europe used to have 6 million jews in it and most of europe was catholic or orthodox so europe was israel already pretty much. nobody could read the bible in latin or greek except priests so there wasn't much interpretating going on, jews could read hebrew torah so they might have had more of an understanding of the old parts but if you leave out the new parts then christians won't care what you have to say. protestantism started to encourage lay people to read the bible as they learnt to read and around the same time america was being settled and it went from there. there has always been a desire in europe to control jerusalem but that would have been under christian rule.
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