WEBVTT 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:11.550 Unknown: Well, Shalom, and welcome back for part two of our 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:16.260 series on understanding the times. And last week we covered 00:00:16.260 --> 00:00:20.370 a lot of information and I realized that and we're going to 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:24.030 do the same thing this week. So, I want you to know I'm offering 00:00:24.030 --> 00:00:28.770 you a free outline of this seminar series, all four parts. 00:00:29.130 --> 00:00:37.530 All you have to do is email me at Susan at ice j usa.org. That 00:00:37.530 --> 00:00:45.000 Susan at ice j usa.org. requests the outline for understanding 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.930 that times and we'll be happy to send it to you because we do 00:00:48.930 --> 00:00:52.890 cover a lot of information. And you might even want to get that 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:56.820 outline and then listen to it a second time and follow along. 00:00:57.570 --> 00:01:01.860 We're living in absolutely historic days, and just as 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:05.520 miraculous as the gathering of the Jewish people to the land of 00:01:05.520 --> 00:01:11.010 Israel. So is the miraculous shift of the Christian world 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.900 away from an anti semitic past and towards the Jewish people in 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:20.760 our days, we are getting grafted into that olive tree that 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:25.200 supports our faith. But before we began talking about this and 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.590 what a miracle it is, we must understand the past and 00:01:28.590 --> 00:01:33.330 understand where we come from. So first, I want to talk to you 00:01:33.330 --> 00:01:36.330 about anti semitism. And then I want to talk to you about its 00:01:36.330 --> 00:01:41.610 influence on Christian history. You know, the hatred of the 00:01:41.610 --> 00:01:46.320 Jewish people, anti semitism. It's a unique phenomenon in the 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:50.040 human experience. There's really nothing else that compares to 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:54.210 it. The first documented instance of anti semitism we 00:01:54.210 --> 00:01:58.530 actually read about in the Bible and the story of Esther, where 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:02.370 we have Haman who wanted The Jews to bow down and reverence 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:06.090 him. And when they wouldn't, he turned against him with all the 00:02:06.090 --> 00:02:10.290 might of the Persian Empire and he fully intended to wipe them 00:02:10.320 --> 00:02:15.060 out. The reason we have that story, the Book of Esther, is 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:18.330 because of the absolute significance of what Esther did. 00:02:18.600 --> 00:02:22.620 She saved the Jewish people from extinction, not just of the Jews 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:26.490 of the Persian Empire, you you have to understand, the Jews of 00:02:26.490 --> 00:02:30.510 the Empire of the Persian Empire were the majority of the Jews of 00:02:30.510 --> 00:02:34.920 the world had Haman succeeded in annihilating the Jews within the 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:39.390 Persian Empire. That would have been it for Jewish history, we 00:02:39.390 --> 00:02:46.020 would have had no birth of Jesus 500 years later. Now, you would 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:49.530 have thought then, eventually when these ancient kingdoms and 00:02:49.530 --> 00:02:53.370 empires that were a little ruthless, once they gave way to 00:02:53.370 --> 00:02:57.120 Christianity, you would expect the story to change but 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.530 unfortunately, we have the story of how The Christian kings who 00:03:01.530 --> 00:03:05.250 were also the head of the Christian church, persecuted the 00:03:05.250 --> 00:03:09.990 Jews, because of the church's teaching against Judaism. They 00:03:09.990 --> 00:03:14.130 blame the Jews for killing Christ and said that they 00:03:14.130 --> 00:03:19.290 deserved punishment and to be persecuted due to Jesus's 00:03:19.290 --> 00:03:22.080 crucifixion. So I'm going to talk more about that in a 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:26.010 minute. But I want to give you an idea here about the 00:03:26.010 --> 00:03:32.580 seriousness of anti semitism. Because once Christianity then I 00:03:32.580 --> 00:03:35.520 have to say the age of the Enlightenment came and science 00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:40.650 replaced Christianity as the primary source for authority in 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:44.940 the world. Now it was science. And so here we have science as 00:03:44.940 --> 00:03:48.660 the backbone of the Nazi ideology of saying that there 00:03:48.660 --> 00:03:52.650 were differences in races, and that the Jewish race was 00:03:52.650 --> 00:03:55.560 subhuman. And it needed to be wiped out. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:00.360 So these older forms of anti semitism, whether it's It was 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.230 the ancient empires or it was Christian anti semitism or it 00:04:04.230 --> 00:04:08.520 was Nazi anti semitism based on racism. None of that's really 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:14.310 accepted today, thankfully. But instead, we have a whole new 00:04:14.310 --> 00:04:18.540 form of anti semitism. It's raising its ugly head, actually 00:04:18.570 --> 00:04:22.710 with two faces. One anti semitism is rife throughout the 00:04:22.710 --> 00:04:26.670 Muslim world. And secondly, there's a political form of anti 00:04:26.670 --> 00:04:30.690 semitism that is against the Jewish state, called anti 00:04:30.690 --> 00:04:35.280 Zionism. So we're going to talk more about all of this. What I 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:39.120 want you to take away from this brief introduction is that the 00:04:39.150 --> 00:04:42.420 evil pursuit of the Jewish people has continued for 00:04:42.420 --> 00:04:46.890 millennia. And this is why the historian Robert wistrich called 00:04:46.890 --> 00:04:53.310 it the longest hatred. It doesn't stop all it does is 00:04:53.310 --> 00:04:58.260 reinvent itself with a new generation and a new ideology 00:04:58.470 --> 00:05:02.730 with a new face. But the goal is always the same, and it's to rid 00:05:02.730 --> 00:05:07.890 the world of the Jewish people. So now that you understand the 00:05:08.430 --> 00:05:13.770 spiritually evil nature of anti semitism, I want to talk to you 00:05:13.770 --> 00:05:19.140 specifically about its influence on the Christian story on 00:05:19.140 --> 00:05:25.590 Christian history. Now, we all know that Jesus and the early 00:05:25.590 --> 00:05:30.390 Christians were all Jewish. They kept the Sabbath, they kept the 00:05:30.390 --> 00:05:33.780 feast. In the beginning, they worshiped right alongside the 00:05:33.780 --> 00:05:38.970 Jewish people in the temple. But over time, certain tensions did 00:05:38.970 --> 00:05:43.650 develop and a record of one of the earliest tensions is found 00:05:43.650 --> 00:05:48.330 in the book of Acts, chapter 15. And this is when the Holy Spirit 00:05:48.330 --> 00:05:53.940 has begun to fall on Gentiles. And the mainstream Jewish 00:05:53.940 --> 00:05:57.120 community did not like this because it was bringing pagan 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.990 influences in through this messianic body. And the 00:06:00.990 --> 00:06:03.660 Messianic Jews didn't know what to do with it. They hadn't been 00:06:03.660 --> 00:06:07.530 expecting God to fall for the Holy Spirit to fall on the 00:06:07.530 --> 00:06:11.340 Gentiles. So they had a church Council and thankfully the 00:06:11.340 --> 00:06:16.290 finding of the church Council in Acts 15 was that you and I, the 00:06:16.290 --> 00:06:21.300 Gentile believers coming into the body of Christ did not have 00:06:21.300 --> 00:06:26.340 to become Jewish. We did not have to be sec circumcised. We 00:06:26.340 --> 00:06:31.860 did not have to obey the law in order to follow Jesus. But this 00:06:31.890 --> 00:06:35.700 did indicate to us that there were some tensions going on in 00:06:35.700 --> 00:06:39.810 the book of Acts. It was between the Gentiles coming into the 00:06:39.810 --> 00:06:43.230 body of Christ it was with between them and the Messianic 00:06:43.230 --> 00:06:46.710 believers. And then it was between the Messianic believers 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.950 and the largest, the larger Jewish world. Now, as a result 00:06:52.980 --> 00:06:57.330 of this ruling, and large scale missionary activities of the 00:06:57.330 --> 00:07:01.650 Apostle Paul and the other apostles More and more Gentiles 00:07:01.650 --> 00:07:02.790 are coming into the 00:07:02.790 --> 00:07:03.450 church. 00:07:03.990 --> 00:07:06.390 And it's taking on a different 00:07:06.990 --> 00:07:11.130 face a different look. A lot of these Gentiles coming into the 00:07:11.130 --> 00:07:14.340 church, they didn't have any appreciation for the Jewish 00:07:14.340 --> 00:07:17.160 roots of Christianity. I mean, they didn't even understand a 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.720 lot of the laws or know about it. And so they were leading the 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.140 church in kind of a foreign way. And so there's more and more 00:07:25.140 --> 00:07:30.240 tension. But then in 70 ad, we have a traumatic moment for the 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.010 people of Israel. When the Roman Empire comes in, they do a siege 00:07:35.010 --> 00:07:39.120 of Jerusalem. It ends very badly, they destroy Jerusalem, 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:45.120 they destroy the temple. And now the headquarters for Judaism has 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.090 been destroyed. The temple was the headquarters, 00:07:48.210 --> 00:07:50.970 the high priests that serves in the temple they were the 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:51.480 leaders. 