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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190016B
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00:01 We've been tracing the history of the Jewish people
00:03 and that they are special people. 00:06 And when God works, He keeps His promises, 00:08 both the blessing and the curses, so to speak. 00:11 And we started tracing some of the difficulties 00:14 that the Jewish people have had. 00:16 And we talked about pagan Rome, and how it's been treating, 00:19 how it treated the Jewish people. 00:21 When Rome destroyed Jerusalem, they killed a million Jews, 00:26 they took 100,000 of them into captivity, 00:30 they disperse them as you please, 00:32 all over the Roman Empire. 00:33 Eventually, 00:34 they made the Jewish religion an illegal religion. 00:37 And they got so hard on this, 00:42 that they actually took away their privileges 00:44 to practice their religion. 00:46 And then, of course, you have 00:48 the rise of papal Rome. 00:51 And it seemed like the papal Rome, 00:53 the popes carry on the same crusades, 00:56 if you please against the Jewish people. 00:59 They taught Europe to hate the Jewish people. 01:02 Matter of fact, I was in Seattle, 01:04 Washington many years ago 01:05 and I heard the radio station there. 01:08 I remember it's like to this day 01:10 I was working on my camper a little bit, 01:12 a pop up camper. 01:14 And they were saying how Martin Luther 01:16 did all this diatribes against the Jewish people. 01:19 That was true. 01:21 Martin Luther, father of the Protestant 01:22 Reformation said some terrible things about Jews. 01:26 But where did he learn it from? 01:28 He learned it when he was in the monastery, 01:31 when he was subject to the propaganda, 01:35 if you please, of ancient, 01:38 or the popes during the Dark Ages. 01:40 But let me go back to that and we'll see 01:42 as papal Rome starts doing something similar. 01:44 We go to 337 AD, 01:48 the Emperor Constantine created a law 01:51 that a Christian cannot marry a Jew on the pain of death. 01:57 Can you imagine that? 01:59 Then the Emperor Justinian, who played a big role 02:02 in the beginning of the papacy and its power in 528. 02:06 He had prohibited Jews from building a synagogue, 02:09 reading the Bible in Hebrew, 02:11 assembling in public or to celebrate the Passover, 02:14 and they could not testify against Christians in court, 02:19 believe it or not. 02:21 And then in 613 AD, 02:22 a very serious persecution in Spain began. 02:26 The Jews were given the options 02:27 of either leaving Spain or converting to Christianity. 02:31 In fact, when the Muslims took over in Spain later, 02:37 they actually treated the Jews more kind 02:40 than the papacy did in Spain. 02:44 And they actually took their children away from them. 02:47 If they were six years older, they took them away 02:50 and taught them Christianity 02:51 and gave them a Catholic Christian education, 02:54 so to speak. 02:55 Well, if you come on down to the First Crusade, 02:58 the crusades were a very interesting thing. 03:01 But the crusades were launched in about 1096 AD. 03:06 And when they were, it was not only to liberate Jerusalem 03:08 from the Muslims, it was also to eliminate the Jews. 03:14 And they killed thousands of Jews 03:16 on the way to the "Holy Land." 03:21 And the Crusaders forced all the Jews of Jerusalem, 03:24 when they got there and conquered Jerusalem 03:27 the first time around. 03:28 They forced them into the central synagogue. 03:31 Now, these are supposed Christians, 03:33 but these are papal soldiers. 03:35 And they set it on fire. 03:37 And anybody who tried to escape 03:40 was pushed back into the burning building. 03:44 This kind of behavior kept on going 03:46 through most all the crusades. 03:48 And then in 1205, we have Pope Innocent III, 03:52 he wrote that the Jews by their own guilt 03:55 are consigned to perpetual servitude or slavery. 04:00 Well, you know, the Jews that were living then, 04:04 they didn't crucified Christ. 04:07 And many of the Jews, without the Jews, 04:08 there wouldn't be a Christian Church. 04:10 In fact, the Apostle Paul tells some of the Gentile churches 04:13 to take the Jewish churches, Judea as an example. 04:19 And Jesus Himself was a Jew. 04:21 But this is unusual hatred. 04:23 Satan hates the Jewish people. 04:26 He's operating through his agents, 04:28 he's operating through pagan Rome, 04:31 he's operating through, I'm sorry to say it, 04:34 the pope's papal Rome, 04:36 in order to destroy the Jewish people. 04:38 He wasn't destroyed off the earth, 04:39 because if they're gone, 04:41 they can't be that astonishment, 04:43 they can't be that byword, 04:44 they cannot be that lesson 04:46 that God is teaching the world through the Jewish people, 04:50 depending on their choice. 04:51 Either way they go, 04:52 they're going to teach that God keeps His promises. 04:56 And then if we come on down, 04:59 and I'm going to skip along here for just a little bit. 05:03 And in 1555, 05:05 there was a papal bull that required the Jews 05:08 in the Vatican controlled lands in Italy to wear badges. 05:12 That sound familiar? 05:14 To wear badges and be confined to ghettos. 05:18 Over 3,000 Jewish people 05:21 were crammed into eight acres of land. 05:24 And you can guess the horrible conditions 05:27 that they went through. 05:28 And then when you get down to 1648, 05:31 the massacres of the Jews in the Ukraine were terrible. 05:36 Hundred thousand Jews were murdered, 05:39 300 communities destroyed. 05:41 Now this is very interesting, you get down into about 1347 05:47 and you find the Black Death, depopulating a lot of Europe. 05:50 In fact, maybe a third of the population 05:53 of Europe perished in the Black Death, 05:55 as it's called today. 05:58 And these rats, of course, 05:59 as we know carried the Black Death. 06:01 But the Jews had inherited a very clean habits from God 06:07 who gave them those clean habits. 06:09 And they were not catching 06:11 the Black Death as much as the Gentiles. 06:15 The Christians were catching it, 06:16 the Catholic Christians were catching it. 06:19 And so people said, "Well, 06:20 where did this Black Death came, come from?" 06:21 And they wanted to blame it on somebody. 06:24 And as they made this, notice that the Jews 06:26 didn't get it as often as the others, 06:29 the Catholic Christians, they blamed it on the Jews. 06:33 They said the Jews are responsible, 06:35 and they killed thousands, thousands of Jews 06:39 and persecuted them terribly as a result. 06:44 We'll come down to 1806, 06:46 getting a little closer to modern times. 06:48 There was a French Jesuit priest 06:50 who wrote a paper blaming 06:54 the masons for the French Revolution. 06:57 But then he changed his mind and he wrote a another paper 07:01 and he blamed the French Revolution, 07:03 on no less than the Jews. 07:05 This started a mindset of conspiracy 07:09 that there was some kind of an international conspiracy. 07:13 In 1920, Henry Ford, you ever heard of him? 07:16 You drive Ford automobiles, of course. 07:19 Henry Ford was a good man in many ways, 07:21 but he began to study, he became fascinated 07:24 with the protocols that suggest 07:26 that there's a international conspiracy among the Jews. 07:31 This unfortunately led to a series 07:33 of anti-Jewish articles printed in The Dearborn Independent, 07:38 close, of course, to Detroit, Michigan. 07:41 But then you come down to World War I 07:43 and Germany loses World War I. 07:45 And there are many economic and great difficulties 07:48 that follow that and guess who they blamed? 07:52 And then, of course, you have Hitler publishing 07:55 his anti-diatribes against the Jewish people. 07:59 And he said this, "Today, 08:03 I believe I'm acting in accordance 08:05 with the will of Almighty Creator." 08:06 Wonder where he got that? 08:08 He was a Roman Catholic, by the way. 08:10 He was never excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, 08:13 and the Roman Catholic popes made a treaty with him. 08:17 So this is very interesting. 08:19 And then he goes on to say, 08:21 "By defending myself against the Jews, 08:24 I am fighting for the work of the Lord." 08:27 So he saw it as a religious responsibility 08:30 to destroy the Jewish people. 08:32 But if you go to Romans Chapter 8, 08:34 and we want to focus on that for the next few minutes here. 08:38 Romans Chapter 8, I'm sorry, Romans 9:1-5, 08:42 the Apostle Paul says, He says this, 08:45 "I tell the truth in Christ. 08:47 I'm not lying." 