Mike Bickle addresses the issue of replacement theology, urging pastors and believers to overcome the intimidation surrounding discussions about Israel's significance in God's plan. He emphasizes that many church leaders have been silenced by historical theological errors and encourages them to embrace the biblical narrative that affirms Israel's ongoing role in God's purposes. Bickle highlights the recent surge in prayer for Israel among Gentile believers as a pivotal moment in church history, calling for a deeper understanding and engagement with the topic. He warns against the dangers of replacement theology, which has led to anti-Semitism and a lack of preparedness in the church for the end times. Ultimately, he calls for unity and love between Gentiles and Jews as part of God's grand design.

Thank you, Michael. Thank you, worship team. Okay, let's go ahead and look at these notes if you want to follow along in the written handout. Now, like always, I don't have any intention of covering everything on this handout, but I want to give you something written so you can be more equipped and you can prepare because many of you are going to be brought into new conversations in the next months and years that you've not had before, and you're going to want to have some of this information and drawing on it before those conversations, but maybe sometimes right during it when you're on a Zoom call or something, you might be peeking at some of the verses. Father, we thank you for your Word. Father, we thank you that history is shifting and changing literally in this very hour, and I thank you for the historic shift that I believe happened in the body of Christ in May 2023, a catalytic moment of the escalation of the conversation of your heart for Israel and your plans. Lord, I ask you that you would equip us. You would anchor our hearts with living understanding. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, I'm speaking specifically to pastors right now. Now, I don't mean just a pastor of a Sunday morning congregation. You may be pastoring people, discipling them through social media, through blogs, through conversations, through technology, through home Bible studies, one-on-one conversations, but I've found a real problem in the body of Christ over the last years, and that is the intimidation that so many pastors feel to address this subject. I don't believe that most pastors are anti-God's purpose for Israel. I think they're intimidated, and they've been silenced, and they just decide to leave it alone for now, but I want to call pastors, like a million of them around the earth, I just made up that number, arise for such a time as this. Find out the biblical narrative. Don't be intimidated by a few of your seminary professors who told you that it wasn't right, and I'm saying that again to young and old that teach the Word of God through in-person, through social media, etc. I want to talk about getting free from the intimidation of the air of replacement theology, and in a moment I'll tell you what replacement theology just is in just a real quick nutshell, but it's a term many of you maybe haven't used, but you're going to be using it a lot in the months and years ahead. So it's like, okay, note to self, good to know. I'm going to learn a little bit of the language, a few of the verses, a couple of the arguments, so I can be equipped to help people that are desperate to have understanding. Well, I'm going to start the way I've started the last several weeks, paragraph A, just kind of launching us into this subject. I believe that history, human history literally will change in the wake of what happened in the Isaiah 62 fast in the month of May 2023. Most of you know that well over five million Gentile believers committed to pray one hour a day for Israel for 21 days. Well over five million. Well, there's a billion believers in the earth, so that's a really small percent, but it's a radical increase even though the percent is still very small, but it's not going to stay small. On the Isaiah 62 website, which is really just a directory of ministries that are saying, I want to mobilize people in this. We invite ministries all around the world, and 12,000 ministries have said, put my name on that website. I want the people in my area, in my language, to know that I want to mobilize people for Israel. 12,000 ministries. Well again, there's probably a million ministries. That's not very many percentage-wise, but it's a significant increase. We call them ministry hubs, that they would be a hub to mobilize activity of prayer for Israel in their geographic area. Most of you know this terminology, but some of you are new, and some of you will be watching this web stream, even the archived version of it over the weeks and months ahead. Over 120 nations had ministries that said, I'm in. I want to get, I want to be committed to this. Many of them, for the first time, where they publicly took a stand. The information was translated in over 100 languages, meaning it was a God moment, is my point. Something happened that none of us were expecting to happen. When we started this, a number of us together, we were asking the Lord for a hundred thousand believers that would do this for an hour a day, for 21 days. We had no thought that five million, 120 nations, a hundred languages, 12,000 ministries would commit to this. Well let's pause and look at this for just a moment, what this would mean. Now these are just numbers that I'm just throwing out there. Not, the numbers don't have to be precise, but it gives you a picture. And the picture I want to give you is that you're seeing something historic happen so that it creates urgency. Where you're going, wait, if something's moving quickly in this arena, in the spirit of the earth, I love Jesus, I love the Bible, I love the harvest. Hey, I want to be more involved. That's why I'm giving this teaching and this handout tonight. And calling again pastors to lay aside the intimidation that is so common in so many ministries. Talked to many, many over the years. They go, you know, I don't really do the Israel thing, I was always taught it wasn't a big deal. And what, like why? Let's just do the harvest and revival and leave it there. Because they didn't understand that God touching Israel is deeply connected biblically to the end time revival among Gentiles. Most pastors and leaders don't know that point. I'm not going to break that down right now, but I'm just throwing that out there. So let's do the math. If five million Gentiles said I'll do it for an hour a day for 21 days, pray for Israel. And most of them, it's one of the first times they've ever done anything like this. You can be sure those five million each have two friends. I gave all this a week or two ago. So we're talking 15 million. The 5 million who prayed, the 10 million who said why did you do that? And are you suggesting I should have done that? And where is that in the Bible? I believe there's 15 million Gentiles right now. Most of them, it's a new conversation. Not that they're committed, but they're asking questions in a deep way for the first time about Israel, the biblical narrative of Israel. 15 million. Because see, we don't gain new understanding unless we ask new questions. So the conversation is critical. I'm not concerned that these 5 million even know what to say, and the 10 million aren't really in, but they're saying where, when, what, why. Give me some information, because you're kind of carrying on like I missed out, and you know something I don't know about the end time move of God. What's going on here? And I love that response actually. Well let's give it three more years. Those 15 million that are in the conversation right now, three years from now, well they've all got two or three friends who love Jesus in the Bible. So I'm just pulling a date out three years from now. Not a prophecy. Those 15 million times three, that's 50 million will be in the conversation, and they love Jesus and love the Bible. They just have no knowledge about Israel, the biblical narrative of Israel. That 50 million, because the Lord has spoken a number of times about a hundred million intercessors for Israel. That 50 million is just two, three, four years down the road being in this conversation. Maybe a few more years before they connect the dots. But we're talking 1,700 years of church history. The predominant theology in the church has been replacement theology, which I'll get in to in a moment, or just silence about Israel. For 1,700 years never has it been a priority in the conversation of the global body of Christ. Never in history, besides the first year when, the first hundred years when Israel was, I mean the kingdom of God, there was not that many believers the first hundred years compared to now. I have paragraph B. It's kind of an odd statement here. I have good news. You know when David had the sling and the stone, and he shot. Well David probably was a pretty good shot, but that's not what happened. God guided that stone, and it hit Goliath in the head. David didn't even have a sword. I have the passage there, 1 Samuel 17. It dazed him and he fell over. Then David went and took Goliath's sword and cut his head off. I believe that the giant, the Goliath of replacement theology, the beginning of the stun, the head wound, the dazing of that giant is happening right now. It's not dead by any means, but before the Lord returns, I can assure you this, the 1700 year consensus of replacement theology won't be in the body of Christ before the Lord returns. It's going to be gone. That Goliath is coming down completely. Paragraph C. One of my primary points that I'm going to make over and over tonight, because again we're not going to break all the verses down. I just want you to be aware of some of them. Don't go, hmm, okay, I'll look at some of this later. Get in a discussion with a few of your friends. It doesn't have to be this week or this month, but just sometime in the next weeks or months. My primary emphasis is that God's servants are no longer intimidated, because so many are intimidated. So many pastors with seminary degrees are intimidated. You know, I was doing some internet data. We estimate there's about 700,000 students who have gone to seminary in the last 40, 50 years in North America. About 700,000. And I believe that most of those pastors, they're not deeply rooted, committed to replacement theology, that the church has replaced Israel and Israel has no more purpose. They're just intimidated by a few seminary professors that were in their seminary. And these seminary professors wrote these big, thick books about all this history and the theology and these pastors were, these students were like, wow, I can't really say all that. I can't even remember it. But the point is that they left intimidated, and so 10 and 20 and 30 years later, they have never talked about it ever in their congregations. And I want to say to them, and I want to say to you, replacement theology, I want to say tenderly, but I want to say in a way that shakes off the spirit of intimidation. It is a serious error that has no biblical basis to it. And the vast majority of these 700,000 who went to seminary in the last 50 years in North America, they can't defend it. They don't even know what to say about it. Most of them. That's a guess. Just so you know, I've not met all 700,000 of them. So I'm just kind of throwing out this idea. But I want to tell you this. There is no sound biblical basis for this doctrine that's so prevalent for 1700 years. It's one of the, I believe, great satanic strategies to have the end time church unprepared for the greatest hour of history, when they need to be most prepared in this reality. But the enemy is not going to win. And I'm encouraging pastors again. I'm going to look at something right here. Your people are counting on you telling them the truth. They're counting on you telling them the biblical truth. Hundreds of millions of believers are saying, leaders, tell us the truth. Come on. Well, we didn't really do it in seminary. And I don't know that big thick book by that real smart guy with three PhDs. So tell me what the Bible says. I don't know. We just didn't do it. We got to tell the people we love the truth of what God says. Okay. What is replacement theology? It's real simple. I write the same thing five times. It's the theology that says the church replaces Israel. There you go. You got it. These theologians said that all the old Testament promises in time prophetic passages with incredible details. They're not to be taken literal. They're to be spiritualized. They're to be symbolic and nobody understands them anyway. I mean multitudes. I'm talking well over a hundred passages with great detail and clarity. Much of it is just set aside and dismissed. It says, well, that's the church. It can't be the church. There's nothing about the church in those passages mostly. They're given to Israel. Well, you can read there. Paragraph C, replacement theology. And I'm just going to use that term over and over. There's several different terms, but that's kind of a term that's being used more and more in the last 10 or 20 years. They say the church is spiritual Israel or the church is spiritual Jerusalem. And how do I know that's what they say? Well, I've talked a lot, but the day I met Bob Jones and he said, there's coming a day you're going to be on Truman property and there's going to be a hundred million intercessors for Israel. And I said, I thought the church was spiritual Israel. I said it. That's what I was taught. I've been pastoring seven years. Everyone thought that's what it was. And he said, boy, this is going to be work. In the new Testament, the term Israel is mentioned 70 times, a couple more than 70, depending on, you know, Israelite, you know, a couple of different derivations of that word. It's always referring to physical Israel, to ethnic Israel. Never is it talking about the church. However, replacement theology, these scholars through history, not, I don't think it's that many of them. I think it's a small number. They're just real famous and real smart. I think it's a real fraction of, of, of, of a percent of the leadership in history. The majority are just silent and intimidated. They said, no, no, it's the church is spiritual Israel. There's, there's not one Bible verse that declares that. Not one. And I've just assumed pastoring seven years. I met Bob Jones and I said, I thought the church was spiritual Israel. And later I talked to some guys that go, give me the verse. I go, well, you know, everyone knows that. Well, give me the verses. Those one verses. I don't know. Everyone