Terror in Gaza and Israel: The End Times Theology Fuelling Genocide
Palestinians and Israelis are suffering immensely right now. More than 1,000 people were slaughtered by Hamas in Israel over a week ago. In response, Palestinians in Gaza are facing possible genocide at the hands of the Israeli government. Many Palestinians have been murdered in the West Bank this past week as well.
All of this violence is unjustifiable. Israeli citizens are not the IDF. They should never have been targets. Palestinians are not Hamas. They should not be targets now. And yet we are witnessing war crimes playing out in real time alongside the silent complicity or even the explicit backing of several Western governments.
A large part of the blame stoking these flames of violence, war, and genocide in Israel-Palestine must be laid at the feet of American evangelicalism. Most of the unconditional support in the US for the Israeli government has come from American evangelicals rather than from American Jews. Why? Because of End Times theology.
It’s way too complicated to go through every point right now, so I’ll try to summarize with the Spark Notes version. Basically, a huge percentage of evangelicals think that a bunch of biblical prophecies have to be fulfilled to bring about the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Evangelical churches and…
