John,
please pass this on to your groups.
Biblical statements about racial separation,
such as, "I am the LORD your God, which have
separated you from other people",
and "And ye shall be holy unto me: for
I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from
other people, that ye should be
mine" are not to be used as expressions of
racial hatred. But there are dozens of
racist statements in the Bible as I have
indicated in the attachment. What is
actually demonstrated is that Israelites have a
greater responsibility and judgment on them than
other races, as Israelites are designed to be
"kings and priests to God". These racial
statements do not imply racial superiority, but
are statements of God's purpose, something we
dare not deny.
The other
attachment is about the Hebrew and Greek use of
the words for, "all", "every", "whosoever" etc,
which are used in terms of the context
only.
One of the things peculiar to Western
Society (as opposed to any others) is the
teaching that racism is totally wrong. Yet,
those who seek to enforce anti-discrimination
laws [which include race, racial and national or
ethnic origins, and religion] will immediately
jump to the support of modern Jewry, as a
special religious-racial group, even if modern
Jewry is made up of people from many different
races.
In New Zealand people are actively
discouraged from even questioning events of
history that might undermine the enforcers’
determination of history in regard to “The
Jews”.
Their determination is very important to
them, and, as such, is in itself racist. What is
it that they are trying so hard to either
protect or to promote? Might it
be their false presentation that the Jews are
Israel?
Might not this be a mechanism by which
the prince of this world seeks to
eliminate the right message of the Bible? Would it not
be the adversary who is saying that the Potter
does not make one vessel unto honour and another
to dishonour, as Scripture says?
Anti-racism is saying that every person
of every race is the same in the eyes of man,
and in religious doctrines, this is the
same as saying in the eyes of
God.
The issue is multi-culturism and this
does not feature favourably through the Bible
pages.
Mixture of cultures is a source of
conflict, both in religion and custom. Israel
was separated from the other races, for a
purpose.
For Israel the Biblical message is still,
come ye out from amongst them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord in the New
Testament.
The people being addressed in Corinthians
had the “fathers” and were baptised unto
Moses [1 Cor 4:1]. They
were Israelites!
Jer 10:2,3
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of
the heathen, �
The way is derek which
Strong gives as course of life, or mode of
action. We
should not be teaching indigenous culture in our
schools.
Not one person can read the Old
Testament without agreeing that God is shown to
be totally racist. God
discriminated on the grounds of race and God
clearly treated races differently and even made
differences between the tribes of Israel
themselves.
The Children of Israel had a mission
to eliminate the Canaanite races right down to
women, children and even their animals. There
are those whom God says He will eliminate when
Jesus returns at the brightness of His
coming. The
matter has to be faced; God was totally racist
in the Old Testament and we understand that He
is unchanging for all time. But Israelites
were not told to eliminate all other
races. In the New Jerusalem with the
remnant of Israel on the inside, there are still
other races on the outside who have to bring
their annual offerings.
Jesus tells us about those who are
occupying the “vineyard” and who will be
destroyed when He comes to take up His
Kingdom.
We read of the armies of
Heaven:
Rev 19:15,19
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations, and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: � I saw the beast, and the kings of
the earth, and their armies, gathered together
to make war against him that sat on the horse,
and against his army.
We are reading of national armies and
basically racist matters, right here towards the
end of the New Testament
pages.
Joel 3:2-17
I will gather all nations, and will bring
them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will
plead with them there for my people and for my
heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among
the nations, and have parted my
land.
At this late stage in history, Israel
is a separate race among the other nations. God is
still racist in purpose here and at this
time.
The context supplies the time and so at
the end, Israel is still the individual race it
always has been.
Arnold Kennedy.
----- Original
Message -----
Sent:
Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:27 AM
Subject:
Pastor Weiland on Galatians 3
Dear
Don,
Without
addressing your inference that Jesus was
being, hmmm, disingenuous, by commanding His
Twelve Disciples to NOT go to the "Gentiles",
and then "changing His Mind" later, would you
say that Jesus would ever have commanded His
Disciples (or us) to go to the
following?:
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not
enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
their tenth generation shall they not enter into
the congregation of the LORD forever:
Deuteronomy 23:3
Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says
the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, but hated Esau; I
made his mountains a waste, his heritage a
desert for jackals, Malachai 1:3
As it is written: "I loved Jacob
but hated Esau.",
Rom
9:13
Deuteronomy
7:1-3 When Jehovah thy God
shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and shall cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittite, and the
Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier
than thou;
and when Jehovah thy God shall
deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt
smite
them; then
thou shalt utterly destroy
them: thou
shalt make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy unto
them; neither shalt thou make
marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take
unto thy son.
This is a
serious question. Thank you in advance for
your possible well thought out
reply.
Sincerely,
John
Knight
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Original Message --------
Subject:
[TruthorTradition] Re: Pastor Weiland on
Galatians 3
From: "dontheyounger"
<dontheyounger@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat,
March 04, 2006 10:16 am
To:
TruthorTradition@yahoogroups.com
If today
you're told to take a message to everyone in
your
neighborhood, and tomorrow you're told
to take a message to everyone
in your city,
do these commands contratict each other?
Because
today you are to give to a
limited group, does that mean you are
forbidden from ever giving to a larget
group? Of course not.
In His eartly
ministry, Jesus has his followers take the
message to
Israel. When His earthly
ministry was finished, Jesus had His
followers "make disciples of ALL the
nations" (Matt. 28:19)
Revelation 14:6 --
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to
preach unto them that dwell
on the earth,
and to EVERY nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and
people.
You may now respond with
whatever texts you feel best justify
racism,
exclusivity, and hatred.
-Don
>
Dear Tim,
> Please clarify what you're
saying here, because I really don't
believe
I understand your point.
> Do you
believe that when Jesus commanded His Twelve
Disciples to
go only to the House of Israel,
that He was being a bit
disingenuous, or
that perhaps He didn't know that He would be
changing or altering that commandment later
in His life--or perhaps
that He simply lied
from the getgo?
> How else can I
explain why Jesus would COMMAND them to go ONLY
to
the House of Israel in one breath, and
then completely abandon that
COMMANDMENT
later on and command them to do just the
opposite?
> Sincerely,
>
John Knight
> "These twelve Jesus sent
forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not
into the way of the Gentiles, and into any
city of the Samaritans
enter ye not: But go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is at
hand."
Matthew
10:5-9
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