For The Right Reasons A Defense of Resistance to Middle East Wars
By Al Cronkrite The Covenant News ~ July 31, 2006
Joe Farah, a Christian brother, has attacked Pat Buchanan on his stand against the Iraq War and the Israeli destruction in Lebanon. He ends his latest essay dated July 25th with the humble entreat “Tell me where I am going wrong”.
The emotional verve that Joe Farah brings to the table is a typical Christian Zionist reaction rooted in an improper, even blasphemous, theology called Dispensationalism. Its passionate, almost satanic, call for the blood of the endorsed enemy is frightening.
Overwhelming power is in the hands of Israel and their American puppet. Farah and his brother Zionists seem to be calling for a genocide of monumental proportions; there are over 200 million Arabs living in the Middle East. They, like America’s indigenous Indians, will fight to the death to prevent being deprived of their land. Should we start building gambling casinos? (bad joke)
Some of the roots of this heresy originated with a Dutch Professor named Jacob Arminius, the father of Arminianism. This heresy was condemned at a Synod held by the Dutch Reformed Church at Dordrecht in 1618 and 1619. Dr. C. Matthew McMahon writes, “The Synod of Dort is not the only council which condemned Arminianism. Throughout the entirety of church history, at each council, synod or diet, one can find that one of the Arminian doctrines, or the whole system of Arminianism has been condemned at one time or another. Only since the birth of the Charismatic movements of Wesley, Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals have the Arminian heresy come to life again.”
Sound theology must precede all proper assessments. Wishful thinking and heretical assumptions deteriorate the Gospel, render it weak, and allow the evil one to create chaos and strife.
Contemporary American Christianity has its roots in Methodism, Charles Finney, Billy Sunday, Billy Graham, and the Bible according to Cyrus Scofield. The evangelism practiced by these and other Arminian revivalists was and is emotion driven, humanistic, effete, and tenuous; it totally ignores the sterling Calvinist ethic brought to America by the Puritans and the Pilgrims. This apostasy has produced large numbers of selfish, professing Christians who are unable to maintain righteousness in their own lives and are useless in supporting a Godly society.
Joe Farah’s first and fatal “wrong” is subscribing to the contemporary Arminian heresy of Dispensationalism, misplacing God’s mantle on Israel, and supporting the same modern day Pharisees that Jesus so vehemently condemned (see Matthew 23). It is a theological error that has beguiled Joe Farah as well as millions of American Christians and their leaders.
A proper understanding of the Christian religion would contend with Mr. Farah’s description of a “Judeo-Christian” West. Sometime ago I used that same term in one of my essays and received rebukes from several sources. (The link to that piece is farther into the essay.) Christianity involves a New Covenant which was rejected by ancient Israel and its Jewish citizens. God’s own Son, the Purveyor of this New Covenant, was cruelly put to death by the leaders of this people who asked that His blood be “on us and on our children”. Mathew 25:27
In 70 AD, in fulfillment of several warnings, God brought about the destruction of the State of Israel and scattered its citizens. At the time of the Diaspora the mantle was removed from the Jews and transferred to Christians.
Jesus is the exclusive path to Father God. All must come through Him and those who do not, are neither heard, blest, nor guided by The Father. Sadly among them are the leaders of the secular Nation of Israel and its inhabitants. Christianity, the only source of peace, is mostly banned in Israel and Christians who work with Jews must renounce speaking the Name of their Savior. Dispensational Christian Zionists are supporting what Jesus condemned and what God hates!
Islam is an evil cult and a long time enemy of Christianity. It should be strongly resisted and stymied at every opportunity. However, in spite of this truth, the Bible does not give Christians license to invade the Middle East and attempt to slaughter all Muslims.
In a strange twist, President Bush II has publicly stated that Islam is peaceful and that Muslims worship the same God as Christians. Our President is either theologically challenged or mendaciously satanic (his off-camera language would opt for the latter) and the objective of his War in Iraq has not been defined as an attempt to defeat Islam.
Zionist Christians like Joe Farah have read into the Scripture an erroneous repeat of the ancient settling of the Promised Land. Gary DeMar begins one of his writings by quoting the Biblical description of the original occupation of Israel, “So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it. And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hand. Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.” Joshua 21:43-45. The contrast between what has occurred in Israel since 1947 and what occurred under the Will of God is startling!