08:48 He says, 08:49 "My conscience also bearing the witness in the Holy Spirit, 08:52 that I have great sorrow and anguish for my brethren, 08:57 my countrymen according to the flesh, " the Jews. 08:59 Then he says this, 09:01 "Are the Israelites to whom pertain the adoption, 09:04 the glory, the covenants, 09:08 and the coming of Christ in the flesh 09:12 who is overall and eternally blessed by God. 09:15 Amen." 09:16 So it says the Jews receive some wonderful things. 09:19 Then he goes on to say that 09:20 Christ is a stumbling block to the Jewish people. 09:23 And he tells us why he was a stumbling block. 09:26 He says in Romans 9:31-33, "But Israel, 09:29 pursuing the law of righteousness, 09:32 did not attain it. 09:33 Why?" He says, 09:35 "Because they did not seek it by faith." 09:37 And the Gentile Christians, the Christians, 09:40 of course, sought it by faith. 09:41 Now there are many Jewish Christians 09:43 who did seek it by faith and became Christians. 09:46 And then he says, as it is written, "I lay in Zion, 09:49 a stumbling stone, a rock of offence, 09:51 and whoever believes in Jesus will not be put to shame." 09:56 Then he asked the question, 09:57 "Are the Jews totally cast away? 09:59 Has God cast away His people?" 10:01 Meaning, has he cast away eternally. 10:03 And he said, "Certainly not." 10:05 And he pictures himself as exhibit A, 10:08 that God has not cast away His people. 10:12 And then he has an amazing verse 10:13 about the future of Israel. 10:16 "I say then, have they stumbled they should fall? 10:18 Certainly not! 10:19 But through their fall, to provoke to jealousy, 10:23 the Gentiles. 10:26 Now if their fall is for the riches of the world 10:29 and their failure for the Gentiles, 10:31 how much more will their fullness be?" 10:34 Of course, we know the Jews are the roots 10:35 of the Christian faith. 10:36 And he pictures this tree, 10:38 a tree that some branches are broken off, 10:41 Jewish branches broken off. 10:43 And then he says, "Why?" 10:45 They're broken off because of their unbelief. 10:47 But he says they can be grafted back 10:49 into that tree by faith in Christ. 10:54 So the way back home for the Jewish people 10:56 is by faith in Christ. 10:58 And the Gentiles, he says, "Don't get proud." 11:00 He says, "You can be broken out of that tree, 11:02 if you give up your faith." 11:04 I'm paraphrasing, 11:05 but you can read it in Romans Chapter 11. 11:08 But then I think he makes some prophecies, 11:10 some predictions about the Jewish people 11:12 and their role in the end of time. 11:15 He says that everybody in that tree, 11:18 in essence will be really Israel, 11:20 and everybody by faith in that tree 11:22 is going to be saved. 11:24 But then he says, 11:25 talking about the Jewish people, 11:27 he says in 11:15, 11:32 "For if their being cast away 11:34 is the reconciling of the world, 11:36 what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?" 11:41 When does the resurrection happen? 11:43 The resurrection happens when Jesus comes again. 11:46 Paul is predicting, I believe, 11:48 a great movement among Jewish people 11:51 to return to Jesus as their Messiah. 11:55 And when that happens, 11:57 I think we're going to see Jewish people 11:59 have a great role to play in the end of time. 12:03 And I'm not so sure that the mark of the beast 12:06 and the whole issue over the Sabbath 12:08 will not be an attitude once again, 12:10 a resurrection of those antisemitic, 12:14 anti-Jewish attitudes, 12:16 so that anybody that keeps the Sabbath 12:19 will be called a Jew. 12:22 I'll tell you, we're going to see strange things 12:24 that are coming. 12:25 But we're going to see many Jewish people saved, 12:28 and when they are, they're going to stand up, 12:30 and they're going to say, "This Jesus was our Jesus. 12:33 This incredible Jesus was our Messiah." 12:36 And they're going to teach and preach and be a witness 12:40 to the unchangeableness of God's law. 12:43 You can't change God's law. 12:45 They're going to shout that 12:47 if you please from the rooftops. 12:50 And I think then you're going to see Jews and Gentiles 12:52 come together in that Jewish tree, 12:56 all there by faith, 12:58 all trusting this marvelous Messiah, 13:01 all giving a witness to the world that 13:04 Jesus is coming and you've got to get ready, 13:07 repent of your sins, 13:09 be in harmony with God's Ten Commandments. 13:12 Listen, we have nothing to fear, 13:14 if we put our trust in Jesus, this incredible Jesus, 13:20 this marvelous Jesus. |
Revised 2019-08-27