1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: Well, hey there, and welcome back. This is the Outasigon 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: podcast and our Israel Answers teaching series. We're taking a 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 2: few weeks now to connect the Bible to modern Israel, 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: and we're covering a few subjects to sort of bridge 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 2: that gap for you before we go on to talk 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: about and answer some of your questions about Israel in 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: this series. So today we're talking about the development of 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: the religion of Christianity since the time of the Bible. 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: Let's take a break and hear a message from one 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 1: of our sponsors. Welcome to the Israel Answer Series, Connecting 12 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: Israel the Bible, and you join Susan Michael as she 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: explores timely issues and current events from a scriptural perspective 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: to equip the Christian world with a balanced and biblical response. 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: Be searching subscribe for future episodes which will ignite your 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: faith and bring the Bible to life in your everyday world. Now, 17 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: let's join Susan with your Israel Answers. 18 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: In our Biblical Teachings, we had a previous series walk 19 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: through the Bible. We really laid the foundation for the 20 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: Jewish roots of Christianity that we were everything that we 21 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: hold dear as Christians, was given to us through and 22 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: by the Jewish people. And we we're like wild olive 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: branches that have been grafted in to this tree of 24 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: faith that goes all the way back to Abraham. And 25 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: we receive such sustenance and growth from understanding God's covenance 26 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: with the Jewish people, his promises to them, the temple worship, 27 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: the apostle. Paul listed all these things in Romans nine, 28 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: verses four and five, where he lists the things that 29 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: God gave to Israel, and through them we're receiving them. 30 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 2: So let's read it where he says, theirs is the 31 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: adoption of sons. There's the divine glory, the covenants, the 32 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 2: receiving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. 33 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is trace the 34 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: human ancestry of Christ, who is God overall forever praised 35 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 2: a man. So our roots are in the Jewish faith, 36 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: and our Messiah, Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. He was 37 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: born a Jewish baby to a Jewish parents in a 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: Jewish town and ministered to the Jewish people. He said 39 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: he was called to the House of Israel. So how 40 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 2: did these How did we then separate from the Jewish roots? 41 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 2: How is that Christianity is so different today from Judaism. 42 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: So last week we talked about the development of Judaism. 43 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 2: Today I want to talk about the development of Christianity. So, 44 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: as I said last week, one of the really moments 45 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: of great impact was in seventy a d. When the 46 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 2: Roman forces destroyed the city of Jerusalem, the Temple and 47 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: ended all of the sacrificial system that had taken place 48 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: there in the Temple. And during this time the headquarters 49 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: of the Jewish faith moved up north. But during the 50 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: siege of Jerusalem and the fighting of Jerusalem, the early 51 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: believers in Jesus had fled the city. But why because 52 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: Jesus had warned them he said there will be an 53 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: embankment around Jerusalem when you see these days approaching, flee 54 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: And so they had fled, and they missed out on 55 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: the siege of Jerusalem. So when it was over, the 56 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: temples destroyed, they began to trickle back into the city. 57 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: They were kind of rejected. They were seen as traders. 58 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: They had not gone through the siege with everybody else. 59 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: Fast forward, then sixty years later it gets even worse. 60 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: And this is when the Roman emperor Hadrian announced and 61 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: decided that he was going to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, 62 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: but he was going to rebuild it as a pagan city, 63 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 2: and so where there had been the temple to the 64 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: God of Israel, he was going to build a temple 65 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: to Jupiter. And so there was a great reaction from 66 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,679 Speaker 2: the Jews and the Zelots, who had described you last week. 67 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: The Zelots rose up against the Romans. But once again, 68 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,919 Speaker 2: after about a three year siege and period, the Roman 69 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: one and they put down this rebellion, and so they 70 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: renamed Jerusalem Alio Capitalina. They built pagan worship sites on 71 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: top of any known Jewish worship site or Christian and 72 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 