By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
A CAIRNS New reader alerted us to a video reposted by David Icke, of a Jewish rabbi, speaking about the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The rabbi (left) who is not identified, makes some highly presumptuous claims, firstly that Trump’s ear injury was Trump being “marked by God” in the same manner of a servant among the biblical Hebrews who has his ear pierced to signify his willingness to be a permanent servant and not be set free as allowed for under Mosaic law.
As stated by the rabbi, the act is referenced in Exodus 21:5-6 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’ then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.”
This notion has been circulated around the internet, particuarly among the Christian community. It is pure conjecture in the context of prophetic symbolism in scripture. You can take it or leave it. The rabbi claims it as God’s divine work, but the Butler incident it looks more like a satanic scheme to assassinate, thwarted by the grace of God – as many believe.
Others are calling it a complete set-up, a fake, spinning quite rabid tales about the blood on Trump’s face being satanic masonic symbolism of a serpent’s tongue while recent photos appear to show the ear to be completely healed. So this face painting was all done covertly with Trump on the floor behind a dias surrounded by Secret Service agents. We’ll leave that one with them for now.
The rabbi also notes the Butler shooting happened on the Shabbat, Saturday, July 13th yet it’s also known that satanists use that number and name for their purposes. The rabbi might be advised to look a little deeper into the dark side of his own religion that takes its authority from the Talmud, which contains blasphemously anti-Christ teachings.
The rabbi also paints Trump as a non-Jewish Messiah and as a Cyrus, the Old Testament liberator of the Jews held in Babylonia. In fact that is a slight twist of a claim made before Trump’s election by the Christian author Lance Walnau, who described Trump as a Cyrus on a mission to re-establish America’s foundational Christian roots.
Wallnau, who is typically pro-Israel like most American Christians, was not claiming Trump to be a Christian, but rather, like Cyrus, to be a Gentile and outsider and in political terms, a wrecking ball. Trump was certainly not a member of the Republican “Christian club”, but outspokenly supportive of the American Christians.
Trump, being raised in New York business and political circles, lived and moved amongst the city’s Jewish elite and quite naturally, is pro-Israel. But Trump has made it clear that he is pro-America and anti-globalist. He’s not an average Republican or Democrat congressman or senator who lives in terror of being blacklisted by AIPAC.
Zionism is globalism, as was once made abundantly clear by former Israeli Prime Minister David ben Gurion, in an article published in Look magazine of January 16, 1962, in which Ben Gurion predicts the development of a global system of government with its capital in Jerusalem, a world police force and Supreme Court of Mankind (see inset).
Our featured rabbi also proposes the Ben Gurion globalist scenario, adding that he expects Messiah to rule the nations from Jerusalem with a new United Nations. He also tips Trump to pay homage to the Messiah.
Very early in his term, in May 2017, Trump spoke at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of his strategy to bring about the Abrahamic Accords. This was not the action of a rabid Zionist hater of Arabs, it was a genuine effort to bring reconciliation between the US and the Moslem world.
Cynics of course would point to Trump’s family doing business with the Saudis, but to think that was the entire driving force of Trump’s outreach to the Moslem world would be trite and small minded. Trump doesn’t need to be president to do business with the Saudis, and being president places restrictions on what business he can and can’t do. And how many presidents, we might ask, don’t take the salary and donate it to charity?
Cynics who also call Trump a Zionist would also point to his moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem in accordance with the wishes of the Israelis. The proposal brought warnings that it would spark Armageddon. But Trump did it anyway (on a small budget) and nothing happened.
But back to our rabbi. His scenario is not only Zionist but Christian dispensationalist, meaning the doctrine established by John Nelson Darby, the leader of the Plymouth Brethren in the 1830s, and published in the Scofield Reference Bible margin notes by the American Cyrus Ingersoll Scofield in 1909. Scofield listed seven dispensations: Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace, and the Kingdom, each suggesting a different response of God to humanity.
It was the Christian dispensationalists who fueled the Zionist movement institutionalised by Theodore Herzl (born 1860), who became the first president of the World Zionist Federation in 1897. Where Christian dispensationalism found its roots is a moot point. Some attribute it to the Jesuits long before Darby and other sources.
The teaching ignores the long known historical fulfilment of biblical prophecy in the 1st Century AD, up to and around the destruction of the Jerusalem temple, the culmination of the three and a half year War of the Jews, as recorded by the historian Josephus and prophesied by Christ in the gospel accounts, most notably Matthew 24.
Dispensationalism puts fulfilment of prophecy into contemporary times, repeatedly predicting during the past century at least “the great tribulation” second coming of Christ and “rapture”. This future second coming ignores Josephus’s and Tacitus’s accounts of the supernatural appearance of a heavenly, angelic army in the clouds in 66AD, which is believed to the second coming event referenced by Jesus in Mark 14:62.
