Replacement Theology and the New Age

Grace and peace to the saints of God and greetings to the wandering stars.

Yesterday, someone left a comment to our post entitled, Does God Hate Blacks?, that was so interesting, that I was compelled to re-post it here as well as my response for the edification of the body of Christ.  This gentleman argues that Blacks are the true Jews and that there is a conspiracy to disguise this fact from the blacks and rob them of their true place of prominence.

The problem with this philosophy is that it runs counter to the Bible, which teaches that Israel is God’s true people.  Blacks, as I wrote in the above article, are near and dear to God’s own heart—the Bible clearly teaches this.  But they are not God’s chosen people.

The belief that another race or religion constitute the “true Jews” and that those of the twelve tribes of Israel are really impostors is called replacement theology.  This teaching holds that, because the Jews rejected Jesus, the Gentiles (or whatever religious group or people) are now God’s chosen people.  According to the Bible, this is not true.  I had intended to address this belief at some point, because many blacks—even Christians—have bought into this false teaching.  This gentleman’s comment gave me the impetus to do it.

I will post his comment followed by my response for your edification. Understand that this is by no means exhaustive, and will certainly not answer all of the questions of those who have been deceived by this errant teaching.  But it should give you an idea of the mindset of many of those who adhere to this doctrine and why it is dangerous.

Remember his comments were in response to my article, Does God Hate Blacks?  Together with this post and the Holy Bible, one should be convinced that the Blacks are not the true Jews.

[BEGIN COMMENT]

“I understand what your saying, but wouldn’t that mean that the Synagogue of Satan is of Esau?… The Edomites. Who’s to say that Blacks were not only apart of Hebrews like “THEY ARE” today, but also apart of the Real ones. “The Lemba.” I thought it states in the bible that Nubians, Cushites, and Hebrews were in the Exodus.

“The Entire book of Dueteronomy Chapt 28 and it’s Curses seem to apply to the Blacks of the Northern Hemisphere. The ones who were Captives as Jesus foretold of.. NONE of the Jews in the Western Hemisphere were Scattered… They may have been threatened in Europe and Fled to the W-H, but NONE were enslaved (except for pay), NONE were SENT into Captivity as the BIBLE states. DUET 28:46 “And they(these Curses) shall be upon thee for a SIGN and for a WONDER, and UPON THY SEED FOR EVER.” Now, Who, at this Present Date and Time are Under these Curses?

“HAM, means Burnt, We say Dark Skinned person…. Well, God Created man in his own Image. Now, since WE ALL can be traced by our DNA back to a Black AFRICAN who lived thousands of years, Wouldn’t that be Adam or Eve, Abraham, & or Noah??? Seeing how HAM was NOAH’s Son, Black DNA is DOMINATE just like God is, and you can’t make a Black Person out of ANY DNA from ANY Race on this Planet that is not Black.. Wouldn’t that make hebrew NOAH a Black Man also…? You don’t have to be Burnt/Dark to be Black. I believe my point right there, justifies that NOAH was Brown skinned … He named his son a name that pointed out he was Darker than he was.

“It just seems to me that you are purposely avoiding subjects that need to be touched on. Especially on a topic like this. I believe there is a Conspiracy to hide who the real jews are. Blacks here don’t know who they are., our History was stripped and beaten out of us. Isaiah 1:3 “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth NOT know, my people doth not consider.” To this day there are Black Americans that DO NOT even want to think about themselves as possibly real Hebrews, or Jews..(the One’s who yelled “Crucify Him!”) Which I believe to have been the Edomites anyways. Jesus was Avoiding their Jewry before the crucifixion. No matter what you show them in scripture, they don’t want to hear it.

“For instance DUET 28:68..”And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt AGAIN With SHIPS, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.” WHO was and is Still in EGYPT to this day? The people we call Jews? NO! They are here by their Own Free Will, Not under Oppression. That’s what they brought Black Slaves here for. Biblical Hebrew Slavery was for 7 years, then you could buy your Freedom. “and no man shall buy you.” I think means, Buy your Freedom… Which in the Western Hemisphere, No man could buy our freedom.

