Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Source of Jewish Trouble

Why do Jews have so much trouble?

For about the last 2000 years Jews have had a lot of trouble.

First there were all kinds of turmoil in Judea that lead to many Jews dying at the hands of the Romans and each other until 70 AD.  Then there was the Great Revolt that lead to the death of more than one million Jews and the complete destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.  The Temple that Jewish religious life centered around was wiped off the face of the Earth at this time.  Then there was more years of turmoil throughout the Roman Empire where many more Jews died at the hands of the Romans, people conquered by the Romans and each other until 135 AD.  Then in 135 AD the Bar Kochba Rebellion lead to death of another million or more Jews, the end of the providence of Judea and most surviving Jews being exiled from the Promised Land to either be scattered throughout the Roman Empire or to flee to lands outside of the Roman Empire.  Less than one Jew in a thousand still lived in the Promised land after the Roman Diaspora began.

The years that followed did not get any easier.  The last known native speaker of Hebrew died in Babylon around 220 AD.  By this time, Jews had lost their capital city that was the center of Jewish political power.  Jews had lost the Temple that was the center of Jewish religious life.  Jews had lost the Jewish homeland after living together there for more than a thousand years.  This had allowed Jews to share many features to form a common Jewish racial identity.  Jews had lost the Jewish language.  Jews simply had none of the things left necessary to maintain a distinct identity as a people group.  It looked like Jews would disappear from human history like the Hittites and other people groups.

Then things got worse and worse.  Everywhere Jews fled to Jews eventually would be persecuted, reviled and driven from.  It did not matter how many contributions Jews made to improve the host society or that most of the time the accusations against Jews were completely false.  Jews were simply hated without a cause.

A society that welcomed Jews in one generation would turn against Jews in a later generation.  This process sometimes happened quickly and at other times took hundreds of years but it always happened.  There simply was no place of peace for Jews.  The hounds of trouble were relentless in hunting out Jews.

Jews in Europe faced especially trying circumstances.  At times Jews there grew so tired of being beat up and killed for being different from their neighbors that the whole community would just  decide to just give up Jewish distinctions and be like their neighbors.  Then their neighbors would beat Jews up and kill Jews for trying to be the same as their neighbors and then force Jews to be different from their neighbors.  Then the process would repeat.

So Jews were persecuted across the ages in organized efforts like the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Pogroms.  Jews finally faced their greatest persecution so far in the Holocaust where six million Jews were killed.  This was about half of the Jews in Europe and about a third of the Jews on Earth.

All during this time Jews fled ever farther from the Promised Land until a few Jews settled on Rapa Iti - the farthest inhabitable land in the world from Jerusalem. Jews were literally scattered to the ends of the Earth. So there was simply no country on Earth where Jews had not fled to and were living in as a hope of escaping trouble.

Of course, everywhere Jews fled to Jews influenced and were influenced by the host culture.  Over the generations Jews intermarried with people of the host countries.  This resulted in the Jews in Africa looking like Africans, the Jews in Europe looking like Europeans, the Jews in China looking Chinese, the Jews in India looking Indian and so on for every place they had fled to.  After centuries of intermarriage most Jews had completely lost the characteristics that had clearly defined the Jewish race before the Diaspora began.

Still Jews were under constant threat of persecution and given labels like "foreigner" regardless of all similarity in appearance and culture to the host nation.  Jews simply could not escape from trouble from their neighbors no matter how much Jews tried to fit in or how similar Jews became to their neighbors.

Even when Jews of Russia began to return to the Promised Land in 1870, which by that time was a land of deserts and swamps almost completely devoid of human habitation, there was still no rest to be found.  Jews were attacked over and over again by their neighbors as Jews eeked out a living in a barren wasteland.  As the land began to bloom under Jewish care their neighbors increased their attacks.

Then the Holocaust lead to thousands of Jewish refugees, who had lost their property in Europe, as well as most of their family members, to return to the ancient Jewish homeland.  Still Jews found no peace.  As soon as there was once again a nation of Israel formed in 1948, Jews were attacked and drawn into a war.  Since that time Israel has had more than fifty wars and has had a solid lock on the number one spot for terrorist incidents in the world.

Even today this nation of more than six million Jews still has no peace.  Even though Jews once again speak the same language that was spoken before the Diaspora, are living in the same land as before the Diaspora, and have came back from every nation on Earth where Jews were driven in the Diaspora, Jews still have no peace.  Jews of different appearances and cultures have blended together over the generations to even produce Sabras (native born Israelis) who have began to look more similar in appearance to Jews that lived in Judea before the Diaspora.  Still Jews have found no peace.

