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The Case for Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel
The modern state of Israel has been a nation for almost 70 years. When she was formed and fought her early wars of existence, most Bible-believing Christians believed there was a real connection with what was going on in the Middle East and Bible prophecy that predicts an end-time return of the Jews to their land. While support for Israel remains high in most evangelical communities, we are seeing the beginning of a decline, especially among younger evangelicals, who question whether modern Israel really relates to end-time Bible prophecy.
The Case for Zionism attempts to bring together biblical, historical, and legal arguments for the legitimacy of the startup nation known as Israel as it:
- Explains controversies such as antisemitism and Replacement Theology
- Details the biblical and legal rights of Modern Israel
- Explores the prophetic nature and future of Israel.
In this presentation, Thomas Ice answers many of the contemporary arguments being used by both secular and religious communities to undermine what he believes is the hand of God at work in our own day.
The Case for Zionism attempts to bring together biblical, historical, and legal arguments for the legitimacy of the startup nation known as Israel as it:
- Explains controversies such as antisemitism and Replacement Theology
- Details the biblical and legal rights of Modern Israel
- Explores the prophetic nature and future of Israel.
In this presentation, Thomas Ice answers many of the contemporary arguments being used by both secular and religious communities to undermine what he believes is the hand of God at work in our own day.
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Published February 19, 2017
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February 16, 2017
“If the choice is one state, Israel can be Jewish or democratic it cannot be both.” – Former US Secretary of State John Kerry
These words should send a shiver up the spine of every person of Jewish faith because they represent a growing consensus in this world that religion must be subservient to the will of the people (democracy).The very idea of a “Jewish” state is anathema to an increasingly secular world which sees the Jewish people as an unpleasant reminder of a Biblical world view. Lest you think this is only a Jewish problem, the spirit of Mr. Kerry’s words apply equally to anyone of religious faith.
Into this turbulent political and religious context Thomas Ice’s new book The Case for Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel, is a much needed primer on why Christians should support Israel. As Mr. Ice explains in this book, Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, represents tangible evidence that the Bible is true and that the words of YHWH, the living God of the Bible can be taken at face value.
Further this threat to a literal interpretation of the Biblical record and the redemptive promises of God, doesn’t just come from secularists like Mr. Kerry. Mr. Ice goes on to explain that today there is a growing number of Christian’s who have fallen for the seductive lure of secular humanism which sees mankind’s hope not in the Messianic promises of the Bible but rather our own efforts by which the kingdom of God can be attain on this earth. Mr. Ice’s book is a challenge to such a world view.
The book is divided into an introduction and nine engaging and informative chapters. The introduction gives an overview of anti-Semitism as it relates to Israel and Zionism in an overall framework of YHWH’s redemptive plan. The meat of the book defines Zionism in a Scriptural sense and then makes a persuasive case Biblical and legally for the right of Israel to exist as a nation. The chapters are as follows:
1. What is Zionism?
2. The Biblical Case for Israel
3. Modern Israel’s Right to the Land
4. Modern Israel’s Legal Right to the Land
5. What is Replacement Theology
6. Are Modern Jews Descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
7. What is Anti-Semitism
8. Revelation 12 and the Future of Israel
9. Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism
For me the chapters on Modern Israel’s Right to the Land and Modern Israel’s Legal Right to the Land were very informative. It was quite fascinating to learn about some of the more little known facts and legal wrangling which went on behind the sense in the years leading up to the Balfour declaration and the British Mandate. I also appreciated the chapter on Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism. Hearing about the efforts of those Christian’s who believed the Bible and its promise of a future national Israel before it was a fact and how their efforts were used by YHWH to bring about that national restoration was inspiring.
Also informative was Mr. Ice’s discussion of the The Khazar Theory of Jewish history. I’ve heard this subject discussed more frequently of late and Mr. Ice brings clarity to the subject and dispatches the notion with real historical facts.
* * * * * * *
There is one aspect of this book I would like to offer respectful and what I hope is constructive criticism. In this book Mr. Ice makes what I believe is a compelling Biblical and legal case for Zionism. Having said that, in several instances when inserting his own eschatological beliefs, Mr. Ice does not hold himself to the same standard as he rightfully demands of his suppersessionist brethren. For instance when discussing Israel during the tribulation Mr. Ice relies on an interpretation of the Daniel 9 and prophecy of 70 sevens which is built upon several unreasonable and contradictory assumptions.
***For example in his recent book Charting the Bible Chronologically: A Visual Guide to God's Unfolding Plan, Mr. Ice explains how the Bible shows an “exponential Decay Curve in the lifespan of mankind after the flood which. This decay curve shows that the average age of those living on the earth after the flood decreased to around 70 or 80 years. Yet his own interpretation of the prophecy of Daniel 9 depends upon stretching the chronology of the 2nd temple era to show that Ezra and many of the priests and Levites who returned to Jerusalem were, at their youngest, a quarter century older than Moses.
***When calculating the prophecy of 70 Weeks, Mr. Ice depends upon a special “prophetic” calendar which did not exist when the prophecy was given and would have been unrecognizable to the very people to who the prophecy was sent. This 360/30 day prophetic calendar is itself an assumptive extrapolation of a statement in Genesis 6 which shows 150 days during a five month period. Today, the first five months of our own calendar also equals 150 days, yet we understand that our calendar in no way represents the actual length of our solar year or our lunar month. As evidence by secular sources since recorded history the solar year has been understood to be 365.24/25 days in length and a lunar cycle 29.53 days.
***As a final example Mr. Ice’s interpretation of Daniel 9 relies upon a “commandment” given by the Persian king Longimanus. Left unexplained in any of his writings is the fact that the word “commandment” comes from the Hebrew word dabar which means simply word, speech, or utterance. In the Old Testament dabar is used 1439 times and the vast majority of those refer to the word of YHWH, the living God of the Bible. In Daniel 9 the word dabar is used four times. Of those, three clearly refer to the word of YHWH. In his interpretation of Daniel 9, Mr. Ice does not explain why he ignores the dabar of YHWH to restore and build Jerusalem which is recorded in Haggai 1, Zechariah 1 and witnessed in Ezra 6.
Here’s my point, the futurist position regarding the Zionism and eternal nature of the covenants given to Israel, I believe, already stands securely in its own right upon the clear statements of YHWH which have been provided for us in the Biblical record. When we seek to buttress those Biblical truths with eschatological interpretations for which we do not hold ourselves to the same standards we demand of our supersessionist brethren, it ultimately undermines our futurist position. As we draw closer to the return of Yeshua, I believe it is of utmost importance to ensure that the finer details of our eschatological beliefs rest upon reasonable Biblical facts, not well intentioned traditions.
* * * * * * *
In summary, I believe that in the day and age in which we live it is critically important for every Christian to have a Biblically based understanding of Israel and Zionism as it relates to YHWH’s redemptive plan for mankind. Thomas Ice’s book The Case For Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel is a valuable resource upon which to build such knowledge.
Maranatha!
These words should send a shiver up the spine of every person of Jewish faith because they represent a growing consensus in this world that religion must be subservient to the will of the people (democracy).The very idea of a “Jewish” state is anathema to an increasingly secular world which sees the Jewish people as an unpleasant reminder of a Biblical world view. Lest you think this is only a Jewish problem, the spirit of Mr. Kerry’s words apply equally to anyone of religious faith.
Into this turbulent political and religious context Thomas Ice’s new book The Case for Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel, is a much needed primer on why Christians should support Israel. As Mr. Ice explains in this book, Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, represents tangible evidence that the Bible is true and that the words of YHWH, the living God of the Bible can be taken at face value.
Further this threat to a literal interpretation of the Biblical record and the redemptive promises of God, doesn’t just come from secularists like Mr. Kerry. Mr. Ice goes on to explain that today there is a growing number of Christian’s who have fallen for the seductive lure of secular humanism which sees mankind’s hope not in the Messianic promises of the Bible but rather our own efforts by which the kingdom of God can be attain on this earth. Mr. Ice’s book is a challenge to such a world view.
The book is divided into an introduction and nine engaging and informative chapters. The introduction gives an overview of anti-Semitism as it relates to Israel and Zionism in an overall framework of YHWH’s redemptive plan. The meat of the book defines Zionism in a Scriptural sense and then makes a persuasive case Biblical and legally for the right of Israel to exist as a nation. The chapters are as follows:
1. What is Zionism?
2. The Biblical Case for Israel
3. Modern Israel’s Right to the Land
4. Modern Israel’s Legal Right to the Land
5. What is Replacement Theology
6. Are Modern Jews Descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
7. What is Anti-Semitism
8. Revelation 12 and the Future of Israel
9. Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism
For me the chapters on Modern Israel’s Right to the Land and Modern Israel’s Legal Right to the Land were very informative. It was quite fascinating to learn about some of the more little known facts and legal wrangling which went on behind the sense in the years leading up to the Balfour declaration and the British Mandate. I also appreciated the chapter on Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism. Hearing about the efforts of those Christian’s who believed the Bible and its promise of a future national Israel before it was a fact and how their efforts were used by YHWH to bring about that national restoration was inspiring.
Also informative was Mr. Ice’s discussion of the The Khazar Theory of Jewish history. I’ve heard this subject discussed more frequently of late and Mr. Ice brings clarity to the subject and dispatches the notion with real historical facts.
* * * * * * *
There is one aspect of this book I would like to offer respectful and what I hope is constructive criticism. In this book Mr. Ice makes what I believe is a compelling Biblical and legal case for Zionism. Having said that, in several instances when inserting his own eschatological beliefs, Mr. Ice does not hold himself to the same standard as he rightfully demands of his suppersessionist brethren. For instance when discussing Israel during the tribulation Mr. Ice relies on an interpretation of the Daniel 9 and prophecy of 70 sevens which is built upon several unreasonable and contradictory assumptions.
***For example in his recent book Charting the Bible Chronologically: A Visual Guide to God's Unfolding Plan, Mr. Ice explains how the Bible shows an “exponential Decay Curve in the lifespan of mankind after the flood which. This decay curve shows that the average age of those living on the earth after the flood decreased to around 70 or 80 years. Yet his own interpretation of the prophecy of Daniel 9 depends upon stretching the chronology of the 2nd temple era to show that Ezra and many of the priests and Levites who returned to Jerusalem were, at their youngest, a quarter century older than Moses.
***When calculating the prophecy of 70 Weeks, Mr. Ice depends upon a special “prophetic” calendar which did not exist when the prophecy was given and would have been unrecognizable to the very people to who the prophecy was sent. This 360/30 day prophetic calendar is itself an assumptive extrapolation of a statement in Genesis 6 which shows 150 days during a five month period. Today, the first five months of our own calendar also equals 150 days, yet we understand that our calendar in no way represents the actual length of our solar year or our lunar month. As evidence by secular sources since recorded history the solar year has been understood to be 365.24/25 days in length and a lunar cycle 29.53 days.
***As a final example Mr. Ice’s interpretation of Daniel 9 relies upon a “commandment” given by the Persian king Longimanus. Left unexplained in any of his writings is the fact that the word “commandment” comes from the Hebrew word dabar which means simply word, speech, or utterance. In the Old Testament dabar is used 1439 times and the vast majority of those refer to the word of YHWH, the living God of the Bible. In Daniel 9 the word dabar is used four times. Of those, three clearly refer to the word of YHWH. In his interpretation of Daniel 9, Mr. Ice does not explain why he ignores the dabar of YHWH to restore and build Jerusalem which is recorded in Haggai 1, Zechariah 1 and witnessed in Ezra 6.
Here’s my point, the futurist position regarding the Zionism and eternal nature of the covenants given to Israel, I believe, already stands securely in its own right upon the clear statements of YHWH which have been provided for us in the Biblical record. When we seek to buttress those Biblical truths with eschatological interpretations for which we do not hold ourselves to the same standards we demand of our supersessionist brethren, it ultimately undermines our futurist position. As we draw closer to the return of Yeshua, I believe it is of utmost importance to ensure that the finer details of our eschatological beliefs rest upon reasonable Biblical facts, not well intentioned traditions.
* * * * * * *
In summary, I believe that in the day and age in which we live it is critically important for every Christian to have a Biblically based understanding of Israel and Zionism as it relates to YHWH’s redemptive plan for mankind. Thomas Ice’s book The Case For Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel is a valuable resource upon which to build such knowledge.
Maranatha!
March 25, 2023
A STRONG EVANGELICAL SUPPORT FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Author Thomas Ice wrote in the Introduction to this 2017 book, “God is not going to set up His future millennial kingdom without His chosen people Israel existing in a right relationship with Him. The Bible predicts Israel will reach this relationship at some point during the 70th week of Daniel, often known as the Tribulation. Since the Bible clearly teaches a roadmap concerning the destiny of national Israel, then I as a Bible-believing Christian believe what God says about future Israel. That is why I am a Christian Zionist, or a ‘Restorationist’ as it was known before Zionism became a movement at the end of the 19th century. This book provides many reasons and defenses of Christian Zionism, because there is tremendous support from many different areas for the modern state of Israel… This is a book about how God is bringing to pass His plan from before the foundation of the world for Israel. Yes, it does involve men and means, but ultimately God will bring it to pass in history.” (Pg. 12)
He adds, “The purpose of this book is to inform Christians about why we should support the modern state of Israel, because it has biblical significance and fits into God’s plan for history. Anyone who takes the Bible literarily [sic], as God intended, will see when God said ‘Israel’ He meant ‘Israel’ and not something else. In order for the anti-Christian Zionist position to be true, Israel to mean something else. The notion that God has forever replaced Israel with the Church requires an allegorical interpretation that is totally subjective… Even if one rejects the biblical teachings about Israel, as many do, it is important to also know international law totally supports the modern state of Israel and she has a right to all the land west of the Jordan River. However, if the Bible is totally rejected as a source of accurate history, then how would anyone know the Jews and their land of Israel are who they are today? How would someone like Hitler know who the Jews are in order to persecute the chosen people?” (Pg. 24-25)
He recounts, “Ever since I have learned about the belief… known as replacement theology or supercessionism, I have not been able to justify it in my mind in light of Scripture… The Bible nowhere teaches such a view!... National Israel is part of God’s plan from Genesis to Revelation. I attended the fourth bi-annual Christ as the Checkpoint Conference... on March 7-10, 2016… I was surprised to see a classmate of mine from Dallas Seminary in attendance and in full support of the anti-Christian Zionist viewpoint. This year’s theme was … ‘The Gospel in the Face of Religious Extremism.’ Can you guess who the extremists are from their point of view? Yes, I am considered an extremist.” (Pg. 21) He continues, “Hank Hanegraaf made an appearance, which is not surprising since he also participated in an anti-Israel conference in Iran a few years ago. He gave his normal replacement theology rant… [He] then went on to provide a preterist/idealist explanation of the Bible’s eschatology…” (Pg. 23)
He describes “a movement that is the polar opposite of Christian Zionism he termed ‘Christian Palestinianism,’ that Paul Wilkinson described as “a relatively new, largely intellectual, professedly Christian, anti-Zionist movement [that] has sprung up alongside [Christian Zionism’…” (Pg. 37)
He states, “The arrival of the modern state of Israel on the world scene in 1948 was a big boon to the premillennial understanding of the Bible. This vindicates---in history---our biblical belief that God has a future plan for the land of Israel and the Jewish people. In spite of these developments, there is a group of evangelicals who think that the current state of Israel has nothing to do with God’s biblical promises… The current state of Israel is prophetically important because the Jewish people have been regathered in order to fulfill events during the coming seven-year Tribulation period, following the Rapture.” (Pg. 46)
He argues, “Gary DeMar cannot find a New Testament promise of Israel’s future restoration. Yet I have just cited a strong New Testament assertion---‘May it never be!’ [Rom, 11:1]---that God has not rejected Israel. Since … all 66 books of the Bible ae equally inspired and infallible, then Old Testament statements of Israel’s national restoration will do just fine. What … any opponent of Zionism must come up with is any single passage that teaches that God is forever finished with His chosen people.” (Pg. 47-48)
He acknowledges, “Blessings in the land, specifically in the case of possession of the land, are based upon the nation’s obedience… there are similar warnings to the nation in Leviticus 26. If, over the years, the nation persists in disobedience to God’s commands for dwelling and possessing the land, then ‘I will make the land desolate.’ … But this is not end of the nation, as some anti-Zionist convey… the Lord will remember His sovereign decree… in the Abrahamic covenant and He will also … work in the lives of the Jewish remnant to enable them to obey the conditions necessary to possess the land.” (Pg. 62)
He asserts, “The Bible predicts that Israel will experience two worldwide, end-time regatherings to the promised land… Dozens of biblical passages predict this global event. It is a common mistake, however, to lump all these passages into one fulfillment time frame… when we read God’s Word, we need to be careful to distinguish which verses are being fulfilled in our day which await future fulfillment. In short, there will be two end-time regatherings: one before the Tribulation and one after the Tribulation. The first worldwide regathering will be a return in unbelief, in preparation for the judgment of the Tribulation.” (Pg. 75)
He admits, “Under the legal status relating to Palestine from the League of Nations mandates in the early 1920s, the United Nations did not have jurisdictional authority to partition Palestine, since the San Remo Resolution and British Mandate had given the land for the purpose of creating a Jewish national homeland… The complicated and difficult 30-year period should have resulted in a peaceful recognition of what was legally established on April 24, 1920, at San Remo. But it did not… The second reason the British Mandate for Palestine was never fulfilled is because of the rise of Arab terrorism that paralleled the mandate era.” (Pg. 93-94) Later, he adds, “On November 29, 1947, the United Nations meeting in San Francisco approved a partition resolution … for Palestine, even though it had questionable authority to act on the Palestine question.” (Pg. 98)
He recalls, “years ago, I was discussing biblical prophecy with a person who was writing articles in a magazine from a replacement theology perspective. I kept … [repeating] the slogan ‘Israel always means Israel,’ as he would replace Israel with the Church in Old Testament passage after passage… I [argued] this was not a theological a priori; instead it was an exegetical conclusion… In fact, there is not a single instance in the entire Bible where ‘Israel’ refers to anything other than the Jewish people.” (Pg.
112-113)
He says of Arthur Koestler’s ‘Thirteenth Tribe’ Khazar interpretation, “No informed person… questions the existence of a country in the Middle Ages composed largely of Turkish stock… named Khazaria, where the royal family only converted to Judaism… it is still an unproved theory… lacking any scientific evidence that Ashkenazi Jews… are primarily descended from the Khazars… When word began to circulate that the nation of Khazaria had converted Judaism .. many Jews … migrated to Khazaria for sanctuary and religious freedom …. Since Khazaria was one of the few nations on earth at that time practicing religious freedom, this explains why the nation also had large populations of Christians, Muslims, and pagans who never converted to Judaism. The notion that multitudes of Gentiles simply overwhelmed Jewish bloodlines is simply not the case.” (Pg. 132-135)
He concludes, “Christian Zionists have not always had it easy. Nevertheless, like those who have gone before us, we will stand on biblical conviction as we constantly watch for the further outworking of God’s historical plan, revolving around His people lsrael and His any-moment return.” (Pg. 213)
This is a popular and effective summary of the position Ice espouses.
