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The 9941 Podcast

What Should Christians Think About Israel?

The 9941 Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Granger and AntMan take on one of the most complicated and emotional topics in the world today — Israel. With headlines filled with bombings, politics, and global tension, they slow down to ask a deeper question: how should Christians really think about what’s happening there?

 

Granger shares his experiences from two trips to Israel, including visits to the site of the 2023 music festival massacre near Gaza. He describes walking through memorials, seeing the bunkers, and talking with Israeli soldiers and families living in constant fear. But he also tells the stories of Palestinians he met in the West Bank — parents who just want to feed their children and live in peace.

 

The conversation moves from the human side of the conflict to the spiritual one. Granger and AntMan open Scripture to look at what the Bible says about Israel — the difference between the modern nation and the Israel of the Bible, and how Christians should view God’s promises today.

 

In the end, Granger reminds listeners that God doesn’t pick sides the way we do. He’s not for one nation or another; He’s for His own purpose and glory. It’s a hard but hopeful truth, pointing us back to Christ as the only source of real peace in a world that keeps breaking apart.

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0:00.0

As Christians, how should we feel about Israel?

0:05.2

So much in the news, we hear about Gaza, we hear about bombings, we hear about terrorism,

0:09.3

we hear about corrupt governments with Netanyahu.

0:11.9

How do we think about this as Christians?

0:14.4

It's complicated.

0:15.9

But we're about to get into it.

0:31.4

Okay, this is an episode we've been wanting to do for a while.

0:33.0

We've kind of had to put it off a little bit.

0:35.2

We could have done it last year.

0:43.0

We could have done it two years ago because as we sit here and record this, today is October the 7th, 2025.

0:46.4

And two years ago, you had a trip plan to Israel.

0:47.3

Then this happened.

0:52.8

And the plan still happened, but it turned into a missionary trip versus a tourist trip.

0:53.8

That's right. And We ended up going in February

0:56.8

of 24, and then I want to get in September of 24, all pushed back because of what happened

1:03.8

on this day two years ago. The invasion of the terrorist into the music festival in southern Israel.

1:13.5

Since then, you and I both been to that place.

1:17.3

Did you go to that place?

1:18.2

No, you didn't go to the place.

1:19.4

You went there in September.

1:20.9

We didn't go to the actual site.

1:22.0

That's right.

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