Revelation 3:9!!!

 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you (Rev. 3:9).

Who are those the Lord accused of claiming to be Jews but are not?  Since Revelation 2-3 applies to the entire Church age, He may have been referring to more than one group.  Looking down through history, I’ve found several groups who have laid claim to the promises made by God to His covenant people. Some may surprise you.

The Jews

In Romans 2:28-29 Paul wrote, “A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.  No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God.”

In Paul’s day there were many who had been born into the Jewish race and circumcised on the eighth day of life as a sign of the covenant, but according to Paul they were not really Jews because there was no inner substance to complement their outer form.  It was this kind of Jew the Lord had earlier condemned saying, “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.” (Isaiah 29:13)  People like this were among the first to persecute the early Church.  They called the believers apostates, drove them out of Jerusalem, and worked tirelessly to prevent the growth of the Church.   It’s easy to see how the Lord could have called them a synagogue of Satan.

By the way, the term “Synagogue of Satan” doesn’t mean the groups I’m describing are necessarily Satan worshipers.  But we must understand that there are only two sides to the issue of Israel’s destiny.  One is God’s and the other is Satan’s.  Those who don’t consciously support God’s plan for the restoration of His people are supporting Satan’s plan by default and are therefore of the synagogue of Satan on that issue.

The Sword Of Islam

Some Muslims hold the view that since Ishmael was Abraham’s first-born son, he’s the rightful beneficiary of God’s covenant with Abraham. Therefore the Promised Land should belong to his descendants, not Isaac’s. Others say that even if the inheritance does pass through Isaac, most of the current residents of Israel are descendants of European converts to Judaism.  That makes them the sons of Gentiles, not Isaac, with no claim to the Land. Whether they adhere to one view or the other, Muslims agree that at the End of the Age Jesus will come back with Mohammed to help him convert the world to Islam and rid the land of any remaining Jews. They say even the rocks and the trees will get involved in this, saying, “O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.”  This would certainly qualify them for membership in the synagogue of Satan.

The Blood Of Ephraim

Then there’s the Mormon Church, with its members claiming to be descendants of the tribe of Ephraim (some include Manasseh as well) who escaped from the Babylonian destruction by sailing boats to the Americas. Theirs is the Temple of God, they say, and on land they’ve purchased in Kirtland, Missouri the New Jerusalem will eventually stand. Every practicing Mormon receives a patriarchal blessing that reveals his or her lineage in the House of Israel.

Historically Mormons have referred to themselves as Israel, and we who are not members are called Gentiles. When I lived in Salt Lake City (called Zion by Mormons) and brought Jewish men like Gershon Solomon of the Temple Mount Faithful, and Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute to our ministry to teach us about the coming Temple, I took delight in shocking them by saying they had come to the only place in the world where a Jew is considered to be a Gentile. Officially, Mormons claim to be Jews but are not.

So here are several groups who claim to be Jews but are not.  What does God have to say about this?

The Word Of God

It seems like just about everyone is claiming the inheritance promised to Israel. But what does God say? Has Israel been rejected because of her disloyalty, to be replaced by the Church or some other group?

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:37)

Why does Israel serve a future purpose in God’s plan, after what she’s done in the past?

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes. (Ezekiel 36:22-23)

Will the Lord bring His people back to the land He promised them?

I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14-15)

This regathering actually began at the beginning of the 20th Century and was made official in 1948.  One day soon the Lord will reveal Himself to Israel by destroying a huge Muslim force arrayed against them.  Then He’ll complete the regathering, not leaving any behind (Ezekiel 39:22).   He’ll protect those who are His through the End Times judgments (Jere.  30:11) and open their eyes to finally recognize that Jesus is their Messiah (Zechariah 12:10) before the 2nd Coming.

Will Israel once again be God’s favored nation on Earth?

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.” (Isaiah 49:22-23)

What role will the rocks and the trees really play in this? Speaking to Israel God said,

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. (Isaiah 55:12)

So once again we see the contrast between man’s view and God’s view.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

Think about it. How can we believe that God will keep all His promises to us, while at the same time believing that he broke all His promises to Israel? Of course they don’t deserve His loyalty, but then again, what makes us think that we do?

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? (Numbers 23:19)

According to The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the term, Jew, is the Hebrew word Yehuwdah (no. H3063), which means “the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory, Judah.”[1] The Greek word is Ioudaios (no. G2453), which means “in the sense of G2455, which is Ioudas, which means, the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region, Juda; belonging to Jehudah.”[2]

According to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible, the term, Jew, means “a descendant of Judah; and is also the name applied to the subjects of the kingdom of the two tribes after the separation of the ten tribes in 975 B.C.”[3]

According to Smith’s Bible Dictionary, the term, Jew, is

[a] name which was properly applied to a member of the Kingdom of Judah after the separation of the ten tribes. The term first makes its appearance just before the captivity of the ten tribes in II Kings 16:6.[4]

According to The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament, the term, Jew, which is no. H3063 (yehudah), means “a proper noun designating Judah.”[5]

According to Wilson’s Old Testament Word Studies, the term, Jew, means “Judah; to make oneself a Jew; to become a Jew.”[6]

With regard to the term blasphemy, according to The New Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the Greek word is no. G988, blasphemia, which means, “vilification (especially against God); blasphemy, evil speaking, railing.”[7] This is the same word used in Revelation 13:1, 5–6 and 17:3 with regard to the beasts of Revelation 13 and 17.

According to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible, the term, blasphemy, comes from the Greek word, blasphemia, which means “injurious speaking,” as found in Revelation 2:9; 13:1, 5–6; and 17:3.[8]

Who is a Jew, or how does one make oneself a Jew or become a Jew? Let us look at the history of the Jews for a moment. But before we do that, let us review some biblical terms again.

The term Shemite or Semite comes from the name Shem, Noah’s son. According to The New Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the Hebrew word for Shem is no. H8035, Shem, which means “a son of Noah (often including his posterity).”[9] The Greek term for Shem is no. G4590, Sem, which means “a patriarch.”[10] According to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible, the name, Shem, means “name, renown, a son of Noah, ancestor of Elam Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.”[11]

Hence, Shem and his descendants are known as Shemites or Semites. Genesis 5:32 is the first place where Shem is mentioned in the Bible as a part of Adam’s family record. Genesis 10:21–31 gives us Noah’s family record with Shem’s descendants, and Genesis 10:24 verifies that Eber was a direct descendant of Shem.