The failure of the Nation of Israel and its citizens to convert to Christianity scuttles any legitimacy. Their appropriation of land has resulted in horrendous bitterness and strife in the Middle East. With the indispensable help of America’s misguided Christian hordes Israel is now bent on appropriating more and more of a land that is not theirs and to which they have no justifiable claim.
Secular nations are not bound by the moral standards given us in the Bible and their methods of warfare are always more brutal. Farah speaks of the persecution of Christians by Hezbollah but he fails to mention that thousands of Christian Palestinians have been forced out of Palestine by persistent Jewish pressure, that evangelism is prohibited in Israel, and that if Jesus would soon come to the Holy Land He would likely again be crucified. He overlooks the fact that torture is practiced and has been promoted by Zionists and some that endorse it are in our government.
While supporting the identical agenda fostered by the Neo-Cons, Farah bridles at the Neo-Con label calling it a epithet and maintaining he is being labeled a Neo-Con because he will not accept the “conservative” stamp. To my mind his dislike of the conservative label is irrelevant; if he believes Buchanan is a Neo-Com because he joins Kofi Annan in condemning the War, then Farah must be a Neo-Con because he joins the Neo-Cons in supporting the Nation of Israel and Israeli/American aggression in the Middle East.
Actually, the name calling is not only childish but erroneous as well. Farah is a Dispensational Christian who is supporting the illegitimate Nation of Israel on bogus theology and Buchanan is an America-First Catholic who rightly dislikes the inordinate Jewish influence on our foreign policies but is plagued by his own theological inadequacies.
The so called Neo-Cons are made up of a cabal in and out of the Bush II Administration that wields great influence on the conduct of our foreign affairs. They are mostly Jewish, predominately Zionist, all brilliant, and mostly students of an erstwhile secular Jewish University of Chicago professor named Leo Strauss. I wrote about this in more detail in a previous essay.
Farah denigrates the anti-war crowd and seems to consider it homogeneous. He is wrong. Though I am not a peacenik, I am against the War in Iraq. We have become involved in a very foolish endless war, it is one of many we have undertaken in the past fifty years but it is the mother of all wars because it has no specific enemy and is therefore of endless duration. Maybe Farah has forgotten that all of our wars since WW II, including the one in Iraq, have been fought under the auspices of the United Nations. We have gained some hegemony in these wars but nothing has ever been accomplished that would extend Godly dominion over His creation.
The United Nations is an instrument of globalism and the wars our leaders have waged have been in support of that agenda. Both the wars and the reasons for the wars are objectionable.
If our government was not supporting the illegitimate Nation of Israel in their fight to steal land and we were not involved in devious power politics in the Middle East and if an Islamic nation without due provocation attacked us I would be in full support of retaliation, maybe even including invasion. I believe Pat Buchanan would too.
Resistance to the War in Iraq is supported for several platforms. Democrats object to the Iraq war because it was initiated by a Republican Administration. If it had been their war they would probably support it. Various revolutionary left-wing groups some of which are Marxist are against all wars that fail to foment revolution. UN Chief, Kofi Annan, is against war because he is an agent of the globalists who seek a tyrannical peace.
There is a small group of America-Firsters to which I belong who seek to maintain our national image as a city on a hill and are saddened by the cruel and crass aggression of our present leaders. We oppose globalization, secularism, multiculturalism, brutality, aggressive wars, dual loyalty in high places, the deception of government propaganda, government regulated free-trade, suppression of Christianity, destruction of the family, sovereignty robbing treaties, torture, high taxes, disobedience to the Constitution, and senators and congressmen who fail to support the best interests of their constituents because they are paid to betray them. This small group opposes the War in Iraq and the agenda behind it on moral grounds.
American and Israeli aggression in the Middle East is supported in two major ways: First, Jewish Zionists exert overwhelming influence on both public opinion and governmental direction through heavy financial leverage and almost total control of the media. Second, the heresy of Dispensationalism has deluded the bulk of America’s Christian population into supporting a Christ hating, secular nation inhabited by a people who despise Christians so much they will not allow the name of Christ to be pronounced in their presence. They support that nation and that people to the detriment of their own formerly Christian Nation. Just as Christ wept over ancient Israel, He must again be weeping over the behavior of His Chosen People! Matthew 24:37-39