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Paul Wilkinson

Lives in Oldham, Lancashire (in the north of England)

Minister, Hazel Grove Full Gospel Church, Stockport, Cheshire

BSc in Mathematics and Statistics (University of York)

BA and MA in Theology (University of Manchester)

PhD in Religions and Theology (University of Manchester, 2006)

Council Member of Prophetic Witness Movement International (PWMI) www.pwmi.org

Author, For Zion's Sake: Christian Zionism and the Role of John Nelson Darby (2007) - an edited version of my PhD thesis, John Nelson Darby and the Origins of Christian Zionism

Research consultant for the documentary film The Destiny of Britain (Hatikvah Film Trust, 2007), released this year in the U.S. as The Cyrus Call, which tells the history of British Evangelical belief in the restoration of the Jews, prior to the issuing of the Balfour Declaration

Studied and taught at the International School of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Conference speaker and contributor to several Christian publications and journals (including Bibliotheca Sacra).

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For Zion’s Sake: Darby and Christian Zionism

by Paul Wilkinson

Duration: 1 hr 21 mins 52 secs

On October 4th, 1831, thirty-five clergymen and fifteen lay people gathered at the country estate of Lady Theodosia Powerscourt, in the small, Irish village of Enniskerry outside Dublin. All who assembled for the first Powerscourt Conference on Biblical prophecy were 'distressed at the condition of the Church', and 'convinced that the hope of Christ’s return should figure more prominently in the thinking of Christians.' Few could have imagined then how great an impact this, and subsequent Powerscourt Conferences would have on the wider Church.

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“You Shall Be My Witnesses”: The Transatlantic History of the Prophetic Witness Movement

by Paul Wilkinson

Duration: 1 hr 2 mins 45 secs

... These words were spoken by the Anglican minister, Francis Scott Webster, on December 13th, 1917. The occasion was a crowded public meeting at the Queen’s Hall in London, which had been organised by one of the foremost Evangelical leaders of the day, Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847-1929). Just four days prior to this historic meeting, British General Edmund Allenby liberated Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks during the Jewish feast of Chanukah. This momentous event “awoke in the hearts of many students of prophecy a new hope of the Lord’s near return.” ...