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Now is the Time to Stand Up for Jews: Part II :: By Wilfred Hahn

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This is a re-edited, two-part excerpt from the 2009 book by Wilfred J. Hahn, Preserving True Riches in an Age of Deception and Trouble. (Secondary Title).

There is the story of King Louis XIV having asked Blaise Pascal, the renowned French philosopher, to provide him with proof of the existence of God. Apparently, without any hesitation, Pascal replied, “Why, the Jews, your Majesty—the Jews.” The Bible-believing Christian would agree. How can one not see any Jew today as living proof of God’s existence and faithfulness?

Yet, even as the history of the Hebrews testifies to the glory of God, He set them aside for a time. Says the Bible, a final “time of the Gentiles” was decreed. Jesus himself identified this time, saying, “They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).

That era certainly came to pass and continues today. Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King, destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and deported a large part of the Jewish population to Babylon. From that time on, it would be the time of the Gentiles. The world would be ruled by the non-Hebrew nations.

According to Sir Robert Anderson, the famed 19th-century author of The Coming Prince, now is the sixth, final, and longest time that the Hebrews or their descendants are under the domination of the Gentiles — the Diaspora.[i] Anderson points out that the Hebrews had been dominated by Gentiles five specific and separate periods before this present age. Quoting him, “They became slaves to the king of Mesopotamia for eight years, to the king of Moab for eighteen years, to the king of Canaan for twenty years, to the Midianites for seven years, and finally to the Philistines for forty years.”

Yet, despite the Bible’s clear testimony that it remains the era of the Gentiles at this very time, one of the most nefarious and stubborn beliefs about Jews around the world is that they are colluding to control the world. How could this possibly be true?

Jews, Running the World Today?

The Book of Esther in the Bible is a prophetic book, though in a different form than the literal words of the prophets. The entire book is an allegory (better said, a foreshadowing) of what the Jews would face during the Diaspora. The story takes place only two generations after the time that Jews came out of Babylon to resettle Jerusalem. The vast majority (probably nine-tenths) chose to stay in Babylon. Later, some moved elsewhere, including Susa. In the Book of Esther, we see them prospering there under the Persian King Xerxes, Esther and Mordecai, both piercing into the highest echelons of that society. Extra-biblical records of that era count many Jews as prosperous merchants, traders, and bankers at that time.

In the Esther account, we see that the Jews were seen as separate, yet “Jewishness” was not necessarily a religious identification as is true for many Jews today. (No reference to God is made in the entire Book of Esther.) We also note that Jews were liable to persecution. An important perspective of this story is that while the Jews would indeed prosper and gain great influence during times of the Diaspora, they would still be subject to the Gentile. Xerxes, a Gentile, was still very much in charge. So it is today even closer to home in the United States.

While many Jews have had influential positions in government (at various times, Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz, and many more) and may have a strong hand on Wall Street or in Hollywood, it remains the times of the Gentiles. “Core” Jews (those who identify as being Jewish) remain small in number (a little more than one-fifth of one percent of the world population). True to Scripture, “The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you” (Deuteronomy 4:27).

It is true, however, that by the very dint of their sentence, Jews would frequently find themselves at the forefront of both good and bad movements. The Jew could be found at the edge of change and major world trends, be they social, moral, or economic. But the thing to see is that while influential, they have usually been on both sides of any debate. One thinks of the late 1800s before 2 million Jews left Russia. Jews made up a large portion of two main opposition parties, both the Bolsheviks and the Menshevik parties. We see this division of the Jews also today in America. Jews actively exercise their opinion and influence on both sides of any spectrum.

These are some of the reasons why we can ignore the conspiracy theories that claim to involve the Jews, such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. However, as Bible-believing Christians, we have a strong basis to believe in another agenda, one that God has laid out. First acting in wrath, He will cause the Jews to finally recognize the Messiah, He “the one that they have pierced” (Zechariah 12:10). Then, indeed, He will place the Jew at the head in the world. However, this will not happen before the time of the Gentiles is ended.

Smug Christianity

In Part I of this series, we briefly reviewed the persecution of the Jews by the Gentiles. But what of the Christian? Sadly, history records many so-called Christians as having assumed a righteous role in persecuting the Jews. Here also, the atrocities are beyond count.

