the evangelical christian movement in america latched onto a 19th century concept hatched by someone called john nelson darby who said that jesus could not come back until israel had been restored as a nation and jerusalem was the capital. this is not traditional christian teaching going back into the ages even of the protestant church. when i was a kid with my parents and their ministry, we had a number of christian leaders come by. one of them had written a book called the late great planet earth in which he predicted the end times coming in the 1980s. he said it s now possible because israel has been restored. people came forward and said no, no, it s not possible because jury ro jerusalem has not been restored.