Shadee Elmasry – Ali Ataie EXPOSES How Christians Became Zionists
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The speakers discuss the origins of Christian praising the new temple in Romans, the dispensationalism of Jesus, and the dispensationalism of Jesus, which is eventually found in the Bible and used to promote a Christian faith. They also touch on the history of the church, including its formation in Jerusalem and its use in the New Book of Genesis. Lindsey, the president of Dallas Theological Seminary, wrote a book called Louis Schaeffer, which was the president of Dallas Theological Seminary until the period of seven years, and he said that anyone who is used by powerful people to do their Nine Sevens and the Book of Genesis chapter twelve is the only unforgivable sin. Lindsey wrote this book that was called the Late Great Planet Earth, and he said that anyone who is used by powerful people to do their Nine Sevens and the Book of Genesis chapter twelve is the only unforgivable sin. The discussion touches on the political and dispensationalist movement in
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Traditionally, Christians believed that Christians are now the chosen
people, right that the Jews are no longer the chosen people, for
Christians to support the building of a Third Temple is absolutely
blasphemous because in the New Testament, Jesus is clearly
described as being the new temple, the final temple in Romans six and
Hebrews 10. Paul says that Jesus was the be all end all sacrifices,
the ultimate temple. He's the ultimate high priest, the ultimate
sacrifice. And yet Christian Zionist, they fully support the
Third Temple where sin sacrifices will apparently return one day,
according to Jewish Messianism. So Christian Zionism is it's just
indefensible from a biblical perspective. So what actually
happened here? How did sign ism become so popular among American
Protestants? Well, in 1831, there was this Anglican preacher named
John Nelson Darby, okay, and so he was one of the primary organizers
of a nondenominational Christian movement called the Plymouth
Brethren. So So you know, this is what happens when church tradition
is ignored. So Darby is considered to be the father of something
called Modern dispensationalism. Okay, so what is what is modern
dispensationalism. So this is basically, it's this notion that
there will be a future restoration of the earthly nation of Israel.
But this also includes this idea that the Mosaic Covenant and the
Christic covenant are two valid coexisting covenants, they're both
valid. Okay.
This is also known as Dual Covenant Theology. In other words,
Christians do not need to convert Jews. The Jews already have a
valid covenant Jews are still chosen by God, irrespective of
their belief in Jesus. Okay. So if we just think about the
theological implications of this for Christianity, I mean, this
implies that Christ only came for the Gentiles, not the Jews. That's
the implication that actually directly contradicts the New
Testament Jesus, you know, when he was not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. Right? So you know, instead of,
you know, For God so loved the world, he should have said, for
God's will love the Gentiles, and he gave his only begotten Son
because the Jews don't need him. At least not yet. So So according
to Darby, let's get into his eschatology then, that Christ will
rule the reconstituted, physical, ethnic Jewish state of Israel. So
national Israel will be restored according to Darby. According to
Darby, the Old Testament prophesizes, not so much the
church age, but really the kingdom, the millennium, where
Christ rules the National Jewish state of Israel. And Darby was
also a Dual Covenant dispensationalist. So what does
that mean? Again, this means that the Mosaic Covenant and the
Christic covenant are two valid coexisting covenants, they're both
valid. So when Jesus returns to rule over national Israel, all of
Israel will eventually believe in him. Right, and there's going to
be a reversal he came the first time they almost all rejected him.
When he comes a second time they will all believe in Him. Now, now,
Darby was famous for saying that the Bible must be rightly divided.
This is a very famous phrase from Darby. He actually takes it from
the letters of Paul, but Paul uses it in a different way.
The Bible must be rightly divided. What he meant was, that much of
the New Testament does not actually apply to Christians, but
only to Jews. That Jesus primarily in the synoptic gospels, Matthew,
Mark, and Luke. He's actually teaching the Mosaic Covenant.
