of Israel and its security, its safety and destiny, is a significant issue in the belief system of many Evangelicals today, particularly in the United States of America. This is true to the extent that, apart from the American Jewish lobby in the US, Evangelical views on Israel have had an affect on the actions of the US government in Middle East affairs..

As a consequence, the State of Israel's behaviour toward competitive Palestinian claims has enjoyed an almost unconditional support from the US, in addition to security issues, sometimes regardless of moral issues or political wisdom in the circumstance.

This Evangelical view of the State of Israel is based on a complete fallacy which, apart from its unbiblical character, also feeds an obstruction of God's purposes in the Middle East in regard to the mission of Christ to the Muslim world, with profound satanic effects.

In September 1988 the Trinity Broadcasting Network in the USA cancelled its regular programs and ran videotapes instructing non-Christians what to do if their families suddenly disappear (shoot up into the sky) in the 'Rapture', expected 40 years (supposedly a 'generation') after the political declaration of Israel as an independent state.

All across America sincere Christians had been misled to believe that the founding of the State of Israel in May 1948 was a biblical fulfillment of prophecy. This belief in the spiritual significance of the founding of the State of Israel is still so entrenched that, regardless of the public foolishness demonstrated at the time, nothing has dented the general Evangelical persuasion that the existence of the State of Israel is important to the future of God's plan for humanity.

the precious prophecy of Isaiah concerning Israel's restoration to the Lord –

has been stupidly used (abused), as having been fulfilled in 1948 with Ben Gurion's declaration of the political independence of Palestine's Jewish community — whereas Zechariah the prophet plainly tells us that this only occurs in a national repentance when the nation looks "on Him who they have pierced" (Zech.12:10-14) as the climax of Armageddon at Christ's return.

symptomatic of a vast number of stupidly presumptuous and misguided evangelicals, evangelist David Wilkerson wrote ('the VISION' 1974:98) –

when the Lord Jesus Christ came the first time – to "His own" (i.e. Israel, John 1:11), Israel was not an independent political State; and equally so, when He returns – Israel will also not be an independent state – for without Jesus Christ (the only Mediator between God and mankind) the State of Israel has no relationship to God whatsoever!

When the Lord came the first time, the Jewish people in their homeland lived in/under three completely different administrations: Herod over Galilee, a Roman Governor over Judea, and Perea under another ruler of the Herodian dynasty.

This State defines itself as Jewish, and accordingly gives discriminatory preference to the same, in spite of more than 24.7% of its registered citizens being non-Jews (2011 census). Christ died for every Arab-Israeli, and every Palestinian, as much as for the racial descendants of those who rejected His first coming!

Christian teachers, preachers, authors, and script writers, who have misled the people of God in this regard, with the consequent misapplication of American influence in the Middle East, will pay a heavy price of accountability before God for their hindrance of His purposes in completing the mission of Christ among Muslims around the world.

Although the State of Israel practices freedom of religion toward its Arab/Palestinian citizens, if a Christian preacher begins to evangelise among its Jewish citizens, he is deported. As a nation-state, Israel is no less a hindrance to the completion of the mission of Christ than any other Middle Eastern state. To this, is to be added Israel's racial bias toward its own citizens, apart from its injustice toward its pre-1948 non-Jewish communities.

is so serious an issue that the national future welfare of the United States as a nation is directly affected by it, if it continues its morally compromised support for a State which practices the injustice of collective punishment against defenseless people as a continuing policy, no matter what propaganda of words is used to cover it.

Christian churches need to become outspoken in their unbiased care for the welfare of those suffering from the results of this perversion of history and justice.

part of the pro-Israel propaganda, Islam has been demonised in many Christian communities as worshipping a foreign or pagan god. But the god of an Islamic mosque is no more foreign to Holy Scripture than the god of the Jewish synagogue. Both misrepresent the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Malicious propaganda that 'Allah' was a pagan moon god whom Muhammad promoted as supreme God is a complete fiction no matter who repeats the untruth. Arab Christians worship 'Allah' – blessed be His Name, forever! Our Arabic Bible uses the term 'Allah' as a translation of the New Testament Greek 'Theos' and Old Testament Hebrew 'Eloihim'. There is no other appropriate word for God in the Arabic language than 'Allah' – blessed be His Name!

Evangelicals do well then to read Holy Scripture recorded for us in Acts 17:28, where the Apostle Paul, in presenting his gospel to the leaders of Athens, quotes from a well known pagan poem dedicated to the Greek supreme god Zeus as being a direct reference to the God of the Bible, without any qualm on his part as to the authentic identity of the One who is over all even under another name.

It is time – for the Christian Church to fulfil its destiny as the Light of the World – equally to and for ALL peoples!