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

160robin-bobin Rapture, Revelation, and the End TimesLaHaye and Jenkins, Jews hate Jesus, 144,400 Jews become,during the great tribulation, the most dedicated and relentlesslyeffective promoters of Jesus’ messiahship.Premillennialist evangelists such as LaHaye and Jenkins havetaken a great interest in the realities of Jewish existence. In the latterdecades of the twentieth century, they became Israel’s mosteager tourists and the religious cultural group that interacts morethan any other with the Jews. Such growing intimacy has modifiedevangelical views and improved evangelical opinions on Jews. Asurvey conducted in the early 1960s discovered that conservativeProtestants were more likely to hold prejudices against Jews thanmore liberal Protestants or Roman Catholics. 72 A similar survey,conducted by the Anti-Defamation League in the mid-1980s, discovered,however, a remarkable decline in evangelical negativeopinions on Jews. 73 This has been due, in no small measure, to thedramatic growth in evangelical Christian encounters with Israeland with Jews in the wake of the 1967 war. The growth of theJewish community in the American Bible Belt since the 1970s alsohas contributed to that trend. Although previously evangelicalsread about Jews in the New Testament or heard about them insermons, between the 1970s and the 2000s millions of evangelicalshave met Jewish friends or colleagues, have taken tours toIsrael, have met with Israeli officials, and many have spent time inkibbutzim or in evangelical educational programs in Israel.The theme of the novel notwithstanding, Left Behind is notnecessarily about the future; it is very much about the presentand serves as an excellent source to reveal the evangelical attitudestoward almost all aspects of contemporary culture andworld order: from married life to the United Nations. The seriesreveals the evangelical understanding toward Israel and theJews, as a misguided nation, yet one that is destined to return toits biblically promised position as God’s first nation. The Jewishcharacters in the novel and its sequels, from Chaim Rosenzweigto Moshe and Eli, the Wailing Wall preachers, to Rabbi TsionBen-Judah, a leader of Tribulation Force, come to convey thedifferent aspects of the evangelical understanding of the Jews,their merits and limitations.robin-bobin