Christliche Busse Um Israel (With German Translation) — Art Katz

Radical Repentance and Spiritual Resurrection

This is not a religious response, this is a significant response for those who have heard your word and have received your call. Seal it in heaven, put an end to the natural life, to the religious life, to the charismatic life, to the well-meaning life, to the polite life, and be radical.

Be raised up in this people, that they might lift their voice as a trumpet, to tell Israel its sins, Jacob their transgressions, and Germany its error, its false ambition, its continuing imperialist desire.

For God has appointed a day, in which he will judge all nations, by that man whom he has raised from the dead. Let your voice be heard in this earth, whether you were sprinkled with water, or were baptized and immersed.

God is not interested in the form, he is interested in the reality, made possible by his own death and resurrection. It gives you this opportunity to join him, in the waters of death, that you might be raised to newness of life, more than politeness.

Rehearse this with him, you who are down on your knees, Lord, I receive my baptism, though I didn't understand it then, I understand it now, and I receive it as my death. I am buried with you, and when I get up from my knees, I fully expect, to experience the resurrection, for newness of life, new thought, new expression, new impulse, new courage, new love that's really love, beyond sentiment, that can be offended against, and not fail.

For it is your love, your unconditional love, that Israel needs to experience, by those who will convey it, for they are in your life. Lord, I seal these children, unto the resurrection, and raise up in this church, an intention beyond anything that men have conceived, maybe for the first in the history of the church in Germany, an apostolic church, whose foundations are immovable, for whom the kingdom has come, beyond the petty religious ambitions of men, because they have repented, unto death, even of their own design for the church, that your kingdom might come, seal it, perform it, be glorified by it, and let this night be historic, for the church of Jesus Christ, in this nation, that Israel might be blessed, and your soul gratified, and your name glorified, before all nations, thy kingdom come, is our cry, and our belief, our real hope, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen, and Amen, and Amen, give him priestly praise, not something out of your mind, just your spirit, freely flowing, all obstructions removed, they have been brought to death, your self-consciousness, give God your voice, express your gratitude, for so great salvation, that he has made possible, through our identification with him, in death and resurrection, let's lift up our voices, beyond charismatic praise, priestly praise, uninhibited, full of God himself, God celebrating God, through a people whose life is not their own, whose praise is not their own, whose prayers are not their own, for whom to live is Christ, for whom to worship is Christ, for whom to serve is Christ, give him your voices, in priestly praise,.

Hallelujah,. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, koromayalamashiriyaraokamalasoo, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, kimayalamashariyaramayalashiriyarakotemiyalasa,. Hallelujah,.

O Glory! O Glory! O Glory! O Glory! O Glory! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Precious God and the King! Hallelujah! And the Savior and the Redeemer! The Holy One of Israel! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!

The Christ Life and the Church’s Witness to Israel

Glory! My Father and my God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory! My Father and my God! Only by that life could he have the courage to express it. And suffer the rejection that it must bring.

Only by the life. The Christ life.

The resurrection life. That union, that oneness. Would have shown the Jew in your midst the difference. Between mere religion and authentic spirituality. That demonstration was never made for two thousand years.

So what alternative did they have? But their own rabbinical Judaism? Or secular culture? And in that they perished. We're called to move Israel to jealousy. And Paul doesn't explain what that means. As if this is a critical purpose for our life as the church.

To move to jealousy the enemies of the gospel. Is ultimate requirement. And the church that can answer it. Is indeed the church. And will only become such a church. Out of repentance. An awareness of it's terrible historic failure.

And it's present failure still. And a repentance unto death. Woe is me, I am undone. Out of that death will come the life. That will move Jews to jealousy. Even in admiration for your courage. To face them with an unwelcome message.

That you know they're going to reject. And yet you're compelled by the love of Christ. You cannot keep silent. You're Christ full. And when they see this. That you're willing to risk their censure and their condemnation.

You have the painful rejection. Of a Germany that so desperately wants Jewish approval. That that very courage will move them to jealousy. Because they know it's beyond religion. It's nothing other than God himself.

I'm a Jewish believer. Burdened both for Germany and for Israel. But I'm strangely chafed at this so called repentance. Needing continually to be repeated. Affecting nothing in the church. And certainly nothing for the Jews.

Repentance as Burial and Newness of Life

Repent. For the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This requires a valid baptism. One that is a real burial. Because our history and present life has persuaded us. That in ourselves. There's no man good. Even our best intentions are not good enough.

Only Christ. The resurrected one. As our life. Consistently. Is our answer. And God has provided the means. A baptism which is more than a religious ordinance. It's a burial of that which needs to be brought to death.

