The New Christian Right, July 28, 2025
Somebody in Tel Aviv sent a memo yesterday, and every Israel First influencer in social media started barking the same line at the same time. Dinesh D’Souza, one of many such B-Tier pro-Israel influencers who manage to tweet in a flock, declared that “Jesus was not a Christian, and neither were Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses. To say otherwise is to confuse the literal, historical Bible with a metaphorical or spiritual reading of the Bible.”
It was exactly as Vice President Vance described the Israeli Evangelical Influence Operation days before on Joe Rogan’s program: a coordinated flurry of tweets all from within the same sphere of influence, in concentric circles, all tweeting remarks nearly identical to one another. He was referring to the Time Magazine piece confirming what NXR has been reporting for months; Israel was caught paying influencers to convince American evangelicals that it was their Christian duty to support Israel and overlook whatever sub-Christian, godless behavior they were engaging in, in the Middle East. According to Time Magazine, a senior White House official noticed that they were all sounding nearly identical to one another, and a second look traced it to Brad Pascale, the Salem Radio Executive and former Trump digital campaign guru who had sold his status at the Christian radio network to Israel for “integrated messaging.”
One would think that after getting busted by the White House for operating from the same teleprompter, they’d have knocked that off. But, no. DeSouza, Owen Strachan, “Deacon Stephen,” Joel Berry, and anyone within a hundred feet of the Israeli influence op were tweeting about why the Old Testament saints weren’t Christian.
Within hours, the line was everywhere. Hundreds of accounts, many of them with matching bios and matching talking points and matching enthusiasm for a nation that isn’t America, all discovered the exact same theological insight on the exact same afternoon. That’s not revival; that’s a press release.
DINESH
Dinesh has spent years building a public record of being the loudest voice defending Israel against anyone to his right, and he spends his days, every day, in a non-stop campaign supporting the Nation of Israel within the evangelical ecosystem. In July 2025, he sat across from Nick Fuentes on Infowars, moderated by Alex Jones, and told him that “Israel is not just an ally, it’s God’s outpost in a region of chaos.”
“God’s outpost” bans ethnic Jews who believe in Jesus from migration and citizenship, rejects Christ in their national charter, and bombs a hell of a lot of churches. It’s surprising that “God’s outpost,” the gayest nation in the Middle East, if not the world, sure has a lot of Pride parades. Who’d have thought that God’s outpost would collapse the population of Christians within its borders from the 20% that remained steady through 500 years of changing regimes, to near extinction within the last few decades. Weird, right? God works in mysterious ways, we guess.
Dinesh was named by Insight to Incite in its lengthy investigation into the Israeli-Evangelical influence operation – the same one just mentioned by JD Vance on Rogan for “Frequent participation in Israeli evangelical targeting events, fundraising, strong crossover-funding, and promoter of state-sponsored propaganda.”
An article there in October of 2025 entitled “Dinesh D’Soteriology,” examined Dinesh becoming enraged at the Biblical teaching that Christ decreed the Temple’s destruction. Which, obviously, Jesus most certainly did. Dinesh’s hot-take was that Jesus merely predicted the temple’s destruction; He did not personally want it destroyed, had nothing to do with its destruction, and felt that its destruction was quite regrettable. Obviously, if Jesus decreed the Temple’s destruction, then He was fine with the destruction of Temple Judaism – the type invented by God and given through Moses, which requires a temple to observe almost all of its most essential rites. Dinesh couldn’t live with that reality.
The article said…
“Dinesh D’Souza’s outrage over the suggestion that Jesus destroyed the Temple is not unique; it is a symptom of a much larger sickness. The Judaizing impulse has so rewired the theology of the American church that many now imagine Christ as a passive observer of redemptive history rather than its Author. They see the destruction of the Temple as a mere tragedy of history rather than an act of divine justice. They cannot conceive of the Son of God issuing a decree that would flatten Jerusalem because they no longer believe He reigns.
