For this tidbit, I will continue to use Derek Prince’s book ‘The Key to the Middle East’ to show how Christians ought to treat Jews using the model of Jeremiah 31. On page 121, Derek Prince offers four action items for Christians “to provoke them (Jews) to jealousy” in order to fulfill Romans 11:11: 1.to praise; 2.to proclaim; 3.to pray, and 4.to comfort. In this tidbit series, I endeavor to answer the question: how should Christians treat Jews?
  Last time I examined Prince’s first point: 1.to praise. Today, let’s look at point 2:
 
2.To Proclaim:
Jeremiah 31:10: “Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.”
 
First, notice ‘to’ whom this passage is addressed: “O ye nations”! In Jeremiah 31:10, God is giving a commandment, not to 'a' nation, but to the world's nations! In other words, this passage teaches how God expects the NATIONS of the world---not just Christians--to treat Israel!!! So, God will hold the nations and the Christians in those nations accountable to this passage!
   The first phrase of Jeremiah 31:10 is evidence of God’s expectations: “Hear the word of the Lord…” God commands the nations of the world---as well as Christians--to hear His word!!!
  The next phrase in 31:10: “declare it in the isles afar off” reveals the location where the “nations”, and their Christians are to make their declarations/proclamations: “the isles afar off”!
  The Hebrew word for “declare” is nagad.* I love its first definition: “stand boldly out opposite”. In other words, at the command of the Sovereign God, the ‘nations of the world’ are instructed to make a bold, unashamed declaration….’FOR’ Israel!
  Considering the political climate of the world today with its obvious hatred towards Israel, it is a sign from God that Strong’s Concordance used the phrase “stand boldly out opposite” as one of its entries. In other words, in the providence of God, the writer of Strong’s Concordance, which is merely a simple Hebrew/Greek dictionary---and obviously without any foreknowledge of how the word nagad would apply to this present day—offered “stand boldly out opposite” as its first definition! When the Holy Spirit inspired ‘nagad’ in Jeremiah 31:10 over 2500 years ago, the only Sovereign God perfectly understood the conditions for ‘nagad’s’ application to Israel…in this day!!
  Therefore, for a nation or a Christian to obey Jeremiah 31:10’s injunction: “to declare”, or ‘To Proclaim’--- on behalf of Israel---according to Strong’s Concordance, it will require that nation or individual to “stand boldly”! Why? Because Israel has been identified as THE enemy in this day! Therefore, to stand in favor of what nearly the whole world detests requires great courage, as those who hate Israel begin to hate you!
  Yet, another confirmation of this fact is the last two words “out opposite”. These last two words of Strong’s phrase “stand boldly out opposite” indicate that what the nations--including Christians--will have to “stand boldly” on behalf of, will be the opposite of everyone else! I repeat, this reveals that only the very courageous will be able to obey Jeremiah 31:10!
  Finally, ‘what’ God instructs the nations to declare “in the isles afar off” is the climax, and THEEEE reason the nations (and Christians) that choose to obey Jeremiah 31:10 will be so strongly opposed, i.e.hated. The text clearly says God commands the nations to proclaim: “He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock”!!!
   WOW!!! This is prophecy! It is a special Word from God, not only instructing what the Gentile nations should proclaim but it is also a prediction of what God will do in the latter day ‘for’ Israel!!! This phrase teaches:
1.God judged Israel and scattered them. This refers to the diaspora in
135 AD when Bar Kochba declared himself to be the Jewish Messiah,
and raised up an army to fight the Romans. The Romans slaughtered
over 1 million Jews, and scattered many other Jews into the nations
of the world---which is now known as ‘The Diaspora’.
2.Because God made a “forever” covenant (2Sam7:22-24; Ps105:6-11)
with Israel, the same God that scattered the Jews in judgment will
re-gather them to fulfill His covenant. Of course, this began
with the re-gathering of the Jews into their own nation in 1948.
 
  In other words, this magnificent prophecy of Jeremiah31:10 not only instructs the nations** what to “To Proclaim”, i.e.“to declare”, but the ‘scattering and regathering’ aspect of this prophecy is a sign (Gen1:14; Heb2:4) that directly connects historical Israel to the modern state of Israel, which began in 1948…to the Providence of God! I repeat, God sovereignly scattered Israel, and God sovereignly regathered Israel!!! Christians must include this truth as part of our proclamation of the gospel to the world!! AND…this is the reason God instructed the Great Commission…“to the Jew first”!!!
  Incredibly, God has given the nations---which must include the Christians in those nations—this great mandate to tell the world of this great prophecy! But this is not yet the end of Jeremiah 31:10. The final phrase declares: “and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” Prince writes, “In the closing section of the proclamation, Jeremiah says that the Lord will also “watch over his flock like a shepherd.” The word translated “watch” over also means “keep” or “guard.” Here is further confirmation that this second regathering of Israel will not be something temporary or transient. Once God has gathered them, He will continue to watch over and protect them. As their Shepherd, He will accept responsibility for their permanent security and well-being.” (pg 126)
  WOW!!! Tragically, over the centuries, so far has the church missed this aspect of our great calling…to the Jew first!!! May God yet have mercy!!!
 
