They Have Eyes and Will Not See
Section One: The Old Book and the New World Order
March entered this year with a loud bang. Snowstorms. Chaos. And then right on time, as if Heaven itself had set the calendar, America and Israel launched strikes on Iran. Right in time for Purim. Let that sit for a moment.
Now I want to say something before I go any further. It is something to behold, truly something to witness, watching mainstream media and your favorite podcasters tie themselves into knots trying to explain what is unfolding in the Middle East without once, not one single time, reaching for the Word that has already explained it. They will talk geopolitics. They will talk oil. They will talk alliances and power moves and the military industrial complex. They will even talk about religion and the religious aspects of this war in Iran. What they will not do is open that Book. Because that old Book, as far as they are concerned, couldn't possibly be real. The people who believe it are confused. Deluded. Duped by theology. Out of their minds.
Here we are. Watching.
Individuals like Tucker Carlson and podcast platforms like Breaking Points are attempting to align current events with religion. Breaking Points views these parallels as coincidences, for example claims that Israel's actions correspond to biblical prophecy. Tucker Carlson, by contrast, acknowledges the religious dimension of this war but rejects any connection to biblical fulfillment; he insists it does not align with Christianity.
Breaking Points is a far-left, liberal podcast platform hosted by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, two narrow-minded, left-leaning intellectuals who put more faith in their own knowledge than in any religion. Tucker Carlson is a far-right conservative who professes to be a Christian and is highly critical of Israel. He claims his viewpoint is not about Jews, yet portrays the nation of Israel as fundamentally in the wrong, while casting Muslim states like Iran differently.
Iran is now dealing with the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, the long-time Supreme Leader of a theocratic state who oppressed many for decades. Carlson recognizes the religious dimension at the center of this conflict, but he refuses to take the next step and connect these events to prophecy. He can see the religion; he cannot see the fulfillment. In the same breath he quoted Jesus, "having eyes, they do not see," without appearing to realize he was describing himself. Jesus spoke of people who stood in the presence of truth and still refused to receive it. Carlson quoted those words about us, not knowing that, as it were, Heaven was laughing.
There is something else worth saying. Tucker Carlson has gone on record questioning how any Christian could possibly align themselves with the belief that a Third Temple will be built in Jerusalem. His argument sounds reasonable on the surface and even sounds scriptural. We are the temple, he says. Through Jesus Christ we now have direct access to God. The veil was torn. We don't need a physical temple. He is not wrong. That is true.
It is a half truth. A half truth in the hands of a man who believes he is righteous is one of the most dangerous things in the world.
Because Tucker apparently has never sat with the book of Ezekiel. Chapters 40 through 48. A vision so detailed, so architectural, so specific, with measurements of gates and dimensions of chambers and the return of the glory of God to a physical house, that you cannot spiritualize it away without doing violence to the text. Ezekiel was not writing poetry. He was writing what he saw. And what he saw was a Temple. In the Last Days. In Jerusalem.
Tucker cannot get there. The reason Tucker cannot get there is the same reason he can stand in solidarity with an 86 year old man who worships a false god, defending him, platforming him, treating his cause as righteous, while simultaneously questioning the Biblical faith of Christians who believe what the prophets actually wrote. That is not discernment. That is a Pharisee. That is the spirit of a man who has decided that he is the one who rightly divides the Word, that he is the measure of what is reasonable, that he gets to determine which parts of your Bible count.
The Pharisees were not godless men. That is what made them dangerous. They knew the scripture. They were devoted. They were respected. And they stood in the presence of the fulfillment of everything they claimed to believe and called it a lie because it didn't look the way they expected and because it didn't fit the theology they had already built.
Tucker does not see himself as a Pharisee. He sees himself as the righteous one. The thinking Christian. The one brave enough to say what others won't. But a man who will defend a Muslim theocrat and mock the prophetic faith of Bible-believing Christians has told you everything you need to know about where his heart actually is, whether he has the eyes to see it or not.
Because here is the thing about Tucker Carlson and the scores of people just like him who call themselves Christians but cannot bring themselves to connect what is happening in Israel and Iran to prophecy. The reason isn't ignorance. The reason is that in their hearts they have already decided that the people in Israel are evil. That they are unrighteous. And so surely God cannot be doing anything through them. Surely this doesn't count. Surely the Book doesn't apply here.
Prophecy does not ask for your comfort. It does not wait for your approval. The Last Days are not a referendum. The signs are not interested in whether Tucker Carlson or CNN or Breaking Points or any podcaster with a ring light and a microphone is ready to call them what they are.
We are watching the world shift. In real time. And the ones called crazy are the ones who can see it.
