The October 7 terrorist attacks in the land of Israel have provoked endless discussion attempting to provide historical context for the current conflict. Whether Israelis or Palestinians ultimately shoulder the blame is the question occupying our minds and television screens right now. Our guest today is Jeremiah Michael from the Bram Center for Messianic Jewish Learning in Jerusalem. He’s here to give us one piece of the puzzle: Christian supersessionism, its connection to European and Islamic anti-Semitism, and how it has obscured the relationship between the people of Israel and the land of Israel throughout history, denying the right of the Jewish people to exercise sovereignty over the land God promised them. 

–  Highlights –

• Recounting personal family experiences from Jerusalem on October 7.
• A spirit of national unity has taken over the State of Israel.
• The promises of God to the Jewish people for the physical Jewish homeland.
• Does God have a unique chosen people and a chosen land?Christian supersessionists claim that the Jewish people who have rejected Jesus can no longer lay claim to the geographical land that is known as Israel.
• Extra-biblical evidence for the presence of Jewish people in the land of Israel from the ancient time of the Babylonians.
• After all the foreign conquerors drove Jews into exile, did Constantine improve the situation for Jewish people in their ancient homeland?
• Islam began as a heretical offshoot of Christianity.Jerusalem has not always been integral to Islamic tradition.
• How did Jerusalem and the land of Israel become integral to the Islamic tradition?
• How did the Christian Crusades shape modern views of the land of Israel?
• What if the Crusaders took back the land of Israel in order to give it to the Jewish people and stand by their side as defenders of the Jewish people’s divine right to the land?
• Both Christianity and Islam were established on the basis of supersessionism. Widespread support of Hamas’ attack on Israel by both Arabs and Christians.

–  Resources –

Dr. Brown Responds to Jeff Durbin and Apologia Radio About Israel and Jewish Identity

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