This leads us to the term, Hebrew. According to The New Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the Hebrew word for Hebrew is no. H5680, Ibriy, which refers to “an Eberite or descendant of Eber, which is #H5677, Eber, which is the name of two patriarchs.”[12] According to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible, the name Eber means “a shoot; a great-grandson of Shem; this name seems used as a patronymic denoting the descendants of Eber.”[13] Also, the term, Hebrew, means “belonging to Eber; patronymic of Abraham and his offspring.”[14] As previously stated, Genesis 10:21 specifically states that Eber is a descendant of Shem, who is one of Noah’s three sons. Genesis 14:13a is the first place where the word, Hebrew, is used:

And there came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew.

            Thus, the descendants of Abraham (Abram) will be Hebrews, not “Jews.” By definition, the word, Hebrew, can be traced back to Eber and no further.

We know that the promises are to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), which leads us to the term, Israelites. According to The New Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the Hebrew name for Israel is no. H3478, Yisrael, which means “he will rule (as) God: a symbolic name of Jacob; also of his posterity: Israel.”[15] According to Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible, the name, Israel, means “ruling with God; the new name given to Jacob.”[16] Also, the name, Israelite, means “one belonging to the tribes of Israel.”[17] It can also mean “prince of God.” Genesis 35:10 is the first place where the name, Israel, is used:

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and He called his name Israel.

By definition, the names, Israel and Israelite, begin with Jacob and continue forward from that point. These names do not exist before Jacob’s name change. Hence, the twelve sons of Jacob and their descendants have become known as Israelites (also as the children of Israel); and together, they have formed the nation(s) of Israel.

As a point of clarification, the twelve-tribed nation of Israel has been split into two separate kingdoms (Israel and Judah) after the time of Solomon (1 Kings 11 and 12). The name, Israel, then refers to the northern house of Israel, which is composed of ten tribes. The name, Judah, then refers to the southern house of Judah, which is composed of two tribes (Judah and Benjamin).

So, who is a true Jew? As previously discussed, the Hebrew word for Jew is Strong’s no. H3063, Yehudah, which means “Judahite or of the tribe of Judah.” Second Kings 16:6 is the first place where the name, Jew, is used:

At that time, Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there unto this day.

In Ezra 5:1, the King James Version translates the Hebrew word, Yehud, (no. H3061) as Judah, which is correct. However, In Ezra 5:8, the King James Version translates the same Hebrew word as Judaea. Thus, the KJV translates one Hebrew word two different ways in these two verses. The word, Yehud, should be translated as Judah consistently. Thus, when God has split the kingdom of Israel in two, those of the kingdom of Israel have been called Israelites, and those of the kingdom of Judah have been called Judahites. It is interesting to note that under the heading of “A Brief History of the Terms for Jew” in the 1980 Jewish Almanac is the following:

Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an Ancient Israelite a “Jew” or to call a contemporary Jew an “Israelite” or a “Hebrew.” (p. 3)

With regard to the history of the Jews during the Hasmonaean period (142–63 BC), when “Israel” has been ruled by secular kings/high priests, in 134 BC, John Hyrcanus I—the son of Simon and thus the first Hasmonaean of the next generation—has become the leader. From 134 to 104 BC, he has done two things:

1. Hyrcanus resolved the conflict with the Seleucid Empire by agreeing to their demands.
2. He captured Samaria and Idumea and forcibly converted and circumcised the Idumeans. By doing so, he merged the land of Judah with the land of Idumea, thus creating the area known in the Bible as Judaea, and the people known as Judaeans. Herod the Great and his dynasty were Idumean.[18]

When Rome has ruled the area, it is known as Judaea and is no longer called Judah. Thus, the inhabitants are called Judaeans. As previously stated, the Greek word for Jew is Strong’s no. G2453, Ioudaios, which means “belonging to a country-Jehudah, of Juda.”[19] The original Greek matches with Hebrew, that is, Judah/Judahite, not Jew. Thus, the term, Jew, refers to the Babylonian culture that has been brought back into Judaea after the captivity; it has nothing to do with the people of the house of Judah. Jesus is a Judahite, not a Jew. Those who follow the oral traditions of the Babylonian religion called Judaism are known as Jews.

According to Benjamin Freeman, in his book Facts Are Facts:

When the word “Jew” was first introduced into the English language in the 18th Century, its one and only implication inference was “Judaean.” However, during the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, a well-organized and well-financed international “pressure group” created a “secondary meaning” for the word “Jew” among the English-speaking peoples. This “secondary meaning” for the word “Jew” bears no resemblance to the original meaning.

By the way, all the disciples/apostles are from the tribe of Benjamin, including Paul, with the exception of Judas. Guess what he is? An Edomite mixture. How do we know? He is from the town of Iscariot. If one reads the Gospels very carefully, Jesus has been careful not to venture into their territory.

So, with the above definitions, the term used in modern translations of the Bible should be translated as “Judahite,” not “Jew.” The King James Version even uses the term, Jew. So, how has this happened and why? Has it started with the Scofield Reference Bible by chance? Who has written and financed his venture? Who has seized control of the publishing houses since 1917? When has “Mystery Babylon” come on the world scene? When has the Bolshevik Revolution occurred? Have sixty-six million Russian Christians been murdered/starved to death by the Bolsheviks under the different Communist regimes? How many Christians have been murdered during World War II? The Cold War? By the same people group, no less. What is the first European Christian nation to fall? What is the second? How has Western civilization deteriorated? Who follows the Babylonian Talmud and gives lip service to the Mosaic law? What does the Talmud truly say about Christians? Who are the “chosen people”? What are “chosen people” of the Lord God supposed to act like? Christians, perhaps? What or who is a true Christian? People are afraid to answer these questions, and others as well, for the same reason listed in the Bible in John 7:13 and 20:19—for fear of the Jews. The apostle John has called them in his First Epistle Antichrist.

