Edward Hendrie Responds to the Defamatory Epithets of Steve Van Nattan and Timothy Kwoh
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Exodus 20:16; see also Mark 10:19.
Steve Van Nattan and Timothy Kwoh have born false witness against this author, Edward Hendrie. I am happy to respond to their libel, because it gives me an opportunity to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ and warn Christians about the antichrist Zionist philosophy which has leavened its way into many churches.
Van Nattan and Kwoh’s calumny is actually an attack on the gospel of Jesus Christ. This response, therefore, is more a defense of the gospel than it is a defense of Edward Hendrie, and as such, it is much longer than is needed to simply prove the falsity of their lies. I will, in addition, explain how their false accusations originate from deceptive racist doctrines that have undermined the foundational truths of the gospel. I will further explain how the popular doctrines to which Van Nattan and Kwoh ascribe have blinded Americans to the treasonous Zionist conspiracy against the United States of America.
As a faithful Christian witness, I am duty bound to defend the gospel and give warning of the pharisaical doctrines now being promoted by wolves in sheep’s clothing. As a patriotic American, I am moved by my love for my country to warn my fellow citizens about the barbarians who are inside the gates and secretly working to destroy this country and enslave its citizens under the tyranny of a Zionist world government.
If you are a disciple of God’s perfect and holy Son Jesus Christ, then Satan and his antichrist hate you. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8 AV) God, however, has a means by which one can avoid becoming the prey of Satan: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7 AV) In order to resist the devil one must first know his plans and methods. This response to Van Nattan and Kwoh will inform you of the plans and methods of the devil and his minions in their antichrist conspiracy against the LORD and his anointed. See Psalms 2:1-4.
Van Nattan Admits His “Claims Cannot Be Proven”
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Evidence that Israel Perpetrated the 9-11 Attacks
Pretribulation Rapture Deception
C.I. Scofield - Accomplice in a Zionist Antichrist Conspiracy
The Wailing Wall and Fort Antonia
Confusing the Wrath of God With the Tribulation of the Saints
Van Nattan Rejects God’s Predestination and Election of the Saints
Beware the Leaven of Van Nattan, Which is Hypocrisy
On Steve Van Nattan’s website at http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/prophecy/hendrie.htm, Van Nattan stated that I am a “racist” and “vicious Jew hater.” He provided a link to my book and stated: “Browse this book, beginning at the Table of Contents, and you will read some of the most powerful hate for Jews that you have ever seen.”
(NOTE: On or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted the previous allegations from his web site. His deletion of the above allegations, is not intended by him to be a retraction of those statements. Apparently, he has suffered embarrassment when I proved his allegations to be false and exposed him as a liar. He is now attempting to cover his tracks by deleting his lies from his website. Being a liar, he could not just delete the lies, he feels he has to cover the deletion with yet more lies. He falsely states that the reason for the deletion is that the proofs for his allegations have disappeared from the web. He now states on his website: "the sites I linked to, where I proved his teachings, have mostly been dropped from the Web. There is nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be proven now that the proofs are gone." This latest deception of his is easy enough to expose. He has made his false allegations against me in response to what I have written in my book. If what he has alleged about me were true, my book should be all the proof he would need. In fact, he once (but no longer) invited his readers to: "Browse this book, beginning at the Table of Contents, and you will read some of the most powerful hate for Jews that you have ever seen." Although Van Nattan once invited the readers to browse the book, he never quoted a single passage from my book or from any other source to prove his libelous allegations against me. One might wonder: why not? That is because his allegations are false and there is no support in my book or in any other source for them. Obviously, his hope was that his web visitors would not actually read my book, but instead just believe his conclusions. Now he is taking the deception a step further by attempting to get his readers to believe that proof once existed, but is now lost. When in fact, the alleged proofs have never existed. Since the day my book was first posted on the web, it has never been deleted from the web, and it remains to this day available at the exact same web address. It is available for all to read at www.antichristconspiracy.com. A lie by definition cannot be proven. There are only two possibilities with a lie, it can either be covered up by more lies, which is what Van Nattan has attempted to do, or it can be refuted and proven false, which is what my response below does.)
Van Nattan further states on his website that I have “damned the Jews to God’s rubbish heap.” Timothy Kwoh is quoted on Van Nattan’s website as calling me a “classic Jew-hater.” Neither Van Nattan nor Kwoh, however, quote a single statement made by me to support their traducements against me, despite the fact that my book, Antichrist Conspiracy, (www.antichristconspiracy.com) is over 300 pages long with almost 800 endnotes and would seem to provide them with abundant material from which to support their smear job. They have not provided specific quotes to support their calumny because, after reading my book, they could not find any. Just as the Jews made unprovable claims against Paul, so also have Kwoh and Van Nattan have falsely accused me. “And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.” (Acts 25:7 AV) As I will document below, Van Nattan and Kwoh have intentionally and maliciously lied. I wrote an email to Steve Van Nattan objecting to his libelous epithets, but he did not respond.
In Van Nattan’s defamatory hatchet job he stated: “Here is a site which is hosting Hendrie’s book of hate for the Jews. The site owner must now be considered apostate and a devil.” If the site owner who hosts my book is considered by Van Nattan to be an apostate and a devil, then he certainly believes me, the author of the book, to be an apostate and a devil. Jesus predicted that those who are his disciples would be falsely accused of being in league with the devil. “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?” (Matthew 10:24-25 AV)
Like Jannes and Jambres before them, Van Nattan and Kwoh have arisen to resist the truth. God prophesied that would happen.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. (2 Timothy 3:1-9 AV)
Just as two false witnesses were found to accuse Jesus (Matthew 26:59-61), and false witnesses were set up to accuse Stephen (Acts 6:9-14) so also Van Nattan and Kwoh have arisen to accuse me. I rejoice to be the object of the libel of false witnesses like Van Nattan and Kwoh for the cause of Christ, because God will turn their curses into blessings. “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matthew 5:11-12 AV)
God states: “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” (Matthew 5:39, 44 AV) I must, therefore, obey God and forgive Van Nattan and Kwoh and pray for them.
When Jesus was falsely accused, he denied the allegations and explained the falsity of the allegations. “Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.” (John 8:48-49 AV) With Jesus as my model, I will prove the falsity of the allegations made against me by Van Nattan and Kwoh. Virtually every assertion made in my response will be supported by authority so that the reader will be able to check the sources and verify that I am telling the truth.
In addition, as did Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60), I will use my defense to the false charges as an opportunity to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I will cite to and quote from the holy scripture so that the reader can read for himself whether I am correct. Christians must be like the noble Bereans and always check the scriptures. See Acts 17:11. I will also expose the false religious doctrines promoted by Van Nattan and Kwoh, just as Jesus did with the Jews of his day:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. (John 8:44-47 AV)
Van Nattan’s misrepresentations are not due to negligence or even recklessness; they are intentional and malicious. How do I know? Van Nattan claims to have 35 years of research experience, to be a former headmaster to a training school for pastors, and a former pastor to four churches. He has authored extensive religious research contained his website. Van Nattan is not an ignorant or careless man who would make the above traducements without reading my book. In addition, on September 18, 2003, I sent an email to Van Nattan and cited for him passages in my book that proved the falsity of his defamatory epithets. I did not write to Kwoh, since I do not know his email address, nor do I have any other way of contacting him. Van Nattan did not respond to my correspondence, and he has kept the libelous page posted on his website. I therefore conclude that the defamatory obloquies made by him against me along with those he quotes from Timothy Kwoh are being made maliciously and with intentional disregard for the truth.
Van Nattan claims that I am a “Jew hater.” That is not true, and Van Nattan knows that is not true since in my email to him I specifically pointed him to chapter 63 of my book where I state Christians are commanded by God to love the Jews:
The Jews are our enemies, because they are antichrist. Romans 11:28. Jews hate Christ and Christians. We, however, are to love them and pray for them. “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.” (Luke 6:27-28 AV) God has chosen a remnant of Jews for salvation. We should preach the gospel to the lost world, including the Jews. We, however, should not think that a Jew any different in God’s plan than a Catholic, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Satanist or any other follower of one of Satan’s pagan religions. (emphasis added)
Salvation for all, is by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. If a Jew repents of his antichrist religion and believes in Jesus, then he is saved. Once saved, a Jew will not continue in his Talmudic practices any more than a Catholic will continue his Catholic practices or a Satanist will continue his Satanic practices once they are saved. All believers in Christ become spiritual Jews, which are Christians.
Loving our enemies does not mean that we should condone the pagan practices of the Jews, Catholics, Muslims, or other pagans. Rather, we are called by God to reprove them. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” (Ephesians 5:11 AV)”
Van Nattan is maliciously lying when he states that I am a Jew hating racist. When I wrote to Van Nattan, I pointed out to him that in chapter 61 of my book I explained that the Zionist world conspiracy is not a racial conspiracy, but is rather a religious conspiracy that flows from the Jewish Talmud, and involves both Jews and Gentiles. In my book, I state: “This is not a racial issue, it is a spiritual issue. . . . Whether a Zionist is a Jew or a Gentile is of little relevance.” In my book I identified the evil as Zionism and not Jews as a race. Read below what I wrote in the book in context:
[John] Kerry’s voting record reveals him to be a Zionist; he is also a
member of Skull and Bones, the previously discussed satanic secret
society which includes among its members President George W.
Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush. Kerry’s
satanic Zionism explains more about his treasonous conduct
than does his Jewish heritage. It is not his Jewishness that is
evil, it is the Zionism that flows from the Jewish Talmud, which
he has embraced, that is evil. This is not a racial issue, it is a
spiritual issue. George W. Bush, as far as anyone knows, is a
gentile, but he also is an evil Zionist. Whether a Zionist is a Jew
or a Gentile is of little relevance. The key to understanding the
treason of Zionists is realizing that their allegiance is to Israel
first. One example of the priorities of Zionists is the statement made
by Zionist and former U.S. President Bill Clinton: "If Iraq came
across the Jordan River, I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and
fight and die."
When, however, it came time for Clinton to keep his military commitment to the United States, he wrote Arkansas ROTC Commander Col. Eugene Holmes, and explained that he couldn't serve because he "loathed the military." He did all he could to avoid fighting for “his” country but he would be willing to fight and die in the trenches for Israel. His presidency was marked by one act of treason against the United States after another. Israel, on the other hand, benefitted handsomely from the Clinton presidency. (emphasis added)
Van Nattan calls me a racist. Van Nattan’s invectives against me are intentional and malicious distortions. In my email to him I quoted for him what I wrote in chapter 55 of my book, where I explain Jews are not a race at all, but are rather members of a Babylonian Talmudic religion. How could I be a racist when I do not believe that Jews are a race? I believe that Jews are members of a religion, not unlike the Catholic religion. The book addresses the evils of Zionism, not the evils of any group by virtue of their race. It is out of love and not out of racial animus that I expose to the world the evils of Talmudic Judaism. I explain the religious origins of the Talmudic Jews in my book as follows:
Most Jews living in Israel and throughout the world today are eastern
European converts to a religion that they call Judaism, but in fact is
Babylonian Talmudism. The Europeans who later converted to this
Babylonian form of Judaism are known as Ashkenazi or Khazar
Jews. Dr. Benjamin H. Freedman, a former Jew who by the grace of
God converted to Christianity, states that the Khazars were a pagan
nation whose religious worship was a mixture of phallic worship and
other forms of idolatry. In the 7th century their King Bulkan chose
Talmudism, which most now call Judaism, as the state religion.
Today Khazar Jews are called “Yiddish.” In Revelation, God refers to these Talmudic Ashkenazi Jews as Jews who say they are Jews but are not, but rather are the “synagogue of Satan.
“I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” (Revelation 2:9 AV)
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” (Revelation 3:9 AV)
These Ashkenazi Jews are people without any allegiance to any nation. Their primary objective is to own the entire world. To get and idea of the nefarious objective of these Talmudists, let us read an 1879 letter from Baruch Levy to Karl Marx:
“The Jewish people as a whole will be its own messiah. It will attain
world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of
frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a
world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the
privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the children of Israel
will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The
governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will
fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be
possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and
everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the
promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which it is said that when the
messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the
whole world in their hands.”
I find it odd that Van Nattan would falsely call me a “Jew-hater” and yet not also falsely accuse me of being a “Catholic hater,” when most of my book examines the evil doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Van Nattan seems to understand that exposing the evil doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, which he himself does on his website, is an act of love. Indeed, in the introduction to my book, Antichrist Conspiracy, I expressly state that I was motivated to write the book by love for Catholics:
“This book is a work of love on behalf of Roman Catholics. Millions are being deceived by the Roman Catholic Church on matters of eternal salvation. Some would prefer that I remain silent about Vatican religious malfeasance. I will simply respond as did Paul: “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16. . . . This book is written to open the eyes of those who have been chosen for salvation but have been temporarily seduced by the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Religion, and to reveal to the Christian world the ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing who is prowling in their midst.”
The purpose of the book was to expose the antichrist conspiracy behind false religious doctrines and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Van Nattan and Kwoh, however, desire to give immunity to Talmudic Judaism. They use the epithet of racism as a bludgeon to dissuade others from learning the truth and to retaliate against me for revealing the evils of Talmudic Judaism.
(NOTE: On or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted the previous allegations from his web site. His deletion of the above allegations, is not intended by him to be a retraction of those statements. Apparently, he has suffered embarrassment when I proved his allegations to be false and exposed him as a liar. He is now attempting to cover his tracks by deleting his lies from his website. Being a liar, he could not just delete the lies, he feels he has to cover the deletion with yet more lies. He falsely states that the reason for the deletion is that the proof for his allegations has disappeared from the web. He deceptively suggests that previously there was proof for his allegations, which has suddenly disappeared. His deception is easy enough to expose. He has made his false allegations against me in response to what I have written in my book. If what he has alleged about me were true, my book should be all the proof he would need. He now claims that his proof has been deleted from the web. However, since the day my book was first posted on the web it has never been deleted from the web, and it remains to this day available at the exact same web address. He has never quoted a single passage from my book or from any other source to prove his claim. The reason he has not quoted from my book or anything else for that matter is that he could not find anything to prove his allegations. He is attempting to deceive his readers into believing that proof once existed but is now lost. When in fact, the alleged proofs have never existed. A lie by definition cannot be proven. There are only two possibilities with a lie, it can either be covered up by more lies, which is what Van Nattan has attempted to do, or it can be refuted and proven false, which is what my response here does.)
Van Nattan Admits His “Claims Cannot Be Proven”
As explained above, on or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted from his website some of his statements. Apparently, he has had difficulty explaining to his followers how he, who holds himself out as a minister of the gospel, could engage in such open and obvious dissimulation. While Van Nattan has deleted some of the lies from his web site, the substance of his libel is still posted in the remaining sections on his web site, and nowhere does he retract any of his previous statements. He may be hoping that by deleting some of the most obvious falsehoods he can deceive those who read my response and then do not find Van Nattan’s correlative statements on his web page.
The revealing thing about Van Nattan’s recent retreat is that he continues in his pattern of prevarication even when explaining the reason for deleting some of his falsehoods. He now states on his website:
“Hendrie has attacked me on his site, which is fair enough. It is
a free country. But, the sites I linked to, where I proved his
teachings, have mostly been dropped from the Web. There is
nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be
proven now that the proofs are gone. I guess some things are so
over the edge that we must expect the sane seeker to figure
them out for himself. Simply examine Edward Hendrie with the
Word of God and God's promises to Israel.”
His statement that “the sites I linked to, where I proved his teachings, have mostly been
dropped from the Web”
is patently false. He has never cited any information, web sites or
otherwise, at any time anywhere on his web site to prove his allegations against me. He states that
“There is nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be proven now that the
proofs are gone.”
Van Nattan admits that his “claims cannot be proven.” He, however, attempts
to mislead the reader by implying that there were once proofs posted on his web page. The truth is
that he has never posted any proofs on his web site, ever! He cannot prove his claims because there
is no proof, and there never has been. There is no proof, because his allegations are false, not (as he
alleges) because the proofs have disappeared. Van Nattan’s dishonesty knows no limits. My book
remains posted on the internet, and I have openly challenged him to cite any part of my book that
supports his claims. It would seem that if his claims were true it would be a simple matter for him to
quote from my book to prove his case, yet he has not done so. My book is over 300 pages long with
almost 800 endnotes and would seem to provide him with abundant material from which to support
his claims, if they were true. The obvious reason he has not quoted from my book is that he could
not find anything in my book, or apparently anywhere on the web, that supports his baseless libel.
While Steve Van Nattan falsely accuses me of being a racist, he himself is demonstrably a
racist. On his web page at http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/believe.htm he states: “I
believe that God does not want the races confounded, but if a man and woman do marry
outside of this ideal, it is no longer any of my business-- ‘One flesh’ is higher law than racial
bounds of habitation.”
What an astounding statement! There on his website for all the world to
see is Steve Van Nattan’s racist philosophy in his own words! Yet, this racist hypocrite has the
nerve to falsely accuse me of being a racist! God prophesied that lying hypocrites such as Steve Van
Nattan would arise. “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron.” (1 Timothy 4:1-2 AV) What does it mean to speak lies
in hypocrisy? It is to falsely accuse another of the very sin of which the accuser is guilty. Steve Van
Nattan is an example of one who speaks lies in hypocrisy!
(In case
Van Nattan, in accordance with his established pattern, tries to delete that
belief page from his website, I have downloaded and saved it.)
On Van Nattan’s resume page, where he advertises himself and states his supposed
qualifications to be a pastor, he proudly proclaims his racist character: “I will not do interracial
marriages because they break "the bounds of habitation" set by God- Acts 17:26.”
(Note:
On January 9, 2006, I happened to notice that Van Nattan removed from his
website his resume page
that contained proof that he is a racist. I, however, had previously
downloaded and saved his resume
page. I saved that page, because
by that point he had established a pattern of covering his tracks by deleting
incriminating statements from his website. I correctly anticipated
that he would try to conceal his racist character by deleting that page.
You can now read for yourself the proof, in Van Nattan's own words, that Van
Nattan is a racist.)
It is preposterous for Van Nattan to suggest that Acts 17:26 supports his racist view. That passage reads: “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation” Acts 17:26. That passage expressly states that all nations are made of “one blood” and that God has provided for them to dwell on “all the face of the earth.” It is the height of depravity for Van Nattan to twist God’s word to say that because God sets the boundaries for the habitation of nations that he somehow prohibits interracial marriage. It takes a reprobate mind like Van Nattan’s to use a passage that states that all men are of one blood to support a claim that men should maintain a separate racial identity. Race is not even a biblical concept. God, in the bible, does not once catagorize different people according to race. He distinguishes different people by their tongues, families, nations, and countries. See Genesis 10:5, 20, 31; Revelation 10:11; 17:15.
In order to fully understand the completeness of Van Nattan’s nescience, we must examine
what is meant by the term race. Race is simply defined as a group of persons who have a common
lineage.
Prior to the 1800's, races of people were generally categorized according to their
nationality (the German race, the English race, etc.).
With the popularity of Charles Darwin’s
theory of evolution, which was first published in 1859, it eventually became the widespread practice
to define race according to physical appearance. Darwin was a racist who believed that Blacks were
closer to apes in the evolutionary process. In fact, the liberal humanists don’t want the general
public to know that the full title of Darwin’s seminal 1859 book on evolution was: “THE ORIGIN
OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR THE PRESERVATION OF
FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.” Darwin elaborated on his racist views as
follows: “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of
man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the
same time the anthromorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his
nearest allies will the be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may
hope, even that the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon instead of as now between the
Negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Darwin’s racist theory of evolution is refuted by real science. Many scientists hold that
because the physical variations that are used to catagorize people into different races (skin color, eye
shape, etc.) are trivial (only .012 percent of human biological variation) and that genetically all
humans are fundamentally the same, racial distinctions based upon physical appearance are not
founded on biological reality but are in fact a social construct.
Professor of Epidemiology Raj
Bhopal, who is the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of
Newcastle, stated in the British Medical Journal: "Humans are one species: races are not
biologically distinct, there's little variation in genetic composition between geographically separate
groups, and the physical characteristics distinguishing races result from a small number of genes that
do not relate closely to either behaviors or disease.”
In addition, a panel of “scientists, including geneticists and anthropologists meeting at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science convention, said that the whole notion of
race, based on skin color and hair type, is a social construction that has nothing to do with the
genetic makeup of humans. . . . So while society busily tries to classify and reclassify races, the
researchers say, it should remember that race is an artificial way to organize and categorize and has
nothing to do with humans’ fundamental makeup.”
Those scientists maintain that it is a misnomer, therefore, to label people with different physical characteristics as being of different races. Because racial distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, there is no standardization of racial categories; in fact, the labels for the various races have changed with some frequency. There has been a recent trend in the United States to categorize races of people according to their perceived national or regional origin, such as African-American, Mexican-American, etc.
In Saint Francis College et al. v. Al-Khazraji, Aka Allan,
a United States citizen born in
Iraq was denied tenure at a private college in Pennsylvania. The professor made a claim under a
federal statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, alleging that he was discriminated against because of his ancestry.
The college argued that § 1981 only prohibits racial prejudice and because the professor was
considered a Caucasian under modern "scientific" theory that he could not be subjected to racial
discrimination from another Caucasian. The U.S. Supreme Court examined dictionaries and
encyclopedias from the 1800's and discovered that the theory of racial classifications has undergone
a significant change since then. It was not until the early 20th Century that dictionaries started
defining race according to physical appearance and listing the racial categories: Mongoloid,
Caucasoid, and Negroid. The Court recognized the lack of scientific authority for the modern racial
classifications and found those classifications to be inadequate to address the issue of racial
prejudice that 42 U.S.C. § 1981 was drafted to prohibit. The Court ruled that § 1981 prohibited
discrimination based on ancestry or ethnic characteristics, regardless of whether the person has the
physical appearance that places him into one of the modern racial categories.
The U.S. Supreme Court in the Saint Francis College case stated:
There is a common understanding that there are three major human
races - Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Many modern biologists
and anthropologists, however, criticize racial classifications as
arbitrary and of little use in understanding the variability of human
beings. It is said that genetically homogeneous populations do not
exist and traits are not discontinuous between populations; therefore,
a population can only be described in terms of relative frequencies of
various traits. Clear-cut categories do not exist. The particular traits
which have generally been chosen to characterize races have been
criticized as having little biological significance. It has been found
that differences between individuals of the same race are often greater
than the differences between the “average" individuals of different
races. These observations and others have led some, but not all,
scientist to conclude that racial classifications are for the most part
sociopolitical, rather than biological, in nature. S. Molnar, Human
Variation, (2d ed. 1983); S. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981);
M Banton & J. Harwood, The Race Concept (1975); A. Montagu,
Man’s Most Dangerous Myth (1974); A. Montagu, Statement on
Race (3d ed. 1972); Science and the Concept of Race (M. Mead, T.
Dobzhansky, E. Tobach, & R. Light eds. 1968; A. Montagu, The
Concept of Race (1964); R. Benedict, Race and Racism (1942);
Littlefield, Lieberman, & Reynods, Redefining Race: The Potential
Demise of a Concept in Physical Anthropology, 23 Current
Anthropology 641 (1982); Biological Aspects of Race, 17 Int’l Soc.
Sci. J. 71 (1965); Washburn, The Study of Race, 65 American
Anthropologist 521 (1963).
So, God states that he “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26); objective scientists and the U.S. Supreme Court agree with God (which is all too rare nowadays) and have concluded that man is of one blood and the racial distinctions based on physical appearance are a social construct. God does not once even use the term race in the bible to distinguish between people. God describes different people according to their families, tongues, nations, or countries. See Genesis 10:5, 20, 31; Revelation 10:11; 17:15. Steve Van Nattan, however, believes that people who are of different “races” (that is, people who have different color skin) should not marry.
Van Nattan’s objection to interracial marriage is pure and simple racism and is contrary to the commands of God. "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement." John 7:24. See also 1 Samuel 16:7 “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
Christians should understand that our war is not a carnal war where distinctions are made between races of people as defined by the pagan world system. Christians are in a spiritual war against unseen “spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-7 AV)
Van Nattan has a natural pagan view of people and judges men after their outward appearance. A Christian, on the other hand, is imbued with the Holy Spirit and does not judge a person based upon his skin color or outward physical appearance. A Christian instead has “the mind of Christ.” Van Nattan does not understand these spiritual truths.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:14-16 AV)
The racist carnal mind of Steve Van Nattan is enmity against God.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” (Romans 8:5-9 AV)
Van Nattan’s racism causes him to misinterpret God’s word to mean that Christ will
establish a future Jewish world dominion: “I believe that the "dry bones" (Jews) of Israel and
Judah are scattered all over the world today, and shortly Messiah Jesus Christ will gather
those Jews again to initiate His literal 1000 year reign in the Middle East. Those wimps who
will not take these promises literally are treacherous scoundrels, right to the pinnacle of
their PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) pilum lapidus in Calvin Seminary.”
Van Nattan makes the above statement despite the fact that the bible states clearly: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:27-28 AV) Christians “have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” Colossians 3:10-11.
The Gospel is clear. In God’s kingdom there is no distinction between Jew or Gentile, black
or white skin, or any other difference based upon one’s physical traits or lineage. All who are saved
are chosen by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Van Nattan, however, calls this gospel
truth “mongrel teaching” and calls me a heretic for preaching that gospel truth. Van Nattan states:
“I do appreciate it when an heretic responds so abundantly, for in it the man reveals many
new and interesting aspects of his mongrel teaching.”
(NOTE: on or before April 17, 2004,
Van Nattan deleted the previous statement from his web site. He, however, has not expressly
retracted or disavowed the statement. He apparently realized that the statement, which he
intended as an epithet against me, revealed too much about his true character, or lack thereof.
Van Nattan is a modern day Haman. See Esther 7:9-8:7. His attempt to assassinate my
character has blown back upon him.) “Mongrel” when applied to men is a term used by racists to
describe a person who is the result of interbreeding between two people who are perceived to be of
different supposed races. There is no place for such racism in God’s church.
Referring to Isaiah 59:20-21 Van Nattan states on his website: “The point here is that the
Jews of today, who are descended from Jacob, are "seed" children (vs. 21), not a mixed
multitude, like the crowd of wana be Kenites who followed the Jews out of Egypt. God never
stopped referring to them as the "mixed multitude." The covenant here is to blood line Jews,
"seed" Jews.”
That interpretation of Isaiah is simply wrong. Jacob was the son of Isaac, who
was the son of Abraham. God made his promise of blessings first to Abraham. God’s promised
blessings, however, were not intended to flow through the blood line of Abraham; God’s promised
blessings were to flow to those who have the faith of Abraham. The “seed” of Abraham who inherit
the blessings from God are those that have the faith of Abraham, not those that have the flesh of
Abraham. “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as
of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. . . . For ye are all the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus. . . . And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs
according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:16, 26, 29 AV) “Not as though the word of God hath
taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed
of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are
the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise
are counted for the seed.” (Romans 9:6-8 AV) “For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on
him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:11-13 AV) Christ has broken down forever any distinction
between Jew and Gentile in his kingdom.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:5-22 AV)
Steve Van Nattan’s conscience is seared; he has rejected God’s word and instead believes the perverted racist notion that the Jews are entitled to special treatment in Christ’s plan of salvation. Van Nattan’s belief is founded not on the bible, but on racism. One of the themes of the New Testament of Christ is that there is no longer a distinction between Jew and Gentile. There are many different sects within Judaism, but one thing all Jews agree upon today is that Jesus is not Christ. Jews do not simply reject Christ, however, they are against Christ, they are antichrist. Van Nattan gives aid and comfort to the enemies of Christ.
Why do I state that the Jews are antichrist? Because the Talmud, which contains the doctrinal foundation of Judaism, is the most blasphemous attack on God and God’s word ever written. The Talmud is a written codification of the evil traditions which Jesus himself condemned.
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:1-9 AV) (emphasis added)
During the time of Christ, the Talmud existed only in oral form, which Jesus referred to as
the traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. This early oral tradition is called the Mishnah. It was
only after Christ’s crucifixion that the Mishnah was reduced to writing. The rabbis later added
rabbinical commentaries to the Mishnah, which are called the Gemara.
Together these comprise
the Talmud, which is now a collection of books. There are today two basic Talmudic texts, the
Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud is regarded as the
authoritative version and takes precedence over the Jerusalem Talmud.
The Babylonian Talmud
is based on the mystical religious practices of the Babylonians which were assimilated by the Jewish
Rabbis during their Babylonian captivity around 600 B.C. The Rabbis then used these occult
traditions in place of the word of God.
Among the Orthodox and Hasidic Jews the Talmud has authority over even the Old
Testament.
There is a sect of Jews, the Karaites, that adhere to the authority of the Old Testament
alone. The Karaites, historically, have been hated and severely persecuted by Orthodox and Hasidic
Jewish rabbinate. Ethiopian Jews do not adhere to the Talmud either and consequently they are not
accepted by the Talmudic Jews. Former Jew Benjamin Freedman, in his book Facts are Facts,
authoritatively traced the lineage of modern day Jews back to the Pharisees of Christ’s time:
The eminent Rabi Louis Finkelstein, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, often referred to as "The Vatican of Judaism", in his Foreword to his First Edition of his world famous classic "The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", on page XXI states:
"... Judaism . . . Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism
became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became
Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name ...
the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered ... From
Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain,
France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern
Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered "demonstrates
the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious
movement ..."
During the time of Christ the Scribes and Pharisees were constantly heckling and challenging Jesus, and it was they who plotted his crucifixion. Read what Jesus had to say to those Jews.
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. (John 8:39-47 AV)
In Matthew 23 Jesus has even stronger language to describe the Scribes and Pharisees. Jesus called them serpents, vipers, blind guides, whited sepulchers, and hypocrites who will be damned to hell.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Matthew 23:23-33 AV)
Why would Jesus say such things about the Pharisees and scribes? To answer that we
should examine some of the Talmudic traditions that have developed over the years. Talmudic
Judaism has the most intense hatred for Jesus.
Benjamin Freedman, a former Talmudic Jew, stated
that: “there have never been recorded more vicious an vile libelous blasphemies of Jesus, of
Christians and the Christian faith than you will find between the covers of the 63 books of the
Talmud which forms the basis of Jewish religious law, as well as being the textbook used in the
training of rabbis.”
Don’t take Freedman’s word for it; read for yourself what the Talmud says
about Jesus:
Sanhedrin 106a & b: Mary was a whore; Jesus was an evil man.
Shabbath 104b: Jesus was a magician and a fool. Mary was an adulteress.
Sanhedrin 43a: Jesus was guilty of sorcery and apostasy; he deserved execution. The disciples of Jesus deserve to be killed.
Gittin 56b: Jesus was sent to hell, where he is punished by boiling excrement for mocking the Rabbis.
The Talmud has similar sentiments for Christians.
For Example:
Abodah Zarah 16b, 17a: Jews should stay away from Christians. Christians are allied with Hell, and Christianity is worse than incest.
Abodah Zarah 17a: Visiting the house of a Christian is the same as visiting the house of a prostitute.
Abodah Zarah 27b: It is forbidden to be healed by a Christian.
Sanhedrin 90a, 100b: Those who read the gospels are doomed to Hell.
Read what the Talmud says about the gospel:
Shabbath 116a: The New Testament is blank paper and are to be burned.
Because I agree with Jesus that Phariseeism is evil, and I point out that modern day Judaism is in fact that same evil Phariseeism criticized by Jesus, Van Nattan has stated that I am a Jew hater. Van Nattan fails to understand that it is love and not hate to point out religious error. In order to be consistent, Van Nattan would have to call Jesus a Jew hater, for he was also critical of the religious error of the Pharisees!
Van Nattan does not believe in there is a Zionist antichrist conspiracy. In fact, he believes that 99.9% of revealed conspiracies are just legends and myths. He states:
One problem Hendrie has is shared by many seekers today-- he
invents many a conspiracy to keep you from examining his
theology and doctrine. We deal with conspiracy and legend at
this site, and we find that about 99.9% of it is myth and
unproven. We also have found that the genuine conspiracies
almost always run into the ditch because wicked men don't get
along with each other, and the plot falls apart. The Freemason,
Harry S. Truman, had better understanding than Mr. Hendrie
when he said, ‘When you see ten troubles coming down the
road, just wait long enough, and nine of them will run into the
ditch.’ And, thus it is. If a Freemason can get that right, why
cannot this alleged Christian get it right?
(NOTE: on or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted the previous statement on his
web site. He, however, has not expressly retracted or disavowed the statement. He now states in
pertinent part: “I think the most frightening thing I have seen lately is Jews accusing Jews of
various conspiracies, 99% of which they cannot prove.”
)
Van Nattan disagrees with God on this issue. God has revealed that there is an antichrist conspiracy.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. (Ezekiel 22:25-28 AV)
And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. (Jeremiah 11:9-10 AV)
We read in the following passage, how the religious leaders conspired to kill Jesus.
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. (Matthew 26:3-4 AV)
The religious leaders stirred up the people, who then persuaded the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, to crucify Jesus. “[T]he chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.” (Matthew 27:20 AV) The methods used by God’s adversaries have not changed. Today the antichrist religious leaders control the mass media, which they use to propagandize the people into pushing the politicians into doing their bidding against God and his anointed.
This conspiracy against the LORD and his anointed has been festering since the fall of man in the garden of Eden and involves the kings and rulers of the earth.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (Psalms 2:1-4 AV)
Conspiracy is a concept that has been propagandized into disfavor, much to the delight of Satan and his minions, who are only too happy to push the idea that if one believes there is a world conspiracy against Jesus Christ and his followers he must be a radical on the fringe of society or worse. Most people are afraid of being marginalized and thus avoid speaking of conspiracies. People instead try to construe events as coincidental, when in fact they can only be adequately explained as the product of prior agreements of conspirators who have combined in coordinated actions. God has revealed that there is an antichrist conspiracy.
Van Nattan states that I have tied the Jews “to conspiracies that do not even exist, or which have nothing to do with Jews.” On Van Nattan’s own website, he has condemned the contemporary Zionism. What Van Nattan does not understand is that the modern day Zionists he criticizes are the same Zionists who have infiltrated the seminaries and introduced the corrupt Zionist doctrine to which he adheres, known as the pretribulation rapture. Zionism springs from the Talmud. This Talmudic Zionism has manifested itself in a criminal antichrist conspiracy to rule the world known as communism.
Even though Van Nattan criticizes modern day Israel, he is a millennial Zionist. He stated
on his website: “In the last days, Messiah will establish a real house of rule in Mount Zion
which will be exalted above all the earth. I believe that the nations as we know them today
will be destroyed and replaced by humble and pleasant kings and policies.”
Van Nattan
believes in the pretribulation rapture and a subsequent millennial reign of Christ with the Jews in a
rebuilt Jewish temple at Jerusalem.
