Radio Lux Lucet 71

You're listening to Radio Luke's Lucid. I'm your host, Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 71. The title of today's episode is Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, were they spying for Israel?

Well, I guess what was going on for me here this week? I guess before we jump into our main topic here, just wanted to give you a review of my last week here since we've talked. I had one noteworthy thing happen to me this past week is I got sick for the first time in almost two years.

Winter Weather, Health, and the Start of the Episode

This whole work from home thing, in my last job we started that in, I guess that was in March of 2020. Oddly enough, in the year and a half that I worked from home, I never once got sick, never once even got so much as the sniffles.

But after being back to work in the office for a mere six or seven weeks, what did I do? I came down with a cold. And anyway, I finally got over that. I was vigorously taking my zinc tablets. I don't know if that's something that anybody else does out there, but I know for my part, I've found that taking those zinc tablets is very helpful.

I remember years ago, I heard Rush Limbaugh, he was advertising those and I tried them out and I don't know, I found them pretty effective. So I swear by those. So I don't know if anybody listening out there, if you've never tried zinc tablets for cold treatment, it's actually seems like it, at least for me, it seems like it works pretty well and it's cheap.

I mean, it's not like it's super expensive medicine to get. You can buy it over the counter. I don't know. I paid like seven bucks a bottle for these things. And they do seem to do a pretty good job of the way they advertise.

I mean, it supposedly limits the severity of the cold and the length that I have found that at least in my case, in my opinion to be true. So that may be something you want to try if you haven't tried that before.

Also something this week, we had our first snowfall of the year. It got down, I think it was, I guess it was Wednesday night. It snowed and it wasn't much of a snow, I guess, as snowfalls go. I mean, it was really just kind of a dusting sort of a covering out there when I got up in the morning, but it wasn't for snow nonetheless.

Now it's kind of interesting talking about that because I had a friend of mine who used to insist that we don't have winter in Cincinnati. And of course she was from North Dakota. So, you know, I guess probably by comparison, she's probably right.

We don't have winter in Cincinnati compared to North Dakota. On the other hand, I have a friend of mine who is from Australia, a good brother in Christ there. And he, I think he's convinced that I live somewhere in the Arctic Circle, if not actually in it, somewhere pretty close to it.

I'll tell him about our temperatures in January and he always tells me he'd die if he had that. And I don't know, I guess maybe it's kind of what you're used to. I suppose the truth is somewhere in between.

We do have winter, but it's not the Arctic Circle. Maybe North Dakota's the Arctic Circle. I don't know. I think that could be, but I don't think that Cincinnati winters are quite up to that, quite measure up to North Dakota or the Arctic Circle.

So anyway, yeah, it's actually getting pretty close to winter. I guess what's today? This is the 11th, doing this on December the 11th. So 10 days from now, I guess it officially becomes winter on the December 21st.

Nice thing about December 21st, I always kind of look forward to that because that's the day, that's the shortest day of the year. That's when we have the least sunshine. And I mean, right now, you know, this time of year, it gets to the point where the sunset occurs about 515 here locally, which is pretty early.

So, I mean, it's, the sun's going down right about the time I'm getting out of work. And, you know, by the time I get home, it's already dark. And I think maybe as much as anything, that's what I dislike about the winter is just the fact that it gets dark so early.

You know, that's one of the things I guess, alternately, I love about the summer. I love the fact that, you know, it'll be light so late. So anyway, beginning with January, with December 21st, I guess we'll start slowly climbing our way back to having some decent daylight.

So the end is near, at least with regard to the days getting shorter. So at least that's something I try to keep that in mind in all those cold January and February days when it doesn't seem like it's ever going to get above freezing.

So anyway, that's me. Well, the topic I wanted to talk about here tonight is kind of a topic that's kind of ripped out of the headlines going on today. You may have noticed, I guess, over the past, I guess it's going on, is it two weeks now?

Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Mainstream Media

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is underway. Now, depending on how much you watch the news, you may be saying, well, so who on earth is Ghislaine Maxwell and why should I care about that? Well, Ghislaine Maxwell was, I guess you would call her, she was sort of the the madam of sorts for Jeffrey Epstein.

And Jeffrey Epstein, as you may recall, he was a convicted pedophile, did a lot of very perverse and horrible things. And he supposedly died in prison last year in July, or I guess it was August of 2020, under some very mysterious circumstances.

He was, quote, suicided. He supposedly committed suicide, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that he probably had a little bit of help. But without delving too far into that, of course, he was going to be tried, but he conveniently had a tragic accident before he was able to be brought to justice.

But his second-in-command, his lieutenant, Ghislaine Maxwell, is on trial right now. She was captured, I guess, about a year ago or so. And so that trial is getting underway. And it's been very hush-hush.

I mean, this is a huge trial. This is really there's a lot going on here. And yet it's received relatively little play in the press. And I don't think that that's an accident. I think that's actually quite intentional.

I think the press is covering up a lot. But one of the things the press that it has gotten and you see this when you look at any of the mainstream news channels. Well, they talk about her involvement in procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and for his wealthy, well-heeled, powerful clientele to abuse.

And that's pretty much it. You get some of these lurid details about Ghislaine Maxwell and the work that she did for Jeffrey Epstein. And Jeffrey Epstein, of course, he's the guy that among other things, he had this private island in the Caribbean.

And they called it Petto Island. And he had, I guess, a private jet that would fly down there. And they used to call it the Lolita Express. And a lot of, as I said, very wealthy and powerful people have been connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

And their names actually appear on the log, the passenger log of his plane. One of those was Bill Clinton. And there are a lot of other very powerful people as well. And I'm not going to dive into all of that right now because that's really not the principal focus of this podcast.

But when you do see anything about the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, I mean, it's always that kind of lurid stuff. You find out that Jeffrey Epstein was a very bad, very perverted man, which he was. I mean, he was a very disgusting individual.

And without going and I say, you can find all that stuff all you want. It's all that kind of National Enquirer sort of tabloid kind of news out there. And it's true. I mean, the guy was a horrible individual and she's a horrible individual.

But with that said, there's another angle to this story that has received, at least in the mainstream press, as far as I can tell, zero press coverage. You get all the lurid details and everybody goes, oh, this is this kind of stuff, it's kind of like a moth being attracted to a flame.

People just go in for all of the lurid kinds of details, but they don't really ever get beyond that level. So what is it I'm talking about here? Well, just to give you an example, I kind of wanted to pull from an experience that I had.

A number of years ago, I heard a minister one time give a Reformation Day sermon. And the sermon itself was in many ways quite good, but there was one glaring serious omission to that sermon. And that is he somehow managed to preach through a fairly extensive Reformation Day sermon talking about Martin Luther and Martin Luther's nailing of the 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door and all of this stuff.

Somehow he managed to go through this entire history of Martin Luther and the early Reformation, and he never once mentioned the Roman Catholic church state, the very institution that Martin Luther was challenging.

And it's been a number of years, and sometimes I've wondered to myself, well, maybe my memory is just incorrect. I don't think that's the case. And if you had told me before hearing a sermon that somebody could actually preach a Reformation Day sermon in a fairly, probably a 45-minute sermon or so, and somehow do it and never mention the Roman Catholic church, I would have said, well, that's not possible.

But this particular minister was able to do it. And as a Christian, I don't admire that because it was an attempt, in my opinion, to dodge the issue of what it exactly was that Martin Luther was fighting against.

I think he probably didn't want to offend maybe Roman Catholics because he was, to some extent, this particular individual was involved with a lot of ecumenical kinds of activities, and I think he wanted to kind of downplay the issues between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

So he didn't mention the Roman Catholic church by name. And it was an amazing thing to do. I don't think that I could do that, and I wouldn't want to do that, because I think that trying to cover up what Martin Luther was fighting against, I think is actually fundamentally dishonest.

Well, the reason I bring that up is because the press coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell in her trial, and even a lot of the comments you see out there about Jeffrey Epstein, various stories and things, really do the same kind of thing.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as Alleged Mossad Operatives

What they do is they focus on one part of the story, and that's not to say that it's wrong, but they omit intentionally a very important detail. And that detail is that there is a massive amount of evidence that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both spying for Israel.

They were both Mossad agents, and Mossad is the equivalent of the CIA. It's the secret service of the intelligence agency, the main intelligence agency of the state of Israel. And they were both Mossad agents, apparently, from what I can tell here.

And there's a story. This is something I found. It's on a website called the Council for the National Interest. It's written by a gentleman by the name of Philip Giraldi, who I think is probably one of the few writers out there on the subject of Israel who has both the knowledge to be able to write about Israel and also the courage to be able to write critically about Israel.

And that's not something, that's not a combination that you often see. And what I wanted to do here is I'd like to read a little bit of an excerpt out of this. Again, this is from Philip Giraldi's piece dated November 30th, 2021.

It's called Ghislaine Maxwell is finally on trial. And here's an excerpt out of here. Jeffrey Epstein procurer Ghislaine Maxwell is finally in court going through the juror selection process and opening arguments after a 17-month stay at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Given Epstein's somewhat suspicious departure from this earth and what may have been a murder rather than a suicide, Maxwell has been jailed under a somewhat more intrusive regime, with constant surveillance and only limited ability to do anything but sit on her concrete bunk and contemplate her future.

She has complained frequently about her isolation, abuse by jailers, and the terrible food. She was undoubtedly correct about the food. Her offer of as much as $28 million in bail, money in return for her freedom while awaiting trial was turned down by the judge who observed that Maxwell had more than 15 separate bank or investment accounts as well as multiple passports.

She suggested that Ghislaine might have much more money and other assets squirreled away outside the United States, making her a flight risk, presumably to flee to Israel, which has no extradition agreement with the U .S.

There was a significant backstory to consider when examining the Ghislaine Maxwell-Jeffrey Epstein saga. The suspicion that Epstein was working for Israel's external intelligence agency Mossad or for its military intelligence counterpart is based on considerable evidence, and that he was being protected has also seemingly been confirmed through both Israeli and American sources.

Indeed, there already exists some evidence that Epstein was granted unusual leniency when he was convicted in Florida of sex crimes in 2008 involving 19 underage girls and received a sentence that was little more than a slap on the wrist.

After the fact, the U .S. attorney for Miami, Alexander Acosta, who was involved in the case, reported that the arrest and sentencing were above his pay grade, that he had been told that Epstein quote, belonged to intelligence, end quote, and to leave it alone, a common comment that apparently was never pursued by investigators.

Also, a recent book, Epstein, Dead Men Tell No Tales, written by Ari Ben Menashe, the former Israeli intelligence officer who actually claims to have run the Epstein operation, described, among other things, how Epstein was blackmailing prominent politicians on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

Epstein had been working directly for the Israeli government since the 1980s, and his operation, which was funded by Israel and also by prominent Jews, was a classic honey trap, which used underage girls as bait to attract well-known politicians from around the world.

A list that included Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton. Clinton reportedly flew at least 26 times on Epstein's private 727, the Lolita Express, to a mansion estate in Florida, as well as to a private island owned by Epstein in the Caribbean.

The island was referred to by locals as the pedophile island. The politicians would be photographed and video recorded when they were in bed with the girls. Afterwards, they would be approached and asked to do favors for Israel.

Ghislaine Maxwell is, in fact, the daughter of top Israeli spy Robert Maxwell, who received a state funeral in Israel after his mysterious death in 1991, which was attended by the Prime Minister, as well as by all the former and serving heads of the country's intelligence services.

Ghislaine is presumed to have been an active participant in the Epstein operation, acting as procurer of young girls, and on at least one occasion has hinted that she knows where the sex films made by Epstein are hidden.

