Introduction

Biblical truth gives us the foundation we need to get to know the God who saved us and to live in a way that pleases Him. Correct biblical teaching (doctrine) also enables us to identify prophetic signs in today's world. Yet for those who follow the demonic delusion known as Replacement Theology [RT], current events and their relationship to the return of Messiah Yeshua¹ become blurry and mysterious. These people, many of whom are our brothers and sisters in Messiah, end up believing a lie.

To put it briefly, Replacement Theology replaces Israel with the Church.² Israel becomes only a symbol.

To truly grasp the revelation of our God, who often calls Himself YHWH (Yahweh), the God of Israel, we should interpret the Old Testament, the Tanach, in the same way that Yeshua did. However, RT allegorizes, that is, understands only symbolically, much of the Tanach, the only Scriptures Yeshua read, and – especially when it came to the prophecies – interpreted literally.

How can RT promoters correctly understand what Yeshua was teaching? Over and over again Yeshua referred to the Tanach as His proof text, but if the correct interpretation is blurred, if the people and nation of Israel, the contested factor in this end-time drama, is now just the cultural Christian Church, how will people have a clue to what God is doing to conclude this age by the return of His Son to Jerusalem?

1 I am using the Messianic Jewish term for Jesus Christ, which is Yeshua the Messiah, or Messiah Yeshua.

2 To understand how RT arose in the earliest centuries of the Church, there is an excellent overview online from Word from Jerusalem Magazine, May/June, 2019, pages 4 to 7, in an article called “The Breach” by Jurgen Bueler, the head of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem.

What is Replacement Theology?

"Replacement theology"¹ is today's common name for ancient, twisted, demon-inspired interpretations of biblical promises and prophecies concerning Jacob's descendants. These, now often traditional, interpretations see God's relationship with the Church and Christians as 'replacing' His prior relationship with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.

Covenants and promises are Biblical concepts defining God's relationship with His people. Replacement theology believers think that God's covenant – singular – with the universal Church, known as the New Covenant, replaces His covenants and promises – plural – with Israel. This wrong interpretation also dismisses the revealed truth that the New Covenant itself was promised to the house of Israel and the house of Judah (Jer. 31:31), and is confirmed as such in Hebrews 8:8 in the New Testament.

RT is usually linked to the erroneous idea that since "the Jews" rejected their "Messiah", Hebrew for "Anointed One" also known as "Christ", Greek for "Anointed One", then God rejected the Jews as His nation for rejecting His Son, even though He had in the Tanach called Israel His "son" (Ex. 4:22-23; Hos. 11:1). Therefore today, according to RT thinking, for a Jewish person to have any part in the Kingdom of God, they must convert and become a born-again (reborn spiritually) Christian.² Yet today, Yeshua is still King David's heir and the King of the Jews, (Rev. 22:16).

In the Middle Ages, it was not enough for Jews to accept Jesus; they also had to reject, even openly curse, all things to do with their Jewish background. They had to prove they were no longer Jews, so they were required to eat non-kosher foods, stop circumcising their sons and stop celebrating the Shabbat on the seventh day, and instead honor Sunday as God's day of rest. Also, they could not keep Yahweh's feasts in Leviticus 23, but must honor the man-made feasts of Christmas and Easter.³

1 RT's theological title is "supercessionism,' which comes from the unbiblical idea that after the Cross, the Church now "supercedes" Israel in the heart and plans of God.

2 Yeshua said to Nicodemus you must be born-again (John 3:7 AV), but search the Scriptures and you will not find anyone claiming that you must be a 'born-again Christian'! The "Christian" tag to the theological concept of being 'born again' has taken on the meaning of 'no-longer being Jewish' and has held the Jews back throughout the centuries from even considering whether Yeshua is their Messiah. Yet there were no "Christians" when Yeshua said to Nicodemus, the teacher of Israel, You must be born again!

3 Here is an example from Medieval Sourcebook: Professions of Faith Extracted from Jews on Baptism, Fordham University, [https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/jewish-oaths.asp] Of Erwig, from Leg. Vis. 12.3.14: "I do here and now renounce every rite and observance of the Jewish religion, detesting all its most solemn ceremonies and tenets that in former days I kept and held. In future I will practise no rite or celebration connected with it, nor any custom of my past error, promising neither to seek it out nor to perform it. Further do I renounce all things forbidden or detested by Christian teaching; and, (here followed the Nicene Creed stating what all Christians believe about God, and then…). "In the name of this Creed, which I truly believe and hold with all my heart, I promise that I will never return to the vomit of Jewish superstition. Never again will I fulfil any of the offices of Jewish ceremonies to which I was addicted, nor ever more hold them dear. I altogether deny and reject the errors of the Jewish religion, casting forth whatever conflicts with the Christian Faith, and affirming that my belief in the Holy Trinity is strong enough to make me live the truly Christian life, shun all intercourse with other Jews and have the circle of my friends only among honest Christians. With them or apart from them I must always eat Christian food, and as a genuinely devout Christian go often and reverently to Church. I promise also to maintain and embrace with due love and reverence the observance of all the Lord's days or feasts for martyrs as declared by the piety of the Church, and upon those days to consort always with sincere Christians, as it behoves a pious and sincere Christian to do. Herewith is my profession of faith and belief as given by me on this date."

Why Replacement Theology is Unbiblical

Someone who reads the NT without prejudice knows that not all the Jews rejected Yeshua's claims. It was mainly Israel's religious leadership at that time – and not even all of them – with whom Yeshua had many verbal battles, with the crucial issue being their question of where His authority to teach and heal came from (Matt. 21:23; Mark 1:22). He answered their question with a question about where they thought John the Baptist's authority came from. Their reluctance to answer proved that while their question was legitimate their motive was only to protect their own religious standing.