Remember, the beast of Revelation 17 is scarlet (i.e., red). Is it Edomite in origin? Remember, Esau is red and the father of the Edomites. Is the beast Jewish as well? Or is it Mystery Babylon the Great (i.e., Jerusalem)?

            According to Encyclopedia Biblica, volume 2, column 1187:

The Edomites are part of Jewry. The scientist and historian Dr. David Davidson wrote, Indeed the Edomites later became completely absorbed in Jewry and under their aggressive intrusion the Jews became racially the medium of expression for the Edomite ideal for which Herod the Great had first given political formation. The Edomite intrusion into Judaism at every historical point of contact is fully discussed in the volumes of the Cambridge Ancient History.

According to The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 Edition, volume 5, page 41:

Edom is in modern Jewry.

            Remember the seven times judgment of the Lord God of the house of Judah and on Babylon, which has started in 604 BC (-2,520 years = 1916 + 1 [no year 0] = 1917). That means that something significant has to have happened with regard to each entity that year:

            The House of “Judah”

            November 2, 1917:     The Balfour Declaration addressed to Lord Rothschild establishing a “Jewish” state in Palestine

December 30, 1917:    General Allenby taking Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire

Mystery Babylon the Great

1917:                           The Jewish Bolshevik Revolution

The murder of the czar of Russia and his family in a blood ritual

The takeover of Christian Russia

The beginning of the destruction of Christian Germany

This author does not dispute that the land now called Palestine belongs to Yahweh (as does the whole earth). However, Yahweh—as set out in a previous chapter—has stated that true Israel will live in the isles, live north and west of Palestine, go by a new name, speak a new language, and so on.

On the other hand, according to Fred Robertson, do the “Jews” fulfill any of the following promises as related to true Israel? You be the judge. If not, then who is the “Israel” that is occupying the land of Palestine now?

1. Have the Jews blessed all the nations of the earth?

Genesis 12:3, 22:18

2. Are the Jews circumcised in heart?

Deuteronomy 10:16, 30:6; Romans 2:28–29; Philippians 3:3; Colossians 2:9–11

3. Have the Jews ever glorified Jesus Christ, and has He been recognized by the Jewish nation?

Isaiah 41:16, Luke 1:32, 7:16

4. Do the Jews declare that Jesus Christ is the Lord God of Israel of the Old Testament?

Isaiah 43:10, 12; 44:8; 49:3–6; 52:6; Acts 1:8

5. Do the Jews show forth the praise of Jesus Christ?

Isaiah 43:21

6. Have the Jews carried the Gospel to all the world and witnessed for Jesus Christ and held the Bible open?

Genesis 28:14; Isaiah 43:10, 44:21, 49:3–6; Acts 1:8

7. Do the Jews have God’s Spirit and the Word of God in their mouth and their uttermost being?

Isaiah 59:21

8. Has the new covenant been written only to the Jews? The Bible states that it has been made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Jeremiah 31:31–33, Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 8:8

9. Are the Jews the sheep of Israel?

Ezekiel 34:11–12; Psalm 78:52, 95:1, 6–7; Isaiah 53:6; John 10:22–27; Matthew 15:24

10. Are the Jews the children of God scattered abroad?

John 7:35, 10:16, 11:52

11. Is Jesus Christ glorified in the Jews?

Isaiah 49:3, Romans 8:29–30, 9:4, 11:1–2

12. Are the Jews servants of God?

Isaiah 41:8, 43:8, 49:3

13. Are the Jews a holy nation, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people?

Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 14:2, 7:6; 1 Peter 1:1–2, 2:9–10

14. Are the Jews the great characters mentioned in the great faith chapter of Hebrews 11? (Not one was a Jew.)
15. Are the Jews a “righteous nation”?

Isaiah 26:2

16. Are the Jews bringing forth the fruits of the kingdom?

Hosea 14:8, Matthew 21:43

17. Are the Jews kind to strangers?

Leviticus 19:33–34, Matthew 25:31–46

18. Are the Jews called, the “sons of the living God”?

Hosea 1:10

19. Do the Jews claim to be “not God’s people”?

Hosea 1:10

20. Do the Jews have all of God’s Word?

Deuteronomy 33:4, Psalm 147:19–20, Romans 9:3–5

21. Are the Jews a great and mighty nation?

Genesis 18:18

22. Are the Jews today innumerable as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the seashore?

Genesis 22:17, Hosea 1:10

23. Do the Jews possess the gates of their enemies?

Genesis 22:17, 24:60

24. Are the Jews a nation and a company of nations?

Genesis 35:11, 48:49

25. Will the Jews push all the people together to the ends of the earth?

Deuteronomy 33:17

26. Are the Jews above all the people on the face of the earth?

Deuteronomy 7:2, 12:2; Psalm 135:4; Amos 3:2

27. Have the Jews ever dwelled alone in a home appointed by God?

Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 29:28; 2 Samuel 87:10; 1 Chronicles 17:9; Jeremiah 3:18, 16:13; Ezekiel 36:24; Acts 17:26

28. Have the Jews a navy or naval power?

Numbers 24:7, Isaiah 60:5, 9

29. Did or will the Jews eat up the nations, their enemies?

Numbers 24:8

30. Are the Jews God’s battle ax?

Numbers 24:8–9, Isaiah 41:15–16, Jeremiah 51:20–23

31. Are the Jews feared by all nations?

Deuteronomy 2:25, 28:10

32. Are the Jews a mighty nation, crushing and grinding to powder all who oppose them?

Daniel 2:44, Matthew 21:44

33. Have the Jews inherited the “Gentiles”?

Isaiah 54:3

34. Is it possible to count one-fourth of the Jews or all of them?

Numbers 23:10

35. Are the Jews the rod of God’s inheritance?

Psalm 135:4, Isaiah 19:25

36. Do the Jews today have an earthly king of the lineage of David ruling over them? If they are Israel, then a Davidic king must be among them somewhere.

