Posted on 11/06/2023 10:39:51 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
In our current social and political paradigm, people tend to see things two dimensionally – usually to the left or to the right. Of course, as current trends bear witness to, this is causing a great deal of social and political friction, which often spills over into violence. Sometimes this is agitated by nefarious forces who have a deeper agenda and sometimes it occurs organically, aided by a spiritual enemy who hates mankind, who hates the Jews and who hates God. The latest trigger point for demonically inspired violence against Jews is the war that Israel is conducting against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Aside from the spiritual paradigm with which Christians view and stand with Israel, most rational people (even unbelievers) would have a sense that sympathizing with Hamas right now is akin to endorsing the kidnap, torture, rape, beheading and murder of Jews. People who thought that the horrors of the Holocaust were long behind them have suddenly been shaken by a terrifying sense of foreboding as people the world over call for the annihilation of Jews once again. In the early stages of Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews, perhaps ordinary people in far-off nations would have pleaded ignorance to the Jewish plight on the basis that the news didn’t reach them. However, this time around, the evidence of Jew-hatred is there for all to see since antisemites cannot resist posting their abhorrent material online.
It must be said that it is vitally important for Christians right now to hold a Biblical worldview. In short, this means that the believer clings tightly to the very Scriptures that offer practical and spiritual wisdom that enables us to consider everything we encounter in the world from a godly perspective. For all people (believers or unbelievers), when faced with a problem or challenge, our worldview becomes the source and foundation on which we make our actions or response. This means that whatever content we filter into our worldview will determine how we act, speak and think. Therefore, it is probably of little surprise that the most vulgar displays of antisemitism have been found on college and university campuses because many colleges and universities of this era are indoctrinating their students with politically progressive and unbiblical ideas. The fundamental reason behind this is that students are taught what to think rather than how to think. As an American newscaster once said, “They [professors] dominate and intimidate the students. If you go up against them, your grade often suffers. There is a tyranny in higher education that is gravely harming this nation.”
Another reason that colleges and universities seem to be hotbeds for hatred is that many are taught that the only paradigm with which to view the world is the “oppressor” and “oppressed” class. Ostensibly, the education system (including lower grade schools) has sought to address cultural and racial prejudice but has in fact inflamed the culture and race wars. For example, James Logan High School in California offers a course in ethnic studies and social justice that aims to teach students to challenge and criticize power, oppression, capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism and colonialism. From their website we read, “Ethnic Studies encompasses the 5 C’s: Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Community and Creativity. It is curriculum relevant and accurate to the cultures in our classroom and it is a path to understanding and appreciating everyone’s identity, the factors that create it, and the evolution of identity. Ethnic studies will help students understand how our social construct is affected by race and the root causes of oppression, power, and privilege.” Furthermore, the New Haven Unified School District’s Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Academy (which is part of James Logan High School) adopt the motto: “Learn, Lead, Liberate” which features a (socialist) raised fist grasping a pencil.
Don’t be fooled by the benign sounding name, “ethnic studies”. It is simply Critical Race Theory in disguise. It is a cleverly crafted deception that, on the face of it, offers a unifying cultural learning experience while essentially promoting hostility amongst races. In fact, recent reports indicate that Minnesotan lawmakers are introducing changes to their education system which are among some of the most radical in the country. The changes aren’t about education – they are about incitement to take action to disrupt and dismantle America’s fundamental social and political institutions. Minnesota’s new K-12 social studies standards exemplified this ideology as it requires students to organize with others to resist systemic and coordinated exercises of power against marginalized, oppressed groups.
Education institutions are no longer focused on raising socially adjusted, educated people. New education standards and related benchmarks are focused on instilling a seed within people that leads to hostility against any who belong to the “oppressor” class. To give examples, kindergartners must “retell a story about an unfair experience that conveys a power imbalance.” First-graders must “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power and use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.” How times have changed. In first grade I was focused on colouring in and producing poorly made craft items which my family would pretend to love.
Our young adults are supposed to be viewed as leaders of the future. Sadly, their education experience has led them to believe in vulgar binaries in which they must place themselves and the rest of humanity. When I was young, we often played war games. The premise was simple – there were good guys and there were bad guys. And, just like those pretend war games in our youth, it would appear that many view the world through a similar and unalterable paradigm – good guys (oppressed) and bad guys (oppressors). That is why, despite the horrors of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, many refuse to see Israel as oppressed. Long ago, it was determined by social justice crusaders that Israel will perpetually fall into the category of oppressor and because of the oppressor-oppressed narrative, people assign themselves a moral licence to identify and hate the oppressor (Israel) without disrupting their conscience.
Antisemitism is an early indicator of a troubled culture and if the terrorist attack by Hamas teaches us anything, it is that Western nations are in deeper trouble than they thought. Many may claim that the virtue of free speech must be upheld. But free speech which abuses this privilege to spew Jew-hatred must be denounced and condemned. Free speech of the kind we are hearing throughout our nations is not the hallmark of a free and vibrant culture – it is the hallmark of a culture which is in great spiritual peril. In 2022, Deborah Lipstadt, a noted historian and the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, said this: “Antisemitism is like the canary in the coal mine of democracy. It is a threat, a warning. If you’re an antisemite, then you think, well, the justice system isn’t fair because it’s controlled by Jews. The government isn’t fair because it’s controlled by Jews. The media isn’t fair because it’s controlled by Jews. You lose faith in the democratic institutions. As a historian, I can think of no democracy that tolerated antisemitism and remained a vibrant democracy.”
Deborah is correct. But the peril is even greater than that. Embracing Jew-hatred is not only an indicator of cultural decline but also of God’s impending judgement. The evidence of this is found not only in the Bible but also the history books. Egypt, Philistia, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Byzantines, the Crusaders, the Spanish Empire, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. They all touched the apple of God’s eye and felt God’s hand of judgement. As Christians, we must not only pray for Israel but pray for our own nations. God is taking note of individuals and nations who are cursing His people.
Jesus died for those (us and others) who at some point hated him.
On the political scene of course we pray for the protection and peace of Israel. But on a personal level, we should be doing God's bidding during this "acceptable year", ministering reconciliation to Christ.
God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.2 Cor. 5:18-19.
I like the way Romans 5:10-21 states it also.
people mistakenly think that because God doesn’t act right away, that they don’t have to worry about offending God and His people- Wrong- God is a very gracious God- full of grace, and mercy, and is giving those folks time to recognize their error and turn from the evil- but there will be a time when his mercy and grace come to an end in an individual’s life, and His judgement will be meted out
Very true.
Most people learn the hard way unfortunately.
I find jews calling themselves “God’s people” offensive, it is bigotry.
Good stuff and good to remember when we feel like getting on our high horse and blasting another.
One thing the Bible tells us is thatGod uses Her enemies to chastise Israel when she has been unfaithful.
As he is doing to the US now also.
Pray and fast.
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I’ll probably get a lightening bolt for other things I’ve done in life, but I’m more than ready to see these folks to get high-volt piercings in the top of their heads.
the Messiah is jewish and the capital of the world will be Jerusalem and run by the Creators Torah. Salvation is for jewish people first.
I have known many Jews over a long life. I have never heard even one say that. I believe it to be true from reading the Bible, but I have never heard a Jewish person say that.
Then you have never really talked to a jew. It is a common theme with them.
What we repeatedly see in the media since October 7 is the predictable conflating of Judaism and Zionism.
Despite the author’s rhetorical abilities, Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing. He - and many others - bring God and religion into the equation. There is even a photo of the top of a Jewish man’s head with a yarmulke, a religious accessory. But there is no specific mention of Judaism anywhere in the article.
Clever and subtle connections are inferred between Christianity, Judaism, Jews, antisemitism, and the current war.
The religion Judaism has survived and flourished for thousands of years. Zionism is a political movement that started to organize and gain notoriety in the 19th century.
Judaism has historically been at odds with the objectives, methods and operations of the Zionist movement.
It is the Zionist movement - not Judaism! - that is engaging with Hamas. But people like this author, and pretty much the entire media/political machine - wants everybody to think that it’s Judaism.
Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews. For the intents and purposes of this “war” the Jewish people are an ethnic group, not a religious one.
An inconvenient fact that people like this author would prefer to have ignored.
P.S. It is also right there in the title.
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This article actually addresses what is going on in public education in regard to critical race theory and brainwashing our children.
This is why I honestly believe too many people are making category errors by applying prophecies and messages related to the biblical kingdom of Israel and applying them to the modern nation-state of Israel.
(Hence why you find scenarios of ultra-orthodox Jews who actually oppose the current state of Israel from a purely religious lens, due to its founding being an act of man and not an act of God.)
I also personally think a lot of this is driven by those who believe there will be a pre-Tribulation Rapture, because why worry about accelerating the End Times if you think you’ll skip out on most of it?
“For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.” - Matthew 24:21-22
The elect shall suffer alongside everyone else during the End Times, until the Second Coming of the Messiah.
Galatians 3:28-29 states that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Exactly.
He is not willing that anybody perish but that all should come to repentance unto life (II Pet. 3:9) but when He decides “enough is enough!” His judgment will fall on these impenitent sinners like a ton of bricks.
Both websites are the same organization. The same mission, slightly different content, and one is newer.
https://www.truetorahjews.org/
https://torahjews.org/2023/11/02/anti-zionism-does-not-equal-anti-semitism/ (
excerpt;
(the hearing referred to in the main article was November 7, 2017):
True Torah Jews is opposed to the passage of the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” because it mistakenly enmeshes and obscures the two separate and distinct concepts of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Jews adhere to no single nationality, race, or culture. They come in all colors and hues, and hail from every place on earth. What they do share is a common religion. And, while the Zionists want to change that, TTJ wishes to disassociate from the anti-Semitic characterization of Jews as a separate national entity. We believe rhetoric on Israel should never be deemed ‘pro or anti Jewish’ as we have absolutely no connection to the State of Israel.
It is crucial to note that Jews are patriotic American citizens who practice the religion of Judaism, and that there are, generally, two types of people who conflate Judaism with Zionism: Zionists who try to legitimize Zionism, or anti-Semites who try delegitimizing Judaism.
“Zionism and Zionistic activities not only depress Judaism by putting nationality first and religion second, but they injure Judaism by combining religion and nationality,” wrote Anglo-Jewish British leader Claude Montefiore.
Alexander Hamilton, vice president of the Anglo Jewish Society, concurred: “Emancipated Jews in this country regard themselves primarily as a religious community…They hold Judaism to be a religious system, with which their political status has no concern, and they maintain that, as citizens of the countries in which they live, they are fully and sincerely identified with the national spirit and interests of those countries. It follows that the establishment of a Jewish nationality in Palestine, founded on this theory of Jewish homelessness, must have the effect throughout the world of stamping the Jews as strangers in their native lands.”
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