Steve Bannon, a former White House Chief Strategist, show host, and Catholic nationalist, recently made some startling statements—comments that not only contradict Scripture but endanger Israel.
We will start with the most troubling idea that Bannon has been floating around the MAGA world.
On a recent episode of his podcast, The War Room, Bannon stated, “Time to start talking about a three-state solution. Time to start talking about—I’m not kidding about this—if you got two states… why do the Christians not have their own deal? Why are we not there to oversee our own heritage?”
Steve Bannon proposed a “three-state solution” in the Holy Land. Not one state, not two states—which have been rejected over and over again—but three states: Israel, Palestine, and some kind of brand new “Christian state of Jerusalem.”
Let’s be very clear: this isn’t just a terrible idea; it is a biblically illiterate, historically ignorant, and prophetically dangerous idea.
If you’re a Christian, and you think, “Yeah, why not have a Christian state of Jerusalem? Jesus is from Israel. He lived His life in Israel. Why not?” The answer is simple: God is very specific and clear about people who seek to divide up His land. It’s not ours—it’s His land.
The Hebrew prophet Joel recorded the Lord’s warning: “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2).
A key part of the above verse is the words “divided up my land.” God promises to put the nations on trial, judging those who seek to divide His land.
Steve Bannon is a smart guy who understands geopolitics. I never considered him a “bombthrower” before, but this is pretty incendiary. He is suggesting that Jerusalem needs to be carved up into pieces, like a pizza—a cheese for the Jews, olives for the Muslims, some pepperoni for the Christians!
This is Crusades 2.0 dressed up in red MAGA hats.
Let’s go one step further and be honest: this is replacement theology—antisemitism in disguise. It is the idea that Christians need to take over because the Jews have lost the covenant with God. God is apparently done with the Jews and done with Israel.
This backward theology is dead wrong.
Romans 11:29 says that God’s gifts and His are “irrevocable.” He cannot break His covenant that He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is an eternal covenant with the seed (descendants) of Abraham. God’s call, His covenant, His promise, doesn’t expire or get transferred.
Genesis 15:18 reads, “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (emphasis added).
Israel should not be divided up like it’s some kind of real estate deal. God gave the land to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, not to the Christians, not to the Catholic Church, and not to the Muslims.
Bannon further stated that he wants Turkey to provide security forces in Jerusalem. This is a nation whose President, Recep Erdogan, calls Israel a “terror state” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “terrorist.” Turkey may be a part of NATO, but it acts like an enemy. Its government demonizes Israel constantly and threatens to invade the Jewish State. Only days ago, the people in Turkey took an effigy of Netanyahu and disturbingly “executed” it, hanging it from a crane.
Is it a good idea to give Turkish security forces control over Jerusalem? Does it even have to be said? That is an absurd idea!
I respect Steve Bannon’s fight against the deep state. He’s been the tip of the spear in that fight, and that is good. But on issues related to Israel, Bannon is dead wrong. And, if President Trump is currently listening to Bannon, he needs to stop.
