The promises include giving Israel the land that will be the setting for a millennial kingdom where Christ, in his second coming, will rule the world from Jerusalem for a thousand years.ĭuring the webcast, Hagee said the church and Israel are distinct and that Jesus will return as a Jew and speak Hebrew. Hunter, who is on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Alliance, said Hagee's view represents 'a limited portion of Christians who are millennial dispensationalists in their theology,' or those who believe that the nation of Israel is distinct from the Church and that God has yet to fulfill His promises to national Israel. Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed near Orlando, Fla., disagrees with Hagee's interpretation of the modern land of Israel. 'If we care deeply about Israel's well-being – and I do care about that – we do Israel no favors by not encouraging Israel's leaders to practice justice and righteousness.' The Old Testament prophets, said Mouw, were clear that God will not bless Israel if she does not practice justice toward her neighbors and the oppressed peoples within her border. The respected theologian also said people should not quote God's ancient promises to the people of Israel regarding their land without noting His concern about how they use that land. 'We have an obligation today to honor that promise of blessing as well,' stated Mouw. But God also promised Abraham that He will 'bless' his other son, Ishmael, the father of the Arab peoples, and make him 'fruitful and exceedingly numerous' in Genesis 17:20. He told The Christian Post that it is true that the earliest promises God gave about the future of the people in the Middle East were to Abraham and that God made a special covenant with Isaac and his descendants. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., disagrees. He made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 'God did not make a covenant with Washington, D.C. The president of the United States has no authority to tell the people of Israel what they can and cannot do with the city of Jerusalem,' said Hagee, who is also the founding pastor of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, in the CUFI webcast. It is the property of the people of Israel. 'Jerusalem should never be divided for any reason. Other verses he highlighted include Genesis 17:7-8, in which God says He will establish an 'everlasting covenant' with Abraham, Psalm 89:28-36, and Genesis 15:18-21, which Hagee says describes the location of the land God gave to the Israelites. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.' He pointed to Genesis 13:14-17, which says in part, 'The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, 'Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.

In a Christians United for Israel webcast Thursday, Hagee cited several Old Testament verses to support his claim that God made an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people regarding their promised land. The new year has just begun but Pastor John Hagee, arguably the most vocal and controversial Christian Zionist in the nation, has already proclaimed that it is not God's plan to divide Israel, implicitly calling into question the two-state solution that would create a Palestinian state.

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