180. The Case For A Preterist Supersessionism (Part 4: The Finale)

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf. This is episode 180 of Preterist Supercessionism, part four.

Well, hello, everybody, and welcome back to the podcast. This is part four of our

Preterist Supercessionism series, and it's the final episode in it because we've kinda covered it.

We've talked about what the Bible actually teaches about Israel and the church and the covenant finality of Jesus Christ and his new covenant kingdom.

And if you're just tuning in, you're stepping in at the very end of all of this, at the very end of the argument. This is not the beginning.

This is the end, and while I do believe that this episode can stand on its own, I think that you'll learn something from it.

You really need to go back and check out parts one, two, and three where we laid the groundwork for all of this carefully and deliberately, where we traced the biblical storyline from the promise to the fulfillment.

We looked at Romans nine through 11, and we really showed how that passage was fulfilled in the first century.

We showed how Christ is the fulfillment of Israel. We showed how Paul's remnant was real and historical and alive in the first century, and we showed how the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 was not just a tragic event of history, not just the unfortunate disasters that happen between nation states when they go to war.

It was a covenantal verdict from God himself pronouncing judgment on Jerusalem.

Now, if you want that full case, go back and listen to episodes one, two, and three. I think they'll be really helpful.

This episode assumes all of that as we draw everything to a conclusion.

In this final episode of the year, because I'm gonna take a couple weeks off for Christmas, and I'm gonna get ready for a new podcast that I'm doing called

Five Minute Bible. Now, this is not gonna be a video podcast. It's just gonna be an audio podcast, but it's gonna be awesome, because what

I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be your tour guide through the Bible. Here's the thing that really bothers me.

About 20 % of Christians have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, because it's hard.

You get into it, and it's really epic at first. You've got this flood. You've got a snake who tempts people into doing all of this stuff.

You've got wars and battles. You've got water parting and Red Seas, and then all of a sudden, as you get to the end of Exodus, you're talking about the shades of fabric that's used in the tabernacle, how tall this is supposed to be, how many inches this is supposed to be.

If you make it past that, then you get to Leviticus, which is a very difficult book.

If you make it past that, you get to Numbers, which is basically half of the book is a census material of the

Old Testament Israelites, and then when you get to Deuteronomy, you see that it's a law book for the second generation, and it's really detailed, and so many people fall out of their

Bible reading plans just in that first five books of the Bible. So what I would like to do is

I'd like to take five minutes every day to tell you what you're reading. So if it's

Genesis 1 through 3, I'm gonna give you five minutes on, this is what Genesis 1 through 3 is about, this is the problem that the text sort of brings up, and here's how this text points to Jesus.

If you're in Leviticus, I'm gonna tell you how this sacrifice points to Jesus. I'm gonna tell you what this sacrifice means in the life of Israel, and how it points forward to a coming sacrifice in Christ.

I think this is gonna be great, because every day when you sit down to read your Bible, and we're gonna be adopting a chronological

Bible reading plan, every day when you sit down, you'll have five minutes of just commentary and help.

I'm gonna try my very best to give you the best material, to give you a 100 ,000 -foot view of what that passage is saying, and I'm really treating it as though I'm gonna be your tour guide through the

Scripture, because I want you to make it this year all the way to Revelation and finish the

Bible. Because if, like I said before, 20 % of Christians have read through the

Bible, but of those 20 % of Christians who've read through it, those people are 80 % likely to read it a second time, because they've made it through the first time.

So my goal is if I can help you this year in 2026, and we'll be starting this on January the 1st, if I can help you go from Genesis to Revelation, you're 80 % likely to read it a second time, and a third time, and a fourth time, and be a lifelong learner and reader.

So that's my goal, check that out. Also, before we go any further, I wanna say thank you.

I always wanna do this at the beginning of the episodes. Maybe you're like, just get to the material. No, I need to say thank you, because you have made this show possible.

To those who watch, to those who share, to those who subscribe, to those who sent messages, and phone calls, and emails, for those who are financially supporting this show, which

I still can't even believe that that's a thing, that we have financial supporters, this channel exists because of all of that faithfulness that you have contributed to it.

You have shown me that you want this kind of content, you wanna learn about eschatology, and revelation, and all of these things, and I'm so utterly grateful for it.

