Of Jews, Israel, Blessings and Curses
Under a growing heresy called Christian Zionism, Israel alone is the ‘apple of God’s eyes’. The Christian believer is relegated to a second class afterthought in the divine scheme of things.
Source: onecanhappen.com
My recent commentary on the blessings and curses described in the biblical passage of Genesis 12:3 had also broached how that verse was hijacked by a relatively recent religious phenomenon called Christian Zionism.
I posted the article with the full expectation that some readers of The Eye Opener would duly click the unsubscribe button. However only 12 free subscribers did so and they invariably hailed from the US Bible Belt. The idea that the prophetic blessings of God apply to the body of Christ, rather than the modern state of Israel, seems to be an anathema in certain vocal evangelical circles.
I have heard of the expression “sheep wants to become mutton” in reference to those who blindly follow the mainstream narrative but the notion of “Christians wanting to become Esau” — instead of operating in the firstborn blessings of Jacob — is an idea that took decades to crystallise. Decades of religious propaganda had somehow consigned the Christian believer to a second class afterthought in the divine scheme of things. Curiously, the spiritual forerunner to his phenomenon can be traced to the establishment of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. That is where we got the word “propaganda” and all the negative connotations associated with its practice.
Much like the Roman Empire and its Roman Catholic successor, Christian Zionism can only thrive when religion is mixed with politics. Much like a witches brew from hell, fearmongering and doctrinal fallacies are thrown into this mix to perpetuate this belief system. Superstition binds all the inherent contradictions together.
Jesus had hinted against such ungodly admixtures when he held up a coin to declare a separation between the secular and divine realms on one memorable occasion (Mark 12:17). Coincidentally, a coin has two sides facing diametrically opposite directions. This divinely-decreed separation of both realms was later crystallised by Christ before his crucifixion. “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world” (John 18:36).
Christian Zionism does the exact opposite. It delivers the church back to Jewish power structures. If you type in “I will bless those who bless you” into X search or any other search engine for that matter, you will find endless posts upholding the centrality of Israel in God’s plans. The MAGA crowd, in particular, is now warning of an imminent demise of the United States for what it perceives as a “lack of support” for Israel’s ongoing pogroms in Gaza. I have heard it all many times before. The fact that the United States has remained Israel’s most unflinching ally since the 1950s is somehow lost on this crowd.
Before the United States stepped into the bottomless Middle Eastern quagmire, it was the Soviet Union which had backed Israel to the hilt. In fact, the USSR was the first nation on earth to criminalise anti-semitism via a decree issued on July 26, 1918. It was also the first nation to recognize the modern state of Israel in 1948. The growth of Zionism and Marxism occurred in symbiosis with each other. Try researching any authoritative list of Soviet spies in the United States between 1918 and the 1950s, and you will discover that nearly 95% of them were Jews. The watershed point was the nuclear espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Therefore, if Gen 12:3 applies solely to Jews and Israel, shouldn’t the Soviet Union be blessed abundantly, instead of becoming extinct? Just ask those tens of millions of Christians who had perished in the Bolshevik holocaust. Or read the works of Richard Wurmbrand, a Jew who became a renowned Christian minister and writer. Wurmbrand’s accounts of his imprisonment and torture under Soviet captivity was perhaps the most inspirational and poignant Christian testimony I had ever read.
The Soviet Union was also the first nation to supply weapons to Israel during its war of independence. The United States dithered during this period, with President Harry Truman being particularly opposed to a total Zionist usurpation of Palestine. Joseph Stalin, on the other hand, ordered Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia to defy international sanctions by selling its stockpile of captured German weapons — with many still having Swastika imprints on them — to Jewish left-wing militias in Palestine. Curiously, this clandestine action was codenamed Operation Balak. Anyone familiar with the Bible would know that Balak was the Moabite king who wanted a curse placed on ancient Israel.
Israel was not supernaturally created in a day, unlike what Christian Zionists keep reminding us by misquoting Isaiah 66:8. Read the entire chapter for a sense of proportion. The machinations of Alfred Dreyfus and his Zionist movement, Walter Rothschild, the British empire and even Adolph Hitler (via the Haavara Agreement), accompanied by a string of assassinations and terror attacks, all played a defining role in the creation of the modern state of Israel. Ultimately, it was the Soviet Union which tipped the balance in Israel’s favour.
The Christian Zionist narrative however paints the Soviet Union, Stalin and Russia as being virulently anti-semitic. Once again, the propaganda has to fit the new “prophetic” narrative. Russian President Vladimir Putin set the record straight by acknowledging Jewish control over the first Soviet government. This Russian legacy remains strong as Moscow is home to the largest Israeli expatriate community in the world.
Another fiction peddled by Christian Zionism is the much-discussed apocalyptic tango between the United States and Israel in a macabre end times dance. Scriptures are incessantly searched, mangled and reinterpreted to pluck out some vague reference to the United States in biblical prophecy.
When prophecy needs to fit the propaganda, sound Christian teaching, doctrine and contexts are thrown out of the window. Prophetic speculations and fear-mongering over the recent April 8 solar eclipse in the United States is a trademark trick of Christian Zionism. It is usually peddled by the likes of “rabbi” Jonathan Kahn and John Hajji Hagee. Believe me, these bottom feeders will inevitably link an earthquake, a severe storm or a major train derailment months from now to this particular eclipse. Isn’t this a form of superstition?
Now, I strongly advocate mutual tolerance of various eschatological opinions but when someone like Hagee claims that “Jesus did not come to earth to be the (Jewish) Messiah” and that fundamental Christian theology — those common to all denominations — was wrong, then we are dealing with outright heresy. I wonder how Hagee and his devotees will react when a “Jewish messiah” magically appears on the global stage?
Under this heresy, Israel and Israel alone is the apple of God’s eyes and unless you bless Israel, there will be no blessings in your life. Where the adherents of Christian Zionism fall under the wider fruity spectrum is open to speculation. As long as there is death, destruction and carnage in the Middle East, these spiritual descendants of Esau will be satiated to their hearts' contents.
This heretical doctrine on blessings is no different from a particular abuse prevalent in so-called “spirit-filled” churches today. It is one where “pastors” would prophesy a healing, a financial breakthrough or some other divine intervention with one important caveat: tithes must be paid!
Now for the golden question.
Has the United States been blessed by its steadfast political, diplomatic and military support of Israel since the early 1950s? The 1950s was the golden age of American power and prestige worldwide. Since then, however, it has fallen from being the envy of the world to becoming a veritable laughing stock. While it supports Israel’s pummelling of nations like Syria — where many Christians live — into the stone age, many US cities are regressing into Third World hovels. An impartial foreign observer would conclude that the United States is a cursed land that increasingly resembles India rather than Japan, Hungary or Poland.
To the twisted Christian Zionist mind however, this national malaise must be attributed to some lapse, some lack of support or some sin on the part of the United States’s dealings with Israel. This theology will be peddled more and more as the November presidential elections draws near. In the meantime, here is one US president who must surely be blessed by his undying support of Israel.
One can just about hear Jeffrey Epstein uttering an “amen” in hell.
Note: The month of April will feature articles on biblical themes. In any case, I am not expecting any tectonic event before June.
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Luke 13 is the relevant passage here. I wrote an article on this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jesusinyou/p/an-inconvenient-truth?r=idhfb&utm_medium=ios