Laura Blodgett

an ordinary woman having extraordinary fun -
Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, and publisher of many things

[Jerusalem News Syndicate @JNS_org]

“Sounds like another plea for publicity,” declared @RepGregMurphy (R-N.C.) after progressive Democrat Congressman @RepRoKhanna claimed he was detained by "armed settlers" during a 'fact-finding tour' of Judea and Samaria, during which Khanna reportedly declined to meet with former Israeli hostages.

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[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

There are people who value human life and then there are those who don’t.

For some reason the ones who don’t also hate Israel, think Hamas is resistance, blame the Jews, attack Erika Kirk and love Dugin and Russia.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Said no one ever.

[Laura Blodgett @lauraimprovises]

@Meldougherty77 I just read this two days ago and thought of your discussion on the elders of Zion stuff that my husband and I appreciated.

[Laura Blodgett @lauraimprovises]

So if I understand correctly, the communists say having money is a sign of corruption, but giving people money will keep them from resorting to doing bad things?

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

A skeptic (someone with sincere doubts and unanswered questions) is very different from a conspiracist. The conspiracist only doubts things that disconfirm what he already believes. Every source that could correct him is dismissed in advance, so that nothing can change his mind. When he asks questions, he isn't looking for answers that might convince him. He's asking them to convince you he's just a skeptic, when he isn't.

[Laura Blodgett @lauraimprovises]

Not to mention that many Bible believing Christians were killed across the centuries and their writings destroyed. It is those with the most worldly power who controlled much of what has been preserved as “historical “ representations of Christianity. That should make them highly suspect.

[Laura Blodgett @lauraimprovises]

@margay77 😂😂😂

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I didn’t get cheated.

You did.

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Why are they so desperate to convince you that a leftist didn’t kill Charlie Kirk when all of the evidence says he did?

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

It’s not that hard…

Leftists don’t have enough kids to remain viable at the ballot box. So they need to do one of 3 things.

1. “Educate” the children of their opponents which they do through the government school system.

2. Import a population whose votes they can buy with tax payer money.

3. Cheat at the ballot box.

This isn’t hyperbole, it’s math. They simply don’t have the numbers because such a large part of their coalition choose not to have kids either by aborting the ones they actually make or because the kind of sex they engage in can’t produce them.

So they have to do something to win elections and there aren’t a lot of options available.

[Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer]

There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?

[Laura Blodgett @lauraimprovises]

@SteveDeaceShow Even comparatively family friendly movies are consistently showing “soft “ necromancy. I think too many Christians think it’s not a big deal, but it is the occult dressed in feel-good clothes.

[Lee W. Brainard @soothkeep]

The new birth is not merely a decision, a profession, or a moment in time-it is a supernatural work of God.

Under the New Covenant, God promises: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you" (Ezek. 36:26). Jesus said, "Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

Regeneration is the impartation of spiritual life by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God (1 Pet. 1:23; Titus 3:5). Those who are truly born again are indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit, for "if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His" (Rom. 8:9).

The new birth inevitably produces a new direction of life. The believer is not sinlessly perfect, but neither can he continue in a settled pattern of living for self, sin, and the world. He now wars against sin, pursues Christ, and walks in newness of life (Rom. 6:4). He may stumble, but he will not remain down, because "whatever is born of God overcomes the world" (1 John 5:4).

Grace is absolutely free, but the grace that saves also regenerates, indwells, empowers, and transforms.

[Lee W. Brainard @soothkeep]

What is the Olive Tree in Romans 11?

The olive tree is not the church, nor is it Israel itself. Scripture distinguishes both the natural branches (Israel) and the wild branches (Gentiles) from the tree (Rom. 11:17–24).

The tree represents God's ongoing Messianic testimony on earth-His redemptive program centered in Christ. The root supports the branches, just as Christ sustains all who belong to Him (Rom. 11:18; John 15:5).

Throughout history, the branches have changed: Adam and Eve, the faithful remnant in Israel, the church composed of believing Jews and Gentiles, and in the future, restored Israel. But the root and trunk remain unchanged because God does not change.

