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Posted on 03/28/2026 1:33:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For decades, one of the most reliable pillars of pro-Israel sentiment in the United States was not just Jews but conservative Christians. That support had a theological motor: Israel mattered not just as an ally on a Cold War map, but as a central actor on the map of the End Times. Put simply, Christians needed Jews to return to the homeland of Israel to usher in the second coming of Christ.
But now, that theological motor is sputtering…
Young evangelicals are less tethered to elaborate prophetic systems…
The consequence is subtle but profound: Support for Israel increasingly has to be justified in political and civilizational terms, not prophetic ones. And when the theology thins out, older guardrails around how Christians talk about Jews — why they matter, what role they play in history — can thin out too.
None of this means younger conservative Christians are uniformly “anti-Israel.” But it does mean that a once-powerful permission structure — the belief that modern Israel is a prophetic signpost that faithful Christians are obligated to protect — has weakened. In that vacuum, a different permission structure has taken shape: a populist right-wing suspicion of foreign-policy commitments, with Israel often cast as a symbol of an outdated Republican establishment.
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Ah. The newest article from you today on the “rupture” on the right, from sources like Politico.
Another day, another article like this you post.
How can something be both subtle and profound?
Is that like jumbo shrimp?
Accuracy in media?
Honest Politician?
There's no contradiction.
Subtle does not mean unimportant or trivial. It means nuanced, difficult to grasp, not immediately evident.
A thing can certainly be both subtle and profound.
Jesus saved us by his death on the cross.
We are not saved by "elaborate prophetic systems".
The farther a person strays from the Cross, the more likely they are going to get bogged down in trouble and false teachings.
This is how I read it as well. Many young evangelicals I meet or listen to aren't buying into Dispensationalism. It is fast becoming a relic of the 1970's, with mostly old people who were brought into Christianity with it back then still hanging on.
Exactly.
Actually has nothing to do with the Rapture or dispensationalism. It has to do with belief that Yahweh will bless those that bless you and curse them that curse you.
Maybe they are finally realizing that the "end times" have nothing to do with the modern state of Israel.
The “rupture on the right over Israel” started a couple of years before this new war, and has little to do with dispensationalism, overall. It has to do with what Netanyahu (and select others in charge of Israel currently) did to Gaza, in response to the October 7 attacks, because not every Jew, or person living in Israel, felt the level of response was fully justified.
That is what originally had people on the right, from Tucker to Charlie Kirk, questioning the leadership of Israel. Not necessarily the state itself, the population of which has a mixture of opinions on the subject, just like we do here. But even if you believe that God has a greater love of the people of Israel, than anyone else on Earth, even that love has been conditional, at times. It is not absolute, to the point their sins are instantly forgiven.
The argument under way, is that one, and if the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Gaza constituted sin, or not. It may not always be spoken about, in those exact terms, but that is the actual underlying debate.
Thank you. Saved me the trouble....
young people have been drifting away from religious faith for a long time.
this is a very interesting phenomenon
and one very worthy of study and discussion
but there’s no recent rupture...
Biblical prophecy is was I going to happen. There is no “ushering it in”. I know of no evangelicals who believe they can speed along prophetic events including Israel and its role in the rapture.
Most evangelicals believe that God has promised to bless those that honor his people but can divide religious Jews from the state of Israel. They may overlap but there are more Jews outside of Israel than ink
I beleive most support for Israel results from the overlap between evangelicals politics and religion. Support for a staunch ally in a bad neighbor hood combined with shared belief in the same God.
Even if I disliked Jews I would support Israel. If I disliked Israel I would not extend that dislike to Jews.
Another fractured fairy tail from fake news, Politico. That’s the same fake news that pushed for open borders, vaccine mandates, lockdowns and persecution of the unvaccinated. You do err, not knowing scripture or the power of God.
God’s promise to Israel upon Christ’s return is a great mystery. The nation of Israel is not a lamb to be sacrificed, this is a false doctrine. That sacrifice was already made 1,993 years ago, on Friday, April 3rd, 33 ad. Is not God’s judgments fair and just? Will God not fulfill all of his promises to Israel?
For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in. And thus all Israel will be saved, as it has been written:
“The Delivering One will come out of Zion;
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
And this is the covenant from Me to them,
when I may take away their sins.” Romans 11:25-27
Please read Matthew 24 and Luke 21. Study for yourselves the scriptures, not some private interpretation. When the enemies of Israel surround Jerusalem, when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near. The Lord Jesus Christ will intervene in history and restore all things.
And I will pour out on the house of David and on those dwelling in Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look on Me, whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for Him, like the mourning over the only one, and grieving over Him like the grieving over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me,
because the LORD has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,
and the day of our God’s vengeance,
to comfort all who mourn,
to console the mourners in Zion—
to give them a crown of beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning,
and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:1-3 (compare with Luke 4:18,19)
I was putting it down to Qatari dollars and the prospects of Western corporations and fat cats profiting off 1.4 billion Muslims.
“hundreds of thousands of deaths in Gaza”
That may be true for some (I for one is not part of the pre-trip rapture class), but a unique affection for Jews - even if hardly reciprocal - is consistent with being born of the Spirit, which is where traditional evangelicals stood out, and have the apostle Paul as their leader:
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Romans 9:1-5)
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