“The call of Abram is the most important event in the Old Testament, but it is also an eminent example of individual faith. For both reasons he is called ‘the Father of the Faithful.'”
~ Alexander MacLaren
A false teaching has permeated Christianity, that Christians must never be critical of the State of Israel or Jews lest they be cursed by God. In some churches this teaching has attained the status of a doctrine of the Faith. This false teaching is a misappropriation of the call of Abraham in Genesis 12.
Genesis 12:1 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
In Genesis 12:5-7, God promised to give Abram and his descendants the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:5 “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came… 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.”
Genesis 12:1-3 is God’s promise of blessing and protection for Abram and his physical descendants. The Hebrew word for curse is qalal which translated means to bring into contempt, accurse, despise, afflict, revile. (Strong’s #7043) In the book of Numbers, the prophet Balaam recited the first part of verse 3 to Balak, king of Moab, who demanded that the prophet curse Israel.
Numbers 22:17 “And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed…18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.’”
Numbers 24:5 “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!… 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.“
Today, Jewish and Christian Zionists preach that Genesis 12:3 applies to the establishment, policies and actions of the modern state of Israel. They maintain that the Jews are still God’s Chosen People and, therefore, whoever praises the Jews and the State of Israel will be blessed but whoever criticizes the Jews and Israel will be cursed. The threat of being cursed by God has created a campaign of fear to the extent that most Christians accept the Zionist dogma without question or discussion. However, to be sound, a doctrine must take into account all that God has said on the subject.
The doctrine of blessing and cursing ancient Israel was provably true under the Old Covenant; however, the last clause of Gen. 12:3 “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” pertains to the New Covenant.
“Galatians 3:7 “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham… 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy Seed, which is Christ.”
God’s covenant with Abraham would ultimately bless all the families of the earth through the offer of salvation by faith in his Seed, Jesus Christ. Earthly Israel was a type of the Church, an example for the true Israel of God.
1 Corinthians 10:11 “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
The spiritual children of Abraham are the true Israel of God.
Romans 2:29 “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
Romans 9:6 “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Galatians 6:15 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”
Colossians 2:11 “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ”
Galatians 4:28 “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.”
Because Zionists do not rightly divide the word of God, they misappropriate God’s warning to bless and to not curse the modern State of Israel. They overlook the verses which state that the ancient nation of Israel forfeited their right to the promised land due to their iniquities and transgressions. In fact, God divorced national Israel for their open rebellion against His Law.
Isaiah 50:1 “Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.”
Likewise, the nation of Judah forfeited their title to the land for their unfaithfulness.
Jeremiah 3:8 “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”‘
Centuries later the Jews willfully invoked a curse on their nation and their descendants when they called for Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
Matthew 27:22 “Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.”
Indeed, Jesus Christ cursed Jerusalem and decreed judgment on the nation:
Matthew 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.“
God’s Covenant with the nation of Israel and Judah was temporal and conditioned upon their OBEDIENCE to the Mosaic Law. God’s Covenant with the True Israel is eternal and unconditional salvation by grace through FAITH in Jesus Christ.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Galatians 3:9-11 “So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
It is simply not possible to make sense of what is happening in the Middle East today without an understanding of 1948. The following documentary was the last chance for many of its Israeli and Palestinian characters to narrate their first-hand accounts of the creation of a state and the expulsion of a nation. These shocking and dramatic events reveal the core of what drives the conflict today
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1948: CREATION & CATASTROPHE
For many decades Christians in the U.S. have politically and financially supported the policies and actions of the State of Israel. Typically Christians don’t question the Zionist narrative because they naively believe the Jews are still “God’s Chosen People” and that God commanded them to only bless and to never criticize Israel. However, under the New Covenant there is no such command in the New Testament.
Presently, the United States government is funding the ethnic cleansing (genocide) of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip of Israel in order to purge the land of Gentiles and thereby prepare the way for their false messiah. Because of U.S. Christians’ blind devotion to Israel, as well as their generous financial support of $200 million annually, an increasing number of anti-Zionists in the mainstream and alternative media, are informing their audiences, who are watching with horror the massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians, that the Zionist movement was founded by Christians. The charge seems credible because, early in the 20th century, ministers who claimed to be Christian but were false professors, were actively lobbying governments to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine, holding conferences worldwide urging Jews to move to Palestine and mobilizing Christians and churches to promote the Zionist agenda.