Psalm 89:27–29, 35–37; Jeremiah 33:17

37. Are the Jews called today through Isaac (Isaac’s sons or Saxons)?

Genesis 35:11, Amos 7:16, Romans 9:7, Hebrews 11:18

38. Will the Jews say that they have lost their lineage or identity?

Deuteronomy 32:26; Jeremiah 50:6–7; Hosea 1:9–10, 2:6, 8:8, 9:17; Isaiah 1:3, 42:19

39. Do the Jews have a new name and a new language today?

Isaiah 28:11, 62:2, 65:15; Hosea 1:10; Acts 11:26; Romans 9:25–26; 1 Peter 2:10

40. If the Jews are Israel, how can the blessings promised to specific and separate tribes in Genesis 48 and 49 and in Deuteronomy 33 come about? Won’t they have to be separate nations? Note the time of fulfillment.

Genesis 48–49; Acts 2:16–17; Hebrews 11:1–2; 1 Peter 1:3, 5, 18, 20; 1 John 2:18, Jude 17–19

41. Are the heathen nations aligned against the Jews only?

Psalm 83, Joel 3:9

42. Are the Jews a hidden people?

Psalm 83:4, Isaiah 3:9

43. Are the Jews described nationally as a great lion?

Genesis 49:9, Numbers 23:24, 24:9

44. Have the Jews delivered Jerusalem in 1917?

Leviticus 26:18–28; Psalm 95:10; Daniel 12:11–12; Ezekiel 4:6 Haggai 2:18–19, 22; Matthew 24:34; Luke 21:24; Hebrews 3:9–10; Revelation 2:3, 12:1–14.

45. Are the Jews the house of Israel and the house of Judah—two nations and families?

Ezekiel 37, Jeremiah 3:18, 31:31, 33:24

46. Are the Jews called “great”?

Genesis 12:2

47. Have the Jews released those in slavery?

Isaiah 42:7, 58:6

48. Have the Jews colonized any people?

Genesis 28:14, Isaiah 35:1, 49:8

49. Are the Jews an island people?

Isaiah 24:14, 41:1, 43:4–10, 49:1, 19; Jeremiah 23:8, 31:10

50. Do the Jews recognize Jesus Christ as God? (Yahweh said Israel will.)

Isaiah 43:10, 12; 52:6; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:68; John 9:28; Acts 3:14; 1 Timothy 3:16

So, are the Jews God’s chosen people? Or is this the strong delusion spoken of by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:11? According to Revelation 13:3:

And I [John] saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and All the world wondered after the beast.

Christians are wondering after a beast called “Israel” under another Gospel called Christian Zionism. According to Stephen Sizer:

In general terms, Zionism may be defined as “the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.” The term “Zionism” was first coined in 1892 by Nathan Birnbaum, then a student in Vienna. A year later in 1893, he published a booklet entitled, The National Rebirth of the Jewish People in Its Homeland as a Means of Solving the Jewish Problem, in which he         advocated Jewish nationalistic ideas that Theodor Herzl was to later expound in A Jewish   State, published in 1896.[20]

He continues:

At the First World Zionist Congress, which Herzl convened in Basle a year later, in 1897, he and Birnbaum articulated the deep longings of many Jewish people for their own homeland. Various strands of Zionism emerged in the early Twentieth Century including Practical, Socialist, and Communist. The most recent and probably most destructive form to appear is known as Messianic Zionism.

Equating Arabs with the ancient Amalekites, and convinced they have a divinely ordained mandate to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Israel, religious Zionists have been in the forefront of the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, attacks on Muslims and mosques and the systematic expansion of the West Bank settlements, especially in places like Arab East Jerusalem and Hebron.[22]

 . . . The contemporary Christian Zionist movement emerged only after 1967, alongside Messianic Zionism, in part in reaction to the widespread criticism Israel has endured over the last thirty-five years . . . Walter Riggans interprets the term [Christian Zionism] in an overtly political sense as “any Christian who supports the Zionist aim of the sovereign State of Israel, its army, government, education, etc., but it can describe a        Christian who claims to support the State of Israel for any reason.”[23]

Christian Zionists worship Israel, not Yahweh of the Bible.

Remember, who controlled Palestine between the Greek and the Roman Empires? The Hasmonaean Dynasty of seven Israeli high priests/kings called “Israel”. The house of Israel was evicted by the Lord God by the Assyrians from 745 to 722 BC, never to return to Palestine. However, the Jews came back to the land as the Hasmonaean Dynasty known as Israel and then came back to life as well as in 1917 as the Bolshevik Revolution and officially in 1948 as the State of Israel. Originally, it was supposed to be called “the State of the Jews,” but President Truman changed the title of the nation to “the State of Israel.” On May 14, 1948, the United States and then the USSR recognized the State of Israel as a nation at the United Nations. A nation was born in a day.

Esau has retaken his inheritance, but for how long? How long will Yahweh allow them to stay in His land? Or is she the great whore of Revelation 17:1–6?

The Great Whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So, he [the angel] carried me [John] away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I [John] wondered with great admiration.

If the Bible is only about Israel, that is, the house of Israel and the house of Judah, with the true Gentile nations that interact with Israel, then what color is missing from this woman, the whore of Babylon? According to Exodus 28:5, the high priest has worn “gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.” The whore is missing the color, blue. The Mosaic religion has been corrupted when the house of Judah has gone into Babylon, and the Pharisaic religion that has come out is called “Judaism.” According to Rabbi Stephen Wise, “The return from Babylon and the introduction of the Babylonian Talmud, marked the end of Hebrewism and the beginning of Judaism.” That means that the woman in Revelation 12 represents the true Israel, while this whore in Revelation 17 represents a false Israel.

Some scholars have equated the whore of Babylon with the Roman Catholic Church for the simple reason that the cardinals wear scarlet and purple. Well, that could be true as well, for out of Catholicism has come Protestantism. However, where has Catholicism come from? How has it come about? There is a saying “Roman Catholicism is Judaism for Gentiles.” I find that rather thought provoking considering that the Jews have infiltrated the New Testament church and thereafter surreptitiously entwined their “doctrines of the elders” with those of Jesus Christ’s. The state church has come about as a result of Constantine, as has formal “solar worship.” So, Judaism and paganism are blended together. I suggest that one compare and contrast both religions. You might be surprised of what you find.

But according to Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, in his The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith, we do know where Judaism has come from:

Pharisaism became Talmudism. Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism. Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism and Judaism, but throughout these changes in name, the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survived unaltered from Palestine to Babylonia to North Africa, Sicily, Spain, France, and Germany. From there, to Poland and Russia and Eastern Europe . . . and ultimately to the world at large, [concentrated in the State of Israel and the United States of America].

So, where does Mystery Babylon reside? By the way, the Eastern Orthodox Church has always considered the whore of Babylon to be Jerusalem. Babylon has three major cities/states from which its power emanates:

1. The Vatican (religious power—Chrislam, 2019)
2. London (economic power—both Western and Sharia finance)
3. Washington DC (political/military power)

All three have an obelisk of Osiris and a dome of Isis.

However, these three power centers are all controlled by Mystery Babylon Jerusalem. For example:

1. The Second Vatican Council, which was held from October 11, 1962 to December 8, 1965, absolved the Jews of crucifying Jesus Christ. This negates   John 19:16:

Then delivered [peradidomi] he [Pilate] Him [Jesus] unto them [the chief priests/Pharisees/Jews] to be crucified. And they [the chief priests/Pharisees/Jews] took Jesus.

                        So, who owns the Vatican? By the way, the Rothschilds loaned vast sums of money to the Vatican.

2. The Rothschilds have controlled London, as well as all the central banks in the world, with the exception of North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. They have worldwide control of the usury system, which is against the Lord God’s law. They have also implemented a system of Sharia finance for the Muslims.

So, who controls the banking system and London?

3. “Two nations, one heart” is the new slogan for the USA and Israel with regard to sharing everything. Now that Christian Zionists/Jews and the Likud Party are in power, there is nothing to stop this from happening. And they are getting ready to sign a defense pact. With all that being said, why do the Muslims refer to the USA as the “Great Satan” and Israel as the “Little Satan”?

So, who controls who in this situation? “Israel” perhaps?

            Just how long will these relationships last? How long will Yahweh allow Mystery Babylon to exist? What is its destiny?

According to Obadiah 17–18:

But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and The House of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And The House of Jacob shall be a fire, and The House of Joseph a flame, and The House of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the House of Esau; for The LORD hath spoken it.

            And this is prophesied of Yahshuah in Isaiah 63:1–6:

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in His Apparel, travelling in the greatness of His Strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in Thine Apparel, and Thy Garments like Him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My Garments, and I will stain all My Rainment. For the Day of Vengeance is in Mine Heart, and the Year of My Redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore, mine own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My Fury, It upheld Me. And I will tread down the people in Mine Anger, and make them drunk in My fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

            Revelation 18:21–24 states:

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus, with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

            Mystery Babylon the Great shall be found no more at all, and if it is of Edomite origin, there shall not be any remaining in the earth.

[1] Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive, H54.

[2] Ibid., G43.

[3] Young, Analytical Concordance, 544.

[4] Smith, A Dictionary, 309.

[5] Baker and Carpenter, The Complete Word Study, 424.

[6] Wilson, Wilson’s Old Testament Word, 233.

[7] Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive, G17.

[8] Young, Analytical Concordance, 97.

[9] Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive, H144.

[10] Ibid., G81.

[11] Young, Analytical Concordance, 876.

[12] Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive, H102.

[13] Young, Analytical Concordance, 287.

Galatians 3:28-29, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Believing Jews And Gentiles Are God's People

The world hates the Jewish people because God gave the world a conscience through Israel. God's Law came to the world through Israel (Romans 9:4). This is why Israel is so hated around the world. Sadly, MOST Jews are headed straight for Hell when they die to burn in the sulfuric flames of torment because they have arrogantly rejected Jesus Christ as the ONLY True Messiah. The following Scripture evidences that Old Testament saints were saved the EXACT SAME WAY that New Testament saints are saved, that is, by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”

The Bible calls Israel the apple of God's eye...

"For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye." —Zechariah 2:8

God chose Abraham because He knew Abraham would raise up his children to obey God (Genesis 18:19). God called Israel the Apple of His Eye because of all that He planned to do, and has done, through the nation (Romans 9:4). However, God warned what He would do if the Jews rebelled. Several hundred years before the Jews were carried off in judgment by the Assyrians (722 BC) and by the Babylonians (586 BC), God had warned what would happen if they rebelled against God's Commandments...

Deuteronomy 28:32-37,“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.”

Wow, that's horrifying! Yet, God later promised in Jeremiah to one day regather Israel...

Jeremiah 31:10, “Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.”

The following prophecy will NOT occur until the Lord returns at the Second Coming, after the 7-year Tribulation Period. The Rapture occurs BEFORE the Tribulation, that is, a Pretribulation Rapture. The modern nation of Israel which began in 1948 was birthed by the international banking cartel and Wall Street, the Rothschilds and not God. If that seems shocking to you, please read William Guy Carr's eye-opening book PAWNS IN THE GAME; and also Antony C. Sutton's book, WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER.

Truthfully, the entire movement to “support Israel” is unbiblical. As shocking as it may be to the average person's mind, Luke 21:24 in the Bible plainly teaches, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

Israel today, which became a secular nation in 1948, is a Satanic counterfeit. Only when Jesus Christ returns at His magnificent Second Coming, will true Israel be restored by the Lord Himself. Jeremiah 3:17-18, “At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.” Many churches have gone astray today, idolizing and supporting unsaved Jews and the heathen state of Israel. Our emphasis as believers ought to be preaching THE GOSPEL to the world, and not supporting the ungodly nation of Israel today.

The Lord will one day regather true Israel...

Ezekiel 36:19-24, “And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.”

The following Scriptures plainly reveal that the preceding passage of Scripture can only be referring to when the Lord returns to set up His earthly kingdom (after the 7-year Tribulation), when He shall sit upon the throne of David and rule over the world from Jerusalem...

Ezekiel 36:25-28, “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.”

A remnant of Jews will repent and believe the Gospel after the Rapture happens. These are the 144,000 of Revelation. God will restore His covenant with Israel (“he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week,” Daniel 9:27) during Daniel's 70th week, that is, during the 7-year Tribulation period. For now Israel in part is blinded, but once the Church is CAUGHT UP (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17), then the Jew's eyes will be opened and they will turn to God in large numbers...

