I was very disturbed by what Hagee said.
Good.
I also did additional research and understand what he meant.
I've read Hagee's statement (more likely written by a press and publicity minion). It looks like spin to me. I think when Rev. Hagee did the ad and wrote the book he said exactly what he wanted to say, and it didn't sound at all strange to him or anyone around him.
It isn’t dispensationalism that is fueling this.
This is the kind of thing you get when your theology says there's a different plan for Israel, separate from the gentile ekklesia. This is the kind of thing I expect to hear from people who have an obsession with Israel-according-to-the-flesh, and the benefits that supposedly accrue to them separate from the gospel ("they get the land, man!""So?").
God's not going back to dealing with Israel once the church is off the scene. From the incarnation on out, nothing is the same. How could it be? God's plan for Israel is that they be saved, in the same way we are, grafted back into the same metaphorical tree we're grafted into, in the fullness of God's time.
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
He doesn't mention the land. I wonder why that is? Maybe because the enumerated advantages mean that Paul doesn't have to lecture for a week getting his audience up to speed before he can get to Jesus.
I didn’t read the statement. I heard him interviewed. He’s still wrong, but it isn’t like what it sounded like.
as for Israel. I do not see how someone can read the Old Testament and somehow get that God’s plan for Israel and her land was either 1)already fulfilled or., 2)conditional. MULTIPLE Old Testament verses say that God is going to bring her into her land for His own name’s sake and in SPITE of her unfaithfulness. We are seeing this fulfilled today. He would make her deserts bloom. We are seeing this. She would supply fruit to the world. She is doing that. And ultimately,Zechariah shows she will finally get it and accept Christ as Messiah. God’s promises are irrevocable. And, it is by GRACE that Israel will receive what was promised.
Was just reading Ezekiel 36-37 last night by the way. Suggest you read again.