WI: Evangelical Anti-Israel lobby?

Israel today enjoys broad support from Evangelical Christians in the USA. However, I was recently reading about John Alan Coey, an American who joined the Rhodesian Army and was killed in 1975. He joined out of anti-Communist and fanatically Christian religious views. Among his strongly-held religious views were that Israel should not exist, because it's existence prior to the second coming was contrary to the Gospel.

So what if this view were adopted by the American Evangelical community as a whole? What if instead of lobbying in support of Israel, they served as an extremely powerful anti-Israel lobbying force in the USA?
 
Israel today enjoys broad support from Evangelical Christians in the USA. However, I was recently reading about John Alan Coey, an American who joined the Rhodesian Army and was killed in 1975. He joined out of anti-Communist and fanatically Christian religious views. Among his strongly-held religious views were that Israel should not exist, because it's existence prior to the second coming was contrary to the Gospel.

So what if this view were adopted by the American Evangelical community as a whole? What if instead of lobbying in support of Israel, they served as an extremely powerful anti-Israel lobbying force in the USA?

Once the Evangelicals are in power, they aid the Arab nations around Israel in order to wipe Israel off the map.
 
After WWII? Not gonna happen. However, consider this-

Angevins in Israel: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113692

Of course, even if we were to discount the massive butterflies in favor of a Stirling/Turtledove implausibility for the sake of pop AH setting, this suggestion doesn't exactly work because I doubt that Evangelicals would be big fans of a bunch of old fogey Catholics- monarchist ones, at that. French monarchists!

That gives me an idea- what if Evangelicals are anti-Israel because they want to set up some sort of Christian supremacist state that's like a neo-Kingdom of Jerusalem? In a world where Dispensationalism led to even wackier theology than in ours.
 
I've always found the Evangelical position towards Israel odd, and I have never really heard the Israelis criticize it which is also odd (they may criticize it. I don't know for sure). Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Evangelical support for Israel hinge on it and the Israeli Jews being sacrificial lambs for the coming of Christ per the Book of Revelations? That being, with Israel in existence, they can rebuild the Temple at some point, thus fulfilling prophecy, bringing forth the anti-Christ and beginning the end of times and, after the pure Christians are Raptured to Heaven, the reign of the anti-Christ over Earth and a despotic rule before Christ swoops in, defeats him, and reigns in peace ever after? You are fully free to correct me if I'm wrong and I am fully open to listening if I am wrong, but if that is true, then the Evangelical policy towards Israel is a very weird one, though one that makes perfect sense. The Evangelicals want to see Israel last only so that Revelations can be fulfilled, and that entails the eventual destruction of Israel and everything but Christians. So it is preservation only until the point when it can finally be given up for destruction (along with everyone else). And Israel meanwhile, not believing in Revelations given it's a New Testament book, just wants to defend it's state against hostile neighbors and a relatively volatile situation in it's region, so it's perfectly willing to accept support no matter where or who it comes from, so long as it does come.
Maybe an Evangelical anti-Israel position could be based on not wanting to rush the end of days, even if it results in the return of Christ. And that could come out of a position that mortals can't affect the will of God, and that only God knows when he will put something in motion, so for mere humans to attempt to force the end and rush it is foolish, and if God wants Israel to survive and flourish, he will make it survive and flourish. It could also just come out of anti-semitism, which has a long history of prevalence in the Christian West.

Again, if that's wrong or ignorant please correct me with the proper information since I don't want to come off like a bigot (which I'm worried I may, especially if that is wrong).
 
I've always found the Evangelical position towards Israel odd

There isn't just ONE Evangelical position on Israel :) Especially, if you widen the definition of "evangelical" to the point where it includes the Reformation churches (who were the first to actually coin the term).
What you're describing is....a fair approximation of the dispensationalist philosophy, but that is by no means all-encompassing when it comes to "evangelicals"

Again, if that's wrong or ignorant please correct me with the proper information since I don't want to come off like a bigot (which I'm worried I may, especially if that is wrong).

I think it's been pretty well established, that it's impossible to be considered a bigot towards Western Christians on this forum, no matter what one says, so you should be in the clear regardless :)
 
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