All the Covenants in the Tanakh (Old Testament) for the Jewish people are still enforce and with no expiration date.
Many events in history that are labeled particular and unusual or impossible to understand can best by understood
if viewed as a result of the Abrahamic Covenant. There have been numerous attempts to destroy the Jews, and all
have failed. Essentially, the same four methods that were used during the biblical period have been the same ones
used ever since, and these methods will always fail in destroying the Jews. Like Abimelech, the Crusaders took away
the wives. Like the Egyptians, the Spanish Empire took the sons. Like the Persian Empire, Germany made anti-Semitism
the official government policy. Like the Amalekites, the Arab States have declared war upon the Jews. These methods
cannot and will not work in destroying them.
After two thousand years, numerous examples could be given of how the Abrahamic Covenant has worked itself out,
but we will limit ourselves to four.
Because of its great Armada, the Spanish Empire controlled vast parts of the world. The fact that every nation south of
the United States, except Brazil, speaks Spanish is an indication of what the Spanish Empire once was. The Spanish
economy was strong, and as a result so was everything else. In 1492, the same year Columbus set sail for America, the
Spanish Edict of Expulsion was issued ordering all Jews to leave the country. With this act Spain blundered. When she
expelled the Jews, she expelled her scholars, doctors, and bankers. The Spanish economy began to crumble and collapse.
Finally, the source of Spain's strength, the Amada, sailed against England and was destroyed, not so much by the British
Navy as by a storm at sea. The Abrahamic Covenant had worked itself out. She who expelled the Jews was then expelled
from her holdings in the Western Hemisphere until nothing remained.
Another point involving Spain shows blessing aspect beginning to work as well. The story on how Queen Isabella sold her
jewels in order to buy the three ships for Columbus breaks down some cool historical research. It was not Queen Isabella's
jewels, but Queen Isabella's Jews who purchased the three ships for Columbus. History shows that two Jewish banking families
bought the ships. Many of the men on the three vessels were Jews fleeing Spain as a result of the Edict of Expulsion. According
to Columbus's own diary, the first one to spot land was a Jew sitting in the crow's nest. So as Europe was slowly beginning to close its doors to the Jews, a new world was discovered that was eventually to become, in form of the United States, the greatest haven for Jews fleeing persecution around the world. The United States became and remains what she is today mainly because of the blessing aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant.
England provides a second example of the outworking of the Abrahamic Covenant. There was a time when England was blessed by God because of her favorable attitude to Jews, and they were able to boast: "The sun never sets on the British Empire." It was a Jewish believer, Benjamin Disraeli, who gained for England the two vital links which made her the British Empire: India and the Suez Canal. The Balfour Declaration in World War I showed England's favorable attitude towards "establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine," which was later captured from the Turks. But then she made an about-face and turned against the Jews. In effect disannulling the Balfour Declaration. England began to limit Jewish immigration. This policy trapped many Jews, preventing their flight from the Nazis. As a result the British Empire also began to crumble as one nation after another declared its freedom from the Empire. Finally the very possessions gained for her by Jews---India and the Suez Canal---were also lost. The result is that today the sun does indeed set on the British Empire every twenty-four hours.
Germany provides us with the third example. When Hitler came to power, ant-Semitism became the official government policy. As the Germans in 1939 drew the world into war, this policy began to spread to the occupied parts of Europe. As one nation after another fell, the Jews were taken and moved into slum sections of major cities, such as Warsaw, Poland. Concrete walls were built around these ghettos, and the Jews were beaten and forced into gradual starvation. The Gestapo had a favorite game that consisted of taking one Jew and forcing him to kill another Jew in order to save the life of his own family. Jews were forced to go into hiding as Nazis systematically sought them out. Six million Jews were eventually exterminated. But, finally, after six years, Germany was no longer the conqueror but the conquered. The Germans, that once built walls around Jews, for a generation had a wall cutting in half their once proud capital of Berlin. The people who once forced Jews to kill Jews for the next forty years had Germans killing Germans who tried to make their escape over the Berlin wall.
To this day, Nazi criminals are forced to live in hiding as Jews seek them out. All this provides us with a unique picture of the subprincipal of curse for curse in kind.
The fourth example involves the four Arab states of Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, all of which combined their arm forces in 1967 with the avowed purpose of destroying Israel. Nasser, the leader of Egypt, vowed that the Jews would be driven into the Mediterranean Sea and forced to swim to Europe. King Hussein of Jordan swore to move his border so as to encompass all of what he called "occupied Palestine."
After four days of the Six Day War, however, it was not the Jews but the Egyptians who were doing the swimming as they fled across the Suez Canal from the Israeli forces. As for King Hussein, after three days his border was indeed moved, but in the opposite direction. The Arabs cursed the Jewish state with war and were defeated by war.
The Messianic Jew, the,can give the proper explanation of the role the Messianic people play in history. Their destruction is impossible. It is true that great parts of the Messianic people have been destroyed through various ant-Semitic campaigns, but the Messianic people as a distinct entity cannot themselves be destroyed. The Messianic Jew, being part of the Messianic people, enjoys the same protection. The difference is in their knowing the source of that protection.
On the other hand, the Jewish believer's alliance with the Jews does not make him blind to the fact that the Jewish community is not always right. Nor does it blind him to the fact that the basic cause of Jewish suffering is their disobedience to the revealed will of God and unbelief in the person of the Messiah. These things are counted by witnessing to the Jews. At the same time, he is the best defender of the Jews against all forms of anti_Semitism, teaching God's attitude towards it and warning of God's judgement if it persists.
The message of the Messianic Jew to the anti-Semite is: If you want to destroy the Jews, then you must first destroy the sun, moon and stars; then, and only then, according to the promise of God, can the Jews be destroyed.
