Transcript: Episode 0035

“Lies, Betrayal, and Murder — the Fruits of Another Spirit”

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00:00:30 – 00:00:44:	Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler, and I'm still woe.

00:00:44 – 00:00:49:	Today's Stone Choir will be a continuation of last week's series that we began on the

00:00:49 – 00:00:54:	subject of the Jews in history. First episode was covering the entirety of scripture. This

00:00:55 – 00:00:59:	week we're going to be picking up pretty much where we left off with the destruction of the

00:00:59 – 00:01:06:	temple. We're probably going to get through the Middle Ages today. We'll see. This is going to be

00:01:06 – 00:01:10:	an extremely cursory look. We're not trying to give an exhaustive history of the Jews as a

00:01:10 – 00:01:15:	people. I think there are three main points that we want to make here today, and we're going to

00:01:15 – 00:01:22:	present evidence to this effect. The first is that the Jews were effectively destroyed when

00:01:22 – 00:01:29:	the temple was destroyed. When they called down God's curse against them, it worked. They were

00:01:29 – 00:01:35:	scattered to the winds. They were just a people without anything, without a homeland. They lost

00:01:35 – 00:01:42:	their language. They abandoned their religion by abandoning God and pursuing false gods,

00:01:42 – 00:01:50:	which we'll get into a little bit here today. The second thing to get across is that the examples

00:01:50 – 00:01:58:	that we give are going to have two main themes. One, the Jews post-Senkatepple destruction were

00:01:58 – 00:02:05:	frequently concealing what they were actually doing. There was subterfuge. There was secret

00:02:05 – 00:02:10:	symbolism. There were secret plans and then public pronouncements that were at odds with each other.

00:02:10 – 00:02:18:	A lot of the history of the Jews post-second temple has to do with someone else finding out

00:02:18 – 00:02:23:	what they're up to and getting upset about it for good or bad reasons. You can decide for yourself.

00:02:23 – 00:02:29:	We're going to present a bit of that history. The third one is basically they were just frequently

00:02:29 – 00:02:35:	up to no good to give just a brief recap of the up to no good to which they were attempting.

00:02:35 – 00:02:42:	I'm going to give just a brief highlight reel from past Stonequire episodes. Today's episode is

00:02:42 – 00:02:48:	number 35, so we've got 34 episodes behind us. In 12 separate episodes, the Jews have come up,

00:02:48 – 00:02:54:	not because Corey and I are racist anti-Semites who just hate people, but because when you're

00:02:54 – 00:03:00:	looking at theological concepts and problems facing Christendom, a certain group keeps popping up.

00:03:00 – 00:03:07:	I didn't do that. Corey didn't do that. We find over and over that the Jews show up when there

00:03:07 – 00:03:14:	are problems in Christendom. First episode three on Christian nationalism, we mentioned for this

00:03:14 – 00:03:19:	first time that the slave ships that came from Africa to North America were overwhelmingly

00:03:19 – 00:03:25:	owned by Jews. The slave markets were owned almost exclusively, I believe, by Jews. The slave

00:03:25 – 00:03:32:	markets all closed on the Sabbath. Pretty weird if it's white guys. Then the majority or the almost

00:03:32 – 00:03:40:	majority of owners of slaves in the South were themselves Jews. Whatever you think about the

00:03:40 – 00:03:47:	horrors of slavery in the antebellum South has something to do with those people. You can't

00:03:47 – 00:03:52:	disentangle it too. That's a big deal because today, America gets blamed for slavery, whites get

00:03:52 – 00:03:58:	blamed for slavery. If you're going to be assigning blame today for slavery, let's make sure we don't

00:03:58 – 00:04:05:	leave out the people who actually precipitated it. Episode five, a name no man knows. We mentioned

00:04:05 – 00:04:10:	that pseudonymity in changing names is there's nothing inherently wrong with it. I route a list

00:04:10 – 00:04:16:	of names of mainly Jewish entertainers who change their names from extremely Jewish names to

00:04:16 – 00:04:22:	extremely Anglo sounding names. If they blend in so that people would forget that they were Jews

00:04:22 – 00:04:27:	and they would just be Americans. Good or bad, I don't care. It doesn't upset me, but I think it's

00:04:27 – 00:04:32:	just interesting that that sort of shape-shifting has long roots, which we'll be getting into today.

00:04:32 – 00:04:39:	In episode eight, we discussed and neglected matters. We covered five issues and two of them

00:04:39 – 00:04:45:	touched directly on Jews. The first was usury. We mentioned how from the time of Moses, usury was

00:04:45 – 00:04:52:	banned among believers and God. Charging of interest was a crime. It wasn't until the Middle Ages

00:04:52 – 00:04:57:	when princes and kings began seeing the desirability of borrowing money or having lending made

00:04:57 – 00:05:05:	available principally for prosecuting wars that they began letting Jews commit usury. It was

00:05:05 – 00:05:08:	still forbidden for Christians. It was still a crime for Christians, but Jews were permitted to do

00:05:08 – 00:05:13:	so with the specific thinking that while they're going to hell anyway, so let's get some upside

00:05:13 – 00:05:19:	from lending because there are upsides to lending at interest. They're downsides, it's sin, but

00:05:19 – 00:05:24:	they're certainly upsides, and that's often the case with sin. It's not all bad where people wouldn't

00:05:24 – 00:05:29:	do it. One of the other issues that we discussed in the neglected matters was head coverings in

00:05:29 – 00:05:35:	church, and we mentioned the fact that Betty Frieden Goldstein, who founded the National

00:05:35 – 00:05:41:	Organization for Women in 1968, set out to do two things immediately. One, legalize abortion,

00:05:41 – 00:05:46:	and two, get head coverings burned in and out of our churches. She succeeded in both in short

00:05:46 – 00:05:54:	order. We took Christian doctrine from a Jewish lady in 1968. That's important. Like I said at the

00:05:54 – 00:05:59:	beginning, that's not us complaining about the Jews. It's just saying, hey, over and over we find

00:05:59 – 00:06:05:	the same group of people showing up. Maybe there's something that's deeper there, and if someone has

00:06:05 – 00:06:09:	a problem with them later on, maybe it's not the person who has a problem with the issue that is

00:06:09 – 00:06:15:	the problem. Maybe the fact that a group of people keep doing bad things is something that can at

00:06:15 – 00:06:22:	least be discussed. These are the ground rules for everyone today. Pretty much the entire news

00:06:22 – 00:06:29:	cycle is a reexamination of European history and assigning blame for things from hundreds and

00:06:29 – 00:06:34:	thousands of years ago. If those are the rules, okay. If you can look in history and say, well,

00:06:34 – 00:06:39:	this person's responsible for this, this group's responsible for this, sometimes that may be fair.

00:06:39 – 00:06:44:	Corey and I have no problem with generational guilt. We have no problem with collective guilt

00:06:44 – 00:06:50:	when it is justly applied. It's perfectly fair game for any group. It just so happens that many

00:06:50 – 00:06:57:	of the things that we as Christians are concerned about have Jews at their root. Episode 11,

00:06:57 – 00:07:02:	among the actions we mentioned that Judeo-Christian is a term that was invented in the 20th century.

00:07:02 – 00:07:08:	It's an oxymoron. There's no such thing as Judeo-Christian. Those are opposites. We made the

00:07:08 – 00:07:15:	case that that emerged because the ghettos of Europe were being disgorged on our shores.

00:07:16 – 00:07:21:	Suddenly, you had this large influx not in the south, but in the north and really throughout the

00:07:21 – 00:07:27:	country of Jews coming from mainly Eastern Europe. They wanted to assimilate. A lot of the name

00:07:27 – 00:07:33:	changing and things. One of the ways of assimilation was to invent Judeo-Christianity, where suddenly

00:07:33 – 00:07:38:	you have this Christian nation of America and all these Jews are showing up. They want to say,

00:07:38 – 00:07:44:	hey, we're on the same team, same God, same morals, same basic values. We're all together, man.

00:07:45 – 00:07:50:	Well, yeah, that's true. It's false. We discussed that in Episode 11. Episode 14 was pretty much

00:07:50 – 00:07:56:	about Jews. We had some discussion of Karl Popper, Theodor Adorno, and most of it was about

00:07:56 – 00:08:03:	Saul Alinsky and his rules for radicals. That was pretty much an episode about Satan's playbook.

00:08:04 – 00:08:09:	As it's practiced and exemplified today, it's all Jews doing it. We didn't do that. That's just who

00:08:09 – 00:08:16:	showed up. Episode 15 on human race, we discuss in foundational matters the fact that Jew is a race.

00:08:16 – 00:08:23:	It is not only a religion and underlying everything is the racial aspect. If you say,

00:08:24 – 00:08:31:	if someone says, I don't like Jews, the typical response is, oh, you're a racist. Yet, if someone

00:08:31 – 00:08:37:	says, hey, did you know that that guy is a Jew, they would say, well, how do you know that? He

00:08:37 – 00:08:42:	doesn't wear the hat. He doesn't keep kosher. He doesn't go to Sabbath. Why do you think he's a Jew?

00:08:43 – 00:08:51:	He's presbyterian. It's either or thing. It's a gotcha game where it's racist if you dislike

00:08:52 – 00:08:56:	something about Jews, but it's a religion if there's anything good about what they're doing.

00:08:57 – 00:09:00:	It's one of those games that gets played, and it leaves us tied up in knots.

00:09:00 – 00:09:06:	But Jew is, in fact, a race. We made that very clear last episode just discussing Scripture.

00:09:06 – 00:09:10:	All the genealogy was about the race of Jews. That's not inherently a bad thing.

00:09:11 – 00:09:15:	Everyone has a race. That's how God made us. We don't hate people because of their race, but

00:09:15 – 00:09:20:	if there are differences, maybe they're consequential, and we see in time that in fact they are.

00:09:20 – 00:09:27:	Episode 19 on human race and racism, we talked about Magnus Hirschfeld, the Jew from Weimar

00:09:27 – 00:09:34:	Germany who was conducting horrific sexual experiments, transsexual science, so-called

00:09:35 – 00:09:42:	pornography, sodomy, the worst imaginable sins that are reemerging today. When he fled Germany,

00:09:42 – 00:09:49:	he immediately went on to write the book Racism. He was a Jew. Also appearing in that same

00:09:49 – 00:09:55:	episode was the murder of the Zars and Communism, all of which was run by Jews.

00:09:56 – 00:10:01:	So over and over, this group of people shows up in the very worst moments in European history,

00:10:02 – 00:10:06:	and we're going to cover some more of those today. Episode 20 against the Antichrist,

00:10:06 – 00:10:14:	we revisit the fact that the Jewish slavers were relevant. Episode 23 on women and feminism.

00:10:14 – 00:10:19:	Well, we didn't explicitly mention Jews, mainly because we didn't want to get too much into second

00:10:19 – 00:10:26:	way of feminism or later. The history of feminism in the 20th century is almost entirely Jewish.

00:10:26 – 00:10:30:	Just a couple names that most people will probably recognize. Again, Betty Frieden,

00:10:30 – 00:10:36:	Nie Goldstein, Gloria Steinem, Gloria Alred, Andrea Dworkin, and Naomi Wolfe, all Jewish.

00:10:37 – 00:10:42:	So those are their contributions to feminism. If you think feminism is bad, you should give them

00:10:42 – 00:10:47:	credit. If you think it's great, you should also give them credit. When they take credit for what

00:10:47 – 00:10:52:	they're doing, who are we to rob them of it? Feminism in the 20th century was entirely

00:10:52 – 00:10:57:	a Jewish gift to our civilization, and I think it's important to give them that credit.

00:10:59 – 00:11:05:	Episode 27 and listener feedback, Episode 1. We finished with Israel Zanguil's The Melting Pot

00:11:05 – 00:11:12:	Play, which was a play that was basically dedicated both to race mixing and to the newly

00:11:12 – 00:11:17:	invented concept that America itself isn't a nation. It doesn't have any particular bloodline.

00:11:18 – 00:11:21:	It's just this big cauldron where people from all around the world get dumped in.

00:11:22 – 00:11:27:	And then, I don't know what, we're just, you know, as Corey finished up, it sounded pretty

00:11:27 – 00:11:33:	halish to us, that if you've ever said Melting Pot, you're quoting a man named Israel. So make

00:11:33 – 00:11:38:	sure you give them credit. Episode 30, Against the Clockwork Universe, we discussed, Corey mentioned,

00:11:38 – 00:11:44:	the Jewish law school professor Eugene Rostow, who declared that ceremonial deism was the official

00:11:44 – 00:11:51:	United States religion. And he's spot on, I mean, that goes back centuries. And Episode 23, most

00:11:51 – 00:11:56:	recently on Michael King, the Marxist agitator, I joked that most of the names in that read like

00:11:56 – 00:12:02:	the Tel Aviv phone book, beginning with Stanley Levison, his lifelong handler. Pretty much everyone

00:12:02 – 00:12:09:	who influenced him and was moving the Marxist needle in civil rights in the 60s in America,

00:12:09 – 00:12:13:	they were almost all Jews, not exclusively. But in the absence of that people group,

00:12:14 – 00:12:19:	the civil rights movement wouldn't have existed. So again, that's relevant. It's not,

00:12:19 – 00:12:24:	er, we're mad at these people. It's, I don't like evil. And if I think something is evil,

00:12:24 – 00:12:28:	and then I look at the genealogy of the man who's doing the thing, and I keep finding the same

00:12:28 – 00:12:33:	pattern, at some point, it's going to draw my attention. You know, five, six, seven years ago,

00:12:33 – 00:12:37:	I didn't care. I basically didn't know what a Jew was. I was completely indifferent. I had a bunch

00:12:37 – 00:12:42:	of Jewish friends. I had good friends with a number of them, great conversations. It is not

00:12:42 – 00:12:49:	hatred to say, huh, over and over, I keep seeing this pattern. That's just intelligence. That's

00:12:49 – 00:12:55:	honesty. So today, we're going to be having an honest assessment of the truth of some more aspects

00:12:55 – 00:12:59:	of history post-Second Temple destruction, beginning with the destruction of the temple itself,

00:12:59 – 00:13:01:	and then some of the things that happened after that.

00:13:02 – 00:13:10:	And so we'll start with the first of three Roman Jewish wars, so-called. And really, this is the

00:13:11 – 00:13:18:	one of the major Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire. And that is the one that is eventually

00:13:18 – 00:13:24:	put down by Vespasian and Titus. And that is when the temple is burned in 70 AD.

