Dr. Samuel M. Frost
“Are you a Zionist?” “Are you an Anti-Zionist?” Don’t you realize “the Jews” control the world? These kind of sentiments never seem to go away for those who identify as Jews. I wouldn’t want to be Jew in this life. Just to say you are of the Jewish faith in some places in America, and certainly online, will bring on the most hateful vitriol imaginaable.
What is this obsession people have “die Juden”? Oh, right, they aren’t really a people like the rest of us. Italians are Italians, Germans are Germans, and Nigerians and Nigerians. But, Jews aren’t really Jews. Know why? Bloodlines are mixed. To be a Jew, according to popular, online pundits, needs a DNA test. Then and only then can you be “qualified” to be Jew.
But, it is more than that. Because, see, the goal posts have been moved. There are no real Jews today. That is, the “ancient Jews” in Jesus’ day, and before, no longer exist, according to the current climate of Tucker Carlson and Candance Owens. Somehow, they vanished. Did they ever really, ever, exist? Talking about “genetics” like this is insane to me and hearkens back to a time when “pure blood lines” were required for membership in a Nation. Stupid idea.
Now, let me ask this: If “biblical” Jews no longer exist, and yet a person says, “I don’t hate Jews, and I don’t want Israel destroyed as a nation,” then what is it that you don’t hate? It’s not a Jew, because they don’t exist. At least they are not the same “ancient” people in the Bible. I don’t hate leprechauns, either. They don’t exist. But, what if someone was claiming to be a leprechaun, or, a Jew? A non-existent person pretending to be an existing person?
What if there were a bunch of them that had a claim on “land” promised to them by some “god”? Well, we would have to check the sources on that claim. Guess what the source is? The Bible. You know, that silly book “Christians” say they believe in.
Today, Christians (some of them) are saying that leprechauns…sorry, I mean, “Jews” have no claim to a land at all because they are not Jews. That is, they are the same people that the claim was originally, supposedly given. Now, if you follow current scholarship, such an ancient claim is entirely, 100% pure fiction. Abraham never existed, and neither did Moses. A “god” never spoke directly to Abraham and made the promise that his people would inherit a stretch of land “forever.” It never happened. It was never promised. Some nomads made it up.
Don’t believe me? You haven’t been paying attention. In the late 1800’s German academicians developed the idea that the Hebrew Bible is basically fiction. These were the best and the brightest, from the best and the brightest institutions of Germany. One of the most influential scholars at that time was Herman Gunkel, founder of what is today in OT studies called “Form Criticism.” Notice I used the word, “Old” Testament. A pejorative. Jews don’t call their Bible the Old Testament. They call it the TaNaK. The Hebrew Bible. We are already off on a bad foot. Paul, nowhere, calls what he referred to as the “Scriptures” (the “holy Scriptures” – he was a Jew, and Israelite) anything like the “old” scriptures. He called the covenant with Moses “old” (as in, ancient, not passé). But the covenant with Moses, among several made, was just one covenant. Genesis through Malachi is not the Old Testament. It is “the Scriptures” according to Jesus and Paul (and James). The covenant made with Moses a long time ago (“ancient,” or “old”) is in the Scriptures, but is not the entirety of the Scriptures. Noah had no clue about any covenant with Moses (and neither did Abraham). That is, if you believe the Bible.
Back to the brilliant, Gunkel. The basic idea is that the so-called “Hebrew” religion developed somewhere around the 8th, 7th, 6th centuries BCE. There was no Moses. No Noah. No Abraham. No Exodus (there is, as is claimed, zero evidence for any Exodus under Moses). No Jews. No Promised Land. Myth. Legend. Made up.
This is standard faire today in the universities worldwide. Yes, there was a nomadic people/nation. Yes there were “kings” and such, and yes they centered in on Jerusalem and yes, they identified themselves as God’s “chosen people” and all that. All made up. Imagine the audacious claim: The God who made the Universe, the Sun, Moon, Stars, and all creatures (the stuff of Physics, Astronomy, and Biology today) chose a particular people. What a claim! Let us bow down to such a privileged people!
Well, turns out, that claim was bogus. So were the so called “Prophets” who reinforced that claim (the guys who claimed visions and such from their “god”). They were the ones, together with the oppressive power structure of the “Priests” who made these claims up so as to “enforce” their power over the people.
