Connecting the Bible to Today Part 3: Antisemitism

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And now here's our host, Susan Michael.

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Well, hey there and welcome back.

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This is the Out of Zion podcast, our Israel answers series.

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We're taking a few weeks here to connect the Bible to modern Israel.

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So we're spanning the gap, filling in some information to help prepare you for our future

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episodes where we're going to answer questions about Israel, about the Bible, and about you

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and how it affects you.

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So the last two weeks we talked about the development of Judaism and then Christianity.

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This week we're going to talk about an ugly reality that has been there throughout all

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this history.

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And it is the ugly face of anti-Semitism.

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Now this is a really important issue for you to understand.

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So I encourage you, stick with me for a few minutes here so that you understand what is

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going on today and the responsibility on our shoulders to stand against it today.

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In 2014, there was a global study of the entire world and it determined that 25% of people

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on the planet held anti-Semitic views.

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That's a lot of people.

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And 70% of them had never met a Jewish person.

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Whoa, what does that tell you?

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We have a problem here.

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It's a problem of propaganda.

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It's a problem of conspiracy theories, of lies.

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These people had never even met a Jewish person and yet they held these negative views about

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them.

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Well, since 2014, nothing has gotten better.

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It's only gotten worse.

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And anti-Semitism is surging around the world.

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It's epidemic levels in the Middle East.

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It's at pre-Holocaust levels in Europe.

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It's even surging here in the United States.

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Last year, New York, and last year being 2021, New York recorded a 100% increase in anti-Semitic

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incidents over the year before.

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And in Los Angeles, they recorded a 59% increase from the year before.

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So let's talk about this.

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What is anti-Semitism?

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Well, in simple terms, it is hatred of or bigotry towards Jews.

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But I'm going to use a term every once in a while of Christian anti-Semitism.

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So what would be a definition of Christian anti-Semitism?

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And that would be when a professing Christian uses the Christian scriptures to denigrate

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Jewish people and support anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories.

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That's what we call Christian anti-Semitism.

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Now many of you listening to me are evangelical Christians and you would argue there can be

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no such thing as Christian anti-Semitism.

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I mean, it's an oxymoron, right?

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How can you be a Christian and hold hatred or bigotry towards anybody but especially

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the Jewish people, the roots of our faith?

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Unfortunately, history has proven that it is a reality.

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Now the picture that I know of that helps you to understand this evil of anti-Semitism

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is to talk about it in terms of a mutating virus.

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Then it begins to make sense.

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We're all familiar with terminology about viruses these days.

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So it's not a big jump here.

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But the evil pursuit of the Jewish people has been around since the beginning of time,

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really, from millennia.

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It's why the historian Robert Wistrich calls it the longest hatred.

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And every time we think that we have wiped out this irrational hatred of the Jewish people,

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it seems to be dying out, what it does is it just reinvents itself.

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It's like a virus.

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It'll go dormant for a while.

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You think you've got it.

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And then it comes out in a mutated form with kind of a different language, maybe a different

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face.

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But at the end of the day, it's all about the same goal to rid the world of the Jewish

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people.

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So there's a lot of history.

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I won't go into it where it kind of got started, where the roots of it are.

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But back even before the time of Christ, in the world of the empires, changing from the

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Persian Empire to the Greek Empire to the Roman Empire, there was a lot of back and forth

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with the Jewish people and these ruling empires.

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And there seemed to be the first anti-Semitic writing was out of Egypt.

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But in the Bible, our first story that seems to depict anti-Semitism, not just a pagan

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religion.

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So let me explain.

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All these empires were based on paganism and you either worship the emperor himself or

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you worship the emperor's gods and you were required to to show your loyalty to the empire.

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And of course, the Jews couldn't do that.

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Their God had told them not to worship any other God.

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And later on the Christians in the same boat.

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So this would often put them at odds with these pagan empires.

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But in the Bible, the story of the book of Esther seems to go a step further.

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This isn't about the Persian king and about worshiping him.

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This is a member of the royal court, the consort, Haman.

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He hates the Jews because they won't bow down to him.

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And so he devises this plan just to have them all killed.

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Just kill them all.

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And so the story of Esther really is a very good example of just an irrational hatred

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of the Jewish people.

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And in the ancient times, paganism may have had some part to do in it.

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And then under the Greeks, we have the story of Hanukkah, which isn't in the Bible.

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It happened in between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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But it was all about the Seleucia king, Antiochus, the fourth epiphanies.

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And he tried to enforce paganism on the Jewish people.

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And they revolted and they actually defeated his forces, regained sovereignty.

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And that's what the celebration of Hanukkah is all about.

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But you would think once these pagan empires gave way to the Christian empire, when the

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Roman empire became Christian in the fourth century AD, you would think that this antisemitism

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and this struggle with the Jewish people would have ended.

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But that's not at all.

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Instead, antisemitism just came into the heart of Christianity and Christian Europe, where

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the Christian people preached against the Jewish faith and then began to discriminate

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against the Jewish people and passed all kinds of laws against them.

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And I talked a little bit about this last week.

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I'll repeat it very briefly.

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That it's the preaching against the Jewish religion that started in the church fathers.

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And then that became translated into laws that discriminated against the Jewish people.

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They couldn't hold certain jobs.

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They couldn't have certain professions.

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They couldn't own land.

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At times they were rounded up and forced to live in ghettos.

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At times they were actually expelled from countries.

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At times their children was kidnapped and they were forced to be baptized, trying to

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force them to become Christians.

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It's a really long, terrible history of what we would call Christian antisemitism.

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And sometimes we tend to think, oh, well, that was the Catholic Church or that was the

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other church.

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That's not us.

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We're Protestant now.

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We're evangelical.

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But unfortunately, the story is continued under the father of the Reformation, Martin

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Luther.

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He reached out in very friendly ways to the Jews.

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He said, no wonder you haven't converted to Christianity the way you've been treated.

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So he was very nice to them, expecting that they're now all going to convert to Christianity.

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And when they didn't, he turned against them.

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And he wrote terrible antisemitic things against the Jewish people.

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And his writings were later reprinted and used by the Nazis in order to keep the church

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quiet.

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While he carried out what he said Christianity had actually already been preaching.

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So Christianity did not carry out the Holocaust, but the Holocaust definitely we paved the way

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for it.

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Christian antisemitism paved the way for the Holocaust.

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But now the Nazis, their antisemitism was not based on a religious philosophy.

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It was based on racial theories and eugenics and the beliefs that the races are different

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and that there are some more developed races and there are underdeveloped races and there

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are underdeveloped races that are polluting the human genome.

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And so they needed to be eradicated.

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And top of the list of developed races was the Aryan race and bottom was the Jews and

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the Jews were living there amongst the Aryan.

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So the Nazi policies were based on racial antisemitism, saying these Jews were subhuman.

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They were evil.

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They were tainting the racial pool there in Germany and they needed to be eradicated.

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Now so they tried to eradicate all 11 million Jews in Europe.

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They made it through 6 million, but their goal had been 11 million.

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And it's just a horrendous piece of history.

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And the fact that Christian antisemitism paved the way for it, provided a bit of a foundation

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for it, is a travesty.

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And it's something that every Christian needs to understand this and come to terms with

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it and learn how to now approach the Jewish people with humility, first of all, and a

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bit of repentance and with mutual respect.

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So we've gone from pagan antisemitism, the Christian antisemitism, to racial antisemitism.

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And that brings us up to today.

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Today, we wouldn't support any of those three expressions of antisemitism.

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So today, the virus has mutated.

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And it's come out with an expression that the Western world is actually tolerating.

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What is it?

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Well, today the face of antisemitism is largely a political one.

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It's all about the Jewish collective, not the Jewish individual, but the collective,

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the Jewish state, the state of Israel.

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And so you can accuse, you can demonize Israel, and you can accuse them of being evil and

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Nazis and racist and all these crazy accusations.

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And the Western world will tolerate it.

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The world will tolerate it because this is an expression of antisemitism that has found

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the face for today.

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And it's a political face.

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Now not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic.

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Of course not.

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Israel is not a perfect place.

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It's made up of fallible human beings, just like America is.

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I mean, America is far from perfect.

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But I love America and I support America.

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And I love Israel and I support Israel.

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But it doesn't mean that they're perfect.

