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Note: This entry is in need of updating. But just in case you’re wondering whether Prosperity Gospel preacher John Hagee might be a Christian teacher whose wisdom and insight can help you get to know Jesus better, we have this simple, firm answer: No.
November 16, 2021 — John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church is in the news:
Who’s Who of New Christian Right Rally in Texas to Curse Biden
You don’t come to the Rev. John Hagee’s church only to hear about the amazing grace of God. On Saturday, a crowd packed the sanctuary of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, to listen to a Who’s Who of Christian nationalists, anti-vaxxers, Trump loyalists, and conspiracy theorists euphemistically swear at Joe Biden.
While it made headlines thanks to former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn urging the United States to “embrace one religion,” the three-day event and the latest stop of the “Reawaken America Tour,” was remarkable in itself for its collection of election conspiracy theorists. These included My Pillow CEO Michael J. Lindell and Flynn, alongside Alex Jones of Info Wars and anti-vaxx champion Sherri Tenpenny.
Attendance was filled out by Q-Anon true believers and pro-Trump preachers and activists, all of whom periodically filled the air with chants of “Let’s Go Brandon” — a workaround for an obscene anti-Biden chant.
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According to the Associated Press, the slogan is a stand in for “F— Joe Biden” and became popular among Republicans after a post-NASCAR race interview in October. During an interview with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown, the crowd could be heard chanting the vulgar phrase. The reporter, however, believed the crowd was chanting “Let’s go Brandon.”
The video that emerged from the popular San Antonio church was recorded some time during the three-day “ReAwaken America” conference that took place Nov. 11-13.
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PatriotTakes, an organization that exposes far-right disinformation, shared the video on Twitter with the caption “The Q-Anon crowd is at televangelist John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. They are chanting, “Let’s Go Brandon” from the church pews.”
A second video posted by PatriotTakes shows that the chants may have been led from the stage and not spontaneously from the crowd.
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In a statement to MySA, Cornerstone Church said its facilities were used by an outside organization and do not endorse its views.
Apparently, money trumps principles.
Oh, and in 2016, Hagee endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
That sure doesn’t sound like someone who has a good grasp of the spiritual discernment Christians are supposed to develop.
Who is John Hagee?
John Hagee is the founder and pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. The congregation counts over 17,000 people.
Hagee is the President and C.E.O. of John Hagee Ministries which telecasts his national radio and television ministry carried in America on 160 T.V. stations, 50 radio stations, eight networks and can be seen weekly in 99 million homes.
Hagee is also the founder of Christians United for Israel, “a national association through which every pro-Israel church, Para-church organization, ministry or individual in America can speak and act with one voice in support of Israel in matters related to Biblical issues.”
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Most people who see and hear the Rev. John C. Hagee are impressed. He is rotund, strident, authoritative (and could well pass for Rush Limbaugh’s older and more serious brother). His delivery alone gives the impression of one who really knows what he is talking about. However, careful evaluation of the teachings of Hagee, pastor at the San Antonio-based Cornerstone Church, reveals false teaching and a defective view of a basic and essential issue regarding salvation and the Gospel. Hagee preaches another way of salvation for the Jew, which is in direct violation of Paul’s warnings in Galatians 1:6-9.
This theological concept, which has many forms, is primarily referred to as the “Two Covenant” or “Dual Covenant” theory.
Hagee’s web site tells us that his “vision is for world evangelism. The burning passion of his heart is to win the lost to Jesus Christ in America and around the world.” That statement is not altogether true since he will not evangelize Jews and teaches salvation on another basis than the Gospel for the Jewish people.
Hagee has become extremely popular since the 1987 dedication of his Cornerstone Church (an event that featured an appearance and a blessing from W.A. Criswell, then pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas) and because of the daily programs from Global Evangelism Television of which he is president. His best-selling books have also made him a celebrity. He associates with the likes of Benny Hinn and appears with him from time to time at crusades and other Charismatic congresses.
The Christian Research Institute panned Hagee’s 1996 book, Beginning of the End, not only for its premise that Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination triggered prophetic events and set the prophetic clock ticking somehow but because he falsely predicted that Shimon Peres would succeed Rabin. The later elections brought Benyamin Netanyahu to power.
Pastor John Hagee built a tiny congregation into a megachurch, attracting a nationwide audience through his international radio and television ministry.