But, see, today, since the days of Gunkel, Strauss, Wellhausen, Graf, Harnack – Germans – we know better. What did the eminent scholar Gunkel have to say about “modern day Jews”? “This reading practice has
reinforced a supersessionist appropriation of ancient Judaism. Van Sant
offers an alternative mode of reading Second Isaiah that goes beyond the limitations of the “new Exodus” motif and considers the tensions of exile to be
irresolvable, and divine care to be open-ended and enduring. Konrad Schmid
presents Hermann Gunkel’s ever changing and inconsistent presentation of
Judaism. Schmid argues that throughout his life, Gunkel continued to change
his views on Judaism as he wavered in degree about his own antisemitism,
although he never rid himself of the supersessionism of his own religious
conviction as a Protestant. This negative view of Judaism as exemplified in
many quotations in this article continued to infect Gunkel’s interpretation
of biblical texts throughout his writings. Anselm Hagedorn considers Gustaf
Dalman’s relationship to Judaism and Jews that is formed by a supersessionist
conviction and an engagement in the Protestant mission to Jews. Dalman’s
longing for the Ancient Holy Land was exacerbated through the mirror of
Ottoman historical reality. As a result, Dalman’s work was often rooted in
antisemitic tropes and represents a “radically ambivalent” (Z. Bauman)
attitude towards Jews and Judaism” (Arjen Bakker, Hindy Najman, and Thomas Wagner. Editorial Introduction: “Anti-Judaism and Biblical Scholarship.” HeBAI 14 (2025), 1–3 DOI 10.1628/hebai-2025-0002 ISSN 2192-2276 © 2025 Mohr Siebeck).
I could go on in a long line of tropes, but you get the point. By the time of the early 20th century, Germany had collapsed any notion that the Bible of the Jews was the “inspired word of God” as found in the Lutheran and Westminster Confessions of the Christian Faith. Enter one Fredrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche attacked Christianity with a vengeance. And, with that, the inventors of Christianity: “the Jews.” If the Jewish claim to be “the people of God” was false, then equally absurd was the Christian claim that the “church” had “superseded” and “inherited” this claim! The Church, pretending to be “heirs” of the promises made to “Israel” are equally to be condemned. If the Jewish Bible was myth, fantasy, made up, non-existent stories passed off as “historical narratives” for which there is zero support, then equally so is the Christian Bible (the followers of Yeshua Ha-Meshshiach, Jesus, the Messiah). Consider a line from renowned present day scholar, John J. Collins: “Only extremely conservative scholars would now take these dates [in Genesis-Joshua] at face value” (Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition, page 87). Guess who the “extremely conservatives” are? Numbskulls that actually believe the Bible as written.
But, see, Orthodox Jews believe in their Bible as written, too. Abraham existed. God made a promise of Land, “forever.” And one wonders why Jews and Christians have forged a relationship. Now, when one reads Hitler’s insane rant called, Mein Kampf, he stated that the made up Hebrew Bible, long debunked in his day by the scholars mentioned, was barbaric. Its laws were stupid. Moses never existed. Thus, neither do these “Jews” who still lay claim to ancient, silly promises. Hitler was surrounded by a world of Higher German Scholarship. These are not chosen people, they are parasites, rats, bankers and lawyers who suck off of nations in order to destroy them so that they, the Jews, will rise to power under a made up claim of God’s “chosen people.” And Hitler equally targeted the next group that laid claim on the promises of the Jews: The Christians. Now the Christians claim that they alone are “God’s People.” The point of Nietzsche cannot be missed: no one can lay this claim except for those who will themselves to power over and against any such claims. God is dead.
Now. All of this changes if, in fact, God, who made the heavens and the earth, spoke to Abraham, and Moses. That they existed. That they are alive with God in heaven, awaiting resurrection and inheritance. And that Gentiles are also included in the promises made to Abraham and David: that those who have true faith in God are, indeed, the chosen people out of all the earth, and that all nations shall fail except for this Nation of People that God has chosen for Himself; those who believe in Him. What does the World do with such that make such claims? To be “God’s Chosen People”? Well. Take a look around you.
Do Jews still exist? You betcha.
Author: Samuel M. Frost, Th.D.
Samuel M. Frost has gained the recognition of his family, peers, colleagues, church members, and local community as a teacher and leader. Samuel was raised in the Foursquare Gospel tradition and continued in the rising Charismatic Movement of the early 1980’s. While serving in local congregations he was admitted to Liberty Christian College in Pensacola, Florida where he lived on campus for four years earning his Bachelor’s of Theology degree. It was there under the tutelage of Dr. Dow Robinson (Summer Institutes of Linguistics), and Dr. Frank Longino (Dallas Theological Seminary) that he was motivated to pursue a career in Theology. Dr. Robinson wrote two books on Linguistics, Workbook on Phonological Analysis (SIL, 1970) and Manuel for Bilingual Dictionaries: Textbook (SIL, 1969). It was under these teachers’ guidance that Frost entered into his Master’s studies, being granted a scholarship for Greek I and II at Pentecostal Theological Seminary, accredited, in Cleveland, Tennessee (adjunct of Lee University). Frost completed his study under Dr. French Arrington (The Ministry of Reconciliation, Baker Books, 1980), who used the text of J. Gresham Machen, New Testament Greek for Beginners.
