Just as Joseph was hated and rejected by his brothers (Gen. 37:4), so Jesus was "despised and rejected of men" (Isa. 53:3; John 15:25). "He came unto his own, and his own received him not" (John 1:11). "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart" (John 12:40). "Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in" (Rom. 11:25) "Until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testamant; which veil is done away in Christ" (2 Cor. 3:14).
The Talmud refers to Jesus Christ as a "fool" (Shab. 104b) and "Illegitimate" (Kallah 1b (18b)). Jews cried out "His blood be upon us and on our children" (Matt.27:25). However, only several hundred people (at best) could fit inside Pilate's praetorium and less than that wrote the Talmud. Would it be fair to say that the United States was pro-homosexual because 30,000 homosexuals marched in Washington D.C.? What about the 200 million other Americans? John 7:31 says that many of the multitude (of Jews) believed in Him" (NAS). Many of the (Jewish) rulers also believed in him (John 12:42-43). The whole world is responsible for the death of Messiah (1 John 2:2) -- not just the Jews.
SCATTERED, PERSECUTED And INSULTED
"I will cause them (Judah -- 14:19) to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth" (Jer. 15:4). "I will scatter them (Judah -- 9:11) also among the heathen ... and I will send a sword after them" (Jer. 9:16). "And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations to which I have driven them" (Jer.29:18). They are "the dispersed of Judah" (Isa.11:12). "They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the gentiles, until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke 21:24). See also Matt. 27:25; 1 Th. 2:14-16; Isa. 65:15; Deut. 28:37,65; Ez.5:12-17; 36:16-19). The words "byword" in Deut. 28:37 and "taunt" in Jer. 24:9 are both a translation of the same Hebrew word "sheninah" and we find Jews called "sheeni" as an insult. This is where the word "shenanigans" meaning "mischief" came from. People say "I got Jewed" when they pay too much.
After the Battle of Carchemish and the accession of Nebuchadnezzar in 604 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian army took Jehoiakim captive in 604 B.C. In 586 the temple was destroyed and Zedekiah was taken captive. Then came Persian Haman in 362 B.C., Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 B.C., the Roman Titus in 69 A.D. and the Bar Kochba Revolt in 133 A.D. Justinian closed all synagogues in 535 A.D.; there were forced conversions in the Byzantine Empire in 722 A.D. The First Crusade of Pope Urban II massacred Jews in 1096 A.D. The Second Crusade of Pope Eugene III occurred in 1147 A.D. The Third Crusade against Jews occurred in 1190 A.D. Jews were continuously falsely accused of desecrating the host beginning in 1243 A.D. Jews were blamed for the Black Death in 1349 A.D. In 1485 A.D. came the Spanish Inquisition; Poland Massacred Jews in 1648 A.D.; 1905 A.D. began Russian pogroms against Jews and lastly the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945 A.D. But the "times of the Gentiles" ended in 1917 -- 2520 lunar years after 604 B.C. -- when Jews began returning to Palestine. In 1935 -- 2520 lunar years after 586 B.C. -- many German Jews began emigrating to Palestine. In 1948 -- 2520 solar years after 536 B.C.when most Jews refused to return-- Israel became a state May 14th. (That is 2520 x 360 / 365.25 = 2483.8. Then 536.4 - 2483.8 = 1947.4 +1 = 1948.4). But God says, "I am very sore displeased with the nations ... for I was but a little displeased with my people, but the nations afflicted them far beyond my intentions" (Zech. 1:15, Tay). "He will avenge the blood of his servants" (Deut. 32:43).
REGATHERED
Zecharia 10:10 says, "I will bring them again out of Egypt and gather them from Assyria." "I will ...gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land" (Ez. 34:11-13). "I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south , Keep not back" (Isa. 43:5-6). "I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land" (Ez. 36:24; see also Deut. 30:3-4; Isa. 11:11-12; Jer. 23:7-8; Ez. 37:21; Ez. 34:25-27).
The Zionist Movement caused Jews in Israel to increase in numbers from 25,000 in 1880 to 713,000 in 1948 to 2,500,000 in 1967 chiefly through immigration from 100 countries. In 1995 the population was 5,480,400. Israel is the only nation with immigration open to the old, infirm, halt, blind and maim (Jer. 31:8).
LEND MONEY
"Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies" (Gen.49:8). "Thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow" (Deut.15:6). "But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth" (Deut.8:18). In your seed shall all nations be blessed" (Gen.18:18).
Moneylending was perhaps the most important contribution by the Jews to medieval Europe. They were not allowed in any other profession due to persecution. But lending money was forbidden to Christians since it was considered "usury." The Jews therefore became indispensable. Kuhn, Loeb, Goldman, Sachs and Seligman are famous investment and banking names. But foremost among them were the Rothschilds. Kings and rulers came to the Rothschilds for money. Fifty banking houses in New York City are controlled by Jews. After centuries of having their wealth confiscated wrongly by the nations, it was fitting that they should reap the wealth of the nations through interest.
