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How Christian Evangelicals Created Jewish Zionism

Committing High Reason

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The History of the Restoration of the Jews

All throughout the 1600s, there were books printed by Protestant clergymen and religious activists calling for and predicting the Jews returning to the Holy Land as a nation. In 1621, a member of the British Parliament, a Sir Henry Finch, published a book whose title is too long for me to say here. Few years later, a Church of England minister published another book where he makes sure to point out that according to Christianity, the return of the Jews to the Holy land will be a national return, not one of individual Jews.

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