David Ben-Ariel
For years, Herbert W. Armstrong warned the world that a German-led United States of Europe would win WWIII. It appears that dreadful time is upon us.
God is with the Jews!
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concerning the love affair of Christians with the modern-day state of Israel
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... consider that Israel has hundreds of nukes and is ready to use them if she is threatened ...
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Just how many of your righteous Jew friends believe in Jesus?
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Herbert Armstrong was a godly man but he never advocated subservience to the modern state of Israel like you are implying.
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you are of the John Hagee type.
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And stop claiming that anyone who criticizes Israel is a "Jew Hater"
Israel in the Isles
"LISTEN, O isles, unto me: and hearken, ye people from afar" (Isa. 49:1);
and then makes the declaration:
"Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified." (v. 3)
David Ben-Ariel
God has everything to do with Zionism!
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Zionism has nothing to do with God ....
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It is a purely political movement invented and used by men to achieve a political goal i.e., the establishment of modern Israel.
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It has nothing to do with fulfilling prophecy ...
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the secular (atheistic) Jews made a deal with the religious Jews .... let us run the affairs of state and we will allow you to run the religious part.
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God does not operate like this ... read your Bible.
In the United States, where the idea of "manifest destiny"-the belief that it was the nation's destiny to expand from shore to shore-was already firmly entrenched, advocates of British-Israelism promoted the biblical explanation for the nation's unexplained growth and prosperity. Britain and the United States, they concluded, were recipients of the unconditional birthright of Joseph.
In recent times some have associated British-Israelism with the modern negative connotations of imperialism. Critics even allege that those who embraced this reasoning were only seeking a salve for their conscience to justify their imperialist tendencies. Such accusation, however, is simply not in keeping with the thinking of the 19th century. Those who project today's political sensitivities on a past audience that viewed the world far differently are incorrect and unfair in their assessment.
In the mid-19th century British subjects did not perceive imperialism as negative. They viewed it as a magnanimous gesture-that they were extending the blessings that had made their nation great to less-fortunate peoples around the globe. Indeed the British Empire provided many blessings to the peoples who became part of the empire.
Another criticism-this one accurate-aimed at British-Israel advocates is that some of their proponents incorporated racism into their beliefs. Prejudicial racist views have tarnished their reasoning, thus discrediting the historical aspects of their teachings.
This is both regrettable and biblically unacceptable. Racial bigotry is most definitely not what the Bible teaches. God is not the author of such a point of view. He loves all people and commands us to do the same. The central issues we need to consider are whether many of the descendants of the 10 tribes of Israel reside in the British-descended nations today and, if so, what God expects of them.
Focusing on the biblical promises, some scholars have undertaken extensive research to advance the knowledge that God's promised blessings to Abraham's descendants have largely been fulfilled in the British and American peoples. Although many have contributed to the basic research, here are a few people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of this area of study.
John Wilson, Anglican layman from Cheltenham, England, published Our Israelitish Origin in 1840. This work was the first full-blown thesis connecting the Anglo-Saxons to ancient Israel. Wilson drew on the best of contemporary scholarship and methodology. He made particular use of the work of Sharon Turner (1768-1847), a monumental figure in British historiography whose multivolume work, The History of the Anglo-Saxons, traces the Anglo-Saxons back through Europe to the Balkan countries and ultimately to the Crimea and Caucasus Mountains-exactly what we would expect according to 2 Kings 17:6 and 1 Chronicles 5:26.
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The Plain Truth about the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel