"Weaponize the Old Testament"

Yoram Hazony, president of Israel’s Herzl Institute and a major philosophical proponent of the “national conservatism” movement, says that Christians need to rediscover, and weaponize, the Old Testament.

It was insufficient, Hazony argued, to teach the Gospels, because while they offered a path to individual joy and salvation, they did not deal with the kind of real-world moral and political problems that the Old Testament — “the most politically incorrect book ever published” — faces head-on. Moreover, he said, the very idea of the United States of America was based on the Old Testament’s political model of a society in covenant with God.

Precisely because Christianity is the only force that can defeat radical leftism, Hazony argued, it is necessary for Christians to read the Old Testament, and to restore it, together with the New Testament, in America’s schools.

https://www.youtube.com/live/G9FkhdZV81s?feature=share

Worth watching from 2:06 through 2:36

Is it not frightening that this subject sounds radical?

Yoram Hazony, president of Israel’s Herzl Institute and a major philosophical proponent of the “national conservatism” movement, says that Christians need to rediscover, and weaponize, the Old Testament.

It was insufficient, Hazony argued, to teach the Gospels, because while they offered a path to individual joy and salvation, they did not deal with the kind of real-world moral and political problems that the Old Testament — “the most politically incorrect book ever published” — faces head-on. Moreover, he said, the very idea of the United States of America was based on the Old Testament’s political model of a society in covenant with God.

Precisely because Christianity is the only force that can defeat radical leftism, Hazony argued, it is necessary for Christians to read the Old Testament, and to restore it, together with the New Testament, in America’s schools.

https://www.youtube.com/live/G9FkhdZV81s?feature=share

Worth watching from 2:06 through 2:36

Is it not frightening that this subject sounds radical?

This nation was not modeled after any ancient Hebrew nation nor after any pagan society, but was firmly grounded in biblical truth, especially in trust of God, the teachings of Torah and God's own words; the Ten Commandments.

Christians need not "defend" the Old Testament. Christians live under the New Covenant, Grace.........we are no longer under the Law of the Old Testament, we are under the Law of Grace as stated by the Apostle Paul.

It is an unfortunate fact that most people read the law with a veil over their eyes. It will be removed for all who believe, for the law and the prophets all point to Jesus Yeshua., who taught us all just how to understand the law.

I don’t know about “weaponizing” the Old Testament, but certainly there is a need to teach the many parts of it that are a shadow of Christ and also point to Christ. And teach that Christ was from the very beginning.

I'm not suggesting that as Christians we're under the Law. Only that these were the scriptures that Jesus had and understood in His day. And so we too ought to understand them to withstand those who would deny or try to undermine them by whatever spirit of the age.

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