For example, most infamously, the Crusades produced incredible horrors, supposedly in the name of Christ. Heinous acts were endorsed right on down from the Vicars of Christ (the popes) to the state or the opportunist soldier. Often, it was done in the “name of Christ.” Said Emico the Wicked, a German noble who led a rabble of crusaders (German and French) to slaughter defenseless Jews in Mainz in 1096 AD, “Now let us avenge the blood of ‘the hanged one.” Or consider this example of a state-wide action, as recorded in the Royal Decree, Expulsion from England 1290, “We, in requital for their crimes and for the honor of he Crucified, have banished them from our realm as traitors.”

Countless other such statements could be quoted that were, and are today, equally misguided and self-serving. The question begs: If the oppressions of the Gentiles will someday be fully punished (See Psalm 149-6-9), then what of the crimes of so-called Christians? Could it be possible that parts of the true Church have a hand in these sins? Here, too, prophecy provides us with some understanding.

The Jew and the Travesty of the False Church

The Prophet Micah uttered a puzzling prophecy:

“Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the Lord’s wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my right. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness. Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, ‘Where is the LORD your God?’ My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets” (Micah 7:8-10).

Who is the enemy here … the entity addressed as “she” in this verse? Nowhere in this chapter is she identified. By deduction, however, we can easily identify her. It cannot be Israel itself, nor can it be the Church (which, at this point, is already gone.) It must be the harlot, the apostate global religion that has enveloped the false church… the same harlot depicted in Revelation 17.

We, therefore, can know that persecution of the Jews, in whatever form, is a mark of the false church (though surely, some individual Christians have erred in this way.) While this persecution has already occurred over thousands of years, the capstone of this insurrection still lies ahead. And the precedent and mindset for this taking place is already well set. Many church denominations today endorse the idea of Replacement Theology, the notion that the Church has replaced the Jews and, therefore, that all the promises to the Jews have been transferred to her. As such, the Jews are of no more consequence. As God is finished with them, the Gentiles can, therefore, do to the Jews as they wish, for there is no more eternal consequence.

We will not present any arguments as to why this view patently denies Scripture. Suffice it to say that this view “distort[s] the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God” (Jeremiah 23:6).

Jewish Timeline Becomes Interesting

Following the seemingly miraculous refounding of the land of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been in the process of returning to their land. The Aliyah (homecoming) is still underway, to be fully completed after “Jacob’s trouble.” Crucially, in this regard, for the first time in over 2,600 years, more “core” Jews (individuals who identify themselves as Jewish) are now living in Israel than in any other nation. Think of the significance of this for a moment.

This would be celebratory news were it not for the reasons why “core” Jews are such a small group. Adding those that qualify as being eligible under Israel’s Law of Return (which can include non-Jewish household members) raises the total world Jewry from 16.5 million to a total of 25.5 million. Of these, 51% live in the United States and 30% in Israel (including the West Bank).

While the country of Israel is experiencing healthy natural population growth (now numbering 5.4 million Jews), Diaspora Jewry is declining not for reasons of Aliyah but more because of secularization and outmarriage (Jews marrying people who are not Jewish). According to one study, whereas outmarriage rates were generally below 5% for the majority of Diaspora populations in 1930, today it is in excess of 45%.[ii] In America, fewer Jews report having 2 parents of Jewish origin. Less than 40% of the 18–34-year-old age group who identify themselves as Jewish have two Jewish parents today. In fact, a major point of debate today is the very definition of Jewish identity.

For this and other reasons, the Jews are becoming ever less numerous in the world. While the Jewish people represented 7.5 people out of every 1000 people in the world in 1938, today, this figure is less than half—only 3.1 per thousand.

This declining trend will continue to worsen, according to some researchers. Others talk of the Hansen’s Principal phenomenon … the apparently observed trend that “What the son wishes to forget, the grandson wishes to remember.” But such a renaissance of Jewish culture in America seems unlikely, given that evidence indicates extremely high rates of unmarried cohabitation with non-Jewish partners. If that is the case, the assimilation of the North American Jew will rapidly continue.

But would it seem likely that more than one-half of “core” Jews in the world will remain outside of Israel? According to Scriptures, it is certain that the Aliyah is not yet complete; this occurs only after the Tribulation. Could it be that American Jews will simply assimilate and eventually whither away? It seems doubtful. If past history is any guide to the future, it has always been true that the largest population of Jews — specifically in those countries where they reached prominence and contributed to a Golden Age — eventually were persecuted and displaced.

