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Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw.

Do Christians have a theological mandate to support the modern state of Israel?

That's a question we're going to wrestle with in this forthcoming conversation.

I could think a few people more qualified to help us wrestle with this question.

Then Dr. Gary Birch, Gary Birch did his PhD at the finest university in the world,

namely Aberdeen University, where I also did my PhD.

We didn't study together. He's a couple years, maybe a few years older than I am.

But Gary did his PhD in New Testament studies under eye-hower Marshall at Aberdeen University.

He taught at Wheaton College for over 25 years and then Calvin Theological Seminary where he has just recently retired.

And I say Gary is highly qualified to help us wrestle with this question because he's written two books on the question of the promise of the land within biblical theology.

He wrote a book called Jesus and the land.

What does Jesus have to have to say about the land promises of the Old Testament?

And then he also wrote another book called Whose Land, Whose Promise,

which also wrestles with the land promise and light of ongoing conflicts in the so-called land of Israel, Palestine.

So we do focus on the question of the land promise in the Bible.

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