Van Nattan further states on his website: “So, God WILL destroy America very soon. I
am delighted, for we need to leave the profane and sloppy Agape world Church behind, and
we need to get on into the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Even so, come Lord Jesus.”
Van Nattan’s allegiance to earthly Israel transcends his allegiance to the United States. Van Nattan
is so spiritually depraved that he delights in the prospect of the destruction of the United States, and
he hopes for the establishment of the mythical earthly reign of the Jews at the Temple in Jerusalem.
Van Nattan’s infidelity to his country is characteristic of most Zionists. Zionists are by and large
disloyal citizens. Their first loyalty is to earthly Israel, whether it is a future Israel or the present
Israel.
When Israel sinned against God, Moses pleaded with God not to destroy Israel. (Exodus 32:8-14 ). Van Nattan’s Zionist theology has turned his heart cold as stone. He will not pray to God to spare his country, instead he perversely delights in the prospect of God destroying the United States so as to hasten the establishment of the mythical earthly Zionist kingdom to which he looks forward.
Another characteristic of Zionists is that they are antichrist and antichristian. Van Nattan is
no different; on his website he states: “I believe that we are in the Laodicean Church Age and
that Christendom at large has been spued from God's mouth.”
Van Nattan hopes for the establishment of an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem after the supposed rapture of the church from the earth, which is supposed to end the church age. God’s kingdom, however, will not be some future earthly kingdom at Jerusalem. In John 18:36 Jesus made it clear that his “kingdom is not of this world.” Where is his kingdom? It is a spiritual kingdom, it is within the believer. “And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:20-21 AV) (emphasis added) See also Colossians 1:13.
God states that his kingdom “cometh not with observation.” Van Nattan contradicts God and states that his kingdom will come with observation at Jerusalem. Van Nattan hopes for the end of Christ’s spiritual kingdom, which is his church, which he expects will usher in a carnal millennial kingdom. There will be no end to Christ’s church. God’s church is his kingdom, and it is an everlasting kingdom. Luke 1:33; Psalms 145:13. Van Nattan hopes for a rebuilt Jewish temple at earthly Jerusalem. God will not rebuild a stone temple at Jerusalem. God took away the kingdom from earthly Israel when he instituted his new testament in his blood with his church. Hebrews 9:15.
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. (Matthew 21:42-45 AV) (emphasis added).
The Christian church is the true Israel of God. Galatians 6:16. Jesus will not reverse course and return the kingdom to earthly Israel. Galatians 3:1-29; 4:3-10. Christians individually and corporately are the temple of God. 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Ephesians 2:20-22. We do not look forward to a temporal kingdom on earth; we have the earnest deposit of the Holy Spirit in us which groans for the full manifestation of God’s eternal kingdom in heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:1-8; 1 Corinthians 4:18-5:1.
Van Nattan’s millennial Zionism is sibling to modern day Jewish Zionism. Both are part of an unbiblical antichrist conspiracy born of the Talmud. Many think that Zionism is the struggle by the Jews for a homeland. Zionism is much more than the Jews establishing a Palestinian homeland. That is merely a cover for a much grander plan to rule the world. Zionism is the child of the Talmud, and Talmudism is communism.
Moses Mordecai Marx Levi, alias Karl Marx, was a Jew, a Satanist, and a member of the
“League of the Just,” which was a branch of the Illuminati.
In 1847, Marx was commissioned by
the Illuminati to write the Communist Manifesto, which is an outline of their plans for world
domination.
The communist revolution in Russia was planned and executed by Jews according to the
doctrines of their Talmud. V.I. Lenin, supreme dictator, and Leon Bronstein (Trotsky), supreme
commander of the Soviet Red Army, were both Jews.
The Bolshevik revolution was Jewish from
top to bottom. Of 556 leading conspirators in the Bolshevik state in 1918-19 there were 17
Russians, two Ukrainians, eleven Armenians, 35 Latvians, 15 Germans, one Hungarian, ten
Georgians, three Poles, three Finns, one Czech, one Karaim, and 457 Jews.
As pointed out by
Robert Wilton in his book The Last Days of the Romanovs, the communist revolution was not an
insurrection by Russians, but rather a secret invasion by Jews. As of 1983, the Premier of the Soviet
Union was a Jew (Andropov) and 23 out of 25 members of the Politboro (the Soviet ruling clique)
were Jews. In addition, every top member of the military and of the Soviet police, were Jews.
The Germans knew what they were doing when they sent Lenin's
pack of Jews into Russia. They chose them as agents of destruction.
Why? Because the Jews were not Russians and to them the
destruction of Russia was all in the way of business, revolutionary or
financial. The whole record of Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly
impressed with the stamp of alien invasion. The murder of the Tsar,
deliberately planned by the Jew Sverdlov (who came to Russia as a
paid agent of Germany) and carried out by the Jews Goloschekin,
Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov and Yukovsky, is the act not of the
Russian people, but of this hostile invader.
Colonel Jack Mohr states: “One of the greatest difficulties of the Talmudic Pharisees has
been that of bringing communism into power while trying to conceal its Talmudic origin.”
However, the direct and circumstantial evidence that the communist revolution in Russia was a
conspiracy perpetrated by Talmudic Jews is overwhelming. Circumstantial evidence that points to
Jewish control of the communist revolution is that once the communists in Russia seized power, the
first law they passed made anti-Semitism a crime punishable by death.
While Christian church
buildings were turned into animal stables, slaughter houses, and dance halls, the Jewish synagogues
were untouched.
Christian pastors were removed from their pastoral duties and made to work on
roads and in slave labor camps, yet the Jewish rabbis were permitted to continue their clerical
duties.
"Some 200,000 (Christian) clergy, many crucified, scalped and otherwise tortured, were
killed during the approximately 60 years of communist rule in the former Soviet Union, a Russian
commission reported Monday (Nov. 27, 1995)...40,000 churches (were) destroyed in the period
from 1922 to 1980..."
Lenin’s, maternal grandfather, Israel Blank, was Jewish. Researcher Wayne McGuire of
Harvard University wrote: “Lenin was a Jew by the standards of Israel's Law of Return: he
possessed a Jewish grandparent.”
Lenin, in apparent reference to himself, said: "The clever
Russian is almost always a Jew or has Jewish blood in him."
Historian Michael Hoffman II exposed the hidden meaning behind some of the bloodthirsty communist propaganda:
Lenin declared, "We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class." His partner in crime, Apfelbaum (Zinoviev) stated: "The interests of the revolution require the physical annihilation of the bourgeoisie class." Who were these bourgeoisie? Certainly not Jews. Trotsky gave a clue to their identity in a 1937 interview in the New York Jewish newspaper, Daily Forward: "The longer the rotten bourgeoisie society lives, the more and more barbaric will anti-Semitism become everywhere."
Bourgeoisie was a Bolshevik code-word for Gentile. The first law passed after the Communists seized power in Russia made anti-semitism a crime punishable by death. (Izvestia, July 27, 1918).
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The Jewish Bolsheviks regarded politics as a branch of Gentile pest
control. Hatred of Christians, especially the peasant "bourgeoisie"
was their prime motivation. The systematic destruction of the
Christian peasantry of Russia as so many vermin, beginning with
Lenin's attack on them in the summer of 1918 and his forced
starvation in 1921, has been almost completely ignored in Western
history.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Van Nattan quotes Timothy Kwoh as saying the following about me: “He is a classic Jew-hater, and makes no bones of quoting the most doubtful of sources, which was engineered by Jesuits such as the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’.” There is nothing doubtful about the authenticity of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. All reliable evidence indicates that they are authentic.
THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION is an outline of a plan by Talmudic Jews to rule the world. The PROTOCOLS were drawn up by the International Jewish Council which met in Basle, Switzerland in 1879. The PROTOCOLS appear to be a summation of the conspiratorial plans that had been in existence long before they were memorialized at the 1879 meeting. The PROTOCOLS contain the formula used by the megalomaniacal Zionists to launch their offensive to rule the world. While some Jews have claimed that the PROTOCOLS are a forgery, we should recognize that a forgery is merely an unauthorized copy of an original. The Talmudic Jews have never questioned the authenticity of the original PROTOCOLS, which were written in Hebrew, they have only attacked the English translation. Others, with absolutely no evidence to support their claim, have supposed that although the PROTOCOLS are genuine, at some point they were altered to refer to the Jews. Historical events have confirmed that Talmudic Jews are following the blueprint set forth in the PROTOCOLS.
In 1884 the daughter of a Russian general, Madamoiselle Justine Glinka, was endeavoring to serve her country in Paris by obtaining political information. She communicated her plans to General Orgevskii in St. Petersburg. For this purpose she employed a Jew, Joseph Schorst, member of the Mizraim Lodge (Oriental Rite of Freemasonry) in Paris. Schorst offered to obtain for her a document of great importance to Russia for the price of 2,500 francs. Mlle. Glinka receive the money from St. Petersburg and obtained the document, which turned out to be the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
She forwarded the French original of the Protocols, accompanied by a Russian translation, to General Orgevskii, who in turn handed them to his superior, General Cherevin, for delivery to the Tsar. Cherevin, however, was under the control of wealthy Jews, and he consequently refused to transmit the Protocols. Cherevin merely filed the Protocols in the Russian archives.
Years later Mlle. Glinka gave a copy of the Protocols to the marechal de noblesse of her district, Alexis Sukhotin. Sukhotin showed the document to two friends, Stepanov and Professor Sergius A. Nilus. Professor Nilus, published the Protocols in Tsarskoe-Tselc (Russia) in 1901, in a book entitled The Great Within the Small. On or about August 10, 1906 a copy of the Protocols was deposited in the British Museum. In the meantime minutes of the proceedings of the Basle congress in 1897 had been obtained through Jewish members of the Russian police and these were found to confirm the plans set forth in the Protocols.
In January 1917, Professor Nilus had prepared a second edition of the Protocols, which were revised with further documentation, for publication. But before he could be get it to market, the Bolshevik Revolution of March 1917 took place. Kerenski came to power and ordered Nilus's book to be destroyed. In 1924, Professor Nilus was arrested by the Cheka (Russian Secret Police) in Kiev. He was imprisoned and tortured. The best evidence of the authenticity of the Protocols is that the Jewish president of the court, told Professor Nilus that the brutal treatment he received was as retribution for "having done them incalculable harm in publishing the Protocols." Professor Nilus was released for a few months, but was soon rearrested by the Cheka, this time in Moscow. He was confined in prison until February 1926. He died in exile in the district of Vladimir on January 13, 1929.
All copies of the Protocols that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed during the Kerensky regime. The law followed by Kerensky’s communist successors to power was that the possession of a copy of the Protocols by anyone in the Soviet Union was a crime punishable by being shot on sight. The lengths that the communists went to eradicate the Protocols is evidence of the genuineness of the Protocols.
The authenticity of the PROTOCOLS can be further confirmed by reading the Talmud. The
evil and blasphemous nature of the Talmud parallels much of what is found in the PROTOCOLS.
The authenticity of the PROTOCOLS are further established by the fact that the details of the plan
have been completely implemented before the eyes of the world in Russia, Eastern Europe, China,
North Korea, and Vietnam. The plan is in the process of being implemented in Western Europe,
South America, South Africa, the United States, and scores of other countries throughout the
world.
When one looks at the personages working for world communism, one sees Talmudic Jews
and their fellow travelers, such as the Masons, just as the PROTOCOLS state. Benjamin Disraeli,
made the following statement in 1852 before the English House of Commons regarding the control
of nations by the Khazar Talmudic Jews: “The world is governed by very different personages from
what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes……The influence of the Jews may be
traced in the last outbreak of the destructive principle in Europe. An insurrection takes place against
tradition and aristocracy, against religion and property……The natural equality of men and the
abrogation of property are proclaimed by the secret societies who form provisional governments and
men of Jewish race are found at the head of every one of them.”
Selected portions of the text of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion can be found in my book Antichrist Conspiracy at www.antichristconspiracy.com.
Timothy Kwoh further libeled me by alleging that I am both a “classic Jew hater” and “probably an undercover Jesuit.” I explain in my book, which presumably Kwoh has read, that the first Jesuits were crypto-Jews. According to Kwoh’s irrational ranting, I am a secret agent of these Jesuit crypto-Jews and at the same time a Jew hater. Read for what I reveal about the Jewish origins of the Jesuits in chapter 53 of my book:
In the book of Revelation there are two beasts described, one in
Revelation 13:1 and another in Revelation 13:11. The second beast
is referred to as the false prophet. Revelation 16:13; 19:20; 20:10.
The second beast causes all to worship the first beast, who as we have
seen could be none other than the pope. Revelation 13:12. The
description of the second beast as a false prophet suggests that he is a
Jew. Benjamin Disraeli, was a Jew and a former Prime Minister of
England; he revealed that the first Jesuits were Jews.
Ignatius of Loyola’s secretary, Polanco, was of Jewish descent and
was the only person present at Loyola’s deathbed. Ignatius Loyola
himself was a crypto-Jew of the Occult Cabala. A crypto-Jew is a
Jew who converts to another religion and outwardly embraces the
new religion, while secretly maintaining Jewish practices. James
Lainez, who succeeded Loyola as the second Jesuit General, was also
of Jewish descent. The third Jesuit General was a Belgian Jew
named Eberhard Mercurian. Jews were attracted to the Jesuit order
and joined in large numbers.
Some of the most influential Jesuits in history, such as Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) and Emanuel Lacunza (1731-1801), were Jews. Many of the Jesuit doctrines are similar to those found in the Babylonian Talmud. It is possible that the second beast in the book of Revelation is the Jesuit General, who is known as the black pope.
John Torell explains the Jewish origins of the Jesuit order:
“The Illuminati order was not invented by Adam Weishaupt, but
rather renewed and reformed. The first known Illuminati order
(Alumbrado) was founded in 1492 by Spanish Jews, called
"Marranos," who were also known as "crypto-Jews." With violent
persecution in Spain and Portugal beginning in 1391, hundreds of
thousands of Jews had been forced to convert to the faith of the
Roman Catholic Church. Publicly they were now Roman Catholics,
but secretly they practiced Judaism, including following the Talmud
and the Cabala. The Marranos were able to teach their children
secretly about Judaism, but in particular the Talmud and the Cabala,
and this huge group of Jews has survived to this very day. After 1540
many Marranos opted to flee to England, Holland, France, the
Ottoman empire (Turkey), Brazil and other places in South and
Central America. The Marranos kept strong family ties and they
became very wealthy and influential in the nations where they lived.
But as is the custom with all Jewish people, it did not matter in what
nation they lived, their loyalty was to themselves and Judaism.
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“In 1491 San Ignacio De Loyola was born in the Basque province of
Guipuzcoa, Spain. His parents were Marranos and at the time of his
birth the family was very wealthy. As a young man he became a
member of the Jewish Illuminati order in Spain. As a cover for
his crypto Jewish activities, he became very active as a Roman
Catholic. On May 20, 1521 Ignatius (as he was now called) was
wounded in a battle, and became a semi-cripple. Unable to succeed in
the military and political arena, he started a quest for holiness and
eventually ended up in Paris where he studied for the priesthood. In
1539 he had moved to Rome where he founded the "JESUIT
ORDER," which was to become the most vile, bloody and
persecuting order in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1540, the
current Pope Paul III approved the order. At Loyola’s death in 1556
there were more than 1000 members in the Jesuit order, located in a
number of nations.
“Setting up the Jesuit order, Ignatius Loyola devised an elaborate spy
system, so that no one in the order was safe. If there was any
opposition, death would come swiftly. The Jesuit order not only
became a destructive arm of the Roman Catholic Church; it also
developed into a secret intelligence service. While the Popes relied
more and more on the Jesuits, they were unaware that the hard
core leadership were Jewish, and that these Jews held
membership in the Illuminati order which despised and hated
the Roman Catholic Church.”
As explained in previous chapters, the assertion by the Roman Church that Peter is the Rock is an implicit denial that Jesus is Christ. Such a denial is a fulfilment of a prophecy identifying antichrist. 1 John 2:22-23. One should be mindful that there are many antichrists. The pope, the Catholic bishops, archbishops, bishops, priests, and nuns are all antichrists. You can add to that list the Jews. The Jews for approximately 2,000 years have expressly denied that Jesus is the Christ.
“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” (1 John 2:18-23 AV)
Satan runs his kingdom on a need to know basis. Only he has the big picture. Many of his minions, who are seemingly in conflict, are actually working in concert toward his goal of world dominion. He will gladly sacrifice many of his most loyal supporters, if to do so will accomplish his goals. From the persecution of the Jews under the auspices of the Jesuits in Nazi Germany it would seem to the casual observer that the Jesuits and the Jews are at odds. In fact, there is an element of the Jews which were working hand in glove with the Jesuits during the Nazi reign. Jesuitism is based upon the Jewish Talmud and Cabala. As I explained above, the leadership of the Jesuits are crypto-Jews. It, therefore, would not be unusual for these Jesuit crypto-Jews to be working closely with open Jews. Both the crypto and open Jews follow the doctrines found in the blasphemous Babylonian Talmud. Babylonian Talmudism is simply Bablylonian occultic traditions and teachings; the true god of the Babylonian Talmud is Satan.
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The Illuminati actually predated the Jesuits. Its establishment in
1776 was merely a reconstitution of the occult Jewish Cabala that
flourished under the Jesuits. The Illuminati was reconstituted by
Lorenzo Ricco, the Jesuit General, in 1776. Who did he use as the
front man for the Illuminati? It was none other than a Jesuit trained
Jewish convert to Catholicism and disciple of Lorenzo Ricco, Adam
Weishaupt. Weishaupt was a professor of canon law at the Jesuit
Ingolstadt University, which was the center of the Jesuit counter-reformation.
