Chuck Baldwin<\/p>\n
Many of us pastors\/teachers\/professors\/scholars in Evangelical Protestantism have long understood that Joel Osteen\u2019s Prosperity Gospel<\/i> is nothing short of heresy. Over the years, tomes have been written exposing Osteen\u2019s abuses of the doctrinal truths of God\u2019s Holy Word that he uses to prey on gullible, needy\u2014and often poor\u2014people and to turn himself into a billionaire.<\/p>\n
Joel Osteen is the quintessential false prophet that Jesus and His apostles warned us about. (Matthew 7:15; I John 4:1)<\/p>\n
But Osteen is not only a Prosperity Gospel<\/i> heretic, he is also a Christian Zionist heretic. Happily, this fact is observed within people not just inside but outside of Evangelical Protestantism.<\/p>\n
Writing for an Italian Catholic website GospaNews.net,\u00a0Carlo Domenico Cristofori<\/a> writes an expos\u00e9 on Osteen\u2019s uber Zionist views. Here are excerpts:<\/p>\n \u201cYou are a modern David\u2026 You are doing what he did.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n This is what the American televangelist Joel Osteen said in an exclusive interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, <\/b>effectively justifying the genocide in Gaza<\/b><\/a> but above all, even more seriously for a self-styled Christian Baptist pastor, completely distorting both the biblical narrative <\/b>on the merciful figure of King David<\/b><\/a> and the interpretation of his wars in defense of the ancient Kingdom of Israel which, as a first instance, proposed peace plans to the neighboring pagan populations and started a war only if forced to for its survival.<\/p>\n Osteen’s words leave no room for doubt as to his allegiance to Ashkenazi-Khazar Zionism, made powerful by British Freemasonry and Anglican Protestants.<\/p>\n Making clear her psychological and political subservience to the Nazi-Zionist Netanyahu was an article by Kathryn Shihadah<\/b> published on the inter-faith website Grace Colored Glasses, which committed the huge mistake of throwing the baby out with the bathwater: that is, taking advantage of Pastor Osteen’s crazy and fanatical adulation of Netanyahu to denigrate King David, who was so merciful that he left Jerusalem to avoid its destruction when his son Absalom, rebelling against him, waged war against him.<\/p>\n The great king of Jerusalem, thanks to his faithfulness to the Almighty God, returned to see the Ark of the Covenant in the holy city that Netanyahu instead made the fulcrum of the challenge between Muslims and Jews (even between Zionists and Orthodox) after the Muslims conquered it following the diaspora of the Jews who murdered their own Messiah Jesus Christ<\/b><\/a> and after the Palestinians were partly marginalized thanks to the Balfour Treaty desired by the British Zionist Rothschild<\/a> and the contemporary political operations of the American presidents Barack Obama, <\/b>Donald Trump<\/b><\/a> and Joseph Biden.<\/b><\/p>\n All paid for by the <\/b>AIPAC-linked Zionist Lobby<\/b><\/a>, Israel’s main sponsor in the genocide and planned depopulation of Gaza.<\/b><\/p>\n Those who are CERTAIN that the current Israeli Prime Minister is the apocalyptic incarnation of one of the many ANTI-CHRISTS of the Biblical End Times<\/a> should continue and begin to ask themselves how it is possible that a self-styled Christian religious man is on the side of a follower of Satanist Zionism, an esoteric Masonic offshoot of traditionalist Judaism which in fact responds more to the business of the Arms Lobby.<\/p>\n The Importance of Money to False Christians<\/b><\/p>\n We are not bigots and therefore we do not believe that wealth is the enemy of Christians.<\/p>\n But when billion-dollar businesses arise from the collusion between religion and politics, they begin to smell like hellish sulfur a mile away.<\/p>\n Osteen lives with his family in a 17,000-square-foot mansion in River Oaks, worth an estimated $10.5 million.<\/p>\n Apology for the Israeli Genocide in Gaza<\/b><\/p>\n In a 2011 interview, Osteen declared his support for Israel.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cMegaevangelist and ageless prosperity preacher Joel Osteen recently interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their conversation demonstrated Osteen\u2019s lack of understanding of the man and the issue. His audience\u2019s response to the interview indicated that they too are ignorant of the facts. The source of their information has effectively kept them in the dark,\u201d Kathryn Shihadah<\/b> wrote in her article analyzing the video.\u201d<\/p>\n Pastor Joel Osteen\u2019s interview with Netanyahu made no mention of these highly problematic actions. Instead, Osteen treated Netanyahu like a celebrity saint. \u2018Modern-day David\u2019 at minute 16 of the video, Joel tells the prime minister, \u201cYou are a modern-day David\u2026 You are doing what he did.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Finally, with words that are all too laconic and cautious in condemnation from the pastor devoted to the author of the Gaza genocide:<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that Joel Osteen is happy to be in the presence of a (possible) war criminal with (undeniably) the blood of innocent people on his hands suggests that Osteen is not getting his news from reliable sources (indeed, the mainstream media cannot be trusted to present the facts about Israel-Palestine)<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Obviously, Cristofori writes his thesis as a warning to his fellow Catholics regarding the influence of Zionism among America\u2019s churches\u2014especially among the major televangelists. I\u2019m happy to see an expos\u00e9 such as this coming from within Catholicism.