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?

Listen to the audio version here:
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

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

There are churches that hold Super Bowl parties or cancel Sunday evening services so people can watch the Super Bowl. If the Sabbath is a day of rest, why shouldn’t we do what we want to relax on that day?

Thumbnail image by Alan Owns under BY-NC-SA 2.0

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00:00 Sabbath Made for Man
09:56 Superbowl Idolatry
13:22 Sabbath Sports
28:57 Joy in God
40:05 Childrens’ Sunday Sports
42:54 Fighting for the Sabbath
57:28 Community Testimony
01:01:33 Are Sports Special?

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

Dispensationalists often argue that Old Testament promises to Israel must only be fulfilled in a physical way to the earthly nation of Israel. There are many complexities with that view because even in the Old Testament, the word “Israel” is also used to mean the promised land, the northern kingdom, the church, or even Jesus Christ. And while there are promises that were made to the physical nation, it is important to understand that God laid the groundwork for bringing in the Gentiles to Moses all the way back in the Pentateuch. In Deuteronomy, in the Song of Moses, Moses understood that the earthly nation of Israel was just a type and that those to whom God gave the gift of faith are the true Israel.

In this episode, we look at how fundamental the typology of Israel is to redemptive history and how easy it is to miss it because of how strongly dispensationalism has been pushed in the US and much of the rest of the world.

Timecodes
00:00:00 Song of Moses
00:09:47 Tower of Babel
00:22:01 Rejoice O Gentiles
00:32:57 Israel’s Rebellion
00:49:40 Dispensationalism

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson