Books every Christian should read
Hebrew 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Word of God is like a two-edged very sharp sword, it is meant to be used with caution and care. It can do severe damage to you if you don’t. Unfortunately, many millions of Christians have skewed view of the Bible and what it says regarding Israel and the Church. This has mostly to do with theology formed a long time ago (in the 1800’s) which has been based upon bad or incorrect interpretations of understanding and reading the Biblical text.
1st Corinthians 3:10-13
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
The following books attempt to redirect Christians back to a more coherent correct Biblical understanding by examining the incorrect interpretations and the resultant theological positions of those who have greatly influenced the Church to have a doctrine and theology which is focused on an Israel-centered viewpoint and political ideologies, rather on Jesus the Christ and God’s Will for the Church to be a light unto the nations and fulfill the great commission to preach the Gospel to all nations, all peoples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
The first book all Christians need to read is Zion’s Christian Soldiers? The Bible, Israel and the Church, by Christian author and Peace maker Stephen Sizer.
The book Zion’s Christian Soldiers? is a comparison and brief look at key theological ideas of largely those of a destructive and corrosive movement in the Church of Christ known as “Christian Zionism.” In the book Sizer shows example of Christian Zionist positions and thoughts and then shows what the Bible actually says regarding the issues of Israel, the Church, the land promised to Abraham, the city Jerusalem, the temple believed to be built in the last days, the secret rapture, expected Armageddon, and will of God regarding the future and a final reflection on what this all means to the Middle East’s future and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.
This small 200-page book which can be read in less than a day is an important tool for understanding how to properly read the Holy Bible and correctly interpret the Bible and brings back to center of the Holy Bible to the proper focus on Jesus the Christ, his will for his believers, and hope for the future while we temporarily live on this foreign planet.
Zion’s Christian Soldiers? is well explained and full of easy-to-understand tables and diagrams, full of many questions that Christians should be asking themselves today in their understanding the Bible. It’s the first book every Christian should own!
After you finish reading Zion’s Christian Soldiers? The Bible, Israel and the Church, I highly recommend you purchase Stephen Sizer’s other amazing book Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?
Are you a dispensationalist Christian having learned the Bible based upon classical Dispensational theology? The chances are, if you’re like me, you are more than likely influenced in some shape, or way from dispensational theology.
I had no idea I was taught this theology myself until I relooked at my bible study that I was brought to faith with within the UPCI Pentecostal church where I was baptized.
Where does Dispensational theology come from?
Is it biblically based?
It is based upon correct interpretation of Scripture?
All these questions and more are answered in the book Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? by Stephen Sizer who gives the foundational history of not only the origins of Dispensational theology, but the phenomena which was birthed from it, “Christian Zionism,” which preceded “Jewish political Zionism” by many years before it became a political reality in the Jewish community.
Sizer takes the reader through a who’s who of Dispensational theology and Christian Zionist circles from the mid-1800s to the present and exposes the thoughts, interpretations, theologies, and wide spread beliefs of the larger Christian Zionist movement and millions of evangelicals today.
Sizer also shows how the Christian Zionist radical premillennial dispensational theology has usurped the gospel of Jesus Christ, by its bypassing Jesus’ Gospel of the Kingdom of God on earth and holding to an Israel-centered theology which usurps the present age of the Church and denies Jesus as the Center of the Bible and fulfillment of the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation, to everlasting reality.
Furthermore, the author shows that Christian Zionism is extremely dangerous and destructive not only to the Church of Jesus and its world mission, but its bringing a self-fulfilling prophesy of destruction to the world and its dark apocalyptic vision of Armageddon for the sake of their skewed distorted and perverse vision for the Middle East and state of Israel. A horrific vison which engenders hatred of Arab Muslims, the Russians, and other Gentile nations, and threatens the Jewish People themselves by their annihilation from a false prophesied path toward nuclear destruction.
Other topics in the book include the secret rapture doctrine and its origin, the movement to raise the third temple in Jerusalem, and God’s mission to the world of Islam.
