Jordan’s FM Rejects Recognizing Israel as Jewish State

Jordan’s Foreign Minister said Sunday that he was against recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, the Jordanian website Ammon News reports.

The minister, Nasser Judeh, also rejected the idea of Jordan being an alternative home for Palestinian Arabs. …

Agree with the over scheme of things you’re discussing, from your perspective, and perhaps you’ve got it a lot more nailed down that I do.

The Palestinians have caused just about everyone who wanted to help them, to get angry and cast them out.

As you mentioned, Jordan did. So did Lebanon. I believe there have been others too. The Palestinians haven’t found happiness anywhere. Perhaps this is because they were treated unfairly, but my take on it is that what most folks think is an ardent hatred for the Israelis, seems more at time to be a manifestation of what they sooner or later think of everyone they have to work with.

It’s always the other guys fault. The Palestinians always play themselves off as the persecuted ones.

I don’t buy into it

Didn’t Camping pass from this mortal coil finally? But not until God had an earthly laugh at him by granting him a ripe old age.

Personally, I feel the gospel has gotten short shrift, because folks assume it is no more powerful than our relatively wimpy modern churches. I think that when the church accepted an invitation to take over a government it embraced a factor that was destined to make it mediocre. It garnered that church a nicer society to live in, all right. But it also dumbed down the concept of Christian.

God’s clock may still have more time on it than we think. America looks very well like it could be an example of what happens when institutionalized Christianity gets jettisoned. The spiritual and moral vacuum WILL end up getting filled. HOW it is filled will involve evangelism, but it won’t look like the warped evangelism of yesteryear that basically hectored believing Christians to be more Christian lest they go to hell when they die (and a false premise, I now hold it to be, on biblical grounds). It will look like evangelism to rank unbelievers, starting from ground zero, with almost no pre-existing biblical knowledge that can be counted upon.

With Muslims, the battle of bible vs. Koran has its work cut out for it. God bless the few, staunch Christian missionaries to Islam. They will have to help lead the way. It would need to be an effort that lasts for generations.

Didn’t Camping pass from this mortal coil finally? But not until God had an earthly laugh at him by granting him a ripe old age.

Yes he did, but I did not know it till you mentioned it. I try not to throw the baby out with the bath water, as Walter Martin used to say. I talked to Walter Martin 3 different times on the Bible Answer Man. One time he said over the air, next we have Mark from Travis Air Force Base. He asked me if I was career military. Camping did say something I would agree with now and then. I listened mostly for the old fashioned Gospel music, that is lacking on other Christian stations. There was another guy that agreed with Camping on the 2nd coming, named Gunther Von Haringa senior. I have not heard anything from him either, since it was a false prediction.

Well, there sure is no lack of apprehension of a heavenly recall of earth’s Christians today.

The problem I see with a lot of these apprehensions is that they seem to lack a sense of perspective. Is America, the world’s largest display of the gospel to date, having obvious troubles with evil? Yes. Has it become Sodom? No. (Check Abraham’s arithmetic, for one thing.)

Also, happily, the troubles seem to be rousing Christendom out of its complacency. The bible seems to suggest that the actual rapture will come at a time of great complacency and little faith. (”Peace and safety.”) The worries, ironically, are part of God’s proof that the worries are, as yet, unnecessary.

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