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Charles Carlson
Discusses the Dangerous Cult of ‘Christian’ Zionism - Next Vigil at John
Hagee’s Cornerstone Church, San Antonio TX - Oct. 28th 8:00 AM!
The
Judeo-Christian Conflict: Zionism vs. Jesus
By Charles E. Carlson
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Christian Zionism is a growing enigma to traditional
Christians and to non-Christians alike, and it may come as a surprise that
most of those inside its churches are very sure of what they believe, but
they are not at all sure why they believe it. It is this author’s
conclusion, based on personal observations at some 60 churches where
Project Strait Gate has confronted and interviewed congregation and staff,
that none of the dispensational or Judeo-Christians inside can open a New
Testament and support what they believe from its pages. Most will not try.
This paper is dedicated to the friends and families of some 60 million
Americans who are in this dilemma.
The problem for Christ followers in Judeo-Christian
churches is that their belief system varies depending on who is in the
room, and what the subject is. If the subject is personal salvation for
those who are present, Jesus Christ is the king, and His word is law,
however many passages are avoided. But, whenever the subject is the state
of Israel, or any news topic having to do with Zionism, or Jews in
general, Jesus is left out in the street. There can be little or no room
left for Him because political Zionists, secular American Jews or
Israelis, have zero tolerance for Jesus. Israel and Jesus, mix like oil
and water. For the most part, the words of Christ are unwelcome in Zionist
circles, which may explain why His words are increasingly ignored and
distorted by celebrity Judeo-Christians aspiring to a seat among the
political Zionists. An increasing number now accept the insulting,
irreverent, oxymoron “Christian-Zionist” (CZ) as their label, thinking it
makes them instantly presentable to Jewish Zionists.
In the words of one visiting Pastor Art Preisinger, at
an openly Christian-Zionist John Hagee meeting, “there was not a
shred, a trace, a scintilla of Christianity in the proceedings.” We
agree. Hagee’s Night To Honor Israel Speech in Washington DC is some 25
minutes long, and Jesus was not mentioned or quoted one time in it, not
once. The same was true at his event in San Antonio on October 21, 2007.
The purpose of this paper is to show why Jesus’ teachings are
intentionally and pointedly left out. (2)Preisinger
Outright self-contradiction is a hallmark of
Judeo-Christians. We Hold These Truths discusses Old Testament corruption
in our 43-minute audio video presentation, which is centered on what is
probably the most used passages of Judeo-Christianity’s doctrine, Genesis
12:3, the fractured root of political Israel’s claim to the Palestinian’s
land.(3)Cause*
Judeo-Christianity’s favorite book, The Scofield
Reference Bible was published by Oxford University Press, was written and
repeatedly updated and each new edition takes on more radically Zionist
political undertones, corrupting the understanding of Genesis 12:1-3, as
well as Jesus’ own words, as recorded in the New Testament book of Matthew
25 which is our main theme in this paper.
Jesus is quoted in the 5th Chapter of Matthew: “love
your neighbor… and even your enemy… that you may be fit for the kingdom on
heaven.”*3 The Zionist version, as we shall see, sounds like,
Love the state of Israel and God will give you earthly prosperity.
Unfortunately, the Zionist version is the one used in Mac Hammond’s church
and his magazine.
Mac Hammond of Minneapolis is a mega church celebrity
pastor. Hammond is publisher of the materialistic sounding
Winner’s Way Magazine. (5) He is pastor and founder of Living
Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Heights, MN, is one of many celebrity
Christians who has hitched their star to Israel, and is on the board of
Christians United For Israel, and seems to be ready to
saddle up and join the war on Islam. We will dissect his words to help to
expose the Judeo Christian distortion about what Jesus said. First for
Hammond’s zionized view of the world, we quote him in Winner’s Way, volume
3, 2007 and page 2.
“The global political scene today, the greatest
enemy of all nations is radical fundamental Islam—or Islamofacism. As a
militant group, they have made their strategy very clear to the world—to
eliminate Satan and Great Satan, i.e., Israel and America, which is the
equivalent of Judaism and Christianity.”
Hammond is no peacemaker; but Jesus is. Christian
Zionists must twist and pervert Jesus’ own words because His words never
support Christian Zionism’s militancy toward Muslims. Mac Hammond does us
a rare favor by explaining his beliefs about the 25th chapter of the Book
of Matthew to the point where it would be unrecognizable to the converted
tax collector believed to have written it. Hammond:
“God has mandated us to bless Israel—and blessing
Israel is a way to open up our lives (or country) to the blessing of
God. In other words, God has promised to bless anyone who blesses
Israel—Christian or not. That’s how important this is to God! He said in
His Word, if you bless Israel, if you bless the seed of Abraham, then He
would bless you. Blessing Israel is so significant to God that He does
not require a person to be a Christian—to have a covenant with Him—in
order to be blessed.”
Pastor Hammond’s story of Abraham’s blessings and
curses is taken from the distorted Zionist version of the Book of Genesis
12:3 as found in the Oxford University Press owned Scofield Reference
Bible, 1967 edition, page 19, explained in our audio-visual, the Cause of
Our Conflict.*(2) Furthermore, Pastor Hammond represents that it pays
dividends to bless Israel; maybe that is why the title, “Winner’s Way.”
Mac Hammond states that those of other religions (or no faith at all) can
also earn God’s blessing by favoring Israel, including we suppose, those
who despise Jesus, which is the case with most Israelis who do not even
believe he existed. This universal blessing is an amazing admission for
Hammond, a born again Christian.
Judeo-Christians get around this problem of how
non-Christians can earn heaven by telling you the “blessings” have nothing
to do with heaven, but are earthly blessings about the “second coming” of
Jesus “after the Rapture.” However the scripture Hammond picks to prove
his point is all about heaven and hell; the tax collector Matthew says so,
quoting Jesus! Hammond, as a Judeo-Christian, would normally swear that
only by knowing Jesus can one be saved from damnation; so what value can
there be for the pagans to earn earthly blessings if they are dammed for
eternity for failing to follow Jesus’ words? It seems Hammond will say
almost anything to rationalize honoring political Israel as a god. One
might wonder from what source he receives his favors.
We Hold These Truths must ask and answer, “Where in
scripture does Hammond get the idea that blessing political Israel will
bring God’s blessing on “us”? Typically, Hammond has learned to ignore
almost everything Jesus left for instructions if it contradicts
Christian-Zionism. All lean on Old Testament prophesy such as Genesis
12:3. Here we find the words that most Christ followers think God spoke to
Abram 3000 years ago in a first person exchange:
“I will bless them who bless thee, and curse them
who curse thee.”
Hammond applies these words not to Abram (later
Abraham) and his immediate family, but to the present-day political Israel
that came into existence some 3000 years after Abram’s death, and was
created by the United Nations in 1948, at which time it chose “Israel” for
a name. Hammond goes on to amplify:
“We need to be involved in blessing the nation
and the people whom God has called the apple of His eye.”
“If we will get involved, I believe we will see
amazing breakthroughs in our lives, homes, churches, ministries, and
communities.”
“Even our nation as a whole will be blessed if
our foreign policies line up with God’s desires for the nation of
Israel.”
“I sincerely believe it’s time for us to make a
decision to be proactive in this arena; for when we don’t actively bless
Israel, we curse them by virtue of apathy.”
Hammond says he considers being apathetic toward Israel
a sin. Just how proactive does he want us to be? Would we get greater
blessings from God if we went out and killed someone we think might be an
enemy of Israel? But what if we kill an entire family of Muslims? When
Project Strait Gate had a vigil at Hammond’s church in Minneapolis one of
the signs displayed was: Who Would Jesus Bomb? There was no answer. Here
is Hammond’s confusing explanation of where Jesus fits in:
“We recognize the validity and veracity of
Israel’s present-day covenant with God. We know the new and
better covenant we have, ratified by Jesus’ shed blood, provides for us
all the benefits of salvation, including experiencing the presence of
God today…. Do you want the blessing of God in your life?
Do you want change in your life today? Then bless Israel and the Jew.
Acknowledge the present-day veracity of their covenant with God. Move
toward them in solidarity. And bless Israel.”
Is this doublespeak? In the same breath Hammond
acknowledges Jesus’ “new and better covenant” for “us”
who have already experienced the “benefit of salvation, including
experiencing the presence of God today”….But then Hammond goes on
without a breath: “do we want God’s blessing in our life”? “Then bless
Israel and the Jews.” Note he did not say anything about following
Jesus’ teachings to be blessed.
So which way is it? Did Jesus give “us” a new
covenant, or do we earn earthly blessings by supporting political Israel,
knowing they kill innocent people every day? Mac Hammond wants blessings,
the heavenly ones, and he wants the earthy blessings too, so he, like
every Christian Zionist, must manufacture scripture to justify winning
both ways. Let’s find out what Mac Hammond says he believes about Jesus
and, “God’s blessing in our life.”
In Matthew Chapter 25, Jesus tells his closest
followers about heaven and hell, as we will see later. First we will hear
Mac Hammond’s, interpretation in Winner’s Way, page 5:
“In Matthew 25:31-33, the Bible reveals that part
of the criteria in how the nations will be judged is how they treated
Israel: ‘When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations
will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the
sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left’ (NKJV).”
“Many believe this passage is speaking of the
point in time when the Church will have been ruptured, so these are not
Christians that are being gathered before the Lord, but rather the
nations of unbelievers who have remained on the earth.”…
“Many scholars agree that these verses reveal
that the nations of people who go into the millennium are going to be
selected on the basis of how they treated Israel as a nation and the Jew
as an individual.” …
”Even our nation as a whole will be blessed if
our foreign policies line up with God’s desires for the nation of
Israel.” …
“I sincerely believe it’s time for us to make a
decision to be proactive in this arena; for when we don’t
actively bless Israel, we curse them by virtue of apathy.”
To find the source of Hammond’s strange interpretation
of the much quoted sheep and goats’ parable, we go straight to the
footnotes in the 1967 Edition of the Scofield Reference Bible, owned by
Oxford University Press that explains Matthew 25 exactly as Pastor Hammond
teaches it, page 1036-37*(4) (25:32) This judgment of individual
Gentiles is to be distinguished from other judgments in Scripture…This
time the judgment is “when the Son of man shall come in his glory,” i.e.
the second coming of Christ after the tribulation. The subject of this
judgment i.e. “all nations.” I.e. all the gentiles then living on earth.
Three classes of individuals mentioned: (1) sheep, saved gentiles; (2)
goats, unsaved gentiles and; (3) brethren, the people of Israel…the
test of this judgment is the treatment by individual gentiles of those who
Jesus calls “my brethren” living in the preceding tribulation period when
Israel is fearfully persecuted ( Gen 12:3). …. The sheep are the
Gentiles saved on earth during the period between the rapture and Christ’s
second coming to earth.”
To repeat Pastor Hammond’s teaching:
“Many scholars agree that these verses reveal
that the nations of people who go into the millennium are going to be
selected on the basis of how they treated Israel as a nation and the Jew
as an individual.”
Mac Hammond does not tell us he finds his fantasy about
loving Israel in the Scofield footnotes, but it becomes crystal clear when
we compare. Oxford’s/Scofield makes loving Israel part of man’s eternal
security. Hammond even teaches that our nation can be cursed if we don’t
do it, and if we bless Israel we will get material rewards. More confusing
still, he teaches that Jesus’ lesson does not even apply to us, and
amazingly, it did not even apply to the twelve people to whom he delivered
the lesson two millenniums ago! Why bother to tell them? It was not for
them, but about a future “end times?” Jesus did not say a word about the
end times, it was written into footnotes in the Scofield Reference Bible
about 1900 years after the death of Matthew.
It is a mistake to write off Mac Hammond as a fanatical
charlatan because, if we do so, we do little or nothing for those who
follow him. We must instead find out where he got his false faith and deal
with it factually; only in this way can we change the intelligent many
that are misled.
