Introduction
This is third and last in the series understand of articles to understand ‘The Christian Zionism’, the real threat to world peace. It’s not an overstatement to call Zionism, the mother of all conflicts. US president Donald Trump has taken the controversial decision to shift the US embassy to Jerusalem, this unjust decision is against the UN resolutions and the stand of community of nations across the globe. This has created turbulence among the peace loving people across the globe. The terrorists of ISIS/ Daesh and Al-Qaida have been criticized for using religion for political gains and power, now the same analogy applies to the so-called secular democracy the USA to support Zionism on religious grounds.
Though the US government’s national security team opposed the decision but for many white evangelical Christians, 81 percent of whom voted for Trump, it was great news. According to a recent poll released by the Brookings Institution, 53 percent of American evangelicals supported Trump’s decision, while only 40 percent opposed it. (Sixty-three percent of all Americans opposed the decision.)
The policies of the lone super power and the country with the largest Christian population has direct affects to world peace. Any mischievous group through conspiracies and wickedness should not be given a free hand to use this giant nation as a tool to implement their heinous agenda of world domination.
Therefore it is prudent to analyse the Zionist land claims from the Bible and its validity according to Bible and in present environment in the light of UN Charter of Human Rights, US internal social, politico-religious dynamics and its role in the Middle East. This may enable to make this world a better, peaceful place for humanity.
The subject has been broadly covered under following headings in three articles:
1. USA- The Largest Christian Nation:
2. Terminologies:
3. Christian Eschatology
4. Armageddon:
5. Dispensationalism:
6. Prophesies:
7. Popular End Time Prophecies:
8. Evangelist Christians & Neo Conservatives [Neocons]:
9. Why Evangelical Christians Support Israel?
10. Why Religious Jews opposed to Zionism:
11. Is Trump Trying to be Modern Cyrus the Great?
12. Israeli Demography
13. The Thirteenth Tribe (Converted Non Semitic Jews) & Khazaria Empire
14. Palestinians Genetic Relationship with the Jewish people:
15. Protocols of Zion
16. Why Some Christians Favour Zionists?
17. Fusion of Religion with Politics:
18. The Death Cult?
19. Terrible Fate of Jews in Theology of Fundamentalist / Evangelical Christians:
20. Terrorists: The Concerned Christians
21. Land Claims Zionists:
22. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):
23. Land Claim Proven False through Bible:
24. God’s Land Grant to the Jewish People – Conditional or Unconditional?
25. Violation of Covenant is breaking the Covenant:
26. 1shmail The Seed (Descendant) of Abraham
27. Jews Cursed for Disobedience to God
28. Jesus Christ, Prophet for Israelites:
29. Jesus Christ Forewarned Jews
30. Prophecies of Last Prophet in Bible
31 Anti-Zionist movement of Orthodox Jews- Neturei Karta
32. Roman Catholicism and Zionism
33. Patriarchates of Jerusalem
34. Is Historic Rule Valid Argument for Land Claim
35. Zionist Christians Ignore New Testament
36. God Fulfilled His Promise
37. Torah Invalidates Zionist Land Claims
38. Judaism and Zionism are Not Same
39. Complete available at: http://salaamone.com/christian-zionism/
Zionist Land Claims
Ruled Palestine Once A time
The Zionist Jews claim that Palestine belongs to them because they ruled it under David and Solomon!”. If having ruled a territory once by force of arms, entitled to repossess it, on the same basis, would the Dutch be entitled to invade Indonesia, because their ancestors” ruled it for three centuries? Or, could the Italians lay claim to Britain because the Romans ruled it”? at one stage under Caesar. The Muslims, if again possess the power, would equally be justified to reconquer Spain. The Muslims ruled that country for almost eight hundred years. A longer period of time than the Jews ever ruled parts of Palestine! The only thing really worth seeing in Spain are the magnificent gardens and fountains, and monumental buildings the Muslims left behind. Does that entitle the Muslims to recolonise Spain?
One may argue that “Those were foreign conquests, but Palestine is motherland of Jews, they we have only taken back what we they had been wrongfully dispossessed. However there is a grave historical oversight, the Jews also,” under Joshua, invaded Palestine over three thousand years ago and conquered the inhabitants of the land. It was no virgin territory ready to be betrothed. They conquered thirty kingdoms in as many days (Joshua 12:24). Twelve united tribes of Israel against each divided village state, with their little village chief whom you called “kings!” So they knocked over the Amorites, the Edomites, the Philistines, the Moabites, the Hittites and other too numerous to mention. They were destroyed utterly and they came back for more. And again Jews “destroyed them utterly,” and yet they “were there And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.(Joshua 6:21). This anonology will open the doors of endless wars of possession of land by the powerful.
Who Owns the Land of Palestine?
The Zionists are convinced that God has given the land of Palestine to the Jews, and that it would be a sin to return the land to the Arabs. Many evangelical Christians, agree that the Jews have a divine title deed to Israel and that the land must not be given back to the Palestinians.
Racism and Bigotry
Justifying Brutalities from Bible
Zionists gain strength from the Bible to justify their brutality against Palestinians. [ISIS/Daesh and other terrorists also use sacred texts to justify their brutalities].