2: they also renamed the land of Israel that had been 73 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 2: known as Judea in the Roman Empire, and they renamed 74 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: it Palestina. And so this is where the area began 75 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: to be called Palestine is here from the Romans. So 76 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 2: during this siege though that Hadrian led, it's known as 77 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: the Barkoka Revolt because the revolt was led by a 78 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 2: man named Simon Barkokba, and he was proclaimed to be 79 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: the Messiah, and the leading rabbis of the time proclaimed 80 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 2: him as Messiah. Whether they really believe it or not, 81 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was to get everybody to 82 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: rally behind him and to be a part of this 83 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: revolt against the Roman forces. And the Christians could not 84 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 2: support this because they believed Jesus was the Messiah and 85 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: they would not follow another Jewish messiah. And so during 86 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: the fighting of the Bar Kochba revolt it got very bloody, 87 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 2: and there were actually early Christians Jewish believers in Jesus 88 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 2: who wouldn't follow the revolt that died in the revolt 89 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: because of it. So this is really known in history 90 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 2: as the split between the Church and the Synagogue. This 91 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 2: is when it was really all over, It got bloody, 92 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: and it was the split. After this time, Judaism moves north. 93 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: The head of the Christian Church begins to develop in 94 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: other areas like Antioch and Alexandria, down in Egypt and 95 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: in Rome, and it also moves out of Jerusalem as 96 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: the headquarters, and we began developing on two different tracks. 97 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 2: So what started out as a first century internal squabble 98 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 2: between Jews and Christians over the messiahship of Jesus now 99 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: ends up two different religions both struggling to survive under 100 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: the oppressive Roman Empire. And the Roman Empire had deemed 101 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: Judaism as a legal religion, so the Jews were allowed 102 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: to carry on their religion. So as soon as as 103 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: long as Christianity was seen as a part of the 104 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 2: Jewish sect, it was protected. But once it became separate, 105 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: it was no longer protected and it became known as 106 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: an illegal religion and became highly persecuted by the Romans. 107 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: Now the Jews also were persecuted after the revolt there. 108 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 2: And you know, history goes on and different emperors are 109 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 2: harder on the Jews, harder on the Christians than other 110 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: emperors are easier on them. But one of the worst 111 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: times for the Christians under Rome was in sixty four 112 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: AD when the Rome was on fire and the Emperor 113 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 2: Nero needed somebody to blame, and he blamed the Christians 114 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 2: and they were very persecuted. Many of them were killed, 115 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: they were executed, they were burned alive. And it's believed 116 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 2: that the Apostle Paul may have died during that time 117 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 2: because he has not heard of after this bloody period 118 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: under Nero. We know Paul was in Rome but then 119 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: his story he goes silent, and so there's a lot 120 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: of belief that during this period he may have died. 121 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 2: So now throughout the Roman Empire, the Church is growing, 122 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 2: and at times it's freer to grow, and at times 123 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: it's highly persecuted, but it is growing, and it's becoming 124 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: predominantly Gentile. There's just not as many Jews in the 125 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,599 Speaker 2: church anymore. And so these Pagans that are converting to 126 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: Christianity coming into the church, a lot of them had 127 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 2: no understanding of the Jewish faith, of the Jewish roots 128 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: of Christianity, of the Jewishness of Jesus, and where this 129 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 2: faith had been born. And some of them may have 130 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:50,359 Speaker 2: even brought anti Semitism with them from the Greek society, 131 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: and that's a whole nother story I don't have time 132 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: to get into, but they may have brought it in 133 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: with them. And so what happens is that several of 134 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 2: the Gentile church fathers began to preach against Judaism. And 135 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: there's a lot of different reasons for it, but this 136 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 2: is when the teaching a replacement theology, or what it's 137 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 2: known as super sessionism, began to develop, and it taught 138 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: that the Jews had been cursed by God because of 139 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 2: their rejection of Jesus' Missianic credentials, and therefore had been 140 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 2: replaced by the Church in the plans and purposes of God. 141 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: And this theology led to a teaching of contempt of 142 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:43,319 Speaker 2: the Jewish people, that they were God killers. And some 143 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 2: of our church fathers preached terrible things about the synagogues 144 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: and called them brothels. And you should have nothing to 145 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: do with this. It's evil, it's unclean. And it's in 146 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 2: the fourth century AD when the Roman Emperor became a Christian, 147 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 2: Constantine became a Christian, and a few decades later, Christianity 148 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: is now the official state religion of the Roman Empire. 