Ali Ataie – EXPOSES How Christians Became Zionists
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Traditionally,
Christians
believed that Christians are now the chosen people,
right? The the Jews are no longer the
chosen people,
for Christians to support
the building of a third temple
is absolutely
blasphemous because in the New Testament, Jesus is
clearly described as being the new temple,
the the final temple
in in Romans 6 and in Hebrews 10.
You know, Paul says that Jesus was the
the be all end all sacrifice. He's the
ultimate temple. He's the ultimate high priest, the
ultimate sacrifice.
And yet Christian Zionists, they fully support the
3rd temple where sin sacrifices will apparently return
one day according to Jewish messianism.
So Christian Zionism is is is just indefensible
from a biblical perspective.
So what actually happened here? How did Zionism
become so popular among American Protestants?
Well, in 18/31,
there was this Anglican preacher,
named John Nelson Darby.
Okay. And so he was one of the
primary
organizers of a non denominational Christian movement called
the Plymouth Brethren.
So so, you know, this is what happens
when church tradition,
is ignored. So so Darby is considered to
be the father of something called modern dispensationalism.
Okay. So what is what is modern dispensationalism?
So this is basically,
it's this notion that there will be a
future restoration
of the earthly nation of Israel.
But this also includes this idea that the
Mosaic covenant
and the Christic covenant
are 2 valid
coexisting
covenants.
They're both valid.
Mhmm. Okay?
This is also known as dual covenant theology.
In other words, Christians do not need to
convert Jews. Mhmm. The Jews already have a
valid covenant. Jews are still chosen by God,
irrespective
of their belief in Jesus.
Okay?
So if if we just think about the
theological implications of this for Christianity, I I
mean, this implies that Christ only came from
the Gentiles,
not the Jews. That's the implication that it
actually directly contradicts
the New Testament Jesus. You know, when he
said I was not sent but under the
lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mhmm.
Right? So, you know, instead of, you know,
for God so loved the world,
he should have said for God so loved
the Gentiles Mhmm. That he gave his only
begotten son because the Jews don't need him,
at least not yet. So so according to
Darby, let's get into his eschatology
then.
That Christ will rule
the reconstituted,
physical
ethnic Jewish state of Israel.
So national Israel will be restored according to
Darby.
According to Darby, the Old Testament prophesizes
not so much the church age, but really
the kingdom, the millennium
where Christ rules the national Jewish state of
Israel. And Darby was also a dual covenant
dispensationalist.
So what does that mean? Again, this means
that the Mosaic covenant
and the Christic covenant are 2 valid coexisting
covenants. They're both valid.
So when Jesus returns to rule over national
Israel,
all of Israel
will eventually believe in him. Mhmm. Right? And
there's going to be a reversal. He came
the first time, they almost all rejected him.
When he comes the second time, they will
all believe in him. K. Now now Darby
was famous
for saying that the Bible must be rightly
divided.
This is a very famous phrase from Darby.
He actually takes it from the letters of
Paul, but Paul uses it in a different
The Bible must be rightly divided. What he
meant was
that much of the New Testament
does not actually apply to Christians,
but only to
Jews. That that Jesus primarily in the synoptic
gospel, so Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
He's actually teaching the Mosaic covenant.
Okay? But in John's gospel,
as well as
through Paul's writings, Jesus was advancing the Christian
covenant. So there's almost like 2 gospels.
So according according to Darby,
Jesus was teaching both dispensations.
Okay? Both both covenants are valid side by
side. Now Darby's dispensationalism
eventually found its way across the pond,
to America. So pastor James Hall Brooks,
he kind of just fell in love with
the Darby,
with his teachings, right? Don't get the wrong
idea.
And then Brooks, he he was in Saint
Louis
and there was an annual Bible conference called
the Niagara Bible Conference.
And Brooks was often the keynote speaker.
So it was at this conference when Darbian,
dispensationalism
became more and more popular
via James Brooks.
And Brooks had a preacher friend named Dwight
Moody.
And Moody would later establish the famous Moody
Bible Institute
in Chicago, where Bible is their middle name
as Bart Ehrman always says.
And then Moody
also became
a Darbian dispensationalist.