Many of the Jews who came to Jerusalem to celebrate that Passover feast wept and cried for Yeshua on the road to His crucifixion (Luke 23:27-28). These were likely the same Jews who had welcomed Him into the city a few days previously (Mark 11:9-10; John 12:13). The claim that the Jews who received Him, turned against Him in less than a week is an unproveable claim against the Jewish nation, and had become part of the "fake news" that encouraged Christians to persecute the Jews from the early days of Church history, and which continues even today.

Of course, if all the Jews rejected Yeshua, how did "the gospel", literally "the good news" of Israel's Promised Messiah, spread to the gentiles? Did God use another talking donkey? Was it a host of angels? No. It was Jews whom today's RT cheerleaders erroneously claim rejected their "Christ"! It was not until Acts 10:11-13, when Peter's dream of being commanded to eat unkosher animals was followed by the Holy Spirit directing him to go to Cornelius' house where we first see gentiles coming to faith. Before this, the Church was only Messianic Jews and born-again proselytes to Judaism.¹

All the apostles were Jewish and even Paul remained a Jew after he met Messiah Yeshua.²

Do not believe the hellish lie which has hindered Jews from accepting their Messiah over the centuries: that if a Jewish person accepts the Jew Jesus, Israel's King Messiah, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah – that now this born-again Jew is a gentile! How absurd this sounds, and yet this has been the belief, and as already mentioned, the goal of many Christians for centuries!

Most of the apostles, including Paul, were martyred for their outreach in sharing the gospel with both Jews and gentiles. If all the Jews rejected Yeshua, how did gentiles hear about this amazing act of love by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who sent His Son into the world through a Jewish virgin's womb (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:22-23) so that people from all the families of the earth could be blessed in the Seed of Abraham (Luke 2:30-32)?

In Romans 11:18, Paul clarifies that the root of Israel's olive tree supports the gentile part of Messiah's Body and not the other way around. Gentiles are grafted into Israel's cultivated olive tree – which is where Jews belong, re-grafted when they come to trust in Yeshua. Gentiles are grafted in among the Jews (v. 17), not instead of them, and this tree, in reference to Jewish believers, is called their own tree (v. 24)! So the root must be theirs as well. That is God's promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that in their descendants all the nations/families of the earth would be blessed.³

This promise is called by the Holy Spirit through Paul as the gospel to the gentiles (Gal. 3:8), and is one of the reasons why Messiah Yeshua became a servant of the Jews in the first place (Rom. 15:8).

1 Many Christians view the end time movement of Messianic Judaism as a new phenomenon. Yet before there were any other denominations, before any gentiles were called "Christians," Messianic Jews were meeting in congregations, worshiping Messiah Yeshua as Lord. Even John the Baptist was a Messianic Jew – and not a Baptist. (Although since he came from Judea, the southern part of Israel, maybe we could call him a Messianic Jewish Southern Baptist!)

2 Acts 21:39; 22:3; Rom. 2:29; 2 Cor. 11:22; Gal. 2:15; Phil. 3:5

3 To Abraham: Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; to Isaac: Gen. 26:4; to Jacob: Gen. 28:14

What is blasphemy?

Blasphemy in the Bible includes words or actions exhibiting irreverence toward, or contempt of, God or of that which is seen as sacred. It is a disdainful, scornful, or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning the One True God. It is also used to describe disrespectful or despicable talk about a holy person or sacred item. Profaning, literally "making common", is to defile, pollute or distort the truth about what is profaned. It is the opposite of sanctifying, or "setting apart," someone or something.

In the Tanach, to profane God's "name" is to do all of the above in relation to His name, and when we consider that "name" in Hebraic thinking includes not only one's personal name, but also one's essential nature, as well as one's deeds or reputation, then we perceive how damaging such an act can be. Today we could say that, disguised "fake news" is often substituted for truth. It is slander; it is blasphemy.

Here are a few expanded definitions of "blasphemy" from cited sources:

Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology [www.biblestudytools.com]

In English "blasphemy" denotes any utterance by someone which insults another person's God (or Christ or Allah, or Muhammed, etc.) and gives deeply felt offense to that deity's followers… In Islamic countries generally no distinction is made between blasphemy and heresy, so that any perceived rejection of the Prophet or his message, by Muslims or non-Muslims, is regarded as blasphemous.

The biblical concept is very different. There is no Hebrew word equivalent to the English "blasphemy," and the transliterated Greek root blasphem …which is used fifty-five times in the NT, has a wide meaning. In both Testaments the idea of blasphemy as something that offends the religious sensibilities of others is completely absent.

The OT: At least five different Hebrew verbs are translated "blaspheme" in English translations. Translators choose "blaspheme" when, for instance, the verbs "curse" (qalal), "revile" (gadap), or "despise" (herep) are used with God as the object. No special verb is reserved for cursing or insults directed at God.

However, to curse or insult God is an especially grave sin. It can be done by word or by deed. There is little distinction between the sinner who deliberately abuses the name of the Lord (Lev. 24:10-16), and the one who deliberately flouts His commandments (Num. 15:30-31). For both, the death penalty is prescribed. Similarly…Nehemiah 9 calls awful blasphemies all that the Israelites did when they made the golden calf (9:18).

David's flagrant sin with Bathsheba may be called a blasphemy (2 Sam. 12:14), but a more likely translation is that David has made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt (NIV). Instead of testifying by lifestyle to the character of the Lord, David's action confirms the blasphemous belief of the nations that [YHWH] is no different from any other national god.

The NT: The Greek root blasphem …can be used of strong insults thrown at other people (Mark 15:29; Acts 13:45; Eph. 4:31; 1 Pet. 4:4), or even unjust accusations (Rom. 3:8), but it is more usually used of insults offered to God (e.g., Rev. 13:6; 16:9). Jesus is accused of blasphemy for granting forgiveness and for claiming a unique relationship with God (Matt. 26:25; Mark 2:7; John 10:33).

