Sunday, December 10th, 2017
Stephan: Are you actively expecting the Battle of Armageddon? Probably not. But the Christofascist pre-millennial dispensationalist fundamentalist world is obsessed with the idea of end times. That's why they support Israel, and are so keen to see Trump make Jerusalem the capitol of Israel by moving the American embassy there. They want the chaos and battle that is occurring, want it to get worse, much worse.
The rest of the world thinks this is one of the stupidest geopolitical moves in memory, and I agree. But then I'm not expecting to see Jesus descending from the clouds.
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In a Pensacola, Florida rally Friday evening, Republican state Senator Doug Broxson suggested to supporters of Donald Trump that the president’s controversial decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may usher in the biblical end times.
“Now, I don’t know about you, but when I heard about Jerusalem — where the King of Kings [applause] where our soon coming King is coming back to Jerusalem, it is because President Trump declared Jerusalem to be capital of Israel,” Broxson predicted. The crowd cheered.
This week, theological scholar Dr. Diana Butler Bass wrote a Twitter thread explaining the link between recognition of Jerusalem, evangelical Christians, and the apocalypse. That is important because rebuilding the Temple is the event that will spark the events of the Book of Revelation and the End Times.”
According to Bass, the counsel of evangelical adviser that Trump surrounds himself with take such “End Times” prophecies literally
“Of all the possible theological dog-whistles to his evangelical base, this is the biggest,” […]