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:57.150 So the the headquarters for mainstream Judaism moved up 00:07:57.150 --> 00:08:01.620 north of the country into the region of time period. The early 00:08:01.620 --> 00:08:06.690 church is still they're coming back to Jerusalem but they 00:08:06.690 --> 00:08:10.740 actually had fled because of the Roman siege. So there's now like 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:15.240 a geographic difference between mainstream Judaism and the head 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.510 of the church, and then the head of the church is becoming more 00:08:18.510 --> 00:08:22.710 and more Gentile. And we have leaders developing in other 00:08:22.710 --> 00:08:28.200 cities like Antioch or Alexandria or or in areas that 00:08:28.200 --> 00:08:34.530 are primarily Gentile and primarily pagan. Another main 00:08:34.530 --> 00:08:39.690 moment in the history of this growing rift taking place was in 00:08:39.690 --> 00:08:46.740 135 ad a hole 50 years later, 60 years after the destruction of 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:51.900 Jerusalem, we have a small band of Jews that still try to rebel 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:55.800 against the Roman rule and try to reestablish Jewish 00:08:55.800 --> 00:08:59.640 sovereignty and they followed a leader who was known as bar 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:07.170 coke. The bar kokhba revolt did not succeed. It failed. But in 00:09:07.170 --> 00:09:11.730 the meantime the the Jews that were trying to follow bar kokhba 00:09:11.730 --> 00:09:14.850 and trying to make this rebellion succeed actually 00:09:15.090 --> 00:09:20.040 proclaimed him to be Messiah. So those Jews that follow Jesus as 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:23.610 Messiah could not have anything to do with following bar kokhba. 00:09:24.150 --> 00:09:29.700 And it actually became bloody. There were missing Anik Jews 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:32.280 that believed in Jesus were actually killed during this 00:09:32.280 --> 00:09:36.540 revolt because they didn't join in. This is known as the real 00:09:36.540 --> 00:09:41.640 split. This is the Rift, this is it. It's all over between any 00:09:41.640 --> 00:09:46.740 kind of unity between Judaism and Christianity between the 00:09:46.740 --> 00:09:53.820 synagogue and the church. It's divided now. So throughout the 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:57.240 Gentile world, though we have the churches growing and growing 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.000 and church leadership is developing in these other areas. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.500 areas of the Roman Empire. And then there's another form of 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:07.110 tension. And that is that throughout the Roman Empire, 00:10:07.110 --> 00:10:11.190 Judaism was recognized as a legal religion. They were 00:10:11.190 --> 00:10:15.300 allowed to practice Judaism. And as long as Christianity was seen 00:10:15.300 --> 00:10:18.570 as a part of Judaism, it was protected. But once this 00:10:18.570 --> 00:10:22.500 division took place, now the Christians are completely 00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:27.510 unprotected. They're persecuted by the Roman authority. And 00:10:27.510 --> 00:10:30.600 because of the bar kokhba revolt, then eventually the 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:33.690 Jewish religion is also outlawed, and it's a time of 00:10:33.690 --> 00:10:39.210 great persecution of both Jews and Christians. And, but there's 00:10:39.210 --> 00:10:43.980 a little bit of animosity here, between the two groups. All of 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:51.030 this changes in an a moment, in the year 312 ad, when the 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:55.290 emperor of the Roman Empire becomes Christian, and he 00:10:55.290 --> 00:10:59.520 declares the state religion of the Roman Empire to be 00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:03.930 Christian. Now this is a major thing for the Christians, all of 00:11:03.930 --> 00:11:07.830 a sudden, they're no longer persecuted. They won. They're 00:11:07.830 --> 00:11:15.660 victorious. But the poor Jews are still persecuted now, not by 00:11:15.660 --> 00:11:24.060 the Romans as a pagan Empire, that by the Christian empire of 00:11:24.060 --> 00:11:28.560 Rome. So as the church left its position as a persecuted 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:33.300 minority and took on political power, it became spiritually 00:11:33.330 --> 00:11:39.330 corrupt, and its stance towards the Jews was very negative. As 00:11:39.330 --> 00:11:45.480 the Church Fathers began to try to differentiate between the 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:51.240 church in those ugly Jews, those