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"I agree, Geoff Hinds, that, on the whole, Billy Graham stuck to basic evangelical Christianity... But I disagree that he was in any way neutral in politics and other matters of U.S. policy. I recall, sometime after 1967 the film His Land, which featured Billy Graham with Cliff Richard. Based on a highly dubious theological interpretation, it had them both lauding and glorifying in the outcome of the Six-Day War in the Middle East. From my standpoint, that was one blot on the good evangelist's copybook.'' (Letter from John Boutagy, Mosman, Sydney Morning Herald, 26/2/18)
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"On my return from the 1983 [Holy Land tour], I investigated what other evangelical-fundamentalists had said on the subject of Armageddon. In 1970, Billy Graham warned that the world is 'moving now very rapidly toward its Armageddon' and 'the present generation of young people maybe the last generation in history.'
"'Now many people ask where is Armageddon, how close are we to it?' Graham said on another occasion. 'Well, it's west of the Jordan, between Galilee and Samaria in the plane of Jezreel. And Napoleon saw that great place one time and he said,'This would make the greatest battlefield in the world.' For the Bible teaches the last great war of history will be fought in that part of the world: the Middle East!'" (Prophecy & Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War, Grace Halsell, 1986, p 28)
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Surely 'Christian Zionist' is a mutually self exclusive term. A monumental self delusion.
Either be one or the other, but it is impossible to both at the same time. For example try 'Christian Satanist' for a logical fit.
The term must embarrass genuine Christians.
Well, well....either Billy had a crystal ball, or he was privy to an ideology widely disseminated among the "believers".
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