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August 8, 2018 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment

How “Jewish Christian” became an oxymoron!

There are words that just don’t co-exist very well, and “Jewish Christian” is definitely one of these dysfunctional couples that we call oxymorons. People say that you cannot be Jewish and Christian at the same time, because the two terms are mutually exclusive. Christians are often confused about Jewish people who have placed their trust in Yeshua (Jesus), while most Jews are simply upset that other Jews who trust Yeshua would dare to continue calling themselves Jewish, so definitions are in order.

We first hear the term “Christian” in the New Testament, in Acts 11:26: and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers, and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. A simple definition of the term would be “a follower and disciple of Yeshua of Nazareth.” The word Christian comes from the word “Christ” which is the English translation of the Greek “Christos”, or Hebrew “Mashiach”, meaning “Messiah” or “anointed.” Becoming a Christian involves a decision on the part of the person to follow the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and obey His commands. One is not born a Christian since it requires an act of the will to become one.

As to who is Jewish, many interpretations have surfaced over the centuries, trying to define who is a Jew. From having two Jewish parents to just one, particularly a mother who is Jewish, or even just grand-parents. Some say that you have to be religious or live in Israel or even both. What about one who converts to Judaism, does that act make them Jewish?

Biblically speaking, a Jewish person is a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through one of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the Bible, the lineage went through the father or both parents. The change to being Jewish if the mother is Jewish was a medieval rabbinic decision made at a time when many Jewish villages were pillaged, men killed and women raped. In fear of losing their Jewish identity and the Jewish people as a whole, rabbis decided that if a woman was Jewish, the child from their womb had to be as well. This wasn’t a bad decision from the standpoint of preserving the Jewish people, but it departed from the biblical definition when for some Jewish people it became exclusive.
Regardless of being from one parent or both, or even just through the mother, were are faced with a further need for defining who is a Jew, simply because too often people confuse Judaism and Jewishness. A clear understanding of both terms will help us with many misconceptions.

When one speaks of being Jewish, it is implied that they speak of their Jewishness which is an ethnic identity carried through the bloodline and coming from Jewish biological parents. There is nothing one can do to lose their Jewish bloodline connection. One is born a Jew and regardless of their level of observance, they will die a Jew. It could be argued by some that a “good Jew” is one that practices Judaism, but logic dictates that by these standards, even if you are not a “good Jew”, you remain a Jew. This leads us to the need for defining the word “Judaism.”

Judaism is a religion or a set of spiritual beliefs that one adheres to, to the best of their ability. Within Judaism, there are different levels of observance from very nominal to ultra-religious, and everything in between. The practice of Judaism isn’t simply reserved to those who were born ethnically Jewish (Jewishness), but rather it is made available to all who choose to place themselves under the regulations of the Mosaic Law. So, you can be a Jew practicing some level of Judaism or a gentile doing the same, without ever losing your ethnic identity. By the same logic, A Jewish person can also choose to practice Hinduism or Buddhism and continue being Jewish ethnically.

Over the years, the only faith that has become taboo for Jewish people is Christianity, and frankly, this has a lot to do with what happened to Jewish people over the centuries in the name of “Christ.” Consider the names that my people were called by some of the early Church Fathers who–while they helped structure and protect early Christianity–also left a stain on the Jewish psyche. Jewish people have been called:
• MURDERERS (Origen)
• CHRIST KILLERS (St Hyppolitus)
• POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL (Chrysostom)
• DEGENERATE (Chrysostom)
• CURSED BY GOD (Hilary of Poitiers)
• DEMONS (Gregory of Nyssa)
• REJECTED AND CONDEMNED (Martin Luther)

To add insult to injury, my people have also been accused of many ills over the centuries. We have been accused of using the blood of Christian children for Passover rituals, poisoning the wells of Europe to start the Black Plague, attempting to take over the world, controlling the banks, having horns and a vile stench. All these false accusations can easily be debunked, even though people an increasingly less interested in factual truth when it comes to Israel and the Jewish people.
So the word Jewish Christian did become an oxymoron for two reasons. First, because people do not have a clear understanding of the difference between Jewishness and Judaism. Second, because much harm has been done to my people over the centuries in the name of Christianity. But just because many have misrepresented true biblical Christianity to the Jews, it doesn’t take away what real Christianity stands for.

The Jewish Messiah can be found all over the Tanach (Old Testament) in places such as Genesis 3:15; 49:10, Psalm 22, Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7; 52:13-53-12 and Zechariah 12:10 to name just a few. True Christianity is simply a healthy and balanced fulfillment of biblical Judaism.

So maybe “Jewish Christian”–not my favorite choice of words to start with– isn’t such an oxymoron after all! Remember that Jewishness is on the inside and Judaism is on the outside, and they are not necessarily connected. Christianity is a faith and Jewishness is an ethnic state. They absolutely do not have to be mutually exclusive!

July 16, 2018 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment

Haman, Hitler and BDS: We should know better!

What do the book of Esther, the Nuremberg Laws of 1933 and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement have in common? A lot more than meets the eye! There is a theme found in Esther about Haman’s disdain for the Jewish people that is quite unique in the biblical record. We find the first step in Chapter 3 where Haman puts his curse against the Jews in motion, and because of one Jew, namely Mordecai, Haman seeks to destroy all of them. We start seeing the irrational behaviors promoted by an anti-Semitic heart. Haman seeks to destroy all the Jews of the Persian Empire (at that time the vast majority of the Jews lived in the Persian empire, thus Haman sought to kill ALL THE JEWS). In a sense, Haman tries to make anti-Semitism a government-sanctioned policy

After these events, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him. And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage. When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus. (Esther 3:1-2, 6-5)

Furthermore, he proceeds to give the reason why the Jews are not wanted in Ahasuerus’ kingdom, and that is simply because they are different from everybody else and Haman feels that they just don’t fit.

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain. (Esther 3:8)

Haman realizes that his endeavor will require some logistical finesse, so he asks the king to issue a decree for the destruction of the Jewish people. He even offers to finance the carnage.

“If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business,…And letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.
(Esther 3:9-13)

Fast forward to 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were introduced and Jewish people lost their citizenship. Marriage and/or sexual relations between Jews and Aryans were prohibited and severely punished. Additionally, guidelines were created to determine who in Germany would qualify as a “mischling” (half breed) and who wouldn’t. The Nuremberg Laws would set the stage for the final delegitimization of the Jewish people before the Final Solution could be implemented. By 1935, Hitler was solidly established in power. Few, if any, would dare to contradict him. His obsession with the “Jewish problem” would soon lead him to the next step in his attempt at the destruction of European Jewry. While the outcome was unfortunately different in each case, the process by which Haman sought to annihilate the Jews as seen in various verses of Esther 3 and the one used by Hitler have many similarities:

One Man’s jealousy led into uncontrolled hatred (Esther 3:5) – Hitler was obsessed with the destruction of all Jews.
Targeted hatred became global hatred (Esther 3:6, 13) – Nazis would go out of their ways and way beyond Germany to go get Jewish people and bring them to the camps.
Hatred was apparently caused because of non-conformity (Esther 3:8) – The “Aryan race” and the now debunked science of Eugenics very precisely categorized the Jews as a sub-human race.
Attempted annihilation of the Jews was structured and organized (Esther 3:9-13) – “The final solution to the Jewish Question”– a euphemism for the Holocaust, was a very well oiled machine that took the life of 6,000,000 in a very short period of time. Nazi Germany utilized the European railroads to go find Jews as far as the trains would allow them to go.
Funds were spent and financial wealth was provided for the perpetrators (Esther 3:9, 4:7) – Hitler used a lot of his resources to get the Jews, to the point where he lacked many of them during the Russian campaign at the end of World War Two.

We can clearly see the correlation between Haman’s attempt to annihilate the Jews and Hitler’s evil agenda of death, but what about the current BDS movement? BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti doesn’t even hide the fact that the ultimate goal of BDS is the eradicaton of Israel. BDS is another way to delegitimize Israel in the eyes of the global community in the name of human rights and social justice. Yet, under this self-righteous veneer of human rights activism, is a new brand of antisemitism. Whole countries are now starting to follow suit. Ireland just passed a law to Boycott Israeli products from Israeli settlements.

Just like Haman and Hitler, BDS proponents are:

• Trying to make anti-Semitism a government-sanctioned policy

• Painting the Jewish people as misfits of society as Israel “occupies Palestine.”

• Recruiting the help of willing promoters and seeking financial back-up anywhere they can find it.

Satan, the ultimate enemy of the Jews is constantly re-inventing himself to further demonize and ostracize Israel. Ideologically, BDS is an extension of Hitler’s agenda which was parallel to Haman’s agenda. BDS is a lot more than an economic, academic or entertainment boycott. People need to dig a bit deeper to see the real motives of that sick movement.
Incidentally, when we are told by BDS to stop buying Israeli products, we should do the exact opposite and support Israel’s economy. How? It is quite simple. Go to a BDS website and buy the exact products they tell you to stay away from. They’ve done all the work for you!