In Janet Moser’s report, Heeding Bible Prophecy, the section on New Israel chronicles the Zionist movement and the involvement of certain Christian ministers in the founding of Zionism, such as William Blackstone, C.I. Scofield and even Charles Taze Russell. Predating these pretenders, however, Mayer Amschel Rothschild was purchasing land in Palestine and it is likely these ‘Christian’ ministers were Rothschild’s hirelings.
Perhaps foreseeing the future, the early Zionists fondly called the Methodist Episcopal evangelist, William E. Blackstone, “the father of Zionism.” Today, Zionist ministers in the pulpits of most churches are leading their unsuspecting church members to their destruction. When the Zionists come to global power, they will double cross the Christians saying their dispensational interpretation of Bible prophecy led them to commit global genocide.
“Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” Daniel 7:23-25
Below is a portion of the relevant section on Israel in Heeding Bible Prophecy showing the chronology of the Zionist movement.
1631-1653 Renaissance England’s Chief Rabbi and Member of Parliament, John Selden, discovered the Noahide Laws in the Talmud; wrote six volumes on these universal divine laws, including a study of Jewish assemblies, including the Sanhedrin.
“In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden’s immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects — to an extent remarkable for the times — the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning, including Grotius, Jonson, and Milton, gladly conceded Selden’s superiority. Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, this is the first book-length study of his Rabbinic and especially Talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship… It explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden’s own thought, such as his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise, and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden’s discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden’s uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship.”
1836 A.D. – Rothschild purchases land in Palestine.
“In 1836, [Zevi] Kalischer appealed to Mayer Amschel (who by now had changed his name to Rothschild) to buy out completely the land of Israel or at least Jerusalem and particularly the Temple area in order to ‘bring about the miraculous redemption from below’. Zevi Kalischer said the salvation promised by the prophets of old could come only gradually and by self-help from the Jews.” (O.J. Graham, The Six-Pointed Star, p. 63)
1840 – The Damascus Affair begins Jewish emigration to Palestine.
“The year 1840 brought with it problems in Damascus. Father Thomas, a Capuchian of the Catholic faith, disappeared; it was reputed that he had been murdered by Jews for ritual purposes. French and Syrian authorities joined in and many Jewish adults and children were arrested and tortured; some were even killed. Rothschild and Montefiore and Cremieux got together, sought action, and this resulted in Jewish people going to work on Rothschild’s projects in Palestine. It is said, in fact, that it was this Damascus affair which helped establish the groundwork for the Alliance Israelite Universelle founded by Rothschild twenty years later.” (O.J. Graham, The Six-Pointed Star, pp. 63-4)
1865 – Grand Lodge of England funds Palestine Exploration Fund to introduce Jews to Palestine to occupy and govern the land and eventually to rebuild Solomon’s Temple.
“In 1865, under the patronage of Queen Victoria, all of the elite institutions of Britain, including the Anglican Church, the Grand Lodge of England, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, etc., gathered to fund a new institution, the Palestine Exploration Fund, dedicated to the ‘rediscovery’ of the Holy Land. The PEF’s first Secretary Treasurer [was] Freemason Walter Besant…
“The PEF was founded for three purposes:
1) ‘With the avowed intention of gradually introducing the Jews, pure and simple, who are eventually to occupy and govern this country…’ 2) To survey every inch of the territory on both sides of the Jordan, for British military-strategic purposes… 3) To give the gnostic British gamemasters an open-ended tool to reinterpret the Bible, and thus to manipulate the minds of hundreds of millions of Christians and Jews.
“As Besant, a raving gnostic and brother-in-law of Theosophy cult leader Annie Besant, put it, ‘The principal reason alleged for conducting this inquiry was the illustration of the Bible which might be expected to follow such an investigation.’… Said Besant, ‘The work before the Committee of the Fund, as regards Jerusalem, was, therefore, briefly this: We proposed nothing less than the absolute identification of every sacred site.’ Special attention should be given to the Temple Mount and the issue of the Temple of Solomon… Thus was founded the vast discipline of ‘Biblical Archaeology.’