knows it. I began to study it. There isn't even one verse. How did this happen? Again, this is a serious demonic strategy through history to create anti-Semitism throughout history. That's horrific in itself to cause Israel to be nearly in the human sense, terminally offended at the church. So much of this anti-Semitism, this hatred against Israel came out of the teaching of the church scholars that said the church is Israel. There's no more Israel. And many things happened over 1700 years, but even more serious than that. And that is so serious is the church today, the billion people in the body of Christ. And some say two, some say one depends on how you count it. It's a lot of believers on the, in the body of Christ. Far over 90% of them are totally unprepared to stand for Israel. And we're coming to one of the most dramatic hours in history where God is going to use the Gentiles to reveal the God of Israel to unbelieving Israel. But they don't even know it. Right now if things picked up, and they're picking up quickly, the intensity, many believers would just back away and just deny the Bible. I don't mean they deny the Bible in the general sense, they would just deny those many, many passages and the command of God to take a stand for Israel. The phrase is, still in C, the new Israel, the spiritual Israel, they're not in the Bible, not even one time. Again, I'm talking to make the intimidation go, really? Because when I figured that out, you know, Bob Jones, I met him in March 83, then we have that fast in May 83. In the fast of May 83, I'm still replacement theology. I'm not praying for Israel. I'm using all the Israel verses and praying for the church, for a revival in America. I look back over, I go, ah, hey little guy, I love you. I was with you. I was helping you figure it out. When we start asking different questions and we read these many, many, many passages that we never ever looked at before, it's pretty clear what's happening. Paragraph D, the majority of church leadership for 1700 years, even more than 1700 years, I'm just walking into Augustine, considered one of the greatest theologians in church history. You know, they're about 400 AD. So I'm just, he really made it famous, but there was people before him, but he's, it was in his time when it became the theology of the church across the body of Christ, the vast majority. Paragraph E, there's two main approaches that these scholars have. One approach says Israel's role as the people of God was completed, meaning God really used them in the Old Testament, but when Jesus came, he was done with the Jews. They completed their mission. They kind of held the line for a while until Jesus came and then they're finished. They completed their mission. So it's kind of, they feel it's a bit of honoring to them. Hey, we think you had a role. Just no more. The other view is quite a bit stronger. It's that, it's not that Israel completed their mission and the church just took over. The other view, which is much, much stronger, more harsh, is Israel's forfeited because they're under perpetual judgment because of their sin of rejecting Jesus. They're under a permanent judgment of God all the way through. There is no purpose for them ever again. So the replacement camp, some would say, no, it's a little too intense. They had a role for a while, you know, from Abraham to Jesus, that is 2,000 years. That was a good run. And others go, no, no, they're forfeited. They're disqualified forever. Paragraph F, I'm going to talk about, this will be just, I got to get you to pay attention to this one just a little bit because this will be new to some of you. I'm calling it literal interpretation, meaning these scholars, remarkably great Bible teachers. I mean, many of them have commentaries over many books of the Bible. I mean, from Augustine all the way through Luther, Calvin, lots of them through history. Major, excellent Bible teachers verse by verse. Why? Because they insisted on taking the Bible in a literal interpretation. They insisted on it. That's why their verse by verse teachings were good. It's a method called the historical grammatical interpretation. You think, those are two big words all in one hyphenated phrase. Oh my goodness. You got it. Historical, meaning these teachers interpreted the Bible in taking the historical context into play. And grammatical, they used the language that Isaiah meant it to be used like. So what it means, the historical grammatical interpretation, that is the right interpretation. You would call it or on the street you'd say the literal interpretation. The plain sense meaning, like what did Isaiah mean when he said it? That's what that means. The reason they're such great Bible teachers is because they had that view. Except when it came to Israel. Then they, I mean, it had to be consciously. They became all figurative. They violated their own principle that they taught for many, many years. All the other verses, it was a historical grammatical. In other words, the plain sense meaning. The literal in the sense. Now if you say literal, some smart seminary guy is going to tell you, well, you got to be careful with the literal because if you have some wooden literalness like, I am the sheep of his pastors. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. You'll go want to take a nap on the golf course because you're not really sheep and you don't really sleep in a green pattern. We know. But if you say literal, some smart guy who got his degree will make sure that you know the literal is not exactly the right term, but that's mostly what it means. I'm just preparing you because if you launch out there and you're not ready, some guy's got his degree. He's going to let you know it's not exactly literal. It's historical grammatical. I'm just getting you ready for it because a bunch of you are going to be in conversations with a friend of a friend and their leader is going to tell them this phrase. They're going to use this. But what they're not going to tell you is that these great Bible teachers that were committed to this literal interpretation, get it straight through the Bible except for Israel. Then they made it figurative. I mean, it was a blatant violation of their own biblical principles of interpretation. That's just incredible. When I think of how famous and how brilliant some of these men of God through 2,000 years of church, 1,700 years is what I'm really locking into. Top of page two, paragraph G, I just say that again. That's my burden. Is that this is one of the most serious detrimental errors in church history and is being promoted for 1,700 years by the very men that insisted on a literal interpretation except for Israel. In my opinion, this is, I don't mean to be mean, it's a blatant contradiction and a violation of their own biblical principles of interpretation. But they're real consistent to violate the opposite of how they teach the rest of scripture. Why am I telling you that? I'm not trying to pick on John Calvin. I'm not trying to pick on Martin Luther. I'm not trying to pick on Augustine and these other guys. Great teachers through history. I want you not to be intimidated because they might have a hundred books and commentaries and degrees and they know five languages. Therefore, they must be right. Wrong. It's only right if the Bible supports it. It's the only thing that makes it right. But again, in the 40 years since I shifted over, which was the summer of 83, I ran into it everywhere. I thought, wow, my goodness. And I've always been troubled by it. But in this hour of global antisemitism exploding, and I know the biblical narrative of what's happening in the time, the global hatred against Israel and Satan's attack against Israel and God's requirement that the church be the vessels of mercy and understanding to unbelieving Israel. He's saying, body of Christ, I'm requiring you to partner with me in this, but you've got to have basic understanding or you won't stand. And if you do stand, you can't make any sense of it to the unbelieving Jewish people because you're going to use their scripture to show them what their prophet said. And they are willing to stand even in the face of persecution and personal loss and pain. You believe what the Jewish prophet said, like, wow, you would believe it to that degree to tell us now. Why now? Because it's the word of God. Like, yeah, but it's Old Testament. It's they don't call it Old Testament. It's just the Bible, the scripture. But we've got to understand it a little bit. We don't have to be experts at it. And the good news is I got a whole bunch of verses on the last page. Don't look at them. I just got them listed to give you a couple of years worth of things to read. There's a remarkable number of passages and they're pretty straightforward. Roman numeral three, the importance of embracing the biblical narrative for Israel. Like people say, I'm for Israel. I'm not for Israel. My church didn't do Israel. I go, that's not really the best way to say it. I'm not for Israel or against Israel or this Israel. I'm for the biblical narrative of Israel because there's about five other narratives out there related to Israel. And if you only are for Israel, you may be caught into any side narrative that isn't biblical because everybody that's for Israel isn't for the biblical narrative of Israel. So that seems like a little technical, but it's a heads up. You want to catch that, that nuance, the biblical narrative, meaning the biblical story of Israel, not just love for Israel. I know a lot of Gentiles. They got so excited about Israel. They like every, every narrative of Israel. Israel does no wrong. That's not, that's not the biblical testimony. It's very different. Israel does a lot of wrong, but God won't give up on him because of his mercy. That's the story of the Gentile church as well. It's not that we do no wrong. It's that we do lots of wrong, but he won't give up on us. It's the story of God's heart. Well, what's the importance? Romans chapter 11, paragraph eight. I don't want to really spend much time on this, but I get a little bit in the notes, but I want you to catch about five progressions, about a five stage progression that ends up in a disaster. If it gets to stage five, I actually counted it. One, two, three, four. Yes. Five stages. But if it goes that far, it's a disaster for believers. They're cut off by God from the faith, from salvation, from the kingdom of God. They're cut off. Romans 11, 22 says, this is really serious. But for 1700 years, this didn't seem to bother very many people. Well, let's look at this passage. We're going to just glance at it. Let's start in verse 25. Romans 11, verse 25. Paul says, I desire that you're not ignorant of the mystery of God's grand family plans, what I call it. God has a grand family plan of bringing the Jews and Gentiles together in such deep unity of an international family of affection as portrayed in John 17, forever and forever, this unified international family of affection forever. That's God's plan. That's the mystery. Paul says, I don't want you ignorant of this mystery. He goes, there is spiritual blindness in part on the Jews, but God's going to require, God's going to wake up the Jews by the fullness of the grace of God on the Gentiles. This blindness on Israel just doesn't go away on its own. It goes away because the Gentiles are walking in fullness. There's the full number, a billion soul harvest. There's the full character of humility and love, fearlessness to obey Jesus, even under death, even standing with Israel, no matter what it costs, fearless in love. The full power of God gifts greater works than these, but the full biblical understanding of the divine narrative, full understanding to when the fullness of the Israel of the Gentiles comes into place, God says, thy will remove the blindness off of the Jews and they will love the Gentiles forever. And the Gentiles will love the Jews forever. It's a perfect plan. I know what I'm doing, but Gentiles, you're deeply involved. If this is not passive, this won't take care of itself. It's going to be people like us, a billion of us leaning into this. That's verse 25. Let's go back to verse 1 now. Romans 11 is the famous chapter. Most of you know that, that the details of God's purpose for Israel are so summarized. There are so many important details. My goal isn't to try to break all that down right now, but it's a note to self that if you, if you only have space for one chapter and you, we really need space for more than one chapter, but it's Romans 11. Paul says, he starts off, he goes, I say, has God cast away Israel? Is he finished with them? No. Well, then how come 1700 years of scholars have said, yes, total opposite of what Paul says here. That's why it's so hard to comprehend it. He goes, verse 11, God's provoking the Gentile, the Jews to jealousy by using the Gentiles under the power of God, the salvation leadership, the revival leadership is God. I'm giving it to the Gentiles. So they wake up the Jews. So they all love each other at the end of the day. That's a very summarized, quick way to say it. He wants everyone, Jew and Gentile to love each other with humility and gratitude and deep affection and confidence in the mercy of God, because the story of mercy is on both sides and God's going to fuse it together. He says it again, verse 18. He goes, uh, he's talking to the church at Rome, right? Which are Roman Christians are Gentiles. They're Romans. They're Italians. They're not Jewish. Most of these are not Jewish believers in Rome. They're Gentiles. He goes, I'm telling you, verse 18, don't boast against Israel. 1700 years of scholars have boasted against Israel. You're finished. We're the true Israel. Paul said, don't do it. Don't do it. Because if you're ignorant, verse 18, you're going to be arrogant. You're going to boast. If you don't know what's going on, don't be haughty, but fear the Lord. There's been a arrogance in much of the body of Christ for 1700 years. Now, I don't mean most of the leaders are just silent. They're just passive. He says, verse 21, I'm going to get to the real heavy verse in which is verse 22. He goes, Hey, listen, why do you need to fear God Gentile believers? Because if God didn't spare the natural branches and he gives the analogy of the branches that I call the tree of Abraham. I don't want to go into that, but he goes, if he didn't spare many Jewish people, he may not spare you Gentile believers in Rome. Now, and you never hear that verse talked about. I look at that and I go, excuse me. And then Paul says, I want you to think through the goodness and the severity of God, because I want you to humble, not arrogant. I want you in the fear of God, think it all the way through. He goes on those, the Jews who fell individual Jews, they experienced the severity of God. I mean, Rome came in and burned the city of Jerusalem to the ground, but you believers in Rome, you're experiencing his goodness. You're saved by grace and you're enjoying the word of God. Here it is, but you better continue in his goodness. Here's the horrifying thing. Otherwise you will be cut off too. Again, verse 22 is terrifying to me. I'm thinking of a billion believers, Gentile believers in the earth that are not at all humble before God related to the biblical narrative of Israel. They're mostly passive, but they're certainly not established in the goodness of God's plan. Paul said, I'm warning you, this will have consequences one day. So let's look at paragraph A, the church must not remain ignorant. We can't stay ignorant. We can't have 90% of the body of Christ, not knowing the narrative. Again, we don't have to be pros at it. We don't have to be experts, scholars. We just got to know the broad strokes. Why? Because the ignorance of verse 25 leads to the arrogance of verse 18. Ignorance leads to arrogance on this subject. Well, I don't need Israel. I don't even mess with it. It says, well, it's Jesus' leadership. You really want that attitude? Well, my church didn't do Israel. I'm not, I don't care. Like, yeah, we're talking about Jesus' leadership. We're not talking about your seminary professor. We're talking about Jesus' leadership. Well, I don't know. I got, I'm busy. Paul goes, don't, don't go there. Ignorance leads to arrogance. Arrogance leads to passive resistance. Passive resistance means we're not really resisting. We're silent. We don't do anything. We don't help in any way. We don't tell the story. We're not involved. Passive resistance. But the problem is sooner or later, not always, passive resistance turns into active resistance. That's what happened in Nazi Germany. A whole nation raised as Lutherans and Catholics, raised on replacement theology. Martin Luther was a radical, there is no more Israel. They were raised in all their Lutheran schools and their Catholic schools. And they were just passive. Like, yeah, we don't really do Israel. When Hitler came along, they became actively resistant against Israel. Then it became trouble. And it caught them into a whirlwind. Takes a few years for it to happen. The active resistance, they actually helped to persecute Israel. We're talking about good Lutheran boys in the youth group that are 10 and 12 and 15 and in the scouts and all the sports teams and all involved in the church. When they're 30, they're burning Jews in death camps. They were raised in the Bible. They went from passive resistance to active resistance. They were participating. And then Paul says, that could lead to being cut off by God. Well, that's a pretty intense paragraph A, but I want you to get your mind around that one. Paragraph B, I don't like saying this, but I got it written so I can't get out of it. Because I want to honor the great Bible teachers of history. I don't want to be the guy that figures out where they missed it. I don't want to be the normal. These guys were way smarter than me. Trust me, the guys I'm thinking of. They love the Bible as much as I love the Bible. They love Jesus. They wrote volumes of commentary. Really smart guys. So I'm talking about them. I'm going to meet them in heaven. So guys, hey, I'm trying to help this generation. So give me a break when I meet you. I don't really think they're listening for that one guy that thinks I'm talking to the dead. I'm not. That's just an illustration. But for years I've wrestled. I go, how could these godly, brilliant Bible scholars who devoted hours a day for 30, 40, 50 years to the Bible blatantly contradict their main principle of interpretation? How could they? I don't understand that. I don't know how that works. So I go through the passage of Romans. I went through it. I go, well, maybe some of them, number one, they're just spiritually blind. Like Israel has spiritual blindness. So do they. They're ignorant and they don't know it. They're sincerely deceived, but they're brilliant. They read the Bible five and 10 hours a day. I don't know. And I don't get it. Maybe they're just the verse 25. Paul said, I don't want you staying ignorant in spiritual blindness yourself. They talk about Israel's spiritual blindness that they didn't see the reality of Jesus. But Paul was talking about their spiritual blindness. They didn't see the biblical narrative of Israel. Well, it gets worse than innocent ignorance. Some of them, verse 18, he said, no, it's not that they're ignorant. They're arrogant. They're arrogant. They contradict the straightforward interpretation of scripture that they themselves insist that's essential to interpret the Bible that way. They contradicted blatantly. I go, why? Maybe they want to be known as agreeing with the smart guys of history. I don't know. But the arrogance to do that, if you know you're doing it, it's like, oh, that's scary to me. Maybe they want to be known as one of the smart guys in their generation with all the other smart guys through history. Maybe they're just unwilling to bear the stigma of Israel. And it's just better to intellectually explain it away because you've got so many smart guys who dismissed it. I would call that spiritual arrogance, not blindness. That's like knowingly doing it. I've talked to a number of guys over the years that show them these verses in the Old Testament. They go, I go, you're saying that's the church? Well, no, nobody really knows what that means. I go, it's Israel. That's what it means. Well, we can't be sure. Like, really? You know, like five languages. I struggle with English. I mean, what do you mean? That's what somebody dear to me told me the other day. That would be my wife. Okay. She said, you got to get some of those verbs down a little better. I'm 68. It's too late. But then worse is number three. It's spiritual apostasy. There's those that have, there's a line you can cross. I don't think the majority of them cross that line, but there is a line where you don't fear. You get haughty. You don't remain in the narrative of the Lord. And then you get cut off. I just, Paul talked about doctrines of demons. And I believe some of these people are trafficking in a doctrine of demons. What do I mean by a doctrine of demons? Paul, that's a term Paul used here in first Timothy four. To me, a doctor, there's no technical definition that's in all the, you know, theological dictionaries, but a doctrine of demons to me is any doctrine that resists the main and plain teaching of scriptures. It's a doctrine that a demon has inspired this mindset, this idea that resists. And it gives them such boldness to resist that they actually end up denying the faith. And Paul talked about believers. He said in the last days, some are going to depart from the faith. We're talking about people who are in the faith because they're paying attention to these inspired dark ideas and they won't let go of them and they stay with it. So I think if it leads to somebody denying saving faith, whether they have it or or they deny it or they never take it because they've got these wrong ideas, that's a doctrine of demons. Peter, he had a doctrine of demons