Very little of Christianity is found in the New Testament teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor are most of the activities that occur in church buildings found in the writings of the Apostles. The assembly of the believers as described in the Book of Acts and writings of the Apostles bears no resemblance to what is known as Christianity in this modern age.
There are many voices that have changed the nature of what we call Christianity. It long ago morphed into a Satanic imitation of the true assembly of believers in Christ, who follow His teachings alone. No other doctrines are even relevant.
As time has passed since by salvation in Jesus Christ, in 1972, I have come to the view that there is only one method by which we can know what a true Christian is, and that is persecution. As has been said: “If you are doing it right the devil will fight”. Persecution is the hallmark of obedience to Christ’s teachings.
The Apostle Paul captures this point in the following passage.
10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them; 15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:10-15 AKJV
In the Early Church many Jews who followed Jesus Christ suffered persecution, as Jesus promised they would. But some Jewish believers tried to get non-Jewish believers to be circumcised so that the Jewish believers who associated with those non-Jews would not get persecution for the cross of Christ (Galatians 5:11, 6:12).
All believers are delivered from any such rule to be circumcised. It is totally irrelevant to salvation in Jesus Christ.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
Galatians 6:15-16 AKJV
The true Israel of God are all those who believe in Jesus Christ for salvation. They could be Jewish or non-Jewish. By faith they are all children of God.
26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek [Gentile, non-Jew], there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 3:16-29 AKJV
This is clear. True believers are those who follow Jesus Christ and His teachings. They have put on Christ. All past beliefs are dead and gone. But the belief in the true doctrines of the Lord and His Apostles invariably leads to persecution. If you suffer no persecution you are not a true believer living in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:12).
18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 15:18-21 AKJV
This leads me to state that Christianity — what we understand it to be — is not biblical. It would seem that the world has a meaning for Christianity, which does not include the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
14 For, brothers, you became imitators of the assemblies of God, the ones being in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered these things by your own fellow countrymen, as they did also by the Jews, 15 both the ones killing the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and persecuting us, and not pleasing God, and being contrary to all men, 16 forbidding us from speaking to the nations in order that they be saved, to the filling up of their sins always. But the wrath of God is come on them to the end.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 KJ3
The Jews killed Jesus, the Son of God, and also the prophets He sent to them. Also they persecuted the early Jewish believers. They forbade them from preaching the gospel to the non-Jews in other nations.
In the text above the Apostle Paul is speaking to non-Jews in the assembly of believers in Thessalonica. He told them to expect persecution and prohibitions against sharing the truth of the gospel.
In Australia there has been a human rights case afoot since COVID and it would seem that the issue of what Christianity is has come up.
For the sake of claiming a religious exemption to a workplace COVID shot the Queensland government has defined that Christianity is not a religion. And that it does not come from the Bible but that a religion only can be defined by the edicts of official church leaders. That means that Christianity is not biblical, which I agree with. It is a man-made religion that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.
True followers of Jesus Christ get their teachings from the New Testament but those teachings have nothing to do with corporate Christianity as it has become. Of course those arguing for Christianity, claiming it is a religion from the New Testament, are also wrong.
Persecution of the believers is underway all over the planet. They are murdered and their buildings destroyed because they claim to be believers in Jesus Christ. In Israel followers of Christ are spat upon by religious Jews.
Though I don’t believe that Donald Trump really cares about Christians, because he supports their murder in Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine, he issued the following statement.
No mention of Christian persecution in occupied Palestine. Nor do I believe he has any intention of stopping the murder of believers in Palestine, Nigeria and around the Middle East at the hands of US-supported al-Qaeda/ ISIS/ HTS Islamists, in Syria for example.
Those who do suffer persecution and afflictions for being followers of Christ are the true believers. Many still use outward ecclesiastical trappings that we don’t see in the New Testament. However the test of persecution strips away all those useless ornaments and exposes the heart of the true believer. It also means many who are not willing to die for Christ are exposed as fakes, and they are many.
Western Christian evangelicals have a fascination with the Darbyite heresy of dispensationalism and its futurist eschatology as propagated by the study notes of the Scofield Reference Bible, which was printed in 1917 with funding of the Rothschild family. It was Lord Rothchild who was instrumental in getting the approval from British PM Balfour in 1917 to establish the nation state of Israel in Palestine. Coincidental? I think not!
