Just weeks after October 7, 2023—the worst moment in Jewish history since the Holocaust—Pastor Jeff Durbin of Apologia Studios released a video discussing the massacre. In it, he argued that Jewish people who do not believe in Jesus are not truly Jewish and are not God’s chosen people. Instead, he claimed that Christians are the true Jews—that Christians are Israel. Through this video, Pastor Jeff Durbin fuels and spreads antisemitism. The video you are about to watch is a Messianic Jewish response, correcting the gross errors Pastor Jeff makes and offering a careful exegesis of the biblical passages he misuses to support his claims.
0:00 – Responding to Pastor Jeff Durbin taking advantage of October 7th to promote replacement theology
7:00 – Showing why Pastor Jeff Durbin’s interpretation of Romans 2.27–29 is incorrect and exegeting the text
26:53 – Responding to Pastor Jeff Durbin’s antisemitic comments
29:43 – Showing why Pastor Jeff Durbin’s interpretation of Romans 9:6 is incorrect and exegeting the text
46:24 – What God says about Israel in the Tanakh
47:31 – What Paul says about Israel
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Matthew V. Novenson, Paul, Then and Now (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022), 91–117.
Ryan D. Cullman, Apostle to the Foreskin: Circumcision in the Letters of Paul (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023), 148–196.
“Are Christians ‘the True Jews?’”
“Is the Church the ‘True Israel’?”
For an excellent movie documenting October 7, 2023, and the antisemitism that has been raging since, watch October 8