Yves right here. Please welcome Kevin Kirk. The put up under which got here out of knowledge supplied by his diplomatic contacts, which he corroborated independently. Word that Haaretz has questioned the bona fides of the essential-to-the-plot pink heifers.
By Kevin Kirk, who has labored all around the world, first as an engineer, then a visiting college Professor and eventually as a diplomatic coach. He mourns the lack of what might have been in Israel if Jews and Arabs had lived in peace collectively
Whereas we’re consumed with the horrors of Gaza, different occasions in Jerusalem are gathering momentum that might plunge the Center East right into a battle that might inflame the area for a era.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest website in Islam. It was from right here that the Prophet Mohamed ascended into heaven and conversed with different prophets similar to Abraham, Moses and Jesus. And now, American Evangelical Christians, along with Ultranationalist Israeli Zionists (lots of whom are additionally American) intend to destroy it to make approach for the constructing of the threerd Jewish Temple and the approaching of the Messiah.
It could shock you to be taught that there are at present extra Zionist Christians than there are Zionist Jews within the US – most estimates put ahead a ratio of 10 Zionist Christians to each Zionist Jew. A lot of this may be put all the way down to the recognition of the Scofield bible, first revealed within the early 1900s. The bible itself was the usual King James Bible, however what set the Scofield Bible aside have been his copious notes or the “explainer” (Hasbara in Hebrew) as Scofield himself known as it; whereby, he put his personal explanations as to the that means of the scriptural textual content.
Scofield was described by his native newspaper, the Atchison Patriot because the “late lawyer, politician and shyster usually,” the article went on to recount a couple of of Scofield’s “many malicious acts,” together with a complete collection of forgeries in St. Louis, for which he obtained six months in jail.
However then he noticed the sunshine and have become a (non-ordained) Christian preacher and as such was taken below the wing of a outstanding Jewish Wall Avenue lawyer, Samuel Untermeyer, who supplied him with cash, contacts and entry to New York society. In return, Untermeyer required that Scofield write a bible in such a approach as to align Christians with Untermeyer’s pet venture, Zionism.
In “Unjust Warfare Principle: Christian Zionism and the Highway to Jerusalem,” Prof. David W. Lutz writes, “Untermeyer used Scofield, a Kansas Metropolis lawyer with no formal coaching in theology, to inject Zionist concepts into American Protestantism. Untermeyer and different rich and influential Zionists whom he launched to Scofield promoted and funded the latter’s profession, together with journey in Europe.” It was throughout one such journey that he met Oxford College Press writer Henry Frowde, who determined to publish the Scofield Bible and it has been in print, below that august imprint, ever since, offering it with infinite gravitas.
For instance of Scofield’s pro-Zionist explainer contemplate the next primarily based on Genesis 12:3: ‘I’ll bless them that bless thee. And curse him that curseth thee.’ To which Scofield defined as that means: “Splendidly fulfilled within the historical past of the dispersion. It has invariably fared sick with the individuals who have persecuted the Jew—nicely with those that have protected him.” Which, John Hagee, the founding father of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), additional interpreted as that means “The person or nation that lifts a voice or hand in opposition to Israel invitations the wrath of God”.
In rebuttal, Stephen Sizer in his, Christian Zionism: Highway-map to Armageddon? says: “The promise, when referring to Abraham’s descendants, speaks of God blessing them [Abraham’s direct descendants], not of whole nations ‘blessing’ the Hebrew nation, nonetheless much less the modern and secular State of Israel.” He went on to say: “Sustained by a doubtful exegesis of selective biblical texts, Christian Zionism’s explicit studying of historical past and modern occasions…units Israel and the Jewish individuals other than different peoples within the Center East…it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines makes an attempt to discover a peaceable decision of the Palestinian-Israeli battle, all as a result of ‘the Bible tells them so.’”
The actual hyperlink between Evangelical Christians and Ultranationalist Zionist Jews stems from their shared eschatological beliefs: primarily that they need to try in direction of the approaching of the Messiah. To this finish they consider that to ensure that the Messiah to return the third Jewish Temple must be constructed on the location of King Herod’s 2nd Temple of which solely the Western wall (or wailing wall as Christians typically describe it) at present stays after it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
The issue is that the Al-Aqsa mosque is constructed virtually on high of it. The answer, we’re advised by Melissa Jane Kronfeld, a New York Jewish activist who runs the Excessive on the Har group, which leads of excursions of the location is: “I consider it’s going to go, 100%. The entire thing goes to go to construct a temple,”
Nonetheless, she insisted that the shrine and its golden dome must be preserved, however relocated. Which is considerably lacking the purpose, it isn’t the Al-Aqsa itself that’s sacred, it’s the location that makes it sacred. It was right here that the Prophet stood, not in some unhappy, relocated Mosque in its new dwelling within the Jordanian desert. All this begs a query: why not construct the Temple on the massive plot of land subsequent to the Temple Mount, so the present West Wall turns into the East Wall, as an indication of equanimity? Only a thought.
