On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend

by Timothy P. Weber (Author)

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Why do evangelicals care so much about Israel? How did this special relationship develop? What has it produced? Certain understandings of Bible prophecy have profoundly shaped the way evangelicals and other Americans view Israel and the political policies that have supported the Jewish state. Now in paperback, this major work on an ever timely theme is for anyone interested in American-Israeli relations, history, theology, and politics. "Timothy Weber's important and timely book illuminates the end-times beliefs that shape millions of Americans' view of current events. Well-researched and historically grounded . . . This disturbing work deserves the widest possible readership."--Paul S. Boyer, author, When Time Shall Be No More

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Timothy P. Weber (Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School) is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baker Academic (October 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801031427
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801031427
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches

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Cheryl Mason

A Dispensational Expert!

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2017

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I cannot believe this book has been around since 2004 and I've only just discovered it. It would have to be one of the most comprehensive books I've read on the topic of Dispensationalism. Now I can honestly say I understand Dispensationalism, yippee!
This author is truly an expert on the topic. Every paragraph, every chapter, is filled with detail. How can one man know so much? I kept asking myself. I made notes, jotted down references, highlighting verses, I couldn't put this book down, I had to finish it. In the end I pretty much highlighted the entire book!
It's a must read for all those interested in current world events. It's never easy to understand the support Evangelicals have for Israel, but this book helps. They are in fact the glue that binds America and Israel together. What kind of a world would we be living in if this movement didn't eventuate? I think a much more peaceful one, not the authors opinion, but mine. They have added fuel to the Middle East fire and have turned Israel and the Jews into a god on earth, in doing so they have replaced the preaching of the Gospel with a love and adoration for Israel that is incomprehensible.
The lost, the lost, millions of souls perish while this love affair continues...How will we answer God on the day of Judgement? We became distracted from the one and only commission. The Great Commission, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."

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R. Jarvis

An Excellent Read and Well Researched

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012

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This is a well-written and nicely researched overview of how Evangelicalism became so tied to the cause of Israel beginning in the 1950s after the founding of the modern Jewish state. The roots of this tie go back to the 1800s and the beginnings of dispensationalist theology and came to full flower beginning in the 1950s during the Cold War. The somewhat odd marriage of American fundamentalist evangelicals and the hawkish elements in Israeli society is mapped out with care to note the paradoxical nature of this marriage of convenience that sometimes requires one side to ignore the end goal of the other side that will require the destruction of the modern Jewish state as a fulfillment of prophecy. It's a fascinating read and a good one for anyone trying to get a handle on the relationship between American evangelicals and Israel.

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Vincent Salonia

It is an excellent primer for anyone seeking to understand the phenomenon of ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015

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It is an excellent primer for anyone seeking to understand the phenomenon of 'Pre-Millennial -Dispensationism', an eschatology that dominates the Evangelical church today. While the Pre-Millennial position can be found early in church history, the "dispensational" twist is a reality new phenomenon. This is something I don't believe is widely known.

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ZZ TOP

Pence is VP so read this book now!

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2018

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Fantastic! The best book on a very forbidden topic. A must read. One of many ways political power must be understood.

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This is a most interesting study. It starts a ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2015

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This is a most interesting study. It starts a bit slowly, but the latter parts of it - on the interplay between the israeli government and American dispensationalists, makes for disturbing reading.

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Archibald L. J. Hall

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Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015

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Dr. Weber is a scholar who is understood.

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A historical overview of dispensationalism.

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2008

I found this book to be informative and well researched.
The author examines the diversity of premillenialist's beliefs as well as dispensational beliefs. The key issue in "On the road to Armageddon" is their support for the state of Israel,particularly in light of their Biblical interpretation of Armageddon.

Some of the highlights for me were:
The Plymouth Brethren. Who they were and the manipulation of the crucifixion date in relation to Artaxerxe's decree.

The source of the rapture theory. Most likely from Margaret MacDonald, a "prophetess" from Scotland. John Darby's oppurtunism as an early proponent of the rapture theory.
"According to recent theory,Darby returned home totally against the so-called outpouring of the Holy Spirit but convinced that Maragaret MacDonald's view of the rapture was true."-page 24.

Premillenialism as well as postmillenialism and other branches of eschatological belief are based on interpretation of Scripture. This paves the way for "proof texting",cherry-picking and avoidance of interpreting Scripture while considering context.

The effect that "higher criticism" had on strenghening the dispensational movement.

The origin of identifying Scriptural "Gog" as Russia and why it is very likely wrong.

The Presbyterian church's missionary work among Jews between the World Wars draws a striking paralell to messianic judaism of today. Retaining Biblical holy days and Old Testament law(Torah) while accepting Yehusha as Savior or Messiah. The author provided a historical overview of messianic judaism as well.

This is the first I have read of a potential,future "bloodless" temple.
I find it hypocritical that any Christian would advocate a future temple that would reinstate animal sacrifice.

An excellent book on the subject. "Forcing God's Hand" by Grace Halsell is another very good book on the subject,but I would recommend this book more.

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Noah

finding the wood amongst the trees

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2010

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I was pleasantly surprised to discover such a really well researched and balanced handling of a sensitive subject - that of the relationship between Evangelicals and Israel.

As a young man in church I was told that we were to believe various things about `the last days' many of which hinged on the statehood of Israel and their return to the `promised land' in 1948. Much of this I had to accept because I was told it was true, even though some of it ran rings around accepted Christian doctrine and often contradicted itself. For example, I was told we had to do everything to help the Jews of the diaspora return to the Holy Land. I was also told that as soon as the Jews were settled there would be a terrible war that will kill most of them. I never understood why we were supposed to herd them all into a place where they would die, when we had grown up trying to learn the lessons of the holocaust!

The confusion that was induced for me by dispensationalist teachings is somewhat clarified by Timothy Weber's excellent handling of the topic. He doesn't tell the reader what to believe, but he does give an academically rigorous treatment of the history of dispensationalist teaching starting with Darby and Schofield and reaching as far George W. Bush.

This book is all about giving a context to the relatively new `end times' teachings that have proliferated in the 19th and 20th centuries, that are now part of much of our evangelical thinking.

Whenever we get to a point where we aren't allowed to sit back and examine what we believe we are in danger of manipulation and being misled. This book is helpful because it gives the reader a context in which doctrines can be examined as to whether they are Biblical or fanciful.

Without doubt this book will be more helpful in understanding the background to end times prophecies than any single volume of the' Left Behind' series which it refers to.

The author is a past President of Memphis Theological Seminary.

It must be said that whilst being academic and having a huge bibliography and many pages of endnotes, this is an eminently readable volume. Either the author has done a good job or there is something very sad about the way I devoured it.

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