Chapter 11
More Benevolence
Approaching the
Beginnings of Justice
for Post Pogrom
(?) Israel
News 189
TV News December 16, 2001
The secret
double mouse trap
It is a thing
most pleasant, and very good to see.
After a period
of aching drought, in which the waters of compassion seemed hard to find, Israel is at last receiving
a better and more visible trickle of understanding on the violence front.
The US, rather delightfully,
and certainly all but amazingly, has refused to back a UN enemy-style attack on
Israel. No, there is to be
no such account of violence in the Middle Eastern hot spot, says the US, and it will not
suffer the one proposed. Why ? The reason makes some sense at last: it is
because there is NO MENTION of the violence SUFFERED BY ISRAEL.
After all,
hundreds of the suffering, the maimed, the sorrowing are the constant and
consistent bequeathal of this unholy warrioring throw-back to Koran-backed
violence, called jihad (cf. More Marvels ... Ch.
4, Red Alert.. Ch. 16, Lord
of LIfe Ch. 3). The cart-horse of history has
indeed brought to the front line, the horrific disregard of human suffering for
which the Moslem religion is justly known. This belief system, based on false
prophet Muhammad, has often threatened the world. As to the prophet, he
was not least a warrior leader whose religion was used to impose violent
suppression which, if sometimes allayed with treaties, was ferocious in
suppression.
This sort of
system roused the Taliban to action, just as it earlier thrust forth the
Iranian assault on Iraq which for so very
many years immured the harassed population with enough slaughter to carry on,
without adding the enormous depredations caused by the reciprocated jihad of
this very religious people, wrought by their opponents. Islam could be praised,
for those with a mind for it, for the consistent, persistent and insistent
slaughter.
However there
were other quarrels, marked by this same religious intensity, a sort of career
with a more sinister Dr Death, bringing religious thrust into inflamed
relationships. The Taliban specialised in anti-US fervour. As noted earlier in
News (see News 179), bin Laden felt it most important
that the US should neutralised or terrorised or suppressed, because it is given
a sort of anti-holy notation in the religious perceptions, and would be better
gone or goaded or in some way made to be what it is not, and fast. That
appeared to be the Taliban thrust of it, per courtesy of bin Laden. It is true
of course that the US is a major player,
and so a major nuisance for anyone wanting world domination under Islam, as the
terrorist specialist appears to do. It was not particularly savoury in Afghanistan under their rule (cf. Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 82, p. 206
, with Scoop of the Universe 42).
It was to be so
fast that airliners, made by another nation's ingenuity, could be used to
destroy magnificent towers, made by the same other nation's ingenuity, and this
was deemed very good. It is a sort of Genesis transformed into Genocide.
Further goodies awaited, perhaps from Iraq, deemed to have them, perhaps to be
found through a sort of banal wedding ceremony of Moslem powers, some with the
intelligence to fight, some with the intelligence to prepare chemicals and even
develop them, or suitable bacterial weapons, and some with the money to pay.
With this bizarre division
of labour, it appears to be felt by some, that there could yet be a more
definitive exhibition of the genius of Muhammad for a martial display, foray
and May-day thrust into civilisations or cities, which of old he sometimes felt
would be better with him, and his ways, than without. This madness of heart,
this illicit logic, this irrational relish for the god who is not there (cf. More
Marvels, loc.cit. with its associated references), has helped enormously,
in the area of certain Christian matters.
These
? you may ask in amazement. Oh, it is not at all that these things ARE
Christian, but rather the exact opposite, for killing and maiming is not what
Christ did, but what He received. In love He received it that the deceived and
the deluded, the mischievously invaded in mind and divorced from the true God
in spirit, might find Him, immune from prosecution, since He died for them, and
welcomed back to the mercy of the truth, the love who showed His kindness to
all men in Christ.
REVELATION 6 IS NOT SURPRISED
If then it is the exact
opposite, in what way does it forward the Christian message ? In this, that in
prophetic scriptures of Revelation 6 you find a series of calamitous judgments
on the earth, involving the reckless renegacy of the human spirit, a sort of
spiritual bacterial infection if you will, so that death becomes a way of life,
that is, death to others and sometimes even to human bombs with or without
airliners attached. Thus in Revelation 6:4, tracing infections to come, we find
that
"it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the
earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given him a
great sword." To
whom was this given ? Why, to the rider on "the fiery red horse."
This was in fulfilment of
certain seals being broken on a volume which contained an account of, or orders
for, or both, concerning the ages to come. The equine emissions, the chargers
which proceeded were symbols of the dynamics, good or evil, and here most evil,
to come to the chameleon inhabitants of the earth, changing colour from
citizens of the world God made, to impassioned and pliant tools of the devil in
numbers that all but make the mind melt. But this is not all.
