In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.(Psalm 120)
Why has Anti-Semitism been such an enduring, intractable problem throughout history?
The Jews are the most hated, persecuted, lied about group of any people in all of world history. From the time of their Diaspora in 70AD up to the present the Chosen people of God,have experienced one long night of sufferings ,pograms, calumny, property confiscation, murder, forced conversion, exile, wandering, attempted genocide,and every indignity ever known to man.
The post exile history of the Jewish people is absolutely heartbreaking. Why are Jews so universally hated? The following is a chart copied from the Judaism online website, summarizing the Jewish experience over the long centuries, mostly in Europe.
This list doesn’t seem to include the agonizing experience of Jews in the Muslim world over the 14 centuries of their experience in Islam.
Read and Weep!
250 C.E. Carthage Expulsion
224 C.E. Italy Forced Conversion
325 C.E. Jerusalem Expulsion
351 C.E Persia Book Burning
357 C.E. Italy Property Confiscation
379 C.E. Milan Synagogue Burning
415 C.E. Alexandria Expulsion
418 C.E. Minorca Forced Conversion
469 C.E. Ipahan Holocaust
489 C.E. Antioch Synagogue Burning
506 C.E. Daphne Synagogue Burning
519 C.E. Ravenna Synagogue Burning
554 C.E. Diocese of Clement (France) Expulsion
561 C.E. Diocese of Uzes (France) Expulsion
582 C.E Merovingia Forced Conversion
612 C.E. Visigoth Spain Expulsion
628 C.E. Byzantium Forced Conversion
629 C.E. Merovingia Forced Conversion
633 C.E. Toledo Forced Conversion
638 C.E. Toledo Stake Burnings
642 C.E. Visigothic Empire Expulsion
653 C.E. Toledo Expulsion
681 C.E. Spain Forced Conversion
693 C.E. Toledo Jews Enslaved
722 C.E. Byzantium Judaism Outlawed
855 C.E. Italy Expulsion
876 C.E. Sens Expulsion
897 C.E. Narbonne Land Confiscation
945 C.E. Venice Ban on Sea Travel
1009 C.E. Orleans Massacre
1012 C.E. Rouen, Limoges & Rome Massacre
1012 C.E. Mayence Expulsion
1021 C.E. Rome Jews Burned Alive
1063 C.E. Spain Massacre
1095 C.E. Lorraine Massacre
1096 C.E. Northern France & Germany 1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred
1096 C.E. Hungary Massacre
1096 C.E. Ralisbon Massacre
1099 C.E. Jerusalem Jews Burned Alive
1100 C.E. Kiev Pogrom
1140 C.E. Germany Massacres
1146 C.E. Rhine Valley Massacre
1147 C.E. Wurzburg Massacre
1147 C.E. Belitz (Germany) Jews Burned Alive
1147 C.E. Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France) Massacres
1171 C.E. Blois Stake Burnings
1181 C.E. France Expulsion
1181 C.E. England Property Confiscation
1188 C.E. London & York Mob Attacks
1190 C.E. Norfolk Jews Burned Alive
1191 C.E. Bray (France) Jews Burned Alive
1195 C.E. France Property Confiscation
1209 C.E. Beziers Massacre
1212 C.E. Spain Rioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo.
1215 C.E. Rome Lateran Council of Rome decrees that Jews must wear the “badge of shame” in all Christian countries. Jews are denied all public sector employment, and are burdened with extra taxes.
1215 C.E. Toulouse (France) Mass Arrests
1218 C.E. England Jews Forced to Wear Badges
1231 C.E. Rome Inquisition Established
1236 C.E. France Forced Conversion/Massacre
1239 C.E. London Massacre & Property Confiscation
1240 C.E. Austria Property confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned.
1240 C.E. France Talmud Confiscated
1240 C.E. England Book Burning
1240 C.E. Spain Forced Conversion
1242 C.E. Paris Talmud Burned
1244 C.E. Oxford Mob Attacks
1255 C.E. England Blood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings.
1261 C.E. Canterbury Mob Attacks
1262 C.E. London Mob Attacks
1264 C.E. London Mob Attacks
1264 C.E. Germany Council of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a “pointed dunce cap.” Thousands murdered.