For there's no hope for it. Even in its best German form. Hope falls short of the glory of God. Who will enter those waters? That's once and for all. And if there's no resurrection after that burial. You of all men are most to be pitied.

But don't think that you're going back to your job. Your business, your profession. All of the nice amenities of your present life. Your hopes for the future. You have no hope. You've died to hope. This is a newness of life.

And it's radical. And it has one motivation only. The glory of God. And not our convenience. It's for the want of this that God is waiting repentance. We have practiced a Christianity of convenience. And it left a great vacuum.

As it necessarily must. And into it came demonic Nazism. We made it possible. We provided the vacuum. Into which this evil came as a flood. For nature abhors a vacuum. And will soon enough fill it. If not with the reality of God.

Then the reality of Satan. Nazism is our fault. Respectable and polite Christianity. Not only made it possible, but made it inevitable. The kind of Christianity that we thought would be polite. And humane.

Where Goethe wanted to garland the cross with roses. Wonderful human sentimentality. Becomes ironically exemplary. Becomes ironically the exact opposite. In the most ugly, bizarre, inhumanity and cruelty that we can think of man.

Sin, Judgment, and Historic Responsibility

Be assured your sins will find you out. And it will express itself ironically. You celebrated humanism. And wanted to be polite and nice. Then here is the fulfillment. Bestiality. Unbelievable cruelty.

Utterly inhumane. God is not mocked. And whatsoever a nation sows. That too will it reap. There is no understanding of what is Jewish independent of what is German. We have affected each other. Shaped a common culture.

Conspired against God. And against his king. And we have both suffered for it. What would it mean for a German church now? That does not just seek its own cathartic relief. But will find a place of true repentance.

And brokenness. Not only for itself but for its fathers. But do not think that you would have done any better than they. If you had lived in the Nazi time. No man good, no not one. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

God is waiting for that repentance. And the laying down of that life. And the evidence of the truth of it. That we will find a new ability. And a burning passion. To tell Jacob of their sins and Israel of their transgressions.

For that prophetic church that can warn of the judgment to come. Is alone qualified to speak of the restoration that will follow. Comfort ye, comfort ye my brethren. For they have suffered double for their sins.

They do not need some kind of schmaltzy sentence. They do not need a sentimental pat on the back. They need comfort. That is by the spirit God's own word. In the midst of their being judged. By a people who did not withhold and did not spare.

They spoke the word of judgment. They called Israel to the recognition of its sin. They will also speak to Israel God's comfort. That will be a comfort indeed. The same comfort that you yourself will know.

Who have been raised out of death. Unto newness of life. And can rejoice in Christ Jesus. As Savior and Deliverer. You will comfort them. With the same comfort with which you have been comforted. If indeed you have been comforted.

A Broken and Priestly Church

And your religious existence is not a false thing, is not a fraud. This is the kind of deep repentance that is necessary. Not that the holocaust was a momentary delusion. And that it was an embarrassing historical mistake.

But the inevitable consequence of our own long apostasy. Our sin is Israel's sin. And it is exactly the same sin. We will not charge them with their sins from some place of superiority. From the place of brokenness.

The priestly place. That is able to speak to a sinning people. As those who know their own sins. And are exactly as Israel's. A church willing to come under the Jewish people. In its priestly service.

For which they seek nothing for themselves. No benefit, no satisfaction. No personal relief. For their sake and the Lord's sake. A priestly church. A broken church. A repentant church. What a blessing for Israel.

A real blessing. And what a blessing for the German nation itself. Who have such a presence in its midst. Of a broken priestly people. Willing to come under another. And forfeit any self interest of its own.

I can't think of any single message that Germany needs more to hear. I can't think of any demonstration. Present Germany needs now more to see. What is not only God's calling for the church of Germany.

But the nation itself. God's purpose is not your imperial ambition. You should be a master people over the nations. He knows your secret heart. And this ambition has never died. That when the historic reconciliation between East and West Germany came.

I personally did not rejoice. Something in the inner man. Now we will see it again. The true Germany. In its ambition and power. Betraying God's call. Not to be a great force in the world. But a priestly nation.

Israel’s Restoration and God’s Kingdom

For the people Israel. So that they might be restored to Zion. As the redeemed of the Lord. For their redemption is his coming. And his coming is his kingdom. In which nations shall study war again no more.

The Jew is not just another ethnic people. They are at the heart of God's theocratic design. For only with their return will his law go forth out of Zion. You could do nothing more for the nations. Not that they should admire your engineering brilliance.

And your masterful business ability. But that you should affect Israel's true restoration. That they might bless all the families of the earth. And all the nations will know. That the God of Jacob is a long God.

