The Dire Problem with Christian Zionish

The Dire Problem with Christian Zionism

There appears to be Biblical prophecies calling for the return of the Jews to Palestine.  However, the majority of Zionists and Zionist Christians do not understand the teaching of these particular prophets.  To begin, the Zionist Christians are apparently ignorant of the distinction between the nations and the peoples of Old Testament Israel and those of the nation of OT Judah.

At the death of King Solomon, with the ascension of Rehoboam, the original 12 tribes of the original kingdom of Israel became divided due to the promised tax increase of Rehoboam.  The ten northern tribes retained the name of Israel through entitlement because that was the name inherited by Ephraim from Jacob.  The southern tribes of Judah, Benjamin, some Levites and other tribal strays took the name of Judah from the dominant tribe with the scepter kingship promise.

As a supplemental addition to this article, it should be noted that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not descendants of Abraham.  They are primarily Khazarian converted Jews (most originally came from Russia) with others consisting of an Edomite-Judean mixture created by the Maccabean conquest of the Edomites between the periods of Greek and Roman subjugation prior to the birth of Christ.  The Edomites (descendants of Abraham through Esau), under the Maccabees, were given a choice of either becoming practicing Jews or being killed or expelled.  They chose to become Jews since their goal was to inhabit the land of Palestine.  There may actually be some authentic Judahites among todays so-called Jews.  Regardless of their ethnicity, all the practicing Jews share a common conviction:  their complete hatred for Jesus, Christians, and the Christian Church.  The Palestinians and most Arabs are more Semitic (descendants of Abraham through the linage of Shem) while the Khazarian Ashkenazi Jews are not Semitic at all.

For more information concerning the ethnic origin of current Jews, go to the following links:  True Origins of Professing Jews  /  Who Is a Jew?

In Genesis 48 Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, aka Ephraim and Manasseh, proclaiming that Ephraim would be the founder of “many nations” and a great nation would arise from Manasseh.  Many consider these nations to be England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and the USA.  The Old Testament nation of northern Israel was conquered and deported (exiled) by Assyria starting around 740 BC.  Other than a few individuals, the ten tribes never returned but instead migrated to western and northern Europe, basically becoming the Caucasians of northern and eastern Europe.

The Nobleman

Beginning at Luke 19:12 Jesus tells a story or a parable concerning the Kingdom of God.  Since this parable also relates to real functions of the Church and the Kingdom it is definitely a prophecy.  It deals with a nobleman who went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return as king and ruler.  Of course this is about Jesus, the King of the Kingdom, who was resurrected into the presence of God in heaven where He receives His kingdom.  He will later return from His distant country (heaven) as King of the world (or Kingdom) and pronounce His judgments onto the subjects of the kingdom.  Some of the citizens did well with their given gifts and others did not do so well.  There was also a group of citizens who hated the nobleman and sent a proclamation stating they “did not want this man (aka Jesus) to be king over them”. 

Luke 19:14 NET  But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

The group of citizens who did not want this (or that) man (Jesus) to be their king were slated to be destroyed in the presence of the king.

Luke 19:27 NET  But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’ “

Tim LaHaye

Tim LaHaye, a noted evangelist and co-author of the Left Behind series recently died.  I am certain he was a good man and loved the Lord but I essentially disagree with the majority of his thoughts and writings.  He was an ardent dispensational, pre-tribulation rapturist, and a Christian Zionist.  His doctrine, along with other like-minded individuals, consists of two plans of redemption of God:  one for so-called Judahites (Israeli Jews) and another for the Church, and some consider the church to be an afterthought.  When the historical interlude of the Church’s existence is taken out of the world with a pretribulation rapture, then God can return to the business of dealing with the Israelites, or Judahites, or Jews, or imposters, or whatever name you may use to identify them.

Dispensational Pipedreams

Dispensational pre-tribulation rapturists claim the church age was created or installed because the bulk of the Judahites, during the life of Jesus, refused to accept Him as the Messiah.  Although the Church was initiated by a band of Judahites, it quickly spread to the Greeks and gentiles (nations).  At the pre-tribulation rapture, there will supposedly occur a time of great tribulation for the Jews and the world at large.  At the return of Jesus, they claim, all the Jews will accept Him as the rightful Messiah, inhabit Israel and Jerusalem as the capitol of the world and will rule the Kingdom or the world with Jesus.  Most Christian Zionists (and most other so-called church people) believe all Christians will be in heaven for evermore playing on harps and singing songs in their great mansions.

However, Luke 19:27 tells us God’s real purpose for the return of the Jews. He brought them back, not for their good, but to judge them at the scene of the crime when they rejected and crucified the Messiah.

Isaiah chapter 29 speaks of the city of Ariel and its destruction.  Ariel is another name for Jerusalem.  According to Easton’s Bible Dictionary: 

A symbolic name for Jerusalem ( Isaiah 29:1 Isaiah 29:2 Isaiah 29:7 ) as “victorious under God,” and in Ezekiel 43:15 Ezekiel 43:16 , for the altar (marg., Heb. ‘ariel) of burnt offerings, the secret of Israel’s lion-like strength.

Isaiah 29:1 KJV  Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!

What happens to Ariel or Jerusalem?  God lays a siege against it.  The inhabitants will become as dust or chaff.  They will endure an earthquake, a great noise, a fierce storm, and a flame of devouring fire. 

Isaiah 29:3-6 KJV  And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.  (4)  And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.  (5)  Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.  (6)  Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

One commentator has suggested that “the flame of a devouring fire which reduces the residents to dust” sounds much like the aftereffects of a nuclear detonation.

Conclusion

It is my opinion that God has not and will not operate in a dispensational manner.  The Church (as a faith – not a building) is the New Covenant and not an afterthought.  The Old Covenant has been replaced by the New.  The entire world including the Jews are responsible to the New Covenant and the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  There are not two covenants, Old and New, operating simultaneously.  Christian Zionists may have good intentions but they are wrong.

Dr. Stephen Jones:  http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/daily-weblogs/2016/07-2016/the-eighth-beast/

Christian Zionists, who think they are blessing the Jews by paying their way to move to “Israel,” are actually sending them to almost certain destruction. Over and beyond this, they are supporting those who usurped the throne of David and who now usurp the birthright of Joseph. This is the Judas factor that afflicts upon those who do not understand the scriptures.

The True Origins of Professing Jews

THE TRUE ORIGINS OF PROFESSING JEWS

The word “Jew” is a shortened form of Judean or Judahite.  The term can be found in the KJV of the Bible in 2 Kings 16:6.  This passage clearly demonstrates that Israel and Judah are not the same nation.  After the death of King Solomon, ten of the tribes, excluding the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, revolted against the new king and his excessive tax plan and launched a separate northern nation which they called Israel.  The name Israel, for their new nation, was legitimate because they contained the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh which were the sons of Jacob who was renamed Israel by God.  The southern nation did not have the legitimacy of the name “Israel” and called themselves Judah. 

The northern nation of the ten tribes called Israel were conquered and deported by Assyria between 745 and 721 BC.  The majority were taken to northeastern Assyria and they never returned.  Whenever the prophets write concerning the House of Israel and their ultimate restoration they were speaking of the ten tribes of northern Israel and not the nation of Judah.  This will include the major prophets, Ezekiel and Jeremiah as well as others. 

It is important that Bible readers and students make this distinction.  Many of today’s Christians and others have been told that Jews are Israel but this is totally untrue.  The prophecies speaking of the restoration of “Israel” are not being fulfilled by the people calling themselves Jews in the modern state of Israel.  Actually, the current nation of Israel has no legitimate right to call themselves Israel.

Although Judah was a son a Jacob and a tribe of the united Israel under the reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon, it because a national name when the united kingdom divided into two nations.  This division broadened the term “Judah” and the prophets used the broadened name accordingly.

The House of Judah or national Judah was conquered by Babylon between the years of 604 through 586 BC.  Many were killed and some were deported to Babylon.  Due to the destruction of the nation of Judah it could no longer be specifically used as a national name or term.  In the book of Esther we find the term “Jew” employed rather than Judah or Judahite. 

Esther 8:17 KJV  And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

Persian Jews

Also notice in the last sentence that “many of the people of the land became Jews”.  Through fear of possibly being hung, many of the Persians became Jews in a religious sense, not in a genealogical manner.  This accounts for the so-called Persian Jews that invaded the land of Canaan as prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39.

Ezekiel 38:5 KJV  Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

These Persians or Persian subjects were not former citizens of the nation of Judah, but rather were converts who had never lived in the land of Canaan.  At the return of a portion of the Jews back to the land of Canaan after the 70 years of punishment had been fulfilled, it is certain the Persian Jews did not accompany them.

Edomite Jews

The First Book of Maccabees appears to regard the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the Seleucid king who had tried to eradicate their religion and against the Jews who supported him. The Second Book of Maccabees presented the conflict as a struggle between "Judaism" and "Hellenism".  Most modern scholars argue that the king was reacting to a civil war between traditionalist Jews in the countryside and Hellenized Jews in Jerusalem, though the king's response of persecuting the religious traditionalists was unusual, and was the immediate cause for the revolt.  

