Jerusalem and the end times

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This article is interesting…as a former Pentecostal it’s one of the things we believed leading up to the rapture and the battle of Armageddon before the return of Christ…that two prominent Evangelical leaders were invited to attend the opening ceremony is not just coincidental…millions of Americans…including Catholics…believe that by siding with Israel then God will bless this nation…that’s not fiction…that’s fact…even politicians here in the US…almost to every man and woman don’t dare criticize Israel because of this belief that we are central to Gods plan for the soon to be end times…this false belief has permeated most denominations here in the US…including many Catholics…our current President has surrounded himself with Evangelical leaders who follow this same false doctrine…the next move will be rebuilding the Temple…that will be the precursor to Armageddon…and there are many Christians who are not only praying for this to happen…but actually believe that the US will actively bring this about…think I’m joking…ask your Evangelical (or even some Catholic) friends if they see this as another fulfillment of bible prophesy of the end times.
 
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President Trump’s son is also Jewish and i assume his grandchildren are being raised
Jewish. I think this has to do more with the history of Israel than fulfilling any prophecy. President Trump does not want to usher in the end times.
 
Many of Evangelicalism’s ‘founders’ were Zionists. From anti-slavery activists to preachers. Methodism’s founders John and Charles Wesley. Anglicans William Wilberforce and JC Ryle. Puritan Jonathan Edwards. Baptist Charles Spurgeon.
 
This seems excessive to me. I know lots of Evangelicals and Fundamentalists (not quite the same thing, though there is some overlap) and that “restoration of the temple” thing is not held by all, by any means. It’s an “out there” kind of fringe belief, like the rapture.

And I don’t know a single Catholic who has ever said it.

I do support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, but not because of any of that. I don’t want to see the Israelis killed, and that’s exactly what will happen if the Arabs get the upper hand there.

I also think it’s an admirable people that brought themselves from absolutely nothing to a tiny but accomplished nation. And they’re probably the Number One source of Middle East intelligence for this country.

Israel could rebuild the temple if they wanted to do it. But they don’t. I’m no expert on Judaism, but I think a lot of Jews consider this to be a “post-Temple” era.
 
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There are ‘shades’ of it. But the media focuses on one particular version of course because Evangelicals deserve slander.
 
In recent years a Jerusalem group has revived the custom of animal sacrifices at Passover. This year, for the first time, the group was authorized to hold its ceremony at a site adjacent to the Temple Mount.

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Activists carry out Passover Sacrifice ritual at foot of Temple Mount

The ceremony, that included that slaughtering of a lamb and a demonstration of the work of the Kohanim, was attended by senior national-religious rabbis.
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The “out there”…“rapture” fringe belief is held by two pastors who were chosen to pray a blessing at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem…both pastors…Haggee and Jeffress. are on the Trump evangelical advisory council…both are premillennialists who believe in both the rapture and the rebuilding of the temple…both have been critical of the Catholic church…Haggee was forced to apologize for referencing the Catholic treatment of Jews…also for calling the Catholic church the “Apostate church”…and “the great whore”…he did apologize for all those things to Bill Donohue after finding out the truth about Catholic - Jewish relations…Jeffress has called the Catholic church “an instrument of Satan”…I wouldn’t consider it “excessive” that these two prominent pastors were chosen as part of the Trump delegation to give a prayerful blessing at the opening of the embassy…I would call it a deliberate act of their interpretation of end times prophesies…interestingly VP Pence draws biblical parallels between the US and Israel…he is also a believer in the rapture…don’t get me wrong…I fully support the right of Israel to exist…the right to defend itself and the rights of the Jewish people…I’m more concerned with not a small number of Christians mainly here in the US who would like nothing better than fulfill bible prophesy as they understand it.

 
Yes, the protestant Evangelical groups sometimes produce some weird characters. I didn’t say I support either one of those gentlemen. I grew up with Oral Roberts faking cures on TV and the KKK and the Masons having the same membership rolls.

But I also grew up seeing Billy Graham on TV. Him I respected, protestant though he was.

Regardless, those millenialists are still a minority. And around here, at least, EVangelicals are beginning to realize Catholics are their natural allies, not enemies. The world HQ of the Assemblies of God is right here, and they partner with Catholic prolife groups and charitable work.
 
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