Defending Jerusalem: (Part 1) A Full Examination of Gal 3:16 - Did the Church Replace Natural Israel?

The time is now for us to unravel one of the most misunderstood verses in the word of God. Galatians 3:16. For nearly 2,000 years, the Christian church has taught one of the most damaging lies in all of religious history. from that verse. The lie is so persuasive. The time has come in 2025 for someone to say, "Stop the insanity. " The lie is this, that God replaced Israel with the church. It's called replacement theology. Now, we're going to look at that verse. Paul was was not announcing replacement, but rather restoration. Now, to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not and to seeds plural as of many seeds, but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ. There you go, pastor. Everything God told Abraham is wiped away. None of it. It's over. It's done. And now it's all just Jesus and the Christian church that he founded. And they get it all from that verse. And if all you do is take that one verse out of its setting, then you can definitely make it say that. But there's a little problem we run into called context. And that's always the fly in the ointment. Let me read to you verse 14. And let me show you how they read it. When I say they, the Christian church, the ones that replaced natural Israel, Galatians 3:14, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles. See, the promise God made Abraham was now going to be transferred from the natural seed line to the Gentiles. And how was that going to happen? Through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. So the spirit had promised Abraham a covenant. We'll talk about that in a moment. The promise of the spirit is not the promise of receiving the Holy Spirit. The promise of the spirit is the Abrahamic covenant given to Abraham by the spirit of God. According to verse 14, all those blessings and covenants given to Abraham by the spirit are now transferred from [snorts] his seed line to the Gentiles that are Christians and that have faith. Now from that verse here is the 10 lies that have been taught to you from that verse. Number one, God made promises to Israel through Abraham. Israel rejected Jesus the Messiah. Therefore, God rejected Israel. And then God created a brand new thing called the church. the Christian church. And that church is made up of strangers and Gentiles. Everyone that's not Jewish. These Gentiles now receive Abraham's covenant blessings instead of the people they were originally given to. Israel's covenant promises have been transferred from any natural seed line to the spiritual church of Christ. All those land promises, they've been transferred to the church. They're spiritual now. The Jews, well, they're just like any other unsaved people. No special status anymore. The church is the new Israel or spiritual Israel. So basically from that verse, here's what they get. Forget the natural Jewish people. Forget the natural children of Abraham. Just forget them. Here's a poof, a brand new thing called the church made up of everybody except Jews unless they come to Christ. Now, on top of that verse, they will add the following verses. Galatians 3:28, there's no more Jew nor Greek. We're all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 6:16, peace be on the Israel of God, claiming that means them. Romans 2:28-29. He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly. 1 Peter 2 and9. You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation. They're saying that applies to Christians. That status was taken away from natural Israel. And then they'll tell you, see, the church has replaced Israel. It's all spiritual now. Physical descendants do not matter. We are the new chosen people. For 2,000 years, this has produced anti-semitism in the Christian church. We love to say we've been grafted into the olive tree. We love to say that. But the problem is you cannot be grafted into what you've replaced for 2,000 years. These misunderstood Pauline verses cause the complete disconnect between the church and natural Israel. The spiritualization of all these land promises caused the crusades, the Inquisition, the pilgrims. It even caused the Holocaust. But more importantly, it's causing the next Holocaust. right here in America where I live. I never dreamed I would have to spend one minute defending the Jewish people because we have been such allies and friends for all these years. But suddenly, overnight, this wellspring of anti-Israel has sprung back up. And do you know what every one of these people are doing? They're quoting these scriptures that I just quoted you. But I'm here tonight to destroy their interpretation of these scriptures. I'm going to make you think tonight. I want you to literally open your Bible and see with your own eyes the truth because I don't have truth. They don't have truth. Only the word balanced from Genesis to Revelation has truth. If you're hungry for truth, you're going to get it tonight. Now, what I'd like to do is go back and let's read again Galatians 3:16 and let's start from scratch. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. But notice verse 17. And this is where nothing makes sense if what they're telling you is correct. If God's about to do away with the covenant he made to the natural descendants of Abraham and replacing those natural descendants with Christians, Gentiles, then this next verse that we're going to read would make zero sense at all. Let's read it. And this I that the covenant. Now what covenant is he referring to? The Abrahamic covenant. The covenant made right after the Noah the Noahide covenant. This is the Abrahamic covenant given to Abraham and Isaac. He said that this covenant was confirmed before of God and Christ. Now we have two separate things in this verse. We have the Abrahamic covenant and then he's going to refer to the Torah which was not part of the original Abrahamic covenant. The Mosaic covenant that we love to say has been done away with, that's a total separate covenant. The Mosaic covenant is conditional. But the one before that covenant, 430 years before that was the Abrahamic covenant with no conditions whatsoever. In the Mosaic covenant, you have to be good to get the blessings. In the Abrahamic covenant, you don't have to do anything. It is unconditional and it was for ever. That covenant was not made just to Abraham, but the Bible said it was to his seed, Isaac, and all of the generations of the Isaiah seed. Now, if that's true, then Paul, if he believes that that covenant for the natural descendants is done away with, why would he say this? The law which was 430 years after after what? After the Abrahamic covenant is the Mosaic law. Cannot cannot underline that word cannot. The Mosaic law, no matter what is in it, no matter what punishments, no matter what judgments is written in that law concerning the natural descendants of Abraham, no matter what Torah says, it cannot invalidate or undo that covenant unconditionally made to Abraham and his children through Isaac no matter what. So if Paul is about to teach us that God's doing away with that natural covenant then would Paul not be destroying his own argument? Of course he would. Because why? That is not what Paul is saying here at all. Paul was intelligent. Paul was a master student of the scriptures. He understood that no covenant made after Abraham could ever disanol a covenant made to Abraham. So why would Paul emphasize the law cannot anull the Abrahamic promise if he's about to announce that God is replacing these natural children with something called the church when Paul said that cannot happen. Paul literally said that's impossible. If God is just throwing out these natural children of Abraham, these promises, and he's going to start over, wash his hands, start over with this new church made up of pagans, people from Italy, people from Rome and all over the world. He's doing away completely with that original covenant. Tear it up. And now we have this new covenant, which by the way, we're not even in the new covenant now. You need to read my book on that subject. So Paul simply said that's not possible. Paul would be contradicting himself if he was teaching that the church is replacing the natural descendants of Abraham. He would be contradicted when he just said, "That's impossible." Paul spends Galatians 3:15-17 establishing the fact that that's not possible. The promise to the natural children of Abraham called Israel and Judah came first. That promise came first. promise of greatness, promises of land, promises to bless the whole world, which has not happened yet. He promised all of that to a natural seedline. Now, after that promise, 430 years later, here comes another covenant or promise or Torah that says, "You only get those things if you obey me." But see that later covenant cannot disanol that first one. Therefore, the Abrahamic covenant supersedes all other. It was first. Paul spends all that time proving that, right? And then turns around and says, "You know what? Just forget what I just said. Israel's out. Here's a brand new group of people. Come on, you bunch of heathens. Come on. You say you believe in Christ. Okay, come on everybody. Come on. You're getting all those blessings now instead of the ones they were given to. That's not an argument. That is a contradiction. The real question that Paul is answering in Galatians chapter 3 is nothing like you thought it was. Allow me to show you what Paul was actually saying. Not what the Christian church accuses him of saying. First of all, Paul was writing to the Galatian church. The Galatian church knew all about Abraham. The Galatian church was being bothered by Judaizers. The Judaizers told them, "You must be circumcised