I am irritated by Christians who will politically side with a non-religious Jew against a Christian Palestinian because the Jews are “God’s people.” Hello???

Whose land is that land, anyway? For that matter, whose land is this land?

We sing Guthrie’s “This land is my land” and we talk about “Our Father who art in Heaven,” and we get really possessive.

There were Zionist’s who were following Jesus around 2000 years ago – and they missed the entire message.

There are Zionist’s (evangelicals and Jews) by the millions today, and they are missing the entire message.

The Apostle Paul went toe-to-toe with Peter and some of the other apostles about this thing of Zionism. For all the rhetoric from evangelicals about their Pauline theology - most evangelicalism today is as nationalistic as those Zionists around Jesus who were ready for Jesus to take the kingdom by force.

Consider the statement of Jesus to the woman at Jacob's well in Samaria, "The time is coming and now is that men will worship neither on this mountain or in Jerusalem...for God is spirit and they that worship Him will worship Him in spirit and in truth."

When Jesus came we forever left the time of a 'holy' place. For the past 2,000 years we have had a living covenant with God. That covenant is NOT tied to a place, a city, a region or a country.

It is an eternal kingdom - a kingdom of the heart. It is a kingdom without 'color.' It is a kingdom without map boundaries. It is a kingdom that thrives in states of persecution and has generally languished during times of prosperity.

It is a kingdom in which God has NO favorites...He said so!

Now, given a choice between praying for the peace & prosperity of those poor struggling folks who are active worshipers in churches such as the Baptist church in Gaza - or praying for the peace of secular Israelis...I'll pray for the peace of the Palestinian Christians.

It makes no sense to me that leading Baptist and Pentecostal churches are sending missionaries all around the world to 'make disciples' but will side with non-Christian Jews against suffering Palestinian 'disciples' over land-rights and human-rights. There's something wrong with that picture!

Jesus did NOT die for the temple mount in Jerusalem. He died for humanity. Whosoever will may come! When He looked over Jerusalem and wept, it wasn't over the land and the temple - it was because of the hardness of peoples' hearts.

I encourage you to read what the Apostle Paul had to say about those who were adopted as sons, and the dangers of 'the circumcision.' Also read closely what Jesus had to say about who the 'true' children of Abraham were/are and don't be drawn into the bondage of Zionism regardless of the fervor of that television preacher espousing God's continuing partiality for the Jews over everyone else in the neighborhood.

Turn the channel - switch churches! They are false prophets!!