Dear Friends,

Let us bow our heads and say farewell to the dearly departed. In this generation, truth—the sought-after virtue of Christian believers from time immemorial—has died.

Truth has met its end in various places: Washington, D.C., Arab dictatorships, major Christian seminaries and secular universities. It is nearly gone from church pulpits, the legal system, the police, the military, etc.

And it will be sadly missed. Our Lord said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and He advised us, “Everyone that is of the truth hears my voice,” and “The truth will make you free.”

I don’t have to detail the goings-on in the present administration in Washington. Truth died there years ago; but more recently, the grave has been robbed and the body destroyed.

And more sadly, we are teaching our youngsters from the kindergarten level through the universities a kind of silly lie which is very damaging to us. Stymied as to how to please all of the different minorities (except the Jews, of course, whom no one has to please), we have come up with something called “multiculturalism.” The National Association of Scholars recently issued a report that “gender and race” have become the major influences in determining what gets read in our schools. In order to be fair to all, we have promoted some very mediocre writers because of these two distinctions, rather than because what they’ve written is worthwhile. (Jewish authors, representing an authentic minority group, are included not as a minority but as “dead white males.”)

In the Middle East, truth died in 1964 when the Arabs decided they were “Palestinians.” Under the previous British mandate, they refused to accept this term because they said it was the Jews who were the Palestinians. But then Arafat and his henchmen persuaded them that they could just pretend to be an ancient people in the land, and American reporters would buy that story. And so the myth was created, and Israel is being stolen, “peace by peace.”

In a more specific recent example, truth has died in Lebanon. I listened to the National Public Radio’s tears over the problems there (after 20 heartless years of berating Israel for “occupying Arab land”). The radio people were troubled that the Syrian-backed Hizballah is now simply murdering people wholesale in an area that, under Israeli protection, was at least safe for civilians. Now that the Israelis have left Lebanon, the Arabs are back to their perennial sport, killing each other.

The truth has gone through tortured stages before its recent demise in the Arab areas of Israel. There were clear steps:

  1. “We’re not the Palestinians” (before 1948).
  2. “We’re the real Palestinians” (Arafat in 1964).
  3. “The Jews took our land” (the Intifada, 1987).
  4. “We’ve been here thousands of years” (declared to me personally on TV when I interviewed Faisal Husseini in the Orient House in October 1995).
  5. “The Jews never lived here in the past” (1999).

Hitler said that the people at large would believe a great lie more readily than a small one, and I’m afraid he was right.

We have most recently been trying to resurrect the truth in our major seminaries. Many of you have heard from Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary (though we haven’t). The letters you’ve sent us vary along these lines: We’re not teaching Progressive Dispensationalism, and if we are, it’s only a few of us, and even if it’s the majority of us it doesn’t matter, and even if it matters, we’re getting more students, constructing more buildings, and we’ve even established our own bank here in Chicago!

Never mind that no professor, student, or administrator has yet tried to defend Progressive Dispensationalism, a simple error of purposely confusing two Biblical thrones. When they say that Jesus is sitting on the throne of David in heaven—a prime tenet of Progressive Dispensationalism—they contradict Scripture. Carefully consider the following verse:

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne” (Rev. 3:21, emphasis mine).

Note that the verse above concerns two thrones, one of which is God’s in His throne-room in heaven, and the other is the throne of David on earth in Jerusalem. We will sit with our Lord at David’s throne, since we will dwell in Jerusalem in the Kingdom to come.

But the technicalities of the error are not its major problem; it’s the effect of the error. Because they assume under Progressive Dispensationalism that Jesus is already on David’s throne, then the Kingdom, in effect, has already started, and they don’t need all this inconvenient End Times prophecy or the chore of witnessing to, and even loving, the Jews or Israel.

The seminaries may try a hundred different explanations as to why our complaints are unjustified, but one thing they cannot deny: in the 70s, their graduates were excited about Israel and prophecy as no generation of Christians ever has been before. Today, many are complete dolts on these crucial subjects. And bear in mind that these graduates will lead our churches in the future.

If the Bible said, “I will bless those who curse Israel,” then the seminaries would be justified in teaching Progressive Dispensationalism.

For those of you who still love Israel, we offer tours to the Holy Land four times a year. Our upcoming tour is a combination we have never offered before. You can, of course, choose our Deluxe Tour of Israel (September 4–14) or our Grand Petra Tour (September 4–17) with an extension to Petra and Eilat, as offered every fall. This year, though, you may also choose the Grand Athens Tour (August 30 – September 14) with an extension cruise to Greece and Turkey. Or you can join us for the Ultra Grand Tour (August 30 – September 17) and see all of the above! We’ve already had an enthusiastic response to this special offering.

On the Ultra Grand Tour, you will fly to Athens, from where you will board a luxurious ocean liner for a breathtaking Mediterranean cruise of the Greek islands of Mykonos, Patmos (where it is believed that John wrote the Book of Revelation), Rhodes and Ephesus, Turkey. When you return to Athens, you will see the Acropolis, the Parthenon, Mars Hill, and Corinth. Next, you will meet the other passengers in Israel for a full Holy Land Tour that will include all the major Biblical sites such as Mt. Carmel, Capernaum, Megiddo, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, the Mt. of Beatitudes, the Jordan River (where you may choose to be baptized as our Lord Jesus was), the Western Wall, the Mt. of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Upper Room, the Garden Tomb (which is now empty), Masada, and the Dead Sea. You will also see the beautiful Golan Heights, where you will realize the incredible importance of this land to Israel. Finally, you will travel to the splendid resort city of Eilat, from where you will cross the Aqaba border into Jordan for a tour of Petra, the rose-red city carved out of the mountains by the ancient Nabateans. See the wonder of both ancient and modern Israel by joining us this fall! Call Diana or Becky at 214-696-9760 during business hours for further information or to make your reservation, or call 1-800-WONDERS any time for a full-color brochure [or click here for an online request form]. I hope you’ll be able to join us. Thanks.

And remember, Sha’alu shalom Yerushalayim—pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Your messenger,

Zola

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