Jewish Supremacy
• “If a ‘goy’ (Gentile, non Jewish) hits a Jew he must be killed.” (Sanhedrin 58b)
• “‘If a Jew finds an object lost by a ‘goy’ it does not have to be returned.” (Baba Mezia 24a)
• “If a Jew murders a ‘goy’ there will be no death penalty.” (Sanhedrin 57a)
• What a Jew steals from a ‘goy’ he may keep.” (Sanhedrin 57a)
• “Jews may use subterfuges to circumvent a ‘goy.”‘ (Baba Kamma 113a)
• “All children of the ‘goyim’ animals.” (Gentiles) are (Yebamoth 98a)
• “Girls born of the ‘goyim’ are in a state of ‘niddah’ (menstrual from birth.” uncleanness!) (AbodahZarah 36b)
• Hatred Towards the Gentiles (Non-Jews)
• “The ‘goyim’ are not humans. They are beasts.” (Baba Mezia 114b)
• “lf you eat with a ‘goy’ it is the same as eating with a dog.” (Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b)
• “Even the best of the ‘goyim’ should all be killed.” (Soferim 15)
• “Sexual intercourse between the ‘goyim’ is like intercourse between animals.” (Sanhedrin 74b)
• “When it comes to a Gentile in peace times, one may harm him indirectly, for instance, by removing a ladder after he had fallen into a crevice.” (Shulkan Arukh, Yoreh De’ah, 158, Hebrew Edition only)
Use of Old Testament to justify Violence by Zionists:
The Zionists are use brute force unarmed protesting against Palestinian civilians, children and women because they think it is justified (similar tactics used by terrorists like ISIS etc.):
• “And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.” (Leviticus;26:7-8).
• “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD” (Psalm;149:6-9)
• Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
• Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
• Judges 21:10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children.
• Judges 21:11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin. Moses ordered the killing of Jews guilty of idol worship (Exodus;32:26-28.).
• “Now therefore Kill every male among the little ones, and Kill every woman (female) that hath known man by lying (having sex) with him. But keep Alive for your selves all the Girls and all the women who are Virgins.” (Numbers;31: 17-18).
• The Jews salvaged for them selves; “and thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.” (Numbers; 31:35).
• “But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, (O’ Jews) you shall save alive nothing that breathes, (Deuteronomy ;20 :16).
• ‘And they (the Jews) Utterly Destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep, and Ass, with the edge of the sword” (Joshua;6 :21)
• “He (Joshua) let None remain alive.” (Joshua; 10:28).
Israel Army Chief Rabbi Justifies Rape of Palestinian Women
A prominent Israeli rabbi who advocated genocide in Gaza also advised that soldiers may rape during wartime. Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad in Israel, approved rape by the military in a 2002 article. Eliyahu contended that Israeli soldiers would lose their motivation to wage war if they are not allowed to rape non-Jewish women. He had recommended that Israel should use massive force in Gaza. In 2007, he said that Israel “must kill 100,000, even a million” people in Gaza if that was necessary to stop Palestinian resistance fighters from firing rockets. Eliyahu suggested that a biblical law authorized sexual violence under certain circumstances. He was responding to a question apparently by one of the website’s readers about whether women could be viewed as “war booty.” According to Eliyahu, an Israeli soldier should be subject to few, if any, constraints when fighting a war. “Now he has got to fight, and you shouldn’t be preaching morality to him,” he wrote. “Do it at home, before the war, and not now in the middle of the war. Don’t weaken his spirit. If you forbid him from a beautiful woman and he’s enraptured by her outer charms, then he’ll think about her and is likely to get to the point where the Jewish people will be defeated. What will you gain from that?” Eliyahu interpreted a biblical scripture as meaning “if it burns in you, take a beautiful woman,” thereby excusing rape during war. That view is at odds with international law. The International Criminal Court has confirmed that the use of rape in armed conflict is a war crime. After justifying the woman’s rape, Eliyahu goes on to blame the victim, wondering if she “may have specially made herself up, in order to take [the soldier] down and incriminate him.” Eliyahu even implied that these rape victims ought to be thankful for not subsequently being killed, or kept in sexual slavery for the rest of their lives. “Notice her life was spared during wartime,” he wrote. “She isn’t even held captive by sword. He cannot live with her, as one lives with women and then sell her as a slave. He frees her!! Free as a bird!!”
Ignoring New Testament
Christian Zionists who believe this way, when asked to cite a Biblical justification for their views, usually go all the way back to Genesis 12 and 13 in the Old Testament. According to Thomas Williamson, many such Zionists are dispensationalists, who teach that the Old Testament and the Law of Moses are not for today, and that only selected parts of the New Testament are to be followed in this dispensation. However, they never quote from the New Testament to justify their Zionist convictions, for the simple reason that No New Testament teaching exists that would possibly backup such beliefs.
Zionists prefer to rely on the Old Testament, citing Genesis 13:15 where God said to Abraham, “For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever.” They construe this verse to teach that a large chunk of the Middle East still belongs to the Jews today, including the ancient lands of Edom and Moab, even though God said in Deuteronomy 2:5, 9 that He would never give those lands to the Jews.
