"Drop out of life with bong in hand
Follow the smoke...
Jerusalem"
Sleep

Time has been cleared for landing.  History is on its final approach.  Can you see it?  Time, and also the world and everything in it, are the only passengers on Vanishing Into Thin Airlines, and the flight has been cleared for landing.  Flight 1159, sometimes stylized on clocks as 11:59.  Cleared for landing.  On final approach in the Holy Land.  Ready or not.

Let's Make a Deal was a TV game show, and... to my amazement, apparently still is.  In one of the games, contestants got to choose their prizes, which were hidden behind a door.  What's behind Door #1?  A trip to Europe?  A new car?  A dishwasher?  Global thermonuclear jihad?

You never knew.

The war between Israel and Gaza may or may not be complicated and rife with several millennia of irreconcilable Judeo-Quranic nuance, but I'm going to make an attempt to simplify it into game-show terms both Gentiles and infidels can understand.  I'm going to consolidate the options into 4 easy categories, and put them behind 4 numbered doors.  We are all contestants in a violent, bloody game show called life, a game show that everyone is playing, whether they know it, or like it, or not.  The stage is on fire, and there are 4 doors to choose from.  Only one conceals the possibility of an exit (though no guarantee); all the others lead to perdition.  The options are:

1.  Pro-Israel
2.  Pro-Palestine
3.  Secular/Humanist
4.  Drop out of life with a bong in your hand

I've tried Sleep's Jerusalem a few times over the years, and never get more than 5 or 10 minutes through it.  I can see why people like it, but it doesn't do anything for me personally.  I don't really recommend it.  But the lyrics are hilarious.  If you're into idolizing weed, Sleep's Jerusalem is the album for you.  It isn't leading you anywhere you really want to go, but the theology chiseled into the monolithic riffs is hilarious.  Do "Lungsmen really unearth the creed of hashishian Lebanon?"  Does the "Groundation soul really find trust upon smoking hose?"  Is it wise to "follow the smoke toward the riff-filled land, whence proceedeth the weedian, Nazareth?"

Whence proceedeth the what?

Dude.  Some people need to smoke some weed, and some people really need to quit.  Sleep has ridden the weed train to its final destination.  Terminus of weed has been achieved by Sleep.  The "Marijuanauts" need to stop hot-boxing in their hookah suits, and "sleep" it off.  Time to find a hobby.

That said, I think the option behind Door #4 is the second-wisest choice on the list.  The prize behind Door #4 is the same as two of the other doors, but the final approach into the airport of eternity will be more enjoyable, even if the plane has no landing gear and will burst into flames on arrival.  You won't be as angry when you die, if you choose Door #4.

You are certainly free to choose for yourself.  But I choose Door #1.  And this is why.

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed.”
Genesis 12:3

Satan hates the Jews.  He really hates them.  The reason Satan hates the Jews is because they are the people group chosen by God to be the vehicle for bringing His Son, and therefore forgiveness and atonement for sin without the need for a religious middle man, into the world.  Even if the Jews are still, inexplicably, waiting for the sequel to The Torah, the release of The Torah part 2, "The Messiah," a controversial sequel which was already released, 2,000 years ago, to rave reviews by the people who actually went to see it, the promise made to the Jewish people by God in Genesis 12 still stands.  And we're watching it unfold in real time.  Again.

From EnduringWord.com, "Historically speaking, nations that have treated the Jewish people well have often been blessed.  'When the Greeks overran Palestine and desecrated the altar in the Jewish temple, they were soon conquered by Rome.  When Rome killed Paul and many others, and destroyed Jerusalem under Titus, Rome soon fell.  Spain was reduced to a fifth-rate nation after the Inquisition against the Jews; Poland fell after the pogroms; Hitler’s Germany went down after its orgies of anti-Semitism; Britain lost her empire when she broke her faith with Israel.' (Barnhouse)"

For reasons of Genesis 12:3, perhaps.  But Satan hates the Jews.  People who hate the Jews are animated by the same spirit, whether they are aware of it, or believe it, or not. 

FYI.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall
be cut in pieces, though all the people of the
earth be gathered together against it.”
Zechariah 12:3

What day is that?  I'm honesty not sure.  Among many other days in history, the coming day of the Battle of Armageddon, perhaps.  The Russian/Islamic coalition that will be supernaturally wiped out in the Valley of Megiddo.  If you're left behind after the Rapture, look for it.  There are no aisle seats on Vanishing Into Thin Airlines flight 1159.  Everybody gets a window seat.

I mean, y'know... It crosses the mind:  If God has to intervene supernaturally against a massive Russian/Islamic coalition, it's probably safe to assume that the Jews are going to be pissing people off from here on out.  Count on it.  Apparently, in these last days it doesn't really matter whether or not you "hate the Jews."  I don't; you might, but if you do, hating them won't have any effect on the outcome of the situation.  Apparently, the Russians will hate the Jews too, eventually (if they don't already, I don't know).  To the point that they lead the Battle of Armageddon to wipe them out.  What is going to set them off?  Dunno.  The destruction of Damascus with a nuclear weapon, perhaps.

