Two Kinds of Christians

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Two Kinds Of Christians By Bob Westbrook – April 17, 2005 –

Source: Trumpet Sounds

A March 31 open letter issued by the World Council of Churches denounced “repeated declarations by the (Israeli) government’s top leaders” that “all of Jerusalem will belong to Israel”. This organization, which represents a large portion of institutional Christendom, has for years stood in solidarity with the Muslim Arabs against what they call Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestine”. This contradicts the viewpoint of many born-again Christians who hold to a literal interpretation of the Bible. They support Israel’s possession of the entirety of Jerusalem as its eternal capital, with Judea and Samaria as the historical heartland of Israel.

This discrepancy in “Christian” viewpoints must appear puzzling to Jews. Yet for some Jews, the discrepancy is beginning to make more sense. In the progression of Jewish-Christian relations, an interesting development has occurred in recent years. During a conversation I had with a prominent Israeli leader, this person said, “We Jews now understand that there are two kinds of Christians — those who love us, and those who do not”. This seems to be a new revelation for many Jewish people, who until recently viewed the Christian world as a somewhat monolithic entity. It was an entity correctly viewed as a primary source of extended misery for the Jews over the course of time. Anyone familiar with history knows the awful record of horrid atrocities committed against the Jews by the “church”. The use of that word in quotes is to distinguish between those deviant religious institutions and the true Church. The latter is supposed to be characterized by love, but somewhere in the process, attitudes towards the Jews were twisted into ecclesiastically sanctioned hatred.

How did this happen? As the concept of the church devolved from the simple, untainted spiritual assembly of believers to the foul, grotesque political monstrosity that dominated Europe for centuries, a theology of animosity towards Jews was fabricated. The developing church ignored Paul’s clear and authoritative instructions, relayed in his letter to the church at Rome, on how to treat the Jews. Even though they had been resistant to the message regarding the claims of Jesus, Paul directed the Christians to love the Jews regardless. They were “beloved”, declared that erudite metamorphosed Pharisee, because of the promises God had made to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”

Tragically, the church chose to ignore this divinely inspired directive, and instead constructed a theology of hatred for Jews. This theology taught the Jews were under God’s eternal curse for rejecting Jesus as Messiah, and were to be actively condemned for the part their leaders played in Jesus’ unjust execution. The church had become the new Israel, replacing the spurned Israel. Therefore, the Jews were to be blamed and scorned as “Christ killers”. As this warped doctrine pervaded the churches, taught universally for centuries, it incited extensive oppression, expulsion, and murder of Jews. The church, which was supposed to be exemplary in love, became exemplary in hatred.

In modern times, a segment of the church has taken a fresh look at the Bible, and renounced the theological concept the church has replaced Israel, along with all of the resultant viciousness. It has in repentance embraced the doctrine that all Jews are to be loved unconditionally, regardless of any difference in viewpoint on the identity of the Messiah. It has affirmed the message of the Biblical prophets that God still has auspicious intentions for the nation of Israel. Notice that it is only a segment of the church which has renounced that theology. This is the basis behind my friend’s accurate observation about the “two kinds of Christians”.

The replacement theology which was at the root of historic anti-semitism is still prominent in many church organizations and denominations. Sure, they are now more civilized in the way they present their distorted teachings, no longer inciting the masses to torch Jewish towns. But the rancid core of that theology still remains. Now they incite the masses to tear down Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Anti-Zionism is the modern expression of that old rotten creed. Israel has become a nation once again, in marvelous fulfillment of the pronouncements of the Biblical prophets. However, rather than giving the God of Israel his due renown for this momentous act, rather than applauding God’s renewed compassion for the Jews expressed by returning them to their place of refuge, the replacement theologians persist in their hoary spite. They deny any connection between the Israel of the Bible and the Israel of today. They deny its legitimacy as a special preordained accomplishment of God’s sovereign plan. This is why the World Council of Churches, comprised of members who still promulgate that reprobate replacement theology, consistently issue anti-Israel proclamations. This is why these “Christians”, who deny the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant Word of God, support a Palestinian state on land God promised in an eternal covenant to Israel. This is why these spiritual descendants of the ecclesiastical hate mongers demand that Jerusalem be wrested from Jewish possession. This is why these clerics find more in common with the descendants of Ishmael, who worship a foreign god and advocate jihad, than they do with the descendants of Isaac. But no matter. They are grass. What God has said will prevail, regardless how many esteemed reverends contest it.

“The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:7-8 NIV) Yes, there are two kinds of “Christians”. We are those who stand on the word of our God, who will be unconditionally supportive of Israel, based on the unconditional covenant promises to Abraham.

Scare Mongering Busted at UN

WND Scientists Abandon Global Warming ‘Lie’

WASHINGTON – A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming

– labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion.

Later today, their voices will be heard in a U.S. Senate minority report quoting the scientists, many of whom are current and former members of the U.N.’s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

About 250 of the scientists quoted in the report have joined the dissenting scientists in the last year alone.

In fact, the total number of scientists represented in the report is 12 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the official IPCC 2007 report. (emphasis added)

The trouble with fear mongering is ‘the truth will come out.’  The truth is coming out on the Climate Change scam perpetrated by Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth and by nearly all of the Democrat Party.  The scam has been so successful that Newt Gingrich (a conservative political strategist) looks at the polls and instructs the candidates on the right to move into the main stream on this issue.  During the 2008 election campaign, John McCain had already taken this strategy trying to inflate support from the middle of the road voters and lost much of his base in the process only reigniting them by selecting Sarah Palin for VP.  His timing could not have been worse for the campaign or the conservative movement.  The successful sequence of a campaign operation is first, ignite your base and second, move to the middle.  McCain started in the middle winning the biased media’s support and the Republican primary election, then moved right.

The myriad of grant grabbing pseudo-scientists out for taxpayer money, even at the expense of their credibility in collusion with the Democrat political party who use the pseudo-science to scare voters into supporting them  (because they are the party who cares about the environment)  are hoaring out their professional integrity.  The effect on the citizens of the world was a cult of faith in pseudo science. The top climatologist in the industry, Richard Lindzen at MIT has long been working against this hoax along with 31,000 more scientists who have signed on by signing a petition denying man’s influence on the climate to any markable degree.  Balance 31,000 scientists against the 2500 who signed the U.N. mandate.  Even the top scientists who work for the U.N. now or have in the past are beginning to get off the Global Scam Bus.  The U.N. has been using the Kyoto Treaty to defeat the United States’ ability to excel in the world’s trade economy by pressuring U.S. officials to sign onto carbon emission Caps and Trade, which again McCain supported and Barack Obama is now working to implement.  The leaders of the world know and despise our success which is capable of financing a tremendous military with forward bases placed all over the world as well as pouring out trillions of taxpayer money to buy the friendship of key nations not to mention the credibility we buy with billions and possibly trillions at the president’s command to give disaster relief.  If the U.N. can knock back the American wealth by placing heavy restrictions on America’s ability to produce, then the American wealth machine gets stunted by constricting its roots (production and trade) like a plant in a pot restricted from expansion and growth.   In the present economic meltdown, this restriction on American productivity is the last thing Barack Obama needs to be pushing.  So where do we stand now?  Junk Science.com brings us up to speed.

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