{"id":234680,"date":"2024-06-23T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=234680"},"modified":"2024-06-23T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:25:20","slug":"baldwin-and-ritter-predict-the-end-of-christian-zionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=234680","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Baldwin and Ritter Predict The End of (Christian) Zionism!<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Bellingham, WA<br \/>\nJune 22, 2024<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>In a compelling summary of Israel&#8217;s current crisis, former presidential<br \/>\ncandidate and Pastor, Chuck Baldwin, turns to an in depth analysis by<br \/>\nScott Ritter that outlines the pending demise of (Christian) Zionism.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chuckbaldwinlive.com\/Articles\/tabid\/109\/ID\/4587\/Scott-Ritter-The-Zionist-Experiment-Is-Finished.aspx\">https:\/\/chuckbaldwinlive.com\/Articles\/tabid\/109\/ID\/4587\/Scott-Ritter-The-Zionist-Experiment-Is-Finished.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe Ritter&#8217;s insights are highly accurate, especially to the<br \/>\nextent he describes Israel&#8217;s ability to stay on its current course<br \/>\nas being vulnerable to the political realities in the US.<\/p>\n<p>That means, despite the overwhelming support of both parties,<br \/>\nmost of Congress and all three top presidential candidates, the<br \/>\nforces lining up against the Zionist government are about to<br \/>\novertake it&#8230;.arguably in biblical fashion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a must read, including for those who strongly agree with Bibi&#8217;s<br \/>\nOld Testament approach to the conflict. Even if the US were not<br \/>\nsignificantly weakened by its own severe internal problems, the<br \/>\nembrace by Israel&#8217;s leadership of a morally dubious strategy for<br \/>\ncombating the aspirations of the Palestinians created enormous<br \/>\neconomic, political and military problems for the Zionists.<\/p>\n<p>Even ignoring the contentious religious implications that motivates<br \/>\nBaldwin to challenge the belief system of Christian Zionist true<br \/>\nbelievers, the practical considerations outlined by Ritter provide<br \/>\nenough clarity to show why this experiment appears doomed.<\/p>\n<p>We are far from the end to the killing as the momentum of ideology<br \/>\npropels the conflict forward into more death and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>What needs to be emphasized from my perspective is that these<br \/>\npeople are all driven by biblical prophecies which they rely on<br \/>\nto justify their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>(That includes Baldwin as well as other Christians who reject the<br \/>\nHagee interpretation implicit in the Scofield Futurists with its<br \/>\n&#8220;false doctrines of premillennial dispensationalism!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>To me it borders on insanity and reminds me of what Frank Herbert<br \/>\nwrote in Dune: <strong><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s the prophecies that enslave us!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That includes Islam as well as Judaism and Christianity. It probably<br \/>\nincludes the Hindus, too, but the world is not on the brink of extinction<br \/>\nright now based on wars in India but in the Middle East where the<br \/>\nparticipants think it&#8217;s &#8220;Gog and Magog&#8221; versus Israel.<\/p>\n<p>What does seem clear now through the fog of war is that those who chose<br \/>\nto endorse the Zionist agenda in the name of Judaism with support from<br \/>\nfundamentalist Christians are faced with a grim future rather than the<br \/>\npositive End Times vision embedded in their Bibles.<\/p>\n<p>Lurking over the whole discussion is the Samson Option in which Israel<br \/>\nchooses to take down the rest of the world along with itself.<\/p>\n<p>This possibility cannot be ignored in light of the extreme rhetoric of the<br \/>\nZionist Zealots and their actions on October 7th when they deployed the<br \/>\nHannibal Directive against Hamas and their own citizens (hostages) as<br \/>\nwell.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a more than troublesome situation with the need for spiritual<br \/>\nguidance and rational behavior by the key actors greater than ever.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=234720\">http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=234720<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}