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16 Detroit Jewish News
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Time can vary, but the scenario goes
usually something like this: Jesus
returns to earth and has a seven-year
battle with the forces of the Antichrist.
It is during this time that the "infi-
dels" are slaughtered. Christians,
including all those who have convert-
ed, are spared the battle because they
will be "raptured" — taken directly to
heaven — before the fighting begins.
After Jesus' forces triumph, he rules
for 1,000 years, after which the final
battle between good and evil — the
Armageddon — occurs. God then
destroys the forces of evil, and the
final judgment takes place.
Christian support for Israel has trans-
lated to real dollars in recent years. This
year alone, evangelical Christians will
give approximately $10 million to fund
Jewish immigration to Israel through tra-
ditional American Jewish philanthropy.
Perhaps the most prominent Jewish-
Christian alliance is the Interfaith
Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
According to its founder, Rabbi
Yechiel Eckstein, it has donated
more than $20 million to the Jewish
Agency for Israel during the past
five years to help resettle Jews from
Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union
in Israel. The group has an estimated
130,000 donors, 95 percent of them
Christians, Eckstein said.
On Solomon's six-week trip, which
included stops in Ohio, Texas, Florida,
Idaho and Detroit, Christian families
hosted Solomon.
"I was excited again and again at
how many Christians in this country
love Israel," said Solomon.
Solomon and his hosts share a core
set of beliefs: a hawkish view toward
Israel's security, a belief that the apoca-
lypse is nearing, if not imminent, and a
Bible-derived love for the Jewish state.
"I'm happy to love Israel and happy
to love the Jews because the Bible tells
me to," said Dick Saulsbury of
Odessa, Tex., one of Solomon's hosts.
He admitted that he and Solomon
don't see eye to eye on what will hap-
pen if the apocalypse does begin.
Saulsbury said the differences between
him and Solomon "bother me some,"
adding, "We would love" for the Jews
"to become Christian, but that's
between them and God."
Both men prefer to focus on their
common love for Israel.
"Their eyes are lifted toward
Jerusalem, and they are so jealous" of
Jews living in the Holy Land, said
Solomon. "That's what missing in the
Jewish community."
— Peter Ephross/JTA