Pastor Jack Hibbs has broken his usual rule of staying out of political disputes to respond to a public disagreement between Senator Ted Cruz and commentator Tucker Carlson. Their exchange over Israel’s biblical significance, he said, prompted him to step in, not to defend either man, but to defend Scripture.
“I don’t usually do this. I don’t usually insert myself in another man’s argument,” Hibbs said in the opening of his podcast. “But lately Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz got into it. And so because the Bible was brought up, I have to get into it.”
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Hibbs acknowledged that he did not watch the entire Carlson–Cruz interview, but saw enough to raise concern. “I want to be really, really crystal clear on this… A lot of people at a time like this are biblically ignorant of what God says regarding Israel, the Jew, the nation of Israel and the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Christ.”
He criticized Carlson for “preloading” the interview with Cruz by asking obscure questions like the population of Iran. “It was definitely a setup,” Hibbs said. “There’s no doubt about it, you guys—Ted Cruz got caught with his Bible down. He didn’t have chapter and verse citations, but he had the doctrine correct.”
Though Carlson self-identified as a Christian in the interview, Hibbs questioned that claim based on personal experience. “I’ve been in events with Tucker Carlson where his cursing was so profound it would have made a sailor blush. I don’t know about that, we’ll let Jesus settle that.”
Hibbs said what troubled him most was Carlson’s reaction to Cruz’s reference to God’s promise to bless Israel. “Tucker Carlson puts a scowl on his face as though he’s hearing something… maybe he is for the first time.”
In defense of Cruz’s paraphrase of Genesis 12, Hibbs quoted directly from the passage: “Now the Lord had said to Abram, ‘Get out of your country… I will make you a great nation… I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.’”
Hibbs went on to affirm that this blessing applies not only to Abraham’s descendants, but also to the modern state of Israel. “A nation is a government. A government is a nation. That’s why the Bible says God establishes nations, governments, kings, rulers and leaders.”
Hibbs also examined the prophetic fulfillment of the birth of Israel as a nation as a sign of God’s hand upon them as a sovereignly chosen people. Isaiah 66:8 says, “Shall a nation be born in a day? He then noted that “May 14th, 1948, Israel was born in a day.” This moment, as Hibbs described it, was a “miraculous” and unique one in human history.
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In a time of rising confusion and division, Hibbs brings the conversation back to Scripture, urging believers to ground their views in the Word of God.
His message is clear: support for Israel isn’t about politics, personalities or popular opinion; it’s about aligning with God’s eternal covenant and prophetic plan.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
