The Trap Inside the Trap
What Geoffrey Stroud's Genesis 10 Article Is Actually Built to Make You Believe
“I can feel the jack-boots of the Israel lovers pounding up my back with this one. The truth often hurts.”
— Geoff Stroud, promotional note for “Genesis 10: The Trap of the Interim,” published on or before July 13, 2026
(Crazy part…he refers to me as a “Christian Zionist” like it is a bad thing. These are the words of an antisemite).
Genesis 10: What This Article Is Actually Built to Do
Before I get into the text, I want to answer a question straight: why did Geoff write this article, and what is he using it to accomplish? Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Geoff put that jackboots line out to promote this piece before a single person had read it, let alone argued with him. He already knew what he was going to call anyone who pushed back — Israel lovers, jack-boots, people stomping on the truth. That’s not a man bracing for an unfair attack. That’s a man pre-building an excuse so that when the pushback comes, he doesn’t have to answer it. He just has to point at the pushback and say, “see, told you.” Disagreement becomes proof he was right all along. That’s the trap, and it’s baited before the article even goes live.
Now look at what the article is protecting.
The move underneath the word study
Geoff spends most of this piece doing careful, genuinely competent Hebrew word work — Nimrod, Eber, the number seventy. I’ve said before, that work is real. But it’s not the point of the article. It’s the runway. Everything lands here:
Geoff says: “Old Testament Shadow (The Interim) — The Geopolitical Nation of Israel... New Testament Substance (The Final) — The Trans-National, Global Body of Christ.”
Israel, as an actual nation with an actual future, gets filed under “shadow” — a thing with no independent life, no mass, no breath, in his own words. Something you walk through to get to what’s real. That’s the target the whole article was built to hit.
Paul says the opposite, in plain language, decades after the cross:
Romans 11:1-2 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Romans 11:28-29 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Jeremiah 31:35-36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
God ties Israel’s national future to the sun and moon staying in the sky. Geoff’s chart ties it to an expiration date. Those can’t both be true.
What the article is using to sell that move
This is the part worth naming plainly, because it’s what Geoff is actually using to get readers to accept the shadow/substance chart: he doesn’t just argue that Israel’s national future is over. He tells you that caring about it is the problem. Holding onto it is called “lukewarmness.” It’s called “tribal insularity.” It’s called the “Nimrod mindset” — the same mindset he spends half the article associating with rebellion against God. He’s not just making a covenant argument. He’s making it costly, in the reader’s own conscience, to disagree with him. Agree, or you’re the one who’s spiritually stuck.
That’s the same tool the jackboots line uses, aimed at a wider audience. Anyone who reads Genesis 10 the way most of church history has — anyone who holds what Romans 11 actually says — isn’t just wrong in Geoff’s framework. They’re a symptom of exactly the spiritual sickness the article is diagnosing. The article doesn’t just argue a position. It closes the door on the position it’s arguing against, before the reader even gets there.
Where this leaves it
Geoff is right about the seventy, right about Eber, right that the gospel reaches every nation on that table. Nobody’s disputing that. What he’s built with that credibility is a frame where Israel’s covenant future gets erased, and anyone who says otherwise gets treated as the reason the church is lukewarm. That’s the actual thing happening in this article. Not a hidden motive I can read off his heart — a documented pattern, right there in his own words, from the promotional line down to the chart.
I love you enough to tell you that straight.
Matthew Adams, MyR2B Ministries Cult Watch.