I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.”
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. “For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.
“ . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. “ . . . He hath made Him, Jesus, Who knew no sin to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22).
“ . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, “God commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved ’ ”
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (John 1:12).
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed:
“God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are four things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
Pray — you talk to God.
Read your Bible — God talks to you.Witness — you talk for God.
Join a Bible Study — You will grow in your faith.
Develop relationships with other believers – Fellowship is so important!!
At the heart of the effort to enslave humanity is and always has been a war against God, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, and all that He has ordained. According to the Prophet Isaiah, the rebellion began when Lucifer — filled with pride — sought to usurp the Almighty’s throne. Scripture says a third of the angels followed. Cast down to Earth as Satan, this once-glorious being tempted Adam and Eve to question God’s Word and defy His simple decree. And the rest is history.
Today, the battle rages on. From God’s Word and God’s followers to the institutions and morals He ordained, all are in the crosshairs of this diabolical movement dating back millennia. As the Apostle Paul explains in his letter to the Church at Ephesus (Ephesians 6:12), the saints struggle “not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Even a brief look at the rituals of so many elitist secret organizations (see “Secret Societies“) reveals the truth of Paul’s assertions. But of course, there are also men who have willingly joined in this war against God and His Word. It should be obvious. Consider the actions and self-proclaimed goals of so many of the conspirators themselves, as documented throughout this Special Report.
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God divided mankind into nations, and so the plotters believe nations must be destroyed in favor of a global order. God ordained marriage and family, and so these divinely decreed institutions must be overthrown in favor of atomized individuals and a ruthlessly controlled collective. By prohibiting murder, theft, kidnapping, and other abominations, God endowed his human creatures with a right to life, property, and liberty. By contrast, the Insiders have been working to undermine these God-given rights since time immemorial.
In the shadowy corridors of power, from Washington and New York to London, Paris, Beijing, and Moscow, this conspiracy has been unfolding for generations. The insidious plot, so deeply rooted in darkness, threatens the very foundations of human freedom and divine order. Just as Satan in his pride sought to overthrow God and claim His throne, these conspirators — following after “their father, the Devil” — wage endless war on their Creator. In the long run, they will lose. But the damage wrought in the meantime is incalculable.
It must be understood that, at its core, this conspiracy is not merely political or economic. It is profoundly spiritual — literally a satanic rebellion against the Creator Himself.
Some 3,000 years ago, David warned in Psalm 2:2: “The kings of the Earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.’” Today, this ancient prophecy by the psalmist continues to play out on the world stage. Thankfully, believers can rest assured that God, as verse 4 explains, is laughing at the rebels. In verse 5, David says that God will “speak to them in His wrath.”
But as these powerful forces wage an all-out war on God and true religion, substituting counterfeit faiths and occult deceptions in their place, the rotten fruit is evident — and destroying lives.
The architects of this agenda are hidden in plain sight among the halls of the United Nations, elite foundations, Deep State organizations, and even many religious institutions. They have long understood that to control humanity, they must first dethrone God, or at least turn more and more of humanity against Him. They promote communism, secular humanism, globalism, and more. But at the same time, they peddle New Age mysticism, paganism, occult practices, and “left-hand path” counter-religions that invert biblical truth, elevating man as god and Satan as liberator — literally.
This is no fringe theory; it’s a calculated strategy to erode faith, family, and freedom, paving the way for totalitarian control. This war is real, but so is the hope of resistance and ultimate victory.
The Satanic Roots of the Conspiracy
To grasp the depth of this assault, we must trace it through history. From Satan’s rebellion against God, to man’s attempt to reach the heavens with the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11, and all the way to the Mithraic cult of Rome and the Illuminati described in “Roots of the Conspiracy,” this war on God has been going on for ages.
The Tower of Babel, recounted in Genesis 11:1-9, stands as the Bible’s archetypal warning against humanity’s earliest organized rebellion to establish a one-world system in defiance of God. After the Flood, the whole Earth shared one language and migrated to the plain of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city and a towering structure “with its top in the heavens.” The goal: make a name for themselves and avoid being scattered across the face of the Earth.
Led by Nimrod — a “mighty hunter before the Lord” whose name evokes rebellion — the project symbolized unified human ambition opposed to divine authority in brazen defiance of God’s command to spread out and fill the Earth. It was a satanic bid for global unity under human pride, where collective power would supposedly render everything possible for mankind.
