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As I concluded in part one, since the 1970s, there have been many Christians who have become totally infatuated with, and mesmerized by, all things Jewish and related to Israel. They bend over backwards to prove how pro-Israel they are. As you may know, there are Christian churches today which seem more like Jewish synagogues. They are in total bondage to Jewish legalism, as is demonstrated by the fact that they strive to keep all of the various Jewish feast days, observe Jewish kosher laws, worship on Saturday instead of Sunday, blow the shofar, take Jewish names, etc. Worse yet, some of them add legalistic conditions to our Salvation, rather than simply accept Christ's finished work on the Cross as the only means of our Salvation. In other words, they mix Grace with works, which I discuss at length in other articles, which you will find listed at the end of this current series.

Sadly, these misguided Christians seem to want to prove their Jewishness to the world, and thus demonstrate their loyalty to the state of Israel. Something else which they often do is constantly remind us that Jesus was a Jew, the Apostles were Jews, and the first Disciples were Jews. It saddens me to see this happening, because they do not even realize how carnal-minded they have become. Their eyes are so much on the flesh, and what Jesus was in the flesh two thousand years ago, that they seem to have forgotten that what we are in the flesh is meaningless to God. All that truly matters is what we are in the Spirit, and whether or not we have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb of God. In their blindness, they seem to be ignoring verses such as the following:

"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."


"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."


"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;"


"It is the spirit that quickeneth; THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."


"For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."


"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature."


"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And 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."


"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."


Despite the clear truths which are expressed in the previous verses, these misguided Zionist Christians go around trying to make Christians more Jewish. Who cares! It doesn't matter! It has zero effect on your Salvation. It is a works trip! And speaking of works, they likewise constantly mention how Jesus observed the Mosaic Law -- that is to say, the Laws of Moses -- never even fully understanding why He did this. As I note in the aforementioned two articles, Jesus did this so that we don't have to. Jesus fulfilled the Law on our behalf, and He introduced a New Covenant. He kept the Law so that we can now depend fully on HIM for our Salvation, and NOT on striving to observe the Laws of Moses, which NONE of us can ever hope to do anyway. As the Apostle Paul was inspired to write:

"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."


The simple truth is that we just cannot be righteous enough on our own to merit God's Salvation. We are hopelessly lost. Thus, God made a much better, easier way for us to obtain our Salvation, and that is through faith in the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ alone. Period.

Another factor which contributes to so many of our Christian brethren becoming deceived by the false interpretations of ancient Bible prophecies, is that so many of them have fallen under the very powerful deception of the Futurist theological perspective. If you don't know what this is, then I encourage you to consider reading my seven-part series entitled "Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?", which you will also find listed at the end of this same series. In this series, I explain my own personal deception which lasted for about forty years of my life, until God finally woke me up. As you will learn, many Christians so badly want certain prophecies to be fulfilled in our modern day, that they will force some Scriptures to say what they want them to say, even if that is not what those particular verses really mean.

To reiterate one more time, it is the conjunction of all of these various factors which directly contributes to many of our Christian brethren becoming totally deceived by Zionist propaganda. They basically become puppets of, and in fact free advertisements for, the state of Israel. They are like Pavlov dogs who automatically respond as their masters wish. Because of their infatuation with the nation of Israel and all things Jewish, these misguided Christians have made themselves the perfect targets for deception and Jewish legalism. As we have now clearly seen, that includes being deceived by the faulty interpretation of Bible prophecies which were fulfilled long ago, and believing that they are being fulfilled, or are yet to be fulfilled, in our modern day.

At this point in our discussion, I would like to take a brief moment to explain to you exactly what inspired me to write this current series. Recently, while I was scrolling through my news feed on Twitter -- now known as X -- I came across a tweet where someone quoted Jeremiah 30:1-4 and then proceeded to explain the so-called "modern fulfillment" of these verses. Normally, I just ignore such posts, because I already know what will happen if I dare to post an opposing view. It usually results in rejection, removing my comment, unfriending me, or even blocking me. However, I could not help myself. Thus, I posted a multi-paragraph response which included some of the very same verses I have shared with you in this series. Obviously, I offered a much more abbreviated response, because Twitter only allows so many characters per tweet.

