God Confused Mankind at Babel and Chose Israel Not the Modern Church

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the promised land, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise, for he was looking for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

-Hebrews 11:8-10

Most believers are familiar with this passage. I'd like to briefly look at this city in light of its counterpart, both from the account in Genesis and its realization in the Revelation. Because of the enormity of both Genesis and the Revelation, we will have to try to maintain a big picture view.

In Genesis, we see a city in chapter 11 (Babel), a promise of a tower that would reach the heavens (Hebrew: shâmayim, plural), and the promise that they would thus make a name for themselves to avoid being scattered by God. Men looked to the heavens above. They would have no concept to build something that would reach into the far above the heavens where God sits (Eph 1:20; 4:10). 

 

“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

-Genesis 11:4

The builders had in their memories the worldwide flood. The flood did not reach the firmament (Ps 19:1; etc.). They either did not know or they did not believe God's promise to Noah that he would never flood the earth again (Gen 9:11). 

Abraham (Abram) is introduced into scripture at the end of Genesis chapter 11 after God confused the language of the people of Babel and did indeed scatter the people. They forsook the tower, but they took their hubris with them in the scattering. Men, still locked into an Adamic nature at enmity with God, took their rage, superstitions, and lack of an understanding of the will and plan of God wherever they went. It was out of this chaos that Abraham was chosen.  

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel [Babylon] — because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. 

-Genesis 11:8-9


Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. 

-Genesis 11:31

Abram is chosen by God to be his conduit for blessings for the earth. We are solidly in the hope for the earth in this calling. The earthly plan was first disrupted by Adam's sin and Paradise was lost to men. In Cain we see murder and peace was lost to men. Eventually we see the incursion of the angels who took wives of human women and corrupted the human race. This all led to God choosing Noah (and Noah alone, not his sons, not us) to give his plan for the earth going forward.

We note dispensationally that just as God chose Noah God also chose Abraham. That is, for his purposes, God gave commands and promises to Abraham that he did not give to us. This may seem obvious, but if we can understand that truth in interpretation here, it will help us understand that we must handle all scripture this way. That is, just because we see a command or a promise in scripture does not mean we can take it for ourselves.

• I am not commanded to build an ark.
• I am not promised to become a great nation which will bless the earth.

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”

-Genesis 12:1-3

Abram's nephew, Lot, entered the land which God had shown Abram. He chose to live in the wicked city of Sodom. Abraham dwelt in Canaan and waited on the Lord.

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the valley and pitched his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord. After Lot had departed from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward. All the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever [for the ages]. I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be numbered. Arise, and walk throughout the land across its length and its width, for I will give it to you.”

-Genesis 13:12-17

God told Abraham to look with his eye as representative of all he could see, but he defines this promised land later as going from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River (Deut 11:24). This is very real promise of a very real land in the very real covenant on a very real earth. Men have tried to rob Abraham and his descendants of this future promise and claim some sort of "spiritual Israel" for themselves. This thievery and denial of God's promises is from the same Adamic nature that built the Tower of Babel and the city of Babylon. 

The Lord pointed Abraham to the full land he would one day give to him and to his descendants (this is a future, literal promise which will be fulfilled as part of God's plan and hope for the earth). Abraham knowing this promise had a future fulfillment, built no city there, rather he lived in a tent and he built an altar to the Lord ("So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there" Gen 13:18).

This points us back to our passage in Hebrews. Abraham dwelt in tents and looked for a city with foundations (Hebrew: themelios) whose builder and maker is God himself. This is quite a contrast from the city of Babylon which men built to make a name for themselves. God will build a heavenly city and he would make Abraham's name great. What God has declared, let no man deny, even if he has a seminary degree.

The earthly Jerusalem wherein God would have his people Israel build the temple was an imperfect picture of a future hope (just as the sacrifices in that temple were a pale picture of the future perfect sacrifice of Christ). Scripture shows us an earthly Jerusalem (the city of the earthly King David) and the promise of a New Jerusalem and the reign of the greater son of David, Christ Jesus our Lord.

