1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey there, welcome back. This is the Out 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: of Zion podcast, our Israel Answers series. We're taking a 3 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: few weeks here to connect the Bible to modern Israel. 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: So we're spanning the gap filling in some information to 5 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: help prepare you for our future episodes. We're going to 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: answer questions about Israel, about the Bible, and about you 7 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: and how it affects you. So the last two weeks 8 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: we talked about the development of Judaism and in Christianity. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: This week we're going to talk about an ugly reality 10 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: that has been there throughout all this history, and it 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: is the ugly face of anti Semitism. Now, this is 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: a really important issue for you to understand, so I 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: encourage you stick with me for a few minutes here 14 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: so that you understand what is going on today and 15 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: the responsibility on our shoulders to stand against it. 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: Today, let's take a break and hear a message from 17 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 2: one of our sponsors. 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And now here's our host, Susan Michael. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: You know, in twenty and fourteen, there was a global 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: study of the entire world and it determined that twenty 26 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: five percent of people on the planet held anti Semitic views. 27 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: That's a lot of people, and seventy percent of them 28 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: had never met a Jewish person. Whoa what does that 29 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: tell you? We have a problem here. It's a problem 30 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: of propaganda, it's a problem of conspiracy, theories of lies. 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: These people had never even met a Jewish person and 32 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: yet they held these negative views about them. Well, since 33 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, nothing has gotten better. It's only gotten worse. 34 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: And anti Semitism is surging around the world. It's epidemic 35 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: levels in the Middle East. It's set pre Holocaust levels 36 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: in Europe. It's even surging here in the United States. 37 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: Last year, New York and last year being twenty twenty one, 38 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: New York recorded one hundred percent increase in anti Semitic 39 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: incidents over the year before, and in Los Angeles they 40 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: recorded a fifty nine percent increase from the year before. 41 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: So let's talk about this. What is anti Semitism? While 42 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: in simple terms, it is hatred of or bigotry towards Jews. 43 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: But I'm going to use a term every once in 44 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: a while of Christian anti semitism. So what would be 45 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: a definition of Christian anti Semitism? And that would be 46 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: when a professing Christian uses the Christian scriptures to denigrate 47 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: Jewish people and support antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories. That's 48 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: what we call Christian anti semitism. Now, many of you 49 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: listening to me are Evangelical Christians, and you would argue 50 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: there can be no such thing as Christian anti Semitism. 51 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's an oxymoron, right. How can you be 52 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: a Christian and hold hatred or bigotry towards anybody, but 53 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: especially the Jewish people, the roots of our faith. Unfortunately, 54 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: history has proven that it is a reality. Now, the 55 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: picture that I know of that helps you to understand 56 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: this evil of anti Semitism is to talk about it 57 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: in terms of a mutating virus. Then it begins to 58 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: make sense. We're all we're all familiar with terminology about 59 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: viruses these days, so it's not a big jump here. 60 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: But the evil pursuit of the Jewish people has been 61 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: around since the beginning of time, really from millennia, and 62 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: it's why the historian Robert Wistridge calls it the longest hatred. 63 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: And every time we think that we have wiped out 64 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: this irrational hatred of the Jewish people, it seems to 65 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: be dying out. What it does is it just reinvents itself. 66 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: It's like a virus. It'll go dormant for a while, 67 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: you think you've got it, and then it comes out 68 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: in a mutated form with kind of a different language, 69 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: maybe a different face, but at the end of the day, 70 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: it's all about the same goal to rid the world 71 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: of the Jewish people. So there's a lot of history. 72 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: I won't go into it where it kind of got started, 73 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: where the roots of it are, but back even before 74 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: the time of Christ, in the world of the empires, 75 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: changing from the Persian Empire to the Greek Empire to 76 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: the Roman Empire, there was a lot of back and 77 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: forth with the Jewish people and these ruling empires seemed 78 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: to be the first anti Semitic writing was out of Egypt. 79 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: But in the Bible, our first story that seems to 80 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: depict anti Semitism, not just a pagan religion. So let 81 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: me explain. All these empires were based on paganism, and 82 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: you either worship the emperor himself or you worship the 83 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: emperor's gods, and you were required to to show your 84 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: loyalty to the empire. And of course the Jews couldn't 85 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: do that. Their God had told them not to worship 86 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: any other god. And later on the Christians in the 87 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: same boat. So this would often put them at odds 88 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: with these pagan empires. But in the Bible, the story 89 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: of the Book of Esther seems to go a step further. 90 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: This isn't about the Persian king and about worshiping him. 91 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: This is a member of the royal court, the consort Hayman. 92 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: He hates the Jews because they won't bow down to him, 93 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: and so he devises this plan just to have them 94 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: all killed, just kill them all. And so the story 95 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: of Esther really is a very good example of just 96 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: an irrational hatred of the Jewish people, and in the 97 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: ancient times paganism may have had some part to do 98 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: in it. And then under the Greeks we have the 99 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: story of Hanukkah, which isn't in the Bible. It happened 100 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: in between the Old Testament and the New Testament. But 101 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: it was all about the Seleucid king in Tichus, the 102 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: fourth Epiphanes, and he tried to enforce paganism on the 103 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: Jewish people, and they revolted and they actually defeated his 104 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: forces regained sovereignty, and that's what the celebration of Hanukkah 105 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: is all about. But you would think once these pagan 106 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: empires gave way to the Christian Empire, when the Roman 107 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: Empire became Christian in the fourth century AD, you would 108 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: think that this anti Semitism and this struggle with the 109 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: Jewish people would have ended. But that's not at all. Instead, 110 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: anti Semitism just came into the heart of Christianity and 111 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: Christian Europe, where the Christian people preached against the Jewish 112 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: faith and then began to discriminate against the Jewish people 113 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: and passed all kinds of laws against them. And I 114 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: talked a little bit about this last week. I'll repeat 115 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: it very briefly that it's the preaching against the Jewish 116 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: religion that started in the Church fathers, and then that 117 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: became translated into laws that discriminated against the Jewish people. 118 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: They couldn't hold certain jobs and have certain professions, they 119 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: couldn't own land. At times, they were rounded up and 120 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: forced to live in ghettos. At times they were actually 121 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: expelled from countries. At times their children was kidnapped, and 122 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: they were forced to be baptized, trying to force them 123 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: to become Christians. It's a really long, terrible history of 124 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: what we would call Christian anti Semitism. And sometimes we 125 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: tend to think, oh, well, that was the Catholic Church, 126 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,479 Speaker 1: or that was the other church. That's not us. We're Protestant, 127 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: now we're Evangelical. But unfortunately the story is continued under 128 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: the father of the Reformation, Martin Luther. He reached out 129 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: in very friendly ways to the Jews. He said, no, 130 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: wonder you haven't converted to Christianity the way you've been treated. 131 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: So he was very nice to them, expecting that they're 132 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: now all going to convert to Christianity. And when they didn't, 133 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: he turned against them and he wrote terrible antisemitic things 134 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: against the Jewish people, and his writings were later reprinted 135 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: and used by the Nazis in order to keep the 136 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: church quiet while he carried out what he said, Christianity 137 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: had actually already been preaching. So Christianity did not carry alcoholocaust, 138 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: but the Holocaust definitely, we paved the way for it. 139 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: Christian anti semitism paved the way for the Holocaust. But 140 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: now the Nazis, their anti semitism was not based on 141 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: a religious philosophy. It was based on racial theories and 142 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: eugenics and the belief that the races are different, and 143 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: that there are some more developed races, and there are 144 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: underdeveloped races, and there are underdeveloped races that are polluting 145 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: the human genome, and so they needed to be eradicated. 146 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: And top of the list of developed races was the 147 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: Aryan race, and bottom was the Jews. And the Jews 148 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: were living there amongst the Aryans. So the Nazi policies 149 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:23,359 Speaker 1: were based on racial anti semitism, saying these Jews were subhuman, 150 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: they were evil, they were tainting the racial pool there 151 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: in Germany, and they needed to be eradicated. Now, so 152 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: they tried to eradicate all eleven million Jews in Europe. 153 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: They made it through six million, but their goal had 154 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: been eleven million. And it's just a horrendous piece of 155 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: history and the fact that Christian anti Semitism paved the 156 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: way for it provided a bit of a foundation for 157 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: it is a travesty and it's something that every Christian 158 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: needs to understand this and come to terms with it 159 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: and learn how to now approach the Jewish people with 160 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: mutual with humility first of all, and a bit of 161 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: repentance and with mutual respect. 162 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 2: Let's take a break and here a message from one 163 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 2: of our sponsors. Welcome back to the Out of Zion 164 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 2: podcast with Susan Michael. 165 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: So we've gone from pagan anti semitism, the Christian anti semitism, 166 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: to racial anti semitism, and that brings us up to today. Today, 167 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: we wouldn't support any of those three expressions of anti Semitism. 168 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: So today the virus has mutated and it's come out 169 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: with an expression that the Western world is actually a 170 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: top what is it? Well, today, the face of anti 171 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: Semitism is largely a political one. It's all about the 172 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: Jewish collective, not the Jewish individual, but the collective, the 173 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: Jewish state, the state of Israel. And so you can accuse, 174 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: you can demonize Israel, and you can accuse him of 175 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: being evil and Nazis and racist and all these crazy accusations, 176 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: and the Western world will tolerate it. The world will 177 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: tolerate it because this is an expression of anti Semitism 178 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: that has found the face for today, and it's a 179 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: political face now. Not all criticism of Israel's antisemitic, of 180 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: course not Israel's not a perfect place. It's made up 181 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: of fallible human beings, just like America is. I mean, 182 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: America is far from perfect. I love America and I 183 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: support America, and I love Israel and I support Israel. 184 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean that they're perfect. It doesn't mean 185 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: I agree with everything that they do as a state 186 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: or as a policy. But I've studied their history and 187 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: the facts are on their side. I know the people 188 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: of Israel and they are wonderful people, a good hearted people. 189 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: And so we're going to talk more about these things 190 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: in future episodes on our Israel Answers series. But let 191 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: me move on because there is one other type of 192 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: anti Semitism in the world today. I'm not going to 193 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: spend any time on this one, but there is also 194 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: another expression of anti Semitism that the world tolerates, and 195 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: it is the Muslim expression of anti Semitism. So within 196 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: Islam there is a theological basis for anti Semitism, but 197 00:14:53,920 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: it's been beefed up with racial ideologies that came down 198 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: through the Nazi ranks to the Middle East back earlier 199 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: in World War Two. And it also has a political 200 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: expression because of the situation with the Palestinians. And so 201 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: it's not purely religious, but it is religious, it is political, 202 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: and it does have racial undertones, and yet a secular, 203 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: globalist West tolerates it. It's mind blowing, but that is 204 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: because anti Semitism is actually an evil spiritual force. It's 205 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: not just a political force. It's not just a social force. 206 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: It's not just anything that can be explained away or 207 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: gotten rid of. It keeps coming back. It is always there, 208 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: and it is a relentless evil pursuit of the Jewish people. 209 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: Now this brief shows you there is no rational explanation 210 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: for this other than a biblical one. We have to 211 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: understand spiritual realities to understand anti Semitism and its history. 212 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: So we go all the way back to the Garden 213 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: of Eden and in Genesis three point fifteen, where God 214 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: tells the serpent, he says, I will put enmity between 215 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: you and the woman and between your offspring and hers. 216 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: He will crush your head and you will strike his heel. Now, 217 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: of course this is a prophetic word about the Messiah 218 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: would come and would crush the head of the evil serpent. 