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Here we consider the indispensable reality of divinely commissioned Jerusalem, place for the Old Testament to find a glorious symbolism in the Temple, now outmoded and ironically permitted to have a Mosque around where it stood.

That, it is a standing invitation to Jerusalem to face the fact
that their most ultimate Temple is that of Truth, known as Jesus Christ,
and though many sought to ruin Him, He is permanently restored in bodily resurrection and will rule in a little (cf. SMR Ch. 8).

this can touch Him no more, nor can Judaism nor can Romanism, secularism, the modern Herodianism, one-world religiosity nor any other thing.

Then the saints will rejoice, from whatever nation,
and the wicked will wail (Revelation 1, 7);
but it is not as if He did not call to one and to all in His master plan,
and merciful multitude of kindness:
for it is not what you are but whose you are which matters.

Again, it is not where you come from but where you are going and with whom,
it is this that counts and it counts infinitely, for God IS infinite.

Blessed is the one who trusts in the God who acts (Isaiah 64:5),
who saves,
who has spent Himself in glorious redemption
that those who spend themselves for nothing might gain the wonder
of the glorious association for ever, with God Himself,
the God of action, faithfulness and truth, the wonder of the Bible.

Like a Catherine Wheel cracker, that sputters to its own inglorious end in the dust,

It is not time to yawn, to stretch, to have that chatty start to a prayerless day,

While creative thought without ground, seeks to replace creation, without having the power to do it or mime it or mimic it, or achieve anything to the point, being endlessly testified itself to be quite simply the PRODUCT of creative power, but is so heady as to seek to become its FOCUS, there is a conglomeration of abysses and extremities which lies on the road of this race, which it eminently deserves.

Such is the abyss into which the flighty thoughts of man, followed by their thinkers, fall, such a wound in the earth to which they consign themselves, that a TIME OF CRUX COMES. In history, it happens with all but monotonous regularity. You ask for it - rebuke, overturning of false aspiration, the take-over of reality from empty pride, correction by fact when mere fiction appeals; and it may seem for a time as if the Power above does not look; but then THE TIME COMES.

	The death of Alexander the Great, in the toils of banqueting; or
	that of Hitler in the groins of the earth, a bunker at Berlin by his own hand or will;
	the overthrow of Mussolini in torturous manner;
	the vulnerable death of a Stalin;
	the humiliation of the Kaiser;
	the breach of the empire of Napoleon, so that he can disport himself more and more clumsily on horseback, while being poisoned ever so slowly with arsenic by his friends, a captive on an island;
	the literal bankruptcy of Communism in the USSR; or even, far earlier,
	the invasion of a Europe dallying with the papacy, a thing clearly visible from Julius as early as 341 A.D. and slowly but intractably developing^*1: it came with a violent thrust that did not linger, moving by the scimitars and subduings of Islam, with a merciful escape from such a doom, at the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.;
	the decimation of Islamic power at the end of World War I;
	the bondage to debt of the generous USA, so helpful as to assist some of the enemies of righteousness such as Hussein of Iraq, before having to go to enormous lengths to remove his power ...

it has come and gone. The scene moves; the principles remain.

What does not go, is not right, tends always to come to a TIME WHEN IT commences to go rather than come; and often its passing is a memory, little disturbed by review, a pile in the sand like Nineveh, or a listless ruin as Babylon became, to shock the millenia in its blight.

In this world, this process is partial, since God has appointed times for the nations and their 'experiments' in philosophy, politics, morals and seeking Him, as pulses of power and retribution, folly and repentance are at work variously (Acts 17:26-27). Yet the ashes of folly remain to be seen by the eyes that search, the archeological exhibits of the dynamisms of human history. The aspirations of man, now to folly, now for wisdom, come and go like so many sea breezes, or squalls, or typhoons as the case may be.

Man is taken suddenly, and goes like a braying ass; realises and repents and comes like a cooing dove; makes new Leagues, United Nations, things of moral seeming, teeming with contrivance and moving without morality, merely mouthing preferences and applying them with powers that be, voting and disputing, while token service is given to truth, and truth lies stricken (^*2).

Judgment has shown its face; but in time, it will show its hand. Such is the biblical depiction (Acts 17:30), and it will come to the point of finale. In the end, the Degree of Advanced Torture and the Diploma of False Nurture has its result. The students are taken on at the end, to the real university of learning, at the judgment for all their complicated considerations, which have all but always, left out God, and plodded on with a singular disregard of need, while feeding the feeling for this extreme or that, from Rousseau to Hegel, from Schools of Authority to Spock, the latter leading to the Spock Shock, when he announced the unsatisfactory character of the fruit of the lavish freedoms from discipline which he had so ably advocated that many followed to their shame.

It is not however discipline alone, which can be a blithe butchery, nor is it liberty alone, a fastidious indulgence at times in education, allowing freedom to be a prison which dispels the knowledge which would make it productive: it is rather truth which must be sought with zeal, and liberty to differ which must be allowed where reason is presented. It must be possible, without ethical breach or adverse report, to exercise what is needed. That, not least, requires the liberty to displace the words of lecturer and professor, without account rendered at the hands of pride; or to have the thoughts of students displaced with reason, and not by fashion.

ONE class in Sydney University had a teacher who insisted on evolution^*3as an alternative to jumping in the lake; and one seminary in Melbourne, had a professor who assumed we were all Barthians. So does fashion seek to fashion minds, and folly seek to replace logic with laughter, or reality with conformity.

But the time comes. So many of the philosophies and theologies of man have been so famous in their day, and such lost causes after it, mere flatulence of ideation, that one has to wonder why the fanfare proceeds, and people do not adhere to the Bible quite simply, master of millenia, never rebutted, its explanation unexceptionable^*4, source of verifiable prediction multitudinous, diagnosis extraordinary, with remedy attached. But this is too banal for the electric eclectics, who must have something new, novel, different, divergent. It exhibits, itself, the reasons for the rejection of Him who gave it (Romans 1:17ff., Ephesians 4, Isaiah 41, 48, Matthew 13). The rape of life, the theft of the cosmos, the imprisonment of vitality, the subduction of the spirit of man, these appeal to the spiritually licentious, to the devil, to his allies, and to the varied means of giving them ostensible legitimacy.

