Christian Zionism

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Christian Zionism is a religious and political movement that supports a Jewish return to, or continued national presence in, the Land of Israel and, in its modern forms, support for the State of Israel. Many Christian Zionists understand the return of Jews to the land and the establishment of Israel as fulfilments of biblical prophecy or of God's continuing covenant with the Jewish people. In some traditions this restoration forms part of an eschatological scheme involving the Second Coming and the eventual conversion of Jews to Christianity. Christian Zionism is not, however, confined to that theology: Christian support for Zionism has also come from non-dispensationalist Protestants and, before 1948, from liberal and mainline Protestants whose support was often based on concern for persecuted Jews and Christian–Jewish reconciliation rather than biblical prophecy. Ideas about a future Jewish restoration to Palestine developed among Protestants well before modern political Zionism. They...

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