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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?
