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Chuck Crismier: How do American Jews view Israel? How do they view America's view of Israel, our political view of Israel? Why is it that a leading candidate to run for the President of the United States in 2028 on behalf of the Democrat party is going to make a leading speech tomorrow, on Wednesday, at Tel Aviv University? Why is Rahm Emanuel, who was once the kingpin within the Obama administration and also a Congressman, also an ambassador, why is he going to Israel to rebuke the Prime Minister of Israel and to claim that the politics between the United States and Israel must change immediately?

What are we looking at? Are we looking at a drama that is unfolding between the US and Israel that no one truly expected, or is this politics conforming to prophecy? Politics conforming to prophecy, that's what I believe it is. I welcome you to Viewpoint. It's conversation as always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. Today is no exception, and there are many viewpoints increasingly within the broader Christian community in America, even within the broader so-called evangelical community in America, with regard to our role with Israel, our involvement with Israel. Some say it's Israel right or wrong. Others say no, our support for Israel should be only if they do what is right.

Well, it depends on whether you think that our responsibility as human beings or even as Christians is to govern Israel. If you believe that that's the responsibility, then there's no room for God to have to control or discipline Israel or bring correction to Israel because we're going to do it. On the other hand, if God says through Abraham, "I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you, and in and through you shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed," then maybe we should align ourselves with that and leave it to God to bring the repudiation or the correction to Israel itself.

That's where the lines are being drawn often times within the broader Christian community, and people go to war over this. I'm not kidding you. They will divide attitudes within the church, within the body of Christ, over this very issue. And so we have a situation that is occurring not only in Israel but in America where politics is now actually, in my opinion, conforming to prophecy. In other words, it's leading to the very events that the Bible describes as going to happen with regard to the world and Israel.

So that's what we're talking about here today on Viewpoint. A survey came out from Israel National News today saying Israelis lose confidence in Trump on security. New Israeli and US polls show falling or falling confidence in President Trump on Israel's security and declining Democrat support for Israel. Well, that's a very different thing to say losing confidence in Trump on security and also Israel's security and declining Democratic support for Israel because there has been relatively little Democrat support for Israel. In fact, in this country, the Democrats have supported liberal causes and more radical liberal causes at levels of 75 to 80 percent for decades.

So are they actually supporting Israel when they support radically liberal causes in the United States that are contrary to the foundational beliefs of Judaism? You see, there's a great problem going on here, a lack of understanding, and we need to discuss this openly because, friends, it's unfolding right in front of our faces. Rahm Emanuel, potential Democrat presidential candidate and longtime defender of Israel, will denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow in Tel Aviv and deliver a bracing message that the country's relationship with the United States is at a crossroads.

At a crossroads. Well, what defines that crossroads? Politics. But behind the politics is a spiritual cause. The politics are being driven by a foundational spiritual cause rather than the spiritual being driven by politics. Politics is the outflow of spiritual outlook, attitudes, mind, and heartsets.

So Rahm Emanuel says that the future relationship between the United States and Israel cannot stand or survive as it has been. So he's going to direct his remarks at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday to maintain the strength of our ties, he says, "We need significant changes and a new direction." What he's talking about is policy or politics. The upcoming speech from a stalwart of the Democrats' centrist wing is another demonstration of how far the party, the Democrat Party, has shifted away from its historic support of Israel.

About 58% of Democrats say the US is too supportive of the Israelis, according to a new survey by the Associated Press, up from 45% in January 2024. So in other words, 58% now of Democrats say the US is too supportive of Israel, whereas a year ago it was 45%. That's a radical change. Roughly half of Democrats believe that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians. So Rahm Emanuel's proposals will include sanctions on Israel.

In addition, Emanuel will blame Netanyahu for driving Israel to a dead end, emboldened by poor decisions from American leaders. In other words, what he's actually saying is that Israel, through Benjamin Netanyahu, has united too much with American Republican leaders. He didn't mention Donald Trump, but that's what he means. And so therefore you've got to get rid of both of those leaders in order for genuine real relationship between Israel and the US or America to begin to take hold again.

Unconditional support has produced a Prime Minister, he said, who has presumed that his strategic interests would incur no cost if he ignored America's concerns. So now he says that the Prime Minister of Israel should conform lockstep to America's demands, which is just the opposite of the other view which also is being expressed, that you're going too much with America's demands. When are they going to be satisfied? His remarks could prompt a similar fiery response from Netanyahu who famously once called Emanuel, who had ambitions of being the first Jewish Speaker, a self-hating Jew.

Politics that are conforming to prophecy and leading us inevitably, inexorably toward the fulfillment of the prophecies of Zechariah and others who talked about how in the end of the age all the nations ultimately will choreograph themselves against Israel. In Zechariah chapter 12, God says even though all the nations of the earth come together against Jerusalem, which symbolizes Israel, that God is going to come against those nations and destroy them. All of the nations.

Now it's hard for us to believe at this point, many to believe that the United States could possibly come against Israel. But indeed within our country, massive numbers of Jewish people don't much like Israel. And they certainly don't like Israel from a biblical or spiritual standpoint. Maybe from the standpoint that they are Jewish people and their heritage goes back to Israel, but aside from that they have no connection spiritually to Israel and what it represents from a biblical standpoint.

Therefore they are anti-biblical. They do not have a biblical view, and viewpoint determines destiny. So if they don't have a biblical view, they have contrary views to the Bible. Therefore when Rahm Emanuel speaks, he's not speaking as a spiritual leader, even a Jewish spiritual leader, at least from a spiritual standpoint to the issues. He's speaking from a political standpoint. It's all about politics. How can the Democrats take over power in the United States? That's the issue.

That's why Rahm Emanuel is running. And he believes that by going to Israel, Tel Aviv nonetheless, he can turn the tide in the United States of the Democrat Party, the remainder of the Democrat Party, against both Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, in other words any conservative leadership in Israel, and conservative leadership in the United States, i.e., Donald Trump, and destroy them both. That's his goal. And he believes he's the man to do it as a Jew.

It's very interesting. So Emanuel's speech represents an opening bid on some possible answers. He says that Israel is now rich enough that it should receive no US subsidy for its military procurement. Well, isn't it interesting though that Benjamin Netanyahu has also said the same thing? So why is Mr. Emanuel going over there to say this when Netanyahu has already said the same thing and that we're taking steps to hopefully eventually make Israel independent from US largesse in terms of military support, at least in terms of equipment?

So even there he's taking the Trump administration's position and Netanyahu's position completely out of hand and tried to usurp the position for himself as if somehow that is going to give him curry favor within the Democrat Party in the United States and then also gain the liberal view there in Israel, which is very much like the liberal view in the United States, and choreograph them together to take down conservative views and even biblical views with regard to Israel and the United States and thus preserve or completely bring together a very liberal and non-biblical view, non-spiritual view of Israel and the United States.

That's why what we're looking at here is politics that's conforming to prophecy. That's what it is, politics conforming to prophecy, and we should expect that this would take place. So when an article from CNN comes out today and says Rahm Emanuel will deliver painful, painful truths on Israel in his Tel Aviv speech, well, from his viewpoint they're painful truths because he has a completely different viewpoint. He does not have a spiritual viewpoint. He doesn't seem to have a spiritual bone in his body. He is basically a liberal Jew but deemed to be in mainstream Democrat politics.

So he believes and those around him, such as Bill Clinton and even Obama, believe that Rahm Emanuel may be just the man to do it. So guess what? He has met with Clinton and with Obama to present the ideas of his speech so that they can be of one mind, one heart, but where do you think Clinton and Obama are with regard to Israel? Where do you think they are with regard to any kind of biblical viewpoint concerning Israel and her future? They're not with it. That's not the eyes that they look through. They look through power-politic eyes. Power-politic eyes.

So this is where we are at this unique moment in history, and whether or not you realize it or not, this is actually revealing what we talked about years ago concerning the battle for King of the Mountain. You remember the book, King of the Mountain: The Eternal Epic End-Time Battle for He Who Rules the Temple Mount is Deemed to Rule the World. Well, who is it that is deemed to rule the Temple Mount? The liberal Jews are not interested in the Temple Mount in particular. Only Bible-believing or Orthodox Jews are interested in the Temple Mount. The rest of them think the Temple Mount is irrelevant.

Jews in America, unless they're Orthodox Jews, basically believe that the Temple Mount is irrelevant. So anything regarding the Temple Mount, if some other party wants to take over the Temple Mount, oh well, oh well, what difference? They're not connected with the God of the Bible, and therefore the Temple Mount means nothing. The same would be true for many professing Christians who believe, well, since God doesn't live in temples made with hands, then what's the deal with the Temple Mount?

Or since Jesus, Yeshua, is the Lamb who was once sacrificed once and for all, there's no need for temple sacrifices anymore which demand a temple, therefore why should we be concerned as Christians about the temple or the Temple Mount? The reason, friends, is because the ultimate goal of world powers politically is to rule and reign on this world, in this world, from the Temple Mount. That's the reason.

And unless and until you've read the book King of the Mountain, you're going to have a hard time comprehending how deep that draw really is. So I urge you to get a copy if you don't have the book. Get a copy immediately because it'll help to understand what is taking place and it's moving more rapidly at this point than we would expect. And it's all surrounding politics now. American politics. Which means that the US is setting itself up as a leader in the battle for King of the Mountain. Politically. Don't take these words lightly, friends. That's what's happening.

We might not have believed it would happen, but it is happening. And will the US be the leader of a coalition of folk of nations who will make their bid to rule and reign over the planet from the Temple Mount? The Pope's already declared that. Not this Pope, but the Papacy has declared their intent to rule and reign over the world from the Temple Mount and believe they already have been given that authorization. Iran believes it has given authorization, been given authorization to rule the world from the Temple Mount.

So what we're looking at, friends, is something that is coming together politically, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, ultimately moving to the fulfillment of biblical prophecy that everything is moving toward who will rule and reign from Mount Zion, the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

So we're going to take a look as we move forward here today at some of the not just the general views but what's happening even within the Republican Party, even within the GOP, the Republican Party. For instance, here's an article from the Christian Post today, Generational Divide Emerging in GOP Over Israel. Hmm. A generational divide. Now please keep that in mind, a generational divide. Things are changing, friends, on the ground. Politics are changing on the ground. In America and in Israel. The young people, Millennials and Generation Z, are turning against spiritual Israel, spiritual America, and are increasingly embracing a totally secular viewpoint.

Even more so than the previous American Jew majorities that have existed in this country. Roughly 76 to 86 percent of American Jews have voted Democrat. They are liberal, they're not spiritual, they're not consistent with the word, will, and ways of God. They're like reform Jews that do not believe in the authority of Scripture. They don't have a view of biblical prophecy. And so what we're looking at is a very serious change in politics. It's becoming more and more liberal, more and more dedicated against the authority of Scripture, more and more walking away from a biblical vision of history and prophecy.

So we have to come to the conclusion, well, what does this mean? What are the implications of this? Here is an article that just came out today, Generational Divide Emerging in GOP Over Israel. Support for Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has continued to decline among Americans with an apparent generational shift emerging even among Republicans over the issue. Now why is that? It's not talking about Republicans in general. It's talking about young Republicans.

The survey of over 3,000 US adults last month found that about a third of them, including about half Democrats, believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians. The attack which killed approximately 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis prompted a retaliatory response from Israel which led to about 70,000 Palestinian deaths. And so now the responsibility has shifted. Well, it's Israel's fault. While young Republicans are still much more pro-Israel than young Democrats, they are less uniformly supportive than older Republicans, according to this new Associated Press poll that recorded genocide perceptions.

Only 13% of Republicans described Israel's actions against Palestine as genocide, though the poll showed a generational divergence that indicates softening support and greater criticism toward Israel among those under 45. That's Republicans under 45. Why is that? I'm going to tell it to you very simply. It's because we have given gradually over the past 60 years continuing authority to our feelings. Feelings have superseded faith. Feelings have superseded facts. Feelings have become predominant in our decision making and therefore politics. That's what's happening and why it's happening. Whether or not you like that or agree with it is another matter.

The problem is not with feelings by themselves. The problem is with the underlying support for those feelings and how they align with what God has said, with the biblical viewpoint. If our feelings do not come into alignment with a biblical viewpoint, they are not godly. They are not biblical. And so unfortunately what has happened is ever since I would say the early 1970s, maybe the 1960s when my wife and I were married back then in 1966, ever since then feelings have become increasingly the Lord of Americans. The basis upon which decisions are made.

Even in 1970, the public schools in California were mandated, the teachers were mandated to go to special weekend classes to be reoriented as to how you can talk about truth. You might think that's strange, but it is what happened and yours truly had to go to them because I was a public school teacher at that time. We had to go to Palos Verdes, California, where indeed they held these groups for at least for Southern California and they were called encounter groups. Encounter groups.

And it was a psychological fad at that time. So no longer were we allowed to speak in terms of truth or in terms of facts or even opinion. We had to say, "I feel." Everything had to be rephrased as "I feel." I that may sound strange to you, but I'm telling you the absolute truth and that's how it came to become the Lord of a country that metastasized not through the just through the secular school system but through the church itself. After that time, throughout the 1970s, the music in the church changed. It changed to a much more lilting kind of a music, a touchy-feely kind of thing. It was no longer about the truths of God's word, it's about how do I feel about the truths of God's word.

And over the past 50, 60 years since then, that has increased. The focus has increased in the so-called worship music and so on, away from truth and embraced on feelings. Now again there's nothing wrong with feelings of themselves, but the feelings have to come with a foundation rooted in truth, in facts, in faith, and in truth. But when that anchor is severed, you've got a problem. And that's what's happening now in politics. It's what's driving now the change of viewpoint concerning America's role with Israel.

Even the Democrat Truman, Harry Truman, was the one who actually stood in the gap on behalf of America to recognize Israel as a nation in 1948. He stood in the gap resisting the Democrat Party, resisting the United States State Department and said, "No, this is what we're going to do." So we can give great kudos to Harry S. Truman. But since that time, the Democrat Party has not had that viewpoint and has gradually whittled away because of the lordship of feelings and the necessity of creating political ideas that go along with the feelings of the culture.

So no longer was truth to be depended upon as the shall we say the anchor for our feelings or the foundation for our feelings but rather the culture and feelings themselves. That means that even within the Republican Party now, that was the strongest supporter of Israel, even though there were 75 to 80 percent of the Jewish people in America that voted, but they all they all voted Democrat. They did not have a view of Israel that was consistent with the Bible. They just did not. They had a view of Israel that was consistent with coming out of communism in Russia, where vast numbers of Jewish people came from, both into Israel and into America.

Now, approximately two in ten Republicans under 45 claim Israel has committed genocide, whereas Republicans over 45 only one in ten. In other words, twice as many people, Republican voters in America under 45, now believe a radically different view of Israel. Why is that? Because that group of people has been raised on the lordship of feelings, that's how. It's a very simple, you may think it's too simplistic, but I think it's not. It's not too simplistic. It does help us to understand why things have come the way they are.

So that leads us to another problem, and that is this piece that came out today from Israel National News, Israelis lose confidence in Trump on security. New Israeli and US polls show falling confidence in President Trump on Israel's security and declining Democrat support for Israel. Okay. Now what this is telling me is they do not like the United States taking a leadership role that ends up in violence or the fact of shall we say playing fiddle to feelings in the Palestinian issue.

Even though it was Hamas that attacked Israel, unprovoked, wiped out 1,200 people instantly. That's all forgotten. The fact that Israel came in response after years and years and years of this and said we're going to clean out Hamas from Gaza. But Hamas resisted. Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Whether you knew it or not, Hamas is absolutely unmitigatedly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. So is Hezbollah in the north. But these touchy-feely new younger folk in America can't they can't stomach the fact that somebody something strong has to be done to remedy a problem that is intransigent and is destroying Israel's ability to live in peace.

They just can't handle it. And so they lose confidence. Well, if we couldn't resolve the problem instantly and it's going to continue to have there's going to be some violence and there are going to things that we don't like, then well, we're going to have to turn against it because we're just going to have to have peace at any price. Friends, that's the lordship of feelings. Peace at any price. You can't make peace with the devil. You can't make peace with the devil. You can't make peace with outrageous dedicated evil. You can't.

That's why the Scripture says through the prophets, "Men will cry peace, peace, but there will be no peace." Who doesn't want peace? Everybody wants peace. Israel wants peace, you want peace, most people want peace. But Iran doesn't want peace. How do we know that? Because they have decreed down with America and down with Israel. Israel is called the little Satan, America is called the great Satan, and they are dedicated to the destruction of both. They don't want peace, friends.

What they want is Sharia law to rule over both America and Israel and the whole world, and then they say we'll have peace. Is that what you want? See, Americans don't understand this, don't want to understand it, especially younger Americans. So they wring their hands because we don't have peace. Here's Donald Trump is trying to give Iran opportunity to come to the table, get rid of its nuclear power, and come to terms and say yes, let's have peace. They don't want it. They don't want it because they're dedicated to the destruction of America and Israel and to intimidate the world through the development of chaos worldwide to usher in their Islamic Messiah called the Mahdi.

Now if you want to find out a little bit more about the this, get a copy of my book King of the Mountain. People have said, "Chuck, how could you have written this book when you did? It's like it says exactly what's happening right now. It's telling us exactly what's happening right now." I believe it's because the Lord has led me to write these books in order to prepare people for what is coming and know how to respond to it, how to answer it, how to form ideas, opinions, commitment to the Lord and to His word and to hope for the future.

We were talking about the Power to Overcome, my 12th book just getting ready to come out. The Overcomers Project that we've been talking about is that for your gift of $250 to Save America Ministries, which will be totally tax-deductible, we will provide 10 copies of the Power to Overcome when it comes out to you. And then the idea is that you will be giving that out to your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family, people in your sphere of influence, maybe your pastor and so on, in order to get the message out because people are not prepared. They're just not.

They don't even know what it is that they have to overcome. It's like what do you mean overcome? You mean I got to be able to buy groceries at the grocery store or something? No, that's not what we're talking about. Something far more important, far more serious than that. The power to overcome: how to triumph in troubled times. See, there's a reason why eight times in the book of Revelation alone, God calls to the church to be overcomers. And if you're not an overcomer, that means you're overcome. And the blessings of God do not come to those who are overcome but only to those who are overcomers, thus saith the Lord. Thus saith Jesus in the book of Revelation, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

That's why this is important. We're talking about the current tension that's arising between the United States and Israel. It's a drama that is developing right in front of our eyes and it's a demonstration that politics is conforming to prophecy. In other words, setting the stage for the fulfillment of biblical prophecy where all the nations come together against Israel, including the US.

Now here is a development that has just taken place. A survey indicates that Israelis are losing confidence in Trump on security. New Israeli and US polls show falling confidence in President Trump on Israel security and declining Democrat support for Israel. All right. What is this about? Well, there are widening disagreements in the US over US efforts to broker a nuclear deal with Iran. The share of Israelis who believe Trump prioritizes Israel security has seen a collapse from 44% in May to 28% in June. In other words, a collapse of 16 points in just two months. That's unbelievable.

Just over one third of Israelis say they believed Israel's strategic security situation is better today than it was before the war with Iran. They do not understand and cannot understand how intransigent the situation with Iran is, how utterly devastating the situation is with Iran because they're dedicated. It's not somebody you can make peace with. You cannot make peace, not legitimate peace, with Iran as long as they're led by those who are committed to the destruction of America and the destruction of Israel as the forerunners of taking over the world under Sharia law. There's no way you can truly make peace with them. No matter how much you wish you could, you cannot.

Now what concerns me is that Donald Trump somehow thinks you can. And so he continues to hold out. He said, "If you don't, if you don't do this, we're going to have to come in and destroy you," but he's giving every opportunity for them to come along and knuckle under, shall we say, and save the rest of Iran from further destruction. In one sense, you could say that's good. But he believes fundamentally that you can make peace with Iran. I don't believe you can. And even if you purport to make peace with Iran, it will not be a legitimate agreement because they have no intent or intention upon keeping such an agreement. They believe in something called taqiyya, which is lying to advance the cause of Islam. That's what they believe. If that's what you believe, then that's how you act. And if the rest of the world doesn't understand that or doesn't accept that, you're going to be in trouble.

Now the next thing that's came to my attention just today was this announcement from CNN: Netanyahu warns against possible US sale of F-35 jets to Turkey. Netanyahu told CNN that he urged Trump directly not to sell jets to Turkey as doing so would destroy the power balance in the Middle East. He's absolutely right. Netanyahu is absolutely right. Selling the F-35 stealth fighters to Turkey is to me it's unfathomable that our President would do such a thing.

Turkey's not a friendly state to the US, nor to Israel. It's a regime that's infected with the Muslim Brotherhood that hates the US. So what's going on here? Well, Trump sidles up to hard guys like Erdogan and he says, "You know, we've got a good relationship with Mr. Erdogan and he's a nice guy and so on." Well, he may be a nice guy to Donald Trump, but he's not a nice guy to Israel. He intends to rule the world, friends. Mr. Erdogan has converted Turkey to a fundamentalist Islamic state and intends to rule the world under Sharia law. They hate Iran.

Did you hear that? Turkey hates Iran. One is Shiite, the other is Sunni, and they hate each other. They each intend to rule the world for their own power, their own sakes, and Erdogan has one of the highest, largest militaries in the world. Did you know that for Turkey? So if our President gives them state-of-the-art F-35 jets, for what purpose? Is he thinking it's for the purpose of fighting off Iran? Ain't going to work that way. It's not going to work that way.

This is a very dangerous thing our President is doing, or considering doing, in my opinion. Now you may disagree with my opinion, but Turkey is one of those nations I believe that is going to be part of the confederation of nations that will attack Israel in the Battle of Gog and Magog. If you only understood what the Bible says. If we only understood and agreed with biblical prophecy, it would help us to understand what kind of political positions we should take. But we don't. We think that everything works the same as business as usual. That Turkey, that Iran, that the Muslim world can be dealt with in the same way as the Western world. You can't. They have radically different belief systems. The Muslim world is dedicated to take over the rest of the world by their own declarations. Those are the words of Muhammad in his writings, all of them.

And so we either take them at their word or not. That's what they say. Why do we think otherwise? Because we just can't believe that anybody would be like that. We can't believe that people would be so so sold out that they'd be willing to cause their children to be sacrificed carrying weapons into war at age 12, which they do. Viewpoint determines destiny, friends. It does. Our viewpoint today determines destiny. Would to God that we shared His viewpoint. It would help us to have peace, more peace in our hearts and in our souls, instead of trying to superimpose our earthly thinking and feelings on top of what God has said.

Why not just simply agree with what He's said and say, "Okay, that I understand and I'm going to conduct my thinking accordingly. I will support those who support Israel, not support everything that Israel says or does, the Jewish people say or do. No, that's not what God calls us to do." But He does call us to have basic support. He said, "You bless Israel, and I'll take care of their correction and their judgment." All you have to do is read the prophets and that's exactly what they say.

God is going to have His day. In the book of Zechariah, we find that God is going to have His day with regard to judging Israel to whom much, much more was given and therefore much more is required and two thirds of them are going to lose their lives in the final stages of world history. That's God's discipline, His judgment. It happened in the Holocaust, but what happens in fulfillment of Zechariah is going to be double what happened in the Holocaust. Double for all their sins.

So then what would God do in America? How would He judge us? Are we doing any better than Israel? Are we any more faithful to the word, will, and ways of God? Are we? Maybe we should start looking at ourselves instead of trying to fix everybody else's mistakes. Maybe we should begin by repentance and fixing our own. What do you think? Just asking. Get a copy of the book King of the Mountain, you won't be disappointed. Join us again next time on Viewpoint as we confront the issues of America's heart and home. God bless and be a blessing.