Christian Zionists regard God’s covenant with Abraham, including the land grant, as an unconditional covenant. They admit that the Jews have broken that covenant, and have rejected their Messiah, but insist that Palestine still belongs to the Jews because God gave it to them “forever.”
However, the Bible teaches that God’s covenant with Abraham and his descendants was a conditional covenant, not unconditional (as explained earlier).
• In Genesis 17:9-14 the Jews were warned that they must keep the covenant or be cut off from God’s people.
• Leviticus 26:40-45 teaches that the Jews must confess and forsake their sins in order to maintain the covenant.
• Deuteronomy 7:12, 1 Kings 9:6-9 and Exodus 19:5-6 all teach that the covenant was conditional.
• Joshua 23:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 not only teach that the covenant was conditional, but they also specify that the Jews would lose their land grant if they broke the covenant.
As for the statement in Genesis 13:15 that God was giving the land to the Jews “forever,” we must compare this with other uses of the same word in the Law of Moses in order to understand what God is saying to us.
• In Exodus 12:23-24, God ordained the ordinance of the Passover to be observed “forever.”
• In Deuteronomy 18:3-5 the Levites are ordained to be God’s ministers, and to receive the offerings of the people, “forever.”
• In Deuteronomy 23:3 we find that an Ammonite or Moabite cannot join the congregation of the Lord’s people “forever.”
• In Leviticus 7:34 we find that the peace-offering was to be observed “forever.”
• In Leviticus 10:15 we are told that the wave-offerings are to be observed “forever.”
• Leviticus 16:29 specifies that the Day of Atonement is to be observed “forever.”
• In Leviticus 23:41 we are commanded to observe the Feast of Tabernacles “forever.”
• Numbers 18:19 tells us that we are to observe the heave-offerings “forever.”
• In Numbers 19:9-10 we are instructed to use the ashes of a red heifer for purposes of purification “forever.”
If we ask our dispensational Zionist friends why they are not observing any of these commandments today, they will explain that they are not for this dispensation, that they were intended only for the observance of the Jews in the dispensation of Law, before the coming of Christ.
The same reasoning applies to the land grant of Palestine to the Jews. Not only is that land grant no longer in effect in the new dispensation of grace, but it is also very clear that the Jews were given that land under a conditional covenant, and that they broke that covenant when they rejected and crucified their Messiah (as per Christian theology).
The covenant and the land promise to the Jews were not eternal, to last until the end of time. The Jews did not keep the conditions of the covenant, and for this reason God took away the kingdom of God from them, Matthew 21:42-45, and gave it to the New Israel (Galatians 6:16,) the Church which consists of believing Jews and Gentiles.
The inheritance of the new Spiritual Israel is not land in the Middle East, but rather the new Jerusalem in heaven. The old Jerusalem on earth is of absolutely no importance to God’s people, John 4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. The Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:25 condemns as children of Hagar all those whose focus is on the earthly Jerusalem.
In Hebrews 8:13 we read that the old covenant with Abraham was about to disappear. The final disappearance of the old covenant took place in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed the Temple, the City of Jerusalem, and the Jewish state. The genealogical records of the Jews were destroyed also, meaning there is no Jew alive today who can trace his ancestry back to the Palestinian Jews of the First Century.
There is no statement or hint in the New Testament that God will revive the Jewish state. It has been revived by man twice, in 132 AD and in 1948 AD. There is no prophetic significance in these human restorations of the Jewish state, and Christians are under no obligation to support such a political entity.
Even our father Abraham has no interest in a restored Jewish state:
Hebrews 11:13-16: All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
He is in a much better place, the new Jerusalem. Instead of encouraging our Jewish friends to seek out the earthly Jerusalem, Christians should point them to the heavenly Jerusalem, available to them by faith in the Messiah.
Some Zionists accuse American Jews of greed, saying that they belong in Israel and have stayed in America so they can make more money here. Instead of telling American Jews that this is not their country and that they should emigrate to Israel, they should rather be encourage to stay here where they enjoy all the blessings of religious freedom for their faith as well as a better opportunity to convert if they so desire
Nowadays there are prominent evangelists who preach to their followers that God never fulfilled His promise of giving all the land of Palestine to the Jews. They support whatever action necessary, even nuclear war, to obtain Arab lands in the Middle East and give them to the Jews.
This belief is not only a threat to world peace, but it is also totally mistaken and unscriptural. The Bible clearly teaches that God did keep His promise to His chosen people the Jews, and that He did give them all the land that was promised. The boundaries of the land promised are given in Genesis 15:18 – from the river of Egypt (the Wadi El-Arish, not the Nile) to the river Euphrates.
Read Joshua 11:23, Joshua 21:43-45, 2 Samuel 8:3, 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Kings 8:56, 2 Chronicles 9:26 and Nehemiah 9:7-8, 24 and it will become very clear that God did give all of the land promised to the Jews. If God says that He did, who are we to say that He did not?
