Political Zionism

Greg

I think it is important to point out that being anti-Zionism (or being against what political Zionism has become) is not to be against the Israeli people, or to be against their right to security as a nation, nor is it the rejection of the idea that God may yet do something significant with ethnic Jews (I really don't know the answer to that).  But I think it is erroneous to think that the modern day, atheistic State of Israel is the Israel of the Bible.  Christians should oppose the idea that whatever the State of Israel does, Christians should support it.  Even many Jewish people are against much of what gets done in the name of the Israeli State.  Yet many Christians have been led to believe (wrongly in my opinion), that if they don't support the State of Israel, they are opposing God.

As far as the conflict going on right now between Israel and Palestine (now Iran is in the mix), all involved have blood on their hands. For professing Christians to support activities that are clearly antithetical to the teachings of Christ (by their own government, or the government of others), shows how deceiving propaganda can be. I am not a pacifist, I would protect my family from an aggressor, but I am against murder, by an individual or the State.  Some of the same people who wrongly have a "my country right or wrong" mentality, also have a "I support the State of Israel right or wrong" mentality. 

Chuck Baldwin (the former politician, now a pastor) wrote an article recently and referred to the American politician (who also professes to be a Christian, and a pastor at that) who called for the annihilation of the Palestinian people (many of them are Christians).  Baldwin says this type of attitude is what Zionism has come to promote.  And he was once in that camp.  (The article linked to above is worth your time.)  

I believe that God has plans for the followers of the Messiah, regardless of their ethnicity, and I look forward to the same city that Abraham looked forward to.  I think many Hebrew people will have prominent places in the New Jerusalem.  But today, many professing Christians are opposing Christ for a political position that involves an antichrist State.

​I pray for the people in Israel and in Palestine that are suffering because of the actions of those who are in power over them.