*nâgad, naw-gad´; a prim. root; prop. to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by impl. (causat.), to manifest; fig. to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); spec. to expose, predict, explain, praise:—bewray, × certainly, certify, declare (-ing), denounce, expound, × fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, × surely, tell, utter. -Strong’s
**and of course Christians
 
 
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How are Christians to “provoke them (Jews) to Jealousy”?
  In Derek Prince’s insightful book “The Key to the Middle East” " he offers a great answer on how we can accomplish the bewildering statement in Romans 11:11- “provoke them (Jews) to jealousy”.
  On page 118, Prince declares Christians must accept responsibility for their past anti-semitism. It is ungodly for us today to simply dismiss the horror of supposed Christian behavior done in the past by stating, “if we were present at the times of any historic Christian antisemitism, we would not have participated in their abominations!” Dr. Prince offers Jesus’ rebuke of the religious leaders of His day in Matthew 23:29-31 who argued the same:
29.Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
30.And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31.Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
 
  Prince writes, “The very fact that these religious people disclaimed responsibility for the crimes committed by their forefathers against the prophets constituted an acknowledgement that they were indeed the descendants of those who had killed the prophets.” In other words, Prince believes that Jesus’ words in verse 31 directed to the religious leaders: “children of them killed the prophets” is evidence that Jesus believed they at least bore some responsibility for the murder of the prophets by their ancestors.  
  Because the religious leaders of Matthew 23 were called hypocrites by Jesus, they were hell-bound (Mat23:15). For this reason, it is very possible that no repentance for the murder of the prophets by their ancestors had ever taken place—which if true, would have been the reason Jesus accused them. Therefore, if Jesus’ accusations against these hypocrites occurred within the 3rd or 4th generation of the murder of the prophets (Deut5:9), this may been another reason Jesus held them responsible.
  Prince continues: “I believe the same principle applies to the crimes committed by the Church against the Jews. We cannot claim to be part of the Church and, at the same time, disclaim responsibility for the way the Church has treated the Jews. After all, in God’s sight, there is only one Church.” “We cannot claim inheritance in the good that has come down to us through the Church and yet, at the same time, disassociate ourselves from the evil. In particular, we must accept our share of the responsibility for Christian antisemitism, and then do everything in our power to rectify this terrible situation.”
  On page 121, he writes, “all Christians today of non-Jewish background are confronted with two questions that cannot be evaded: First, what can we do to repay our spiritual debt to the Jewish people? And second, how can we—to some extent, at least---make amends for all the evil done to the Jewish people for centuries in the name of Christianity?”
  Although different from repentance, the Scripture does instruct us to make restitution* (shalam) for past wrongs. Today’s authentic Church--that has repented--for historic antisemitism cannot be held responsible for any past sin because of Christ’s work on the Cross. However, for sake of “provoking the Jews to jealousy” (Rom11:11), it is necessary that the contemporary Church offer restitution for what happened in the past to restore relationship with the Jew.
  On page 121, Derek Prince offers four action items that are apropos for today:  1.to praise; 2.to proclaim; 3.to pray, and 4.to comfort. In the following tidbits, we will address each one; but in this tidbit, we have time for only the first.  
1.To praise.
-Jeremiah 31:7-8 (NAS)
7.For thus says the Lord, “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise and say, ‘O Lord, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.’
8.“Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; A great company, they will return here.                                 
  This passage refers to the latter day. The following three points inform us to whom we are to direct our attention when obeying Jeremiah 31:7-8:
           i.the remnant of Israel
           ii.I will gather them from the north, and remote parts of the earth
           iii.A great company, they will return here
Because these three statements refer to God bringing Israel back into the land in the latter day---obviously, the passage must refer to Israel, i.e.the Jew.
  Next, this passage teaches five things that Christians today ought to do, i.e.how we are to act toward Israel:
           i.To sing with joy
           ii.to shout
           iii.to proclaim
           iv.to praise
           v.to pray/say
i.The word “sing aloud” (ranan) means to cry out, to creak, to shout (Strong’s). The word “gladness”** is the Hebrew word used in the Jewish celebration “Simchah Torah” where they practice rejoicing over the law, i.e.the Word of God. Jews dance around the synagogue carrying the scrolls of the Bible singing and shouting. I have had the privilege to participate in a ‘Simchah Torah’ celebration, and the rabbi allowed me to carry the scrolls—all I could think was: “Don’t trip!” But more importantly, I still weep to this day when recalling that my Lord Jesus celebrated ‘Simchah Torah’ 2000 years ago!! Nevertheless, the context of Jeremiah 31:7-8 instructs Christians to celebrate Israel by singing and shouting FOR Jacob, i.e. Israel, i.e.the Jew!! I wonder how many contemporary Christians obey this command?
ii.The Hebrew word for “shout” is tsahal ***. It is another word meaning to shout FOR Israel. Incredibly, notice where we are to “shout”? Among the nations! How many contemporary Christians shout FOR Israel in front of the nations?
iii.The word “proclaim” also means ‘publish’. I wonder how many Christians are speaking out or writing/publishing in favor of Israel?
iv.The word for “praise” in verse 7 is the Hebrew word ‘halal’****. One definition is to be clamorously foolish in the dance. It means to flail arms, to kick legs, to shout, to run. It is the most emotional of all the Hebrew words used to describe praise and worship to God!  Incredibly, according to Jeremiah 31:7--- we are to use this same word, i.e.behavior…on Israel!!
I wonder how many Christians are praising Israel using this word?
 
v.Say/pray. Jeremiah 31:7,8 declare we are to “say, O Lord, save thy people!” Lastly, I wonder how many contemporary Christians are crying out: “O Lord, save Israel”?
 
  In spite of these clear instructions in Jeremiah 31:7,8 on how Christians are to behave toward Israel, i.e.the Jew, tragically, in these days, too many Christians have “departed from the faith” (1Tim4:1), i.e.rejected THIS (Jer31:7,8) word of God! How’s that? Far too many churches either ignore Israel/the Jew altogether or what’s worse, follow the world to the streets to protest God’s people!
 
Is there any wonder why Jews have NOT been “provoked to jealousy”(Rom11:11)?
 
In conclusion, although Jeremiah 31:7-8 addresses three out of the four words (1.to praise; 2.to proclaim; 3.to pray,) I plan to offer even more scripture to teach Christians how to treat Jews/Israel!
 
