The Danger of Political Idolatry: Reclaiming Biblical Truth on Israel

• Replacement Theology [00:02:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines replacement theology as the false belief that Christianity replaced Judaism and the Church replaced Israel, then explicitly debunks it as 'absolutely wrong'.
• Israel's Unique Covenant Status [00:04:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > He argues Israel is unique because it was created by a sovereign act of God, its borders are recorded in scripture, and God has not broken His covenant with them.
• Bible Prophecy and Israel's History [00:09:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > He lists specific prophecies fulfilled by Israel, including enslavement in Egypt, regathering in 1948, and future events like the Gog-Magog war and the Messiah's return.
• Eschatology and the End Times [00:12:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > He details future prophetic events, including the war involving Russia, Iran, and Turkey, the destruction of invaders, and the establishment of the 1,000-year millennial kingdom.
• Biblical Prophecy and Typology [00:18:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that Bible prophecy is revealed through 'type and shadow,' specifically comparing the lives of Joseph and Jesus to predict the future of the Jewish people.
• The Third Day and Messianic Recognition [00:22:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor posits that just as Joseph revealed himself on the third visit, the Jewish people's third return to Israel (1948) precedes their recognition of the Messiah.
• National Mourning and Repentance [00:23:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > Citing Zechariah 12, the pastor describes a future event where the Jewish people mourn for the Messiah they pierced, recognizing his scars.
• Anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology [00:25:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explicitly condemns 'replacement theology' as 'Jew hatred on steroids' and calls for shutting down anti-Semitism in America.

• Sermon Illustration [00:00:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the conversion of the Apostle Paul, describing how God blinded him on the road to Damascus, leading to his recovery and authorship of Romans, specifically highlighting Romans 9-11 as a 'codicil' regarding Israel.
• Sermon Illustration [00:01:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > He uses the analogy of a legal codicil to explain Romans 9-11, stating it is an addendum to the contract of Romans that is equal in authority to the rest of the book, which seminary professors often skipped.
• Sermon Illustration [00:09:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > He tells the story of Pharaoh's attempt to exterminate Jewish male babies by drowning them, explaining the theological logic: if no Jewish boys survive, Jewish girls marry Egyptians, wiping out the Jewish people in one generation and preventing the coming of the Messiah.
• Sermon Illustration [00:16:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > He illustrates the concept of 'one day with the Lord is as 1,000 years' by connecting the 'third day' miracle theme in the Bible (Jesus' resurrection, Hosea's prophecy) to the 2,000-year diaspora and the rebirth of Israel in 1948, marking the start of the 'third day' in 2000.
• Sermon Illustration [00:18:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > He draws a typological comparison between Joseph and Jesus, noting both were favorite/only sons who saved the world from starvation and sin respectively, using this to foreshadow the future of the Jewish people.
• Sermon Illustration [00:18:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an extended analogy comparing Joseph's life (favorite son, rejected by brothers, sold for silver, falsely accused, imprisoned, raised to power, given a Gentile bride) to Jesus' life to illustrate prophetic patterns regarding the Jewish people's future.
• Sermon Illustration [00:22:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the historical event of the Jewish people returning to Israel on May 14-15, 1948, as the 'third time' into the land, paralleling Joseph's brothers visiting Egypt three times.

• Pastoral Charge [00:25:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stop merely discussing theological issues and begin taking active steps to shut down anti-Semitism.

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:14] Let's meet the Apostle Paul.
[00:00:17] The Apostle Paul was a high-ranking member of the Pharisees.
[00:00:22] The Pharisees had awesome power.
[00:00:25] They could arrest you and put you in prison as Paul did to Christians.
[00:00:31] When God saw him, he said, I could use him.
[00:00:34] He is really, really brilliant.
[00:00:37] So God slapped him off of his horse and blinded him.
[00:00:41] A church deacon came and prayed for him.
[00:00:43] him, he regathered his sight after three days and became the author of the book of Romans.
[00:00:51] The book of Romans is divided into three divisions. The first eight chapters, one through eight, is what God has done for us through Christ. Romans 9, 10, and 11 is what God is doing through
[00:01:07] the Jewish people. Romans 12 through 16 is to believers about our conduct in the faith.