00:13:26 – 00:13:34:	So basically, what happens in this revolt is the Jews start a major uprising, as was their want.

00:13:35 – 00:13:40:	We see that in the pages of scripture. That is why Pilate has such a difficult time dealing with

00:13:40 – 00:13:46:	them and tries to be so careful, because these people were known for constantly causing trouble

00:13:46 – 00:13:54:	for the Empire. But they instigate a revolt. And the result of that is that it gets squashed

00:13:55 – 00:14:02:	by the Romans fairly conclusively. In this particular revolt, the Romans do lose a fair

00:14:02 – 00:14:11:	number of soldiers. It's 10,000 plus, according to Roman records, which is nothing compared to the

00:14:11 – 00:14:18:	third Roman Jewish war, which we'll get to. And the Jews lose something on the order of

00:14:18 – 00:14:22:	probably about 20,000. And then there's some number of civilians who are killed as well.

00:14:22 – 00:14:31:	That's harder to estimate. But the major point, of course, is, as was stated, the temple is burned.

00:14:31 – 00:14:37:	It is sacked and burned. It is destroyed completely, utterly. Because, of course, you should think of

00:14:37 – 00:14:43:	the words of Christ when you hear that the temple was destroyed. Not one stone will be left standing

00:14:43 – 00:14:51:	on another. And that's what the Romans do. The Romans loot the temple and destroy it. It is gone.

00:14:51 – 00:14:58:	This is God's judgment on the Jews taking physical form. The temple is gone. The place where they

00:14:59 – 00:15:03:	went to, at some points in their history, worship God, at other points in their history,

00:15:03 – 00:15:07:	to worship idols because they contaminated the temple with idols frequently.

00:15:08 – 00:15:14:	But it's now gone. Because, of course, that's not how you're supposed to worship God. You

00:15:14 – 00:15:20:	don't worship God at the temple. You worship God by being a Christian, by believing in Christ.

00:15:22 – 00:15:28:	But to move on to the second of these three Roman Jewish wars, the second one is often

00:15:28 – 00:15:37:	called the Kitas War, named after one of the gentlemen involved. This one has a much higher

00:15:37 – 00:15:43:	count when it comes to the death toll. And the reason for that isn't actually due to the conflict

00:15:43 – 00:15:48:	itself. I don't remember exactly how many died in the conflict. I think the records disagree on that.

00:15:48 – 00:15:58:	But it was the number of soldiers killed wasn't enormous. However, the Jews started uprisings

00:15:58 – 00:16:03:	in various places in the Roman Empire simultaneously because the Romans were dealing with other things

00:16:03 – 00:16:09:	in some of the fringe parts of the Empire. And so the Jews seized the opportunity. They instigated

00:16:09 – 00:16:17:	an uprising in Egypt, in Cyprus, in Libya, and, of course, in Israel, in Judea.

00:16:19 – 00:16:26:	What is notable about this particular conflict is that in Cyrene and Cyprus alone, because

00:16:26 – 00:16:34:	we have records for that from Cassius Dio, a Roman historian, 460,000 or more Roman subjects were

00:16:34 – 00:16:42:	murdered, civilians murdered by the Jews. That would have been primarily Romanized Greeks,

00:16:42 – 00:16:49:	of course, because of the location. Now, as a Christian, that should make you think.

00:16:49 – 00:16:56:	Because look at the timeline here. 70 A.D. is the first conflict when the temple is destroyed.

00:16:56 – 00:17:00:	That's sort of the conclusion of that conflict. It takes them a few years to clean up some rebels

00:17:00 – 00:17:08:	out in the fringes. This conflict is some years later between the years of 115 and 117.

00:17:10 – 00:17:15:	Many of these Roman Greeks who were murdered by the Jews would have been Christian at this point.

00:17:16 – 00:17:23:	This was, in part, Jews waging a pogrom against Christians. And the numbers I gave you are the

00:17:23 – 00:17:28:	ones that we know from Cyrene and Cyprus alone. I told you some of the other places they had

00:17:28 – 00:17:33:	the uprising. We don't know the death toll in Egypt, Libya, or other places in the Eastern

00:17:33 – 00:17:39:	Mediterranean. It may very well have been excess of a million Roman subjects who were murdered in

00:17:39 – 00:17:42:	of a million Roman subjects who were murdered in this uprising.

00:17:44 – 00:17:49:	It's interesting that they would start all these revolts all over the place all at once,

00:17:49 – 00:17:53:	because we saw exactly the same thing in the 19th and again in the 20th centuries.

00:17:55 – 00:18:02:	The wave of revolutions in 1848 and then the wave of communist revolutions in the 1910s.

00:18:03 – 00:18:09:	The same people. It was the same pattern, killing Christians on mass, mass revolution,

00:18:09 – 00:18:15:	mass chaos, same coordinators. So when we talk about Satan's playbook, we're not just like,

00:18:16 – 00:18:20:	how many times do you have to see the same pattern before you recognize it's a pattern?

00:18:21 – 00:18:25:	And you don't necessarily need to immediately jump to a conclusion, but when it's the same

00:18:25 – 00:18:31:	people doing the same thing, take that seriously. The slaughter of Christians in the 20th century

00:18:31 – 00:18:35:	is mirrored in the second century. That should matter to us as Christians.

00:18:36 – 00:18:41:	I guess I should mention a bit of historical irony, as it were, after the first of these

00:18:41 – 00:18:49:	three conflicts, because obviously Jerusalem was largely destroyed, the Jews shifted their

00:18:50 – 00:18:55:	center of power and focus, their leadership, to Galilee of all places. There's just a little bit

00:18:55 – 00:19:04:	of historical irony and the fact that they had to go there. But the results of the second Roman

00:19:04 – 00:19:10:	Jewish war, of course, again, victory for the Romans, they eventually did crush the Jewish

00:19:10 – 00:19:15:	rebellion. They killed many of the rebels, some number of hundreds of thousands dead,

00:19:15 – 00:19:20:	probably 200,000 dead, plus civilians. Difficult to count the number of civilians.

00:19:20 – 00:19:24:	The Jews weren't taking a census in the way the Romans were, so the Romans had better numbers.

00:19:25 – 00:19:31:	Eventually, they pushed them back to the city of Lidda, laid siege to that city,

00:19:31 – 00:19:36:	and destroyed the rebels and their leadership. The reason the city is worth mentioning

00:19:36 – 00:19:41:	is because the slain of Lidda is a phrase that is used in the Talmud as...

00:19:43 – 00:19:47:	These are people who are praised in the Talmud for what they did. The Jews are proud

00:19:47 – 00:19:52:	of what they did in this rebellion, of the hundreds of thousands, of the potentially

00:19:52 – 00:19:59:	million that they slaughtered. But the last of the conflicts, and perhaps the most important of

00:19:59 – 00:20:06:	these, other than obviously the temple being destroyed in the first one, is the third Roman

00:20:06 – 00:20:11:	Jewish war, or the third Jewish revolt, usually called the Bar Kokpa revolt, because it was led

00:20:11 – 00:20:21:	by Simon Bar Kokpa, Simon son of Kokpa. That was in the years 132 through 136. So this was not

00:20:21 – 00:20:27:	necessarily a short conflict, this lasted a while, particularly the final siege that

00:20:28 – 00:20:33:	was when the Romans annihilated these rebels, because again, the Romans did win this one.

00:20:35 – 00:20:43:	However, this came at a serious cost to the Romans. It is estimated that the Romans lost,

00:20:43 – 00:20:51:	I believe it was at least 200,000 soldiers. It's difficult to tell because it's not exactly

00:20:51 – 00:20:57:	clear historically, all of the legions that were present in Judea for this particular conflict.

00:20:58 – 00:21:05:	However, some number of tens of thousands up to 200,000 Roman soldiers died in this.

00:21:06 – 00:21:11:	And between 200,000 and 400,000 Jewish militia, whatever you want to call them,

00:21:11 – 00:21:15:	died in this. And then some number of thousands of the rebels directly under Bar Kokpa.

00:21:15 – 00:21:23:	However, the major outcome of this was the final destruction of the Jewish people

00:21:24 – 00:21:30:	in what is at the time Palestine. Because earlier, as a result of that second conflict,

00:21:32 – 00:21:38:	Hadrian had imposed a number of punitive measures on the Jewish people,

00:21:38 – 00:21:43:	basically because of their bad behavior, and the fact that they kept revolting and causing

00:21:43 – 00:21:52:	problems for the empire. But this third one, the Bar Kokpa revolt, basically the Romans raised

00:21:52 – 00:21:58:	Judea. They destroyed the fortified towns, they burned villages to the ground, they killed

00:21:58 – 00:22:05:	probably a half million or so Jews. They were done with the Jewish people done having to deal

00:22:05 – 00:22:11:	with these conflicts and every, you know, handful of decades having to send legions over

00:22:11 – 00:22:17:	to this province that's on the periphery of the Roman Empire that just constantly causes them so

00:22:17 – 00:22:22:	many problems. And not just on the periphery, because of course, they were instigating rebellions

00:22:22 – 00:22:29:	in other parts of the empire as well. I should expand on what Hadrian does here, because in the

00:22:29 – 00:22:36:	the aftermath of this revolt, this is where the real onerous measures come for the Jews,

00:22:36 – 00:22:43:	the ones who weren't dead. They were completely banned from Jerusalem. They were allowed their

00:22:43 – 00:22:50:	one day per year, their Tisha Ba'av day, which is basically their annual day of whining about

00:22:50 – 00:22:53:	things that they have suffered because of things that they have done.

00:22:56 – 00:23:02:	But the reason it's notable what happens here in this particular conflict and what Hadrian does

00:23:03 – 00:23:09:	is because this is the real beginning of the modern Jewish diaspora. This is when the surviving Jews

00:23:10 – 00:23:15:	flee to various other places in large part to Babylon, which becomes very relevant for other

00:23:15 – 00:23:22:	reasons. Now, of course, the Jews did also in this conflict murder basically any Christians they could

00:23:22 – 00:23:28:	find because the Christians had refused to fight against the Romans, because the Christians weren't

00:23:28 – 00:23:33:	trying to wage a rebellion against the Roman Empire. That was the Jews. So the Jews murdered

00:23:33 – 00:23:38:	a number of Christians in this as well. We'll probably never know that number. But this is also

00:23:38 – 00:23:47:	when as a punishment, essentially the Romans set about to erase Judea from history. Not only did

00:23:47 – 00:23:53:	they destroy the towns and the fortifications and a great deal of the population, this is when

00:23:53 – 00:24:00:	Hadrian renamed the province from Judea to Palestine. That's why we have that term for the

00:24:00 – 00:24:06:	modern area because of the consequences, the aftermath of this rebellion.

00:24:07 – 00:24:13:	One of the interesting aspects of the rebellion itself was that along with the warfare, one of

00:24:13 – 00:24:19:	the cultural things that they were trying to do was to restore the Hebrew language. They'd been

00:24:19 – 00:24:24:	speaking Aramaic and Greek. They actually had a brief period of time where they tried to repristinate

00:24:24 – 00:24:30:	the Hebrew language, and that was an important part of their identity. They wanted self-rule.

00:24:30 – 00:24:38:	They wanted the temple back, and they wanted their ancestral language, which is something we see

00:24:38 – 00:24:44:	today. That same desire was there in 135 that we have today. It's not narrowly a bad desire, but

00:24:44 – 00:24:48:	I think it's just interesting that this was the beginning of them

00:24:49 – 00:24:55:	basically trying to undo nearly a thousand years of God's punishment against them.

00:24:58 – 00:25:01:	Did you want to read the Titus quote from the First Rebellion?

00:25:02 – 00:25:08:	Yes, I think we should definitely include that Titus quote because it is one of the best quotes in

00:25:08 – 00:25:16:	all of history. As is customary in the Roman Empire, when Titus returns victorious from

00:25:16 – 00:25:21:	conquering the Jews in that First Revolt, it had started under his father Vespasian, but then

00:25:22 – 00:25:27:	because of happenings in Rome, Vespasian had returned to Rome the year before the revolt

00:25:27 – 00:25:33:	ended because Nero had committed suicide or forced his guard to kill him whichever way that

00:25:33 – 00:25:39:	actually went, and so Vespasian went back to take over as emperor essentially, but when Titus returned

00:25:40 – 00:25:47:	he was offered the wreath of victory, which is how they did things at the time, and he refused it,

00:25:48 – 00:25:53:	and his quote was, there is no merit in vanquishing a people forsaken by their own God.

00:25:54 – 00:25:59:	He considered himself to be an instrument of divine wrath against the Jews, and that is certainly true,

00:26:00 – 00:26:04:	but that is just one of the best preserved quotes in history.

00:26:07 – 00:26:12:	And on the point of the Hebrew language, Hadrian actually banned its use. He set about to erase

00:26:12 – 00:26:17:	what little of it was left. I think one of the interesting parts about the beginning of the

00:26:17 – 00:26:24:	diaspora here is that as they moved into Babylon, because of the destruction of the temple and the

00:26:24 – 00:26:32:	destruction of the priestly class, they shifted to a rabbinical school of Judaism, basically the

00:26:32 – 00:26:38:	Pharisees sort of continued on as rabbis in terms of the type of teaching that was done,

00:26:38 – 00:26:46:	and this was the beginning of them shifting from the oral traditions to writing those traditions

00:26:46 – 00:26:51:	down. The mission of the oral traditions had been passed down. They claimed from Moses day,

00:26:51 – 00:26:57:	they claimed that God had given Moses an oral Torah, an oral law, as well as the written one,

00:26:57 – 00:27:04:	and that was a key part of their control of the religion because they were contradictory. What

00:27:04 – 00:27:09:	was written down was from God, and then the oral tradition, the tradition that was secretly passed

00:27:09 – 00:27:16:	on among rabbis, and then taught to the people as it was doled out, contradicted Scripture,

00:27:16 – 00:27:20:	and this was one of the chief battles that Jesus had with the Pharisees, was that many of them,

00:27:21 – 00:27:27:	the ones who were not faithful, there were a few faithful Pharisees, at least they were believers.

00:27:29 – 00:27:34:	The rest of them were engaging in anti-Scriptural behaviors and teachings

00:27:35 – 00:27:42:	as a matter of lifestyle. That was the Phariseeical mode, and so when it shifted over to rabbinical

00:27:42 – 00:27:50:	Judaism, one of the things they did, because the central locus of the temple had been lost,

00:27:50 – 00:27:55:	was they started writing stuff down, and so this is the period where we have the two Talmuds can

00:27:55 – 00:28:02:	emerge and then converge, basically writing down those oral traditions as they'd been passed down,

00:28:02 – 00:28:08:	and it's a huge set. It's like 25 or 30 volumes of stuff, and it's funny when I've heard a couple

00:28:08 – 00:28:14:	rabbis discussing it, and they say, I know one, almost no one's ever read it all, which is kind

00:28:14 – 00:28:19:	of goofy for their holy works, but because they're basically signing statements, reinterpreting

00:28:19 – 00:28:26:	whatever God said, for them the important part is the arguing, and so it was a big shift for them

00:28:26 – 00:28:31:	to actually write any of that down, and that's another thing that we touched on briefly last week.

00:28:32 – 00:28:36:	They'd stopped speaking Hebrew, and despite the efforts in the third revolt,

00:28:36 – 00:28:41:	Hebrew didn't come back, so when the Talmud was written down, it was written in Aramaic,

00:28:41 – 00:28:46:	Hebrew was gone, so when you hear about a Talmudic scholar, the Talmuds will look like

00:28:46 – 00:28:50:	they're written in Hebrew, they're not. It's literally Aramaic that they're reading.

00:28:50 – 00:28:56:	Yeah, a full set of the English Talmud is 73 volumes and $3,000,

00:28:58 – 00:29:01:	and a lot of pages. I remember it's like 6,500, it's a lot of pages in the English.

00:29:02 – 00:29:04:	But in between...

00:29:04 – 00:29:06:	The question is how much of that is prof-emergent.

00:29:09 – 00:29:18:	Given this is a Jewish-owned shop, but in between the end of these Roman-Jewish conflicts,

00:29:18 – 00:29:23:	because Rome's power is starting to wane at this point, and this is when you have the

00:29:23 – 00:29:27:	the disillusion of the empire into the western and the eastern, so you have the Byzantines,

00:29:27 – 00:29:32:	the Byzantines obviously will have control over Jerusalem for a period of time until they

00:29:32 – 00:29:36:	lose that to the invading Islamic forces in a number of centuries.

00:29:37 – 00:29:46:	But in between the Roman suppression of these revolts and really things that will happen later

00:29:46 – 00:29:53:	on, we have an attempt by Julian the Apostate to rebuild the temple, because of course now the

00:29:53 – 00:29:59:	temple has been destroyed twice. You have the first temple is destroyed by the Babylonians,

00:29:59 – 00:30:07:	that is in 586 BC, and then you have, as was just mentioned, the second temple destroyed

00:30:07 – 00:30:16:	by the Romans in 70 AD. However, Julian the Apostate, who actually follows a number of

00:30:16 – 00:30:22:	faithful Christian rulers in the Byzantine Empire, he's not a Christian, that's why he's

00:30:22 – 00:30:28:	Julian the Apostate. He attempts to resurrect paganism, and so part of that he attempts to

00:30:28 – 00:30:35:	rebuild the temple. However, when the Jews, obviously eager to rebuild the temple, said about

00:30:35 – 00:30:42:	doing this task, they are met with basically complete destruction and signs from God.

00:30:43 – 00:30:48:	There is an earthquake, fire comes out of the ground and burns up workers, and they really

00:30:48 – 00:30:54:	don't get anywhere. But God makes it very clear, he does not want the temple to be reconstructed,

00:30:54 – 00:30:59:	that is not something Christians most certainly should support, that is something Christians

00:30:59 – 00:31:04:	should oppose. And so the people who are sending money over to Israel to build a third temple,

00:31:05 – 00:31:11:	that is incredibly wicked. Maybe we'll see fire from the ground again, or from the sky this time.

00:31:12 – 00:31:20:	We will have a link in the show notes to some first-hand and second-hand depictions from that

00:31:20 – 00:31:26:	time period of accounts of what happened there. The details vary slightly, but the overall theme is

00:31:26 – 00:31:32:	the same and unmistakable. There is a supernatural force preventing them from rebuilding the temple,

00:31:32 – 00:31:38:	and it included fireballs. We say supernatural, we're not talking about tummy aches,

00:31:38 – 00:31:42:	men were incinerated from the ground by fire, that's not normal.

00:31:43 – 00:31:45:	Well, it's a little more normal when you worship Satan.

00:31:47 – 00:31:54:	To move on to Babylon, that's really the next major point in this journey. Of course,

00:31:54 – 00:31:59:	you have the Babylonian captivity of Israel, not of the church, that's a different matter,

00:31:59 – 00:32:05:	that book is worth reading. Incidentally, that's written by Luther. But the Babylonian captivity

00:32:05 – 00:32:14:	of Israel is 597 BC is when that starts. That is when you really get the beginning of the Jewish

00:32:14 – 00:32:20:	diaspora population in Babylon. This, of course, is the southern kingdom Judah, because the Assyrians

00:32:20 – 00:32:27:	were the ones that took the northern kingdom captive earlier on. But you wind up with a population of

00:32:28 – 00:32:34:	between one and two million Jews living in Babylon, which essentially modern day Iraq.

00:32:36 – 00:32:41:	This is when the Talmud really begins to take form. And as was mentioned, you have a split here,

00:32:41 – 00:32:46:	because you have the Jewish population, what remains of it in Jerusalem in the surrounding area,

00:32:46 – 00:32:50:	they produce what comes to be known as the Jerusalem Talmud. But then you have the Babylonian

00:32:50 – 00:32:58:	Talmud, which obviously produced in Babylon. This is where the Jewish schools that we still

00:32:58 – 00:33:05:	have today, and they are largely in the US and Israel, this is where they take off the the

00:33:05 – 00:33:14:	Yeshiva. These are schools devoted to the study of the Talmud. And they start here in Babylon,

00:33:14 – 00:33:21:	and they spread to many other places over time. Wherever the center of Jewish power is at the

00:33:21 – 00:33:27:	time, that's where you'll find the Yeshiva. And as I mentioned, today, if you are looking at where

00:33:27 – 00:33:34:	the Yeshiva are concentrated, they are concentrated in Israel and in the US. But to give some historical

00:33:34 – 00:33:43:	context here, originally, when the Jews are taken captive in Babylon, they are taken captive by the

00:33:43 – 00:33:52:	Sassanid dynasty, and that is a Zoroastrian dynasty. However, during the period of this

00:33:52 – 00:33:59:	diaspora population living in this region, the Muslim conquest come through and Zoroastrianism

00:33:59 – 00:34:08:	is erased, it's gone. However, the Muslims for four centuries still permit the Jews to practice

00:34:08 – 00:34:13:	their religion, to have their schools, to teach the Talmud, to do all these various things, to

00:34:13 – 00:34:20:	participate in society, in banking and coinage and various other things, really the sorts of things

00:34:20 – 00:34:26:	that you would expect. And so perhaps that narrative that you constantly hear of the Jews and the

00:34:26 – 00:34:34:	Muslims being arch enemies and hating each other for all time, a little more complicated than most

00:34:34 – 00:34:40:	media reports would have you think. Because this is a large Jewish population living under Muslim

00:34:40 – 00:34:47:	rulers for centuries. And this isn't the only time we'll see that. We will see this again in Europe

00:34:48 – 00:34:54:	with the Muslim Caliphate in Spain. We will see this in the Ottoman Empire. This is not something

00:34:54 – 00:35:01:	that is new. It's not something that has ceased. It still happens to this day, despite the conflict

00:35:01 – 00:35:10:	between Israel and Palestine. But to go back to the Byzantine Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire,

00:35:10 – 00:35:16:	because of course, it's in the Eastern Roman Empire in Jerusalem, where the other Talmud,

00:35:16 – 00:35:22:	the other version is taking shape at this point. And really, it's just commentary on the Mishnah

00:35:22 – 00:35:28:	that are reduced to writing and then published. In this case, obviously copied by hand. They don't

00:35:28 – 00:35:38:	have a printing press back then. But the Eastern Empire Christendom really turns against the Jews

00:35:39 – 00:35:45:	in part. The turning point here, the inflection point is when Christendom becomes patriarch

00:35:45 – 00:35:52:	of Constantinople. And he has a number of sermons against the Jews. I will link to those in the

00:35:52 – 00:35:59:	show notes. They are worth reading. He was a good orator. He was a good pastor, a fairly good theologian.

00:35:59 – 00:36:04:	Obviously, I would disagree with him on some things. But not as much as one might think,

00:36:04 – 00:36:10:	because we'll get this eventually in an Eastern Orthodoxy episode. But what is Eastern Orthodoxy

00:36:10 – 00:36:14:	today is very different from what someone like John Chrysostom would have believed.

00:36:16 – 00:36:19:	Basically, because of Palimus. But we'll get to that in a future episode.

00:36:20 – 00:36:26:	And so Chrysostom becomes patriarch in 398. He has a number of sermons against the Jews.

00:36:27 – 00:36:34:	This stirs up anti-Jew sentiment among Christians. And obviously, some of the other things that

00:36:34 – 00:36:37:	have happened historically because the Christians at the time were not ignorant of what the Jews

00:36:37 – 00:36:45:	had been doing. So there were other reasons for it as well. But the first emperor who really takes

00:36:45 – 00:36:50:	after Hadrian, that is, of course, who takes anti-Jew measures would be Theodosius.

00:36:52 – 00:36:59:	That would be in the fifth century. Now, the Jews, even to this day, hate Theodosius.

00:36:59 – 00:37:04:	But if you actually look at the measures he enacted, they'll seem fairly reasonable to you.

00:37:05 – 00:37:10:	Jews were not allowed to own Christian slaves. Because, of course, there's a religious conflict

00:37:10 – 00:37:18:	there. And the Christian emperor did not want Jewish masters having Christian slaves. That's a

00:37:18 – 00:37:26:	problem. It also banned intermarriage between Christians and Jews. And Christians were forbidden

00:37:26 – 00:37:33:	to convert to Judaism. Those are basically the measures that he enacted. So not particularly

00:37:33 – 00:37:40:	burdensome or extensive. We have another attempt here to stamp out completely what remains of the

00:37:40 – 00:37:46:	Hebrew language. It's basically dead at this point. The Jews are still in some minor way attempting

00:37:46 – 00:37:54:	to resurrect it. And so Emperor Justinian, a short while after Theodosius, bans the use of Hebrew

00:37:54 – 00:37:59:	because he's still having trouble in his empire with rebellious Jews. And part of that, if you

00:38:00 – 00:38:05:	ban the use of this language, he's trying to make it harder for them to organize these problems that

00:38:05 – 00:38:14:	they are causing him. But I mentioned earlier the conquest by the Muslims. And so this moves

00:38:14 – 00:38:20:	us into the Islamic period, really. And that more or less begins with the Battle of Yarmouk in 636.

00:38:20 – 00:38:27:	That's when the Muslim forces defeat the Byzantine forces. And really, that's more or less the end

00:38:28 – 00:38:36:	of the hegemony of the Eastern Roman Empire in this region. And so that moves us into the Islamic

00:38:36 – 00:38:47:	period. And so Caliph Omar is the man who would wind up with control over Jerusalem in this period.

00:38:47 – 00:38:52:	In the Talmud, he is called a friend of Israel. So again, this relationship between the Jews and

00:38:52 – 00:38:57:	the Muslims is more complicated than you've probably been led to believe. They are cousins,

00:38:57 – 00:39:05:	after all. Scripture is very clear on that. And so Jews worked in his empire as one of the Arab

00:39:05 – 00:39:14:	historians has said, as assayers of coins, sellers of dye, tanners, and bankers, which I am sure are

00:39:14 – 00:39:21:	surprising jobs for everyone to hear. But on the topic of what we mentioned earlier, the diaspora,

00:39:22 – 00:39:30:	the nature of the diaspora starts to take form in some ways under Caliph Omar, and then under his

00:39:30 – 00:39:37:	successors as well. Because in the seventh century, the Caraj land tax is passed. And basically,

00:39:37 – 00:39:45:	that's a tax that is particularly burdensome on non Muslims who own agricultural or otherwise

00:39:45 – 00:39:50:	productive land. And so in order to avoid paying this tax, the Jews move to the cities. Because

00:39:50 – 00:39:57:	if you don't own productive land, you don't pay the land tax. This is, of course, just an instance

00:39:57 – 00:40:05:	of the standard, the dimmy or the jizya, the tax on non believers living in Muslim controlled lands.

00:40:07 – 00:40:12:	But this is the beginning of the concentration of the Jews almost exclusively in the cities.

00:40:13 – 00:40:20:	And we will see that pattern repeat over and over again, as they move from one place to the next

00:40:20 – 00:40:26:	when they are either expelled, or there's a new opportunity that opens up. But under

00:40:27 – 00:40:31:	this caliph and the subsequent ones, this is considered one of the golden ages.

00:40:32 – 00:40:37:	Because the Jews are basically free to do as they please, they're not really burdened other

00:40:37 – 00:40:43:	than this tax, but they move into the cities, they avoid the tax. And this persists through

00:40:43 – 00:40:52:	about the year 1000. But the center of gravity for the Jewish people shifts from the Middle East,

00:40:53 – 00:41:00:	from the Near East, into Spain. Because of course, you have the Moorish conquest of Spain.

00:41:01 – 00:41:09:	And you have for centuries, Muslims ruling European territory. And so this is considered

00:41:09 – 00:41:14:	the real golden age for the Jews in Europe in Spain.

00:41:15 – 00:41:22:	It's important to note that the ushering in of the Moorish Islamic age of the rule of Spain

00:41:23 – 00:41:33:	was brought upon by Jews in Spain, Toledo, the neighboring cities. It was Roman Catholic territory.

00:41:34 – 00:41:39:	I have a brief timeline here of some of the things that happened in Toledo and

00:41:39 – 00:41:44:	surrounds as it related to the Jews who at the time were in a minority because there were some

00:41:44 – 00:41:52:	Jews living there in the 500s and 600s. In 558, the bishop ordered the Jews of his diocese to

00:41:52 – 00:41:57:	convert to Catholicism, and those who didn't were expelled from the region. In 633, the Fourth

00:41:57 – 00:42:02:	Council of Toledo describes the Jews who were allegedly proselytizing their beliefs as the

00:42:02 – 00:42:08:	Antichrist ministers. So again, consistent with Christ's system, Christian preaching was that

00:42:09 – 00:42:16:	these people are evil. That's not calling names. That's a doctrinal position supported

00:42:16 – 00:42:21:	incidentally by Scripture, and we'll get to that in a couple of minutes. Also, in 633,

00:42:21 – 00:42:26:	the Fourth Council of Toledo declared that all Jews must be baptized. That is forcibly converted.

