QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS ON THE JEWS

From the Evidence Bible, Compiled by Ray Comfort

(Comments by Harold M. Lind)

Below are a number of questions, statements, and objections. Some of them are from non-believers that pose questions to prove in their mind that the Bible is not true. They think that by “stumping” a Christian, they somehow have disproved the Bible. What they don’t understand is that the Bible stands by itself. It doesn’t need to be proved true. It is the inspired Word of God. If someone chooses to not believe in it, he will find out later, when it is probably too late, that it is true. And God will have to judge his sins because he hasn’t been washed clean in the blood of Jesus. There are other questions about what the Bible says, and other topics such as how to tell others about Jesus Christ, why we can’t just lead a “good” life to go to heaven, and why God must judge sin.

If the Jews are God’s “chosen people,” why have they been so oppressed?

Israel’s blessings were dependent upon her obedience. If the nation sinned, it would be chastened. This is God’s warning to the Jews, followed by His promised restoration: “The Lord shall scatter you among all people, form the one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the Lord shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and sorrow of mind” (Deuteronomy 28:64-65).

“In these latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them” (Ezekiel 38:8).

One of the biggest plagues on the Nation of Israel is anti-Semitism. This is actually satanic, and started as early as the 3^rd chapter of Genesis verse 15, where God declares war on Satan. Satan would bruise the “heel of the seed of the woman”, and God (Jesus) would bruise his head. This war has been played out for many thousands of years, with the Bible documenting Satan’s strategy, which is simply to attempt to thwart the plan of God. Here are just some of the examples of Satan at work trying to spoil God’s plans, and why it didn’t work:

1. In Noah’s day, the world was so evil, that God decided to destroy it with a flood. The Hebrew seems to suggest that there was something genetically wrong with the people, that hadn’t affected Noah. The description was that evil angels (sons of God) had relations with women (daughters of man), which produced strange offspring (referred to as Nephilum or “fallen ones”). Satan was attempting to contaminate the bloodline of Jesus. God stopped this by sending a flood that killed all humans on the earth except Noah and his family.

2. When Jacob (renamed Israel) traveled to Egypt after finding his son Joseph, whom he thought had been killed by a wild animal, his family was eventually enslaved. They would remain slaves in Egypt for about 400 years, until Moses would be born (called the deliverer). Satan had the Pharaoh order all male babies killed in an attempt to prevent this. God’s sense of humor is seen here when the Pharaoh’s daughter draws Moses out of the Nile River and raises him in the house of Pharaoh.

3. While Israel is enslaved in Egypt, Satan knows that God has given Abraham the Promised Land where Israel is to live. He has about 400 years to populate it with seven major tribes of people, along with three other tribes on the other side of the Jordan River. When Israel is finally freed from Egyptian slavery, they find, after sending slaves into the land, that giants inhabit it. The Nephilum of Noah’s day, are back. They are initially afraid, which causes a 40-year delay in the conquest of the land. After that, with Joshua directed by God, they invade and conquer part of the land.

4. After the conquest of the land, the people look at the other nations that are on the outskirts of Israel; that they have kings. Israel is a Theocracy, which means that God is in charge. But the Jews want a king like the other pagan nations, which will get them into trouble… One of the kings proves to be very evil. His name is Jeconiah, and he is so bad, that God curses him, that none of his offspring will ever sit on the throne of Israel. Since Jesus would come through this bloodline, Satan must have thought that he finally had thwarted God’s plan, but this was not the case. This is actually the reason for the virgin birth of Christ. If you examine the genealogies of Christ in Matthew and Luke, you will see a difference in which son of King David is listed. For Joseph, Jesus’ father, the bloodline goes through Solomon, which also goes through Jeconiah. This is the legal path needed to be a royal descendant of King David and heir to the Thrown of Israel. Since Jeconiah is part of it, though, God’s curse would keep Jesus from ascending to the thrown. In looking at the genealogy in Luke, you find that Nathan, David’s second son is listed, which eventually leads to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Because Jesus was born of a virgin (not from Joseph), he was not subjected to the curse of Jeconiah, and because Joseph adopting Jesus made him his son, He was also legally the heir to the Thrown of Israel.

5. With Jesus being born of a virgin, subverting the blood curse of Jeconiah, another attempt was made to kill all male Jewish children. Herod did this as a result of the “three” wise men (there is no evidence that there were only three) coming to visit him looking for the “King of the Jews”. Since Herod was the king of the Jews he didn’t like this. Before he could order the killings, Joseph had a dream where God told him to take his family to Egypt, where they lived until Herod was dead.

6. Jesus’ death on the cross was another big attempt to spoil God’s plan. Instead, Jesus died for the sins of the world enabling untold millions of people to be saved from their sins; washed clean in the blood of the Lamb of God. When Jesus rose from the dead, he became able to take back the title deed to the earth, that Satan had tricked Adam out of in the Garden of Eden. Satan was now on borrowed time, a usurper, controlling something that didn’t belong to him anymore.

7. After Christ’s death in 30 AD, in which the Jews had nationally rejected Jesus, and after the Book of Revelation was written (around 90 AD), the final plan of God was known. In the last days, during the 7-year tribulation period, after Israel had been attacked and the surviving remnant had fled to Petra, the Jews would realize that Jesus really was the “Messiah.” They would then cry out to Him to deliver them from the Antichrist that wanted to kill every last one of them. It is because of this that the Jews have seen persecution more than any other nation. The only thing left to Satan is to destroy all Jews, so they cannot ask Jesus to come back. If they do, He will return and destroy all evil and clamp Satan in chains in the lake of fire for the next 1000 years. So he must destroy every last Jew. He almost did it with Hitler and WWII. At that time, 1/3 of the Jews were killed. During the tribulation period, 2/3’s of the Jews will be killed. The remaining 1/3 will flee to Petra which is in Jordan. Satan must prevent this from happening.

Of course as a created being, Satan is no match for God. He will never be able to stop God’s plans from being carried out. He can only try to take as many people to hell as he can. Those who do not put their trust in Jesus as their Savior, and have their sins forgiven will perish.