according to the law of Moses. You must keep Torah. You must become Jews. You must become Jews to be part of the covenant. Paul was telling them all they had to do is accept Christ in their heart, be baptized in water in the name of Yesua, which is their mikvah, and live according to the word of God. The Judaizers didn't believe that. The Judaizers wanted them to be physically circumcised and to become Jews. All right? But here's what nobody is teaching. The Judaizers were not just saying this to random pagans. They were saying this to people that had already responded to the gospel in massive numbers. Now, sadly, Paul refers to these people as Gentiles. But why would Torah observant Jews carefully care what pagans did? If these Gentiles, so-called Gentiles, were just random Assyrians, Egyptians, Romans with no connection to Israel. Why would the Pharisees care if they got circumcised? Pagans had been converting to Judaism for centuries. They knew the process of conversion. Nobody was confused about that. But suddenly when the gospel goes out, there's this huge controversy about whether these Gentiles need to be circumcised or not. Why? Because these people were not Gentiles. This is the point of the lesson where your church and your Sunday school dropped the ball. For 30 something years, I never knew the difference in a Jew and an Israelite. One day about 15 years ago, I saw that a Jew and an Israelite were totally different things. I learned about the lost tribes of Israel. It changed the whole Bible for me. Suddenly, I understood what so many of you watching me cannot comprehend because you don't know that missing key. I don't even have time to tell the story. Go watch my video called The Scattered Seed. It will change your life forever. The entire Bible, you will read it completely different. Especially when you get to verses like this because the Christian church thinks that the word Gentiles means everyone that's not a Jew. That's where all the confusion comes in. In fact, Israel became known as Gentiles. Did you know that after King Solomon died, there were 12 tribes of Israel. One tribe, Judah, the Jewish people, stayed in Jerusalem, faithful to Solomon's son. All the other tribes, hundreds of thousands of them, went to Samaria and they left Jerusalem. They eventually quit keeping the Sabbath. They quit keeping the feast days. They lost their identity. They were brought hostage into Assyria. years later they were released throughout the world by the millions and they were lost to history. Now we know they were not lost. Yahweh knows every one of them by name, the hair on their head, but they were lost to history. The whole world thought they were dead. But not the Jews. The Jews knew they were out there. They just didn't know where. They knew they were scattered among the nations. Interestingly enough, let's look at something. When Paul mentions the word gentile in this verse, notice the meaning of the word gentile. It's the Greek word ethnos and it means nation. Nations, people. But notice what else it means at the very bottom. a tribe, a multitude of individuals in a tribe. So sadly, the word ethnos was always translated as gentiles, not just nations or tribes, but gentiles. So as a Christian, when you hear that word gentile, immediately everybody except the natural seed of Abraham is Gentiles. And nothing could be further from the truth. And that is where everybody messes up because when they see that word gentile, they think that's referring to all the non natural descendants of Abraham. But not so fast. Those lost children of Abraham, those lost sons of Isaac, they were out there. And guess where they were? among the Gentiles living for hundreds and hundreds 1700 years living among the nations and they lost their identity and became known as Gentiles. When you get that, suddenly you can begin to make sense of this verse of scripture. the northern kingdom, those 10 tribes, notice what the Bible says about them. They were divorced from God. The Bible says they were a far off. They were dead. They were the valley of dry bones. They were very dead. They were forgotten. The whole world thought they were dead. Scattered among the ethnos, the Greek word for nations. Jeremiah 3:8 tells us that I put her away. Talking about those people, the natural children of Isaac, Abraham, they were put away, forgotten. Hosea 1:9, then God said, "You are no longer my people, and I will not be your God." He put them away. Hosea 8 and8 Israel is swallowed up by who? The nations. Now they are among that's in your Bible. Hosea 88. Israel is dissolved. They're now among the Gentiles. That's what the Bible says. Like a vessel in which there is no pleasure. So by the time Paul is writing these scriptures, you have two groups of people. At Jerusalem, you have Judah. That one older brother in the parable of the prodigal son. The older brother