As the world watches, Israel and Iran are squaring off for a potential war. Meanwhile, a Texas evangelical preacher, who runs the biggest Christian Zionist group in the world, is cheering on the coming apocalypse—as predicted in his 2005 book, Jerusalem Countdown. John Hagee even flew to DC to persuade Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to jam through another military aid package.
Julian examines the real-world significance of conflicting religious prophecies focused on one particular piece of real estate in East Jerusalem as the “shoreline of eternity”—the portal into God’s Kingdom.
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You are my battle axe and weapon of war, for with you I will break the nations in pieces, and with you I will destroy kingdoms.
I want to read that text also from the New American Standard Bible.
God says to Israel, you are my war club.
My weapon of war and with you I will shatter nations and with you I will destroy kingdoms.
In this sermon today, I'm going to tell you of the love of God for Israel and the Jewish people.
I'm going to tell you the debt of gratitude that every Christian owes to the Jewish people.
I'm going to tell you the horror that the Jewish people lived through for 1,800 years and why they are fearful and suspicious of Christians to this day.
What will be the end of the Russian Empire and the end of China that's causing the world so much crisis?
And where will you end?
You want to hear this sermon today?
Stay tuned.
That's American pastor John Hagee speaking on September 11th of this year.
He's the leader of CUFI, or Christians United for Israel.
That organization was officially incorporated in 2006, but Hagee had to get permission to use the name, as it originally belonged to an initiative founded by someone else in 1975.
That aside, between 2006 and 2012, membership of CUFI grew to one million.
It was at 5 million six years later in 2018.
Today, another six years later, with over 10 million members, it's the largest Zionist group in the US, dwarfing the much more publicly criticized AIPAC's 3 million members.
Hagee is the author of multiple books that unpack his end-times Christianity.
His 2007 title, Jerusalem Countdown, details how a coming nuclear war between Iran and Israel will signal that the return of Jesus and the rapture of his church is close at hand.
That book was recently updated in light of the events of the last month or so, with the Amazon description headline now being, WW3 has begun.
And as an exclamation point after that, he seems pleased.
Jerusalem is the shoreline of eternity.
What does that mean?
That means everything that's going to happen from this point forward in world history is going to happen and start with Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is the epicenter of planet Earth.
That's why the Bible says pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
That is not a request.
I'm Julian Walker, and this is a Conspirituality Bonus episode titled The Apocalyptic Portal. and this is a Conspirituality Bonus episode titled The Apocalyptic Of course, this is all intensely topical right now with the region on a knife's edge.
I started writing this the week after Israel's exploding pager and walkie-talkie operations decimated Hezbollah's leadership, and speculation about Iranian retribution was high.
In the time since, Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed, and Israel's Iron Dome has weathered the storm of over 180 ballistic missiles incoming from Iran.
Full-scale war seems highly probable, with Israel vowing to strike back against Iran in a severe, and they say, surprising way.
There are, of course, then implications for America squaring off against Russia in each of their allies' corners, too, in this conflict.
Paradoxically, this is actually exciting for those with an apocalypse fetish.
It sets events in motion that are imbued with auspicious cosmic significance, or so they believe.
Now, not only Ismail Haniyeh, but his successor and the architect of the October 7th attacks, Yahya Sinwa, has been killed as well.
And, as of yesterday morning, insiders are saying that Israel is ready to deliver their response to Iran's missile attack.
It's October 18th today, 2024.
In terms of our focus here at Conspiratuality, I want to start this by saying that end times prophecy interpretation of the Bible as a way to understand current events is deeply resonant with conspiracy logic.
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