Since 31 AD, peace has evaded Jews like a mirage in the desert.  It seems that Jews were chosen for extraordinary trouble as many Jews have stated at different times.   This has lead to many questions about the endless parade of trouble that Jews have experienced.

Did Jews do something to deserve such trouble?  Or is Jewish trouble just bad luck?  What is the source of Jewish trouble?  Is it possible for Jews to be free from Jewish trouble? 

The first thing to recognize is that such trouble has not came upon Jews for no reason at all (Proverbs 26:2).  In fact, Jews were warned that extraordinary trouble would come upon them in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) for rebelling against the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD).

Jews made a covenant with the Father of Truth that included provisions for extraordinary trouble for not keeping everything in that covenant.  Jewish trouble comes from rebelling against the commands of that covenant (Deuteronomy 28:15).

The covenant promised that trouble would invade every area of Jewish life for doing this (Deuteronomy 28:16-19).  Jews would have trouble that would lead to wide spread death while in the Promised Land for doing this (Deuteronomy 28:20-22).  The Jewish homeland would be turned into a wasteland for doing this (Deuteronomy 28:23-24).  Jews would be removed from their homeland and dispersed into all nations on Earth and not even buried after being killed for doing this (Deuteronomy 28:25-26).  The covenant promised that Jews would find no peace but only trouble in every nation where Jews fled to for doing this (Deuteronomy 28:63-67).

Yet the Father of Truth would not forsake Jews completely so that Jews perished from off the Earth completely because of His Covenants that He made with Abraham (Abram), Isaac (Yitzhak) and Jacob (Ya'aqob) concerning their descendants and the Promised Land (Leviticus 26:44-45).  He promised to provide places of refuge and then bring Jews back into the Promised Land to form a Jewish nation there once again (Ezekiel 11:15-17).  Yet Jews would still suffer even then until the nation of Israel returns to Him with its whole heart.

All of this has happened not once but twice.

The first time it happened in two phases.  The nation of Israel split into two kingdoms (1 Kings 12:16-25).  The northern kingdom was scattered by the Assyrians in the Assyrian Diaspora (2 Kings 18:11-12).  Then later the southern kingdom was scattered by the Babylonians in the Babylonian Diaspora (2 Chronicles 36:17-21).  Then Jews were brought back into the Promised Land to once again form a Jewish nation that was later called Judaea (Nehemiah 7:5-6).  Yet there was still continual trouble for the Jewish nation (Daniel 11:2-35).

The second time it happened in two phases.  First Jerusalem, the Jewish capital where the Temple, that was the center of Jewish religious life, stood was destroyed in the Great Revolt and Jews were scattered throughout the Roman Empire and beyond in the first part of the Roman Diaspora.  Then later the Jewish nation was destroyed in the Bar Kochba Rebellion and Jews were scattered throughout the Roman Empire and beyond in the second part of the Roman Diaspora.  Then Jews were brought back into the Promised Land to once again form a Jewish nation called Israel.  Yet there still remains continuous trouble for the Jewish nation (Daniel 12:1).

Since this has happened not once, but twice, then Jewish trouble must have a cause.  The key to ending Jewish trouble begins with finding the source of Jewish trouble.  In order to do that the conditions that brought Jewish trouble must be identified and then whatever brought about those conditions is the source of Jewish trouble.  If the source of Jewish trouble is identified and dealt with then that will bring an end to Jewish trouble.

So what brought Jewish trouble the first time?

The conditions that brought Jewish trouble was following a religion other than the one given by the Father of Truth (Jeremiah 16:10-13).  Jews brought all these troubles upon themselves by not believing Moses and the Prophets of Truth (Daniel 9:4-16).  The reason most Jews did not believe Moses and the Prophets of Truth was the Jewish religious leaders who contradicted their message (Jeremiah 14:13-15).  The Jewish religious leaders lead Jews away from the Father of Truth and into trouble (Jeremiah 50:6).  Jewish trouble came because the Jewish religious leader sought to feed themselves with a religious system to profit off of other Jews instead of taking caring of other Jews by turning them back to the Father of Truth (Ezekiel 34:7-9).  The Jewish religious leaders were the source of Jewish trouble!

The exact same thing brought Jewish trouble the second time.

