Although dispensationalism does not seem to have quite the audience that it did in the heyday of Hal Lindsey and The Late Great Planet Earth, some popular Christian authors and preachers still insist that the world is hurtling toward an apocalyptic showdown between Jews and the forces of the Antichrist. Meanwhile, a number of mainline Christians and some evangelicals seem eager to participate in the “divestment from Israel” movement. And agencies like the United Nations insist ever more loudly and bizarrely that the city of Jerusalem has no deep historic connection to Judaism.
Somewhere between those extremes, one would hope evangelical Christians could find a reasonable, biblical, and humble manner of viewing Jews and the nation of Israel. McDermott’s volume is an important contribution to that process.
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