God speaks to everyone in what we call our conscience/heart/gut.
When Vanunu emerged from his windowless tomb sized cell after 18 years on April 21, 2004, he boldly stated:
"I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity. If I was a Jew I wouldn't have all this suffering here in isolation for 18 years. Only because I was a Christian man."
I once wrote an Op-ed and called Vanunu a prophet. When he read the
piece, he emailed me and in bold letters wrote: "DON'T CALL ME THAT!"
In the spirit of freedom of speech, I do. And prophets do NOT predict the future-as much as they point out impending doom and at least provoke those so inclined to at least think about God.
Vanunu pointed the way to Israel's clandestine weapons of mass
destruction program underground in the Negev desert in 1986. In 2009,
the Dimona remains un-inspected by IAEA inspectors. Vanunu is considered
a traitor by many Israelis, but prophets are never recognized or
respected by their own.
The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah spent much of his life under house arrest in
Jerusalem, for being a truth teller. We know more about the personal
life and struggles of Jeremiah than any other Hebrew prophet. Jeremiah,
translates as "The Lord throws"-as in hurling. He had few friends and is
considered primarily a prophet of doom.
Jeremiah was intensely introspective, self-critical, timid by nature but
honest and open about his feelings. Jeremiah never married and began
prophesying in Judah from 604-586, a time of storm and stress when the
doom of entire nations-including Judah itself-was being sealed. Jeremiah
had been the king's friend and confident, but the prophet soon entered a
dreary round of persecution and imprisonment, alternating with only
brief periods of freedom, and lived under virtual house arrest for
speaking his conscience.
"I cannot keep silent. Disaster follows disaster; the land lies in
ruin. My people are fools; they do not know me." -Jeremiah 4:19.
Neither can I until Vanunu is FREE to tell his story, and all he has been saying is:
"WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM".FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW. "- Vanunu Mordechai J C
VANUN FREEDOM OF SPEECH MAY 23-2010.m4v
Learn More
1. http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/barnaby.pdf
2. http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/onvan.htm
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