The BIG Question: Does God Still Have a Plan for Israel? | Difficult Passages #16
Sean McDowell
apologetics
June 14, 2026
Few biblical questions feel more loaded right now than the one about Israel, the land, and whether God's covenant promises apply to the modern state. In this conversation, Old Testament scholar Dr. Carmen Imes and I work through Genesis 13:15. We get into the relationship between the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants, what Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 mean for "forever" promises, whether covenant disobedience can suspend the inheritance even if the promise itself stands, and how to think about the 1948 establishment of the modern state of Israel in light of all of it.
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GenesisGenesis 13Genesis 13:15LeviticusLeviticus 26DeuteronomyDeuteronomy 28
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