She also has claimed that the tapes feature both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Okay, so this actually gives you, these few paragraphs here that I just read, this gives you the proper context that you need to be able to understand what's going on with Ghislaine Maxwell.

You know, so Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a perverted guy doing perverted things. I mean, he was that, but it was more than that. He was running, you know, in the words of this particular article by Philip Giroldi, he was running what was called a honey trap or honey, was it a honey trap or a honey pot?

I mean, get that here. Let's see here. A honey trap. Yeah, that's the right word. It was a classic honey trap. So, I mean, what was going on here is Ghislaine Maxwell was recruiting these young girls, I guess, turning them over to Jeffrey Epstein.

And he was flying rich and powerful politicians, business leaders, and this type of thing down his island. And these men were having sex with these underage girls. And Epstein was filming them doing this.

He was taking photographs of them. He was taking a video of them. And then I guess they would be presented with this. He'd say, oh, well, Mr. President, that's a nice career you have there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

While they're showing him the pictures and the video of him engaging in these perverted and sinful acts. And then they'd say, oh, well, you know, if you want to preserve your career, but this is a little favor you can do for Israel.

And we'll just make sure that this stays in the down low and goes away. And that's what was going on. So this whole thing was a pedophile ring with a purpose. And certainly one of the main purposes was to blackmail American politicians on behalf of Israel.

Now, this is what was going on. And so, you know, this is the important thing that you need to understand about the whole Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell episode. But it's being almost completely shut down by the mainstream media.

I talked to someone the other day and someone who's actually very knowledgeable, certainly a lot more knowledgeable than most people about this. And when I presented this information, he told me that he had never heard that before.

This is somebody who's actually pretty well informed. And so I suspect that probably this is the first time a lot of people have come and heard this type of thing. But this is what's going on. This is what Epstein was up to.

This is what Ghislaine Maxwell was up to. Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of a very prominent, as the article noted, a very prominent Israeli spy, a very prominent Mossad spy. So she has ties as well to Israeli intelligence.

Now, it may come as a surprise to a lot of people, and particularly American Christians, that Israel spies on the United States. But the truth of the matter is, Israel is notorious for spying on the United States.

In fact, there are a lot of American intelligence reports out there that say that Israel, more than any other supposed ally of the United States, spies on the United States. And there are many, many, many examples of this kind of thing going on.

I'm just going to cite a few here as an example. You have Jonathan Pollard, who has been described by many people as the most damaging spy in American history. He took substantial closely-guarded, according to this, Wikipedia says, he sold numerous closely-guarded state secrets, including the National Security Agency's 10-volume manual on how the US gathers its signal intelligence, and disclosed the names of thousands of people who had cooperated with intelligence agencies.

I believe some of these things were sold by Israel to China. I'd encourage you to do your own research on this, but yes, these sorts of things did go on. And that was one guy. There's another example here, the dancing Israelis of 9 -11.

I don't know if you recall this, but there were people, I mean, and these guys were literally, there's a group of about four or five guys that were over in New Jersey, and they were spotted by someone who lived over there.

And they were looking across the, I guess, what's that, the Hudson River, looking across in the lower Manhattan, where the Twin Towers had been hit. And they were over there dancing around and high-fiving it and celebrating, I mean, literally giving one another high-fives.

And they all piled in the van and took off. And of course, whoever was the resident, I guess, called the New Jersey state troopers, and these guys were caught, and two of them, it turned out, had Mossad connections.

And they claimed that they were there to document the event. So, I mean, there's something going on there with the Mossad in 9 -11. What that is, I don't know, and I'm not going to dive in and try to speculate too much right now, but that did go on.

And here's another example of Israeli spying on the United States. This is from just a couple years ago. It's from September 2019. This article that I'm showing here, this is from Politico. It's got a headline, Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House.

The likely Israeli spy efforts were uncovered during the Trump presidency, several former top U .S. officials said. And if you read just the first couple paragraphs here, it says, the U .S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel is most likely behind the placement of cell phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U .S. officials with knowledge of the matter.

