Jews, Arabs and Entangling Alliances
As long as I can remember the Arabs and the Jews have been fighting in the Middle East. I can remember as a kid watching President Carter hosting Begin and Sadat as part of the Camp David accords. Supposedly, that summit was to bring a long lasting peace to the region. Of course, it didn’t work. The fighting and squabbling has continued over the past 30 years. When I was a small child, I was attended a fundamentalist Baptist Church and school. The Church preached a dispensationalist theology. This theology basically claimed that we were living in the End Times and the Rapture would happen soon. I remember my third grade teacher telling us that while the bicentennial was approaching, it would not matter as Jesus was sure to come before 1976! I remember reading Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth. This book was basically Dispensational pornography. It told of coming plagues, rivers of blood, marks of the beast and other stuff that I found cool as a young boy. Church might have ...