
“If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you….”
- Bill Clinton before the Israeli Knesset, October 27, 1994
In his essay “Who Really Owns the ‘Holy Land’?,”[1] Robert Reymond quoted President Bill Clinton’s words before the Israeli Knesset. The full quote in his paper reads,
If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you…it is God’s will that Israel, the Biblical home of the people of Israel, continue forever and ever…Your journey is our journey, and America will stand with you now and always.”
Now some may find such rhetoric surprising coming from Bill Clinton. After all, isn’t Clinton a Democrat, and, as we are told, Democrats hate all things Israel? Isn’t rabid support for Israel a conservative Christian Republican thing? Well, not so fast. Yes, conservative Republicans certainly are big supporters of Israel, in particular, conservative Republican dispensationalist Christians. But support for Israel crosses party lines.

Dispensationalism is antichrist and pagan, not Christian. The Church is the Israel of God. The only thing worse than Islam is the pagan atheism of the Christ-rejecting Jewish peoples who refuse to accept Christ as Messiah and become Christians. Christians, not the Jews, are the Israel of God.