Paul Calvert spoke with Ilan Scolnik, from the Friends of Zion Museum.



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New Museum Connects Jews And Christians

People today need to find what we share, as opposed to what drives us apart. The more we find reasons to have common goals and interests, the stronger we will be against ISIS and Islamic extremists, who lump us all together anyway. So why be divided when we face them?

Paul: What are your future plans for the museum?

Ilan: The museum is really the first part, what I call the bait. People come to the museum and it's a one hour experience. Then they immediately want to know what they can do. They say, "Here am I. What can we do?"

The museum is planning what we call the Ambassador Project, which is going to be Masters level courses, teaching people a little bit about communication, a little bit about media studies and about the modern State of Israel. It's going to give them the tools to become informal ambassadors for the State of Israel.

New Museum Connects Jews And Christians

In addition to that, the third phase of the museum is that we are going to create a Think Tank and Communication Centre, providing real time communication with the non-Jewish world across the whole world. That way, those three pillars will create the Friends of Zion Heritage Centre and make it a real beacon in the world.

Paul: What is your prayer for the museum?

Ilan: My prayer for the museum is that we take the flame of Dr Mike Evans, the founder of the museum and the person who wrote the History of Christian Zionism and his passion for the Jewish people and the State of Israel and multiply it and take it to millions of people worldwide. We have 750 million Bible believing Christians around the world and it is my prayer that those Bible believing Christians will become Zionists; Israel supporting Bible believing Christians. CR

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