The Tangent College
Hello Colleagues,
Before I get to the meat of this email, allow me to interrupt myself and comment on the circus of the Republican primary debate. I could never bear to watch the entire spectacle as all I needed to hear were some choice tidbits to form my opinion. I hate them all. They are all clowns; each one stepping on the toes of the next one; each one racing to occupy the RINO center of the purple uni-party. Trump, the clown who couldn’t attend the circus, was criticized by the other clowns in order to score points each for their own nondescript candidacy. Every one of these clowns, including Trump, continues to fall for the plandemic, supports Ukraine in America’s corrupt proxy war against Russia, and each expressed full throated support of Israel’s reprehensible war against the Palestinians. Which clown do we pick? Does it matter? I would give the nod to Trump for the sole reason that he is whom the people chose, and we should let the people have their choice even though his buffoonery is HUGE!
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Now I will switch to the gigantic gorilla in the room and attempt at picking apart one piece of it.
There are so many ways to attack this religious gorilla of untruth called Zionism that it’s hard to know where to begin. Let me begin with the biblical angle, because this is the foundation and this has been the great deception that we have all bought into – myself included. My worldview continues to be altered by the unprecedented empirical evidence of the past three years. As I have often stated, truth depends upon three things and these three things must be satisfied: faith, reason, and empirical evidence or observation. Any one of these three things can alter the other two. It is the empirical evidence of the staged Hamas attack of October 7 that has led me to alter my world-view. Israel’s 10/7 looks disturbingly like America’s 9/11 with Islamic terror being sold as the great enemy, in which the “righteous” Jews and Christians must unite in defeating with overwhelming force. It’s a great excuse to go to war and establish more surveillance over the citizenry.
But now allow me to turn to a theological argument.
I’ve realized that the doctrine of Zionism for the Jews is very similar to the doctrine of predestination for the Christians. It fosters a similar privileged status. I exposed this errant theology in my article “The Doctrine of Predestination – confronting it head on”. As I wrote,”predestination provides the basis for one to feel secure, privileged or chosen specifically by God”. Zionism claims the same thing for the Jews, that they are the “chosen” people of God -apparently for all time. The Zionists use this chosen status, along with victimization, to guilt Christians into supporting them and their sovereignty. The Judaizers did this to the early Christian church as well, compelling them to return to practice the law, in which the apostle Paul, a Pharisee of Pharisees, condemned most severely. Christians claim to be predestined and thus they are eternally secure and can never turn away. Zionists claim to be the chosen race, the eternal children of Abraham, whom God will never reject, cut off, or abandon. This they passive aggressively wield over Christians and the rest of the world. Anyone who does not acknowledge them as the chosen people are labeled “antisemitic”.
Here is just one place where the Bible describes God’s in dealing with his supposedly “chosen” people. I ask you, as I will ask you repeatedly, has anything changed in modern day Israel with the Israel that is presented here?
Why Israel Fell into the captivity of the King of Assyria
7Now this came about, because the sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods 8and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced. 9And the sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right, against the LORD their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10And they set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the LORD had carried away to exile before them; and they did evil things provoking the LORD. 12And they served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.” 13Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah, through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.” 14However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 16And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. 17Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him. 18So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah.
19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced. 20And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight. 21When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin. 22And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, 23until the LORD removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.
Is this a unique or unusual Scripture? No. The hard truth for so many Christians to accept is that the Bible, from Exodus chapter 32 when they decided to return to the idols of Egypt and create a golden calf for themselves to worship, throughout all the prophets to the end of the Old Testament, is mostly one long story of Israel rejecting their God who brought them out of slavery. It continues on in the New Testament with the scribes, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, whom Jesus their Messiah, over and over again throughout the Gospels rebukes, mocks, and makes fools of, as He introduces a new covenant that God would make with any individual throughout the whole world if they would merely believe in Jesus Christ the Messiah whom the Father sent.
Is Israel any different today than they were when they made the golden calf? Are they any different today than they were when they were taken captive by the king of Assyria? Have they repented? Have they accepted the Messiah? Is the westernized religious typical Israeli Jew any different than the Pharisees and the Sadducees at the time of Jesus who cried out “crucify Him! Crucify Him!”. The secular Pontius Pilate asks, “would you crucify your King?” And the Jews respond, “we have no king but Caesar!” And they continue with the most damning statement they could possibly make concerning themselves, “let his blood be upon our heads and upon the heads of our children”. And so it was.
