Early Modern European Nations and Empire

Early Modern European Nations and Empire
The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the restoration of Israel in the "Judeo-centric" strand of Puritan millenarianism (1).
From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Cogley, Richard W. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For the American Puritan minister Increase Mather, the battle of Armageddon would be "the most terrible day of battel that ever was." "Asia is like to be in a flame of war between Israelites and Turks," he wrote in The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, "[and] Europe between the followers of the Lamb and the followers of the beast." In the Asian and European spheres of action, or so Mather anticipated, God's Israelite and Protestant armies would "overthrow great Kingdoms, and make Nations desolate, and bring defenced Cities into ruinous heaps." The inevitable victory would reshape ...

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