The Jewish Final Solution to the World's Problem - From Biblical to Secular History IV

[0:00] In our last session together, a passage of scripture was read from Luke's Gospel, chapter 19 and verse 27.

[0:13] And it had to do with the parable of the pounds that were to be invested by the absent Lord. It was a parable that Jesus gave, and the conclusion of the parable, because they had been irresponsible with what had been entrusted to them, the conclusion of it was found in the last verse, which read, But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither and slay them before me.

[0:43] And that is used as a kind of proof text to justify those who refused to be baptized into the Catholic Church at the time, and they were dubbed as appropriate candidates for persecution or, in some cases, even death.

[1:02] And a like passage in Luke 14, 23, which reads, At the conclusion of the invitations that had gone out for the banquet, you know, the servants sent out invitations in the community for everyone to come to this great banquet, and everybody began making excuses as to why they couldn't make it.

[1:23] They said, Oh, I bought a team of oxen, and I have to try them. And another said, I've married a wife, and I have to, I can't leave her. And so on, they gave all these excuses. And the upshot of it was, Christ said to his disciples to go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in, that my banquet room may be filled.

[1:43] And that too, along with the verse that we just read, was used to justify the actual persecution and coercion of Jewish people in an effort to make them submit to baptism into the Catholic Church.

[2:02] And they took that passage where our Lord was saying, compel them to come in, and compel stresses the necessity of, or the constraining power thereof, to force them to come in.

[2:16] In other words, go out and drag them in. That's not what he was saying, but that's how it was interpreted. They were forced to come in, and forced to submit to baptism, and forced to deny what then was a big deal, the law of Moses.

[2:34] So, we need to understand, as clearly as we possibly can, intimidation and coercion were tactics never employed by Jesus Christ in his ministry, and were never advocated by him.

[2:53] Nowhere will you ever read where Jesus was willing to overpower the volition, or violate the conscience of anyone in an effort to get them to believe in him.

[3:07] Christians, as well as the Lord and the apostles, when we have opportunity to express the gospel, we are to implore, we are to persuade, we beseech, we invite, and we plead, all of which are designed to recognize the freedom of the individual conscience that must not be violated.

[3:33] We desperately want people to come to faith in Christ, but we do not have the right to force them, make demands upon them, intimidate them, or threaten them.

[3:46] We must recognize the right of individual conscience, even when, and I might add, especially when, we disagree with their decision.

[3:59] And it has been so well stated, I think, by one of our founding fathers, whose name escapes me now, but the principle he expounded was this, I completely disagree with what you say, and your position that you hold, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it, and to hold that position.

[4:21] And the reason we must feel so strongly about that, is because God has given to each human being, the power of choice, and each of us is going to stand before our maker, and give an account.

[4:39] Everyone stands or falls to his own master, and you do not have to give an account to me for your decisions, nor to any other preacher, or priest, or rabbi, but you will give an account for your decisions to the one to whom it really counts.

[4:56] The Jews, the Jews who persecuted their fellow Jews, as led by Saul of Tarsus, denied men the freedom of conscience.

[5:10] The early Christians, and professing Christians, and these were both kinds, there were Christians who were real, genuine believers, in the Roman Catholic Church.

[5:21] They had a relationship with Jesus Christ, and when they died, they went to heaven. But there were also a number of people in the Roman Catholic Church, who were not Christians at all. They were just caught up in the faulty role, and the tradition, and the sacraments, and all of the rest of it, and they had not, they did not possess a real regeneration, or heart change.

[5:44] And there are plenty of those in the Protestant Church today. They're everywhere. There are true believers, and there are false believers, and they are commingled together, and you can't tell one from the other, because they all look alike.

[5:57] The early Christians, including professing and possessing, of the second century onward to today, and including the recent Holocaust of World War II, denied the Jewish people their freedom of conscience, their right to believe, or not believe, whatever they chose.

[6:24] Present day Muslims, those of the terrorist bent, will not allow anyone their freedom of conscience. And if they could take yours from you, they would.

[6:38] And they freely admit that they would. This is not a secret. This is not an accusation. This is public knowledge. They've made it quite clear. They will not allow you the freedom of conscience to embrace or reject the teachings of Islam, and, in fact, become a Muslim.

