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Guest (Male): This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour talk show confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: Today we take a look at deception, the truth about deception. Deception is destructive. And Satan wants to destroy you, as Jesus himself said: "the thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy, but I am come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly." So if Jesus comes to bring us life under the Father's authority, Satan's primary tool calculated for our destruction is to undermine God's authority in our lives.

And here's the problem: he's very clever, he seems to be cool, and he's calculating. And it seems like he has such authority, but his weapons are carnal, they're fleshly. But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal or fleshly but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. And Satan plays upon the weaknesses of our flesh.

Now the weaknesses of our flesh, you might think, well, you're talking about sexual things, you're talking about things like that. Well, yes, but not only that. Fleshly things may have to do with our proclivities in our thinking. Ideas that we have conjured up in our own minds that we think are even, shall we say, more important or more accurate than what God has said in his word.

And unfortunately, we're all far too well willing to be pawns in this cosmic struggle. The real issue in all deception is God's authority. God's authority. So today on Viewpoint, as we get into the conversation, which may be challenging for a lot of people. In fact, it's challenging for me to even discuss what we're going to talk about here today on Viewpoint. But I think it needs to be discussed, and so we're going to discuss it without being disgusting.

One of the problems with deception is it denies and distorts truth. It doesn't necessarily deny truth, but it distorts truth. But in distorting truth, it actually has the effect of denying truth. In other words, it leads to an inappropriate, dishonest understanding of that which was supposedly true. And that's what happened in the Garden of Eden. Remember that when Satan asked Eve, "Hath God said?"

Now, he knew what God had said. And so he told Eve what God had said. He actually, Satan, quotes scripture when it's convenient. And then he undoes it also when it's convenient. So he uses scripture sometimes to undo the very scripture he quotes. And that's what he did with Eve. "Hath God said?" And she said, "Yes, and here's what he said." And Satan, "Yes, but..."

In other words, Satan put a spin on what God had said. Gave a reason out of Satan's own ideas, own mouth, own rebellion. He gave a reason for why God said what he said, which wasn't part of what God said at all, nor was it even part of the reason for what God said. It was Satan's spin on what God had said. And Eve went along with it.

She was sold on it, not because she disagreed with what God had said, but she chose to agree with the spin that was put on what God had said. And the deception was so great that it resulted in sin that has contaminated the entire human race to this day and causes us to have to discuss the issue of deception itself.

So we're going to talk about all that here today on Viewpoint and I'm so glad that you've joined us. It's conversation as always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. By the way, if you don't have my book *Seduction of the Saints: How to Stay Pure in a World of Deception*, you really should get it because it will help you to understand the real nature of deception. It's not always what we think it is.

It comes in on little cat feet. It comes in surreptitiously. It comes in sometimes and oftentimes in the name of truth. The worst kind of deception, I think, is the deception that comes in in the name of Christ himself, wrapped in the robes of Christ. Boy, it seems like it has all authority, all authority. But if it disagrees with what Christ and the Father have said, it's still deception.

So all of that here today on the program. Again, get a copy of the book *Seduction of the Saints: How to Stay Pure in a World of Deception*. $15 will put the $18 book in your hands. It's on the website saveus.org. Some have said that this was the most important book they'd ever read other than the Bible. I asked them why, and they said, "Well, it's because it's so practical. Because it just goes right to the heart of issues for us all."

And so you might find it to be that way yourself. Get a copy, $15 on the website saveus.org. Give us a call 1-800-SAVE-USA or write to us at Save America Ministries, PO Box 70879, Richmond, Virginia 23255, writing a check add $6 for postage and handling.

Now, before we launch into the more difficult aspect of the program here today, talking about how we are seduced or deceived or can be, and how people can actually even perhaps unwittingly become agents of deception, we want to begin by taking a quick look, just a very quick look, at an article that came out in Israel National News today called "Sovereign in our Homeland: What Does It Mean to Declare Sovereignty in All of Israel and What Difference Does It Make?"

I'm going to distill this article very simply. The article is about whether Judea and Samaria should be included as part and governed by the laws of Israel. You say, well, why would you say that? Aren't Judea and Samaria part of biblical Israel? Yes, that's exactly the point. Judea and Samaria are the heartland of biblical Israel.