 
* restitution- is shâlam, shaw-lam´; a prim. root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); fig. to be (caus. make) completed; by impl. to be friendly; by extens. to reciprocate (in various applications):—make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-) pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace (-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper (-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, × surely
                                                           -Strong’s
(Ex22:3,5-6,12)
** simchâh, sim-khaw´; from 8056; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival):—× exceeding (-ly), gladness, joy (-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice (-ing).
 
*** tsâhal, tsaw-hal´; a prim. root; to gleam, i.e. (fig.) be cheerful; by transf. to sound clear (of various animal or human expressions):—bellow, cry aloud (out), lift up, neigh, rejoice, make to shine, shout.
 
**** haw-lal´; a prim. root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causat. to celebrate; also to stultify:—(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool (-ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
  
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11.I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12.Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
 
What an incredible passage of scripture!!! However, to get the most out of it, we have to look at the original Greek words. 
  First, the context of this passage refers to Israel/Jew. Now, in verse 11, the word “stumbled” (ptaio) means sin. And the first time the word “fall” (pipto) is used in this verse it means to ‘fall down’. For example, allowing scripture to interpret scripture, in another Bible passage where the word ‘ptaio’ is used the wise men fell down (pipto) to worship Jesus (Mat2:11). So, the first sentence in Romans 11:11 is asking whether the Jews sinned that they should ‘fall down’—where the definition of ‘fall’ has a connotation of permanency.
  However, because the words “God forbid” follow in the very next phrase of verse 11, we now know the Jewish fall cannot be permanent! Why? Not only because Paul writes “God forbid” the fall be permanent, but also because the entire OT is filled with Israel falling into sin, and then God judges them…yet He never permanently rejects them!! In other words, God promises to scatter Israel for their sin, but also promises to regather them back into their land*! Therefore, there can be no permanent, i.e.forever judgment upon Israel!
  Moving forward. The second and third use of the English word “fall” in verses 11 and 12 (paraptoma) are different than the Greek word ‘pipto’, and according to Strong’s mean ‘sin’, and/or ‘transgression’. Therefore, the use of the word paraptoma directly refers to Israel’s sin, transgression, trespass, or error! So, Romans 11:11 clearly teaches “through their fall” (paraptoma), which means through Israel’s fall into sin--salvation comes to the Gentile. For emphasis, allow me to repeat this marvelous truth: through Israel’s fall into sin, God extended salvation to the Gentiles! As incredible as that truth is…there is still more!
  Next, let’s examine the phrase “for to provoke them to jealousy” at the end of verse 11! The English words “for to” in this passage is a single Greek word “eis”, and simply means “to”. In addition, "eis" has within its definition the meaning of ‘purpose’. Therefore, in Romans 11:11, to add “for to” (eis) to the phrase “provoke them to jealousy” gives us “for to provoke them to jealousy” instructing us the purpose or reason God sovereignly determined salvation to the Gentile. Allow me to repeat myself for emphasis. The word “eis” (“for to”) informs us of the reason or purpose salvation has come to the Gentiles: “to provoke them(Jews) to jealousy”!!!
   Here are two absolutely amazing revelations!
1.The word “provoke” normally has a negative connotation when used in English. For example, “Johnny provoked his little sister to anger by continuing to poke her with his finger!” However, this is NOT the intent of “provoke” in Romans 11:11. The English word “provoke” is the Greek word “parazeloo”, a compound word made up of two Greek words ‘para’ and ‘zeloo’ and Strong’s concordance says it means “to stimulate alongside”.
   However, let’s examine the two Greek words ‘para’ and ‘zeloo’ separately to get an even better understanding of what God is trying to teach us. Once again according to Strong’s, the first word ‘para’ means ‘to be near’ or ‘to come along side of’, or ‘besides something’, as in to come close to in the vicinity of a thing. On the other hand, the second word ‘zeloo’ means ‘to have warmth of feeling for or against” something (Strong’s). Furthermore, depending on the context, the word ‘zeloo’ can also have a meaning of either ‘envy’ or ‘jealous over’, which are also words with an obvious negative connotation.  
  However, because ‘zeloo’ is preceded by the word ‘para’--which if you remember means “to be near” or “to come along side”; therefore the context of the word ‘zeloo’ in Romans 11:11 demands that the definition of the compound words ‘para’ and ‘zeloo’ take on the meaning of “have warmth of feeling for” as opposed to “have warmth of feeling against”. I repeat, the meaning of the Greek word parazeloo in the Romans 11:11-12 context means: ‘to come alongside with warmth to stimulate’ or ‘to motivate’ or ‘to inspire’---from a close proximity!!!! Therefore, the meaning of the phrase: “for to provoke them to jealousy” means the Gentile is to come alongside the Jew—with warmth, sensitivity, and love to stimulate the Jew---to motivate the Jew---to inspire the Jew!
   But…to inspire the Jew to what? Obviously, because salvation came to the Gentile through the fall of the Jew, and because salvation comes only through the Jewish Messiah Jesus (Jn14:6; 1Jn5:11-13; Jn4:22), the Gentile who now possesses his salvation from the fall of the Jew, must return to the Jew to show him the very salvation that came to him through the fall of the Jew---which I repeat, can only mean to show the Jew their salvation, which Biblically is the Messiah Jesus!!!
  Finally, Romans 2:4 declares-“the goodness (kindness) of God leads men to repentance”!! Therefore, in practice, the meaning of the words “the warmth of feeling” for the Jew means the Gentile’s very salvation demands he must return and demonstrate to the Jew acts of goodness/kindness which are specifically designed(Rom15:1,2) to inspire the Jew to lay hold of salvation, i.e.the Messiah, Yeshua. For this reason alone, the Holy Spirit inspired Romans 1:16, which instructs us to take the gospel to the Jew first…which if done correctly will organically lead to my second great revelation**.  
 
