THE HOLOCAUST FROM A SCRIPTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Was The Holocaust Merely Persecution, or Was it God's Judgment?
By Harry Bethel

CHALLENGE TO THE READER: I challenge you to read this entire article and tell others about it or refute with the truth any false statements in it so that I can correct them. Of the many thousands who have read this article not one has ever refuted anything in it.

"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them" (Ephesians 5:11).

I love Jews. I am a descendent of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (Galatians 3:29; 4:28-31). My surname is a Hebrew name and means "house of God." I love Arabs. And by God's grace I love all my enemies. Notwithstanding these true declarations I just made, anyone who writes anything exposing the misdeeds of the Jews is automatically attacked and summarily labeled "anti-Semitic" and a "Jew-hater." So be it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it, and error is error even if everyone believes it.

Jews claim to be God's chosen people, but they were His chosen people. Only the elect of the Jews (which is an extremely small minority) will be saved.

Many Jewish groups cry, "Anti-Semitic! Anti-Semitic!" when they read or hear of anything that exposes their sins and evil deeds. In fact, the Jews claim that the New Testament is "anti-Semitic." According to their reasoning, the Jewish Old Testament would be much more "anti-Semitic" than the New Testament! God repeatedly judged the Jews, including killing many thousands at a time for disobeying Him. One well-known Jewish organization whose main purpose is to attack others who they claim are anti-Semitic issued a statement saying that the claim that Christ was crucified by the Jews is "appalling, historically false and deeply offensive." But this article will clearly refute that lie.

I am no more anti-Semitic than God is. Their argument is with God, to whom they will give account on the Day of Judgment. This article reveals what God says about the Jews as recorded in His Word, and exposes many of their wicked deeds. If you want to take issue with me concerning the truths revealed in this article, then save yourself some time and read the entire article and don't jump to conclusions or try to judge my motives. Of the many thousands who have read this article not one has refuted anything in it. The reason no one can refute this article is because you cannot refute the truth. I am no longer responding to emails from anyone attacking me because of the truths presented on this web page.

The Jews throughout much of the period covered by the Old Testament were generally a stiff-necked people in rebellion against God:

A few examples are:

When the Jews made and worshiped the golden calf while Moses was on the mountain with God. God had 3,000 Jews killed by the sword for that sin (Exodus 32).

When the Jews complained about the manna from heaven that God provided for them, He smote them "with a great plague" (Numbers 11:33).

God condemned the rebellious Jews (all the men who were 20 years old or older except Caleb and Joshua) to die in the desert where they had to wander for 40 years (Numbers 14:29-35).

God killed 14,700 Jews with a plague because they rebelled against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16:41-49).

When the Jews were traveling around Edom they complained against God and Moses, so God sent venomous snakes to kill many of the Jews (Numbers 21:4-6).

When the Jews were staying in Shittim, the men fornicated with the Moabite women and worshiped their false gods, so God killed 24,000 Jews with a plague (Numbers 25:1-9).

God sent judges over the Jews when they were all doing what was right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6; 21:25).

God said to Moses that the Jews "will forsake Me and break the covenant I made with them. On that day I will forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them..." And Moses said to the people, "I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall upon you because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord..." (Deuteronomy 31:16-17, 29).

The national captivities of the Jews were judgments by God (for their idolatry, disobedience and rebellion) by the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians and Romans.

Division of Judah and Israel and a history permeated with idolatry and corruption of kings and the priesthood with only a few periods of revival was characteristic of the Jews up to the end of the Old Testament record. By accepting other gods the Jews broke their covenant with God.

God divorced backsliding Israel for her adultery (Jeremiah 3:8; Isaiah 50:1).

God said, "My people are destroyed for lack of [rejection of] knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee...I will also forget thy children (Hosea 4:6).

The Jews, generally, rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Savior and conspired to kill Him:

The reason that John the Baptizer, a Jew, came baptizing with water was to reveal Jesus to Israel (the Jews) (John 1:31).

Jesus came to His own (the Jews), but His own received Him not (John 1:11).

When Jesus healed a lame man on the Sabbath, "the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His father, making himself equal with God" (John 5:18).

"Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry [Judea], because the Jews sought to kill Him" (John 7:1).

Jesus said to the Jews, "Has not Moses given you the Law? Yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill Me?" (John 7:19).

