The Spiritual Roots of Israel-Denying Theology | Part 1

by Jamie Pantastico | Nov 25, 2025 | Israel & Prophecy | 0 comments

The Truth Behind Israel-Denying Theology

Why So Much of Christendom Rejects What God Has Sworn

Introduction: A Strange Blindness

There is a strange trend in modern Christian theology—one so widespread that many believers never question it. Sermons, commentaries, articles, and conferences flow endlessly on the future, the kingdom, and the church, yet somehow…

• Israel disappears.

• The Jews vanish.

• The covenants evaporate.

• Abraham is reinterpreted.

• Jerusalem becomes symbolic.

• The land promises dissolve into allegory.

You can read thousands of pages from respected theologians and walk away believing:

• God has only one people (meaning: not Israel)
• The Church replaced Israel (though they avoid saying “replaced”)
• The Old Testament promises were “fulfilled spiritually”
• The modern nation of Israel is coincidence
• Jewish identity has no prophetic role
• Every covenant is now “the church’s property”

All without ever encountering the words Jew, Israel, Abraham, Jerusalem, or Davidic throne in their correct biblical context.

This is not an accident.
It is not mere oversight.
It is not theological evolution.

It is a spiritual assault on the integrity of God’s Word and the identity of the people to whom He made eternal promises.

Where does this come from?

Scripture already told us.

🔥Post–October 7 Explosion of Israel-Denying Theology

What I call Israel-Denying Theology is not new. It has existed in various forms since the early centuries of the Church—sometimes quietly, sometimes violently—as old as the spirit that animated Haman. But something changed on October 7, 2023. Since that day, the volume has been turned up a thousand-fold. What was once a subtle doctrinal position sitting in the background of church statements has now become a mission. Entire denominations that previously kept their replacement views muted have moved them to the center of their teaching. Even churches that once boldly stood with the Jewish people—affirming Israel as a sovereign nation, defending the Jewish right to exist in their own land—have suddenly shifted. Some of them are now promoting the very theology that insists God is finished with Israel and that the Jewish people no longer have any covenantal future in God’s plan. The speed of this change is staggering. The spiritual hostility underneath it is unmistakable. And the timing is not accidental. When Satan intensifies his hatred of the Jewish people in the world, he often intensifies it in the Church as well. And what we are witnessing today is not theology—it is war against the people God Himself calls “beloved for the sake of the fathers” (Romans 11:28).

1. The Root: A SPIRIT OF ARROGANCE in the Gentile Church (Romans 11)

Paul did not gently warn the Gentile church.
 

He issued a prophetic alarm:

“Do not be arrogant toward the branches.”
— Romans 11:18

“Do not boast.”
— Romans 11:20

“Lest you become wise in your own conceits…”
— Romans 11:25

Paul says Gentile arrogance toward Israel would one day:

• distort doctrine
• misread Scripture
• attack Israel
• replace Israel
• boast against the Jewish people
• claim the promises as their own
• deny Israel’s future
• forget God’s covenant faithfulness

This is the exact theological climate we now live in.

The spiritual root is not academic—it is pride masquerading as theology.
It is Gentiles insisting that God is done with the very nation He chose “forever.”

2. The Root: A SPIRIT OF BLINDNESS (Romans 11:25)

Paul says two blinding’s exist in this age:

1. A partial, temporary blindness on Israel
2. An increasing blindness among Gentile Christians

The second blindness is more subtle. Paul describes Gentiles who:

• claim spiritual superiority
• reinterpret the covenants
• overlook Israel’s significance
• misread prophecy
• dismiss the land promises
• redefine Abraham’s descendants

This blindness manifests not as atheism, but as theological sophistication that quietly erases the Jewish people from God’s prophetic program.

3. The Root: SATANIC HOSTILITY Toward the Jewish People (Revelation 12)

Behind every system that erases Israel is the same enemy who:

• sought to destroy the seed of the woman
• raged against the nation that birthed Messiah
• persecuted the Jewish people through every empire
• inspired antisemitism across history
• hates Jerusalem
• hates the Abrahamic covenant
• hates the land
• hates the throne of David
• hates the promise of a restored kingdom

Because Satan knows that Israel’s restoration means his end.

Revelation 12 presents Israel—not the Church—as the central target of Satan’s rage in the final conflict.

Revelation 12:13

Now when the dragon (Satan) saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman (Israel) who gave birth to the male Child. 

1. Who is the Male Child? 
2. Jesus the Christ, a Jew.
3. And who gave birth to the male Child? 
4. The nation of Israel.

NOT THE CHURCH. NOT GENTILES. 

Every theology that denies Israel’s future, identity, or covenantal destiny is—knowingly or unknowingly—aligned with that hostility.

