"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.”
Monday, 30 August 2010
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
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