His Cornerstone Church boasts a 5,000-seat sanctuary, the largest in the city, and weekly worship attendance estimated at 7,000. Many who have followed him on TV have come from around the country to worship in his church.
Hagee is known for his powerful, pulpit-rattling preaching, which covers the range from fire-breathing denunciation of sin to side-splitting laughter.
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His national prominence has brought him into the company of such conservative Christian personalities as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Oliver North and Oral Roberts.
But even more striking is Hagee’s staunch support of Israel and of Jewish causes, which is virtually unmatched in the Christian community. He launched his annual Night to Honor Israel, which highlights Christianity’s debt to Judaism, in 1981 and has raised millions of dollars to help Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union emigrate to Israel.
John Hagee’s theology
Christians have listened for many years to the preaching of John Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Hagee attended Trinity University on a football scholarship, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree before earning his master’s at North Texas State University. He also studied at Southwestern Bible College and was granted an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University.
Hagee’s ministerial activities began in 1958 as an evangelist. In 1966 he went to San Antonio to become the founding pastor of what eventually became Trinity Church. After resigning his pastorate of Trinity in May 1975, Hagee took the helm of the 25-member Church of Castle Hill in San Antonio. That church — rebuilt to seat 5,000 and dedicated in October 1987 as Cornerstone Church — now has an active membership of over 13,000.
Through his writings (books, booklets, and articles in his bimonthly John Hagee Ministries magazine), taped messages, and daily appearances on his Global Evangelism Television broadcasts (Cornerstone and John Hagee Today) aired by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and other media outlets, Hagee has gained broad visibility and influence among evangelicals.
A number of people consider Hagee’s teachings to be thoroughly biblical. We would disagree with Hagee, however, on the following points.
Preaching Prosperity
John Hagee believes that all Christians should be financially prosperous so long as they continue to walk in obedience to God’s ordinances. Although he does not subscribe to every doctrine common to the so-called Faith movement, he does agree with the movement’s view that “poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the Word of God.”1 Hagee, like most other prosperity preachers, believes that “poverty is a curse.”
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Promoting Positive Confession
Along with the prosperity message, Hagee accepts and promotes the doctrine of positive confession — a foundational teaching of the Faith movement which maintains that Christians can speak (i.e., positively confess) physical realities into existence as long as the believer exercises enough faith to accompany his or her verbal confession.
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Salvation Without Conversion?
Hagee is recognized as a fierce foe of anti-Semitism. An outspoken supporter of the Jewish people, Judaism, and the nation Israel, he has been given the “Humanitarian of the Year” award by the San Antonio B’nai B’rith Council. Hagee has also been bestowed the “ZOA Israel Service Award” by the Zionist Organization in Dallas and honored with the “Henrietta Szold Award” by the Texas Southern Region of Hadassah.
While his bold stance against anti-Semitism is certainly praiseworthy, Hagee’s zealousness for the Jewish people and their cause has led him to commit a most serious doctrinal error — salvation for the Jews without conversion to Christianity.
Though many may claim Hagee’s preaching is helping to spread the Word of God and building a bridge of unity between the Christian and Jewish communities, the fact remains that his message contains elements which lie in direct and serious opposition to biblical truth.
John Hagee on Salvation for the Jews
Christians United for Israel
In March, 2006, John Hagee formed Christians United for Israel (CUFI). It is “a national association through which every pro-Israel church, Para-church organization, ministry or individual in America can speak and act with one voice in support of Israel in matters related to Biblical issues.”
“Think of CUFI as a Christian version of AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee],” Hagee told The Jerusalem Post. “We need to be able to respond instantly to Washington with our concerns about Israel. We must join forces to speak as one group and move as one body to [respond to] the crisis Israel will be facing in the near future.”
Hagee declined to specify which crisis, noting that Israel faces one “every day the sun comes up.” But at the top of the CUFI agenda is what the pastor calls “the Bible issue,” namely what he considers to be the mistaken policy of trading parts of the biblical Land of Israel for peace, an agenda that AIPAC, for example, neglects.
Accordingly, Hagee says, CUFI intends to “interact with the government in Washington” and persuade it “to stop pressuring Israel to give up land for peace. Besides the fact that this does not work, Israel has a Bible mandate for the land. Now that Gaza has been given to Hamas, it has a military foothold a thousand yards from Jerusalem.”
