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