The conditions that brought Jewish trouble was following a religion other than the one given by the Father of Truth (Matthew 15:8-9).  Jews brought all these troubles upon themselves by not believing Moses and the Prophets (Luke 16:29-31).  The reason most Jews did not believe Moses and the Prophets of Truth was the Jewish religious leaders who contradicted their message (Matthew 23:13).  The Jewish religious leaders lead Jews away from the Father of Truth and into trouble (Matthew 27:20-25).  Jewish trouble came because the Jewish religious leader sought to feed themselves with a religious system to profit off of other Jews instead of taking caring of other Jews by turning them back to the Father of Truth (Mark 7:9-13).  The Jewish religious leaders were the source of Jewish trouble!

The first time the source of Jewish trouble was religious leaders leading people away from keeping the Law of Truth by ignoring what Moses and the Prophets of Truth said concerning idols.  The second time the source of Jewish trouble was religious leaders leading people away from keeping the Law of Truth by ignoring what Moses and the Prophets of Truth said concerning the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ).

The first time these religious leaders called themselves prophets (Jeremiah 28:9-11).  These Prophets of Lies resisted the Prophets of Truth (Jeremiah 28:15-16).  The second time these religious leaders called themselves Rabbis (Matthew 23:5-7).   These Rabbis resisted the Man of Truth (Acts 13:27-29).

The Man of Truth is the Prophet who the Father of Truth told Moses that people must obey (Deuteronomy 18:15-16).  Moses wrote that the Father of Truth would raise up the Man of Truth and anyone that did not obey him would come into extraordinary trouble from the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:18-19).  Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble because they have turned Jews from obeying the Man of Truth!

Daniel, the Prophet of Truth wrote that the time when Messiah would die for the sins of others would be four hundred and eighty three years after the decree was given to build the second Temple (Daniel 9:24-25).  He wrote that the Messiah could only be on the Earth when the second Temple was standing (Daniel 9:26).  Rabbis are the source of Jewish troubles because they have purposely altered the date of the decree to build the second temple so Jews could not see that the Man of Truth died at the time spoken of by Daniel the Prophet of Truth!

King David said that the Messiah would die by crucifixion (Psalm 22:14-18).  Isaiah (Yeshayahu) said the same thing (Isaiah 53).  Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble because they deny that the Messiah would die in this manner and have even removed these portions from the yearly reading cycle of the Original Covenant (Tanach aka Old Testament) just so Jews will not read these obvious references to the crucifixion!

King David said that the Messiah would not see corruption after death because he would rise from the dead before corruption occurred to his body (Psalm 16:9-11).  The resurrection of the Man of Truth on the third day after death is a well established fact that prevented his body from suffering the corruption that begins on the fourth day after death (Acts 2:25-32).  Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble because they deny this indisputable proof that the Man of Truth is the Messiah!

The Man of Truth warned Jews that the Temple would be destroyed soon (Matthew 24:1-2).   He warned that Jerusalem would be destroyed (Luke 19:41-44).  He told Jews when to flee to escape this judgment (Luke 21:20-21).  He warned that most Jews were going to be removed from the Jewish homeland a second time (Luke 21:24).  Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble because they deny that the Man of Truth is the prophet like unto Moses despite giving about as many prophecies concerning the second destruction of the Temple, Jerusalem and the Jewish homeland as all of the Prophets of Truth combined gave about the first occurrence of these events!

Even though Rabbis are the source of Jewish trouble there is still hope.

Jews will one day be free from Jewish trouble.  Jews will look upon the Man of Truth that their ancestors pierced and mourn for him as if he was their only son (Zechariah 12:10).  Jews will say to him "Baruch haba b'shem Adonia" ("Blessed is he that come in the name of the Lord") when they will finally accept him as the King of the Jews (Matthew 23:39).

Rabbis and all other sources of Jewish trouble that refuse to accept the one that Moses said Jews must listen to will be cut off from among the Jewish people when all Jews return to live in the Jewish homeland (Ezekiel 20:34-38).  When the source of Jewish trouble is gone then Jewish trouble will finally come to an end!

Perhaps you have been blinded by Rabbis or other religious professionals so that you could not come into the House of Truth.  You might be a Jew who has been zealous for the Father of Truth but unable to come into the House of Truth because of religious traditions that can never make you right with Him (Romans 10:1-3).   You could be like Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) and be zealous for the Father of Truth but blinded by tradition until the moment you realized that you need to come into the House of Truth (Galatians 1:11-14).

No Jew has to wait until the Man of Truth returns to rule the Earth from Jerusalem to be free from Jewish trouble.  Those who come into the House of Truth will no longer find themselves fighting against the Father of Truth (Acts 5:38-39).  When anyone accepts the Man of Truth as the one who they must obey because they believe that his Father raised him from the dead then they will come into the House of Truth (Romans 10:8-11).  Any Jew that comes into the House of Truth will be free from Jewish trouble!

Come into the House of Truth.

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