Okay, but in John's gospel, as well as through Paul's writings,
Jesus was advancing the Christian covenants. So there's almost like
two gospels. So according according to Darby, Jesus was
teaching both dispensations. Okay, both both covenants are valid side
by side. Now Darby is dispensationalism eventually found
its way across the pond to America. So Pastor James Hall
Brooks, he kind of just fell in love with the Darby with his
teachings, right, don't get the wrong idea. And then Brooks, he
was in St. Louis. And there was an annual Bible conference called the
Niagara Bible conference, and Brooks was often the keynote
speaker. So it was at this conference when Darby and
dispensationalism became more and more popular via James Brooks and
Brooks had a preacher friend named Dwight moody, and moody would
later established the famous Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where
Bible is their middle name, as Bart Ehrman always says, and then
moody also became a
Darby and dispensationalist and then moody befriended a man named
Cyrus Ingvarsson, Schofield. Okay. Now, Scofield was a morally
questionable lawyer and politician. He was accused of
multiple charges of theft, bribery, forgery. He was a
deadbeat husband and father, a self described alcoholic turned
Christian minister. So he became an ordained pastor in Dallas in
1883. Schofield in 1888, he wrote a treatise called rightly dividing
the word of truth, rightly dividing the word of truth. So he
started calling himself CI Scofield di D. That is Doctor of
Divinity although there's no record of him ever graduating from
seminary, so it seemed like he gave himself kind of an honorary
doctorate. Kind of like what Dartmouth College did for Dr.
Seuss. Honorary Doctorate Dr. Seuss wasn't a real doctor CI
Scofield was not a real doctor. In 1909, Scofield wrote his Scofield
Study Bible. This was published by Oxford. So this Bible, the
Scofield Study Bible had a massive, massive impact on
American Protestants and evangelicals. It is no
exaggeration that this Bible turned millions of American
Protestants into Christian Zionist. I mean, it changed a
generation of preachers. His his Bible translation is essentially
the King James translation. But he added all of these strange notes
in his commentary. So in his commentary of Genesis 12, three,
okay, so this is the most infamous one. Okay, so this is God's
promised to Abraham. Okay, so schofields commentary have changed
the game. So basically, God says to Abraham, I will bless those who
bless you and curse those who curse you. So here's what Scofield
wrote. Right, he said, and curse those who curse you 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. Right. So, so basically, Scofield is applying
this verse to ethnic Jews, contemporary ethnic Jews, that
this that the Jews are still chosen, that anyone who curses
Jews have will be cursed by God. And so after Scofield, it became
ubiquitous among Protestants, that Christians Oh, unconditional,
unquestionable loyalty to the Jewish people, because they never
cease to be chosen. Okay, this is schofields commenter. And so this
doggish Christian loyalty, this this pathetic, almost slavish,
Christian loyalty to ethnic Jews extends to the modern, murderous
state of Israel, because eventually Jesus will rule Israel.
That's Jesus's future kingdom. Right. But as we said, in light of
the New Testament, this is a grave misleading misreading of Genesis
chapter 12. Because Paul actually quotes he actually Paul has a
commentary on Genesis chapter 12. And Paul says, that when it says
Abraham and his seed, his seed is only Jesus, not the Israelites.
But Paul says in Galatians, chapter three, he says, if if you
belong to Christ, then you are the seed of Abraham. This is a
conditional statement in Galatians, three, in other words,
you have to believe in Jesus or else you're no longer chosen.
Right? So according to the New Testament,
the church is the new Israel, the church is a new Zion, right, which
does and can include some ethnic Jews as well. But But belief in
Jesus without is without question, you have to believe in Jesus,
according to the New Testament, okay, The Last Supper.
at the Last Supper, this is this is when the pronouncement and
initiation of the New Covenant covenant occurred. This was on
Mount Zion on Holy Thursday, and then the descent of the Holy
Spirit on the day of Pentecost occurred in the same upper room 50
days later on Mount Zion. So both the establishment of the New
Covenant as well as the proclamation of the New Covenant
happened on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. So you see what the
authors of the New Testament are saying, the Christian Church is
the new Zion. When Thomas Aquinas wrote his hymns praising Zion,
there's a bunch of hymns that Aquinas wrote was praising Zion.