And then Moody befriended a man named Cyrus
Ingersoll Schofield.
Okay?
Now Schofield
was a morally questionable
lawyer and politician.
He was accused of multiple charges of theft,
bribery, forgery.
He was a deadbeat husband and father,
a self described alcoholic,
turned Christian minister.
So he became an ordained pastor
in Dallas in 18/83.
Mhmm. It's Scofield.
In 18/88,
he wrote a treatise called rightly dividing the
word of truth. Rightly dividing the word of
truth. So he started calling himself,
CI Scofield DD,
that is doctor of divinity, although there's no
record of him ever graduating
from seminary. So it seemed like he gave
himself kind of an honorary doctorate,
kind of like what Dartmouth College did for
doctor Seuss. Right? Honorary doctor, doctor Seuss wasn't
a real doctor, CI Scofield was wasn't a
real doctor, CI Scofield was not a real
doctor.
In 190,
Schofield wrote his Schofield study Bible.
This was published by Oxford.
So this Bible, the Schofield study Bible had
a massive,
massive
impact on American protestants
and evangelicals.
It is no exaggeration
that this Bible turned millions of American protestants
into Christian Zionists.
I mean, it changed the generation of preachers.
His his Bible translation is essentially the King
James translation,
but he added all of these strange notes
in his commentary.
So in his commentary of Genesis 123,
okay, so this is the most infamous one.
Mhmm. Okay. So this is God's promise to
Abraham.
Okay?
So Scofield's commentary changed the game. So basically,
God says to Abraham, I will bless those
who bless you and curse those who curse
you. So here's what Scofield wrote.
Right? He said, and curse those who curse
you, 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. The
future will still more remarkably prove this principle.
Mhmm. Right? So
so so
basically, Scofield is applying
this verse
to ethnic Jews,
contemporary ethnic Jews. That this that the Jews
are still chosen,
that anyone who curses Jews
have
will be cursed by God. And so after
Scofield, it became ubiquitous among Protestants
that Christians
owe unconditional,
unquestionable
loyalty
to the Jewish people
because they never ceased to be chosen.
Okay? This is Scofield's commentary. And so this
dogish
Christian loyalty, this this pathetic,
almost slavish
Mhmm. Christian loyalty to ethnic Jews
extends to the modern, murderous
state of Israel.
Because eventually, Jesus will rule Israel. That's Jesus's
future kingdom. Mhmm. Right?
But as we said, in light of the
New Testament, this is a grave misleading
misreading of Genesis chapter 12 because Paul actually
quotes he actually Paul has a commentary on
Genesis chapter 12.
And Paul says that when it says Abraham
and his seed, his seed is only Jesus,
not the Israelites.
This is what Paul says in Galatians chapter
3. He says, if if you belong to
to Christ, then you are the seed of
Abraham. This is a conditional statement in Galatians
3. In other words, you have to believe
in Jesus or else you're no longer chosen.
Right?
So according to the New Testament,
the Church is the New Israel. The Church
is the New Zion,
right?
Which does and can include some ethnic Jews
as well. But but belief in Jesus without
is without question. You have to believe in
Jesus. According to the New Testament. Okay? The
Last Supper,
at the Last Supper, the this is this
is when the pronouncement
and initiation of the new covenant
covenant,
occurred. This was at Mount Zion
on Holy Thursday. And then the descent of
the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost
occurred in the same upper room 50 days
later on Mount Zion.
So both the establishment of the new covenant
as well as the proclamation of the new
covenant happened on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
So you see what the authors of the
New Testament are saying. The Christian church is
the new Zion. Mhmm. When Thomas Aquinas wrote
his hymns praising Zion, there's a bunch of
hymns that Aquinas wrote where he's praising Zion.
He's praising the Christian church,
not not some future secular
Jewish ethno state. Yeah. So how how did
Scofield actually do it?
So so in 2005,
Joseph Canfield,
he wrote a biography about Schofield.
It's called the the Incredible Schofield
and His Bible. So the according to Canfield,
in 1901,
Schofield joined an an exclusive
males only secret society
called the Lotus Club.
