Something I noticed recently. Johnnie Moore is an 'evangelical', probably dispensationalist, who has been put in charge of the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
A few months earlier, he was responsible for this report smearing people who use the phrase 'Christ is King' as anti-semitic.
It's as if he is the go-to 'evangelical' on tap when it comes to advancing the interests of Israel and the more general anti-semitism moral panic.
Here's the not so hidden secret.
It is.
"Christ is King" is absolutely anti semitic. Christ the Savior is a denial and refutation of the false religion of judaism. When Jesus was resurrected the Covenant was fulfilled.
The two are totally incompatible with one another, because they are each based off two diametric principles. Acceptance or denial of Christ.
Judaism isn't a false religion within Christendom, it's incomplete.
Christ is King... of the jews.
Christ is King of everything. He says this to Pilate. If he was King of the Jews he'd be justly crucified. You're making the same argument the Pharisees used to have Christ arrested. Even Pilate saw that Christ wasn't King of the Jews.
The Pharisees didn't think Christ was King of the Jews.
The point is that he is, what I would call, a conic section of God, and is therefore the God of the Jews, not just King. That's where his authority derives from to do the shit that they claim is blasphemy. He's not just a God, he's their God.
The Pharisees claimed that Jesus announced himself King of the Jews to get him arrested by the Romans. I didn't say they thought he was King of the Jews.
You know what the proper term is for a religion that is “incomplete” because its remaining adherents refuse to recognize their prophecies have been fulfilled? Heretical. Putting aside the parts of scripture that explicitly call out the Jews that failed to convert as servants of evil, it’s just patently absurd to say that you have this group of people that are defined by following a religion that has certain similarities to yours, but diverges drastically on the central figure, and say they’re somehow actually extra special for… not following the teachings of your god despite their explicit oath to do so. And also arranging for that god to be arrested, imprisoned, and brutally executed.
Let’s just ignore all the history altogether for a moment; to be a practicing Jew, today, obviously you can’t have been part of the group that demanded the death of Christ. You’d be dead of old age if nothing else. But you do have to at least be aware that Christianity claims to have found the fulfillment of all the prophecies and promises your religion is still waiting on, and you have to be aware that your religion only exists separately from Christianity explicitly because you believe Christ is a fraud and a blasphemer. You have to consider and reject Christ a lot more intimately and explicitly than any follower of any other non-Christian religion would. Even on the lowest, least-considered, most “born into this religion, it’s just kind of what my family does” way, you have to be aware that you are “not-Christian” much more than the Christian has to be aware that he is “not-Jewish.”
People often treat Judaism and Christianity as being super easy to reconcile to each other because they both theoretically come from the same root. That is a mistake born from not thinking about exactly how and why they diverged, and the necessary assumption that must exist at the core of each one: for Christianity, that Christ is the messiah, for if he were not their religion would be false. For Judaism, that Christ is not, the messiah, for if he were, they would be obliged to convert and “Judaism” would no longer exist in its modern form. These are, in fact, the two most diametrically-opposed religions on the planet.
There's absolutely nothing anti-semitic about that, that's just the Christian religion. A Jew who accepts Christ is as good as any Christian. An actual anti-semite would have to condemn Christianity as a 'Jewish religion' due to the earliest apostles being Jews, meaning the ethnicity.
No jew accepts Christ by definition.
The Apostle Paul. Semite is an ethnic designation. Thus, anti-semitism is hatred for the Jewish ethnicity. Whether or not you think there is one, people who are think so.
What you describe is anti-Judaism. And of course Christianity is anti-Judaism. If people were perfectly fine being Jews, there'd be no need for Jesus.
Paul became a Christian and specifically laid the foundation for Fulfillment Theory.
There was no bigger advocate for the doctrinal dissolution of judaism.
The idea of "ethnicity" did not even vaguely exist at the time.
Yes, but now it does.
So what?
So at the moment, there is a distinction between anti-Judaism and anti-semitism.
There is nothing anti-semitic about Christianity. There is no Jew or Greek and all.
The so-called jews of today are not the Jews of the Bible.
This is a big thing that usually gets left out of the dispensationalist discussions.
On the religious side, following the three Jewish revolts against Rome - and the massive devastation that resulted from them - Rabbinical tradition became increasingly important and even superseding the Old Testament texts. A couple hundred years later, this was codified in the Talmud.
Additionally, and much more significantly (in my mind), was the Haskalah in the late 1700s and 1800s. One of the big consequences of that was the development of a non-religious Jewish identity. And over the 150-200 years since then, we've seen a very large growth in secular or cultural Judaism. And even among those Jews who are still religious, a huge part of their identity is often tied into the cultural idea of "being Jewish".
That's literally a jew worshipper
He is one of their favorite butt goys for sure. Those types of Jew worshippers are among the only people who will act as muscle for Israel.