2. Gen 12:1-3 “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a
land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and
I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”.
God as a Covenant Keeper has literally blessed the Jewish people
down through history and also kept them as a blessing to the rest of
the world. In every age, in every land, against all odds, and out of all
proportion to their actual numbers, the Jews have distinguished
themselves in every branch of human endeavors. What makes these
accomplishments extraordinary is that they have come in spite of
relentless hatred, persecution, slavery, and even extermination.
After creating human beings, “God blessed them, and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” Gen 1:28.
Not only the Jews have been an enormous blessing in ‘subduing’ the
earth, but also have been a blessing spiritually and through Father
Abraham we got the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions.
3. THE HOLY BIBLE
The Holy Bible is the greatest gift ever given to man
and it has come directly through the Jews. Where
the Bible is found, there is joy, peace, justice,
charity, freedom, societies civilized; and where the
Bible is not found, there is mostly oppression,
poverty, illiteracy, hero-worship, corruption and
above all the curse of pride and selfishness. In
addition the Bible provides the answers to the
philosophical questions like humans’ origin,
purpose, conduct, future, love and the truth about
life and death. The Bible also has inspired many
works of literature, art, science, and scientific
innovations.
4. LITERATURE
In literary expression, the Jewish writers are not excelled by
any other race, Flavius Josephus, a Jew, was one of the most
celebrated historians. It has been suggested that, in assessing
either Jewish history or the history of foreign nations, Josephus
deserves more credit than all of the Greek and Roman writers
put together. Immanuel of Rome was described as the “Jewish
Dante”.
Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of Felix, was a
philosopher and promoter of human rights. Heine, the poet is
considered to be the most important successor to Goethe in
defense of human freedom and was even called the “Jewish
Aristophanes”. Gabriel has been compared to both Dante and
Milton and has been called the “Jewish Plato”. And let us not
forget Maimonides, who contributed so much to philosophy
and literature as to make one wonder if he should be called
the “Jewish Aristotle”.
5. ART AND SCULPTURE
Art, another great medium of creative expression, does not lack Jewish
representation. The Danish artist Bendemann was considered the most
famous Jewish painter of the 18th century. The German Jew, Friedlander,
who painted “The Pawnbroker’s Shop”, had his paintings hung in the
Austrian Imperial Galleries. The Russian Jewish sculptor Antokolski
produced the well known “Jewish Tailor”, “Miser Counting His Money”,
“Peter the Great”, “Ivan the Terrible” and “The Death of Socrates”.
The Jewish sculptor, Moses Ezekiel, was knighted by both the King of Italy
and the Emperor of Germany. Among his sculptures are busts of Lizst and
Cardinal Hohenlohe, Eve, Homer, David, Judith, Christ in the Tomb, a
statue of Mrs. Andrew W. White for Cornell University, Madonna for the
Church La Tivoli, Faith for the Cemetery of Rome, Apollo and Mercury in
Berlin, Robert E. Lee, Pan and Amor, the Fountain of Neptune for the city
of Netturno, Italy, a bust of Lord Sherbrooke for St. Margaret, Westminster,
London, and scores of busts and relics.
He also produced the Jefferson Monument for Louisville, Kentucky, the
Homer Group for the University of Virginia, Virginia Mourning Her Dead at
Lexington, Virginia, Napoleon I at St. Helena, a monument to Senator
Daniel, Lynchburg, Virginia and the Confederate Soldiers’ Memorial at
Arlington National Cemetery. He also created a bust of Washington and
a statue of Eve. Another noted American Jewish artist is Henry Mosler who
canvassed “The Return of the Prodigal Son”.
6. MUSIC
As in art, the Jews have made remarkable strides in
adding so much to the aesthetic enjoyment of
mankind. Many famous composers of the 20th
century are Jewish, such as Kern, Gershwin, Berlin,
Rogers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, Gould,
Romberg, and Lerner and Loewe. The Jewish
Classical and Romantic composers of the last two
centuries comprise of the prodigy Felix
Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saenz, Ferdinand Hiller,
Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland,
Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Meyerbeer and other
equally talented individuals.
