Many people are familiar with Hal Lindsey's book "Late Great Planet Earth" and some of his many other books. He is a regular writer of pro-Republican Party articles on World Net Daily and hosts a weekly political television show.
He is known for his very pro-Israel views, known as "Christian Zionism." I could go on about why I think this is false doctrine, including that the Bible teaches that Christians are not to show partiality. James 2:1 says we are to "have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons."
It goes on to talk about a rich man, wearing a gold ring and fine apparel, coming to an assembly and being given more welcome and acceptance than a poor man in vile raiment. The truth is that a hobo or homeless person who was dirty and didn't have fancy clothes to wear probably wouldn't be welcome in a lot of churches today at all.
In the same way a lot of modern Christians are accepting the rich Israelis, many of whom are B,naii B'riith Masonic Lodge members, while rejecting their poor Arab and Moslem neighbors. I think a part of this is that a lot of modern day US Christian church leaders are freemasons themselves, and that teaches them a kind of pride and elitism contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible.
I listened to part of one of Hal Lindsey's TV program awhile ago where he was taking a 100% biased position toward Israel in it's recent invasion of Gaza, even including giving out some information that was false, and I thought that the Bible teaches that Christians are to be impartial, and should certainly not be siding in with the rich and powerful against the poor and weak.
The Bible teaches that if "ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin." James 2:9. The Bible further teaches that "He that committeth sin is of the devil." 1 John 3:8. James chapter 5 tells the rich men of these last days, and that would include most Jews as well as many modern Christians, to "weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you."
We know by reading through the New Testament that the early church, made up almost completely of converted Jews, was not taking this kind of bias toward the Jews that we see today. Converted Jew the Apostle Paul wrote of them in 1 Thessalonians 2:15, "Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men."
I don't understand why so many Christians today are so political any way, except that they are following men instead of Jesus Christ and the Bible. Jesus Christ said His kingdom was not of this world. But any way this same Hal Lindsey it turns out has been divorced three times and is now married to his fourth wife.
Chris Hall of Christianity Today remembers hearing Lindsey teach the Bible on Wednesday nights in the 1960s at UCLA until Chris got disillusioned when Lindsey and others in his group got into "self-indulgence: lax sexual conduct, materialism, divorce, substance abuse." See http://www.preteristarchive.com/dEmEnTi ... aught.html
He is known for his very pro-Israel views, known as "Christian Zionism." I could go on about why I think this is false doctrine, including that the Bible teaches that Christians are not to show partiality. James 2:1 says we are to "have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons."
It goes on to talk about a rich man, wearing a gold ring and fine apparel, coming to an assembly and being given more welcome and acceptance than a poor man in vile raiment. The truth is that a hobo or homeless person who was dirty and didn't have fancy clothes to wear probably wouldn't be welcome in a lot of churches today at all.
In the same way a lot of modern Christians are accepting the rich Israelis, many of whom are B,naii B'riith Masonic Lodge members, while rejecting their poor Arab and Moslem neighbors. I think a part of this is that a lot of modern day US Christian church leaders are freemasons themselves, and that teaches them a kind of pride and elitism contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible.
I listened to part of one of Hal Lindsey's TV program awhile ago where he was taking a 100% biased position toward Israel in it's recent invasion of Gaza, even including giving out some information that was false, and I thought that the Bible teaches that Christians are to be impartial, and should certainly not be siding in with the rich and powerful against the poor and weak.
The Bible teaches that if "ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin." James 2:9. The Bible further teaches that "He that committeth sin is of the devil." 1 John 3:8. James chapter 5 tells the rich men of these last days, and that would include most Jews as well as many modern Christians, to "weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you."
We know by reading through the New Testament that the early church, made up almost completely of converted Jews, was not taking this kind of bias toward the Jews that we see today. Converted Jew the Apostle Paul wrote of them in 1 Thessalonians 2:15, "Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men."
I don't understand why so many Christians today are so political any way, except that they are following men instead of Jesus Christ and the Bible. Jesus Christ said His kingdom was not of this world. But any way this same Hal Lindsey it turns out has been divorced three times and is now married to his fourth wife.
Chris Hall of Christianity Today remembers hearing Lindsey teach the Bible on Wednesday nights in the 1960s at UCLA until Chris got disillusioned when Lindsey and others in his group got into "self-indulgence: lax sexual conduct, materialism, divorce, substance abuse." See http://www.preteristarchive.com/dEmEnTi ... aught.html
