Evangelicals' Support for Israel Linked to Dispensationalism

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In Short: Evangelicals in the United States support Israel due to the influence of dispensationalism, a theological interpretation of end-time prophecy.

Evangelicals in the United States have long supported Israel, driven by the theological framework of dispensationalism, a literalist interpretation of end-time prophecy.

This belief, rooted in the work of John Darby, posits that God is working with two distinct groups—Israel and the Christian church—under separate covenants.

According to reports, many among the 78 million evangelicals in the U.S. have supported Israel in recent Middle East conflicts, believing that Old Testament prophecies foretelling Israel's future successes will soon be fulfilled.

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As Jews from all over the world began to return to Israel, they became convinced that the prophecy of Jeremiah had started to become reality: Dispensationalism has become popular in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries because of its literalist interpretation of end-time prophecy.
“ ‘Therefore behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that it shall no more be said, “The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,” but, “The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.
A deeply devout evangelical Christian who has recently written on this subject has suggested that the successes of the current U.S.-Israeli coalition are the prelude to the fulfillment of the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39.
Evangelical support for Israel can be traced back to John Darby and the hermeneutics of dispensationalism.

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