7. LAW AND MORALITY
The Ten Commandments form the fundamental
basis of law, morality, justice, love, and monotheism
etc. Only the Jews combined their moral codes with
their religion in such a way as to actually live and
exist through God. The prophets were a prime
example. They were a great moral force in Jewish
history, controlling and leading people and Kings.
Indeed the primary foundations of Western Laws are
developed based on the Laws of Moses. All their
Colonies had rules based on the Old Testament,
and the natural law derived from the Noahic
Covenant which eventually led to the declaration of
independence and the Bill of Rights. The
democratic idea of equality in the eyes of God,
which emphasizes the “similarities and not the
differences in man”, is from Jewish Law.
8. MEDICINE
There has been no scarcity of Jewish physicians, and many leaders, princes, and
kings have engaged their services. Even before Hippocrates, the Jews applied the
laws of medicine to healing, a fact which is evident in the Old Testament. Later the
Jews brought both chemical skills and luxuries to Europe through which they were
able to develop many of the present day allopathic medicines.
Men such as Ludwig Traube was called the “Father of Experimental Pathology”,
left monographs on thermometry, digitalis, and diseases of the lungs. Richard and
Oscar Liebreich, both brothers were called “Father of Ophthalmology and
Pharmacology”, respectively; the former studied eyesight and invented two
ophthalmoscopes. Oscar also discovered some important anesthetics and effects
of narcotics as well as other indispensable healing drugs. Gabriel Valentine, a
leading pathologist, worked on blood circulation, toxicology, digestion, the
electricity of muscles, and nerves. Robert Remak made discoveries in
electrotherapy, embryology, and neurology.
Dr. Carl Koller’s use of local anesthetic in eye operations led to its use in all other
surgery. Cesare Lombroso studied animals, insanity, and genius, but also
discovered the source of pellagra. Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Paul Ehrlich
discovered salvarsan for VD and Wasserman discovered the reaction to reveal
the presence of VD. Two Jewish doctors, Widal and Weil, discovered the treatment
for typhoid; another, Dr. Minkowsky, did research leading to the development of
insulin, and Dr. Bella Schick created a test to show diphtheria immunity. Dr. Casmir
Funk, a Polish Jew, discovered vitamins. Dr. Jonas Salk is familiar to all of us as the
discoverer of polio vaccine.
9. PSYCHOLOGY
Eric Erickson, one of the more famous, has
developed a developmental approach to
personality that is quite popular. Another who has
touched many of us is David Wechsler, the creator
of the well known IQ test. Two of the founders of
“Gestalt Psychology”, Kurt Kafka and Max
Wertheimer, who did the original experiment
demonstrating the phi phenomenon which led to
the motion picture, were also Jewish. Dr. Thomas
Sassy, whose name is almost a household term,
wrote the now famous book, “The Myth of Mental
Illness”. Of course, these are just a few of the Jews
who have advanced the sciences of both mind and
body.
10. SCIENCE
According to one account, in pre-Nazi Germany the Jews
were only .0075% of the population, yet comprised 25% of all
scientists and mathematicians. In Italy, the pre-war Jewish
population was only .001%, but more than 50% of the
distinguished mathematicians were Jews. Contemporarily,
Israel also ranks very high in its number of scientists. Israel has
forged ahead of scores of other countries including Belgium,
Denmark, Austria, Finland and Norway, in scientific research.
From the time of Daniel the Jews apparently possessed
scientific ability Dan 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but
well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in
knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had
ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they
might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
We also know that the Jews had enough skill to build the
pyramids, walls, river channels, and dams of Egypt, all of
which required mathematical and engineering ability.
11. ASTRONOMY AND AERONAUTICS
In the field of astronomy two Jews Abe and Zacuto (1450-1514), have
developed the astronomical tables and astrolabes used by Vasco da
Gama; and Levi Ben Garson, an astronomer and mathematician,
who in turn invented Jacob’s staff and a sun quadrant. The
Alphonsine Tables were prepared by Judah Ben Moses and Isaac
Ben Sid. These tables list the planetary movements and are said to
form the basic document of modern day astronomy. William Herschel
discovered the planet Uranus, the fixed position of 2500 nebulae, and
identified 209 binary stars, besides determining the elements of Saturn
and the relation of the Milky Way to the universe.
Otto Lilienthal, the first Jewish pilot, built a flying machine which flew
to a distance of 1,000 ft. at a height of 100 ft. Another Jew, A.M,
Herring, made a copy of Otto’s machine and made 100 flights. Then
an associate, Octave Chanut, brought this copy to the brothers
named Wright while they were experimenting with their own
machine. It was Emile Berliner who invented the first workable flying
machine of the helicopter type.
12. MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
By far the most famous and far reaching discoveries and inventions by Jews have been
in mathematics and physics. Michelson, the first American Nobel Prize winner, measured
the speed of light and the diameters of two stars larger than the sun. His work was
considered to be the beginning of Einstein’s work. In 1887 he suggested that the sodium
light wave-length be a standard unit, since it is so “constant.” There is also Norbert
Wiener, a mathematician who was called the “Father of Cybernetics”, the science that
developed the computers.
The Italian Jew Tulilo Levi-Civita was renowned for his theory of parallel displacement
and his work was fundamental to Einstein’s theory of relativity. The French Jew, Jacques
Hadamard, has been called one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
Another Italian Jew, Vito Volterro, initiated a new branch of mathematics called the
theory of integral and differential equations and stands among the great
mathematicians of modern times. Jewish mathematicians also developed or
contributed to the geometry of numbers, differential calculus, algebraic geometry, set
theory, and matrix algebra.
Charles Steinmetz was solely responsible for bringing electricity into our homes. Siegfried
Marcus made the first electrical instrument for regulating temperature and invented a
way of measuring earth movements. He also worked on forerunners of the loudspeaker
and the electric lamp. Eugene Goldstein participated in the discovery of gamma rays.
Heinrich Hertz measured the length and velocity of electromagnetic waves and
demonstrated the “electromagnetic nature of light”. Robert Von Lieben worked on an
early grid tube which led to the radio and Isador Kitsie, both of Vienna, obtained a
patent used by Marconi in the development of the wireless communication.
13. CHEMISTRY
During WW I. Chaim Weizman created
acetone, a flammable liquid necessary for
the production of cordite, the smokeless
powder crucial to the British war machine. As
a reward, the British passed the Balfour
Declaration in 1917 in order to provide a
homeland for the Jews. So thanks to
Weizman, and at his request, the state of
Israel became a reality. Weizman also helped
the U.S. to make synthetic rubber in 1942, thus
having an important effect on WWII.
14. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
The Jews established the theory of the atom, split the atom, and made
the atom bomb, the H Bomb and the neutron bomb. Albert Einstein
established the enormous power in a nuclear explosion and its incredible
energy, through the now universally known equation E = MC2. He was
also involved in the invention of television. A Jewish woman, Lise Meitner,
an expert in atomic theory, was involved in the neutron-induced fission of
the uranium nucleus. Enrico Fermi, an Italian Jew, is given credit for the
first successful nuclear fission, in other words, splitting the atom.
With the advent of WWII came the Manhattan Project led by the Jew J.
Robert Oppenheimer. He also advanced quantum theory and helped
originate work in cosmic rays and relativity. Another Jewish pioneer of
the atom is Niels Bohr (Danish) who also worked on the bomb. Another
participant in the Manhattan Project was Edward Teller, a Hungarian Jew.
Teller is responsible for a more awesome nuclear weapon, namely the H-
bomb. God preserved him for this purpose since he was forced to flee the
Nazis and come to America, as did Fermi, Meitner, and Einstein. Finally,
there is Sam Cohen, a little known American Jew who also worked on the
Manhattan Project. But, unknown to his own neighbors, modest Sam was
responsible for the creation of the neutron bomb. Obviously there is
almost a complete monopoly by the Jews on the nuclear market.
15. I. C. ENGINES AND PHONOGRAM
The first successful internal combustion engine was invented
by a Jew called Siegfried Marcus and is remembered as
father of the internal-combustion engine (1864). Another
German Jew named Philip Reis invented an apparatus in 1860
that could transmit pitch and then speech with few changes. It
has also been described as a “hearing apparatus” and an
actual telephone. A Jewish associate named Greenberg
“improved” the apparatus and brought it to America for
manufacture. A Jewish businessman named Loath linked up
Greenberg with Alexander Bell. While it is true that Edison was
the original inventor of the primitive phonograph, it was
actually a Jew named Peter Goldmark who invented the
“long playing phonograph”. He also won the National Medal
of Science. To complement the phonograph, Emile Berlinger
invented the modern form of the flat disc record and a related
instrument microphone.
16. CAMERA AND SPOKED
WHEEL
The Jews also invented the camera
(Edwin Land), stainless steel (Benno
Strauss), the spoked wheel, and the
traffic light. These are just to name the
few of the inventions made by Jews
but in reality their contribution to the
development of this world is numerous
and all can not be listed in this small
booklet.
17. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
In business, commerce, and finance the Jews are quite resourceful,
industrious, and self-supporting. It is the Jews who have introduced
the “Bill of Exchange” (paper money) into European business, which
was safer to carry than specie and it became the “backbone of
commerce”. The House of Rothschild, while naturally making profits,
aided Western progress by making national loans, helping to develop
the industry of Europe. They financed most 19th century railroad
construction and provided funds in World War I. The House of
Seligman, with the Rothschild, financed much of the Civil War for the
North and financed the U.S. Navy and State Department from 1876
into the 20th Century. According to H.G. Wells, most “enterprises,
undertaken by the sovereigns of the 10th to the 15th century were
promoted by Jewish financiers;” the many cathedrals, abbeys and
beautiful buildings are examples. Aaron of Lincoln was one individual
who financed many such buildings.
18. PRINTING
Two Jews, Procopius Waldvogel and Davin of
Caderousse put together the “art of dyeing” with
Hebrew letters which were to be “well cut in iron”.
This invention was preparatory for printing. In 1444,
Soncini an Italian Jew invented the art of printing in
his native Italy from which the Jews spread the art to
the rest of Europe via Spain. The list of enterprises is
too large to enumerate here. Regardless of the
business, the Jews always taught their children a
trade or skill, not only because of the Diaspora and
its related persecution, but also in fulfillment of the
Scriptures.
19. DIASPORA
Deuteronomy chapters 28, 29 & 30 depict the whole history of
Israel, from the time they entered the Land of Promise until the
return of Christ. It includes the captivities to which they were
subjected, and even the very feelings of hatred that they
would engender in other people. This was prophesied by
Moses even before they were constituted as a nation.
Israel was offered prosperity and blessing in return for their
obedience to God’s Commandments, but deprivation and
curse if disobedient. Continued disobedience would result in
removal from the land and scattering among the gentile
nations, where they would be oppressed and become a
proverb. Both were experienced by Israel. Blessings were
abundant in the reigns of David, Solomon and other faithful
kings; but trouble and captivity came following continued
disobedience, culminating in the deportation of the ten tribes
to Assyria and then the two tribes to Babylon.
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23. Lack of Epignosis
Isaiah 6:13 “therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because they have no knowledge.”
Hosea 4:6 says, “my people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be
no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law
of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” As we
have seen, all of them have ‘gnosis’, but God wants
them to have ‘epignosis’, i.e. the intimate
knowledge of the Creator or the superior spiritual
knowledge. Not only this lack of spiritual knowledge
has resulted in the Diaspora, but also has brought
upon the curse.
24. The Curse
Mat 27:22-25 “Pilate saith unto them, what shall I do then with Yeshua who is
called Christ? They all say unto him, let him be crucified. And the governor
said, why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let
him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our
children.”
It was a practice in Athens that if anyone accused another of a capital
crime; he devoted himself and his children to the same punishment if the
accused was afterward found innocent. This has become a practice in other
countries also. The Jews were no exception even though they had no right
to call down this vengeance upon their children.
They were as unanimous in their imprecations upon themselves, as in
desiring the crucifixion of Yeshua: Not for the cleansing of their sins, which
virtue that blood has, but if there were any blot or pollution, through the
shedding of it, they wished it might be on them. Not for the forgiveness of
their sins, which that blood was shed for; but on the contrary, if there was
any sin and guilt in it, they desired it might be imputed to them. Nor for their
justification before God and security from wrath to come, which are by his
blood; but all the reverse of this, that if there were any punishment,
condemnation, and death, due for the shedding of it, they imprecated it all
upon themselves, and their posterity.
