Apocalypse Engineered
The Scofield Zionist deception and its strategic role in the fall of American liberty
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8)
With the recent outbreak of war involving Israel, Iran, and the United States, millions of Christians are once again scanning the headlines and flipping to Revelation, convinced they are watching the fulfillment of end-times prophecy.
But what if they’re not? What if what we are witnessing is not the unfolding of God’s plan, but the deliberate orchestration of crisis to fulfill the counterfeit prophecies of men? Yes, God is sovereign over all ultimately, but what if this war, and the religious fervor surrounding it, is the engineered event meant to catalyze the next phase of global spiritual enslavement?
*See Notes on geopolitical analysis Here
What if the very Christians cheering for Israel’s wars and wrapping their theology around the headlines have been the target of a hundred-year deception, one that began with a convicted fraudster named Cyrus Scofield and continues through celebrity pastors and media prophecy peddlers who have discipled the church into cheering for their own destruction?
This article traces that deception and warns of the looming judgment that follows.
We must speak out against the deception of Christian Zionism.
This is a call to wake up to the End Times theater unfolding before us and to understand what’s truly at stake.
A Theology Funded by Enemies of Christ
In the early 20th century, Cyrus I. Scofield, a disbarred lawyer with no formal theological training and a record of fraud, became the unlikely author of the most influential Bible commentary of the last 150 years. His Scofield Reference Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 1909, was not simply a study aid, it was a theological Trojan Horse.
Thanks to well-documented financial backing from Zionist lawyer Samuel Untermeyer, who openly despised Protestants and espoused sharply progressive, humanistic views and connections to globalist financiers like the Rothschilds, Scofield’s rise was no accident. As detailed in Joseph Canfield’s The Incredible Scofield and His Book, powerful men recognized the strategic potential of turning American Protestants into unwitting agents of Zionist political goals. They needed a Bible that redefined Christianity and they got one.
Scofield introduced a new system called "dispensationalism,"1 which taught that the Church and Israel are two separate peoples of God with distinct destinies. The Jews, he said, still held their covenantal blessings, even in unbelief. Worse still, Scofield invented a system of multiple gospels, denying the continuity of salvation history and making room for a separate plan of salvation for ethnic Israel.
John Hagee’s modern-day dual-covenant heresy, that Jews do not need to accept Christ, is not a departure from Scofield. It’s the fruit of it.
Furthermore ➡ The dispensational rapture expectation pacifies opposition:
“Why fight tyranny if we’ll be out of here soon?”
The dispensational rapture doctrine fosters passivity by convincing believers that escape is imminent, undermining the biblical call to endure, resist evil, and proclaim truth amid suffering. It weakens the Church’s witness by encouraging disengagement from cultural and moral battles under the false hope of early evacuation. Rather than preparing the saints for persecution and perseverance, it lulls them into complacency while tyranny advances unchecked.
Oxford University Press published the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909, lending it both credibility and global reach. That such a prestigious academic press would endorse a Bible edited by a man with no formal theological training affirms the presence of high-level sponsorship and concealed influence driven by deceptive, ideological intent. The result was the mass distribution of a Bible laced with notes that reframed Scripture to support the political aims of Zionism. This was not accidental; it was strategic.
The Scofield Bible would go on to become one of Oxford’s most commercially successful publications, fundamentally reshaping American Protestantism. In effect, it served as a tool of moral engineering crafted to distort God’s law and teaching and lead the church into deception. Among its damaging effects was the manipulation of sincere believers into funding Zionist objectives under the false promise that “blessing Israel” would guarantee God’s favor. This theological sleight of hand became a means of extorting money from God-fearing Christians in the name of piety.
Founded in 1897 by Theodor Herzl, the World Zionist Organization was explicitly committed to establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. Its leaders recognized the immense potential of converting American evangelical enthusiasm into political leverage and financial gain. Scofield’s Bible became a primary instrument in that transformation. Dispensationalism Zionism, with its emphasis on geopolitical secular Israel as God’s prophetic timepiece, rewired generations of American believers to see political support for modern Israel as a spiritual mandate. Wrapped in biblical language, this manipulation served to extract wealth and political loyalty from sincere Christians, redirecting their devotion from the eternal Kingdom of God to the temporal ambitions of man.
There are clear parallels between the error of Christian Zionism and that of the Roman Catholic Church. In both systems, human institutions and idols are elevated to a sacred status, whether it be the modern nation-state of Israel or the hierarchical structure of Rome. These distortions ultimately lead believers away from the sufficiency of Christ and the authority of His Word.
Voddie Baucham: There Is No Righteous Nation
In his sermon Armageddon & Israel in Bible Prophecy, Pastor Voddie Baucham makes this truth plain: There is not a single geopolitical nation on earth today that is on the right side of God’s final war.
