Because of Huckabee's win on the Republican side of the Iowa caucuses,
reading the following article is worthwhile.
Huckabee's proposals amount to ethnic cleansing of Palestine
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by Rev. Stan Moody*, Christian Policy Institute, December 16, 2007
Orthodox Jews love him. The Christian Right loves him. The LaHayes (authors of
the Left Behind series) love him. Tele-Zionist John Hagee loves him.
It is not because Gov. Huckabee is not a Mormon that they all love him. It is
because his foreign policy as President will be to put the finishing touches on
the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East.
In a nutshell, Huckabee is a Rapturist. Ill explain.
Belief in the Rapture is predominant within Evangelical circles. It has no
biblical support except by inference. It finds no place in the early history of
the Christian Church and is based primarily on a prophetic interpretation
developed in England in the mid 19th Century. Its architect was John Nelson
Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement, a fundamentalist Christian
sect that came out of Dublin, Ireland in the 1820s. Darby published some 50
books on his unique interpretations of the New Testament.
Darbys doctrine, known as Premillennial Dispensationalism, was expanded in
1909 through the publication of the Scofield Desk Reference Bible, a Bible with
extensive footnotes all screened through the lens of two future returns of
Jesus to earth.
The first return will be in the form of the physical resurrection of all true
Christians, who will disappear from the earth in a single moment to join Jesus
in the skies. That is referred to as the Rapture. For seven years to follow,
the earth will be in a period of Satanic upheaval, building to a final
Apocalypse in the Valley of Meggido (Armageddon), whereupon Christ will
descend onto the Mount of Olives with His raptured saints, defeat the armies of
Satan (including the Roman Catholic Church) and set up a physical throne in
Jerusalem to reign for 1,000 years.
There have been variations on that theme, but the physical return of Jesus to
greater Israel has remained intact. In the US, the Dallas Theological Seminary,
the flagship Southern Baptist pastoral training center, has been the breeding
ground for the American Rapturist movement.
In this scenario, the Jews remain the apple of Gods eye, the land promised to
the patriarch Abraham being their inheritance. In the seven-year period of
Satanic upheaval (referred to as the Great Tribulation), the land at least from
the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River must be secured for Israel. Solomons
Temple will be rebuilt, 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christ, there will be
a bloodbath of monumental proportions, and peace will be restored.
Support of Israels expanded borders, therefore, becomes non-negotiable for
American Evangelicals who subscribe to this dogma. There is a long history of
Evangelicals funding illegal settlements on the West Bank and in Gaza.
Recently, Tele-Zionist, John Hagee, has consolidated these cultists into an
organization called Christians United for Israel (CUFI), applauded not only
by President George W. Bush but by such luminaries as Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay
and Presidential candidate John McCain.
Huckabee on Israel and Palestine
On October 15, 2007, Huckabee gave a stump speech at the home of New Hampshire
State Representative Jason Bedrick, the first Orthodox Jew elected to the New
Hampshire House of Representatives.[1] In that speech, he staked out the
following:
He supports the creation of a Palestinian state
He believes that such a state should be formed outside Israel.
He suggested Saudi Arabia and Egypt as prospects for such a state, noting
that the Arabs have far more land than the Israelis and that it would only be
fair for them to give land for a state rather than carving it out of the tiny
Israeli state
He stands against the creation of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem,
thus tacitly supporting the seizing of the Temple Mount by Israel, the third
most sacred Moslem site in the world
He has stood against any pullback of illegal settlements on the Golan
Heights and the West Bank.[2]
By re-defining the boundaries of Israel to be vastly outside those officially
recognized by international law, Huckabee unmasks himself to be a Christian
Zionist.
By offering a solution not unlike that envisioned by 19th century Americans to
the slavery question and carried out against Native Americans, Huckabee
essentially dehumanizes the Palestinians and proposes to transport them
elsewhere.
I accuse him, therefore, of being an advocate for the ethnic cleansing of
Palestine. Here is his long-range view: If you are with Jesus Christ, we know
how it turns out in the final moment. Ive read the last chapter in the book,
and we do end up winning."[3]
As an evangelical pastor and theologian, Ill take the Mormon any day!
*Stan Moody, founder of the Christian Policy Institute, has served in the Maine
House of Representatives. He is an Advisory Board member of JewsOnFirst.org and
the "Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism." Dr. Moody is the author of
several provocative books, including, "Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship" and
"McChurched: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry." Pastor of a rural country
church in Central Maine, Moody has enjoyed a long and productive career in
small business development and management.
[1] http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2007/10/gov-mike-huckab.html [2]
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Mike_Huckabee_Foreign_Policy.htm [3]
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=6343708&pg=1
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