Zionist Christians don’t take into account that before the first coming of Christ there was a faithful remnant within Israel while everyone else there was at enmity with the Lord.  Multitudes of Israelites dwelled where the Lord’s worship was centered and practiced His worship externally without worshiping Him in spirit and in truth.  Though the faithful remnant within Israel eventually became the basis for Christ’s faithful church (His called out ones), there had even been many acts of the Lord prior to the first coming of Christ which were done with the intent of purifying Israel from its wickedness and negating the bad influence of its unfaithful remnant.  One of the greatest of these acts involved many being killed by the Babylonians and many being carried away into captivity by the Babylonians.  The Lord was thereby purging Israel of its dross as He said He would in places such as Isaiah chapter 1.  Many Jews which had been emboldened in idolatry, theft, and many other sins were thereby weeded out.  As bad as Israel was morally during the time of Jesus’ incarnation, it would have been a lot worse yet without these purifying judgments.  Though it is seen in books such as Nehemiah how quickly Israel began to sink back into corruption after the return from Babylon, there had been somewhat of a fresh start after the Babylonian captivity. 

Seeing that Jesus said the kingdom of God would be taken from the Jewish nation and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof in Matthew 21:43, and this reality was sealed by the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70 and the obliteration of the Jewish nation in their war with the Romans, modern Israel in its rejection of Jesus Christ and manifold sins could not be the faithful remnant of Israel spoken of in the Bible.  That would rather have to be the faithful people of Israel’s Messiah.  

1 Peter 2:4-10: “To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion (Zion) a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.  Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”

Is this describing Jewish people who do not worship Jesus Christ?  No.  They are among the disobedient ones appointed to stumble at the chief cornerstone of God’s house.  His people are the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16), they are the true circumcision (Philippians 3:3), and they are the seed of Abraham that matters which inherit God’s promises to Abraham- whether they are naturally Jews or Gentiles (Galatians 3:13-14 and Galatians 3:26-29).  They are the true Israel since they are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets (which stem from the faithful remnant of Israel), Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:19-20).  This is so because faithful Christianity is the continuation and culmination of the faithful Judaism set forth in the Old Testament.

With this understood, going back into the Old Testament to the things addressed to the faithful remnant of Israel leads to several key Scripture passages which Zionists hijack to promote the deceit of Zionism.  Zionists use such passages to persuade people to pledge allegiance to modern Israel and Christ-rejecting Jews though these passages actually correspond to Christ and to His faithful people.

Isaiah 60:12: “For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.”

The faithful remnant of Israel came out of the nation which the Lord smote through the Babylonians.  Gentiles were gathered to that remnant while the Lord’s worship remained in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian captivity.  Now the Gentiles who bow to serve Jesus Christ in spirit and truth are gathered to that remnant.  They do not need to go up to Jerusalem now to partake in the Lord’s appointed worship.  That ceased to be centered in Jerusalem with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70.  Think about it.  People should be called to serve Jesus Christ alongside whoever is really also doing so instead of being told to serve modern Israel.  Zionist preachers give the impression that serving Jesus is equivalent to serving modern Israel.  This is a pathetic lie which many heed.  Imagine people preaching in the name of a king and telling people that they will perish if they don’t aid the king’s enemies who are looking to dethrone him and find another king.  That illustrates how ridiculous the concept of Christian Zionism is.  And by the way: It is only logical that ultra-rich supporters of modern Israel would be the ones funding this insane concept and exercising their power to keep those calling out its insanity off the radar (and maybe even funding controlled opposition through people who do call it out which act so ridiculous in their delivery that they do actually help the Zionist cause). 

Jeremiah 31:31-37: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.  Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.  Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.”

