Sowing and Reaping

Jimmy Carter

Unless you're an evil person, you experience sadness whenever you learn that someone is seriously ill with cancer. And that's how I felt when I learned that former President Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with brain cancer.

Though Carter is scheduled to undergo radiation therapy to treat the malignant tumor in his brain, he's resigned to the fact that at age 90, he's probably not going to be around much longer. Here's what he said: "I've had a wonderful life. I've had thousands of friends, I've had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence. So I was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was."

I believe in being honest and blunt, so I'm not going to sugarcoat my words concerning Carter. Even though I'm saddened that he's ill, Carter was a terrible president who caused significant damage to the United States and the world during his only term in the White House from 1977-1981. And he's caused significant harm to the nation of Israel since he left the Oval Office.

Though he claims to be a Southern Baptist, Carter's an anti-Semite who's chronically sided with Israel's enemies that seek to destroy the Jewish nation. Under his leadership as America's 39th president, the U.S. suffered domestically and internationally. The U.S. economy choked under high taxes and inflation that led the the term "stagflation."

Thanks to Carter's atrocious foreign policy, the Iranian Revolution occurred in 1979 because Carter refused to come to the aid of the Shah of Iran who was under siege from the fanatical supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Though the Shah pleaded with Carter to help him put down Khomeini's rebellion, Carter ignored him and Iran became an Islamic theocracy after the Shah was overthrown. Thanks to Carter's ignorance, Iran has now become a grave threat to the entire world.

And now, even though this is going to infuriate some people, I'm going to say it anyway: Carter is reaping what he's sown. That' not my opinion. That's a biblical tenet. Here's what the apostle Paul wrote in his epistle to the early church in Galatia: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life." (Galatians 6:7-8)

While Paul was speaking about God's judgment on those who willfully disobey Him by breaking His laws, the apostle referenced a spiritual truth that everyone ultimately gets what they deserve. To the early Roman church, Paul wrote this: "To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism." (Romans 2:7-11)

Carter's anti-Semitism is legendary. Until Barack Obama occupied the White House, Carter was the most anti-Israel president in the history of the United States. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote this for the Observer about a year ago: Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to “powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.

In 2006, Carter also made this preposterous claim during an interview with Der Spigel: I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

No one knows how many prisoners Israel holds--not even Carter. And yet he concocted the figure of 10,000 to justify his contempt for the Jewish nation. For several years, Israel has been inundated with rocket attacks that have come from Lebanon and Gaza. Thus, the Jewish nation has bombed Lebanon and Gaza to destroy those rockets and the terrorists that launch them. Some of those rockets have destroyed schools, homes and businesses in Israel. That's a fact that continually escapes Carter.

Or, maybe Carter ignores that fact because he loathes Israel. Whatever his reasons are for habitually condemning Israel while siding with Israel's enemies, his reasons aren't based on factual and historical evidence. Rather, they're based on personal animus. 

I don't know where Carter stands with God. He promotes himself as a bible-believing Christian, but he doesn't sound like one. I hope he examines himself thoroughly during his last days on earth, because he has a lot of repenting to do. And I sincerely hope he changes his heart toward the Jews and Israel before he takes his final breath.