The Lord has exceedingly surpassed everything that I thought this channel was gonna be, and done it in very short order.

Like, for instance, this year, my big goal last December was, okay, in 2025,

I want this channel to have 5 ,000 subscribers, which I thought was ridiculous. And then by, like,

March, we had 10 ,000. As it is right now, we're over 14 ,000 subscribers, so I'm gonna set another goal that I think is absolutely ridiculous, and we'll see what

God does. I want this channel to have 25 ,000 subscribers before next year.

Now, that's not just so that we can puff our chest out and think how great this channel is, or how great we are.

No, we want this message to get out to more people. We want this message that Jesus wins to get out to more people, because if you believe that Jesus is reigning now, it's gonna change everything about everything about everything in your life.

You're not gonna live like you're on the verge of losing. You're gonna live like your Christianity matters, like your work matters, your marriage matters, your family matters.

All of this is something that matters tremendously because my life is a part of building up the next

Christendom, building up the kingdom of God, and I can't take anything for granted.

If I'm just waiting on Jesus to return because the world's gonna crash and burn, okay, well, why bother?

But if Christ is gonna use his church to build his kingdom on earth, and if he is going to win, and he is going to make the world filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the water covers the seas, then everything that we're called to do matters, and that thought, that idea,

I don't care about my name. I don't even care about the name of this channel. All I care about is that Christians are convinced of the victory of Jesus Christ because it changes the way that you live.

They say that R .C. Sproul dedicated his entire life to the holiness of God. That's what defined his ministry.

You could say that John Piper dedicated the entirety of his ministry to the desire of God, desiring and cultivating affections for God.

I want my ministry to be known for the victory of God because I think at this pivotal season of church history, we need to be convinced that Christ is victorious,

Christ is reigning, and Christ will have dominion and supremacy over all things. We need that confidence so that we can take back this country that we've squandered, that we've lost, and I want this channel to be a part of it.

So if you like what we're doing here, if you think it's helpful, share it. Let's help get this channel in front of more people so that more people can be encouraged with the victory of God.

So thank you so much for helping in that, and with all of that said, now we need to get onto our final message in this little miniseries we've been doing on supersessionism and this final episode of the season.

And the reason that this is the final episode in this series is there's nowhere else to go. We've shown it.

We don't need another proof text. We don't need another passage. We don't need another angle to look at. We've shown that Zionism, which is what we've been interacting with, is totally illogical, and it makes a mockery of what the

Bible actually says. Zionism is a view that replaces this confidence in the victory of God with a confidence in the state of Israel.

It supplants biblical fidelity and trades it in for the horror of Babylon.

So today, we're gonna close out this series. We're gonna bring all of these ideas together, and what we're gonna show is that this idea of Zionism really ruins all of your theology.

This is not gonna be a long episode. In fact, I'm gonna try my best to keep it short so that you can have a couple weeks off and so that you can have a break.

But I really wanna show today that if you hold fast to this thing that we've been calling

Zionism, if you hold fast to a special covenant status with Israel, if you keep looking at Israel, modern -day

Israel, and thinking that they are the people of God, it is absolutely going to ruin every bit of your theology, from your theology of the doctrine of God, from your theology of salvation, from your covenant theology, from your martiology, anthropology, all of it.

Having this view actually is heretical. I'm not saying that it will damn you to hell.

I'm saying that it is not Orthodox Christianity, and it makes so many other doctrines in your faith heterodox.

So with that, join me as we begin this final episode where we show how

Zionism affects every single doctrine. And to do that, we're going to show how

Zionism ruins theology. This is the only part of today's episode,

Zionism ruins theology, and it's true. It is not a harmless hobby belief that's tucked away somewhere next to the prophecy charts in the basement of your house or your bunker or whatever else.

It is a pernicious doctrine. It's like doctrinal acid, because what it does is it introduces a category into the

New Testament that the New Testament itself does not permit, and that is that there could possibly be covenant standing with God apart from Jesus Christ.

That's what Zionism believes, that Israel has covenant standing with God while hating

Jesus. The New Testament doesn't talk like that. The Bible doesn't talk like that.

It creates an arbitrary category. And once you believe that, once you accept that, even in the most tender, empathetic, soft -hearted ways, with even great nuance, once you begin to accept that doctrine, it doesn't actually remain just a single claim.

It comes in like a poison, and it poisons everything.

It affects every doctrine in your faith, and it rewrites them into a kind of perversion.

This premise of Zionism sounds kind of modest. We wanna be faithful to Israel because God talks a lot about Israel in the

Bible. The word Israel's used a bunch of times, and my goodness, if God talks about Israel a lot, then maybe we should be kind to them.

I get why so many people, especially if they're not educated in the Scriptures, believe this, but what you're saying is that the

Jews can hate Jesus, curse Jesus, spit in the face of Jesus' followers, and still have covenant status with God.

What you're saying is that God loves his son so little that he would allow a group of people to perpetually blaspheme his son and still remain somehow this chosen people of God, that if Christians don't bless them, then we'll be cursed.

As they curse Jesus, we'll be cursed if we don't bless them. Why would we bless them as they're cursing

Christ? And why would we think that we will be blessed if we bless them as they're cursing

Christ? It makes no sense. And Christianity doesn't work on that kind of flawed and ridiculous logic.

Christianity's built on the architecture that there's one mediator between God and man, there's one sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins, there's one covenant that has brought us into right standing with God, there's one people of God, one way to the

Father, one truth, one life, one Lord, one baptism, one faith, not two.

The moment, however, that you insert an ethnic exception clause, what you're doing is you're saying, yeah, there's one faith, but there's the

Jews. Yeah, there's one Lord, but there's these people over here who hate him and God still says they're special.

There's one baptism, except for the fact that maybe they're gonna go back to a sacrificial system, they're gonna have a temple one day.

Well, isn't Jesus the temple? Oh, yeah, Jesus is the temple, but they get their temple too.

It makes no sense. It undermines the doctrines of the

New Testament and it disintegrates what Paul and Jesus and James and John and Peter and Jude and all of them are saying.

It's like a man taking a saw and trying to cut a hole in the bottom of the ship that he's riding in, thinking that it's still gonna stay afloat and it won't.

Once you do that, you compromise the integrity of the vessel, while in the same way, once you accept that premise, you weaken the integrity of your own theology because what

Scripture grounds universally in Jesus, the salvation that comes through his shed blood on the cross,

Zionism, what it does is it reallocates that into an ethnic promise and not a promise in Christ.

Your covenant nearness becomes about your bloodline and not

Christ. It gives you some kind of special status by birth instead of by faith.

We're saved by grace through faith alone, not by bloodline and genealogy, not by new moon and Sabbath, not by any of that.

And that means that in this view, the cross becomes necessary for the

Gentiles, necessary for the nations, but completely unnecessary for Israel because they've got their own plan.

And this is what's so crazy. If you say that Jesus' cross only matters to certain people and it won't save, actually, these other people because they have a temple and a sacrificial system, what you're saying is that there are some people who

Christ can't save through the power of his cross and that they have something else, maybe even more meaningful that they're gonna have in order to experience their salvation.

Think about what you say about Jesus when you say that. What are you saying about the efficacy of his salvation and cross that he wrought for you and I on Calvary that, yes, it's good enough for you,

Gentile. It's good enough for you, Goyim of the world. It's not good enough for the

Jews. They need to go back to their temple. It completely undermines what

Christ did on the cross because if covenant standing can exist without Christ, then

Christ is no longer required to have covenant standing anywhere.

When you believe this, the poison is already in the bloodstream and then it begins to not just affect your theology, then it begins to affect how you actually read and view

Scripture because you have to read and view Scripture very differently if you believe in Zionism.

It affects not just your theology of salvation, but it affects your hermeneutical commitments because the apostles, they didn't read the

Old Testament the way that Zionism needs them to read it. The New Testament itself doesn't treat the

Old Testament as some kind of paused blueprint that is just awaiting an ethnic reboot at some point in the future.

It treats the promise as reaching its yes and its amen in Christ.

The shadows yield forth to the substance. The scaffolding comes down because the building has arrived.

Hebrews does not describe the Old Covenant as dormant. It describes it as obsolete, aging, vanishing, and ready to disappear.

Galatians doesn't describe the law as a permanent parallel track for one ethnicity that, yeah, you guys are gonna find your justification through obedience to the law, and this group is gonna find their justification by grace through faith.

There's not two paths. There's one path to God, and it's Christ and Christ alone.

The law was always described as a kind of guardian and as a kind of tutor and as a kind of mirror.

It's a mirror so that you can see the sinfulness of your own life and your own heart, that all of us fall short of the glory of God.

The law is a mirror into the depravity of man, but it's also a tutor because it points us to that there is someone who fulfilled the law, and even though I look in myself and see that the law reveals my depravity,

I can also look under Christ and see that he's the one who came to rescue me.

He's the one who obeyed the law. He's the one who inherited all of the righteousness of God so that he could share that righteousness with me.

He obeyed God, and then he justified me on the basis of his obedience.

How can we say that we needed that level of justification, but somehow the

Jews, they're gonna be able to obey. They're gonna be able to have their sacrificial system and their law and their

Torah, and they're gonna get all of that back and all the trappings and all of the types and shadows, and that's what

God wants so that they can again participate in a system that's totally futile, that will not actually bring us into salvation because we've all fallen short of the glory of God.

None of us obey. None of us are righteous. All of us have become worthless. Why would

God do that to a people that we supposedly say are the special people, the covenant people, the chosen people?

Why would God put them back under the yoke of the law, which is a noose around their neck? I do think

God loves modern -day Israel. I think in the same way that God loves modern -day Japan and modern -day

Australia and Chile and Argentina and Greenland and Iceland and Ireland and France and everywhere else, and I believe that because God loves his people, his elect people, he is going to save them, and he's gonna save them through the gospel and not through legalism and moralism and mosaicism.

It's a word I just made up, but you get what I mean. When Christ came, the law was fulfilled.

It wasn't abolished. The law was fulfilled, and today even the law still is in operation.

We don't still practice the sacrificial system. Why? Because the true sacrifice has come. We don't practice the festal calendar in the same way that they did in the

Old Testament because the point of the feast has come, but we still love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

We still obey mom and dad. We still are commanded not to commit adultery. We're still commanded not to commit murder.

All of those moral commands of the Old Testament still apply. The civil commands of the

Old Testament still give us good and necessary consequences or as the

Westminster calls it, the general equity, the general principles that a government should be ruled by, and the ceremonial law, even though Christ has fulfilled it, demonstrates to us his purity and what he's done for us in saving us from that aspect of the law.

So he saved us unto righteousness so that now we can begin to obey the moral law of God, but that part of the law that we were to obey in order to be justified, which no one can do, that has been put away by Jesus.

When Christ came, the guardian was dismissed, the tutor was dismissed, and now

Jesus is the one by his spirit who's saving his people. And the book of Romans doesn't redefine

Israel as this people who need to continue obeying the law.

It doesn't define them according to their land or their bloodline or their genealogy or their circumcision or their temple or their anything.

The book of Romans, as we talked about last week, talks about them, if they're going to be saved, they're gonna be saved in the same way that everybody else is, through faith.

And the book of Romans really puts the death nail in this idea of Zionism when it says that not all who are descended from Israel are

Israel, because why, bloodline doesn't matter anymore. These people who put their faith in their

Judaism, who put their faith in their bloodlines, it's not gonna save you, because not all who say they're

Israel are true Israel. And also, guess what? Not all who are Gentiles are just Gentiles, because God has brought both

Jew and Greek, male and female, slave and free into one family, the Israel of God, as Paul says in Galatians.

So in all of this, we see that Zionism actually forces scripture to speak in two different voices.

It causes Moses to, instead of bowing down at the feet of Jesus, which is what Moses is doing in heaven right now, even as we speak, it's forcing

Moses to allegedly promise a kind of future for the

Jews, even while the church has a different future altogether. It forces the

Bible to speak about fulfillment and this glorious coming of Christ to put away all of the

Old Testament types and shadows. It forces the New Testament and the Old Testament and the whole Bible, therefore, to kind of speak about Judaism as being a thing worth preserving, a thing that is eventually gonna replace

Christ, because in that system, the church is raptured to heaven, and then

Judaism becomes the religion. It's madness to me. It's madness.

And once scripture is disregarded in that way, it's not long before your

Christology is affected. What is Christology? Christology is the doctrine of Christ.

And if you have a doctrine of Zionism, you cannot be so naive to think that it will not affect your

Christology, because it will. Christ cannot remain the

Lord over all if the Jews have a special status with God.

Because they have some kind of authority that he can't touch. He can't be the end of the law if the law was destined to return as covenantally relevant to people who hate him and who don't believe.

He can't be the final high priest if there's some kind of meaningful access to God apart from his priesthood.

He can't be the final sacrifice, the once and for all sacrifice for all sins if the old sacrificial system is coming back and it's gonna be resurrected.

See, what Zionism does is it claims to honor Jesus. And they'll even say things like, well, you know

Jesus was a Jew. Almost as if they're trying to tell you there's something special about being a

Jew instead of it being special because he's the

Christ. Yeah, he came through the line of the Jews according to all of the promises.

He came through the people who had the types and shadows. Yes and amen. But what's special about Jesus is not his

Jewishness. What's special about Jesus is that he fulfilled everything that we could not fulfill on our behalf so that he could share with us the righteousness of God and whether we're

Jew or Greek, whether we're Gentile, whether we're slave, whether we're free, whether we're male, whether we're female, whether we're red, yellow, black and white, we're all precious in his sight because of the obedience that he wrought on the cross.

So in this sense, Zionism likes to claim that it honors Jesus, but it turns his finished work into a provisional work.

It's true, it's glorious, it's important, but it's not the exclusive work.

It's not the hinge of all covenant history. They give you a Christ who is required for some people but not for other people.

A Christ who is not by grace through faith gonna save all people.

A Christ who's not required for everyone who is saved, and in that sense, it undermines everything about his ministry.

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus in this way. It doesn't present him as just a mediator for the

Gentiles while Israel keeps another track. It presents him as the only mediator between God and man, the man,

Christ Jesus. And there's no exception clause that's given that complicates our

Christology. Jesus is the way, he is the truth, and he is the life.

If you believe in Zionism, you have to reject that premise. Jesus is a way, a truth, and a life, and the

Jews have their own little path in this dual covenantal schema. Once your

Christology is undermined and ruined, Zionism will then go after your theology proper, which is the doctrine of God.

The God revealed in the Scriptures is unified and consistent and faithful and purposeful to his promises.

He doesn't run competing covenant programs that compete against each other and that undermine each other where one says that the type is how you get to God and one says the substance is how you get to God.

God is not running two competing programs here. Because if he did, he wouldn't be all wise.

He doesn't declare a covenant obsolete and then keep it spiritually operational for one group for 2 ,000 years like the

Jews or like Zionism is weekend at Bernie's. Yeah, he's here, he just kind of looks dead, but he's here, this is

Bernie, everyone. That's kind of what Zionism has done. It's propped up a dead

Judaism. And it said, yeah, this guy, he's the life of the party.

Zionism requires exactly the kind of double -layered divine administration, one covenantal reality that is centered on Christ for the nations and then another covenantal reality that is centered on ethnic, biological, hereditary

Israel. And that point undermines the promises of God that his yes in Christ is not really a full yes.

You know, God says that in Christ, everything will be yes and amen. Everything will be yes in Christ.

Apparently not if you're a Zionist. Some things will be yes in Christ, but other things will be yes in Israel.

It undermines God's faithfulness, it undermines God's promises, it undermines God's truthfulness, it undermines your doctrine of God.

It tells you that his covenant verdict is reversible. His redemptive plan is split into two different peoples and two different plans of salvation.

That's not biblical, that's not faithful, that's theological double -minded, and it's accusing

God of being haphazard in the way that he promises salvation. Once your doctrine of God is gone, well, the gospel itself collapses because the gospel is not elastic.

It doesn't permit ethnic loopholes. The real gospel doesn't.

It announces that there's one way of salvation for all people, repentance towards God through faith in the

Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit of God and his regenerating work. Zionism introduces a false gospel.

The Gentiles have to come by faith, of course, yes, but the Jews retain their covenant status by their bloodline and by their birth.

And you can dress this up with all kinds of affectionate language, but the effect is still the same.

You're saying that justification by faith is no longer really true for all people. Evangelism for the

Jews especially loses its urgency because they are not gonna come in the same way that we come in.

They're not gonna come in the way that the apostles spent their entire lives being murdered for to try to convert these people.

