Christian Study

Acts 17:6 has the people of Thessalonica claiming that those who were teaching Christianity were turning the world upside down.

Matthew 7:14 “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Are “Christians” who are teaching the same acceptance and tolerance as the world teaching Christianity or have they become friends of the world.

“Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4b.

It is good to question your beliefs if you find yourself believing the same thing those do who hate Christ. It is good to question your beliefs if you find yourself believing doctrines that the majority of “Christianity” teaches. You may find yourself fighting against Christ. One day Christ will say,

“But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” Luke 19:27.

A recent article was taking notice of the socialist style non-Christianity that is aggressively trying to replace normal more conservative Christianity.

The conservatives are planning a teaching conference to inform people of this problem. It is great that the conservatives are fighting back. The social justice, critical race baiter non-Christians are teaching Cultural Marxism that is decidedly Jewish. Just like when the Berlin wall came down because it was safe for Communism, it is now safe for the Marxist to stop pretending they are normal Christians. There has been a lot of that happening lately.

The socialist gospel is another gospel. They can only use scripture that is taken out of context and spiritualized to say what they teach. Unfortunately conservative Christianity is guilty of doing the same thing. They also take scripture out of context and spiritualize verses to make scripture work for the world they see.

If the conservative group would just teach scripture then it would be easier to see a difference.

One of many examples that is taught in many churches is that non-Israelite people are adopted into the church. Ephesians 1:5 is one example of ignoring the actual context. Paul stated that the adoption belongs to Israel in Romans 9:4. Churches spiritualize those verses to be more inclusive. The reason they do that is because there is a people claiming to be Israel that is not Israel. They are those who today say they are Jews, but are not. Their behavior proves they are of the synagogue of satan, Revelation 2:9. Scripture says that true Israel would take the light of the gospel to the world. The Jews spit when they hear the name of Christ. They are not Israelites.

If churches no longer believed in the fraudulent Jews and believed scripture about who is Israel then no spiritualization of verses such as Ephesians 1:5 and Romans 9:4 would be necessary. Conservatives would be able to say we truly teach scripture without needing to spiritualize or destroy it’s true meaning. Believe the scripture, question the world.

In a way, there are two bibles.

There is the bible we have all been taught at church.

Then there is the bible that few know about. It is very difficult to show this bible to people. It has the same English words on the page, but it does not read the same as people expect based on the Hebrew and Greek text.

In the early 1600s the translators of the King James Version had a decision to make. Should they translate a reasonably accurate representation of the Hebrew and Greek and risk censure or worse. They went with the safer solutions. Here are a few examples.

The church in England in that day taught a Sunday observance. To avoid any confusion with that the translators took the Greek phrase “mia ton Sabbaton” and translated it as “first day of the week”. The phrase actually means “first of Sabbaths”. First of Sabbaths actually had nothing to do with a weekly observance as it was a specific Sabbath in the spring of the year, but the church taught that the Sabbath was no longer to be observed.

Another example is the word nation. In the Hebrew and Greek the words are goy and ethnos. Translating these words correctly could cause concern with church doctrine. So in instances where the translators didn’t have any choice they used the word nation. After all they couldn’t suggest that Abraham’s offspring would become many Gentiles! Everywhere else they inserted the Latin word Gentile. The primary meaning of Gentile is nation. At one point in history it was used to mean a non-Roman. If you ever look at an old dictionary you will see that it meant non-Jew and non-Christian in 1931 for example. It has since been changed to mean only non-Jew. Even in recent times those who call themselves Jews have changed the meaning of goy to mean non-Jew. However, when the writers of the old and new testaments wrote goy and ethnos they meant only nation. You had to understand the context of the verse to know the who. In some cases in the new testament the context demands that the who is physical Israelites where the word Gentile is used.

Those are just two examples. One must decide if they are going to read the bible that supports comfortable church doctrine or read the bible that shows what God intended one to understand. There is quite a difference between them and it is worth the work to learn the truth.

Here is a small excerpt from a booklet called Paul and Joseph of Arimathea, Missionaries to “The Gentiles”.

“The book of Acts itself is the historical account of the changing of the name of Israelites in Judea to “Christian.” The only people who retained the name “Jew” after the first century A.D. were the Judeans of non-Israel ancestry who rejected Christ, hated the Gospel, and killed Christians. Israelites who were converted adopted the name “Christian.”

