Decaying cities and coarsening manners. Children who make criminal celebrities their thuggish role models. Melting icecaps, rising seas, more forceful hurricances, vanishing forests. Meanwhile, what many millions of radical America-hating Jew-haters in the world want for the people of Israel is what Nazi Germany wanted: to exterminate them.
These pathologies all come from the same family.
We know what trying to exterminate the Jewish people looks like. The Nazis did it not very long ago. The sight of human corpses offends human dignity but here's a sample of the Nazis' work:
In every generation, someone comes against Israel, to destroy the Jewish people, to try to erase "even the memory of Israel's name." (Psalm 83:5)
Not that long ago, just in the 1940's, the Nazis set out to kill all the Jews they could. They successfully managed to kill the great majority of the Jews of Europe. They killed one out of three of all living Jews, including even babies.
When it comes to hating Jews so much that you want to murder the whole people, the Nazis aren't the first and they're certainly not the last. In fact, this is exactly what millions of radical Arabs and misled Muslims want today. They don't just want the country of Israel gone, they want the whole people of Israel killed.
Jew-hatred is an interesting phenomenon. Those who curse the people of Israel are - according to the Bible (Genesis 12:3) - cursed, while those who bless Israel, the Jewish people, are blessed. Why should the Bible say that? Why should that be?
God created the Jews for His own purposes. One can say that He so loved humankind that He created the Jewish people as a semi-disposable instrument, a tool, to elevate all peoples everywhere.
In the words of President John Adams, one of America's revolutionary founding fathers and the second president:
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. (Letter, Febuary 16, 1809)
God will have war with Amalek for all generations. - Exodus 17:16
Amalek is the jealous, hate-filled spirit that tries to destroy the people of Israel "in every generation." In the words of the Passover Haggada: "In every generation there are some who rise against us to annihilate us."
In the Bible's Book of Esther, the evil Haman, who tried to exterminate the Jewish people, was Amalek. Before that, at the time of Israel's exodus from Egypt, it was Amalek (Exodus 17:8) that attacked Israel - the people that God had blessed. In fact, it was that very blessing - God's blessing - that provoked Amalek to swoop down on the people from behind, to attack and kill the weakest.
Amalek fiercely envies Israel; Amelek is furiously jealous. Amalek tries to kill and maim as many innocents as possible, starting with the weakest: the mothers with children, the elderly, the sick and the babies. Amalekites seem to actually prefer to kill children and women.
Hard to believe as it may be, although this has been documented on video many times, Amalekites dance in the streets at the prospect of human suffering.
They danced when they heard about America's heartbreak on 9/11; they dance when they hear that their suicide bombers have successfully killed their "targets," including women and children and babies. They dance at the prospect of some murderous Middle East tyrant shooting missiles loaded with nerve gas or nuclear weapons at Israel, even if the joyful dancers expect to die in the inferno themselves!
It may seem too neat to pin the modern world's long slide into decadence, including its toleration of Amalek, on just one cause. Nevertheless, it ultimately comes from the rejection of one underlying postulate: the sacredness of the individual human being.
We know how to vanquish the forces of hate. We know how to revitalize the West. We know how to overcome decadence.
Our whole world is battleground in a vast war of ideas, philosophies, and religions. As immodest as it will sound, we - that is, the First Covenant Foundation - have what it takes to win it.
Many religious people are waiting for some miracle from God. But, as the religion of Israel teaches (whether you believe in religion or not), it is forbidden to rely on miracles.
This project, SHALOM (shalom is Hebrew; it means peace and it's used as a greeting, hello, goodbye, but it also connotes perfection), is about fulfilling - actualizing - God's Own real world Program. How to do this? By recognizing basic historical truths. This is history's greatest human potential movement. Our aim, as actors in history: to try to meet God half-way.
We need volunteers. You alone can make a tremendous difference!
