Randall Deeb

What is an antisemite? Fundamentally, it is someone who opposes the Jews' rightful inheritance and covenantal birthright from of old. No Zionist would disagree with this. Ironically, precisely by that definition, it is they themselves who are antisemitic, and it is we who oppose Zionism who truly love the Jews and seek to bless them. Why? Acts 3:17 has the answer: “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for YOU, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago... You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” The inheritance of the Jews is the Christ, not the land—or rather, to receive their Christ, and through him, not only the land, but the whole world!—and not only the whole world, but the very resurrection of the dead and the healing of all creation (Romans 11:15). The Messiah, God in flesh, is the promised inheritance, and their covenantal birthright from of old. Modern apostate Israel is a counterfeit fulfillment of the Jews' restoration to their inheritance, which was conditioned first upon their repentance. This is why Satan inverted the order in 1948 to hasten a false fulfillment in the flesh. Just as in the garden with Adam, just as in the desert with Christ, he set aside this condition of repentance, of allegiance to Messiah, offering the promised inheritance without obedience, of the gift (the land) without the giver (the Christ). Satan devised this counterfeit fulfillment in order to prevent (or at least to delay) the Jews' repentance and spiritual restoration, which would result in his final demise. Remember the parable of the tenants: "But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons... Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits." -Jesus (Matthew 21:33-46) The Christian Zionists who support Israel for the sake of "biblical prophecy," who believe they must aid in the restoration of the land and the rebuilding of the temple, who functionally believe this is necessary to reveal the antichrist, prove that they truly hate the Jews, since they are seeking to hasten not only their deeper apostasy and mass deception, but their own self-destruction. Not only this, they are actively preventing the Jews from repenting and being saved, by encouraging the carnal hope of an earthly inheritance apart from God—the very idol that cost them their healing in the first coming of Christ. They are not blessing Israel, but cursing and oppressing them with the same Judaizing spirit that blinded the Jews of the first century. They have succumbed to Satan's third temptation to Christ to cast himself down from the temple to reveal his judgment, to force God's hand, to immenatize the eschaton. We who have echoed the woes and words of Christ and his prophets and apostles against apostate Israel, who have set ourselves against this counterfeit and satanic fulfillment, and called for repentance, are the ones who truly love the Jews and desire to bless them with their own Christ, who warn against the trappings of the false hope of an earthly inheritance by the arm of the flesh in opposition to God's covenant condition. We seek to deliver them from the curse of the covenant which they are under, whereas the Christian Zionists lie to them about their condition with God, and so entrench them in the curse which Paul places them under in Romans 11:7ff. On Judgment Day, many of those who supported Israel will be exposed as those who truly hated the Jews, and cursed them, and many of those who opposed apostate Israel, as did the prophets, Christ, and his apostles, will be vindicated as those who truly loved the Jews, and tried to bless them.

@MateyYanakiev Don't forget to read The Shepherd! ;)

Taking a break for a few days, friends. Would appreciate your prayers for greater closeness and better obedience to God!

@peterpeccavi @MethodMinistry You had me until the last paragraph. Almost retweeted.

Disagree. 1 Cor 3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? Also, Paul’s language is direct OT prophetic fulfillment language. Ezekiel 37:26-27: God promised an "everlasting covenant" where "My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." Paul explicitly quotes this promise in 2 Cor 6:16 to prove that believers ARE that promised temple. It’s important to note, the second temple existed while the NT authors all wrote their works. It was the last temple to be made with human hands. Built by Solomon, Zerubbabel, and later Herod using physical stone, wood, and gold. It was always meant to be temporary (Hebrews 9:11, 24) The “third temple” is made *without human hands*. Built by God Himself through the Holy Spirit. In Mark 14:58, Jesus is accused of saying, "I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands." Fulfilling Dan 2:44-46. Also confer Is. 28:16; Ps 118:22 (Mt 21:42). The “joining together” of Eph 2 directly fulfills the “house for all nations” of Is 56:7 and Zech 6:12-13. As for 2 Thess 2:3-4, I’d note the two different meanings of the word Temple we have in the NT. Hieron (physical) and Naos (spiritual). See that Naos is used in 2 Thess 2:4, Eph 2:21, and 1 Cor 3:16; 6:16. It is not a physical 3rd temple made of literal stone, wood, etc. But it is a physical and spiritual temple made by God. Each blood bought saint is a stone in the new temple. Agree about the apostasy but it comes from within our ranks. The pope is the antichrist & man of lawlessness, the papists are apostates. They are Trinitarian yet proclaim a different gospel, which is impossible as the Trinity is absolutely crucial to the gospel.

