Jerusalem Countdown

{{Short description|2006 book by John Hagee}} {{Infobox book | author = John Hagee | pub_date = 2006 | name = Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World | image = File:Jerusalem_Countdown.png | isbn = 9781591858935 | publisher = Frontline | language = English }} {{italic title}} '''''Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World''''' is a book written in 2006 by American pastor John Hagee which interprets the Bible to claim that Russia and several Islamic nations will invade Israel and will be destroyed by God. This will cause the Antichrist, the head of the European Union, to create a confrontation over Israel between China and the West. A final battle between East and West at Armageddon will then precipitate the Second Coming of Christ.<ref name=bbc-20060719>{{citation|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5193092.stm|title=Evangelical Christians plead for Israel|author=Richard Allen Greene|publisher=BBC News|date=July 19, 2006|accessdate = 2007-10-12}}</ref> The book was published by Charisma House.<ref name="Leirvik"/>

Hagee asserts that "the reason for the continual conflict over the city of Jerusalem is theology" because the Qur'an instructed believers "to kill and maim anyone who did not believe in Allah or in Muhammad his prophet."<ref>John Hagee, ''Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World'' (Frontline, 2006), pp. 33, 42.</ref>

He also claims that when Jeremiah prophesied in the Bible that "I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks," he was foreseeing The Holocaust. "The ''hunter'' is one who pursues his target with force and fear," Hagee writes. "No one could see the horror of the Holocaust coming, but the force and fear of Hitler's Nazis drove the Jewish people back to the only home that God ever intended for the Jews to have—Israel."<ref>John Hagee, ''Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World'' (Frontline, 2006), pp. 96–97.</ref> He has made the same claim in a sermon.<ref>[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/15/141520/281 Bruce Wilson, "Audio Recording of McCain's Political Endorser John Hagee Preaching Jews Are Cursed and Subhuman," ''Talk to Action,'' May 15, 2008]. [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/mccain-rejects-hagee-backing-as-nazi-remarks-surface/index.html?hp Michael Luo, "McCain Rejects Hagee Backing as Nazi Remarks Surface," ''The Caucus: New York Times Political Blog,'' May 22, 2008]</ref>

According to Oddbjorn Leirvik, Hagee drew the material for ''Countdown'' largely from Mark A. Gabriel's books ''Islam and Terrorism'', and ''Islam and the Jews''.<ref name="Markkenson">{{cite book|editor-last1=Markkenson|editor-first1=Ulrica|title=Fundamentalism in the Modern World Vol 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere|date=2011|publisher=I.B.Taurus|isbn=978-1848853317|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2w6A19pcK8QC&dq=%22mark+A+Gabriel%22&pg=PA131}}</ref> Leirvik describes ''Jerusalem Countdown'' as combining "apocalyptic visions of Israel being threatened by its enemies, with the 'unveiling' of Islam as an inherently violent religion."<ref name="Leirvik">{{cite book|last1=Leirvik|first1=Oddbjorn|title=Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion|date=2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1472524331|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWmJAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Islam+and+Terrorism%22++Gabriel&pg=PA62|accessdate=12 July 2017}}</ref>

==Film== After the TV movie ''Countdown: Jerusalem'' (2009), another apocalyptic thriller film with the name ''Jerusalem Countdown'', "based on the book by John Hagee," was released in theaters by Pure Flix Entertainment on August 26, 2011. It stars David A.R. White, Anna Zielinski, Lee Majors, Jaci Velasquez, Stacy Keach, and Randy Travis.

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