I recently received one of the most bigoted, hate-filled, and vitriolic attacks on the Apostle Paul I have ever read.
The Jewish rabbi who wrote to me was from New York City. You know the kind, they wear a black hat, have spit curls, stand on street corners mumbling and rocking, wearing fringes, and appear outwardly to be one of the most holy men to walk the earth.
His first email said all Christians were apes and pigs. I know where he got this. He got it from Muslims who say Jews are descended from apes and pigs. He just could not contain his bigotry against Christians.
I reminded him it was Christian America and Christian soldiers who came to Germany to defeat Hitler and save Jews from continued holocaust. I also informed him it was Jews like him who cause many Christians to hate Jews. I also told him, that if and when Muslims begin their annihilation of Jews world-wide, If he and Jewish haters like himself do not seek Christians to help them, many thousands will perish. Did it change his attitude? No.
His next few emails were very hateful attacks on the Apostle Paul. Some of the most vile and filthy-mouthed language I have ever heard come from any Jew I have ever met. I will not even print his words because I do not want to give other Jews and rabbis like him a reason to laugh and rejoice among themselves that one of their own would be so brave and proud.
I of course responded to his rants only to receive about 20 more emails in succession calling Jesus a bastard, calling him a false prophet, and even more blasphemous words and accusations. I shook my head. And this rabbi thinks by this kind of filthy mouth he will make Christians love him and other Jews? He is the kind of Jew who makes other good Jews not only look bad, he endangers their lives. He gives reason to radical Muslims to want Palestine free from the river to the sea. If Jews do not stop this kind of filthy mouth and this kind of hate-mongering, none of them will be safe in America from the coming holocaust. I warn all Jews to stop these diseased minded rabbis from spreading this hate. Stop using your synagogues to rant this hate against Christians, Jesus, Mary his mother, the Apostles, and Churches. This kind of hate may make many Jews grin and be happy, but in the end it will not bring good results.
Saul of Tarsus was the greatest of all Pharisee rabbis ever produced in Israel.
The reprobate Jew who emailed me made the statement that if it was not for the antichrist Paul, there would be no Christianity. He claims Jesus was a Pharisee and kept all the traditions of the Elders and the laws of Moses. Well now, and then prior called him a bastard and a false prophet? Paul the founder of Christianity and nearly 1.8 billion people? And Jews with less than 13.3 million world wide? Well now, just the mere numbers tell me Paul was greater than ALL THE RABBIS the Jews ever produced from 30AD to the present. Now that is a compliment. Was Paul the founder of Christianity? No, that is a naked lie Jewish rabbis need to stop putting into the young minds of their rockers.
Paul, formerly known by his Jewish name Saul, was a Jew, born in Tarsus in the region of Cilicia (Acts 21:39). From his own testimony his father was a Pharisee and he lived the most strict of religious life of any Jew. He was from the tribe of Benjamin (Romans 11:1). His father sent him to Jerusalem as a young man to be educated and taught by Pharisee rabbis. For several years as he grew from a child into manhood, he sat at the feet of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3). Gamaliel was the rabbi who instructed the Sanhedrin court to stop their hatred and persecution of Christians (Acts 5:34). Now Gamaliel was a doctor of the law. His best student was Saul of Tarsus. While Paul did not use the title "doctor" he did use the term "teacher" (1Tim 2:7; 2Tim 1:11) which in Greek is "didaskalos" [Strongs #1320]. The word doctor is Greek "nomo-didaskalos" [Strongs #3547, from #1320 and #3551]. Paul was a doctor of the law. He was greater than his teacher Gamaliel. Gamaliel never produced any man in all his years of schooling that equaled Saul of Tarsus. In fact, who did Gamaliel produce other than Saul who is well known in history?
Saul had congenital hate in him as a Pharisee toward other Jews. That was the character of Pharisees. They were intolerant, judgmental, hypocrites, full of poison in their mouths like serpents, false accusers, false witnesses, and believed they could sin righteously if they were defending their traditions. They could even kill with impunity believing they were doing God a service. The virulent hate of Saul against Christians reached its peak when he stood with other Jews from Cilicia and disputed against Stephen (Acts 7:58). He was there to speak his rancor, to incite hate and anger against Stephen. And when the hate reached the peak of murder, he stood there as his rabbi friends took off their tallits and clothes with fringes and laid them at his feet. This one incident shows us Saul was a very powerful rabbi in Jerusalem. He could create hate so vicious men would kill to appease it. He stood and did nothing but watched as stone after stone crashed into the face and head of Stephen. He watched as blood came from his wounds, until he at last staggered and fell to the ground. He was standing there happy as he heard Stephen praying to a God he believed would never hear him.