But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents of foreign spying have been discovered on American soil, the Trump administration did not rebuke the Israeli government and there were no consequences for Israel's behavior, one of the former officials said.

The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as stingrays, mimic regular cell phone towers to fool cell phones into giving them the locations and identify information. Formerly called International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catchers or IMSI catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.

The devices were likely intended to spy on President Donald Trump, one of the former officials said, as well as his top aides and closest associates, though it's not clear whether the Israeli efforts were successful.

So, you know, there's another example, and I guess, and again, this is from Politico. Okay, Politico is a very mainstream D .C., I believe a D .C.-based paper. So, I mean, you know, again, we're not talking here about, you know, wild conspiracy theories or things of this sort.

I mean, this is well-documented stuff. And in fact, if you want to get even more recent, this is an article here from the Washington Post. This is from November 3rd, 2021, so just a little bit over a month ago, I guess, what, about five weeks ago or so.

Here's the headline, Biden Administration Blacklist NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware. Commerce Department says action is among efforts to put human rights at center of U .S. foreign policy. And if you read through here, I'm just reading the first few paragraphs, again, the United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its entity list, a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving American technologies after determining that its phone hacking tools have been used by foreign governments to maliciously target government officials, activists, journalists, academics, and embassy workers around the world.

The move is a significant sanction against the company spotlighted in July in an investigation by the Global Pegasus Project Consortium, which includes the Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide.

The consortium published dozens of articles detailing how NSO customers had misused its powerful spyware Pegasus. The move could also raise tensions between the United States and Israel, where NSO is a prized technological powerhouse.

Exports of NSO software are regulated by Israel's Ministry of Defense for as much to prove them as it would any weapons sale. The NSO Group could not have operated without Israeli government knowledge and toleration, if not encouragement, said David Kaye, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur who has called for global restrictions on sales of surveillance technology.

So part of this cannot be seen merely as the U .S. government making a statement about this particular company. It's also a statement about the Israeli government, its export controls and engagement in transnational repression.

You know, again, this is only from five weeks ago, and of course you really, you know, all of this raises the question, okay, what else is Israel doing in terms of spying on the United States that isn't being reported?

You know, I think it would be a bit absurd to think that they're not continuing these efforts in many other areas. I mean, in fact, I think it would be downright foolish to assume otherwise. So I mean, you know, as I said, these are just a few examples.

I'm sure that if you went and you dug through, you know, did some internet searches, you could probably find a lot more cases. But I think that's enough to establish that this is something that goes on a regular basis with Israel spying on the United States, and there not being anything really much in the way of consequences for Israel.

Dispensationalism, Israel, and Christian Duty

This also has, you know, there are a number of different angles to this, and one of the things I wanted to mention in discussing Israel and Israeli-American relations here tonight is the role of dispensationalist theology.

Now, dispensationalist theology teaches American Christians that they have a moral responsibility to stand for Israel, that Christians have an obligation to stand for Israel. Now, you know, I consider that to be a fantasy, but it's a fantasy that's become deeply ingrained in American evangelicalism to the point where it's almost become an article of the faith.

I mean, it's almost something, you know, right up there with the Trinity, or justification by faith alone, or sola scriptura, or something like this. You know, you throw all those things in, and right behind them, and actually maybe even ahead of them, is the doctrine that Americans have an obligation to give Israel whatever the government of Israel demands.

And if you ever disagree with the prime minister of Israel, I mean, it's almost as if you're blaspheming God. And there is no such obligation on the part of the American people, there's no such obligation on American Christians to blindly support Israel and to never criticize them.

There are some things that Israel does that very much are deserving of criticism. I wanted to talk about a few things here. Relative to that, this is from an article, this is actually a Trinity view that was published back in, I believe, 2006 by the Trinity Foundation.

It's called, Who Really Owns the Holy Land? And it was written by Robert L. Raymond, who was a very well-known Reform theologian, and actually someone I'm pleased to say I had as a professor for one semester in my time at Knox Seminary.

In fact, it was right around the time this particular article was written. And Dr. Raymond was a wonderful and fine, fine, wonderful Christian gentleman and a teacher and someone that I admired and very much do admire to this day.

And he wrote this piece titled, Who Really Owns the Holy Land? I just wanted to quote the first few paragraphs from this as well, and I think you kind of get a flavor of where he was coming from. This is what Robert Raymond said, A gigantic effort is underway today to convince the evangelical citizenry of the United States of America that the political state of Israel rightfully owns, in perpetuity, the so-called Holy Land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea by virtue of God's bequeathing it to Abraham and his descendants in the Old Testament.

This effort is being made not so much today by a secular leadership of the state of Israel, as by self-acclaimed Christian scholars and televangelists who claim to speak for over 70 million evangelical Christians.

These men, including Assemblies of God preacher and televangelist Don Hagee, founder and pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, Kenneth Copeland, televangelist, Paul and Matt Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Jack Hayford, founder and pastor of the Church of the Way in Van Nuys, California, and president of the Four Square Gospel Church, Benny Hinn, pastor of the yet-to-be-built World Healing Center in Dallas, Texas, Rod Parsley, pastor of the World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio, Pat Robertson, founder and chief executive officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network and Bible Teacher on the 700 Club, and Jerry Falwell, founder and pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church and founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, all are purveyors of that system of hermeneutics known as Dispensationalism.

Apparently convinced by this propaganda effort, President Clinton, after citing the words of his desperately ill Baptist pastor to him, quote, if you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you, end quote, declared before the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on October 27, 1994, quote, it is God's will that Israel, the biblical home of the people of Israel, continue forever and ever, end quote.

A statement that enters deeply in the biblical hermeneutics concerning the nature of the Church and the Kingdom of God, not to mention biblical eschatology, known as forever and ever. President Clinton concluded his speech by saying, your journey is our journey, and America will stand with you now and always.

A statement that illustrates this nation's deep involvement in both the Middle East, politics in general, and its specific political commitment to Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, in a way that cannot but affect the course of world politics for the foreseeable future.

And Raymond continues, in my opinion, President Clinton's statement is bad politics based on equally bad theology. I say this because, as I shall argue in this paper, all of God's land promises to Israel in the Old Testament to be viewed in terms of shadow, type, and prophecy, in contrast to the reality, substance, and fulfillment of which the New Testament speaks.

Consequently, contrary to John Hagee, who insists that Israel has a biblical mandate to the land, has a Bible mandate to the land, a divine covenant of the land of Israel forever, and Christians have a Bible mandate to be supportive of Israel.

So, I mean, that's the end of the comment that I had there from Robert Raymond. And since we're talking about that, let me see, you know, there was a quote in there from Bill Clinton talking about, you know, the fact that America has this obligation to defend Israel.

It didn't stop with Bill Clinton. Here's an article, this is another article by Philip Giraldi called Trump Confirms Israel's Protector. And this is a story just from September 2020, so just a little bit over a year ago.

This is what Trump said. He says, the fact is we don't have to be in the Middle East other than that we want to protect Israel. We've been very good to Israel. Other than that, we don't have to be in the Middle East.

So, I mean, if what Donald Trump said was true, maybe about 15 months back or so, the only reason that we have troops in the Middle East, the only reason that we are up to our neck in Middle East politics is because of Israel.

You know, it's not because of anything, any pressing U .S. interest, it's because of Israel. And we have that from the very lips of Donald Trump. Who really did a great deal to give away the American store to Israel during his four years in office.

I think that was one of the real problems with the Trump administration is he was way too simpatico with Israel. So, I mean, it's not just, you know, Democrat Bill Clinton who was in too tight with Israel, so was Donald Trump.

You know, were Bill Clinton's or Donald Trump's politics affected by the work of Jeffrey Epstein? I don't know. You know, I can't prove that here. But when you put together the comments, some of the allegations that Ghislaine Maxwell has said that she has tape on Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, and then you see the statements made by Bill Clinton and Donald Trump about Israel, you know, as an American, that raises serious questions in my mind.

