Why Christians Support Israel Part 2: Practical Reasons

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Welcome back to our Why Christians Should Support Israel series. Now today I'm

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going to give you some reasons why not just Christians but actually every

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American should support Israel. We all benefit in so many ways from Israel it

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only makes sense that we would support the Jewish state. Welcome to the Israel

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Answer series connecting Israel, the Bible, and you. Join Susan Michael as she

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explores timely issues and current events from a scriptural perspective to

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equip the Christian world with a balanced and biblical response. Be sure to

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subscribe for future episodes which will ignite your faith and bring the Bible to

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life in your everyday world. Now let's join Susan with your Israel answers. So

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why should Christians support Israel? Last week we talked about what I called

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personal reasons why every Christian should appreciate and support Israel.

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Today I want to talk about what I call practical reasons for why every American

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should support Israel. We benefit greatly from Israel. So let's talk about

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politically. It is vital for America that we have a country like Israel in the

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middle of the Middle East that has our back. She's the only democracy in the

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Middle East, a country that advances our interest in human rights and freedom of

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worship, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and Israel is the only one stable

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country in a really quite volatile area. And so it really serves America to have

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Israel. Now security on the national security front Israel's expertise in

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fighting terrorism is really essential and it's second to none. So the US and the

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Israeli military train together. They do joint operations together especially in

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missile defense training and search and rescue. If there was no Israel the United

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States would have to have aircraft carriers in the area, tens of thousands

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of troops. We would be spending billions of dollars every single year. We might get

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pulled into local and regional wars that now we do not have to. So instead we can

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rely on Israel. Now Israel's intelligence is also second to none and

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especially when it comes to terrorism. They have warned US officials on numerous

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times about pending threats that they found and that we were able to then

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prevent and attack. Israel often takes our military hardware and actually

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improves it and so they built like an under armor for the underneath of jeeps

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and tanks and they have saved thousands of American troops lives from the

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danger of IEDs. So and battlefield medicine. I mean Israel has developed so

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many techniques for the battlefront that have saved American lives. Then even our

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United States police commissioners, our police chiefs, our sheriffs, they have

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had joint training with their counterparts in Israel learning some of

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the new and best techniques and of course our airlines and our airport

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security has been greatly enhanced because of Israel's experience and

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expertise that they were so happy to share with their best friend the United

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States. We should be so grateful for all of this and something you don't think

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about a lot is the economic blessings in the United States of our relationship

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with Israel. You know we have the oldest trade agreement, free trade agreement, is

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with Israel. It's 30 years old and it produces more than 40 billion dollars

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annually. Israel spends about 25 billion dollars in the United States each year.

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30 states in the United States have cooperative agreements with Israel on

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things like agriculture, energy, business, homeland security, etc. etc. and over 200

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multinational companies, you know, actually most of them are American, have

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operations in Israel. They have R&D and development there in Israel. So these

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American companies benefit America back home. So thank you Israel for the

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economic blessing of our relationship with you. Then let's just talk about

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their innovations and technology and you know I could take a whole hour just on

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this just on medical innovation alone. If you've been to the hospital recently

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you have more than likely benefited from some medical technology that has been

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developed by Israel. I'm only going to name a couple of different things here

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that you may have heard of that have been in the news. There's a list of 30, 40,

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50 of these but the pill cam you've heard about the little pill with the

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camera in it that you can swallow and they can see into your colon as the

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milk as the pill goes through your system which we hope is going to save a

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lot of people from needing colonoscopies in the future. Then there's what's

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called the rewalk which is a robotic echoskeleton and it enables

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paraplegics to walk. There is the total lift bed in hospitals now. There are

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beds that can actually raise the patient up so that they're in an upright

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position. There's a NANOS breathalyzer that can diagnose 18 different diseases.

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The list goes on and on. Thank you Israel for your medical technology that I'm

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certain is saving millions of lives in America. And then there's the issue of

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humanitarian aid. Now you know even though Israel is just the size of the

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state of New Jersey, yeah believe it or not, Israel has achieved a claim all

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over the world for its humanitarian aid efforts. So since 1957 Israel's foreign

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ministry has had a department called Meshav and it has overseen humanitarian

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assistance programs in over 132 countries. They have helped 270,000

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participants over the years to receive training and help that they have

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implemented back home in their country. But not just the Israeli government, the

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people of Israel are also volunteering around the world. Their foremost

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organization is called ISRAAID. It's a nonprofit organization made up of

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everyday Israelis but they have doctors, they have medical technicians, they have

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just humanitarian aid workers and anytime there is a disaster around the

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world they're usually just about the first on the scene with the most advanced

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pop-up hospital that the world had ever seen. The United States has been

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assisted by ISRAAID. Since their founding in 2001 they've assisted with the

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Katrina Hurricane disaster relief in New Orleans. I think it was

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Hurricane Harvey in Houston. There were wildfires in Washington State and just

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recently in Florida there was the collapse of the Surfside condominium

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collapse and they came and assisted and actually they made a huge difference in

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being able to determine how many bodies were there and how to recover them. So

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why is Israel doing all of this humanitarian assistance? Why is Israel

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trying to bless the world? Well is it because they're trying to prove the

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world wrong? They're not really bad people after all. There might be some of

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that but more significant it's in the Jewish DNA. Their daily prayers have a

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thought in it called t'koun alam which means to repair the world and it comes

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from a scripture in Isaiah chapter 1 verse 17. Let me read it to you. It says

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seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, and plead for the

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widow. This is from the Hebrew prophets. This is in the Hebrew Bible. This is part

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of the DNA of Judaism and of the Jewish people. They want to make the world a

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better place and they're doing whatever they can to bring that about. So there are

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many, many reasons why we should support Israel. Now that brings this week to a

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close and our more practical reasons, the political, the economic, the security, the

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humanitarian. Next week, once you come back, we're going to talk about the moral

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reasons. So you ready to go to Israel now? Go down in today's show notes, click

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dates that we have coming up when you can go to Israel with me and see it for

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yourself. I also have two offers for you today. Well hey, give me one more minute. I

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have two very special offers for you. First is all you ladies out there. We

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have scheduled a women's tour to Israel this November, November 2nd through the

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12th. I invite you to go with me to the land of the Bible. Let's walk the land,

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let's talk the Bible, let's have our faith restored and ignited and strengthened

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for the days in which we live. To sign up, I want you to go down below into today's

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information or if it's easier just call our tour's department line at 866-393-5890.

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That's 866-393-5890. I want to travel Israel with you. Now my second offer is a

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free download that we have developed just for you called 10 Reasons for Christians

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to Support Israel. Over the coming weeks I'm going to be talking about a lot of

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these reasons but I want you to have this download so that you can be

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preparing yourself, that you can share it with your friends and colleagues and

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invite them to listen in each week as I will be going over some of these reasons

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and going a little bit farther into depth. So in today's show notes we link

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directly to this downloadable 10 reasons why Christians should support Israel or

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you can go to the out-of-zion-show.com landing page, click on resources and we

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should have a link there for you as well. So take advantage of this free download

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and I will see you back here next week fully informed ready to learn some more.

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Until then, God bless.