“Dual Covenant” Theology?
Shortly after the launch of CUFI, the Jerusalem Post reported:
An evangelical pastor and an Orthodox rabbi, both from Texas, have apparently persuaded leading Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell that Jews can get to heaven without being converted to Christianity.
Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church and Rodfei Sholom congregations are based in San Antonio, told The Jerusalem Post that Falwell had adopted Hagee’s innovative belief in what Christians refer to as “dual covenant” theology.
This creed, which runs counter to mainstream evangelism, maintains that the Jewish people has a special relationship to God through the revelation at Sinai and therefore does not need “to go through Christ or the Cross” to get to heaven.
Scheinberg said this has been Hagee’s position for the 25 years the two have worked together on behalf of Israel and that Falwell had also come to accept it. Falwell sent a representative to the San Antonio launch of Christians United for Israel in early February, as did popular televangelist Pat Robertson.
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Scheinberg said he had worked with Hagee since 1981, when the pastor first broached the idea of organizing a night to honor Israel, which has become an annual event.
“He came to the Jewish community and of course they were skeptical, they were a bit suspicious, anxious about whatever agenda he might have,” the rabbi recalled. “He took public positions against proselytizing the Jews, which some of his own colleagues at that time criticized him roundly for; for example, Falwell was at that time very critical of his nonconversionary statements regarding the Jews. But that’s not the case now though. Falwell has changed his position,” he said.
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agee has been consistent in this theological position, Scheinberg said, and this was reflected in both the declared policy of CUFI and at the public launch of the organization last month.
“It seemed there was a great deal of unity – not unanimity – on nonconversion, a nonproselytizing agenda, that the Jews have a special covenant, and this was stated over and over,” the rabbi said.
“It was stated in Hagee’s opening speech, in his opening statement, and then repeated again. And when there was a question period later, no one asked about this. It seemed to be understood that any hidden agenda, any attempt at conversion, would undermine all their efforts, would be counterproductive, and that’s not what they are about.
“There was always concern on the part of the Jewish community that there’s a hidden agenda now, to convert now, to proselytize now. And regarding that, Hagee was very strong in saying no, we are not proselytizing,” Scheinberg said.
Dual Covenant Denied
Pastors John Hagee and Jerry Falwell have both denied a report in The Jerusalem Post earlier this week that they embrace the “dual covenant” theology, which holds that Jews are saved through a special relationship with God and so need not become Christians to get to heaven.
In a statement to the Post, the Texas-based televangelist Hagee said that neither he nor Southern Baptist pastor Falwell “believe or teach Dual Covenant.”
Hagee added that he had “made it a practice for 25 years not to target Jews for conversion” at any “Night to Honor Israel” events. If Jews “inquire about our faith at a later time, we give them a full scriptural presentation of redemption.”
He stressed that “regardless of the response from the Jewish person, we remain friends in support of the State of Israel as required by scripture.”
Falwell, meanwhile, posted a statement on his website to the effect that he believes “all people – Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Jews, Muslims, etc.” must accept Jesus in order to enter heaven.
Denying a Jerusalem Post story that said he had embraced a “dual covenant” theology, Southern Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell said March 1 that he believes all people, including Jews, “must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to enter heaven.”
“I do not follow this teaching of “dual covenant’ theology and I believe it runs counter to the Gospel,” Falwell said in a statement posted on www.falwell.com. “I have been on record all 54 years of my ministry as being opposed to “dual covenant’ theology.”
Rejected by orthodox theologians, dual covenant theology holds that Jews are saved through a special, unique relationship with God and need not trust in Christ for salvation.
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“Dr. Hagee called me today and said he never made these statements to the Jerusalem Post or to anyone else. He assured me that he would immediately contact the Jerusalem Post and request a correction. Before today, I had never heard of Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg or had any communications with him. I therefore am at a total loss as to why he would make such statements about me to the Post, if in fact he did.
“In this age of political correctness and diversity, the traditional evangelical belief that salvation is available only through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ is often portrayed as closed-minded and bigoted. But if one is to believe in Jesus Christ, he must believe in His words: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father but by Me’ (John 14:6). I simply cannot alter my belief that Jesus is The Way to heaven, as He taught.
“Again, I do not follow this teaching of ‘dual covenant’ theology and I believe it runs counter to the Gospel.
“I have been on record all 54 years of my ministry as being opposed to “dual covenant’ theology. In fact, Dr. John Hagee has indicated to me, as recently as today, that he likewise does not accept “dual covenant’ theology.
No Strings Attached
It thus appears that John Hagee supports Israel and the Jewish people with no strings attached. That is, he supports Israel and the Jewish people based on what he considers to be the Bible’s mandate to do so – and this support does not depend on whether or not the people thus helped accept Jesus Christ.
Indeed, Hagee told the Jerusalem Post that the vast majority of Evangelicals Christians teach “the Christians have a Bible mandate to be supportive of Israel and the Jewish people without a hidden agenda”:
Interviewed by the [Jerusalem] Post at the recent AIPAC national convention in Washington, DC, where he was warmly received by many delegates, Hagee also carefully explained his thinking on the incendiary issue of evangelical attitudes to Jews and Judaism.
In precise and deliberate language, flavored with a rich, deep Texas drawl, he asserted that a growing majority of evangelical leaders do not preach “replacement theology, which teaches that the Church has replaced Israel” and the Jews “have no future in the plan of God.” The vast majority of evangelicals, rather, teach that “the Christians have a Bible mandate to be supportive of Israel and the Jewish people without a hidden agenda.”
True to that interpretation, Hagee said, “I do not target Jews for conversion.”
Nonetheless, he stressed, “If you come into my church [of your own volition], you are asking to hear my witness of Jesus Christ and you’re going to get it, wide open.”
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Hagee’s “Night to Honor Israel” is a non-conversionary event. We do not target Jewish people for conversion. If a Jewish person comes to me and asks me about my faith, I am under a Bible mandate to tell him about my faith. If he accepts or rejects my faith, it does not enhance nor depreciate that person in my view. From that point we agree to go forward in mutual esteem working on behalf of Israel. All Christians are under a Bible mandate to be supportive of Israel and to be supportive of the Jewish people.
If somebody outside the “Night to Honor Israel” framework comes to you [to inquire about Christianity], what do you do?
We give them our entire testimony and biblical explanation of our faith.
Again outside the “Night to Honor Israel” framework, do you target Jews for conversion?
When I open the doors of Cornerstone Church, 5,000 people fill the auditorium. As I present the gospel message, I don’t know if you’re Muslim, Hindu, Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic or Jewish. If you come into Cornerstone Church, you are asking to hear my witness of Jesus Christ and the Cross as the way to redemption, and you’re going to get that message, wide open.
In the ultimate vision to which you subscribe, there is a second coming, and what happens to Israel and the Jews then?
This is the biblical teaching of St. Paul. St. Paul in Romans 9, 10 and 11 presents what I call in my latest book, Jerusalem Countdown, “God’s position-paper on the Jewish people.”
In Romans 9, Paul states that this three-chapter section is exclusively about the Jewish people. He continues that theme in the 10th chapter, and in Chapter 11 writes in the first verse that “God has not cast away Israel.” This statement by St. Paul is the absolute death knell of “replacement theology.”
Something that is cast away disappears forever. Israel is alive. Israel is thriving. Israel is growing. Israel and the Jewish people have not been cast away by God! Paul makes the statement that “God has not cast away Israel” twice. Romans is a post-Calvary document in which St. Paul states, in 11:5, “even so at this present time there is a remnant [a surviving group of Jewish people] according to the election of grace.” That means very simply that there are Jewish people right now who have favor with God by the election of grace.
What is going to happen when Jesus comes back? Every Christian believes that Jesus Christ is the messiah. The Jewish people do not believe that. In that regard we have to agree to disagree. I say to my rabbi friends: “You don’t believe it; I do believe it. When we’re standing in Jerusalem, and the messiah is coming down the street, one of us is going to have a very major theological adjustment to make. But until that time, let’s walk together in support of Israel and in defense of the Jewish people, because Israel needs our help.”
Replacement theology teaches that the Church has replaced Israel. In replacement theology, you [the Jews] have no future in the economy of God. Replacement theology falsely teaches that the Church has taken the place of the Jewish people. The Jewish people are no longer in the economy of God, according to this teaching, which places the Church as God’s centerpiece.