June 27, 2018 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment

Are the Jews “Poisoning the Wells” Again?

The Dark Ages were a difficult time of history for much of the world and they turned out to be quite a bit darker for the Jewish communities of Europe. The chasm between Christianity and Judaism continually widened. Early theological differences had morphed into the social ostracism that would eventually lead to the racial antisemitism that allowed for the Holocaust to take place. A wedge seemed to be irreversibly pushed between Christians and Jews. People looking for reasons to hate the Jews didn’t have to look very hard.

A myth had developed in the early 1320s that the king of Tunisia, some lepers and the Jews had conspired together and were determined to destroy Christianity. Apparently, they had concocted a magic recipe for a poison made of lizard, spiders, frogs, human hearts, urine and sacred hosts. The legend of the poisoning of the wells of Europe was emerging and once again the Jews were about to be held responsible.[1]

With the mid-1300s advent of the “Black Death” or “Black Plague”, the world was about to experience death like never before. It was the most devastating pandemic in the history of mankind, from 1347 to 1350, that was responsible for the death of about 75 million people worldwide (25 million in Europe alone.) It is now believed that it was caused by a bacterium found on fleas carried by black rats from Asia onto ships sailing to Europe. It would take 150 years for Europe’s population to recover, while other minor plagues hit Europe until the 19^th century.

As the rest of the continent appeared to be on its way to total extinction, people started to look for a cause and it was not long before the Jews were once again used as the convenient “scapegoats of humanity.”

Jewish people also died during the “Black Death”, but generally in much lesser numbers. Many reasons can be at the root of the smaller number of casualties. Firstly, the Jewish people lived in somewhat of a communal isolation from the rest of the Christians, which, to an extent, allowed them a safe distance from infected areas. Secondly, the mandatory liturgical washing of the hands before meals was sure to help with hygiene. Finally, the strict kosher laws that religious Jews were bound to follow[2], forced them to maintain a stricter hygiene as well, and thus resulted in less death in the Jewish communities. While the reduced number of Jewish casualties could partially be attributed to Jewish customs and kosher laws, it didn’t stop the masses from slaughtering and destroying over 200 Jewish communities, numbering Jewish fatalities in the tens of thousands.

Such an accusation would stick for a while, but eventually would be debunked, at least one would think. Fast forward to 2018 and the accusation is back in the news, not from a Middle Eastern country indoctrinated to hate the Jews, as one would expect, but by a Daily Mail British columnist who wrote on June 26, 2018: “ In an unequivocal breach of international law, Israeli settlers have taken much of the best agricultural land, while depriving the Palestinians of water supplies and, according to a number of respectable sources — and I have witnessed this for myself — burning their olive groves and poisoning their wells.” [3]

Apparently, Mr. Oborne witnessed Israelis poisoning Palestinian wells, but to further validate his unfounded claim, the Daily Mail came to his rescue. The original statement made by Peter Oborne didn’t include the phrase “according to a number of respectable sources” later added by the Newspaper editorial staff [4], making the staff as guilty of antisemitism as the columnist.

One wonders if the Dark Ages ever came to an end for the Jewish people? It is difficult to fathom that people in the West would continue to spread canards against the Jews such as the poisoning of wells. It is even harder to believe that people will accept this as a verified news and in their own mind, join the enemies of Israel in further ostracizing and demonizing the Jews.

Satan hates the Jews because God loves them. His twisted creativity has no end. As he sees his end coming soon with the return of Yeshua when all Jewish people call upon Him (Zechariah 12:10), he will double his efforts to stop the Jews from calling on Yeshua. The most irrational libels against the Jews will be believed by many. The poisoning of the Palestinian wells is just one more example of Satan’s devious agenda to destroy the Jews.

[1] Flannery, Edward H. The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism. Rev. and updated ed. Studies in Judaism and Christianity. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. pp. 106-111

[2] Nicholls, William. Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate. Northvale, N.J: J. Aronson, 1993. p. 247

[3] Oborne, Peter The minefield Prince William must tiptoe through today as becomes the first senior member of the Royal Family to pay an official visit to Israel (Daily Mail) Last accessed on June 27, 2018, http://tinyurl.com/ya9w75kw

[4] Plosker, Simon Bigoted Columnist: Jews ‘Poisoning the Wells’ (Honest Reporting). Last accessed June 27, 2018, http://tinyurl.com/y8p97dsp

June 8, 2018 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment

Who is Omar Barghouti and why it should matter to evangelicals?

