Churchwork
09-28-2014, 04:47 PM
Why I believe Mark Biltz is not a Christian:
1) Mark said he rejects the dispensation of grace, that is, the church age by which Jesus died on the cross to form the body of Christ. He said there was grace in the OT. Of course there was always grace, but the OT emphasizes the law, whereas the dispensation of the mystery age of the Church emphasizes the grace of God by Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the world. In the dispensation of grace the Holy Spirit can indwell believers' spirits. Such is not the case in the OT because the veil is not yet rent which represents Jesus dying in the flesh. Mark has no awareness of this distinction.
2) Mark claims Christians were killing Jews and that the Church was the cause of the holocaust. No! Luther and Augustine were not Christians, nor was Hitler. They were Calvinists.
3) Mark rejects the term Church for the body of Christ fellowshipping because the original word was Synagogue. So he despises the NT that uses the word Church positively and Synagogue of Satan negatively. He claims men in power did this rather than accepting it is God's will that the term Church be used positively and the word Synagogue used negatively. Church and Synagogue are terms used for assembly or ecclesia, but allow God to use the latter negatively, after all, most Jews did reject Jesus on the cross. The Church is a unit of locality. This fact is more clarified when you say, for example, like the Bible says, "Church of Antioch in the churches of Syria." Please study Biblocality to understand what Church to join,
http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/whichchurch.htm
4) Mark is correct replacement theology is wrong, but Mark is wrong when he despises the term "Church," "dispensation of grace," and like Satan falsely accuses "Christians were killing Jews."
5) What Mark doesn't understand is the promise to Israel is to be the center of all nations, but they will not reign as kings and priests (Rev. 20.4-10), for this reward is given to the overcomers in Christ (not all believers, just those that overcometh). Even so, a remnant of Jews from Israel will be saved as is true of all races of people. Israel only has this special mention because Jesus comes from the line of the Jews, God has a covenant with them as a nation to be preserved, the law came through Israel and because Israel was the first nation God revealed Himself too.
6) Mark is a false prophet because before 2008 he predicted the Tribulation would be from 2008 to 2015, and the whole Church would be raptured in 2008 according to his pretribulation rapture onlyism belief (rather than partial rapture). He made this prediction because he misread Rev. 6.12 so the Rev. 22.18,19 judgment is on him. What he did not understand was that Rev. 6.12 (2010-15) occurs before the Tribulation starts, not at the end of the Tribulation since Rev. 6.12 occurs before the first rapture according to readiness "before the throne (Rev. 7.9) in 3rd heaven, before the 1st trumpet (8.7) of the 7 trumpets of the Tribulation.
7) Mark said the Torah does not mean law. Of course it does, for it is full of laws that must be kept otherwise, in some cases, you would be put to death. That was for then this is now. In other words, the NT fulfillment of those laws takes on a NT context and sense of grace and mercy. For example, we do not stone adulterers today. That is certainly more grace than the OT. Just because Torah means "teach" doesn't mean it does not mean to teach the law. Mark is weird. He is coming awfully close to Ebionites.
8) Mark says the 5 unwise virgins (Matt. 25.1-13) don't have Torah, that is to say, they are not saved. He calls them the lamp of the wicked. This is a common pretrib rapture onlyist teaching; but they still have the oil of the Holy Spirit in their lambs, just not in their extra carrying vessels, and so they must have the Spirit of the law even though they may not be following it very well. They lose the reward of entering the marriage feast of the millennial kingdom to reign with Christ for 1000 years. All 10 virgins are of the same class. They are virgins. They are believers. Mark makes the mistake of claiming their light has gone out. It hasn't gone out since there is still oil in their lamps. Read. Matt. 25.1-13.
9) Mark claims those who say "Lord, Lord" are like Cain. No! Cain was not saved. Those who are saved who say "Lord, Lord" simply lose the first rapture and reward to returning with Christ to reign. The more Mark speaks the more you find out what he really believes. No accountability for Christians is his teaching! Christians can't lose eternal life, but we sure can lose rewards. When Jesus says to those He doesn't know them, He is referring to an intimate level, not that they are not saved, born-again or members of the body of Christ.
10) Mark accuses Christian works as being done by non-Christians. Surely you jest! Since Mark doesn't keep the Torah with his whole heart, based on his own understanding, he is not saved. But the Bible says we no longer live by the law but the Spirit of the law. You can see the problem. Mark does not distinguish between the wheat and the wheat, only the tares and the wheat. It's all or nothing with him; otherwise you are not a Christian according to him. But he doesn't meet such a standard himself. Actually, nobody does. That's the point in needing Christ.
11) Mark treats Col. 2.13,14 as not dying to the law, but bringing Jews and Gentiles together. He says it is not the Torah here. That's not what is being said. Of course it is about Torah. The law points our sins out. I have died on the cross with Christ which is dead to the law for it has no power over me to tempt me to sin because that which is dead, Satan can't work in through. I have died to the law. The law remains in effect, but its power to tempt has been greatly diminished for it is no longer I that live but Christ in me who keeps the law perfectly. I don't like how Mark explains things because he always goes back to Messianic Judaism emphasizing the Jews and not salvation. His mission against replacement theology goes too far the other way.