There are fewer and fewer [evangelical leaders who subscribe to replacement theology] as time goes along. They are seeing, finally, the error of replacement theology. The vast majority of evangelicals do not believe in replacement theology. Evangelicals believe that Israel has a Bible mandate to the land, a divine covenant for the land of Israel, forever. That the Jewish people are chosen of God and are the apple of God’s eye. That Christians have a Bible mandate to be supportive of Israel and the Jewish people, to demonstrate to the Jewish people what they have not experienced from Christianity for 2,000 years… the love of God.
John Hagee — In Defense of Israel
John Hagee, who pastors a church in Texas with an active membership of over 19 000 and who has a radio and television ministry that reaches 99 million homes, has written a book, which, by his own admission, is an attack on the very foundations of the Christian faith! In a video promoting his new book, Hagee makes the following claims:
“In Defense of Israel will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a Calvary conspiracy between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered? Read this shocking exposé, In Defense of Israel.”
Hagee tries to suggest that Jesus was not the Messiah of Israel because he did not fulfil their (false) messianic expectations, but he does not deny that Jesus came to be the Saviour of the Gentiles. As we have endeavoured to show in the first section by setting forth what the gospel is, the promise of the coming Messiah was given through the Jewish prophets to the Jewish people.
The same prophets revealed that the Messiah would also be a light to the Gentiles. If Jesus is not the Messiah to the Jews then neither can he be the light to the Gentiles. These roles cannot be divorced since his very purpose was to create one new man out of the two, comprising both Jews and Gentiles, and this he accomplished through the cross (See Eph. 2:15).
And now the LORD says–he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honoured in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength–he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 49:5-6).
Hagee makes several statements in this book that are completely heretical. “Heresy” is the transliteration of a Greek word meaning sect. The root means “to choose or select’. Heretics overemphasise one aspect of Biblical revelation without reference to the whole, thus distorting the truth.(4)
Using Hagee’s own perverted logic, one could propose a heresy of the opposite extreme by quoting Mark 15:24 where Jesus says, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” This, without reference to other passages, would imply that Jesus is only the Messiah of Israel and not the Saviour of the world. But Jesus also said, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me–just as the Father knows me and I know the Father–and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd” (John 10:14-16).
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The 3 articles on John Hagee were well done and relied on facts rather than name calling. His statements supporting a “Dual Covenant” theology were also reported in the Dallas newspapers.
Unfortunately, John Hagee’s ministry is tainted by the desire for the second coming through fulfillment of a certain reading of prophesy which sees Israel as the scene of a cosmic battle which leads to the second coming. An attitude which discourages peace and encourages confrontation grows out of this vision.
Peace.
Paradigm,
“An attitude which discourages peace and encourages confrontation grows out of this vision.”
It does? Do you suppose that Christians who believe in that “certain reading of prophe[c]y” would think that encouraging evil and confrontation are actions that God would approve? Do you really think that such Christians believe they should be involved in helping to foment Armageddon, rather than spreading the Gospel and warning people of the “signs of the times”? What’s your justification the claim you made, the claim I quoted above? As I see, there is none. (Note that this is not intended as blanket support for Hagee, as I don’t know all that much about him or his ministry or ministries.)
In Christ,
Douglas
To the moderators:
Please insert “for” between “justification” and “the” in “What’s your justification the claim you made,…”. And also “it” after “see” but before the comma in “As I see, there is none.” Sorry.
Douglas
Well alot of christians are yearning for the second coming of Christ and if you knew your BIble better, it does involve a conflict over Israel. We don’t know what God has for the Jew as far as salvation but I DO know it says ALL Israel shall be saved. What that means is yet to be seen. Paradigm, there will NEVER be Peace until Jesus comes back. Christians don’t encourage conflict. Conflict comes regardless because we live in a fallen world. But we are commanded to Pray for Israel. It says you will be blessed if you Bless Her. That is what Hagee does.
