Where was God when tragedy struck? This is the question of people whose determinations are to accommodate the sovereign ADONAI into human reasoning. The problem with human rationalization is when it is not disciplined by the process of the New Birth, the renewed mind, it is filtered through the lens of Demonic deception.

WHERE WAS GOD?

Editor: Val Gunter

When Satan quoted Psalms 91: 11-12, what he said was true, but the application was not TRUTH. He tempted the LORD’S Messiah into a human ego trip to prove that He was the Son of GOD. These kinds of tests went on for 40 days and 40 nights.

All glory to the FATHER who sent us a Messiah who would disrobe Himself of Psalms 91 and become poverty-stricken in the weakness of an empty-handed human against the ancient serpent.

⁸ he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
⁹ Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor
and gave him the name above all other names,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Psalms 91:9-16
(CWSB)
⁹ Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
¹⁰ There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
¹³ Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet
¹⁴ Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

The GOD of Israel alone, can take what seems to be a total tragedy, then turn it around as an act of salvation, promotion, healing and deliverance. The problem with mankind is, we look in the moment, but ADONAI looks into the eternal.

What about the Holocausts, where many died of inhumane treatment and cruelty? Well, the book of Matthew, the 5th Chapter, Jesus taught His disciples how blessed those who suffer for Him are. Whatever you lose or whatever happens, there are rewards in each case.

Revelation 7:13-15
(NLT)
¹³ Then one of the twenty-four elders asked me, “Who are these who are clothed in white? Where did they come from?”
¹⁴ And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.”
Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
¹⁵ “That is why they stand in front of God’s throne
and serve him day and night in his Temple.
And he who sits on the throne
will give them shelter.

The Queen of the Mystery of Babylon knows mankind struggles with the wisdom of GOD, so Satan will use the Body of Christ to replace the Jewish people, who have a covenant. Gentles are to be graphed in, but not to replace Israel.

Ezekiel 13:9
(CJB 2016)
⁹ My hand will be against the prophets who have futile visions and produce false divinations; they will not be allowed into the council of my people, or be written in the register of the house of Isra’el, or enter the land of Isra’el. Then you will know that I am Adonai ELOHIM.

Romans 10:9
(Complete Jewish Bible 2016)
⁹ that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered; 4982. σώζω sṓzō; safe, delivered. To save, deliver, make whole, preserve safe from danger, loss, destruction. Trans.:

The Greek word ” σώζω sṓzō ” was mistranslated in 1611 King James version, but makes more sense especially after reading 2 Corinthians 5:10.

2 Corinthians 5:10
(CWSB)
¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

The prophecy of Daniel 7:25 is upon us, where the spirit of the Queen of Heaven and the Dragon are influencing the minds of the unregenerate.

Daniel 7:25-27
(Complete Jewish Bible 2016)
²⁵  He will speak words against the Highest and try to exhaust the holy ones of the Most High. He will attempt to alter the seasons and the law; and [the holy ones] will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time. ²⁶  But when the court goes into session, he will be stripped of his rulership, which will be consumed and completely destroyed. ²⁷  Then the kingdom, the rulership and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High. Their kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey them.’”

The plan of the Mystery Babylon is the get the organized church to make enemies between the Messianic believers in Yeshua (Jesus Christ of Nazareth) vs. and the Church.

5 Million Americans are Currently Grieving.

As of Tuesday, the U.S had surpassed 556,000 deaths from COVID-19, an astonishing figure that means an unprecedented number of Americans are experiencing the grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one.

Health experts who spoke to Yahoo News say they are concerned about what they see as a pandemic of grief, one in which the impact on mental and physical health will have a ripple effect for years to come.

In a U.S. study conducted last year, researchers found that each COVID-19 death affected an estimated nine survivors. That translates to more than 5 million Americans who are currently grieving loved ones lost to the virus. COVID-19 pandemic unleashes an unprecedented wave of grief [Video] (aol.com)

But, what should the message be for the 5 million Americans who are currently grieving? It may be time to put away scriptures just for a minute and just walk with them for a season. Let them ask, who you are and why you’re doing this for them before we flash our church Brand or ministry’s name. Let’s be humans first and give a helping hand and be a concerned neighbor. At the right time, let them know, we are your community and your support. When they are ready to dig deeper into why we are showing so much love and care, then we will introduce them to “Yeshua,” the suffering Messiah, the God who is attracted to pain and sorrow. Let them know that today we are attracted to you because, as disciples, we love the way He loves. But be careful of making promises and guarantees, because we never know what season they are in, trusting God, we just want to build a sound relationship.

What Religion has Done to Destroy and Undo the Covenant Between ADONAI and Israel.

Historians agree that the break between Judaism and Christianity followed the Roman destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE and the subsequent exile of Jews. In the aftermath of this devastating defeat, which was interpreted by Jew and Christian alike as a sign of divine punishment, the Gospels diminished Roman responsibility and expressed Jewish culpability in the death of Jesus both explicitly (Matthew 27:25) and implicitly. Jews were depicted as killers of the Son of God. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content.

Christianity was intent on replacing Judaism by making its own particular message universal. The New Testament was seen as fulfilling the “Old” Testament (the Hebrew Bible); Christians were the new Israel, both in flesh and in spirit. The God of justice had been replaced by the God of love. Thus, some early Church Fathers taught that God had finished with the Jews, whose only purpose in history was to prepare for the arrival of his Son. According to this view, the Jews should have left the scene. Their continued survival seemed to be an act of stubborn defiance. Exile was taken as a sign of divine disfavor incurred by the Jews’ denial that Jesus was the Messiah and by their role in his crucifixion.https://f4172943b87ff47095b879283d99009c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

As Christianity spread in the first centuries CE, most Jews continued to reject that religion. As a consequence, by the 4th century, Christians tended to regard Jews as an alien people who, because of their repudiation of Christ and his church, were condemned to perpetual migration (a belief best illustrated in the legend of the Wandering Jew). When the Christian church became dominant in the Roman Empire, its leaders inspired many laws by Roman emperors designed to segregate Jews and curtail their freedoms when they appeared to threaten Christian religious domination. As a consequence, Jews were increasingly forced to the margins of European society.

(Complete Jewish Bible)
Christian Anti-Semitism. First, a vicious circle of Christian anti-Semitism feeds on the New Testament. The New Testament itself contains no anti-Semitism; but since the early days of the Church, anti-Semitism has misused the New Testament to justify itself and infiltrate Christian theology. Translators of the New Testament, steeped in that anti-Semitic theology, produce anti-Jewish translations, even when they themselves are not anti-Semites. Readers of these translations absorb attitudes which are anti-Jewish and alien to Judaism. Some of these readers become theologians who refine and develop the anti-Semitic character of Christian theology (they may even be unaware of the built-in anti-Semitism); while others become anti-Semitic activists who persecute Jews, thinking that by so doing they are serving God. This vicious circle must be broken. The Jewish New Testament, by removing centuries-old anti-Semitic theological biases and positively stressing Jewishness, has contributed to doing so, and now the Complete Jewish Bible continues this effort.

Enmity toward the Jews was expressed most acutely in the church’s teaching of contempt. From St. Augustine in the 4th century to Martin Luther in the 16th, some of the most eloquent and persuasive Christian theologians excoriated the Jews as rebels against God and murderers of the Lord. They were described as companions of the Devil and a race of vipers. Church liturgy, particularly the scriptural readings for the Good Friday commemoration of the Crucifixion, contributed to this enmity. Such views were finally renounced by the Roman Catholic Church decades after the Holocaust with the Vatican II declaration of Nostra aetate (Latin: “In Our Era”) in 1965, which transformed Roman Catholic teaching regarding Jews and Judaism.

Anti-Semitism

KEY PEOPLE

• Adolf Hitler
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• Nicolas C. Paulescu
• Julius Streicher
• Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich
• Hans Frank
• Georg, Ritter (knight) von Schönerer
• Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
• Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln
• Adolf Stoecker

RELATED TOPICS

• Judaism
• Racism
• Jew
• Ghetto
• Blood libel
• Discrimination
• Pogrom
• Prejudice
• Aryanism
• Religious persecution

DID YOU KNOW?

• Despite overwhelming physical evidence and testimony that Jews were targeted and that six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust and about a fifth of Americans believe that the Holocaust may not have happened.
• Contrary to popular anti-Semitic theories, the American newspaper, television, and movie industries are all dominated by non-Jewish owners, producers, and editors. Jewish members of the media are also not a monolith, and they often disagree with each other politically and personally.
• More than 1,300 pogroms are estimated to have been perpetrated in the Ukraine alone following the Russian Revolution.

