..he noted that many Israelis and Diaspora Jews are not fully aware of the ultimate theological price attached to Evangelicals unswerving support of Israel.
Nothing in the film is as startling as the utter calmness and precision with which Laura Bagg, who with her husband James works as an engineer at a Connecticut jet propulsion facility, lays out the scenario.
First comes the Rapture, in which all who believe in Christ will be snatched up to heaven in one sixty-fourth of a second. Exactly 144,000 Jews will save themselves on the spot by accepting Christ, but the rest will perish, she says.
Next come seven years of Tribulations, with catastrophes and horrors to make all previous wars and natural disasters pale in comparison...
Ultimately, all the worlds armies converge at Armageddon, and blood will rise as high as a horses bridle, Laura Bagg notes quietly, culminating in the reign of Christ and 1,000 years of peace and harmony.
However, the forerunner for all these pre-ordained events is the return of the Jews to their homeland. To that end, Evangelicals celebrated the victories of 1948 and 1967 as joyously as any Jews, foreseeing destruction of the Dome of the Rock and other Muslim holy places, the building of the Third Temple and continuing turmoil in the Middle East.
You see, its all Gods plan, and it all centers around Israel, James Bagg declares.
From the modern Jewish perspective, the case is summarized by Israeli historian Gershom Gorenberg, who observes, Our Christian friends say to the Jews, We love you, but you must cease being Jews, you must give up what is most central to you.
