We humans habitually fail to assess our actions in terms of reality. We act, typically, only on what we are able to directly perceive with our senses – and we also view our circumstances only in light of a short-term time horizon. We routinely disregard any reference to historical contexts, and we completely ignore any spiritual contexts. And we tend to dismiss the things of God as irrelevant to our temporal decisions. Much of what we accept as the conventional wisdom about morality is devoid of any reference to God and what we know to be His teaching. As a result, we make decisions based on a very limited view of the world in which we are immersed – and thus our judgments are frequently faulty.
Of course, amidst the cacophony of the modern world, gleaning a sense of the spiritual life around us is difficult, and virtually impossible for those who reject God – although no doubt those who are ruled by Satan have a quite vivid and horrifying view of the spiritual world. However, regardless of the difficulty, Christians should at least try to grasp the larger whole in which we live. The case of the Jewish people is a perfect example of our long-term failure to accurately assess the proper response to a critical issue.
We – humanity – have failed to fully appreciate the significant role the Jewish people have played in the unfolding of human history. Alone among all of the peoples who have ever inhabited this earth, the Jewish people were the first to meet, and to recognize, God Himself. Beyond that, it is from the Jewish people that the Son of God condescended to walk on this earth as a fully human being. The Son of God, Jesus, was a Jew. No other race of people can claim that distinction. And even though the Jewish people have failed to acknowledge the divine nature of Jesus Christ – the fact remains that He was one of them.
What an incredible privilege. It is through the Jews that the human race found out about God, the one true God – and what He wants for us, and how He wants us to behave. We are indebted to the Jewish people for their cooperation with God in establishing the moral foundations of Western culture. And for that the Jews should be granted a place of honor among the nations.
Instead, however, we have persecuted them. Today we witness yet another round of hatred and cruelty directed at Jewish people all across the globe in this the 21st century, which appears to be a new iteration of the vitriol directed against the Jews down through the centuries. The rationale for this contempt and abhorrence toward the Jews is hard to understand. What is it about the Jews that has attracted the animosity of successive ages of the human race? Why is such an obvious injustice repeated over and over again across the generations?
I think that the persistent persecution of the Jews results precisely from that special regard in which God holds them. Because Satan sees that, and is driven to enraged action to strike out at the God against which he rebelled. The terrible persecution of the Jews which seems to be reviving again in our day is a nasty combination of jealous satanic rage and pain and misery which the devil wants to mete out to those who enjoy a special relationship with God – a relationship that he, Satan, might have had, but forsook. Even in America, an America supposedly free of the ancient superstitions and hatreds of Old World Europe, Anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head once again. And our participation in this persecution is just one more expression of our collective rebellion against God, in the same class of offenses as our other addictions to murderous and corrupt behavor, such as our embracing of abortion or the endless attempts to normalize a myriad of sexual perversions.
And so it is past time for us to wholeheartedly support the Jewish people and crush the Islamic influences behind the current revival of Anti-Semitism, wherever it appears, whether here in the U. S. or in the cauldron of the Middle East. We see these days vociferous criticism of the efforts undertaken by Israel to defend itself, when we ourselves would not for a moment allow the existence of mortal enemies on our own borders, much less allow those enemies to rain missiles down upon us. Yet we seem to think that is just fine for the Jews. The U. S. should never have allowed the Islamic jihad to develop capabilities that could threaten the existence of Israel. Yet we have done just that, even funding the development of those capabilities. [1]
In this matter of the defense of the Israeli homeland, let us exercise rational thinking for once, and contemplate the wishes of the ultimate Reality, God. It would behoove us to consider what He has said about interfering with Israel:
“Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people:
for the Lord almighty will take revenge on them,
in the day of judgment he will visit them.”
Judith 16:21 Douay Rheims Bible
If God saw fit to grant the Jewish people a homeland, then there is nothing more rational for us to do than to fully support the defense of that homeland.
References.
1. Solomon, John. “Biden, Harris gave billions to Iran for peace, but Tehran responded with destabilizing terror.” Just The News. October 1, 2024.https://justthenews.com/government/security/wedbiden-harris-bet-billions-iran-peace-tehran-responded-destabilizing-terror#article