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Breakpoint

Israeli Government Threatens to Outlaw Evangelism

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Last month, the Israeli Knesset considered a bill that would make religious evangelism punishable by up to two years in prison.

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With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

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Last month, the Israeli connoisseur, the equivalent of Congress there, considered a bill that

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would make religious evangelism punishable by up to two years in prison.

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The bill didn't mention Christianity directly, but Orthodox Jews who put board the bill admit

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that their goal was to stifle Christian ministry in the Holy Land.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would block the bill, and other world

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leaders pointed to how it violates the universal charter of human rights, which guarantees

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religious freedom.

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In Israel, Christian evangelisms often seen as a threat to strong national identity and

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political stability.

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That might sound strange to evangelical Christians in America, who are among the world's most

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enthusiastic supporters of Israel's political right to exist as a nation.

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But we should also be enthusiastic, both in prayer and in action, for Jewish people to

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know their Messiah.

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Paul told the Romans that God desires all Israel to be saved.

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We should, too.

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But the call center, I'm John Stone Street with Breakpoint.

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