Does the Bible grant Israel the right to the entire Middle East?

追加: 2026-05-01

[00:00:00]I what you will hear me say is I'm confused by what the definitions are. So let's go through this. You've appealed to Genesis. Genesis 15 says it's Abram.

[00:00:08]It's pre-Abraham. It's Abram >> receives from God the news that his descendants will inherit the land. And you tell me as the as the theologian if I'm getting this wrong, but from the Euphrates to the Nile. I think I think that's right. And that would include like basically the entire Middle East.

[00:00:26]That would be the Levant. So that would be Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. It would also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. It would be I mean >> not sure it would go that far. I mean it would be a big piece of land. But here's the point.

[00:00:40]>> It would be a lot of places that are now countries.

[00:00:43]>> But this particular area that we're talking about now, Israel is um is a land that God gave through Abraham to a people that he chose. It was a people, a place, and a purpose. We We can look at it that way. Christian Zionism, I want to go back because that's where we started on this.

[00:01:03]>> I'm not going to let you off on this because you have said it three times that God gave this land >> to this people. And so, it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask what land are you talking about? Because I just read Genesis 15 as I have many times.

[00:01:17]>> And that land, I think it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is once again basically the entire Middle East.

[00:01:25]So God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn't. You're saying he did.

[00:01:32]What does that mean? Does Israel have the right to that land? Because you're appealing to Genesis. You're saying that's the original deed.

[00:01:42]>> It would be