The Greatest LAND GRAB in History
The Greatest LAND GRAB in History, How come the church was all Jews till about three hundred AD, Most living in Isreal, then they were hunted like wolfs and killed by the so called CHURCH they built? Paul said grievous wolfs would creep in after his departure, not sparing the flock. (Jews and gentiles at his time) See early church fathers below. Notice how they turned on the Jews in their words.
Long before the Holocaust history, Christians made a revision of God’s promises to Israel. Afflicted with anti-Semitism for over seventeen hundred years, the traditional churches quickly developed "Replacement Theology,". Early church theologians wrongly concluded that Israel as a people was eternally rejected by God for having rejected Jesus. The claim is that the church is now spiritual Israel and, as such, has replaced natural Israel. I had an Uncle that used this sometimes just to make me get going good. This "Replacement Theology" is still held by most mainline Christian denominations and is now making inroads in Evangelical churches especially in the charismatic movement has fell under the theology of "Reconstructionism." This theology also falsely concludes that Israel has lost all claim to its Land. This attempt to deprive the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people since the time of Jesus of its glorious eternal destiny is the greatest theft the devil every pulled off useing people to steal the Holy land from the Jews. "Well" take a look and see who is living on the moutains of Israel today.
Ezekiel 36:9-11
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
The King James version of the Bible is replete with examples of this theology."
Chapter after chapter of Old Testament prophecies contain promises of God’s blessing to Israel and Jacob. The publishers, attempt to negate the Jewish people in these chapters by arbitrarily adding chapter headings which apply the verses to the Christian church. While at times "Israel" can be symbolic of the Church, "spiritual Israel," promises to "Jacob" always refer to "natural Israel." Whole chapters of Divine blessings and promises have been literally stolen from the Jewish people. By simply By puting in the minds of the readers a wrong concept of the real meaning. Isaiah 43, for example, God addresses His promises to "O Jacob" and "O Israel." The chapter heading arbitrarily reads in most not all King James Bibles, however, "God comforteth the Church with His promises." All of Isaiah 60 is to Isreal today, also chapter 35, 65, and many more.
The anti-Semitic spirit of "Replacement Theology" becomes evident when dealing with the chapters in the Old Testament that refer to God’s curses against Israel. In these verses, spiritualizing the meaning of "Israel" is not attempted. But whenever God’s curses to Israel appear, they are readily applied to the Jews. Above Isaiah 59 is added a heading, "The sins of the Jews." Yet in the very next chapter, Isaiah 60, these very same Jewish people are robbed by the "Replacement Theology" revisionists of their God-given promise of future glory. Note the false chapter heading in most King James Bibles, "Glory of the Church." The historian James Parkes observed: 6 But Christian theologians divided it [the Old Testament] into the story of two people...the virtuous Hebrews...had all the praise and the promises and the wicked Jews had all the crimes and denunciations. This was the interpretation [of Replacement Theology] repeated over and over again, in every possible variation, and in every century from the third century onward. (No Jews.?) "Think"> A small crack in a stone filled with frozen water will destory it."
"Replacement Theology" And the Early Church Fathers
What are the unfortunate origins of "Replacement Theology"? "Replacement Theology" had its roots in the anti-Semitism of the so called Early Church Fathers. Just take a look.
[a.d. 100.] Epistle of Barnabas The writer of this Epistle is supposed to have been an Alexandrian Jew of the times of Trajan and Hadrian.
An early Church writing, the Epistle of Barnabas, said that Jews had no future with any God-given covenant. "Do not add to your sins and say that the covenant is both theirs and ours," he insisted. "Yes! It is ours; but they thus lost it forever."7 Justin Martyr, writing to the Jewish leader Trypho (A.D. 138), quoted from the Jewish Scriptures, which he referred to as "your Scriptures, (or rather not yours, but ours.") He also stated that the "prophetical gifts, formerly among your nation have been transferred to us."8 In A.D. 387 John Chrysostom ranted, "Since the deicide, the Jews have been delivered into the hands of the demons, they are only fit to be butchered, their behavior is no better than that of swine and oxen in the gross lewdness.The synagogue is a brothel, a cave of brigands, a den of ferocious animals,"9 He also argued that when Christians beat and murder Jews, the Jews are to blame, not the Christians who had acted through "God’s will."10 Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, ordered the burning of a synagogue in A.D. 388, "so that there would be no place where Christ is rejected." In his eyes, the synagogue "was destroyed by the judgment of God. Sources"11 CHRYSOSTOM AND THE JEWS OF ANTIOCH, pp. 163-166 John Chrysostom: Eight Homilies Against the Jews. (Edward H. Flanney, THE ANGUISH OF THE JEWS: 23 CENTURIES OF ANTI-SEMITISM (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 31.) Ibid., p. 95.