Some modern scholarship considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish population and by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

Whatever the actual reason, the Maccabeans conquered their neighbors and forced them to either convert to Judaism or to be exiled.  Most of the conquered people chose conversion, particularly the Edomites, and all became Jews, with no distinction between them.  Remember that Esau, the founder of the Edomites, was a brother of Jacob thus they were all related to some degree.

The Jewish historian, Josephus, recorded this event in his Antiquities of the Jews.  He was a descendant of the Maccabees and initially fought against the Romans during the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. 

“Hyrcanus took also Dora and Marissa, cities of Idumea, and subdued all the Idumeans; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would be circumcised, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision and the rest of the Jews’ ways of living; at which time therefore, this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews.”

This proclamation of Josephus is corroborated by the 1903 Jewish Encyclopedia.

“Judas Maccabeus conquered their territory for a time (B.C. 163; Ant. Xii, 8 par. 1, 2). They were again subdued by John Hyrcanus (c. 125 B.C.) by whom they were forced to observe Jewish rites and laws (ib. 9, par. 1; xiv. 4, par. 4). They were then incorporated with the Jewish nation, and their country was called by the Greeks and Romans ‘Idumea’.

“From this time the Idumeans ceased to be a separate people, though the name ‘Idumea’ still existed (in) the time of Jerome.”

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia states:

“The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants.”

The above three references all agree that Edom (the Edomites) were absorbed and integrated into the Jewish or Judahite people group.

It has been said the Edomite Jews were the most violent and radical people of Judea and prior to the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome most of the Zealot group were of Edomite origin.  The actions of the Zealots supposedly precipitated the Romans to destroy Jerusalem.

In later years, the Jews began to call Rome and Christian Europe by the name of “Edom”. They obviously did not use the term literally, but symbolically for an oppressive government.  Even so, they seem to have done this in order to explain the many prophecies in the Old Testament about Edom in the latter days.

The prophets considered Edom as being a latter-day enemy. Since the rabbis could not submit to the idea that their own nation might one day have to fulfill those prophecies, they spiritualized them and applied them to other people they considered “enemies”.  Of course, it has been verified by many (including me) that many of the modern Jews are in reality, Edomites or partial Edomites.

Esau and Isaac believed that Esau was entitled to the birthright and scepter kingship promises.  Esau sold the scepter promise for a bowl of soup.  Jacob received the birthright promise by tricking Isaac into thinking he was Esau.  God desired that Jacob receive the birthright but Rebekah and Jacob did not have the faith to allow God to do His miracle work.  As a result, Esau begged for a blessing from Isaac.  Jacob gave him a blessing but it was a prophecy from God.

Genesis 27:39-40 KJV  And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;  (40)  And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

It appears that God has given the birthright back to the ancestors of Esau for a short time prior to the return of Jesus to fulfill His prophecy.  The bad figs of Jeremiah 24 as applied to the Judeans not accepting Jesus as their Messiah were disinherited from the birthright and Judah-ship promises of God.  Their only recourse is to accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah and King of the Kingdom of God.

The Khazarian Jews

During the Middle Ages, a kingdom known as Khazaria existed in southern Russia around the Caspian Sea area.  The faux-Jew Khazar kingdom was conquered by the Rus and many or most of the Khazarian people were scattered.  Most of the Khazars were incorporated into the Russian area and later migrated into Eastern Europe, integrated with other Jewish people (possibly Sephardim) and became known as Ashkenazi.

The Jewish Encyclopedia:  “A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia. The kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians (855). Jews have lived on the shores of the Black and Caspian seas since the first centuries of the common era. Historical evidence points to the region of the Ural as the home of the Chazars. Among the classical writers of the Middle Ages they were known as the ‘Chozars,’ ‘Khazirs,’ ‘Akatzirs,’ and ‘Akatirs,’ and in the Russian chronicles as ‘Khwalisses’ and ‘Ugry Byelyye’.”

Togarmah is a group of imposter-Jew Khazarians who integrated into parts of Russia, such as Moscow and Tubolsk, and eastern European countries.  The seventh son of Togarmah was Khazar, from which the nation of converted-Jews acquired their name.  Togarmah and Ashkenaz were brothers according to Genesis 10.  The Khazar Jewish line became known as the Ashkenazi.