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   WHY JUDEO-CHRISTIANS SUPPORT WAR   
   C. E. Carlson   
      
   The French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote "Democracy in America"   
   when he traveled here in the first third of the 19th Century.  In   
   ringing tones he sang the praises of America's invulnerable strength   
   and spirit.  He attributed its greatness to its citizens' sense of   
   morality... even with the abundant church attendances he observed in   
   America.  De Tocqueville wrote in French and is credited with this   
   familiar quote:  "AMERICA IS GREAT BECAUSE SHE IS GOOD, and if America   
   ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."   
      
   De Tocqueville could see the power of America, but he could not have   
   known in 1830 that she was soon to be under an attack aimed at its   
   churches and the very sense of morality that he extolled.   
      
   First, there was a War Between the States, which scarred the powerful   
   young nation in its strapping youth.  A worse attack on America was to   
   commence near the turn of the 20th century.  This was the onset of an   
   attack on American Christianity that continues unabated against the   
   traditional, Christ-following church.  This attack, which author   
   Gordon Ginn calls "The final Apostasy", began with a small very   
   wealthy and determined European political movement.  It had a dream,   
   and the American churches stood in its way.   
      
   The World Zionist movement, as its Jewish founders called themselves,   
   had plans to acquire a homeland for all Jews worldwide, even though   
   most were far from homeless, and many did not want another home.  Not   
   any land would do.  World Zionists wanted a specific property that   
   American Christians called "the Holy Land."  But if these Zionists   
   read "Democracy in America" or any of the journals of any of America's   
   churches, which no doubt they did, they could not help but know that   
   Jerusalem was not theirs to have.  As self proclaimed Jews, they were,   
   according to the Christian New Testament, the persecutors of Christ   
   and most of his early followers, and the engineers of his crucifixion.   
   America's traditional churches in the 19th Century would never stand   
   for a Jewish occupation of Jesus' homeland.   
      
   World Zionist leaders initiated a program to change America and its   
   religious orientation.  One of the tools used to accomplish this goal   
   was an obscure and malleable Civil War veteran named Cyrus I.   
   Schofield.  A much larger tool was a venerable, world respected   
   European book publisher The Oxford University Press.   
      
   The scheme was to alter the Christian view of Zionism by creating and   
   promoting a pro-Zionist subculture within Christianity.  Scofield's   
   role was to re-write the King James Version of the Bible by inserting   
   Zionist-friendly notes in the margins, between verses and chapters,   
   and on the bottoms of the pages.  The Oxford University Press used   
   Scofield, a pastor by then, as the Editor, probably because it needed   
   such as man for a front.  The revised bible was called the Scofield   
   Reference Bible, and with limitless advertising and promotion, it   
   became a best-selling "bible" in America and has remained so for 90   
   years.   
      
   The Scofield Reference Bible was not to be just another translation,   
   subverting minor passages a little at a time.  No, Scofield produced a   
   revolutionary book that radically changed the context of the King   
   James Version.  It was designed to create a subculture around a new   
   worship icon, the modern State of Israel, a state that did not yet   
   exist, but which was already on the drawing boards of the committed,   
   well-funded authors of World Zionism.   
      
   Scofield's support came from a movement that took root around the turn   
   of the century, supposedly motivated by disillusionment over what it   
   considered the stagnation of the mainline American churches.  Some of   
   these "reformers" were later to serve on Scofield's Editorial   
   Committee.   
      
   Scofield imitated a chain of past heretics and rapturists, most of   
   whose credibility fizzled over their faulty end times prophesies.  His   
   mentor was one John Nelson Darby from Scotland, who was associated   
   with the Plymouth Brethren and who made no less than six evangelical   
   trips to the US selling what is today called "Darbyism".  It is from   
   Darby that Scofield is thought to have learned his Christian Zionist   
   theology, which he later planted in the footnotes of the Scofield   
   Reference Bible.  It is possible that Scofield's interest in Darbyism   
   was shared by Oxford University Press, for Darby was known to Oxford   
   University.   
      
   The Oxford University Press owned "The Scofield Reference Bible" from   
   the beginning, as indicated by its copyright, and Scofield stated he   
   received handsome royalties from Oxford.  Oxford's advertisers and   
   promoters succeeded in making Scofield's bible, with its Christian   
   Zionist footnotes, a standard for interpreting scripture in   
   Judeo-Christian churches, seminaries, and Bible study groups.  It has   
   been published in at least four editions since its introduction in   
   1908 and remains one of the largest selling Bibles ever.   
      
   The Scofield Reference Bible and its several clones is all but   
   worshiped in the ranks of celebrity Christians, beginning with the   
   first media icon, evangelist Billy Graham.  Of particular importance   
   to the Zionist penetration of American Christian churches has been the   
   fast growth of national bible study organizations, such as Bible Study   
   Fellowship and Precept Ministries.  These draw millions of students   
   from not only evangelical fundamentalist churches, but also from   
   Catholic and mainline Protestant churches and non-church contacts.   
   These invariably teach forms of "dispensationalism," which draw their   
   theory, to various degrees, from the notes in the Oxford Bible.   
      
   Among more traditional churches that encourage, and in some cases   
   recommend, the use of the Scofield Reference Bible is the huge   
   Southern Baptist Convention of America, whose capture is World   
   Zionism's crowning achievement.   
      
   Scofield, whose work is largely believed to be the product of Darby   
   and others, wisely chose not to change the text of the King James   
   Edition.  Instead, he added hundreds of easy to read footnotes at the   
   bottom of about half of the pages, and as the Old English grammar of   
   the KJE becomes increasingly difficult for progressive generations of   
   readers, students become increasingly dependent on the modern language   
   footnotes...   
      
     Scofield's borrowed ideas were later popularized under   
   the labels and definitions that have evolved into common usage   
   today pre-millennialism," "dispensationalism," "Judeo-Christianity,"   
   and most recently the highly political movement openly called   
   "Christian Zionism."   
      
   Thanks to the work of a few dedicated researchers, much of the   
   questionable personal history of Cyrus I. Scofield is available.  It   
   reveals he was not a Bible scholar as one might expect, but a   
   political animal with the charm and talent for self promotion of a   
   Bill Clinton.  Scofield's background reveals a criminal history, a   
      
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