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(Columbus); Rusconi, ‘Antichrist and Antichrists’,
p.
(Luther quote); Boyer,
When Time Shall Be No More
, pp.
–
,
.
. An alternative, and very ancient, interpretive tradition holds that Antichrist himself
will be a Jew – a blasphemous impostor posing as the true Jewish messiah, Jesus Christ. The
televangelist Jerry Falwell attracted attention in January
when he embraced this view,
claiming in a news conference that the Antichrist would be a Jew and further – given the
imminence of the Rapture and the Great Tribulation – that the Evil One was probably already
alive today as a young Jewish male. Amid a flurry of media comment, Falwell apologized to
anyone offended by his comments, though he did not retract his belief.
. Michael Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity
Movement
(Chapel Hill, NC,
).
. John F. Walvoord,
Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis
(Grand Rapids, OH,
;
revised
), pp.
,
.
. Kenneth M. Setton (General Ed.),
A History of the Crusades, I, The First Hundred Years
,
ed. Marshall W. Baldwin (Madison, WI,
), pp.
–
,
; H. H. Ben-Sasson (ed.),
A
History of the Jewish People
(Cambridge, MA,
), pp.
–
. It should be noted that some
local bishops tried to protect the Jews of their city, and that some Crusade leaders, notably St
Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading proponent of the Second Crusade (
–
), spoke out against
the attacks on the Jews.
. Lindsey,
Planet Earth–
A.D.
, p.
.
. I Thessalonians
:
. See, for example, ‘Beware of the Soviets’,
Bible Prophecy News
( January–February–March
):
.
Notes to Chapter 15
392
. Van Impe,
, p.
.
. Boyer
, When Time Shall Be No More
, pp.
–
.
. Moishe Rosen,
Beyond the Gulf War: Overture to Armageddon?
(San Bernardino, CA,
), p.
.
. Charles H. Dyer,
The Rise of Babylon: Sign of the End Times
(Wheaton, IL,
),
pp.
–
.
. Joseph Chambers,
A Palace for the Antichrist
(Green Forest, AK,
), p.
.
. Van Impe,
, pp.
–
,
.
. Dave Hunt,
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