25. FULFILLMENT OF THE INEVITABLE
Daniel 9:25-26 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going
forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two
weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous
times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with
a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”
Isaiah 64:10-11 “Thy holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things
are laid waste.” Micah 3:12 “Therefore shall Zion for your sake be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the
mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.” Mark13:2
“And Yeshua answering said unto him, Seest thou these great
buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not
be thrown down.”
26. PERSECUTION OF JEWS AFTER YESHUA Contd.
In less than forty years after the crucifixion of Yeshua that
was in A.D 70 Jerusalem and the Temple were overthrown
and destroyed. More than a million people perished in the
siege. Thousands died of famine; thousands by disease;
thousands by the sword; and their blood ran down the
streets like water. Thousands were crucified suffering the
same punishment that they had inflicted on the Messiah.
So great was the number of those who were crucified,
that, it was only stopped because, “room being wanted
for the crosses, and crosses for the men”.
With the destruction of Jerusalem 1,100,000 Jews were
killed and 97,000 taken into captivity and slavery. In 115,
several hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus. In 132-35,
during the Bar Kochba rebellion 500,000 Jews were killed
and thousands were taken and sold into slavery.
27. PERSECUTION OF JEWS AFTER YESHUA Contd.
In 135, Roman Emperor Hadrian commenced his persecution of
the Jews. He built a temple for Jupiter on the temple mount
(Moriah) in Jerusalem and a temple to Venus on Golgotha. Jews
were forbidden to practice circumcision, the reading of the Law,
eating of unleavened bread at Passover or any Jewish festival.
Infringement of this edict brought the death penalty.
In 315, Constantine the Great established “Christianity” as the
State religion throughout the Roman Empire; issued many anti-
Jewish laws. In 379-95, Theodosius the Great expelled Jews from
any official position or place of honor. Permitted the destruction of
their synagogues if by so doing, it served a religious purpose. In
613 all Jews who refused to be baptized had to leave Spain. A few
years later the remaining Jews were dispossessed and declared as
slaves.
In 1096, at the beginning of the First Crusade, in Germany, 12,000
Jews were killed branding them as enemies of Christendom. In
1121, Jews were driven out of Flanders. They were not to return until
they repented of their guilt of killing Jesus Christ. In 1146-47, at the
beginning of the Second Crusade the French monk Rudolf called
for the destruction of the Jews.
28. PERSECUTION OF JEWS Contd.
In 1181, the French King Philip banished the Jews from his domain.
In 1189, at the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted, unexpected
persecution of the Jews broke out in England. Most Jewish houses
in London were burnt. In 1290, Edward I banished the Jews from
England. In 1298, the nobleman Kalbfleish alleged that he had
received a divine order to destroy all the Jews. More than 100,000
Jews were mercilessly killed in Franconia, Bavaria and Austria.
In 1306, King Philip the Fair banished the Jews from France, forcing
100,000 Jews to leave the country. In 1320, in France, 40,000
shepherds dedicated themselves for the Shepherd Crusade to free
Palestine from the Muslims. But under the influence of criminals
and land grabbers, they destroyed 120 Jewish communities.
In 1321, Jews were accused of having incited outlaws to poison
wells and fountains in the district of Guienne, France. As a result
5,000 Jews were burned to death. In 1348, Jews were blamed for
the plague throughout Europe, especially in Germany. In
Strausberg 2,000 Jews were burned. In Maintz 6,000 were killed in
a most gruesome fashion. In Erfut 3,000; and in Worms 400 Jews
burned themselves in their homes.
29. PERSECUTION OF JEWS Contd.
In 1370, Jews were blamed for having defiled the “Host” (wafer used in the
Mass) in Brabant. The accused were burnt alive. In 1391, in Spain, 70
Jewish communities were cruelly massacred and their bodies
dismembered. In 1394, second banishment of Jews from France took
place. In 1453, the Franciscan monk, Capistrano, persuaded the King of
Poland to withdraw all citizens’ rights of the Jewish people.
