BOOK (B.E. Horner, Future Israel, Broadman & Holman, 2007, pp 279)David Larsen has written about the impressive rise of European Zionism:
While doubtless there were complex motives of self-interest on the part of Great Britain, [Chaim] Weitzmann stoutly maintained in his memoirs that the sincere Christian beliefs of Balfour, Lloyd-George, and Jan Christian Smuts were more responsible than anything else for the new opening for the Jews in Palestine.
Certainly the present leadership of Israel in general as well as the population and diaspora reflect no love for Jesus of Nazareth as its Longed-for Messiah. Faced with such animosity, the apostle Paul
never ceased to witness in synagogues wherever he traveled.
Interestingly, whereas in 1967, when Israel regained ancient Jerusalem in the Six Day War, there were hardly any Messianic Jewish congregations in the world, by 1998 there were 350 gatherings.
And whereas in the 1950s in Israel there were at least
20 Christian churches, congregations, and groups, in the 1990s there were over 130…
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