Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times - Conscious Evolution TV

132robin-bobin Rapture, Revelation, and the End Timestheology has stirred among its adherents in relation to the Jews,as well as the frustrations evangelicals have developed in dealingwith the Jewish people. Being an evangelical best-seller, theseries popularizes and shapes the views on Jews among a newgeneration of conservative American Christians. Although LeftBehind represents conservative evangelical premillennialist convictionsregarding the Jews and their role in history, the series ofnovels also introduces some changes in the image of the Jews.Maintaining some standard evangelical stereotypes of Jews, itattempts, nonetheless, to present a more sympathetic picture ofJews than previously portrayed by evangelical writers. In general,Jews in the novels are shown as an errant but not evil people,and as righteous and constructive beings when they finallydiscover the truth and recognize their savior. The first step inanalyzing the place of the Jews in the novel is to examine therole of the Jews in evangelical messianic theology.Left Behind, Evangelical MessianicTheology, and the JewsThe evangelical theological standing toward the Jews asexpressed in Left Behind seems at first glance to be ambivalent,if not outright self-contradictory. Adhering to a messianic premillennialistfaith, evangelical Christians view the Jews as thechildren of Israel, the Chosen People, heirs to the covenantbetween God and Israel, and the object of biblical propheciesabout a restored Davidic kingdom in the messianic times. At thesame time, evangelical Christians have expressed disappointmentover what they have seen as the Jewish unwillingness torecognize Jesus as Lord and savior, and the Jews’ refusal tounderstand their role and mission in God’s plans for redemption.In the evangelical dispensationalist messianic theology thatLaHaye and Jenkins promote, God has different plans for threecategories of human beings: the Jews, the church, and the rest ofhumanity. Premillennialist evangelicals define the church not asa specific denomination, but rather as the body of the trueChristians believers, an invisible entity composed of those whorobin-bobin