Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The Impossible Dream

Why did Christian Zionists pursue the impossible dream of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel?

The last of the Jews to rule over the land of Israel sided with the Romans in the Great Revolt, which brought about the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.  So the last Jewish ruler under the Romans died in 92 AD.

After that, Bar Kochba led a revolt in 132 AD to create a new Jewish kingdom in the land of Israel.  This revolt failed and brought an end to the providence of Judaea in 135 AD.

There was still no type of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel when the Byzantine Empire took control in 390 AD.

In 614 AD, Jewish forces in the land of Judah helped the Sassanid Empire in the hopes of ruling over the land of Israel as province of the Sassanid Empire.  However, the Byzantine Empire drove out the Sassanid Empire, ending all hope of returning Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

There was no form of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel when the Arab Caliphates took over in 636 AD.  Any hope of this changing was crushed when the Crusaders took control of the land of Israel in 1099 AD.  This did not change when the Ayyubid Sultanate took control of the land of Israel in 1187 AD.  There was no chance of this when the Mamluk Sultanate began to take control of the land of Israel in 1260 AD. Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel seemed even more like an impossible dream when the Ottoman Empire took control in 1517 AD.  There had not been a Jewish country that was ruled by a Jewish ruler in the land of Israel since 92 AD.

Yet, this impossible dream of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel soon became the dream of Christian Zionists.

In 1640 AD, Parliamentary censorship of the Puritans ended.  That same year, Jews were allowed to return to England, for the first time since they were expelled in 1290 AD.  It seemed like the time to help the Jews establish self-rule in the land of Israel was at hand.  So, the Puritan leaders in England met with the leading Ashkenazi rabbis of England in London, England, to offer their help in establishing Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.  Much to their surprise, every single one of these rabbis was adamantly opposed this!

It seemed like the dream of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel had became only the dream of Christian Zionists.  Since the Jews themselves seemed opposed to living under self-rule in the land of Israel, this idea seemed like an impossible dream.  Yet against all reason, the Christian Zionists continued to pursue this impossible dream.

In fact, for the next two hundred years, more and more of the Children of Truth in Great Britain and the United States became Christian Zionists.  During this entire time, they worked in so many ways, to help Jews become self-governing in the land of Israel one day.

Christian Zionists bypassed the Rabbis, and met with ordinary Ashkenazi Jews.  They sought to change the hearts and minds of Ashkenazi Jews, about Jews becoming self-governing in the land of Israel again.  They worked to change public opinion to support this idea.  They worked to change laws that would be favorable in helping Jews make the transition to a country, that did not even exist at the time.  They worked to influence the Ottoman Empire to allow Jews to move back to the land of Israel in greater numbers.  One of them even spent his entire fortune building docks and inns in New Haven, Connecticut, to handle the large number of Jews, who would one day move to the Land of Israel, and set up a Jewish government there.

In 1809, Charles Simeon and William Wilberforce worked with Jewish Children of Truth, including Joseph Frey, to form The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews (aka the London Jews Society).  Soon more Jewish Children of Truth, like Joseph Woolf, Ridley Herschell, and Phillip Hirshfield, joined the London Jews Society.  They worked vigorously to galvanize support among the British Children of Truth for helping the Jews.  They also worked with Jewish Children of Truth in Germany to stir up a long dormant desire for Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

So in 1820 AD, James Frere, James Haldane Stewart, and Edward Irving, began renewing the fires of action among the British Children of Truth to bring about Jewish self-governance in the land of Israel.  They were soon joined by other prominent British religious professionals, like Horatius Bonar, Andrew Bonar, J. C. Rile, and Robert Murray McCheyne, to bring about a shift in public opinion throughout England and Scotland concerning this goal.

In 1835 AD, the London Jews Society sent the first medical missionaries ever to Jerusalem, Dr. Albert Gerstmann and pharmacist Melville Bergheim, to combat the disease that made the land of Israel so hard to live in.

Edward Beckerteth and Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) joined the London Jews Society as well.  Lord Shaftesbury convinced Britain to build a British Consulate in Jerusalem in 1838 AD, in anticipation of the future need for diplimatic relationships, when the Jews were living under self-rule in the land of Israel.

