Why all the anti-Semitism?

Such widespread hatred of Israel and the Jews cannot be explained outside of Bible prophecy. The attitude of the world toward God's chosen people has no rational basis.

I was looking at the site for State of Israel Bonds and I marveled at its bragging rights for a perfect credit record. Could there be any financial basis for such hatred? With such a credit record, how is this possible?

I offer here an explanation as I understand it.

As you know, God made an unconditional covenant with Abraham, and this was passed on exclusively to Isaac, not Ishmael. And from Isaac, it was passed on to Jacob, not Esau. And from Jacob, it was passed on to the twelve tribes. This unique covenant applies only to the children of Israel.

The events of the New Testament caused a major change to happen, and things did not pan out as even the Messianic Jews of the time anticipated.

In A.D. 70, Rome marched into Jerusalem and destroyed everything, and the surviving Jews were scattered among the Gentiles. It would take until 1948 for Israel to regain its statehood. And even now, the State of Israel is not the Messianic Kingdom that is still yet to come.

In this blog, we operate on the premise that Jesus is the Messiah... so what happened?

The main problem and underlying cause of anti-Semitic hatred among Gentiles who fancy themselves as Christians is called Replacement Theology. This is a belief that since the Jews killed Jesus Christ, and subsequently lost their land, that God has broken his covenant with Israel permanently, and transferred it to the Church. Of course, whichever Gentile thinks this, thinks that his church is the one true church and is the replacement of Israel. Thus, one who believes in Replacement Theology believes that the Jews are cursed of God and that Israel will never be restored.

The New Testament never says this anywhere. The New Testament ends with the return of Messiah, Israel fully restored and the Messiah reigning for one thousand years on a physical throne in Jerusalem.

The Gentile Church is a dispensation revealed in the New Testament, which does not replace Israel or any of its covenants at all.

Much like the Babylonian captivity, Israel was wrecked and occupied, and the Jews scattered among the Gentiles, "until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled."

In fact, even centuries before 1948, Gentile Christians have believed in the restoration of Israel and have prayed for it for a long time. Faithful Jews of course have always believed in the restoration of Israel because it is so strongly testified to in the Tanakh as well as the New Testament.

While beyond the scope of this post, I shall in this blog offer a Biblical explanation for what happened after A.D. 33 which led to the events of A.D. 70.

Please understand and just accept that no Bible-believing Christian can be anti-Semitic, and no anti-Semitic can be a Bible-believer. Furthermore, there is no Biblical basis for this so-called Replacement Theology. There is simply no common ground for either of these two beliefs to co-exist with the New Testament.

Anticipating disagreement

With this premise and the sorts of articles I mean to write, there is certain to be some disagreement.

This blog is not a debating forum. I may answer some disagreeable comments, if they are intelligent. Obvious hate and filthy language I will delete.

Introduction

I've had it on my mind for some time to write a series of articles showing how the New Testament is testified to throughout the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh.

The New Testament says that the oracles of God are given to the Jews, and it is a fact that all of its authors are Jewish.

1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
- Romans 3:1-2

As I often say to Jews I meet, and sometimes offering a Hebrew New Testament,

If the New Testament is what it says it is, then Jesus is the Messiah, there are two advents, and the first advent would be thoroughly testified to throughout the Torah, and in the very lives of the Patriarchs, in the Passover, and in the Tabenacle, and by hundreds of prophecies throughout the rest of the Tanakh.

It is an unfortunate reality that many Jews get very defensive over Christians. One major reason for this is because many Jews particularly from Europe and even from Israel think Christians are Roman Catholics. And of course Hitler and all his goons were Roman Catholics and they associate anti-semitism with Christianity.

This is not the truth. Roman Catholic dogma and Bible Christianity have nothing in common. And a Bible-believing Christian does not consider a Roman Catholic to be a Christian at all. The New Testament sharply contradicts Roman Catholic dogma on many points. In this blog I mean to sort out some of this mess.

As a Bible-believing Gentile Christian, I associate myself with an Independent Baptist Church, thus I would call myself an Independent Baptist. I believe in the total restoration of Israel and the invincibility of the Jewish people.

Truly, a curious Orthodox Jew could befriend some Messianic Jews or hunt through Messianic material. There are also many sites in existence with the information that I mean to present.

To the curious Jew, whether Orthodox or not, it is my intention to present the New Testament in terms that all Jews can relate to: and that is from the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh.

All I ask is that you read it for yourself and check the prophecies.

All of my references in English from the King James 1611 version.