4. The Root: A MISUSE of Allegory to Avoid the Literal Promises of God

When theologians reach passages like:

• Genesis 12
• Genesis 15
• Genesis 17
• Exodus 19
• Deuteronomy 30
• 2 Samuel 7
• Jeremiah 31
• Ezekiel 36–37
• Zechariah 12–14
• Matthew 19:28
• Luke 1:32–33
• Acts 1:6
• Romans 9–11

They have only two choices:

Option A: Believe God literally meant what He said.

OR

Option B: Redefine God’s words “Israel,” “Jerusalem,” “land,” “throne,” and “covenant.”

Most choose Option B.

Not because the text demands it, but because their system demands it.

Thus, theology becomes a method of avoiding the plain meaning of Scripture.

This is not hermeneutics. This is evasion.

5. The Root: A DESIRE TO STEAL the Inheritance of Israel

This is the uncomfortable part, but the prophets describe it plainly.

In Ezekiel 36, the surrounding nations say:

“These ancient heights have become our possession.”

But the Lord responds:

“They have appointed My land into their own possession.”
“I have spoken in My jealousy.”

Replacement theology is not new.

It is ancient.
It is sinful.
And God calls it theft.

The Gentile church using spiritual language to claim the covenants of Israel is the exact thing God condemns in the prophets.

6. The Root: A REJECTION of God’s Character

‘For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, ‘

Hebrews 6:13

To deny Israel’s future is to deny:

• God’s integrity
• God’s covenant faithfulness
• God’s oath-bound promises
• God’s unconditional covenants
• God’s sworn declarations
• God’s own interpretation of His Word

If God breaks His promises to Israel, then: 

What hope does the Church have?

What confidence does any believer have?

Every system that erases Israel ultimately erases the trustworthiness of God Himself.

7. The Root: A FAILURE TO SEE THE “TWO-FOLD” PLAN OF GOD

The Church is not Israel.
Israel is not the Church.

Both are saved through Christ alone, but each has a distinct role in God’s redemptive timeline. Today, in this age of grace, the Church age, there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. Both are saved and become members of the body of Christ the same way— the gospel.

Romans 1:16

‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.’

Ephesians 2:14-16

‘For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.’

But when the fullness of the Gentiles have come in— and the Church is caught up, the rightful Heir of all creation, the Creator Himself, the only one worthy, willing and kinsman to His people, the Jewish people, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus takes the scroll from God the Father. Which begins the 7 years of Jacob’s (Israel) trouble, fulfilling the 490 years prophesied by Daniel. The Lord Jesus returns from where He left the apostles on the Mt. of Olives feet first. 

7. The Root: A FAILURE TO SEE THE “TWO-FOLD” PLAN OF GOD

The Church is not Israel.
Israel is not the Church.

Both are saved through Christ alone—but each has a distinct role in God’s redemptive timeline. In this present age—the age of grace, the dispensation of the Body of Christ—there is no spiritual distinction between Jew and Gentile. Both come to God the same way: through the gospel revealed to Paul.

Romans 1:16

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”

Ephesians 2:14–16

“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation… so as to create in Himself one new man from the two… reconciled… in one body through the cross.”

But this unified Body does not cancel Israel’s future. When the fullness of the Gentiles has come in (Romans 11:25) and the Church is caught up to meet the Lord, God turns His attention back to national Israel, not in judgment alone but in covenant fulfillment.

The rightful Heir—the Creator Himself, the only One worthy, willing, and qualified as Israel’s Kinsman Redeemer—takes the scroll from the Father (Revelation 5). That moment initiates the final seven years decreed upon Israel—Jacob’s Trouble—completing the remaining portion of Daniel’s 70-week prophecy.

And then—just as He left—the Lord Jesus returns feet first to the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4; Acts 1:11–12), not to rapture the Church, but to save Israel, judge the nations, and establish the Kingdom promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.

To flatten all of Scripture into a single people, a single destiny-a kingdom, and a single divine program requires ignoring all of the above and the list below:

• every covenant
• every kingdom prophecy
• every land promise
• every restoration passage
• the apostles’ own words
• Jesus’ answer in Acts 1:6
• Paul’s argument in Romans 11

It is theologically neat, but biblically impossible.

Conclusion: Israel-Denying Theology Is Not a Minor Issue—It Is a Spiritual Battle

At its root, Israel-erasing theology is:

• spiritual arrogance
• Gentile pride
• Satanic hostility
• historical blindness
• covenant theft
• biblical evasion
• and a direct assault on the faithfulness of God

🔗 Series Navigation

➡️ Read Part 1: The Spiritual Roots of Israel-Denying Theology
➡️ Read Part 2: Replacement Theology’s 7 Ways to Erase Israel
➡️ Read Part 3: 50 Passages You Must Ignore to Erase Israel