In a later phase, another
such equine charger comes out with a new evil, judgment and stark rebuke to the
God-defiant and self-reliant, or idolatrously inflamed denizens of the earth,
which make up so large a proportion, whether they worship nature, human nature
or other creation. Here a "pale horse" comes forth, "and the name of him who sat on it was
Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of
the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of
the earth." Some
of these creatures may be small*1, like bacteria, but the hunger and the death
are quite straightforward, for those whose ways forward that sort of thing, in
their internecine struggles, so amazingly in the name of their religion very
often, and more and more manifestly so, in the case of the Muslim 'faith'.
Killing with 'death' is a fascinating semantic challenge. What does it mean ?
Perhaps it suggests the
sheer prodigy of mathematics involved in this sort of suicidal mission. It is
one now becoming more obviously so, as nice religionists decide to blow up
children and youth, for example, in whole or in part, to death or to
paraplegia, by making themselves into a species of civilian arms raid, casting
their own flesh with the bombs, like a kind of stucco onto unadmiring
bystanders of their folly.
Perhaps the intention of
the biblical text , 'killing with death' here may be phrased as follows. It is
like a swath of death, a tragic travesty of death, a sort of lively
acquaintance with death, as if not mere murder but death itself were the
weapon, an insane seeming, but spiritually produced degradation in many of
mankind, so that death becomes the ultimate, a weapon of desire, a far flung
malign fragrance of abominable desolation. Americans, bin Laden indicated, want
to live; but his people were willing to die, and to kill with death, their own
dying bodies becoming the source of death. Indeed, that literally fulfils it.
These predictions,
then, proceed in Ch. 6 of Revelation, till we see a tableau in heaven
toward s the end of this chapter. What is occurring there ? What is
there the scene while such lethal things proceed on earth, such maddened men,
reaping the spiritual pathology which comes from ignoring the source and centre
of spiritual well-being, the Creator, and the necessary redemption which is a
pre-condition for sinful man, before he can know God (the one who made life,
that so many so despise in their misguided preoccupations)!
In heaven, we see some of
the results of such things. Here in the vision, are beheld the slaughtered
saints, those who have died for Christ, "slain for the word of God and for the
testimony which they held" . In the safety of heaven, "under the altar", personally covered, each one by
His redemptive blood, His atoning death, they show concern. A white robe is
given them, while they await the outcome of all these things.
Concerned at the hideous
suffering, they ask - HOW LONG must such things go on ? and are
told that they must wait yet a little, for the full number of those of the
redeemed have yet to come, the completion of the complement in particular, of
those yet to be slain for their faith in Christ.
That of course is being
superabundantly fulfilled from the days of the Roman Inquisition (cf. SMR pp. 1032-1088, Beauty of Holiness
Chs. 4, 8, Ancient
Words, Modern Deeds Ch. 14), to
the Islamic Jihad, and in such places as Sudan - apart from the USA now -
where in multitudinous ways, Christians are slaughtered, just as they were also
most efficiently in the USSR, the monolith of horror so well exposed by
Solzhenitsyn in his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, First Circle
and Gulag Archipelago.
The records of the Chinese
nation are also outstanding, in their rather burlesqued version of Communism,
now so immersed in what could almost be called capitalism, so rampant is its
misuse of freedom on the one hand in various commercial ... liberties, as
likewise abuse of it, in intrusions in the affairs of Christians, imprisoning
pastors, suppressing worshippers and the like (cf. Beauty of Holiness
Ch. 4, News 37,
Barbs, Arrows and Balms 18, and Index, China).
Such
is the plethora of death in our globe, that such heavenly visions have
unearthly but alas all too worldly fulfilments! It is in the fulfilment, that
the orgies of executions and maimings exhibit to the letter the seemingly
profuse but clearly predicted accounts of nearly two millenia ago, of events
leading to the end of our Age, of mordant things to come, as also summarised in
Matthew 24, Luke 21 and such places (cf. Answers to Questions Ch. 5). It is in this way that the insanitary, deadly
delusions that make death a slight thing in the interests of land, or pride, or
both, or some parallels, continue, and continue as predicted. They rise like
waves; they surge like galloping horses.
SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVES
In the case of Israel in particular, it proceeds. People
are slaughtered and slaughtered like some breach from a band-stand of
musicians, maddened, and blowing themselves up amongst the kids. Buses,
shopping centres, just the thing! Straight to heaven, they may be told, for
such valour against the little ones, or any ones in view, just as the Koran
likewise gave such results for the prodigies of adult valour in fighting for
the faith, literally!*2
The objective, then ?
It is
·
1) Jerusalem in part as a Palestinian capital
city and
· 2) a Palestinian State, like a lion's den in the midst of
your home, in the heart of Israel. For this, slaughter is the order of
the day, and it is to be of civilians, children, youth, yes in buses, school
children a specialty, it would appear at times, targeted.