149 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: Let's take a break and hear a message from one 150 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: of our sponsors. Welcome back to the Auto Zion Podcast 151 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: with Susan Michael. 152 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 2: And at this point, these church fathers began to preach 153 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: very hard against Judaism because they wanted to clarify, they 154 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 2: wanted to separate the Christians from the Jewish roots and 155 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: from the synagogue and from associating with the Jewish people. 156 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 2: And it's at this point that the Church really paved 157 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: the way for later generations that then passed laws against 158 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: the Jewish people. It was the beginning was teaching against 159 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: the Jewish faith, and then it moved into actual persecution 160 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 2: of the Jewish people by these state churches and state 161 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: rulers that are also the head of the church. It's 162 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 2: a political mishmash. The church became impure because of it 163 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: was contaminated by politics, and you'd have a sometimes a 164 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: very ungodly king or queen who was over the church. 165 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 2: And so this theology then became laws against the Jewish people. 166 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 2: They couldn't own businesses, they couldn't own land, they couldn't 167 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 2: live in certain areas, and then later they were put 168 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 2: into ghettos, and then sometimes they were just kicked out 169 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: of the country altogether. They just didn't even want them 170 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: living in their country. And this is the progression of 171 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: anti Semitism, and the centuries of this type of teaching 172 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 2: and hatred and discrimination paper way for the Holocaust. Now, 173 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: the Holocaust was not carried out by Christians. The Nazis 174 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 2: had their own strange belief but they many of the 175 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 2: Nazi soldiers were still in churches. They were not excommunicated 176 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 2: from the churches. So there is a little bit of 177 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 2: a mishmash there, but Christianity did not carry out the Holocaust. 178 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 2: The Holocaust was based on a racial cleansing of the 179 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 2: human race in order to make the Aryan race the 180 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 2: supreme race and the pure race. And it had nothing, 181 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 2: It really didn't have anything to do with religion, but 182 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: centuries of Christian anti Semitism had paved the way for it. 183 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: We're going to talk more about that next week. I 184 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: want to move on with our story because today there's 185 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: been a major shift in Christianity and I want you 186 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 2: to understand why and what a blessing it is to 187 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 2: be a part of a whole new day. It goes 188 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 2: back almost five hundred years ago when the Bible was 189 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: translated into the everyday languages and for the first time, 190 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: the everyday Christian could actually read the Bible. You have 191 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: to understand, for centuries they couldn't read the Bible. Many 192 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 2: were illiterate, but many couldn't read it in the original languages. 193 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: All all they knew was what the church popes taught 194 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,119 Speaker 2: or taught them, or what was enacted in the masses 195 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: in the church. And they really didn't know what the 196 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: Bible taught and then when the printing press came along 197 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 2: and we were able to mass distribute these translations of 198 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 2: the Bible, Christians were able to get their hands on 199 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: Bibles and read it for themselves. And it started various movements. 200 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 2: Separatist movement to separate from the unclean state Church and 201 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 2: get back to a biblical first century church. That was 202 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: followed by the Puritans that taught, we need to purify 203 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 2: this state church, we need to bring it back to 204 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 2: its biblical roots. There were the Pietists that emphasized prayer 205 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: and evangelism and that. There were all these different movements, 206 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: but it started with the translation of the Bible into 207 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: the everyday language, and this birth a Bible based Christianity. 