Lecture: What Should Christians Think of the Gaza War? | Dr. Gerald McDermott

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024

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  • @lillianwiggins567
    @lillianwiggins567 Před měsícem +12

    God doesn't change His mind. Eternal means eternal.

  • @arigoldberg8212
    @arigoldberg8212 Před měsícem +4

    At 55:50, the question was: Critics of Israel say that Israel had to know the attack was coming and let it happen, as an excuse for war against Gaza, either just to kill Palestinians, reconquer the land, obtain the offshore oil and gas, etc. This is tricky, because it gets into conspiracy theories. The way I would answer is that in some ways Israel is similar to the US. In the US, a certain segment of the population believes that the US allowed 9/11 to happen, as an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, to pass the Patriot Act giving the government vast new surveillance powers, etc. And not just 9/11, but other horrific events, like the JFK assassination, Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc. Regardless of whether the US allowed these things to happen or not - I’m not accepting or rejecting that premise here - does that mean that therefore the US has no right to exist? That it’s okay if, hypothetically, its enemies: Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, etc., if they have the strength, are justified to invade the US and kill every American? No, of course not. The remedy for Deep State conspiracies is to expose the wrong-doing, try and convict the guilty, and put safeguards in place so that no leaders with hidden agendas are ever allowed to control the government again. Well, it’s the same thing with Israel. Let's grant for the sake of argument that Israel did allow Oct. 7th to happen, not because the people wanted it, but because their leaders had hidden agendas. Well, Israel has just as much right to exist as the US or any other country. The difference between Israel and the US is that we have to realize that Israel's survival is constantly hanging by a thread. It was nearly destroyed in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and has been forced into defending itself in other major conflicts, in 1956, 1982, two West Bank Intifadas, several Gaza wars, and currently faces a possible nuclear Iran, Hizballah in Lebanon with 150,000 rockets and a well-trained army, and other threats. Israel may not have lost a war yet, but it just takes one loss and it’s another Holocaust. So, keeping Israel alive requires ensuring that it is not disadvantaged severely, either by a cease-fire before Hamas is neutralized, economic harm through BDS, or denial of weapons supplies from the US. But the critics of Israel are in favor of all these things: cease-fire, BDS, and cutting off US military aid, even though they never mention cutting off US foreign aid to Israel’s enemies: Egypt, Jordan, the PA, Qatar, Iraq, and many other Middle Eastern countries. So the net effect of harming only one side in the conflict, the Israeli side, may ultimately be to weaken Israel sufficiently and strengthen the anti-Israel countries in the region, so that Israel loses the next war and we have a repeat of the Holocaust.

  • @JohnDjmj
    @JohnDjmj Před měsícem +9

    Fascinating. I appreciate Dr. McDermott's courageous defense of Israel against both supersessionists and dispensationalists.

  • @bearowen5480
    @bearowen5480 Před měsícem +3

    Father McDermott is a former Episcopal priest who is now a priest and theologian in the Anglican or Reformed Episcopal Church of America.

    • @follow-God-commandments
      @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem +3

      @@bearowen5480 okay. No clue what any of it means. But good lecture and great way to communicate to both the Christian community and the messianic Jewish community (which is what we are).

  • @judeomahony367
    @judeomahony367 Před měsícem +1

    As a Chritian I am ashamed of this.

  • @miffy2760
    @miffy2760 Před měsícem +2

    That was brilliant ❤

  • @follow-God-commandments
    @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem +1

    Talk to Suzy Linnet at Dvar Shalom, who returned from Israel and brought pictures that the police and dispatch were attacked first, so there was no dispatch available to help the people at the Nova Festival. I suggest the Philos project invites her to speak.

  • @beesinthegardens
    @beesinthegardens Před měsícem +6

    I stand with Israel. I know Jesus stands with His brothers and sisters of His beloved Homeland Israel. God chose to place His Holy Name there ….In Deuteronomy. God also said that Jesus feet will land on Mount of Olives….yes Israel must exist for the Messiah to come back ❤🇮🇱

    • @jonathanhosh4459
      @jonathanhosh4459 Před měsícem

      After the Jewish revolts against Roman occupation, the majority of Rabbinical Jews were expelled from their homeland and they married the gentiles in the nations they fled to. Since Christians did not participate in the revolt baptized Jews and Samaritans were never expelled from the Holy Land. Their descendants would marry Greco-Roman and Arab settlers resulting in the formation of the Palestinian people. Regardless of what you call the land or its Arab inhabitants, it must be acknowledged that from the time of Abraham to the destruction of Herod's Temple, Jews and Palestinians comprised one people and both of them can trace their ancestry to the ancient Israelites. This is evident in the language and religion of Jews and the continuation of biblical agricultural practices, architecture, and women's textiles in Arab Palestinians.

  • @user-sp1md5xu8j
    @user-sp1md5xu8j Před měsícem +10

    Muslims built Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Jewish Second Temple. Israel is Jewish forever. Arabs know this, archaeologists and historians know this, Christians know this, everyone knows this.

    • @wedas67
      @wedas67 Před měsícem

      😂

    • @gotogd1233
      @gotogd1233 Před měsícem

      FALSE.
      The so called 'mosque' literally sits atop a ancient Knights Templar Royal palace during the reign of Christendom... pls get a grip. Islm literally put a cemetery at the Eastern Gate so prophet Elijah couldn't enter at the 2nd Coming because according to Judaic law the cemetery would defile him...
      They have never built anything! They can't even stack rocks. They plummet and pillage Christian masterpieces then they go on to usurp their existence ... Stop being a goofy masonic plebe by spreading their lies.

    • @oisin928
      @oisin928 Před měsícem +2

      Speak for yourself. Most of us don’t know that at all. It isn’t true

    • @gotogd1233
      @gotogd1233 Před měsícem

      @@oisin928 The only people who do not realise that Israel belongs to the Jews are derelicts and the ungodly.

    • @user-sp1md5xu8j
      @user-sp1md5xu8j Před měsícem

      @@oisin928 Most of us?Who are you?

  • @rockzalt
    @rockzalt Před měsícem

    Hamas is a larger template of what happened to Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple. He and his true believers loved death too but before they took their own lives they made sure those of their own who were not so convinced about it, to forcefully take their own lives.

  • @user-ii1pt5vq3e
    @user-ii1pt5vq3e Před měsícem +1

    I wonder if this gentleman has studied Hebrew and has read the Jewish bible; not a Greek or English translation.

  • @kameelffarag
    @kameelffarag Před měsícem +1

    Forgive me, Christ wanted us as much to get away from the old testament as the word of God, because he denied the Sabbath, and mosaiac laws. He never neither Paul ever said that God gave the law to Moses. Moses is an idea to make a religion, but God does not give religions. Christianity has failed miserably by considering Jesus as the Missiah of the Jews, even they changed the verse ‘“he came to his own thing and his own received him not” to He came to his own” which is a new theology. The gospel of salvation by repentance and having the holy spirit in our lives got mixed with the false religion of the Torah, which has no proof historically, or archeologically. I'm disappointed in this false Christianity, so I call myself follower of Christ .

  • @myfavoriteplanet3247
    @myfavoriteplanet3247 Před měsícem

    The Ten Commandments.

  • @missohio8548
    @missohio8548 Před měsícem +1

    I am Christian liberal and I stand with Jews against hate
    Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱🤍💙

  • @emfegmfeg7100
    @emfegmfeg7100 Před měsícem +2

    Ilan Pappe’s quote is: “The Zionists don’t believe in God, but they believe He promised them Palestine.”

  • @annaan8232
    @annaan8232 Před měsícem

    Documents in Greek was very important in the 1.Century (as well as Aramaic), it was enormous jewish diaspora of native speaking that language. That's why all the apostles had 3 names: given at birth, given by Jesus and other apostels, and its translation into Greec.

  • @philmcgee4591
    @philmcgee4591 Před měsícem +1

    Christian nationalism and nothing but

  • @masea2
    @masea2 Před měsícem +2

    Aviva’s “personal friends in Palestine” lie.

  • @gityschwartz6689
    @gityschwartz6689 Před 22 dny

    No such a thing as settlement, its Israel that god gave to the Jews

  • @haramininfo2474
    @haramininfo2474 Před měsícem +2

    Bullshit

  • @JosefYeshuchild
    @JosefYeshuchild Před měsícem

    Nith qa desh shmakh taythry malkuthakh Awoon Dwashmaya daphnan shwagan Lhaywein .. shalom shalom.. all are abbas for he knitts in the womb with the song of creation...love one another its is not a jealous but a zealous his heart is fierce love ..from his mouth the word spirit the sword of god is the word on his right the seven wisdoms for when the mercy seat comes he will let us know his name.. love one another honor the sabbat love Abba with all your heart obey his laws is the love yeshu seeks.. for the lamb who is worthy to open the scroll is of love.. we are to go out and all to are know the one is and ever shall be the alpha omega mercy seat.. shalom shalom shwagan they do not know... what they do.

  • @follow-God-commandments
    @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem +1

    Great lecture. I am assuming Dr Gerald is Catholic. I forgive this Catholic man and pray that Jesus will bring him to his kingdom for saying what no Catholic so far was willing to proclaim. Thank you Dr Gerald and thank you look for being a great leader in the Philos project.

