One of the greatest ironies in the world today is that the modern nation state of Israel has been working to eradicate many (most?) elements of Christianity from within itself since the day it was founded by the United Nations after World War II. The documentary below tells the story.
But before watching this, let’s get the foundation straight.
As Christians, we love the ancient House of Israel, but we don’t always remember why.
Latter-day Saints have specifically been taught on this subject by older church leaders as outlined in “Should Latter-day Saints Support the Modern State of Israel?”
Modern Jews and Muslims also love the ancient House of Israel. This story is so big and has become so polluted over time. From not only modern propaganda, but also middle-ages and ancient propaganda, that it takes a lot of work for any of us today to simplify what it’s all about.
Briefly, this all goes back to the ancient patriarch Abraham.
Abraham’s grandson was named Jacob, later changed to Israel. Israel and his four wives had children and therefore they created the family known as the “House of Israel” (literally his house = his family). They were born under the promise given to grandpa Abraham to bless the whole earth. Was this promise a declaration of blood-based superiority? Absolutely not.
Simply put (without getting into it) the blessing is actually a calling that they have a job to do, not a right to rule or control others in any way. They were given insight into how to establish freedom in the world and God expects them to do some real work if they want to “bless the whole earth” (Genesis 12:3). The blessing comes by his descendants learning to live right, establishing justice in the countries they either live in or create themselves. They live up to the claim of becoming “God’s people” by their actions. Anybody who learns and does the correct actions is naturally adopted into the same promise. Nobody has a monopoly on establishing freedom in the world. God wants everyone to be free and He’s grateful to anybody that actually does the work to advance that cause.
Israel is as Israel does.
Anybody can call themselves Israel (and many do), but only those who choose to live according to Israel’s calling and most importantly “proclaim liberty throughout the land” (Leviticus 25:10) actually are “God’s people”. It’s a matter of action, not a matter of genetic superiority.
All modern versions of any Abrahamic religion have the essence of this calling built in. In the US we inherited this Abrahamic principle by establishing a Constitution that limits the power of kings or presidents, demanding they honor the people’s liberty. Any version of a free nation that claims to be in the shadow of the House of Israel must first have some sort of Constitutional framework that limits the power of the rulers in pursuance of the people’s liberty. Ancient Israel was commanded to have their kings be servants that are subject to the law, where the kings must read that law all the days of their lives so they never forget it, which is a constitution in modern terms (Deuteronomy 17:18-19). If the nation doesn’t even have a constitution, then they haven’t even stepped their foot in the door of “doing” as Israel does. Such a nation can only be a fraudulent Israel. After the modern state of Israel was created they promised to create a constitution but conveniently they never did it, despite having promised they would create it within four months and despite the United Nations resolution requiring them to write one. Thus the people of Israel are not actually free as they have no promise of any limitations on the power of their rulers.
Jesus Himself identified to John the Revelator twice (Rev 3:9 and Rev 2:9) that there are those who pretend to take upon themselves the name of the House of Israel dishonestly.
It only historically and spiritually makes sense that the best way for the devil to thwart the work of freedom as a spiritual calling to the world, would be to hijack the name that God used to try to get it going in the world, and thus destroy the promises and the calling.
So, what happened to the Christians in Palestine? Since 1948, the UN-created government of modern Israel has been deleting them and their history from the Holy Land. The full story is in this film.
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That’s the plan. Rome was conquered through race change
It’s a big problem that most Christians (including Latter-day Saints) think modern Israelis are the same as ancient Israelites, and are fulfilling ancient prophecies that don’t in reality apply to modern Israelis/Zionists.