THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM HAS BLINDED THE AMERIKAN CHURCH
"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [the visible Amerikan Church] write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see."- Rev. 3:14-18
Having ingested the toxic errors from millions of "Left Behind" books and the works of Hal Lindsey, the Amerikan church has given a blank check to the state of Israel to oppress the Palestinian people. There are few in the Reich churches that know the Palestinian people are comprised of at least 30 percent nominal Christians. But that would not matter because the Jews are "God’s Chosen People"-and so can commit crime after crime against the Palestinians with impunity. (The truth is that Spiritual Israel, the Elect, saved people from all nations and all tribes, are God's chosen people.) As these words are written, the Israeli war crimes continue in the Gaza Strip - a war Israel is waging against a civilian population in clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
Sitting in their easy chairs each evening, Christians who should be grounded in the Word of God are instead poisoned with media lies that obscure the terrorist actions of the state of Israel. Perhaps they have never read:
"Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him."
- Acts 10:34,35
The Jews can no longer be considered "God’s Chosen People" if we are truly understanding the Day of Pentecost and the New Testament.
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
- Galatians 3:26-29
Nowhere in the New Testament are the Jews referred to as "God’s Chosen People." This is brought out in a magnificent study by the Rev. Stephen Sizer:
"Christian Zionism only thrives on a futurist and literal hermeneutic when Old Testament promises made to the ancient Jewish people are transposed on to the contemporary State of Israel. To do so it is necessary to ignore, marginalise or bi-pass the New Testament which reinterprets, annuls and fulfils those promises in and through Jesus Christ and his followers. This is no where more evident than in Galatians 4 where we are taught that we should no longer regard unbelieving Jews as descendants of Sarah and Isaac but of Hagar and Ishmael.
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother... Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. (Galatians 4:21-28)
The promises made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph are therefore now to be understood as fulfilled only through those who follow Jesus Christ, for they alone are designated the true children of Abraham and Sarah. Jews who reject Jesus Christ are outside the covenant of grace and are to be regarded as children of Hagar. Paul takes Sarah's words of Genesis 21:10 and applies them to the Judaizers who were corrupting the faith of the church in Galatia.
Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son. (Galatians 4:30)
This paper has attempted to show why this injunction should be applied today toward those who demonstrate the same legalizing tendencies within Christian Zionism. This is no excuse for arrogance or anti-Semitisim which we all abhor. With sensitivity and compassion we are mandated to share our faith in Jesus praying that our Jewish friends find their Messiah and complete their faith. However, any suggestion that the Jewish people continue to have a special status before God, a separate and continuing covenant or exclusive rights to the lands of the Middle East is, in the words of John Stott, 'biblical anathema.'119 Stott gives three reasons why Christian Zionism should be regarded as beyond the boundaries of evangelicalism
The Old Testament promises about the Jews' return to the land are comforted by promises of the Jews' return to the Lord. It is hard to see how that secular, unbelieving State of Israel can possibly be a fulfillment of those prophecies.
The Old Testament promises about the land are nowhere repeated in the New Testament. The prophecy of Romans 11 is a prophecy that many Jews will turn to Christ, but the land is not mentioned nor is Israel mentioned as a political entity...
The Old Testament promises according to the apostles are fulfilled in Christ and the international community of Christ. The New Testament authors apply the promise of Abraham's seed to Jesus Christ. And they apply to Jesus Christ the promise of the land and all the land which is inherited, the land flowing with milk and honey, because it is in him that our hunger is satisfied and out thirst quenched. A return to Jewish nationalism would seem incompatible with this New Testament perspective of the international community of Jesus." - Rev. Stephen Sizer
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No longer should Amerikan Christians remain blind, deaf, and dumb regarding the suffering of the Palestinian people. Amerikan Christians should ask themselves who are the real terrorists-those who use F-16’s, Apache helicopters, tanks and a highly equipped army against a civilian population-or those who seek freedom from a cruel occupier? I ask any Christian reading this to open his heart and re-examine this subject-purging himself of any subconscious racism toward the Arab people beforehand.
The following are thoughts that have been floating in my head lately... thought I would share them with you.
My name has been smeared. The name of my people has been smeared. My religion has been identified as a Satanic cult.
WHY????
What have we, as a people done to you? Why are millions of us being collectively punished for crimes we did not commit? Does anyone have an answer to these questions?
Have any one of you gone out of your way to know us, to befriend us? Do any of you even know my name? Does God??
We are no different than anyone else... we are human beings with human needs and human feelings. Why do you deny that to us?
WHY?? Do you even know my name? Does God??
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