In 1478, the Spanish inquisition directed against the Jews and resulted in
the banishment of Jews from Spain. In 1492, 300,000 Jews who refused to
be “baptized” into the Church of Rome were forced to leave Spain
penniless.
In 1497, the Jews were banished from Portugal. King Manuel, generally
friendly to the Jews, under pressure from Spain instigated forced baptism
resulting in 20,000 Jews leaving the country and those who remained were
declared slaves. In 1516, the first Ghetto was established in Venice. In
1540, Jews were banished from Naples and 10 years later, from Genoa
and Venice.
In 1794, Jewish men were forced to serve 25 years in the Russian military.
Because of this many hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to leave
Russia. 1933 was the commencement of the mother of all persecutions by
Hitler. It was the systematic annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews throughout Nazi-
occupied Europe. These persecutions are continuing unabated even
today.
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32. HARDNESS OF HEART
Isaiah 6:9-10 “And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of
this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they
see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their
heart, and convert, and be healed.” Isaiah must preach to them, and
they will hear him indeed, but that is all; they will not heed him; they will
not understand him; they will not take any pains, nor use that application
of mind which is necessary to the understanding of him; they are
prejudiced against that which is the true intent and meaning of what he
says, and therefore they will not understand him, or pretend they do not.
They see indeed but they perceive not their own concern in it; it is to
them as a tale that is told.
Those that were willfully blind should be judicially blinded. They will not
understand or perceive thee, and therefore thou shalt be instrumental to
make their heart fat, senseless, and sensual, and so to make their ears
yet more heavy, and to shut their eyes the closer; so that, at length, their
recovery and repentance will become utterly impossible and they shall
no more be able to see the danger they are in. Some looked upon the
word as a privilege, and their convictions were smothered by it; others
looked upon it as a provocation, and their corruptions were exasperated
by it.
33. GOD’S DISPLEASURE
Isaiah 1:11-15 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the
fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of
lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath
required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain
oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and
Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear
them.”
1Sa 15:22 “And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold,
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”
Micah 6:7 “Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with
ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my
transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” Jer 6:20 “To
what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the
sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.”
34. GOD’S PROPENSITY
As we all know, they are still being persecuted and have
become a hissing and a byword among people. No single
nation, has ever suffered so much; and yet they have been
preserved, as Jer 30:11 says, “For I am with thee, saith the
Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations
whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of
thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee
altogether unpunished.”
All classes of people, all the governments of the earth, have
conspired to overwhelm them with calamity, and yet they still
live as monuments of God’s justice and as proofs of the crime
of their fathers in putting the Messiah to death, and in calling
down vengeance on their heads. Zec 8:13 “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.”
35. HORN OF ISRAEL
Micah 7:18-19 “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He
retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He
will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our
iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”
Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.” Isaiah 9:6,7 “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is
given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name
shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and
peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever.”
And we see how these prophecies have been fulfilled. Luke 1:67-69
“And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
prophesied, saying, blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath
visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant David.”
36. GOD’S PROPITIATION
Ever since the first blood sacrifice was offered by Abel, the world has
seen enormous amount of animals being sacrificed not only by the Jews
but also by Hindus and Moslems for the very same purpose of redeeming
their souls. But God, at the appointed time had sent His only begotten Son
to be offered as The Supreme Sacrifice for the redemption of the entire
mankind, fulfilling His promise meticulously.
Gen 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.” Yeshua was wounded in the heel through His death.
Isaiah 53:4-5 “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was
wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.” Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have
given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the
blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.”
First, the woman is to have a seed: as we know, this pointed forward to
our Lord’s humanity. Second, He was to be peculiarly the woman’s
“seed,” not the man’s, hence we read, “When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman” (Gal. 4:4). Third, the
woman’s “seed” was to bruise the Serpent: in other words, Satan was to
be His particular antagonist. Fourth, He was to bruise the Serpent’s head.
Fifth, He Himself was to be bruised in the “heel” by the Serpent; and
hence it is written, He was “bruised for our iniquities” (Is. 53:5). Sixth, there
was to be “enmity” between the Serpent and the one who gave birth to
the “seed,” namely Israel (cf. Rev. 12:1-6).