[6:58] Failure to do so forfeits your right to live. And for a Muslim who leaves the faith of Islam to convert to any other faith is under a death sentence that can be carried out by any other true Muslim.

[7:16] It is in the Koran, and the militant terrorists of today interpret it literally. I remember a case no more than six months ago right here in the United States where a young teenage girl, she must have been about 14 or 15 years of age, she came to faith in Jesus Christ.

[7:36] I don't know the circumstances or how her conversion came about, but she became a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and she was a young Muslim girl. And her father found out and attempted to kill her.

[7:50] It would have been considered an honor killing under Sharia law. Problem is, the United States is not under Sharia law.

[8:02] At least not yet. And this girl escaped. I don't know the details about it, but I do know that her life was threatened, and her father attempted to kill her, and she escaped and found refuge somewhere, and the thing went to court, and there was a big hullabaloo about it.

[8:21] This is common practice, particularly in countries that are dominated by Islam. If anyone converts from Islam to anything else, doesn't have to be Christianity, to anything else, you put yourself under a death sentence, and those in your immediate family are looked upon as honorable if they are the ones to kill you.

[8:46] And it is done in the name of Allah, and there will not be a court anywhere in a Muslim land that would convict you. President Obama, I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but President Obama recently visited a mosque.

[9:04] And I don't know if you know this or not, but I know it because it's public knowledge, and he said it. He was born into and reared in the Muslim faith.

[9:18] Supposedly, at some point later, he was converted to Christianity and was no longer a Muslim. You realize, of course, that according to Muslim law, he's under a death sentence.

[9:33] And any Muslim would be within their right to dispatch President Obama and send him to his grave. And he would not be faulted by anyone in Islam for doing so.

[9:46] Of course, he would have to get past our Secret Service and those who protect the President in order to do that. But all I'm telling you is that this is the actual, this is the actual belief.

[9:59] This is not an opinion. This is something that is easily verified from multiple sources. There are two great engines. Follow me carefully, please.

[10:11] There are two great engines that drive persecution wherever it is found, whether political or religious. And those two great engines are ignorance and arrogance.

[10:26] Ignorance merely means to not know. Arrogance is the attitude that acts upon not knowing with an air of superiority.

[10:39] As though you do know. Saul of Tarsus of old and Adolf Hitler rather recently are classic examples. These same two engines of ignorance and arrogance are still hard at work in the lives of radical Islam and radical everything else.

[10:58] And it isn't just Islam. It is virtually every belief system that is out there. Not knowing fueled with arrogance of an all-knowing attitude constitutes a dangerous and deadly chemistry.

[11:14] Let me repeat that. Not knowing or being ignorant fueled with the arrogance of all-knowing constitutes a dangerous and deadly chemistry.

[11:28] untold millions have suffered from it and continue to suffer today. This will be intensified during the Great Tribulation also known as the time of Jacob's trouble which we will be shortly undertaking.

[11:43] No people in the entire history of humanity have so suffered persecution that stemmed from these deadly twins of ignorance and arrogance like the Jews.

[11:56] against all odds they have managed to survive. Their survival is not due to the lack of trying to eliminate them but it is due to the covenant relationship God established with them through the Abrahamic covenant we've examined in the past in Genesis 12 chapters 15 and 17.

[12:17] This coupled with the promise as found in Jeremiah 31 referencing the sun the moon and the stars and God gives that as his affirmation of his relationship to Israel.

[12:32] He poses the question through the prophet Jeremiah what would it take what would it take for the God of heaven to abandon his people the Jew what would it take to get God to write them off and no longer be his people and Jeremiah goes on and gives the answer and he says when the time comes that you can reach up and remove the sun and the moon and the stars and cast them away that's when I'll forsake my people and you can determine for yourself how likely that is to happen it is nothing but a confirmation of the covenant relationship that he has with his people and there is nothing else quite like it the church which we are now members in the body of Christ is completely different from the nation of Israel and that covenant relationship we are not in a covenant relationship with Jehovah as the Jew is we have an entirely different relationship of being in Christ and in the body of Christ and that is an entirely different thing and when you do not make the distinction and you try to marry those two together you end up with hopeless contradictions and many of us can testify to that why we continue to pursue this theme as ugly as it is as ugly as persecution is is because it will continue to be a key factor in the upcoming prophecy of the last days the Jewish people will be the catalyst of it all it is going to focus upon the nation of Israel and Zechariah makes it very very clear where God says

