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Victory of the Redeemed – Zechariah 3

Posted by William Bell on February 3rd, 2010

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The Victory of the Redeemed, Zechariah 3. At the time of the writing of Zechariah, God’s people were in trouble. Satan stood at the right hand of Joshua the high priest to oppose him. He sought to condemn the people of God. However, Joshua stood before (in the presence of) the Angel of the Lord.

The reason Satan sought to condemn Joshua (representative of the righteousness remnant of Israel) derived from verse 3 of Zechariah 3. Joshua, clothed with filthy garments declared their sinful condition. In offering the “blood of bulls and goats” he could effect no lasting cleansing and thereby righteousness through them, (Heb. 10:1-4). Mere shadows of the coming redemption in Christ, they failed to atone.

Objection Overruled!

Satan knew this and sought to cash in early on his winnings. However, the Angel of the Lord intervenes. Rather than attack Satan, he replies. “The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire? Meaning, the remnant being spared destruction in (more…)

Posted in Preterism, Realized Eschatology, Zechariah

Tags: AllThingsFulfilled.Com, Chosen people, Christianity, God, Israel, Jerusalem, Joshua the High Priest, Michael, Priest, Technorati, William Bell Jr

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That I May Plant the Heavens – Genesis 1 or the Kingdom?

Posted by William Bell on February 1st, 2010

Foundation of the Earth

That I May Plant the Heavens, Genesis 1 or the Kingdom?, is part of a text from Isaiah 51:16. The controversy around this text offers three possible solutions for its interpretation. Some believe that it refers historically to Genesis 1:1, but not to a physical creation, rather to the covenantal creation of Israel. Others offer Sinai at the giving of the Law. Yet another group believe it refers to the kingdom age.

And I have put my words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’” (Isaiah 51:16).

Adam Clarke is verse sparse in his comments on the text. He offers justification for what we wrote above saying the text is very obscure. That doesn’t help much! Young, a bit more (more…)

Posted in End of the World 2012

Tags: Adam Clarke, AllThingsFulfiled.Com, Book of Genesis, Christianity, God, Isaiah, Israel, Religion and Spirituality, Technorati, William Bell Jr, Zion

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The Acceptable Year of the Lord

Posted by William Bell on December 19th, 2009

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Jubilee - Acceptable Year of the Lord 70 AD

The Acceptable Year of the Lord. A major failure of end times prophecy teaching is the inability to make the transition from national geo-centric Israel to spiritual Christo-centric Israel. It is the chief source from a biblical view for the support of Dispensational Zionism. Ultra-literalism describes their method of interpretation. Stephen Sizer points out that often when quoting texts, Dispensationalists supply their interpretation right in the text. (Zion’s Christian Soldier’s, p. 34)

For example, when Hal Lindsey writes of the holy place in Matthew 24:15, he adds the words [the rebuilt temple]. Yet, no where in verse 15 is there any indication of a rebuilt temple. In that verse, the subject is the destruction of Herod’s then existing temple of which Christ had just spoken particularly in (Matt. 23:37-38. 24:2). In other words, when using the gloves of scripture, “if it doesn’t fit, you must force it.”

The time for the fulfillment of the prophecy is the day of the Lord, i.e. in “that day.” When the day arrived God would sound the trumpet. Now, we ask, is this trumpet to be taken literally? If so, when did it sound? How did the nations as far away as Assyria (more…)

Posted in Dispensationalism, Premillennialism

Tags: AllThingsFulfilled.Com, Bible, Dispensationalism, End time, Holy Spirit, Israel, Technorati, William Bell Jr

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Is America Complicit in Shedding Innocent Blood?

Posted by William Bell on December 18th, 2009

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Is America complicit in Shedding Innocent Blood? One of the charges God made against the ancient nation of Israel was that their hands were defiled with blood and their fingers with iniquity. For this reason, God would not hear them because their iniquities had separated them from Him, so they he refused to hear.

Isaiah went on to say that the acts of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they have not known and there is no justice in their ways. They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.” (Isa. 59:6-8).

This text could have been published on any of the major news networks such as CNN, ABC, CBS, or the BBC or Al Jazeera. It would be a pretty accurate description of modern day Zionism and the Apartheid, Colonialist, illegal occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land and the brutal ethnic cleansing of its people. Like Judas who betrayed the Christ, other nations and U.S. Corporations are complicit in accepting the blood money (more…)

Posted in Eschatology

Tags: AllThingsFulfilled.Com, Blue Baby Syndrome, Israel, Middle East, Technorati, War crime, William Bell Jr, Zionism

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“Land Therapy” For Christian Zionists?

Posted by William Bell on December 10th, 2009

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“Land Therapy” for Christian Zionists? What does this mean? It’s a kind of therapy that we recommend for those who do not believe God kept His word to give Israel the land promised to them in the Abrahamic Covenant. God made a promise to Abraham that he would give to his descendants the land of Canaan for a possession. He describes the land as follows:

“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates– “the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, “the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, “the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”(Gen. 15:18-21)

The time in which God promised the fulfillment of the promise names the fourth generation of Israel’s descendants. That brings us to the time of Moses and Joshua. “But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” (Gen. 15:17).

God in his long-suffering and forbearance refused to remove the nations from the land undoubtedly hoping they would repent. However, their continued transgressions filled their “cup of iniquity.” By the time of the Exodus when the promise drew near, he (more…)

Posted in Dispensationalism, Eschatology

Tags: AllTingsFulfilled.Com, Bible, Canaan, Canaanite, God, Israel, Israelites, Lord, Perizzites, Technorati, William Bell Jr

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How Do We Define Zionism?

Posted by William Bell on November 12th, 2009

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Christ-Centered Zionists

How do we define Zionism? It depends on our eschatology (study of the end times). For this post, we suggest three views of Zionism leaving the reader to choose which you find to be more in harmony with the Bible. Initially, Zion identified with the City of David, presumed to be the once Canaanitish city as it existed at the time of its capture by David in 1003 B.C.

After Solomon had expanded Jerusalem northward to include Mt. Moriah, the latter king, at his dedication of the Temple on this new site in 958 B.C., is said to have brought up the Ark of the covenant “out of the City of David, which is Zion” (1 Kings 8:1; 2 Chron 5:2). Only in post-Biblical times die the name Zion become erroneously transferred to the south western hill of Jerusalem.

Zion later came to signify the city of God, the city of the great King (Pss. 46:4; 48:2): a holy hill (Ps. 2:6; Joel 2:1; Zech 8:3 (the chosen place of God’s (more…)

Posted in Eschatology

Tags: Christian Zionism, Israel, Jerusalem, Jew, Palestine, Palestinian people, Torah, Zionism

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Does Dispensationalism Mock Human Rights?

Posted by William Bell on November 9th, 2009

What Is Zionism?

Does Dispensationalism mock human rights? Does it blindly support aggression against Palestinian Christians, Arab Muslims and Jews? Tim Weber writes that Dispensationalism emerged in the 1870’s having originated about four decades earlier (1830’s) in England in the teachings of John Nelson Darby. (Road to Armageddon, p. 13). Weber notes that the center of Dispensationalism is the belief that Jews would have to reestablish their own state in the Holy Land, (Palestine) before any endtimes events could occur.

This theological argument fit nicely with the Zionists Jews’ belief that because of persecution, they deserved special treatment and could therefore be safe only in their own land. Further, it likewise is consistent with America’s general commitment to national self determination.

Early evangelicals began to dabble in date setting. William Miller, a Baptist preacher from Vermont began teaching historicist premillennialism. He calculated Christ would return October 22, 1844. Instead of witnessing a great appearing of the Lord, they (more…)

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Tags: AllThingsFulfilled.Com, British Government, England, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East, Technorati

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Two Witnesses Prophesy – Do Hagee’s 10 Road Signs Countdown to Armageddon?

Posted by William Bell on August 25th, 2009

The Two Witnesses

So far, we have completed a survey of the first five of the alleged “signs of the times” to the terminal generation. Each of them were shown to be without Biblical basis. America and the world is being sold a bag of plug nickel’s for Bible prophecy. It is so serious that those who do advocate blowing entire countries off the map with nuclear weapons, all “in the name of the Lord!”

In today’s lesson, “Two Witnesses Prophesy – Do Hagee’s 10 Road Signs Countdown to Armageddon?, we examine number 6 of the alleged 10 Road Signs to End Times, and further answer the question, Are We the Terminal Generation?” In other words are we living in the last days of a generation about to see Christ return to this earth and set up camp in Jerusalem of Palestine? As bluntly as we can be, no.

Now those strongly disagree have probably already stopped reading, so if you’re still here, it means that you at least (more…)

Posted in Day of the Lord

Tags: AllThingsFulfilled.Com, Bible, Christianity, End time, Great Tribulation, Israel, Jesus, John Hagee, Lord, Prophecy, Religion and Spirituality, Technorati, The Two Witnesses, William Bell Jr

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End Times Road Signs: When Were the Times of the Gentiles Fulfilled?

Posted by William Bell on August 21st, 2009

Times of the Gentiles

It is stated by some that Jerusalem will not be under Gentile rule in the terminal generation, a situation which had existed from A.D. 70 allegedly until the Six Day War of 1967. This is an argument assumed to be based on the text found in Luke 21:24.

The verse says “And they shall all fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations.And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Today we respond to the fifth of Hagee’s 10 signs that we are headed for Armageddon with “End Times Road Signs: When Were the Times of the Gentiles Fulfilled?”

John Hagee’s Book Beginning of the End, Are We the Terminal Generation, (BOE) says that Gentile rule continued until the Six Day War of 1967. Following this statement, he adds that David predicted the Lord would rebuild Zion and appear in his glory there, (Psalms 102:6). His objective is to show that after Gentile rule has ended and Israel sets up their own sovereign state having banished the indigenous population and government of Palestine, that Christ will then return to Zion.

We addressed the issue of when Christ returns relative to the inheritance above. Here, we examine the text of Luke 21:24 and the (more…)

Posted in Featured Articles, Kingdom, Matthew 24, Premillennialism

Tags: Christianity, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, John Hagee, Judea, Kingdom of God, Luke 21:24, Religion and Spirituality, Six Day War, Times of the Gentiles

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10 Road Signs to Armageddon – Israel Returns to the Land Before or After the Messiah Comes?

Posted by William Bell on August 20th, 2009

The Land of Abraham's Sojourn

This is our fourth installment John Hagee’s 10 Road Signs to Armageddon where he says the Jews will return home. According to Hagee, since the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and their dispersion, they were without a homeland until 1948. See “Beginning of the End,” p. 93. He then cites Jeremiah 23:7-8, to prove that the Zionist’s seizure of land from the Palestinian Arabs fulfills Bible prophecy and prepares the way for the coming of the Messiah? Here is our study for today: 10 Road Signs to Armageddon – Israel Returns to the Land Before or After the Messiah Comes?

Does Hagee have the cart before the horse? Does he have the tail wagging the dog? In other words, does the Bible promise the inheritance of the land before the Messiah comes, or after that event? Hagee writes that Zionists have a biblical imperative to redeem the land. “Many religious Israelis are motivated by a biblical imperative to redeem the land of Israel for the Jews and (more…)

Posted in Day of the Lord, Dispensationalism, Eschatology