The Tangent College
Hello Collegues,
Religion peaceably divides, while reality violently unites.
Properly viewed, Christianity is not a replacement for Judaism but instead Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. One religion did not replace another religion. Additionally, despite numerous religious Christians and religious Jews who attempt to reconcile, the two worldviews cannot coexist with each other in reality because one negates the other. Politically they can live at peace with each other – no holy Crusades needed – but we cannot ignore that the two beliefs are incompatible. Judaism claims that Christ was a poser, a fraud and not the Messiah, while Christianity does not exist without Jesus Christ as the Messiah. A genuine Judeo-Christian belief system would have Christians recognize their Jewish roots and the works of God throughout the Old Testament along with having Jews recognize Jesus Christ as their Messiah and embrace the New Covenant that fulfills the shortcomings of the former Old Covenant.
There is a double standard present in those who contend for Judeo-Christian unity. There are many in this camp, both Christians and Jews, Mike Huckabee and Dennis Prager come to mind as prime examples. Christians are expected to embrace their Jewish roots, the Old Testament, and the law, while Jews are never expected to embrace Christ, the New Testament, and the fulfillment of Old Testament law.
Let me be clear, it has been a long-standing problem in the Christian church throughout history, continuing to this day – the failure to read and learn from the Old Testament – and I criticize it heavily in the modern evangelical church. This has been a blight on Christianity and has historically led to the persecution of Jews which is outrageous. But on the other hand, Jews are guilty of first ignoring and crucifying their Messiah, and now, while championing Judeo-Christian values and unity, (which is good politically) they do so without moving an inch in the direction of becoming Christians – or messianic Jews, which we all should be. As Paul stated in Romans 11:19-22, “You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.” (So much for the Christian doctrine of eternal security or predestination which is the Christianized form of Zionism). Christians should be humbly grateful to be grafted into the true vine.
Consider the Judeo-Christian organization “The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews”; it is a one way street in which Christians are implored to give money to old Ukrainian Jews who survived the Holocaust, and now Israeli Jews who are claiming to be victims again of Islamic terror. Notice how the money always goes from Christians to Jews and never the other way around. Why are Jews never asked to send money for the thousands of Christians who suffer persecution worldwide? There is a general attitude among the conservative Jewish media elites that Judaism is the true religion but will allow the Gentiles to have their lesser religion of Christianity. This attitude was of course far more severe in the early days when the Christians suffered greatly under the persecution of the Jews and later the Judaizers who attempted to reclaim this wayward sect of Christians back into Old Testament law and circumcision; which was not even Old Testament law but had become Pharisaical law.
Paul sums up what I have been trying to say in the following passage from Galatians 3:23-29:
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
This is the proper relationship between Judaism and Christianity.
Christianity properly understood is reality and not religion. It is God’s New Covenant, the Truth that applies to ALL people, not just ethnic “Christians”. As Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me”. – John 14:6 This is a metaphysical reality and not a religious statement that only applies to Christians or else it has little value. I’ve come to realize that religion exists merely to galvanize cultural groups together. In Old Testament times, every nation, or people group, had its own private god whom they claimed to be superior over the gods of the other nations and people groups. Today this sounds a little quaint and absurd, but this is still largely true among all the world’s religions. This is why I am not a religious Christian, but I characterize myself as a secular, nonreligious Christian, because I believe there is only one God for the entire world and only one Messiah, God’s only Son, Jesus Christ who came first for the Jews and secondly for the Gentiles – meaning everyone else.
“Is there any God besides Me,
Or is there any other Rock?
I know of none.’” – Isaiah 44:8
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And Again, “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!” – Deuteronomy 6:4
1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God. 3‘You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. 4‘You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God. 5‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD…….
…….21‘Neither shall you give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, (abortion) nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD. 22‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. 23‘Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
24‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. 25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have visited its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. 26‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you 27(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); 28so that the land may not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. 29‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. 30‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.’”
For purposes of brevity, I left out the long paragraph of abominations from verse 6-20. What I wish to point out is that these are particularly wicked abominations that have a unique judgment; that the land spews out or spits out the people that practice such things.
I like how God literally instructs them to perform “My judgments” – so much for the atheistic cry “do not judge” which for some reason Christians don’t seem to have a ready answer for. The one verse that mentions “do not judge lest you be judged” is explained by the verse John 7:24 – “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment”. “My judgments” are righteous judgments.
As I asked last week in comparing Zionism to predestination, has anything changed in modern day Israel? Is there some reason that God’s judgment upon any nation that practices such things should not apply to modern day Israel? Rather than being a pillar of virtue in the Middle East, they are a pillar of Western abominations following after the example of America, France, England, Ukraine, Germany, Italy. Not only are these things practiced, but they are practiced out in the open and celebrated as in America and western Europe. Although I have no doubt, despite their denial, that homosexuality and these things are practiced in Russia, the East, and in Islamic nations, they are not out in the open, publicly flaunted and celebrated as they are in the West and Israel. There is a difference between these two.
And yet we have many Christians and Jews, some who have devoted their lives and ministries to calling out these abominations as a precursor for God’s judgment and the sin of the last days, who cling to the idea of Zionism that it is somehow God’s good destiny to give the land of Canaan once again to be conquered by the sons of Israel. But the time of this conquest has long since passed and God’s leading and blessing is no longer upon them. But I guess they no longer need the blessing of God since they have America’s military-industrial complex to provide its blessing. And gobs and gobs of money. The purpose of the conquest of Canaan land was to perform God’s judgment upon all the nations they were to drive out. As the verse above says “you are to perform my judgments and keep my statutes”. Is that what the IDF is doing – performing God’s judgments? I think not. It seems more like ethnic cleansing than righteous judgment; particularly when they are more debased than the people they are expelling.