Jesus picks up the Numbers 15 passage about blasphemy in His famous saying about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; Luke 12:10). In the OT Numbers 15:22-31 distinguishes between unintentional sin committed in ignorance (for which forgiveness is possible), and defiant sin, called blasphemy, for which there is no forgiveness. Jesus teaches that the blasphemy for which there is no forgiveness is that against the Holy Spirit; all other blasphemies, particularly those against 'the Son of Man,' may be forgiven…because they are committed in ignorance of who He really is: his heavenly glory does not appear on earth. But to ascribe obvious manifestations of God's Spirit to the devil's agency is a much more serious offense not committed in ignorance."¹

This downgrade of the significance of blasphemy against Christ marks an important difference between Christianity and Islam. Whereas Muslims are bound to defend the honor of the Prophet, for Christians Jesus is the one who… accepts the vilification of others and prays for the forgiveness of those who insult him (Luke 23:34). In this, he sets an example for Christians to follow (1 Pet. 2:19-25) …

Matt Slick, President and Founder of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry [carm.org]

Blasphemy is speaking evil of God or denying Him some good which we should attribute to Him. It could also be understood to be acting in any impious, mocking or contemptuous way toward any member of the Trinity. The word blasphemy comes from the Greek word blasphemia, meaning "curse" or "vilifying." Blasphemy arises out of pride (Psa. 73:9, 11), hatred (Psa. 74:18), injustice (Isa. 52:5), etc. Christ was often mistakenly accused of blasphemy by Jewish leaders (John 10:30-33).

"In the OT the penalty for blasphemy against God is death by stoning (Lev. 24: 16; cf. John 10:33; Acts 6f [Stephen]). According to 1 Samuel 3:13, Eli's sons blasphemed God (RSV and NEB, following LXX; the AV has "made themselves vile," following MT). In Nehemiah 9:18, 26, Ezra refers to the great blasphemies of the Israelites of old. And Ezekiel 20:27ff speaks of the blasphemy of ancient Israel in sacrificing on the high places." (Bromiley, Geoffrey W., ed. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988.)

The Politically Correct Blasphemy of Replacement Theology, Avner Boskey [davidstent.org]

The Oxford English Dictionary describes blasphemy as an "action or offense of speaking disrespectfully about God or sacred things; profane talk." The Greek origin of the word 'blasphemy' comes from the root meaning "to injure a reputation." It is used to describe gross irreverence toward any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem. Broadly speaking, in English it means to slander, tell an injurious lie about a person, which is a punishable offense in many societies, because it can harm someone's reputation.

One of the Hebrew words translated as blasphemy is "na'atza", meaning "to deride, spurn or reject." It can refer to men spurning God (Psa. 10:3) or scorning His prophets (Neh. 9:26), men despising the Jewish people (Isa. 60:14), or even God rejecting rebellious men (Deut. 32:19; Jer. 14:21).

Yeshua described blasphemies not as some rare sin found in unusually evil people, but as the normative fruit of an unregenerate heart: For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies…  (Matt. 15:19).

Yeshua also declared that God's mercies are so huge, that they can cover any blasphemer who repents: Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter (Mark 3:28).

1 I do not happen to agree with the above definition of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit in Baker’s dictionary. What are "obvious manifestations of the Spirit"? Signs and wonders? We must know what the Bible says about testing every spirit! The only unforgivable sin is the rejection of the Spirit's witness to who Yeshua really is, and this is what Yeshua said the Spirit would do: And when He [the Comforter (v. 7), the Spirit of truth (v. 13)] is come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on Me; (John 16:8-9) The "sin" the Spirit deals with in an unbeliever's heart is his rejection of Yeshua as Savior. Peter tried to prevent the Lord from going to the cross, and was rebuked by Yeshua as being Satan's mouthpiece (Matt. 16:23), yet Peter did not lose his salvation. And even when he denied the Lord three times, despite Yeshua saying that whoever denies Him before man, He would deny before His Father's angels (Luke 12:8-9), Peter still did not "lose his salvation". So what Yeshua must mean is that whoever continues until his death to deny Him before man without repentance – will not find Him as their Advocate Redeemer before God on that final day.

Why Replacement Theology is blasphemous

Replacement Theology is blasphemous because this teaching distorts and lies about God, His Word, even His very nature. In essence it implies that the God who has revealed Himself through His written Word – and His Son, the Living Word – that this God either does not keep His Word, or He is not really omniscient, since He seems not to have known the future, or if He is omniscient and does know the future, then He broke His everlasting covenant commitment to Israel – His nation and people (for example Jer. 31:3, 35-37).

Some believers seem to think that since God created man with free-will, He cannot know the future. Yet prophecy, which gives proof that the Bible is the Word of God,¹

is God specifically declaring the future before it happens – in spite of the reality of man's free will. While some prophetic events depend on man's response to God's warnings, like the city of Nineveh which repented after hearing a prophetic word from Jonah, many other prophecies are predicated on His will and foreknowledge and power – without man's free will influencing it. Ezekiel 37 is an excellent example, as dead, dry Jewish bones in a grave do not possess any free will! Other prophetic declarations take people's decisions into account. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 present Israel with a choice – blessings or curses: blessings if they follow and obey God and His law; curses/judgments if they do their own thing and throw out or ignore God and His Word.

Yet a crucial issue is how RT adherents dare to ignore – or misinterpret – the following verses, which are only a few of the many statements our God makes about His covenant-love relationship with Israel.

Numbers 23:19-21 God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man, that He should repent [i.e., change His mind]: has He said, and shall He not do it? Has He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Behold, I [Balaam] have received a command to bless. He has blessed; and I cannot reverse it. He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor seen perverseness in Israel. YHWH his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them.

But RT devotees teach that God did "reverse" His blessings, despite the clear warning from Paul that gentile believers should not be arrogant against unsaved Jews (Rom. 11:18-24).

Deuteronomy 7:6-9 For you are a holy people to YHWH your God. YHWH your God has chosen you to be a special people [Heb: segullah – a special treasured possession] to Himself, above all people that are on the face of the earth. YHWH did not set His love upon you, or choose you, because you were more in number than any people – for you were the fewest – but because YHWH loved you, and because He would keep His oath which He had sworn to your fathers [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob], YHWH has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from…Egypt. Know therefore that YHWH your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations [Hebraic idiom basically meaning 'forever'].

Jeremiah 31:3 From afar, YHWH has appeared to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness [Heb. chesed] have I drawn you'. [chesed is God's love based on His commitment to His own covenants. 'Covenant-love' is a more literal way to translate chesed.]

Jeremiah 31:35-37 Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea and its waves roar – YHWH of hosts is His name: If these ordinances depart from before Me… then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me …If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says YHWH.

Malachi 3:6 For I am YHWH, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Add to these few examples the truth that more than 200 times in the Tanach God promises to give the land of Israel to the people of Israel. This includes about forty times when He swears to do this – and even a few times swearing an oath.²

Has this God changed His mind because many of the Jewish leaders incited rejection of Yeshua?

Saying that God has rejected the Jews because they rejected and had Jesus their Messiah crucified, has been the spark igniting the Church's Jew-hatred for almost 2,000 years. Yet it is based on a lie, as we have just seen NT proof that not all Israel rejected Yeshua. The good news is not even proclaimed to the gentiles until the events in Acts 10. In the first nine chapters of the book of Acts only Jewish believers in Yeshua were called the "Church".

There is also the inconvenient NT truth which states that Israel's national rejection of Yeshua as their Messiah and King was foreordained (Luke 24:27; Acts 3:18; 10:42). So their blindness leading to their rejection of Yeshua was prophesied and necessary for both Jews and Gentiles to be saved. After all, He came to die for the sins of all humanity (Mark 10:45; John 10:17-18).

Replacement believers' thinking is based on two major misconceptions of God's nature. The first is that God does not really know the future, because they think the Jewish leadership's rejection of His Son was apparently not foreseen by Him. Otherwise how can those great and precious promises God made to the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be explained? Yet scripture declares God as the Aleph and Tav, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, knowing the end from the beginning.

Isaiah 44:6-8 Thus says YHWH, the King of Israel, and His Redeemer, YHWH of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; beside Me there is no God. And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people? …Fear not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? You [the children of Israel] are even My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? There is no God; I know not any.

Isaiah 48:9-12 For My name's sake will I defer My anger, and for My praise will I refrain that I do not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, even for My own sake, will I do it: for how should My name be polluted? I will not give My glory to another. Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.

Before we were born and had any chance to make any free-will decisions, God had already written our names in the Lamb's book of life. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Messiah: according as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him. In love, having predestined us for the adoption of children by Yeshua the Messiah to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, (Eph. 1:3-5)

The second major misconception is that God changed His mind about His covenant commitments to Israel based on their "free-will" rejection of His Son. Yet we have just seen that Messiah's rejection by most of His people was ordained (Luke 9:22; 20:17; Acts 2:23, etc.). As it was part of God's plan to save the gentiles, the religious leaders' rejection of Messiah did not surprise Heaven.³

1 God states that His knowledge of the future is that which proves He is God (Isa. 41:21-23; 42:5, 8-9; 46:9-10; see also 2 Peter 1:16-19).

2 In Derek Prince's book The Destiny of Israel and the Church, he lists all these verses in Appendix II. (This book may have a different title in different nations.)

3 Does this mean that Israel as a nation could not accept Yeshua as Messiah at least until after His death and resurrection? That is one way of looking at it and based on that, it could be argued that the Jewish nation was cast into exile in 70 AD and again in 135 AD, because of a continual rejection of the apostolic witness to Messiah's resurrection. This is totally different from saying that the Jews were exiled because they rejected and crucified their Messiah.

What Replacement Theology distorts

Although at times God modifies His declared decisions, He does not change His essential nature.

The Bible reveals that God will modify His decisions according to man's response to His warnings, judgments, threats and His offers of salvation, mercy, etc. After all, if God would not modify His decision, why would He emphasize the power of prayer throughout the Word?

Human response can modify God's decisions.

In Leviticus 26, four times God warns about His increasingly severe judgments, saying, And if you will not yet for all this obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins (Lev. 26:18; cp. vs. 21, 24, 28).¹ God is offering Israel a choice of blessings or judgments according to how they respond to His revealed will for them as His people. So their response determines which it will be.

Again, in Deuteronomy 30:19, Moses sets before the children of Israel two paths and asks them to choose – the implication being that God will respond either with blessings or curses/judgments according to what His people decide. I call heaven and earth to record against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both you and your descendants may live.

Joshua 24:14-15 is another case of an Israeli leader challenging his people to make a choice. Now therefore fear YHWH, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods whom your fathers served on the other side of the River, and in Egypt, and serve YHWH. Yet if it seems evil to you to serve YHWH, then choose this day who you will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve YHWH.

This truth of God modifying His decision according to man's response happens not only with Israel, as the pagan city of Nineveh is a stunning example. Jonah, after God's "gentle" persuasion, walked through that large city, proclaiming, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown (Jon. 3:4). That is all God told him to say (1:2). As far as what is revealed in scripture, God did not tell Jonah to tell the Ninevites that if they would only repent, He would spare them. We do not know if He even gave them that choice. Yet they did repent and God modified His declared judgment and did not allow that which He said would happen to happen.

While many prophetic statements in the Word are established by God's eternal counsel, many others wait for man's response. In the Jonah story, we have an example of God "changing His mind" – but not His nature. Since He is always merciful as well as just, Nineveh's actions caused Him to act according to His holy mercy while in no way forsaking the fact that He is a just and holy Judge – as the Ninevites found out about a century later.²

While God often prophesies judgments in order to bring forth a response of repentance, the pattern seen in Scripture is that most of the time people refuse to repent.

