Or Tzion Newsletters Aarchive, Vol. 23, Page 4

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VOL. 23 NEWSLETTER JAN./FEB. 1995

Yasser Arafat is Satan's servant, an enemy of G-d and a hater of G-d's people. His un-changed aim is to take possession of G-d's land and to destroy the sovereign state of Israel, even though G-d Himself raised it back up¹⁰. Arafat has not repented of his evil deeds and secret plots, nor may it be expected that he ever will. Are the saints to enter into agreements with an enemy of G-d and commit to him the Lord's tithes and offerings, in order to carry out the work of the Lord?

Such an outrageous deed defies belief and understanding! Do the saints really think Jews will listen to THAT station? What they'll see is this: Christians are friends of Arafat and the PLO, because they donated a huge sum of money to help equip the PA's TV station. For them Arafat, Jesus Christ and Christians will all be in the same category --- Jew-haters, murderers of our people.

Paul Crouch has severely compromised the Gospel and the Name of our Lord among the Jews. All the good work which some have done like Dr. Young of "Bridges for Peace," Dr. Jay and Meridel Rawlings of "Israel Vistas," George Otis, Dr. Pat Robertson with the Middle East TV, Dr. Roy Blizzard of "Yavo," Inc. from Austin, and Dr. DeWayne Coxon with "Blossoming Rose," from Cedar Springs, Michigan, will be jeopardized by TBN's deal with Arafat.

What is required now, I believe, is to act upon the rules laid down by the Lord Himself and by the apostle Paul (see Matt. 18:15-17; Eph. 5:11-13; 1 Tim. 5:1-2, 20). If Paul Crouch and his wife were simply brethren in the church, not holding any leadership, they could be reproved and corrected quietly and in private. But this couple is extremely visible as representatives of the Christian faith. Their influence is far-reaching, and hence also their error.

The apostle Paul wasn't squeamish when he openly rebuked the apostle Peter before all. Because the effect of Peter's error was of such magnitude that even Barnabas got carried away by it¹¹. It threatened to compromise the Gospel and the Name of the Lord Yeshua. Paul would not keep silent over this. Neither do I. Nor should you.

Ah, beloved, what shall I say!? I am in distress for your souls! Not long ago the Lord's Name and the Gospel were brought in disrepute through Jim Bakker and his wife, and recently also by Robert Tilton of Word of Faith. Have the saints not learned from this? Is there a reward from the Lord to be anticipated for such lack of discernment and misuse of mil-lions of dollars, donated unto the Lord's service? Should G-d's tithes and offerings¹² be given for amusement parks and theaters? Should they be given to a man who believes that the Church, as "spiritual Israel," has replaced the Jews as the people of G-d; and that making a deal with the devil is alright?

Oh, how I yearn to come to you - NOW! - and declare to you the truth! Oh, how I want to go to the churches everywhere and warn, and shake the saints out of their slumber! Pray, that the Lord will open effective doors for me that I may go, like Jeremiah, and warn the Lord's saints! And pray how you may serve the Lord in this by doing all you can to help me do it.

Error is a snare and compromise a trap. I implore you, beware of it, lest you get entangled in it and the Day of the Lord will come upon you suddenly, without escape!

THE BATTLE OVER JERUSALEM HAS BEGUN

Napoleon said: "An army of rabbits commanded by a lion is better than an army of lions commanded by a rabbit" (quoted by Sidney Hook in "The Hero in History").

This "process" of negotiations between Israel and her alleged Arab partners is no "peace process," but an unilateral concession process involving a partnership in which the Jewish state gives - in defiance of G-d's promises - and the Arabs take.

David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, said in a speech at the Basel Zionist Congress, 1937:

"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish people in Israel."
"No Jew has the authority to do so."
"No Jewish body has the authority to do so."
"Not even the entire Jewish people alive today has the authority to yield any part of Israel.
"It is the right of the Jewish people over generations, a right which under no condition be canceled."
"Even if Jews in a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny this right to future generations. No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish people."
"Our right to the country - to the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and until the full and complete redemption is realized, we shall not yield our historic right."

