Dear Friends,

Last month’s hate crimes, the shootings in Illinois and Indiana by the neo-Nazi, made a very Biblical point. Those who hate the Jews simply have a problem of a supernatural nature. The Jews haven’t done anything to deserve their hatred.

I have said it before, but hatred of Jews is simply hatred of God and His plan for this world. After all, He loves them, and He chose them, and He has kept His promises to them even to the extreme of restoring them to the land He gave them nearly 2,000 years after their worldwide dispersion. Even the devil knows the truth of this. He has a dialogue with God in the first chapter of Job in which he insists that if God will take away what Job has, then Job, the righteous one, will end up cursing God to His face. God agrees to the contest over Job, clearly a representative of a chosen one, or a Jew. The devil’s hatred of Job is very natural, since God loves Job, and likewise the Jews.

The devil is disappointed. No matter what happens to Job, he still worships God faithfully, in the end claiming, “Yea, though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” The Jewish people could as well say, “Yea, though false soldiers crusade in my land and kill me … yea, though false priests torture me and execute me in terrible inquisitions for my beliefs … yea, though Germans annihilate me in the most amazing human slaughterhouse in history … I will trust in my heritage and in my God.”

That kind of attitude irritates some people.

Ben Smith, the neo-Nazi from Illinois, was a pipsqueak of a hater without a reason to be angry with anyone. His father was a doctor, and his road was paved with plenty. But he wrote of an eighth-grade experience, “The Jew teacher began with the ‘slaughtering’ of the Indians by white pioneers and settlers. He then moved to the ‘evils’ of black slavery and ended with the ‘murder of six million Jews’… The entire class was mind manipulation, pure and simple …”

It’s hard to see how historical facts become “mind manipulation” and even harder for me to see how the “Jew teacher” was at fault here. But hardest of all for me to understand is why Jews are hated by anybody.

Oh, I’m not saying that the Jewish people are perfect. I’m well aware that God made an arbitrary choice and, indeed, their shortcomings are well chronicled in that most honest of critiques, the Old Testament. They fell away from their Law and their Temple again and again, but their God was always faithful and His promises were always kept. Be that as it may, the Jews never really persecuted anybody or harmed anybody (unless you believe The New York Times, CNN, etc., as to what’s happening in Israel these days). In 4,000 years of history, they have not occupied anybody else’s land nor enslaved a people nor “ethnically cleansed” anyone. Yet they are universally despised.

I think that’s proof of God and His influence in the world, and I think those who hate the Jews are taking the devil’s part in the argument over Job.

In Russia, the Jews are being blamed for economic difficulties, although these were clearly in place when Communism fell. In Japan, one of the truly funny cases, the Jews are being blamed for the same sort of economic downturns, and the fact is there are no Jews in Japan!

Ben Smith went on in his career to be educated at Indiana University, my alma mater. There, he sent racially biased letters to the school paper, The Indiana Daily Student, with whom I had a personal experience in 1994. Those of you who follow this ministry will recall that I spoke at Indiana, and the school paper treated me very shabbily. I protested being characterized as some kind of politically incorrect, narrow-minded conservative for saying that Israel was really Jewish land. I deeply resented words being put into my mouth by a Palestinian member of the audience, who said in the school paper that I came all that way just to say, “F— you, we’ve got the guns.” The editor of the paper said he would give me equal space to answer that lie, but he never did give the space. When I contacted faculty people, they were totally indifferent and unconcerned. The School of Journalism at Indiana University, from which the great war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, graduated, is one of the reasons I am ashamed of my alma mater. Indiana University, like most of our colleges today, is a model of unsupervised kids running amok while unconcerned faculty collect salaries and give each other academic awards.

The doctrine of the World Church of the Creator, of which Ben Smith would say he was an enthusiastic parishioner, is disheartening. As The Dallas Morning News puts it, “Hate is their religion. They hate Jews most of all, but they hate Christians, too. They hate blacks and Asians and gay people. They hate the government and the media. They hate public schools. They despise low IQs and they have nothing but contempt for whites who ignore their call for a racial holy war that will prove their own supremacy.”