Revelation 9:20-21: The rest of mankind who were not killed by the plagues [of the 6th trumpet], did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should stop worshiping demons, or idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which cannot see, or hear, or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their drug use, their illicit sex, or their thefts.

Revelation 16:8-11, 21 tells us the same sin-filled story, since after the 4th, 5th and 7th bowls are poured out, people continue to blaspheme God's name.

Yet Revelation 11:13 shows that there will always be some who respond in a righteous way. At the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth part of the city [Jerusalem] fell, and …7,000 people were killed. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of Heaven. Since the context is the remnant in Jerusalem, is it specifically talking about the Jews? It would seem so.

Prayer also can "change God's mind"

Exodus 32:7-14 is one of the best examples. Moses, who, other than Messiah Yeshua, is the intercessor supreme in the Scriptures, is on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments [literally, the Ten "Words"] from God.¹ The Israelites had built an idol, a golden calf, and were worshipping it. God is furious! YHWH said to Moses, Go! Get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten calf, worshiped and sacrificed to it, saying, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt'.

God then tells Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is stiff-necked. Now leave Me alone, so that My wrath may burn against them and…consume them, and I will make from you a great nation.

We are confronted with this incomprehensible fact that the Almighty God, the Creator, tells His created servant Moses, Leave Me alone! Yet with unbelievable chutzpah – that is, extreme audacity – Moses refuses to obey this God with whom he is face-to-face (Ex. 33:11; Deut. 34:10)! Moses perceived what was ultimately at risk and boldly prayed – challenging God not to do what He has threatened to do because His name, His reputation and His word, is at stake.

Moses prayed to YHWH his God, saying, 'YHWH, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought forth out of…Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth?" Turn from Your fierce wrath, and repent [change Your decision] concerning this evil [You have threatened] against Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, saying to them, ''I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever".' And YHWH repented [turned away] from the evil which He spoke of doing to His people.

Moses reminded God of His Word, which is what biblically based intercession is all about (Isa. 62:1-2, 6-7, see below). Specifically Moses reminded God of His covenant commitments to Israel's forefathers, arguing that if He followed through with Israel's destruction, the gentiles would misunderstand and spread lies about God's way of dealing with His people. This would lead to God's name and reputation being blasphemed, profaned, slandered. Finally, note that Moses never mentioned Israel's sin! His target in intercession was God's glory, and that resulted in God turning from His threats of judgment – for His holy name's sake, which is often the reason why He extends mercy to His people (Ezek. 36:21-23, 32). We continue to pray for Israel like this today.

Isaiah 62:1-2, 6-7 For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes forth as brightness, and its salvation as a burning lamp. Gentiles will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of YHWH will name. In these verses Isaiah declares God's will and intentions. Note that one of the main reasons for Jerusalem/Zion to reflect His glory is for the gentiles' sake. This is part of God's initial promise to Abraham, that through his seed all the families of the earth would be blessed (Gen. 12:3b, cp. Ga. 3:8).

Then in Isaiah 62:6-7, God places watchmen on Jerusalem's walls specifically so that they can remind Him of what He has already said He will do. They co-labor with God to accomplish His will. I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not be silent all day and night. You who remember YHWH [lit: those who remind God; in modern Hebrew the root of this word is where we get the word for "secretaries"], do not be silent, and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise [reflecting on Himself] in the earth.

In Jeremiah 7:16; 11:14; 14:11, God tells His prophet not to pray for the good of Judah because He has already determined to exile them to Babylon. Praying can be so powerful that it could hinder God's righteous judgment at the wrong time! We truly need to have circumcised ears to listen for the Spirit's guideance as we intercede.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 I sought for a man among them who should build up a wall for the land, and stand in the gap before Me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find any, therefore I have poured out My fury on them. I have burned them up with the fire of My wrath. I have given their way on their heads, says the Lord YHWH.

In these verses, God seeks for an intercessor, for someone to remind Him of His merciful nature and turn Him from His holy wrath, just like we saw Moses do in Exodus 32. Because He did not find anyone, His judgment was poured out. This is what the Lord Yeshua did for us as our intercessor, our mediator, who turned God's righteous judgment into holy mercy by standing in the gap between us and His Father, and taking on Himself the outpouring of the Father's just decree that was due to us (2 Cor. 5:21).

Amos 7:1-6 The Lord YHWH made me see this: behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass…And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, I said, 'O Lord YHWH, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand, for he is small?" YHWH repented [changed His decision] for this; 'It shall not be,' says YHWH. The Lord YHWH made me see this: behold, the Lord YHWH was calling to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it. Then I said, 'O Lord YHWH, I pray You, cease. How can Jacob stand, for he is small? YHWH repented for this; 'This also shall not be,' says the Lord YHWH.

Twice in this chapter Amos pleads for mercy and God changes the outcome. However, as the next verses show there is a limit to what an intercessor can do. God finally says, "Enough!" He determines not to pass by His people in mercy again.

In Luke 18:1-8 the Lord Yeshua tells a parable, teaching that it is always right to pray and not to faint. He uses the story of a persistent widow and an unjust judge. Because of her persistent nagging of the judge, he changes his mind and gives her what she is asking for. Then Yeshua said, Hear what the unjust judge says. And shall not [a just] God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them? I tell you that He will avenge them suddenly. Yet when the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?¹ God, after seeming not to hear our cry, often answers suddenly. This is why we need faith and patience to inherit the promises (Heb. 6:12).

James 5:16-18 Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much. Elijah was a man of like passion as we are, and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to sprout.

1 In the book of Revelation God also warns four times of a seven fold judgment – seven seals, then seven trumpets, followed by seven thunders and finally seven vials. Judgment is to the Jew first, then to the rest of mankind (Rom. 2:9), that is to the gentiles. Is this what we see pictured here – in Leviticus 26, judgment to the Jew and in Revelation, judgment to the rest of humanity?

