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Anti-Semitism
Jeremiah 31:31-36
"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because
they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD.
"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my
law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their
God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother,
saying, `Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from
the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember
their sins no more."
This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine
by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who
stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD Almighty
is his name:
"Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares
the LORD, "will the descendants of Israel ever cease to
be a nation before me."
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According to Raul Hilberg, in The Destruction of the European
Jews, the Nazi evil of the Holocaust during World War II,
developed out of three mandates of the past:
PseudoChristian leaders had said: "You cannot live
among us as Jews."
The secular rulers following them stated: "You cannot
live among us."
The German Nazis then decreed: "You cannot live."
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Such irony that the Palestinians equate the Nazi swastika
with Israel's right to the land that God gave the Jews as
their inheritance.
Deuteronomy 1:6-8
The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed
long enough at this mountain.
Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites;
go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the
mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along
the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon,
as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession
of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after
them."
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It is my firm belief that a fair reading of the New Testament,
together with a commitment to Jesus as Messiah, Saviour
and Lord, far from leading to anti-Semitism, will lead to
a love and respect for the Jewish people whether or not
they believe in Christ. The Jews are God's chosen people,
not for anything they have done, but because God keeps His
Word. Christians are blessed to have been adopted or 'grafted
into' the vine, which is Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 7:5-7
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The
LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the
face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Romans 11:16-18
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though
a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others
and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
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Luke 21:24
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners
to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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