Someone needs to remind Pastor Hagee that when God blessed Abram and later entered into a covenant with him that Abraham was a gentile, not an Israelite. He also needs to be reminded that all, not some of the nation's were to be blessed through Abraham's seed and that seed is Jesus Christ.
While I can't speak to Pastor Hagee's motivation I can speak to his doctrine. His doctrine is as crooked as a three-dollar bill as my dad used to say.
Pray for Pastor Hagee that he gives up on this terribly false doctrine.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Did He Really Say That?
Pastor John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas released a book just a little over 6 months ago titled, "In Defense of Israel." His ministry, John Hagee Ministries (JHM) produced a TV commercial promoting this book where Hagee clearly denies that Jesus Christ came to be the Messiah of Israel.
The video of this commercial can be viewed here.
It's fairly easy to see where Pastor Hagee stands and what Pastor Hagee believes. His expressed views in the commercial for his book cannot be gainsayed in any way:
"This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. In Defense of Israel will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a Calvary conspiracy between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered? Read this shocking expose, In Defense of Israel."
Wow! If I hadn't heard it, nor seen it with my own eyes, I could have sworn that this man, a pastor of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, actually denied that Jesus was the Messiah. Worse yet, Pastor Hagee is basically saying that the Jews would most certainly have accepted Jesus had He actually come to do what Pastor Hagee says He didn't come to do!!!!! Confusing doctrine to say the least.
Now there are a great number (if not hundreds), of Bible cites that clearly show that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Anointed One of Israel. I can think of no better though than the ones that actually described Jesus being anointed.
In the book of Daniel, chapter 9 and verses 24-27 we read:
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Since Messiah is a variation of the Hebrew mashach
Matthew 16:16
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
In relation to the point made regarding the book of Daniel we see that Jesus was "baptized" by John in the book of Matthew (3:15-17) which is emblematic of being anointed and which was the clear fulfillment of the prophecy in Daniel 9:24, where Jesus came to "fulfill all righteousness" also lends great credence and proof that Jesus was come as the Messiah.
In the book of Acts we are told by the physician Luke, in the most plain language possible in the recounting Peter's encounter with Cornelius how Jesus was "anointed" with the Holy Ghost and power."
Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
This verse also validates what is prophesied in the book of Daniel regarding Jesus being the Anointed One of Israel.
It is truly unfortunate that such drastic and sensational claims have to be made in order to sell a few books and to attempt to validate the clearly false teaching of dispensationalism and the make the denial that Jesus has come as Messiah to save all of Israel.
But rather than make judgments about Pastor Hagee and his motives we should offer prayer to the Father that the scales will be removed from his eyes and that his ears will be unstopped to the wonderful truth that the Gospel has to offer, namely that Jesus is the Messiah and the risen Son of the Living God. Even when one makes such glaring and obvious mistakes we must still believe in our heart of hearts that God the Father knows the difference, knows what is in Pastor Hagee's heart and has the capacity to rightly judge the true motives of pastors such as John Hagee and the messages they espouse.
The video of this commercial can be viewed here.
It's fairly easy to see where Pastor Hagee stands and what Pastor Hagee believes. His expressed views in the commercial for his book cannot be gainsayed in any way:
"This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. In Defense of Israel will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a Calvary conspiracy between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered? Read this shocking expose, In Defense of Israel."
Wow! If I hadn't heard it, nor seen it with my own eyes, I could have sworn that this man, a pastor of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, actually denied that Jesus was the Messiah. Worse yet, Pastor Hagee is basically saying that the Jews would most certainly have accepted Jesus had He actually come to do what Pastor Hagee says He didn't come to do!!!!! Confusing doctrine to say the least.
Now there are a great number (if not hundreds), of Bible cites that clearly show that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Anointed One of Israel. I can think of no better though than the ones that actually described Jesus being anointed.
In the book of Daniel, chapter 9 and verses 24-27 we read:
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Since Messiah is a variation of the Hebrew mashach
Matthew 16:16
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
In relation to the point made regarding the book of Daniel we see that Jesus was "baptized" by John in the book of Matthew (3:15-17) which is emblematic of being anointed and which was the clear fulfillment of the prophecy in Daniel 9:24, where Jesus came to "fulfill all righteousness" also lends great credence and proof that Jesus was come as the Messiah.
In the book of Acts we are told by the physician Luke, in the most plain language possible in the recounting Peter's encounter with Cornelius how Jesus was "anointed" with the Holy Ghost and power."
Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
This verse also validates what is prophesied in the book of Daniel regarding Jesus being the Anointed One of Israel.
It is truly unfortunate that such drastic and sensational claims have to be made in order to sell a few books and to attempt to validate the clearly false teaching of dispensationalism and the make the denial that Jesus has come as Messiah to save all of Israel.
But rather than make judgments about Pastor Hagee and his motives we should offer prayer to the Father that the scales will be removed from his eyes and that his ears will be unstopped to the wonderful truth that the Gospel has to offer, namely that Jesus is the Messiah and the risen Son of the Living God. Even when one makes such glaring and obvious mistakes we must still believe in our heart of hearts that God the Father knows the difference, knows what is in Pastor Hagee's heart and has the capacity to rightly judge the true motives of pastors such as John Hagee and the messages they espouse.
Dispensational Non-Sense
Maybe you've heard them or seen them. Prominent pastors with large congregations and large national followings that constantly and consistently preach and teach that the modern and secular State of Israel will be saved apart from those that make up the body of the church established by Jesus Christ.
But is that really true? Does God the Father have one plan for the salvation of those that are called Jews and those that are called Gentiles? Is that the way God truly works? Clearly, the apostle Paul tells us that "...all Israel will be saved..." (Romans 11:26), but does that mean at the complete exclusion of the Gentiles? Or does the statement that Paul makes show us that all those who join themselves to the Lord will be called Israelites and thus be saved?
It's important to know and it's important to understand what the Lord is doing.
We have only scripture to point us in the right direction and to give us a firm grasp of what is true and what is false. In the days of the apostles, as they were writing their letters to the various churches, they had but one set of scriptures to prove the points that they were making and those scriptures were what we would call the "Old Testament" (2 Timothy 3:16). I suggest then that it is quite proper, and quite important, to establish the true and proper identity of "National Israel" through these "Old Testament" scriptures. This is just exactly what the apostles did, we should gladly do the same.
It cannot be doubted nor disputed that the Nation of Israel was to carry the oracles of God to the world. They were to be a model to the entire world at that time of the power, grace and majesty of the Lord their God.
Leviticus 24:2
Command the Children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
In that oil is representative of the Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:2-6; Revelation 4:5 ) the Children of Israel were surely responsible for ensuring that the lamps of the sanctuary to have the oil of light, so that the word of God could be clearly known to all those who joined themselves to His sanctuary.
Psalm 119:105
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
This same word, this same light is what led the way and lighted the path of the ancient Israelites as they made there way through the wilderness:
Exodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Isaiah 10:16-17
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among His fat ones leanness; and under His glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and His briers in one day;
The point is this and it must be made and understood....all those that wish to hear the Lord, that wish to be saved by the Lord must "join" themselves to the Lord. There is no other way. Gentiles were never promised salvation through the Savior, only the Nation of Israel was. Yet, to becomes an Israelite one must have done certain things. Certainly, circumcision was one thing but more importantly the desire to partake of the passover meal was another. See Exodus 12:40-49.
If one wished to join with this Nation Israel, "to sojourn" with them they were required to be circumcised if they had a desire to partake in the passover:
Exodus 12:48
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
If the "stranger" was willing to do these things, the stranger was treated as a native son of the Nation of Israel, with all the rights of one that was born a direct descendant of Jacob (Israel).
Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Let's quickly fast forward to Paul's day. In his letter to the Ephesians Paul, in one of the most clear examples of this anywhere in the New Testament, compares this very example from Exodus as being fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:11-13
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.
It cannot be said any more succinctly. We Gentiles, which were formerly called uncircumcision by those that are part of the circumcision and where we were outside of Jesus Christ without the covenants of promise, without hope and outside of God in this world are made "near" to Jesus Christ by His blood. Just as the Gentile converts were adopted and absorbed into the Nation of Israel by circumcision and the desire to partake in the passover, the modern day Gentiles, converted into accepting and believing in the promises through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ are now partakers in the same covenant promises given to National Israel.
To make this point even more clear Paul goes on to say that we "...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 2:19-22.
Friends, it can be no more plain than the nose on one's face. God saves all of Israel, both of blood and those that are Israel by adoption. To believe anything thing else simply cannot be shown to be from scripture.
But is that really true? Does God the Father have one plan for the salvation of those that are called Jews and those that are called Gentiles? Is that the way God truly works? Clearly, the apostle Paul tells us that "...all Israel will be saved..." (Romans 11:26), but does that mean at the complete exclusion of the Gentiles? Or does the statement that Paul makes show us that all those who join themselves to the Lord will be called Israelites and thus be saved?
It's important to know and it's important to understand what the Lord is doing.
We have only scripture to point us in the right direction and to give us a firm grasp of what is true and what is false. In the days of the apostles, as they were writing their letters to the various churches, they had but one set of scriptures to prove the points that they were making and those scriptures were what we would call the "Old Testament" (2 Timothy 3:16). I suggest then that it is quite proper, and quite important, to establish the true and proper identity of "National Israel" through these "Old Testament" scriptures. This is just exactly what the apostles did, we should gladly do the same.
It cannot be doubted nor disputed that the Nation of Israel was to carry the oracles of God to the world. They were to be a model to the entire world at that time of the power, grace and majesty of the Lord their God.
Leviticus 24:2
Command the Children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
In that oil is representative of the Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:2-6; Revelation 4:5 ) the Children of Israel were surely responsible for ensuring that the lamps of the sanctuary to have the oil of light, so that the word of God could be clearly known to all those who joined themselves to His sanctuary.
Psalm 119:105
Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
This same word, this same light is what led the way and lighted the path of the ancient Israelites as they made there way through the wilderness:
Exodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Isaiah 10:16-17
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among His fat ones leanness; and under His glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and His briers in one day;
The point is this and it must be made and understood....all those that wish to hear the Lord, that wish to be saved by the Lord must "join" themselves to the Lord. There is no other way. Gentiles were never promised salvation through the Savior, only the Nation of Israel was. Yet, to becomes an Israelite one must have done certain things. Certainly, circumcision was one thing but more importantly the desire to partake of the passover meal was another. See Exodus 12:40-49.
If one wished to join with this Nation Israel, "to sojourn" with them they were required to be circumcised if they had a desire to partake in the passover:
Exodus 12:48
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
If the "stranger" was willing to do these things, the stranger was treated as a native son of the Nation of Israel, with all the rights of one that was born a direct descendant of Jacob (Israel).
Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Let's quickly fast forward to Paul's day. In his letter to the Ephesians Paul, in one of the most clear examples of this anywhere in the New Testament, compares this very example from Exodus as being fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:11-13
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.
It cannot be said any more succinctly. We Gentiles, which were formerly called uncircumcision by those that are part of the circumcision and where we were outside of Jesus Christ without the covenants of promise, without hope and outside of God in this world are made "near" to Jesus Christ by His blood. Just as the Gentile converts were adopted and absorbed into the Nation of Israel by circumcision and the desire to partake in the passover, the modern day Gentiles, converted into accepting and believing in the promises through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ are now partakers in the same covenant promises given to National Israel.
To make this point even more clear Paul goes on to say that we "...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 2:19-22.
Friends, it can be no more plain than the nose on one's face. God saves all of Israel, both of blood and those that are Israel by adoption. To believe anything thing else simply cannot be shown to be from scripture.
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