Charismatic False Teaching - Afrikaans

April 1, 2025

Valse Charismatiese Leerstellings.®

Joseph Chambers / Charismatic False Teaching

“ En Hy antwoord: Pas op dat julle nie mislei word nie; want baie sal onder my Naam kom en sê: Dit is ek! en: Die tyd is naby! Gaan dan nie agter hulle aan nie”. (Luk 21:8)

Niks het meer skade aan die Pinkster en Charismatiese bewegings aangerig soos die valse leerstelling oor die werke van die Heilige Gees nie en die gevolg daarvan is dat daar baie min oorgebly het van die vroeë Pinkster bewegings wat nog vasgehou het aan Waarheid.

Daar is baie ‘n groot verskil tussen die Charisma gawes wat ons vandag in die Charismatiese bewegings sien en dit wat in die Woord van die Here opgeteken is.

Kom ons kyk na sommige van die verskille:
Fortuin vertelling; waarsêery wat genoem word “Persoonlike Profesieë”
Die gebedstaal misleiding.
Bonatuurlike gebede: Towerspreuke wat gesien word as gebed.
Charismatiese aanbiddings.
Die Charismatiese gees.
Satan is ‘n Besetter
Die Charismatiese gees

Persoonlike profesie.

Hierdie vals idee van persoonlike profesie wat niks anders as fortuin vertellery, of waarsêery is nie wat in die laaste twee dekades deur die misleide Charismatiese wêreld gepromoveer word en dit het vandag ‘n groot probleem vir baie kerke geword. Mense soos Paul Crouch en Pat Robertson en baie van hulle meelopers het vir hulle fortuine bymekaar gemaak deur die gees van waarsêery en so het hulle groot TV netwerke opgebou wat mense nog verder in die verderf inlei. Hulle gebruik die Bybelse Fondasie as ‘n vlaggie oor hierdie misleiding, en die gees van waarsêery word valslik genoem die Gawe van Kennis en van Profesie, dit is egter net so vals as Lucifer self!

Die gelowige word gelei deur die Heilige Skrifte en die inwonende Heilige Gees, en nie deur ‘n eensydige profesie nie. Vandag word daar duisende sogenaamde ‘profesieë’ kunstig ontwerp en duisende manne en vroue jaag agter hierdie reënboog aan omdat hulle in hulle ore gestreel wil wees deur hierdie valse profesieë. Baie mense se lewens word vandag ingerig volgens hierdie waarsêery en dit is waarom hulle na hierdie profete stroom.

Maar die Woord van die Here sê vir ons baie eenvoudig: “En ons het die profetiese woord wat baie vas is, waarop julle tog moet ag gee soos op 'n lamp wat in 'n donker plek skyn, totdat die dag aanbreek en die môrester opgaan in julle harte; terwyl julle veral dít moet weet, dat geen profesie van die Skrif 'n

saak van eie uitlegging is nie; want geen profesie is ooit deur die wil van 'n mens voortgebring nie, maar, deur die Heilige Gees gedrywe, het die heilige mense van God gespreek” (2Pet.1:19?21)

Geen Skrif of profesie of uitleg is ‘n eensydige verklaring nie. Ons moet altyd geestelike dinge (woorde) met geestelike (woorde) vergelyk. Petrus die apostel wat saam was met die Verheerliking van Christus op die berg het gepraat van die Getuienis wat ons Hemelse Vader vir Sy Seun Jesus Christus gegee het, en ook sê Petrus: “En ons het die profetiese woord wat baie vas is” wat hy verklaar die Woord van God, en dat geen profesie van die Skrifte deur die mens se wil gebring kan word nie. Met ander woorde, Profesie is ‘n Gawe soos al die ander Gawes wat bedoel is vir die hele gemeente, die Gawe van Profesie is DEUR ‘n persoon en nie VIR ‘n persoon nie. Dit mag nie deur mense gebruik word om mense se persoonlike lewens te manipuleer en te beheer nie. 'n Persoon ontvang die Woord van die Here en pas dit wat betrekking op homself het op homself toe. Geen mens moet probeer om ‘n ander se lewe te regeer nie. Mense wat met persoonlike profesie besig is skep die idee by mense dat hulle sekere uitverkore goddelike kennis van God ontvang het, m.a.w. hulle skep die idee dat hulle met die Heilige Gees wandel! By die fortuin vertellers is dit presies dieselfde. Fortuin vertellers skep die idee by mense dat hulle sekere persoonlike kennis oor hulle lewens besit.

Vandag is daar ’n menigte misleiers wat misbruik maak van pragtige mense en hulle verlei met hulle gebabbel deur die gees van waarsêery.

Moet asseblief nie u ore uitleen vir hierdie valsheid nie want elke Wedergebore siel het die Inwonende Heilige Gees binne in hom of haar vir Krag en Leiding. Ons het nie hierdie valsheid nodig nie. Die Heilige Gees neem die Woord van die Here en maak dit van toepassing op die lewe van die siel wat dit ontvang, en om enigsins na die gebabbel van hierdie waarsêers te luister is ‘n sekere weg na afval. Hierdie fortuin vertellers se redes gaan gewoonlik net oor goeie werke en dade, leë beloftes en seëninge wat ‘n valse gerusstelling by mense aanwakker, terwyl die Woord van die Here gaan oor lering, teregwysing, belydenis en bekering, en dit is net diegene wat eerlik en getrou is aan die Here wat hierdie dinge elke dag op hulle lewens van toepassing kan maak. Die gees van waarsêery daarenteen het ‘n emosionele uitwerking op die lewens van mense wat hulle in ‘n onnatuurlike staat van gebondenheid bring. Ons Hemelse Vader is geen aannemer van persoon nie, by Hom is almal dieselfde, Hy ken almal se name en Hy het ook die hare op elkeen se hoof getel, en om enigsins daaraan te dink dat jy iemand soos ‘n waarsêer of ‘n guru in jou lewe nodig het om jou lewe te reel en te rig as jy by die kruispaaie in die lewe kom, is niks anders as om die Geloof in die Here jou God te verloën nie.

Daar is baie mense wat vandag van plek tot plek gaan om te hoor of iemand nie dalk vir hulle ‘n woord van kennis het nie, hierdie misleide mense soek nie die Waarheid nie, hulle soek na hulleself. Wat hulle egter moet soek, is die Woord van God, want by Hom is daar rus en vrede. Onthou, wanneer u die Woord van die Here oopmaak dan praat God met u, en wanneer u hierdie Bybel toemaak, dan maak u die Stem van die Here stil.

Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is aan die Gemeente gegee, en die doel van die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is om by ons ‘n drang van verlange aan te vuur om die Krag van God te ontvang en om Sy Wil te doen. Die Heilige Gees werk nooit buite die riglyne van die Woord van God nie?? “En neem aan die helm

van verlossing en die swaard van die Gees??dit is die woord van God???(Ef.6:17). Die Here het nie 'n ander Swaard, of nog ‘n Swaard nie, en om nou te beweer dat hierdie eksotiese strelende gebabbel die Woord van die Here is, is 'n totale misleiding.

Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is vir die Liggaam van Christus, vir die gemeente, en Hy is nie daar vir ‘n persoon om beheer oor ander mense se lewens uit te oefen nie. Ja, daar kan soveel as net twee of drie bymekaar wees om die Woord van die Here te ontvang, maar nooit is die Gawe ‘n persoonlike Gawe nie, maar dit is altyd deur ‘n persoon vir die gemeente. Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees sal die Waarheid Verlig, Hy sal altyd onder alle omstandighede die Here Jesus Christus Verheerlik. (Die Woord het Vlees geword) Die Heilige Gees sal op ‘n bonatuurlike wyse die Woord van die Here aan die gemeente openbaar, Hy is ‘n Woord van Kennis. Die persoonlike toepassing van ‘n boodskap is 'n persoonlike verantwoordelikheid.