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Anti-Semitism In Medieval Europe

Religious attitudes were reflected in the economic, social, and political life of medieval Europe. In much of Europe during the Middle Ages, Jews were denied citizenship and its rights, barred from holding posts in government and the military, and excluded from membership in guilds and the professions. To be sure, some European rulers and societies, particularly during the early Middle Ages, afforded Jews a degree of tolerance and acceptance, and it would be an error to conceive of Jews as facing an unchanging and unceasing manifestation of anti-Jewish oppression throughout this period. In 1096, however, knights of the First Crusade unleashed a wave of anti-Semitic violence in France and the Holy Roman Empire, including massacres in Worms, Trier (both now in Germany), and Metz (now in France). Unfounded accusations of ritual murder and of host desecration and the blood libel—allegations of Jews’ sacrifice of Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for unleavened bread—appeared in the 12th century. The most famous example of these accusations, that of the murder of William of Norwich, occurred in England, but these accusations were revived sporadically in eastern and central Europe throughout the medieval and modern periods. In the 1930s the blood libel became part of Nazi propaganda. Another instrument of 12th-century anti-Semitism, the compulsory yellow badge that identified the wearer as a Jew, was also revived by the Nazis. The practice of segregating the Jewish populations of towns and cities into ghettos dates from the Middle Ages and lasted until the 19th and early 20th centuries in much of Europe.

The Atlantic passage (or Middle Passage) was notorious for its brutality and for the overcrowded, unsanitary conditions on slave ships, in which hundreds of Africans were packed tightly into tiers below decks for a voyage of about 5,000 miles (8,000 km). They were typically chained together, and usually the low ceilings did not permit them to sit upright. The heat was intolerable, and the oxygen levels became so low that candles would not burn. Because crews feared insurrection, the Africans were allowed to go outside on the upper decks for only a few hours each day. Historians estimate that between 15 and 25 percent of the African slaves bound for the Americas died aboard slave ships. The autobiographical account of the West African Olaudah Equiano, published in 1789, is particularly well known for its graphic descriptions of the suffering endured on the transatlantic voyages.

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As the demand for slaves grew, the Portuguese began to enter the interior of Africa to forcibly take captives; as other Europeans became involved in the slave trade, generally they remained on the coast and purchased captives from Africans who had transported them from the interior. Following capture, the Africans were marched to the coast, a journey that could be as many as 300 miles (485 km). Typically, two captives were chained together at the ankle, and columns of captives were tied together by ropes around their necks. An estimated 10 to 15 percent of the captives died on their way to the coast.

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Atrocities and sexual abuse of the enslaved captives were widespread, although their monetary value as slaves perhaps mitigated such treatment. In an infamous incident of the slave ship Zong in 1781, when both Africans and crew members were dying of an infectious disease, Capt. Luke Collingwood, hoping to stop the disease, ordered that more than 130 Africans be thrown overboard. He then filed an insurance claim on the value of the murdered slaves.

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During the 19th century, and often only after heated resistance, the governments of the United States and Canada disenfranchised most Northern American tribes of their land and sovereignty. Most indigenous individuals were legally prohibited from leaving their home reservation without specific permission; having thus confined native peoples, the two countries set about assimilating them into the dominant culture. Perhaps the most insidious instrument of assimilation was the boarding or residential school. The programming at these institutions was generally designed to eliminate any use of traditional language, behaviour, or religion. Upon arrival, for instance, the children’s clothes were generally confiscated and replaced with uniforms; the boys were usually subjected to haircuts at this time as well. Students often experienced cruel forms of corporal punishment, verbal abuse, and in some cases sexual abuse; the extent of the mistreatment may best be demonstrated by Canada’s 2006 offer of some $2 billion (Canadian) in reparations to former residential school pupils.

Assimilationist strategies were also implemented on reservations. It was not unusual for governmental authorities to prohibit indigenous religious practices such as the potlatch and Sun Dance in the hope that cultural continuity would be broken and Christianity adopted. Many of the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights guaranteed in treaties—which had remained essential to the indigenous economy—were abrogated by a combination of hunting regulations, mobility or “pass” laws, and the depletion of wild resources. In combination these factors demoralized and impoverished many native peoples and created a de facto system of apartheid in Northern America.

Many of these policies were not fully discontinued until the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and ’70s, the culmination of over a century’s efforts by indigenous leaders. By the early 21st century many Native groups in Northern America were engaged in projects promoting cultural revitalization, political empowerment, and economic development. (See also Native American: Developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.)

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