Why American Christians support genocide in Gaza.

Tucker Carlson's incredible interview with a Palestinian Pastor.

If you wake up in the morning and decide that your Christian faith requires you to support a foreign government blowing up churches and killing Christians, I think you've lost the thread - Tucker Carlson

For those of you that follow my work you're undoubtedly aware that I'm a Christian albeit I struggle with that label. Ancient followers of Christ actually referred to their faith as "the Way" (see Acts 9:2, 19:23, 24:14), not Christianity, and subsequently themselves as "people of the Way" —the Way meaning the way of the Lord as the exclusive means to salvation. I'm more fond of this language because it cuts through the clutter and baggage of modern Christian labeling and roots out the specifics of what it means to follow the Lord. Today, the term Christian means a million things —often steeped in secular philanthropy and political ideologies— that have nothing to do with Christ. But the Way speaks volumes to the specific position of the heart one must possess which demands alignment with the ancient scriptures. By current society's definition of Christianity, it is entirely possible to be a Christian and yet not follow the Way. This has led some Christians down the path of deconstructionism in an effort to strip the religion from modernity in pursuit of truth and holiness.

One of the great and popular passages from the book of Hosea is:

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. - Hosea 4:6 (ESV)

Knowledge is important, but in the context of Hosea specific divine knowledge is key to life with God’s way being the point of reference. It humanity’s North Star. To lose this knowledge is to invite disaster upon a society. This is the current state of affairs within America’s Christian community. Over the last couple millennia new religious terms have been assigned, new denominations created, new traditions turned to doctrinal law and ancient history along with truth dismissed and forgotten. I believe the greatest asset in any war is information. Used strategically it becomes possible to convince an entire nation to lay waste to another under the guise of rectitude and honor, despite motives to the contrary. Propaganda built on ignorance can only house fools ready for instruction. And fools ready for instruction do the bidding of the powerful and morally corrupt. This is the state of the country and unfortunately the disposition of many Christians in America —a people who've forgotten the ancient scriptures— now ready to lay waste to another nation, despite that nation being the home of brothers and sisters of the Way. I understand how as a nation and as a religion existing in America we got here. I too was once a fool ready and waiting to receive instruction.

If you haven't watched Tucker Carlson's latest interview with Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac— a Palestinian pastor— then you're missing out on an incredible red pill moment. Almost decades ago I subjected myself to the very same red pill concerning the conflict in the Middle East. It was a very humbling experience. Like many Christians I had been duped by the "support Israel at all costs" narrative. The belief in this narrative sat against the backdrop of really bad eschatology led by the evangelical church mixed with mainstream media propaganda. One evening while sending tweets into the social universe, showing my support for Israel —who was fighting against the "Islamic terrorists"— I was direct messaged by a Palestinian man. He asked me point blank, "Why do you support genocide of Christians? Aren't you a Christian?" His question confused the hell out of me, not gonna lie. He explained to me that he was a Christian and that his family and many other families have roots tracing back thousands of years in the land he called home. He explained the relationship dynamics between the Muslims, Christians and Jews who all lived together in harmony, and had for many centuries. He also took the time to explain Zionism to me and Israel's continued encroachment of their land. We talked for quite a while as he helped me understand the real nature of the conflict and that by supporting Israel’s attacks I was supporting the genocide of Christians as well as others. That conversation has stuck with me to this day. It was an eye opening experience and one of many red pills I would swallow over the next several years.

