TUCKER CARLSON ATTACKS!

Tucker Carlson is a popular star in the conservative heavens. He was a fixture on Fox News but is now an indepent host of his podcasts and widely sought speaker. He recently had a country-western singer named John Rich as his guest on a broadcast during both he and his guest, John Rich, went on the atack.  What or whom did they atack?

Following Rich's lead, Tucker Calson began attacking Scofield and the Scofield Reference Bible (SRB). Rich began by showing his ignorance of history when he said, "The SRB was the first Bible with footnotes." Not true. The first Bible with footnotes was the Bible carried on the Mayflower over 300 years before Oxford Press published the SRB in the early part of the 20th century.  That Bible the Pilgrims brought to our shores wasthe Geneva Bible which had printed notations by Calvin and John Knox in the margins. Carlson didn't correct Rich's statement. Even if the SRB was the first (which it wasn't) so what? 

Next, the country/western singer charged Scofield with being a student of John Darby who "invented the idea of a secret rapture." Not true. The doctrine of the rapture comes from I Thessalonias 4:13-18 and I Cor. 15:51-53. If one were to go back in church history, he would find that, in 1565, a man named Joseph Mede used the word "rapture" in connection with I Thessalonians 4 which shows that the rank and file folks were knowledgable of the doctrine and weretalking about it. 

But we can go farther back than that: Lee Brainard, a scholar who researched the church fathers (those who lived and wrote immediately after the Apostles) writes, "I found a Pre-Trib Rapture passage [in the church fathers]. Then I went on and investigated more than150 Greek works, and I found dozens more Rapture passages. Ten of them are crystal clear about the Rapture happening before the Tribulation. 

"I also found twenty-plus passages that are clear Rapture passages [in thewritings of the church fathers] though the context would not define if it was Pre-Trib or not."Carlson made no correction of that false statement either. (One might suspect that Rich's and Carlson's history teahers were the football coaches.)

Rich made the outlandish charge that the publication of the SRB was a Jewish conspiracy when he asked Carlson, "Do you know who financed the printing of the SRB?" Carlson admitted that he did not. 

Rich then said, "The Rothchilds." (The Rothchilds were a wealthy Jewish family originally from Germany.) Carlson accepted this as true, although Rich offered no proof of the statement. Those who heard and saw him make the statement have reseached it and found no connection whatsoever between Scofield, the Oxford Press, and the Rothchilds. Carlson didn't object to this statement which hinted at antisemitism. Arno C. Gabeline, a well known Christian speaker and author, wrote the preface to the SRB listed the four men who financed the publishing, none of them Jewish. 

Again, so what if Rich's statement is true? What difference does that make? It's a non issue, a tacit antisemetic statement that hints at something sinister.

During this broadcast, things degenerated into  name-calling as Rich said that C. I. Scofield was a "con man," and Carlson said his theology was "deceptive." They offered no instances of either and the discussion continued.  

During the program,the viewer heard the two briefly get into a one- sentence hermeneutical discussion when Rich said, "Genesis 12:3, has nothing to do with Israel." Again, no explanation as to why the verse has nothing to do with Israel. Carlson let that statement go. And to cap it all off, when Rich asked Carlson if he had ever heard of the SRB, Carlson answered, "I have, and my sense was it's probably a lie." There was no example given to show where the SRB contained even one lie. 

Let's ask the question, "What did Scofield do in his notes? What he did is what the Apostles did when they interpreted the Old Testaent; they took the Bible literally. In the Bible and in Scofield's notations, "Israel" means "Israel." "Church" is a reference to the "Church." And the church is not "the New Israel." In the SRB, the promises and covenants to Israel are taken literally as being to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The promises in the Old Testament of the coming Messiah were literally fulfilled, as will the predictions of His 2nd coming. Scofield's notes take both literally.

The Bible predicts that in the end times, there will be a worldwide burst of Jew-hatred. Neither the left nor the right will be an exception that prediction.