right there in the verse. You all know the verse Matthew 16, he goes, Jesus, you are the Christ. Jesus said, my father revealed that to you and I'm going to go to Jerusalem and die. He goes, you can't die. I forbid you. And he says, Satan has just put that in your mind, Peter. So if a chief apostle can have a demonic inspired idea lock onto his brains and it happens, that's just a big, that's a big word. But I think this, some of this is rooted in a doctrine of demons. It really is. It's a demonic attack against Israel for 1700 years against the church because the church not touching Israel's never going to enter into fullness. The church is never going to get to the next place unless we do it on God's terms in his way. But again, the passion I have, I really care about those is the idea of the end time church needing to be prepared to be that vessel of mercy that provokes Israel to jealousy. They say, we want to have in a relationship with the God of Israel, what you Gentiles have in the God of Israel. We want it. God says, Gentiles, I'm going to use you. So they love you and you love them. And then we're John 17 international family of affection forever. It's critical that you respond to this. Okay. I'm going to go a little bit faster here. Looking at my time, why the air of replacement theology is so spiritually dangerous. Well, I just mentioned it because bad theology has bad practice anti-Semitism for 1700 years and an unprepared end time church. Those are two reasons right there. It's spiritually dangerous and people actually denying the faith related to this. Once the pressure picks up on a global scale, which is going to related to standing with Israel. Paragraph B, this passage in revelation 12, we're not going to look at it, but I just want you to know it. It's a really important one. Satan has great anger and energy to destroy Israel. And he has all through history. And there's reasons for that, but that's not my point to go into it. Satan has a special focus to destroy and exterminate the Jewish people. That's biblical. That's not, that's not the only place revelation 12, but it's here. Be familiar with this passage a little bit, at least paragraph C the other passage. Now this is about the 10th passage. I'd say you have to get familiar with, okay. This is another key one, Joel chapter three, because Joel chapter three tells us that before it's over, every single person on the earth is going to have to make a decision about Israel. Literally that's what's going on in verse 14. When you read the first couple of verses of Joel three, he says in verse two, he goes, I'm going to judge the nations on account of the way they treated Israel. I'm going to judge the nations because they were in favor in dividing up the land. Verse two, I'm going to judge the nations because they sold the Jewish people into slavery. They bartered with their lives. That happened in the Holocaust, but then we're going to see some more of that happening. He goes, because of that, I'm angry at the nations and I'm going to bring all the nations into this conversation with me and I'm going to meet them in the valley of Jehoshaphat, which is next to Jerusalem. I'm going to meet them in the great contest called the battle for Jerusalem, and they've got to choose to obey me or not obey me. Now I just said a whole lot there in 60 seconds. Half of you know what I'm talking about. The valley of decision, verse 14, all over the world, we all have to make the choice. Will we stand for the Lord's purpose? And he's going to make it come right to a head globally around the city of Jerusalem. Paragraph D, I call the battle for Jerusalem is the litmus test. Well, it's not the litmus test, it's a litmus. There's a couple of them for the end time church. There is a battle. God is bringing all the nations around Israel and he's going to refine and purify the church in it. He's going to refill the garden of Israel to unbelieving Israel through the church in context of this battle. And the battle isn't just the final battle of Armageddon scenario that we're familiar with the revolution 16. This battle for Jerusalem is a spiritual battle. It's a theological battle. It's an economic battle. It's a political battle. It's a military battle. And the battle for Jerusalem is escalating. And right now it's escalating quickly. And he's got to make the church take a stand for his purposes for Israel. Paragraph E, why? I've already said it over and over, because I'm going to use you Gentiles to provoke them. So they love you. And in the process, you love them. There's a whole lot of processes that happened in this that wouldn't take a lot of time to develop a little bit of this, but I'm not going to tonight. Now this is where, you know, most of church history has just written off Israel or mostly they're just silent. They're passively resistant. They're intimidated by, you know, maybe a thousand scholars through history that really took a stand and got famous. I don't really know how many scholars. I just threw out that number. That's not the majority, but most of church history is passively resistant. Now I run into this here and there. Well, the dispensationalists, which are the pre-trib rapture, the raptures happening any minute, they believe in Israel going to get saved. But after the church is raptured, so most of them don't have a big role in it. They're like, hey, praise God. You guys, God will meet you. Bye. So they're very disengaged in the battle because they're gone anyway. And people go, well, dispensation, like I talked to a very well-known dispensational theology guy, grew up in it, loves Jesus, great Bible teacher, loves revival, loves prayer and fasting. And he said, I just grew up with, we're going to be gone anyway. He goes, I knew nothing about Israel has been preaching 30, 40 years, nothing. And I, I'm a dispensationalist. We technically believe in it, but we're gone. So it didn't really matter. It's, it's kind of a, a lazy disengagement. I don't mean all of them by any means, but we're not dispensational theology. We're historic pre-millennial meaning. We believe we're going through the tribulation in the victory of God. We're going to be used to provoke Israel. The church is going to be perfected. There's a billion. So harvest with greater works than these, with everybody moving in dreams, vision, signs, and wonders. And Israel comes to salvation going. If that's what the God of Israel is like, we want in. And we say, thank you Lord for using us. That's what historic pre-mill is dispensational. We're going up. And then Israel, we know you'll be fine. He'll, he'll help you at the very end. Lord says, yeah, I am, but I'm going to use you. Paragraph F, the verses we know, God has told the Gentiles, you can read them on your own, say it, say the message. Well, my church doesn't do Israel. Well, start doing Israel. Then say the message nations, tell Israel, the Israel narrative, the biblical narrative of Israel, tell them the biblical narrative, because most of them don't know it and tell them and stand, even if it costs you, because then they'll see there's reality in it that they can't imagine is real that a Gentile would do that. I'll have a page for common passages to refute replacement theology. Again, the question because replacement theology says God's done with the nation of Israel. He's