Romans 11 Still Applies Today… (Article)
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We are in a crisis of truth when it comes to Israel today in America. I am finding a lot of people in the Body of Christ are ignoring the precepts and promises that are spoken in the book of Romans Chapter 11.
2 Timothy 3: 13 – 17 (Amp)
“But evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced [holding tightly to the truths], knowing from whom you learned them, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness]. All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
I know that I am a little slow but my understanding of this text in the scriptures seems to be leading me to believe through the Holy Spirit that God intended for all of His Holy Word to be used for instruction, conviction of sin, correction of error so that we can be restored to obedience, for training in righteousness so that we can have personal integrity and moral courage. There are multiple teachings going around the American Church concerning Israel that are straight from the devil. I am finding amongst “black people” and “people of color” a low level of understanding of the Word of God when it comes to Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish Nation and all things Jewish. I will forever be committed to the truth of God’s Word despite my ethnicity. The Jewish Nation that was formed in 1948 from the Balfour Declaration involving England, the United States and a multitude of nations around the world was not an accident it occurred on purpose by the Most-High God.
The truth of the matter today in 2025 is that “SOME” not “all” “black people” and “people of color” in the American Church are highly prejudiced against “white people” and the “Jewish people”. This has been going on for years. This is not new. Racism amongst “blacks and people of color” in the Church has been growing exponentially. It’s growing because “blacks and people of color” have been deceived into thinking that they are owed something by “white people and the Jews”. They have been taught to walk in the “spirit of division and hatred” by the leadership in the “black Church” and the stupidity of SOME “white people” who believe that they have to feel guilty for what their ancestors did. This has, is, and always will be bologna. This has been the main strategy from the devil from day one and SOME “black people” and “people of color” continue to believe it. The next iteration of the “spirit of division and hatred” is against the Jewish people. This is a part of the “End Times” movement. This movement will advance the “antichrist spirit” in the earth.
Romans 11: 13 – 18 (NKJV)
“For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you”.
“For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.””
Does God lie? Seriously, does God lie? Do you understand the ways of God? Do you have all knowledge and understanding about the people of Israel? I don’t. What I do know is this. My Bible has never lied. Therefore, my God never lies and if He said that the Jewish people are His and they are going to be blessed than who am I to judge them? I know that I am of Gentile origin. I know that God does not have to save me. I know that God would be justified in sending me and everyone of us to Hell for what we have done to His Son, Jesus the Christ.
The precepts and promises that Romans 11 promotes are immutable. They are unchanging. Romans 11 promotes the prophetic idea that Israel will be restored back as a nation. This has happened. If you do not understand that one of the major prophetic signs of our time and our generation took place in 1948 with Israel being reformed, then you don’t understand the scriptures. Israel was restored as a nation before God. That means that the people that had been scattered around the world, the entire world, had to start making a journey back home to their homeland, Israel. Many things have taken place over the last 77 years. There is no human way that things could be manufactured by any human being to happen. The Israeli people themselves could not make this happen on their own. This has to be God.
There are many lies that are happening right now and these lies are being put forth.
1. There is a claim going forward that the Jewish people are causing a decrease in the Christian population in Israel. The truth: “There is an area where the Christian population is decreasing in this section of Israel but the Jewish people are not causing this. To be fair the Christian population is also decreasing in Gaza, under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Israel or Jewish people are not in those nations. The common denominator in these countries in the Middle East is the rise of Islam and radical Muslims. Muslim persecution is taking place against the Christians in these regions. Christians are fleeing these nations. This has nothing to do with the Jews. This is the radical Muslims violently terrorizing and taking over these regions. Can you explain this to me? If Israel were removing everyone out of their land who are not Jewish, why is the Muslim population in Israel growing? According to Central Bureau of Statistics, the Christian population in Israel is increasing. But in the non-Israeli governed parts in the Palestinian controlled areas, West Bank, Gaza, it's decreasing.
