What year was that?

 What year was that?

“Death to the Jews “…they cried…

What year  was that? 2024? 1939? 474BC?….all the above…down through the ages, various people groups have tried to annihilate the Jew people for a variety of reasons…hatred, jealousy, pure evilness…

When  you think, that God promised Abraham that the nations of the world would be blessed because of him, one wonders why does the Jewish population gets the boot or the death threats and the the killing chambers of WW2.

Esther 3 speaks of an enraged and jealous man, Haman, who desires to destroy the Jews…

 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. 

Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.” Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.

Esth.3.5-6,Esth.3.8-9,Esth.3.13-14

When reading about the various reasons for the destruction of Jews, I think  about the verses in Galations..

 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal.5.19-21

Those who sought or seek destroy others live by these acts of the flesh…they are not seeking godly ideas, but their own lusts…over the ages of time… it hasn’t really changed…

“The Greek word diaspora originally meant a scattering (of anything). In the case of the Jewish diaspora, this is an apt term. Beginning in the 8th century BCE, Jews in Israel were conquered and deported from their homelands over and over for centuries by foreign empires. While some were captured and forcibly moved during the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, for example, others went elsewhere to escape wars or the possibility of being sold into slavery.

The result of this was that Jews eventually spread all over the world, taking their customs and religion with them, although in different countries, these customs would become regionally modified. Thus, the diaspora caused the spread of Judaism all over the world.

Today, there are Jewish communities in every corner of the globe. While the modern state of Israel was established in 1948, there are still far more Jews living outside that traditional homeland than in it. “

https://www.bartehrman.com/jewish-diaspora/

Interesting article…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews

Through the Jews came a Savior…not only for Jews for the World…

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John.3.16-21

Thank YOU….

God so loved…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jasoo3UDSwY&list=RDjasoo3UDSwY&start_radio=1