Should A Christian Be A Zionist?
Simply put: NO...
“Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”
— The Gospel of Matthew 21:43 KJV
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As American carrier groups rush into their strike positions, as our politicians and media bang the drum for another Middle Eastern bloodbath, and as so many of the pulpits of America proclaim how we as a nation ought to support the Jewish state in their supposed hour of need, it has never been more important to clarify this question:
Should a Christian be a Zionist?
This is no longer an abstract debate for seminaries or prophecy conferences. Getting this wrong now is not just a theological error — it is a lethal one. What we are debating is whether Christians and Americans should support a very real war, very real deaths, and a very real judgment.
So before one more Christian waves the star of Remphan and calls it obedience, before one more pastor rallies his congregation to bless Israel, and before one more Christian sends their child to die for a lie, this question must be asked plainly, Biblically, and without apology.
What is Zionism?
Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people, by virtue of their ethnic and/or religious identity, are entitled to reclaim political control over the land of Palestine. It is important to note there are two distinct, though often overlapping, forms of Zionism: political and religious. While often construed as solely a modern political movement for Jewish self-determination, it is in fact a religious doctrine first and foremost. Though it is increasingly framed in strictly secular terms as the crimes of the Jewish state in Gaza are laid bare, Zionism at its root is an imperial project — drawn from rabbinic eschatology and backed by wealthy financiers.
Contrary to popular belief, the idea did not begin with Theodor Herzl. By the time Herzl had published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) in 1896, the movement was already centuries in the offing. The true ideological father of modern Zionism is Moses Hess, a communist luminary and apostate Jew who mentored Karl Marx (though he would return to his Talmudic roots later in life). His tombstone in Israel lauds this fact, describing him as the “forefather of world socialism, and herald of the state of Israel.” In his seminal 1862 book, Rome and Jerusalem, Hess openly declares that the Zionist project has, and continues to be, the driving hope of “all pious Jews” throughout the ages (emphasis mine):
The thought which inspired the nervous Mendel Wilna and little Moischele [i.e. the reconstitution of the Jewish state - SE], has been the fundamental thought of all pious Jews from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem until the present day. And there are such Jews — let it not worry Mr. Kompert, even among the Rothschild brothers.
— Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish Nationalism (1862), Pg. 172
As Hess reveals, the Rothschilds were already purchasing land in Palestine decades before Herzl allegedly birthed political Zionism. Hess also mocked, with veiled recognition, how Reform rabbis had begun utilizing Freemasonry to advance this vision. (Hess, Pg. 114-115) He would go on to suggest, tongue firmly in cheek, that Reform temples should be shuttered and Jewish children sent to the Lodge instead. His sarcasm is indeed thick here, but the point stands: Masonry — particularly B’nai B’rith — was already functioning as an outlet for Zionist ideology.
Modern Israel was born from this fusion: messianic expectation, religious aspiration, revolutionary theory, and political violence. Now it is true that a vocal minority of Orthodox rabbis describe the modern Zionist project as “satanic” — not because they oppose Jewish nationhood or religious Zionism (a nuanced and key distinction), but because strict adherence to the Talmud must precede national restoration. The founders of the Zionist state made no such appeal to God: a critical point which we will return to.
Are modern-day Israel and ancient Israel the same entity?
Modern Israel is not ancient Israel anymore than Bruce Jenner is actually Woman of the Year.
Ancient Israel was a covenant people founded by God through Abraham, confirmed at Sinai, and governed by the Torah and the Levitical priesthood. The term Hebrew traces back to Eber, the forefather of Abraham. The term Israelite refers specifically to the descendants of Jacob. The term Jew comes much later — Biblically, it designates someone from the kingdom of Judah after the scattering of the ten northern tribes (a fact which I address at length in The Judeo-Christian Paradox, Part II). To confuse these terms is to commit a category error with dreadfully serious consequences.
Even the editors of The Jewish Almanac acknowledge this linguistic and historical discontinuity (emphasis mine):
Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a “Jew” or to call a contemporary Jew an “Israelite” or a “Hebrew.” The first Hebrews may not have been Jews at all, and contemporary Palestinians by their own definition of the term “Palestinian,” have to include Jews among their own people…
Christian Zionists can claim until they are blue in the face that the modern Israeli state shares some kind of continuity with ancient Israel. This despite the fact it has no temple, no high priest, no Ark, and no atonement. Its faith is not the faith of Moses or Abraham.
As Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a respected scholar of Judaism, admits:
[The] complex of rabbinically ordained practices ...including most of the rules for the treatment of Scripture itself — do not derive from Scripture at all. Rabbinism's initial concern was the elaboration and refinement of its own system. Attaching the system to Scripture was secondary. It therefore is misleading to depict Rabbinic Judaism primarily as the consequence of an exegetical process or the organic unfolding of Scripture. Rather, rabbinism began as the work of a small, ambitious, and homogenous group of pseudo-priests...
Formally, redactionally, and linguistically the Mishnah stands in splendid isolation from Scripture.
