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#20 Israel, Christian Zionism and the return of Jesus

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The Importance of the Holy Land

It's not heaven and it's not one particular piece of turf in the Middle East, he says. The idea that there still being one strip of territory which is the Holy Land was a major theological category mistake. After the Second World War there is no doubt in my mind that the Jewish peoples of Europe who such as were left after the terrible amazingly wicked and horrible things that were done they needed to have a new sort of security. I get emails about this somebody told me off for referring to that bit of land as Palestine but surely you should call it Israel as it always was. So when I say that Jesus was a first-century Palestinian Jew that ought to be uncontroversial. But people

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