God Fulfilled His Promise
• IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR CHRISTIANS TO START A WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO FULFILL A PROMISE THAT GOD ALREADY FULFILLED 3400 YEARS AGO.
• As for the Old Testament promises that Israel would be restored some day, these prophecies were fulfilled by the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC.
The prophet Jeremiah is often quoted to prove that God promised a restoration of the Jews to their land and that the promise began to be fulfilled in 1948 AD. However, Jeremiah very clearly said in 606 BC that this prophesied national restoration of the Jews in their land would take place within 70 years (Jeremiah 29:10, Daniel 9:2). Christian Zionists need to study their Bibles more carefully, so that they will realize that God already kept His promise, when He said that He would, and that we do not need to stir up war and bloodshed in the Middle East in order to fulfill the promise yet again.
Christian Zionism and dispensationalism represent a giant step backward in Christian theological progress. Instead of resting in the sacrifice, dispensational Zionists look forward to the building of another temple in Jerusalem with animal sacrifices. Instead of rejoicing in the New Covenant which was promised to all God’s people, Jeremiah 31:31-34, they want to go back to the Old Covenant which has been forever abrogated. Instead of inviting precious, beloved Jewish friends to partake in the eternal blessings of the heavenly Jerusalem, they try to send them back to the Old Jerusalem, even though they believe that 2/3 of them will be slaughtered in a 7-year period of Tribulation to come very soon.
The entire tendency of this theological system is to lead us all back to Judaism. The founder of dispensationalism, John Nelson Darby, openly admitted that his teaching would lead us back to Judaism. Let us rather heed the exhortation of the apostle saying, “Let us go on,” Hebrews 6:1, rather than turning back to the empty shadows of a religion that was meant only to prepare mankind for the coming of Christ.
The duty of Christian churches today is to seek the well-being of Jews according to the flesh, Romans 9:3. They can accomplish that, not by lobbying for the territorial expansion of Israel, but rather by preaching the Gospel and planting churches, thereby giving all Jews and Gentiles an opportunity to enter the heavenly Jerusalem for all eternity. (According to Christian theology)
Thomas Williamson
1. Since the land promise to the Jews was conditional upon their obedience, and they completely failed to obey God or keep the covenant with God, therefore there is no duty upon Christians to help modern-day Jews to take Palestine away from the Arabs, nor to prevent them from giving back to the Arabs land that they have already occupied (such as the Gaza Strip).
2. As Christians we should support no action to dispossess any lawful owner of land in Palestine, whether Jew or Arab, who has paid for his land, and we should respect all lawful property rights of the Palestinians and Jews, just we would respect the rights of property owners anywhere else in the world.
3. Christian Zionism, as a result of its rejection of Bible truth with regard to the conditional nature of God’s covenant with Israel, has veered into serious theological error and has become an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity.
4. Christian Zionists preach and practice racial bigotry toward Palestinians and other peoples of Middle Eastern ancestry. They teach that it is right for Israeli settlers to steal from the Arabs and that it is the duty of Christians to help them steal.
5. They heap curses on American Presidents and Israeli Prime Ministers who try to find a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. They oppose all peace plans for Israel, because their bloodthirsty, fanciful “end of days” scenario requires that two-thirds of all the Jews in the world be slaughtered in a final Battle of Armageddon. For these reasons, Christian Zionism has always been rejected and repudiated by intelligent, right-thinking Christians and Jews.
Torah & Land Claims
Jewish Scholars Say That God’s Land Grant to the Jews is Conditional On Keeping the Covenant. On the subject of what the Old Testament says about God’s land grant to the Jews, one has to pay more attention to the scholarly teachings of Jews, than to the opinions of the typical fundamentalist Christian church member. The Jews have a knowledge of the Hebrew language, in which the Old Testament was written, and they have devoted themselves to deep study of the Old Testament.
Many fundamentalist Christians have little knowledge of what the Old Testament teaches, and in many cases they have never even read it through once. When they say that “God gave Palestine to the Jews in an unconditional covenant,” they are merely parroting the pronouncements of their favorite televangelist or prophecy guru. None of these teachers, or their followers, can point to anything in the Bible that says that God’s covenant or land grant to the Jews were unconditional.
Keeping this in view, it will be prudent to see what thoughtful, intelligent, scholarly Jews have said about the nature of God’s covenant and land grant.
Avraham Burg, former Speaker of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)
“We’re not the Chosen People just by virtue of our forefathers; Leviticus warns the land will vomit us out, too, if we continue to be stiff-necked and evil. There is no eternal guarantee to this holy land.
Our presence in the land is neither eternal nor automatic. Rather, our presence in the land is intimately connected with our moral behavior (our treatment of the stranger, widow and orphan) as a nation. If we act wickedly towards the stranger; turn our heads from the poverty of the orphan, and stuff our ears to the cries of the widow, then the land will vomit us out just as it had done to so many nations before us. When life is not lived morally, there’s no difference between Jews and Amorites, between Israelis and Canaanites, Romans or Crusaders.”
Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, in Kolel The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning.