[00:01:17] Now let's go to Romans 9, 10, and 11. This is a codicil. A codicil is a document that when the author has finished the document, he writes the codicil, the edition, and inserts it like a lawyer
[00:01:39] you're writing a contract and he's written the contract and he says, there's something more I need to add. And he adds it and he puts it in the contract. It's equal to the contract, both in authority and consideration. Paul wrote the book of Romans and Romans 9, 10, and 11 has
[00:02:03] nothing to do with one through eight or 12 through the 16th. This codicil that I'm talking about is so controversial that when I went to seminary, they didn't let us study it. They said, this is
[00:02:20] too deep for the body of Christ. Well, brother, that was the sickum sign to me. If they didn't want me to read it, I wanted to read it really bad. So I started researching it early and found
[00:02:34] out because Paul was writing things in there that our denomination didn't believe in. So it was easy for the professor to leap over it and forget it. So what is replacement theology? Replacement theology teaches that the New Testament has replaced the Old Testament. It teaches that
[00:02:56] Christianity has replaced Judaism. This is what your students are learning in school. The church has replaced the synagogue. The Christians have replaced the Jewish people as chosen people.
[00:03:11] Think about that. It teaches that the Jews do not own the land of Israel today.
[00:03:17] All of these teachings are absolutely wrong. In the Bible, the Jewish people remain the chosen people. The land of Israel is exclusively the property of the Jewish people. The Jewish people are a covenant people. They are a cherished people. They are the apple of God's eye,
[00:03:42] according to Zechariah, the second chapter. That has not changed. What I'm saying here is that replacement theology teaches that Christianity has replaced Judaism. That's not true. That the church has replaced the synagogue. That's not true. That Christians have replaced the Jewish
[00:04:03] people as the chosen people. That's not true. It teaches that the Jews do not own the land of Israel today. That's not true. All of these teachings are absolutely wrong. In the Bible, the Jewish people remain the chosen people. They are deeply loved of God today, tomorrow,
[00:04:25] and forever. They own the land of Israel, period. They are a covenant people. They are a cherished people. They are the apple of God's eye in Zechariah chapter 2 verse 8. Genesis 12 is the
[00:04:45] seminal chapter in the Bible concerning the Jewish people. God promised Abraham saying, I will bless those that bless you and I will curse those that curse you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Let us consider the uniqueness of Israel. Israel is the only nation
[00:05:06] on earth created by a sovereign act of God. Israel is the only nation whose borders are recorded in scripture. The name Israel describes the nation descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember that Jacob was renamed Israel and his 12 sons produced 12 tribes, which became
[00:05:28] national Israel. Later, the people of Israel were called Jews. The fact is that Jews and Israel are synonymous. You cannot love one without loving the other. That's not possible. I've heard people say, well, I like to go to Israel, but I can't stand the Jews. I said, you're not going to Israel with
[00:05:49] us. The fact is, anti-Zionism is anti-Israel. Both are anti-Semitic. You can't love Israel without loving the Jewish people, and you can't call yourself a Christian and hate the Jewish people, period. Why do we stand with Israel? Let me say this quickly. The church is not Israel.
[00:06:21] And I assure you, when I was a young person, that was the doctrine. Hang on. This has been taught in churches for generations, and many of you pastors are hanging on to that. The unchangeable
[00:06:34] fact about the Bible is that Israel is unique. Israel did not choose this uniqueness. God chose it for them. Israel did not choose this uniqueness. God chose it for them. Listen to David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 20. This is David's prayer. Oh Lord, there is none like you, nor is there any God
[00:06:58] beside you according to all we have heard with our ears. And who is like your people Israel? Listen, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for himself as a people. That's who they
[00:07:12] are. Israel is unique to God. Listen to 1 Chronicles 17, 22. For you have made your people Israel, your very own people forever, and you, Lord, have become their God. Christians who say God has broken covenant with Israel are so wrong.
[00:07:33] God does not break covenant.
[00:07:42] Messiah comes through the Jewish people.
[00:07:45] Romans 9, 4, and 5, Paul lists the distinctive features which apply only to Israel and the Jewish people.