Frost studied Hebrew for two years under Dr. Mark Futato (author, Beginning Biblical Hebrew, Eisenbrauns, 2003) and Dr. Bruce K. Waltke (author, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Eisenbrauns, 1990) at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida. With combined credits from PTS and RTS, Samuel completed his Master of Arts in Christian Studies and Master of Arts in Religion from Whitefield Theological Seminary in Lakeland, Florida under the direct tutelage of Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot, co-author of the well reviewed work, Hyper-Calvinism and Arminianism (Whitefield Media, 2005) with Dr. Gary Crampton (and Foreword by the late, Dr. D. James Kennedy). Dr. Talbot also oversaw Samuel’s Dissertation, From the First Adam to the Second and Last Adam (2012) earning him the Magister Theologiae (Th.M.) degree. He also helped put together A Student’s Hebrew Primer for WTS, designed and graded exams for their Hebrew Languages course.
Samuel’s studies lead him into an issue in the field of Eschatology where his scholarship and unique approach in Hermeneutics garnered him recognition. Because of the controversial nature of some of his conclusions, scholars were sharp in their disagreement with him. Frost’s initial work, Misplaced Hope: The Origins of First and Second Century Eschatology (2002, Second Edition, 2006 Bi-Millennial Publishing), sold over four thousand units. While arguing for the Reformation understanding of sola Scriptura as defined by the Westminster Confession of Faith, Frost’s book launched a heavily footnoted argument for a total reassessment of the doctrine known as the Second Coming of Christ. The conclusion was that the events of the war of the Jewish nation against their Roman overlords in 66-70 C.E. formed the New Testament authors’ eschatological outlook, and went no further than their own first century generation; a view otherwise known as “full” or "hyper" Preterism. Internationally recognized Evangelical author and speaker, Steve Wohlberg remarked, ‘On the “preterist” side today…we have such influential leaders as Gary DeMar, Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., David Chilton, R.C. Sproul, Max King, James Stuart Russell, Samuel M. Frost, and John Noe. To these scholars…the beast is not on the horizon, he’s dead” (Italics, his)” (End Time Delusions, Destiny Image Publishers, 2004, page 133). It should be noted that only Noe, King and Frost supported the “full” Preterist position.
Thomas Ice and co-author of the best selling Left Behind series, Tim LaHaye, quote Frost’s work, Misplaced Hope, as well in their book, The End Times Controversy: The Second Coming under Attack (Harvest House Publishers, 2003, page 40). Dr. Jay E. Adams, who single handedly launched “a revolution” in Christian Counseling with his work, Competent to Counsel: An Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling, (1970, Zondervan), also wrote an analysis of Frost’s work in Preterism: Orthodox or Unorthodox? (Ministry Monographs for Modern Times, INS Publishing, 2004). Adams wrote of Misplaced Hope as a "useful, scholarly work" (p.6 - though he disagreed with the overall thesis). Dr. Charles E. Hill, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, wrote of Misplaced Hope that Frost, “attacks the problem of the early church in a much more thoroughgoing way than I have seen” (When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper Preterism, Ed. Keith Mathison, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 2003, ‘Eschatology in the Wake of Jerusalem’s Fall’ p. 110-ff.). There were several other works as well that took the scholarship of Frost seriously, like Ergun Caner in The Return of Christ: A Premillennial Perspective, Eds., Steve W. Lemke and David L. Allen (B&H Publishing, 2011).
