Christian Zionism In The News

Church Historian Warns Against Melding National Military Might With Radical Religious Beliefs

July 27, 2020

Secretary of State Pompeo speaking at a CUFI Conference in 2019. Photo: Ron Przysucha

Jeffrey Rosario, a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University in England, traces the history of an American Christian theology that predicts an end-times apocalypse connected to the modern state of Israel. He shows how Rev. John Hagee not only has embraced this belief but also has added the dangerous assertion that U.S. military power, exerted in support of Israel, will bring a divinely-willed end-time of deadly violence. Since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo upholds Hagee's creed, U.S. foreign policy is imperiled. To read Jeffrey Rosario’s timely article (click here): Christian Zionism and Foreign Policy.