As God Himself observed, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language … and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” In response, God confused their language, scattered them abroad, and halted construction of the tower. He thereby ordained the diversity of nations and tongues as a divine safeguard against unchecked tyranny and global human unity against God.
The Tower of Babel prefigures every subsequent attempt at a godless, one-world government. From the Illuminati’s infiltration of Freemasonry to foment godlessness culminating in the unimaginably bloody French Revolution, to the Marxist revolutions of the last century, to modern globalist institutions such as the UN pushing for centralized political, economic, and even religious control, the template remains the same.
Just as Nimrod’s Babel sought to unite humanity in rebellion, today’s architects of the New World Order seek a global community opposed to God. Through the UN’s Agenda 2030 “sustainable development” plan, the UN Pact for the Future, climate idolatry, and technocratic schemes, they seek a borderless, homogenized world where national sovereignty, individual liberty, cultural distinctions, and biblical faith are eroded in favor of man-centered “oneness.”
The Illuminati’s Diabolical Plot: From Bavaria to French Revolutionary Terror
Delving deeper into the satanic undercurrents of this global conspiracy, one cannot ignore the revelations in John Robison’s 1797 exposé, Proofs of a Conspiracy. As a respected Scottish professor and Freemason himself, Robison uncovered how the Illuminati, founded by the ex-Jesuit Adam Weishaupt in 1776 under the alias Spartacus, systematically orchestrated a war on God and His church.
By infiltrating Masonic lodges, Weishaupt’s “Jacobins” worked to propagate atheism, materialism, perversion, and moral anarchy as the prelude to worldwide tyranny. Weishaupt, viewing biblical religion as the ultimate chain of oppression — a “bundle of lies” and “spiritual tyranny” concocted by ambitious priests and despots — designed his order to “root out all the religious establishments” and replace Christianity with a counterfeit “natural religion” that devolved into outright atheism. Family, nations, and church were all to be overturned.
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This echoed the serpent’s deception in Eden, promising godlike knowledge while severing man from the Creator (Genesis 3:5). The Illuminati’s motto, “Let there be light,” mocked divine fiat, symbolizing enlightenment as the dispelling of “clouds of civil and religious superstition,” with rituals depicting the world in darkness under priestly deception, where despots are worshipped as gods.
This insidious agenda found its bloody fruition in the French Revolution, which Robison links directly to Illuminati machinations through French Masonic lodges such as the Chevaliers Bienfaisants in Lyons and the Grand Orient under the Duc d’Orleans (Philippe Egalité). These became “schools of irreligion and licentiousness,” evolving into Jacobin clubs that fueled the revolution’s anti-clerical terror and tens of thousands of brutal executions and beheadings.
The revolution’s war on the Church was carefully calculated by the Illuminati: clergy were denounced, guillotined, and stripped of revenues, and churches desecrated. Robison details how the National Assembly, riddled with Illuminati such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, and Condorcet, proclaimed the “Rights of Man” as a veneer for subverting divine order, promoting “universal Liberty and Equality” by annihilating biblical religion and replacing worship of God with atheistic “reason.” The result was an orgy of anarchy, tyranny, and death from which France would never fully recover.
Marxism and the Communist Conspiracy
The revolutionary ideology unleashed in Europe would soon find a new and even more destructive expression. While the Illuminati was officially disbanded in 1785, its influence persisted. Indeed, the ideological threads of the secret society’s anti-God rebellion were woven directly into the fabric of Karl Marx’s teaching just a few decades later.
Marx and his co-author, Friedrich Engels, did not act alone, of course. The League of the Just, a secret society of German emigrants in Paris and London, infused Illuminati-inspired egalitarianism and irreligion into The Communist Manifesto it commissioned Marx to write. And as with the Illuminati, Marxism, at its core, embodies a satanic war on God and His created order, as compellingly argued in Richard Wurmbrand’s 1986 book Marx and Satan.
Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor tortured for years by communists, highlights Marx’s own poetry as evidence of a deliberate pact with darkness, far beyond mere economic or political ideas. In “Invocation of One in Despair,” for instance, Marx declares, “So a god has snatched from me my all, / In the curse and rack of destiny / All his worlds are gone beyond recall. / Nothing but revenge is left to me! / I shall build my throne high overhead, / Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.” This echoes Lucifer’s rebellion vowing to exalt his throne above God’s.