Die Here sê kom nou, (op hierdie oomblik) dat ons die saak uitmaak. (Jes. 1:18a)

Moet nie toelaat dat u deur valse leerstellings mislei word nie, maar weet dit dat die Wil van God ook vir u is. Die Ware Gawe van onderskeiding, of ‘n Woord van Kennis maak ‘n absolute skeiding tussen dit wat waaragtig en opreg en dit wat vals is.

In ‘n Gees vervulde gemeente sal die pastoor of die leier weet van enige probleme in sy gemeente en ook wat hulle nodig het sodra dit begin ontwikkel. Die Woord van die Here sê ons moet mekaar se laste dra, en ons liefde vir mekaar sal hierdie dinge openbaar. Die Heilige Gees sal ons volgens die riglyne van die Woord dra, deur of teregwysing, onderwysing, lering, belydenis en bekering??dit is die Werk van die Heilige Gees, en onthou, die Skrifte is die Vlees van die Here Jesus, Hy alleen word verheerlik.

In ‘n gemeente sal daar ‘n senior pastoor en ook ondergeskiktes wees om sy laste ligter te maak, maar almal moet hulle persoonlik onderwerp aan die Wil van God omdat die Here Jesus die Hoof van die Gemeente is, en ook omdat die Gawes van die Heilige Gees en die Liggaam van Christus onafskeidbaar is, die Gemeente s 'n Eenheid in die Gees. Hallulujah!! Wat ‘n heerlike plek van gemeenskap vir die kinders en dissipels van God. Prys U Heilige Naam!

Die Gebedstaal misleiding

Een van die sleutel misleidings van die Charismatiese Golf (New Wave) is iets wat hulle ‘n Gebedstaal noem, maar soos wat dit is met enige misleiding, is dit ‘n Bybelse Waarheid in om in die Gees te kan bid. (Daar is altyd regte kaas in 'n muisval)

Paulus skrywe in sy Brief aan die Korinte: “Want as ek in 'n taal bid, dan bid my gees, maar my verstand is onvrugbaar. Hoe staan die saak dan? Ek sal met die gees bid, maar ek sal ook met die verstand bid. Ek sal met die gees psalmsing, maar ek sal ook met die verstand psalmsing”. (1Kor.14:14?15) Judas praat ook van hierdie Waarheid: “Maar julle, geliefdes, moet julleself opbou in jul allerheiligste geloof en in die Heilige Gees bid.” (Jud.1:20)

Ons moet ook kyk na wat Paulus aan die kerk van Rome gesê het. Hierdie is ‘n kragtige boodskap wat vir ons die Krag van die Heilige Gees in ‘n gelowige uitbeeld. “En net so kom ook die Gees ons swakhede te

hulp, want ons weet nie reg wat ons moet bid nie, maar die Gees self tree vir ons in met onuitspreeklike sugtinge. En Hy wat die harte deursoek, weet wat die bedoeling van die Gees is, omdat Hy ooreenkomstig die wil van God vir die heiliges intree. (Rom.8:26?27)

Ons moet verstaan dat daar ‘n groot waarheid is om in die Heilige Gees te kan bid. Die verskil tussen die Charismatiese misleiding en dit wat die Woord van die Here leer kan egter baie maklik uitgewys word. In die Woord van die Here is die Heilige Gees absoluut Verhewe en Heilig wanneer Hy die Woord van die Here aan ‘n Heilige Gees vervulde gelowige gee. Die mens kan onder geen omstandighede deur sy of haar eie wil, deur die Heilige Gees bid nie!

In die Charismatiese wêreld word die Heiligheid van die Heilige Gees omseil en die hele idee word niks anders as ‘n sielskrag gebabbel nie. Net die wete dat iemand ter eniger tyd kan kies om in die Gees te bid is totaal ondenkbaar en dit is vals. God laat Hom nie manipuleer nie, en so sien ons dat hierdie mense wil voorgee dat hulle die Heilige Gees te eniger tyd kan gebied tot hulle voordeel, hulle speel God. Dit is vals en ondenkbaar maar dit is wat mense vandag wil voorgee! Die mens wat homself wil verhef bo die Godheid! Alle werke en manifestasies in die bediening van die Heilige Gees is absoluut Heilig en die Wil van God, en nie deur die wil van ‘n mens nie. “??want geen profesie is ooit deur die wil van 'n mens voortgebring nie, maar, deur die Heilige Gees gedrywe, het die heilige mense van God gespreek”. (2Pet.1:21) “En toe die dag van die pinksterfees aangebreek het, was hulle almal eendragtig bymekaar. En daar kom skielik uit die hemel 'n geluid soos van 'n geweldige rukwind, en dit het die hele huis gevul waar hulle gesit het. Toe is deur hulle tonge gesien soos van vuur, wat hulleself verdeel en op elkeen van hulle gaan sit. En hulle is almal vervul met die Heilige Gees en het begin spreek in ander tale, soos die Gees aan hulle gegee het om uit te spreek”. (Hand.2:1?4)

Hier sien ons dat elke stukkie getuienis van die uitstorting van die Heilige Gees absoluut net deur die Wil van God, en deur die Heilige Gees plaasgevind het. Die manne en vroue wat hier saam op die Koms van die Heilige Gees gewag het was net die werktuie waardeur God deur die Krag van die Heilige Gees, Jesus Christus aan die ongereddes geopenbaar het. Alle Geestelike Gawes is Gawes van die Heilige Gees en nie gawes van die heiliges nie. Hierdie is Geestelike Gawes soos wat die woord dit vir ons uitspel, en nie vleeslike gawes nie.

Ons is natuurlike skepsels totdat ons volgens die Wil van God deur die Heilige Gees gesalf word. Ons geestelike lewe na ons wedergebore word geskik deur die Geestelike Werke en Gawes van die Gees van God en nie volgens ons wil nie, maar volgens die Wil van God. Om in ander tale te praat is maar een van die Gawes.

Wanneer u hoor dat mense hulle Gebedstaal gebruik dan moet u weet dit is vals en kragteloos, en dit is niks anders as ‘n gebabbel nie, en al resultate wat deur dit verkry kan word is ‘n geestelike hoogmoed by die gebruikers daarvan en dit is geestelike misleiding.

Valse geestelike ondervindings ontwikkel ‘n valse godsdienstige gees in almal wat verbonde is aan 'n persoon, plek of kerk waar dit verkondig word. Hoe dieper ‘n persoon betrokke raak in hierdie soort mistieke manifestasies, hoe meer raak hy of sy gebonde aan allerhande soorte vreemde openbarings.

Een van die vroeë misleidings was juis die vreemde gebedstaal, manifestasie en die resultaat daarvan is geeste van slange, geestelike dronkenskap, vervalste leerstellings en ‘n beweging wat gedryf word deur die wilde wêreld van duiwels. Die Woord van die Here leer: “En net so kom ook die Gees ons swakhede te hulp, want ons weet nie reg wat ons moet bid nie, maar die Gees self tree vir ons in met onuitspreeklike sugtinge. En Hy wat die harte deursoek, weet wat die bedoeling van die Gees is, omdat Hy ooreenkomstig die wil van God vir die heiliges intree.” (Rom.8:26?27)

Die Werke van die Heilige Gees is wanneer Hy ons gees en lippe gebruik om woorde tot ons Hemelse Vader te spreek. Om nou enigsins te dink dat hierdie Krag deur die vlees gemanipuleer kan word is totaal ondenkbaar en absoluut teenstrydig met die instellings van God. Dit kan of die werk van die Heilige Gees, of dit kan deur sielskrag wees wat ook die werke van die bose kan wees, dieselfde as die gebabbel van ‘n toordokter. Om in die wee van die Here Jesus te wandel moet ons alle leerstelling wat nie volgens die Woord van die Here is nie verwerp.

