Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know
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Why Did Cromwell Re-Admit Jews Back to England?
Cromwell's re-admission of the Jews to England, officially, is one of his greatest achievements and most long-lasting bits of legacy. His official reason for wanting to let the Jews back in is a prophecy that the Second Coming of Jesus can't occur until the Jews are converted to Christianity all over the world. And if they're not in England, then they can't be converted here, so Jesus can't come. But the real reason why he's extremely interested in the Jewish community in 1656 was because he's at war with Spain,. He's losing the war, and the Jewish community offer him their trading network as an espionage network. They'll do his intelligence gathering
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