Israel has a unique relationship to this testimony, which is why Paul calls it "their own olive tree" (Rom. 11:24). Yet all who believe share in its rich nourishment through the Messiah.

The olive tree, then, is God's earthly testimony centered in the promised Messiah-Jesus Christ.

[American Woman (Michele) 🇺🇸 @1True_American_]

SCOTUS got it wrong.
Very wrong.

We are under attack from the inside and it’s about time we start realizing it.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Mamdani is either willfully ignorant or maliciously mendacious.

27 countries have Islam as an official state religion, while 23 Muslim-majority countries explicitly declare Islam the state religion in their constitutions.

A partial list of countries with an official or constitutionally privileged religion includes Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen.

Religions: Islam, Christianity, or Buddhism.

Israel has no official state religion.

Yet Israel is routinely portrayed as uniquely problematic because it is a Jewish state. The double standard is obvious. Remember that the next time Israel is smeared by the likes of Mamdani and his ilk.

[David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh]

I find it astonishingly ironic that belief in the literal eternality of the land promise to Israel is considered unsophisticated today yet it is exactly what the Bible says. And when I say “exactly“ I mean, explicitly, in no uncertain terms.

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT GOD WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS ISRAEL?
Tucker Carlson has made something of a hobby out of mocking the idea that God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse her. When Senator Ted Cruz could not cite the verse on the spot, Carlson declared victory in what became a viral moment for him. But winning a theological debate on a technicality against a non-theologian is not the same as being right. Let us look at what the Bible actually teaches — and then let the history books add their own testimony.

THE FOUNDATIONAL PROMISE
The foundational passage is Genesis 12:1–3. God speaks to Abraham and declares,

"I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Tucker’s counter-argument is essentially: fine, that was a promise to Abraham personally, and Abraham is dead, so case closed, or maybe, that was a promise to the future church! But this reading does violence to the entire arc of Scripture.

A DYNASTY PROMISE, NOT A ONE-MAN DEAL
Any serious Old Testament scholar understands that the Abrahamic covenant was not a one-man arrangement — it was a dynasty promise. The covenant God made with Abraham and later reaffirmed with Isaac and Jacob is of transcendent significance, containing promises that were explicitly everlasting — even through “a thousand generations” (Psalm 105:8–11). The Lord reaffirmed through oath His commitment to bless Abraham and his seed — understood as the corporate physical progeny (meaning his actual physical descendants) — and the covenant came through Isaac and Jacob as well.[1]

The Scripture makes this extension of the covenant unmistakable. When God appears to Isaac in Genesis 26:3–4, He says:

"Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed."

The same covenant. The same nations. Now addressed to the next physical generation.

Then God reaffirms it again to Jacob at Bethel in Genesis 28:13–14:

"I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed."

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob — three generations, one unbroken covenant.

Psalm 105:8–11 seals the case:

“He REMEMBERS his covenant FOVEVER, the word that he commanded, for A THOUSAND GENERATIONS, the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an EVERLASTING COVENANT, saying, ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.’”

This is not a personal promise to one man. It is a covenant made to Abraham, renewed to Isaac, confirmed to Jacob, and declared everlasting to the nation of Israel.

BALAAM AND THE BLESSING OF THE NATIONS
Most strikingly, in Numbers 24, a pagan diviner named Balaam is hired by the Moabite king Balak specifically to curse Israel. But what came out of Balaam’s mouth instead of a curse was this: “Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you”— spoken over the twelve physical tribes of Jacob wandering in the wilderness.[2]

Commentators note that Balaam’s blessing formula deliberately echoes the original words of Genesis 12:3 and Isaac’s blessing of Jacob — confirming the assurance of divine favor to the righteous and their seed forever.[3] By Numbers 24, Abraham has been dead for centuries. But the blessing-and-cursing principle is applied without hesitation to the living nation of his descendants. Tucker's argument — that the modern nation of Israel (which DNA proves are the descendants of the Israelites) has no connection to the biblical promises — cannot survive contact with the text.