Another poem by Marx, “The Player,” is even more clear: “The hellish vapours rise and fill the brain, / Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed. / See this sword? / The prince of darkness / Sold it to me.” The poem also includes a direct reference to the father of lies. “With Satan I have struck my deal,” Marx wrote. “He chalks the signs, beats time for me / I play the death march fast and free.” Wurmbrand and many others interpret this as a literal satanic initiation, where Marx forfeits his soul for destructive power.
In “The Pale Maiden,” Marx suggests he understands the implications. “Thus heaven I’ve forfeited, / I know it full well. / My soul, once true to God, / Is chosen for hell,” he wrote.
This satanic movement was bankrolled by elite financing from the start, exposing Marxism’s anti-capitalist façade as a smoke screen. Stanford historian Antony Sutton’s 1974 book Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution documents how American capitalists — including J.P. Morgan executives and Rockefeller interests — funneled millions to Russia’s Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. This “big money” conspiracy, rooted in diabolical principles, made Marxism a powerful tool for destruction, one-world tyranny, and slavery.
Government Schools: Indoctrination Factories for the Conspiracy
Even before Marx came on the scene, another man with a similar outlook was conspiring to achieve largely the same diabolical ends using some of the very same means. Meet Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist who literally created a secret society to promote government control over education, all for the purpose of smashing marriage, private property, and Christianity.
Incredibly, Owen’s plot to have government usurp control over the hearts and minds of children largely succeeded. Indeed, his writings and the machinations of his minions laid the groundwork for the eventual takeover of education by the state by the early 1900s across most of the United States and the West. And his goal of using this “education” system to restructure society and smash Christian civilization is closer than ever to being realized.
Owen, hailed as a “philanthropist” by secular historians, declared war in 1826 on what he called the “trinity of the most monstrous evils” afflicting humanity: private property, organized religion, and marriage. In his “Declaration of Mental Independence” at his communist commune known as “New Harmony” in Indiana, he laid out a vision literally inverting the divine order.
One of Owen’s early disciples in America was Orestes Brownson, a fiery intellectual who initially embraced collectivism but later renounced it. After converting to Roman Catholicism, Brownson revealed that a “secret society” modeled on the revolutionary Italian Carbonari was launched by Owen. The goal was, by working behind the scenes, to change public opinion and get lawmakers elected to shift responsibility over education from the family and the Church to the state.
The immediate goal of the society was to get “our system of schools adopted,” Brownson wrote in his 1857 autobiography The Convert; or, Leaves from My Experience. “The great object,” however, “was to get rid of Christianity,” he confessed. The plan was not to attack religion directly, he said, but to make it irrelevant by removing it from the institutions that shaped young minds.
These proposed government schools were supposed to bring up children in a “rational manner … free from superstition, all belief in God and immortality, or regard for the invisible, and make them look upon this life as their only life, this earth as their only home, and the promotion of their earthly interests and enjoyments as their only end,” he said.
“The three great enemies to worldly happiness were held to be religion, marriage, or family, and private property,” he wrote, adding that Owen believed getting rid of those institutions would help “realize our earthly paradise.” Brownson added: “For religion we were to substitute science, that is, science of the world of the five senses only; for private property, a community of goods; and for private families, a community of wives.”
Chillingly, Owen later admitted that he was getting his ideas from communications with spirits through séances and Ouija boards. In an 1857 speech in London at the “Congress of the Advanced Minds of the World,” Owen claimed the “communications from various influences calling themselves Spirits” included “departed friends and relatives.” The “spirits,” he added, were interested in helping “developed men” to “reform and regenerate the human races.”
It is worth remembering that the Bible specifically and clearly condemns communications with “spirits” of the dead. In Leviticus 20:27, God declares that necromancers and mediums “shall surely be put to death,” and “their blood shall be upon them.” In Deuteronomy 18, God puts them in the same sentence as those who sacrifice their children to demons.
Owen’s diabolical education plan did not immediately take root in America. But according to his autobiography, Prussian Ambassador Baron Jacobi took the essays advocating collectivist government education back to his leader, Prussian dictator Frederick William III. The tyrant “so much approved” of the ideas that he ordered his government to implement them in the nascent government-controlled schooling model that was just starting to emerge, Owen wrote. Thus, with powerful influence from Owen, the infamous “Prussian system” was born: Education by the state, of the state, and for the state.