Romans 11:25, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”

We are now living in The Times Of The Fulness Of The Gentiles (Luke 21:24). This era will end at the Pretribulation Rapture, which could happen at any moment. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
 

God Blesses The Obedient; Curses The Wicked

God promised to bless those who blessed Abraham, and curse those who cursed Abraham (Genesis 12:3). This promised was made exclusive to Abraham because he pleased the Lord. This promise was not made, as many people errantly think, to all Jews. God never blesses a wicked person, family, city, nor nation.

Many false prophets have taught that God will bless evil. No, He will not. When Israel went into sin, God punished them. Gideon couldn't understand why evil had befallen Israel.

Judges 6:13, “And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

What Gideon didn't realize, because he couldn't see the forest for the trees, was that Israel has done evil in the sight of the Lord.

Judges 6:1, “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.”

So you see, the promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 applied only to him, and to those who obey the Lord (Deuteronomy 28). God blesses the obedient and curses the disobedient. God is no respecter of persons (Romans 2:11), and so Jews are no more special to God than Gentiles (Romans 10:12). The promise in Genesis 12:3 to bless the nations of the earth through Abraham's seed was fulfilled by the gifts of the law, the prophets, the Bible and the Messiah Himself, Jesus Christ.

God in His sovereignty chose Israel as His ambassadors to the rest of the human race. Israel was to proclaim God's saving grace of the Gospel of Christ Jesus; but, they forsook God and said no. So God broke off His dealings with Israel (a divorce, Jeremiah 3:8); BUT God NEVER divorced nor forsook His own people (Romans 11:1; Hebrews 13:5). It was a business agreement gone bad; but that had no affect on family relations. God loves His children and nothing in the world can change that.
 

Many Gentiles Will Also Be God's People During Christ's Earthly Reign

Please note that God's people are not just physical Jews, but all saved born-again believers as well (Zechariah 2:10-12; Galatians 3:26). The following Scripture speaks of the time when the Lord Jesus will return to establish His earthly kingdom, when He shall reign from the throne of David in Jerusalem over the world. Amen and amen!

Zechariah 2:10-12, “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

The Bible plainly teaches that MANY NATIONS shall be added to the Lord. Galatians 3:26 explains the meaning of this Scripture. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” The Lord proclaimed that all born-again believers will be HIS PEOPLE in His kingdom. What a wonderful truth!!! God began the nation of Israel (the Jews) with Abraham, calling his physical descendants MY PEOPLE; but God also teaches that all of Abraham's spiritual descendants (Christians) will be received as God's People too.
 

No Unsaved Jew Will Go To Heaven

It is VERY IMPORTANT for Jews to understand that no unsaved Jew will be allowed into God's kingdom. Jesus taught Nicodemus, a Jew and leader over the Jews, that unless a man is born-again he cannot enter into Heaven (John 3:1-7). 1st Peter 1:23 teaches that we are born-again by the Seed of God's Word, by faith in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God (John 20:31).

Judaism is a Satanic false religion, because they deny that Jesus is the Messiah. They claim that their Messiah has not come yet. Sadly, they will embrace the man of sin, the Antichrist, when he appears.

As true Christians, we know that Jesus, the Messiah, came 2,000 years ago to take away the sins of the world as the Lamb of God (John 3:16). Amen and amen! Judaizers hate the New Testament, because it teaches that God loves and respects Gentiles as much as Jews (Romans 2:11; 10:12). Jesus rebuked the self-righteous and religious Pharisees and Sadducees. Jesus said they weren't going to Heaven (Matthew 5:20). Self-righteousness is a road to Hell, fire and damnation (Romans 10:3-4; Romans 3:20)!
 

Sadly, Most Jews Are Not God's Children

Unfortunately, Israel rebelled and spit in God's face, even crucifying their Messiah. God turned to the Gentiles instead to proclaim the Gospel, also in part to provoke Israel to jealousy (Romans 11:11). 

A clear distinction MUST be made between God's people and God's children. God divorced Himself from the nation of Israel in the Old Testament; but NOT from His children. Some wicked people foolishly attempt to use this Scripture to justify the sin of divorce. Nothing could be further from the truth. Marriage is not a business agreement; it is a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman. God never gave up on His people, not his children.

Jesus said that Rome would totally annihilate what remained of Israel in A.D. 70. Look what Hitler did to Israel. It is obvious that God is not defending Israel as He once did way back in the Old Testament when David was king. Are the Jews still God's people? Yes! However, and sadly, most of them are not God's children and will go to Hell when they die. No one (not even Jews) can go to Heaven without being BORN AGAIN (John 3:3). John Hagee is a heretic!

The Jews are God's people in a physical sense. However, to be a Child of God means realizing one's own sinful condition and then believing on Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. Once saved, you become a spiritual Jew. Only saved Jews will be a part of the "remnant" which Paul speaks of in Romans 11:1-5. Have you ever trusted Jesus Christ to forgive your sins? Do you believe that Jesus is the ONLY begotten Son of God, God manifest in the flesh? Have you been born-again?

Most Jews deny that Jesus is the Messiah. They are NOT God's children. You see friend, you can be a physical Jew and not be a spiritual Jew. 

The Bible likens unbelieving Jews to branches broken off a good olive tree. The root of the tree is Jesus Christ...

Romans 11:20 and 23, “Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear ... And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.”

Any Jew can be saved and made right with the Lord by faith. It was unbelief that got them into trouble in the first place. That is what we just read. The Gentiles are likened to a wild olive tree, that are grafted into the good olive tree, which are the Jews. In other words, salvation is of the Jews! God has given the Law, the Bible, the prophets and the Lord Himself through Israel. We are blessed through Israel.

I once witnessed to a Jewish woman who laughed in my face when I asked her if she was going to Heaven. She said... “Of course I'm going to Heaven, I'm Jewish.” The Word of God teaches that ONLY through Jesus Christ can anyone get to Heaven (John 3:1-7; 10:1,9;14:6). Don't be fooled by “another gospel” my friend. I don't care who you are... you will burn in Hell if you don't get your sins forgiven. I'm not talking about religion here, I'm talking about your sins. Have your sins been forgiven by Jesus Christ? 

