Friday, September 28, 2012

Some Suggestions to People Involved in the BDS movement who Want to Boycott Israel


"Any Boycotter who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a boycotter suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Boycotter who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocain, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Boycotter has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew.
If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Boycotters with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Should a Boycotter's child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the "Schick" reaction, which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Boycotters should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Boycotters must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Any doctor who is a part of the BDS movement must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Boycotters properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the BDS boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Jew, Christianity and the "War on Terror"


It is a little-known fact that Christianity, at its very outset, was Jewish.  Rather than belabor that point, I merely sight chapter 15 in the Book of Acts of the New Testament, as being about a small group of Jewish believers in Yeshua (Jesus) getting together to discuss the plausibility of the notion that a Gentile can come to believe in Yeshua without first becoming a Jew.

Whereas in the First Century A.D., it was a mystery that a Gentile could believe in Yeshua, Today, in the 21st Century, it is a mystery that a Jew CAN believe in Yeshua.  To date, I have not yet found an adjective that can adequately describe the nature of this irony!

Today, we are engaged in what has popularly been dubbed a “war on terror.”  Because this war is a struggle between Islam and the West with its potpourri of divergent belief systems, I believe that it is safe to say rather axiomatically that...

Until the human race collectively comes to a consensus about who God is, what He is like and what He expects from us, we shall forever be at war.1

As I see it there are three possible ways by which we can come to this consensus2
     1. We humans willingly debate the issue rationally and dispassionately 
     2. A dictatorial entity imposes its view upon everyone else, or
     3. The truth is irrefutably and universally evident.

It is unlikely that we humans will agree on anything.  I find that this substantiates the reality of the doctrine of sin.  We, humans, are too arrogant and biased to relinquish our points of view despite the evidence.  The afore-mentioned axiom would concur that this reality is to our detriment because it inhibits consensus thus perpetuating the atmosphere conducive to promulgating war.  

Sadly, even if the truth should be irrefutably made evident to everyone, in the present state the world is in, many would still reject it.  In reality, I’m pretty well convinced that this objective truth already exists today.  The writer of the Book of Proverbs wrote: “Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;”  (Prov. 1:20).

Even though the voice of Wisdom speaks in the streets today, her voice is drowned out by any rabble of foolishness. Whether such foolishness comes in the form of peer pressure, vogue thinking, tradition, individuals assumed to be experts, any other of a myriad of influences on thought processes or just plain unwillingness of people to put in the effort to think critically, wisdom has historically as well as contemporarily been lacking on the human stage.

Sadly these days, there seem to be only two remaining alternatives for the human race: continued war or the imposition of a world-view upon the masses by a dictator or group of self-appointed dictatorial elitists.  The former alternative is destructive at face value.  The latter alternative may or may not be consistent with objective truth.  In all probability, it will not be objectively truthful, and its foundation will be a lie.3  

Feeding heavily into this “gemish” of confusion over the nature of God, what He might be like and what He expects from us, is the fideistic rejection by the Jewish people of the Messiahship of  Yeshua.  As a whole, the Jewish community defines Jews as Individuals who are the children of Jewish mothers but who do not believe in Yeshua.  To much of the Jewish community, the contention that Yeshua is not the Messiah is an axiom in itself.  This “axiom” however, is built upon a paradigm which places it directly at odds with Christianity.  The Jewish rejection of Yeshua as the Messiah is a direct refutation of Christianity which claims, to the contrary, that He is the Messiah.  The rabbis seem to be oblivious to the fact that their “faith stance” is, in reality, an affront to Christianity and the modern western Church does not perceive this either.  Not wanting to “offend” much of the church relegates “Judaism” to being 'just another religion' and makes up some canard that “one ought not to evangelize Jews because they have some alternative means of receiving salvation.”

This clash between Christianity and Judaism, rather than being confronted, is ignored.  Each side seeks its comfort zone.  It’s not comfortable to confront.  It’s not comfortable to challenge one’s culture and opinions as they stand up in concurrence with or contrary to Biblical truth.  Ironically, this pursuit of comfort produces exactly the opposite effect. Ignoring the debate for the sake of “comfort” sadly serves to contribute to the lack of consensus on the nature of God. This lack of consensus, in turn, carries with it its already noted horrific consequences.  Instead of finding comfort, the one who pursues comfort unwittingly foments war and the inevitable accompanying threat to personal safety which is the utter antithesis of comfort.  

There is another element of irony that accompanies this issue.  Even though Judaism, the religion, fundamentally challenges the claims of Christianity, ironically, when one dismisses Judaism as a religion, the survival of the Jewish people as a people nevertheless, affirms the claim to the divine origin of the Bible and therefore the veracity of the Bible’s claim that, in fact, Yeshua IS the Messiah of the Jewish people.4

Interestingly, popular perception confuses the religion with the people.  Most Jews are not actual practitioners of Judaism.  And where the religion invalidates the "Gospel," the mere existence of the Jewish people on the world stage does validate the Gospel because the Gospel is found only in the Bible and the Bible has promised that the Jewish people would survive history.5  Hence, the replacement of Judaism with genuine collective personal relationships with God, in conjunction with the survival of the Jewish people in history, lend strong evidence that the Bible is the very Word of the creator God of the universe. And since that's the case, the Bible is also the sole accurate source for understanding the nature of the Gospel.