Again, Jesus said to the Jews, "I know that you are Abraham's offspring; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you...you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God...You are doing the deeds of your father...You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father" (John 8:37-44).

Many Jews were believing Jesus, so the Jewish chief priests and the Jewish Pharisees held a council and said, "If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation...So from that day on they planned to kill Him" (John 11:45-53).

When Jesus on a Sabbath healed a man with a withered hand "the [Jewish] Pharisees went out, and counseled together against Him, as to how they might destroy Him" (Matthew 12:13-14).

When the Jewish chief priests and Jewish elders met in the court of the Jewish high priest "they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth, and kill Him" (Matthew 26:3).

Many of the Jews were going to listen to Jesus teach in the temple, so, "the [Jewish] chief priests and the [Jewish] scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death" (Luke 22:2).

Several times the Jews took up stones to stone Jesus (e.g., John 8:57-59; 10:31). And several times they tried to apprehend Him (e.g., John 10:39).

When Jesus drove out the Jews who were buying and selling and the Jewish money changers from the temple, Jesus told the Jews that they had made the temple "a den of thieves," therefore the Jewish chief priests and Jewish scribes "sought how they might destroy Him" (Mark 11:17-18).

Mark records, "The [Jewish] chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill Him" and "The chief priests and the whole [Jewish] Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put Him to death..." (Mark 14:1, 55).

According to the Scriptures, the Jews killed Jesus:

While it is true that Jesus died for the sins of all mankind, it is also true (according to the Scriptures) that it was the Jews who killed Jesus Christ. 

Pilate knew that "it was out of envy that the Jewish chief priests had handed Jesus over to him" (Mark 15:10). But at the insistence of the Jews, Pilate "handed Him over to be crucified" (Mark 15:15).

The apostle Peter preached to the Jews, "Men of Israel...you, with the help of wicked men, put him [Jesus] to death by nailing Him to the cross" (Acts 2:22-23). Peter continued, "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you [the Jews] crucified, both Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:36).

Peter speaking to the Jews said, "Men of Israel...You killed the author of life..." (Acts 3:12-15).

When the apostles were brought before the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Jewish high priest said, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this [Jesus'] name. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's [Jesus'] blood." Peter and the other apostles replied... "The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead---whom you killed by hanging Him on a tree" (Acts 5:27-30).

The apostle Paul wrote to the Gentile Christians at Thessalonica, "You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches [in Judea] suffered from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 2:14-15).

When Stephen preached to the Jewish Sanhedrin before they stoned him to death, he said to them, "And now you [Jews] have betrayed and murdered Him [Jesus]---you who have received the Law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it" (Acts 7:52b-53).

The Jews persecuted Christians in the first century:

It is bad enough that the Jews persecuted and killed Jesus, but they also persecuted Christians. As the apostle Peter and others were speaking to the Jews about the resurrection of the dead through Jesus, the Jewish priests and Jewish Sadducees put them in jail. The Jewish leaders threatened the Christians and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus (Acts 4:1-18).

When the apostles were preaching and healing people in the name of Jesus the Jewish high priest and all his associates "were filled with jealously" and put the apostles in jail (Acts 5:17-18).

The apostles were taken before the Jewish Sanhedrin and told them that they had killed Jesus by hanging Him on a tree, and that God had exalted Jesus as Prince and Savior that He might grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. When the Jewish leaders heard this "they were furious and wanted to put them to death" (Acts 5:27-33), but they "had them flogged" and "ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go" (Acts 5:40).

The Jews in the Sanhedrin "were furious and gnashed their teeth" at Stephen and stoned him to death after he preached to them that the Jews refused to obey God when they were wandering in the desert with Moses and made a golden calf to worship, and that God "gave them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies" and said to them, "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your [Jewish] fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your [Jewish] fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One [Jesus]. And now you [Jews] have betrayed and murdered Him [Jesus]---you who have received the Law...but have not obeyed it" (Acts 7:39-58).

Persecution of Christians in Jerusalem by the Jews broke out on the same day they killed Stephen, and all the Christians except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria (Acts 8:1).

The Jew named Saul, before he was converted to Christianity and re-named Paul, tried to destroy the Christians. He went from house to house dragging off men and women and put them in prison (Acts 8:3).

