During the first week of November, Jewish leaders convened the first Noahide International Congress in Jerusalem. Jews and Gentiles met to discuss and plan how to bring Gentiles around the world to accept and submit to Jewish wisdom and authority and adhere to the seven Noahide laws. These laws are said to derive from Genesis, but actually come from the Talmud and the teachings of Maimonides, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204 (“Rambam”). Interestingly, Noahide groups already exist in New Jersey and Texas. It is planned for the entire world to come under the jurisdiction of the Sanhedrin. What could possibly go wrong?

1. Prohibition of Idolatry: The requirement to worship only the Creator and not engage in polytheism or the worship of created things. Not incidentally, Christianity is considered polytheistic. Violating this law is punished by decapitation.
2. Prohibition of Murder: The mandate against taking a human life. (This was actually given to Noah after the flood.)
3. Prohibition of Theft: The mandate against stealing property or people.
4. Prohibition of Sexual Immorality: Specifically defined in this context to include incest, adultery, bestiality, and other acts classified as forbidden under the rabbinic framework.
5. Prohibition of Blasphemy: The mandate to respect the name of God.
6. Prohibition of Eating Flesh from a Living Animal: A requirement regarding the humane treatment of animals and dietary conduct.
7. Establishment of Courts of Justice: The requirement to implement a legal system (the Sanhedrin, which sentenced Jesus to death for claiming to be the Messiah) and maintain social order through just laws. 

Jews do not ask the Goyim to convert to Judaism. The Talmud teaches that Gentiles do not have the divine spark but are sub-human. Rather, we are to be proper Gentiles who look to the Jews for salvation by keeping the Noahide laws and worshiping the one true God. This will grant us a kind of second class citizenship in God’s kingdom. Think caste system.

The official webpage for the Noahide World Center maintains that through this new world covenant (brit olam) we can participate in a new beginning, which is a slap in the face to Jesus and the New Covenant. This is all under the guidance of Rabbi Oury Cherki, the founder of Brit Olam and one of the leading voices teaching the universal Torah (translated Talmud) to the nations. 

The Jews (Read What Defines Jewishness?) behind this movement refuse to acknowledge our Lord Jesus. In fact, their Talmud, the chief book of modern rabbinic Judaism, says our Lord is boiling in excrement for eternity for despising the wisdom of the sages, meaning the rabbis. (Gittin 57a) These are spiritual descendants of the Pharisees, whom Jesus said were sons of the devil. (John 8:44) In the book of Revelation, twice Jesus said that such are a “synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9 and 3:9), who claim to be Jews but are not. The apostle Paul went to great lengths to explain that true Jews are not racially descended from Abraham or practitioners of Judaism, but those who are born of God, both Jew and Gentile.

28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. Romans 2:28–29 (NASB95)

After Jesus, the Jews probably despise no one more than Paul because he was one of them before his conversion and clearly taught that Judaism is no longer a way to God. God has established a New Covenant through his Son, our Lord Jesus. He alone is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) There is no other covenant or way by which we can gain access and a right standing with God the Father besides the New Covenant. (Acts 4:12) As Jesus said, “You must be born again.” (John 3:7) Only through being born of the Spirit by the incorruptible seed of God’s Word can anyone be saved. (1 Peter 1:23)

We are saved by grace, not by race.

The Brit Olam of the Noahide movement is a false covenant behind a false gospel. It may give access and favor with a “god,” but not the God of the New Covenant. All those who reject Jesus serve a false god. (1 John 2:23) This god apparently identifies himself as Remphan or Saturn, based on the so-called star of David, which is on Israel’s flag and the Noahide logo. (Acts 7:43) As Paul so emphatically wrote in response to the Jewish false gospel of his day:

8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! Galatians 1:8–9 (NASB95) 

Thanks to the heresy of Dispensationalism and its misguided offspring, Christian Zionism, many real and so-called Christians, regard people who claim to be Jews as a kind of a divinely chosen super race, who have been given a special relationship with God outside of the New Covenant, despite having murdered his Son and rejecting his lordship. Nothing could be more misguided than that. Yet many who call themselves Christians stand morally, financially, and militarily with the antichrist nation of Israel, which has no right to anything from God except judgment, unless they repent and believe the gospel, just as is the case for the rest of mankind.

14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews, 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, 16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost. 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16 (NASB95)

There is only one chosen or elect people. They are the ones who were chosen “in Christ” before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1:3-4)

Anyone or any group that is outside of Christ is outside of everything good that comes from God. 

Any Christian who exchanges his New Covenant birthright for the Noahide Brit Olam is either totally misguided, not understanding the New Covenant at all, or was not a born-again follower of Christ in the first place. 

It is time for the church to shake herself free from the chains of false doctrine and cling to Christ alone. Let’s become experts in what the Bible says instead of Scofield’s notes.

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