Are changing views on the end times changing people's support for Israel?

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And celebrating the 250th anniversary of maybe the most influential document of 1776,

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations,

and a follow-up from last week's discussion of Texas Democratic candidate James Tolariko. These are the stories we'll discuss and will take

some of your as usual, excellent questions. I'm your host Scott Ray and sitting in for

Shones on the road today as my Talbot colleague philosopher, Dr. Rick Langer. This is the

Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update from Talbot School of, Dr. Rick Langer. This is the Think Biblically weekly

cultural update from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Rick, welcome. So glad

you're able to fill in and really looking forward to your perspectives on some of these

somewhat unusual stories that we've uncovered this week. Yeah, you found some real winners on this,

Scott, so I'm looking forward to chatting with you about them.

Well, here we go.

On story number one here, it's not often that we get a story in any major media source that has to do with eschatology, or the theological doctrine of the end times.

But, Rick, we do this week.

This came out on Monday from the magazine Politico incites the decline

in American support for Israel, both on the right and the left. Some of this is the result of

anti-Semitism on both sides, though criticism of Israel is not necessarily anti-Semitic. On the left,

they see Israel as a oppressor, and on the right, they say Israel as a drain

on U.S. resources. But the article points to something more basic, not politics, but theology.

Evangelicals have been some of the best friends of Israel anywhere in the world because of the

place of Israel in the end times theology of many, though not all,

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