I love to listen to John Hagee when not attending church due to whatever the excuse. I had read the Bible and studied it for a year and 1/2 but really I am not a novice schlor by far. I have had a strong background in my youth via my mother in church services and bible school. I know lately I need to get back into reading daily and keeping my mind sharpened on His word for it is vast and could not be completely understood in this lifetime. A relative in-law, who I am fond of is getting over the age of 65+ and was and possibly still is a Jehovah’s Witness by ex-wife’s influence only – not life since childhood. He’s is of an Italian decendent with strong verbal views. He is suddenly confusing my family member as well as himself regarding ‘Hell’ – if there is one?!? He says! He’s reading stuff from J.Ray Smith (I read about him-I think he subsribed to ‘Reader’s Digest’ for the vocabulary section???) And, I am trying to ease his mind off of ‘Hell’ in which there is a place(that I feel punishes one in the ways they lived and treated others on earth in several different levels – same as there are several degrees of honors in ‘Heaven’) but I am trying to help him to grasp the rewards of ‘Heaven’ and focus toward this. Don’t want to give up on him, but don’t want to argue about it either. ??? Any suggestions? Tks, S
Oh excuse me! I read the previous e-mail and I’m sorry I have responsed with a personal situation.
Regarding the above Paradigm, yes, John Hagee and every other pastor should focus on the second coming for it is then we should be ready at a twinkling of an eye for the Rapature (I am sorry so many are tried of waiting, but earth is a blessing to us, just as well as ‘Heaven’). And if those oppose, I feel you should stay close because you never know when it will happen and when you least expect it, for when you turn your back is the instant is may happen. Stand watch! Be ready! And stop complaining and Bellyaching, the Lord is sick of that! And, don’t worry about the military happenings today (but pray for them) for it will come to an end and the Jews will Succeed above all military conflicts.
They are ‘God’s’ choosen people and the rest of us should appreciate by the rejection of some Jews, Jesus has given us ‘by grace’to be included in His Salvation…that wasn’t the original plan so appreciate the ‘Word’, for it will come!
mmmm there is only one convenant not two. The gospel message is jewish not gentile. no one reads their bible. we are to look for the second coming.God will save 1/3 third of israel in the last days.Do your homework……Jesus spoke of his return and the signs. Israel and the church are two different things but they must come to beleiving in the gospel.
may the Lord bless and keep you, well i am sorry to say that this site is right about john hagee. i trully used to enjoy hearing him preach but it is a false gospel. people need to become more literate in the WORD OF GOD.there are some things he preaches that are right on with the word then there are things that are not, but those of you that read the BIBLE know that one of the biggest deceptions of that old serpent is to mix truth with lies. GOD bless you and stay in the faith.
ecc.3;14 I KNOW WHATSOEVER GOD DOES IT SHALL BE FOREVER
what ilike about john hagee is his passion for the evangelization of the gospel of Jesus Christ andhis passion for Israel. God has blessed his ministry. Truly God’s grace is at work here. Not by might not by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord. May the grace of God abound to the glory of His name. No other comments.
I think mr hagee is a good man and I listen to him everychance I get, but I think that he should not have appologized to the Catholics for saying that they are the “mother of Harlots”. and also that comment about Louisanna in Hurricane Katrina. He was absolutely right in both cases. The Tsunami in India. The Cyclone in Mayanmar. All these things. The great earthquake in China. Believe me, These things are of God. People believe in God until it’s questionable and then they’ll jump all over you if you try to tell them the truth. Mr Hagee should have stood firm with his belief. If it cost him his ministry he should have stood “FIRM”. oneal smith .
People are confusing the present day “state of Israel” with the “Children of Israel”/Jacob. The two have little in common. Besides this, people do not understand that the “Kingdom of Israel” was divided into two houses after Solomon’s disobedience to God. These two houses became known as the “House of Israel” and the “House of Judah”. The “House of Israel” went into the Assyrian captivity and was never heard from again … so most think today. Also the “House of Judah” went into the Babylonian captivity for 70 years under Nebuchednezzar and after his death Cyrus became the ruler of babylon. He allowed these Judahites/Jews to return to Jerusalem and to rebuild the temple. Cyrus even helped them with money and supplies. During these two captivities the House of Israel and the House of Judah intermingled with those whom they were living with. Now! before you give me a “yeah but!” let me take you back to Joseph when he became the Pharaoh’s second in command in Egypt. He married the daughter of the priest of On …. which was an Egyptian. Remember, the Children of Israel were not to intermingle with other races. This was a “no-no” and a command from God.
Genesis 41:45 Â And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:50 Â And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 46:20 Â And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
Joseph had two sons of mixed race, namely Manasseh and Ephriam. They were not ‘pure” Israelite”.
So what do you do with that my friends? God blessed these two boys as much as the rest of the Children of Israel, ie, the 12 sons of Jacob.