[00:07:52] To whom pertain the adoption, Paul writes.
[00:07:56] God adopted the Jewish people as a nation.
[00:07:59] as his people, Exodus 4.22, God to Moses tells Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, my firstborn son. That's what Moses said to Pharaoh. The day that America stops blessing Israel will be the day God stops blessing the United States of America. Listen to this.
[00:08:33] Salvation is of the Jews.
[00:08:35] Who said that?
[00:08:37] John 4, 22, Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman.
[00:08:42] He said, you Samaritans worship you do not know what, but we the Jews know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews.
[00:08:50] The startling fact, without the Jews, there's no salvation.
[00:08:55] The complete history of the Jewish people from Abraham until the end of time is foretold in Bible prophecy.
[00:09:02] Israel's enslavement in Egypt was predicted in Genesis 15, 13.
[00:09:07] The first attempt to exterminate the Jewish people was in Egypt under the Pharaoh that knew not Joseph.
[00:09:14] Why?
[00:09:14] Because he gave this demonic order to drown all of the Jewish male babies.
[00:09:22] Why?
[00:09:23] If you drown the Jewish male babies, the Jewish girls, when they grow up, have no Jews to marry.
[00:09:32] so they marry the Egyptians.
[00:09:34] Therefore, in one generation, have you wiped out the Jewish people.
[00:09:40] So what?
[00:09:42] So that it means there is no Bible, there are no prophets, there will be no patriarchs, there will be no Jesus Christ, there will be no salvation for us, there will be no eternal life.
[00:09:56] It was a big deal.
[00:09:58] God has given to us victory over death, hell, and the grave because these people were willing to call him Lord.
[00:10:09] The Bible prophecy predicts Israel's deliverance from Egypt with great wealth.
[00:10:15] It was a payday for 400 years of work.
[00:10:19] Where did they get the money, the gold, the silver to build that magnificent tabernacle in the wilderness?
[00:10:26] The Egyptians gave it to them the night they left Egypt.
[00:10:29] Why? Because God had just killed all of the firstborn in every house in Egypt.
[00:10:35] They recognized the sovereignty of God being with the Jewish people.
[00:10:40] Their possessions of the land of Canaan predicted to Abraham in Genesis 13, 12-17.
[00:10:47] Prophecies 4-12 predict the captivity of the northern and southern borders.
[00:10:53] The 13th prophecy is the regathering of the Jewish people from the nations of the world and Israel is reborn in May 15th, 1948.
[00:11:02] What did that do?
[00:11:04] That destroyed the theology of a lot of preachers in America.
[00:11:08] It just destroyed it because it became known then that Israel, in fact, had come back and the church was not the primary feature, but now the fact that Israel had come back, it was.
[00:11:25] It is logical that if a book, the Bible, can predict 13 historical events concerning Israel with absolute accuracy, wouldn't you pay attention to the last three prophecies?
[00:11:39] Think about this.

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[00:12:43] Fourteenth prophecy is the regathering of all nations against Jerusalem in war.
[00:12:48] In Luke 21, 20, Ezekiel 38 and 39.
[00:12:51] This is the Gog-Magog war that will involve Russia, Iran, and Turkey and radical Islamic nations that are now making war with Israel and America.
[00:13:06] Ezekiel 38.4 says, with God speaking, I will put hooks in their draw and drag you to Israel.
[00:13:14] What is the bait for the hook? Oil.
[00:13:17] The Wall Street Journal carried the story recently that Israel has discovered enough oil to last them for all their deeds for 100 years.
[00:13:27] Think about that.
[00:13:29] The oil crisis in Iran is the torch that's going to launch the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38, 39.
[00:13:38] And boys and girls, that could happen tomorrow morning.
[00:13:43] We are that close to what's going on.
[00:13:46] Ezekiel 39 2 said I will leave I will leave but a sixth part of thee the invaders Russia Iran and Turkey are going to come down and I am going to destroy those people one six meaning 84 percent
[00:14:04] of the invading armies God will personally destroy himself the Bible says he that keepeth Israel that means defends Israel, neither slumbers nor sleeps. The Bible said, I will curse those who curse you.