The preceding passage is indeed quoted from regarding Christians under the New Covenant in Christ in Hebrews chapter 8.  These verses come in the midst of a promise to return Judah’s captivity in Babylon before that captivity actually happened.  In the aftermath of this captivity was the Messiah’s first coming, the destruction of Jerusalem (since the Jewish nation was overall unfaithful and was therefore rejected), and the abolition of the Jewish nation in its war with the Romans in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.  The product of the return of the Jews from Babylon was the preservation and proliferation of the faithful remnant of Israel.  Eventually, the Gospel of the Messiah was sent forth into all the world from that faithful remnant which resulted  in the increase of that faithful remnant among Gentiles who were added to it through exercising a living faith in Israel’s Messiah.  The return of natural Jews to the land they were kicked out of almost 2,000 years before, led by those who despise Jesus Christ’s authority, has nothing to do with the Lord’s preservation of the faithful remnant of Israel.  There is no other Israel which He recognizes besides that remnant which faithfully worships Israel’s Messiah.  Modern Israel therefore must be an impostor entity; and promoters of Zionism must therefore be speaking falsehood.

Ezekiel 37:1-14: “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.  And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?  And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.  Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.  And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.  Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.”

This is specifically a reference to the Lord reviving the house of Israel and restoring the Jewish nation after the Babylonian captivity.  The nation was slain through the Romans later on and the nation will not be revived in the Lord’s estimation until Christ returns.  The unfaithful remnant of natural Israel will have no part in this restoration (as Acts 3:19-24 plainly demonstrates).  Modern Israel itself is a grave of corruption with its prevalent murders, lying, theft, and its blatant and exceeding resistance to Jesus Christ.  It is wrong to equate the modern Jewish nation which was established through theft, lies, and murders in the 20th century to the restoration from Babylon when the faithful remnant of Israel was still intertwined with the ancient Jewish nation.  And how could you even apply Ezekiel 37:1-14 to modern Israel, in its great enmity with Jesus Christ, without denying that spiritual life is only in Him as the Bible teaches?  You can’t.  And note here that the faithful remnant of ancient Israel was in line with Him and ready to welcome Him prior to His first coming.  That, combined with those who repented through John the Baptist, explains why there were people in Israel who recognized their Messiah and worshiped Him as such after He began preaching publicly.  The slain coming to life in Ezekiel chapter 37 does apply to those dead in sin coming to life spiritually by a new birth from God’s Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ.

Zechariah 2:5-8: “For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her (i.e. Jerusalem).  Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.  Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.  For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”

Again, this was written concerning the faithful remnant of the Jewish nation returning from captivity in Babylon.  This passage was written after the return from that captivity had happened.  That faithful remnant had fled before the destruction of Jerusalem (according as Jesus had instructed in Luke 21:20-24).  The Lord was not a wall of fire to Jerusalem in AD 70; and the people remaining there were cursed by Him instead of the apple of His eye.  That faithful remnant of Israel which is composed of true disciples of Israel’s Messiah are rather the apple of His eye.  The Lord is still a wall of fire about the Messiah’s people; and He that touches the Messiah’s people yet touches the apple of His eye.  To say such things concerning modern Jerusalem and Israel is essentially a statement that there is another way to be among the Lord’s people besides exercising a living faith in Jesus.  It is also essentially a claim that He has an alternative people to the Messiah’s people.  Zechariah 2:4-8 does indeed apply to modern Israel negatively in that it oppresses people and harms people which it has no right to harm.  That in itself is a great evil which incurs God’s judgment.  Modern Israel even mistreats and kills those who, for all it knows, are true believers in Jesus Christ.  Its war on the Palestinians is not a war on Islam.  Modern Israel steals from, abuses, and kills whoever gets in its way.  It has thereby touched the apple of God’s eye.  Its supporters are complicit with its evils.  They should be afraid over what is written in Zechariah 2:8.

Similarly, Zechariah 8:20-23 says: “Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.  Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.”

Sorry, the Temple is gone.  Jerusalem is not the place to go to seek the Lord of hosts anymore.  Even when it was, there were many blind guides there who should not have been followed.  Jesus and His disciples contended with some of those in the New Testament.  There are also a multitude of blind guides in the realm of professing Christianity who should not be followed.  The prevalence of Zionism under a Christian label is a notable demonstration of this, while there are also many other notable demonstrations.  

Modern Israel is making war on Jesus Christ.  Opposing its sins and honestly seeking to hold people accountable for their criminal actions could not be opposition to the real Jesus Christ.  Everyone has a duty to uphold righteousness and let the Lord work out the end-time stuff according to His wisdom in the timing which He sees fit.  

Also, do not justify sin by Christians nor support Christians who are committed to sin as if they are God’s chosen people either.  

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