Have the Christian zionists been deluded?
Revelation 16, Zechariah 14: Who are the people who have been in what today the Christian zionists call *Jerusalem?*
Christian zionists believe Revelation is a forecast of *the End.* What do they make, then, of Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9?
If we look with honesty at the world in its present state, no Christian zionist could believe *the End* is near, for what they worship as *Israel* is in no foreseeable harm. It is impossible at present, and for the foreseeable future, for *Israel* to experience anything remotely like Revelation 16 or Zechariah 14. The entire Western world would have to abandon *Israel,* particularly America.
Do the Christian zionists believe a lie? I do not know. Anybody who claims to be an *expert* on so-called Bible prophecy is a huckster. I do know, however, that if a person wants to believe *the End* is near, the only people on earth experiencing Biblical level tribulation are the Palestinians, and certainly not *Israel.*
My opinion, opinion, not faith, is that Jesus could return at any time, there is no schedule of world events that must occur first. If there were, these events all concluded with the destruction of Jesus' Jerusalem in AD 70.
But Christian zionists do believe there is some prophetic blue print that must be followed before Christ returns. And yet they are being willfully ignorant if they believe the current events in *Israel* signal *the End* according to their premillennial dispensationalist bent.
My opinion is if one wants to believe in dispensationalism, at least be genuine, at least apply some logical interpretation. If we are near the dispensationalist *the End,* then Matthew 24:22 (And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved) certainly does not apply to *Israel,* but to the Palestinians in Gaza.
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