"Replacement Theology" and Anti-Semitism
As "Replacement Theology" was begotten by the anti-Semitism of the Early Church Fathers, so Martin Luther is an example of how the acceptance of "Replacement Theology" can, in turn, beget anti-Semitism. In an article entitled, "That Jesus Was Born a Jew," dated 1523, Luther initially said:12 For they [the Catholics] have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs and not human beings. They have done nothing for them but curse them and seize their wealth. I would advise and beg everybody to deal kindly with the Jews and to instruct them in the Scriptures; in such a case we could expect them to come over to us. We must receive them kindly and allow them to compete with us in earning a livelihood. . .and if some remain obstinate, what of it? Not everyone is a good Christian.
Martin Luther (1483-1546): On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543
Therefore a Christian should be content and not argue with the Jews. But if you have to or want to talk with them, do not say any more than this: "Listen, Jew, are you aware that Jerusalem and your sovereignty, together with your temple and priesthood, have been destroyed for over 1,460 years?" For this year, which we Christians write as the year 1542 since the birth of Christ, is exactly 1,468 years, going on fifteen hundred years, since Vespasian and Titus destroyed Jerusalem and expelled the Jews from the city. Let the Jews bite on this nut and dispute this question as long as they wish.
When the Jews did not convert as Luther expected, he wrote a pamphlet in his later years, "Concerning the Jews and Their Lies," in which he listed eight actions to be taken against the Jews:13 1 Burn all synagogues 2 Forbid Jews to travel Destroy Jewish dwellings 3 Forbid Jews to charge interest on loans to non-Jews and confiscate Jewish property 4 Confiscate the Jews’ holy books 5 Force Jews to do physical labor 6 Forbid rabbis to teach 7 Expel the Jews from provinces where Christians live. Today "Replacement" theologians also, wrongly conclude that the Jewish people have lost all rights to their Land. Accordingly, they claim all prophecies especially in the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah concerning Israel’s restoration to its historic Land were fulfilled with the return of Israel after the Babylonian captivity (536 B.C.). Then, they say, any further promises of blessing after 536 B.C. would be conditional to their faithfulness and since they proved totally unfaithful in rejecting Jesus, any further blessing as a nation or people was forfeited.
What Do the Scriptures Say?
Jeremiah 31:35-37 (NKJV)
35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): 36 " If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever." 37 Thus says the LORD: " If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:25-26 25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
This revisionist concept of Israel’s forfeiture of their Land is refuted by the prophet Jeremiah. "Thus saith the LORD...if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob...for I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them" (Jer 31:35-37; 33:25-26).
These two prophecies in Jeremiah together devastate "Replacement Theology." Only when God’s laws of the universe cease to control day and night and the operation of heaven and earth, only then will God cast off the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Then Jeremiah shows, "That the city Jerusalem shall be built to the Lord" by the returned Jews and "It shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down anymore forever" (Jer 31:38-40). The descendants of Israel (Jacob) (Not Ishmael or Esau?) will receive the city of Jerusalem (including East Jerusalem) forever.
Jeremiah 3:17 16And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. (The "Jews" will no longer remember it. Us Gentiles "never knew about it.") (No more Temple made with hands!!)
Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. (At the time when the gentiles are fulfilled. 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.
The judgement of (Ishmael or Esau?)
Obadiah 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's. When will these things be>?
Dan. 7:22 "Then shall the prophecy of Daniel be fulfilled that 'judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom'.
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
A picture of the last day kingdoms of the gentile world below.
Daniel 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.43And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. ( They cannot make an agreement and keep it.)
Isaiah 11:11-12 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea [the nations far beyond Babylon]. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Zephaniah 3:19-20 "Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD."
Amos 9:14-15 "And I will bring again the captivity [return from exile] of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God."
Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:3 Therefore will he give them up, (Jews) until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: (Church in perfection) then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 25 For I would not, brethren, (Us gentiles) that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Romans11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
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