“Arab Christians constitute 78.7% of the Christian population in Israel and 6.9% of the nation’s overall Arab population. Most Arab Christians reside in the Northern District (68.2%) and Haifa District (14.7%). Non-Arab Christians are more concentrated in the Tel Aviv and Central Districts (41.3%), with 34.8% living in the Northern and Haifa Districts. The cities with the largest Arab Christian populations include Nazareth (19,800), Haifa (18,700), Jerusalem (13,100), and Nof HaGalil (10,500).” [i]
The case of Bethlehem vividly illustrates Christian demographic erasure. In 1950, Bethlehem and the surrounding villages were 86% Christian.3 According to the Christian Information Center, in 1994, when the PA took control of Bethlehem, it was the most populous Christian town in the Holy Land.4 Since then, Bethlehem’s Christian population has dwindled to approximately 10% (according to the last census in 2017).5 Christian families are leaving Bethlehem due to systemic socio-economic hardships and instability, discrimination, and harassment (including of clergy) by Muslim Palestinians and the Islam-dominated Palestinian Authority. The mass exodus of the Christians risks undermining the survival of Christianity in its birthplace. 6 [ii]
2. There is a claim going forward that the Jews took the land from Hamas and that is the real reason that Hamas is mad. There is a claim that Hamas just wants peace and is willing to live in harmony next to Israel. This is a lie. It's all the Jews fault. This too is a lie. The Jews had it coming to them. Hamas, is good right? This is a lie. Hamas massacred innocent fathers, mothers, and children. Hamas raped women and mutilated their bodies and beheaded babies in their cribs. But aside from that Hamas are basically good people. This is a lie, Hamas are not good people. The Bible says woe to those who call evil good and good evil. The truth is, Hamas is evil. It's in Hamas’ original founding charter which states the reason it was founded, and it's the truest expression of their mission. Their founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Their charter reads like a chapter out of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Hamas exists for the destruction of Israel. And not just for Israel, but of Jews and Judaism anywhere. Hamas exists to destroy Israel and kill the Jewish people. There cannot be peace without Hamas and its ideology being completely destroyed.
I have said this before and I will say it again. When Hamas killed and burned those babies Israel said, “Never again!” Israel went after Hamas and some American Christians are saying that Israel went to far. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are saying Israel on purpose started this war with Hamas because Israel wanted to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip from all Muslims. This is a lie. Consider this Israel never had to give Hamas the Gaza strip. The history of the Gaza strip is such that Israel removed itself from Gaza back during the Bush years and Israel resettled its own people and they gave up their land for peace. God never intended for Israel to do this. Israel got into sin when they did this. God had to turn this situation around for the purpose of blessing Israel. What most people don’t know is that God is moving forward on his prophetic timetable. This timetable will always, always have Israel at its center. Why? Because Israel is the apple of God’s eye. You can pretend that you have some secret knowledge about how the Jews that are in Israel are not the “real” Jews. You can pretend that you believe America is going to be at the center of the next great move of God. I know differently. The remnant knows differently. What’s happening in the Gaza strip is ordained by God.
Dr. Ken Johnson: “…We've already seen the prophecies from the minor prophets start to be fulfilled. the takeover of the Gaza Strip permanently by Israel and the expansion into Lebanon and the wars beginning with Iran. So those are mentioned in a lot of different Dead Sea Scrolls. But it's really interesting to see this whole 50-year period start. What's neat about it is you have these prophecies of each time Jubilee starts. That's the last one of an age. You've got a lot of prophecies that start usually a major revival. A lot of good things as far as gentile nations start in a Jubilee year. And then, we already see that. We see basically Trump kind of taking over, redoing everything, not just for the United States, but if he's successful, most of the Western world will be greatly benefited by this getting rid of globalists and things like that for a while…”
Josh Peck: “…So, I got to ask you, do you personally expect anything prophetic to happen this jubilee year from now until this time, 2026? And, if so, what do you think is going to happen? What are you thinking about?”
Dr. Ken Johnson: “…Well, as far as me guessing, just knowing the scrolls, my guess would be nothing this year, but a lot of stuff starting in 26 and going forward… Well, for instance, there's one prophecy in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls that gives us a date. it says that Israel would mess up, by messing up a covenant. Doesn't say which covenant, but that gets fixed in a 70-year period. The 70-year period is very close to the time of the tribulation. That's what the scroll says. It's actually a commentary on the on the prophet, Jeremiah, which is pretty interesting. So, your first thought is the 70-year prophecy that he's talking about, but it's really specific. And so the whole concept is, they give away land. Once you take land that God has given you, once you've come back, you don't just give it back away. That's a breach of contract. And so, when we look at this starting in 1948 and going forward, the first breach of contract was the Sinai War in 1956. And they took the Sinai, and the Gaza Strip, because of a war. Once it was over, they gave the entire thing back. That's a breach of contract because Gaza should belong to Israel.
So, 70 years later it's supposed to be fixed. That's in 2026. And the Gaza war started in 2023 actually, so basically three years early. And my first thought when I read this is like, it fits. But there's no way the war would go on for three years. You know, it's like, well, apparently, it's going on for three years. And then again with Trump in office saying, we've tried this so many times, let's just move all the Gazans out and we'll be done with it. That's a fulfillment of prophecy. Now I don't know if that's actually going to take place, but the fact that he's talking about it... it's 2025 now, and one more year. That's pretty interesting.”[iii]
Let me explain what they just said… this war that took place over the Gaza strip was ordained by God. This war had to occur with Israel, Hamas, Lebanon, & Iran. This is the fulfillment of a prophecy that was written and placed on the Dead Seas Scrolls by the Essenes. Josephus, the Church Fathers and a lot of other people mention the Essenes as being 100% accurate. So, God had the Essenes make this prophetic calendar up. The prophecies were hidden in caves for centuries and now they find these prophecies and are reading them and they are telling with 100% accuracy what is happening. The Jewish people have no way of making this stuff up. The American Church needs to wake up and realize that God is on the move and God is not hosting any revivals in stadiums in America where the American Church does not want Him. God is going back after His people.
