Origin of a Curse

Why have the Jews historically been the most hated people on the earth? It simply defies any rational explanation. Where ever they have gone in the world for the past 2,000 years, they have been despised and scorned. And they have been blamed for everything from spreading deadly plagues to causing calamities in financial markets to fomenting wars and installing political puppets and sham governments. When he was reportedly asked why he singled out the Jews for persecution and extermination, Adolf Hitler allegedly claimed that he was merely completing the work that the Roman Catholic Church had begun against the Jews in the Fourth Century A.D.

Certainly, the Roman Catholic Church has been one of the worst enemies of the Jews for nearly 17 centuries, calling them Christ-killers and claiming that God rejected them for rejecting Jesus Christ as their messiah. For example, the Council of Nicaea, (325 A.D.) which became the moral and spiritual foundation for the Roman Catholic Church, declared that the religious holidays of Christians and Jews should be completely separate: "For it is unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals (Easter) we should follow the customs of the Jews. Henceforth let us have nothing in common with this odious people...we ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews...our worship follows a more convenient course...we desire dearest brethren to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews...how then, could we follow these Jews who are most certainly blinded?"

Why do the Jews continue to be so despised throughout the world? They were placed under a curse by God for their chronic rebellion against Him during the time of the ancient prophet Jeremiah. (Sixth Century B.C.) Despite the Lord's repeated warnings to them that he had issued through his prophets, the Jews continued to pervert his laws, violate his commandments and worship pagan gods that were merely fronts for Satan and his demons. The ancient Jews not only scorned and rejected the Lord's prophets, they persecuted and killed many of them. Finally, after centuries of rebellion, the Lord spoke these words to Jeremiah concerning the Jews: "I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, an object of ridicule and cursing, wherever I banish them. I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave them and their fathers." (Jeremiah 24:9-10)

Finally, after centuries of rebellion that also included the rejection of their Messiah Jesus Christ, the Jews were finally banished from their homeland Israel in 130 A.D. by Roman Emperor Hadrian after he quashed the Bar Kochba rebellion. Hadrian then renamed the land of Israel Syria Philistinia or "Palestine" and he rededicated the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the Roman god Jupiter. And despite the Lord's judgment against the Jews in the form of that ancient curse, he promised to restore his people back into the land of Israel which he fulfilled in 1948 when Israel was declared a sovereign world nation once again after 1,800 years. And he promised to restore them spiritually back to Him through Christ at a future date in time. The Apostle Paul declared this a mystery. Next up, we'll solve this mystery and explain when the Jews will corporately embrace Christ as their messiah, and when the ageless curse will finally end.