link: The Precariousness of Christian Zionism
My disdain for Dispensationalism is no secret.
It fails to discern the unfolding of God's saving plan for humanity. It fails to properly understand the fulfillment of the Old Testament in the New. It flies in the face of the Church's consistent and universal understanding of Scripture. It is a novel scheme that is heterodox, at best, and heretical in some of its variations (I'm looking at you, John Hagee).
Here is the summary of a Roman Catholic explanation of Dispensationalism and Zionism that does a great job succinctly dismantling this interpretive system, which (thankfully) is waning in popularity and influence:
Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. He is the New Covenant, which established the new Jerusalem, the Church, at the cost of His own blood, which does not seek to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, let alone advocate a Zionist political state.
The promise of the land was always inseparable from the Temple: “you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go” (Deuteronomy 12:5). Since an earthly Temple is no longer wanted by God, for Christ Himself is the Temple—“Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days” (John 2:19)—the religious reasons Christian Zionists hold that a physical land is necessary are obsolete since the Messiah became the Temple and sign of the land.