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Fight my ignorance here, but isn’t the modern day Israel not the same as the one talked about in the bible?
And isn’t Israel comprised of a Jewish majority, and not Christian? So why would a Christian activist care if the UN was double crossing Israel?
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Welcome to the world of Christian Zionism…
First, unless one thinks that most modern-day Jews are descendents of the medieval Khazarite converts to Judaism or some other converted group, the Jews of the present State of Israel are indeed mainly decended from the Biblical Israelites.
Second, many evangelical Christians believe that God has a destiny for the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, which will ultimately result in their accepting Jesus as Messiah, which will then result in even greater blessings for the world.
This seems to be indicated by Paul in Romans 9-11. They also believe that Christians are called to repent of the Church’s past persecutions of the Jews
and support the State of Israel. Support for the State of Israel has been a major foreign policy stance of the U.S. Christian Right for the past 30 years.
Now, a great many of these Christians, like Jack Chick, John Hagee, Tim LaHaye, believe this restoration of Israel/the Jewish people will be the outcome of the ordeal of the AntiChrist & his defeat by the return of Jesus. Some, not as visible yet, however see other less-Apocalyptic & more optimistic possibilities, even perhaps involving the evangelism & national cohesion of Palestinians.
And yes, I’m essentially a Christian Zionist, formerly a Rapturist one, now a more
Hopeful & less belligerent one… most days.
