Mr. End-Times Goes to Washington (The Nation)

August 8, 2006
Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism
Max Blumenthal

Over the past months, the White House has convened a series of off-the-record meetings about its policies in the Middle East with leaders of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel's expansionist policies is "a biblical imperative." CUFI's Washington lobbyist, David Brog, told me that during the meetings, CUFI representatives pressed White House officials to adopt a more confrontational posture toward Iran, refuse aid to the Palestinians and give Israel a free hand as it ramped up its military conflict with Hezbollah.

The White House instructed Brog not to reveal the names of officials he met with, Brog said.

CUFI's advice to the Bush Administration reflects the Armageddon-based foreign-policy views of its founder, John Hagee. Hagee is a fire-and-brimstone preacher from San Antonio who commands the nearly 18,000-member Cornerstone Church and hosts a major TV ministry where he explains to millions of viewers how the end times will unfold. He is also the author of numerous bestselling pulp-prophecy books, like his recent Jerusalem Countdown, in which he cites various unnamed Israeli intelligence sources to claim that Iran is producing nuclear "suitcase bombs." The only way to defeat the Iranian evildoers, he says, is a full-scale military assault.

"The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," Hagee wrote this year in the Pentecostal magazine Charisma. "Israel and America must confront Iran's nuclear ability and willingness to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons. For Israel to wait is to risk committing national suicide."

more at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism

This last paragraph totally sums it up, although reading the whole article is advisable:




Scary freaking group, IMHO.

Impact of millenium on Holy Land
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week319/cover.html

In their eschatology, the antichrist will sit in a rebuilt Third Temple, where the Muslim Dome of The Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque are sited today. No wonder Muslims question intentions and possible futher 'Nile to the Euphates' ideology

Greater Israel
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/greater-israel.htm

Not to be outdone, Iranian shia and Saudi sunni sects have their own versions of an Islamic mahdi and djhil, or 'Islamic antichrist'

http://biblia.com/911/messiah.htm