The Martyrdom of the Multitude
Bernard Pyron
John 16: 2 teaches that "They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth
you will think that he doeth God service,"
Aposunagogous here is from Strong's number 656, meaning,
"excommunicated, put out of the synagogue"
The protestant churches will kick Christians out of
their churches probably because these Christians no
longer conform to the theologies of the churches. The last
part of John 16:2 is significant, "...yea,
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that
he doeth God service."
The teaching that a large group of Christians will be martyred during the
Tribulation is not now taught in the churches or in the seminaries. This
is largely because dispensationalism rejects the idea that God would judge
the Christian Church - and amillennialism within Reformed camps discourages
detailed study of end time Bible prophecy.
Paul in I Corinthians 14: 29-32 says that "Let the prophets speak two or three, and
let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace,.
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and may be comforted. And the spirits
of the prophets are subject to the prophets."
The teaching about Christians being martyred in the end times is in Scripture. But bringing
that teaching out now when dispensationalism and other man-made theologies are the authority
for almost all Christians makes it something new and not traditional.
If one were to pick a church in his area to go to in order to submit this prophecy about martyrdom of the Multitude to the preacher, if the preacher is a dispensationalist he is going to judge it on the basis of dispensationalist theology, not upon Scripture alone. And some Reformed pastors are also dispensationalists - or if amillennial may also deny that this is a valid teaching from the Bible.
Deuteronomy 32: 36 might be presented to the preacher as a proof text about the martyrdom of Christians in the end times, "For the Lord shall judge his people his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and that there is none shut up, or left."
This is an important verse in the Old Testament supporting the idea that God severely judges his people. It ties being shut up, or put in prison, and killed with God's judgment, and is a text supporting in principle at least the martyrdom of the Multitude in the Tribulation. But if you go to a preacher who is under the influence of dispensationalism with this he will say "No, Deuteronomy 32: 36 is for Old Testament Israel, not for the Church. God does not judge the bride of Christ." So, who is right, the one who believes Deuteronomy 32: 36 can be applied to the end timee, or that dispensationalist preacher?
The dominant theology in the churches now is dispensationalism.
The classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I. Scofield,
Lewis S. Chafer and Charles C. Ryrie - said that God has two
distinct peoples. One is physical Israel, the
Old Testament Hebrews physically descended from Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and the other is
the Christian Church. The dispensationalist celebrity populizers
like Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye followed
these early theologians and brought dispensationalism to many
other Christians. Dispensationalism,
as well as prosperity doctrines, has been spread to foreign
nations by American evangelists.
Christian Zionism comes out of classical dispensationalism which
developed along with this man made theology. At this point in time
John Hagee is the chief promoter of
Christian Zionism with his organization Christians United For Israel
(CUFI).
On a web site which I cannot cite because of the Christian Forum
ban on links they say:
"While McCain might be able to laugh this off as a little quip about
the foibles of Washington, to followers of Hagee and Parsley,
"spiritual warfare" is a very real part of everyday life, in which
they, as godly people, do battle with Satanic forces. When talking
about CUFI, though, talking about battles is really no joking matter,
since Hagee has been beating the drum for war with Iran -- which
he believes will result in the
world-ending battle at Armageddon -- for over two years."
John Hagee has endorsed John McCain, though McCain backed off to some extent from that endorsement.. Parsley, mentioned above,
is Rod Parsley, Regional Director in the CUFI organization and mentor
of John McCain.
"As godly people" Hagee and CUFI "do battle with Satanic forces."
In the near future when the Multitude who are now followers of
dispensationalism in the churches - and to some extent also accept
Christian Zionism - start to denounce the
dispensationalist claim that physical and unsaved Israel is God's
chosen people, Hagee and company might
decide these people are also their enemies?
If the Multitude start to say that we, the Christians, are spiritual
Israel and are God's chosen people according to I Peter 2: 9, and
the Jews are not, Christian Zionism might be used as the
justification for charging them under the Noahide Laws.
If fully enacted in the U.S., United Nations and World
Criminal Court, the Noahide Laws would move the Jews
substantially toward rule over the Gentiles. The
Noahide Laws are to apply to Gentiles, not to Jews. A
non-Jew child of Noah is said to be a "Noahide," who
must obey the Jewish law.