In 1839 AD, the Church of Scotland sent Robert Murray McCheyne, Andrew Bonar, Alexander Black, and Alexander Keith on a mission to report on the condition of the Jews living in the land of Israel. These men sought out Jewish communities on their way to the land of Israel and on the way back, to determine how prepared these Jews were to resume Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

These Christian Zionists during this two hundred year period included many famous religious professionals in Great Britain and America like: Simeon Ashe, Edmund Calamy, John Cennick, Jonathan Edwards, John Gill, Thomas Goodwin, William Gouge, Robert Haldane, Edward Irving, John Owen, Increase Mather, Joseph Priestly, John Rippon, Samuel Rutherford, Ezra Stiles, Charles Wesley, and John Wesley.

The founders and leaders of every major British and American Protestant denomination founded in this time period were Christian Zionists.

There were also many famous Christian Zionists from other occupations including: President John Adams, James Bicheno, John Locke, John Milton, and Sir Isaac Newton.

During this entire two hundred year period, the Christian Zionists faced constant opposition from most Ashkenazi Rabbis, as well as from Gentiles who belonged to the False Church of Rome.  

However, in 1840 AD, things began to change.  American Christian Zionist John Nelson Darby went to Geneva, Switzerland.  While there, he gave lectures for eleven evenings concerning the restoration of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel, and the return of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) to rule this Earth from Jerusalem.  These lectures were soon translated and published in newspapers all over Europe.

That same year, American Christian Zionist Missionaries began arriving in the land of Israel to pave the way for the return of Jewish self-governance in the land of Israel.  They brought modern education, modern farming techniques, and modern medicine to the Jews who lived there.  They also began mapping out the location of the ancient cities that had been destroyed during the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135 AD.  They anticipated the returning Jews rebuilding these cities.

In England, that same year, another Jewish Child of Truth, G. W. Pieritz, exposed the Damascus Blood Libels against Jews for the lie it was in the Times, the main newspaper of London, preventing an outbreak of violence against Jews in Britain.  Also, another Jewish Child of Truth, Erasmus Calman began vigorously lobbing for Jews to return to self-rule in the land of Israel.

The British government, headed by Queen Victory, another Christian Zionist, leaked to The Times that it was considering helping the Jews establish Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel in 1840 AD.

So, when Jewish leaders were approached about this in London by Christian Zionist leaders that year, two hundred years after the initial attempt by the Puritans, they were ready to listen.  In fact, some of them even tried to act like it was their idea first!

No Jews were more active or vocal in this desire than the Jewish Children of Truth.

This zeal to return Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel among the Jewish Children of Truth got the attention of Lord Shaftesbury.  So in 1841 AD, he took out a full page add in The Colonial Times, addressed to the heads of all Protestant countries in Europe, urging them to help bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.  He also pressed for the British to build the first Protestant church in the land of Israel, despite opposition from the Ottoman Empire, and those who lived in Jerusalem, that same year.  Also in 1841 AD, he was able to get a Jewish Child of Truth, Michael Alexander, appointed as the first Bishop to run this church when it was built.

After Alexander Keith returned from the land of Israel, he published a best-selling book about his findings in 1841 AD.  This book showed how the land of Israel was a land without a people, and how the people of Israel were a people without a land.  He made it very clear that it was time to reunite the people of Israel with the land of Israel, so Jewish self-rule could return to the land of Israel.  In that same year, he returned to the land of Israel with his son, Dr. George Keith, to take the very first photographs of the land of Israel.

Christian Zionists were active in America as well during the period.  Professor George Bush, who Presidents Bush were named after, wrote a best selling book in 1844 AD calling for America to help the Jews return to the land of Israel, and establish self rule there.  That same year, Christian Zionists convinced the American government to build a consulate in Jerusalem, to have an established presence in place, when Jewish self-rule returned to the land of Israel.

In 1845 AD, Lord Shaftesbury brought a petition to the British government, with almost 30,000 signatures, calling for the construction of the first Protestant church in the land of Israel.  That same year, construction began from funds raised by the London Jews Society.  This church, called Christ Church, was completed in the compound of the British Consulate in Jerusalem in 1849 AD.

Finally, Lord Shaftesbury, who was president of the London Jews Society, in 1853 AD, petitioned the British prime minister to work to bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

In 1864 AD, Charles Spurgeon stoked the fire again in Britain, when he wrote a best selling book calling for the Children of Truth everywhere to take action to bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

So, when Mark Twain visited the land of Israel in 1867 AD, the only people taking any meaningful action to bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel, were British and American Christian Zionists.

The fires of Christian Zionism were increasing in America as well.  Among the many Americans influenced by these efforts of John Nelson Darby was William Blackstone.

William Blackstone had been a successful business man with connections to many prominent American business men.  In 1870 AD, he had an encounter with the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), and left off his business pursuits the next day to preach that the Man of Truth was coming soon.  He soon became a prominent Christian Zionist.

