{"id":87753,"date":"2026-06-23T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=87753"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:15:58","slug":"origins-of-christian-zionism-how-it-corrupted-american-christianity-and-why-its-finally-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/origins-of-christian-zionism-how-it-corrupted-american-christianity-and-why-its-finally-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins of Christian Zionism, How It Corrupted American Christianity and Why It\u2019s Finally Collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Origins of Christian Zionism, How It Corrupted American Christianity and Why It\u2019s Finally Collapsing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KN36yhie2_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseecountry.wordpress.com\/putting-to-rest-jesus-was-a-jew-so-christians-owe-israel-jews-their-allegiance\/\">Putting To Rest \u201cJesus Was A Jew\u201d So Christians Owe Israel\/Jews Their\u00a0Allegiance<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Jesus is the eternal Son of God \u2013 the second person of the Trinity \u2013 who took on human flesh through the virgin birth. His humanity came through Mary, who was Jewish. His deity has no ethnicity. He is not \u201ca Jewish God.\u201d He is the eternal God who became flesh through a Jewish woman in the line of David, in fulfillment of the covenant.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>That distinction demolishes the entire \u201cJesus is Jewish therefore support the Jewish state\u201d argument at its foundation.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>His Jewishness was:<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<h2><strong><em>Incarnational \u2013 taken on in the flesh<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><em>Purposeful \u2013 to fulfill the covenant made with Abraham and David<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><em>Temporary in its ethnic-national dimension \u2013 he rose in a glorified body that transcends ethnicity<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><em>Fulfillment-oriented \u2013 not an ongoing ethnic identification but the means of covenant completion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Galatians 4:4 \u2013 \u201cborn of a woman, born under the law\u201d \u2013 Paul captures it precisely. The incarnation was into a specific ethnic-covenantal context for a specific redemptive purpose. That purpose is now complete.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>*******<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Premise: Jesus was a Jew.<br \/>\nUnstated leap: Therefore Jewishness carries inherent covenantal sanctity.<br \/>\nConclusion: Therefore the Jewish people and state deserve unconditional support.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Every step after the first is a non sequitur. But it\u2019s emotionally loaded enough that most people don\u2019t stop to examine it.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The reversal<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Jesus was Jewish. The Jewish leadership rejected him. The covenant people crucified their Messiah. Paul\u2019s entire argument in Romans 9-11 is that this rejection was the crisis that demanded explanation \u2013 not a vindication of ethnic privilege.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Jewishness of Jesus is actually the strongest argument against ethnic covenantal privilege \u2013 because the one in whom all promises are yes and amen was rejected by the ethnic group that should have recognized him first.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>His Jewishness fulfilled and closed the ethnic-national covenant structure. It didn\u2019t perpetuate it.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h1><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseecountry.wordpress.com\/putting-to-rest-jesus-was-a-jew-so-christians-owe-israel-jews-their-allegiance\/\">RTWT HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71341 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jesus-Drives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jesus-Drives.jpg 710w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jesus-Drives-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Putting To Rest \u201cJesus Was A Jew\u201d So Christians Owe Israel\/Jews Their\u00a0Allegiance &nbsp; Jesus is the eternal Son of God \u2013 the second person of the Trinity \u2013 who took on human flesh through the virgin birth. His humanity came through Mary, who was Jewish. His deity has no ethnicity. He is not \u201ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18168,16129,15672,4002,17655,3176,5176,5971,17107,18982,10173,19122],"tags":[9138,19342,19343,5778],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87755,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753\/revisions\/87755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}