persecuted Jews, they began to 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:55.710 preach against Judaism. Now, the reason is that they didn't want 00:11:55.710 --> 00:11:59.850 there to be any confusion between the Christians and the 00:11:59.850 --> 00:12:04.050 Jews. Jewish religion so they they taught against Judaism that 00:12:04.050 --> 00:12:08.190 this is the root of a problem that lasted for centuries. So 00:12:08.190 --> 00:12:11.850 it's very important that you understand here. The preaching 00:12:11.850 --> 00:12:14.940 was not against the Jewish people as individuals. It was 00:12:14.940 --> 00:12:19.470 against the Jewish religion as Church Fathers attempted to draw 00:12:19.470 --> 00:12:23.970 a distinction between Christianity and Judaism. But 00:12:23.970 --> 00:12:29.370 they preached so negatively against Judaism, that they 00:12:29.370 --> 00:12:34.200 actually paved the way for anti semitism and the persecution of 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.750 the Jewish individuals. So I'm just going to give you one 00:12:36.750 --> 00:12:43.710 example. St. JOHN chrysostom, because he is known as the 00:12:43.710 --> 00:12:46.920 golden tongue. He was a beautiful orator 00:12:47.370 --> 00:12:54.030 of the love of God. Now listen to what he said. He said, The 00:12:54.030 --> 00:12:56.940 synagogue is worse than a brothel. 00:12:58.530 --> 00:12:59.970 It's a den of scouts. 00:13:01.260 --> 00:13:06.510 It's the temple of demons. It's a place of meeting for the 00:13:06.510 --> 00:13:12.810 Assassins of Christ. And as for me, I hate the synagogue. I hate 00:13:12.810 --> 00:13:18.150 the Jews for the same reason. And he actually said, God hates 00:13:18.150 --> 00:13:22.620 you, too. So this is the beginning of what we call 00:13:22.800 --> 00:13:27.870 replacement theology. This is where the Church Fathers 00:13:27.870 --> 00:13:32.550 preached that Judaism had been completely rejected by God, 00:13:33.090 --> 00:13:36.780 because they had killed Christ. They were rejected, they were 00:13:36.780 --> 00:13:40.500 cursed, and they were now replaced by the church, in the 00:13:40.500 --> 00:13:46.860 plans and purposes of God. This teaching brought great damage to 00:13:46.860 --> 00:13:53.010 the Jewish people for centuries. During the long ages of the dark 00:13:53.010 --> 00:13:56.730 ages of the Middle Ages, every type of degrading law was then 00:13:56.730 --> 00:14:00.480 passed against the Jewish people because remember, you know, Most 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.520 of us, we, I know, speaking as an American, I live in a 00:14:05.520 --> 00:14:09.240 democracy and I don't really understand the whole concept of 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.390 a state church, and that the head of my government is the 00:14:12.390 --> 00:14:17.850 head of my church. Back in the Middle Ages, this was very much 00:14:17.850 --> 00:14:19.830 the case. And these 00:14:19.860 --> 00:14:20.730 corrupt 00:14:22.020 --> 00:14:26.130 secular leaders were the head of the church and they took this 00:14:26.130 --> 00:14:31.200 anti Jewish preaching in the church and used it to pass laws 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:34.200 against the Jewish people. So the Jewish people weren't 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.560 allowed to work certain jobs, they weren't allowed to own 00:14:37.560 --> 00:14:41.700 property, they weren't allowed to prosper in any way. And they 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:48.390 were frequently given the option of being baptized or being 00:14:48.390 --> 00:14:52.560 persecuted or being even expelled and sometimes their 00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:57.390 children were kidnapped and forced to be baptized. Now, I 00:14:57.390 --> 00:15:01.140 want to read for you some excerpts from A confessional 00:15:01.170 --> 00:15:05.850 that a Jewish person had to confess when they were baptized 00:15:05.850 --> 00:15:09.570 into Christianity. You'll understand now why the Jewish 00:15:09.570 --> 00:15:14.280 people look upon conversion in such a negative way because this 00:15:14.280 --> 00:15:17.610 is what was forced upon them. And this is what a little bit of 00:15:17.610 --> 00:15:20.160 what they had to say it's a very long confession. I've only 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:24.090 pulled out a few sentences. But this is the heart of it. They 00:15:24.090 --> 00:15:29.910 had to say, I renounce every right and observance 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:31.560 of the Jewish religion. 