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The interesting thing about this is that the images appear to have been too graphic for the British 'womens rights' pro abortion group in the UK to print as well.
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Liberal Hypocrisy
A British 'womens rights' pro abortion group in the UK report that
A Times Education Supplement (TES) survey has revealed shocking information detailing SPUC’s radical anti-choice activism being allowed into UK schools. Peddling harmful propaganda and myths about abortion, SPUC (the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child) claims to be invited to hundreds of schools each year. Their operatives present images of aborted foetuses and dismembered limbs to children, images too graphic to print by the TES.
The interesting thing about this is that the images appear to have been too graphic for the British 'womens rights' pro abortion group in the UK to print as well.
The interesting thing about this is that the images appear to have been too graphic for the British 'womens rights' pro abortion group in the UK to print as well.
Saturday, 4 December 2010
The godless God Channel
The God Channel is funding Zionist land thefts. http://www.thenation.com/article/156822/uprooting-bedoins-israel
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Christianity versus the Ecclesiastical Establishment
I haven't been to church for three weeks and I feel great!
Happy Advent.
Happy Advent.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Friday, 5 November 2010
Rebecca Vilkomerson
OLast week, the oldest and most respected Jewish paper in the United States, the Jewish Daily Forward, did the unimaginable. They named Rebecca Vilkomerson, the director of of Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the top 50 Jewish leaders in the United States.
Rebecca's inclusion on the list is really a symbol of JVP becoming a force that cannot be ignored. It is a stunning acknowledgement of the work of the staff, board, chapters and countless volunteer activists who have spent years making Jewish Voice for Peace what it is, a sign of our extraordinary progress. Today, we are the only national U.S. Jewish group that fights for full equality for Israelis and Palestinians.Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Thursday, 9 September 2010
More Quotes From Palastinian Christians
"and moreover god spake of the children of Palestine, the people of the spiritual Israel. etal, taught of things heavenly to his left and right. an enemy of the war crimes performed by the Israel established in 1948 is an ally of god an his people. the spirit of the true Israel lies within our hearts, not within our world. do not bind thineself to wishful thoughts."
"Judaism appeared after Moses or with and Judaism is a religion and not a race Isaac was not even a Jew or believing in the Judaism but he was an monotheist as his father Abraham and so was his brother Isaac. Abraham was also Canaanite and in t...he bible he said my father was a lost Canaanite the real history does not apply with the religious belief. even historically the word Jew appeared in the 18th century only the historical word of Judean means the inhabitants of Judea who were a mixture of many peoples with many believes including the people who were practicing the Judaism religion"
Victims are victims wherever they came from, and always deserve our respect,
but do not think because what happened before 1948 to the Jewish people
can justify everything Israel has done since then. they use the
holocaust as a form of ...protest victimhood, as being a victim have granted them a license to kill. it is the policy they pursue. that's what we do not tolerate or accept the
holocaust is past. the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is an
actual genocide. therefore it seems hypocritical to use the pretext of
their past suffering, when right now they are killing and murdering
innocent people. the past is for learning and present, to act! "
Monday, 30 August 2010
Some things Palestinian Christians Have Said.
"Christian Zionism is a Cult. They have their own version of The Bible (Schofield Bible). Founders (Darby Schofield) who were the first people they believe understood The Bible and they believe that they are the only ones with absolute truth. Also, like all cults they claim to be experts on end time prophecy. Zionism is an anti-Christ Heresy"
" I went on a visit to the US last year, saw a nice house and decided that belong to me, went to the door with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other and I said to the owner, this house is mine, it say so in this book, I asked him and his family to leave or else, he asked me to wait for minute and he went inside and called the lunatic asylum and the cheek of it they came and locked me up. Do you people think that's fair after all God promised that house ."
“Why Does Israel disrespect my Religion, My Church & My Home by sending bombs & propaganda towards us & the rest of the world? Why am I never represented internationally as if all Palestinians are Muslim? Why do staunch supporters of Israel never mention that I exist when they are discussing the "Arab population"?
There is a lot of things I would like to know & find out but most of all I want to know why Christians across the globe conform to this so called Christian Zionism while ignoring the Holy Bible?
I am a Christian Palestinian & some day soon Israel will make me extinct!"
"Some Christians believe that the modern Israeli state is part of God's plan to bring in his final kingdom and so must be supported and protected at all costs. Other Christians, including myself, believe that the Jewish claim is still valid, but limited, because Muslims and Christians also claim Abraham as their father... and therefore have rights. And for all the children of Abraham God's promise is not unconditional. "
"In the Old Testament, much of which we share with Judaism, God promises the land to Abraham and his descendants. But does that promise still stand today and if so, who are the descendants? Some Christians believe that when Jesus came, his followers inherited these promises, which they believe referred to a spiritual home, not a physical one."
"When you listen to the news you may notice that the forced displacement of Palestinian Christians is never mentioned. Christian and Muslim
Palestinians lived together in peace for centuries. The majority of the
Christians in Palestine were driven abroad by the Israeli invasions, and now they make up 30 percent of all Palestinians abroad. Prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, 35 percent of Palestine was Christian. In Jerusalem itself, the Christian population has been reduced from 51 percent to just 2 percent of the total inhabitants. After many years of genocide, Palestinian Christians have been forgotten."
"No one has the right to name the land of God as "Jewish".
"The sad & relevant truth is that Zionism supported by Christians has discredited the Gospel in the minds of the Muslims. As a result, Christians are suffering, & churches destroyed.
The Jews don't exactly welcome the Gospel, nor do they rejoice in the salvation of their family members. They recognise a Jewish state. As for Jesus, let his name be forgotten."
"Ephesians 2:11-22 made it clear to me who Israel is. We Christians are the NT Israel of God.
The Bible is clear sadly many are deeply deceived and think the wicked Israeli state is the Israel of the Bible... but that is impossible for those who read and believe the teaching of Christ and His Apostles. Surely Zionism (and the Israeli state) is the Great Whore depicted in Scripture."
"Zionism is racist: This claim isn't the same as saying that all Zionists are racist. I would make a distinction between the categories of "Zionist" and "Zionism." However, inherent in the practice of Zionism is a reliance on racialist judgments about who can fully participate in the benefits and practices of a national community. Many Zionists view themselves merely as supporting freedom and safety for Jewish people. I would suggest that people who identify themselves as Zionist look more closely at the ideology they support. Such freedom and safety, both of which are in fact mythologies, come at the direct expense of people confined to Bantustans and refugee camps."
"Christ and the church are the chosen ones:
1 Peter 1:20
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
Ephesians 1:4
...For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight."
"however much empathy you or any of us may feel for Jews who suffered from centuries of pogroms and discrimination and finally the Holocaust, that can never be a valid excuse for denying fundamental rights to others, especially those who had nothing to do with that suffering to begin with. (And for anyone inclined to ...tread once again that well-worn path striving to link Palestinians to pogroms, Hitler, Nazis, etc, please know that many of us are quite familiar with the histories involved and well aware of the motivations behind these claims -- claims that are simply not credible or compelling)"
"Replacement Theology is replacing Jesus with the Old Covenant."
"Replacement Theology is a misnomer, claiming New Covenant believers teach that the church has replaced Israel, while in fact the church is Israel in the biblical sense, i.e. believers made up of Jews and Gentiles who come into the gospel ("Inclusion Theology").
While some say God will judge nations and people on how they respond to the Jews and old covenant Jerusalem, God says he will judge people on how we respond to Jesus and the gospel. So national Israel has replaced Jesus."
"The Zionism fold blinded the American Christians through the media they possess. The American people are very naive and believe in every thing the media says and wash their brain day and night by such a religious lies which are not mentioned in the New Testament.
These brain washed people in a legendary prophecy, Jesus... himself said about it that only the father knows the time. How these Zionists wants to push their agenda in spite of the God will.
The churches should say the truth about this matter to all the Christian believers?"
"The error that the "kingdom of God" is of this world has justified a lot of oppression and was clearly rejected by Jesus"
"Seeing people have the courage to speak up against such abomination lifts my heart in the belief that the good among us will survive and eventually become better united. We are sick to death of occupation and terrorism!"
"There is a huge difference between Judaism & Zionism. There is a huge difference between Biblical Zion & political Zionism. There is a huge difference between Biblical/Spiritual Israel & Zionist Secular Terrorist Israel"
"God is NOT a real estate agent nor a racist, and He has no favourite nation; we were all created by the very same God and on His image"
"The Fake Christians, who are Christian-Zionists, are NOT Christians. God will destroy Zionism and Zionists. NOT everyone who says Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Zionists who call themselves Christians will go to hell like the rest of them."
"Zionism is brainwashing, these so called Christian Zionists have replaced Jesus for Israel."
"Any man who preaches that there is another way to Heaven for Jews (or anyone else) other than through Jesus Christ is anti-Biblical and apostate. Israel is not the insane asylum in the Middle East that was stolen from the Palestinians; Israel is the whole of Christianity, be they Gentile or Jew by blood. WE are the chosen people, counted as the seed of Abraham and inheritors to the promise, while those who reject Christ are cast out, and just another heathen. That is what the Bible plainly says in numerous places."
"God's chosen people are those that are called Christian today. Jews of today are not even from Jacob/Israel but from Esau mixed with sons of Japheth, Shem’s brother meaning they are not even Semitic. The scriptures are quite clear that those that call themselves Jew of today but are not for they are the synagogues of Satan. In other words they are the enemies of God/YHWH. There is a BIG difference between Jew and Hebrew. There were TWELVE tribes from TRUE Israel, not one. Those people are a mixed nation of Talmud lovers who are not Gods. They are the anti-christs talked about in the bible. TRUE Israel (12 tribes) can be traced from scripture and History (if one studies to show himself approved) to USA and Britain. Identity Matters!"
"It is heartening to see Christians speaking out against Zionism. There is nothing more evil than a pecking order of humanity being implemented. God did not make or intend any culture or people to be 2nd class citizens terrorized by a manmade ideology....That is what Zionism is and does."
"I wonder why So many Christians continue to ignore what the Government of Israel is doing because of misinterpretations of the Bible. I stand strong as a Christian against the Government of Israel!"
"There have been Palestinian Christians since, well, the time of Christ--yet their voices are seldom heard. The Pat Robertson’s, etc., often visit the Holy Land and truck with
ultra-rightist Zionist leaders--but somehow they never in a visit with native Christians to hear their views. The anti-Christian country, Israel, has almost massacred all of them."
The confusion is that some people mix up people who are Jewish with the political state of Israel. The two are quite different and being supportive of Jews does not necessarily mean supporting Israel. At a very practical level none of my Jewish friends live in Israel anyway. Also the Christian Zionists seem to disregard the indigenous Christian community in Palestine, as if it didn't exist."
"In light of what Jesus taught, how can we justify supporting a militant Zionist state? As Christians isn't it our duty to speak for those who have no voice and seek justice and liberty for everyone who is unfairly oppressed?"
"Arabs are not the enemies of Jews nor Jews are the enemies of Arabs; they both however have two common enemies, Zionism and Fundamentalism.
" Israel is synonymous with the Body of Christ & Heaven. Not the
Levant. It is better to call it Palestine. This thing called "Israel" that occupies Palestine is simply an invention of the Satanic
"United Nations".
“For those who use the Bible to support "Israel" need to differentiate between God promise and Balfour promise, because the occupation is the result of a promise given to the Zionists by Lord Balfour and not by God.”
" I went on a visit to the US last year, saw a nice house and decided that belong to me, went to the door with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other and I said to the owner, this house is mine, it say so in this book, I asked him and his family to leave or else, he asked me to wait for minute and he went inside and called the lunatic asylum and the cheek of it they came and locked me up. Do you people think that's fair after all God promised that house ."
“Why Does Israel disrespect my Religion, My Church & My Home by sending bombs & propaganda towards us & the rest of the world? Why am I never represented internationally as if all Palestinians are Muslim? Why do staunch supporters of Israel never mention that I exist when they are discussing the "Arab population"?
There is a lot of things I would like to know & find out but most of all I want to know why Christians across the globe conform to this so called Christian Zionism while ignoring the Holy Bible?
I am a Christian Palestinian & some day soon Israel will make me extinct!"
"Some Christians believe that the modern Israeli state is part of God's plan to bring in his final kingdom and so must be supported and protected at all costs. Other Christians, including myself, believe that the Jewish claim is still valid, but limited, because Muslims and Christians also claim Abraham as their father... and therefore have rights. And for all the children of Abraham God's promise is not unconditional. "
"In the Old Testament, much of which we share with Judaism, God promises the land to Abraham and his descendants. But does that promise still stand today and if so, who are the descendants? Some Christians believe that when Jesus came, his followers inherited these promises, which they believe referred to a spiritual home, not a physical one."
"When you listen to the news you may notice that the forced displacement of Palestinian Christians is never mentioned. Christian and Muslim
Palestinians lived together in peace for centuries. The majority of the
Christians in Palestine were driven abroad by the Israeli invasions, and now they make up 30 percent of all Palestinians abroad. Prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, 35 percent of Palestine was Christian. In Jerusalem itself, the Christian population has been reduced from 51 percent to just 2 percent of the total inhabitants. After many years of genocide, Palestinian Christians have been forgotten."
"No one has the right to name the land of God as "Jewish".
"The sad & relevant truth is that Zionism supported by Christians has discredited the Gospel in the minds of the Muslims. As a result, Christians are suffering, & churches destroyed.
The Jews don't exactly welcome the Gospel, nor do they rejoice in the salvation of their family members. They recognise a Jewish state. As for Jesus, let his name be forgotten."
"Ephesians 2:11-22 made it clear to me who Israel is. We Christians are the NT Israel of God.
The Bible is clear sadly many are deeply deceived and think the wicked Israeli state is the Israel of the Bible... but that is impossible for those who read and believe the teaching of Christ and His Apostles. Surely Zionism (and the Israeli state) is the Great Whore depicted in Scripture."
"Zionism is racist: This claim isn't the same as saying that all Zionists are racist. I would make a distinction between the categories of "Zionist" and "Zionism." However, inherent in the practice of Zionism is a reliance on racialist judgments about who can fully participate in the benefits and practices of a national community. Many Zionists view themselves merely as supporting freedom and safety for Jewish people. I would suggest that people who identify themselves as Zionist look more closely at the ideology they support. Such freedom and safety, both of which are in fact mythologies, come at the direct expense of people confined to Bantustans and refugee camps."
"Christ and the church are the chosen ones:
1 Peter 1:20
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
Ephesians 1:4
...For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight."
"however much empathy you or any of us may feel for Jews who suffered from centuries of pogroms and discrimination and finally the Holocaust, that can never be a valid excuse for denying fundamental rights to others, especially those who had nothing to do with that suffering to begin with. (And for anyone inclined to ...tread once again that well-worn path striving to link Palestinians to pogroms, Hitler, Nazis, etc, please know that many of us are quite familiar with the histories involved and well aware of the motivations behind these claims -- claims that are simply not credible or compelling)"
"Replacement Theology is replacing Jesus with the Old Covenant."
"Replacement Theology is a misnomer, claiming New Covenant believers teach that the church has replaced Israel, while in fact the church is Israel in the biblical sense, i.e. believers made up of Jews and Gentiles who come into the gospel ("Inclusion Theology").
While some say God will judge nations and people on how they respond to the Jews and old covenant Jerusalem, God says he will judge people on how we respond to Jesus and the gospel. So national Israel has replaced Jesus."
"The Zionism fold blinded the American Christians through the media they possess. The American people are very naive and believe in every thing the media says and wash their brain day and night by such a religious lies which are not mentioned in the New Testament.
These brain washed people in a legendary prophecy, Jesus... himself said about it that only the father knows the time. How these Zionists wants to push their agenda in spite of the God will.
The churches should say the truth about this matter to all the Christian believers?"
"The error that the "kingdom of God" is of this world has justified a lot of oppression and was clearly rejected by Jesus"
"Seeing people have the courage to speak up against such abomination lifts my heart in the belief that the good among us will survive and eventually become better united. We are sick to death of occupation and terrorism!"
"There is a huge difference between Judaism & Zionism. There is a huge difference between Biblical Zion & political Zionism. There is a huge difference between Biblical/Spiritual Israel & Zionist Secular Terrorist Israel"
"God is NOT a real estate agent nor a racist, and He has no favourite nation; we were all created by the very same God and on His image"
"The Fake Christians, who are Christian-Zionists, are NOT Christians. God will destroy Zionism and Zionists. NOT everyone who says Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Zionists who call themselves Christians will go to hell like the rest of them."
"Zionism is brainwashing, these so called Christian Zionists have replaced Jesus for Israel."
"Any man who preaches that there is another way to Heaven for Jews (or anyone else) other than through Jesus Christ is anti-Biblical and apostate. Israel is not the insane asylum in the Middle East that was stolen from the Palestinians; Israel is the whole of Christianity, be they Gentile or Jew by blood. WE are the chosen people, counted as the seed of Abraham and inheritors to the promise, while those who reject Christ are cast out, and just another heathen. That is what the Bible plainly says in numerous places."
"God's chosen people are those that are called Christian today. Jews of today are not even from Jacob/Israel but from Esau mixed with sons of Japheth, Shem’s brother meaning they are not even Semitic. The scriptures are quite clear that those that call themselves Jew of today but are not for they are the synagogues of Satan. In other words they are the enemies of God/YHWH. There is a BIG difference between Jew and Hebrew. There were TWELVE tribes from TRUE Israel, not one. Those people are a mixed nation of Talmud lovers who are not Gods. They are the anti-christs talked about in the bible. TRUE Israel (12 tribes) can be traced from scripture and History (if one studies to show himself approved) to USA and Britain. Identity Matters!"
"It is heartening to see Christians speaking out against Zionism. There is nothing more evil than a pecking order of humanity being implemented. God did not make or intend any culture or people to be 2nd class citizens terrorized by a manmade ideology....That is what Zionism is and does."
"I wonder why So many Christians continue to ignore what the Government of Israel is doing because of misinterpretations of the Bible. I stand strong as a Christian against the Government of Israel!"
"There have been Palestinian Christians since, well, the time of Christ--yet their voices are seldom heard. The Pat Robertson’s, etc., often visit the Holy Land and truck with
ultra-rightist Zionist leaders--but somehow they never in a visit with native Christians to hear their views. The anti-Christian country, Israel, has almost massacred all of them."
The confusion is that some people mix up people who are Jewish with the political state of Israel. The two are quite different and being supportive of Jews does not necessarily mean supporting Israel. At a very practical level none of my Jewish friends live in Israel anyway. Also the Christian Zionists seem to disregard the indigenous Christian community in Palestine, as if it didn't exist."
"In light of what Jesus taught, how can we justify supporting a militant Zionist state? As Christians isn't it our duty to speak for those who have no voice and seek justice and liberty for everyone who is unfairly oppressed?"
"Arabs are not the enemies of Jews nor Jews are the enemies of Arabs; they both however have two common enemies, Zionism and Fundamentalism.
" Israel is synonymous with the Body of Christ & Heaven. Not the
Levant. It is better to call it Palestine. This thing called "Israel" that occupies Palestine is simply an invention of the Satanic
"United Nations".
“For those who use the Bible to support "Israel" need to differentiate between God promise and Balfour promise, because the occupation is the result of a promise given to the Zionists by Lord Balfour and not by God.”
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Christian Zionism: An Oxymoron
Christian Zionism: An Oxymoron
By Britt Towery, Baptist Missionary (ret.) Brownwood, TX
A few weeks ago televangelist John Hagee took a group to the nation's capitol where he pushed his Christian Zionism agenda for Israel. His phrase "Christian Zionism" could not be more contradictory. It is an oxymoron and more cult than Christianity.
Hagee topped off his lobbying blitz with the astounding demand that America should invade Iran. He and other TV preachers see an invasion of Israel by Russia and Iran. He gets that by reading between the lines in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. He must be reading between the lines, as these 2500-year old words do not say anything about the 21st Century world. He sees Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as part of a conspiracy to wipe out Israel and establish an Islamic world order.
Preacher Hagee claims God gave him all this end-time wisdom out of his King James Bible. Hagee did not invent Zionism or Christian Zionism, but brought it out of the mothballs. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 played right into Hagee's hands. A number of Jews (true Torah Jews and others) do not accept the Zionist approach. In the same way the majority of Christians do not adhere to Christian Zionism.
In the meantime any one with half-an-ounce of Bible knowledge is aware that none of the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel are related to the modern nation and politics of Israel. America has put more foreign and military aid into Israel than most countries. Much of that due to the Israel lobby-the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (known as AIPAC). You can be called anti-Semite if you even question that lobby.
The term "Zionism" was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum. It is the dream of establishing a homeland for the Jews. The name comes from Mount Zion, where the Jerusalem Temple stood during biblical days.
Birnbaum and others found England useful for their cause. The British and Lord Balfour ruled Palestine after World War I.
The history of the Jews has been one of continual repression and terror by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and by good and bad governments. The harried Hebrews have not had a homeland since the Assyrians from Nineveh (modern Mosul, Iraq) conquered the northern part of Israel in 612 B.C. The south fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C.
Once I heard Hagee say there was no such thing as a Palestinian or a land of Palestine. Claiming all those thousands of years that Palestine (Arab cousins) really belonged to Jews, who made up a minority of the population.
None of that is as scary as Hagee's pushing for more war, starting with Iran. He and the prophetic voice of Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Planet Earth) see Russia and Iran joining forces to destroy Israel. These modern prophets never give a date for the final battle; they just spread fear about the impending Armageddon. But God's army (American, I guess) will come to their aid and righteousness will prevail after a bloody exchange.
The term prophetic means "to tell forth" more than it means "forth tell." The Bible is not a fortune-telling book, but a guide to finding peace with God. I have read Bible translations in more than six languages and all of them stress peace over war. Call wars just, preventive, or necessary, they are still hell on earth for all sides. Peace is the hallmark of Christ's message, even if some of his disciples still do not get it. Both their Christian faith and patriotism are misplaced.
There is definitely something wrong when a man of the cloth lives in the lap of luxury and says the way to God is through a world-ending war in the Holy Land. Scary? Yes, for beside preacher Hagee, we have some politicians and industrialists who are in agreement. War makes money for some, but death and destruction for many more. War is madness, and those who promote it should be opposed with correct biblical interpretations and much prayer.
Source: http://www.christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=798
By Britt Towery, Baptist Missionary (ret.) Brownwood, TX
A few weeks ago televangelist John Hagee took a group to the nation's capitol where he pushed his Christian Zionism agenda for Israel. His phrase "Christian Zionism" could not be more contradictory. It is an oxymoron and more cult than Christianity.
Hagee topped off his lobbying blitz with the astounding demand that America should invade Iran. He and other TV preachers see an invasion of Israel by Russia and Iran. He gets that by reading between the lines in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. He must be reading between the lines, as these 2500-year old words do not say anything about the 21st Century world. He sees Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as part of a conspiracy to wipe out Israel and establish an Islamic world order.
Preacher Hagee claims God gave him all this end-time wisdom out of his King James Bible. Hagee did not invent Zionism or Christian Zionism, but brought it out of the mothballs. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 played right into Hagee's hands. A number of Jews (true Torah Jews and others) do not accept the Zionist approach. In the same way the majority of Christians do not adhere to Christian Zionism.
In the meantime any one with half-an-ounce of Bible knowledge is aware that none of the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel are related to the modern nation and politics of Israel. America has put more foreign and military aid into Israel than most countries. Much of that due to the Israel lobby-the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (known as AIPAC). You can be called anti-Semite if you even question that lobby.
The term "Zionism" was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum. It is the dream of establishing a homeland for the Jews. The name comes from Mount Zion, where the Jerusalem Temple stood during biblical days.
Birnbaum and others found England useful for their cause. The British and Lord Balfour ruled Palestine after World War I.
The history of the Jews has been one of continual repression and terror by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and by good and bad governments. The harried Hebrews have not had a homeland since the Assyrians from Nineveh (modern Mosul, Iraq) conquered the northern part of Israel in 612 B.C. The south fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C.
Once I heard Hagee say there was no such thing as a Palestinian or a land of Palestine. Claiming all those thousands of years that Palestine (Arab cousins) really belonged to Jews, who made up a minority of the population.
None of that is as scary as Hagee's pushing for more war, starting with Iran. He and the prophetic voice of Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Planet Earth) see Russia and Iran joining forces to destroy Israel. These modern prophets never give a date for the final battle; they just spread fear about the impending Armageddon. But God's army (American, I guess) will come to their aid and righteousness will prevail after a bloody exchange.
The term prophetic means "to tell forth" more than it means "forth tell." The Bible is not a fortune-telling book, but a guide to finding peace with God. I have read Bible translations in more than six languages and all of them stress peace over war. Call wars just, preventive, or necessary, they are still hell on earth for all sides. Peace is the hallmark of Christ's message, even if some of his disciples still do not get it. Both their Christian faith and patriotism are misplaced.
There is definitely something wrong when a man of the cloth lives in the lap of luxury and says the way to God is through a world-ending war in the Holy Land. Scary? Yes, for beside preacher Hagee, we have some politicians and industrialists who are in agreement. War makes money for some, but death and destruction for many more. War is madness, and those who promote it should be opposed with correct biblical interpretations and much prayer.
Source: http://www.christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=798
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Israel Never had ownership rights to the Land ever!
Israel Never had ownership rights to the Land ever!
This may sound to you like a stretch, but let's examine the scripture itself.
Leviticus 25:23-24
The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. 24 Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Here in Leviticus it is stated that the reason Israel was forbidden to sell the land was because the land belonged to God. It was his, not theirs.
Israel was merely a tenant on the land, and just as a tenant today cannot sell the property of the landlord, Israel had no legal right in the covenant to sell God's land.
Further in Leviticus God gave more rules about the land and how if it was ever sold due to poverty or some other emergency, it must return to the rightful tenants at the year of Jubilee.
"And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. If your brother be waxen poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession."
God made clear how he felt about the selling of family lands in the story of King Ahab and Naboth's Vineyard.
1 Kings 21:1-4 1 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."
Jezebel hired to liars to bear false witness against Naboth so that the land could be confiscated by Ahab. When this came to light by God's revelation to his prophet Elijah, God made his feelings known about this transaction.
1 Kings 21:16-20
Clearly the reason Ahab was judged by God (or at least the last straw among many) was how he dealt with a righteous man, Naboth, and his land.
In addition to these rules that were given as Israel come into the land in Joshua's day, God gave further emphasis to this when the Nation was preparing to come back to the land after 70 years of captivity in Babylon.
In Ezekiel 48 God tells particularly the Levites that they are forbidden to sell or exchange their land.
Ezekiel 48:13-14
13 "Alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. Its total length will be 25,000 cubits and its width 10,000 cubits. 14
This is very instructive when we come to the New Testament book of Acts. Here we find Barnabas (A Levite) selling his land and it appears he is portrayed as doing a good and godly thing. How can this be when God strictly forbid the Levite from selling his land?
Acts 4:34-37
34There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.
It is also indicative of the fact that Israel's claim to the land which was based in that covenant was now null and void. If this were not so, the apostles would have spoken up. But Here in Acts we have incontrovertible proof that the covenant that gave Israel possession of the land was abrogated, nullified, canceled. There is no biblical case to be made today that entitles Israel to any of the covenantal lands of the bible. none whatsoever!
This may sound to you like a stretch, but let's examine the scripture itself.
Leviticus 25:23-24
The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. 24 Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Here in Leviticus it is stated that the reason Israel was forbidden to sell the land was because the land belonged to God. It was his, not theirs.
Israel was merely a tenant on the land, and just as a tenant today cannot sell the property of the landlord, Israel had no legal right in the covenant to sell God's land.
Further in Leviticus God gave more rules about the land and how if it was ever sold due to poverty or some other emergency, it must return to the rightful tenants at the year of Jubilee.
"And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. If your brother be waxen poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession."
God made clear how he felt about the selling of family lands in the story of King Ahab and Naboth's Vineyard.
1 Kings 21:1-4 1 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."
3 But Naboth replied, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers."
4 So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.
Jezebel hired to liars to bear false witness against Naboth so that the land could be confiscated by Ahab. When this came to light by God's revelation to his prophet Elijah, God made his feelings known about this transaction.