[00:14:17] The fact is, God Almighty is going to slaughter the anti-Semites sooner or later. In the 15th prophecy, in the 15th prophecy, the supernatural revelation of Messiah to the Jewish peoples, in that day, the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble among them
[00:14:45] is that day shall be like David, David the giant killer. In that day, God Almighty will seek to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. From that moment forward, Jerusalem and Israel are center stage in the history of the world. God will also send 144,000 Jewish members
[00:15:09] to tell the Jewish people that the Messiah is coming.
[00:15:15] That's 12,000 from each tribe.
[00:15:18] How is that going to happen?
[00:15:20] Do you remember how Paul had the scales removed from his eyes and became a passionate follower of Jesus Christ?
[00:15:30] This is going to happen in each of these tribes until 12,000 out of each tribe spread and spread the message, the Messiah is coming and it's Jesus of Nazareth.
[00:15:45] That's going to happen.
[00:15:52] The 16th prophecy, the last prophecy, the Messiah will come in glory and power to the city of Jerusalem to establish his eternal kingdom on this earth.
[00:16:03] 1,000 years of perfect peace is going to happen.
[00:16:07] It's the golden age of peace.
[00:16:09] The Bible says during this millennial reign that the lion will lay down with the lamb.
[00:16:15] The Old Testament and tribulation saints are resurrected and rewarded.
[00:16:20] This is in Daniel, the 12th chapter, verses 1, 2, 3.
[00:16:26] Listen to the prophetic clues concerning the rebirth of Israel.
[00:16:30] The third day in the Bible is a day of major miracles.
[00:16:34] Jesus rose on the third day.
[00:16:37] Jesus said concerning Herod in Luke 13, go tell that fox, that would be Herod.
[00:16:44] Jesus told his disciples to say that.
[00:16:47] Behold, I cast out demons and perform miracles today and tomorrow.
[00:16:52] That would be 2,000 years.
[00:16:55] And on the third day, I shall be glorified.
[00:16:58] 2 Peter 3 and 8 says, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as 1,000 years and 1,000 years is as one day.
[00:17:07] How does this apply to Israel?
[00:17:10] The prophet Hosea gives us the answer.
[00:17:12] In chapter 5, Hosea prophesied that 2,000 years diaspora, which means the scattering of Israel, in Hosea 5, verses 11 through 14.
[00:17:23] Then Hosea prophesied again that Israel shall abide many days without a king, without a prince, and afterwards Israel would return to the latter days.
[00:17:34] The Jewish people officially returned May the 14th, 1948.
[00:17:39] Hosea prophesied in chapter six that God would bind the Jewish people up.
[00:17:45] And after, toward the end of the two days, meaning 2,000 years, he will revive us.
[00:17:50] And on the third day, he will raise us up and we will live in his sight.
[00:17:55] When you live in his sight, you see the Messiah.
[00:17:59] He's there.
[00:18:00] How long is a day with the Lord?
[00:18:02] It's a thousand years Psalms 90 verse 4 A thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday We are now in the third day That third day started January the 1st, 2000 We are 26 years into the third day
[00:18:22] Messiah is coming Bible prophecy is revealed by the facts which you have just heard and Bible prophecy is revealed by prophetic type and shadow foretelling the future.
[00:18:44] The future of the Jewish people is known by the type and shadow of the lives of Joseph and Jesus.
[00:18:50] The lives of Joseph and Jesus tell us the past, the present, and the future.
[00:18:55] Joseph saved Egypt and the world from starvation with the revelation of seven years of abundance and seven years of famine.
[00:19:04] Jesus saved the world from the power of sin and Satan because he was the bread of life.
[00:19:11] He is still the bread of life.
[00:19:19] Joseph was the favorite son of his aged father, Jacob.
[00:19:22] Jesus was the only begotten son of God the Father.
[00:19:27] Joseph was sent by his father with food to his brothers.
[00:19:31] Jesus was sent by the Father to the world as the bread of life and the living water.
[00:19:36] and only Jesus is the bread of life.
[00:19:40] Give him praise in the house.