Thus does the fruit of liberty become the object of lust, and the wonder of opportunity become the subject of sensationalism, so that fame is wrought or bought by innovations without substance, destined for the dust, but given the glitter for the moment of wealth; for as Peter declared, from your own midst there will arise false teachers with doctrines utterly to be condemned, and they will make MERCHANDISE of many. As Christ exhibited, false christs as well as false prophets would come, the media of sin, the buccaneers of shame, the shanghai-gangs of a slavery that is worse than the physical.

Make merchandise ? They do. What was done to the bodies of slaves, in hideous self-indulgence, is done to the spirit of man with nothing less, and many fall, marshalled by the devil like a roaring lion; but after all, he is one to be resisted and not given the pleasure of subversion by subterfuge at which he excels.

The time has come with so many christs and godlets, sects and diversions, ludicrous misuses of the just fame of Jesus Christ to make divisions and revisions, exploiting His holiness for the sake of notoriety, that while the compliment of such continual use of HIS NAME is vast, the ship's complement of the Church of Christ is dwarfed in size by the pirate ships that plunder the truth and sell it. They then name their vessels, often enough, with HIS NAME, nautical pretenders, seeking oil.

The time does come; it is coming very fast, the ultimate come-uppance of pretence, the final confrontation with pretension, the confrontation of fiction by truth, of faction by reality. There comes the scaring of the scarred soul of man by what HE IS DOING with this world, and looks likely to do, and the bluster that follows making much sound as empty things tend to do when stricken.

The timeliness of the coming of the time for assessment, the end of the historic (rather than merely the academic) year is near. The endeavours to rid Jerusalem of Jewish control is one of the desperado moves of our present day, for it is clearly written that WHEN Jerusalem comes once more under the control of Israel, THEN the times of the other nations, the Gentiles, is fulfilled. The time is now near when writers must put up their quills, and have their works assessed; and those who write in the dust of time have their drawings characterised once and for all.

Now look at the USA with the pedal on the accelerator for Islamic acceptance, on the pedal for Jerusalem's division, as that formerly great American nation is brought into subjection to this world's more ordinary powers, and polluted pre-occupations. Look at Russia, with its foot on the pedal of pride, blustering about military means to collect its self-defined parts of the Arctic, turning off and on Europe's gas, and sending bombers near to the sea borders of Britain, expressly imitating the times of the Cold War, having not done so brightly there, and seeking new fields to conquer.

Indeed, regard North Korea, adjudged to have failed in its recent missile test, but not lacking in highwayman belligerence, whether for panache or for food, as the case may be. Men are treating life as an thing of indifference, truth as mere name for what is convenient more and more, till the TIME COMES. It always does. Payment please! and then there comes what will make all of this world's past payments seem small: JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO TRUTH (Romans 2:1ff.).

It is a joy to the Christian, then, to have it all over. It is a triumph at that time to see it finished; for the victory of truth is permanent, accomplished when Jesus Christ once and for all completed the prophetically required, detailed specifications which formed His identikit, and showing Himself deity, overcame disease, death and delusion on the part of many. Sustaining the truth by His inability to be made into a corrupting corpse, He gave notice to this world both of His tender willingness for salvation for any (Luke 19:42ff., John 6:37), and His absolute power to exact judgment on those for whom mercy is but weakness, and meekness is but failure.

OVERVIEW

Today we are simultaneously looking at an Old Testament and a New Testament dénouement. Things had long been preparing. NOW there is to be NO MORE DELAY. The code is clear, the path is sure, the eye is not dimmed, the damage is done or about to be done. Now, the results come!

We will find this situation of impending action, final result, both in Ezekiel in the Old Testament and in John in the New.

It is rather like the situation for Japan in 1945. The war in Europe was OVER. The scape-goat in Hitler was finished. The lack of metal for building war engines was terminal. The advance on Japan was happening. Desperation was on all sides; impositions had occurred, more to come, the homeland once the base and basis for absurd and unholy expansionist pretensions linked to a religion without warrant, using the name of God, was now the focus for wrath. A plane took off, and judgment followed. It was fearful. There was NO MORE DELAY.

It had been asked for (judgment, not this particular one necessarily) and it came. They had sown the wind (Hosea 8:7), and now they were to reap the whirl-wind.

This is not to singularise Japan. Germany did the same and so did Russia with its absurd Communist take-over, where idle dreams preceded what did not delay: abuse by famine to subdue a people, abuse by slave labour in Siberia, in some ways to match Belsen and Auschwitz; but this Russia directed against her own people the 'motherland' practising such atrocities.

All have suffered. Is it possible that NONE will learn ? Not all fall; but certainly the world as a whole WILL not learn as Revelation 19:19 shows most clearly. The next result then is for this world which, after some interims, itself will in fact go (II Peter 3)! So much for those who use it, rely on it, bandy with it, bond with it or beautify it in their imaginations, ignoring the heart.

It will with its leader, deploy false religions this coming time on an INTERNATIONAL scale, planning to to RUN THINGS overall, while running many into the ground in the process. Its leader, the devil (John 14:30ff.) isn't so nice, but very popular, though like many, he does not normally appear direct, but uses sometimes charming adjutants (II Corinthians 11), human faces for his inhumane labours.

There comes a time when there is no more delay. The fruit is ripe for the picking, or for the plight of rejection.

THERE WILL BE NO MORE DELAY

1) Old Testament

Such was the message of Ezekiel 12:25. The people had become cocky - or if you prefer, rather sated with themselves, wise in their own eyes, secure in their opinions and moves. Though they had already suffered much in the way of military invasions from other nations, they did not repent. Indeed they were criticising the prophetic task force of God, in particular here Ezekiel, cheekily jibing about the proverbs, the indefinite sort of language he was deemed to be using.

What about it ? they were saying. Let's be clear: you and your proverbs. It’s all way away from now.

The reason for the procedure of review, reflection, appeal and exhortation such as you see in Jeremiah 1-17, and the imaginative use of dramatic signals, symbols and illustrations and warning by Ezekiel (as in Chs. 4-10) was clear. Indeed, it was dual. Firstly, God being pitiful, was warning the people by various impactive methods (just as Christ used parables because of the hardness of their hearts - Matthew 13). With Jeremiah, these had included categorical offers and appeals (as in Jeremiah 17), but in Ezekiel the focus was devastating, although the method still used colourful, if baneful, imagery to warn and to grip.