We remember what Jesus said to his disciples, "Go ye into all the world, begin at Jerusalem and then go into Judea and Samaria and into the uttermost parts of the world." Why did he say that? Because Judea and Samaria were the heartland of Israel as Jesus knew it, as the disciples knew it, as the Apostle Paul knew it. And Jerusalem was right in the apex, so to speak, of what is currently called Eretz Israel, the land of Israel, as it intersects with Judea and Samaria.

So here's the problem: Judea and Samaria have, for purposes of world politics, have decided to be... well, the world has decided to exclude Judea and Samaria from the governorship of Israel and its laws. So they decided to call it the West Bank. The West Bank of the Jordan River. Well, so is Eretz Israel. All of Israel is west of the Jordan River. All of it, including Judea and Samaria.

So why call Judea and Samaria the West Bank? Because they don't want to use the words Judea and Samaria because they tell the truth about where those fit from God's perspective, from the Bible's perspective. Should Judea and Samaria be included then, sovereign with Israel? Absolutely, from God's perspective. So why aren't they? Because of man's perspective. That brings us to another discussion that may shock you. We'll be back.

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Chuck Crismier: What would Judea and Samaria have to do, the issues regarding Judea and Samaria, have to do with deception? Well, as we indicated, if you don't call them by their proper name from the Bible's viewpoint, which is God's viewpoint, you already are engaged in some kind of deception for ulterior motives. A secondary agenda.

What agenda? Well, it has to do with what you think or what the world thinks should happen with regard to the land Eretz Israel, the land of Israel. From the world's standpoint, Israel is irrelevant. Israel should be irrelevant. Israel should be irrelevant even to Christians, so many Christians say. That's right, they do. They say, why should we be concerned about Israel?

Why should we be concerned about assisting Jewish people in making aliyah to Israel? Why should we be concerned about supporting Israel? Why should we... you see, that's the question. And that question, that agenda, is being carried by a very, very prominent voice in our country. His name is Tucker Carlson. His name is Tucker Carlson.

Now, a lot of people virtually worship Tucker Carlson. I said virtually, because they think that somehow he is the voice of sense, of common sense, even of Christian sense. And he claims so himself. He didn't use to, but now he does. Because he prefaces much of his commentary with the declaration "as a Christian."

As a Christian. Well, that should be our first issue of concern. As a Christian, what does he mean by that? What does Tucker Carlson mean when he says, "as a Christian?" Well, let's evaluate that just briefly. Not to call him a Christian or not to call him a Christian, but actually, if we were to take Tucker Carlson as a witness on the stand and as an expert witness on the stand, an attorney would be required to qualify that voice, Tucker Carlson, as a truly expert witness.

Expert for what? Well, he says "as a Christian." So let's say we're qualifying him as a Christian. How would we know he is a Christian? Is it because he says "as a Christian?" Well, the whole purpose of cross-examination is to find out if what you say you are is really what you are. Cross-examination is called the greatest engine of truth ever devised by man. It was the favorite part, my favorite part, of trial work. Cross-examination. Uncovering the real truth about people and about what they say.

So here we have a man by the name of Tucker Carlson. Historically, I have not had any particular problem with Tucker Carlson. He was a very strong voice for a variety of things. Some people liked him, some people didn't like him, and that's fine. Some people like me, they don't like me, and so on. That's not really the issue. The issue is whether you like somebody, the issue is about truth.

Now, I'm looking at an article that came on the *Christian Post* today written by Jonathan Van Maren, and he asks the question or makes a statement, "Why Tucker Carlson is Dangerous for Christians Who Listen to Him." Now, why would Jonathan Van Maren be concerned about Christians listening to a man who claims to be a Christian?

It's because we need to do more than just take somebody at their word. We need to evaluate their life, we need to evaluate their experience, we need to evaluate what they say they believe or don't believe. We need to evaluate a lot of things. Not because we have the right to determine yes or no whether somebody is a Christian, but the Bible does say, "By their fruit you will know them."

What is the fruit? Well, the fruit has to be the way you live and also what you say you believe. Is it in conjunction with what the Bible says, with the authority of the word of God, not just in the areas that you want to talk about, but in every area of your life and what you say? So is Tucker Carlson a Christian? I can't tell you whether he is or not.

What I can tell you, though, is out of his own mouth he said he hadn't read the Bible until 2023. He grew up in the Episcopal Church, which he says is worse than nothing. It's a mockery to the Christian faith, virtually. Basically, he has completely mocked the Episcopal Church. That it bears no resemblance whatsoever other than liturgy, bears no resemblance to the Bible or the Christian faith.

Tucker Carlson says he grew up in that environment all his life. He didn't even read the Bible in any meaningful way until 2023. That's sometime in 2023. That was his first major exposure to the Bible in any meaningful way because he didn't get it in the Episcopal Church by his own admission. But now he speaks as if he is the voice of authority for what the Bible has to say about a whole slew of things, including something that God calls the apple of his eye, Israel.

The physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Tucker Carlson now has elevated himself to be, shall we say, almost the ultimate authority on issues related to Israel and Christians and calls anybody who disagree with him a heretic. Now, how does somebody who has only read the Bible for the last two and a half years or so have the authority and perception and understanding of the vast array of truth in the Bible and how it all relates together, have the authority and qualifications to call others heretics who may have been walking with Christ for 40 years?

You see, this is the problem. This is part of the problem. So the writer of this article says the last few years Tucker's trajectory has changed. When did his trajectory begin to change? After he claimed to be a biblical authority. After he claimed to read the Bible for the first time. That's when his trajectory began to change. You say, well, isn't that a good thing? Well, it could be, but not necessarily.

Because Satan reads the Bible too, so to speak. He quotes it better than you or I. He knows how to quote it. He quoted it to Jesus in the testing of Jesus in the wilderness after his baptism. He quoted it to Eve in the Garden of Eden. But now Tucker Carlson routinely insists that his views are fundamentally Christian views and implies that those who disagree with his perspective on Israel and other issues are heretical.

And he's got tens of millions of people who are listeners. Why does he have so many people who are listeners? I'll tell you why. Because he is choreographing a people group that want to hear his ideas that oftentimes are inconsistent with what the Bible says, but have the ring of truth because he says "as a Christian." So now he regularly exposits on theories ranging from deals between demons and the US government to other spiritual claims.

But there's one problem that makes Tucker Carlson very, very dangerous according to this author for the Christians who listen to him. He has become a conscious and deliberate liar. Tucker has not only lied about Christian persecution, he's lied about the Bible, he's gone so far as to blasphemously accuse God of ordering genocide.

Now, I probably would not have used that language. I'm very careful about using language calling people liars like that. On the other hand, it does appear that Tucker Carlson, let's put it this way, he's loose with the truth. He's loose with the truth on certain issues that he has decided he knows better than what the Bible says. He's formed his own opinions.

Just like Eve decided to form her opinion after Satan asked the question, "Hath God said?" So Tucker Carlson says "yes, but..." Yes, but on what? Yes, but on what God says about Israel. That's the point. He has a viewpoint and he thinks, as do many Christians today, especially younger Christians, think that Israel is irrelevant to Christians.

They think that talk about Israel is irrelevant to Christians. They think that Jewish people making aliyah, returning to the homeland, is irrelevant to Christians. They think that the rebuilding of the temple is irrelevant to Christians. They think that the temple mount is irrelevant to Christians because God doesn't live in temples made with hands.

But he never did live in temples made with hands, yet he ordained the tabernacle in the wilderness, affirmed the first temple built by Solomon, and also acknowledged the second temple that was rebuilt after returning from Babylon as his house. Jesus called it his house. So why is it that so many Christians today, particularly younger Christians now who have developed an antipathy toward Israel and the Jewish people, why is it then that they think that all of that's irrelevant to Christians?

It's because they don't know the Bible. They just don't know the Bible. Especially the Old Testament. They don't know the Old Testament and how the New Testament is directly linked to the Old Testament, and without the Old Testament you can't even really understand the New Testament. They don't get it. They're babes in the womb, so to speak.

They're still drinking the milk of the word and they haven't eaten the meat of the word and they don't quite comprehend the whole picture. And I fear that's Tucker Carlson's problem. I'm not going to call him a deliberate liar, but I do believe he conveys untruth, which is deception because he clothes it all in the words "as a Christian."

Now, this writer says that Carlson is calculated and deliberately exploiting a perversion of both the horrors of Christian persecution and the Bible in order to sell certain political beliefs to his audience. I don't know whether he's intentionally doing that or not, to exploit his audience. But it certainly seems that that may be the case. I can't say for sure. He may just be completely in error in his understanding.

But he's conveying that understanding as if it were gospel truth and then accusing those who disagree with him as heretical or heretics. Now, that's pretty dangerous stuff. That's pretty dangerous stuff because now he's making himself the judge. But the very people that he's playing to in his audience, increasingly the younger generation, are the ones that cry the loudest: "Judge not that you be not judged."

When he calls them heretics then, basically what he's saying is, I condemn you as not Christian. You're a heretic. You deserve to be burned at the stake politically or spiritually. Not literally, but spiritually. You're a heretic. This is very dangerous stuff, friend. Very dangerous stuff, particularly when you're attacking something that God calls the apple of his eye.

Not only did he call the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... originally called Hebrews and then now called Jews because of the Judea. You see, the Jews are called Jews because of Judea. That's where they lived. Judea, the southern tribe of Israel. They weren't always called Jews. They were Israel. The ten northern tribes were called euphemistically Ephraim and the two southern tribes, Judea and Benjamin, were called Judea.

I don't think Tucker Carlson has any comprehension about all these things because to him it's irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is "as a Christian." What does that mean, as a Christian? Well, for many young people today it means anything else that isn't in the New Testament specifically is irrelevant to Christians. The whole Old Testament is irrelevant. And that's what Dr. Andy Stanley has said. The Old Testament is irrelevant. Is that true?

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Chuck Crismier: Let's take a bit of lawyer-like thinking here. When a lawyer or our legal system, whether it be criminal or civil, is based on opposition, each party has an opposing viewpoint. So in the criminal law, you have the defense attorneys and you have the prosecutors. If a prosecutor is presenting his case, is he presenting a case to win over the jury to acquit the person being charged?

No. He's presenting the case to convict in the eyes of the jury the person that is being charged. How about the defense attorney? Is he pleading the case in such a way as to try to bring about the conviction of his client? No. Just the opposite. The same is true in the civil courts. For instance, if you have a personal injury case, you have an attorney who represents the party bringing the cause called the plaintiff.

The one who is pleading with the court and the jury to award damages or whatever for injuries that have been suffered. Then you also have the defense attorney. And the defense attorney is pleading the cause of the party being charged for the injury that has been caused, whether it be a traffic accident, a slip and fall, assault and battery, whatever it happens to be.

Now, within those various realms, they call expert witnesses. So-called expert witnesses. They may call a doctor or a series of doctors. They may call engineers. They may call a variety of different people for their respective sides of the case. And what will those so-called expert witnesses testify to?

I can tell you right up front that 90% of the time they're going to testify to facts and opinions that are favorable to the side of the case that calls them as an expert witness. That's what's going to happen. In fact, in the civil realm, trial lawyers frequently refer to medical doctors as medical whores.

Why? Because they sell their soul, their medical expertise for a buck, a big buck, to testify on behalf of insurance companies. That's why they do it. And it's the same doctors over and over and over and over that do it. That's why they get that title. But the jury doesn't know that, see. So the jury now has to look behind the scenes and somehow ferret out who's telling the truth here.

How much of what they're saying is true and how much is not true? We have the same problem here with regard to Tucker Carlson. Or anybody, anybody on the air. But because Tucker Carlson is so prominent, I'm not here to tear down Tucker Carlson. I don't know him as a person. But I have trouble with the cavalier way that he has in dismissing that which he disagrees with without authority.

His authority is "as a Christian." That's very dangerous. Now, I'm a Christian, but I'm not going to continue to throw around the words "well, as a Christian I say this." No, I'm going to go to the text. I'm going to go to the place of authority. Not cloak myself with the robe of authority, but I'm going to go to the foundation of authority. Whether it happens to be the Constitution in that regard, whether it happens to be the Bible in another realm. I'm going to go to the actual authority.

He doesn't do that because he doesn't know the fullness of the scripture. He is a babe in Christ, if he is in Christ, he's a babe in Christ. And he has a viewpoint that he's developed concerning Israel, concerning the Jewish people, that is radically contrary to the scriptures. But it's a viewpoint and it's playing to his audience hugely. Even professing Christians. Especially professing Christians. And that's where the trouble lies.

So let's take a look, an examination, of Tucker's coverage on the subject concerning Israel and persecution of Christians. Carlson is not interested in the persecution of Christians globally. He only seems to be specifically interested in making a case that Israel as a country persecutes Christians.

So since the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th, he has dedicated episode after episode to making this claim, but he's doing more than that. Tucker has contrasted Israel with surrounding Muslim nations to imply and in some cases outright claim that the Islamic world is kinder to Christians than Israel.

In fact, specifically, he cited Jordan as a country that was better for Christians than Israel. Now, where does he get this kind of information? It's opinion. It's not fact. Do Tucker's claims hold up? Well, here's what the Voice of the Martyrs describes as the situation concerning Jordan: "Christian converts from Islam are persecuted, sometimes violently, by their families, tribes, and communities. The Jordanian government restricts open evangelism and sometimes also Bible distribution activities. Yet it's the most moderate of the Muslim states."

Open Doors, the most prominent global watchdog on Christian persecution, ranks Jordan as number 49 on their World Watch List and scores persecution in Jordan as very high, especially for converts from Islam to Christianity. Does Tucker Carlson care about that? No. Those kind of facts are irrelevant to him because he has an agenda. It's a secondary agenda.

Whenever, please listen carefully and watch for this in other areas. Whenever somebody seems to have a secondary agenda, be very careful because they are skewing everything they say toward that secondary agenda to justify it. And so much in the scriptures is done that way. Let me give you an illustration.

The Bible says that we could care for the poor. The Bible says that we should feed the hungry and so on. So somebody that decides that God has a special calling for them to feed the poor and the hungry decides to form an organization like Feed the Poor. There are many of them out there.

So what does that person do? Does that person present the truth about God's word on all the aspects of the Bible? No. They start selling, marketing, what they believe is the truth concerning the poor and the hungry. But they're not dealing with the spiritually hungry, they're dealing with the physically hungry and the poor.

But Jesus said "the poor you will always have with you." Jesus was concerned about the poor, yes, he was concerned about feeding the hungry, but not to make a complete agenda out of it to supersede everything else he said or the scripture. So what do you make of it when the largest organization in the country, so-called Christian organization... I knew the founders of this organization, friends.

My best friend was the son of one of them. And that organization ultimately put homosexuals on their board of directors to feed the hungry and the poor. Now, why did they do that? It's a Christian organization. They did it because they had a secondary agenda. It wasn't about the complete biblical purpose, it was about a secondary agenda and they wanted to raise more and more money and get more and more exposure in the breadth of the world in order to market their ministry.

But it wasn't the full ministry of Jesus. It was a secondary agenda. This kind of thing goes on and on and on and on and leads to a great deal of deception in our world. A great deal of deception. Consider on April 14th, Tucker wrote, "The people in charge don't want you to know this but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord. Believes he performed miracles and states that he will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist."

Tucker made that statement despite the fact that more than ten Muslim countries have the death penalty for those who convert to Christianity. Around twenty others have more moderate punishments for following Christ, including penalties such as imprisonment or how about the one that I just reported on the other day where they cut off his hands, his own family cut off his hands because he converted to Christianity?

But you'll never hear any of that from Tucker Carlson because it doesn't fit his narrative. Islamic extremism is the primary factor in the persecution of Christians in 40 of the top 50 most dangerous countries for Christians in the world. But why would Tucker Carlson say that Israel was more dangerous than Jordan and that Muslim countries love Jesus and by implication saying Israel doesn't love Jesus?

It's very disingenuous, friends. It is deceptive to the max. And let me tell you why. What he did not say, whether or not he knew it or not, is that the Muslim view of Jesus, whom they call Isa, I-S-S-A, is that he was a prophet, not the Son of God, was never crucified, was never resurrected, and anyone who claims that he was the Son of God, was crucified and rose again is worthy of death as a blasphemer. That's what Islam believes. Why is it that Tucker Carlson could not say that? Because it didn't meet his narrative against Israel.

Welcome back to Viewpoint, I'm Chuck Crismier. Today we're talking about the matter of deception. How we can be easily seduced even through alleged truth in the name of Christ. And we're applying this particularly with regard to the man Tucker Carlson who has a vast listenership or viewership. But who are the ones primarily that are listening?

They're conspiracy theorists, they are the young people who already have antipathy toward Israel and the Jewish people because if you look at what's happened in our universities and colleges, it tells you the truth about the viewpoint that our young people have toward Israel and Jewish people. That's not a game, friends. The anti-Semitism is deep.

And Tucker Carlson is playing to it. Whether he agrees with it or not, he's framing his issues in such a way as to demean and debunk Israel as meaningful to Christians. Now Israel's meaningful to God, but apparently not to Christians, he says. Well, he doesn't say it's meaningful to God, he says that's all gone. That's irrelevant.

He's described Protestants who support the Jewish state as his enemies. Did you know that? He says, "I can say for myself I dislike them." That is Protestant professing Christians. Because if they are favoring Israel in any way and looking at what is called Christian Zionism, rebuilding the state of Israel and encouraging the Jewish people and so on, he says they are heretics.

And I'm offended by that as a Christian, he says. He described those who disagree with him as being infected with a brain virus. Now, Mr. Carlson, let me just let you know that the Bible clearly tells us that he has a different view, that God has a different view concerning the Jewish people than you do. And he's God, and you're not. You may think you have an understanding as a newbie Christian, but you don't.

First of all, from the very beginning God said to Abraham, "I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you." Where does Tucker Carlson place himself in that realm? Blessing or cursing? God said through Abraham that all of his descendants, through Isaac, would become the feature of the world and would lead to the Savior of the world.

The Apostle Paul says salvation is of the Jews. That's in the New Testament. Salvation is of the Jews. What did he mean? Because it's the Jewish heritage, it's through the Jewish lineage, going all the way back to Abraham who wasn't even a Jew, he was a Hebrew, through the Jewish lineage all the way up through David, the second king of Israel, upon whose throne Jesus himself will rule and reign. Upon whose throne Jesus himself, the Savior of the world, will rule and reign, a Jew. And yet Tucker Carlson says it's all irrelevant.

Now, does God have an absolute approval rating for Jewish people? Absolutely not. The Bible is very clear about that. Just read the whole Old Testament, you'll find that out. God did everything he could to bring the Jewish people into the fold and to walk with him, to talk with him, to bless them if they would only keep their marital covenant with him at Mount Sinai. And they said yes, we will, and then they didn't.

And Gentile Christians are doing exactly the same thing, yes, even in America. Sorry to say it, it's just the way it is. God is going to judge both Jew and Gentile according not to your standard, Tucker Carlson, but according to his standard. Have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and are walking with him in truth according to the authority of the word of God, not your political authority, not your ideas, not your rationale, but what God has said?

Then you are going to be judged according to that. If not, you're going to be judged accordingly and maybe you'll be the heretic. I certainly don't want to put myself in a position, friend, of going after Israel or the Jewish people. Now, on the other hand, neither do I want to be seen as blessing everything that Israel does. That is a red herring in all of this discussion.

Just because Christians may celebrate the Jewish people making aliyah to Israel, why would they do that? Because that's exactly what God said he was going to do. Did you know that? Over and over God said through the prophets "this is what I'm going to do because I am keeping my word whether they did or not." Tucker Carlson doesn't understand that, apparently. And neither do those who are of his followers.

But they buy into this rhetoric of anti-Jew, anti-Israel because they say "that's Christian." That is not Christian, friend. That's anti-Christ. Jesus was a Jew. All of the apostles were Jews. Now, somebody might say, "well, yes, but do you have to become Jewish in order to be saved?" The answer is no. That isn't the point.

There were Jews, they were to be exemplary to the world, living out the word and will and ways of God. But then God opened the way to the Gentiles. The Jews didn't carry it out, he opened the way to the Gentiles. That's part of the founding of this country, by the way. Just read the history and you'll find out. But we ourselves as Gentiles have not obeyed either.

