Voter Guide Write-Up…
Bible in hand, hear my qualifications of truth against Satanism(Matthew13:24-30). 1Chronicles5:2 Joseph, the ancient kingdom of Israel, not Judah, inherited the Abrahamic birthright. In 2Kings16:7-9 Judah, the Kingdom of the Jews, sold Israel, like Christ, from the silver in the Temple. Judah as a culture and people survived and merged with Edom(13Josephus9:1), but Israel whom Jeremiah31:9 calls the son of God, died. Why doesn’t Christianity believe in the resurrection of the son of God? The crux of the faith of Abraham is the resurrection of the son placed on the altar into many nations and kings from the Nile to the Euphrates. Every promise fulfilled through Arabia, not Judah for they were more righteous(Jeremiah3:11-12). Their return(Jeremiah31:16-20), prince(Al-Mahdi), freedom(Genesis49:22-26), and resurrection(Ezekiel37:1-11) all innumerably foretold. Substituting Esau to forcefully take Jacob’s birthright testifies to a lack of faith, an arrogant callous heart that refuses recognizing the brother Judah sold because then we would have to love them, leading to reconciliation and unification(Ezekiel37:15-23). Like Christ, they’re conceived through the testimony of Gabriel, despised for their Divine message, the elite deny their identity and are conspiring to crucify them. What politician has not accepted AIPAC’s thirty pieces of silver? To please you, for the crime of existing the supposed son of Joseph is condemned and the bad shepherd unleashed(Zechariah11:15-17). Isn’t the curse self-evident? Mine is a history of pleading, Your little brother is alive, his sacrifice chosen, come to the banquet! Cain love, for with murder comes your expulsion and his resurrection(John3:16-17).
Nelson Mandela told his people; I love you enough to tell you you’re wrong. Discipline brings me no joy. Sadly, in its own way it invites retaliation from a church that can only see itself as the victim and the righteous representative of Christ. There are many subjects within the Bible that people debate and argue over that in the grand scheme of things have little consequence. In Christianity’s past wars inflicting great suffering and death were fought over the most trivial of things. Out of that the church migrated from an institution of learning to that which seeks a relationship with Christ. For any relationship to blossom there must be two sides. In terms of relationship with God, we speak to God through prayer, but God speaks to us through His Word. Yet so often the Word of God is met with our own preconditions. The church wants to have revival, and they want to see miracles, but more than that they want harmony. They want people to get along. And the first casualty is the Word of God. Jesus said behold I stand at the door and knock if anyone shall hear my voice and open the door I will enter. We treat this verse on a personal level, but in the context of the verse Christ is knocking on the door of the church. The congregation looks up to the pastor with respect, but many in the congregation are strangers to the pastor. In the routine existence of the life of the pastor he receives a perpetual flood of ideas on scripture from the congregation to the point that it becomes a nuisance to him. He becomes predisposed to offhandedly dismiss topics that challenge his understanding of God and humanity. The objective changes from understanding the Word to preserving the institution that the pastor has built. Yet among the mirid of ideas, though few and far between, is Christ knocking on the door. Consider when the congregation accepts the Word of God in the sermon, is it based on the wisdom of the Word or the reputation of the pastor? The message of Christ was rejected by the elite because he was considered no one of any importance, saying, Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?[1] Thus, Christ often speaks through the unknown because then the Word is not accepted based on the reputation of the speaker, but the reputation of the Word of God. With the rejection of the unknown voices in opposition to the pastor, the church is no longer made in the image of Christ, but Christ is made into the presupposed image of the church.
Yet the situation is exponentially more dire than this. As Christ rises in importance other topics in the Bible, especially those in the Old Testament, are relegated and dismissed as unimportant or trivial. To modern day Christianity the Old Testament has devolved to nothing more than a pointer to the Messiah. Out of this Messianic Judaism was formed in that all things outside of the Messiah in the Old Testament are taught based on the scholars of Judaism as one religion outsources large portions of its faith to that of another. It is now standard practice for seminaries to teach the Old Testament through the eyes of Zionism. And as understanding is outsourced the congregation is used by the political apparatus to argue in support of narratives that they understand by instinct and peer pressure alone. As is becoming increasingly self-evident the Christian church is merely a mouthpiece for the state of Israel, whose foundation is not Christ, nor any resemblance of his message, but a foreign faith at the behest of a foreign political establishment for military and geopolitical ends.