This latter city will have no temple. This city is connected to the promise to Abraham. From Israel (Jacob) God created the 12 tribes of the priestly nation and from Israel God chose his Apostles to the Circumcision. 

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, her light like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were written: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb... I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city has no need of sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall never be shut by day, for there shall be no night there. They shall bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. No unclean thing shall ever enter it, nor shall anyone who commits abomination or falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

-Genesis 21:9-14; 22-27

This city comes down from heaven to the new earth. It is part of the God's plan for the earth. This, we see the plan for the earth being realized. Paradise is restored. Healing has come to undo the curse of sickness. The final enemy, death, is destroyed. 

We should not miss the Bride here. This is not some Gentile bride, this is "Virgin Israel" (Jeremiah 31:4,21) cleansed and restored as God had promised. This is the divorced nation united again with and through her Messiah.

The New Covenant of Jeremiah 31 is part of the realization of the plan for the earth. We recognize that the Revelation covers the millennial reign of Christ (the greater Son of David sitting on his throne) as well as the culmination of the full plan as seen in the new heavens and the new earth. These are part of the hope of Israel (Acts 28) and the hope for the land and the earth. This is separate from the hope of the Body of the current calling which is the hope of the far above the heavens (Ephesians).

"At that time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people" (Jeremiah 31:1). The Loammi ["not My People"] sentence of Hosea 1:9 will be forever repealed, for it is written: "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God" (Hosea 1:10).

“Thus saith the Lord: The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest" (Jeremiah 31:2).

 

The faithful remnant in the latter day are doubtless referred to. By Ezekiel a similar message is given:

"I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people" (or nations), "and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against Me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord" (Ezekiel 20:34-38).

-Excerpt from Ironside's Commentary on Jeremiah 31

The restoration of a literal Israel  and a literal Kingdom has been covered elsewhere. This is an enormous topic, so we will have to leave it here as understood because we believe God is true to his word. But if we do not recognize that the restoration of the Kingdom in Israel as revealed to the 12 Apostles of the Lamb (as taught by the risen Lord in Acts 1) and that the New Covenant itself in Jeremiah 31 are earthly promises to a real Israel, we will never see our true calling in the current age.

If you haven't read the New Covenant directly from Jeremiah 31, here is how the Lord introduced it:

Surely, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.

It will not be according to the covenant

that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
because they broke My covenant,
although I was a husband to them,
says the Lord.

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My law within them
and write it in their hearts;
and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people.

They shall teach no more every man his neighbor
and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
for they all shall know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says the Lord,
for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more.

-Jeremiah 31:31-34

We can no more find a Gentile "church" in there than we can find ourselves in the promises to Abarham in the Book of Genesis or the promises to David and his royal descendant. Apart from that, we surely can't find the conditions present in that covenant in our day. Do we have no need to tell our neighbor of the Lord because all already know him (for they all shall know Me)? And who is "all?" All is the "they" of the passage: Israel. This passage (let alone the whole covenant) work only in the context of a future promise and blessing in a restored and cleansed Israel. 

When we look into the Revelation we see there are two cities:  Mystery Babylon (the great Mother of harlots and abomination on the earth [land], Rev 17:5) as well as the New Jerusalem (which comes down out of heaven from My God... adorned as a bride for her husband, Rev 3:12; 21:2,9).

Then he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filth of her sexual immorality. On her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

When I saw her, I marveled greatly. Then the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast, which you saw, was, and is not, and is to ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to destruction. Those who dwell on the earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come. “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. Concerning the beast who was, and is not, he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to destruction.

-Revelation 17:3-11

We will not endeavor to parse the text and interpret each point here. Suffice to day this city is juxtaposed to the New Jerusalem and the restoration of  the earth. It is not a Bride, but a harlot. It is as Babel and Babylon. That is, it is in contrast with faithful Abraham and the cleansed nation of Israel. As Babylon took Israel into captivity and placed the prophet whose prophecy is connected to the events in the Revelation (Daniel) into the Lion's den, so Mystery Babylon will rise to persecute Israel again. 