2.This second revelation arises from the first; or said another way, the first revelation gives birth to the second! Therefore, and I repeat, because the fall of the Jew brought salvation to the Gentile, a salvation which demands that the Gentile return to the Jew in order to come close alongside him with warmth, sensitivity, and love to provoke the Jew; to motivate the Jew; to inspire the Jew to recognize the very same salvation that first came to the Gentile through the Jew, means in order to accomplish this great feat requires/demands the Jew and Gentile become inseparably linked! I repeat, the great revelation of Romans 11:11-12 requires that the Jew and Gentile--become one(Eph2:13-15)!!! Therefore, the Gentile needs the Jew, and the Jew needs the Gentile!  
 
  Because of these two revelations, the devil has moved heaven, earth, and hell to inspire antisemitism, and especially “Christian” antisemitism!!
 
  Notice, I didn’t even mention what is undoubtedly the greatest promise found in Romans 11:11-12: “…how much more their fulness”!!! When the Gentile completes his work with the Jew in verse 11—verse 12 declares that the Jew will not only make Jesus their Messiah---but God will pour out His blessing on the earth in such measure that has NEVER--BEFORE---BEEN---SEEN!!!
 
*Eze37:1-14; Is11:11-12. The phrase “second time” in Isaiah 11:11 ensures that God will return Israel to their land…twice! First, under the Medes and Persians under Cyrus(Ezra 1:1,2), and second, when Israel returns to the land in 1948.
 
**And ultimately lands us on the promise of Romans 11:12!
 
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Over the past several months I have written about the horrendous tragedy of ‘Christian’ anti-semitism. There are other types of Jew-hatred that I could have included in these tidbits, but I decided to primarily focus on the persecution of the Jews done in the name of Christ!* Considering the current war in Israel, as well as the riots in our country, I believe this is a God-inspired moment for this tidbit.
  Because I believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, I attempt to derive my thoughts, words, and actions from its revelation on both good and evil. Therefore, my previous tidbits have tried to explain the question “How could Christians have persecuted, and even murdered Jews?” My answer is completely spiritual: anti-semitism is inspired by Satan--period!!! We can use our capacity to reason about anti-semitism all we want, but the bottom-line foundational cause of Jew hatred is Satan—who comes only to steal, kill, and destroy(Jn10:10)!
  In this tidbit, I offer the Apostle Paul’s behavior as an example of what to do when encountering Stiff-necked Jews, or Jews who will not convert. I’m sure you must know by now that, unlike historical “supposed” Christians, Paul does not encourage either Jew-hatred or murdering Jews!! So, let’s begin!
  Acts13:44-47(KJV):
44.And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45.But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46.Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47.For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
  The context of this passage is that Paul and Barnabus were sent out by the Church at Antioch to preach the gospel. At a particular synagogue in Acts 13:16, they began preaching the history of Israel—which is part of the gospel! Paul calls the Jews in this synagogue “children of the stock of Abraham” in verse 26, which informs us that these people to whom he was speaking were Jews. Then he weaves Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection into his history in verses 30-35. When he concludes, the Jews leave but the Gentiles encourage them to return and preach again on the next Sabbath. When the next Sabbath finally arrived, the crowds were so large that the Jews were filled with envy, and began “contradicting and blaspheming”(13:45) the two men’s preaching. Now…pay really close attention to the climax found in Acts 13:46-47(see above).
  First, being filled with a spirit of boldness, the two apostles rebuke the blasphemous Jews declaring: “It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you.” This incredible statement agrees with Romans 1:16 and Romans 2:9-10, which teach that the gospel is to go to the Jew first. The word “first” in verse 46 teaches a calling to a specific order---on the contrary, it does not refer to some mythical, fabricated, enhanced Jewish nature**! All humans have equal natures because we are created in God’s image and likeness(Gen1:26-28). Therefore, the word “first” refers to a ‘different calling’, or a unique purpose sovereignly determined by God, i.e.chosenness.
   Second, because the Jews rejected Paul’s gospel presentation, he presents them with an intensely profound judgment: “But seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.” On the contrary, unlike many historic supposed Christian fathers, Paul did not curse these Jews, and then round up as many friends as possible and begin slaughtering “the stiff-necked rebels”! NO! He simply says, “We turn to the Gentiles”, which means Paul politely walked away and took the gospel to the Gentiles!
  And last, Acts 13:47 is the foundation, i.e.the inspiration for Paul’s conclusion to go to the Gentiles. First, he declares, the “Lord commanded”. In other words, he begins with the Word of God! Second, But, what Word of God? The Old Testament prophecy found in Isaiah 49:6 and 42:6; was also used in the context of Luke 2:32(25-27) regarding Simeone, where he is called a “just and devote” man, whom God promised--using the two Isaiah promises--that he would not see death until he had “seen the Lord’s Christ”, i.e.Jesus.
  So…what exactly is this profound promise first mentioned in the Isaiah passages?
 
That God would make the Messiah Jesus…a light to the Gentiles!!!***
 
  Isaiah 49:6 and Isaiah 42:6 both teach that God will make the Messiah, i.e.Jesus, the light to the Gentile nations. Incredibly however, Paul raises this truth in the context of the Jews's refusal of the gospel in Acts 13:46,47; which immediately refers to the extraordinary principle in Romans 11:11, which teaches that through the fall of the Jew, salvation is given to the Gentile.
  In other words, in Acts 13:46,47 Paul uses his experience of Jews resisting the gospel as an example that: 1.the gospel is to go to the Jew first; and 2.God sovereignly used the rebellion of the Jew to call the Gentile into relationship with Him!! 3.The Jewish Messiah is a light to the Gentiles through the Jew, i.e.the promises given to the Jew!
  Remember, God declared of Israel i.e.the Jew, in Romans 9:4, “to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the temple service, and the promises!” And in Romans 9:5, the very next verse, the Holy Spirit adds to the list of gifts in 9:4, “the fathers”, i.e.the Jewish Patriarchs--Abraham, Issac, and Jacob; as well as the Messiah, i.e. Jesus Christ!!! In other words, Romans 9:4,5 covers everything that God ‘FIRST’ gave to Israel, i.e.the Jew…but not only to the Jew! Remember this little truth about Romans 9:4,5: To the Jew; For the Jew; Through the Jew; For the world!
  Therefore, the Gentile can receive God’s gifts through the Jew---by way of Christ Jesus(2Cor1:20)!
 
