JEWISH TEENS WISER THAN EVANGELICALS
By Harmony Grant
3 Dec 08
National Prayer Network resists the anti-Christ spirit and goals
of Talmudic Judaism, which victimizes the Jewish people by shutting
out the loving sunlight of Christ and His gospel. We don’t
hate Jews. In fact, here’s an appreciative shout-out to some
young Jewish teens showing more wisdom than much of the American
church.
In Israel, five high school seniors, “schministim,” would rather
be locked up in jail than serve in the Israeli army to occupy and oppress Palestinians.
Jewish Voice for Peace has begun a campaign to
support them. Nineteen-year-old Yuval Oron-Ofir from an Arab-Jewish village,
is currently
in jail. (Since its actions have sparked so much bad press, the Israeli government
has used bureaucratic loopholes to keep the other conscientious objectors out
of jail.) Yuval’s declaration of
refusal is eloquent and moving. Here is part:
For 41 years now, Israel has been imposing an occupation of lands
that are not its own. Lacking any moral justification or values,
it rules over these lands by armed force…My conscience does
not allow me to join an organization that demolishes, by fiat of
the state, the homes of innocent people, kills children who are
not part of the armed fighting, and which prevents sick people
from getting due treatment. The army interferes with the freedom
of movement, undermines human rights and robs people of their land
because they are not Jews. Implementing government orders, the
Israeli army brings oppression and terror upon three and a half
million Palestinians. With every day that passes, more people sink
into this mire …
This young Jew’s conviction comes from eyewitness experience. He sees
his government acting like a ghoulish thug, throwing
elderly Palestinians from their home in the middle of the night in actions
so brutish even Britain and the US tried to intervene. He sees the truth of
Israel, not the attractive side shown evangelical tourists. Christians who
want to Biblically “bless God’s chosen people” will have
to ask which Jews are meant: Jews who occupy Israel in defiance of Christ,
or Jews like Yuval who resist that forceful and bloody regime?
These rare Israeli kids aren’t the only Jews resisting Zionist oppressions.
In Britain, an Anglican church is facing
a lot of flack for hosting an event called “Bethlehem Now” sponsored
by [American] Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods and a Palestinian activist
group. The event “featured carols that had been rewritten,” says
the LondonTimes. The Twelve Days of Christmas was sung as: “Twelve
assassinations/ Eleven homes demolished/ Ten wells obstructed/ Nine sniper
towers/ Eight gunships firing/ Seven checkpoints blocking/ Six tanks a-rolling/
Five settlement rings/ Four falling bombs/ Three trench guns/ Two trampled
doves/ And an uprooted olive tree.” Who rewrote the carol? According
to the Times, the culprit was “an unnamed Jewish parody writer.”
Whether grandly sublime or bitingly curt, these Jewish voices of protest speak
the forbidden truth. Christians, more than any people, should appreciate that.
We worship Christ, the ultimate enemy of the Zionist project. Our Bibles print
in red His searing words about Jewish leaders’ rebellious, racist false
religion. These words apply as much to modern Talmudic leaders as to the scribes
and Pharisees who wrote that grisly book. Christ said:
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when
he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you
are…Woe
to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give
a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have
neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy
and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting
the former…Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees,
you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful
on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and
everything unclean. (23:15, 23, 27)
Christ called for the Pharisees to repent of their racist, legalistic false
worship and receive new hearts. They rejected this bracing truth with contempt
and homicidal hatred, immortalized in their Babylonian Talmud (See, The
Talmud: Scalpel that Bleeds the Mideast and U.S.
Government, Talmud Mock New Testament). They rejected His message; today
Jews who embrace their Talmud continue that rejection. When American Christians
support such Talmudic Jews, they are in this way farther from the true spirit
of Christ than the teenage Israeli pacifists.
Today, the Judaism we resist is not about race or ethnicity. It is about a
revolutionary spirit born at Golgotha, where the ancestors of modern Judaism
crucified their redeemer. Some Jews wept and knelt, receiving their unexpected
king. But most called for His crucifixion. They spat on the One who offered
spiritual not political salvation, who demanded repentance from sin instead
of calling to arms against the Romans.
Today, the light of Christ is still in the world—radically spiritual,
politically incorrect, calling us to repentance from sin above all else. The
spirit of the crucifying Pharisees is still in this world, too, most distilled
in the bloody, racist, religiously legalistic state of Israel. Some Jews, like
19-year-old Yuval, recognize at least that the Israel they want to love is
actually a nightmare. In this, they see more clearly than many American believers.
I pray Yuval finds the full light of Christ and meets the true Source of human
rights, justice and peace. But until Jesus returns, I for one will continue
to resist that spirit of antichrist that this Jewish teen, in his own way,
also finds so appalling.
