Thursday, December 24, 2015

A Message to the Church

       By Scriptural definition the church is a body of sincere believers in Jesus Christ who have embraced his teachings and those of his messengers as they are set forth in the inspired texts of the Bible. So the message contained in this writing is the same as at other times including my three published books.  We are admonished in the book of Hebrews ‘to exhort one another daily while it is called today; lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin’.(Hebrews 3:13 KJV) A cursory examination of that body of people we would expect to reflect in testimony the teachings of the Scriptures will certainly bring one to the conclusion that the message of the new testament has gone awry. The clear admonition is ‘That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.(Ephesians 4:12 KJV)   Is it not clear to all that this is precisely what we have today in the broad spectrum of people and denominations who would claim to be Christian?  The conclusion to be arrived at from the sectarian condition of those who would profess to be Christian can only be that there has been a decisive departure form the teachings of Scripture leading to apostasy.  The further result is that there is in America today almost no vital testimony as  being embodied in Jesus Christ as ‘the way, the truth and the life’  leaving the world without access to a gospel of hope in these perilous times. Realizing that there is no way to encompass the vast array of departures from the truths of Scripture here in this text I would hope to provide at least two or three examples for your thoughtful consideration.
            The evangelicals would profess to be the bedrock of fundamental biblical truth holding to the divinity of Christ and the inspiration of the Bible. There is however among them both unity as well as diversity leading their adherents along a pathway of both doctrinal and prophetic deception even in the context of asserting the truths of the divinity of Christ and the ‘infallibility’ of the Scriptural records. They are largely influenced by a system of theology which came to be very widely accepted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was elevated into great popularity with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 followed by several revisions during the century. Its author was Cyrus I. Scofield with his extensive notes, and its subsequent enthusiastic publisher was the Zionist owned Oxford University Press. The Zionist movement had a profound interest in the Zionist friendly notes in the Scofield Reference Bible for they promoted an avenue of acceptance in the Christian community advancing significantly their agenda of Zionism. Its tenets of dispensational theology became a ‘Trojan horse’ entering the gates of fundamental biblical truth and destroying a vast amount of previously held truth.  Let me explain more fully what I mean.
            Prior to the widespread influence of dispensational theology Christians did not hold to a concept that there were to be two kingdoms of God—one being situated in geographical earthly Israel for the Jewish progeny, and one completely separate in heaven for those identified as the church. Dispensational theology is emphatic that this is what the Scriptures reach us. The truth is that there is only one kingdom of God and it is entirely occupied by all of those who have been steadfast and faithful in their embrace of Jesus Christ as not only Savior but Lord.
The Bible clearly teaches us that in the day of the Lamb’s wrath (Day of the Lord) to ensue after the resurrection that this present earth is to be entirely destroyed and replaced with a ‘new heavens and a mew earth’. Thus there can  be no earthly kingdom for anyone. (Please see II Peter 3:7-11, Heb.1:8-11, Rev.21:1-5).
            This concept for an earthly kingdom for the Jewish people or earthly Israel stems from the belief system of dispensational theology that the Jews are God’s ‘chosen people’ and as such must receive an inheritance on the earth pursuant to the Old Testament covenants.  The New Testament epistles are so abundantly clear that this  distinction under the Old Testament has been done away with in Christ and ‘there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free _ _ _ _ but you are all one in Christ Jesus’ (Galatians 3:28-29,See also Galatians 3:16-18, Romans 2:28-29, Romans 9:6-8 and Gal. 6:16).
          Many such like arguments could be advanced exposing the false doctrines of men as we have alluded to above in chapter three of Ephesians. These manmade distortions of the Scriptures and resulting erroneous doctrinal conclusions take the church into a realm of deception and compromise. Its adherents cannot clearly proclaim the truth because they do not know the truth.
            If anything in this brief blog resonates with you as being accurate I would encourage you to be a further seeker of truth.  I would recommend that you obtain and read one or more of my titles:  The Israel Deception, Christian Zionism and the Scofield Reference Bible, and These Prophets and the Revelation.  Visit mywebsite:authordavidlancedean.com  or blogspot:  theseprophets.blogspot.com for further information on where to obtain the books, and numerous  blogs as well as  access  to  ones containing excerpts from these  three published titles.


David Lance Dean

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