Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Christian Life Versus The Crucified Life
By David J. Stewart
Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
I was listening to one of Pastor Jack Hyles awesome MP3 sermons today titled, Steps To Sanctification OR The Root Of All Heresy. Dr. Hyles provides so much vital information in this sermon concerning Biblical salvation, and refutes numerous heresies circulating in churches these days concerning salvation, that I decided to share some of it with you in an article. This is great stuff! Dr. Hyles' helpful sermon can be outlined as follows:
We are saved by grace through faith plus or minus NOTHING! Jesus paid our sin debt! We are saved by believing the gospel that Christ DIED on the cross, was BURIED and RESURRECTED from the dead. Christ is risen! This is the saved life! We are saved by faith alone in Christ.
But once you're saved, God has more for you than just going to Heaven. God wants us to live the crucified life, that is, we become dead to our self. It is heresy if you mix up the saved life with the crucified life. It is heresy to say, “Well, if you got what I got brother you wouldn't be watching those dirty movies, playing that Rock music, smoking, drinking and living in sin.” That's not true. There is such a thing as “babes in Christ” (1st Corinthians 3:1). 1st Peter 2:2 speaks of growing in grace in the milk of the Word. It is just as unreasonable to expect a new convert to live a righteous life as it would be to expect a newborn baby to run a marathon. The saved life and the crucified life are not the same. They are completely separate from each other.
What happens is that some people get so sick of shallow Christians who are “SO SAVED AS BY FIRE,” that they change the plan of salvation to require a person to cease from sins to be saved. That's a false plan of salvation!
And on the other extreme you've got corrupt preachers who abandon sin altogether. They say to invite Jesus into your heart and life to be saved, but they fail to mention sin. You're not saved by asking Jesus to come into your heart. You've got to address the matter of your sinnership. God saves THE UNGODLY (Romans 4:5). God doesn't save the self-righteous who errantly think they can earn eternal life. No one has ever got saved who didn't realize that he was a sinner. You've got to know what you're saved from.
It is heresy for anyone to say, “If you're smoking, drinking and living in adultery, you didn't get what I got when I was saved.” That's heresy! Being saved has nothing to do with being crucified! Christ lived, died, arose and ascended. I can imagine Christian ears listening to Rock music, but I can't imagine crucified ears listening to Rock music. I can imagine a Christian tongue being guilty of gossip, but I can't imagine a crucified tongue being guilty of gossip. I can imagine a Christian man committing horrible sins, but I cannot imagine a crucified man committing horrible sins. God wants us as born-again Christians to DIE TO SELF. I am crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20).
If you've died to self, then live the resurrected life and LIVE FOR OTHERS. If you're saved, dead to self and living for others, then there's still one more thing that you must do to please God... WALK WITH JESUS! That's the ascended life!!!
Are you saved? Are you crucified? Are you resurrected? Are you ascended?
Getting saved will get you to Heaven, but God had more in mind... DIE TO SELF!!! But just crucifying the old man isn't enough to please God. We must raise up to live the resurrected life for OTHERS! But that's not enough to please God. We must also ascend as Christ ascended into Heaven. That is, we must WALK with Jesus. Colossians 3:1 speaks of the ascended life. Colossians 3:1, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Here is the helpful outline once again...
When preachers focus on only one of the four areas, they get into doctrinal trouble. If a preacher mixes the crucified life with the saved life for salvation, he has corrupted the gospel. Yet, if all a preacher preaches is trusting Christ to be saved, then he is not faithfully teaching the Bible. A believer should also crucify them self to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful world. But there's more, a believer should also raise up with Christ to live for OTHERS. This is the resurrected life. And then we should all ascend with Christ into Heaven to walk with Jesus on a daily basis. The Bible commands us in Colossians 3:1 to set our affections ON THINGS ABOVE.
This is such a beautiful, practical and eye-opening Biblical truth. Many people are living the crucified life, but they are not living for others in the Lord. Still yet, there are many people who are living for others, but they are not living the saved life, never having been born-again. Too many preachers are guilty of specializing in one area and leaving off the others. Christ didn't just die, but also, he was buried and then raised up and He ascended into Heaven.
Beware of any minister who perverts the plan of salvation by requiring people to live the crucified life to be saved. Christ died for all our sins. Jesus died, was buried and raised up from the dead. That is the gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. Christ is risen!!! We simply trust Christ to be saved. I hear so many radio and TV preachers teaching a false plan of salvation. They say to invite Jesus into your life, or to ask Jesus into your heart; but there is no mention of sin or of Christ's resurrection from the dead. Others say to pray a prayer to be saved, but there is no mention of the gospel (good news) of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. You'd be surprised how many religious people don't believe that Christ is God, or that He raised up from the dead, or that He was born of a virgin. Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 6:23). Salvation is received, not achieved.
The following outline is important and helpful, because it distinguishes the difference between the saved life verses the crucified life and the resurrected life and the ascended life. There are many people who are saved, but they are not living the crucified life. They are saved, but they are still abiding in sin. Many errant ministers would claim that such people never got saved, but the Bible is very clear that God imputeth righteousness by faith to a man without works (Romans 4:5-6).
You cannot determine if a person is saved by the way they live, just as you cannot determine how much gas is in a car's fuel tank by the sound of the horn. Even the best of genuine Christians still commit sin. For anyone to teach that a person who wilfully sins is not saved is false doctrine, hypocrisy and sin. Only the Lord Jesus is without sin (Hebrews 4:15; 2nd Corinthians 5:21). To say that a professed Christian who lives in sin is not saved is highly subjective, because who am I, or you, to decide how much sin a person can commit before we label them as unsaved? Everyone commits sin, every day! That doesn't mean that we have God's permission. God forbid. No one has God's permission to sin. Romans 3:31, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
I once knew a rebellious woman who made some feminist friends at a church (God hates feminism). She filed for divorce. She and her hypocritical friends decided that the husband wasn't saved and they were praying for his salvation. By the end of the divorce the prayer request had changed from unsaved to backslidden. Who are they to play God and decide who is or isn't saved? They should have renamed their Wednesday night prayer meeting to a “hate meeting.” Sadly, this sinful scenario is commonplace in tens-of-thousands of churches all across America. As Christians we all need to leave the plan of salvation alone, and stop labeling people as being saved or unsaved based on how they live, how we feel about them or the sins they commit. Anyone who receives the gospel of Christ's death, burial and resurrection as full-payment for their sins is saved. Whether or not that individual has moved on to the crucified life, resurrected life and ascended life is irrelevant to their being saved.
There are many people who live disciplined lives, abstaining from worldly pleasures and amusements; yet, they do not have the saved life. They are still hellbound in their sin of unbelief without Christ. There are others who support charity, donating their time and money to help the needy; but they've never been saved. There are Christians who have died to self, but they are not living the resurrected life and don't live to help OTHERS. And then there are Christians who help others, but they don't walk with the Lord Jesus in sweet fellowship in the ascended life. Their affections are here on earth instead of up in Heaven.
So many Independent Baptist churches are doctrinally messed-up today because they get infatuated with one of these four areas and neglect the others, or have so much disdain for one of these areas that they corrupt the other.
For example: some churches reject the crucified life and therefore have low moral church standards. The women wear pants. Rock music is in the church. The church is worldly. They ought to be living the crucified life. So they get caught up into a false plan of salvation that just says to “trust Jesus” or “invite Jesus into your heart” to be saved. These are not the gospel and cannot produce the new birth. The sin question must be addressed! No one ever got saved who didn't know that he is a sinner.
Then on the other extreme you've got preachers who are so disgusted with this barely inside-the-gate, saved-as-by-grace type of shallow Christianity that they corrupt the gospel and add turning from sinful living as a requirement to be saved. BOTH of these groups are wrong! You don't have to stop committing sins to be saved, but you ought to crucify your flesh as a new believer, by yielding to the Holy Spirit that now indwells you and allow Him to live the Christian life through you. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” You cannot crucify yourself. If you were to nail one hand to the cross, then you couldn't use that hand to nail the other hand to the cross. Only God can crucify you. Don't forget that!
Heresy is creeping into our Independent Baptist Fundamental churches by the hour. Many churches become infatuated with one of these steps. Some Christians get to the point of living for others, having risen with the Lord; but then they forget about the second step of being crucified with Christ. And so they cannot properly continue to live for others because they're now living in sin. Other believers get caught-up with walking with Jesus, enjoying fellowshipping with God so much that they forget about living for others, and so their walk with God is hindered. If a preacher gets so wrapped-up in the top step of walking with Jesus, that he forgets the simplicity of preaching the gospel and is now way above everybody. They've been so caught-up with some theological professor in a university who teaches great doctrine, that they've forgotten about getting people saved. They have left the simplicity of the gospel. This is how people get into the deeper-life, which is not deeper, it is a shallow life. This is what happens.
Some preachers become so enchanted with death in Christ (the crucified life) that they say, “If a person is not dead in Christ he is not saved.” That is heresy! Yet other preachers are so disenchanted with death in Christ (the crucified life) that they leave out sin altogether in the plan of salvation. This also is heresy. No one can be saved who doesn't realize that he or she is a sinner in God's eyes.
Please notice that in the following precious passage of Scripture that we see the saved, crucified, resurrected and ascended life of the believer...
I believe it is abundantly clear that we are now living in the end-times. The homosexualization of the world is strong evidence of the end-times. Shameful lesbian and sodomite same-sex marriages are now legal in New Zealand. The widespread perverting of the Bible with umpteen new versions is evidence of the end-times. The saber-rattling of the nations, and the Middle-East build-up is evidence of the end-times. The Lord foretold that sexual immorality would once again become epidemic in the end times, as it was in the days of Noah. Luke 17:27, “...They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day...”
Luke 17:26-27, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.”
http://www.jesusisprecious.org/articles/christian_verses_crucified.htm
Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
I was listening to one of Pastor Jack Hyles awesome MP3 sermons today titled, Steps To Sanctification OR The Root Of All Heresy. Dr. Hyles provides so much vital information in this sermon concerning Biblical salvation, and refutes numerous heresies circulating in churches these days concerning salvation, that I decided to share some of it with you in an article. This is great stuff! Dr. Hyles' helpful sermon can be outlined as follows:
- When I got saved I TRUSTED Jesus.
- When I was crucified I DIED with Jesus.
- When I was raised I LIVED for Jesus.
- When I was ascended I WALKED with Jesus.
We are saved by grace through faith plus or minus NOTHING! Jesus paid our sin debt! We are saved by believing the gospel that Christ DIED on the cross, was BURIED and RESURRECTED from the dead. Christ is risen! This is the saved life! We are saved by faith alone in Christ.
But once you're saved, God has more for you than just going to Heaven. God wants us to live the crucified life, that is, we become dead to our self. It is heresy if you mix up the saved life with the crucified life. It is heresy to say, “Well, if you got what I got brother you wouldn't be watching those dirty movies, playing that Rock music, smoking, drinking and living in sin.” That's not true. There is such a thing as “babes in Christ” (1st Corinthians 3:1). 1st Peter 2:2 speaks of growing in grace in the milk of the Word. It is just as unreasonable to expect a new convert to live a righteous life as it would be to expect a newborn baby to run a marathon. The saved life and the crucified life are not the same. They are completely separate from each other.
What happens is that some people get so sick of shallow Christians who are “SO SAVED AS BY FIRE,” that they change the plan of salvation to require a person to cease from sins to be saved. That's a false plan of salvation!
And on the other extreme you've got corrupt preachers who abandon sin altogether. They say to invite Jesus into your heart and life to be saved, but they fail to mention sin. You're not saved by asking Jesus to come into your heart. You've got to address the matter of your sinnership. God saves THE UNGODLY (Romans 4:5). God doesn't save the self-righteous who errantly think they can earn eternal life. No one has ever got saved who didn't realize that he was a sinner. You've got to know what you're saved from.
It is heresy for anyone to say, “If you're smoking, drinking and living in adultery, you didn't get what I got when I was saved.” That's heresy! Being saved has nothing to do with being crucified! Christ lived, died, arose and ascended. I can imagine Christian ears listening to Rock music, but I can't imagine crucified ears listening to Rock music. I can imagine a Christian tongue being guilty of gossip, but I can't imagine a crucified tongue being guilty of gossip. I can imagine a Christian man committing horrible sins, but I cannot imagine a crucified man committing horrible sins. God wants us as born-again Christians to DIE TO SELF. I am crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20).
If you've died to self, then live the resurrected life and LIVE FOR OTHERS. If you're saved, dead to self and living for others, then there's still one more thing that you must do to please God... WALK WITH JESUS! That's the ascended life!!!
Are you saved? Are you crucified? Are you resurrected? Are you ascended?
Getting saved will get you to Heaven, but God had more in mind... DIE TO SELF!!! But just crucifying the old man isn't enough to please God. We must raise up to live the resurrected life for OTHERS! But that's not enough to please God. We must also ascend as Christ ascended into Heaven. That is, we must WALK with Jesus. Colossians 3:1 speaks of the ascended life. Colossians 3:1, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Here is the helpful outline once again...