Hopefully, the Messiah will come first, and America will never be the handmaiden to another such atrocity and, therefore, suffer being uprooted. Time will tell. Of one thing we can be sure: When the Jew leaves America, it will be the harbinger of the downfall of the USA. For, to repeat, “I will bless those who bless you,” said Lord Jehovah (Genesis 12:3).

The Coming Protocols of God

Ultimately, once the Jews repent and recognize their Messiah, they will be forgiven as well. “‘ In those days, at that time,’ declares the LORD, ‘search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare” (Jeremiah 50:20).

The next uppermost fact to realize is that the times of the Gentiles will end. In the not-too-distant future, the tables will be turned. The Israelites will reign on earth. Jesus Christ himself will be in the seat of David; justice and law will go out from Jerusalem.

In this seat of God-given power and wealth, will Israel be forgiving and non-retaliatory to the nations that have persecuted its peoples through the ages? Scripture is clear about the fate that will befall nations. “This is what the LORD says: ‘As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance, I gave my people Israel; I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them. But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country …. But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,’ declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 12:14-15, 17).

At the end of the Tribulation, the Jews indeed will recognize their Messiah. Then will begin the Millennium, the seventh, final and greatest period where Israel would again flourish unmolested and free of international interference in its own land.

Once the tribes of Jacob are restored, says the Lord, “I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6). “[…] once again he will choose Israel” (Isaiah 14:1).

Thoughts to Ponder

As Christians, we do not need to be apologists for the Jews nor condone every action of the modern state of Israel. However, there are several things we must do: Firstly, “If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you” (Romans 11:17-18).

Next, “Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either” (Romans 11:20-21).

While judgment and restoration have been set for the Jews, the Gentiles had best remember that judgment waits for them also. For the Christian, the Bema seat (and persecution) still lies ahead for us. Thanks to the Jew — Jesus Christ, in the flesh — we are spared eternal damnation (and so also the House of Jacob), but we do not escape judgment. That trembling time still lies ahead. Oh, may God’s severity that he has shown the Jew pass over us. How many countless times have we been disobedient, as was Israel and Judah? Yet, Jesus Christ has been faithful to forgive us.

According to the Prophet Hosea, this restoration surely draws near. Hosea was inspired to say, “After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence” (Hosea 6:2). As a “day is as a thousand years” (Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8) it is now well into the second half of the third day for the Jews.

As God’s plan decrees, one day there will be a Jewish, global confederacy. It will be the Millennium … and not as the result of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion or any other contrived conspiracy theory. Gentiles will then be thankful that Jews are not the evil they are often made out to be. “In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you'” (Zechariah 8:23).

God will restore the Jews for the sake of His promises to the patriarchs (Romans 11:28). This is such wonderful news for Jews and Christians alike. For if God is willing to go to such lengths to keep His promise for “David’s sake,” how much more so on behalf of Jesus Christ, His own Son?

Wilfred J. Hahn

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About the Author: Wilfred J. Hahn is a global economist/strategist. Formerly a top-ranked global analyst and chairman of the country’s largest global investment operation, his personal writings focus on the endtime roles of money, economics and globalization. He has been quoted around the world and his writings reproduced in numerous other publications and languages. For resources on “endtime economics,” visit Wilfred’s website – www. eternalvalue.com

Sources:

[i] Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI. 1957 Reprint Page 83.

[ii] Serigo Della Pergola, Jewish Out-Marriage: A Global Perspective, International Roundtable on Intermarriage, Brandeis University, December 18, 2003, Table 1.

World Knocks on Death’s Door; We Await a Savior :: By Jonathan Brentner

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The climate alarmists have an unblemished record of failed predictions. Al Gore’s 2007 claim that, by 2014, both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets would be gone is typical of just how poorly their projections of doom have fared. Both places have recorded record-low temperatures in the past five years.

Why such an abysmal record? It’s because the climate emergency is a hoax, as are the models upon which it’s based. I shared a sampling of the evidence backing up this claim in a recent article: COP28: The Ruse behind the Elite’s Insatiable Quest for Power.

Why, then, do the climate alarmists continue to make predictions based on models that have led to bogus prognostications? What factors lie behind the globalists’ passion to prescribe draconian solutions for an emergency that does not exist?