<\/p>\n I say that because I\u2019ve had many Catholic people write and tell me of their disappointment that, as many protestant and evangelical churches have done, many Catholic churches have likewise embraced their own version of Catholic Zionism. I know that Zionism is also rampant among other religions such as Mormonism<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, it is also obvious to me that there are many people within these various faith systems that clearly see through the fa\u00e7ade of Zionism and oppose it vehemently\u2014as do a huge number of Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n I frequently promote Judge Andrew Napolitano\u2019s podcast Judging Freedom<\/i><\/a>. The guests that Judge Nap interviews are among the most intelligent and astutely informed professionals that one will ever hear. I know almost nothing about the religious beliefs of most of these people, with the exception of only a couple. I understand that Judge Nap himself is a traditional (Latin Mass) Catholic, as is former CIA analyst Philip Giraldi. But both of these men\u2014along with most of the rest of Judge Nap\u2019s guests\u2014are stridently anti-Zionist.<\/p>\n Obviously, I have sincere theological differences with Catholicism, Mormonism and many within Protestantism, but I have deep respect and admiration for people within any faith system (or no faith system) that see the evil of Zionism and are courageous enough to speak out against it.<\/p>\n In fact, what I see happening today is that many who are outside<\/i><\/b> of born-again<\/i> evangelical circles seem to have a much clearer understanding of the evils of Zionism than those who call themselves born-again<\/i> Christians.<\/p>\n The reason for the above is two-fold: 1) Most born-again<\/i> evangelicals have been immersed (brainwashed) in Scofield Futurism, also known as Prophetic Dispensationalism or Christian Zionism, and\/or 2) Most born-again<\/i> evangelicals are ignorant of or even hostile to the veracity of our Creator\u2019s Natural laws. This false teaching, ignorance and hostility are the feeding ground of Zionism.<\/p>\n One need not be a born-again<\/i> Christian to understand via the laws of Nature that there is something very wrong with the mass wanton slaughter of innocents. One need not be a born-again<\/i> Christian to understand that orders permitting soldiers to rape women<\/a> of the opposing peoples is a crime against humanity. One need not be a born-again<\/i> Christian to understand that ethnic cleansing is a great moral evil.<\/p>\n I wrote about the above at length here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And for those born-again<\/i> evangelicals who are reading this and now shouting at me through their computer screen, citing Jehovah\u2019s Old Testament wars of Israel against the Amalekites and Canaanites, you are letting the false doctrines of televangelists and Christian Zionist preachers deceive you to the truth of what the Old Testament really<\/i><\/b> taught about those wars.<\/p>\n I just delivered my third message<\/a> (out of four) on this very subject. I challenge any born-again<\/i> Christian who supports Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinians based on the Old Covenant laws of war to watch this message (and the previous two).<\/p>\n Recently, Judge Nap interviewed former British diplomat Alastair Crooke<\/a> (I know nothing of Crooke\u2019s religious persuasion). In this interview, Crooke demonstrates great acumen (as did America\u2019s Founding Fathers) regarding the laws of Nature.<\/p>\n I am now quoting from this interview:<\/p>\n Napolitano:<\/b> While you and I have been on the air, Chris has run a poll of the folks watching us. The question is: How much of a threat do you think Iran poses to the United States? The options are: moderate threat, major threat, minimal threat, no threat at all.<\/p>\n 77% no threat at all; 17% minimal threat; major threat 3%; moderate threat 2%. So, three quarters, no threat at all. I’m going to guess that you would have voted that way yourself.<\/p>\n Crooke:<\/b> It’s completely no threat. Because Iran does not threaten or challenge the United States directly in any way. It’s only a threat if you see Israel as, if you like, the Foreign Legion of the United States and, as the Foreign Legion, cannot be touched and must dominate the region.<\/p>\n This is [an] exercise in actually normalizing the whole of the Middle East with Israel so that Israel is Primos over Paris. And that is not going to be acceptable, even to Saudi Arabia, even to Gaza.<\/p>\n Now read the next two paragraphs carefully.<\/p>\n And so that part of the whole project of Trump is threatened by coming apart, not because Iran is threatening the United States but because of the actions of Israel are really clashing with the Western idea of morality: that you don’t kill women, you don’t kill children. This goes back, it’s not a question of laws or something. Shakespeare [Macbeth] said very clearly, described in one of his poems, when King Tarquin was going down the corridor to rape Lucretia. And as he moved down the corridor, he knew that this would destroy his soul and bring heaven and earth down on his head for the action he was taking.<\/p>\n This is not something that is particularly Christian or particularly Muslim or anything. These are the deepest, if you like, structures within the human being. And so, somehow, whatever your cultural background, the idea of children being blown apart and body parts lying across the ground is just outrageous and unacceptable. But this is now the threat.<\/p>\n Amen, Alastair Crooke! The ignorance of evangelical Christians notwithstanding, the cornerstone of Western Civilization is our Creator\u2019s Natural laws.<\/p>\n The natural\/moral laws of God put into mankind at creation are indeed not \u201cparticularly Christian\u201d or \u201cparticularly Protestant\u201d or \u201cparticularly Catholic\u201d or \u201cparticularly Muslim\u201d or \u201cparticularly Mormon\u201d or even \u201cparticularly agnostic.\u201d It is a natural law<\/i> put inside man by his Creator (Romans 2:14, 15). And THAT law thoroughly condemns what the United States and Israel are doing in Gaza and throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n But Joel Osteen and his ultra-wealthy fellow televangelists completely ignore Biblical and Natural law and enthusiastically support Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza. And the reason is clear. Try to find a billionaire that is not<\/i><\/b> a Zionist.<\/p>\n P.S. We are now taking pre-orders for THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/i> Print date is June 12.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Chuck Baldwin<\/p>\n