11.01 Unscrambling Eggs—From Islamist Omelettes
9 Nov 2001
Most research and reports in recent days involves comprehending the
phenomenon of Islam, and a majority of articles that might have been
forwarded focuses on insights of what the Koran actually demands of its
adherents toward those of us who are not quite so impressed with its
teachings. [For an authentic list of disquieting verses, see “The Book, the
Preacher and the Faithful” in the 2002 collection of MEAL insights.]
The most chilling information of the hour (for Christians) is the disturbing
naiveté of the profuse claims by our politicians, the media and of course all
other stripes of the politically correct that there is a "silent majority" of Islam
that is non-violent. These people obviously have not ridden on the bus in
Jerusalem, nor seen a MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)
translation from Arabic of the polls and rhetoric taken from the good citizens
of the Middle East! Nor are they presumably interested in reality.
Latent violence, indeed! But a truly non-violent Islam, not so—unless they are
inattentive backsliders from the charge given them in their holy books. The
gods are at war, and unfortunately it is not a war against terrorism—which if
indeed it were possible—would be even more difficult than unscrambling eggs.
The factual war began on September 11, and in spite of how Mr. Bush and his
Western coalition would like to redefine it to add to their dream world, the
prime and ultimate target of a very broadly based enemy is none other than
the Judeo-Christian foundation on which we stand.
Moreover, a "silent majority" of moderation is wistful thinking at best. The
wellspring of hatred from its sources in the Middle East is deep, and the
unbreakable bond of Islamic fraternity is a phenomenon that few Westerners
have yet to comprehend.
But there are far more involved sources than myself that can speak firsthand,
and it is this material that would like to pass on to you. One of the most
impressively accurate articles of the last few weeks was by Eliayahu BenHaim, a believing Israeli originally from the USA. It is copied it below and I
encourage you to consider it carefully.
Occasionally—like September 11—we are forced to drop all other routine preoccupations and ponder reality. Take time to digest what Ben-Haim has to
say. It is more than relevant for the scenario that we now face. His message is
a must read. The Western World is in deep trouble. Read on:
Sound of the Shofar #51
(Eliyahu Ben-Haim)
21 October.2001
"Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear
falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord'...But let your 'Yes be Yes,'
and your 'No, No.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Mt
5:33-37.
America Has Lost the War
By speaking [deception] to the people of the world, US President George Bush
has guaranteed that the USA and the world have already lost the war with
Islam. Yes the war is not with "terror" or terrorists, it is a war with Islam. How
can it be that a bloodthirsty, demonized Osama Bin-Laden spoke the truth
while George W. Bush who proclaimed himself Born-Again does not speak the
truth?
What is the truth spoken by Bin-Laden? "This is a war between JudeoChristianity and Islam". What are the untruths spoken by GW Bush? "We are
not fighting Islam, Islam is a peaceful, loving religion". These words are lies,
crafted by the father of lies and spoken under the inspiration of the spirit of
humanism to deceive and destroy. Is 28:15 “For we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves."
Bin-Laden while certainly a fanatic, believes and lives Orthodox Islam. The
Jihad that he is engaged in is Orthodox Islam, mandated by their scriptures
the Koran. According to the Koran there is an unending war between the
"House of Islam" and the "House of War". (The House of War [is] all those
nations and peoples who are not Islamic) This is total war - Jihad, fought until
complete victory is won. The methods Bin-Laden (and the Palestinians,
Algerians etc.) use are according to the teachings of Mohammed. While there
were no airplanes to crash, nor explosives to strap on your body when the
Koran was written, Islam teaches that "to Kill and be Killed in Jihad" ensures
entry to their "paradise". This is all normative, orthodox Islam, studied and
taught for centuries. Those who do not believe in this are not the "good
Moslems"; they are the bad ones because they are not following the teachings
of their own religion.
We can thank God that there are "bad Moslems" who do not want to engage in
terrorism or kill innocent people. But when we see the demonstrations against
America and for Bin-Laden all over the Moslem world we realize that there are
an awful lot of Moslems who are just as orthodox as Bin-Laden.
America may kill Bin-Laden and his lieutenants, even kill millions of terrorists
but unless they wake up and are delivered from this delusion concerning
Islam, they will have lost the war and they and the whole world will suffer the
consequences.
Speaking the Truth
Many of you will say that Bush is constrained by the politics of his office. I say
that Bush has to rise above politics and become a God-directed statesman.
Believers all over the world fasted and prayed for Bush to be elected, I believe
it was God's mercy towards America but he is throwing away his chance to
bring a God directed morality to America.
What should (or could) have Bush said? "God loves the Moslem peoples, He
sent His Son to die for them as much as for you and me and He wants them to
be saved and have eternal life." He also could (or should) have added that
"while God loves the Moslem peoples, He hates the principality of Islam" He
could have then gone on to quote from the Koran showing the true demonic
nature and teachings of Islam while at the same time forbidding the
indiscriminate persecution of Moslems and acknowledging that not all
Moslems either follow these teachings or want to kill.