Some claim that Weishaupt was a “former” Jesuit. It is more likely
that he was a Jesuit and his status as a “former” Jesuit was contrived
in order to conceal the Jesuit involvement in the Illuminati.
Weishaupt was born on February 6, 1748, in Ingolstadt. His parents
were crypto- Jews. Weishaupt was educated in the Jesuit order where
he was exposed to the Jesuit organization and its political agenda.
Weishaupt was a Jew, who from early childhood learned to have a
secret allegiance to the Talmud and the Cabala, but outwardly he was
a dedicated Roman Catholic.
The Jesuits, having just been suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in
1773, found it necessary to reconstitute the Illuminati, which was an
alliance between the Jesuits and the very powerful Ashkenazi Jewish
Banking House of Rothschild. Meyer Amschel, the head of the
House of Rothschild, was a rabbinically trained German Jew, who
later took the name Rothschild.
Amschel used his immense wealth to fund the revolutionary efforts of
the Illuminati, including, but not limited to the bloody French
Revolution. Another man who was instrumental in the establishment
of the Illuminati was Jakob Frank. Frank was a Polish born Jew.
His family name was originally Leibowicz. He lived in the German
city of Offenbach and was the leader of the secret Jewish Cabala at
that time.
The Jesuits assassinated Pope XIV and then through the Illuminati
rampaged against the Vatican capturing all of its landed church
properties the world over. The Vatican had learned its lesson, and
on August 7, 1814, the Jesuits were restored as a Catholic order by
Pope Pius VII.
The Jesuits were now stronger and more powerful than ever. One must understand that the Jesuits don’t merge, they absorb. As the Vatican found out the hard way, all who ally with the Jesuits find themselves in a death grip, from which there is no deliverance, except through the power of God Almighty. They have absorbed all who have entered into alliances with them.
The Pharisees falsely accused Jesus of being in league with Beelzebub. “But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.” (Matthew 12:24 AV) Kwoh has falsely accused me of being in league with the Jesuits, who are disciples of Beelzebub. Van Nattan and Kwoh’s curses against me, however, God considers to be blessings. “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matthew 5:11-12 AV)
Evidence that Israel Perpetrated the 9-11 Attacks
Timothy Kwoh is a malicious liar. Steve Van Nattan favorably quotes Timothy Kwoh making this outlandish allegation against me: “To make matters even worse, he sides with both Muslims and Islamic terrorists by not only quoting the likes of whatreallyhappened.com and sites defending Palestinian terrorists, but even goes so far as to accuse Israeli agents of being behind 9/11.” He suggests that to accuse Israel of being behind the 9-11 attacks is equivalent to supporting terrorists. There is not a single quote on my website or in my book that defends Palestinian, Muslim or any other kind of terrorist. In fact, on my website I have the following explanation of a picture on my website (http://www.antichristconspiracy.com/pictures.htm) depicting Lois Farrakhan meeting with members of an orthodox Jewish organization. I make it clear in the annotation that I view both groups and both religions as evil and solidly in Satan’s camp against Christ and Christians:
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3. Who do
we see here? It is the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan,
meeting with seven members of the Neturei Karta, an international
orthodox Jewish organization. In 1999, they met and exchanged
prayers one in Hebrew the other in Arabic to their respective gods.
No doubt that Jews and Muslims hate each other; Satan's kingdom is
built on hatred, and thus all members of Satan's kingdom hate each
other. The issue is what do they each agree upon? They agree that
they have a common enemy - Christ and those who have Christ in
them - Christians! Satan's religions, full of hate, are allied against
Christianity - they are antichrist! They will set aside their differences
in order to attack Christ and his followers.
I am against all terrorists be they Muslim, Jewish, or Catholic. I, however, do love and have a desire to save Catholics, Muslims, and Jews from their pagan religions. My mission is to preach the gospel in order that Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and anyone else might be saved. In chapter 63 of my book I describe the Muslim religion as one of Satan’s pagan religions, out of which they should be brought into a knowledge of Christ:
The Jews are our enemies, because they are antichrist. Romans 11:28. Jews hate Christ and Christians. We, however, are to love them and pray for them. “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.” (Luke 6:27-28 AV) God has chosen a remnant of Jews for salvation. We should preach the gospel to the lost world, including the Jews. We, however, should not think that a Jew any different in God’s plan than a Catholic, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Satanist or any other follower of one of Satan’s pagan religions.
Salvation for all, is by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. If a Jew repents of his antichrist religion and believes in Jesus, then he is saved. Once saved, a Jew will not continue in his Talmudic practices any more than a Catholic will continue his Catholic practices or a Satanist will continue his Satanic practices once they are saved. All believers in Christ become spiritual Jews, which are Christians.
Loving our enemies does not mean that we should condone the pagan practices of the Jews, Catholics, Muslims, or other pagans. Rather, we are called by God to reprove them. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” (Ephesians 5:11 AV)
Regarding www.whatreallyhappened.com, as far as I know it is a news site which does not condone any kind of terrorism. Kwoh objects to the site because it exposes the role of Israel behind much of the terrorism in the Middle East and throughout the world. I have the following explanation adjacent to the link to www.whatreallyhappened.com on my website:
An excellent website providing uncensored news about those behind
current events. Caution: the webmaster for this site is apparently an
atheist. His editorial perspective on some issues is consequently
clouded by his erroneous belief that there is no God.
One acurate statement that Kwoh has made was that I “accuse Israeli agents of being behind 9/11.” I do accuse Israel of complicity in the 9-11 attacks, and that allegation is supported by the evidence. In my book, I state:
Angry witnesses reported seeing three separate groups of men at three
different locations celebrating as they watched the September 11,
2001 attack on the World Trade Center. One group of men were
seen celebrating in Union City. The witnesses reported their license
plate to the police, who later arrested the men. Witnesses also saw
three men in Liberty State Park in Jersey City filming the attack on
the World Trade Center. After the attack the men were seen cheering
and jumping up and down. Those men were also caught by the
police and arrested several hours after the attack. Sources close to
the investigation stated that it appeared that the men were involved in
the attack and knew ahead of time what was going to happen.
Witnesses saw another group of five who were filming the smoking
New York skyline from the top of a building. A neighbor witnessed
the men shouting cries of joy and mockery. They all had prior
knowledge of the attack and were set up to film it before the first
plane hit the World Trade Center. One of the “be on
lookout”(BOLO) messages from the FBI was: “Three individuals
with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and
subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the
van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals.”
Another FBI BOLO was: “Vehicle possibly related to New York
terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey
registration with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at
Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of
jetliner into World Trade Center.”
Eight hours later those men were arrested and were found to possess
maps and other evidence that linked them to the attack. Who were
these men? They were all Israelis! All of them were linked to Israeli
owned moving companies out of New York and New Jersey.
Furthermore, the arrested Israelis were found to be Mossad agents,
and the moving companies were each Mossad front operations.
The evidence of Israeli involvement in the 9-11-01 attacks does not
end there. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) memo, time
stamped September 11, 2001, has surfaced which gives specific
details of a shooting aboard hijacked American Airlines Flight 11
which departed from Logan Airport in Boston and crashed into the
North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11-01. The FAA memo
in pertinent part stated: “The American Airlines FAA Principal
Security Inspector (PSI) was notified by Suzanne Clark of American
Airlines Corporate Headquarters, that an on board flight attendant
contacted American Airlines Operations Center and informed that a
passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B .
. . The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin, shot by passenger Satam
Al Suqami. One bullet was reported to have been fired."
The FAA has tried to explain that the information in the memo was
erroneous. However, Steve Elson, a former FAA airport-security
inspector, told World Net Daily that he personally knows the author
of the memo, and he trusts the accuracy of the memo despite the
FAAs claims that it was inaccurate. He stated that the memo was
hand delivered to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey. Elson pointed
out that in addition to his personal knowledge of the memo author’s
competence and veracity, "[t]he specificity of the wording –
passenger seat numbers, who shot whom and the firing of a single
bullet - makes an error unlikely."
Think about it, an on board flight attendant gave detailed information identifying by name the victim, the shooter and where they each were seated. That indicates that the flight attendant was giving notice of an actual occurrence to which she was probably an eyewitness, it was not just her imagination.
Why is the fact that one of the highjackers had a gun significant? Remember, the 9-11-01 attacks were a carefully planned and orchestrated. They could not take the chance of anyone getting caught on one of the planes before the planes took off. The gun toting highjacker must have been certain that he would make it on the plane with that gun. In order to get through the usual metal detectors he would have to have had help from the airport security. The assistance by airport security must have been an integral part of the plan. That is why is the FAA and the major media are so concerned about covering up the fact that one of the highjackers had a gun. The FAA and the media do not want any link to be made between the highjackers and the security company at each of the airports. Because, if the connection were made, it would implicate Israel.
The security at Boston’s Logan airport on 9-11-01 was was being
provided by ICTS, through its wholly owned subsidiary Huntleigh
USA Corp.
Boston’s Logan airport was the departure point for American
Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the North Tower of the World
Trade Center and United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the
South Tower of the World Trade Center. The ICTS website reveals
that ICTS provides security for the Washington’s Dulles airport,
which was the departure point for American Airlines flight 77, which
crashed into the Pentagon. The ICTS website also reveals that ICTS
provides security for Newark International Airport, which was the
departure point for United Airlines flight 93, which was the fourth
plane highjacked on 9-11-01 and which crashed in Somerset County
Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittburgh. Interestingly, ICTS also
provides airport security for Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other
Eastern European communist block cities.
What is the significance of ICTS? ICTS is an Israeli security
company owned by Ezra Harel and registered in the Netherlands.
According to the ICTS website “ICTS (International Consultants on
Targeted Security) was founded in 1982 by a select group of Israeli
business people, former military commanding officers and veterans of
government intelligence and security agencies, as a privately owned
company dedicated to the provision of security services.”
Many of the ICTS personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. Shin Bet is the Israeli counter-intelligence and internal security service. Richard Reid, the British man suspected of trying to detonate explosives in his shoe on board a flight bound for the U.S. in December 2001, flew from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel to De Gaul Airport in Paris, where he boarded the flight to the U.S. It was during the flight to the U.S. that he was apprehended as he tried to light the explosives in his shoe. ICTS was responsible for security for the De Gaul Airport in Paris and supplied the highjack profile software for the Israeli government used at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
So the picture becomes clearer as to how the hijackers could make
certain that they could board American Airlines flight 11 at Boston’s
Logan Airport with a gun. They had inside help in the form of ICTS.
It is curious that both flights which struck the World Trade Center
Towers originated from Logan Airport. ICTS also provided security
for the departure airports of the other two hijacked flights on 9-11-01. It is certainly possible that there were weapons smuggled on the
other planes with the help of ICTS and that those facts have been
suppressed. The fact that ICTS, by its own admission, is made up of
“a select group of Israeli business people, former military
commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and
security agencies,” is just more evidence pointing to Israel as the
culprit behind the 9-11-01 attacks.
20 citizens of Colombia and 15 citizens from the Philippines died in
the World Trade Center attacks. The death toll for Israelis citizens
would be expected to be much higher than that. New York is the
center of international Jewish financial power, and the World Trade
Center is at its epicenter. The international Jewish involvement in
banking and finance is legendary. Two of the largest and richest firms
in New York are Goldman-Sachs and Solomon Brothers. Both firms
have offices in several floors in the twin towers of the World Trade
Center. Many executives in those firms regularly commute to and
from Israel conducting international banking and business. One
would expect the Israeli death toll to be catastrophic. In fact, Israel
first announced that 4,000 Israelis citizens were suspected to have
been killed in the WTC attacks.
That number was based upon the number of Israelis who worked at
the WTC or had business in or adjacent to the WTC towers.
Surprisingly, Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general confirmed that only
three Israelis were killed in the 9-11-01 WTC attacks. Two Israelis
were killed in the two planes which crashed into the towers, and one
Israeli, who had been visiting one of the World Trade Center towers
on business, was killed. Only three of potentially thousands of
Israelis working in the WTC were killed on 9-11!
How is that possible? 9-11-01 was not at Jewish holiday; so where were the Israelis who ordinarily would have been working in the World Trade Center?
In Van Nattan’s attack upon me on his website he quotes Genesis 27:22-29, which ends with: “Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.” His obvious point was to suggest that all who expose the evil of deeds of fleshly Israel will be cursed. Van Nattan has completely misinterpreted that passage in Genesis. He has been brainwashed to blindly support Talmudic Jews. That passage could not mean what Van Nattan intends, because Jesus himself did not hesitate to curse the Jews, and he did so with some frequency. See John 8:39-47; Matthew 15:1-9; Matthew 23:23-33. In fact, God calls earthly Jerusalem “Sodom. and Egypt” See Revelation 11:8.
Van Nattan apparently has given heed to Jewish fables. See Titus 1:14. He states: “Just
before the Kingdom reign of Messiah Christ, which is just around the corner, God will exalt
Israel and the Jews who are left after He destroys arrogant Jews and rebels in Israel
(Zephaniah 3). God will exalt Israel. Thus, we are now just at the door of the next great era
in human history.”
He does not understand one of the basic tenets of the gospel, which is that a
true Jew is the spiritual seed of Abraham, not the physical seed. “For he is not a Jew, which is one
outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one
inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not
of men, but of God.” (Romans 2:28-29 AV) “Not as though the word of God hath taken none
effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of
Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the
children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted
for the seed.” (Romans 9:6-8 AV)
The eternal blessings of Abraham flow to all who believe in Jesus Christ. God’s kingdom is a spiritual kingdom not an earthly kingdom. His children are spiritual children not earthly children. In God’s kingdom there are no distinctions between Jew or Gentile. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:28-29 AV)
The history of natural Israel is one of continual sin intermixed with periods of repentance, until God finally finished with them according to his foreordained plan. There is a spiritual Israel, the church, to whom the blessings flow. God’s true Israel is and always was the church. The church contains the children of the promise. “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.” (Galatians 4:28 AV) The church is the Israel of God. “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.” (Galatians 6:15-16 AV) The church is the temple of God. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16 AV) The church is God’s holy nation inheriting the promises made by God in Exodus 19:5-8. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” (1 Peter 2:9 AV)
God does not have a plan of salvation for fleshly Israel that is any different than the plan of salvation he has for Gentiles. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ for all. There is one body of Christ, his spiritual Israel, made up of Gentiles and the remnant of fleshly Israel.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:5-22 AV)
Christ did not in any way provide some exclusive plan for the Jews. He stated that the gospel was to be preached to “all nations.” Luke 24:47. The only difference for the Jews was that the preaching of the gospel should start at Jerusalem. It was to start with the Jews, but that does not mean it is to end with the Jews in some post-Christian era. The Old Testament has prophecies of the church of God consisting of both believing Jews and Gentiles. Amos 9:11-12; Hosea 1:10; 2:23. The Old Testament prophecies regarding salvation to the both the Jews and Gentiles together are explained in Acts 15:13-17; 26:22-23; Romans 9:23-26; and 1 Peter 2:10.
Some think that all references in the Bible to Israel are references to fleshly Israel and that passages that refer to events that are believed to have not yet occurred, are prophecies regarding fleshly Israel. That is simply false doctrine! All prophecies referring to general blessings upon fleshly Israel that have not been fulfilled will never be fulfilled because those promises were conditional promises based on the obedience of Israel. Fleshly Israel rebelled against God and therefore has been cut off from the tree of life. God has saved a remnant of fleshly Israel to be grafted back in to the tree, but their ingrafting is upon the same grounds as everyone else, by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Many cite Romans chapter 11 as proof of a future renewal and blessing upon fleshly Israel outside the church. Let us look at that section.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Romans 11:17-33 AV)
That passage says nothing about the regeneration of fleshly Israel. It simply states that salvation comes only through being grafted into the olive tree of life and that a remnant of fleshly Israel has been chosen by God for salvation. It says nothing about some future renewal of fleshly Israel outside being ingrafted into God’s church. Some take the position that fleshly Israel as a nation will be grafted back into the olive tree as fleshly Israel. That is not possible. God’s kingdom is not of the flesh but of the spirit. Once a Jew is grafted into Christ he becomes a part of spiritual Israel, the church. “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.” (Romans 9:6-8 AV) There is no more distinction between Jew or Gentile, all are one in Christ. Romans 10:12; Colossians 3:11, 28.
Some state that the passage in Romans 11 that “that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in” indicates that there will be a Jewish dispensation sometime in the future, at which time the Christian dispensation will end. That is false doctrine. The theme of the Gospel is that there will be no end to Christ’s kingdom, or his people, the church. 2 Peter 1:11. When the fullness of the Gentiles come in then will be the end of the world. 1 Corinthians 15:23-24. God did not state that the Jews will be saved en masse after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. He simply stated that the Jews will be blind in part until the world ends. God has chosen a remnant of Jews to save from every generation, not just one generation during some post-Christian era.
God’s plan is to establish the earthly then the spiritual. “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.” (1 Corinthians 15:46-48 AV) God will not reverse course and reestablish the earthly kingdom of Israel in place of his spiritual kingdom of Israel. That is contrary to his revealed plan. Fleshly Israel was intended by God for an example to us, his church. 1 Corinthians 10:6. It is not the circumcision of the flesh that counts but the circumcision of the heart. Colossians 2:11.
Fleshly Israel is symbolized by the fig tree. That fig tree will never again bear fruit.