“AND This is EGYPT, a House of Bondage. We have Pyramids on our Dollars, along with the All seeing eye, The Hidden Symbols in Wash. D.C.s street layout., the Washington Monument which is an Egyptian Obelisk. A city and Nation built by FreeMasons, the Secret Holders, We had a Sojourner (Truth), and a Moses. Both in the Bible concerning Hebrews.

“The Bible is Full of Secrets, contridictions and such… Why would GOD not hide his people from a Threat such as the White Race, whom I’m sure some elite, know the Truth.. WHY WON’T the US pay Blacks Reparations??? They’ve Paid Everyone Else! Is it because we are Hebrews? Are they afraid of what will Happen to them? Joel3:4 “Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? Will ye render me a recompence? and if ye Recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your Recompence upon your own head;”

“WHY IS IT A HIDDEN FACT: That when a NEGRO/ Darkie/Coon/N****/Jigaboo/Dirty/Evil, Black EGYPTIAN who’s lineage from Egypt goes back forever, Comes to AMERICA and gets Citizenship or Dual Citizenship is not only told, but FORCED & Printed on all his Documents that He/She is of the A: The WHITE RACE… IN A Nation that owned us as Slaves, the Lynching, the 3/5 of a human being, the Byword Calling, the Sheer Discrimination and belittling of our race, the “ONE DROP RULE”…WHY OH WHY OH WHY are they Conspiring to Hide that there are Black Native Egyptians?? Seems mighty funny & suspicious to me…….

“I wouldn’t be surprised if on the day of Jesus’ Return, We walk across Dry Land through the Atlantic to and thru Africa to Israel….Remember the bible said after the Second Exodus, the first Exodus out of Egypt will be no longer spoken of… Another hidden Message? Well who was in Slavery here, here, there, there, & there??? We’ll all know soon Enough.. Time is Ticking. There are just too many places in the bible that point to the Real Jews being of Color.”

[END COMMENT]

[BEGIN MY RESPONSE]

First of all, Chuck, please note that the title of my article is, “Does God Hate the Blacks?” and that its purpose is to explain the biblical basis for slavery, racism, and all the ills that have plagued Blacks for as long as we can remember.  Being a Bible-believing Christian, I believe that everything that is good in the world comes from the Lord Jesus Christ and everything that is bad in the world is of the devil—including racism.  

The subject is relevant, because many Blacks have expressed concern that God hates the Black race, and, for this reason, we have suffered so.  The article, as you can see, gives ample biblical evidence to support my claim that God loves the black race and that, because God loves us, Satan hates us—almost as much as he hates the Jews.  However, our similar histories of suffering notwithstanding, we are not the “true Jews.” The Jews are the true Jews.

You have been brainwashed by New Age replacement theology propaganda, one school of which espouses that the Negroes are the true Jews and are the true people of God, while those who are called Jews are counterfeit.  This is a lie, and actually goes against what the Bible teaches.  One purpose of the New Age is to destroy the Judeo-Christian Western tradition, which means that Christians and Jews are the enemies of the New Age.  This is the end game of replacement theology and Black Israelism: to discredit the Bible and malign God’s chosen people, the Jews.

Most of your points are false from a biblical and practical standpoint.  And, though you were right to say that there are many subjects that need to be touched on, my article was not intended to address all those concerns.

However, because so many blacks have been deceived by these New Age lies, I will address your contentions in the hopes that they will edify the body of Christ and enlighten others—yourself included—who have been grievously deceived.  I will address the most pertinent of your claims in turn.  Your words will be in italics, followed by my responses.

“I understand what your [sic] saying, but wouldn’t that mean that the Synagogue of Satan is of Esau?”

No.  Jesus Himself said in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 that the Synagogue of Satan is “those who say they are Jews, but are not.”

There are two groups that fit this description:

1. Those who were born of one of the twelve tribes of Israel and are Jewish by blood, but worship Satan instead of God.  Cabalistic Jews are of this ilk.  SEE Ezekiel Chapter 8.
2. In a manner of speaking, those religions whose adherents claim to be the true Jews and believe that the Hebrews are imposters.  We shall talk about these later.

