Essay: Why evangelicals theologically are completely, embarrassingly wrong about the Israel–Hamas War

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Modern-day Protestants are wrong. The "State of Israel" has no relevance to Bible prophecy.

It may seem nice that evangelical Protestants position themselves as diehard loyal supporters of the modern "State of Israel," vowing solidarity with the Jews against neo-Amalekite terrorist repression. But there is a problem with this picture: while much of the rank-and-file may be sincere out of unfortunate ignorance (since, after all, they are blinded by the god of this world), the initiated class knows full well that the movement has nothing to do with supporting Jewry against antisemitism—instead it concerns the "fulfillment" of Jesuitist schemes in a massive deception game.

As strange as it may appear, MSNBC got something spot-on correct for once—apostate "evangelical" Protestantism don't support Israel because it supposedly loves the Jewish people, but rather seeing it as a tool to fulfill a racist, antisemitic theology. This isn't "liberal claptrap," everyone, it's just a factual reality. If you disagree, then go back and read the Scriptures, because it does not substantiate apostate Protestant theology.

Modern Israel: prophecy fulfilled?

No.

The notion that modern "Israel" in any way fulfills prophecy from the Old or New Testaments is a distortion of the New Covenant—the true seed of Abraham is not centered on ethno-cultural heritage, but faith in God. Actually, no, this was the standard even in Old Testament times—the Abrahamic Covenant was inclusive to all nations, not only the literal children of Israel. As the Apostle Paul put it, the seed of Abraham are everyone who believe in Christ.

A Jew in the Old Testament was not saved by being a Jew. He/she was saved by faith and obedience to God—if being of Jewish heritage automatically meant salvation, why were the Israelites so frequently punished at the hand of pagan gentile nations? Because they backslid into disobedience—they strayed from the faith, and God recompensed them according to their works. As the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews makes clear, the salvation of Old Testament promises was obtained through faith.

What, Christ has two brides, the church and literal Israel? That would be some interesting vindication of Mormonism, to say the least. It is not biblically correct, and the notion that salvation is connected to literal ancestry to ancient Judeans leads to all sorts of pseudo-legalist, neo-Ebionite nonsense constituting nothing short of racist bunk. Take for example, "Christian Identity" and "Black Hebrew Israelites," which believe respectively that white and black people are the "true descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes. Both are nothing more than synagogues of Satan—they call themselves Jews, and obviously are not spiritual Jews.

The sinister, untold origin of Futurist dispensationalism

Go ahead and read any old Protestant commentary of the Bible, and you'll see that it plainly contradicts modern-day Protestant doctrines. Whether it's Martin Luther, John Wesley, Matthew Henry, or Albert Barnes, they were Historicists, adhering to the same theology held by Seventh-day Adventism. The old Protestants understood that the Antichrist is Papal Rome, not a future Jewish guy in a hood entering a literal third temple in a recreated "State of Israel."

Futurism was invented by the Jesuits to subvert Protestantism. Because the Reformation pointed to the Papacy as the Whore of Babylon, the Catholic Church financed two separate theological subversions: Preterism, branding the role of Antichrist as fulfilled by Antiochus IV in the distant past and no longer relevant, and Futurism, pushing the date of the Antichrist to the far future. Either way, it denies that Papal Rome is the Antichrist, in one case pushing the designation into antiquity and the other throwing it into far-future eschatology.

The "secret rapture" doctrine believed by modern-day Protestants is a hoax. A false teacher by the name of C. I. Scofield, the highly pernicious and contemptible individual who invented dispensationalism, was described by a source this way:

“	Dr. Scofield does not for a moment consider that the law is merely a ministry of condemnation to the sinner. He sets aside the law, as a dispen­sational "ministry of condemnation" against us, and therefore done away in its entirety. His dis­pensationalism is the foundation of his entire pyr­amid of error, the apex of which is his hatred of the law of God. Any teaching which sets the law against the gospel and the promises of God is dan­gerous and deceptive.	”
—Ministry Magazine, March 1945

It's funny that apostate Protestants like to mock Seventh-day Adventism, which correctly understands biblical prophecy, as the outgrowth of Ellen G. White's supposed "mental issues" due to suffering a concussion as a child, when their own theology was invented as the result of a possibly mentally unstable teenager, Margaret MacDonald, receiving spurious "visions." And I'm saying this as someone who actively disagrees with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Ezekiel 38–39: modern fulfillment?

There is the theory that the prophecy in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 are currently fulfilled by the war between Israel and Hamas: the notion is that Gog refers to modern-day Russia, Persia to contemporary Iran, etc. Since the neo-Communist Russian "leader" Vladimir Putin seems to support Hamas over Israel, evangelicals are suddenly excited in what appears to directly fulfill the Ezekiel prophecy.

Except they're wrong. There is no indication anywhere in the Bible that Ezekiel 38–39 has anything to do with the last days prior to Christ's Second Advent. The only other place Gog and Magog receive any mention is Revelation 20, describing not the last days but rather Final Judgment.

The typology of Gog and Magog in the Book of Ezekiel, therefore, is not in reference to some literal Russo-Islamist united front conspiring to attack the "State of Israel." It is rather a typology of the wicked and their destruction in the final lake of fire; what does it mean that a fire will be sent on Magog? It's talking about the final fire and brimstone that rains on the unrepentant wicked.

The fulfillment of Ezekiel 38–39, hence, is the attack on redeemed spiritual Israel by the massive horde of every unrepentant wicked person who has ever existed in history, at the Final Judgment scene where the lost are destroyed in the lake of fire for all eternity.

If you care about the Jews...

...stop wasting your time supporting the "State of Israel." It does no good in helping any Jew, or anyone for that matter, gain eternal life. Preach the gospel of repentance for the remission for sins to the Jew first!