There will be a third temple. It’ll will be apostate. The man of lawlessness (the antichrist) will sit in it and proclaim himself as God. This will be the beginning of the Great Tribulation, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, [4] who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.”

That is switch from suffering Messiah archetype (Ben Yossef) to triumphant Messiah archetype (Ben David). Here the appeal to “Jesus” is the metaphors for Holocaust’s victims. He says: stop being victims, we are aggressors from now on. Hunters not hunted. Zhabotinsky’s style.

@DanBurmawy Well you certainly proved your last point. ;)

Bibi Netanyahu quoted the Christian author Will Durant, saying: “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan, because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, and powerful enough, evil will overcome good.” So far, I’ve seen a few comments: One from an Arab account saying that Bibi is claiming we must be strong enough to be like Genghis Khan and defeat Jesus Christ. One from a useful idiot on the left saying “Christ is King” and cursing Netanyahu for uttering the name of Jesus. One from the woke right saying evil will never defeat good and “Christ is King.” Idiots, idiots everywhere.

@rabbriansamuel I disagree also. It is already antisemitic to oppose the antichrist. The antichrist are the Jews, according to St. John.

Disagree.

@WellsJorda89710 This guy talks like Resetti from Animal Crossing 🤣🤣🤣

Listen up, clowns: Calling someone a “Zionist” like it’s the new N-word? Pathetic. Zionism = Israel deserves to exist. That’s the ENTIRE definition. Not genocide. Not supremacy. Just a homeland for Jews after 2,000 years of exile and slaughter. I’m a Zionist. Black man right here. And I’m not hiding it. So when you scream “Zionists hate Black people,” you’re just yelling at ME. How’s that working out for you? 🔥🇮🇱 Drop your dumb takes below. I’ll wait. #ZionismIsNotHate #BlackZionist #IsraelForever #ExposeTheLies

@Christo62112175 @rabbriansamuel Brother, that is what I just said.

@RandallDeeb @rabbriansamuel ...that Israel’s gifts and calling are irrevocable and that “all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:26–29). Discipline is real, but permanent curse is unbiblical.

Yes there is a spiritual Israel, or the Israel of God, as Paul puts it, that only consists of the redeemed. But this does not mean that ethnic Israel is not "biblical Israel". And it does not mean that God's specific plans for Israel are no longer valid.

Absolutely. Paul the Apostle places ethnic Israel under the curses of the covenant in Romans 11:7-10, where he invokes the imprecatory Psalms and Prophets (along with Hebrews 6, Galatians 4, etc.). John the Baptist and Jesus do the same (Matthew 3; 21-23; John 8; etc.). This comes from Deuteronomy 28, which promises not only the blessings of the covenant and the inheritance of the land on the condition of obedience to God and his Prophet/Mediator, but also promises the curses of the covenant and exile from the land, etc. if they are rebellious and adulterous. The purpose of the covenant curse under which Israel remains is to bring about correction, repentance, and restoration. Whether it leads to that or not depends on their response.

@RandallDeeb @rabbriansamuel Can you elaborate on this? Specifically "the reversal of the covenant curses".

@MateyYanakiev @ProvisionistP It's near the beginning of the book, so it won't take you long to get to it. I'll check when I get back home (Out of town atm). But it's basically the opposite of the law you cited. It's v. stringent. I believe that may have been one of the arguments against its canonization (?)

@RandallDeeb @ProvisionistP Oh? Passages?

and then she repented and reconciled to her husband, right? ...right?

@EliasTheophany Certainly the god of this world

I think the evidence that God is with Israel is undeniable at this point

@MateyYanakiev @ProvisionistP Have you read The Shepherd of Hermas? It has a wild take on that matter... like "Who can bear it" level.

@ProvisionistP Only if she hadn’t been with anyone else. That would be an abomination (Deut 24:4).

@MateyYanakiev @Tradermayne Maybe it's a guitar chord? 🤷‍♂️🙃

@Tradermayne Be honest with us, why do you hyphenate “God” out of reverence if you’ll put that word in front anyway?

Oh my fucking G-d.