1 Kings 21:16-20
16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth's vineyard.
17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: 18 "Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth's vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it. 19 Say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?' Then say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!' "
20 Ahab said to Elijah, "So you have found me, my enemy!"
"I have found you," he answered, "because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Clearly the reason Ahab was judged by God (or at least the last straw among many) was how he dealt with a righteous man, Naboth, and his land.
In addition to these rules that were given as Israel come into the land in Joshua's day, God gave further emphasis to this when the Nation was preparing to come back to the land after 70 years of captivity in Babylon.
In Ezekiel 48 God tells particularly the Levites that they are forbidden to sell or exchange their land.
Ezekiel 48:13-14
13 "Alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. Its total length will be 25,000 cubits and its width 10,000 cubits. 14
They must not sell or exchange any of it. This is the best of the land and must not pass into other hands, because it is holy to the LORD.
This is very instructive when we come to the New Testament book of Acts. Here we find Barnabas (A Levite) selling his land and it appears he is portrayed as doing a good and godly thing. How can this be when God strictly forbid the Levite from selling his land?
Acts 4:34-37
34There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.
36Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means Son of Encouragement), 37sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles' feet.
How can Barnabas (A Levite) get away with selling his land? Why is it that the apostles of Christ are allowing this without calling Barnabas to task over a clearly illegal act by this "Son of Consolation"? Really there can only be one explanation for this. The Covenant that required this restriction was nullified and the rule restricting the selling of Levitical lands no longer applied.It is also indicative of the fact that Israel's claim to the land which was based in that covenant was now null and void. If this were not so, the apostles would have spoken up. But Here in Acts we have incontrovertible proof that the covenant that gave Israel possession of the land was abrogated, nullified, canceled. There is no biblical case to be made today that entitles Israel to any of the covenantal lands of the bible. none whatsoever!
Friday, 20 August 2010
Christian Zionists are heretics heading to Hell?
As someone who believes the doctrine of eternal punishment is false I can’t accept the idea that Christian Zionists are going to Hell but many Christians believe it to be the case.
Christian Zionism is sweeping the Christian community in via mega churches and sinister false teachers. i.e. John Hagee. John Hagee has made many extremely offensive remarks regarding Catholics, Jews, Islam, homosexuality, women, African Americans, Hurricane Katrina and even the Bible itself. I just don’t understand how heretics like John Hagee can gain such a huge following in the evangelical Christian world.
Christian Zionism is an exchange of Jesus for corrupted form of Judaism. This morbidly hilarious video demonstrates this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidGT60eCFo
Wearing skull caps, head banging a wall,
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Seriously, if they love Judaism so much why don’t they get circumcised at least? This video shows a complete rejection of Christianity for all things Jewish. They might as well reject Christ , get circumcised and then go and steal some Palestinians land.
Christian Zionists reject Galatians 3:28
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
They also reject Romans 2:9-12
Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honour and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 for God does not show favouritism.
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from... the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
Those verses clearly show that show that Jews are not Gods chosen.
Of course rejecting what Paul said wouldn‘t put you in hell from a fundamentalist perspective but rejecting Christ would
Christian Zionists reject Christ.
Christian Zionists are also known as Israel Firsters because they put Israel before Christ. More seriously, Christian Zionists side with godless Zionists against Palestinian Christians.
Matthew 25:40 clearly indicates that by siding against Christians they are siding against Jesus.
Matthew 25:40
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Look at Acts 9:1-6
Saul's Conversion
1Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest 2and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied. 6"Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
Paul was not persecuting Jews or supporting the persecution of Jews. Paul was persecuting Christians and supporting the persecution of Christians. Jesus didn’t ask “Why are you persecuting Christians?”
Jesus said "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Jesus also said “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,"
Jesus took the persecution of Christians personally because what you do to his brothers you do to Jesus.
Christian Zionists support godless people making Jesus homeless, beaten, persecuted, terrorized, forced into exile and killed.
By rejecting part of Christ’s Church they reject Christ himself.
They show absolute contempt for the brethren.
1 John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjMNFIL-7Y
Christian Zionism is sweeping the Christian community in via mega churches and sinister false teachers. i.e. John Hagee. John Hagee has made many extremely offensive remarks regarding Catholics, Jews, Islam, homosexuality, women, African Americans, Hurricane Katrina and even the Bible itself. I just don’t understand how heretics like John Hagee can gain such a huge following in the evangelical Christian world.
Christian Zionism is an exchange of Jesus for corrupted form of Judaism. This morbidly hilarious video demonstrates this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidGT60eCFo
Wearing skull caps, head banging a wall,
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Seriously, if they love Judaism so much why don’t they get circumcised at least? This video shows a complete rejection of Christianity for all things Jewish. They might as well reject Christ , get circumcised and then go and steal some Palestinians land.
Christian Zionists reject Galatians 3:28
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
They also reject Romans 2:9-12
Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honour and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 for God does not show favouritism.
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from... the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
Those verses clearly show that show that Jews are not Gods chosen.
Of course rejecting what Paul said wouldn‘t put you in hell from a fundamentalist perspective but rejecting Christ would
Christian Zionists reject Christ.
Christian Zionists are also known as Israel Firsters because they put Israel before Christ. More seriously, Christian Zionists side with godless Zionists against Palestinian Christians.
Matthew 25:40 clearly indicates that by siding against Christians they are siding against Jesus.
Matthew 25:40
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Look at Acts 9:1-6
Saul's Conversion
1Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest 2and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied. 6"Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
Paul was not persecuting Jews or supporting the persecution of Jews. Paul was persecuting Christians and supporting the persecution of Christians. Jesus didn’t ask “Why are you persecuting Christians?”
Jesus said "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Jesus also said “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,"
Jesus took the persecution of Christians personally because what you do to his brothers you do to Jesus.
Christian Zionists support godless people making Jesus homeless, beaten, persecuted, terrorized, forced into exile and killed.
By rejecting part of Christ’s Church they reject Christ himself.
They show absolute contempt for the brethren.
1 John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjMNFIL-7Y
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Kairos Palestine
This document is the Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine. It is written at this time when we wanted to see the Glory of the grace of God in this land and in the sufferings of its people. In this spirit the document requests the international community to stand by the Palestinian people who have faced oppression, displacement, suffering and clear apartheid for more than six decades. The suffering continues while the international community silently looks on at the occupying State, Israel. Our word is a cry of hope, with love, prayer and faith in God. We address it first of all to ourselves and then to all the churches and Christians in the world, asking them to stand against injustice and apartheid, urging them to work for a just peace in our region, calling on them to revisit theologies that justify crimes perpetrated against our people and the dispossession of the land.
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples.
This document did not come about spontaneously, and it is not the result of a coincidence. It is not a theoretical theological study or a policy paper, but is rather a document of faith and work. Its importance stems from the sincere expression of the concerns of the people and their view of this moment in history we are living through. It seeks to be prophetic in addressing things as they are without equivocation and with boldness, in addition it puts forward ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and all forms of discrimination as the solution that will lead to a just and lasting peace. The document also demands that all peoples, political leaders and decision-makers put pressure on Israel and take legal measures in order to oblige its government to put an end to its oppression and disregard for the international law. The document also holds a clear position that non-violent resistance to this injustice is a right and duty for all Palestinians including Christians.
The initiators of this document have been working on it for more than a year, in prayer and discussion, guided by their faith in God and their love for their people, accepting advice from many friends: Palestinians, Arabs and those from the wider international community. We are grateful to our friends for their solidarity with us.
http://www.kairospalestine.ps/
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Exiled Palestinian pastor returns from ministry in Gaza Strip
Exiled Palestinian pastor returns from ministry in Gaza Strip
By Bob Allen
Monday, August 16, 2010
AMMAN, Jordan (ABP) -- The exiled pastor of Gaza Baptist Church began teaching Aug. 16 at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary following a three-week visit to his homeland to preach, teach and distribute food and medicine to the poor.
"While food is available in Gaza, it is very expensive, and few can afford to buy it due to the siege and high unemployment," Hanna Massad said in an e-mail report.
Hanna Massad shared his testimony at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta in 2008.
The "siege" referred to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip enacted after Hamas gained control there in June 2007. Israel wants to weaken and end cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas militants. Critics say the blockade punishes innocent Gazans and has caused a humanitarian crisis.
Massad said his Christian Mission to Gaza http://www.cm2g.org/ spent about $35,000 to help poor families in Gaza last year alone.
Denied permission to travel through Israel, Massad traveled between 14 and 18 hours each way to enter Gaza through Egypt. He said the opportunity to minister in Gaza was worth it.
He led a special one-day women's event and preached and taught three Sundays at Gaza Baptist Church. He led home Bible studies, visited families and counseled church leaders throughout the week.
"The focus of my teaching and preaching was how we already have been accepted in Christ," Massad reported. "And I reminded people who have lost their hope about the very real hope we have in him."
Massad, who spoke at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta in 2008 and a regional New Baptist Covenant gathering in Oklahoma in 2009, left Gaza for Jordan in 2007 after a member of his church was murdered because of his faith. Since then he has traveled between Amman and Gaza to help the Christian community in Gaza.
"As Palestinians, we have experienced and continue to experience rejection and disappointment -- probably more than any other ethnic group under the sun -- at checkpoints and borders, in our own homes and neighborhoods," he said. "We are not treated as human beings, created in God's image. We are treated according to the identity documents we carry in our pockets."
He said that rejection comes not only from the Israelis. "As Palestinian Christians, we are often rejected by our own people, as Christians are throughout the Middle East," he said. "It is no wonder that so many Christians have emigrated to the West. For example, 60 years ago, we had 25 million Christians in the Middle East. Today, only 12.5 million remain."
Massad urged supporters of Christian Mission to Gaza to pray "for protection of the Christians in Gaza" and for him "to be able to preach the Good News and provide desperately needed relief to our community in Gaza."
Bob Allen is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5446/53/
By Bob Allen
Monday, August 16, 2010
AMMAN, Jordan (ABP) -- The exiled pastor of Gaza Baptist Church began teaching Aug. 16 at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary following a three-week visit to his homeland to preach, teach and distribute food and medicine to the poor.
"While food is available in Gaza, it is very expensive, and few can afford to buy it due to the siege and high unemployment," Hanna Massad said in an e-mail report.
Hanna Massad shared his testimony at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta in 2008.
The "siege" referred to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip enacted after Hamas gained control there in June 2007. Israel wants to weaken and end cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas militants. Critics say the blockade punishes innocent Gazans and has caused a humanitarian crisis.
Massad said his Christian Mission to Gaza http://www.cm2g.org/ spent about $35,000 to help poor families in Gaza last year alone.
Denied permission to travel through Israel, Massad traveled between 14 and 18 hours each way to enter Gaza through Egypt. He said the opportunity to minister in Gaza was worth it.
He led a special one-day women's event and preached and taught three Sundays at Gaza Baptist Church. He led home Bible studies, visited families and counseled church leaders throughout the week.
"The focus of my teaching and preaching was how we already have been accepted in Christ," Massad reported. "And I reminded people who have lost their hope about the very real hope we have in him."
Massad, who spoke at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta in 2008 and a regional New Baptist Covenant gathering in Oklahoma in 2009, left Gaza for Jordan in 2007 after a member of his church was murdered because of his faith. Since then he has traveled between Amman and Gaza to help the Christian community in Gaza.
"As Palestinians, we have experienced and continue to experience rejection and disappointment -- probably more than any other ethnic group under the sun -- at checkpoints and borders, in our own homes and neighborhoods," he said. "We are not treated as human beings, created in God's image. We are treated according to the identity documents we carry in our pockets."
He said that rejection comes not only from the Israelis. "As Palestinian Christians, we are often rejected by our own people, as Christians are throughout the Middle East," he said. "It is no wonder that so many Christians have emigrated to the West. For example, 60 years ago, we had 25 million Christians in the Middle East. Today, only 12.5 million remain."
Massad urged supporters of Christian Mission to Gaza to pray "for protection of the Christians in Gaza" and for him "to be able to preach the Good News and provide desperately needed relief to our community in Gaza."
Bob Allen is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5446/53/
Christian Zionism: The Root of All Evil?
Christian Zionism: The Root of All Evil?
By Tammy Obeidallah
It is common knowledge that many so-called Christians throw unconditional, unyielding support behind the Jewish state. Known as Christian Zionists, or more recently “Israel-firsters”—indicating their degree of loyalty over and above the interests of their own country—it is estimated they are over 50 million strong in the United States alone. By stripping biblical passages out of their proper context and ignoring historical perspective, Christian Zionist leaders have convinced the masses that Jesus Christ will return when all Jews are gathered in Palestine, even if it means the systemic destruction of the Palestinian people.
Questions remain how such a blatantly un-biblical doctrine hijacked an entire segment of the Christian community; moreover, how the doctrine came to be so widely accepted not only in churches but in the halls of political power.
It has been argued that Christian Zionism originated as a spin-off of secular Zionism; that Christians were co-opted by political Zionists in order to gain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Ironically, Palestine was sixth on the list for such a homeland at Theodor Herzl’s First Zionist Congress in 1897, behind locales including Argentina, Uganda and Turkey. It was in fact the Christian Zionists who were orchestrating the takeover of Palestine from the beginning.
The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948 by Paul C. Merkley provides startling evidence that the poisoned theology of Christian Zionism predates Herzl, long considered the father of Zionism. In fact, Herzl received a tremendous amount of support from William Hechler, the son of Anglican missionaries and author of an 1893 pamphlet entitled “The Restoration of the Jews to Palestine According to Prophecy.” It was Hechler who arranged meetings between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II, promoting the Zionist ambition to usurp Palestine among world leaders.
Early support for Zionism among United States policymakers was manifested through a handful of misguided religious nuts who manipulated leaders by flattering their sordid egotistical fantasies. According to Merkley, President Harry S. Truman compared himself to Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed Jews to return to Palestine in ancient times after the Babylonian captivity, although Zionist sympathies have run deep in America since its foundation.
