ANTISEMITISM
''If my theory of relativity will be confirmed, Germans will say I am German, Frenchmen will say I am citizen of the world. But if it will be denied, Frenchmen will say I am German, Germans will say I am Jew.'' (A. Einstein, 1929) (''New York Times'', Feb 16 1930., quot. on: rabbi Joseph Telushkin. Jewish wisdom. Rostov n/D, 2001, p. 401, Russian edition)
What is antisemitism?
''Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range in expression from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution.'' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism)
The first antisemits
Egyptian Pharaoh
Exod 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Exod 1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we:
Exod 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get them up out of the land.
Exod 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exod 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exod 1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Exod 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour.
Exod 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exod 1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live.
Haмаn
Est 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Est 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.
Pharaoh and Haman were the first antisemits. Then there were many 'pharaohs' and 'hamans' else who hurted Jewish people: read about Antioch Epiphan, about the crusades, the inquisition, pogroms, Holocaust.
Repentance
"Repentance just allows Jesus Christ would take the blame upon Himself! This (blame) doesn't pass on the people! If we repent, this doesn't mean the sin pass on us. (Repentance) means Christ removes this sin from our land in order to it would clear and to receive the healing (one can hear loud cheers). We allow to Christ to cleanse our land.
In which connection we shall be repent for the (Jewish) people. Jesus Christ is Jewish too. (We need repent) for that His Jewish brothers were killed. If He Himself, Jewish, had given His life in order to save us it isn't difficult to repent us. We don't need give our life... He takes ... responsibility in order to (via this repentance) the blessing would come for this land.'' (From the speech of pastor Sunday Adelaja on leaders' service in central church of The Embassy of God, the end of May 2006 http://www.messcom.org.ua/2006/06/03/sandey/)
''I ask you, dear (friends), read one of the smallest books of Bible - a Book of Prophet Obadiah. It consists of one chapter. All this book is devoted to the damnation over Edom. Who was this Edom? They (Edom's people) were the brothers of Jews. When the defeat against Judea was Edom's people were at a standstill and looked and laughed when they saw (the strangers) killed Jews and took captive them. God said:
Obad 1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Obad 1:14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
Obad 1:15 For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. ''
(From the speech of pastor Boris Grisenko http://www.messcom.org.ua/2006/06/03/sandey/)
''There was a big antisemitism in Romania too. During the war some of Romanians greatly helped to nazis. But the other people rescued Jews. I talked with one serious priest of Romanian Orthodox church, and he told me there were not mass extermination of Jews in that part of Romania where church proclaimed Jews are God's people and one ought not to kill Jews. ... in this part of Romania Romanians didn't kill Jews, Romanians guarded them from nazis. In the other part of Romania where Orthodox church didn't do this but propagated antisemitism, it took place the mass excision Jews by not only nazis but by Romanians too.
After the war the drought was just in this part of Romania. 1945-th year - the drought on a big territory of Romania, 1946-th year - the drought. 1947-th year - the drought. Then Orthodox priests gathered the thousands of people, explained them a cause, found surviving Jews, and many people came to these Jews, kneeled to them, prayed and repented of that they themselves and other Romanians had done against of ... the killed Jews.
What happened here? After this public act of repentence there was a downpour the next day, and the curse was removed from this large area of Romania." (From the speech of pastor Boris Grisenko http://www.messcom.org.ua/2006/06/03/sandey/)
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