Super-Power Politics and the New Anti-Semitism – Part Two

This is the second part of a three-part newsletter dealing with the rise of worldwide anti-Semitism. Part One can be found on-line at www.davidstent.org. This new anti-Semitism, motivated by the same demonic spirits that energized the Nazi Reich, focuses interchangeably on the Jewish people and on the Jewish state. Medieval libels of Jewish control and spiritual evil combine with Islamist calls for genocide, resulting in a new anti-Semitism which finds its justification for Jew-hatred in the plight of the Palestinians. This foundation of hatred is getting the world prepped for the rise of the anti-Christ (the anti-Messiah); for an international wave of new persecutions and a holocaust against the Jewish people (see Zech.13:8-14:3); for the military invasion of Israel and the re-division of Jerusalem; and for the soon return of Messiah Yeshua the victorious Son of David.

This second newsletter considers some prophetic parallels between the original Exodus from Egypt and the coming Exodus – the final redemption of the Jewish people from their enemies.

The Exodus – a prophetic pattern?

The ancient prophets of Israel spoke of a future Exodus of the Jewish people from all the nations of the world. This would occur at the end of days, and it would eclipse the original exodus – both in scope and in number. This exodus will be international and it will result in the entire Jewish people coming back to and repossessing the entire Land of Israel. The Jewish people will no longer focus on Moses’ exodus as the greatest gathering of YHVH, but will highlight this second Exodus as THE sign and wonder of Jewish history.

“Therefore behold, days are coming, declares YHVH, when it will no longer be said, ‘As YHVH lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As YHVH lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers” (Jer. 16:14-15).

It is worth paying attention to an important prophetic key here – the world will be able to recognize when the season of this Second Exodus is happening, when the Jewish people begin to return to Israel from the “land of the North.” Take a world map, pin a string into Jerusalem and go straight North – and the string touches a world capital called Moscow. The return of nearly one million Russian speaking Jews over the past 18 years indicates that we are 18 years into the season of the Second Exodus. What is coming next on the prophetic agenda? The return of the Jewish people from the USA, from Europe, from South America and from all the other nations of the world! Keep your eyes wide open and don’t close them! You don’t want to miss a thing!

Whistler’s Father

Zechariah tells us that God will whistle for His people who are scattered in exile among the nations, and He will bring them out of all countries (including Egypt) into the Promised Land, until the Land of Israel will be “chock full” of Jewish people. YHVH will again do mighty miracles, and that includes drying up the seas and the rivers – supernatural signs which will even be greater than those done by Moses:

“I will whistle for them to gather them together … When I scatter them among the peoples, they will remember me in far countries … I will bring them back from the land of Egypt …and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no place can be found for them … And He will pass through the sea of distress, and strike the waves in the sea, so that all the depths of the Nile will dry up, declares YHVH” (Zech.10:7-12).

The Second Exodus

Isaiah prophesies a mighty work called “the second Exodus.” This exodus will result in the return of Israel to the Gaza Strip, as well as Israeli control over significant areas in what is today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And again, there is a description of a supernatural splitting of the Red Sea and also the Euphrates River – a repeat of the Exodus story but more dramatic and widespread!

“Then it will happen on that day that Adonai will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth … And they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west (ed., present day Gaza); together they will plunder the sons of the east; they will possess Edom and Moab (ed., present day Jordan); and the sons of Ammon will be subject to them. And YHVH will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; and He will wave His hand over the River with His scorching wind; and He will strike it into seven streams, and make {men} walk over dry-shod. And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of His people who will be left, just as there was for Israel in the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt” (Isa 11:11-16).

No more Jewish Diaspora

This total regathering of the Jewish people will leave none of them behind in the Exile (see Ezek.39:27-29). There will be no more scattered Jewish communities throughout the world – only one central land of Israel where all the Jewish people will live in peace. This Second Regathering will be announced by the blowing of a great shofar (a ram’s horn) which will call the Jewish people back to Israel – from Egypt and from all the nations of the Exile:

“And it will come about in that day, that YHVH will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship YHVH in the holy mountain at Jerusalem” (Isa.27:12-13; see also Hosea 11:10-11).