But the weight of all these Scriptures, from the golden calf to the synagogue of Satan in Revelation, are ignored by modern Christian/Zionist predestination theology which teaches that the Jews will always be God’s chosen people and they were destined to have this land because of the promise that God gave to Abraham. But Moses, directed by God, led the sons of Israel to the land of Canaan and they were told to take the land because God had given it to them. But this too in cowardice they failed to do and this angered God greatly. He sent them back into the wilderness for 40 years and I believe this changed God’s relationship with Israel. They missed their chance to take the land as they missed the coming of their Messiah. God’s only Son, through his blood, would form a new Israel, a spiritual Israel, that would occupy the land of Canaan promised to Abraham but only after Christ sets up his kingdom after the second coming.
They seem to ignore the words of John the Baptist when he rebukes the Scribes and the Pharisees when he states, “and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. “And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Matt 3:9-10. John the Baptist is telling them that the axe is at the very root of the tree of Israel; that is the promise given to Abraham, which God is threatening to remove as he gives Israel one more chance to repent with the sending of His only Son.
But the promise does remain for individual Jews as well is Gentiles to repent and accept God’s sacrifice of His Son as Abraham offered up his son Isaac. As Paul states, “Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; (so much for predestination) otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, (the Jews) if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.” –Rom. 11:22-23.
But Zionism is a political propaganda tool used to support the British/American colony of Israel. It has very little to do with spiritual Israel. It is not the land that is holy as the Zionists claim. It does not matter where the temple is because now our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Zionists are obsessed with land and rebuilding a physical temple. As Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman, (like a Palestinian -As Maté noted below, that many Palestinians “in some ways, they might be descendants of ancient Jews. They’re cousins at the very least.”) she says, “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw.” …“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. “You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. “God is spirit, (spiritual Israel vs. physical Israel) and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” -John 4:12-26
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But let me return to the physical Israel and the propaganda of Zionism with this article by Seth Hancock entitled, “Holocaust survivor Dr. Maté: Israel 1,000 times worse than Hamas”
He writes, “Maté said the Israeli government actively shuts down dissent. One of the ways is by labeling anyone who criticizes the Israeli government as antisemitic. Obviously, that is nonsensical on many levels, but consider that folks like Maté, a Holocaust survivor, is considered antisemitic by the Zionists for simply criticizing government. Also note, Palestinians are Semites.
To those who cling to the idea that America and Israel are somehow righteous defenders of democracy fighting against the enemies of liberty and the promoters of terror, please consider what the Bible says, that you shall know them by their fruits This is also true of Israel. “Beware of the false prophets, [Zionists? , the synagogue of Satan? -Rev.3:9] who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? “Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad fruit. “A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. [that includes the sons of Israel] “So then, you will know them by their fruits.” -Matt 7:15-20 What is the fruit of Zionist Israel? Mate lays it out most pointedly in this article above. Is it not the oppression and expulsion of the some 700,000 Palestinian people off their land in order to set up a British/American/Western colony? (Note the map of Palestine in 1947 in Seth Hancock’s piece above.) They are the most heavily vaxxed, LGBTQ promoting; atheistic, Babylonian, completely westernized nation. They are a surveillance state. They are anti-Christian. Israel is a western colonial foothold in the middle east that we are forever beholden to maintain.
Furthermore, notice the distinction that is made in Christ’s message to the Church at Philadelphia between the true believers and phony Jews, ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.‘Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and bow down at your feet, and to know that I have loved you.” There are true Christians and true Jews.
Hamas is not good. Israel is not good. Russia is not good. America is not good. There are good people in all of these lands that follow after the truth and the true God of the Bible. But Israel is no better than the enemies that surround her. She just has the backing of America.There are no good guys anymore. The blindfold has been taken off and we have seen the enemy and he is us.
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Forgive me for being so long-winded but one thought leads to the next and I could go on seemingly forever. I’ll have new ideas when I wake up tomorrow morning but they will have to wait until next week. The world is changing very rapidly and we must adjust our worldview accordingly. Hopefully I’ve given you some food for thought which you can expand upon as God leads.
In the meantime, follow the path of righteousness, get unstuck from the mire of religious dogma, and stay far from the camp of the Covidites – the Israelites failed to annihilate them in their conquest of Canaan land.
Bill Ward