The Puritans drew a parallel between themselves and the Children of Israel, escaping religious persecution in Europe just as the ancient Hebrews were led out of Egypt. America was their “Promised Land,” making way for the doctrine of Manifest Destiny (that it was God’s divine will for the new country to stretch from sea to sea) that justified the abhorrent treatment of Native Americans. By the same token, Christian Zionism justifies the killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to this day. Plymouth Brethren minister John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) popularized the doctrine under the name “dispensationalism,” which was further spread by the Scofield Reference Bible published in 1909. That edition contained copious footnotes instructing readers how to interpret Bible verses and prophecy centered around the re-establishment of Israel as a modern nation-state.
Thus the Zionist heresy was mass marketed to a largely ignorant populace who are convinced they do not have enough sense to read the Bible for themselves. Today, support for Israel has gained momentum through apocalyptic preaching by televangelists who make large profits for supporting Israel. They have co-opted Christian laypeople into thinking they can bring about Christ’s return, ending suffering on earth.
It would be scary enough if such ideas were confined to churches, but Zionist Christians have organized political lobbies such as Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Arguably, they have considerable influence over US foreign policy, particularly effective with neo-conservatives as witnessed during the George W. Bush administration. Numerous Christian groups encourage Jewish immigration to what is now called Israel through financial contributions while assisting ultra-orthodox Jewish groups to promote settlement expansion on Palestinian land.
Not only do Zionists distort biblical history, they spread lies about more modern events as well. Proponents of Israel will often pander the tired Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini obfuscation in an attempt to connect all Palestinians to Adolph Hitler. Husseini was imposed upon the Palestinians in 1921 by the British Mandate's first high commissioner, a British Jew named Herbert Samuel. Husseini was selected over the rival Nashashibi candidate and favored by the Zionist Commission. Husseini allied with Hitler to oppose the British, falling into the trap as so many others who have believed “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
In this manner Christian Zionists have the ability to reach outside their own cult and snag more secular (although nonetheless misguided) individuals by linking Arabs—particularly exploiting the blood connection between Husseini and late President Yasser Arafat—with the epitome of “anti-Semitic” evil. These same “Christians” are poised to use the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy to accuse Muslims of celebrating the attacks. In reality, the end of Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr, coincides with that date this year. Meanwhile, Florida pastor Terry Jones, leader of the innocuous-sounding Dove Outreach Center, is encouraging Christians to burn a Qur’an on September 11.
Although emboldened by all the media attention, proponents of these views are fortunately far from mainstream Christianity. The problem is that Christians who do take seriously Christ’s message of love are reluctant to gently—or not so gently—correct those hate-mongers masquerading as Christians. We must be willing to take back our faith by outspokenly refuting the heresy of Christian Zionism and its hateful manifestations both at home and abroad.
- Tammy Obeidallah contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16204
By Tammy Obeidallah
It is common knowledge that many so-called Christians throw unconditional, unyielding support behind the Jewish state. Known as Christian Zionists, or more recently “Israel-firsters”—indicating their degree of loyalty over and above the interests of their own country—it is estimated they are over 50 million strong in the United States alone. By stripping biblical passages out of their proper context and ignoring historical perspective, Christian Zionist leaders have convinced the masses that Jesus Christ will return when all Jews are gathered in Palestine, even if it means the systemic destruction of the Palestinian people.
Questions remain how such a blatantly un-biblical doctrine hijacked an entire segment of the Christian community; moreover, how the doctrine came to be so widely accepted not only in churches but in the halls of political power.
It has been argued that Christian Zionism originated as a spin-off of secular Zionism; that Christians were co-opted by political Zionists in order to gain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Ironically, Palestine was sixth on the list for such a homeland at Theodor Herzl’s First Zionist Congress in 1897, behind locales including Argentina, Uganda and Turkey. It was in fact the Christian Zionists who were orchestrating the takeover of Palestine from the beginning.
The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948 by Paul C. Merkley provides startling evidence that the poisoned theology of Christian Zionism predates Herzl, long considered the father of Zionism. In fact, Herzl received a tremendous amount of support from William Hechler, the son of Anglican missionaries and author of an 1893 pamphlet entitled “The Restoration of the Jews to Palestine According to Prophecy.” It was Hechler who arranged meetings between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II, promoting the Zionist ambition to usurp Palestine among world leaders.
Early support for Zionism among United States policymakers was manifested through a handful of misguided religious nuts who manipulated leaders by flattering their sordid egotistical fantasies. According to Merkley, President Harry S. Truman compared himself to Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed Jews to return to Palestine in ancient times after the Babylonian captivity, although Zionist sympathies have run deep in America since its foundation.
The Puritans drew a parallel between themselves and the Children of Israel, escaping religious persecution in Europe just as the ancient Hebrews were led out of Egypt. America was their “Promised Land,” making way for the doctrine of Manifest Destiny (that it was God’s divine will for the new country to stretch from sea to sea) that justified the abhorrent treatment of Native Americans. By the same token, Christian Zionism justifies the killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to this day. Plymouth Brethren minister John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) popularized the doctrine under the name “dispensationalism,” which was further spread by the Scofield Reference Bible published in 1909. That edition contained copious footnotes instructing readers how to interpret Bible verses and prophecy centered around the re-establishment of Israel as a modern nation-state.
Thus the Zionist heresy was mass marketed to a largely ignorant populace who are convinced they do not have enough sense to read the Bible for themselves. Today, support for Israel has gained momentum through apocalyptic preaching by televangelists who make large profits for supporting Israel. They have co-opted Christian laypeople into thinking they can bring about Christ’s return, ending suffering on earth.
It would be scary enough if such ideas were confined to churches, but Zionist Christians have organized political lobbies such as Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Arguably, they have considerable influence over US foreign policy, particularly effective with neo-conservatives as witnessed during the George W. Bush administration. Numerous Christian groups encourage Jewish immigration to what is now called Israel through financial contributions while assisting ultra-orthodox Jewish groups to promote settlement expansion on Palestinian land.
Not only do Zionists distort biblical history, they spread lies about more modern events as well. Proponents of Israel will often pander the tired Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini obfuscation in an attempt to connect all Palestinians to Adolph Hitler. Husseini was imposed upon the Palestinians in 1921 by the British Mandate's first high commissioner, a British Jew named Herbert Samuel. Husseini was selected over the rival Nashashibi candidate and favored by the Zionist Commission. Husseini allied with Hitler to oppose the British, falling into the trap as so many others who have believed “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
In this manner Christian Zionists have the ability to reach outside their own cult and snag more secular (although nonetheless misguided) individuals by linking Arabs—particularly exploiting the blood connection between Husseini and late President Yasser Arafat—with the epitome of “anti-Semitic” evil. These same “Christians” are poised to use the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy to accuse Muslims of celebrating the attacks. In reality, the end of Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr, coincides with that date this year. Meanwhile, Florida pastor Terry Jones, leader of the innocuous-sounding Dove Outreach Center, is encouraging Christians to burn a Qur’an on September 11.
Although emboldened by all the media attention, proponents of these views are fortunately far from mainstream Christianity. The problem is that Christians who do take seriously Christ’s message of love are reluctant to gently—or not so gently—correct those hate-mongers masquerading as Christians. We must be willing to take back our faith by outspokenly refuting the heresy of Christian Zionism and its hateful manifestations both at home and abroad.
- Tammy Obeidallah contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16204
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Moter Vehicles in the Bible
ENGINES
2 Chronicles 26:15
And he made in Jerusalem , ENGINES invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong
HUB CAPS
Ezekiel 1:16
The appearance of the WHEELSand their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a A WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF A WHEEL
Corinthians
http://www.corinthianvintagerace.com/
Daimler Chrysler RAM
Exodus 29:18
Then burn the entire RAM on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
GM ENVOY 2WD
GM ENVOY XL 4WD
Psalm 68:31
ENVOYS will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.
FORD
Joshua 2:7
So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the FORDS of the Jordan,
FORD ESCORT
Daniel 11:6
After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power will not last. In those days she will be handed over, together with her royal ESCORT and her father and the one who supported her.
HONDA ACCORD
Acts 1:14
14These all continued in one ACCORD in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
ROVER
1 Chronicles 12:21
And they helped David against the band of the ROVERS: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
Mitsubishi ECLIPSE
Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Nissan FRONTIER
Ezekiel 25:9
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his FRONTIERS the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
Rolls-Royce PHANTOM
Psalm 39:6
Man is a mere PHANTOM as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.
TRIUMPH
David's TRIUMPH was heard throughout the land.
Moses came forth in his TRIUMPH
VAUXHALL VICTOR
2 Timothy 2:5
Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the VICTOR's crown unless he competes according to the rules.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
Isaiah 11:15
The LORD will dry up the GULF (ancient spelling for GOLF obviously) of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that men can cross over in sandals.
According to Jack Van Impe there's a couple of FERRARI'S in The Bible too.
Nahum 2:4 i
4 The chariots storm through the streets,
rushing back and forth through the squares.
They look like flaming torches;
they dart about like lightning.
By Jack Van Impe's wacky interpretation of scripture we can include HELECOPTER GUNSHIPS
Isaiah 60:8-9
2 Chronicles 26:15
And he made in Jerusalem , ENGINES invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong
HUB CAPS
Ezekiel 1:16
The appearance of the WHEELSand their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a A WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF A WHEEL
Corinthians
http://www.corinthianvintagerace.com/
Daimler Chrysler RAM
Exodus 29:18
Then burn the entire RAM on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
GM ENVOY 2WD
GM ENVOY XL 4WD
Psalm 68:31
ENVOYS will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.
FORD
Joshua 2:7
So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the FORDS of the Jordan,
FORD ESCORT
Daniel 11:6
After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power will not last. In those days she will be handed over, together with her royal ESCORT and her father and the one who supported her.
HONDA ACCORD
Acts 1:14
14These all continued in one ACCORD in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
ROVER
1 Chronicles 12:21
And they helped David against the band of the ROVERS: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
Mitsubishi ECLIPSE
Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Nissan FRONTIER
Ezekiel 25:9
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his FRONTIERS the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
Rolls-Royce PHANTOM
Psalm 39:6
Man is a mere PHANTOM as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.
TRIUMPH
David's TRIUMPH was heard throughout the land.
Moses came forth in his TRIUMPH
VAUXHALL VICTOR
2 Timothy 2:5
Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the VICTOR's crown unless he competes according to the rules.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
Isaiah 11:15
The LORD will dry up the GULF (ancient spelling for GOLF obviously) of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that men can cross over in sandals.
According to Jack Van Impe there's a couple of FERRARI'S in The Bible too.
Nahum 2:4 i
4 The chariots storm through the streets,
rushing back and forth through the squares.
They look like flaming torches;
they dart about like lightning.
By Jack Van Impe's wacky interpretation of scripture we can include HELECOPTER GUNSHIPS
Isaiah 60:8-9
8 "Who are these that fly along like clouds,
like doves to their nests?
9 Surely the islands look to me;
in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,
bringing your sons from afar,
with their silver and gold,
to the honor of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.
Sunday, 8 August 2010
The Cult of Christian Zionism
Galatians 6:12-16
12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. 14May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. 16Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God.
Paul wrote this in response to Judizer’s within the first century church. Judizer’s still exist today. The largest group of Judizer’s in America are called dispensationalists. They boast in having knowledge of end time scenarios. They are puffed up thinking they are in the know just like the Gnostics before them. Paul said “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Without the redeeming power of the cross everyone is a Gentile be they called Jew or Gentile. Outside of Christ all are Gentiles. If someone does not belong to Christ they are not of Abraham’s seed. Paul hit the nail on the head when about peoples motives when he said “The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.” The tragedy is that when Christians try and correct them they claim to be persecuted because of the word. But they don’t believe The Word. They follow myths and traditions of men.
Darby, Schofield et al made the whole thing up. Until that time none believed such nonsense.
Dispensationalism also known Christian Zionism is a cult.
It has a founder of its religion in Darby. To them only Darby could understand The Bible like Rudderford to the JW’s
They also claim to be experts on prophecy. When the cult first started Charles Spurgeon said “There is a certain troublesome sect abroad nowadays, to whom the one thing needful is a perpetual speculation upon prophecy...They plume themselves upon an expected secret rapture , and I know not what vain imaginings beside.”
Like JW’s Dispensationalist have their own version of The Bible in the Schofield Bible. The references are there to deceive the reader into thinking it says what it doesn’t say. If you have a copy of the Schofield Reference Bible I would encourage you to burn it!
1 Corinthians 10
Warnings From Israel's History
1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
They drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ because they were the Old Covenant Church as the Church is New Covenant Israel
Galatians 6:16
16Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God.
The Church is The Israel of God.
12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. 14May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. 16Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God.
Paul wrote this in response to Judizer’s within the first century church. Judizer’s still exist today. The largest group of Judizer’s in America are called dispensationalists. They boast in having knowledge of end time scenarios. They are puffed up thinking they are in the know just like the Gnostics before them. Paul said “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Without the redeeming power of the cross everyone is a Gentile be they called Jew or Gentile. Outside of Christ all are Gentiles. If someone does not belong to Christ they are not of Abraham’s seed. Paul hit the nail on the head when about peoples motives when he said “The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.” The tragedy is that when Christians try and correct them they claim to be persecuted because of the word. But they don’t believe The Word. They follow myths and traditions of men.
Darby, Schofield et al made the whole thing up. Until that time none believed such nonsense.
Dispensationalism also known Christian Zionism is a cult.
It has a founder of its religion in Darby. To them only Darby could understand The Bible like Rudderford to the JW’s
They also claim to be experts on prophecy. When the cult first started Charles Spurgeon said “There is a certain troublesome sect abroad nowadays, to whom the one thing needful is a perpetual speculation upon prophecy...They plume themselves upon an expected secret rapture , and I know not what vain imaginings beside.”
Like JW’s Dispensationalist have their own version of The Bible in the Schofield Bible. The references are there to deceive the reader into thinking it says what it doesn’t say. If you have a copy of the Schofield Reference Bible I would encourage you to burn it!
1 Corinthians 10
Warnings From Israel's History
1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
They drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ because they were the Old Covenant Church as the Church is New Covenant Israel
Galatians 6:16
16Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God.
The Church is The Israel of God.
