12/03/2025
When someone rewrites Jewish history and quotes men who would disagree with almost everything he just preached, it is right and necessary for the church to speak up.
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In this video we examine a recent sermon in which the preacher claims that the Jewish people “lost all records of the Levites in 70 AD” and that no one today knows who the priestly lineage is. This statement is both historically and theologically inaccurate, as well as deeply disrespectful to the Jewish community.
Jewish families with priestly lineage (Kohen, HaLevi, Levy, Kahana, Kagan, Katz, etc.) still exist today, are recognized in every synagogue, and their lineage is confirmed both through Jewish tradition and modern genetics.
This is not a matter of debate — it is established fact.
The preacher also attempts to support his partial preterist + postmillennial eschatology by appealing to Christian thinkers throughout history. But every name he cites — Augustine, Benedict of Nursia, Erasmus, Thomas More, Luther, Calvin, Wilberforce, Spurgeon, William Booth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer — were all either historic premillennial or amillennial, and ALL believed in:
the literal return of Jesus
the future resurrection of the dead
the catching-up of believers at His coming (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17)
Not a single one of them taught modern postmillennial dominionism or 70-AD fulfillment theology.
Not one.
To use these men to promote partial preterism or the denial of the future rapture is historically inaccurate and theologically misleading.
As a pastor, my concern is not with the man, but with the teaching:
It misrepresents Jewish history
It misquotes Christian tradition
It paints all premillennial and amillennial believers with the same brush
It promotes an eschatology that blames Christians for "not taking dominion" rather than pointing the church back to Scripture
My goal in this video is simple: to correct error with clarity, Scripture, and respect — not to attack a brother, but to defend sound doctrine and honor the people of Israel.
“Test all things; hold fast what is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21