1267 C.E. Vienna Jews Forced to Wear Horned Hats
1270 C.E. Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and Erfurt Jews Burned Alive
1270 C.E. England The libel of the “counterfeit coins” – all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung.
1276 C.E. Bavaria Expulsion
1278 C.E. Genoa (Spain) Mob Attacks
1279 C.E. Hungary & Poland The Council of Offon denies Jews the right to all civic positions. The Jews of Hungary & Poland are forced to wear the “red badge of shame.”
1283 C.E. Mayence & Bacharach Mob Attacks
1285 C.E. Munich Jews Burned Alive
1290 C.E. England King Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. Many drowned.
1291 C.E. France The Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France.
1292 C.E. Italy Forced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community.
1298 C.E. Germany The libel of the “Desecrated Host” is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion.
1298 C.E. Franconia, Bavaria & Austria Reindfel’s Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period.
1306 C.E. France Expulsion
1308 C.E. Strasbourg Jews Burned Alive
1320 C.E. Toulouse & Perpigon 120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned
1321 C.E. Teruel Public Executions
1328 C.E. Estella 5,000 Jews Slaughtered
1348 C.E. France & Spain Jews Burned Alive
1348 C.E. Switzerland Expulsion
1349 C.E. Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & Swabia Jews Burned Alive
1349 C.E. Heilbronn (Germany) Expulsion
1349 C.E. Hungary Expulsion
1354 C.E. Castile (Spain) 12,000 Jews Slaughtered
1368 C.E. Toledo 8,000 Jews Slaughtered
1370 C.E. Majorca., Penignon & Barcelona Mob Attack
1377 C.E. Huesca (Spain) Jews Burned Alive
1380 C.E. Paris Mob Attack
1384 C.E. Nordlingen Mass Murder
1388 C.E. Strasbourg Expulsion
1389 C.E. Prague Mass Slaughter & Book Burning
1391 C.E. Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & Barcelona Forced Conversions & Mass Murder
1394 C.E. Germany Expulsion
1394 C.E. France Expulsion
1399 C.E. Posen (Poland) Jews Burned Alive
1400 C.E. Prague Stake Burnings
1407 C.E. Cracow Mob Attack
1415 C.E. Rome Talmud Confiscated
1422 C.E. Austria Jews Burned Alive
1422 C.E. Austria Expulsion
1424 C.E. Fribourg & Zurich Expulsion
1426 C.E. Cologne Expulsion
1431 C.E. Southern Germany Jews Burned Alive
1432 C.E. Savory Expulsion
1438 C.E. Mainz Expulsion
1439 C.E. Augsburg Expulsion
1449 C.E. Toledo Public Torture &. Burnings
1456 C.E. Bavaria Expulsion
1453 C.E. Franconia Expulsion
1453 C.E. Breslau Expulsion
1454 C.E. Wurzburg Expulsion
1463 C.E. Cracow Mob Attack
1473 C.E. Andalusia Mob Attack
1480 C.E. Venice Jews Burned Alive
1481 C.E. Seville Stake Burnings
1484 C.E. Cuidad Real, Guadalupe, Saragossa & Teruel Jews Burned Alive
1485 C.E. Vincenza (Italy) Expulsion
1486 C.E. Toledo Jews Burned Alive
1488 C.E. Toledo Stake Burnings
1490 C.E. Toledo Public Executions
1491 C.E. Astorga Public Torture & Execution
1492 C.E. Spain Expulsion
1495 C.E. Lithuania Expulsion
1497 C.E. Portugal Expulsion
1499 C.E. Germany Expulsion
1506 C.E. Lisbon Mob Attack
1510 C.E. Berlin Public Torture & Execution
