John Hagee: His False and Demonic Teachings Concerning Israel! (Another Wake-Up Call For Deceived Christians)
The 2013 C.U.F.I. (Christians
United For Israel) Washington Summit is over, and here is an appropriate
article for such a time as this.
There are certain preachers and teachers
in the world today who make statements sometimes, which I find to be
simply mind boggling. John Hagee is most definitely one of those people. Here is an excerpt from the Christian Research Institute Statement DH005 regarding John Hagee.
Trying to convert Jews is a “waste of time,” he [Hagee] said. . . .
Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha’i, needs to believe in Jesus, he says. But not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced with Christianity, he says.
“The Jewish people have a relationship to God through the law of God
as given through Moses,” Hagee said. “I believe that every Gentile
person can only come to God through the cross of Christ. I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption.
“The law of
Moses is sufficient enough to bring a person into the knowledge of God
until God gives him a greater revelation. And God has not,” said Hagee
“There are right
now Jewish people on this earth who have a powerful and special
relationship with God,” declares Hagee in one of his books. “They have
been chosen by the ‘election of grace’ in which God does what he does
without asking man to approve or understand it. Let us put an end to the
Christian chatter that “all the Jews are lost” and can’t be in the will
of God until they convert to Christianity! . . . there are a certain
number of Jews in relationship with God right now through divine
election.”
Hagee also
affirms: “If God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus as
Messiah, how could He send them to hell for not seeing what he had
forbidden them to see?”
It is incredible that more people do not
speak out against the “ministries” of people such as John Hagee (and
many others) and the false teachings that proceed forth from them. Any
person who has been truly born again of the Spirit, and who is a new
creation in Jesus Christ, and who reads their Bible, would have to say
there is something drastically wrong with Hagee’s theology. When I read
the new Testament (Covenant) I learn about Jesus Christ as being the
fulfillment of ALL of the Old Testament prophecies. In fact the Bible
tells us that God had previously spoke to us through the “father” and by
the “prophets” but has spoken to us in “these last days” by His Son,
Jesus Christ.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:1-3)
Any true Bible believing, born again
believer in Jesus Christ, knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus
Christ is absolutely the only way of salvation for every person in the
world, whether they be Jew or Gentile. For John Hagee to make statements such as those quoted here from the Christian Research Institute Statement DH005
is in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Bible (God’s Word).
Here is a statement from Jesus Christ Himself to the Jewish people of
his day:
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which TESTIFY OF ME. And ye will not COME TO ME, that ye might have life. (John 5:39-40)
That statement by the Lord Jesus Christ to the Jewish people of His time still stands true today. The
Lord was simply telling them that their own scriptures which included
the books of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms testified about Him, and
yet they refused to come to Him for LIFE. Jesus was talking about eternal LIFE,
and ultimately Heaven. That is the clear message of that verse, and it
was and is the clear message that Christ spoke to the Jewish people of
His time. Here is another statement from the Lord Jesus Christ to the
Jewish people of His time:
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to KILL ME, because
my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my
Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. They
answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
But now ye seek to KILL ME, a man that hath told you the TRUTH, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye
do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of
fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would LOVE ME:
for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but
he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word. Ye are of YOUR FATHER the DEVIL, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and
the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. (John 8:37-45)
Do not miss what is being said here
folks, because this is a plain and simple rebuke to the modern day false
dispensational teachers of our day.The Lord was in conversation with
the religious Jewish leaders, and He told them that He was aware that
they were of the lineage of Abraham. He then made it clear to them that
He (Jesus) was following His Father (God the Father), and that they
followed their own father. Jesus boldly told the Jewish religious
leaders who REJECTED Him, that the Devil was their Father! Folks those are the words of Jesus Christ, the creator of ALL
things (John 1:1-3) You will rarely hear a Preacher, Pastor or Ministry
leader ever quote those words from the eighth chapter of John, out of
pure fear of offending the Jewish people. Those words still stand true
today for both the Jewish people who reject Christ, and the rest of
mankind (Gentiles) who reject Him also. The Lord told the Jewish people
that if God were their Father, then they would have LOVED HIM, because God was the very one who SENT HIM! The
Lord knew that the Jewish people prided themselves in the fact that
they had Abraham as their Father, but they missed the whole thing when
they rejected him (Jesus Christ), the one who was LORD even over Abraham! The Jewish people then and now, still claim Abraham as their Father, but the majority of them still REJECT Jesus Christ as their LORD and MESSIAH! The
Lord dealt with that and He pulled no punches with them either. John
the Baptist did the exact same thing when he noticed the Jewish
religious leaders coming to be baptized by him.
Then went out to
him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he
saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said
unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the
wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire. (Matthew 3:5-10)
John the Baptist flat out told the
Jewish religious crowd that they were snakes (vipers). He told them that
they should not say within themselves that Abraham was their Father,
because God could turn stones into children of Abraham if he so desired.
The bottom line was that John was dealing with their religious pride of
being of being from the lineage of Abraham.
Lets take another look at John Hagee’s incredible statement:
“I believe that every Gentile person can only come to God through the cross of Christ. I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption.”
That statement by John Hagee is an
absolute smack in the face of Jesus Christ and a betrayal of the Gospel
itself. Jesus Christ was slain on the cross for our sins, and it is
only HIS BLOOD that will justify any human being on earth before Him. (Romans 5:6-10) Hagee has a DIFFERENT plan
of salvation for the Jewish people who live in light of the Torah.
Jesus made it clear in the passage above (John 5:39-40) that the Torah
testified about HIM, and yet they (the Jewish people) would not come to HIM for
salvation! The majority of Jewish people then, and now, do not believe
that Jesus is the Messiah, and they do not believe that Christ (Messiah)
has come in the flesh. I wrote in another post proving through the
scriptures that those who do not believe that Christ has come in the FLESH, is of an ANTICHRIST spirit. Here is the article : The Spirit Of Antichrist In The Modern Day Church
Once again I encourage any true Bible
believing Christian to study the scriptures for themselves, and you will
see how the Lord Jesus Christ made it clear to the Jewish people that
He was the only way of salvation. Hagee’s statement that a Jewish person
can live in “light of the Torah” and be in a right relationship with God is outright false.
The scriptures make it clear that there is not a person in the world
whom the Law does not convict of their own sin, and the only atonement
which God honors and recognizes is that BLOOD ATONEMENT provided by Jesus Christ!
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:19-20)
The Law of God shows both the Jew and the Gentile that they are GUILTY before God in no uncertain terms. That would include the Jewish man, Mr David Brog who is the Executive Director of CUFI (Christians United For Israel). That would also include Mr Benjamin Netanyahu a leader in Israel, who is digging in his heels as the controversy over land continues. Both David Brog and Benjamin Netantahu are slated to speak at the latest C.U.F.I. 2013 Summit in Washington, D.C.! Can you imagine the Jewish apostle Paul holding a Summit meeting uniting Christians with people who outright REJECT Jesus Christ as LORD and MESSIAH? Does David Brog believe that Jesus Christ is LORD and MESSIAH? Does Benjamin Netanyahu believe that Jesus Christ is LORD and MESSIAH? Once again I must tell you that this is nothing less than SPIRITUAL INSANITY! The modern day so called “prophecy experts” love to talk about the coming “Antichrist” and
yet they have been cavorting with people who have an antichrist spirit
for many decades now. It is totally ridiculous when you think about it!
Both David Brog and Benjamin Netanyahu fall into the category of having the “spirit of antichrist”
that the Jewish apostle John warned us about, and yet they will be
speaking to Christians! You can read this article to gain more clarity
on that issue! The Spirit Of Antichrist Within The Modern Day “Church”
But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by
the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by
faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there
is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (Romans 3:21-25)
The ONLY
righteousness that God honors is that righteousness which is found in
his Son Jesus Christ. Nothing else can be called righteousness outside
of faith in Jesus Christ. Here is another excerpt from the CRI (Christian Research Institute) Statement DH005 regarding John Hagee:
God has not
entirely rejected Israel, however ; He has preserved a remnant (Rom.
11:5). Paul (himself a Jew) is living proof of this (Rom. 11:1).
Elsewhere the apostle writes, “. . . by the works of the Law no flesh
will be justified in His [God’s] sight; for through the Law comes the
knowledge of sin. . . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God, being justified by His grace through the redemption which is in
Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:20, 23-24, emphasis added).
To drive the
point home, Paul goes on to say, “. . . the promise to Abraham or to his
descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the
promise nullified; . . . it is by faith, that it might be in accordance
with grace” (Rom. 4:13-14, 16). Scripture
draws no distinction between Jews and Gentiles on the issue of
salvation, which is attained by grace through faith alone in Christ,
“apart from works of the law” (3:28; cf. vv. 21-22).
Paul recognized that the Jews of his day had a misguided zeal that caused them to stumble on this very point (9:31-32; 10:2-4). Why would he suffer great anguish and wish he were accursed for Israel’s sake if none of them were truly lost? His anguish comes from the realization that many Israelites are not saved (Rom. 9:3, 6, 27; 10:1, 9-15; cf. Acts 2:14, 21, 37-39; Rom. 11:14, 17-23).
John Hagee has also stated recently in one of his books that the Jewish people did not reject Jesus as the Messiah. The CRI (Christian Research Institute) Statement DH005 dealt with that part of his theology also:
In Hagee’s theology, the Jews can hardly be faulted for not flocking to Christianity since it was supposedly Jesus who declined their request for Him to be their Messiah. “The [Jewish] people wanted Him to be their Messiah, but He absolutely refused,” writes Hagee. “The Jews were not rejecting Jesus as Messiah, it was Jesus who was refusing to be the Messiah to the Jews!”
Jesus’ explicit claim to be the Messiah (or Christ) during His trial before the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish tribunal (Matt. 26:64), flatly contradicts
Hagee’s assertion. In that same passage, Jesus called Himself the “Son
of Man,” an unmistakable reference to the Messiah , found in the Book of
Daniel (7:13) . Jesus also applied the same title to Himself in
revealing His identity to “a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a
member of the Jewish ruling council” (John 3:1, 14-15), as well as to
the crowd who questioned His authority to forgive sins (Mark 2:10).
Further, in response to Jesus’ question, “Who do you say I am?” (Matt. 16:15), Peter answered, “You are the Christ [Messiah]” (v. 16).
Surely, had the Jewish apostle been wrong, Jesus would have corrected
him at that moment; instead, Peter received the Lord’s blessing (v.
17).18 Although Jesus on occasion gave public indications of His
messiahship (cf. Luke 4:17-21; 20:41-44), He instructed Peter and
others not to reveal His messianic identity until due time (v. 20). He
did so to avoid the prevalent misconceptions about the title, which had
by then become largely understood in political terms19 — something
wholly inappropriate for Jesus’ mission at that time.
Hagee’s view is made especially ironic by the fact that Jesus Himself said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt. 15:24). Scripture clearly teaches that Jesus’ own people rejected Him, and not the other way around (John 1:11; Mark 12:1-12).
I write this post today simply because
it is the Spirit of God within me compelling me to warn the people. The
Gospel of Jesus Christ is not very hard to understand, and even a child
can comprehend it, if their minds are not corrupted by false man-made
teachings. What is it that is at stake here? It is the souls of men and
women all over the world that is at stake. Any person who tells you that
there are other ways to God (including living in light of the Torah) is
preaching a BOGUS message and a BOGUS Gospel.
We are dealing with eternal issues here, and that would include the
Bibles teachings on Heaven and Hell. I close with two quotes from the
Bible. The first from Jesus Christ Himself, and the second from the
apostle Peter:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified,
whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here
before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12)
