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God’s Word or John MacArthur’s?
It’s time to stop ignoring this important issue, and make a choice brethren.
Here’s God’s Word:
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. – Hebrews 9:27-28
Just like men will die then comes judgment, Christ will come again a second time and have no reference to sin whatsoever – only judgment. That’s what it says. It’s too late to repent, too late to be saved, and it doesn’t matter who you are or what tribe, nation or heritage you hail from, according to God’s infallible Word, it’s just too late – even if you live in California or Little Rock, or even Texas. The only thing left for those who refused to believe by faith alone before that time will be final judgment and eternal damnation.
Here’s John MacArthur’s words on the passage of Zechariah 12:10 in the MacArthur Study Bible:
God, in His own perfect time and by His own power, will sovereignly act to save Israel…Israel’s repentance will come because they look to Jesus, the One whom they rejected and crucified, in faith, at the Second Advent. (emphasis mine, ed.).
MacArthur doesn’t stop there. It gets far worse. In a sermon on Zechariah 12:1-14, he states this concerning the Jews:
While their spiritual eyes are up and they’re thinking about God and how He has delivered them, they’re going to see God incarnate, Jesus, coming. They’re going to look on Him….they recognize that the very one who came back as their deliverer, was the same one they killed and they pierced when He came the first time. That’s why they mourn. And now that’s the anguish of true repentance, beloved.
He goes on:
And then Israel is going to receive salvation, look at 13:1, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” God’s going to wash the nation from its sin.
First, they’re going to cry “My Lord and my God,” when they see Jesus. They’re going to realize it was God they pierced. And then God’s going to turn the fountain loose and wash them and pour out His Spirit.
Note carefully that last statement. MacArthur is declaring that when Jesus returns, He WILL be coming in reference to sin and the removal of it regarding geo-political Israel; moreover, salvation will not be by faith alone, but by sight also, so the man says.
God’s Word says Christ is coming again without reference to sin, and only for judgment.
John MacArthur says when Christ comes again, He will deal with and remove the sins of Israel.
John MacArthur is teaching a false hope for many. It’s time to stop hiding our heads in the sand and pretending this false teaching is ok. It’s not. It is rank heresy. It is in clear opposition to God’s Word. Neither Phil Johnson nor his sidekicks can dismiss this, and I seriously doubt they’ll ever try to. Too much is personally at stake for them.
Choose this day whom you will serve, promote, and yes, even worship.
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I agree that upon the return of Jesus to Jerusalem it is too late to repent!
I think I’m beginning to like you. You are right on the money and I love accuracy. Most church goers think that they are going to be raptured away before that great tribulation falls on the wicked. This is false teaching because all scripture supports the fact that it’s the wicked who are going away, not the righteous. Psalms 37 keeps reiterating this fact, Proverbs 2:21-22 “For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.” In Matthew 13:30 we see that the tares are gathered first, then the wheat. Revalations 19 and 20 gives the chronological order of the second coming of Christ Jesus. Notice how the wicked are slaughtered first in chapter 19, then the resurrection is mentioned in chapter 20.
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Those who have rejected Jesus will mourn alright, when they see their damnation coming.
Yes, Amen, and thanks….I didn’t ever see the application of that verse from Hebrews. How did I read over that so recently and not catch that? (Don’t answer that, I know how….)
I know you went through this before, but this was very helpful again!
It was teachings like this which caused me to question dispensationalism for the first time, after being a faithful follower of the teachings for over 20 years. MacArthur, like many other dispensationalist teachers, I’m sure is very sincere in his beliefs: but sincerity cannot belay the fact he is “sincerely wrong”.
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I’m curious brother, how do you interpret Zechariah 12-13.
Also, along with SLIMJIM’s question on interpreting Zechariah. How do you explain Romans 11:25-32 and Isaiah 59: 20-21.
.God has a perfect plan for His people, Israel.
So glad you asked Slimjim and Karen, kindly read Galatians 3:26-29. The Israel of God under the New Covenant are believers in Christ.we are heirs to the promise. There is no more Jew or Greek. He has done away with vain genealogies also. Also, if you read all of Romans 9, 10 and 11, this is what is specifically being taught. You should not take a few verses out of context without reading the entire thought of the writer which is clearly that the Israel of God are believers in Christ. Paul wishes that He could be accursed for the sake of his kinsmen, who he knows will be going to hell without Christ. God is no respecter of persons and we will not go to heaven as a nation, but as brothers in Christ, Jew or Greek.
King James Version (KJV)
9 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Galatians 32
8 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Abraham’s seed is Jesus, and believers in Him are heirs.
“to those who eagerly await Him.” is the the qualifier. Israel is not eagerly awaiting Jesus. A messiah yes, but not the lowly carpenter from Nazareth. “Without reference to sin” is for those eagerly awaiting Him. Judgement to the rest.
I understand we will not be judged as a nation. But, I believe God has a remnant from the covenant he made with Israel. It is told to us all thru the Bible. God does not break covenants. He has a remnant from His people. Romans 11. I think this is what John MacArthur is refering to.
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Joel,
I believe you need to rethink your interpretation of the Hebrews. It appears to me it neither argues for or against your position. The point of the passage is a contrast between the three appearings. He HAS appeared to put away sin; He NOW appears to present that sacrifice in the Father’s presence; he will appear without any reference to either making or presenting a sin offering. The passage simply does not speak to whether he will apply that offering once made to those who look to him in faith and repentance at his second coming. The passage has to do with whether another sin offering will be necessary when he returns, not whether that return wil involve salvific activity.
I am not disagreeing with your position, only your interpretation and application of this passage to support it.
Actually it *does* say we will be judged and saved or doomed as nations.
and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats – Matthew 25:32.
Grammatically the antecedent of the word “them” is nations, not individuals. Each nation will be treated as a sheep or a goat. If that’s not what it means, then does the Bible contain a mistake?