As I read Acts 9:5 and the word "pricks" I could see Saul was a man whose mind had been brought under conviction and condemnation. This is what "pricks" are. They are times when God quickens to our mind we are wrong. That what we have said or done is sin, vile, or wicked. Sometimes God pricks us to show us what we think and believe is false. I went back and read Stephen's preaching as Saul and his rabbi friends stood off smirking and mocking.
But in Stephen, Saul saw something. He had knowledge but Stephen had wisdom and could speak with eloquent words (Acts 6:10). Here is where many clashes between men arise and lead to spiritual murders. Men who claim to have great knowledge and not men with wisdom and eloquent words. Stephen put Saul to shame that day in his ability to speak the Truth. I have had the good pleasure on many occasions to put men to shame by my ability to speak the Truth. I know the hate Stephen got because I know the hate I get from hypocrites.
I read Stephen's great message. It was here in this message I counted what I believed were at least 30 times and places Saul's mind and heart were pricked. Pricks that although he was stubborn and refused to acknowledge his own stupidity, still troubled his mind. The pricks would not allow him to be at peace within himself. His mind and spirit were afterward troubled. Men and women who are pricked like this will not get rest until they get right with God and those they have spread hate against. Saul was now kicking against these pricks of his conscience. Truth is like this. It cannot be defeated. And those who fight it will get prick after prick. And if some day they do not repent and get right, they will die a reprobate.
Saul of Tarsus became a Christian on the road to Damascus the capitol of Syria. The famous incident is recorded. After his conversion to the best Judaism ever produced in Israel, he went to Mount Horeb in Arabia. There in the vicinity of the Mount of the Lord, Saul was taught by revelation the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was not taught it of man but by the Lord Jesus himself (Gal 1:12). For three years he went through a transformation from a hateful Pharisee to a loving Christian. Those whom he hated he now loved. And the Gospel he once persecuted unto death he now preached (Gal 1:23).
I have met so-called Christian law-keepers who have gone back to viral Jews like this rabbi and picked up hate for Paul. Their hate is vicious. Having had these men not only to spit in my face and one said he would kill me if he could get away with it, I know what Paul faced. I know why the rabbi who emailed me had such hate. They do not really hate Paul. No, they hate the GOSPEL he preached. They hate the fact this GOSPEL has no need of law-keeping for sanctification, justification, salvation, blessings, or mercy. In preaching Jesus and him crucified, buried, resurrected, and the establishment of the Church, Old Testament Judaism and the temple are as valuable and relevant as a museum of dinosaur bones. Paul made all this clear in his epistle to the Hebrews. One law-keeper had torn all 14 of Paul's epistles from his New Testament. When he opened up his Bible there was a big hole between Acts and James. Tell me that is not an example of Pharisee transferred hate? His Bible contained 13 books and even these he could not justify his law-keeping after the Acts 15 decision.
It is pretty well accepted by those who have minds not diseased by Phariseeism or modern rabbi hate, that Paul was the Apostle sent by Jesus to the Gentile nations. The Apostles accepted and recognized this in the book of Acts. Naturally Paul would then preach the Gospel as he was sent by Jesus to preach it. And he did. It was said of he and his companion ministers that they had turned the world up-side down (Acts 17:6). Actually they were turning it right side up. It had been turned on its head by reprobate Gentiles and Jews. And it would take the preaching of the Gospel to put the world back in its proper order. What is strange here, is that many like living a pagan life on their heads and the way they think up-side down. Paul was a man sent to help the Gentile nations get their minds oriented right. And he did a great job. Something no Jew after him has equaled.
I will say this in closing, it is hard to tell the KKK and the neo-Nazis' that all Jews are nice and loving people and should not be discriminated against, when Jews like the rabbi who sent me his puke, purposely go on the Internet and seek email addresses of Ministers to send their vile and filthy language. While I do not agree with or support the KKK or the neo-Nazis in any way, I have a message to Jews all over the world: stop your rabbis from their own KKK hate against Christians, Jesus, and Paul. If you do not stop, blame yourself when few care to help Jews in the next holocaust. Do not damn your people to death just to settle an old Pharisee score for a destroyed Jerusalem and temple. Blame God before you blame a single Christian or Jesus.
Pastor G. Reckart
Gospel to the Jew first even if they hate it....
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