“Through the PEF, the British re-established the tradition of cultural/religious manipulation in the 19th century. Besant was the PEF’s secretary from 1868 until 1886, the year when PEF head Sir Charles Warren and he became, respectively, the first Grand Master, and the first Treasurer, of the Quatuor Coronati lodge–which they established, in their own words, as an ‘archaeology lodge,’ the first ever in the history of freemasonry…
“The PEF/Quatuor Coronati cynical manipulation of religion continues both in the plot to rebuild Solomon’s Temple per se, and in the broader cultural war against true Christianity, Judaism and Islam, of which that plot is a part.
Take, for instance, the widely publicized Holy Blood, Holy Grail series, written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, and trumpeted by the BBC, among others. The book claims that the British Royal Family and its associated oligarchy is the continuation of a bloodline begun by the marriage of Jesus Christ (who, according to this heresy, was never crucified) to Mary Magdalene, a ‘secret bloodline’ which allegedly continued throughout the Merovingian Dynasty in Europe and the crusading orders such as the Templars (who derived their name from the headquarters in Solomon’s Stables underneath the Temple Mount) and the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, around which are grouped other initiates, such as the Freemasons. The ‘inspiration’ for such trash is hardly divine: The lead author, Michael Baigent, is a Corresponding Member of the Quatuor Coronati lodge, and Brother Baigent thanks, for his assistance, the Rev. Neville B. Cryer, one of Quatuor Coronati’s most prominent members, and the longtime head of the immensely influential British and Foreign Bible Society.” –
“Who is Sparking A Religious War in the Middle East? And How To Stop It”, EIR Special Report, Dec. 2000, pp. 58-9
1878 – Rev. William Blackstone’s tract promotes Zionism leading to First Niagara Prophecy Conference.
“Born in Adams, New York in 1841, William Eugene Blackstone became a successful businessman specializing in real estate outside Chicago after the Civil War. A self-taught lay evangelist and Bible teacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Blackstone eventually devoted himself to missionary work. While at a YMCA convention, Blackstone asked the Reverend James Hall Brooke, one of the foremost ministers of the time, to write a tract about the second coming that he could pass out on trains as he traveled. Instead, Brooke suggested that Blackstone write it himself and that he would publish it. Brooke’s suggestion led Blackstone to compose Jesus is Coming, hailed as ‘probably the most wide-read book in this century on our Lord’s return.’ First published in 1878, its 1908 revised edition was financed by California oilman Lyman Stewart and distributed by the hundreds of thousands; by Blackstone’s death in 1935, Jesus is Coming had been translated into thirty-six languages, with over a million copies printed.
“Blackstone, like Brooke and other evangelists of that time, was influenced by the Plymouth Brethren dispensationalist premillennialism preached by the influential Anglo-Irish minister John Nelson Darby on his tours of North America in the seventies. The year Jesus is Coming first appeared–1878–also saw the first of a series of prophecy and Bible conferences, eventually known as the Niagara Prophecy Conferences, held around the United States which established this proto-fundamentalist theological tendency. Ministers from a wide spectrum of denominations combined elements of Princeton theology, biblical literalism, and premillennialism with a conservative opposition to higher criticism, modernism, and other liberalizing trends.”
1879 – Charles Taze Russell began holding Jewish Mass Meetings to promote emigration to Israel; also presented a plan for Zionism to Baron Rothschild.
“The Watchtower organization claims that Charles Taze Russell founded the religion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Israeli Haaretz reported on August 22, 2018:
“Years before Theodor Herzl proposed created a Jewish state, Charles Taze Russell was traveling the world holding Jewish Mass Meetings, beginning in 1879, at which he urged Jews to find a national home in Eretz Israel.
“Russell’s legacy as an enthusiastic, non-proselytizing Zionist has been acknowledged by…the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu… The late Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, called Russell a ‘neglected man and chapter in the history of Zionism.’ On August 18, 1891, now in Jerusalem, Russell wrote to the philanthropists Baron Maurice de Hirsch and Baron Edmond de Rothschild…’the two leading Hebrews of the world’…No less, he put forward a practical plan for Zionism.”
