Yet more proof that racially literalized ‘Jews’ are not God’s chosen people

…despite what Judeonazis and their shill machine insist.

It turns out that the massive evidence debunking “Christian Zionist” shystery to the hilariously embarrassing chagrin of Jesuit-manufactured dispensationalism’s chief defenders almost never ends.

The devoutly Jewish Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus (a.k.a. “Paul the Apostle”), as recorded in the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles had this to say:¹

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Who was he addressing? Let’s scroll back a bit for necessary context:²

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

To refresh your memory, there are of course two collective entities both referred to in the New Testament as “Israel”: one is the “literalized” nation of Judea revolving around the Second Temple and which did not all believe in the Messiah Jesus Christ, while the other is spiritual Israel (a.k.a. the apostolic Christian church) spiritually in the heart circumcised³ by faith in Christ and whose tabernacle of hope is an eternal abode with their personal Savior.⁴ This is made clear by the fact that in the Epistle to the Romans the evangelist and apostle Paul refers to one Israel as definitely NOT constituting the seed of Abraham⁵ and which “might” be saved,⁶ and another Israel as one that definitely WILL be saved.⁷

Alright, let’s now head back to Acts 13: the following passage reads:⁸

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

So clearly, Paul was addressing a (literal) Jewish audience, IOWs fleshly “Israel” by ethnic descent and not the true Israel of God. Let’s now examine exactly what he quoted—it’s an extract from the first chapter of the Book of Habakkuk:⁹

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Typically at this point there already poses a severe headache for the “Christian Zionist”/“dispensationalist” crowd: Habakkuk’s oracle at obvious face-value context was in reference to his own contemporaries warning them of—lest they repent—the impending Babylonian invasion and destruction of Judah. So how could Hab. 1:5 refer centuries far ahead to Paul’s time? Only if Old Testament Jewish prophecies can carry a “typical” and “antitypical” dual application, the former fulfilled in “literal” terms as a shadow/example while the latter serves as a broader “spiritual” reenactment in fully expounded meaning because there is no new thing under the sun. But you see, such a view necessitates the supersessionist conclusion that apostolic Christians constitute the real Jews of the New Testament, utterly contradicting the neo-Marcionite premise of dispensationalism that “Jews and Christians have their own separate covenants with God that both remain to this day.” Wherever that teaching originated from, it most certainly isn’t the Bible since Paul told the Hebrews:¹⁰

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

One might be tempted to seize upon the phrase “ready to vanish away” as supposed proof the Mosaic Covenant remains to this day. Yet remember that the Epistle to the Hebrews was written before 70 A.D.—until the Second Temple was destroyed for eternity, the Jewish nation still had a clear opportunity to repent and turn around because, as the prophet Jeremiah declared of Jehovah’s character:¹¹

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Remember the Book of Jonah, anyone? Nineveh repented and God did not destroy that generation of Assyrians.¹² Unfortunately the Jewish nation in the 1st century chose not to repent from the top down and later in 70 A.D. DID face its judgment, thereby forever ending the Mosaic Covenant. That Paul in Heb. 8:13 says the Old Covenant “is ready” to vanish away reflects the fact that at the time he penned the letter, the doom of Judea that will irreversibly seal the eternal destruction of God’s covenant with the “Jews” as a literal nation did not yet arrive. (ultimately, the Mosaic Covenant would disappear anyways, because even if the Jewish hierarchy of Jerusalem repented, that would mean they all come into the New Covenant and no one wishes to remain in the Old anymore)

Hopefully that’s settled and clear—back to Habakkuk. Let’s examine the oracle’s remainder since Paul only quoted the first segment in Acts 13:

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

To reiterate, obviously at face value this prophecy pertains to the house of Judah’s destruction at the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar during the days of Jeremiah, centuries before Paul was even in his father’s loins. Yet there is a clear “antitypical” dual application to the 1st century: first off, Babylon (“the Chaldeans”) in the New Testament is used as a symbolic reference to the Roman Empire.¹³ The Book of Revelation quotes Isaiah 47 in its condemnation of the Whore of Babylon, identified by historicists affirmatively as the Roman Papacy.¹⁴ It is also clear that the mention of “leopards” and “evening wolves” in Hab. 1:5-11 can factually refer to the Roman Empire: remember my most previous post (as of typing) about Daniel 2 and the first four pagan kingdoms? Let’s confirm this parallelism identification is valid, though—again, a message relayed by the prophet Jeremiah:¹⁵

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Notice the ordering: lion → wolf → leopard. In Daniel 7 the ordering is given as lion → bear → leopard.¹⁶ In Daniel, the lion represents Babylon, the bear Medo-Persia, and the leopard Greece. Clearly in the Book of Jeremiah this exact picture is being painted, albeit Medo-Persia represented as an evening wolf instead of a bear. Therefore in Habakkuk, the mention of the Chaldeans’ horsemen boasting greater might than that of the evening wolves and shepherds means that this Babylonian power commands more prestige and power than Medo-Persia and Greece.

Remember Daniel 2 which states that the “head of gold” represents Babylon and that the chest + arms of silver (representing Medo-Persia) are “inferior”?¹⁷ Clearly the materials down the progression only get less valuable from gold → silver → brass → iron → iron/clay heterogeneous fusion. IOWs, ancient Babylon was of more prized prestige in comparison to the subsequent Persian and Greek regimes.

You may be wondering then how Rome can “antitypically” fulfill Hab. 1:5-11 since iron is inferior to silver and brass. It’s very simple: that segment of the Habakkuk oracle mentioning leopards and evening wolves refers indicatively to military might, and the Roman Empire was of greater power than Medo-Persia and Greece. Hence, Rome indeed fulfills the prophecy in “antitype” as spiritual Babylon.

Let’s conclude the gist of this posting now: just as the Jewish nation of Judah in Habakkuk, Zephaniah,¹⁸ and Jeremiah’s generation refused to repent and the First Temple was destroyed by literal Babylon,¹⁹ so too did the Jewish nation of Judah in the Apostle Paul’s generation refuse to repent and later in 70 A.D. the Second Temple was destroyed by spiritual Babylon (Rome) when a flood²⁰ of soldiers under General Titus utterly wasted Jerusalem. That is why Paul quoted the first oracle of the prophet Habakkuk to a Jewish audience at Antioch—he was warning them that they as the fleshly inheritors of Judaism under the Mosaic Covenant would face no better a fate than their ancestors in the days of Jeremiah such that they refuse to repent and turn to the living God in truth and in spirit.

IOWs, THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO SUCH THING as an “unconditional chosen literal race God will never reject” despite what dispensationalists insist of “[literal ‘ethnic’] ‘Jews’ having their own special covenant with God that remains to this day.” Such rootless poppycock about a chosen people along “blood lineage” are as far removed from Judaism/Christianity as the east is from the west and instead bear an uncannily striking resemblance to Nazism, wouldn’t you say?

1. Acts 13:40-41.

2. Acts 13:14-17.

3. Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11.

4. Rev. 21:2-4; cf. Heb. 8:1-2; Jn. 4:21-24.

5. Rom. 9:7.

6. Rom. 10:1.

7. Rom. 11:26-27.

8. Acts 13:42.

9. Hab. 1:5.

10. Heb. 8:13.

11. Jer. 18:8.

12. Jon. 3:10.

13. I Pet. 5:13.

14. Isa. 47:8; Rev. 18:7.

15. Jer. 5:6.

16. Dan. 7:4-6.

17. Dan. 2:39.

18. Cf. Zeph. 1:4-6.

19. Jer. 52:12-13; II Kgs. 25:8-9; II Chron. 36:17-19.

20. Cf. Dan. 9:26 reading “the end thereof shall be with a flood”; “waters” as a symbol in the Bible represents nations (Rev. 17:15), and so a flood represents the violent rushing of nations in warring conflict. (cf. Isa. 59:19b; Jer. 47:2; Nah. 1:7-8; Rev. 12:14-16)