CHRISTIAN ZIONISM DEFINED PART 8

It was also in the mid-1800s that Haskalah(the jewish enlightenment movement) arose. It’s underpinnings can be traced to Moses Mendelssohn, who wanted to liberate the Jews from a ghetto lifestyle and introduce them into secular society. He translated the Torah into German, although it was written in Hebrew letters come with a Hebrew commentary called the Blur. He campaigned for liberation and encouraged Jews to establish ties with the Gentile governments . Mendelssohn was yet another champion for cultural assimilation,as was the creator of Modern Hewbrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and journalist, Lev Lavanda, amoung others.

Lavanda’s affinity for absorption was severely challenged when the Russians launched pogroms against the Jews on the last day of Passover in 1881. Realizing it would be also impossible for his fella Jews to be totally at home in a foreign land, He implored them to “go now to the only land in which we will find relief for our souls that have been harassed by murderers for these thousands of years. Our beginning will be small, but in the end we will flourish.” Like King David in exile,he may have wondered, how shall we sing the Lords song in a foreign land?

Those who march under the banner of Christian Zionism are simply declaring the faithfulness of God to keep His covenant from generation to generation. God promised the land to the children of Israel as their birth-right. Although they have been dispersed throughout the nations as punishment from turning from God, the birthright, the covenant, has never been revoked. The land belongs to the Jewish people.

The term” Christian Zionism’ is an abomination to secular humanists, who believe that terriosts are simply” freedom fighters” trying to wrest Jerusalem and the land of Israel from the interlopers- the Jews. Christians Zionist are most often conservative Evangelical Protestants who believe the Old Testament regarding Gods covenant with Abraham and his descendants. They see a very clear separation between the State of Israel and the Church. For decades, these Men and Women have championed the return of the Jews to the Promised Land. Simply defined, Zionism is the conviction that the Jewish people have a right to return to the land God declaired would be theirs; Christian Zionists, then, can further be defined as those Believers who support that biblical right.

Professor Faydra Shapiro wrote:

It would not be an understatement to suggest that many in the mainstream media and academic world would find Christian Zionism to be both” too Christian and too Zionist” for their own tastes.

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