was Judah that stayed right there in Jerusalem, faithful. Then you have the boy that went lived among the what? The pigs or the what? Gentiles which were known as pigs and dogs. He went lived among them and became a pig himself until he woke up came to himself. These people had been living among the ethnos or the nations for 700 years. At that time they had intermarried with the nations. They had lost their Hebrew language. They had forgotten their tribal identities. They had adopted pagan customs and they were culturally indistinguishable from Gentiles. But don't ever forget this, their DNA, their biology was very much the seed of Isaac. Now I'm going to show you what everyone has missed that ties it all together. verse 14. Let's start over and now let's read what verse 14 actually says so you can see it with your own eyes. The blessings of Abraham and might come on the nations. The ethnos are the people that were living among the nations and not in Jerusalem. A matter of fact, in Deuteronomy 28:64, Yahweh said, "I'll scatter you among the nations." James 1:1. He wrote his epistle, James 1:1. Go read it. To the 12 tribes which were scattered among the nations. First Peter wrote his epistle to people scattered among the nations. He was not writing to the nations at large, but rather this group of people that their DNA, their very seedline was covenant seedline. Peter and James were writing to the dispersion, the scattered tribes living among the nations. Paul says, "The blessings of Abraham were always meant to come upon the scattered seed of Isaac living among the nations." And how was that going to happen? Because of Jesus Christ, Yeshua. Remember Yeshua said he came to seek and to save that which was lost. The only thing that was lost was the natural sons of Isaac. Judah was not lost. Only the lost tribes were. That's why he said he only came for the lost sheep of Israel. That's all he came for because they were scattered among the nations calling themselves Gentiles living like Gentiles. But because of Jesus Christ, Yesua who came to pay the sin debt for those lost sheep. Why did they have a sin debt? Because they're the only people that lived in the nations of the world that were ever part of a covenant. and they sinned against the covenant or the law of God. They alone had a sin debt of they of a divorce. They were divorced. They had a debt. Yesua came to pay their debt so that they could be reconciled to the covenant. That's why he told him to be baptized because the only way you come back into the covenant in the land of Judea is through mikvah or water baptism. So that we meaning Judah and the scattered tribes might receive the promise. What promise? The promise that God gave Abraham for all of us that are in that seed line. Now here was the problem. This is very important. Paul is arguing with these Jewish people. These Jewish people did not understand. They thought because of the Mosaic law which came 430 years after the first law. And this is the revelation. This is where you need to start zooming in on what I'm saying. They were trying to convince Paul that because the Mosaic law condemned these lost tribes and put them outside of the covenant. The Jews were telling Paul that those scattered tribes could not come back into the covenant because of the Mosaic law. They were divorced. How can they come back? The Mosaic law forbids them to come back. They were declared not my people. They violated Torah. They intermarried with pagans. They have no proof of their tribal lineage. They've lost their identity. And the law demands that if they do come back, they have to be circumcised, keep Sabbath, and pure. They are disqualified from the seed of Abraham. In other words, the Jews knew that physically they were the children of Abraham, but the tribe of Judah had exclusively taken claim to that title, the seed of Abraham. Why? They were never divorced. They were never put away. They alone bragged that Abraham was their father. They were the seed of Abraham. That was their claim to fame. And that's when Paul says, "Wait a minute. Hold on, fellas. Let's read what Paul says in verse number 16." He says, "Hold on. Wait a minute. The promise was not just made to Judah. The promise was made to the seed, the collective seed, the promised seed of Isaac. It was not made to Ishmamail and the six sons of Coutura that Abraham bore. They didn't have the promise. But Isaac, the anointed, that word Christ means anointed. That anointed seed line, anointed by prophecy, that seed line is one. One. You cannot separate the Abrahamic covenant seed line of Isaac. That seed line is one. And that seed is anointed. And that seed ended up in the head of that seed line, Yesua or Jesus Christ. He made it plain to them. Hold on fellas. You got it wrong. The covenant you're quoting to keep these lost tribes out of the covenant cannot disanol what Abraham