This book brought me to tears when I read it and realized the horrifying future that could be as a result of these antichrist so-called “Christian” Zionist wolves in sheep’s clothing and their anti-Christ vision of Armageddon which means possibly death to billions of people including the very people of God his chosen people Israel within a portion of Jewish people today.
I cried to God also for the sheer waste of time, energy, and money being spent by those of millions of God’s own people who are not preaching the Gospel of love to greater lost dying world, but instead have embraced a perverse theology based on that of corrupt Judaism’s hatred of the Gentiles.
If you’re an evangelical Christian or one trapped in false political Christian Zionism, you have to read this book!
The next book is similar, but goes deep into all these topics already mentioned.
The book is The New Testament Case Against Christian Zionism: A Christian View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Pentecostal Christian author Paul A. Pomerville.
Written by the American former Law enforcement Officer, Paul Pomerville sets the book after an American style court room and the entire book is the judicial prosecution of Christian Zionism using the New Testament as witness testimony against the defendants.
This amazing enlightening book shows that New Testament authors were exhibiting a particular strain and theme evident throughout the Gospels and books of Acts and the epistles of the apostles, that of the “Judaism-Gospel Conflict.”
The New Testament Case Against Christian Zionism shows that that same case made by Jesus against Judaism and his disciple’s case against the Jewish Hellenist Christian Judaizers who tried to bring the burdensome dead Judaism and its practices back into the apostles’ Church of Jesus, is the same phenomena of “Judaism revived” that “pseudo-Christian Zionists” have brought with their theology into today’s evangelical community.
The New Testament Case Against Christian Zionism also prosecutes classical Dispensational theology as being destructive to the Church of Jesus in its denial of Kingdom of God and present age of the Holy Ghost and Jesus’ universal Gospel towards its mission to the world. He shows that there are spiritual consequences for adhering to dispensational theology and damage to the average Christian’s spiritual life.
Among other topics that book covers are the usurped Gospel of the kingdom of God, and the denial of power of the Holy Ghost, the indwelling of Spirit of God in the heart of the Christian believer. The book discusses the Israel-centered influence of American culture, the absence of the kingdom of God New Testament Gospel in the larger evangelical community today and absence of the Judaism-Gospel conflict in both the evangelical community and the pseudo-Zionist Christian theology camp. These are "the elephants" in the room.
The book closely examines the Gospel of Luke and Luke’s book of Acts, the theology behind the martyr Stephen, the apostle Paul’s letters to the Galatians and Romans and Barnabas’ book of Hebrews, and finally John’s Gospel of John giving in-depth who’s who, what, where and when analysis of these documents to show the existence of Judaism-Gospel conflict throughout the New Testament and to prosecute the pseudo-Christian Zionism as a perverse gospel, which is no gospel at all.
This is an amazingly well researched and written amount of “meat” unlike the “milk” most Christians today are content to drink. It refocuses the attention of the Bible on the Gospel, the deity of Christ, his incarnation, the Holy Spirt and the power of the Spirit in believer’s life all while refuting and condemning pseudo-Christian Zionism’s theological basis and doctrine.
The book also refocuses the reader attention of the Church’s true mission to the world, the universal Gospel to the Gentiles and the Jews, and contrasts that to “Judaism revived” which delegitimizes Gentiles and promotes a hatred toward those not of Israel, particularly the Arab Muslim world, who are consequently cut off from the true Gospel of Christ and alienated by the evangelical community’s obsession with their Israeli-centered theology.
The book makes you the reader the jury and you get to sentence the accused. Then you have choice given the information in the book to make regarding the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and decide where and what side you will be on—for a racist ethnic war, or for peace. Your decision could affect your eternal security.
The book is a hefty 507 pages, but well worth every penny of the twenty Dollars price I paid for it, in its enriching information, depth and scope of the Scriptures and the Bible and spiritual meat for the Christian soul. I highly recommend it for every evangelical Christian and those who are caught up in Christian Zionism.
I will be purchasing and reviewing two other books Paul Pomerville has written and post them here as they become available.
Check back for more books to be listed here.