Bonatuurlike gebede (Tower spreuke wat gesien word as gebede)

Hierdie nuwe benadering tot gebed in die moderne kerke is niks anders as tower spreuke en Vodo kuns grepe nie. Bonatuurlike kragte is beskikbaar vir enige persoon wat sy siel wil verkoop aan hierdie misleidings wat in die Adams natuur werk. Ons is almal geestelike skepsels en daar is kragte in ons wat ons kan gebruik om ons oortegee aan die Wil van God of om ons onderdanig te maak aan die magte van die Bose.

“Wees nugter en waaksaam, want julle teëstander, die duiwel, loop rond soos 'n brullende leeu, en soek wie hy kan verslind”. (1Pet.5:8)

Terwyl God Homself manifesteer in ons menslike gees, manifesteer Satan en sy demone hulleself in die siel van die mens. Satan hou daarvan om mense se sielskrag te gebruik om sodoende die Here Jesus se Liggaam, die kerk, te mislei. Die meerderheid van Christene verstaan nie hierdie aanval tegniek van Satan nie en daarom het hulle baie min of geen verdediging daarteen. Die moderne Charismatiese gebed styl wat geopenbaar word in bewegings soos die Toronto en Pensacola tipe Charismatiese kerke, is niks anders as ‘n bonatuurlike misleiding nie. Die vraag is, bestaan daar sulke magte? Ja, absoluut! Kry hulle resultate? Ja, absoluut! maar wat se soort resultate? Die bonatuurlike resultate wat hulle verkry is nie die bekering en wedergeboorte ondervinding tot Die Here Jesus Christus nie, nee, dit is ‘n bonatuurlike verandering tot ‘n valse Jesus wat homself vermom as ons Here Jesus Christus. (Hy sal kom soos die Engel van die Lig)

Hierdie groepe is uiters militant, en enige iemand wat hulle teëstaan word met vloeke en oordele verdoem. Dit is die eerste teken dat hulle benadering tot gebed vals is. Gebed riglyne in enige van ons gebed benaderings is volgens die Woord van God en ‘n totale onderwerping aan die Wil van God.

Wanneer ons tot God nader in gebed het ons nie nodig om ons weg tot Hom oop te forseer nie omdat ons geloof in ‘n Alleen Heilige God is. Ons het ook nie nodig om te probeer om ons eie gebede te beantwoord nie omdat ons op Hom alleen vertrou.

Die god van die bonatuurlike gebed is glad en geheel nie God Almagtig nie, hierdie is ‘n god met doelwitte van versoekings en misleidings.

Hierdie sielskragte gebruik bonatuurlike kragte om hulle eie antwoorde te bewerkstellig. Hulle verkry resultate ja, maar soos wat dit in alle bonatuurlike wêrelde is, is hulle antwoorde altyd so dubbelsinnig dat dit altyd terug verwys word na die persoon self, jy moet op jouself vertrou! Judas beskryf hierdie dinge in sy Brief soos volg: “Wee hulle, want hulle het die weg van Kain bewandel en om loon hulleself in die verleiding van Bíleam gestort en in die verset van Korag omgekom. Hulle is skandvlekke in julle liefde maaltye, wat sonder vrees saam fees hou en hulleself voer, waterlose wolke deur winde rond gedrywe, bome in die nasomer, wat sonder vrugte is, twee maal gestorwe, ontworteld; woeste golwe van die see wat hulle eie skandes laat opskuim, dwaalsterre vir wie die donkerheid van die duisternis vir ewig bewaar word.” (Judas 11?13) Bonatuurlike gebede soos in die Toronto en Pensacola bewegings word gebruik om diegene wat hulle teëstaan aan te val en te veroordeel deur bonatuurlike kragte, en so word baie mense deur vrees geforseer om by hierdie bewegings aan te sluit.

Baie mense het al getuig van hierdie vreemde onderdrukkende bose kragte wat hulle ondervind het wanneer hulle hierdie leerstellings teëgestaan het. Die apostel Paulus was bewus van hierdie magte en hy het hulle direk teëgestaan. In Efesiërs skrywe Paulus: “Trek die volle wapenrusting van God aan, sodat julle staande kan bly teen die liste van die duiwel. Want ons worstelstryd is nie teen vlees en bloed nie, maar teen die owerhede, teen die magte, teen die wêreldheersers van die duisternis van hierdie eeu, teen die bose geeste in die lug”. (Ef.6:11?12)

Let op, Paulus noem hierdie magte “Bose geeste” Die woord wat hier vir gees gebruik word, het ‘n ander betekenis as die positiewe idee van geeste. Hier beteken dit iets soos ‘n man wat regeer deur sy sondige natuur, in ‘n geestelike status.

Die woord bose beteken iemand wat sy uiterste bose magte gebruik om ander se lewens te vernietig of aan te tas. Hier het ons dan ‘n duidelike beeld van die bonatuurlike magte wat uitgestuur word om mense teen hulle wil aan te val en seer te maak. Dit is niks anders as om ‘n tower spreuk oor iemand se lewe uit te spreek nie, wat ook dieselfde is as om Vodo magte te gebruik. Die enigste manier om hierdie bose magte te weerstaan is om ons geloof in die Hande van die Here Jesus Christus te plaas, want net deur Sy Bloed is daar vir ons verlossing. Satan kan hierdie Bloedgrens nie oorsteek nie. Satan kan vurige pyle van vrees en twyfel en verdrukking op u afstuur, maar as u agter die Skild van die Here Jesus skuil sal hierdie pyle kragteloos wees. Moet hulle nie terug antwoord of terug baklei nie, maar gaan aan en sing lofprysing liedere en wag op die Here, Hy sal die stryd vir u stry. Onthou die staf van Moses het baie vinnig die staf van die towenaars in Egipte verslind. Dit het nog nooit verander nie en ons Hemelse Vader hou nog steeds wag oor die wat aan Hom behoort.

Charismatiese aanbidding.

Om met die Heilige Gees vervul te word is ‘n baie bekende term wat in die Nuwe Testament gebruik word, veral in die Boek Handelinge. Op Pinkster dag is almal wat op die Here gewag het vervul met die Heilige Gees, en Petrus het later op hierdie dag gesê: “?? en julle sal die gawe van die Heilige Gees

ontvang. Want die belofte kom julle toe en julle kinders en almal wat daar ver is, die wat die Here onse God na Hom sal roep”. (Hand.2:38?39)

Die duiwel het hierdie wonderlike gebeurtenis vervals en deur dit het baie pragtige mense vandag die manifestasie van die Heilige Gees begin verwerp. Maar let maar op dat met elke herlewing wat in die kerk geskiedenis plaasgevind het kan hierdie Wonderlike Werke van die Heilige Gees waargeneem word. Die van ons huidige Charismatiese en Pinkster herlewings lê baie klem op die vervulling van die Heilige Gees, maar die ondervindings wat hulle promoveer gaan meer oor dinge soos dronk in die gees en baie ander fanatiese optredes as wat dit gaan oor die Persoon van die Heilige Gees! Baie Pinkster en ander kerke is besig om die Bybelse Riglyne te verruil hierdie vervalsings.

Bose besetting teenoor Godelike heersing

Satan wil mense se lewens in ‘n totale gebondenheid oorheers sodat hy hulle wil kan beheer.

Die Heilige Gees kom na ons toe om die Goddelike Heersing van die Here Jesus in ons lewens te openbaar. Satan wil die mens se emosies beheer en sal ook die vlees vertroetel met hoendervleis en wilde onbeheerbare plesier. Die Heilige Gees is ‘n Kuiergas in ons huise, Hy dwing Homself nie op ons af nie en Hy sal ons altyd in alle eerlikheid en opregtheid deur die Waarheid inspireer tot Lofprysing en Aanbidding van ons Hemelse Vader. Hy Verheerlik Homself nie, maar Hy sal altyd die Here Jesus deur die Skrifte verheerlik. Ons Hemelse Vader wil ons Salf en inspireer tot Redding, terwyl Satan almal wil oorheers in gebondenheid.

Satan is ‘n Besetter.

As ‘n persoon duiwelbesete raak en onder beheer kom van iets wat onnatuurlike manifestasies veroorsaak dan is daar iets drasties verkeerd. Satan bied die mensdom nagemaakte vervalsings aan om hulle weg te hou van die Heilige Werke van God. Enige gees wat u dinge laat doen buite die riglyne van die Woord van die Here moet verwerp word. So is daar byvoorbeeld op geen plek in die Bybel vir ons opgeteken dat mense in die Nuwe Testamentiese Kerk soos dronkaards opgetree het nie.

Hulle wil dit beweer uit die Boek van Handelinge, maar u moet oplet dat diegene wat op hierdie groot dag deur die Heilige Gees gedoop is, baie meer intelligenter opgetree as die omstanders, en nie minder intelligenter nie. Onthou dat die Jode totaal verbaas was omdat die Gees vervulde Galasiërs die Groot Dade van God aan hulle verkondig het in tale wat hulle nooit geleer het nie. Die Heilige Gees sal die Here Jesus Christus te alle tye Verheerlik en nie mense nie. “En die geeste van die profete is aan die profete onderworpe”(1Kor.14:32)

Op Pinkster dag het 120 dissipels in ander tale begin praat soos wat hulle dit deur die Heilige Gees ontvang het. As die Heilige Gees ‘n Geëerde Genooide Gas in ons huise is, dan doen ons wat Hy verlang elke keer as Hy ons aanraak. Ons word belet om ordeloos en onbeheers op te tree. Hy beveel die kerk in 1Kor14:40: “Laat alles welvoeglik en ordelik toegaan.”

Bybels gerigte Pinkster is ‘n baie Kragvolle Gesalfde ordelike bediening wat siele vir die Koninkryk van Jesus kan wen, maar hierdie Charismatiese opvoerings wat ons vandag sien is niks ander as ‘n Nuwe Wêreld Orde wat onder die gesag van Satan staan.

Die Charismatiese gees.

Vandag het ‘n totale nuwe metodiese manier van godsdiens die kerke wêreld oorgeneem wat wil voorkom asof dit waar en opreg is en dit mag ook voorkom asof die gemeentelede dit eerlik en opreg bedoel, maar iets baie belangrik is weg.

Die mensheid is ‘n skeppings wonder in ‘n drie eenheid wat bestaan uit liggaam siel en gees. Die gees in hierdie drie eenheid samestelling is die Lewe van God, en dit is die enigste Goue Draad waardeur ons, ons Hemelse Vader kan Loof en Prys. In ‘n ongeredde persoon, ‘n persoon wat nog nie wedergebore is nie, is hierdie Lewens Weg van God dood en kan 'n persoon net herlewe as hy / sy Krag van die Gees van God ontvang wat by wedergeboorte plaasvind. Die siel van die mens is ook instaat tot ‘n sekere godsdienstige aanbidding, maar dit is ‘n valse weergawe omdat dit afkomstig is van ons gevalle natuur wat ook genoem word die Adam natuur. In hierdie realm van ons lewens kan die okkulte sy aktiwiteite laat lewe soos wat ons dit kan vind in die lewe van hekse en waarsêers en ook in die lewens van persone wat betrokke is met bose geeste. Alle valse godsdienste word bedryf deur die sielskrag realm van die mens. Die offers van ‘n sielskrag godsdiens is totaal onaanvaarbaar vir die Here en Hy sal hierdie offers net so verwerp soos die van Kain.?? “En Abel het ook van die eersgeborenes van sy kleinvee gebring, naamlik van hulle vet. En die HERE het Abel en sy offer genadig aangesien, maar Kain en sy offer nie aangesien nie. Toe word Kain baie kwaad, en hy het sy hoof laat hang”.(Gen.4:4?5) Hierdie valse godsdiens het vandag se Charismatiese kerke wêreld totaal oorgeneem en dit word by die dag ook meer en meer aanvaarbaar in die ander hoofstroom kerke, dit is die godsdiens van die tyd.

Baie van hierdie kerke het normaalweg twee dienste, een kontemporêre diens, met ander woorde ‘n diens vir die nuwerwetse denkes, en dan ‘n tradisionele diens, met ander woorde ‘n diens vir die ouer garde. Gewoonlik is daar geen beperking op die soort musiek, kleredrag en verhoog style nie, alles is vry?

? kom net soos wat jy wil. Dit is niks anders as om die natuurlike mens vry te stel om God / god te nader in ‘n sielskrag atmosfeer soos wat hy of sy wil. Met ander woorde, ek kan ook doen en sê wat ek wil, daar kan chaos en totale wanorde heers en dit sal ook aanvaarbaar wees. As ‘n kerk hierdie rigting begin inslaan dan word Bybelse Waarhede en standaarde ‘n groot probleem, en die basiese ding wat gaan gebeur is dat hulle die riglyne van die Woord eenkant toe sal begin skuif en dan sal u hoor soos wat hulle dan sê:??God is besig om nuwe dinge te doen! In sommige kerke wat nog ‘n sekere mate van ‘n Teologiese orde wil behou, sal daar ‘n uitgangspunt wees van: “Die doel heilig die middele??ons het nou eindelik weer die X generasie terug in ons kerk.” Hierdie tipe godsdiens verskil van tradisie tot tradisie en die Charismatiese bewegings is maar een soort.

Kom ons kyk eers na die opregte Pinkster aanbidding.

Die spreek in tale in ‘n klasieke Pinkster gemeente is ‘n pragtige gesig, en geen persoon kan ter eniger tyd woorde deur die Gees spreek nie want so ‘n persoon moet absoluut heilig en nederig voor God deur Geloof, opregtheid en getrouheid wandel.

Gelowiges wat deur die Gees van God wandel kan net Woorde van God spreek as die Gees van God dit toelaat. (Hand.2:1?4) Om ordeloos te kere te gaan is totaal onaanvaarbaar. Skriftuurlike Boodskappe deur die Heilige Gees moet Skriftuurlik verklaar word, en die orde van hierdie dinge is vir ons deur die

Heilige Gees deur Paulus opgeteken in 1Korinte 14. Wanneer die gemeente in Gees en Waarheid met hande omhoog ordelik die Here loof en prys sal dit nie wees soos heidene en guru aanbidders wat in waansin te kere gaan nie. God sal nooit ons verstand omseil nie! Mense wat in ‘n verrukking van die Gees van God gekom het, het wonderbare dinge van God gehoor en gesien en tot eer en verheerliking van God Almagtig getuig, dinge wat tot stigting van die Gemeente van die Seun van God sal wees.