“The burden of Damascus.  Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
Isaiah 17:1

I'm sure that the destruction of Damascus as prophesied millennia ago, will enrage the Syrians, the Russians, and many other people waiting for their prizes on the burning stage of the game show of life as well.  But it won't matter which costume you wear to the final episode of Let's Make a Deal.  Whether Orthodox gangster,

Militant Palestinian apologist,

New-age Russell Brand guy who wouldn't harm a fly, who seeks to bridge the gap between God and the devil with "good intentions," and whose peaceful embrace of secular humanism and every spiritual tradition from popcorn Buddhism to "sexual liberation," is perceived as a form of would-be, post-moral enlightenment,

Or any other variety of secular humanism, from the Max Igan/Anarchapulco people, through Patrick Bet-David, Canadian Prepper, any number of otherwise-reasonable and politically or socially adept YouTube and alt-tech pundits (including smug know-it-alls with 666 in their usernames)(#redflag), who may be right about many things, but have a default spirit setting of coagulated worldliness that leaves them wide-open to the possibility of being animated by a spirit of genocidal Jew-hate, which will eventually destroy them, if they don't guard against it.

In all likelihood, these rational, well-meaning people will never go farther than being a sort of unwitting apologist for the spirit, for reasons of being unwilling to commit to acknowledging that the spirit is full of hate, and therefore capable of acts of abject, irrational horror that boggle the mind of most "good" people.  It doesn't matter.  Their willful ignorance won't save them.  The well-meaning humanists may even go down with their open minds intact, actually attempting to reason with the flames rising around them.  It doesn't matter what costume they're wearing to the game show.  Rational, well-meaning, open minds won't save anybody, when the only games to play,

Are games that transcend reason, or ignore it altogether.

Mowing down a bunch of party people in "self-defense," for example.

Cuz Hamas didn't decapitate babies and slaughter scores of unarmed civilians out of a sense of "justice," because they've been oppressed by a militant sect of hateful Jewish babies, or their government.

They decapitated them because they are themselves ANIMATED BY GENOCIDAL HATE, by a demonic spirit that hates God, hates the Jews, and is well beyond reason.  To reason with that spirit is to reason with an eternity of hellfire.  It can't be done.  That spirit just wants everyone to die, and everything to burn.  Starting with the Jews, and including regular Palestinians too.  It hates everybody.  As it hated normal German citizens in World War 2.

Do you think that the spirit of genocidal anti-Jewish hate didn't hate the compliant German goyim sheep around the dissenting guy in the circle, as much as it hated the dissenting guy in the circle himself?  Of course it did.  And it sent the dissenting guy to prison, and/or killed him, I believe.  For not going along with its agenda of genocidal hate.

Does anybody still believe the world has actually moved on from this?

You are free to still believe it, but while you're waiting, allow me to recommend Door #1 as the best option in the meantime.  The genocidal Jew-haters were the bad guys in World War 2, and they're the bad guys now.  Perhaps it looks more nuanced, but it isn't nuance.  It's mud.  What looks like "nuance" is really just a lot of cloudy murk, coming to the surface.  Different shades of sewage, masquerading as moral grey areas.  It doesn't make the images any less tragic, of course.  From any side.  In fact, the tragedy on the faces of everyone on every side is its own built-in warning.

"TURN TO CHRIST!  DO IT NOW!  WE'RE DOOMED!"  Scream the bulletholes and huddled children and subjugated women weeping.

The children are going to Heaven, though.  Jew & Palestinian alike.  There is no place in hell for children.  Keep it in mind if you miss the Rapture, and wake up without your babies, who have inexplicably been "abducted" with all those hardline Christian zealots you've been intimidated into believing are the enemy.  Your children are waiting for you.  But there is no default guarantee that you will join them.  You are a free moral agent, regardless of what the Sexual Calvinists and others of their disconsolate, angry ilk would like you to believe.  You will see your children again, but you will have to choose to become a Tribulation saint, and reject the one-world leader and his mark.

Cuz the antichrists in Hamas have given the world a preview of the nightmare that is to come by way of the true Antichrist.  If you think the retaliation of the state of Israel is bad, wait until the judgment of God is unleashed.  As bad as it is, these are only warnings.

The unexploded shells of God's wrath are still sitting in the rubble of our humanistic wasteland.  They haven't exploded yet, but they will.  Their presence should be warning enough.  Don't be like the humanists, and reason your way around the unexploded canister of hellfire at your feet with the would-be power of your own good intentions.  Those people aren't going to make it.  History has been cleared for landing.  Time, and the world and everything in it, are on final approach to their eternal destination.  History is coming to a head.  Everybody gets a window seat on Vanishing Into Thin Airlines flight 1159.  Even the spectators will be dragged into the fire with their virtue and reason, one way or another.  They will find themselves face-to-face with the jabbering spirit of genocidal hate, and their reason and "goodness" and disbelief will not protect them, or absolve them from their sin.  The Time of Jacob's Trouble is nigh. 

There is only ONE WAY OUT.  You can read about Him in the sequel to The Torah.  Start with John 14:6, and move quickly to 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.  There is one departure flight on Vanishing Into Thin Airlines.  Just one.  Your children will be on it.  Seats are still available, but the final boarding call is sounding.  Hasten thyself to the departure gate.  Do it now.  The flight is leaving soon.

Don't miss it.

Thanks for listening.