Because of the controversial nature of Frost’s conclusions on these matters, it was difficult to find a denomination within the Church-at-Large to work in terms of pastoral ministry. That situation changed when Samuel was called by a Bible study group in Saint Petersburg, Florida to found a congregation. Christ Covenant Church was established in 2002 operating under the principles outlined by Presbyterian historian James Bannerman’s work, The Church of Christ: A Treatise on the Nature, Powers, Ordinances, Discipline, and Government of the Christian Church (Banner of Truth Trust, 1974, original, 1869). By-Laws and a Constitution were drawn up in the strictest manner for what was considered an “Independent” establishment of an independent Presbyterian Church, granted that a “call” was received and recognized by Presiding Elders duly ordained from existing and recognized denominations. Two Elders, one ordained in the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Mike Delores), and another ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America (Dr. Kelly N. Birks, now deceased) tested and reviewed the call, ordaining Samuel on October 20th, 2002, the Twenty Second Sunday after Trinity. Proper forms were submitted to Tallahassee, Florida with the stamp of a Notary Public Witness. Christ Covenant Church (CCC) functioned as a local church for five years with a congregation as large as 30 members. Frost was gaining recognition after Misplaced Hope had been published in January of that year, and conferences were hosted that included debates with another prominent "full" Preterist educator, Don K. Preston. CCC hosted best-selling authors, Thomas Ice, and Mark Hitchcock from Dallas Theological Seminary; and Dr. James B. Jordan (Westminster Theological Seminary), well-known author/pastor in Reformed theological circles. Frost was invited for the next several years to speak at over 25 conferences nation-wide, was featured in articles and an appearance on local news in Tampa for one of CCC’s conferences. The Evangelical Theological Society also invited Samuel to speak at the Philadelphia conference (Frost is currently a Member of ETS as well as Society of Biblical Literature, SBL).
During this time Samuel had submitted one more book, Exegetical Essays on the Resurrection of the Dead (TruthVoice, 2008; repr. JaDon Publishing, 2010); and co-wrote, House Divided: A Reformed Response to When Shall These Things Be? (Vision International, 2010). Frost also wrote several Forewords for up and coming authors who were influenced by his teaching materials, as well as sited many times in books, lectures and academic papers (Essays is sited in Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters, Tony Costa, Studies in Biblical Literature, Volume 157, 2013 Monographs XV, Peter Lang: New York; "Unsound and Informally Fallacious Preterist Arguments for Mark 13:24-27." Elton L. Hollon, The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 5, Sept. 2023). However, because of certain aspects of Hermeneutics and Frost’s undaunted commitment to scholarship (with always a strong emphasis on the personal nature of devotional living to Christ), several challenges to the "hyper" Preterist view he espoused finally gave way, largely due to the unwavering commitment to Samuel by the Dean of Whitefield Theological Seminary, Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot, who continually challenged him. In what shocked the "hyper" Preterist world, Samuel announced after the Winter of 2010 that he was in serious error, and departed the movement as a whole.
The documentation of Frost’s departure was published by American Vision’s Founder, Gary DeMar, with a Foreword by Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry. Why I Left Full Preterism (AV Publishing, 2012) quickly ran through its first run. The book was later republished under the arm of Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry (GoodBirth Ministries Publishing, 2019). Dr. Gentry also gave mention to Frost in his book, Have We Missed the Second Coming: A Critique of Hyper Preterism (Victorious Hope Publishing, 2016), noting him as "one of the most prominent" teachers within Full Preterism (135). Dr. Keith Mathison, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformation Bible College in Sanford, Florida, endorsed the book as well. Samuel has gone on to write, Daniel: Unplugged (McGahan Publishing House, 2021); The Parousia of the Son of Man (Lulu Publishing, 2019); God: As Bill Wilson Understood Him: A Theological Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous (Lulu Publishing, 2017). He is also active as a certified Chaplain with the Henry County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana, and enrolled with ICAADA (Indiana Counselor’s Association on Alcohol and Drug Abuse), and worked directly under Dr. Dennis Greene, Founder of Christian Counseling and Addictions Services, Inc., for a year. Frost’s passion is in the education of the local church on various issues and occasionally worked with Pastor Alan McCraine with the First Presbyterian Church in Lewisville Indiana (and at Knightstown Bethel Presbyterian - where he currently is a Member, and is a Commissioned Ruling Elder in the PCUSA), where he periodically was called upon to give the sermon. Samuel, with his wife, Kimberly, helped to establish Heaven’s Bread Basket food pantry that donates food items to local families in need once a month – a ministry of the Session of First Presbyterian Church (Lewisville). Frost has recently earned his doctorate in Theology (Th.D.) after two years with Christian Life School of Theology Global (CLSTG, Georgia). Currently, he is an Instructor for the Southern Region LIFE Bible College, Papua New Guinea, and recently was co-published with Elton Hollon for Bibliotheca Sacra (April-June 2023; Volume 180, Number 718; 202-227). He has a solid, family reputation in the community, and has performed local marriages and funerals. He also sits on the Board of the Historical Preservation Commission in New Castle, and Hagar's Hope, a women's transition house. Frost is employed as Instructor for the Henry County Health Department (Jail Recovery Assistance Program), teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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