- When I got saved I TRUSTED Jesus.
- When I was crucified I DIED with Jesus.
- When I was raised I LIVED for Jesus.
- When I was ascended I WALKED with Jesus.
When preachers focus on only one of the four areas, they get into doctrinal trouble. If a preacher mixes the crucified life with the saved life for salvation, he has corrupted the gospel. Yet, if all a preacher preaches is trusting Christ to be saved, then he is not faithfully teaching the Bible. A believer should also crucify them self to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful world. But there's more, a believer should also raise up with Christ to live for OTHERS. This is the resurrected life. And then we should all ascend with Christ into Heaven to walk with Jesus on a daily basis. The Bible commands us in Colossians 3:1 to set our affections ON THINGS ABOVE.
This is such a beautiful, practical and eye-opening Biblical truth. Many people are living the crucified life, but they are not living for others in the Lord. Still yet, there are many people who are living for others, but they are not living the saved life, never having been born-again. Too many preachers are guilty of specializing in one area and leaving off the others. Christ didn't just die, but also, he was buried and then raised up and He ascended into Heaven.
Beware of any minister who perverts the plan of salvation by requiring people to live the crucified life to be saved. Christ died for all our sins. Jesus died, was buried and raised up from the dead. That is the gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. Christ is risen!!! We simply trust Christ to be saved. I hear so many radio and TV preachers teaching a false plan of salvation. They say to invite Jesus into your life, or to ask Jesus into your heart; but there is no mention of sin or of Christ's resurrection from the dead. Others say to pray a prayer to be saved, but there is no mention of the gospel (good news) of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. You'd be surprised how many religious people don't believe that Christ is God, or that He raised up from the dead, or that He was born of a virgin. Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 6:23). Salvation is received, not achieved.
The following outline is important and helpful, because it distinguishes the difference between the saved life verses the crucified life and the resurrected life and the ascended life. There are many people who are saved, but they are not living the crucified life. They are saved, but they are still abiding in sin. Many errant ministers would claim that such people never got saved, but the Bible is very clear that God imputeth righteousness by faith to a man without works (Romans 4:5-6).
- When I got saved I TRUSTED Jesus.
- When I was crucified I DIED with Jesus.
- When I was raised I LIVED for Jesus.
- When I was ascended I WALKED with Jesus.
1st John 3:8-10, “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”
Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.”Now we read in 1st John 3:8-10 that whoever lives a lifestyle of sin is of the Devil; yet Romans 4:5-6 teaches that God saves a man without works merely by his faith. So if you can be saved simply by faith without works, then why does the Bible say that a man living in sinful works is of the Devil? The answer is simple, Romans 4:5 speaks of the saved life, but 1st John 3:8-10 speaks of the crucified life. When king David commit adultery and murder, he was of the Devil. When Peter tried to stop Jesus from going to the cross, the Lord said, “Get thee behind me Satan” (Matthew 16:23)! Peter wasn't the Devil, but he was thinking and talking like the Devil. When a believer continues in sin, they are living like the Devil. They haven't died to self yet. They may have the saved life, but they don't have the crucified life.
You cannot determine if a person is saved by the way they live, just as you cannot determine how much gas is in a car's fuel tank by the sound of the horn. Even the best of genuine Christians still commit sin. For anyone to teach that a person who wilfully sins is not saved is false doctrine, hypocrisy and sin. Only the Lord Jesus is without sin (Hebrews 4:15; 2nd Corinthians 5:21). To say that a professed Christian who lives in sin is not saved is highly subjective, because who am I, or you, to decide how much sin a person can commit before we label them as unsaved? Everyone commits sin, every day! That doesn't mean that we have God's permission. God forbid. No one has God's permission to sin. Romans 3:31, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
I once knew a rebellious woman who made some feminist friends at a church (God hates feminism). She filed for divorce. She and her hypocritical friends decided that the husband wasn't saved and they were praying for his salvation. By the end of the divorce the prayer request had changed from unsaved to backslidden. Who are they to play God and decide who is or isn't saved? They should have renamed their Wednesday night prayer meeting to a “hate meeting.” Sadly, this sinful scenario is commonplace in tens-of-thousands of churches all across America. As Christians we all need to leave the plan of salvation alone, and stop labeling people as being saved or unsaved based on how they live, how we feel about them or the sins they commit. Anyone who receives the gospel of Christ's death, burial and resurrection as full-payment for their sins is saved. Whether or not that individual has moved on to the crucified life, resurrected life and ascended life is irrelevant to their being saved.
There are many people who live disciplined lives, abstaining from worldly pleasures and amusements; yet, they do not have the saved life. They are still hellbound in their sin of unbelief without Christ. There are others who support charity, donating their time and money to help the needy; but they've never been saved. There are Christians who have died to self, but they are not living the resurrected life and don't live to help OTHERS. And then there are Christians who help others, but they don't walk with the Lord Jesus in sweet fellowship in the ascended life. Their affections are here on earth instead of up in Heaven.
So many Independent Baptist churches are doctrinally messed-up today because they get infatuated with one of these four areas and neglect the others, or have so much disdain for one of these areas that they corrupt the other.
For example: some churches reject the crucified life and therefore have low moral church standards. The women wear pants. Rock music is in the church. The church is worldly. They ought to be living the crucified life. So they get caught up into a false plan of salvation that just says to “trust Jesus” or “invite Jesus into your heart” to be saved. These are not the gospel and cannot produce the new birth. The sin question must be addressed! No one ever got saved who didn't know that he is a sinner.
Then on the other extreme you've got preachers who are so disgusted with this barely inside-the-gate, saved-as-by-grace type of shallow Christianity that they corrupt the gospel and add turning from sinful living as a requirement to be saved. BOTH of these groups are wrong! You don't have to stop committing sins to be saved, but you ought to crucify your flesh as a new believer, by yielding to the Holy Spirit that now indwells you and allow Him to live the Christian life through you. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” You cannot crucify yourself. If you were to nail one hand to the cross, then you couldn't use that hand to nail the other hand to the cross. Only God can crucify you. Don't forget that!
Heresy is creeping into our Independent Baptist Fundamental churches by the hour. Many churches become infatuated with one of these steps. Some Christians get to the point of living for others, having risen with the Lord; but then they forget about the second step of being crucified with Christ. And so they cannot properly continue to live for others because they're now living in sin. Other believers get caught-up with walking with Jesus, enjoying fellowshipping with God so much that they forget about living for others, and so their walk with God is hindered. If a preacher gets so wrapped-up in the top step of walking with Jesus, that he forgets the simplicity of preaching the gospel and is now way above everybody. They've been so caught-up with some theological professor in a university who teaches great doctrine, that they've forgotten about getting people saved. They have left the simplicity of the gospel. This is how people get into the deeper-life, which is not deeper, it is a shallow life. This is what happens.
Some preachers become so enchanted with death in Christ (the crucified life) that they say, “If a person is not dead in Christ he is not saved.” That is heresy! Yet other preachers are so disenchanted with death in Christ (the crucified life) that they leave out sin altogether in the plan of salvation. This also is heresy. No one can be saved who doesn't realize that he or she is a sinner in God's eyes.
Please notice that in the following precious passage of Scripture that we see the saved, crucified, resurrected and ascended life of the believer...
Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”
Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”As It Was In The Days Of Noah
I believe it is abundantly clear that we are now living in the end-times. The homosexualization of the world is strong evidence of the end-times. Shameful lesbian and sodomite same-sex marriages are now legal in New Zealand. The widespread perverting of the Bible with umpteen new versions is evidence of the end-times. The saber-rattling of the nations, and the Middle-East build-up is evidence of the end-times. The Lord foretold that sexual immorality would once again become epidemic in the end times, as it was in the days of Noah. Luke 17:27, “...They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day...”
Luke 17:26-27, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.”
http://www.jesusisprecious.org/articles/christian_verses_crucified.htm
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Satan's Counterfeit Israel, Antichrist and World Rule
By David J. Stewart
Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
The ACCURATE way to look at Israel, the Antichrist and world government is to see Present-Day Israel, the Antichrist and the Antichrist's rule over the world as Satan's counterfeit of true Israel, Jesus Christ and Christ's Millennial Kingdom.
According to Revelation 17:18 (our text verse), Jerusalem is that great city, The Great Whore, which reigneth over the kings of the earth! Or more specifically, the Illuminati (hierarchy of the power of darkness) who control Israel and the United States reign over the kings of the earth. Of course, Lucifer (Satan) is at the top of the hierarchy of power. Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
The Devil imitates everything that God does, trying to deceive mankind. A classic example is the Antichrist, who will come in an attempt to trick the world into receiving him as the true Messiah.
Most Bible students have concluded that the Catholic church is The Great Whore, but Mystery Babylon includes all of today's false religions that are a part of the New World Order. The occult All Seeing Eye, Obelisk (such as the Washington Monument) and The Great Pyramid are all a part of the Ancient Mystery Religion of Egypt, and continued from Babylon until present-day, which has been at work by Satan in the world since the tower and city of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9, and since the serpent offered Eve knowledge of good and evil in exchange for eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:5-7). To the point, the Ancient Mystery Religion, which is the core of New Age and Theosophy, is Lucifer worship!
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (thus disobeying God), they became “as gods” in Genesis 3:22 (hence the “322” used by the Skull & Bones secret society). Lucifer offers men “godhood” by ascending through multiple levels of occult enlightenment (e.g., Kaballah has 125 levels, Freemasonry has 33 levels, et cetera). In the occult (which means hidden) there is always something you don't know, which is intended to keep men “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2nd Timothy 3:7). Kaballah is a substitute for the Gospel. Freemasonry is a substitute for the church.
Whereas it is the New Testament Church which is God's vehicle for evangelizing the world; Freemasonry is Satan's vehicle to bring to fruition a New World Order and prepare the masses to embrace the coming man of sin, the Antichrist (the Beast). In order to prepare people to receive the “MAN OF SIN” (2nd Thessalonians 2:3), social groups must be desensitized to the awfulness of sin; hence, the reason for the moral meltdown of America, Europe and the world. Satan is the Boss of Hollywood, the cesspool of iniquity of the world!
Whereas the Bible prophesies that Jesus Christ Himself will return one day to sit upon the literal throne of David and reign over the earth triumphant from Jerusalem; the Antichrist is Satan's gimmick (substitute) for Christ, professing himself that he is the Messiah, God (2nd Thessalonians 2:4). Since the Antichrist is a counterfeit, naturally he is going to need a counterfeit Israel. And if Satan needs a false Israel for his false Messiah, then he also needs false Jews. Jesus warned in Revelation 2:9 about false Jews of the synagogue of Satan who claim to be true Jews. For nearly everything in God's prophetic plan, the Devil has a counterfeit to deceive the human race. We even see the trio of the False Prophet, the Beast and the Dragon—imitating God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And yes, Satan has many counterfeit Bibles too (like the perverted New International Version [NIV]), imitating the genuine King James Bible. It is very sad, even depressing, when I stop to realize that so many Independent Baptist churches these days are supporting a counterfeit Israel, reading from a counterfeit Bible, and in many cases even teaching a counterfeit plan of salvation based on a counterfeit understanding of repentance (aka, Lordship Salvation). Satan is a master counterfeiter!
If you understand that the coming Antichrist is Satan's imitation of Christ, then it should also become obvious to you that Satan has a false Israel too. Whereas Biblical Christians are looking for the return of Jesus Christ to establish His earthly kingdom; heathen Zionists are looking for their false Messiah, the Antichrist, to reign over the world. The New World Order will be the Antichrist's counterfeit of Christ's true coming kingdom during the 1,000 year millennium. The Antichrist will claim to be the Messiah, even proclaiming to be God from the temple in Jerusalem, but he will be an imposter. The unsaved world will eagerly follow the Antichrist when he comes, but many will refuse. At the halfway point through the Tribulation, the Beast (Antichrist) will demand worship of his image from everyone on earth or they will be executed! This event is called The Abomination Of Desolation!
So we see that there will be a false Christ (Messiah) and a false Israel. The true Israel will be regathered to the Promised Land only when Jesus returns to set up His kingdom, and not before. The attempt to restore Israel since 1948 is a Zionist movement by Marxist/Communist false Jews who are led by the international banking cabal. The Illuminati by war and bloodshed put Israel back onto the map in 1948 as a vehicle by which to control the kings of the world. How does Israel rule over the kings of the earth? It's the international banking cabal. Their official headquarters is The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR created the United Nations (UN)! Starting to get the picture?
Is it so hard to believe that present-day Israel is a satanic decoy for true Israel? True Israel will accept her true Messiah, Jesus. Present-day Judaism which controls Israel rejects Jesus as the Messiah. They are wholeheartedly looking for the false Messiah of the Antichrist, which is why he will stand in the Jewish temple one day and claim to be God (Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:14; 2nd Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:15).
The nation of Israel was put back on the map in 1948 by the Rothschild's led banking cabal. William Guy Carr in his timeless book, PAWNS IN THE GAME, documents the history of the international banking cartel and how they've started and financed BOTH sides of every major war in America since the Revolutionary War of 1776. Truth is stranger than fiction!
Also, read THE NEW WORLD ORDER by S.Z. Batten written in 1919. Batten appeals to the church to wake up to the reality that the New World Order will use war to accomplish their goals. The book was written after World War I, but before World War II. Batten states on page 148, “Christianity has suffered much from the wrong thinking of bad men, but even more from the small thinking of good men.” What a true statement!
If you don't get anything else from this article, recognize that the nation of Israel today is a counterfeit. God has not gathered His people yet. Present-day Israel is controlled by Marxists and Communists, haters of Christ and the Bible. The Bible teaches that 144,000 Jews of the tribes of Israel (Revelation 7:4) will be saved at the beginning of the 7- year Tribulation. During the Tribulation God restores His covenant with Old Testament Israel. The Times Of The Gentiles will end at the Rapture. Then Israel will become the main focus once again.
Present-Day Israel Is Not The Fulfillment Of Bible Prophecy
Here is an accurate, Biblical and excellent statement from Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) concerning why present-day Israel is NOT the fulfillment of Bible prophecy . . .
In his “THRU-THE-BIBLE” commentary for Hosea 3:5, Dr. McGee stresses the truth that there are more Arab Christians in Israel today than there are Jewish Christians. Upon a return trip to visit Israel, Pastor McGee makes the startling comment, “Over there there's no turning to God, at all!” While visiting he saw a big motto in Israel which read: “SCIENCE WILL BRING PEACE TO THIS LAND.” Israel is a Godless nation today! Dr. McGee cites a credible source as saying that there are less than 300 Israelites that are real believers in Israel today! The Russian Catholic Church owns much land in Israel today, as do Greek Orthodox and Muslims. Hosea 3:5 evidences the fact that Israel's present return to the land is not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy today.
Albeit, God's people (the elect, born again believers) will be gathered when the Lord returns (Jews and Gentiles included, Galatians 3:29). Again, only born-again Christians will be gathered to the Promised Land (Galatians 3:26-29). Kindly, no Christ-rejecting Jew will ever escape the fires of Hell, and no Christ-receiving Gentile will ever be denied residence in the New Jerusalem. Israel has not been restored yet. Hosea tells us that in the End Times that Israel will SEEK AND FEAR THE LORD (this hasn't happened yet). . .
1. Present-day fake Israel, started and controlled by the Illuminati (Marxists and Communists).
2. The Jews have been scattered across the world in exile (Luke 21:24), and won't be regathered until Christ returns at the Second Coming. There is nothing in the Holy Bible about regathering unsaved, Christ-rejecting, Jews to Israel. Zionism is just as sinful as when Abraham and Sarah conspired to impregnate Hagar and give birth to Ishmael, trying to force the hand of God to bless him.
Whether a Communist like Barack Obama or a Baptist like Mike Huckabee, they're all 100% pro-Zionist! They're groomed, financed and controlled by the Zionists. Please understand that being Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism. Zionism is a global conspiracy to achieve World Government, masterminded by the international banking cartel and orchestrated by Freemasons. Why do you think the Illuminati went to war and overthrew Iraq and Afghanistan? Syria, Jordan and Iran are next. Isis is a fabricated boogieman, just like Alqaeda (Al-CIA-da) was. You cannot trust anything reported by the Zionist-controlled mainstream newsmedia. Recent news reports have been demonizing alleged Isis cells in Syria for attacking Jordan. The Illuminati want to overthrow Syria, just like Iraq and Afghanistan! Those countries are now called “Democratic.” What a joke! The Illuminati pick the candidates and allow the people to vote, to maintain the ILLUSION of freedom. Those countries are controlled now by the Illuminati, just like all of America!
Freemasons worship The Great Architect of the New World Order, Lucifer (Satan). America has been deliberately subverted. Everything from public schools to the central bank are a total fulfillment of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (blueprint)? Who do you think put Mr. Obama in office?
3. Those woefully ignorant Christians who support present-day Israel are supporting the Illuminati and the New World Order. Literally, believers and Baptist churches who support preset-day Israel are helping to prepare the stage for the coming false messiah, the man of sin, the Beast, the ANTI-CHRIST!!! If you support Israel, then you are supporting the Rothschild's led banking cabal who own and control the State of Israel.
It's high-time for professed believers to stop attributing men's crimes to our holy God. Our nation beared false witness against Iraq, falsely (now openly admitted by Rachel Maddow from MSNBC and others in the mainstream news media) accusing them of having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's). We coveted Iraq's trillions-of-dollars in natural resource, oil. We stole what belonged to our neighbours in Iraq. The Illuminati did all these horrific evils through OUR White House, in OUR name, with OUR money, with OUR youth in the military, so it is OUR business!!! We murdered 1,455,590 innocent Iraqi's, to allegedly get one dictator, Saddam Hussein. Americans broke most of the Ten Commandments by attacking Iraq!!! And yet naive and foolish churches support these evils!
So what ought the Christian's proper attitude be toward Israel today? Good question. We ought to view them as sinners in need of the Gospel, loving Jews and Gentiles unconditionally with God's love. They may not listen, but our job is to preach the Gospel and pray for their salvation, nothing more. Who knows if that seed that you plant may one day lead to a new birth? Only God can save a soul (1st Corinthians 3:8). We ought not support Godless Israel today, anymore than we would support Godless Communism. Christians need to forget about Israel, and the sin of treating Jews as being more special than Gentiles; and instead we need to focus on getting as many people saved as possible by obeying The Great Commission to GO, PREACH THE GOSPEL, WATER BAPTIZE THEM AS A PUBLIC PROFESSION OF THEIR FAITH, and INDOCTRINATE THEM WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE WORD OF GOD (Matthew 28:19- 20). Supporting Christless Israel is wicked apostasy in the churches. The truth is the greatest threat to the Devil's New World Order!
The Massive Fraud Of Present-Day Israel and Zionism
I wrote this article to teach the reader that present-day Israel is of the Devil. That will probably offend you greatly if you've been indoctrinated with Zionism by the John Hagee, James Modlish, Pat Robertson crowd (and thousands more). Even most Baptist churches have fallen for the big lie that believers are Biblically commanded to support the presentday State of Israel at all cost.
The true nation of Israel will be restored when the Lord returns, when there is a great earthquake. Jesus will not stand on the earth when He comes in the Rapture, but He WILL stand on the earth when He comes in the second phase of His return (that is, the Second Coming 7-years after the Rapture). Zechariah 14:4 definitely describes the Lord Jesus standing on the Mount of Olives.
1. Blessing Israel has NOT helped the United States. First, America supports Israel more than any nation, giving several billions of dollars a year in foreign aid to Israel; yet our nation's economy is in the toilet and not coming back. Anyone who says that the economy is recovering and things will improve is a BOLD FACED LIAR!!! The government tampers with the numbers in their reports to deceive the public. Things are much worse than they seem. I thought blessing Israel was supposed to bring blessing upon America? Jack Chick attributed the increase in tornado activity in 2012 to the U.S. not helping Israel enough. Oh boy, shut up! America is Israel's number one ally!!!
So why is our nation falling apart? I'll tell you why, because God is not blessing America for helping the present day Communist State of Israel. In fact, it is the same sinister international banking cabal who control Israel today who are fornicating with the kings of the earth, exploiting the U.S. to do their dirty work. OUR children fight their wars. OUR homes have been foreclosed by their banks. OUR White House has been hi-jacked by the banksters. OUR money is totally controlled by them. President Obama has already hired 38 former Goldman Sachs employees right off Wall Street to work in the U.S. government. Wall Street is Washington and Washington is Wall Street!
Freemasonry ties into all this too, which is a Jewish religion rooted in Kabbalah, but that's a separate study. Secret societies are the common denominator in all of this. Only works of darkness must be kept secret, because in the presence of the light darkness loses its power!
2. Present-day Israel is a wicked, Marxist, Communist nation. Less than 2.5% of the population of Israel profess to be Christian. Attempting to convert a Jew to Christianity is punishable by up to 5-years in prison in Israel. Jewish rabbis and devout Judaizers in Israel literally spit on tourists. Of the 198,000 remaining Holocaust survivors living in Israel today, many are struggling in hunger and lack of provisions in one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Israel's citizens are struggling economically, listed 34th amongst the list of developed nations.
3. Israel is now the gay tourist destination of the world. The heresy that Israel is still God's chosen, special and holy nation while living in gross immorality, rebellion and homosexuality is satanic doctrine. Tel Aviv is the homosexual tourist destination of the world today! No wonder the Bible calls Jerusalem “Sodom and Egypt,” two of the most worldly places in the Bible. Revelation 11:8, “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Gay Israel anybody? ...
Consider The Jewish Nation Fund who took in $68,266,837 in 2012. They paid their CEO $344,783! The charity claims to help community development, like planting 240,000,000 tress in Israel. How about feeding Holocaust survivors with more than bread and water? Or how about The Jewish Social Service Agency who took in $16,834,515 in 2012. They paid their CEO a whopping $321,275! They claim to help 35,000 people a year emotionally and physically in various ways. Why are the Jewish poor still so poor in Israel? These CEO's are filthy rich! American World Jewish Service took in $49,000,000 in 2012. The International Fellowship Of Christians And Jews took in $106,697,118 in 2012. They paid their CEO $491,161 in 2012. All I'm asking is why so many Jews are hurting in Israel?
It's hard to imagine that 198,000 holocaust survivors are still surviving in poverty in Israel today...
As you just read, anyone who follows Jesus Christ is not considered a Jew. So the ONLY Jews recognized by the counterfeit State of Israel today are unsaved, non-Christian, Jews! It should make sense to you by now that a counterfeit Israel only wants counterfeit Jews. That's what the present-day State of Israel is... COUNTERFEIT!!!
Don't believe the giant lie that Christ-rejecting Jews are God's chosen people. They are not! Biblically, God's promise to bless Israel is CONDITIONAL. Exodus 19:5, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.” IF YE WILL OBEY! IF YE WILL OBEY! IF YE WILL OBEY! Don't miss that! People read over that and ignore this Scripture. IF YE WILL OBEY! The Jews not only disobeyed God, but murdered their Messiah.
Yes, Israel is God's nation, but that nation has been scattered through the world according to Luke 21:24. The present-day State of Israel is counterfeit. I've shown you that Israel today hates the Lord. Less than 2.5% of its people claim to be a Christians (that includes all the cults). I dare say one person living in 1,000 are truly born-again in Israel today, just like Japan. What is there to support in Israel today? Nearly all are not Christians! Most aren't even close to 100% biological Jews! The one's who are Jewish adamantly reject Jesus as their Messiah!
Zionism is a satanic cult founded by the Illuminati for the Illuminati. The same Masonic, Wall Street, international banking cabal, Luciferian, phallic worshipping, secret powers which have hi-jacked the United States, own and control present-day Israel.
Jack Bernstein, an American Jew who was assassinated for telling the truth, explains THE TRUTH about Israel today...
Genesis 12:3 is one of the most misinterpreted Scriptures in the Bible. Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” God made those promises to Abram (Abraham). That is, God would curse anyone who cursed Abraham and bless those who blessed Abraham. The reason why is because Abraham was a righteous man, making him God's friend. It is satanic doctrine to teach that God will bless those who bless wicked, Christ-rejecting, blaspheming Jews!
By definition, Zionism is the movement to restore the Jews to their Promised Land in Palestine. Within that purpose, Zionism takes on all forms and shapes. There is both political and religious Zionism. Of course, Israel became a nation again in 1948. Although God permitted the nation to exist in modern times, it was the Illuminati who put Israel back on the map. We learn in Luke 21:24 that Israel could be wiped off the map tomorrow and it would perfectly harmonize with Biblical prophecy. Luke 21:24, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Until these TIMES OF THE GENTILES (since 586 BC when Israel ceased to be a nation, until the Rapture) be fulfilled, the Bible teaches that Israel would be trodden down by the Gentiles!!!
Eye-Opening Quotes Exposing The Truth
Here are some shocking quotes revealing the truth about who controls the United States...
Here is Dr. Henry Makow's definition of the Illuminati . . .
Here is a quote again from Illuminati leader, David Rockefeller, who acknowledges their control over the lying news media . . .
As shocking as it is, most Americans are begging for a Communist nation, believing that President Obama is going to make things better. In April of 2009, the newsmedia reported that the U.S government needed to take control over the banks, housing market and auto-industry to make things better. Don't you see what's happening... Globalism (Communism) is taking over! That's what Communism is... total government control. That's what President George H. Bush said the New World Order will be—RULE OF LAW! America will become a nanny state under NDAA. NDAA is treason!