The Quest to Be Lords of the Earth

The globalists seek to bring about a one-world government over which they will rule. In order to assume the role as lords of the earth, they need an impending crisis that will unite the nations. They regard the climate emergency as the vehicle that will enable them to fulfill their quest.

The year 2030 is magical to those who would imagine themselves as our chieftains; it’s the year that they plan to have everything in place for their future reign. COP28’s agenda aligned precisely with the UN’s Agenda 2030 with its seventeen sustainable development goals. It’s all about controlling the lives of serfs, those who survive the brutal changes ahead, all for the cause of saving the planet.

Jeffrey Ludwig, in an American Thinker article, provides this overview of Agenda 2030 in regard to its unmistakable Marxist theme:

The most often quoted definition comes from the UN World Commission on Environment and Development: “sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The earlier ideas and ideals of rights, freedom, equality, and justice are subsumed under meeting of needs and an explicit environmentalism, which emphasizes preventing the depletion of scarce planetary resources. Of course, the takeoff is the Marxist axiom that society should be organized around the idea of “from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” Thus, Marxism is implicit in sustainability but is nuanced by its alliance with seemingly scientific adjustments and goals related to environmentalism. [1]

Why do the elite believe that only a Marxist world order can solve the “climate emergency”? It’s because both the problem and solution are not only a ruse but the demonic path by which the elite hope to become lords of the earth.

Satan

Our archenemy, Lucifer, lies behind the motives of these elite powerbrokers. Population reduction, an essential aspect of their agenda, has long been the objective of the globalists, and it’s now more evident than ever before in history. The devil is a master deceiver and a murderer (John 8:44; 10:10); those advocating the killing off of the “useless eaters” are his pawns.

The elite’s intent to shrink the earth’s population to a more manageable number appeared on the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. One of the ten inscriptions on this granite monument set the sustainable level of the human population at five hundred million. That’s just a fraction of the earth’s current population of over 8 billion. Though the Guidestones now lie in ruins, the murderous goal remains set in stone for those who would enslave humanity to their every whim.

The Biden administration spokesperson, John Kerry, has stated on several occasions that his plans include the elimination of farming as we know it. In Europe, they plan to kill 100,000 head of cattle for the cause of saving the planet. How do sane people even remotely think that cattle are bad for the planet? How will people survive apart from growing the food and raising animals on the farms? It’s all about reducing the earth’s population to a manageable level.

After one hundred years of failed projections of doom, do those sounding the alarm over the climate truly believe we have just seven years left before the environment implodes? Is it possible that many of them believe their own lies as they knock on death’s door?

Depraved Minds

In Romans 1:19-32, the Apostle Paul gives us remarkable insight into the thinking of those who would bankrupt the world, kill multitudes of people via the total elimination of “fossil fuels,” and subject the remaining population to Marxism.

The downward path to such depraved thinking begins with the refusal to acknowledge God, His attributes, and His eternal power. This, according to Romans 1:28, leads to futility in thinking and, after that, to the Lord’s giving them up to a “debased mind to do what ought not to be done.” The word in the Greek, adokimos, applies to something, such as a metal, that doesn’t endure when tested, thus proving to be unfit, or “reprobate” as the King James Version translates it.

The following verses describe the debased mindset of those with minds that “fail the test.” They become incapable of making morally sound decisions and, in many instances, even rationally sound ones:

“They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them” (Romans 1:29-32).

These verses aptly describe those leading the charge to subjugate the world under the obscene demands of the climate alarmists. Apart from oil, natural gas, and coal, most people on planet Earth could not survive. Either these purveyors of doom cannot think clearly enough to perceive this deadly outcome, or they do not care.

Please understand that the phrase “fossil fuels” itself is totally bogus. John Rockefeller coined this term so he could sell his oil and gas at a higher price. The natural gas reserves off the coast of Israel alone are estimated to be a trillion cubic feet in just this one location! The amount of oil consumed in one day alone throughout the world requires an astronomically high number of prehistoric animals to generate. These sources of energy most certainly are NOT “fossil fuels.”

The Lord provided the rich deposits of coal, oil, and natural gas to sustain the earth’s current large population. Without these fuels, billions would eventually perish. Used properly, they do not harm the environment, nor will they raise temperatures to unsafe levels.

