You can't lose your salvation, but you can throw it away. Christianity is a relationship with God. As the Casting Crowns song says, families never crumble in a day; it's a slow fade. God will never kick you out of His kingdom because you committed one sin, but over time, the more and more you complacently sin, searing your conscience with a hot iron as Scripture puts it, you will reach a point where you really don't care about following Jesus anymore. You will then be out of the faith, just as a man who cares less and less about his wife and does nothing about it will eventually find himself separated or in divorce court.
It's a bit harsh to say anyone who has left the faith was never really in it in the first place. While there are many for whom this statement is apt, the Bible clearly does point to people truly repenting, then later leaving the faith. Again, Christianity is a love relationship with God. Love isn't love if its coerced. We have freewill because love without the other person having the ability to leave isn't love.
Turning to Israel: I re-iterate that Zionism is one of the biggest deceptions, if not the biggest deception in the modern church.
First of all, it truly is expansionist theology and the Bible clearly supports this. Even after the message of the Gospel went to the gentiles after the Jews rejected it in Acts, individual Jews were still being saved. The Bible makes it clear that a true Jew, a true manor woman of God that is, is one who follows Jesus and keeps His commandments.
As far as God's prophecies about Israel are concerned, the people who rejected Christ in Acts are not the same people as the ones we call Jews today. Conversely, the people we call Jews today are not the people of the Bible. True physical Israel consists of the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Germanic, Celtic, and kindred people, who were scattered and later regathered into the lands of Western Europe as well as the United States and Canada.
Let me just say this to all the Christian Zionists having caniptions out there right now: what I said above applies to the Caucasian people as well. The only true chosen man or woman of God, irrespective of their ethnic background, is the person who follows Jesus Christ and obeys His commandments.
As a side note: How can Hibbs say replacement theology is also known as expansionism or whatever since replacement and expansion have totally different meanings?
As far as the term covenant theology is concerned, don't we live under the new covenant and don't all people, including so-called Jews, need to obey it, there being no salvation found anymore in the old one?
As far as the BDS movement goes, should Christians make it a point to support ungodly people?
Ah yes, the Islamist agenda. Read up about Albert Pike's third world war, which will be fought between politicized Christianity and Islam over Zionism. The outcome of this third global conflict will be the bringing about of the antichrist, so thank you, Christian Zionists, for helping to bring the man of sin on the scene. Your fellow true Christians so appreciate this.
The woke agenda is bad, but the Zionist political gospel in so many worldly churches is just as bad if not even worse because it is dressed in Biblical garb. Politicians aren't going to save you and the Jews certainly aren't going to either.
For goodness sake, we don't reject Old Testament prophecies, we just have a different interpretation, which is the same thing in today's my way or no way Churchianity.
Israel is not back in its land. Even if you ignore the Anglo-Israel truth, it is still only one tribe out of twelve.
At this point I should also mention something these Christian Zionists will never tell you which is that the majority of Jews don't agree with these people's belief. I mean to say most Jews aren't Zionists, so in a way supporting Israel is failure to support most of what these Christians like to think of as the chosen people.
The pre-tribulation rapture has to be up there with Zionism as one of the biggest deceptions in today's Christianity. It never occurs to these people that God could protect His people from His wrath on Earth, which I believe we see happening in Revelation 12.
Daniel's seventieth week is all about Jesus. Jesus confirmed the new covenant. After three and a half years of ministry on Earth, Jesus was crucified. After the age of grace closes, there will be the rest of the week in the form of a three and a half year period of tribulation right before Christ's second coming.
"hear me clearly on this: If God does not keep His future promises to Israel and the Jewish people, then He has no obligation whatsoever to keep His New Testament promises to you, me, and the church. Allow me to repeat that: If God does not fulfill His promises to Israel, including those of chastisement, you have no assurance that He will keep His promises to you.
Man, what an awful statement! Jack, if God does not keep His alleged future promises to alleged Israel, are you going to tell God to go to Hell and burn your Bible?
This is the same spirit of the Pharesies who murdered the messiah because He didn't lead them in an army against Rome like they wanted but instead took over the world and freed His people (from Rome and everything else) in a totally different way than everyone had come to expect due to their wrong interpretation of Old Testament prophecy which violated the verse in Proverbs not to lean to one's own understanding.
If millions of so-called Jews get saved and "return" to fake Israel to minister Christ to their former enemies, great! If I get raptured before the three and a half or seven year tribulation, I'll enjoy being up in the third Heaven and doing whatever work Jesus Christ has for me in preparation for His return. The question is: If end time prophecy is fulfilled in the way the prophecy teacher with whom you disagree the most believes, will you still love your Heavenly Father?
(As an aside, if your worst personal enemy or the figure you regard as the most infamous person in the world got saved instead of ending up in an eternal burning Hell prepared for the devil and his angels, would you still love your Father, Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit?)
There is also the worldly deception of hypermasculinity. The way to Hell is broad and Satan likes to counter his deceptions in controlled opposition by employing other, seemingly opposite deceptions that also lead to being destroyed forever.
It certainly isn't wrong for a married couple to study the Bible together, but husbands should concentrate on being sanctified and washed by Jesus Christ, The Word, rather than trying to do this with their wife. If a husband is living out a life having been washed in the word, this will inspire his wife to do the same thing.
Zionism and the pre-tribulation rapture seem like mighty emotionally-based theology to me.
