by Bill Ward
The nation of Israel was re-created by the western allies after defeating Germany in World War II.
Israel and its western colonial masters have masterfully played the anti-Semitism card for over 75 years since the Holocaust, which at this point is getting pretty old. But if one says anything negative about the Jews or the state of Israel or our unholy alliance to it, as being anything less than God’s chosen people of destiny, they are quickly labeled a Nazi. The Holocaust was the greatest gift for the Zionist movement in Europe.
Throughout Israel’s long history; they have been victims of the Germans, the Christians, the Muslims, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, etc. . It is so stereo typical of Jews to complain that it has been the basis of much good humor. And most of their songs speak of suffering and are written in a minor key – not that there’s anything wrong with minor keys as I too am a big fan. Nevertheless the point remains. Stereotypes only work if they are built to some degree on fact.
All of these nations and peoples God used to judge and punish Israel. But Israel has not learned anything as they continue in their idolatry and rebellion. They have not changed since the time they first came out of slavery in Egypt. They have remained a rebellious and obstinate people. Is there any difference, or what has changed, between the Pharisaical Judaism at the time of Christ, which he condemned over and over throughout the Gospels, and modern day Talmudic Judaism? There is no difference except that they are perhaps more obstinate and antichrist.
Jesus says in Matt 23:29-32
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ “Consequently you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. “Fill up then the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
Note how the Pharisees claimed to be more righteous than their fathers. But the same is true for modern day Jews who claim to be better than their fathers the Scribes and Pharisees who crucified Christ. In this same way modern day Jews bear witness against themselves.
But what do the Zionists claim? That these are God’s chosen people. Really? They might be chosen, but for what purpose? It certainly doesn’t mean they are chosen to be eternally saved. They have been condemned by God from Exodus through the prophets; the gospels to the revelation of Christ.
The Song of Moses condemns them right before they were to enter the land of Canaan; which not so coincidentally is exactly what the Zionist movement is all about – reclaiming the promised Canaan land. But those days are long gone and God is no longer with them and there is no Joshua to lead them.
Deuteronomy 32:5
“They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
How much more are they “perverse and crooked” and “not His children” today? The only way to become His children again is to accept the Christ sent to them as their Messiah, and their Savior. But this would be the end of their Talmudic Judaism which is completely unmoored from both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
What is absolutely crucial to understand is that while the Jewish and Christian Zionists are pro-religious Christianity, they are at the same time firmly antichrist. Oh they love the religion of Christianity but hate the Christ of Christianity. As Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one (and that includes the Jews and all Israel and anyone else in the world regardless of their supposed “chosen” moniker) comes to the Father but through Me.” -John 14:6 This is one of the most famous and clear verses in the Bible and yet Christian Zionists somehow believe the Jews have a loophole. But there is no loophole.
It is statements like this that caused the leaders of the Jews to look for ways to destroy Him. Jesus was tearing down their religion and their power and this was unacceptable. – Talk about speaking truth to power; no one did it stronger than Jesus Christ.
Here again is what Christ says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.“….”Jesus therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. “The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.” John 10:1-10
There is only one way to the Father and that is through His Son Jesus Christ. Every one who climbs up another way is a thief and a robber. Is this not what the Zionists claim for the Jews? – Another way? There is only one way and that is for all eternity. There will be no other covenant. There is only the New Covenant built on one perfect sacrifice. The Jews are more than welcome to come into the light of this New Covenant. Jesus wished to establish the New Covenant with the Jews as they, and all the rest of the world, was incapable of fulfilling the Old Covenant. But what man could not do, weak as he was, Christ did.
This is the salvation of the Jews. It is not found in a piece of land in which Western imperialists re-colonized. This reminds me of how England colonized America and we eventually revolted. It seems to me that we are now playing the role of imperialist England and colonial Israel is beginning to flex its muscles. But in this case, there are no good players on either side.
Luke 17:20-21: Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst (or “within you”
.”
We, the bride of Christ, are the new Israel. Those who have believed in Christ are the true descendants of Abraham. Descendants by faith, not by religion or by blood, just like Abraham. The law is written not on tablets of stone but on our hearts. Our circumcision is not of the flesh but it is of the heart. The kingdom of God is within us.
Remember that Abraham when he was called was told to leave the land of his fathers; meaning to leave the religion and the idolatry of his fathers. The same calling is for the Jews; that they would leave their dead religion of their fathers and come in to the light and life of Christ.
Part 2
It is the treacherous doctrine of Zionism that whitewashes the natural, and God ordained, enmity between Jews and Gentiles. It is a doctrine that hides behind the religions of Christianity and Judaism in order to falsely unify both religions into one uni-religion called Judeo/Christianity.
It is sold under the idea that Jews and Christians share similar “values” and that both are derived from the same Scriptures. Oddly, most of the Jewish Zionists have read part or all of the New Testament, and yet somehow fail to recognize or to be offended how Christ; this “blasphemous” Son of God -according to them- whom they still crucify in their hearts; contends with, rebukes, and abolishes their man-made Pharisaical religion, their old covenant, and points out their lost relationship with the Father. By His death on the cross and resurrection, brought about remarkably by the rebellious Jews whom God used for His purposes, He permanently established a new covenant, which the Jews for the past 2000 years have vehemently rejected, as they rejected Christ. But now the Jewish Zionists, who are essentially modern day Pharisees, wish to link arms with Christian Zionists pretending to share some nebulous “values” while in their hearts remaining antichrist. They’ve cozied up to the man-made religion of Christianity, particularly because it has become an overwhelming hegemony in the world that now dwarfs Judaism (if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em; -or usurp and undermine them), while rejecting God the Father who sent his Son (as Jesus made clear in the Gospels).
It is the Jewish Zionists stated opinion that “the purpose of Christianity was to bring Judaism to the world” – Dennis Prager. I don’t think the apostle Paul would be okay with that. But Christian Zionists have no problem with it.
The Christian Zionists, on the other hand, so desperate to be at peace with Judaism and maintain their own religious security, fail to cognize any of this. They cling to their Christianity as they pretend to walk alongside a competing faith tradition (a.k.a. religion) which expressly denies and crucifies the founder of their own faith tradition. This is the treachery and duplicity of Zionism. It is treachery against the gospel of Christ.
The natural enmity between the Jews and the true followers of Christ, the true children of Abraham, was predetermined and implemented by God. Romans 11:11-14 – I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! (I neither hate nor reject individual Jews from hearing the gospel – I only reject the religion of Judaism- as did Christ) However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous. But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring! (but only if they repent and accept Jesus as their Messiah)
I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them. (not “ALL” but some – those who repent and accept the New Covenant)
The false doctrine of Zionism removes this provocation. There is no salvation for the Jew without provoking to jealousy and driving them to repentance and acceptance of Jesus as their Messiah. It leaves the Jew alone even to the point of claiming that they don’t need Christ precisely because they are Jews. This is duplicitous. It does this in the name of love and compassion and gentleness and kindness, but I ask you, is this love to leave the Jews to perish without knowing the truth? It’s really not that complicated but the religious make everything complicated because they do not live in reality but prefer rather to live within the safe confines of their theology. They believe things that are not true in the real world.
Religion protects religion regardless of the truth. Religion and religious doctrines such as Zionism, are created in order to bring peace and safety and comfort to mankind. But the truth, by its very nature, divides. And there is no more divisive truth than Christ himself.
as 1 Peter 2:6-8 states:
“BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION (how Apropos) A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone,
AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve,
“THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,”
and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
Jesus is the Stone which the builders rejected and he is a Rock of offense. The Zionists wish to remove this Rock lest anyone should stumble over it. But this is the essence of the gospel of Christ. Matthew 21:43-45 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you (Israel and the Jews), and be given to a nation producing the fruit of it. (in order to make you jealous) “And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.” And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them. (Too bad the Talmudic Jewish Zionists don’t understand)
Pretty offensive and divisive isn’t it? What else needs to be said? How many more ways can we say it? The Vineyard has been taken away and given to others while the previous owners were cast out.