The Talmudic and Kabbalist rabbis claim that Noah gave
his descendants seven laws that we are to obey. They
say that Moses re-affirmed the Noahide Laws in the
oral Torah he gave along with the written law on
Sinai.
The seven Noahide Laws are as follows, though there
are many more detailed laws within each of the seven
categories:
l. Prohibition against idolatry
2. Prohibition against blasphemy
3. Prohibition against murder
4. Prohibition against theft
5. Prohibition against illicit sex
6. Prohibition against eating of live meat
7. Prohibition against the failure to establish
courts of justice.
The Encyclopedia Americana says on p. 737 that the
Noahide Laws "Are a Jewish Talmudic designation..."
The Jewish Lubavitch movement has promoted the
Noahide Laws. It is a Kabbalist movement that has
entered the apostate Christian church, in part
desguised as the Hebrew Roots Movement, the main
source of ideas for the Sacred Name cult.
It is called the Chabad Lubavitch movement, and
chabad is a term from Jewish Kabbalism meaning
intelligence, knowledge and wisdom.
The Encyclopedia of Religion states that the Lubavitch
Hasidic movement follows the Lurian system of
Kabbalism. The Lurian system of the Kaballah comes
from Rabbi Isaac Luria from the fifteen hundreds.
Rabbi Luria wrote in his book, Etz Chaim, about the
"Olam Ha-Tohu," the realm of confusion of the
sub-human Gentiles and the realm of "Olam Ha-Tikkun,"
which is the Restoration, the Zionist rule of the
Jews.
The Jewish Talmud and the Kaballah are involved in the
Noahide Laws. While
rabbis may claim the Talmud interprets the Old
Testament, in fact it negates it in many ways.
Talmudic rabbis over the centuries have used the
Talmud in creating a religion which is different and
often opposed to the Old Testament. The Talmud
teaches that the meaning in the Old Testament is not
in the texts themselves.
Jesus Christ totally rejected the Jewish tradition,
which was an early form of Talmudism, and Christ said
in John 8:44 to the Pharisees that "Ye are of your
father the devil..."
On March 20, 1991 President George Herbert Walker Bush
(Daddy Bush), in cooperation with the Jewish Kabbalist
Lubavitch movement got Congress to pass "Education
Day," which is Public Law 102-14. The law honors the
Lubavitch movement for promoting the Noahide Laws.
it was one of the first steps toward making the
Noahide Laws a part of U.S., United Nations and World
Criminal Court law.
The Encyclopedia of Judaism says the Babylonian Talmud
teaches that violation of any one of the Noahide Laws
"...subjects the Noahide to capital punishment by
decapitation (Sanh 57a)." "The Noahide" is any
Gentile.
The Pharisees did not believe that Jesus Christ was
God. To them there was only one God, Yehweh, although
they did not follow him. In addition, the Talmudic
and Kaballist rabbis of today - and most Jews - do not
accept Christ as being God. Since Christ in several
New Testament texts said he was God the Son doing the
will of his Father God, the Pharisees therefore
accused him of blasphemy, of claiming to be God when
he was, they thought, only a man.
Because the high priests, and the Pharisees, charged
Christ with blasphemy, his punishment was to be death.
A true Christian knows that Jesus Christ is fully
God, and so we too would be guilty of blasphemy under
the Noahide Laws.
Does not Revelation 20: 4 predict that
Christians will be beheaded, just as the Bablonian
Talmud teaches, that violation of the Noahide Laws is
punishable by beheading? This verse talks about the
souls of those who are beheaded.
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
Christians of the
Multitude might be identified as "terrorists" and categorized with
Islamics as enemies of Zionism-Christian Zionism-dispensationalism
and the Neocons. The build up of prejudice for Islamics which has
been going on for several years by the government and controlled
media - and by Christian Zionists - could be extended to Christians
who have come out false theologies and are
critical of them. Dispensationalism is one of the false theologies, but there is also Christian Identity, Sacred Name Theology and some others.
To the Christian Zionists the members of the Multitude
who denounce the dispensationalist claim that unsaved Jews are God's
chosen people are enemies of Israel just like the Islamics. Those who
use this scenario in having the members of the Christian Multitude
killed
will think they are doing God a
service. This may be just one scenario that leads to martyrdom of the
Multitude throughout the world.