http://www.johnhagee.net/currentevents.asphttp://www.johnhagee.net/mag-pdfs/israelmag.pdf<PASTOR HAGEE: Yes. Well you understand that the Jewish
State was something that’s born in the mind of God. And
we are a people who believe the Scripture, and the
Scripture says very clearly that God created Israel in the Book
of Genesis, as I have said. In the book of the Psalms, it says
that He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps,
Meaning that God is the protector and the defender of
Israel. The Prophet Zechariah says the Jewish people are the
“apple of God’s eye”. If God created Israel; if God defends
Israel; if God considers Israel the apple of His eye, is it not
logical to say that those who fight with Israel are fighting
with God?
...
PASTOR HAGEE: Well, the theology that you’re talking
about is the fulfillment of Scripture and the coming of
Jesus Christ as Messiah to the earth...Yes, the
second coming, the great tribulation, and then the
Messianic age of 1,000 years of peace....We are
seeing, in my judgment, the birth pains that will be called
in the future “the beginning of the end.” I believe in my
mind that the Third World War has begun. I believe that it
began on 9/11. I believe that we are going to see an escalation
of the Islamic influence all over the earth use their
financial power and terrorism to bring nation after nation to
its knees. And finally, they are going to come after Israel in
waves of human attackers with the purpose of destroying the
Jewish State. And at that point in time, this battle is described
in Ezekiel 38, 39. God, in His sovereign grace, is going to
stand up and defend Israel, and the enemies of Israel are
going to be decimated.
BBC REPORTER 1: You know, some people listening
to your beliefs will be concerned that such as the black
and white, good against evil; the global confrontation that
you’re talking about, it’s inflammatory. It’s dangerous.
PASTOR HAGEE: No, it’s not dangerous. When you
know the future, there’s no reason to consider it inflammatory.
It’s going to happen. These things that I’m speaking
of have been clearly predicted in Scripture as clearly as the
sun shines at noonday. And when you study the Scripture
in a scholarly fashion and understand that both Old and
New Testament link together in a mesh work of prophetic
logic that very clearly portrays the future, then there is no
reason for concern. There’s absolute reason for confidence
in knowing that, yes, the world is getting ready to go
through the birth pains of sorrow, what the Bible calls it.
But on the other side of the birth pains will be the
Messianic era of Jesus Christ and a thousand years of peace
in the millennial reign.
BBC REPORTER 1: How closely do you work with and
how important to you are ties with Israel, with the Israeli
Government, with the Israeli public?
PASTOR HAGEE: Well, I’ve been to Israel 20 times. I generally
take a group of between five and six hundred people
with me when I go. They are our radio/television partners
from around the world... <snip>
BBC REPORTER 1: Well, I mean, I don’t disbelieve the
point, but I’m just trying to clear this up. Obviously, the
Jews believe that the Bible gives them rights to Hebron.
Hebron is what the Palestinians call it, and to
Nablus Schem and all these places. I mean do you have a
position on that? What is your view of those territories, which
we know as the occupied territory, which right-winged Jews
call part of Greater Israel?
PASTOR HAGEE: Well the Jews are absolutely right. The
land has never belonged to Palestinians. It was called
Palestine by the Romans, but there has never been a land
called Palestine. There is no Palestinian language. Before
1948, these people lived in Egypt. They lived in Syria. They
lived in Iraq. Yasser Arafat lived in Egypt. They have come
and they were displaced by the war of 1948, but Israel is not
occupying someone else’s territory. Whenever Israel
receives the land that is given to them in Scripture, it would
be probably somewhere in the area of 100 times greater than
all geographical regions now recognized as Israel. So the
Jewish people say: This belongs to us. Scripturally,
they’re absolutely correct. It’s theirs...<snip>
<BBC REPORTER 1: Let me
ask you this; why do you think Israel Prime Ministers regard
you as such an important figure?
PASTOR HAGEE: Well, one, I have been very faithful to
support Israel for 20 years. Secondly, I am seen by a
potential viewing audience of over 90 million people in
America and Canada. I’m on four television networks and
125 full-power TV stations, in addition to 115 radio stations.
I’m also, by satellite, over much of Europe. So third
world nations see me. And after being on television twice
a day for 24 years, there is an enormous nucleus of
American and Canadian people who listen to us on a regular
basis. That’s why.<snip>
<Terrorism here is terrorism there so you're either with us or you're with them. So it makes it very clear, he (bush) has given us a very clear moral perspective of what we're trying to accomplish."