The sufficiency of Christ's atonement is quietly refined because a sacrifice that is not required for everyone is not sufficient for anyone in the way that the

New Testament is defining sufficiency. Zionism claims to love the

Jewish people, but it cannot love them biblically while giving them a false gospel.

And once the gospel is compromised, well, then your covenant theology disintegrates. Reformed theology stands on the premise that God has a saving purpose that's unfolding through time, administered in various forms with various covenant heads reaching its irreversible climactic conclusion and fulfillment in the new covenant.

And yet Zionism detonates all of that unity of the redemptive story arc of the

Bible by introducing, now there's a different future for the Jews. There's a second track and it's genealogical rather than Christological.

All of that severs the promises that God made to Abraham and the promises that Paul so explicitly speaks about that Abraham is, or that the seed of Abraham is

Christ. It turns the new covenant into a partial covenant.

It's final for the nations. It's optional for Israel, which is a contradiction that actually cannot exist in your covenant theology.

It requires that the Mosaic covenant at one and the same time be both judged and put away and yet still on life support and living and meaningful in some sense.

It gives you the idea that both covenants have a kind of legitimacy and yet both are obsolete in some sense as well.

Both have a beginning and both have an end and they operate simultaneously, overlapping against each other, but yet when we look at and we see that God has so clearly put away the old covenant, as Hebrews says that it was passing away, the perfect has come, the types and shadows are gone, we make

God out to be a liar and when

God is a liar, when the gospel is gone, your covenant theology is gone, when your doctrine of salvation is gone, then you're gonna believe things that are wrong about the church as well because the church can't remain what

Christ made her to be if you believe these things. Your ecclesiology answers a very basic question.

That's what ecclesiology is. Who are the people of God? Who are

God's people? The New Testament answers this very easily.

It's the Jews and the Gentiles and the males and the females who all become the

Israel of God, who join in or grafted into the Israel of God. The Israel of God is the people of God in the

Old Testament and New Testament under the headship of Jesus Christ. It's Abraham, it's

Adam, it's Noah, it's Moses, it's Joshua, it's Caleb, it's David, it's you, and it's me.

Everyone comes into Israel through Christ who is the true Israel, because Israel means wrestles with God and only

Jesus perfectly wrestled with God. So the New Testament's clear.

Through one man, everything was lost, but yet through one man, everything will be regained.

And he will make us into new men, into one household, one family, one people who are being made into a single eschatological temple.

And each of us are the bricks of that temple. We're one flock who follow one good shepherd.

And yet Zionism breaks all of that ecclesiological foundation of one people of God who say, our

Father in heaven. One people who have one Father on the basis of one

Lord's salvation. And Zionism takes all of that and resurrects the dividing wall of hostility.

It resurrects the temple curtain that divided the Jew and the Greek. The dividing wall that Christ tore down by granting covenant status outside of the church's auspices.

The church is the one who gives the gospel of God to the world. And yet the

Zionist says, wait a minute. Israel has special status.

The church needs to be very careful in the way that they deal with Israel because Israel's special.

What you're saying is there are two peoples of God. What you're saying is that the church has a gospel that is good enough for the

Gentile dogs but not good enough for the Jewish elites. And then the church becomes in practice a kind of Gentile institution that's running parallel along the

Jewish covenant identity, the Jewish people of the future that God is gonna resurrect and bring back to life.

It's a denial of the church's Catholicity. It's a denial of the church's unity.

Jesus in John 17 prayed that the church would be one as he and his

Father have always been one in eternity. So the same unity that Jesus has with his own

Father, Jesus prayed for the church to have unity, which means that there's one people brought together around one big idea, which is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

You undermine all of that if you introduce a second people of God, if you introduce a side hoe or a side piece.

Sorry I'm talking about it graphically, but it baffles my mind that we entertain these stupid things.

This doctrine turns the bride of Christ into at best a temporary lover, a covenant people purchased by his blood temporarily until the

Jews get to sacrifice their bloody sacrifices again. And then when the church fractures, your sacramentology becomes incoherent.

What do I mean by sacramentology? I mean baptism in the Lord's Supper, the two great signs and seals of the new covenant.

Baptism is the entry sign into the Israel of God, the kingdom of God. The Lord's Supper is the covenant meal for the

Israel of God. It's when God himself feeds his people. The cup is the new covenant in Jesus's blood.

