Thursday, January 05, 2006

Somehow This is Wrong

I saw this article while perusing the news (something I admit I have not done much lately) and my first reaction was this is just not right. A group of Christians want to build an amusement park where Yeshua taught and performed miracles in Galilee. There is just something sacrilegious about building a park for fun on a site that should be revered. As I read further I found who was behind this and was not too surprised. Pat Robertson, the same man who just claimed that Ariel Sharon’s stroke was a judgment from G_d for wrongfully dividing the land of Israel, heads the group up.

Ok???!!! Let me get this correct Pat Robertson claims G_d struck down a man for giving land to the Palestinians, but has no problem with building an amusement park on what is considered by many as holy ground

On a related note to the article the author has not idea what he is talking about in the last paragraphs of the article. He gets it right up until the last sentence and then uses that as a springboard to quote an Israeli official that is against the proposed park.

“The primary reason is that according to the Old Testament, Israel was given to the Jews by God. Fundamentalist Christians believe that in order for Jesus to return, two preconditions are Jewish control of the land of Israel and the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.” (emphasis mine)

I have never seen a precondition that states the Jewish nation has to convert to Christianity before Yeshua returns. It does mention 144,000 converted that are to become worldwide missionaries, but no mention that the conversion of the state of Israel is mentioned.