His Lack of Complicity With Zionism Was a Key Factor in Jesus’ Murder

There is obviously a sense in which every person is guilty for the death of Jesus. Rebellious mankind’s enmity against God was displayed openly through the crucifixion of Christ. There is another sense in which He was only actually killed by certain people for certain reasons.

Though Jesus was actually directly killed by the Romans through the accusation that He was a rival king to Caesar, it was the Jews who delivered Him up to the Romans and pressured Pilate to have Him crucified. The Jewish rulers were the ones who instigated Jesus’ murder- while a mass of common Jews at Jerusalem caved into the pressure from their rulers to form a mob which in turn pressured Pilate to deliver Jesus over to death. We see from Luke 23:1-5 that the Jews accused Jesus before Pilate of being a political revolutionary against the Roman Empire. Yet Mark 14:55-64 shows how that is not what those sneaky deceivers condemned Him for beforehand in their own council.

None of this is taking away from the fact that Jesus died voluntarily through obedience to the Father in order to make the atonement necessary to redeem a special people to Himself- yet It is also evident that several things which He said and did throughout His three year-plus public ministry provoked some to seek to have Him stoned (or thrown off a cliff in the case of the inhabitants of His hometown Nazareth in Luke chapter 4). Jesus’ murder at the hands of the Jews could have happened well before it did. Yet there was a build-up of animosity and tension which made it all the more likely that He would be killed- especially as He came to the center of the radar of the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. His murder became virtually inevitable if He didn’t flee to a sparsely populated area or resort to supernatural deliverance.

Some blasphemously say that Jesus did not want to be the Jews’ Messiah. This discounts that all of His original disciples were Jews. He preached Himself as the Messiah among the Jews and He received worship of Himself among the Jews. Though some Jews wanted to make Jesus their King, they did want that in truth and righteousness.

John 6:14-15: “Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.”

This was right after Jesus had fed the 5,000. The chapter goes on to show the same group pursuing Jesus to the other side of the sea in an attempt to obtain more bread. They were obsessed with their natural interests. They were not interested in eternal life- let alone willing to submit to the righteous ways of Jesus’ authority (think especially of Jesus’ interaction with the Rich Young Ruler here- the Rich Young Ruler was very interested in eternal life yet was unwilling value the kingdom of God above his natural interests when confronted with the need to do so).

It is also evident and obvious from the historical context of the Gospels that the Jews wanted a deliverer from Roman rule. There is strong reason to believe that the Jewish nation as a whole would have received Jesus as the Messiah if He had preached the Zionist doctrine (which teaches that Jews have a birthright to their own state in the land formerly known as Canaan) and if He had used His divine power to oppose the Romans for the Zionist cause.

It is even seen in John chapter 11 that the Jewish leaders feared losing their place and their nation if Jesus continued to minister and was not rather put to death (and by the way, most preachers and church leaders don’t preach the whole counsel of the Bible which is a testimony of Jesus unhindered with free reign in their decisions of what to say or not because of fear of losing their place in life).

John 11:47-50: “Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.”

Though Jesus died for the nation and for all people, He did indeed see to it that the nation was destroyed 40 years later in AD 70 due to the nation’s unrepentant rejection of Him. That is the very judgment which the Zionist Jews of modern Israel are resisting in their re-entry to the land they were kicked out of in relation to the AD 70 judgment; and it is the judgment which Zionist Christians who wickedly support modern Israel are ignorant of or blatantly resisting themselves. Otherwise, they would not be Zionists but would rather see Israel as just as wicked or worse than Hamas (and it is- Hamas itself is an evil, misguided response to the terror, oppression, theft, and murder perpetrated by the Zionist Jews in their institution of modern Israel).

Consider the following moment involved in the events culminating in Jesus being killed. The Jewish leaders of course already knew before this point that Jesus was not a Zionist. Yet at this point, Jesus induces a vague confession from certain of them that they indeed ought to lose their place and their nation. He does this through a general parable- and then He proceeds to blatantly apply that parable to how their nation would no longer be the Lord’s vineyard and would rather be destroyed in accordance with His supreme authority which they were resisting in their opposition to Him.

Matthew 21:33-46: “Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.”

Refusal to be a Zionist and support the alleged right of the Jews’ to their own sovereign nation was a key factor in Jesus’ murder which indeed occurred through the scheming, false accusation, and pressure of the Jews before the Roman Governor Pilate. The Zionist Christians then betray Christ by their Zionist stance and support of the crowd which is principally implicated in His murder. It is clear then that, though it is possible to be an enemy of Jesus and not be a Zionist, faithfully following Jesus and being a Zionist at the same time are utterly opposed to each other. The Zionist Christians need to repent by acknowledging their unconditional support of Israel as enmity against Jesus and forsaking it. Otherwise, they will end up in hell with the blatant Christ-rejecting Jews whom they irrationally justify and show partiality towards.