They had been told that "the day is near" for devastation (Ezekiel 7); but the people preferred to concentrate, it seems, on the figures used and the imaginative language with its pathos, in order to pretend that the simple, final, factual basis was in some doubt or distance of an uncertain kind. Very well. In Ezekiel 12:25 the message hits that proclivity where, instead of repenting and seeking mercy (as Hezekiah successfully did as shown in Isaiah 37), the people kept up their pert and perky attitude, as you see sometimes in fallen former churches, where impudence is added to decline, with the result of dis-appointment, or if you prefer imagery, having the 'candlestick' on which they shine forth with light REMOVED by God , leaving them a dump house (cf. Revelation 2:5).

In Ezekiel 12, we find this interplay between people and prophet, the latter from the mouth of God giving response. The people: "The days are prolonged and every vision fails!" This is expressed as a witty or wise saying, and the idea is that, ONE AND ALL, the prophets are getting nowhere while disaster creeps. This is so like the present in this land and many another, where the idea is that religion is getting nowhere as far as God is concerned, so we might just as well wed various confused notations and religious nibbles, even if they contradict each other on a total scale, and make some mystic, pseudo-moral, quasi-worshipful sort of authority or other, so that we can live a bit longer in some sort of peace on this earth with some sort of religion.

In fact, as ALWAYS and with sickening consistency (for judgment does not normally make well!), the judgments of God and the mercies had come precisely as commanded, and people like Joseph and Daniel, not to say Moses and Isaiah, had predicted what would be with an accuracy so amazing that it was stunning, shots as from a stun gun being accurate, and remissions with passion, being received as the Lord relented from time to time and gave encouragement to them to return (as seen for example in Ezekiel 20 in the long parable, and Psalm 78 in the panoramic coverage of their earlier history).

On the other hand, false prophets were continually trying to make life easy and gain importance for themselves, by inventing messages from their own minds, more appealing to a rebellious people (as in Jeremiah 20, 23, Ezekiel 11). The divine response was layered in several time sites, one very early and personal, others in what soon followed and yet more to cover the distant future.

There had been centuries with various revivals, but now the Lord met their mocking catcalls about uncertain times and delays like this (Ezekiel 12:25): "For I am the Lord, I speak and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious hose, I will say the word and perform it," says the Lord God." Did they mock, saying "The vision that he sees is for many days from now; and he prophesies of times far off" ? Then the Lord answers thus: " 'None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done," says the Lord God.' "

Then of course there came such devastations by enemy powers as to make to the thoughtful, all the modes and delays and appeals and imagery, exhortations and meditations very worth-while. If a city is to be destroyed, a temple ruined, people to be taken into exile, distress to be multiplied by the severities of this world when the Lord withdraws His protection after centuries of appeal and desire to prevent or even annul judgment: then all the 'delay' that went before is MOST understandable. Mercy does not mock judgment; it seeks to intervene. When its place is fulfilled to the uttermost, then judgment likewise can come, to the uttermost. It is time to listen! THIS WORLD will not listen, but it is time for any in it, still with it, to listen and divorce from its mockeries, and find the Lord while time is held open (cf. II Corinthians 6:2). Long ? rather, but not for ever! Look then at II Peter 3:9.

Now consider a partial parallel in John 13. They gather, the disciples, with Jesus. It is a supper, normal supper, it seems, before "the Lord's Supper" that sacrificially symbolic substitute for the Passover. In John this evening is shown to have included a washing of the feet of the disciples BY Christ, who did it in the most personal manner, using a towel wrapped around Himself, just as their sin and that of others who would come repentant, turning to Him AS their NON-symbolic but ACTUAL sacrifice would fall upon Him (Isaiah 53:6). If I, He said, your Lord and master do this, how much more should you do it to each other! Some take it literally. The point is not important. Christ always stressed meaning beyond mere appearance, and there is no obvious requirement to follow this procedure, but rather the lesson in it. We had to enter through a 'door', Himself, but there was no requirement to use carpentry. To be sure, here He tells us to wash one another's feet, but He also said, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this" - John 13:7.

In other words, it was not just a literal simplicity. There was depth of meaning. Some may take it that this merely gave interpretation to the action, while others may feel it expressed the spirit of the thing, this being a parable. Certainly the spirit of it is the criterion. If some prefer the physical embodiment, that is an option. As the procedure progressed, Christ as noted in John 13:21, became "troubled in spirit" - having exposed the fact that He would be betrayed BY ONE OF THEM! Indeed, He repeated the statement after this, "Most assuredly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me."

There was a period when the disciples examined themselves, as seen in Matthew! The text proceeds to the Last Supper itself as described in the other Gospels, and from Luke we gather that this was during that Supper, so that perhaps it is at John 13:21, while Jesus is troubled, that they conclude this foot washing as the prelude to the Last Supper, and we listen anew to their conversation in that event, as from John 13:21. In other words, in John there would be an insensible movement from Supper to the Lord's Supper, a highly specialised event, following the foot washing; and the contrast between the humility of washing feet and the enormity of betrayal BY one whose feet had just been washed in service, would become an introduction. The theme of service, betrayal and nearness, with redemption itself about to be paid for, however, would carry through, so that this would be the bond in John between the prelude and the principal event; and what a transition!

From service to betrayal and from betrayal to a profound loyalty of God to man: how unhappily usual is this, that HE acts in mercy and man, turning his back, would even betray the love, mock the mercy and carry out his own will instead. Is it I ? they asked, as did Judas (Luke 21:23, Matthew 26:25), and Christ gave to him a piece of bread, which He had first dipped, as indication that this was so, after that query and IMMEDIATELY Judas went to betray himself, the disciples, the nation and the Lord; and many have followed his way (John 13:30).

What you do, do quickly! said Christ. Contamination was not needed. False fellowship was not to be desired. It is not well to linger in the precincts of piety with the Lord's people when betrayal as in the sects, is in view, whether this be realised or not. It is not sin and pardon which is here the point, but departure from the word of God and the God of His word, while STILL staying near to Him in outward appearance. THAT separation is to be done without delay, and unwise is the person who lingers with those who, betraying Christ, do not go and yet appeal to others to linger longer with them (Romans 16:17). Judas lingered, not at first, but in being available to the soldiers and actually staying in the vicinity of Christ till that last kiss of betrayal to the guards, seemingly whispering, but intimating this: the one I kiss, seize him! "Lead him away safely!" (Mark 14:44).

