The following video is 5 minutes long. It does important, immediate political work I can assure you.
San Antonio Megachurch leader, Pastor John Hagee, formed Christians United For Israel (CUFI) in early 2006, as a political lobbying bloc to 'support Israel'. In practice, CUFI generally supports the far-right politics of the Israeli Likud Party and categorically rejects any Israeli-Palestinian peace deals which would feature Israeli land concessions.
CUFI is working to develop a capacity to mobilize, on short notice, the political energies of millions, potentially up to 10 million or more, of American evangelicals.
On January 24, 2007 CUFI founder John Hagee participated in a conference call with Jewish-American bloggers.
The intent of the call was to familiarize the bloggers with CUFI and to assure them that CUFI's motives were benign.
During the conversation, one blogger asked Hagee for some help on what to tell Jewish friends of hers who questioned the motives of Hagee and CUFI. Responding to that blogger, Hagee stated, "I do not support Israel because of any eschatological concept or prophetic concept. I support them because that I have a Bible mandate to do so beginning in the Book of Genesis and neverending."...
Based on a comparison of Hagee's verbal response and of literature put out by John Hagee's Cornerstone Church Magazine most reasonable observers would conclude that Pastor John Hagee was lying. In the following video I have compiled evidence supporting that position.
In the video heading this post I show images, from the September/October 2006 edition of Hagee's church magazine, only three or four months prior to the conference call in question, that featured on its cover an elaborate picture of war in the Middle East, a mushroom cloud predominating, with a title that read, "The Feud Between Two Families: World War Three Has Already Begin". Page two of that magazine featured a fund raising pitch, for Hagee's "Exodus II" project, that exhorted readers to "Become of part of Biblical Prophecy" by supplying money to "return Jewish families to their homeland."
Given the metaphorical and allegorical nature of religious language, Hagee generally has considerable wiggle room but in this case Pastor Hagee's words were directly contradicted by literature from Hagee's San Antonio Cornerstone Church Magazine, which exhorts readers to "Become a Part of The Fulfillment of Prophecy." by sending money to help Jews resettle in Israel.
It is standard to Christian Apocalyptic Premillennial Dispensationalist eschatology that Jews must be encouraged to return to Israel where, according to the prophetic tradition, most of them will be killed in the Tribulation, Apocalypse and battle of Armageddon except for a "remnant", generally held to number 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity,who will survive and serve as evangelical "super-Billy Grahams" to convert all of humanity, surviving the expected (nuclear) end-times conflict, to Christianity.
The end result is that Jews, as such, and Judaism as a religion vanishes from the face of the Earth. This is known a Supercessionism, or Replacement Theology, and will be the subject of an upcoming story of mine describing how such ideas have become embedded, in United States case law, through recent decisions from the United States Supreme Court.
When Pastor John Hagee originally made a public endorsement of GOP Presidential candidate John McCain, a moderately prominent controversy about the endorsement broke out over Hagee's overtly anti-Catholic views.
