The speakers, however, made sure to remind conference-goers that many Christians still do support Israel.
“You have millions of agents from the goyim underground doing everything we can to turn the tide on this,” said Randal Neal, the western regional coordinator for Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in the U.S. by membership.
The conference took place at Neman Hall, a kosher banquet hall that regularly plays home to Jewish weddings as well as bar and bat mitzvahs. For a Jewish venue, an unusual amount of talk about Christian prophecy bounced from the room’s decorated earth-tone walls.
Paul, 75, said he has helped found 85 churches since the Lord appeared to him in 1982 and commanded him to preach. For him, the prophecy that the earth’s nations will rise against Israel in the end of days creates a painful contradiction.
“As a whole, Indian Christians love Israel,” he said. “But at the same time, we cannot change the inevitable.”
The inevitable – that the apocalypse must converge on a Jewish Jerusalem – motivates Paul’s staunch support of Israel and his interest in the conference’s topic.
(JNS)