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  JEWS AND THE PASSION FOR PALESTINE (PROPHECY)
  by Keith L. Brooks
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Brooks' study of the Jewish people and their connection to Palestine in light of
biblical prophecy, examining the prophetic significance of Zionism and Jewish
return to the land in the context of end-times expectations.

  Chapters: 10

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
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    1. 00.6-Preface
    2. 01-Prophetic Fulfillment In Our Day
    3. 02-God Has Been Taking A Hand
    4. 03-The Relentless Forces of Jew Hate
    5. 04-Anti-Semitism and the Christian
    6. 05-The Bible of Anti-Semitism
    7. 06-The Approaching Time of Trouble Unto Jacob
    8. 07-The Flame That Never Flickers
    9. 08-The Mirage of Biro-Bidjan
   10. 09-In The Words of Divine Inspiration

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  CHAPTER 1: 00.6-PREFACE
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Preface

IT WOULD be hazardous for anyone to attempt to predict the future of the United
States, Great Britain or any of the great nations of today, but one who knows
his Bible can predict, in considerable detail, the future of the Jewish people.
From beginning to end, this people has had its history already written, and in
our day its movements furnish a key with which we may unlock the meaning of
world events. Who now doubts that the World War was fought to open the way for
the Jew to return to the Holy Land, after long centuries of absence from home?
Who doubts that the Great War marked the beginning of the end of the times of
the Gentiles? The political world is in a state of utter confusion today. The
economic world is a hopeless tangle. Rulers and statesmen in every nation are
puzzled and fearful, making a desperate effort to be optimistic. In the midst of
all this confusion and uncertainty, we find the Jewish question occupying the
front pages of the papers day after day, and in diplomatic circles and halls of
government, men are debating over the question of what is to be done about the
Jew.

Some insist that the Jew is the cause of all humanity’s ills, and give
themselves vigorously to the work of spreading propaganda that must ultimately
result in open persecution and bloodshed.

There are Christians who seem to understand prophecy as teaching that we may
expect the Jew, in this age, to enslave the Gentiles and gain a stranglehold
upon all nations.

There is a pitifully small number who seek to expose the fantastic stories of
the Jew-haters and to stem the rising tide of anti-Semitism.

Nations affected by Hitlerism, seek to drive the Jews out and at the same time
use their best efforts to keep them from getting into Palestine, or to stir up
the enmity of the Arabs against those Jews who already have gained entrance to
the land.

Thus the Jew is everywhere talked about, much lied about, little prayed about.
Those who have no knowledge of prophecy foresee the time of “Jacob’s trouble”
around the corner. The discerning Bible student knows that the Jews must remain
the “tail of the nations” until the millennial age, and see no Scriptural
warrant for the fear that designing Jews are shortly to plunge the world into a
depression which will place all Gentiles at their mercy. The Author’s earnest
prayer is that these chapters may open the eyes of many to the spiritual peril
of participation in the persecution of the Jews. God grant that many shall be
stirred to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” and to show every kindness “to the
least of these,” our Lord’s brethren according to the flesh, in this hour when
they are feeling the birth pains of the nation that is yet to be.

K. L. B.

2003 Addison Way, Los Angeles, Calif.


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  CHAPTER 2: 01-PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT IN OUR DAY
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Prophetic Fulfillment In Our Day

CHAPTER ONE No MAN can dispute the fact that the position of the Jews among the
nations is without parallel or likeness in the history of mankind. The Jews were
the only people to have had their entire history written 2500 years in advance.
Yet for three-quarters of their national existence they have been without
independent national life-exiled, scattered-without obliterating a single
feature peculiar to them.

Through Jeremiah God declared: “If those ordinances depart from before me, saith
the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me
for ever” (Jeremiah 31:36); and Dr. Samuel Kellogg has said:

“There is no influence which might be supposed to tend to the utter extinction
of a people which has not been brought to bear upon the Jews with diabolical
power through the centuries as upon no other nation in history, yet they are
among us today with their national self-consciousness not in the least abated by
their age-long experience of exile, scattering and persecution.” When our Lord
put a curse upon a useless fig tree (Mark 11:13) leaving it stripped even of
leaves, He was undoubtedly acting out a parable with reference to the Jewish
people. They made great profession of spiritual fruitfulness, yet had none;
therefore, because of their rejection of Him, they have remained spiritually
barren through the ages.

NEW SHOOTS ON THE FIG TREE But the Saviour added another lesson concerning the
fig tree, when in connection with His prophecy of the end of the present age,
“And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees [Israel
standing out prominently among all the nations] When they now shoot forth, ye
see and know of your own selves that summer is now at hand.” When Israel shall
begin to bud forth nationally, at a time when there is an intensified
nationalism in the world, we may know that the Golden Age is not far off. “When
the Lord shall build up Zion He shall appear in His glory” (Psalms 102:16)

It cannot be denied that since the initiation of Zionism, Israel has been
shooting out branches. The Jews in Palestine are even now suffering the birth
pangs of a new nation in which they will one day dwell together again, ending
their wanderings.

Whether one will believe the Bible or not, the fact is that in literal accord
with its prophecies:

- The waste places of Palestine are being planted, - The land is becoming
fruitful after many centuries of barrenness. - The ancient cities are being
rebuilt, - The people are being regathered; - The stage is surely being set for
a time of trouble such as foretold.

Leaders of the nations have expressed the feeling that Palestine will become the
cockpit of a great world conflagration. As Bishop Horseley has said: “One who
denies that the Scriptures are being fulfilled is either a baby in prophecy or a
giant in effrontery.”

“ALL THINGS MORTAL BUT THE JEW”

Mark Twain, who remarked that “All things are mortal but the Jew,” could not
understand the secret of their immortality, but the student of Bible prophecy
has the answer.

The prophecies furnish us the only explanation of why this people, scattered
throughout the centuries, divided in their thinking, with no ruler, no unified
worship, persecuted, hunted and hated-cannot be assimilated and cannot be
destroyed.

They are destined to be on earth as a nation when the Messiah, who was delivered
unto death by their forefathers, returns to establish His worldwide rule.

Strange to say, the Jews, in blindness toward their own Scriptures, cannot
understand their own survival as a people. Typical of much expressed by their
leaders, The American Hebrew said:

“Surely there must be at work positive forces, the nature of which is as
baffling today as it was thousands of years ago, forces which have achieved the
unity of the Jewish people against its own will and against its own inclination
toward self-liquidation, forces that have denied the will of a hostile world
determined to disperse and exterminate it, forging a steel chain of
indestructibility about it. It is therefore not possible to explain the physical
survival of the Jews.” In the same vein The Jewish Daily Bulletin said in an
editorial:

“The phenomenon of Jewish survival remains completely incomprehensible and no
historian has yet arisen who can explain why, under the hammer blows of its long
and extraordinary history, the Jewish people has not been shattered. Every
rational explanation offered on the basis of historical events proves
unsatisfactory.” THE ONLY EXPLANATION - THE BIBLE

But, read Deuteronomy 28 or Leviticus 26 and consider God’s forecast of their
entire history to this very hour. Here the people were warned that if they
turned their backs upon the exalted spiritual privileges given them, they should
become an astonishment, a proverb and a byword among the nations. Wherever they
should be scattered, they would be unable to find rest, their lives ever hanging
in doubt. Their land should be brought into desolation after desolation and one
trouble after another should pursue them through the ages. “And yet, for all
that . . . I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them.” The promise is that eventually
their eyes should be opened and the covenant of the land should be fulfilled.

These words prove the divine inspiration of the Bible. Other scattered people
are quickly assimilated, but the Jew will remain a Jew to the end. God is not
through with the Jew, for, after passing through the predicted Great Tribulation
“The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten
before thy face.” The Lord will establish them in the land of their fathers, a
holy people unto Himself. No wonder Dr. Panton says: “Behold the Jew and believe
your Bible!” Who but God, centuries before these events occurred, could have
given us such a detailed and perfect foreview of this unique people? THE WHOLE
WORLD JEW-CONSCIOUS

What has suddenly brought the Jews to the front? Why have they for some years
been holding the front pages of the newspapers? Through the long centuries
Palestine lay waste and barren. Half starving Turks and Arabs struggled for an
existence in a land without water. Progress was impossible. In 1895, Theodore
Hertzl, moved largely by the case of Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jew who was
framed by anti-Semites, started an undertaking to get persecuted Jews into
settlements in Palestine. Baron de Rothschild, who was known as the father of
Palestine colonization, began using his millions to buy up land in Palestine for
communal centers. In this connection, an article which appeared in The Sunday
School Times in 1918, will be of interest. The paper published an article on
“Zionism and Its Realization,” by Elisho M. Friedman, secretary of the
University of Zionist Society of New York. This prominent Jew said:

“A well known Christian layman, William E. Blackstone, antedated Theodore Hertzl
by five years in the advocacy of the re-establishment of a Jewish state. His
memorial to President Harrison in 1891 was signed by churchmen, editors and
makers of public opinion. It reflects keen social foresight upon the part of the
initiator, Mr. Blackstone and his collaborators.”

However, it was not “keen social foresight” which led this beloved student of
prophecy to write of such a movement. It was a discernment of the times together
with a rich knowledge of the prophetic Word.

WHY WAS THE WORLD WAR FOUGHT? When came the crisis of the World War and it
appeared that Germany was about to sweep into London, there came forward a
British Jew, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a noted chemist of the University of
Manchester. He offered to his government his discovery of a powerful chemical,
Acetone, for use in the manufacture of explosives. He asked no money for his
discovery, but only that, should the Allies win, the British government would
use its influence to open Palestine to persecuted Jews. Said Lord Balfour: “If
the Allies win, you shall have your Palestine.”

Meantime German planes flew over London, carrying terrible gas bombs, the
invention of a German Jewish chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber. Haber also discovered the
nitrogen fixation process which made Germany independent of foreign nitrates and
able to enter the war in 1914. He was a Nobel Prize winner because of his
scientific accomplishments.

While the German Chief-of-Staff Ludendorff, a Jew hater, delayed in making
further use of this deadly gas, the Allies suddenly came against them with the
new TNT and they were driven back. Nazis now blame the Jews for the loss of the
War.

Dr. Haber, although he had contributed to Germany some of its greatest
inventions, was driven out of Germany by the Nazis. He died in Switzerland, in
1935. A library was there dedicated to his memory, the exercises being conducted
by none other than the British chemist, Dr. Weizmann, who in the meantime had
become President of the World Zionist Movement.

Why was the World War fought? It undoubtedly marked the beginning of the end of
“the times of the Gentiles” and the beginning of the building up of Zion.

Men in their ignorance of the prophetic Word may devise schemes for the
partitioning of Palestine; the Jews for the sake of getting a foothold in the
land, along with recognition as a nation, may accept some such plan, but God has
clearly spoken. He has reserved one strip of land for Israel. There is every
reason to believe that ere long Palestine shall be in fact “Eretz Israel.”


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God Has Been Taking A Hand

CHAPTER TWO

THERE ARE numerous evidences that God has taken a hand in the events that
brought the War to an end, and which have followed it in rapid succession. The
day that war broke out between Germany and England, ending the bloodless
deliverance of Jerusalem-fell on a Jewish day of mourning, Aug. 4, 1914. On that
day, the Jews mourn the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 537 B.C. and again by
Titus in A.D. 70. Jewish writers at the time commented on the coincidence and
suggested that the war might have some significance for Israel. The beginning of
the end of the War was certainly on Dec. 9, 1917, when General Allenby took
Jerusalem without firing a shot. This event again fell on the first day of the
Jewish Feast of Chanukah, or Miracles. Just 2082 years before, Judas Maccabeus
took Jerusalem, dedicated the Temple and celebrated the victory. Recall that
under the courtesy of the Turks the German Kaiser had shortly before made a
spectacular visit to Jerusalem to inspect the magnificent palace erected at the
expense of the German government for him on the slopes of the Mount of Olives.
Part of the Kaiser’s scheme for world dominion, this palace was erected at a
cost of $1,500,000. When the Turks received word that a host led by one called
“Allenby” was advancing, the name suggested to these Mohammedans: Allah
Beh-”Prophet of God.” They took this to mean that Providence was against them,
and to resist would be to resist God.

GENERAL ALLENBY LED OF GOD

Dr. A. C. Dixon, who, during the War days, was pastor of the Metropolitan
Tabernacle in London, related that when General Allenby was given his commission
to go to the Holy Land, by King George V, the General held a protracted prayer
meeting with his staff, seeking guidance as to how he should proceed.

As a result he made a decision to overcome the enemy by strategy rather than
force, as far as possible, so as not to cause destruction of the ancient relics
of Palestine.

