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War or peace?

When John Nelson Darby conjured up his rapture theory in the 1830’s, along with his radical view that the Jews were God’s chosen people (apart from Christ), no one could have foreseen how this would affect the political world a century later. Until then, most Christians believed that only believers in Christ were “chosen.” Most had been influenced by the earlier Roman Catholic belief in Replacement Theology—that the church replaced the Jews as inheritors of the promises of God.

Replacement Theology was actually inaccurate, because the church never replaced Judah; the church IS Judah (Romans 2:29). Just because many non-Jews joined the tribe by faith in the King Jesus of Judah did not mean that they replaced the tribe itself. Unbelieving Jews were pruned from the “tree,” as it were, because the dead branches were broken off. Others were grafted in, but the tree itself—especially its “root”—were never replaced.

If the broken branches wish to become “chosen,” they are welcome to do so by attaching their branches to the tree of Judah through faith in Jesus Christ.

Citizenship in Judah or Israel as a whole is not based on one’s genealogy. The law itself cuts off anyone who violates the law of sacrifice by refusing to bring the blood of the sacrifice to the altar of God (Leviticus 17:4, 5). Such lawbreakers are “cut off from among his people.” In other words, they lose their citizenship in Judah or Israel. But if their status as a Judahite (“Jew”) were based on genealogy, such a law would not be possible.

Hence, the statement, “The Jews are God’s chosen people” is an unlawful doctrine. “Sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4). Therefore, it is a sin to believe that teaching.

Yet this is the foundational teaching of Christian Zionism, popularized by John Darby.

In the 1870’s, Albert Pike, the Supreme Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, who was an avowed Luciferian, wrote a letter to his mentor, Mazzini, the successor of Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati (in 1776). In his letter, Pike reveals a demonic plan to cause Christianity, Islam, and Judaism to be discredited and to replace these with his own religion of Luciferianism by fomenting three world wars.

World War 1 was designed to overthrow Russia; World War 2 was designed to create a Jewish state in the Mideast that would be a constant irritant while building an expectation among Jews and Christians that the Jewish state was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Then the third World War would be triggered in which Jerusalem and the entire Jewish state would be destroyed, so that Zionistic Christianity and Zionist Judaism would be shocked and disillusioned.

Islam, too, would be devastated, seeing that Jerusalem is their third holiest site. In this way, Pike hoped to replace all three religions with Luciferianism.

Well, we now seem to be coming to the climax of the Pike plan. We know that they will not succeed and that the truth will prevail. The Kingdom of God will replace the kingdoms of men. Nonetheless, there is bound to be much chaos, destruction, and death. Certainly, Zionism itself will be shattered with the destruction of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 19:10, 11; Isaiah 29:1-4). It will be the task of the overcomers to show Christians and others the true interpretation of Scripture and to present to them the heavenly Jerusalem, even as God casts out the “bondwoman” called Jerusalem (Galatians 4:25, 30).

Years ago, I wrote The Struggle for the Birthright in anticipation of this very situation. This publication was about two decades early, but it has allowed many people to study prophecy at their leisure instead of trying to cram at the last minute. You can read it here free of charge, or order the book for your library:

https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-struggle-for-the-birthright/

US President Donald Trump has surrounded himself with Zionists who are blinded by a desire for war. In a few days he will have a monumental decision to make.

The secular Zionists are simply warmongers who promote Israeli hegemony in the region and whose goal is to expand the Jewish state all along the Euphrates River down to the Persian Gulf. The Christian Zionists agree with this, but they believe that war is necessary to force Jesus Christ to return in order to save the Jewish state from annihilation.

Hence, the Christian Zionists are acting like Judas, who thought that if he sold Jesus to the chief priests, it would force Jesus to manifest Himself and save Himself from certain death. Judas’ plan failed, and Judas, being remorseful, hanged himself. In doing so, he proved to be a prophetic type of Ahithophel, David’s friend and counselor, who betrayed him in the Absalom conspiracy and who subsequently hanged himself (2 Samuel 17:23 KJV).

When Absalom overthrew David, it set in motion a prophetic pattern that was to be repeated a thousand years later in the New Testament story. There Jesus played the role of David, Caiaphas played the role of Absalom, and Judas played the role of Ahithophel. With a few alterations, this pattern is again being repeated in the time of the second coming of Christ. Christ comes the second time as “Joseph,” whose robe was dipped in blood (Genesis 37:31; Revelation 19:13).

The first coming of Christ saw a dispute over the Messiah-King of Judah; the second coming of Christ sees a dispute over the birthright of Joseph and the birthright name Israel. In Christ’s first coming, those who supported Jesus’ right to the throne were the believers; those who agreed with Caiaphas were the antichrists, and Judas was the friend who sided with the antichrists.

In the second coming, the dispute came to the forefront in 1948 when the Jews took the name Israel, which had been given to Joseph and his sons (Genesis 48:16). The Jews (of Judah) did not have the right to the name Israel. So this has been the spiritual and prophetic issue since 1948. Once again, there are disciples and friends of Jesus who have sided with the antichrists who, this time, dispute Jesus’ right to claim the birthright.

Let us not side with those who oppose Jesus’ claim to the birthright of Joseph. When the dispute is finally resolved, many modern Judases may end up hanging themselves, either literally or figuratively. Christian Zionists are headed for a very big shock, and it appears that Iran/Persia will be God’s agent in casting out the bondwoman and her son (Galatians 4:30).

But you who know the truth of the Word will not be taken by surprise, nor will you be shocked when prophecy is fulfilled. As for me, God forbid that I should cease in teaching the truth of the Word. I pray that God will open the eyes and ears of many more people ahead of time, so they will not be shocked when Jerusalem is destroyed and the land itself rendered uninhabitable.