“Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed…I want to be on the blessing side of things.”
Earlier in 2025, Tucker Carlson interviewed Ted Cruz and this is what he said he learned in church about supporting the modern state of Israel. The passage he is referring to is from Genesis 12:3, and it describes God’s promise to Abram (later Abraham) when he took his wife Sarai (later Sarah) and his brother’s son Lot and left Haran for Canaan where he settled.
Poor Ted. It appears he was never exposed in his youth to the full spectrum of biblical text. If he read further along in the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament) he might stumble on some of the writings of the Hebrew prophets like Isaiah and Amos who had lots to complain about when it came to their country, also known as the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which was later conquered by Assyria. The Southern Kingdom was called Judea and Jeremiah was its prophet who warned of the sins that would lead to that kingdom being conquered by Babylon decades later. Does Ted believe that those prophets weren’t blessed because they cursed what as happening in their respective nations?
By emphasizing the Genesis passage, Ted’s Sunday School teachers led him astray in his life-long search to be blessed. If he’d skip over the Hebrew Bible and go right into the book of Matthew, he’d find Jesus’s criteria for receiving a blessing and staying out of the cursed bucket. As I’ve mentioned dozens of times before, Matthew 25:31-46 is Jesus’s statement on what makes someone blessed, and, unfortunately for Ted, he’s on the wrong side of the sin equation according to Jesus’s criteria. Ted’s support of the brutal oppression of immigrants and keeping the government closed by refusing to continue subsidies that provide health insurance and, during the government shut-down, allowing food to millions—all this lands him squarely in devil-and-his-angels territory.
In recent days, Ted was photographed standing behind the president in support of the bombings of boats in the Caribbean. Shifting back to Exodus and Deuteronomy, murdering 80 people based on an unfounded suspicion of drugs (not alone a capital offense) is a clear violation of the Ten Commandments. If Ted wants to be blessed, he’s got a lot of work to do. The Bible tells him so.
Sinnin' Ted, lyin' Ted, flyin' and cryin' Ted.