replacement theology - part 2, by Dr Chris Koster
As previously discussed, this
basically says, "The Church has taken the place of Yisrael."
Every prophetic book in Scripture reveals to us, and many prophetic books even
repeatedly speak of the blessed "turning back" of Yisrael and the blessed promises awaiting Yisrael in the end-time.
Again I
wish to invite anyone to show us anywhere in Scripture of any blessed prophetic
promise for the Church. There is no such text - but nowhere!
If the
Church assumes the right to read "Church" wherever the word
"Yisrael" is written in
Scripture, the
Church is
guilty of "adding to" and "taking away from"
what has been written, all Scripture having been inspired by
Elohim (2 Tim. 3:16). This is confirmed in 2 Kepha 1:20-21, "no prophecy of Scripture came to be of
one's own interpretation, for prophecy never came by the desire of man, but men
of Elohim spoke, being moved by the Set-apart Spirit."
"Adding
to" and "taking
away from" what Elohim has spoken in Scripture is explicitly forbidden
in Devarim / Deut. 4:2, 12:32, Prov. 30:6 and Rev.
22:18-19. Whatever is added, after something was taken away, is none other than
a "replacement", "substitute", "surrogate"
or "counterfeit."
This is
exactly what Yahushua prophesied in Matt. 13 (in the Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Darnel) what would happen.
Satan has seen to it that the Word of Elohim (the wheat) is taken away, and at
the same time he sees to it that the darnel is sowed - the darnel being a counterfeit wheat. Yahushua then reveals to us in Matt.
13:41 that this is lawlessness which then sprouts up and takes shape in "those
doing lawlessness."
Sha'ul also prophesied about this lawlessness that would
take over among those who profess to be in the worship of Elohim (2 Thess.
2:3-12), and uses the word "lawless(ness)" in no less than three places in this
passage.
In Dan.
11:31 and 12:11 we twice read of the "taking away" of "that
which is continual," and then the setting up of "the
abomination that lays waste." Yahushua
repeated this in Matt. 24:15 - the Truth is laid waste and "the
abomination" is set up in the worship!
The
Heavenly Messenger revealed to Daniel what the Gentiles would do to the True
Worship. Let us read a few excerpts from Dan. 8:11-25, "And it took
that which is continual away from Him, and threw the truth down to the ground
... to make both the set-apart place and the host to be trampled under foot ...
and destroy mighty men, and the set-apart people ... he shall make deceit
prosper in his hand ... and even stand against the Prince of princes."
History
confirms that it is indeed the Gentile Greeks and Romans that took over and laid waste the Truth, and then set up their Gentile type of
religion - trying to mix it with the Messianic Belief. However, Yahuweh has
strictly forbidden all compromise with Gentile worship and Gentile customs.
Read it yourselves in Yirm. 10:2, Wayyiqra / Lev. 18:3, Devarim
12:30 & 18:9, Yehez. 11:12 & 20:32,
Eph. 4:17, 1Kepha 4:3.
In Yirm. 16:19 we find an end-time prophecy of the Gentiles
coming to Yahuweh, in the Day of Distress (the Great Distress), and saying that
they have inherited from their fathers "only falsehood" or "only
lies." This is in contrast with Yisrael who
was given "the Truth in the Law" (Rom. 2:20), Yisrael who were entrusted with the Words of Elohim (Rom.
3:2). In Ps. 147:19 we read that to Yisrael was given
"His Word ... His Laws and His right-rulings," and in verse 20
it says, "He has not done so with any (other) nation."
Let us
again look at Matt. 13 where Yahushua warned us that Satan (acting through his
wicked birds) would take away or devour the Word of Elohim, that Satan would
also sow the counterfeit wheat, the darnel, the lawlessness. Which Christian
denomination upholds the Law of Elohim? Extremely few of them! And those who
profess to uphold it, who of them are keeping all Ten
Words - including the Name of Yahuweh, and His Day, contained in the Ten Words?
Remember: in Ya'aqob 2:10 we read, "For
whoever shall guard all the Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of
all."
Even if
one behaves himself nicely (like all religions in all parts of the world try to
get their people to do), and "not steal" and "not
murder" etc., yet trample underfoot the Sabbath Commandment, such a
person is still lawless and outside the Everlasting Covenant (e.g. Shemoth / Exo. 31:16), he is still in bondage to sin.
