The Archangel Michael vs the Antichrist

By Bill Etem

Zionism is the doctrine that the Jews have a right to their own nation in the Holy Land.

The Israel vs. Arab / Muslim war is essentially religious in nature.

Scenario 1 - Allah is the Creator of the Universe and Allah says you will go to Heaven if you support the Muslims / Arabs, and Allah also says you will go to Hell if you support the Jews / Israelis. Therefore, support the Muslims / Arabs and don't support the Jews / Israelis.

Scenario 2 - God doesn't exist, or if God does exist He doesn't care 2 cents about Israel, and so the Jews should emigrate from Israel. It's crazy and immoral for the Jews to subject their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to Arab / Muslim terrorist attacks, for decade after decade, and so the Jews should leave the Middle East, if God doesn't exist, or if God exists but doesn't care about the Jews.

Scenario 3 - You will be forever banished from Heaven, and you will be consigned to eternal perdition if you refuse to support Israel and Zionism.

If Scenario 3 is true then everyone should obviously support Israel and Zionism.

Below is a Bible-based Christian argument saying one is on the road to eternal perdition if one is hostile to Israel and Zionism.

Christianity says that the Zionism prophesied in Ezekiel 36. 24-28 does not refer to the return of the Jews to the Holy Land following the Babylonian Captivity 25 centuries ago. This is because the words and the context of Ezekiel 36. 24-28 say that, 1) God will bring the Jews back to the Holy Land, then, 2) God will put His Spirit into the Jews, and then, 3) the Jews will NEVER AGAIN rebel against God. Christianity says the Jews have been in rebellion against God for many centuries. Christianity says you are in rebellion against God if you reject Christianity. Therefore, Christianity says that the Zionism prophesied in Ezekiel 36. 24-28 can not refer to the Zionism of antiquity. Therefore, Christians conclude that Ezekiel 36. 24-28 is a prophesy referring to the Jewish return to the Holy Land in modern times.

Suppose God was to soon put His Spirit into the Jews. Those of us who are Christians say this happens when the Jews are converted to the True Version of Christianity (there are no end of false and heretical versions of Christianity in the world, see also Daniel 12. 1, Revelation 14. 6-7 etc.). If God soon puts His Spirit into the Jews, then, both the 1st and the 2nd parts of the prophesy of Ezekiel 36. 24-28 would be fulfilled. Therefore, if you are now anti-Zionist you are opposing God. You are opposing God because God is pro-Zionist, recall the 1st part of Ezekiel 36. 24-28, the part about God bringing the Jews back to the Holy Land. If you are opposing God, if you are anti-Zionist when God is pro-Zionist then you have to suspect you are in a state of mortal sin: you are on the road to eternal perdition.

A similar argument saying one is on the road to perdition if one is hostile to Israel and modern Zionism runs as follows:

If you are hostile to Israel and modern Zionism then you are hostile to the Christian interpretation of Ezekiel 36. 24-28. If you are hostile to the Christian interpretation of Ezekiel 36. 24-28 then you will also be hostile to the Christian view of Jeremiah 31. 31-34, because the latter scripture is very similar to the former scripture. If you are hostile to the Christian view of Jeremiah 31. 31-34 then you will be hostile to Matthew 26. 28. In Matthew 26. 28, Christ says, at the Last Supper, "This cup is My blood of the new covenant..." And of course Christianity says you will go to eternal perdition, unless you repent, if you are hostile to Christ's words at the Last Supper.

So, Bible-based Christianity says you are marching down a road that will lead you to eternal perdition if you are hostile to Israel and modern Zionism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Etem
• Release date: Dec 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301245819

Bill Etem

Bill EE-tem. Born in Minneapolis, 1.2.60. Now living in St. Paul. Had lots of jobs: High School math teacher, football coach, track coach, legal coding / data entry, production, bar bouncer etc., etc. Bounced around some myself. Lived in Mexico for 20 months, in Oaxaca. Lived in Los Angeles for a few years. Traveled for 4 months round Europe after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1983, B.A. in Mathematics. All my religious books focus on finding the True Church.  If Christianity is true, as we Christians insist, if Jesus is God, the Divine Son - Psalm 2, Isaiah 9. 6, John 1. 1-14, Matthew 1. 23, Colossians 2. 8-10, 1 Timothy 3. 16 etc. - then you can trust what Jesus / God says in Matthew 16. 13-19, there is a True Church. The Christian scriptures are clear there is only one True Church, only one Bride of Christ. And yet there are thousands of separate churches / thousands of unique denominations in the world. So this a big conspicuous problem, a big mystery! And the key to solving the mystery is... Some definitions: If a Church leads people to Heaven then that Church is the Bride of Christ, the True Church, the Church Christ founded on a rock, Matthew 16. 13-19. If a church is lost in heresy and drags people down to eternal perdition then that church is a false church. How do you find the True Church? I have some books which deal with that question! I've also spent roughly 7 thousand hours working on my You Tube playlists, so be sure to scrutinize those when you get a chance: https://youtube.com/@billetem5868 [e-mail]

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The Archangel Michael vs. the Antichrist

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The Archangel Michael vs. the Antichrist

Daniel 12. 1 says Michael will show up at some time, and when he does show up the Jews will be delivered.

