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Dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus:
David Parsons from the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem has a key insight into this current war:
Many argue these days about whether America was founded as a Christian nation. What cannot be disputed is that our Founding Fathers believed in a Creator God whose hand of Providence was on their endeavors. And they committed themselves to the biblical principle of Imago Dei—the notion that all men are created in God’s image, that we are all equal in His sight, and that we will all give account for our lives before Him one day.
This guiding principle originates in Genesis 9:1–7 and teaches us that humans have moral agency and an incentive to act uprightly toward each other, because God is watching us.
And of great note, we received this guiding light from Israel. Indeed, it lies at the heart of the Judeo-Christian values, which have inspired and upheld Western societies for generations.
Guardians of the Imago Dei
Now America did have a serious problem in that it did not treat black African slaves as created equal by God, and our entire nation—North and South—paid a great price in the Civil War for repeatedly compromising over the cruel institution of slavery. In his famous Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln distilled that whole conflict as a fight over whether this “new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . . . can long endure.”
But once that failing was resolved, America has played a unique role in the world as guardians of the principle of human equality and freedom.
We beat back the tyranny of the Nazis, which saw Jews as inferior humans that needed to be eradicated. We stood down the Soviet Communists, who sought to enslave the world under an atheistic Marxism that directly challenged the biblical principle that mankind is a special creation of God.
And in this hour, it is only appropriate that we stand by Israel, the source of this life-affirming principle, to fight the dark, apocalyptic ideology of the radical Ayatollahs in Tehran. After all, they seek to ignite a global conflagration that they believe will end up massacring 80 percent of the world’s population so they can rule over their Sunni rivals and the entire world.
As for Israel and the Jews, they would get annihilated along the way.
My friends, that is an evil which calls for a response—pre-emption, even! Yet we waited almost five decades to respond, with compromise after compromise over their evil agenda. Now the whole world is paying a price in the spike of oil and gas prices. We must blame ourselves and our leaders for never directly challenging Iran in a way that would have caused them to abandon this destructive ideology.
Conclusion
So, I am proud that America has joined Israel in this battle. It is wholly appropriate, as the truths that undergird this war are “self-evident.”
And oddly, this alliance of our two nations was foreseen by the Ayatollahs themselves long ago. The reason they have always raged against the “great Satan” and the “little Satan” is because they knew from the start America and Israel were the only nations that could truly stand in their way.
May we press on to victory together!
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
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