And Canfield suggests that someone highly influential within
the club, he thinks it was another lawyer
named Samuel Untermyer,
basically promoted and financed
Scofield's Bible project. In other words, Scofield had
powerful American Zionists
bankrolling his project. Mhmm. Scofield was the textbook
definition of what's known as a useful idiot.
Mhmm. Right? Someone who's used by powerful people
to do their bidding without really understanding the
consequences of his of his actions. So in
1948, when, you know, Israel became a state,
Darbian dispensationalism
through Schofield
exploded
even more in popularity
among Western Protestants. So Israel has been restored.
You see, just as Darby said. So this
further vindicated dispensationalism.
And so the Christian Zionist,
they were saying, you know, we better be
nice to Israel or else God will curse
us according to Genesis, you know, 12:3. We
better we better be nice to Israel because
it is Jesus' future kingdom.
Now one of Scofield's students, was named Louis
Schaeffer.
He died in 1952.
And Schaeffer founded the Dallas Theological Seminary in
1924.
So he was actually the president of of
Dallas Theological Seminary until 1952.
A famous alumnus
of DTS,
is a man named Hal Lindsey,
and he's still alive.
In 1973,
Lindsey wrote this book that took the world
by storm.
It it had the power of 30 Harry
Potters.
Wow. It was called the late great planet
Earth. Mhmm. Okay? Millions upon millions of copies
were sold.
I mean, it seemed like everyone in America
was reading this book about end times prophecies
in the Bible through a lens of Darby
and dispensationalism.
It was even made into a film that
was narrated by Orson Welles. So Hal Lindsey,
by the way, he said in 1979 that
that Jesus would be turned in 1988
Because there's a verse in Matthew 24 where
Jesus at least the Methian Jesus says, this
generation shall not pass away until all these
things are fulfilled. The present generation
will live to see it all. So apparently,
Jesus was speaking about this restored kingdom.
So one generation is 40 years. Right? So
1948,
the restoration of National Israel
also known as the Nakba,
plus 40
1988, right? So that never happened.
In 1984,
Oxford put out the new Schofield
study bible. Okay? And they added this clarifying
comment.
For a nation to commit the sin of
antisemitism
brings inevitable judgment.
For a nation to commit the sin of
antisemitism
brings inevitable judgments. Ajit, you know the new
you know the New Testament Jesus?
He said that the that the the only
unforgivable sin was blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit.
Yeah. Now in today's, you know, Zeitgeist,
we're constantly told that any critique of Zionism,
is anti Semitic. Oh, geez. So so anti
anti Zionism
is a form of anti Semitism. This is
what we're told. Yeah. So then so then
Christians who read that note from Scofield,
must only conclude that anti Zionism
is the unforgivable sin in the sight of
God. For a nation to commit the sin
of anti Semitism, a form of which is
anti Zionism,
brings inevitable
judgment.
Right? And there's a bunch of things that
he says, for example, Scofield,
in his commentary of Hosea chapter 1 verse
10, this is what he said. He said,
the expression my people, ammi in Hebrew, is
used in the Old Testament
exclusively of Israel
Mhmm. Nation.
He's just wrong here. He's demonstrably wrong.
Isaiah 1925, it says,
blessed be Egypt,
my people.
He's just wrong. In his commentary of Genesis,
Scofield wrote, quote, the Palestinian covenant gives the
conditions under which Israel, he's talking about physical
Israel,
entered the promised land. It is important to
see that the nation has never as yet
taken the land
under the unconditional Abrahamic covenant, nor has it
ever possessed the whole land.
This is just wrong. If you read Joshua
2143,
this is what it says. So the Lord
gave Israel
all the land, Kol Eretz it says in
Hebrew. All the land
he had sworn to their ancestors, and they
took possession of it and settled there. So
Scofield
wants us to think that this is still
an outstanding promise
that God has not yet fulfilled his side
of the deal. Mhmm. Right? It's really amazing.
And then he says, 2 dispositions and restorations
have been accomplished. Israel is now in the
3rd dispersion
from which she will be restored at the
return of the Lord as king. So I
think Christians, they need to ask themselves.
They need to ask themselves a very important
question. Who are you going to believe? Who
do you follow? Schofield or scripture? Yeah.