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connection to the place … I get so excited when I hear them talking about the Tabernacle. They know it; they feel it. Some burst into song or prayer at the Tabernacle site, while others take its measurements to see if they correspond to those in Exodus 27.’ Baras describes similar reactions. ‘They're just spellbound. There’s no other word … I’ve seen groups just pray and sing. It’s a whole experience. They join hands in prayer - very spontaneously - because they are so moved by what they see.’ 1174 In the Spring of 2003, Jewish settlers from Gush Eztion, an illegal settlement near Hebron, began organising ‘terror tours’ offering Americans a four day excursion with includes hand to hand combat simulation with terrorists, weapons training from IDF experts including tanks and an F-16, an aerial tour of ‘terrorist enclaves’ and ‘a live-fire simulation of an attack on a settlement’. 1175 Jay Greenwald, founder of Holy Land Concepts Inc. and Regional Coordinator for Gush Etzion, claims, ‘There’s a lot of “wow” factor, like going up in an army helicopter and firing machine guns but it is also aimed at training people in how to deal with terrorist situations.’ The highlight of the tour, Greenwald claims, is a paintball fight in a simulated Arab village, where ‘participants will be able to go room-to-room ‘cleaning out Arab terrorists’ 1176 The politicisation of tourism in the West Bank is evident from Baras’ concern over the influence of Palestinians in the industry. This goes well beyond issues of market share or competition: ‘We are seeing a growing tendency among Christians to use Palestinian tour buses and tour guides. I think it’s very unfortunate for Israel because they’re getting an anti-Israeli message. Tourism is not just economics; tourism is putting on your best face. And the Israeli tour guide is our most important ambassador.’ 1177 CMJ, while essentially a Christian missionary society, also runs its own pro- Zionist tour company, Shoresh Tours, as well as a guest house for pilgrim groups, both based at Christ Church in Jerusalem. 1173 Ibid. 1174 Ibid. 1175 Ed O’Loughlin, ‘Hebron sells itself on terror tourism,’ 8 March (2003) http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826527588.html 1176 ‘Settlers offer West Bank terror tours’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2821391.stm 258
Pilgrimage research has shown that approximately 95% of Western tour groups visiting the Holy Land fail to make any contact with the indigenous Christian community. 1178 While traditional pilgrimage groups are largely indifferent to the existence of an indigenous Christian community and focus on the biblical sites, pro-Israeli groups, drawn predominantly from American fundamentalist churches, visit the Holy Land with an apocalyptic agenda. They see themselves as active participants in what are the ‘Last Days’, showing solidarity with Israel. Kenneth Cragg, former assistant Bishop of Jerusalem, has observed: ‘Local Christians are caught in a degree of museumization. They are aware of tourists who come in great volume from the West to savour holy places but who are, for the most part, blithely disinterested in the people who indwell them. The pain of the indifference is not eased insofar as the same tourism is subtly manipulated to make the case for the entire legitimacy of the statehood that regulates it.’ 1179 The consequences for the indigenous Christian communities are entirely deleterious. The following diagram illustrates the destructive cumulative effects of these Zionist tours. !" #! #! ! " $ % $ # Figure 7: The cumulative effect of Christian Zionist pilgrimages 1180 1177 Ibid. 1178 Stephen Sizer, Visiting the Living Stones, Pilgrimages to the Un-Holy Land. An investigation of the perceptions of British and Palestinian Christians on the subject of pilgrimages to the Holy Land, with particular reference to their impact on the indigenous Anglican Church in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Unpublished thesis submitted in partfulfilment of the requirements of the degree of M.Th. in Applied Theology, University of Oxford, (1994). 1179 Kenneth Cragg, The Arab Christian, (London, Mowbray, 1992). 1180 Stephen Sizer, ‘Render to Caesar – the politics of pilgrimage tourism to the Holy 259
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 7
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4. Eretz Israel: Reclaiming Judea,
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Chapter 1: Introduction ‘As the n
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entitled, Die Nationale Wiedergebur
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war pre-State period. A fortiori, i
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Conference on Racism held in Durban
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would suggest that Christians … m
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eligious broadcaster, to describe d
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Americans such as Jerry Falwell, 63
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5. The State of Research into Chris
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approach to issues such as the rela
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Chapter 2: The Historical Roots of
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major paradigm shift in popular thi
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false prophet), having formed an un
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‘Though we do not know the time i
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‘The First Napoleon’s Edict pub
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Zionism in the literary field’. 1
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As the postmillennialism of the Ref
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interest in Jewish Restorationism.
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‘But still richer benefits will f
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Arabic, Hebrew, Chaldean, Persian a
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culmination of God’s purposes for
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would return to set up his millenni
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Frere insisted that the prophetic p
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convinced, and resolved, though alo
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on earth, a blessing to the whole w
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speak of the Arabian Jews as their
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have made such a valedictory statem
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fundamental reason for which it is
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ecome completely corrupted; the dis
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the Rothschilds was negotiating wit
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diversity of opinion existed within
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‘When these lectures were first p
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ecome the first political leader to
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Master, over Jerusalem, nor prays t
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Samuel Gobat, a Swiss Lutheran. The
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missionaries in France and Germany,
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eward. In the same speech given bef
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achievement of this object and will
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ambiguities which have plagued Midd
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influence on end-time thinking was
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among other religious sects on the
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here and in fifty years they will b
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Zionists in America, like Hechler i
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‘Why not give Palestine back to t
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Theodor Herzl by five years in his
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the pattern of Bible readings and p
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Oxford University Press as The New
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Gaebelein has also at times been ac
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Sultan. The great movement is one o
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conservative evangelical position o
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non-profit American agencies in the
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fundamentalists and evangelicals. 4
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In 1976, described as ‘the year o
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ever in the future, Israel were abo
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about conservation? Why waste time
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Christian public the reasons for th
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‘I will never forget the time, Ap
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adio and TV, Lindsey has a regular
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political and religious far Right,
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headquarters in Jerusalem and colla
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11.2 Jews for Jesus: Messianic Disp
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for Peace, under the leadership of
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ias against Israel.’ 593 In the U
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its monthly News Letter and website
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LaHaye, Messianic agencies such as
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thesis. 611 For an appraisal of dev
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accepted even within Brethren circl
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the first, Noah I shall be very bri
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principles, much obscurity appears
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Similarly, in his introduction to t
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non-Christians, whether Jews or Gen
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College of Bible: Clarence Mason, S
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instance, that the Church did not b
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Church.’ 689 The premise that the
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highlights the way New Testament wr
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Communism in 1970 to Islam Fundamen
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Kenneth Barker, the editor of the N
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M.R. DeHann (1946) Hal Lindsey (197
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11:40-45 is similarly imaginative,
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Without any substantiation Lindsey
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1820s and 1830s. These were given p
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system of dispensations and led him
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other is related to heaven with hea
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For Scofield, ‘legal obedience’
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lifted up by God for all nations to
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hands.’ Although Brickner forcefu
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Jewish people in the grace of God b
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12 that this promise of blessing an
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from Mount Sinai and bears children
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would follow their restoration to t
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see their God, worship Him only, an
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fulfilment can be reconciled with t
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divine purpose for this age, and fo
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places at the feast with Abraham, I
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still apply. An examination of the
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with Jews for Jesus, together with
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faithful remnant. 894 John Stott co
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Jerusalem, sees the prediction Jesu
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‘The Bible also makes clear that
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ways. So, for example, Peter speaks
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Jews. 926 Some 20 years later Time
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Glossary Aliyah A Hebrew word meani
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Idealism The symbolic interpretatio
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