Yes, this is not political correctness but it is the truth. John 8:32, “ And you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Being politically
correct is to speak lies, designed to bring people into bondage to the spirit of
humanism and it is this spirit that is masking and defending Islam.
Watchmen
God has called His Body to be watchmen, just as He called GW Bush to be His
watchman over the USA. Ezek 33:2-6 "Son of man, speak to the children of
your people, and say to them: 'When I bring the sword upon a land, and the
people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their
watchman, when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the
trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet
and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his
blood shall be on his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did
not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning
will save his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not
blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and
takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his
blood I will require at the watchman's hand.”
Why have the spiritual leaders of America been silent concerning this? Where
are they? Are they so afraid of man and the possible legal consequences of
speaking up that they will allow Bush to go his merry way? When Bush
proclaimed himself a Christian, he gave his brothers and sisters not just the
right, but the obligation to speak into his life and warn him when he makes
disastrous mistakes as he is doing now.
Perhaps Bush is unaware of the untruth of his statements on Islam. Maybe
that is the case but it doesn't change the fact that his statements are bringing
defeat to America. It is also the fact that he is responsible for the policy of the
USA. If someone on his team (Colin Powell?) is setting policy, Bush is still
responsible. In any case this is only part of his wider and un-Biblical plans for
a coalition that will be brought about at Israel's expense. To be fair there are
American ministries who are speaking out concerning the Biblical danger of
coming against Israel.
Lie #2 - Ungodly Coalition
America is basing this "war against terrorism" on a world wide coalition as if
she needs the approval of the nations to defend herself. Not only does America
need no such "seal of approval", it is a snare and a trap that will actually
hinder the successful fighting of this war. Ex 23:31-33, “ And I will set your
bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the
River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you
shall drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them, nor
with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin
against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
GW Bush is following his father's New World Order agenda and it begs a
question. What is it to be a Christian? Matthew 12:33 "Either make the tree
good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is
known by its fruit.
When the USA craves the approval and the participation of the Arab/Moslem
nations; they are again insuring their ultimate defeat. These nations may give
lip service to the fight against terror but they will never actively fight against
other Arab/Moslem nations. How can they when their beliefs are the same as
the Afghans and Bin-Laden. Bin-Laden is a Saudi and he follows the harsh
Wahhabi sect of Islam that is the backbone of Saudi Arabia and one of the
most radical/fundamental sects of Islam.
Wahhabi is a missionary movement and the Saudis have spent hundreds of
millions of dollars over the last ten years in the USA alone to spread the
influence of this brand of Islam. America and the West, under it's foolish and
humanistic led political correctness, has fought for this "fifth column" to be
able to root and bear fruit in the West and they are going to reap the bitter
poisonous fruit shortly if they do not wake up, repent and set things right.
At this time Pakistan is the only real exception in the Arab/Moslem world to
agree to help the USA and we don't know how long this will last. (Some of the
Moslem Republics of the CIS are also cooperating with the USA but the hold
of Islam there is much weaker.) The opposition in Pakistan to helping the USA
against Afghanistan is very strong and the possibility of a government
overthrow is real. That would raise the stakes in this war exponentially as
Pakistan has the Bomb and its falling into radical Islam's hands would require
a quick and strong response before India took the initiative and used her
Bomb on Pakistan.
Lie #3 - Israel is to Blame
In order to curry favor with the Arab/Moslem nations, Israel is being
sacrificed on the altar of this ungodly coalition. Leviticus 16:8-10, "Then
Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot
for the scapegoat. "And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD'S lot
fell, and offer it as a sin offering. "But the goat on which the lot fell to be the
scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon
it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.” As the price for their
lip service the Arab/Moslem nations are demanding that the USA pressure
Israel to agree to a Palestinian State. As P.M. Sharon said some weeks ago, the
USA and the West are treating Israel as they did Czechoslovakia when they
sacrificed her to Hitler before WW II.
This is based on the lie that if there was peace between Israel and the
Palestinians then Bin-Laden would have no cause. Rubbish! Bin-Laden is
using this conflict to gain more credence in the world. His real conflict is with
western civilization and in particular with the USA because she is on the "holy
land of Saudi Arabia". IF Bush really wants to deal with the root of BinLaden's hate let him withdraw all US forces from Saudi Arabia. Of course this
is something he will never do. It's so much easier to blame Israel.
Shlomo Ben-Ami was P.M. Barak's Foreign Minister and chief negotiator with
the Palestinians. He is a committed leftist and still believes that Israel must
give the Palestinians a state. But his own diary of the negotiations at Camp
David and beyond prove that this is an impossibility.
"We (Israel) believed that Oslo created a rational order in the Middle East
based on give and take...In retrospect, this turned out to be a mistaken
assumption. It turned out that for Arafat it was a huge camouflage net behind
which he fomented and continues to foment, political pressure and terrorism
in different dosages in order to undermine the very idea of 2 states for 2
people…Never in the negotiations between us and the Palestinians was there a
counterproposal. There never was and there never will be. So the Israeli
negotiator always finds himself in a dilemma: Either I walk out because they
aren't ready to put forward a proposal of their own or I make another
concession. In the end, even the most moderate negotiator reaches a point
where he understands that there is no end to it." (Of Israeli concessions.)...
"Arafat's concession vis-a-vis Israel at Oslo was a formal concession. Morally
and conceptually, he didn't recognize Israel's right to exist...Neither he nor the
Palestinian National Movement accept us...In the end Arafat is not a partner.
Worse, Arafat is a strategic threat; he endangers peace in the Middle East and
in the world." Jerusalem: "By this stage we had agreed to the division of the
city and to full Palestinian sovereignty on the Temple Mount, but we insisted
that some sort of attachment of ours to the Temple Mount be
recognized...under no circumstances would they agree to give us the minimal
statement: 'because the site is sacred to the Jews.'...They were not willing to
move toward our position even at the emotional and symbolic level. At the
deepest level, they are not read to recognize that we have any kind of title
here."
Understand that these words are not from a conservative but from an ultra
liberal - one who wanted and tried to give Arafat and the Palestinians a nation
at Israel's expense. Why is it so impossible for the world to understand this
and act accordingly? Arafat and the Arab/Moslem world will only be satisfied
when Israel ceases to exist - and then they will move on to the second stage the total conquest of the Western world.
God will not bless the nations that force Israel to divide up her Land, on the
contrary HE has promised to Judge those nations. Joel 3:2, “I will also gather
all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will
enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage
Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided
up My land.”
Lie #4-What We (USA) Can Do, You (Israel) Are Not Allowed To Do
The USA and Britain are bombing Afghanistan mercilessly and have now put
troops on the ground there. Of course as in any war there have been bombs
that have not hit their targets, and have killed civilians. This is called
"ancillary damage" and both the USA and Britain have expressed regret while
stating that such things always happen. "Regrettable but we are blameless."
The USA is using almost every weapon in it's enormous arsenal. They admit
that they are waging total war and will not agree to anything but total
submission to their will and dictates.
Israel's Minister of Tourism has just been assassinated by a group (PFLP) that
is part of the PLO with headquarters in both "Palestinian territory" and in
Syria. Israel has responded by re-imposing the blockade that had just been
lifted some days previously under the latest "cease fire". In addition Israel has
entered "Area A", areas under full Palestinian control. When Jerusalem was
fired upon the next day Israel once again occupied parts of Bethlehem and it's
suburbs.
The American reaction to this has been a demand that Israel withdraws from
Area A and stops overreacting to the murder of it's citizens and Government
Ministers. Bin-Laden is a terrorist but Yasser Arafat (who before Sept. 11, was
the late 20th centuries bloodiest and most successful terrorist master and the
initiator of airplane hijackings), is now considered a "freedom fighter".
Israel has demanded that the murderers of Minister Zeevi be handed over to
Israel by next week or Israel will consider the Palestinian Authority a
"Terrorist Harboring entity." This is how the USA is relating to Afghanistan
which in and of itself was not implicated in the World Trade Center disaster it's Bin-Laden that she is harboring as it's Arafat who is harboring the PFLP.
(Though Arafat has been implicated in many terror attacks against Israel.) The
USA refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to adopt the same standards in her
fight against terrorism as America is using. The hypocrisy of this American
policy stinks to high heaven. It is a travesty of truth, justice and semantics.
Can God bless this wicked policy towards Israel or will HE judge it?
At this point in time the question is not whether or not the USA will totally
abandon Israel. The reality is that the statements of President Bush show
more than a willingness to demand of Israel the price for his coalition and his
insistence to hold Israel to a different standard than he is holding America
too. This is unrighteous. God will not Bless unrighteousness.
Will Islam be Bound (Defeated)?
The clear answer to this is "yes". Without doing an extensive teaching on this
I suggest you all study the scriptures yourself, and I would recommend to
you Jer. 51:19-20...24-26, “The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the
Maker of all things; And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance. The LORD of
hosts is His name. "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you
I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms... and I
will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they
have done In Zion in your sight," says the LORD. "Behold, I am against you,
O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth," says the LORD. "And I
will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And
make you a burnt mountain. They shall not take from you a stone for a
corner Nor a stone for a foundation, But you shall be desolate forever,’ says
the LORD.”
Pray For:
US President Bush. That he would search the scriptures, hear and heed the
voice of the Lord and lead the USA in righteousness.
The leaders of the Church in American and around the World. That they
would Stand Up and Speak the Word of Truth, warning their leaders of:
Ungodly Covenants.
Double Standards (situation ethics).
Making Israel the Scapegoat.
That the real enemy IS Islam and Humanism.
For the Church to understand what God is doing and to be willing to cooperate
with Him in His revealed plans and purposes.
P.M. Sharon. That he would be willing to defy the USA and the World if he
must to do what is right for Israel. That he would be willing to embrace God's
calling on Israel: Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, And
from the hills I behold him; There! A people dwelling alone, Not reckoning
itself among the nations.
For Israel to be alert to the plans of the enemy and to be prepared for all
attacks.
"The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you , And
give you peace." Num. 6:24-26
Eliyahu Ben-Haim, Jerusalem, Oct 21, 2001