He's praising the Christian church, not not some future
secular Jewish ethno state. Yeah. So how did Scofield actually do
it? So in 2005, Joseph Canfield he wrote a biography
for you about Scofield, it's called the incredible Scofield and
his Bible. So according to Canfield in 1901, Schofield joined
in an exclusive males only secret society, called the Lotus club,
and can feel to jest that someone highly influential within the
club. He thinks it was another lawyer named Samuel Anta Meyer,
basically promoted and financed schofields Bible project. In other
words, schofields had powerful American Zionists bankrolling his
project. Schofield was the textbook definition of what's
known as a useful idiot. Someone who is used by powerful people to
do their bidding, without really understanding the consequences of
his of his actions. So in 1948, when you know, Israel became a
state Darby and dispensationalism, through Schofield exploded even
more in popularity among Western Protestant so Israel has been
restored. You see, just as Darby says. So this further vindicated
dispensationalism. And so the Christian Zionist,
they were saying, you know, we better be nice to Israel, or else
God will curse us. According to Genesis 12. Three, we better we
better be nice to Israel because it is Jesus's future kingdom. Now,
one of schofields students was named Louis Schaeffer. He died in
1952.
And chafer, founded the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924. So
he was actually the president of Dallas Theological Seminary until
1952, a famous alumnus of DTS is a man named Hal Lindsey, and he's
still alive. In 1973. Lindsey wrote this book that took the
world by storm. It had the power of 30, Harry Potter's, it was
called the Late Great Planet Earth. Okay, millions upon
millions of copies were sold. I mean, it seemed like everyone in
America was reading this book about end times prophecies in the
Bible, through a lens of Darby and dispensationalism. It was even
made into a film was narrated by Orson Welles. So how Lindsay, by
the way, he said in 1979, that Jesus would be turned in 1988.
Because there's a verse in Matthew 24, for Jesus, at least a Matthias
Jesus says, This generation shall not pass away until all these
things are fulfilled, the present generation will live to see it
all. So apparently, Jesus was speaking about this restored
kingdom. So one generation is 40 years right? 1948 the restoration
of national Israel also known as the Nakba, plus 4019 88, right,
so, that never happened.
In 1984, Oxford, put out the new Scofield Study Bible, okay. And
they added this clarifying comment for a nation to commit the sin of
anti semitism brings inevitable judgment.
For a nation to commit the sin of anti semitism brings inevitable
judgments, agita, you know the new, you know, the New Testament
Jesus. He said that the that the the only unforgivable sin was
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Now, in today's you know, it's
like guys, we're constantly told that any critique of Zionism is
anti semitic. So anti anti Zionism is a form of anti semitism. This
is what we're told. So then, so then Christians who read that note
from Scofield must only conclude that anti Zionism is the
unforgivable sin in the sight of God for a nation to commit the sin
of anti semitism. A form of witches anti Zionism brings
inevitable judgment. Right. And there's a bunch of things that he
says for example, a Scofield
in his commentary of Hosea chapter one, verse 10. This is what he
said. He said, the expression my people on me in Hebrew is used in
the Old Testament exclusively of Israel. Nation. He's just wrong
here. He's demonstrably wrong. Isaiah 1925 is his bow to me
Mitzrayim. Bless it be Egypt, my people. He's just wrong. In his
commentary of Genesis, that Schofield wrote, quote, the
Palestinian covenant gives the conditions under which Israel he's
talking about physical Israel. Enter the promised land, it is
important to see that the nation has never as yet taken the land
under the unconditional Abrahamic covenant, nor has it ever
possessed the whole land. This is just wrong. If you read Joshua
2143 This is what it says. So the Lord gave Israel all the land call
her edits, it says in Hebrew, all the land, he had sworn to their
ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled
there. So Scofield wants us to think that this is still an
outstanding promise.
that God has not yet fulfilled his side of the deal.
Right? It's really amazing. And then he says, To dispositions and
restorations have been accomplished. Israel is now in the
third dispersion, from which she will be restored at the turn of
the Lord as king. So I think Christians need to ask themselves,
they need to ask themselves a very important question. Who are you
going to believe who do you follow Scofield or scripture? Yeah,