Elisha Vision – Commentary

I have long admired Sali Kirchen, affectionately known as the LSW Long Suffering Wife, of Yaakov Kirchen. I had the honor of speaking with them briefly on one of my visits to Israel He was Israel’s most beloved cartoonist, famous for his Dry Bones cartoon commentary dating back to 1973 in the Jerusalem Post. Since he passed, his memory is a blessing, and Sali has continued by posting appropriate cartoons for today’s events. She does a great job. This cartoon I have used today is strikingly prescient. Here was Sali’s introduction to today’s cartoon:

“Good News – Bad News  The good news is that we love and trust our Christian believer friends instead of fear them. Look, for example, at Mike Huckabee, the American Ambassador to Israel.  Yaakov knew that they were our allies. But the bad news is that the situation on our university campuses has gotten even much, much worse. Here is a fun and ironic Dry Bones cartoon from 2005.” 

This Dry Bones cartoon was prescient because it really was: “Perceiving the significance of events before they occur.” There was plenty of evidence in history for Jews to fear Christians because of crusades, pogroms, national expulsions of all Jews, and of course, the Holocaust. As far as the Jews knew, Hitler was a Lutheran Christian. Today’s Zionist Christians totally repudiate Hitler and the Nazis as Satanic evil. Yet, even today there is rising antisemitism in “Christian” churches. I put it in quotes because those are non-Biblical churches. Most of the mainline churches have rejected the Bible as God’s Word, which is the very definition of apostasy. Even in Hitler’s Germany there were true Christian believers who understood the overwhelming evidence of God’s faithfulness to Israel. They hid Jews and fought against the Nazis. That minority of believers are now honored by Israel as “the righteous among the nations.”

Antisemitism is not only on our campuses today, it is in mainline churches and even threatening Bible churches through the lies and propaganda. Christian Zionists number in the millions in America and are Israel’s staunchest supporters, yet we are in the minority of “Christendom,” a term I use to delineate unbelievers who call themselves Christians but deny the Bible. This distinction may also apply to Jews. Some believe God and His promised Messiah, but many have turned away to worldly pursuits. Christians believe Jesus/Yeshua is the Messiah while believing Jews believe in the Messiah to come. I welcome the day when all true believers agree on the true Messiah.

So, the dilemma of which I speak, is a choice for Jews and Christians as well. Are we standing with God’s ancient purpose and promises revealed in the Bible? Or, are we choosing the path of self pleasure and worldly gain? Choose wisely.

“Now therefore, fear Yehovah, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve Yehovah! And if it seems evil to you to serve Yehovah choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Yehovah.” Joshua 24:14-15

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

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Why  do I use God’s literal covenant Name: Yehovah? Here is a link to the explanation in my book: The Hebrew God Who Has No Name. And here is a link to a great visual from my friend Keith Johnson.