Benjamin Netanyahu - all my one-time admiration has now completely vanished, vamoosed, like the proverbial puff of smoke...admiration, that is, for the man's steely resolve, determination, 'principle(s)' - if of a rather perverse, twisted sort, at least ever since he and his cohorts unleashed criminal barbarity upon the innocents of Gaza (bearing in mind that not all those supposedly targeted there were 'innocents', but surely they bore the brunt of Israel's appalling inhumanity, yes genocide last year)...
...yes, he is nothing less (nor more) than an unregenerate warmonger driving the world, this Planet Earth - at the very least the Middle East (I hear some saying, not such a bad thing either - if that were 'all' it meant, i.e. a regional, 'localized' war - seeing as that region seems the main instigator, the chief culprit in inexorably plunging this globe) - into scenes of bloodshed, slaughter and wanton barbarity not seen since the very depths of the Dark Ages or the two world wars (the Holocaust excepted) themselves...ever more inexorably toward an all-out nuclear *Apocalypse, maybe even global *annihilation itself...the much-fabled *Armageddon of John the beloved's Revelation even.
Oddly enough, almost a cardboard cutout (as in the perverse 'alter ego' as it were) of his 'opposite number'...i.e. Isis - in thus - apparently - believing himself to be the fulfiller (**indeed arguably means of fulfilment) of ancient (doomsday) prophecies (contained in various scriptures)...
And note well the uncanny proximity of his recent 'completely unexpected' (landslide) re-election (victory) to Friday's 'triple whammy' of interstellar events, rare ****solar eclipse included, itself 'recalling' and echoing the biblical 'markers' of unwonted *****'signs in the heavens' *****('sun, moon and stars'), all serving to prefigure the very last days of Earth's rather checkered history, and the ever more imminent Return of the Messiah and associated 'End of the World'...could well and truly send a veritable chill down the spine of any objective observer, any punter out there looking on...
And these 'two' (i.e. Netanyahu and Isis, an odd 'couple' were there ever such) have recently been joined, or rather re-joined, by a third 'co-conspirator', itself no stranger to belief in and firm adherence to biblical prophecy, or moreover the historical enactment/unfolding thereof...i.e. the U.S. Republican 'Right'...no, wrong, which - - would, ******apparently, like nothing else than to (if none too gently) 'help' secure its part in the fulfilment of said biblical prophecies supposedly centering around the nation-state of Israel.
Such inglorious 'part' it has indeed now 'played' in its unprecedented, unbelievable and quite frankly traitorous, treasonous gall - worthy of the most severe criminal penalty in the United States, i.e. the death penalty or capital punishment (*******itself arguably befitting former American Vice-President Richard Chaney and President George W Bush for their respective parts in the Iraq War (#2)...- in seeking an unheard of unWhite House-sanctioned Congressional Address by Israel's leader, and then publicly-repudiating and effectively giving formal notice of future revoking (via an open letter from the US Congress to Netanyahu) President Obama's noble if likely ultimately unavailing efforts to get the Iranians to and around the the nuclear negotiating table...surely not a bad thing in view of the possible, potential, and increasingly glaringly obvious alternative, let alone the Iranians' admirable, commendable efforts of late in constituting one of the biggest bulwarks in the (Iraqi-based) fight-back against Isis...indeed in thus helping drive back (bigtime) the Isis push into Kurdistan... . (Such 'insubordinate' actions, I humbly submit, that were they even proposed much less enacted by a congressional Democratic Party majority opposition to a sitting Republican president - whether of the ilk of 'George W' or otherwise - would meet almost universal opprobrium and condemnation across the U.S. political landscape, yet the Republicans seem likely to emerge completely unscathed by the whole sordid affair.)
But none of these three protagonists/powers that be apparently want peace - even 'at minimal cost' - but rather seem ever so determined - and may I add it's no idle overstatement - in their apparent hell-bent quest (and in uncanny unison) to hurl/jettison this planet to the very edge/precipice of nuclear winter/ destruction...
Yes, indeed, the so-called Doomsday Clock has now well and truly inched a couple seconds, yea even arguably minutes closer to that fateful 'midnight hour' (except that post-9/11 it'd already moved so close to midnight that there haven't been all that many moments left remaining anyhow)...'simply' as a result of their various, criminal, recklessly foolhardy, but oh quite and ever so deliberate...race to oblivion...
May God Almighty help us all - because believe you me, nothing else will...
*Meaning here of course the end of all things, rather than the biblical
book of endings, the aforementioned Book of Revelation, though the term
is often interchanged for the same. Interestingly, all three 'concepts' (though I almost shudder to use
such an abstract term for 'things' with such horrendous yet
oh-so-down-to-earth, practical (and moreover ineradicable) consequences)
of annihilation, Apocalypse and Armageddon used in conjunction remind
me all of a sudden of an ancient biblical prophecy alongside an
'interpretation' of the same in an early 21st Century tome by a
distinguished Jewish author, namely Michael Drosnin's The Bible Code and The Bible Code 2.
To leave a little suspense and surprise for the avid reader, but to
whet his or her appetite for such things, let me simply refer them to
Isaiah 29:1-8, and TBC pp.130-133-135/136. And say that
Jerusalem, Iran, Syria, Libya, and moreover, devastating
(?nuclear-type?) weaponry are all writ large in the particular scenario
depicted, itself enough (though admittedly read two-three years ago now
by myself) to make me reconsider some of the points I've been making in
this blogpost in accusation of Netanyahu at least. And scarily in
synchrony with that deceased 20th Century 'apostle' of prophecy, Herbert
Armstrong, which prophetic view his successors in 'the Church of God'
have been bringing out of late upon their Sunday morning TV slot -
though unfortunately jettisoning his Scriptural teachings on the
Creator's and Redeemer's Seventh-Day Sabbath in a sad attempt to curry
favour with aforementioned 'religious right' American fundamentalists,
who will, for their own part, before all that long I suspect, themselves
help precipitate - with the tacit but hearty blessing and sanction of a
current world leader of no mean repute - not only their own nation, but
the entire globe, into a crisis over religious liberty that will
rapidly divide this world into but two classes: those adhering at all
costs to their Maker and Remaker in upholding an institution whose
origins date back to the Creation itself, and those who choose the easy
way out - whether by actively rebelling against such by deliberately
choosing to trample upon such or by simply acquiescing in such an
ungodly arrangement, by passively merely 'going along, going along,
going along'...with the crowd of humanity.
I'll add one hopeful though nevertheless somewhat realistic caveat to the just aforementioned: that scenario
may well be the outcome for this planet and its inhabitants if the
various 'actors' don't mend their ways, but thankfully, whereas in
biblical prophecy much is conditional upon the response of human beings
both individually and collectively, likewise in the various biblical
codes uncovered by Drosnin & Co over recent years and
decades...there ever seems room for that most inexplicable,
unaccountable element of human life that makes life on Earth so
simultaneously unnerving and exhilarating - so constantly 'predictably
unpredictable': that much-maligned element of human choice/freedom/free
will...
**As so graphically detailed/spelt out in the History Channel's spellbinding and uncannily ***accurate. 'Nostradamus: 2012: Hindsight Is 20/20. Foresight is 2012' - in particular in Parts three and four, 'God Vs Satan: The Final Battle', and Apocalypse: The Puzzle of Revelation'.
***If not in 2012 as the ultimate end-date of history, but then that's
another matter for another discussion...such as I've already discussed,
actually, over two years ago in fact, upon my other blogsite,
http://consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.com/ (or .co.nz/) - in a number of blogposts, in fact...
****In relation to said extremely rare 'blood (red) moons' of
recent times, not only are these - in terms of human observation -
extremely few and far between, exceedingly rare cosmic 'events', there
have been a highly forboding succession of such interstellar 'signs'
since 2012/2013 (I believe)...over the 20th Century associated with such
pivotal historic events as the re-establishment of Israel in Palestine
in 1948 and the re-capturing of Jerusalem in the 1967 War...and last
year (in my view) with the unprecedented events of Israel's bloodthirsty
bombing the hell out of Gaza, which event singlehandedly I would humbly
submit, has itself done more than anything previous and possibly
anything still to come to - rather permanently, I sadly suggest - turn
the world's population and its political leadership decidedly against
Israel and its people.
*****The 'Good Book' itself,
of course, makes numerous mention of such 'signs in the heavens' -
embracing 'sun,.moon and stars'[no doubt including various
interplanetary bodies not only suns like ours] in all manner of places,
both Older Testament and Newer Testament, including - especially - in
the prophetic delineation by Jesus Christ (and his beloved disciple
John) of the final days of Earth's 'His-story'...
******See e.g. their (ofttimes) ideological bedfellows the 'Neo-Conservatives' et al.
*******That is, if one truly, genuinely believes in 'justice', that one law
ought to apply to one and all, to both leaders and 'subjects' etc
etcetera etcetera etcetera - i.e. if one's profession to such noble
virtues is not mere ideological hyperbole, just more empty, vacuous intellectual bombast
and hype.
