The idea that the Jewish people should or would be restored to their homeland is not present in Christianity for its first fifteen hundred years. Both the Catholic and Orthodox churches saw the church itself as being a spiritual Israel, and that Jesus Christ had extended God’s covenant with the Jews to all people. This changed after the Reformation, when the Bible was translated and people started interpreting it in all sorts of idiosyncratic ways. 

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Notes

A Short History of Christian Zionism, by Donald Lewis: https://tinyurl.com/y77zvac4

The Scofield Bible—The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians, by Maidhc Ó Cathail https://www.wrmea.org/2015-october/the-scofield-bible-the-book-that-made-zionists-of-americas-evangelical-christians.html

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, by Gareth Porter:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8z26m8

The Donald’s Latest Iranian Caper – Sh*t-Faced Stupidity, by David Stockman:

https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2019/06/25/the-donalds-latest-iranian-caper-sht-faced-stupidity/

GOP Blank Check for War?, by Patrick J. Buchanan:

https://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/08/02/gop-blank-check-for-war/

AIPAC Cheers an Anti-Semitic Holocaust Revisionist, by Max Blumenthal:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aipac-cheers-an-antisemit_b_43377