While some might accuse me of it, I take no pleasure in exposing people simply for character assassination. Naming names will accomplish nothing unless we can ethically quote the people we are exposing, using their own words to prove their hypocrisy and the danger they represent to a specific community or people group. From time to time, it is vital to expose people to the policies, philosophy or practices of certain individuals. As the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement (BDS) continues to pick up momentum globally and especially within evangelicals, it is time to get acquainted with Omar Barghouti, the man behind the movement as its co-founder. Even though they are related and part of the Barghouti clan, he is not to be confused with Marwan Barghouti, who is a Palestinian terrorist in jail for having killed Israelis.

In my regular speaking engagements in churches and conferences in the US and Europe, I still run into a lot of people who have never heard of the BDS movement, let alone of Omar Barghouti, its founder. It is incumbent on people of good faith in general and evangelicals, in particular, to understand and fight the BDS. That movement is responsible for a lot of damage done against Israel and the Jewish people, and yet it rests on a false premise. It is antisemitic at its core.

Omar Barghouti, seen by the world as a human rights activist, was born in Qatar, raised in Egypt, educated in the US, only to later move to Israel where he now resides. In 2004/2005, he started what was then mostly an attempt at an academic boycott of Israel and later became known as the BDS movement. Ironically, Barghouti holds a degree in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and has even gone into their Doctoral program for a while. Are his degrees valid or should he boycott them since they were earned in Tel Aviv, Israel? This is such an obvious case of double-standards!

The original goal of BDS was clearly delineated by its creators as Alex Joffe reported in Times of Israel “The call also put forward three demands; ‘1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall 2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and 3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.’ In short, the call demanded the dismantling of Israel through the ‘right of return.’ This has not changed: the end of Israel is the core BDS goal.”

Since then, the BDS movement has picked up momentum and a lot of supporters globally in academia, entertainment, government, NGOs and churches. Their goal is the same, but it is carefully worded to attract the uneducated masses by banking on their compassion and desire for social justice. On their own site, they claim:“Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice, and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity. Israel is occupying and colonizing Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law. BDS is now a vibrant global movement made up of unions, academic associations, churches and grassroots movements across the world. Eleven years since its launch, BDS is having a major impact and is effectively challenging international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.”

Many of the lies of Mr. Barghouti are being exposed. According to the website Canary Mission, Mr. Barghouti (who received a degree in philosophy AND ethics,) is promoting antisemitism and terrorism. They documented many of his connections and quotes supporting terrorist organizations or re-labeling terrorist murderers as “Palestinian Resistance.” Mr. Barghouti says that people under occupation have the right to resist with or without weapons. In and of itself, that is a true statement, but are Palestinians resisting or instigating? When they say that they want to “burn the Jews” like in the Holocaust, are they resisting or instigating? Hamas will use any situation and give it the necessary spin to fault Israel and get the West’s compassion on the “poor Palestinian victims” throwing rocks and flying kites against tanks and fighter jets. They sure tried with the death of the Gaza nurse during the recent clashes and Mr. Barghouti has no problem with that! Let’s allow the man to speak for himself:

• 2006 American Association of College Professors, Bellagio, Italy. Barghouti said: “it is not the occupation of the West Bank that is the problem, but the existence of Israel itself.”

• 2009 interview on Electronic Intifada: “For more than a hundred years Palestinians have resisted with cultural and artistic resistance, strikes, demonstrations, women’s and trade union organizing, and so on. The majority of people were involved in nonviolent resistance before the inspiration of Gandhi and that of South Africa.”

• 2010 Q & A session in San Diego speaking of Israel (00:13:00):”It is the most violent entity that exists in this entire region.”

•2011 at Socialism 2011 in Chicago, he compared Israel to Nazi Germany: “Do you want me to tell you what Germany had invented before the Nazis?”

• 2013 South North Talk in Norway: “A Jewish state in Palestine, in any shape or form, cannot but contravene the basic rights of the land’s indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically.”

• 2014 in a UCLA talk, he claimed that Israeli snipers were” shooting children for sports.”

Mr. Barghouti’s soft-spoken delivery allows him to be described as the Palestinian Gandhi or Mandela. It greatly helps his agenda. Once one listens to Mr. Barghouti’s own words, one can only conclude that this man is a promoter of hate who seeks no peace, no reconciliation and no co-existence with Jewish people in Israel. He is the man behind BDS, and BDS is an antisemitic movement only seeking the complete destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. It is very disturbing that so many people, including evangelicals, are buying Mr. Barghouti’s message hook, line and sinker, but then again, we are approaching the day when the whole world will join against Israel, and Mr. Barghouti is helping. The question is “will we help as well?” I certainly hope not, but silence and apathy always contribute to the nefarious agenda of the enemy!