[14:28] I will gather all the nations together against Israel there will be a huge staging of the world's armies in the plain of Israel this is the prophet Zechariah he makes it very clear and there isn't anything in history that is even remotely capable of fulfilling that because it hasn't happened yet but it is going to happen and Israel is going to be the focus of it Israel is going to have a bullseye on their back in a way that they never have Israel is going to be regarded as the world's scapegoat as the world's problem just like Hitler identified the Jew as Europe's principal problem blamed everything on the Jew and succeeded in carrying out what he did so let me get to this book now and I've just marked and dog-eared several places that I want to read and I don't know how else to get this to you but you need to know this so this again is from the book I've identified as

[15:34] Constantine Sword by James Carroll and James Carroll is a member in good standing of the Roman Catholic Church this book was published in the year 2001 so it isn't real new but it certainly isn't old either let me just jump in if I may because there's a lot before and after scholars draw contrast between the early and late Augustine between the life affirmer and the naysayer it was the late Augustine who no longer depending on the force of reason justified the use of coercion in defending and spreading the orthodox faith did you get that he justified the use of coercion make them believe make them be baptized make them convert for many have found advantage as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experiment he wrote in a treatise ominously entitled the correction of the donatists that was a sect group in being first compelled by fear of pain listen to this here's the reason in being first compelled by fear or pain if we can't scare you into compliance we will beat you into compliance either by fear or by pain so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching in other words we're going to beat you half to death with whatever it takes in order for you to get the point you know the old proverbial two by four with the mule you hit the mule with the two by four to get his attention well that's the principle that is applied here what we want to do is teach them things that they need to know but they're not in a position to learn and they don't want to learn unless they are made to learn and we're going to make them feel in such a way that they will be glad to learn he supported the passage of laws against pagans and heretics and he offered a theological justification for a policy of correct you who was this guy this was

[17:55] Augustine let me say right up front I have no doubt about this at all Augustine probably one of the most brilliant intellectual individuals who ever lived and if you don't think so read his city of God read the confessions of St.

[18:14] Augustine and be reminded this man wrote in the fourth century this is 1600 years ago he was writing this stuff and most people couldn't even read or write and he cranked out volumes and volumes of work the man was a genius no question about it but he was a genius with a fallen intellect which every son of Adam possesses we all reason with a warped intellect and so did Augustine and he probably Augustine is probably the most revered of all of the church fathers not only of the Roman Catholic Church but what we would consider to be the Protestant Church at all because when Augustine was Bishop of Hippo this was in North Africa he was a bishop installed there in of course the Roman Catholic Church he was an extremely influential man and virtually everyone took their cues from Augustine and so did Martin Luther and he goes on to say well let me read this he could not advocate the extension of such fierce evangelizing without a qualm but finally he did and now the fierceness was armed what shall

[19:30] I say as to the infliction and remission of punishment in cases in which we only desire to forward the spiritual welfare of those we are deciding whether or not to punish in other words I'm only hurting you for your own good I'm only torturing you because I want you to understand this is the kind of thing this is a kind of warped reasoning that intelligent people can come to after all I'm doing it for their own good Augustine said what trembling we feel in these things my brother Paulinus oh holy man of God this is a letter from Augustine written to Paulinus of Nola around the time of Alaric's invasion of Italy when Augustine was on his death bed and he knew he was not long for this world the vandals were knocking on the door of Rome Rome was just about to fall after having been established as the world power for centuries

[20:36] Rome was right on the brink of falling and would fall within a matter of very short time the death of Augustine he says may we not think that with reference to these things it was said fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me and I said oh that I had wings like a dove for then I should fly away now here I want you to get the rationale of this listen to what this guy is saying this is Augustine he is saying he saying what trembling I feel Augustine I feel such trembling such darkness fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me why because he viewed it as his duty to take the to take the lead in persecuting these people whom he was trying to convince to believe and he is saying it is with a very heavy heart that

