Modern Israel Is Not What the Christian Zionists Say It Is

To believe that the modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy, as the Dispensationalists and Christian Zionists do, is to sever the line of Scripture leading to Jesus. Jesus repeatedly speaks as such.

“Therefore, I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to [another] people who will produce the fruit of it.”   Mt. 21:43

Of course, Christ is referring to the Church here in Mt. 21. There are not promises left to chthonic Israel and as such the current modern state of Israel cannot be the fulfillment of prophecy because Christless Israel has been stripped by God.

Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

Israel did not bear fruit and so it was cut down. Chthonic Israel is deleted. There are no promises to a modern Christless Jewish people.

And when He saw a fig tree by the wayside, He came to it and found nothing thereon, but leaves only. And He said unto it, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever.” And immediately the fig tree withered away. (Mt. 21:19)

This is because all the promises were ever only for the Jew who was one inwardly, who knew the circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit. Never by the letter (Romans 2:29).

The New Testament crowns the Church as the new Israel of God and declares that it is the inheritor of all the OT promises, and the land the Church inherits is the whole world (Eph. 6:2-3, Mt. 5:5) and not some desert dirt in the Middle East. Dispensationalists and Christian Zionists who insist that chthonic Israel has some kind of divine claim to the land are in violation of the whole testimony of Scripture.

We owe those people, who Paul says are the children of the slave woman (Galatians 4) nothing but the command that they repent. It is idiotic to think that God will not bless us if we fail to bless the sons of Hagar.

These are not God’s chosen people. They are, as the Scripture teaches, the synagogue of Satan. They are those who say that they are Jews but are not, but are liars (Rev. 3:9). “Christian” support for Zionism based on Jews being owed the inheritance of Father Abraham because they are the sons of Hagar traced through Ishmael is crushed under the weight of a proper hermeneutic.

All this Dispensational and Christian Zionism has poisoned the minds of many in the Christian Church and has turned the Christian Church into an outpost for non-Christian blasphemous thinking.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane