Who Really is Antisemitic?

(I don't usually delete comments on my posts, but with this one, if anyone starts commenting about the Jews not being real Jews, Israel not being the real location, or black Israelites, it's going to get your comment deleted. This isn't what this post is about.)

I want to talk about antisemitism, because in the Torah community, this word gets thrown around all the time.

I've been called antisemitic a lot. It's quite incredible to me, because ever since I was a little girl, I've always had a goal of going to Israel someday. If it were possible for me to live there, I would. Interestingly, Abba first started opening my eyes to keeping the Torah in early 2017, but I only started to make the connection of that to my deep love for Israel more recently. Because although I loved Israel since the beginning, I still firmly believed that Sabbath and everything else was only for the Jews. But I think Abba had intended me to come to this understanding long before 2017, so He put that love for Israel in me to prepare my heart. Hopefully people can understand I'm the last person to be called antisemitic.

My understanding of antisemitism is that it is a deep-rooted hatred for the Jewish/Israelite people as a whole. Doesn't matter who you are or what you've done, if you're a Jew, you're evil - that's what antisemitic people believe. This is exactly what happened in the early church and why we lost the Torah in trying to follow in Yeshua's footsteps. When the gentiles came in to the faith, they brought with them their antisemitism. Even though it was both Romans and Jews who were responsible for Yeshua's death, they blamed the entire race of Jews. Wasn't good enough to say, "wicked Jews had instigated His death" - they had to say God was going to punish the entire race for Yeshua's death. Well, they don't know who God is, because He doesn't work that way. I'm appalled that Christians today still say this is why Jewish people have gone through hell these past 2000 years.

At one time gentiles converted to Judaism if they wanted to serve the God of Israel. It was prophesied that Israel would be a light to the nations. Yeshua came through Abraham's seed, opening wide the way for the nations, and Israel itself was to teach the nations how to follow God.

Isaiah 49:6

It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the nations, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 42:6

I, YHWH, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

John 4:22 

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 

Zechariah 8:22,23

Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Adonai of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of YHWH. Thus says Adonai of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’

Yeshua never made a new way for the Jews - not even for the gentiles. Many gentiles and Jews already new and understood the Way. Ruth took that Way. As did Rahab. God sent Jonah to the people of Ninevah, and they all repented and turned to the Way. Yeshua fulfilled prophecy by coming and filled up what it meant to be saved, but from the beginning, salvation was extended to anyone who would depart from evil, put their faith in prophecy, and serve Elohim by keeping His Torah.

So, these antisemitic gentiles were the ones who created a new way, throwing out the foundations of the faith and rejecting the teachers God had set in place. Paganism and antisemitism within that faith was the standard, even law, by the time Constentine ruled, and anyone who chose to follow the real Way was accused of being a Judaizer and persecuted. What is fascinating is that Christians today will condemn being antisemitic, but as soon as you start doing anything from the Torah, they will use the exact same language the Jew-haters from the early church days used. Listen to this extract from a couple famous church fathers. If you do a study on this, you will see there were many, many, gentile believers who practiced the Torah in those days, and you will also see the absolute hatred spewed out towards these people and Jews by those who we still follow today and praise.

"The festivals of the pitiful and miserable Jews are soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts. There are many in our ranks who say they think as we do. Yet some of these are going to watch the festivals and others will join the Jews in keeping their feasts and observing their fasts. I wish to drive this perverse custom from the Church right now. My homilies against the Anomians can be put off to another time, and the postponement would cause no harm. But now that the Jewish festivals are close by and at the very door, if I should fail to cure those who are sick with the Judaizing disease. I am afraid that, because of their ill-suited association and deep ignorance, some Christians may partake in the Jews' transgressions; once they have done so, I fear my homilies on these transgressions will be in vain. For if they hear no word from me today, they will then join the Jews in their fasts; once they have committed this sin it will be useless for me to apply the remedy. And so it is that I hasten to anticipate this danger and prevent it. This is what physicians do. They first check the diseases which are most urgent and acute."

- John Chrysostom (c. 349–407 AD)

"You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense."

- John Chrysostom

"[The Jews'] synagogues be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up be covered or spread over with dirt … Their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed.”

- Martin Luther

Now THAT is antisemitism at its height, and that is why the Jews today want nothing to do with the Christians. Instead of being one with the Jews as other converts in the Bible did, pagan converts elevated themselves high above the Jews, trampled on the holy ordinances of God, and made for themselves a new religion, bidding Jews convert to THEM if they wished to be saved. Jews never needed to "convert". All they needed was to recognize that the Messiah had come and fulfilled all the prophecy they had put their faith in.

So why am I called antisemitic? Because today, there is a new kind of antisemitism, and that is one that people in authority have designed to manipulate everyone to think how they want them to think. Israel is the hotseat of the earth with every nation wanting to have a piece of it. Some nations want to take it by force; others want to take it by cunning. These sly nations grovel to the rulers of Israel, supporting it without question regardless of any corruption. Anyone who questions Israel's leaders (not the nation or people itself) is pronounced this new kind of antisemitic.

If America elects a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-population-control president, and I say that they are an evil ruler that I will not support, am I automatically Anti-American, a hater of all the American people?

There is an agenda going on with Israel, because of how important it is to the Devil, and when you see how vitriolic people get if you aren't behind blindly supporting everything that's going on, it's clear to me that we're going through mind-conditioning.

So, I wish Torah people and Christians would stop throwing around the word antisemitism. It truly exists today, but it should not cause us to be unable to have an opinion over the actions a government takes against its people. It is slander, in my opinion, to call your brother this kind of antisemitic.

I will always stand behind Israel as the nation of God even if I believe she has turned her back on Him today and made serious mistakes. There is something deep inside me that longs to go "home". I never thought it worth mentioning, because it doesn't really count, but somewhere back on my mother's side is a Jewish predecessor, and it makes me wonder if that blood, no matter how little, runs so deep that it calls to the one who has it to go back to its roots.