Antisemitism: Has God Ordained the Jewish People’s Persecution?

Reformation Baptist Church

Antisemitism has been around for thousands of years. Starting with their conflicts with Rome and the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, the restrictions against holding public office in the Byzantine empire, the Catholic church's view for hundreds of years that the Jewish people carried blood guilt and deserved punishment for killing Jesus Christ, the violent pogroms in Russia in the late 19th and 20th century, culminating in a worldwide attitude of Jewish hatred and indifference that led to the Holocaust and the Nazi's systematic murder of millions of Jews. But even after the 1940's racism against the Jewish people has been acceptable in America, with Nixon blaming the Jews for his problems -with even Billy Graham saying they had a stranglehold on America that had to be broken-. And now, we are seeing a rise in worldwide antisemitism again regarding Israel's response to the terrorist attacks by Hamas with many Western nations condemning Israel and in America, college students actively protesting against Israel in support of Hamas and Palestine. -With all of this as a backdrop- in this episode, we want to understand both how antisemitism is racism that Christians should not accept or participate in and, at the same time, to understand how God, who works all things according to the counsel of his will has ordained the hatred of the Jews that exists in the world. We walk through the prophecy spoken by Moses in Deuteronomy where he explains that God will judge Israel for their unbelief and pretense of holiness, causing them to become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations of the earth. -Production of Reformation Baptist Church of You