Church Fathers would be absolutely floored that an alleged Christian in the year 2026 would mourn the loss of the Temple. None of the post-temple New Testament books suggest a single tear was given, the Christian faith needs it for exaclty nothing, continued sacrifice was abominable, and historiclaly speaking, the final split between God’s chosen people and Rabbinic influence came when the Jews stayed in Jerusalem to fight to the death while the Romans destroyed their religion (and nation) for good, while the Christians happily went on a walk-about because they saw it as nothing worth fighting for and there wasn’t a Zionist among them.
This was our first indication, zooming in on Dinesh as a premier Israel First influencer, that he thinks like a Jew, not a Christian.
In February, Dinesh launched his own show on X, and for the debut episode he booked Mike Huckabee, the sitting United States Ambassador to Israel. They spent a segment defending AIPAC as “legitimate lobbying” while framing Qatari money as the dangerous foreign influence. The debut episode was pure Israeli infomercial, defending AIPAC. Unbelievable.
Dinesh isn’t some independent Christian apologist who happened to land on a controversial opinion this week. He is the enforcement arm of the Israel Lobby. He goes after whatever American politician or figure doesn’t believe that Israel’s interests supersede our own, and he does it with the same discipline you’d expect an NXR employee to defend Joel Webbon. The Adam-Noah-Abraham-Moses tweet isn’t a theological slip from a guy who got sloppy on his Hebrews. It’s what happens when a man this committed to defending a foreign nation’s interests runs out of political arguments and starts improvising theology to fill the gap.
THE CONTROVERSY
For years now, confessional Christians have been pushing back against the popular claim that “Christianity has Jewish roots,” as though the Old Testament is some borrowed artifact that Christians rent from Judaism rather than the very Word of the living God that belongs to the church by inheritance. Biblical Christians have answered that claim correctly by pointing out that the Old Testament is a Christian book. It was written by men carried along by the Spirit of Christ; it testifies of Christ on every page, and the saints who lived under its terms were saved the same way we are saved, by faith in the coming Redeemer.
The Israel First influencer apparatus could not let that argument stand, because if the Old Testament is a Christian book, then the “Judeo-Christian” branding they have built is grade-A bullcrap. So instead of engaging the argument, they went a different route. Their next volley of propaganda was, “The Old Testament Saints weren’t Christian.”
Of course, that’s not usually the phrasing that the church has used to describe Old Testament Saints. There aren’t very many people literally saying, “Abraham was a Christian.” Instead, we are saying exactly what the Holy Bible says: Every person who has ever been considered “God’s People,” every person who has avoided splitting hell open when they passed the mortal coil, every Old Testament believer was fundamentally a believer in Jesus.
The Israel Influence Operation chose to phrase it that way, “Abraham was not a Christian,” not because Christians phrase it that way, but because it appears a silly claim, unless someone understands the Bible better than the average Dispensationalist. And hundreds of people said the same thing within a matter of hours. It was another coordinated messaging operation running through the usual cabal of Christian Zionist influencers, executed with the discipline of a political war room.
Obviously, Abraham did not walk around the Land of Ur calling himself a Christian. The word did not exist yet. Acts 11:26 tells us that “the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch,” decades after the resurrection. Nobody disputes the label is late. What D’Souza and his chorus are smuggling in under cover of that true but trivial fact is the false and absurd claim that the substance behind the label – saving faith in Jesus Christ as the promised Redeemer – did not exist before the label did. That’s the actual argument, and it is heresy.
MOSES
Hebrews 11, known in Christian theology as the “Hall of Faith,” presents a list of Old Testament saints, but it is not a list of moral exemplars who happened to be pretty good people or role models of courage and personal virtue. It is a roll call of men and women who were justified by faith in the coming Messiah. The purpose of the chapter is to explain that every person ever made right with God was justified by faith.
For example, it read, “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward” (Hebrews 11:24 to 11:26). As you can see, Moses “esteemed the reproach of Christ.” The most Jewish Jew who had ever Jewed before, King Jew #2, the mediator of the Sinaitic Covenant between Israel and God, the very Prince of Egypt, the man who split the Red Sea with a staff, believed in Jesus.
The chapter closes with a summary verdict on every name it just listed: Abel and Enoch, Noah and Abraham, Sarah and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Moses and Rahab, and the judges and the prophets. And the author writes, “And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:39 to 11:40). That is one people of God, one faith, one Redeemer, spread across two testaments. It is the opposite of D’Souza’s thesis.
ABRAHAM
Jesus Himself gives this argument in John chapter 8. The Pharisees are pressing on Jesus, pestering him, trying to trick him into saying something incendiary so they could hurry up and kill Him already, and Jesus tells them, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56). Jesus is telling the Jews He called “Sons of the Devil” that the man they claim as their father was, by faith, looking forward to seeing the very Person standing in front of them. Abraham was quite aware that the Messiah was coming, and trusted in Him.
Paul says the same thing from a different angle in Galatians. “And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed” (Galatians 3:8). The gospel was preached to Abraham, centuries before Sinai and thousands of years before Antioch. And Paul spells out exactly what Abraham did with that gospel a few verses earlier in Romans. “For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness” (Romans 4:3). Abraham’s righteousness and the Christian’s righteousness are the same righteousness, received the same way, imputed on the same basis.
Paul goes further still in 1 Corinthians, reaching all the way back to the wilderness generation under Moses. “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4). The Israelites in the wilderness were drinking from Christ. It was not merely a symbol that would someday be filled in by Christ. Christ, present and active among His Old Testament people, was sustaining them by grace exactly as He sustains the church now through Word and sacrament.
BACK TO THE BEGINNING
Even further back than Abraham, Jude tells us that Enoch “prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints” (Jude 1:14). Enoch, who lived before the Flood, before Abraham, long before Israel, was already prophesying of Jesus.
So when D’Souza says calling Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses “Christians” “confuses the literal Bible with a spiritual reading of it”, he has the categories backward. The literal, historical Bible is the one that says Moses had respect to the reproach of Christ, that Abraham rejoiced to see Christ’s day, that the wilderness generation drank from Christ the Rock, that Enoch prophesied of Christ’s coming, and that every Old Testament saint obtained a good report through the very same faith we exercise today. It is D’Souza’s reading, the one that severs Old Testament saints from saving faith in Jesus, that requires you to spiritualize away the plain text in order to protect a modern political alliance with a desert war cult.
What this denial of historic Christian orthodoxy is protecting is the “Judeo-Christian” brand of Christian Zionism, and the moment you admit the Old Testament is a Christian book, testifying of Christ and saving Christ’s people by faith in Jesus, the “Judeo” half of that hyphenated marketing slogan stops meaning what they need it to mean. Abraham was not a Jew waiting on a religion he had never heard of. Abraham was a sinner saved by grace through faith in the Redeemer God promised him. So was Moses. So was Enoch. So, four thousand years before Antioch coined the word, every last Old Testament Saint was a believer in the Messiah that Ben Shapiro and Benjamin Netanyahu reject.
JEW GOGGLES
Dinesh actually provides for us one of the most illustrative examples of the Dispensationalist malfunction that we’ve seen in a long time. He put it admirably concisely. He called the historic Christian reading of the Old Testament “a metaphorical or spiritual reading of the Bible,” meaning it as an insult. But it isn’t an insult. It’s a compliment he didn’t mean to pay, and it provides us insight into the heart of the Dispensational incompetence to read the Bible correctly. You see, the Bible is actually a spiritual Book (crazy, right?), inspired of the Holy Spirit, and requiring the Holy Spirit to be understood at all.
Paul writes, “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:13 to 2:14). A natural man, meaning a man without the Spirit of Christ dwelling in him, cannot know the things of God no matter how many times a Christian explains it to them. This is why no one interprets the Scripture worse than a Rabbi. They absolutely, positively, cannot come to the correct Scriptural conclusions because they deny Christ and are bereft of the Holy Spirit.
Likewise, Paul writes, “The same vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament… which vail is done away in Christ.” Without Jesus, the Old Testament is veiled. With Jesus, the veil is lifted. He is the Rosetta Stone of Scripture. On the Emmaus Road after the Resurrection, Jesus expounded upon the Scriptures for the disciples, and it says in Luke 24, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” It’s all about Jesus. There’s no possible way that Rabbi could grasp it. We wonder what Dinesh DeSouza’s problem is.
You see, that’s their error: Dispensationalists read the Old Testament like an unconverted Jew, which is to say, like a Rabbi. Dispensationalists will sometimes even brag that theirs is a “more authentically Jewish way of interpreting the Scriptures.” That’s the problem. These idiots had the Son of God, their long-awaited Messiah, fulfilling every prophecy and checking off all the prophetic boxes standing right in front of them, and not only did they fail to see it, but they also murdered Him. That might be your first clue that you do not want to be interpreting the Old Testament like a Jew.
And how do Jews interpret the Scriptures? They look to the Scriptures and see Jews. Christians look to the Scriptures and see Jesus. The predominant Rabbinic interpretation of Isaiah 53, for example, is to see the Jewish people as the suffering servant. Can you even imagine the hermeneutical gymnastics for that? That by their stripes, we are healed? Mercy sakes. The Dispensationalist does the same. It’s Jew-centered.
The Bible can’t be understood in that interpretive method. For example, Jesus told His own disciples why He spoke in parables, which was to “confound the Jews,” saying,. “Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance, but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they seeing see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand” (Matthew 13:11 to 13:13). Jesus chose to speak over their head; not because they were stupid, but because they couldn’t understand anything on a spiritual level. It’s wild that “Christian influencers” like Dinesh DeSouza are out there telling Christians the problem is people are reading the Bible spiritually, and yet, here we are.
What’s even more wild is that Hebrews 11 doesn’t really require a “spiritual reading.” It says, explicitly, literally, matter-of-factly, that the Old Testament believers were believers in Jesus. That’s not exactly a Magic Eye Poster of spiritual complexity where, if you squint and stand on one leg, you can make out whether it’s a sailboat or a schooner. It’s blunt. But Jew-vision not only disallows you from making sense of spiritual Texts, but it also blinds you from understanding literal texts. The Bible says that “leaven leavens the lump,” which, granted, might need some contextualized explanation, but what it means is that Jewish brain-rot is contagious. And Dispensationalists catch it first.
This is a bastardized version of Judeo-Christianity textual analysis in which Jesus wasn’t in the burning bush; He wasn’t typified by the Passover Lamb; and there was no significance to the bronze serpent on the pole lifted up over the wilderness. That’s all just a “spiritual reading.” Of course, not. That’s just some crazy Christian interpretation of the story, which is REALLY about Israel’s importance as a nation-state and its political future as a body-politic in Palestine. That’s the big picture stuff.
Consider the tragedy of Dinesh’s tweets. He just announced to his entire X audience that 4,000 years of Old Testament-era believers made it to Heaven without justification by faith in Christ. There’s not a Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant theologian who wouldn’t anathematize him to hell and back for daring to say something so egregiously heretical, but in the name of Israel, he happily said that stupid thing and got ‘amens’ from the Dispensationalist choir, having no idea that what he said was an offensive departure from Christian orthodoxy – all to defend the talking points of a foreign nation that desperatley needs evangleicals to buy into their war propaganda.
That’s the trade Judeo-Christians make to perpetuate their 18th-century departure from Historic Christianity. You cannot inflate the role of ethnic Israel in the story of redemption without shrinking the role of Christ to make room for it. Every degree of prophetic real estate handed back to ethnic Israel is a degree taken away from the Person the prophecy was written to reveal.
Dinesh’s tweet is that trade laid bare in fifty words. He took four thousand years of men and women, Adam to Malachi, and marched every one of them into eternity without Christ, because admitting they were saved by faith in Jesus would mean admitting the Old Testament was never about a nation-state to begin with. It was about a Redeemer, promised to Adam in the garden, preached to Enoch and Noah before the Flood, believed by Abraham on the plain, esteemed by Moses in the wilderness, and finally revealed in the flesh to a people who, despite being handed Jesus’ identity in HD by the prophecies that clearly identified Him, crucified Him anyway.