Joel Watson

My theology may be described as generally Reformed and heavily preteristic. Most of my friends are Dispensationalists and won't read my blog. Would you mind taking a look at it? It used to get a lot of views but I took some time off (about ten years ! ) and lost them. Thanks. sovereigngod.wordpress.com

@pubity She pours money into a black hole to feel good about herself.

Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place.

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for protests to take place outside US embassies across the world as part of a "Global Week of Action for a Free Iran," in a post on his official press office's X/Twitter early Monday morning.

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@ImMeme0 Because we're not a serious nation yet.

Ilhan Omar busting Somali dance moves at Minnesota’s Somali Week Festival. Why hasn’t her citizenship been revoked, and why hasn’t she been deported yet?

Mat 21:37-44 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him]. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, HE WILL MISERABLY DESTRY THOSE WICKED MEN, AND WILL LET OUT HIS VINEYARD UNTO OTHER HUSBANDMEN, WHICH SHALL RENDER HIM THE FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL BE TAKEN FROM YOU, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will GRIND HIM TO POWDER.

@Nucholsandwich2 @DavidLimbaugh Evan a casual reading of the New Testament would show you that the Kingdom has been taken away from the unbelieving Jews and has been given to those bearing the fruit thereof.

A friendly note to those who dismissively reject the idea that the Abrahamic Covenant’s land promise to Israel is permanent, and say that only dispensationalists believe that: not true. Revered British Pastor Charles Spurgeon, e.g., believed it & he wasn’t a dispensationalist.

@JackPosobiec Lucy!

Long live the Queen

Do Jews consider White people to be Romans and therefore the object of revenge?

@bubba4bibi Pretty sure you're a parody account but seriously I would like to visit the wailing wall. But to SEE it, not make love to it.

Public schools should read the Word of God and take a senior trip to the Wailing Wall. That is the only way to truly get a thoroughly Judeo-Christian education.

@LostMyHats @megbasham Amen. Paul said in Phil 1 that even when the Gospel is preached insincerely, the Gospel is still preached, and he rejoices in it.

@megbasham The part about “shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose” isn’t made null by who assigns it.

To those who are overly concerned that allowing a few selected passages of the Bible to be taught in public schools is going to allow blue haired, left-wing teachers to undermine the Christian faith of every student in their hearing, let me tell you a little story. In college, I was very much not a Christian. But I was then assigned the Vulgate Cycle, otherwise known as the Quest for the holy Grail. Now the purpose of the assignment was to deconstruct the bits of religious lectures that monks give Lancelot in that older version of the story. We were supposed to write a paper about how later versions were better for not including these passages. Essentially, we were supposed to sneer at these passages. But in them, I recognized my own dissipated self. And I was moved to repentance. The deconstructionist aims of my professor did not work. The text itself spoke to me and caused me to repent. Now consider how much more powerful are the words of scripture. It is a roaring lion. I’m not worried about what happens if some blue hairs let a little bit of it out out of its cage so that American students can understand their own history and other great works of literature.

I just gave Tucker Carlson two Spurgeon books and a handwritten manuscript, and I’d appreciate if you stopped lying about the Prince of Preachers and a dead man who can’t defend himself, who absolutely LOATHED the notion that Jews retained the promises of Abraham while denying Abraham’s Messiah. When confronted with that idea, those new teachings, Spurgeon responded, “We hold to no new views concerning the future, and we have no desire for any.” Spurgeon was uninterested in any theological system that divided the people of God into two groups based on ethnicity or that claimed Jews are entitled to anything by bloodline. That’s poppycock. He was the ARCH Covenant Theologian, what YOU absurdly call “Replacement Theology.” Shame on you. You’re bearing false witness about the man who said, “Israel in the covenant of grace is not natural Israel, but all believers in all ages!” (Jesus Christ Immutable, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 15, p. 8) Spurgeon absolutely did NOT believe the land promise was “permanent” to ethnic Israel. He believed in the conversion and restoration of the Jews, but through the gospel - NOT a geopolitical deed to Palestine. ANY theologian with any honesty would reject that claim as asinine. It is one thing to believe in prophetic futurism - as both I and Spurgeon did - for ethnic Hebrew ONCE THEY REPENT AND BELIEVE, and to believe they’re entitled to God’s Covenant and Promises while rejecting Jesus. That’s asinine. That’s repugnant. Spurgeon would rebuke you to your face. Historic Premillennialism is NOT Dispensational Zionism, but the antithesis of it. HERE is what the great CH Spurgeon said: “The seed of Abraham is the grand type of the Church. And therefore we believe that every word here, in its widest and most extensive sense, belongs to the elect of God - those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and for whom Jesus shed His blood.” (Sermon Vol. 9, 1863). “Every Covenant promise that belongs to the seed of Abraham belongs to every Believer, for Believers are the truest seed of Abraham. These are the true Israel that worship God in spirit and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Sermon Vol. 30, 1884) “They are not all Israel, which are of Israel after a carnal lineage, but all God’s people are the true Israel, the spiritual seed in whom the promises made to Abraham are this day fulfilled.” (Sermon Vol. 54) “Everything which belonged to the seed of Abraham after the flesh belongs yet more to those who are the seed of Abraham according to the spirit! Indeed, there always was a peculiar blessing which never came to those who were only born according to the flesh, for Ishmael received it not, neither did Esau enter into it. The line of inheritance is the line of promise, the line of the Divine choice.” -(Sermon Vol. 44, 1898) David Limbaugh, you have griped non-stop about “Replacement Theology.” You’re griping about Spurgeon. How dare you try to resurrect his corpse and put him in your corner. He believed - like I do - that God will one day redeem the Jewish people by giving them faith in Jesus and saving them the same as way as everyone else. It’s called “The Ingathering.” ALL Covenant Theologians believe it. It’s not unique to Israel. Spurgeon believed all Assyrians would be saved. All Egyptians. All Grecians. All Persians. He believed Isaiah 19 that says they will ALL inherit Zion. That the Promised Land belongs to all. It’s called our “eschatological hope.” What Spurgeon sure as hell did NOT believe is that unbelieving Jews who deny their King are entitled to a Kingdom without Him. He called Darby a heretic, because that’s what he is. Stop disrespecting the dead. I named my child after Spurgeon. I love him like a father. My family has gathered every evening to read his Morning and Evening devotional together for 20 years. He was a 1689 2nd LBC Baptist, not a Neo-Judaizing Zionist. He detested the notion with every ounce of his body.