— Rabbi Jacob Nuesner, Rabbinic Judaism: Structure and System (1995)
The rabbinic tradition is entirely divorced from, and a usurpation of, the Mosaic Law. Saint Paul himself confesses that the religion he once excelled in was not the faith of Abraham, but something else entirely (emphasis mine):
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
— Epistle to the Galatians 1:13-14 KJV
Zionists, take note: Paul does not state the Pharisees, the progenitors of the Talmud, follow the Law of Moses. He does not say “the religion of our fathers.” He calls it “the Jews’ religion.”
This distinction is essential. Modern Israel is not ancient Israel resurrected: if anything, it is Rabbinic Judaism institutionalized.
Therefore the modern state of Israel has exactly one avenue through which it can claim this land as its rightful inheritance: ethnicity. But to do so, one must ignore that the true Israel has always been defined by covenantal faithfulness and obedience, not genetics. As such, this leads directly to the next and more fundamental question:
Who is a Jew?
According to the Scriptures, to be a true Jew is a spiritual state, not a physical one: it is to be one who walks in covenant with the Living God.
Holy Writ answers this question for us definitively and repeatedly, though, for the sake of brevity, I will only touch upon a handful of such verses. (A fuller treatment of this topic can be read in my essay, Israel of the Flesh, Israel of the Spirit.) Paul writes (emphasis mine):
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
— Epistle to the Romans 2:25-29
Paul could not have said it more plainly. A man may have Abraham’s blood in his veins and still be cut off. Another may come from a foreign line and be grafted in. Jewishness, as God defines it, is covenantal — not racial.
This is not a New Testament innovation. Paul is not teaching anything that can not be found in the writings of the prophets. Ruth was a Moabitess; Rahab a (repentant) Canaanite prostitute: both are in the Davidic line, and, consequently, the lineage of Christ. Caleb was an Edomite. And yet, all were folded into Israel. Meanwhile, an entire generation of ethnic Israelites had effectively been executed in the wilderness by God for their rebellion.
The racialist myth that Jewish identity is predicated upon ethnicity alone is a post-biblical fiction, a result of the interminable pride of the Pharisees. Paul once again dismantles such notions (emphasis mine):
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
— Epistle to the Romans 9:6-8 KJV
John the Baptist confronted this same lie. To the racial purists of His day He issued this direct challenge (emphasis mine):
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
— The Gospel of Matthew 3:7-10 KJV
Descent from Abraham means nothing if you don’t believe like Abraham. That is the Biblical position.
The Zionist claims that all genetic descendants of Jacob are the rightful heirs to the Holy Land, regardless of belief (or actual genetic descent, for that matter). But Scripture teaches the opposite: the moment you break covenant, you are cut off from the inheritance. If you sincerely repent and believe, you are grafted in — even if you’re a Moabite, a Greek, or an Edomite.
Ethnicity has never been the standard — faith and obedience is.
To whom do the promises of Genesis 12:3 apply to?
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
— Genesis 12:3 KJV
For decades this verse has been wielded like a talisman by Christian Zionists who have mistaken their slavish loyalty to the pagan nation of Israel for obedience to God. The reasoning is simple-minded and the exegesis nonexistent: bless “the Jews,” and God will bless you; oppose them, and judgment looms.
We need not rely on John Hagee or his ilk to interpret this verse for us, as the Apostle Paul beat them to the punch by several millennia (emphasis mine):
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
— Epistle to the Galatians 3:6-9 KJV
The blessings of Abraham are not inherited through bloodline or tribal registry (otherwise, these Zionists should be blessing the Arabs as the descendants of Abraham’s other son - Ishmael.) It is implicitly understood, even by so many Christian Zionists, that the promises are transmitted by faith and not by blood. The Abrahamic Covenant, from the beginning, had the nations in view — not through the military expansion of Israel, but through the singular Seed to come. That Seed is not the collective Jewish peoples — it is a Person (emphasis mine):
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
— Epistle to the Galatians 3:16 KJV
The promises made to Abraham were never ultimately about ethnic Israel: they were always about Christ. It is only those who belong to Him — not by blood, but by baptism — that inherit those promises (emphasis mine):
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
— Epistle to the Galatians 3:26-29 KJV
The Biblical record is unyielding: all spiritual blessings (Eph. 1:3), every promise of the covenants (Gal. 3), are found in Christ alone. The Kingdom has been irrevocably taken from the Judeans and given instead to the nations — exactly as Isaiah, Daniel, Malachi, and the Prophets foretold.
This destroys the theological premise of Christian Zionism at its root. Zionism resurrects the middle wall of partition that Christ demolished. It puts old, rotten wineskins back on the communion table and tells the Church to drink up.
So let the “Christian” who believes America is “blessed” because it funds Tel Aviv explain why we are now a nation of child mutilators, moral degenerates, and ruinous debtors.
How then will all of Israel be saved?
