How Did Left Behind’s Particular Vision of the End Times Develop?

Kilde, Jeanne Halgren

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“…Finally, a great battle will take place in Israel as nations would try to invade the Holy Land. This period will come to an end with the return of Christ who will defeat the Anti-Christ, take over his kingdom and establish a one-thousand years reign of peace and justice (Kilde 2004). Therefore, some scholars suggest, Evangelicals support Israel not because of the sympathy they share toward the Jewish people but as a strategy to "accelerate an eschatological crisis that will deliver the world to Armageddon and bring Christ back" (Burge 2010, 121-122).…”

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confidence: 99%

“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

Ziv

2021

Politics and Religion

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The relations of the Evangelical movement and Israel have drawn the attention of many scholars of religion, public opinion, and political science in the last two decades. This study examines the influence of Evangelicals on their country's policy toward Israel. I conduct the first quantitative, cross-national research, investigating the links between the size of the Evangelical population of a country and its support for Israel. Analyzing 198 UN General Assembly votes of 18 Latin American countries from 2009 to 2019, my results show that as the Evangelical population in a country grows, so does its support for Israel. Unpredictably, I also find that a state of armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinians does not decrease the support for Israel.

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Section: Motivationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

Ziv

2021

Politics and Religion

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“…Rooted in interpretations of the books of Daniel and Revelation, dispensational premillennialism predicts that an epic battle between the forces of good (Christians) and evil (the Anti-Christ). This battle (including a shorter period known as the Tribulation) will end with the second coming of Christ, who will vanquish the Anti-Christ and establish 1,000 years of peace on earth (see Kilde 2004;Weber 2004). The doctrine also requires the existence of an Israeli state and foretells the destruction of Babylon, the ancient city that Saddam Hussein had rebuilt in the 1980s.…”

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A Clash of Civilizations? The Influence of Religion on Public Opinion of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Baumgartner

Francia

Morris

2008

Political Research Quarterly

112

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.The authors argue in this study that religious beliefs play a significant role in predicting American public opinion on foreign policy issues in the Middle East. Their findings reveal that Evangelical Christians have remained strong sup porters of a hawkish foreign policy toward the Middle East, even as overall public support for the Iraq War declines.They also find that Evangelicals are among the strongest supporters of Israel and hold more negative views of Islam than others. These results reinforce the growing importance of the "faith factor" in public opinion and American pol itics as a whole.

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“…The prevalence of premillenialist thinking among evangelicals could help to account for t 4 Dispensational premillenialism has deep roots among American conservative Protestants, but its interpretation of the Bible's account of the 'end times' was not always in the ascendancy (Boyer, 1992;Grenz, 2004;Kilde, 2004). However, global events since the second world war, including in particular the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, the creation of the state of Israel, and the Cold War, lent credence to this belief system.…”

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“…low rates of asset accumulation and the belief that saving for retirement is not important documented by Keister (2008). There is also historic evidence of premillenialists selling al their possessions in expectation of Christ's imminent return, including most famously the Millerites of the 1840s (Kilde, 2004), while contemporary press accounts include examples of people selling their houses or cutting l short their education for the same reason (Christian cience Monitor, February 18, 2004). 5 a Jesus's n experience less house price volatility, such ehavior would run counter to the evidence.…”

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Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market: Were Evangelicals Left Behind?

Crowe

2009

IMF Working Papers

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This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate.The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. populationevangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative relationship between their population share and house price volatility. Evangelicals' focus on Biblical prophecy could account for this difference, since it may enable them to interpret otherwise negative events as containing positive news, dampening the response of house prices to shocks. I provide evidence for this channel using a popular internet measure of "prophetic activity" and a 9/11 event study. I also analyze survey data covering religious beliefs and asset holding, and find that 'end times' beliefs are associated with a one-third decline in net worth, consistent with these beliefs providing a form of psychic insurance (Scheve and Stasavage, 2006a and 2006b) that reduces asset demand.

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How Did Left Behind’s Particular Vision of the End Times Develop?

Cited by 8 publications

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“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America

A Clash of Civilizations? The Influence of Religion on Public Opinion of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market: Were Evangelicals Left Behind?

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