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Those who reject Jesus Christ reject God and the promises given to Abraham
Those who reject Jesus Christ reject God and the promises given to Abraham
“I and My Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone Thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that Thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:30-33
“…had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?” John 5:46-47
“He that receiveth you receiveth Me, and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.” Matthew 10:40
“…I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: But he that denieth Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.” Luke 12:8-9
Make no mistake about it. Those who reject Christ reject God and the promises of God to Abraham. The modern unbiblical notion that ethnic Jews are God’s chosen people is nothing other than a deception. The Jews are not God’s chosen people, only those who “…died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth,” (Hebrews 11:13) together with those who are “born of… God” (John 1:13) through believing into Jesus Christ are the people of God. The Apostle Paul refers to these collectively as “the Israel of God.” (Gal 6:16).
“There is of course the difficult unsolved problem,” says O. Palmer Robertson, “concerning the identification of a ‘Jew.’ For as a Jewish commentator on Genesis has noted, the ‘Jewish’ people never have known ‘purity of blood.’ (Jacob 1974, p.233). Since the time that God established His covenant with Abraham, any Gentile could become a fully-fledged Jew by confessing the God of Abraham and, in the case of a male, being circumcised (Gen. 17:12-13). The prevailing definition of a Jew as anyone who has a Jewish mother may have some functional appeal, but since the time of Abraham a ‘Jewish’ mother might not have a single drop of Abrahamic blood running through her veins. The place of Rahab the Canaanitess and Ruth the Moabitess in the honoured line of Davidic kings makes the point rather dramatically) cf. Josh. 6:25; Ruth 4:13; Matt. 1:5).
But if any gentile can become an heir of the promises to Abraham without having any ancestral connection with the Jewish people, then the criterion for inheriting the land cannot be racial. It is not true to the teaching of scripture to say simply that the racial decedents of Abraham are the rightful heirs of the land of Palestine, for the term ‘Jew’ cannot be confined to categories of race.
ANYONE WITHOUT A CHANGED HEART IS AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDED FROM BEING HEIR OF THE PROMISES OF GOD
This question is also difficult to answer from a Christian perspective. The Apostle Paul, recognized in his day as a ‘Hebrew of the Hebrews’ (Phil. 3:5), declared, ‘He is not a Jew who is one outwardly’ (Rom. 2:28). Only the person with a converted heart may legitimately be called a Jew (Rom. 2:29). The point could hardly be made more emphatically. If inheritance of the land is associated with being Jewish, and true Jewishness requires the renewal of the heart, then anyone who has no changed heart automatically is excluded from being heir of the promises of God. Contrariwise, every converted Gentile has become a fellow citizen, a fellow participant, a fellow heir of the promises of God alongside Jewish believers in Jesus (Eph. 2:19; 3:6). ‘For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.’ (Phil. 3:3).
Whatever the promises of God to Israel might have been, they now belong to all who have the renewed heart, whether they are Jew or gentile in background.”
O. Palmer Robertson. Understanding the Land of the Bible: A Biblical and theological Guide. pp.139-140
The Apostle Peter made it very plain when he declared who the "people of God" are.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." I Peter 2:9-10
To refer to unregenerate ethnic Jews as God's people contradicts the teaching of Jesus Christ and His Apostles. God promises to the Houses of Judah and Israel will only be fulfilled for them if they repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter declared this clearly on the day of Pentecost.
"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. ...Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2:22-39
God, by the prophet Jeremiah, declared what the basis of the New Covenant would be with the House of Judah and Isreal, saying,
"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 31:31-34
The Apostle Paul reiterates this great truth in His Epistle to the Hebrew believers.
"For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:8-13
Sourrce: http://www.in-christjesus.net/group/caz/forum/topics/those-who-reject-jesus-christ
“I and My Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone Thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that Thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:30-33
“…had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?” John 5:46-47
“He that receiveth you receiveth Me, and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.” Matthew 10:40
“…I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: But he that denieth Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.” Luke 12:8-9
Make no mistake about it. Those who reject Christ reject God and the promises of God to Abraham. The modern unbiblical notion that ethnic Jews are God’s chosen people is nothing other than a deception. The Jews are not God’s chosen people, only those who “…died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth,” (Hebrews 11:13) together with those who are “born of… God” (John 1:13) through believing into Jesus Christ are the people of God. The Apostle Paul refers to these collectively as “the Israel of God.” (Gal 6:16).
“There is of course the difficult unsolved problem,” says O. Palmer Robertson, “concerning the identification of a ‘Jew.’ For as a Jewish commentator on Genesis has noted, the ‘Jewish’ people never have known ‘purity of blood.’ (Jacob 1974, p.233). Since the time that God established His covenant with Abraham, any Gentile could become a fully-fledged Jew by confessing the God of Abraham and, in the case of a male, being circumcised (Gen. 17:12-13). The prevailing definition of a Jew as anyone who has a Jewish mother may have some functional appeal, but since the time of Abraham a ‘Jewish’ mother might not have a single drop of Abrahamic blood running through her veins. The place of Rahab the Canaanitess and Ruth the Moabitess in the honoured line of Davidic kings makes the point rather dramatically) cf. Josh. 6:25; Ruth 4:13; Matt. 1:5).
But if any gentile can become an heir of the promises to Abraham without having any ancestral connection with the Jewish people, then the criterion for inheriting the land cannot be racial. It is not true to the teaching of scripture to say simply that the racial decedents of Abraham are the rightful heirs of the land of Palestine, for the term ‘Jew’ cannot be confined to categories of race.
ANYONE WITHOUT A CHANGED HEART IS AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDED FROM BEING HEIR OF THE PROMISES OF GOD
This question is also difficult to answer from a Christian perspective. The Apostle Paul, recognized in his day as a ‘Hebrew of the Hebrews’ (Phil. 3:5), declared, ‘He is not a Jew who is one outwardly’ (Rom. 2:28). Only the person with a converted heart may legitimately be called a Jew (Rom. 2:29). The point could hardly be made more emphatically. If inheritance of the land is associated with being Jewish, and true Jewishness requires the renewal of the heart, then anyone who has no changed heart automatically is excluded from being heir of the promises of God. Contrariwise, every converted Gentile has become a fellow citizen, a fellow participant, a fellow heir of the promises of God alongside Jewish believers in Jesus (Eph. 2:19; 3:6). ‘For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.’ (Phil. 3:3).
Whatever the promises of God to Israel might have been, they now belong to all who have the renewed heart, whether they are Jew or gentile in background.”
O. Palmer Robertson. Understanding the Land of the Bible: A Biblical and theological Guide. pp.139-140
The Apostle Peter made it very plain when he declared who the "people of God" are.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." I Peter 2:9-10
To refer to unregenerate ethnic Jews as God's people contradicts the teaching of Jesus Christ and His Apostles. God promises to the Houses of Judah and Israel will only be fulfilled for them if they repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter declared this clearly on the day of Pentecost.
"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. ...Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2:22-39
God, by the prophet Jeremiah, declared what the basis of the New Covenant would be with the House of Judah and Isreal, saying,
"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 31:31-34
The Apostle Paul reiterates this great truth in His Epistle to the Hebrew believers.
"For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:8-13
Sourrce: http://www.in-christjesus.net/group/caz/forum/topics/those-who-reject-jesus-christ
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Zionist Crimes Against Jews
This is from Jews Against Zionism's Facebook page.
"Of all the Zionist crimes against the Jewish People, the most insidious was the naming of their Satanic state "Israel", thus hijacking the identity of the entire Jewish people for themsleves"
By this we can see that the word 'Israel' has deep theological meaning for both Christians and Jews alike.
"Of all the Zionist crimes against the Jewish People, the most insidious was the naming of their Satanic state "Israel", thus hijacking the identity of the entire Jewish people for themsleves"
By this we can see that the word 'Israel' has deep theological meaning for both Christians and Jews alike.
Even the Israel of God
NT Christian Greek scholars who have commented on Galatians 6:16, render the verse “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God”, qualifying that God’s Israel are those who walk by “this rule.”
Below are a few examples taken from some Christian commentators.
Kenneth Wuest
“And as many as by this rule are ordering their conduct, peace be upon them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.”
Those therefore, who order their lives by the Holy Spirit’s control, constitute the true Israel of God, not the Jews who have the name of Israel but are only children of Abraham after the flesh. The Greek word for “and” also has the meaning of “even” in some contexts. We translate here “even the Israel of God” as identifying those who “walk according to this rule.”
W. J. Conybeare
“And whosoever shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon all the Israel of God.”
Whether they be Jews or Gentiles.
Robert Young
“And as many as by this rule do walk - peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God.”
16. WALK,] or “step on by this cannon (reed or rule), peace (is) on them, and kindness …Israel of God,” i.e. the spiritual seed of Abraham.
John Wesley
“And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy (be) upon them, and upon the Israel of God”
‘Peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel’, that is, the church, ‘of God’ – Which constitutes all those, and those only, of every nation and kindred, who walk by this rule.
W. E. Vine
“And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”
“and”- kai, which among many uses, is frequently =”even,” should be so understood here. Those who ‘walk by this rule’ are themselves ‘the Israel of God.’ upon the Israel of God.’
“upon the Israel of God.” – the words suggest a contrast between a true and a false Israel. Circumcision could not transform a Gentile into a Jew; faith makes of any man, Jew or Gentile, an Israelite indeed, one of the true people of God, see 1 Peter 2:10, and cp. Romans 2:28, 29; Philippians 3:3. The circumcision party would have had the Galatians become Jews by submitting to a Jewish rite; let them rather by faith in Christ become of the Israel of God. But the apostle does not apologize for the Gentile converts. His challenge to the Judaizers rings out in this exultant climax—they are the very Israel of God!
The descendants of Jacob were known as Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites. These names are not always interchangeable. Speaking generally, “Hebrew” suggests their speech, see Acts 6:1, “Jew” their nationality, see 3:28, above, “Israelite” their calling to be the people of God, Matthew 2:6. The last is, therefore, the highest title of the three, connoting the dignity and the privileges wherewith God had endowed them. But the ideal to which the title pointed had been realized only by the few among their successive generations, for all that are of Israel in the course of nature are not Israelites in heart, Romans 9:6—8. The true Israelite is he who, of whatever nation born, puts his faith in God. See 3:7, 9, above, and Romans 4:12.
Marvin R. Vincent
“and upon the Israel of God.” The ‘kai’ – “and” may be simply connective, in which case ‘the Israel of God’ may be different from ‘as many as walk’ etc., and may mean truly converted Jews. Or the ‘kai’ may be explicative, in which case ‘the Israel of God’ will define and emphasise ‘as many as,’ etc., and will mean the whole body of Christians, Jewish and Gentile. In other words, they who walk according to this rule form the true Israel of God. The explicative ‘kai’ is at best doubtful here, and is rather forced, although clear instances of it may be found in 1 Cor. iii. 5; xv. 38. It seems better to regard it as simply connective. Then őσοι (as many) will refer to the individual Christians, Jewish and Gentile, and Israel of God to the same Christians, regarded collectively, and forming the true messianic community.
From the above comments we see that the word 'kai' used by the Apostle Paul in Gal 6:16 and translated 'and' in the Authorized Version, should be understood to mean "EVEN" to the English translator and reader. Thus the verse should be read " And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God."
Spiros Zodhiates in his comprehensive 'Greek Dictionary of the New Testament', gives the following meaning for the word "kai."
KAI ‘kahee’; appar. a prim. particle, having a ‘copulative’ and sometimes also a ‘cumulative’ force: — ‘and’, ‘also’, ‘even’, ‘so’, ‘then’, ‘too’, etc; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words: —‘and’, ‘also’, ‘both’, ‘but’, ‘even’, ‘for’, ‘if’, ‘indeed’, ‘likewise’, ‘moreover’, ‘or’, ‘so’, ‘that’, ‘then’, ‘therefore’, ‘when’, ‘yea’, ‘yet’.
We may safely conclude, therefore, that the Apostle of Christ is here referring NOT to an ethnic race of people, but to God’s “chosen” people – the true Israel of God. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
“For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, IF ANY MAN COME TO ME, AND HATE NOT HIS FATHER, AND MOTHER, AND WIFE, AND CHILDREN, AND BRETHREN, AND SISTERS, YEA, AND HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. AND WHOSOEVER DOTH NOT BEAR HIS CROSS, AND COME AFTER ME, CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.” Luke 14:24-27
This is the “rule” by which God’s Israel is distinguished - only such as walk by the rule of the Cross are the “Israel of God.”
God will not, indeed cannot, allow those who will not “die” to self and sin to be part of the Israel of God, the Church and body of Christ. This is one of the main reasons why the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified - "FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECULIAR PEOPLE, ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS." Titus 2:11-14
God’s Israel glory only in the Cross.
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." I Corinthians 1:18-31
“For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” Galatians 2:18-21
“…God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.” Galatians 6:14-16
Below are a few examples taken from some Christian commentators.
Kenneth Wuest
“And as many as by this rule are ordering their conduct, peace be upon them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.”
Those therefore, who order their lives by the Holy Spirit’s control, constitute the true Israel of God, not the Jews who have the name of Israel but are only children of Abraham after the flesh. The Greek word for “and” also has the meaning of “even” in some contexts. We translate here “even the Israel of God” as identifying those who “walk according to this rule.”
W. J. Conybeare
“And whosoever shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon all the Israel of God.”
Whether they be Jews or Gentiles.
Robert Young
“And as many as by this rule do walk - peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God.”
16. WALK,] or “step on by this cannon (reed or rule), peace (is) on them, and kindness …Israel of God,” i.e. the spiritual seed of Abraham.
John Wesley
“And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace and mercy (be) upon them, and upon the Israel of God”
‘Peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel’, that is, the church, ‘of God’ – Which constitutes all those, and those only, of every nation and kindred, who walk by this rule.
W. E. Vine
“And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”
“and”- kai, which among many uses, is frequently =”even,” should be so understood here. Those who ‘walk by this rule’ are themselves ‘the Israel of God.’ upon the Israel of God.’
“upon the Israel of God.” – the words suggest a contrast between a true and a false Israel. Circumcision could not transform a Gentile into a Jew; faith makes of any man, Jew or Gentile, an Israelite indeed, one of the true people of God, see 1 Peter 2:10, and cp. Romans 2:28, 29; Philippians 3:3. The circumcision party would have had the Galatians become Jews by submitting to a Jewish rite; let them rather by faith in Christ become of the Israel of God. But the apostle does not apologize for the Gentile converts. His challenge to the Judaizers rings out in this exultant climax—they are the very Israel of God!