Rabin/Peres & Co. have initiated a freeze of building activity in the outlying suburbs of Jerusalem. They suddenly have become "Palestinian" territory "stolen" by the Israelis.

"A Government freeze on building in Greater Jerusalem is tantamount to waging war on Israel," said Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel, head of the forum of Greater Jerusalem. Jerusalem's satellite towns are Ma'aleh Adumim (about 8 km from Jerusalem, where most of the members of our congregation live, and where we all meet for services and prayer), Givat Ze'ev, Betar, Efrat¹³ (some 20 km south of Jerusalem), and Gush Etzion, where an estimated 41,000 people live.

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said, the Government's move endangers Israel's hold on the capital. And Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, sephardic Chief Rabbi said: "If we do not stand resolutely against the onslought on Efrat, then we will find ourselves battling for Jerusalem."

Freeze of the settlements leads not only the Palestinians - and the Israeli Left - to expect a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines. The whole world expects it. And if the land on which the Jewish towns now stand is going to be part of this state, the right of Jewish residents to build on their property seems irrelevant. The world community fully expects them to abandon their homes and move away once the final agreement is reached.

To bring the Oslo agreement to its logical and successful conclusion, HALF of Jerusalem will also have to be given up. And once the Palestinians realize that for the Rabin government the success of the process far outweighs even the most hallowed "red lines," they will consider no demands unthinkable.

¹⁰ "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel [Judea and Samaria], and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord G-D: Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession,' therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord G-D: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from ALL SIDES so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became THE TALK AND EVIL GOSSIP of the people... therefore thus says the Lord G-D: I speak in my HOT JEALOUSY against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave MY Land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might possess and plunder it... Thus says the Lord G-D: Behold, I speak in my jealous wrath, because you [Judea and Samaria, eg "the mountains of Israel"] suffered the reproach of the nations... they themselves shall suffer reproach... (Ezek. 36:1-7)."
"Because you said, 'These two nations [Israel and Judea] and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,' - although the LORD was there - therefore, AS I LIVE, says the Lord G-D, I will deal with you according to the ANGER AND ENVY which you showed because of YOUR HATRED AGAINST THEM; and I will make Myself KNOWN among you, when I judge you. And you shall know that I, THE LORD, HAVE HEARD all the REVILINGS which you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate [Jewish settlers forced to leave their settlements], they are given us to devour.' And you magnified yourselves against ME with your mouth, and multiplied your words AGAINST ME; I HEARD IT... (Ezek. 35:10-13)."
Eye on the Media," by David Bar-Ilan, THE JERUSALEM POST, Friday, February 3, 1995

¹¹ "But when Peter came to Antioch I had to oppose him publicly, speaking strongly against what he was doing for it was very wrong... [because] all the other Jewish Christians and even Barnabas became hypocrites too, following Peter's example, though they certainly knew better. When I saw what was happening and that they weren't being honest about what they really believed, and weren't following the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of ALL THE OTHERS... (Gal. 2:11-14, LB)."

¹² $ 5,237,236 were raised by TBN as of Nov. 14, 1994, but their Telethon continued to the end of November.

¹³"But you, O Bethlehem Ephratah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from YOU shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel... (Micah 5:2)." Bethlehem, inalienable Jewish landright, is given to the Palestinian Authority, because Rabin/Peres & Co. do not believe in the biblical and historical rights of the Jews to Eretz Israel. It does not matter to them, that G-d has expressly forbidden that any part of Eretz Israel should be sold to foreigners, because it is not only the Jews' own land, but above all G-d's land. Efrat (mod. term for Ephratah) is part of Greater Jerusalem and has a population of some 5,500 residents, 35 percent of them native English speakers.

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