Christian Zionism is a growing enigma to traditional Christians and to non-Christians alike. Most of those inside its churches are very certain 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-Christian 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
In the words of one visiting Pastor Art Preisinger, at an openly Christian-Zionist John Hagee meeting, “was not a shred, a trace, a scintilla of Christianity in the proceedings.” We agree. Hagee’s Night To Honor Israel Speech in
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, 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
Mac Hammond of Minneapolis is a mega church celebrity pastor. He is publisher of the materialistic sounding Winner’s Way Magazine. (5) He is pastor and founder of
“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.,
“God has mandated us to bless
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
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
We Hold These Truths must ask and answer, “Where in scripture does
“I will bless them who bless thee, and curse them who curse thee.”
“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
“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
“We recognize the validity and veracity of
Is this doublespeak? In the same breath
So which way is it? Did Jesus give “us” a new covenant, or do we earn earthly blessings by supporting political
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 raptured, 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
“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
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)
2(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
Mac Hammond does not tell us he finds his fantasy about loving
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 dispensationalists 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
Mac Hammond wrote: “when we don’t actively bless
Indeed, Jesus spoke about apathy too, but not a word about blessing
“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
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, particularly 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
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
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
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
*(4) Scofield Reference Bible 1967 Version, page 19-20;
*(5) Winner’s Way, Vol. 3, 2007