Conclusion
It's a big lie in our churches that we must support Israel. It's called the heresy of Zionism. The Lord promised in the Old Testament to REGATHER Israel to her Promised Land when He returns at the Second Coming. This is a heated and controversial subject, I know, but I am tired of pastors telling people to financially support Godless, Christ-rejecting, blasphemous and wicked people simply because they live in Israel. And as you see, the money isn't going to the needy in Israel. I am only an imperfect man and don't claim to have all the answers. But I believe I am correct according to the Scriptures. Luke 21:24 says that Israel has been SCATTERED around the world.
The Lord said that He personally would regather Israel, but not with tanks, bombs and guns. If present-day Israel were a regathering of the descendants of Israel, then the blessing would be to biological, national or ethnic Jews. The Bible plainly teaches that there has always been only a REMNANT, those who had faith in the Lord. In Elijah's time only a remnant survived. In Jeremiah's time only a remnant survived Babylon's onslaught. Hence, the remnant regathered will be born-again Christians.
Due to the evils of Zionism that has infected our churches, Judaism is not preached against as it should be. I love Jewish people and exposing Judaism doesn't mean that I don't love Jews, any more than exposing Islam would mean that I don't love Arabs. Anti-Zionism is NOT anti-Semitism. The Bible warns in Revelation 2:9 about a fake group of Jews who are not genuine Jews. These are occult Jews, originating back to the times of Israel's Babylonian captivity when some of the Jews learned the ways of the heathen. This Kabbalistic mysticism has perpetuated from generation-to-generation, existing today in Freemasonry, Mormonism, Judaism and other secret societies. The Bible calls this the “synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9).
Prophetically, this is “The Great Whore” of Revelation 17:1, that is, the Illuminati who fornicates with the kings (nations) of the earth. As shocking as it may be to the average Christian who has never really understood the Bible, the Scriptures confirm that the city of Jerusalem is The Great Whore. Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Israel controls the world! They control the U.S. military, newsmedia, politics and finance.
Please understand that I love Jewish people, but so do I also love Arabs, Africans and all people from all races, groups and backgrounds. I have God's unconditional love for all mankind, which every Christian ought to possess from the Lord. The Jews were a holy, special and chosen people in the early Old Testament, but they had their chance and blew it. So God turned to the Gentile world to preach the gospel to every creature, and it is being accomplished. God divorced Israel in 586 BC, but He never gave up on His own. Galatians 3:26-29 so plainly teaches that there is neither Jew nor Gentile in Christ, neither male nor female, neither bond nor free in Christ Jesus. In the Lord we are all ONE!
The insane idea that someone whose DNA is 10% or 50% or 90% biological Jew entitles them to special treatment goes against all that the Bible teaches. Even biological Jews today are not considered Jews if they convert to Christianity. So who's a true Jew? Is it ethnic, racial, cultural or national? Biblically, every born-again Gentile is also a spiritual Jew...
It was Communist-Marxist-Zionist, false (Khazar) Jews, who put Israel back on the map in 1948. The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a very educated man, who handles himself well in media debate. President Ahmadinejad makes some excellent points, asking WHY the Palestinians were forced away from their Palestinian homeland in 1947- 1948 for crimes they'd never committed. Palestinians hadn't done anything to cause the Jewish holocaust, so how did a Holocaust over in Europe end up costing thousands of Palestinian lives, their homes and being displaced throughout the land of Palestine without a place to live? It is wickedness!!! The Jews lost their land way back in 586 B.C. under the invasion of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
If honest Jews in 1948 wanted their land back, they should have made an offer to buy those houses for whatever price the home owners wanted. If the U.S. government could afford billions for bullets, tanks and bombs, they could have afforded to pay 10-times more than what the Palestinian's homes were worth, since it was their homes anyway! Instead, British-led forces kicked in their front doors and drove the Palestinian people out at gun-point to go live anywhere but here. The land with homes and all were just given to Jews. Now you know why so many Muslim are still angry 67 years later.
Everyone today knows that the Indians owned this great land in America before we ever stole it all from them. How is this any different than Zionist-controlled military powers taking control over Israel and driving out all of the Muslims, permanently? Do American Indians have a right to force us all out, kill us if need be, to reclaim the land that was formerly theirs? There could have been a resolution made in 1948 to restore the nation of Israel. It would have been manmade of course, because it is not God's timing yet. God will restore Israel when He comes at the Second Coming and not before. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever, in the least way, to believe that God is behind the present-day secular state of Israel. Why would God uses reprobate Godless leaders, to drive-out Godless unbelieving Muslims, just to replace them with Godless unbelieving Jews? God always works by faith, not because men have an agenda.
The Middle Easy is Being Conquered as Planned
The creation of Israel in 1948 was the birth of World War III. Already, the same Communist-Marxist powers which have taken over Israel and the United States, have also taken over Iraq and Afghanistan. After conquering their nations. They bring in two Illuminati puppets for the newly elected Democratic leader. The people are told they have a choice in voting, Democracy! What a scam! In reality, their control is GONE, GONE, GONE! Next on their Illuminati hit list is Syria, whom they've been blaming lately for attacking Jordan. Isis is another Boogie-man like Al-Qaeda (Al- CIA-da). Whatever it takes, the Illuminati will demonize Syria and take them out! Then Jordan. Then Iraq last (or some order that that). The Illuminati will conquer all of the middle East! That's why the wanted Israel in 1948. Albert Pike predicted WWI, WWII, and WWIII before his death in 1892. Pike has been 100% accurate so far. The reason why is because it was all PLANNED this way.
Israel was not restored in 1948 as a Theocracy, i.e., a Jewish State. No, but rather, it was birthed as a Communist- Marxist, Democratic, secular state (as signed-off by U.S. President Harry Truman. According to FBI files, Truman took a pen and scratched out reference to a “new Jewish state,” and just left it as a “new state”). God does not recognize the present-day Marxist-Communist, state of Israel. Less than 2.5% of Israel's inhabitants today profess to be a Christian at all. With all the hundreds-of-millions of dollars collected from religious groups, Zionist charities and other sources, Israel's owners have billions! Yet, nearly 200,000 Holocaust survivors live in near poverty in Israel. Where's all that money that they collect to help the Jews? It goes in their pockets!!!
Iran President Ahmadinejad wants to know why people who simply ask question as to the validity of the Holocaust are immediately attacked, told to be quiet and don't ask questions. Even the Word of God in the Bible is open to be questioned. Yet, the Zionists refuse to engage in any serious historical efforts to find out what really happened during WWII.
Just as the BIG LIE of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) were used by The White House through the puppet Zionist mainstream newsmedia to fool Americans into supporting the invasion and overthrow of the nation of Iraq; even so also was the Holocaust of millions of Jews (the exactly number is likely way too high), used as an excuse to invade and conquer Palestine, driving out all Muslim families and replacing them with whoever they wanted. The Marxist-Communist powers of the Illuminati couldn't have cared less about a new state of Israel as concerns God's promises. It was about taking control of the once Holy City for Satan, so that when the Antichrist (BEAST) comes, he will stand up in the rebuilt Illuminati temple and proclaim to be God, demanding worship (Revelation 13:15). The center of the world biblically is Jerusalem.
The nation of Israel was God's in the Old Testament (the apple of His eye). It ceased to exist in BC 486 because of Israel's continuous spiritual adultery. The manmade state of Israel that exists today is not blessed of God. It is not a holy nation, nor a holy people. God is not their God, because they openly reject the Son of God, Jesus Christ!!! Likewise, Muslims reject Jesus as the Messiah. Thus, both the Arabs and the Jews cannot get along, hating each other, both rejecting the Savior by which they could be born-again and see the great light of our God and of the truth. Judaizer Jews are as spiritually blinded as Zionist Jews, as are Talmud Jews, as are Khazar Jews! They all need to be born-again by believing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
DNA Evidences Most Professed Jews Are Not Biological Descendants of Abraham
DNA studies confirm that 97% of people who call themselves Jews, ARE NOT descendents of Abraham. In 2001, Dr. Ariella Oppenheim, a biologist at Hebrew University, published the first extensive study of DNA and the origin of the Jews. Her research found that virtually all the Jews came from Khazar blood. The newest DNA research science from Dr. Eran Elhaik and associates at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has confirmed that: The various groups of Jews in the world today DO NOT share a common genetic origin, and their genome is largely Khazar.
In fact, DNA research shows that the Palestinians actually have more Israelite blood than do the Khazar ‘Jews!’ These DNA research results should cause you to question everything you know about modern day Jews and the state of Israel. Today they’re called Ashkenazi Jews, but they are a Jew by religion, not by blood. Most of them have Turkish-Mongol DNA. The 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia Vol. XI p 533, stated that ‘probably 95% of the persons included in these estimates of Jewish populations are Ashkenazim‘.
The 1973 Jewish Encyclopedia documents that approximately 90% of the world’s so-called Jews are Khazar. A.N. Poliak, Professor of Medieval Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, says that the majority of Eastern European Jews are Khazar and Japhetic in origin, not Semitic. Immigration statistics indicate approximately 90% of the world’s socalled or self-styled ‘Jews’ living in 42 countries of the world are emigrants of Eastern European Khazar Jews. Jesus words that Jerusalem will be “trampled by Gentiles” are confirmed, as 97% of the so-called Jews in Israel are Gentiles.
In the Bible, being a “Jew” was not a matter of ethnicity; but rather, embracing the religion of the Jewish people (which was faith in the coming Messiah - Genesis 15:6). Of the twelve spies sent to spy out the land of Canaan, only Joshua and Caleb came back with the faith to enter (as God had commanded the Hebrews in the Wilderness). Although Caleb was a Gentile, he was accepted as a Jew because of his faith. In the time of Esther, the Bible says many of the Medo-Persians became Jews (i.e., Christians). If God's promises were limited only to biological Jews, then no one could become a Jew by choice. Caleb chose to become a Jew. The Medo-Persians chose to become a Jew. Likewise, if you are a born-again Christian, then you are also a spiritual Jew. Galatians 3:26-29, “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.” What a beautiful Biblical truth and promise from God! I am a Jew—a part of the family of God— related to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—having the same merciful and blessed heavenly Father.
Soon, the true Messiah Jesus Christ will return, regathering true Israel, and establish His legitimate millennial (1,000 year) reign as King from Jerusalem. Jesus Christ is the stone cut from the mountain without hands in king Nebuchadnezzar's image. Christians ought not support Christ-rejecting, blaspheming, wicked, apostate, professed “Jews” who are not Jews, behind the present secular state of Israel—a cruel fraud perpetuated upon the world by Luciferian agents of the Illuminati. Revelation 2:9, “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” END
Things are not as they appear...
http://www.jesusisprecious.org/prophecy/satans_counterfeit.htm
Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
The ACCURATE way to look at Israel, the Antichrist and world government is to see Present-Day Israel, the Antichrist and the Antichrist's rule over the world as Satan's counterfeit of true Israel, Jesus Christ and Christ's Millennial Kingdom.
According to Revelation 17:18 (our text verse), Jerusalem is that great city, The Great Whore, which reigneth over the kings of the earth! Or more specifically, the Illuminati (hierarchy of the power of darkness) who control Israel and the United States reign over the kings of the earth. Of course, Lucifer (Satan) is at the top of the hierarchy of power. Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
The Devil imitates everything that God does, trying to deceive mankind. A classic example is the Antichrist, who will come in an attempt to trick the world into receiving him as the true Messiah.
Most Bible students have concluded that the Catholic church is The Great Whore, but Mystery Babylon includes all of today's false religions that are a part of the New World Order. The occult All Seeing Eye, Obelisk (such as the Washington Monument) and The Great Pyramid are all a part of the Ancient Mystery Religion of Egypt, and continued from Babylon until present-day, which has been at work by Satan in the world since the tower and city of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9, and since the serpent offered Eve knowledge of good and evil in exchange for eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:5-7). To the point, the Ancient Mystery Religion, which is the core of New Age and Theosophy, is Lucifer worship!
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (thus disobeying God), they became “as gods” in Genesis 3:22 (hence the “322” used by the Skull & Bones secret society). Lucifer offers men “godhood” by ascending through multiple levels of occult enlightenment (e.g., Kaballah has 125 levels, Freemasonry has 33 levels, et cetera). In the occult (which means hidden) there is always something you don't know, which is intended to keep men “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2nd Timothy 3:7). Kaballah is a substitute for the Gospel. Freemasonry is a substitute for the church.
Whereas it is the New Testament Church which is God's vehicle for evangelizing the world; Freemasonry is Satan's vehicle to bring to fruition a New World Order and prepare the masses to embrace the coming man of sin, the Antichrist (the Beast). In order to prepare people to receive the “MAN OF SIN” (2nd Thessalonians 2:3), social groups must be desensitized to the awfulness of sin; hence, the reason for the moral meltdown of America, Europe and the world. Satan is the Boss of Hollywood, the cesspool of iniquity of the world!
Whereas the Bible prophesies that Jesus Christ Himself will return one day to sit upon the literal throne of David and reign over the earth triumphant from Jerusalem; the Antichrist is Satan's gimmick (substitute) for Christ, professing himself that he is the Messiah, God (2nd Thessalonians 2:4). Since the Antichrist is a counterfeit, naturally he is going to need a counterfeit Israel. And if Satan needs a false Israel for his false Messiah, then he also needs false Jews. Jesus warned in Revelation 2:9 about false Jews of the synagogue of Satan who claim to be true Jews. For nearly everything in God's prophetic plan, the Devil has a counterfeit to deceive the human race. We even see the trio of the False Prophet, the Beast and the Dragon—imitating God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And yes, Satan has many counterfeit Bibles too (like the perverted New International Version [NIV]), imitating the genuine King James Bible. It is very sad, even depressing, when I stop to realize that so many Independent Baptist churches these days are supporting a counterfeit Israel, reading from a counterfeit Bible, and in many cases even teaching a counterfeit plan of salvation based on a counterfeit understanding of repentance (aka, Lordship Salvation). Satan is a master counterfeiter!
If you understand that the coming Antichrist is Satan's imitation of Christ, then it should also become obvious to you that Satan has a false Israel too. Whereas Biblical Christians are looking for the return of Jesus Christ to establish His earthly kingdom; heathen Zionists are looking for their false Messiah, the Antichrist, to reign over the world. The New World Order will be the Antichrist's counterfeit of Christ's true coming kingdom during the 1,000 year millennium. The Antichrist will claim to be the Messiah, even proclaiming to be God from the temple in Jerusalem, but he will be an imposter. The unsaved world will eagerly follow the Antichrist when he comes, but many will refuse. At the halfway point through the Tribulation, the Beast (Antichrist) will demand worship of his image from everyone on earth or they will be executed! This event is called The Abomination Of Desolation!
So we see that there will be a false Christ (Messiah) and a false Israel. The true Israel will be regathered to the Promised Land only when Jesus returns to set up His kingdom, and not before. The attempt to restore Israel since 1948 is a Zionist movement by Marxist/Communist false Jews who are led by the international banking cabal. The Illuminati by war and bloodshed put Israel back onto the map in 1948 as a vehicle by which to control the kings of the world. How does Israel rule over the kings of the earth? It's the international banking cabal. Their official headquarters is The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR created the United Nations (UN)! Starting to get the picture?
Is it so hard to believe that present-day Israel is a satanic decoy for true Israel? True Israel will accept her true Messiah, Jesus. Present-day Judaism which controls Israel rejects Jesus as the Messiah. They are wholeheartedly looking for the false Messiah of the Antichrist, which is why he will stand in the Jewish temple one day and claim to be God (Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:14; 2nd Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:15).
The nation of Israel was put back on the map in 1948 by the Rothschild's led banking cabal. William Guy Carr in his timeless book, PAWNS IN THE GAME, documents the history of the international banking cartel and how they've started and financed BOTH sides of every major war in America since the Revolutionary War of 1776. Truth is stranger than fiction!
Also, read THE NEW WORLD ORDER by S.Z. Batten written in 1919. Batten appeals to the church to wake up to the reality that the New World Order will use war to accomplish their goals. The book was written after World War I, but before World War II. Batten states on page 148, “Christianity has suffered much from the wrong thinking of bad men, but even more from the small thinking of good men.” What a true statement!
If you don't get anything else from this article, recognize that the nation of Israel today is a counterfeit. God has not gathered His people yet. Present-day Israel is controlled by Marxists and Communists, haters of Christ and the Bible. The Bible teaches that 144,000 Jews of the tribes of Israel (Revelation 7:4) will be saved at the beginning of the 7- year Tribulation. During the Tribulation God restores His covenant with Old Testament Israel. The Times Of The Gentiles will end at the Rapture. Then Israel will become the main focus once again.
Present-Day Israel Is Not The Fulfillment Of Bible Prophecy
Here is an accurate, Biblical and excellent statement from Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) concerning why present-day Israel is NOT the fulfillment of Bible prophecy . . .
“Israel is just like any other nation. Some think they're a little brutal, but my friend, they're on the defense over there, you can be sure of that. And they have to exercise a strong defense system. They're not back in that land in fulfillment of prophecy. They have returned to the land, but they have not yet returned to the Lord. When they return to the Lord there will be blessing. They have not yet done that!
...they went out in 70 A.D. And they actually have never returned to the land according to the Word of God. Now hear me very carefully because this is very important to see. They have returned to the land today, and it's remarkable what has happened over there, but it's not the fulfillment of prophecy, because the prophecy says when they return they'll return TO GOD!”SOURCE: Pastor J. Vernon McGee; THRU-THE-BIBLE; Hosea 2:19-23 and Hosea 3:4.
In his “THRU-THE-BIBLE” commentary for Hosea 3:5, Dr. McGee stresses the truth that there are more Arab Christians in Israel today than there are Jewish Christians. Upon a return trip to visit Israel, Pastor McGee makes the startling comment, “Over there there's no turning to God, at all!” While visiting he saw a big motto in Israel which read: “SCIENCE WILL BRING PEACE TO THIS LAND.” Israel is a Godless nation today! Dr. McGee cites a credible source as saying that there are less than 300 Israelites that are real believers in Israel today! The Russian Catholic Church owns much land in Israel today, as do Greek Orthodox and Muslims. Hosea 3:5 evidences the fact that Israel's present return to the land is not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy today.
Albeit, God's people (the elect, born again believers) will be gathered when the Lord returns (Jews and Gentiles included, Galatians 3:29). Again, only born-again Christians will be gathered to the Promised Land (Galatians 3:26-29). Kindly, no Christ-rejecting Jew will ever escape the fires of Hell, and no Christ-receiving Gentile will ever be denied residence in the New Jerusalem. Israel has not been restored yet. Hosea tells us that in the End Times that Israel will SEEK AND FEAR THE LORD (this hasn't happened yet). . .
Hosea 2:21-23 and Hosea 3:5, “And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. ... Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.”Judaizers who openly reject Jesus as the Messiah will be cast into the Lake of Fire for their unbelief (2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 20:15). Jesus told Nicodemus (a Jew), “Ye must be born again” (John 3:1-7). No Christ-rejecting Jew will enter into the Promised Land simply because they are biologically related to Abraham. The PROMISE made to Abraham's seed (descendants) only apply to those who are in Christ...
Galatians 3:26-29, “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.”We must distinguish between the true nation of Israel that God will restore verses the present-day fraudulent State of Israel put there by men...
1. Present-day fake Israel, started and controlled by the Illuminati (Marxists and Communists).
2. The Jews have been scattered across the world in exile (Luke 21:24), and won't be regathered until Christ returns at the Second Coming. There is nothing in the Holy Bible about regathering unsaved, Christ-rejecting, Jews to Israel. Zionism is just as sinful as when Abraham and Sarah conspired to impregnate Hagar and give birth to Ishmael, trying to force the hand of God to bless him.
Whether a Communist like Barack Obama or a Baptist like Mike Huckabee, they're all 100% pro-Zionist! They're groomed, financed and controlled by the Zionists. Please understand that being Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism. Zionism is a global conspiracy to achieve World Government, masterminded by the international banking cartel and orchestrated by Freemasons. Why do you think the Illuminati went to war and overthrew Iraq and Afghanistan? Syria, Jordan and Iran are next. Isis is a fabricated boogieman, just like Alqaeda (Al-CIA-da) was. You cannot trust anything reported by the Zionist-controlled mainstream newsmedia. Recent news reports have been demonizing alleged Isis cells in Syria for attacking Jordan. The Illuminati want to overthrow Syria, just like Iraq and Afghanistan! Those countries are now called “Democratic.” What a joke! The Illuminati pick the candidates and allow the people to vote, to maintain the ILLUSION of freedom. Those countries are controlled now by the Illuminati, just like all of America!
Freemasons worship The Great Architect of the New World Order, Lucifer (Satan). America has been deliberately subverted. Everything from public schools to the central bank are a total fulfillment of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (blueprint)? Who do you think put Mr. Obama in office?
3. Those woefully ignorant Christians who support present-day Israel are supporting the Illuminati and the New World Order. Literally, believers and Baptist churches who support preset-day Israel are helping to prepare the stage for the coming false messiah, the man of sin, the Beast, the ANTI-CHRIST!!! If you support Israel, then you are supporting the Rothschild's led banking cabal who own and control the State of Israel.
It's high-time for professed believers to stop attributing men's crimes to our holy God. Our nation beared false witness against Iraq, falsely (now openly admitted by Rachel Maddow from MSNBC and others in the mainstream news media) accusing them of having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's). We coveted Iraq's trillions-of-dollars in natural resource, oil. We stole what belonged to our neighbours in Iraq. The Illuminati did all these horrific evils through OUR White House, in OUR name, with OUR money, with OUR youth in the military, so it is OUR business!!! We murdered 1,455,590 innocent Iraqi's, to allegedly get one dictator, Saddam Hussein. Americans broke most of the Ten Commandments by attacking Iraq!!! And yet naive and foolish churches support these evils!
So what ought the Christian's proper attitude be toward Israel today? Good question. We ought to view them as sinners in need of the Gospel, loving Jews and Gentiles unconditionally with God's love. They may not listen, but our job is to preach the Gospel and pray for their salvation, nothing more. Who knows if that seed that you plant may one day lead to a new birth? Only God can save a soul (1st Corinthians 3:8). We ought not support Godless Israel today, anymore than we would support Godless Communism. Christians need to forget about Israel, and the sin of treating Jews as being more special than Gentiles; and instead we need to focus on getting as many people saved as possible by obeying The Great Commission to GO, PREACH THE GOSPEL, WATER BAPTIZE THEM AS A PUBLIC PROFESSION OF THEIR FAITH, and INDOCTRINATE THEM WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE WORD OF GOD (Matthew 28:19- 20). Supporting Christless Israel is wicked apostasy in the churches. The truth is the greatest threat to the Devil's New World Order!
The Massive Fraud Of Present-Day Israel and Zionism
I wrote this article to teach the reader that present-day Israel is of the Devil. That will probably offend you greatly if you've been indoctrinated with Zionism by the John Hagee, James Modlish, Pat Robertson crowd (and thousands more). Even most Baptist churches have fallen for the big lie that believers are Biblically commanded to support the presentday State of Israel at all cost.
The true nation of Israel will be restored when the Lord returns, when there is a great earthquake. Jesus will not stand on the earth when He comes in the Rapture, but He WILL stand on the earth when He comes in the second phase of His return (that is, the Second Coming 7-years after the Rapture). Zechariah 14:4 definitely describes the Lord Jesus standing on the Mount of Olives.
1. Blessing Israel has NOT helped the United States. First, America supports Israel more than any nation, giving several billions of dollars a year in foreign aid to Israel; yet our nation's economy is in the toilet and not coming back. Anyone who says that the economy is recovering and things will improve is a BOLD FACED LIAR!!! The government tampers with the numbers in their reports to deceive the public. Things are much worse than they seem. I thought blessing Israel was supposed to bring blessing upon America? Jack Chick attributed the increase in tornado activity in 2012 to the U.S. not helping Israel enough. Oh boy, shut up! America is Israel's number one ally!!!
So why is our nation falling apart? I'll tell you why, because God is not blessing America for helping the present day Communist State of Israel. In fact, it is the same sinister international banking cabal who control Israel today who are fornicating with the kings of the earth, exploiting the U.S. to do their dirty work. OUR children fight their wars. OUR homes have been foreclosed by their banks. OUR White House has been hi-jacked by the banksters. OUR money is totally controlled by them. President Obama has already hired 38 former Goldman Sachs employees right off Wall Street to work in the U.S. government. Wall Street is Washington and Washington is Wall Street!
Freemasonry ties into all this too, which is a Jewish religion rooted in Kabbalah, but that's a separate study. Secret societies are the common denominator in all of this. Only works of darkness must be kept secret, because in the presence of the light darkness loses its power!
2. Present-day Israel is a wicked, Marxist, Communist nation. Less than 2.5% of the population of Israel profess to be Christian. Attempting to convert a Jew to Christianity is punishable by up to 5-years in prison in Israel. Jewish rabbis and devout Judaizers in Israel literally spit on tourists. Of the 198,000 remaining Holocaust survivors living in Israel today, many are struggling in hunger and lack of provisions in one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Israel's citizens are struggling economically, listed 34th amongst the list of developed nations.
3. Israel is now the gay tourist destination of the world. The heresy that Israel is still God's chosen, special and holy nation while living in gross immorality, rebellion and homosexuality is satanic doctrine. Tel Aviv is the homosexual tourist destination of the world today! No wonder the Bible calls Jerusalem “Sodom and Egypt,” two of the most worldly places in the Bible. Revelation 11:8, “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Gay Israel anybody? ...
Tel Aviv Emerges As Top Gay Tourist Destination By ARON HELLER 01/24/12
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Tel Aviv has long been a gay paradise, one of the few places in the Middle East where gays feel free to walk hand-in-hand and kiss in public.