I digress, it was this concern, in accordance with British diplomat Alistair Crooke, which led on to the occasions on October 7th and is confirmed by the identify of the Hamas operation: The Al-Aqsa flood. The timing of the occasion was not random both, because it occurred just some days after dozens of ultranationalist settlers stormed Al-Aqsa, below the safety of the Israeli police, and carried out Talmudic Rituals. These rituals included the sprinkling of blood to sanctify the location, as described intimately right here. Underneath present Israeli regulation the entry of Jews into the location is forbidden however below Itmar Ben Gvir, the minister for safety, that regulation will not be enforced. Certainly, Ben Gvir, himself, entered the Holy website, even after he was advised that it could trigger violence (prefer it did when Ariel Sharon, a earlier Israeli Prime Minster, entered the location, which led to the twond Intafada), however he brushed it apart as the location is not below Islamic management however, as an alternative, has belonged to the State of Israel since 1980. Moreover, he supposed to militarize it, which he has executed. And he has assembled a personal militia of over 10,000 settlers (lots of them from New York) who he has armed and skilled, courtesy of the state, to implement his will.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled prime minister, has to remain in energy as a result of the second he loses parliamentary privileges he faces jail on quite a few prices and on this quest he assembled a coalition of ultra-far proper events together with Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Occasion (6 seats) and Bezalel Smotrich’s (the present minister of finance) Nationwide Spiritual Occasion- Spiritual Zionism (7 seats). These events are in favor of the constructing of the temple as their events are devoted to bringing collectively Zionists and Ultranationalist Jews and taking away any motive for Arabs to be there. And they don’t seem to be the one politicians which might be in favor, lots of the non secular Proper within the Republican Occasion (aka Trump’s base) are additionally in favor as, certainly, is the speaker of the US home, Mike Johnson.
Nonetheless, time shouldn’t be on their facet. As a outstanding Israeli Columnist writes in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, Israel is going through defeat in its battle in Gaza. And there have been quite a few, more and more violent, demonstrations in Israel demanding a brand new election, which is prone to result in each Smotrich and Ben Gvir dropping their seats.
Coupled with that, the Haredi Jews (round 20% of the inhabitants) are threatening to to migrate as a result of IDF needing additional troops to make up for the losses within the Gaza operation and who need to see them conscripted. And the financial system is a catastrophe space.
So the Temple Institute Group, primarily based in Jerusalem (and supported by Henry Swieca, a rich New York financier), who’re dedicated to constructing the threerd Temple and restoring animal sacrifice, have swung into motion and submitted an software to the Israeli police to make use of knives to slaughter 5 good pink heifers as a part of a purification ritual elucidated in Numbers Chapter 19 of the Bible. This ceremony, which is going down on a specifically constructed altar located on the Mount of Olives reverse the Temple Mount, is ready to happen in April 22nd, which is throughout Passover. As soon as the purification ceremony has been undertaken then the stage is ready for the constructing of the Temple, resulting in the approaching of the Messiah and the ultimate battle between good and evil on a hill simply outdoors Haifa known as Tel Megiddo, or, as it’s known as within the Bible: Armageddon.
As to the precise destruction of the Mosque, no-one is aware of how it will likely be executed, however the impetus is there to see it occur. Some have advised that there are explosives sited below it, hidden within the “archeological” tunnels that snake below it, others advised arson or just taking a bulldozer to it. What’s universally accepted is that, as Tom Segev’s ebook, 1967: Israel, the Warfare, and the Yr that Remodeled the Center East, stated: the location’s destruction might solely be executed below the quilt of battle: “Tomorrow may be too late.”
To search out out extra concerning the heifers, the ritual and the hyperlink to the US non secular proper (and Mike Johnson) watch this video by CBS.
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: A “large” Sacrificial Altar has been inbuilt Jerusalem to sacrifice Purple Heifers to usher within the third Temple of Solomon.
This sacrifice will happen between March and April. It’s rumored that the Al-Aqsa Mosque needs to be destroyed to construct this temple.… pic.twitter.com/32QdBn4EMF
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 22, 2024
