Summary:
The combination of hawkish neo-Conservative foreign policy
has combined with Christian apocalyptic “end-times” and Jewish messianic
speculation to form a dangerous and delusional mix. Much of the religious
thinking that goes into this mix is based on biblical prophecy, with modern “seers”
and “prophets” witnessing these visions being fulfilled in our day. But this
completely misreads the nature of biblical prophecy and misuses those biblical
prophetic visions. The biblical prophets were not fortune tellers. They were
responding to crucial developments that were unfolding in their own day and
guiding their contemporary community through these crucial developments. The
true problem arises when these would-be modern prophets, who are all too anxious
to bring on the end-times, are able to influence policy that could lead us into
an apocalyptic cataclysm from which no one would emerge unscathed.