Knowing that the primitive inhabitants were unfamiliar with airplanes, he
requisitioned a large fleet of planes. When the Turks saw these huge birds
flying over them, the forces were demoralized. Thus Isaiah 31:5 had a
fulfillment: “As birds flying, so will the Lord defend Jerusalem; defending
also, he will deliver it; and passing over, he will preserve it.” The Turks had
an ancient proverb: “Not until the Nile flows into Palestine, shall the Turk be
driven from Jerusalem.” There was not the remotest possibility of such a thing.
Yet when General Allenby’s 90,000 men fought their way north from the Suez
Canal, a long pipeline was laid to water the host. Nile water, drawn from a
canal in Egypt, was filtered at the Kantara Water Works, and then pumped
underneath the Suez Canal to reservoirs in the East bank. Here it was
chlorinated and then carried through the pipe line through two hundred miles of
arid desert into Palestine.

ALLENBY’S PROPHETIC ROLE

It is interesting to know that General Allenby, at the time he was assigned his
task in the Holy Land, had no interest in the Zionist movement, although in
later years he became a strong advocate of it. He was not at first anxious to go
to Palestine, and when transferred from the Western front, he told General de
Lisle that he was not pleased at the prospect. The big guns of the British
forces had been sunk in the Mediterranean. And who had attained any success in
trying to conquer Turks and Arabs?

General de Lisle brought out a book on prophecy, printed in the eighties, Light
For the Last Days, and showed General Allenby a chapter in which the writer,
reckoning by the year-day theory, had predicted that in 1917 Jerusalem would be
delivered from Turkish rule. Allenby was greatly interested.

It is a striking fact that when, after the War, Allenby when raised to the
peerage, chose for his title, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo. Megiddo is the Hebrew
for “Armageddon.” This indicates he felt he had played some strange prophetic
part in the march of events. In May, 1936, coinciding with the time when
Palestine again suddenly came to the front of the international stage, because
of the Arab uprisings against the Jews and the British Mandate, two prophetic
figures were taken suddenly by death, both at the age of seventy-five years.
These were Lord Allenby and Dr. Nahum Sokolow, Honorary President of the World
Zionist Movement, known as the Dean of Jewish Literature. Dr. Sokolow had much
to do with the decisions of British authorities to get back of the Palestine
movement. A NOTICE TO ALL NATIONS The prophecy of Isaiah 18:3 contains an
important notice to all the inhabitants of the world in the latter days. When an
ensign is lifted up in the mountains of Jerusalem and the ram’s horn blown, let
all the nations take notice. When the Allies granted the Palestine Mandate to
England in 1920, and Sir Herbert Samuel, himself a Hebrew, became the first High
Commissioner over Palestine in two thousand years, the flag of Judah was flown
from the tower of David and the ram’s horn sounded out over the land. The Tower
of David is a monument that has served to keep the identity of Jerusalem for
many generations. The first fortress built on this site is said to have been
built by Herod in 24 B.C. When Titus took Jerusalem in A.D. 70 he preserved the
towers, but when Julius Severus took the fortress in A.D. 135 he reduced all to
ruins. Hadrian rebuilt it, and it was demolished again in 1219. The Turks
erected it again in the sixteenth century. The present tower is four hundred
years old. From this historical site, the ram’s horn sounded forth, and the flag
of Judah flies today.

According to the prophecy important events are to follow. What has happened? The
Jews at once started to return to Palestine and organizations were formed
throughout the world to promote Palestine colonization. Within a short time, the
Jewish forces were split into quarreling factions and it appeared that Zionism
would accomplish nothing.

HITLER, THE MODERN HAMAN

Then came Adolph Hitler, the modern Haman, an inveterate Jew hater. Strange to
say, there are Christian leaders in America who have been so gullible as to be
taken in by Hitler’s anti-Jewish statistics and to glorify this “Aryomaniac” as
the Saviour of the German nation from “Jewish Communism.”

Nazi propaganda concerning the Jewish domination of Germany when Hitler came to
power, has been completely exploded. No one can estimate the depths of Hitler’s
Jew-hate who has not read his book, My Struggle, in the unexpurgated German
edition which he refuses to allow published abroad.

The Nazi persecution revived Jewish passion for racial and national solidarity.
Some of the great scientific experts of Germany, who were Jews, were driven to
Palestine to hasten the revival of the land. Stupendous engineering feats were
undertaken, great archaeological discoveries were made, and due to the influx of
Jewish medical experts, Palestine is being called the Switzerland of the East.

BIRTH PANGS OF A NEW NATION But thanks to Nazi and Communist propaganda against
the Jews in Palestine, and to anti-British propaganda there from Italy, the Jews
who have returned, find themselves in serious trouble. It has taken little to
fan the fires of the old hatred of Ishmael for Isaac. Remember that the Arabs
proudly trace their ancestry to Ishmael, the son of Hagar. The Jews have little
chance of dwelling in peace in the land while it is so largely dominated by
their ancient enemies.

“The time of Jacob’s trouble” foretold in Jeremiah 30 is not difficult to
conceive at the present time. But will the Zionist movement be stopped? We have
before us much evidence that it is God who has opened the doors to Palestine.
The door God opens cannot be closed by any man or set of men. “Here the word of
the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off and say, he that
scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his sheep”
(Jeremiah 31:10).

DEFINITE PROPHECIES FULFILLED

It is a remarkable fact that all the Jewish activity in Palestine is being
carried on in the Hebrew tongue. Fifty years ago Hebrew was but the language of
ancient literature. Today, it is spoken by ninety per cent of the Jews in
Palestine. Every Jewish child babbles in Hebrew, the signs are Hebrew, the
papers are Hebrew and the new radio stations announces, in Hebrew, every day:
“This is Jerusalem speaking.” The prophecy of Zephaniah 3:9 declares: “Then will
I turn to the people a pure language.”

“For ages the rains in Palestine have been lacking,” writes Dr. Chalmers, “so
that the crops could not be produced in their former fulness, Isaiah 5:6;
Ezekiel 22:24. Then the Lord renews the rains, according to Joel 2:23; Zechariah
10:1. It is a fact that between 1860 and 1900, the rainfall of Palestine
increased over fifty per cent, and the amount of rain equals that of London. No
wonder the land is fast becoming a garden like the Garden of Eden. We saw, in
the autumn of 1929, the marvelous orange groves in Southern Palestine, beautiful
almost beyond compare. Last year the orange crop was the greatest ever,
according to experts the most delicious oranges on earth, and over seven million
boxes (each containing seventy pounds) were shipped abroad.

MINISTERS LED OF GOD In the summer of 1917, the late Dr. F. B. Meyer became
convinced through his study of prophecy that the “times of the Gentiles” were
swiftly running out. He believed that events of tremendous import from a
prophetic standpoint were immediately at hand. Dr. Meyer called into his study a
number of leading ministers, including such men as Drs. G. Campbell Morgan, A.
C. Dixon, Stuart Holden and Dinsdale Young. In Dr. Meyer’s study on October 15,
1917, they drew up a resolution to be presented to the churches, calling for a
movement for the emphasizing of the study of prophecy. This was to be published.

Before the resolution was in type a crisis developed. The Germans were advancing
and it appeared as though the Allied cause was lost. At this time Dr. Weizmann
made his discovery known, and in return asked that the British government use
its influence to open Palestine to the Jews.

On Nov. 2, Dr. Meyer picked up his morning paper to read the famous Balfour
Declaration:

“His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jews, and will use its best endeavors to facilitate the
attainment of this object.” So startling was this in view of the document
prepared by the ministers that Dr. Meyer called the ministers again to his
study. As a result it was decided to arrange a great mass meeting in Queen’s
Hall for December 13 that people might be informed of the prophetic significance
of these things.

Four days before this meeting a miracle occurred. Allenby took Jerusalem without
firing a shot, although the Turks had put up signs on the trenches around the
Mount of Olives, saying: “No British soldier shall ever come up this hill.” In
one day, the Turkish domination of the Holy land, which had covered a period of
seven hundred thirty years, was brought to an end. The vow of the Turks that
before they would surrender they would blow up everything of value in Palestine
was thwarted.

Imagine the excitement at the great meeting in Queen’s Hall on December 13! Here
was positive proof that God had been behind the arrangement of the ministers who
had called the meeting, when there was not a probability that these dramatic
events would happen! Out of this meeting came the Advent Testimony Preparation
Movement which to this day holds its regular meetings in many of the cities of
Europe for the study of prophecy. The prophetic conference movement in the
United States also grew out of this London movement. Throughout the world, as
never before, the cry has been going forth: “Behold the Bridegroom cometh.”

ALLEGORY FROM HEBREW TALMUD An allegorical cumulative tale known as the Sephr
Haggadah is found in the Hebrew Talmud. In English, it runs as follows:

1. A kid, a kid, my father bought for two pieces of money.

2. Then came the cat and ate the kid.

3. Then came the dog and ate the cat that ate the kid.

4. Then came the staff that beat the dog, etc.

5. Then came the fire that burned the staff, etc.

6. Then came the water that quenched the fire, etc.

7. Then came the ox and drank the water, etc.

8. Then came the butcher and slew the ox, etc.

9. Then came the Angel of Death and killed the butcher, etc.

10. Then came the Holy One, blessed be He, and killed the Angel of Death who
killed the butcher, who slew the ox, that drank the water, that quenched the
fire, that burned the staff, that beat the dog, that bit the cat, that ate the
kid, that my father bought for two pieces of money. The meaning given is a
summary of Israel’s history, past, present and future, with a prophetic touch in
No. 10, remarkable considering its early date (1731). It runs:

1. The kid, as a ceremonially clean animal, represents the Hebrew race. The
Father is the Lord God. The two pieces of money are Moses and Aaron.

2. The cat represents the Assyrians who led Israel into captivity.

3. The dog is the Babylonians who conquered the Assyrians and the Jews, and took
the Jews captive.

4. The staff is the Medes and Persians who conquered Babylon.

5. The fire is the Grecian Empire that conquered Persia under Alexander the
Great.

6. The water is the Romans who conquered the Grecian Empire, including
Palestine.

7. The ox is the Saracens who subdued Palestine and drove out both Jews and
Romans.

8. The butcher is the Crusaders who fought the Saracens.

9. The angel of death is the Turkish power.

10. The Holy One is the Lord who will take vengeance on the Turks, after whose
overthrow the Jews will be restored and will shortly live under the government
of the Messiah.

WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH

Dr. W. Lamb of Australia tells of a tourist in Palestine who was walking early
one morning recently in the Mount of Olives. There he met an aged Jew. The Jew
told the visitor that every morning for four years he had gone early to the
Mount of Olives, for, he said: “We Jews believe that the time of our Messiah’s
coming is close at hand. Zechariah the Prophet told us that His feet will stand
in that day upon the Mount of Olives. I am hoping and praying that I might meet
Him here one of these mornings.”

Every orthodox Jew repeats daily the thirteen articles of faith which include
this statement: “I believe in the coming of the Messiah. Though He tarry, yet
will I wait for Him.”

What will be the surprise of the Jews when, at the end of the “time of Jacob’s
trouble” they look upon their Messiah to find that He will bear the marks of
Calvary’s wounds in His hands!


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The Relentless Forces of Jew Hate

CHAPTER THREE THE YEAR 1937 brought to a close a forty-year period of world
Zionism, a period which had its beginning in the anti-Semitism arising out of
the Dreyfus case in France, leading Theodore Hertzl to undertake his
back-to-Palestine movement. The number “forty” has always been of great
significance in Israel’s history. It is the number of years spent by the
Israelites in the desert prior to their entry to the Promised Land. Looking back
over the forty years of Zionism, one easily recognizes that this was a period of
wanderings and misfortunes for the Jews in all parts of the world. Equally clear
is the realization that the position of the Jews, today, is more precarious and
more terrifying than at any time since the first Zionist Congress was held. The
outburst of anti-Semitism deliberately cultivated by Hitler and the German
Nazis, has spread to many nations through the vigorous work of a central office
of anti-Jewish propaganda headed by Julius Streicher at Nuremberg. These offices
assemble anti-Jewish material from all parts of the world and regularly send out
the most vicious propaganda, directing the Jew-haters of the world as to the
most effective methods of carrying on their propaganda. The only hope which
today beats in the heart of the Jewish people and the only shining star in the
darkness of world Jewry is that historically sacred corner on the globe to which
the soul of this people has been linked since antiquity, Eretz Israel. AN
IMPRECATION FULFILLED As one sees this rising tide of Jew-hate sweeping over
many nations, he cannot but recall the words of the Jewish leaders of our Lord’s
day, when they delivered Him to crucifixion (Matthew 27:25). From that day to
this, they have been “an astonishment, an hissing and a curse” among the
nations. But as the age of Grace nears its close and the “time of Jacob’s
trouble” which will mark its climax, draws near, we begin to witness the
diabolical propaganda which will undoubtedly bring on the predicted time of
“great tribulation.” A recent editorial in B’nai B’rith Messenger-a Jewish
periodical, was headed: “Israel’s Crown of Thorns.” The writer pictures Israel
as ever wearing this crown, and calls attention to the words of Israel Zangwill
in his Voice of Jerusalem. Zangwill wrote of the suffering of the Armenian
Christians and declared that the Armenians were for a little time taking the
place of supreme martyrdom while respite was given to Israel. He said:

“‘I saw all our women and my mother torn to pieces by the monsters who disputed
for possession of them,’ says the old Princess in Candide; ‘and I was left for
dead amid a heap of corpses. For three hundred league around similar scenes were
going on-without any omission in the five prayers a day prescribed by Mahomet.’”

