Biblical Eschatology: The Greater Israel Project or The Restoration of the Kingdom to Israel?

Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you've reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on this imperative topic in biblical eschatology: whether we're going to witness the Greater Israel Project come to fulfillment, or whether we're going to see the restoration of the kingdom back to Israel. I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but there is a real difference — one is man-made, and the other is biblical.

The conversation around theology and eschatology is starting to rev up. When we look online and consider some of the debates we've seen among theologians, commentators, and political figures — including Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee most recently — we find a striking example of where proper theology and eschatology are missing in the Christian church and among the Jewish people as well. That's why we wanted to do this video. We had it planned for a couple of weeks ago, but I got under the weather, so thank you for your patience. Please bear with me as I work through this cough. It's a very important topic, and we're going to go through the scriptures together.

The rhetoric around proper theology and proper eschatology is really rising, and that's why we go through it all the time on this channel. When you have that foundation, you can enter a conversation like the one Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee had and navigate through it, because you have the proper framework to evaluate what's being said.

Before we get to the scriptures, we have to understand that the theology of the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the new covenant is foundational. If we understand covenant theology, we're going to understand Israel's rights — the Jewish people's rights — to the land. But once we understand that, we also have to understand the proper eschatology that goes with it: the proper prophetic timing on God's prophetic timeline for the Jewish people to conquer all of the promised land. If they move ahead of that timeline by acting on their own, that would be the work of their own hands, and the gavel comes down — because they would be out of alignment with God's prophetic order for when the Jewish people will control all of the promised land of the Abrahamic covenant.

This is a very important conversation. If we have it correctly, we're going to be okay. If we don't, I believe a lot of innocent people are going to die, and it's going to produce the Battle of Armageddon — which we will get into.

It all begins with the Abrahamic covenant. For those not familiar with it, let me briefly cover the two key promises of the covenant as they apply to this discussion. The first promise is a seed — one who would fulfill the conquering of the promised land. The second is the promised land itself, with exact boundary lines given in Genesis 15: from the Euphrates River down to the Nile River in Egypt. God was very specific about the territory He gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and on through David with the Davidic covenant, to the descendants of Abraham at a specific point in time.

Understanding this is critical when we look back at the Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee interview. Through covenant theology and proper eschatology, we can see clearly when this is going to happen and who is going to conquer the promised land for the Jewish people.

The Greater Israel Project has entered the mainstream conversation really over the last couple of years, particularly when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before the UN General Assembly in 2023 and 2024 and essentially proclaimed it as a goal, referencing blessings and curses. You can look that up for yourself. Many people point to figures like Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, and some of the far-right members of the Israeli government as champions of the Greater Israel Project right now. We have to analyze these things and place them within a biblical framework, because it touches on Zionism, Christian Zionism, and political Zionism. We need to define these terms so we can determine what is biblical and what is man-made.

As I always say, there seems to be a new "ism" or "schism" popping up every single day — whether it's the rapture, Israel, Zionism, Christian nationalism — it's hard to keep up. But we have to understand that God has a prophetic timeline, an order of events, and if the Jewish people or Christians get out of that order, we're going to be in trouble, because we'd be acting by the work of our own hands without proper theology or eschatology.

Let me speak to Zionism specifically, because Mike Huckabee pretty much defined it during that interview. He said a Zionist is someone who believes the Jewish people have the right to return to the land under the Abrahamic covenant. Amen — I'm fully in agreement with that. What I'm not sure about is why we need a separate term for it, because it's simply the Abrahamic covenant. Zionism is not a word found in the Bible. The Abrahamic covenant is. I'm not sure why we need to rename these things and create confusion when people really need to understand the Abrahamic covenant and what it teaches.

Here's where it becomes critical: if Zionism meant only that the Jewish people have the right to return to the land, we'd all be in agreement — those who understand the Abrahamic covenant. However, as the Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Huckabee went on, it became clear that Zionism goes further than simply affirming the Jewish people's right to the land. It also claims the right to conquer the promised land right now. And that is where it goes into error. They do not have the right to conquer the promised land right now. Only one person will have that right, and that is the Jewish Messiah — the King of Israel, the Holy One of Israel. We're going to prove that throughout the scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation.

We have to go back to the scriptures. We cannot be swept up in political Zionism or Christian Zionism, because those movements are out of alignment with God's order. Right now is not the time to conquer the promised land. Right now is the time for teshuvah — repentance — to turn to the Jewish Messiah, to turn to Yeshua in the land of Israel, and to clean up the promised land: to get rid of the abortion that is freely available in some cases, and the homosexuality and the abominations on the land. That is what this season calls for, not the conquest of the promised land or the Greater Israel Project. There are rules, regulations, and requirements for a generation living in the promised land under the Abrahamic covenant — they must follow the Torah, or they will not have the blessings of the promised land.

We do stand with Israel. We love the Jewish people. However, we must be biblically correct. We must have proper theology and proper eschatology, because without it, the Jewish people get into trouble with Yah, and that is when bad things happen.

The Abrahamic covenant identifies a piece of land from the Euphrates to the Nile, as given in Genesis 15. That is the territory at the center of the controversy right now. And there is a seed who will fulfill the conquering of that land, and that seed is Yeshua. That is why Matthew 1, at the very opening of the New Testament, calls him the seed of David and the seed of Abraham. Why? Because he is the one who is going to conquer the promised land. He is the seed of David — David being the conquering king — and the seed of Abraham, the heir of the Abrahamic covenant. Whenever you read the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis 12, 13, 15, 17, and forward, the promise is made to "a seed" — one seed, singular — and that seed is Yeshua the Messiah.

The Davidic covenant builds directly on top of the Abrahamic covenant. It promises David a seed — the same seed promised to Abraham — who will rule over the promised land of Abraham and who will sit on David's everlasting throne, which has never been done before. That's why Matthew 1 identifies Yeshua as the seed of David and the seed of Abraham: he is the conquering King of the promised land of the Abrahamic covenant. No political government is going to accomplish that.

If we don't understand the two main requirements of the Abrahamic covenant — the seed, Yeshua, and the land, all of the promised land — then we can't understand why no government has ever fulfilled it. Joshua did not conquer all of the promised land. David did not conquer all of the promised land. We'll show that from scripture. Yahweh actually left the land in a certain condition after Joshua so that the Jewish Messiah would fulfill it. David did conquer portions of it, including through proxies, but he did not take all of it.

This is why proper eschatology has to flow from proper theology. Yeshua the Messiah is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant. He is the conquering King of the Davidic covenant who will sit on David's everlasting throne, and we will be living in the new covenant at the millennial kingdom. With that framework of covenant theology in place, whenever the Greater Israel Project surfaces — whether from Jewish leaders, Christian Zionists, or political Zionists — we can recognize when something is out of alignment and help correct it. That matters enormously, because acting out of alignment means going into Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Arabia — and I think we can all understand what that would produce.