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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Saturday, 22 March 2025 an event was held that was presented as an   
   occasion for national prayer and repentance, with the intention of   
   encouraging Christians "to reflect and realign our hearts with God´s   
   purpose for South Africa." The speakers included prominent South   
   African leaders and the event was live-streamed on YouTube and   
   Facebook.   
      
   As South African Christians of various traditions and political   
   affiliations, we are united in affirming that our nation is in real   
   need of prayer and repentance, and that aligning our hearts with God´s   
   purposes is of the utmost importance. We are also pleased that   
   speakers explicitly repented of the sinfulness of our country´s   
   apartheid past.   
      
   However, the full agenda of this meeting only became apparent towards   
   the end, when a "Prophetess Janet" stated that what South Africa needs   
   to repent of is "that which has been brought against the nation of   
   Israel" and that "our destiny as a nation is tied to Israel." She   
   proceeded to declare (claiming to speak the words of God) the need to   
   "win this nation [South Africa] from the hands of Islam," going so far   
   as to call for a new political leadership. The meeting ended in the   
   ritual lighting of a seven-branched candelabra and a dance in which   
   the dancers were attired in the Israeli colours and the Star of David   
   while singing in Hebrew.   
      
   Whatever our perspectives on our government´s record on various   
   matters, we want to unequivocally affirm that its action in taking   
   Israel to the International Court of Justice, and its stance against   
   Israeli apartheid and genocide more broadly, is a righteous action and   
   something that makes us proud to be South Africans. Indeed, those who   
   need to repent are those who have supported, and sought to provide   
   theological justification for, the actions of an illegitimate,   
   apartheid, and genocidal state. The modern state of Israel cannot be   
   equated with any of the biblical references to Israel. So-called   
   Christian Zionism is a heresy and its interpretation of Scripture is   
   absolutely alien to a traditional Christian understanding.   
      
   Read it all here:   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)