1514 C.E. Strasbourg Expulsion
1519 C.E. Regensburg Expulsion
1539 C.E. Cracow & Portugal Stake Burnings
1540 C.E. Naples Expulsion
1542 C.E. Bohemia Expulsion
1550 C.E. Genoa Expulsion
1551 C.E. Bavaria Expulsion
1555 C.E. Pesaro Expulsion
1556 C.E. Sokhachev (Poland) Public Torture & Execution
1559 C.E. Austria Expulsion
1561 C.E. Prague Expulsion
1567 C.E. Wurzburg Expulsion
1569 C.E. Papal States Expulsion
1571 C.E. Brandenburg Expulsion
1582 C.E. Netherlands Expulsion
1593 C.E. Brunswick Expulsion
1597 C.E. Cremona, Pavia & Lodi Expulsion
1614 C.E. Frankfort Expulsion
1615 C.E. Worms Expulsion
1619 C.E. Kiev Expulsion
1635 C.E. Vilna Mob Attack
1637 C.E. Cracow Public Torture & Execution
1647 C.E. Lisbon Jews Burned Alive
1648 C.E. Poland 1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered
1649 C.E. Ukraine Expulsion
1649 C.E. Hamburg Expulsion
1652 C.E. Lisbon Stake Burnings
1654 C.E. Little Russia Expulsion
1656 C.E. Lithuania Expulsion
1660 C.E. Seville Jews Burned Alive
1663 C.E Cracow Public Torture &. Execution
1664 C.E. Lemberg Mob Attack
1669 C.E. Oran (North Africa) Expulsion
1670 C.E. Vienna Expulsion
1671 C.E. Minsk Mob Attacks
1681 C.E. Vilna Mob Attacks
1682 C.E. Cracow Mob Attacks
1687 C.E. Posen Mob Attacks
1712 C.E. Sandomir Expulsion
1727 C.E. Russia Expulsion
1738 C.E. Wurtemburg Expulsion
1740 C.E. Liule Russia Expulsion
1744 C.E Bohemia Expulsion
1744 C.E. Livonia Expulsion
1745 C.E. Moravia Expulsion
1753 C.E. Kovad (Lithuania) Expulsion
1757 C.E. Kamenetz Talmud Burning
1761 C.E. Bordeaux Expulsion
1768 C.E. Kiev 3,000 Jews Slaughtered
1772 C.E. Russia Expulsion
1775 C.E. Warsaw Expulsion
1789 C.E. Alsace Expulsion
1801 C.E. Bucharest Mob Attack
1804 C.E. Russian Villages Expulsion
1808 C.E. Russian Countryside Expulsion
1815 C.E. Lubeck & Bremen Expulsion
1820 C.E. Bremes Expulsion
1843 C.E. Austria & Prussia Expulsion
1850 C.E. New York City 500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue
1862 C.E. Area under General Grant’s Jurisdiction in the United States Expulsion
1866 C.E Galatz (Romania) Expulsion
1871 C.E. Odena Mob Attack
1887 C.E. Slovakia Mob Attacks
1897 C.E. Kantakuzenka (Russia) Mob Attacks
1898 C.E. Rennes (France) Mob Attack
1899 C.E. Nicholayev Mob Attack
1900 C.E. Konitz (Prussia) Mob Attack
1902 C.E. Poland Widespread Pogroms
1904 C.E. Manchuria, Kiev & Volhynia Widespread Pogroms
1905 C.E. Zhitomir (Yolhynia) Mob Attacks
1919 C.E Bavaria Expulsion
1915 C.E. Georgia (U.S.A.) Leo Frank Lynched
1919 C.E. Prague Wide Spread Pogroms
1920 C.E. Munich & Breslau Mob Attacks
1922 C.E. Boston, MA Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission
1926 C.E. Uzbekistan Pogrom
1928 C.E. Hungary Widespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses
1929 C.E. Lemberg (Poland) Mob Attacks
1930 C.E. Berlin Mob Attack
1933 C.E. Bucharest Mob Attacks
1938-45 C.E. Europe Holocaust
Jewish persecution source:
P.E. Grosser & E.G. Halperin, Anti-Semitism: Causes and Effects, New York: Philosophical Library, 1978
Why are the Jews almost universally “Despised and Rejected”of the nations?