May 25, 2018 By Olivier Melnick 1 Comment

Are we inching our way towards the fulfillment of Zechariah 12?

Jerusalem has been at the very center of religious, historical and geopolitical tensions for a long time. With the recent move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it seems that fuel has once again been added to the fire already consuming the Palestinians with humiliation, or so would the media like us to believe. Some countries have welcomed the US embassy move and some have even announced their subsequent moves in the next few weeks. Honduras, Paraguay, Guatemala, the Czech Republic and Romania have all announced their plans to move forward with a relocation. While much of the world sees this as a defiant move, Israel welcomes the decisions of the few international friends she has. There will be more.

The move of the US embassy, had it been in any other country on the planet would have garnered no interest from anybody. Generally speaking, people don’t care where an embassy is located and they agree that it should be in the capital of each respective country. When the capital is Jerusalem, and its legitimacy is questioned, a move becomes a thorn in the flesh of political correctness. The locating or relocating of an embassy really shouldn’t be newsworthy, but it seems that lately, anytime Israel or Jerusalem is mentioned, the world gets on edge.

If nothing else, moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem shows that this current administration supports Israel AND recognizes Jerusalem as its capital, something that previous US administrations had alluded to at best. The United Nations General Assembly voted 128-9 (35 abstentions) in favor of condemning the upcoming move, even though US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Hailey vowed that the United States would remember those who voted against the move. This was done in the form of an attempt at rendering the “Trump decision” null and void. The 9 countries that voted against it were: Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Togo and the US.

Then came the move to Jerusalem. President Trump chose the symbolic date of May 14, 2018, since Israel was declared a modern nation on May 14, 1948. Palestinian Authority and its close supporters declared that the move was counterproductive to any peace efforts. Simultaneously, Hamas tried to breach the Gaza/Israel border. These people flew kites with explosives over the border and sent terrorists mixed with civilians to cross to Israel. As it turned out, over 75% of the people killed at the border were terrorists. The days leading to the move to Jerusalem were supposed to be the “Palestinian March of Return” coinciding with the date of May 14th, considered by Palestinians as the Nakba or “catastrophe.” The results of the border breach attempt were far from what Hamas expected. There seems to be a “Palestinian narrative fatigue” going around, but don’t worry, the contempt for Israel will return before we know it. How is THIS helping with the peace effort?

As always, the media was extremely helpful in painting a picture promoting and vindicating a false narrative. The National Catholic Reporter boldly wrote that “Emboldened by embassy move, Israel unleashes on Palestinians.” making Israel sound like a murderous state killing harmless peaceful protesters. CNN reported, “The US opens new embassy in Jerusalem as dozens are killed in Gaza.” The article goes on to demonize Israel AND doesn’t show one picture of Palestinian terrorism. It only shows people looking desperate and trying to defend themselves, which is a far cry from reality. A few websites have the integrity to properly report the facts. One such outfit is honestreporting.com and they produced several short videos clearly exposing the lies of Hamas, and the denial of the media.

The 128 countries that drafted a resolution to render the decision to move the embassy “null and void,” are enemies of Israel and are not looking for peace in the Middle East. They have become co-conspirators of Hamas. While the resolution from the UN does not carry very much weight on the international scene an will likely not lead to a reversal of the embassy move, it is a symptom of something much deeper; it shows the world’s opinion on Israel. Over 75% of the countries of the world are ready to render the move null and void. They have spoken loud and clear, and the 35 that abstained, have spoken by their silence.

There is an interesting prophecy in the Jewish Scriptures found in the prophet Zechariah 12:1-9. In it, we are told that at some point in future history, the whole world will turn against Israel. “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah….“It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

Bible students know that to be true. The day is coming when the whole world will turn against Jerusalem. 128 countries out of 193 is definitely a move in that direction. Somehow, even America will turn against Israel. We understand that even if a country corporately declares its hatred of Israel and the Jewish people, people of good faith do not have to follow suit. During the 30s and 40s, there were people who helped, protected and hid many Jews such as my mother. They were not Jewish, they risked their own lives and took no money to do so. Today, they are known as “Yad Vashem Righteous Gentiles” or “Gentiles Among the Nations.” All seems to indicate that the world is in need of a second generation of “Righteous Gentiles,” and they exist, I have met some of them.

We are indeed a lot closer to a fulfillment of Zechariah 12, but we must be humbly reminded of the end of that story in verse 9 “And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”

God will indeed have the final word!

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