[00:19:47] When Joseph arrived, he was rejected by his brothers.
[00:19:52] The Bible says Jesus came into his own and his own received him not.
[00:19:57] We have no king but Caesar.
[00:19:58] Give us Barabbas, 800 in Pilate's courtyard consisting of Pharisees and the money changers.
[00:20:05] Joseph was sold into slavery to the Midianites.
[00:20:09] Jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver, which is the price of a slave.
[00:20:14] Joseph was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife of rape.
[00:20:19] You've heard me say before, Potiphar's wife was a desperate housewife.
[00:20:24] Jesus was falsely accused by Pharisees as being a heretic, a drunkard, a demonized teacher, an insurrectionist who was too dangerous to live.
[00:20:34] Joseph was sent to prison where he came out in time certain to stand beside Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world.
[00:20:43] Jesus was sent to prison of a grave where he came out on the third day, victorious over death, hell, and the grave to stand at the right hand of God Almighty, the creator of heaven and earth.
[00:21:03] Joseph gave a prophecy predicting the future of Egypt and Exodus.
[00:21:08] Jesus gave a prophecy predicting the future of the world in Matthew 24, the spine of prophecy that covers 2,000 years.
[00:21:17] If you really want to master in one chapter all of the prophecy that's worth knowing, it's in Matthew 24.
[00:21:25] Joseph was given a Gentile bride by Pharaoh.
[00:21:29] They had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
[00:21:32] In their inheritance, they were equal sharers in the land of Israel.
[00:21:37] Jesus was given a Gentile bride at the cross.
[00:21:41] That Gentile bride was you and me.
[00:21:44] We were grafted into the covenants of Israel.
[00:21:47] We became heirs and joint heirs through Jesus Christ at the cross.
[00:21:52] We became sons and daughters of God the Father through the blood of Jesus.
[00:21:57] Hallelujah for the cross.
[00:22:06] Joseph's brothers came into the land of Egypt three times looking for food.
[00:22:11] On the third time, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers.
[00:22:15] The fact is the Jewish people have now come into the land of Israel three times.
[00:22:21] The first time was with Joshua.
[00:22:23] The second time was the home from Babylonian captivity.
[00:22:27] And the third time was May 15, 1948, when a nation was born in a day.
[00:22:34] The point is on the third time into the land, the revelation of who Messiah is is going to happen.
[00:22:42] We are living in the hours just preceding that date.
[00:22:47] Give the Lord praise in the house.
[00:22:49] What is going to be the reaction of the Jewish people when they recognize Messiah in Jerusalem?
[00:23:01] The prophet Zechariah chapter 12 says, verse 10 and following, And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication.
[00:23:13] Then they will look on me whom they have pierced He's going to be recognized by the wounds In his physical body received at Calvary Zechariah says yes they will mourn for him As one mourns for his only son
[00:23:29] And grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn son And the land shall mourn and every family by itself And the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves,
[00:23:43] the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves.
[00:23:53] Every tribe is going to have seven days of mourning.
[00:23:58] And when they see them, this is the Bible, and when they see him, Jesus, whom they have pierced, they will weep as one weeps for his only son seven days.
[00:24:09] It's a national Sheba, a national day of remorse.
[00:24:16] They will know him by the scars of his riven side.
[00:24:22] The story ends as Joseph brings his family into Egypt to occupy the rich lands.
[00:24:29] The Jewish people were not forgotten in Joseph's kingdom.
[00:24:33] They received the rich lands of Goshen.
[00:24:35] When Jesus Christ returns They will not be forgotten In the millennial kingdom that will never end The Jewish people Will be front and center Hath God Cast away his people The Jewish people Certainly not
[00:24:53] What can I do to receive the blessings in favor of God By blessing Israel Is pray Psalms 122.6 says Pray for the peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that love you Jerusalem is the key to world peace
[00:25:11] When Israel is at peace The world will be at peace When Israel is forced to go to war To defend itself World threatened by war Will end We need to shut down Anti-Semitism In America
[00:25:29] Replacement theology Is Jew hatred on steroids This is the time In America to stop talking and start doing. This time is now. Give the Lord praise in the house.

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