In 1878 AD, Blackstone wrote a book about this called "Jesus is coming!".

John Nelson Darby had continued to awaken American Children of Truth to take action to bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.  This was one of the main points of the Niagara Bible Conference that he lead in 1878 AD.

In 1890 AD, Blackstone held a conference in Chicago to stir American Christian Zionists into action.

In 1891 AD, Christian Zionist business men like J. D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, and others inspired by Blackstone, signed a petition called the Blackstone Memorial.  The Blackstone Memorial asked for America to give support to the Ashkenazi Jews immigrating into the land of Israel to create their own state.  It was publicly given to the President of the United States that same year.

President Harrison rejected their request.  So, these Christian Zionist business men started taking action to help the Jews create a strong economy in the land of Israel.  This would support a strong tax base needed for Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

These efforts in Europe and America were not in vain.  Ashkenazi Jews, other than Jewish Children of Truth, had not taken any action to bring this impossible dream to pass, but were primed to do so.

Finally, the impossible dream began to come true, when Theodore Herzl, wrote a book called, "The Jewish State", in 1896 AD.  This pamphlet aroused Ashkenazi Jews to take concrete action to bring about this impossible dream.

William Hechler, a German-born Christian Zionist from Britain, read one of the first copies just weeks after publication.  He then sought out Herzl to help him.  He began helping Herzl gain political credibility by introducing him to the Grand Duke of Baden, another Christian Zionist, and uncle of the German Kaiser.

In 1897 AD, Hechler introduced Herzl to the German ambassador to Austria, Von Eulenburg, another Christian Zionist.  Von Eulenburg also began to speak to the German Kaiser about supporting Herzl as well.

So the German Kaiser met twice with Herzl in 1898 AD.  Even though the German Kaiser had been unable to help Herzl in bringing about the Jewish State directly, these meeting gave Herzl and Jewish Zionism the political legitimacy that Herzl needed.  So, many more Jews came to see the impossible dream of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel to be their dream as well.

When William Blackstone heard in 1903 AD, that the British had offered Herzl land in Uganda for a Jewish state, he took action.  He took a Bible, highlighted all of the verses concerning the promise of the Father of Truth to bring about Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel, and then sent that Bible, along with a passionate note to Herzl.  Herzl ended all consideration of accepting a Jewish state anywhere other than the land of Israel, after reading the view of Blackstone.

Then came World War I in 1914 AD.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, a Christian Zionist, commanded the Zion Mules Corp in 1915 AD.  He used this opportunity to begin teaching Jewish Zionists under his command how to win wars.

That same year, Christian Zionist (according to his own writings) Winston Churchill worked to convince the British to use the process developed by Chaim Weizmann.  This process allowed Britain to mass produce the necessary gun powder to win the war, after the Germans had cut off the supply of a key ingredient.  This indebted Britain to Weizmann, when his process saved Britain from certain defeat in 1916 AD.

Also in 1916 AD, Jewish Zionists asked William Blackstone to create a second Blackstone Memorial, to present to President Woodrow Wilson.  Blackstone enthusiastically pursued the project, and made sure to get the signature of the head of the Presbyterian denomination, that President Wilson belong to, near the top of the petition.

In 1917 AD, Blackstone privately presented the petition to President Wilson, his fellow Christian Zionist.  This petition emboldened President Wilson to publicly state his support for a Jewish state.  President Wilson also let the British government know, that America would support such a move by the British.

Later in 1917 AD, a good friend of Weizmann, Prime Minister Balfour, an ardent Christian Zionist, worked with King George V, another Christian Zionist, to give land that Britain would win from the Ottoman Empire, to create a Jewish state as payment for saving Britain from certain defeat.

This was publish in the Balfour declaration, the single most significant paragraph to be written since the Book of Truth had been completed in 95 AD.

Also that year, Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson resumed teaching Jewish Zionists how to win wars when the Jewish Legion was formed.

During the seventy-seven years from when the British Jewish leadership was finally willing to listen to Christian Zionists concerning creating Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel in 1840 AD, and the assurance of this becoming a reality by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 AD, there continued to be many other famous British and American Christian Zionists like E. W. Bullinger, Robert Browning, E.J. Poole-Conner, James Neil, Colonel C. R. Conder, Edward Cazalet, George Elliot (AKA Mary Anne Evans), Laurence Oliphant, Jan Smuts, and General Sir Charles Warren.

Also during this period, Christian Zionism spread far beyond the shores of Britain and America.  It became a world-wide phenomenon that included people like: Henry Dunant of Switzerland, and Sun Yat-sen of China.

Also, opposition to Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel by the False Church of Rome, and most of the Rabbis, continued as it had since Christian Zionism began.

After World War I ended, the British were given the land of Israel in the peace treaty that followed.  So in 1922 AD, the League of Nations created the British Mandate Palestine in the land of Israel to carry out the promise in the Balfour Declaration.  This would make the impossible dream a reality.

Winston Churchill proposed doing this by creating one state in British Mandate Palestine, where Jews and Arabs would live under the rule of one government.  So there was a Jewish government ruling in the land of Israel under the authority of a Gentile empire for the first time since 92 AD. 

It soon became apparent that the Arabs would not live at peace with the Jews in the same state.  When the Arabs were offered to partition the land, so they could have their own state in 1936 AD, they refused that as well.

So Captain Orde Wingate, a very devout Christian Zionist, worked with the Jewish Agency in 1938 AD to teach Jews in the land of Israel how to fight effectively against Arab terrorism.  He taught them to defeat Arab terrorism by using special operations squads.  This ensured that Jewish self-rule could endure in the land of Israel without the protection of the British.

In 1939 AD, Winston Churchill did all he could to prevent passage of the White Paper, so that Jews could continue to immigrate into the land of Israel unabated.  This would allow them to create a Jewish majority necessary for Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.  When the White Paper passed over his objections, he used his position as head of the British navy to issue orders to not search ships headed to the land of Israel for Jewish immigrants.

Then World War II came in 1939 AD.

During the war, Christian Zionists like Corrie ten Boom protected Jews from the Nazis, so they could return to the land of Israel to create a Jewish state there.

In 1944 AD, Churchill began to seek to create a two-state solution instead, after Chaim Weizmann convinced him that it was better. However, he was in the minority in the British government on this issue, and could not bring about a change in the policy of the British government.

After the war ended in 1945 AD, Churchill began to work on this goal through the United Nations.  So in 1947 AD, the United Nations produced a partition plan that defined the borders of the Jewish State.  The Jews accepted the plan, but the Arabs rejected it.

The new British government did not like the plan, and responded by announcing within days, that they would be pulling out of the land of Israel, once the British Mandate expired with the start of May 15, 1948, at midnight.

So, the Jews in the land of Israel voted to create the Jewish State on May 14, 1948, one day before the British Mandate expired.  Their first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, announced this to the world via the radio.  Harry S. Truman, another Christian Zionist, the new President of the United States, called within minutes of the end of the declaration, to welcome the return of independent Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

Thus, the impossible dream of the Christian Zionists came true almost 400 years after they began to dream it.

Christian Zionists like Clark Clifford, Ted Cruz, Tom Delay, Mike Evans, Jerry Falwell, Don Finto, John Hagee, Malcholm Hedding, Mike Huckabee, Martin Luther King Junior, Hal Lindsay, John F. McArthur, James David Manning, Chuck Missler, Sandor Nemeth, David Pawson, Pat Robertson, Walid Shoebot, Jack Van Impe, Rexella Van Impe, and John Walvoord have worked to keep the dream alive since that time.  Today in America, there are an estimated 55 million Christian Zionists.

The impossible has happened.

How could have all of this happened?

This is the work of the Greatest Zionist.

Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) was the primary instrument used by the Father of Truth to accomplish this.  He taught the Children of Truth to bring about the impossible dream of Jewish self-rule in the land of Israel.

It was more than just the luck of the Irish that the descendants of the Galatians, who Paul the Jew focused his ministry on, were the Gentile Children of Truth from Great Britain and America, who pursued the impossible dream.  It was primarily the descendants of those who practiced Celtic Christianity, in the original form brought to them by disciples of Paul the Jew, who never gave up on the impossible dream.

The Gentile Children of Truth learned compassion for Israel from Paul the Jew (Romans 9:1-4).  They desired, like Paul the Jew, for Israel to be saved, even though most Jews do not understand that Rabbinic Judaism can never make them right with the Father of Truth (Romans 10:1-3).

Paul the Jew reminded the Gentile Children of Truth, that he who bought the Good News to the Gentiles, was also a Jew (Philippians 3:4-6).  Paul the Jew reminded them, that a Jew had showed them how to come into the House of Truth (2 Corinthians 11:21-23).

Paul the Jew reminded the Gentile Children of Truth, that they had been made part of Israel by the blood of the Man of Truth - THE JEW (Ephesians 2:11-13).  Paul the Jew reminded them, that it was only through the efforts of the Jewish Prophets of Truth, the Jewish Apostles of Truth, and their Jewish savior, the Man of Truth, that they had been made part of Israel (Ephesians 2:19-22).

Paul the Jew reminded the Gentile Children of Truth, that the Jews had been entrusted with the Book of Truth, even if many of the Jews did not believe what was in it (Romans 3:1-3).  Paul the Jew reminded them, that everything they had been given by the Father of Truth, including the Man of Truth, had came to them from the Jews (Romans 9:3-5).  Paul the Jew reminded them, that they owed an enormous debt to the Jewish Children of Truth, for bringing the message of salvation to them (Romans 15:25-27).  Paul the Jew reminded them, that the Renewed Covenant that brought them into the House of Truth, had been given to Israel (Hebrews 8:8-12).

The Gentile Children of Truth learned from Paul the Jew, that the Father of Truth has never cast away Israel, but has always preserved Israel (Romans 11:1-2).  Paul the Jew told them, that there would always be Jewish Children of Truth (Romans 11:2-5)  Paul the Jew told them, that there had always been Jews, who were blinded by the doctrine taught by the Rabbis (Romans 11:6-10).  Paul the Jew told them, that they were the means of bringing the Jews back to the Father of Truth (Romans 11:11-14).  Paul the Jew told them, that the fate of the world was tied to that of Israel (Romans 11:15).  Paul the Jew told them, that they had been grafted into Israel, so that their fate was tied to that of Israel (Romans 11:16-18).  Paul the Jew told them, that the Father of Truth would one day graft all Jews back into Israel (Romans 11:19-24).  Paul the Jew told them, that all of Israel would be saved through the Gentile Children of Truth, despite Rabbinic opposition (Romans 11:25-31).

Paul the Jew reminded the Gentile Children of Truth, that the Father of Truth would do everything that He had ever promised, including what He had promised concerning Israel, as evidenced by giving them the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) (2 Corinthians 1:20-22).

The Father of Truth does not just want to give Christian Zionists an impossible dream, and then bring it to pass, but He wants to give you an impossible dream, and then bring it to pass.  He wants you to come into the House of Truth, where He brings impossible dreams to pass.

Like Christian Zionists, the Father of Truth will first put a desire in your heart, and then bring that desire to pass, when you come into the House of Truth (Psalm 37:4-5). He has a good plan for all who come into the House of Truth (Jeremiah 29:11-13).  He will bring to pass the impossible dream that He starts in your life, even if is not in your lifetime (Philippians 1:6).

Like Christian Zionists, the Father of Truth performs all things for those who come into the House of Truth (Psalm 57:1-2).  The impossible dream that He gives, cannot not be done in human strength alone, but it can only come to pass with His help (Luke 18:27).  He will not only give you an impossible dream, but He will also give you the ability to make that dream come true (Philippians 2:13).

Like Christian Zionists, the Father of Truth will hear the prayers of those who come into the House of Truth (Proverbs 15:29).  He will move Heaven and Earth to answer the prayers of those in the House of Truth (James 5:16-18).  He will be looking for ways to bring about what you ask for, after you come into the House of Truth (1 Peter 3:12).

Like Christian Zionists, the Father of Truth withholds no good thing, from those who come into the House of Truth (Psalm 84:10-12).  He will give you everything you need, if you will pursue after His impossible dream in the House of Truth (Matthew 6:32-33).  He wants to give you everything that you need, to fulfill His will for you on this Earth, when you come into the House of Truth (1 John 5:13-15).

Like Christian Zionists, nothing is impossible for those who have confidence in the Word of Truth that leads to persistent action (Matthew 17:20).  All things are possible, for those who have enough confidence in the Word of Truth to take action (Mark 9:23).  The impossible dream that the Father of Truth gives, can only come to pass by having enough faith in His Word to take action (Hebrews 11:6).

If you will come into the House of Truth, then the Man of Truth will help you have enough confidence in the Word of Truth to take action (Mark 9:23-24).  If you will come into the House of Truth, then the Father of Truth will give you enough confidence in His Word to take the action needed, to bring to pass the impossible dream that He will give you (Ephesians 2:8-10).

No one can stop the impossible dream, that the Father of Truth gives to those who come into the House of Truth, from coming to pass (Romans 8:31-39).  You just need to come into the House of Truth, by confessing that the Man of Truth is in charge of your life, because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth!

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