by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
American Christian Zionism may be the most dangerous, and the most Satanic, teaching in the history of Christianity.
I have been exposing this dangerous cult for many months now, and most of that teaching is available in the following article that can also be downloaded as a .pdf.
Exposing the Christian Zionism Cult
Since the Zionist false doctrine is claimed to be taught in the Bible, I have used the Bible to prove that it is not, and that in fact the Bible teaches the exact opposite, so anyone can “fact check” my articles by going directly to the original source: The Bible.
One very clear and easy way to refute Zionism from the Bible, is to look at the very clear and obvious truths that are taught in the Bible that almost all Christians agree upon, but that totally contradict Christian Zionism.
Christian Zionism differs from Jewish Zionism, but they both share the belief that the “Jews” are God’s chosen people, and that this ethnic group of people has a special significance before God based on their membership in this ethnic group today.
And while Christian Zionists can make this claim based on the writings of the Old Testament under the Mosaic Covenant, the same way that Judaism can, they cannot make this claim based on the New Covenant in the New Testament that followed the historical execution and subsequent raising from the dead of Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah.
The teachings of the New Testament portion of the Bible clearly teach that the New Covenant has superseded and replaced the Old Covenant, and even many of the writings of the Old Testament teach this, especially Jeremiah chapter 31 which states:
“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (Jeremiah 31:31-33)
The apostle Paul in the New Testament, himself a Jewish leader who converted from Zionism (referred to as the “Circumcision Party” at that time), wrote:
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men)—remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations.
His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. (Ephesians 2:11-16)
So the first thing to notice here is that in the New Covenant it does not matter which group one belongs to, either Jews or non-Jews referred to as “Gentiles.”
What matters is if one is part of this “new man” also described as “one body” that was made possible by “the blood of Christ”.
Any other group affiliation is meaningless.
The Teaching of Jesus
When Jesus came into the world and entered human history as a baby born to a virgin mother, most of the Jews living then, especially the Jewish ruling leaders, rejected him as the Messiah.
(Italicized text in parenthesis mine.)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people (family, nation, ethnic group) did not receive him.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (John chapter 1)
And yet a few people from among the Jews living in Israel at that time did believe in him, and started to follow him as his “disciples.”
They were the minority, at least in the beginning.
Most of these “believers” were from the common class of people, or the persecuted class, including fishermen, tax collectors, zealots, and women, some of them former prostitutes.
Just before he was executed at the hands of the Jewish rulers, he told his inner 12 “apostles” that his impending execution was the fulfillment of the New Covenant, prophesied by Jeremiah, during their celebration of the Passover, and also known as “the Last Supper”.
And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him.
And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” (Luke 22:14-20)
Jesus also very clearly taught his disciples that they would be attacked and that people would try to kill them for following and believing that Jesus was the Messiah, the true King of Israel.
He made it clear that they had to individually carry their own cross, and that they must NOT put any group membership above their commitment to him, not even their own biological families, as “blood lines” will save nobody.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 10:34-39)
The narrow path of following Jesus is a personal path, not a group membership free ticket pass, and it is the way of the cross, which was the primary method of execution of criminals during that time, and one had to actually carry their own cross to which they would be nailed to and executed upon.
This is the same path that Jesus walked, as he was treated as a common criminal, and was executed by his own fellow countrymen and relatives, the Jews.
Jesus showed us the Way, and that narrow path he has called us to follow is by going AGAINST the majority, not siding with it.
The Mystery Revealed by Paul is Still a Mystery to Most American Christians
Paul (originally known as Saul) was a member of the ruling Jewish class that opposed Jesus, and tried to imprison and kill those Jews who were following Jesus.
He was a member of the Party of the Pharisees, the conservative Jews zealous for the Law.
He did not convert to becoming a member of Christ’s followers through intellectual discovery, but by meeting Jesus in a personal encounter he had when he was on his way to Damascus to arrest Jewish believers in Jesus.
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.
He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.
“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone.
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered.
The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”
“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem. And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” (Acts 9:1-16)
With Paul’s extensive academic knowledge of the Old Testament and the Law of Moses, God revealed to him the knowledge of a “mystery” that had been hidden from the Jews in previous generations, even though the principles of this “mystery” were actually found throughout the Old Testament, but hidden from people’s understanding.
This “mystery” then became known as “the gospel”, which means “good news.”
One of the best places where Paul defines this “mystery” is in his letter to the believers in the city of Ephesus, which was written while Paul was in prison.
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.
When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. (Ephesians 3:1-13)
As Paul wrote in the previous chapter of this letter, and which I quoted above:
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations.
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ abolished the Law and the Old Covenant, which means that the significance of the physical race of the Jewish people, and the physical land of Israel, and the physical temple in Jerusalem, were no longer part of the New Covenant as they were in the Old Covenant, but are now replaced by the Spiritual Jews who individually, apart from any group, have become the spiritual temple residing here on earth, for now, in the spiritual Kingdom of God.
All of us who serve our King Jesus are now part of a new family (the household of God) made up of individual people from all nations.
The Christian Zionists, on the other hand, hold on to a teaching that the Jewish people will all be converted to Christians at some point in the future, based on their ethnicity as Jews, similar to the Old Testament thinking.
They twist certain verses in the Bible to try and justify this belief, but apart from those verses they wrongly interpret, the entire message of the New Testament, and the “Gospel”, totally contradicts their interpretation, as the Gospel then would be meaningless if one could be saved based on a national group membership.
Those of us who are the true disciples of Jesus Christ, suffering and being persecuted because we do not follow the Zionist crowd, are now the “chosen people” based on our individual relationship with Jesus Christ, as God’s chosen people, the “Spiritual Jews.”
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For it stands in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”
They (the Zionists) stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:4-10)
If you are still part of the Christian Zionist cult, get out now while you still can, and start reading the Bible for yourself to see what it really teaches.
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