After Paul was saved and had ministered to many churches in Asia he went back to Jerusalem, and the Jews, who saw Paul in the temple, "stirred up the whole [Jewish] crowd and seized him, shouting, 'Men of Israel, help us!...The whole [Jewish] city was aroused, and the people [Jews] came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple" and tried to beat him to death, and the whole city was in an uproar, but a Gentile Roman commander and his soldiers intervened. (Acts 21:27-32).

Later, "the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed [the apostle] Paul" (Acts 23:12).

Paul wrote, "Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned..." (2 Corinthians 11:24).

How would most Jews respond if Christians evangelized them with the true Gospel message?

There is much "easy-believism" today. That is, the evangelistic message preached is not the true Gospel message. Many well-meaning Christians, including evangelists, tell the lost something like this: God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. All have sinned, so you need to be forgiven so you can go to heaven when you die. So, pray this prayer and Jesus will save you: 'God, forgive me of my sins. I accept Jesus as my Savior. I want to go to heaven when I die.' Then the well-meaning evangelist says to the person, "You are now saved, and don't let anyone tell you any different."

But the true Gospel message contains two main parts. Jesus said to the Apostles that, "repentance and remission of sins" shall be preached in all nations (Luke 24:47). Repentance is an essential part of the true Gospel message, just as remission or forgiveness of sins. Jesus told the Pharisees (Jews) that unless you repent you will perish. And when the rich young ruler, who asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, who was covetous and needed to repent of that besetting sin, refused to do something that would be indicative of repentance---sell all he had and give it to the poor, and follow Jesus---the young man refused to do it. As the rich man turned and walked away, did Jesus say, "Wait a minute. Maybe I was too hard on you. Sell just half or your possessions and then, if you want to, you can follow me"? No, He did not. True repentance was necessary for the forgiveness of sins and salvation.

If Christian evangelists told unsaved Jews that they are not saved and are separated from God and will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire unless they repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they would persecute them just as they did in the first century.

Influential and wealthy Jews have influenced much of the world to engage in immorality, homosexuality, divorce, crime, violence, youth rebellion and the general decline of humanity in the industrialized nations:

Why is there a dislike and even hatred for the Jews among some societies throughout the world? Is it because they are honest and love their Gentile neighbors? Or is it because many of them are known for their shrewd and dishonest business tactics and love of money? Or is it because many of them have the desire to control politically, financially, and in other ways, the Gentile countries in which they live?

The apostle Paul wrote concerning the Jews, "You who brag about the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? As it is written: 'God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you'" (Romans 2:23-24).

Justin Martyr, in 116 A.D. wrote, "The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, general, 1806, "The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers, falling into disgrace when they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it...The evils of the Jews stem not from individuals but from the fundamental nature of this people."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), nineteenth century writer wrote in Harpers Monthly Magazine 9/1899, "In the U.S. cotton states, after the [Civil] war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the Negroes' wants on credit, and at the end of the season was the proprietor of the Negroes' share of the present crop and part of the next one...The Jew was always ready to lend on a crop. When settlement day came, he owned the farm...In England of John's time everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands...He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago, and Austria a couple of centuries later...I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and aim of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since."

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, quoted in the Dearborn Independent, 1921, "Jews have always controlled the business...The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind."

Arcand Adrien, Canadian political leader of the 1930's, "Through their [the Jews'] international news agencies, they mold your minds and have you see the world not as it is, but as they want you to see it. Through their cinema, they are the educators of our youth---and with just one film in two hours, can wipe out of a child's brain what he has learned in six months in the home, the church or the school."

Henry H. Beamish, British publisher in a speech in New York on 10/30/1937, "There is no need to be delicate on this Jewish question. You must face them in this country. The Jew should be satisfied here. I was here forty-seven years ago; your doors were thrown open and you were then free. Now he has got you absolutely by the throat..."

Charles Lindbergh, aviator, writer, 8/23/1939, "We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence in our press, radio and motion pictures. It may become very serious."

President Harry S. Truman wrote in his diary on 7/21/1947, "The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish...[W]hen they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment of the underdog."

Albert Einstein, a Jew, and an atheist said in a letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind dated 1/3/1954 that Jews were not God's chosen people. The renowned physicist wrote, "For me the Jewish religion like all other is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions." Einstein said, "And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people." He wrote, "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." Concerning the Jews Einstein wrote, "As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups...I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Hollywood, television, and the press are largely controlled by Jews and are responsible for disseminating filth, violence, corruption, immorality, homosexuality and idolatry that has molded the minds of young and old alike all around the world for more than half a century.

