C Couple of Lovely Arab Voices on the subject of COctober Seventh

 This is so frustrating.  I want to recommend a couple of interviews I just listened to on You Tube but both eyes and ears are defeating me.  I may yet try again to copy the URL for them but my eyes are particularly bad today so I probably won't be able to.

All I can do is describe them and not very satisfactoritytly.  One is an Arab woman named Sophia who is being interviewed by a blond woman and the word Prager U shows up on the first screen before the interview.  That's really all I kow.  The arab woman is young, early thirties I think.  The blond woman is interviewing her about having grown up in Israel and her opinions about the conflict between Jews and Arabs.  

She gives a very positive view of her life in Israel, says she had many opportunities wshe wouldn't have had an a purely Arab setting, encouraged to go to school for instance where she ended up with an engineering degree.  She denies the accusation of Israel as an apartheid state and says it is in the Arab towns where the most separation is the case between the Arabs and the Jews while in the Jewish towns Arabs are not segregated out.  

The other intereview is by a young man at a podcast called J TV or something like that.  The first name of the interviewee I couldn't make out but his last name is something like Achmad.  he's an Arab who grew up learning to hate Jews and all infidels and eventually followed his own conscience out of that hatred and now opposes the Islamic jihad he once embraced and supports the Israeli poing of view.   I didn't catch the name of the interviewer.

After posting this I put J TV Achmad into the search line at You tube and the interview I am talking about came up.  Hooray for that much.

And another hooray.  Also on the search line at You Tube I put in Prager U Sophia Arab Israeli and got that interview as well.  

Ah well, I do have a complaint about the Arab man who explains hatred of the Jews in terms of envy by Islamists and the Left and the Right.  The exammple of hatred of the Jews by the Right that he gives is our objection ... and I am on the Right so I do say "our" objection ... is to the liberal Jews for their commmunist influence and I do share that objection .  I t has nothing to do with envy, it's a complainjt about liberal Jews, not about jews as such.  conservative Jews, especially religionus Jews are on our side.  There is no complaint there.  In any case objections to the liberals who were a strong influence in the sixties in particular for Cultural Marxism whichch no w dominates our politics have nothing whatever to do with envy and the idea is absurd.  Cultural Marxism has been a massive destructive force in Amerca and the west and the Left hnow embraces it.  And yes it did come from the liberal Jews.  But that is by no means all Jews and the idea is absurd and the idea that it's envy is absurd.Ironically, you could say, it's this liberal influecne in the culture, or should I say Leftist, that is behind the preo Hamas protests on the college campuses.

Well, now I'm into responding to this guy.  Ir t wasn't envy for the politlcal left either although as applied to the supposed Oppressed class of the poor and disadvantaged it is likely envy that fuels it.  

Next point is that he says something absurd about how religion can change biology, givin gthe example of p[riests and monks who are celibate thus defying their beiology, but boy is that a problematic stew of an issue since it is most likely that enforced celbacy on the part of Romanist priests that powered the rampant sexual misconduct over the centuries with mistresses and even monks and nuns having liasons, but also the growth in gay priests and their own sexual misbehavior which is now the huge controversy we're been hearing about for the last few decades.

I do think he's right to point out that Nietsche was not saying that God is dead in a triumphant sort of way but perhaps even lamnting it.  I think he was objeserving it as the reason for the development of vatrious ills in society and he trumpeted the coming Antichrist in an ironic way.  And I'm glad Achma poijnted that out.

Lowry and McWhorter, Israel and George Floyd. Yeah a mishmash I guess

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNf40sBcvKk

I have no idea what that line above says, sorry, I can't read it.  I thought I was copying it from the address line at the top of the page I wanted to link here but after I copied it and posted it I found I was unable to click on it so I have no idea what it is or if it might take you to the page I hoped it would.  

the page I wanted to link is an Israeli guy talking about the history of the situation in Palestine.  I don't know his name and the only words I can make out of the tittle to the video at the top of the screen are "Free Palestine.  There are more wrods after that but I can't read them even with my wonderful new magnified r from the Services for the blind.

