Do I stay or Do I Go

There are many Christians who are asking the question do I stay in my Church when my pastor is so opposed to Israel and there is so much opposition to the words of the prophets. I don't advocate leaving a Church without finding a new fellowship but in most areas now you will find pro-Israel Churches or small groups who pray and support Israel. You will see from my previous blogs that I have written allot about being in fellowship and the need to be part of an active body of believers. However if your pastor or Clergyman doesn't believe in the Prophecies in Scripture regarding Israel  then you can't follow him. The following may help you decide what you should do and why.

Many within Christendom are trying to raise awareness of the troubling statistics which show that antisemitism is rearing its ugly head again in Europe in the same way that it did in the years preceding the Holocaust. There are however major differences. In Europe prior to the Holocaust it was the Political leaders who were creating laws which were removing the rights of the Jews. It was an antisemitism, which although was fuelled by Christian hatred of Jews, was not led by Christianity. Christianity became one of the tools Hitler used to enable the mass murder of innocent people. The Nazi party called for boycotts, for isolation Policies against Jews and for their human rights to be removed.

Today, although there are some exceptions, Politicians are not calling for boycotts, or for the rights of Jews to be removed, the Church is sharing this offensive with Islam. We have seen calls by Church leaders to boycott Israeli companies, or companies who do business with Israel to be boycotted. The Methodist Church has travelled that antisemitic road and now the Church of Scotland is following with statements denying Israel’s Biblical and Human rights. We must not forget that the Church of England divested funds from JCB because its machines were used by Israeli soldiers and some clergy within the C of E are still advocating boycotts. I suspect the Church in Wales will be next. Who are these so called Christian leaders and what are their beliefs? Are they Christian? Do they believe in the Word of God? Do they teach the prophecies of Daniel, Isaiah and others through to John in Revelation? Or are they following another spiritual religious path which endangers Judeo/Christianity and the human rights of the Jewish people.      

Theosophy is a Religious and Spiritual movement founded by Helena Blavatsky in the late 1800’s and on which she initiated the first meeting of the Parliament of World Religions. She taught the idea that all ways lead to God but that Judea/Christian values, as given to us through scripture, are now obsolete. She taught that we are now living a post Christian era and that the Bible is not the true written authority for all mankind. Theosophists today teach and claim a higher spiritual knowledge which transcends the divine regulations given to us through the word of God.  Blavatsky denied the teachings of the Bible given to us by the Jewish people and taught to us Gentiles by the early Jewish Apostles. Blavatsky wrote that “Judaism was a religion of hate and malice toward everything outside itself”.  She was also opposed to fundamental Christianity for the same reason.

I have been teaching recently that the so called “Emerging Church” of America led by men and women who have their spiritual roots in theosophy rather than in Judeo/Christianity are not in fact Christian at all but are preying on thousands of young Christians. When they call themselves Christian but are so far removed from the Biblical tenets of our faith we must ask, how they can be Christian? The leaders from this movement do not only threaten the very core of our beliefs but like their founders in theosophy are anti-Semitic in that they seek the destruction not only of Judaism the root of Christianity itself and despise the very idea that Israel has the right to defend her citizens, a right they would afford to other nations. My advice, when exposing such leaders is not to try to unravel their theology and argue its values, as we do if we see them as truly Christian, but to realise that they are trying to abrogate our Theology and beliefs because they are not Christians.

In the United Kingdom we have leaders within Christianity who are now reporting that the promises given to the Jewish people particularly but not solely concerning the land of Israel, are not everlasting or for the Jewish people of today.  What they are saying is that God has broken His covenant with Israel and does not intend to fulfil His promises to them. In other words the promises are obsolete. They are in making these false claims advocating that Christians should align themselves with Islam and support tyrannical governments in the Middle East in opposition to the writings of the Prophets including John the Apostle. Leaders within Christianity are today making statements which abrogate the very words and promises of God given through the Prophets.

They do so in the name of Social Justice for Palestinians but they also know that ordinary Palestinians have no Justice under the governance of Hamas or Fatah. Leaders within Christendom who defend accusations that the Muslim Brotherhood are not a danger to Copt Christians in Egypt or who say that Christians in Gaza are protected by Hamas clearly have motives which are rooted in the ideas, promulgated by theosophists. The idea that Judea/Christian Values are not current and that Israel and her supporters are a threat to world peace is a theosophist’s doctrine not Christian. This is the Christian anti-Zionist message and has to be seen in terms which separate it from true Christianity into a religion which is more aligned to Theosophy than Christianity. To teach that Christians should support groups like the Muslim Brotherhood who repeat that they will never accept a Jewish State in the Middle East is a clear sign that these leaders are ardent opponents of Scripture.

The “Palestinianisation” of Yeshua (Jesus) bound to the idea that the Palestinian people are being crucified by the Jews, is a twist on the antisemitism of the early Church who accused the Jews of Killing Christ and is being used by Church leaders and within Islamic. Islam has always been the strongest opponent of Christianity and with the threat of Islam becoming the prominent religion of Europe by the end of the twenty first century, according to Professor Bernard Lewis an eminent authority on Islam, why would leaders within Christendom stand alongside Islamists who call for the destruction of Israel.

As we expose the Christian antisemitism of the years prior to the Holocaust those anti-Semites within Church leadership try to expunge that memory by creating the view that the Palestinian is the new Jew and that the Jews are the new Nazi’s. These same leaders accuse Biblical Christian Zionists, when speaking about Holocaust; of using the Holocaust to defend the State of Israel. They clearly don’t want Christendom to learn the lessons of history.

We have to acknowledge that those who teach against the prophecies of God, those who oppose Israel in favour of another Arab state, those who deny the oppression of ordinary Palestinian people by Hamas and Fatah, in order to pursue their goal of denying Israel her human rights are not bible believing Christians. So who are they, are they Theosophists or are they simply anti-Semites.

Theosophy is in part antisemitic and is spreading throughout Christendom destroying our beliefs, our calling and our understanding of the promises of God and who God is. If you are sitting under such teachers don’t try and argue using the Bible as they don’t believe it. You must get out and join with a fellowship which is being led by a Bible believing pastor or you will be dragged along a path which God has not set for you and which will lead you to become an enemy of God and the people He calls the Apple of His eye. 

Michael Fryer