“Bless Those Who Bless You, and Curse Him Who Curses You”

Speaker Mike Johnson plans to force a vote on aid to Israel even though that small country has much less debt than we do. Consider how Pastor Chuck Baldwin interprets the alleged scriptural command to bless the modern nation of Israel.

NKJV:

Promises to Abram

12 Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
² I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
³ I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Pastor Chuck Baldwin:

So who are the antichrists? They’re the ones who deny that Jesus is the Christ…

Now turn to Second John. It only has one chapter… (NKJV)

Beware of Antichrist Deceivers

⁷ For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. ⁸ Look to yourselves, that ^[a]we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

⁹ Whoever ^[b]transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; ¹¹ for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

What doctrine? The doctrine of Jesus Christ, Messiah, God in flesh, Savior. Receive him not into your house neither bid him Godspeed. God bless you. God bless you. Have a good day. God bless you. Neither bid him God speed, God blessing, for he that biddeth him God speed, he that blesses him, is partaker of his evil deeds. The antichrists, if you bless them you are partaker of their evil antichrist works.

Come, put your mind in gear. Let God’s Word get into your soul. If he comes denying Christ, if he comes denying Jesus is the Christ, he is an antichrist. Do not bless him, do not let him into your home. And if you do, you are guilty of participating in his evil antichrist works.

Bear with me. Christian Zionists quote Genesis 12:3 and apply it to the modern State of Israel. Genesis 12:3 God said unto Abram or Abraham I will bless them that bless thee Abraham and curse him that curseth thee Abraham, and in thee Abraham all families of the earth be blessed. And these Christian Zionists all over America apply this verse to the modern State of Israel. It’s ubiquitous teaching. You cannot listen to a TV evangelist, radio preacher, pastor in a local church, you cannot listen to anyone in the pulpit anywhere in the country without hearing this regurgitated over and over and over and over again. We must bless the State of Israel because Genesis 12:3 says I will bless them that bless thee so we must be a blessing to the state of Israel if we want God to bless us. They say that all the time. And I have to shamefully confess that I taught that myself for over thirty years, God please forgive me. This was spoken to Abram. It was not spoken to the nation of Israel then or now…

By pronouncing a blessing on the antichrist Israel, America and the churches and pastors of this country are guilty of bringing the wrath of God upon them because we are making ourselves partaker of the antichrist evil works! Foreign aid, taxpayer dollars sent to the antichrist of Israel are bringing God’s judgment on America just like foreign aid to the antichrist of Saudi Arabia are bringing God’s judgment on America. Blessing the wars for Israel brings the judgment of God upon our country. When pastors get up and talk about blessing Israel, they are in fact bringing God’s judgment on them. They are bidding antichrist godspeed.