Persistent and universal anti-semitism is humanly inexplicable.As we have been pointing out, it is demonic, Satan hates Israel and the Jews, the Dragon hates the woman.
Of course there is the fact that because people hate the God of the Bible, therefore they hate the Jews. Israel, even in her alienation from God, are witnesses to the reality of God, due to the heritage of Jewish prophets, scripture, The Messiah, and the civilization which arose from it.
The Ten Commandments alone are enough to provoke the ire of sinful, rebellious man.The Jews have born the testimony of a Transcendent God who is a lawgiver to whom we all must give account to.
Another possible factor is the idea of Israel being “the chosen people”. Godless people resent any idea of “chosen-ness” because they worship an egalitarian concept. Furthermore when people read the history of Israel in the Bible, they soon see that Israel is as sinful as any other people,so they ask’How could they possibly be the chosen people’?
What they don’t accept, is that Election by God is an act of Grace. Deuteronomy tells us the Jews are loved of God because “he set his love upon them”.
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.(Deuteronomy 7:7-8)
Could there be any reason within any of us, that God would love us, choose us and save us? To hate Israel, is to hate and reject grace for Israel is in fact a microcosm of the Human race. There is nothing in any of us that would merit Grace, God is good and gives freely what none of us deserve!
This is why people instinctively and viscerally hate the Jews and Israel…they hate Grace…and they hate God.More than 200 times in scripture, God is called “The God of Israel!
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.(Psalm 124)
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Hello Pastor Bill . Of course most of what you write is correct. But what about Organized Jewry also known as Zionism. I personally have nothing against what an ordinary Jew represents. Read Rev. 3 about the Church in Smyrna where it says that NOT all Jews are Jews.. So that means that Not all Jews are good. Do you believe that Rockefeller, Kissinger, John Kerry and Obama are good Jews Are you aware that they all have Jewish heritage? Believe they are all of Jewish Blood and their policy is to serve Mammon and Not God. They are Zionists that follow The Talmud just as did the Pharisees during Christ’s first advent and hated Him for NOT installing them as the rulers of this evil world. Under Rothschild’s they implemented their own plan to rule this world and their agenda is Mammon. They control ALL the central Banks in this World and manipulate ALL Politian’s by whatever means to serve them. I’ll leave it at that
Thanks Daniel- my point is not that “Jews are good”, in fact the opposite. I have said in this and previous articles that the Jews for the most part are alienated from their God, in a state of unbelief, and sinners, even atheists. Their election is not because of their own innate goodness, their election is because of the Grace and love of God which He set upon them. No one is good, all of us are sinners and have come short of the glory of God. Uniquely privileged people are uniquely bad, when they turn away from the one who blessed them. Backslidden Christians can sin in ways pagans cannot sin, because judgment is according to Light given. The religion of Judaism is nothing like the religion of Moses and the prophets, Jeremiah predicted this when he said “My people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewn out cisterns that cannot hold water. If the LORD spared not Israel in her decline and apostasy, what will become of the modern church which has apostatized against greater light?
Good comments Daniel.
It’s not and never has been a question of Jews being “good,” for salvation has nothing to do with being “good” as you know. Are you referring to the explicit list of blessings, and the list of curses, in Deuteronomy by which Moses, from God, warned the Israelites would come on them if they continued in their unbelief? Dreadful curses – they incurred because (as we all know) they DID persist in their unbelief even unto the destruction of their beloved city and temple in AD 70.
That list of curses in Deuteronomy 28: 15 – 68 reads somewhat like the list of curses in this article!
But then is it surprising that was the resulting behaviour of those Israelites? Paul said in Romans 9: 6 ” … For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither because they are the seed of Abraham , are they all children: but, “in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. … though the number of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.” Election yes but only for those who are of the promise of God. Paul terms it “Israel of God” Gal. 6: 16 and he gives a wonderful elucidation of it throughout his writings as this situation worried him. No wonder when the Jews were so antagonistic towards his teachings and continue to be that way to this day.