Have these men been blackmailed by Israel? It certainly is possible. You know, and I think that anytime you see things done by the U .S. government, you have to wonder, you know, whether it's bills passed in Congress or what have you, you know, have these people been blackmailed?

I mean, that's a very serious question. Now, in contrast to all of that, and I guess really along the same lines of some of the things that Robert Raymond wrote, there's some statements that John Robbins made.

Romanism, Islam, Judaism, and the Religious Wars of the 21st Century

One of my favorite essays that John Robbins ever did, it was called The Religious Wars of the 21st Century. And I like to read a little bit out of the Religious Wars of the 21st Century. So he talks here, he says, the result of two centuries of irrationalism is that at the beginning of the 21st century, we are faced not with a hopeful prospect, but with an even more dismal prospect than our great-grandfathers faced a hundred years ago.

The last hundred years have seen the resurgence of medieval Romanism and the emergence of Romanist zealot organizations such as Opus Adei. Medieval Romanism is not just confined to the Roman Catholic Church state and its thousands of educational institutions, but has gained many adherents among nominal Protestants as well.

The prolific authors Norman Geisler and R .C. Sproul, and many lesser-known Protestant theologians and philosophers as well, are disciples of the official philosopher of the Roman Church state, Thomas Aquinas.

Their influence has misled most Protestants away from a biblical and Reformed view of philosophy and apologetics and into a compromise with Rome. And I can say that that's most definitely the case. You know, how many, when was the last time, you know, if you're a Reformed Christian, when was the last time you ever heard a sermon warning you about the dangers of the Roman Church state, of the Antichrist Roman Church state?

You probably have never heard that. You know, and one of the reasons is because so many leading Protestant thinkers have been seriously compromised by their association in one way or the other with thinkers of the Roman Church state, including the official philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church state, Thomas Aquinas.

And certainly R .C. Sproul was a very prominent American Presbyterian minister and theologian. And he's not the only one to fall under the spell of Rome either, not by a long shot. In fact, I had a recent discussion with some people where the question was asked, you know, are Roman Catholics Christians?

And the others in the group I was speaking with, they said, yes, they are. And I took the opposite position, no, no, they're not. And, you know, I'm not going to go down that route, but I mean, I think it's very common for American evangelicals to consider Roman Catholics are brothers in Christ, even though the Roman Catholic Church explicitly teaches against the gospel of justification by belief alone, and even though the Roman Catholic Church has explicitly condemned, anathematized anyone who does believe that.

So not only do they not teach the gospel and teach a false gospel in its place, but they explicitly, pointedly, clearly, in no uncertain terms, condemned the one doctrine that can actually save sinners.

And that is the doctrine of justification by belief alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. And that they've condemned. And then we're supposed to think that they're Christians or that the Roman Catholic Church is a Christian organization.

It is not a Christian organization. But let's not get too far afield on that right now. I'm going to continue reading John Robbins here. So let's see. Oh, that's what he had to say about medieval Roman Catholicism.

But he goes on and talks about Islam. He says, quote, Medieval Islam is now usually called fundamentalist Islam. And medieval Judaism, with the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, are on the rise as well.

All three religions, Romanism, Islam, and Judaism are false, militant, and violent. Get that false, militant, and violent. Devout members of each group hate, oppose, and plot against members of the other two.

But today, the date is 2006, not 1006. And the true believers of each of these medieval religions have access to nuclear, biological, chemical, and electromagnetic weapons. Barring dramatic divine intervention, such as a new reformation or the second coming of Christ, the wars of the 21st century will be religious wars.

They will be worse than the secular wars of the 20th century. The three principal protagonists will be the three medieval religions that have warred with each other for centuries. Already the battles have begun.

It is important to realize that the Christian has no dog in this fight, neither Romanism, nor Judaism, nor Islam as Christianity. Yet many who profess to be Christian support either Judaism or Romanism.