Christian Zionism: A Western Heresy Awaiting the Antichrist

Some modern ideas that have infiltrated Western groups calling themselves churches contradict the Orthodox Christian teachings handed down to us by the Fathers, defended by our ancestors, and for which they shed their blood to preserve the straight faith (Orthodoxy).One of these ideas is Christian Zionism and the claim of Israel's right to the land of Palestine — even supporting its massacres so that the Israelis may seize the land under the cover of "(God's) Chosen People." How, when, and why? We do not know all the details, but what we do know clearly from the Holy Bible is that there are two covenants:

• The Old Covenant, specific to the Law and its rituals, which lasted until the coming of Christ.
• The New Covenant of Grace, which came after the coming of Christ and the Incarnation of the Word.

The first covenant remained in force until it was fulfilled.

“And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.”
(Genesis 17:7-9)

This covenant concerning the land was conditional upon keeping the Lord’s covenant and having the Lord as their God. Even if we take the covenant literally, it must be applied literally: all the descendants of our father Abraham would be heirs. But when we return to the Holy Bible, we find that Abraham had more than one son:

• First, Ishmael, son of Hagar the Egyptian.
• Then Isaac, son of Sarah and the son of the promise.
• Then the sons of Keturah.

“Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.” (Genesis 25:1-2)

It is written that he sent them away and gave the inheritance to Isaac his son. Why? Because Isaac was the son of faith, hope, and obedience — not merely a son of the flesh like the others. Thus, the children of the flesh have no advantage, but the children of the promise are the heirs.

“Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as of many, but as of one, ‘And to your Seed,’ who is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16)

“Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called.’” (Romans 9:7)

Let us return to the origin of the New Covenant — the first prophecy about the Messiah:

“So the Lord God said to the serpent: ‘Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.’” (Genesis 3:14-15)

This prophecy — that the Seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent — was fulfilled on the Cross. By His death on the Cross, Christ gave us life through His blood, paying the penalty of sin.During the period from God’s promise to Abraham until the Incarnation of Christ, God specially cared for the children of Abraham, sometimes disciplining them, until Christ came.

“Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand, and said: ‘Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen: The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He brought them out of it. For about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness. And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment. After that, for about four hundred and fifty years, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” From this man’s seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior — Jesus.’” (Acts 13:16-23)

This Jesus, whom God raised up as Savior, was not believed in by the Jewish people. Only a very small number followed Him, while many blasphemed against Him and cried out before Pilate: “Crucify Him! His blood be upon us and upon our children!”

“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief... But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed...” (Isaiah 53:1-12)

“I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there.” (Isaiah 65:9)

Here we see that the ultimate purpose of God’s choosing of the Israelite people was the fulfillment of the plan of salvation from the penalty of death that fell upon Adam. Those who inherit after Christ are those who have faith in Christ. They do not inherit a piece of land, because “heaven and earth will pass away,” but they inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.

“For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect... Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.” (Romans 4:13-16)

Therefore, whoever believes in Zionism or in Israel’s inheritance of the land of Palestine implicitly does not believe in the Incarnation of Christ, nor in His Crucifixion, nor in His death. Instead, such a person is waiting for a political messiah-king who will give Israel earthly dominion, as David the king and his son Solomon did.To avoid writing more, I will stop here. Some of the shared posts explain this better, including prophecies about the Antichrist (the false messiah).
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