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By Author: Doug Krieger
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ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

Syria has become a priority target of US/Israeli preemption in the War on Terrorism. The recent Mosul homicide bomber only validates the Syrian connection, as far as US military strategists are concerned. Our last blog highlighted how neocon policy makers and think tanks (both in America and in Israel) have sought to deterrorize the region.

The effort at Mideast reconfiguration on the part of these strategists has been to defang Saddam Hussein first, thereby encircling Syria; and from thence, to neutralize Iran. Although Israelis have brought the Hashemite monarchy into the equation (i.e., as a tribal strategy after Saddam's demise for Iraq), that particular gift to Jordan may not be necessary, given the fact that a working democracy is all that matters in Iraq in any event—notwithstanding Osama's calls for Iraqis to boycott the January 2005 elections.

How Syria's overthrow can be justified by these policy makers was repeatedly demonstrated in the last article; so now, as promised, we will discuss the Biblical ramifications of the equation—and this is ...
... the part that the Left just loves to hate (whereas they most likely enjoyed our initial secular analysis); but, we're not out to please either the Left nor the Right—we'll settle for the ABSOLUTE TRUTH (don't you just love that expression—it sounds so final and almost pompous; don't mean it to be that way, but if you want to take it that way, be our guest).

DETOUR ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTED LIBERAL CONFUSION & BIBLICAL HEREMENEUTICS (i.e., interpreting methods in Bible Study)

While taking our excursion down the Road to Damascus, we encountered a most troubling and confusing theological phenomenon known as Augustinian Malaise—a not so subtle immune deficiency disorder afflicting both the Liberal wing of the Church (throughout the world), as well as Evangelical Dominionists who are theologically allied with their Liberal foes. Both wish to reform the current governmental social order—whether they wish to admit it or not. At least the Evangelical Dominionists (THIS IS AN EXCELLENT SITE) admit it; whilst their erstwhile liberal allies, who abhor anything that bespeaks of inerrancy, denounce their theologically allied Dominionist compatriots.

These Liberal foes have no theological idea to whom they are theologically united—instead they abhor the barbaric fundamentalists who ascribe to a more Biblical hermeneutical eschatology. These Scofield-Darbyites, along with their total distortions of the real Jesus, have been (in liberalism's progressive dialect) a disaster to American Christianity, whereas PROGRESSIVE and, therefore, enlightened Christian Liberalism's embrace of Augustinian spiritualization of the Revelation text, demonstrates the real intent of the prophetic Scriptures which is far and away the true spirit of Christianity and its gospel of love and social justice!

Christian liberalism (now that their brand of Christianity has been wholly given over to higher biblical criticism and the historical Jesus can only spiritualize their prophetic voice and speak in metaphors and symbolisms from the Revelation—hardly a tangible reflection of where most American Christians position themselves today!

Furthermore, what really irks the spiritualizing Liberals is the current Administration's total embrace of evangelical literalism's Armageddon scenario—man, does that one get their Liberal goat or what! Anyway, just as the liberals ignorantly and simplistically lump all evangelicals into one camp (i.e., the Biblical inerrant/literalist camp); they do so at their own peril by throwing the baby out with the bath water. In sum: Not all literalists are your enemies—in point of fact: Biblical literalism that does NOT subscribe to Tim LaHaye's triumphal Christianity MAY be your ultimate anecdote within America's current Southern brand of resurgent evangelicalism.


THE BURDEN OF DAMASCUS

The passages found in Isaiah 17 and 18, Joel 2, Ezekiel 38-39 (including chapters 36-37), Daniel 11, as well as the temple passages in Ezekiel 40-43, Zechariah 9-14; and, finally, Amos 1:3-5, will be covered in our eschatological intrusion along the Road to Damascus.

The Apostle Paul's conversion on the Road to Damascus turned the fledgling Christian faith, and the world at large, upside down! The question abides: Amongst all the external manifestations of fulfilled prophecy in the Bible (e.g., Israel's rebirth in 1948; along with Jerusalem's recognition as the Capitol of the Jewish State and its 1967 take over by the Jews; and, the ever-advancing incursions of the West vs. Islamic fundamentalism) is there another Syrian Connection that will turn the world upside down? I believe so . . . . let us examine these passages and the immediate eschatological implications of what we now face (Liberal Christianity hang in there . . . ).


THE SYRIAN ESCHATOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS

Throughout these eschatological discoveries, we shall adhere to the following (and, just because it makes rational sense doesn't mean that the Bible is happenstance in its prophetical conjectures):


(1) Syria/Damascus will be the NEXT major prophetical happening among the Gentile nations—she shall find herself in a major conflagration with both the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) and, secondarily, USA-led coalition forces. This shall primarily be an Israeli orchestrated, but USA-approved, military endeavor. Its primary purpose will be to:

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