You will want to read this eye opening article by Seth Hancock along these lines entitled, “Satire Becoming Reality: Israeli soldier plants sodomite flag in Gaza”. This gives new meaning, a gross new twisted meaning to the celebration of gay pride which is shake your fist in the face of God atheistic pride. – And God is supposed to put His blessing on this war effort by His “chosen” people? – Not according to Leviticus 18. God is not mocked, what Israel sows, Israel will reap. What applies to all of us also applies to Israel.
If this article does not shake your religious foundations concerning modern day Israel, I don’t know what will. Listen to the videos and understand the corruption of Israel.
Those who claimed the war effort in Ukraine against Russia was for the advancement of the globalist, godless, LGBTQ agenda; can’t seem to recognize the same agenda working in Zionist Israel. America exports gay rights, sexual equality and progressive democracy – which means gay rights –, bio weapons, and vaccines; and both Ukraine and Israel are big consumers.
I’m sure the woke phony Christian Bono from U2 has no mention of this twisted form of “In the Name of Love” in his song.
Hancock writes, “According to the sodomite, the “obligation” of the IDF is to “demand gay rights.” Sodomy represents “democratic values.” The IDF allows “gay people the freedom to be who we are.” Defending sodomy shows the “righteousness of our cause.” Accepting sodomy “represents global solidarity.” Defending sodomy is done “In the Name of God” and “In the Name of Love.” And as the IDF engages in committing genocide, it’s actually for “peace” and death and destruction is a “message of freedom.” Does this sound like a righteous Israeli nation performing the judgments of God on the sodomites of the land of Canaan, or does it sound more like a debased Israel that is following in the footsteps of its western Babylonian Masters that continuously give them money as a hegemony and colonial footprint in the Middle East. – All in the name of democracy which somehow now means gay rights.”
Rev. 18:2-5 –
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, (new Israel) that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
This Babylonian nation of Israel is not the Israel that is spoken of by Paul when he says “all Israel will be saved”. This is of course an absurdity since there are hundreds of thousands who have practiced the things written above and have been “cut off from their people”. Cut off from whom? Is it not Israel? How can those who have been cut off still claim to be saved? The axe is at the root of the tree (of Israel) says John the Baptist and God at that time instituted a new covenant which gave birth to a new Israel. This new Israel would form the basis of the new Jerusalem, as it is written, “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be among them,” – Rev. 21
Was not Jezebel an Israeli? She who was eaten by dogs, judged by God through Elijah, was she saved? And what of her counterpart in the New Testament, Herodias, who caused the beheading of John the Baptist / Elijah? Was she not an Israeli? Was she saved for simply being an Israeli? Certainly not. What about the Pharisees and Sadducees who blasphemed the Holy Spirit by attributing the works of the spirit to the devil, and though Christ said they could not be forgiven, were they saved? Was Judas, the betrayer of Christ, who hanged himself, was he not an Israeli and therefore was he saved? Of course I could go on ad infinitum proving that “all” does not always mean all, or that the “Israel” Paul refers to does not mean the nation Israel.
Isaiah the prophet was of course a God fearing Jew who spoke the word of the Lord, and Jesus, “though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him; that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?” For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, “HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES, AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART; LEST THEY SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED, AND I HEAL THEM.” These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him. Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.” John 12:37-43. Zionist Christians do not know what to do with passages such as this. Why do the Jews and the Christians choose not to believe their own Scriptures?
I am aware of how difficult it is for so many Christians, along with conservative Jews, to accept the falling of Israel, again. But if you are a student of the Bible it becomes quite apparent that Israel began falling away and struggling against the Lord who brought them out of the land of Egypt soon after leaving Egypt. They didn’t want to leave their old religion and gods behind – like Rachel (the second wife of Jacob – “Israel” who stole her father’s idols. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. “They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’” And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people. Exodus 32:7-9 God wished to destroy them right then and there. The Lord relented but nevertheless eventually pronounced, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. (again, so much for predestination and Zionism) “But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” Then the LORD smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.. -Exodus 32:33-35
“All Israel will be saved”? Not this Israel, that made the golden calf, and not the modern globalist Zionist Israel that waves the demonic, sodomite pride flag. It must be another Israel. A new Israel under a New Covenant. This new covenant is available to all people, whether Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, Hindu or Buddhist, Muslim or Israeli. God has invited everyone. There has always been a remnant of God fearing people throughout all history. God will make the final determination and judgment as to who followed Him, the faithful members of remnant Israel and who will have their name written or re-written in the book of life.
I feel that this is a good ending with the understanding that there almost is no end to the understanding. I chose this angle of explanation and it led me down this path. Perhaps in future emails I will take a different path.
But in the meantime, follow the path of righteousness, question your religious beliefs and have the courage to remove the blindfold, and stay far from the camp of the Covidites – which are one of the peoples that the modern day Israelites failed to recognize and drive them out of the land. (They come from formerly good America) The Covidites are Israel’s true enemy rather than the Palestinians.
Bill Ward