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Another jesus, The Palestinian jesus

[Ed. Note: This article has been slightly modified from its original pdf format for this newsletter. Additionally, due to length, we are only able to reproduce a small portion here, however this is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the serious deception that has infiltrated much of the church in these last days and we highly recommend reading the full report. A copy is posted on the Moriel website here. It is also posted here. ]

Dear Friends,

Just over a year ago we produced 'Prophets Who Prophesy Lies In My Name': Christian Palestinianism and the Anti-Israel Crusade, a publication which charts the nature and scale of opposition within the Church towards the modern State of Israel. Anglican clerics like English evangelical Stephen Sizer and Palestinian liberationist Naim Ateek, who are in the vanguard of this crusade, insist that Israel has been replaced by the Church in the purposes of God and that the Land promises made to Abraham and his seed have been fulfilled in Christ. The Jewish nation is thus twice robbed through the medium of replacement theology: of its prophetic Scriptures and its promised Land.

In fulfillment of the Deuteronomic law of God, the Jewish people are back in their ancient homeland after centuries of exile (Deuteronomy 30:1-9), but today's neo-crusaders, like their medieval predecessors, are bent on 'liberating' the Holy Land from what they see as unlawful occupation. The crusader ranks swell daily, with members of mainstream churches, Islamic groups, political and secular parties, and a host of others, marching on Israel with a determination to bend the Zionist spirit to their will. Like their historical forbears, today's anti-Israel crusaders are an eclectic mix who find common ground and unity of purpose in their collective condemnation of, and virulent opposition to, the modern State of Israel.

Those who support Israel on biblical grounds, be they Jewish Zionists or Christian Zionists, are subjected to intimidating rhetoric from the anti-Israel camp. In a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams (June 2011), Naim Ateek, whose Palestinian Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre ('Sabeel') was represented at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference, described Jewish and Christian Zionists as "a greater threat to us [Arab Christians] than the extremist Islamists." Stephen Sizer joins the attack, denouncing Israel as an "apartheid State" which he claims is guilty of ethnic cleansing, and demonizing Christians who support Israel as heretical "Armageddonites" whose interpretation of the Bible "provides a theological endorsement for racial segregation, apartheid and war." These are outlandish sentiments.

This booklet makes for sober reading, but we believe it is of paramount importance that the true agenda underlying the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel Christ at the Checkpoint Conference and associated forums is brought to the attention of both Christian and Jewish communities. One of our purposes therefore is to take the reader behind the scenes to reveal the high level of interconnectedness that exists between Conference speakers, their respective constituencies, and the wider anti-Israel, and in some cases, anti-Semitic world. It is imperative that we recognise that we are not simply dealing with an isolated, self-contained conference with stand-alone presentations, but with a highly sophisticated pro-Palestinian network, in which the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference sits. In my opinion, anti-Zionism is nothing less than politically-correct, internationally sanctioned anti-Semitism. Those who defend their anti-Israel position with a "My best friend is Jewish gambit," need to explain how that works when their circle of 'friends' also includes known anti-Semites.

Early in 1932, Sir Oswald Mosley, the English fascist leader, attended a business dinner at the home of British industrialist, Zionist and philanthropist, Israel Sieff (of Marks and Spencer fame). Mosley was looking for financial support for his newly formed political party from the industrialists attending the dinner. He shared his plans for the New Party, stressing that "a new movement must find somebody or something to hate. In this case it should be the Jews." Sieff writes: "He did not seem to think he had said anything particularly unacceptable, but the effect on the company was instant. I said, 'I must ask you to leave, Sir Oswald'. He strode out... and I never saw him again.... Until that time I did not know what he felt about the Jews."

There are many Christian Palestinianists, Christ at the Checkpoint speakers included, who do know what some of their 'friends' feel about the Jews, and yet are still willing to engage with them in platform sharing, press conferencing, political rallying, petition signing, and policy making, if it serves their anti-Zionist purposes. As a Christian pastor, I challenge the basis of such friendships, and urge those who seek to court the enemies of the Jewish State in furtherance of their pro-Palestinian agenda, to think again.

I pray that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will use this document to inform and alert, warn and challenge, encourage and enlighten; that by His grace many eyes will be opened to the true scale of the anti-Israel crusade, which is paving the way for wholesale condemnation of the international Jewish community.

