Governor Kotek appears to be a Gay Christian. Does she expect to be – Raptured? If you Google this question you will find much discussion on this topic. In considering a new direction for the James Bond movies, having any Bond be Gay – is ruled out! Yet, it is the most pressing issue of our modern times. Putin uses Gays as an excuse to invade Ukraine. Tubervillie and DeSantis use Gays to take over our National Policies that include out membership in NATO! LGBTQ people – are the New Jews. Trump made this inept propaganda video that claims President Biden will start …..”World War Two”!
Here is a sample of my next chapter of ‘The Royal Janitor. Here’s where we left off.
Children of The Ark – Come to Eugene – Now!
Posted on September 18, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Victoria took Starfish on a harrowing ride after they left Hayward Field. Miriam tried not to appear – afraid for her life, but, her husband was an expert driver, who really stretched the boundaries of SAFE – to the outer limit! Bringing the Grey Ghost to a screeching halt in their driveway, Starfish dare glance at Victoria. She was – fuming!
“Are you angry about me not telling you about our guests?”
“Go on. Tell me more – in hope it will make it right!”
“Are you mad at me……for not telling you our guests will be of a celestial nature?”
“Continue!”
Are you mad at me….. for not telling you I’m a Viking Deity?”
“Close! Go on!”
Uh! Are you mad at me…. for making you feel like a mere mortal?”
Victoria glared holes in her soulmate, who turned red with shame.
“Are you holding a Rapture Event at our home – and I’m going to be – LEFT BEHIND?”
“You know about the Rapture? You’ve been studying – behnd my back!? I was going to tell you. Honest I was. I was waiting for just the right time to lay it on you! (Gulp!)
For several years now I’ve considered whether Mark Gall is looking for a way around the truth, the Corbin family is kin to people who got close to John Darby – who invented THE RAPTURE! This is a huge religious connection – Evangelical Scholars are looking for. The attempts to Reborn James Bond is a literary event, where John Q. Public is asked for their opinions all over the place – around the clock!
More then ever I want Yulia Rose to play Starfish, because there is a real innocence about her. I predict the Rapture Craze is going to hit Russia hard…..and bust size will make a difference. Those with a more ample bosom..will not be Left Behind! Ian Fleming is….laughing!
John Presco
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Daniel Craig’s Co-Star Wants The James Bond Franchise To Change
Ben Whishaw portrayed the role of Q in Spectre, Skyfall, and, No Time to Die. Depicting the role of the tech-savvy genius, the coming out of Q’s homosexuality scene was something that the actor did not like at all.
Homosexuality, LGBTQ, and the End Times
By Chris Schang
One of the sure signs of the end times is the destruction of the family unit. Traditionally, the family unit consisted of a mother (female) and father (male) that were joined together in biblical marriage vows as well as any children that were produced by the married couple. This biblical marriage was to fulfill God’s command to go “forth and multiply” upon the face of the Earth.
Today, with the liberal mindset that genders can range to upwards of 50+ (see Facebook) it is apparent that we need to examine the rise of this homosexual movement as it relates to the end times. Does the rise of LGBT and Homosexuality in the public sphere indicate that the last days spoken of in the Bible are upon us? Let’s find out.
The Corbin God Gene and Evangelical Zionists
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Jews Will Not Be Raptured
Posted on August 17, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
God will not be Rapturing His Chosen People. Why? I thought He said He was going to create an everlasting Covenant with the Jews – after He wipes out most of the life on earth. Why should anyone be for this – KILLER GOD? Is this God – really Satan in disguise?
John
Although Jews don’t share the Christian idea of rapture at the End of Days, there is a Jewish eschatological doctrine of the resurrection of the dead during the Messianic period. In Hebrew, resurrection of the dead is called Techiyat HaMeitim.
End of Days expert and prolific author Rabbi Pinchas Winston spoke to Breaking Israel News about the concept of rapture – which has been popularized in recent years by the Christian fiction series Left Behind – explaining that it is actually based on a Jewish idea which has been adapted to suit Christian views.
“There are often similarities between Jewish concepts and those of other those of religions,” said Rabbi Winston. “Historically this has been because the other religions adopted and adapted some idea from Judaism, concepts they picked up through interaction with local Jewish populations or from Jewish literature over the ages.”
He gave an example. “At one point, Catholic priests learned Zohar (Judaism’s fundamental mystical text). Either to bury the origin of the idea they took or just to be different, they changed it to suit their religious aims, and over time it became so distorted from the original that it became very unJewish.
“The Christian idea of rapture is another such idea, which has little or nothing to do with Jewish tradition, which has always believed in the notion of the resurrection of the dead.”
Belief in the eventual resurrection of the dead is so fundamental to Jewish thought that it is one of the Thirteen Principles of Faith. These 13 basic Jewish beliefs were compiled in the 12th century by the one of the greatest codifiers of Jewish law, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or Rambam).
I believe with perfect faith that there will be a resurrection of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator, Blessed be His name, and His mention shall be exalted for ever and ever.
Rabbi Winston writes in his book Geulah b’Rachamim (Merciful Redemption), “Just like a Jew must believe in the coming of Moshiach (Messiah) and the Final Redemption, he must likewise believe that there will be a resurrection of the dead. That is, when God will create each person anew from the ground, as He did the first man.” Rabbi Winston further quotes rabbinic opinion that the process of the resurrection of the dead will take either 210 or 214 years to complete.
Treacherous Christian End Time Zionists
Posted on August 2, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Millions of Americans are now facing eviction. Why do we not see Republican Zionists For Total Destruction marching in the streets to keep people in their home? Did my End Time neighbors try to get me evicted?
John
US evangelical preacher should be banned from entering UK, critics say | UK news | The Guardian
Many evangelical Christians believe the return of the Jews to their homeland heralds the beginning of the End Times, a biblical final chapter of life on Earth, when nonbelievers will be destroyed in an apocalypse while God whisks true believers to an eternal life before the second coming of Christ. But that evangelical interest in Israel as the harbinger of the End Times also contains a problem: For Jews to enter the kingdom of God, they must convert to Christianity. The question of conversion is deeply controversial in Israel, where a court recently shut down an evangelical Christian program, produced by God TV, because it was seen as proselytizing to Israel’s Jewish community.
What’s Next for Christian Zionists?
The backbone of Israel’s support in the United States is a group of evangelical Christians, but their power is threatened by the changing of the political guard.
By Colum LynchJULY 19, 2021, 7:42 AM
Christian followers of the American evangelical pastor John Hagee chant slogans in support of Israel as they wave Israeli and U.S. flags during a rally in Jerusalem on April 7, 2008. GALI TIBBON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
For Mike Evans, a Christian Zionist pastor in the United States, the fall of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was more than a political setback for a movement that had forged deep ties with the former Israeli leader. It was a bitter betrayal of biblical prophecy by Israeli voters and a new generation of political leaders. In a rancorous, profanity-filled missive, Evans excoriated Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for joining a coalition of Israeli centrists and Arab Israelis who he fears may support a Palestinian state.
“We gave you four years of miracles under Donald Trump and this is how you show your appreciation,” Evans wrote, vowing that he and his followers would join the outgoing prime minister in opposition to the government. His outburst reflected anxiety among American Christian leaders who fear the outsized influence they exercised in the era of former U.S. President Donald Trump and Netanyahu will be severely diminished, renewing prospects for a Palestinian state, which many see as antithetical to God’s plan for a Greater Israel.
The changing of the political guard in both countries comes at a time when evangelical Christians had reached the zenith of political power in Washington, shaping U.S. policy on human rights, abortion, reproductive health care, LGBT rights, and increasingly Israel, where they helped build political support for Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It also coincides with a growing generational split in the evangelical church, with an increasing proportion of younger evangelicals viewing Israel more critically than their elders.
An increasing proportion of younger evangelicals are viewing Israel more critically than their elders.
In an exit interview with Israeli television, Netanyahu’s U.S. envoy Ron Dermer said that the evangelical Christian community had far eclipsed the American Jewish community as Israel’s most important political allies in the United States.
“People have to understand that the backbone of Israel’s support in the United States is the evangelical Christians,” Dermer said. “About 25 percent [of Americans] … are evangelical Christians. Less than 2 percent of Americans are Jews. So if you look just at numbers, you should be spending a lot more time doing outreach to evangelical Christians than you would do to Jews.”
A former senior U.S. official who worked intimately on U.S. policy in Israel said Dermer was simply saying publicly what Netanyahu had been preaching privately to his cabinet: “He has told many of his own ministers that Americans Jews were not so important, that they were not going to remain Jewish in another generation or two, and that there was more to be gained by cultivating a relationship with evangelicals,” the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
“Israel has no better friend in America than you,” Netanyahu told a gathering of evangelical Christians in 2017 at an annual conference hosted by Christians United for Israel.
Observers note that some conservative American Jews, including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner; Jason Greenblatt, his special representative to Middle East peace talks; and David Friedman, his envoy to Israel, played a decisive role in shaping Trump’s policy toward Israel, including the decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. But conservative Christians, with their deep roots in the Republican Party, helped cement support of Israel as a core tenet of the Republican platform in the first place.
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Today’s Israeli leaders have pushed back on the notion that Israel can look only to Republicans and should court evangelicals over American Jews. “The fact that we are supported by evangelical groups and others in the U.S. is important, but the Jews of the world are more than allies of Israel. They are family,” said Yair Lapid, Israel’s alternate prime minister, who currently serves as Israel’s foreign minister.
Evangelical Christians’ political muscle is sure to decline under new U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration, but their relations with Trump Republican politicians remain strong as ever. They will also remain a powerful ally for any future government in Israel.
When Israel faced criticism of its offensive in Gaza earlier this year, including from such stalwart supporters of Israel as Sen. Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, influential evangelical leaders came to Israel’s defense. John Hagee, the founder of Christians United For Israel, defended Israel’s military operations in Gaza earlier this year, accusing the international community of antisemitism for holding Israel to a “double standard” and failing to register sufficient concern over Palestinian rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel.
Arthur Balfour visits Jewish colonies in Palestine in 1925. As British foreign secretary, he was responsible for the 1917 Balfour Declaration. UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
Christian Zionism, which has roots stretching back over millennia, gained traction in the 19th century among British Zionists. It culminated with the 1917 Balfour Declaration, named for the former British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, which called for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. For many Christian Zionists, the establishment of the Jewish state after World War II marked the fulfillment of divine prophecy.
Many evangelical Christians believe the return of the Jews to their homeland heralds the beginning of the End Times, a biblical final chapter of life on Earth, when nonbelievers will be destroyed in an apocalypse while God whisks true believers to an eternal life before the second coming of Christ. But that evangelical interest in Israel as the harbinger of the End Times also contains a problem: For Jews to enter the kingdom of God, they must convert to Christianity. The question of conversion is deeply controversial in Israel, where a court recently shut down an evangelical Christian program, produced by God TV, because it was seen as proselytizing to Israel’s Jewish community.
“A lot of Israelis think the Christian support they get is out of affection and respect and love,” said Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute. “They don’t realize or care about what these evangelical Christians imagine on the other end is an exclusively Christian utopian world where everyone not like them gets wiped away by the hand of God in a divine genocide.”
“On the evangelical side, it’s a total fantasy world,” he added. “They are reading the Bible like it’s the New York Times.”
Ari Morgenstern, the spokesman for Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, said the portrayals of the Christian Zionists as apocalyptic religious extremists intent on converting Jews to Christianity are unfair and untrue.
“Only fringe anti-Israel activists still peddle the falsehood that Christian Zionism is driven by eschatology,” Morgenstern said in a written statement. His organization’s founder, Hagee, maintains that Christian Zionism “is rooted in the promise of Genesis not the prophecies of Revelation.”
“We have developed relationships with every major pro-Israel and Jewish organization in the country,” he said. “CUFI stands with the democratically elected government of Israel. Christians have had a relationship with every Israeli prime minister since David Ben Gurion; that has not and will not change.”
There are a couple of knotty aspects of evangelical Christianity’s relationship with Israel. One is the legacy of antisemitism, which long permeated evangelical ranks.
There are a couple of knotty aspects of evangelical Christianity’s relationship with Israel. One is the legacy of antisemitism, which long permeated evangelical ranks.
The late evangelical leader, Bailey Smith, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, once pronounced that “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.” And the evangelist leader Jerry Falwell Sr. once said in a speech, “A few of you here today don’t like Jews. And I know why. He can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.”
“There is evidence of fairly significant antisemitism among many Christian Zionists, especially hard-line Zionists who believe that for the rapture to occur, Jews need to return to Israel and then convert to Christianity,” said Catherine Loy, an associate lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London, who has written about Israel’s relations with evangelical Christians. Some high-profile Zionist organizations, including the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, “have sought to distance themselves from that because their existence in Israel would be problematic,” she said. “But the logic of Christian Zionism is dependent on the conversion of Jews to Christianity.”
“Anti-semitism under the banner of Christianity has a long and tragic history,” Morgenstern added. “But the rise of Christian support for Israel, and CUFI’s direct opposition to this bigotry, has turned that tide—especially within the church. Pastor Hagee has long preached that antisemitism is a sin.”
The other knotty element is the antipathy with which Christian Zionists respond to Israeli concessions on land and peace; many Christian Zionists vehemently oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon felt the wrath of the American evangelical pastor Pat Robertson when he ordered the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza in 2005, dismantling 21 Israeli settlements in the Palestinian enclave. Several months later, Sharon suffered a stroke, prompting Robertson to declare the illness divine retribution for “dividing God’s land.”
“God considers this land to be his,” the evangelical leader said. “You read the Bible and he says, ‘This is my land,’ and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, ‘No, this is mine.’” Robertson would later issue an apology.
The late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the founder of the conservative Likud political party that Netanyahu now leads, was the first Israeli leader to actively seek the support of the evangelical Christian community, forging relationships with influential U.S. religious leaders, including Ed McAteer and Falwell, whose backing Begin sought for Israel’s 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear facility at Osirak.
Begin struck a pragmatic bargain with Robertson, the Southern Baptist leader, according to Danny Ayalon, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former deputy foreign minister. “The agreement between them was as such: We are both waiting for the Messiah. When the Messiah comes, we will ask him. And according to his answer we will know who is right.”
Ayalon said that Evans, the Christian Zionist pastor—whom he knows personally—“is a likable person, and I very much appreciate his support for Israel and the U.S.-Israel alliance.” But Evans’s public attack on the new government dented his reputation and influence in Israel. “He may be a friend of Bibi Netanyahu, but it did not give him the right to do what he did,” Ayalon said.
Danny Danon, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said there doesn’t need to be any contradiction between Israel’s partnership with American Jews and its partnership with American evangelicals, noting that Israel can use all the friends it can find.
“It is always good to have friends who can lobby for Israel, that can speak for Israel,” he said. Israelis and evangelicals, he said, can sort out their differences over the coming of the Messiah when the time comes, but for the time being “we need to deal with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and our security. If we have friends willing to work with us, we should welcome them.”
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz (center) during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 22, 2017. Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner is pictured at left. MANDEL NGAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
But the evangelical community’s embrace of Trump and its willingness to overlook his personal and moral shortcomings in exchange for long-sought policies, including support for Israel, might backfire.
Shibley Telhami, a Palestinian American professor of politics and government at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the influence of evangelical Christians may be waning. A pair of polls conducted by Telhami and one commissioned by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke show dwindling support among younger evangelicals for Israel. The poll found that only 33 percent of young evangelicals said they supported Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, down from 69 percent in 2018. Telhami said his own polling in 2015 and 2018 showed a similar shift.
“There has been a clear drop in the support of Israel among younger evangelicals, and an increase in support for Palestinians,” Telhami said. “The question is, what explains this? One explanation, I think, is the Trump factor. Older evangelicals were able to rationalize Trump. He’s not perfect, but he is doing good work for God. Younger evangelicals had a rough time accepting that.”
“It’s possible this attitude towards Trump also transferred to their attitude towards Israel,” he added. “There is evidence that young evangelicals are moved by issues of social justice, and we see that on climate change, immigration, and certainly in relations to the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Telhami also said the evangelical movement is becoming increasingly diverse, with the share of white evangelicals in steady decline in the United States. And white evangelicals, he said, tend to support Israel more fervently than nonwhite evangelicals.
Not everyone is convinced that Israel is facing a reckoning in the American heartland or in Washington.
Not everyone is convinced that Israel is facing a reckoning in the American heartland or in Washington.
While the Biden administration has reestablished diplomatic relations and restored financial aid to the Palestinians, it has largely backed key Trump initiatives, including support for the Abraham Accords, which resulted in the establishment of Israeli diplomatic relations with Arab governments including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said there is a big difference between the emergence of young evangelicals expressing greater sympathy for Palestinians and a real change in the evangelical community’s approach to Israel.
“I don’t yet see the shift in attitudes having any real dent in the effort of evangelicals to shape policy on the ground,” Friedman said. “I trust the polling, but translating these generational shifts into policy change is not a direct line. You still have to get people into office who will promote your issues.”
“The Christian right held a huge amount of influence socially as well as politically, and I don’t see that waning because of a change of an administration in Israel,” Loy, the University of Roehampton lecturer, said. “And Biden has shown no sign of trying to challenge the Christian right over Israel. He won’t move the U.S. Embassy back to Tel Aviv. I would say he is trying to leave well enough alone.”
Evans and other evangelical leaders mourning Netanyahu’s political immolation, meanwhile, will have to come to terms with the new government.
“I’m sure this came as a shock, and I guess they will get over it, especially if they see the interest of Israel being well served by democratically elected governments,” Ayalon, the former Israeli ambassador, said. Update, July 19, 2021: This article was updated to include comment from Ari Morgenstern of Christians United for Israel. Correction, July 19, 2021: Ariel Sharon ordered the evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the number of settlements. The original version of this article also mischaracterized the religious practices of the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin; this has been corrected.
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