I have often said that it was not God who brought the Jews back to the land of Israel in 1948. With regard to the Babylonian captivity, God's Word states emphatically and unequivocally that for the Jews to be returned to the land they must return to God with their whole heart, mind, and soul. Scripture never promises another return after the events of A.D. 70! Anyone who claims otherwise is ignoring the historical context and twisting Scripture. Nevertheless, if they were to be returned again, this same stipulation would have to be met. Today, that means that they would have to accept Jesus as their Messiah. This has never been done! Jews are not saved on account of their "race." If they want to receive salvation, they must receive it in the exact same manner as everyone else. Jews who adhere to Judaism today believe that the Talmud is the "life of Judaism." The Talmud has several extremely repulsive things to say about Jesus and Christians. Observe:
"Jesus fornicated with his jack ass." Sanhedrin 105a-b
"Jesus is in hell and is being punished by being boiled in hot semen. Christians are boiled in dung." Gittin 57a
I have also said that it was the Zionists who brought the Jews back to Israel in 1948. To be honest, I never really knew much about the Zionists. I just assumed that it was another term for Dispensationalists, or Semitophiles. It turns out that Zionism was founded by Theodor Herzl in 1895. He wrote a small book titled Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews). Here are some of the things he put forth in his booklet:
"The idea I have developed in this pamphlet is an ancient one: It is the restoration of the Jewish State ..."
"The decisive factor is our propelling force. And what is that force? The plight of the Jews ... I am profoundly convinced that I am right, though I doubt whether I shall live to see myself proved so. Those who today inaugurate this movement are unlikely to live to see its glorious culmination. But the very inauguration is enough to inspire in them a high pride and the joy of an inner liberation of their existence ..."
"The plan would seem mad enough if a single individual were to undertake it; but if many Jews simultaneously agree on it, it is entirely reasonable, and its achievement presents no difficulties worth mentioning. The idea depends only on the number of its adherents. Perhaps our ambitious young men, to whom every road of advancement is now closed, and for whom the Jewish state throws open a bright prospect of freedom, happiness, and honor, perhaps they will see to it that this idea is spread ..."
"It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political document remains for the present a political romance. If this generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer, more advanced generation will arise to comprehend it. The Jews who will try it shall achieve their State; and they will deserve it ..."
"I consider the Jewish question neither a social nor a religious one, even though it sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question, and to solve it we must first of all establish it as an international political problem to be discussed and settled by the civilized nations of the world in council.
"We are a people—one people.
"We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us. In vain are we loyal patriots, sometimes superloyal; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to enhance the fame of our native lands in the arts and sciences, or her wealth by trade and commerce. In our native lands where we have lived for centuries we are still decried as aliens, often by men whose ancestors had not yet come at a time when Jewish sighs had long been heard in the country ..."
"Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has endured such struggles and sufferings as we have. Jew-baiting has merely winnowed out our weaklings; the strong among us defiantly return to their own whenever persecution breaks out ..."
"Wherever we remain politically secure for any length of time, we assimilate. I think this is not praiseworthy ..."
"Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland ..."
"Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind."
They even considered some land in Turkey and some land in modern Kenya.
I have no doubt that it was the Zionists who made the revisionist changes to the Scofield Reference Bible. After the death of C. I. Scofield, the notes in the Scofield Reference Bible exploded and were accelerated to advance the Zionist aims. Much of Scofield's original notes were removed and replaced with more heavily Zionist-friendly notes. In 1908, Scofield wrote concerning John 8:37:
"Cf. John 8:39. The contrast, 'I know that ye are Abraham's seed' — 'If ye were Abraham's children' is that between the natural and the spiritual posterity of Abraham. The Israelitish people and the Ishmaelitish people are the former; all who are 'of like precious faith with Abraham,' whether Jews or Gentiles, are the latter; Romans 9:6-8; Galatians 3:6-14. See 'Abrahamic Covenant,' Gen 15:18."
Compare that with the Oxford note substituted in the 1967 edition:
"All Jews are natural descendants of Abraham, but are not necessarily his spiritual posterity; Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:6-14."
Scofield's original footnote was accurate with Christian teachings and belief of the previous 1900 years. The revised footnote is a fallacious heresy. How can "all Jews" be "natural descendants of Abraham," a Chaldean who lived some 3,000 years ago? People of all ethnicities and nationalities are Jews, and new Jews are being converted every day from every ethnicity and nationality. You might as well say that all Lutherans are the natural descendants of Martin Luther. That is how preposterous and nonsensical this new footnote is. The publishers of this Bible (The Oxford University Press) clearly have an agenda: the advancement of the fallacious, erroneous, and heretical teachings of Zionism.
Take this brazen and outrageous newly inserted footnote from the 1967 edition concerning Genesis 12:3:
“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgment.”
There is no word for “anti-Semitism” in the New Testament, nor is it found among the Ten Commandments. “Sin” is a personal concept. It is something done by individuals in conflict with God’s words, not by “nations.” Even Sodom did not sin—its people did. The word “judgment” in the Bible always refers to God’s action. In the New Testament, Jesus promises both judgment and salvation for individuals, not for “nations.” There was also no “State of Israel” when Scofield wrote his original notes in his Scofield Reference Bible in 1908. All references to Israel as a state were added after 1947, when Israel was granted statehood by edict of the United Nations. The Oxford University Press simply rewrote its version of the Christian Bible in 1967 to make antipathy toward the “State of Israel” a “sin.” Israel is made a god to be worshiped, not merely a “state.” That is exactly what Christian Zionism does: it worships the state of Israel as a god. Hence why they teach and believe that the entire Bible is Israel-centric; all about Israel.
The Oxford 1967 edition continues concerning Genesis 12:1-3:
"(2) God made an unconditional promise of blessings through Abram's seed (a) to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever"
"(3) There is a promise of blessing upon those individuals and nations who bless Abram's descendants, and a curse laid upon those who persecute the Jews."
This bequeath is joined to an Oxford prophesy that never occurs in the Bible itself:
"It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew, well with those who have protected him." and "The future will still more remarkably prove this principle."
None of these notes appeared in the original Scofield Reference Bible or in the 1917 or 1945 editions. The state of Israel did not exist in 1945, and according to the best dictionaries of the time, the word “Israel” only referred to a particular man and an ancient tribe, which is consistent with the Bible text. See “Israel,” Webster’s New International Dictionary 2nd (1950) Edition.
God is sovereign over all things. He may have allowed Jews to obtain land and start occupying it (just as He allowed sin to enter the world), but He never personally brought them back to it the way He did after the Babylonian captivity. Had He, then they would not only possess all the land (as they had in the past, the fulfillment of such being acknowledged on four different occasions: Josh. 11:23; 21:41-45; 1 Kings 4:20-21; Neh. 9:21-25), but they would also have embraced Jesus as their promised Messiah. Zionism and Dispensationalism are two sides of the same deceptive, demonic coin, peddling the false doctrine of Restoration theology.