Christian Zionism?
The question came up today and honestly i've never been asked my opinion on the subject. Believe it or not it's not brought up much in the circles of teenagers i travel in. I had to say that the belief that God has ordained Israel to occupy the area of the globe it presently sits seems a poor reading of the OT.
I've got more to say but would like to hear others thoughts.
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I tend to agree. It seems to me like the NT is pretty clear that the old covenant was simply pointing to the new covenant and has been superseded by the new.
But, honestly, I really don't know what I'm talking about. Definitely out of my league here.
Heck, I still don't get the jump from circumcision to infant baptism!
I have always wondered if the prophecies in Revelation require a nation with a terran geography or whether Israel is now interchangeable with the Body/Bride of Christ. The peace prophecy sorta makes believe it has to also be a civic body because state-less people groups don't usually make conventional treaties/war?
don't know much, but from my studies I've noticed that the nt word for nations is ethnos. Referring more to the ethnicity of the people then the geography of the people.
but, looking at revaluations where it talks about Israel being attacked suggest that there is some about the actual geography of the nation.
hmmmmm...
I wonder if the problem with Christian Zionism is that it's kinda Pelagian. In other words, it's up to the US to make sure the Jews get Israel, rather than God being sovereign over the nations, and he puts them where he will. I wonder if it's kinda like the false prophets in the OT who preached that they couldn't be brought into exile because God had promised them the land they lived in. Besides that, you can live in Israel your whole life and still wind up going to Hell, so what's the point.
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