"...some of it is the theology of Christian Zionism that teaches Christians must support Israel because the bible teaches that. And often times that is part of the larger theology of the end times in which they view the presence of the Jews in the land as preparing for the second coming of Christ, they see it as a fulfillment of prophecy, not realizing again what that means on the ground. I always say it's as if the land is empty to them. They are excited about certain events without understanding the consequences of these events on real lives. The irony is that many of these positions actually believe —and many evangelicals believe— at the end times and after Jews have been gathered in Palestine, two-thirds of them will be massacred. Only for the others to convert to Christianity and somehow they consider that a Jewish friendly theology." - Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

This was precisely my line of thinking. I had been caught up in the form of Christianity that supported Zionism. Many, many Christians today are as well. In a lot of my writing I stress the dangers of not knowing our ancient past because I realize the criticality of possessing truth and the horrors humanity will and often do face in its absence. The forgetfulness of who we are as a human race tethered to apathy of our ancestors only breeds death, not prosperity, enlightenment or societal progress —whatever that even is.

The Christian faith many know today in the West is nothing more than a shell of its former self. This is due to the indoctrination promoted by Western church leaders and Christian academics —which I believe originally had well intentioned motives— who wanted to protect and preserve the faith from heretics since the advent of Jesus. This type of behavior isn't exclusive to Christians as the 2nd Temple Jews attempted to shield their religion as well. This is why there were a number of Jewish sects —Zealots, Essenes, Pharisees, Maccabees and others— that disagreed with each other. Islam also has this issue.

Bad theology bolstered by an ignorance of ancient scriptures is what leads to conflicts such as the one in Gaza. As I've stated before, humans are being pitted against one another and the wars are instigated by supernatural forces of evil. Our gaps in the historical timeline of humanity combined with our rather short lifespans make us susceptible to their schemes. Thus, chaos ensues as men and women go to battle against one another incited by lies, wielding their swords in a blind rage. So blind that many Christians don't even realize the state of Israel is not the Israel in the bible. Not by a long shot. And because they don't know this they unfortunately conflate the two and consequently support genocidal efforts.

Israel in the scriptures concerned a territory of land that stretched from Egypt all the way to what is modern day Syria. This land was promised to Israel by way of the Abrahamic covenant. Many think Israel's inheritance of this land came by their stealing or conquering the land of innocent nations. But this is due to the many church leaders who've failed to teach the ancient scriptures through a proper ancient historical lens. Ancient Israel's expansion involved their conquering of the giant clans —nephilim bastard spawns— which were a plague to humanity. The Israelite's job was to rid the lands of the giants and keep it all as their inheritance and reward. But that's a story for another time.

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, - Genesis 15:18 (ESV)

31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. - Exodus 23:31 (ESV)

As I've written about before in The Israel-Hamas War And The Giants That Deceive Us, The Israelites forfeited all of their land because they eventually strayed away from Yahweh, breaking their covenant with Him. Their expulsion from the land was promised by God as curses (see Deut. 28:15-58). By God's own decree the Jews have no land to call their own. Zionism is an attempt to thwart God's decree by usurping a land people previously lived on, and then claim it is by God's divine providence that the Jews have "returned home". The tiny swath of land we all know as Israel today is simply not the same Israel and nation represented in the bible. What we are all witnessing —and why Hamas is warring— is a satanic effort to undue God's decree. While I vehemently disagree with terrorism and what Hamas is and has been doing, it is critical to understand why they exist. If you read their very first charter you'll find they are at war with Zionism, not Christians, not Jews, not Americans or whoever else the mainstream media and political giants want to insert as victims to gain support for the destruction of the Palestinian people.

From Article Thirty-Two of the charter:

World Zionism, together with imperialistic powers, try through a studied plan and an intelligent strategy to remove one Arab state after another from the circle of struggle against Zionism, in order to have it finally face the Palestinian people only. Egypt was, to a great extent, removed from the circle of the struggle, through the treacherous Camp David Agreement. They are trying to draw other Arab countries into similar agreements and to bring them outside the circle of struggle.

The Islamic Resistance Movement calls on Arab and Islamic nations to take up the line of serious and persevering action to prevent the success of this horrendous plan, to warn the people of the danger eminating from leaving the circle of struggle against Zionism. Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another.

