14For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews15who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone
Since the loyalty is to the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34). So Judaism is the letter of the law. But Christianity is the spirit of the law.
While you can technically be Jewish, but the idea of us supporting a Zionist state. Seems to go against Christianity, to be loyal to something that contradicts the Christian faith, seems wrong to me?
The simple answer, yes. I recently spent a month studying this topic and the easiest way to explain the Catholic Christian view on “Israel” in the Bible is this:
The original Jews were of the shoot. Christ came to fulfill the God’s promises and some Jews rejected Him, cutting themselves off from the vine, while others (Gentiles and other individuals) were grafted onto the shoot. We call these Jews, Gentiles & other members of the ongoing shoot, Christians.
The State of Israel (established in 1948) are not the Jewish faithful of the Bible.
Catholic Christians are not Dispensationalist. We do not believe in a dual (or bi-Covenantalism) nor do we believe in Replacement Theology. The Church is the New Israel, but we do not believe that she replaced the Old Covenant, but is the fruition of the Old Covenant (if that makes sense).
There was one continuous shoot and some chose to break themselves off from it and others were grafted on. Got did not establish multiple shoots, nor do we believe that God honors both those who broke themselves off and those who remain(ed) faithful.
This is the best way that I can explain it without looking at my notes that I took during my time studying this topic. Jesus is the Jewish Messiah and the Savior of the World. God did not merely promise to give Jews land, but rather a Savior out of this promised land.
Lastly, we will not be judged by our loyalty to Israel, but by our loyalty to Jesus Christ. Republican Zionists are upset that Catholic Christians do not share their view of the State of Israel, but this is not about politics. It is about differences of theology.
There is a practical reason to defend Israel, which is to protect the Holy places in the Holy Land. The places where our Lord lived, walked, and died. Places that would be devastating if destroyed by those who hate Christianity.
We are not called to hate anyone. We do not hate “The Jews,” but some will frame it as hate for political reasons.