By Antonio C. Abaya
The world seems to be falling apart. A financial tsunami has been gathering momentum since the sub-prime mortgage industry in the US unraveled in July 2007, and now that tsunami threatens to devastate the entire banking and financial sectors of the capitalist system..
At the same time, natural disasters in the natural world seem to be increasing in both frequency and ferocity as earthquakes come one after another – Japan, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Iran in recent weeks - and hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones – different names for the same phenomena – cut swaths of death and destruction across Cuba, Haiti, the US, Taiwan, China, India and the Philippines.
And looming in the horizon is the threat of a wider war in the Middle East, especially if the Republican team, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, were to win in the Nov. 4 US presidential elections. Even at his lowest approval rating (28 percent), President George W. Bush has always enjoyed the support of the Christian Evangelicals, who see him as God’s agent in the evolving drama in the Middle East.
The choice of Sarah Palin – who is a Christian Evangelical – as the running mate of John McCain has energized the Christian Evangelical base of the Republican Party and there is a distinct possibility that the Republicans will win in November, bolstered by the Evangelicals’ belief that war in Iraq and the Middle East is, as Palin puts it, “part of God’s plan.”.
The other part of God’s plan, according to Christian Evangelicals, is the resulting destruction of Israel, biblically foretold in the Book of Revelations and therefore divinely ordained, from which 144,000 male Jews will be spared, who will convert to Christianity. This will be the signal for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as I have mentioned several times in this space.
Click Christian Evangelicals the End Days Armageddon John Hagee on Yahoo or Google search engines and you will access thousands of articles such the following excerpts::
JewsOnFirst.org: “Christian Zionists continue their agitation for attacking Iran as a way to hasten Armageddon, the end times. And the most prominent Jewish organizations continue to embrace Christian Zionists as supporters of Israel, which Christian Zionists believe will herald the end-times return of Jesus…”
Beliefnet.com: “While only 36 percent of all Americans believe that the Bible is God’s Word and should be taken literally, 59 percent say they believe that events predicted in the Book of Revelations will come to pass. Almost one of four Americans believes that 9/11 was predicted in the Bible, and nearly one in five believes that he or she will live long enough to see the end of the world. Millions of Americans believe that the Bible predicts the future of the world and that we are living in the last days….”
Evangelicalright.com:” John Hagee and his minions have forged ties with the Bush White House and members of Congress, from Sen. Joseph Lieberman to Sen. John McCain. In its call for a unilateral attack on Iran and the expansion of Israeli territory…..the Christians United for Israel has an ulterior agenda: its support for Israel derives from the belief of Hagee and his flock that Jesus will return to Jerusalem after the battle of Armageddon and cleanse the earth of evil. In the end, all non-believers – Jews, Muslims, Hindus, mainstream Christians, etc – must convert or suffer the torture of eternal damnation….”
John Hagee: When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven….”
New York Times, Nov. 14, 2006: “For Evangelicals, supporting Israel is God’s foreign policy….”
Grace Haskill in her book Christian Zionism: “What Israel wants is what God wants…”
Gary North: “Supporting war and chaos in the Middle East is God’s will so that good Christians (and Jews who convert to Christianity) can go to Heaven without dying…”
Tens of millions of voting-age Americans really believe this, as do tens of millions of non-Americans around the world, including the Philippines, who subscribe to the ideology of the End Days and the blissful deliverance of Rapture.
The neo-cons led by VP Dick Cheney do not necessarily believe in what the Christian Evangelicals believe in – they are actually advised by think tanks made up largely of Jewish intellectuals - but they share a common goal: US military control of the Middle East (and its oil) and benefit from the intense beliefs and political clout of their allies.
On the other hand, Barack Obama may be the darling of the liberals, but he has no counter-argument to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Since we in the Philippines are half a world away from Jerusalem and the Middle East, how do we participate in the End Days and how do we witness the Second Coming? Will it be on CNN or the BBC or al-Jazeera?
Does it mean that Armageddon, the final battle between Good and Evil, will also be fought in the Liguasan Marsh, perhaps between rogue Kumanders Kato and Bravo of the MILF and the very last C-130 Hercules of the Philippine Air Force?
As the only Christian and Catholic country in Asia, don’t we Filipinos get some kind of special End Days dispensation, especially since our very own leader assures us that she was put in the presidency by no less than the Lord Himself?
And especially since, as one parochial Filipino writer recently assured us, we Filipinos are God’s Chosen People? Never mind the Jews. They will be wiped out anyway.
As for the promise that the world will be cleansed of evil, does it mean that Malacanang, the Batasan, the Senate, the Court of Appeals, the Office of the Ombudsman, the LTA Building, the GSIS, the Pagcor, the ATO, the Bureau of Customs, Port Irene, the BIR, the Immigration Bureau, the PNP, the AFP Logistics Command, Sulpicio Lines, the DOTC, the DPWH, the DILG, the MMDA, the Post Office, the Department of Agriculture, Philhealth, the pre-Melo Comelec, Neri’s NEDA, a certain resthouse in Tanay, Ben’s Hamborjer joint in Wacky Wacky and Imelda’s hideaway…..will all be reduced to ashes soon?
If the answer is yes, I say, “Let the End begin!” Gloria in excelsis Deo. May she stay there forever, in saecula saeculorum, with or without a constitutional amendment.. *****
Reactions to tonyabaya@gmail.com. Other articles in acabaya.blogspot.com. Tony on YouTube in www.tapatt.org.