was pro the promise was made specifically to Isaac and all of his seeds not just Judah the 12 tribes. Now let's read verse 17 and see if it doesn't all start to make sense for us. Paul is arguing with them that the covenant that you are quoting that is 430 years after the Abrahamic covenant, it cannot do away with that promise to the entire physical descendants of Isaac, the Christed anointed seed. The promise to Abraham was made to all the seed of Isaac. And those lost tribes that you think are Gentiles, they are in the Abrahamic covenant. All 12 tribes, even the divorced ones scattered among the nations, even the ones that were divorced, even the ones that broke Torah, even the ones that did not keep the law. And no law given 430 years later can disqualify them from an unconditional promise. And that's why Paul said in Galatians 3:13, Christ has redeemed us. Who is us? the Jews and the lost tribes from the curse of the Mosaic law and became a curse for us. That curse of divorce. That curse that said, "You're not my people." That curse that scattered Israel among the nations. Christ took that curse upon himself. So the scattered seed, not the whole world yet, the scattered seed could return TO THE COVENANT JUST LIKE Judah is in the covenant and declare Abraham is our father, too. Paul is not saying God abandoned Israel. He's saying God's restoring the divorced house of Israel. All of that one seed is coming home. And that's why now Romans 11 verse 25 through verse 26 will make perfect sense for you. Blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the lost tribes. When that happens, ALL [screaming] OF ISRAEL, both parts of that seed, Judah and the lost tribes will be saved when that full number of scattered tribes comes in back to the covenant. And that's why Ephesians chapter 2 11-113 says, "Therefore remember that you once gentile in the flesh were without Christ. You were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel." Why was this particular group of so-called Gentiles alien from the commonwealth? They were divorced from the commonwealth. They were strangers of the covenant. They had been put out. But now in Christ, you who were once divorced a far off have been brought back to the covenant by the blood of Yesua. Your sin against the covenant was forgiven. And Paul is speaking to those people who were divorced, but they were being brought back home. That's why Josua said in Matthew 15:24, "I was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I came for no one else." John 10:16 said, "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold." In other words, the lost tribes were not part of the Jewish fold, but they were part of the sons of Isaac. He said, "Them I must bring back, and they will hear my voice, and they will be one flock with you, Judah, and you will have one shepherd. " Yeshua was not sent to random Gentiles. He went to the lost sheep among the Gentiles that thought they were Gentiles. That's why in Ezekiel chapter 37 15-22, you'll read a prophecy from Ezekiel that once God has found all the lost tribes, he will then turn to the house of Judah and both brothers, both sticks, both of them will come back together. Acts chapter 15 verse 16. And after this, after what? After I bring all the lost sheep of Israel back, then I will return at my second coming. And then I will rebuild the tribe of Judah, the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. Didn't Paul tell us that the Jewish people had stumbled? They had fallen. That their fall had been great. They are the tabernacle of David that had fallen down. Zechariah 12 and10 says when I return they will look on me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns for his own son. For those of you that are preaching that demonic doctrine of hell that we have replaced those people, RID YOURSELF OF that deception. The Bible said, "Do not boast against the tree that we have been grafted back into because their fall is going to bring their rise." And when they rise, it will be like the dead have come back to life. That natural seed, the promise was made to Abraham and to his seed through Isaac. That promise included 12 tribes. That's why in the New Jerusalem, go look at the names on the 12 gates to the city. It's the name of all 12 tribes. And nothing they did in the Mosaic covenant can dis that unconditional promise. The blessing of Abraham is now coming upon the scattered seed of Israel. those that have been living among the nations that thought you were pigs. You thought you were gentile. You was a prodigal son. All through Yosua, both houses Judah and Ephraim together receive the promise of the spirit through faith. Oh yes, I agree with you that we must have faith in Christ. But I promise you, they all will. And then you will weep and mourn at how you treated your brothers that took a great fall that you might have a great rise.