Greg Locke was once known as the MAGA pastor but has since rebranded as a Christian Zionist NARpostle, who performs dubious “deliverances.” With the Iran War now in full swing, he would be one of the predominant false teachers theologically trooning out over current events.
Christian Zionist Pastor Greg Locke says, “Jesus himself is a Zionist” because the word “Zion” appears in the Bible over and over again.
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He says a Zionist is simply someone who believes that the Bible teaches Israel has a right to exist in the land God gave them.
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In the video, Greg Locke defines a Zionist a person who simply believes that the Bible teaches Israel has a right to exist in the land God gave them. Locke embraces the term, citing the numerous mentions of “Zion” in the Bible and claims that Jesus is a Zionist too.
Locke states: “Jesus himself is a Zionist” because “the word ‘Zion’ appears in the Bible over and over again.” He then redefines a Zionist as “simply someone who believes that the Bible teaches Israel has a right to exist in the land God gave them.”
This is classic equivocation, using the same word (“Zionist”) with two completely different meanings in the same argument, then sliding between them to reach the conclusion:
Meaning 1: Zionist as the modern political ideology, a secular Jewish nationalist movement founded by Theodor Herzl and others, advocating for a Jewish nation-state in Palestine. The term and concept literally did not exist in Jesus’s time.
Meaning 2: Zionist as “anyone who accepts biblical references to Zion/the land promises in the Old Testament.”
By swapping the meanings mid-argument, the claim appears biblical, but it’s not. Zion in the Bible is, simply put, a name for Jerusalem used in prophecy, referencing the City of David stronghold.
Moreover, Jesus was not a Zionist as he sided with Rome in 70 AD. Clearly, there have been points in history, spelled out in Scripture, where God disagreed with the definition of Zionism laid out by Locke and other talking heads.
