Israel’s Netanyahu Meets Brazil’s Bolsonaro
For the first time, an Israeli Prime
Minister has visited Brazil for an inauguration. Even though Brazil had several conservative
Catholic presidents, no one of them was willing to get close to Israel. With Jair
Bolsonaro, a nominal Catholic, was different, because
his main voting base was evangelical.
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Brazil on December 28, 2018.
He intends to remain in Brazil until the inauguration of the new Brazilian
president, Jair Bolsonaro, on January 1, 2019. Meanwhile, both are discussing
agreements and partnership. It is a wonderful opportunity.
To
support Israel in these wicked times is a big challenge. Recently, Facebook
blocked my account for 30 days because I said that Jerusalem belongs only to
Israel. Facebook, which belongs to a left-wing Jewish-American billionaire,
does not like to support Israel. But I like! You can read how Facebook blocked
my account over my pro-Israel stance here: Does Facebook Reject My Recognition
of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital?
For
years and decades, I have prayed, with many other Brazilian evangelicals, for
such partnership, especially for the Brazilian government to recognize the
whole Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and for Jerusalem’s peace. This is
virtually a command for all those who love Jesus Christ and His living Word.
I see also some challenges and
opportunities. While Brazil has resisted the gay and abortion lobby, Israel has
given up long ago. Israel
has some of the most liberal abortion and homosexual laws in the world.
So Brazil should support Israel and Jerusalem as its capital without following
Israel’s liberal laws. Also, Brazilian evangelicals, who prayed for many years
for a Brazilian-Israeli partnership, should pray for the salvation in Jesus
Christ to both nations.
I
wonder if God will open the doors to Brazil in an extraordinary way. In 2008 I
met American prophet Chuck Pierce, who told that if Brazil got closer to
Israel, God was going to give to Brazil the anointing that the U.S. has lost. You
can read about his vision in this article: Brazil, the Next (Regional or Global)
Threat to the U.S. Economic Supremacy?
Perhaps
one of the biggest challenges is that while the father of Netanyahu is the author
of a massive book against the Inquisition and its revisionism, one of Bolsonaro’s
advisers, whom I call Bolsonaro’s Rasputin,
is the most prominent Brazilian advocate of the Inquisition and its revisionism.
Bolsonaro’s Rasputin has
downplayed the horrors of the Inquisition, including in this public comment:
“Even in the popular image of the
Inquisition fires, lies are predominant. Everybody believe that condemned
individuals ‘died burned,’ amid horrible suffering. The flames were high, more
than 16 feet high, to hinder suffering. The condemned individuals (less than
ten a year in two dozen nations) died suffocated in a few minutes, before the
flames could touch them.”
In 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met Pope Francis at the Vatican, and gave the leader of the Catholic
Church “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a book that
largely revolves about Spanish Catholics questioning, torturing, and punishing
the Jews, exposing how thousands of them were expelled from Spain or burned at
the stake.
The Jewish Journal said that “The
Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a scholarly magnum opus
and in-depth tome on the Spanish Inquisition, describes how the Catholic Church
persecuted, and often executed, masses of Jews.
Business Insider noted that “it is
important to think of the context of the book, which is written by Netanyahu’s
father Ben-Zion Netanyahu, a well-regarded historian who worked at both Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and Cornell University.”
CBS News said, “Netanyahu’s father,
Ben-Zion Netanyahu, was an Israeli historian… best known in academic circles
for his research into the Catholic Church’s medieval inquisition against the
Jews of Spain.”
Certainly,
Netanyahu does not know that Bolsonaro’s Rasputin advocates the Inquisition and
its revisionism. When he learns about it, he will bring, in the next trip to
Brazil, some copies of “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century
Spain.”
Evangelicals
who have prayed for a partnership between Israel and Brazil know that God
answers prayers and now they should pray that God may remove Inquisition
advocates from the Brazilian government and put leaders according to God’s purposes.
Recommended
Reading about the Inquisition:
Recommended Reading about Israel:
Recommended Reading about Bolsonaro:
Right Wing Watch, of People for the
American Way, Attacks Jair Bolsonaro: “U.S. Right Helps, Cheers Rise of
Brazilian Authoritarian”
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