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Jewish leaders and organizations benefitting from Christian Zionists can no longer claim ignorance.
By Ellen W. Horowitz. Vision Magazine
If you haven’t heard the “good news” yet, multitudes of multi-denominational evangelical and messianic Christian “friends” of Israel are currently engaged in 21 days of fasting and prayer for Jews to repent and convert to a belief in their man-god.
The “Isaiah 62 Fast” culminates with Pentacost2023, a May 28th event to launch a decade of global evangelism – the lion’s share being focused on Israel, Jerusalem and the Jews.
All of this, including communion, is to take place on the southern steps of the Jerusalem Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, and will be televised to millions via GodTV and other Christian networks.
Why is this event different from other global Jesus-centered “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” happenings?
Well, it seems the organizers, led by Pastor Mike Bickle of the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), are not in sync with “Jewish Standard Time” which they believe has caused a delay in the return of their lord and savior.
Jews are clogging up the end-times works by not embracing Jesus. And so charismatic church leaders like Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, Jason Hubbard and many others have decided to try accelerating the clock by gathering millions of intercessory missionaries to take a more pro-active stand.
Now there is a palpable urgency to the agenda, and it’s no surprise to this writer that a number of Israel’s stalwart Christian Zionist “friends” are collaborating with and even spearheading the movement. Grape-picking volunteers, and those running lone soldier and aliya centers, which regularly partner with the Jewish Agency for Israel and other quasi-government organizations, are firmly on board, as is Israel’s vast network of messianic missionary organizations.
In his Isaiah 62 Church letter, Bickle expounds as follows:
“Israel’s national repentance and confession that Jesus is Messiah is deeply connected to Jesus’ second coming and to life from the dead for the whole earth. In this fast we are exalting the supremacy of Jesus, focusing on the connection of God’s blessing on Jerusalem to fulfilling the Great Commission. We can do so much more together in… unity.
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your [Israel’s] sins may be blotted out…” etc…etc…etc…
More oxymoronic than comforting, Bickle makes it clear that this is a “global Esther moment” and that 100 million intercessors “will stand with Israel as anti-Semitism continues to increase until the coming of Jesus.”
Journalist and author Sarah Posner has for years investigated the intersection of politics and religion in the United States and Israel. She understands Mike Bickle and his agenda vis-a-vis Israel and the Jews very well.
“Regardless of whether you are on the right or the left, a hawk or a dove, AIPAC or J Street, a full accounting of Bickle’s teaching would lead you to conclude that Bickle is not interested in Jewish history or in Israeli reality… his public views on Israel are entirely devoted to an end-times prophecy in which Jews and Israel must repent for not accepting Jesus as the Messiah. Bickle’s teaching is unequivocal: Jews must accept Jesus in order to accomplish God’s will that Jesus return to Jerusalem to rule the world from his throne on the Temple Mount. It’s hard to imagine how a Zionist of any stripe would define this position as pro-Israel.” –The Forward, February 23, 2016
But that was back in 2016, when pastors and their affiliated politicians still scrambled to do damage control when the Jewish community got any whiff of toxic winds blowing in from mega-church sermons involving hunters, fishers, Hitler and the Holocaust.
And indeed, back in the day, everyone from the Anti-Defamation League to Christian Zionist/messianic leaders were quick to condemn Bickle’s theological rhetoric. But Posner’s concerns were quickly swept under the rug by reckless Jewish leaders who can’t keep their house in order for fear of losing “friends.” One need not be a prophet of doom to know that, due to this gross lack of foresight, one day something big and menacing was going to crawl out from under that rug. It seems that day has arrived.
Today, talk of fleeing Jews and invasions coupled with conversionary campaigns and a global evangelical thrust (directed at Muslims too) can be openly preached in Jerusalem – within a stone’s throw of the Temple Mount.
Calls for mass evangelism of the Jews or peoples of any other faith is an affront to the integrity of Jerusalem and all that it stands for. And yes, many would deem it antisemitic – perhaps even “Lutheresque.”
Mike Bickle’s IHOPKC & co. is a horse of a different color. And with no effective counter-missionary measures in place and unbridled freedom of expression, Israel is incapable of reining-in brazen missionizing campaigns, or even caring about them.
It’s interesting that Bickle recently paid homage, in a Charisma News interview, to the aging or deceased pro-Israel “spiritual fathers,” singling out John Hagee and Pat Robertson in particular. It almost seemed to be a “step aside brothers, there’s a new church in town” moment.
