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3 responses to “Christian Zionist Pastor Calls for Genocide in Gaza”

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   Pets to Go

   November 20, 2023 at 10:51 am

   Sadly, many in ‘Christendom’ have succumbed to the Rothschild’s heresy propagated through the Schofield Bible and disseminated throughout America and beyond. This may be helpful reading: https://christianobserver.net/the-scofield-bible-its-powerful-effect-on-modern-christianity/

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   Steve Mack

   November 21, 2023 at 1:03 am

   John,

   That miserable pastor and his demonic message does NOT represent the position of the vast majority of Christian dispensationalists (like myself), any more than Christian apologists for the Hamas slaughter of October 7th represent you, sir. There are many of the latter, but I would not paint you with their stripes.

   Thank you for reciprocating.

   Praying for the peace of Jerusalem (Psm 122, of course), and Gaza.

   Steve Mack

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      John Gideon Hartnett

      November 21, 2023 at 5:50 am

      Steve

      I sure hope you are right. That John Hagee is a serious lunatic calling for more war because he and others like him think it will usher in the return of Christ. Now he has taken to calling for war against Iran.

      After Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, he took to his pulpit at his Cornerstone Church in San Antonio to urge immediate US intervention against Iran, as several Israeli diplomats looked on, and right-wing members of Congress offered taped testimonials of their own.

      “The righteous rage of America must be focused on Iran,” Hagee announced, as journalist Lee Fang, who recently released a documentary on the evangelical-Israeli alliance called Praying for Armageddon, reports. “Let me say it to you in plain Texas speech: American should roll up its sleeves and knock the living daylights out of Iran for what they have done for Israel. Hit them so hard that our enemies will once again fear us.” Hagee’s son and co-pastor, Matt Hagee, took up the same refrain in lurid prophetic language. “The secretary of state is not going to get us out of this one,” he declared in a burst of self-satisfied scriptural omniscience. “God has a hook in the jaws of these nations, and he’s drawing them here. God tells Ezekiel exactly how he’s going to defend Israel. He speaks about raining down fire and hail and brimstone. That’s a heavenly air assault.”

      The Hagees’ brand of bloodthirsty dispensationalism has been an extension of mainstream prophecy belief at least since the 1970s, when the pop endtimes tract The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsay, emerged as the best-selling nonfiction book of the decade. That breathless account of contemporary world events maintained that the generation that saw the formation of modern Israel would be the last on Earth—placing the advent of the apocalypse somewhere around 1988. It didn’t matter that Lindsay’s earnest calculations of the Last Judgment’s arrival were woefully misguided—as with past failed endtimes predictions, the point was to rouse the mood of impending global reckoning, and shock believers into action. The same fill-in-the-blanks fusion of biblical prophecy and current events fueled Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’s Left Behind series of evangelical endtimes novels, which has the final battle take shape in the Middle East as a shifty UN secretary general seeks to broker a faithless peace and is revealed to be the Antichrist. Like Lindsay’s tract, the Left Behind franchise was a huge commercial success, racking up nearly 80 million in sales.

      But granting Jews unilateral control over the Occupied Territories is not by any means an endorsement of Jews qua Jews. In the dispensationalist schemes of Hagee and other endtimes preachers, Jews are a means to an end—the efficient cause of the final conflagration, but not autonomous spiritual agents in their own right. Hagee indeed has compiled a long record of anti-Semitic statements, including the claim that Hitler and the Holocaust represented the work of divine Providence since they culminated in the creation of Israel.

      https://www.thenation.com/article/world/american-evangelicals-israel-gaza/

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