Dear Liberal Christian:

Just looking at it from the outside, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C is a unique building. Once inside, it is an imposing structure. Designed by James Ingo Freed, the structure, as it says on the museum’s webpage, “is not a neutral shell.” The architecture, by a collection of abstract forms invented and drawn from memory, constantly refers visitors to the unthinkable that took place not so long ago.

Inscribed on a wall as you enter the Museum are words from the prophet Isaiah: “You are my witnesses” (Isaiah 43:10). The location of the words, like everything else genius about the design of the building, is calculated for affect. It’s as if God is speaking the words directly to you, and me, the visitor, the passerby, right from the beginning. Once you step inside, you’re changed, transformed. You are about to become a witness accountable to the past, present, and future.

As Christians, whether in a religious or spiritual or strictly cultural sense, we need to acknowledge that the Holocaust is a part—a sickening part—of Christian history. And we need to actively acknowledge that in much the same way as mid-20^th century Christians were witnesses to the rise of the Nazi’s Third Reich, we, as Christians in the 21^st century, are witnesses to the rise of “the Fourth Reich”—Islamic jihadism.

It is critical—both individually and collectively—that we not “misinterpret” the events that are occurring before our eyes today, as institutional Christianity “misinterpreted” the events leading to the Holocaust.

You are a witness as I am a witness.

We live in age of information. The Bible is available to everyone. Books are available to inform us of the past. Newspapers and magazines, though often liberally biased, inform us of present affairs. The Internet puts truth, as well as propaganda and other lies, within easy reach. It takes discernment to critically assess truth. Nevertheless, we are all witnesses accountable to the truth of the testimony we give both of past and present events. You are accountable.  I am accountable.

You need to be aware of the primary document of your faith. The document that all of our presuppositions should be validated in. In that divine document, God has publicly announced that he will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. This is found in Genesis 12:3. Don’t take my word for it. Look it up. Being as simple and authoritative a divine decree as it is, I would counsel you to be careful how you represent Israel and the Jewish people to others. As the inscription of the wall attests, you are a witness. And as a witness you will be held accountable for your testimony.

We must not just think, but think critically. We are witnesses.

We need to consider the assumptions driving the words being written and said. 

If you believe the Arab-Israeli conflict is about land, you’ve been had. That's an assumption made by most people who have not done their homework thoroughly.  It’s not about land. It’s about hate.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also not about Israel’s occupation and oppression of Arab refugees. That's an assumption promoted by the enemies of Israel and swallowed whole by a naive, liberal western mass media distribution system.  The conflict is about Arab nations exploiting their own people, leaving them hung out to dry for political purposes in the years after the war they declared against Israel in defiance of its right to exist. (You’ll find yourself “on the wrong side of the road,” like the priest and Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan, if you do not realize that the target of the thief in the story of the Good Samaritan is Israel, not the Arab refugees abandoned by the Arab world in 1948.)

As a witness to the ongoing effort to annihilate Israel, you’ll want to be aware that the conflict is not truthfully represented under “the law of political correctness” obeyed in the media, politicized by the Liberal Left, and, quite likely, adhered to and preached in your churches. Please realize that the “politically correct gospel” that accuses Israel of occupation and oppression instead of holding the Arab nations accountable of political treachery is a false gospel, an ideological gospel, a political gospel, not a biblical gospel. It is a propaganda tool packaged for mass consumer consumption that accuses the internationally legitimated, democratically governed, imperfect-but-peace-affirming state of Israel of being the cause of problems in the Middle East instead of placing the blame where it belongs: on the dictatorial Islamic states that sponsor terrorism, the state-sponsored Islamic schools that teach antisemitic hate to schoolchildren, the Islamic jihadist organizations that the schoolchildren ultimately join as the tools of terrorism they’ve been raised to become, and the militant mullahs who preach terrorism in their mosques in the name of Allah.

You and I are both taught that “…we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

As a witness, it will serve you well to realize that there is a spiritual as well as intellectual war being waged and you have been targeted for neutralization as the recipient of disinformation disseminated by a non-godly mass media information system not necessarily interested in truth.

Next: More Memory and Accountability, More Words on Walls…