Israel, America, and the End of the World
How liberalism, false prophecy, and the inception of Israel all go hand in hand
There’s a recent brief tweet thread by Thomas777 that will pop in my head randomly and render an involuntarily chuckle:
Specifically that last bit.
“The greatest CRIME of the modern period was teaching the VILLAGE IDIOT and his descendants to READ.”
This quote will be very relevant throughout this article, but first, some readers’ discretion.
Thomas is a Presby, as are coincidentally many protestants I revere as great thinkers of our time. Aaron Renn, J. Otto Pohl, Thomas, and personal friends of mine. I hold no deep qualms against anyone. I believe what the Catholic Church holds as true, but it would be too unoriginal for me to be another internet zealot convert. I already went through that phase before converting, and I’m too much of a hipster to be so passe. I remember someone calling me a TradCath once and I actually felt deeply insulted by it lol.
What Prots and Catholics disagree on soteriologically, ecclesiologically, theologically is for another article. And I am not here to make baseless claims against the whole of Protestantism. There’s enough time for that elsewhere.
What I would like to analyze is the specifically evangelical protestant view of eschatology, that is not quite as accepted by reformed and mainline protestant churches. How this view of the imminent end of times is born from a separation from the Catholic Church, its impact on American culture, subsequent ideologies and political sects, and why I believe the current war between Hamas and Israel is a sign that God is holding to His New Covenant, and not the one owed to Jews pre-Christ’s Coming. Again, this isn’t bashing Prots. This is analyzing more so an almost exclusively American phenomenon of judaizing that is integral to the American experience. This is not antagonistic view, but actually an analysis of a characteristic that cuts deep to what it truly means to be an American. Not that judaizing is essential to the being of the American, but that the American is surrounded by liberal false prophecy that is inseparable from America’s founding.
America as a manifestation of liberalism
I won’t be giving any hard-hitting analysis of the quality of men who rebelled against the British Empire and started these United States. However, the foundation of America is so plainly a manifestation of liberalism that was waiting to emerge. It was unstoppable, just like the protestant reformation. The problem of individualism was bound to conquer the hearts and minds of men as technology improved the ability for societies to separate their reliance on community and taboo. America was the culmination of a Whig view of history.
I am making no judgement call here as I know many will assert. It’s just a fact that our founders were a new type of man. Unitarians, Episcopalians, atheists, and deists who all viewed the seniority of the individual as the basis of society. No doubt, a deviation further from the Church and its teachings going all the way back to the Rennaissance and Scientific Revolution.
Those who came to start new lives in America were of an especially individualistic, protestant variety. Ones who rejected ritual, idolatry, and the hypocrisy of the “Whore of Babylon” (Catholic Church). They were running. They now had to completely redefine the entire Bible itself, and Christianity took on a whole new life. The secrecy of the Catholic Church, and its focus on worldly hierarchy was anathematized. The Truth was not something exclusive, but essential for all to confront. In this sense, all men and women have priestly duties to rediscover what Christ was here for, how is Holy Church actually functioned, how Truth was to be interpreted, and how one might get into Heaven (and how that will look).
However, the irony of the situation is you can’t interpret the Bible in a void, and there lies the emergence of preachers and ministers who were ordained by God. How so? Well, they said they were, and people chose for themselves to follow these men. When these men were wrong, they chose for themselves another man.
This is the cornerstone of low church American Protestantism. In this, dispensationalist prophesying came about. The view that biblical prophecies are culminating post-Christ’s Resurrection. Mostly due to a revisionist view of history as true Christians being perpetually persecuted, and that the Book of Revelation is some deep foretelling of the end of times that we must obsessively analyze to death. Without a holy mission to spread Christ’s Church, the American Prot had and has taken on an identity of running. America’s rebellion was a deviation from God, just as was England’s divorce from the Church, just as the modern-day evangelical’s immanentization of the eschaton. The false prophecy is a way for them to escape their duty to unity, to spreading the Word, to instituting goodness on earth.
Heresy — choosing for one’s ownself — is the basis of liberalism. (Liberalism and heresy are essentially the same word.) This is found in the persistent reinterpretation of the Word, which muddies Truth. When a Christian lacks the Church, its hierarchy, its Magisterium, all they have is the Bible which might as well be 1600 blank pages if it is to be misinterpreted and lead one to bastardization of Truth.
It is no coincidence Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Adventists, and several other openly anti-Trinitarian sects emerged in America.
Prophesying and Protestantism are inseparable. Only an individual with no real outside relation to the Word can have the humility to understand it, and when given the ability, much of the Word is hard to not use as a direct reference to modern events. Just as any existence of tyranny is proof of 1984 being a prophetic guide to how authoritarianism operates.
Again, this is not to paint all Protestants with a broad brush. This is all specifically referent to the likes of John Nelson Darby (an Englishman, in this case) who is responsible for the Rapture interpretation and the institution of a new state for Israel. Or Ellen G. White who believed in the coming end of times (Adventism). This is what has inspired so much bizarro beliefs that America is a nation destined to exist, that the State of Israel is a necessity for the culmination of prophesied events to take place. This exceptionalism about both states come specifically from the Prots who can’t help but view history as an evil persecution of the true believers. And as time goes on, the blatant gnosticism gets worse as the Word of God becomes less important, and more so trying to spuriously reinterpret verses into some foreshadowing of annihilation and hellfire for sinners.
Israel, Nationalism, and the Far Right
This schizophrenic retelling of the Bible leads to a sort of worship of Jews as God’s “promise to the Jews” of having a new nation is upheld and a cornerstone of premillennial eschatology. Even though that coming of Christ is in direct contradiction of this cool kids club that Jews are apart of. Not to mention, modern Jews are not Old Testament Jews. The post-Second Temple destruction, Talmudic Jew is not a son of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Christians are. The constant admixture of foreign blood, the worship of the letter of Levitical law than the spirit of the law that Christ exposited is all in contradiction to the Truth. The Jews carried the Truth pre-Christ (God’s Chosen), and no longer are somehow owed fealty by Christians.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John beareth witness of him, and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me, is preferred before me: because he was before me.
Gospel of John 1:11-15
This is the Crux. This is why judaizing was dispelled by Paul. This is why overtime, the Jew has not stayed dedicated to even the Torah, but post-Christ gnostic texts that deny the Trinity, and this is why they intermixed and accepted converts. They are no longer bearing the Truth.
But if one is to take the Bible and read it to their own heart’s desire, they will fancy themselves a Jew, just as so many did after Christ’s Resurrection.
And in this the creation of the State of Israel is the manifestation of the ultimate rebellion against God. Not created by men who ran from the Church, but even worse, by men who have run from Christ.
Due to this, I must profess that the following is just my own specific interpretation of events that I am eager to see rebuked by the Church. So all I have to say is simple speculation. Maybe even conjecture, but it is just an itch that needs to be scratched.
The breaking out of a war between Hamas and Israel is very telling of what is to come for Israel and the obsessive bastardization of truth made by cocky Prots. It is an idol and a dangerous creation that could only end in the needless deaths and displacement of so many. The millions of Jews who moved there over the course of several decades, and the West’s institution and protection of this artificial state could and must end in its collapse. As I said, Jews are not really Jews. Their state is a manifestation of the West’s own insecurity in dealing with the Jewish problem throughout history — in a paradigm where there is no way to point them out as a problem, but a persecuted minority group in need of a constant nurturing and tender care. It’s as if they are a gypsy group with VIP status.
It is only appropriate that God — as in Logos — would bring down the lies and evils that permeate the existence of this state and its troubled relationship with Palestine and the world. All sin is dealt with in an appropriate way relative to the situation, and Logos will rise and restore what is untrue perpetually.
This is why the put upon nationalism of Israel, and likewise the rest of the world, will fall to the narcissism it outputs, and the people it supposedly stands up for more than the Church. The state is a vital part of the Body of Christ, and has a duty to carry the Cross, but it has no place in projecting an insecure self-conception of identity that goes above the Church. This is why when push comes to shove, the nationalist and white supremacist can’t help but be pro-Israel. Israel is the manifestation of the nationalist aspect of liberalism. Ethnonarcissism, rapaciousness towards non-Jews, and state seniority.
Logically, the right will have a lot of soul-searching and growing pains as it insists on setting Christ to the side and making him just an auxiliary adjective to ensure that their branding is marketable. As I have pointed out, the darlings of the Dissident Right almost never mention the exclusive importance of Christianity as the forefront of society. It is given little mention. That is the logical end to rightism as it is just a liberal school of thought in the first place. It is, by definition, rebellious and disobedient. It wants to destroy. It wants to minimize. Its forebearers treat current events as some arbitrage, as something they can leverage later on against their enemies. They talk and act like sophistic psychopaths wanting power more than closeness to God.
When push comes to shove they will be a pro-Israel as possible, because to not be, would contradict their nationalist religion. They have no moral indignation to act as firepower.
Israel really is the elite theorist’s wet dream. A rapacious, ethnonarcissist government led by a patronage network that oppresses dissidents and rewards friends. Being good-natured is an obstacle to gaining muh power.
Everything goes back to:
“The greatest CRIME of the modern period was teaching the VILLAGE IDIOT and his descendants to READ.”
Coda
It is vital to the Christian to avoid false prophecy, esoteric gnosticism, ethnonarcissism, and judaizing. All of these characteristics are embodied by the State of Israel, and in rejecting those evils, one must reject the continuation of this state that will only lead to worse bloodshed and displacement.
However, what’s done has been done. When Israel does collapse at some point, the dispensationalist Judeo-Christian will be sent back to the drawing board, likely conversion to Catholicism, as the persistent obsessive-compulsive Prot qabala is doomed to desolation as it personifies the essential embracement of rebellion and disobedience as a means to an ends for the glorification of God — which is beyond twisted.
It is likely I have no judaizing Prot followers. I am quite friendly with many Prots, and have no ill-will towards them — let alone the ones who are very lost. It is just hard not to see the direct correlation with this deeply misunderstood hermeneutical approach to the Word of God which leads to much unneeded dismay in this world, and worship of false idols and events that will never come.
”If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.”
Henry Kissinger
Common Ouros W. I’m late to the party but I just listened to your interview with EMJ and enjoyed it.
Side note: I’m reading Francisco Franco’s biography. I was never taught about him in school (probably because Spain didn’t get involved with WW2.) What do you think of his pro-Catholic anti-communist regime?