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Should Christians support the state of Israel? Today I’m not talking about political mandates, I’m talking about theological mandates. Is there a theological obligation for Christians everywhere to support the state of Israel? Today’s Dr. Taylor Marshall podcast is going to be a little spicy, a little hot. I suspect there will be people fired up, and I will do some Q&A towards the end.
So if you’re fired up, I want you to chime in, do some Q&A. I am live right now on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, everywhere. So let’s get into it.
Do Christians have a theological and moral obligation to support the state of Israel? This debate centers primarily on a form of theology called dispensationalism. What is dispensationalism? Dispensationalism was started in the 1830s by this man right here, that’s John Nelson Darby. This is in the southwest of England.
He was with a group called the Plymouth Brethren, a small Protestant sect. If you’re a Christian from Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheran, Calvinist, Presbyterian, Dutch Reforms, any of these more historical understandings, the theology of Darby does not fit. The basic understanding of the relationship between God’s plan with Adam and Eve up through Noah and Abraham and Moses and David and the prophets, and then John the Baptist preaching the coming of the kingdom, and then the Messiah, the Son of God, coming onto the scene, teaching for three and a half years, suffering the passion, the crucifixion, the death, rising on the third day, and commissioning the apostles with a church, an ecclesia, in Greek.
That is the traditional understanding of what we call redemptive history. The dispensationalists understand that primarily God’s chief plan, coming again from Darby, God’s plan A was always the children of Abraham, whereas the more traditional covenantal understanding of redemptive history in the Bible is that God’s plan with Adam and Eve was to redeem all of mankind, every tribe, tongue, and nation. That was the intention from the beginning, and that He chose one nation descending from Abraham, Israel, the Jews.
He chose one nation as a safe place, you could say, as a landing pad for His divine Son, Jesus Christ, to be born and to live and to redeem not just the Jews, the Jews first, but also the Gentiles, the non-Jews, all nations. That is the more covenantal understanding of redemptive history, and it is the majority position in Christian theology. What Darby did is he saw history in dispensationalism, dispensations.Dispensations are chopped up. Here is an example of various dispensational plans. There are
the seven or eight-step, the four-step, the three-step.
At the bottom, you can see covenantal. That is just Old Testament and New Testament. Old law, new law.That is how Thomas Aquinas talks about it. That is the more Catholic historical understanding. Whereas the dispensationalists are chopping up things a lot more.
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By the way, that end of that parenthesis for the Christians is called the rapture. A pre-tribulation rapture. If you out there believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, you are a dispensationalist, whether you know it or not.This is why Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestants do not believe in a pre-trib rapture, because they do not follow Darby. Darby is the one who creates this. You can see this
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By the way, there is a lot of disagreement amongst dispensationalists. Here are all the varieties of dispensational. But the key point is, in the 1950s and 1960s, the theology of Darby becomes more popular.In the 1980s, Jerry Falwell, the televangelist, jumped on the theology of Darby, and they pushed dispensationalism. This is when you have all this discussion about 88 reasons why the rapture will happen in 1988. You have televangelists saying, send me all this money, and I will send a portion of it to Israel.
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Verse 13, this passage here shatters the dispensational argument. Verse 13, for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. Here Paul is talking to the Galatians.
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He is saying there are a bunch of Judaizers who are trying to get baptized Christians to also be circumcised. Paul says do not get circumcised. You do not have to become a Jew in order to be saved.
Verse 14, but God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world. Verse 15, for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. So Paul here is saying it does not matter if you belong to the Old Testament law, which entails circumcision for entry.
What matters now that Christ has come, He is incarnate of the Virgin Mary, He has died on the cross, He rose on the third day. What matters now is that you are a new creature in the new creation of Jesus Christ, who rose on the first day of the week to signify a new creation with Him as the new Adam in a new covenant. This is what Paul is teaching us in Galatians.Verse 16, and whosoever shall follow this rule, peace upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God. He just said above in Galatians that those who seek justification by circumcision and fulfilling the law are accursed by the law. But those who have faith in Jesus Christ receive grace and peace and mercy.
(2:01 – 5:12) Judas Iscariot was disappointed that Jesus was not manifesting a political movement in order to rescue the Jewish people. And for 30 pieces of silver, he betrayed the Son of God because he was disappointed in the mode in which Jesus was there to redeem not only the Jews but also the Gentiles. And today, you have Christians making the same error of Judas. They think that the solution is a political military construction project. That they need to hasten in the end times by giving more weapons, more bombs, more war, red heifers, a rebuilt temple. Let me tell you something, the person in the Bible who is going to rebuild the temple and rededicate the temple is the Antichrist.
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If you do not respond to your spiritual husband, which is Yahweh, Almighty God, Jeremiah talks about the New Covenant. If you do not receive the New Covenant, the fulfillment of all that I have taught you before, during, or after, you lose the land. That is the message of the Old Testament.I am going to save you. I am sending a suffering servant. I am sending a messiah.
I am sending you the Son of Man, the Son of God. Psalm 2, Isaiah 53, all those chapters right in there, receive Him. If you do not receive Him, you will be broken off the olive tree, St. Paul.
The only way you get grafted back in is faith, baptism, entering into the New Covenant. That is Christian Theology 101. I am going to go to Q&A real quick.
Before I do, I am going to answer one objection. I have not looked at the comments yet, but I know it is in there already. They are going to say, Yahweh, you are like teaching replacement theology.
Replacement theology has become a big-time pejorative. It is the idea that the Jewish people are replaced by the Gentiles. I would argue back.Dispensationalism is the replacement theology. Dispensationalism says that the Church has temporarily replaced Israel, and then Israel will temporarily replace the Gentiles. The real replacement theology is dispensationalism.
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Christian Zionism is dispensationalism. Dispensationalism is Christian Zionism. It is the same theology, it is the same thing.
You could rewatch this entire podcast and every time I say dispensationalism, you could read in Christian dispensationalism. Every time I say Christian Zionism, you could say Christian dispensationalism. A lot of isms right there.
Back to your questions. Betty says, the Pius X quote is breathtaking. Wow. (17:21
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