Do Christians Have to Support Israel? What the Bible Says

Many believers grew up with an unspoken rule: a faithful Christian backs the modern state of Israel, no questions allowed. Raise a concern and you risk a heavy label, so the honest question stays buried. Do Christians have to support Israel as a matter of faith?

On a June 2026 episode of Discovering Truth with Dan Duval, Daniel Duval takes it on, passage by passage. He opens the covenants the way a lawyer opens a contract, reads the terms, and follows the signatures, and you can watch the full teaching to follow him through every one of them.

Duval traces the teaching to the Scofield Reference Bible. Cyrus Scofield's study notes taught generations of Christians that the Jewish people hold a covenant with God (a binding agreement between two parties) that still stands today, separate from the new covenant in Christ. In that system, the church becomes a kind of parenthesis while God's main plan runs through genetic Israel.

Duval names the hidden cost. If that separate agreement still stands, then political Zionism (the political movement behind the modern nation-state of Israel) gets built into the faith itself, and a believer who questions a secular government feels like he is questioning God. Bride Ministries has untangled political Zionism and Jewishness before. Here Duval asks the question under it all: is two covenant theology actually in the Bible?

Duval starts in the wilderness, where God entered a covenant with the twelve tribes after Egypt. That agreement was conditional. Deuteronomy 28 spells out the terms: obedience brings blessing, rebellion brings curses. The promise God gave Abraham was different; God upheld that one by Himself alone.

Israel later split into two kingdoms. The northern kingdom, called Israel, slid into idolatry, and God responded in the strongest legal language a covenant allows:

A certificate of divorce is not a warning. It is the formal end of an agreement. Duval teaches that the northern tribes were out from that point, with one way back: an advocate to graft them into relationship with God again. That advocate is Jesus.

What about Judah, the southern kingdom? Duval walks through Zechariah 11:10-14, where the prophet breaks a staff named Beauty to picture God breaking His covenant, and is paid thirty pieces of silver that get thrown to the potter in the house of the Lord.

Then he sets that prophecy beside Matthew 27:3-5, where Judas returns thirty pieces of silver and throws them down in the temple. Duval teaches that God finished breaking the old covenant at the cross, exactly when the new covenant in Christ was sealed (Luke 22:20). Once Jesus became the final sacrifice, temple offerings and the priesthood that managed them had no further purpose. Hebrews 8:7-13 calls the first covenant obsolete, and Jeremiah 31:31-33 promised a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Both houses now come to God through one door.

This is one of several prophetic threads Duval traces from Genesis to the cross, and the full episode walks through each cross-reference in order so nothing feels like a stretch.

That leaves the land. God promised land to Abraham, and political Zionism treats that promise like a title deed held by his physical descendants today. Duval takes the claim to Galatians:

The Seed is singular. Duval teaches that every promise God made to Abraham lands on Christ, and on everyone grafted into Him, Jew and Gentile alike. Romans 11 pictures one olive tree, and Duval presses on the root: the root is not genetic Israel. The root is Jesus. Branches never carry the root; the root carries them.

Measured against that, Duval states plainly that a modern political state claiming divine title to land through the old covenant is fiction when the full biblical record is read. And the inheritance grows rather than shrinks: the meek inherit the whole earth (Matthew 5:5), a promise traced further in Zion, New Jerusalem, and the living stones.

Yes, and Duval is direct about it. Declining political Zionism is not antisemitism. Believers can love Jewish people, pray for them, and carry the good news to Jerusalem and across the Middle East while still asking what responsible people ask: what really happens in Gaza, who is driving the wars, where the money comes from, and where it goes.

Duval grants that people remain free to hold political Zionism as their politics. His point is narrower and firmer: Scripture never makes it a requirement of following Jesus. How this fits the wider prophetic picture is laid out in what Daniel Duval believes about the end times.

The full 26-minute episode moves slowly enough to check every claim against your own Bible, and seeing the whole episode is the only way to catch every cross-reference Duval lays out along the way. If studying the covenants firsthand stirs a hunger for deeper equipping, Bride Ministries Institute trains believers to handle these texts for themselves.