There is a legendary story concerning an
agitated Frederick the Great who, in
frustration, demanded from his cabinet that
somebody provide him with proof of the existence
of God. There was a momentary silence before one
of his counselors spoke up: "Have you considered
the Jew, your Majesty?" he asked.
The continuing existence of the Jew is proof
positive of God's existence, just as the
existence of a Jewish state is proof positive
that we are living in the last days of human
government as foretold by the Bible prophets of
antiquity.
There are three distinct statements made within
the Divine promise of blessing given to the
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The first is that God will bless those who bless
the Jews.
When the United States wrested its seat at the
council of nations from England, it became the
first nation on earth to grant full
citizenship to Jews.
It was the first nation to allow the Jews an
unrestricted vote. It was the first nation to
recognize the incomparable blessing the Jewish
people have been to humanity.
America's second president, John Adams, said,
"The Jews have done more to civilize men than
any other Nation. They are the most glorious
Nation that ever inhabited the earth. The Romans
and their Empire were but a bauble in comparison
to the Jews. They have given religion to
three-quarters of the globe and have influenced
the affairs of Mankind more, and more happily
than any other Nation, ancient or modern."
And no nation on the face of the planet today,
or at any time in recorded history, has been
more greatly blessed than the United States of
America.
The second is that God promised that in the Jews
"shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Without the Jews, there would be no Bible. Jesus
came to earth as a Jew. Without the Jewish
Jesus, there would be no Christianity.
Apart from the theological argument, a quick
look at the last hundred years or so proves the
promise isn't confined to religious blessings
alone.
From 1901 to 2001, the world's 6 billion people
competed for the scarce 844 Nobel Prizes that
have been awarded. Among those 6 billion people
are nearly 2 billion Muslims – roughly 20
percent of the global population.
Of those 2 billion Muslims, eight have been
singled out to receive the
Nobel Prize –
(seven if you consider that one of them was a
politically motivated award mistakenly given
unrepentant terrorist
Yasser Arafat).
In any case, Muslims account for less than 1
percent of the total Nobel Prizes awarded in the
last hundred years.
In the middle of the 20th century, the Nazis
exterminated some 6 million Jews, more than half
the world's Jewish population. There are today
about 14 million Jews left.
Even with half their number exterminated at the
century's midpoint, 159 of the remaining 836
Nobel Prizes were awarded to Jews, or roughly
18.8 percent of all the Nobel Prizes awarded in
Nobel's history.
(If you're keeping track, that is about 20 times
as many prizes divided among 14 million Jews
than were shared by the 2 billion Muslims
worldwide)
In America, the influence of American Jews is
hugely disproportionate to their numbers.
Conspiracists point darkly to the "Jewish
influence" in education, banking, law, medicine,
government, media and entertainment as evidence
of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world.
They accurately point out that American Jewry
accounts for less than 2 percent of America's
general population, but then draw their
conclusions without the benefit of Scriptural
discernment.
The "Jewish influence" in American life is part
of God's blessing on America – the "Jewish
conspiracy" canard given them in reward is part
of God's curse on
Israel.
"Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of
My land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have sanctified for My Name, will I cast
out of my sight, and will make it to be a
proverb and a byword among all nations" (2
Chronicles 7:20).
The curse was partially lifted, beginning in
1948, but will not be entirely lifted until the
close of the Tribulation Period.
"And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a
curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and
house of Israel;
so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing:
fear not, but let your hands be strong"
(Zechariah 8:13).
The Jews have returned to the Land, but they
remain a "proverb and a byword among all
nations" to this day.
Finally, God promised that He would "curse them
that curse you." The precision with which God
kept this promise is nothing less than
astonishing.
During the Crusades from 1095 to 1270, Jews in
Southern Europe fled to
Spain, England, Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe as the result of severe persecution and
wholesale massacres of the Jews.
England turned out to be the wrong place to go,
because in 1290 King Edward I expelled the Jews.
