckoned  in the desert.

Wagner continues, Œ...Gradually, the Scofield Bible became the only version
used by most evangelical and fundamentalist Christians for the next 95
years.² http://www.cnep.org/churchorgs/methodist/CZionism-Wagner1.doc, .
And,

³Š It is interesting to note that the popular edition of the Scofield
Reference Bible was published in 1917 coinciding with the Balfour
Declaration and in the words of Lord Cecil, 'the rebirth of a nation¹; the
youth edition of Scofield with the War of Independence in 1948; and the
'new' edition of Scofield with the occupation of Jerusalem and the West Bank
in 1967.² http://www.cc-vw.org/articles/history1.html,

This is the subtle root of why the ³Rapturists²  &  the
³Christian-Zionists,²  who have been brainwashed  by decades of preaching
emanating from this corrupt fountain, justify every dark deed that is done
by the Israeli Defense Forces. By all means read the article, ³ Why
Judeo-Christians Support War.²  There is deep information therein:
http://www.serendipity.li/zonism/carlson01.htm,
The roots of what is common in the ideologies of the Darbyites and the
Likudniks reach back into the past.  But 1977 was the year of their ³coming
out.² 

But Alas, the terrain from the Brook of Egypt ( perhaps the Suez - there is
some debate on this point ) to the Euphrates, is already  inhabited by the
descendants of Abraham  for the most part,  Arabs. The hard-liner Likudniks
want - and their ³Christian Zionist² allies expect, it to be inhabited by
the ³chosen² descendants, that¹s all.

And, in concert with the current agenda of the Oil Cartels, they anticipate
the whole Middle East to be largely depopulated of its troublesome natives,
and be turned, conveniently, into a pumping station for Big Oil, which
Israel will then control a cut of. Something in it for you - something in it
for us - but a formula for  Genocide.  To accomplish this, Iran must be
drawn out, and baited into a confrontation. Not a very difficult feat --
Persia, after all,  is one of the players in the Gog-Magog War against
Israel.( Ezekiel 38 :5 )

After the mess is all over, those Palestinians who survive will be
³transferred² to their new  ³state²  beyond the Euphrates, in what is  left
of what  is  now  Iraq. I kid you not. Such things are on the table at the
State Department, and are being seriously advocated and promoted, behind
closed doors, no less, by members of the Jewish lobby (AIPAC) in Washington.
Such things are well known throughout the Middle East.
http://mideastchristians.virtualactivism.net/newsarticles/bookreviews/bookre
view.htmm,   

The Israelis have technology that is exotic, and under-reported. -
Lazar-guided ³vacuum-bombs,² such as were successfully experimented with,
and fired from F-16¹s - and which utterly imploded and disintegrated whole
apartment buildings in  Beirut - during the first invasion of Lebanon by the
Israelis, in 1982.  http://www.inminds.co.uk/from-beirut-to-jerusalem.html,
In all probability, Damascus, Amman and Riyadh, and no doubt, Mecca and
Medina have already been ²wired for sound² by the Mossad, with
Neutron-disintegration bombs, which can turn cities back into the dust of
which they are made  these devices may, at the ³correct² historical moment
(the ³Sampson Option²) be detonated by merely flicking a few switches in
that big bunker on the road south of Beth Shemesh, and - Poof  there will
go Damascus, turned back into desert sand.  But, conveniently, fulfilling
the prophesy  in   Isaiah, 17 : 1, ³ Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.²
http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/damascus-israel-isaiah-nuke.htm,

- Which, doubtless, will play BIG in Peoria... After all - these things are
known, and believed, religiously, to be God¹s Will, by millions of
Christians in America,  who,  like the plebeians of ancient Rome,
conditioned and fed on bread and circuses, see the conflict in the Middle
East as if it were a big Football game, and will always root for
Israel.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/freligion/1665741/posts,   and,
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664483/posts,

...As American Christian fundamentalist pilgrims, and local Jewish Orthodox
in Jerusalem, told me back in 1984, over and over again, ³ The  next  items
on  the  prophetic  calendar  are  Isaiah  17  and  Ezekiel  38,  &  39...²

