WHY I WILL BREAK THE HATE LAWS
By Harmony Grant
01 June 09
Last Sunday I attended a large church where young people took
gluten-free communion and raised their hands to the sound of acoustic
guitars. We met in the heart of my city, Portland OR, one of the
most un-churched in the nation. The jeans-wearing pastor spoke of
the power of cities and need for Christians to reach these power
sources of culture and change. Scanning the intelligent faces of
the congregation, I wondered how many would understand my own missionary
commitment or the controversial way I seek to change the true heart
of cities.
Since 2006, I have contributed to www.truthtellers.org and Rev. Ted
Pike’s courageous critiques of liberal Jewish activism in the
US and Israel to undermine Christian values and freedom. Our burden
springs from the pages of the Christian Bible. This book is God’s
revelation that could also be read as the most gripping love classic
(better than Madame Bovary) about the relationship between Jesus
Christ and the Jewish people.
The Bible is clear that the Jews play a leading role in this ongoing
saga, and will until the end. Religious, yet Christ-rejecting Jews
now await a false messiah, having scorned the true Son of God. In
the book of Acts, they are described as the primary persecutors of
the church and witness of Jesus in the world. A sincere reader of
the Bible can’t avoid this fact. Jewish apostasy—and
God’s response—is as central to the Old Testament as
the ink on its pages. Deuteronomy 28 lays forth the classic covenant
promising blessings for obedience and curses for sin. God kept it:
expelling the Hebrews into enemy hands for unfaithfulness, spilling
gifts into their laps when they repented. They continued to rebel;
the Pharisees in Babylon ultimately worked their evil wizardry on
the law of God, pretending an alternate “oral tradition” received
on Sinai meant the opposite of everything God said. At last Jesus
came with his divine love, his incomprehensible atonement, his scalding
rebukes of the justice and law-emptying Pharisees and his chilling
promise: “Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell
you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord.'" And they killed Him. To this
day their spiritual children, Talmudic Jews, try to kill His light
in the world.
A Christian who ignores the Jews’ ongoing role in Biblical
history is like a Tolkien fan saying “Frodo who?”
Yet for most evangelicals, the complex Jews-and-Jesus story has been
simplified to a slogan—“Bless God’s chosen people”—that
hurtles them faster than a Ferrari into falsehood. However free-thinking
they may be, whether tinted with red or blue political leanings,
evangelicals almost uniformly resist true readings of the story with
which the whole Bible is sewn. They react with denial to the simple
fact that Jewish leaders rejected Jesus, tried to decimate His fledgling
church and have since defined Judaism largely as rejection of Jesus
Christ, becoming the gospel’s greatest enemies for the past
two millennia. They are terrified by the obvious implications about
continued Jewish antagonism, and the need to oppose most Jewish leadership
in our time.
These ideas intensely frighten media-reared Westerners. We have learned
from hundreds of Holocaust films and nearly infinite “anti-hate” literature
that Jews are only victims never perpetrators, and critical judgments
lead to gas chambers.
I should understand: I was scared at first, too. But at some point
it gets infuriating. The Bible is so plain. Jesus was so clear. He
said Jewish leadership would oppose Christians until the end of our
era. He warned that the Pharisees who rejected His light would become
the most evil guides in human history, battling Christian witness
whenever possible into 2009 and beyond.
He was, of course, right. You just don’t argue with the one
Person who’s seen everything happen for all time; you just
don’t. It’s like blindfolding yourself on an LA freeway
then flooring the accelerator. We are in crisis today—with
a freakily far-left president, a Democrat majority, and an anti-Christian
hate bill hammering down the door of liberty. There are too many
assaults on our values for Christians to even come up for air. And
there are reasons. You can’t win a battle you purposefully
deny exists. You can’t resist an enemy you are too afraid to
even name.
The Anti-Defamation League is a powerful Jewish organization that
created hate crime legislation. At NPN we have been talking about
them for, oh, over two decades. We’re still talking about them.
They are the modern incarnation of the Pharisees who crucified Jesus.
Intent on destroying His witness in this age, they have used their
power to get hate laws passed in 45 states already; their federal
hate bill now hangs over us in the Senate Judiciary too. If you truly
want to be a missionary to cities, there’s no truer place than
those smelteries where city’s souls are made: media and law.
Christians confronting the evil that comes from them must confront
the Jews so aggressively engaged (and now so powerfully influential)
in them.
In the past month, the hate law story has split open and that’s
good news. But we’ve been talking about this, and many other
assaults by leftist Jews on Christianity, for months and years. Bibles
are checked and held at the Tel Aviv airport. Christians are persecuted
in Ariel. This month, ultra-Orthodox Jews
beat Christian missionaries for sharing New Testaments
on the streets of Rehovot. Jewish supremacists in New York and California
craft ever-proliferating media assaults on Christ.
Who are the other Bible-respecting Christians talking about these
attacks, their Jewish origin, or Jewish creation of hate crime laws?
Oh, wait, that’s right… it’s pretty lonely at
this podium.
We can’t resist our own enemies because who will say that many
powerful Jews dream of world dominion? Who will explore the Talmud’s
dark hatred and ambitions? Why do we fail to speak the Bible’s
clear truth about Jewish rejection? Perhaps we fail to believe our
own eyes about an anti-Christ conspiracy. We think, “Is this
really happening? No one else is talking about it. If it were true,
everyone would say so.” Perhaps we fail to brave the consequences,
to risk our own lives and reputations. Perhaps we fail to have personal
integrity and would feel hypocritical to reprove even gross evil.
It’s nice that Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America,
even Limbaugh, Hannity and others are talking about hate crime laws
and why they’re dangerous. It’s like some people finally
brought morphine for our nation’s horrible migraine. But the
migraine is just a symptom of a brain tumor about which no one will
speak.
Authentic Christians are the one group of people with the whole truth—coming
from divine inspiration of scripture—that explains the current
problems. The Book pastors open every Sunday explains the cancer
of Jewish antagonism to Jesus, His followers, and everything for
which Christian civilization stands. They could open the Bible and
simply read Deuteronomy 28 or Matthew 23 aloud to their congregation
and draw the obvious conclusions. But they don’t.
This is not—I repeat not–a racial issue. It’s not
about Jewish genetics. We'll leave that to actual anti-Semites. It’s
a spiritual conflict between the Logos, Jesus Christ, the Light of
all ages, and powers of darkness. It’s deep and messy and mystical,
yes—a spiritual network the Bible describes as “principalities
of darkness.” But it is as real as the unseen web of air and
radio waves beaming TV, radio and internet all across our planet.
Only true Christians can truly explain the mess we are in. Yet contemporary "evangelicals" are
apparently least likely of all people to explore this truth. And
for this reason, evangelical leaders are not going to win this war.
Evangelical titan Dr. James Dobson recently warned, in a video alert
about hate crime laws, that the Church may soon face persecution “as
if by fire, over the coming weeks and years.”
Yes, Dr. Dobson, we will, especially since you won’t name our
persecutors or do anything that will really effectively stop them.
You may not be around for this, but I’m young and I see prison
as a likely option in my future. I’m okay with it. But I’m
not happy about the Bible being thrown into prison, too. If Christians
would actually read it, and have the courage to repeat what it says,
maybe we could keep the Gospel free.
If you know politics but not the Bible’s explanation for our
current events, or if you know the Bible but not its meaning for
our political world, if you are beginning to think there might be
a deeper Explanation, this is where I suggest you start.
On your knees.
We must beg God for the sincerity and courage to face the most unsettling
and punishing truths. Then read the Bible. The whole thing.
After that, go here... www.truthtellers.org.
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