Blackstone authored a document titled “Palestine for the Jews,” which is now usually referred to as the “Blackstone Memorial.” In part, it states, “What shall be done for the Russian Jews? ... Where shall 2,000,000 of such poor people go? ... Why not give Palestine back to them again? According to God’s distribution of nations it is their home; an inalienable possession from which they were expelled by force.”
"Among the many tributes to Charlie Kirk, one came from the prime minister of Israel. This is not so surprising since Kirk, an evangelical Christian, strongly supported Israel. In other words, he was a “Christian Zionist.”
"Nevertheless, current widespread anti-Israel political ferment has led a number of people to treat Christian Zionism as a fringe ideology of relatively recent origin. For instance, Tucker Carlson and movie actor and director Kirk Cameron have spoken of Christian Zionism as a lamentable aberration.
"However, Christian Zionism is not the product of recent invention. It stands on centuries of Christian philosemitic thought, which also often envisioned a future rebirth of the state of Israel. In particular, British and American evangelicals led the way in this movement. They included not only those who held to a dispensationalist view of the second coming of Christ, but also those committed to contending views about the future of the world.
"In his book The Origins of Christian Zionism, Donald Lewis considers this beyond question: “Evangelical Protestantism was undoubtedly the single most important factor in growing and sustaining philosemitism and Christian Zionism in the English-speaking world.” For example, the Puritans generally viewed Jews in a positive light, as Iain Murray explains in his book The Puritan Hope. Reflecting that mindset, the Anglican writer Thomas Draxe (d. 1618), who was strongly influenced by the prominent Puritan William Perkins, reprimanded Christians for having enmity toward Jews: “We must not roughly ... contemme the Jeweses, nor expelle them out of our coasts and countries but hope well of them [and] pray for them[.]” . . .More...
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