Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschbar and know the title of this video is not an exaggeration, it's not clickbait.

Today we're actually going to explore how a dangerous misreading of scripture is leading some influential Christians

to try to goad Israel and the United States into starting World War III.

Now the theology at hand is called dispensationalism. And many evangelicals today think that this is just

Bible Christianity or just what Christians have always believed. But the truth is that this form of

Christianity is actually rather new. Now, it's a nuanced theology, but to sketch it out very roughly

here, it's built upon the idea that God has two covenant peoples. He's got Israel and he's got the church, and they have distinct

identities. Israel is promised a physical promised land, and the church is going to be taken up into

heaven in an event that the dispensationalist called the rapture. Now, many American Christians,

as I say, think that this is just what Christians have always believed or what

Christians just believe today. A large majority of the Christian world has embraced the worldview

of the rapture, hookline, and sink. People like John Hagee, Jack Hibbs, Greg Lorry, David Jeremiah,

and Jimmy Evans are all teaching the rapture as if it's 100% fact.

But this really isn't true. I mean, in terms of global Christianity, dispensationalism is an

extreme fringe. And it's a new one, too. Belief in the rapture and in dispensationalism more broadly

really only traces back to John Nelson Darby in the 1800s into the publication of the Schofield

Reference Bible in the early 1900. Now, I know some dispensationalists will try to find like a figure

here or there that's earlier, but key to this worldview is the idea that Christians have to

support the nation of Israel. And on the surface, that looks harmless. For instance, the New York

Times best-selling dispensationalist Mike Evans argues in why Christians should support Israel,

that we are commanded to support the nation state of Israel in Genesis 12. Now, I just had a video

recently looking at an exchange between Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson on Israel, and in that I showed

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