(Truth in the Last Days — Post 19) Introduction Few passages in Scripture are appealed to more often to defend a future national restoration of Israel than Romans 11. Many believers who are unconvinced by land-promise arguments still feel that this chapter must predict a coming large-scale Jewish turning to God as a distinct covenant…
Amir’s Claim Amir Tsarfati insists that Romans 11 proves God has a separate plan for the political nation of Israel. He argues that Paul’s words — “all Israel shall be saved” — must mean a future mass salvation of the Jewish people as a nation, distinct from the Church. According to Amir, if the Church…
A Biblical Response to Amir Tsarfati Amir Tsarfati has become one of the most prominent voices defending the modern political State of Israel as the center of God’s plan. Recently, in responding to Kirk Cameron, he accused those who teach that the Church is God’s holy nation of “butchering the Bible” and promoting “doctrines of…
Why the Church Is Not a Parenthesis “So we, being many, are one body in Christ.” — Romans 12:5 (KJV) “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28 (KJV) Christian Zionism teaches that the Church is a temporary pause in God’s plan — a “parenthesis” between…
Hebrew Roots and the Return to Bondage Series From the Garden of Eden to modern theological fads, Satan’s strategy has always included twisting the Word of God. Today, the Hebrew Roots Movement continues that ancient pattern by reinterpreting and repurposing New Testament scriptures to suit a return-to-Torah narrative. As with all false teaching, they prey…
Hebrew Roots and the Return to Bondage Series Subtitle: A Biblical Look at Romans 11 and What It Actually Means to Be Grafted In 1. Introduction: The Misused Olive Tree One of the most cited and misunderstood passages used to justify Hebrew Roots theology is Romans 11. The image of Gentiles being “grafted in” has…
Dismantling the Core Division at the Heart of Dispensationalism “The church is a New Testament organism… Israel is an ethnic/national entity…”— Mike Vlach, Dispensational Theology This is the sine qua non of Dispensationalism: that God has two distinct peoples, two plans, and two sets of promises. But Scripture tells another story — one rooted not…
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him…” — Zechariah 12:10 (KJV) This chapter is often cited as a crystal-clear prophecy of future national repentance…
Post 1 of Already Fulfilled: Misused Prophecies in the End Times Debate Does the Gospel Begin and End with Israel? The gospel is older than Israel. The promise of a Redeemer was given to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:15 — “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed…