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Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. And today, we must focus in upon a very important issue that intersects politics, race,

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and religion. And that question is, how should the American Christian think about Israel and our

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relation to her? And then, religiously speaking, where do the Jews fit into our understanding of

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Christ and the Church, future eschatology, and present politics? Oh, how divisive and incendiary

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have been these questions in our recent politics. Now, a distinct polarity has appeared since the

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vicious 9-11-style attack of Hamas upon Israel on October 7, 2023. Over 6,000 Muslim Gazan attackers

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murdered, raped, and plundered Israelis in over 21 communities. It is estimated that 1,221 citizens

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were slaughtered that day. Nothing like it has been seen in all of Israel's history, and they

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compare that day to what happened to us on 9-11 in 2001. For them, this was their 9-11. Well, in response,

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Israel has been on a mission to eradicate the pestilential threat of Hamas. So, it must be

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understood, Americans, it must be understood by us exactly what this Muslim terrorist organization is.

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Now, Hamas is Arabic for zeal or strength or bravery. Correspondingly, a Hamas fighter is zealous for complete

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triumph of Islam over the blasphemers and occupiers personified in the Jews of Israel. In its very

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founding charter, the 1988 Hamas Covenant, they dedicate themselves to the eradication of the State of Israel.

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The language of that covenant is of such vitriolic nature that it is indistinguishable, really,

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from Muhammad's universal condemnation of Jews in the Quran. Israel is constantly referred to as an

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illegal entity, and Jews as enemies and usurpers of rightful Muslim territory. Well, when it comes to

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Hamas, I want you to note the following features, Hamas. First of all, the Gazan Palestinians have a

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deep-seated hatred for Israel and for Jews. You cannot overestimate the vicious, raging antipathy felt

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towards Israel and Jews by Gazans. It is difficult for naive Westerners raised in the nominally tolerant

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environment of the West, created by broadly Christian principles like love your neighbor as yourself

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and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's hard for us, raised in this environment,

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to conceive that an entire culture could be devoted to little more than the destruction

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of another people. Note also with me, Palestinians would rather kill than create.

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Not only are the founding documents in Gaza dedicated to destruction, but the whole of Palestinian

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culture is marinated in death and hatred and violence. Palestinian school books, beginning

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in primary school, inculcate hatred for Jews and hold out the glorious destiny of the destruction

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of Israel and the triumph of Islam and the return of Palestine to Palestinians. Imams in the mosques

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teach hatred of the Jews and the destruction of Israel. Palestinian television indoctrinates its

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viewers with hatred of the Jews and the destruction of Israel. From simple news broadcasts to specials

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and commentaries, every cultural institution in Palestine, in Gaza, if you could call what Gazans

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create culture in any meaningful sense, well, all of their institutions are geared to indoctrinate

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hatred of Jews and the destruction of Israel. From simple advertising in shops and markets to greetings

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on the street. For example, the phrase, from the river to the sea, is a prime example. When one meets

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another friend or neighbor or relative in Gaza, it is common to hail them with, from the river to the sea,

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which means the eradication of Israel and the Jews, and the establishment of a Palestinian state

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from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, from the river to the sea. Note also with me,

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Palestinians regularly return Hamas, the party of Hamas, to power. One reason I have very little

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sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza is precisely because they keep voting in

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these Hamas monsters, knowing full well what they stand for and what will happen in the future

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with men like Abu Marzouk or Khaled Mashal leading them. They nevertheless keep electing these men to

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office. The old adage has never been truer. People get the government they deserve. Note also with me then,

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Palestinian leaders cynically use the wealth and aid given for Gaza for themselves. Palestinian leaders

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are notorious for looting monies given by a naive West that is meant for the people. For example,

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so-called exiles live in luxury in places like the French Riviera or Egypt with billions diverted

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from funds given by the United Nations, the European Union, and America that was intended for humanitarian

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relief for the beleaguered Palestinians. Well, this has been a constant theme throughout the decades.

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For example, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat was Exhibit A of this, who

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funneled millions and millions of dollars of aid into his own bank accounts. But it finds its latest

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iteration in Hamas leaders like Abu Marzouk or Khaled Mashal or Ishmael Hanayah. These men live lavish

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lifestyles all over the world while their people live in poverty and misery. Also, these men rely upon

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the bleeding heart sentimentality of progressives, Hamas does, the bleeding heart sentimentality of

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progressives in the West to keep shoveling resources into Gaza, which promptly get diverted into the bank

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accounts of a few privileged leaders. Precious little trickles down to the ones who need it most,

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that is the people of Gaza. Note also with me that Hamas cynically sacrifices the lives of the

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Palestinian people in Gaza for political ends. It's another reason I have very little sympathy for the

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Palestinians in Gaza because the leadership is willing to sacrifice huge numbers of Palestinian

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civilians in order to achieve the personal power of ambitions of Hamas leadership. They know that the

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higher the body count amongst the general populace of Gaza, the higher the outrage will be in the West

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and the louder will be the call for an independent Palestinian state. It's a proven strategy. For example,

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despite the futility of the October 7th, 2023 attack into Israel by Hamas, knowing that such a maneuver

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could never topple the state of Israel, but only sow terror among the people, nevertheless, they launched

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that attack. Based upon past experience, they knew that Israel would respond out of all proportion to

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the attack. At least that is how the rest of the world would view it. But is Israel's aggressive response

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really disproportional when Hamas deliberately establishes headquarters and weapon caches in hospitals, schools,

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daycare facilities, and mosques? Additionally, Hamas spent years developing an elaborate network of underground tunnels

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that ran throughout civilian neighborhoods in Gaza. And in them, Hamas moved men and materiel

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throughout Gaza with a series of military bases connected by these tunnels. So when the Israeli Defense Force

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came in to destroy these military targets, civilian casualties were inevitable. Although the IDF did its best

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to avoid them whenever possible, but Hamas knew that this rationale would not be picked up by the

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international media, all they would focus in upon were the civilian casualties. But who admits that these

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casualties are a deliberate strategy employed by Hamas to achieve their own political ends? You now know

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this, dear listener. Behold, one of the reasons for supporting the state of Israel, insofar as their interests

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coincide with those of the United States of America. And more on that momentarily. But first, I want to tell you,

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all of our listeners, the reasons I don't find grounds for supporting Israel. I support Israel in the Jewish state,

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but not because of these reasons. And let me articulate those for you here briefly. First of all,

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I am not a Zionist Christian. I am not a Zionist Christian. The dispensational premillennial view

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on Israel and the Jews is profoundly erroneous. For most American Christians, dear listener,

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Jesus will return again very soon, but only after Israel is wondrously reconstituted as a state, which

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did indeed happen in 1948. And the Jewish temple is rebuilt and animal blood sacrifices are reinstituted.

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And then the church is raptured out of the world into heaven. And the great seven-year tribulation will

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begin by the Antichrist, who many feel is now alive, waiting to reveal himself in the temple. And then

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the battle of Armageddon is fought on the plains of Megiddo. Well, supposedly, Christ will come back

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just in the nick of time to save Israel before it is consumed in a nuclear holocaust. He will then establish

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his throne, Jesus, well, in Jerusalem and reign over the world for a thousand years. Well, for nearly two centuries

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now, this teaching has completely overwhelmed the Christian church. That church knows no other way.

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Well, when once you realize how important the reconstituted state of Israel is to evangelical

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end times teaching, well then, you know, it is equally understandable why the American evangelical

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church so vociferously and uncritically supports Israel, no matter what she does. In fact, these

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enthusiastic supporters are called Christian Zionists because they uncritically give the okay to whatever

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Israel does. John Hagee in San Antonio, Texas is exhibit A of this school of thought with his church.

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For John Hagee and those like him, Israel is essential to the prophetic agenda. Without the state of

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Israel, all of the prophecies sensationally expected in the near future and preached on with great

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enthusiasm, all that goes away without Israel. But is this right, dear listener? Essentially, we must assert

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strongly, no, this is not right. The view presented in summary fashion above is known as dispensational

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premillennialism. That may be a tongue-twisting mouthful for some, but in brief, it means that these

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believers think that in God's plan, Jesus Christ will return before the great time of peace and prosperity

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and glory begins, known as the millennium, a thousand-year period predicted in the Bible. Well, we believe that

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these teachings seriously distort what the Bible teaches. It is new in the history of the church, and it's

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filled with many distortions and errors in interpretation. Now, on our website,

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americastruths.org,

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americastruths.org,

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I have a series of radio podcasts that lay out these interpretive errors, and

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also propose an alternative to dispensational premillennialism.

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Which alternative is really the doctrine of Christianity for thousands of years?

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Well, that series can be found at our website, americastruths.org. I recommend three of them

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for you. First of all, how do we interpret prophecy and the book of Revelation? And that was

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the broadcast from April 28 of 2019. Find that on our website, April 28, 2019 broadcast. How do we

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interpret prophecy in the book of Revelation? The second one dealing with these matters is the

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blessed hope in the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, or rejoicing in the joyous rapture.

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Rejoicing in the joyous rapture. And that broadcast is from May 12 of 2019. May 12 of 2019.

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And then finally, the third in the series is, in what temple do you find your joys and hope?

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In what temple do you find your joys and hope? And that one is from May 26 of 2019. The broadcast

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from May 26, 2019. And here, you will listen and you will understand then why we can say,

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secondly, now, the consensus view of the church over the centuries is as true today as it was then.

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The consensus view of the church, not the Revelation red heifer rapture rants, no, but the consensus view

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of the church over the centuries is as true now as it was then. Unlike modern teachers who preach the

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rapture and Israel's crucial place in prophecy, the church of Christ has always taught that there's

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only one people of God, the church, and not two people of God, the church and Israel. From the New

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Testament onward, the church has thought of the people of the Old Testament and the people of the

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New Testament as essentially one people in Christ. There's a brief saying that goes like this,

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Israel is the church of the Old Testament and the church is the Israel of the New Testament.

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That succinctly describes it. There have been two covenants that God has cut with his people,

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Israel under the Old Covenant and the church under the New Covenant. But now in Christ,

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they are one people. Israel looked forward to Christ in the Old Testament while the church looks back

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to Christ under the New Testament. Consequently, the nation of Israel is of no theological consequence

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for true Christians. Let me say that again, emphasizing the nation of Israel is of no theological consequence

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for true Christians. Israel as a nation and Jews as a people are no more in God's good graces than any

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other Gentile nation or people. In fact, with the rejection of her Messiah, Israel experienced greater

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judgment than other nations in the destruction of Jerusalem and her temple in A.D. 70, and then her

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subsequent dispersion among the nations. Greater judgment! That was God's exclamation point in history,

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if you will, concerning Israel. Jews may fancy themselves yet as God's chosen people,

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but God has rejected them and judged them and taken up his elect church. To fawn over Israel,

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consequently, to fawn over Israel like the sycophant pastor John Hagee and raise millions of dollars to

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rebuild the temple and do everything but convert to Judaism, which some say he has secretly done,

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John Hagee, that is heretical and blasphemous. For example, the book of Hebrews takes great pains to tell

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his Jewish audience that Christ in his passion and his resurrection has entered the Holy of Holies in

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the heavenly temple with his own blood and submitted his sacrifice once for all, theme of the book of

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Hebrews. And consequently, all earthly temples are ipso facto obsolete. In fact, devotion to an earthly temple

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and its bloody animal sacrifices is an insult, it is blasphemy against Christ and his crucifixion and

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resurrection. God has done away with it, and to bring it back is to insult Christ and his once-for-all

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sacrifice for our sins. For this reason, among many others, every Christian should reject this school

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of teaching and its logical political extension, that is Christian Zionism. It is destructive not only

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to the church and her mission, but also destructive to our own nation's interests abroad. On what basis

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then should we support Israel? Well, that brings me to number three, point number three. Our support for

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the state of Israel should be based upon political and moral considerations and none other. Our support for

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Israel should be based upon the fact that she is the only free parliamentary democracy in all of the

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Middle East. Think of it, the only free parliamentary democracy in all of the Middle East, an island of

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liberty in a sea of Islamic tyrannies. Gaza is not the only barbarous, primitive, vicious cesspool in the

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Middle East. Iran and Syria and Qatar are also Islamic hellholes, where Christians are slaughtered, women are

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subjugated, and culture is a backward throwback to the 7th century. Who would want to live in these

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places? All of the posturing progressives, who self-righteously virtue signal in defending Hamas and Iran

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and Islam, in general, would be executed on the spot once they were spotted in these countries with their

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blue hair, nose rings, and trans lifestyles. The imams of Iran regularly repeat this cliche. Israel is the

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little Satan. America is the big Satan. Can you see now the agenda of Islam? In almost every respect,

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the interests of the United States of America in the Middle East coincide with those of Israel. And as long

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as they do, we should continue to support and defend our only true ally in the region. But when those

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interests do not coincide, well, that brings me to point number four. Given this understanding, Israel is not

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above criticism when transgressing American interests. Yes, number four, point number four. Given this

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understanding we've just outlined for you, Israel is not above criticism when transgression, transgressing,

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excuse me, American interests. Unlike zealous American Zionists, we must not consider Israel to be a

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sacred cow or a sacred red heifer, if you will, above criticism and rebuke when she crosses American

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interests. Three criticisms come to mind for me in this regard. Number one, President Trump was elected

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in part to keep us out of forever wars. Yeah, Trump promised to keep us out of forever wars. Bush, Obama,

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Biden all mired us in endless conflicts. Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama in Syria, Biden in

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Ukraine. So despite Bibi Netanyahu's insistence that America participate in a protracted conflict with

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Iran, Trump firmly declined. And he should keep it that way. Hold your ground, President Trump.

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Secondly, second complaint I have, criticism I have, number two, Israel is wrongly killing and

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dispossessing Christians in Gaza. The rabid pit bulls in Gaza are Islamicists, not Christians. There is a

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sizable Christian community in Gaza who are very sympathetic towards Israel, but Israel, especially

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the settlers moving into seize land in Gaza, they are forcing Christians off of the property and in some

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cases killing them if they do not cooperate. This has to end. And then thirdly and finally, the criticism

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I have, probably a chief one here is, Israel has an outsized influence in American politics. Oh yes,

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the Israel lobby in the swamp, the district of criminals, is large and effective in influencing

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policy, domestic as well as foreign. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, spends millions

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in millions of dollars funding politicians' elections campaigns in order to favorably influence policy.

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Dozens of evangelical Christian organizations regularly bring pro-Israeli messages in their

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programming. Think tanks, which are pro-Israel, regularly influence how foreign and domestic

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policy is formed. The American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Foreign Policy

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Research Institute being prime examples. And many people have come to feel that Israel has so

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dominated American politics with severe consequences for criticizing them that the tail is beginning to

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wag the dog. Oh, dear listener, criticisms of Israel. So, when Israel's interests and the United States'

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interests diverge, we must call it for what it is. And then fifthly, there are two extremes that seem to

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rule today, the anti-Semite and the fawning sycophant. Common sense and rational dialogue seem to be lost

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amid two extreme emotional responses to Jews in general and Israel in particular. There's always been a

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subterranean stream of anti-Semitism running through American culture, sometimes breaking the surface and

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flooding the landscape and sometimes quiet and known only to the denizens of prejudice. Well, that stream

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has broken the surface again in recent days, and it's becoming a tidal wave in many circles, especially

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that contemptible Somali representative from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, and her ilk. If a Muslim breaks a

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hand now, it's the Jews, the Jews. If a Somali slips on a banana peel, it's Israel, it's Israel. Oh, once more,

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as it has so often in the past, the Jews are being made the scapegoat for every ill in the world.

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Conspiracies abound with Jews as prime plotters. Israel tried to assassinate President Trump. Israel

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tried to kill Charlie and did kill Charlie Kirk. Oh, on and on it goes. And violence towards Jews

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increases around the world as synagogues and festivals and individuals are targeted by her enemies.

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Oh, even the language has changed, dear listeners, subtly, so that now one makes the plea, I'm not an

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anti-Semite. I'm just anti-Zionism. Oh, of course, the other extreme is the Jewish-Israeli-Zionist

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sycophant who sees Israel as God's chosen instrument for bringing in the millennium. And they will sap at

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nothing to advance Israel's interests. And I pretty much treated them already. Well, I shun both sides.

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Let me make a rational decision based upon facts and the best interest of the United States of

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America. And let me put aside uncritical blinders to Israel's bad policies because the rapture is

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going to happen soon. And let me also put aside the irrational obsession with eliminating the Jews

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altogether. Oh, a pox on both your houses. But what I find is that old dilemma of the man in the middle.

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If you're in the middle of the road, you get run over by both sides. But I guess I'll just have to

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take my chances. And then lastly, number six, our enemies use the extremist views on both sides to

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divide Americans. That's happening, dear listener. Our enemies, especially progressives, are using it

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to divide MAGA in particular. It's time to pray for our nation and begin thinking rationally again

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about Israel, the Jews, and America's best interests. This has been Pastor David Bass at

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New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth. New Geneva meets for holy worship

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on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And I just suggest that you

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