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. . . . And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. (Mark 11:13-14, 20-21 AV)
Whereas spiritual Israel is symbolized by the olive tree. “Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” (James 3:12 AV) The answer is no! Fleshly Israel will never ever bear spiritual fruit for God. The spiritual fruit only comes from the spiritual olive plant, the church.
Thus, the prophecies regarding Israel had both temporal and spiritual fulfillments. The distinction between the temporal Israel and the eternal Israel is explained clearly in R. B. Yerby’s book The Once and Future Israel. First there is the temporal earthly fulfillment and then there is the spiritual fulfillment. 1 Corinthians 15:46.
The scriptures teach us that in all of God's dealings with mankind, from the time of Adam, we may discern the same divine principle at work, namely, "first the natural, then the spiritual." (1 Cor 15:45-46) God has progressively revealed his purpose through, first, his dealings with the natural Israel and, second and finally, his dealings with spiritual Israel. (There is no scriptural basis for the regressive idea that God's dealings will again be centered exclusively on natural Israel at some future date.)
Because God's dealings follow the sequence of first the natural, then the spiritual, it is easy to see and understand that the same progression applied to his people and his promises. The natural people of Old Testament Israel enjoyed the natural fulfillment of the promises made to them, and saw the promises invalidated through sin and unbelief. Likewise, the spiritual people of New Testament Israel, the followers of Jesus Christ, have received, are receiving and will receive all spiritual fulfillments of the promises.
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[In Galatians 4:21-31] as in many other New Testament passages, Paul skillfully defeated his adversaries with their own ammunition. He took the “foolish Galatians” who desired to be under the law" (Gal 4:21) right into the thick of Old Testament Law, into Genesis, the first book of Moses, to prove a spiritual truth with natural types. The early church recognized the need for spiritual authority to support their doctrines (for them, of course, the scriptures were the writings we today call the Old Testament) and therefore, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they quoted freely from the Old Testament.
In the fourth chapter of Galatians, as elsewhere, Paul proved his point through the superior understanding God gave him of the true meaning of the Old Testament scriptures. He said that the story of the two sons of Abraham was more than just a prominent part of the history of the Jewish people. It was, he said, an allegory (Gal. 4:24), that is, a story in which the people and events were symbols or types standing for some greater truth (Gal. 4:24).
The allegory speaks of two women and their two sons who were fathered by Abraham. Hagar, the bondwoman and the mother of Ishmael who was "born after the flesh" (Gal 4:23), typifies natural Jerusalem. Sarah, the freewoman and the mother of Isaac, the child of promise (Gal 4:23, 28), typifies the church which is spiritual Jerusalem. The children of natural Jerusalem are in bondage (Gal. 4:25), as are all who are unsaved, but the children of the church, the heavenly Jerusalem, are free (Gal. 4:26). Those who are in bondage, who are not born again are only "born after the flesh” (Gal. 4:29) cannot possibly be God's people. Therefore, the scriptures “cast out”(Gal 4:30) the natural Jerusalem and her children after the flesh, and identify the heirs as the believers in Christ who are the children of promise (Gal 4:30).
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Paul was constantly in trouble with the Jews because his spiritual interpretations of the Old Testament scriptures warred with their natural interpretation. Our onetime Pharisee had come to see clearly that "the things that are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18) but his former colleagues could not believe that their highly vaunted institutions were ready to “vanish away” (Heb 8:13).
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Because the Lord Jesus "endured the cross, despising the shame"
(Heb 12:2) spiritual Israel hears a better voice than the voices heard
by natural Israel (Heb. 1:1, 2), and we have, among other things, a
better Priest (Heb. 4:15), a better priesthood (Heb. 5:6), a better hope
(Heb. 7:19), a better covenant (Heb. 8:10), a better Tabernacle (Heb.
9:11), a better altar (Heb. 13:10), a better sacrifice (Heb. 9:14), a
better country (Heb. 11:16), and a better city (Heb. 12:22).
A Jew who believes in Jesus as Christ becomes a new creation. He is no longer a fleshly Jew. He becomes a spiritual Jew, a Christian. “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.” (Galatians 6:15 AV)
The New Testament writers, being inspired by God, clearly understood that the church is the
Israel of God and is the object of the promises made to Israel by God in the Old Testament.
Paul said that believers are:
"The children of God" (Romans 8:16).
"The Household of God" (Ephesians 2:19).
"The children of Abraham" (Colossians 3:7).
"Abraham's seed" (Galatians 3:29).
"The Children of promise" (Rom. 9:8, Galatians 4:28).
"A peculiar people” (Titus 2:14).
"The elect of God" (Colossians 3:12).
"Heirs of God"(Rom. 8:17).
“Heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29).
"The temple of God" (1 Cor 3:16).
"The circumcision" (Philippians 3:3).
"The Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16).
Peter said that believers are:
"A chosen generation" (1 Peter 2:9).
"A royal priesthood" (1 Peter 2:9).
"A holy nation" (1 Peter 2:9).
"A peculiar people" (1 Peter 2:9).
James said that believers are:
"Heirs of the kingdom" (James 2:5).
John said that believers are:
"The sons of God" (John 1:12).
"Kings and priests unto God" (Revelation 1:6).
"The new Jerusalem" (Revelation 3:12).
“The Holy city (Revelation 21:2).
The letter to the Hebrews said that believers are:
"The people of God" (Hebrews 4:9).
“Mount Zion” (Hebrews 12:22).
“The city of the living God” (Hebrews 12:22).
“The heavenly Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22).
Despite the clear message in the bible that the church is the Israel of God, as evidenced by
the passages above, Van Nattan on his website states: “Israel will be restored to Jehovah after
two thousand years from the rejection of Messiah. ALL those who teach that Israel's
promises are to be fulfilled to the Church are arrogant impostors on the Lord's Church and
ought to be excom-municated and sent to Tema to hoe fava beans and tread the wine
press.”
The above bible passages which make clear that the church is the “Israel of God” were inspired by God. It is God himself who teaches that Israel’s promises are to be fulfilled through the Church. Yet Van Nattan states that “all who teach that Israel’s promises are to be fulfilled to the Church are arrogant impostors on (sic) the Lord’s Church and ought to be excommunicated.” I will stand with God. “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” Romans 3:4. Van Nattan is an enemy of the church; he looks for it to be supplanted by fleshly Jews. “Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.” Deuteronomy 33:29. The people saved by the Lord are Christians; we are the Israel of God. God’s word shows Van Nattan to be a liar.
Pretribulation Rapture Deception
Steve Van Nattan has bought, hook line and sinker, into one of the most formidable religious
deceptions in history, the pretribulation rapture: “I believe that the rapture of the Lord's Church
is distinct from the Second Coming / Advent. The rapture is subtle and sudden and in the air.
The dead in Christ will also be resurrected for this calling from above.”
The term “rapture” is not found anywhere in the Holy Scriptures. It is in fact a derivation of the Latin Raptus. Raptus is a word that can be found in some of the passages in the Latin translation of the bible, which is known as the Latin Vulgate. Raptus is a mistranslation of the Greek word harpazo, which literally means “caught up.” See 2 Corinthians 12:4 in the Latin Vulgate.
Many people believe that rapture is synonymous with resurrection, but that is not true.
While rapture does include the idea of being taken away, it is very different from the resurrection
promised by Jesus. Rapture means “the act of seizing and carrying off as prey or plunder . . . the act
of carrying off a woman . . . rape.”
The root word for rapture is rapt which means “Rape
(abduction or ravishing) . . . . The act or power of carrying forcibly away.”
Ravish means “[t]o
seize and carry away by violence. . . . To have carnal knowledge with a woman by force and against
her consent.”
Both rapture and rape share the same Latin root word, raptus.
Raptus means “a
carrying off, abduction, rape.”
The Holy Scripture describes the church as the chaste bride of
Christ who is with Christ at the wedding supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7; 22:17; Matthew
22:1-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-33) The wedding supper of the Lamb will take place
at the resurrection of the saints when this world ends. By using the term rapture, these “scholars”
are blasphemously describing that holy and glorious resurrection of the church as a rape!
Van Nattan ignores the Holy Scriptures and instead follows the doctrines of men. He states
on his website: “The saints will be taken out of the earth before the Tribulation as the Holy
Ghost leaves who is ‘letting,’ or restraining, the evil today.”
Those that hold to the pretribulation rapture teaching cite 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 in support
of their doctrine.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 AV)
If one looks at those passages it is clear that they refer to the resurrection of believers at the end of the world. Looking at verse one we see that the topic that is being addressed by the Apostle Paul is "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" and "our gathering together unto him." The apostle Paul was telling the Thessalonians that "that day" would not come until there is a falling away first. Notice that Paul refers to "that day," which indicates that the coming of our Lord and our gathering together unto him are to happen contemporaneously. The first thing that happens is the falling away. Then, the man of sin, the son of perdition is revealed. Verse four indicates that this man of sin will exalt himself above God. Clearly, this is a reference to the antichrist. So we know that the antichrist will be revealed before the coming of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of the Saints. The pretribulation rapturists reverse this sequence and hold that Jesus will return secretly and rapture the saints, and then after the rapture the antichrist will be revealed.
The pretribulation rapturists hold that the person in verse seven who lets (restrains) the
antichrist is the Holy Spirit who resides in the body of believers. They teach that when the rapture
takes place the Holy Spirit will be taken out of the world and the antichrist will then the revealed.
If you look at those passages in 2 Thessalonians 2 the apostle Paul was telling the Thessalonians
that "that day" would not come until there is a falling away first. Then, the man of sin, the son of
perdition is revealed. Verse four indicates that this man of sin will exalt himself above God. Clearly,
this is a reference to the antichrist. So we know that the antichrist will be revealed before the coming
of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of the Saints. If, however, he that letteth is the Holy Spirit that
means that verse 3 contradicts verses 6-8. If the Holy Spirit is he that letteth, preventing the
antichrist from being revealed and his being taken out of the way is the resurrection (rapture) of the
saints and it happens first "then" the antichrist is revealed, that is the reverse of the sequence in verse
3. That contradicts verse 3 which states that the resurrection (rapture) shall not come except there be
a falling away first and the man of sin is revealed. In fact, he that letteth is the Roman Emperor,
who was replaced by the pope as Pontiffex Maximus (Supreme Pontiff), the ruler of all religions.
The pope is the antichrist.
Furthermore, the position that the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth through the rapture of the saints contradicts the promise that Jesus made. Jesus stated in Matthew 28:20 that he would be with us always even unto the end of the world. Jesus is with us through the Holy Spirit. We know from 1 John's 5:7 that "there are three that bear record in heaven, the father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John's 5:7) So we see that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one. If you remove the Holy Spirit from the world then Jesus is removed and he cannot then be with us unto the end of the end of the world.
Jesus makes it even clearer in the Gospel of Matthew that the Holy Spirit will abide with us forever: “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.” (John 14:16 AV) Who is the comforter that Jesus was referring to? In John 14:26 Jesus states that the comforter is the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit is removed from the world through the rapture and the rapture is followed by a seven year tribulation period, how could Jesus keep his promise that the Holy Spirit will be with us forever? The answer is simple; there will not be a pretribulation rapture but a resurrection and that resurrection will be at the end of the world when Christ returns. The pretribulation rapture is not supported by Scripture and in fact is contrary to Scripture.
One of the tenets of the pretribulation rapture teaching is that once the believers in Christ are
raptured out of the world there will only be unbelievers left behind. The unbelievers will then go
through the seven year period of tribulation during which the antichrist will make his appearance.
The problem with that sequence is that it is contrary to the sequence of events as explained by Jesus.
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. (Matthew 13:24-30 AV) (emphasis added)
Jesus states in his parable in Matthew 13:24-30 that kingdom of heaven is like a man who sows good seed this field but an enemy sows tares. The man allows the tares and the wheat to grow up together until the harvest. It is not until the harvest that the tares and the wheat are gathered. The wheat is not gathered some time before the tares. The tares are gathered "first" and burned, then to wheat is gathered into the barn. We see from the parable that the tares are gathered first and then the wheat, just the reverse of the pretribulation rapture teaching. One might say "that is just a parable, you can make that mean anything you wish." Jesus himself, however, explained later in Matthew the meaning of that parable.
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew 13:36-43 AV)
Notice that Jesus states that both the tares and the wheat are to be left alone to grow up together until the end of the world. He does not say that the wheat should be plucked out ahead of time and the tares will be left behind. He states that he will wait until the end of the world and then his angels will "first" gather out of the field the tares (the children of the wicked one) and they will bound and cast into a furnace of fire where there shall be wailng and gnashing of teeth. It is after the gathering of the tares that the children of God are gathered together. They are gathered at the end of the world not during some rapture years earlier.
The pretribulation rapturists will cite Revelation 20:5-6 to support their argument that their will be a rapture and then some time later a second resurrection. Revelation 20:5-6 does mention a first resurrection, which suggests that there is a second resurrection. Indeed, there is a second resurrection, but that is not a physical resurrection as some have supposed, it is a spiritual resurrection. The pretribulation rapturists ignore Revelation 20:4, where John says: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God.” Notice he saw the “souls” of the saved, he did not see their bodies. They had been spiritually resurrected (the first resurrection) but not yet bodily resurrected. Before one is born again, he is dead in trespasses and sins. The Holy Spirit quickens the believer and he is made alive, he is spiritually resurrected from the dead. The spiritual rebirth by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ is the first resurrection mentioned in Revelation 20:4-6. The second resurrection is the resurrection of the bodies of the believers at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. (Ephesians 2:1 AV)
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: (Ephesians 2:5-6 AV)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; (Colossians 2:13 AV)
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1 AV)
The pretribulation rapturists believe that Jesus will not return until the end of the seven year tribulation. They make a distinction between the resurrection at Jesus' second coming and the rapture. It would be easy to determine the exact date of Jesus' second coming by simply noting the date of the rapture and adding seven years. The problem is that Jesus stated that the day and hour of his second coming and the end of the world cannot be determined in advance. He stated that only God the Father knows the day and the hour of his return and the end of the world. He stated that day will be similar to the great flood. People were eating and drinking and marrying when suddenly and unexpectedly flood came upon the world.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:36-39 AV)
Another passage which is directly contrary to the pretribulation rapture teachings is 2 Peter 3:9-15. That passage states that the day of the Lord will come suddenly like a thief in the night. Peter admonishes the saints, therefore, to be "in holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God." Note when looking at the passage in 2 Peter that Peter was referring to the coming of the Lord at the end of the world; for he states that on that day the heavens shall pass away, the elements will melt with fervent heat, and the world be burned up. Why would Peter admonish the saints to look for the day of God during which the world will be destroyed if the saints are going to the raptured out of the world seven years prior thereto? The answer is simple; the saints will not be raptured seven years before the return of Christ, the saints will be resurrected on that day of the Lord when he returns. On that day the world will be destroyed, but the saints look forward to that day, for it is the day of promise during which they will be resurrected and there will be "new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." See Revelation 21:1; Matthew 13:43.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you. (2 Peter 3:9-15 AV)
C.I. Scofield - Accomplice in a Zionist Antichrist Conspiracy
Van Nattan promotes the Old Scofield Reference Bible, 1917 edition, on his website.
The
Scofield Reference Bible is the direct product of an evil Zionist conspiracy, and with three million
copies sold, it has popularized the pretribulation rapture doctrine. In order to understand the evil
behind the Scofield Reference Bible we must first examine the origins of the pretribulation rapture
doctrine.
The pretribulation rapture doctrine is a deception developed to obscure the prophecies that
point to the pope of Rome as the antichrist and to supplant the church of Christ and replace it with
the synagogue of Satan. One of the devilish strategies was to interpret the book of Revelation in
such a way as to relegate much of it contents to some future time.
In 1590 a Roman Catholic
Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera, in his 500 page commentary on the book of Revelation, placed the
events of most of the book of Revelation in a period in the future just prior to the end of the world.
He claimed that the antichrist would be an individual who would not be manifested until very near
the end of the world. He wrote that the antichrist would rebuild Jerusalem, abolish Christianity, deny
Christ, persecute the church, and dominate the world for three and half years.
Another Jesuit, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine promoted Ribera's teachings.
This Catholic
interpretation of the book of Revelation did not become accepted in the Protestant denominations
until a book titled The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty was published in 1812, 11
years after the death of its author.
The author of that book was another Jesuit by the name of
Emanuel de Lacunza. De Lacunza wrote the book under the fictitious pen name of a purportedly
converted Jew, Rabbi Juan Josaphat Ben Ezra, in order to conceal his identity and to make his
writings more palatable to the Protestant readers.
The modern pretribulation rapture teaching is traceable directly to de Lacunza. As with the
writings of Ribera, de Lacunza developed a futuristic perspective which restricted the prophetic
fulfillments in the book of Revelation to the end of the world. He stated that the antichrist and all
prophecies concerning the antichrist were yet to happen in the future.
He also taught of a partial
resurrection of the saints before the appearance of the antichrist, whom he stated was not a single
individual but the body of godless masses left behind on the Earth after the resurrection of the
saints.
The resurrection would be followed by God’s judgements of wrath on the inhabitants of the
Earth for an indeterminate period of not less than 45 days.
Lacunza also wrote that during a
millennium after the tribulation the Jewish animal sacrifices would be reinstated along with the
Eucharist (the mass) of the Catholic Church.
Lacunza has followed after Jewish fables and
replaced the commandments of God with the commandments of men. See Titus 1:13. “They
profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate.” (Titus 1:16 AV)
John Bray, in his book The Origin of the Pretribulation Teaching, states that he discovered
1827 writings of John Darby wherein Darby discussed the pretribulation rapture. Coincidently, that
was the same year in which the English translation of Jesuit Priest Emanuel de Lacunza’s book was
published. In John Darby’s later 1829 writings he acknowledged being aware of both Lacunza’s
teachings and the writings of Lacunza’a translator, Edward Irving.
