Unauthorized Christians For Israel Tour

This is unreal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Hey, I’m a Christian, and I’m well-versed in this End Times stuff, but something about this does not ring true for me.

From the synopsis of the video:

On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby. Hagee and his minions have forged close ties with the Bush White House and members of Congress from Sen. Joseph Lieberman to Sen. John McCain. In its call for a unilateral military attack on Iran and the expansion of Israeli territory, CUFI has found unwavering encouragement from traditional pro-Israel groups like AIPAC and elements of the Israeli government.

But CUFI has an ulterior agenda: its support for Israel derives from the belief of Hagee and his flock that Jesus will return to Jerusalem after the battle of Armageddon and cleanse the earth of evil. In the end, all the non-believers - Jews, Muslims, Hindus, mainline Christians, etc. - must convert or suffer the torture of eternal damnation.

So, in John Hagee’s view, Christians will judge the nations, and the world will either convert or go to hell.

The typical end-times eschatology goes like this:

1. The Rapture happens. In the ‘twinkling of an eye’, all the believers worldwide will disappear.
2. The Antichrist appears - without all those praying Christians to oppose him, the Antichrist consolidates global power and hails in a New World Order.
3. Tribulation begins - About halfway through, the Antichrist sets himself up as God and takes up residence in a newly built Temple on the mount, and declares that all ‘residual Christians’ be wiped out. These Christians are those who converted after seeing their friends and families taken up into the clouds.
4. To weed the Christians out, the Antichrist sets up a global, cashless society. nobody can buy or sell unless they have something called “The Mark”, which is usually taken to be a microchip. A true Christian will not accept this Mark, for it seals one’s eternal damnation in hell.
5. God rains down bowl after bowl of wrath on mankind, and those who accepted the mark will be persecuted. those who didn’t accept it, while still open to persecution, will be relatively immune from judgement.
6. At the end of the seven years, the Antichrist decides to have a grand finale in the valley of Armageddon. he brings all the world’s armies there to try to stop the second coming of Christ. Jesus appears in the clouds with all those raptured Christians, and they basically yell out “convert or die!’.
7. After killing off all the non-believers and binding Satan in Hell, Jesus takes up residence as king of New Jerusalem, which is not the actual Jerusalem, but some UFO-like floating cube, or a multi-player online game (click those two for a whole other rabbit trail). He reigns for 1,000 years,then lets Satan out for one last hurrah before totally erasing evil from existence.

My End Times eschatology goes like this:

1. Members of the global elite, together with organizations like Hagee’s, try to turn the end times clock faster, so that Jesus comes sooner (or at least appears to). The global elite want to stage a false second coming of Christ, using a patsy (fall guy) Antichrist, and the Evangelical Christians are useful idiots in this agenda (Matt 24:24).

2. The Rapture does not happen as planned, yet a man who looks like the Antichrist appears. Christians change their views from pre-tribulation rapture (the default view) to mid-tribulation rapture, or abandon it altogether.

3. The real Antichrist saves the world from a patsy, or fally-guy Antichrist, and suckers the Christians into believing he is the Messiah. He stages a mock Armageddon battle and uses something like the Project Blue Beam technology to make this Maitreya guy appear in the sky. He gathers all Christians to Jerusalem and proceeds to implement a depopulation agenda of the planet. Using technologies one only hears about when reading the Disclosure Project, he performs false miracles. He makes things appear in the sky, and cures people of diseases.

In effect, the end-times Antichrist implements the script so well, and since he speaks to the mind-control programming already instilled in Christians through the Left Behind series, even ‘the elect’ fall for it.

Maybe I should write a book about this. It’s not totally flayed out.