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Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

According to the Bible, there are two reasons for this universal hatred of Jews and Israel. First of all, the Jews, as God's chosen people, are under His judgment for their rebellion against Him and the rejection of their Messiah (Deuteronomy:28:15-68; 29:24-28; 30:17-20, etc.). Secondly, anti-Semitism is inspired of Satan—a being whose existence many "educated" people deny. The reason is obvious. It was foretold that the Savior of the world, who would rescue mankind from Satan's control, would be a Jew (Genesis:12:3; 2 Samuel:7:8-16; Isaiah:9:6-7; Micah:5:2, etc.)

Satan's only hope to escape eternal doom, therefore, was to destroy those whom God chose "to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy:7:6). Had Satan been able to destroy the Jews before the birth of the Messiah, he would have prevented his own defeat. For promising a Messiah who never came, God would have proved Himself a liar and lost any moral ground for punishing Satan.