The timing of Darby’s first
writings of a pretribulation rapture in 1827, the publication year for Edward Irving’s English
translation of Lacunza’s book, certainly suggests that he learned that doctrine from the writings of
Lacunza. In any case, it is generally acknowledged that Darby was most responsible for
popularizing the doctrine. In fact, early on the doctrine was known as Darbyism.
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield has through his reference bible popularized the pretribulation
rapture doctrine. Scofield wholeheartedly embraced John Darby’s pretribulation rapture teachings.
Scofield learned Darby’s teachings from Dr. James H. Brookes, who was the pastor of the Compton
Avenue Presbyterian Church in St. Louis and a follower of Darby’s teachings.
Scofield put
explanatory notes, which included Darby's dispensational system, in his famous Scofield Reference
Bible.
The Scofield Reference Bible was published in 1909 and has since then sold more than
three million copies. Including explanatory notes in the Holy Bible was unusual for the time and
contrary to the practice of the Bible societies whose motto was "without note or comment."
The Scofield bible was funded and nurtured by World Zionist leaders who saw the Christian
churches in America as an obstacle to their plan for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in
Palestine. These Zionists initiated a program to infiltrate and change the Christian doctrines of those
churches. Two of the tools used to accomplish this goal were Cyrus I. Scofield and a venerable,
world respected European book publisher: The Oxford University Press.
The scheme was to alter the Christian gospel and corrupt the church with a pro-Zionist
subculture. “Scofield's role was to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages.”
In
1909, the Oxford University Press published and implemented a large advertising budget to promote
the Scofield Reference Bible.
The Scofield Reference Bible was a subterfuge designed to create a subculture around a new
worship icon, the modern State of Israel. The new state of Israel did not yet exist, but the well-funded Zionists already had it on their drawing boards.
This is not surprising when one considers
that the progenitors of the pretribulation doctrine were Jesuits, and the first Jesuits were crypto-Jews.
A crypto-Jew is a Jew who converts to another religion and outwardly embraces the new
religion, while secretly maintaining Jewish practices. Ignatius Loyola himself was a crypto-Jew of
the Occult Cabala. Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) and Emanuel Lacunza (1731-1801), the Jesuit
priests who first conjured up the pretribulation rapture doctrine were Jews.
“Since the death of its original author and namesake, The Scofield Reference Bible has gone
through several editions. Massive pro-Zionist notes were added to the 1967 edition, and some of
Scofield's most significant notes from the original editions were removed where they apparently
failed to further Zionist aims fast enough. Yet this edition retains the title, "The New Scofield
Reference Bible, Holy Bible, Editor C.I. Scofield."
It's anti-Arab, Zionist “Christian” subculture
theology has fostered unyielding “Christian” support for the State of Israel and its barbaric
subjugation of the native Palestinians.
Who was C.I. Scofield? Scofield was a young con-artist who engaged in a continual pattern
of fraud and deception both before and after his alleged 1879 conversion. Scofield was a partner
with John J. Ingalls, a Jewish lawyer, in a railroad scam which led to Schofield being sentenced to
prison for criminal forgery.
“Upon his release from prison, Scofield deserted his first wife, Leonteen Carry Scofield, and
his two daughters Abigail and Helen, and he took as his mistress a young girl from the St. Louis
Flower Mission. He later abandoned her for Helen van Ward, whom he eventually married.”
Scofield had developed connections with a subgroup of the Illuminati, known as the Secret
Six.
He was taken under the wing of Samuel Untermeyer, an ardent Zionist who later became
Chairman of the American Jewish Committee and President of the American League of Jewish
Patriots.
“Untermeyer introduced Scofield to numerous Zionist and socialist leaders, including
Samuel Gompers, Fiorello LaGuardia, Abraham Straus, Bernard Baruch and Jacob Schiff.”
These powerful figures financed Scofield's research trips to Oxford and arranged the publication and
distribution of his reference bible. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
In 1892 Scofield fraudulently claimed to have a Doctorate of Divinity and began calling
himself “Doctor Scofield.”
In fact, Scofield did not have a doctorate degree from any Seminary or
University or for that matter any degree of any kind from any college. Below is an excerpt from an
article titled “Cyrus I. Scofield in the Role of a Congregational Minister” which appeared on August
27, 1881 in the Topeka newspaper, The Daily Capital:
“The last personal knowledge that Kansans have had of this peer among scalawags, was when about four years ago, after a series of forgeries and confidence games he left the state and a destitute family and took refuge in Canada.
For a time he kept undercover, nothing being heard of him until within the past two years when he turned up in St. Louis, where he had a wealthy widowed sister living who has generally come to the front and squared up Cyrus’ little follies and foibles by paying good round sums of money.
Within the past year, however, Cyrus committed a series of St. Louis forgeries that could not be settled so easily, and the erratic young gentleman was compelled to linger in the St. Louis jail for a period of six months.
Among the many malicious acts that characterized his career, was one peculiarly atrocious, that has come under our personal notice. Shortly after he left Kansas, leaving his wife and two children dependent upon the bounty of his wife’s mother, he wrote his wife that he could invest some $1,300 of her mother’s money, all she had, in a manner that would return big interest.
After some correspondence he forwarded them a mortgage, signed
and executed by one Chas. Best, purporting to convey valuable
property in St. Louis. Upon this, the money was sent to him.
Afterwards the mortgages were found to be base forgeries, no such
person as Charles Best being in existence, and the property conveyed
in the mortgage fictitious.”
Scofield abandoned his wife and children and refused to support them. At that time it was difficult for a woman to work and support herself and her children. I Timothy 5:8 states: “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
When his first wife Leontine originally filed for divorce in July 1881, she listed the
following reasons: “(he had)…absented himself from his said wife and children, and had not been
with them but abandoned them with the intention of not returning to them again… has been guilty of
gross neglect of duty and has failed to support this plaintiff or her said children, or to contribute
thereto, and has made no provision for them for food, clothing or a home, or in any manner
performed his duty in the support of said family although he was able to do so.”
At that time
Scofield was the pastor of Hyde Park Congregational Church in St. Louis.
The divorce decree
was granted in 1883, with the court finding that Scofield “was not a fit person to have custody of the
children.”
Having been married twice and being a demonstrably covetous and greedy con artist, Scofield did not qualify to be a church leader, let alone a respected commentator of God’s word: “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;” (1 Timothy 3:2-4 AV)
While Scofield used the King James text he indicated in his 1909 bible introduction that he
viewed with favor the work of Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, who were two
popular compilers of the corrupted Alexandrian Greek text. Westcott and Hort were nominal
Protestants, but they were defacto Roman Catholics. In addition, Westcott and Hort were both
necromancers who were members of an occult club called the “Ghostly Guild.”
Throughout
Scofield’s bible he placed marginal notes that attacked the inerrancy of the Received Text of the
Holy Scripture and indicated his preference for the corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts used by the
Catholic Church.
Scofield was a huckster and con artist who was a front man for very powerful Zionist Jews. The pretribulation rapture deception he interlaced within his bible is part of an antichrist conspiracy that is today being nurtured by other wolves in sheep’s clothing who are following in Scofield’s footsteps and working hand in hand with papists and Zionists. Steve Van Nattan, who portrays himself as an enemy of Rome and a defender of the King James Bible, has wittingly or unwittingly assisted these enemies of the gospel by promoting the 1917 edition of the Scofield Reference Bible and its Zionist pretribulation rapture corruption. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3.
Part and parcel of this pretribulation rapture myth is that at the conclusion of a supposed
seven year tribulation period Christ will set up a millennial kingdom complete with a rebuilt Jewish
temple and sacrifices. Steve Van Nattan is in complete agreement with this antichrist doctrine: “I
teach . . . the Coming of The Lord Jesus Christ for His Church prior to a literal seven year
Tribulation, which will be followed by Messiah's Second Coming and His literal 1000 year
reign with His Saints.”
Van Nattan further states: “I believe that the kingdom promised to
Israel is very real, and it is all in the future as promised by the prophets.”
“I believe Jesus
Christ will return literally and restore Israel to glory and give those real Jews 1000 years of
joy and Covenant blessing.”
That eschatological teaching of a return to the Jewish animal sacrifices gives the Jews
primacy in God’s plan and relegates Christians to a prophetic parenthetical to be supplanted by the
Jews during the supposed thousand year earthly reign of Christ. Van Nattan states on his website:
“I believe that David's throne will be restored to Messiah, NOT during the Church Age, nor
by human zeal, but in the coming Kingdom of Messiah.”
Van Nattan does not believe in the
present spiritual kingdom of God, rather his carnal mind hopes for a future carnal kingdom, where
their will be a new earthly Jewish temple. He states: “In the last days, Messiah will establish a
real house of rule in Mount Zion which will be exalted above all the earth.”
Van Nattan recommends a pretribulation resource website as follows: “Visit Brother James
Paul Hanenburg's Home Page. This is the most useful Web Page I know of in defense of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.”
On Hanenburg’s website is found the following information in an article
by Randall Price about the temple which is supposedly going to be built during the millennium. The
article is typical of the kind of unbiblical mythology that has been embraced by Van Nattan and
others who ascribe to the pretribulation rapture doctrine. It is full of citations to bible passages, all of
which have been twisted by interpretation beyond recognition to fit their preconceived theory of a
future temple.
The Millennial Temple will be built by Christ (Zech. 6:12-13),
redeemed Jews (Ezek. 43:10-11), and representatives from the
Gentile nations (Zech. 6:15; Hag. 2:7; cf. Is. 60:10) at the beginning
of the Messianic kingdom (Ezek. 37:26-28). As a sign of the
restoration of theocratic rule the Shekinah Glory will return to its
Holy of Holies (Ezek. 43:1-7; cf. Is. 4:5-6). Redeemed Gentiles will
also be included in worship at this Temple (Is. 60:6; Zeph. 3:10;
Zech. 2:11; 8:22; 14:16-19) as predicted by Jesus (Matt. 21:13; Mk.
11:17; Lk. 19:46; cf. Is. 56:7). The dimensions and architectural
design of the Millennial Temple, as well as its priestly personnel and
ritual regulations are detailed in Ezekiel 40-48. Reasons as to why
these descriptions in Ezekiel must be both literal and with reference
to the eschatological age are as follows: (1) the immense size of the
Temple as well as other features of its design differ radically from
those of previously known Jewish temples (Ezek. 42:20; 48:35), (2)
aspects of the Temple's design and ritual violate the Mosaic Law (e.g.
a stepped-altar, Ezek. 43:17), indicating it must be built under
Israel's future New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-33; Ezek. 37:26-28), (3)
those rebuilding the Temple after the exile did not refer to Ezekiel
nor attempt to rebuild the Temple he described because they realized
it was intended for a future age (Hag. 2:3-9), (4) the context of
Ezekiel indicates the Temple is rebuilt after the glorious return of the
Lord (Ezek. 44:1-4; 48:35), (5) it accords with other prophetic texts
which speak about the Millennial Temple (Is. 2:2-4; Jer. 33:18; 60:7,
13; Ezek. 37:26-28; 40-48; Hag. 2:9; Zech. 6:12-13;14:20).
Another feature of Ezekiel's Temple that indicates its literal
interpretation is the ceremonial system including blood
sacrifices. This is in keeping with other prophetic predictions
where the Temple includes a priesthood and sacrifices (Is. 56:6-7; 60:7; Jer. 33:18; Zech. 14:16-21). The function of these
sacrifices may be memorial in nature, just as the Lord's Supper
is today (1 Cor. 11:24-26), however, the fact that they are said
to be for "atonement" may also indicate the need for a ritual
purification. This would be necessary, as in the past (Heb. 9:13),
for those saints living in mortal bodies throughout the
Millennium and seeking approach to the Temple since God's
holy presence will be resident there (Jer. 3:17; Zech. 14:20-21).
The Millennial Temple will apparently be besieged by Satan and his
army at the end of the Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:7-9) and
removed at the time of the creation of the new earth (Is. 65:17;
66:22; 2 Pet. 3:12-13; Rev. 21:1). (emphasis added)
Hebrews 8:1-10:39 makes explicitly clear that Christ fulfilled the requirements of the law by sacrificing himself once for sins for all time. If the blood of animals were sufficient to satisfy God there would be no need for him to come to the earth and sacrifice himself. “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.” (Hebrews 8:6-7 AV)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28 AV)
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:10-14 AV)
God would not have us return to the weak and beggarly elements of the old testament law. See Galatians 4:9-11. To teach such a thing is to blasphemously state that Christ’s sacrifice was imperfect and insufficient, and that therefore there is a need to reinstate the animal sacrifices. The old testament law was to act as a schoolmaster until the promise of Christ. God would have no reason to reinstate something that was intended to be in place only until he came to offer his own body as a perfect sacrifice. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile, we are all one by faith in Christ. He is not going to divide us once again into Jew and Gentile. His church is his body which cannot be divided. 1 Corinthians 1:13. For a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. Mark 3:24.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:23-29 AV)
The bible makes clear that the old covenant is to vanish, being replaced by the new covenant of faith in Jesus Christ. “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” (Hebrews 8:13 AV) Why would God reinstate something in which he has said would vanish away and in which he has had no pleasure? “In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.” (Hebrews 10:6 AV)
Christ made his one sacrifice on the cross whereby those that believe in him are made perfect, consequently there will be no more offering of any kind for sin, period.
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. (Hebrews 10:12-18 AV)
Christ has set us free from the law of sin and death in our flesh. Because of the weakness of the flesh it is not possible for us to obey God’s holy law. God must change our hearts through spiritual rebirth so that we are able to walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Our obedience to God’s law does not earn salvation, though, it is a sign of salvation. We fulfill the righteousness of his law through the obedience of Jesus and his final sacrifice. Jesus’ righteousness is imputed to those who are chosen for salvation to believe in him. “And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 4:22-5:1 AV) Those who try to use obedience to the law of God as a means to salvation are carnally minded, trying to earn salvation though the works of the flesh. The carnal minds that teach a return to the carnal sacrifices of the law are enmity against God.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:1-8 AV)
Jesus blotted out the ordinances that were against us and nailed them to the cross. The law was only a shadow of Christ; he is the fulfilment of the law. Having fulfilled the law, Christ will not reinstate it.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (Colossians 2:13-17 AV)
The law of God was added after the promise given to Abraham. The law did not void the promise of God given to Abraham. The blessings of Abraham flow to all who believe in Jesus Christ. All who believe in Jesus are heirs of the promise given to Abraham. Galatians 3:23-29. That is, through faith in Christ one becomes the spiritual seed of Abraham. Obedience to God is the result of salvation not the cause of it. Just as with Abraham, who believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness, so too all others who believe God it is also accounted unto them as righteousness.
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (Galatians 3:6-22 AV)
All the law and the prophets are summarized in two commandments.
Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:36-40 AV)
Jesus set us free, by fulfilling the requirements of the law for us. Matthew 5:17; John 8:32; Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14. Because we are set free does not mean we are free to sin. He gave us a new heart so that we are free to obey the law of God, which would otherwise have been an impossibility. We are commanded to love one another and love God, upon those two commandments hang all the requirements of the law. Matthew 22:36-40. “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Galatians 5:13-14 AV) The royal law of God is that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. James 2:6. In fact, Jesus Gave us a new commandment that goes further and tells us to what degree we are to love one another. Our obedience to this new commandment does not earn salvation, but our obedience is a sign that we are his disciples. “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:34-35 AV)
Righteousness is imputed to those who believe, it is not earned. The deeds of the law will never earn salvation. Salvation is a gift of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:8-10.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:20-31 AV)
The true Jews are those that accept their Messiah, Jesus. The kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom, it is not a kingdom based on race or tribe. Those who are chosen by God to believe in Jesus Christ are the spiritual Israel of God.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. (Romans 9:6-8 AV)
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2:28-29 AV)
Keeping commandments or being born into a certain tribe or nation is not relevant to one’s entrance into God’s kingdom. God’s kingdom is made up of those whom he has chosen by his grace.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. (Romans 9:16 AV)
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (Romans 9:18 AV)
God has not cast away Israel. His Israel is made up of those whom he foreknew before the foundation of the world who would believe in Jesus unto salvation. Therefore, all Israel shall be saved.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. (Romans 11:2 AV) And so all Israel shall be saved. (Romans 11:26 AV)
The Wailing Wall and Fort Antonia
Part and parcel of the belief in the renewed millennium sacrifices is the belief that there will
be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple. Many believe that the supposed future temple will be rebuilt at
the location of what is now known as the Wailing Wall, because they believe that the Wailing Wall
is a remnant of the western wall from the old temple. In fact, the wailing wall is not the western wall
from the ancient Jewish temple, but in fact is the western wall of the Roman Fort Antonia.
Fort
Antonia was a permanent Roman fort at the time of Jesus. Fort Antonia was 800 feet north of the
temple and the southern wall of the fort was connected to the northern wall of the temple by double
colonnades.
Jesus made it clear that the temple would be destroyed so thoroughly that "[t]here shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." Matthew 24:1,2; Mark 13:1,2; Luke 19:43,44; 21:5,6. The Jews are all too happy to deceive the world into believing that Jesus was wrong. In fact, the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled perfectly. The temple was completely destroyed down to the last stone, the remains that are left standing today are the remains of Fort Antonia, not the temple.
The Dome of the Rock is not as it is supposed the place where Mohamad ascended into
heaven. The Dome of the Rock is a pagan Islamic shrine built over the Roman Praetorium, which
was where Pilate sentenced Jesus.