Was the prophesy of Daniel 12. 1 fulfilled in the past?

Will it be fulfilled in the future?

To answer these questions correctly you first have to answer some other questions correctly. Is Jesus God? Is Christianity true?

The Jews believe it is a terrible blasphemy to say that Jesus is God. They say it is all wrong to proclaim Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah.

Isaiah 9. 6 says the Son is God. Psalm 2 strongly implies the Son is God. Is Jesus the Divine Son or not? You can’t proceed very far in theology if you don’t know if Jesus is God or not.

Some key New Testament scriptures which say Jesus is God would be Matthew 1. 23, John 1. 1-14, Colossians 2. 8-10, 1 Timothy 3. 16 etc.

So, if Christianity is true, if Jesus is God, if it is blasphemy and sacrilege to say that Jesus is a false god, a false Messiah, when Jesus is God, then this implies, recalling Daniel 12. 1, that the archangel Michael will deliver the Jews by converting them to Christianity. If Jesus is God, if Christianity is true, then how can the Jews be delivered if they persist in their blasphemy of insisting that Jesus is not God, when Jesus is God? If Christianity is the True Faith, then how can the Jews be delivered if they persist in heresy by saying Christianity is a lie? Non-Christians of course insist that Christianity is a big lie. But this is a book written by a Christian about Christianity. The book focuses on Christianity.

John 6. 53-55 says in so many words that you must partake in holy communion in order to attain heaven and escape perdition. Christianity is difficult to explain, because, for one reason, 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate holy communion in an unworthy manner. But what is taking communion in an unworthy manner and what isn’t?

Some Christians say it is anti-Christian to say the Commandment to keep the Sabbath Day holy is still vaild. Others say the exact opposite. Not too many Christians in the 21st century would say a kid should be whipped if he takes his sled out on the Sabbath Day. What would the Christians of the 1st or 2nd century say?

If you say that St. Paul can’t be trusted in 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 then you’re saying that St. Paul can’t be trusted in Acts 26. 12-18. In Acts 26. 12-18 St. Paul tells us he has been given a mission from God to turn people from the power of Satan to the power of God. If you say that Acts 26. 12-18 can’t be trusted then you’re saying that half of the New Testament can’t be trusted.

Getting back to the complexities of 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29, if we were to say that Christianity teaches that you celebrate holy communion in an unworthy manner, and therefore you drink damnation into your soul, if you celebrate holy communion with anyone who belongs to an organization with secret initiation rites, then how far do we take this logic? Suppose you are a priest or a minister, and suppose you were to knowingly give the bread and the wine to a CIA agent, and suppose this CIA agent just got back from a trip to South America where he participated in a homicidal coup to overthrow a government, then, are you a priest or a minister who just drank damnation into your soul, because you celebrated holy communion in an unworthy manner, when you gave the bread and the wine to that CIA agent?

So, you see, Christianity is getting difficult to explain. Are we to say that Christianity teaches that everyone who knowingly celebrates holy communion with any employee of the CIA drinks damnation into their souls? If it is impossible for you to explain how people attain heaven and how they escape the lake of fire – see Revelation 20. 12-15 – then you can’t explain Christianity in a way which we might call a good enough way.

In theory Christianity is supposed to be easy for Christians to explain. In Matthew 26. 28, Jesus says, This cup is My blood of the new covenant… Turning to Jeremiah 31. 31-34 we read that God will write His new covenant on the hearts of his people. If you have God’s new law written on your heart then you ought to be easy enough for you to explain this new law – Christianity - to people in a good enough way.

Revelation 21. 8 says all liars get tossed into the lake of fire. So, Revelation 21. 8 is pretty easy to explain. Mathew 25. 31-46 looks pretty easy to explain. James 1. 26 says your religion is useless – and therefore it won’t deliver you to heaven and it won’t deliver you from perdition – if you don’t bridle your tongue. These scriptures seem rather simple – don’t tell lies, don’t use nasty language etc. - but 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 is difficult to explain in all of its implications and ramifications.

