Whom Is Your Mother?
Old Covenant Slave Mother vs New Covenant Free Woman
Galatians 4:21-31
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar.
25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Comparatively, the son of Abraham by the free woman (Isaac) is likened to those seeking to be justified by faith in Yeshua (Jesus) as the promised Messiah, without becoming Jewish first or seeking a Zionist national identity.
When reading Paul’s words, the son of Abraham by the slave woman (his son Ishmael) was likened to those seeking to be justified by human means, by the works of the Law, by circumcision, by legal Jewish identity.
Paul confronted those who wanted to enforce the Jewish Law covenant upon the newly formed Christian congregation. The Christian congregation and the covenant it was formed upon was comprised of not just natural Jews, but of people of other nations who were not bound to obey the Law of Moses.
Yet there was a constant insistence then and also today by Zionist Jews to enforce an old terminated covenant centered on one physical nation, Israel.
In addition, ‘Christian Zionist:’ have become a powerful international force and their support of the State of Israel is uncritical no matter what actions the State may take. They applaud the genocide of the Palestinian people while settling in stolen land.
Zionist seek to be right with God by continuing the things of the past while ignoring His will in the matter. They want to recreate biblical Israel.
Paul speaks about two opposing covenants in his letter to the disciples in Galatians. He drew an illustration using (unnamed) Sarah, and (named) Hagar. Paul emphasized a competition between two covenants. One is legitimate and the other is not.
Paul also wanted disciples of Jesus to understand that attempts to have a righteous standing with God according to the flesh, according to Jewish social status, and a physical national identity is to be identified with a covenant of slavery, the covenant with Hagar and her offspring.
Zionist and so-called Christian-Zionist possess this slave mentality by insisted on creating an earthly nation with Jerusalem as it capital. This is exactly what Paul is warning against.
The original old covenant with a single nation is the covenant with Hagar and her offspring. It relates to the Law Covenant wherein God covenantally “married” as it were, his bride Israel.
By the time Paul wrote this letter, earthly Jerusalem certainly was not free. The Roman government had a choke-hold on the complete region. It could not have been the “Jerusalem above” Paul refers to.
What he does say specifically is that the Jerusalem above is “free”, in opposition to the slave-city earthly Jerusalem. He tells us that this heavenly Jerusalem is our mother; not earthly Jerusalem. Christian Zionist ignore this fact and insist on establishing a kingdom on Earth.
However, these verses are proof positive that the Old Covenant stemming from Mount Sinai represents slavery and had to be replaced by the ‘New Covenant’ which is based on a heavenly Jerusalem that offers freedom.
The present Zionist movement are the efforts of those attempting to defy God and continue under a yoke of slavery.
Paul further tells us that Ishmael was born when Abraham succumbed to his flesh. Or in other words, in the normal way ordinary human beings produce and bear children during their age of childbearing.
On the other hand, the son of the free woman Sarah (Isaac) was born, not according to human effort, but by the Divine power of God and after Abraham and Sarah were in reality too old to physically copulate for the sake of producing children.
Galatians 4:26 King James Version (KJV)
“But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all”.
The efforts of Zionist, be they of Jewish descent or non Jewish, is in opposition to the kingdom of Heaven and to its ruler, Jesus Christ. It is therefore antichrist in its nature.
Why is this so vitally important for us to understand and appreciate?
For the answer to this question, we must read what Paul wrote to the disciples in Thessaloniki.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-13
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
This “man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” is the antichrist.
Paul told us that the Lord’s return would not occur until the “antichrist”, the “man of lawlessness”, the “son of perdition” would be “revealed”.
Paul gives us an idea of what we should be looking for in order to identify the antichrist.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The antichrist is a substitution for Jesus Christ as it speaks of ‘him’ attempting to occupy a place in God’s temple. The Zionist’ aim is to reestablish biblical Israel and rebuild an earthly temple in Jerusalem. This too, is in opposition to Christ.
A true Christian disciple of Jesus, will reject Zionism in what ever form it presents itself in.