Mark Levin, who is one of my favorite conservative talk show hosts, has been promoting his firend pastor John Hagee quite a bit lately, which makes me uneasy because it puts me in a position of having to answer him and since he's Jewish and knows nothing of Christian theology it's hard to know where to stat. Of course he likes John Hagee, hagee is a strong defender of Israel, and has become a personal fri3end of the Levins. Well, I'm a pretty strong defend er of Israel too, but years ago I leared that John Hagee teaches some awfully heretical stuff for a Christian pastor. That Jesus didn't claim to be the Messiah, that the Jews weren't meant to expect Him as Messiah, and even that Jews don'thave to believe in Him to besaved. IA little trip through Romans nine, ten and eleven might correct such a misimpression, where Paul says clearly that he yearns for his brethren the Jews to be saved, meaning they scertainly arenly saved at that time, without Jesus. Jesus was certainly presented to the world as Messiah, as Savior and the Jews were to be the first to recieve the offer of salvation: To the Jews first, and then the Greeks.
Hagee has a new book out and I don't kbow if he continues with the same wrong teachings in this one as he did in his wforirst, but if he does continue along those same lines he's a heretic and gthere's no getting around it. God promised to send us a Savrio all the way aback in Eden. He built up the Jesusish people mainly for the purpose for being the people of the Messiah, the elssing to the world they were told through Abraham they were to bring to the world. The Messiah has come and the first believers were thousands of Jews. TWhen the Jewish leadership began persecuting the new believers they moved out to the Gentile world and offered the Mesisah to the Greeks, which is the blibicla word for nonJews of all kinds in those days.
My understanding has been that Christians and Messianis Jews who believe in Jesus are "spiritual Israel" while ethnic or earthly Israel the physical land of today's state of Israel, was given to the Jews and is their earthly inheritance. I understand that the last sdays of planet earth will revolve aaround that piece of land and Jesus will return there. In orther worlds I believe that we have to separate the spiritual from the fleshly and that God deals with the different Israels in different ways. I am Spiritual Israel or I'm prt of Spiritual Israel becausae I trust in Jesus as the Son of God for my salvation. I am not part of earthly Israel. that story is what is going to unforld during the Seventieth week of Daiel or as I've put it telgertherther the seventh seal, laid out in the Gook of Reveleation, and probably all about to start rolling.
For years various pastors have talked about God's Prophetic Clock being Israel. That can be true in the terms I've laid out without getting into the heresies of John Hageel That is all about the last days of Earth just mentioned. It remains true, that eternal life, the girft of God for our salvation from our sins, is made up of the bleivevers in Jes us as Messiah. Ethnic Jews are not saved, and like everybody else must embrace Jesus for eternal life.
If Hagee is making it clear that salvation depends upon believing in Jesus as the Messiah then fine, no more heresies.
Another thing Mark Levil said just in his most recent radio show is about criticizing Catholics if one criticizes the papacy or the Vatican, likening that to bashing Ionists and Jews as both antisemitism
Here agai Mark's Jewishness is part of the problem, although unfortunatley just about all nonChristians accept Catholicism as Christyianity and object to the kind of criticiism of it that I do here. A century ago there were still people who knew that Catholicism is not Chrsitainity but that knowledge has been lost over the last century. And yes you certainly can distinguish between Cathoiics who really know very little about their own history and caccept their "church" as they've grown up in it, but the Protestant Reformation exposed the papacy and all the machinery of the Roman Church as false., the Popwe A nxicxhrist.
I have to stop, may come back to finish this
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