Pastor Randles, I am sure you are a great guy. I commend you on your work condemning heresies in the Pentecostal movement. I think however, you might be better sticking with that area of scripture. Your twelve part series on Israel is rife with core biblical problems, misunderstandings, and errors regarding prophecy. It would take a whole book to thoroughly destroy some of the many wrong notions presented so rather than write a book, I will point out some high level problems so you or other readers can investigate for themselves.
1. You use Jew and Israel in unbiblical ways. I worked with a “Jew” who often identified himself as such in political or ideological discussions. Until one day I challenged it and said, You call yourself a Jew, what are you claiming? What is a Jew. Is a Jew a race? Is it someone who is racially descended from Judah the son of Jacob? But we have people of many races claiming to be Jews. If descent is implied at all when used, it is usually used to imply the descent from any of the twelve tribes which would be totally biblically erroneous. Or do you mean you are a Jew culturally? You have adopted certain practices associated with a particular culture. Or do you mean you are a Jew because you follow the teaching of the [antichrist] Talmud. You even use the ridiculous term “anti semitism” in the title of one post. You realize that means “anti descendant-of-Shem”, Noah’s son, and has nothing to do with anti followers-of-the-Talmud, as you seem to use it.
The New Testament is very clear who God’s people are. They are followers of Christ. Those that deny Christ are not of God, period.
2. You seem to show no understanding of the difference between the Southern Kingdom of Judah in scriptural history or prophecy, and that of the northern Kingdom of the House of Israel, rightfully called Israel in scripture. More on that follows.
3. To make the statements you do, you must completely reject many plain teachings about the kingdom of Judah and its inhabitants, Jews. Compare Jeremiah 18 and 19 where the House of Israel will be remade, but the Kingdom of Judah will be destroyed and “NEVER” put back together. Matthew 21-24 are almost exclusively devoted to the rejection of the Kingdom of Judah. It is stated over and over in many ways. The fig tree, will NEVER produce fruit again. The kingdom of God is taken from them and given to a NATION (note the rare singular in Greek) bringing forth fruits. Perhaps you should consider who this nation is? Or at least acknowledge that Christ and God did not lie when he said they will NEVER be His kingdom again. There are other places to. Look to how Jerusalem was promised to be made like Shiloh which was never used again as the place of worship or abode of God. On and on scripture goes about the kingdom of Judah, but if you don’t understand the difference between the two kingdoms, then when you see a reference to Israel all is confused.
4. Then there is what you do directly with Revelation. Wow. You should spend a couple of years studying the Historicist view of prophecy which was widely taught in the reformation. The worst thing that could happen is that you might be able to convince yourself it is wrong, but at least you could speak from a more educated standpoint. Hopefully though you could see that the reformers were correct and the current trend in prophecy is dangerous to Christianity because it is error and it obscures the wonderful work of God in history. The 42 months to which you refer, and is equivalent to the times, time and dividing of times, is already fulfilled, as is Nebuchadnezzar’s seven times.
5. Your ideas on heaven are common, though mistaken. Your tagline “the choice isn’t heaven or Hell. Its heaven or the world” exemplifies this. I suggest you go through scripture and rightly divide the passages that refer to heaven(in Greek) in the New Testament from those that refer to the Kingdom of Heaven. They are entirely different things. Write down the Characteristics of heaven, as used in each of the verses. Then compare that to those of the kingdom. God, Christ, angels, clouds, lightning, birds, they are all in heaven. People are in the kingdom. In the process of considering all the above, realize also that THE church is NOT the kingdom. The parables plainly teach there are tares in the kingdom. THE church is the body of Christ and has no tares.
Thanks for the kind words and the gentle spirit, brother, and for giving me the benefit of he doubt that I am a sincere christian(As I am sure you are). I take it you are a preterist. I myself am a historicist and a futurist. I believe much of prophecy has several layers of fulfilment. For example, Jesus warned of the “Abomination that makes desolate” spoken of by Daniel the prophet. By the time JEsus has said that, it had already been partialy fulfilled by antiochus Epiphanes, of whom Daniel’s prophecies certainly foretold.