REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY


REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY



                Replacement theology is an old Catholic tradition that dates all the way back to Constantine. In uniting his kingdom so that Pagans and Christians could peacefully coexist, he found that he must distance Christians from their Judeo/ Christian roots. Jews do not assimilate. It is not in their nature to assimilate, for God created them to be separate both culturally and spiritually from the world.



                So with the blending of pagan and Christian cultures, the Jews got left behind and as the Catholic organization began to acquire both political and spiritual authority over the world, they did not desire to share their authority with anyone, especially those who were called God’s chosen people.



                So, to further distance themselves from the Jews, they began to change times and laws and Calendars. They replaced the Jewish Feast Days and Sabbaths with pagan holidays and Sabbaths and they literally slaughtered and burned at the stake millions of Judeo/Christians who saw pagan Christianity for what it was and refused to adopt these false teachings and this illegitimate authority.



                Meanwhile pagan Christians began to teach that the Jews had been rejected by God and that the church had now replaced the Jewish nation as God’s chosen people. They began to teach that God’s promises to Israel were conditional and when they rejected their Messiah, it was all over for them. God had moved on to embrace Christianity as His chosen people. We had become the true Israel.



                Now this is true in a sense. In Christ we ARE now God’s chosen people and we ARE true Israel, but not by replacing the Jews. We became God’s chosen people by being grafted into the Jewish family tree. (Romans 11) Like Jesus told the Samaritan woman, “salvation is of the Jews and that has not changed.



                The Bible has stated very clearly that by faith in Jesus Christ we become Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. Romans 11 clearly states that a partial blindness has been imposed upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and then God will deal with the Jews once again. And as Ephesians 2 clearly says, God’s goal is to break down the dividing wall between Jews and Gentiles so that we will become one new man in Christ and if we don’t like it, then we must consider that the New Jerusalem is just that, THE NEW JERUSALEM! And its foundations are the 12 Jewish apostles and its 12 gates are the 12 tribes of Israel and its God is the Jewish Messiah Yeshua.



                So our traditions, born out of the religion of antichrist has become the false doctrine that runs many denominations today and up until 1948 there was no particular reason to believe otherwise, since the Jews were a despised race that had been all but wiped off the face of the earth and the chances of their ever coming back into their own land was so astronomically slim, that scholars found that many Bible prophecies concerning the future of Israel had to be allegorized. It could not be literal, since there was no hope of Israel ever becoming a nation again.



                Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that one of the greatest miracles in earth’s history has taken place and the Jews are back in their homeland, with their Jewish culture and religion and their Hebrew language and in spite of the fact that the desert has once again bloomed like a rose and that tiny nation of Israel has become one of the top ten most powerful nations on the planet… traditions are hard to change and so many Christians still cling to the old Catholic tradition of replacement theology. Many Christians today do not pay attention to Israel, nor do they see its role in end time Biblical prophecy and because of it, they are running deaf, dumb and blind as to what is actually going on in the world.



                Israel is at the center of the world’s attention today. Jerusalem has become that “cup of trembling” found in Zechariah 12… the Valley of dry bones has come to life… the nations was born in a day and Jews from every nation from which they have been scattered are coming back to Israel just as the word says they will in many places. (Read Amos 9… Ezekiel 37 for starters)



                But old traditions are hard to break and doctrines are hard to change and admitting that we might have been wrong about God’s continuing plans for the Jews is even harder.



                But as I open my Bible and I see every single prophecy being fulfilled to the letter in Israel, I have had to warn my fellow Christians that we have been wrong about God’s plans for the Jews and if we don’t watch it, we will at some point become willfully ignorant of God’s plans and we will be found in rebellion against God’s Word and His plans.



                Unfortunately, many Jews are just as ignorant as are Christians and so now they are making nice with the Pope and with the globalist leaders to rebuild their third temple and to be accepted by the world. To them rebuilding the temple is pure joy and a sign that Messiah is about to come… but to us who know Bible prophecy, there is the heartache of knowing that they will receive an imposter first. Satan’s great desire is to reign on earth in the place of Christ. Their long awaited Messiah will first be the antichrist and not the Christ.



                This desire to rule in the place of Christ has long been manifested through the Papacy and its setting up of a Vicar of Christ in the world, and discouraging personal Bible study, as well as forbidding a personal relationship with Jesus outside the church. But Satanic desire is culminating in the grand prize… a combined Jewish and Christian global kingdom that includes all religions as being equal and the ultimate rule of the antichrist and the false prophet as portrayed in Revelation 13 and 17 and 18.