Yet this abused, forgotten, and neglected Old Testament documents events that have yet to take place, thus what is old to reach full circle is made to become new at the proper time, to be resurrected as prophecy is fulfilled. I am writing this book because this is that time! The time the prophets had warned humanity about is here, yet the church has not only missed it, but opposes it so vehemently that in practical application, they have turned their understanding of the Bible over to the Sadducees and Pharisees, and are, in fact, working for the other side. The part that keeps me up at night is that all of this relied on a compromise on the cornerstone of Old Testament faith. How easily the church was led astray. How willingly blind to a narrative that even an elementary understanding of the Old Testament promise could see beyond. To hear from the LORD the first requirement is to read your Bible. The second requirement is to remove your presumptions of exactly who God is in order that you may truly listen to His Voice.
On a seemingly innocuous evening in 2007 while doing my nightly devotional I unexpectedly encountered his voice through those verses. My heart was torn. Not in rebellion, but in reverence. Because I wasn’t looking for debate. I wasn’t chasing controversy. I was chasing truth. And in that search one question burned brighter than all others. Do I have the faith of Abraham? Is my faith as he believed it. And would I or the Church be credited for righteousness for our faith of that bedrock foundational principle of the Word of God. I came to the conclusion that ironically for a religion that places faith as its cornerstone the answer was emphatically no! The search for truth requires courage. It’s not just about curiosity. It’s about the willingness to confront everything you’ve ever believed and ask what if I’m wrong? That question alone takes more bravery than most people realize. Because truth isn’t always comfortable. It doesn’t always confirm your upbringing, your community or your emotional attachment. Sometimes truth comes like a storm. It wrecks the house you’ve built on tradition. But in doing so it clears the ground so you can build on something solid. Many people go through life simply inheriting beliefs. What they believe is what their parents taught them. What their culture reinforced. And what their church or community never allowed them to question. But is it really faith or conformity dressed in religious language. Real faith doesn’t start with comfort. It starts with a question, a tension, a spark in the heart that says I need to know what’s real no matter what it costs me. That’s not rebellion! That’s integrity! That’s honesty! That’s courage! When I begin to question Zionism, I wasn’t trying to start a fire. I was trying to find peace. The question came not out of arrogance, but out of love. For God. For truth. For clarity. I wanted to worship the Almighty with a full heart and an informed mind. I wanted to remove confusion and know who God truly is. But even asking the question felt like betrayal. There’s a fear that if you ask too much you’re sinning. But how can the God who gave us a mind to think be offended by us using it. It takes courage to sit in the middle of a theological storm and say I will not move until I find what is real. And when you start digging you find things you didn’t expect. And when you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Let’s start with a basic question. Does the Old Testament and the New Testament speak to you in two different voices or the same voice? Judaism has never accepted the New Testament as the Word of God because it speaks to them in a different voice than that which they perceive in the Old Testament. Because through Zionism Christianity has outsourced their understanding to Judaism the same division of voices and discontinuity exists within Christianity between the two testaments. But I would like to submit the possibility that the reason for the discontinuity is because Judaism does not understand the testament because if they did there would be no discrepancy because God is unchanging. He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. As the old proverb goes if a blind man is following a blind guide will not both fall into a pit?
The primary difficulty I have with teaching the covenant of Abraham is Christianity has been so far removed from the truth that to teach them from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is as if I am presenting them with a foreign document. A truth so different that the Word of God has become something foreign to them. Thus, it necessitates a re-education of the basics and fundamentals of the Bible. My goal is not an exhaustive study, but rather a bedrock through which at the conclusion of the book you may pick up the Bible and read it, as if for the first time. For it is the best representative of itself. All I need do is remove and prove false the assumptions about God and His promises that taint one’s understanding so that it may speak for itself in absolute clarity. Not in two voices, Old Testament and New, but in One Voice.
[1] Matthew 13:55.