Op-Ed: Pastor John Hagee: Salvation or damnation for the Grand Ole’ Party? – Washington Reporter

Several weeks ago, I was honored to host Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) at my church’s 45th annual Night to Honor Israel in San Antonio. In typical fashion, the senator spoke passionately and from the heart. Little did I know that his clarion call from the stage to combat the scourge of antisemitism on the fringe right would ruffle so many feathers.
But we should not be surprised. The Bible reminds us that “what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:19).
From the Pharaohs who “knew not Joseph” to Haman, Hitler, and Hamas, and from the vile Knights of the Klu Klux Klan to their modern-day philosophical progeny who blame whatever “it” is, on the Jews — be it COVID, space laser-induced wildfires, socialism, the excesses of capitalism, genocide, or control of the media — scapegoating “the Jews” is not new. In fact, it is a foundational tenet of Nazism, modern American Socialism, and the pro-”Palestinian” narrative.
What is new, however, is that this hatred, once decried by all, is now lapped up by some in the Republican Party.
Regardless of who the bigot may be, and whether they are declaring hatred for millions of Christian Zionists, blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “duping” President Donald Trump into bombing Iran, accusing Israel of killing J.F.K., and/or Charlie Kirk, and/or implying that Hitler wasn’t as bad as we think — there are evil elements on the right who’ve discovered what many Democrats on the formerly fringe left have known for some time: there is both cash and cache in attacking Israel and her people.
The firestorm of antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre was foreseeable from a left-wing that has largely traded liberalism for wokeism. But on the right, there are millions of Christians who read the Bible and take God at His word. As such, these believers recognize that we, as Christians, are a wild branch grafted into God’s Covenant and as the roots support the branch, the branch did not, and cannot, replace the root.
Millions of American Christians have come to reject the false doctrine of Replacement Theology which teaches the Jewish people were replaced in the eyes of God by the Christian Church. If this were true, then God would be a liar and the Bible would be false. In short, the existence of the modern state of Israel and the Jewish people are yet further evidence that God is who He says He is.
Likewise, most American Christians know well that Jesus Christ said “no man takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord…” (John 10:18). As such, Christians should see through anyone, lawmaker or otherwise, seeking to justify their failure to stand with Israel and her people due to the fallacious claim that “the Jews” killed Christ. The only thing such a sinful person is confessing is that they do not believe in the sacrificial and substitutionary death of Christ. And for the Christian, that is the true heresy. Believing that God has not and cannot break covenant with the Jewish people? That is true faith.
My personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is Jewish, as was the entire first family of Christianity. Referring to the Jewish people Jesus says, “truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me” (Matthew 25:40). What the woke right is doing to the Jewish people today in America is thus, an abominable, sinful affront to God.
Beyond the avowed bigots, American Christians must all see clearly and confront those who say “I love Israel, but…” because whatever comes next is going to be an equivocation about loving what God loves.
Domestic matters such as the border situation and American military adventurism overseas deserve serious discussion. But, the woke right is not interested in serious discussion. Their comments are not intended to elicit thought but to sow discord. They are nothing more than rage-baiters, seeking to appeal to the worst in mankind, all while lining their own pockets — one click at a time.
God said that He will treat the nations, this includes our own, as they treat Israel. As such, only damnation awaits the antisemite. For if we fail to stop this evil, the United States will no longer enjoy the favor of God. Fundamentally immoral countries never do, and if antisemitism continues to be tolerated and mainstreamed on the right, after it has already inundated the left, then that is what America will become.
Antisemitism is categorically and fundamentally anti-Christian. To quote another Chrisitan Zionist, Charlie Kirk, blaming Jews for all of your problems “is demonic and from the pit of hell and it should not be tolerated.” And as for he who stands idly by at this tipping point, or she who allows herself to be represented in our nation’s capital by a bigot without so much as an utterance of protest? They will inevitably suffer the fate of the “lukewarm” (Rev 3:16).
People of faith and conscience cannot allow the same spirit that flowed through Haman and Hitler to corrupt and corrode the soul of the GOP. Whether it is in our communities, in our churches, on college campuses, or in Congress, antisemitism in our society must be confronted at every turn. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s admission remains true today: “God will not hold us guiltless.”
Pastor John Hagee is the founder and Chairman of Christians United for Israel.
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