A STRONG DELUSION
But another phenomenon has also crept out of the Abyss and into the daylight: denial, equivocation, and even gleeful, public celebration of barbaric acts against Jews. These things haven't just come from the voices of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the ayatollahs in Iran. They have come from the streets of Istanbul, London, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They have come from university campuses and city squares. Instead of a global outpouring of love and support, the global Jewish community is confronted with a renewed surge of antisemitic anger and violence that has targeted their shops, their homes, and their schools. Simply put, they have become the targets of a delusion.
TERRORISTS, RACISTS, & ANTISEMITES: AN OPEN LETTER ON BEING A DECENT HUMAN BEING
At the end of the day, social media doesn’t matter. It is here today and gone tomorrow. But “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks,” and our feeds have become a proverbial reflection of our priorities. I wish I could say I am surprised to see the “social justice warriors” online silent in the aftermath of this terrorist attack. I wish I could say I am surprised that very few news outlets are willing to use appropriate language to call it what it is. I wish I could say I am surprised that any show of support or sympathy for Israel in these days is partitioned with qualifying caveats because “the Israel-Palestine situation is complex.”
Unfortunately, I am not surprised. As Joel Richardson quoted historian Robert Wistrich in The Great Rage, looking into the obscenity that is the Holocaust is like “staring into a black abyss, and hoping it doesn’t stare back.” But to our horror, that black abyss is not simply staring back. It is crawling out from the depths and coming to life through the hands and feet of entities like Hamas. Like Hezbollah. Like the Iranian regime. And in the same way the Nazis were opposed by too few, these monsters in our day are not facing even a fraction of the opposition they deserve.
It is not difficult to be a decent human being. The bar is getting lower and lower. This week is a golden opportunity to meet it.
THE CENTRALITY OF JERUSALEM IN THE ETERNAL PURPOSES OF GOD
The glory of the Gentiles brought into obedience to Jesus is to not only receive the mercy of salvation to call upon the name of the God of Israel, but to cultivate the mature faith of the Canaanite mother and burden of the apostolic father, that it we could find ourselves in this same reflection: “Behold, Jesus Christ still weeping over Jerusalem through the eyes of Paul.”
THE SINGULAR GOSPEL
ACCUSATIONS, APARTHEID, AND ACHOR
What will the just Judge do with the worst of Jacob? What if all these horrible accusations against the people and nation of Israel were true? How would that bear upon the promises and provisions of the Everlasting Covenant? Stephanie Quick explores the prophetic texts to ask what God will do with Israel, even if she is indeed an apartheid state.
ON ZEAL AND ZIONISM
“The LORD is zealous for Zion with great zeal," and thus there is a Zionism that is not carnal. Join Stephanie Quick and FAI for a family fireside chat to find the zeal of the Lord for Zion that produces a sanctified solidarity with Israel and jealousy that the King of the Jews be known, adored, and obeyed in the nations.
ROCKETS, GIANTS, AND BOOZE
The cup of staggering, cup of stupor, is engineered to push us into the God of the Everlasting Covenant, the One who died to kill the carnality in us—because nothing of the flesh will survive eternity. In this era of rocket fury and the drunken stupor saturating social media, guard your heart. The only Goliath is the antichristic spirit that opposes the eternal purposes of God bound up in the everlasting covenant.