Getting hold of Christ (then in body, now in false word) and leading Him away safely is the objective. Why ? why, so that trading on His NAME, people make Him not the same, but a mere entrance word to the diligent and disastrous spiritual transmutation they have in mind.

In our day, these are the gurus of the new religion, so that we have moved from guards to gurus; but the guards will come again, when the gurus have finished. Revelation 13 gives a brief survey of this nefarious operation to come, but not to stay! It will finish as in Revelation 19:19ff..

Did Christ encourage Judas to stay! Once the betrayal was clear and public, OUT! This was the word, and QUICKLY! GO! this was the direction of Christ to Judas.

IF the Judas betrayal of the historic Christ, of the Bible, the testimony of the apostles, if this is such that it WILL not leave in a straying body, let alone immediately; and if the 'Church' which harbours such and even allows them to dictate its doctrines amiss, CANNOT exclude them, then there is only one option. Execute the result: get out yourself!

It is necessary to be where the truth is, and if nominal churches pass the point where truth can be maintained and applied, then these no longer have the mandate, and those who linger are like loiterers with Judas. HE goes or YOU do. There is no room for becoming spiritual chameleons.

Alas! that is what it came to. It is like someone brought up in a Church and Church School on whom all is lavished with fondness and care, who then becomes drunk or drugged or rash and foolish, ruining his life. So with the nation, they did not repent.

A TIME CAME! It always comes. It came then, and it comes now; and each must face it. It will not depart. Trial and test are inherent in truth, and in the lot of the people of God (cf. I Peter 4:1ff.).

In the early Church, how they were to be tried! But in their spirits, boldness and fearlessness, purity and truth were a criterion. What the body suffered, the spirit rejoiced in, the apostles even expressing joy at the privilege of suffering for Christ (Acts 5:41); while Peter shows the wonder of the closeness of the Lord, when one obeys and abides in Him according to His own word (I Peter 1:1-8).

A time of trial, following Christ's ascension, preceded what for some was a torrent of mercy in the pastures of peace of soul, with whatever outward endurance; but for others, it was a season of guilt to be followed by the destruction of the very form of the outward centre of a religion, Judaism, which had become false because its core had been dumped as if rotten: and that core was Christ Jesus the Lord.

So does each person, each nation and this world indeed await now the end. There have been two millenia of warning, just as, it seems, Israel from Abraham's prelude to their national format, had something the same before Judas led a legion to betray Christ and depart from their Messiah. Now the whole world is on notice. Revelation points to the parallel, as in Revelation 10:5-7 (bold it. added).

^"The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever,
who created heaven and the things that are in it,
the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it,
that there should be delay no longer,
but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound,
the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets."

of the next Chapter, namely Revelation 11, the removal of the Church,
this being called to "come up here!"

that this is indeed so, for the whole Age is there reviewed and this end to it is seen in a vast overview.

There is an end. There is a time. There is delay in mercy; but there an end in final judgment.

To disjoin this end from your beginnings, you need to act, and not meditate only. It is not God who delays in vague callings, but MAN who delays in wrong turnings; for the turning needed is this, to repent and believe Him who calls, to stay not merely to the Last Supper (from which Judas went 'immediately'), but to the transfer of guilt from you to God, placarded on the cross as Christ, whom it images; it is by faith to receive what Judas rejected, and not only to live, but to rejoice in Him, so to know Him and to go and grow through Him (II Peter 3:18), abiding, trusting.

If this day you are caught in some sin, eject it, and let there be NO MORE DELAY.

If this day you have some duty or responsibility to fulfil for God, then DO IT, and let there be NO MORE DELAY.

Praise God, HE did not delay, but waited till the time was ready; and when the time comes, as it WILL come, just as He acted the first time, to die on time, around A.D. 30, as Daniel forecast (Christ the Citadel ... Ch. 2, Highway of Holiness Ch. 4), so now He will arrive to rule and to judge (Acts 17:31). Some could scarcely awake when He first came, though the date was predicted clearly; many will be still asleep when He comes to the consummation of His plan, the second time (cf. Matthew 24:36ff., and the parable to follow, 25:1ff.!)

That is not all that is forecast: the forecasts of God take hold. Israel is back as planned (Luke 21:24, Ezekiel 36-37, Micah 7), Jerusalem has been taken: the results are accruing as planned. Skirmishes abound, but soon, in due time, the results confound those who reject Him, both our Creator and the One calling all to come to be redeemed, careened.

To Him, therefore, come without delay; for Him, go without delay. He has both come and He calls.

The attempts first of Rome and then of Constantinople to have each for its own part, a certain priority established for its adjudication of issues, as if to become the court of last resort, are reminiscent of the desires to be first which the disciples could show, even near to the time of the Last Supper (Luke 22:24ff.). To be sure, the issue of WHO would betray Him (22:22-23) would make such a discussion at least comprehensible; but it still happened.

Peter had to learn obedience and be humbled, categorically, in the movement from his vast failure noted in Matthew 16:22ff. (cf. SMR pp. 99ff.). This happened to the uttermost (Luke 22:54-62). It fruits appear with wonderful clarity (I Peter 5:1ff.) in the words of him who is "also an elder" and despises lordliness among men!

However, the passion to be first, unhumbled, has blighted man, and rose extraordinarily when Rome sought that teaching/leading priority what is explicitly denied (Matthew 23:8-10) to ANY, for ALL are brethren and the only Teacher/Leader is Christ, just as the only spiritual Father is GOD!

It fallacy continued to exert itself in growing measure, and was formalised again when Constantinople sought to a significant extent, the same thing and thus provoked no small division through such an entry into disputation (at the Council of Chalcedon 451). In fact, the idea that the imperial city of the day, whether 'old Rome' which than had been over-run by invaders, or the New Rome, as Constantinople was called, was by its earthly status to be inhabited by supreme powers or arbitration and leading for the Church of Jesus Christ, was mere obeisance to this world, a thing detestable to the Church of Jesus Christ (cf. James 4:4). James indeed makes friendship with this world to BE enmity with God, which of course, it is.

If an Emperor sits there, this has ZERO spiritual significance. If civilisation broods on its own greatness here or there, or has arms above others here or there, what of it ? This gives it null power and authority, and the very idea is so abysmal as to be destestable, for the very Prince of this world, as Christ titled him, has NOTHING in HIM! How do we know this ? HE, the Christ, said so. Whose Church then is it ? It is His. What of the thing that does not abide and obey, and refuses to repent of such rebellion ? It is not His Church. He is good with the instruments of pruning (John 15), for 'sports' which spring up and do not abide.

For the very spirit of the thing, see Isaiah 59:9-20. Note the remedy in the last verses of this passage.

For the United Nations, see It Bubbles ... Ch. 11, Ch. 10, * 1, The Other News, Appendix.

NEWS 152
(truth does not invade, but it still prevails - discussion in detail including the UN approach),

with Racism miscued as Zionism: Light of Dawn Ch. 6;

as inadequate and imperilled by religious racism, Of the Earth, Earthy Ch. 13.

The academic backing of this fairy-land mysticism is as misty as any lake - see The gods of naturalism have no go! the four-volume set, on this site.

Bible or Blight, Christ or Confusion:
The Comprehensive Resolution of Man's Intractable Problems
is Found Only in the Bible, the Word of God;

Some people do not like things to be about to happen. They torture themselves, the truth and the realities as far as lies in their power; they consult together, talk, equivocate, congregate, opine, formulate, forge partnerships, make announcements, counter-announcements, force claims, live with counter-claims and are altogether such a robust and likely group as to make of journalism, an essay in possibilities. Thus the facts are several removes away, and the forces of compromise, aspiration and consultation move in a little world of their own.

Meanwhile, the actual world moves on to where it is going, very often to a place of ethical ill-fame, enormities of mismatched duties and needs, until man faces his next major fright, as there is consternation and fear among the nations, estimating what new enormity, plague, concoction of evil is about to strike, like a ruminative adder, only needing the slightest provocation before acting. The time of "men's hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth" has come (as foretold in Luke 21:26)..

This has mounted till reaching the current complicated complexion of things (like a lady's face made up to the utmost with every kind of eye-shadow, would-be blush, flush, false eye-lash and the like) becomes a work of presentation, of image; but what it is imaging, that is entirely another question. Man reaches to such things and then over-reaches, like one leaning on an invisible wall at the edge of a precipice. Hence the shocks which come, when it is successfully realised that what is being done and even what many of the competing ideas prescribe for what ought to be done, are far from what needs to be done; and that what is being 'seen' as distinct from what is there, are things so diverse that these two worlds simply do not agree.

Then there are spats, not just with the major players, but multiple, such as evoked by the nuclear and quasi-nuclear and pseudo-nuclear powers, and other dubious players with mortality as sport, concerning the way in which, if any, life may continue on this globe. Since this is to become IMPOSSIBLE as Christ foretold, except at His return, which has judgment afoot, there is therefore room for sudden change, and call for desperate measures for desperate times; and one of the first casualties will be freedom, freedom of speech in particular.

One could almost be forgiven for mentioning 'President Rudd' whose style may seem so imposing in appearance, yet moves to be one so disposing in reality; for he is embarking, we read, on Internet Control, a vast and marvellous scope for an intellectual Tian-Anmen of our own, a funeral to expression with all sorts of liberties annulled, possibly in the very name of liberty, always a useful ploy for some, as in the former USSR where the mere mention of such things could be seen as a method for their dispersion, if not from the globe, then at least from their part of it. If not to be discarded in the NAME of liberty, however, for the ways and means committee is not inactive, then free speech may at least be severed in the name of some sonorous seeming principle or other, so that the State can rule out what it really does not want, and yet seek to put a good face on it.

Christ too was inconvenient - remember Caiaphas (John 11): "It is EXPEDIENT that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish". Otherwise put, it is not CONVENIENT for Christ to live: we profit more if we kill Him. In the above quotation, two words are left out, now replaced: "It is expedient for us that one man die for the people..." There we find the central "for us" that cynosure of doom, that led to the near perishing of the people, saving themselves in guilty folly, removing the greatest, purest, most munificent, merciful light that shone directly from God, His Father, the very Christ, for some sort of survival, which replaced a massive revival, the real need. When it is not convenient to have truth, then of course man is unmanned, and becomes a sort of controlled robotic reactor, as far as the State can contrive it.

Truth then dies, as far as the State is concerned, so that everyone can get on with living an impossible life, impassive to truth, unperturbed by reality, changing anything just to keep going, and not minding unduly to what destination that is. Impossibilities can take a while at times, to show their teeth...

Rites to wrongs can be bought at the United Nations by making racial declarations, or attempting this, in the name of attacking racism^*1; and the coming junta can make 'all things new' as Blair and Obama and Rudd have all tended to do in oracular statement, before election, without too much undue preoccupation with what that is ... until afterwards. Innovation, like cloud bursts and new paths for hurricanes, has a very variable history. It needs some practised charting ...

Let us then listen to a little conversation between two friends, for when it is fiction, it is not so rude to overhear.

Well, as far as I am concerned, this world is empty, corrupt, unjust, merciless, fraudulent, gross and incompetent in all that matters most.

Do you think so, Ben ? If by 'world' you mean what is IN this sphere of life and environment of the earth, as persons, and is NOT in Christ, rejecting Him, I could not agree more.

Look Frank, even in false religions, it is breach of trust, denial of goodness, flagrant misuse of grace, daring denial of reality, erection in the very place of God of the mere thoughts of man, masquerading as something worthy of worship. What could be more corrupt ?

I must say, Ben, it is sobering when you read about 'idols in the heart' in Ezekiel 14:4, and using the temple of God for foreign images (Ezekiel 8), as if you could mix the drinks of philosophy and invention with the draughts of the refreshing waters that never fail, without becoming a recently deceased contortionist. As to the thoughts of man, even if psychically shot through with the claims of mysticism on the one hand, and on the other, those from the God of creation and redemption: they mix like plus infinity and minus a million. It is He, whose word has struck the world like a sudden squall, calmed it like a zephyr, awakened it like a freezing wind, and instructed it in what alone is verifiable among all the religions, and this for millenia: there is no hope for what ,seeing the one, chooses the other.

