Pod Prep: Anti-Semitism 2-4-16
EVIL OFTEN TRIES TO DESTROY THE JEWS BUT ALWAYS FAILS
EXAMPLE: HAMAN OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
Haman the prime minister of the empire was offended that a lower ranking official name Mordecai would not bow before him. He not only wanted to punish Mordecai but wished to exterminate all the Jews. It seems like weird, outrageous, over response, but fits a devilish historic pattern. Note Esther 3:6 in which his vile planning is revealed. His intent was to kill all the Jews, which is genocide. Queen Esther, who was Jewish, asked all the Jews of the capital to fast and pray for her as she tried to save her people. She and Mordecai turned the potential genocide into a Jewish victory over their enemies. See Esther 4:15-16 and 9:2, 25.
WHY ANTI-SEMITISM? IS IT RATIONAL?
Can we understand and analyze hatred of the Jews using the normal reasons for human bias and ethnic xenophobia? What are those normal reasons?
1. ECONOMIC REASONS FOR HATRED. They are accused of being more financially successful and influential than the others in the land. The Jews of 17th-20th century Poland and Russia were dirt poor, and had no influence and yet were hated.
2. The Chosen People are disliked for claiming special status with God over others in the land. In the late 20th century the Jews of Germany denied “closeness with God” and worked on assimilation. Yet, the holocaust started there. The Nazis had special investigators to determine who was Jewish. Christians and Moslems also profess to be the “Chosen People” yet for the most part they are tolerated for such views.
3. Scapegoats for others can be useful. However, for any group to be used effectively they must already be hated. The scapegoat theory does not explain the causes of Anti-Semitism. Hatred that already exists is what makes the victims (Jews) convenient targets. Hitler’s rants would not be taken seriously if he said the bakers are undermining the nation.
4. Blaming the Jews for killing Jesus is partially inaccurate or at least misses the primary agent which was Rome. Why not hatred of Rome? Christ said, speaking of the religious leaders, ‘forgive them for they know not what they are doing’. True Christians realize that we all killed Christ, otherwise we would had to die for our sins individually. The second Vatican Council in 1963, officially exonerated the Jews; yet anti-Semitism is alive and growing.
5. They are outsiders. With Enlightenment of the 18th century many Jews assimilated. Anti-Semitism should have stopped. However the Nazi’s cried in essence ‘we hate you, not because you are different but because you’re trying to become like us! You will pollute the Aryans. Some Jews as they were being put in the cattle cars said they had fought for Germany during the Great War. It did not matter.
6. A Racial Inferiority Theory is used. They are thought to be inferior and yet they dominate the professions and finances and most or at least many important fields of study. Some hate them for that. However it is self-contradictory on its face. Furthermore, Jews can include people of many races.
This hatred is not within the range of normality. It is obvious that this hatred is abnormal and comes straight from the demonic world. Nothing else makes sense. It has lasted over thousands of years. If using Old Testament Laws was just another human ideology, people could laugh it off and continue on their merry way. But these moral truths cannot be ignored that easily. The truth is a strong irritant to the devil’s society and therefore so are the Jews who have preserved the largest portion of the Bible.
The nation of Judah gave us Jesus Christ.
Who gave the world Christ in a human sense? It was the nation of Judah. All the writers of the New Testament were Jewish except Luke. Christianity is a gift from the nation of Judah. The early church members were all Jewish except for a few proselytes to Judaism. I wonder how many nominal Christians know that. See Romans 11:1-5, 12, 15, 17-18 for a clearer view of how much Paul and God love the Jews.
RISING ANTISEMITISM IS A BAROMETER MEASURING THE RISE OF PURE EVIL
Rising hatred of the Jews is like a canary in the mine warning of poisonous, unseen, odorless, dangerous gases. The rise of Anti-Semitism correlates with an increase in dangerous evils throughout the world. The most deadly period in human history was World War Two, it is estimated that between 50-70 million died in the war and its aftermath. The war was preceded by the growth of anti-Semitism that made the holocaust possible. People all over Europe cooperated in the dastardly endeavor. Note in John 4:22 that salvation knowledge then rested with the Jewish nation. God’s true church is a continuation of that salvation knowledge. In the future when the world follows the Jews then peace and prosperity will rain forth. See Zach 8:23
GOD BLESSES THOSE THAT BLESS ISRAEL (JEWS ARE ONLY VISIBLE ISRAELITES)
Even though the allies were unprepared, God would not allow the Fascists to win; they were doomed and cursed. In the early years God told Abraham that those who blessed his descendants would be blessed. See Gen 12:3. Balaam tried for cash to curse Israel and was forced to say that God would bless those who bless them and curse those that cursed the Jews. See Num 24:9. Israel is the apple of God’s eye. See Zach 2:7-8.
Can America continue to be blessed while we stab Judah in the back with the Iran Nuclear Deal and threaten them if they try a preemptive strike on that nuclear apparatus?
Pray for Israel and pray for America.
Power pointed verses
1- Esther 3:6
2- Rom 11:1-2 ,5-6
3- Rom 11;12 ,15
4- John 4:22
5- Zach 8:23
6- Num 24:9