The compulsory, age-segregated, obedience-focused school structure would soon be re-imported into America via Massachusetts by Horace Mann. This liberal “educator” and lawyer, whose wife was deeply involved in the occult Transcendentalist Club, became the first ever “secretary of education” of any American state. From Massachusetts, the government-education model based on the Owen-inspired Prussian model spread across the country.
Eventually, the whole system was seized by communist “educator” John Dewey, an aficionado of the Soviet Union backed by millions from the Rockefeller dynasty. Dewey and some of his colleagues would go on to create the Humanist Manifesto, a document denouncing the Christian worldview and even the idea of God. And after five generations of dumbing down and indoctrination by this Owen-Mann-Dewey “education” system, Americans are almost ready for the New World Order.
Occultism Rises Again
While these political and educational movements appeared secular on the surface, many of their intellectual currents were intertwined with deeper occult and spiritual currents. Marx, Owen, and Dewey are mostly remembered as secularists. But the godless and materialist paradigm was, in many cases, a smoke screen for the occult war on God.
Recent iterations of this war had seeds sown in the occult revivals of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Figures such as Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, channeled demonic entities to pen works including The Secret Doctrine, blending Eastern mysticism with Western esotericism into what became the New Age movement.
Blavatsky, whose modern-day disciples operate in power centers worldwide, openly praised Lucifer as the “light-bringer,” a benevolent force freeing humanity from the “tyranny” of the biblical God. Her disciple Alice Bailey eventually formed the Lucifer Publishing Company — later rebranded as Lucis Trust — that still operates today and has deep ties to the UN.
Among the occult teachings channeled by Bailey from her supposed spiritual guide Djwhal Khul (known as “the Tibetan”) was what she called the “externalization of the Hierarchy.” This is the process by which a hidden spiritual elite — called the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom — will gradually emerge from behind the veil of invisibility into open, active involvement in human affairs.
This Hierarchy, described as a group of enlightened beings (including an anti-Christ figure they call “the Christ”) who guide humanity’s evolution from inner planes, has supposedly remained withdrawn for ages to allow mankind to develop freely. Now, according to these writings, humanity has reached a critical stage in its spiritual and evolutionary cycle — particularly in the transition to the Aquarian Age — and these Masters will “externalize” by manifesting physically on Earth. Working openly through disciples, institutions, and world leaders, this Hierarchy will establish a New World Order based on a synthetic global religion that blends all faiths into one.
These ideas didn’t stay in dusty tomes. They infiltrated elite circles and the very secret societies described in “Secret Societies.” Key figures from these outfits such as the late George H.W. Bush have publicly led the charge for a New World Order brought into being by “a thousand points of light.”
These satanic movements are increasingly coming out of the closet as they actively rebel against divine order. Modern Satanism, for instance, as articulated by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible, inverts Christian symbols and mocks God’s commandments, celebrating pride, lust, and vengeance. But it’s not just fringe groups; occult themes permeate Hollywood, music, and even corporate logos.
The UN’s own meditation room, featuring a black stone altar and abstract artwork, was designed with input from Lucis Trust, symbolizing a “new religion” for the global age. Indeed, the UN’s World Core Curriculum (WCC), which the UN says should be taught to every child in every country, was based on writings by Lucifer Publishing Company founder Bailey and the “ascended masters” she was channeling, according to WCC author and then-Assistant UN Secretary-General Robert Muller.
This infiltration extends to religious leaders themselves, too. Some Protestant pastors embrace “progressive” theology that downplays and even redefines sin while endorsing everything from same-sex “marriage” to abortion. Much of it echoes New Age relativism. Catholic figures such as certain Jesuits have flirted with liberation theology, blending Marxism with faith — a subtle occult fusion.
At UN climate summits, leaders of virtually all the world’s religions have been coming together for years to redefine sin and save “Mother Earth,” as this magazine has been documenting for decades. Groups such as Religions for Peace — whose leader described it as “the UN of religions,” bringing together “all the religions of the world” — are openly uniting diverse faith traditions behind the architecture of global governance being erected by the conspirators.
Hope in Resistance: What Faithful People Can Do
Yet, amid this darkness, there is profound hope. As the conspirators plot, Psalm 2:4 declares, “The One enthroned in heaven laughs.” God is sovereign, and His people are called to resist evil. There are many ways God-fearing men and women can do this, starting at the individual level and then working outward into the community, the state, and the nation.
First, reclaim education. Homeschooling, rooted in Scripture and transcendent truth, equips children with a biblical worldview. Millions of children are thriving in classical Christian programs. In all states, parents can remove their children from supposed educational institutions waging war on God and His Truth.
Second, expose the darkness. As Ephesians 5:11 urges, “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” Engage in politics — from city and county commissions to state legislatures and Congress — to defund UN agendas and restore liberty, truth, and righteousness.
Third, unite behind biblical truth. Alliances of people from various traditions against occult globalism and the conspiracy can be powerful forces for good, without compromising core truths. Pray fervently, as James 5:16 promises: “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Finally, live boldly for God. Americans can and should share the truth with others, proclaiming the Good News while discipling others and building communities that can and will resist tyranny. The conspiracy seeks enslavement, but God offers freedom. In fact, God is the author of liberty. The war on God rages, but victory is assured. Stand firm — eternity awaits.
Christian author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas accused Tucker Carlson this week of a “satanic inversion” of the book of Esther’s message, after Carlson criticized its application to current events while highlighting its account of Jews killing 75,000 people in the Persian Empire.
“The Bible is the Word of God. PERIOD. Tucker’s thinking he can choose what he likes from it — and discard what he dislikes — is mindbendingly arrogant. And deeply wrong. And his ‘interpretation’ of it is a satanic inversion,” Metaxas said in an X post on Wednesday.
Metaxas, who also serves on the White House Religious Liberty Commission, was responding to a clip of Carlson’s monologuefrom last Thursday, during which he claimed both U.S. global dominance and post-WWII American Protestantism appear to be declining in tandem.
Carlson discerned the Iran war and its support from some prominent Evangelical leaders as a pivot point for both trends, which he suggested are inextricable. He singled out evangelist Franklin Graham’s citation of the Esther story in a prayer he made over Trump before delivering the Gospel message at a White House Easter luncheon last Wednesday.
Graham, who has repeatedly appealed to the Old Testament when commenting on the Iran war, likened the modern Iranian regime to the ancient Persians and President Donald Trump to Esther, both of whom he said were raised up “for such a time as this,” quoting Esther 4:14.
Claiming there are “many Protestant American church leaders who are preaching a religion that bears no resemblance to Christianity,” Carlson questioned why Graham would effectively endorse the Iran conflict by citing Esther, which Carlson described as “the story, among other things, of the genocide of Persians.”
“Oh yeah, 75,000 Persians,” Carlson continued. “Not just people who committed crimes, but people who were Persian, and that’s why they were killed. And it’s in the book of Esther, which you should read, because it’s interesting.”
According to Esther 8:11, after Queen Esther helps foil Haman the Agagite’s genocidal plot against the Jews, they are given a royal edict permitting them to destroy their enemies, including women and children. They slay 75,000 “of those who hated them” in the provinces, according to Esther 9:16, which does not explicitly identify such people as Persians.
The verse also clarifies that, despite legal permission to do so, the Jews “laid no hands on the plunder” of those they killed, implying their actions demonstrated their motivation was not greed, but solely self-preservation.
The Jewish festival of Purim, which fell this year two days after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on Tehran on Feb. 28, commemorates the events in Esther, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also applied the story to the modern conflict.
Noting Martin Luther questioned the canonicity of Esther, Carlson said the book has been “controversial” and claimed it is the only one in the Bible not to contain the name of God, though the Song of Solomon also does not explicitly reference Him. Despite including it in his famous German translation of the Bible, Luther held the book of Esther in low regard, claiming “it Judaizes too much, and hath in it a great deal of heathenish naughtiness.”
Laying aside the historical debate, Carlson expressed concern about using the Old Testament as a foreign policy blueprint, and implied Graham appealed to the book of Esther because of its violence.
“Why is there no mention of Jesus? Why would Franklin Graham refer to the book of Esther, the only book in the Bible that doesn’t mention God, when he talks about Christianity with the president of the United States?” he asked.
“Because you can’t mention Jesus. That’s why. Because there’s no evidence that Jesus was for genocide, killing civilians, murdering the innocent, murder at all,” he argued.
Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in remembrance of the late political activist Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 18, 2025. | Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images
In another comment in response to Carlson’s monologue, Metaxas accused him of being ignorant of Christianity and claiming that Graham is not a Christian.
“The arrogance in saying Franklin Graham isn’t Christian, and here again in talking about which books of the Bible are canonical — given the fact that he obviously knows SO LITTLE about Christian faith — is truly breathtaking. Is there ANYONE speaking into his life who can help?” said Metaxas, who also reposted a lengthy tweetfrom Christian author Larry Alex Taunton explaining why he believes Carlson’s take on Esther was “devious blasphemy.”