Now, thanks to its balmy climate, vibrant nightlife and a creative government-backed branding campaign, the city has become one of the world's top gay tourist destinations.4. Another big lie in our churches is that we must support Israel. Of all the TRILLIONS of dollars donated to Israel in the form of U.S. foreign aid over past half-century, why are 198,000 Holocaust survivors struggling to eat and survive in Israel today, very lonely and sad.
Israel's Poverty Rate The Highest In Developed World | May 15, 2013
Israel has the highest poverty rate in the developed world, Haaretz concludes based on a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The newspaper notes that with a poverty rate of 20.9 percent, Israel scores lowest out of 34 economically developed countries. The country also has one of the biggest gaps between its rich and poor in the developed world.There's something wrong with that picture? In spite of the poverty, there were 43% more millionaires in Israel in 2009. Of all the TENS-OF BILLIONS of dollars donated to Israel every year in the name of Zionism via charitable organizations, religious cons like John Hagee Ministries, political fund raisers and Zionist groups, the nation's citizens are amongst the poorest in the world amongst developed countries!!! Clearly the money is NOT going to help Israel.
Consider The Jewish Nation Fund who took in $68,266,837 in 2012. They paid their CEO $344,783! The charity claims to help community development, like planting 240,000,000 tress in Israel. How about feeding Holocaust survivors with more than bread and water? Or how about The Jewish Social Service Agency who took in $16,834,515 in 2012. They paid their CEO a whopping $321,275! They claim to help 35,000 people a year emotionally and physically in various ways. Why are the Jewish poor still so poor in Israel? These CEO's are filthy rich! American World Jewish Service took in $49,000,000 in 2012. The International Fellowship Of Christians And Jews took in $106,697,118 in 2012. They paid their CEO $491,161 in 2012. All I'm asking is why so many Jews are hurting in Israel?
It's hard to imagine that 198,000 holocaust survivors are still surviving in poverty in Israel today...
Holocaust survivors struggling to make ends meet in Israel
Ros Dayan survived horrors of Nazi persecution but now says she does not have enough money to buy food or clothes
Harriet Sherwood | TheGuardian.com | April 19, 2012
Holocaust survivors are increasingly finding it hard to make ends meet in Israel. Despite the horrors of a childhood in the shadow of the Holocaust, Ros Dayan survived to build a life she could be proud of in the new Jewish state of Israel.
She trained as a nurse, she sang in a choir that toured the world. She learnt Hebrew, though she never lost her central European accent. She paid her taxes and eventually bought the tiny house in Jaffa that she had rented at a subsidised rate for years. She even learned to live with the pain of three broken vertebrae, the result of an assault by a Nazi soldier.
But, now, in the last years of her life, Ros is ashamed. One of the 198,000 Holocaust survivors still alive in Israel, she is also one of the growing proportion who cannot make ends meet, who struggle with insufficient funds on a daily basis. Wiping a single tear with a shaking hand, she says: "For the first time, I don't have enough money for food or clothes. I used to have pride, now I am ashamed."
As Israel commemorates Holocaust Day on Thursday, Ros resents those who mourn the six million Jews that died without considering the penury of some of those still living. "On Holocaust Day, they make a parade, those who do not know what a Holocaust is, what hunger is. The people who suffered in the Holocaust are left behind, hungry."
According to studies, around a quarter of Holocaust survivors in Israel live below the poverty line, struggling to pay for food, heating, housing, medication and care.What's happening? The truth is that Israel is just like the United States, that is, you've got the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS! A diligent study into the matter reveals that the so-called Jews behind Zionism are not true Jews; but rather, are false Jews (many not even biological Jews). The Bible teaches that God will gather His people back to the Promised Land only when He returns. In sharp contrast, the people gathering themselves today, who falsely claim to be God's chosen people, aren't even Christians. The Jewish community is adamantly opposed to the idea that one can convert to Christianity and still be a Jew. The definition of a Jew today is someone who converts to the religion of Judaism.
As you just read, anyone who follows Jesus Christ is not considered a Jew. So the ONLY Jews recognized by the counterfeit State of Israel today are unsaved, non-Christian, Jews! It should make sense to you by now that a counterfeit Israel only wants counterfeit Jews. That's what the present-day State of Israel is... COUNTERFEIT!!!
Don't believe the giant lie that Christ-rejecting Jews are God's chosen people. They are not! Biblically, God's promise to bless Israel is CONDITIONAL. Exodus 19:5, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.” IF YE WILL OBEY! IF YE WILL OBEY! IF YE WILL OBEY! Don't miss that! People read over that and ignore this Scripture. IF YE WILL OBEY! The Jews not only disobeyed God, but murdered their Messiah.
Yes, Israel is God's nation, but that nation has been scattered through the world according to Luke 21:24. The present-day State of Israel is counterfeit. I've shown you that Israel today hates the Lord. Less than 2.5% of its people claim to be a Christians (that includes all the cults). I dare say one person living in 1,000 are truly born-again in Israel today, just like Japan. What is there to support in Israel today? Nearly all are not Christians! Most aren't even close to 100% biological Jews! The one's who are Jewish adamantly reject Jesus as their Messiah!
Zionism is a satanic cult founded by the Illuminati for the Illuminati. The same Masonic, Wall Street, international banking cabal, Luciferian, phallic worshipping, secret powers which have hi-jacked the United States, own and control present-day Israel.
Jack Bernstein, an American Jew who was assassinated for telling the truth, explains THE TRUTH about Israel today...
To fully understand the story I am about to tell, it is important that you understand what Zionism really is. Zionist propaganda has led the American people to believe that Zionism and Judaism are one and the same and that they are religious in nature. This is a blatant lie. Judaism is a religion; but Zionism is a political movement started mainly by East European (Ashkenazi) Jews who for centuries have been the main force behind communism/socialism. The ultimate goal of the Zionists is ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE ZIONISTS AND THE ZIONIST-ORIENTED JEWISH INTERNATIONAL BANKERS. Communism/socialism are merely tools to help them accomplish their goal.Genesis 12:3 Is Often Misinterpreted
Genesis 12:3 is one of the most misinterpreted Scriptures in the Bible. Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” God made those promises to Abram (Abraham). That is, God would curse anyone who cursed Abraham and bless those who blessed Abraham. The reason why is because Abraham was a righteous man, making him God's friend. It is satanic doctrine to teach that God will bless those who bless wicked, Christ-rejecting, blaspheming Jews!
By definition, Zionism is the movement to restore the Jews to their Promised Land in Palestine. Within that purpose, Zionism takes on all forms and shapes. There is both political and religious Zionism. Of course, Israel became a nation again in 1948. Although God permitted the nation to exist in modern times, it was the Illuminati who put Israel back on the map. We learn in Luke 21:24 that Israel could be wiped off the map tomorrow and it would perfectly harmonize with Biblical prophecy. Luke 21:24, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” Until these TIMES OF THE GENTILES (since 586 BC when Israel ceased to be a nation, until the Rapture) be fulfilled, the Bible teaches that Israel would be trodden down by the Gentiles!!!
Eye-Opening Quotes Exposing The Truth
Here are some shocking quotes revealing the truth about who controls the United States...
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to tell you something..: Don't worry about America... We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it... Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial." SOURCE: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001
"We'll know that our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is FALSE." SOURCE: William Casey, CIA Director (Quote - 1981 internal staff meeting notes).
“You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel…” SOURCE: Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora MenacheAgain, I love and respect Jewish people. The Average Jewish person is a average hard-working person just like anyone else, equally a victim of the Devil's New World Order.
Here is Dr. Henry Makow's definition of the Illuminati . . .
“The Illuminati refers to a tightly organized network of family dynasties representing Anglo American and European aristocracy and Jewish finance joined by intermarriage, belief in the occult, and hatred of Christianity. Freemasonry is their instrument. They care nothing for their non-Illuminati brethren, Jewish or not. They will destroy billions as they create a neo feudal world characterized by the superrich, their support staff, soldiers and serfs.” SOURCE: savethemales.ca - Countdown to World War ThreeOne such Illuminati member is David Rockefeller, who is the Chairman of The Council On Foreign Relations. It was David Rockefeller in 1994 was stated . . .
"This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." —David Rockefeller speaking at the UN, Sept. 14, 1994.The 911 Attacks were the fulfillment of David Rockefeller's 1994 proclamation...
". . . There is no such thing in America as an independent press . . . We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes . . . Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~ SOURCE: John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of StaffPresident George H. Bush is another member of the Illuminati, who called for a New World Order back in 1990. President Bush said it's the dream of the United Nation's Founders (i.e., the owners of The Council On Foreign Relations) to dominate and control the world . . .
“We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a New World Order. A world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order. An order in which a credible United Nations can use its peace-keeping role to fulfil the promise and vision of the UN's founders.” —President George H. Bush, 1990Isn't it amazing how the United Nations causes most of the war and bloodshed around the globe, while continually talking about peace. They're always willing to have peace, even if it means going to war, and they often do! Isaiah 48:22, "There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked." This sinful world will never have peace until the King of Kings returns, Jesus Christ, and destroys the New World Order and casts its members into Hell.
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." ~Judge Felix FrankfurterThe era of the New World Order has begun, beginning with the 911 attacks. The Global Gulag is upon us. William Guy Carr tried to warn us 60-years ago, in his eye-opening book, PAWNS IN THE GAME, but so few people care enough to listen. 2nd Thessalonians 2:10 tells us that the masses of this world will eagerly follow the Antichrist because, “they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.”
Here is a quote again from Illuminati leader, David Rockefeller, who acknowledges their control over the lying news media . . .
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." SOURCE: David RockefellerThe average America is woefully ignorant, which as you've read from Mr. Rockefeller, has been according to plan. There is no greater weapon used against the common man than to keep him ignorant. Eve sinned in Genesis 3:6 out of ignorance. The Bible says she was deceived, for had she known THE TRUTH she would not have eaten of the forbidden fruit. Eve, just as the American public today, believed a lie. The average American is still angry at the Muslims over the 911 attacks, while the real culprits have us eating fruit of deception out their hands.
As shocking as it is, most Americans are begging for a Communist nation, believing that President Obama is going to make things better. In April of 2009, the newsmedia reported that the U.S government needed to take control over the banks, housing market and auto-industry to make things better. Don't you see what's happening... Globalism (Communism) is taking over! That's what Communism is... total government control. That's what President George H. Bush said the New World Order will be—RULE OF LAW! America will become a nanny state under NDAA. NDAA is treason!
Conclusion
It's a big lie in our churches that we must support Israel. It's called the heresy of Zionism. The Lord promised in the Old Testament to REGATHER Israel to her Promised Land when He returns at the Second Coming. This is a heated and controversial subject, I know, but I am tired of pastors telling people to financially support Godless, Christ-rejecting, blasphemous and wicked people simply because they live in Israel. And as you see, the money isn't going to the needy in Israel. I am only an imperfect man and don't claim to have all the answers. But I believe I am correct according to the Scriptures. Luke 21:24 says that Israel has been SCATTERED around the world.
The Lord said that He personally would regather Israel, but not with tanks, bombs and guns. If present-day Israel were a regathering of the descendants of Israel, then the blessing would be to biological, national or ethnic Jews. The Bible plainly teaches that there has always been only a REMNANT, those who had faith in the Lord. In Elijah's time only a remnant survived. In Jeremiah's time only a remnant survived Babylon's onslaught. Hence, the remnant regathered will be born-again Christians.
Due to the evils of Zionism that has infected our churches, Judaism is not preached against as it should be. I love Jewish people and exposing Judaism doesn't mean that I don't love Jews, any more than exposing Islam would mean that I don't love Arabs. Anti-Zionism is NOT anti-Semitism. The Bible warns in Revelation 2:9 about a fake group of Jews who are not genuine Jews. These are occult Jews, originating back to the times of Israel's Babylonian captivity when some of the Jews learned the ways of the heathen. This Kabbalistic mysticism has perpetuated from generation-to-generation, existing today in Freemasonry, Mormonism, Judaism and other secret societies. The Bible calls this the “synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9).
Prophetically, this is “The Great Whore” of Revelation 17:1, that is, the Illuminati who fornicates with the kings (nations) of the earth. As shocking as it may be to the average Christian who has never really understood the Bible, the Scriptures confirm that the city of Jerusalem is The Great Whore. Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Israel controls the world! They control the U.S. military, newsmedia, politics and finance.
Please understand that I love Jewish people, but so do I also love Arabs, Africans and all people from all races, groups and backgrounds. I have God's unconditional love for all mankind, which every Christian ought to possess from the Lord. The Jews were a holy, special and chosen people in the early Old Testament, but they had their chance and blew it. So God turned to the Gentile world to preach the gospel to every creature, and it is being accomplished. God divorced Israel in 586 BC, but He never gave up on His own. Galatians 3:26-29 so plainly teaches that there is neither Jew nor Gentile in Christ, neither male nor female, neither bond nor free in Christ Jesus. In the Lord we are all ONE!