00:42:27 – 00:42:33:	In 654, the king of Toledo forbade Jews from keeping the Sabbath, forbade their dietary laws,

00:42:33 – 00:42:39:	their marriage laws, and forbade circumcision, which again is banning their religion outright.

00:42:39 – 00:42:45:	It was illegal effectively to practice Judaism. In 694, the Catholic bishops issued a decree

00:42:45 – 00:42:50:	that the Jews were traitors and should have their wealth confiscated and face perpetual slavery,

00:42:50 – 00:42:54:	which, as Cory just said, is a significantly worse deal than they were getting from

00:42:54 – 00:43:01:	the Muslims, whom we are told are their bitter hereditary enemies. Interesting, hereditary enemy

00:43:01 – 00:43:08:	is a word the Luther later uses, in fact, in the Lutheran confessions to describe the Muslims,

00:43:08 – 00:43:16:	yet the hereditary nature of the Jewish-Muslim relationship is frequently quite friendly.

00:43:17 – 00:43:24:	This came to a head in 711 when Tariq brought his army to Toledo to try to crush her. They were

00:43:24 – 00:43:31:	trying to capture Spain for the caliphate. Jewish traitors opened the gates of Toledo,

00:43:31 – 00:43:39:	let the Muslim soldiers in, so there was no siege of Toledo. There was no battle. The gates were

00:43:39 – 00:43:46:	opened by Jews who were traitors to their town, led in the Muslims, and they conquered it in

00:43:46 – 00:43:54:	short order. Basically, all of Spain fell not very long thereafter. That control that Muslims had

00:43:54 – 00:44:04:	lasted until the 15th century. And not only did the Jews help the Muslims to conquer their Christian

00:44:05 – 00:44:11:	rulers, but the Muslims put the Jews in charge of some of these cities. So they were basically left

00:44:11 – 00:44:18:	to second in command beneath the Muslims, but over the Christians. This was a pattern, as Cory

00:44:18 – 00:44:22:	said, this is a pattern that played out in multiple places. So when we talked at the beginning about

00:44:22 – 00:44:29:	there being malfeasance and misconduct by this group, there's always this pattern where wherever

00:44:29 – 00:44:34:	there are Jews and there are Christians, the Christians end up being harmed somehow, whether

00:44:34 – 00:44:41:	it's soft harm like usury or hard harm, like having the gates thrown open so that your enemies can

00:44:41 – 00:44:48:	come in and slaughter you. But that pattern is very clear and Muslims and Jews, in fact, to this

00:44:48 – 00:44:52:	day, work together. Most people don't remember this, but when ISIS was a thing briefly and they

00:44:52 – 00:44:58:	were causing trouble, at one point, they killed some IDF soldiers and they put out a public

00:44:58 – 00:45:04:	apology. They apologized for killing Israeli soldiers, which isn't what you would expect from

00:45:04 – 00:45:09:	Muslim terrorists seeking a caliphate. And yet, if you understand more of history, it's not quite

00:45:09 – 00:45:14:	that weird. And behind the scenes, even today, Saudi Arabia and Israel are very close friends.

00:45:14 – 00:45:20:	They work together in lockstep. And when you see breakdowns in their relations, it's because one

00:45:20 – 00:45:26:	Saudi Arabian, the Shakes or whoever, when they are ebbing and flowing and they have their internal

00:45:26 – 00:45:34:	conflicts, they will sometimes side more or less with Israel than others. But when it comes to them

00:45:34 – 00:45:39:	versus Christendom, there's no doubt their cousins. And so they have their battles as cousins. But

00:45:39 – 00:45:43:	when it comes to dealing with Christians, there's no question who's going to get the knife first.

00:45:44 – 00:45:48:	The Middle Eastern proverb really just plays out again and again and again.

00:45:49 – 00:45:55:	And everyone should know it by now. They and they will admit to it. This is their proverb. They

00:45:55 – 00:46:01:	know this about themselves. Me against my brother, me and my brother against my father,

00:46:01 – 00:46:06:	me, my brother and my father against my uncle, me, my brother, my father, my uncle against.

00:46:07 – 00:46:09:	And it just goes up from there until it's against the world.

00:46:11 – 00:46:17:	That is how they view things. That is how they behave. And that is why the Jews and the Muslims

00:46:17 – 00:46:23:	will get along to attack Christians because they're cousins, but they're not your cousin.

00:46:25 – 00:46:32:	And so with the conquest of Spain in 711 through 1031, this is considered one of the

00:46:32 – 00:46:38:	golden ages of the Jewish people by the Jewish people. Because as was mentioned, the Muslims

00:46:38 – 00:46:45:	basically let them practice their religion, set up their schools, in some cases collect taxes,

00:46:45 – 00:46:52:	bank, deal with the money and oppress Christians. And so this is a golden age for the Jews. It's

00:46:52 – 00:46:59:	also incidentally where a bit of that ruthless cosmopolitan nature comes from. Because they're

00:46:59 – 00:47:04:	just moving around from city to city as the opportunity opens up. There's no real connection

00:47:04 – 00:47:12:	to a specific geographic area. And the reason for that is because God destroyed them in their

00:47:12 – 00:47:20:	homeland. He made them into ruthless cosmopolitans. He made them into a diaspora people who wander

00:47:20 – 00:47:24:	endlessly because they are not at home anywhere, because that is a punishment from God.

00:47:26 – 00:47:32:	So we mentioned last week that we would get to the Star of David, so-called this week. It ties in

00:47:32 – 00:47:39:	both to the very beginning of the first century, all the way through the 10th and 11th century AD.

00:47:39 – 00:47:43:	So I think this is a good place to mention because it also ties in with Islam.

00:47:45 – 00:47:49:	I'm going to read back from scripture again. We're going to bounce back to scripture just a bit.

00:47:49 – 00:47:59:	In Act 7, around 743, Stephen is preaching to the Jews and he is speaking of Moses here.

00:48:01 – 00:48:06:	Moses received living oracles to give to us. Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him

00:48:06 – 00:48:13:	aside and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, saying to Aaron, make us gods who will go before us.

00:48:13 – 00:48:18:	As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

00:48:18 – 00:48:23:	And they made a calf in those days and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the

00:48:23 – 00:48:30:	works of their hands. But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven,

00:48:30 – 00:48:33:	as it is written in the book of the prophets. And this is from Amos.

00:48:34 – 00:48:38:	Did you bring me slain beasts and sacrifices during the 40 years in the wilderness,

00:48:38 – 00:48:44:	O house of Israel? You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your God, Raphane,

00:48:44 – 00:48:48:	the images that you made to worship, and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.

00:48:49 – 00:48:53:	And then a little while later in this sermon, Stephen says,

00:48:53 – 00:48:58:	you stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit.

00:48:58 – 00:49:03:	As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?

00:49:03 – 00:49:06:	And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the righteous one,

00:49:06 – 00:49:11:	whom you have now betrayed and murdered. You who received the law as delivered by angels

00:49:11 – 00:49:17:	and did not keep it. Almost immediately after saying this, Stephen is murdered. He's murdered

00:49:17 – 00:49:24:	by this crowd of Jews to whom he is preaching. So a couple things I want to note and then focus on.

00:49:24 – 00:49:29:	First, it's notable that if you go back and read Amos 20, about 25 and 26,

00:49:29 – 00:49:34:	you'll find some different wording than you find here in Acts. When it says,

00:49:34 – 00:49:38:	the tent of Moloch and the star of your God, Raphane, it says something different in Amos,

00:49:38 – 00:49:44:	the stars of Cuyun. I don't remember what the tent was. The reason for that difference is that Stephen

00:49:44 – 00:49:50:	is quoting the Septuagint. He's quoting the Greek Old Testament. So when you look at the Greek,

00:49:50 – 00:49:55:	it says Moloch and Raphane, or Remphan. It's said both ways. You translate it both ways.

00:49:55 – 00:50:01:	The words that appear in this verse in Amos 26 only appear one time in that verse, so we don't

00:50:01 – 00:50:07:	have other parallax for it. They're Appax Legomona. I think that's interesting because

00:50:07 – 00:50:12:	it highlights what we said last week that Hebrew is a dead language. Although you can now look

00:50:12 – 00:50:17:	at the Hebrew of Amos today, when Stephen was preaching, he didn't use the Hebrew. You used

00:50:17 – 00:50:25:	the Greek. More importantly, note what's going on here. When Stephen is condemning these Jews

00:50:25 – 00:50:31:	to their faces, he is telling them that they're idolaters, and specifically that their God was

00:50:31 – 00:50:38:	a star God, the star of their God, Raphane. He's making a direct connection between the

00:50:39 – 00:50:44:	idol worship, the Satan worship of the Jews before him, and the Satan worship of the Jews

00:50:44 – 00:50:52:	who came out of Egypt. This passage makes it very clear, when you go read it, go read Acts 743

00:50:52 – 00:51:02:	in that area. Stephen makes it very clear that the Jews in Moses' day, they were idolaters,

00:51:02 – 00:51:09:	not 100% of them, but their God. God turned them over to their God, to the host of heaven.

00:51:10 – 00:51:13:	When you hear that, and you're not really paying attention to anything, turn them over to worship

00:51:13 – 00:51:19:	the host of heaven. It kind of sounds like God. No, he's talking about a star. He's talking about

00:51:19 – 00:51:27:	the star God. This has to do with the star of David, because there's no such thing. That symbol,

00:51:27 – 00:51:34:	that hexagram, is called both the star of David and the shield of David. It does not exist in

00:51:34 – 00:51:43:	any Judaic practice until 1008 AD. The Leningrad Codex, which is a Tanakh that's preserved in Russia

00:51:43 – 00:51:52:	today, is over 1,000 years old. It is the first connection between the hexagram and the Jewish

00:51:52 – 00:51:59:	or Judaic faith. This is critical, because we do have other art from much earlier. We have art from

00:51:59 – 00:52:05:	before the first century, and we have depictions of stars in the first century and second and third

00:52:05 – 00:52:11:	century. The stars that they're talking about are not a star of David. They have nothing to do

00:52:11 – 00:52:19:	with the Jewish faith, so-called. They come from mysticism, specifically from Babylonian mysticism.

00:52:21 – 00:52:26:	The hexagram, which is effectively a triangle pointed up and a triangle pointed down,

00:52:29 – 00:52:33:	that's notable, because it's pointing two different directions. It's pointing up and down.

00:52:34 – 00:52:41:	That is an allusion to as above so below, which is a Satanic term that's used to this day.

00:52:41 – 00:52:46:	Satan worshippers today will use some of these symbols. In fact, they use the hexagram, the

00:52:46 – 00:52:53:	so-called star of David, as one of their symbols. Cory and I debated even talking about this subject,

00:52:53 – 00:53:01:	because the problem with when you start to delve into mysticism and these occult practices,

00:53:02 – 00:53:06:	there's a certain type of person who's vulnerable to that, who's weak to that.

00:53:06 – 00:53:09:	There's some men where a pretty girl can walk by and they just don't even care,

00:53:09 – 00:53:15:	but if there's a whip of occult information, of occult knowledge, that is tempting.

00:53:16 – 00:53:20:	When we're talking about this, I don't want anyone to be tempted by wanting to delve into

00:53:20 – 00:53:27:	these things. If you're listening and you hear what's talking about Babylonian magic and this

00:53:27 – 00:53:33:	mysticism, and it gets you excited, take that as a sign of that as a personal spiritual weakness

00:53:33 – 00:53:37:	of yours and just don't go anywhere near it. I'm warning you for the sake of your soul.

00:53:37 – 00:53:42:	This is how men, some men are tempted. Some men are completely indifferent. I can look into some

00:53:42 – 00:53:48:	of this stuff because it makes my skin crawl, and I look as little as possible, and I learn as

00:53:48 – 00:53:52:	little as possible, just enough to be able to identify the basic patterns to say, yeah, that's

00:53:52 – 00:53:58:	enemy action. We're going to talk a little bit about it. We're going to reference another podcast

00:53:58 – 00:54:02:	that goes into a little bit more. We're not recommending everyone look at this, and if you,

00:54:02 – 00:54:07:	in particular, are enthused about these things, just keep away, please. It's not worth it.

00:54:07 – 00:54:12:	It doesn't matter. There are much more important things to focus on. The reason for talking about

00:54:12 – 00:54:18:	the Star of Rafan as it relates to the so-called Star of David is that there are ancient ties

00:54:18 – 00:54:25:	to the Satan worship of the Israelites in Egypt. When you look at this symbol,

00:54:25 – 00:54:30:	the hexagram, what we call what we think is the Star of David today, it first appears

00:54:30 – 00:54:34:	in and around the first century, but it has no connection whatsoever to Judaism.

00:54:35 – 00:54:43:	The first connections that it has are to alchemy, to Babylonian magic, which ties back to Egyptian

00:54:43 – 00:54:51:	magic through the Greeks. It ties to Kabbalah, which is Jewish mysticism, and it also ties to

00:54:51 – 00:54:57:	Muslim mysticism. I found that very interesting that both Jewish and Muslim mysticism, most people

00:54:57 – 00:55:02:	don't even know the Muslim mysticism exists. It does, and it uses these very symbols. So

00:55:03 – 00:55:10:	the Star of David is an occult symbol, and the only place in scripture that a star appears

00:55:10 – 00:55:19:	is directly connected to a star god, a star god from Egypt. We're going to link to a podcast that's

00:55:19 – 00:55:24:	defunct now, which I said is really good, called Not Conformed. They did a four-part series of

00:55:24 – 00:55:29:	one point talking about some of the occult and some of the history of some of those evil stuff.

00:55:29 – 00:55:35:	We're just going to link to the last episode in that series because it goes the most directly

00:55:35 – 00:55:44:	into discussing Babylonian era and Egyptian era magic. I'm going to say something that might

00:55:44 – 00:55:52:	surprise some people, but black magic is real. When Pharaoh had his magicians performing

00:55:52 – 00:55:58:	magic in front of Moses, they were really doing those things. Now, to say that black magic is

00:55:58 – 00:56:02:	real is not to say that these men had power. They had no power. They were demon-possessed.

00:56:02 – 00:56:07:	Demons were doing those things. So when we talk about magic, we're talking about supernatural.

00:56:07 – 00:56:12:	None of this has anything to do with what any man can do. It's not like if you have certain

00:56:12 – 00:56:17:	knowledge, you can gain psychic abilities or the ability to levitate or do any of these things.

00:56:18 – 00:56:24:	In the event that any sort of supernatural phenomena appears, you're dealing with demons.

00:56:24 – 00:56:32:	There's no other way to describe it, and it's clear when Moses is doing battle with

00:56:32 – 00:56:38:	the magicians of Pharaoh that he's dealing directly with gods, their gods, their demonic gods,

00:56:38 – 00:56:46:	the 10 miracles that he does, that each of them is an overthrowing, symbolically, of one of the

00:56:46 – 00:56:53:	gods of the Egyptians who were demons. All those physical depictions of them and the descriptions

00:56:53 – 00:56:58:	of their habits and their tendencies and their domains, some of that's not going to be true,

00:56:58 – 00:57:05:	but some of it is absolutely real. There are demons associated with each of those Egyptian gods,

00:57:05 – 00:57:11:	and interestingly, a lot of those pop up in other cultures, too. They'll have sometimes

00:57:11 – 00:57:16:	similar names, sometimes different names, but it's not simply that they were worshiped in Egypt.

00:57:17 – 00:57:20:	The reason that Egypt is so important, the reason that it pops up in the episode that

00:57:20 – 00:57:27:	we're going to link to, is that as you look at modern-day magic, people are actually practicing

00:57:27 – 00:57:34:	what they believe is real supernatural communion with these deities, these demons, they will trace

00:57:34 – 00:57:40:	back through Babylon, they will trace through the Greeks who, remember when Alexander conquered

00:57:40 – 00:57:48:	Egypt, the Greeks were then running Egypt, and so much of the scholarship, much of the recordings

00:57:48 – 00:57:55:	of Egyptian magic, is in Greek because when the Greeks showed up, they're like, oh, this is great,

00:57:55 – 00:58:01:	we can now control these demons now. Today, the men who look back, they look through Babylonia,

00:58:01 – 00:58:06:	they look in Greek, back to what the Egyptians were doing 3,500 years ago.

00:58:08 – 00:58:15:	It's notable that the Freemasons and other similar secret societies also trace their lineage

00:58:16 – 00:58:22:	back to Egypt. Everyone wants roots in Egypt for this stuff, and today, if you're not paying any

00:58:22 – 00:58:25:	attention, you don't care, and frankly, most people shouldn't care. I'm not saying be excited

00:58:25 – 00:58:31:	about this stuff, please don't be excited, but if you begin to look at all, and you begin to look

00:58:31 – 00:58:36:	at things like the pentagram and the hexagram, you'll find that they're all directly connected to

00:58:37 – 00:58:44:	demonic spiritual practices in these ages, and they all trace back to the very time. Like,

00:58:44 – 00:58:49:	remember, when Stephen is quoting Amos in describing what happened, while Moses is up

00:58:49 – 00:58:56:	on the mountain, this isn't centuries later, Stephen and Amos are specifically describing

00:58:56 – 00:59:02:	what happened with the Jews at the base of the mountain when they told Aaron to make that

00:59:02 – 00:59:09:	golden calf for them, pointing back to their Egyptian gods, and God condemns them for worshiping

00:59:09 – 00:59:15:	their star god of Rafan. That's Egyptian, at least that old. We don't know how much older it is

00:59:15 – 00:59:19:	than their demons, so they were created during the Sixth Age of Creation, but their interaction

00:59:19 – 00:59:27:	with the Jews at least goes back to the days of Egypt. When we have these evil satanic magic

00:59:27 – 00:59:31:	symbols that today are called the Star of David, and they're in some of our churches,

00:59:31 – 00:59:37:	and most people think it's just fine. They think it's hunky dory. It did not exist anywhere

00:59:37 – 00:59:45:	as any sort of religious symbol that was not occult until 1008 AD. Then it was on a Tanakh

00:59:45 – 00:59:51:	that had been produced by these wicked apostate Jews who had been cursed by God a thousand years

59:51 – 01:00:00
earlier. The Star of David is important as a small microcosm of how we were deceived. We

01:00:00 – 01:00:03:	talked last week about how we were deceived into thinking that Jesus was speaking Hebrew, no.

01:00:04 – 01:00:09:	We're also told that the Star of David is this ancient symbol of Israel. You call it the Star

01:00:09 – 01:00:15:	of David, like, okay, great, David, he's a long time ago. That's super Jewish stuff. No, they

01:00:15 – 01:00:22:	didn't have it. It did exist as a magic symbol for demon summoning. When you see flags and you see

01:00:22 – 01:00:29:	symbols in our own churches today that have that, it's still demonic. There's not a good version

01:00:29 – 01:00:34:	and a bad version. There is only the evil version because it's an evil symbol, just as the cross

01:00:34 – 01:00:40:	is a good symbol. Symbolism is a small thing, but believe me, it matters a great deal to people

01:00:40 – 01:00:46:	who are hiding stuff, because one of the most important and common things that Satan likes

01:00:46 – 01:00:51:	to do is hide this crap in plain sight. There's a little signal somewhere just to wet people's

01:00:51 – 01:00:56:	appetite and to signal to people who are in the know that this is what's going on.

01:00:56 – 01:01:01:	And these symbols, these occult symbols are all connected. You are going to find them

01:01:01 – 01:01:06:	all throughout ancient mysticism, particularly in this region. Another that you will find

01:01:07 – 01:01:15:	constantly is the all-seeing eye. You're going to find that in connection with these other symbols,

01:01:16 – 01:01:24:	one in particular still used in this region modernly is the Hamza, which is an all-seeing eye

01:01:25 – 01:01:30:	in the palm of a hand. You've probably seen that symbol in various places. It's a favorite of

01:01:30 – 01:01:37:	Hollywood and various other questionable entities, but this is also connected to worship of Baal.

01:01:37 – 01:01:44:	This is connected to Carthage. You see this all throughout this region. Satan recycles the symbols

01:01:44 – 01:01:50:	he uses. There are symbols that represent God, there are symbols that represent Satan, and you

01:01:50 – 01:01:56:	are going to see them in any culture that is worshiping Satan. And that is the case with

01:01:58 – 01:02:02:	the so-called Star of David, the Star of Remfan. You can have an M in there or not,

01:02:02 – 01:02:12:	it's rendered both ways. And the Star of Remfan and the Pentagram are essentially interchangeable

01:02:12 – 01:02:17:	in many cases in the occult. So it's important to think of that. It's important to recognize that

01:02:17 – 01:02:22:	when you see one, it may as well be the other. Sometimes you'll see both together or you'll

01:02:22 – 01:02:28:	see a coin with one on one side and one on the other. But we don't want to dwell on the occult

01:02:28 – 01:02:35:	too much. But yes, it does of course trace back to Egypt and to tie that together with Egypt,

01:02:35 – 01:02:41:	you have the Eye of Horus, which of course is an all-seeing eye. But before getting into the

01:02:41 – 01:02:48:	occult, it was mentioned that in Spain, in the period before the Muslim conquest, the Jews were

01:02:48 – 01:02:55:	being forced to become Christian or in some cases be exiled, some of the Jews, it is worth noting,

01:02:56 – 01:03:02:	committed suicide rather than be baptized. And that ties into the next section in the history

01:03:02 – 01:03:08:	of this, which would be the Crusades. Because during the Crusades, there were some pogroms

01:03:08 – 01:03:16:	against the Jews. And this was for various reasons, often related to the lending practices of the Jews.

01:03:18 – 01:03:24:	Because of course, those who are in a great deal of debt due to predatory lending practices

01:03:24 – 01:03:30:	are not going to think very highly of the lender. And as was mentioned, Christians, there's this

01:03:30 – 01:03:36:	additional layer to it, because these were Christians, Christians are not permitted to lend

01:03:36 – 01:03:42:	at interest. And yes, I recognize how that is going to sound to anyone living in a capitalist

01:03:42 – 01:03:47:	society, which basically means anyone listening to this podcast. I doubt anyone listening is from

01:03:47 – 01:03:53:	a society that is not capitalist in its orientation economically.

01:03:56 – 01:04:02:	But Christians are not permitted morally to charge interest. That's usury. Usury is not

01:04:02 – 01:04:08:	excessive interest. Usury is interest, period. And so at this time, this was actually enforced

01:04:08 – 01:04:14:	in Christian lands. Christians were not allowed to charge interest. And so if you lent money,

01:04:14 – 01:04:17:	you got back the principle, and that was it. If you got the principle back.

01:04:19 – 01:04:25:	Jews were not subject to this. They weren't Christian. And so as was mentioned, it was,

01:04:25 – 01:04:29:	well, they're already going to hell. So why not make it a little worse for them and make money

01:04:29 – 01:04:33:	in the process? Of course, that was sin on the part of the Christian leaders. Getting someone

01:04:33 – 01:04:40:	else to sin for you is still sin. Yes, that person is sinning, but you're also sinning by proxy and

01:04:42 – 01:04:47:	in your own person by encouraging others to sin. You know, temptations will come,

01:04:47 – 01:04:55:	but woe to the person by whom they come. And so you have in the lead up to the crusades,

01:04:55 – 01:05:01:	as they're organizing these armies in Europe, some of the Jewish populations are purged or expelled.

01:05:02 – 01:05:08:	Before we saw in Spain, some of the Jews committed suicide to avoid being baptized.

01:05:08 – 01:05:14:	In some of the instances where the crusaders were dealing with a Jewish population,

01:05:15 – 01:05:20:	they would forcibly baptize them. And again, some of the Jews committed suicide

01:05:20 – 01:05:24:	rather than be baptized. This is how much they hate God. This is how much they hate Christ.

01:05:25 – 01:05:27:	They would rather commit suicide than be baptized.

01:05:30 – 01:05:35:	We won't dwell too much on the crusades because that's not really the point of this episode.

01:05:35 – 01:05:42:	So we'll move on to the middle ages, which really is the last significant time period before

01:05:42 – 01:05:48:	early modern and then next week we'll get into the modern. But during the middle ages, you have an

01:05:48 – 01:05:56:	increase in passion plays and various things like that that depict the Jews in their proper

01:05:56 – 01:06:02:	role in the narrative, which is to say as the killers of Christ. And they were depicted often in

01:06:03 – 01:06:08:	modern dress instead of traditional dress because Jews during the middle ages in many places

01:06:08 – 01:06:12:	had to wear special clothing to note that you were dealing with a Jew.

01:06:12 – 01:06:18:	In some places this took the form of a yellow star. We see that star symbol again.

01:06:19 – 01:06:24:	In some places it took the form of a special hat. They still have special hats today,

01:06:24 – 01:06:26:	but they're different from the ones they wore in the middle ages.

01:06:28 – 01:06:33:	But this of course leads to an increase or at least an increased awareness.

01:06:34 – 01:06:38:	It leads to this increase in anti-Jew sentiment amongst the Christian population

01:06:38 – 01:06:42:	because they start paying more attention to what the Jews are actually doing.

01:06:43 – 01:06:47:	And again, they're doing these things that Christians are explicitly forbidden to do.

01:06:47 – 01:06:53:	Things that these Christians are told are wicked, are sins. They're lending it interest.

01:06:53 – 01:06:57:	And you have various controversies with coin shaving and things like that because often

01:06:57 – 01:07:02:	they were the ones handling the currency and so sometimes they were expelled for coin shaving.

01:07:02 – 01:07:11:	But this is really when the trope of the Jewish moneylender solidifies itself. Yes,

01:07:11 – 01:07:16:	you had it earlier because they also did moneylending in the Byzantine Empire.

01:07:16 – 01:07:19:	They dealt with currency in the Roman Empire. You saw Jewish tax collectors.

01:07:19 – 01:07:24:	They played the same role in the Islamic Empire for a period of time.

01:07:25 – 01:07:32:	But here in Europe they are the only ones doing it because Christians are forbidden to do it.

01:07:34 – 01:07:39:	And so if you had to borrow money, which you probably didn't have to borrow money, but if you

01:07:39 – 01:07:44:	are a prince and you want to wage a war and you need to raise an army and you don't have the

01:07:44 – 01:07:50:	gold on hand, you go to the Jewish moneylender and he lends you the gold at interest.

01:07:51 – 01:07:56:	And so that's where you get the stereotype. Stereotypes of course being grounded in reality

01:07:56 – 01:08:02:	because they don't come from nowhere. A stereotype would be entirely useless if

01:08:02 – 01:08:06:	it weren't based in reality to some degree. It doesn't mean that there's a perfect correspondence

01:08:06 – 01:08:11:	between the stereotype and members of the stereotyped group, but there's some correspondence.

01:08:12 – 01:08:18:	When Germans are called krauts, okay, yes, we like cabbage. We also like sausage and beer.

01:08:18 – 01:08:24:	Those are stereotypes, but they're true. The Irish like potatoes, but in fairness who doesn't.

01:08:26 – 01:08:32:	But this is also when we see quite a few expulsions of the Jews from various places in

01:08:32 – 01:08:36:	Europe and you don't just have expulsions from countries. It's important to remember that because

01:08:36 – 01:08:42:	a number that gets tossed around sometimes is 109 or 110 or 11 depending on how you number things.

01:08:43 – 01:08:47:	The number is much higher because that's essentially counting the number of times

01:08:47 – 01:08:53:	Jews have been kicked out of countries or large areas. But Europe in the Middle Ages

01:08:54 – 01:09:01:	wasn't really large countries yet. You didn't have the nation states that you have today.

01:09:01 – 01:09:05:	You didn't have Germany. You had an area full of Germans. You didn't have Germany.

01:09:06 – 01:09:11:	You had various cities ruled by princes or electors or counts or margrades. It just

01:09:11 – 01:09:16:	depended on the era and where you were. And sometimes these political entities,

01:09:16 – 01:09:21:	because that was the highest political entity other than the actual emperor himself,

01:09:21 – 01:09:26:	who wasn't dealing with the every day of any of the cities really, except for perhaps

01:09:26 – 01:09:32:	an imperial city if he happened to be there. But these smaller political entities would expel the

01:09:32 – 01:09:38:	Jews and they would expel them for the things already mentioned, shenanigans and money lending,

01:09:39 – 01:09:45:	oppressive taxation where they were tax collectors, coin shaving, all of the things you expect.

01:09:46 – 01:09:55:	However, this is also when stories of child sacrifice and things like that start cropping

01:09:55 – 01:10:02:	up in Europe. They've appeared at other points in time in history related to the Jewish people

01:10:02 – 01:10:08:	and related to other pagans as well. You see it in the pages of scripture where scripture speaks

01:10:08 – 01:10:13:	about them sacrificing their sons and their daughters to the demons. Well, this resumes

01:10:14 – 01:10:19:	to some level, to some degree in Europe. And so you have the depiction, for instance, I cannot

01:10:19 – 01:10:26:	remember the child's name now, the famous saint who's depicted in artwork having been sacrificed

01:10:26 – 01:10:33:	by the Jews, recognized as a saint by the church at the time, the pope himself at this time, a

01:10:33 – 01:10:40:	better pope than we certainly have today, actually recognized this, the sacrifice of a Christian

01:10:40 – 01:10:49:	child to use his blood in the preparation of elements for Jewish ceremony, most likely matzah,

01:10:49 – 01:10:55:	or something similar. We'll include the famous painting in the show notes. I cannot remember

01:10:55 – 01:11:01:	the child's name right now. But as I mentioned, you have the symbols associated with the Jews

01:11:01 – 01:11:07:	where they're set apart. You have the yellow star here, which is really when the star becomes

01:11:07 – 01:11:11:	solidified as a symbol associated with the Jewish people, this six-pointed star.

01:11:12 – 01:11:17:	It's also a symbol that they were using themselves. It wasn't merely an epithet,

01:11:17 – 01:11:23:	it was it was something they used publicly. So to return to Spain, because Spain, of course,

01:11:23 – 01:11:30:	is still during this period, being ruled by the Muslims, the Muslims were expelled in 1492 in

01:11:31 – 01:11:34:	January. You probably remember that year from the rhyme you learned in school.

01:11:36 – 01:11:43:	But that gives you an idea of how recently Muslims were ruling a fairly large and important part

01:11:43 – 01:11:52:	of Europe. And so they were expelled. And as part of that, Jews were also required to convert,

01:11:52 – 01:11:58:	because the Jews had been under the Muslims permitted to remain Jewish and practice their

01:11:58 – 01:12:04:	religion and teach in their schools, study the Talmud, etc. Now that Christian rulers

01:12:05 – 01:12:10:	took over that territory again, resumed control over Spain,

01:12:12 – 01:12:17:	they were not going to tolerate the Jews, partly because the Jews had cooperated with the Muslims,

01:12:17 – 01:12:22:	but also because the Jews are pagans. And tolerating a wicked pagan faith is not something

01:12:22 – 01:12:28:	that a Christian ruler is supposed to do. And so many of the Jews fled, they went to various other

01:12:28 – 01:12:34:	places, some went back to the Middle East or the Near East. But this is where you see, again,

01:12:35 – 01:12:40:	the rootless cosmopolitan nature where they simply flee to the next place where there's an opportunity.

01:12:42 – 01:12:47:	This is partly where we begin to see a concentration of the European Jewish

01:12:47 – 01:12:54:	population in Poland. And later on, Poland will have the highest Jewish population in Europe.

01:12:55 – 01:13:02:	I think it's important to note that the Spanish nexus to Jewish history is important just because

01:13:03 – 01:13:08:	among the many tropes that we've discussed here today, you know, they're called tropes, which is

01:13:08 – 01:13:13:	kind of a story unto itself. How come something that is true and factual and pattern based

01:13:13 – 01:13:17:	suddenly just sort of becomes, oh, it's just goofy. It's a trope. I don't know. I mean,

01:13:17 – 01:13:22:	that's silly. Why would you say that? The Spanish Inquisition has a pretty bad brand,

01:13:22 – 01:13:27:	doesn't it? It's a joke. It's a punchline. And we know it's one of the worst things that's ever

01:13:27 – 01:13:33:	happened. But most people don't know the details, starting with the fact that it wasn't the first

01:13:33 – 01:13:38:	and only Inquisition. There was an Episcopal Inquisition. There was a Papal Inquisition.

01:13:38 – 01:13:44:	Basically, when the Roman Catholic Church needed to stamp out heresies, they began an Inquisition.

01:13:44 – 01:13:51:	And so the Spanish Inquisition was in this place and time in Spain where there had been these

01:13:52 – 01:14:00:	Spanish Jewish conversos who were living as Christians. They had been Jewish. They had

01:14:00 – 01:14:06:	publicly converted to Christianity. And yet there was widespread evidence that many of them were

01:14:06 – 01:14:12:	not, in fact, Christian. And so the Spanish Inquisition, you know, that sounds so scary,

01:14:13 – 01:14:18:	that was simply looking at particularly the Jews in that place who had claimed to have

01:14:18 – 01:14:23:	converted Christianity to see if they actually had. Were they still in secret practicing their

01:14:23 – 01:14:29:	true religion while lying and pretending to be Christians for the benefits that accrued to them?

01:14:29 – 01:14:33:	Because you had different social standing. They had different tax status, different political

01:14:33 – 01:14:39:	rights. It was easier for you if you're a Christian because Spain was once again a Christian country.

01:14:40 – 01:14:43:	And so it's interesting when you hear Spanish Inquisition, you think one is terrible.

01:14:44 – 01:14:49:	And when you hear that they were targeting Jews, you think, well, that must mean they were going

01:14:49 – 01:14:55:	after all Jews. No, it was saying, if you claim to be a Christian and your ancestry is Jewish,

01:14:55 – 01:14:59:	we want to make sure you're actually Christian. Because the false Christians,

01:15:00 – 01:15:05:	they knew from experience from things like the gates of Toledo, that if you have a group of

01:15:05 – 01:15:10:	these Jews in your country pretending to be on your side, at some point, there's a very good

01:15:10 – 01:15:15:	chance they're going to stab you in the back. And so it was wisdom on the part of the Roman

01:15:15 – 01:15:21:	Catholic Church, which a couple of Lutherans saying this, like, we're not fans of these guys

01:15:21 – 01:15:26:	in principle. But as a matter of managing a country, it's also a separate question,

01:15:26 – 01:15:31:	which of this should be church authority versus state authority? And frankly,

01:15:31 – 01:15:36:	that's why they didn't go after the Jews and the Muslims who were practicing openly.

01:15:36 – 01:15:39:	This was specifically within the church. That's where the Inquisition had its power.

01:15:39 – 01:15:44:	It wasn't principally, even in this case, a political matter. It was one of purifying the

01:15:44 – 01:15:52:	church of false converts. And so, yes, again, there was a diaspora from there because some

01:15:52 – 01:15:58:	were found out. You hear the story, oh, they were looking for crypto Jews. Did they find any?

01:15:58 – 01:16:03:	Yes, they found a lot of them and a lot more fled people who had said, yes, I'm Christian. I used

01:16:03 – 01:16:08:	to be Jewish, but my family was Jewish. I'm Christian now. As soon as the Spanish Inquisition began,

01:16:08 – 01:16:16:	they fled. Why would a Christian leave? It's obvious that the Spanish Inquisition worked,

01:16:16 – 01:16:22:	which is why it's one of those things that has such a bad brand today. It's something, again,

01:16:22 – 01:16:28:	it's a punchline. It's a punchline because it was sold to us as a punchline by the people that it was

01:16:28 – 01:16:40:	going after. Notably, that took place after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. That was one

01:16:40 – 01:16:46:	of the early things that the Christian rulers did after they had reconquered Spain in March

01:16:46 – 01:16:51:	of the same year that they actually drove the Muslims out. They issued the edict,

01:16:51 – 01:16:59:	expelling notably practicing Jews. Jews who had converted, actually converted to Christianity

01:16:59 – 01:17:03:	were not expelled. It was only practicing Jews. They were expelling pagans. They were doing

01:17:03 – 01:17:09:	something that is entirely within the rights and, in fact, the duty of a Christian ruler.

01:17:11 – 01:17:17:	We will have a link in the show notes to a list of 1,030 expulsions of the Jews

01:17:17 – 01:17:23:	from both countries and regions and towns. There are dates and places and you can

01:17:24 – 01:17:28:	see some patterns in different places. At some point, they're expelled from Germany.

01:17:28 – 01:17:34:	At some point, they were expelled from England. It happened over and over again. I think one of the,

01:17:36 – 01:17:40:	as we mentioned earlier, one of the themes that I hope you'll get a sense of is

01:17:40 – 01:17:47:	if a particular group of people continually gets expelled by everyone that they encounter,

01:17:47 – 01:17:53:	at some point, you have to stop wondering why are they persecuting the Jews and start wondering,

01:17:53 – 01:17:58:	what is it about these people that no one wants to live around them? If you have a kid who gets

01:17:58 – 01:18:04:	expelled from 109 schools, at some point, you stop wondering if there's a problem with the school

01:18:04 – 01:18:10:	and start wondering maybe there's a problem with the kid. That's why this pattern is interesting,

01:18:10 – 01:18:18:	everywhere they went, eventually they wore out their welcome. There are other diaspora populations

01:18:18 – 01:18:24:	in history. There are other places where we've had cities and concentrations of a majority

01:18:24 – 01:18:29:	race and then a minority race. By and large, they've coexisted. There have obviously been

01:18:29 – 01:18:36:	flare-ups in places, but the only race in human history that has had this particular pattern

01:18:36 – 01:18:43:	is the Jews. It's okay to say that. It's okay to look and say, I wonder why this historical fact

01:18:43 – 01:18:49:	is true. I hope that as Corey and I are discussing these subjects in general, you can get the sense

01:18:49 – 01:18:54:	that it's possible to talk about facts without hating people. That's one of the tricks that's

01:18:54 – 01:19:00:	been played. When something gets categorized as racism and hatred, what does that do? It just

01:19:00 – 01:19:04:	means you can't talk about anything. We're just talking about history here. We're talking about

01:19:04 – 01:19:09:	historical facts, things that happened in our own homelands. Europe is our homeland, not Spain

01:19:09 – 01:19:16:	in particular. I have one Spanish ancestor from the third century, but he was a Roman consul who

01:19:16 – 01:19:21:	ruled part of Judea at the very end of the Roman Empire. I only know that because I think he was

01:19:21 – 01:19:26:	one of Charlemagne's ancestors. If you're Western European, you're descended from that guy too,

01:19:26 – 01:19:33:	so you have a drop of Spanish blood. The point is that Christians can speak faithfully without

01:19:33 – 01:19:41:	engaging in hate, without engaging in slander or desiring un-Christian outcomes by talking about

01:19:41 – 01:19:47:	historical facts and then looking at the present because the Jews today claim all of this. They

01:19:47 – 01:19:53:	claim that these are their people. They claim all of these events and say, that's us because they

01:19:53 – 01:19:59:	want to subscribe to the persecution, to the eternal victimhood of having been hated wherever

01:19:59 – 01:20:04:	they went and saying, oh, poor us. I believe that most of my life, like, okay, wow, I mean,

01:20:04 – 01:20:08:	some people get a raw deal. I think we all know somebody who just keeps getting kicked.

01:20:08 – 01:20:13:	It happens sometimes. It's not necessarily that person's fault, but when the preponderance of

01:20:13 – 01:20:18:	evidence is so overwhelming, at some point, it's okay to just say what's really going on here.

01:20:18 – 01:20:24:	That's why we began in Scripture with this. As we see, the intersection between Jewish

01:20:24 – 01:20:30:	malfeasance and Christian rulers trying to be faithful and ruling their lands is overwhelming.

01:20:30 – 01:20:35:	It's the constant pattern. As Corey said earlier, as we said, we're talking about the Muslims and

01:20:35 – 01:20:41:	the Jews. Whenever there's a Jew in the picture and there's a Christian in the picture, the Christian

01:20:41 – 01:20:48:	is going to end up on the short end of the stick. That's the pattern. We don't have to

01:20:48 – 01:20:53:	project into the future and say, all of this is always going to happen forever. We can say,

01:20:53 – 01:20:58:	wherever these people are, the same thing keeps happening. That's a fact. It's possible and

01:20:58 – 01:21:03:	permissible for a Christian to learn something from that and say, you know what, if the same

01:21:03 – 01:21:09:	people keep doing something, maybe I need to look. If we do 35 episodes and a dozen of them

01:21:09 – 01:21:13:	point specifically to Jews who've caused horrific problems that were bad enough that we needed to

01:21:13 – 01:21:20:	talk about in an episode, that's not us doing a podcast about Jews. That's doing a podcast about

01:21:20 – 01:21:27:	Christian issues. When Jews keep turning up, that becomes a Christian issue. What we do in

01:21:27 – 01:21:34:	response is also a Christian issue. You cannot hate people. You can't despise people. You can't

01:21:34 – 01:21:41:	malign people, but you can and must deal with them as they are. When people to this day dance in the

01:21:41 – 01:21:48:	blood of Christ, that's not only a religious matter, but it's also a political matter in the

01:21:48 – 01:21:53:	event that you actually have a Christian nation. Obviously, we don't today. We'll probably get into

01:21:53 – 01:22:00:	the history of why that is at some point. I hope that by presenting these topics in a calm and

01:22:00 – 01:22:06:	polite fashion, we can get across that these forbidden subjects have been forbidden for a

01:22:06 – 01:22:11:	reason. When you actually tell someone the history of what happened, it completely changes your

01:22:11 – 01:22:16:	perspective on the question. Just changing the perspective is the point. I don't want anyone

01:22:16 – 01:22:21:	to conclude that I want to go out and hurt a group of people. I don't want others to think

01:22:21 – 01:22:27:	that. I do want people to understand that when something keeps happening, we can expect that

01:22:27 – 01:22:33:	maybe in the future, we should be aware of that. That's all. That's common sense. It's wisdom,

01:22:33 – 01:22:38:	and it's frankly love for our own neighbors. It's love for our own blood to make sure that

01:22:38 – 01:22:44:	these things don't happen to our people. To be clear, because this question will definitely come up

01:22:44 – 01:22:51:	if we do not address it right now. You are not permitted as a Christian to hate someone

01:22:51 – 01:23:00:	on the basis of race, which is what Wojus said. However, you are required as a Christian to hate

01:23:00 – 01:23:08:	God's enemies. There's a distinction there. Just like Scripture tells us to turn the other

01:23:08 – 01:23:14:	cheek, we can get into the exegesis of that exactly what it means. But there are lines here.

01:23:14 – 01:23:17:	There are different categories, and it is important to keep them clear. For instance,

01:23:17 – 01:23:24:	if you are persecuted on the basis of your faith, you are to bear up under that persecution.

