Hey guys, I'm Chassidy, and this is the ancient conspiracies podcast.

Well, welcome back, podcast family. I have missed you all so much, and no, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I'm still here working in the background on various

upcoming projects, including a new season, which will air this fall. More on that in a bit. But

I decided to come out of sabbatical today to do a little commentary on the topic of Israel.

There is so much surrounding Israel right now and I've had numerous people ask

if I could shine some light on it. So I wanted to share with you a response that I gave to one of

my listeners in the Facebook group recently who asked where I stand on Israel. Now one of the main

narratives that we here perpetuated these days is that we as

Christians are called to protect Israel and support Israel. And the scripture that's used to

enforce this idea is found in Genesis chapter 12, which is part of the covenant that God made

with Abraham.

And before I expound on this, I want to play a clip for you from an interview where Tucker Carlson rather painfully challenged Senator Ted Cruz on this very topic.

Take a listen to this.

Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible. Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of thing. Of those who bless the government of Israel? Those who bless Israel is what it says. It doesn't say the government of it. It says the nation of Israel. So that's in the Bible. As a Christian, I believe that. Where is that? I can find it to you. I don't have the scripture off the tip of my you pull out the phone and use the... It's in Genesis. So you're quoting a Bible phrase. You don't have context for it and you don't know where in the Bible it is, but that's like your theology? I'm confused. What does that even mean? Tucker. I'm a Christian. I want to know what you're talking about.

Where does my support for Israel come from? Number one, because biblically we are commanded to support Israel.

But number two, hold on. You're a senator and now you're throwing a theology and I am a Christian and I am allowed to weigh in on this.

We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel. We are commanded to support Israel. What does that mean Israel? We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed. But what, hold on, define Israel. This is important. Are you kidding? This is a majority Christian country. Define Israel? Do you not know what Israel is? That would be the country you've asked like 49 questions about. So that's what Genesis, that's what God is talking about.

The nation of Israel, yes.

And he's, so does that the current borders, the current leadership?

He's talking about the political entity called Israel?

He's talking about the nation of Israel.

He has nations exists, and he's discussing a nation.

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