Daily—daily—I see a tsunami of Jew-hatred (I used to call it anti-Semitism, but we need a stronger term now. Anti-Semitism doesn’t have the punch it once did).
I think that even the secular world has descended into this satanic worldview due to lack of Bible teaching, or poor Bible teaching. That is certainly the case in the American Church. As I’ve said many times, Europe has long ago gone off the rails biblically. Martin Luther, the 16th-century reformer, wrote grotesque things about the Jews (On the Jews and Their Lies) so sick, I wouldn’t quote him here. He turned on the Jews after they wouldn’t mass-embrace the Gospel. Long before that, some of the early Church Fathers (along with the Catholic Church) read the Bible metaphorically.
Beginning (no pun intended) with turning the origin’s accounts in Genesis into some form of myth, to then spiritualizing God’s vast promises to the Jews, the Church itself is complicit in mass brainwashing against the Jewish people. What we see today began then, long ago.
I listened to a “Louder with Crowder” podcast interview last week. “Can a Christian be a Zionist: Gerald Morgan vs. Andrew Wilson Debate” first featured Wilson’s anti-Israel worldview. Unfortunately, Crowder himself played a portion of the now-infamous interview between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz. Claiming that Carlson “Asks some very good questions,” Crowder also said that Carlson’s questions were “well thought-out.”
Look, Tucker Carlson hates Israel and hates Jews. His constant attacks on Israel show him to be a lifelong critic of the Jewish state. It’s very unfortunate that Crowder thinks Carlson is an impartial interviewer. For his part, Wilson said:
“The reason you have so much trouble having this conversation at all is because of organizations like CUFI, which have their tendrils in everything, trying to make sure that all Protestant apologetics revolve around the Ted Cruz framing there, the Ted Cruz framing that Christians sort of have this moral OTT [over the top platform] to support the modern state of Israel when, in fact, we don’t.”
Wilson, from the video ministry The Crucible, kept pressing the point that he believes Israel wants to embrace the antichrist. His whole premise is that Israel is evil and an abomination (my word).
This kind of exchange is constant on social media. Just today, I read a weird hit piece from Evangelical Dark Web regarding Jack Hibbs. The writer, Ray Fava, seemed to purposely misread Jeremiah 31, which is clearly about the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland. The famous passages include God’s promise to preserve Israel as a nation, so long as the sun and moon give their light (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
Read Fava’s (intentional?) misunderstanding of the actual words of God:
“Jack Hibbs alludes to Jeremiah 31, one of the most anti-dispensationalist texts in the Old Testament. The passage that forshadow’s [sic] Christ’s new covenant (verse 31) is followed up with a promise, ‘Israel also will cease from being a nation before Me forever.’ Obviously, Ancient Israel was destroyed as a nation: belief, government, and even genetics are dubious.” [emphasis added]
Whuuuuut?
Fava: “Israel also will cease from being a nation before Me forever.”
God: “This is what the Lord says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the Lord Almighty is his name:
‘Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,’
declares the Lord,
‘will Israel ever cease
being a nation before me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
Fava’s quote is not what the text of Jeremiah says. Fava states that in Jeremiah 31, there is a promise that Israel will cease being a nation before God forever. That is a complete inversion of the truth. He is attempting to alter the text of Scripture. That’s pretty serious.
When I challenged Evangelical Dark Web on X, they refused to concede the point. Their answer was that Israel did cease to exist as a nation, citing elsewhere the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
Groups like this, and individuals, want Israel gone. They will go to great lengths to convince people they are right. Even to the point of these absurd and creepy statements that deny reality.
This comes from poor Bible teaching. Along with good old-fashioned anti-Jewish propaganda and conspiracy theories.
Now, let me take you back a few decades. I found this on the website of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: the profile of Professor Joseph Callaway, who taught archaeology and Old Testament from 1958-1982. From the profile:
“Callaway also journeyed to Palestine to participate in excavations during this period. From 1964 to 1972, Callaway worked at unearthing the city of Ai, known for falling to the forces of Joshua as recorded in Joshua chapters seven and eight. Callaway labored extensively in Ai, concluding over the course of this research that the city of Ai described in the biblical account did not exist when Joshua encountered it. This opinion drew much response from biblical archaeologists due to its contravention of the biblical record. Callaway continued his work in Palestine for many years and served as the president of the Albright Institute of Jerusalem.”
Palestine? After 1948? And Callaway denied the biblical connection to the site at Ai. We also learn that Callaway studied with Kathleen Kenyon in 1961. You might remember that Kenyon determined that the evidence at Jericho did not fit with the biblical account of Joshua and the Israelites destroying this Canaanite city when the walls fell down.
Why did SBTS insist on calling the region Palestine? It wasn’t a biblical term. It was a political term for Leftists insisting that a nation of Palestine once existed. It didn’t. It was just another reason not to say “Israel.”
If you also care to dig into this more, here is a super article that mentions Callaway, and also goes into his view of Genesis, particularly Adam and Eve.
The article, by Wayne Jackson, goes into how Bible scholars of yesteryear had a liberal scholarship view of Bible prophecy as well. You see, first the liberal scholar (embedded in a huge, conservative denomination) reimagines Genesis, then he continues his attack in the direction of eschatology.
“A classic example of this sort of perspective is found in The Broadman Bible Commentary. Therein Adam, the first man, is treated as a mere ‘symbol’ of mankind, rather than as an historical person.
“Joseph Callaway of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary writes: ‘If we rob Adam of his symbolic meaning and simply literalize him, then we reduce him to one historical individual for the anthropologist to study.’ Professor Callaway goes on to suggest that if this is our view of Adam, in reality, ‘We have lost man!’”
What is going on here? Jackson further explains.
“Consistent with the foregoing suppositions, therefore, is the notion that there can be no such thing as predictive prophecy (since this would involve a miracle). No Old Testament character could have foretold the details of particular events many years before their actual occurrence.
“Characteristic of this mode of thought was the statement of Professor A. B. Davidson: ‘The prophet is always a man of his own time, and it is always to the people of his own time that he speaks, not to a generation long after, nor to us.’
“Noted scholar J. A. Alexander (of Princeton) was quite correct when he observed that about the only matter upon which the critics really agree is that there simply ‘cannot be distinct prophetic foresight of the distant future.’”
It is now not so hard to see why there is widespread Jew-hatred in the Church, and why podcasters follow hand-in-glove. This stuff has been going on for decades.
Jew-hatred is exploding because, as Jude warned us, certain men crept in unawares long ago. Their goal was to destroy the Church and the faith of millions.
We know that the True Church is actually healthy and alive. But the Church Visible is a rotting corpse.
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