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This is a bit too old to really work nowadays. Ben Shapiro pushed a lot of people away during his Israeli spergfest, Fox News never recovered from firing Tucker Carlson, and a major split happening on the ground right now is between the politicians who talk about legal immigration and the Whites who are fully fed up with immigrants of all stripes. It's becoming rare to hear normal boomers talk about Israel as an important ally. The talking heads are losing the propaganda war on that front.
We're not in 2020 anymore. Things have accelerated so much even the boomers are starting to feel it.
We're not in 2020 anymore. Things have accelerated so much even the boomers are starting to feel it.
What's so funny to me is that there are aspects of dispensationalism that are very difficult to defend and when that happens the Zionists adopt a "buffet-theology" mentality where they just take what they want and throw out what they don't regardless of whether or not it produces a cohesive overall theology.
Yes, you are right, dispensationalism is bad, but more specifically, it is it's vulnerability to Zionist co-opting that is bad.
Pre-tribulation rapture timeline tl;dr is basically:
1. The jews build a literal third Temple - this basically requires the Palestinians being holocausted/exiled/etc. so the jews can fully control Jerusalem, which is why some see the conflicts in Palestine as a Good Thing.
2. Jesus does a mini-Second Coming to beam up the Christians, Star Trek-style (this doesn't count as a Rapture, somehow). Some depict this as being secret/invisible, so non-Christians have no idea why all the Christians suddenly vanished (see Left Behind etc.)
3. A man (the Antichrist) reveals himself and starts doing bad stuff to muh joos (the Tribulation) - not Christians, they're already gone.
4. Facing this tribulation, there is a mass conversion of the grabblers to Jesus (seen as fulfilling "all Israel shall be saved", because jews == Israel, right?)
5. Jesus returns *again* to do the Rapture (Second Coming but for real this time) to rescue the jews (and I guess some non-jews) that turned to Jesus during the tribulation events.
This is also why teaching any other timeline is condemned as evil, false, and antisemitic - putting the rapture during or after the tribulation (or saying there is no rapture) can't be correct, because this means there's no special timeslot for God to focus on the jews without those pesky Christians getting in the way.