The Lord puts it vividly. I was reading, in that Chapter of Ezekiel, that God saw elders who came to Him even though there is, in the heart of each of them as seen in in their religious practice, "a multitude of his idols" . "They are estranged from Me," He declared, "through their idols." The first instruction is clear: "Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations." God abominates spiritual substitutes for truth, far more than a good doctor abominates spurious drugs which intoxicate but do not heal. They are wrong, wrong-headed in construction, wrong in intention and wrong for the system. They speak of good, who sell them, but they accomplish ruin; they are what misleads, breeds sorrow, giving medicine a bad name and their imbibers a bad life, perverting the desire for health and life, even this, to destruction.

So evil are these machinations and so desperate these devices, that God can even allow the subverted soul of each who so deludes himself to become deceived, and bring on him the disaster of the psyche which waywardness first invites, just as excessive smoking can actually CAUSE a train of events, physically. These may become right out of the control of the one who has it, so that he becomes a site for corruption and his very bodily resources contribute to his own ruin, being taken over.

In that context, Jerusalem was about to be invaded, the temple destroyed (Ezekiel 14:20ff., 21:8-17). They had resisted and even resented tremendous offers, opportunities, pleas and reminders from God, given in the time of the weeping prophet (Jeremiah 9), the heart-broken Jeremiah, and some of those offers were mercy itself (cf. Jeremiah 17). Now came the flustering bustle of judgment. It at length became as unattractive as unerring, impelling as repulsive.

Perhaps there could be some ... resolution, some Obama style bargaining, reasoning together, patch-work quilt in a religious setting, something for all, some agreement about things of God which could settle human differences and make some kind of peace, perhaps a little praise for this false religion and for that (cf. God's Gift of Grace in Christ Jesus Ch. 3), a concession here, an allowance there ? Yes, by all means there could be this: but the permission for, admission of, or even praise of idolatry is merely a provocation that increases the judgment. Idols in the heart are not welcome to the Maker of the heart.

No, there is no palliation. What does one read in Ezekiel 14:20 ? It is this: "Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves." WHO would be delivered ? Which are the three men who, even in they were then living in Jerusalem, would deliver not the city but ONLY THEMSELVES ?

Why, they are "Noah, Daniel and Job". Daniel had been taken early from Jerusalem to be made a cadet wise man in Babylon, and early distinguished himself in many ways, in heroics and acts of prayer of an amazing kind, gaining deliverance which staggered the King as he was faithful to God in an alien environment.

Yes, and Job was exceedingly famous for the suffering he endured and his wonderfully inspired and uplifting words found in Job 19, "I know that my Redeemer is living," going on to declare this, that in the last times HE would BE on this earth, and Job, though his very body should be destroyed, would SEE Him with his own eyes, thus indicating the faith in the resurrection of his body. This, indeed, despite the rawest of sufferings and the most pitiable of diseases with which he was afflicted, during his famous trial. Then what of Noah ? He was one of 8 delivered from the flood, who presumably amid unspeakable mockery stood firm as by faith, he built a vast vessel, though there was no apparent water worthy of it ... at first! and through him the race was spared.

Would one of these, would his prayer, that of a saint, help ? No. God emphatically refuses any such proposition. You deal with God or you have the persuasive powers of sod. What then if TWO of these great saints had been in the city and prayed for it ? Surely God would hear then ? Not in the slightest degree. THEY would be delivered, but none would adhere by any sort of sticking, to them. Well then, surely three ? perhaps, in united prayer could turn away judgment from the city which dared, like Obama, to PRAISE another god while naming HIS name. No (Ezekiel 14:20 is insistent), even that would do nothing.

I see: Resort to those ways and what then ? Even the whole THREE of these most famous saints joined in intercession, they could NOT deliver the city, for it was BECAUSE of mixed gods, gods deemed good enough for praise and position, that it was meeting its term, and faced devastation. NAMING the God of truth and JOINING Him in some sort of recognition of other gods is abominable to Him, detestable, unthinkable as it were, a thing of dereliction.

But what of America now, and what may be coming over the horizon of horror for Australia, if truth becomes an unthinkable encumbrance because of political gods who dictate, surreptitiously corrupting integrity and truth, in their NAME, which is what it would amount to ?

America does well if it disjoins from these horrendous deals^*2, started in Bush's time and now made worse by Obama: religious patch-work jobs. Even a surgeon might not be too pleased if half-way through an operation, for an instant, you came to and demanded a co-surgeon at once. Far less does God permit joining His infinity with the creations of men, called God, be they operative as ideals born of some conception that rules as a god, or more direct worship that supervenes and directs in its own rites, or wrongs called rights!

I'll go further. If there is one thing the Old Testament makes as clear as ANY other, it is this: that God is not mocked, that He does not endure liberties with His name, that He has a vast ZEAL for truth in the heart and that all the gods of the other nations are heathen, as in Psalm 96: in the next Psalm, they are instructed in a delicious and satirical irony, to WORSHIP HIM! Little gods worshipping the only One worthy of it, how delicious a rebuke! In the New Testament, we read this, that there is UNDER HEAVEN NO OTHER NAME by which men MUST be saved (Acts 4:11-12). It is not an option, nor is the method an option. If you can't replace readily E=MC², how much less can you replace Jesus Christ, crucified! Again in Jude and II Peter and II Timothy 3-4, we are reading of the corruption of turning from the living God to what others construct, innovative concerning the truth, wrong in logic^*3, unrepentant in heart, deluded.

The contemporary push, which dares to become a religious putsch with a Temple of Understanding and endless inter-faith dialogues^*3A and other forbidden fruits of unbelief, is of course predicted (Revelation 13, 16-19), there being even a SECOND DRAGON, or spiritually imposing force of cohesion and direction, predicted to handle ... the religious aspect of the this-world rule. This, an improvement on the mindless follies of Communism, morals from nowhere, laws from nowhere, but authority from everywhere, and will be more palatable to the antics of asininity than was that. This religious move is predicted to come before judgment comes, and it is multiple in measure, though single in purpose, as Revelation 13 and 16 show.

Yes, it moves to this entire world, like mould spreading, just as in Ezekiel's day, it brought ruin on Jerusalem for its two-timing follies.

It escalates for the Gentiles, then... But again, their world is somewhat larger! It is a magnified case in government as in pathology!

