The names Israel, Jews, and Hebrews appear almost twice as many times as Jesus, Christ, and Son of God in the Bible (2,931 to 1,564). Outside the name of Yahweh, there is no name mentioned as commonly in the Bible as the name for the nation of Abraham’s children. This nation is also referred to by many other titles including Jacob and Zion. Their history is amazing including the most embattled city in world history, Jerusalem. Many prophecies in the Old and New Testaments refer to these people, that city, and their future.
Should a Christian support this nation? Here are 4 reasons why every Christian including Tucker Carlson should support the nation of Israel.
1. The Bible supports the state of Israel.
The apostle Paul loved the Jewish people.
I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,Romans 9:1-3
After describing how dark and hard the Jewish people were in Romans 9, he pours out his heart of love and great commitment to a Gentile church that he had never met regarding his hope that Israel would be saved.
Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.Romans 10:1
The last verse in the 10th chapter, proves that the divine longsuffering and patience and compassion are still focused directly on Israel even while she remains a Christ-rejecting people.
But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”Romans 10:21
The very next verse goes on to reemphasize and reconfirm that infinite wisdom has decided to continue to support Israel even when she is entirely apostate. Twice, he asserts in these verses that God has not rejected such bad people.
I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?Romans 11:1-2
One YouTuber said in a debate that Christians should not support Israel because they are Christ deniers. That man should read these verses and reconsider his rejection when the Father has chosen the opposite. And God confirms his rejection of rejecting Israel with, “May it never be!” Don’t let anyone ever think that this is even a possibility!
It is common for biased Bible readers to say at this point that Israel means the church. But all three chapters of Romans 9, 10, and 11 have been comparing unbelieving Israel with believing Gentiles. Israel cannot be the church in chapter 11 verses 7, 12, 14, 15, 20, 23, 25, and 26.
and so all Israel will be saved…Romans 11:26
Does Paul love the Jewish people? Does not God himself in these chapters explicitly plead with them from love? Does Peter love the Jewish people when he writes his epistles to Jewish believers? Does the NT focus uniquely on Jews when Matthew, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter are directed at them? Did the early missionaries have a special love for the Jews when they started in synagogues even after numerous experiences of persecution?
Did the Lord Jesus not prophesy a future time when the Jews would call Him blessed?
“For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”Matthew 23:39
Has that time mentioned in Matthew’s 23rd chapter ever occurred? There is coming a time when these hummus-eating, Barabas-freeing, Christ-rejecting people will see Him whom they pierced and they will say at that day, “You are blessed!”
If it is certainly going to happen, then what has happened to any Christian who is not eager for that day? And if you are eager for that day when they will be grafted back in, then why not give them your hand now as an evangelist?
The OT is even more explicit, and more repeated. Nearly 100 passages in the prophets promise a future conversion of the nation of Israel.
The Bible supports Israel.
2. A Christian sense of justice supports the state of Israel.
Before the modern nation state of Israel was formed in 1948, the Jews were hated as a people. For hundreds of years they have been persecuted by Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Islam. That link includes a chart showing scores of attacks on Jewish people by year, country, and kind of attack.
And don’t forget that the holocaust happened before the Jewish state was formed. The world has always hated Jews since the Pharaohs in the time of Joseph who would not eat with them (Gen. 43:32).
If you do not know how Israel was formed in 1948, you are missing one of the most exciting chapters in God’s providence. From the edge-of-the-seat vote in the United Nations to the war against them on the first day of their existence, these people have been hated. A coalition of her neighbors rose against her, and she won that war decisively, miraculously gaining more territory than she was given.
After total failure in 1948, Islamic nations attacked her again in 1956, 1967, and 1973. In the 1980’s the attacks changed more to terrorism where Islamic fighters aimed at Israeli civilians or soldiers. Each time, Israel should have been destroyed.
Repeatedly, Israel gave back land that she had conquered in a defensive war in order to gain peace from the nations around her. On 7 October 2023, demons filled hundreds of Muslims and betrayed their bestial nature by filming and boasting about the most vile butchering of more than 1,000 civilians.
Since that time, remarkably, the nations of the world have attacked the victim. They have taken their conclusions from Instagram, Spotify, and TikTok apparently trusting terrorist organizations.
But no one denies that Israel was attacked in each of these settings. Who is the victim here?
Compare Israel’s size to the size of the Islamic nations, 22,000 square kilometers of land to 26,000,000 square kilometers. Israel’s population is 10,000,000 compared to 1,500,000,000 in the Islamic nations. How can the Muslims not win? Why in the world would anyone with a sense of justice even remain neutral when such an underdog, after such a storied history, repulsed so many wars of annihilation and then refrained from sending its nuclear arms to the absolute destruction of those nations? Genocide in Gaza? There are still people there. If Israel was trying to kill them all, they could do with the entire strip what they have done to large areas.
If Congo, Zambia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Kenya attempted to destroy Rwanda “from the river to the sea,” would not a sense of justice cause you to stand up for those people? How much more when the Jews went through centuries of Russian and Polish pogroms, Islamic persecution and taxation, and then the concentration camps of WWII?
If we feel a sense of justice to support the blacks under unjust laws in the American south, ought we not to feel a stronger sense of justice to support the only Jewish state in the world after a storm of horrible atrocities against her?
Christians care about the oppressed, and Israel has been far, far more oppressed than any other nation or ethnic group.