Die Charismatiese beweging is totaal verskillend. Die aanbidders kom voor asof hulle totaal onder ‘n beswyming verval het, hulle slinger verstandeloos rond met oë wat omdop terwyl hulle deurmekaar babbel met gesig uitdrukkings wat wil voorkom asof hulle in 'n totale ekstase verkeer. Hulle spring en rol rond, doen mat diens, gil en skree soos mense in ‘n gestig. Baie van hulle kom in ‘n staat van rukkings en stuiptrekkings met skuim om hulle monde wat vir ure kan aangaan. Net so met die onbeheerste gelag waar sommiges hulleself benat! Een van die karaktertrekke van hierdie manifestasie is dat mense so swaar word dat hulle nie kan opstaan nie, en somtyds kan twee of drie persone hulle nie eens optel nie. Sommiges manifesteer die geboorte proses. Dit is sekerlik moontlik vir ‘n opregte gelowiges om in die sielskrag realm mislei te word maar die Here verwag van ons om al die geeste op die proef te stel en as hulle tot die waarheid kom moet hulle uit hierdie bewegings padgee en hulle sondes bely tot vergifnis. Verskillende vlakke van hierdie soort aanbidding kan van tradisie tot tradisie verskil, maar almal van hulle word gedryf deur een of ander Oosterse mistieke gees, en nooit maar nooit is dit die Werke van die Heilige Gees nie. Die Heilige Gees verlaat nooit die riglyne van die Woord van God nie, en as die Heilige Gees die Groot Dade van God laat manifesteer sal dit absoluut volgens die riglyne van die Bybel wees. Die Here Jesus sê baie duidelik ons moet Hom in Gees en Waarheid aanbid. “Die vrou sê vir Hom: Here, ek sien dat U 'n profeet is. Ons vaders het op hierdie berg aanbid, en julle sê dat die plek waar ons behoort te aanbid, in Jerusalem is. Jesus sê vir haar: Vrou, glo My, daar kom 'n uur wanneer julle nie op hierdie berg en ook nie in Jerusalem die Vader sal aanbid nie. Julle aanbid wat julle nie weet nie; ons aanbid wat ons weet, want die saligheid is uit die Jode. Maar daar kom 'n uur, en dit is nou, wanneer die ware aanbidders die Vader in gees en waarheid sal aanbid; want die Vader soek ook mense wat Hom só aanbid. God is Gees; en die wat Hom aanbid, moet in gees en waarheid aanbid”. (Joh.4:19?24)

Hierdie twee elemente is absoluut wanneer ons voor God verskyn. Sielskrag aanbidding deur ongeredde mense sal verwerp word net soos met die offer van Kain. Wêreldse onrein offers kan nie voor God gebring word nie, en net so kan die mens wat die Bybelse Waarheid verruil het vir ‘n pot lensie sop nie voor die Aller Heiligste verskyn nie. Toneelspelers en akteurs kan geen mens in die realm van die Heilige Gees in lei nie, dit is absoluut die Wil van God.

God het alreeds die meerderheid van hierdie sielskrag aanbidders verwerp, maar nog steeds ontvang en seën Hy die nederige siel wat aan die Voete van sy Messias kom sit en tot Hom kom met ‘n eerlike en ‘n opregte hart van ootmoediging. Dit is aan hierdie siel wat onse Here Sy Heilige Gees skenk tot vernuwing, want: “Die Gees self getuig saam met ons gees dat ons kinders van God is”. (Rom.8:16) Deur hierdie groot Genade kan ons tot God nader.

“Laat ons dan met vrymoedigheid na die troon van die genade gaan, sodat ons barmhartigheid kan verkry en genade vind om op die regte tyd gehelp te word”. (Hebr.4:16)

Daar is ‘n weg wat vir die mens reg lyk, maar dit is die wee van die dood. †††

B.C. / Moriel / Brother Joseph Chambers / Charismatic False Teachings / 02/2000

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How AI is transforming defensive capabilities against drones

October 12, 2026

Written by - Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM Examples abound in history of how the responses to innovations in technology that disrupted and transformed the nature of warfare have taken a delayed time to be adapted. Chain mail and armour had to be altered and bolstered to repel arrows from the English Longbow in Medieval Europe, but this didn't occur in time to the dismay of the French at Agincourt. It took the Spanish decades to redesign their cumbersome Galleons that lay prey to the swifter English ships. Napoleonic era field tactics were still being employed during the American Civil War, with mass charges mowed down by the Gatling barrel machine gun. Trench warfare was only later embraced during WWI. With the cheap manufacture of drones and the advances in AI a new chapter has opened in how war is waged in our own time. The conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have demonstrated how asymmetric warfare has become as much an economic calculation as a game of cat and mouse. Drones (and relatively cheaply manufactured ballistic missiles by Iran) are being shot down at great expense. AI which has been extensively deployed for target identification in Gaza is also proving to be a vital tool in hunting incoming drones. But as in the delayed development of military countermeasures historically, drones are ahead of AI in the battlefield. This is reflected in the enormity of Russian military casualties that have fallen victim to Ukrainian drones. AI is able to cut through the 'background noise' of distracting projectiles, birds and other debris to home in efforts to eliminate the actual drone target. The magic formula is speed and precision. Humans can detect and assess a threat, but AI can process radar, cameras and other sensors almost instantly, and with increasing accuracy predict where a drone intends to strike. When swamped with a wave drone attack, AI acts to identify and track the multiple threats. AI can also help decide how to respond. Depending on the system, the response could involve electronic warfare, an interceptor drone, a missile or a gun-based system. Ukraine has installed automated machine gun turrets instructed by AI to protect Kiev. In some cases, humans still make the final decision to engage, while AI handles the calculations and tracking required to make that decision quickly. More broadly, drone warfare is becoming a contest between autonomous systems. The challenge is no longer simply building a better missile or a better drone. It is building a system that can see the threat first, understand it quickly and respond before the drone reaches its target. In that sense, AI is becoming a critical part of air defence. The advantage may increasingly belong to whoever can make the fastest and most accurate decisions—not necessarily whoever manufactures the most expensive weapons. AI's pace of progress is exponential. It is beyond comprehension what capacity could be realized in even the next 2-3 years. The combination of drones, robotics and AI may render the traditional military hardware of tanks, frigates and fighter jets almost functionally obsolete. The development of AI's course of military application will be largely directed by the conflicts where it is deployed. In the pre-AI world of 1987, the black Friday market crash during the Reagan Administration saw a dangerous drop in the Dow, where computer analysis issued sell orders against a background of Reagan's massive budget deficits. Amidst Reagan's budget deficits this created an environment where social security was looted to fund defence spending. A supposed conservative President ran a fiscal policy with simultaneous increases in the Pentagon budget, coupled with tax cuts. The computer generated sell off was beyond the functional control of brokers and market makers, while the Soviets attempted to engineer market irregularities affecting the American economy which had further global ramifications due to massive American trade deficits with Japan under Reagan. The current Securities exchange environment is at best no less complex now. Given the spectre of what transpired in 1987 with computerised over control of stock exchange trading, and a shadow hanging over the bond market we are left to ponder could another such scenario be triggered in the age of AI? And even more illuminous prospect over shadows us now with the question can AI gain a decision-making operational capacity over command-and-control decisions. Certainly, for tactical weapons systems or even a doomsday scenario with Russia, China, India or Pakistan placing nuclear launch control in the hands of AI that could result in an exchange that either the US, Britain, France or Israel would be forced to react to. Without scaremongering it is necessary for strategic planners to prevent the nuclear powers that be from arriving at the precipice of such an abyss.