The descendants of Jacob were known as Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites. These names are not always interchangeable. Speaking generally, “Hebrew” suggests their speech, see Acts 6:1, “Jew” their nationality, see 3:28, above, “Israelite” their calling to be the people of God, Matthew 2:6. The last is, therefore, the highest title of the three, connoting the dignity and the privileges wherewith God had endowed them. But the ideal to which the title pointed had been realized only by the few among their successive generations, for all that are of Israel in the course of nature are not Israelites in heart, Romans 9:6—8. The true Israelite is he who, of whatever nation born, puts his faith in God. See 3:7, 9, above, and Romans 4:12.
Marvin R. Vincent
“and upon the Israel of God.” The ‘kai’ – “and” may be simply connective, in which case ‘the Israel of God’ may be different from ‘as many as walk’ etc., and may mean truly converted Jews. Or the ‘kai’ may be explicative, in which case ‘the Israel of God’ will define and emphasise ‘as many as,’ etc., and will mean the whole body of Christians, Jewish and Gentile. In other words, they who walk according to this rule form the true Israel of God. The explicative ‘kai’ is at best doubtful here, and is rather forced, although clear instances of it may be found in 1 Cor. iii. 5; xv. 38. It seems better to regard it as simply connective. Then őσοι (as many) will refer to the individual Christians, Jewish and Gentile, and Israel of God to the same Christians, regarded collectively, and forming the true messianic community.
From the above comments we see that the word 'kai' used by the Apostle Paul in Gal 6:16 and translated 'and' in the Authorized Version, should be understood to mean "EVEN" to the English translator and reader. Thus the verse should be read " And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God."
Spiros Zodhiates in his comprehensive 'Greek Dictionary of the New Testament', gives the following meaning for the word "kai."
KAI ‘kahee’; appar. a prim. particle, having a ‘copulative’ and sometimes also a ‘cumulative’ force: — ‘and’, ‘also’, ‘even’, ‘so’, ‘then’, ‘too’, etc; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words: —‘and’, ‘also’, ‘both’, ‘but’, ‘even’, ‘for’, ‘if’, ‘indeed’, ‘likewise’, ‘moreover’, ‘or’, ‘so’, ‘that’, ‘then’, ‘therefore’, ‘when’, ‘yea’, ‘yet’.
We may safely conclude, therefore, that the Apostle of Christ is here referring NOT to an ethnic race of people, but to God’s “chosen” people – the true Israel of God. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
“For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, IF ANY MAN COME TO ME, AND HATE NOT HIS FATHER, AND MOTHER, AND WIFE, AND CHILDREN, AND BRETHREN, AND SISTERS, YEA, AND HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. AND WHOSOEVER DOTH NOT BEAR HIS CROSS, AND COME AFTER ME, CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.” Luke 14:24-27
This is the “rule” by which God’s Israel is distinguished - only such as walk by the rule of the Cross are the “Israel of God.”
God will not, indeed cannot, allow those who will not “die” to self and sin to be part of the Israel of God, the Church and body of Christ. This is one of the main reasons why the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified - "FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US, THAT HE MIGHT REDEEM US FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECULIAR PEOPLE, ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS." Titus 2:11-14
God’s Israel glory only in the Cross.
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." I Corinthians 1:18-31
“For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” Galatians 2:18-21
“…God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.” Galatians 6:14-16
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Bible verses Zionism - Thomas Williamson
Bible verses Zionism
Much of our Christian emphasis on foreign policy in the Middle East today is based on the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
The first half of this verse is a promise that God made to just one person, Abraham. The original Hebrew is in the second person singular, meaning that God is speaking only to Abraham. The King James Version correctly reflects this grammatical construction, since "thee" is singular, referring only to one person, whereas "ye" would refer to multiple persons.
Matthew Henry’s commentary states of Genesis 12:3a that "This made it a kind of league, offensive and defensive, between God and Abram."
Of the second half of the verse, Matthew Henry says, This was the promise that crowned all the rest; for it points to the Messiah, in whom ‘all the promises are yea and amen.’ Note, (1), Jesus Christ is the great blessing of the world, the greatest that ever the world blessed with."
Recently Genesis 12:3 has been spiritualized by Christian Zionist preachers, who say that this verse applies not just to Abraham, but also to Abraham’s descendants, specifically to the modern state of Israel founded in 1948. Supposedly, it means that evangelical Christians as individuals, and America as a nation, are bound to provide unquestioning support, financial and otherwise, to the state of Israel. It is said that if America fails to back up Israel in every way possible, financially, militarily and otherwise, then God will be through with America and will have us nuked.
When it is pointed out that the various Arabs nations, including Palestine, are also descended from Abraham, the Christian Zionists say that the promise of Genesis 12:3 applies only to the descendants of Isaac (Of course, there is no mention of Isaac in Genesis 12:3. They often misquote the verse, saying it refers to "blessing Israel," but Israel is not mentioned in the verse either).
Zionists say, based on their non-literal, speculative, spiritualized interpretation of Genesis 12:3, that we are to give total, unquestioned support to some of Abraham’s children, while others of Abraham’s children are to be hated, persecuted, ethnically cleansed, bombed back into the Stone Age, maybe even nuked.
But in Genesis 21:13, 17-18 God also bestows His blessing on Ishmael and his descendants, saying, "For I will make him a great nation." According to the same principles of interpretation by which we have made Genesis 12:3 a command for political support of the modern nation of Israel, Genesis 21:18 must be taken as a command for political support of the modern Arab nations. (Anybody want to start up a "Christian Ishmaelist" movement to lobby for Arab national greatness?)
Christian Zionists claim to have 70,000,000 followers in America, who insists that our politicians render unquestioning obedience to the military and political agenda of the Israeli Government.
Does God really demand that we support all actions and activities of the Israeli Government, even if those actions violate God’s moral standards of righteousness?
It should be pointed out that even in Old Testament times, when Israel was a nation specially chosen by, and ruled over by, Jehovah, He did not expect His people to support and endorse all actions of the government of Israel.
When the Government of Israel committed human rights violations, the prophets openly condemned them, 2 Kings 6:21 –23, 2 Chronicles 28:9-11, Nehemiah 5:7-11, Jeremiah 34:11-17, Amos 2:6-7, etc. Nowadays, liberal Jewish groups still protest human rights violations in Israel. Nevertheless, most fundamentalists Christians would never dream of doing such a thing – it is against their religion. It is their duty to either deny that such violations take place, or else to endorse and commend such violations. We have been told that God will smite us if we disagree with anything that Israel does.
The lawgiver Moses commanded the Hebrews that they should not oppress the strangers or non-Jews in their lands, Exodus 12:49, 22:21, 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34, 25:35, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, 23:7, 24:17, 27:19. That message, of course, is not mentioned today – it is considered "politically incorrect."
When King Ahab and Queen Jezebel unjustly expropriated the vineyard of Naboth, the prophet Elijah publicly denounced the kind for this unjust action, 1 Kings 21:17-24, Jehu cited this official action of the government of Israel against Naboth as justification for overthrowing that government, 2 Kings 9:25-26.
But nowadays, when the Israeli government expropriates the lands and properties of Palestinians without compensation, we look the other way and say nothing about it.
In Jeremiah 27:1-5, the prophet Jeremiah picketed a public meeting of the government of Judah with representatives of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon. He was protesting the foreign policy of Judah. We would never do anything like that today – it would be considered a violation of the command to "bless Abraham."
In Jeremiah 27:6-17, the prophet advocated the surrender of Israel’s territory to the King of Babylon, in return for peace – today, we would call it "land for peace." But today, our warmongering televangelists denounce "land for peace" as unthinkable for any reason whatsoever, and threaten God’s wrath against anyone who would support such a thing.
Supposedly it is better for Jewish and Arab children of Abraham to keep on killing each other over the land (while these sanctimonious war profiteers collect the money from sales of their Armageddon videos. Could it be a conflict of interest to allow American foreign policy to be dictated by these mega-millionaire preachers, who stand to make a profit if there is a war in the Middle East?)
We have seen that God’s inspired prophets did not meet the Christian Zionist standard of blind, unquestioning support for Israel. As it turns out, today’s Christian Zionists do not meet that standard, either.
Whenever the modern Israeli government takes any action that does not fit in with the speculative doomsday scenarios of the Armageddon Theology, the Christian Zionists will loudly protest and insist that the Israelis are doing wrong.
For instance, in 1994 Christian Zionist leaders, including Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed, publicly condemned the policies of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was seeking a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Robertson has also attacked the policies of Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres.
It seems hypocritical for Christian Zionists to threaten the wrath of God against those who express disagreement with any policy of the Israeli government when they have done the same thing themselves.
Modern-day Israelis and other Jews are well aware of the fact that the Christian Zionists believe, based on a mistaken interpretation of Zechariah 13:8, that there must be a devastating war in the Middle East in which two-thirds of all the Jews will be slaughtered. It is commonly understood that the Christian Zionists do not really care about what is best for the Jews, as evidenced by their constant lobbying efforts to stir up World War III in the Middle East. Million Jews may wind up dead, but it will be good for sales of the Armageddon videos that are peddled on the televangelists’ broadcasts and web-sites.
This raises the question who is really "blessing Israel;" those who are working for peace in the Middle East, or those who are agitating for a war designed to get two-thirds of all Jews wiped out?
Some gullible evangelical Christians may not understand these issues, but our Jewish friends understand what is at stake very well – they are being prepared to serve as cannon fodder for the next Holocaust.
Gershom Gorenberg, in his book "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," says, "I’ve listened to….American evangelical ministers who insist on their deep love for Israel and nevertheless eagerly await apocalyptic battles on Israel’s soil so terrible that the dry river bed will, they predict, fill with rivers of blood."
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has stated that "People who say there can be no peace are not really friends of Israel."
Robert O. Freedman, political science professor at Baltimore Hebrew University, says concerning Christian Zionists, "Once you get in bed with them, you are, to a certain extent, subscribing to their view of what America ought to be. And that, in my view, is not in the best interests of the Jewish people."
Former Shin Bet secret chief Carmi Gillon and former police commissioner Assaf Hefetz, commenting on the activities of Temple Mount extremists who are financially supported by fundamentalist Americans, warned that an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem "would lead to an all-out war and unleash destructive forces that would imperil Israel’s existence."
The eagerness of some televangelists, to get a war going in the Middle East (along with their vociferous Arab-bashing and Muslim-baiting), must be considered in context of their belief in the infamous Armageddon Theology, which insists that 2/3 of all the Jews must die.
Grace Halsell, in her book "Prophecy and Politics" observed: "Convinced that a nuclear Armageddon is an inevitable event within the divine scheme of things, many evangelical dispensationalists have committed themselves to a course for Israel that, by their own admission, will lead directly to a holocaust indescribably more savage and widespread than could have generated in Adolf Hitler’s criminal mind."
American Christians who really want to be a blessing to all the children of Abraham (Jews and Arabs) need to realize that they do not have to render blind, knee-jerk support to the most extremist elements of Zionism, or to those who are actively trying to foment massive wars in the Middle East that would be contrary to the interests of the Israeli people. Not everyone is going to agree that stirring up a war to get 2/3 of all Jews killed is a good thing for the Jews.
Nor should we forget that our Prime Directive as Christians is found in the Great Commission. Our mission is to evangelize, baptize and teach, not to try to hasten Christ’s coming by agitating war and violence in the Middle East.
Zionism is based on a total misunderstanding of what the Bible teaches. It is true that God gave Palestine to Hebrews in ancient times. But the Bible teaches that their possession of the land was under a conditional covenant with Jehovah. If the Hebrews disobeyed their God, they would lose the land. This is clearly taught in Genesis 17:9-14, Exodus 19:4-5, Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 7:12, Joshua 23:15-16, 1 Kings 9:6-9, 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, Jeremiah 34:12-22, Ezekiel 33:23-29, Matthew 21:43, etc.
When the Jews rejected their Messiah, God sent the Romans to dispossess the Jews from their land in 70 AD. This was God’s complete punishment on the Jews for crucifying Christ – therefore, the Jews today should not be persecuted for something that happened 2000 years ago. However, their former title deed on the land of Palestine is not abrogated.
The New Testament teaches that Christians are to focus on the heavenly Jerusalem, not the earthly one, John 4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. We are told in Hebrews 11:13-16 that even Abraham has no further interest in a restored Jewish state on earth, because he is in a much better place in heaven.
Christian Zionism is a movement that claims to be based on the Bible, but as we have seen, it is actually contrary to what the Bible teaches. All Christians should repudiate Zionism and should work for a peace settlement in the Middle East that will be of mutual benefit to Abraham’s Jewish and Arab children in Palestine.
© 2002 Thomas Williamson
Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He contributes to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from time to time.
Source: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Zionism/zionism.htm
Much of our Christian emphasis on foreign policy in the Middle East today is based on the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
The first half of this verse is a promise that God made to just one person, Abraham. The original Hebrew is in the second person singular, meaning that God is speaking only to Abraham. The King James Version correctly reflects this grammatical construction, since "thee" is singular, referring only to one person, whereas "ye" would refer to multiple persons.
Matthew Henry’s commentary states of Genesis 12:3a that "This made it a kind of league, offensive and defensive, between God and Abram."
Of the second half of the verse, Matthew Henry says, This was the promise that crowned all the rest; for it points to the Messiah, in whom ‘all the promises are yea and amen.’ Note, (1), Jesus Christ is the great blessing of the world, the greatest that ever the world blessed with."
Recently Genesis 12:3 has been spiritualized by Christian Zionist preachers, who say that this verse applies not just to Abraham, but also to Abraham’s descendants, specifically to the modern state of Israel founded in 1948. Supposedly, it means that evangelical Christians as individuals, and America as a nation, are bound to provide unquestioning support, financial and otherwise, to the state of Israel. It is said that if America fails to back up Israel in every way possible, financially, militarily and otherwise, then God will be through with America and will have us nuked.
When it is pointed out that the various Arabs nations, including Palestine, are also descended from Abraham, the Christian Zionists say that the promise of Genesis 12:3 applies only to the descendants of Isaac (Of course, there is no mention of Isaac in Genesis 12:3. They often misquote the verse, saying it refers to "blessing Israel," but Israel is not mentioned in the verse either).
