Around the few technical issues (mostly related to bandwidth, we think), we discuss Rob’s research, the people who have influenced his thinking, and why he believes the world faces the imminent return of humanity’s most ancient foe.
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AN INTERESTING thing emerged into public view last week during congressional hearings and the vice presidential debate: The State Department and the White House are playing a game of C.Y.A. regarding the deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The question is whether President Obama or Secretary of State Clinton will take the fall.
Both parties seem willing to let the other do the honors.
Note: We received this email from Rabbi Michael Bugg on 10/15/12 which clarifies the point we tried to make about President Obama’s ring:
Shalom, Derek and Sharon.
Assuming you didn’t get the answer later in the show, the Biblical equivalent to the Shahad would be the Shema (Deu. 6:4):
Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheynu, Adonai Echad.
Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Obviously, I’m substituting “Adonai” (“the Lord”) for the Tetragramaton here. Alternatively, you could translate it,
Hear O Israel, the Eternal One is our God, the Eternal One alone.
The very next verse is, “And you shall love the Lord your God . . .” Yeshua quoted both the Shema and the next verse together when asked what the most important commandment is in Mark 12[:29-31]. From that I would argue that the Shema is not only the most important creed in Judaism, but that it should be to Christians as well–and that if a Christian were to have it on a ring (and I know several that do) that it would not be a problem at all.
The problem with a Christian wearing or stating the Shahad, even if it doesn’t contain the second clause regarding Mohammed (and in this case, I’d want to see the inside of the ring’s band) is that in Islamic theology, Allah is not only a general word for “God,” but is also the personal name of the God of Islam, in opposition to the Tetragramaton, which is the personal name of the God of Judaism and Christianity. Therefore to wear it or say it is to declare that there is no god but the one proclaimed by Mohammed–whose personal attributes as described in the Quran are precisely opposite of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Just my two cents.
Shalom uv’recha b’Shem Yeshua,
Rabbi Mike
Details on Future Congress 2 January 4-6, 2013 in Dallas are available here.
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IT’S HARD to believe, but seven years ago almost to the day we recorded a program on PID Radio about the impending landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Now, we look at the forecasts and see meteorologists warning that Tropical Storm Isaac may “even rival Hurricane Katrina in its destructive power.” Current models put Isaac on the Gulf Coast late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Here is the link to the MIMIC website Sharon mentioned.
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WITH THIS broadcast, we try something new — a video interview via Google Hangout with our friend Rob Skiba, author of the new book Archon Invasion: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Nephilim.
