Evangelicals basically don't understand what the heck their Bible is talking about when it comes to the Jews.
>80 percent of evangelicals believed that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ’s return.
Funny how hard "double-fulfillment" of prophecy took a huge leap in the last 100 years. Like everyone is rabid to say "well previous prophecy was almost fulfilled or basically fulfilled but they're a vague unexpected new fulfillment coming too!"
Prophecy is very simple. I think it works not only as a indicator of future events but also as a way God essentially "proves himself" to make it easier for us which also alongside it seems to describe events in their spiritual sense.
But Evangelicals are not content with this, there must be more senses, there must be more meaning! Whoever can wretch more spiritualizing out of the Bible and synthesize it into some blub of "deeper meaning" is suddenly more Christian than the guy who takes the simpler more "literal" approach. And by literal we can understand the degree to which someone will "stretch the text".
The gap between jewish interpretation and "Christian" interpretation lessens each passing year.
>The LifeWay poll also asked evangelical respondents what factors contribute to their support for the state of Israel. More than 6 in 10 cited God’s pledge to Abraham.
Did we forget that Christ fulfilled the Covenant? Or that hebrews talks about it fading away? Fading away after 2000 years and still going strong…surely this was what Paul meant.
I congratulate Evangelicals on their ability to not only take a rabbinical grinder to the Bible but the ability to postulate that it is the only "common sense and purely literal" interpretation of it.
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>Mark of the beast is a microchip
Hahaha, good one anon.