00:15:32.640 --> 00:15:37.230 I promise that I will never return to the vomit of Jewish 00:15:37.230 --> 00:15:42.450 superstition. We will not practice carnal circumcision, or 00:15:42.450 --> 00:15:44.040 celebrate the Passover, 00:15:44.250 --> 00:15:48.660 the Sabbath, or any of the feast days connected with the Jewish 00:15:48.660 --> 00:15:58.110 religion. I renounce absolutely everything Jewish so you can 00:15:58.110 --> 00:16:02.430 understand why baptism became a very dirty word for the Jewish 00:16:02.430 --> 00:16:06.480 people, it meant a betrayal of everything that they'd ever 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:10.980 known as Jewish and against their families and against their 00:16:10.980 --> 00:16:15.210 heritage and against their forefathers. So it's very, very, 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:23.010 very sad part of history. Now, in addition to force baptisms, 00:16:23.010 --> 00:16:27.360 we had them being forced to live in walled in neighborhoods in 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:33.210 the cities called a ghetto. This began in Venice, Italy. But then 00:16:33.210 --> 00:16:36.750 they that progressed, and it wasn't enough just to have them 00:16:36.750 --> 00:16:40.650 living in a Walden section of the city that was locked on 00:16:40.650 --> 00:16:44.520 Sundays and locked on Christian holidays so that these dirty 00:16:44.520 --> 00:16:47.730 Jewish people couldn't come out into the streets and mix with 00:16:47.730 --> 00:16:51.180 the Christians as they went back and forth to church or as they 00:16:51.180 --> 00:16:56.400 celebrated their Sunday. That wasn't bad enough. So churches, 00:16:56.490 --> 00:17:00.060 some countries began to expel the Jews. You know, the The 00:17:00.060 --> 00:17:06.090 first country to expel the Jews was England. And in 1290, King 00:17:06.090 --> 00:17:09.810 Edward the first of England was the first to expel Jewish 00:17:09.810 --> 00:17:14.940 citizens from his nation. And they were expelled from them 00:17:14.940 --> 00:17:19.230 France and Italy and Hungary and Switzerland and Germany and 00:17:19.260 --> 00:17:23.040 Austria. And if you know your map, you can see how that they 00:17:23.040 --> 00:17:26.310 would flee one country into the neighboring country. And then 00:17:26.310 --> 00:17:29.310 they'd have to flee that country and go into the neighboring 00:17:29.310 --> 00:17:32.220 country. And then they had to flee that one and they went 00:17:32.250 --> 00:17:35.490 next, and then they had to flee there. And you can actually 00:17:35.490 --> 00:17:40.140 follow this on the map. You know, here in the United States, 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:45.930 we we have a little saying that in 1400 92, Columbus sailed the 00:17:45.930 --> 00:17:54.030 ocean blue and Columbus founded America. But in 1492, Spain also 00:17:54.030 --> 00:17:59.310 expelled every two. This was during the Spanish Inquisition. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.360 So I know that at this point in the story, a lot of you are 00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:08.220 thinking, but I'm not Catholic. I have nothing to do with that 00:18:08.220 --> 00:18:12.300 background. I'm Protestant. I'm evangelical, I'm a boring 00:18:12.300 --> 00:18:17.130 employee, real Christians wouldn't do that. And that's why 00:18:17.130 --> 00:18:21.870 I'm, we always have to tell you the story about the father of 00:18:21.870 --> 00:18:26.670 the Protestant Reformation, because it's just more of the 00:18:26.670 --> 00:18:34.410 same. Martin Luther, and when he broke away from the Catholic 00:18:34.410 --> 00:18:38.460 Church, and he had a lot of very tough things to say about the 00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:42.570 Catholic Church. But one of them was that he said, No wonder the 00:18:42.570 --> 00:18:46.050 Jews have been converted to Christianity. You know, our 00:18:46.050 --> 00:18:50.220 Pope's and our monks have treated them, like dogs, not 00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:53.880 even human beings. And so he began to reach out in a very 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:57.900 friendly way to the Jewish people. But it wasn't genuine. 00:18:57.900 --> 00:19:01.170 All he wanted was for them to convert to Christianity and when 00:19:01.170 --> 00:19:05.100 they didn't convert, then at the end of his life when he was 00:19:05.820 --> 00:19:11.010 older, and according to the historians, he was quite grumpy 00:19:11.010 --> 00:19:15.150 in many ways and his health was bad. But he really turned 00:19:15.150 --> 00:19:20.190 against the Jewish people. And he wrote a book called The Jews 00:19:20.580 --> 00:19:24.390 and their lies. And I want to quote to you from Martin Luther, 00:19:24.810 --> 00:19:30.330 the father of the Protestant Reformation. He said here, 00:19:30.750 --> 00:19:35.760 perhaps I will attract some of the Jews to the Christian faith. 00:19:36.540 --> 00:19:40.350 But when he didn't, sorry, on to the next quote, next quote, he 00:19:40.350 --> 00:19:45.660 said, First, their synagogue should be set on fire. Secondly, 00:19:45.690 --> 00:19:49.320 their home should likewise be broken down and destroyed. 00:19:49.950 --> 00:19:53.670 Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayer books and town 00:19:53.670 --> 00:19:57.540 moods and their rabbis must be forbidden under threat of death 00:19:57.540 --> 00:20:01.110 to teach anymore and their parents Sports and traveling 00:20:01.110 --> 00:20:06.030 privileges should be absolutely forbidden to the Jews. To sum it 00:20:06.030 --> 00:20:10.710 up dear princes and nobles who have Jews in your domain, if 00:20:10.710 --> 00:20:15.330 this advice of mine does not suit you, then find a better 00:20:15.330 --> 00:20:22.350 one, so that you and we may all be free of this insufferable 00:20:22.650 --> 00:20:25.590 devilish burden the Jews. 