Editors note: One of my subscribers dropped out accusing me of being antisemite for complaining about the policies of Israel. No discussion of the evidence, just blanket rejection based on Biblical verses Jews wrote—not God. I guess the thousands of Jews who complain about Israel’s policies are antisemites too.
What Blessing Israel Doesn’t Mean
Guest Post by Laurence M. Vance
June 27, 2025
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:1-3)
Since Israel’s attack on Iran, and especially since President Trump bombed Iran, many conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians have begun making rash and unqualified statements like “Iran was about to get a nuclear bomb,” “I support Israel,” “Iran shouldn’t be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” “I stand with Israel,” “Iran deserved to be bombed,” “bombing Iran was an act of self-defense,” “I stand with President Trump,” “we need to support the troops,” “President Trump is the commander in chief,” “President Trump did what Obama and Biden didn’t do,” “Israel has a right to defend itself,” “Iran was a threat to Israel,” or “Iran was a threat to the United States.”
Some of these Christians have foolishly referenced Genesis chapter 12, quoted above, as if that justifies the military actions of Israel and the United States.
Because a small but vocal contingent of evangelical “leaders” who are considered to be dispensationalists (in actuality, most are very nominally so) are among those who are cheerleaders for the U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran, Christians and others who are not dispensationalists have stepped up their attacks on dispensationalism as if it is the reason that some evangelicals have turned into warvangelicals.
As an unapologetic theologically conservative Christian who is a dispensationalist, I want to say that whatever blessing Israel does mean, blessing Israel certainly doesn’t include:
Confounding the government of Israel with the people of Israel
Supporting regime change
Taking money from Americans to give foreign aid to the government of Israel
Giving weapons to the government of Israel
Agreeing with everything that the government of Israel does
Thinking that Netanyahu can do no wrong
Believing that the U.S. government should bomb Iran for Israel
Calling offensive military actions defensive
Believing everything that Netanyahu says
Denying that there is an Israel Lobby in the United States
Supporting U.S. military intervention in the Middle East
Backing everything that President Trump does
Appeasing the country of Israel
Supporting ethnic cleansing
Turning a blind eye to Israel’s annual gay pride parades in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Supporting a reckless, belligerent, and meddling U.S. foreign policy
Dismissing the killing of women and children as collateral damage
Supporting collective punishment
Ignoring the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israel
Denying that Israel owns most members of Congress
Calling opponents of Israel’s military actions anti-Semitic or pro-Palestinian
Supporting assassinations
Excusing the atrocities committed by IDF soldiers
Supporting indiscriminate bombing
Thinking that God needs the help of the United States to protect Israel
Supporting the razing of Gaza
Inviting Netanyahu to address the U.S. Congress
Supporting the installation of U.S. puppets as leaders of countries in the Middle East
Making excuses for everything that Israel does
Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and most prominent supporters of U.S. and Israeli military actions against Iran are anything but dispensationalists and wouldn’t know Clarence Larkin from H. A. Ironside. Those who are or claim to be—like pop dispensationalists John Hagee, Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, and Mike Huckabee—blindly support U.S. wars and military interventions and almost everything that the state of Israel does because they are warvangelicals, not because they are dispensationalists. I have written about them and their ilk for over 20 years, to which I refer the reader.
Copyright 2025 by Laurence M. Vance. Reprinted under creative commons license.
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