Opinion Editorials, August  2008

How to Do the Impossible: Eleven Steps to De-Zionize Your Church

By Rev. Ted Pike

ccun.org, August 24, 2008

 
  
             In 1988, 15,000 pastors ordered and received a free copy of my book Israel: Our Duty…Our Dilemma. I keenly anticipated a mass awakening to the threat of Zionist supremacism. Obviously, it never happened. Many pastors expressed appreciation and agreement with my book, but it seemed I was asking the impossible.

             Pastors indicated that the level of Zionist brainwashing of their congregants was simply too extensive. Even a loved, respected pastor couldn't challenge it. Criticizing Israel meant disruption, even destruction, of churches as angry, offended parishioners took their families--and their wallets--elsewhere.

             Is it truly impossible to return Christ's church to Biblical reality about Israel? Jesus said for God nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). I believe if there is any real faith in the heart of an honest Christian leader, the Holy Spirit will delight to gradually bring the whole, life-saving truth to his followers.

             I said "gradually." For anyone in darkness for a long period, sudden light is painful. The "Israel right or wrong" obsession is a powerful, unbiblical cult. Cult de-programmers know that victims must be returned to reality in increments. But it can be done.

             Consider an outstanding example. Texe Marrs was a successful fundamentalist Christian broadcaster 20 years ago. His "Power of Prophecy" radio program and literature ministry had a large, devoted following. Texe and his constituents were pro-Zionist. Then, he told me, he read my book and watched my video, "The Other Israel." (Watch Rev. Ted Pike's The Other Israel) At last, he realized why almost everything was going wrong in America, the world, and the Mideast.

             Texe knew his people would flee if suddenly given the truth. He determined to gradually awaken them, even if it took years. His goal was to bring them to a place of receptivity so that he could someday offer the truth of my book and video.

             That day came. Texe had not wavered in his objective and had, over a number of years, reversed the thinking of his supporters. He now leads a thriving, Bible-oriented, anti-Zionist broadcasting and literature ministry, which sells my works prominently. It powerfully impacts America and the world against Jewish supremacism and their new world order.

             Hundreds of local pastors know the truth about Talmudic Judaism but are afraid to speak out. Could they adopt Texe's approach? Could they make the impossible happen and thus help save America? I believe they could. His vision, innovation, and tenacity are a powerful testimony of what countless pastors could accomplish.

Eleven Steps to De-Zionize Your Church

             Here are 11 premises pastors can gradually share, to de-Zionize their congregations:

1. God does not make unconditional promises and covenants to bless people or nations who are not obedient. Jesus said only the "pure in heart shall see God" or receive His blessings--here or hereafter (Matthew 5:8). We must "overcome," remaining faithful to the moment of death by daily trusting and obeying Christ to the best of our ability (Rev. 21:7). 

2. Modern Israel and the Jewish people do not obey God's law, even as contained in the Biblical Law and Prophets. They revere the Talmud written by those who crucified Christ, the Pharisees. Therefore, they aren't under God's blessing. They shouldn't be cursed, but neither should they be blessed by Christians.

God did promise Abraham and the prophets that He would always bless obedient Jews. He will bring a repentant remnant back to their promised land at His second coming, blessing them for a thousand years. Christians should pray for and support believing Jews in every age. They, and all who trust Christ, are the "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16), the true, spiritual Jerusalem for whom Scripture tells us to pray (Psalm 122:6). But we must not bid Godspeed to false, disobedient Jerusalem today, which Revelation calls "Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:8).

3. The ancient Pharisees weren't just the "established religious leaders" of their day. They were cunning and ambitious saboteurs of everything God tried to teach His people through Moses and the prophets. They made "the word of God of none effect" (Mark 7:13) through their anti-Christ Talmud and Kabbalah.

These texts remain the greatest authority for religious Jews. Having rejected the transcendent spiritual light of the Old Testament, Talmudic Judaism led most Jewish people downward into commensurate spiritual darkness and apostasy. It is not anti-Semitic or "cursing God's chosen people" to reprove unbelieving Jews. All the greatest prophets, and Christ Himself, rebuked them in hope they would repent and be saved. Christians today should do no less.

4. The Bible is emphatic that Israel can't lawfully enter or dwell in God's holy land except in obedience. Israel's occupation today is therefore spiritually lawless, a counterfeit return. (See, Zionism: American Idol)

5. Israel's return and statehood in 1948 was not made possible through miraculous intervention. It resulted from the most brutal Israeli terrorism (and support from Stalin), driving 800,000 indigenous Arabs into squalid refugee camps where most remain today. (See, Israel: Founded on Terror and Israel's Founding: Miracle or Land Grab?)

6. Anti-Christian Jewish Zionist activists spearhead efforts to destroy Christian values and civilization. They created Communism and its resultant socialist, liberal ideologies. (See, Jewish Activists Created Communism)

7. Liberal Jewish Zionist activists founded and control anti-Christ Hollywood and big media, corrupting and misleading America and the world. (See, Jews Confirm Big Media Is Jewish)

8. ADL has created the "anti-hate" laws that threaten Christian freedom. (Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians)

9. ADL and Jewish Zionist activists, in concert with homosexuals, are the primary force behind promotion of homosexuality in media and public schools. (See, How the Bible Became 'Hate Speech' in California)

10. The "great harlot" of Revelation is Jewish world control--media, financial, commercial, political, and military. Scripture powerfully demonstrates that Israel, God's chaste bride, became the "mother" of spiritual whoredom through apostasy. She crucified her Husband, Jesus, and now seeks world dominion with another spiritual husband, anti-Christ. (See, Israel: On the Way to Empire in the Mideast)   
11. Every Christian must obey Scripture and flee loyalty to Zionist Babylon. God commands, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven…" (Rev. 18:4,5). It is impossible to support both Christ and the "synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 2:9).
No Time to Wait

             The rate that a pastor moves through these premises will vary.

             For example, it could take months to establish the Biblical truth of premise #1. Most evangelicals believe God unconditionally blesses "sinning saints" with eternal life--as long as they were once soundly born again. This "once saved, always saved" heresy undergirds evangelicals' unconditional support for Israel. Most evangelicals argue that sin does not end God's blessing on the Christian--or Israel. For both, the wages of sin aren't death. 

             Progression through these 11 stages of new truth will certainly take time. But we don't have much time. The church is embattled as seldom before. She is "under relentless attack," as Rabbi Daniel Lapin said, from liberal Jewish activism. (See, Rabbi Lapin: Christians Under 'Relentless Attack' by 'Secular Judaism')

             Considering the urgency, when should a pastor implement this 11-step program?
             This Sunday!


           Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization. 

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