So I'leaving the top line in case it contains usful information.  If not maybe you can still find the video I have in mind with the information I've added.  I originally searched for history of the Israel situation and found thta one two or three down from the top.  I hope you can find it because he does a very good job of laying it all out.

I wanted to post something fairly comprehensive because I just heard Glenn Lowry and John McWhorter discussing the recent events there with two guys that were irritatingly liberal in their outlook and utterly historically obtuse.  As papparently so are Lowry and McWhorter.  Which is understandable ssince most people who aren't particularly interested in that part of the world just go by what they hear and what they hear is all filtered through the Leftt which is mired in "Palestinian" propaganda.  I would love it if Lowery and McWhorter got themselveas educated on this topic because they do a good job of exposing the trusth about things when they know what's really going on.

As they did in a recent podcast about the George Floyd incident.  a documentary came out recently titled the Fall of Minneapolis which shows veryconvincingly according to Lowry that Floyd did not die as a result of asphyxiation due to the actions of Derek Chauven but due to being overdoesed on meth and Fentanuyul.  I already knew the incident wasn't racist because of the similar dedath of a whity guy named Tony Timpa, but I didn't know that the police technique had nothing to do with it.    Their talk on this subject is titled the Truth About George Floyd's Death.  

The Israeli guy is wearing a light blue pullover knit shurt, just to help identify him better,and there are shifting scenes behind him.

The Jews are not occupying anyone else's land and they did not steal it.  This Israeli covers all that and more.  There was no Palestinian people in the nineteenth century, they were invented in the mid twentieth century for political leverage against Israeel.    theyh are poor because their leaders keep them poor and abuse them viciously.  And they are not to be distinguished from their leaders because they share the same ideology, the religion that commands the killing of Jews and other "infidels."  but particularly Jews.   This is a religious war, the poltical stuff is completely invented.  They couldn't care less about those issues the Left makes up on their behalf, they simply want to obey their "god" and kill the infidel.

The Meaning of Gaslighting

 OK I just heard one too many talk show hosts get it wrong about the meanjing of the term gaslighting.  No it is not just some specially egregious degree of lying.When

When the term started to be used frequently a few years ago I didn't know what it meant so I looked it up and found out that it comes from an old movie titled Gaslight.  I found the movie at Amazon and watched it.  Ingrid BBergman and Charles Boyer are the stars.  He marries her knowing that there is a fabulous treasure of gemstones hidden somewhere in her family home which he wants access to.  They move into the house and he explores the part of it where he suspects the jewels are hidden.  He goes out every night letting her think he is going somewhere else but doubles back ahnd enters the room he wants to explore for the treasure.  The whole point is that he doesn't want her to know he is looking for it.  

 this is back in the days before electricity and the house is lit by gas that runs through pipes from fixture to fixture in thevarious rooms.   When he turns on the light in the room he is exploring it causes the lights in the rest of the house to dim slightly and she notices that and wonders what could be causing it since she believes he has left the house and there is only herself and the housekeeper there.  The housekeeper is in on the plot by her husband and denies that the lights are going dim, as doeas her husband ewhen she tells him about it.  It is this deniial of an inconvenient truth that is the meaning of gaslighting.  He alsmost succeeds in driving her completely crazy with this particular denial of her

 perceptions but many others he has been concocking for the same purpose.

Of course it's about lies but the point of it is to make someone feel he or she is out of his mind by causing him to doubt his own perceptions/.

There you go.

Come soonb, Lord jesus

God said Jerusalem would become the center of world agitation at the very end and here we are, all of a sudden, seeing Israel surrounded by the most vicious hate from all directions of the blobe.  All of a sudden, completely unexpected.  Yes we've seen a rise in anti semitism over the last decade or so but nothing like this, a sudden gigantic emergence of virulent hatred directed qat Jews.  The source is no surprise, Islam is dedicated to eradicating Israel and the jews, it's on their books and taught to all tgheir children, but for the world to chime in as it has, including crowds in the US, THAT is shocking.

But God said Jerusalem would become a cup of trembling for the world at the lastand, here we are.  A stumbling stone for the nations.  All nations.  Led by Satan of course, who is the ruler of this fallen world and always busy stirring people up against God and whatever god is doing, and Israel is a major representative of God on this earth.  Christians should be as well, but we have no specific geography.  Israel is a piece of real estate, a place, a location, and the Jews are known as the people of the Old testament, chosen by God, so getting rid of them is a prime objective of God's arch enemy.  

Jan Markell has et another program on this theme this week.  Whatever questions I still have about the specifics of the Pre Trib Rapture scenario don't keep me from seeing the role of Israel in this end times countdown.  And it does make sense that Israel would be the focus of the Antichrist just waiting to be catapulted to center stage.  Yes I am sure of his identity but that isn't terribly important except that it changes the timing of things somewhat from the usual pre trib schedule.  A covenant with Israel is to launch the Seventieth Week of Daniel as prophesied inj Daniel ...9 I think, but I'm often getting the chapter wrong.This coventnat is n't mentioned in the Book of Revelation, only in Daneil, but the Antichrist is represented in revelation in Chapter Thirteen by the beast from the sea and it has emblems that identity it with the fourth besast of Daneil's vision so we know it's the same person.  

Jan's guests talk about how some churches avoid mentioning these things and suggest that it's just cowardice, fear of losing church members.  I hope not but it could be.  This is no time for Christians to be owards, if there eever could be such a time.  Aren't we told we are to lose our lives for His sake?  Clinging to any kind of worldly securty is disoedience.  The greats of the faith listen in Hebrews Eleven even lived in caves in order to protect their faith.  this is no time to be depending on worldlyh comforts.  Hey, I'm no paragon of courage, believe me, but I recognize my fear and am trying to pray against it and beg God to give me the strengrth to risk everythinjg.

I'm worn out.  I wish it were over.  The good for evil and evil for good fallen world is exhausting.  And it's all finally comning to the point of disintegration with no going back and a lot of us are falling apart.  A lot of unbelievers for sure.  

Should add to this a strong recommendation to listen to this week's Understanding the times radio show from Jan Markell's Olive Tree Views webside.  It's also at You tube at least for now.  It covers the history of the situation pretty well for those who know little about it.  There is a short section between the first and second parts of the show where the history of the idea of a Palestinian people is tra ced whowing that such a people never existed but was invented as a weapon against Israel inj the sixties.    Israel's existence on that land is legtimate from every possible point fo ivew from the biblical foundation going all the way back to Abraham to the fact that the land was not occupied by any people of any identity whatever and in fact was a wasteland according to mark twain who vicited the area in the late ninettenth century, and the fact that they purchased land where necessary as well.  That loand belongs to Israel, they are not occupying any body else's land.  This history has been bured under Leftist and Islamic lies.

As the radio show also makes clear, it needs to be understood that this is no ordinary pollitical conflict going on between Israel and the Palestinians or the whole Arab world for that matter, or the whole world for that matter by now, Islam itself prescribes the muder of the Jews and of all "infidenls"   this is no reaction to a supposed occupationm or any kind of pollitical oppression by anybody, this is engineered from the official supposedly sacred writings of Islam itself.  If Mustlims exist who do not follow all that , great, but that's because they either don't know about it or reject it, not because it isn't there if they ever decided to go back to their religious roots.  When they do they learn that they are ordered by what they supposed to be God himself to kill the Jews.  That is what makes all this so impregnable to reason.  There are no political solutions to this.  Two states would only give Islam more access to murdering Jews.  They HAVE two states, or did, in Gaza, but they didn't use it as a Paolestinain state in the sense of building it up to prosperty and success for the people, they gave it over too Hamas, they voted for Hamas, they show their allegiance to their religion and there is no way you will ever talk them out of that.  If God is telling them to take this position how are you going to get them to reject it?    But the Left continyues to spread the lies that it's just an ordinary political conflict, the have nots at the mercy of the haves, when they have had the means to become prosperous for a long timeand don't use it, they use it to try to destroy Israel because that is the whole meaning of their religion.   No sign the world is going to be waking up to this any time soon though.  \\

