On the 20th of June Chuck Baldwin wrote a diatribe against Israel, using a statement made by Scott Ritter. Chuck Baldwin is a Baptist “Pastor” who doesn’t believe the bible, and claims that the modern nation of Israel has nothing to do with Biblical End Times Prophecy.
Scott Ritter bases his analysis on a humanistic worldview, and based on years of experience in the US military, and as an advisor to the UN. One thing you need to realize is that all the military advisors in the world can’t out-think the God of the Bible! They can’t out strategize Him either. Nevertheless, there are some things he said that are true. As a former employee of the UN you know that Scott Ritter is a globalist, so he is due for a huge surprise in the near future;
You can read the article here;
In the part of the article that is from Chuck Baldwin I note that he never quotes the bible! Not once! (OK he referenced one verse, but didn’t quote it, and certainly not in context) You would think that as a “Pastor” the bible would be his first resort! Typical of so many professing “Christians” his opinion is all that matters, but he can’t quote Scripture to back himself up!
Here’s a piece of Scripture he should have quoted:
21 “But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” Ezekiel 36:21-24
Hmm, I guess that doesn’t support his point, but it is Scripture! You should read the whole chapter; it continues! But, I guess Chuck Baldwin must know more than God!
Here is another one:
“Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” Jeremiah 31:10
Notice to whom this command is directed: “O ye nations”. The “nations” here is the Hebrew word “goyim” which means literally “nations”. This is a command to the nations about what God wants them to say. The Christian Zionists are saying this, but a lot of professing Christians refuse to say it! It is a sin to disobey a direct command of God! Mr. Baldwin and “New Covenant” Theologians are building their Theology on disobedience to a direct command of God!
Think about it, when you claim that God is done with Israel, contrary to many statements of Scripture, you are actually accusing God of lying!
Here’s another one, and notice that Chuck Baldwin’s Theology is specifically refuted in verse 24! That’s right, God called out Chuck Baldwin’s Replacement Theology some 2,600 years ago:
19 “And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.”
Chuck Baldwin, and Vladimir Putin have both stated that there is no promise that God will preserve Israel, but the truth is that there is no promise that God will preserve either Russia, or the USA, but God has promised many times to rule the world from Jerusalem, with Israel by His side!
So who is He talking about in verse 24 when He says “this people”? This people certainly includes Replacement Theologians, Chuck Baldwin, and Vladimir Putin, as well as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Mullah’s of Iran!
God’s promise is that as long as there is a day and night, there will be an Israel!
One of Baldwin’s first statements reads thusly;
“Over the past 76 years, Zionism has accomplished all of its intended goals. It has turned evangelical pastors and Christians away from Christ’s New Covenant to the point that most evangelicals know almost NOTHING of Christ’s New Covenant. It has turned political conservatives into rabid—almost maniacal—warmongers [be sure to watch my message THIS SUNDAY, June 23]. It has opened the floodgates of moral debauchery into America’s entertainment industries and our public school systems. It has opened a tidal wave of mass illegal criminal immigration into our country, allowing an unfettered alien army of tens of millions of military-age single men to enter, live, organize and proliferate into a very clear and present danger to our safety—and even to our very existence as a nation.”
So here he doesn’t quote any Zionist, either Jewish or Christian, to prove these are their goals! Of course these are not the goals of Zionists! It has never been the goal of Zionists to “open the floodgates of moral debauchery”! Christian Zionists love God’s commands, and teach them along with the Gospel! We don’t believe in forcing people to do what is right, it is up to the Holy Spirit to convict; not us!
Chuck Baldwin’s preaching is going to encourage an attack on Israel! By saying that Israel has no prophetic significance his preaching is encouraging another October 7, so really who is the warmonger?
When Christians try to force the law on people they end up becoming legalists, and promoting a works-based Salvation, which isn’t even Christian! Legalism is a cheap substitute for living in communion with the Holy Spirit!
It is true that there are a few Jews in the entertainment industry, and the entertainment industry certainly is promoting moral debauchery, but you can’t lay all the sins of a few on the majority! People who watch debauched entertainment are responsible for their own sins! It cannot be laid on the shoulders of others, regardless of their own moral state! By the way there are many Gentiles in the entertainment industry; why does he single out the Jews?
Something else that you need to know: God never violates Free Will! It is an attribute of God that He has free will, and He gave this to man in the Garden! What God wants is first to save us, and then He wants us to exercise Free Will in obeying Him! When we get our new glorified bodies we won’t have a sin-nature, and then obedience will come naturally! Today, we still have the sin-nature and obedience is something we need to work at; some are more successful than others, but all Christians are still sinners in this life!