The bread is Jesus's own body. So you're baptized into the nation of Israel a holy nation, a kingdom of priests, and you're fed as true

Israel like God feeds Israel in the wilderness as they're wandering with bread.

Jesus feeds us with his own body, the bread, with his own blood, and yet Zionism requires that these signs and these seals and these covenant motifs only matter for a certain group of people.

Baptism is good for the Gentiles, but circumcision is gonna come back. Circumcision is important for the ethnic boundaries between the

Jews and the Gentiles. This doctrine insists that the church's sacraments are universal in the sense that they're for the

Gentiles, but they're not for everyone. It breaks the visible unity of Christ's covenant people, and it turns his sacraments from Catholic signs for all people of all times into tribal badges of pagans who've been converted to Jesus who are just waiting to be raptured out of here.

From there, your pastoral theology falls apart because bad doctrine always becomes bad shepherding.

Pastors can no longer answer basic questions with clarity. Who must repent? Who must be evangelized?

Who's inside the covenant? Who's outside the covenant? Zionism forces ethnic evasions right where Scripture speaks with such directness that there is no such thing as bloodlines anymore.

None of that stuff matters. All that matters is if you're in Christ. It causes men to dull their warnings against the

Jews for fear that they're gonna be called an anti -Semite for fear that they're gonna somehow inherit some kind of curse because they critique modern -day

Israel. So it blunts their calls to repentance, treats Israel like they don't need to repent because they have a special status with God.

Our brothers and sisters who died by sharing the gospel to the Jews, they went to the grave because they knew that the

Jews needed Jesus. And we've got guys like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and all of those people who are paid millions of dollars by AIPAC who have the audacity to say that the

Jews are just ipso facto blessed because they're Jews, because they have a bloodline.

How racist can you be? And when you adopt that view, you offer comfort without Christ, assurance without atonement, hope without repentance, which is not pastoral, it's not caring.

It's spiritual abandonment dressed up in cultural sensitivity. And as we've talked about many times, after all of those other dominoes fall and all of those other doctrines are poisoned by Zionism, it ends up totally destroying your eschatology because your eschatology has to be built on endless speculation, endless news cycles.

You have to constantly be looking at the dome of the rock to make sure that a war's not gonna break out in the

Middle East, the Jews are gonna get their temple back. It makes you focus on things like, where's the red heifer, and it's ridiculous.

I wanna end this episode. We've went through four parts.

We've seen how Zionism is so wrong. I wanna end this episode by challenging you, brother and sister, to hold fast to the true

Christ, to endure the accusations of anti -Semitism if they come, and to remember that all people need the gospel.

You and I need the gospel. The Jews need the gospel. Everyone on earth needs it.

You and I have been set apart for a purpose by God to share the good news of Jesus Christ with the fallen world.

So say it, share it, herald it, and tell it. Don't let anybody despise you for that, and don't let anybody tell you that a certain people somewhere have a special status apart from Christ.

That is a hellish thing to say because there is no way to the Father but through Jesus Christ.

And every other view, whether it be Buddhism, whether it be

Shintoism, whether it be paganism, or whether it be Judaism, all of them must bow the knee to Jesus Christ or be condemned to hell.

So brothers and sisters, hold fast to the gospel that Christ and Christ alone will save you, that Christ and Christ alone will regenerate you, will sanctify you, will purify you, and will give you an eternal future.

And as you cling to that, share that good news with everybody you meet.

Be a part of seeing the kingdom of Christ built on this earth. Be a part of seeing

Judaism, modern -day Judaism, put under the feet of Jesus. Modern -day

Judaism is demonic. Islam is demonic. All of these religions are demonic.

Our job is not to play footsie with Judaism. Our goal is not to even call ourself a

Judeo -Christian country. What's that even mean? Our goal is to share the supremacy of Jesus Christ and to say that everything that opposes

Him will be destroyed. Christ is gonna conquer the world.

We must cling to the gospel, we must herald the gospel, and we must warn them of the wrath to come and not coddle them in their bloodline and then their special genetical status.

So that's what I would share with you this Christmas season. Focus on Christ, focus on the supremacy of Christ, share

Christ with everyone you know. And until next time, God richly bless you, and we'll see you next year on the broadcast.