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.

Matthew 25 Remix

And the King said to those on his right hand, “Come, you blessed of my father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you; for when I suffered hunger in the Sahara droughts, you gave me food. When the river was polluted, you dug me a well. When my ethnic group faced genocide, you protected me.

“When I lived under a bridge, you took me in. When I was addicted to meth, you cleaned me up. When I was in prison, you visited me. When I had HIV/AIDS, you give me medicine. When I had an abortion, you comforted me. When I was aborted, you mourned me.

“When terrorists bombed me, you worked for justice. When governments held me without cause, you kept vigil for me. When forced from my ancestral home, you housed me. When my family was blown up on a bus, you wept for me.
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