The World’s Oldest Disease

The Jerusalem Connection Blog ^ | 14 June, 2010 | by Jan Markell, Olive Tree Views

[Salem]

The world remains sick with a very old disease for which no cure has ever been found. It tends to go into remission now and then, but it always reappears as virulent as ever. It even develops into new strains. Some have called it a lethal obsession. It is called anti-Semitism, and if the Jews did not exist, some anti-Semite would invent him. It’s that bad.

The Helen Thomas story is now old but it was very revealing. In just a brief moment of time, she spewed in microcosm what kings, generals, fuhrers, pharoahs, and Muslim extremists have done in legion. She tried to dispossess the Jews. None of Israel’s enemies have any knowledge of what the Bible has to say about the land or the people of Israel. None of her enemies experience even a nano-second of guilt for telling the Jews to go back to Auschwitz. Even though I researched the Holocaust to write the Anita Dittman story, Trapped in Hitler’s Hell, I cannot imagine the haunting thought of being told to go back to Auschwitz had I ever been interned there. But in demonstrations after the May 31 flotilla fiasco in Gaza, signs sprouted up all over the world saying that the Jews should all pack up and head to Auschwitz, which is now a solemn memorial museum. In its own way, it says “never again” just as all of Israel does when the subject of the Holocaust comes up.

For someone to tell a Jew in Israel to “go home” also makes no sense because they are home. They may have passed through Germany or Poland, or Russia as my grandparents did, but the Bible reveals that Israel is their home. Of all earth’s inhabitants, only the Jews have a deed to a piece of land from God as recorded in the Bible. But then not even most church members even know that, let alone the monsters of the world.

The destiny of the Jew is to be eternally unsafe around the world. The day is coming when friends of Israel will also feel uneasy and unsafe. Right now the “friends of Israel” are primarily evangelical Christians who do not hold to Replacement Theology — the belief that the church has replaced Israel. Rather, they recognize that the land and people of Israel were chosen by God to be special real estate and a chosen people. In Leviticus 25 God calls Israel “My land.” So it belongs to God. He has given it to Israel to manage and make the desert blossom as a rose.

As I researched the Holocaust for the Dittman book, I became aware that for the first time in the history of the human race, a decision was made in a modern nation (Germany,) in the midst of a civilized continent (Europe). That decision paved the way for people to behave in an unthinkable manner. A unique group of innocent people — the Jews — were tracked down, registered, marked, dispossessed, humiliated, and transported against their will. They had generously contributed to the culture of the world. Perhaps their biggest problem was that they were different, but in a good way. They dared to be different. But they cannot afford the luxury of historical amnesia. They must be vigilant, conscious, and always prepared for the resurgence of the plague of anti-Semitism.

There is global outrage when Israel tries to defend herself from rockets or “activists” bearing lethal weapons, riding in a flotilla while world powers who arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction receive little chastisement. Terrorists such as Hamas and Fatah actually receive U.S. aid while Israel is scolded, threatened, and humiliated by Washington. Any Israeli act of self-defense becomes a massacre, genocide, or ethnic cleansing.

In recent decades, the anti-Semitism has sprouted new wings and turned into anti-Israel activity and sentiment. It’s bad enough that the Jews exist, but to have their own nation is more than most can stomach. Colleges in the Western world are riddled with anti-Israel sentiment. You can find Israel-bashing events, often called Israeli Apartheid Week, on dozens of campuses. And what fuels much of this is the sentiment that Israel is the Goliath beating up on helpless Palestinians. The untold story is that the Palestinians are rendered helpless, not by Israel, but by their own leadership. It would seem that the world — not just Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — really wants another Holocaust. Yellow stars are even being put on the backs of Jewish Norwegian school children today.

So what is the spiritual connection? The devil is in the details. He knows the Bible better than many Christians. Satan knows that the Jews are the key to the end of the age — from how it plays out to where it plays out. He knows that if he could exterminate the Jews, perhaps his demise could be thwarted. Helen Thomas doesn’t understand that nor do the Islamic empires who want to vaporize the people and nation of Israel.

It is only this ugly age-old anti-Semitic sentiment that calls the terrorist occupants on the Turkish boat Mavi Marmara good, and the nation of Israel, evil (Isaiah 5:20). You can see in this video that the Israelis, who were armed with paintball guns, are being mercilessly beaten with multiple kinds of objects. But the world doesn’t care. They have bought the lie. The lie is that there would be world peace if only Israel and the Jews would disappear. They won’t. That’s a guarantee. Their greatest hour is yet future.

