[magisterium]

Prove it. Explain in detail why any believing Christian would support the rebuilding of a Temple, the entire existence of which presupposes the "falsehood" of Jesus' Messiahship and His utterly "inefficacious" work of salvation and forgiveness of sins on the cross. You would have to be blind not to see in such behavior an attempt to "hasten the day."

Deny the corollary to this, namely, that in the minds of such people, Israel "must be supported by American foreign policy" precisely because current events in the Middle East are believed by them to be direct fulfillment of prophecy, and, by God, we don't want to stand in the way of that, do we? Even if this were so, it is not our job to foment fulfillment of prophecy by default; it is our job to further spread God's kingdom here on earth. God can - and will - bring this earth to an end in His own good time. It is not our job to force His hand (as if we really could anyway).

Deny that there are millions of believing Christians in "fly-over country" who do not bother to vote or do other civic duties because they don't see the point in it, insofar as they're convinced that they'll be raptured any day now.

[Quix]

What an outrageously clueless bunch of assertions.

How did Christ, BTW, respond to the RELIGIOUS rulers DEMANDS

that He

“prove it?”