Could Radical Islam be the Curse of Genesis 12:3 ?

Posted by Olivier Melnick on May 23, 2016

In the book of Genesis, G-d made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants (the Jewish people) in which He unconditionally promised Abraham several things including many descendants, a specific area of land in the Middle East known as Israel and in verse 3, He also promised to reward those dealing with Israel and the Jewish people according to their behavior, as we read: "And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse."

This promise from G-d isn't an empty one as we can track through biblical history how He caught up with those who mistreated Israel. It didn't take long for G-d to punish Egypt with the death of all their firstborns as the tenth plague inflicted on the Egyptians whose Pharaoh–who didn't know Joseph– had ordered the death of all male children of the Jewish slaves he controlled (Exodus 1:8-22; 11:1-7). A curse for a curse!

We can also look at the story that unfolds in the Book of Esther. Haman, the arch-enemy of the Jewish people wants to get rid of Mordecai and all his people, so he fabricates a story and builds gallows to hang Mordecai. By the end of the book, it is Haman who is hanging dead on the gallows (Esther 3:5-15; 7:7-10), again...A curse for a curse!

But the Genesis 12:3 principle doesn't stop with the biblical narrative. It continues through time as we can see with the Spanish empire that had been leading Western Europe for close to 600 years until the late 1400's. That era was known as the "Golden Age" of Spain and it lasted until 1492, a date that according to most historians and scholars isn't only the time when Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue", but also the year when Queen Isabella chose to drive out all the Jews of Spain. Subsequently, 1492 became known as the start of the decline of the Spanish empire.

Genesis 12:3 could be labelled "G-d's foreign policy as it pertains to Israel." And if indeed G-d keeps his word, He will catch up with all the enemies of Israel sooner or later. Sometimes sooner, sometimes not, sometimes with a similar curse, but not necessarily always with matching curses.

Looking at the situation in Europe today, it is hard not to connect the impact of radical Islam to the behavior of certain countries towards Israel. All or most of the countries of the current European Union have had a history of antisemitism that, one way or another, can be traced back to the second Century BCE. Consider just a few of the European countries who expelled their Jewish communities over the last 600 years (several more could be listed):

England: Expelled the Jews in 1290
France: Expelled the Jews in 1306, 1321-22, 1394
Spain: Expelled the Jews in 1492
Sicily: Expelled the Jews in 1492-93
Lithuania: Expelled the Jews in 1495
Portugal: Expelled the Jews in 1496-97
Germany: Expelled the Jews in 1510, 1610, 1885
Bavaria: Expelled the Jews in 1551
Italy: Expelled the Jews 1567, 69, 1593
Austria: Expelled the Jews in 1670
Czechoslovakia: Expelled the Jews in 1745
Russia: Expelled the Jews in 1891

This doesn't include a record of other major events in the annals of Jewish history that have punctuated the Jewish people's story with horrific acts of antisemitism such as the Crusades, the Blood Libels, The Host Desecration accusations, Talmud burnings, the Inquisition, the Pogroms and of course the Holocaust. Without performing an in-depth socio-demographic study of all these countries, we can still speculate that there might be a connection between the treatment of their respective Jewish communities and how G-d might be responding in the twenty-first century.

Radical Islam had already almost impregnated all European countries until very recently. People like Bat Ye'or saw the hand-writing on the wall of European civilization as early as the mid 1970s in her seminal work Eurabia. Mark Steyn understood the demographics "point of no return" in 2006 in his book America AloneI wrote about it as early as 2000 in my first book They Have Conspired Against You.

With the advent of the migrant crisis in the last two years, Europe has now been placed on a collision course. Germany and Sweden are leading the way in what could become to the first country wide cultural suicides. They are plagued by a brand of political correctness that has crippled them. They have lost their ability and in some cases their willingness to fight for their native sovereignty and established law of the land. Belgium, England and France are not far behind.

While we cannot dogmatically ascertain the connection between Jewish expulsions and God's curse, there is a strong possibility that the steady, exponential and irreversible decline of Europe might be a result of these nations disdain for the chosen people of G-d. This certainly doesn't place all Muslim as a curse to Europe, just like not all Germans were Nazis, but one cannot ignore the on-going cultural and demographic jihad happening in Europe. "G-d's foreign policy as it pertains to Israel," doesn't allow for any grey areas. You bless or you curse and the results, while not always immediate and similar, have always been in kind– a curse for a curse and a blessing for a blessing– The wake-up call is imminent and many will be surprised!

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7 comments on “Could Radical Islam be the Curse of Genesis 12:3 ?”

  1. I completely agree. Europe has had many decades to repent of what they did to the Jews in WWII. They didn't really. They just tried to bury it. Now, they are being invaded demographically, spiritually, economically & politically. God can & will use anything to punish (curse) those who have touched the Apple of his eye. America, I fear, is not far behind.

    1. Amen, Susie. God's hand of judgment on America is eminent. But we have reason to be hopeful because ... "as in the days of Noah..." God saved Noah and his family from His wrath. He also spared Lot.

      So while the "REMNANT" is getting smaller by the day, God WILL protect His own!

  2. Most Americans are biblically illiterate and have no clue! We desperately need a spiritual awakening and, yet, we will do anything to prevent it!

  3. Barack Obama has become a curse upon America for betraying Israel and the Jewish people by signing a treaty with Iran granting nuclear arms to that wicked Islamic empire . A second curse will be the evil and lawless Moslem "refugees" Obama and the U.N are pouring into our country by the hundreds of thousands..

  4. No doubt it's a curse, and although a partial-hardening has taken place with the Jews until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, it still angers and sickens me to see God's Chosen people grow more antagonistic of Jesus Christ by using such garbage as 'BCE'; blotting out Christ is error number 1 among the Jews and though end-times prophecy is being fulfilled every single day, they still insist on being 'politically correct' or probably more accurately, 'suppressing the Truth in unrighteousness' by embracing such deception.

    Thankfully, they will come to their senses eventually but it will take Daniel's 70th Week to do so.
    mEven so, may God continue to bless and keep Israel. Maranatha!!✝✝✝

  5. Interesting article and comments. I have one question. Why can't the Author of this piece, Mr. Melnick spell out GOD? Why spell it G-d ? it is not only disrespectful to GOD, but also diminishes who he is.

    1. Dear Robert, I spell God either G-d or God, as He is the same to me. I publish my articles on many sites, several of them are Jewish and do not follow Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah like I do. The spelling of G-d and/or L-rd is the Jewish way of not fully spelling God's name in fear of not saying exactly His name properly and committing a sin. I follow that rule occasionally in some of my articles out of respect for my Jewish readers. I don't think that it is disrespectful to God in any way, but I know that it respects my Jewish brethren and allows for more dialogue.

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