‘Til Kingdom Come

Ends Friday, April 23

(UK, Israel, Norway / 2020 / Directed by Maya Zinshtein)

Why do American church leaders encourage parishioners to make donations to Israel? Because they believe Israel’s expansion will play a key role in end-times prophecy, when Christians will be saved and others – including Jews – will perish. In this provocative look at strange political bedfellows, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing, along with their influence on the former Trump administration’s foreign policy.

Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropic organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’s return. Our Kingdom Come traces this unusual relationship between Christians and Jews from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington, through the American Embassy’s move to Jerusalem and the West Bank annexation plan. The film exposes the stunning backstory of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations, where financial, political, and messianic motivations intersect with an apocalyptic worldview that is insistently reshaping American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East.

Unrated / 1 hr 16 mins.
In English, Hebrew, and Arabic with subtitles