As Frederick the Great said, "No nation ever persecuted the Jew and prospered." Hitler tried to destroy the Jews of Germany and also Germany. Pharaoh tried, Amalek tried, Sibon, king of the Amorites, Og, King of Bashan, tried and perished. The Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire tried and passed off the stage of human history, and the eternal Jew lives on.

Jew-haters never learn anything from history. Jeremiah (30 :15), like all the Old Testament prophets, was supernaturally exact when he said,

"All they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey."

Anti-Semitism is futile because it is fighting against God. The most obvious lesson to be learned from four thousand years of human history is that the Jewish people are indestructible. They are now more numerous than ever before, and they will continue to exist in the future, both according to many Old Testament promises, and according to the Word of God - "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."

Very few Christians ever stop to think what Christ's word "until" implies. He predicted the destruction of Jerusalem, the religious and political capital of the Jewish nation, and He said Jerusalem would be "trodden down until" the end of Gentile domination of world affairs. Then Jerusalem will become again the religious and political capital of the Jewish nation, and of the world.

In view of the awful suffering of Jews for two thousand years largely because of their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, how shall  Gentile Christians escape if they too ignore those large sections of the New Testament which speak of His second coming in power and glory "on the clouds," taking vengeance on them that obey not the gospel?  Gentiles who have any religion at all should take warning from Israel. They try to attain salvation through good works. They try to become just before God through their own efforts. Their whole history proves to the world that this is impossible; and yet this is the vain attempt not only of all heathen religions of the world ancient or modem, but also of many of the most intellectual and "modern" clergymen in the United States, [I'm a good person...]

"Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord." Jeremiah 9:23-24

Whether Jew of Gentile, all are "saved by grace."

Since the Jew is God's promised channel of blessing to the world,  what then is anti-Semitism?

Frederick R. Erdman - February 1934