This however does not make it any better, but merely shows that the foretold spiritual syndrome is known to God, its modes, methods, aims, ambitions and end! That makes it the more horrendous, for it is like someone who already afflicted from cancer from smoking, now using stronger cigarettes, where the smoke blows more broadly, instead of ... stopping at once and altogether.

Is it good for Biblical Christian Apologetics that we have these horrendous movements that compromise the Lord and dare to name Him while praising and participating with idols ?

In a way it is, for it is verification. History readily COULD have been different; the whole world COULD have gone for Christ as it seemed possible it might in the days of Emperor Constantine, and at other times when misled people systematically and spuriously used force in the name of Christ, though this was expressly forbidden (John 18:36ff.), and so showed that their Lord was another. It WAS however predicted that while on the one hand, there would be enormous openings up in the nations outside Israel, to the Gospel, including the hearts of kings, yet the way would always be NARROW.

In the end, it is quite clear, the anti-Christ forces, the relativists, the authors of compromise and conditional alliances and the like, using the name of religion in the process, applying the screws, increasing the penalties for non-conformity, on a universal basis: all this is TO COME. It has come in places, and these are whole large segments of humanity already. When there is no opposition, nothing for comparison, no USA with its freedom force and Europe settles for convenience and so forth: then of course the sheer audacity of the thing will grow as fast as its specious hypocrisy and deceitful ruses. The sheer pomposity of it is seen in Revelation 13 and 17, its militarism in 19:19, its corrupting and corrosive hopping about, in 16:13 and on.

It is, then, evidence of the truth of the word of God; but it is attestation of doom to come.

Why yes! If Jeremiah wept for what was to come to his city, his beloved people, what does one do when the entire world faces condemnation, and many in the same mode; and indeed, so vast has been the very spread of the Gospel of Christ, as foretold in Matthew 24:14, as what had to happen before Christ the Saviour returned as King, as long forecast by the prophets (cf. Isaiah 4, Micah 4, 7, Psalm 72, Habakkuk 3, Matthew 24-25), that more and more, the whole world is coming to resemble that little nation that Ezekiel and Jeremiah so loved. Movement is ... from Israel the case study, to this entire world as its consummation in grief and horror!

At first, it was the same one for which Jeremiah sorrowed, little Israel. Now it is the large world, more and more alive and alert to the Gospel, but perverting it, diverting it, disjoining it, making new carpentries to conjoin it for convenience.

If Christ Himself wept over Jerusalem, which ignored the "day of your visitation" when HE came and offered all, and knew what would come when they removed Him, how much more does one wonder and weep for the whole gamut of nations, skewed from salvation, seeking escape from truth and finding appointment with justice, which THEN becomes judgment.

Yes, while the super-cars of power and pomp parade on the highway to hell, let us be frank, who are pilgrims and strangers in this world, we walk on the narrow path of divine righteousness. While some are impressed, the many, the multitude is either uneasy or queasy, or attacks, or despises, or condemns ... and kills as in the Sudan, often in China, harasses and hates, attacks as in some Moslem countries, seeks to control, to be a Lord to Christ, instead of owning Him as Lord.

The result ? It is not hard to see. Wars, rumours of wars, distress of nations fearful of the things to come. That is the word, like a news outline, from two millenia ago.

That is what is happening now. But the world puffs away, as if intent on the tobacco tar that spoils, passionate about it, smoking with ruin in false philosophies, idolatrous religions: demeaning Christ the way of some, ignoring Him of others, seeking to control Him of still more.

It is well, for it does not last, though before its focus is final, it will be seen, both what it was to be and is, as one which will soon both consummate its folly and find its judgment.

In the meantime, Christians face unparalleled troubles, before the return of Christ; but let us bear up, for He comes, and the work of testifying of Him is a privilege unspeakable, if by any means some be won to Him. It is not the statistics which should bear fruit, but the souls. MANY will be won to something else, some combination of idols, as in the case of the Alpha course^*3B.

Yes, its background shows a force strong on the acceptance of Romanism, its mode of not answering criticism of Christ over a significant period during the course, damping criticism of error as a means, is set on what actually is a way merely sets the course for a grand 'tolerance' on what is in fact nothing less than an hostility to Christ according to the Bible, and an evil combination that merely shuts up truth in a silence which breeds contempt for what is eternal. Ploys that suffer unanswered contempt for Christ, for weeks show an honour that puts means before character, and in this case, fit too well with the avowed desire that large denominations simply become agreeable, as if the myriads of martyrs to Rome, and the integrity of the word of God were to be replaced with a feeble fellowship of no meaning, immersed in self-contradictions and convenience.

Where then are those who like the disciples, stand when murder is about ? speak when hostility abounds ? act when slander is a medium of life, and refusal is a path of the many, even of a multitude who dare to name Christ, while making in effect a game of His stringent conditions. They are not hard to bear if you love Him: love bears all things, hopes all things, but REJOICES IN THE TRUTH (I Corinthians 13). Paul would not give place for ONE HOUR, to heretics in his own day, and had the matter settled in Jerusalem in vigorous and denunciatory dynamism. What is precious is not for the wolves. While it is not right to use force, as some have done while themselves erring, it is wholly alien to let evil rove like a bull bellowing at a meeting.

Dwell here, then, with Christ as Saviour and Lord according to the Bible, not mixing it with idols in the heart, on the tongue, in the spirit of your living. The beauty of holiness is untainted where HE is; and He is not to be found here or there, as those who say, Look, there He is! or there! as we see in Matthew 24:26ff.. He is in no mouldable mass, in no combination of syncretic religionst^*3C, in no praise of what disdains or excludes His deity and His redemption, or makes Him into a material element^*4; for HIS words are SPIRIT and they are LIFE, and He asks, "What if you shall see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before ?"

He explains this, following His imagery about eating His flesh and drinking His blood, doesn't He ?

Yes, you see it in John 6:50-63, the imagery moving on from animal sacrifice to the ONE sacrifice which ONCE made peace for all who so receive Him, which ends by His declaring the principle in view: "It is the spirit which gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life."

But what of ANOTHER SPIRIT and ANOTHER JESUS and ANOTHER GOSPEL ? Doesn't the Bible make plain the uttermost peril attaching to this ruse or dream ?