01:23:25 – 01:23:33:	That is a trial, and it is your duty to withstand that trial, to suffer for the gospel,

01:23:33 – 01:23:40:	to bear your cross. However, in the political realm, if you have people invading your country

01:23:40 – 01:23:44:	and causing problems, that's a political question. That's an entirely different

01:23:44 – 01:23:48:	matter. You're not turning the other cheek there, because there you have duties,

01:23:48 – 01:23:51:	particularly as a man, to defend your family and your nation.

01:23:53 – 01:23:57:	When it comes to personal enemies, you really shouldn't have a personal enemy.

01:23:57 – 01:24:01:	I've said before, I don't have any personal enemies. I absolutely mean that.

01:24:01 – 01:24:09:	I don't have anyone I consider a personal enemy. However, you most certainly do have enemies as a

01:24:09 – 01:24:15:	Christian. The world is your enemy. Satan is your enemy. The fallen flesh is your enemy.

01:24:16 – 01:24:22:	Those who stand against God are your enemy, and that is right, and you are to hate them.

01:24:23 – 01:24:26:	In the words of Scripture, you are to have a perfect hatred for them.

01:24:26 – 01:24:32:	I think probably the best example of that in this case is learning about this,

01:24:32 – 01:24:39:	is what we'll probably wind up with here, the trial of the Talmud, or the disputation of Paris,

01:24:39 – 01:24:50:	under King Louis IX in 1240, when a former Jew named Nicholas Donan came forward and said,

01:24:50 – 01:24:54:	I used to be a Jew, now I'm a Christian, let me tell you what's in the Talmud.

01:24:55 – 01:25:01:	Effectively, the response from Louis, I should have said Louis, not Louis, King Louis,

01:25:02 – 01:25:09:	and the other people even in the church was, what's the Talmud? They knew that it existed,

01:25:09 – 01:25:14:	and they knew that it was interpretive of the Tanakh of the Old Testament,

01:25:14 – 01:25:22:	but they didn't know its contents. What happened was this man put forth 35 separate

01:25:22 – 01:25:27:	elements of the Talmud and said, this is blasphemous, this is evil, this is what these

01:25:27 – 01:25:31:	people are teaching in their synagogues, in secret, which incidentally is something that

01:25:31 – 01:25:36:	Chrysostom had been complaining about 900 years previously. He was no fan of synagogues because

01:25:36 – 01:25:42:	of what went on in it. I think that's one of the tricks that gets played when all these questions

01:25:42 – 01:25:47:	are framed in terms of so-called antisemitism. Suddenly, it just becomes something you have

01:25:47 – 01:25:52:	to flee from without even looking at what you were trying to address in the first place.

01:25:52 – 01:25:58:	Chrysostom gets called the arch antisemite and the one who turned Christians against the Jews.

01:26:00 – 01:26:04:	Chrysostom was honest about what they were teaching in synagogues, and then 900 years later,

01:26:04 – 01:26:11:	when Donan came forward and said before King Louis IX, here is what is going on in the Talmud,

01:26:11 – 01:26:15:	here's what these people are preaching and teaching in secret, because at the time,

01:26:15 – 01:26:20:	the Talmud only existed in Aramaic or Hebrew. I don't know which one they were using at the time,

01:26:20 – 01:26:25:	but no one read it unless they were Hebrew. It was only because he had been raised a Jew

01:26:26 – 01:26:30:	that he was able to translate, and he did. That is when the real problem started,

01:26:30 – 01:26:38:	because the Christians knew that, yes, the Jews were not saved. They knew that they were of a

01:26:38 – 01:26:43:	different religion, but they believed essentially the Judeo-Christian myth. They believed that these

01:26:43 – 01:26:49:	Jews who claim the Old Testament and ignore the new, they're still pretty okay people. Maybe they

01:26:49 – 01:26:54:	have some issues, but we can coexist with them. They're not an immediate threat to Christianity.

01:26:54 – 01:26:59:	What came out in the trial of the Talmud was that the contents of the Talmud itself are

01:26:59 – 01:27:04:	utter blasphemy. They're not only utter blasphemy, but they're a direct political threat to Christians.

01:27:05 – 01:27:10:	It talks about things that are political, not simply religious matters. It says you can lie,

01:27:10 – 01:27:16:	you can cheat, you can murder a Gentile, the Goyim, us. If you're not a Jew, the rules for

01:27:17 – 01:27:23:	what is legal, some of them just go away. Those were the practices that they had always held,

01:27:23 – 01:27:28:	because those are their teachings. The Talmud and before that, the Mishnah, when it was oral and not

01:27:28 – 01:27:35:	written, said, here's what the scriptures actually teach, here's what the law actually says. They

01:27:35 – 01:27:41:	were teaching, and to this day teach in the Talmud, that the law permits horrific abuses and in some

01:27:41 – 01:27:49:	cases murder of Christians and other non-Jews just because they're not. As that was exposed,

01:27:50 – 01:27:56:	this was in many ways the beginning of a lot of the real problems for Jews in Europe. Now,

01:27:56 – 01:28:00:	it wasn't that there was false preaching, and it wasn't there was preaching of hatred.

01:28:00 – 01:28:04:	It was simply that a man who knew what they were preaching and saying in secret

01:28:04 – 01:28:08:	stood up and said, hey, did you know they're saying this stuff? And when Christians heard it,

01:28:08 – 01:28:15:	they were incensed, justifiably so. To be clear, we haven't even said some of the worst things that

01:28:15 – 01:28:22:	are in the Talmud. Maybe eventually we'll get around to an episode on some of the actual contents

01:28:22 – 01:28:27:	of those volumes, and it is in fact more wicked than you imagine, unless you've spent time looking

01:28:27 – 01:28:36:	into it. This is a good point. This is a good place to note. There are basically no other

01:28:36 – 01:28:44:	people on the planet who hold a grudge as well as the Jews. That is just simply a fact. That is not

01:28:45 – 01:28:50:	saying something mean or pejorative or wrong about them. They hold a grudge.

01:28:51 – 01:28:57:	They hate. It's kind of impressive. It almost is, because it's generational over centuries.

01:28:58 – 01:29:04:	Yeah. The dedication is impressive. And part of the reason that they hate him,

01:29:05 – 01:29:13:	you need to have an idea of what exactly was done here. One, it was conducted in an entirely fair

01:29:13 – 01:29:21:	manner, because this was held as a trial of the Talmud before the king. Four rabbis were allowed

01:29:21 – 01:29:24:	to defend the Talmud against the accusations of Donin.

01:29:26 – 01:29:33:	They failed. They did not convince the king at all. And so he ordered the copies of the Talmud

01:29:33 – 01:29:41:	to be rounded up and burned. They filled 24 carriages full of these. Now keep in mind,

01:29:41 – 01:29:49:	this is in 1240. These were all produced by hand, painstakingly produced by hand.

01:29:49 – 01:29:51:	These were extremely expensive.

01:29:53 – 01:30:01:	The king burned in one afternoon, the equivalent of the entire wealth of a major noble. That's

01:30:01 – 01:30:08:	probably about the value of what was burned. This was not a minor matter. And he basically wiped out

01:30:08 – 01:30:13:	the Talmud in Paris. Obviously, they had some hidden copies and they had things other places

01:30:13 – 01:30:21:	and they reproduced them, unfortunately. They still hate him to this day because of this.

01:30:21 – 01:30:28:	And another thing that is notable is where these volumes were burned. They were burned

01:30:28 – 01:30:34:	in front of Notre Dame. You may remember that not that long ago, Notre Dame caught fire.

01:30:35 – 01:30:37:	If you happen to be on social media at the time,

01:30:37 – 01:30:42:	you may remember that Jews were celebrating. They were celebrating because of this.

01:30:43 – 01:30:46:	In part, yes, because a church burned and they hate Christianity, they hate Christ,

01:30:46 – 01:30:54:	they hate the church. But it was partly because of a generational grudge held against King Louis

01:30:54 – 01:30:55:	for burning the Talmud.

01:30:58 – 01:31:02:	There are no other people on this planet who do that for that long,

01:31:02 – 01:31:04:	for a thousand years, nearly.

01:31:05 – 01:31:11:	Yeah, it's incredible. In 2020, a few people may remember that there were, as part of some of the,

01:31:11 – 01:31:17:	we need to destroy these statues of oppression protests. There were counter-protests in front

01:31:17 – 01:31:23:	of a statue of King Louis in St. Louis. In this country, there's a big, beautiful statue of him

01:31:23 – 01:31:28:	on horseback. There were people there. There were a number of Catholics there, commendably

01:31:28 – 01:31:32:	defending the statue, standing around and praying, and there were a bunch of protesters.

01:31:33 – 01:31:38:	This received worldwide attention, particularly from the Jewish press, which, while it's redundant

01:31:38 – 01:31:45:	at some point, particularly Jewish telegraph agency, J-post, all the actual Jewish-focused

01:31:45 – 01:31:50:	Jewish media outlets paid attention to this, and they all specifically mentioned the trial of the

01:31:50 – 01:31:57:	Talmud. Over 750 years after that happened, they still hate this man so much, that one of the

01:31:57 – 01:32:02:	statues that's important for them to tear down is the statue of King Louis in St. Louis. It's a

01:32:02 – 01:32:09:	long way from France, but it's a man who kicked them in the teeth and did damage to them because

01:32:09 – 01:32:15:	not only was there the immense destruction of wealth and the setback to them in terms of being

01:32:15 – 01:32:22:	able to spread their lies and their filth, but it exposed it because by having this very public

01:32:22 – 01:32:29:	trial, suddenly everyone knew, and this was not the last trial of the Talmud. In Barcelona,

01:32:29 – 01:32:35:	the Talmud was burned in the year 1263. The next year, Pope Clement IV decreed that any person caught

01:32:35 – 01:32:42:	with a copy in his possession be put to death in 1299 and 1309. The Talmud was publicly burned in

01:32:42 – 01:32:49:	Paris. In 1322, by order of Pope John XXII, the Talmud was again publicly burned. In 1415,

01:32:49 – 01:32:55:	Pope Martin V ordered that all copies be destroyed. During the Spanish Inquisition in 1490,

01:32:55 – 01:33:03:	Torquemata destroyed large-scale burnings of the Talmud. This caught on, and when a Jew tells

01:33:03 – 01:33:09:	the story, they say, oh, there is this European hatred of Jews, it was so unfair. The actual story

01:33:09 – 01:33:15:	was that for the first time since the Talmud had been written down, since it translated from the

01:33:15 – 01:33:20:	secret teachings of the Mishnah, which were orally transmitted from rabbi to rabbi,

01:33:21 – 01:33:26:	from teacher to teacher, Pharisee to Pharisee, whatever, when it became, when they shifted

01:33:26 – 01:33:30:	to the rabbinic school and they recorded the Talmud and started putting all this stuff down,

01:33:30 – 01:33:36:	it was still not until 1240 that any of it had been translated into a language that a Christian

01:33:36 – 01:33:41:	could read. So 1240 is effectively the first time that Christians had any idea what Jews had been

01:33:41 – 01:33:46:	up to for over 1200 years. And longer than that, because frankly, when you look at the stuff in

01:33:46 – 01:33:51:	there, I believe them that the Talmud includes things that had been taught by the Pharisees in

01:33:51 – 01:33:57:	the centuries preceding Christ, not all of them, because there were some believers among the Jews

01:33:57 – 01:34:05:	in that day. So there were indeed Christians who were believing the scripture and not believing

01:34:05 – 01:34:11:	the Talmud. In fact, this man himself was one of them. The story of his life was that he

01:34:12 – 01:34:17:	believed the Old Testament and he rejected the Talmud, and that's how he ended up getting

01:34:17 – 01:34:22:	excommunicated from his Jewish community and ended up becoming Christian sometime later,

01:34:22 – 01:34:26:	or maybe he was Christian first, but never any event. He was convinced not only by

01:34:27 – 01:34:34:	the veracity of the Tanakh, but by the evil of the Talmud that Christianity had to be the true

01:34:34 – 01:34:39:	religion. He came to faith by despising what was written in the Talmud, and so for him it was a

01:34:39 – 01:34:46:	matter of conscience to tell other Christians, here's what's in this thing. And I think that's

01:34:46 – 01:34:51:	why I think that's such a perfect microcosm of this whole question. When we talk about Jews,

01:34:51 – 01:34:56:	what's going on? Is it people spreading lies and hatred, or is it people telling the truth,

01:34:56 – 01:35:03:	and then Christians having a righteous response to evil? It has nothing to do with their genetics,

01:35:03 – 01:35:08:	as far as we're concerned. I don't care who they are or what they are. I care about evil,

01:35:08 – 01:35:15:	and if I find that wherever I see evil in my own society, I can dig for not more than 30 seconds

01:35:15 – 01:35:19:	and find Jews behind it. When we're told they're only 2% of the population,

01:35:19 – 01:35:25:	at some point that matters to Christians. I hate evil. God commands me to hate evil.

01:35:25 – 01:35:29:	God is in my heart. I hate evil. It's got nothing to do with the people who are perpetrating it.

01:35:30 – 01:35:36:	Corey and I have both been personal victims of tremendous evil just in the last couple months.

01:35:36 – 01:35:40:	I don't bear a grudge against any of the men who participated in doxing me,

01:35:40 – 01:35:44:	or any of the other harmful things that they've attempted to do. I don't bear a grudge. I pity

01:35:44 – 01:35:52:	them. And I ask God for my sake, not to punish them. They're unrepentant. They hate God with

01:35:52 – 01:35:59:	all their hearts. They're going to burn in hell, because regardless of what I do to seek God to

01:35:59 – 01:36:04:	forgive them for their sins against me, they hate him. And God will sort that out in his time. So

01:36:04 – 01:36:09:	men like Corey and me who are Christians, when we are actual victims of actual persecution,

01:36:09 – 01:36:13:	we don't need to bear a grudge, because we know the vengeance is God's.

01:36:13 – 01:36:20:	He's going to do a more perfect job of causing vengeance than we could ever imagine. I'm not

01:36:20 – 01:36:24:	going to sit around thinking about vengeance, because I don't need to. God will take care of it

01:36:24 – 01:36:30:	perfectly. And if that means that by some miracle, these men come to faith and become

01:36:30 – 01:36:35:	Christians, in some case again, thank God, I'd love to see him in heaven, and hope we can laugh

01:36:35 – 01:36:39:	about how stupid it was that they would try to dox and murder someone for a podcast,

01:36:39 – 01:36:47:	because it is really stupid. It's sad. But I'm not mad about it. That is a Christian response.