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.969 Now what's so alarming is that 400 years later, in luthers, 00:20:32.969 --> 00:20:39.389 country, Germany, Hitler came up with the final solution, and it 00:20:39.389 --> 00:20:45.809 was extermination. So I want to be very clear here now that 00:20:45.809 --> 00:20:51.719 Christianity did not create the Holocaust. Nazi ism was not 00:20:51.749 --> 00:20:56.819 Christian. It was anti christian. But Christian anti 00:20:56.819 --> 00:21:03.719 semitism made the Holocaust possible. Without the history of 00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:09.659 anti Jewish persecution and anti Jewish legislation, the 00:21:09.659 --> 00:21:13.469 Holocaust would have been inconceivable. Hitler and the 00:21:13.469 --> 00:21:18.179 Nazis found in medieval Christian legislation, a model 00:21:18.179 --> 00:21:23.849 for their own and they read, and they reprinted and distributed 00:21:24.089 --> 00:21:29.069 Martin Luther his writings in order to validate what they were 00:21:29.069 --> 00:21:33.689 doing and get public support for it. Hitler told to Catholic 00:21:33.689 --> 00:21:36.809 Bishops that did actually question his policies on the 00:21:36.809 --> 00:21:41.729 Jews and he said he was only putting into effect what 00:21:41.729 --> 00:21:46.619 Christianity had preached and practiced for 2000 years. 00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:50.340 Now, the 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:55.620 Holocaust historian Raul hilberg. In his book The 00:21:55.620 --> 00:22:00.240 destruction of the European Jews, he said it this way He 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:04.740 said First, the early church declared, you have no right to 00:22:04.740 --> 00:22:09.690 live amongst us as Jews. Then their secular rulers followed 00:22:09.690 --> 00:22:14.010 and said You do not have the right to live amongst us. And 00:22:14.010 --> 00:22:18.240 then the Nazis came and said, you do not have the right to 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:23.280 live. Now, this is the deadly progression of anti semitism. 00:22:23.580 --> 00:22:27.000 And the fact that the Christian church had any role to play in 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.690 this history is a shame. And it's something that we all have 00:22:30.690 --> 00:22:37.860 to come to terms with. But the good news is after such a sad 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:42.540 history, and as such a terrible stain on the history of 00:22:42.540 --> 00:22:46.980 Christianity in the world, that today, you and I are privileged 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:51.690 to be a part of an amazing shift in history away from that anti 00:22:51.690 --> 00:22:56.370 semitic past and towards the Jewish people. And to understand 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:01.050 how this shift is taking place, there's three things The 00:23:01.050 --> 00:23:06.210 foundation for it began about 500 years ago, when the Bible 00:23:06.210 --> 00:23:10.110 began to be translated into the everyday languages of the 00:23:10.110 --> 00:23:16.050 people, and was mass distributed through the printing press. More 00:23:16.050 --> 00:23:18.780 and more people were then able to read the Bible for 00:23:18.780 --> 00:23:23.370 themselves. And they began to see that the Bible was full of 00:23:23.370 --> 00:23:27.240 promises to the Jewish people that one day, they would be 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:30.570 drawn back to their land, and that God had made all these 00:23:30.570 --> 00:23:34.590 promises that were still yet to be fulfilled. And they began to 00:23:34.590 --> 00:23:38.250 actually pray for the restoration of the Jewish people 00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:42.150 to their homeland, and the fulfillment of God's promises to 00:23:42.150 --> 00:23:46.500 them. Of course, these prompt these Christians also knew that 00:23:46.560 --> 00:23:51.120 a one of those promises was the return of the Messiah to the 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:56.670 land. But that laid a great foundation. But there's two 00:23:56.670 --> 00:23:59.130 other things in history that have happened that have 00:23:59.130 --> 00:24:03.510 solidified This turn from our anti semitic past because 00:24:03.510 --> 00:24:08.220 remember, even Martin Luther had the scriptures in his language. 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:15.450 So that's not a failsafe. But we have learned from the heart and 00:24:15.450 --> 00:24:21.660 the tragedy of the Holocaust. And we have understood the role 00:24:21.840 --> 00:24:26.910 of Christian anti semitism. And it brought about a monumental 00:24:26.910 --> 00:24:30.240 shift nothing less than an earthquake within Christianity. 