Previously Matthew 21:41-42 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers, who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.” Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, (Oh Zionists)
‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;
THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD,
AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?
The apostle Paul, a Pharisee of Pharisees, was broken to pieces and his failed religion was shattered which he called it all dung. But I guess this is the part of the Gospels that the Jewish and Christian Zionists haven’t read.
Religious Christians and religious Jews wish to avoid the unavoidable conflict and natural enmity that exists between the true children of Abraham by faith and the Jews who were broken off for their lack of faith.
People want peace, but Jesus said, “Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;” – Luke 12:51. And is not the strongest division between those who accepted Jesus as Messiah and those who rejected Him as Messiah – the spirit of antichrist. The division is so strong that it caused His own people to whom He came to chant “crucify Him”. This division caused the Jews to persecute relentlessly and mercilessly the early Christ followers. Again I ask, has anything really changed between the Jews of that day and modern day? Do you know that it is against the law to preach the gospel of Christ and salvation by faith in Israel?
Judaism since the time of Christ has been defined as staunchly antichrist. How could it not be? They wait for a Messiah but that Messiah cannot be Jesus Christ because if they accept Him that would expel them from rabbinical Judaism. They would lose their religion which is so precious to them. Their religion is more precious to them then knowing the truth.
The seedbed of Zionism is the desire to meld Judaism with Christianity under a unifying religious doctrine; a pseudo Judeo-Christian ecumenicalism. While Jews hold to the belief that their Messiah will come and set up his kingdom in the holy land, (some Zionist rabbis actually believe the messiah is Donald Trump) the Christian Zionists claim that Christ will return and set up His kingdom in the holy land and the Jews will see it and join together with the Christians in some sort of end times revival, in the magical millennial kingdom where both the Jews and Christians live happily ever after. This was all projected to happen after the Western powers, using their imperium from World War II, forced their way into and repelled the people (some Christians, some Jews; the actual Semites) currently occupying the “holy land”. Of course Jesus said there really is no holy land because “the kingdom of God is within you” and “the true worshipers of God will worship in spirit and in truth”, not on this mountain or that mountain. But the Zionists are not interested in truth, they are interested in symbolic religious peace, land and “Lebensraum”, and above all, in maintaining their own respective religious influence.
Religion protects religion. Zionism was created to protect Christianity and Judaism from each other. In order to do this, the truth of Judaism and Christianity had to be suppressed and whitewashed over by a new Judeo-Christian “fellowship” founded on nebulous “values”. Apparently Christ as the Son of God and the Jewish Messiah is not one of those values.
A prime example of this unbalanced “fellowship” is the charity The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews which operates not so much as a fellowship but as a transfer of wealth; but only in one direction, from Christians to Jews. There is no charity moving through this “fellowship” from Jews to Christians. It’s a one-way street and it is always based on victimization and anti-Semitism. This is an unintended consequence of Zionism.
An additional purpose of Zionism, rather more nefarious, is to remove the Jews from Christian Europe, and throughout the world, where God had scattered them. The Nazis removed the Jews by Holocaust and terror fueled by Marxist vitriol. The Anglo-Americans decided to do it by reigniting this imperialist doctrine that sounds so magnanimous to religious Christians and Jews. So rather than preach the gospel and “save some”, as Paul hoped for, they removed them, so they wouldn’t have to deal with them. Then they could use them to establish a beach-front for the Anglo-American Empire in the Middle East. – A colony of sorts. And this is where we are today. The Holocaust provided all the energy to get this “good work” done.
But you will no doubt ask, wasn’t this prophesied by the Bible that the Jews would be gathered again in Palestine (Canaan Land, the Holy Land -whatever)? Yes. God uses evil all the time to bring about His purposes and fulfill His prophecies. This is key to countering the simplistic dichotomy between Zionists and so-called anti-Zionists. I am neither a Zionist nor an anti-Zionist. But this I am going to get into, Lord be willing, in part 3. Or perhaps a separate article.
Please read on. These are very difficult issues to explain in a concise way. Please read carefully and do understand what I’m saying. The truth even if it is harsh is a beautiful thing and as the Bible says “it is marvelous in our eyes”.