The enemies of Israel believe now is the time they can destroy her. But the Bible says, Then shall the Lord go out and fight against those nations (Zechariah 14:3). God says, When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you (Deuteronomy 20:1).

[Salem]

"...But they cannot afford the luxury of historical amnesia. They must be vigilant, conscious, and always prepared for the resurgence of the plague of anti-Semitism."

Things are a little different this time around.  

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[GiovannaNicoletta]

Right now the “friends of Israel” are primarily evangelical Christians who do not hold to Replacement Theology — the belief that the church has replaced Israel. Rather, they recognize that the land and people of Israel were chosen by God to be special real estate and a chosen people.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Replacement theology originated a long time ago and it's adherents are hugely responsible for countless acts of violence against the Jewish people over the centuries and this lie and the people who have bought it are the overwhelming reason for the fact that the Jews have so little trust for Christians.

There many "Christians" today who have bought into this lie and arrogantly and stupidly allow themselves to be tools to further Satan's war against the Jews.

It makes me sick to think that people who call themselves by Christ's name actually believe that they have replaced the Jewish people in God's plans when the truth is if it wasn't for the Jews they'd still be running through the woods, howling at the moon, and sacrificing infants.

Thank you for posting this.

[Salem]

             Thanks!


My pleasure. In case you are not aware, James M. Hutchens and the Jerusalem Connection focus on replacement theology regularly in their publications.

Helpful resources for these times!

[SJackson]

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Excellent article.

Thanks for the ping!

[HearMe]

Presbyterians push to demonize Israel

“Taken together, the contempt for Israel is so blinding that it not only justifies Palestinian terror against the Jewish state but is little bothered by the avowed goal of Hamas and Hizbullah, like their Iranian mentors, to wipe Israel off the map.

But that may be because the authors question whether Israel should be on the map in the first place. The report insists “we support the existence of Israel,” but that is unconvincing in the context of the entire document.

This document ignores Arab refusal to recognize the Jewish state, the attempts to destroy it at birth and the threats to drive it into the sea. It was the Jews’ own fault for being there in the first place. The report reaches back to biblical times to delegitimize Jewish claims to the land. Jacob, aka Israel, stole the birthright from his brother Esau and refused later entreaties to combine their interests and dwell in the land together.

(Proof those Jews can’t get along with anyone.) It denies that the Jews have “rights” to the land as Abraham’s descendants, only “responsibilities... for what is being done in and with it.””

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=178658

[redhead]

Thank you. Every day, I pray that God will not forget the Apple of His Eye.

[Lera]

Replacement theology originated a long time ago and it’s adherents are hugely responsible for countless acts of violence against the Jewish people over the centuries and this lie and the people who have bought it are the overwhelming reason for the fact that the Jews have so little trust for Christians.

There many “Christians” today who have bought into this lie and arrogantly and stupidly allow themselves to be tools to further Satan’s war against the Jews.

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These people can call themselves anything they want except for calling themselves Christians. That is the one thing they are not.
If they were they would not be so busy fighting against God himself.

[Lera]

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Thank You. It is an excellent article.

[Lera]

This thread needs this video :)

I am Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprVPKi-W6s&feature=player_embedded

[Salem]

"Excellent article. ... Thanks for the ping!"

Thanks for what you have been doing around here. Free Republic is that much better because of it!  

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Thank You, Salem. That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me! :-)

[JohnD9207]

Thanks for the ping. That photo reveals so much. This Christian prays daily for Gods protection over Israel, however I should just praise him and give Him thanks, because Israel all ready has Gods protection.

[Salem]

"Presbyterians push to demonize Israel"

The infiltration of the American cultural juggernaut which is Evangelical support of the nation of Israel has been a long time coming:

Splitting the Evangelicals from Israel
CUFI’s Robert Stearns warns of Evangelical shift to the Left
Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists
The Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance Aligns Against Jerusalem

[Salem]

"Thank you. Every day, I pray that God will not forget the Apple of His Eye."

Indeed! As we also pray for those poor souls who foolishly decide to step right in His way concerning Israel. Yikes.

[Salem]

"This thread needs this video :)"

Yes it does. Very good!  

[Salem]

*grins*  

[Salem]

"...however I should just praise him and give Him thanks, because Israel all ready has Gods protection."

Amen!