A Split in the Body of Christ- Zionism : Did God ever say that the enemy wouldn’t stick his nose into the restoration? /August 4, 2014

The current conflict in Gaza has created a divide between not only the people of the world, but between Christians. Those who support “Israel” and those who do not.

One thing I believe both sides can agree on: the “Jews” are still waiting for Messiah (the Lion of Judah) and we know He’s already been here (the Lamb of God) and is coming back (the Lion of Judah). The term “Jews” or “Jewish” refers to different things:

Jews who practice the Judaic religion

Jew: Someone who came from Judea, per the Biblical definition of the word- although it is easier to say Jew or Jewish when speaking of an Hebraic person

Hebrew (Nationality): Abraham’s descendants, including Ishmael’s; HOWEVER there are covenant Hebrew’s (Isaac) and NON COVENANT Hebrews (Ishmael’s descendants)

Israeli: Anyone who lives in the Land (this means the Land defined by God in Gen. 11-13, chopped up again in Num. 34 & Jos. 13-22)

Let us not forget that Jesus tells us “we are grafted in” as Gentiles. That means we are NOT Jewish by nationality or religion, but Israeli by being grafted. It also means that Christianity is ‘grafted into’ the Judaic religion. Take a look at the Old Testament if you question this.

A whole new concept has now crept in called “Zionists”.

The End Times are here. There is no denying it. But splitting those who love Jesus because of mis-information and ‘conspiracy theories” is the worst thing the Body of Christ can do in the world today. It is time for some factual education and research.

Let’s start with some basic information:

The Tanakh is the Jewish Bible. It includes:

The Torah– the Holy book which is the 1^st 5 books of our Bible (sometimes called the books of Moses)

The Nevi’im (the Haftarah) – the prophets such as Joel, Ezekiel, etc.

The Kethuvim– the writings such as Psalms and Proverbs.

Another book referred to is the Talmud. I’m sorry to say but the Talmud is NOT the Bible. It is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism (also known as the Shas), containing the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis on a variety of subjects.

There are 2 Talmuds: The Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael); the difference being (as you can see from the titles, where they were written).

The Talmud is divided into 2 parts:

the Mishnah (oral Torah- according to Rabbinic Judaism the oral torah represents the laws and interpretations NOT recorded in the Written Torah) and

the Germara (other subjects)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Talmud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Torah

At this point we must ALL ask ourselves: do you believe that God Almighty and Jesus Christ would have anyone follow something He Himself did not see fit to reveal in His Holy Book? Before you answer, keep reading:

According to some researchers, the teachings of Jesus are ‘reflected’ by things found in the Talmud.

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/v01-n02/talmud

Yes Jesus was Jewish; did He hear Rabbinic teachings from the Talmud?  According to historical research the answer is NO. Jesus was a contemporary of Pontius Pilate, who held office between 26 to 36 AD.  We know Jesus was 33 when He died.  If the BC/AD (now CE) is applied then Jesus died in 33 AD/CE.  The Mishnah of the Talmud wasn’t even written until 200 AD/CE, the Germara until 350 AD/CE.

Now here I will interject something: there has NEVER been one thing I have found that Jesus said that is recorded in our Holy Bible that cannot be traced back to the Old Testament (Torah/Tanakh).  It becomes very dangerous to live as LAW things that God Himself did not say.  We see this in the ‘extra’ books of Mormon, Catholicism and again I would venture to say, in the Talmud.

So let’s tackle this Talmud example list:

Matthew 5:7                                                      Psalm 41:1 (Kethuvim)

Matthew 5:37(in context Matthew 5:33-37)     Deuteronomy 23:23 Leviticus 19:12 Numbers 30:2

Matthew 7:3 (in context Matthew 7:1-5)          Ezekiel 16:52-56

Matthew 6:31                                                      Lev 25:20-22 2Ch 25:9; Psa 37:3; Psa 55:22; Psa 78:18-31

Matthew 9:37                                                      Psalm 68:11

Matthew 10:8                                                      2Kings 5:15,20-27

Matthew 23:12                                                   Job 22:29; Psa 138:6; Pro 15:33; Pro 16:18,19; Pro 29:23; Isa 57:15; Dan 4:37

Matthew 5:10 (The Beatitudes 5:1-12)            Psalm 37:11, 41:1, 15:2, 24:4; Isaiah 55:1,65:13

Mark 2:27                                                            Exo 23:12; Deu 5:14; Neh 9:13,14; Isa 58:13; Eze 20:12,20

It is obvious that the Rabbis who wrote the Talmud extensively studied Torah and Tanakh. I am not questioning that at all.  What I AM questioning is what you will see below. 

Denominations (types) of Judaism- yes they have denominations just like Christians 🙂

Orthodoxy modern classification for the traditional section of Jewry that upholds the halakhic way of life as illustrated in a divinely ordained Torah. Halakha refers to the legal aspect of Judaism, and is also used to indicate a definitive ruling in any particular area of Jewish law.

          Modern Orthodoxy– Modern Orthodoxy, in general, places a high national, as well as religious, significance on the State of Israel, and Modern Orthodox institutions and individuals are, typically, Zionist in orientation.

          Haredi Judaism– Haredi Judaism advocates segregation from non-Jewish culture, although not from non-Jewish society entirely. It is characterised by its focus on community-wide Torah study. Haredi Orthodoxy’s differences with Modern Orthodoxy usually lie in interpretation of the nature of traditional halakhic concepts and in acceptable application of these concepts

          Hasidic Judaism–Hasidic or Chasidic Judaism overlaps significantly with Haredi Judaism in its engagement with the secular and commercial world, and as regards social issues. In addition to bridging this class gap, Hasidic teachings sought to reintroduce joy in the performance of the commandments and in prayer through the popularisation of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah)

Reform Judaism subjects religious law and customs to human judgment, attempting to differentiate between the facets of the Torah that are divine mandate and those that are specific to the time in which they were written.

Conservative Judaism developed mainly in the twentieth century as a reaction to Reform Judaism’s liberalism. It sought to conserve tradition by applying new, historical methods of study within the boundaries of Jewish law to the mainstream of American society. It is the largest denomination of the four.

Reconstructionism is the most recent denomination within Judaism, and, rejecting the assertion that the Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, views Judaism as a continual process of evolution, incorporating the inherited Jewish beliefs and traditions with the needs of the modern world.

The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism

Rabbi Dovid Weiss (Haredi rabbi) of NKI at the Islamic Center of Long Island

 January 14, 2001

It is a commonplace in the media to speak of a Jewish-Arab, or Jewish – Palestinian conflict. Others even refer to a Jewish -Islamic conflict.

In our view, all these descriptions of the Middle Eastern troubles are false. Very dangerously false.

We maintain that Jews and Judaism have no conflict with Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians or any other group.

In the nineteenth century many segments of European society began to throw off the yoke of heaven. Assorted heretical movements grew up, which attracted both Jew and Gentile. Communism, evolutionism, Bible criticism, assorted forms of religious and secular liberalism, the Jewish Reform movements and scores of others, lured millions away from G-d and His law.

Born of this spirit of Godlessness, severed from all links with the Torah and Jewish tradition and in opposition to the nearly unanimous voice of Rabbis and Sages, we find at the end of the nineteenth century, a new movement that became known as Zionism.  By summoning Jews to return en masse to the Holy Land, it violated one of the fundamental terms of exile as explained in the Talmud.

Throughout the twentieth century, Zionists sought to drive masses of Jews towards Palestine in order to conquer the land by immigration. One of the greatest tragedies that Zionism has brought about is the identification of Zionism with Judaism and Zionists with Jewry in the popular mind, both Jewish and non – Jewish.

The conflict in the Middle East is fundamentally about the abandonment of Torah Judaism by the Zionists and their subsequent rejection of the Divinely imposed, exilic agenda of peace, humility and piety. In their two thousand years of Divinely decreed exile no Jew ever sought to end this exile and establish independent political sovereignty anywhere. The people’s sole purpose was the study and fulfillment of the Divine commandments of the Torah. ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA!

First, let’s tackle a few of things he said above:

By summoning Jews to return en masse to the Holy Land, it violated one of the fundamental terms of exile as explained in the Talmud. ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW (the 613 commandments listed in the Torah). THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA

Again, the Talmud are EXPLAINATIONS, not the Word of God.  Again, the Talmud wasn’t even written until 200 AD.

