Hey friends, I have to speak. I’ve been wrestling with this for a while now, and God keeps making it clear to me, I NEED to speak. I wanted to stay quiet because I’m pretty sure what I’m about to say isn’t going to make me popular. I live in the Bible belt. The ideas I am about to speak against are SO prevalent here. It would be difficult to speak about these things in a local coffee shop without glares. I don’t like glares.
I want to be a “peacemaker,” and so I’ve stayed quiet. But, true peacemaking doesn’t mean pretending away falsehoods. That isn’t peacemaking, that’s a fear of man.
I’ve never been good at staying quiet in the midst of injustice or lies. Sometimes I wish I could just go along with the crowd and pretend everything is okay, but that isn’t how God wired me.
Please hear my heart: I seek to exalt Jesus Christ and to draw Christian moms to HIM and HIS WORD. I am worried that the very things Paul marveled about in the book of Galatians are happening today, and I want to talk about it. I see that early church fathers were already talking about this kind of deception, and I want to share what I have learned.
In every great deception, there are good people who get caught up in the mess, who are tangled into lies and repeating them unknowingly. I’m not here to say that any particular people are bad, or are intentionally deceiving others. Some might be. I’m not here to point out who those people are. I only want to explore the truth–and how it contradicts the lies. And, ultimately, the battle is not against flesh and blood, but it is spiritual.
I do believe there has been a grand plan to take over the churches. I don’t know the specifics or who is at the top of this, or exactly who orchestrated it from the start, except for Satan himself. He twists God’s Word in ways that seem almost right, close enough to the truth. We, like sheep, are so easily led astray.
What I say isn’t going to be about any particular pastors, messages, or churches. Ever since Charlie Kirk died, and maybe because we moved to the Bible belt, my entire social media feed has been FULL of what people call Christian Zionism. I can prove that the messaging increased after Charlie Kirk died, and I believe there is a reason for that (I’ll talk about that, too).
I am not a Dispensationalist. I lean towards what I believe is Fulfillment theology: Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law and the Prophets (I believe He meant ALL of them). I believe Jesus Christ was the final prize–the point of the Old Testament–the purpose of the promises–the final heir of Abraham, and the receiver of the inheritance. I don’t think we’re still waiting for God to fulfill any promises besides Christ returning.
I DO believe that the Old Testament is important, and I DO read my whole Bible, verse-by-verse. I believe that Christians shouldn’t be reading the Old Testament as if they were a Jewish person, waiting for the Messiah, but rather, as a Christ-follower who knows His Words and what the apostles who lived during His time said about Him. God’s Word wasn’t meant to be read totally literally. Dispensationalists who claim to preach the Bible literally typically don’t read the WHOLE Bible literally anyways (they read Matthew 25:31-46 allegorically for example). They might claim to preach verse-by-verse, too, which sounds ideal–but almost all will skip over, or avoid explaining some key verses that do not line up with the Dispensationalist framework. I’ll talk more about that in future posts.
I am NOT antisemitic. I do believe there is hope for unbelieving Jews. I believe that if they do not have Jesus Christ, they also do not have God the Father, according to God’s Word. So, in that sense, an unbelieving Jew is just as lost as a Muslim, a pagan, or an atheist. Telling a Jew that their promise and hope is the land of Israel, instead of Jesus Christ crucified is, in my opinion, a terrible distortion of God’s Word and leads to many lives spent in Hell.
I am concerned that the way the word “antisemitism” has been used broadly, to shut up anyone with criticism against the country of Israel, is harming Jews and creating antisemitism. I have read Dispensationalists claim that the criticism against Israel is because they are favored, chosen by God, and that the criticism is “demonic.” From what I have observed, the criticisms of Israel stem from:
- 70,000 humans, who were created in the image of God, being killed in the Gaza war (I know that Hamas played a part in that, but Israel’s army is not innocent)
- Pastors and politicians defending Israel’s actions in lockstep
- The U.S. giving so much financial and military aid to Israel
- AIPAC’s influence over our government
- AIPAC not being required to register as a foreign lobby
- Israel spending millions of dollars in propaganda in the U.S.
- Netanyahu and Israel-supporters conflating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism
- The current definition of anti-semitism held by the U.S. government being too broad and supportive of a foreign government
The criticism isn’t because Israel, as a country, is favored or chosen, in my opinion–the criticism is from people who are tired of the gaslighting. We can criticize our own president, but we are not allowed to criticize this foreign country without being called antisemitic. Something is wrong with this picture.
I don’t want to stir up controversy, or be “that” person that makes everyone uncomfortable because of the things I say. I have wrestled with this. But this subject, and the importance of being bold right now–is really, really important. It’s maybe more important than being bold during the Covid pandemic, because this is impacting the very churches of Christ!
Israel’s propaganda budget has increased to 750 million dollars for 2026. They recently invited 1,000 pastors and Christian influencers to come to Israel for free, to learn to be “ambassadors for Israel” instead of “ambassadors for Christ. It wasn’t a mission trip, to reach people who do not know their Savior (99% of the country). Again, something is really, really wrong with this.
I speak because I am worried that a different gospel is being preached, that Israel is being elevated above Christ Jesus, that dispensationalist messages deny Who Jesus is and what He did and deny the mystery of the Gospel, that a idol worship is being promoted, that Israel-support has turned many people away from the Good News of Jesus, that it has distracted Christians from the Great commission and that Christians have forgotten that every person was created in the image of God the Father, that it has led Christians to support and justify behaviors that Christ spoke against, and that it conflates Christianity with Judaism (which is a Christless, and therefore Godless religion). Criticisms of dispensationalism or the nation of Israel lead to ad hominem attacks rather than honest discussions. Psychological projection is used with phrasing like “Replacement Theology,” while promoting theology that replaces Jesus Christ in prophecies with a modern, sinful nation.
I have a lot to say. I need prayer, to discern Scripture rightly, and to speak truth boldly. I am not sure how I will compete with a $750 million dollar propaganda campaign, but my little voice must speak. I have to.