Well, I guess it makes sense that Satan gets his day in the end.  Not the VERY end at least, but the end of life on this fallen planet before He returns.

There is no earthly solution to any of this.  The only solution is salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.  That's all there is.  And it's a lot.  It's the whole point of v3eing here in this miserable world.

 I must be extraordinarily obtuse about this premill pretrib way of thinking.  Often Jan Markell's program makes a big effort to clarify it and still I don't get it, don't get something or other and don't know what it is I'm not getting or why.    This latest program makes the same attempt and by fifteen mintues into the show I'm more confused than ever.  It goes by very fast for one thing and I guess I can go back and slow it down to tr to get the points I'm missing, whichI hope I'll be up to doing, but all I ever get out of these things is hearing the story repeated again.  And again.  

I gather there is more to this idea of Replacement Theology than I've understood.  Okay that's a start.  I keep thinking it's not replacement theoogy beause it's about fulfilling the messianic promises and those promises were fulfilled in the Church.  Yes?  No?  That leaves plenty of room ofor further dealings God is to make with ethnic or unsaved israel.  But "true Israel" as Paul uses the term, I understand to apply to believing Israel, which includes Gentile believers.  Ethnic Israel is a different lvel of things.   And ethnic Israel is what is dealt with in the seventieth week of Daniel, the great tribulation and all that.    Ethnic Israel is not replaced, because it remains to be dealt with, and True Israel is not replaced because it is the fulfillment of the messianic promises and is a separate level of the story.  Or seomthing like that.  What am I not Getting?

However, apparently there are those who see the whole history of Israel as having come to an end entirely with God's divorcing them for their adulteries against Him.  That's a different element of things I wasn't taking into account and it doesn't make sense to me because ...  well I'm sure there are scriptural reasons but I'm thinking of the historical reasons and the unfulfilemt prophecy of the seventieth week.  Historically the return of Israel to the land and statehood is jawdroppingly sidnificant and I can't see how anyone cojuld dismiss that as a Big Nothing as apparently some do.    The fact that Israel is the center of so much turmoil in the world in itself points to it as God's own piece of real estate which gathers all the forces of evil abgainst it.  Cup of trembling scripture calls it.  How can that be ignored?

Scripturally I think of the prophecy of Hosea in which God makes it clear that His adulterous wife is nevertheless loved by Him and invited back.  I don't see a total abandonment there.

I think I'll stop there.  I still have a million questions about other facets of the premill pretrib scenario but I'll leave those this time.

Something \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\We Turned a Corner Didn't We?

 Yes, now it does feel like it is all over, we're never going back to anything like what we used to think of as normal.  I suppose I'll go on hoping and grasping at straws for a while nevertheless, but it's hard to avoid the impression that October seventh changed things in such a fundamental way it will be hard to grasp at straws for long.  In itself it was horrific, but the finality of it comes with the reactions to it by the forces of evil, the increase in threats and claims by the bad guys when one would ordinarily expect a loud reaction against it all.  As I talk about in the previous post too.  

Jan Markll's weekly radio show Understaning the Times is all about this sense of finality and never going back that is felt by many of us.  This isn't a This Too Shall Pass moment, it's got to be the irreversible beginning of the End.   Part of her show was someone reporting on ... well no, giving a warning to Jews traveling anywhere in the world to be on the alert  because they are now targets in a way thaey haven't been before because it's all out in the open and stated baldly that their enemies are out to get them.  Warning to avoid their usual ways of dressing that identify them as Jewish and so on, and to keep alert as never before.  Travelers going all over the world.  ALL Jews everywhere.   Unprecedented.

Yes I'llhope and grasp a straws for a while, but recovery is looking about as improbable as ... well impossible really.

The Explanation of Absolutely Everything

The radical truth is that Christianity isn't just one of many relgioins, it is TH#E truth that explains everything.  I didn't choose Christianity because I liked it but because I believe that it explains everything, and of course it is wrong to speak of choosing it at all since from beginning to end it shows that God does all the choosing.  That theme is made very sharp and clear in the Bible although in our own lives it may not seem to be quite so clear.  I can see my own situation as having grown to appreciate this or that fact about Christianity without recognizing that God was doing the choosing of me by leading me that way.  But scripture is very clear that God chose Abraham and guided his life to the promised land despite Abraham's many excursions off the path of God's leading.  God also chose Moses when He appeared in the burning bush and called him to rescue His people from Egypt.  God called Joshua to take over from Moses, then alcalled all the Judges to lead the people in their various situations.  He chose Samuel the prophet, then David the King and so on and so forth.  We may be under the illusion that we had some kind of role in our own embracing of Christianity but we're wrong and the sooner we get it straightened out the stronger our faith will be.

But also God is in charge of everything that happens on Earth to everybody.  Thinking of God as able to change His mind makes it seem as if He could make things happen some other way than they do but that really isn't possible if you understand at least a litte about the nature of God and the Moral Law.  Scripture says here and there that God repents of this or that plan, but it also says that God cannot change and if He is in fact perfection itself, which He is, how could He change?  the only thing that makes it seem as if He can change is our own mental inadequacy for understanding the nature of God.  Scripture uses language that takes our mental inadequacy into account so that we aren't overwhelmed with concepts so far out of our realm of thought we'd lose interet in trying to understand any of it.

So I'mm watching with knots in my stomach the way things are going in this world, which do seem to me to be unprecedented expreassions of sheer evil tghat couldn't possibily have ever existed before, but of course I don't have the ability toknow that and could be wrong.  But I know I am among millions of others who are experiencing things pretty much as I'm experiencing them.  This is what makes us believe the End is very close of course.  But our sense of history may be far enough off that we're wrong and it's not so close.  Ther'es no way to know.  We just feel it is very very close.

I don't want things to keep going in the direction they are going, and know I'm not alone in this either.  I don't want things to get THAT bad as fast as they seem to be getting that bad.  I keep hoping we'll get a repreieve, that God will turn it back again, that the good guys will vanquish the bad guys once again as happened in the second world war, return us to a ormal way of life.  What a relief that would be.  But even as any of us thinks that it must be that most of us know it isn't going to happen, it really is going to keep going in this direction whether we are able to handle it or not.  Maybe believers will be raptures off the planet raptureD, let's get that d in there, beofore it all happens but there are lots of people who will suffer terribly after we're gone and I hurt for them and don't want them to go through it, let alone end up in Hell at the end of all of it.

But look how things are going.  Good and evil are being reversed to a breathtaking degre these days, more than everybefore in history or so it seems from here.  Evil ideologies lead to evil acts but then instead of the good guys rising up to defeat them the evil ideologies only flourish and grown stronger.  Surelyh Nine Eleven should have led to the vanquiaing o fht bad guys but it didn't.  They only grew stronger in inflouence and popularity.  Surely the evil that was done against Israel by Hamas on October seventh would result in Israel's pusing them back into a position of inability to continue with such attacks, but no, there is this uprising of the evil position against Israel with enough power behind it to suppress Israel's atempts to defend itself.  Has this ever happened before?  Anything like this?

The evil ideologies are the work of Satah.  Of course the vast majoirity ty of people dn't believe in Satan, and even CHristians or Bible believers who do believe in Satan wmaynot believe he is a real being but more of a principle and so defang the concept in that way.  But heis presented as a being, a person, in scripture and a bible believer should khnow that he is a person from that fact.  In any case Satan is winning the Great Battle between good and evil at this point in history, beyhond anthing I can imagine ever happened, or know from my general overview of history ever happened.  The hardest part to take is knowing that people who ordinarily seem normal and resonble are taking the side of Satan's evil and jjustifying it as good.  This does involved their being ignorant of facts at least so that if they really know the truth about what led to pre present moment one can belive they wouldn't accept it all so readily.  Can hope they wsoldn't .    If they knew the truth history of the Israeli Paelestinian situation could they really side with Hamas aainst Israel as so mahy are doing?  Could they?  Well Ikeep hoping they couldn't.

Marxism appears to be Satan's most powerful weapon againt good these days, succeeding beyond anything I could ever have imagined.  I've seen it coming in slips and moments since the sixtiies but never imagined it could get this far and there are plenty who haven't seen it coming and only see it in its fullblown manifestation that seems to have come about almost overnight, a matter of a few years.  What can they make of it?  Ig you fifn'y  see it coming for decades already how could you know what to make of it?

And since the Left has always embraced it in its earlier stages how are they going to re cognize that it's their own favored ideology that is responsible for the evil that is comingdown on us now?    It all seems to them to be a matter of comjpassion triumphing over authoritarianism or the self interest of a ruling class of Oppressors.  How could that end up in the evil we are mired in now?

As usual they make it the fault of the designated Oppressor of course.  Today it's the White Race and even the Hamas position seems to some of them to be just an expression of a racial minority against thie evil whiteness.   Even the Jews are classes as whites although historically they were no doubt one of the brownigsh groups of the Middle East.  As of course would Jesus have been, just to answer that ridiculous idea that we all think He wsas whtie.  No, every culture makes Jesus into whatever fits their own image.

But some of us have been carried above our own tribal identities by the rising tide of civilization over the last couple of milllennia in the West.  That civilization that is about to go under thank sot the satanic Marxism that is calling the shots these days.

Islam is not just another religion, it is Satan's masterpiece of evil, murder set in religious terminology.  Marxism isn't just another philoszophical mistake, it's Satan's masterpiece of a wrecking ball against Christian civilization.

That is what the White Race seems to stand for in this context too I think, and I'm not the onlyh one who thinks it.  The whole racial mess that has been building up steam for decades now has finally reached its real goal in the vilification of the White RRace as responsible for all the evil on the earth.  That's because historically the whtie race has been the main carrier of Christianity.  It's not that Christianity is a racial thing at all, ikt's not, ub thistorically it was carried most successfully in Europe and spread through the English speaking world in particular.  This allows some to identify it wilth the white race although it's just a meaningless flueke that there is any connection at all.  Christianity is catholic, meaning universal, it has no skin color.    

But because it is associated with the white race, however unconsciously in many cases, an attack on the white race serves Satan nicely as the outer shell as it were of his real target which is biblical religion and the Biblbicfal God.  the Jews are the first line of representation of this true God but the White Race represents it more fullyyu.   It's really God and Christ Satan wants to wipe off the face of the Earth.

\\Unbeleivers aren't in a position to see things from this perspective, and even many Christians don't put the whole big picture together.    But this is the raidical fact of Christianity that it is THE truth and explains ALL of history.  There is a real battle between Good and Evil that has been going on since the Fall in Eden and will continue until Jesus returns but most people are confusedc because they aren't looking at it for a wide ehough angle to see it as it really  is.  they think Christianity, especially Protestant Christianity as they think of it, is just a sectarian expression of religion while Islam is just another relition and so is Catholicism.  I don't wse any way at this late date to get the truth out to enough people to make a difference.  it really is going to take the return of Jesus to do that.