Take a look at the verses below, which by the way are from the Haftarah, read EACH Sabbath after the Torah portion.  Reading the Haftarah came into being n 168 BCE (BC), when the Jews were under the rule of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes (of Chanukah infamy), and they were forbidden to read from the Torah. The decree, however, was limited to the Five Books of Moses, so the sages instituted that a section of the Prophets be read instead, usually an idea that was related to the Torah reading that should have been read that week.  

***Depending on the ‘denomination’ of Judaic religion, the Haftarah portions appear to change. Is it possible that different denominations change what the people hear on Shabbat in order to reflect their own views? I can say nothing definitive, but take a look at what IS in their Haftarah.  Do they choose to read it? That is something only THEY can answer. But choose or not- it’s there in God’s Word.

Jeremiah 24:5-6 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. ⁶ For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

Jeremiah 30:3 For behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”

Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

Amos 9:14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;  They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

Ezekiel 36:35-36– So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ ³⁶ Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

Ezekiel 37:10-15 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. ¹¹ Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves. ¹⁴ I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’”

Isaiah 14:1– For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

http://www.nkusa.org/activities/speeches/li011401.cfm

http://www.nkusa.org/aboutus/zionism/judaism_isnot_zionism.cfm

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/593314/jewish/When-and-Why-We-Started-Reading-the-Haftorah.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/torah_reading.html

http://torahportions.org/thisyear/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_mysticism

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Liturgy_and_Prayers/Siddur_Prayer_Book/Torah_Service/Haftarah.shtml?p=3

Okay…now that we’ve had a crash course in Judaism the religion and what they follow, let’s tackle the current definition of Zionist, Zionism and the conspiracies surrounding them.

From a current headline:

Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Meshaal stated on July 27, 2014

“We are not actually fighting the Jews because they are Jews per se. We do not fight any other races. We fight the occupiers.”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/27/373037/hamas-rejects-coexistence-with-israel/

Hamas‘ founder, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, stated in 1998: ” Hamas will never recognize the “usurper Zionist government”

The Hamas Charter

Article Thirty-Six

“The Islamic Resistance Movement, in its march forward, repeatedly emphasizes to all members of our people and of the Arab and Muslim peoples that it is not seeking fame for itself, or material gain, or social status, and that it is not aimed against any of our own people in an attempt to compete with them or to take their place – nothing of the kind. It does not oppose any Muslim, or any non-Muslim who is peaceful towards it, here [in Palestine] or elsewhere. It will always offer nothing but help to all groups and organizations that strive against the Zionist enemy and against its lackeys.

Article Fifteen

“The day the enemies conquer some part of the Muslim land, jihad becomes a personal duty of every Muslim. In the face of the Jewish occupation of Palestine, it is necessary to raise the banner of jihad. This requires the propagation of Islamic consciousness among the masses, locally [in Palestine], in the Arab world and in the Islamic world. It is necessary to instill the spirit of jihad in the nation, engage the enemies and join the ranks of jihad.

So which is it?  Zionist occupation or Jewish occupation? My opinion: they don’t care either way, except that the Haredim are on their side. Do you think they will still be on the side of Hamas when the Islamists come to kill them?

WHY ORTHODOX JEWS ARE OPPOSED TO A ZIONIST STATE- http://www.nkusa.org/aboutus/zionism/opposition.cfm

• Zionism is a relatively new thing.
• It has only existed for a century.
• Zionism redefines the true essential nature of the People of Israel, and substitutes for it a completely contradictory and opposite character – a materialistic worldly nation.
• Their misfortune is lack of what other nations possess, i.e. a state and army.
• Their salvation is possession of a state and army etc.
• This is clearly spelled out in the circles of Zionist thought, and among the leaders of the Zionist State, that through changing the nature and character of the People of Israel and by changing their way of thinking they can set before the People of Israel “their salvation” — a state and an army.

The current definition of Zionism:

A nationalist movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. The word ZION is a synonym for Jerusalem.  The word is first found in 2 Samuel 5:7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion

Therefore I would say the basic definition of Zionist/Zionism (without all the current hoopla) would be those longing for the land of Zion.  That just happens to be the current state of Israel, established in 1948.  However, that is where the “conspiracies” begin. 

Before we go any further, am I saying ALL Jews are good people, even the so called Zionists? No…no person is perfect and there is as much evil in the state of Israel as there is anywhere else. THAT is why Jesus came!

Did God say He would return His people to THEIR land?  Yes He did (see verses above).  Is God capable of using earthly occurrences – such as war- to make His Word come to pass? Most definitely!!  

Before I can even get the ‘declarations’ I must explain WHERE the term “Palestine” originated.  The Bible never uses the name of “Palestine”, but calls it the land “Judah” or “Israel”. Mt. 2:20-21: “Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child’s life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.”To understand this name we must look at some historical background. In Joel 3:4: “Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? The Philistines were not Middle Eastern or Arab. The Philistines are believed to be an Aegean people (from the Adriatic sea near Greece.) who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coast of what is called the Gaza Strip. After the second Jewish revolt under Bar Cochba (A.D. 132-135) it is said the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the land of Israel and Judea as Palastina (‘Palestine’) after the ancient enemies of the Jews – the Philistines. Because of his hatred of the Jews, it was meant to be an insult to dishonor them and remove their history.

Here is the history of how the Jews came to be in the original land God gave them:

In 1896, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria-Hungary, published Der Judenstaat (“The Jews’ State” or “The State of the Jews” – sometimes erroneously translated as “The Jewish State” although Herzl did not mean it as such. He meant a state for the Jews; not a Jewish state), in which he asserted that the only solution to the “Jewish Question” in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a state for the Jews. Political Zionism had just been born.^[4] A year later, Herzl founded the Zionist Organization (ZO), which at its first congress, “called for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law”. Serviceable means to attain that goal included the promotion of Jewish settlement there, the organization of Jews in the diaspora, the strengthening of Jewish feeling and consciousness, and preparatory steps to attain those necessary governmental grants. The Zionist Organization served as an umbrella organization for the Zionist movement, whose objective was the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

After Herzi’s passing, Chaim Weizmann comes into the picture. Arthur James Balfour was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905. During the first meeting between Chaim Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann’s objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, (the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Program), rather than in Palestine. According to Weizmann’s memoir, the conversation went as follows:

“Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?” He sat up, looked at me, and answered: “But Dr. Weizmann, we have London.” “That is true,” I said, “but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh.” He … said two things which I remember vividly. The first was: “Are there many Jews who think like you?” I answered: “I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves.” To this he said: “If that is so you will one day be a force.”

Weizmann was also a biochemist who developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. David Lloyd-George, then minister for munitions in 1915, was grateful to Weizmann and so supported his Zionist aspirations.

McMahon–Hussein Correspondence-

Henry McMahon (British diplomat and Indian Army officer who served as the High Commissioner in Egypt from 1915 to 1917) had exchanged letters with Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca in 1915, in which he had promised Hussein control of Arab lands with the exception of “portions of Syria“ lying to the west of “the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo“. Palestine lay to the southwest of the Vilayet of Damascus and wasn’t explicitly mentioned. That modern-day Lebanese region of the Mediterranean coast was set aside as part of a future French Mandate. After the war (WWI) the extent of the coastal exclusion was hotly disputed. Hussein had protested that the Arabs of Beirut would greatly oppose isolation from the Arab state or states, but did not bring up the matter of Jerusalem or Palestine. On the basis of McMahon’s assurances the Arab Revolt began on 5 June 1916 (initiated by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.).

However, the British and French also secretly concluded the Sykes–Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916. This agreement divided many Arab territories into British- and French-administered areas and allowed for the internationalization of Palestine.  

Sykes–Picot Agreement

May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia signed the Sykes–Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence. In 1916 is also when David Lloyd George became the PM of the UK. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine because “it would help secure post-war British control of Palestine, which was strategically important as a buffer to Egypt and the Suez Canal.” Remember, he was also grateful to Weizmann.

Balfour Declaration (1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.  Rothschild was a British Jewish banker and politician. As an active Zionist and close friend of Chaim Weizmann, he worked to formulate the draft declaration for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. I have heard it said that Rothschild was an atheist humanist.  This is false. The 3^rd Baron Rothschild (Nathaniel Victor, Walter’s NEPHEW) was an atheist.