NOTE: I do not believe that the modern nation of Israel is guiltless or should not be held accountable like any other nation. Wherever there is injustice, it should be called out. But that also means in Russia, which attacked Ukraine without cause, and in Iran, where 50,000 citizens have been murdered for protesting. It seems that people like Tucker are fixated on Israel's sins while making excuses for the Islamic world. What the Bible teaches is that believers should contend for Israel's salvation in order to provoke her to jealousy (Romans 11:11). That doesn't mean unquestioned support and no accountability.

THE CHURCH IN GENESIS 12
Before we turn to history, a reasonable question must be answered: what about the Church? If the Abrahamic covenant extends to Israel as a nation, where do Gentile believers fit in? The answer is not complicated — it is actually hiding in plain sight in Genesis 12 itself.

God makes two distinct promises to Abraham in those opening verses. First, He says He will make Abraham into a great nation — that is, Israel, the physical descendants through Isaac and Jacob. But then God says something broader: "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Those are two different things. One is a nation. The other is the multitude of nations. The promise is not either/or — it is both/and. Israel is the vehicle through which the universal blessing travels. This is why God changes Abram’s name to Abraham in Genesis 17 to indicate that he will be the father of a multitude of nations.

And we know exactly what that blessing is. Paul makes it explicit in Galatians 3:8, where he quotes Genesis 12:3 and says that God was preaching the gospel in advance to Abraham — that through his seed, meaning, ultimately, the Messiah Jesus, all nations would be blessed with salvation. So the Church is not in competition with Israel in Genesis 12. The Church is the fulfillment of the second half of the promise. Gentiles who believe in Jesus are the "all the families of the earth" God was already talking about when He first spoke to Abraham. That does not cancel the covenant with the nation of Israel — it completes the picture.

NOW, LET THE HISTORY SPEAK
In 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, expressing its support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine — an act many believe represented divine favor at work, and which historians describe as among the last great acts of the British Empire.[4] Britain was then the world’s dominant superpower, controlling roughly a quarter of the earth’s landmass. It was said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire” because it had lands all over the globe. For several decades, under leaders with strong evangelical sensibilities, Britain had championed Jewish restoration to their ancient homeland.

Then Britain turned.

In May 1939, the British government issued the White Paper, heavily favoring Arab demands: it limited Jewish immigration to 75,000 over five years, ended Jewish land purchases, and effectively declared that Britain had fulfilled its obligations to the Jewish people — closing the Holy Land’s doors even as Jews were fleeing Nazi persecution across Europe.[5] It was a breathtaking betrayal, and it came precisely when the Jewish people needed refuge most.

The timeline of what followed is striking. In 1940, the British Empire still contained a quarter of the world’s population and a fifth of its landmass. Yet within the following two decades, more than twenty British territories gained independence, and by 1980, only a handful remained under British control.[6] The sun, so to speak, began setting on the empire almost immediately after Britain slammed the door on the Jewish people.

Meanwhile, the United States stepped into the void. America had long been shaped by a deep biblical heritage and a Puritan identification with Israel’s story. America championed the founding of the modern State of Israel in 1948 — Harry Truman, himself a student of Scripture, recognized Israel eleven minutes after independence was declared at 9 AM EST on May 14. In the decades that followed, the United States became the undisputed dominant world power in every category: economic, military, cultural, and technological. For nearly a century now, no nation on earth has come close.

ANECDOTE OR EVIDENCE?
The cynic will note that empires rise and fall for many reasons — wars, economics, nationalism. That is true, and no honest theologian claims the blessing-and-cursing principle operates as a simple vending machine. But the trajectory is undeniable. The nation that championed Jewish restoration rose to global preeminence. The nation that betrayed the Jewish people and locked them out of their homeland as the Holocaust unfolded lost its empire within a generation.

That is not merely anecdote. That is a pattern consistent with what the Scripture promises — a promise that did not die with Abraham, but was passed to his seed, renewed through Isaac and Jacob, reaffirmed through a pagan prophet named Balaam, and written across the history of nations ever since.

Tucker Carlson is free to dismiss that pattern. But dismissing it does not make it disappear.

Dr. Ron Cantor