The insane idea that someone whose DNA is 10% or 50% or 90% biological Jew entitles them to special treatment goes against all that the Bible teaches. Even biological Jews today are not considered Jews if they convert to Christianity. So who's a true Jew? Is it ethnic, racial, cultural or national? Biblically, every born-again Gentile is also a spiritual Jew...
Romans 2:28-29, “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
Galatians 2 3:26, “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.”Iranian President Knows Holocaust Was False Flag Terror Attack to Invade Palestine
It was Communist-Marxist-Zionist, false (Khazar) Jews, who put Israel back on the map in 1948. The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a very educated man, who handles himself well in media debate. President Ahmadinejad makes some excellent points, asking WHY the Palestinians were forced away from their Palestinian homeland in 1947- 1948 for crimes they'd never committed. Palestinians hadn't done anything to cause the Jewish holocaust, so how did a Holocaust over in Europe end up costing thousands of Palestinian lives, their homes and being displaced throughout the land of Palestine without a place to live? It is wickedness!!! The Jews lost their land way back in 586 B.C. under the invasion of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
If honest Jews in 1948 wanted their land back, they should have made an offer to buy those houses for whatever price the home owners wanted. If the U.S. government could afford billions for bullets, tanks and bombs, they could have afforded to pay 10-times more than what the Palestinian's homes were worth, since it was their homes anyway! Instead, British-led forces kicked in their front doors and drove the Palestinian people out at gun-point to go live anywhere but here. The land with homes and all were just given to Jews. Now you know why so many Muslim are still angry 67 years later.
Everyone today knows that the Indians owned this great land in America before we ever stole it all from them. How is this any different than Zionist-controlled military powers taking control over Israel and driving out all of the Muslims, permanently? Do American Indians have a right to force us all out, kill us if need be, to reclaim the land that was formerly theirs? There could have been a resolution made in 1948 to restore the nation of Israel. It would have been manmade of course, because it is not God's timing yet. God will restore Israel when He comes at the Second Coming and not before. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever, in the least way, to believe that God is behind the present-day secular state of Israel. Why would God uses reprobate Godless leaders, to drive-out Godless unbelieving Muslims, just to replace them with Godless unbelieving Jews? God always works by faith, not because men have an agenda.
The Middle Easy is Being Conquered as Planned
The creation of Israel in 1948 was the birth of World War III. Already, the same Communist-Marxist powers which have taken over Israel and the United States, have also taken over Iraq and Afghanistan. After conquering their nations. They bring in two Illuminati puppets for the newly elected Democratic leader. The people are told they have a choice in voting, Democracy! What a scam! In reality, their control is GONE, GONE, GONE! Next on their Illuminati hit list is Syria, whom they've been blaming lately for attacking Jordan. Isis is another Boogie-man like Al-Qaeda (Al- CIA-da). Whatever it takes, the Illuminati will demonize Syria and take them out! Then Jordan. Then Iraq last (or some order that that). The Illuminati will conquer all of the middle East! That's why the wanted Israel in 1948. Albert Pike predicted WWI, WWII, and WWIII before his death in 1892. Pike has been 100% accurate so far. The reason why is because it was all PLANNED this way.
Israel was not restored in 1948 as a Theocracy, i.e., a Jewish State. No, but rather, it was birthed as a Communist- Marxist, Democratic, secular state (as signed-off by U.S. President Harry Truman. According to FBI files, Truman took a pen and scratched out reference to a “new Jewish state,” and just left it as a “new state”). God does not recognize the present-day Marxist-Communist, state of Israel. Less than 2.5% of Israel's inhabitants today profess to be a Christian at all. With all the hundreds-of-millions of dollars collected from religious groups, Zionist charities and other sources, Israel's owners have billions! Yet, nearly 200,000 Holocaust survivors live in near poverty in Israel. Where's all that money that they collect to help the Jews? It goes in their pockets!!!
Iran President Ahmadinejad wants to know why people who simply ask question as to the validity of the Holocaust are immediately attacked, told to be quiet and don't ask questions. Even the Word of God in the Bible is open to be questioned. Yet, the Zionists refuse to engage in any serious historical efforts to find out what really happened during WWII.
Just as the BIG LIE of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) were used by The White House through the puppet Zionist mainstream newsmedia to fool Americans into supporting the invasion and overthrow of the nation of Iraq; even so also was the Holocaust of millions of Jews (the exactly number is likely way too high), used as an excuse to invade and conquer Palestine, driving out all Muslim families and replacing them with whoever they wanted. The Marxist-Communist powers of the Illuminati couldn't have cared less about a new state of Israel as concerns God's promises. It was about taking control of the once Holy City for Satan, so that when the Antichrist (BEAST) comes, he will stand up in the rebuilt Illuminati temple and proclaim to be God, demanding worship (Revelation 13:15). The center of the world biblically is Jerusalem.
The nation of Israel was God's in the Old Testament (the apple of His eye). It ceased to exist in BC 486 because of Israel's continuous spiritual adultery. The manmade state of Israel that exists today is not blessed of God. It is not a holy nation, nor a holy people. God is not their God, because they openly reject the Son of God, Jesus Christ!!! Likewise, Muslims reject Jesus as the Messiah. Thus, both the Arabs and the Jews cannot get along, hating each other, both rejecting the Savior by which they could be born-again and see the great light of our God and of the truth. Judaizer Jews are as spiritually blinded as Zionist Jews, as are Talmud Jews, as are Khazar Jews! They all need to be born-again by believing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
DNA Evidences Most Professed Jews Are Not Biological Descendants of Abraham
DNA studies confirm that 97% of people who call themselves Jews, ARE NOT descendents of Abraham. In 2001, Dr. Ariella Oppenheim, a biologist at Hebrew University, published the first extensive study of DNA and the origin of the Jews. Her research found that virtually all the Jews came from Khazar blood. The newest DNA research science from Dr. Eran Elhaik and associates at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has confirmed that: The various groups of Jews in the world today DO NOT share a common genetic origin, and their genome is largely Khazar.
In fact, DNA research shows that the Palestinians actually have more Israelite blood than do the Khazar ‘Jews!’ These DNA research results should cause you to question everything you know about modern day Jews and the state of Israel. Today they’re called Ashkenazi Jews, but they are a Jew by religion, not by blood. Most of them have Turkish-Mongol DNA. The 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia Vol. XI p 533, stated that ‘probably 95% of the persons included in these estimates of Jewish populations are Ashkenazim‘.
The 1973 Jewish Encyclopedia documents that approximately 90% of the world’s so-called Jews are Khazar. A.N. Poliak, Professor of Medieval Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, says that the majority of Eastern European Jews are Khazar and Japhetic in origin, not Semitic. Immigration statistics indicate approximately 90% of the world’s socalled or self-styled ‘Jews’ living in 42 countries of the world are emigrants of Eastern European Khazar Jews. Jesus words that Jerusalem will be “trampled by Gentiles” are confirmed, as 97% of the so-called Jews in Israel are Gentiles.
In the Bible, being a “Jew” was not a matter of ethnicity; but rather, embracing the religion of the Jewish people (which was faith in the coming Messiah - Genesis 15:6). Of the twelve spies sent to spy out the land of Canaan, only Joshua and Caleb came back with the faith to enter (as God had commanded the Hebrews in the Wilderness). Although Caleb was a Gentile, he was accepted as a Jew because of his faith. In the time of Esther, the Bible says many of the Medo-Persians became Jews (i.e., Christians). If God's promises were limited only to biological Jews, then no one could become a Jew by choice. Caleb chose to become a Jew. The Medo-Persians chose to become a Jew. Likewise, if you are a born-again Christian, then you are also a spiritual Jew. Galatians 3:26-29, “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.” What a beautiful Biblical truth and promise from God! I am a Jew—a part of the family of God— related to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—having the same merciful and blessed heavenly Father.
Soon, the true Messiah Jesus Christ will return, regathering true Israel, and establish His legitimate millennial (1,000 year) reign as King from Jerusalem. Jesus Christ is the stone cut from the mountain without hands in king Nebuchadnezzar's image. Christians ought not support Christ-rejecting, blaspheming, wicked, apostate, professed “Jews” who are not Jews, behind the present secular state of Israel—a cruel fraud perpetuated upon the world by Luciferian agents of the Illuminati. Revelation 2:9, “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” END
Things are not as they appear...
http://www.jesusisprecious.org/prophecy/satans_counterfeit.htm
Monday, 3 October 2016
Coram Deo (September 2016)
Coram Deo: Dr. R.C. Sproul comments that praying in faith means being willing to acquiesce to God’s will when He says no to our requests. Faith fuels prayer, but it is not faith in what we ask for but faith in the Lord. He alone knows what is best for us, and we trust Him to answer us as He sees fit, for His answer is ultimately for our good and His glory.
If God is just and I am not just, and I have to face His just judgment, how can I possibly stand? —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: When others ask for our forgiveness, we must not hold a grudge even though we may say we have forgiven them. As always, God is most concerned with our hearts, and our forgiving hearts indicate that we have seen our sin and have truly cast ourselves on the Lord’s mercy.
Coram Deo: When others ask for our forgiveness, we must not hold a grudge even though we may say we have forgiven them. As always, God is most concerned with our hearts, and our forgiving hearts indicate that we have seen our sin and have truly cast ourselves on the Lord’s mercy.
Coram Deo: The parable of the tenants was a prophecy to its original hearers of the death of Christ, but it also shows us how much unredeemed people hate God. As Dr. R.C. Sproul points out in his commentary Mark, that people had Christ—God incarnate—murdered proves that sinners would kill God if they could get away with it. Only by grace do we love God and not hate Him. Let us thank Him for giving us hearts to love Him.
The church is not a business organization where the pastor is the paid visionary, entertainer, program director, and CEO. On the contrary, the church is a living organism wherein each and every communing member of the church serves the church with his or her gifts. —Burk Parsons in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: It is easy for us to be discouraged when we see the enemies of God seem to prevail against us and against the church. But the parable of the tenants, as well as many other biblical passages, tells us that every up and every down of history is under God’s control. We can be confident for the future because we know that nothing happens outside of the Lord’s sovereign plan for all things.
Whatever God makes, He owns. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: Believers give to God the things that are God’s, and what belongs to Him is supreme authority even over the state. That Caesar has things that belong to him does not mean that he has a right to everything that he claims for himself. Thus, the state is not permitted to overstep its bounds and intrude in matters—such as worship and church discipline—that God has not delegated to the state.
It seems our thinking can get distorted when our actions are mediated through a screen. I call it the “digital deception.” Words we would not dare say in person, we tweet or post as a comment. Instead of taking a matter to our elders or the church courts, we take it to the blogosphere. It’s almost as if we believe that if it happens online, the Word of God doesn’t apply. —Nathan Bingham in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: God’s authority supersedes the authority of the civil government, so we must have a nuanced view of civil obedience and disobedience. Still, that the Lord establishes civil governments reveals that government is not evil in itself. Evil governments may appear at times, but the general existence of authorities to preserve law and order is a good thing. Let us thank God for the gift of government, which protects us from civil anarchy.
Radical corruption means that the fall from our original state has affected us not simply at the periphery of our existence. It is not something that merely taints an otherwise good personality; rather, it is that the corruption goes to the radix, to the root or core of our humanity, and it affects every part of our character and being. —R.C. Sproul in Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: God intended government to help us fulfill the task given to all people, so we should not view the existence of government in itself as a necessary evil. In particular, government is a blessing as long as it sticks to the tasks that God has given it and does not try to take additional power for itself. Good citizens work to prevent the government from doing things it has not been appointed to do.
That we are to teach our children the truth of God’s Word is a sacred, holy responsibility that God gives to His people. And it’s not something that is to be done only one day a week in Sunday school. We can’t abdicate the responsibility to the church. The primary responsibility for the education of children according to Scripture is the family, the parents. —R.C. Sproul in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: Civil authorities do not have to be perfect or even Christian for us to obey them. We are to obey even the mandates we consider silly or onerous if doing so does not require us to break God’s law. In rendering such obedience, we bear witness to the final authority of the Lord, for bowing to His authority means submitting to the civil government.
Coram Deo: We cannot have life itself if we do not have Christ. Indeed, we need Him more than we need to eat and drink physical food for the sake of our bodies. The Lord’s Supper helps to remind us of our total dependence on the Savior, so let us be cognizant of how much we need Him this day and every day.
I have often spoken with young people who told me they had declared their love for someone, only to receive the answer, “Oh now, I don’t want to get too serious!” There are many who say that to God. Could you be one of them? —Eric Alexander in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: The history of church-state relations is messy, and often the church has ended up compromised, blessing sinful aims of certain states. It is far better for the church and the state to respect the division God has ordained. When the state and the church each focus on their areas of competency—punishing evildoers and administering Word and sacrament, respectively—all people are blessed.
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: It is easy to grumble and complain about our civil leaders and then stop there. But God would have us not merely speak up when the government acts unjustly; rather, He calls us also to pray for our leaders. Let us regularly pray for our leaders, even those leaders whom we have not chosen.
Coram Deo: Being used by God to reach the world and call the elect to faith is a great privilege. Of course, the Lord will save all those whom He has chosen, which is good news because it means our outreach failures cannot derail God’s plan to save all His elect. But this should not make us complacent. When we preach the gospel, we are participating in the greatest rescue mission in all of history, namely, the salvation of sinners. What could be more motivating than that?
Secularization in America has been attended by a moral revolution without precedent and without endgame. The cultural engines of progress that drive toward personal autonomy and fulfillment will not stop until the human being is completely self-defining. This progress requires the explicit rejection of Christian morality for the project of human liberation. —Albert Mohler in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: Identifying the precise moment when a state becomes beastly can be difficult. Nevertheless, it is possible for the state to turn on God and His people, and we must be vigilant so that we notice when this happens. If we use patriotism to justify breaking the Lord’s commandments, we have confused our earthly citizenship with our eternal, heavenly citizenship.
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: Choosing to obey Christ when His commands conflict with the state’s may earn us the designation of criminals or traitors. But that should not dissuade us from submitting first to Christ’s commandments before we do what the government says. Let us pray for discernment so that we might rightly know when and when not to obey the state, and let us encourage one another to be faithful to Christ even when the state disallows it.
Our Lord Jesus tells each of us that we must seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness. That kingdom is bigger than just me, bigger than just you. It is us, along with our fathers, our children, and as many as are afar off. It includes those whose musical tastes annoy us, whose weak theology frustrates us, whose sins shame us. We are called not just to identify with all those with whom we are in union, but to seek their good, to pursue their blessing. —R.C. Sproul Jr. in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: If we are going to know the truth, we must know the Bible. Let us take the time to study it personally and to hear it preached and taught accurately so that we may not err as the Sadducees did. John Calvin comments, “Since God makes known His will clearly in the Scriptures, the want of acquaintance with them is the source and cause of all errors.”
Coram Deo: Scripture refers to the Lord as the “living God” (Deut. 5:26) not only because He is the only God who is alive—the other gods being dead because they do not truly exist as gods—but also because He is the God of the living. God’s relationship to His people does not end at their death, for they live on to worship Him in heaven. Because God is the God of the living, we know that all His promises to us will be kept either now or in the world to come.
Coram Deo: Dr. R.C. Sproul writes in his Mark commentary, “We do not really progress in the Christian life until we understand that we are to love God simply because He is lovely and wonderful, worthy of every creature’s unqualified affection.” Love for God on account of who He is in Himself is the highest form of love that creatures can show. Let us pray that the Lord would give us such love for Him.
There is only one genuine cure for legalism. It is the same medicine the gospel prescribes for antinomianism: understanding and tasting union with Jesus Christ himself. This leads to a new love for and obedience to the law of God, which he now mediates to us in the gospel. —Sinclair Ferguson in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: In our day, many people will not preach the law of God because they believe news of God’s judgment creates a barrier to people’s entering the kingdom. Yet Jesus Himself shows us that we cannot come close to the kingdom of God unless we first know God’s law and what it demands. Let us encourage our pastors and teachers in their endeavor to preach and teach the law of God.
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: The church’s confession that Jesus is both truly God and truly man goes right back to the self-understanding of the Lord Himself. He proclaimed His humanity and deity; therefore, so must we. We are not preaching the whole Christ unless we proclaim His true manhood and His true deity. Because He is man, He could atone for the sins of mankind. Because He is God, this atonement can cover all of our sins past, present, and future.
We are dependent on the ministry of the church as the means by which the Word of God is channeled to us, for our education, our direction, our counseling, and our growth in holiness. —Iain Campbell in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: None of us fully lives up to God’s standards, but we are not hypocrites for trying. We are hypocrites only when we pretend to be holier than we are, when we present ourselves as humble when in fact our hearts are proud and conceited. Let us repent daily for any true hypocrisy that we might find in our hearts, and may we ask God to give us the grace to be honest about ourselves with others.
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: In his commentary Mark, Dr. R.C. Sproul writes, “God is not so much concerned with what we give as how we give.” Above all, the Lord is looking at our hearts, and He esteems those who have hearts that are willing to make sacrifices for His kingdom. Are you giving to the work of God in a way that pleases Him?
If God is just and I am not just, and I have to face His just judgment, how can I possibly stand? —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: When others ask for our forgiveness, we must not hold a grudge even though we may say we have forgiven them. As always, God is most concerned with our hearts, and our forgiving hearts indicate that we have seen our sin and have truly cast ourselves on the Lord’s mercy.
Coram Deo: When others ask for our forgiveness, we must not hold a grudge even though we may say we have forgiven them. As always, God is most concerned with our hearts, and our forgiving hearts indicate that we have seen our sin and have truly cast ourselves on the Lord’s mercy.
Coram Deo: The parable of the tenants was a prophecy to its original hearers of the death of Christ, but it also shows us how much unredeemed people hate God. As Dr. R.C. Sproul points out in his commentary Mark, that people had Christ—God incarnate—murdered proves that sinners would kill God if they could get away with it. Only by grace do we love God and not hate Him. Let us thank Him for giving us hearts to love Him.
The church is not a business organization where the pastor is the paid visionary, entertainer, program director, and CEO. On the contrary, the church is a living organism wherein each and every communing member of the church serves the church with his or her gifts. —Burk Parsons in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: It is easy for us to be discouraged when we see the enemies of God seem to prevail against us and against the church. But the parable of the tenants, as well as many other biblical passages, tells us that every up and every down of history is under God’s control. We can be confident for the future because we know that nothing happens outside of the Lord’s sovereign plan for all things.
Whatever God makes, He owns. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: Believers give to God the things that are God’s, and what belongs to Him is supreme authority even over the state. That Caesar has things that belong to him does not mean that he has a right to everything that he claims for himself. Thus, the state is not permitted to overstep its bounds and intrude in matters—such as worship and church discipline—that God has not delegated to the state.
It seems our thinking can get distorted when our actions are mediated through a screen. I call it the “digital deception.” Words we would not dare say in person, we tweet or post as a comment. Instead of taking a matter to our elders or the church courts, we take it to the blogosphere. It’s almost as if we believe that if it happens online, the Word of God doesn’t apply. —Nathan Bingham in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: God’s authority supersedes the authority of the civil government, so we must have a nuanced view of civil obedience and disobedience. Still, that the Lord establishes civil governments reveals that government is not evil in itself. Evil governments may appear at times, but the general existence of authorities to preserve law and order is a good thing. Let us thank God for the gift of government, which protects us from civil anarchy.
Radical corruption means that the fall from our original state has affected us not simply at the periphery of our existence. It is not something that merely taints an otherwise good personality; rather, it is that the corruption goes to the radix, to the root or core of our humanity, and it affects every part of our character and being. —R.C. Sproul in Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: God intended government to help us fulfill the task given to all people, so we should not view the existence of government in itself as a necessary evil. In particular, government is a blessing as long as it sticks to the tasks that God has given it and does not try to take additional power for itself. Good citizens work to prevent the government from doing things it has not been appointed to do.
That we are to teach our children the truth of God’s Word is a sacred, holy responsibility that God gives to His people. And it’s not something that is to be done only one day a week in Sunday school. We can’t abdicate the responsibility to the church. The primary responsibility for the education of children according to Scripture is the family, the parents. —R.C. Sproul in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: Civil authorities do not have to be perfect or even Christian for us to obey them. We are to obey even the mandates we consider silly or onerous if doing so does not require us to break God’s law. In rendering such obedience, we bear witness to the final authority of the Lord, for bowing to His authority means submitting to the civil government.
Coram Deo: We cannot have life itself if we do not have Christ. Indeed, we need Him more than we need to eat and drink physical food for the sake of our bodies. The Lord’s Supper helps to remind us of our total dependence on the Savior, so let us be cognizant of how much we need Him this day and every day.
I have often spoken with young people who told me they had declared their love for someone, only to receive the answer, “Oh now, I don’t want to get too serious!” There are many who say that to God. Could you be one of them? —Eric Alexander in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: The history of church-state relations is messy, and often the church has ended up compromised, blessing sinful aims of certain states. It is far better for the church and the state to respect the division God has ordained. When the state and the church each focus on their areas of competency—punishing evildoers and administering Word and sacrament, respectively—all people are blessed.
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: It is easy to grumble and complain about our civil leaders and then stop there. But God would have us not merely speak up when the government acts unjustly; rather, He calls us also to pray for our leaders. Let us regularly pray for our leaders, even those leaders whom we have not chosen.
Coram Deo: Being used by God to reach the world and call the elect to faith is a great privilege. Of course, the Lord will save all those whom He has chosen, which is good news because it means our outreach failures cannot derail God’s plan to save all His elect. But this should not make us complacent. When we preach the gospel, we are participating in the greatest rescue mission in all of history, namely, the salvation of sinners. What could be more motivating than that?
Secularization in America has been attended by a moral revolution without precedent and without endgame. The cultural engines of progress that drive toward personal autonomy and fulfillment will not stop until the human being is completely self-defining. This progress requires the explicit rejection of Christian morality for the project of human liberation. —Albert Mohler in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: Identifying the precise moment when a state becomes beastly can be difficult. Nevertheless, it is possible for the state to turn on God and His people, and we must be vigilant so that we notice when this happens. If we use patriotism to justify breaking the Lord’s commandments, we have confused our earthly citizenship with our eternal, heavenly citizenship.
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: Choosing to obey Christ when His commands conflict with the state’s may earn us the designation of criminals or traitors. But that should not dissuade us from submitting first to Christ’s commandments before we do what the government says. Let us pray for discernment so that we might rightly know when and when not to obey the state, and let us encourage one another to be faithful to Christ even when the state disallows it.
Our Lord Jesus tells each of us that we must seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness. That kingdom is bigger than just me, bigger than just you. It is us, along with our fathers, our children, and as many as are afar off. It includes those whose musical tastes annoy us, whose weak theology frustrates us, whose sins shame us. We are called not just to identify with all those with whom we are in union, but to seek their good, to pursue their blessing. —R.C. Sproul Jr. in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: If we are going to know the truth, we must know the Bible. Let us take the time to study it personally and to hear it preached and taught accurately so that we may not err as the Sadducees did. John Calvin comments, “Since God makes known His will clearly in the Scriptures, the want of acquaintance with them is the source and cause of all errors.”
Coram Deo: Scripture refers to the Lord as the “living God” (Deut. 5:26) not only because He is the only God who is alive—the other gods being dead because they do not truly exist as gods—but also because He is the God of the living. God’s relationship to His people does not end at their death, for they live on to worship Him in heaven. Because God is the God of the living, we know that all His promises to us will be kept either now or in the world to come.
Coram Deo: Dr. R.C. Sproul writes in his Mark commentary, “We do not really progress in the Christian life until we understand that we are to love God simply because He is lovely and wonderful, worthy of every creature’s unqualified affection.” Love for God on account of who He is in Himself is the highest form of love that creatures can show. Let us pray that the Lord would give us such love for Him.
There is only one genuine cure for legalism. It is the same medicine the gospel prescribes for antinomianism: understanding and tasting union with Jesus Christ himself. This leads to a new love for and obedience to the law of God, which he now mediates to us in the gospel. —Sinclair Ferguson in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: In our day, many people will not preach the law of God because they believe news of God’s judgment creates a barrier to people’s entering the kingdom. Yet Jesus Himself shows us that we cannot come close to the kingdom of God unless we first know God’s law and what it demands. Let us encourage our pastors and teachers in their endeavor to preach and teach the law of God.
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: The church’s confession that Jesus is both truly God and truly man goes right back to the self-understanding of the Lord Himself. He proclaimed His humanity and deity; therefore, so must we. We are not preaching the whole Christ unless we proclaim His true manhood and His true deity. Because He is man, He could atone for the sins of mankind. Because He is God, this atonement can cover all of our sins past, present, and future.
We are dependent on the ministry of the church as the means by which the Word of God is channeled to us, for our education, our direction, our counseling, and our growth in holiness. —Iain Campbell in September's Tabletalk Magazine
Coram Deo: None of us fully lives up to God’s standards, but we are not hypocrites for trying. We are hypocrites only when we pretend to be holier than we are, when we present ourselves as humble when in fact our hearts are proud and conceited. Let us repent daily for any true hypocrisy that we might find in our hearts, and may we ask God to give us the grace to be honest about ourselves with others.
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do. —R.C. Sproul
Coram Deo: In his commentary Mark, Dr. R.C. Sproul writes, “God is not so much concerned with what we give as how we give.” Above all, the Lord is looking at our hearts, and He esteems those who have hearts that are willing to make sacrifices for His kingdom. Are you giving to the work of God in a way that pleases Him?
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