The world seems to be falling apart. A financial tsunami has been gathering momentum since the sub-prime mortgage industry in the US unraveled in July 2007, and now that tsunami threatens to devastate the entire banking and financial sectors of the capitalist system..
At the same time, natural disasters in the natural world seem to be increasing in both frequency and ferocity as earthquakes come one after another – Japan, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Iran in recent weeks - and hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones – different names for the same phenomena – cut swaths of death and destruction across Cuba, Haiti, the US, Taiwan, China, India and the Philippines.
And looming in the horizon is the threat of a wider war in the Middle East, especially if the Republican team, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, were to win in the Nov. 4 US presidential elections. Even at his lowest approval rating (28 percent), President George W. Bush has always enjoyed the support of the Christian Evangelicals, who see him as God’s agent in the evolving drama in the Middle East.
The choice of Sarah Palin – who is a Christian Evangelical – as the running mate of John McCain has energized the Christian Evangelical base of the Republican Party and there is a distinct possibility that the Republicans will win in November, bolstered by the Evangelicals’ belief that war in Iraq and the Middle East is, as Palin puts it, “part of God’s plan.”.
The other part of God’s plan, according to Christian Evangelicals, is the resulting destruction of Israel, biblically foretold in the Book of Revelations and therefore divinely ordained, from which 144,000 male Jews will be spared, who will convert to Christianity. This will be the signal for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as I have mentioned several times in this space.
Click Christian Evangelicals the End Days Armageddon John Hagee on Yahoo or Google search engines and you will access thousands of articles such the following excerpts::
JewsOnFirst.org: “Christian Zionists continue their agitation for attacking Iran as a way to hasten Armageddon, the end times. And the most prominent Jewish organizations continue to embrace Christian Zionists as supporters of Israel, which Christian Zionists believe will herald the end-times return of Jesus…”
Beliefnet.com: “While only 36 percent of all Americans believe that the Bible is God’s Word and should be taken literally, 59 percent say they believe that events predicted in the Book of Revelations will come to pass. Almost one of four Americans believes that 9/11 was predicted in the Bible, and nearly one in five believes that he or she will live long enough to see the end of the world. Millions of Americans believe that the Bible predicts the future of the world and that we are living in the last days….”
Evangelicalright.com:” John Hagee and his minions have forged ties with the Bush White House and members of Congress, from Sen. Joseph Lieberman to Sen. John McCain. In its call for a unilateral attack on Iran and the expansion of Israeli territory…..the Christians United for Israel has an ulterior agenda: its support for Israel derives from the belief of Hagee and his flock that Jesus will return to Jerusalem after the battle of Armageddon and cleanse the earth of evil. In the end, all non-believers – Jews, Muslims, Hindus, mainstream Christians, etc – must convert or suffer the torture of eternal damnation….”
John Hagee: When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven….”
New York Times, Nov. 14, 2006: “For Evangelicals, supporting Israel is God’s foreign policy….”
Grace Haskill in her book Christian Zionism: “What Israel wants is what God wants…”
Gary North: “Supporting war and chaos in the Middle East is God’s will so that good Christians (and Jews who convert to Christianity) can go to Heaven without dying…”
Tens of millions of voting-age Americans really believe this, as do tens of millions of non-Americans around the world, including the Philippines, who subscribe to the ideology of the End Days and the blissful deliverance of Rapture.
The neo-cons led by VP Dick Cheney do not necessarily believe in what the Christian Evangelicals believe in – they are actually advised by think tanks made up largely of Jewish intellectuals - but they share a common goal: US military control of the Middle East (and its oil) and benefit from the intense beliefs and political clout of their allies.
On the other hand, Barack Obama may be the darling of the liberals, but he has no counter-argument to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Since we in the Philippines are half a world away from Jerusalem and the Middle East, how do we participate in the End Days and how do we witness the Second Coming? Will it be on CNN or the BBC or al-Jazeera?
Does it mean that Armageddon, the final battle between Good and Evil, will also be fought in the Liguasan Marsh, perhaps between rogue Kumanders Kato and Bravo of the MILF and the very last C-130 Hercules of the Philippine Air Force?
As the only Christian and Catholic country in Asia, don’t we Filipinos get some kind of special End Days dispensation, especially since our very own leader assures us that she was put in the presidency by no less than the Lord Himself?
And especially since, as one parochial Filipino writer recently assured us, we Filipinos are God’s Chosen People? Never mind the Jews. They will be wiped out anyway.
As for the promise that the world will be cleansed of evil, does it mean that Malacanang, the Batasan, the Senate, the Court of Appeals, the Office of the Ombudsman, the LTA Building, the GSIS, the Pagcor, the ATO, the Bureau of Customs, Port Irene, the BIR, the Immigration Bureau, the PNP, the AFP Logistics Command, Sulpicio Lines, the DOTC, the DPWH, the DILG, the MMDA, the Post Office, the Department of Agriculture, Philhealth, the pre-Melo Comelec, Neri’s NEDA, a certain resthouse in Tanay, Ben’s Hamborjer joint in Wacky Wacky and Imelda’s hideaway…..will all be reduced to ashes soon?
If the answer is yes, I say, “Let the End begin!” Gloria in excelsis Deo. May she stay there forever, in saecula saeculorum, with or without a constitutional amendment.. *****
Reactions to tonyabaya@gmail.com. Other articles in acabaya.blogspot.com. Tony on YouTube in www.tapatt.org.
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