Interconnected Conflicts: The Risk of a New Thirty Years' War. By Rubin Rothler - LLB, MLB

September 21, 2026

The interlinked nature of third-party involvement in the ongoing conflicts in Iran and Ukraine has increasingly come to the fore in recent weeks. It emerged that China has not only been providing Iran with radar systems, navigation tools, and electronic warfare technology, but also high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data to direct its rockets. The same great-power relationships that are shaping the Middle East are affecting the conduct and constraints of the war in Ukraine. It is apparent that a reciprocation in kind is dictating Russia's conduct towards the US in Iran. Intelligence and targeting support mirror similar U.S. assistance to Ukraine. But this picture becomes murkier when considering the backroom accommodations Trump is willing to give Putin. Recently, Trump pressured Zelensky to stop targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, saying the attacks were causing a shortage of the fuel that is "hurting the world." The U.S. national average price for diesel, which is used by trucks, trains, ships, and farm equipment, rose above six dollars a gallon for the first time last Thursday. Such interventions demonstrate how developments on the battlefield in Ukraine can no longer be considered independently of wider economic and geopolitical calculations. China has been using tankers that are already at sea, when that runs out the American blockade will create shortage problems for the Chinese economy, as China no longer gets Venezuelan oil and is reliant on Iran and international spot market prices. The war with Iran is now spreading to Yemen, with the Houthis attempting to replicate the Iranian chokehold model perfected in the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic importance of controlling or threatening critical maritime chokepoints is central to the wider contest. What happens in the Gulf can therefore have consequences for shipping, energy markets, and military calculations far beyond the immediate theatre. So far, the US has declined Saudi requests to slow the Houthi advance. Neither Turkey nor Egypt seems inclined to come to Saudi Arabia's aid. This is despite the signing of a very recent mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. More developments can happen in these conflicts on an average day than can be afforded mention, but they should be increasingly understood as interconnected parts of a wider geopolitical confrontation. Assistance in one theatre triggers reciprocal action in another. Consequently, these cease to be discrete, containable conflicts and are extending into prolonged multinational conflicts. There is a distinct possibility that these may become frozen conflicts over time. A more terrifying eventuality is something more akin to the Thirty Years' War, which was fought in the first half of the 17th century in Europe. It is important to remember that this calamity, which ravaged Europe, began as a localized rebellion that gradually drew in more and more powers. The initial religious nature of the fighting gave way to political struggles. The mechanism by which a localized conflict becomes a multinational struggle offers a historical warning worth considering. The danger today is that a collection of individually distinct conflicts could become sufficiently interconnected that containing any one of them becomes increasingly difficult. Iran, Ukraine, Russia, China, the United States, and the conflict involving the Houthis are already linked by military assistance, intelligence, energy, trade, and strategic competition. The question, therefore, is no longer simply how any one of these conflicts ends. It is whether they can remain separate conflicts at all. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Prayer Request

By David Passmore • September 12, 2026

Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for our sister in Jesus - Wendy Blomkamp, widow of Brother Fred Blomkamp (now with The Lord), the founder of Moriel South Africa Branch (not to be confused with Moriel's Ebyown Aids Children's Mission in South Africa founded by David Royle). Wendy, (an equestrian rider of all things) is originally from West Yorkshire, England but has lived most of her life in South Africa and is currently in retirement in the USA. Unfortunately, Wendy is diagnosed with inoperable pre terminal cancer with cardio pullmonary complications. The Lord will either intervene supernaturally or call her home. We request prayer for Wendy and her beloved family and wisdom for her physicians. In Christ, All at Moriel

What would happen to Israel if the House is controlled by Democrats, and if the Republicans lose control of the Senate?

By David Passmore • September 7, 2026

The US midterm elections are around the corner and the results could have profound effects on US foreign policy concerning Israel. Much has been said about this vote being a referendum on Trump's unpopular war with Iran. But it can equally be said to be about Trump's other foreign policy engagements that are viewed rather more favourably like the overthrow of Maduro in Venezuela and his replacement with a pro-American regime. With Israel the picture is less clear. It used to be a given that Israel enjoyed bipartisan support on the Hill. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of politicians opposed to supporting Israel - the occasional fringe Democrat representing a singular Michigan constituency with a high Arab origin demographic, or a rare odd ball Republican preaching strict isolationism. This dynamic has shifted quickly in the last decade. The Democrats have all but abandoned any inclination of a pro-Israel position. Even establishment figures like Chuck Schumer have been pressured to side with the Party's radical left wing. With 60-80% of Democrats now anti-Israel, Israel can no longer rely on Jewish Democrats to oppose anti-Zionism or antisemitism. The most outspoken Democratic member of the Senate advocating a pro-Israel position, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is being pressured to resign and leave the party even by Pennsylvania's Jewish Governor Shapiro and Soros sponsored Philadelphia Prosecutor Krasner. This is happening concurrently with mass endorsement from 170 leading Hollywood Jewish actors writing a letter of support for Mark Ruffallo - despite his antisemitic comments naming Jewish investors supporting a Hollywood studio mega merger as being associated with apartheid genocide. However most shocking, were the comments by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel who stood before an audience of Jewish Democrats last weekend telling them they may need to sacrifice the safety, and even the future, of their own people in exchange for saving the rest of humanity. Such rhetoric is contrary to basic human instincts of survival and self-preservation. If any other nation were suggested this course of action, I wonder what their response would be? On the Republican side the foreboding sense of an altering course towards Israel no longer seems so distant. The anti-Israel faction in the Republican party led by Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are now being supported by Vice President Vance. Jewish kingpins in the Trump Administration such as Witkoff and Kushner have been tied to business dealings in N.Y. with the Muslim Brotherhood controlled Qatari government through its business holdings. Should Republicans lose control of the Senate while Democrats take the House, Israel could find itself having to drastically re-access its relationship with Washington. We wouldn't see an immediate break in ties. American military, intelligence, technological and strategic cooperation with Israel is too integrated into the core of US institutions and corporations that would take a protracted period to dismantle. However, the power of Congress is in no way feeble. Congress controls funding, foreign-assistance legislation, sanctions, arms-related legislation and, perhaps most importantly, the political milieu in which an administration operates. A Democratic House combined with a Senate no longer controlled by Republicans could place enormous pressure on Trump to alter his attitude towards Israel. Practically this could entail demanding further accountability from Israel over military operations in Gaza, and the West Bank Settlers causing civilian casualties and property damage. Military aid could face more conditions or restrictions, but an immediate cutoff is unlikely. Israel has historically depended upon the presumption that regardless of who was President, there would be a robust enough bipartisan coalition in Congress to prevent a major deterioration in the relationship. Now the opposite appears true. Israel is taking the gamble of solely relying on a friendly President like Trump getting elected to maintain cordial relations. With the erosion of even much of Jewish American support for Israel and the hijacking of the Democratic party by a pro Islamist socialist left seen in Mamdani and others, Israel is forced to confront the inescapable reality that the last strong bastion of support for it is the Republican Party's evangelical base. But even younger voters in this key demographic are beginning to question support for Israel. The hostility displayed by the Haredim in Jerusalem and elsewhere against Christians including evangelicals, is to say the least counter-productive to the national interest. To attack the one friend Israel has left with a proven track record of loyalty and is vital to pro-Zionism internationally, is particularly detrimental to the national interest. It is Iran with its Mahdiist interpretations of jihad and sharia as a religious ideology that drives its hatred of Israel and the USA, and The West, to the detriment of the interests of the majority of the Iranian populace who want non hostile co-existence. Such religious fanaticism and ideologically fuelled hatred ought not be given place in Israeli Judaism. It too, will generate adverse consequences for the majority of Israelis, including religious moderates, who desire an ongoing friendship with Evangelical Christians whose theology is not one of anti Semitism, but of proven Philo-Semitism and pro Zionism.

