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The Scramble For Jerusalem

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Blinding Illusion of False Prophetic Visions 4

Part 1
The Scramble for Jerusalem

1. The Militant Islamic Delusion: Jerusalem: The Capital of a New Caliphate 16
2. The Jewish Messianic Delusion: Jerusalem: Jewish Capital of the World 27
3. Papal Delusion: The Pope to Rule from Rome? 35
4. The Pre-millennial Delusion: The Coming Jewish Messianic Kingdom 43
5. The Post-millennial Delusion: The Church will Dominate the World 48

Part 2
Two Competing End Time Delusions
About the Second Coming

6. Pre-millennialism vs. Post-millennialism: A Holy War Among Christians 59
7. False Operating Systems: Futurism vs. Preterism 71
8. Christ used Historicism in Interpreting Daniel’s Prophecies 85
9. Futurism and Preterism: Equally False Opposites 93
10. The Infiltration of Jewish Futurism into Christianity 96
11. The Demise of Ancient pre-millennialism: Gnostic Influences in the Church 1109
12. Preterism: The Legacy of the Pagan Philosopher Porphyry 118
13. Origen’s Allegorical Heresy Injects Preterism into Christianity 123
14. Augustine Blends Gnostic Allegorism and Preterism. 134
15. The Eclipse of Historicism & The Rise of the Papacy 140
16. The Ecclesiastical Empire of the Papacy 151
17. Papal Abuses Reawaken Historicist Interest in the Prophecies 159
18. The Rebirth of Historicism: The Long Road to the Reformation 165
19. Historicism: The Operating System of the Reformation 199
20. English and Scottish Reformers Adopt Historicism 211
21. Shielding the Papacy: Jesuits Revive Ancient Futurism & Preterism. 222
22. Futurism and Preterism Invade Protestantism 232
23. Futurism in New Garments: The Occult Origin of the Rapture Theory 234
24. The Rapture Theory Fails Every Biblical Test 242
25. Jesus Warned: Beware of A Secret Second Coming 251
26. The Rapture Theory Dominates Modern Futurism 256
27. Apostate Protestantism Shield a Revived Papal Antichrist 267

Appendix A: Germanic Invaders Divide up The Western Roman Empire 269
Appendix B: The Muslim Turks Destroy the Eastern Roman Empire 280
Appendix C: The Antiochus Myth 305
Charts 319

End Notes: 320
Bibliography: 325