Notice something that Paul said in 1 Corinthians 6:
9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
Notice his use of the words “effeminate” and “abusers of themselves with mankind”. These are two types of homosexuals. Notice that Paul is including these in the early Church. Nowhere does the bible encourage violence against any sinners, it just commands them to get saved, and then to repent!
Verse 11 shows us that all kinds of sinners can be saved and included in the Church of Jesus Christ! No one was born Gay, and many, many practitioners of this sin have been saved and come out of this lifestyle! The same goes for all the other sins that Paul lists, and in fact all the sins that the whole Bible lists from cover to cover!
We were all born into sin, or “born this way” (pick your sin) but praise the Lord, He saves sinners!
One last quote:
“The modern state of Zionist Israel is a devilish counterfeit—a FAKE. And again, from a New Covenant perspective, Zionist Israel is the bane of global peace, American prosperity, Christian discernment and Biblical understanding. “
It is amazing that a professing Christian can repeat the lies of Satan with a straight face! For the first 300 years of Christianity all Christians believed that God has an End Times Plan for national Israel. It was only when Augustine invented Amillennialism, in the 300s AD and forced it on the Church that people started to believe that God was done with Israel!
Funny thing though, there is no place in Scripture where we are warned about a “fake End Times nation of Israel”! None! We are warned, however, that the whole world will come against Israel and God will come to her aid! As the armies of the world converge on Israel, Chuck Baldwin and Scott Ritter will be on the sidelines cheering them on!
Baldwin says that “Israel is the bane of global peace” and yet Israel has never attacked another country without provocation! The Arabs have attacked Israel in many unprovoked attacks since 1948 including October 7! What did Israel do to provoke this attack? They gave many Gazans jobs and money! They trusted them to work in their own homes!
In Jesus’ Olivet Discourse, in Luke 21: 24 He spoke of the “times of the Gentiles” as having a definite end!
(speaking of Israel) “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
So, don’t think the age of the Gentiles will go on forever, it will end when Israel gets sovereignty over the Temple mount! That time is coming real soon!
Israel will receive power over the Temple Mount before the Tribulation begins, probably shortly after the Gog and Magog war, around the time of the Rapture of the Church. This will signify that the Times of the Gentiles are over, but then 3 1/2 years later, at the Abomination of Desolation they will lose it again for a short while;
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. Revelation 11:1-2
This 42 month period is the same 42 month period given to the Antichrist in Revelation 13:5. This is the second half of the Tribulation period, and also the time of the Mark of the Beast. It is also the time when Jesus will be on the earth! For most of that time He will be teaching Israel, and fighting for them when they are threatened by the Antichrist and his armies. He will not be fighting for the millions of Gentiles who get saved during the Tribulation, except for those He has chosen to survive and repopulate the earth.
Why? Because most people born during the age of Grace are too familiar with sin! People who are saved during the Church-Age are used to sin, and would have a difficult time transitioning to an age when open sin is no longer tolerated! Thus, for us to go from this age to the Kingdom age we need to lose our sin-nature first! He solves this problem with the Rapture first, before the Tribulation, but those who miss the Rapture must die before entering the Millennial Kingdom! Oh, they will enter the Millennial Kingdom, and reign with Christ for the full 1,000 years, but they will be in glorified bodies and not in these corruptible bodies of flesh!
So what’s my point? Only this, that God still has a plan for national Israel! The Russians and Arabs who hate Israel are working against God! They will only be allowed to go so far and then they will hit a brick wall! An impenetrable fortress!
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” Zechariah 12:3
One other thing; I could have quoted from a number of New Testament passages to show that God is not finished with Israel. Here is one that specifically talks about a future restoration of national Israel:
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:6-8
So when Jesus was about to ascend to Heaven his Apostles asked Him if He was “now going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Notice that He didn’t say “What Israel? I’m done with Israel!” NO! He actually affirmed that they were correct that there would come a time when He would restore Israel! It just wasn’t their concern at that time, because He had another job for them to do; they were to build the Church, starting in Judea and Samaria, and going to the ends of the earth from there!
Now, almost 2,000 years later, we are finally approaching the end of the Church-Age! Now is the time that He is restoring Israel, and soon He will rule the world from Jerusalem, with the help of the Hebrew nation!
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