Long before John Nelson Darby, in 1590 Jesuit Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) published his futurist theory of a future coming antichrist. Later Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) of Rome popularised the theory. That was to divert attention away from what the Reformers believed that the papacy was the antichrist. By 1909 Cyrus I. Scofield revived Ribera’s theory but being a very expensive exercise to publish a large book in those days the Rothschilds took on the task and spread it to the Americas.
The doctrine of devils in those Scofield notes has led to the deaths and persecution of not only Palestinian Muslims but also followers of Christ in the Levant since the early 1930s. Western evangelicals have supported the slaughter falsely believing that God condones the death of innocent Palestinians because they need to move aside for Zionist colonisers to take their land.
Currently the once all-Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank is undergoing severe persecution by Israeli settler colonisers. These reason is because they are not Jews and therefore they are not the ‘chosen people’ and therefore not entitled to the land that their forebears have occupied for the last thousand years.
More and more I see that the real persecution of true followers of Jesus like Paul warned of in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 will be from the Satanic Zionists whether they claim to be Christians or not. These persecutors are the same as the Early Church brethren were confronted with. Those who held to a legalistic view of the gospel — that Jewishness (whatever that is) somehow afforded a special privilege with God.
They could come from within the ranks of Western evangelical churches, or Jews who claim to be Messianic believers in Jesus Christ, or Israeli Zionist settler colonisers, or Zionist fanatics in the Israeli government. All of them are Zionists and the same type of people Jesus confronted when He said that they are of their father the devil.
42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John 8:42-44 AKJV
They do not worship the Lord God as found in the Bible. Their god is Satan. And they support genocide and persecution of the true followers of Christ. I know this is also true of fanatic Christian Zionists. I personally have been threatened by them.
I believe this has come about because the Western evangelicals have become heavily politicised. The label ‘Christian’ no longer has any currency for followers of Jesus Christ. It is a political label, not applicable to true disciples of Jesus who listen to His sermons and follow His teachings. See Matthew 5:1-12 for example
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew 5:10-11 AKJV
In 2023 two influential Knesset members proposed a bill to criminalize preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Israel, extending existing restrictions on proselytizing minors. Violators would face up to two years imprisonment, with the legislation applicable across all faiths and mediums – both direct and digital. But the proposal never went anywhere as PM Benjamin Netanyahu squashed it. Christian Zionists are big supporters of Israel and Netanyahu does not want to lose that support.
But most Jews view any effort to convert them to Christianity as deeply offensive, a legacy of centuries of persecution and forced conversion at the hands of Christian rulers. In part, because of those sensitivities, evangelical Christians rarely target Jews.
Watch this video!
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The Western evangelical shown there in Israel preaching seems to me to be a Christian Zionist who holds the false belief that Jews love them. When in fact the Jewish guy he talks to says that Christians are idol worshippers and when they have a Sanhedrin again they will put idol worshippers to death. The preacher is casting his pearls before swine, but he doesn’t realise it.
In Matthew 10:5–15 we read that Jesus sent His disciples out to preach and do miracles in His name in Israel. And after His death and resurrection they would go much farther preaching for the rest of their lives. That is the long term mission which Jesus seems to be describing in this passage. The disciples can expect to be arrested, persecuted, and hated because of their association with Him. Note that all of the Apostles ultimately met violent deaths except John.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 15:20-21 AKJV
And that is what we should expect in the lives of true followers of Christ. Persecuted, afflicted, tortured, besieged, attacked, oppressed, cursed, bedeviled, anguished! Who does that list apply to?
Related Reading
- Christians Should Follow the Teachings of Christ
- Zionists Hate Christians and Muslims and Jews
- How Is It Possible That Christians Will Put Christians To Death?
- Noahide Laws and the Hypocrisy of Modern Pharisees
- Why I am Not an Evangelical Christian
- Can a Christian Celebrate the Death of His Enemies?
- Corporate Christianity: Come Out of Her My People
- Zionism, Judaism or Christianity
- Christian Zionism is the Problem
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