The Edomites cannot be the Synagogue of Satan, because they are not Jewish.  Remember that Jesus said the Synagogue of Satan are “those who say they are Jews, but are not.” To my knowledge, the Edomites never claimed to be Jewish, though they were Semetic. There is a difference.  

Semetic means those people who are descended from Shem (Shem-ite), the son of Noah. Jewish means those people who are descended from Jacob, whom God renamed Israel. People have come to associate “Semite” exclusively with the Jews.  But the Samaritans, the Edomites, and the Moabites are also Semetic, because they are all descendants of Shem.  But they are not Jewish.

The Jews and the Edomites are close cousins, because they both are descendants of Isaac, the son of Abraham.  But the Edomites are not Jewish, because they are descendants of Esau, while the Jews are descended from Jacob, Esau’s brother.  Jacob and Esau were twins, and, as you may recall, God told Rebecca, the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau, that there were “two manner of people” in her womb.  These two people were the Jews (Jacob, whom God renamed Israel) and the Edomites (Esau).

So, as you can see, the Edomites and the Jews are two separate people, according to the Bible.  The Edomites then, cannot be Jewish, and thus, of the Synagogue of Satan.

Furthermore, the Blacks cannot be the Jews or the Edomites, because they are not a Semetic people, in that they are descended from Cush, whose father was Ham.  Consider also that the word Edomite comes from Edom, which means “red.”  As you may recall, Esau was nicknamed Edom, because, as the Bible teaches, he was born “red and hairy all over.”   Blacks (Cushites), of course, are not red.

“I thought it states in the bible [sic] that Nubians, Cushites, and Hebrews were in the Exodus.”

I am not aware that the Bible states this specifically.  The only thing that even remotely hints that anyone other than the Jews took part in the Exodus is found in Exodus 12:38 and Numbers 11:4:

“And a mixed multitude went up also with them…” (Exodus 12:38).

“And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a-lusting and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?” (Numbers 11:4)

Now, mixed means exactly that.  This group was separate from the Jews and was composed of at least two different races or cultures.  In that they were leaving Egypt, we may assume that at least one of those races was Egyptian.  More evidence to this effect can be found in Exodus 9:20.  Moses has told the people that God will send hail upon Egypt to smite any man or beast that is found outside of his home.  Some of the Egyptians obeyed God:

“He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses.”

It can be assumed that those same Egyptians also put blood on their doorposts on the day of Passover, thus sparing their firstborn.  So when Moses led Israel out of Egypt, I’m sure those Egyptians who feared God numbered among them and were part of the mixed multitude.  But I am not aware that the Bible states specifically that Nubians and Cushites were included in the Exodus. 

In that Ham was black, and Egypt was known as “The Land of Ham” (Psalm 105:23,27, Psalm 106:22), then blacks may indeed have been included in the Exodus; for the Bible states that many of the Egyptians regarded Moses as a great man, and some of these Egyptians may have followed him.  But the Bible, to my knowledge does not state this specifically.  Now, one may assume that some of the mixed multitude were black: that is, Cushites, because it is a safe assumption that at least some of Pharaoh’s servants were of the seed of Cush, but the Bible does not state this specifically.   Moreover, Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law and the priest of Midian, was a black man (Exodus 18:1, Numbers 12:1), but he was not an Egyptian.

“None of the Jews…were sent into Captivity [sic] as the Bible states.”

This is the real goal of this New Age propaganda concerning the “true Jews:” to discredit the Bible and to turn the world against God’s chosen people, Israel.   And one of Satan’s favorite weapons is the black race, which has been demonized and maligned just as the Jews have.  

Satan knows that many blacks are hungry for a history, hungry to be taken seriously, hungry to be seen as more than just the doormat for all the other races on the planet.  So he creates a false history and a false hope for the black race by saying that the blacks are the true Jews and thus the chosen people of God. 

But as I have just proven in my article, this is totally unnecessary.  God does love the black race: they too, are near and dear to His heart.  But they are not the true Jews.  And no, Jesus was not black.