Signs and Wonders of The Second Exodus

The prophet Micah declares that the season of the Second Exodus will see Israel’s international boundaries being extended. It will also witness major catastrophes across the globe. The Jewish people will again repossess Bashan (the Golan) and Gilead (northern Jordan), and YHVH will again show world-class miracles rivaling and even surpassing those of Moses’ original exodus! The nations of the world (including the Arab and Islamic powers) will deeply and openly repent for their violence against Jacob.

“On that day your boundary will be extended. It will be a day when they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, from Egypt even to the Euphrates, even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, on account of the fruit of their deeds. Shepherd Your people with Your scepter, the flock of Your possession which dwells by itself in the woodland, in the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show you miracles. Nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hand on their mouth, their ears will be deaf. They will lick the dust like a serpent, like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; to YHVH our God they will come in dread, and they will be afraid before You” (Micah 7:11-17).

Desert Casualties of The Second Exodus

The Second Exodus will be a time of judgment on all the nations for their anti-Semitism, their destructive thoughts and deeds toward the Jewish people and their land. But it will also be a time of shaking and judgment for the Jewish people, as YHVH purifies the sons of Levi and all of Jacob.

Ezekiel uses Exodus language and word pictures to describe this time – terms reminiscent of a full generation of Jewish people whose bodies fell in the Sinai desert, and who never entered the Promised Land.

“And what comes into your mind will not come about, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, like the tribes of the lands, serving wood and stone.’  As I live, declares Adonai YHVH, surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you. And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out; and I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I shall enter into judgment with you face to face. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Adonai YHVH. And I shall make you pass under the rod, and I shall bring you into the bond of the covenant; and I shall purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I shall bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am YHVH” (Ezek 20:32-38).

The Pharaoh of The Second Exodus

As we consider this Second Exodus and the rise of world wide anti-Semitism, we need to pause and ask the question, “Who will play the Last Days role of Pharaoh? Who will be the evil world mega-leader who will attempt to annihilate the Jewish people and to crush and divide the Land of Israel?”

This is none other than the anti-Christ (the anti-Messiah) who will spearhead this final attack on Israel. The Book of Revelation tells us that in the last military campaign (where Satan is defeated) the Archangel Michael throws Satan down out of heaven. At that point Satan in the person of the anti-Messiah makes one last attempt at a final murderous holocaust again the Jewish people – the “woman who gave birth to the male child” Yeshua..

“And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him…And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child” (Rev 12:7-13).

This anti-Messiah is described as “the abomination who makes desolate” (Dan 9:27). He will invade “the Beautiful Land, and many will fall” (Dan.11:41). A “last days” angel prophesies that the anti-Messiah will be limited in the destruction that he will be allowed to cause: “And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. And as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed” (Dan. 12:7).

We are living in the days of the Second Exodus

• Prepare for mighty miracles and for great catastrophes.
• Expect the shaking free of Israel from all the lands wherein she is now slumbering.
• As the power of the anti-Messiah’s anti-Semitism gains ground in world forums and media, pray for the preservation, the restoration and the salvation of God’s precious Jewish people.

In Messiah Yeshua’s bonds,

Avner Boskey

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Super-Power Politics and the New Anti-Semitism – Part One

The Passover season has come and gone. Jewish families across the globe have broken the matzah and eaten bitter herbs. We recalled our slavery in Egypt and God’s triumph over the mightiest nation of ancient times. Yet the majority of Jews who celebrated this Pesach sang the songs of Zion in a strange land – still in the Exile, still “living in Egypt.” The awesome curse – the reversal of the Exodus – of Deuteronomy 24:64-68 is still a factor in our day: “Moreover, YHVH will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth … And YHVH will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘‘You will never see it again!’”

