Christian Zionism Watch

"The Jerusalem Declaration On Christian Zionism"

2006-09-01T06:23:00.000-07:00

Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9) Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyptic events leading to the end of history rather than living Christ's love and justice today. We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.
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His Beattitude Patriarch Michel Sabbah Latin Patriarchate, Jerusalem Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad, Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate, Jerusalem Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East Bishop Munib Younan, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land August 22, 2006
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Zionist Christians - A Mossad Operation

2006-08-18T02:34:00.000-07:00

Written by Leland Lehrman
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
Do Zionist Christians Know that the Name of Jesus Was Changed in Israel?

I was born to Jewish parents. Some of my more distant family died in the European Wars of the 20th century. Yet, I am a Christian. My conversion was a long process and began when I was a student at an Israeli high-school on a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley. There, I learned that Jesus' name in Hebrew had been changed so that it is now an acronym meaning "Be His Name and Memories Forgotten." Hitler's name had not been touched, hence - I thought - Jesus must have committed a very serious crime. Indeed he had. By putting the emphasis on faith and love he seriously threatened the Pharisees - later to be called Rabbis - and their monopoly on the interpretation of the Old Testament.

The Pharisees used their interpretation, called the Talmud, to create a convenient life for their group. For this, Jesus called them hypocrites. It took me a long time to walk the rest of the way to the Christian Church. One of the roadblocks was the Pharisaic propaganda that teaches that Judaism is both a religion and an ethnic group, implying thus that a Jew cannot convert. A more serious problem was the Christian teaching that we are all sinners. Jews believe they are born perfect; from childhood they are told they are the Chosen People. For a long time I accepted all of the Christian Doctrine, except for that one point. "I didn't kill," I kept telling myself. One day, I tried a semantic exchange and told myself "I am not perfect." The next step was immediate and I understood that I am a sinner because I am imperfect and thus unable to keep any set of religious laws. Expanding on the subject is beyond the scope of this article, but afterwards I completely embraced the Christian World: it is within my mind and, mainly, within my heart.

I am not a Charismatic, not a Pentecostal, not even a Catholic; I am an active member of the original Evangelical denomination, the Lutheran Church and even hold a formal position as the adult school teacher in the congregation of which I am a member in La Paz, Bolivia. I teach the Bible in Hebrew at the Biblical Evangelical Seminary there - the biggest in the country - and am regularly invited to speak at many churches. I have given sermons, devotionals, appeared on radio programs, led professional groups and study groups in Lutheran, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Neo-Pentecostal and Brethren Churches. I am mainstream Christian, well-known and widely accepted by the Bolivian Evangelical communities. Bolivia is the country that provided me with political asylum once the State of Israel began persecuting me due to my writings.

It was hard for me to ignore the Zionist influence in Bolivia. Many members of the Pentecostal Churches wear Stars of David - a Hindu symbol for spiritual strength - which was stolen by the Pharisees in a moment of spiritual weakness. Until they heard me speak, many of them confused the State of Israel with the Kingdom of Israel. Classical Christian Theology teaches that the Kingdom of Israel is a spiritual one and that we, people of good faith and loving temperament, are it. The State of Israel is just one more of the tribulations described in the New Testament.

I began explaining, carefully and with love, this poisonous error which Zionism purposely introduces into Christianity. We can all make mistakes or be manipulated into mistakes. On two different occasions, I spotted listeners ripping off their Stars of David. Once, I was told, in tears: "Until I heard you, I didn't feel worthy of God for not having been born Jewish."

This diabolical interpretation - that the State of Israel is the Kingdom - is aggressively pushed by the Zionists internationally. They use it as a subversive tool with which to secure the active support of some poorly educated Evangelical Churches, mainly in the USA. Soon I found that Bolivia is important to the Zionists. The poorest country in South America, it has a huge Evangelical community. Since Americans are not good missionaries, because of their negative image worldwide, Zionist Missionaries prefer to train Bolivians for the job. "They are of the right size and color for that work," a missionary husband once told me in a racist tone. A few weeks later, his wife stood up and left one of my classes in which I was teaching the Sermon on the Mount - specifically the part about the persecution of those who seek justice - and she never returned. When it became obvious that I was straightening the tangled vines, I began receiving direct threats from the State of Israel and suffered a warning attack in February, 2006.

A month later, an article about me was published in the American media and I was contacted regarding its contents by someone who claimed to be a Jewish convert to Christianity. I gave a courteous answer but not any special treatment for "there is neither Jew nor Greek," the Scriptures teach. Shortly thereafter, he began sending me emails by the dozen. It was a tactic I had already seen and I like to call it "carpeting." Whenever security services want to learn something about your connections, affiliations or preferences, they like to bait you with many different options and then they look carefully at which ones you pick up. Automatically, this self-defined Christian convert fell onto my list of suspected Mossad agents. After I did a radio interview setting forth the same ideas as those in this article, he did one himself and therein claimed that Christians and Rabbis are the same, excepting the belief in Jesus. Nothing could be further from the truth and nearer to the Mossad's long term strategy for deceptively undermining Christianity.

