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Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would be moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While many Middle Eastern Christians have been critical of this decision, some American evangelical leaders have praised the move. \u201cI think a lot of evangelicals support Israel for a sense of justice,\u201d said Gerald McDermott, the author of Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People and the Land. \u201cThey see Israel as a light of freedom and democracy in a Middle East that is filled with the darkness of tyranny.\u201d McDermott, who has traveled to Israel more than a dozen times, acknowledged that the move can make things complicated for Palestinian Christians. \u201cThey\u2019re rightly afraid that anything the United States does will be used again them by their Muslim cousins,\u201d said McDermott. \u201cThey\u2019re often considered subversives because they\u2019re Christians, the United States is considered a Christian country, and anything the United States does that the Palestinian leadership doesn\u2019t like must be supported by Palestinian Christians.\u201d McDermott joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss whether Christians should care about the location of the American embassy, the divide between Middle Eastern and American Christians over Jerusalem\u2019s recognition as Israel\u2019s capital, and where biblical prophecy fits into this discussion.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices