GROWING ANTISEMITISM

 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

 

GROWING ANTISEMITISM

 

John 16:1-3

16 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

 

          If you search for the historical roots of antisemitism, you will notice that there are two perspectives, and each tends to blame the other. The Jews blame the Christians, and the Christians hold the Jews accountable for the murder of Jesus. But then enters the Muslims. What is their complaint? All, I think, belong to the clan called the ignorant.

 

          The forensics go much deeper and highlight the spiritual and the demonic aspect of all sorts of racism. When Cain killed his brother Abel in Genesis, was it not because of religious jealousy? Abel’s offering of blood was accepted while Cain’s donation of vegetables was rejected. God tries to reason with Cain telling him that there was a lamb at the door. An available offering which was rejected by the petulant Cain. In anger he offered the blood of his brother.

 

          In Egypt, when they were killing all the Jewish boy babies, Moses was spared by a trusting mother. But what was the spiritual source of this evil? Was it not to hinder the birth of a race and ultimately to circumvent the birth of Messiah?

 

          In Germany, when an entire nation was afflicted with the same mental illness, some six million people died horrible deaths simply because they were Jews. We are still trying to understand the indescribable. It was viral insanity.

 

          Now we see this virus spreading again. Do you suppose that the demonic warfare has begun again? Do you not suppose that God will win? Do you think God is ready to inject Himself into the chronicles of man once more? I do.

 

Shakespear, in The Merchant of Venice, wrote, “I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? (3.1.49-61)”

 

Dear Lord, protect those who are right and prosecute those who are wrong. Vindicate yourself in this current insanity. AMEN