Anti-road map book makes 'NY Times' best-sellers list ["Bush might suffer his father's fate"]

Jerusalem Post ^ | Jul. 23, 2003 | ILAN CHAIM

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Beyond Iraq: The Next Move, a book that claims Israel is being used as a pawn to pay the appeasement bill for the US war in Iraq, has reached The New York Times best-sellers list.

Published in April by US evangelical author Mike Evans, founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team (www.jerusalemprayerteam.org), the book made news in June by briefly ranking second between Harry Potter and Hillary Clinton on Amazon's best-sellers list.

Evans attributed the phenomenon to the fact that America's Bible-believing Christians are voting against the road map by buying the book. "There is no other way in the world that a book that was totally unknown the first week in June could take off like this. These are the same Christians who voted for President George W. Bush," Evans said, "and I think they are attempting to send a signal to him that they are not happy campers and want him to back off."

Bush is greatly admired by Bible believers, Evans noted, "but if he forces us to choose between him and the Bible, he could very well experience the same problem his father did after the '91 Gulf War when he did not get reelected.

"Christians are very concerned. They believe that God will curse America if America touches prophecy, and they believe that the Bible land is prophecy. The fact that Jerusalem is part of the road map really worries all Bible-believing Christians, in that the prophecies say that Jerusalem will be in the hands of the Jewish people when the Messiah returns.

"Christians believe that, if Jerusalem is divided, America will have challenged the word of God and the power of God and will bring a curse on our nation. This is taken from the Abrahamic covenant 'I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee.' "

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Bush is greatly admired by Bible believers, Evans noted, "but if he forces us to choose between him and the Bible, he could very well experience the same problem his father did after the '91 Gulf War when he did not get reelected.