Since salvation came to the Gentiles through Israel, how tragic it is that even one of God's people would fail to enter the kingdom of God. Albeit, that is exactly what is happening. Most Jews today are arrogant and boast against Christ in blasphemies. Jesus plainly told the Jews that they would NOT enter into the kingdom of God unless their righteousness exceeded the phony self-righteousness of the Pharisees. Matthew 5:20, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” This Scripture plainly teaches that most Jews are going to Hell.

So what does Romans 11:26 mean? Romans 11:26, “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” The last part of Romans 11:26 explains its own meaning, i.e., God will clean house when He returns. Christ will turn all ungodliness away from Israel.

A remnant of Israel is being saved by God's grace (Romans 11:5); this is true of all mankind. The important thing is to make sure you are in the faith, i.e., in Jesus Christ. Have you ever come to God as a sinner, believing that Jesus is the Christ Who died for your sins? If you believe on Him, you are saved. Christ died, that's history; Christ died for me, that's salvation! If you believe on Jesus, the Son of God; then you also believe on the Father.

1st John 2:23, “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

The Word of God plainly tells us who the “remnant” of God are in Revelation 12:17...

Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

So the remnant in Revelation 12:17 are clearly defined as the seed of the woman, and we learn in Revelation 17:18 that the woman is that great city, Jerusalem. Hence, the remnant are born-again Jews who obey God's Commandments...

Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

The true remnant of Jews today are scattered around the world. They will be caught up and removed from the world at the Rapture. However, a large group of unbelieving Jews will repent and turn to the Lord to be saved following the Rapture. The Times Of The Gentiles will have been fulfilled and God will once again deal directly with Israel (the new remnant of Jews saved during the Tribulation).
 

Israel Has NOT Been Regathered By God Yet

God won't defend a Godless nation today, nor did He in the Old Testament. One of the purposes of the Tribulation will be to purge Israel to prepare to meet her King, Who will reign from the throne of David in Jerusalem during the Millennium. The Lord will be defending a remnant of saved Jews Who love Jesus Christ when Russia and China attack Israel. But until the Rapture, Satan's false Jews have control of Israel, which is why Jewish rabbis are spitting on tourists in Israel. Search the web and read it for yourself. Also, it's against the law in Israel to convert a Jew to Christianity (5 years in jail).

Jesus prophesied that Jerusalem would be completely destroyed in A.D. 70, and it was. Just as Abraham doubted God's promise of a son, and took matters into his own hands, so are many Jews today trying to FORCE God restore Israel; but, it is not God's time.

I do NOT believe that the modern-day restoration of the nation of Israel in 1948 is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Why? Well for one, God promised to regather Israel when He returns, not before. Christ hasn't returned yet. Israel will be regathered “In his days” according to the next verse, Jeremiah 23:5-8. In whose days? In the days when Jesus Christ will reign from Jerusalem over the entire earth (and what a glorious day that will be!)...

“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS... they shall dwell in their own land.” —Jeremiah 23:5-8

Secondly, God clearly told Abraham what the boundaries of this land would be...

“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.” —Genesis 15:18

So Israel basically has been promised every inch of presently occupied Arab land. Everything from the Nile River down in Egypt, up to the Euphrates river in Syria belongs to Israel when Christ returns. Israel does NOT possess their land yet in accordance with Biblical prophecy. The Bible clearly teaches that God will firmly plant Israel in the land, a land MUCH bigger than what Israel presently owns.

Another reason I believe that modern-day Israel is not the Biblical fulfillment of prophecy is because Israel has NOT been restored to it's once incredible agricultural and beautiful status. The following Scripture promises gardens, vineyards, and built-up cities (all of which Israel does not have yet). Yes, there have been some agricultural developments in Israel, but nothing like it was in the days of King Solomon. Israel will be restored when Christ returns to a paradise.

“And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.” (Amos 9:14-15)

The land of Palestine will be restored to what it once was, a land flowing with milk and honey, with beautiful palms and cedars.

Also, every born again Arab has as much right to the future Promised Land as does any saved Jew (Zechariah 2:10-12). Galatians 3:7 states, “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” The Promised Land isn't just for saved Jews; but for all saved people. Jesus Christ will reign from Jerusalem, and all believers will serve under our eternal King. 

There are those today who ignorantly claim that Jesus won't physically reign as King from Jerusalem; but He will according to Zechariah 14:9. 

There are also others who foolishly believed that unsaved Jews will inherit the Promised Land. Sorry, it won't happen! John 3:3 couldn't be any clearer, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Only through faith alone in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior can you go to Heaven (Acts 16:31; John 20:31; Ephesians 2:8-9).
 

The Star Of David Is NOT Found In The Bible

Also, the “Star of David” is NOT found in the Bible and is in fact the Satanic hexagram, no doubt resulting in part from the occult Masonic influences of the Rothschilds family who were instrumental in the rebirth of Israel.

I am not saying that God isn't working in Israel today, I am simply saying that Biblical prophecy paints a far different picture than what has happened to Israel over the past 50 years. I love Jewish people, just as I love ALL people. God is NO respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). Jewish people are God's people and I believe that they are dear to the heart of God, but that in no way makes them any better or more privileged than anyone else. God loves the Arab people as much as the Jewish people. God is not loyal to men; He is loyal to His promises and agreements to men.

Yes, the Jewish people are God's people according to the Bible. However, the Biblical promises of regathering and restoration will ONLY be for born-again Israelites; not those Christ-rejecting Jews who adhered to the false religion of Judaism. It's Heaven or Hell. It's Jesus or Hell my friend. If you are a Jew and want to be part of the regathering of Israel someday, then you MUST receive Jesus Christ and believe on Him to be saved (Acts 4:10-12; 10:43; Romans 4:5; 10:3-4).

“And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord” (Ezekiel 37:13,14)

The above verse clearly teaches that the restored nation of Israel wi

ll be inhabited by resurrected saints. Notice that God will regather Israel from “YOUR GRAVES.” Daniel 12:2 teaches that some will be raised to everlasting life and others to everlasting contempt.

“Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.” (Romans 9:27)

How sad that only a small fraction of Israel will someday inhabit the Promised Land. It is tragic indeed (and totally unnecessary), but us humans are stubborn and filled with sinful selfish pride.

“But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.” (Romans 9:31)

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3)

If you understand that the coming Antichrist is Satan's imitation of Christ, then it should also become obvious to you that Satan has a false Israel too. Whereas Biblical Christians are looking for the return of Jesus Christ to establish His earthly kingdom; heathen Zionists are looking for their false Messiah, the Antichrist, to reign over the world. The New World Order will be the Antichrist's counterfeit of Christ's true coming kingdom during the 1,000 year millennium. The Antichrist will claim to be the Messiah, even proclaiming to be God from the temple in Jerusalem, but he will be an imposter. The unsaved world will eagerly follow the Antichrist when he comes, but many will refuse. At the halfway point through the Tribulation, the Beast (Antichrist) will demand worship of his image from everyone on earth or they will be executed! 

The ACCURATE way to look at Israel, the Antichrist and world government is to see Present-Day Israel, the Antichrist
and the Antichrist's rule over the world as Satan's counterfeit of true Israel, Jesus Christ and Christ's Millennial Kingdom.

       According to Revelation 17:18 (our text verse), Jerusalem is that great city, The Great Whore, which reigneth over the kings of the earth! Or more specifically, the Illuminati (hierarchy of the power of darkness) who control Israel and the United States reign over the kings of the earth. Of course, Lucifer (Satan) is at the top of the hierarchy of power. Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

The Devil imitates everything that God does, trying to deceive mankind. A classic example is the Antichrist, who will come in an attempt to trick the world into receiving him as the true Messiah.

Most Bible students have concluded that the Catholic church is The Great Whore, but Mystery Babylon includes all of today's false religions that are a part of the New World Order. The occult All Seeing Eye, Obelisk (such as the Washington Monument) and The Great Pyramid are all a part of the Ancient Mystery Religion of Egypt, and continued from Babylon until present-day, which has been at work by Satan in the world since the tower and city of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9, and since the serpent offered Eve knowledge of good and evil in exchange for eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:5-7). To the point, the Ancient Mystery Religion, which is the core of New Age and Theosophy, is Lucifer worship!

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (thus disobeying God), they became “as gods” in Genesis 3:22 (hence the “322” used by the Skull & Bones secret society. Lucifer offers men “godhood” by ascending through multiple levels of occult enlightenment (e.g., Kaballah has 125 levels, Freemasonry has 33 levels, et cetera). In the occult (which means hidden) there is always something you don't know, which is intended to keep men “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2nd Timothy 3:7). Kaballah is a substitute for the Gospel. Freemasonry is a substitute for the church.

Whereas it is the New Testament Church which is God's vehicle for evangelizing the world; Freemasonry is Satan's vehicle to bring to fruition a New World Order and prepare the masses to embrace the coming man of sin, the Antichrist (the Beast). In order to prepare people to receive the “MAN OF SIN” (2nd Thessalonians 2:3), social groups must be desensitized to the awfulness of sin; hence, the reason for the moral meltdown of America, Europe and the world. Satan is the Boss of Hollywood, the cesspool of iniquity of the world! Hollywood's Satanic Antichrist Preparation.

Whereas the Bible prophesies that Jesus Christ Himself will return one day to sit upon the literal throne of David and reign over the earth triumphant from Jerusalem; the Antichrist is Satan's gimmick (substitute) for Christ, professing himself that he is the Messiah, God (2nd Thessalonians 2:4). Since the Antichrist is a counterfeit, naturally he is going to need a counterfeit Israel. And if Satan needs a false Israel for his false Messiah, then he also needs false Jews. Jesus warned in Revelation 2:9 about false Jews of the synagogue of Satan who claim to be true Jews. For nearly everything in God's prophetic plan, the Devil has a counterfeit to deceive the human race. We even see the trio of the False Prophet, the Beast and the Dragon—imitating God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

The nation of Israel was put back on the map in 1948 by the Rothschild's led banking cabal. William Guy Carr in his timeless book, PAWNS IN THE GAME, documents the history of the international banking cartel and how they've started and financed BOTH sides of every major war in America since the Revolutionary War of 1776 (full book, .PDF file). Truth is stranger than fiction!

Also, read THE NEW WORLD ORDER by S.Z. Batten written in 1919. Batten appeals to the church to wake up to the reality that the New World Order will use war to accomplish their goals. The book was written after World War I, but before World War II. Batten states on page 148, “Christianity has suffered much from the wrong thinking of bad men, but even more from the small thinking of good men.” What a true statement!

If you don't get anything else from this article, recognize that the nation of Israel today is a counterfeit. God has not gathered His people yet. Present-day Israel is controlled by Marxists and Communists, haters of Christ and the Bible. The Bible teaches that 144,000 Jews of the tribes of Israel (Revelation 7:4) will be saved at the beginning of the 7-year Tribulation. During the Tribulation God restores His covenant with Old Testament Israel. The Times Of The Gentiles will end at the Rapture. Then Israel will become the main focus once again.

Albeit, God's people (the elect, born again believers) will be gathered when the Lord returns (Jews and Gentiles included, Galatians 3:29). Again, only born-again Christians will be gathered to the Promised Land (Galatians 3:26-29). Kindly, no Christ-rejecting Jew will ever escape the fires of Hell, and no Christ-receiving Gentile will ever be denied residence in the New Jerusalem. Israel has not been restored yet. Hosea tells us that in the End Times that Israel will SEEK AND FEAR THE LORD (this hasn't happened yet). . .

Hosea 2:21-23 and Hosea 3:5, “And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 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. ... Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.”

Judaizers who openly reject Jesus as the Messiah will be cast into the Lake of Fire for their unbelief (2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 20:15). Jesus told Nicodemus (a Jew), “Ye must be born again” (John 3:1-7). No Christ-rejecting Jew will enter into the Promised Land simply because they are biologically related to Abraham. The PROMISE made to Abraham's seed (descendants) only apply to those who are in Christ...

Galatians 3:26-29, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

We must distinguish between the true nation of Israel that God will restore verses the present-day fraudulent State of Israel put there by men...