3. There is a claim that the Hamas are good people and they were only protecting their land. Listen at this account of one of the members of Hamas that they found in a conversation that this man had with his family. “On October 7th, one of the killers calls up his family, who were not Hamas members, as far as we know, just ordinary Gazan Palestinians. He's shouting in joy and celebration. Mom, Dad, I killed Jews… He said, “I killed 10 Jews. I strangled them with my own hands. I did it. I killed 10”. And the father, hearing the news that his son is a mass murderer, rejoices, Praise Allah and the mother rejoices. They all rejoice that their son strangled with his bare hands innocent Jewish children, fathers, mothers. Hamas is not innocent. The narrative in our media and now in our American Churches is that Hamas was just trying to fight for their people, protecting their land from the evil Israelis. Remember the Jewish people on October 7, 2023 were not attacking Hamas’ land. Hamas invaded Israel. Hamas raped, slaughtered, and mutilated all those young people at that music festival. Those victims never realized that was going to be their last day alive. The narrative that is being put out there is wrong.
4. There is a claim that the Christianity that we practice as the American Gentile Church does not come from the Holy Land, Israel. Christianity is from the Holy Land and to the whole world. They are making a division and separation between the Christianity of a Catholic or an Orthodox versus the Christianity of a Protestant or a traditional Christian. This is a heretical belief that is on the rise right now. The thought process is that if you're not Catholic or Orthodox, you're a heretic. I am telling you that you need to pay attention to this. This is where the foundational system for the antichrist church is being put together. There are so many ties the Catholic religion and Islam. These ties are going to be used to formulate the “One World Church”. The American Gentile Christians are walking into a trap that is going to have them being a part of the antichrist church of the “End Times”. It is so very important that you keep your heart pure and clean and do not have anything in common with the things of the World. There are those who have an antichrist root in their thinking and this root is going to be used to pull the Churches together under this system. Guess who will be the first ones to be tricked? Yep, those who don’t know the truth about the Jewish people. Those who are following strange and unbiblical teachings that say the Israelis who formed Israel in 1948 were just spiritual Jews and not true blood Jews.
Let me be plain, “black people” and “people of color” you are prone to being easily deceived because you are already operating under the “spirit of division and hatred”. You have something in common with the antichrist spirit. Pride will keep you in a strong delusion. The discussions that since Obama left office amongst “black people” and “people of color” centered around President Trump is a Christian Nationalist. President Trump is just like Adolf Hitler.
In fairness to the argument there are some similarities in behavior. “Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the early 1930s must be understood within the context of post-World War I Germany, which was reeling from economic depression and political instability. The Treaty of Versailles had left the German population humiliated, with heavy war reparations and territorial losses adding to the strain of hyperinflation and widespread unemployment. Hitler, with his fiery speeches, emerged as a savior to many disillusioned citizens,” says Hase Fiero.[iv]
“Nearly a century later, Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in American politics drew on many similar themes — economic frustration, nationalism, scapegoating, and media manipulation. While the social and historical contexts differed, the tactics employed to attract and maintain a loyal base of supporters bore striking similarities,” says Hase Fiero.[v]
If you don’t know history for yourself, you will believe everything someone tells you. Many “black people” and “people of color” believe these lies and they never see the true battle between light and darkness. They never see that the world really has two sides; those who are for God and those who are for the devil.
5. There is a claim that Israel wants this war to drag on forever. This is not true. Israel has had three main points that they wanted and Hamas and Iran have fought against Israel having these points. Israel wants the following: “Complete disarmament of Hamas, the demilitarization of Gaza, and return of the hostages.
God is sovereign and His will is being accomplished despite the American Gentile Church. Romans 11 still applies today. God’s Word will not return to Him void. Selah!
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Sources for this article
[i] Source Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) – December 25, 2024 – https://www.jns.org/israels-christian-population-grows-to-180300-on-christmas-2024/
[ii] (Sources - https://www.ncronline.org/bethlehems-declining-christian-population-casts-shadow-over-christmas; https://jcpa.org/article/human-rights-of-christians-in-palestinian-society/; https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/another-bleak-christmas-bethlehem-christian-families-quit-west-bank-2024-12-01/#:~:text=As%20of%20a%202017%20census,in%202017%20at%20around%2010%25.; https://honestreporting.com/history-repeating-itself-as-bethlehems-christians-face-extinction/)
[iii] This was taken from youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abi43r3aBSU&t=941s Josh Peck and Dr. Ken Johnson (New Jubilee Year Today! Dead Sea Scrolls Prophecies Unlocked! | Dr. Ken Johnson | TSR 396) have a very interesting discussion about the Gaza strip. There was a very interesting prophecy found in the Dead Sea Scroll Calendars. – Click Here to see this video discussion.
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