Though this is admittedly a minority position in much of Christian theology, I do not see Romans 11 predicting a future national conversion of ethnic Israel. (And even if it were, the modern state of Israel is clearly not it.) The text certainly doesn’t support the eschatological vision so common amongst Christian Zionists — that one day, a Christ-rejecting people will be welcomed back into “their” land without repentance. The problem for our Zionist friends is such an interpretation contradicts the very logic Paul lays down throughout the preceding chapters:
Paul clearly distinguishes between two Israels: "They are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children" (Romans 9:6-7). This defines who the true Israel is — the Israel of faith, those who trust in Christ. So when Paul later says, "And so all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:26), it would truly be bizarre if he were referring to a future, collective, national salvation of ethnic Jews since he says mere sentences before they must not persist in their unbelief in order to be grafted into The Vine (i.e. to be saved) (Romans 11:23).
The olive tree metaphor demonstrates this: branches were broken off because of unbelief, and Gentiles were grafted in by faith. This is not about ethnicity but about belief. Paul’s argument throughout this and his other epistles is that the salvation of Israel is based upon their faith, not their genealogy, however pure or impure that may be. The remnant of faithful Judeans, those who embrace Jesus as the true Messiah, are part of this salvation alongside believing Gentiles. So, in this sense, "all Israel", the full number of the elect in Christ — both Judean and Gentile — will be saved by faith.
The Church is the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16). When Paul says, “And so all Israel shall be saved,” he is not describing an eschatological event. He is concluding his argument: that God’s promises are not void, because all of Israel — the people of faith — will be saved, just as He foretold.
Some of that Israel are ethnic Judeans who believe. Most are Gentiles. All must be in Christ.
Is the modern nation state of Israel a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy?
Every prophetic promise of return to the land is tied to repentance. Deuteronomy 30:2–3 lays it out: “If thou shalt return unto the LORD thy God… then will the LORD thy God turn thy captivity.” No repentance, no return. The prophets repeat this constantly: restoration follows faith.
Modern Israel was founded by men and women who rejected Christ, scorned the Torah, and built their state through terrorism. If the prophets warned ancient Israel that judgment would fall for disobedience, what makes anyone think God now rewards the same disobedience with a homeland?
Even Orthodox Jews understand this. Rabbi Yisrol Dovid Weiss, a vocal opponent of the secular Zionist regime, puts it simply:
“And therefore, you find all the books of the prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah—all of them spoke about warning the Jews in their prophecies that they will be driven from the land because they’re not up to par in what’s required” in their observance of the covenant, he said. “And they eventually went into exile with the destruction of the Temple” by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., and again in 70 A.D., which Christians see as the fulfillment of a prophesy of Jesus Christ.
— Orthodox rabbi: Zionism a ‘cardinal sin’ for Jews, creation of Israel is ‘satanic’
This same rabbi called Zionism a “cardinal sin” and “satanic.” And he’s right.
The state of Israel is not the return of God’s people. It’s the return of a nation still in rebellion, propped up by false theology and American bombs.
Should a Christian be a Zionist?
Let’s ask the question as it actually stands:
Should a Christian give theological cover to a nation that spits on Christ, mocks the New Testament, and trains its children to see Jesus as a false prophet?
Should a Christian bless a state that funds abortions, bombs Christian villages, legalizes sodomy, flies rainbow flags through Jerusalem, and jails Christian missionaries?
If your answer is still yes, because they claim to be Jews, then you know neither what it means to be a Jew nor a Christian.
For over a century, Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism have operated like a parasite in the bloodstream of Christianity. Its progenitors have fed off of ignorance, manipulated sincere faith, and reprogrammed entire denominations to see the modern state of Israel not as what it is — a secular ethnostate founded by terrorists — but as what it never was: the fulfillment of God’s promises. If American Christians remain useful idiots for Zionism, then they too bear the bloodguilt for what comes next.
As should be abundantly clear by this point, in no way can Zionism be called a Christian doctrine, let alone a moral imperative. The modern nation of Israel is not a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. It is, and always has been, an ethnostate rooted in the rabbinic rejection of Christ, nourished by Rothschild finances, and marketed to the Church through bad exegesis and emotional blackmail. And to think that its defenders dare to quote Genesis 12:3 while their object of devotion curses the very One through whom that blessing has been fulfilled.
The promises of God were never based on race. Being born a Jew means nothing if you reject Christ. Christian Zionism teaches the opposite. It says the land, the blessings, the favor of God still belong to ethnic Jews, regardless of their unbelief. It treats a secular government as sacred and demands unconditional loyalty to a state built by atheists and maintained by U.S. taxpayers.
The kingdom was taken from ethnic Israel and given to a people bearing its fruits (Matthew 21:43). That people is the Church. That’s who the promises belong to.
Not to a modern state. Not to a race.
So, Zionist, choose wisely the Israel whom you will bless.
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
― Apocalypsis 3:9 KJV
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Further Research
The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How The Evangelical Battle Over The End Times Shaped A Nation by Daniel G. Hummel
More Desired Than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism by Robert O. Smith
On The Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend by Timothy P. Weber
Thank you. Thank you. This is so true. I pray that people will have eyes to see and ears to hear abd understand what has been said is indeed false. Praise GOD for you.
I am thoroughly convinced that Zionism = Satanism. Therefore, I do not think that any Christian should EVER be, in any way shape or form, in support of Zionism! If you are, I STRONGLY suggest that you distance yourself from it ASAP!