He writes of Israel’s sufferings during the centuries, but coming to the day in
which he was writing (1922), he said:

“Our people are now suffering more. That people, whose ancient realm held the
legendary Eden, has now for abiding place the pit of Hell. I bow before this
higher majesty of sorrow. I take the crown of thorns from Israel’s head and I
place it upon Armenia’s.”

It must have been this emphatic expression of sympathy that befriended Armenians
and Jews and caused a Wilmette, Illinois, Armenian merchant-M. K.
Mestpian-recently to send a voluntary contribution to the American Palestine
Appeal, and to state that “the Armenians are the only people who can understand
your woe.” But B’nai B’rith Messenger adds:

“If it is true that Armenia once suffered more than even Israel, it is an
undisputed fact that the crown of thorns once more rests on Israel’s sorrowing
head. Armenia suffered from the Turks, but Israel suffers from dozens of
unspeakable tyrants. It is our supreme tragedy that we are subjected to the
horrors of martyrdom with only the remotest hopes of relief and for sympathy
from our neighbors who ought to be moved by our plight but are not.”

EXTERMINATION BY “HUMANE METHODS” The campaign that goes on at great financial
cost against the Jew, today, openly demands his extermination. Typical of much
of the printed matter that has been sent to this writer from the headquarters of
anti-Semites, is the following, from the editorial pages of The Fascist, organ
of racial Fascism published in London:

“It must be admitted that the most certain and permanent way of disposing of the
Jews would be to exterminate them by some humane method such as the lethal
chamber. It is quite practicable, but (some will say unfortunately) in our time
it is unlikely that the world will demand the adoption of that drastic
procedure.

“There remains the method of segregation as the sole alternative. We say ‘sole’
advisedly, because we have studied the Jew, and unlike those who see in
anti-Semitism a chance of being in the fashion and making some money or
notoriety out of it, we know it is useless to talk of vague measures.

“Some place must be fixed upon as their future National Home. The exigencies of
the case demand a large island, capable of holding the Jews of the world, and
capable, also, after development, of producing food, etc., to enable the Jews
(if they are capable of work) to carry on a reasonably independent existence.
The most suitable region, as that great anti-Jewish pioneer, H. H. Beamish, long
ago pointed out, is Madagascar, a French possession, with an area of 226,000
square miles, and at present a population, chiefly agricultural, of three
million colored natives.

“Now it would be grossly unfair that this destructive nation, the Jews, should
attain a national home without any sacrifice. No other nation has had that
privilege, although they have had it themselves in the case of Palestine, which
was given to them as a ransom for loans of British credit which they had
stolen.”

Going on to speak of the establishment of a permanent home for the Jews, The
Fascist says:

“The Jews must buy their National Home. They must obviously buy it from the
owner of it, and if Madagascar is not for sale, why, so much the worse for them,
because the other possible island territories are less salubrious. They must
clearly bid a price for their future home which will satisfy the owner whoever
it may be; and the desire of the British Empire and other Nationalities to get
rid of their Jews will be the best criterion that the price shall not be made
unreasonable.

“They must also provide ample compensation for the natives they displace, for we
would not ask even an Australian aboriginal to reside among these people. The
natives must be treated fairly, and, in the case of Madagascar, might have a
portion of the island reserved for them, the capital expenditure necessary for
their closer settlement being provided again by the Jews.

“After a certain length of time, any Jew found outside his National Home will be
apprehended, and it is fairly certain that death will have to be the penalty.
Neither the sea nor the air will be available to the Jewish Nation for transport
purposes; these must be in Gentile hands, and patrolled, probably by the Future
League of Aryan Nations, for which services again the Jews will pay.

“There can be no exceptions in this expulsion of the Jews. Those who have good
service in the war should receive special grants in compensation for their
upheaval and that compensation can appropriately be made from Jewish sources.
Aryans who have married Jews or Jewesses should be given free divorce if they
require it and if the marriage ceremony has been a civil one; if the ceremony
was performed as a religious one, it is no business of the State to interfere
with it, but the Jew must go and the partner has the option of going too.” THE
JEW AND COMMUNISM The primary reliance of the anti-Semite of the world today is
that a large proportion of the Jews are Communists, or that the ringleaders of
Communism are all Jews. Those who have gone into statistics with an unbiased
mind know that such statements are tragically false. They know that Hitler’s
contention against the Jews of Germany, the cause of that dastardly blot on
civilization called Nazism, had no real basis in facts.

In 1932 there were eighty-nine Communists in the Reichstag-and not one of them a
Jew. Later in that year, when Hitler came into power, there were one hundred
Communists in the Reichstag-and not one of them a Jew.

William H. Nagel, in a recent article, “Are Communism and Anarchism the Dreams
and Efforts of Master Jewish Minds?” says:

“I have met people all over Europe as well as in America who believed they were.
Any honest survey will prove the contrary to be true. The largest number of Jews
in the world today are Zionists and favor the return of the Jews to Palestine.
The ideals, ambitions and efforts of World Jewry can best be judged in the Holy
Land. “The Zionist organization is sponsored and controlled by the capitalist
Jews. It is an intensely nationalist movement and opposed to Communism, which is
international in spirit and character. It works against a small element of
Communist Jews in the land, who would make Arabs and Jews to be one. It indeed
has communal settlements in which workers have everything in common, but these
are always controlled by capitalist interests. Zionism and Communism are
incompatible!” (Yet some soberly insist that the “Protocols” were inmates of the
Zionist Congress).

Over a long period, the writer has watched the reaction of the Jewish
publications to the widespread charge that the Jews are the fomenters of
Communism. Some earnest Christian editors have labored to create the impression
that Zionism is but an expression of Jewish Communism, and this in spite of the
fact that the Communists of Palestine, under orders from Moscow, placarded the
land, calling upon their members to crush the Zionist movement, regarded as a
strictly capitalist undertaking.

Typical of much that we have gathered from Jewish sources is the following from
The Jewish Community Press, a high class Jewish magazine of Los Angeles. Here we
have the general attitude of better class Jews toward any of their race who turn
Communist:

“Occasionally in the long record of Jewry, we find records of apostate Jews
holding up the hands of pogromists, but in most cases these have been individual
instances of abnormal psychoses. No such extenuation can be offered for the
Palestine Communists, some of whom pose as Jews, who have issued a proclamation
calling for the slaying of the Jews in the land.

“Palestine Jewish Communists are few in number, but like the few Jewish
Communists in America, they are extremely vocal. We question the right of these
men to hold themselves out as Jews. - They are not Jews in any sense. - They
have long ago denied any spiritual affinity for Judaism. - They take no part in
organized Jewish life. “There can be no sincerity in their pretensions, and
those who would exploit us to our ultimate undoing should be told in no
uncertain terms:

“We have no truck with such renegades and traitors, YOU ARE NO LONGER JEWS IN
OUR EYES.” THE JEW AND MARXIAN PHILOSOPHY

How many of those who style themselves “Patriots” while they fight the Jews have
ever read Karl Marx’ work on the Jewish problem: Zur Judenfrage? Glibly they
write of Marx as the ideal of the Jewish race, never knowing that Marx
identified Judaism with capitalism and prophesied the future necessity of
annihilating both. Marx could not tolerate the Jewish viewpoint because he
recognized that their natural tendency was toward a capitalistic civilization.
If ever there was an anti-Semite, it was Karl Marx and those familiar with
Jewish literature know that the leaders of Jewry have constantly denounced him
as such. Concerning him, Ludwig Lewisohn writes:

“The father of Karl Marx, an attorney of Trier, became a ‘convert’ to
Protestantism in 1824 and caused himself and his wife and his children,
including Karl, then aged six, to be baptized. It takes no great sagacity today
to imagine in what an atmosphere of spiritual falseness, of Jewish self-hatred,
of flight, avoidance, inner-servility emphasized by a specious outer freedom,
the boy grew up. Hatred of Judaism and hatred of himself as a Jew were
necessarily the continuous “trauma” of his childhood. “So it is no wonder that
at the age of twenty-five, in 1843, we find Karl Marx in his single and isolated
pronouncement on the Jewish problem, Zur Judenfrage, identifying Capitalism with
Judaism.

“Marx, in order to make sure that Judaism be destroyed, elaborated the theory
that all cultural and ideological forms are only superstructures dictated by
economic causes. Change the economic substructure and these superstructures will
be destroyed. In a Socialist society there would be neither Judaism nor Jews.
And that was precisely what he needed to prove in order to appease the
guilt-feeling and self-hatred at the core of him.

“His doctrine and Judaism are, as he desired them to be, mutually incompatible
to the point of annihilation. Yet the mad and tragic farce of history brings it
about that the Jewish people is today persecuted not least for being supposed to
have fathered a doctrine which in cold fact negates that people and its history
and its faith and character and was meant to do so by the apostate who brought
it forth.” The great bulk of the misinformation concerning the Jewish race in
recent years has had its rise in Germany, and had its fountainhead in the warped
mind of Adolph Hitler and his Jew-baiting associates, Julius Streicher and
Alfred Rosenberg. Westbrook Pegler has well said:

“So much of the Nazi belief is plainly crazy that the whole concern would have
been localized as a nut cult long ago if it had not broken out in Luxembourg or
Andorra.”


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Anti-Semitism and the Christian

CHAPTER FOUR WITH SUCH a wave of hatred sweeping over the world, the need of
true Christian testimony to the Jewish people becomes more imperative. It cannot
be denied that in many lands severe offenses and provocations have been given by
the activities of certain Jews. Christian people cannot but join in the
condemnation of such offenses. The danger to Christian testimony begins at the
point where sincere Christian people take up the world’s plan of condemning all
Jews, good and bad, for the sins of the few. The first business of the church is
to give assurance to the Jew that God desires all men to be saved and to come to
the knowledge of the truth that in Christ, all, regardless of racial extraction,
become members of one body. We have no approach to the Jew, however, when we
give evidence that we are blinded by race prejudice.

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians have fallen in with the world’s
habit of making the Jew the “goat” for every bad situation.

It might be well for us to recall that in the early days of Christianity, it was
the Christians who were made the goats of every calamity or depression. For
instance, Tertullian wrote:

“The name faction may properly be given to those who join to hate the good and
honest, who shout for the blood of the innocent, who use as a pretext to defend
their hatred the absurdity that they take the Christians to be the cause of
every disaster to the state, of every misfortune of the people. If the Tiber
reaches the walls, if the Nile does not rise to the fields, if the sky doesn’t
move or the earth does, if there is famine, if there is plague, the cry is at
once: ‘The Christians to the lions.’” As St. Augustine remarked: “If there is a
shortage of rain, surely the Christians are the cause of it.”

Even the blood ritual accusation that is today frequently charged to the Jews,
was in the early days assigned to Christians who were said to use real human
blood in the Lord’s Supper. In Tertullian’s Apologeticus, we read:

“Let your error blush before the Christians, for we do not even include animal’s
blood in our diet. We abstain on that account from things strangled or that die
of themselves, that we may not in any way be polluted by blood, even if it is
buried in the meat. Finally, when you are testing Christians, you offer them
sausages full of blood; you are thoroughly aware that among them it is
forbidden; but you want to make them transgress. Now I ask you what sort of a
thing is it, that when you are confident they will turn with horror from
animal’s blood, you should suppose them greedy for human blood-unless you
yourselves have found it sweeter?”

These accusations against Christians were no more truthful than the same
accusations against the Jewish people, today. Either there is a lack of sane
social intelligence on the part of those who peddle these tales or else they
have deliberately set themselves to broadcast the poison of hate, which, if done
persistently will poison the minds of generations to come. A classic of
unintentional humor and stupidity was recently gotten off before a credulous
audience by a bellowing evangelist: “If the Jews want to end this antagonism
against themselves,” he shouted, “then let them put a stop to this depression.”

BURNING WARNINGS OF THE BIBLE

While God has permitted Anti-Semitism to be the rod of correction upon His
ancient people, the fact remains that for those who participate in the
persecution, there are no more burning warnings in the Word of God. If history
teaches anything it is that the nations that have attempted to exterminate the
Jews have in the end committed suicide. There is no better proof of the
inspiration of the Bible than the historic records of what has happened to
nations that have persecuted the Jew, and the favor of Providence upon those
nations that have befriended the Jews.

If human experience has taught anything, it is that the individual who attempts
to ride the ever-popular wave of anti-Semitism to personal wealth and public
favor, rides to an ignominious fall in the end. The Word of God offers no
quarter to individual Jews who may be criminals. The law breaker is to be dealt
with, whether Jew or Gentile. There are radical Jews as there are radical
Gentiles-and no more in proportion to population. There is no warrant for
dealing gently with an offender against the peace of society, because he happens
to be a Jew. But the Word of God condemns in no unmistakable terms those who
engage in propaganda that tends to create hatred against and persecution of the
Jewish people.