The Oxford Press Scofield Reference Bible is the most
purchased study bible ever. It has been the standard for dispensationalist
since 1908. Footnotes added to King James Edition color the religious
thought of some 50-60 million Americans, including 16 million Southern
Baptists. It is evident from several recent polls that another 40 million
Americans are directly or indirectly influenced by “Christian” media,
which is almost entirely Judeo-Christian in teaching. To a greater or
lesser degree these 90 odd millions are tied together by some vague
thought pounded into their conscience and unconscious that they owe
something to Israel, and to every Jew, and punishment await them if they
fail to comply. But none of this is anywhere, but in the
footnotes.
Mac Hammond wrote:
“when we don’t actively bless Israel, we curse
them by virtue of apathy.”
Indeed,Jesus spoke about apathy too, but not a
word about blessing Israel. When one of the rejected sheep in Jesus
parable of sheep and goats asked Jesus why those symbolized as “goats,”
was turned away from the kingdom of heaven, Jesus answered:
“I was hungry and ye gave me no food; I was
thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you took me not
in; naked and you clothed me not; sick and in prison and you visited me
not;”
The goats protested that they had never had the
opportunity to feed Christ, to which Jesus’ reply was all about apathy:
“Verily I say unto you, for as much as you did it
not to the least of these, you did it not to me…and ye shall go away
into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.”
Does that not sound like it is about heaven and hell?
We think so, and Jesus said it was. All the verses of Matthew 25 are part
of Jesus’ full lecture on this one subject. Jesus told his disciples twice
in advance that the lecture was about, “the kingdom of Heaven,”
no where does He mention the kingdom of Israel, as both Scofield and Mac
Hammond want their readers to believe. This is important enough to look at
Jesus’ words in verses 1 and 14 respectively:
(1) “Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be
likened unto…” and (14) “the kingdom of Heaven is like…”
In Matthew’s account, many Israelis would likely be
found on Jesus left hand among the goats because of the way they have
treated their fellow men, the Palestinians. Perhaps most Judeo-Christians
would be right there with them because of their benign neglect of the
least of these, Jesus’ brothers.
More evidence that Oxford/Scofield set out to
steal Matthew 25
Oxford Press, a Zionist influence organization in the UK, clearly wanted
to change the subject to make Jesus’ words seem to fit a different sheep
and goat judgment, one that required Christians to support and honor
political Israel. Never mind loving and doing kindness to the least of
your fellow men. Into the 1967 Scofield Reference Bible Oxford Press, the
owner inserted a forgery line of their own in italics just before verse
(31) which reads:*(5)
“Judgment of the individual Gentiles at Christ’s
return to earth.” (5)
Causing the passage to read as follows:
“Judgment of the individual Gentiles at Christ’s
return to earth.”
(31) Then the Son of man shall come in his glory, and
before him shall be gathered all the nations, and he shall separate them
one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”
The change in meaning is inescapable. Jesus said he was
talking about “the kingdom of Heaven”, but… Oxford press brazenly changes
the occasion to “Christ’s return to earth.” Furthermore, the judgment that
Jesus said applies to “all the nations” applies only to gentiles at some
future event not in heaven but on earth.
Mac Hammond may have been fooled along with those he is
teaching, or he may like it this way because it works for him. Whatever
his reason, he uses a forgery to build his own earthly kingdom.
Stop: please do not go on reading unless you understand
what you have just read. If it is not clear, find a Bible and read the
words in Matthew 25 in context, then judge for yourself. If you too, have
been misled by Bible forgery, the rest of the story will blow your socks
off!
Once you understand the Judeo-Christian’s invention,
the rest of the story of Matthew 25 is revealed by simply reading it with
an open mind. It is about loving and helping the most needy and helpless
of the human race. It is in no way about worshiping or serving political
Israel. Jesus provides two parables, one parable of the faithful followers
who love the least of their brothers as they should love Him, Jesus; the
second parable about the sheep that forget to love the least of their
brothers, and as a consequence were driven out of the kingdom of heaven.
How very simple. Jesus explains His one law, love your brother as you
love yourself, and even try to do the seemingly impossible, love
your enemy.(1)
But the inventive Judeo-Christian, Mac Hammond, has his
own formula. Never mind the suffering Afghan child, Iraqi mother, or
Palestinian hungry teenager, just love the state of Israel to earn
material favor for you right here on earth where you do not have to die to
collect! This is the distorted and biblically false message of Christian
Zionism. Mac Hammond is apostate and he takes Jesus’ “name in
vain.” This too is a violation of one of God’s simple and logical
commandments.
