Al Mohler And Todd Respond To Tucker’s Position On Israel

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Segment 1 • Why are evangelicals so divided over modern-day Israel? Todd Friel and Albert Mohler break down the debate. • Tucker Carlson presses hard: Does Ted Cruz actually know what the Bible says about Israel—or are Christians misusing Genesis? • Is the promise in the Book of Genesis about the Jewish people… or today’s political nation of Israel? Segment 2 • Are Christians biblically required to support modern Israel—or is that an oversimplification many believers repeat without thinking? • A crucial distinction most Christians miss: biblical Israel vs. the modern nation-state founded in 1948. • The deeper issue: if God made covenant promises to Israel, can those promises ever be cancelled—or transferred to the church? Segment 3 • Carlson’s challenge: How do we even know who today’s Jewish people are after centuries of dispersion? • Mohler responds with a surprising argument about anti-Semitism. • A prophetic twist emerges—Scripture points toward a massive future turning of Jewish people to Christ. Segment 4 • Does God’s land promise stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates—and should Israel control it today? • Mohler explains the theological tension Christians already understand: the “already vs. not yet” of God’s promises. • A warning for believers: casual hostility toward Israel may reveal a dangerous misunderstanding of God’s covenant faithfulness. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.0	God gave me a Ferrari because I am a Ferrari. You're a Ferrari too.
0:13.0	When God made you, he had all the options put on. You are fully loaded and totally equipped.
0:20.0	So do this with me. Where did we ever come up with
0:23.1	the style of preaching we have today? There is some entertaining preaching but not convicting preaching
0:27.8	and the legacy has been tragic. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel. Welcome in to Rretched
0:35.3	Radio. I am not Todd Friel.
0:43.4	However, we are going to hear from him and Dr. Al Moller in just a moment.
0:45.6	How do we view Israel?
0:52.0	That's a question on the mind of a lot of Christians right now in this current cultural moment. And so Todd had a conversation recently with Dr. Al Moller to discuss
0:56.9	just that. Tucker Carlson has questions. Dr. Albert Moller has answers. What are the questions
1:05.2	that Tucker Carlson is asking? It has everything to do with properties, specifically the zip code known as Israel,
1:12.8	who owns that territory, is the deed given to Abraham still in effect for Jewish people
1:19.6	today? And speaking of Jewish people today, who are those Jewish people today? It is a conversation
1:25.7	well worth having, and Tucker Carlson is spurring it. I hope in good faith,
1:31.3	and he's causing us to sharpen our answers. He's causing us to dig into our Bibles to be able to say,
1:37.9	this verse here applies over there. And so, Tucker, thank you for helping us sharpen our understanding of Israel
1:48.3	and our relationship to Israel to help us do just that. Dr. Mueller, would you agree with me, sir,
1:55.6	that when it comes to understanding Israel and the evangelical attitude toward that state,
2:00.7	hermeneutics and eschatology are actually important.
2:04.8	They are not only important to biblical theology as important as the larger context.
2:09.5	How you read the Bible has a great deal to do with how you understand today's headlines, as you know,
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