01:36:47 – 01:36:51:	These people have a different response. Someone tells the truth about them in its

01:36:51 – 01:36:56:	centuries and millennia of murder. That's a spiritual fruit. And to go back to what

01:36:56 – 01:37:03:	we were saying earlier on, the quotes from Jesus, John 8.44, Revelation 2.9, Revelation 3.9,

01:37:04 – 01:37:09:	these are the synagogue of Satan. They're the congregation of Satan. They're Satan's children,

01:37:09 – 01:37:14:	particularly. This isn't something that was said of the Greeks in that day, who were pagans,

01:37:14 – 01:37:20:	or the Romans who were pagans. They were worshiping demons as well. And yet they were not called

01:37:20 – 01:37:27:	children of Satan by God's prophet, by Paul, or by Jesus himself. It was specifically the Jews

01:37:27 – 01:37:34:	who were called the children of Satan. And so for 3,500 years, we have them practicing black magic

01:37:34 – 01:37:40:	and worshiping demons, intermittently in some cases, and some have repented and become Christian.

01:37:40 – 01:37:47:	Again, it's just as we talked last week about how salvation does not come through DNA. It comes

01:37:47 – 01:37:53:	through faith. The opposite is also true. Although a generational curse was called down by those Jews

01:37:53 – 01:37:59:	upon every Jew since then, anyone who is covered in the blood of Christ in righteousness and

01:37:59 – 01:38:05:	forgiveness, their sins are wiped away. They cease to be a Jew and they have access to salvation by

01:38:05 – 01:38:10:	God's mercy. That's what I wish for everyone. These are such stupid things for people to go to

01:38:10 – 01:38:16:	hell for, and they will, and they do. That's terrible. Being mad at a dead king from France

01:38:17 – 01:38:24:	and burning in hell because of your hatred, what a stupid thing. What a stupid thing. What a hopelessly

01:38:24 – 01:38:31:	foolish thing. My response is just, well, I would beg them to stop, but I know they won't because

01:38:31 – 01:38:35:	that's the point. They've been doing it for thousands of years. They're not going to stop.

01:38:35 – 01:38:40:	So we as Christians, when we have these people in our lands, have to find Christian ways of dealing

01:38:40 – 01:38:46:	with evil. That's part of why we focused in some cases on talking about things like Christian

01:38:46 – 01:38:52:	nationalism, about the fact that individuals like Cory and I have no duty. We have no vocation to

01:38:52 – 01:38:58:	fix these problems. We do have a vocation to tell the truth about them, to tell the truth about

01:38:58 – 01:39:05:	everything. It's not like we just want to talk about black people or Jews or DNA or

01:39:05 – 01:39:10:	whatever. I find these topics tedious. But at the same time, they're important because they're

01:39:10 – 01:39:15:	forbidden. When something is forbidden and it's forbidden against Christians when it's true,

01:39:16 – 01:39:22:	that's where the investigation needs to be kicked off. It's not for the sake of the titillating

01:39:22 – 01:39:27:	factor of some forbidden knowledge. This is not occult knowledge. It's simply people are up to

01:39:27 – 01:39:32:	no good. Christians need to know about that in our lives, in our communities, and as they're

01:39:32 – 01:39:39:	influencing us. If you know that every drop of media that you consume has been created by people

01:39:39 – 01:39:45:	who hate God and hate you and want you destroyed, maybe it changes some of your consumer habits.

01:39:45 – 01:39:52:	That's salutary. That's it. As far as what a prince does, a godly prince, that's neither of us.

01:39:52 – 01:39:57:	That's not our problem. That's not our purview. But telling other Christians to beware of evil

01:39:57 – 01:40:02:	is every Christian's duty. A Christian who fails to warn another Christian about evil

01:40:02 – 01:40:07:	is failing to be Christian. It's got nothing to do with name calling or hatred or anything else.

01:40:07 – 01:40:12:	It's saying, if there's evil in your midst, beware and deal with it in a Christian way.

01:40:14 – 01:40:23:	I want to emphasize that point about relative percentages. If you are dealing with a population,

01:40:23 – 01:40:30:	let's say it's made up of two different groups, A and B, and you have some bad thing that happens

01:40:30 – 01:40:39:	at a rate of 10% in your population. If 5% is from group A and 5% is from group B,

01:40:40 – 01:40:45:	you don't need to look at either group specifically. You look at the problem and try to address the

01:40:45 – 01:40:55:	problem. The root causes whatever they happen to be. If, in the alternative, 90% of that 10%

01:40:55 – 01:41:03:	problem occurs with group A, it is warranted to take a particular look at group A and what

01:41:03 – 01:41:08:	group A is doing with its time, why you have this problem in this particular group.

01:41:10 – 01:41:22:	An example of this would be in the US, according to NIH data, 60 to 75% of new HIV cases every year

01:41:22 – 01:41:32:	are amongst homosexual men, among sodomites. You should probably look at that because they are

01:41:32 – 01:41:38:	less than 10% significantly less than 10% in the older generations. There are some very real

01:41:38 – 01:41:42:	problems with the younger generations, although there are some self-reporting errors, but they

01:41:42 – 01:41:48:	are significantly less than 10% of the population. They should not be three-quarters of those who

01:41:48 – 01:41:53:	are diagnosed with this particular disease, except of course we know that it is due to their

01:41:53 – 01:42:00:	behavior. And so it is warranted to look at the behavior of that group and see why in this case

01:42:01 – 01:42:05:	this particular consequence of a particular kind of sin is affecting them.

01:42:07 – 01:42:11:	When it comes to the Jews, as was mentioned, they are about 2% of the US population.

01:42:12 – 01:42:17:	Depends where you are, they congregate in various areas. I could name them, but most likely you

01:42:17 – 01:42:26:	know them. If you find them at the root of almost every problem, major societal problem we have

01:42:26 – 01:42:31:	been discussing so far, if you find them at the root of the so-called Civil Rights Act, if you find

01:42:31 – 01:42:36:	them at the root of feminism, if you find them at the root of abolitionism, if you find them at the

01:42:36 – 01:42:42:	root of atheism, if you find them at the root of all of the court attempts to remove God from our

01:42:42 – 01:42:48:	public life, if you find them in the cases that legalized abortion and homosexual marriage so

01:42:48 – 01:42:55:	called, and all of these various other things, and they're 2% of the population, it is warranted

01:42:55 – 01:43:03:	to look more closely at what they are doing. That's akin to what happened in the disputation

01:43:03 – 01:43:10:	of Paris. Donine came to the king, obviously came to someone under the king first, you don't just

01:43:10 – 01:43:16:	walk up to the king, but Donine got this information to the king about what the Jews were doing,

01:43:17 – 01:43:22:	and so given the information about what was going on, it was warranted for him as a Christian,

01:43:22 – 01:43:25:	particularly as a Christian ruler, to investigate what was happening.

01:43:27 – 01:43:35:	All we're doing in this episode and so many others is looking at the facts through a Christian lens,

01:43:36 – 01:43:42:	comparing what we see in the world to what we see in scripture, what scripture commands us to do,

01:43:42 – 01:43:47:	and what we as a people are doing, what we as a church are doing, and what others out in the world,

01:43:47 – 01:43:54:	as their various groups are doing. If you find a group that is continually opposed to the church,

01:43:54 – 01:43:59:	that is continually opposed to God, that hates God with a hatred, you probably

01:43:59 – 01:44:05:	couldn't manage to summon for your worst enemy if you happen to have a personal enemy, not to

01:44:05 – 01:44:13:	resurrect that topic again. If you keep finding the same group, they warrant additional scrutiny.

01:44:14 – 01:44:21:	And as we have demonstrated conclusively, when you look at these problems, you keep finding Jews.

01:44:23 – 01:44:28:	We're not saying it's because of their ethnicity, because of their DNA. We're not saying it's because

01:44:28 – 01:44:34:	of race. Now, there may be some predilections there that play into it, because obviously,

01:44:34 – 01:44:40:	as we went over in the episodes on race, genetics affects certain personality characteristics,

01:44:40 – 01:44:45:	certain attributes, and those do play into things. For instance, you have more neuroticism amongst

01:44:45 – 01:44:49:	the Jewish population. That's not a stereotype. I mean, it is a stereotype, but it's also just

01:44:49 – 01:44:56:	statistically true. As I've mentioned before, I used to do psychology. So I have studied these

01:44:56 – 01:45:02:	things. You have certain psychological ailments that are more common in various populations,

01:45:02 – 01:45:07:	and so that does play into some of this in some ways. But when it comes to the Jews,

01:45:08 – 01:45:14:	the biggest thing is that they have maintained this particular wickedness over a course of centuries

01:45:16 – 01:45:20:	because they rejected Christ. That was the big inflection point. Yes, before that,

01:45:20 – 01:45:25:	they had all the times they were apostate and worshiped demons and sacrificed their children

01:45:25 – 01:45:30:	and hated God, and God killed many of them with disease and all sorts of other things.

01:45:32 – 01:45:39:	But it was really in Pilate's courtyard that they solidified their opposition to God by rejecting

01:45:39 – 01:45:47:	Christ, by crying out for him to be crucified, and choosing Barabbas, the son of the Father,

01:45:47 – 01:45:53:	because that's of course what Barabbas means, over the Son of Man, over the only begotten Son of God.

01:45:55 – 01:46:02:	And from that point, they have just doubled down again and again and again. When the temple

01:46:02 – 01:46:08:	was destroyed, they ran into the synagogues. Instead of having the sacrifices at the temple,

01:46:08 – 01:46:15:	because of course those were done, that prefigured Christ. With Christ's once-for-all sacrifice,

01:46:15 – 01:46:21:	the animal sacrifices were done. The temple is gone. That was God's point in utterly destroying it.

01:46:21 – 01:46:28:	Well, they ran into the synagogues. And so instead, now they have rabbis who teach

01:46:29 – 01:46:34:	not so much out of Scripture as out of what? Their interpretation of Scripture.

01:46:35 – 01:46:40:	But one of the most famous sayings about the Talmud, and this is a saying from Jews,

01:46:40 – 01:46:45:	this is not a saying Christians created, this is one of their own sayings. What the Torah forbids,

01:46:46 – 01:46:52:	Talmud permits. That's what they've done with the Talmud. They have inverted Scripture, inverted

01:46:52 – 01:47:00:	God's truth, and created a wicked satanic religion that is explicitly, vehemently,

01:47:00 – 01:47:06:	and virulently opposed to God and His Church. And they are not getting better with the centuries,

01:47:07 – 01:47:14:	because as we have pointed out before, if you continue longitudinally, and this is the case

01:47:14 – 01:47:20:	for an individual life, or for a nation, if you continue to worship demons, you will get worse.

01:47:22 – 01:47:29:	A man who engages in sexual sins in his youth can turn his life around. A man who does it for

01:47:29 – 01:47:38:	fifty years is very unlikely to do so. A people who worship demons for one generation can maybe turn

01:47:38 – 01:47:44:	that around. Perhaps their children turn back to the Lord God. But a people who worship demons

01:47:44 – 01:47:50:	over a course of thousands of years are very unlikely to change that behavior.

01:47:50 – 01:47:58:	And that is exactly what we see here. We can see the same pattern playing out over and over and over

01:47:58 – 01:48:04:	again. And apparently we as Christians learn very slowly. Or just forget our history and have to

01:48:04 – 01:48:09:	learn the lesson the hard way again. Because we're having the same problems today

01:48:11 – 01:48:17:	that Christian Europe had in the middle of the 1900s. They were having the same problems then

01:48:17 – 01:48:23:	that Europe had earlier in the 1800s. They were having the same problems then that Europe had

01:48:23 – 01:48:27:	in centuries past. And they were having the same problems then that the Roman Empire had.

01:48:27 – 01:48:35:	And it just keeps going. We don't have to repeat history. We don't have to learn

01:48:35 – 01:48:41:	the same lesson over and over and over again. If you have a low hanging part of your ceiling in

01:48:41 – 01:48:46:	your house, how many times do you have to smack your head before you learn to duck?

01:48:48 – 01:48:55:	As Christians, we are told to be wise. We're not told to be foolish anywhere. Being foolish

01:48:55 – 01:49:00:	is wrongful. Being foolish can be a sin. Don't be a fool. We are told to be wise.

01:49:01 – 01:49:06:	We have all this information at our disposal. Nothing we have said in this episode is particularly

01:49:06 – 01:49:12:	difficult to find. None of it is going to be difficult to verify. Yes, it takes some effort and

01:49:12 – 01:49:18:	some background knowledge in order to synthesize the material. But it's all out there. This is not

01:49:18 – 01:49:25:	hidden. We're not in the position of King Louis where a random former Jew comes to us and says,

01:49:25 – 01:49:33:	oh, by the way, we have access to these materials. The Talmud is online, in English. And it is

01:49:33 – 01:49:38:	actually a translation of the Talmud. They didn't play games with it. In places, it says that

01:49:38 – 01:49:44:	raping children is fine if they're under a certain age. It says that Christ is boiling an excrement.

01:49:44 – 01:49:51:	These are the kinds of things that are in there. And again, we as Christians are called to be wise

01:49:52 – 01:49:58:	because we have to protect ourselves, our families, our nation, and the church.

01:50:00 – 01:50:05:	Many of these problems have been allowed to fester for too long. And that is why we address these.

01:50:05 – 01:50:16:	It is the duty of Christian rulers to do what the Spanish did, to drive out the pagans and then to

01:50:16 – 01:50:22:	exile the pagans who will not convert. It is the duty of Christians in the church, not just pastors,

01:50:22 – 01:50:27:	not just bishops, but laymen as well, because fathers and men have duties as well in the church.

01:50:27 – 01:50:34:	It is the duty of men in the church to see the right doctrine is taught and that Christians

01:50:34 – 01:50:42:	understand these extremely salient issues. Because in the church itself, in the kingdom of the right

01:50:42 – 01:50:50:	hand, yes, it is sufficient to know right doctrine, to know the scriptures, not to believe false doctrine.

01:50:50 – 01:50:55:	But you don't exist just in the kingdom of the right hand. You also exist in the kingdom of

01:50:55 – 01:51:00:	the left hand. You have to interact in your daily life with others. You interact with the world.

01:51:00 – 01:51:06:	It is important as a Christian to know how you are to conduct yourself in both kingdoms.

01:51:06 – 01:51:13:	And is the duty of men, particularly of fathers and pastors and rulers, anyone in a position of

01:51:13 – 01:51:19:	authority, that authority having been granted by God, it is the duty of those men to address these

01:51:19 – 01:51:35:	problems. And Christians have neglected them for far too long.