In a way it was good that I did respond to the aforementioned person; not only because it might help other Christians to come out from under the deception we have been discussing in this series, but also because my response resulted in that person resorting to one of the common arguments that is often used -- erroneously so -- and promoted by quite a few of the Futurist-leaning and pro-Israel Christians, to try to justify these bogus modern interpretations of fulfilled ancient Bible prophecies. That argument -- which I personally reject -- is that certain Bible prophecies are sometimes only partially fulfilled -- and then completely fulfilled at a later date -- and that they may possibly even have multiple fulfillments.

My friends, I beg to differ. As I said, I soundly reject this belief. As I explain in the series entitled "Humility in Our Understanding of God's Word", I obviously don't claim to know or understand every single thing that is mentioned in the Bible. After all, God's Word is simply way too profound for any of us to make such a proud, foolish boast. I am reminded of Bible verses such as the following:

"LORD, how great are thy works! ‭and‭ thy thoughts are very deep.‭"


"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."


"Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable."


"As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all."


"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."


"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."


"Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:"


"Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number."


"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!"


"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."


"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.‭ But God hath revealed ‭them‭ unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.‭ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.‭ Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.‭"


Please stop and think about this idea of partially-fulfilled prophecies and multiple-fulfilled prophecies for a moment. Imagine indeed how very confusing it would be if this were truly the case. For many of us, it is already difficult just trying to understand ancient Bible prophecies as it is, even without considering the aforementioned misguided proposals. If we throw in those possibilities as well, we might as well just forget it. However, I am not convinced that such is the case. Rather, I am fully convinced that each prophecy in the Bible only has one fulfillment. Furthermore, in my fifty plus years of studying God's Word, I have never once come across a single prophecy which could be interpreted in such a faulty manner.

If there's one thing which I know about God's Word, it's that God is very specific about the things which He says. He says that a certain event will happen, and then it happens at the specified time. End of story. There are no so-called partial fulfillments or multiple fulfillments. As you may know, while discussing the spiritual Gifts of prophecy and speaking in tongues, the Apostle Paul wrote something which I personally believe can be applied to every facet of our Christian lives. He wrote that "God is not the author of confusion". In his second Epistle, the Apostle Peter also wrote about the "more sure word of prophecy". Consider the following two verses:

"For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints."


"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:"


As I said, when we start to consider the possibility of some ancient prophecies being partially fulfilled, and then later being completely fulfilled, and yet other prophecies having different multiple fulfillments, it only leads to one thing, and that is absolute confusion. Sorry, my friends, but I just don't buy it. That is just not how God normally operates. At the same time, if some people insist on doing certain things, or believing in certain things, even if it is wrong to do, or else wrong to believe, God may in fact allow it; not because it is right, but rather because that is what we have in fact insisted upon. Furthermore, the Scriptures inform us that God will actually choose our delusions for us, and send leanness to our souls if we try to push our program across on Him. Consider the following verses and beware:

"I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not."


". . . 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:"


"And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good. And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak. So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD? And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil? And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."


"And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul."


At any rate, that is exactly what this person on Twitter did. After they had read my original comment, they kind of agreed that what I had tweeted was right, but they were still not ready to fully abandon the notion that Jeremiah 30:1-4 might have another modern-day fulfillment. After all, for them to absolutely agree that I was right, would be to admit that applying Jeremiah 30:1-4 to a modern-day return of the Jews to Israel is erroneous, and thus a false interpretation of the Scriptures. So, as I explained earlier, this person fell back on the oft used -- and misguided -- belief that some ancient prophecies have either partial fulfillments, or even multiple fulfillments.

Mind you, this is not the only time where I have seen people resort to doing this. There are other instances where certain Christians -- namely the Futurists -- will likewise apply the same technique as a means to justify or supposedly validate their erroneous doctrinal beliefs. They have no other choice really, because there's simply no other way to validate their doctrines if they do not do this. Thus, as I said, they will purposely twist and pervert the actual meanings of certain verses so that they seem to support their wayward doctrines.