This amiable ploy, seemingly
to induce reaction, repression of the violators in order to prevent the
violence, leading to international intervention, bargaining of what is left of
Israel as a counter-move, and advance, thus proceeds very much on target. It is
just that the target is unprotected, civil bodies.
The reaction of Israel, understandably not interested in
being a sort of pre-hospital ward of persons awaiting delivery to hospital if
not to the morgue, without any notice, as they go about their business,
becomes a modus operandi, a claim
on Israel. HOW could this be so! the
astonished and appalled reader might well enquire. How could such obfuscatory
follies be followed by any international body! Oh but this is this present
world (cf. James 4:4), and as James put it, friendship with the world is enmity
with God. It is on fire. Being like it is being unlike God, in the most marked
fashion! It is to be an enemy of His.
This world ? It is burning
ever more fiercely. The mind of man is becoming a sink of oil, and the heart of
man a furnace which ignites it. Such is the way of millions.
THE DOUBLE
MOUSE TRAP
Vengeance comes from some;
self-protection from others. When Israel tries to defend itself, Oh là
là, says the UN. How terrible! Look at these Jews. THIS MUST STOP. At
once! do not use the land you took when the Moslems tried (explicitly) to send
you into the sea. Give more and more of it back to the Moslems, just as you
have already given Sinai back. How terrible you Jews are! almost seems to
be a recurrent message from the UN. Fancy not giving back ALL that you got when
your ONLY land was threatened by those who had ALREADY in Jordan received much
of the former Palestine, internationally promised to Israel after its
distinguished aid in Britain in World War I.
So there is a double mouse trap. First line of offence: if the Jews
do not like being slaughtered in civilian places, indiscriminately and with
passion that makes murder a flag waving morality on the part of religious
assassins, calling evil good and good evil, then they may respond with force to
empty the sites of assassins, of the same. If they do, then there is the cry to
the international bodies, STOP them. Next: MAKE them negotiate -
translation, we want more land, make them hand it over. Let us invade with
words. Next: SHOW them up. How awful that they defend themselves, for this
is offensive. We had better kill more of them too, in the meantime. That is
all part of mouse trap ONE, in which various parties participate, ad lib, or by
script as the case may or may not be.
In this the little tip of
lives of Israel becomes a catch to make the thing
snap on more.
The next mouse trap is
similar. This time however it is the MUSLIM world which is activated. Shameless
thing, that these Jews should come into a small section of their historic land,
beat us when we ganged up to slaughter them, and then kill some of our people
as they protect themselves. More money and more threats, veiled or not, must be
activated AT ONCE!
Agatha Christie's Mouse
Trap - that one, a mere play - ran for years. This one has been running for
years too; but it is not a play.
A LITTLE BREEZE
Now however a little breeze
has sprung up. The USA had the temerity to declare that
the UN resolution about violence was not adequate. It did not MENTION! - ah
forgot, sir ? the violence against the Jews. There are times when it might
almost seem as if the old pogrom mentality has infected the UN, in this area.
JEWS, of course, let them have it. Do they dare to exist ? Appalling. Do they
dare to have land, gained on pain of extermination if they did not win it at
war, when attacked repeatedly, threatened continually by massive nations
surrounding them, Islamic jihad-touting nations! How terrible! How DARE they
want to live! What next ? Perhaps they will even want to keep enough land to be
able to have some colourable means to defend it.
If the world at times
becomes a stage, surely Molière could take this direct into one of his more
mordant plays.
But the USA has had the temerity, yes it has,
in effect to declare to the United Nations:
NO! this will not do. This
motion, this notion does not do justice to the facts.
Blessed negative, truthful
negation, sound obstruction! Since the USA is trying hard to placate or even
co-operate with some Moslem nations, in its own defence after the insurgence of
Islamic terrorism into New York city and Washington, this current refusal to the UN
proposition for the Middle East, is a commendable act.
One has been growing most
concerned at the United States folly in making common cause in prayer services
with Moslem and other non-Christian religionists, and exposed the wholly
anti-scriptural character*3, the mockery of
the divine, which this incorporated. It must be clearly seen that to MOCK is
not to throw stones or give out insults merely. It comes also when what is DECLARED
by God to be abhorrent to Him (such as worshipping other gods with Himself, a
sort of failure like that of forgetting who your wife is, and bringing home
different women by ...mistake! yes adultery is the BIBLICAL figure for such
actions), what is an obvious discrimination against the purity of His word and
worship, is suffered by those who say they believe in Him. That is a kind of
short-circuit of holiness, of truth, a combination like trying to mate a walrus
with a finch, except that that cannot be accomplished, while this can.
The absurdity of such a
conception however is all too serviceable in considering the absurdity of
having the living God confused in jointness of prayer, with what is not even
there (the gods that are not, of Deuteronomy 32 cf.
*2 on this).
Despite this, and all the
past pressures which, for some years, in marked contrast to its earlier
friendliness to Israel, the US has put on Israel, as if it were some small boy
needing to be brought up, the present action is highly commendable.
Self-interest, it would
seem, is not a mere determinant here. Regard for truth and justice is not
extinct, merely longsuffering in its disregard too often.
Israel is not for sale. It cannot be cloned (cf. News 154). It will continue despite Allah's outrage (cf. SMR
pp. 831ff., 834ff.), and of course well might
such a figure be conceived as enraged,
- Since
- the Jewish success story
- is not only one of VICTORY after
VICTORY against the multitudinous, multi-national Moslem forces (1948,
1967, 1973 and deliverance again, in 1991),
- armies deployed time and again to
destroy the nation,
- the tiny Israeli nation, with its
disproportionately small population, in much
- the relics of Hitler and of the
pogroms in Europe of the murderous centuries
before.
- It is ALSO one of PREDICTED
triumphs.
It is
understandable indeed that this double dose of
Biblical prediction and
historical defeat has not left Islam happy.
Thus the thrust into the
city, to kill kids, to maim civilians may seem to some, to be quite an idea. It
appears to have plenty of Islamic support, judging by the pledges of multinational
Moslem forces, meeting now in Teheran, or in Egypt over the years. There is also
alleged, some past Saudi support for subsidised Taliban type instruction in
schools in Pakistan. Quite an investment!
As this preoccupation with
death, souls for land, bodies for sea shore continues, the grim reaper of
Revelation is heavily engaged. There will - biblically it is predicted as noted
previously quite often cf. SMR Appendix A, SMR
pp. 510ff. - there will be a
coming military consummation of this anti-Jewish thrust. It will be truly
massive as will be the divine repulsion, comparable with that of Pharaoh's
forces in ancient Egypt! So it is stated in Micah 7:15.
These things have been noted before (cf. Galloping Events Ch. 1, Beauty of Holiness Ch. 5, Red Alert ... Ch. 10).
Now we rejoice
that some justice, some truth appears in this recent and significant
improvement in the US voice in this affair. It is well that this rich and
powerful country has now at least begun to move towards Israel, to the point of
rejecting crass injustice in verbal form and format!
As to the Arabs,
it is in the highest point pathetic, sad and poignant, that they insist on
their Allah and his force, his methods of force, his aggrandisement and his so
long sustained territorial interests; it is the sadder in this, that since God
Himself has made a promise, the uttermost of horror, grisly and ghastly, will
not suffice to evict Israel. The first eviction will come when
the large band of newly converted, and many long converted Jews, following
the mass repentance towards Jesus, the Christ, in Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:10),
that fascinating event predicted half of one millenium before Israel so much as
crucified the Saviour, that they might later repent, is abstracted
from this earth.
One will be left,
for these as for other countries, one will be taken (Matthew 24:30-31,40-51).
Many doubtless, will be in both categories. Be careful, then, and do not set
your sights whether Arab or other, on this world, or any part of it. Divine
perspective is truth, whether of Israel or sinner, of the exultant, the
self-exalting or the successfully derelict, rejoicing in his vanity. Fidelity
and righteousness abound in Him whose is the earth, for He made it.
God will regard
the ancient landmark, especially since it is a matter of promise to Abraham. It
is His good pleasure to be reliable even when others may not be so! On this
simple fact, advance historical notice, from the ancient word, see Galloping
Events Chs. 4,
3, SMR Appendix A and Index on Israel and land.
On the other simple fact, that without faith, with any trust in your own
productivity of anything as a basis or ground of acceptance, you are lost to
God, landless forever, see Chapters 5, 1 and 10 above. Seek audience with God
through the Lord Jesus Christ, the brightness of His glory, and claim ONLY what
HE has done, and rest in Him by faith, without other priest but He, without
other Saviour, but He, without other name to rest upon, but His.
NOTES
*1
Liddell and Scott Greek Lexicon points out that the Greek term used, qhrion
may be and has been used of insects, as well as of
other forms of life, with the concept of wild, wild beasts and so on. It is a
diminutive of qhr, beast. Thayer gives it as beast, little beast. In view of this,
the prospect of small creations being involved in the destructions is by no
means excluded!
*2 Cf. Koran Surahs 3:148, 160, 4:76, 8:36-41, 9:5, 9:27-31,
9:77-46, 47:3-10, 48:22, Lord of Life Ch. 3,
Red Alert ... Ch. 16, More Marvels ... Ch. 4. On not-God, see Beauty of
Holiness, Ch. 5, esp. *3
*3
See Red Alert Chs. 6, 5, 8, 13,
Lord of Life Ch. 3, Kingdom of Heaven Ch. 7, Red Alert
... Ch. 16,