His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

So basically this Declaration announced the British intent to aid the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, British general and administrator in Egypt, assuring him that the British government’s commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty. Wingate called on the Arab population in Palestine to welcome the Jews as brethren and co-operate with them for the common welfare. Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the “political and economic freedom” of the Palestinian population was not in question. Hogarth reported that Hussein “would not accept an independent Jewish State in Palestine, nor was I instructed to warn him that such a state was contemplated by Great Britain”. Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising “the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.”

Faisal–Weizmann Agreement was signed on 3 January 1919, by Emir Faisal (son of the King of Hejaz), who was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq (today, Iraq) from August 1921 to 1933, and Chaim Weizmann as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling disputes stemming from World War I. It was a short-lived agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

Churchill White Paper– June 1922 clarified how Britain viewed the Balfour Declaration, 1917. “The tension which has prevailed from time to time in Palestine is mainly due to apprehensions, which are entertained both by sections of the Arab and by sections of the Jewish population. These apprehensions, so far as the Arabs are concerned are partly based upon exaggerated interpretations of the meaning of the [Balfour] Declaration favoring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine, made on behalf of His Majesty’s Government on 2 November 1917.” ‘Unauthorized statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly Jewish Palestine. Phrases have been used such as that Palestine is to become “as Jewish as England is English.” His Majesty’s Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. They would draw attention to the fact that the terms of the Declaration referred to do not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a Home should be founded “in Palestine.” In this connection it has been observed with satisfaction that at a meeting of the Zionist Congress, the supreme governing body of the Zionist Organization, held at Carlsbad in September, 1921, a resolution was passed expressing as the official statement of Zionist aims “the determination of the Jewish people to live with the Arab people on terms of unity and mutual respect, and together with them to make the common home into a flourishing community, the upbuilding of which may assure to each of its peoples an undisturbed national development”‘. This then is the interpretation which His Majesty’s Government place upon the Declaration of 1917, and, so understood, the Secretary of State is of opinion that it does not contain or imply anything which need cause either alarm to the Arab population of Palestine or disappointment to the Jews.’ Having clarified the understanding and intent of the British government, the White Paper continues, outlining measures to assist in attaining the objectives

The “Balfour Declaration” was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine (the legal commission for the British to administrate the areas laid out in the Sykes-Picot agreement)- the draft of the Mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922. The mandate formalized British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923–1948.

I’ve heard all the theories on Zionism- ties to the occult, Netanyahu being a Mason, the land given to Rothschild in the Balfour Declaration, ad infinitum.

This MY opinion: I cannot find ONE SHRED of truth to any of it from any CREDIBLE source.  If I didn’t know better- instead of saying that the “Zionist” propaganda was in ‘league with Satan’ for the anti-Christ, I would say the spread of and division between Israel/Jews and “Zionists” WAS THE PLOT of the enemy. Separate God’s chosen people from the land He gave them by sowing seeds of confusion and doubt.  “If we call them Zionists instead of Jews and make it political…well then we’ve got it made.  PLUS we have all of Ishmael to help us” (think of CS Lewis’ the Screwtape Letters).  What I see here are a people of God longing for the land He gave them.

As the world MOURNS for the “Palestinians” being displaced….what about the Hebrews? According to the Bible…they are STILL displaced! Bottom line: this is about a man, his wife and his ‘mistress’.  Isaac and Ishmael.  The Covenant and the Blessed, who aren’t happy with not being the inheritance. It’s big lesson for us on what happens when we don’t wait on God.

Did God EVER once say that the enemy wouldn’t stick his nose into the restoration?  No. But like it or not, our God is bigger than the enemy and quite able to use Satan’s ‘tricks’ to fulfill HIS DIVINE WORD.

Before this split in the body of Christ grows larger, I would ask each of you to PLEASE: get your nose out of You Tube, conspiracies sites, stop listening to every little thing that someone says about Zionists versus Jews.  Get yourselves into God’s Word- not the Talmud, not other writings meant to ‘help you understand’ Him…HIS WORD.

We are here to stand for God’s Word; here to watch as Christ instructed the Father’s Words come to pass, not question HOW they pass.  

The time is too close.  We must work together to spread the Gospel, not more rumors or information that may or may not be real.  The Gospel.  God will do as He wills.  Our job, brothers and sisters, is to turn our eyes upon Jesus as we await His Glorious Return.

http://www.letusreason.org/Biblexp63.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Zionist_Organization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Zionist_Organization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_White_Paper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Freemasons