Rick Wiles: Christian Zionism’s Sin Of Displacement Theology

Our TruNews television news team recently returned from Palestine. (Yes, there is a Palestine. The prophet Joel spoke of it in Joel 3:4 in the Authorized King James Version. The Greek historian Herodotus also wrote in the 5th century about a “district of Syria, called Palaistinê.”) 

TruNews covered the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Bethlehem, Palestine. The event was sponsored by the Bethlehem Bible College, an evangelical Bible school that does not teach Christian Zionism. Imagine that! An evangelical bible college in the city where Jesus was born that doesn’t adhere to the bizarre eschatology concocted by Britain’s delusional John Nelson Darby and peddled in America by the Dispensational flim-flam man “Doctor” Cyrus Scofield. (Try to locate the seminary or bible college that awarded a PhD to Mr. Scofield. His seminary degree is as phony as his notes in the Scofield Reference Bible.) The Bethlehem Bible College actually believes that Jesus Christ is the center of God’s plan for humanity, not Israel. 

I learned a lot during my time in Bethlehem. I also made many friends among local Christians and Muslims. By the way, I lost my fear of Muslims. Nobody tried to decapitate me on the streets of Bethlehem. There were some Muslim guys, however, who successfully caffeinated me with awesome espresso. 

Personally, I will never again allow propaganda to indoctrinate me to hate and fear Muslims. Muslims are people too. They have souls. They need Jesus. My duty is to introduce them to Jesus Christ as their Savior, not as a historical religious figure whom they respect. Somebody, however, wants Americans to hate and fear Muslims. Somebody wants America to go to war with Muslim nations and destroy them. We Christians are called by Jesus to taste salty, shine brightly, and love everybody. Let’s reject secret agendas that seek to use the Church to make war against others. 

It was my first visit to Israel and Palestine. I prefer Palestine. I was welcomed by both fellow Christians and Muslims. The Palestinian people are friendly, gracious, and hospitable. Even the Muslims respect and honor Jesus and His disciples. 

A number of my American Evangelical Christian friends, however, are very upset with me because I said I learned to like Muslims, and they treated me kindly. These Evangelicals want me to hate and kill them in Jesus’ name. Why? The Great Commission says we are to make disciples of them and baptize them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can I love them into the Kingdom if I’m hating them into the grave? 

The real eye-opener for me, however, was not the gracious welcome I received from Palestinian Muslims. My epiphany was the shocking plight of our persecuted Palestinian Christian brethren who are suffering because of Christian Zionism’s Displacement Theology. 

What is Displacement Theology? It is radical religious belief derived from a twisted eschatology produced by the weaponization of the Holy Bible that justifies forcibly stealing at gunpoint land from men and women who believe in Jesus Christ to give it to men and women who reject Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Displacement theology sees Palestinian victims as collateral damage in the quest to validate Dispensational, Premillennial, Pre-Tribulation Zionism. 

It is the aberrant interpretation of the Holy Bible by American Evangelical Christian Zionists who sincerely believe spiritually rebellious European Jews with no ties to Israel and/or Palestine in the last 2,000 years have a divine right and mandate to invade, seize, and occupy land, homes, villages, and farms that have been in possession of Palestinian Christians and Muslims for at least 1,000 years. In other words, Zionists have an ethnic privilege and right to displace Palestinian Christians from their properties in the name of Israel. 

Evangelical Displacement Theology is at the heart of much suffering in Palestine, yet American Christian Zionists don’t know it. Even worse, they don’t care about it. When you press Christian Zionists about their Displacement Theology, you shockingly discover the coldness of their hearts to the plight of Palestinian Christian families seriously harmed and disadvantaged by U.S. Evangelicals’ blind support of the State of Israel. For most American Christian Zionists, nothing can stand in the way of Zionist Jews seizing control of more land – even if the land rightfully belongs to men and women who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and have served Him faithfully for decades.

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