On the blog
http://cufi.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=about_brog_blog#april_7_2which is pro-John Hagee and pro-Christians United For Israel (CUFI)
the writer explains that John Hagee does not use the term in the Book
of Revelation, the Great Whore, to describe the Catholic Church. The
writer of this blog says "It is actually Revelation that supplies us
with the term "Great Whore." Pastor Hagee merely explains that this
will be an "apostate church" made up of all those who abandon the
teachings of Christ and embrace false doctrines such as
anti-Semitism."
Remember that recently John Hagee in an interview on Jews On First at
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/08a/hagee_wise.htmlsays that Christians who say that we are spiritual Israel are guilty
of an anti-semitic theology. This was reported in an article by
Harmony Grant called John Hagee - False Prophet at
http://www.rense.com/general81/haggee.htmTo Hagee and his many dispensationalist followers, Christians who say
we are Israel are part of the "apostate church," the Great Whore of
Revelation 17: 1. Now Congress has passed "The Global Anti-Semitism
Awareness/Review Act" to create a State Department office to monitor
international anti-Semitism. The passing of this act is reported on
World Net Daily at
http://www.worldnet
daily.com/ news/article. asp?ARTICLE_ ID=40868
The State Department has a 94 page document defining anti-semitism at
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/102301.pdfThis report says that "The European Monitoring Center on Racism and
Xenophobia (EUMC)"in
close collaboration with the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Office of Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights, international experts on anti-
Semitism, and civil society organizations" began discussing a common
approach to data collection on anti-Semitism. This effort led to the drafting
of a Working Definition of Anti-Semitism. The EUMC's working
definition provides a useful framework for identifying and
understanding the problem and is adopted for the purposes of this
report: "Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be
expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical
and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward
Jewish or non-Jewish individuals
and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and
religious facilities."
Because the working definition is broad, the EUMC provides
explanatory text that discusses the kinds of acts that could be
considered anti-Semitic."
"Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical
allegations about Jews as such
• or the power of Jews as a collective"such as, especially but not
exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews
controlling the media, economy, government or other societal
institutions."
Criticism of the dispensationalist promotion of a Jewish kingdom to
appear perhaps in the end times could be anti-semitism. Criticism of
Jewish Zionism would be anti-semitism.
The official definition of anti-semitism may not in an explicit way go
so far as to include a Christian saying that Christians, not Jews, are
God's chosen people and that Christians are spiritual Israel. But
Christians who say they are Israel and the chosen people might be
defined as being anti-semitic under a more general and vague
definition of anti-semitism. And Christians who say they are Israel
and the chosen people of God could also be persecuted under terrorist
laws by defining them as terrorists, or under the Noahide laws, by
saying they are guilty of blasphemy for following Jesus Christ.
But the passing of The Global Anti-Semitism Awareness/Review Act by
the U.S. Congress and the The European Monitoring Center on Racism and
Xenophobia's Working Definition of Anti-Semitism are two small steps
closer to the setting up a process by which Christians who say we are
spiritual Israel can be charged with a crime.
