Dear Friends,

Clinton and Rabin friend King Hussein of Jordan seems like so much more of a statesman than Arafat. But I am always sad when I visit the Mount of Olives and hear the stories of his paving a road to his summer palace on the summit with tombstones taken from Israeli graves on the mountainside. Those Jews of all ages were buried there because “…his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives…“ (Zech. 14:4), and they want to be the first to greet the Messiah in the Resurrection.

Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows. With Rabin and King Hussein in cahoots, Arafat was recently described as the “nut in the nutcracker.” His Majesty Mr. Hussein bears some watching; as A.M. Rosenthal said of him in a New York Times column, “never for sale but always for lease.” Let’s face it, Jordan is an absolute dictatorship and, in effect, a family business. I personally examined the 500-passenger yacht I was told belonged to the king’s brother. With his series of palaces and incredible wealth, the plucky little king has lived a life of ease and luxury while many of his people have been learning to eat sand.

Four bombs have gone off against Jewish targets recently including the one in Buenos Aires which killed 100 people, four times the total killed at Hebron. When Arabs are killed, the U.N. has emergency sessions, delivers censures and sends troops to police the area. When it’s Jews, everybody shrugs, and the news is on page 10. The world seems not to care about the two million suffering in Rwanda for the same reason; some people in this world just don’t count, and God’s chosen are among them.

The Arabs have registered complaints against the movie True Lies, which depicts a group of Arabs called Crimson Jihad as dangerous terrorists who want to blow people up. Imagine! Where did the producers ever get that idea? They have also protested the Disney cartoon Aladdin, which shows Arabs threatening thieves with cutting off their hands. But if all of the Arab dictatorships would stop repressing the journalists of the world and allow the true stories of what is going on in those silent countries to come out, Aladdin would truly look like a cartoon in comparison. The 20,000 human beings slaughtered in Hama, Syria, by their lunatic dictator, “President” Assad, would have loved to have just given up their hands instead of being bombed into oblivion in response to their religious protests.

Recently Larry King featured the music of Irving Berlin on his delightful series of Saturday night programs about American composers. It made me think of the musical talent among Jewish people: George and Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, Isaac Stern, and so many others. That made me think of the Jewish scientists: Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jonas Salk, Sigmund Freud. And that, in turn, made me think of so many doctors, lawyers and Hollywood and Broadway personalities that their names would fill a book. And that made me think of this: When you bomb and kill 100 people (as in Buenos Aires), did you maybe kill an Einstein, or a Leonard Bernstein? And if that’s true, how many of those perished when six million were killed?

In my June letter I said the following: Slowly you’d begin to think that the American church ls God’s major mechanism of dealing with the world today, and that ls what ls taught at Dallas Seminary as well as in certain Christian magazines and church letters. The foolishness called Replacement Theology – where the church ls now Israel and Israel ls I don’t know what — infects a majority of American churchgoing people even as God acts day by day in restoring Israel before their eyes. Some folks, including the president of Dallas Theological Seminary, protested that I had asserted that the seminary teaches Replacement Theology. In fact, the seminary and Replacement Theology were written about in separate sentences and not meant to be Joined together. With that said, however, I know why my mind went so easily from the one to the other. The seminary believes the same as Replacement theologians in regard to the current situation in that some at the seminary believe that modern Israel is not the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and that the church is God’s only way of dealing with the world today. The difference would be that the seminary still holds to a coming kingdom in Israel. In our upcoming Levitt Letter, Dr. Thomas S. McCall, senior theologian with our ministry and a doctoral graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, will deal with this issue in more detail.

Last month a few of you received letters with the prior month’s first page. Our printer recognized the error but was unable to save certain ones from going out. We’ve looked into the matter and it won’t happen again.

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Shalom and pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Your messenger,

P.S. Our Hanukkah/Christmas Tour de parts December 12th, with the Basic group returning December 21st and the Grand Tour returning the 27th. We have held over last year’s economical prices to offer you the Basic Tour for $1,999, and the Grand for $2,599. This year the Grand Tour includes an extension to Eilat, Israel’s Hawaii!

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