2 Read about this in the Prophet Nahum.

3 Moses was face to face with the pre-incarnate Son of God, because John says, No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the Father's bosom, He has declared Him. (John 1:18)

3 In the context of teaching via parables, Messiah's final question has nothing to do with apostasy. Instead, He is wondering whether there will be believers who will persistently pray and not faint in the last days for His kingdom purposes to come on earth.

God's essential nature never changes

In the Tanach, the Hebrew word "name" when associated with God, often stands for His essential nature and/or reputation. If we read "essential nature" when verses say "name," at times it clarifies what the original word is trying to communicate. Here are a few examples:

Exodus 34:5-6 YHWH descended in a cloud, and stood there with him [Moses], and proclaimed the name [the essential nature] of YHWH, saying, YHWH, YHWH God,¹ merciful and gracious, patient, and compassionate and true. Note that His "name" that Yahweh declares to Moses is basically a list of some of His divine attributes.

Psalm 138:2b is usually translated, …for You have magnified Your word above all Your name. Yet the Hebrew is better translated as, You have magnified Your word upon all Your name [essential nature]. In other words, God's Word is true because God is true; God's Word is living because He is alive; God's Word is trustworthy, because He is trustworthy; the Scriptures are faithful because He is faithful; etc.

Proverbs 18:10 The name of YHWH is a strong tower: the righteous run into it, and are safe. This is a very important truth for believers in these last days, especially when understood in its Hebraic sense, which is that all that our God is – His divine attributes – that is our strong tower. We can run into His mercy, His justice, His holiness, His truth, His strength – and find our safety and salvation in who He is.

John 17:6 I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word." What Messiah Yeshua is saying is much more understandable if we see know "name" can also mean "essential nature." He is stating here that which He had told His disciples when they asked Him to show them the Father. "Philip said to Him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us'. Yeshua answered, 'Have I been with you for this long and yet you still do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father… (John 14:8-b) In other words, Yeshua in His incarnation manifested the very essence of His Father. This is why one of His "names" in the Tanach is The Everlasting Father (Isa. 9:6). While Yeshua is not the Father, He is of the same essence as God the Father.²

There are other examples of how knowing that "name" in the Hebrew often means "essential nature" can open up verses in a faith-building way. Try thinking of "essential nature" when you read the words "in His/God's name" and see if the verse becomes a brighter light to your path (Psa. 119:105). While this is not a rule, it is valid in quite a number of verses.

One other note: this biblical insight clarifies what it means to pray "in the name of Yeshua." It does not mean to use His name as some magical incantation, but it guides us to pray more in line with Messiah's essential nature – which includes God's revealed attributes from Genesis through Revelation.³

While many of God's attributes are revealed in the Word, the foundational characteristic which undergirds all the others is His holiness, that is, His purity and total separateness from His creation. While God is love, He is never described as "love, love, love," but He is declared to be holy, holy, holy, in both the Tanach and the NT. "Holy" describes His character which existed even before He created anything to be separated from. God's purity existed before creation and is the living source of all God's attributes. No one can see God in His purity/holiness and live. He stands alone in His timeless perfect purity, unassailable and unbreachable. Only His Son can reveal Him to us.

Isaiah 6:3 One cried to another, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, is YHWH of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory'.

Revelation 4:8 The four living creatures each had six wings and were full of eyes within, and they did not rest day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come'.

All His attributes are under His "holy" umbrella, so that His love is not just the Beatles type of "all-you-need-is-love" stuff; it is a holy, a pure, love. His mercy is never a humanistic mercy that actually becomes part of the problem, but it is holy mercy. His grace is holy grace, not the cheap grace which is often taken too lightly or taken for granted. His justice, His judgments, His anger and all other of His characteristics are holy in all their ways, and can only be understood through revelation – revelation that always agrees with His Word.⁴

1 Is God hinting at His triune nature? The doubling of Yahweh refers to the Father and the Son, whose essential nature is that of the Father revealed in the flesh. Yeshua said that he who sees Him sees the Father (John 14:9) and Messiah is also described as God's express image (Heb. 1:3). Yet the third person of the Godhead is not called Yahweh, but the Spirit of YHWH. This obviously refers to the Holy Spirit who is never given a personal name in the Bible. By the way, the Holy Spirit is also never prayed to or worshipped, while God the Father and/or Yehsua the Son are often the focus of both (for example Rev. 4:1-5:14).

2 See also 2 Cor. 4:4; Phil. 2:6; Col. 1:5; Heb. 1:3

3 The ultimate goal of prayer is God's glory (Psa. 50:15; 115:1-3). If that is not your goal as you pray – whether personal prayer, praying for others, for your nation, or for Israel – then there is a good chance that what you are praying is not in line with His will and therefore not in Messiah Yeshua's name. If that is the case, ask Him to show you how to pray into those same situations in a way in which you can confidently say "and I ask this in the name of Yeshua!"

3 Ex. 15:1; 28:36; Psa. 29:2; 47:8; 60:6; 89:35; 93:5; Isa. 63:15; Jer. 23:9; Zech. 14:20-21; Rom. 1:4; 1 Thess. 3:13

Has this covenant-making and covenant-keeping God turned against His people?

RT followers are caught implying that the God who has made a covenant-commitment to Israel based on who He is – and not based on what Israel does – that this God is now somehow saying to Israel, "Forget it! I've broken My covenant with you!" But for the biblical God to go back on His Word to Israel means He would have to change His nature. And that is impossible.

God's commitments to Israel are based on who He is

Genesis 12:1-3 God's initial promise to Abraham includes a land, a name, a great nation, divine protection and the gospel, the Good News, to the gentiles (Gal. 3:8), and all this was before Abraham said "yes" or "no" to the only thing he was told to do – leave his land and father's household and go to what was then Canaan.

