“The Grand Deception”
The Grand Deception concerning the vital importance of Israel, especially in the last days, is that many within wider Christendom in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant denominations today no longer see Israel as important; rather they see the physical church as having replaced Israel and that God has finished with the Jews as a people and as a nation.
No thanks to Constantine and the early Greek and Latin Church Fathers such as Augustine who started to interpret the Bible through the lenses of Greek thought and methods of interpretation in effect Hellenising the Word of God and removing it from its Jewish roots. They started to ‘spiritualise’ passages of scripture that related to the physical restoration of Israel at the end of this present age.
Hence, down through the history of Christendom, Anti-Semitism took off resulting in the persecution of the Jewish people within wider Christendom and the rejection of the Biblical truth that clearly reveals the spiritual and national restoration of Israel as a nation in God’s sight at the end of this present age, and also reveals the union between Jew and Gentile in Messiah Jesus grafted together into the Olive Tree being the Commonwealth of Israel and Biblically defined as the Israel of God!
