This video: “Judeo-Christian” Was Always
A Psyop
The two discussants offered the following parable:
Luke: 20: 9 Then He began to tell
the people this parable: “A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers,
and went into a far country for a long time. 10 Now at vintage-time he sent a
servant to the vinedressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the
vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11
Again he sent another servant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully,
and sent him away empty-handed. 12 And again he sent a third; and they wounded
him also and cast him out.
13 “Then the owner of the vineyard
said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Probably they will respect
him when they see him.’ 14 But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned
among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.’ 15 So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed
him. Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come
and destroy those vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.”
And when they heard it they said,
“Certainly not!” 17 Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is
written:
‘The stone which the builders
rejected Has become the chief cornerstone’?
18 Whoever falls on that stone will
be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
19 And the chief priests and the
scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the
people—for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.
The interpretation offered (extremely paraphrased): why on
earth do many Christians believe that the modern-day state of Israel has
anything to do with Biblical eschatology.
The owner (God) of the vineyard (land of Judea) has destroyed the
vinedressers (the Jews – not as a people, but as in having to do anything with
ongoing expectations) who had killed the owner’s servants and even his son
(Jesus).
In other words, the vineyard (the land of Judea) is taken
away from the first tenants (the Jews) and given to others (not the Jews, but
those who would honor the son). So why
do so many Christians proclaim the legitimacy, and even necessity, of the first
tenants to return to and retain the land?
As an aside, I have not yet come to study this parable at my other blog, so we will see
what Metropolitan Hilarion has to say about it at some point.
My comment to this video:
First, thank you for taking this
on. The Scofield-dedicated Christian
Protestants will one day be remembered just like the Christians in Hitler’s
Germany are remembered today – cheer leading enablers of mass murder.
Christians such as these are working to destroy Christianity
in the United States, whether knowingly or not.
There is nothing Biblical about this Scofield ideology.
Three thoughts:
Judeo Christian is a made-up
term. It first appeared in the 1820s,
and was used to indicate Jewish converts to Christianity. The modern usage only came to be in the 1950s
or so. Further, today’s “Judaism” and
Christianity are both children of the Hebrew Scriptures. Do we not, instead, have on the one hand a
Hebraic-Christian tradition and on the other a Hebraic-Jewish tradition (if one
needs to invent labels)?
A note: I looked
into this invented tradition about two-and-a-half years ago.
Continuing with my comment: in the video, the gentlemen
discussed why it is that today Hitler is demonized and Stalin is, at most, left
alone. They offer that it is because
Hitler was on the political right.
Regarding “Hitler was the bad guy
on the right.” That technically isn’t
correct. Hitler led the National
Socialist Party, this as opposed to communism, which was an international
socialist political ideology. Both were
movements of the left. The difference
between these two leftist movements is that National Socialism recognized
differences among and between people – certainly in many wrongheaded and even
evil ways, but the issue was that different cultures and traditions are
different and the difference is often meaningful. The international socialists were, and
remain, against this reality.
Hitler’s Nazis were socialists, and the communists of Marx,
Lenin, and Stalin were socialist. They were
all on the left.
Finally, labeling everything we
don't like as "Hitler" is convenient, because now no one speaks of
sin. Hitler has allowed society to
ignore sin.
How often do Christians speak openly of sin…and hell. We have come to just say “Hitler,” as if this
is the description of the worst hell on earth (it isn’t), let alone the worst
hell of which God has warned us.
Conclusion
I have heard at least some bits and pieces of the
Scofieldian conversation shifting. Before,
it was “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
But by now, twelve months in, this idea of Israel “defending” itself is unsustainable. Now I hear: “Well, you either support God’s
will or man’s morals.”
What will they say when Israel is both destroyed and, with
the aid of the United States, destroys much of the region and the Rapture or
Second Coming or thousand years or whatever is nowhere in sight? I think the answer to that is easy. There have been other interpretations and
understandings of the end times over the last 2,000 years, and the failure of
each never prevented the rise of a new one.
How about just always being prepared, as we, the watchful
servants, never know when the master will return?
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