Episode 47: Israel: Understanding Why It Matters with Skip Heitzig

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Israel isn’t much bigger than New Jersey and it’s home to only about nine million people, but it’s one of the most important--and criticized—countries in the world. American evangelical Christians have been one of Israel’s closest allies for decades, but do you know why? Do you know the Biblical significance of Israel today? Skip Heitzig’s understanding of this Jewish nation runs deep and he joined me on this episode to explain what you need to know about historic and modern Israel. Skip has ...

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0:00.0	Israel, why it matters to you, whether you know it or not.
0:05.6	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.
0:07.6	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith
0:11.0	and a compromising culture. Welcome back to another episode of Fearless. I'm Sissy Graham Lynch and today
0:29.5	we're going to talk about a subject which I believe is a subject many Christians cannot and
0:35.2	don't know how to defend. So as always here on Fearless I want to encourage you to
0:39.8	know more study more, know what you believe, why you believe it, and most importantly, know what God's word says.
0:46.9	And today's subject is Israel.
0:49.2	Other than the United States, I would believe Israel's probably mentioned more in the nightly news than any other country.
0:55.2	But controversy and debate always surrounds Israel. And what is startling to me is that many
1:01.0	Christians cannot articulate their support to Israel other than it's God's promised land.
1:06.4	That would probably be the end of their argument.
1:09.6	And Israel is this very tiny nation.
1:12.1	It's probably about the size of New Jersey,
1:14.4	and the population is only a little over 9 million people.
1:18.4	Yet it is the geopolitical center in the world,
1:21.7	whether you know it or not, this tiny nation,
1:24.3	the events that surround this nation,
1:25.9	affect you, me, and everyone around the world. So to talk about this subject I am bringing in who I would believe it would be an expert in this and that is skip
1:42.2	Isaac skip welcome to
1:43.5	fearless it's great to be with you sissy and it's great to talk about the
1:47.3	subject I too am very passionate about the things you just described so it's great to be
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