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Mordecai Noah sent Adams a copy of a recently published work about his travels, Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary States. By 1818, John Adams had poor vision, but excellent hearing; he would have an aid read to him.

On March 15, 1819, Adams responded:

I have been so pleased with it that I wish you had continued your travels into Syria Judea & Jerusalem… I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites indeed as well disciplin’d as a French army—& marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it—For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

Founding Father John Adams may well have been a Zionist, but he was in no measure a "devout Christian." Adams ended his life as a Unitarian who rejected the divinity of Jesus.

At best, Adams was a proponent of the social benefits of "religion," but he apparently placed no value in Christ as his, or anyone else's, Savior.