I have read hundreds of pages of Hagee's books and listened to many hours of his sermons in the course of my research on apocalyptic Christian Zionism, also known by its theological label, premillennial dispensationalism. My objections to the partnership with Hagee are not theological hairsplitting, but are based on the fact that the sermons of this publicly "pro-Israel" figure are rife with anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and a false representation of Jews and Zionism to the rest of the world. Nowhere in my extensive collections of bibles, or Christian and Jewish theological resources, do I find narratives of the Illuminati, Masonic, New World Order, or Rothschild/ Federal Reserve conspiracy theories that permeate Hagee's sermons and writings.

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However, I do have another collection of books and papers in which I can find narratives strikingly similar to Hagee's rants about a world manipulated by Jewish actions. That would be my New World Order/Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theory collection. It may sound counterintuitive that the anti-Jewish conspiracy theories now flourishing in much of the world are coming from people who loudly proclaim their love for Israel. However, if you study the historical themes of these Judeo-centric narratives, both the antichrist narrative and the secular narrative, it is clear that they have been woven together for generations.  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was first published as an addendum to a Russian Orthodox mystic's book on the coming of the antichrist. Leading dispensational preachers supported Henry Ford's publication of The Protocols in the U.S. and Germany, as they believed it to be authentic and supporting the basis of their own interpretation of biblical prophecy.  They viewed the Holocaust as simply a forerunner for the Tribulation and the "time of Jacob's trouble." For much of the post-Holocaust era, The Protocols and related anti-Jewish conspiracy theories resided in the seamy underbelly of the extremist right, while the corresponding antichrist prophecy was limited to a segment of American fundamentalism. However, these narratives emerged again in an explosion of Judeo-centric apocalyptic prophecy and religious fiction in the 1980s and 1990s and have now been reintroduced to the world, including Europe, Asia, and Africa, through this prophecy vehicle.

The two narratives are most compelling, as well as more socially acceptable, when they are woven together, mixing the tale of the Jewish control of the world with an elaborate antichrist narrative drawn from interpretation of the books of Daniel and Revelation. The narrative can be found in many forms and it is neither rational nor cohesive, but the core story is as follows. Jews were infused with secret mystical and occult knowledge during the Babylonian captivity. This secret knowledge has been continued through the Pharisees, Talmud, and Kabbalah resulting in centuries of an organized and conspiratorial battle against Christianity.  The devil is represented in this battle by Jews, the rebels against God, along with their co-conspirators, the Illuminati, Freemasonry, and, in certain versions of the narrative, Jesuits or the entire Roman Catholic Church.  Control of the world by this evil cabal, led by Rothschilds and other Jewish and secretly Jewish families, is facilitated by economic manipulation and results in revolution, liberalism, socialism, communism, feminism, modernism, and secular humanism.  The latest narratives are also crediting Jews with responsibility for "liberal fascism." The narrative then progresses into the future with the prophecy of the antichrist and his one world government of seven years during the Tribulation.

The mainstreaming of the narrative was boosted by Pat Robertson's 1991 publication of the bestselling book, New World Order, which cited historic and contemporary anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists including Eustace Mullins (Ezra Pound Institute), and Nesta Webster. Robertson's book introduced into mainstream society an updated anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative paired with popular dispensational antichrist prophecy, and served to make the combined theme socially acceptable as a religious narrative. Hagee subsequently used some of the same material in his books and sermons, most notably Day of Deception, where he footnotes Robertson numerous times in Part 1, Chapter 3, "Who Controls America?" (Chapters 1 and 2 are titled Witchcraft in the Whitehouse and Who Killed Vince Foster?) Hagee has since surpassed Robertson with his own seamlessly co-mingled blend of antichrist prophecy, revisionist history, and New World Order conspiracy theory which he televises worldwide. Through the use of the antichrist narrative, Hagee can claim to look into a prophetic future of a New World Order where Jews and Catholics, left behind during the Tribulation, are the new fascists and perpetrators of pogroms against persecuted Christians. If you have read the virulent work of New World Order conspiracy theorists, Eustace Mullins and Des Griffin, it becomes clear that while "loving" Israel, Hagee's books and sermons paint a picture of Jews, past, present, and future, that perfectly fits the current anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative. Hagee claims that a coming economic crisis will be intentionally induced by an "unseen government" and a Rothschild owned Federal Reserve, paving the way for the fierce-featured, gay, part-Jewish antichrist who will come to power when he rescues the world economy. In times of economic and political volatility these prophecies and narratives provide simplistic answers and specific scapegoats as the sole source of evil and suffering in the world.