8:20 I will tell you there is a movement among Christians, particularly young Christians. The public polling numbers of support for Israel among young Christians is plummeting. 8:35 And they're being spread lies. They're being spread lies, isolationist lies that we should withdraw from the world because nobody wants to hurt us.Cruz is espousing a Christian heresy. It is not what mainstream Christians believe.8:46 But they're also being spread theological lies. They are being taught replacement theology, which is a lie that the promises God made to Israel and the people of Israel are somehow no longer good. They are no longer valid. That when God made a promise, he didn't mean the promise he made.
9:11 And instead, it is an argument that the Christian church has replaced Israel and the Jews and the Jews are no longer God's chosen people. And all of the promises throughout the Bible are now a dead letter. The church need to engage and say the Bible is not silent on Israel. The Bible is crystal clear on Israel. And in the church, we will stand and fight.
The Jews of today are not even the same as the Jews/Hebrews of the Bible. Judaism developed around 500 AD, largely as a rejection of Christianity. Christians do not have to give special consideration to an opposing religion.
Jews themselves do not believe in anything like Christian Zionism.
There is a long tradition of trying to preserve the Holy Land for Christianity. There are three major religions that attach great historical significance to Jerusalem and the surrounding area -- Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. If Christians want to take a religious interest in Israel, it should be to clear the way for Christians and Christian interests. Instead, the Christian Zionists are content to let Jews run the place, and maybe let Mohammedans run the West Bank and other territories. This is baffling to me.
Whatever deal God made with the Jews, it was not to keep the Christians out, or to subordinate Christians to Old Testament customs.
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