Apostasy: “Christian” Zionism and multi-faith False Unity

Two news stories today which tell of the continuing falling away of the faith by many:

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils”

From ReligionNewsBlog:Church of England donates cash to aid Muslim prayer

A diocese of the Church of England is giving an unprecedented £250,000 towards a multi-faith building in which the largest amount of worship space will be reserved for Muslims. The Guildford diocese is one of the wealthiest in the UK. The Bishop of Guildford, the Right Rev Christopher Hill, today handed over the £250,000 cheque to Surrey University for the first multi-faith building of its kind in Britain.

The £6.5 million building will contain separate worship spaces for the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Sikh communities, along with a further shared space for Buddhists and Hindus.

All faiths will share the cafe in the basement, with a shared staircase down from the upper floors. Converting each other will be strictly forbidden, an insider said, but it is hoped that the different faith members will form friendships, learn to respect each other and enhance each other’s understanding….

From ChristianResearch and The Atlanta Journal: Christian Zionists stand firm as friends to Israel

Israel is feeling the love from an unusual constituency.

A slice of evangelical Christendom, which spent decades trying to convert Jews, has organized in recent years to support them.

During a local show of support last Monday, 2,500 conservative Christians gathered in a Powder Springs church to wave Israeli and U.S. flags, bow their heads as a rabbi prayed, applaud local Jewish and Israeli dignitaries and shout out support for Israel, pep-rally style.

The crowning speaker was the Rev. John Hagee.

“Those who fight against Israel are fighting against God himself,” he told the cheering crowd.

Hagee has become one of America’s best known proponents of a movement with a contradictory name: Christian Zionism. It is a marriage of politics and current events as seen though particular interpretations of biblical writings, a blend of red-blooded nationalism with evangelistic Protestantism.

He has organized or speaks at pro-Israel gatherings across the United States that are drawing from several hundred to several thousand people. The Powder Springs event was sponsored by Israel Always, an Israel support group founded by Christians.

Leading Jews from metro Atlanta, including Israel’s ambassador to the Southeast, Reda Mansour, listened to Hagee in a sanctuary shorn of Christian symbols, such as a cross, and heard talk without a reference to Jesus.

“I think there is a great effort by the Christian community to let people feel comfortable in their event and to feel that they don’t have any secret motive here,” Mansour said.

Timothy Weber of Denver, a Baptist former seminary dean, documented the rise of Christian Zionism in his book “On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friends.”

The most ardent Israel supporters hold a controversial and convoluted end-time theology called Dispensationalism. In it, Israel and Jerusalem play central roles in Jesus’ eventual triumphal return to Earth, and current events can be foreseen by enlightened readers in symbolically dense biblical passages, Weber said. He said Jews pragmatically overlook theology that includes beliefs that they must either accept Jesus as messiah during the last days or perish.

Weber estimated that 10 million or more of the estimated 40 million evangelicals believe in or are influenced by Dispensationalism.

With the rise of the political-religious right, the Dispensationalists discovered their political muscle.

“They have become the unbending lobby for the support of Israel,” Weber said.

And their influence is substantial…

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Also from Christian Research:

JOHN HAGEE: “JESUS REJECTED TO THE LAST DETAIL THE ROLE OF MESSIAH IN WORD OR DEED”

JOHN HAGEE AGREES WITH WORD FAITH PROSPERITY PREACHER JOHN AVANZINI

JOHN HAGEE DENIES THAT CHRIST (means MESSIAH) JESUS IS THE…MESSIAH!