My train of thought is headed in the same direction…
Since most Americans have not followed the 50-year development of the billionaire’s conservative machine, they don’t know who is doing what, where, when or how. Unfortunately, that’s the reason white billionaires were able to seize control of white Protestant evangelical churches throughout America. To hear these churches preaching billionaire-controlled think tank doctrine from the pulpit disgusts and frightens me.
I think more information is in order… Yesterday, I left this comment on Deb C’s article and now I am pasting it here.
The role that White American Protestant Evangelicals (WAPE) play in these events is huge. Far more than guilt over the Holocaust, WAPE motivations are entirely self-serving. For example, a 2018 LifeWay poll found that 80 percent of evangelicals believed that the creation of Israel was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ’s return (when Christians – not Jews – would be saved).
According to a 2020 Pew survey, 70% of white evangelicals believe God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people. By comparison, only 32% of U.S. Jews felt God gave Israel to the Jewish people.
After 2 years, and 3 failed attempts to establish a ruling coalition, Netanyahu lost power. From June 2021 to June 2022, Naftali Bennett became the 13th prime minister of Israel. In response, Mike Evans, the prominent American Evangelical leader, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, and a member of the White House Evangelical advisory council during the Trump administration, declared war on Bennett.
Evans launched an emergency conference to discuss “the important alliance between the state of Israel and the Evangelicals” (links below). Evans conference was held in the Knesset (the equivalent of Congress in America). Publicized around the world, Evans also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Bennett – here is the full text of that letter (verbatim):
Dear Mr. Bennett,
What a disgusting disappointment you turned out to be. You and I spoke on behalf of the settlers at APAC at a hotel because they packed APAC wouldn't let him in. I always thought Begin was your hero. You've disgraced his very name. Shame, shame, shame on you. Don't ever call yourself a defender of Zion. You're not.
You betrayed the very principles that a generation gave their blood for and died for. You want to be in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and Leftists. God have mercy on your soul. Such a bitter little man that your obsession to damage Benjamin Netanyahu has convinced you that damaging the State of Israel is a worthy cause.
I've given my life building evangelical support for the State of Israel, not only with 77 million of my followers but with more than 20 world leaders. I assure you, I will fight you every step of the way. You have lost the support of evangelicals 100 percent. I don't know how you can sleep at night. It would have been so easy for you to have gone with a conservative government. We gave you four years of miracles under Donald Trump. We evangelicals delivered it. You delivered nothing. What appreciation do you show us? You sh** right on our face. How dare you!
To say I'm disgusted with you is an understatement. You should hang your head in shame. You care more about your own damn ego and your bitterness than you do the State of Israel.
Sincerely,
Mike Evans
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/us/american-evangelicals-israel-hamas.html
