Conclusion

Abstract

The underlying purpose of this study was to consolidate a heuristic approach taking seriously and granting positive standing to the belief systems of Israeli Religious Zionism and US Christian dispensationalism. To some significant extent, this entailed reconceptualizing the classic analytical categories that social and political sciences deploy to address messianic and millenarian consensus. In particular, I challenged the idea that such a consensus is nothing but the outcome of deception and manipulation, an elaborate hoax, essentially manufactured by means of brainwashing or anaesthetization the genuine feelings of believers and/or capitalizing on their fears and anxieties.