Allies for Armageddon

I just published a review of Victoria Clark’s excellent and important book Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism.

This book details the historical development of Christian Zionism dating back to early modern England and the Puritans. She discusses Christian Zionism in colonial America, it’s reinvention in the 19th century, and it’s growth in the 20th century.

Regardless of your theological or political views, you should check this book out. Christian Zionism is a major player as the political wing of Premillennial Dispensationalism. It stirs the drink of people like John Hagee, Jack Van Impe, Tim LaHaye and others. It is not a peaceful movement, as it anticipates and works for a global war to bring about what it considers to be the Second Coming of Christ.

The Transmillennial view is diametrically opposed to Christian Zionism. Transmillennialism does not hold a “God-at-war” mentality. Instead, it seeks to help people realize that God loves all people and is not planning to wipe out the majority of humanity. Ironically, Dispensationalism says it loves Israel, but it predicts that 2/3 of all Jews will be killed in Armageddon and all Jews who don’t convert will be sent to Hell. That doesn’t sound very pro-Israel to me.

You can read my review when you click here.