Three concluding points:
1.Paul’s behavior in Acts 13:46,47 is a ‘sign’ to every person, everywhere, at all times! This is how you react to those who resist the gospel!
2.Just imagine…what if the ‘Christian anti-semites’ had understood these great truths before persecuting the Jews? A secondary question is, How did they not know this?
3.As crazy as it may sound to even have to write this, BUT---"You don’t kill people who reject Jesus!!!”  “And you especially don’t kill people who reject Jesus…in the Name of Jesus!!!” And one more, “And you especially, especially don’t kill Jews who reject Jesus…in the Name of the Jewish Jesus!”
  Only Satan can inspire this kind of irrational thinking and demonic behavior!
 
On the contrary, Jeremiah 14:20 offers God’s mercy (answer) for ‘Christian anti-semitism’: “We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.”
 
 
*A total and complete oxymoron!
**Anti-semites believe the word “chosen” regarding Israel means Jews are better than others.
***“And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.”  -Is49:6
 
 
 
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  Over the past two tidbits, I have attempted to point out where orthodox Jews Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin in their book “Why The Jews?” are incorrect in some of their deductions regarding Christian anti-semitism. Why do I say that? Because they base and restrict their conclusions only to “reason” rather than the revelation of scripture.
   Simply, it is impossible to explain the oxymoron of ‘Christian anti-semitism’ using only natural reasoning! I repeat, ‘Christian anti-semitism’ can only be explained through the revelation of scripture which categorizes it as demonic. There is absolutely no rational ground upon which a Christian can stand allowing him to hate any person(1Jn3:15) enough to commit murder (Ex 20:13)— especially upon the Jew! Why do I emphasize the Jew? I will say it again, there is only ONE reason no believer in Christ should persecute Jews: Jesus! Very simply….to hate Jews is to hate Jesus—Who is Jewish! The gospels of Matthew and Luke go to great lengths to list the genealogy of Jesus---for the very purpose of establishing His Jewishness. My point is “Christian anti-semitism" is not just irrational---it can only be identified as demonic!
  Let’s move forward. On page 127, Prager and Telushkin write: “Pierre Leroux, creator of the term “socialism”, identified the Jews with the despised capitalism, and regarded them as the incarnation of mammon, who lived by exploiting others. Leroux, a religious Christian, saw but one solution to the “Jewish Problem”---the conversion of all Jews to Christianity.”
   On page 139, using different words, they repeat this same sentiment, “Antisemitic Christians believed that Jews could really become Christians…”
   In my opinion, these statements unveil the greatest deception of “Why the Jews”! Why? Because in these two statements, Prager and Telushkin reveal THE heart of the matter! They believe that the conversion of the Jew to Christianity is itself…antisemitism!
 
ABSOLUTELY…Nothing could be further from the truth!
 
  Romans 10:12 declares: “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him”
And, Galatians 3:28 declares: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
   In these two passages, Paul declares the equality of the Jew and Gentile--in nature. From the beginning, God declared the Image and Likeness of God as His gift to mankind, i.e. descendants of Adam--which we all are--as THE agent making all humans equal!! And I repeat, this is true regardless of whether a person is a Jew or Gentile.
   However, as every human possesses a different calling from God(2Tim1:9), the calling of God upon the Jew is unique!
   First, Romans 10:9-10 declares the order God has ordained for His great calling on the Jew:
“9.Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of  the Gentile;
10.But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile”
   This teaches that God sovereignly declares that the Jew is first---first in judgment for their sin; and first in blessing for their obedience (Is1:19). I repeat, God sovereignly made the Jew first---not because they are better in nature. Deuteronomy 7:6-8 reveals God’s sovereign reason:
“6.For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7.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:
8.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.”
  The reasons are: 1.God set His love upon them; 2.To keep His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob---the fathers of the Jews.
 
  Moses wrote the Deuteronomy 7 passage 500 years after Abraham. And yet another 500 years after Moses, King David not only confirmed the covenant but also established it forever in 2Samuel 7:22-24:
22.Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23.And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemed to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
24.For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
 
  Deuteronomy 26:18-19 further establishes God’s UNIQUE calling upon Israel: “that He will set you high above ‘all nations’ which He has made…” The word “all” means “all”! No exceptions!
  Therefore, David confirms God’s covenant with Israel is forever; and Moses confirms that covenant means God’s call on Israel is “high above all nations”!
  Here is my point! Romans 1:16 declares: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek”. The gospel is ĕuaggĕliŏn, i.e.Good News, and is described in its most basic form in 1Corinthians 15:3-4: 1.Christ died for our sins…according to the scripture; 2.He was buried and raised again on the third day…according to the scripture.
   Romans 1:16 teaches the gospel is to be offered to the Jew…first!!! 1Corinthians 15:1-4 clearly defines “WHAT” that gospel is to be offered to the Jew first! And what is that? Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed (1Cor5:7); was buried, and raised again, for the sin of the world…beginning with the Jew!
 
  Moreover, the Tanach, i.e.the Old Testament CLEARLY teaches that Jesus is the JEWISH Messiah (Is53:1-12; Dan9:24-27; Dan7:13,14)! And the New Testament CLEARLY teaches that Jesus is the JEWISH Messiah (Mat1:16-17)! And Jesus CLEARLY taught He was the JEWISH
Messiah (Jn4:25,26)!!
   Therefore, not one Bible verse--especially the New Testament--in any way, shape, or form suggests that a Jew who acknowledges Jesus as the JEWISH Messiah…is anti-semitic!!!
   On the contrary, Jesus loves the Jews! In deep lamentation, Jesus expresses His great passion for His people Israel, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” -Matt23:37
  In addition, Jesus reveals His calling, i.e. the reason for His birth into the earth: “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel!” –Matt15:24
  Furthermore, Jesus appeared to the Jewish Paul, who wrote 2/3 of the New Testament, to inform him that he would suffer much to bear His name (Jesus)…to the children of Israel (Acts 9:15). As a matter of fact, Paul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, leading to his recognition of Jesus as the Jewish Messiah created in him such a love for the Jews that he was willing to be accursed, i.e.sent to hell…for their salvation!!!! (Rom9:3).
  Therefore, no anti-semitism existed in Jesus nor His apostles---who were all Jewish. Remember, for the first 10 years of the church--EVERY—believer in the Jewish Messiah…was Jewish!
  In conclusion, for a Jew to recognize Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, or as Prager and Telushkin write, “Antisemitic Christians believed that Jews could really become Christians…” --is NOT anti-semitism!!! On the contrary, 1Corinthians 1:18 and 23 reflect their faulty sentiments:
“18.For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness…”
“23.But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock…”
 
  Finally, Acts 4:12 declares “…for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved”; which teaches no one--neither Jew nor Gentile--can be saved apart from the Name of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah! Therefore, the ‘natural reasoning’ employed by Prager and Telushkin to conclude that Jews cannot accept Jesus as the Jewish Messiah without committing anti-semitism--must itself be condemned as anti-semitic, and therefore a scheme of Satan! Why?  Their view denies Jews the very salvation that Jesus, the Jewish Messiah purchased as the Lamb of God (Jn1:29), Who came to take away the sin of the world! 
 
 
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 “No civilization has survived that did not have a strong code informed by religious truth.”                              -Will Durant, Historian 

The books ‘Why the Jews’ by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin; ‘The Anguish of the Jews’ by Edward Flannery; and ‘Our Hands are Stained with Blood’, by Dr Michael Brown, all target anti-semitism, and specifically Christian anti-semitism, are unequivocally the hardest books I have ever read! They should be mandatory for every Christian leader not only to read, but digest because of the horrible truths systematically laid out by their authors.
  According to the Bible (1Jn1:9) there can be no repentance from sin…without acknowledgment of that sin; and just as important, turning away from the sin! Therefore, there can be no justification for the many atrocities committed against Jews in the Name of Christ! As Dr Brown so accurately reminds us in the title of chapter 10 of his work: “More Tears”; YES…it is true that…ONLY “More Tears” should be shed for the Jews who experienced ‘Christian’ persecution. Remember, the Jews that perished at the hands of “supposed Christians” will never return…they are gone forever!
  Although no acceptable excuses can ever be offered for the terrible fact that historically Christians persecuted Jews, I do find that Prager and Rabbi Telushkin have made some blaring errors in their judgments. I believe that because these two outstanding thinkers and writers use only their great intellects to deduce their conclusions logically, they do not fully understand the spiritual aspect of anti-semitism.
  I do believe that because these men rely almost exclusively on their ability to reason, and do not seek the revelation that comes only from the Holy Spirit--especially on something as intense as anti-semitism--they miss the only foundation of ALL anti-semitism---Satan!!!
  In addition, which I will elaborate more on in subsequent tidbits, Prager and Telushkin also miss a second critical point—and that is not all Christians who claim Christianity are Christians. In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus says in the day of judgment, not every person who calls Him LORD, LORD is saved, i.e.born again, i.e.a Christian, even though confessing Jesus as LORD is the only path to salvation(Rom10:9,10)! Jesus says, only those who do God’s will; not those who simply say, or claim Christianity…are Christians.
   On page 10 of ‘Why the Jews’, Prager and Telushkin write, “It takes infinitely more than economic tensions or racial prejudice to create the animosity that often has involved the torturing of children and the murdering of entire communities. Only a people representing a threat to the core values, allegiances, and beliefs of others could arouse such universal, deep, and lasting hatred.”
  Now, let’s examine the above quote by Prager and Telushkin. I agree that anti-semitism cannot be reduced only to “economic tensions or racial prejudice to create the animosity that…tortured” children and murdered entire communities—because economic tensions and racism are much too simplistic an explanation for such a complicated behavior as anti-semitism.
   Furthermore, at least for Christians…the last sentence of their paragraph: “Only a people (Jews) representing a threat to the core values, allegiances, and beliefs of others (Christians) could arouse such universal, deep, and lasting hatred”…should not be true!! Why? How can an authentic Christian*--- who holds the Tanakh, i.e.the Old Testament, as the inspired word of God; and who believes there is no discrepancy between the Old and New Testaments—which were all written by Jews; and who holds to Elelohe Israel i.e. the God of Israel--as THE only God; and most importantly, who holds to Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, as his Lord and Savior, find the Jews to be a threat to their “core values”, “allegiances”, and “beliefs” inspiring a “universal”, “deep”, and “lasting hatred”….when their “core values” are the same!
  Allow me to amplify my previous point. If both Jews and Christians have the same God, and the same Word from God, the values of Christians and Jews must be the same despite any differences in doctrine! For example, Have no other God before me (Ex20:3); do not steal(Ex20:15), do not kill(Ex20:13), Love God (Deut11:13; Mat22:37)etc., are all common values both Jews and Christians share.
  In fact, the greatest evidence for my “same values” point is a wonderful term that precisely describes these “same values”: ‘the Judaeo-Christian ethic’. While I’m uncertain of this famous term’s origin, I would be blind and dishonest not to see that it speaks volumes to the common values of these two theological systems. Remember, not one person has ever thought to create a Judaeo-Muslim ethic, or a Hindu-Christian ethic! The obvious reason is that only the ‘Judaeo-Christian ethic’ derives from the same God.   
  Yet, what is also absolutely true, is that, because values drive beliefs---and the values of the Judaeo-Christian ethic are the same, how can small differences between the two groups rationally lead one group to sink to such an extreme as murder…and even worse: mass murder!??!!!???
 And furthermore, what’s also in need of an answer is that, if it is true that the values of the Judaeo-Christian ethic are the same for both groups---and they are---how have Christians today using those same values moved from murdering Jews during the Dark Ages to recognizing the unique calling of God upon the Jew today?!!?!
  For emphasis, allow me once again to amplify my previous point: Today…authentic* Christians are the Jews best friends---if not their only friends!!!! Therefore, if the following statement of Prager and Telushkin is true: Only a people (Jews) representing a threat to the core values, allegiances, and beliefs of others (Christians) could arouse such universal, deep, and lasting hatred”(from Christians)---then where is the “lasting hatred” of Christians now?!?!? In other words, why are Christians not murdering Jews now?
  Furthermore again….if Prager and Telushkin’s statement is true, the “lasting hatred” should be… lasting; perhaps even lasting forever… depending on how much time one assigns to the word “lasting”. Yet, because the authentic Christian today is the Jew’s best friend…Prager and Telushkin must again appeal to their intellect and offer a rational explanation for:
1.the murder of Jews in antiquity by Christians
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2.the contemporary love for Jews that Christians hold today

Yet, they fail to do so! They simply dump all people who claim Christianity into the “Christians bowl”…and mix it up! On the other hand, the reason they believe all Christians who claim Christianity are Christians is because they do not have a revelation of authentic* Christianity!
  To be fair however, as Jews who practice Judaism, I cannot expect these two men to understand what comprises an authentic Christian, because if they did, they would convert to their Messiah!
   In conclusion, from the time of Jesus, there have always been pseudo-believers in Christ, for example, Judas. Yet, because authentic Christianity is obedient to the Word of God—from Genesis to Revelation—there have always been, and there will always be Christians who understand: 
           1.Hatred of the Jew is not just irrational, but demonic…because the
              Lord and Savior of the Christian is Jewish!
           2.The unique Calling of God upon the Jew (Deut7:6-8; Deut14:2;
               2Sam7:22-24)…and love and honor that Call.
           3.Satan is THE inspiration for anti-semitism, i.e. Jew-hatred!!!**
 
 
*See Matthew 7:21-23 for the definition of authentic and inauthentic Christianity.
**Because Satan hates God, he hates anything or anyone whom God calls

  In this tidbit we will look at the third of the three most often quoted lies used by “supposed Christians” in Medieval Europe to murder Jews. In their book ‘Why the Jews’,  Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin list the three lies as:
1.Blood Libel or ‘Ritual Murder’. Jews draw blood from children and drink it during their  celebrations, such as during Passover.
2.Jews poison Christians.
3.Jews kidnap the Communion wafer that is believed to be transubstantiated into the body of Jesus and then stick needles into it
​as a means of torturing Jesus.
 
Once again, I will allow Prager and Telushkin to instruct us, on page 86, they write: “In 1215, the fourth Lateran council accepted the doctrine of transubstantiation as official church dogma. The dogma asserted that the wafer used at the Mass was miraculously transformed into the body of the Jesus; the wafer was to be regarded not as a symbolic representation of Jesus, but as his actual body. Just how literally Christians accepted this teaching is exemplified in the writings of a leading preacher of the thirteenth century, Berthold of Regensburg. He explained that Christ, though present in the wafer, does not allow himself to be seen in it, for “who would like to bite off the little head, or the little hands, or the little feet of a little child.”
   Antisemitic usage of the doctrine of transubstantiation soon led to the torture and murder of thousands of Jews. Since Jesus becomes present through the wafer, the reasoning went, would not the Jews who had once crucified him wish to kill him again? In 1243, only twenty-eight years after the Fourth Lateran Council, the first accusation of “Host Desecration” occurred in Berlitz, near Berlin. The city’s entire Jewish community was burned alive for allegedly torturing a wafer.
Charges of “Host Desecration” spread throughout Europe. In Prague, in 1389, the Jewish community was collectively accused of attacking a monk carrying a wafer. Large mobs of Christians surrounded the Jewish neighborhood and offered the Jews the choice of baptism or death. Refusing to be baptized three thousand Jews were murdered. In Berlin, in 1510, twenty-six Jews were burned and two beheaded for reportedly “desecrating the host.”  A charge of host desecration was reported as late as 1836 in Romania.
   The “Host Desecration” libel is among the clearest examples of the Christian perception of the Jews as devils. Clearly, no one, not even a Jew, tortures wafers. If a person does “torture” one, it could mean only one thing: he, too, recognizes that the wafer is the body of Jesus, and wishes to make him suffer. Who but the people of the Devil recognize the divinity of Jesus but wish to destroy him?
   In his book, “The Anguish of the Jews” Edward Flannery, records more on this libel. On page 107, he writes: “In Rottingen to 1298 word went about that Jews had desecrated a host. Rindfleisch, a noblemen, stirred up the mob and sent the entire community to the stake. Thence he and his Judenschchters (Jew-slaughterers) marched through Germany and Austria pillaging, burning, and murdering Jews as they went. Estimates place the murdered at 100,000, and the decimated communities at 140.  The Emperor fined the cities where the atrocities occurred. The Rindfleisch massacres were, as Poliakov points out, the first attempt to hold all Jewry responsible for a crime—an aborted genocide.”
Flannery continues with still more on page 157. “Charges of ritual murder (number 1 libel) and ‘Host Desecration’ continued in this land where they seemed to have found a natural habitat, and some popular uprisings resulted.”
“It was not from within Poland, however, that finally came the “deluge” that submerged Polish Jewry and introduced into Jewish history perhaps its bloodiest decade (1648-58) since Biblical times. Again the Jews were caught in the cross-fire. In the Ukraine the Eastern Orthodox Cossacks hated not only the Polish Catholics who oppressed them but also their middlemen of alien faith, the Jews. In April of 1648, under Bogdan Chmielnicki, their hitman, they allied themselves with the Tartars and Zaporozhti and ravaged Poland in a most barbarous fashion, reserving their worst cruelties for the Jews. Margolis and Marx describe the happenings:
“Estates were devastated, manor-houses reduced to ashes, and human beings barbarously done to death. The victims were flayed and burned alive, mutilated and left to the agony of a lingering death. Infants were slit like fish or slaughtered at the breasts of their mothers or cast alive into wells. Women were ripped open and then sewed up again with live cats thrust into their bowels; many, married or unmarried, were violated before their menfolk, and those that were comely were carried away. Thousands of Jews perished in the towns east of the Dnieper.”
 