The Praetorium and was inside Fort Antonia, not the Jewish
temple.
Just as Christ repeated throughout his new testament so I will repeat: God has abolished the distinction between Jew and Gentile. Romans 3:28-30; 10:11-13. His church has become one spiritual temple and household of God, with Christ being the chief cornerstone. There is no more need for a physical temple, which was merely a shadow of the greater spiritual temple, his church.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:14-22 AV)
We must look to scripture to find the answer. In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, God states that the man of sin, the antichrist, will exalt himself above all that is called God and sit in the temple of God and claim to be God.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 AV)
What is the temple of God? Each saved Christian individually and all saved Christians corporately make up the temple of God.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17 AV)
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 AV)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: (Ephesians 2:21 AV)
God is against the lies of Van Nattan and his false teachings of a renewal by God of fleshly Israel. “Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:32 AV) (emphasis added)
The pope has claimed the authority and position of God Almighty. He claims to be the God who rules the universal (catholic) church of God. That is, he claims to rule as God in the temple of God, the church.
The Roman Pontiff judges all man, but is judged by no one. We
declare, assert, define and pronounce: to be subject to the Roman
Pontiff is to every human creature altogether necessary for salvation.
. . . That which was spoken of Christ . . . ‘Thou hast subdued all
things under His feet,’ may well seem verified in me. I have the
authority of the King of kings. I am all in all and above all, so
that God, Himself and I, The Vicar of God, have but one
consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do.
What therefore, can you make of me but God. The Bull
Sanctum, November 18, 1302 (emphasis added).
[W]e hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty. Pope Leo
XIII (emphasis added).
In order to conceal the fact that the pope fulfills the prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 of the
antichrist sitting in the temple of God, the pope had his minions, the Jesuits, promote the millennium
temple fable so that the deceived will be looking for the antichrist in the future and not see the papal
antichrist right beneath their noses. Van Nattan has bought into this deception hook line and sinker;
he does not believe that the pope is the antichrist. Van Nattan instead suggests that the antichrist
could possibly be Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga, who is the Secretary-General of the Council
of the European Union.
Those that accept this millennium temple have rejected righteousness by faith in Jesus Christ and instead teach a rebuilding of the physical temple, where righteousness will be by the law. This Catholic millennium doctrine is a rejection of Christ, the Chief cornerstone of the spiritual temple of God. The rebuilding of the physical temple with physical stone is a rejection of the rock of salvation, Jesus Christ. “But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Romans 9:31-33 AV) Jesus Christ is the stone that has been rejected by the builders of this false religion; to them he is a rock of offense upon whom they will stumble to there ultimate demise. “For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.” (Romans 4:14 AV) Jesus is the rock of salvation. Psalms 62:6; 89:26; 95:1. Christians are spiritual stones that are incorporated into Jesus Christ to make a holy temple of the Lord.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:2-9 AV)
The pope is a usurper who is against Christ and claims to take the place of Christ in his
temple (the church). The Holy Bible warns of one who will sit in God’s temple claiming the
authority of God. That is just what the Pope is doing by calling himself the head of the Catholic
church. Catholic church means universal church.
God, not the Pope, is the head of the universal
church.
The Roman Catholic organization purports to be the universal church of God with the pope as the head of that church. But how can that Romish organization be God’s church when it is chock full of idols.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Corinthians 6:16 AV)
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; (1 Corinthians 8:10 AV)
The leader of the Roman Catholic organization, the pope, has claimed that he not only is he the leader of the Roman Catholics but all of Christianity. He also claims that entrance into Heaven is dependant on submission to his authority.
We declare, state and define that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of all human beings that they submit to the Roman Pontiff. Bull Unum Sanctum, Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.
Such a doctrine reveals the Pope as the antichrist. He is implying by that statement that he holds the position and authority of God Almighty. Further on you will read where the Pope expressly claims the authority of God. Jesus, however, made it clear that he, being God, was the only way to heaven.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 AV)
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:11-12 AV)
Not only has the pope claimed the authority to save but he also claims to sit in place of
Almighty God with equal authority and infallibility of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not just in spiritual
matters but in all matters. The pope claims power over the governments of the earth. During the
coronation ceremony the Pope is crowned with these words: “Take thou the tiara adorned with the
triple crown, and know that thou art the father of princes and kings and the governor of the world”
This one and unique Church, therefore, has not two heads, like a monster, but one body and one head, viz., Christ and his vicar, Peter’s successor. Bull Unum Sanctum, Pope Boniface VIII, 1302 (emphasis added).
[T]he Roman pontiff possess primacy over the whole world; and that the Roman pontiff is the successor of Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is true Vicar of Christ, and Head of the whole Church, and Father and Teacher of all Christians; and that full power was given to him in Blessed Peter by Jesus Christ our Lord, to rule, feed and govern the universal Church. . . . This is the teaching of Catholic truth, from which no one can deviate without loss of faith and of salvation. And since, by the define right of Apostolic primacy, one Roman pontiff is placed over the universal Church, We further teach and declare that he is the supreme judge of the faithful . . . none may reopen the judgment of the Apostolic See, than whose authority there is no greater. The Vatican Council, Session IV, chapter III, July 18, 1870 (emphasis added).
[R]oyal power derives from the Pontifical authority.
Pope
Innocent III.
[T]emporal power should be subject to the spiritual.
Pope
Boniface VII.
The pope claims primacy over the whole world, but when the disciples asked Jesus who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven, Jesus did not say “Peter.” He said whoever humbles himself as a little child shall be the greatest. See Matthew 18:1-4. Christ is the head of the church, not Peter or his alleged successor, the pope. See Ephesians 5:23.
The pope considers himself the vicar of Christ. What does it mean to be a vicar? The word
vicar means one who acts in place of another. We derive the English word vice from vicar. For
example the Vice President acts in place of the President during those times when the President
himself cannot act. The Bible talks about one who would come and deceive the world into believing
that he is in place of Christ. He is identified as the antichrist. The pope himself is acknowledging
that he is the antichrist by claiming to be the vicar of Christ. Vicar of Christ means antichrist. Noah
Webster defined the prefix “anti” as a preposition meaning not only against but also in place of the
noun it follows.
The Oxford English Dictionary
defines “anti” as meaning “opposite, against,
in exchange, instead, representing, rivaling, simulating.” Antichrist means one who is against Christ
and at the same time purports to take the place of Christ. Therefore, vicar of Christ = antichrist.
Is there one who Jesus promised who would act in his name? Yes, the Holy Ghost, not the pope of Rome!
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:25-26 AV)
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. (John 16:7 AV)
The Pope even takes the title of God the Father. For example, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, at § 10 refers to Pope John II as the “Holy Father, Pope John II.” The pope goes by other majestic titles such as “Your Holiness.” Pope John Paul II, himself, admits that such titles are iniminical to the Gospel. He even cites the Bible passage that condemns such practices. He simply explains that the Catholic traditions of men implicitly authorize this violation of God’s commands.
Have no fear when people call me the ‘Vicar of Christ,’ when they
say to me ‘Holy Father,’ or ‘Your Holiness,’ or use titles similar to
these, which seem even inimical to the Gospel. Christ declared: ‘Call
no one on earth your father; you have one Father in heaven. Do not
be called ‘Master;’ you have but one master, the Messiah’ (Mt 23:9-10). These expressions, nevertheless, have evolved out of a long
tradition, becoming part of common usage. One must not be afraid
of these words either. Pope John Paul II.
The term “Holy Father” was used in the Holy Scripture only one time, it was used by Jesus the night before his crucifixion to refer to God the Father. Implicit in taking God’s name is taking his position and authority. As Jesus said in John 14:28, God the Father is greater than Jesus. By taking the title “Holy Father,” the Pope is implicitly presenting himself as greater than Jesus Christ.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. (John 17:11 AV)
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (John 14:28 AV)
The very title “Pope” is a Latin word which means papa. It is the term used by small children to refer to their father. It is the Latin equivalent of “dada” or “daddy.” In Chaldee, the language of the first century Jews, “papa” would be translated “abba.” Abba is used 3 times in the Holy Bible. Each time abba refers to God the Father.
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. (Mark 14:36 AV)
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:15 AV)
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6 AV)
Note the trusting humility connoted in the above passages. The Pope of Rome wants his
subjects to humble themselves before him as trusting children. He is the papa of their faith. He has
taken the name that is rightfully God’s in his attempt to turn men from God to him. The Pope not
only desires submission to his authority, but it is not uncommon for the Pope to humiliate his
subjects by requiring them to kiss his feet.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:4 AV)
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. (Mark 10:15 AV)
Pastors of some Protestant denominations are not blameless in this. While they don’t take the title of “father,” many do take the title “reverend.” “Reverend” is used only once in all of the Holy Scriptures and it is used to describe the name of the Lord God Almighty.
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. (Psalms 111:9 AV)
God’s name is holy and reverend. What man can claim to be reverend? Reverend
means to be worthy of respect mingled with fear and awe, to be venerated.
The veneration of
persons is a pagan custom that is foreign to Christianity.
But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Mark 10:42-45 AV)
All men are sinners, none is righteous. Our salvation is a gift from God. No man can boast in his salvation or place in God’s Kingdom, because they did not do anything to earn it. No man should be reverend in God’s church.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Romans 3:10-18 AV)
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Romans 3:27 AV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9 AV)
That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:29-31 AV)
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. (2 Corinthians 10:17-18 AV)
God will not share his glory with anyone! In the following passage he first states that his name is the LORD (the same name that is holy and reverend) and then emphatically states that he will not give his glory to another.
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8 AV)
Confusing the Wrath of God With the Tribulation of the Saints
Van Nattan confuses the tribulation of the saints with the wrath of God. He states on his
website: “I believe that God raptures the Church because they are the Bride which is not
appointed to wrath but to the marriage feast of the Lamb. . . . Those saints who, in
sadomasochistic zeal, think they are called to suffer under God's wrath-- They just don't
know their God very well do they? Poor things-- What a wonderful surprise they are about
to get as they go up with the rest of u,s (sic) in spite of the sorrow they have wrecked on their
fellow saints with their sloppy agape.”
Van Nattan believes that God has not chosen the church to be the object of his wrath,
therefore, the church must be raptured out of the world prior to the tribulation period.
It is true
that God’s church will never be the object of his wrath. See John 5:24; Romans 5:9, 8:1; 1
Thessolonians 1:10, 5:9. There is, however, a world of difference between God’s wrath and the
tribulations of this world. The following passages indicate that Christians will in fact suffer great
persecution and tribulation in this world.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. (Matthew 24:9 AV)
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33 AV)
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22 AV)
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. (1 Thessalonians 3:3-4 AV)
If the church of Christ is to be raptured out of the world prior to the alleged seven year tribulation period why did Jesus pray that his church not be taken out of the world? "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." (John 17:15 AV) Lest one argue that Jesus was only praying about his then living disciples, he made it clear that he was praying for all Christians. "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." (John 17:20 AV) Is there any doubt that the prayers of Jesus will be answered?
Van Nattan Rejects God’s Predestination and Election of the Saints
Steve Van Nattan is so enamored with fleshly Israel that he adopts the truly bizarre doctrine
that it is fleshly Israel that is God’s elect. “In the New Testament, election is almost always
having to do with Israel.”
That statement is easily shown to be false, and I prove it to be so
below. He compounds his error by stating that although God elects some to salvation, men still have
“full choice.”
“The atonement is NOT limited. God elects some to Salvation, but men, within their
limitations, also have full choice. In the New Testament, election is almost always having to
do with Israel, which has not inherited the covenant of Jesus Christ to the nation of Israel.
The Gospel is also a "whosoever will" Gospel.”
Van Nattan pays lip service to God’s election, but he doesn’t actually believe it. Van Nattan has conjured up a double minded doctrine in which he says that God elects men to salvation, but that at the same time men have “full choice.” Van Nattan’s demonic doctrine makes no sense. Either God elects his chosen for salvation, or men, of their own free will, choose to be saved. Both cannot be true. If God elects men to salvation, then salvation is God’s choice entirely. How can God elect, and at the same time men have “full choice?” It is not possible for both to be true.
Van Nattan’s doctrine would mean that God could choose someone for salvation, but that person would have “full choice” to reject God and “unchoose” himself, contrary to the will of God. If God wills something to be done, then it will be done. Matthew 6:10. Nobody can stay God’s hand. Daniel 4:35. Jesus made it clear that once one is chosen by God, no man is able to pluck him from his hand. John 10:28-29. When God says “no man” can undo his sovereign choice, he means “no man,” and that includes the ones who are chosen. If one chosen for salvation were to be able to “unchoose” himself, that would mean he is able to thwart God’s will. That is impossible, because that would make him more powerful than God. Van Nattan then punctuates his irrational flurry with a statement that suggests that election in the New Testament is not for the church, but is instead for fleshly Israel.
On another page on his website he criticizes the doctrines of election and predestination and
states that the result of teaching predestination and election in the church is: “Cold saints and dead
religion.”
On Van Nattan’s website he has also posted a letter from a person whom Van Nattan
described as one saved from Calvinism. First, let me say that I do not adhere to Calvinism, unless
Calvinism adheres to God’s word. One of Satan’s favorite strategies is to give scriptural truths a
noxious label. I am not versed in Calvinism, but I am versed in the Bible to the extent that God has
given me ability. I do not intend to defend Calvin or what people call Calvinism, I intend to defend
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Van Nattan posted the letter because he agrees with the author of the
letter, who also rejects the doctrine of predestination. In promoting a book by Laurence Vance
which attacks Calvinism, the writer states: “This book makes a good point: where in the bible does
GOD specifically decree predestination??”
The answer to that question is easy for those who have read the bible. The bible states clearly that Christians are predestined for salvation according to the sovereign will of God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (Ephesians 1:3-5 AV)
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (Ephesians 1:11 AV)
We who believe in Jesus are adopted children of God. We were chosen by God for adoption before the world was created. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” (Ephesians 1:4-5 AV) “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Romans 8:29-30 AV)
A Christian is assured of salvation, because the Bible states clearly that God does the choosing and once one is chosen by God, he is chosen for eternity and cannot lose his salvation. Those who do not believe in Jesus, do not believe in Jesus because, very simply, they have not been chosen by God. “But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.” (John 10:26-30 AV) Once one is chosen for salvation, one cannot “unchoose” oneself. That would mean God made a mistake, and it would also mean that man can overrule God’s choice, which would make God a liar and man more powerful than God. Read in Matthew 7:23 what Jesus will say to the unsaved at the final judgement. He will say he never knew them. It is not that they once were known by God and then they fell from grace. The unsaved were never chosen by God in the first place. God does the choosing, not man. Notice in Matthew 7:22 how ineffectual good works are to obtaining salvation, the unsaved protest before Jesus: “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?” Notice also in Matthew 7:18-27 that it is not possible for the unsaved to do truly good works. The purported good works of the unsaved in the Catholic Church are not the works of God, they are the “evil fruit” of disobedience. They are works that are contrary to the will of God; they are faithless works done in order be justified according to pagan rules like those of the Catholic Church. In contrast, the good works of the saved are not the means of obtaining justification; they are the fruit of the Holy Spirit, done in loving obedience to Christ. The good works of the chosen put the words of Jesus into practice. In contrast, the works of the unsaved are exposed as evil fruits when they are illuminated by the light of the gospel.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. (Matthew 7:18-27 AV)
The Holy Bible states that faith is a gift from God. We, who are saved, were at one time dead in sin, but God, through his Holy Spirit, made us alive by his glorious grace. “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” Ephesians 2:1. It is not possible for a dead man to do anything, a dead man cannot even have faith, he must be made alive again. Man does not have it in him to come to Jesus; God must draw him. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44 AV) In order to get into the kingdom of God a man must be born again. John 3:3. It is not possible to born oneself, God must do it. “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” (James 1:18 AV) Those who are born again, have been chosen by God before the world was even created. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” Ephesians 1:4-5. Those chosen by God for salvation have done nothing to merit that salvation. We were not good, we were simply chosen, because God decided according to his own purpose to choose us. “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.” 2 Timothy 1:9. “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians 1:11 AV) Jesus made clear to his disciples that they did not choose him, he chose them. “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” John 15:16.
Consider the example of Paul. How did God choose him and save him? Did he use gentle persuasion? No, he knocked him to the ground changed his heart and then commenced giving Paul commands as to what he must do. Notice what Paul said immediately after being knocked to the ground. “Lord what wilt thou have me do.” In a split second, Paul went from a persecutor of the church to a member of the church, all according to the will of God, who chose him and changed his heart.
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Acts 9:3-6 AV)
How did he select his apostles? He commanded them to follow him, and they dropped what they were doing and followed him. Keep in mind that at that time Jesus was a total stranger to these men, yet they immediately obeyed his command to follow him without hesitation or question. That is the supernatural power of God at work.
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. (Matthew 4:18-22 AV)
Some may ask: “doesn’t man have a free will to choose to believe or not believe in Jesus?”
The answer is that man has a will, but it is not free. Man is enslaved by sin and death. Sinful man
wishes to rule in his own life, his every impulse is in rebellion against God. Indeed, man cannot
freely believe in God. God must transform man by the rebirth wrought by the Holy Spirit. The
worldly Roman Catholic Church curses anyone who says that man’s will is not free: “If anyone saith
that, since Adam’s sin, the free will of man is lost and extinguished; or that it is a thing with only a
name, yea, a name without reality, a figment, in fine, introduced into the Church by Satan; let him
be anathema.”