- “Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies
shall be cut off” (Micah 5:9). - “I will contend with him that contendeth with
thee” (Isaiah 49:25). - “Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall
for thy sake” (Isaiah 54:15). - “All they that devour thee shall be devoured . .
. all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey” (Jeremiah 30:16). - “When I
have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and
they shall know that I am the LORD their God” (Ezekiel 28:26).

There are many other such warnings in the Word of God, most of them related to
the prophecies of the closing days of this age.

Those who are careful students of the prophetic Scriptures need not to be told
that there is no more dangerous fire to play with than that of Jew hate. Until
the last few years it has been the Fundamentalists and Premillennialists who
have been noted for teaching kindness to the Jews and for persistently promoting
the preaching of the Gospel of the love of Christ to the Jews. It is still true
of the vast majority of those who are loyal to the Scriptures.

ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA But a most amazing situation has arisen.

While anti-Semitism has been propagated almost entirely in Europe by pagan and
atheistic elements, particularly of late, the Nazis-in America some of the most
damaging anti-Semitic propaganda has come from a few professed defenders of
Orthodoxy to be largely circulated among Christian people. Such material has
been freely distributed at the doors of churches by earnest people who believed
themselves rendering a service unto the Lord. When this movement started in
America, one of Scotland’s great Christian leaders wrote:

“We are greatly disturbed over the keen anti-Semitism of some of your American
Fundamentalists, so called. Many things have come to my notice which have left
little doubt that in American Fundamentalism there is a leaven at work which, if
not counteracted and expelled, will ere long destroy the Gospel of Christ
utterly throughout that area and combine with the other godless forces to effect
in America what was done in France through the Revolution of 1789 to 1815.” So
serious became this flood of propaganda, more and more employing the very
language of the Nazi Jew-baiting papers, that when many printed and public
protests availed nothing, the outstanding Fundamentalist ministers of America
signed and published a “Manifesto” which appeared in several Christian papers.
Among other things this Manifesto stated:

“We declare that any attempt to use the Scriptures as an excuse for an
anti-Semitic attitude is a perversion of God’s Word and irreconcilable with the
spirit and teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Addressing the Jews, this Manifesto said: “To the Jewish people we declare . . .
we have no part in stirring up of base passions against you and we want you to
know that those who are thus guilty do not express the love which the Lord Jesus
Christ has commanded us to show you.”

BRITISH LEADERS GIVE WARNING When this American Fundamentalist literature began
to attain circulation in Great Britain, the Advent Testimony Preparation
Movement, which includes the prophetic students of Great Britain, issued through
its official paper, The Advent Witness, the following warning:

“It will seem incredible to the vast majority of the Lord’s people in this
country that there are in the U. S. A. some who, though stalwart
‘Fundamentalists,’ are joining in the outcry against the Jews, who are charged
with plotting a conspiracy for world revolution of the Communist type as
revealed in the outrageous ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’

“Literature supporting this anti-Jewish campaign having been received by some of
our readers, we are asked for our views on the subject.

“Our reply shall be brief. We are of opinion that it is the duty and privilege
of Christians to do all they possibly can by prayer and practical sympathy to
succor the Jews in the time of their great distress, remembering that God has
said, ‘I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee.’

“No doubt there are bad Jews as there are bad Gentiles. But it is not our duty
to discriminate between the good and the bad, but to recognize the fact that the
Israel people were chosen of God to bring salvation to the world. ‘Salvation is
of the Jews,’ ‘of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God
blessed for ever.’ From the Jews also we received the Scriptures, for ‘to them
were committed the oracles of God.’ Therefore it seems to us that we owe more
than we can ever repay to that nation which God has delighted to honor.

“Truly the Jews are and have been for centuries set aside by God because of
their apostasy, but if it is the divine will that Israel should suffer
affliction, it has never been the business of the Church to join in the world’s
hue and cry against the Jews. The enemies of the Jews are enemies of God and the
cruelest persecution of Jews has come from those nations which disregard the
claims of God in Christ.”

One after another of the trusted Christian leaders of America have publicly
dissociated themselves with the movement fostering this anti-Jewish and
pro-Hitler propaganda in America.

One strong pronouncement came from Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, President of Wheaton
College, through the columns of The Sunday School Times, as follows:

“I wish to express my regret at the prevalence of race prejudice recently
manifesting itself among some of our Fundamentalist brethren. I do not feel that
any race can be blamed for the spread of the evil propaganda of Communism. It
may be true, that many atheistic Jews are Communists. It is also true that many
Gentiles are Communists.

“It seems to me particularly absurd to blame any race for such authorship of
documents like the much discussed Protocols. In the nature of the cause, such a
document cannot be written by a race. It must have been written by individuals.
These individuals may or may not be Gentiles. If they were Gentiles, I do not
feel that the Gentile people of the world can be blamed for their authorship.

“The great point that comes to my mind in this connection is that every one of
us, Jew and Gentile alike, is a child of Adam, totally corrupt and rebellious at
heart until redeemed by the blood of Christ through faith alone. It is not
appropriate for any group of Adam’s family to point the finger of scorn at any
other group racially. All are by nature the children of wrath. We who have been
redeemed by the atonement of Christ must do everything possible to win the lost,
Jew and Gentile alike, to Him.”

MODERNISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM The Christian Racial Fellowship Foundation, in one
of its tracts warning against anti-Semitism in Christendom, quoted a prominent
Hebrew Christian evangelist as saying:

“Here is a powerful idea that has been burning within me. I have had it in mind
to prepare a study showing by actual quotations and references to recent events
that it is the Modernists who are now openly befriending the Jewish race since
the rise of Hitler. Such men as Cadman, Fosdick, and Coffin have been calling
the world’s attention to the unspeakable outrages that are being perpetrated
upon Jews simply because of race. They are deploring the Nazi uprisings and
doing their best to defend the Jews. Thus the Jews are learning to look to the
Modernists as their real friends.

“The other side of the picture, sadly enough, is that almost without exception
those who have been in the front ranks of stirring up suspicion against the
Jewish people in America call themselves orthodox Christians. What does this
mean? It means that men identifying themselves with Fundamentalism are guilty of
building up in the mind of the Jew a profound contempt for what is called
orthodox Christianity. In this way thousands of Jews are made harder to reach,
if not unreachable.

“Now let us jump ahead a bit. We know that the Jews are eventually to make a
covenant with the antichrist. If he is to be the head of a hodge-podge
organization of Modernists and other kinds of believers, then these Modernists
will have the good will of the Jews, while the Fundamentalists will have
forfeited all influence and the Jews will look upon them as their mortal
enemies. What a responsibility upon orthodox leaders today!” The fact that these
things tend toward the fulfillment of prophecy-the driving of the Jews back to
Palestine-gives us no warrant in aiding persecutors of the Jews. If we cannot
prevent these things, may God keep us clean from the blood that is certain to
flow!

Dr. Henry S. Leiper in a recent church broadcast said:

“This story was told me by an engineer in New York, named Nichols. He said that
in the company where he worked there was a strong prejudice against Jews. A
young engineer came to work who looked Jewish. Immediately he was the object of
all kinds of subtle discriminations. He was misinformed on many points by his
associates so that he unwittingly broke the rules of the place and was soon
discharged. Later, Mr. Nichols met him in a restaurant and sat down to talk.
Purposely he brought up the subject of religion. The young engineer said that he
was a Protestant. Mr. Nichols said, ‘I should think you would change your name.
It sounds Jewish and you look a little Jewish.’ “The reply was: ‘Not only am I
not a Jew, but none of my ancestors were Jews. What’s more, we hate the Jews. I
think they ought all to get out of this country and stay out.’ ‘Wouldn’t you at
least give a Jew a fair deal for what he is worth as an individual?’ queried Mr.
Nichols. ‘No,’ said the young man.

“‘Do you know why you lost your job?’ asked Nichols.

“‘No,’ said the engineer, ‘and I would like to. There was something queer about
the way I was treated.’

“‘You got treated as you did because the boys up at the company think the same
as you. You had a good taste of your own medicine. How do you like it?’

“‘Gosh! I never thought of that!’ exclaimed the advocate of ill-will.

“No, he had never thought of the Golden Rule as applied to life where he himself
was concerned. If only we can all acquire the habit of thinking how our conduct
toward others would appear if it concerned ourselves we shall go a long way
toward the development of that good will and fair dealing upon which rests the
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The Bible of Anti-Semitism

CHAPTER FIVE TO THE birth pangs of the new nation of Israel have been added the
tortures inflicted by the use of a diabolical instrument concocted by Russian
Jew-haters, known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

After being thoroughly discredited as a base forgery and for some years being
considered a dead issue, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany caused these
strange documents again to be circulated as evidence that the Jews of the world
were plotting the destruction of Gentile civilization. Strange to say, even many
religious editors and leaders were made to believe that these documents were,
after all, genuine and furnished the only explanation of the post-war
depression.

One Serge Nilus, a Russian, is said to have been the first to give wide
publicity to these protocols. Practically nothing is known of this Nilus outside
of what he himself says in the introduction to his edition of the Protocols.
Satisfied with these credentials, some Christian editors have gone so far as to
picture Nilus as a devout Fundamentalist who felt called of God to expose the
plot of world Jewry. One writer in Moody Monthly said:

“He impresses us as a sincere Christian, even a Fundamentalist, although perhaps
unduly biased as a loyal Russian in favor of absolute monarchical government.
After careful study of prophecy this man came to believe Antichrist would soon
appear on earth to inaugurate his despotic government, and in support of this
view wrote a book based on relevant Scripture passages, followed by revised and
expanded editions as his investigation progressed.

“But certain designing Communists, far more informed about world affairs and
politics though without either moral scruples or interest in prophecy, early
brought the Protocols to his attention as though unearthed by the secret police.
These he accepted as genuine because so closely reflecting the revealed
character and activities of Satan and upholding his thesis, and he published
them in an appendix to the second edition of his book.” A GLIMPSE OF THE MAN
NILUS

We have learned of one living man who was personally acquainted with Nilus,
having lived for months in his house. This is Count A. M. du Chayla, a Frenchman
who for many years studied Russian conditions and who in 1902 came to know
Nilus. In his published impressions, the Count says his information is based on
extended relations with Nilus and with others who knew him well. Visiting the
renowned cloister Optina Poustine, he came to know that Nilus resided not far
from the monastery. Although not a monk, he was in a community of about four
hundred monks. Chayla had heard of him as a writer and had been informed that
Nilus was very eccentric. Finally a meeting was arranged and the Count faced the
broad-shouldered Russian, who wore the typical Russian beard.

He found him a man of considerable education, but learned by experience and from
others that none could get along with him. His tumultuous character and
capricious temperament had forced him to give up a good post as a judge on the
Persian frontier. He was a great admirer of Nietzsche’s philosophy with its
theoretical anarchism and radical negation of civilization, which scarcely
connotes his being a Fundamentalist. With such a temperament, said Chayla, Nilus
found it difficult to remain in Russia. He had been abroad with a certain Madame
K., spending some time in France. At the time of Chayla’s visit Nilus had a
wife, daughter of a former Russian minister to Athens. So submissive was she to
her husband, that she had given shelter to Madame K. in her home. Chayla was in
close touch with the family for nine months. On a later visit relations were
broken off on account of the intolerance of Nilus. In 1918 Nilus lived at the
convent in Kiev. In the fall of that year he fled to Germany and lived in
Berlin.

During the early part of the friendship Chayla declared Nilus showed him
manuscripts of the Protocols written in French in several handwritings. Nilus’
stories about the Protocols to Chayla were contradictory. When after examining
the documents, Chayla did not becme enthused, but pointed out certain
inconsistencies, the irritation of Nilus knew no bounds. “Don’t you think you
have been duped by someone?” Chayla asked. “Let us admit that they are false,”
replied Nilus, “but is it not possible that God should make use of them in order
to expose the iniquity which is approaching?”

Chayla declares not only that Madame K., whom Nilus admitted got them from a
Russian general, was a highly excitable character, interested in the occult, but
that Nilus suffered hallucinations and was the victim of a sort of mystic
terror. He believed that Antichrist already had his mark on everything. He saw
it in the designs and ornaments of churches. He suspicioned all Jews. He
addressed a letter to the patriarchs of the Orient, the Holy Synod and the Pope,
asking them to call a council to take measures to protect Christianity from,
Antichrist. The monastic peace was so troubled by his constant fears and
harangues that authorities asked him never again to appear at the cloister.
Chayla believed that the mind of Nilus was on the brink of a precipice as a
result of his poring over the forged document brought him by Madame K.

