Zion's Christian Soldiers - Stephen Sizer

This is on the same subject as Guyatt's 'Have A Nice Domesday but a lot more serious. Still you can’t help humour slipping in when he gets on to the special red heifer Zionists are looking for once the temple sacrifices are restored. I’ve heard Stephen Sizer speak a couple of times. He is very much the English clergy-man: softly spoken, sincere, excellent mastery of the facts, and a brilliant communicator, with a power point slide for virtually every sentence he utters. Read some of the stuff about him on the internet and you’d think he was a senior demon straight from hell: such is the rage his attack on Christian Zionism incites. In this book he completely dismantles the Biblical case for Zionism. In the first chapter he covers some basic hermeneutics, and then gets to work explaining what the key symbols in the Zionist movement should mean for Christians. The chosen people are the church, not Israel; the land is now the kingdom, open to all regardless of race, not a state smaller than Wales where only one race is welcome; Jerusalem is heaven; to advocate re-building the temple, as some do, is heresy: Jesus’ broken body is the temple; and finally nobody knows about the details of Christ’s return, but there is much to respond to in what we do know. Throughout Sizer makes disturbing references to what the impact of the heretical Christian Zionism is having on politics in the Middle East. Christians are called to be peace-makers, but the tragic irony of our generation is this wrong headed nonsense is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to peace in the region. And there is continual reference to the Bible, indeed it is ultimately the Bible that shines through in this book, free from the sensationalist fare pedalled by the men with their eye on retirement in Palm Springs. And orthodoxy and so the book fittingly ends with a previously unpublished sermon by John Stott. You can’t get more orthodox than him. To end with this is an absolute triumph, for Stott is the unconsecrated bishop of Protestantism, and if he is against the jamboree of Zionism, it really is time these people quietened down, and got back to some proper Bible study.
If you want the lecture notes for this book visit - http://www.sizers.org/zcs.pdf