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Evangelical
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Christians
Aid Israel
A
fter Gershon Solomon spoke in
Orlando recently about rebuilding
the Temple in Jerusalem, a woman
approached him and gave him a gold
watch.
"Here, take it. This is the gold for the
Temple. Take it to Jerusalem," Solomon
recalls that the woman told him.
Solomon is leader of the Temple
Mount Faithful, a Jerusalem-based
group dedicated to rebuilding the
Temple. He recently conducted a six-
week fund-raising tour of North
America, during which he spoke almost
exclusively to Christian audiences.
Solomon's visit, one of several that
Christians organized for him in the
past few years, comes as Christian-
Jewish alliances and, in particular,
evangelical Christian support for
Jewish causes, continues to grow.
The end of centuries is often fertile
ground for apocalyptic movements, but
as the year 2000 approaches, this is the
first time that so many Christians and
Jews have worked so closely together,
according to Boston University history
professor Dr. Richard Landes, head of
BU's Center for Millennial Studies.
Political changes, such as the estab-
lishment of the Jewish state and the
recapture of eastern Jerusalem, have led
to a groundswell of support for Israel
among fundamentalist Christians — of
whom there are an estimated 40 mil-
lion in America, according to Landes.
He called it one of the most unusual
and powerful alliances in modernity."
This support has made some Jews
uneasy "During apocalyptic times,
Christians have a tendency to be philo-
Semitic," said Landes. "They believe that
if they love Jews, they will convert. That's
the equivalent of a high school crush."
But alliances between fundamental-
ist Christians and their Jewish partners
could prove disastrous if the coming
apocalypse fails to meet the Christians'
expectations,•according to Landes.
"When the disillusionment comes,
you end up with apocalyptic scape-
goating, 'We weren't wrong — the
Jews have betrayed us again,"' he said.
Landes has traced what he believes
to be some of the earliest anti-Jewish
pogroms in Europe to disappointment
over the failure of an apocalypse in the
year 1000.
The specifics of the so-called End
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS on page 16