{"id":26291,"date":"2014-08-29T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=26291"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T02:36:22","slug":"orthodox-jews-leave-homes-in-guatemala-village-after-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/orthodox-jews-leave-homes-in-guatemala-village-after-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jews leave homes in Guatemala village after threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJews in Poland had to Wear the Above Badge After Germany Invaded in WWII (Daniel Ullrich, Threedots) <\/em>
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Notice the following:<\/p>\n

August 29, 2014<\/p>\n

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group have begun leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.<\/p>\n

The Lev Tahor members were asked to leave San Juan La Laguna after meetings with elders of the Mayan community.<\/p>\n

The elders accused the Jews of shunning the villagers and imposing their religion and customs.<\/p>\n

The Lev Tahor had settled in the village six years ago as the group searched for religious freedom.<\/p>\n

‘Self-defence’Over the last several days they were seen packing their belongings on lorries in preparations for the departure from the village, about 150km (93 miles) west of the capital Guatemala City.<\/p>\n

“We are a people of peace and in order to avoid an incident we’ve already begun to leave,” Lev Tahor member Misael Santos told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

“We have a right to be there, but they threatened us with lynching if we don’t leave,” he added.<\/p>\n

Lev Tahor members, who practise an austere form of Judaism, also complained that they received threats that water and electricity would be cut if they stayed on.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the village elders said the Jewish members “wanted to impose their religion” and were undermining the Catholic faith that was predominant in San Juan La Laguna. \u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-28992743<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, Judaism is considered a threat to the Roman Catholic faith, so the Orthodox Jews decided the threats against themselves and their families was too great to risk staying.<\/p>\n

Many people hate Jews. But that is not how people are to live.<\/p>\n

Notice something that God had Moses record:<\/p>\n

8 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it is not just Jews that are hated or will be in the future. Throughout history, true Christians have sometimes been called “Jews” and have been subject to persecution supposedly directed towards Jews. True Christians also had to suffer through the so-called Inquisition, which utilized torture against those that had Church of God beliefs.<\/p>\n

Various Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholics, as well as Protestants, have been antisemetic. Notice some statements from the antisemite John Chrysostom, Orthodox Bishop of Constantinople<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But do not be surprised that I called the Jews pitiable. They really are pitiable and miserable (John Chrysostom. Homily Against the Jews I:II:1. Preached at Antioch, Syria in the Fall of 387 AD. Medieval Sourcebook: Saint John Chrysostom (c.347-407) : Eight Homilies Against the Jews. Fordham University. http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/chrysostom-jews6.html ).<\/p>\n

So the godlessness of the Jews and the pagans is on a par. But the Jews practice a deceit which is more dangerous (I:VI:4).<\/p>\n

Do you see that demons dwell in their souls and that these demons are more dangerous than the ones of old? (I:VI:7).<\/p>\n

Since it is against the Jews that I wish to draw up my battle line, let me extend my instruction further. Let me show that, by fasting now, the Jews dishonor the law and trample underfoot God’s commands because they are always doing everything contrary to his decrees. When God wished them to fast, they got fat and flabby (VI:IV:2).<\/p>\n

Indeed, the fasting of the Jews, which is more disgraceful than any drunkenness, is over and gone (VIII:I:5).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the facts are that the Holy Days were kept by Jesus, the New Testament Church, and those faithful to their teachings. And the other fact is that no where in the Bible do we see hatred against the Jews. Jesus taught we were to love our neighbor (and most the of “neighbors” He was then talking to were Jewish).<\/p>\n

Notice some statements from the antisemite Martin Luther, a Protestant Reformer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My heart is fuller of these thoughts than my tongue can tell. I have come to the conclusion that the Jews will always curse and blaspheme God as all the prophets have predicted. He who neither reads nor understands this, as yet knows no theology, in my opinion. And so I presume the men of Cologne cannot understand the Scripture, because it is necessary that such things take place to fulfill prophecy. If they are trying to stop the Jews blaspheming, they are working to prove the Bible and God liars (“Martin Luther’s to George Spalatin,” from Luther’s Correspondence and Other Contemporan, Letters, <\/em>trans. by P. Smith (1913), Vol. 1, pp. 28-29).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore he wrote:<\/p>\n

