Only Sky ➽ Bethlehem is a city in mourning this year: quiet, with its usual tourist venues shuttered for weeks on account of the war in Gaza, and with very little of the joy that Christians usually associate with the season.
M L Clark |
As the mythology goes in Luke 2, an angel descended after the birth of Jesus Christ, and proclaimed a time of “on Earth peace, good will toward men”. But it is hard to sustain such a conviction in human salvation amid at least two major wars, and many other bitter conflicts the world over.
Elsewhere in the world, some US Evangelicals still sorely hope that this brutal three-month-long siege will yield the endtimes scenario that shapes their antisemitic investment in Israel’s success. Whether they think Jews will eventually accept Christ as their Messiah, or die once they have fulfilled their part of the prophecy to usher in the Second Coming, Evangelical Christianity joins Islam and Judaism as faiths bound up in a war that has killed over 20,400 people in Gaza, and over 300 in the West Bank, after the October 7 attack by Hamas that killed over 1,200, and saw over 240 hostages taken, half of whom are still in captivity.
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