Section Two: The Distraction
While America and Israel were raining fire down on Iran, dismantling the Islamic Shia regime that has terrorized a nation and threatened the world for nearly half a century, America found something else to look at. We always do.
We looked at a Senate race in Texas.
The race between Jasmine Crockett and James Telarico captured the attention of this country, specifically the attention of Black America, in a way that reveals exactly where our eyes are fixed and exactly what we are missing. Because while prophecy is unfolding on one side of the world, we are over here arguing about a primary. And not even the general election. A primary.
Now let me be clear about what actually happened here because Jasmine Crockett went on television and blamed Republicans for her loss. She cried foul. She talked about being cheated. What she did not say, what she could not bring herself to admit as loud, is that her own party sat her down. She was sidelined by her own party. The Democrats who have spent years screaming DEI looked at a Black woman with a law degree from Rhodes College, with federal experience, with alliances already built, with the kind of credibility that takes years to earn, and they handed the nomination to James Talarico. A white man. A soon-to-be so-called pastor. A Harvard graduate. A man who had the look and the disposition they believed could be a useful instrument.
Talarico represented everything Crockett was not in their eyes, which is to say he was palatable. Controllable. He would not go off script. He would not be a loud mouth. He would not be a distraction. Crockett was too real, too raw, too much, and in the Democratic Party, too much of a Black woman has always been exactly one thing: a liability.
What this race actually is, when you pull back the lens, is not just about race. This is about a party that is singular in its obsession and that obsession is Donald Trump. Unseating him. Impeaching him. Dismantling everything he represents. Talarico was selected not because he was the best candidate for Texas. He was selected because they believe he has the best shot at flipping a Texas Senate seat, and a flipped Texas Senate seat gets them one step closer to the votes they need to bring down the man who just ordered the strike that killed Khamenei.
Think about that. The man they are trying to impeach is the same man who just shook the entire prophetic landscape of the Middle East. And impeaching Donald Trump may do more than remove a president. It may impede Israel's attempts to build the Third Temple and bring the world one step further from what the prophets said would come.
This race, as significant as it may become come November when one of them faces either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton, only drew two million votes in the primary. Two million. In 2018 when Ted Cruz faced Beto O'Rourke, the primary drew six million combined votes between Democrats and Republicans. The general pulled eight million. The engagement was historic. People were fired up. Now, with the world on fire, with Israel and Iran at war, with the architecture of the Last Days being assembled in real time, two million people showed up and half of them were arguing about whether racism cost Jasmine Crockett a Senate seat.
Racism was real in this race. Let's not pretend it wasn't. It was not the only thing at work though. The Democratic Party's own hand was in it. They gave the DEI to the less qualified candidate because they believed he was the better weapon. They used the language of inclusion to exclude the one person who had actually earned it. They showed their hand. Again.
What grieves me most about all of this is the people consuming this story, the ones who spent this week outraged about Crockett and Talarico, posting and arguing and demanding accountability, most of them have no idea what is happening in Iran. Most of them could not tell you why Purim matters or who Esther was. Most of them have never opened Ezekiel or even understand anything about a Third Temple. They are consumed by the small theater of American race politics while the curtain is rising on something none of us have ever seen before.
They are the lost crowd. The ones who do not recognize the season. The ones who cannot feel that the ground is shifting underneath their feet, not because of an election or a Senate race in Texas, but because the King is coming. And when He comes, the color of your skin will not be a factor. Your party affiliation will not be a factor. Your podcast following will not be a factor. The only thing that will matter is what you believed and whether you had eyes to see it while there was still time.
Section Three: The Idol and the Idolatry
There is Candace Owens.
I cannot talk about distraction and blindness in this hour without addressing what is happening in the world of podcasting and more specifically what Candace Owens has become. Because there is a level of hate for Israel that rises in her commentary that is visceral. Raw. Personal. And it is being fed to millions of people who believe they are receiving truth.
Candace Owens is like a record with a scratch in it. Since last September she has been stuck. Repeating the same story. The same obsession. The same loop. And that loop has a name, Charlie Kirk. He has become her idol. He has become the saint she believes will deliver her from her sins if she can just solve the mystery of who took him. Finding the answer to that question has consumed her entirely and millions of her followers are walking right behind her into that idolatry without the first clue that is what it is.
Her series, The Bride of Charlie, is playing out on a podcast near you and me. And in it she has taken it upon herself to destroy Erika Kirk, Charlie's wife, because in Candace's mind Erika and her family are connected to the Jews. Connected to Israel. And Israel, in Candace Owens' world, is the root of all evil. She digs through the most wicked crevices she can find, searching for the thread that ties this grieving woman back to the people she has decided are the enemy. Every Jewish connection is evidence. Every association is suspicious. Every link to Israel is confirmation of what she already believes.
