"This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."
(Titus 1: 13-14) |
Everyday in my mail bag come letters with questions from sincere Christians, men and women deceived by false teachers into believing the same, old, Zionist, racist, anti-Jesus lies. I do my utmost to answer such letters in a kind manner, emphasizing the scriptures.
Question: Aren't Jews, including Jews who reject Jesus as Lord, nevertheless still Abraham's seed and heirs to the promise given Abraham?
Answer: The scriptures clearly tell us that Jesus is the seed (Galatians 3:16), and all who have faith in Him are "of Abraham's seed." It is not by race but through faith that God's elect are called and chosen. God makes no distinction between races. All men, Jew and Gentile alike, are called to serve Him:
"For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek...for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:27-29) |
What a revelation! God pays no mind to a person's race or national origin. Faith in Jesus is what truly counts. Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven, "Ye must be born again in spirit and in truth." (John 3:3)
Get it? The false Zionist teachers are bigots who claim that only people of a certain race, Jews, are Abraham's seed and heirs to the promise. But what does God's Word say? "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."
Friends, who are you going to believe? Jewish fables of lying and deceitful men, or the inspirational, life-giving truth found in God's Word?
"Out of One Blood..."
Question: But doesn't God have a special love for Abraham's seed, that is, for people of the Jewish blood?
Answer: Here is yet another prime example of unscriptural racial bigotry. God is a loving God, no doubt about that. But what a horrible thing to accuse God of loving one set of people, one race, more than all others.
Abraham, we are told in Romans 4:3-25, was chosen of God for one reason and one reason only: He believed! Abraham was a man of faith! It wasn't Abraham's blood or race that brought him favor with God. It was his faith.
God does not choose men and women for his kingdom based on their race or blood, but by whether or not they have faith in Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible says that everyone on earth has come from only one blood! God...
...hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...(Acts 17:26) |
There was no room in God's great plan for Hitler's doctrine that the Aryan race is a Master Race. And there is no room in God's plan for the poisonous teachings—so prevalent today among the Judaizers and Zionists—that the Jews are a Master Race.
Who Are God's Chosen People?
Question: Isn't it true that the Jews alone are "God's Chosen" people for eternity?
Answer: Here we go again. Lies and more lies, and more racial bigotry to boot. Well, lies can only be dissipated by introducing the Truth. For that, we must again go directly to the scriptures. First, we profitably look at Paul's testimony to the Ephesians (Christians):
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world..." (Ephesians 1:3-4) |
How fantastic! God chose us, Christians, to serve Him and be His family before the foundations of the world! We are blessed because we are God's chosen people! It has nothing to do with race, but with faith in Christ Jesus. Abraham had faith and was chosen. And today, Jews and Gentiles from every nation on earth who have faith in Christ Jesus are His Chosen People.
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Billy Graham |
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What a Shock the Truth Is to Many!
Now, some of you, at this moment, considering these scriptures, may be in a state of shock. This isn't at all what you have been taught by the false teachers and by the biggest names in the Christian establishment, is it? This probably isn't what your pastor teaches from the pulpit, either. But remember, most of today's pastors learned these lies, these Jewish fables, from the "theologians" at their cemeteries; oops, I mean "seminaries."
Regrettably, many sincere Christians have been lied to for so long, they have ingested the spiritual poison of Zionist deception for so very long, that they actually prefer these lies over the plain, unvarnished truth of Scripture.
Beware of Jewish Fables
Still just can't believe that God does not favor one physical race over another? Remember, the Apostle Paul duly warned us to not give "heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn the truth." (Titus 1:14)
So, regarding the subject of "Who are God's Chosen?," let us once again leave the realm of Jewish fables and move straight to the reality of God's inerrant Word. Peter, in his first epistle, wrote to the Christians "scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadaocia, Asia, and Bithynia" (I Peter 1:1). He reminded Christians that we are "born again" of incorruptible seed (yes—through faith we are Abraham's seed, as the apostle Paul also explained in Galatians 3:26-29).