On a very popular TV talk show on 4/5/1996 a well-known actor complained that "Hollywood is run by Jews---it is owned by Jews!" The actor also said that the Jews have slandered every other racial group "but are ever so careful to ensure that there is never any negative image of the Kike [Jew]."

A few months after that, in a Jewish periodical, the headlines read, "Jews Run Hollywood---So What?" The Jewish author of the article wrote, "It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." The Jewish author continued, "The famous Disney organization...now features Jewish personnel in nearly all its most powerful positions." He added, "Men and women of Jewish background enjoy a vastly disproportionate---if not dominate---influence in Hollywood." He wrote that the Ivy League colleges "are vastly over-represented [by Jews]---just as they are in Hollywood."

The author ended the article by writing, "The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political power. They are a major source of money for Democrat and Republican candidates. The industry's informal patriarch [name withheld] wields tremendous personal clout in state and national politics. So do [name withheld] and others."

Less than 3% of the U.S. population are Jews, but about 60% of Hollywood is owned or operated by Jews. Jews are owners or top executives of major television networks, newspapers, news magazines, book publishers, banks and financial institutions. A disproportionate number of Jews are actors and actresses, and entertainers.

The Bible says that Satan "as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Surely Satan has had more than a few laughs because a major motion picture producer in Hollywood has as their trademark a roaring lion. (On their website they refer to their "roaring lion trademark.")

Jesus warned, "Beware of the leaven of the [Jewish] Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" (Luke 12:1). Jesus, many times, called the Jews hypocrites. It is interesting that the Greek word from which we get the term "hypocrite" means "actor." We need to beware of the hypocrisy of the Jews. They pretend to be righteous but are dead in their trespasses and sins. Jesus told the Jews that unless their righteousness exceeded that of the Jewish scribes and Pharisees they would in no case enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:20). In order for one to be counted righteous, one must have been born again and have the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. Unless Jews have been born again they are Christ-rejecters.

There were more than 50 Jews appointed to government positions in the Clinton administration, including the Secretary of State, CIA Director of Operations, Under Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Attorney General, Presidential Policy Advisor, Assistant Secretary of State, Counsel to President, and Deputy Chief of Staff. These more than 50 appointees do not include lower-level jobs and more than 20 Ambassadors to foreign countries.

Likewise, there were more than 30 Jews appointed to government positions in the Bush administration, including Chief of Staff, Head of Homeland Security, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Speechwriter, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, White House Political Director, Deputy Secretary of Defense, White House Political Director and White House Press Secretary. Those more than 30 appointees do not include lower-level jobs and many Ambassadors to foreign countries.

All of this is phenomenal since Jews compose less than three percent of the U.S. population!

Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, pronounced judgment on the Jews for rejecting Him:

When the Jewish chief priests and elders questioned Jesus' authority He said to them, "I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people [Gentiles] who will produce its fruit" (Matthew 21:43).

When Jesus told a parable to the Jewish chief priests, scribes, and elders (Luke 20:19), they knew He was talking about them when He said that the vine-growers, to whom the owner had sent his son, killed his son. Then in the parable Jesus asked what will the owner of the vineyard do to those who killed his son, to which He said, "He will come and destroy these vine-growers [Jews] and will give the vineyard to others [Gentiles]." After hearing this and knowing that Jesus was talking about them, those Jews "tried to lay hands on Him that very hour...and they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so as to deliver Him up to the rule and the authority of the governor" (Luke 20:9-20).

A loving, longsuffering and merciful God sent Jesus to "His own [the Jews], and His own received Him not" (John 1:11). The reason that the Jewish prophet John (the Baptizer) came baptizing with water was to reveal Jesus to Israel (John 1:31). And Jesus said that He was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24). Near the end of Jesus' earthly ministry Jesus said, 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. (Matthew 23:37-38).

Paul quoted Isaiah in his epistle to the Christians in Rome, "Concerning Israel he [Isaiah] says, 'All day long I [God] have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people [the Jews]'" (Romans 10:21).

After the apostle Paul had preached the Gospel to Jews in cities throughout Asia and was, for the most part, rejected by them, he turned to the Gentiles and ministered to them. Near the end of Paul's ministry, when he was in Rome under house arrest, he spoke to a large gathering of Jews. Paul explained and declared to them the kingdom of God and tried to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets. The great apostle concluded his sermon by saying, "The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your [Jewish] forefathers when He said through Isaiah the prophet: 'Go to this people and say, 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal [save] them.' Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen" (Acts 28:17-28).