I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them\u2026They are so blind and stupid that they see neither the words found in Genesis 17 nor the whole of Scripture, which mightily and explicitly condemns this lie\u2026They are real liars and bloodhounds who have not only continually perverted and falsified all of Scripture with their mendacious glosses from the beginning until the present day. Their heart’s most ardent sighing and yearning and hoping is set on the day on which they can deal with us Gentiles as they did with the Gentiles in Persia at the time of Esther\u2026The worse a Jew is, the more arrogant he is, solely because he is a Jew \u2014 that is, a person descended from Abraham’s seed, circumcised, and under the law of Moses. David and other pious Jews were not as conceited as the present-day, incorrigible Jews…I wanted to present this to us Germans so that we might see what rascals the blind Jews are and how powerfully the truth of God in our midst stands with us and against them (Medieval Sourcebook: Martin Luther (1483-1546): On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Martin Luther advised his followers:<\/p>\n

…to burn down Jewish schools and synagogues, and to throw pitch and sulphur into the flames; to destroy their homes; to confiscate their ready money in gold and silver; to take from them their sacred books, even the whole Bible; and if that did not help matters, to hunt them of the country like mad dogs (Luther\u2019s Works, vol. Xx, pp. 2230-2632 as quoted in Stoddard JL. Rebuilding a Lost Faith, 1922, p.99).<\/p>\n

Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch <\/strong>(Martin Luther (1483-1546): On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543 as quoted from Luther’s Works, Volume 47: The Christian in Society IV, (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971). pp 268, \u00ad293).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it any wonder that since leaders of the Greco-Roman religions have been antisemitic, that many people still are today?<\/p>\n

Persecution will not be limited to Jews and all real Christians will be subject to it not too many years from now.<\/p>\n

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Some items of related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n

Persecutions by Church and State<\/a> This article documents some that have occurred against those associated with the COGs and some prophesied to occur. Will those with the cross be the persecutors or the persecuted–this article has the shocking answer. There is also a YouTube video sermon you can watch: The Coming Persecution of the Church<\/a>.
\nGod’s Grace is For All<\/a> Is being Jewish a hindrance to salvation? What about not being a descendant of Israel? What does the Bible really teach? Here is a link to a related sermon titled Race and Grace; Do you view race as God does?<\/a>
\nJohn Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople and Antisemite<\/a> This late fourth\/early fifth century Bishop of Constantinople is considered to be a ‘saint’ and ‘doctor’ by the Church of Rome, Church of England, and the Eastern Orthodox, but he did not teach Christ’s love.
\nThe Similarities and Dissimilarities between Martin Luther and Herbert W. Armstrong<\/a> This article clearly shows some of the doctrinal differences between in the two. At this time of doctrinal variety and a tendency by many to accept certain aspects of Protestantism, the article should help clarify why the genuine Church of God is NOT Protestant. Do you really know what the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther taught and should you follow his doctrinal example? Here is a related sermon video: Martin Luther and Herbert Armstrong: Reformers with Differences<\/a>.
\nWhen Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2014, 2015, or 2016?<\/a> Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? Here is a version of the article in the Spanish language: \u00bfPuede comenzar la Gran Tribulaci\u00f3n en 2013 o 2014? \u00bfEs el Tiempo de los Gentiles?<\/a> You can also see the English language sermon video: The Great Tribulation from the Mount of Olives<\/a>.
\nAnglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a> Are the Americans, Canadians, English, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Saxon (non-Dutch) Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? What will happen to Jerusalem and the Jews in Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo-Saxon nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first? Here is a link to the Spanish version of this article: Anglo-Am\u00e9rica & las Tribus Perdidas de Israel<\/a>. Information is also in the YouTube sermons titled Where are the Ten Lost Tribes? Why does it matter?<\/a> and British are the Covenant People<\/a>. A short YouTube of prophetic interest may be Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse<\/a>.
\nWill the Anglo-Saxon Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves?<\/a> Will the lands of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What about Jerusalem? What does Bible prophecy teach? Are there non-biblical prophecies that support this idea? Who will divide those lands? Who will end up with the lands and the people? Here is a link to a video titled Will the USA and other Anglo-nations be Divided and Their People Made Slaves? <\/a> Here is a related item in the Spanish language \u00bfSer\u00e1n divididas las naciones anglosajonas?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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