Recently, Tucker Carlson interviewed Ambassador Mike Huckabee and asked him questions that he struggled to answer. Questions like: Who are the children of Abraham? Who are the Jews? What is the land that God promised? And what was the nature of that promise? And, in this present time, how do we identify the people God promised that land to?
Many people say the answer is obvious because there are people that call themselves Jews, but when you consider that many Christians believe America should support Israel militarily as ones who have a God-given right to the land, the answers matter a great deal. This becomes even more important when you consider that Israel does not allow Jews who have converted to Christianity the right to return, so it is not purely genetic in national Israel’s eyes. So before we talk about the problems with both Huckabee’s and Tucker’s arguments, who was the promise of the land that was given to Abram?
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Timecodes
00:00:00 Tucker and Huckabee
00:05:35 Promise to Abraham
00:13:33 Israel Divorced
00:14:43 How God Gives Land
00:22:52 Two Promises
00:29:13 Descent by Father or Mother?
00:47:44 What is the Promised Land?
01:00:10 Conclusions
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