Let’s look at some Christian laws from previous centuries. Henry Charles Lea wrote in his 'A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages' (Macmillan, 1922),

`We have only to look upon the atrocities of the criminal law of the Middle Ages to see how pitiless men were in dealing with each other. The wheel, the caldron of boiling oil, burning alive, burying alive, flaying alive, tearing apart with wild horses, were the ordinary expedients by which the criminal jurist sought to deter crime by frightful examples...An Anglo-Saxon law punishes a female slave convicted of theft by making eighty other female slaves each bring three pieces of wood and burn her to death....In the Customs of Arques, granted by the Abbey of St. Bertin in 1231, there is a provision that, if a thief have a concubine who is his accomplice, she is to be buried alive...In France women were customarily burned or buried ali9ve for simple felonies, and Jews were hung by the feet between two savage dogs, while men were boiled to death for coining. In Milan Italian ingenuity exhausted itself in devising deaths of lingering torture for criminals of all descriptions. The Carolina, or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel...As recently as 1706, in Hanover, a pastor named Zacharie Georg Flagge was burned alive for coining...So careless were the legislators of human suffering in general that, in England, to cut out a man's tongue, or to pluck out his eyes with malice prepence, was not made a felony until the fifteenth century, in a criminal law so severe that, even in the reign of Elizabeth, the robbing of a hawk's nest was similarly a felony; and as recently as 1833 a child of nine was sentenced to be hanged for breaking a patched pane of glass and stealing twopence worth of paint [this sentence was commuted]...It has seemed to me however, that a sensible increase in the severity of punishment is traceable after the thirteenth century, and I am inclined to attribute this to the influence exercised by the Inquisition over the criminal jurisprudence.'

Well, there are several issues here. There’s the contention which says you are damned, you drink damnation into your soul, if you celebrate holy communion in any church which gives its blessing to evil laws such as the laws seen above.

There’s the contention which says that despite giving its blessing to cruel laws for century after century, the Roman Catholic Church and only the Roman Catholic Church is God’s True Church. All other churches are false churches. All other churches drag souls down to eternal perdition.

There’s the contention which says that the Roman Catholic Church is a false church: Rome is a church which drags Roman Catholics down to eternal perdition. But the True Church is out there. You just have to find it.

Let’s review my analysis of the Roman Catholic crucifix. The Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a Roman Catholic version of Jesus, a version of Jesus who says the Roman Catholic Church leads people to heaven, who says the Roman Catholic Church is God’s True Church, the Church which Christ founded on a rock. It doesn’t make any sense to say that the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a Mormon version of Jesus, a version who says the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is God’s True Church. It doesn’t make any sense to say that the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a version of Jesus who says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the Church which Christ founded on a rock. It doesn’t make any sense to say that the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of an Anglican version of Jesus, a version of Jesus who says the Church of England is the Church which Christ founded on a rock. I think any sensible person would agree that the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to heaven because Rome is God’s True Church.

So, there is nothing wrong with the Roman Catholic crucifix if indeed Rome leads people to heaven, if indeed Rome is God’s True Church. But if Rome is a false church, if Rome drags people down to eternal perdition, if Rome is not God’s True Church, then this creates problems for the Roman Catholic crucifix. Again, the Roman Catholic crucifix is the image of a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to heaven, who says Rome is God’s True Church. But if the True Jesus / True God says Rome is a false church not the True Church, if the True Jesus / True God says Rome leads people to perdition not to heaven, then the Roman Catholic crucifix is the image of a lie, it’s the image of a satanic lie, in fact. And if the Roman Catholic Church is the image of a satanic lie then perhaps it is the image of the beast mentioned in Revelation 13 and 14.

My books push the idea that Christianity took a very bad turn in the 4th century when it began giving the bread and the wine to evil kings and to evil nobles and to evil henchmen of evil kings and evil nobles. Are the evils perpetrated over the centuries by people carrying crosses reflected in the cross, rather as the evils of the Nazis are reflected in the Nazi swastika? Or is the cross sacred in the eyes of God?

If the cross is evil in the sight of God then perhaps it is the mark of the beast.

If the cross is sacred in the eyes of God then perhaps it is the seal of God mentioned in Revelation 9. If the cross is the seal of God, and if you must put the mark of a cross on your forehead to escape the tortures described in Revelation 9, then that’s what you have to do.

But if the cross is the mark of the beast, and if you put the cross / mark of the beast on your forehead, then the Book of Revelation says you burn in hell forever.

Getting back to 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 for a moment or two, the abortion issue is terribly complicated, because while you might be 100% correct when you insist that every pro-choice person must be excommunicated, because you will drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate holy communion with a pro-choice person, nevertheless, perhaps lots of pro-life people need to be excommunicated also, because, perhaps, you celebrate holy communion in an unworthy manner, and thereby drink damnation into your soul, under 1 Corinthians 11. 27, if you celebrate holy communion with lots of pro-lifers.

Perhaps God is angry with various pro-lifers because they push for pro-life laws which are too lenient in the prison sentences they advocate for doctors who perform abortions. And perhaps God is angry with other pro-lifers because they push for pro-life laws which are too draconian. It’s not so easy to explain with 100% certified accuracy what exactly God wants by way of pro-life laws.