“The text [Exodus 19:5] makes clear that this special status [Chosen People] is conditional: Israel must uphold their end of the deal and maintain the terms of the covenant. As the text states, ‘IF you will obey Me faithfully and keep my covenant, THEN you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples.’ It is not Israel as a people who are special, but rather it is their behaviour, their commitment to and adherence to the laws of the covenant, which sets them apart from all other people.”
Rabbi Mendal Weinbach, Dean, OhrSomayach Institutions
“Here [Deuteronomy 11:31-32] is clearly spelled out the formula for successful conquest and possession of Eretz Israel. In order that we should succeed in inheriting and dwelling in the Land, the Torah tells us we must observe all of Hashem’s laws. It was therefore necessary to dramatically communicate a public declaration of blessings and curses upon entry into the Land, to drive home the message that possession of the Land was conditional on observance of the commandments.”
Rabbi Amnon Bazak, in “Toras Aish.”
“And it is followed by the verse, ‘And it will happen, when your G-d brings you to the land He vowed to give to your ancestors, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaakov.’ [Deuteronomy 6:10]. As is well known the second paragraph, ‘Vehaya,’ makes the continued dwelling in the land conditional on observing the mitzvot of loving G-d and serving Him.”
Jonathan Rosenbloom, in Jerusalem Post
“‘Judah was sent into Exile because it prized Land and soil as the bulwark of its freedom and belittled the Torah,’ writes Rabbi Hirsch. ‘The Exile cannot therefore end with the same delusion.’ Possession of the Land, Hirsch reminds us, is conditional on the performance of specific duties.”
Joel Miller in WorldNet Daily.
“‘Before the Almighty gave us the Holy Land 3260 years ago, He made these conditions: If we abide by the Torah, it is ours, if not, we will be expelled,’ explains Orthodox Rabbi E. Schwartz of Neturei Karta. We know from Scripture that God’s gift of the land to Abraham and his decedents was not unconditional.” Quoted in “Does Israel Belong to the Jews?,”
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum, in “Universal Torah.”
“This Midrash expresses the conditional nature of G-d’s Covenant with Israel, a central theme in EKEV and one that appears with increasing emphasis as we advance through Deuteronomy. Long-term possession of the Land of Israel and enjoyment of its blessings are strictly contingent upon proper observance of the Covenant on our part. This is clearly stated at the climax of the parshah (Deuteronomy 11:13-21).”
Prof. AviezerRavitsky, “The Redemption and the Covenant,” in Oz Veshalom – Netivot Shalom.
“The covenant, by definition, is not rooted upon a guarantee given by the Redeemer of Israel to the People of Israel, but rather on a relationship of mutuality or reciprocity mutual obligations to fulfill the demands of the covenant: a promise, yes, but a conditional one. The covenant, by its very nature, stands as the total contra to a predetermined future, whether it be for bad or for good. It accentuates the option of possibility, of uncertainty, and of human freedom. Our obligations precede the Redemption, and the latter is dependent on our fulfillment of them. Although the prophetic promise concerning the future is absolute and definite, its fulfillment in a given generation or in a given society or a certain State is dependent on the ways and behavior of that generation and society. The attempt to lend to the events of our generation the stamp of the absolute and final destiny, to blur the borders between history and the meta-historical, may be understood to be a forfeiture of the covenant.”
Judaism and Zionism are Not Same
Tragically many believe that Zionism and Judaism are identical. Thus they conclude that the entire Jewish people is responsible for the actions of the Zionist government and the world crises which emanates from it. This is a Grave Error!
The truth is that the Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies. They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. 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.
The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism’s inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.
To this day Torah Jewry remains forever loyal to its faith. Zionists want the world to believe that they are the representatives of the entire Jewish people. This is false! The Jewish people never chose them as their leaders.
The Zionists have deceived many well-meaning Jewish people via terror, trickery and false propaganda. They have at their disposal the use of a nearly universally subservient media. Whoever attempts to criticize them puts his livelihood and, at times, his very life in danger.
However, despite the media blackout and easy resort to terror the simple truth remains unrefuted and irrefutable:
ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA!
The Creator gave them the Holy Land thousands of years ago. Yet, when they sinned, He took it away and sent them into exile. Since that time their task is to wait for Him to send the Messiah. At that time, the Creator alone, without any human being lifting a hand or saying a word, will bring Jews together and take them out of exile. He will likewise establish universal peace among all mankind and all will serve Him in good will.
Some religious Jews, confused by Zionist propaganda quote Biblical verses that state that God gave the children of Israel the Holy Land. They overlook, unfortunately, those verses which say that He took it away due to their disobedience and sins. They further ignore those prophecies which explicitly describe the last exile’s conclusion as a Divine, not a human process.
The Creator has commanded every Jew to follow the ways of peace and to be loyal to the country where he lives.
Torah true Jewry waits patiently for the Messianic redemption. They have nothing to do with any kind of pseudo “Jewish State” and its aggressions against other peoples. They have a deep sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians who have suffered the most from Zionism’s false teachings and barbaric actions. The Zionist state is not a Jewish state. The Zionists alone are the only ones responsible for their actions. Authentic Jewry has and will continue to oppose the very existence of this blasphemous state.
