We've been tracing the
history of the Jewish people
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and that they
are special people.
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And when God works,
He keeps His promises,
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both the blessing and
the curses, so to speak.
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And we started tracing
some of the difficulties
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that the Jewish people have had.
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And we talked about pagan Rome,
and how it's been treating,
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how it treated
the Jewish people.
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When Rome destroyed Jerusalem,
they killed a million Jews,
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they took 100,000
of them into captivity,
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they disperse
them as you please,
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all over the Roman Empire.
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Eventually,
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they made the Jewish
religion an illegal religion.
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And they got so hard on this,
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that they actually
took away their privileges
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to practice their religion.
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And then, of course, you have
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the rise of papal Rome.
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And it seemed
like the papal Rome,
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the popes carry
on the same crusades,
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if you please
against the Jewish people.
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They taught Europe to
hate the Jewish people.
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Matter of fact,
I was in Seattle,
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Washington many years ago
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and I heard the
radio station there.
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I remember it's like to this day
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I was working on my
camper a little bit,
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a pop up camper.
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And they were
saying how Martin Luther
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did all this diatribes
against the Jewish people.
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That was true.
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Martin Luther,
father of the Protestant
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Reformation said some
terrible things about Jews.
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But where did he learn it from?
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He learned it when
he was in the monastery,
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when he was
subject to the propaganda,
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if you please, of ancient,
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or the popes
during the Dark Ages.
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But let me go back
to that and we'll see
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as papal Rome starts
doing something similar.
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We go to 337 AD,
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the Emperor
Constantine created a law
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that a Christian cannot marry
a Jew on the pain of death.
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Can you imagine that?
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Then the Emperor
Justinian, who played a big role
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in the beginning of the
papacy and its power in 528.
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He had prohibited Jews
from building a synagogue,
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reading the Bible in Hebrew,
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assembling in public or
to celebrate the Passover,
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and they could not testify
against Christians in court,
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believe it or not.
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And then in 613 AD,
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a very serious
persecution in Spain began.
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The Jews were given the options
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of either leaving Spain or
converting to Christianity.
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In fact, when the Muslims
took over in Spain later,
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they actually
treated the Jews more kind
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than the papacy did in Spain.
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And they actually took
their children away from them.
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If they were six years
older, they took them away
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and taught them Christianity
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and gave them a
Catholic Christian education,
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so to speak.
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Well, if you come on
down to the First Crusade,
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the crusades were a
very interesting thing.
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But the crusades were
launched in about 1096 AD.
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And when they were, it was
not only to liberate Jerusalem
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from the Muslims, it was
also to eliminate the Jews.
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And they killed
thousands of Jews
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on the way to the "Holy Land."
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And the Crusaders forced
all the Jews of Jerusalem,
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when they got there
and conquered Jerusalem
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the first time around.
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They forced them into
the central synagogue.
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Now, these are
supposed Christians,
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but these are papal soldiers.
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And they set it on fire.
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And anybody who tried to escape
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was pushed back into
the burning building.
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This kind of
behavior kept on going
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through most all the crusades.
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And then in 1205, we
have Pope Innocent III,
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he wrote that the
Jews by their own guilt
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are consigned to
perpetual servitude or slavery.
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Well, you know, the
Jews that were living then,
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they didn't crucified Christ.
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And many of the
Jews, without the Jews,
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there wouldn't be
a Christian Church.
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In fact, the Apostle Paul tells
some of the Gentile churches
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to take the Jewish
churches, Judea as an example.
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And Jesus Himself was a Jew.
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But this is unusual hatred.
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Satan hates the Jewish people.
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He's operating
through his agents,
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he's operating
through pagan Rome,
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he's operating
through, I'm sorry to say it,
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the pope's papal Rome,
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in order to
destroy the Jewish people.
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He wasn't
destroyed off the earth,
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because if they're gone,
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they can't be that astonishment,
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they can't be that byword,
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they cannot be that lesson
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that God is teaching the
world through the Jewish people,
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depending on their choice.
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Either way they go,
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they're going to teach
that God keeps His promises.
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And then if we come on down,
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and I'm going to skip along
here for just a little bit.
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And in 1555,
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there was a papal
bull that required the Jews
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in the Vatican controlled
lands in Italy to wear badges.
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That sound familiar?
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To wear badges and
be confined to ghettos.
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Over 3,000 Jewish people
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were crammed into
eight acres of land.
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And you can guess
the horrible conditions
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that they went through.
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And then when
you get down to 1648,
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the massacres of the Jews
in the Ukraine were terrible.
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Hundred thousand
Jews were murdered,
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300 communities destroyed.
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Now this is very interesting,
you get down into about 1347
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and you find the Black Death,
depopulating a lot of Europe.
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In fact, maybe a
third of the population
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of Europe perished
in the Black Death,
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as it's called today.
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And these rats, of course,
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as we know
carried the Black Death.
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But the Jews had inherited
a very clean habits from God
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who gave them
those clean habits.
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And they were not catching
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the Black Death as
much as the Gentiles.
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The Christians were catching it,
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the Catholic
Christians were catching it.
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And so people said, "Well,
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where did this Black
Death came, come from?"
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And they wanted to
blame it on somebody.
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And as they made
this, notice that the Jews
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didn't get it as
often as the others,
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the Catholic Christians,
they blamed it on the Jews.
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They said the
Jews are responsible,
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and they killed
thousands, thousands of Jews
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and persecuted them
terribly as a result.
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We'll come down to 1806,
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getting a little
closer to modern times.
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There was a French Jesuit priest
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who wrote a paper blaming
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the masons for
the French Revolution.
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But then he changed his mind
and he wrote a another paper
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and he blamed the
French Revolution,
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on no less than the Jews.
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This started a
mindset of conspiracy
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that there was some kind of
an international conspiracy.
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In 1920, Henry Ford,
you ever heard of him?
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You drive Ford
automobiles, of course.
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Henry Ford was a
good man in many ways,
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but he began to
study, he became fascinated
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with the protocols that suggest
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that there's a international
conspiracy among the Jews.
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This
unfortunately led to a series
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of anti-Jewish articles printed
in The Dearborn Independent,
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close, of course,
to Detroit, Michigan.
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But then you come
down to World War I
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and Germany loses World War I.
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And there are many
economic and great difficulties
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that follow that and
guess who they blamed?
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And then, of course,
you have Hitler publishing
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his anti-diatribes
against the Jewish people.
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And he said this, "Today,
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I believe I'm
acting in accordance
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with the will of
Almighty Creator."
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Wonder where he got that?
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He was a Roman
Catholic, by the way.
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He was never excommunicated
from the Roman Catholic Church,
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and the Roman Catholic
popes made a treaty with him.
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So this is very interesting.
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And then he goes on to say,
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"By defending
myself against the Jews,
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I am fighting for
the work of the Lord."
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So he saw it as a
religious responsibility
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to destroy the Jewish people.
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But if you go to
Romans Chapter 8,
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and we want to focus on that
for the next few minutes here.
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Romans Chapter 8,
I'm sorry, Romans 9:1-5,
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the Apostle Paul
says, He says this,
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"I tell the truth in Christ.
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I'm not lying."
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He says,
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"My conscience also bearing
the witness in the Holy Spirit,
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that I have great sorrow
and anguish for my brethren,
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my countrymen according
to the flesh, " the Jews.
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Then he says this,
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"Are the Israelites to
whom pertain the adoption,
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the glory, the covenants,
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and the coming of
Christ in the flesh
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who is overall and
eternally blessed by God.
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Amen."
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So it says the Jews
receive some wonderful things.
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Then he goes on to say that
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Christ is a stumbling
block to the Jewish people.
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And he tells us why
he was a stumbling block.
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He says in Romans
9:31-33, "But Israel,
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pursuing the law
of righteousness,
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did not attain it.
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Why?" He says,
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"Because they did
not seek it by faith."
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And the Gentile
Christians, the Christians,
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of course, sought it by faith.
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Now there are
many Jewish Christians
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who did seek it by
faith and became Christians.
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And then he says, as it
is written, "I lay in Zion,
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a stumbling
stone, a rock of offence,
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and whoever believes in
Jesus will not be put to shame."
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Then he asked the question,
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"Are the Jews totally cast away?
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Has God cast away His people?"
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Meaning, has he
cast away eternally.
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And he said, "Certainly not."
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And he pictures
himself as exhibit A,
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that God has not
cast away His people.
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And then he has an amazing verse
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about the future of Israel.
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"I say then, have they
stumbled they should fall?
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Certainly not!
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But through their
fall, to provoke to jealousy,
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the Gentiles.
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Now if their fall is
for the riches of the world
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and their
failure for the Gentiles,
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how much more will
their fullness be?"
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Of course, we know
the Jews are the roots
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of the Christian faith.
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And he pictures this tree,
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a tree that some
branches are broken off,
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Jewish branches broken off.
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And then he says, "Why?"
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They're broken off
because of their unbelief.
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But he says they
can be grafted back
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into that tree
by faith in Christ.
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So the way back home
for the Jewish people
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is by faith in Christ.
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And the Gentiles, he
says, "Don't get proud."
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He says, "You can be
broken out of that tree,
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if you give up your faith."
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I'm paraphrasing,
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but you can read it
in Romans Chapter 11.
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But then I think he
makes some prophecies,
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some predictions
about the Jewish people
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and their role
in the end of time.
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He says that
everybody in that tree,
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in essence will
be really Israel,
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and everybody by
faith in that tree
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is going to be saved.
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But then he says,
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talking about the Jewish people,
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he says in 11:15,
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"For if their being cast away
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is the reconciling of the world,
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what will their acceptance
be but life from the dead?"
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When does the
resurrection happen?
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The resurrection
happens when Jesus comes again.
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Paul is predicting, I believe,
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a great movement
among Jewish people
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to return to
Jesus as their Messiah.
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And when that happens,
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I think we're going
to see Jewish people
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have a great role to
play in the end of time.
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And I'm not so sure
that the mark of the beast
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and the whole
issue over the Sabbath
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will not be an
attitude once again,
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a resurrection of
those antisemitic,
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anti-Jewish attitudes,
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so that anybody
that keeps the Sabbath
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will be called a Jew.
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I'll tell you, we're
going to see strange things
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that are coming.
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But we're going to see
many Jewish people saved,
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and when they are,
they're going to stand up,
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and they're going to say,
"This Jesus was our Jesus.
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This incredible
Jesus was our Messiah."
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And they're going to teach
and preach and be a witness
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to the
unchangeableness of God's law.
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You can't change God's law.
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They're going to shout that
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if you please from the rooftops.
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And I think then you're
going to see Jews and Gentiles
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come together in
that Jewish tree,
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all there by faith,
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all trusting this
marvelous Messiah,
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all giving a
witness to the world that
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Jesus is coming and
you've got to get ready,
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repent of your sins,
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be in harmony with
God's Ten Commandments.
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Listen, we have nothing to fear,
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if we put our trust in
Jesus, this incredible Jesus,
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this marvelous Jesus.
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