Author Thomas Ice wrote in the Introduction to this 2017 book, “God is not going to set up His future millennial kingdom without His chosen people Israel existing in a right relationship with Him. The Bible predicts Israel will reach this relationship at some point during the 70th week of Daniel, often known as the Tribulation. Since the Bible clearly teaches a roadmap concerning the destiny of national Israel, then I as a Bible-believing Christian believe what God says about future Israel. That is why I am a Christian Zionist, or a ‘Restorationist’ as it was known before Zionism became a movement at the end of the 19th century. This book provides many reasons and defenses of Christian Zionism, because there is tremendous support from many different areas for the modern state of Israel… This is a book about how God is bringing to pass His plan from before the foundation of the world for Israel. Yes, it does involve men and means, but ultimately God will bring it to pass in history.” (Pg. 12)
He adds, “The purpose of this book is to inform Christians about why we should support the modern state of Israel, because it has biblical significance and fits into God’s plan for history. Anyone who takes the Bible literarily [sic], as God intended, will see when God said ‘Israel’ He meant ‘Israel’ and not something else. In order for the anti-Christian Zionist position to be true, Israel to mean something else. The notion that God has forever replaced Israel with the Church requires an allegorical interpretation that is totally subjective… Even if one rejects the biblical teachings about Israel, as many do, it is important to also know international law totally supports the modern state of Israel and she has a right to all the land west of the Jordan River. However, if the Bible is totally rejected as a source of accurate history, then how would anyone know the Jews and their land of Israel are who they are today? How would someone like Hitler know who the Jews are in order to persecute the chosen people?” (Pg. 24-25)
He recounts, “Ever since I have learned about the belief… known as replacement theology or supercessionism, I have not been able to justify it in my mind in light of Scripture… The Bible nowhere teaches such a view!... National Israel is part of God’s plan from Genesis to Revelation. I attended the fourth bi-annual Christ as the Checkpoint Conference... on March 7-10, 2016… I was surprised to see a classmate of mine from Dallas Seminary in attendance and in full support of the anti-Christian Zionist viewpoint. This year’s theme was … ‘The Gospel in the Face of Religious Extremism.’ Can you guess who the extremists are from their point of view? Yes, I am considered an extremist.” (Pg. 21) He continues, “Hank Hanegraaf made an appearance, which is not surprising since he also participated in an anti-Israel conference in Iran a few years ago. He gave his normal replacement theology rant… [He] then went on to provide a preterist/idealist explanation of the Bible’s eschatology…” (Pg. 23)
He describes “a movement that is the polar opposite of Christian Zionism he termed ‘Christian Palestinianism,’ that Paul Wilkinson described as “a relatively new, largely intellectual, professedly Christian, anti-Zionist movement [that] has sprung up alongside [Christian Zionism’…” (Pg. 37)
He states, “The arrival of the modern state of Israel on the world scene in 1948 was a big boon to the premillennial understanding of the Bible. This vindicates---in history---our biblical belief that God has a future plan for the land of Israel and the Jewish people. In spite of these developments, there is a group of evangelicals who think that the current state of Israel has nothing to do with God’s biblical promises… The current state of Israel is prophetically important because the Jewish people have been regathered in order to fulfill events during the coming seven-year Tribulation period, following the Rapture.” (Pg. 46)
He argues, “Gary DeMar cannot find a New Testament promise of Israel’s future restoration. Yet I have just cited a strong New Testament assertion---‘May it never be!’ [Rom, 11:1]---that God has not rejected Israel. Since … all 66 books of the Bible ae equally inspired and infallible, then Old Testament statements of Israel’s national restoration will do just fine. What … any opponent of Zionism must come up with is any single passage that teaches that God is forever finished with His chosen people.” (Pg. 47-48)
He acknowledges, “Blessings in the land, specifically in the case of possession of the land, are based upon the nation’s obedience… there are similar warnings to the nation in Leviticus 26. If, over the years, the nation persists in disobedience to God’s commands for dwelling and possessing the land, then ‘I will make the land desolate.’ … But this is not end of the nation, as some anti-Zionist convey… the Lord will remember His sovereign decree… in the Abrahamic covenant and He will also … work in the lives of the Jewish remnant to enable them to obey the conditions necessary to possess the land.” (Pg. 62)
He asserts, “The Bible predicts that Israel will experience two worldwide, end-time regatherings to the promised land… Dozens of biblical passages predict this global event. It is a common mistake, however, to lump all these passages into one fulfillment time frame… when we read God’s Word, we need to be careful to distinguish which verses are being fulfilled in our day which await future fulfillment. In short, there will be two end-time regatherings: one before the Tribulation and one after the Tribulation. The first worldwide regathering will be a return in unbelief, in preparation for the judgment of the Tribulation.” (Pg. 75)
He admits, “Under the legal status relating to Palestine from the League of Nations mandates in the early 1920s, the United Nations did not have jurisdictional authority to partition Palestine, since the San Remo Resolution and British Mandate had given the land for the purpose of creating a Jewish national homeland… The complicated and difficult 30-year period should have resulted in a peaceful recognition of what was legally established on April 24, 1920, at San Remo. But it did not… The second reason the British Mandate for Palestine was never fulfilled is because of the rise of Arab terrorism that paralleled the mandate era.” (Pg. 93-94) Later, he adds, “On November 29, 1947, the United Nations meeting in San Francisco approved a partition resolution … for Palestine, even though it had questionable authority to act on the Palestine question.” (Pg. 98)
He recalls, “years ago, I was discussing biblical prophecy with a person who was writing articles in a magazine from a replacement theology perspective. I kept … [repeating] the slogan ‘Israel always means Israel,’ as he would replace Israel with the Church in Old Testament passage after passage… I [argued] this was not a theological a priori; instead it was an exegetical conclusion… In fact, there is not a single instance in the entire Bible where ‘Israel’ refers to anything other than the Jewish people.” (Pg.
112-113)
He says of Arthur Koestler’s ‘Thirteenth Tribe’ Khazar interpretation, “No informed person… questions the existence of a country in the Middle Ages composed largely of Turkish stock… named Khazaria, where the royal family only converted to Judaism… it is still an unproved theory… lacking any scientific evidence that Ashkenazi Jews… are primarily descended from the Khazars… When word began to circulate that the nation of Khazaria had converted Judaism .. many Jews … migrated to Khazaria for sanctuary and religious freedom …. Since Khazaria was one of the few nations on earth at that time practicing religious freedom, this explains why the nation also had large populations of Christians, Muslims, and pagans who never converted to Judaism. The notion that multitudes of Gentiles simply overwhelmed Jewish bloodlines is simply not the case.” (Pg. 132-135)
He concludes, “Christian Zionists have not always had it easy. Nevertheless, like those who have gone before us, we will stand on biblical conviction as we constantly watch for the further outworking of God’s historical plan, revolving around His people lsrael and His any-moment return.” (Pg. 213)
This is a popular and effective summary of the position Ice espouses.
October 28, 2024
Defender of Israel God's Chosen People and Land
As a gentile Christian Zionist, I am very grateful to Dr. Thomas Ice for writing this book. Scriptural Evidence is off the charts and as believers in Yeshua the Messiah we are to be praying and defend Israel's right to exist and its right to exist on their land...All of their land. May El Shaddai continue to Bless Eretz Israel. One day Jerusalem will be the world's capital city for a thousand years. Great book Dr. Ice, everyone should read it.
As a gentile Christian Zionist, I am very grateful to Dr. Thomas Ice for writing this book. Scriptural Evidence is off the charts and as believers in Yeshua the Messiah we are to be praying and defend Israel's right to exist and its right to exist on their land...All of their land. May El Shaddai continue to Bless Eretz Israel. One day Jerusalem will be the world's capital city for a thousand years. Great book Dr. Ice, everyone should read it.
September 8, 2025
I confess I didn't finish. I was looking for academic books to help me understand Christian Zionism better. Though Ice's book is full of footnotes, it's really just an arrogant polemic against critics of dispensationalism. He accuses those who don't adhere to rigid dispensationalism as not taking the Bible seriously. After 3 chapters, I decided it wasn't worth my time.
June 16, 2020
It was so long ago. I really don't remember.
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