Later, in the United States, I was traveling between Santa Fe and San Francisco due to the idiosyncrasies of my complicated political asylum process. In a daring move, I invited myself to visit this agent in Colorado. The carpeting went wild there and I have no room for a detailed account, but I was positively convinced that he is no Christian. He knew the Israeli Evangelical Churches, but in the way a policeman does, and he named all of them in Jerusalem, seeking my reactions. Proselytizing in Israel is a crime and all these churches are under heavy restrictions and surveillance. Years before, I belonged to a Christian group in Tel Aviv which is unknown to the Israeli police. Much of my discussion with Mossad agents involves their attempts to get names and addresses. Needless to say, they have always failed miserably. Part of the carpeting this time was weird. The agent offered me political asylum in Iran, a fake American passport with which to visit Israel (and thus potentially to disclose an underground church), and even a phone number in Fort Collins from which I could make international long distance calls for free (and probably be closely monitored). After I politely rejected these proposals, he added - and not in a particularly Christian way - that Israeli thugs will beat me with sticks until nothing is left on my shoulders, and that sometimes he "feels like killing someone." I was unimpressed by that; I'm too experienced to be excited by a bubbling provocateur. The thrilling part, entirely new to me, was that he lives within a Zionist Christian community. Apparently he supervises or monitors their indoctrination for the Mossad.

Only by understanding these techniques and goals of the Pharisaic and Zionist movements - only by understanding that their long term hatred of the Christian World demonstrates that it is the ultimate answer to the Pharisaic-Zionist outrages - will it be possible to block these well-designed long-term strategies. Today, we are still in a position to make a change; tomorrow it may be too late. Even Hitler's name wasn't changed.

Zionized-Christian Reality

2006-06-16T01:11:00.000-07:00

In this hard-hitting article, Dr. Charles Carlson exposes the fake Christianity of Celebrity Christians like Kay Arthur of Precept Ministries who worships the State of Israel and not Jesus Christ.

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And...Part I: Israel first and Jesus second http://www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=839)

Christian Zionist Members of Parliament Vote For War In Afghanistan

2006-05-22T04:46:00.000-07:00

Four Zionist Christians voted for extending the war in Afghanistan---Ablonczy, Harper (yes, the "Christian" prime minister), Manning, and Day.

The vote in the Canadian Parliament passed 149-145. If only these four so-called "Christians" had voted no, Canadian soldiers would be coming home alive, and Canada would not be policing the world according to the dangerous neo-con agenda so eloquently exposed by Hon. Ron Paul. Obviously, the god of these "Christians" is Mammon, not Jesus the Christ. They preach peace but vote for war in true Orwellian double-talk..."War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

NOTE: The link to the exact page has been dropped. Neo-cons make it difficult for you to see how they voted. They hope you'll give up easily. Here's your chance to disappoint them! :)

How To Skip Bible Nonsense

2006-05-22T04:32:00.000-07:00

This 1-minute story beats the 1-hour sermons by celebrity Christian-Zionist TV evangelists.

This brings to mind a childhood experience of James Martineau, who was to become a preeminent religious teacher. His mother left him one evening to read the Bible while she was gone. On her return young James reported he had read the entire book of Isaiah.
"Why, you couldn't have read all of Isaiah in this short time," he was admonished.
"Yes, I did," he replied, "but I had to skip the nonsense." The Technique of Getting Things Done, by Dr. Donald A. Laird and Eleanor C. Laird, p. 72

Did Jesus Have A Tour Guide?

2006-05-20T15:43:00.000-07:00

Rachel Gorham in Reader's Digest (Canada), April 2006, p. 170, related the following incident:

On a trip to Israel, my brother wasn't the only member of his group eager to photograph or videotape every sight in the Holy Land. At Megiddo, the tour guide stood on a large boulder and told the camera-happy crowd, "This boulder is a very important part of every tour in Israel."
Cameras flashed, camcorders hummed, as tourists vied for the best view of this important piece of limestone. Everyone waited to hear just what role this exact location played in Bible history. The guide's eyes twinkled. "This is the rock," he said, "on which every tour guide has stood since the time of Christ to point out the sights of Megiddo."

If Jesus knows everything, why did he need a Zionist tour guide? :)

From Terrorist To Christian-Zionist: An Easy Conversion

2006-05-17T02:53:00.000-07:00

This journalist tells you how easy it was for a former anti-Israel terrorist to convert to Christian-Zionism and have full immunity from U.S. law. A breath-stopper story.

A Jew Asks, "Why Are Christians Such Wimps?"

2006-05-14T16:36:00.000-07:00

Why Are Christians Such Wimps?
'The Da Vinci Code'
By Henry Makow PhD
14 May 2006

Here are some outstanding quotes from Makow’s essay:

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"Why are Christians such pussies? They sat idly by while Christ was crucified! Their reaction wasn't even a factor in that decision.
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What good are Christian beliefs if you don't stand up for them? Where is the self-respect of Christians if they allow their beliefs to be trampled on?
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Christians should file "hate crime" law suits against the makers of the "Da Vinci Code." On the Judgment Day we will be graded NOT by what we believed but by what we did. It's time Christians stood up for Christ."