Conclusion:
The one great unbridgeable error common to
dispensational or Judeo-Christian leaders is the provable fact that there
is little or no Christ in what they teach. In the heat of supporting a
growingly unpopular world Zionism and its brutal repression of the
occupied Arab/Muslim people of Israel, Judeo-Christian leaders directly
and arrogantly contradict what Christians everywhere take by faith to be
the words, and laws of Jesus Christ. This is why Judeo-Christianity must
end, and will end, with the emptying of its churches.
Endnotes:
*(1) Jesus’ new commandment: You have heard that it is
said thou shall love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy, but I say to you,
love your enemy, bless them who curse you, do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you; that ye may
be the children of your Father that is in heaven. KJV Matthew 5:43-46
*(2) From Religious Rant to Political Bombast to
Spiritual Emptiness and Deception, by Pastor Art Preisinger Jun 02, 2007
http://cp.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=1418
*(3)Cause of Our Conflict, Audio-visual, by Charles
Carlson
www.whtt.org/show
*(4) Scofield Reference Bible 1967 Version, page 19-20;
*(5) Winner’s Way, Vol. 3, 2007
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Vigil:
San Antonio TX, John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church, Sunday, October 28, 2007
JOIN US: PROJECT STRAIT GATE VIGIL FOR
PEACE WITH JUSTICE
On the public streets outside Cornerstone Church, 18755
Stone Oak Pkwy. San Antonio, TX
Time: Join us Sunday, October 28,
2007, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Near Highway 181 north off Charles W. Andrews
Loop)
IF A THING IS WRONG ACT LIKE IT’S WRONG
Pastor Hagee is founder of Christians United For
Israel, and “Night To Honor Israel.” He is a committed and angry enabler
of Serial Wars who lobbies openly for a pre-emptive bombing of Iran. He
leads this big congregation in the bloody path of Christian-Zionism,
teaching the apostate doctrine that the State of Israel is the
“fulfillment of Biblical Prophesy.” This mega-church is ignoring the
Christian belief that Jesus Christ is that fulfillment and His words call
out for peace. This abuse of Scripture has led to serial wars and
bloodshed of at least half a million Arab people and has forced 5 million
or more into refugee camps, not to mention the 3900 American military and
many civilian mercenaries that have died. Come, help call this big
congregation to Choose Life, Not War.
To view the apostasy of John Hagee’s Night to Honor
Israel, go to Bill Moyers Journal, October 5, 2007
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/watch2.html)
To view recent press coverage of Night To Honor Israel, quoting Project
Strait Gate (We told the reporter there is little or no Christianity
there) go to: (http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=1829)
THE RULES OF THE VIGIL:
* Please park your car OFF THE CHURCH PROPERTY and park and walk only
on public right-of-ways
* Watch for the big Yellow and black Project Strait Gate sign
* Signs are furnished, bring your own if you wish; examples are:
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
NO MORE WARS FOR ISRAEL
IRAQ? WWJD? (WHAT WOULD JESUS DO)
CHOOSE LIFE, NOT WAR.
CHRISTIAN RACISM KILLS PALESTINIANS
INNOCENT BLOOD ON OUR HANDS: Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, and American
blood.
APOSTATE CHURCH Christ Followers Must Not Kill
* Please dress in traditional church attire.
* Refrain from loud exchanges with anyone, this is a quiet vigil.
* Please give space to those who come out to talk.
* Do not interrupt, do not argue…educate.
* Stay spaced so all the signs may be seen by those in the church.
* Feel free to tell the press what you think, but please refer
official inquires to sponsors.
* Hand out literature will be provided.
* The police will be notified of this event and be asked to be
present.
Project Strait Gate
More than sixty vigils: (http://whtt.org/straitgate/index.php?id=14&news=1)
P O Box 14491
Scottsdale, AZ 85267
Home office contact 480-947-3329
Local Contact: Dave 210-687-1484
davejudy@satx.rr.com
Press contact: Charles: 602-741-4650
http://whtt.org/straitgate/index.php?news=2&id=251
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