- The claim of Replacement Theology, leveled against the
Universal Christian Church by both Christian Zionists and Messianic Jews,
asserts that ethnic Jews (i.e., "Israel") retains its most favored
nation status in the eyes of God, and that the previous two millennia of
Christianity were, at best, an unanticipated "parenthesis" in
Divine History, or, at worst, a usurpation of Jacob's birthright by Christians
who model themselves after Jacob's wicked brother Esau.
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- Ironically, Christian proponents of this claim, urged
on by their Jewish controllers, eagerly seek to impress their own form
of "replacement theology" upon the gullible Christian masses,
many of whom have been deserted by their "pastors" for the greener
pastures of Jewish money, by using the alleged six million Jewish victims
of the Nazi "Holocaust" to displace Jesus from the Cross and
by replacing the resurrected Christ with the modern Zionist State of Israel,
that rose phoenix-like from the ashes of the alleged Nazi Holocaust.
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- In order to perceive the deceptiveness of this campaign
to replace Jesus and the Church with the Jewish Holocaust and the Zionist State of Israel,
consider that following the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, rabbinic
Judaism developed a replacement theology of its own to substitute for the
expired sacrificial cult of the Levitical Temple. They created a vast system
of rules and regulations, codified into a format known as Halacha, that
narrowly defines the Israel of God as only those who would adhere to all
the cumbersome rabbinical teachings. Essentially the rabbis usurped the
role of the Kings of Israel and excluded from the sacred and chosen community
of the faithful all those who resist their theocratic tyranny. Thus, all
Jews who consider themselves secular are effectively excluded by the rabbis
from the new definition of "Israel", despite rabbinic lip service
to the concept of a racialist Israel derived from the unbiblical
concept of matriarchal parturition. (Obviously all Gentiles are excluded,
apart from those who choose to "convert" into the rigid system
of halachic control and to submit to rabbinical authority. Invariably such
converts, such as Akivah bar Yosef, become leading opponents of the Christian
faith.) Yet, strangely enough, no one has dared criticize the rabbis for
contriving an odious form of "replacement theology".
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- Concurrent with the rabbinical effort to create a small
and exclusionary Israel, the Christian Church took the opposite approach,
opening the gates for anyone to enter the Chosen Israel of God and to assume
the title "sons of God", by accepting the sacrificial role of
Jesus of Nazareth and believing that He rose from the dead, as reported
in the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. While the rabbis huddled behind
closed doors with their new "chosen community", the Church flung
the doors open to the entire world. The Church derived its authority to
do this from the example of Jesus, whose death on the Cross fulfilled all
the requirements of the Levitical sacrificial system while at the same
time putting that system to an end. The rabbis, on the other hand, based
themselves on no form of sacrificial atonement whatsoever, choosing to
ignore the sublimated perfecting of that system accomplished by Jesus of
Nazareth, who did not "replace" the old Levitical system but
took it to its Messianic fulfillment by extending the possibility of salvation
to all of Mankind.
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- Thus, the original "replacement theology" was
the Orthodox Judaism the rabbis created in response to the crisis evoked
by the Levitical Temple's destruction and the Jewish nation's dispersion
throughout the Roman Empire. And rather than conjuring up a pernicious
system of "replacement theology", Christianity was faithful to
the Old Testament's requirement of a blood atonement, that through Jesus
Christ was done once for all time and for all people who would choose to
believe on Him. (If anything Christianity could be characterized as having
returned to the original Biblical system, what one might term Restatement
Theology):
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- John 6:28-29 Then said they unto him, What shall
we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
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- In these latter days, the Jewish opponents of Jesus Christ
have renewed their onslaught against His Universal Church in two ways:
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- 1. By substituting the Holocaust (HolyCo$t?) and the Zionist State of Israel for
the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth;
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- 2. By promoting the so-called "Noahide Laws"
to replace Christianity
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- This two-pronged attack seeks to destroy both the Founder
of Christianity and the Church He established. It has met with marvelous
success, due to the political and financial power of Jews and their "Christian"
allies and enablers, who helped persuade even an allegedly "staunch
Christian" like President Ronald Reagan to sign laws and decrees recognizing
the validity of the Noahide Code. (Could this be the real reason Reagan
was smitten with Alzheimer's; since, having forgotten the Lord he claimed
to serve, the Lord caused him to forget everything else as well?)
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- We cannot know with certainty how successful the Jewish
attack against Christianity will be. Their money and political power is
enormous, and clearly they have made great inroads into undermining the
integrity and viability of the Christian Church. Yet Jesus said:
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- Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou
art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it.
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- So we can be confident that ultimately the cause of Truth
will triumph. In the meantime, let us fortify ourselves with the knowledge
that Jews and Zionists are the real Replacement Theologians, having supplanted
God's Son with the false teachings of carnal political power of Zionism
and man-made rules and regulations of Noahidism and Orthodox Judaism. The
Jews, like Esau, are usurpers. They are currently enjoying their day in
the sun, but eventually the Son will return to remove their blinders and
destroy those who will not repent.
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- We perhaps can take heart from the Old Testament story
when King David fled Jerusalem to escape from his son, Avshalom,
who had usurped his throne. During his flight, David met a kinsman of King
Saul, whom David had succeeded as King of Israel. This kinsman despised
David and heaped curses and insults upon him. David humbly accepted this
outrageous attack as from God. He restrained his soldiers, who wished to
dispatch the kinsman. Later, after he regained his throne from Avshalom
and just before he died, he instructed his son, Solomon, who would succeed
him on the throne, to kill the kinsman for his insult of the office of Israel's
King.
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- This story is very instructive for our era, in which
anti-Christ Jews seek to undermine the Christian Church via the twin heresies
of Zionism and Noahidism. Like that cursing kinsman, who came from the
tribe of Benjamin, today's most prominent Zionists are named Benjamin:
Theodore Herzl, original founder of the Zionist movement, whose Hebrew
name was Binyamin Ze'ev (Benjamin the Wolf), and Benjamin Netanyahu, the
former and perhaps future Israeli Prime Minister, who is the darling of
Christian Zionists around the world. For reasons not entirely clear to
us, these detractors of the Christian faith have been allowed by God to
run rampant and inflict much damage. Like King David, we submit to their
abuse, trusting that God, in the end, will vindicate our faith in David's
Son, Jesus of Nazareth, the true King of Israel, and indeed of the entire
world.
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- 2 Samuel 16:5-11 And when king David came to Bahurim,
behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul,
whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still
as he came. And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of King
David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand
and on his left. And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out,
thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: The LORD hath returned upon
thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned;
and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son:
and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody
man. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should
this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and
take off his head. And the king said, What have I to do with you,
ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him,
Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? And
David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came
forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite
do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
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- 1 Kings 2:1-9 Now the days of David drew nigh
that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the
way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; And
keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,
and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is
written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou
doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: That the LORD may continue
his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed
to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with
all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne
of Israel. Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did
to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto
Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and
shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle
that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. Do therefore
according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave
in peace. But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when
I fled because of Absalom thy brother. And, behold, thou hast with
thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed
me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came
down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will
not put thee to death with the sword. Now therefore hold him not guiltless:
for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him;
but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
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