When the Jews cried out over and over to crucify Jesus, and Pilate wanted to release Him, all the Jews said, "Let His blood be on us and on our children!" (Matthew 27:25).

Jesus prophesied God's destruction of Jerusalem that would take place in 70 A.D. at the hands of the Roman general Titus (Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 19:41-44). According to Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, more than 1,000,000 Jews died when Jerusalem was laid siege to and destroyed as Jesus had prophesied 40 years earlier. That horrific suffering was second only to the suffering of the twentieth century Holocaust under Hitler. This was because of the general rejection of Christ by the Jews, and until this day they still reject Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Savior and the only way to heaven. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man [including Jews] cometh unto the Father, but by Me" (John 14:6). There are very few Jews today who will repent of their sins and be born again and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord.

In 614 A.D. the Persians captured Jerusalem and massacred the inhabitants. The so-called "Christian" Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099. Several times since then Jerusalem has fallen into the hands of Moslems and "Christians." There is no reason to believe that the Crusaders were truly born-again Christians, anymore than the vast majority of Roman Catholics.

The Jews have continued to reject Christ throughout the centuries and the last great slaughter of Jews was during the Holocaust. It is claimed that six million Jews were killed in a few short years under the hand of Hitler (the number is probably exaggerated). (Also killed were Christ-rejecting Gypsies, homosexuals, and a few others.) All of this mass-killing took place as a sovereign and just God looked on.

Paul in Romans 9:27 referred to Isaiah when he wrote, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant shall be saved."

The Jews generally rejected Jesus, the true Messiah, therefore Jesus cursed the fig tree, which represents Israel, saying, "May you never bear fruit again!" (Matthew 21:18).

The apostle Paul (a born-again Jew) said that the minds of the Jews have been made dull and to this day a "veil" covers their hearts when the Old Covenant is read, and only in Christ is it taken away (2 Corinthians 3:14-16).

Reportedly, in 1977 Israel passed a law that prohibits anyone, including Christians, from leading the Jews to change their religion.

There is good reason to believe that the coming Antichrist will be a Jew:

Speaking of the Antichrist in Daniel 11:37, the Word says, "He will show no regard for the God of his fathers [the Jewish Patriarchs]." The Young's Literal Translation, the NKJV, and others, and the margin in the NASB render the passage as saying "God" not "gods."

"Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist---he denies the Father and the Son" (1 John 2:22). All Jews who are not born again deny that Jesus is the Christ, therefore, they are antichrists. (Of course, this is also true of Gentiles who deny that Jesus is the Christ.)

All Jews who are not born again do not honor Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him" (John 5:23).

All Jews who are not born again are not worshipping God the Father, no matter how "religious" they are. Born-again Christians are the only ones on the entire planet who worship and honor the one and only true God. All others worship a figment of their imagination. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).

Satan entered Judas, a Jew, before he betrayed Jesus (Luke 22:3). Judas was a liar, deceiver, lover of money, hypocrite, and a type of Antichrist.

Satan will enter the Antichrist at or near the beginning of the Great Tribulation, giving him all his power (Revelation 13:2). Jerusalem will become spiritually like Sodom in the last days (Revelation 11:8).

The Jewish Prayer-book says, "At the end of days he will send our anointed, to deliver those who wait for the final deliverance." He will be a Jew because the Jews would not accept a Gentile as their Messiah. This man, instead of being anointed by God, will be empowered by the father of lies, Satan.

What should be the attitude of Christians toward Christ-rejecting Jews?

Christians should love the Jews just as we should love the heathen in Africa. As the Lord leads we should evangelize the Jews with the true Gospel message, which includes the necessity of repentance and receiving Jesus Christ as the only way to God the Father and to heaven. Paul wrote that "all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:26), but the apostle also wrote that "though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant shall be saved" (Romans 9:27). All true Israel is only a remnant. During the Great Tribulation 144,000 Jews will be saved, but this is only a small remnant compared to the millions of Jews living today. The Christ-rejecting Jews are no different than anyone else who has not repented of their sins and been born again. Pray for the Jews (and the hateful Messianic Jews), love them, ask God to have mercy on them, and share the true Gospel with those who will listen.