The tribe of Levi had no inheritance with God because they were the “priestly tribe”. So actually you now have 13 tribes.
My point is that for one to say that there remains a “pure bloodline” of Israelites or Judahites/Jews today …. albeit, there are probably some in the world somewhere and they are only known to God, is next to very unlikely to nearly impossible.
Jesus said He came to the “lost sheep of the House of Israel”. He never mentioned the “House of Judah”.
There is so much more to this story so I would admonish you all to study the Word of God and learn who these people are. IMO, it is a waste of time supporting the present day “state of Israel” because they are NOT THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
Stop and ask yourself the question, where are these of Abraham whom God said He would make as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea? There are only approximately 15 Million Jews/Judahites in the world today as opposed to a world population of over 6 BILLION. Something is wrong somewhere.
Either God lied or we are supporting the wrong people. (and God does NOT lie).
I welcome any comments and thank you for your time.
I attended several churches in San Antonio including Hagee’s former church and I can assure you that he preaches the only way of Salvation is through Jesus Christ. What you’re confusing is the difference between national and personal salvation.
I know that, one day,J. Hagee would like to repent, and I hope will be not to late.The truth Gospel means to love your enemy (Mt.5:44) not to send enybody to kill. Christ’s sign is Love and Grace in the power of the Holy Spirit.
There is only ONE covenant. Nobody has EVER been saved except by grace alone, through faith alone in the blood of the Lamb alone.
Nobody was ever saved obeying the Law, (Hebrews 7:18-20).
The Jew needs to be evangelized like anyone else who doesn’t have Christ.
The beauty is that the Jew coming to Christ is the fulfilment of God’s plan…
Romans 11:23-25
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches , be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Israel will not always reject their Messiah. (Zechariah 12:10, Ezekiel 37:8)
Soon, when all the gentiles have come in, the Church will leave. (Romans 11:25 ) and then Israel will have it’s breath breathed into it (Ezekiel 37:9-12) and it’s eyes opened and be “grafted back in” (Romans 11:23-25 ) and once again become Israel (Romans 11:24).
That’s what the Bible teaches anyway.
The Church is not “Israel” (Galatians 3:28). Never has been and never will be.
Israel is Israel and the Church is the Church. Jews saved from Calvary to the Rapture are members of the Church.
During the Tribulation, (Matthew 24:21), Israel will be standing alive and breathing but it will STILL never be saved by obeying the Law. They will know their Messiah has their “Lamb Of Atonement”.
IIIJohn13,
I suggest you study your Bible much closer. There is no longer Jew or Gentile because God has broken down the dividing wall and made of the two one new person. There are not two plans of redemption and two ways to receive salvation.
Read Romans 11:17-24.
1. What is the olive tree?
2. Who are the branches that were broken off?
3. Who are the branches that remain?
4. What are the wild branches?
5. Who are the wild branches grafted in?
6. To what are the wild branches grafted into? (If the remaining branches are believing Israel, the TRUE Israelites according to Romans 2:28-29 and 9:6-8,…)
7. Who are the natural branches grafted back in?
Romans 9:6-8 – “not all who are descended from Israel (physical Israel) belong to Israel (true or spiritual Israel)”
Romans 4:13-16 – all who believe, Jew or Gentile, are Abraham’s offspring
Romans 2:(17-)28-29 – “he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly”
Galatians 3:16, 27-29
1. Abrahamic promises were made to Abraham and his seed (v.16).
2. His seed is Christ (v.16).
3. And his seed is all who belong to Christ (v.29).
4. Therefore, the promises belong to Christ and to all who are His (v.29).
Galatians 4:28 – all Christians, Jew or Gentile, are children of the promise
Galatians 6:16 – church called “the Israel of God”
Ephesians 2:11-19
Gentile Christians were:
1. separate from Christ
2. excluded from the commonwealth of Israel
3. strangers to the covenants of promise
4. without hope
5. without God in the world
Gentile Christians are now:
1. in Christ
2. included in the commonwealth of Israel
3. heirs of the covenants of promise
4. with hope
5. with God in the world
Philippians 3:3 – “we are the real circumcision”
1 Peter 2:4-10 (esp. 9-10)
The TRUE Israel is the TRUE church and the TRUE church is the TRUE Israel.