I have a complaint or two with Makow. First, he urges Canadians to use Canada’s totalitarian Hate Laws to stand up for our religion. Makow knows it was the Zionists in the Canadian Parliament who created the hated Hate Laws.

And second, Makow is silent on the fact that Zionists in Canada use Canadian Hate Laws to harass and prosecute and even jail Christians who dare to criticize Zionism. Why is he such a wimp?

The one courageous man who accepts Makow’s advice is the famed Battling Barrister of Canada, defense counsel Douglas Christie.

Christians take sides in Holy Land conflict

2006-04-24T13:19:00.000-07:00

Christians take sides in Holy Land conflict
Devout travel to support Israel, Palestinians
By John Murphy
Sun foreign reporter
Originally published April 15, 2006
JERUSALEM // Diana Zimmerman and Karen Lewis are Christians who say they answered a call from God to travel from their homes in the United States to live and work in the Holy Land.

But their callings have placed them on opposing sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Zimmerman, 35, a Mennonite and former nursing coordinator from Baltimore, works in a remote Palestinian village in the West Bank, where she escorts Palestinian children to school and accompanies shepherds and farmers to their fields, trying to protect them from harassment by Jewish settlers.

Lewis, 43, an evangelical Christian from Omaha, Neb., and former member of the U.S. Air Force, is a volunteer for Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem, where she runs a program to support Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank. She raises money to provide troops with clothing and packages of toiletries and scripture. Every morning she recites a prayer, asking God to protect Israel's soldiers and destroy their enemies.
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God Bless Neil Young

2006-04-23T17:31:00.000-07:00

But why does it take a 60 year old Canadian musician to generate political activism in America?
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How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism

2006-04-14T18:50:00.000-07:00

Jan 02, 2006

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How a Bible Publisher Altered the Book to Promote Zionism, Why Celebrity Leaders Bow

By Charles E. Carlson

Christian Zionists at the pulpit of mega-churches have an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about many New Testament Bible passages without compromising their position on supporting wars, and on the state of Israel. Some of their teaching and preaching directly contradict that which Jesus taught, and more surprisingly, conflict with Jesus' statements to his disciples about Heaven and Hell.

We examine one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages in the Bible and how it is distorted in what may be the most intensely promoted Bible ever written, having enabled serial wars and bloodshed. We begin with a direct quote from the Scofield Reference Bible, p-1036-37, footnotes to Matthew 25:3. Please wade through the following paragraph even if it does not seem to make sense to you.

"Matthew 25:32: This judgment of individual Gentiles is to be distinguished from other judgments in Scripture, such as the judgment of Israel, and the judgment of the wicked after the millennium. The time of this judgment is "when the Son of man shall come in his glory," i.e. at the second coming of Christ after the tribulation. The subjects of this judgment are ...all Gentiles then living on earth. Three classes of individuals are mentioned: (1) sheep, saved Gentiles; (2) goats, unsaved Gentiles; and (3) brethren, the people of Israel. The scene is on earth;...The test of this judgment is the treatment by individual Gentiles of those whom Christ calls "my brethren," living in the preceding tribulation period when Israel is fearfully persecuted...The sheep are Gentiles saved on earth during the period between the rapture and Christ's second coming to the earth..."

Oxford Press introduces racism into Jesus' words! When He spoke of "his brethren" Jesus was in no way talking about the 1948 created state of Israel, at the very least he was referring to his followers, and it's more likely he would include all of suffering mankind in "the least of these my brethren." Goats are those who ignore the needs of their fellow men, but Oxford introduces racism into the picture calling the goats "gentiles" who fail to shelter Israelis at some future time in history. In other words, Oxford wants us to believe Jesus was not even talking to his disciples at all, but was tossing riddles over their heads meant for some future generation that his "brethren" would not even comprehend. Had Jesus intended this we might expect Him to say so.
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What You Should Know About Christian Zionism

2006-03-31T16:01:00.000-08:00

Defining Christian Zionism
Donald Wagner

The term Christian Zionism is a relatively recent category, rarely utilized prior to the early 1990s. Self-proclaimed Christian Zionist organizations such as the International Christian Embassy-Jerusalem and the U.S. based Bridges for Peace, both with offices in Jerusalem, have been operating for twenty years but have been under the radar of most Middle East experts and the mainstream media until the post-September 11, 2001 era.
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Israel, Let Me Count the Ways

2006-01-11T12:47:00.000-08:00

Israel, Let Me Count The Ways
By Mark Glenn
Al-Jazeerah
1-10-6

Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it, and under it the or bringing idiots like Limbaugh, Liddy, Hannity, Beck, and Savage to the forefront as paidquotation from the book of Genesis that reads "I will bless those who bless thee."

I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has been to us.

For extorting from me and my fellow Americans $16,000,000,000 (billion) a year for the last 4 decades, we bless thee.
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For taking our most sophisticated weapons technology and stealing it for yourself without paying the American patent holders, we bless thee.
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For using your agents in the Christian Evangelical community, such as Falwell, Graham, Swaggert, and the rest who praise you as God's chosen people and further keep Americans in the dark about who you really are, what you have done, and what you are truly about, we bless thee.
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