But that is not the only prophetic parallel which flashes a warning light at us in our day. In the same way that a new Pharaoh came to the united throne of Egypt (see Exod 1:8) – a king whose heart had grown cold, indifferent and hardened to the Jewish people and their contribution to Egyptian society through Joseph son of Jacob – so in our day men of influence are rising up who are bringing the leaven of Judenhaß (German for ‘hatred of the Jews’) to the table of world politics. They are setting the stage for a renewed popularization of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli feeling, action and governmental policies. These stirrings are leading to the re-emergence of the same demonic spirit that energized Hitler’s Reich, and they are helping to build an altar for the soon revelation of the anti-Messiah – the anti-Christ.

Here is a brief consideration (and certainly not a comprehensive one) of some present manifestations of the above spirit on anti-Semitism, followed by a challenge to prayer and action.

American manifestations – the intelligence community

The opposite of love, Holocaust author and Nobel Prize recipient Eli Wiesel once said, is not hatred but indifference. Voices are being raised within American public forums which are indifferent to the fate of the Jewish people. These voices urge the President to cut free of any ties to Israel, seeing these as an impediment both to American influence in the Islamic world and to American trade in Middle Eastern markets. One current example is former long-term CIA officer and  analyst Michael Scheuer, formerly involved with the South Asian desk (Pakistan and Afghanistan), and who headed the Bin Laden counterterrorism desk from 1996 to 1999.

In his recent book “Imperial Hubris: Why The West Is Losing The War On Terror” (Brassey’s, 2004) Scheuer makes the following astounding declarations:

• “Surely there can be no other historical example of a faraway, theocracy-in-all-but-name of only about six million people that ultimately controls the extent and even the occurrence of an important portion of political discourse and national security debate in a country of 270-plus million people” (p.227).

• “Objectively, al Qaeda does not seem too far off the mark when it describes the U.S.-Israel relationship as a detriment to America”. (p.227)

• “There perhaps was a time in the late 1970s and 1980s when America could afford today’s relationship with Israel, one that drains resources, earns Muslim hatred, and serves no vital U.S. national interest” (p.228).

• “One can only react to this stunning reality by giving all praise to Israel’s diplomats, politicians, intelligence services, U.S.-citizen spies, and the retired U.S. officials and wealthy Jewish-American organizations who lobby and always amenable Congress on Israel’s behalf … The Israelis have succeeded in lacing tight the ropes binding the American Gulliver to the tiny Jewish state and its policies…” (p. 227).

These quotes seem to rise up like wraiths out of a “roomful of mirrors”. They present worrying historical parallels, comparable to the strident barkings of an Austrian corporal-turned-Reichschancellor and Fuehrer.

American manifestations – the political community

Two recent manifestations of a similar nature can be found in the writings and actions of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter has authored two books “The Blood of Abraham” (1985) (www.danielpipes.org/article/4166) and “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” (2006) (www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/books/14cart.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, www.frontpagemag.com/media/pdf/Carter4b.pdf, www.adl.org/carter/reactions.asp).

The first book revealed a cold and unfriendly bias against Israel’s leadership and a strong presupposition of Replacement Theology. The second book attacks Israel, falsely labeling her as an apartheid state even worse than South Africa, and calls for the dividing up of the land of Israel. In the past few weeks Carter has traveled to Syria in the last week to meet with Khaled Mashaal, politburo leader of Hamas (a group on the US list of terrorist organizations). Former President Carter insists that Israel must negotiate with sworn enemy Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood Islamist organization dedicated to the total destruction of the Jewish state of Israel.

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt recently published “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” (2007) (www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/books/06grim.html, www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/060403/3edit.htm) in which they make similar charges as did former CIA analyst Scheuer above.

The book has ignited a firestorm of debate in the USA and has been widely condemned as exhibiting poor scholarship. Its publication has created fear among many American Jews that this is a harbinger of a new escalation of American anti-Semitism.

British manifestations

In a recent lecture on British anti-Semitism at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, renowned Neuberger Professor of Modern European and Jewish History Dr. Robert S. Wistrich of Hebrew University (author of  ”Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred”, Pantheon, 1991) stated that “Britain has become the center point for the meeting of anti-Semitic trends in Europe”. Wistrich sees four factors which encourage these trends:

• an English literature and culture which is drenched in anti-Semitism (from Chaucer to Shakespeare, and from Dickens through T. S. Elliot to D. H. Lawrence
• a growing Islamic population which is becoming increasingly radicalized
• a hesitant and reticent approach taken by the leadership of England’s Jewish leadership
• the abandonment by the majority of British Christians of their biblical roots, worldviews and beliefs, specifically the Bible-based reasons for a Jewish restoration to the Land of Israel.

Wistrich noted that “the loss of Christian identity in what was the most Bible-believing culture of its day is one of the deeper layers of what has happened here”.

Professor Wistrich also pointed out that today’s British media has adopted an almost universally anti-Israel bias. “You cannot read a British newspaper without encountering a variant of the libel that Zionism is racism or Zionism is Nazism . . .  If you bring up the subject of anti-Semitism you are ‘playing the anti-Semitism card’ and you are ‘a dishonest deceitful manipulative Jew’ or ‘lover of Jews’ who is using the language of anti-Semitism ‘to disguise hide or silence criticism of Israel.’”

Islamist manifestations

A recent Jerusalem Post article “Report: Muslim anti-Semitism ‘strategic threat’“ by Haviv Rettig notes that, according to a recent intelligence report, Muslim anti-Semitism is growing both in scope and in extremism, to the point where it has become a credible strategic threat for Israel.

The semi-official Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC, chaired by former Mossad head Efraim Halevy) maintains close contact with Israel’s intelligence community. ITIC’s recently released report notes the worrying growth over the past thirty years of a new hybrid of ancient Koranic anti-Semitism which has now been grafted onto European and Nazi roots. This new perspective views the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians as a “historic, cultural and existential struggle for the supremacy of Islam.”

The researchers noted that their report’s focus was on anti-Semitism, not on anti-Zionism. Yet they discovered that these anti-Jewish articles or speeches used terminology which was “confused and intertwined. You can’t distinguish the anti-Zionism from the anti-Semitism.” One of most radical expressions of Muslim anti-Semitism comes from Iran, the report notes, which “is the first example of its kind since Nazi Germany in which a state officially adopts an active policy of anti-Semitism as a means to further its national interests.”

ITIC director Col. (res.) Dr. Reuven Erlich, formerly of the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate, stated, that this Muslim anti-Semitism is now widespread, popular and expanding. “The anti-Semitism that fed the Holocaust isn’t dead. It is prospering.”

Rees Howell – a sign and a challenge

During WWII a determined intercessor names Rees Howell was led to pray for the protection, restoration and salvation of the Jewish people. He believed that this was one of the last great moves of God in the world, and a matter that all believers in Yeshua should hold near and dear. In the hills and valleys of Wales Howell led his prayer community in pleading with God for the fulfillment of the ancient promises of the Hebrew prophets – the return of the scattered sons and daughters of Israel to their Promised Land, and the return of the Jewish people to their Promised Messiah Jesus.

As this latest wave of cold-hearted and bitter anti-Semitism begins to rain down on our planet, pray for the Lord God of Israel to birth His purposes as the labor pains increase:

• Pray that God will expose Satan’s evil intentions
• Pray for the protection of Jewish people in Israel and worldwide from murderous and potentially destructive terrorist plans and political strategies
• Pray for the revelation to and for the salvation of all those who are opposing God’s heart for Israel’s restoration
• Pray for the full restoration and salvation of the Jewish people through Messiah Yeshua
• Pray about your part in helping to preserve Jewish lives as anti-Semitism spreads and in developing an international underground railroad to help persecuted Israel on its way back home.

In Messiah Yeshua’s bonds,

Avner Boskey

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