‘The Bible repeatedly condemns lying, especially lies meant to harm others’
By Joe Kovacs
Hal Lindsey (Video screenshot)
Christian evangelist Hal Lindsey is hammering outright lying in connection with the way Jews are being vilified in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Islamic terrorists of Hamas.
In a new commentary titled “The Ancient Blame Game” posted Sunday, the author of “The Late, Great Planet Earth,” the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s that sold an estimated 35 million copies by 1999, writes: “The Bible repeatedly condemns lying, especially lies meant to harm others. 2 Timothy 3:3-4 talks about humanity becoming ‘unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous.’ Verse one of that chapter says it will get worse as the last days approach.
“That’s bad news for the Jewish people because for centuries they have already suffered as the victims of ‘malicious gossip.’ That’s the kind of lying meant to harm or destroy. People blamed Jews for wars and for economic downturns. The losers of wars made Jews their scapegoats – blaming them for selling secrets and other traitorous activities. Anti-capitalists often blame Jews for the rise of capitalism. But just as often, capitalists blame Jews for the rise of socialism.”
The 93-year-old biblical prophecy teacher says he could “go on and on” listing the things” for which Jews have been blamed, “including the Bubonic Plague, earthquakes, floods, and all kinds of natural disasters. Hating Jews goes back further than the word Jew. In ancient times, the Hebrews were hated because they refused to adopt pagan religions or adapt their own beliefs to those of their captors or conquerors. It’s hard to ‘adapt’ belief in the one true God to a belief in a pantheon of gods.”