Time to Take a Stand
An angry mob in a Russian airport assaults newly arriving Jewish passengers. Cornell University students encourage violence against Jewish classmates. Missiles barrage the Jewish state while millions applaud. Jewish people around the globe are libeled, threatened, and attacked.
Educated politicians, economists, lawyers, doctors, and others who should know better – including people who claim to follow a Jewish Savior – are willingly being used by the enemy of God to try to crush the apple of His eye (Zechariah 2:8.) Sadly, the list of assaults could go on.
This is not 1938. But what we are observing is reminiscent of that time when evil was on the rise.
Though decades have passed since those dark days, it is clearer than ever that the Nazis were willing vessels of mankind’s archenemy, Satan. The dark spirit behind Hitler’s Nazi party, just like the animating spirit behind Haman and Herod of old, is the spirit of antisemitism.
That same hateful spirit, unfortunately, is very much observable in Hamas, Hezbollah, and their ilk today. The Enemy is looking for more willing vessels to be filled with wrathful fury against the Jewish people.
What’s to be done?
If you are a believer in the Jewish Messiah and hold the Bible (a Jewish book) dear to your heart, you must not remain silent while the Jewish people are experiencing such travail. God chose the Jewish people to pen and preserve the Scriptures. Through the Jewish people He sent the Messiah. And He promised He will return to rescue the Jewish people from their gathered enemies one day (Zechariah 12 and 14, e.g.).
No greater evidence of a believer exists than loving the things and people our Lord Himself loves (Jeremiah 31). And there is no greater evidence of a wicked heart than hating and opposing the people whom God has chosen and who are so near and dear to Him. He is the God of Israel, after all.
The time to stand is now. The time to speak up is now.
Silence in the face of antisemitism is deafening. Inaction in the face of evil is inexcusable.
Don’t find yourself on the wrong side of history. Or worse, on the wrong end of Genesis 12:3, where God promised the father of the Jewish nation, “I will bless those who bless you and the one who scorns you I will curse.”
Written by Levi, Life in Messiah Executive Director
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