As President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues continue to undermine the U.S.’ longtime strategic alliance with Israel, a recent event saw top faith leaders, Republican lawmakers, and conservatives gather to underscore a unified stance against the failed two-state solution, while promoting the idea of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as integral to Israel, grounded in a religious and political opposition to Palestinian statehood.
A Tuesday event of the Keep God’s Land organization in Washington, DC, brought together 150 top Christian, Jewish, and conservative leaders to “make their voices heard in opposition to the Biden administration’s push for a unilateral decision of a two-state solution.”
The Leadership Reception, hosted by the Heritage Foundation, featured an array of special guests, including Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, Heritage Foundation President and Army veteran James Carafano, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Israel365 founder Rabbi Tuly Weisz, Knesset Member Ohad Tal, and Trump’s faith adviser Pastor Paula White.
Religious nutjobs
It’s definitely a bad look but there are many religious leaders who side with Palestine.
“God gave this land to the Jewish people, and the Jewish people can’t give it away.”
,Still kind of wondering when Christians will come in more and claim Jewish people lost the land by rejecting Jesus… or wondering why it isn’t insisted upon that Israel is converted to Christianity.
America seems to be cursing Israel more than it is blessing Israel, in violation of [Genesis] 12:3. America was always in fulfillment Genesis 12:3, but there’s a second clause: “I will curse those who curse you,”
I think Christians believe this “Israel” to refer to the spiritual Israel… not Jews who reject Jesus and create a State. As such I would expect God to curse those who bless an anti-Christ Israeli State… Catholics generally formed a Western medieval Christendom, and some states seemed to be orthodox outright; it seems like the Christian approach is for States to be Christian, not Jewish.
edit: curious to see where this all goes as Israel seems to be losing something of a media battle? Can’t imagine their warmongering looks good to most people. According to some polls, young people especially are not supportive of what they’re doing
,Still kind of wondering when Christians will come in more and claim Jewish people lost the land by rejecting Jesus… or wondering why it isn’t insisted upon that Israel is converted to Christianity.
There is the idea in Protestantism of dispensationalism - specifically very popular in American evangelical Christianity - in which a lot of investments have been made.
Dispensationalism is an evangelical theological system that addresses issues concerning the biblical covenants, Israel, the church, and end times. It also argues for a literal interpretation of Old Testament prophecies involving ethnic/national Israel, and the idea that the church is a New Testament entity that is distinct from Israel.
(The Gospel Coalition)[https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/dispensational-theology/]
Dispensationalism teaches an eschatology that is specifically premillennial in that it affirms the return of Christ prior to a literal 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies.[7]: 147–148 This millennial kingdom will be theocratic in nature and not mainly soteriological, as it is considered by George Eldon Ladd and others with a non-dispensational form of premillennialism.[6] It will be distinctly Jewish, with the throne of David restored.[1]: 31
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Dispensationalism developed as a system from the teachings of John Nelson Darby, considered by some to be the father of dispensationalism (1800–1882),[22]: 10, 293 who strongly influenced the Plymouth Brethren of the 1830s in Ireland and England. The original concept came when Darby considered the implications of Isaiah 32 for Israel. He saw that prophecy required a future fulfillment and realization of Israel’s kingdom. The New Testament church was seen as a separate program not related to that kingdom. Thus arose a prophetic earthly kingdom program for Israel and a separate “mystery” heavenly program for the church. In order to not conflate the two programs, the prophetic program had to be put on hold to allow for the church to come into existence. Then it is necessary for the church to be raptured away before prophecy can resume its earthly program for Israel.[35]
In Darby’s conception of dispensations, they relate exclusively to the divine government of the earth. The Mosaic dispensation continues as a divine administration over earth up until the return of Christ, and the church, being a heavenly designated assembly, is not associated with any dispensations.[36]
While his Brethren ecclesiology failed to catch on in America, his eschatological doctrine became widely popular in the United States, especially among Baptists and Old School Presbyterians.[37]: 317
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Due in large part to the influence of dispensational premillennialism, the Moral Majority advocated for pro-Israel U.S. foreign policy positions, including protection of the Jewish people in Israel and continued aid for the state of Israel.[49][50] Opposed to Jimmy Carter’s affirmation of a Palestinian homeland, the Moral Majority endorsed Ronald Reagan for President in 1980.[51] In Reagan, they found a candidate that shared their apocalypticism. Reagan had read Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth and it is suggested that his Middle East policies were driven by this eschatological view.[47]: 43 [52]: 177 In an interview with televangelist Jim Bakker, Reagan stated that “[w]e may be the generation that sees Armageddon”.[53]: 355 Dispensational theology affected more than just Middle East foreign policy in the Reagan administration. James G. Watt, a member of the Assemblies of God and Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, stated to Congress that preservation of the environment was made irrelevant due to the imminent return of Christ.[54]: 148
Generally speaking, other Christians simply reject any ideas about the Jewish people and Israel having this special path they are walking for the fulfillment of all history. The Church is the new Israel, and the Jewish people of the old covenant are completely cut out of the church. There is the skepticism that they uphold anything like authentic Judaism - after all, they inherited the beliefs of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and created Talmudism which is distinct from the Judaism of the Torah…
Jews are people to be converted, and where we talk about potential prophecies of the End Times, the theories often focus on the Antichrist coming from ecumenism and often the Pope is singled out, though there are those who would say that Judaism itself will give birth to the Antichrist because the Antichrist will be their prophesied Messiah who they will elevate to the highest points of power that they can achieve.
It’s a very contrasting set of views…
And the former, dispensationalism, I think was astroturfed with cooperation of wealthy Jewish financiers because they saw the benefit of sucking in millions of gullible Protestants into zionism.
Because that is ultimately what dispensationalism serves - the Zionist project.
I think Christians believe this “Israel” to refer to the spiritual Israel… not Jews who reject Jesus and create a State. As such I would expect God to curse those who bless an anti-Christ Israeli State… Catholics generally formed a Western medieval Christendom, and some states seemed to be orthodox outright; it seems like the Christian approach is for States to be Christian, not Jewish.
Exactly.