I may be misunderstanding his position, so someone correct me if I’m wrong... but hasn’t Hagee said that Jesus is not the Messiah? Again, not making an accusation, I just want that to be clarified.
Yeah, isn’t Hagee the one who said that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.... I believe I read that. I’d be curious if that’s indeed true.
Following excerpt from: http://www.olivetreeviews.org/articles/Jans_eUpdates.shtml#newsitemEEAZAkpllutLuNjchI
But in Hagee’s new book he almost goes beyond all of that. In the book he states, (1) The Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah; (2) Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah; (3) Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah; (4) How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered them? He further states there was a “Calvary conspiracy” between Rome, the High Priest, and Herod. The conspiracy was to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist who was too dangerous to be allowed to live.
It appears he has said the Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah, so claims that Jews rejected Him as Messiah are false. He says he can back it up in a book he has written, In Defense of Israel.
I have not read the book. I did do a Google search and have read some reviews and seen Hagee’s video clip promoting the book.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7221204206772613234
The messiah will gather all Jews to Israel, rebuild the Temple, and rule the world from Jerusalem. Since this has not happened the messiah has not come.
Hagee is not saying J*sus is not the messiah (unfortunately from a Jewish/Noachide perspective) but that he won't qualify as the messiah until he does this at the "second coming." If this is heretical, then every single dispensationalist fundamentalist is a heretic. Which would be fine by me, since dispensationalist fundamentalists should be Noachides anyway.