It may surprise some of you to know that this problem with intentionally or ignorantly distorting the meaning of God's Word is nothing new. As I mention in other articles, this practice has been going on since the First Century. We find evidence of this in the following verse as written by the Apostle Peter. In this verse, the word "wrest" really means to distort or divert to an unnatural or inappropriate use or meaning, to pervert something. It is derived from the Greek word "strebloo":

"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; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."


So what the Apostle Peter is explaining is that due to the difficulty in understanding some of the things which the Apostle Paul wrote, as well as to the fact that they did not have a firm foundation in, and understanding of, God's Word, certain people were irresponsibly twisting the meaning of some of Paul's writings. That this serious problem pervaded the Early Church is evidenced by additional verses such as the following:

"And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."


"If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself."


"From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm."


"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;"


"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"


"Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."


"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."


While we have already discussed how the meaning of Jeremiah 30:1-4 has been distorted by Futurist-leaning Christians and pro-Israel, Zionist Christians, another clear example which comes to mind concerns the Prophet Daniel's "Seventy Weeks" prophecy, which I discuss at length in other articles such as the series entitled "The Last Seven Years Chart". The gist of it is that they take the final week -- that is, the seventieth week, or last seven years -- and move it from the past where it was already fulfilled, and bring it up to our present day, so that it fits -- or at least so they believe -- into their Futurist eschatological understanding. Again, this is simply dead wrong. Please refer to some of my other articles for a more expanded explanation regarding this subject.

Another example which comes to mind is Psalm 83. As I point out in the series "Psalm 83 War False Doctrine Exposed!", this particular Psalm describes a desperate prayer by Asaph in which he asks God to stop a confederacy of nations which are conspiring against Israel. It is clearly a past event. Yet sadly, there are Futurist-leaning Christians, as well as pro-Israel Christians who erroneously turn this Psalm into a prophecy -- which it is not -- regarding a near-future war in which Israel will defeat her enemies. My friends, it just isn't so. Please refer to the aforementioned series, which you will find listed at the end of this same series.

But you see, one of the problems with distorting the meaning of certain verses, and with moving certain prophecies from the distant past where they have already been fulfilled, up to our present time and claiming that they have not yet been fulfilled, or are in the process of being fulfilled, is that it forces us to misinterpret other Bible verses as well, in order to supposedly validate and substantiate our erroneous beliefs and doctrines. In other words, it forces us to build one lie upon another, and one false interpretation upon yet another.

Sadly, the end result is one interconnected and confusing web of deception where each twisted and perverted Bible verse represents another strand in the overall web. This is in fact exactly how the Futurist theological perspective has evolved over the years since the 1800s, so that today it is the dominant theological understanding within the Christian church, insofar as Bible prophecy is concerned. Tragically, there is simply no end to this rabbit hole of deception; a rabbit hole which has been created, assisted and promoted by both the Zionist Jews themselves, and by their well-meaning but deceived Zionist Christian bedfellows.

At this point, you may be wondering why these Christians do this. In simplest of terms, it is because they are totally and utterly convinced that their Futuristic interpretation of Bible prophecy -- which, according to them, includes the modern-day formation of the state of Israel, the modern-day return of the Jews to Israel, the modern-day reconstruction of Solomon's temple, and other apocalyptic events -- will ultimately culminate in the return of Jesus Christ to the Earth. Let me once again refer you to my seven-part series entitled "Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?". It will give you quite a lot to prayerfully consider.

Now, for those of you who may be wondering exactly how it is that I happen to be so well-versed in the various points of the Futurist theological perspective, it's because as I share in the aforementioned series, for forty years of my life, I was a diehard Futurist myself. I believed in it with all my heart. I preached it boldly. I waited with patience and eager anticipation for its final fulfillment. At least I did until in His mercy, the Lord opened my eyes to the truth directly from the Scriptures, instead of believing in the misguided doctrines of men and organized religion.

Please go to part three for the continuation of this series.

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