I can answer that in a single word: Gnosticism. It’s an unusual word that not everyone is familiar with; many people have probably never heard it before. It’s a spiritual belief that emerged shortly after Christianity’s dawning, and it was rejected as heresy. An oversimplified explanation is that Gnosticism encourages the pursuit of hidden knowledge for spiritual enlightenment. It goes much deeper than that, twisting the Word of God (the Bible) by taking partial truths and blending them with lies to lure or turn people away from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and follow a false version of Jesus Christ.

What does that have to do with the “Woke Right” and their spreading of antisemitism? A lot. While I’m not suggesting that pundits like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and others are actual Gnostics (followers of Gnosticism), they are using one of its core tenets to attract new viewers or listeners and “convert” them to followers: the pursuit of the “secret knowledge” through the conspiracies they weave, twisting truth, saying outright lies, or simply making things up and doubling down on them without providing evidence. It’s mostly emotion-based and it depends on stoking hate towards Israel and more specifically Jews. That hate was either already there or something stirred it up.

I didn’t make the Gnosticism connection until I saw a clip by Allie Beth Stuckey this morning (shout out to Allie Beth). She expressed the idea that Candace and Tucker are luring people in by offering “secret knowledge” that everything points to the Jews and Israel. On its surface, it’s a simple absurdity, a blanket statement. And blanket statements are almost never true because we are all different. But for today’s drama-hungry society that is social media-driven and has a minimal attention span, it’s a perfect storm where these narcissistic influencers all say a variation of the same thing:

1. I can offer you information no one else has
2. Because of that, you can trust me; I won’t lie to you
3. And because I’m trustworthy, you don’t need your information from anywhere else
4. I’m just searching for the truth. You want the truth, right?
5. You can’t trust (insert whoever/whatever) here because their information doesn’t match mine (they’re probably being paid/controlled by the Jews)
6. Since they’re wrong and fighting against my righteous cause, you should oppose them. Wherever you see their views in comments or video/audio podcasts, contradict them with my truths. Be my warriors for truth.
7. I’m a “Christian” and I’m right. Believe in me.
8. Israel is bad/evil. Jews are bad/evil.

The Bible warns of this in 2 Timothy 3: 1-7 (KJV):

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 

I’ve already written at length about the eternal spiritual connection between God and the Jewish people from a Biblical perspective. God forged that tie and spoke at length about it in the Old Testament. Jesus was a Jew and fulfilled the Old Testament. And His disciples continued that belief (“To the Jew first, and also to the Greek”). You can read my full blog entry about that HERE.

Some people are starting to see through the lies and obfuscations of people like Tucker and Candace, but many more remain ensnared by the lure of drama and conspiracy. And even if Tucker and Candace were no longer relevant, someone else might take their place.

This is a spiritual problem and a discernment issue for Christians and non-believers alike. Anyone who fights against the Jews is fighting against God. God made the Jewish people through Abraham and God made an eternal covenant with them. The Jewish people may have broken the covenant by worshiping other gods in the Old Testament but God doesn’t break His covenants. He just made a new covenant in Jeremiah 31, but He did not dissolve the old one.

 
Jeremiah 31: 31-35 (KJV) reads:

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
 
This is the covenant that paved the way for Christianity. It included the Jews first and then extended that covenant to everyone else.

I’ll conclude with this. Please consider these words:


Romans 10: 8-17 (KJV):

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.