Not withstanding, there is no place for antiseminism anywhere. That is an attitude of mind and there is no understanding of it.
As for salvation, that is through the Lord Jesus and Jew and “Greek” must all come to Him the same way, no special deals, no privileges through being “a Jew.” Salvation has always been thus but the sacrifice and resurrection of our Lord Jesus forever broke down that wall of partition between Jew and Gentile and now there is neither “Jew nor Greek,”
ALL who are “in” Christ Jesus are one BUT one must be IN CHRIST and there is only one way for that.
You mentioned Rockefeller, etc. These Zionist families who have infiltrated areas of commerce down through the ages are in the same league as the Pharisees and Sadducees or ruling elite in the time of Jesus – they are Israel in the flesh and shall have no hope UNLESS they repent and come to Jesus as you and I have had to do.
There is a remnant today, like in Elijah’s day, who have not “bowed the knee to Baal.”
Hallelujah!!!
You asked, “Why has Anti-Semitism been such an enduring, intractable problem throughout history?”
Look at history. Jews (who just happen to be my relatives) have been kicked out of over 100 countries, some multiple times. In other words, some nations were nice enough to let us back in, only to watch as we resumed our selfish, bigoted, immoral ways, for which we were kicked out again (I am Christian, now).
Some Jews are the nicest people you would ever want to meet; but the majority (and I do mean, THE majority) are absolute scoundrels who would, literally, cheat their own parents. They have a knack of working their way up to the highest positions of power in nations (even when small in number), only to use those positions to weaken and even destroy those nations by undermining their cultures and religion with the promotion of usury and immorality. They particularly hate Christianity since it was founded by “apostate” Jews (in their opinion), so western civilization has been a prime target for destruction. For example, behind almost every unconstitutional U.S. law you will at least one Jewish sponsor; and Jews on the courts ALWAYS vote to undermine the constitution and Christianity. Count on it! Those who cannot see this, and teach otherwise, are like the blind leading the blind. Those who can see it, and teach otherwise, are Satan’s children.
The problem is a particularly nasty religion called Judaism. It is no different now than it was in the days of Christ. Judaism began as “Moses and the Prophets”; but those divine texts soon became buried under a huge pile of rabbinical commentary. Rabbinical teachings are even more removed from “Moses and the Prophets” than the “Scofield Reference Notes” are from the New Testament; and that is saying something since Scofield’s notes are based on the spiritualization of first century Judaism. Judaism is almost pure man-made commentary that has taken on a rabid, cult-like status among most Jews.
I will be happy to answer any of your questions.
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Sharon, you wrote, “There is a remnant today, like in Elijah’s day, who have not ‘bowed the knee to Baal.'”
Are you sure? It appears the context of Paul’s statement placed that remnant in his day, or, as he wrote, “at this present time”:
“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he FOREKNEW. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then AT THIS PRESENT TIME also there is a REMNANT according to the ELECTION of grace.” — Rom 11:1-5 KJV
Note that Paul stated “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.” That passage appears to be a combination of Ps 94:14 and Amos 3:2,
“For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.” — Ps 94:14 KJV
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” — Amos 3:2 KJV
But some of those He did cast away (permanently) because He no longer considered them to be His people:
“And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” — Mat 7:23 KJV
Those who receive the promise (that are not cast away) are those (sheep) who hear his voice and keep his covenant:
“And now if ye will indeed HEAR MY VOICE, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine. And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel.” — Exo 19:5-6 LXX
“My sheep HEAR MY VOICE, and I know them, and they follow me:” — John 10:27 KJV
Peter wrote to the scattered tribes (diaspora) in Asia Minor they they were part of the fulfillment of Exodus 19:5-6:
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” — 1Pet 2:9-10 KJV
They were of the ELECTED remnant whom God FOREKNEW, as Paul wrote of in Rom 11:1-5, above:
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered (diaspora) throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ELECT according to the FOREKNOWLEDGE of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” — 1Pet 1:1-2 KJV
End of Part I
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Part II of II:
First Peter 2:10 is a fulfillment of the promise of the restoration from Hosea. This is the fulfillment:
“Which in time past were not a people, but ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD: which had not obtained mercy, but NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY.” — 1Pet 2:10 KJV
This is the prophecy:
“And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will NO MORE HAVE MERCY upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.” — Hos 1:6 KJV
“And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I WILL HAVE MERCY upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, THOU ART MY PEOPLE; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” — Hos 2:23 KJV
“Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, there it shall be said unto them, YE ARE THE SONS OF THE LIVING GOD. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be GATHERED TOGETHER, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up OUT OF THE LAND: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.” — Hos 1:10-11 KJV
Paul also wrote of the fulfillment in the form a commonly misinterpret question:
“Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also OF THE GENTILES? As he saith also in Osee [Hosea], I WILL CALL THEM MY PEOPLE, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called THE CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD. Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a REMNANT shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.” — Rom 9:24-28 KJV
As you can see, with the exception of the first verse, the statement is clearly about Israel. The first verse is, as well. The prophecy of Hosea states the Lord took away his mercy from Israel, and no longer considered them to be His people. That would render them to be “of the nations” (e.g., of the heathen, or, of the Gentiles), rather than “of Israel”. But the Lord promised to restore a remnant–those whom he foreknew, of which both Peter and Paul wrote of, and of which Christ said he (along with his disciples) was sent unto:
“These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” — Mat 10:5-6 KJV
“But [Jesus] answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” — Mat 15:24 KJV
A little wordy, but I hope you get the picture.
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LXX. I appreciate your time in that post. I think I follow your reasoning.
When I said there was a remnant today as in Elijah’s day I meant just that. The Lord has sheep who know His voice and He came to find them. Today there still exist His sheep which I term a remnant because in terms of the total people who claim to “know” Him, are small in number.
I agree that not all of Israel is the true Israel as Paul is adamant in teaching in his writing.
I take your point about the corruptness of Jews in high places today though it did surprise me as to the extent, though it shouldn’t have. I have heard this before but just put it down to antiseminism, but I have lately become aware of exactly what you are talking about. The Pharisees and Sadducees (“the Jews”) were prime cases of iniquity in the Old Testament times so it’s not surprising that “Israel in the flesh” continued the same conduct down through the ages and is still as godless in conduct today.
Being a Christian now, you must appreciate how far removed from salvation those unbelieving Jews today are and what a huge stumbling block Jesus Christ continues to be to them.
Sharon, thanks for your reply.
I believe the only path to salvation for both the Jew and the Gentile is to call on the name of the Lord, which comes from hearing the Gospel:
“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!” — Rom 10:13-15 KJV
A major stumbling block of late seems to be the modern evangelical doctrine of “Don’t take the Gospel to the Jews; they have their own religion.”
That is astonishing! No one can be saved through Judaism. It is as if pastors have never read the “Great Commission”, nor are able to grasp the fact that all the apostles preached the Gospel to the Jews; or that Paul was specifically sent to Israel, as well as the Gentiles. God is no respecter of persons. Why are they?
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I quite agree LXX, the gospel should and must be preached to all, Jew and Gentile alike. That same problem was what Paul preached about in Galatians as there were people there who were trying to take believers back under the law! Astounding isn’t it! But there it is – nothing new under the sun.
I just want to stop the follow up messages That’s all I wish to continue on any future Blog messages as I really appreciate Pastor Bills messages.
What does this all mean? Just this:
There is a cosmic debate. The issue is: is God just? Is his Word true? Or can Satan demonstrate that God is not true and that his Word is false.
Annihilating the Jews answers Satan in the affirmative. Saving the Jews answers the LORD in the affirmative.
We Jews ask: O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs;
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Rise up, O Judge of the earth:
render a punishment to the proud.
Lord, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked triumph?
God says to the nations: The day of the Lord is near for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you,
Your deeds will return upon your own head.
God says to the Jews: I will give them praise and honor
in every land where they were put to shame.
Psalm 94:1-2; Obadiah 1:15; Zephaniah 3:19