Israel’s ambassador to Germany urges Jews to make aliya [Jeremiah 30]

Berlin - Israel's Ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, said he “does not envy any Jew living in Europe today” and invited those who feel unsafe in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks to “come to [Israel] at any time.”

In an interview published Sunday in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, Hadas-Handelsman echoed last week’s invitation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Jews in Europe “consider Israel your home.” Germany saw a wave of violent anti-Semitic attacks in 2014, including the torching of the Wuppertal synagogue. A court there, however, agreed with the explanation provided by three German Palestinians that the arson was merely an attempt “to draw attention to the Gaza conflict” and sentenced the men to 200 hours of community service.

Hadas-Handelsman also commended Chancellor Angela Merkel for making it clear that “it is not normal for synagogues and Jewish schools to need police protection.” Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said he recognized that it is only natural for Israel to encourage aliya, but that he personally saw no special reason for Jews to consider emigrating now, even with the increased risk of attacks by home-grown jihadists.

“Anti-Semitism is a “worldwide phenomenon,” he said, adding that “life in Israel as a Jew is not any more secure...”

2700 years ago the Bible Prophets foretold that in the last days, God would bring a remnant of the Jews back to their ancestral homeland. It says that during this time, the entire world would turn against the Jews and their nation and their capital (Zechariah 12). Yet it is in this conflict that the Jewish people cry out to their (and everyone's) Messiah...Yeshua...Jesus...the one who was pierced for all of our transgressions...

Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying , 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying , Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For, lo, the days come , saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child ? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail , and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

The world has bribed away the historical hope for a homeland that characterized earlier Hebrew exile periods.

So what is a God to do about this. He’s going to keep His promise if it takes arranging for monsters to be jumping in His peoples’ faces to get their attention.

And it is a dual Jewish/Christian problem. Christians have a spiritual homeland that they have largely ceased to care about, feeling they have approximated it well enough in the world.

Well, it will take a world that is beyond this kind of pretense, one that is definitely no longer decent, before Christians care to renew their heavenly family ties.

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