Can anything be worse!?!?! Once again, tears can be the only appropriate response!
 
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Although we may not always be healthy, nor always prosperous, yet God is always good, and, therefore, there is always a sufficient argument for giving thanks.
-Charles Spurgeon

  In my last tidbit, I began addressing the three most often quoted lies used by “supposed Christians” in Medieval Europe to murder Jews. In ‘Why the Jews’,  Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin list the three lies:
1.Blood Libel or ‘Ritual Murder’. Jews draw blood from children and drink it during their celebrations, such as during Passover.
2.Jews poison Christians.
3.Jews kidnap the Communion wafer that is believed to be transubstantiated into the body of Jesus and then stick needles into it as a means of torturing Jesus.
 
   I allowed Prager and Telushkin to address the first lie, that of the “Blood Libel” in my last tidbit. Today they address the second lie, “Jews poison Christians”.
   On page 85, they write, ““If a king had a Jewish physician, notes James Parkes, “and did not actually perish on the battlefield, cloven in two by the battle-axe of the enemy, there is nothing surprising  in his unfortunate doctor being accused of poisoning him.” Parkes cites several instances of Jewish royal physicians being executed after a king’s death.”
   “In actuality almost every medieval Jewish doctor in Europe (and other Jews as well) was endangered. In 1161, in Bohemia, eighty-six Jews were burned as punishment for an alleged plot of Jewish physicians to poison the populace. Such accusations were endorsed by the leading intellectual circles in European society. In 1610, the medical faculty of the University of Vienna declared that Jewish physicians were bound by Jewish law to kill every tenth Christian through the use of drugs.”
   “Martin Luther said that “if they (the Jews) could kill us all, they would gladly do so, aye, and often do it, especially those who profess to be physicians. They know all that is known about medicine in Germany; they can give poison to a man of which he will die in an hour, or in ten to twenty years; they thoroughly understand this art.””
   “The libel that the Jews were continually plotting to poison the Christian world had particularly tragic results during the Black Death of 1348-49. This plague, which killed about one-third of Europe’s population, was blamed on the Jews despite the fact that the plague also killed Jews.”
   A Christian physician, Konrad of Regensburg, in his ‘Buch der Natur’, was one of the few Christians to recognize the irrationality of blaming the Jews: “But I know that there were more Jews in Vienna than in any other German city familiar to me, and so many of them died of the plague that they were obliged to enlarge their cemetery. To have brought this on themselves would have been folly on their part.” But the doctor’s reasoning had no impact.”
   “Jews were first tortured to confess to spreading the Black Death in Switzerland in September 1348. According to the “confession,” a rabbi had instructed the Jews: “See, I give you a little package, which contains a preparation of poison and venom… This you are to distribute among the wells, the cisterns and the springs…to poison the people who use the water.” A month later, the verdict against the Jews was announced: “all Jews from the age of seven cannot excuse themselves from this crime, since all of them in their totality were cognizant and are guilty of the above actions. Jewish children under the age of seven were then baptized and reared as Christians after their families were murdered.”
   First, the Bible says Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy (Jn10:10). The founding Pastor of our church often said, “Satan has many tools, but the lie is the handle to them all.” As Prager and Telushkin just demonstrated ‘a lie’ is one of those assertions that so often skips steps downward ending in murder and destruction.
   Second, in defiance of God’s word, these pseudo-Christians perpetrated three great evils:
i.lie. The should have read Colossians 3:9; James 3:14; Revelation 21:27.  
ii.vengeance. The should have read Romans 12:17-19.
iii.murder. The should have read 1John3:15.
 
    There is simply no way to describe this wicked behavior…as Christian---regardless of how they labelled themselves!!!! When these people stand before God to give account for their lives, I believe Matthew 7:22-23 will apply:
22.Many will say to me (Jesus) in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful  works?
23.And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
 
              
 
 
 
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I suggest you give more time than most Christians give to hear what God is saying to you through His word. If you do not take time for hearing, all you will do is read the Bible. Faith does not come by reading the Bible; it comes by hearing from God through the Bible. Hearing first, then faith.   -Derek Prince

  In conclusion, our late pastor, Carlton Arthurs often said, “The devil has many devices, but a lie is the handle to them all!” The ‘Blood Libel’ or ‘Jewish Ritual Murder’ is yet another lie of Satan, that sadly, ‘supposed’ Christians have marketed resulting in literally---thousands of Jewish murders! Only sincere repentance can bring forgiveness and deliverance!!! May God have mercy!!
  
  
*https://www.westernjournal.com/blood-libel-tlaib-shares-tweet-falsely-accusing-jews-murder-just-holocaust-remembrance-day/
 
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“The greatest single cause of Atheism in the world today is Christians; who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
-Brennan Manning