It is safe to say therefore that according to the Bible, peace will never come to this planet until either the Jewish people, are destroyed, (as is the contention of many anti-Semitic groups) which will never happen6,  they en-mass, receive Yeshua as their Messiah which will happen7 one day, or BIBLICAL Christianity is determined to be utterly false which, also, will never happen8.  In spite of the inevitability of the universal salvation of the Jewish people at a specific time in the future, it behooves the Church Invisible, nevertheless, to “pave the way” as it were, by prioritizing prayer for and love motivated evangelism to the Jewish people.  Even if they do not believe now, the evangelist will have planted a “seed” that will bear fruit on “that day.”  Furthermore, there’s a double investment in this endeavor.  It’s part of the war on terror.  Jewish validation of the Messiah-ship of Yeshua invalidates Islam.

1.    ZecharIah 14:9 confirms that the day of peace reigning upon the earth will be marked by universal understanding of God’s nature. - “And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.

2.    The Bible mentions all three of these mechanisms.  Although there are several references to each mechanism, the following are one or two references to each.

a.  Rational debate - "’Come now, and let us reason together,’ Says the LORD, ‘Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.’”  (Isa 1:18)

b. The masses have the value of the dictator imposed on them – “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.  And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.” Rev. 13:11-14)

c. Everyone witnesses the truth - "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” (Zech. 12:10)

3. Scripture would not argue that the foundation of this dictatorship will probably be a lie.  I use the word “probably” only for the sake of argument.  Scripture argues irrefutably that the final dictator is fundamentally a liar. – “And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.” (Rev. 13:14)

4.The fact that the Jewish people have survived two millennia of exile from there homeland endured wave after wave of intolerable persecutions including attempted genocide, and returned to their original homeland to speak the same language they’d spoken two millennia earlier, is a testimony to the predictive nature of the prophecies inherent in the Bible.

5-6. As the prophet Jeremiah declared: “’Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name:  If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.’ Thus says the LORD, ‘If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,’ declares the LORD.                    (Jer 31:35-37)

7. “and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, ‘THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.’ THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."   (Rom. 11:26-27)

8. Looking into the future, the Book of Revelation gives the following as an account: “And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, " Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!” (Rev. 15:3)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Where were you on September the 10th 2001?


I'm sure that most of you know where you were on September 11, 2001. If you're old enough to remember, I'm sure you recall exactly where you were and what you were doing. But I pose another question. Do you remember what you were doing on September the 10th or, for that matter, the 9th?

On the 9th, I was having a conversation with my somewhat recalcitrant 21 yr old son. Let me preface by saying that I believe that the Bible's the very Word of the God of the Universe. He challenged me... “How do you know that the Bible's the Word of God? How do you know that the Qur’an, for instance, isn't the Word of God?” I admitted to him that I had entered into this discussion with some initial biases so I told him that, for the sake of objectivity, I would do some research on Islam.

The 10th was a Monday. During lunch I got on the web and looked up a number of introductory web-sites on Islam. I noticed, in general, a willingness to pay homage to Jesus but a lack of understanding of whom Jesus is from the Biblical perspective. They had an appeal for an assumed commonality with believers in Jesus, but when one digs deeper, they deny that Jesus had any elements of Deity in His nature and to believe that He was God was 'shirk' and marked one as an “infidel”.

I concluded from my short introduction to Islam that anyone who takes Islam seriously was FUNDAMENTALLY CRUEL.

Muslims had been moving into my neighborhood, buying up houses with cash. They'd even bought a school building 2 blocks from my home, calling it an “education center” yet, since then, it's been converted into a mosque. I remember praying. “God, I'm not prepared for this. I'm just a spoiled Jewish boy from the north side of Chicago”. God spoke to my soul in a way that only He can... “I will prepare you”.

Mind you... that was September 10th, 2001. The next day, of course, for the first time in American history, there was an attack by a foreign entity on American soil. It was at the hands of believers in Islam.

I'm grieved by the presumption of Islam. As a Jew, I'm also grieved by the presumption of Judaism. Both “religions” (which I prefer to call “world views”) attest to the greatness of God and hold staunchly to his “oneness”. But, in so doing, they don't even begin to understand the wonder and grandeur and magnificence and holiness of this God of whom they allegedly give allegiance. And He is echod... one.

President Bush began a “war on terror”. The proponents of terror had, for years, carried out a war on America. I'm of the opinion, however, that this war that is waging is not a war that merely involves guns and tanks and bombs. It's a war of ideas and world views.

Every Sabbath, in the synagogue, the strains of the prayer, called “the Oleynu”, are chanted. Included in its refrain are the words of the Prophet Zechariah... “In that day (the day when peace will reign on Earth), the Lord shall be one and His Name shall be one”.

There's a popular bumper sticker making its way about the streets of America. Using the symbols of various religions as letters, it spells out the word “tolerance”. To be honest, tolerance is the mandated antitheses of some of those religions represented by those symbols. They are mutually incompatible. Yet, at least according to Zechariah, there will be no peace on this planet until the peoples of the earth come to a mutual conclusion concerning who this God is, what He is like and what He expects from us human beings.

The fact that these “religions” can't agree on these issues is not to be ignored (as is the case with these bumper stickers mentioned previously), but, I would argue, debated with attitudes of humility, civility and mutual respect. How else can we come to a consensus and agree on who God is, what He is like and what He expects from us?