                Satan will rule the world in the place of Christ and he will enforce his mark of allegiance upon everyone so that no one may buy or sell unless they have that Mark. So the technology is now in place to track and to control every human on the planet. The quantum computers along with the (now being installed 5G network) will be able to do everything the Bible says it will do and we are presently entering into a time that will make the Dark Ages look like a picnic… Jesus said so… and it will in turn make the Holocaust look small, for in the coming holocaust 2/3s of the Jews will be horribly destroyed and only the remnant 1/3 will flee to the mountains when the Abomination of Desolation takes place in the temple.



                I wish I could tell you definitively what it means when Romans 11:25 says that a partial hardening has happened to Israel , ”UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN.”  Many    respected scholars today believe that this represents the rapture, or catching away of the church so that God can once again deal with the Jews as a people and that the tribulation (AKA the time of Jacob’s Trouble) is for the Jews and not for the church. Thus being called “The Time of Jacob’s, (Israel’s) Trouble.



                And while I find it hard to nail this doctrine down exactly, there are many typological signs of it. Noah was in the ark 7 days before the flood came. Enoch was taken up before the flood. The wise virgins were taken into the marriage feast while the foolish virgins were “left behind.” Jesus, in talking about the events of the tribulation, said in Luke 21:36: “But keep on the alert at all times praying in order that you may be accounted worthy to escape all of these things that are about to take place and to stand before the son of Man.” Again in Revelation 3:10 Jesus said: “Because you (the Philadelphian church) have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world to test those who dwell upon the earth.”  



                These are just a couple of examples that could indicate that we (The Gentile church) may be taken out of here before the Time of Jacob/s Trouble begins. However, in 2 Thess. 2:3, 4 Paul tells us that the Day of the Lord ( which he defines as the coming of the Lord and our gathering together to Him See 2 Thess. 2:1) will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition.”



                So, in other words it appears that we will be here to see the great falling away, (which I believe is beginning to take place right now) and the antichrist is revealed before we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.



                So, while I see other points in time such as the pre-wrath time listed in Revelation chapter 14, I will not present a firm doctrine against a pre- trib catching away of the Bride, as long as we understand that we will witness the falling away and the rise of the antichrist before we go. And there is much debate of course on what constitutes the actual tribulation and which might be called a relatively peaceful first half or 3 ½ years followed by a time such as the world has not seen since the world began during the 2nd half, or 3 ½ years.



                At any rate, we must be ready at all times for the coming of the Lord just as Jesus says, for none of us knows the day or the hour of His coming and the Bible says that most will be unprepared.



                There are some things in the Bible that should not be made into doctrine. Interpretation of prophecy is one of those things, for many of these prophetic events will change shape as we get closer to the time of their fulfillment. The unsealing of Bible prophecy is a progressive thing… for as the Bible describes it, prophetic events happen over and over again as birth pangs that increase in frequency and intensity as we approach the time of birth. If we run to the hospital every time the woman has a pain, we will have many false starts and this is what happens when someone thinks they have it figured out.



                They set a date and when the date passes unfulfilled, Satan rubs his hands in glee because he knows that the church people will try to distance themselves from these false prophecies and in the process they will avoid the study of prophecy altogether. Such is much of the Body of Christ today.



                But if we want to understand last day events with some amount of accuracy, then we must take Israel into consideration for all of the major end time events are centered in Israel today and replacement theology is doing the church a huge disfavor. We must understand that all prophecy, both the good and the bad is centered in Israel. The antichrist kingdom is being set up in Jerusalem right now.



                Think about the power and the foreknowledge of God to presume that Israel would be in existence again in the last days. Meanwhile, even though we may visit Israel to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, many secular Jews are seeking to make Israel into a sin capital of the world. They are embracing every politically correct ideology as well as joining the global community of the beast and this did not take God by surprise, for in Revelation 11:8 God, in talking about the killing of the Two Witnesses, He says: “And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt where also their Lord was crucified.”



                Satan has made sure to plant the sins of Sodom and the gods of Egypt right in the heart of the city of the great King as symbols of his own ruling kingdom. But this is probably why so many Jews will be killed in the final holocaust… for God is going to clean house so that His remnant who are called by His name will survive to reign with Jesus during the coming millennium.



                Well, I know that this cuts right to the throat of those who believe in replacement theology, but in my way of thinking, this is one of the world’s and the church’s most critical issues today and because we don’t understand God’s eternal dealings with both Israel and the Church we fail to rightly divide the Word of God and many will be lost because they can no longer see the Bible as being relevant to our times. But the Bible is indeed relevant to our times and its pages are being fulfilled in every detail right before our eyes. We need to know where we stand and why.



                Jesus warned that if possible even the very elect would be deceived… therefore we must search out the scriptures and to value them even over our own traditions and we need to have a relationship with Jesus and from His Word from which we cannot be shaken.

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