R56 Christians and Zion

Christian Zionism grew out of a particular theological system called “premillennial  dispensationalism,” which emerged during the early 19th century in England, when there was an outpouring of millennial doctrines. The preaching and writings of a renegade  Irish clergyman, John Nelson Darby, and a Scotsman, Edward Irving, emphasized the  literal and future fulfillment of such Biblical teachings as “the rapture,” the rise of the  Antichrist, the Battle of Armageddon and the central role that a revived nation-state  of Israel would play during the latter days.     Christian Zionism is the direct product of this unusual and recent Western form of  Protestant theology.  Found primarily in North America and England, it is now exported  around the globe via satellite television, the internet, best-selling novels such as the Left  Behind series, films and a new breed of missionaries. These unique doctrines were found among fringe movements in Christianity throughout the ages, which most Catholic, Eastern  Orthodox and Protestant churches regarded as extreme and marginal, if not heretical.

Table of Contents
1. Christians and Zion ............................................................................ 1
2. Christian Zionists, Israel and the ‘ second coming’ ............... 6
3. Bible and sword: US Christian Zionists discover Israel ........ 11
4. The interregnum: Christian Zionism in the Clinton years ... 17                                            5. A heavenly match: Bush and the Christian Zionists ............. 22 
6. The Kabbalist Roots of Christian Zionism ................................ 27
7. Does the Kjv Av-1611 Refute Dispensational Theology ..... 42
8. The Terrible Error of the Scofield Bible ..................................... 52