{"id":6555,"date":"2025-06-21T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:15:38","slug":"episode-41-is-ted-cruz-right-about-god-blessing-those-who-bless-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/episode-41-is-ted-cruz-right-about-god-blessing-those-who-bless-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 41: Is Ted Cruz Right about God Blessing Those Who Bless Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Episode 41: Is Ted Cruz right about God blessing those who bless Israel?\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5FDUbBmkq3gIu2zGl2ubQg?si=1446dbe9878b48ac&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/episode-40-is-genesis-literal-history\/\">Previous Episode<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/episode-42-introduction-to-the-ten-commandments\/\">Next Episode<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Genesis 12:3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dispensationalism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?filter=DISPENSATIONALISM&amp;mode=filter&amp;page=0&amp;definition=F48ADF84-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\">Christian Cyclopedia:<\/a> <em>The Scofield Reference Bible<\/em>, which advocates dispensationalism, defines a dispensation as \u201ca period of time during which man is tested in respect of obedience to some&nbsp;<em>specific<\/em>&nbsp;revelation of the will of God.\u201d Elements of millennialism are found in Jewish opinions in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>OT<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;times and in some early Christian writers. Among the forerunners of modern millennialism: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?definition=DF31CF89-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\"><em>Shakers*<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and J. N. Darby (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?definition=4DE2D78A-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\">Brethren, Plymouth<\/a>). Modern dispensationalists divide the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>hist.<\/em><\/a> of man into 7 dispensations, the last constituting the millennial reign of Christ on earth. They hold that in previous dispensations God and Christ could not carry out the divine plan for mankind because of man&#8217;s perversity and that God will therefore test man&#8217;s obedience in a final dispensation. Premillennialists say that because of man&#8217;s disobedience in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>gen.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and the Jews&#8217; obstinacy in particular, Christ was unable to fulfill many Messianic prophecies,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>e.g.<\/em><\/a> , that of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>reest.<\/em><\/a>of the throne of David, conversion of the Jews, and building of His kingdom. Therefore He founded only the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>ch.<\/em><\/a> as the kingdom of God during His first coming and awaits the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>est.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;of His own kingdom at His 2d advent, at the beginning of the final dispensation. In this final period of God&#8217;s special revelation the Jewish race will accept Christ as its king,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>est.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;a glorious kingdom in Palestine, and rule with Christ 1,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a> All nations will recognize Christ&#8217;s sovereign rule. In support of these vagaries many premillennialists appeal to the theory that God&#8217;s will is revealed in 7 dispensations, and that as God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, so the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>hist.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;of man must comprise 6 periods of labor and 1 of rest. Prominent dispensationalists,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>e.g.<\/em><\/a> ,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?definition=8A32CF89-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\"><em>C. I. Scofield*<\/em><\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?definition=3BE3D78A-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\"><em>W. E. Blackstone,*<\/em><\/a> see in the number 7 the sacred rock on which their whole Scripture interpretation seems to be built. Levitical worship, they say, revolved about the week. There was a \u201cweek of weeks\u201d (<em>Lv 23:15\u201316<\/em>), a \u201cweek of months\u201d (<em>Lv 23:27\u201328<\/em>), a \u201cweek of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a>\u201d (<em>Lv 25:4<\/em>), and a \u201cweek of weeks of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a>\u201d (<em>Lv 25:8\u201312<\/em>). All millennialists assume that&nbsp;<em>2 Ptr 3:8<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cone day is \u2026 as a thousand years\u201d) applies in prophecy. Dispensationalists therefore claim that each day of the creation week prophetically typifies a corresponding 1,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in world&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>hist.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But they are not agreed in fixing the chronology of the \u201cworld-week.\u201d Some divide the&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>hist.<\/em><\/a> of man into 7 periods of 1,000 sun&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a> each. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yr.<\/em><\/a> 6,000 since the creation is said to be imminent, and the beginning of the world-Sabbath may be expected momentarily. Some say that each dispensation begins with catastrophe and ends with new revelation, even as in&nbsp;<em>Gn 1<\/em>&nbsp;evening is mentioned before morning. Most hold that every dispensation begins with revelation and ends with catastrophe (the latter as punishment for man&#8217;s disobedience), some dispensations being relatively short, others long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most popular theory identifies these dispensations: 1. The state of innocence, ending with the fall. 2. Man is governed by conscience, proves unfaithful again, and is punished by the Flood. 3. The period of civil&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>govt.<\/em><\/a> ,&nbsp;<em>Gn 9:6<\/em>, ending with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 4. God revealed the messianic promise to the patriarchs; the destruction of Pharaoh shows the inadequacy of this dispensation. 5. In the Mosaic period God revealed Himself as the covenant-God; the crucifixion was the catastrophic end of this period. 6. We are in the period of grace (also called the period of mystery because of&nbsp;<em>Rom 16:25<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>Eph 3:3\u20136<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>Cl 1:24\u201327<\/em>), in which Christ reveals Himself through the Gospel; this period will end with the great tribulation and the 2d coming of Christ, the judgment of the nations as to their attitude toward Christ&#8217;s brethren (the Jews), and the destruction of Antichrist. 7. The dispensation of manifestation, the millennium, corresponding to the Sabbath of creation week; it is to last 1,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/\"><em>yrs.<\/em><\/a> ; but even in this period not all will obey; the world-Sabbath will end with judgment at the white throne and the destruction of Satan and the earth,&nbsp;<em>Rv 20:11\u201315<\/em>; the believers will now enter heaven and the unbelievers eternal destruction. FEM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopedia.lcms.org\/definitions?definition=189FDF84-B266-EE11-9148-0050563F0205\">Millennium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O. T. Allis,&nbsp;Prophecy and the Church<\/em>&nbsp;(Philadelphia, 1945);&nbsp;<em>C. N. Kraus,&nbsp;Dispensationalism in America<\/em>&nbsp;(Richmond, Virginia, 1958);&nbsp;<em>C. B. Bass,&nbsp;Backgrounds to Dispensationalism<\/em>&nbsp;(Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1960);&nbsp;<em>W. E. Cox,&nbsp;An Examination of Dispensationalism<\/em>&nbsp;(Philadelphia, 1963);&nbsp;<em>C. C. Ryrie,&nbsp;Dispensationalism Today<\/em>&nbsp;(Chicago, 1965).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do we identify Abraham and his children today? &nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Matthew 3:9: And do not presume to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Abraham as our father,\u2019 for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.\u201d John the Baptist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew 8:10-11: When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who followed Him, \u201cTruly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. 11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Galatians 3:6-29<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Romans 9:1-8; 30-33; 11:1-2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Galatians 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context Dispensationalism But they are not agreed in fixing the chronology of the \u201cworld-week.\u201d Some divide the&nbsp; hist. of man into 7 periods of 1,000 sun&nbsp;yrs. each. The yr. 6,000 since the creation is said to be imminent, and the beginning of the world-Sabbath may be expected momentarily. Some say that each dispensation begins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/episode-41-is-ted-cruz-right-about-god-blessing-those-who-bless-israel\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[706,704,707,705],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-bible-study-podcast","tag-abraham","tag-dispensationalism","tag-israel","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}