Category Archives: Zionism

Seven reasons to be pro-Semitic

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I’ve blogged quite a bit recently on the delicate but important subject of Israel.  Much of what I’ve written tends towards the conclusion that the ‘Christian Zionist’ position cannot be supported from Scripture.  That is to say, the Bible does not, in my view, teach that Jewish people have a God-given right to return to the land of their ancestors and re-establish the nation-state of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital.

It’s distressing to note how vitriolic the debate sometimes gets. …

Israel: Old Testament prophecy and New Testament fulfilment

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I have found it useful to compile a list (albeit partial) of passages that are relevant to discussions about Israel and the Church and related questions such as restoration to the land, etc.

The debate cannot simply be reduced to whether we interpret the Bible more, or less, ‘literally’.  It’s a question of how the New Testament understands the Old Testament promises to have been fulfilled in Christ.

Here’s a list of relevant passages, with some notes appended.…

Genesis 12:3 – ‘I will bless those who bless you’

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Genesis 12:3 records a great promise made by the Lord to Abraham – “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse”.

Some interpreters argue that this promise to Abraham can be applied to modern Gentile attitudes towards the secular state of Israel.

C.I. Scofield says of this promise:

‘Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew – well with those who have protected him.

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Christian Zionism

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The International Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem is to be held this year [2008] on 5th October.  Details can be found here.

It would seem churlish to have reservations about any call for prayer.  However, the resolution includes the following affirmations:-

RECOGNIZING… that G-d [sic] has kept his word to Abraham and His descendants and settled them in their homeland again, according to the word of the prophets (Amos 9:14-15), (Ezekiel 36: esp.

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