208 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: It's a segment of Christianity. We call it the evangelical movement, 209 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: but it goes back to these days and these early 210 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: pioneers of evangelical Christianity. They saw in the Bible that 211 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: God had made all these promises to the Jewish people, 212 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: that he had eternal covenance with them, and eternal promises, 213 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 2: and the land, the gift of the land, was very 214 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 2: much a part of these eternal promises, and that God 215 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 2: had promised one day he was going to bring them 216 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 2: back to their land. And so these early preachers were 217 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: preaching this from the pulpit, and they all believed that 218 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 2: one day the Jews would be restored to their land. 219 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: And the over time, as Evangelical Christianity got stronger, and 220 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: especially in England, it became known as the Restorationist movement, 221 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 2: that the evangelical Christians supported the restoration of the Jewish 222 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 2: people to their ancient homeland. So they were called Restorationists, 223 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 2: and there were key leaders in the British government that 224 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: helped actually in bringing about the birth of the state 225 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 2: of Israel. But the point I want to make is 226 00:16:53,960 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 2: that within Christianity itself today, Evangelical Christianity is the the 227 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 2: fastest growing segment of the Christian world. And when I 228 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 2: say the Christian world, I'm using it in the very 229 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 2: broad term. It includes the Eastern Orthodox, the Catholic, the 230 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: mainline Protestants, and the Evangelical, the Pentecostals, the non Pentecostal Evangelicals. 231 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 2: I mean all of that, It involves all of it. 232 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 2: Anybody that names the name of Christ is within the 233 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 2: world of Christiandom and there's about I think it's two 234 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 2: point five billion Christians in the world. The fastest growing 235 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 2: segment is the Bible based Christianity, what we call evangelical Christianity. 236 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 2: And the good news is that Evangelical Christianity is largely 237 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: philo Semitic. It is supportive of the Jewish people of 238 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 2: their return to the homeland. Now it today in the 239 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: United States, evangel Christianity is kind of plateaued, and some 240 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 2: could argue that it's on the decline, and as a result, 241 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 2: Evangelical support for Israel is really not as strong as 242 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 2: it was twenty years ago. But Evangelical Christianity is in 243 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 2: total revival and spreading like wildfire in Africa, Asia, and 244 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 2: Latin America, and their support of Israel is at an 245 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 2: all time high. It's affecting governments and everything because of 246 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: the growth of Evangelical Christianity within those countries. So today 247 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: it is a whole new day for Jewish Christian relations 248 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 2: because of this Bible based Christianity that is becoming so 249 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: influential within the Christian world. I think I don't know 250 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 2: the day that it's predicted that Evangelical Christianity will be 251 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 2: the largest segment, but for sure it will be because 252 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 2: it's growing so quickly, and so today we are able 253 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 2: to come to a understanding of the Jewish roots of Christianity, 254 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: of the jewishness of Jesus. We understand God's promises to 255 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: the Jewish people. We understand the calling on the Jewish 256 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: people is still there. It has never been revoked. The 257 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 2: Apostle Paul said, it's irrevocable. And we understand the importance 258 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 2: of the Christian world, our calling to take the Gospel 259 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 2: to the four corners of the world. We understand all 260 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 2: of this because we have the Bible today, and therefore 261 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 2: we are able as Christians to reach out in friendship 262 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 2: to the Jewish people. The Jewish people are coming to 263 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 2: learn that Christians are no longer their enemy as they 264 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 2: were throughout history, and they're having to learn to trust us, 265 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: and they're having to learn how to work with us. 266 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 2: We kind of speak two different languages. We do definitely 267 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 2: disagree on some things theologically, on salvation, on Jesus. We 268 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 2: have very big disagreements between Judaism and Christianity. But for 269 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 2: the first time in many, many many years, we can 270 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: agree to disagree and be friends and have a relationship 271 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 2: built on mutual respect. It is a whole New Day 272 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 2: and you and I are part of it. So that 273 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: finishes today's overview of the development of Christianity. And next 274 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 2: week we're going to talk about anti Semitism through the Ages. 275 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 2: So see you back here next week as we continue 276 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: connecting the Bible to Israel. 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