Metaxas’ pushback against Carlson is the latest in months of escalating tensions between the two, which comes amid the backdrop of a wider intensifying debate among Christians regarding the application of the Old Testament, especially in the context of modern-day Israel.
While Trump and Carlson have increasingly distanced themselves from each other as Trump’s political base fractures over the Iran war, Metaxas has remained an outspoken Evangelical supporter of the president.
When Trump sparked widespread backlash for a profanity-laden social media post on Easter Sunday that threatened civilian infrastructure while mocking the Islamic god, Metaxas approvingly reposted Christian author Dinesh D’Souza, who defended the president’s rhetoric by likening it to Elijah mocking the prophets of Baal.
“Trump knows the god of the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard] Muslims is a false and evil entity, just as Baal is. I love that he would mock that God publicly. We need MORE of this, not less,” Metaxas wrote.
When Carlson excoriated Trump’s Easter post as “vile on every level” earlier this week and questioned the prudence of a U.S. president scoffing at the world’s second-largest religion, Metaxas accused Carlson of exhibiting “ignorance on the issue of faith” and defending Islam, which he said is “seriously shocking.”
“He talks as though all religions are good. Islam is EVIL. How glorious that we have a president wiling [sic] to mock an evil inhuman ‘faith.’ And how sad that Tucker talks about things he doesn’t understand at all,” he wrote.
Last October, Metaxas was among the chorus of conservatives who were intensely critical of Carlson for what detractors described as a softball interview of far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes, who has openly espoused anti-Israel and white nationalist views.
Carlson drew criticism for claiming during his interview with Fuentes that he dislikes Christian Zionists “more than anybody,” while labeling their beliefs about Israel “heresy” and a “brain virus.” He subsequently apologized for his remarks, which he said were made in anger toward Christian leaders whose theology leads them to promote neoconservative, interventionist foreign policy.
Unlike some Christian commentators who have mocked Carlson for claiming he was demonically attacked in his sleep during his final months at Fox News in 2023, Metaxas has suggested he believes the story and that Carlson has been swept up in a spiritual war.
Following his interview with Fuentes, Metaxas implied Carlson was playing a role in a demonic plot to sow discord among Trump’s MAGA base.
“What’s really going on is that we are seeing Satan trying to push Christian faith out of the MAGA movement. Those who love Jesus love the Jews. Read my Bonhoeffer book on that. Let’s pray Tucker repents of this grievous misstep,” Metaxas wrote at the time.
During a March 23 episode of his eponymous show, Metaxas claimed Carlson is “deceived” and that he believes “that demonic attack that he talked about was real.”
“Something happened. Nothing can really explain what’s going on with him. It is really, really bizarre,” he said.
Accusing Carlson of “trash-talking the president of the United States,” Metaxas said, “He is now saying that the president is being manipulated by Netanyahu… Can you imagine? Like, who are you going to trust? Trump or Tucker Carlson? I’m sorry, I’m going to go with Trump.”
In November, Metaxas condemned Carlson for claiming that famous German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer effectively decided “Christianity is not enough” when he took part in a failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Metaxas, who rose to prominence for writing a bestselling biography of Bonhoeffer in 2009, cited the Old Testament to defend Bonhoeffer, whose actions led to his arrest and execution in 1945.
“Tucker’s statements about Bonhoeffer are WRONG. It’s seriously shocking he would say these things,” Metaxas wrote. “Bonhoeffer did not advocate MURDER, which would have been sinful, but he did understand that within a just war people are KILLED. Will Tucker now condemn David for killing Goliath?”
During an interview last month with Carrie Prejean Boller, a conservative Catholic activist and former Miss California USA who was ousted from the White House Religious Liberty Commission in February following a tense exchange about antisemitism with Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, Carlson called Metaxas “a sad, very troubled guy” who “has a lot of personal problems,” though he did not elaborate.
Metaxas dismissed Carlson’s characterization during a subsequent episode of his show.
“I’m not troubled, Tucker. Trust me, I’m fine. Praise Jesus, I’m fine,” he said, going on to accuse Carlson and other figures like him of unwittingly wanting to break up Trump’s coalition and “drag the country down.”
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Lord, thank You for giving us Eric Metaxas to speak truth about satanic Tucker Carlson!