‘The Chosen’, the rapture, and the modern State of Israel

‘The Chosen’

Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Jesus fulfilled 353 Old Testament prophecies: 

Romans 2:28 - 2:29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham...John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

Luke 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.Wrath is come upon the Jews

1 Thess 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Matthew 21:43 “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."

Many other verses could be cited but this is enough to establish who ‘the chosen’ are. There are verses above, from both the Old and New Testaments that clearly point to Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Son of David, the promised Messiah.

One of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated against the human race is the lie that the Jewish race is God's chosen people. The above verses are crystal clear that that is not the case. God's chosen are not chosen according to their DNA but according to their faith.

Paul explains that Christ is the promised seed of Abraham and that through faith in Christ believers are placed in Christ so that they become God's chosen because of their relationship with Christ.

Jesus leaves no doubt that the Jewish race is not a chosen people, quite the contrary as he calls their leaders the offspring of serpents and the children of Satan. If all of this is not proof enough that the Jews are not a chosen race the Bible clearly places the Jew Judas Iscariot squarely in hell. The rich man in Luke 16 called to his called to his father Abraham from hell. So without a doubt the Jews are not God’s chosen people. 

Paul, writing to the Christians in Ephesus said that God chose those in Christ (Christians) before the foundation of the world. So Christ is the promised seed of Abraham and believers in Christ are the chosen of God.

What a lie, that the Jews are God’s chosen, has been perpetrated upon the world! This lie may very well be the strong delusion, the great lie, that was to come just before the LORD’s return (2 Thes 2:11) so strong that even the elect would be seduced if possible (Mark 13:22.

How did this lie become so accepted, especially by Christians? Why was it told? Who was behind it besides Satan?  Let me begin with Roman Catholic Jesuit Francisco Ribera (1537–1591) who wrote a 500 page commentary on the Book of Revelation. This commentary established the futurist interpretation of Bible prophecy. This is the teaching that the prophecies concerning the end times were all in the future bound up in a 7 year time of tribulation culminating in the 2^nd coming of Jesus Christ.

This needs a little background.

Shortly after the Protestant Reformation the Society of Jesus aka Jesuits was established along the lines of a military order (their leader’s title is General) to go to war against the Protestants; the Counter-Reformation as was talked about in The Council of Trent at which anathemas were pronounced against the Protestants over 150 times.

(Note: The declarations and anathemas of the Council of Trent have never been revoked. The decrees of the Council of Trent are confirmed by both the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the official "Catechism of the Catholic Church" (1992).)

The Reformation is what prompted the Jesuit Francisco Ribera to contrive a new teaching on prophecy. The Catholic Church forbade the laity to possess or read on their own a Bible. With the Reformation the Protestants could start reading and owning their own Bibles. They realized anyone reading the accounts of the Anti-Christ and the whore of Babylon would immediately point to the papacy and the Holy Roman Catholic Church so they had to move those events out of the present. One Jesuit was tasked with placing the prophecies in the past culminating with Emperor Titus sacking Jerusalem in 70 AD, it was called Preterism.  Jesuit Francisco Ribera to’s task was to place all of the prophecies in the future and called Futurism.

The Rapture

Futurism became the dominate teaching when in 1830 AD John Nelson Darby popularized it when he invented the ‘secret rapture’ of the Church doctrine in 1830 AD and began teaching it among the ‘Plymouth Brethren’. It was a fantastic teaching, people were mesmerized by it.

This adoption of the Jesuit's Futurism view of eschatology allowed the Zionists Jews to use one CI Scofield to lure unsuspecting Christians into becoming rabid supporters of the idea of a Modern State of Israel in the Holy Land. 3 problems, the land was inhabited by Palestinians, God had banished Israel from the land in 70 AD so for man to end this ban is rebellion.