“Ham means Burnt…Well, god Created man in his [sic] own Image…”

It is true that Ham was known as ‘The Burnt One” (Hislop, 25).  But, you seem to suggest that God is black.  If this is what you mean, then in whose image were all the other races made?  If you say Satan’s, you have truly been deceived, my friend, and should stop reading now, and go back and unlearn all of this, and then come back and finish reading, because, right now, this information would be of little use to you.

“WE ALL can be traced by our DNA back to a Black AFRICAN who lived thousands of years.  Wouldn’t that be Adam or Eve, Abraham, or Noah???”

Again, here we have a claim by those who support the black Israelite dogma: that the Black man is the father of all mankind, and that the first man lived hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years ago in Africa, and is the fountain from which all mankind sprung.

The problem with this is that the world, according to the Bible, is not millions of years old, or even hundreds of thousands of years old, but around six thousand years old.  So the body they are claiming is the progenitor of all mankind (if indeed a body really was found) cannot be Adam, or Noah, or Abraham if it is more than six thousand years old. 

Again, this claim is designed to enflame the blacks against the Bible and all Christians by purporting that the Bible hides the truth of our noble origins.  It is just another deception of Satan.  The problem is that many in the black community have bought into this deception.

Back when the black church in America was strong, nearly all blacks believed in the biblical account of creation.  But that has changed over the years.  Satan has always hated the black church and sought diligently to destroy her.  One way he accomplished this was by beguiling blacks into abandoning the Bible’s account of creation and accepting the evolutionary account.  This was done, in part, through theistic evolution, or the idea that God used evolution to create the world.  A fairly recent development of evolution is that all races, including whites, sprung from the black race.  

I first heard this theory in the movie, Boys in the Hood, when the lead character, Trey, as a young boy, explained to his classmates that the oldest remains of a human being were found in Africa.  I have since heard it a number of times.  Until this development, both evolution and “Christianity” had been used to convince blacks that they were inferior.  

Evolutionist scientists, anthropologists, and educators taught that Blacks had not evolved as quickly as other races, and were thus inferior, and evolutionist theologians taught a false version of the Bible’s account of the curse of Canaan, saying that God cursed Ham (the father of all dark- and brown-skinned races), when the Bible clearly teaches that God cursed Canaan (the father of the Canaanites, Philistines, Ammonites, Sidonians, Hittites, etc.).  This false doctrine was used to justify slavery.  Later it was also used to turn blacks against God and the Bible, by making them believe that God hated blacks and had cursed them.

When the black church was strong, many black preachers spoke out against the false teaching of the Curse of Ham, and because evolution taught that blacks were inferior, blacks rejected it.  That’s when Satan came up with Lucy, the supposed remains of a woman found in Africa, who the evolutionists now claim was the common ancestor of all races. Blacks, used to being on the bottom rung of society, were now offered a preeminent role in the human drama; and they jumped on the bandwagon.  

For those who were reluctant to abandon the Bible’s account of creation, Satan had his evolutionist preachers and theologians push theistic evolution in the churches.  That way, blacks were able to have the best of both worlds.  They could bask in the evolutionary limelight at center stage and still claim that God said, “It is good.”

Thus, Satan appealed to blacks’ strong sense of pride and desire to be accepted into the human family, and many fell into Satan’s trap and abandoned the biblical account of creation for the evolutionary account, in which blacks, at least for the time being, figure prominently.  

“I believe there is a conspiracy to hide who the real jews [sic] are…”

This is one of the few statements you got right.  Indeed there is a conspiracy to hide who the true Jews are, and it is being perpetrated by the same people who murdered Jesus: the Synagogue of Satan.  They are trying to convince the world that God’s chosen people, the Hebrews, are not the true Jews, but that other groups, including the blacks, are.  This is called “replacement theology” and has been used by several groups, including the Roman Catholic church, The Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mormons, so-called Identity Christians, and those who hold to the “British Israelite” doctrine.   All of these groups claim to be the true Jews.  Satan has always hated the Jews, so this doctrine is a dead giveaway that all of the above groups are satanic.

To this day there are Black Americans that DO NOT even want to think about themselves as possibly real Hebrews, or Jews.”

You are right.  And I am one of them.