It was claimed at a recent anti-Semitic congress in Europe that The Protocols
now have a larger circulation than the Bible. This is doubtless far from the
truth, nevertheless they have been translated into every conceivable language,
including Arabic, for use in Palestine. THE TRIAL OF THE SWISS NAZIS In 1935
there was brought to conclusion in Switzerland a long-protracted trial of
certain Swiss Nazis, who under a Swiss law prohibiting the circulation of
defamatory material against religious or racial groups, were brought to trial by
Jewish leaders for circulating the Protocols. It was charged that these Nazis
knew the document was fictitious and that it was circulated for the purpose of
creating race prejudice. This case was watched with great interest, by many
groups, particularly the German Nazis who realized that much of their philosophy
would be discredited before the world if the Jews were able to show that the
Protocols were not of Jewish origin. The fact that Switzerland was a neutral
country during the World War, made it especially favorable as a place to try
such a case; furthermore, it had a reputation for the integrity of its courts.
Accordingly, much money was spent on both sides to transport witnesses to
Switzerland. The challenge of the Swiss Jews, backed by the voluntary offer of
experts to go to Switzerland and give their testimony, at once enlisted the
interest of all European anti-Semites, as indicated in the Nazi press
particularly, which immediately undertook a worldwide campaign of money-raising.
Experts were employed to scour Europe for all possible evidence against the
Jews. No one familiar with the papers and pamphlets that were in circulation,
could doubt that not a single stone was left unturned to make out a case against
the Jews. In 1934, the trial, after proceeding for some weeks, was adjourned on
request of the defendants, who desired to bring from Germany powerful witnesses
against the Jews. The prosecution readily consented and urged that every
opportunity be given them to prove the theory. It was April 29, 1935, before the
case was again in progress, the German government having gotten back of the case
in the interim, even to the embarrassment of the Swiss defendants.

Judge Walter Mayer, the jurist of the Cantonal Court who presided, is a man of
high repute in Switzerland. The court appointed an unbiased expert investigator
to examine documents introduced in evidence. The latter turned in a report in
support of the contention that the Protocols were unquestionably base forgeries.
The final decision of the Judge (May 14) was, in brief, as follows:

“The Protocols are immoral documents because they are false and obvious
plagiarism, because they propagate hate against part of the population and are
thus of such a nature as to cause agitation and disturb public peace. It has
been definitely established that the Protocols were copied or plagiarized
largely from Maurice Joly’s A Dialogue in Hell.”

Two of the five Nazis were pronounced guilty of libel and were fined, plus court
costs. Further sale and distribution of the Protocols in the Canton is forbidden
under the law as “immoral literature” used by anti-Semites for the purpose of
exciting hostility toward the Jews.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former President of the World Zionist movement, presented
for the court’s investigation the records of the Zionist Congress held in Basle,
and, supported by other Jewish leaders present at that congress, denied that any
such plans as outlined in The Protocols were discussed at any session.

Having no direct evidence to show that Jews wrote the Protocols, the argument
stoutly maintained by defense witnesses throughout was that economic conditions
in the world indicate that some such hidden hand is manipulating world affairs,
and the finger of suspicion points to the Jews. In answer to this, the
prosecution maintained the impossibility of a people driven from pillar to post,
subjected to discrimination and ignominy even in enlightened nations, deprived
in many lands even of the very rights of life, carrying out a scheme
necessitating unified action and tremendous resources. Jews constitute less than
three-quarters of one per cent of the civilized population of the world and on
every question of religion, economics or politics they are hopelessly divided in
opinion. “Get any five Jews together,” said one, “and you will get seven
different viewpoints.”

HIGH POINTS IN THE TESTIMONY The expert appointed by the court unhesitatingly
announced that The Protocols were “scandalous literature of the worst species.”

He stated that an examination of documents and books introduced in evidence,
proved the Protocols were based on the famed essay written in 1854 by the
Frenchman, Maurice Joly, called A Dialogue in Hell. He asserted that he found no
fewer than one hundred seventy passages were exact copies. As another
supplementary source he indicated the novel, Biarritz, by Goedsche, an
anti-Semite. So far as he could find, the famed Zionist Congress held at Basel
in 1897, alleged by the defendants to have been the origin of The Protocols, was
entirely dedicated to the project of a national home for Jews in Palestine.

An outstanding witness was the white-haired ministerial colleague of Kerensky,
Paul Miljukow. He assailed the Protocols as “gross inventions which no
historian, no cultivated man, ever took seriously.” The Protocols caused the
pogroms in Russia, he said, and facilitated the advent of the Bolsheviks.

Henri Sliosberg, legal adviser in the Russian foreign office in the reign of the
last czar, testified that the government asked his opinion as to whether or not
The Protocols were authentic and that he found them to be fabrications designed
to bolster up the anti-Semitic movement and justify the combat against the
growing liberal tendencies in Russia.

Count du Chayla, noted Frenchman who spent much time in Russia, testified that
the Russian Revolution was largely precipitated by The Protocols, which ended
with Soviet domination. Their publication, he said, by enemies of the Jews, was
used to influence Nicolas to pursue a reactionary policy against Jews.

The Count said he had been handed The Protocols written in poor French by the
Russian writer, Nilus, who had apparently received the document from General
Rachowsky, through the hands of a woman. Nilus, he said, himself, entertained
doubts as to their authenticity but told du Chayla: “What of it? Why cannot
truth emerge from a forgery?”

Sergius Swatakow, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) under the Kerensky
regime, declared The Protocols were fabricated by secret Russian agents at the
French National Library. When he began to disband the Czar’s secret police
agents, told him The Protocols were prepared by General Rachkowsky and M.
Golowinsky at the French Library.

A Russian historian, Boris Nikholajowsky, declared that a Jugo-Slavia historian
had told him he saw The Protocols in 1895, two years before the Zion Congress at
Basle.

RESUMPTION OF THE TRIAL IN APRIL

Just before the case was reopened in April, the German Nazis began circulating a
new edition of The Protocols, published in Leipzig. This edition totally
abandons the theory that The Protocols are the records of the Zionist Congress
and comes out with the startling announcement that they are the records of a
B’nai B’rith congress held in Basle, in 1897. The Nazi expert from Germany
attempted to introduce this theory into the evidence, but it developed that this
Jewish lodge, which is primarily an American organization, had never held a
congress in Europe. Thus one more story is added to the many already in print,
as to where The Protocols came from. As one of the witnesses when the case was
reopened, Prof. Arthur Baumgarten, testified that The Protocols had never been
acknowledged by a single authority on Jewish history and literature, as valid.
He asserted that alleged Jewish plans for world domination did not coincide with
their efforts for a national home in Palestine.

Ulrich Fleischauer, “expert” sent by the German government, instead of producing
real evidence of an existing Jewish plot, as expected, only advanced theories as
to how Jews might have written The Protocols and added his belief that general
conditions indicate an effort at Jewish domination. He asserted that all
Presidents of the United States have been dominated by Jews, that the world
press is under their control, as well as international banking. His trump card
was his statement that Maurice Joly was a Jew. Asked to substantiate his
statement, he challenged anyone to compare a likeness of Joly with one of the
Jews, Marx.

Fleischauer stated that the League of Nations was a Jewish conception, gotten up
to unify the language, money and religion of Israel. He declared Jews started
the World War by hiring someone to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand, and thus
bringing on the Russian Revolution. A letter was introduced in evidence from the
Russian, Alexander Kerensky, former head of the Russian provisional government.
He denied allegations that he and his cabinet were Jewish, and contradicted
assertions of Fleischauer that the revolution was the work of Jews. He termed
all such claims as ridiculous and stupid.

Fleischauer’s efforts to suggest the origin of The Protocols led him into so
many contradictions that he finally stated it was not necessary to accept any of
his theories, “because the real basis of The Protocols is in the Jewish Talmud,”
which, he claimed, enjoins all Jews to destroy the Gentiles. He quoted passages
which were quickly shown by the Jewish experts to be the rank mistranslations
current in anti-Semitic literature. The value of the trial lies in the fact that
testimony was furnished by accredited men under oath, confirming opinions long
held by authorities on Jewish literature and history, as to the origin of The
Protocols and the purpose for which they were concocted. Much of the ballyhoo of
European anti-Semites was there exploded into thin air and leaders who have
become instruments of this propaganda are, to say the least, in a most
embarrassing position. In spite of the fact that men directly involved in
Russian affairs and men recognized as experts on Jewish literature have
testified in a case given worldwide publicity, there are still publishers who do
a thriving business in turning out copies of The Protocols. It is quite likely
that until the “time of Jacob’s trouble” breaks upon the harassed Jews, this
diabolical document will be a scourge used to drive the Jews out of the nations
and back to Palestine as the only available refuge for them.


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The Approaching Time of Trouble Unto Jacob

CHAPTER SIX THE BITTER conflict between the seed of Ishmael and the seed of
Isaac flaring out in Palestine today is an ominous cloud on the horizon of all
Zionist hopes. Not only does the life of the Jew hang in doubt before him in the
nations (Deuteronomy 28:66) but as he returns to the land of his fathers there
seems little hope of finding peace with the old enemy.

We must go back to the story of Genesis 16:7-15. Here we read of the angel that
appeared to Hagar, the bondwoman of Abraham, telling her that her seed, Ishmael,
should become a vast multitude. (The Arabs are traced to Hagar and the Jews and
the Arabs are the only peoples who can trace their pedigrees back four thousand
years). Hagar’s son, soon to be delivered, was to be “a wild ass of a man”
(meaning a free-lance), not submitting to yoke. To Ishmael, the Arabs proudly
trace their ancestry. They have fostered Mohammedanism, the most powerful enemy
of Judaism and Christianity. Thus from Abraham sprung both Judaism and
Mohammedanism, the religion which, to this day, is their most formidable rival.

Every hand was to be against this wild man (Genesis 16:12) and his hand against
every other man’s. Every attempt to subjugate the Arabs has proved unsuccessful.
They are preserved as another argument of the truth of the Bible. They live in a
state of continual war, set at defiance international laws, are a constant
problem to other nations-and there they stand as the bitterest enemies of the
Jews who would now share the land with them, as the only hope of survival. Can
the sons of Isaac hope to live in peace with the sons of Ishmael as their
neighbors? Can Great Britain or any other nation hold these Arabs in check? It
is extremely doubtful.

There is no question as to what the ultimate issue will be, for the prophetic
word describes the picture. Before Israel finds rest in the land, the “time of
Jacob’s trouble” must run its course.

The inheritance can never be Israel’s until that time comes when the Jews have
turned their back upon unbelief and embraced the One who was wounded for them.
The Mohammedan Mosque of Omar stands on the appointed site of the temple of the
Lord, hindering its rebuilding until the appointed time. It is not difficult to
imagine the intensity of the struggle between Jew and Arab before the time when
this mosque is demolished.

BLOOD BITTERNESS OF ISHMAEL In spite of their most subtle enemies in the land,
the Jews have, within a very short time, practically undone the effects of two
thousand years of neglect and decay in the land. In the rebuilding of Palestine,
the Arabs have represented the forces of reaction and inertia; the Jews the
elements of progress and enterprise. The Arabs outnumber the Jews about four to
one, but the stake of the Jews in the country is a thousand times greater than
that of the Arabs. We gain some idea of what the situation has been in a word
from Dr. L. Schuller, a German missionary in the land. He writes:

“During harvest time, burning grain fields were a daily occurrence in the
country districts. This destroying of the enemy’s crops in retaliation, is the
same as that used by Samson, as told in the Bible story, when he and his
comrades fastened burning torches to the tails of foxes and drove them through
the wheat fields of the Philistines. And the unfortunate owners of the fields
were only weeping and wailing, when, in a single night, their grain which had
cost them six months of hard work, lighted up the darkness like a flaming torch,
and when, as the next morning all their gains by striving and laboring lay
before their eyes in blackened heaps of ashes. In an attempt to bring injury to
England, the pipeline of oil leading from Mesopotamia was blown up and the
stream of oil set on fire. The flames rose high into the skies, and the smoke
traveled in mighty clouds over the land.

“The railroads, too, were attacked, trains were bombarded with shots,
locomotives were blown up, rails and rail fixtures were destroyed. In the hills
skirmishes grew to be battles, between Arab bands and British troops, which
often lasted for whole days, since the Arabs were very familiar with their land
and were able to choose well their hiding places.

“The Arabic officials, also, at the command of their national council, always
more and more, laid down their work and went on strike. The King of East
Jordania, Emir Abdullah, who is subject to the British, moved to act by his
overlords, did, indeed to bring about peace, and induce his fellow countrymen to
accept a reconciliation.

“But the independent king, Sa’ood, who is the most powerful ruler in Arabia,
sent heartening messages to the Arabs and urged them not to give up their
resistance. And this resistance was renewed and strengthened by the voices of
their fellow Moslems in India and also by financial aid from them. There are
eighty millions of Moslems in India, much more than there are British in the
whole world.” THE PAWN OF EASTERN POLITICS

After witnessing the Arab revolt against the Jews at its height, Dr. C. C.
McCown, Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Palestine,
declared that the idea was gradually gaining way in many circles that Palestine
was only a pawn in the larger game of Mediterranean and Near Eastern politics,
that would have its complete unfoldment later on.

At present the eyes of seventy million Arabs and two hundred fifty million
Moslems were centered on Jerusalem, which was regarded as their most sacred city
after Mecca. The recent revolt engaged the active sympathies and the great
active help of a great many of these peoples. In any revolt to come that
sympathy and help is likely to be stronger. One event, the importance of which
seems to have been greatly overlooked by the press of the world, was the
launching of a pan-Arabic movement in Iraq. As the situation stands, today,
Palestine is surrounded by an Arabic empire that is only waiting its time to
fight for its place in the sun.

Dr. McCown, while praising both the British administration of the mandate over
Palestine and the efforts of the Jews to establish a Jewish national home there,
declares that the opposition of the Arabs, which is steadily tending toward more
and open revolt and violence, is based on their conviction that their existence
depends upon it. Says Dr. McCown:

“The Arabs also frankly admit that they are unable to compete with western
civilization that is being imposed on them. They admit the superiority of the
Jews in all branches of trade, industry and commerce, but which constitutes for
them only another reason why Jewish emigration should be stopped or limited, and
that they should be allowed to develop the country on the basis of their own
civilization and their own standards of living.

“The growth of the Arab population tells the story of what Jewish genius has
brought to the land. From 488,000 in 1922 it has reached 850,000 (estimated) in
1936. This is due both to natural increase, which proceeded at the rate of
twenty-nine per thousand in 1935, and to immigration from neighboring Arab
countries. The higher standards and wider opportunities prevailing in Palestine
have attracted some twenty to thirty thousand Arabs, chiefly from Syria and
Transjordan. The seventy per cent increase in the Arab population of Palestine
between 1922 and 1936 compares with a thirteen per cent increase in Egypt
between 1920 and 1932.

“The impulse to the development of the country given by Jewish enterprise and
capital has greatly increased the demand for labor, both urban and rural. Of the
9,096 workers employed in Jewish orange groves in four principal village areas
in February, 1935, 6,214, or nearly seventy per cent, were Arabs. In August of
the same year (when the orange season is over) Arabs accounted for 2,326 out of
a total of 3,810, or nearly sixty per cent.” IN DANGER FROM THEIR PROSPERITY But
the very prosperity of the Jews in the land carries its dangers. A recent
editorial in the Sunday Express (London) refers to it as “a dangerous
prosperity.” We read:

“Look at Palestine! No crisis there-no unemployment. In four years the customs
receipts are up three hundred per cent, the value of imports doubled, the
investment capital trebled. New towns shoot up. Camels and mules give place to
motor omnibuses. Nomad Arabs settle down. They have four million pounds in the
banks. The Promised Land is an industrial state. Once more it flows with milk
and honey.

“But it is a dangerous prosperity. The first Jews came as pilgrims and pioneers
to till the soil, to risk and to endure. Now they come as moneymakers and
speculators to crowd the cities.

“The cities grow, the price of labor goes up. The colonists, who are the
life-blood of the country, desert the soil for the higher wages that the town
has to offer. That is an unhealthy sign. All this the prophetic student
understands, for the Word has told him of Israel’s return in unbelief to face
eventually even worse woes than they had known before.”

Dr. Joseph Cohn, after doing considerable research work, returned to America,
convinced that Palestine faces a calamity of the highest order. In his paper,
Chosen People, he wrote:

“I visited the major colonies, from Haifa to Acre, to Safed, to the Sea of
Galilee, to Capernaum, to Nazareth; then at Tel-Aviv (which means, the hill of
Spring) and south to Gaza. It is all stupendous. Haifa, for instance, looks much
like one of our own frontier towns of the West might have looked in a boom.
Roadways thrown up, trucks, cement and stone-crushing machinery, buildings going
up over night, women, Jewish women, actually laying bricks and doing stucco and
plaster work, hotels filled, streets crowded, surveyors measuring out land,
feverish buying and selling of land, bargaining for property, figuring in
advance the profits, these are some of the bewildering sights.

“Nobody really knows how many Jews there are in Haifa, for instance. They can
only guess: and the guesses run from forty-five thousand to one hundred
thousand. As to Tel-Aviv, the minimum is one hundred thousand and the maximum is
two hundred thousand!

“So, take your choice. Now, I am well aware that some Bible students have been
declaring in recent days that the only solution for the Jew’s problem is
Palestine, and they seem of the opinion that Zionism of itself is Israel’s cure.
But these brethren are apparently not familiar with two most important facts:-
one is, that the solution of the Jewish problem is not Palestine, but the Lord
Jesus Christ! The other fact is that the Jew who is now going back to Palestine
is going there without God! This is the most terrible indictment of the whole
movement. Money? Yes. British Mandate? Yes. Modern machinery? Yes. But God? No!

“One meets it everywhere. And one thinks desperately of Jeremiah 17:5.

‘Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.’

“Great Britain has spent over two million dollars in dredging the Haifa harbor,
so that Haifa alone can now accommodate half of the entire British Navy. It does
not take much perspicacity to guess what this means. “Great Britain is not
carried away with any false illusions. The Arabs are restive. They see the land
passing out of their possession, and the Jews slowly but surely crowding them
out. The Jew, sad to say, has not only forgotten God, but he has become rather
overbearing, and boastful of his money and his strength. In all Tel-Aviv, with
over one hundred thousand Jews, I found one synagogue; and within there were
perhaps forty Jews, all of them aged and of the orthodox sect.

“Thus, we have before us all the ingredients for an outbreak in Palestine that
may well be a calamity of the highest order. Add to this, the sobering fact that
Palestine, and particularly from the Mount of Olives south-westward to the Sea,
is directly in the earthquake belt, and the Word of God begins to stand out with
disconcerting clearness when it foretells distress and earthquakes for Palestine
in the latter days.” IS THE GREAT TRIBULATION PAST?

There is a school of prophetic teachers today holding that there is no future
“tribulation” for the Jews, and that “the time of Jacob’s trouble” had its
fulfillment in connection with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. It is
significant, however, that the leaders of Jewry sense a time of trouble ahead
such as their nation has never known, both in the nations and in Palestine.

Writing to a Christian Jewish friend of the author, a leader of Jewry said:

“From the highest to the lowest, through every stratum of society, the venom of
Jew-hate runs, stronger, more poisonous, more deadly, day by day. It is not
confined now to a mere country, a mere section, a mere religion. Like a
pandemic, it is virulent and malignant, spreading with lightning rapidity,
devouring, destroying, hungry and murderous, waiting only for the near day when
it will pounce upon us all and renew the history of our torments. “When that day
comes, you will remember what I told you, you deluded Jews, that your new gods
and your sweet-tongued Gentile friends will not protect you. The day is almost
at hand. We need you. We need every precious drop of Jewish steadfastness,
Jewish blood, Jewish fortitude and Jewish faith. We must stand together. We must
face as one man the savage Gentile world that is going to flood upon us to
destroy us. It is not too late for you to return to the fold. “God will gather
us together again by fire, by the sword, by the agonies of our children, by the
pouring out of our blood, by our tears. We shall be depleted after the
holocaust, but God will not let Israel die. Palestine is struggling to fulfill
the old prophecy of her renewal and the fight is heartbreaking and full of
despair. Palestine needs your help. Only in Judaism is majesty and peace. Be
proud of your race. Do not make our lot harder.”

Those who are familiar with Jewish publications in recent years cannot but be
aware of a note of terror that indicates a growing fear on the part of the Jews
that their people face a climax of the world’s wrath. Rabbi Neches in Rash
Hoshona Magazine wrote:

“The more one examines the chaos rampant in Jewish communities, the more
perplexed he becomes. He can see no way out of this morass. It seems all hope is
lost for the Jewish people. Yet, despite all this, we have not forgotten our
task as Jews. We know that Israel does not suffer in vain. Yes, we are indeed
facing a time of trouble unto Jacob, but says the prophet, out of it we shall be
saved. The Jew will emerge stronger, more conscious of himself, more willing to
do his duty as a Jew, with increased vigor and strength for the rebirth of his
people in the Holy Land.”

MOVES ON ACCORDING TO PROPHECY A Hebrew paper recorded an incident concerning a
traveler who, while visiting Poland, went to see a famous rabbi, Israel Mayer
Hacohen. The venerable sage questioned his visitor concerning the welfare of
Jewry at large. When told of their fearful plight in Europe, his eyes filled
with tears and as he grasped the hand of the visitor, he exclaimed: “Thank God,
everything moves on according to the prophecy. And does not the Talmud say that
before the Messiah comes great trouble will befall the Jews? How could we have
more troubles than at present? Is it not a sign that the feet of Him that
bringeth good tidings are approaching?”

Witness the following words from the Jewish periodical, B’nai B’rith Magazine:

“We hear of the Jews being frightened when they pick up their morning papers
these days. The Jews are in the headlines, not by reason of anything they
themselves have done but on account of the aspersions of their enemies. American
blatherskites are heard challenging the Jews with false innuendoes, and
Hitlerites spew venom at Jews and Bolshevists in one condemnation.

“‘Fascist (Italian) Editorial Hits Jews,’ reads a black headline that admonishes
Jews of anti-Semitic infection in Italy, which until now has been free of this
disease. Jews tremble. ‘What does all this mean to us in America? This tumult of
voices raised against Jews?’

“Only inhabitants of a fool’s paradise could laugh this off. It would be child’s
talk for us to say that unthinking minds will be impervious to a multitude of
voices crying, ‘Jew! Jew!’ through the press.”

Yes, the time of trouble unto Jacob is in the offing. It is not past! Men in
“shirts” of varied hue march the streets of the great cities of the nations.
Their fanatical leaders scream before street mobs: “Down with the Jews!” The Jew
sees an approaching climax of the world’s hate! The prophetic student knows that
the vortex of the storm will fall in Palestine and come to its end at
Armageddon. A story concerning the late Leon W. Tucker has appeared in Christian
Victory magazine. Editor Meldan says:

“Mr. Tucker once met a Jew in a sanitarium in California. He was wealthy, and
lived only for his business. He was not interested in God, or Christ, or his
people, and he cared not for Palestine and the return of the Jews to their land,
and such things that are precious to orthodox Jews.

“One afternoon Mr. Tucker said to him, ‘May I see your right hand?’ Instantly he
passed it over, saying, ‘I didn’t know you were a palmist’ ‘I’m not,’ said Dr.
Tucker, ‘I’m a Psalmist.’

“He looked at the hand for a moment, thanked the Jew, and then let the hand
drop. Then he asked the Israelite to open his mouth and stick out his tongue.
This, apparently, was going too far, and he had no easy task getting him to show
his tongue; but finally he did. This gesture over, the Jew said: ‘What are you
doing, anyway; trying to make a fool out of me?’

“Then Dr. Tucker read to him from Psalm 137. When he came to the verses, ‘If I
forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not
remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,’ tears came into
the eyes of the spiritually indifferent Jew. He said to Dr. Tucker, ‘You have
taught me a lesson which I shall not forget.’

“But the greater tragedy is, Israel has forgotten her God, and rejected her
Messiah. But God has a great future for the Jews; however, their restoration to
divine favor will not come until after they repent of crucifying and rejecting
Christ, and they accept Him as their Lord and Savior. Before that day shall
dawn-the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble’!”


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The Flame That Never Flickers

CHAPTER SEVEN IN THE minds of some the question arises: Is Zionism the real
fulfillment of the Scripture prophecies, or is it a mushroom growth that will
shortly pass away? To this, we believe the reader will find his answer in the
first two chapters.

The hand of God has been so clearly manifested in these developments of recent
years, that it becomes difficult to doubt that we are witnessing the beginnings
of that great movement which is to gather the Jews from the four quarters of the
earth.

It is interesting in this connection to know that, while the majority of the
Jews who have returned to the land have gone there in unbelief, yet the Zionist
leaders in contending before the British Royal Commission, based their rights to
the land squarely on the Old Testament prophecies. The Bible is the “Mandate”
upon which the Jewish people rest their claim to Palestine and the Mandate of
the League of Nations merely gave recognition to that right, David Ben Gurion,
chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared at one of
the final hearings.

- “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds: and they shall be
fruitful and increase” (Jeremiah 23:3).

- “I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers and
they shall possess it” (Jeremiah 30:3).

While insisting that Zionism was its own justification, irrespective of the
benefits conferred by Jews, the witness emphasizes the beneficial character of
the Jewish work for Palestine which, he said, was inherent in its nature and
could not be otherwise.

Ben Gurion cited two reasons why the Jewish National Home could be established
only in Palestine, both being historically unprecedented.

- The first was that Palestine was the only country which Jews regarded as their
own. - The second was that no other race as a whole considers Palestine its
homeland. A DOOR NO MAN CAN SHUT

Referring to this series of events, Dr. Roland V. Bingham has said: “When God
has opened a door, no man or set of men can close it.” We believe that the door
has been definitely opened.

There is no end of evidence of the tireless determination of the Jewish leaders
to see this dream realized. A statement from the Zionist headquarters recently
said:

“Numerous are our victims and heavy are our losses, but our spirit remains
unbroken. In the midst of war, we do not forget that our aim is peace, and in
the midst of destruction we will not cease building. Facing cruel attacks and
malevolent designs, we remain confident of the justice of our cause, knowing
that our creative power and eternal Israel will overcome all obstacles in the
way of his redemption.”

Says New Palestine:

“There is nothing that forges the spirit of a people so much as the fortitude
that must come out of red-hot suffering: out of seeing loved ones fall in the
fray, or their plans frustrated by the cruel buffets of circumstances, or their
toil going for naught under the pincer grip of strife.