Don't bit ethe hand that feeds you - Irish hypocrisy towards Israel

By David Passmore • August 21, 2026

Don't bite the hand that feeds you - Irish hypocrisy towards Israel Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM Amongst European nations, Ireland in recent years has gained the reputation as being the leading anti-Zionist country. The Irish Republic has never been favourably inclined to Israel. It only established an Embassy in Tel Aviv in 1996. In poll after poll the vast majority of the Irish public have indicated hostility towards Zionism and strong support for Palestinian Statehood. The curious aberration to this is that in British Ruled Northern Ireland support is demarcated along sectarian lines. Catholic Republican areas predictably tend to ardently support the Palestinian cause, while Protestant Unionist communities are overwhelmingly pro-Israel. Perhaps some credence can be given to sentiments of traditional Catholic antisemitism hardwired into the Irish psyche as contributing towards this disposition. It was certainly odd that the Irish government promptly sent a delegation to the Nazi German Ambassador in Dublin to convey condolences after news of Hitler's suicide broke at the end of WW2. But more concretely if you were to ask the average Irish protester on a pro-Palestine march the basis of their empathy for the Palestinian cause, they would point to the ostensible parallels between the Irish experience of fighting for independence from British colonial oppression to the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Further remonstrations on a diplomatic level concern the actions of the IDF interreacting with Irish Peace Keepers in Southern Lebanon that have caused the deaths of several Irish Peace Keepers over the decades in friendly fire incidents. Ireland has contributed the most peace keepers to this mission per capita and the government has condemned Israel for these deaths that they view as avoidable. This animosity towards Israel is unbalanced. There are reasons to consider that Ireland and Israel have a shared experience of national liberation. Both countries fought the British in the pursuit of independence. Both countries made great efforts to resurrect their ancient languages for modern wide scale use. Both the Irish and Jews form major diaspora communities in New York. Despite all this Ireland ranks as Israel's second largest export market after the US. The preponderance of Israeli exports to Ireland comprises electronic integrated circuits, micro-assemblies, and tech manufacturing components. American multinational colossal tech corporations like Intel are substantially engrossed in this trade through the chain of supply. Ireland and Israel are hubs for design and manufacture of high-tech hardware components for US corporations. So, due to the nature of the most prosperous and competitive sectors of their respective economies, Israel and Ireland are inextricably bound in bilateral trade ties. Resolutions from the Irish government to impose sanctions on West Bank originating produce is merely perfunctory rhetoric. Such actions amount to a drop in the bucket in terms of impact to overall trade. The stark reliance of Ireland on advanced Israeli aviation equipment recently caused a spectacle when Ireland's new government jet struggled to land in heavy fog due to it being ordered without an advanced Israeli made navigation system. This was directly due to a short-sighted government decision not to buy Israeli military technology. There is a marked disparity between the official position of the Irish government designed for domestic public consumption and the economic policies that it actually pursues towards Israel. The government is acutely aware that the US is massively invested in the Irish economy and they don't want to do anything to jeopardise this. Washington demands that their enterprises in Dublin are intertwined with operations in Israel. The Irish government dare not even prevent US military supply flights refuelling at Shannon Airport on their way to Tel Aviv. The Irish government knows that times change and now the gripping social issue is the anti-immigrant/anti-Islam popular street protests. Soon the anti-Israel protests could become a mere side show only really promoted by Sinn Fein given the pressing ramifications of mass migration. So, in the meantime certain politicians will rile against the occupation, purported genocide and pass paltry sanctions against insignificant produce from the West Bank. All the while making hand over fist in money with the Israelis where it really matters in tech. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

The tide has Changed

By David Passmore • July 31, 2026

The Tide Has Changed Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM The America that Netanyahu touched down on is a changed America. The death of Lindsey Graham represents a changing of the guard. Graham was a staunch Israeli ally who will most probably become an increasingly rare breed in Washington. Sixty percent of Americans now hold a unfavourable view of Israel which politicians are finding difficult to ignore. It was once unthinkable to believe that New York City with such a strong Jewish electoral base and influence on all sectors of economic and cultural life would have a mayor that is so hostile to Israel to such an extent that he is calling for the arrest of its Prime Minister. From all accounts Netanyahu was cordially welcomed at the White House. The official press release stated that the talks were constructive. What is more telling is what was left unsaid particularly concerning the proposed sale of F35's to Israel's new regional adversary -Turkey. Trump is keen to find a swift resolution to the Iran War, while Netanyahu is opposed to a premature departure. When the US and Israel initiated their attacks on Iran over five months ago, Trump and Netanyahu appeared united in the War's goals and purpose. But as the protracted conflict has staggered to topple the Iranian regime fractures have emerged. Much has been said about the imminent political realities both leaders face. The Republicans could take a big hit in the November midterm elections should the war continue and global energy markets be negatively impacted. Netanyahu is anxious to demonstrate a big win to the Israeli public with the upcoming October election. In Israel, the Iran War is not viewed in isolation, but rather as an extension of the response to the colossal disaster of the October 7th massacre. Netanyahu must rehabilitate his reputation as a competent steward of national security having had the greatest loss of civilian life in an attack happening under his watch. Aside from the Iran issue, Trump is being pressured by Erdogan to insist upon Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territory pre-emptively seized by Israel following the toppling of Assad. Trump has also indicated disapproval of the extent of continuing Israeli measures against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, questioning the proportionality employed. Netanyahu is not in an envious position. Throughout his tenure and political career, he lauded his ability to engage successfully with the American public by zealously advocating Israel's position. Yet under his government Israel's reputation has plummeted in the US. Trump may be the last US President to extend such overwhelming bilateral support to Israel. The days of politicians like Lindsey Graham are fast ending. While John Fetteman and Marco Rubio appear to be remaining more solid, even some of the most warmly inclined leading Republican and Democrat voices like Donald Trump and Rahm Emanuel have nuanced their support for Israel. The tide has shifted and will at best level off if not continuing to shift further. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

The Saudi Nuclear Deal: An attempt to alter the Regional Balance of Power

By David Passmore • July 24, 2026

The Saudi Nuclear Deal: An attempt to alter the Regional Balance of Power Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM The initiative to develop a civilian nuclear program in Saudi Arabia with US assistance isn't new. There were concrete plans discussed towards these ends during the first Trump Administration. The recent announcement to actualize this deal follows the geo-political regional tumult in the wake of the Iran War. Several dimensions of motivation underlie the US decision. An overarching US strategic agenda is to keep the Saudis firmly in the American sphere of influence. Washington knows all too well that the Chinese and Russians are eager to offer their nuclear technical assistance to the Saudis in order to draw them closer to their camp. On a personal note, the nuclear agreement is a significant achievement for Bin Salaman. The Saudis have long had designs to diversify their energy supplies. Having a civilian nuclear program also adds prestige to Saudi Arabia as an emerging market economy. For the US, a monopoly on contracting companies for the requisite construction offers lucrative economic opportunities. Although the Civilian Nuclear deal does not allow the enrichment of Uranium, the Saudis will be in a position to do so if Washington gives the green light. This will act as a counterbalanced threat hanging over the Iranians. After the recent flare up of renewed fighting with Iran due to their lack of adherence to the moratorium of understanding, something had to budge in Trump's estimation. A reconfiguration of the power balance in the Gulf by introducing the potential of Saudi Arabia to be able to acquire nuclear weapons shifts the dynamic and places further pressure on Iran to strictly abstain from nuclear proliferation. Despite Israeli concerns about the agreement, Trump sought to assuage their alarm by making it contingent upon Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with them. Given the inherently unstable nature of an autocratic Saudi regime Israel views a diplomatic relationship with the Saudis as being on precarious footing in the long term. Israel is already forced to contend with the implications of one nuclear armed Muslim state - Pakistan and it will further weaken its own deterrent capability if another similarly capable hostile neighbour were to emerge in the future. The roles of Turkey and Qatar in all this foray are a wild card. Officially Turkey is served under the NATO nuclear umbrella for defence that is subject to US control. However, its civilian nuclear program remains in its infancy. Now with the Saudi deal, Erdogan may be inclined to exert pressure on the US to help accelerate his own nuclear program. Just as Erdogan's efforts to acquire F35 fighter jets from the US greatly disturbed Israeli military planners, a heightened Turkish nuclear ability will intensify this fear. Qatar views itself as pursuing its own independent foreign policy that has managed to remain rather neutral during the current war, thereby escaping the ire of Iran's strikes on US regional assets. Overall, the Qatari government has grown closer to the Turkish vision for the region and so likely isn't particularly amiable to the Saudi agreement. Ultimately the Saudi deal is a gamble. Many will see it as throwing more fuel on the fire which will further imperil the tinder box region and heighten tensions. But Trump finds himself at a continuing impasse with a stubborn regime in Tehran that is leveraging their geographic hold on the straits of Hormuz to inflict damage on the global energy markets. Iranian strikes upon US Arab regional allies have underscored the de facto alliance between Israel and the Arabs against Iran and its Shia proxies. The US hopes to use the Saudi nuclear deal as a means of making this alliance official by having Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords as a pre-condition. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Circling the Wagons

