No 13

(Since the Dispersion in 70 AD)

A story is told long ago about a king who had a court-jester who was a Bible-believing Christian. So, one day, the king, wanting to test his jester made the following statement : “If this Bible that you believe is so true, its proof ought to be simple. Give me only one word that proves that the Bible is true.” The jester thought it over a bit and said “I have a word that proves the Bible is true, king”. To which the king answered back : “What is this magical word? The Jew, your highness, the Jew.” The king knew the history of the Jew and he had to admit that his jester was right. When Titus, the Roman conqueror entered Israel to quell the uprising of the Jews in 70 AD, he did so with a sledgehammer. His soldiers killed, crucified and starved countless thousands of Jews for no other reason but for the fact that they were Jews. Those who managed to escape were scattered all over the world, left to the pity of the nations that would reluctantly take them in. I ask you, what nation could withstand this type of wholesale slaughter? Since the dispersion in 70 AD, the Jews had to live as immigrants in other countries. Some countries have been good to the Jews (USA, Canada) but the majority of host countries have been severely harsh to them; some to the point of trying to eliminate them completely. In a previous study (Vol 2 No 9), we looked at a verse in Jeremiah 31 that gave us the recipe for the destruction of the Jews – “If the sun, the moon and the stars were to cease and if the heavens were to be measured, then Israel would cease to exist”. We may not all agree, but the Jews are still God’s people and He has not finished with them yet.