SID: Hello. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I can’t wait for you to hear what is in my opinion the most important thing that will distinguish the false church from the real church in the last days, and I’ll give you a clue in one word: Israel. Now my guest Sandy Teplinsky, like myself, was raised in an orthodox Jewish home. She went to an orthodox synagogue and when she got to college, she decided, I want to think a little for myself. She investigated different religions. Finally came, a New Testament came in her hand. Did you feel funny reading that, Sandy?
SANDY: Well I was brought up to believe it was the forbidden book. And actually, the only reason that I took one in my hands and read it was that I was attempting to disprove the Gospel.
SID: Well what happened? I know what happened.
SANDY: Well the interesting thing is that having read so many other religious books on my quest for God, that when I read the New Testament it conveyed a love and a life force, which we know is the Holy Spirit, that seemed to jump off the pages into my heart like nothing else that I had read. And it was also so Jewish a book. It was so Jewish, that as I flipped through the pages, I actually did much more than flipping, I studiously poured through them. I thought either this is the world’s best kept secret, if this is what so-called Christianity is, or because I’m finding myself believing it and I’m finding it so consistent with the Old Testament, which we knew as the Hebrew Scriptures, that if I believe this I am really going to Hell. I’m doomed. It’s one extreme or the other.
SID: So why did you proceed with such a repercussion potential?
SANDY: Because I became convinced it was true. And when you are convinced that God is God and that truth is truth, what can compare with that?
SID: You had no choice. Then Sandy goes on and she becomes an attorney. And I would like a Messianic Jewish attorney to tell me why your position on Israel is one of the major dividing lines of the true church and the false church. Take me to a couple of scriptures, Joel 3:2 and Zechariah.
SANDY: Joel 3:2 refers to something that takes place in the context of the End Times. God says that He is going to judge all the nations that have divided up His land. It’s a very serious matter in God’s eyes. And as we know, Israel has been divided up already many, many, many times, and there’s…sadly the scriptures indicate even more to come.
SID: And Zechariah 12:3.
SANDY: Zachariah 12:3 talks about God gathering all nations to surround Jerusalem as in a military assault, causing Jerusalem to be a burdensome stone to all nations. And yet, God says that He will cause those nations that surround Jerusalem to become burdened by their assault and God Himself is the one to retaliate and to release judgment on the nations.
SID: Because Israel is the apple of God’s eye, I’m reminded of the Living Bible that says, “He that touches Israel is the same as someone that pokes their finger in God’s eye.” The devil is starting all sorts of teachings to get your eye off of God and off of the apple of His eye, Israel. There’s something, Sandy, called fulfillment theology. It’s a big word. What does it mean?
SANDY: Fulfillment theology is a theology that takes one precious scripture and exaggerates it, and builds a whole theology around it. Matthew 5:17, Jesus, Yeshua says that, “He has come to fulfill the Law and the prophets,” which he has. Fulfillment theologians reinterpret the scriptures through that particular verse to mean that all of the promises that God has ever made are now completely fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. Now this includes all of the prophetic promises and prophetic plans.
SID: How can they say that, because so many things haven’t even happened yet.
SANDY: Well they’re not reading the Bible.
SID: They’re reading one verse.
SANDY: They’re taking one verse out of context, but they’re also not reading the whole Bible. They’re neglecting the Hebrew Scriptures, which of course provide the foundation and the root of our understanding of the New Covenant scriptures. You can’t completely understand in its fullness the New Covenant scriptures without an understanding of the Old Covenant scriptures.
SID: Well in addition to throwing out the Old Covenant, which you’ve got to be nuts over, because there’s so much that hasn’t happened yet in there, in addition to the moral law, in addition to everything about the return of Jesus that’s there, many are throwing out the Book of Revelation. They say it’s already happened. What do you say, Sandy?
SANDY: Well I’m thankful that it hasn’t yet already happened.
SID: Me, too.
SANDY: Because I’m looking forward to the Lord’s return. There are some people that believe that all of the prophecies pertaining to Israel or Israel’s restoration have already been fulfilled. They say that they were fulfilled by the year 70 A.D., when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, but that is not the case. There are many, many prophecies that we cannot in any fair way say have already been fulfilled.
SID: They say it was fulfilled even though the Book of Revelation was written through John after the time they said it was fulfilled. So thery are little — there’s a Hebrew word, “meshuga”— crazy. We’ll be right back. And wait until you get a Hebrew understanding of covenant.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth