Jon Harris is an Israeli firster determined to prove the correctness of Scofield’s two covenant people, which of course is found in no bible but Scofield’s. So he has taken it upon himself to radically change what certain historic figures really said about the Jews, such as Chrysostom, to affirmation of the Jews —whose souls had been cursed by the Lord (Isaiah 3:10). @Linda
JD on X, Apr 12, 2026
This is – hands down – the worst example of the Galatian ‘Bewitching’ I’ve seen of the Jewish mind-meld rotting perfectly reasonable peoples’ brains. I’ve got a lengthier treatment in tomorrow’s edition of I2I, but here are some quotations I couldn’t fit into the article.
In an attempt to paint historic Covenant Theology (the ONLY view of the Christian Church until 1821) as novel, and allege that Dispensationalism was the historic position, Harris practically blasphemed (if you could blaspheme mortals) by alleging historic Christian figures would support the primary position of Dispensaitonal Zionism, IE the belief that Jews have retained Covenant membership, blessings, and promises irrespective of their rejection of Jesus.
Harris claimed Spurgeon supported his view. Spurgeon said of Dispensationalism and Darby that their followers were “with a diligence never exceeded and a subtlety never equaled, laboring to seduce the members of our churches to the subversion of the truth” (The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 1 pp. 345-350).
Spurgeon said of Dispensationalism that it “has attained some notoriety in our day,” and that “our spiritual instincts revolted at the heresy” (same as above).
Spurgeon said of Darby’s Dispensationalism and its adherents, “We never know what we shall hear next, and perhaps it is a mercy that these absurdities are revealed at one time, in order that we may be able to endure their stupidity without dying of amazement” (ditto ibid),
Harris said Justin Martyr supports Dispensational Zionism. Martyr said in Dialogue with Trypho (AD 155):
“All who through Him have fled for refuge to the Father, constitute the blessed Israel. But you (the Jews), having understood none of this, since you are the children of Jacob after the fleshly seed, expect that you shall be assuredly saved. But that you deceive yourselves in such matters, I have proved by many words.”
Harris said Tertullian supports Dispensational Zionism. Tertullian said in An Answer to the Jews (c. AD 200): “Without doubt, the first, the elder people, namely the Jewish, inevitably will serve the younger. The younger people, namely the Christian, will rise above the elder.”
And in Prescription Against Heretics, he said, “The Jews had formerly been in covenant with God; but being afterwards cast off on account of their sins, they began to be without God.”
Harris said Origen supports Dispensational Zionism. Origen said, “We say with confidence that they will never be restored to their former condition. For they committed a crime of the most unhallowed kind.”
Harris said Augustine supports Dispensational Zionism. Augustine wrote Tractatus Adversus Judaeos, the Tract Against the Jews, and said, “Behold Israel according to the flesh. This we know to be the carnal Israel; but the Jews do not grasp this meaning and as a result they prove themselves indisputably carnal, having forfeited their claim to the covenants.”
Harris even cited Chrysostom. If you know anything about Chrysostom, CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? Incredible. Chrysostom said, “The synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it also is a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons.”
Chrysostom said, “Now, after the grace of the Spirit has abandoned them, after all those august solemnities have been taken away, they are still stubborn with God and carry on their irreligious rites. Now you give it a name more worthy than it deserves if you call it a brothel, a stronghold of sin, a lodging-place for demons, a fortress of the devil, the destruction of the soul, the precipice and pit of all perdition.”
And let’s not forget the classic, “[The synagogue] is a criminal assembly of Jews, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ, a house worse than a drinking shop, a den of thieves, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, the refuge of devils, a gulf and abyss of perdition. As for me, I hate the synagogue. I hate the Jews for the same reason.”
Every witness Harris called testified for the other side.
It was classic bait and switch. It works like this:
1. Find a historic figure who believed that in the eschaton, God would cause many Jews to repent of denying Jesus and – like Eskimos and Europeans and starving Pgymies in New Guinea and countless other people groups – be grafted into the Covenant from which they were once broken off and utterly severed from its promises and blessings.
2. Claim that this future hope **is the same as** the novel Dispensational view invented in 1821 that claims Jews – even amidst their sinful unbelief – retain Covenant membership, blessings, and promises apart from faith in Jesus, and that we are obligated to treat them like they are currently in Covenant with God.
These are not the same things. This is a sin to history. It bears false witness against our fathers. And it should cease to be committed.
This ancient heresy is being reborn, it’s just as bewitching now as it was then; it causes good men to lose their minds, clouds their judgments, causes them to make these embarrassing intellectual errors, and needs to be excised from the Christian faith, post haste.