Christians don’t realize how deeply the last century of American theology was shaped by a single book - the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 (the best selling Bible of all time) - published by the Oxford Press ... So ask yourself, why would a group of Jews want to fund and publish a Christian Bible ?
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The clever Zionist seized an opportunity in promoting a new theology called Dispensationalism ... This new theology was pushing "The Olivet Discourse" (Matt 24) into the future as not yet fulfilled. - The clever Zionist saw this as an opportunity to fool the Western Christians into believing a land theft of "Palestine" would be a fulfillment of END TIME prophecy. And so the Christians have been used as pawns ever since, becoming a massive lobbying group to do the bidding of Zionist bankers (the illuminati).
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This new theology spread rapidly, especially during the fear & havoc of TWO WORLD WARS. - American pastors began adopting Scofield’s notes (inspired by John Nelson Darby) ... and soon, American Bible colleges established this new theology as mainstream doctrine. Entire denominations in the STATES built doctrines around this framework ... and by the time Moody Press began using Scofield’s annotations for Sunday-school curriculum, the shift was complete. A NEW “PROPHETIC LENS” HAD REPLACED THE OLDER CHRISTIAN TRADITION.
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And with it came a seriously flawed teaching - that modern political events in the Middle East must revolve around ISRAEL, and that it should be supported at all costs in preparation for END TIME events. This belief transformed American Christianity into a political force. This linked national identity, foreign policy, and eschatology in ways previous generations would never have recognized.
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Today many American charismatic Christians (such as John Hagee) now help operate and fund a non-biblical, non-Christian political system in Israel (Zionism) ... all the while threatening America with natural disasters as curses from God for not supporting unbelieving Jews.
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FACT: Jews and Arabs lived in peace together in that same land before 1948.
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FACT: After WWII ... Political Zionism created a sympathetic movement that leveraged a blind eye among CHRISTIANS ... so that Jews could forcibly remove Arabs from their homes and businesses. Many were killed ... and over 700,000 Arabs were displaced.
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FACT: Any group that is murdered, separated from families, oppressed and stripped from their homes will retaliate... hence the region went from peace to constant conflict.
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THERE HAS TO BE A VOICE TO TURN THE TIDE WITHIN THE CHURCH or self-fulfilling prophesies will lead to the very wars and tribulation the church is believing for !!
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Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans.
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Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is Cyrus Scofield’s annotated commentary that is the problem. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes (inspired by John Darby) that induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern state of Israel.
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The New Scofield Study Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 1984, enhanced Scofield’s interpretation, by adding, “For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgment.” Reading such comments, a bible-believing Christian could easily assume, for example, that God will punish the 114 countries which endorsed the Goldstone Report.
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Sustained by a dubious exegesis of selective biblical texts, Christian Zionism justifies racism and exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines attempts to find a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all because the Bible tells them so.
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If there had been no Scofield Bible the American people might have been spared the well-publicized pro-Israeli rants of John Hagee, Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell, not to mention the lucrative "End Times" prophecy peddled by Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, and Rabbi Cahn.
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The earliest Christians, the Church Fathers, and even the Reformers never held this view. It is entirely modern.
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And the consequences are not small :
* Dispensationalism blesses conflict instead of peace.
* Dispensationalism frames war as destiny.
* Dispensationalism conditions believers to expect - even welcome - global crisis.
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IT'S TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO RE-EXAMINE THIS FRAMEWORK.
Not out of hostility … not out of politics … but out of the simple conviction that JESUS CALLED US TO BE PEACEMAKERS, not narrators of catastrophe. If we do not question the lens we inherited, we risk creating the very conflicts this new theology predicts.
The GOOD NEWS ??
Many Christians are waking up, asking better questions, and refusing to use Scripture as a license for suffering. That conversation needs more voices.
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THE BIBLE DID NOT PROPHESY THE "REGATHERING" OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL IN 1948.
Let's look at those passages ...
Ezekiel speaks of an "everlasting covenant", the new covenant (37:26).
The next verse says, "I will be their God, and they shall be my people", (also quoted in 2 Cor 6:16) - saying that indeed this is the New Covenant.
Ezekiel 36:24 .. "I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and I will bring you into your own land."
Ezekiel 36:26 speaks of the "new heart" of the new covenant.
Isn't this the regathering after the Babylonian captivity, after which the New Covenant would come to and thru them?
Jeremiah says the same thing in Jeremiah 31:31-34, even referring to "a new covenant" (31). This passage is quoted in Hebrews 8:8-12, confirming that it was referring to the New Covenant in their day.
Doesn't Jeremiah also say that Israel would be regathered after 70 years from the Babylonian captivity, not 2k years later ?
"For thus says the Lord, THAT AFTER SEVENTY YEARS BE ACCOMPLISHED AT BABYLON I WILL VISIT YOU, AND PERFORM MY GOOD WORD TOWARD YOU, IN CAUSING YOU TO RETURN TO THIS PLACE." - (Jeremiah 29:10).
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I FIND THIS VERSE AMUSING ...
LUKE 21:20-21 ... Jesus said ... "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. Then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those in the city GET OUT, and let those in the country STAY OUT of the city."
If we're in the "Last Days" ... shouldn't we be warning the Jews to GET OUT and STAY OUT - as Jesus said ? ... But instead, the Christians are doing the exact opposite by spending their time and money flying as many Jews directly into Israel as humanly possible ... doing so with the belief that many of those Jews will be slaughtered in a future tribulation (Zechariah 13:8-9).
Instead of showing genuine concern for these Jews, the modern Christians are simply trying to speed up their so called "rapture" ... completely ignoring what Jesus said ! - It's hilarious ! You can't make this stuff up !!
It only goes to show that the modern state of Israel is the creation of man-made theology (Dispensationalism & Zionism). It has NOTHING to do with "Bible prophecy."
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