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For example, during a 1999 sermon, Falwell discussed his interpretation of end-times prophecy, widely shared by Christian Zionist evangelicals, that the Second Coming would follow not just the creation of the state of Israel but the construction of a Third Temple on the Temple Mount, from which a figure known to Christians as the “Antichrist” would reign. In responding to his own rhetorical question as to whether the Antichrist is “alive and well today,” Falwell stated that “Probably because when he appears during the tribulation period he will be a full-grown counterfeit of Christ. Of course, he’ll be Jewish.”Falwell’s comments were <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/1999/01/22/falwell-antichrist-remark-sparks-anti-semitism-charges/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">immediately condemned</a> by a variety of Jewish groups, including the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Rabbi Leon Klenicki, then-director of interfaith affairs for the ADL, noted that Falwell’s view is a “common theological position” among American evangelicals and that Falwell was “an influential voice among evangelical and charismatic Christians” who “only supports Israel for his own Christological ends.” “He sees us only as the ones who prepare the coming of Jesus,” Klenicki <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/1999/01/22/falwell-antichrist-remark-sparks-anti-semitism-charges/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">stated </a>at the time. “It is a great disappointment after more than 30 years of dialogue; he’s still in the Middle Ages.”Another prominent dispensationalist with great political and literary influence is Hal Lindsey, the author and co-author of several books, including the popular Left Behind book series. Lindsey’s work greatly influenced many prominent U.S. politicians like Ronald Reagan, who was so moved by Lindsey’s books that <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/unholy-alliance-christian-zionists-and-the-israelipalestinian-conflict/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">he invited</a> Lindsey to address a National Security Council meeting on nuclear war plans and helped make Lindsey an influential consultant with several members of Congress and the Pentagon.As noted by <a href="https://books.google.cl/books?id=LCZDYk0W_VcC&pg=PA116&dq=%22shabtai+ben+dov%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvYDx6JTjAhVUvZ4KHUvsD5QQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22shabtai%20ben%20dov%22&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Israeli historian Gershom Gorenberg</a>, Lindsey sees Jews as serving “two central roles” in Christian dispensationalist eschatology: <blockquote style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[T]he first — despite his insistence of love for Jews — is the classic one of Christian anti-Jewish polemic: They are ‘the Jewish people who crucified Jesus’ and the archetype of those who ignore the truth of prophecy. The second role is to fulfill prophecy despite themselves.”</blockquote>Gorenberg further notes that Lindsey believes that Jews have fulfilled two of the three crucial prophecies that will usher in the end times, with the first being the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the second being the Israeli conquest and occupation of Jerusalem after the Six Day War in 1967. <a href="https://books.google.cl/books?id=LCZDYk0W_VcC&pg=PA116&dq=%22shabtai+ben+dov%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvYDx6JTjAhVUvZ4KHUvsD5QQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22shabtai%20ben%20dov%22&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">According to Lindsey</a>: “There remains but one more event to completely set the stage for Israel’s part in the last great act of her historical drama. That is to rebuild the ancient Temple…”As Falwell’s and Lindsey’s comments reveal, the eschatological views of dispensationalism frequently perceive the Jewish people as little more than pawns that must fulfill certain requirements — e.g., establishing the state of Israel, conquering Jerusalem, building a Third Temple — in order to hasten the salvation and “rapture” of evangelical Christians. Meanwhile, Jews in Israel who do not convert to Christianity are expected to die horrible deaths, though some Christian Zionists in recent years, as will be seen shortly, have sought to adjust this still common theological position.Despite the anti-semitic motivations underlying evangelical support for the state of Israel and the Likud-supported vision of “Greater Israel,” the politically active Christian Zionist movement that Falwell helped create translated into a strong support base for Israel and right-wing Likud policy that has made it crucial to prominent Israeli politicians. For instance, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/27/strong-support-for-israel-in-u-s-cuts-across-religious-lines/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">significantly more</a> American Christians (55 percent) than American Jews (40 percent) believe that God gave Israel to the Jews while that sentiment is shared <a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/march/israel-christians-think-opposite-evangelicals-pew-zionism.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">by only 19 percent</a> of Israeli Christians. In addition, with regards to the Trump administration’s pro-Israel policies, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/06/u-s-jews-are-more-likely-than-christians-to-say-trump-favors-the-israelis-too-much/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">only 15 percent</a> of evangelical Christians believe that President Trump favors Israel too strongly while 42 percent of American Jews hold the view that Trump is biased in favor of Israel....