Economic Suicide

The attendees at the COP28 summit in Dubai agreed to work toward the elimination of “fossil fuels” but did not put a date in place to do so. This objective, of course, is impossible because the windmills themselves need sixty gallons of oil, changed regularly, in order to function. It’s also unfeasible to put the windmills in place apart from the use of copious amounts of diesel fuel to power the many trucks needed to deliver the massive amounts of needed concrete and parts to assemble just one of the windmills.

Alex Newman, a fellow believer, author, and award-winning journalist who attended the conference in the United Arab Emirates, wrote the following:

“At the conclusion of COP28, there was a sense of euphoria among the climate faithful that they achieved something monumental, specifically securing a document called the ‘UAE Consensus’ to’ transition’ away from fossil fuels,” said Craig Rucker, who attended the summit as head of the conservative-leaning environmental group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).

“But let’s face it, China has been constructing new coal plants at a rate of two per week, and India is expected to increase its coal fleet 25 percent by 2030,” Mr. Rucker told The Epoch Times.

“Only Western nations steeped in global warming alarmism will undertake the foolish measures the Greens demand to gut their energy infrastructure.” [2]

As populous nations ramp up their dependence on oil, natural gas, and especially coal, western nations such as the United States will continue down a path to certain economic suicide with its green agenda. Mr. Newman also wrote about this in the above-referenced article:

Stephen Moore, chief economist at FreedomWorks, said the administration’s pledges would shut down 60 percent of U.S. electrical power generation.

“Biden is playing a dangerous game of unilateral energy disarmament,” said Mr. Moore. “Whether intentional or not, this radical green agenda will cripple our global economic leadership, cost our economy millions of jobs, and make Americans colder in their homes in the winter and hotter in the summer.” [3]

I believe the outcome of such a foolish agenda will be far worse.

The left in America is pursuing two conflicting goals. On the one hand, several states now require that all cars sold be electric in the next five to seven years. On the other hand, President Biden seeks to drastically reduce the supply of energy needed to empower these cars. It’s a trainwreck waiting to happen; it’s economic suicide by any other name.

Will the self-destructing ruse of saving the environment bring the nations of the world together under a central government? It’s doubtful, given the lack of public support for it, but there’s an event looming in the near future that might just accomplish the globalists’ quest for power, at least in the short term.

The Rapture Will Change Everything

The Rapture of the Church will at first seem like a dream come true for people with the mindset of Romans 1:28-32, but it will later prove to be the worst nightmare imaginable for them.

The elite will have the bona fide global crisis they crave, but their failure to recognize God’s authority or believe Scripture will prove fatal for them as it will for all who worship the beast that’s coming.

Someday, hopefully soon, Jesus will take us to glory and initiate the dreadful time of judgment known in the Old Testament as the Day of the Lord. Once the devil confirms a covenant with the many, including Israel, the seven-year period we know as the Tribulation will start. During this time, the Lord will pour out His wrath on mankind and, by its end, utterly destroy Satan’s kingdom.

Not only will the Rapture change everything for those on the earth but also for us as New Testament saints.

Our “citizenship is in heaven,” and because of that, we “await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power that enables him to subject all things to himself” (Philippians 3:20-21).

As God’s wrath descends upon the unbelieving world, we will rest in paradise with our Savior. At the moment Jesus appears to take us to His Father’s house, He will give us immortal bodies that will never perish, get sick, or become weak with the passage of time (John 14:2-3; 1 Corinthians 15:47-55).

If you have not yet put your trust in Jesus, please, please see my post, Jesus Is the Only Path to Eternal Life. In it, I explain how you can know that Jesus has forgiven all your sins and that you possess eternal life and with the sure hope of receiving an immortal and incorruptible body at Jesus’ appearing (1 Corinthians 15:48-54).

Please don’t delay; call upon Jesus while you may! Tomorrow may be too late to avoid the path of death advocated by those who would enslave humanity under their demonic schemes.

The Rapture will change everything for those alive at the time, one way or another.

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Sources:

[1] E. Jeffrey Ludwig, The UN Wants to be Our World Government by 2030, American Thinker website, October 27, 2018

[2] Alex Newman, Critics Respond to UN Climate Deal to Phase Out Fossil Fuels: ‘Soviet-Style Central Planning,’ December 13, 2023,

[3] Ibid.