Israel Only View Easily Debunked

May 22/2022

1 Then Israel Only View believes that everything in the Bible only pertained to ancient Israel and not a word of it applied to anyone else ever and never will. 2 They say that they are the only one with a consistent Full Preterist view while most Full Preterist read themselves into the first century timeframe. 3 The Israel Only View boils down to Atheism except for those who belief in their energy god. 4 According to this view everything just ended in AD70 and leads many of their followers into the Abyss of atheism. In order for their view to stand they twist the meanings of words to mean something else. 5 For a few examples Adam was Israel, the Earth was just the nation of Israel, the Gentiles were only the ten lost tribes of Israel and has nothing to do with the other 70 nations from Noah that were required to attend the Feast of Tabernacles according to:

The Nations Worship the King

Zechariah 14: 16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

6 In the Book of Jonah we can see how God wanted other nations other than Israel to repent like Egypt here:

Isaiah 19:19In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. 20And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them. 21Then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it.

Jonah 1:14 Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, “We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have done as it pleased You.” 15 So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.

Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,

Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.

7 David Curtis came out with a good video about this and said have you ever wondered why Jesus called Simon Peter, Simon Bar-Jonah. 8 Was it because after Jesus was sent to save the nation of Israel, that Peter would be sent by Jesus to save other nations so Jesus called him Simon Bar-Jonah as a hint to him of what he was going to do.

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

9 Here is another undeniable proof God had other nations best interest in mind:

Jeremiah 12:14 Thus says the Lord: “Against all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. 15 Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land. 16 And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. 17 But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the Lord.

10 Cornelius and his Household were the first of the Gentiles recorded that got saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. This story alone debunks the Israel Only View right here:

Acts 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always.

Acts 10:28 Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, 47 “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.

Acts 11:18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” 19 Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. 20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. 22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. 23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord. 28 Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. 36 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all.

11 Here are two similar versions of what the Israel Only View Statement of belief are:

FOUR PILLARS ISRAEL ONLY STANDS ON

Israel Only (IO) has been around since December 3, 2005

TIME: No one after the last day was given or can be saved (John 6:39-40, 44, 54). The Bible was not written TO US or FOR US. The Bible records God’s redemptive plan for Israel in AD 70

PEOPLE: Only Israel (Abraham and his biological descendants) was promised the New Covenant (Romans 11:25-27, Heb 8:8-12).

NUMBER OF ELECT: There was a limited number of people given to Christ resulting in “all Israel” being saved (John 6:39-40, 44, 54, Romans 11:25-27). Only those whose names were in the book of life at the one time coming and judgment could enter New Jerusalem (Rev 20:15, 27). Not after.

NATURE: As Jesus was raised biologically from the dead (Lk 24:39, Acts 2:30-32) and immortal conquering biological death (Acts 2:23-24, Rom 6:9), the elect were expected to follow suit (1 Cor 15:20-22) and be raised immortal as Jesus was (1 Cor 15:51-53) from tombs (John)

12 Anyone who rejects those four pillars is either not IO or a subset of IO

1. Israel exclusiveness of the old covenant and of the new covenant.

2. One time biological gathering of the saints in AD 70

3. One time biological resurrection of the dead in AD 70.

4. No application of the Bible to anyone after AD 70

13 Perhaps the most convincing text from scripture that proves the Israel Only View wrong is found in Acts 17:22-31. 14 Where it is written that God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and that they should seek the Lord, and we are also His offspring. 15 God also commands all men everywhere to repent.

Addressing the Areopagus

Acts 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

The Mystery Revealed

Ephesians 3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles— ²if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, ³how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, ⁴by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), ⁵which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: ⁶that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

15 Award E.Stevens “Quote”: in regard to IO, we need to remember that the Israel-Only apostasy uses all of the various Full Preterist views to feed their syncretistic system. If their use of the rapture idea proves anything against the rapture view, then their use of CBV and CC ideas would likewise falsify CBV and CC as well. You need to face that fact!!!

I have known Chris Camillo since the early 1990’s. He was a student at Bethel Seminary when he first contacted me. He was Trinitarian and full preterist at that time, leaning toward Max King’s CBV view. He came out to visit me one time during that period when he was still Trinitarian. But something happened in the mid-90’s to push him away from believing in the Deity of Christ and the Trinity. And he has continued to diverge away from orthodox biblical teaching ever since. I cut off fellowship from him when he became a Unitarian (mid-90’s), and lost contact with him after that. It was a shock and a huge disappointment when I saw him reappear on the Internet social media groups teaching his heretical and apostate view of Israel-Only (IO).

Anyone who has critically analyzed Chris Camillo’s (River of Eden) IO view can see that he is a syncretist. He takes a little dab of this and a smidgeon of that and glues it together into a whole new heretical system.

No one denies that he used the rapture as part of his system. That is obvious to all. But what is not so obvious is that some of the other aspects of his system were borrowed from Christian Identity, the “fully fulfilled” hyper-preterist view (post-everything-ism), and from the CBV and CC views as well (via Jason DeCosta).

Chris took pieces of “fully-fulfilled” (post-everything-ism), and “covenant with Israel only” (Covenant Creationism), and “salvation only for the 12 tribes of Israel” (Christian Identity), the rapture, and some other ideas from the CBV, and put it all into his syncretistic blender, and out came his shiny new Israel-Only heresy.

Camillo and his associates (Don Hochner, et al) are the ones who shoulder ALL the blame for it. None of us other preterists (CBV, IBV, CC, etc.) are to blame for his heretical concoction. We all disavow any fellowship with him and his IO apostasy.

So, the CBV and CC and IBV were not the only preterist views which Chris Camillo used to build his syncretistic monster (IO). We are no more to blame for it than anyone else. ALL the blame rests squarely on Chris Camillo and his associates. They will have to face God in their afterlife and answer to God for what they are teaching.

Truly, as Jesus said about false teachers like Chris Camillo, “It would be better for them if a millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea, than that they would cause one of these little ones to stumble” (Luke 17:2 NAS95).

God forbid that any more Christians are deluded by the I-O apostasy. They have made shipwreck of the faith for far too many already. May all of us preterists (and futurists) work together to expose the errors of the I-O view and encourage our fellow-believers to back away from any association with it. We need to mark I-O as apostasy and turn away from it completely and permanently.

The Mystery Revealed

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