But as God protected the three young Hebrews from the fiery furnace and Daniel himself from the lion's den, so will God protect and deliver Israel from Babylon. Both the judgment and restoration passages in the prophets are for Israel. We make a grave error when we attempt to pull these from their contexts, grab a single verse, and try to claim it as our own promise or future. Not only is it error on its own, it will cause the believer to miss the greater heavenly hope and plan God revealed to Paul for the current age.

The call on Israel will be to come out from Babylon once again. But even as God deals with his own, he warns the nations to not touch the apple of his eye.

Deliver yourself, O Zion, you who live with the daughter of Babylon. For thus says the Lord of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

-Zechariah 2:7-8

God's plan for Israel, the Lord's Bride, Revelation 12

The False Choice and Logical Fallacy of a Jew Hater

Will you bow down to the Jewish Zionists and deny Jesus is the Messiah OR will you become a fellow cast-off with Jesus, as this man born blind and healed by Jesus had to do, and be disowned by your own family and friends, and potentially lose everything? 

-Created4Health dot org

The full article in which this quote is pulled is linked above if you desire to read all of it. I pulled out this false conclusion of his to make several points about current antisemitism in the professing "church" and among professed believers (current and past). 

The writer apparently doesn't like Jews. Yes, that's an opinion, but it doesn't take long on his site to determine that's it's not an unfair assessment. But you may draw your won conclusions upon visiting.

First, we must recognize that in the current age, with Israel set aside and all being considered Gentiles for the sake of the revelation of the Mystery, that those promulgating the Jewish rejection of Christ are, in fact, the enemies of Christ. We also note that those pushing Jewish ordinances inside or outside Christendom are also enemies of Paul's revelation. 

But while acknowledging that, we also note very strongly that the plan of God for the earth (covering the vast majority of scripture including the gospel accounts, the Acts, and the epistles of the Acts age) is very much centered on the physical children of Abraham. We have covered that in many other places, so we will leave that there and only point to a couple of foundational verses (out of many) along this line.

Then Jesus said to the [Gentile] woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel... “It is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to dogs.””

-Matthew 15:24,26b

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race, who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service [priesthood] of God, and the promises, to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.

-Romans 9:3-5

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers [patriarchs; ancestors].

-Romans 15:8

The Lord was sent to redeem Israel and bring in her kingdom, on earth, centered in Jerusalem. That is what he taught the Apostles after his resurrection (Acts 1:3-6) as the 12 will sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28). We will be starting and building on that foundation.

In the question posed above at Created4Health, we are offered a false dichotomy

It's a false choice in two ways: 

1. he is essentially arguing that all Zionists (anybody who believes God promised a physical land to Abraham and a physical kingdom to David's offspring)  is quote "bow[ing] down to Jewish Zionists." This would include the chosen Apostles of Christ, by the way, including Peter.
2.  he argues that anyone who believes in the land and Kingdom promises (like the Apostles did) is one who denies Jesus is the Christ 

As we shall see, he (as well as Calvin) insult and demeans the very chosen Apostles to the Circumcision. Apostles chosen and commissioned by Christ himself. God did not abandon or condemn Israel in the Acts age and neither did the Apostles.

On the contrary, they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as the gospel to the circumcised was to Peter. For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles. When James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

-Galatians 2:7-9

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

-Romans 1:16

As to his stated argument, I'm not sure how believing God will eventually keep his promises regarding the land, the Kingdom, and the covenants (which are Israel's alone, Romans 9, etc.), the owners being his earthly people (and people are free to believe this interpretation or not), somehow means I am denying Christ is the Messiah? That's a rather harsh charge. It doesn't bother me as it is a false choice and I am fairly confident that God is a God who will keep his promises. 

His argument is self-serving to say the least. It falls into the "have you stopped beating your wife?" category of questions.

I've read the prophets and the New Covenant. I am convinced God will restore the Kingdom in a believing, cleansed Israel in a future age. That is, I believe the prophets are clear.

The writer of the article (and related site owner) must have as low opinion of the scripturally enlightened  (Luke 24:25) and chosen Apostles of the Lord, who were taught for 40 days by the risen Lord about the Kingdom in which they will sit in 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes (Mat 19:28). We noted these passages already. The only way to get around the literal nature of these verses and the natural conclusion of the chosen Apostles of Christ is to accuse these men of ignorance and as did Calvin.

Let's take a rather amazing look at what Calvin wrote about the Apostles:

He showeth that the apostles were gathered together when as this question [about the restoration of the kingdom in Israel] was moved, that we may know that it came not of the foolishness of one or two that it was moved, but it was moved by the common consent of them all; but marvelous is their [the Apostles'] rudeness, that when as they had been diligently instructed by the space of three whole years, they betray no less ignorance than if they had heard never a word. There are as many errors in this question as words. They ask him as concerning a kingdom; but they dream of an earthly kingdom, which should flow with riches, with dainties, with external peace, and with such like good things; and while they assign the present time to the restoring of the same. They desire to triumph before the battle; for before such time as they begin to work they will have their wages. They are also greatly deceived herein, in that they restrain Christ’s kingdom unto the carnal Israel, which was to be spread abroad, even unto the uttermost parts of the world. Furthermore, there is this fault in all their whole question, namely, that they desire to know those things which are not meet for them to know. No doubt they were not ignorant what the prophets did prophesy concerning the restoring of David’s kingdom, they had oftentimes heard their Master preach concerning this matter. Lastly, It was a saying common in every man’s mouth, that, in the most miserable captivity of the people, they should all be comforted, with the expectation of the kingdom that should be. Now, they hoped for the restoring hereof at the coming of the Messias, and hereupon was it that so soon as the apostles saw their Master Christ risen from the dead, they straightway began to think thereupon; but, in the meantime, they declared thereby how bad scholars they were under so good a Master.

-John Calvin (excerpt, Commentary on Acts 1:6), emphasis added

Such blasphemy against the chosen twelve. And if the opening argument from Created4Health is true, the Apostles were thus "denying Jesus is the Messiah." Peter, in Acts 3 will go on to offer "Ye men of Israel" the "restoration of all things" should they repent. No gentiles at Pentecost. No gentile having any gifts of the Spirit at this point (and that means believing gentiles). When a Gentile does receive the "same gifts" as the Jews, the Apostles are "astonished" and then go out and preach "to Jews only." Were they denying the Lord Jesus is the Christ?

And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. [Note: before they were baptized].

-Acts 10:45


And as I [Peter] began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them [Gentiles], as upon us [Jews] at the beginning. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ If therefore God gave them [Gentiles] the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” When they [Jews] heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” Now those [Jews] who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only.

-Acts 11:15-19

As Calvin holds the Sermon of the Mount being somehow given to a Gentile "Church," (I do not) and as one who believes in bodiless eternal fiery torment as he did (I do not) his condemnation of the Apostles even more amazing (horrifying). He calls them bad scholars, greatly deceived, rude, ignorant, and foolish. That is, he is ironically calling the chosen Apostle of Christ "fools." 

 And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.

-Matthew 5:22 

Calvin in his own words, says of verse in Matthew 5 warning against calling a brother "a fool":

He who shall say to his brother Christ assigns three degrees of condemnation besides the violence of the hands; which implies, that this precept of the law restrains not only the hands, but all affections that are opposed to brotherly love. “Those who shall only be angry with their brethren, or treat them with haughty disdain, or injure them by any reproach, are murderers.” Now, as it is certain that the word Racha occupies an intermediate place between anger and openly reproachful language, I have no doubt that it is an interjection of contempt or disdain. Though Christ adjudges to the hell of fire none but those who break out into open reproach, we must not suppose, that he declares anger to be free from a similar punishment; but, alluding to earthly judgments, he assures them that God will judge and punish even concealed anger.  But, as he who manifests his indignation by bitter language goes farther than this, Christ says, that that man will be held guilty by the whole heavenly council, that he may receive severer punishment.