Genesis 15 God's covenant of the land promised to Abraham was unconditional because there was nothing Abraham did, or needed to do, to "earn" it. He was put into a deep sleep by God [v. 12], and then God made [literally "cut" (v. 18)] a covenant by passing through "the pieces" in a theophany, an appearance of God in the Tanach.¹ By this unconditional covenant commitment God gave to Abraham and his seed² all the land of Israel, which includes more than it has today. And all this based on who God is and not on whom the Jews are, or what they do!³

Genesis 17:19 God's unconditional covenant was passed on to Isaac, and not Ishmael, even before Isaac was born. Later, God confirmed the covenant to Isaac himself (Gen. 26:2-5).

Genesis 25:23 God's unconditional covenant was promised to Jacob, and not Esau. Again this was before Jacob was born or did anything to earn it or spurn it. Later, God Himself confirmed His covenant to Jacob (Gen. 28:12-15), and this was right after Jacob had obeyed his mother and deceived his father in order to receive the blessing of the firstborn. Yet the covenant was – and still is – based on God's faithfulness to watch over His Word to fulfill it (Jer. 1:12) regardless of what His people do or not do.⁴

Romans 15:8 is a very revealing verse on Messiah Yeshua's relationship to all His Father has promised to the Jews. Now I say that Yeshua the Messiah was a minister for the Circumcision [the Jews] for the truth of God [the Word of God (John 17:17)], to confirm [to establish and make even more sure] the promises made to the fathers [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob].

1 In verse 17, this is signified by a "smoking furnace" and a "flaming torch." Smoke and fire are symbolic of God's presence throughout the Tanach. For example the column of smoke and pillar of fire that led the Israelis through the wilderness, or the smoke and fire which appeared on Mount Sinai when God came down to meet Moses.

2 "Seed" can be either singular or plural – or both – according to the context. Here it is obviously the Jewish people.

3 While the land is given to the Jews unconditionally, their ability to remain in the land or to be exiled among the nations, the gentiles, depends on their obedience to God and His Word (Lev. 26:33, 36-39; Deut. 28:63-64).

3 While there are consequences for disobedience as God clearly states in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, and although each person is held responsible for their free-will decisions to obey or disobey God, His covenants and promises are dependent on His sovereign will and foreknowledge. We, who trust in what He has done for us in the death and resurrection of His Son, have His declared sovereign will as our assurance.

Replacement Theology is dangerous

Our "Adversary" Satan, has secular Western culture firmly in his grip, but what about the Church? He knows that to attack God's plan, he has to attack His People, both the Jewish people and the Christians. My wife and I have been horrified observers for more than twenty years, as we have witnessed the spiritual corruption and destruction caused in today's Church through a receiving of untested spirits and an ignorance of God's Word. This is one of Replacement Theology's most dangerous results.

As we see an increase of God's judgments in the world today, a nation's greatest need is intercession in line with His will and led by His Spirit. Yet how can believers who are still under the curse of Genesis 12:3b and Numbers 24:9b stand in the gap for their countries (Ezek. 20:30-31) whose governments are cursing Israel? These nations are targeted by God for judgment, and if the Church also curses Israel, it also remains under His curse, and so is ineffective to stand before God in intercession for its nation (Prov. 28:9).

Am I saying Christians can still be under God's curse? Yes! Paul, in Galatians 3:13, says, Messiah has redeemed us that is, made us free, delivered us, from the curse [described in God's] Law, having become a curse for us through His death on the cross (the "tree" of Deut. 21:23). This was done so that in Messiah Yeshua, gentiles also might receive the blessing of Abraham – that is the promise of God's Spirit – though faith (Gal. 3:14). Yet Paul goes on to say that, the Law, which was four hundred and thirty years later cannot annul (so that it would make the promise of no effect) the covenant that was confirmed earlier by God in Messiah, (Gal. 3:17).

That promise is clearly identified by Paul as God's initial promised commitment to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 (cp. Gal. 3:8), which includes I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you – I will curse.¹ As that promise still stands so does God's commitment in that promise which guarantees His continual protection of His people – for the sake of the gentiles (Gal. 3:8).

Advocates of RT open themselves up to come under this curse. Believers who willingly absorb this demonic doctrine are afflicted with many deceptions – such as not knowing the real nature of God, which is impossible to know without an understanding of the revelation He gives us of Himself in the Tanach (Psa. 36:9; 119:105, 130), including that He was and still is Yahweh, the God of Israel. Also, they do not really see who His Son was and still is – the Jewish Messiah and the King of Israel.

By not having a solid biblical revelation of these essential truths of who our God is, it is impossible to understand what He is doing in the world today. His focus now centers on Israel's restoration, leading to its salvation – for His holy Name's sake (Ezek. 36:22-32). He has not turned away His focus from the Church, but He is also preparing His physical land and His nation for the return of His Son (Psa. 14:16).

If, as RT claims, God is finished with Israel as a nation, then why not support the creation of another Islamic terror-state, one called 'Palestine,' on God's land which He had promised to His now-permanently-cast-off people? RT people thinking this are blinded to their danger.

By not validating God's restoration of His people to His land, and by ignoring God's curse on those who curse Israel, how can Christians intercede for their own nations? Will they pray against homosexuality being legalized because it will bring judgment? Too late! According to Romans 1:26-28, societies infiltrated with homosexuality is a clear sign that God has already judged! Also symptomatic of God's judgment is violence, family breakdown, foreign gods and other idols being worshipped in a society. How can RT Christians understand that the root of His judgment is based on how their nation touches the pupil of God's eye (Zech. 2:8)² – meaning how their nation deals with Israel³ – especially if they have already labeled Israel's restoration a "political anomaly" or a "mistake of history"?

The only believers who are able to stand in the gap, crying out for mercy for their nation, are those who bless Israel and support what God is doing in these days for His glory (Psa. 115:1-3). The rest are ineffective and even resisting what their God is doing openly with all of His heart and soul (Jer. 32:41). And yet RT believers expect to have their prayers answered? Sadly, their intercession for their nations cannot coincide with praying in the name of Yeshua (John 15:7; 1 John 5:14-15)!