37. VICTORY OVER DEATH
Isaiah 25:8 “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord
God will wipe away the tears from off all faces; and the
rebuke of his people shall he taken away from off all the earth:
for the Lord hath spoken it.” Isaiah 35:10 “And the ransomed of
the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Death is also another name for Satan and today these two
seedlings still continue to fight against one another in the
physical and spiritual realms. It is simply an ancient battle
between the children of God and the children of the devil. Col
2:15 “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made
a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Heb 2:14
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had the power of
death, that is, the devil.”
38. DAVIDIC KINGDOM
2Sa 7:16 “And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever
before thee: thy throne shall be established forever.” 1Ch 17:14 “But I will
settle him in mine house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall
be established forevermore.” This Everlasting Throne [spiritual kingdom] of
David is being established through his descendant Yeshua, by destroying
the Devil along with his agents who are the enemies of both Israel and
the spiritual children of God.
Psa 89:36 “His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before
me.” Luke 1:30-33 “And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou
hast found favor with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy
womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yeshua. He shall be
great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall
give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the
house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
God wants to give the whole world to Jesse’s descendents through
Yeshua. Gen 13:15-16 “For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give
it, and to thy seed forever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy
seed also be numbered. And said, by myself have I sworn, saith the Lord,
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only son.” Gen 22:17-18 “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the
sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
39. GOD’S INVITATION
Ezekiel 33:11”Say unto them, as I live, saith the Lord God, I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his
way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die,
O house of Israel?” Zephaniah 3:17 ”The Lord thy God in the midst of
thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will
rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.” Isaiah 1:18 ”Come
now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 43:25 ”I, even I, am he that
blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins.”
Yesua’s Invitation: John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and life; no one
comes to the Father except through me. John 5:24 “Verily, verily, I
say unto you, he that hears my word, and believes in Him that sent
me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.” Rev.3:20 “Behold, I stand at the
door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”
40. ENSIGN OF THE PEOPLE
The children of Israel were selected as the channel of Divine
revelation because they were the descendants of the faithful fathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Exodus 9:5-6 “Now therefore, if ye will
obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”
Isaiah 25:9 “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
Isaiah 11:10 “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:
and his rest shall be glorious.” Isaiah 60:3 “And the Gentiles shall
come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” Philippians
2:9-11 “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name: That at the name of Yeshua every
knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Yeshua is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
41. RETURN OF THE MESSIAH
Dan 7:9, 13-14 “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the
Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the
hair of His head like the pure wool: His throne was like the fiery
flame, and His wheels as burning fire. I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven,
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before
him. And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away,
and His Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
Even today the Jewish people are waiting for the Messiah to come
and deliver them from all their literal enemies. As they are
expecting, the Messiah is coming, but as the King of Kings, Lord of
Lords and as the Righteous Judge. Psalm 96:13 “For He cometh, for
He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with
righteousness, and the people with His truth.” Mal 3:2 “But who may
abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he
appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap.”
42. RETURN OF THE MESSIAH Contd.
Amos 5:18-20 “Woe unto you that desire the day of the
Lord! To what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is
darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and
a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his
hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of
the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no
brightness in it?” This will be the condition for those who
have rejected Yeshua and His salvation. Luke 21:27 “And
then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
Power and Great Glory.” Rev 6:17 “For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
2Ch 30:8 “Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were,
but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his
sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: and serve the
Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn
away from you.”
43. HIS PEOPLE SHALL REIGN
Rev 21:10-12 “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and
high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and
her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper
stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written
thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of
Israel.”
Deut 28:1 “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy
God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.” Deut 15:6
“For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou
shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.”
Zec 8:22 “Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek
the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.”
44. SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS
The first great evangelist was a Jew. His
name was Paul. The first Christians were
Jews. Judaism gave rise to Christianity and
God blessed mankind through the greatest
Jew of all, Yeshua, the son of Mary, who, by
His blood, reconciled both Jews and
Gentiles to the one true God, “for salvation is
of the Jews” (John 4: 22).
If the Jewish people were to be of such
immense blessing to the whole world, while
they themselves are under their own curse,
then how much more will it be, if they were
to be without the curse?