KEEP The LAW
"Judah is my lawgiver" (Ps.60:7; 108:8). "Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints" (Hos. 11:12). "He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for his judgments, they (other nations) have not known them" (Ps.147:19-20).
"This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise" (Isa.43:21). "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Eternal, that I am God" (Isa. 43:12). "My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Eternal, from henceforth and forever" (Isa.59:21). "If ye will obey my voice ... ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation" (Ex.19:5-6). Many Jews are faithful to the Old Testament law. Most Christians assume that Jesus abolished the law. But Jesus was a Jew himself (John 4:9; Heb. 7:14; Rev. 5:5) and said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law" (Matt. 5:17). The Jews faithfully preserved the scriptures and obey them as Jesus illustrated in his parable of two sons (Luke 15:29).
HELPFUL To MANKIND
God told Abraham that "Thou shalt be a blessing" (Gen. 12:2). " All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him" (Gen.18:18). In thee and in thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gen.28:14). "And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people like dew from the Eternal, like the showers upon the grass" (Micah 5:7). "They shall show forth my praise" (Isa. 43:21).
Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, had Jewish blood in his veins. Spinoza of Amsterdam, descended from Portuguese Jews, was a philosopher of vast intellect. Moses Mendelssohn translated the Old Testament into German. His grandson was the great Jewish musician and composer. Benjamin Disraeli, leader of the conservative party in England, was a Jew. Earl Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England and Viceroy of India, was a Jew. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew. Siegfreid Marcus, a Jew, built the first internal combustion automobile, which is preserved in the Industrial Museum of Vienna. Ludwig Taube, who discovered the use of digitalis in heart disease, was a Jew. Bernard Baruch the American financier; Irving Berlin, the American composer and Jack Benny the comedian were all Jews. The British ran short of minerals to manufacture high explosives in World War One. Dr. Chaim Weizmann offered his discovery of synthetic acetone as a substitute. He asked for a homeland for the Jews in return. Some people think this Jewish chemist thereby won the war for the allies. Americans were aided in World War Two by the Jewish mathematician Albert Einstein who discovered that E =m(c)2 which was the formula that made the atom bomb possible.
TALMUDIC JUDAISM
Solomon fell into idolatry later in life and so the six-pointed star was the "Seal of Solomon" -- not the Mogen David or "Star of David." It is a hexagram symbol of witchcraft used to put a hex on someone. It is an occult symbol that Solomon adopted after his apostasy. A circle was placed around it to cast a spell. "But ye have borne ... the STAR of your god, which ye made to yourselves" (Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43). Today the "Star of David" is on the flag of Israel and on many products from Israel. It has the number 666 built into it since each angle of each triangle is 60 degrees. There are six points. There are six right sides, six left sides and six bases. Six triangles. Furthermore, the Jewish Kabbalah teaches reincarnation, amulets, talismans and pantheism. Jerusalem, just like Rome, is a city built on seven hills (Rev. 17:9) (1. Gareb 2. Goath 3. Acra 4. Bezetha 5. Moriah 6. Ophel and 7. Zion). As such, Jerusalem also qualifies as "Mystery Babylon" (17:5) and has been guilty of murdering Christians (17:6). Even today the B'nai B'rith and Anti-Defamation League try to pass "hate laws" against Christians who merely teach the New Testament scriptures. They say the New Testament is heretical and should be burned (Shabbath 116a).
