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June 17, 2002






Land: Support for Israel is obedience to God
___ST. LOUIS (BP)--Supporting Israel is a "matter of being obedient to God," Richard Land said at a briefing on the Jewish state June 10.
___Oliver North and Jerry Falwell joined Land at the briefing, which was sponsored by the new Stand for Israel campaign.
___The effort, announced in late May, has a goal of mobilizing 100,000 churches and 1 million American Christians to support Israel.
___In giving a biblical defense for a Christian backing of Israel, Land pointed to God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis that included a promise to make of him a great nation through Isaac and to bless those who bless him and curse those who curse him.
___"God doesn't make conditional covenants, and he doesn't negotiate. It's God's way or the highway," said Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. "For us, supporting Israel is a matter of being obedient to God and obeying God's command to bless his chosen people."
___God also promised to bless and to multiply Ishmael and his descendants, the Arabs, Land said.
___"God has blessed them, and he will bless them, everywhere but Palestine, because God gave Palestine to the descendants of Isaac forever."
___Land, Falwell and North all said support for Israel is important to the future of the United States.
___Although the United States has not been perfect, it has been "the least anti-Semitic country in the world" in the last century, Land said. "God has blessed us in large measure because we have blessed the Jews."
___Falwell said he believes God has blessed the United States, in part, because America has been committed to the people of Israel.

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