55. John Schuh:
“The Arabs claim to be children of Abraham, but they certainly don’t accept what Torah says about the Promise.”
Before Mohamed, Arabs (peoples of the Arav,or desert)didn’t know or care about someone named Abraham who the Jews revered. Mohamed, like Martin Luther, began by admiring Judaism but after rejection by the Jews for his presumption and ignorance,ended by hating them.
Originally, Muslims faced east in prayer toward Jerusalem in imitation of the Jews. After Mohamed was rejected by the Jews of Medina, the object of Muslim east-facing prayers became Mecca, center of pre-Islamic meteorite worship.
The Kebba in Mecca still contains the holy meteorite that continues to be venerated by the ostensibly monotheistic Muslims who circle the black stone that fell to earth as a fiery messenger from the heavens in a religious procession that imitates the ancient Hosannas of the Jews in their temple in Jerusalem. The pilgrimage to mecca, of course, is in imitation of the ancient Jewish pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Meteorite worship, for those who know the Hebrew Bible, is the stone and star worship specifically forbidden in Genesis. It is the child-sacrifice cult of the sun-god Baal (AKA, Baalzevuv or Beelzebub) and his virgin consort Ashter (AKA Ishtar) who, impregnated by fiery Baal, falls to earth as a flaming star.
Mike W.
“…Add to that the fact that the only reason most of you numbskulls support Israel is because of you believe it’s going to be some kind of cosmic wrestling ring between Jesus and Satan at the big pay-per-view Revelations Steel Cage Grudge Match…”
Christian evangelicals are forever being dumped on by sophisticated secularists for their eschatology.
It may surprise you to learn rhat among Orthodox Jews, Evangelicals are generally viewed with affection. Practicing Jews aren’t troubled by the Evangelical’s end-of-days scenario of great tribulation concluding with the Jews turning to Jesus.
Evangelicals have no plans to load American Jews on planes back to Israel in order to bring about the Second Coming. Thinking Jews know that the Evangelicals are that rarity among those who call themselves Christians who genuinely revere the Old Testament. In a world where most Christians or Jews would be hard put to quote three consecutive lines from the Bible, Old Testament or New it is appreciated.
Knowledgeable Jews recall that British Evangelicals were active engaged in protecting the Jewish population in Palestine from Arab pogroms when it was ruled by the Turks, years before Theodore Herzl and modern Zionism were born. (Read Barbara Tuchman’s, Bible and Sword.)
Evangelicals aren’t all yahoos and Jews aren’t all suckers.
