In the midst of our recent series, a reader shared some reflections that cut to the heart of the matter. Their words echo what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church in this hour: that the danger is not just in theological systems, but in the subtle retreat into the natural, even among those who claim to walk in the Spirit.
With their permission, I’m sharing a portion of what they wrote — not as a guest post, but as a voice from the remnant. This is what discernment looks like when it’s saturated in scripture and driven by a hunger for truth.
“The danger is becoming Dispensationalists at heart, if not in theology. When we idolize the natural — worldly politics and kingdoms — and sideline the spiritual — the Kingdom of Heaven — we are in danger of worshipping the representation instead of the Author. The Dispensationalist obsession with the genealogical, Jewish race as an eternally chosen people, and the geopolitical land of Israel as having eternal significance, is a dangerous retreat into the natural — a shadow of the spiritual reality of Christ’s Kingdom.”
“It virtually nullifies the Gospel by placing it in a natural parenthesis — as though the victory Christ won on the cross were incidental, rather than the centerpiece of God’s purpose in begetting children for Himself.”
“We have fallen in love with our physical existence and the physical world, and have allowed love of our natural lives to supersede love of our spiritual life in Christ — when we have been expressly warned not to.”
Revelation 12:11: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
“When we become so attached to our temporal, physical existence, we neglect our eternal, spiritual growth — not only to our own detriment, but also to the detriment of others. If we allow the physical to become an end instead of a means, we allow the spirit to become subservient to the body.”
“Likewise, when we adulate a temporal kingdom like Israel and its genealogical inhabitants, we play into Satan’s deceit — that the kingdoms of this world still belong to him — and forget that Christ has already stripped him of that claim through His cross and resurrection.”
Closing Thoughts
This is the kind of Spirit-led discernment the Church needs. We must beware of systems that re-enshadow the work of Christ. To lift up the physical Israel above the spiritual reality of Christ is to miss the very point of the gospel: that all who are in Him are heirs — not by flesh, but by faith.
Let us never retreat into what Christ has fulfilled. Let us go forward in what He has finished.
“Let no man beguile you… intruding into those things which he hath not seen… and not holding the Head…”
—Colossians 2:18–19