With change in the air, it’s imperative that Jewish leadership and those Israelis hell-bent on faith-based alliances take another look at the meanings behind evangelistic refrains such as “the God of Israel” and “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.”
We are likely not on the same page of the same book at all.
Bickle doesn’t leave much room for denial amongst the Jewish leadership when he says, “Jesus is the god of Israel” and “the unsaved Jews… who don’t believe in Jesus – they don’t know who the god of Israel is. They think He’s the God of Israel, the God of Moses in heaven. They don’t know it’s literally Jesus.”
And IHOPKC’s answer to the question of “Why do we so value praying for Jerusalem and Israel?” isn’t much better. But it is consistent and transparent:
“Israel’s national repentance (Act 3:19) and confession that Jesus is Messiah (Mt. 23:39) is deeply connected to Jesus’ second coming, the Great Commission, and “life from the dead” for the whole earth (Rom. 11:15). Jesus will not return until the leaders in Jerusalem acknowledge Him as Messiah according to Psalm 118:26.”
Clearly, the Jewish leadership involved in these relationships can no longer claim that “the evangelicals are our best friends – don’t ask questions or bite the hand that feeds you!”
Nor can they even claim “we didn’t know.”
Last week, Dr. Yael Ziegler of Matan concluded her Tanach (Old Testament, Prophets and Writings) class with this salient point: “Not knowing Tanach is not an intellectual failure, it’s a moral failure… In order to be a moral people we have to know. You have to be aware of what’s going on around you. To have morality you have to open your eyes and look around you.”
I started to pen this piece on Jerusalem Day, but needed to take a break lest a spirit of Tisha B’Av disrupt what should be a day of gratitude and celebration. Shabbat gave me a welcome reprieve, but then after Havdala [ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath) – on Rosh Ḥodesh Sivan (the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan) – I found myself writing about this noxious stuff once again. I totally sacrificed my peace of mind and lost some sleep to boot. But I’m more mother than martyr and far more concerned about Jewish continuity and morality than eschatology and “theoidiocy.”
Now it’s almost the Festival of Shavuot [during which the biblical convert to Judaism Ruth is celebrated), and I’d like to thank and acknowledge the righteous gentiles who joined us by naturalizing into the people of Israel, leaving evangelical and messianic missionary congregations and who now work day and night to try and explain and expose this material to those who will listen.
Welcome to the Jewish introspective struggle. It’s uncomfortable and obligatory.
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaking to the press about the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2023. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
Republicans in Washington are threatening to blow up the United States’ economy unless Democrats agree to shrink the social safety net by adding work requirements to programs such as food assistance and health care. They are billing the effort — which would help corporations grow an exploitable workforce — as necessary to end dependency, boost the economy, and reduce the federal deficit.
In doing so, GOP lawmakers are following the agenda pushed by an obscure conservative think tank bankrolled by far-right billionaires and activists that was behind a recent slew of state bills rolling back child labor laws across the country. The effort comes several years after the GOP passed massive, deficit-busting tax cuts benefiting the wealthy and corporations — and as the party pushes to make those tax cuts permanent, at an estimated cost of $3.5 trillion.
In effect, Republicans want to force Americans in poverty to pick up the tab for the tax cuts they gave to their wealthy donors, while giving those donors more vulnerable workers to exploit.
Republicans are attempting to ram through the think tank’s agenda by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, an arbitrary limit set by Congress on how much money the federal government can borrow, unless Democrats accept sweeping spending cuts and expanded work requirements on social programs.
The government is constitutionally required to pay its debts and meet its contractual obligations, and almost every Congress for the past century has voted to raise the debt ceiling without incident. But with divided control of Congress and Joe Biden as president, Republicans want to use the imminent threat of the United States defaulting on its debts and an economic recession as an opportunity to punish the poor.
Last month, House Republicans passed debt ceiling legislation proposed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that would massively cut government spending on social safety net programs — including Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance, known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
The proposal would subject most Medicaid recipients between the ages of nineteen and fifty-five without dependent children to a work requirement, forcing them to work for at least eighty hours a month or earn a minimum monthly salary to remain eligible. The new requirements likely would cause millions of low-income Americans to lose Medicaid coverage.
The plan would also expand food stamp and TANF work requirements to adults aged forty-nine to fifty-five, which could kick one million people off the food assistance program and more than half a million families off cash assistance.
Study after study has shown that work requirements have no impact on long-term employment outcomes, but they do kick eligible people out of social programs due to administrative burdens and make them poorer.
“When we talk about work requirements, remember, we want to take people from poverty to jobs,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday, adding: “I don’t think it’s right that we borrow money from China to pay somebody that has no dependents, [is] able-bodied, to sit on a couch. What we find is people become more productive.”
McCarthy’s work requirement proposal and his gripes about dependency come straight from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), a conservative think tank that recently made headlines for helping secretly draft several state bills to roll back child labor laws.
One such bill in Iowa would allow fourteen-year-old kids to “perform non-incidental work in meat freezers” and fifteen-year-olds to perform “light assembly work as long as the assembly is not performed on machines or in an area with machines,” NBC News reported. The bill, which has not yet been signed by the governor, “appears to violate” federal labor laws, according to Labor Department officials.
“Work requirements will help get Americans out of dependency and back to work, preserving resources for the truly needy,” said the FGA’s president and CEO, Tarren Bragdon, when House Republicans introduced their debt ceiling proposal. “There has never been a better time to get able-bodied adults back into the workforce.”
Bragdon, a former Maine state legislator, founded the organization in 2011 during the Tea Party’s austerity push as part of the last major debt ceiling standoff, when Republicans demanded significant spending cuts.
One week before Republicans released their current debt ceiling proposal, the FGA released new polling in favor of work requirements. On April 11, the FGA’s polling arm published data showing that more than 70 percent of likely voters support expanded work requirements for cash welfare benefits and food stamps, as well as new work requirements on Medicaid.
The following week, McCarthy proposed expanding work requirements for food stamps and TANF, and imposing new work requirements on Medicaid in his debt ceiling package.
The FGA then put out a white paper claiming that “House Republicans’ proposal for Medicaid and food stamp work requirements will increase the labor force and boost the national economy,” on the basis that “moving just four million able-bodied adults from welfare to work would increase real GDP by an estimated $149 billion.”
Lobbying records show the FGA’s advocacy arm, the Opportunity Solutions Project, started lobbying Congress on work requirements in 2017. In the first quarter of 2023, the group spent $130,000 on lobbying, including on food stamp reform, work requirements, and TANF, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.
The FGA and its advocacy arm have been bankrolled by right-wing groups in the dark money network built by conservative Supreme Court architect Leonard Leo, and also receive huge money from the family foundation of cardboard box magnate and conservative megadonor Dick Uihlein.
Between 2019 and 2021, Leo’s network contributed nearly $4 million to the FGA and its advocacy arm, according to tax records reviewed by the Lever.
Uihlein’s foundation has contributed nearly $18 million to the FGA since 2014, according to data from the Center for Media and Democracy.
Other major donors to the FGA have included the billionaire Scaife family, heirs to the Mellon aluminum and banking fortune, and DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund — or pass-through vehicle — long known as conservatives’ “dark money ATM.” (Leo’s network donated $71 million to DonorsTrust in 2021.)
In 2018, the FGA was behind a GOP push to attach work requirements to food stamps — which was passed by House Republicans but failed in the Senate. “Political observers said the inclusion of proposed changes to food stamps was testimony to the FGA’s growing influence in key Republican circles,” the Washington Post reported.
More recently, the FGA and its affiliates have crusaded to eliminate the temporary augmentation of social safety net programs enacted by congressional COVID relief bills — like expanded child tax credits, unemployment benefits, and food stamps.
The FGA noted in its 2021 annual report that it had “leveraged our relationships with governors to help states opt out of the $300 unemployment bonus and build momentum for this federal program to end in September 2021.”
The organization wrote that it had also “capitalized on our work in West Virginia and connections with Sen. Joe Manchin to show 1) the effectiveness of work requirements and 2) how the expanded child tax credit caused dependency, supply chain issues, and inflation problems.”
Manchin, a coal baron turned corporate Democratic senator for West Virginia, reportedly complained to his colleagues that lazy parents would use their expanded child tax credit payments to buy drugs, and demanded that it include a work requirement, before blocking its reauthorization altogether.
Census research found that the expanded child tax credit lifted nearly three million children out of poverty, though temporarily.
This spring, the FGA’s Opportunity Solutions Project was the only group backing legislation in Maine to add work requirements to Medicaid. The FGA also pushed to restart Medicaid redeterminations, or administrative checks on beneficiaries’ eligibility, which often result in people wrongfully losing coverage because they miss a piece of mail. Redeterminations were temporarily paused during the pandemic, but the federal government recently allowed states to start conducting them again.
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