In Matt.
13:33 Yahushua gave another parable of what would happen: "Leaven which
a Woman took and hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened."
In Scripture leaven always has a negative meaning when the word is used
figuratively. Is this not the Woman of Rev. 17 who has hidden the leaven of
evil and wickedness (1 Cor. 5:8) in the meal (ground wheat) until ALL was
leavened? Is it not this Woman (Rome) who hid all the Gentile evil and wicked
abominations (amounting to lawlessness) in among the Word of Elohim which has
been grinded?
Those of
us who are diligently searching and seeking Yahuweh in this end-time we're
living in, those of us who are seeking to worship Elohim in Spirit and in
Truth, need the Spirit of Truth to enable us to discern between the True
Worship (given to Yisrael) and the Gentilised Replacement, to discern between the Word of
Elohim and the counterfeit wheat sowed by Satan.
What does
this Replacement all entail? As previously stated, it says that the Church has
taken the place of Yisrael. Indeed, many of the
denominations, if not all of them, either proclaim or subtily
give the impression that they are now the Chosen People - while Yisrael is the People chosen by Yahuweh to be His People.
Based on this Replacement thought, Rome professes that she is now the eternal
city, instead of Yerushalayim. Read Ps. 48:8 and
125:1 - Yerushalayim is the eternal city!
Let us
look at some of the components of Replacement Theology, all of them being proof
of this replacement, this counterfeit wheat of Satan:
(1) Sunday, the day of the Sun-deity,
which Rome replaced the Sabbath of Yahuweh with - the Sabbath which Elohim
blessed and set apart right back there at creation.
(2) The Festivals of Yahuweh given unto
Yisrael, as a law forever, were replaced with Gentile
festivals, e.g. Christmas, Easter-Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Lent etc.
(3) The Name of Yahuweh became
replaced with the names of Gentile deities - Lord, God, Herr, Pan Bog, uNkulunkulu, Modimo etc.
(4) The laws pertaining to clean
foods, and avoidance of blood in the meat, became replaced with the Gentiles'
eating habits.
(5) The Messianic Scriptures clearly
inform us that Messiah was impaled on a stake, not on a cross, as the Church
falsely teaches. The cross was an ancient sun-symbol.
(6) All Scripture emphatically state
that there is One Supreme Elohim, El Shaddai, El Elyon, whose covenant Name is Yahuweh. Read the fact of One
Supreme Elohim in Devarim 6:4, Mk. 12:29, 12:32, 1 Cor.
8:6, Eph. 4:6 and 1 Tim. 2:5. The Church on the other hand, in the year 325 at
the Council of Nicea, replaced this Scriptural
teaching of One with the Pagan idea of three-in-one
(or one-in-three, as they later tried to explain it). This three-in-one was
common to most Pagan religions. Even the Latin "Trinitas"
(Trinity) which they brought in, can be traced back to
the Hindu "Trinita," a three times
married deity.
(7) Whether it is one-in three, or
three-in-one, it is an attempt to make the Messiah an equal of the Father. No,
Yahushua is of the same substance as the Father, but He is subservient to the
Father. He Himself said in Yoch. 14:28, "My
Father is greater that I." We find further
proof of Him acknowledging His Fathers' supremacy in Matt. 24:36 and Mk. 13:32.
In 1 Cor. 11:3 we clearly read that Elohim (the Father) is the Head of Messiah!
Repeatedly we find Messiah called the Mediator between His Father and us.
(8) One of the most popular doctrines
of the Church is that of "going to heaven." Nobody is going to
heaven. The Reign (Kingdom) of heaven is coming to earth - that is what we read
in Scripture! The "going to heaven" was a popular Pagan
doctrine.
(9) Plato, the Greek philosopher, was
the one chiefly responsible for the propagation of the so-called "immortality
of the soul," and the Church simply incorporated this Gentile
philosophy in order to appease the masses. Only at the resurrection will the
believers put on immortality (1 Cor. 15:53-54)!
Do we
need more proof of how the Gentiles supplanted or replaced the True Worship
with their own "Ersatz" (German for replacement or
substitute), by adapting and contaminating the Messianic Worship, in order to
appease the masses, setting up a Gentilised
counterfeit, mixed, compromised, totally leavened and predominantly lawless?