The Ancient Roots of Tucker Carlson | Land of Israel Fellowship

Because Tucker is definitely one of the most listened to political voices in America today. Millions of people hang on his words and over this past year he has turned more and more of his enormous platform towards one subject. Israel. The Jews. The Jews. Really, not Israelis, the Jews. Us, he's focused on us. And again, I I want to be careful. I I don't want to turn this into a personal hatred. You know, but what I hear week after week is not merely criticism. It's It It's searching. It's circling. It's a constant return to Israel as the problem beneath the problems. Sometimes it's framed as foreign policy, sometimes as America first, sometimes as concern for Christians, sometimes as suspicion of power, sometimes dual loyalty. But the pattern feels older than all of these categories. He keeps circling the Jewish people looking for the vantage point, the angle from which the condemnation will finally stick. And that, friends, is straight out of the Torah portion from this week. You know where I'm going with this. Right? Because that's exactly what Balak does with Balaam. He does not just bring him to one spot. Right? Balaam move He wants to be moved to see from this angle, from this angle, to this angle to see if there's a way, if there's a take. First he takes him to Bamot Baal where Balaam can see the whole camp. And the curse? Well, the curse will not come, only blessing. So, Balak says in effect, let's try a different angle. He drags him to a second mountain, Sde Zofim, where he can see only a part of the people. Maybe from there the curse will work. Blessing again. Again, he tries to curse and he just blesses. So, he hauls him to a third peak, Rosh Hapeor, a third angle, a third attempt to find the perspective from which Israel finally looks cursable. Three mountains, three angles, the same obsessive search for the perspective that makes Israel look worthy of curses. And one of the secrets that it feels like in this Torah portion that it's just sort of screaming at us here is that it doesn't seem to matter what angle you view Israel from. If God's blessing is on this people, then every single vantage point, every mountain, every microphone, every podcast produces in the end a blessing. If it's not the will of Hashem, you simply can't find the angle to curse. It doesn't exist. But here's one thing that sort of gets me here. In his interview uh at Ben Gurion Airport, sitting across from Mike Huckabee, you remember this interview, it was sort of painful for me to watch cuz I have such a heart for uh for Mike Huckabee. Carlson reached all the way back past the modern state, past the wars, past the politics, all the way back to Abraham, to Avram Avinu, and he suggests that maybe we should do genetic testing to determine who are the real descendants of Abraham. >> Abraham's descendants are the ones who have the right to have this land, correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. Why don't we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abraham's descendants are? It's really simple. We've cracked the human genome, we can do that. Why don't we do that? Would you be against doing that? >> Anyways, it's a long interview, it was hard to know where to cut it off, but when I heard that, it was just sort of unbelievable because I had read we know that move, this precise spiritual maneuver, and I want to show you where. It was something beautifully expressed in Rabbi Moshe Taragin's teaching this week called Chasing Avraham, Chasing Abraham, and he points out something perfectly what Bilam is really trying to do here. So, Bilam is clearly obsessed with Abraham, obviously. Before Bilam even opens his mouth to the prophecy, look at what he does. Chapter 22 verse Vayikach Bil'am baboker and Bil'am arose in the morning and vayachavosh et et atono and he saddled his donkey. And from where do we recognize these words? That's right. Abraham on his way to the binding of Isaac. Chapter 22 verse 3 Vayashkem Avram baboker vayachavosh et chamoro and Avram arose early in the morning and he saddled his donkey. Bil'am is reenacting Abraham. He rises in the morning, early in the morning like Abraham. He saddles his own animal like Abraham. He sets out on a faith a faithful mission like Abraham. He demands seven altars and our sages teach us that the patriarchs had built seven altars between them. I mean, we could just count them up through the actual text of the Bible. Seven altars between them. There's much more, but the bottom line, it's clear that he is seeking to model himself after Abraham. He's copying Abraham. And at the end when it all falls falls apart, he cries out, "Let me die the death of the upright." Mavat yesharim which is which is what we know is the reference to the patriarchs of Israel. Yesharim, the upright. That's how Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob a reference to Abraham himself. So, why my friends, why is this pagan prophet so fixated on Abraham? And the answer explains so much about our moment right now. Bil'am was not merely trying to curse Israel. He was trying to replace Israel. He looked at Abraham's descendants chosen, beloved, carrying the covenant and thought to himself, "I want that. I'm a prophet, too. I have gifts, too. Maybe I can retrace Abraham's footsteps. Maybe I can uncover the secret formula of why he was chosen. Maybe I can claim that that that chosenness of Abraham for myself. Maybe I can become the new Abraham. Maybe these Israelites are not true heirs after all. Maybe the inheritance is still up for grabs. And here's another little clip. I mean, there are thousands of these expressing this exact point. There is no chosen people. The chosen people are people who choose Jesus. That is the Christian message right there. It's not an anti-Semitic message, by the way. It's the Christian message. It's the core Christian message. >> Okay, then it I mean, it's just one of them. And and really for me, it's it's really worth it because if we're really going to be able to stand before God in truth, we need to be um informed and educated and inspired enough that we can hear voices like Tucker Carlson who are crafty and sly and manipulative and calculated and be able to hear those and know the truth of how to answer them. Right? Cuz that that thing right that that what he just said, that's the move. The first clip asked, "Who are the real descendants of Abraham?" But this clip goes even further. It doesn't only question the Jewish people's biological descent from Abraham. It questions our covenantal place in history. It suggests that the title itself, chosen people, has moved somewhere else. And you know, I I asked Pastor Huck when he arrived. I said, "What do you think? What would you say to people who say that, you know, the the the Jews are no no longer the the chosen people and that God abandoned his covenant?" And he said, "I would say to them, 'So you're saying he has a covenant with you now?'" The answer would be yes. And he says, "Well, if he break his covenant with them, why wouldn't he break his covenant with you?" Which was an interesting take. You know? But anyways, that that is the most ancient face of what we call replacement theology, the belief that says the original chosen people have been disqualified and someone else is the new true heir of Abraham. Do you see what happens when someone stands in Abraham's land and demands to know who Abraham's real descendants are. He's doing exactly what Balaam did thousands of years ago. He's chasing Abraham. He's reaching back past the living Jewish people to the patriarch himself himself and asking the oldest poisonous question in the world, are these people really the children of Abraham or are they pretenders and the true inheritance is really up for grabs. The true inheritance is me, Tucker Carlson. And it all wears modern clothing, you know, DNA, the genome, podcasts, politics, but underneath the modern clothing, it's Balaam on the mountaintop gazing down at the camp of Israel trying to find the spiritual formula that would let him erase us and take our place, at least in his own mind. I mean, there's truly nothing new under the sun, my friends. >> My name is Ari and I live here on the edge of the Judean frontier. And just as the prophets foretold, the mountains of Judah are coming to life. The in-gathering of the exiles is taking place right before our eyes. And the final prophecy is manifesting as the righteous of the nations are coming together with humble hearts here in the land of Israel fellowship. And now I'm inviting you to join us along with hundreds of Jewish and Christian families from all around the world to experience the beauty and the holiness and the magnificence of our fellowship. So, click below so you can taste the beauty and the holiness that is happening on this mountain. >> [music]