“Today, in the Land of Israel, the Jews are being subjected to a deeply
harrowing experience. They are being asked to stand by, to raise no finger, and
to suffer the burning and pillage of their groves and orchards, the destruction
of their produce, the uprooting of the precious trees which have been made to
flower in the soil of a deforested land, the rape and unlicensed lust of the
vandal.

Yet the Jews of Palestine have remained patient, if embittered, too, under these
onslaughts.” The comment of Dr. A. H. Carter in Bible Witness is most
significant:

“Whatever Satan and his instruments may attempt to do, they can never succeed in
frustrating God’s purposes regarding the children of Israel. The Arabs’ present
efforts to force the Government to stop Jewish emigration into Palestine will
never be successful, for we know from God’s Word that a tenth of scattered
Israel shall return to Palestine in unbelief. See Isaiah 6:13 :

‘In it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil
tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so
the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.’

“In the book of the Prophet Zechariah we are told that out of that tenth of
Israel who come back to Palestine a third will finally be saved:

‘I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in
all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but
the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is
tried: they shall call on my Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my
people, and they shall say, the Lord is my God.’ (Chap. 13:7-9).”

“A young Jewish lecturer in bio-chemistry,” says a recent visitor in Palestine
(quoted in Pentecostal Evangel) “took me round the Jewish University on the top
of Mount Zion. He had sacrificed a good post at Berlin University to dig
foundations for Jewish colonies, and carry mortar, and, later, to lecture here.
We came out to the terrace behind the University. The sun was setting. It was as
though all was lit in a blaze of memory. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘that little break in
the hills right opposite! That was where we first came in under Moses.’ His face
was transfigured, and his eyes lit with that fierce flame of love which all the
winds of the ages have never been able to blow out.”

Before many years the Jews in ecstasy will be saying: “This land that was
desolate is become like the Garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and
ruined cities are becoming fenced and are inhabited” (Ezekiel 36:35).

ALL ROADS LEAD TO PALESTINE Mr. Louis Lipsky, leader of the American Zionist
forces, in a National Palestine conference, said:

“For a number of years the Promised Land was the goal only of those who could
not be restrained from pursuing an ideal or a vision; but it had no substantial
influence upon the large body of harassed Jews in other lands. It served to
satisfy an inner need for self-expression and self-realization. That was all.

“But bleak winter has now set in. Other roads are now frozen and have become
impassable. Invitations elsewhere are no longer issued and when extended as a
gesture of chivalry, they have a doubtful value. Opportunities to be absorbed in
alien lands-even on the basis of an agreed inequality-no longer exist. The doors
that were once open have been clamped down. And now one new world of hope, in
which all the treasures that were lost are to be recovered, looms up at the end
of the voyage.

“In view of the fact that thousands of Jews must take that voyage, and that the
door leading into Palestine will be opened wider only if an adequate economic
base is prepared for their absorption and settlement, the question is: Shall the
return be a disorganized flight, or shall there be a planned building of the new
home through the united efforts of all the members of the family?” Can any
discerning reader of the prophetic Scriptures fail to see the plan of God in all
this? Little do these Jews know what lies ahead of them. They only know there is
no other way out. There is some mysterious and powerful urge that tells them
they must begin to assemble in the Land. As Mr. Lipsky says:

“All Jews, whatever their previous impression may have been, observe what
happens to Jewish life when it places its feet upon soil that it claims as its
own; what happens to Jewish life when it seeks to recover its own powers,
explore its own talents and resources; when it waits for no invitations; and
when it regards the land in which it is making its home, as its own as a matter
of right; and not as a matter of sufferance. And when Jews see this, it is like
seeing the world of truth for the first time. Palestine becomes the mirror in
which Jews see the truth of themselves” (Read Ezekiel 11:17-21; Ezekiel
28:25-26; Ezekiel 34:11-31).

We believe those were most significant words of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of
the World Zionist Movement, spoken in one of the gatherings for the United
Palestine Appeal. Said this most influential leader of Jewry:

“Wherever we look upon the Jewish map of the world, we find that all roads lead
to Palestine. There have arisen some mirages in the desert, but these have only
served to confuse the issue, and still further to disillusion the Jewish people.
Contemporary history has impressed upon us the fact (which many of us have long
been unwilling to acknowledge) that the salvation of Jewry and the rescue of
individual Jews are alike inextricably bound up with the accelerated upbuilding
of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. What has been done already is only a
small part of what yet remains to be done if the lives, no less than the
spiritual values, of great masses of Jews are to be saved. What has been done
is, however, a sure sign of how much more may be done through determination,
devotion, and sacrifice.

“Rebuilding Palestine is not a philanthropic enterprise. It is Jewry’s one means
of self-preservation. During the past two years-a period of stress and sorrow
such as no one could have predicted-Palestine has had no need of theorists to
explain its importance in Jewish life. Small as it is in area, Palestine has
yet, in these two years, succeeded in offering safety, security, a permanent
home, and the opportunity of leading a free Jewish life, to more exiled Jews
than all other countries put together.”

Jewry is shut up to the one land to which, according to prophecy, God said He
would gather them at the end of this age. How blind are those who do not see
that these events point to the consummation! A ROD IN A SEA OF TEARS

It behooves the Jews not to plan anything before considering Palestine, declared
Abraham Goldberg to the members of his race at the National Conference for
Palestine. According to legend, Rome was built around a rod on the shores of the
Tiber. Around this rod sandbanks formed, and on them the City of Seven Hills was
reared. The Jews have driven a rod into the sea of tears which is gathering
around it the sandbanks that form as strong foundations for their National home.
These significant words are taken from Palestine Review:

“Across the eighteen centuries, lamentation for the past tragedy of the loss of
the Jewish Center mingles with mourning for fresh victims of today.

“But the Jews are linked also by hope with that ancient epoch. Then amid the
ruins of Jerusalem the hope was born of a return and a rebuilding which has
never been extinguished. It is this confidence which animates the Zionists,
determined to change a dream into reality, whatever the obstacles may be.”

They will, of course, discover that only through divine intervention, will this
dream be realized. The same paper says on another page:

“Come what may in the days or weeks that lie ahead, Jewish immigration to
Palestine will continue as it continued after the bloody events of 1921 and
1929; not because the Jews wish to demonstrate to their opponents that they have
failed, but because for the Jewish people there is no other solution, because
for the Jewish people this is a question of life and death, while for the Arab
people this is only a question of illusory supremacy in one more territory.”

Writing from Jerusalem, Julian L. Meltzer, a Jewish news correspondent, said
recently:

“Few people at a distance can realize to the full, though the picture be painted
often and vividly, the human side of the return of the Jew to his ancestral
land; nor can they envisage the scenes of pathos and joy, of enthusiasm fraught
with almost tearful delight, of well-nigh hysterical relief, that are enacted at
the ports as each boat moves to dock with its newcomers.

“There is a sentiment in migration to whatever country it is borne; but in the
migration to Palestine there is a deeper sentiment still, that of an age-long
yearning that has become a heritage from generation to generation, and that has
influenced the unconscious, perhaps subconscious thought of the people since the
historic exile.

“Yet to observe the demeanor of the children is to be taught a lesson in courage
and fortitude. They come wide-eyed, alert and trustful; to them it is an
adventure rather than an attainment; they revel in their new surroundings and
lose themselves in the new atmosphere as completely as though no previous life
had existed.

“This romance of resettlement is nowhere so pronounced as among the many
hundreds of German children who are being transferred from Nazi land, from the
mockery of a persecuted existence, into the freedom and frankness of the Jewish
homeland. It is a thrilling experience to even the most hardened to watch their
mien as they come tramping down the gangways on to shore, their knapsacks on
their sturdy backs, their whole life before them. Strangely does their
swiftly-spoken Teutonic tongue sound in these Hebrew climes, but it will soon be
replaced-in six months they can prattle as quickly in Hebrew as on arrival they
did in German.” Is it not concerning these very days that we read in Jeremiah
23:7-8 :

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord
liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but,
the Lord liveth which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel
out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and
they shall dwell in their own land”? THE ONLY ANSWER: “ERETZ ISRAEL”

There is a touching note in a recent address of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, made before
a gathering of Jews interested in the United Palestine Appeal.

Here are some of his words:

“I know what is happening in the Jewish world as few men in the world. I tell
you there hasn’t been as grave an hour in Jewish history in centuries as is the
hour today. I remember the day-I think it was 1903 or 1904-when Chief Rabbi
Adler of London said, ‘The cry of the Jewish world is ‘wohin?’ And that cry is
the more necessary and inevitable upon our lips today in the light of the
tragedy of the Jews in Poland and the hell of Nazi Germany. If we Jews who know
there is an answer to ‘wohin’ if we are unable or unwilling to back our answer
with our possessions and our passion and our sacrifice and our life, then we do
not deserve that the people of Jewry shall be safe.’ We have an answer to
‘wohin’! Our answer to ‘wohin’ of thirty years ago and twenty years ago, and
Hertzl forty years ago, is: Eretz Israel.

“I have tried to do something for the United Palestine Appeal and I will go on
as long as I live; my heart, my voice, however shattered, my strength, such as
it is, belong to Eretz Israel. I pray that for some years more I may be able to
give, together with you, of our strength, of our active support to Eretz Israel,
remembering that we are the only great Jewry on earth that can do much-we have
nearly one-third of the Jews of the world in America.” A later statement of the
same leader reads:

“We Jews are supposed to be practical-minded people who do not like
sentimentality. Yet we have seen in these last twenty years that the dream which
was slumbering in the soul of the people has been transformed into a creative
force, which has rebuilt the homeland for thousands of human beings.

“I have said that the reasons which in 1917-18 caused the world to give us our
rights in Palestine have more weight today than at that time. If any attempt is
made today to revise those reasons, whether by a Royal Commission or by any
other tribunal, this is what we will say: If in 1917 you understood the reasons
for which you gave us the Balfour Declaration you should certainly understand
them even better now.

“At that time we were told: ‘Yes, you may begin your work in Palestine, but only
on condition that the population already living there is not injured by it.’
There is no need for me to say that our work in Palestine has not injured the
non-Jewish population; on the contrary, it has been beneficial to them. It has
been proven that the Arab population has increased forty per cent in the course
of the last eighteen years; that it has been strengthened and enriched. We have
carefully observed the condition which was imposed upon us.

“This struggle will be a long one, and I cannot guarantee that we will have no
fresh misfortunes in the course of the next ten years. But we are leading this
battle to victory. I mean that the gates of Palestine will remain open to the
Jews!” THE CONCERN OF ALL HUMANITY

Palestine is the concern of civilization. Somehow the return of the Jews to
Palestine is bound up in the thought of mankind with the ideas of universal
peace between the nations and of the attainment of social justice. There is a
Rabbinical saying that God will not come to the heavenly Jerusalem till Israel
is restored to the earthly Jerusalem; and even in this age of diminishing faith,
the belief remains strong in the Bible-reading peoples that the revival of the
Jewish people in the Land of Israel is an event fraught with importance for all
humanity.

“The rebuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine is still a vital
necessity to the destiny of the human race,” it was declared by General Jan
Christian Smuts, Deputy Premier and Minister of Justice of South Africa, who is
generally credited with authorship of the Palestine Mandate whereby the League
of Nations entrusted to Great Britain the task of assisting in the
reestablishment of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine.

Writing from Johannesburg, South Africa, General Smuts said:

“The rebuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine represents perhaps the
most romantic cause in the world today. It carries us back over more than three
thousand years, to the original establishment of Israel in that little corner of
the world. It brings to mind one of the most wonderful chapters in human
history; tales of heroic deeds against overwhelming odds, and of final disaster
and age-long exile; voices of bards and prophets which have given matchless
expression to the deepest emotions of the human soul, and have resounded
throughout the ages; finally the emergence of a supreme Personality, with a
world message which still remains the highest light that has dawned on our human
horizon.”


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  CHAPTER 9: 08-THE MIRAGE OF BIRO-BIDJAN
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The Mirage of Biro-Bidjan

CHAPTER EIGHT

IF THE Zionist movement is indeed the beginning of the fulfillment of a
prophetic plan, we might well expect to witness the forces of Satan vigorously
at work to defeat the plan and to set before the Jews some counterfeit scheme to
cool their passion for Palestine.

This is exactly what has taken place, and since the scheme has been advanced by
an atheistic government, Russia, it is doubly significant.