[21:37] I do this is with trembling that I do this I don't want to do this but I have to no he didn't have to and by the way if Augustine was trembling what do you think of the trembling of his victims I wonder what kind of trembling they went through I must hurry on the time when Augustine could flee was passed as a bishop now he too had to make hard decisions in this brutal age attendant on the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ he had taken his place with those prepared to use violence in stamping out heresy indeed he gave them their theological rationale in the city of God his last great work written to rebut the charge that the empire's embrace of Christianity had led to the collapse implied by Vandal victories Augustine firmly justified the harsh even totalitarian policies of the Christian rulers if anything they had not been harsh enough now this this was some of the you know politics is forever it's always been there there were some who said do you know why do you know why the vandals are at the door and why they are about to overrun

[22:50] Rome and why Christianity we have forsaken the gods we worshipped earlier and we turn to this god represented by Jesus and our gods are getting even with us by letting the vandals come in and overrun us so it was their god is bigger than our god kind of thing and Augustine says no the problem is we haven't been we haven't been strong enough on insisting that this Christianity thing is the only way we have to compel more people we have to persecute more people we have to convert more people and that will be our salvation is this some kind of crazy reasoning isn't this just bizarre stuff yes it is but it is the kind of conclusions that fallen men come to when they try to reason and apply their learning and their knowledge apart from what the revelation of

[23:57] God reveals amazing amazing yes I have to skip some of this John Chrysostom John Chrysostom was referred to as a man with a golden mouth had a golden mouth and a silver tongue John Chrysostom is generally held up as having been probably the greatest preacher of all of the earlier preachers he was supposed to have had a marvelous vocabulary and had powers of conversion and persuasion that were just remarkable and he's still revered in Christian history as probably the greatest orator of the church Chrysostom John Chrysostom and his targets were those in the Jewish faith his assault carried them carried beyond to the

[25:02] Jews as such he says I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jew and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time this is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots a place where a whore stands on display is a whore house what is more the synagogue is not only a whore house and a theater it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals no better disposed than pigs or goats the Jews live by the rule of debauchery and inordinate gluttony only one thing they understand to gorge themselves and to get drunk Ruther points out that nowhere in his sermons does Chrysostom directly order attacks on Jews by having all they want to eat they get stubborn and hard to manage when animals are unfit for work they are marked for slaughter and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced by making themselves unfit for work they have become ready for slaughter this is why

[26:06] Christ said ask for my enemies who did not want me to reign over them bring them here and slay them before should we be surprised that not long after these sermons were preached there were several violent outbursts against Jews in Antioch with its great synagogue demolished Antioch is the site in this period of the first draft of the ritual murder charge brought against Jews shall Jews be allowed to live as Jews increasingly momentum built toward a new consensus no in 414 okay 1600 years ago what might be termed history's first large scale pogrom p-o-g-r-o-m it is a pogrom it is a concentrated deliberate persecution of a group of people in this case the

[27:18] Jews that savage assault referred to earlier on the large ancient and prestigious Jewish community in Alexandria a historian of the time says the Jewish settlement there was destroyed the legacy of Augustine's teaching on the Jews is a double edged sword on one side against Chrysostom and even Ambrose it requires an end to all violent assaults against synagogues Jewish property and Jewish persons Jews are henceforth exempt from the church sanctioned state sponsored campaign to obliterate religious difference where did that come from that was just a change in the government when a different pope would come to the throne it might be one who had sympathy for the Jews and would order that Jews not be executed nor persecuted so the pressure was off the Jews for a while and by the way why did the state allow the church to do this why did the state government allow the church to do this the answer the state government was the church there was no separation of church and state the pope and his cardinals wielded incredible political power power not just religious power political power and any reputable history book whether written by

[28:49] Catholics or Protestants will show that openly it is a fact of history not to be denied so the pressure would be on the Jews and then another pope would come to the throne and the pressure would be off the Jews they never knew where they were going to stand or whether people were going to be obedient to what the pope said or the cardinal said and back off or whether it was just a nightmare to try to survive in this kind of an environment we can't begin to imagine what it would have been like you don't know whether you need to fear for your life or not maybe you do today but not tomorrow or vice versa incredible well I've got to be selective here there's so much that I would like you to know but I do trust that you're getting my drift it's the war of the cross remember hearing about remember hearing about the crusades the crusades were instigated and undertaken at the direction of the pope in Rome and the idea was that this massive army consisting of several tens of thousands of Christian soldiers were to go to

[30:17] Jerusalem and liberate Jerusalem from the Jews and later from the Muslims and they did so with the sword and the onslaught was just just incredible came to pass in the year 1028 after the destruction of the temple that this evil befell Israel so begins means anonymous one of the surviving Hebrew chronicles that recount events of 1096 this is the year 1096 a little less than a thousand years ago there first arose the princes and nobles and common folk in France who took counsel and set plans to ascend and to rise up like eagles and to do battle and to clear away for journeying to Jerusalem the holy city and for reaching the sepulcher of the crucified that is of course where Christ was crucified a trampled course who cannot profit and cannot save for he is worthless they said to one another behold we travel to a distant land to do battle with the kings of that land we take our souls in our hands in order to kill and subjugate all those kingdoms that do not believe in the crucified we're talking about Jesus did you hear that we take our souls in our hands in order to kill and subjugate all those kingdoms that do not believe in the crucified why would

[32:02] Jesus allow that to go on why didn't Jesus intervene and say something like not in my name you're not going to do that why didn't he do that why didn't he prevent these persecutions because the only way he could have done so would have been to override the human volition that he gave to men he would have to take the power of will and choice away from them and replace it with his own he did not give it to us for that consequently when God bestowed the power to make moral choices upon human beings it's going to range everywhere from very very beautiful to very very ugly and that's still what we have today the whole gamut volition is a serious serious business they taunted us from every direction they took counsel ordering that either we turn to their abominable faith they're calling the

[33:19] Christian faith the abominable faith well under the circumstances yes the way they were going about it or they would destroy us from infant to suckling they both princes and common folk placed an evil sign upon their garments you know what the sign was the cross that's what they would be marching under that's what they would be killing under that's what they would be persecuting under the sign of the cross another Jewish chronicler of the crusaders rampaged through the Rhineland Solomon Bar Simpson said also fixed on the symbol of the cross they decorated themselves prominently with their signs placing a profane symbol a horizontal line over a vertical one which is just another way of saying a cross on the vestments of every man and woman whose heart yearned to go on the straight path to the grave of their

[34:21] Messiah their ranks swelled until the number of men women and children exceeded a locust horde covering the earth this may have been no exaggeration medieval chroniclers put the number of first wave crusaders as high as 600 thousand think of that and they were all charged up under the banner of the cross and thinking they are doing God service it's amazing do you know what this is do you know what this sounds like do you not see that this has ISIS written all over it do you see that just a different people with a different cause but it's religious extremism uninformed and ignorant and arrogant all of it wrapped up together and they actually think they're doing God a service and that's exactly what

[35:21] Jesus said to his disciples he said the time was coming when men who will kill you will think they're doing God a service I tell you the things that have been done in the name of God are shameful God has nothing to do with it but why doesn't he stick up for himself why doesn't he bring this nonsense to an end and we come right back to that same problem the only way for God to do that is to override and discount the volition that he's given to us take it away from us so that we can't do stupid evil things like that but then that makes a joke of volition if you're only able to do the right things you're nothing but a puppet a multitude responded at once to Pope Urban's clarion call for the enemy for the army to defend the besieged Christian empire in the east and to liberate the holy land you know what Pope Urban the second put out this call you know what that's equivalent to today's internet who puts out the call who's recruiting and who's trying to get people to come to jihad and how many

[36:33] Americans are there and Europeans are there that have gone left their country and gone to Iraq and to Syria to join the cause this is nothing but deja vu all over again just different people same misguided philosophy same ignorance same arrogance it's a sad picture of humanity Muslims had occupied Jerusalem since the year 638 a conquest that occurred only six years after the death of Muhammad you see when the Muslims took Jerusalem in the year 638 this is 600 years after the death burial and resurrection of Christ Islam didn't even exist until Muhammad came on the scene and there are Muslims today who insist that Abraham was a Muslim some even go so far as to say Jesus Christ was a Muslim which is patently observed but that doesn't keep them from claiming it to