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It doesn't mean I agree with everything that they do as a state or as a policy.

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But I've studied their history and the facts are on their side.

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I know the people of Israel and they are wonderful people, good-hearted people.

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And so we're going to talk more about these things in future episodes on our Israel Answers

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series.

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But let me move on because there is one other type of antisemitism in the world today.

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I'm not going to spend any time on this one.

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But there is also another expression of antisemitism that the world tolerates.

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And it is the Muslim expression of antisemitism.

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So within Islam, there is a theological basis for antisemitism, but it's been beefed up

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with racial ideologies that came down through the Nazi ranks to the Middle East back earlier

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in World War II.

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And it also has a political expression because of the situation with the Palestinians.

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And so it's not purely religious, but it is religious.

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It is political and it does have racial undertones.

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And yet a secular globalist West tolerates it.

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It's mind-blowing.

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But that is because antisemitism is actually an evil spiritual force.

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It's not just a political force.

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It's not just a social force.

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It's not just anything that can be explained away or gotten rid of.

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It keeps coming back.

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It is always there and it is a relentless evil pursuit of the Jewish people.

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Now this brief outline shows you there is no rational explanation for this other than

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a biblical one.

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We have to understand spiritual realities to understand antisemitism and its history.

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So we go all the way back to the Garden of Eden and in Genesis 315 where God tells the

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serpent, he says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring

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and hers.

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He will crush your head and you will strike his heel.

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Now of course this is a prophetic word about the Messiah would come and would crush the

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head of the evil serpent.

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But before that happens there is this enmity between the forces of evil and against the

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woman.

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And there's another scripture that depicts this beautifully and that's in the New Testament

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in the book of Revelation chapter 12.

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And there it describes a woman who is clothed with the moon and the sun and 12 stars around

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her head symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel.

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And she is pregnant and going to give birth to the male child who will rule the world.

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And so this is a perfect depiction of the people of Israel and they're calling to be

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the vehicle, the birthing people for God's plan of redemption.

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They're going to birth the Messiah into the world and it says that sitting at her feet

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to devour the male child is this dragon.

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And later it says the dragon goes after the woman and she is whisked away into the wilderness

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for safety.

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And then he comes after her again and it says the earth just protects her.

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So the serpent gets, the dragon gets so mad because he cannot get at the woman Israel.

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So he goes after her other offspring, those with the testimony of Jesus.

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So the enmity, the spiritual enmity against Israel is the same enmity that goes back to

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the Garden of Eden.

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It is against the Messiah that's going to come and crush the head of the evil one.

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And until then he will do everything he can to stop that from happening.

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And if he can destroy the woman, he will destroy God's plans and purposes.

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If he can destroy the church, he will have destroyed God's plans and purposes.

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So another scripture that I always quote that for me describes this, the biblical explanation

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of anti-Semitism is in the Psalms.

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Psalm 83 verses 1 through 4, just picking a few of the phrases here and there, but in

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brief it says, Oh God, those who hate you have said, let us wipe them off, let us cut

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them off as a nation, that the name of Israel would be no more.

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So this is very clear that it is the enemies of God himself that are after his people.

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It is people Israel.

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It is a spiritual battle.

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And this is why my friends, that we as Christians are called to pray for them, to bless them,

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and to stand in solidarity with them because we understand the spiritual battle and we

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have been equipped with the spiritual weapons to fight spiritual battles in prayer.

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And so this is our calling in these days and this is why it's so important that we make

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this connection between the Bible and Israel today, this evil pursuit that we must stand

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against.

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So I hope that you have learned something today.

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I would like to offer you a free booklet.

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If you want to understand more about just what I've covered today, this history of anti-Semitism,

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I wrote a little booklet, very simple, easy to read, to equip you so that you can review

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it.

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You have something you can share with others.

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So in today's show notes, we give you a link to where you can download that book.

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You'll find it on the outofzionshow.com website under resources, free resource for you.

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Take advantage of it.

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So we're going to be back here next week.

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For the next two weeks, we're going to continue connecting the Bible to Israel today.

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And so I want to see you back here then.

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Until then, God bless.

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We hope you have enjoyed this episode of Out of Zion with Susan Michael.

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