    • @paulstephen3257
      @paulstephen3257 Před měsícem

      Why would he need forgiveness for being Catholic? Unless you’re one of those crackpots who believe that everyone else but evangelicals are going to hell. Also, I don’t understand why philos is giving a free pass to Israel when it bombs Greek Orthodox churches and Gaza and snipes old ladies in a church.

    • @bearowen5480
      @bearowen5480 Před měsícem +2

      Please see my comment above explaining Dr. McDermott's church affiliation. God bless you!

    • @follow-God-commandments
      @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem +2

      Would it be too much to say that I can’t tell the difference? For us Jew Israelis we just say Notzrim.

    • @bearowen5480
      @bearowen5480 Před měsícem +2

      @@follow-God-commandments Yes, the people who come from Nazareth.

    • @miffy2760
      @miffy2760 Před měsícem +2

      He is Anglican

  • @mnoorbhai
    @mnoorbhai Před měsícem

    Dude was finding excuses and hatching an answer to a difficult question , obvious could not answer hard questions .

    • @fanthony
      @fanthony Před měsícem

      How exactly? Supporting Israel for a Christian does not require mental gymnastics. Jesus was a Jew. He was Israeli.

    • @mnoorbhai
      @mnoorbhai Před měsícem

      @@fanthony listen to him waffling

    • @mnoorbhai
      @mnoorbhai Před měsícem

      ​@@fanthonyDude , get out of the slumber , talk to Jews , they spit on Chritians , ask a Jew if he is near a Muslim in faith , he will say yes , the war is a geopolitical issue if land and has no religious connotations at present , Trinity is frowned upon by Jews .Only Chritians love Jews because they cannot challenge Islam .

  • @emfegmfeg7100
    @emfegmfeg7100 Před měsícem

    Judaism is a religion, and anyone can convert to Judaism. If the rabbinate accepts the conversion, that person can claim Israeli citizenship. Meanwhile, Christian, Druze, and Muslim Arabs face significant challenges in becoming citizens and often have limited rights. Israeli law states that a person only needs one Jewish grandparent to claim Israeli citizenship. Lastly, if Israelis are native to the land, why are they racially diverse, including White, Black African, Indian, and Berber/North African?

    • @talsapps
      @talsapps Před měsícem

      Not everyone can become jewish, converting to judaism is a long process and you can get denied at the end of it.
      And everyone has completely full rights in Israel, you're lying about limited rights.
      And lastly, because the jewish people were displaced and separated by different dictators that came to control the land.

  • @emfegmfeg7100
    @emfegmfeg7100 Před měsícem +2

    The Bible isn’t a history book and it isn’t a real estate contract either. Not to mention that modern day izrael has no connection to the ancient tribal confederation of Izrael

    • @follow-God-commandments
      @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem +3

      God created everything, and if God gave the land to the Jews then who do you think you are to rebel against him??

    • @user-er5or4nr9z
      @user-er5or4nr9z Před měsícem

      ​@@follow-God-commandmentsMost Israelies are secular

    • @emfegmfeg7100
      @emfegmfeg7100 Před měsícem

      @@follow-God-commandments Judaism is a religion, and anyone can convert to Judaism. If the rabbinate accepts the conversion, that person can claim Israeli citizenship. Meanwhile, Christian, Druze, and Muslim Arabs face significant challenges in becoming citizens and often have limited rights. Israeli law states that a person only needs one Jewish grandparent to claim Israeli citizenship. Lastly, if Israelis are native to the land, why are they racially diverse, including White, Black African, Indian, and Berber/North African?

    • @emfegmfeg7100
      @emfegmfeg7100 Před měsícem

      @@follow-God-commandments God also created justice and vengeance. The foreign European Jews have no right to slaughter, steal, and displace the native Christians, Muslims, or Druze.

    • @follow-God-commandments
      @follow-God-commandments Před měsícem

      @@emfegmfeg7100 Judaism is a tribe culture. We have plenty of Jew who don’t follow God and since non stop. The house of Israel was lost after the first exile and only few were left with the house of Judah. In fact, many of the rabanim weren’t Levites as commanded in Leviticus during the second temple. The Sanhedrin were Jews or Benjamin. King Herod wasn’t a Jew, he was a Roman who married a Jew and later replaced her, which is what Yochanan Ha Navie was upset about.

  • @Oushimoto
    @Oushimoto Před měsícem

    Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the everlasting King the Holy Spirit who gives eternal life for all who put their Hope and Trust in Him who is able to do all things for the Glory of God Almighty our Father