[37:34] Christians Jerusalem was sacred above all as the site of the grave of Jesus and on the eve of the first crusade an upsurge of millennial piety rekindled Europe's readiness to take offense at the Islamic occupation of the land on which the Lord had walked that Christians viewed Islam as a threat was hardly new indeed Europe came to understand itself as a distinct civilization in large part by defining itself against Islam once the Muslim armies had stormed out of the Arabian Peninsula to conquer Syria Persia Egypt all of North Africa the Iberian Peninsula and into Aquitaine Europe's first great political dynasty after the fall of Rome began when the Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated the Muslim at Tours in the year 732 saving the heart of Europe for Christianity the Germanic tribes that had swept over the Roman Empire in the time of

[38:34] Augustine had during the intervening centuries established numerous kingdoms but eventually the Franks had come to dominate the north and west of Europe and now that power was consolidated by the victory of Martel after his death his son Pepin was elected king of the Franks and when Pope Stephen II went to Paris in 754 to anoint him he was the first pope to travel across the Alps the show of deference to another monarch strained the papacy's tie to the emperor in Constantinople and I must skip now several pages back to back to here let me just insert this ongoing Jewish refusal and what was it that the Jews were refusing they were they were refusing to convert to Christianity they wanted to stay with Judaism the law of

[39:36] Moses etc they didn't want to submit to baptism and to the Catholic Church and so on and ongoing Jewish refusal to convert spawn sermons aimed not at Jews but at other Christians about Jews a subtle alteration designed to increase the pressure on Jews such an approach required that the anti-Jewish negatives be drawn in ever darker hues and they were drawn from Jeremy Cohen's the friars and the Jews here is an example of a sermon preached to Christians by a leading Dominican Giordano Rivalto in Florence on November 9 1304 after after they that

[41:18] Jews steal the host to blaspheme it Giordano claims to have personally witnessed such a desecration and to have seen with his own eyes an apparition of the youth listen to this and this guy claims to have seen with his own eyes the youthful Jesus rallied to have seen with his own eyes an apparition of the youthful Jesus come upon the scene to stop it by this miraculous intervention which of course he's claiming that Christ intervened here as Jeremy Cohen summarizes Giordano Jesus rallied the local Christian population to slaughter 24,000 Jews in punishment for their evil deed and their thinking was at last Jesus himself has been recruited as a booster of mass killings of Jews do you start to understand why Jews today and historically want nothing to do with Christianity is it beginning to dawn on you it has on me in a new way this this this this this this is incredible talk about the ignorance and the arrogance black plague hundreds of thousands of people died from the black plague in the 1300s and they didn't know what was causing it so you can't combat it when you don't even know what's causing it in the cities men fell sick by thousands and lacking care and aid almost all died this is

[43:24] Boccaccio writing of the black plague he said in the morning their bodies were found at the doors of the houses where they had expired during the night Boccaccio was in Florence and he says that in the course of four or five months more than 100,000 persons perished a number greater than that estimated to be its population before this dreadful malady between 1348 and 1351 and by the way all of this information is readily accessible dates places times numbers on the internet you can all look it up between 1358 and 1351 something like 20 to 25 million people died as the disease spread through Europe from the southeast the infection was caused by a bacillus that lived in the blood of rats and that seems to have arrived in Europe on a merchant ship at

[44:25] Messina in Italy by the time the plague had moved across the continent and into England one in three of those living in Europe was dead one in three the bodies of victims were often left where they were and many corpses were buried in large communal graves this catastrophe understandably set off a vast panic and given what had gone before it is not surprising that the mass of Christians were ready to blame the Jews to this day it is commonly known that the Jews were the scapegoat for the black plague and do you know how they did it the Jews poisoned the wells of Europe and multitudes died all at a conspiracy generated by the