No matter how many congregations we have. No matter how many 2,200 denominations we have in this country or 22,000 around the world. Not obeying God any more than the Jews did. And God is going to call both Jew and Gentile into judgment. And judge them according to the same standard. A righteous standard and Jesus is the judge. A Jew will be the judge. That's what the Bible says. Jesus is the judge, not the Father but the Son.

Now Israel is going to be judged terrifically. Why is that? Because to whom much is given much more is required. The prophet Zechariah says that Israel's going to be judged double for all her sins. Why? Because she had so much more going for her than anybody else did. But how about professing Christians?

How about professing Christians in America that have had so much exposure to the truth of the word of God and yet refuse to walk in God's word, will, and ways? How can you explain a divorce rate in the Bible Belt of America for the past 25 years that has exceeded the nation as a whole by 50%? How can you explain that? We're in rebellion. Gentile professing Christians in rebellion.

And God's going to judge according to our rebellion against the word, will, and ways of God. Just as he judged Israel, so he will judge America. Ultimately, the Bible tells us very clearly that there is going to be a remnant of Jewish people who embrace Yeshua as Messiah and who walk with him in humility and repentance in the spirit of humble truth and obedience to the word of God.

Who will join with professing Gentile believers who not only profess to be Christians but literally are. Who truly believe and trust Jesus Christ and his sacrifice and life for their salvation and who obey his voice. That's what's always missing. And that's why the word obey has become the most hated word in the church today.

It was hated in Israel and it's hated today in the church. Gentile churches. And Jesus said, on the other hand, "if you love me, you'll obey me. If you love me, you'll keep my commandments." Stop calling yourself a Christian when you don't live like it. Stop deceiving your own self.

James, the brother of Jesus, said that be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own self. And you know what? What you choose to believe concerning Israel, concerning their role and so on, I don't support everything that Benjamin Netanyahu does, I don't support everything the Jewish people do. In fact, the Jewish people themselves say "wherever there are two Jews there are three opinions."

So it's not the opinion that matters to me. It's what the truth is that matters and it should matter to Tucker Carlson, and I hope he'll repent of his disingenuousness. The interesting thing, friends, is deception delights in company. And once we have secondary agendas like what Tucker Carlson is presenting with regard to the issue of Israel and with regard to the issue of persecution, he's going to get vast numbers of people that will latch onto that.

They delight in that because that's their thing. It's not God's thing, but it's their thing. Deception delights in company. It demands validation. And for that reason, those walking in deception or dancing peripherally with deception will always have plenty of company. Vast numbers of listeners and followers. That's not the proof of the truth. The proof of the truth is: is it consistent with the word, will, and ways of God, the Creator of the universe, and his son Jesus Christ?

Tucker Carlson says "oh, the Muslims say that Jesus, Isa, is going to come back and fight the Antichrist." What he doesn't say is that no, what he's going to do is come back to exalt the Muslim Mahdi as the Messiah. Oh, he forgot to say that. It didn't fit his agenda.

I'm sorry, friends, you may hold Tucker Carlson sacrosanct, but maybe we need to start holding the truth sacrosanct these days. It's not what you want it to be, it's what it is. God loves Jew and Gentile. And ultimately, there's only going to be a very small remnant of Jewish people and Gentile professing Christians who are going to be inherit the eternal life.

That's what Jesus said: "Straight is the gate, narrow is the way, and precious few there be that find it. But broad is the way that leads to destruction, that's the way everyone's going. But it leads to destruction." Jesus also said, "Not everyone who says unto me, 'I'm a Christian, I'm a Christian,' or 'as a Christian, as a Christian,' is going to inherit the kingdom of God. Only those who do the will," in other words, obey, "my Father." Need anything else be said?

I'm not anti-Tucker Carlson. I'm anti his disingenuousness with regard to Israel in the name of Christ. When he puts his clothes on saying "as a Christian," he better be actually true and knowledgeable about what he's saying, both in spirit and in truth. He's treading on very dangerous ground. And so are you, if you're listening to him and receiving what he says in that regard.

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