Defending the Faith and Sharing it With Jews
A View from the Bunker
Derek Gilbert
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
IT’S DIFFICULT enough explaining why we Christians believe in Jesus, but doing so with our Jewish brothers and sisters requires tact and patience made necessary by almost 1,900 years of mutual animosity.
We’re joined this week by Dr. Igal German, founding director of the Institute of Biblical Apologetics (BibleApologist.org) and Yesod Bible Center (YesodBibleCenter.com). We discuss Dr. German's journey from rabbinic Judaism to faith in Jesus as the Messiah, his work in apologetics, and the current state of Christian responses to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Dr. German emphasizes the importance of understanding apologetics as a defense of faith, the need for a strong Christian voice in support of Israel, and the mission to reach the Jewish community with the gospel. There is a complex historical and theological relationship between Judaism and Christianity, and we explore the implications of supersessionism, the interpretation of Messianic prophecies, and the role of education in bridging the divide between Christians and Jews—especially the importance of understanding the Jewish roots of the Christian faith and the need for compassion and sensitivity in evangelism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a view from the bunker. |
| 0:03.4 | Now, here's Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:07.8 | God is not done with Israel or with the Jews. |
| 0:11.4 | What does that mean for you and me? |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to A View from the Bunker. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:17.1 | Joining us is a man who is making it his life's work, |
| 0:19.6 | not only to build bridges between |
| 0:21.8 | the Christian Church and our brothers and sisters in the Jewish faith, but to share with them |
| 0:28.7 | the love of Christ as he is himself a messianic believer. He is the founding director of both |
| 0:36.0 | the International Biblical Apologetics Association and |
| 0:39.0 | Yosod Bible Center in Chicago, recommended by the leg Dr. Michael Heiser and others we hold |
| 0:45.7 | in high regard. |
| 0:46.4 | We are honored to welcome back to the program for the first time in far too long, Dr. Egal |
| 0:50.9 | German. |
| 0:52.0 | Egal, it's very good to see you again, my friend. |
| 0:54.2 | It's been far too long since you've been on this program. |
| 0:57.0 | For people who may not have seen the previous program, |
| 0:59.9 | because it's been a couple of years now, |
| 1:03.1 | I'm going to ask you, impose on you, if you don't mind, |
| 1:07.3 | to just kind of recapitulate your testimony. |
| 1:13.3 | How is it you as in Israeli come to live in Chicago of all places? |
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