This next war will fulfill  Prophesy, the dominionist radio preachers in
America never tire of  hollering. And they are correct on that point, though
morally, I believe, they are on shaky ground, both because the power brokers
among them, as ³God¹s little helpers²  - and the power elite with whom these
cadres are allied - have done their damnedest to bloody well make this next
war happen, and also because they, collectively, are already complicit in
the blood-guilt that the on-going war in Iraq has engendered,  because  they
fully approve of  the  Crusade  aspect  of  Bush¹s  War  On (of) Terror,
casualties  be  damned. On this point, check out the book  [published in
1983]  by the late Grace Halsell, ³Prophesy and Politics  Militant
Evangelicals  On  the Road  to Armageddon.²  And,
http://members.aol.com/gracehalsell/forcinggods.html,

Alas,  many  of  the  rank-in-file  of  the  Church-in-America consume
scraps of prophesy as if they were t. v. dinners.  To  such, these matters
are largely rendered of their intrinsic, and  very real  horror, tragedy,
and human pathos  they have become, sadly, little more than entertainment.
Let¹s face it;  Americans  are  voyeurs  who view the world from the safety
of their own living rooms, on the  FOX  Channel  on  television.

This sector of the  American Church is largely guilty of complicity with the
crimes of Bush.  But are not each one of us, as Americans - Secular,
Christian, and Jewish alike, individually responsible, in part - if only
because of our silence and apathy - for this horrific, lurid, expanded war
that is about to be loosed, if Bush, Inc., and Israel are  allowed to
continue on this hubristic, tragic, and imperialist course?  Indeed, a Day
of  Reckoning surely shall come.  Alas, there is no time for the men who are
in the White House to read, understand,  or glean any lessons from, ³The
Guns  of  August.²  As the Bible says, truly,  ³Pride goes before
destruction, and a haughty spirit before a  fallŠ²

The existence of the ³unholy alliance² is well known - what is less well
known, and what requires further analysis, are the details of the points of
Ideology and Geopolitics which the Likudniks and the Fundies have in common,
and the threads which bind them. For further information on the historical
roots of Anglo-Zionism  and the whole field is not without a certain degree
of romance & poetry  you may read the book ³Bible And Sword,²  by Barbara
Tuchman, if you have time.  Further information is here:
http://www.bahethcenter.org/english/studies/studies/sm.htm,   and :
http://:www.cc-vw.org/articles/history1.html,

The unspoken, imperialist, ³Nileto the-Euphrates² agenda of the Likud
hard-liners, the ³Kook² faction in Israel, and their Right-Wing American
Fundamentalist allies is, today, the stalking horse of Oil Imperialism -
which may accurately be termed Anglo-Dutch / American-Zionist
Cartel-Imperialism. -- Read the lead article on the front page of the Wall
Street Journal, on July 27, entitled  "Holy War."  Truly, they do forecast
their devices.

To call the present aerial bombardment & invasion of Lebanon a "Holy War,"
is an abomination that violates all that is holy in Judaism - or
Christianity - which is, explicitly, to keep the Shema, the second half of
which commands us to love our neighbor as our self -- "And who is my
neighbor?" the young Pharisee asked Y'shua... Then He told the parable of
the Good Samaritan...

A Samaritan, today, of course, corresponds to a Palestinian. So Jesus'
message, translated into today's terms, and for all Jews today, is simply
this : that old commandment, to "Love the LORD your G-D with all your Heart,
Soul, Mind, & Strength, and to Love your Neighbor as Yourself." -- Yes, the
Palestinian is your Neighbor, that shadow self of yours, whom you will not
love, whom you would drive away, out of the Land of promise, whom you would
send into a Babylonian exile, beyond the Euphrates.

-- And those so-called  ³Christian Zionists² who blindly support the state
of Israel, right or wrong, in all the dark deeds of slaughter and oppression
that have been wrought upon the Semitic peasant brethren of Israel in the
Levant, since 1948, are blind to what Jesus actually taught. It is time for
serious Christians to seriously question the ³Hebrew Zionist² axiom that  ³A
million Arab lives are not worth one Jewish fingernail² -- for that is about
as Big a Lie as Herr Goebels ever cooked up. Indeed, it is totally contrary
to the New Testament, which states, ³There is neither Jew nor Greek, there
is neither slave nor free; there is neither male nor female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.²

Although it is easy for the Secular to dismiss all  Bible-believers ( &
Koran wavers, too) as madmen, in the face of such collective madness, it is
fair to say that  not all evangelicals who believe in the future
inevitability of the Gog-Magog War of  Ezekiel  38  &  39,  are  crazy.
Some are quite perceptive. Here, for example,  is a website with an
intriguing,  radical  analysis :
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000171.htm
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000148.htm

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