The Evangelicals Who Think Iran’s Protests Mean Jesus Is Returning – Mother Jones

Broadly speaking—though there are certainly exceptions—many of the most ardent supporters of Trump's decision to bomb Iran identify as Christian Zionists, a group that believes that Israel and the Jewish people will play a key role in bringing about the second coming of the Messiah. As Christians, they are called to hasten this scenario, says Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore and author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy. "The mission, so to speak, is to get the Jews back to Israel and to establish themselves within Israel," he says. "Then you fulfill the preconditions, or one of the preconditions, for the second coming."… 

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