Indeed, it does. In II Corinthians 11, Paul declares that those espousing such things are false apostles, deceitful workers. They are transformationists that do not change, but are endued from what is evil, surrogates for Satan or illustrations at least; for says Paul, it is no marvel that such people can seem angelic, for "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." What then ? "Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works."

We can but pray^*5for any among such that they may be found; for the Lord takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, and many, misled, follow paths as do youths in their ignorance on the roads, without understanding what they do. It is a great day when, praise to the Lord, some are delivered from the various devious departures, slithering slips and at times, robust rambunctious renegacies that dare to use the name for another thing, word, Gospel, and god!

The word of God however does not change; and wise is the one who follows it (Matthew 7:15ff.). For this, for Jesus Christ, there is no substitute; there is only fancy dress, the moment of folly, the dressing up ... but the truth CANNOT be dressed up. As it is, so it continues, and he who is Christ's disciple continues in HIS WORD, as He states so very clearly (John 15:10, 8:29-31).

Yes, I recall in Isaiah 61:10, the truth is something to be PUT ON, not as a dress up, but as a garment that Christ gives (the one missing in the parable of Matthew 21, for the wedding guest, with disastrous results!). And that ?

It is the righteousness of God, a gracious gift, just as He states it in Romans 5:17. It is a gift by grace (Romans 5:15), by devotion, and is as a wedding garment provided for the bride by the Lord.

See Red Alert Ch. 5 (in biblical terms is the infamous multi-'faith' prayer breakfast )-Lord of Life Chs. 4 and 8 Dastardly Dynamics Ch. 10, including *2; Red Alert Ch. 6, 13.

For more on the Bush era and remarkable preliminaries to the Obama betrayal, the multi-faith reverence, and more in the Moslem field, see Dastardly Dynamics Ch. 10, *2! The important point here is the status of the officer making these statements in the US.

See Of the Earth, Earthy ... Ch. 13, NEWS 152,

It Bubbles ... Ch. 11, News 121, 122.

See also: Bewilderment, Bedazzlement, Bedevilment
or the Beauty of Christ's Holiness Ch. 7.

One of the tragedies of the ending theologically cosmopolitan syncretism, the World Council of Churches, and various unity movements, is that they deal subversively with the Bible, 'creatively' with the Gospel, delusively with the Christ, inventing from philosophies of social, psychological, political or biological kind, various additives and performing varied extractions, till the very name of Jesus is used as if it were that of some captive maiden, adjusting to the needs of libidinous captors.

This is of course mere dalliance, and has less than nothing to do with either the Gospel, or Christ, or salvation. This sort of imagery is to be found in the Bible, where the idolators in Israel were found lusting for the 'young men of Assyria' and the like, as if it were sexual, whereas this is a mere image for the translation into spiritual terms, Israel here conceived as a maiden. The point is that here are SPIRITUAL masters, whose idols are imported, whose ways are to some extent honoured or even venerated. It was for the exclusion of this that Israel was to be made an example (Isaiah 43:21). The Church is in principle not different: it is to be as a shining light in the darkness (Philippians 2:15-16, Jude), reflecting Christ: not a soot coated former-lighting agent, now hidden underground below who knows what messes.

Alas, many in ancient Israel, here an expository example, and many leaders in fact wanted the power, virility, arrogance, pride, security of arms, the explosive force and uninhibited living style which such powers showed, and sought the religion of what were enemies, attracted, at times entranced by the idols involved, to combine it, and even as in Jeremiah 7 and Ezekiel 7. They proceeded to combine such things with the name of the Lord. It is summed up in outcome, as seen in II Kings 17, especially for our present point, vv. 17-33.

As to the combination and the defilement, consider the outrage of Jeremiah 7 (to which are allied the words of the Saviour in Matthew 21:13).

	the guards' feet would soon move to stalk Christ, to grab Him (following Judas' advice, at his identifying kiss! a warning to all not to trust appearance but to look for reality),
	while then came the hustling to the injudicious judgment,
	the mockery,
	the crown of thorns,
	the whipping,
	the preference for a murderer to the Saviour from death,
	the resurrection and

	since Israel has never agreed in any mutual arrangement, to have Jerusalem divided,
	since it is a sovereign State, and
	since the UN has infamously departed from the arrangements made by the League of Nations, the concept of a homeland, one in which it was explained, Israel might feel proud,
	since the equity has been devastated by unilateral provision of some three quarters of Palestine for Jordan, no longer seemingly even a party to negotiation on the point of its reception of mainly Moslems into a significantly Moslem land,
	since there are inflammatory efforts, by resolutions or imputations, for continual grabs for more from the tiny residue:
	there is need for something other than this legal-branding organisation, the UN, to operate and restore the land to its people from these growling houndings.

1922 Text: League of Nations Palestine Mandate

Why did the Arabs reject the UN plan?

	"Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house ?"
	It is because "they forsook the Lord God of their fathers..., took other gods and worshipped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity upon them."

	first to the coming of the Messiah as Saviour (Zechariah 9), with the ass's colt for detail,
	then to His betrayal, sale for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11) for more verifiable detail, and
	then to a severely ironic, prophetically spoken question, concerning the wounds in the Messiah's hands. .

	It is not just that it is so lopsided, nor is it merely that it is so incremental and continual a force and dynamic to divest more and more from Israel, the UN for example, not taking action against those seeking to remove Israel from its appointed homeland;
	nor is it only the fact that we are talking of a sovereign nation's capital in a territory appointed for its homeland, where force was used to grab some of the territory about it by Jordan, already more than replete with its dictated share:
	it is that to divest Israel of its SOLE capital, that of the ONLY nation so to use the place for millenia, in that way, and which has used it so for many centuries, it is a very special action.

	of constant threat, attack in words and with rockets, with armies zooming up from Egypt or coming from virtually all sides,
	of characterisation of their return to the League of Nations appointed land as the 'catastrophe' by not entirely pleasant neighbours, and then further
	of verbal and potential military threat from an international consortium of non-neighbours who take her welfare, or at any rate her existence so strenuously to heart or head, that they are now prescribing for her much in detail. Such is the life being led in Israel in terms of change from Auschwitz to the League, to the UN, the first and the last both inimical to her integrity; and indeed the UN set for her ludicrous bits of Palestine in 1947, scarcely joined at all, while removing Jerusalem: a thing ARABS would not have!