@hemantmehta Your post is proof that neutrality does not exist.

Texas has decided public schools should teach Noah's Ark, the Burning Bush, Adam & Eve, and more as required reading. It's terrible news for religious freedom. It's also terrible news for Christianity itself. friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-just-m…

@limexperience @megbasham @Selene_Mariposa A deitist (sic) is religious. Everyone is religious. There is no neutral ground.

@megbasham @Selene_Mariposa You can’t name one scripture that informs western civilization. The founders were deitist. They weren’t even religious

Let me say this as a practicing Catholic. I do not want the Bible required reading in public schools. And before anyone clutches their pearls, hear me out, because my reason is the most American one there is. I am also a practicing constitutionalist. And the same Constitution that protects my right to raise my children in the faith is the one that keeps the government out of the business of assigning scripture. There is a reason the Founders built that wall. It does not exist to attack religion. It exists to protect it. Because the moment the state can mandate my Bible, it can mandate someone else’s holy book next. Require the Bible today and by the logic of the law you have opened the door to requiring the Talmud, the Quran, and eventually whatever the Flying Spaghetti Monster crowd files paperwork for. Once government is in the scripture business, it does not get to stop at yours. I do not want a bureaucrat deciding which verses my children read. I want that job. It is mine. I take it seriously, and I have it covered at home, on Sundays, at our own table, the way it is meant to be handled. What I want from school is different. I want my kids learning to read and write well. I want them doing math that makes their heads hurt. I want a little art, real history, and a working understanding of how this republic actually functions. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. The classroom teaches the things of this world. The faith is mine to teach at home. That is not me being a bad Catholic. That is me being a serious one. 🦋

Also check out Romans: Rom 4:14 - 16 For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression. Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all"

@RisingDisciples I know someone who was taught that lie and now she's putting it to the test. Living like the Devil and walking around claiming she's a Christian because she said "the prayer" when she was a child.

FREE GRACE doctrine often leads to the blasphemous, nauseating "teaching" given by Ralph "Yankee" Arnold, below. The scariest thing about this is that MANY who identify as followers of Christ embrace, defend, and affirm this vulgar garbage.

@RonSCantor Israel did indeed receive the land God promised them. Later, he evicted them. First temporarily, then permanently in 70 AD. Old Covenant Israel was destroyed with its Temple. The new Temple is Christ whose priesthood never ends.

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

@DavidLimbaugh The children of Abraham are those of the faith of Abraham and are the heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:29 "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

@YourAnonNews He's not allowed to defend himself and his fellow officers?

This is Jonathan Ross. He shot and killed Renee Good. He still hasn’t been indicted.

@Logically_JC It's not your son's school. It belongs to the government.

My son’s school is not your church.

@ZelenskyyUa I saw the video of John McCain with your military leaders planning the war. You wanted it.

Russia must get out of Ukraine with its war – we want no war. Ukraine has put forward proposals to our key partners, and Putin’s friends have also heard from us that a meeting is possible and that ending this war is possible. Russia must now take that step toward peace.