What many Christians in America fail to understand is that our government doesn't care about them. The war in Iraq displaced millions of Christians —despite pleas to reject the war— but we never heard a peep about it in the media. The same happened in Syria and Ukraine and of course in Palestine which consists of a decimated Christian community. Palestinian Christians are losing their homes, land and lives to the Zionist state of Israel. It was Israel who recently bombed humanitarian vehicles, leaving the CEO of the World Central Kitchen to demand an independent investigation into what happened. It was Israel that bombed a Greek orthodox church last year. And these are only the large scale attacks that can't be hidden under the carpet so easily. There are other incidences such as Israeli snipers using Palestinian children as target practice. Yet despite these types of atrocities committed by Israel there are people in America such as ex-Pastor GOP Rep. Tim Walberg that suggest Gaza needs to be handled 'like Nagasaki and Hiroshima'. How could a Christian advocate for nuclear warfare which would annihilate innocent men, women and children? This isn't of the Way.

The answer to the question lies in the misunderstanding of the scriptures, which Rev. Isaac points out in the interview. Christian Zionism infused with really bad eschatology that equates modern day Israel with ancient Israel is the problem. This issue is compounded by the political establishment that aims to steal all Palestinian land. Because many naive Christians conflate the two Israels, they believe the conflict is warranted and ordained by God as this land belongs to "modern day Israel", the same Israel in the bible. But this is false. The state of Israel is akin to bandits who've broken into someone's home, evicted them at gun point, and then extolled "God's work" as "righteous and prophetic". The truth is, Israel doesn't see Christians or Muslims for that matter. They simply see Palestinians through their blinders. The same blinders many American Christians see through. Everyone is lumped together, along with Hamas terrorists and therefore everyone should be destroyed.

So what is the solution to this problem? I wish it was as easy as telling Christians to stop supporting Israel. To a Christian steeped in the modern day version of Christianity wrapped in Zionism, that call will sound like "stop supporting the bible". The issue is much more nuanced and demands a re-education of sorts within the evangelical Church in the West so Christians can learn the actual movement known as the Way. There are people in this space who are leading this charge such as the AWKNG School of Theology, founded by the late Dr. Michael Heiser. A man sorely missed within the faith. It is imperative for Christians in America to learn how to read the scriptures in their proper ancient Jewish context instead of through the lens of modern evangelical Christianity, often intertwined with one's political ideology and love affair of their favorite passionate preacher. This is foundational to better understanding the architecture of the cosmos. This is vital to understanding mankind's true enemy.

An additional step that I believe should be taken, is for those that do have a firm grasp on the situation in Gaza to speak out, especially if you are a Christian. No one, and I repeat, no one should be apathetic or ok with genocide. That is not of the Way. That is the way of demons regardless of what your beliefs attempt to justify. Full stop.

The veneration of Israel as chosen or special also needs to die. Ancient Israel is no more and God was never a God of partiality to begin with.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. - Deuteronomy 10:17 (ESV)

21  I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. - Job 32:21 (ESV)

21 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. - Luke 20:21 (ESV)

It is this unbiblical, zionistic view of Israel that places everyone else —to include Christians— in an inferior position. This is part of the reason why Christians are apathetic to the destruction of other Christians by Israel. This unholy view leads to the excusing of Israel's atrocities as if they can do no wrong or that "God approves". Israel is not special. God's people are special and all who follow Christ are in the same vine. Those who reject Him are eventually gathered for the fire and burned (see John 15:5-6).

When the state of Israel was created it was not created on an empty land. It was created on a land that had millions of indigenous Palestinians there including Palestinian Christians. In that state they celebrate it as a fulfillment of prophecy despite closing Christians churches and expelling them from their homes. - Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

Christians in America have an identity crisis. The conflict in Gaza is simply elucidating the problem and placing it on the global stage. True identity is found in Christ. However, cleaving to a fundamental misunderstanding of the ancient faith known as Christianity will only continue to breed disaster around the world.

Thank you for reading. Feel free to leave comments as I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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