ISHMAIL THE SEED (DESCENDANT) OF ABRAHAM
God did make a promise as “I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.”
ABRAHAM’S SEED: If one concede the point that the prophecy in question was authoritative, then question arises; “Who is the seed (Descendant) of Abraham?” The Jews claim that they are the seed of Abraham. No doubt, Jews are the sons and seed of Abraham, but are they the only seed?
At least in twelve places, in the first Book of the Bible, Ishmael (Ismaeil) the progenitor of the Arabs is spoken of as the son and seed of Abraham and Hagar bore Abram (changed to Abraham by God in Genesis 17:5) a son and:
1) And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (Genesis 16:15) And Abraham took Ishmael, his SON. (Genesis 17:23).
2) And Ishmael, his SON, was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh.
3 ) “of his foreskin. Holy Bible (Genesis 17:25) In the very same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael, his SON. (Genesis 17:26)
4) And his SONS Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron… (Genesis 25:9)
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s SON, whom Hagar the Egyptian…. (Genesis 25:12)
If the Lord God, disdaineth not to recognise Ishmael as the SON and SEED of Abraham in the Torah, who are we to deny him his patrimony. Indeed, God will not allow the rights of the “first-born” to be jeopardised even if the child is the offspring of a hated wife (Deuteronomy 21:16)
The descendants obviously include the progeny of Ishmael and Isaac
Jacob and his descendents have been specially mentioned in addition to Abraham’s at Genesis; 17:1-27 & Leviticus;26:42, while excluding Ishmael from the covenant, though was first born son of Abraham, his seed and a Prophet, he remains part of House of Abraham.
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. (Genesis 17:20)”
“What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? (Deuteronomy 4:7-8)”
In the above verses, we first see a clear promise from GOD Almighty that He will make a “great nation” from Ishmael’s descendants. We then see the definition of “great nation” as being a nation that directly receives a Law from GOD Almighty. The Law of the Muslims is the Noble Quran.
Therefore, since “great nation” proves that the people have the Law of GOD Almighty, and since the Arabs were promised to become a “great nation” in the Old Testament, then this clearly and irrefutably makes the Noble Quran as the Law of the LORD in the Old Testament since it came from the Arabs, the “great nation”. The people of Ishmael are clearly the Arabs (through biological descent), and all Muslims through theological descent.
Prophecies of Last Prophet in Bible
Beside the history It is also established from Bible that Arabs are descendants of Ishmael, the first-born son of Abraham. Hence Arabs and the children of Israel (Jacob) are the brethren’s (cousins).
Violation of Covenant is breaking the Covenant
“And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:” (Leviticus;26:15). The Jews violated and broke the covenant, besides non adherence to the law of Torah, they refuse to accept Jesus, the messiah. Hence, they were deprived from the status and privileges. God as per His promise to Abraham, kept His promise within his descendants and transferred this honour to lead the humanity to the descendants of Ishmael, the first born son of Abraham.
God speaks to Prophet Moses: “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not harken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him” (Deuteronomy; 18:18,19).
Jesus said: “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter (Paracletos), that he may abide with you forever.” (John; 14:16). The last Prophet, came in seventh century, many Jews and Christians followed him and many didn’t.
Jesus through parables said: “Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”(Matthew;21:43). There are many verses from the Bible which are claimed to be prophecies of advent of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), form the children of Ishmael: Genesis, 49:10, Deuteronomy, 18:18, Deuteronomy, 33:2, Psalm, 45, Psalm, 110:1, Song of Solomon, 5, Isaiah, 29:12, Isaiah, 40, Isaiah, 42, Isaiah, 54, Daniel, 7, Habakkuk, 3:3.
From the biblical references, it may be deduced that the prophet after Jesus Christ would be:
1. Not from Children of Israel but from the progeny of Ishmael.
2. A rider upon a camel, God’s servant (Abduho), God’s Elect
3. Inhabitant of the villages of Prince Kedar, son of Ishmael.
4. His religion will be known as Shiloh (means; Peace-Islam).
5. His light will shine from Faran.
6. The scepter (A staff held by a sovereign as an emblem of authority or Ruling power or authority; sovereignty) of Judah will pass on to him.
7. God will put his words in his mouth, having power like sword.
8. He shall not fail and shall not break, he will have similarities with Moses.
9. He shall be known as Comforter, Ahmad or Advocate.
10. 1t is obvious that; all these prophecies point towards none but The Last Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Details visit:
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Palestinians Relationship with the Jewish People
A number of pre-Mandatory Zionists, from Ahad Ha’am and BerBorochov to David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben Zvi thought of the Palestinian peasant population as descended from the ancient biblical Hebrews, but this belief was disowned when its ideological implications became problematic. Ahad Ha’am believed that:
“The Moslems [of Palestine] are the ancient residents of the land. who became Christians on the rise of Christianity and became Moslems on the arrival of Islam.“
Israel Belkind, the founder of the Bilu movement also asserted that the Palestinian Arabs were the blood brothers of the Jews. Ber Borochov, one of the key ideological architects of Marxist Zionism, claimed as early as 1905 that, “The Fellahin in Eretz-Israel are the descendants of remnants of the Hebrew agricultural community,” believing them to be descendants of the ancient Hebrew- residents ‘together with a small admixture of Arab blood’”. He further believed that the Palestinian peasantry would embrace Zionism and that the lack of a crystallized national consciousness among Palestinian Arabs would result in their likely assimilation into the new Hebrew nationalism, and that Arabs and Jews would unite in class struggle. David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben Zvi, later becoming Israel’s first Prime Minister and second President, respectively, suggested in a 1918 paper written in Yiddish that Palestinian peasants and their mode of life were living historical testimonies to Israelite practices in the biblical period. Tamari notes that “the ideological implications of this claim became very problematic and were soon withdrawn from circulation.” Salim Tamari notes the paradoxes produced by the search for “nativist” roots among these Zionist figures, particularly the Canaanist followers of Yonatan Ratosh, who sought to replace the “old” diasporic Jewish identity with a nationalism that embraced the existing residents of Palestine.
In his book on the Palestinians, The Arabs in Eretz-Israel, Belkind advanced the idea that the dispersion of Jews out of the Land of Israel after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman emperor Titus is a “historic error” that must be corrected. While it dispersed much of the land’s Jewish community around the world, those “workers of the land that remained attached to their land,” stayed behind and were eventually converted to Christianity and then Islam. He therefore, proposed that this historical wrong be corrected, by embracing the Palestinians as their own and proposed the opening of Hebrew schools for Palestinian Arab Muslims to teach them Arabic, Hebrew and universal culture. Tsvi Misinai, an Israeli researcher, entrepreneur and proponent of a controversial alternative solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, asserts that nearly 90% of all Palestinians living within Israel and the occupied territories (including Israel’s Arab citizens and Negev Bedouin) are descended from the Jewish Israelite peasantry that remained on the land, after the others, mostly city dwellers, were exiled or left. This stall the Zionist Jewish claim that the Holy Land belongs to them.
Why should not the children of Ishmael (the Arads) and the children of Isaac (the Jews) live in peace and harmony and enjoy the blessings of god together in the land of promise?
In 1947, before partition of Palestine, there were 1.3 million Palestinians and 0.63 million Jews in Palestine (mostly immigrants not locals). In 1947, Palestine was partitioned by the United Nations, the ill-equipped Arabs could not stand to the well trained, Zionist forces of terror, hardened in 2nd World War. By 1948, Zionist had captured 75% of Palestine. The Palestinians were expelled from their homes in distress. In 1947, Jews owned only 6% land in Palestine By the time the state was established, it had confiscated 90% of the land. Later (1967, 1973) Israelis extended their occupation to the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and even part of Lebanon.
Zionism is the heart of existence of Israel, based upon the religious grounds, the promise of land to Abraham and his descendants. The justification or fallacy of this religious or biblical claim can be found out form the present Israeli population demography and statistics. The State of Israel has a population of approximately 8.5 million. 74.8% percent of them are Jews (about 6.4 million), 20.8% are Arab (about 1.7 million), while the remaining 4.4% (about 0.38 million) are defined as “others”. There are three sub-groups: Non-Haredi (non religious) Jews around 63.3% of the population, Haredi (religious) Jews (11.7%), and Arabs (20.7%). The 63% Jews are secular, 20% atheist and only 11.7 Haredi Jews (Orthodox religious) who are against Zionism being in conflict with Torah. 31% Jews migrated from Europe(Israel Central Bureau of Statistics). They are mostly Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of 8, 9th century Khazaria Jewish empire of converted Jews with no racial link with Abraham or his descendants.
Christian scholar of theology, Thomas Williamson recommends:
1. Since the land promise to the Jews in Bible (Old Testament) was conditional upon their obedience, and they completely failed to obey God or keep the covenant with God, therefore there is no duty upon Christians to help modern-day Jews to take Palestine away from the Arabs, nor to prevent them from giving back to the Arabs land that they have already occupied.
2. The Christians should not support any action to dispossess any lawful owner of land in Palestine, whether Jew or Arab, who has paid for his land, they should respect all lawful property rights of the Palestinians and Jews, just as one would respect the rights of property owners anywhere else in the world.
3. Christian Zionism, as a result of its rejection of Bible truth with regard to the conditional nature of God’s covenant with Israel, has veered into serious theological error and has become an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity.
4. Christian Zionists preach and practice racial bigotry toward Palestinians and other peoples of Middle Eastern ancestry. They teach that it is right for Israeli settlers to steal from the Arabs and that it is the duty of Christians to help them steal.
5. They (Zionists) heap curses on any American Presidents (Donald Trump is the exception) and Israeli Prime Ministers who try to find a peaceful solution to the Israeli Palestinian dispute. They oppose all peace plans for Israel, because their bloodthirsty, fanciful “end of days” scenario requires that two-thirds of all the Jews in the world be slaughtered in a final Battle of Armageddon. For these reasons, Christian Zionism has always been rejected and repudiated by intelligent, right-thinking Christians and Jews.
Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism
What is anti-semitism? Although the word only goes back to the 1870s, anti-semitism is an old European fantasy about Jews. The composer Richard Wagner exemplified it when he said: “I hold the Jewish race to be the born enemy of pure humanity and everything noble in it.” An anti-Semite sees Jews this way: they are an alien presence, a parasite that preys on humanity and seeks to dominate the world. Across the globe, their hidden hand controls the banks, the markets and the media. Even governments are under their sway. And when revolutions occur or nations go to war, it is the Jews clever, ruthless and cohesive who invariably pull the strings and reap the rewards.
Zionism has been a controversial movement right for start, even among Jews. The German orthodox and reform rabbis were strongly opposed to the Zionist idea in the name of Judaism that Theodor Herzl. had to change the venue of the First Zionist Congress in 1897 from Munich to Basie in Switzerland. Twenty years later, when the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour (sponsor of the 1905 Aliens Act to restrict Jewish immigration to the UK), wanted the government to commit itself to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, his declaration was delayed not by anti-Semites but by leading figures in the British Jewish community. They included a Jewish member of the cabinet who called Balfour’s pro Zionism “anti-Semitic in result”. One need not be an anti-Semite to reject the belief that Jews constitute a separate nation in the modern sense of the word or that Israel is the Jewish nation state.
The Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is no fantasy, nor is the spread of Jewish settlements in these territories. Nor the unequal treatment of Jewish colonisers and Palestinian inhabitants. Nor the institutionalised discrimination against Israeli Arab citizens in various spheres of life. These are realities It is one thing to oppose Israel or Zionism on the basis of an anti-Semitic fantasy; quite another to do so on the basis of reality. The latte is not anti-semitism.
There is something else that cuts both ways: racism. Both anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim feeling appear to be growing. Each has its own peculiarities, but both are exacerbated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the invasion of Iraq, the “war again terror”, and other conflicts. We should unite in rejecting racism in a its forms: the Islamophobia the demonises Muslims, as well as the anti-Semitic discourse that can infect anti-Zionism and poison the extent of arguing over Israel’s future as a Jewish state Equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism can also, in its own way poison the political debate. [Excerpts from Brian Klug, senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford, and a founder member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights. The Guardian]
CONCLUSION
In this era of freedom and liberty, every member of humanity enjoys freedom of faith and freedom of religion, as long as the religious beliefs of one community do not threaten the freedom and peace of others. When this freedom is not respected, it results into conflict, war, human rights violation that compromise peace. This is exactly the reason of condemnation of Zionism or any other similar concept, be it terrorists like Al-Qaida, ISIS, Daesh, Boko Haram or Takfiri Taliban (TTP). Enforcing your beliefs upon others by force is terrorism in simple words. The Zionists justify forceful occupation of Palestine, eviction, oppression, apartheid, inhuman behaviour and violence to deny their basic human rights on the pretext of their highly controversial interpretations of biblical texts and prophecies, even rejected by majority Christians and religious Jews. Dr. Stephen Robert Sizer of Christ Church, England in his scholarly response to the Zionists has provided “Seven Biblical Answers to Popular Zionist Assumptions”.
Zionists disregard the Biblical verses which prove the Arabs as descendants of Abraham from his eldest son Ishmael. They also ignore the Biblical verse urging fair treatment of non-Israelites, the fellow human beings. The Israelis and their supporters, claim to be secular, that religion is private matter of individuals, but created Israel on religious basis and continue to support its inhuman policies. This is great hypocrisy.
If the Zionist analogy is accepted then how can we condemn the Al-Qaida, ISIS, Daesh, Bokoharam, Takfiri Taliban (TTP), Buddhists of Burma, RSS, the Indian Hindu extremists and, many others who also use their controversial interpretations of Islamic holy texts to justify their war and killing of innocent people? Hence use of religion as tool for political gains and violence must be rejected irrespective of religion, race or country. Since this terror tactics has been initiated by Zionists in last century, it is not wrong if Zionism is called the mother of terrorism, the other groups are in reaction to Zionism directly or indirectly.
Prophecies are about the events in future which will unfold as per God’s plan. He is all powerful to execute His Will and plans. He is not dependent upon humans to implement His plans. There no such commandment in the prophecies. Some people try to take over the work of God at their own, which could be against His Will. He is well aware and knowledgeable. The Interpretation of holy texts and prophecies is a human work liable to error, it must not be allowed to override the clear unambiguous commandments for peace, safety and security of other humans.
Psalm 34:14: “Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”
Matthew 5:9: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Luke 6:35: “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked”.
Psalm 122:6-8 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you…
Hebrews 12:14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 14:19 So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to shift US embassy to Jerusalem has been opposed at UN security council, vetoed by US, then General Assembly rejected it with overwhelming majority vote of 128, but US and Israel don’t care for world opinion and continue with their oppressive, racious Zionist policies and human rights violations.
Humanity has to decide, either we all adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), mutually evolved and agreed by all nations of world with diverse religions, races and cultures or let anyone impose its own religion, culture and values upon others through any means including power.
Should the world community allow colonization, oppression, eviction of Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingya’s and others from their lands or stop all this to achieve world peace?
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