Zionists say, based on their non-literal, speculative, spiritualized interpretation of Genesis 12:3, that we are to give total, unquestioned support to some of Abraham’s children, while others of Abraham’s children are to be hated, persecuted, ethnically cleansed, bombed back into the Stone Age, maybe even nuked.
But in Genesis 21:13, 17-18 God also bestows His blessing on Ishmael and his descendants, saying, "For I will make him a great nation." According to the same principles of interpretation by which we have made Genesis 12:3 a command for political support of the modern nation of Israel, Genesis 21:18 must be taken as a command for political support of the modern Arab nations. (Anybody want to start up a "Christian Ishmaelist" movement to lobby for Arab national greatness?)
Christian Zionists claim to have 70,000,000 followers in America, who insists that our politicians render unquestioning obedience to the military and political agenda of the Israeli Government.
Does God really demand that we support all actions and activities of the Israeli Government, even if those actions violate God’s moral standards of righteousness?
It should be pointed out that even in Old Testament times, when Israel was a nation specially chosen by, and ruled over by, Jehovah, He did not expect His people to support and endorse all actions of the government of Israel.
When the Government of Israel committed human rights violations, the prophets openly condemned them, 2 Kings 6:21 –23, 2 Chronicles 28:9-11, Nehemiah 5:7-11, Jeremiah 34:11-17, Amos 2:6-7, etc. Nowadays, liberal Jewish groups still protest human rights violations in Israel. Nevertheless, most fundamentalists Christians would never dream of doing such a thing – it is against their religion. It is their duty to either deny that such violations take place, or else to endorse and commend such violations. We have been told that God will smite us if we disagree with anything that Israel does.
The lawgiver Moses commanded the Hebrews that they should not oppress the strangers or non-Jews in their lands, Exodus 12:49, 22:21, 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34, 25:35, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, 23:7, 24:17, 27:19. That message, of course, is not mentioned today – it is considered "politically incorrect."
When King Ahab and Queen Jezebel unjustly expropriated the vineyard of Naboth, the prophet Elijah publicly denounced the kind for this unjust action, 1 Kings 21:17-24, Jehu cited this official action of the government of Israel against Naboth as justification for overthrowing that government, 2 Kings 9:25-26.
But nowadays, when the Israeli government expropriates the lands and properties of Palestinians without compensation, we look the other way and say nothing about it.
In Jeremiah 27:1-5, the prophet Jeremiah picketed a public meeting of the government of Judah with representatives of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon. He was protesting the foreign policy of Judah. We would never do anything like that today – it would be considered a violation of the command to "bless Abraham."
In Jeremiah 27:6-17, the prophet advocated the surrender of Israel’s territory to the King of Babylon, in return for peace – today, we would call it "land for peace." But today, our warmongering televangelists denounce "land for peace" as unthinkable for any reason whatsoever, and threaten God’s wrath against anyone who would support such a thing.
Supposedly it is better for Jewish and Arab children of Abraham to keep on killing each other over the land (while these sanctimonious war profiteers collect the money from sales of their Armageddon videos. Could it be a conflict of interest to allow American foreign policy to be dictated by these mega-millionaire preachers, who stand to make a profit if there is a war in the Middle East?)
We have seen that God’s inspired prophets did not meet the Christian Zionist standard of blind, unquestioning support for Israel. As it turns out, today’s Christian Zionists do not meet that standard, either.
Whenever the modern Israeli government takes any action that does not fit in with the speculative doomsday scenarios of the Armageddon Theology, the Christian Zionists will loudly protest and insist that the Israelis are doing wrong.
For instance, in 1994 Christian Zionist leaders, including Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed, publicly condemned the policies of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was seeking a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Robertson has also attacked the policies of Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres.
It seems hypocritical for Christian Zionists to threaten the wrath of God against those who express disagreement with any policy of the Israeli government when they have done the same thing themselves.
Modern-day Israelis and other Jews are well aware of the fact that the Christian Zionists believe, based on a mistaken interpretation of Zechariah 13:8, that there must be a devastating war in the Middle East in which two-thirds of all the Jews will be slaughtered. It is commonly understood that the Christian Zionists do not really care about what is best for the Jews, as evidenced by their constant lobbying efforts to stir up World War III in the Middle East. Million Jews may wind up dead, but it will be good for sales of the Armageddon videos that are peddled on the televangelists’ broadcasts and web-sites.
This raises the question who is really "blessing Israel;" those who are working for peace in the Middle East, or those who are agitating for a war designed to get two-thirds of all Jews wiped out?
Some gullible evangelical Christians may not understand these issues, but our Jewish friends understand what is at stake very well – they are being prepared to serve as cannon fodder for the next Holocaust.
Gershom Gorenberg, in his book "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," says, "I’ve listened to….American evangelical ministers who insist on their deep love for Israel and nevertheless eagerly await apocalyptic battles on Israel’s soil so terrible that the dry river bed will, they predict, fill with rivers of blood."
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has stated that "People who say there can be no peace are not really friends of Israel."
Robert O. Freedman, political science professor at Baltimore Hebrew University, says concerning Christian Zionists, "Once you get in bed with them, you are, to a certain extent, subscribing to their view of what America ought to be. And that, in my view, is not in the best interests of the Jewish people."
Former Shin Bet secret chief Carmi Gillon and former police commissioner Assaf Hefetz, commenting on the activities of Temple Mount extremists who are financially supported by fundamentalist Americans, warned that an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem "would lead to an all-out war and unleash destructive forces that would imperil Israel’s existence."
The eagerness of some televangelists, to get a war going in the Middle East (along with their vociferous Arab-bashing and Muslim-baiting), must be considered in context of their belief in the infamous Armageddon Theology, which insists that 2/3 of all the Jews must die.
Grace Halsell, in her book "Prophecy and Politics" observed: "Convinced that a nuclear Armageddon is an inevitable event within the divine scheme of things, many evangelical dispensationalists have committed themselves to a course for Israel that, by their own admission, will lead directly to a holocaust indescribably more savage and widespread than could have generated in Adolf Hitler’s criminal mind."
American Christians who really want to be a blessing to all the children of Abraham (Jews and Arabs) need to realize that they do not have to render blind, knee-jerk support to the most extremist elements of Zionism, or to those who are actively trying to foment massive wars in the Middle East that would be contrary to the interests of the Israeli people. Not everyone is going to agree that stirring up a war to get 2/3 of all Jews killed is a good thing for the Jews.
Nor should we forget that our Prime Directive as Christians is found in the Great Commission. Our mission is to evangelize, baptize and teach, not to try to hasten Christ’s coming by agitating war and violence in the Middle East.
Zionism is based on a total misunderstanding of what the Bible teaches. It is true that God gave Palestine to Hebrews in ancient times. But the Bible teaches that their possession of the land was under a conditional covenant with Jehovah. If the Hebrews disobeyed their God, they would lose the land. This is clearly taught in Genesis 17:9-14, Exodus 19:4-5, Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 7:12, Joshua 23:15-16, 1 Kings 9:6-9, 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, Jeremiah 34:12-22, Ezekiel 33:23-29, Matthew 21:43, etc.
When the Jews rejected their Messiah, God sent the Romans to dispossess the Jews from their land in 70 AD. This was God’s complete punishment on the Jews for crucifying Christ – therefore, the Jews today should not be persecuted for something that happened 2000 years ago. However, their former title deed on the land of Palestine is not abrogated.
The New Testament teaches that Christians are to focus on the heavenly Jerusalem, not the earthly one, John 4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. We are told in Hebrews 11:13-16 that even Abraham has no further interest in a restored Jewish state on earth, because he is in a much better place in heaven.
Christian Zionism is a movement that claims to be based on the Bible, but as we have seen, it is actually contrary to what the Bible teaches. All Christians should repudiate Zionism and should work for a peace settlement in the Middle East that will be of mutual benefit to Abraham’s Jewish and Arab children in Palestine.
© 2002 Thomas Williamson
Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He contributes to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from time to time.
Source: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Doctrines/Zionism/zionism.htm
Parable of The Good Shepherd and Christian Zionists
The Good Shepherd said to some people , “In me you have also been chosen,
The Pharisees of the day began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks anti-Semitism? Who are chosen but the Jews alone?”
The Good Shepherd knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, 'In me you have also been chosen,' or to say, 'You also are children of Abraham'? But that you may know that these are the children of Abraham I left the writings of the apostles to show you that I am enthroned in The Church and not a mountain in Palestine.”
At this the Pharisees of the day were indignant exclaiming “Palestine never existed, Israel was their first!”
Then The Good Shepherd said “Don’t you know that I am the one enthroned in Zion? Don’t you know that the glory of Zion is me reigning in The Church?”
Then the Pharisees of the day accused The Good Shepherd of something called Replacement Theology. To which the Good Shepherd replied how can these be a replacement when I chose them in me before the beginning of time? They then told him he was not the good shepherd because they were friends of The Good Shepherds.
The Good Shepherd then said “I am The Good Shepherd. Look! They are killing my Sheep!”
At this they covered their ears and, yelled at the top of their voices “Anti-Semitism!
Anti-Semitism!” and listened to people wearing a fleeces howling support for those who were killing his sheep.
Eventually on the last day The Good Shepherd separated the sheep from the goats and The Pharisees of the day were amazed to be among the Goats. The Good Shepherd said to them. “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They then answered, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
He pointed to some Palestinian Christians who had been murdered by Zionists and said, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Luke 5:20-24, Acts 7:56-58, Ephesians 1:11, James 2:5, Titus 1:2
Matthew 25
The Pharisees of the day began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks anti-Semitism? Who are chosen but the Jews alone?”
The Good Shepherd knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, 'In me you have also been chosen,' or to say, 'You also are children of Abraham'? But that you may know that these are the children of Abraham I left the writings of the apostles to show you that I am enthroned in The Church and not a mountain in Palestine.”
At this the Pharisees of the day were indignant exclaiming “Palestine never existed, Israel was their first!”
Then The Good Shepherd said “Don’t you know that I am the one enthroned in Zion? Don’t you know that the glory of Zion is me reigning in The Church?”
Then the Pharisees of the day accused The Good Shepherd of something called Replacement Theology. To which the Good Shepherd replied how can these be a replacement when I chose them in me before the beginning of time? They then told him he was not the good shepherd because they were friends of The Good Shepherds.
The Good Shepherd then said “I am The Good Shepherd. Look! They are killing my Sheep!”
At this they covered their ears and, yelled at the top of their voices “Anti-Semitism!
Anti-Semitism!” and listened to people wearing a fleeces howling support for those who were killing his sheep.
Eventually on the last day The Good Shepherd separated the sheep from the goats and The Pharisees of the day were amazed to be among the Goats. The Good Shepherd said to them. “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They then answered, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
He pointed to some Palestinian Christians who had been murdered by Zionists and said, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Luke 5:20-24, Acts 7:56-58, Ephesians 1:11, James 2:5, Titus 1:2
Matthew 25
Against Zionist Ecclesiology
Matthew 16:17-18
17Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[b] will not overcome it.
The Church is eternal
Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
The Church is eternal because Christ is eternal
1 Peter 1:20
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
The New Covenant is perfect.
Hebrews 7:18-19
18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
The Passover was instituted by Moses before the law was given on Sinai giving continuation from Abraham to the time of Christ. The Eucharist also called, Communion or The Lords Supper was instituted by Christ (the prophet like Moses) before the means of grace had been given (Calvery) making a continuation from the Old Covenant into The New Covenant.
There is no seperate covenant for the Jews.
Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
Christ only has one Bride and she is The Church. God is not a bygamist, God is the Faithful Husband.
The real Zion is The Church.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly... See more
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet,
till her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
her salvation like a blazing torch.
So it is for The Churches sake thay God will not keep silent. It is The Churches salvation that is a blazing torch and that salvation is through Christ for there is no other name under Heaven by which to be saved.
17Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[b] will not overcome it.
The Church is eternal
Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
The Church is eternal because Christ is eternal
1 Peter 1:20
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
The New Covenant is perfect.
Hebrews 7:18-19
18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
The Passover was instituted by Moses before the law was given on Sinai giving continuation from Abraham to the time of Christ. The Eucharist also called, Communion or The Lords Supper was instituted by Christ (the prophet like Moses) before the means of grace had been given (Calvery) making a continuation from the Old Covenant into The New Covenant.
There is no seperate covenant for the Jews.
Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
Christ only has one Bride and she is The Church. God is not a bygamist, God is the Faithful Husband.
The real Zion is The Church.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly... See more
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet,
till her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
her salvation like a blazing torch.
So it is for The Churches sake thay God will not keep silent. It is The Churches salvation that is a blazing torch and that salvation is through Christ for there is no other name under Heaven by which to be saved.
Friday, 23 July 2010
Gods Chosen People
Galatians 3:16
16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but
"and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ.
Galatians 3:29
29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Bless the Church you'll be blessed, curse the church you'll be cursed. The Church is The Bride of Christ if
you bless a mans wife he'll be nice to you and if you curse a mans wife
he may put you in hospital. Notice that The Church is The Bride and not A
Bride. God is not a bygamist.
If that's not enough,
Ephesians 1:11
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the
purpose of his will,
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who
called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
The Church is Gods chosen
16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but
"and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ.
Galatians 3:29
29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Bless the Church you'll be blessed, curse the church you'll be cursed. The Church is The Bride of Christ if
you bless a mans wife he'll be nice to you and if you curse a mans wife
he may put you in hospital. Notice that The Church is The Bride and not A
Bride. God is not a bygamist.
If that's not enough,
Ephesians 1:11
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the
purpose of his will,
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who
called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
The Church is Gods chosen
Monday, 12 July 2010
Reasons Jews Give for Not Accepting Jesus Explained.
For 2,000 years Jews have rejected the Christian idea of Jesus as messiah. This is why they were exiled from Palestine. They did not accept and listen to the prophet like Moses. They broke the law.
They claim that
Jesus did not fulfil the messianic prophecies.
Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.
Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations.
Jewish belief is based on national revelation.
They claim that Jesus Did Not Fulfil the Messianic Prophecies
They claim that he did not Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28). But the temple in Ezekiel is in fact The Church.
Ephesians 2:19-22
19Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
They say that the true Messiah would gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel. What they don’t understand is that Isaiah 43:5-6 is referring to Christ bringing all God’s covenant people of all nations (not just Jews) to himself and presenting them to The Father.
Isaiah 43:5-6
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!'
and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.'
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth-
7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory
Colossians 1:21-22
21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
They claim that he would usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore."
Isaiah 2:4
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into ploughshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore
First of all there shall be peace without end after the second coming but also, se we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)
They claim that Jesus has not spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel. As the majority of people in the world today call themselves Christians such a claim is ridiculous.
They claim he hasn‘t fulfilled this. "God will be King over all the world ? on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9) When he certainly has.
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
(Philippians 2:10-11)
.
They claim that Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of Messiah
A. Messiah as Prophet
Zionist Jews make the claim that prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is inhabited by a majority of world Jewry, a situation which has not existed since 300 BCE. This of course is nonsense and furthermore it makes their claim to the Eritz illegitimate too. (Which of course it is.)
They claim that if Jesus was the son of God he couldn’t be the son of David. He was the son of David on his mothers side too.
They claim that Jesus changed the law when he did not.
Matthew 5:17
[ The Fulfillment of the Law ] "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
The idea that Jesus broke the law by healing the blind man on the Sabbath is ridiculous. The fact that the the apostle John mentioned the Pharisees reaction demonstrates that the gospel writer thought they were being ridiculous too.
They also claim certain verses are mistranslated.
A. Virgin Birth
They claim that in Isaiah 7:14 describing an "alma" as giving birth. The word "alma" has always meant a young woman, but Christian theologians came centuries later and translated it as "virgin." This accords Jesus' birth with the first century pagan idea of mortals being impregnated by gods. Of course as the virgin birth is mentioned in all four gospels that were written by people who knew Jesus the claim is also ridiculous. Furthermore an alma is a young woman not married if she was not married then logic would lead us to assume she was a virgin.
B. Suffering Servant
They claim that Isaiah 53 directly follows the theme of chapter 52, describing the exile and redemption of the Jewish people. The prophecies are written in the singular form because the Jews ("Israel") are regarded as one unit. Throughout Jewish scripture, Israel is repeatedly called, in the singular, the "Servant of God" .In fact, Isaiah states no less than 11 times in the chapters prior to 53 that the Servant of God is Israel. When read correctly, Isaiah 53 clearly [and ironically] refers to the Jewish people being "bruised.
Sounds convincing doesn’t it?
Isaiah 53:5
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
According to their version of this by Israel’s wounds, Israel is healed. It makes no sense whatsoever now does it?
Another claim is that Jewish Belief is Based Solely on National Revelation
Isaiah 56:7
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.
They claim that
Jesus did not fulfil the messianic prophecies.
Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.
Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations.
Jewish belief is based on national revelation.
They claim that Jesus Did Not Fulfil the Messianic Prophecies
They claim that he did not Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28). But the temple in Ezekiel is in fact The Church.
Ephesians 2:19-22
19Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
They say that the true Messiah would gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel. What they don’t understand is that Isaiah 43:5-6 is referring to Christ bringing all God’s covenant people of all nations (not just Jews) to himself and presenting them to The Father.
Isaiah 43:5-6
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!'
and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.'
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth-
7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory
Colossians 1:21-22
21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
They claim that he would usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore."
Isaiah 2:4
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into ploughshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore
First of all there shall be peace without end after the second coming but also, se we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)
They claim that Jesus has not spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel. As the majority of people in the world today call themselves Christians such a claim is ridiculous.
They claim he hasn‘t fulfilled this. "God will be King over all the world ? on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9) When he certainly has.
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
(Philippians 2:10-11)
.
They claim that Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of Messiah
A. Messiah as Prophet
Zionist Jews make the claim that prophecy can only exist in Israel when the land is inhabited by a majority of world Jewry, a situation which has not existed since 300 BCE. This of course is nonsense and furthermore it makes their claim to the Eritz illegitimate too. (Which of course it is.)
They claim that if Jesus was the son of God he couldn’t be the son of David. He was the son of David on his mothers side too.
They claim that Jesus changed the law when he did not.
Matthew 5:17
[ The Fulfillment of the Law ] "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
The idea that Jesus broke the law by healing the blind man on the Sabbath is ridiculous. The fact that the the apostle John mentioned the Pharisees reaction demonstrates that the gospel writer thought they were being ridiculous too.
They also claim certain verses are mistranslated.
A. Virgin Birth
They claim that in Isaiah 7:14 describing an "alma" as giving birth. The word "alma" has always meant a young woman, but Christian theologians came centuries later and translated it as "virgin." This accords Jesus' birth with the first century pagan idea of mortals being impregnated by gods. Of course as the virgin birth is mentioned in all four gospels that were written by people who knew Jesus the claim is also ridiculous. Furthermore an alma is a young woman not married if she was not married then logic would lead us to assume she was a virgin.
B. Suffering Servant
They claim that Isaiah 53 directly follows the theme of chapter 52, describing the exile and redemption of the Jewish people. The prophecies are written in the singular form because the Jews ("Israel") are regarded as one unit. Throughout Jewish scripture, Israel is repeatedly called, in the singular, the "Servant of God" .In fact, Isaiah states no less than 11 times in the chapters prior to 53 that the Servant of God is Israel. When read correctly, Isaiah 53 clearly [and ironically] refers to the Jewish people being "bruised.
Sounds convincing doesn’t it?
Isaiah 53:5
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
According to their version of this by Israel’s wounds, Israel is healed. It makes no sense whatsoever now does it?
Another claim is that Jewish Belief is Based Solely on National Revelation
Isaiah 56:7
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
The Deception of Christian Zionism.
The Deception of Christian Zionism.
According to wikipedia
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Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. It overlaps with, but is distinct from, the nineteenth century movement for the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land, which had both religiously and politically motivated supporters. The term Christian Zionism was popularised in the mid-twentieth century. Prior to that time the common term was Restorationism.
Some Christian Zionists believe that the "ingathering" of Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus. This belief is primarily, though not exclusively, associated with Christian Dispensationalism. The idea that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christian, as a means fulfilling a Biblical prophecy has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation.
Many Christian Zionists believe that the people of Israel remain part of the chosen people of God, see also Dual-covenant theology, along with the ingrafted Gentile Christians[Romans 11:17-24 This has the added effect of turning Christian Zionists into supporters of Jewish Zionism
Zionism (Hebrew: , Tsiyonut) is a nationalist Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, calls for the self-determination of the Jewish people and a sovereign, Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to support and advocate on behalf of the Jewish state.
Zionism did not have a uniform ideology, but a plethora of ideologies: General Zionism, National-Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, etc. Shimoni (1995) shows that there existed among the parties a common denominator: the claim to Eretz Israel as the national homeland of the Jews and as the legitimate focus for the national self-determination of the Jews.
Zionism is based on historical ties and religious traditions linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. Almost two millennia after the Jewish diaspora, the modern Zionist movement, beginning in the late 19th century, was mainly founded by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews (German Jews) to antisemitism and the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.
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In reality Zionism is a political ideology that sometimes masquerades as a religious ideology for political gain. In some cases it is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent the scriptures to get Christian support for the political ideology. Orthodox Jews believe that they have no claim to the Eritz until Messiah comes. Until such time The Eritz is The Lords and everything in it (Psalm 24:1) As the Wikipedia article on Zionism says was ‘mainly founded by secular Jews largely as a response …………. to antisemitism’ From this we can deduce that Zionism’s origins are secular and not religious. In fact it was founded as a response to Nazism. Nazism is an evil political ideology based on race and Zionism is an evil political ideology based on race.
The deception towards Christians is that God has kept his covenant with the Jews. God is not a bigamist. Christ has but one Bride and she is The Church.
Hebrews 8:13
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
If the old covenant was soon to disappear in the first century there can’t be much left of it now. The Temple sacrifices disappeared in 70 AD because the system was obsolete. Dispensationalists don’t believe this. They believe that the temple mentioned in the book of Ezekiel needs to be built when the temple in Ezekiel is in fact The Church. They talk about the measurements that can be explained by Hebrew Numerology. But the heresy of the temple needing to be built is more serious than that because if the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus is not the Messiah.
If the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus is not the Messiah.
The fact that the temple in Ezekiel has not been physically built is the Jews best excuse for not accepting Jesus as the Messiah but as it is the Church it is an excuse that is not legitimate.
The Church is the temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Ephesians 2:19-22
19Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Also, if the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus was not the final sacrifice and the epistles are just waffle. We could keep the gospels for the good rabbinic teaching .
Jesus is the final sacrifice.
Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
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Christian Zionist are also being deceived into believing that the state of Israel is in fulfilment to biblical prophecy. The prophecies they use were fulfilled in the time of Nehemiah.
Also, the promise was to Abraham and his ‘seed’ not ‘seeds’
Galatians 3:15-17
15Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ. 17What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise
The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established.
Galatians 3:28-29
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
If you belong to Christ you are Abraham’s seed. If you do not belong to Christ you are not Abraham’s seed. It doesn’t matter, if you are Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, if you belong to Christ you are Abraham’s seed and if you do not belong to Christ you are not Abraham’s seed.
Abraham’s seed is Christ and those who belong to Christ. They are The people of God, a a royal priesthood and a holy nation.
God’s holy nation is The Church. The one nation under God there is and ever will be is The Christ’s Church.
The Church is Israel. The Church isn’t ‘spiritual’ Israel. The Church is Israel. The church is the people of Israel. . Israel was The Church and The Church is Israel. Israel is Abraham’s seed and Abraham’s seed is Christ and those who belong to him. We have come to Zion.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
The Church is the bride of Christ. Christ is the bishop of our souls. The Bible says that a bishop must be a man of but one wife because Christ is a man of but one wife The Church. The Church is called The Bride of Christ, not A bride but THE bride.
The covenant is with Abraham and Abraham’s seed which is Christ. We belong to Christ because of Covenant.
God is The Faithful Husband.
According to wikipedia
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Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. It overlaps with, but is distinct from, the nineteenth century movement for the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land, which had both religiously and politically motivated supporters. The term Christian Zionism was popularised in the mid-twentieth century. Prior to that time the common term was Restorationism.
Some Christian Zionists believe that the "ingathering" of Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus. This belief is primarily, though not exclusively, associated with Christian Dispensationalism. The idea that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christian, as a means fulfilling a Biblical prophecy has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation.
Many Christian Zionists believe that the people of Israel remain part of the chosen people of God, see also Dual-covenant theology, along with the ingrafted Gentile Christians[Romans 11:17-24 This has the added effect of turning Christian Zionists into supporters of Jewish Zionism
Zionism (Hebrew: , Tsiyonut) is a nationalist Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, calls for the self-determination of the Jewish people and a sovereign, Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to support and advocate on behalf of the Jewish state.
Zionism did not have a uniform ideology, but a plethora of ideologies: General Zionism, National-Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, etc. Shimoni (1995) shows that there existed among the parties a common denominator: the claim to Eretz Israel as the national homeland of the Jews and as the legitimate focus for the national self-determination of the Jews.
Zionism is based on historical ties and religious traditions linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. Almost two millennia after the Jewish diaspora, the modern Zionist movement, beginning in the late 19th century, was mainly founded by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews (German Jews) to antisemitism and the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.
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In reality Zionism is a political ideology that sometimes masquerades as a religious ideology for political gain. In some cases it is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent the scriptures to get Christian support for the political ideology. Orthodox Jews believe that they have no claim to the Eritz until Messiah comes. Until such time The Eritz is The Lords and everything in it (Psalm 24:1) As the Wikipedia article on Zionism says was ‘mainly founded by secular Jews largely as a response …………. to antisemitism’ From this we can deduce that Zionism’s origins are secular and not religious. In fact it was founded as a response to Nazism. Nazism is an evil political ideology based on race and Zionism is an evil political ideology based on race.
The deception towards Christians is that God has kept his covenant with the Jews. God is not a bigamist. Christ has but one Bride and she is The Church.
Hebrews 8:13
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
If the old covenant was soon to disappear in the first century there can’t be much left of it now. The Temple sacrifices disappeared in 70 AD because the system was obsolete. Dispensationalists don’t believe this. They believe that the temple mentioned in the book of Ezekiel needs to be built when the temple in Ezekiel is in fact The Church. They talk about the measurements that can be explained by Hebrew Numerology. But the heresy of the temple needing to be built is more serious than that because if the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus is not the Messiah.
If the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus is not the Messiah.
The fact that the temple in Ezekiel has not been physically built is the Jews best excuse for not accepting Jesus as the Messiah but as it is the Church it is an excuse that is not legitimate.
The Church is the temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Ephesians 2:19-22
19Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Also, if the temple in Ezekiel is not the Church then Jesus was not the final sacrifice and the epistles are just waffle. We could keep the gospels for the good rabbinic teaching .
Jesus is the final sacrifice.
Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
.
Christian Zionist are also being deceived into believing that the state of Israel is in fulfilment to biblical prophecy. The prophecies they use were fulfilled in the time of Nehemiah.
Also, the promise was to Abraham and his ‘seed’ not ‘seeds’
Galatians 3:15-17
15Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ. 17What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise
The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established.
Galatians 3:28-29
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
If you belong to Christ you are Abraham’s seed. If you do not belong to Christ you are not Abraham’s seed. It doesn’t matter, if you are Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, if you belong to Christ you are Abraham’s seed and if you do not belong to Christ you are not Abraham’s seed.
Abraham’s seed is Christ and those who belong to Christ. They are The people of God, a a royal priesthood and a holy nation.
God’s holy nation is The Church. The one nation under God there is and ever will be is The Christ’s Church.
The Church is Israel. The Church isn’t ‘spiritual’ Israel. The Church is Israel. The church is the people of Israel. . Israel was The Church and The Church is Israel. Israel is Abraham’s seed and Abraham’s seed is Christ and those who belong to him. We have come to Zion.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
The Church is the bride of Christ. Christ is the bishop of our souls. The Bible says that a bishop must be a man of but one wife because Christ is a man of but one wife The Church. The Church is called The Bride of Christ, not A bride but THE bride.
The covenant is with Abraham and Abraham’s seed which is Christ. We belong to Christ because of Covenant.
God is The Faithful Husband.
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