Stephen Locke
INTRODUCTION

The pages that follow include exchanges of words between two
very opinionated individuals. Both Stephen Locke and Elijah
ben-David have an especially impassioned concern for all issues
that relate to the crises in the Middle East.
The Scepter of Judah Millennial Literary Project recognizes that
these opinions deserve attention and analysis. The irreconcilable
differences between the State of Israel and the Palestinians cannot
be clearly, intelligently understood without a presentation of all the
intellectual, political, and emotional variables that stir the people
affected by the ongoing conflicts.
It is to be understood that Stephen Locke's opinions are
representative of mainstream thinking of political factions within
the United Nations. Locke's positions on issues are understood as
compelling for those who view the UN and global internationalism
as political forces that offer a solution to the Middle Eastern crises
contrary to dominance and control by the Zionist State of Israel.
Elijah ben-David's instruction is representative of thinking that is
unacceptable to the international community, but acceptable to
factions of Zionists who view the Middle Eastern crises as
conflicts in need of a solution in sync with prophecies from the
Sacred Scriptures of the Holy Bible. Elijah's arguments are
biblically-based; he continuously cites Biblical passages to
substantiate what he calls 'revelations' that have apocalyptic,
end-times relevance and value.
Stephen believes that peace now, peace at all costs, is the mandate
from the Prince of Peace, the same Messiah, our Lord Jesus
Christ, who gave us the dissertation called the Sermon on the
Mount. Stephen knows that war is a primitive phenomenon of eras
past, that now the means to establish and maintain peace are within
the full control of the prevailing powers that flourish in the United
Nations Security Council. Counselor Locke has predicted that the
establishment of a Palestinian State and the intelligent humility of a
disempowered Zionist entity will usher in the long-awaited peace
written of by the prophets, such as Isaiah in his chapter 60, and
Jeremiah in his chapter 31.
Elijah (referred to as 'the Prophet' by his friends) fearlessly
advocates the necessity of war for the resolution of conflict. Elijah
teaches that our Holy Bible tells us plainly that apocalyptic wars,
enormous, tragic conflicts eliminating hundreds of millions of
people by strategic weapons systems, earthquakes, tsunamis,
famines, plagues, suicides, and civil wars, are inevitable. Elijah
states that he knows these military catastrophes to be imminent
now in the years 2012-2024. Regional war, 3 to 4 years of false
peace, and then several years of global desolations fill up the
apocalyptic decade that Elijah foresees. "The Lord is a warrior,"
says Elijah, "the King of kings and Lord of lords judges and makes
war against nations that are in rebellion against the Emmanuel of
Zion."
Counselor Locke views Elijah as a Zionist who has become too
affected by the raw power wielded by the modern Zionists who are
occupying Palestine. Counselor Locke believes that Elijah, and
those like him, are in need of counseling from professionals who
could de-program the Zionist from his bent on the conquest of
other peoples' lands.
Elijah views Stephen in the light of spiritual judgment, knowing that
Locke's humanitarianism has its root and destiny in the love of
pleasure, without adequate knowledge, discipline and fear of God.
Stephen is himself a man of many discreet pleasures; his women,
his appreciation of fine dining, the daily imbibing of carefully
controlled quantities of alcohol, the gambling at Monaco, and the
cigarettes (never exceeding a pack a day), are daily, discreet habits
viewed as perfectly normal and acceptable in social circles that
Elijah judges as people who are susceptible to apocalyptic wrath.
Elijah is himself a disciplined ascetic; his self-denial is viewed as
boring and old-fashioned by people who know that all things are
created by God for our discreet consumption and happiness.
Elijah causes Stephen to laugh, and ben-David's stubborness about
Zionism and apocalyptic Messianism causes an intense irritability,
not to say anger, in the Counselor's brilliant mind. Stephen has
been overheard to say that the pain inflicted by Elijah's opinions,
and overt advocacy of Zionism's military power, could lead to the
'premature death' of this spokesperson for Israeli militancy. Elijah
ben-David is aware; he has fielded many death threats in recent
years.