Hagee says that "the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as the Messiah," that, "Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah," and that, "Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah." These comments and others demonstrate the danger of the Christian Zionist movement in changing the Gospel in order to defend Jewish people.
Privately with His disciples Jesus asked, "But whom say ye that I am?" And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 16:15-17). In another private conversation with the woman at the well, the woman said to Jesus, "I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." Jesus said to her, "I that speak unto thee am he" (John 4:25,26). When under oath before the Jewish leaders, the high priest asked him, and said to him, "Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61,62). When the Jews round about him, and said to him, "How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly," Jesus answered them, "I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me" (John 10:24,25). Jesus' public claims about being the Messiah may not be as plentiful as most Christians think, but Hagee's claims dangerously contradict what Jesus clearly said and taught.
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