"Not the nation of Israel, which is as godless as any other nation in the world today, nor anyone who is an ally of the nation of Israel," Baucham warns. "Every last one of these nations worships at the altar of the Beast and of the false prophet. Including Israel."
Baucham’s point is clear: spiritual warfare is not national warfare. The real battle is not between Iran and Israel, or East and West—it is between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world. And many Christians have been duped into believing that political alliances equal righteousness.
“Useful Idiots” for the Antichrist System
Pastor Sam Adams, in his sermon Christian Hyper Zionists: The Useful Idiots of Talmudic Judaism, names what most pastors are too afraid to say: Dispensationalist (Zionist) Christians have become “useful idiots” for an anti-Christ agenda.
By blindly supporting everything Israel does, by believing in multiple gospels, and by divorcing Jesus' own teachings from the Church, Scofieldian theology has made a generation of Christians cheerleaders for apostasy. And the irony? Many of them think they are the remnant.
Adams meticulously details how the Scofield Bible, funded and promoted by Jewish Talmudists and globalist backers, was designed to fracture Christian theology and create a political theology of war. In doing so, it stripped the Church of its spiritual discernment and redirected its loyalty to a modern secular state.
Note: While Pastor Sam Adams offers an important theological critique of dispensational Zionism, it’s important to distinguish that his ministry holds to a KJV-only position, which we do not affirm as biblically necessary or historically sound. Scripture is preserved and authoritative in faithful translations rooted in the original languages not confined to any single English version.
Alice Bailey, Blavatsky, and the New World Religion
Here’s where the picture sharpens: Theosophist Alice Bailey, the spiritual architect of the United Nations, wrote that a new world religion would emerge after a period of global crisis. It would be post-Christian, universalist, and enforced through global governance.
In her words:
"The reappearance of the Christ will not be the Christian Christ alone, but a World Teacher for all religions..."
The wars unfolding before us, ceasefire or not, are likely not the battle of Revelation 16, but they do mark a spiritual Armageddon. Many professing Christians, trained to interpret prophetic headlines rather than read Scripture in context, are helping lead the United States into deeper spiritual darkness and technocratic lockdown.
These End Times narratives serve as the perfect engineered crisis to justify the unification of world’s false religions under the banner of peace, tolerance, and shared worship. *More on this in the footnotes
By fatiguing the world with hyper radical, weaponized versions of religion—Islamic extremism, militant Zionism, etc., - they can rebrand biblical Christianity as hate.
The plan is simple: showcase the worst of religion, then offer a controlled alternative that feels safe, inclusive, “open and affirming” and in accordance with “the greater good” as they always like to say in the Great Reset.
Bitter is called sweet, and sweet bitter. In this deception, the true gospel of Jesus Christ, which exposes the grave errors of Christian Zionism, the NAR, Roman Catholicism, Dominionism, Talmudic Judaism, and Islam—is increasingly recast as dangerous intolerance. We see the writing on the wall, but we must pray for those still lost in this political-religious chessboard.
A Coming Fall? Only the Lord knows.
The United States has propped up apostate Israel with billions in aid, wars of aggression, and political allegiance. And now, as war potentially escalates, the fallout may not be what prophecy pundits expect. Rather than a “glorious rapture”, America may find herself judged.2
War could be the globalists’ controlled demolition of the United States:
Economically through debt, inflation, and war spending;
Morally through compromise with evil;
Spiritually through idolatry of state and race;
Politically through martial law and technocratic lockdown.
America is facing many attacks on multiple fronts and yet many Christians are dancing on her rooftops and boasting possession of the moral high ground.
The Real Mount of Assembly
As Voddie Baucham concludes:
"There is not a single geopolitical entity on Earth that’s on the right side of this battle."
We must remember where the real Mount of Assembly lies, not in Jerusalem, Washington, or Tehran, but in the heavenly Zion, where Christ reigns and will return in glory.
The believer’s allegiance is not to a flag, but to the King of Kings. Not to prophecy charts, but to the Lamb.
The call today is not to join geopolitical campaigns, but to keep our garments clean, our hearts undivided, and our hope fixed not on the next war, but on the next world, and on the Great Commission.
Because when Christ cracks the sky, every nation, including America and modern Israel, will be brought low. And only the Kingdom that cannot be shaken will remain.
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4)
American Protestantism has been hijacked by a form of political utopianism, one that seeks to immanentize the eschaton, either by striving to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth through human effort or by retreating into escapist rapture theology, hoping to avoid all suffering. Both are dangerous ditches. We must expose these errors and boldly proclaim the eternal truth of God’s Word.
In a world of confusion, only God’s Word brings clarity, cling to it.
Soli Deo Gloria.
Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
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Note: there is are crucial differences between the dispensationalism of Darby, Scofield, and Christian Zionism and the modified dispensationalism of John MacArthur:
Classic dispensationalism, formalized in the 19th century by John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), introduced a rigid division between Israel and the Church within redemptive history. Darby taught that the Church was a “mystery parenthesis” not revealed in the Old Testament, and that God's prophetic dealings with Israel were paused during the Church Age, to resume in the future Tribulation and Millennial Kingdom. This view was popularized in the United States by C.I. Scofield through his Reference Bible (1909), which deeply influenced early 20th-century evangelical theology and promoted a futurist eschatology, pretribulational rapture, and unconditional political support for the modern state of Israel. These tenets form the foundation of what is now called Christian Zionism, which interprets the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948 as a prophetic fulfillment and often conflates biblical prophecy with current geopolitical events, such as in interpretations of Ezekiel 38–39.
In contrast, John MacArthur upholds many core dispensational distinctives—such as premillennialism, a future for national Israel, and a literal hermeneutic—but departs from Darby and Scofield in several key respects. Most notably, MacArthur rejects the parenthesis theory, asserting instead that the Church was always part of God’s eternal plan (cf. Eph. 3:1–11). He maintains that salvation has always been by grace through faith, for Jew and Gentile alike, and that Christ has made "one new man" from the two (Eph. 2:14–16), while still holding to a future fulfillment of God’s promises to ethnic Israel (Rom. 11:25–29). His dispensationalism is soteriologically Reformed and ecclesiologically cautious, avoiding the political entanglements of Christian Zionism. Unlike many popular prophecy teachers, MacArthur does not interpret contemporary Middle Eastern events as certain fulfillments of prophecy, and he strongly critiques those who subordinate biblical exegesis to speculative newspaper eschatology. See John MacArthur, Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth, eds. Richard Mayhue and John MacArthur (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017), 855–868; Charles Ryrie, Dispensationalism, rev. ed. (Chicago: Moody, 2007); and Michael J. Vlach, Dispensationalism: Essential Beliefs and Common Myths (Theological Studies Press, 2017).
Based on historical patterns, current geopolitical alignments, and theological analysis, there is compelling evidence that the Israel–Iran–U.S. war is not just a geopolitical event, but a highly engineered spiritual and psychological operation, carefully crafted to deceive Christians, destabilize nations, and catalyze the further emergence of a New World Religion rooted in Luciferian syncretism.
Contrived Conflict: Manufactured End Times Theater
Israel vs. Iran has long been a pre-scripted dialectic: two sides, both loaded with theological symbolism (Zion vs. the Islamic Mahdi) are now crashing together in what seems like prophecy fulfilled.
But it's not organic—it’s weaponized narrative engineering:
Funded on both sides for decades.
Enabled by U.S. interventionism, arms deals, and destabilization campaigns.
Media blitz now using words like “apocalypse,” “Armageddon,” and “biblical war”—clearly triggering eschatological emotion.
➡ Purpose: Trick Christian Zionists into believing they’re watching God's end-times plan unfold, when in fact they’re being maneuvered into supporting the Antichrist system.
Scofield Christians as Political Tools
Millions of American evangelicals discipled by the Scofield Bible, prophecy media, and pastors like John Hagee are now cheering on a war that may:
Destroy U.S. sovereignty,
Justify mass surveillance and martial law,
Bankrupt the economy, and
Expand global governance via the UN or NATO emergency coalitions.
➡ The dispensational rapture expectation pacifies opposition: “Why fight tyranny if we’ll be out of here soon?”
➡ Meanwhile, globalist Zionists secure global power—not to usher in Christ's kingdom, but to replace it.
Alice Bailey & Blavatsky: Spiritual Architecture of the War
Alice Bailey's blueprint for a “united spiritual front” is being fulfilled through:
Interfaith Abrahamic ecumenism
UN Religious Liberty programs
Planetary Initiation via global crisis
“The reappearance of the Christ will not be the Christian Christ alone, but a World Teacher for all religions…” — Alice Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy
➡ The war serves as a burning ritual to destroy what remains of national Christian cultures (especially the U.S.) and prepare people for spiritual fusion under global rule.
U.S. in the Crosshairs: Controlled Demolition?
There is growing evidence that this conflict is designed to take America down, not protect her:
The problem of the formally open southern border + foreign agent infiltration.
Depleted oil reserves and supply chains.
Debt collapse and economic fragility.
Moral demoralization via trans ideology, race division, and mass surveillance.
This war offers the perfect pretext for America’s fall, blamed on external enemies but orchestrated internally, just as Rome burned while Nero played the lyre.
"Babylon is fallen, is fallen... for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication" — Revelation 18:2–3
Could this modern "Babylon" be apostate America, who fornicated with kings (globalists) and deceived the nations?