Jews look on Christians as gentiles and "Those who do good to Christians never rise from the dead" (Zohar 1, 25b). "Never praise Christians, lest it be believed true" (Abodah Zarah 20a). "Even the kindness of gentiles toward Jews is sin" (BT Bava Bathra 10b). It is forbidden to sell religious works to Christians (Abodah Zarah 14b). "A non-Jew who studies Torah (oral law -- Talmud) is liable for execution" (BT SanHedrin). Why? Because then the gentile (Christian) would know the Talmud permits Jews to sin against non-Jews. "If the goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly" (Libbre David 37). Notice how LYING is allowed: "Jews may use lies to circumvent a gentile" (Baba Kamma 113a). "Jews must always try to deceive Christians" (Zohar 1, 160a). RAPE: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl" (Gad. Shas. 2:2). "A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat" (Hadarine 20B; Shulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348). MURDER: "If a gentile kills a Jew, the gentile is to be killed. But if a Jew kills a gentile, the Jew is to go free" (BT Sanhedrin 57a). STEALING: "A Jew need not pay a gentile the wages owed him for work" (Sanhedrin 57a). "Gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has exposed their money to Israel" (Baba Kamma 37b). "Property of gentiles is like the desert; whoever among the Jews gets there first, owns it" (BT Baba Kamma 54b). IDOLATRY and BLASPHEMY: "Those who obey the rabbis are holy; those who disobey are wicked" (BT Yebamoth 20a). "The rival schools of Hillel and Shammai are both correct, even where they differ. When their decrees differ, both are the words of God" (BT Erubin 13b). "Those who ridicule the rabbis are fools who deserve death" (BT Baba Bathra 75a). "The rabbis are greater than the prophets" (BT Baba Bathra 12a). "The decrees of Bet Din (rabbinic council) are not to be questioned, and have equal authority with Moses" (BT Rosh HaShanah 25a). "He who occupies himself with Scriptures gains merit that is no merit. He who occupies himself with Mishnah gains merit for which people receive a reward. He who occupies himself with Talmud -- there is no source of merit greater than this." (Shabbat 15c and Baba Metzia 33a). (This says oral rabbinic teaching supercedes God's scriptures). "The Babylonian Talmud (written by Rabbis) represents God in the flesh" (Jacob Neusner's Rabbinic Judaism). "It is more wicked to question the words of the rabbis than those of the Torah" (Mishna Sanhedrin 11:3).
One of the problems here is that the Talmud was written at a time when "Christian" meant primarily Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox (both of which were idolatrous, unbiblical and anti-Semitic). Today Christian denominations such as Messianic Judaism, Jews for Jesus and Seventh-Day Adventists are in the forefront and do not reject the Torah of Moses, just the Talmudic contradictions to it, and are very pro-Israel. Yet some Jews still accuse these Christians of being false prophets who say, 'Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known' (Deut. 13). If they only knew, Yeshua (Jesus) is the same One who talked with Abraham and wrestled with Jacob. It is interesting how Jews define an enemy as being a non-Jew nationally while Christians define an enemy as someone who mistreats them personally. We hope that, with time, Jews will come to see Christians as the friends and allies that they really are.The Jewish Amoraim attributed the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. as punishment from God for the "baseless hatred" (e.g. against Yeshua the Messiah & against Christians) that pervaded Jewish society at the time (Yoma 9b). Indeed, "Jews ... both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men" (1 Thess. 2:15).
IRRIGATE DESERTS
Israel was to colonize the "waste places" of the earth (Deut. 32:7-9, 29; Isa. 58:12) and restore ancient places (Isa. 58:12; 61:4). Isaiah 49:8 says Israel would "inherit desolate heritages." Numbers 24:7 says Israel will "pour the water out of his buckets." Isaiah 35:1 says "the wilderness ... shall be glad ... and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom like the rose" and Ezekiel 36:34 says, "the desolate land shall be tilled." Israel "fills the world with fruit" (Isa.27:6) by making the land productive. Isaiah 41:18-19 says, "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
The Yarkon-Negev water pipeline from the Sea of Galilee aids farming in the northern Negev. The Negev Desert is blossoming. Water coming to Beersheba has made it a thriving metropolis of 152,600 people (1995). Production of citrus fruit in 1995 was 942,300 tons. The Dead Sea is 25% mineral salts. It contains enough potash to supply the world for 1000 years. Jewish farmers receive
valuable nitrates evaporated in pans from Dead Sea water to fertilize their fields.
Israel's Potash production in 1995 was 2,214,000 tons.
A STRONG MILITARY
"Judah ... thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies ... Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up" (Gen. 49:8-9). Israel "shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones" (Num.24:8-9). "All the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Eternal,and they shall be afraid of thee" (Deut.28:10). "He increased his people Israel greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies" (Ps. 105:24). "They that strive with thee shall perish ... they that war against thee shall be as nothing" (Isa.41:12). "The nations shall see and be confounded at all their (Judah's) might" (Micah 7:16). "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Eternal" (Isa.54:17). "And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight" (Lev.26:8). "I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee" (Ex.23:27).