Dispensationalists take the entire passage of Matthew 24, the Book of Revelation and other passages written for the early church and put them all 2000 years into the future and a so-called Millenium or 1000-year reign of Christ on earth. They also divide the church of Jesus Christ from the Jews, directly contradicting the clear New Testament teaching making Jews and Gentiles “one in Christ”, for instance Galatians 3:28.
St Paul himself, a zealous pharisee who persecuted Christians to jail and death, was radically transformed by meeting Christ in a supernatural appearance on the road to Damascus. Paul became the “apostle to the Gentiles” and clearly taught that followers of Christ were the true descendants of Abraham, as did Christ himself.
But dispensationalism argued, with very little scriptural basis, that the biblical Jewish people continued as “God’s chosen” regardless of the New Covenant with their own special purpose that would be fulfilled when they returned to the Promised Land and Messiah appeared again.
This notion of a “separate purpose for Jews” was exactly what the Zionist movement required as its justification and dispensationalist teaching spread like wildfire through US seminaries and churches throughout the entire 20th century.
The declaration of the State of Israel in 1948, which was opposed by a considerable segment of Orthodox Jews even before 1948, was decades later widely hailed as “last days fulfilment of prophecy”, as was the 1967 Three Day War.
Christian dispensationalism or Christian Zionism probably reached its zenith with the publication of Jewish evangelical Hal Lindsey’s book The Late Great Planet Earth, a New York Times best seller, which went on to sell some 20 to 30 million copies over 20 years. The book makes a raft of fanciful geopolitical predictions based on dispensationalist doctrine.
These predictions included a Soviet invasion of Israel – misconstrued from Ezekiel’s prophecies about armies described as “Gog and Magog” – and that the European Economic Community would become a “United States of Europe, then a “Revived Roman Empire” ruled by the Antichrist.
The book was accompanied by a rash of other dispensationalist “end times” books and movies, most notably the “Left Behind” series depicting the so-called rapture, that is the supernatural removal of believers from the earth. This fervour appears to have died a natural death.
One fairly prominent teacher of dispensationalism, Californian pastor Steve Gregg, has spent recent years lecturing against what he previously taught as “Bible prophecy” at Calvary Chapel and exposing not only the flaws in dispensationalism but its dangers.
This teaching has become so widespread in the American churches it has even driven US foreign policy in regard to Israel. Millions of US Christians believe America must “bless Israel or be cursed”, based on a misreading of Genesis 12:3 in regard to Abraham, who is seen as representing Israel, but who in fact represents all people of faith – Jew and Gentile.
In fact the gospel of John, chapter 8, records Christ’s severe denunciation of a group of Jews who claimed to be children of Abraham but who were planning to kill him. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing. You are doing the works of your father…You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires.”
The Jewish rebellion against Christ continued long after the destruction of their temple, as foretold by Christ. The Book of Revelation contains two references attributed to Christ himself, in messages to two of the seven churches of Asia Minor, in regard to satanists claiming to be Jews: “And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan” (ch. 2:9) and “Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead.” (ch. 3:9).
Such historic writings should have been more zealously heeded by the Christian church down through the centuries, but Christians are as susceptible to deception as anyone when leadership is deceived by writings such as those of C.I. Scofield.
Scofield was tutored in his early period after conversion by the Rev. James H. Brookes, pastor of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. Brookes in turn was a friend and student of Darby.
What most of Scofield’s minor biographies miss is his curious association with the New York Lotos Club, a literary gathering, one of whose major patrons was Samuel Untermeyer, a prominent German Jewish lawyer and Zionist.
Another of Scofield’s New York associates, A. C. Gaebelein, was tasked by Scofield to help on the Bible notes. Gabelein was himself a Plymouth Brethren and teacher and distributor of dispensationalist literature.
As noted by biographer Joseph Canfield, in “The Incredible Scofield and His Book”, Scofield eventually achieved the highly unlikely task of signing up Oxford University Press in New York City to print his Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. The publisher was Gaebelein with funding provided by Alwyn Ball, a New York real estate agent. (Canfield, p. 175)
As quite accurately but somewhat understated by Wikipedia: “It was largely through the influence of Scofield’s notes that dispensationalism and premillennialism became influential among fundamentalist Christians in the United States.”
In fact it was not until well after the mass and forced displacement of the Palestinian inhabitants of then Palestine in 1948, the Nakba, that dispensationalism reached its peak. JFK had some serious issues with the Israeli leadership and some attribute them as being heavily involved along with the CIA and the Bush family in Kennedy’s assassination.