only, he's replaced it with the church. There's no more future for Israel, no more purpose for Israel. We've already read this verse a couple of times, but it's just a good one to read. Romans 11, that's that chapter that I said you got to get. Paul said, has God cast away Israel? That's what he's talking about. No. Verse 2, God has not cast away the people that he foreknew. Before Genesis 1, he knew he would pick them. Yes. Verse 11, they've stumbled, but are they out of the picture? No. Then why are the scholars saying they're out of the picture? Paragraph B, now this is sounds self-serving. I hope I don't want to sound that way, but I'm going to say it anyway. Almost without exception, the first hundred years of Christianity, meaning the apostles and then their disciples, the next generation, almost universally, scholars say they were historic pre-mill. They believed in a literal millennium. They believed in a literal provoking of Israel at the end. They believed that they would be used by God. The reason I say it sounds self-serving, because that's our view. That is the clear biblical view. But for the first hundred years, even the scholars who are really against it, they go, it is true. First hundred years, mostly they were all for it. But then they woke up later and found out God was finished with Israel. Paul missed it on a few of these points. Paragraph C, Peter tells the Jews, he goes, I promise you, Jesus is going to stay in heaven till you repent and God brings all the promises to Israel. He didn't dismiss them. He didn't give them all away to Gentiles. Every promise he gave to Israel, he will bring it to pass. We have that right there in Acts chapter three. It's so easy. It's so clear. It says, again, I didn't see any of these things when they were first teaching me in the summer of 83. I go, you know, jokingly, when did they put that in the Bible? One of the, I just got some main arguments replacement theology has. Replacement theology says there are no more Jews. They're only Gentiles. And just over and over, verse by verse, Paul says opposite of that. One of the big ones that's used a lot is paragraph E. Paul says it's Romans chapter two. If you talk to a replacement, they'll go right to Romans two, verse 28. That'd be one of the first ones they'll go to. They'll probably go to Galatians 6, 16 first, but we'll get there somewhere, somewhere in there. Maybe I already passed it up. Okay. I don't know. You'll find it. This is one of the main ones. Paul said, he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is he the circumcision if it's only outward. They've got to be a Jew inwardly. So people read that and they say, therefore Paul said the Gentile believers are the new Israel. That's not what that verse says. Paul's talking about Jews that say yes to Jesus are the true Jews. He's not saying Gentile believers are now Jews that replaced them. That's a completely made up presupposition enforced in this verse. But every time I've had a discussion with the pastor that's replaced, they go right to this verse. I go, this doesn't say that the Gentile believers are now Israel. He goes, well, it sort of implies that. It says, no, it doesn't imply that. It says that if you're a Jew and you're not obeying God, you're not really a Jew after God's order. Paul's rebuking the Jews. Get with it. He was calling them to be believers in Messiah. Paragraph F, it's the same thing. Paul says, not all who are Israel are Israel. So replacement theology says, see, not all the Jews, they're not Israel. The Gentiles are Israel. That's not what that verse says at all. And you don't need to be intimidated by that. That's not at all what that verse says. I got a little bit on there, but it's, by the way, there's many new Bible teachers in the last 10, 20, 30 years that are making these verses really clear, you know, in blogs and in social media conversations. There's a lot of new teaching coming out that's clear the last 10, 20, 30 years. And these verses are breaking them down. I'm just giving you the verses. These are the ones that are going to be brought to you. Paragraph G, they say God's replaced Israel with the church. Paul says in verse 29, Romans 11 there, here we are again. He says, no, the callings of God on Israel, they're irrevocable. God will never take them away. Never. So you tell these scholars, how are you, why are you saying he took them away? Paul said, they're never taken away. And the litmus test, I like that word. If you really understand Romans 11, which tells you, because when people read Romans 11, Replacement Theology, they get really locked up because they try to make every reference to Israel, Gentile believers, but it just doesn't work at all. It's just so many contradictions to that mindset. So lots of them just skip Romans 11. But here's the, here's the, the test. If you understand Romans 11, at the very end of it, when you see that blindness has come to Israel, the power of God's come on the Gentiles. The Gentiles provoke the Jews to jealousy. Jealous, the Jews come to full salvation. Then they come to the fullness of the power of God. The millennial earth is filled with the glory of God. The family of God's together forever. And Paul said, if you get all this, you say, oh, the depth of the wisdom of God. Replacement Theology reads Romans chapter 11 and goes, Israel's been replaced. I go, where's the depth of the depth? I talked to a few and they said, well, it's not really Romans 11. It goes back to Romans 8. Anyway, I'm not going to stay. Oh, here's my Galatians 6, 16. Here it is. They'll always use this one. They'll talk about as many as walk with, according to this rule, the verse before meaning of being a new creation, you got to read verse 15, but I ran out of space here. The mercy of God be upon those that are new creations in Christ and upon the Israel of God. And say, they say, see the Israel of God, that's Gentiles 70 plus times. Israel's mentioned in the new Testament. Never are they Gentiles. They are always physical, ethnic Jews. The Israel of God is Messianic believers who believe in Jesus. That's who it is. There's a mistake on the notes there somewhere. We get, we got a wrong word in there. So it's, they are the Messianic believers. They are the Israel of God. They are the true Jews. Oh, here's the other big one. You'll, there's like five of these verses. Matthew 21, Jesus has given the parable of a vineyard and he said, the kingdom of God is going to be taken away from you. And he's talking to the Sanhedrin, to the governmental political leadership of Israel. The kingdom of God is going to be taken to you and given to another nation. This isn't like a, they say, we got you on this one. The other nation is the Gentiles. Clearly, that's what it's talking about. It's taken away from the Jews. They're out of the picture. And it's only given to Gentiles now. Paragraph one. And again, I'm just going to do a little bit more and just be done with this because again, you got to read it and talk over it and think it through for a little while. And it's not, it's really not so confusing unless you're hearing it the first time. It's like there's too many ideas. There's about eight or 10 ideas. It's really, that's all there is. And just set your heart. You can get it. You really can. Well, I, I'm going to skip one, two, and three there, but