“Why is it a hidden fact that when a Negro/Darkie/Coon/N*****/Jigaboo/Dirty/Evil, Black Egyptian…comes to America…”

I sense a great deal of anger in those words, which means Satan has done his job well.  It amazes me that you would use such language to describe Negroes, yet you claim to be one yourself.  You remarked that one doesn’t have to be dark-skinned to be a Negro, so I am assuming that you are light-skinned, possibly of mixed heritage.  That you would use such incredibly demeaning language to describe dark-skinned blacks may suggest that there are other issues that you have to sort out.  If you are dark-skinned, there seems to be a great deal of self-loathing here.  But in any case, I would appreciate it if you would refrain from using such language in the future.  If you are really white, shame on you.

“In a nation that owned us as Slaves, the Lynching, belittling of our race…”

Blacks can’t use that argument anymore.  Slavery is over.  We have freedom.  This means that we are free to go where we want, do what we want, live where and how we want, to keep the fruits of our labor, to raise a family, to own the means to protect ourselves, and, most importantly, to worship the God of our choosing.   Blacks have forgotten the days of slavery.  They have forgotten how far we have come. 

Winston Churchill said, “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you can see.”  Most blacks have only looked back as far as the Civil Rights Era.  They have completely forgotten to look back to the days of slavery when we were not even paid for performing back-breaking work laboring in the fields, were beaten and killed for literally any reason at all, and were not even allowed to keep our own children or even our own wives.  They have similarly forgotten the Jim Crow era.

We are ungrateful; and our selective amnesia blots out the memories of those valiant and courageous whites who fought and died for the abolition of slavery.  We act as though Dr. Martin Luther King single-handedly went in and brought the blacks out of slavery.  We forget about President Abraham Lincoln, President John F. Kennedy, and all the nameless, faceless, God-fearing whites, who made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf.  And ultimately, we forget that it was God who orchestrated the whole thing.  How tragic.

“Remember the bible [sic] said after the Second Exodus, the first Exodus out of Egypt will be no longer spoken of…”

I don’t know if the Bible says this or not, but I fail to see the importance of it.

“There are just too many places in the bible [sic] that point to the Real Jews being of color.”

You should have listed a few of them, as the passages you chose clearly show God speaking to Israel. 

“Why won’t the U.S. pay Blacks reparations???”

You have something much better than that: freedom.  And it didn’t cost you anything.  Others paid the price for your freedom, including Jesus Christ.  And you treat it like a trivial thing and fail to see the importance of it.   Money is worthless unless you have the freedom to spend it and to keep whatever you buy with it.  Can’t you see that?

And last but certainly not least…

“The Bible is full of Secrets, contradictions and such.”

This is the real goal of the New Age movement, to discredit the Bible and Biblical Christianity.  And by your statement, it is working like a charm.

My intent was not to cast any dispersion on anything you said, but to get you to think.  Take an inventory on all that you have, my friend, and you will quickly see that what you are being taught is designed to make you not only fail to appreciate the gift of freedom and He who gave you that freedom as well as those through whom He worked to make it happen, but to distrust the Bible and to ultimately hate God and His people, Israel.  I truly feel that you don’t hate God, so you really need to rethink your position regarding His chosen people.  I hope you will.

We don’t need to usurp Israel to have a place in God’s heart.  God loves the black race and has told us so (Amos 9:7).

[END RESPONSE] 

As you can see, this gentleman has truly bought into the heretical doctrine of replacement theology and possibly even evolution.  We should expect this from the unbelieving, but for a Christian, this teaching is spiritual arsenic.  

It is highly likely that someone you know believes that his race are the true Jews, or his religion are the true Jews, or his country are the true Jews.  But the Bible says that Israel are God’s chosen people.  Paul addresses this in Romans Chapter 11.  The entire treatise is too lengthy for me to include here, but some relevant verses follow:

“I say then, Hath God cast away His people?  God forbid…

“God hath not cast away his people which He foreknew.

“Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

“Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.  Be not highminded, but fear.

“For if God spared not the branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.

“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these (the Jews), which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

“And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion THE DELIVERER, AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.

“FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM, WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.

“As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.

“For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Romans 11:1,2,17-29). 

No argument for or against shall alter that decree.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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