WHORES IN THE HOLY CITY
By Harmony Grant
16 Oct 07
The career of megastar “Madonna” has produced as
much pornography as pop tracks. Her on-stage performances have included
simulated masturbation, homosexual and S&M scenes, and endlessly
lurid exploitation of the female body. She has also exploited the
church. In her 2006 world tour the Material Girl hung from
a cross, crowned with thorns. In a 1989 video, Madonna dances provocatively
in front of burning crosses and shares an erotic kiss with a Christ
figure.
Madonna was raised Roman Catholic. Today, unrepentant after decades
of self-prostitution and corruption, what religion makes Madonna
feel comfortable? She is in love with Judaism.
Since the late nineties, Madonna has been a devotee of the Kabbalah
Centre, worn a red string bracelet and donated millions to a Kabbalah
school for kids. She sparked a Kabbalism trend throughout Hollywood
, stopped performing Friday nights at the start of the Jewish Sabbath,
and helped popularize a thriving kosher
restaurant in Manhattan.
Madonna might not embrace Judaism so eagerly had she realized the
true content of its “sacred” literature. The Zohar is
the most important text of Kabbalah. Written in medieval times, it
is supposedly the commentary of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on the Torah
(five books of Moses). Bar Yochai remains powerfully influential
today. A yearly celebration at his burial site in Meron is the “single
largest annual Jewish gathering of the entire year,” drawing
200,000. Such Kabbalists believe Bar Yochai’s Zohar is
the "soul of the Bible."
This book describes God as the En Sof (That Which is Without Limit),
as unknowable and inaccessible. Since He is not a personal Being
whose will can be known, Kabbalism is not about ethics. It’s
about the status of the Jewish people as the visible, physical manifestation
of God in the world. Evidently, Madonna does not realize that the
Zohar describes her—like all Gentiles—as a beast who
must be subdued before proper Judaic “order” can be restored
in the world. (See, The
Jewish Kabbalah: Root of Mideast Violence)
Kabbalistic rabbis are willing to spread the myth that Kabbalism
is so flexible anyone can apply it. Gentile devotees misguidedly
call it their "blueprint for life,” and see it as a flexible
eastern-style spirituality. Jerusalem
Post calls the Kabbalah Center one of the two most statistically
influential Jewish outreach organizations (along with Chabad Lubavitcher).
Madonna herself studies the Zohar with a private tutor and is discipled
by Kabbalah Centre head Rabbi Philip Berg. She calls herself “an
ambassador for Judaism.” She recently rang in the Jewish
New Year in Jerusalem with Israeli President Shimon Peres. Local
reporters said Madonna gave Peres a copy of The
Book of Splendour,
a guiding text of Kabbalah, while Peres presented her with a special
volume of the Old Testament. Madonna was in the “ Holy City ” for
a Kabbalah conference, along with film (read: porn) star Demi Moore
and lesbian celebrity Rosie O’Donnell.
Don’t Israel-supporting evangelicals see the irony? Madonna—who
has defiled every well-known symbol of our faith—is an ambassador
of Judaism, and the president of the Jewish state welcomes her to
say this.
Tragically, this is all too appropriate. Israel today is fittingly
symbolized by this apostate, corrupt sex symbol sell-out—as
her government and most of her citizens continue to reject Christ
and oppress their Arab neighbors. The prophet Isaiah foresaw this
day. He
mourned, “See how the faithful city has become a harlot!
She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but
now murderers!” Isaiah was not talking about Tehran or even
Washington D.C. He was describing Jerusalem —in our time. John
the Revelator also foresaw Jerusalem as the “mother of harlots” and “ Sodom
and Egypt ” (Rev. 11) because of Israel 's violent disobedience.
Like the ancient Kabbalists, John prophesied that Jerusalem will
someday rule the world. But she will not do it in righteousness or
justice. ( See , Israel:
On the Way to Empire in the Mideast)
Christians’ Blind Support
Today, Christian evangelicals are certainly the largest American
support bloc of the Jewish state. They vastly outnumber American
Jews, and many average churchgoers are more committed to Israel than
average, left-leaning Jews. “We have to bless Israel ,” they
say, “if we want to be blessed by God.” This simple and
compelling idea drives millions to support—with both words
and millions in cash—an increasingly powerful spiritual and
political whore.
Christians must recognize the profound conflict between modern
Judaism, which believes that a Christ-hating and -rejecting book
(Kabbalah) is the Bible's soul, and their own deepest belief in Jesus
Christ as the true Word and the message of Scripture.
Modern Judaism treats Christ as an imposter and Christians as idolaters.
If the Zohar is truth, then Christians like me are idolaters. We
worship an evil genius who somehow spoke and embodied the most profound
moral truth heard on our planet.
Many Jews in Christ’s time, and today, refused to recognize
their true Messiah, Jesus, because they hoped for a powerful political
rebel to "repair the world" by overthrowing Gentiles and
exalting religious Jews to social control. But Christ said, "My
kingdom is not of this world." His kingdom is one of spiritual
holiness, repentance from sin, and self-sacrificing love. The religious
Jews, whose kingdom was very much of this world, couldn't stand His
authority and His very spiritual message. Their religion was built
on rituals, corruption of Scripture, human authority, and even black
magic gotten from their 1600-year stay in Babylon , the occult center
of the ancient world. (Watch The
Other Israel)
Today, the Pharisees’ descendents still wait for the messiah. Madonna
reportedly plans to buy a home near Safed, the “world
center of Jewish mysticism,” where the Jewish messiah is
expected to arrive.
In Israel today, Christ is referred to as a bastard, a magician,
and a fraud. The Jewish Talmud says he is currently suffering in
hell, writhing in boiling excrement. Religious Jews spit when they
pass Christian churches. (See, Christians
in Israel: An Endangered Species) Evangelicals, under the leadership
of fanatics like John Hagee, fund a nation that continues to crucify
the memory of Christ.
Modern Kabbalist Rav Berg, co-director of the Kabbalah Centre,
says, "As
goes Israel so goes the world." He is increasingly correct.
Madonna’s Hollywood Kabbalah craze may be just another Tinseltown
trend. But the power of the Israel lobby to drive us to war, the
increasing and unbiblical Zionism of the American church, and the
powerful grip of Jewish elites on American media—these are
not fads. They indicate the prophesied power of world Judaism to
eventually dominate Gentiles and fulfill Judaism’s own dark
literature of vengeance and supremacism. (See, Coming
Jewish 'Utopia' Ruled by Noahide Laws)
Harmony
Grant writes and edits for the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
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