Feel sorry for pastor Matt Hale, the leader of this mess; he upholds the white race, but it’s full of Christians, Jews, mentally challenged folks, gay people, and so forth, so he has to discriminate even among the whites whom he venerates. And, after all, Jewish people look like and talk like white Americans. Admittedly, if a person were to come from another planet, they would assume that we don’t like this or that group because of their color or their accent or even their foods or their music. But racists don’t have any of those excuses with the Jews. They are completely assimilated Americans, by and large, and their contributions to this country are manifest. There simply is no apparent reason for the hatred.

Matt Hale is reminiscent of the German pastors of World War II who venerated the Jewish messiah, Jesus Christ, and sent their Jewish neighbors and parishioners to death camps. The News concludes its article, “Mr. Hale’s group shuns Christianity as part of a worldwide Zionist conspiracy.” I only wish it were so. I wish Christians everywhere could be condemned for supporting Israel and Zionism. Shamefully enough, Israel doesn’t appear on the agenda of very many churches at all in this country or elsewhere, and Zionism, the Biblical ideal that the Jews should occupy their Promised Land, is regarded almost as racism, which awful stigma the Arabs gave it early on.

Where does all this lead us? Well, by all means, this polarizing of the freest nation on earth suggests the upcoming Tribulation Period—most especially in its hatred of the Jews. “Ye shall be hated of all nations,” Jesus sadly told his Jewish disciples in Israel, and so it has come about (Matt. 24:9). Israel truly is the only country that can say it has no friends. (I used to say the United States was its only friend, but under the Clinton administration, I’m not sure I can even articulate that.)

And, in another way, hatred itself brings on the peace-loving, smiling Antichrist, who promises an end to such differences and melds all nations into one great people. As with American Airlines, his “One-World” system makes more convenience for everyone.

Is this the beginning of the end?

We should certainly look into that possibility. Our next prophecy conference, “The Feasts of Our Lord,” will be September 18–19, held at the beautiful Biblical Arts Center in Dallas. An enrollment form is enclosed for your convenience.

Our September tour is filling quickly, so if you plan to tour Israel in September (Deluxe Sept. 5–16, Grand 2–16) you need to register immediately. The November Kibbutz Tour, November 19–28, will be the same price as the June Kibbutz Tour, $2,699 per person based on double occupancy. Here’s a chance to see all the sites such as the ancient City of David, Jerusalem, and the Israel Museum where we will examine the Dead Sea Scrolls. We will gather at the summit of the Mount of Olives, walk through the Garden of Gethsemane, see the Upper Room, Calvary, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, the site of the Sermon on the Mount, Masada, Jericho, the Garden Tomb, and you can choose to be baptized in the Jordan River. This Kibbutz Tour is planned for a time when teachers and students may be able to go because of the Thanksgiving vacation. Check your calendars.

Our December Tour is planned for December 11–21 for the Deluxe, and December 11-26 for the Grand. The Deluxe Tour visits all the same Biblical sites as the September Deluxe and the November Kibbutz Tour. The Grand Tour has an extension at your choice of luxurious resort hotels on the Dead Sea or at Eilat on the Red Sea. Those staying at the Dead Sea will tour the beautiful Negev Desert extensively, including En Gedi (where David hid from King Solomon), Beer Sheba, Ashkelon where Samson visited, etc. Eilat people will visit Petra, the city carved out of a rose-red mountain, one of the world’s great ancient attractions. All pilgrims on the Grand Tour will spend Christmas Eve in Bethlehem!

Our prophecy special is now finished, and we’re just looking for the prime time slot to play it in September, before September 10, of course! Thank you for all your wonderful help. We simply could not have accomplished this without your generosity and love of Israel.

And please remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Your messenger,

Zola

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