Israel first instilled in the minds of Christian America is due to the misuse of the book of Revelation by dispensationalism.
Googling "the Father of futurism in Revelation" will yield results like this:
Origins of this View: In the mid-1500’s a Catholic Jesuit, Francisco Ribera proposed the futurist view of Revelation to take the heat off of the Pope in response to the Reformers Historicist View who claimed the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church was the Anti-Christ and Beast.
Dispensationalism is a futurist system of belief that arose to prominence in the 1830’s with John Nelson Darby and popularized by C.I. Scofield in his Scofield Reference Bible and believes the church will be raptured from the earth at the beginning of chapter 4 and will not be on earth during the seven-year great tribulation on the earth. Often termed, Dispensationalism, it is a system of belief founded upon certain guiding beliefs (see below). The futurist view is widely popular among evangelical Christians today. One of the most popular versions on futurist teaching is dispensational theology, promoted by schools such as Dallas Theological Seminary and Moody Bible Institute. Theologians such as Charles Ryrie, John Walvoord, and Dwight Pentecost are noted scholars of this position. Tim LaHaye made this theology popular in the culture with his end times series of novels, Left Behind. Other prominent popular adherers to this view are John Hagee, Jack Van Impe, David Jeremiah, Perry Stone.
Pointing the above out to Christians who are "Israel First" angers them because they've been raised on dispensationalism. If dispensationalism is taken away, where does their faith have to go?
There is an extremely good interperpretation of Revelation that doesn't lead to an "Israel First" political stance.
The idealist interpretation of Revelation is a historic interperpretation of the book. The ideal interperpretation is also known as the spiritual interpretation.
Many dispensationalists are taught that you must not spiritualize the Bible. They are taught that spiritual things are not real things. By diminishing the spiritual application of the book of Revelation, they leave it to be a book about physical things. That is "taking away from the book" and "adding to the book"(Rev 22:18-19)
The futurist interperpretation of Revelation is heresy. In order to combat the heresy of futurism in Revelation, some principles have become appearant through the Idealist interpretation.
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There is nothing physical taught in Revelation, it is a spiritual book in its entirety. Spiritual things are real things.
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The book of Revelation is not set in physical time. The book of Revelation is set in eternity, where God and Jesus Christ dwell. Eternity is timeless, eternal life in each Christian is the timeless realm where fellowship with the Father and the Son takes place daily.
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The book of Revelation is not onetime physical events. The events of the book of Revelation take place in the soul of each Christian, bringing the kingdom of heaven to rule in the Christian life.
One of the most popular versions on futurist teaching is dispensational theology, promoted by schools such as Dallas Theological Seminary and Moody Bible Institute. Theologians such as Charles Ryrie, John Walvoord, and Dwight Pentecost are noted scholars of this position. Tim LaHaye made this theology popular in the culture with his end times series of novels, Left Behind. Other prominent popular adherers to this view are John Hagee, Jack Van Impe, David Jeremiah, Perry Stone.
The doctrines of futurism in Revelation is strongly perpetuated by the most respected teachers in Evangelical circles. Tearing away the heresy is not easy. "Israel first" will not change in American Christianity if the doctrine of futurism is not cast down in the Christian mind. The idealist interpretation of Revelation soundly casts down the futurist interperpretation of Revelation.
The Christian learns to follow Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit working in them. The PSYOP of "Israel First" can be removed from the Christian mind only by following the the life and reign of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is King. Ascend.
The book of revelation has absolutely nothing to do with Israel first. It’s clearly Israel last 🤷♀️
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"We're saving Israel for last".
“I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, And bow down their back always.”” Romans 11:1-10 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/rom.11.1-10.NKJV
Edit: The keyword is:
Israelite
NOT
Jew
Right.
There is nothing physical in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Revelation is talking about spiritual principles, spiritual things, and not physical nations, or tribes.
The futurist takes a spiritual book about spiritual things and makes it into a physical writing about physical things. That is what is hard for the conditioned mind to understand.
To mishandle the scriptures, it to feed the body of Christ lies.
I’m sorry if you believe that your programming is complete. 🫡