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A lot of hateful rhetoric has been aimed at the Jews since time immemorial - simply because they are "God's Chosen People" and because many Christians are under the mistaken impression that God has turned His back on the Jews and replaced them with the Gentiles. So, it's time to quit pussy-footing around and get Biblical! What did the Apostle Paul say?
Romans 11:11-12: "But I say: Have they so stumbled as to fall entirely? May it never be! Rather, by their stumbling, life has come to the Gentiles for (awakening) their jealousy. And if their stumbling was riches to the world, and their condemnation riches to the Gentiles; how much more their completeness?"
Jews are the people that God Himself chose to reveal Yahweh/Yeshua to the world. If it hadn't been for the Jews, Yahweh would have remained the best-kept secret of tiny, little Israel, and the rest of the world would still be writhing in Paganism. One cannot condemn those Jews who are not yet Believers in Christ because God hasn't opened their spiritual eyes, yet. They are, however, Torah observant believers in Yahweh, which brings them a lot closer to God than any Christian who ignores God's original divine teachings in favor of Sun-day worship and paganistic "holidays". Harsh words? Yes, but we are living in the end times as outlined in the Bible, and time is short. Jew-bashing in NOT the way to please God! The Bible tells us that anyone who goes up against them in any way will suffer His wrath:
Genesis 12:3 - "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Deuteronomy 7:6-8: For you are a people set apart as holy for ADONAI your God. ADONAI your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure. 7 ADONAI didn't set his heart on you or choose you because you numbered more than any other people - on the contrary, you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 Rather, it was because ADONAI loved you, and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that ADONAI brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery under the hand of Pharoah king of Egypt.
There are a myriad websites on the 'net that try to debunk this fact and make Jews out to be "bad guys" - from the likes of the KKK and other "white supremacist" hate groups, to Christians who support the idea of "replacement theology" which insists that with the New Covenant, God turned His back on the Jews and transferred His promises to Gentile Christians. Our question to those people is: Since God never had an "old covenant" with the Gentiles, how could He possibly have a "new covenant"? His covenants were made with the House of Judah and Israel, not with the Gentiles (Jeremiah 31:32). Therefore, we ask that you educate yourself thoroughly and objectively before jumping onto the "hate bandwagon" and check to see what the Scriptures actually say! After all, the Gentiles "borrowed" from the Jews the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - who appeared to man in the form of a tallit-wearing, Sabbath and Feast-keeping, kosher JEW.
Jeremiah 31:35-37: This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar- the LORD Almighty is his name: "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD, "will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me." This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done," declares the LORD.
Romans 11:25-27: "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
Please watch this short film clip which shows the truth about the plight of the Jews and their fight for survival, just because they are God's "Chosen."
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