The Tangent College – by Bill Ward
You may wish to read my previous two part article entitled “The Treacherous Doctrine of Zionism” for a more detailed exposition of this errant theology and political power play. It is quite thorough.
I’ve been accused of being caught up in the “fast rising religious fad of post-millennial anti-Zionism that has its secular counterpart in the growing Hamas backing cult in the Democrat party”. There is so much wrong in this accusation, as this false prophet ties himself into conceptual knots according to his own self defined terms, that it is really not worth the time to untangle. I have no idea what “post-millennial anti-Zionism” even is, as my views are solely my own – and those of New Testament Christianity which he, a religious Christian, seems to bleep over. It is the way of Zionism to give preeminence to the Old Testament promises and land covenants concerning the Jews and Israel above Christ and the New Covenant which abolished and fulfilled all former covenants. Hamas was a creation of Israel – the bogeyman of Zionism. The vast majority of the Democratic Party is Zionist and 70% of Jewish people still vote Democrat. The purple uni-party (all Zionists) is the same as the Judeo-Christian uni-religion.
He has been for a long time carefully filling out his crossword puzzle theology, passionately writing, and he is now in the lower right quadrant; almost finished. And then, most disturbingly, the invisible hand of reality begins to erase what had been so carefully filled out – slowly, one line at a time. He refills them in furiously but the puzzle is falling apart as God has different plans than he predicted. God will not be put in his crossword puzzle box. The same holds true for many Christian futurists.
The problem is these false prophets cannot see the forest for the trees, and their life’s work is at stake. But beware, because most of the cults, if not all, have been created by someone who is certain of how the end times are going to play out. Zionism in a broad sense has become the doctrine of the global Western imperialist cult.
Let me explain Zionism with various blunt statements:
1) Judeo/Christianity is an oxymoron. It denies the finished work of Christ. Christ’s life, death, crucifixion and resurrection was the final nail in the coffin of the false religion of Pharisaical, Talmudic, rabbinical (or whatever you want to call it) Judaism. There are not two houses, Judah and Israel, that are waiting to be joined together again in the magnificent second coming of Christ where he reestablishes David’s kingdom. David was a poor picture of Christ’s kingdom and not the other way around. There is only one house; there is only one King; there is only one kingdom (even though this false prophet believes there are two – there are not); there is no more division between Jews and Gentiles and Israelis and Arabs or anyone else because all these distinctions have been dissolved in Christ.
2) There are no other covenants of land because the land does not matter anymore. All previous covenants have been dissolved by Christ in the new covenant. It is the last covenant and it is for the Jews and the Gentiles and in fact the whole world – “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, (the Jews) because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. “And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.” John 3:16-19 But somehow for the Zionists this “believing in the Son of God” thing does not apply to the Jews even though Jesus was talking to a Jewish Pharisee.
3) There is no longer a holy land which is to be occupied by either Christians or Jews, for the kingdom of God is within you. -Luke 17:21 This is what Jesus said but Zionists are not interested in what Jesus said, they are more interested in their religious doctrines of power. The holy land is where God is and your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. God is not in or on Mount Zion unless a group of genuine Christians happens to be standing on Mount Zion. Then God is in their midst. “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father….“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” John 4:21-26 Zionists avoid the words of Christ because they destroy their earthly visions of a holy land. The German Nazis were also obsessed with land for living: “lebensraum”.
4) The Zionist movement was originally created in the very late 19th century in order to give cover and religious justification for British imperialism. The imperialists sold it to the religious Christians and Jews as a way of uniting the two religions into one uni-religion called Judeo/Christianity. This would enable the imperialists to have a united front against Islam and various other religions and peoples which were in opposition of British interests. The religious Christians and Jews glommed onto this doctrine and it has become thoroughly leavened into Western Christianity where previously it was not. Zionism is not biblical but the secular imperialists tricked the religious into it because it furthers the cause of big religion. Religion protects religion. And now, conveniently we no longer have to preach to the Jews who are most contentious about the gospel of Christ. – I’m being satirical, but this is how Zionism usurps the gospel.
Zionism has been so indoctrinated into all of Christian teaching that it is even considered to be the basis of the founding of this country. For most of my Christian life, though I did not understand it, I believed it because it sounded right. But this country was not founded by Judeo Christians for one very simple reason, there were no Jews to speak of, only Christians. The Jews immigrated much later. Zionism has distorted the narrative of our American history.
5) We have become the new British Empire.
If you will recall your real American history, we were very much against British imperialism at the height of the British Empire when we drafted the Declaration of Independence and fought a Revolutionary war separating ourselves from the England. But we never lost our affinity to our mother country. And now, thanks to Zionism and ethnocentrism, Americans are attracted to all things British (the accent, the culture, the kingdom, the princesses and queens). And thus Zionism comes full circle to now being about the advancement of American imperialism since WWII.
Israel was the creation of Anglo-American imperialism following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. We give gobs of money and weapons to Israel because they are on the front line of our Empire in the Middle East. We created the beachhead and we drove out the Palestinians who were living there. We have to support our colony. Why to be against Israel is to be against America and the Anglo-American Empire. The need to make the Empire great again and this is what we are doing in Israel as well as Ukraine.
That theological crossword puzzle just keeps being erased by the invisible hand.
The real religious fad is about 120 years old and it is Zionism itself. He uses the term “secular” unaware that this term was advanced by the Marxist left in order to marginalize the “religious” – and the religious bought into it in the same way that they bought into the twisted lie of Zionism. Zionism is the religious “fad” that attempts to join together Judaism with Christianity. But even though Zionism is un-biblical and antichrist, God will use it to bring about the end times and the final judgment of the world. Armageddon will not be a battle between the good guys and the bad guys, but rather it will be a bloodbath of all bad guys and then the Son of Man comes in the clouds in great glory.
Please understand that it is never individual Christians or Jews that I disdain, but it is religion of all stripes that I find reprehensible. Individuals are saved, not groups. I have similar gripes against religious Christianity as I do Judaism. The very fact that Christians and Jews feel they can join together in this uni-religion, indicates that neither one truly believes in their own “faith traditions”.
Understand this, Zionism in whatever form, is an imperialist doctrine that attempts to unite Judaism with Christianity – the former being antichrist and the latter being, hopefully, Pro Christ. Judaism is centered around being antichrist in much the same way that Islam is centered around being anti-Jewish. Islam hates the Christians not because they are Christians but because they have attached themselves to the Jews in Judeo Christianity.