In the First Palestinian War (1947-1949), Israel fought against Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and won about 1,930 square miles. In the Suez- Sinai War on October 29, 1956, Israeli forces reached the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in about 100 hours seizing the Gaza Strip and nearly all the Sinai Peninsula. The UN forced a withdrawal. The Six-Day War began on June 4, 1967. On the morning of June 5, Jordanian radar detected Israeli air force taking off. They sent a red alert to Cairo, but the decoding officer used the wrong day's code and failed to discipher the vital information. The Israeli air force obliterated the Egyptian air force on the ground (Ps. 118:23). With 50,000 troops in sixty-one hours, Israel put to rout Nasser's 80,000 Egyptian troops and 900 tanks, pursuing them to the Suez Canal, inflicting 20,000 casualties (cf. Isa. 19:16-17). Egypt lost 197 planes, 600 tanks destroyed, 100 tanks captured. Egypt also lost her Sinai oil fields, which had supplied nearly 80% of her oil requirements. Egypt lost revenue from canal shipping since -- with Israel occupying the east bank -- no ship would pass through the canal until Israel permitted it. Israel's losses were 26 planes, 61 tanks, 275 dead, and 800 wounded. Israeli tanks and infantry also scaled the Golan Heights where artillery fire had harrassed Jewish settlements for years. They not only destroyed the gun emplacements but also pushed the Syrian forces back twenty-two miles to within thirty miles of Damascus. Israeli troops occupied the old city of Jerusalem with a loss of only 189 killed. They also occupied the west bank of the Jordan. Jordan's casualties in the war were 8,000 killed and wounded. Another 203 Arab planes were destroyed on these fronts. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on October 6, 1973 -- Yom Kippur. Golda Meir phoned Richard Nixon and asked for tanks and planes and ammunition, explaining the dire situation. Nixon followed his mother's advice, who had told him one day he would be in a position to help the Jews and that he should fully help them. Nixon gave her all she asked for. Israel seized a bridgehead on the west bank of the Suez and drove a foothold a few miles west of Damascus. After 18 days of fighting, the Arabs lost about 2,000 tanks and more than 500 planes. The Israelis lost 804 tanks and 114 planes. There have been Arab and Jewish eye-witness reports of angels on several occasions who intervened in these wars to protect Jews. The Jews don't possess great wealth or a large population; their nation is not isolated geographically; they don't have a large fleet of ships; a sacred stone; a royal throne in Palestine; nor are they blind to their identity, etcetera, because they are not the Kingdom of Israel. Remember that the birthright is Joseph's (1 Chr. 5:1) and the scepter is Judah's (Gen.49:10). Nevertheless, with British and American help, the prophecies relating to the tribe of Judah have been fulfilled. "In that day I will make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about on the right hand and on the left" (Zech. 12:6). "And they shall no more be pulled up out of their land" (Amos 9:15). "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 ... Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth" (Ps. 124:2-6).
MODERN HISTORICAL DATES FORETOLD
In 1517 Jerusalem was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
1517 plus 400 years:
Gen. 15:13-14 says, "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them FOUR HUNDRED YEARS; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall THEY COME OUT".
The Israelites came out of Egypt at the Exodus and entered the promised land anciently. In modern times, they have come out of many countries and gone into the promised land. Amazingly, after 400 years, in 1917, Jerusalem was freed from the Ottoman Turks. That is a modern fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy that was fulfilled long ago. Do some other prophecies have a dual fulfillment? Definitely.
1517 plus 430 years:
Ex. 12:40-41 says, "Now the sojourning (in Canaan and in Egypt) of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that ALL THE HOSTS OF THE LORD WENT OUT from the land of Egypt." The 430 years began to be counted when Ishmael was born.
Is there a parallel in modern times? Yes. 1517 + 430 yrs = 1948. Israel became a nation in 1948, but Jerusalem was divided.
Jesus (Yeshua) said that the generation that sees the fig tree grow leaves will not all die before he returns (Matt. 24:32-34). A fig tree with leaves is Judah thriving (cp. Jer. 24) but because it produced no fruit he cursed it (Matt. 21:18-20). "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof" (Matt. 21:43). Verse 45 continues, "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them." Thus, the cursing of the fig tree represented a curse on Judea. The withered fig tree was a prophecy of the coming destruction of the Jewish nation by the Roman army under Titus in AD 70. The destruction was also prophesied in another parable in Luke 13:6-9: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree (three years of Messiah's ministry), and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it (by the disciples' preaching and healing): And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." But in the fourth year there was still no fruit, since they rejected and crucified him, and so God used the Romans to cut down the fig tree. The fall of the Jewish nation was also prophesied earlier by John the Baptist when he said, "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire" (Matthew 3:10). The Messiah was saying that the Jews becoming a nation in1948 would be an important sign of the last days, and that the generation who saw it happen would not all pass away before his Second Coming. (Psalm 90:10 defines a generation as 80 years maximum so 1948 + 80 = 2028). A commemorative stamp of the tenth anniversary of Israel was issued there in 1958, featuring a menorah out of which were growing branches and leaves -- but again, no fruit. Yes, how could the Jews produce spiritual fruit, when as a nation they had rejected the only source of that fruit -- the Lord Yeshua the Messiah?
1517 plus 450 years:
Acts 13:20 says, "And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet." These were theocratic years.
Do modern times parallel these 450 years? Yes. 1517 + 450 yrs = 1967. The Six-Day War started on June 5, 1967. By June 7, all of Jerusalem, including the temple area, was in Israel's hands.
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