Shalom Aleichem
Many events in history that are labeled particular and unusual or impossible to understand can best by understood
if viewed as a result of the Abrahamic Covenant. There have been numerous attempts to destroy the Jews, and all
have failed. Essentially, the same four methods that were used during the biblical period have been the same ones
used ever since, and these methods will always fail in destroying the Jews. Like Abimelech, the Crusaders took away
the wives. Like the Egyptians, the Spanish Empire took the sons. Like the Persian Empire, Germany made anti-Semitism
the official government policy. Like the Amalekites, the Arab States have declared war upon the Jews. These methods
cannot and will not work in destroying them.
After two thousand years, numerous examples could be given of how the Abrahamic Covenant has worked itself out,
but we will limit ourselves to four.
Because of its great Armada, the Spanish Empire controlled vast parts of the world. The fact that every nation south of
the United States, except Brazil, speaks Spanish is an indication of what the Spanish Empire once was. The Spanish
economy was strong, and as a result so was everything else. In 1492, the same year Columbus set sail for America, the
Spanish Edict of Expulsion was issued ordering all Jews to leave the country. With this act Spain blundered. When she
expelled the Jews, she expelled her scholars, doctors, and bankers. The Spanish economy began to crumble and collapse.
Finally, the source of Spain's strength, the Amada, sailed against England and was destroyed, not so much by the British
Navy as by a storm at sea. The Abrahamic Covenant had worked itself out. She who expelled the Jews was then expelled
from her holdings in the Western Hemisphere until nothing remained.
Another point involving Spain shows blessing aspect beginning to work as well. The story on how Queen Isabella sold her
jewels in order to buy the three ships for Columbus breaks down some cool historical research. It was not Queen Isabella's
jewels, but Queen Isabella's Jews who purchased the three ships for Columbus. History shows that two Jewish banking families
bought the ships. Many of the men on the three vessels were Jews fleeing Spain as a result of the Edict of Expulsion. According
to Columbus's own diary, the first one to spot land was a Jew sitting in the crow's nest. So as Europe was slowly beginning to close its doors to the Jews, a new world was discovered that was eventually to become, in form of the United States, the greatest haven for Jews fleeing persecution around the world. The United States became and remains what she is today mainly because of the blessing aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant.
England provides a second example of the outworking of the Abrahamic Covenant. There was a time when England was blessed by God because of her favorable attitude to Jews, and they were able to boast: "The sun never sets on the British Empire." It was a Jewish believer, Benjamin Disraeli, who gained for England the two vital links which made her the British Empire: India and the Suez Canal. The Balfour Declaration in World War I showed England's favorable attitude towards "establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine," which was later captured from the Turks. But then she made an about-face and turned against the Jews. In effect disannulling the Balfour Declaration. England began to limit Jewish immigration. This policy trapped many Jews, preventing their flight from the Nazis. As a result the British Empire also began to crumble as one nation after another declared its freedom from the Empire. Finally the very possessions gained for her by Jews---India and the Suez Canal---were also lost. The result is that today the sun does indeed set on the British Empire every twenty-four hours.
Germany provides us with the third example. When Hitler came to power, ant-Semitism became the official government policy. As the Germans in 1939 drew the world into war, this policy began to spread to the occupied parts of Europe. As one nation after another fell, the Jews were taken and moved into slum sections of major cities, such as Warsaw, Poland. Concrete walls were built around these ghettos, and the Jews were beaten and forced into gradual starvation. The Gestapo had a favorite game that consisted of taking one Jew and forcing him to kill another Jew in order to save the life of his own family. Jews were forced to go into hiding as Nazis systematically sought them out. Six million Jews were eventually exterminated. But, finally, after six years, Germany was no longer the conqueror but the conquered. The Germans, that once built walls around Jews, for a generation had a wall cutting in half their once proud capital of Berlin. The people who once forced Jews to kill Jews for the next forty years had Germans killing Germans who tried to make their escape over the Berlin wall.
To this day, Nazi criminals are forced to live in hiding as Jews seek them out. All this provides us with a unique picture of the subprincipal of curse for curse in kind.
The fourth example involves the four Arab states of Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, all of which combined their arm forces in 1967 with the avowed purpose of destroying Israel. Nasser, the leader of Egypt, vowed that the Jews would be driven into the Mediterranean Sea and forced to swim to Europe. King Hussein of Jordan swore to move his border so as to encompass all of what he called "occupied Palestine."
After four days of the Six Day War, however, it was not the Jews but the Egyptians who were doing the swimming as they fled across the Suez Canal from the Israeli forces. As for King Hussein, after three days his border was indeed moved, but in the opposite direction. The Arabs cursed the Jewish state with war and were defeated by war.
The Messianic Jew, the,can give the proper explanation of the role the Messianic people play in history. Their destruction is impossible. It is true that great parts of the Messianic people have been destroyed through various ant-Semitic campaigns, but the Messianic people as a distinct entity cannot themselves be destroyed. The Messianic Jew, being part of the Messianic people, enjoys the same protection. The difference is in their knowing the source of that protection.
On the other hand, the Jewish believer's alliance with the Jews does not make him blind to the fact that the Jewish community is not always right. Nor does it blind him to the fact that the basic cause of Jewish suffering is their disobedience to the revealed will of God and unbelief in the person of the Messiah. These things are counted by witnessing to the Jews. At the same time, he is the best defender of the Jews against all forms of anti_Semitism, teaching God's attitude towards it and warning of God's judgement if it persists.
The message of the Messianic Jew to the anti-Semite is: If you want to destroy the Jews, then you must first destroy the sun, moon and stars; then, and only then, according to the promise of God, can the Jews be destroyed.
Shalom Aleichem
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