Thursday Evening Blog with Pastor Williams (March)
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by TADCCBLOG
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All of the bluster currently in Congress will not impede what God has given President Bush to do. While praying to the Heavenly Father through His Son Christ Jesus, I asked the question “why did George Bush win the election.” The response, “He has to finish what he started”. I do not know if it means the information currently reported to us in the media, or some other agenda that we are not aware of. Whatever it is, God’s plan has to be completed.
As Abraham Lincoln responded to the question of whose side God is on during the Civil War when both sides were praying to God, God is on the side of right. Right or righteousness is determined by God’s will for mankind, the acknowledgement of Christ Jesus as the Son of God and respect for life. The Islamic terrorist by their very deeds and beliefs exempt themselves from righteousness.
What is terrorism? Encarta defines terrorism as political violence: violence or the threat of violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political purposes. The United Nations in 1997 issued this statement related to terrorism. “The Convention applies to the offence of the intentional and unlawful delivery, placement, discharge or detonation of an explosive or other lethal device, whether attempted or actual, in, into or against a place of public use, a State or government facility, a public transportation system or an infrastructure facility, with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or extensive destruction likely to or actually resulting in major economic loss.”
Because these attacks or attempted attacks are against sovereign nations, e.g., Israel, United States, etc., many believe these attacks or threats of attacks are for political reasons. Many people and nations refuse to discuss the real reason behind the Islamic terrorist because the Islamic terrorists have been linked with other terrorists. However these terrorists are different in they do not have a single nationality or a single homeland they are seeking. Instead the Islamic terrorist are joined together by philosophy, religion and intimidation.
This is an enemy unknown to nations. Most wars are fought over ethnicity, land and money. However the war against Islamic terror does not fit these categories. Muslims are of different ethnic groups. Africans, Arabs and Europeans have all participated in some form of Islamic terrorism. They do not have a land that they are defending. Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Indonesia are countries controlled by Muslims but yet they have suffered terrorists attacks. Money is not the answer because rewards of up to $25 million for the capture of terrorist leaders have gone unclaimed while many of the perpetrators of terrorism live in abject poverty.
What then is the cause of Islamic terrorism? The root cause is steeped in the legitimacy of one religion versue another. Many claim that all religions lead to God. There is nothing further from the truth. The extremists on either end of Zionism and Islam know that the crux of their religion is dependent upon the elimination of the other.
God in Genesis chapters 12 through fifteen tells Abraham that his Seed is to totally dominate and possess all of Palestine/Philistine or the Promised Land. Joel 3:2 states that God will punish the people that divide up the Promised Land. Therefore for the Jew it is important that he reclaim all of the Promised Land if he wants to be obedient to God.
For the Muslim who believes that Islam will be the only religion in the world. All inhabitants of the earth will become Muslims. The President of Iran believes this and awaits a great conflagration in Iraq to usher in the Mahdi. In Islam thought the Mahdi is the person that will usher in universal Islam, some believe with the help of Isa (who some Muslims call Jesus).
The one thorn in the side of Muslims is Israel. Israel is the lone Jewish state surrounded by Muslim state in the Middle East. How can Islam possibly claim superiority of the world when they cannot eradicate Israel. In 1967 the surrounding Muslim nations started a war against Israel. Israel won this war in 6 days and captured all of Jerusalem. However, because of the agreement that allowed Israel to become a nation in 1947 that established its boundaries, Israel was pressured by the United Nations to return partial control of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
This is why the Muslim nations so detest Israel. Israel is a constant reminder to them that their religion is inferior to the God of the universe. And this is also why they hate the United States of America due to our military support of Israel.
One more thing to consider. In Ezekiel 36 God Almighty states that the reason He will regather Israel from the four corners of the World to re-establish them is only for His Name sake. As a matter of fact, God said He would rejoice in their destruction if they did not obey Him. Therefore the regathering of Israel and their protection is to prove to the World that God is God and it is not due to some special priviledge Israel has.
After all, in Galatians 3, Paul state that the Seed of Abraham through all the World would be blessed in none other than our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Therefore the promise is to whoever receives the Seed.