RT allowed into the Church eventually results in the removal of the only spiritual covering any nation has – the prayers of the true Church, leaving an open door for demonic infiltration. Is this not the condition of most Western nations today, which is where most RT theologians have their headquarters? Is this your nation's condition? You can be part of the answer. But if you are involved in a congregation that preaches RT intentionally, I suggest you ask the Lord if it is time for you to "flee" Babylon (Isa. 48:20; Jer. 50:28; 51:6; Zech. 2:6-7; Rev. 18:1-5).

RT ideology curses God's people – the nation of Israel and the Jewish people – by distorting and scorning His eternal covenants and His promises to them, so any church or believer involved with RT is a target of God's curse (Gen. 12:3a; Num. 24:9b). This interferes with – if not totally ruins – the authority of RT believers, hindering their ability to stand in the gap as priests and prophets for their respective nations and peoples (Ezek. 22:30-31).

By tapping into latent ant-Semitism, RT grows stronger in many Western denominations and congregations today. Because the ultimate battle is spiritual, the invasion of unclean spirits into Western society has been facilitated by the lack of the Churches' knowledge of God's Word and will to stand against these attacks. In many "post-Christian" nations the spirits of humanism, radical feminism, sexual perversions, Islam, racial antagonisms, occultism, and an idolatry of people and things, as well as other anti-Christ ideals – have invaded and taken root. All these replace the worship of and dependence on the One True God.

RT in the Church has lost its true prophetic voice, and sits back doing nothing as the leaders of its nations toy with God's land and His people – as if Israel is a nation like any other nation (Num. 23:9). The infiltrations and attacks against the West today are a form of God's judgment – the removal of His prevenient grace, His hand of protection that is well able to hold back the worst in mankind. When He removes His hand, societies give themselves over to the lusts of their flesh and to reprobate minds (Rom. 1:28). Read what comes to those who reject the love of Truth in Second Thessalonians 2:10-12!

Most tragically, the blasphemy and deception of RT declares another Jesus, opening up believers to another spirit, resulting in the preaching and receiving of another gospel that is not the real NT good news. After all, if the Jesus who saved you was not a Jew, as well as God the Son, the Son of Man, the King of Israel, the King of Kings and Lord of lords, and today is still not a Jew – the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root and Offspring of David – then you believe in another Jesus who never existed in history or is enthroned in heaven today! RT attacks the Lord Yeshua's nation and family, and distorts His true nature. An uncircumcised Savior cannot save you!

Since RT is both blasphemous and existentially dangerous, once again I ask – unless God specifically tells you to remain in a congregation that preaches this error – is it not time to leave, to flee Babylon?

1 In Genesis 12:3a, the Hebrew word translated "bless" is the same both times, but the Hebrew words translated “curse” are different. God says He will curse, judge severely, those who habitually denigrate, falsely accuse, slander, bully, belittle, make light of and plot against His people.

2 It has been explained that when you “touch” Israel negatively you are poking God in His eye, as the Hebrew word translated "apple" in Zechariah 2:8 was used for the eyes' pupil. Since we all see the world through our pupils, this verse could also refer to God viewing the world through His nation Israel!

3 Isa. 60:12; Joel 3:1-2; Zech. 12:9 as a few of the many warnings of hindering God's restoration of Israel.

Is now the time?

It's always time to flee Babylon! Since RT encouages belief in another Yeshua and another gospel, it opens wide the door to other spirits. And what will Replacement people do when, having been imbued with unclean spirits, they arrive at the gates of New Jerusalem?¹ After all, Yeshua is still King of the Jews, or as heaven declares Him – the Lion of the tribe of Judah. In fact, in the last chapter of the Bible, Yeshua Himself says that He is the Root and Offspring of David (Rev. 22:16). What will those who believe in RT do if and when they get to Heaven and suddenly are face-to-face with a Jew who is their Savior and King?

Again, Yeshua is returning to Jerusalem to rescue His people. Now if Jerusalem is just an allegory of the Church, then maybe Yeshua won't return to the Mount of Olives.² And if that is true that the Land of Israel is no longer important, nor is it promised to the Jews any longer, then what has happened and is happening in Israel today is the weirdest concurrence of what appears to be the actual fulfillment of prophecy in, like, forever.

Also, if RT is true then nations are not being judged today for how they treat Israel. The only problem with that is that many nations today seem to be suffering God's judgment in line with how they deal with Israel and the Jews.³

Again, if RT is a biblically sound doctrine, we need to redefine how Paul pictures salvation, because it cannot mean being grafted into Israel's olive tree "among" – and not "instead of "– the Jews. Yet Paul does say that salvation means being grafted in "among" the natural branches, the Jews (Rom. 11:17, 24), and that the roots of Israel's tree, which are God's promises to Israel's forefathers, actually support the Church (Rom. 11:18). Israel can exist without the Church – which it did for over a thousand years, but if Israel is destroyed, the Church does not have a leg – or a root – to stand on.

Now if we believe what the New Testament says, then the gospel is still to the Jew first (Rom. 1:16).

Of course, if God is not the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb. 13:8) or if God Himself does change although He says he does not (Mal. 3:6), and if the sons of Jacob can be completely consumed, which is Satan's agenda, then RT would be correct.

Thank God it is not correct! It does not agree with biblical or historical truth. RT is unbiblical and blasphemous, making God out to be someone He specifically declares in His Word that He is not. So if you are in a church or a denomination that teaches and believes Replacement Theology – it is very possible that the Spirit of God is telling you that now is the time to flee Babylon!

1 Thank God we are saved by grace and not by our doctrines!

2 I once spoke with an Evangelical Anglican minister in London, who was into 'fulfillment theology' – which believes that all prophecies were already fulfilled so that not only is Yeshua not coming back, but this modern restoration of Israel is not of God.

3 See "Why God Judges the Nations" on the Intercessors for Israel website.

I want to thank my precious wife Karen for all her help in editing and spiritual input for this teaching.

Chuck Cohen