Anybody who invites in Hamas is inviting the destruction of their country. They all know that.

The only nation that has allowed Hamas in is Qatar and that is because they say they believe that they can help Hamas become a reasonable governing power.

But in the process, they've given 120 to $480 million a year, every year to Hamas to fund all of its terroristic operations.

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a biblical worldview.

Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and ideas that shape us.

I'm your host Joseph back home, welcoming you once again as we examine something in the world and do our best to take every

thought captive to the obedience of Christ. That's the exercise here on outstanding and one of the stories that isn't going away is the war in

Israel as we all know on October 7th of 2023 Hamas launched a large scale invasion against Israel in what would eventually be the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

And while the attack was broadly condemned in the West, there were calls for Israel not to retaliate, even as

the attack was still happening. In the months since the invasion, the world has debated

the right way to respond to the situation. The Biden administration has kind of

fluctuated between strong support and calls for restraint. The international world has responded in various ways. In April of this year, the United Nations Human

Rights Council passed a resolution condemning Israel, saying that they were starving people in Gaza because they were in fact

waging a war there against a terrorist organization trying to destroy them and as we all

know Israel launched a drone attack on Israel, which was fortunate, I mean, I said Israel.

Iran launched a drone attack against Israel, which was fortunately determined by the Iron Dome. Now for Christians this is not just

a political matter it's not just one where we hope the good guys win and the bad

guys lose. The question is what does God's relationship to the nation of Israel in the past have to do with what we should think about the current state of Israel today, politically,

governmentally, and otherwise are Christians supposed to support Israel because the covenant that God made with them or is that covenant not

relevant to the modern state of Israel that's part of what we're going to

discuss today and joining me for this conversation is Dr. Jeff Myers. He's the president of Summit Ministries, which is one of my very favorite

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