King Charles II did the same thing in 1394 by
forcing all Jews from
France. Interestingly, Spanish Jews found
peace and security in
Spain and
Portugal while those countries were under
Muslim rule.
At that point in history, Europe was fractured,
ignorant and in constant turmoil, while that
same period of time is known to history as the
Golden Age of Islam.
The Moors were world-renowned for their
knowledge of astronomy, medicine and science,
and the Islamic world boasted the most extensive
libraries that had ever existed to that time.
In the 1400s, the Moors were kicked out of
Spain by the
Papal forces of Europe.
In 1492, on the same day Columbus set sail for
the New World, Spain
expelled any unconverted Jews who had survived
the Spanish Inquisition. This time they fled
back to England where the Protestant reformation
now welcomed them.
Spain's global empire lasted less than a century
after it expelled its Jews, to be replaced by
the Jew-friendly British Empire whose reach
extended to every corner of the globe. In 1917,
the British captured Palestine from the Muslims.
The British Crown offered the Jews a homeland
via the Balfour Declaration, and a year later,
England won the First World War.
After the war, the British broke most of their
promises to the Jews, restricted Jewish
immigration to the Holy Land,
and in the years since have increasingly turned
their backs on the Jews that brought them such
great blessings for more than 300 years.
The British Empire upon which "the sun never
set" in 1900, had, by 1948, lost its last colony
when Burma declared independence, and the
British Empire was no more.
In 1933, Germany
was among the most cultured and sophisticated
nations in Europe.
Old Berlin was Europe's Crown Jewel. The Nazis
turned on the Jews, together with most of
Eastern Europe, and 12 years later, Europe's
Crown Jewel was a pile of burning rubble.
The Arab world, which had been so blessed during
its Golden Age, collapsed into its present state
of affairs, with most of it still operating as
if electricity had never been harnessed.
The Arab Muslims supported Hitler, opposed
Jewish immigration, waged repeated wars against
Israel, deny
Israel its
rightful territory, and now mount a global jihad
to finish Hitler's goal of total extermination.
The backward nature of modern Islamic culture
and society are the fruits of those efforts.
Historically, wherever the Jews were welcomed,
that nation flourished and prospered. Where the
Jews were persecuted, those nations floundered.
It is more than just coincidence; it is an
identifiable historical pattern that has
continued, without deviation, since the days of
the Babylonian captivity.
Babylon prospered when its Jews prospered, it
fell to Persia when Neboplasser turned against
them. Persia prospered until it turned on the
Jews, whereupon it fell to Alexander's
Greece. And so
on, throughout history, up to and including the
impending collapse of the rabidly anti-Semitic
United Nations.
God's Word is true, and Bible prophecy is always
100 percent accurate. Jesus said that before He
returned, ALL Bible prophecy would be fulfilled
– to the tiniest "jot and tittle" – (the two
most insignificant characters in the Hebrew
alphabet).
In tracing Israel's history from Babylon to the
present, we see the incredible detail with which
God keeps His Word. Although America continues
to be Israel's principle protector, and
continues to enjoy the concomitant blessings
that come with it, America's good fortunes began
to wane about the same time the White House
forced Israel
into the Oslo Agreement.
The "land for peace" formula called for
Israel to give
up some of the land of Promise in exchange for
peace. In other words, it was a form of
blackmail whose terms were drawn up in
Washington and
forced upon Israel
for the express purpose of undoing what God had
already done, including dividing
Jerusalem and
taking part of it from the Jews.
"And in that day will I make
Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden
themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,
though all the people of the earth be gathered
together against it" (Zechariah 12:3).
People can certainly deny any biblical
connection, but the hard reality marches on with
the growing shadow now falling across
global society. Now it is America's turn to
discover just how serious God was about the
whole "blessing and cursing" thing.
And by the time circumstances force America to
recognize the danger it faces, it will be too
late to do anything to affect the outcome.
"So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My
Mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it
shall accomplish that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it "
(Isaiah 55:11).
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