Saturday, May 17, 2014

New Jews and Old Jews

Steven Spielberg and Barack Obama

Throughout the history of the Jewish people, there have existed two distinct groups: One group that has remained loyal to God and honored His laws and another group that has rebelled against God while spurning His laws and profaning His name.

The Lord revealed through the ancient prophet Ezekiel that the reason why He removed the Jews from Israel and scattered them across the world was because they continually broke His laws and violated His covenants. (Ezekiel 39:7)

And that occurred long before the appearance of Jesus Christ. In 586 B.C., Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and his armies invaded Jerusalem and ransacked that city while taking thousands of Jews into captivity. 

They remained in captivity until 445 B.C. when Persian ruler Darius I issued a royal decree to allow the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild their holy city. 

Christ appeared 483 years later and was subsequently rejected and crucified by His own people. Then, in 70 A.D., the Romans invaded Jerusalem and ransacked the city while setting fire to the Jewish Temple. 

And in 130 A.D., the Romans returned under Emperor Hadrian to quash the Bar Kochba rebellion; destroy what was left of the Temple and rename the land of Israel Syria Palestinia or Palestine.

And yet, despite their corporate rebellion against Him, the Lord has preserved a remnant of Jews (Isaiah 4:3-4, Ezekiel 20:43, 39:29, Hosea 2:20 Romans 11:26) who have remained loyal to Him throughout the centuries. These are the Jews who embraced Christ as the Jewish Messiah and formed the early church that began in Jerusalem and eventually spread across the entire world.

And these are the Jews who are leading thousands of Jews and Gentiles to salvation in Christ in the modern times. They are the ones who the ancient prophet Hosea (Hosea 3:5) and the apostle Paul (Romans 11:25-32) foretold of concerning the prophetic return of the Jews to God and Christ in the last days.

However, that remnant of bad Jews continues to exist as well. They are the descendants of the wicked Jews who worshiped detestable pagan gods; murdered God's prophets, crucified Christ on trumped up charges and brutally persecuted the early church.

They are the descendants of Israel's ancient wicked kings such as Manasseh, Ahab, Jeroboam, Shallum and Hoshea. They are the spiritual descendants of Judas Iscariot, the Pharisees, Sadducees, the temple money-changers and the corrupt priests who offered blessings for a fee.

Who are some of them today? They are the Jews who have disowned Israel by casting their lot with murderous Islamists who seek to destroy the tiny Jewish nation.

They are the Jews who donate millions of dollars to godless liberal causes such as abortion, euthanasia, confiscatory taxes, socialized health care, gay marriage, radical environmentalism, fascist speech codes and draconian restrictions on the First, Second and Fourth Amendments.

And they are the Jews who are proud humanists, Marxists, Communists and socialists. They hate Jesus Christ, conservatives and Christians while they embrace such fallen human beings as Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez.

They are the enemies of God; the spawn of Satan, human refuse and pond scum. Though they claim to be Jews, they aren't. Rather they belong to the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 3:9) and they want to carry out their spiritual father's desire (John 8:44) which is to murder God's people.

Before you accuse me of anti-Semitism, read my bio in the right column. I don't hate the Jews. Rather, I hate evil and despise those who willingly allow themselves to become slaves of wickedness and depravity.

Thus, my prayer is for those Jews who follow evil to repent and to come to Jesus Christ for their eternal salvation. However, the reality is that some will and most probably won't.

And woe to those who won't. A curse be upon them.   

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