-John Calvin (excerpt, Commentary on Matthew 5:22), emphasis added

The writer of the article quoted at the start must really not like Paul either. For that matter, he must really really hate the twelve who went to Jews only (Acts 11:19, I've done the math here, Acts 11 comes after Acts 2 and the falling of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost). As noted, I guess he believes he knows better (as Calvin seems to know) what the risen Lord taught the enlightened and chosen Apostles of Christ for 40 days about the restoration of the Kingdom in Israel (Acts 1:3-7) despite not having heard one word! Nothing the Lord taught them alone is recorded for us. How does Calvin or anyone today conclude that the Apostles were wrong in their conclusion? Christ certainly does not correct or chastise them, our Lord merely tells them that they are not to know the timing of the event.

[The Lord Jesus Christ] said to them [the Apostles], “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority."

-Acts 1:7 

As I read it, Calvin and many others not only accuse the Apostles of stupidity, they have to assume that they somehow know what the Lord's teachings about the Kingdom during those 40 days must be. Again, any are free to disagree with my interpretation, but I certainly wouldn't conclude that if you disagree, that means you are somehow denying Jesus is the Christ. But I would say that they are blaspheming the Apostles.

Accusing the Apostles of ignorance concerning teachings that are (a) only for the Apostles for which (b) we have no record and arguing that if we agree with their conclusion we are somehow denying Jesus is the Christ is a terribly self-serving Logical Fallacy and conclusion.

Ironically, the writer accuses the Pharisees of a logical fallacy when they attempted to ignore the Lord's arguments and presented him with a false dichotomy. From the article linked above:

they did what the servants of Satan always do when they cannot win a debate based on merit, and instead resorted to personal attacks against Jesus, and slandered his character. 

His false choice slanders anyone who believes God will someday "restore the Kingdom in Israel" including the Apostles of Christ! 

We do not currently live in the age wherein Israel is to have their kingdom restored (that was put on hold at the end of the Acts age), but if the author and accuser of the Apostles wants to embrace the Book of Romans as for himself and as for this current age, I would offer this bit of advice:

For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root [Israel] is holy, so are the branches [Jews] . 17 And if some of the branches [Jews] were broken off, and you [Gentiles], being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them  [Jews], and with them became a partaker of the root [Israel's promises] and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches [Jews] . But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root  [Israel] , but the root  [Israel]  supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches  [Jews], He may not spare you [Gentiles] either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.  23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you [Gentiles] were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree  [Israel] , how much more will these  [Jews], who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

-Romans 11:16-24

• do not boast against the branches [Jews].
• Do not be haughty [against the branches], but fear.
• Otherwise you also will be cut off.

Anyone is free to interpret that passage anyway he likes. But interpreting it as Gentiles grafted into Israel for the Holy Spirit, scripturally stated purpose "to make Israel jealous" (Romans 10:19, 11:11, 11:14) does not mean I have chosen to deny Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God! 

And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

-John 20:30-31

I didn't know hating Jews or denying the hope of their earthly kingdom was a requirement to make that choice. If it were, as Calvin charges, and as "Created4Health" (also "Health Impact News") accuses, the twelve were denying Christ, not true believers, and headed for the fires of [man's traditional] hell.

Such blasphemy!

If the author quoted at the start does somehow believe Israel has a future in the land (and maybe he does), does he believe the mechanism for Israel to be in the land to experience the tribulation and cleansing is stated clearly in scripture? If so, make the argument without concluding that anyone who disagrees with you is thus denying Jesus is the Christ. If he doesn't think Israel has a future, that would be odd. Looking at other article from his site he obviously holds to a future Antichrist.

As I would interpret it, he most likely is participating in Jewish ordinances (Lord's Supper, Baptism) which I believe are in opposition to Paul's revelation for this age. I think I have a biblical argument for that. I believe he is in disobedience to the calling of this age. But I wouldn't create a false choice of either agreeing with me OR you are siding with Satan and denying that The Lord Jesus is the Christ. I wouldn't even deign to judge him as that is the Lord's prerogative.

His false choice is self-serving and contemptable.