IT BUBBLES,
IT HOWLS,
HE
CALLS
Robert
E. Donaldson Th.D.
Published
by
World
Wide Web Witness Inc.
©
November 2000
ISBN 0 9578 146
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The Middle East is in wrath and
ruin
The
Midlands of Mankind are in turmoil
The Mind of God
is in writing for our purposes
The Solution is
Salvation in Christ
the
Lord
whose are all lands,
literal
and metaphorical,
rational
and spiritual,
and
whose is all truth.
Alternatives: ZERO
PREFACE
This is a time when
the Jew-Arab, the Judaistic-Islam confrontation
is especially fierce. Since they are both wrong, as shown here, there is
no solution. You can look for a Captain in your side, but if in fact NO team
member has what it needed, there is no solution.
Then you simply have
to look elsewhere.
Unfortunately, this
is regarded, at the present moment, as an option by NONE of the participants,
to which we may add, of course, those who are Muslim in general national disposition,
but not in strict requirement, to a more or less degree! Nor is it by the
Roman Catholic body (cf. SMR pp. 1042-1088H), which
is likewise astray, and not about to change, in any noticeable way, at least.
Nor is it any more
so in the UN, which has such knowledge and powerlessness so often, but may
begin to look for more results, and which as shown below, has so signally
ignored the realities of the Jewish situation as to raise serious questions
to the thoughtful. One answer ? it might not be entirely correct, and may apply only
marginally, but it is certainly possible, especially in that hinterland of
the mind of man, where unconscious motives, if Christ is not in control,
can readily play.
What is this ? What might be this reason for the UN’s astonishingly partiality in face of the evidence
we shall see in these pages ? SO LONG as GOD has
a book in which HE claims a SPECIAL (not merely generic, to ALL humans) relationship
with ANYONE, this is offensive to those who want to run the thing EX-GOD,
or at the very last, without any god who is a nuisance, has ANYTHING specific
to say which is the determinant. HOW can GOD be the determinant if MAN insists
on being so himself! You had precisely this problem as you see in the New
Testament, with the Jewish priests (that is those who, unlike that large
body of them mentioned in Acts 6:7, did not in fact become believers - and
even with these, before they were in due time converted). THEY were
for one thing envious (Matthew 27:18, Mark 15:10, John 12:48ff.). The last
reference is especially chilling and illuminating, since it indicates that
they had THEIR OWN solution and mere truth and power from God, mercy and
peace were not enough! THEY had a program; it HAD to be fulfilled by THEIR
thoughts.
However, as God says
in Isaiah 55, "MY
THOUGHTS are not your thoughts, Nor are YOUR ways
MY ways!" (emph. added) - putting
the former higher than our own as the heavens above the earth! And small
wonder… HE made both them and us.
It is only at peril
that one does not realise that the Jews were
instalment ONE of rebellion, and the GENTILES
are simply instalment two. If the Jews IN the
world have been disciplined by God, then the Gentiles
OF the world will receive no less in the end. Another Jesus, another gospel
and another spirit are mere contumacy and licence,
folly and disorder, as well as the most dangerous innovation. When you innovate
with your Maker, you are all but literally, unmade! Or undone!
While ‘undone’ is
not current idiom for the triumph of the catastrophic, it is still expressive.
Imagine a car fighting with its manufacture, by means of its computerised equipment, despite the fact that this
was made for it. It is simply … disorder. It wrecks things, on the one hand;
and attests dysfunction on the other. Called sin, this needs remedy. The
righteous remedy rejected scenario must labour
under one extreme harassment, whether in the life
of any individual sinner on this earth, or in a nation or people, or religion:
there is no other remedy. The celestial remedy from the divine source is
the ransom of Christ, as free as birth to us, but not to Him (Matthew 20:28, Gal. Chs. 3, 5).
Error without remedy TAKEN,
indeed, spells the convolutions, clamours and
catastrophes of current history, so obtrusive in the contemporary state of
the world. Hell differs. It becomes error without remedy AVAILABLE. It is
not a sudden and erratic thing; but human spirits being limited, there is
a time as God says, when it is enough. That is, He declared, My Spirit will
not always strive with man, since he also is flesh. In the end, if you want
darkness in the presence of light, it is available. But darkness ? it lacks brightness.
As a preliminary,
there follow
some of
the sites for study
of the
Israeli
and Middle
East Issues in Biblical Perspective,
with Practical
Outcomes
including
News in view.
SMR Chs. 8, and 9
Barbs, Arrows
and Balms 13
Barbs, Arrows
and Balms 17
(further development of the above, with
reference to the underlying gospel, never absent)
The Biblical
Workman Chs. 1, 3 (including Paul's Olive
Tree of Romans 11), 7
together with
News Items
4, 6, 9, 14,
20,
32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39,
41,
53,
60,
101A, 108,
115, 123, 129
See further at
NEWS, the fuller list of News Items on Israel,
together with more information on detailed coverages.
You may also consult
News Items 130, 131 below, as also the
INDEXES, SMR and the Other, for some of the nations of the Middle East,
and other facets, such as the Temple; and OTHER RELIGIONS
for information in that line.
CONTENTS
Chapter One
(News 108)
July 2000
SYRIA, SIN,
JERUSALEM and CHRIST
SYRIA has a new PRESIDENT!
The
Middle East has the same LORD!
Chapter Two
(News
129 - relating in part to material shown in the
USA on
Friday
October 19, 2000)
Sacrificial Children... ?
in Palestinian Rage
Chapter Three
(News 130,
Oct. 31, 2000)
After Belsen,
what
?
Chapter Four
(News 131,
Oct. 23, 00)
Is there ANY sorrow
like MINE!
Speaking of the
last spot of blood ...
in the pallors of
Palestine that was,
Israel that is and was... Time Magazine, Oct. 23,
p. 53
Chapter Five
Poor
Calvin! Poor
Palestine... But you
are rich!
US Election
Week,
ABC
News, November 8
and on,
and Calvin
and Hobbes Cartoon
Chapter Six
The Ambush
of
Ambon
The Snare
of 'I Know what you did Last Summer'
and the
Net for
Jerusalem
(New
Life,
Nov.
9, 2000, Channel
9,
Nov.
10, 2000 and
... ongoing)
Chapter Seven
Musings
on the
Middle
East
Considerations
in Couplets!
It is
no travesty, but truth to say that the
Middle
East is
a Middle Yeast,
filled with workings,
startings, endings,
and facing the way.
Man and
the
Middle
East are like
an egg and its shell.
Currently
that shell is broken, and the contents are spilling.
Part I - as above
- the first 20
Part II
the second 20
Chapter Eight
Christ and His Detractors
Collision
with Words and then Nails
and
INNOVATIVE
GOODNESS
Genesis
of turmoil in the
Middle
East
in its
culmination
Chapter Nine
Love,
Liberty,
Stricture
and Structure
Necessities
in the
Middle
East,
par excellence,
but not there alone
CHAPTER TEN
The Everlasting
Pity of It
The Jaded
Jangling of Racial appetites
and the
word of God
the dispositions
of God
in the
earth
and the
gospel of Christ
in the
heart
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CARNAGE, CALAMITY,
and SPIRITUAL DRUGS
are sour substitutes
for the PRINCE OF PEACE
THE NOT SO POIGNANT
RAVENING LIONS
and the GENTILE
MORAL BLITZ