Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Incredibly, growing numbers of those who still claim to be evangelical Christians are denying the veracity of Scripture, especially when it comes to Israel. A case is point is "The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible," edited by Richard J. Foster. Eugene Peterson, author of The Message — a blasphemously perverted "version" of the New Testament — is "Consulting Editor, New Testament."...The new "Bible" contains commentaries by supposed leading Bible scholars....Its explanatory notes deny the Divine authorship of much of Scripture — even that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, Isaiah the book of Isaiah, and Daniel the book of Daniel.

There is no recognition of the great prophecies in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, et al., of Israel being brought back intot her own land in the last days and the fact that she must endure forever (Ezekiel 36-37, etc.). For example, the powerful prophetic promise from God to bring back the Jews scattered around the world in Jeremiah:31:8-14 [8] Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. [9] They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. [10] Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. [11] For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. [12] Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. [13] Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. [14] And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
See All... is interpreted as a promise to all homeless people (nothing about Israel); and God's promise that Israel can never be destroyed (31:35-37) is ignored! Israel is treated as having been replaced by the church. Incredibly, the valley of dry bones brought back to life in Ezekiel 37, which is clearly declared to be "the whole house of Israel" (37:11), is interpreted as the birth of the church at Pentecost! Ezekiel 38-39 is supposedly not about Armageddon, with real armies attacking the nation of Israel back in her land in the last days to be rescued by the Messiah but is about "dark forces" always at work in the world.