Thread by @WrteWingWriter

1. How have denominations throughout history interpreted Genesis 12:3 - Christ, or blessing modern day antichrist “Jews” and their State of “Israel” established in 1948?

Let’s look at the earliest English translations, summaries, commentaries, references, and marginal notes 🧵

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2. While not the first English translation, the 1609/10 Douay 1582 Rheims was the Catholic response to the Reformation Bibles with Catholic commentary

How do they interpret Gen 12:3?

“In Christ born of Abraham’s seed all nations are blessed, Galatians 3”

3. The 1611 King James is considered the pinnacle of the Reformation Bibles

Genesis 12 summary: “God called Abram, and blessed him with a promise of Christ”

Margin cross reference includes “Galatians 3”

4. How about our Calvinist friends in the 1560 Geneva Bible, the Bible of the pilgrims, some rightly criticize the marginal commentary as the genesis of dispensationalism and Christian Zionism

Gen 12:3 marginal notes: “The whole world shall recover by thy seed which is Christ”

5. Or the Bishops of the Church of England when they edited the 1568 Bishops’ Bible

Chapter summary of Genesis 12:3 is simply “CHRIST”

Marginal notes: “Christ, the seed of Abraham, blessed all the cursed kindreds of the world”

6. The greatest biblical scholars in history, across multiple denominations, interpret Gen 12:3 to be about Christ

How is it that only within the last century, Christians (particularly American Evangelicals) believe it’s about blessing antichrists or being cursed for not?

7. A modern day “Jew” and Zionist, Samuel Untermeyer, paid Cyrus Scofield a lot of money to create the Scofield Reference Bible, and stated in the commentary that Gen 12:3 is about the “Jewish nation” and that antisemitism is a sin.

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8. Dispensationalists of yesteryear laid the foundations, corrupted the seminary institutions, and modern televangelists like Pastor Hagee and Jerry Falwell further brought this false message to tens of millions of Christians.

9. They claim that modern day “Jews” and the State of “Israel” are the biblical House of Israel (the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel) and that helping “Jews” and “Israel” is helping to fulfill prophecy, but it isn’t true

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10. Christians have been deceived with a bombardment of false commentary and bought preachers telling them what the Bible says instead of what it actually says, and the terms “Jew” and “Israel” have been lied about and conflated beyond distinction.

11. Some “Christians” even believe, in their own vanity, that THEY will fulfill prophecy, that THEY will bring forth the antichrist, that THEY will usher in the Second Coming of Christ

God fulfills prophecy; THEY serve the antichrist

12. “Jews” and the State of “Israel” are not the House of Israel. They are 1 John 2:22-23 4:3 antichrists, Rev 2:9 3:9 “Jews”, and John 3:18 condemned

Christians have believed, blessed, and served antichrists, and we have been cursed as a nation for doing so