May the Lord bless you from Zion,

In the service of His Son, the Lord Jesus,

Andrew D. Robinson

Contents

Acknowledgements

Senior Pastor's Letter

Introduction 1-3

Underlying Political Agenda 4-6

Kairos Palestine: The Time Has Come 7-12

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions 13-15

Nothing New Under The Sun 16

The Leopard Tries to Change its Spots 17-20

Standing on the Shoulders of Goliath 21-29

The Seduction of Messianic Christianity 30-32

Student Solidarity 33-34

A Long Theological Tap Root 35

Evangelical Graffiti 36

From White House to Fun House 37-40

A Gallery of Inspiration 41

Global Affirmation of the Conference 42

Revising History, Reinterpreting Prophecy 43

Playing the Moral Equivalence Card 44-45

The Manifesto 46

Weighing the Evidence 47-48

The Verdict 49

At the beginning of March 2012, I attended the second 'Christ at the Checkpoint' Conference in Bethlehem. Over 600 delegates from 20 nations gathered at the 5-star Intercontinental Jacir Palace hotel, in what is today classified as an 'Area A' zone administered by the Palestinian Authority. Organised by Bethlehem Bible College, the five-day event built on the first conference, which was held in March 2010. Representative organisations included the World Council of Churches, the World Evangelical Alliance, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, Christian Aid and World Vision.

The conference took place during the global Israeli Apartheid Week and the Jewish festival of Purim!

The stated aim of the conference was to provide an opportunity for evangelical Christians who take the Bible seriously to prayerfully seek a proper awareness of issues of peace, justice, and reconciliation. As this report will show, the conference was informed and underpinned by a Replacement Theology which denies that the modern State of Israel was established by God's sovereign intervention. The conference also gave a platform for speakers to delegitimize the State of Israel by rejecting its biblical, theological, historical and legally-established foundations. The strategy adopted by the conference organisers was more subtle than previous conferences of a similar nature, in which anti-Israel sentiment was more blatant.

In 2004, I attended the 5th International Sabeel Conference in Jerusalem, which included a meeting with Yasser Arafat. In my report, I wrote of the union of mainstream Protestant churches with Rome and the Islamic world in their opposition to Jewish and Christian Zionism. I cited some of the prime movers, notably Naim Ateek, Stephen Sizer and Gary Burge.

In 2011, I wrote 'Prophets Who Prophesy Lies In My Name,' a document which highlights the developing trends within what I have labeled the 'Christian Palestinianist' movement. This movement has become increasingly politicized over the years, and today enjoys wide-ranging support from individual Church leaders, denominations, charities, and associated mission and humanitarian groups. The document emphasized the speed with which alliances have been forged   by Evangelicals with secular, political and non-Christian religious groups, in what can only be described as a mounting anti-Israel crusade.

(These documents, which help to provide a theological and historical backdrop to the 'Christ at the Checkpoint' Conference, are produced by my home church and are available free of charge from the address on the back cover.)

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Underlying Political Agenda

Opening Address: Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Dr Salam Fayyad (Formerly the Minister of Finance under Yasser Arafat)

• Fayyad was introduced by the conference director, Munther Isaac, as someone who has "worked so hard to prepare Palestine for statehood"
• Opened with "Welcome to Palestine," and spoke of the opportunity delegates had to see "what it is like for Palestinians to be living under occupation"
• Condemned Israel's "capricious regime" and "monstrous wall"
• Conveyed greetings from 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas, the same Abbas whose 1982 doctoral thesis was entitled The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement 1933-1945. It was published in Arabic in 1984 under the title al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-'Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an- Naziya wa's-Sihyuniya (The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism). Critics of his work have accused Abbas of Holocaust denial.

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One of the dignitaries who followed Salam Fayyad onto the platform was Victor Batarseh, the Mayor of Bethlehem. In December 2011, following his annual Christmas address, Batarseh appealed to the international community to boycott Israel - a tactic he said had "worked with South Africa."

In his conference address, Batarseh, a professing Roman Catholic, spoke of how "As Christians and Muslims we always have hope that God will give us the right to self-determination." He went on to speak of the death of Christ, before declaring:

"We the Palestinian people are also crucified now."

As stated in 'Prophets Who Prophesy Lies In My Name,' identifying the 'Palestinian' people with Jesus on the cross has become a powerful propaganda weapon in the hands of the Christian Palestinianist. In his Easter message in 2001, Naim Ateek, who was absent from this 2nd conference but whose Sabeel organisation was represented, declared:

"Here in Palestine Jesus is again walking the via dolorosa. Jesus is the powerless Palestinian humiliated at a checkpoint ... In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around him ... The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily."

Mayor Batarseh was followed onto the 'Checkpoint' platform by Dr Hanna Issa, General Secretary of the Islamic-Christian Committee for Protecting Jerusalem and the Holy Sites. Anticipating a 'Palestinian' State with Jerusalem as its capital, Issa declared:

"Jerusalem is under occupation and the Palestinian people are under siege."

Issa began by greeting delegates in the name of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and "in the name of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem." No stranger to controversy, the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein (right), received international condemnation following a speech he gave on 9th January 2012 at a ceremony commemorating the 47th anniversary of the founding of the 'Palestinian' political party Fatah. Palestinian Media Watch, who posted his speech on there website, reported that the Mufti was welcomed onto the platform by the chair of the Fatah ceremony, who declared: "Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs [i.e. the Jewish people] is a war of religion and faith. Long live Fatah!" In the spirit of his notorious predecessor and ally of Adolf Hitler, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Sheikh Hussein took the microphone and, citing the Hadith (traditional Islamic teaching attributed to Muhammad), declared:

"The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: 'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"

In John's Gospel Jesus spoke of those who persecuted Jewish believers who thought they were serving God but were doing evil (John 16:2-3). These however were those who so acted because they did not know Jesus or His Father; Chuck Colson however was a man who did evil and claimed to know Jesus and to be "Born Again," the title of his book detailing his testimony of claimed regeneration.

Colson was the lead author of the "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" (ECT) agreement signed by Pat Robertson, Calvinistic author JI Packer, John Kent of The Church of the Nazarene, and the late Bill Bright. The document accepted Catholicism as scripturally Christian without reference to the fact that while the true gospel teaches that the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin, in Roman Catholicism one atones for their own sin in purgatory and salvation is not by a second birth regeneration but by 'ex opere operato' sacramental rituals.

The idolatry of graven images and worshiping bread and wine as a transubstantiated reincarnation of Jesus Christ when Jesus warned to reject any that says He has returned physically before the parousia meant nothing to Colson. Killing Jesus again in the mass and eating Him in an act of religious cannibalism didn't matter to him. The false Christ of the Eucharist, the necromancy of prayers to the dead, and the vampire consumption of blood condemned by the apostles in the book of Acts chapter 15 were of no more consequence to Colson than was Rome's false gospel. He just did not care. The Word of God meant nothing to Chuck Colson. His actions were in open defiance of it. If it did mean anything to him, he would not have likely received the Templeton prize for religion. Neither would he have turned his prison ministry over to a Roman Catholic.

It was Colson whom Satan ordained to persuade Evangelicals to refrain from evangelizing Roman Catholics. As one with a Roman Catholic mother on her way to eternal hell, trusting in scapulars and the traditions of men instead of in the true gospel of Jesus for her salvation, I loathe the legacy of this deceiver who was misled by the devil and inspired by Satan to mislead others. There have been few agents of hell more destructive to the cause of Christ than Chuck Colson. Roman Catholics are in need of salvation and should hear the true Gospel. I suggest those foolishly supportive of Colson ask former Catholics who have been saved.

Although a convicted criminal sent to prison for political corruption, Colson was an activist who tried to identify the Republican Party with Evangelical Christianity in his radio messages. Ronald Reagan's Hollywood divorce and remarriage, Nancy Reagan's advice to her husband acquired from the fortune tellers such as Jean Dixon she consulted, and George Bush placing a Koran which states that "God has no Son", (a mark of antichrist according to 1 John) in the White House were irrelevant to Colson. That Eisenhower's Earl Warren Republican Supreme Court ordered God out of the class room, that Nixon's Warren Berger Republican Supreme Court ordered God out of the maternity ward with Roe v Wade, and that Reagan's pro-abortion Supreme Court appointee Sandra Day O'Connor ordered God and the 10 Commandments out of the court room and judicial building and her writing the decision based on foreign precedent to outlaw the Texas anti sodomy law opening the door for the national surge to same sex marriage all evaded Colson's criticism. To Colson religion was about politics. He had been a liar for a corrupt Nixon White House who was transformed into a liar for a corrupt pedophile protecting Vatican.

Colson also cover endorsed the book ECUMENICAL JIHAD authored by ex- Evangelical Peter Kreeft that urges ecumenical union with Islam to morally redeem society. Colson had an antichrist spirit and he served Satan powerfully. We shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ and it is not for me to judge Chuck Colon. It is however for all of us to judge his doctrines and his ventures on the basis of God's Word. In doing so, it is evident that the deeds and doctrines of Chuck Colson emanated straight from the pit of hell.

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