Anyway, getting on with the cross and the crucifix, if the scriptures which say the cross of Christ is sacred mean Christ's sacrifice on the cross is sacred, but if they don't mean the cross, a pagan instrument of torture and execution, and don’t mean smaller representations of the cross Christ was crucified on, are sacred to God, and if the evils perpetrated over the centuries by people carrying crosses are reflected in the cross, rather as the evils of the Nazis are reflected in the swastika, then one can build a case saying the cross is evil, a case saying the cross is the mark of the beast, see Revelation 14. 11. If the cross is evil then it is blasphemy and sacrilege to say the cross is sacred. So, if the cross is evil, if every church under the cross is sunk in blasphemy and sacrilege, then they all lead people to perdition.

Furthermore, if in fact the cross is the mark of the beast and if some church under the cross tells you the cross is sacred to God, tells you the cross is the seal of God mentioned in Revelation 9 which saves one from months of torment provided this seal of God is on your forehead, but if the cross is actually the mark of the beast, and if some church leads you to put the mark of the beast on your forehead, by telling lies to you, by telling you the cross is the seal of God which saves one from months of torment, well, if a church leads you to burn in hell forever, leads you to put the mark of the beast on your forehead, then this church is obviously not God’s True Church, it’s obviously a false church, and false churches lead people to perdition. It’s a fairly simple concept! If a church leads people away from heaven and to perdition then it is a false church: it is not God’s True Church. It is not the Church which Christ founded on a rock, again Matthew 16. 13-19. If a Church leads people to heaven then it is God’s True Church.

If at least one Church under the cross leads people to heaven then you can trust that Church when it says the cross is sacred to God. But if every church under the cross is a false church, if they all lead people to perdition, then this doesn’t actually prove the cross is an evil symbol, but if every church under the cross leads people to perdition then this is big news for Christians to contemplate.

Revelation 14. 6-11 mentions 3 angels from heaven will show up to lead people to heaven. No doubt they will lead people to heaven by teaching the True Faith and by guiding people to the True Church. The 1st angel teaches the Gospel to the world. The 2nd angel says Babylon has fallen. The 3rd angel explains what happens to a person who has the mark of the beast on his forehead or right hand – he burns in hell forever.

We know that If you don’t have any marks on your forehead or right hand then you will never be shipped off to hell to be tortured in fire for all eternity for the sin of having an evil mark on your forehead or right hand. Well, suppose you descend into blasphemy and sacrilege. Suppose, if you say the cross is evil – because God says the cross is sacred – you descend into blasphemy and sacrilege. Then you might be vulnerable to demonic possession. Don’t scoff at the demon possession scriptures. If you scoff at them then you scoff at John 14. 23-26, and if you scoff at John 14. 23-26 then you’re on the road to perdition. John 14. 23-26 says that those who love Christ keep His words and those who don’t love Christ don’t keep His words. Christ spoke some words on demonic possession, as you might recall. So, if you, like Judas, become possessed by the Devil, or some such demon, then all of your promises to never put the mark of the beast on your forehead become worthless promises. And of course, on the other hand, if you descend into blasphemy and sacrilege every time you say the cross is sacred – because in fact God says the cross is an evil symbol - then, perhaps, you leave yourself exposed to being possessed by some demon, and if you are demon-possessed then you might certainly put the mark of the beast on your forehead or right hand, though you insist you would never do such a thing.

If you insist the cross is sacred to God, well, suppose you are right. You still have to find God's True Church. Is every church under the cross God's True Church? Aren't there any false churches under the cross? If you say that a particular church leads people to heaven, but if it is actually a false church which leads people to perdition, then you're like an agent of satan, because you're leading people away from heaven and to perdition when you recommend to them a church which leads people to perdition. Suppose Rome and only Rome leads people to heaven, suppose only Rome is God’s True Church. Then you’re like the Devil if you say some church other than Rome leads people to heaven. Because, by saying that, you lead people away from heaven and to perdition, and so you are like the Devil. Or suppose only the Russian Orthodox Church leads people to heaven, or suppose only the Mormon Church leads people to heaven. As soon as you tell people that some church will lead them to heaven, but, in fact, it will drag them down to perdition, because it is a false church, because it is not God’s True Church, then you’re leading people to perdition, so you’re acting like the Devil, so you’re going to perdition yourself, you’re not going to heaven if you act like the Devil and lead people away from heaven and to perdition. Wikipedia says there are over 40,000 unique Christian churches in the world. But the New Testament is quite clear in stating that there is only one True Church, the Church of the apostles, the Church which Christ founded on a rock. St. Paul mentions there is one body and one Spirit. This one body he is referring to is the one True Church. Every church claims it leads people to heaven. No church claims that it is a worthless false church which drags