“Gates of Deep Darkness are Being Unlocked”

They are closer than you think….

Unspeakable Evil exploded onto the world scene on October 7, 2023.  Barbarity equaling, if not eclipsing, that seen as the armies of Genghis Kahn swept across the Eurasian steppe 1,000 years ago were live-streamed and celebrated by thousands, if not millions.  I still can’t get some of the images from the news reports out of my memory…

But that was only the beginning.  In Western Democracies, demonstrations supporting the events erupted.  At the University of Wisconsin, students supported “the martyrs”.  The object of their support were not the victims, but the perpetrators.

Russell Rickford, a Cornell Professor, was “exhilarated’ by the massacre:

https://cornellsun.com/2023/10/16/cornell-professor-exhilarated-by-hamass-attack-defends-remark/

University, medical and law school Deans, who should have clearly condemned this hate speech either were completely silent or used language of moral equivalence somehow implicating Israel itself as the root cause of the slaughter of their citizens.  The Rotunda of Congress was occupied by pro-Palestinian protestors:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-palestine-demonstrators-swarm-inside-capitol-hill-demand-ceasefire-police-begin-arresting-protesters

Members of the United States Congress riled up the crowd with lies about Israel bombing a hospital.  It culminated in a real civil insurrection with vandalization of the White House fence and the Lafayette statue:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-palestinian-protesters-seen-shaking-white-house-gate-vandalized-red-paint-joe-biden

Throughout all of this, I kept hearing people say they were not anti-Semites at all, but just against Israel and “Zionist” oppression.  As if that somehow made sense to them.  It doesn’t to me…

It brought back a memory of something very chilling and personal.  In the early 1980’s a new patient came to see me.  He had a striking physical appearance:  tall, maybe 6”4”, 220 pounds of solid muscle.  He had silver hair and an air of authority. He could have been a brother of Otto Skorzeny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny

I have forgotten why he saw me, but I never forgot our conversation.  Somehow the topic of Vienna came up.  I think he was born in Vienna, and with the year I spent there as an undergraduate, we had some pleasant small talk.  He had been in the Wehrmacht, or some other branch of service.  I don’t remember the particulars, but he stated, rather matter of fact: “You know we never killed real Jews.  Those were not the Children of Abraham.  Oh no, they were just Khazars.  I love Jews.”

What??  I had been a history major with a concentration on Central and Eastern Europe.  I knew about the Khazars and the conversion of their ruling class to Judaism in the ninth century.  However, the theory that they are the source of Ashkenazi Jews has been thoroughly debunked:

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/abbas-and-khazar-claim-separating-myth-fact

Genetic testing has shown this “Khazarian Jews” theory that anti-Semites use has no basis in fact:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1336798/

The patient left my office, and I was relieved that I did not have to perform surgery on him.  I never saw him again, but I still remember him like it was yesterday.  I felt I was in the presence of someone, or something, of profound power and wickedness.  It has stuck with me….

I am not Jewish.  I never understood a “rational” reason for anti-Semitism.  It just never made sense.  Sherlock Homes, the character of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (also an ophthalmologist by training), is often quoted (The Sign of the Four, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier) as stating:

First you eliminate the impossible.  Whatever is left, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

Since there is no rational explanation for me to understand the hatred of Jews, I can only conclude that the profound Evil of anti-Semitism can only be explained on the basis of the Jewish people being indeed the Chosen People of God.  As haShem, the God of the Bible is All-Good, it only stands to reason that All-Evil will oppose them at every chance, and that is indeed what has happened throughout history. 

Oxymoronic statements like “I love Jews…it is Israel (or “Zionism”) that I am against” can only be reconciled by ascribing a spiritual dimension to this.  Why am I sure of that you ask?

That phrase, “Khazarian Jews” uttered by the patient of mine from almost 40 years ago was uttered yet again, only a few days ago, in a context that jolted me.  It was uttered by a self-proclaimed “Christian” who said he abhorred the violence from October 7, but he also didn’t like the “Khazarian Jews” who controlled the government of Israel.

So, this individual claims hating “real” Jews is bad, but hating “Khazarian” Jews is just fine??  If “Khazarian” Jews even exist, THEY ARE STILL JEWS!!!  THEY ARE STILL PEOPLE!!

This is EVIL!  There are no extenuating circumstances that explain nor justify it.

I wish I had thought of the title of this post, but I did not.  It was mentioned in the November 7^th “Give Him 15” podcast by Dutch Sheets, who ascribed it to a prayer of Dr. Kathryn Holcombe:

https://www.givehim15.com/post/november-7-2023

For months now, true Christian spiritual leaders like Dutch and his brother Tim have been warning of a profound “shaking” that would be coming this Fall. No one can doubt that “shaking” indeed has been increasing. Dr. Holcombe’s prayer was a warning that the “Gates of Deep Darkness” have been opened to expose the extent of EVIL in the land.

The “Gates” are not only in some far-off land.  They are around the corner….they are on our block…they may be even in our own home….or in our own heart….. I hope that once people see what is on the other side of those Gates, repentance will close them….That is definitely worthy of prayer.