12) Mark says don't let pagans accuse you of keeping the feasts. That's not what Col. 2.16 says. It says, "Don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths." It says don't let anyone judge you for NOT keeping these holy days, etc. You see Mark is defending keeping these feasts, but the Bible says don't let Mark do that to you. Mark is a Messianic Judaizer imposing his Ebionite faith onto Christians. Mark reads "for not" as "for". Satan is the author of confusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCV1vnEdesY
1) Mark said he rejects the dispensation of grace, that is, the church age by which Jesus died on the cross to form the body of Christ. He said there was grace in the OT. Of course there was always grace, but the OT emphasizes the law, whereas the dispensation of the mystery age of the Church emphasizes the grace of God by Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the world. In the dispensation of grace the Holy Spirit can indwell believers' spirits. Such is not the case in the OT because the veil is not yet rent which represents Jesus dying in the flesh. Mark has no awareness of this distinction.
2) Mark claims Christians were killing Jews and that the Church was the cause of the holocaust. No! Luther and Augustine were not Christians, nor was Hitler. They were Calvinists.
3) Mark rejects the term Church for the body of Christ fellowshipping because the original word was Synagogue. So he despises the NT that uses the word Church positively and Synagogue of Satan negatively. He claims men in power did this rather than accepting it is God's will that the term Church be used positively and the word Synagogue used negatively. Church and Synagogue are terms used for assembly or ecclesia, but allow God to use the latter negatively, after all, most Jews did reject Jesus on the cross. The Church is a unit of locality. This fact is more clarified when you say, for example, like the Bible says, "Church of Antioch in the churches of Syria." Please study Biblocality to understand what Church to join,
http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/whichchurch.htm
4) Mark is correct replacement theology is wrong, but Mark is wrong when he despises the term "Church," "dispensation of grace," and like Satan falsely accuses "Christians were killing Jews."
5) What Mark doesn't understand is the promise to Israel is to be the center of all nations, but they will not reign as kings and priests (Rev. 20.4-10), for this reward is given to the overcomers in Christ (not all believers, just those that overcometh). Even so, a remnant of Jews from Israel will be saved as is true of all races of people. Israel only has this special mention because Jesus comes from the line of the Jews, God has a covenant with them as a nation to be preserved, the law came through Israel and because Israel was the first nation God revealed Himself too.
6) Mark is a false prophet because before 2008 he predicted the Tribulation would be from 2008 to 2015, and the whole Church would be raptured in 2008 according to his pretribulation rapture onlyism belief (rather than partial rapture). He made this prediction because he misread Rev. 6.12 so the Rev. 22.18,19 judgment is on him. What he did not understand was that Rev. 6.12 (2010-15) occurs before the Tribulation starts, not at the end of the Tribulation since Rev. 6.12 occurs before the first rapture according to readiness "before the throne (Rev. 7.9) in 3rd heaven, before the 1st trumpet (8.7) of the 7 trumpets of the Tribulation.
7) Mark said the Torah does not mean law. Of course it does, for it is full of laws that must be kept otherwise, in some cases, you would be put to death. That was for then this is now. In other words, the NT fulfillment of those laws takes on a NT context and sense of grace and mercy. For example, we do not stone adulterers today. That is certainly more grace than the OT. Just because Torah means "teach" doesn't mean it does not mean to teach the law. Mark is weird. He is coming awfully close to Ebionites.
8) Mark says the 5 unwise virgins (Matt. 25.1-13) don't have Torah, that is to say, they are not saved. He calls them the lamp of the wicked. This is a common pretrib rapture onlyist teaching; but they still have the oil of the Holy Spirit in their lambs, just not in their extra carrying vessels, and so they must have the Spirit of the law even though they may not be following it very well. They lose the reward of entering the marriage feast of the millennial kingdom to reign with Christ for 1000 years. All 10 virgins are of the same class. They are virgins. They are believers. Mark makes the mistake of claiming their light has gone out. It hasn't gone out since there is still oil in their lamps. Read. Matt. 25.1-13.
9) Mark claims those who say "Lord, Lord" are like Cain. No! Cain was not saved. Those who are saved who say "Lord, Lord" simply lose the first rapture and reward to returning with Christ to reign. The more Mark speaks the more you find out what he really believes. No accountability for Christians is his teaching! Christians can't lose eternal life, but we sure can lose rewards. When Jesus says to those He doesn't know them, He is referring to an intimate level, not that they are not saved, born-again or members of the body of Christ.
10) Mark accuses Christian works as being done by non-Christians. Surely you jest! Since Mark doesn't keep the Torah with his whole heart, based on his own understanding, he is not saved. But the Bible says we no longer live by the law but the Spirit of the law. You can see the problem. Mark does not distinguish between the wheat and the wheat, only the tares and the wheat. It's all or nothing with him; otherwise you are not a Christian according to him. But he doesn't meet such a standard himself. Actually, nobody does. That's the point in needing Christ.
11) Mark treats Col. 2.13,14 as not dying to the law, but bringing Jews and Gentiles together. He says it is not the Torah here. That's not what is being said. Of course it is about Torah. The law points our sins out. I have died on the cross with Christ which is dead to the law for it has no power over me to tempt me to sin because that which is dead, Satan can't work in through. I have died to the law. The law remains in effect, but its power to tempt has been greatly diminished for it is no longer I that live but Christ in me who keeps the law perfectly. I don't like how Mark explains things because he always goes back to Messianic Judaism emphasizing the Jews and not salvation. His mission against replacement theology goes too far the other way.
12) Mark says don't let pagans accuse you of keeping the feasts. That's not what Col. 2.16 says. It says, "Don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths." It says don't let anyone judge you for NOT keeping these holy days, etc. You see Mark is defending keeping these feasts, but the Bible says don't let Mark do that to you. Mark is a Messianic Judaizer imposing his Ebionite faith onto Christians. Mark reads "for not" as "for". Satan is the author of confusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCV1vnEdesY