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#250 - Tucker Carlson, the Third Temple, and Christian Zionism: Are We All Missing the Point? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  The rebuilding of the Third Temple, is that a Christian idea?
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  Can Christians embrace that? We're going to take a look at a few different things,
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  and I'm going to give my viewpoint, which I hope is received well.
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  This is Tucker Carlson, and he got into it, and he kind of lambasted Christian
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  Zionism, which a lot of people do now.
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  But I think it might be a misunderstanding of it, but let's just hear from Tucker.
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  The building of the Third Temple, but it's not just Hasidic groups from Brooklyn,
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  and it's not just IDF soldiers. There are amazingly a lot of American evangelical
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  leaders, Christian Zionists, whose main point is rebuilding the third temple.
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  Now, how could an American Christian or any Christian call for the building
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  of a temple whose presence, whose inherent presence denies Christ?
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  Who said clearly, and Christians believe this, it's a core point of faith.
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  I am the temple. You want to speak to God, you speak through me.
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  That's Christianity. That's the whole religion right there. So if you're a Christian
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  preacher calling for the rebuilding of the third temple, you kind of missed the whole point.
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  Okay, I'm just going to stop it right there and we're going to dive into this
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  because I think that is the natural viewpoint that a lot of Christians had.
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  Probably the viewpoint I would have had when I became a Christian.
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  And I think it is a misunderstanding.
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  And I had to go through a lot of different things to kind of come to this realization.
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  And it's not to say that I have everything correct, but Christians in general
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  of understanding, because there's a lot of things that go against our natural belief.
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  Because when we read the scriptures and we understand how we're doing Christianity
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  today, a lot of it doesn't align.
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  And it comes to this viewpoint where we think that when Jesus came,
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  that the New Testament was there as well.
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  And they just were living off the New Testament.
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  Forget about the Old Testament. When Jesus and the apostles were here,
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  on earth, there was no New Testament.
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  The Bible and the scriptures that they lived by was the Old Testament,
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  was the law, was what was given to them.
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  So to say that they had just completely done away with, Jesus was starting something
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  and completely new and forget about everything, that goes against,
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  really, if you dive into it, what he preached and taught and what the apostles taught.
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  I'm going to read this from, this is from Acts chapter six, and this is when
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  Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church,
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  the Jewish leaders were defaming him and slandering him and mischaracterizing
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  what he was preaching so that they could get him killed. It says.
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  And they set up false witnesses who said, this man never ceases to speak words
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  against this holy place and the law,
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  for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place
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  and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.
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  Right there, people think that's what, that's obviously what Stephen was saying.
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  That's what he was saying, because that's what these slanderers and false witnesses were saying.
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  They were mischaracterizing his whole point.
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  There was something drastically new that changed when Jesus came,
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  but they didn't completely do away with the sacrificial system.
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  They didn't completely do away with the temple.
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  Jesus said he's the fulfillment of it, but it doesn't do away with that.
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  There was a necessity, a real thing that I just see that a lot of people think
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  that God, he commands something, but he also hates what he commands.
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  He delivers laws and prescriptions of how things are to be done,
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  but then he, at the same time, hates those prescriptions that he gives.
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  No, those are good and holy and righteous and true.
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  The commanding of the third temple, the commanding of the temple in general was a good commandment.
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  So to say, like, I'm not saying that we just need to build a third temple,
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  but I'm not saying that the temple in general is a bad thing.
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  It is a good thing. It is a way why we in this temporal time can draw near to God.
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  God's judgment on Jerusalem and destroying the third temple was because of the
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  rejection of the Messiah. But it's not to say that the temple in general is bad.
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  That's where I think people go off in misunderstanding about this.
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  And I'm going to read this last thing. This is from Acts. This changed my worldview.
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  It's when it clicked. This is in Acts 21 when Paul, who is a Jew, a Torah observant Jew,
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  that people are slandering him and saying that he is saying to do away with
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  the law, do away with the whole sacrificial system, the temple and all of its
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  bad. And it was exactly the opposite.
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  There is a thing that's going on where Paul's message is saying Gentiles can
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  become a part of God's people and they don't need to become Jewish.
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  They can stay Gentiles and they don't have to go under the yoke of the law.
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  And in Acts 21, verse 24, they're telling the Apostle Paul, take these men and
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  purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads.
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  Thus, all we will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about
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  you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.
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  But as for the Gentiles, there's a difference, the Jews and the Gentiles.
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  But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment
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  that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood
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  and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality.
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  Then Paul took the men and the next day he purified himself along with them
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  and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would
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  be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them.
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  So Paul, Jews keep the law.
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  Gentiles, they're not obligated with all the prescriptions of the law.
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  And I think this is what messes up a lot of Christian people,
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  because when we read the Old Testament, how do we understand it?
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  Because we're not living by all that.
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  And is it to say, oh, we have to mischaracterize it and say Jesus did away with all of it.
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  He didn't, but it applies differently between Jews and Gentiles.
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  All right, we'll leave it at that. Follow me on X and Instagram at Brandon Fogle.
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