There is a quick and easy way to cut through all of the political and religious clutter that fills the newspapers and eventually makes it’s way to “Christian” pulpits, books and everything else. Here it is: Read the Bible for yourself and make up your mind that you are going to follow the Lord and not man (or woman). The modern day “church” is in the condition that it is today, simply because people follow their erring Pastor, Preacher or book author and reject the clear word of God.
If you read the newspaper on a daily basis it will not be long before you read about the trouble over in the Middle East, and you will certainly read about modern day Israel. Jerusalem has been a city of much contention over the years, and we as Christians, have been taught that it belongs to modern day “Israel”, and that is the bottom line. If you disagree with that, then you will be in trouble, because the Jewish people are “God’s chosen people” and you risk being put under His curse. Millions of Christians have been put under that “bondage” because of their own Pastors or teachers who have been under that same “bondage” for decades now. Millions of Christians have been mystified for years on end, by their leaders, some who do not realize that they have been duped themselves. Here is a great scripture to remember when the topic of Jerusalem comes up:
But ye are come unto mount Sion [ZION], and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (Hebrews 12:22)
The writer of Hebrews was exhorting the true believers to keep their eyes upon Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of their faith, and to remember the great cloud of witnesses (true believers) that had gone on before them. (Hebrews 12:1-2) It was an exhortation by the writer to keep going, and to throw off the weights (of this earthly world), and to keep the focus on the eternal things! That same writer contrasted the “earthly mountain” where Moses received the Ten Commandments, with the HEAVENLY Jerusalem which is above. That is the very key to cutting through the muck and mire of what is happening in the “Church World” today. A true Christian who has been born again of the Spirit, has had their name written above (in the book of Life), and thus they have ALREADY come to Mt Zion and the city of the LIVING God! The unbelieving Jewish people are ready to defend the EARTHLY Jerusalem over in the Middle East no matter what, and they have enticed, and seduced, millions of “Christians” to support them no matter what. The newspapers are filled with stories about the possibilities of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, but very few (and I mean very few) people realize that Israel itself is in possession of probably hundreds of nuclear weapons. Here is an excerpt from the official USA Joint Operating Environment (JOE) report of 2008:
“Since 1998, India and Pakistan have created nuclear arsenals and delivery capabilities. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon and has produced sufficient fissile material to create more such weapons. At present, the Iranians are pressing forward aggressively with their own nuclear weapons program. The confused reaction in the international community to Iran’s defiance of external demands to terminate its nuclear development programs is an incentive for others to follow in their path. In effect, there is a growing arc of NUCLEAR POWERS running from ISRAEL in the west through an emerging Iran to Pakistan, India, and on to China, North Korea, and Russia in the east.” [Official Joint Operating Environment report, 2008, page 37]
I try to avoid being political, and I quote from this document (JOE) for the purpose of bringing this to the attention of believers who seek discernment. If you study the Bible and you know the heart of our gentle, kind and loving Saviour Jesus Christ, then you must know that the Lord is not for the destruction of mens souls. It is very easy for a “Christian” to get into the mentality that prophecy must be fulfilled, and we need to eliminate Iran before they get out of hand. I have written about Pastor John Hagee and his call for an attack on Iran which is absolutely mind boggling. The question that you must ask yourself is this: What does this have to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Are there not true born again Bible believing Christians living in Iran? Would it be a Godly thing to let loose an attack on Iran killing thousands (maybe millions)? Of course it works both ways here, and it is not Godly for Iran or any other country (including ours) to destroy human beings at the drop of a hat. The point that make here is that true Christians are supposed to keep their eyes above, and focused on Jesus Christ. We are not supposed to join hands with the people of the “world” who reject Jesus Christ, because ultimately it will sink you and destroy your soul. There is a reason that the Jewish apostle Paul wrote this almost two thousand years ago:
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)
True Christian righteousness (rooted in Jesus Christ) has nothing to do with the outward form of righteousness which the world portrays. True light which emanates from Jesus Christ, the “light of the world” (John 8:12), has nothing to do with the spiritual darkness, which emanates from Satan, the “god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4). Satan is the one who blinds the minds of people, to keep them from understanding “glorious Gospel of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:4) There can be no “concord” (accordance) between Christ and Belial (an epithet of Satan)! True believers are already risen and sitting with Jesus Christ (Colossians 3:1-3) in the “heavenly places” (Ephesians 2:6) and should have no part (according to Paul) with unbelievers. True believers are also called he Temple of God by Paul, and he tells us that we should have “no agreement” with idols!
The true patriarchs of the faith always had their eyes up above on the heavenly and not the earthly. People such as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not seeking an earthly country, but a Heavenly one!
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. (Hebrews 11:13-16)
God has prepared a heavenly country for the true believers who love His Son Jesus Christ, and every true believer recognizes that they are indeed “strangers and pilgrims on the earth”! True Christians should take great comfort out of those words that “God is not ashamed to be called their God”! The Lord God is watching over every true Christian that suffers in this evil world, and who experience the pain and the suffering of being “alone”! I thank God for His mercy, and I thank God that he has opened up my “spiritual eyes” to this great deception of “Zionism” and many other dark things that have corrupted the modern day “church.”