00:24:30.510 --> 00:24:36.330 The Catholic Church learned and and has repented of its guilt 00:24:36.330 --> 00:24:40.800 here. They have they reevaluated their theology towards the 00:24:40.800 --> 00:24:44.250 Jewish people, they actually even change some of their 00:24:44.250 --> 00:24:47.820 liturgy, their Good Friday liturgy, and they have really 00:24:47.850 --> 00:24:53.490 made a great effort to build a relationship of mutual respect 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:58.950 with the Jewish people and the Jewish religion. Now, the other 00:24:58.950 --> 00:25:02.790 thing that has happened, though, has been the birth and the 00:25:02.790 --> 00:25:07.170 existence of the State of Israel. So you and I were not a 00:25:07.170 --> 00:25:10.320 part of the Catholic Church, maybe in that shift, maybe you 00:25:10.320 --> 00:25:14.670 are. Also the Lutheran Church made a huge shift. They actually 00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:17.940 disavowed the writings, the anti semitic writings of their 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:22.380 founder, Luther. There's been other moves in the historic 00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:27.360 churches in Europe, but but some of us don't feel connected to 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:32.010 that we're a part of an evangelical church and, and we 00:25:32.010 --> 00:25:36.120 have been more profoundly affected by the existence of the 00:25:36.120 --> 00:25:38.880 State of Israel. Because we've been able to go there on tour, 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:42.240 we've been able to see where Jesus walked. But while we were 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.930 there, we came to know the Hebraic culture, the Jewish 00:25:45.930 --> 00:25:50.130 religion of Jesus and to meet his brethren, the Jewish people, 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.760 and we have begun to build a relationship with the Jewish 00:25:53.760 --> 00:25:58.500 people built on mutual respect. So these three things together 00:25:58.500 --> 00:26:02.640 the translation of the Bible The which brought about a whole 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.900 movement of Christianity, which today is the fastest growing 00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:11.340 segment of Christianity, the evangelical segment, and will 00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:15.330 one day be the largest segment of Christianity. So the 00:26:15.330 --> 00:26:20.040 translation of the Bible, the lessons of the Holocaust, and 00:26:20.040 --> 00:26:24.210 here the existence of the State of Israel has brought about a 00:26:24.210 --> 00:26:28.350 change that you and I are privileged to be a part of. No 00:26:28.350 --> 00:26:31.650 longer are we looking down on the Jewish people and heaping 00:26:31.650 --> 00:26:35.640 condemnation on them and instead, or honoring them, just 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:39.570 as the Apostle Paul said, to honor them as the roots of our 00:26:39.570 --> 00:26:44.070 faith, because they support us. He said, We don't support them. 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.850 They support us. So this is a major 00:26:48.210 --> 00:26:52.230 change and what a privilege to be a part of this generation, 00:26:52.620 --> 00:26:56.250 that we can be a part of the positive part of Christian 00:26:56.250 --> 00:26:59.670 history, and our relationship towards Israel and the Jewish 00:26:59.670 --> 00:27:03.420 people. This is at the very heart of the Ministry of the 00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:07.080 International Christian embassy Jerusalem, we have helped to 00:27:07.080 --> 00:27:11.430 pioneer a whole new relationship with the Jewish people in 00:27:11.430 --> 00:27:15.270 Israel, and through our branches all around the world. I know 00:27:15.270 --> 00:27:18.480 that here in the United States, I've been a part of a major 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:24.180 shift, and a tremendous relationship between Jews and 00:27:24.180 --> 00:27:27.990 Christians. It's been such a blessing, such a privilege to be 00:27:27.990 --> 00:27:31.410 a part of this. I'm so thankful that I'm a part of this 00:27:31.410 --> 00:27:36.420 generation. But we don't understand what a miracle that 00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:40.860 we are a part of. And the Jewish people look at us as a miracle. 00:27:40.860 --> 00:27:43.920 Sometimes they look at us and they don't really believe us 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:47.670 because they know all that history. And that's why it's so 00:27:47.670 --> 00:27:51.300 important that you also know that history so that as you 00:27:51.300 --> 00:27:55.650 engage with the Jewish people in your nation, that and here in 00:27:55.650 --> 00:27:59.190 Israel, that you know, this history because they certainly 00:27:59.190 --> 00:28:03.180 do and You can help build a whole new relationship with them 00:28:03.540 --> 00:28:08.880 built on mutual respect, and unconditional love or not in 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:11.700 this because of anything, we think we're going to get back 00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:15.330 out of it. We're in it because God's hand is on them. He's 00:28:15.330 --> 00:28:19.320 brought them back to their land. He's blessing them. And we want 00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:25.590 to be a part of that blessing. Praise the Lord. So as I said in 00:28:25.590 --> 00:28:28.590 the beginning, if you'd like to have an outline of today's 00:28:28.590 --> 00:28:32.010 teaching, along with actually the whole series, send me an 00:28:32.010 --> 00:28:39.030 email at Susan and ice j. u. s. a.org. asked for the 00:28:39.060 --> 00:28:42.750 understanding the times outline and we'll send it to you and 00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:46.770 I've got another free offer for you. If you want to know more 00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:50.700 about anti semitism, I have a free booklet that you can 00:28:50.700 --> 00:29:00.570 download. Just go to www.ic e jusa.org. forward slash Asch 00:29:00.840 --> 00:29:06.150 free booklet and you can download a free booklet on anti 00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:10.830 semitism. It reviews this history. It reviews anti 00:29:10.830 --> 00:29:15.330 semitism around the world today, and what you and I can do in 00:29:15.330 --> 00:29:20.520 order to stand against it. I'm so grateful that you spent this 00:29:20.520 --> 00:29:24.570 time to learn about this painful history and the miracle you're a 00:29:24.570 --> 00:29:27.660 part of I asked the Lord to bless you as you go forward in 00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:31.410 your week. Please come back. Listen to part three. We're 00:29:31.410 --> 00:29:35.100 going to talk about the spiritual battle against Israel 00:29:35.100 --> 00:29:38.460 and the Jewish people how we see that and how we can stand 00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:42.660 against it. So be sure not to miss part three, and I'll see 00:29:42.660 --> 00:29:43.200 you there. 00:29:43.260 --> 00:29:45.330 God bless you. Shalom, Shalom. 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:28.230 like everywhere else Israel has been hit by the Coronavirus. You 00:30:28.230 --> 00:30:31.590 come here to Ben Gurion Airport and you see that there are very 00:30:31.590 --> 00:30:35.610 few planes in and out of the country. But the few that are 00:30:35.610 --> 00:30:39.450 coming are bringing Jews on them from all around the world who 00:30:39.450 --> 00:30:43.530 are desperate to make aljada Israel they see Israel as safer 00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:47.280 as having a better economic potential for the future for 00:30:47.280 --> 00:30:52.470 them. And Israeli officials have managed to bring evacuation 00:30:52.470 --> 00:30:56.520 flights even amidst all the corona travel bans and it's 00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:59.580 exciting to report that the Christian embassy has brought 00:30:59.580 --> 00:31:04.350 over a thousand Jews on these rescue flights over the past 00:31:04.350 --> 00:31:09.270 four months since February. Every month around 250 Jews 00:31:09.300 --> 00:31:13.530 coming home to Israel on flights sponsored by the Christian 00:31:13.530 --> 00:31:17.070 embassy. And we want to challenge you to help us keep up 00:31:17.070 --> 00:31:22.470 this pace. In the coming months that we bring at least 250 00:31:22.470 --> 00:31:27.870 Jewish people home on alioth flights, you can go to our site 00:31:27.870 --> 00:31:36.180 on.ice.org slash rescue 250 and you can help book a seat for 00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:41.040 some Jewish family to come home. The flights that are coming now 00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:45.840 are bringing Jews who are stuck in limbo. They thought they were 00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:49.920 going to make Ollie all this year and they left their jobs. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:54.540 They sold their apartments and all of a sudden Corona hit. And 00:31:54.540 --> 00:31:58.560 many of them have been destitute. We've also had cancer 00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:02.850 patients who needed to Get to Israel for life saving surgery. 00:32:03.090 --> 00:32:08.340 Many emergencies help us with our rescue 250 campaign, 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:14.280 bringing at least 250 Jews home. Despite the corona you could be 00:32:14.280 --> 00:32:18.840 part of this remarkable story that even amid the Coronavirus, 00:32:19.080 --> 00:32:22.860 all the Bible prophecies about the Jewish people coming back to 00:32:22.860 --> 00:32:26.910 the land of Israel in the last days, it is still happening. 00:32:26.910 --> 00:32:31.140 Nothing has been able to stop it. But we need your help. Go to 00:32:31.140 --> 00:32:35.880 our site and help book a flight for a Jewish family today.