Sunday, April 27, 2008
Hagee in Jerusalem
On April 7, Aron Heller reported in the AP:
I found this quote of particular interest:
If only American Evangelicals would wake up to what these Israelis and Jews have realized. Hagee believes Israel must be restored to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
Have you ever stopped to consider the implications of this Zionist push? If you believe that 1/3 of the Jews will be slain in the "Tribulation" and you also want to push as many Jews as possible back into that area, then what are we to believe about you other than that you are pre-meditating mass murder?
Here's another perspective from Jews Against Zionism:
JERUSALEM (AP) — American televangelist John Hagee led several hundred flag-waving followers across Jerusalem on Monday, a colorful display of the growing alliance between Christian evangelicals and Israel.
I found this quote of particular interest:
Indeed, many Israelis and Jews are troubled by what they suspect is the source of the unbridled support — a belief by some evangelical groups in an apocalyptic battle between good and evil in which Jesus returns and Jews either accept Christianity or perish.
If only American Evangelicals would wake up to what these Israelis and Jews have realized. Hagee believes Israel must be restored to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
Have you ever stopped to consider the implications of this Zionist push? If you believe that 1/3 of the Jews will be slain in the "Tribulation" and you also want to push as many Jews as possible back into that area, then what are we to believe about you other than that you are pre-meditating mass murder?
Here's another perspective from Jews Against Zionism:
This militant Zionist position does unfortunately represent Modern Orthodoxy, a movement that is characterized by Jews bending Jewish law to fit their modern agenda. However, it is dishonest to say that it represents "world Jewry" as Rabbi Pesach Lerner claims. World Jewry includes hundreds of thousands of more traditionally Orthodox Jews who do not see any inherent value in Zionist sovereignty over Jerusalem or any other place. Most of these Jews, in fact, see the Zionist occupation of the Holy Land as a terrible sin and a disaster.
One has to wonder about the intelligence level of someone who utters such self-contradictory words: "Throughout our 2,000 years of exile, if any rabbi had ever hinted at giving up a part of the Land of Israel, he would have been out on the street in a minute." During exile, the Jewish people has no right to sovereignty over Jerusalem or any place; that is the very definition of exile. If any rabbi in past centuries had suggested that Jews during exile must have sovereignty over any part of the Land of Israel, he would have been out on the street in a minute. To Jews in the past, it was always self-evident that the exile was a Divine decree and that we have no right to emerge from it without a Divine decree. It is only due to the confusion of the Zionist era that this principle has been forgotten.
We hope and pray that these Modern Orthodox Jews, in the course of their studies of the Jewish texts concerning Jerusalem, come to understand the meaning of the verse in the Song of Songs (2:7), "I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the deer and hinds of the fields, not to arouse or awaken the love before it is desired." We Jews indeed originate from Jerusalem and are therefore poetically referred to as daughters of Jerusalem. But we are forbidden under oath to take action toward the redemption of our people before G-d desires it.




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