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How Christian Evangelicals Created Jewish Zionism

Committing High Reason

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Theodore Herzl and the Jewish Zionists

Mussolino suggested that the national language of the Jewish state would be Hebrew. Theodore Herzl's activities were sponsored and supported by Reverend William Heckler, a Protestant pastor whose father did missionary work in Germany trying to convert Jews to Christianity. He was also a fervent Christian Zionist. In 1884 he published a book called The Restoration of the Jews to Palestine according to prophecy. But miraculously Heckler said in 1896, that is the year Herzl published his book The Jewish State which according to Heckler was a clear fulfillment of the Christian prophecy.

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