The Catholic church doctrine is that man’s will cooperates with God in bringing
about his own justification. The Catholic Church rains curses down on anyone who disagrees with
it. “If anyone saith that man’s free will, moved and excited by God, by assenting to God exciting
and calling, no wise cooperates towards disposing and preparing itself for obtaining the grace of
justification; that it cannot refuse its consent, if it would, but that, as something inanimate, it does
nothing whatever and is merely passive; let him be anathema.”
The reality is that man’s will is enslaved to sin. Man will not serve God nor seek God, because man is spiritually dead. It is God’s will that is free, and by his grace we are born again. God does the choosing, not man. James 1:18. “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” (Romans 3:10-11 AV) Jesus came to set us free. He gives his chosen a new spiritual birth and they are set free from sin and death to serve the Lord. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:6-11 AV) “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” (Romans 6:22 AV) See also, Romans 5:16-19; 7:1-8:17. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:23-24 AV)
The unbiblical doctrine that God is willing that all should be saved, and that it is only man’s free will that thwarts God’s desires has crept into many ostensibly Protestant churches. These corrupted churches point to 2 Peter 3:9 as authority for their doctrine. “The Lord is . . . not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9. At first glance it would appear that 2 Peter 3:9 supports their position. Closer examination of that passage reveals that the passage does not in fact support that false doctrine.
Those who try to force the square peg of scripture into the round hole of their false doctrine must shave off parts of the bible in order to get it to fit. In this case, they delete that portion of the passage which limits its application to those who are already chosen for salvation. What God means in that passage is that God is not willing that any who have been chosen for salvation should perish, but that all those who are saved should come to repentance. Read the entire passage in context and you will see that God is “longsuffering to us-ward.” God is not willing that “us” should perish and that “us” should come to repentance. “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9.
Who are the “us” in 2 Peter 3:9? Simply read the first paragraph of the letter and we see that Peter is writing to “them that have obtained like precious faith with us.” “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:” (2 Peter 1:1 AV) You see, in 2 Peter 3:9, Peter was stating that God was not willing that any who believe in Jesus should perish. God’s will is always done, and his will cannot be thwarted by man’s will. If God has foreordained one to salvation, noone can stay his hand. “And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” (Daniel 4:35 AV)
Another passage taken out of context by those who would like to reduce God to a passive participant in the salvation of men is John 1:12. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” Those who would elevate the will of man over the will of God argue that passage means that a person must be willing to receive that free gift of God by believing in Jesus. According to this false doctrine, God is passively offering salvation as a gift, but man must receive that gift of his own free will in order to be saved. That passage, however, does not say any such thing. John 1:12 simply explains that those who receive Jesus, meaning those who believe in Jesus, will be saved and become adopted sons of God. When the passage is read in context we see that the very next passage explains the source of that saving faith through which one is born again. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13 AV) John 1:13 makes it crystal clear that we are saved by the will of God alone, and not by our own will.
We are dead in trespasses and sin such that Jesus must supply the faith for our salvation. That’s right, he is not only the object of our faith, but he is also the source of our faith. Everything for our salvation is supplied by and through Christ. Our faith in Christ is the faith of Christ. See e.g., Romans 3:22; Galatians 3:22; Revelation 14:12.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (Galatians 2:16 AV)
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. (Philippians 3:9 AV)
Van Nattan, by rejecting predestination, has unwittingly aligned himself with the Catholic
church. The Catholic Church curses those who believe in the predestination by God of the saints: “If
anyone saith that the grace of justification is only attained to by those who are predestined unto life;
but that all others who are called are called indeed, but bought receive not grace, as being, by the
divine power, predestined unto evil; let him be anathema.”
The Bible is in direct contradiction to the doctrines of Van Nattan and the Catholic Church. If God chooses some for salvation, that means that those not chosen for salvation are in turn chosen for damnation. “Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” John 6:70.
Many use Revelation 3:20 as a proof text that it is up to the sinner to make the choice and decide to follow Christ. “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Revelation 3:20. They claim that God is helplessly knocking at the door of the believer’s heart in the hope that he will open the door and believe in him. That is not at all what that passage means. The passage states that “if any man hear my voice, and open the door.” It does not say, as some would suppose: “if any man decides to hear my voice and chooses of his own free will to open the door.” It is clear that any man who hears Christ’s calling and responds to it Christ will come to him. It does not say that it is the decision of the person to hear. It is a statement of fact that those who are chosen by God will hear. It is not a statement of condition that the hearer of God’s voice must now decide on his own whether to allow Jesus in. Jesus made this point to Pilate when he said: “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” John 18:37. Those who hear God’s calling will respond, because they were chosen by God to respond. The calling of Christ is effectual. God is not a helpless and impotent being, who must rely on the “decisions” of men.
Jesus states time and again throughout the Bible: “If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.” Mark 4:23. What does he mean by that? In Matthew 13:9-17 Jesus explains that he speaks in parables because not all who hear his words will understand. Those who are chosen by him will hear his voice and understand with their hearts and are converted. The parables are spiritual and can only be understood by those whom God has chosen for salvation. Revelation 3:20 is completely explained in Matthew 13:9-17. Those who are chosen by God will hear his voice and open the door, those that are not chosen will not hear his voice, because they cannot hear his voice. In fact Jesus explained that he used parables not only to reveal the gospel to those chosen for salvation, but also to hide the gospel from those chosen for destruction.
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. (Matthew 13:9-17 AV)
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. (Mark 4:10-12 AV)
The unsaved will not believe in Christ because they cannot believe in him. Only the chosen sheep, who have been born again from heaven, can believe in the good shepherd. “But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep.”(John 10:26 AV)
The Old Testament is an example, it is an allegorical pattern of the spiritual reality that is God’s kingdom. See Galatians 4:22-26; Hebrews 8:5. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart which is an example of how he hardens the hearts of unbelievers. “For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.” Romans 9:17-18. “(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.” (Romans 11:8 AV)
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: (Exodus 9:34-10:1 AV)
The unsaved cannot believe in Jesus because God has hardened their hearts and blinded their eyes.
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. (John 12:39-40 AV)
Jesus rejoiced that the truth of the gospel was revealed to the saved and hidden from the unsaved, according to God’s will.
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. (Luke 10:21 AV)
It is a lie that God loves everybody. If God loves everybody, then casting some into hell is an odd way of showing his love. The Bible makes clear that, in fact, most will be cast into an eternal lake of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 22:13 “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14 AV) “For many are called, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22:14 AV)
God has made all things for a purpose, and one of his purposes in creating some is to reserve them for eternal punishment.
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. (Proverbs 16:4 AV)
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (2 Peter 2:9 AV)
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. (Job 21:30 AV)
God does the choosing, he has already chosen who will be saved and who will be cast into the eternal lake of fire. He made his selection before the world was created. God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he will have compassion on whom he will have compassion. “It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” Romans 9:16. Those who are chosen for eternal destruction are not loved by God; God hates them. “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13.
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. (Romans 9:7-23 AV)
It is only those who have been chosen by God that can believe in Jesus. Notice what happened in Acts when the gospel was preached to the Gentiles, only those who were preordained by God for eternal life believed. “And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.” (Acts 13:48 AV)
Those who do not believe in Jesus, do not believe because they cannot believe. “[T]he natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14 AV) It is Christ who dwells in the believer that quickens him from death to life eternal. Without that Holy Spirit it is impossible to believe in Jesus. Those chosen by God for salvation cannot lose their salvation. See John 10:26-30.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:5-11 AV)
Good works are the evidence of faith. Hebrews 11:1-40. Faith without works is dead. James 2:14-20. Good works are done as a consequence of salvation, they do not earn salvation. God has done all the work for you. If you believe in Jesus, then you can please God with your good works, which he has foreordained for you to do. Good works are the fruit of spiritual rebirth. Salvation is by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. If one believes that good works must be added to faith in order to be saved, then that person does not truly believe in Jesus and the sufficiency of his finished work on the cross.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10 AV)
If Jesus is your Lord, then you will desire to obey his commandments, and he has a new commandment for his chosen. “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” (John 13:34 AV)
Timothy Kwoh alleged: “To top it all off, he quotes all the godless leftist sources along with White-Supremacist/Neo-Nazi sources.” That is a very devilish bit of sophistry by Mr. Kwoh. He knows very well that I am an avowed enemy of racists of any ilk. In fact, in chapter 60 of my book, I pointed out the my disagreement with the errors in the Christian Identity movement:
Col. Jack Mohr is an advocate of the Christian Identity movement. That movement teaches that the true tribes of Israel are the Anglo Saxons who settled in the British Isles. As pointed out in the next chapter, that doctrine is simply wrong. According to the Holy Bible, there is no longer a racial distinction between Jew and Gentile in God’s plan for salvation. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28 AV) The author has included material from Jack Mohr because his summary of the historical facts regarding the Jewish conspiracy are accurate.
I quoted from many secular and religious sources in my book including Freemason Albert Pike, official documents from the Vatican, the Talmud, and the Cabala. Simply because I quote a source does not mean that I agree with what the writer of that source believes! The so called “godless leftist” source is used in the book in order to expose the antichrist conspiracy. For example, in chapter 60 of my book I state: “These meetings have been admitted to by the communists themselves. On their Progressive Labor Party communist web site they recount the above facts, however, the communists spun the facts so that it appeared that they were against such activities, when in reality they were, and still are, behind those racist groups.” I cited from the Progressive Labor Party communist web site in order to show that even the communists themselves admit to conspiratorial meetings between supposedly opposing forces. In no way do I even suggest that I agree with the Progressive Party. Below is the passage in context:
These Zionist communists have implemented a plan for civil unrest in the United States. They have created the poison of unrest and the antidote of liberty snatching legislation in the same laboratory. At every turn of the screw they are squeezing the freedoms out of America. The communists contrived the civil rights movement in order to pass “civil rights” legislation which was actually a replacing our constitutionally protected, God given rights with governmentally established privileges. Most of the radical groups would die on the vine and would not be able to survive without some criminal larcenous enterprise bringing in money. Enter the Federal Reserve member banks, who have financed and supported most of these radical groups and control there agendas. Malcolm X found out that the KKK and the Nation of Islam had the same paymasters and was publicly exposing that fact. It was for that reason that he was assassinated.
Lets look at the evidence. According to FBI records in Atlanta on January 28, 1961, the black racist organization the Nation of Islam met with the white racist organizations the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. Malcolm X was in attendance. Now keep in mind that at that time Malcolm X considered white people “blue eyed devils” and yet he was meeting with representatives of the most violent and racist elements of whites. Why? To plan a strategy for racial unrest in order to give the government a reason to pass more liberty snatching laws.
These meetings have been admitted to by the communists
themselves. On their Progressive Labor Party communist web
site they recount the above facts, however, the communists spun
the facts so that it appeared that they were against such
activities, when in reality they were, and still are, behind those
racist groups. In exposing these events they have revealed further
evidence of their Hegelian dialectic in action. In 1961 at a Nation of
Islam rally in Washington, D.C., American Nazi George Lincoln
Rockwell sat in the front row with a few dozen storm troopers. When
it came time for the collection, Rockwell cried out: "George Lincoln
Rockwell gives $20." So much applause followed that Malcolm X
remarked, "George Lincoln Rockwell, you got the biggest hand you
ever got, didn’t you?" In 1962, at the Nation of Islam’s annual
Savior’s Day in Chicago, Rockwell was a featured speaker. He
stated, "I believe Elijah Muhammad is the Adolph Hitler of the black
man," and ended his speech by pumping his arm and shouting "Heil
Hitler." (emphasis added)
In 1985 Tom Metzger, Grand Dragon of the California KKK was
personally invited to attend a Nation of Islam rally in Los Angeles
and donated $100. Metzger afterwards stated that the KKK and the
Nation of Islam had entered into an alliance and that "he and other
white nationalists have shared intelligence data with the Black
Muslim organization and have been doing so for some time."
In October of 1985, the leaders of several white supremacist
organizations such as the Nazis and KKK, met at a farm 50 miles
northwest of Detroit for a “unity conference,” during which they
announced their support for Louis Farrakhan and the black
supremacist organization Nation of Islam.”
The above quote clearly indicates that I cited a “godless leftist”source in order to reveal the evil conspiracy between white supremacists and the Nation of Islam, not, as implied by Kwoh, because I agree with them.
Kwoh objects to my website linking to resources from David Irving and Henry Ford at http://www.antichristconspiracy.com/the_conspiracy.htm. He claims that they were both “Jew haters.” I am not aware of any evidence of either of those persons being Jew haters, unless exposing the truth about the evils of the Jewish Talmud and the evil deeds of Zionist Jews makes one a Jew hater. Furthermore, even if such evidence existed, Kwoh deceptively fails to mention that I clearly state on my website (http://www.antichristconspiracy.com/the_conspiracy.htm) that the links on my website are placed there as resources and should not be construed to mean that I agree with everything on those sites:
This web site has links to other sites that contain valuable reference material, much of which has been suppressed from the general public. The presence of a link to another site, however, does not necessarily mean that the author of Antichrist Conspiracy agrees with every doctrinal statement made therein. Even though the author may disagree with some of the doctrinal statements made in some of the other websites, he has provided links to those sites because they contain accurate information on other important points. It is incumbent upon the reader to be as the noble Bereans, who searched the scriptures to determine the accuracy of any doctrine. See Acts 17:11. The author, of course, stands behind the accuracy of the facts and doctrines contained in his ebook, Antichrist Conspiracy.
Beware the Leaven of Van Nattan, Which is Hypocrisy
Jesus warned us: “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” (Luke 12:1 AV)
Van Nattan once had a voluminous resource page at www.balaams-ass.com devoted to
exposing the errors of the Roman Catholic Church. He even had a link to my previous web page.
He then decided to remove all of the material on his site which exposed the errors of Rome. He then
devoted his website to such hard hitting Christian issues as "Coffee and the Advantage of the Lovely
Brew" and "Biscuits and Sorghum Molasses." He posted the following explanation on the website
for his retreat: " NOTICE: ALL CONTROVERSY HAS BEEN DROPPED OR MODIFIED
TO GET US OFF OF THE BULL'S EYE WITH REGARD TO THE HATE CRIMES
ACT."
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.” Proverbs 28:1.
Steve Van Nattan removed all controversy from his former website despite the fact that on
his new website he states: “YOU are a fool if you think the Christian life is motivated by tact
instead of open zeal.”
I will hold him to his own standard. He emphatically states: “I believe
that a fool must be identified as a fool publicly, just as Proverbs speaks frequently of fools of
every kind.”
Van Nattan is, by his own standard, a fool, and he is here publicly revealed as such.
He is by God’s standard a hypocrite. Van Nattan demands zeal from others, yet he, himself,
displays only lukewarm trepidation. “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This
people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is
far from me.” (Matthew 15:7-8 AV)
He retreated from his stand against Rome, yet he hypocritically states: “I believe that God
expects real men of His to be mighty and unpredictable in zeal”
I wrote to Van Nattan in
order to try to convince him to re-post the material on his site, but he refused. On my website at
http://www.antichristconspiracy.com/the_conspiracy.htm, I cited his website as an example of
formerly strong Christian websites exposing the antichrist conspiracy of Rome, that have suddenly
retreated and clammed up on that issue. To a great extent, I think that explains why he has chosen
to maliciously libel me as a “Jew hater.” He has been blinded by hate and a desire for vengeance
against me for my holding up his former website, www.balaams-ass.com, as an example of the
trend towards cowardly retreat from the spiritual battle against the legions of Rome.
Van Nattan has since renewed his exposure of the errors of Rome on a new website:
http://www.blessedquietness.com. However, he puts the following condition on those who wish to
order his CD, which contains information for Catholics and Muslims on the evils and errors of the
Catholic Church and Islam: “We only send this CD to people who can take strong meat. You
must prove to me that you will not attack us and use Homeland Security, or the courts, to
punish us if the CD content offends you.”
People cannot order the CD over the internet.
Instead Van Nattan requires that all persons ordering his CD mail him a photocopy of their driver’s
license, national ID, military ID, or the front page of their passport that contains their photo and
name. They must mail to him that information with their payment along with the following signed
statement:
I understand that the content on this CD will insult me in some
way, and I waive my right to go to civil or criminal law over the
CD content under the United Nations Genocide Treaty, the US
Hate Crimes Act, or any local, Islamic Sharia, or state law. I
affirm that I am 18 years old or older. (This is only because we
have lost our freedom of speech as Bible believers.) I
understand that if I show the CD to anyone, or if I distribute
anything from this CD, I am fully responsible for all of the
consequences.
Van Nattan acts more like a trepidatious shyster lawyer heaping burdens on others than a bold preacher of the gospel. “Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.” Luke 11:46. A watchman should be faithful and not make those who are in need of his warning jump through unnecessary hoops before he warns them they are in spiritual danger. See Ezekiel 33:6-9
God exhorts us to: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” 2 Timothy 4:2. Van Nattan calls on Christians to be “mighty and unpredictable in zeal,” yet he himself displays caution and trepidation. He is a hypocrite; beware of the leaven of Van Nattan.
Compare Van Nattan’s approach to the approach of Jesus: “Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.” John 18:20. (emphasis added) Jesus openly rebuked the hypocritical religious leaders.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Matthew 23:27-33 AV)
I join with Jesus in rebuking the hypocritical lukewarm approach of Steve Van Nattan. “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelation 3:15-16 AV)
Steve Van Nattan prefers that I remain silent about the religious malfeasance of modern day Pharisees; I will not be silent. It seems that Van Nattan is only zealous when it comes to making false ad hominem attacks against those who expose the evil of Talmudic Jews. “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Galatians 4:16.
Edward Hendrie