August 2027

SCRIPTURAL POSITION 

 I hold this against you, that you have abandoned your first love. Rev 2:5

CORRECTION: CALL TO REPENT

If a sin/rebuke is not repented of, it carries forward until it is addressed sufficiently to remove the accusation and cleanse/free the guilty one(s). Since Rev 2:4 was not repented of, the correction was carried forward.

BROTHERLY LOVE EXPRESSES OUR FATHER'S WAYS

Age of Enlightenment - man reasoning outside of the Father's Truth. 'Have the courage to use your own understanding,” was therefore the motto of the enlightenment.1

1 Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" Columbia University [Online] Available:

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html

OVERCOMER'S REWARD

The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the Temple of ADONAI. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of ADONAI and the name of the city of ADONAI, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from ADONAI out of heaven and My own new name. Rev 3:12

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

In the early 1600s, a movement known as the Age of Reason or Enlightenment emerged, birthing secret societies such as the Freemasons. Much of this thinking seeped into the Church causing Christians to reposition their faith along rational and deistical lines, still believing in a God who created all things, yet denying any supernatural intervention. This

trend augmented the practice of spiritualizing and allegorizing the Scriptures.

JEWISH PERSECUTION CONTINUES . . . EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

• 1664 Jews of Lemberg (Lvov) ghetto organize self-defense against impending assault by students of Jesuit seminary. The militia sent to restore order instead joined attackers.

About 100 Jews killed.

• 1670 Vienna Jews expelled.
• 1711 Johann Andreas Eleisenmenger writes Judaism Unmasked, denouncing Judaism, which had a formative influence on modern anti-Semitic polemics.
• 1742 Elizabeth of Russia issues decree of expulsion of all Jews out of the Russan Empire. Her resolution regarding harm to the trade stated. "I do not desire any profits from the enemies of Christ.” *
• 1744 Archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa orders "… no Jew is to be tolerated in our inherited duchy of Bohemia." In 1748 she reversed her position on condition Jews pay for readmission every ten years. In 1758, she introduced a law limiting each Jewish family to one son.
• 1750 Frederick II, The Great (“hero genius” according to Hitler) issued a document on general privileges and regulation for Jews. They had a choice to either abstain from marriage or leave Berlin.
• 1752 Holy Roman Emperor Joseph Il abolishes most of the persecutions against the Jews on condition that Yiddish and Hebrew are eliminated from public records and judicial autonomy is

annulled. Judaism is branded ‘quintessence of foolishness and nonsense.’

NINETEENTH CENTURY

· 1805 Massacre of Jews in Algeria.

· 1815 Pope Pius VII re-establishes the ghetto in Rome after the defeat of Napoleon.

• 1827 Russia employs compulsory military service for Jewish boys under 18 years. In order to fill quotas, often children as young as 8 years of age were kidnapped. Conditions often forced the young soldiers to embrace Christianity and be baptized.
• 1844 Karl Marx published a degrading work, On the Jewish Question, which states. "In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism."1
• 1858 Edgardo Mortara, six-year-old Jewish boy whom a maid baptized during an illness, is taken from his parents in Bologna
• 1862 American Civil War General Grant issues Order No 11 commanding all Jews out of his military district, under suspicion of pro-Confederate sympathy. President Lincoln directed him to annul the order.
• 1871 Pope Plus IX gives speech regarding Jews, "of these dogs, there are too many of them at present in Rome, and we hear them howling in the streets. and they are disturbing us in all places"2
• 1878 Adolf Stoecker, German anti-Semitic preacher and politician, founded the Christian Social Party which initiated the German political anti-Semitic movement.
• 1879 Wilhelm Marr introduces the term Anti-Semitism to distinguish himself from the religious position Anti-Judaism.
• 1881 Russian Pogroms. Attacks of looting, bloodshed, rape and murder against the Jews. Many of these attacks were executed by Christians.
• 1881 Kiev, Odessa. In 530 communities, 887 major pogroms and 349 minor pogroms occurred, leaving 60,000 dead and several times that many wounded.
• 1882 First Anti-Jewish Congress in Dresden, Germany. "Manifesto to the Governments and Peoples of the Christian Nations Threatened by Judaism."
• 1893 Karl Lueger established anti-Semitic Christian Social Party in Austria. He became mayor of Vienna in 1897.
• 1895 Alfred Dreyfus Affair. French Army Captain and only Jew serving France was framed by a fellow officer for allegedly giving secrets to the enemy. He was tried for treason and

sentenced to life imprisonment, eventually being declared unjustly convicted by the

Parliament of France. During the trumped-up trial, a Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, took notice as he heard chants about death to the Jews. Herzl became convinced the only

1 Wikipedia “On the Jewish Question: The Argument Between Bauer and Marx” [Online] Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question [April 10, 2018]

2 Wikipedia “Pope Pius IX and Judaism: 1871 Speech” [Online] Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX_and_Judaism [March 28, 2018]

solution for the Jews was to return to their Homeland. In 1897 Herzl called European Jewry together for the first World Zion Congress in Basel, Switzerland. Herzl predicted the Jews would be back in "the Land" of Palestine "within 50 years" and in 1947, exactly fifty years later, the United Nations passed the "Resolution for The Partition of Palestine." Out of the suffering of the Dreyfus family came the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.