“Those non-Israelite “Jews, their descendants, and all those who have joined their so-called “religion” of Judaism, are still called “Jews” today. This is, also, fulfillment of the prophecies, for God said to the enemies of His Israel people,

“And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen: for the Lord Yahweh shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name.” Isaiah 65:15

“We’ve already seen His servant (Israel) was to be called Christian after
Christ. As far as can be ascertained, very few, if any, “of them which say they are Jews” (Revelation 2:9) today, have any Israelite blood in their veins. Yet our “lying prophets” call the “Jews” by the hallowed name of “Israel,” and “God’s Chosen People.”

The is was an excerpt from Paul and Joseph of Arimathea, Missionaries to “The Gentiles”, by Sheldon Emry, 1974. The interesting part is that enough additional research has been done in this area, mostly by Jews themselves, that we no longer need to guess if there might be some real Israelites among today’s Jews. There aren’t any.

There are two way to interpret scripture using scriptural terms. One is to suggest that the apostles ignored the scriptural definitions for words. This is highly unlikely since they quoted and expected one to understand the context of quotes quite often. Even Christ quoted from the older writings and expected one to understand the context.

The better idea is to look at all quotes and word usage in light of the old testament usage. For example here is 1 Peter 2:9-10.

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”

This well known and very abused verse is well defined by scripture. The following terms must be understood with scripture’s definitions.

Find the definitions for each of the following and you will understand who is the subject of these verses. chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, “not a people” and “have not been shown mercy”.

Chosen or Elect. They both have the same Greek word source.

1 Chronicles 16:13 “O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.”

Isaiah 45:4 “For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.”

Royal Priesthood and a Holy Nation.

Exodus 19:6 “And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”

Peculiar People (Peculiar Treasure and Special People).

Exodus 19:5 “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine”.

Deuteronomy 14:2 “For thou art an holy people unto Yahweh thy God, and Yahweh hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”

Deuteronomy 26:18 “And Yahweh hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments”.

Not a people.

Hosea 1:8 “Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.”

Have not been shown mercy.

Hosea 1:6 “And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.”

After a chapter of explaining all the punishment, then God shows how he will allure Israel to Him again.

Hosea 2:23 “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.”

It should be rather clear that it is true Israel who is the context for 1 Peter 2:9-10. To suggest that Peter, Paul and James for examples had no clue that God had changed His plans puts doubt on the inspiration of scripture. It also destroys many old testament prophecies and promises and makes God a promise breaker.

The modern day Jews are not Israel. Believe the scripture, question the world.

I started reading one book, but in the introduction another book was recommended. That led to a third book. So now I am reading two books with the third waiting. One by James Jester had a quote from a Professor C.A.L. Totten (1851-1908), of Yale University.

“I can never be too thankful to the Almighty that in my youth he used the late Professor Wilson to show me the difference between the two houses. The very understanding of this difference is the KEY by which almost the entire Bible becomes intelligible, and I cannot state too strongly that the man who has not yet seen that Israel of the Scripture is totally distinct from the Jewish people, is yet in the very infancy, the mere alphabet, of Biblical study, and that to this day the meaning of seven-eighths of the Bible is shut to his understanding.”

The understanding of the two Houses of Israel is very important. Ephesians chapter two is all about the reunification under Christ of those two Houses. Many men over the centuries, including Thomas Paine, gave up on the Bible because of one misunderstanding. The Jewish people in the world today are not in any way the children of Israel. The error of who is Israel has destroyed the faith of many.

Here are a couple more interesting quotes I’ve come across in reading another book by James Jester.

In 1760, Ezra Stiles, president of Yale said “God is now giving this land [America] to us who by virtue of the ancient covenant are the Seed of Abraham.” He also said, “The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which He hath made.”

In 1775, Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard, contended that America should adopt the same form of government that God gave to Moses, because the “Israel government was a perfect republic.”

How far have we fallen by believing those who hate Christ. The Scripture is true. Believe the Scripture. Question the world.

In the beginning there was God and His Moral Law. God chose Israel and put His skirt over her in the desert, Ezekiel 16. This was the Hebrew religion.

Upon the return from Babylon the Edomites corrupted that religion creating Judaism or Phariseeism. When God sent His Son to redeem Israel, Christ had to restore the Hebrew religion. Now it is called Christianity.

It is the same religion with the same God and the same people. The only differences are that Christ is our high priest and sacrifice and that we now have God’s Law written on our hearts.

The Edomites, today found among the Jews, are still trying to destroy the Faith only now they call it Judeo-Christianity.