Before Herzl, There Was Pastor Russell: A Neglected Chapter of Zionism, Haaretz, August 22, 2018
1891, March 5 – Seven years before Theodore Herzl’s First Zionist Congress, William Blackstone petitions Pres. Benjamin Harrison to authorize homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Groundwork laid for Judaized Christianity; Blackstone ‘father of Zionism’.
“On March 5, 1891, the Chicago businessman and Methodist Episcopal lay worker William E. Blackstone was introduced by Secretary of State James G. Blaine to President Benjamin Harrison in order to present a petition Blackstone authored, ‘Palestine for the Jews.’ ‘What shall be done for the Russian Jews?’ the petition asked, and Blackstone boldly answered:
“Why not give Palestine back to them again? According to God’s distribution of nations, it is their home, an inalienable possession, from which they were expelled by force….Why shall not the powers which under the treaty of Berlin, in 1878, gave Bulgaria to the Bulgarians and Servia to the Servians now give Palestine back to the Jews?…Let us now restore them to the land of which they were so cruelly despoiled by our Roman ancestors.
“Nonetheless, Benjamin Harrison did not accept Blackstone’s proposal…
“Blackstone would send the Memorial to presidents Cleveland and Roosevelt (McKinley had already signed), but official government sympathy for the Zionist project would have to wait for Woodrow Wilson.”
Source: “In the Shadow of ‘God’s Sun-Dial’: The Construction of American Christian Zionism and the Blackstone Memorial.” Stanford Humanities Review 5, no. 1 (1995). https://obenzinger.com/bibliography/
“The Blackstone Memorial emerged from the same Reformation and Enlightenment preoccupations with Jews as the original nation whose restoration confirms other ‘natural,’ European nations and comprises both a necessary prerequisite and model for the reconstitution of an authentic, ‘primitive’ Christianity. Blackstone’s contribution to this tradition was to elaborate a fully realized political Zionism that took long-standing religious narratives into the realm of late-nineteenth-century nationalism, colonialism, and imperialism. Indeed, with Blackstone’s petition and related activities antedating by six years the convening of Theodor Herzl’s first Zionist conference in 1897, Nathan Straus and Louis Brandeis thought enough of his practical efforts to flatter the evangelist as ‘the father of Zionism.’”
Source: “In the Shadow of ‘God’s Sun-Dial’: The Construction of American Christian Zionism and the Blackstone Memorial.” Stanford Humanities Review 5, no. 1 (1995). https://obenzinger.com/bibliography/
See: 1878: Blackstone’s tract promotes Zionism leading to First Niagara Prophecy Conference.
1909 – C.I. Scofield, a member of the Niagara Prophecy Conference with Blackstone, published his Scofield Reference Bible which promotes the Zionist agenda of modern Israel occupying the land of Palestine before their Moshiach arrives.
“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.” —The New Scofield Study Bible
“Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans. When John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said that “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel,” it was the Scofield Bible that he was talking about.
“Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield’s annotated commentary that is problematic. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes that have induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.
“BLESSING ISRAEL, CURSING ITS CRITICS
“Central to Christian Zionist belief is Scofield’s commentary (italicized below) on Genesis 12:3: “‘I will bless them that bless thee.’ In fulfillment closely related to the next clause, ‘And curse him that curseth thee.’ Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew—well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.”
“Drawing on Scofield’s rather tendentious interpretation, Hagee claims, “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”
Benjamin Netanyahu was commissioned by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to commence the events that will lead to that arrival of the Moshiach and enforcement of the Talmudic Noahide Laws, under which all Christians will be beheaded for their idolatry.
As the Gaza genocide worsens, it is not unreasonable to assume that the war crimes of Zionist State of Israel and the United States will be blamed on the Christian Zionists, and probably all Christians. Genocides are normally conducted in secret with minimal, if any, press coverage; however, the Gaza horror show has been broadcast worldwide in sadistic detail, with IDF soldiers filming and joking about murdering women and children and celebrating their crimes on social media.
Because Christian Zionists “bless Israel” with hundreds of millions of dollars annually, the Gaza genocide will be blamed on all Christians, whose faith in Jesus is now regarded as a religion of hatred and violence. World opinion against Christianity is gaining momentum and, when the Zionists achieve their goal of global conquest, they plan to roll out the Noahide Laws which require the death of all who worship Jesus Christ.
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