Should Christians Care if America’s Embassy Is in Jerusalem?

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would be moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While many Middle Eastern Christians have been critical of this decision, some American evangelical leaders have praised the move. “I think a lot of evangelicals support Israel for a sense of justice,” said Gerald McDermott, the author of Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People and the Land. “They see Israel as a light of freedom and democracy in a Middle East that is filled with the darkness of tyranny.” McDermott, who has traveled to Israel more than a dozen times, acknowledged that the move can make things complicated for Palestinian Christians. “They’re rightly afraid that anything the United States does will be used again them by their Muslim cousins,” said McDermott. “They’re often considered subversives because they’re Christians, the United States is considered a Christian country, and anything the United States does that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t like must be supported by Palestinian Christians.” McDermott joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss whether Christians should care about the location of the American embassy, the divide between Middle Eastern and American Christians over Jerusalem’s recognition as Israel’s capital, and where biblical prophecy fits into this discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9	I'm Morgan Lee, and I'm an associate digital media producer at Christianity
0:38.5	today, and I'm here with our editor-in-chief, Mark Alley.
0:41.4	Hey, Morgan. Mark, it's snowing outside. Yes, I was just out there. I took my midday walk. It was
0:46.9	brisk. The walk was brisk. The weather was brisk. Meanwhile, my bike is getting all rusted. Rested, yep. Okay.
0:55.0	I know.
0:56.3	Wait, who is that voice?
0:57.3	Who is joining us today?
0:58.8	Oh, that voice, that moan. That's your guess.
1:00.5	That sympathetic voice is Gerald McDermott.
1:03.2	He is the Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School.
1:07.1	He teaches in the areas of history and doctrine. He's the author and co-author of many books,
1:11.1	including a Trinitarian Theology of Religions with Harold Detland, Israel Matters, which just
1:15.6	came out in May, and a book that has some very practical consequences for lots of people
1:20.9	called Famous Stutters, Moses to Marilyn Monroe. So we welcome you, Gerald.
1:26.6	Thank you, Mark. And Morgan.
1:28.6	Jerry, I'm so glad you're with us. I have a question about this last book that you read.
1:32.4	How did you find the people to profile? Well, I had been keeping a list for many years of famous stutterers
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