T H E K I N O ’S B U S I N E S S
October, 1989
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"What Makes Folks Hate Us So?” By LOUIS S. BAUMAN* ' 'Long Beach, California
K GERMAN JEW, so the story is told, one day was sobbing bitterly while conversing with not which way to turn. The very last means for sustaining the life of him self and loved ones, had been torn from this son 61 Israel by a ruthless anti-Semitic decree of the Nazi govern ment. His little daughter was upon his knee, listening. Suddenly, she raised her big wondering eyes up to his, and said: “Tell me, Father, what makes folks hate us so?” Ah! The little dark-eyed maid had asked the question that has puzzled millions of her race for ages. Yes, it is a question that has perplexed the Gentiles themselves, who appear unable to give any plausible explana tion of their own hate. The man who can truly answer that child’s question must understand the reality of the mighty forces that are clashing in the unseen spirit world—one vast and final struggle for the supremacy of the uni verse itself. The rationalist, in pride of human wisdom, scoffs at the reality of the spirit world and the impress it is able to make upon our own. But, while he scoffs, he has no answer as to the reason for the Jewphobia that has been rampant on the earth ever since, thirty-seven centuries ago, “there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph” (Ex. 1:8). Satan’s Struggle for Dominion To uncover the real reason for the world’s hatred of the sons of Jacob, we must go back to an age before Adam himself arose from the dust. One of the mysteries of those eons upon eons ago was the rebellion against his Maker of a mighty created prince, even “Lucifer, son of the morning.” We cannot discuss here the mystery nor any fundamental cause of the re bellion that destroyed the peace of all created beings and produced all the woes earth or heaven has ever known. We do know that this ambitious prince, Lucifer, sought the supreme dominion over the create, universe, for we read: “How art thou fallen from heav en, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . . . . . For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven« I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon *Pastor, First Brethren Church.
the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will as cend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High” (Isa. 14:12-14). With that insane determination to rule above God Himself, the battle for supremacy began. It will end only when Satan is, at the last, overthrown and “cast into the lake of fire and brimstone” (Rev. 20:10). When God submerged the land sur face of the earth beneath “the /ace of the deep” (Gen. 1:2) for the de struction of a lawless pre-Adamic race, and built a new earth, giving “do minion” (Gen. 1:26) thereon to Adam, then the wrath of Satan arose against all humankind. Dominion!. Exactly that is still the goal of Satan, who began his ambitious career by hurling the challenge at Omnipotence: “I will'ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: . . . I will be like the Most High!” The moment the eternal Ruler of the heavens and the earth said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion”—that instant the choler surged to the face of Satan, and has not abated in its fury to this day. No sooner had the expressed pur pose of the eternal Elohim been ful filled in the creation of ^.dam and Eve, and dominion had been bestowed upon them, than Satan set himself for their destruction. By deceiving the woman, he brought the head of the new race under sentence of death. The com plete success of, his attempt to destroy the newly created race was frustrated only when, “by faith,” the sons of Adam beheld upon the altar of God, a Lamb to be slain for their redemp tion. The second Adam was foreor dained of God to save the first. Christ the Victor Then came the second Adam, anj they called His name Jesus. Unto Him were given all thrones, all dom inion, all principalities, all power, “that in all things he might have the pre eminence” (Col. 1:16*18). Satan’s ear is not deaf to the prophetic peans of “every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them . . . saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever” (Rev. 5:13). Satan knows that, in the
eternal purpose of the eternal God, when “the seventh angel” 'shall, sound a trumpet, “The kingdoms of this world are Lto] become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for -ver and ever” (Rev. 11:15). Lucifer, hearing the prophecies of the glory that should, some day be the Christ’s, became possessed with a jeal ous anger that exceeded all bounds. Again he set himself for the destruc tion of this Son of Man, using his same old methods of temptation to sin. The same old appeal to the appetite and the ambition of’ the flesh was made.' But the second Adam was not deceived. In a wild, lonely wilderness, He fought the battle and won. How ever, Satan did succeed in nailing to a cross the flesh that refused his temptations. He succeeded in thrust ing it into the grave. But, he reck oned not with the might of the Sinless One to burst the bonds of the prison house and arise triumphant over death, hell, and the grave! Of that Son of Man and Son of God, we read that God "raised him from the dead, and set him . . . Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet” (Eph. 1:20-22). And one of those “things'’ was the old dragon himself. Right well does his satanic majesty know that when the Lion of Judah’s tribe, the chosen of Jesse’s sons, shall reign upon David’s throne in old Jerusalem, Satan will be wearing chains for brace lets and hobbles for anklets, and will begin spending a thousand years wal lowing at the bottom cf the abyss which foulest demons plead and pray they may never have to enter (Rev. 20:i-3; cf. Lk. 8:30, 31). Israel’s Part in the Victory Now, what are the instrument', chosen of God, for the confusion and final utter destruction of this ambi tious and wicked prince of darkness? Satan knows them well! He is fully conscious that his overthrow is to come “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” (Rev. 12:11);. But whence the “blood” in the veins of the Lamb? And, whence the "tes timony” ? Unto Mother Eve, God had promised [Continued on page 402]
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