3. A clear view of Islam supports the state of Israel.
Have you read the Quran? Do you know the violent verses in, for example, surahs 5 and 9? Do you know, more importantly, the violent verses in the Hadith (the collection of the sayings about Mohammed) since Muslims follow that more than the Quran? Did you know that the 5 daily prayers are not in the Quran, but in the Hadith?
Did you know that Islam intends to dominate the world by violent, political revolution as soon as their numbers permit? Is freedom of religion a principle of Islam?
Even “peaceful Muslims” commonly support political parties that are violent. Sadly, a majority of Muslims openly admit to supporting policies that would unjustly take lives simply because they did not submit to some tenet of Islam.
Hamas was elected by the people living to the west of Israel, and that party still enjoys a majority support of those who would vote today in 2025. The religion is demonic, and Satan comes to kill since he was a murderer from the beginning.
Israel as a nation is opposed by the Islamic religion to the point of military force. Why would any Christian wait even a moment from supporting a state that stands to absorb the hatred and missiles of a system inspired by the prince of darkness?
The USA even joined with Russia during WWII in order to destroy the German and Japanese evil. That means that men immediately realized that though Russia was bad, the Axis powers were worse. This is the scenario in the middle east today, Islam is by far worse than Israel, and men of good judgment can see that.
Why doesn’t Tucker Carlson speak against Islam? Glancing through his YouTube channel he has numerous videos against Israel including headlines in the thumbnail or video title like, “Israel’s War Crimes,” “Shocking War Crimes,” “Mass Murder in Gaza,” and numerous others. Not one video on American Jews who have been victims of brutal attacks. Not one video on violence against people based on characteristics they cannot change (a phrase he likes to use) such as their Jewish roots. He must be a little too busy to talk about Israel’s “Pearl Harbor” in October 2023.
But he has time to give fluff interviews to those who explicitly praise Hitler and Stalin and the head of one of the largest sponsors of terror in the world, Qatar. Are there more options than these three? Either he is blind to the evil of Islam, or he is in sympathy with it regardless of his claims to Christianity, or he lacks the moral courage to warn the public.
I think I hear an objecter, “No, no, no, Seth. Tucker speaks about America First issues. Islam is not an America First issue.”
Just review his interviews and it is clear that he has time to talk about Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Britain, Russia, sodomy, globalism, and UFO’s. Are these America First topics? No, Tucker publishes a variety of topics so long as they are interesting and can rack up views. But Islamic Jihad against Christians in Nigeria? Islam in Houston? Muslims taking over London? Minnesota being scammed by a little group of Muslims?
And why talk so much about Israel, Tucker? Oh, because we give so much money to Israel. Right. You mean $17 billion in 2025 including loans, grants, and “aid.” This is the highest number I could find. Several sources listed $4 billion. At the highest possible amount ($17 B), the US was giving Israel during another war against terrorism 0.25% of the total US budget, or 1.3% of the total US defense and foreign affairs budget, or 24% of the US foreign affairs budget.
But this money is required to be spent on US companies to purchase weapons in accordance with “only defensive” maneuvers. And the USA receives over $40 billion in research and testing back from Israel.
So if the highest number I found is used, then a fraction of the US budget goes to Israel buying arms from US companies so that Israel is not entirely eliminated from the map.
If someone speaks against this funding, then they are attacking the Jews unless they can show that they critique the other, far greater wastes. Rand Paul seems to critique all spending and wastes, but Tucker Carlson and others focus on the money to Israel as if this is a unique and specially abhorrent problem.
What about the cash being poured into Afghanistan for “humanitarian assistance,” not money that must be returned to the US economy, and not given to a state that is on the verge of being wiped off the map, and not a state that has actual elections. Where are the videos from Rob Smith about this waste of money since he is such a principled libertarian who does not want to waste money?
Congo receives over a billion dollars per year as well. Don’t you have time for at least a single video about this, Mr. Carlson?
Those who hate Israel, tend to be silent about Islam. And this is either a weakness of the head or the heart that every Christian man should avoid.
4. A wise understanding of America’s best interests supports the state of Israel.
Israel tests weapon systems that the USA uses to maintain the strongest army in the world. Because Israel is so commonly at war, she does what few other countries can do.
Israel gives the USA a democratic island in a Sharia sea. As governments have a catechetical effect on their citizens and on those around them, Israel is teaching better things than Iraq. If all the states were more like Israel in that category, their skills and products would eventually help all the other nations including the USA.
Israel starts more companies and produces more wealth than nearly all the Islamic states around her, especially if compared per capita. Global wealth improves all global markets if the state has a high freedom index. Eventually, the wealth of a free state such as Israel brings more wealth and improved conditions for Americans. The USA needs other wealthy, free nations, and Israel is one of those.
Conclusion
Can you think of any Christian who reads his Bible every day and also opposes the state of Israel? Of the believers you know who are most dedicated to the Lord, to prayer, and to evangelism, what is their stance on Israel? Perhaps your experience is different from mine, but I have seen that usually Bible reading and church attendance point out someone who supports the modern state of Israel.
Can we compromise on this if you are still not convinced? At least, speak out openly against Islam. Probably, you will find yourself closer to Israel after a year’s Christian opposition to Islam. It seems like there is a whole bag of connected matters that if you get one, the others seem to come along with it.
But as for me and my house, we look for the day when all Israel will be saved because that will signify the ends of the earth turning to the Lord including the Mohammedans.