[45:26] Jews it's the Jews fault since that time there isn't much that Jews haven't been blamed for and it still goes on to this day they've poisoned the wells now never mind the fact you see here listen this is where this illogic comes in this flawed reasoning skewed reasoning and logic man is unable to think with a level mind it never occurred to them that there were also multitude of Jews who were dying from the black plague shouldn't that have clued somebody into something but it didn't never mind they could overlook that the Jews were to blame and the last is referred to as the blood libel and I think you've been given that in a handout that I've given you and folks I am desperate about these handouts I want you to take them and read them and I couldn't be more serious about this these handouts make sure you get every one of them the protocols of the elders of Zion has to do with the accusation leveled against the Jews this was a couple of hundred years ago that you know what those

[46:36] Jews are up to you know what they do in order to celebrate their Passover and to make their matzo bread which is traditional in the Jewish economy in the Jewish religion it is necessary for them to kidnap a Christian child preferably a boy kidnap this boy and murder him and take his blood and use his blood to make these matzo balls that they eat at the Passover yes sir that's what they do so help me God that's what those dirty lousy stinking Jews do and you know something this belief persists today and you can go into any bookstore in any Muslim country anywhere in the world and you will find a quantity of books there called the protocols of the elders of Zion and it contains this kind of content and these people believe it today they believe it the

[47:52] Jew is just made a scapegoat he's on the receiving end of hatred brutality punishment you name it and I haven't well the next which I won't take time to go into but it's the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 I've told you about this before but we're all familiar with 1492 in Columbus and his sailing the ocean blue Isabella was queen of Spain Ferdinand was her husband Christopher Columbus went to them and made a proposal and they equipped him with the Nina the Penta and the Santa Maria to set sail for what they thought was to be India you know find a trade route to India instead of finding a trade route to India they ended up in on the coast of the USA and the natives they thought were

[49:00] Indians and they called them Indians and they weren't Indians at all I guess you would say they were early Americans but they weren't Indians and they weren't from India they were from the USA so he was mistaken but that's beside my point also in that year 1492 is when somebody else left Spain and that was the Jew and the Jew was put on notice you will leave the country and you will not be allowed to live here any longer and you can take with you when you leave the clothes on your back and that's it get out and the Jews had to leave where are they going to go because most places they wouldn't be accepted they wouldn't be received and we think that that's terrible how inhumane could people be let me tell you something the USA during World War II turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to what they knew was happening to the Jew and we would not provide them with shelter and neither would a lot of other countries it was a sad black day in

[50:16] American history during World War II it had just been rumored for some time that Hitler was underway with a massive extermination program of the Jewish people and the first response was that can't be true that's too horrible nobody would be so brazen and so evil as to undertake that well they did and they succeeded to the tune of six million of them and there were times when the U.S.

[50:46] government could have been involved and could have saved hundreds of thousands of these people we could have bought them we could have bought them with cash ten dollars a head and we refused to do it because we didn't want to take any money away from the war effort and that's not opinion either that's fact these were black days for America most people were willing to overlook it because after all the big enemy was Germany and Japan and these things just kind of slipped by the wayside our next session I'm going to do this I am going to do this I'm going to read you just a paragraph it probably won't take more than two minutes to read it it is the most unnerving unsettling maybe a god awful thing than I've ever read about an incident during

[52:11] World War II just all I could do when I read it was weep wow the inhumanity that human beings are capable perpetrating upon other human beings just absolutely defies comprehension or description but let me tell you something you need to know this you need to understand the kind of stuff that a human heart unregenerated is made of and is capable of we all need to know this it's nothing to be proud of something to be educated worried about but I'll be glad when we're through this stuff I will be glad would you stand please father these things we've considered are just so overwhelmingly sobering we we would just almost give anything that they were even not true that these kind of horrible attitudes and expressions would not be something that human beings are capable of but we know that that is the sad truth and it absolutely amazes us that we are capable of being these kind of people and yet

[54:02] Jesus Christ loved us loved them in such a way that he was willing to give his life for them we don't begin to understand that and there's no question about our being unworthy of it it just brings home to us in a new way the incredible expanse and depth and mercy of your love and grace we just cannot put these things together but we are so glad that you are the God you are in light of us being the people that we are we are so grateful for your forgiveness and for your willingness to do for us what really needed to be done we just never understand that we look forward to being able to thank you for it throughout all eternity in Christ's name amen