219 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: But before that happens, there is this enmity between the 220 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: forces of evil and against the woman. And there's another 221 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: scripture that depicts us you beautifully, and that's in the 222 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,719 Speaker 1: New Testament, in the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, and 223 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: there it describes a woman who is clothed with the 224 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: moon and the sun and twelve stars around her head, 225 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel, and she is pregnant 226 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: and going to give birth to the male child who 227 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: will rule the world. And so this is a perfect 228 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: depiction of the people of Israel, and they're calling to 229 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: be the vehicle, the birthing people for God's plan of redemption. 230 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: They're going to birth the Messiah into the world. And 231 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: it says that sitting at her feet to devour the 232 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: male child is this dragon. And later it says the 233 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: dragon goes after the woman and she is whisked away 234 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: into the wilderness for safety, and then he comes after 235 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: her again. It says, the earth just protects her. The 236 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: serpent gets the dragon gets so mad because he cannot 237 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: get at the woman Israel, so he goes after her 238 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 1: other offspring, those with the testimony of Jesus. So the enmity, 239 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: the spiritual enmity against Israel, is the same enmity that 240 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: goes back to the Garden of Eden. It is against 241 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: the Messiah that's going to come and crush the head 242 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 1: of the evil one. And until then he will do 243 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: everything he can to stop that from happening. And if 244 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: he can destroy the woman, he will destroy God's plans 245 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: and purposes. If he can destroy the Church, he will 246 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: have destroyed God's plans and purposes. So another scripture that 247 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: I'll always quote that for me describes the biblical explanation 248 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: of anti Semitism is in the Psalms Psalm eighty three 249 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: Versus one four, Just picking a few of the phrases 250 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: here and there, but in brief it says, Oh God, 251 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: those who hate you have said, let us wipe them off. 252 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: Let us cut them off as a nation, that the 253 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: name of Israel would be no more. So this is 254 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: very clear that it is the enemies of God himself 255 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: that are after his people, his people Israel. It is 256 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: a spiritual battle. And this is why, my friends, that 257 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: we as Christians are called to pray for them, to 258 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: bless them, and to stand in solidarity with them, because 259 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: we understand the spiritual battle, and we have been equipped 260 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,479 Speaker 1: with the spiritual weapons to fight spiritual battles in prayer. 261 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: And so this is our calling in these days, and 262 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: this is why it's so important that we make this 263 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: connection between the Bible and Israel today, this evil pursuit 264 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: that we must stand against. So I hope that you 265 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: have learned something today. I would like to offer you 266 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: a free booklet if you want to understand more about 267 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: just what I've covered today, this history of anti Semitism. 268 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: I wrote a little booklet, very simple, easy to read, 269 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: to equip you so that you can review it. You 270 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: have something you can share with others. So in today's 271 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: show notes, we give you a link to where you 272 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,880 Speaker 1: can download that book. You'll find it on the out 273 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: of zionshow dot com website under resources Free resource for 274 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: you take advantage of it. So we're going to be 275 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: back here next week. For the next two weeks, we're 276 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: going to continue connecting the Bible to Israel today and 277 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: so I want to see you back here then. Until then, 278 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: God Bless, and I want to offer you a free download. 279 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: We have a download ten reasons to Stand with Israel, 280 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: and actually it's ten reasons why Christians should stand with Israel. 281 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: Get your free download by going to the link in 282 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: today's show note, or go to www dot out of 283 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: zionshow dot com and click on the tab for resources. 284 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: We'll have it there as well, but be sure download 285 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: this free resource for you. We're going to be talking 286 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: about some of the points in it in the coming week, 287 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: so we want to make sure that you have it. 288 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: You can print it out, you can share it with 289 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: friends and family, invite them to join us here on 290 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: the Out of Zion Show for our Israel Answer series. 291 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: So we'll see you back here next week and until then, 292 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: God bless. 293 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 2: We hope you have enjoyed this episode of Out of 294 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 2: Zion with Susan Michael, or to subscribe to Out of 295 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: Zion now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Pray dot Com, 296 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 2: Salem Oneplace, Salem Life Audio. 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