By David Passmore • July 14, 2026

Circling the wagons Ruben Rothler LLB, LLM Israel is a society riddled with tension and division. It is sociologically, if not politically miraculous that a country drawing Jews from all over the world is able to exist at all. The army affords a degree of integration as a melting pot. But this is only a marginal source of national unity in the overall scheme of things. More so are the myriads of external threats that face this small country. In the former generation the Ashkenazi (Jews of European descent) - Sephardic (Jews of Oriental descent) divide was far more pronounced. The dominant Ashkenazi establishment held the reins of political and economic power which was resented by the Sephardim. However, due to a combination of inter-marriage and political accommodation much of the chasm that separated these distinct groups was forged. Menachem Begin (an Ashkenazi politician) in 1970 successfully ran on the Likud Party ticket with a campaign that brought Sephardic Jews under his conservative political umbrella. Later the immigration of Russian Jews following the end of Communism would add a whole new dimension to the Israeli demographic milieu. The younger generation of these immigrants tended to adapt well to Israeli society and contributed much to the economy. The wider division in Israeli society that crosses ethnic lines concerns that between religious and secular Jews. This can be further bifurcated to the clash between the secular and specifically ultra-orthodox Jews (Haredim) as distinguished from the national religious Jews (Dati Leumi). The Secular and the Religious generally part on what they envisage a Jewish State to entail. Religious Jews desire the State to strictly adhere to the stipulations of Jewish Law (Halacha), while at present Halakhic influence is largely limited to certain areas of Family Law concerning Jewish citizens. Wider considerations of promoting a socially conservative political agenda would also be forefront amongst the religious mindset broadly. Secular Jews view the imposition of such proposed measures as a serious infringement of their civil rights. With regard to the Haredim, the bone of contention looms larger, in that this group is fundamentally opposed to participating in society at large. This is acutely manifested in diminished contribution to the work force and a refusal to be conscripted into the army. The 2023 judicial reform protests posed a significant threat to social civil order. The nation appeared to be bitterly divided into two opposing camps. This split reflected broader divisions concerning visions of how the country should be governed. The judicial reforms would have weakened the Supreme Court's ability to render the Executive branch accountable. However, the Supreme Court was also accused of using its considerable powers to promote a socially liberal agenda. Left wing secular Israelis tended to oppose the proposed reforms while those on the right (which included the majority of Religious Jews) supported the reforms. Every weekend droves of protesters were brought onto the streets causing major disturbances to traffic. The polarising nature of this impasse threatened the future of Israeli democracy. It was the October 7th attack that brought a swift end to this public debate and civil strife. The nation instinctually united in response to this common existential threat. The judicial reforms were shelved for a future point when the urgent security threats subsided. However, as the war dragged on the enduring issue of Haredi refusal to conscript into the army became more pronounced. Mounting casualties combined with ever increasing manpower demands to field troops on the multiple theatres of action on which the IDF is engaged has depleted the ranks, and the army is now in much need of fresh conscripts. Haredi belligerent refusal to participate in the pressing national defence has escalated from being a political debate to a matter of very practical vital importance. Overall we can observe that the challenges to national unity in successive generations since the establishment of Israel has recurrently been ameliorated by the common necessity of defence towards outside threats. Most recently we can see this happening with regard to the global anti Semitism and anti-Zionism that has been raging since the October 7th atrocities. These hostile attitudes have paradoxically acted as a force which promotes nationalism and a sense of national cohesion in Israel that otherwise might not functionally exist. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

A Divided Nation

By David Passmore • July 8, 2026

A Divided Nation Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM The Haredi community has had a complicated, paradoxical relationship with the State since its founding. Rooted in a Talmudic precept that the Jews are forbidden to resettle the land of Israel en masse by force before the coming of the Messiah, the secular democratic State of Israel presents itself as blasphemous by its mere existence. Yet due to practical considerations such as the need to obtain funding for its religious academies the Haredi leadership reached a settlement with the State's founders that exempted Haredi men from being conscripted for military service. This was at a time when the Haredi population in Israel was relatively small. Over the past decades this demographic ballooned until the point that soon the majority of Jewish children in Israel will be born into Haredi families. Such a situation is clearly unsustainable. Recently the Knesset's (Parliament's) Haredi parties have pressured their coalition partners in government to codify Torah Study as part of the Country's Basic Laws. This was purposefully done to elevate the status of their institutions to be on parity with service in the IDF. Israel is yet to promulgate a written Constitution, so legislation classed as a Basic Law holds Constitutional status for all intents and purposes. These moves by the religious parties represent a back door power grab to enshrine in law very significant hurdles to prevent the enlistment of Haredi men. The burden of Israel's defence is comparatively massive for a country its size and it is vastly disproportionately shouldered by the secular population. Until now there have been political initiatives to conscript the Haredim. But given the huge manpower shortages emerging in the wake of near continual conflict on multiple fronts since the events of October 7th this matter has become urgent and not merely a theoretical discussion of what is fair and equitable. It is important to draw a distinction between the Haredim and national religious Jews (Dati Leumi). The Haredim adhere to a lifestyle entirely committed to observance of Jewish Law and Talmudic study. This is embraced to the exclusion of gainful employment and participation in wider society. They are either outrightly opposed to Zionism or consider themselves non-Zionist. Conversely, followers of the national religious movement in Israel although being observant of Jewish law and learning would alongside this pursue secular professions. Furthermore, they are ardently Zionist and disproportionately serve in IDF combat units. This is often done within the framework of a program called Hesder Yeshiva that combines religious learning with military service. Efforts to cater a similar model for accommodating Haredi participation in the IDF have so far failed to make substantial gains. Such measures designed to override Haredi objections to service based upon modesty concerns by strict segregation of the sexes in these specially formed units have failed to appease the Haredi leadership. For them, any form of military service is considered a dereliction of their duty to fully devote themselves to a Torah lifestyle. They argue that their Talmudic learning and prayers are in itself a form of national service and act to protect the Jewish people spiritually from enemy attack. It is as if two parallel societies exist within Israel. And the trajectory of separation between the two is only growing. The Haredim are cloistered away in their Yeshivas, immersed in lives devoted to adhering to the stipulations of Jewish law. While the particulars of actually running the State is left to the Secular. The Haredim desire all the benefits of subsidizing their lifestyle without contributing to society. What we really have going on here at source is two profoundly different and opposing ideological visions of what is important in life and what is the purpose of a Jewish State. At the State's founding these divergent perspectives were more manageable. Ben Gurion only had to contend with one religious party –the National Religious Party. Later in 1970 Begin aligned with the NRP to form a coalition government that also brought Sephardic Jews under the Likud umbrella which had the effect of bringing unity to the country by bridging the Ashkenazi-Sephardi divide. However, over time Israeli politics has seen a proliferation of religious parties, gaining further leverage as king brokers in forming governments due to the proportionate representation voting system which secular Israelis not uncommonly view as political blackmail. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

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