There have been those who have insisted that The Protocols were the minutes of
the first Zionist Congress and that the Zionist movement is but an expression of
Communism, but it is impossible to square such theories with the well-known fact
that in Communist Russia Zionism has been absolutely forbidden. Pierre Van
Passen truthfully says:

“One thing the Jew cannot be in the Soviet Union, he cannot be a Zionist, not
even a Socialist-Zionist. He may not engage in making propaganda for the Jewish
National Home in Palestine. He may not cultivate the Hebrew language.
Galuth-nationalism is forbidden ground. The state does not tolerate any activity
in that direction. And since the State operates through and by a dictatorship,
nothing, not even an underground nucleus of Zionist activity remains in the
length and breadth of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”

Equally ridiculous is the contention that Zionist activities in Palestine
closely resemble the Russian Communist order of things. In a personal letter,
our friend, Dr. Cohn of New York, reported to us after an investigation of this
matter in Palestine:

“I saw no such evidences when I was in Palestine. The Jewish life in Palestine
is what we might call Communal, which is quite different from Communistic, and
only one who is ignorant of the difference between these two terms could make
the mistake of confusing one with the other. Communism is fully exemplified in
what is going on in Russia; that sort of life I saw nowhere in Palestine. “I did
see Communal life, and by that I mean that the Jewish Colonization Society
actually owns the acreage, having received money by way of donations from Jews
all over the world; this Society then has drained the land, rebuilt its soil,
laid it out for farming purposes, and then arranged for Jewish families to
colonize on the basis which is not exactly an outright purchase, but corresponds
somewhat to the detail laid out in Leviticus 25. “Thus, a Jewish family is
apportioned a certain number of acres, the number depending upon the size of the
family, and the acreage calculated on a scientific basis to produce sufficient
to support a given number of people. Thus, there is accomplished a continuity of
ownership for one purpose only, the developing of the land and the taking care
of the population under a plan that provides a reasonable approximation to
equality of earning opportunities.

“Beyond this program of Community title holdings, there is nothing that smacks
in the faintest way of Communism. There is a family unity recognized and indeed
made an essential requisite, and there is also every effort made to build up the
spiritual life of the Colony, although the younger people, I suppose much like
the young people in America, do not seem to be greatly exercised over their
spiritual conditions.” THIS IS NO GARDEN OF EDEN

Strange to say, the Soviet officials, after having banned Zionism, as well as
Judaism and Christianity in Russia, offered a colony in the far corner of the
land, known as Biro-Bidjan, as a mirage to lure the wealth of Jewry away from
Palestine and within its own borders. Great sums of money have been spent in
attractive advertising in all parts of the world, conjuring up this spot as a
veritable garden of Eden for the weary wanderer. The Communist press has
faithfully pictured the Utopia provided not only for the Gentile but Jew in
Russia, making the most elaborate claims as the unique opportunity offered the
Jews of the world to reconstruct their life on sound foundations at Biro-Bidjan.
But it turns out that these rosy pictures are no nearer the truth than those of
the Paradise Russia offers those of other races. But the great mistake of the
Soviet leaders in their scheme to attract Jews to Biro-Bidjan, was their failure
to realize that the Jews are essentially a religious people, especially the
oppressed classes, and religion is no more tolerated in Biro-Bidjan than in
other parts of Russia, although the recent new Constitution appears to allow of
more liberty. The colonization scheme was devised when the Jews of Moscow and
other cities, who were the principal commercial class of Russia, were
liquidated, thousands of them being left without means of support. They were
told that all they had to do was to hike to the far corner of Siberia to
Biro-Bidjan. Many of them reached there to find a soil on which they could raise
little. While government investments have improved conditions there greatly, but
a few thousand Jews have been lured to the colony, and the exodus practically
keeps up with the influx.

A. Patkin, formerly Barrister of the High Court of Moscow, in an article in The
Melbourne Argus (Australia) said:

“The Jewish people all over the world, including Russia, consider Biro-Bidjan as
a historical tragedy. The main object of Biro-Bidjan was to create in the Far
East, which is facing Japanese invasion, a Jewish-Cossack corpse to defend the
frontiers of Russia, Biro-Bidjan, which is a tremendous area on the Amir River,
is absolutely unfit for any colonization on a large scale. All attempts of
various Russian pre-war governments to colonize this country with Russian needy
peasants were of no avail. An area consisting of more than three million five
hundred thousand acres has a peasant population of twenty-seven thousand souls.

“This Biro-Bidjan affair has another politico-psychological background. It
serves as a propaganda trick to fight Zionism and the British policy of the
Palestinian mandate. The success of the Jewish national home in Palestine, and
the attachment of world Jewry to its old country, have always been a thorn in
the side of the Communists in Russia, and the proletarian Biro-Bidjan Jewish
republic has been partly invented to combat the ‘British imperialistic national
home’.”

SOVIET TACTICS OF POLITICAL BRIBE

All the Soviet schemes of settling the pauperized Russian Jews on the land for
years past have been exploited as a medium of gaining the support of rich Jews
of America for the Soviet financial schemes. Biro-Bidjan is without doubt only
another step in the Soviet tactics of political bribe. As for the leaders of
world Jewry, they have not taken kindly to the Russian Paradise scheme. A Jewish
newspaper says:

“Philanthropic leaders who in years gone by have posed as non-Zionists, are in
league with the Communists in their endeavor to raise the Biro-Bidjan swindle to
the dignity of a feasible and promising Jewish colonization project. They fail
to consider that Communism is the sworn foe of everything that is Hebraic and
Jewish; that Hebrew is forbidden in Soviet Russia; that Zionism is contraband
and a counter-revolutionary force; that thousands of Russian Zionists are still
rotting away in Soviet jails and that every Jew who settles in Biro-Bidjan is
subject to overwhelming forces of de-Judaization and Communization. Nor do they
come to consider that in the course of the last twelve years almost one hundred
thousand Jews have gone to Biro-Bidjan and that the vast majority of them have
deserted the proposed Red Jewish Eden because of the economic, political,
social, and spiritual difficulties.”

Says New Palestine:

“The Jew cannot flourish in Biro-Bidjan economically and survive as a Jew. While
Palestine saves every Jewish individual for Judaism, Biro-Bidjan must destroy
every Jewish individual for Judaism. But the fact is that even as an economic
proposition, Biro-Bidjan is worthless. After so many efforts, and so many
financial sacrifices on the part of the Soviet Government, Biro-Bidjan, instead
of having the Jewish population of a quarter of a million or of three hundred
thousand, has only a handful of Jewish settlers” (Fifteen thousand).

Says S. M. Melamed, a Jewish writer: “Biro-Bidjan is a fraud perpetrated upon
the Jewish people by the foes of Zionism. We understand the Communist point of
view. They are pledged to a program of the destruction of Judaism and Zionism,
and are just going ahead with their program.”

Says New Palestine:

“The Biro-Bidjan project has lately been taken out of mothballs and brought to
public notice by means of a ballyhoo centering about Soviet officialdom in the
United States. The project is now dressed in a different garb. It has been
removed from the proletarian Union Square to the more gilded surroundings of
Broadway and Times Square. In place of a Communist blouse, it has put on a
dinner-jacket. It has acquired a bourgeois ‘front’ in the facade erected for it
by the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, composed of
eminent and well-meaning, albeit somewhat naive gentlemen.”

Writing in The Day, B. Z. Goldberg waxes positively lyrical over the
transformation. He rejoices that Biro-Bidjan has been taken up by the
‘bourgeois’ elements. He feels that the project has ‘arrived’. In his boundless
enthusiasm, he sees in the frozen steppes of Siberia the makings of ‘a national
home,’ which may be acquired at bargain rates, due to the generosity of the
Soviet Government. The use of the phrases, ‘A National Home’ and ‘A Jewish
Homeland’ in relation to Biro-Bidjan is obviously calculated to confuse and
mislead the public mind and to divert attention, if even for a moment, from the
main issue of building the Jewish National home in Palestine. He goes on:

“We have no quarrel with the attempt to settle a few thousand Jews in
Biro-Bidjan or elsewhere. If there are those who possess the desire and the
hardihood to endure life in the frozen paradise of the Far East, let them by all
means be encouraged to settle there. But to parade this project as ‘a national
home,’ as a ‘sanctuary,’ offering freedom for the ‘full development of the
Jewish nationality and Jewish culture’ is nothing short of exploitation of
Jewish misery.” The Soviet Government has systematically destroyed every vestige
of Jewish communal life in Russia. It has ruthlessly suppressed every form of
what Jews have always considered to be Jewish culture. The teaching of Hebrew is
a criminal offense. Zionism is outlawed. And while these repressive measures are
still in force, the Soviet Government offers a “territory” and a “refuge” for
Jewish exiles.

“YOU SEEK OUR END IN VAIN”

Remember that the territory given them is a journey of five thousand miles from
Moscow. It is the region granted to Russia by China after the conclusion of the
peace pact of 1855, which remained without any cultivation for the long years,
except for a few thousand scattered Cossacks and Koreans under exile. The Soviet
government wanted to bring this section under cultivation as quickly as
possible. It was thought that the Jews would flock there at once, due to their
desire for a homeland. This very failure of the Jews to respond in the face of
unprecedented oppression in many parts of the world, seems but another evidence
that the Jew of today is on the prophetic path, borne along by the divinely
implanted passion for Palestine.

Jewish sentiment the world over would doubtless give overwhelming approval to
the recent statement of Lord Melchett of England, militant foe of all Jews who
seek to sidetrack the Palestine issue. Says Melchett:

“Palestine is not a sentimental luxury nor a wild ideal. Palestine is the only
reasonable and practical solution of the problem of the Jews. As a result of the
Balfour Declaration we have a country in which our rights have been defined and
accepted by all the nations of the world. That is our own. Surely our effort,
our whole work, should lie and must lie in the direction of making a success of
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  CHAPTER 10: 09-IN THE WORDS OF DIVINE INSPIRATION
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In The Words of Divine Inspiration

CHAPTER NINE

“PROPHESY, THEREFORE, concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God,
Behold I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the
shame of the heathen. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I have lifted up mine
hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. But
ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your
fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For behold, I am for
you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown. And I will
multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities
shall be inhabited and the wastes shall be builded.

“And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring
fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and I will do better unto
you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Yea, I will
cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee
and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave
them of men . . . Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God . . .
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that
ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. And the desolate
land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed
by” (Ezekiel 36:6-34). THE LAND BLESSED OF GOD

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of
the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls; because I give waters in
the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen”
(Isaiah 43:19-20).

“And I will make them, and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will
cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her
increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the
Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the
hand of those that served themselves of them” (Ezekiel 34:26-27).

“And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of
Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are
inhabited” (Ezekiel 36:35). THE CALL TO SCATTERED ISRAEL

“I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my
sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 43:6).

“For thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall
even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed
thee up shall be far away . . . The children which thou shalt have, after thou
hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for
me: give place to me that I may dwell . . . I will feed them that oppress thee
with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with
sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy Saviour and thy
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob” (Isaiah 49:19-20; Isaiah 49:26).

“O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold I will lay thy
stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires . . . In
righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for
thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. Behold,
they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather
together against thee shall fall for thy sake” (Isaiah 54:11; Isaiah 54:14-15).

“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds: and they shall be
fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed
them and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be
lacking, saith the Lord” (Jeremiah 23:3-4).

“For, Io, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity
of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return
to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it . . . We
have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now and see
whether a man doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his
hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness?” (Jeremiah 30:3-6) COMING THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION

“Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of
Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

“For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will
break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds and strangers shall
no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and
David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. Therefore, fear thou not, O my
servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for lo, I will
save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him
afraid. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee; though I make a full
end of all nations whither I have scattered thee; yet will I not make a full end
of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished. For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is
grievous. There is none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be bound up: thou
hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee
not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement
of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were
increased” (Jeremiah 30:7-14).

“Why criest thou for thine affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude
of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things
unto thee. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil
thee shall be a spoil, and all they that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
For I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith
the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast saying, This is Zion, whom no man
seeketh after. Thus saith the Lord: behold I will bring again the captivity of
Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be
builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make
merry: and I will multiply them and they shall not be few; I will also glorify
them and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and
their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that
oppress them” (Jeremiah 30:15-20).

POURING IN FROM EVERY LAND

“Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the
coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child
and her that travaileth with child together; a great company shall return
thither. They shall come with weeping and with supplications will I lead them: I
will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they
shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

“Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off,
and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd
doth his flock. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand
of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the
height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat,
and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and
their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at
all.

“Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together:
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps; set thine
heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin
of Israel, turn again to these thy cities” (Jeremiah 31:8-21).

“They shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round
about them: and they shall know that I am the Lord their God” (Ezekiel 28:26).
THIS IS THE LORD’S DOING

“Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be
ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord
God. In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will
also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded . . . Then
the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the
ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and
I will do it” (Ezekiel 36:32-36).

“In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close
up the breaches thereof: and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as
in the days of old” (Amos 9:11).

“And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they
have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his
firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the
mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon” (Zechariah 12:10-11).

“The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising
. . . The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy
feet; and they shall call thee, The City of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One
of Israel. Whereas thou hast been forsaken, and hated, so that no man went
through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations
. . . Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
within thy borders: but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise . . . Thy people also shall be all righteousness, they shall inherit the
land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified” (Isaiah 60:3-21). THE CALL TO ALL GOD’S PEOPLE:

“Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till
he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory” (Psalms
102:16). THE CALL OF THE ANTI-SEMITE:

“Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel be
no more in remembrance” (Psalms 83:4). THE CALL OF THE SPIRITUALLY-MINDED
ZIONIST:

“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn and he will heal us: he
hath smitten and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the
third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we
know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the
morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain
unto the earth” (Hosea 6:1-3)


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