(Sorry for the lack of posts. I am traveling for work. By all means, start following Chris Jackson at http://bigmodernism.substack.com/)
How a Protestant misreading of Scripture may lead America into a catastrophic holy war
Senator Ted Cruz believes the United States must support modern Israel, unconditionally, militarily, even preemptively against Iran, because of a single verse from Genesis: “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” In his eyes, this is a geopolitical strategy, authored by God.
Cruz stated it bluntly in his interview with Tucker Carlson. When asked why America should support Israel in striking Iran, even if it meant regional or global escalation, Cruz appealed not to prudence, nor to U.S. self-interest, but to Genesis 12. “Those who bless Israel will be blessed,” he said. End of story.
This is not a marginal view. It’s a core conviction of American evangelicalism, particularly among its political class. Members of Congress, presidential advisors, and even Pentagon insiders carry this belief into their policy calculations. But the tragedy is this: they are wrong.
Genesis 12: Not a Foreign Policy Manual
The passage Cruz invokes was spoken to Abram, personally, as part of God’s covenant with him and his descendants. It was not a blanket policy for Gentile nations in 2024. It certainly wasn’t a divine endorsement of whatever geopolitical entity calls itself “Israel” at any given point in history. The modern state of Israel, founded in 1948 by secular Zionists, many of them agnostic or atheist, is not a theocracy, not the Old Covenant nation, and not a valid fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
The Church Fathers knew this. Saint Paul, writing in Romans 9, makes it clear: “Not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.” The promises of the Old Covenant were fulfilled in Christ and extended to the New Israel: the Church. “If you are Christ’s,” says Galatians 3:29, “then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.” The Church, not a Middle Eastern nation-state, is the inheritor of the covenant blessings.
Yet Cruz and his fellow Christian Zionists turn this upside down. They read Genesis as though the U.S. must serve modern Israel, or else suffer divine wrath. That’s dispensationalism, a 19th-century heresy barely older than Mormonism.
From Bad Theology to Real Bombs
Cruz insists that supporting Israel means preemptively destroying Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure…
Read the rest: https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/when-bad-theology-starts-a-war-ted
It is frightening to see it in practice. People like Cruz are perfectly willing to dehumanize or sub humanize everyone who is not an Israeli. Gaza for example. There is absolutely no concern for Christians in Palestine even or all those displaced. On the one hand, God is directing all this; on the other, Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple and is the way the truth and the life. The CZ’s throw Him under bus also to make Israel inc happy all the time because God.
Dispensationalist garbage was spread before Zionists colonized Palestine, and Prots think its prophecy being fulfilled.
The only time Jesus got angry at others was when he the Jews using the Temple as a casino. The Jews got blackmailed the most powerful man in the region, Pilate, into killing Jesus. They so flustered a pagan that even he had to witness that Jesus was innocent and wash his hands of His blood. These are backwards, evil people. Yes I said it.
And intentionally bad ecumenism by the modernists weeds strangling the Catholic Church is helping both the Judeo-Protestants and Jews to pave that road, not only to Iran, but to world-wide annihilation and to usher in the age of Anti-Christ.
The Catholics ceased to correct, condemn and call Jews and Prots and evangelical-crazies to proper theology and conversion. So that generation of Catholics is also contemptible. They have cursed themselves and their children and their fewer children’s children. That is the legacy of their Vatican II project and all it’s leaders and henchmen, and they are in denial and they remain suicidally committed to it!
Yes. Excellent summary of the current situation.
not all prots. many are amillenial. this is just the dispy premil trash.
Ted Cruz exposed! I never knew he was so committed to serving a foreign government. Or that his theology was so bad.
Even if you will deny that Christ’s Church has completely replaced Judaism & Jews as God’s actual Israel – which the New Testament is emphatic about, so “good luck to you, with that” – you must then view the promise of Genesis 12 as applying to all of Abraham’s earthly descendants including Muslims, which is why Muslims feel themselves to be part of the “Abraham Accords”.