Peter declared that because of our trust in Christ Jesus, Christian believers are God's chosen and are a holy nation.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people...the people of God..." (I Peter 2:9-10) |
Christians A Holy Nation
Wow! Christians, said Peter, born again in Christ Jesus, are His "chosen." We are God's chosen! Peter says, too, that as Christians, we are a "holy nation."
Elsewhere in scripture, Christians are identified as the "Israel of God." By authority of the Word of God, Peter says we are "a peculiar people...the people of God."
Now, the Judaizers and their Zionist cohorts claim that it is the physical nation of Israel, a Jewish theocracy inhabited by a Christ-rejecting people, that is a holy nation. They also insist that Abraham is the father only of the physical nation-state of Israel and has no relationship to any other nation.
How deceptively wrong they are! Again, God's Word puts the lie to their racist imaginings. In Genesis 17:1-4, God tells Abraham:
I am the Almighty God...behold, my covenant is with thee, And thou shalt be a father of many nations. |
So Abraham is father of many nations, not just one! But that's not all. To those racist teachers who continue to stubbornly resist God by claiming that only a physical nation of Israel and the Jews have a corner on God, I suggest they listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 21 about the prophetic fate of the Jews and the of the physical nation of Israel. After first warning that "He will miserably destroy those wicked men" who reject Him as Lord (Matthew 21:33-43), Jesus flatly stated:
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. |
Read that again: Jesus declared to the Jews, who arrogantly teach even today that the people of Israel will rule over an earthly kingdom forever, that, in fact, "The kingdom of God shall be taken from you..."
Now ask yourself, have the Judaizers, the Falwells, LaHayes, and so forth ever told you of this amazing pronouncement by our Lord Jesus?
Ok, I ask you, then, who is telling the truth? Whom will you believe? Will you believe Jesus, who told the Jews He was taking the Kingdom away from them and giving it to a nation bringing forth fruits? Will you believe Peter, who says that Christians, not Jews, are God's Chosen and that Christians, not Jews, are the "people of God?" Or, will you stubbornly reject the scriptures and throw your destiny in with that of the Judaizers, who resist God's Word and who side with God's enemies?
Wall of Partition Broken Down
What is wonderful is that God, in His incomparable love, has given men and women of every race on earth an opportunity to be His children. Regrettably, the Judaizers within the Christian fold, prodded along in their misdeeds by Jewish supremacists, seek to erect a wall of partition between the races. They put the Jews on one side of this wall of partition and the Gentiles on the other. They teach segregation of the two races and claim racial and spiritual superiority for the Jews. But this is an affront to God, for He has broken down the wall of partition.
God is no respecter of persons. A Gentile who becomes a Christian is no longer a Gentile, a Jew no longer a Jew. Whosoever believeth in Him is added to God's heavenly family and is made a citizen of the commonwealth of Israel:
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh...being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God... But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:11-13) |
What a lover of all mankind is our Saviour, Jesus! Once, before they were born again, Christians were of two separate types in the flesh, "Gentiles and Jews," But no longer. The blood of Jesus has changed us through faith in Him, so that all who believe in Christ Jesus, all who are born again, are now one. We are all of the commonwealth of Israel. We are together the Israel of God, the People of God. The wall between Jews and Gentiles is broken down.
Good News for Jews and Gentiles
Yes, the wall between Jews and Gentiles is broken down. Jews and Gentiles alike who have put on Christ Jesus are among the ranks of God's Chosen, Abraham's seed, heirs to the promise:
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us... for to make in himself of twain one new man... And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Cross... (Ephesians 2:14-16) |
This is good news for both Gentiles and Jews. God is a God who honors people who have faith in Christ Jesus. He is not a respecter of racial distinctions. Christians who once were Jews or Gentiles in times past are now assured of the unity, the oneness, of God's holy and united spiritual nation, Israel:
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God...(Ephesians 2:19) |
Praise His Holy Name! God is not a racist, nor can Christians any longer tolerate segregation of the two races, Jew and Gentile.
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