Why Are Jews Persecuted?
Commentary
By [name deleted by Harry Bethel]
2-19-2008

 

 

I always used to wonder what it was about Jews that made people throughout history despise them. If they were indeed "God's chosen" I thought, they had to be the unluckiest people in the history of the world.   Why were they persecuted throughout history?   Why had the Nazis herded them into cattle cars and taken them to "extermination camps" to dispose once and for all of the "Jewish problem?"   I suddenly recognized that if Hitler had developed a "Final Solution" to the Jewish question, that there had to have been a "Jewish Problem." Could the Jews have in any way behaved in such a manner that would make the countries in which they resided turn against them, or were they just unfortunate, innocent victims?   I set out to find answers for my questions, mainly turning to the Internet, but also reading various books on the subject. What I found became increasingly disturbing to me.   I had not known that throughout history, the Jews had been expelled from 79 countries, some countries more than once.   I had not known that many of the claims they made about the Holocaust that I had believed unquestioningly for so long were in fact fraudulent.   The books I had read and the movies I had seen about the "Holocaust" and wept over were nothing but thinly veiled attempts to garner unwavering sympathy for the state of Israel and an excuse to extort billions of dollars from Germany and 1.25 billion dollars from the Swiss banks.   I discovered that a book I had read many times as a teenager and cried about, Anne Frank's Diary, had been at least partially written by someone other than Anne Frank.   I learned that the confessions at the Nuremburg Trials and the executions of so many German "war criminals" were extracted under torture and the defendants were being tried, judged and condemned by their very accusers.   I learned about the "false flag" operations, especially the Lavon affair and the tragedy of the USS Liberty, an American ship that was attacked by the Israelis during the 1967 war. 34 young American men were killed and many more wounded.   To add insult to injury, the Israelis claimed that it was simply an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, something the survivors of the Liberty have always vehemently denied. They, however, were threatened with court martial if they were ever to tell their stories.   I learned about the Jonathan Pollard spy case and other incidents of Israeli Jews spying against their supposed "closest ally."   I became shocked and horrified as I learned about the treatment of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Jewish settlers. Israel purports to be the only democracy in the middle east, but it's only a democracy for Jews. Non-Jews are not considered equal.   I was saddened to see pictures of innocent Palestinian children burned beyond recognition or suffering from serious gunshot wounds after being targeted by the IDF for no other reason than that they are Palestinian.   I found out about the Jewish history of avariciousness, larceny, lying, manipulation and their questionable and usurious business practices.   I learned about their roles in the radical homosexual movement, the radical feminist movement, the pornography industry as well as their over-representation in the abortion industry.   I discovered their role in organized crime, in the slave trade, in the civil rights movement and in Communism, an ideology that is responsible for the deaths of untold millions and the repression of many millions more.   They have driven Christianity from the public schools despite Christianity being the majority religion.    I read about the anti-Gentilism and hatefulness of the Babylonian Talmud and their utter disrespect for, and hostility towards Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and Christianity and Christians in general.   I learned about their "chutzpah" in claiming that Gentile lives were worth no more than the lives of barnyard animals but that they considered Jewish lives to be akin to God Himself. It's okay to steal from a Gentile or to kill a Gentile, but Jewish lives are sacred.   I learned of their control of the majority of wealth, the media and academia despite them making up less than 2% of the population (even lower in Canada).   They are behind the ridiculous political correctness movement and hate crime legislation that was drafted so as to silence anyone who might figure out their agenda and attempt to shed light on it.   I found out that the Jews are responsible for our wide open immigration policies that have created the nightmare we call "multiculturalism," "diversity," inclusiveness" and "pluralism."    It is patently clear that the war in Iraq is due solely to Israel wanting to hobble her enemies by destabilizing their governments in order to achieve hegemony in the middle east.   It would be unthinkable for Israeli Jews to die for this cause, so they manipulated the US into the war with the help of the Jewish Zionist "Israel firsters" in the Bush administration in order that the blood of way too many young American men and women is shed instead.   It is they who control the middle eastern foreign policy of the most powerful country in the world, the USA. It is they who control congress, the senate and the puppet president, George W. Bush.   They have such control in movies and television that we are now subjected to endless programs and Hollywood movies that mock Christianity, Christian values and degrade the traditional family.   After sober reflection on what I had discovered about Jewish supremacy and Zionism, I had to abandon all my previously held notions as to the history of Jewish persecution.

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