She will tell you she is not against Jews. She is against Israel. She will draw that line carefully and deliberately. But then watch how Jews become a central feature of her coverage. Watch how the word lands in her commentary. Watch how her audience receives it. The distinction she draws in her mouth disappears entirely by the time it reaches the ears of the people listening.
Israel is committing genocide, she says. They started in Gaza and now they are attempting it in Iran. Killing the Muslim leader was wicked and unjust. And there are people, far more than you would expect, who have received that message and made it their own. People who two years ago could not have told you the difference between Sunni and Shia, who now have strong theological opinions about why the God of Israel is the villain of this story.
That is not journalism. That is not investigation. That is not even good podcasting. That is Satan using every tool available to keep us blind, to cover our eyes with just enough truth mixed with just enough poison that we cannot tell the difference, to keep us digging in the dirt so that we come up dirty. So that when the real thing is happening, when the prophetic clock is moving and the nations are aligning and the signs are stacking up, we are too busy watching a podcast about a dead man's wife to lift our eyes and see what God is actually doing.
Candace Owens is not the disease. She is a symptom. A symptom of a people so desperate for someone to tell them the truth that they will follow anyone who sounds certain, even when that certainty is leading them directly away from the light.
Closing: Beyond the Pale
Candace Owens said something recently that I have not been able to shake. Not because it caught me off guard but because of what it revealed about the spirit behind everything she has been building.
She invoked the phrase Beyond the Pale.
And let me be clear. Candace Owens knows exactly what that phrase means. This was not a casual slip. This was not a woman who stumbled onto a historical reference without understanding its weight. She knows the Pale. She knows the Pale of Settlement. The defined boundary inside Imperial Russia beyond which Jewish people were not permitted to live. Contained. Controlled. Pushed to the outskirts of society and told they did not belong among civilized people. If you have ever watched Fiddler on the Roof, if you have ever seen that fictional village of Anatevka, those families clinging to their traditions and their dignity in the margins of a world that despised them, then you have seen the Pale. You know what it cost to live beyond it.
Candace knows this history. And she used it anyway. She reached for it deliberately to justify the treatment of Jews. To frame their suffering not as an injustice but as a consequence. As something earned. And then she went further, lifting up the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, dragged out on Christmas Day and shot, as some kind of reference point. A moment in history she wanted her audience sitting with while thinking about Israel and Jewish leadership.
That is not commentary. That is not provocation. That is a person who went digging in the darkest corners of history, found the most blood-soaked examples she could locate, and laid them at the feet of the Jewish people as justification for what she believes they deserve.
This is the same woman millions of people are following right now. The same voice they trust to tell them what the media won't. The same platform they call truth.
This is where all of it converges into one sobering reality. Iran spent 47 years building a regime around the annihilation of Israel. The Democratic Party is spending its political capital trying to bring down the president who just dismantled that regime. Candace Owens is spending her platform poisoning the minds of everyday Americans against the Jewish people, using the language of history as a weapon rather than a lesson. These are not three unrelated things. They are different instruments playing the same note. That note is as old as the book of Esther.
Because the Pale did not end with Russia. War after war and nation after nation, Spain, France, England, Poland, Germany, the Jewish people were expelled, persecuted, nearly exterminated. And after all of it, after every attempt to erase them from the earth, they found themselves back in Jerusalem. In 1948 a nation was born in a day. Isaiah 66 fulfilled before a watching world that immediately began debating whether it counted.
Candace knows this history too. She just draws different conclusions from it.
What she cannot account for, what no podcaster, no political strategist, no ancient Persian empire and no modern Islamic theocracy has ever been able to account for, is this. The God of Israel is not moved by human consensus. He does not check the ratings. He does not wait for Tucker Carlson to find it theologically reasonable or for Candace Owens to find it historically fair. He set a plan in motion before the foundations of the world and He has been walking it out in full view of anyone with eyes to see it, through every expulsion and every Pale and every pogrom and every gas chamber and every October 7th, and yes, every airstrike on Persian soil during the feast of Purim.
This is not coincidence. None of it is coincidence. Not a single step of that long journey from the outskirts of Russia back to the Promised Land happened outside the sovereign hand of God.
The ones who see it are not crazy and we are not confused or duped by theology. We are the ones who remember what the Book said and recognize the season we are living in. While America argues about Senate races and podcasters dig through the most wicked crevices of history to justify hatred dressed up as journalism, the stage is being set. The pieces are moving. The clock is running.
Beyond the Pale was once the place where the unwanted were sent to disappear. God turned it into a road that led them home.
The same God who brought a scattered people back to their land after two thousand years of exile is now setting the stage for what no eye has fully seen and no mind has fully comprehended.
Soon and very soon.