it's good stuff. Okay. Paragraph C. Most replacement theology, they say the Abraham, the covenant God made with Abraham is been abolished. There's no more covenant because the God, the promise God made Abraham, he says, I'll give you the land forever to your descendants. The Jews get the land forever. I promise you forever. They will have the land. That's the Abraham covenant. And your descendants will bless all the nations of the earth and replacements as well. They don't really get the land because, hey, look, for 2000 years, they didn't have it. In 1948, they got it back. Like, oh my goodness, that changed so many conversations because it was so clear that for 2000 years or however many since 70 AD, they didn't have the land. So maybe the Abraham covenant is abolished. Maybe replacement theology is accurate. Maybe, but suddenly against all odds, 1948, God gives them the land back. Like, oh my goodness. The whole conversation stirred up. It was wonderful. Even though I didn't get it for a while. Paragraph E. So replacement theology, they have two different versions of the Abrahamic covenant. Two different versions. Version number one, they go, it's abolished. It's totally done away with. And version, which is completely false. And if version number two is false too, but it's a little nicer. They go, it's not abolished. It's reconstructed. So all the promises are real, but they're now just spiritual. They're not physical anymore. The covenant to Abraham, which has got all these physical promises, they're now just refashioned to being figurative and spiritual. And they're talking about the greatest teachers in church history taught these things over and over for decades. And the multitudes of church history just stared like deer in the headlights said, okay, you're smart. I'm not that smart. You must know what I don't know. And silence has prevailed in this passive resistance that turns into arrogance after a period of time. If they're not careful and that turns into apostasy. Well, I have some stuff here on the seat of Abraham and that's a little technical, but it's not so hard. It really, I'm not going to cover it though. On the seat of Abraham, because there's arguments, they'll take you right to these. So there's about five or six verses, Galatians 6, 16, Romans 2, 28, Galatians 3, 18, Matthew 21, verse 43. There's five or six of these verses are absolute, the go-to verses. And all of them have pretty simple explanations. But if you don't know any of it, it will just take you by surprise and you'll just go, I don't know. Maybe I just don't know anything. And the truth is it's straightforward. You do know. I want to end with this paragraph F and G paragraph F look at these chapters. And I have Deuteronomy 20 to 32 and Isaiah 60 to 66. I'm talking about the whole chapters portions this big. That's like seven chapters, right? Isaiah 60, all about Israel. You just read these clusters of chapters. There's so much information. That's so easy. I mean, you won't get every detail, but you'll go, my goodness, it is super clear. And you may not get to all those chapters, but just started working your way through them. Or paragraph G, maybe it's not chapters. You want to look at three and four verses, little passages. I gave you a whole bunch of, these are not all of them by the way. I've not actually counted this, but I say that's about a hundred passages. It's probably more, but there's more that I didn't fit on the page. I ran out of space. My point is there's this much information. That's the point I'm telling you. That's been dismissed by replacement theology and explained away as being symbolic and not figurative and not literal. And paragraph H, reminding you, I gave this handout and I gave a transcription with it where I gave explanations, the 21 prayers for Israel, but there's about a hundred prayers. I just picked 21 because of 21 days. Well, here's my point though. When I published that, some of you read it through and thought these verses are so clear. They're so easy. And I go, that's the point. That's the point. But until people start asking the questions, they don't look at the verses. But once they look at the verses and they love Jesus and the Bible, I mean, passage after passage after passage, it's like, how could we dismiss this for 1700 years? Well, amen and amen. Let's stand before the Lord. I know this was really top heavy on the head level, but it's like, okay, now I'm going to warn you. You come up to me and say, it's amazing tonight. I'm going to say, give me the five verses that touched you. So wait a week or two. Now, some of you know this stuff better than I know it, but I mean, it's not enough just to go. Yeah, we got to, got to get this in our head a little bit. Father, here we are before you. Lord, we say, thank you. Oh, the depth of the wisdom that you're going to use broken people like us and a hundred million more to show the power and love of God to broken Israel, that we would love them and they would love us. And we would love you together. Lord, I ask you have mercy on us as a people. We're a weak people in the flesh, Lord. We don't know that much. We're not that smart, but you made it clear. You made it easy. I know you're already in, or you wouldn't be in the meeting tonight because I announced it a week ago. And this is a pretty boring topic to come to a service, placement theology. So I already know you're in, but I want you to talk to the Lord and say, Lord, I got to go to the next step. I really got to get this into my mouth. I've got to get this into the mouth of my children. I got to get a little bit of this information down. You don't have to have all this, just a little bit more. Father, across this room, I ask you to mark us, mark us in a new way. Give us a new hunger, stir us up in a way that would surprise us that we would not have guessed even a year ago that you would stir us. We're just going to talk to the Lord for about five minutes and I'm going to dismiss us. Tell the children's care that would quit at eight. Spirit of wisdom, understand spirit of revelation, touch even my weak mind and my weak heart. You can do it first. Pastors across the earth, arise, courage, take the time to eat the scroll, get clarity. Your people are counting on you. Their children have to be equipped to stand in the next 10, 20 years. The trouble is escalating with God who equips our people. 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Spirit of wisdom, open my eyes again Spirit of revelation, open my heart again Spirit of revelation, open my heart again Cause I wanna see you, I wanna understand Jesus I wanna see you, see you rightly Jesus I wanna see you, see you rightly Jesus We're in a community of hungry people I say thank you Lord, thank you Lord Bless you in Jesus name, Amen and Amen We're just gonna end with that All the depths of the wisdom and the knowledge of God All the depths of the riches of the knowledge of God All the depths of the riches of the knowledge of God He would choose Jacob And then partially blind Israel To save the rest of the world And provoke the Gentiles To love Israel And save all of Israel To resurrect the whole world And reign here for a thousand years Before soundly defeating the old serpent Satan You are wise, God You are wise, God To the only wise God our Father Be blessing and glory and honor