Israel is Gentilized early in Matthew, in chapter 2, quoting Hosea but inverting the referents, where Judah becomes Egypt with King Herod mimicking Pharaoh. So there is precedence for this theme in Matthew. Notice also that the episode on the sea in Matthew 14 is sandwiched b/w two mentions of the sign of Jonah: Before, when the Jews demand a sign, & Jesus says "No sign will be given you except the sign of the Prophet Jonah" (12:38-40) & after, when he connects the "sign of Jonah" to Peter, whom he calls "son of Jonah" (16:4, 17). Matthew is also the only gospel that mentions Peter walking on the water w/Jesus. Compare these accounts w/Jonah 1. In Jonah, the storm came b/c the men had an unfaithful Israelite Prophet under judgment in their boat. In the gospels, the storm left b/c the men had a faithful Israelite Prophet in their boat. Jonah was tossed out of the boat before the storm ceased, whereas Jesus stepped into the boat before the storm ceased. Peter, son of Jonah, is called out of the boat by Christ, just as Jonah was called out by lot. God provided for Jonah a fish to save him, Jesus provided the son of Jonah his own hand to save him--except in Peter's case, he had a taste of the conquest they were to have over the nations (the sea). Jesus is the true Prophet, the redemption & fulfillment of Jonah, & Peter is to be his chief representative in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles—he is the first to take the gospel to the Gentiles (reluctantly!!)—thereby also showing himself to be a true "son of Jonah." The parallels w/Jonah should not be surprising. Jonah's entire commission had to do w/reaching the Gentiles. When he finally reaches Nineveh (reluctantly), his preaching results in their healing. In the gospel story, the reason Jesus is crossing the sea in the first place is to minister in Gennesaret (Mt 14:34, Mk 6:53), a Gentile region (Mt 4:15). And there he heals the land. The "3 days/nights in the heart of the earth" is, of course, the culmination of that sign in Christ's final work, resulting in the ultimate salvation of the Gentiles, & not just the Jews. So it is fitting that Jonah is echoed throughout as a model for Jesus' ministry to the Gentiles.

A couple thoughts on Matt 12, thanks to @galleddrim. 1) Jesus casts a demon out of a blind and mute demoniac, and people ask, "Is this the son of David?" Why David? Because he drove the evil spirit from Saul. Jesus sings away the demons who've turned Israel's leaders into murderous, David-hunting Sauls. 2) Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days. The Son of Man will be in the belly of the earth (or land). In Jonah, the sea and sea monster symbolize the Gentiles and particularly the Assyrians. Jonah the Israelite prophet gets swallowed and spit back, as Israel will be swallowed in exile and spit back to the land. But the Son of Man goes to the belly of the earth - that's Israel, not the Gentile world. Unless, perhaps, Jesus implies that the land has turned oceanic: The Son of Man gets swallowed by a Gentilized Israel.

@rabbriansamuel We also see those who appoint elders (Titus), who are given that authority by an apostle (e.g. Paul). Thus there is an overseer/Shepherd/Bishop above the elders (Hebrews, 1 Peter, etc.).

In the New Testament, we see elders, we see deacons. Does the New Testament support the framework where a pastor is the top-level church leader? What is the biblical church model, in your estimation?

@MordeStack @romanhelmetguy I can't stand him.

@romanhelmetguy Thought this was ai satire

“If the banks can print as much money as possible, why do we have poverty?” 💀💀

@MateyYanakiev @ruckusofantioch @seraphim199 @PLeithart

*undergo As for Manasseh, there might be another motivation for this. I think Leithart discuss this very helpfully. I'll have to go back and revisit his material on it, but basically it has to do with the fact that Chronicles is post-exilic and therefore focused on faithful non-temple corporate worship of Israel, whereas kings is pre-exilic and focused on temple worship. He doesn't directly address the question of Solomon's repentance (or maybe he does idk), but Solomon's identification with the temple might be related to the chronicler's motivation in whom he rehabilitates.

@MateyYanakiev @ruckusofantioch I think Solomon repented in the end. Have you heard Seraphim Hamilton's @seraphim199 argument that Solomon wrote the book of Job at the end of his life as a form of repentance?

@ruckusofantioch Samson made it into that Hall of Faith (Heb 11:32–34). Solomon, on the other hand, wrote some fire Scripture then headed for the fires of apostasy.