That's your task. Go tell it at the Reichstag. Tell it in the Reichstag. But with apostolic conviction. Not as a theory. An opinion, a suggestion. But as the word of the Lord. To the nation. Spoken with authority.

By a people whom he has raised from the dead. Because they have deeply repented. Of their own sins and the sins of their fathers. Of which the holocaust was only a symptom. The holocaust is to Germany what the crucifixion of Jesus is to Israel.

Our Jewish sin is not the crucifixion of Jesus. It's the summation of all our sins. Our long history of apostasy. And the rejection of the prophets that were sent unto us. That when the Lord himself came.

We could not only not recognize him. We were offended by him. I had to crucify him. He was the summation of our sins. And not the sin in itself. So also the holocaust for Germany. It's not the sin in itself.

It's the summation of all your sins. Through all your generations. In converting the radical faith. Into a domestic addendum. A Sunday convenience. To the burglary life. Repent. For your fathers. And for yourselves.

For nothing has changed. And God will not honor your false repentance. That seeks only your relief. He waits for this recognition. This depth. This death. That he might be all in all. Israel's destiny is at stake.

Our eternal destiny. Waits more on such a church in Germany. Than in any other nation. The nation that cast us into the physical fires. Is the same intended by God to save us. From the eternal fire of his judgment.

You have a destiny. A mandate. Unfulfilled. That you cannot fulfill in yourself. But only in the power of his life. In union with him. Both in death. In burial. And resurrection. I want to pray. For such a repentance.

A Call to Authentic Repentance

Such a church. Such a nation. Lord if this is your word. It astonishes me. But let the spirit of truth witness to it. Stab us in our hearts. Even where our minds cannot lay hold of all this. It's so different from what we have understood.

Thinking we were doing Israel service. To let them alone. To be polite. Come Lord. In this first speaking of this word in this nation. Let there be from among this people. The first fruits of repentance.

The first breaking. The first willing going down into death. The forsaking of all interest. That if there is no resurrection. This people of all people. Are most to be pitied. And our Jewish people with them.

So in the name of Jesus. As the minister of this word. I invite you to repentance. Authentic repentance. For yourself and for your fathers. Unto death. A real going down. Which when you are raised up.

Your life will no longer be your own. His. Christ fools. It is his. For his last days purpose. And his purpose alone. Now don't mock God. Don't come out of your seat. For psychological relief. As a religious reflex action.

Come out of your seat for death. With the end of all your expectations. Even of how you were going to serve God. It's no longer your problem. It is his. When he will have the total possession. For the expression of his life.

Who will come forward for this? Who will kneel at this platform for this? You will validate your baptism. And bring to it the meaning that God had always intended. God waits. For this repentance. Who will come?

Repentance, the Kingdom, and Job’s Example

God is at hand. These words. Spoken first by the Baptist John and Jesus. Are inexorably joined. Always. You cannot speak of the kingdom without speaking of repentance. There is no entry into the kingdom without repentance.

So we have the reality of the kingdom. In exact proportion. As we have authentic repentance. And it's not a once and for all repentance. It's a continual state of being. More rightly a state of death.

For true repentance is the awesome acknowledgement of God. As he in fact is and not as we thought him to be. And before that holy presence. No man dare lift his head. Job was described by God himself as being outstanding.

The foremost of all men. God boasted on him. And yet at the end of God's dealings with him. The same man cries out. I've heard of you with the hearing of my voice. I've heard of you with my ears. But now my eye sees.

And I abhor myself. And repent in dust and ashes. This is classic. This is definitive. And we fall grievously short of this repentance. And for that reason the kingdom does not come. It's the ultimate expression of God in glory.

And requires the most profound coming down of man before it. What does it mean to repent in dust and ashes? What does that symbolically represent? Having gone under the ground in burial. There's no place for me other than to be buried.

Now that I have glimpsed you as you are. There's no place for me as man but in death. And God received that statement from Job. And he said pray for your friends, your comforters. For my anger is kindled against them.

For you have not spoken as my servant Job has spoken. I am continually leaving bewildered saints in my path. And I'm remembering one occasion in America. An outstandingly successful fellowship. And you know what my message for them was?

You think you have it all together? You haven't even begun to speak as Job's comforters have spoken. Which is the most sublime spirituality in the Holy Scripture. It was not appropriate for Job. But the statements in themselves.

Are sublimely spiritual. And despite that God says my anger is kindled against you. However spiritually insightful you were. Deep in your understanding. You still failed. For there's only one statement that I can receive from man.

I abhor myself. And repent in dust and ashes. Is there a nation in the world today for which the issue of repentance is more important than Germany? You will live continually under the shadow of the historic past.

Psychological Relief and the Meaning of Repentance

Will you ever be washed from the stain of the holocaust? And yet there's continual reference to repentance. And I've had opportunity to observe it. Even most recently in the conference on prayer for Israel in Berlin.

There's a continual theme of repentance toward the Jew and toward Israel on the part of the German church. You would think that as a Jewish believer my spirit would rejoice. But the more that I heard these appeals to repentance.

And witnessed the character of it. The more uncomfortable I felt in the inner man. Something is wrong with this kind of repentance. One of the evidences of which is the continual need to reiterate it.

How often are we going to feel sorry for the same thing? That it needs again and again to be restated. Maybe the problem is that we have not rightly understood repentance. And that feeling sorry falls short of it.

I got the impression that what these German saints wanted was psychological relief. They came to the conference in the hope of it. And needed so desperately to experience it. There's a word for this in psychology.

They wanted catharsis.

A relief. A relief for a burden of guilt.

That evidently had not been met in any other way. And so I began to ponder this before the Lord. And here is my essay. Notes on the issue of German repentance toward Israel. What's wrong with this kind of repentance?

The Holocaust as Judgment and the Rod of Chastisement

Maybe it has to do with not rightly understanding the issue of guilt. That assumes that Germany is the cause of the holocaust against the Jew. If that's your understanding, you'll never be relieved. Because it misses the truth of the holocaust against the Jew.

Because it misses the truth of the holocaust against the Jew. The extent of this tragic event goes far beyond Germany's complicity. And if we were real students of God's dealings in history with Israel.

We would be able to distinguish between the judgments that God brings and the rod that he employs. Nazi Germany was the rod of God's chastisement. But the cause was Jewish sin itself. But the cause was Jewish sin itself.

Historic and present. The sins of the fathers. Never recognized. Or acknowledged. The cries of the prophets. Never heard. Nor repented for. And the sin continues. And gathers its weight. And though God may deter in bringing his judgment.

He's not under obligation to bring it immediately in a cause and effect situation. But bring it he will. In his own time. For his own purpose. So you need to pray for the book that Klaus is translating.

Utterly radical in its thesis. Jews will rail against it. Segments of the church will be offended by it. The Holocaust as judgment. In exact proportion to Jewish sin. Yes, even in Germany. The kind of influence that we expressed in our history here.

Our substitution of German civilization for God's messianic answer. Encouraging German rationalism. That is offended by the supernatural God. That had its final expression in God is dead theology. And in the Jewish reform Judaism.

This is more than I can say at the moment. God's judgments are always in proportion to our sins. And when Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. The lawyer, the condemning, what do you call it? The state, the prosecuting attorney.

Gideon Hausner. Writes this in his memoirs. A man's sin or his crimes or that of a nation. May go for a long time unrecognized and unattended. But there must come a time. When the culprit is apprehended.

And the righteous judgment inflicted. So had it come for Eichmann. Many years after the end of the Nazi time. As the scripture says, be assured your sins will find you out. It found us out in the Holocaust.

And why was Germany the rod of our chastisement? Because we so celebrated German culture. There was no segment of the German population. More enthusiastic for Goethe, Schiller, Fichte and Hegel. We could not believe that a Hitler could come to power.

Not in the land of such celebrated civilization and culture. This has got to be a momentary thing. This too shall pass. But it did not pass. And became our judgment. So to feel guilty as the cause of the Holocaust.

Is a false guilt. One that God would not have you to assume. Does that mean that Germany is completely absolved of all responsibilities? Not at all. You are still the rod of God's chastisement. And the willing rod.

And for that there needs to be acknowledgement and repentance. But not for a falsely assumed guilt. There is a deeper sin than the Holocaust. For which repentance God still waits. And therefore he will not honor your false repentance.

The Sin of Domesticating the Faith

Which you are only wanting for your psychological relief. The German sin is identically the same as the Jewish sin. For which the Holocaust is the judgment. What is that sin? It is the betrayal of the true faith.

By both Christians and Jews. In taking our inheritance. And domesticating it. And making of it a Sunday or a Saturday culture. A bourgeois accommodation. That would not in any way threaten our real interests.

And allow us a modicum of religiosity. That is the sin. For which repentance God waits. The taking of the apostolic faith. And the making of it some kind of addendum to our busy life. Not just in our liberal Christianity.

But in our orthodox Christianity. It is nothing less than the misuse of God. For man's own purposes and man's own ends. It is ultimate idolatry. Because it is performed in the name of God. And thinks it is even doing him service.

And so to seek psychological relief through repentance. Is to continue in that same sin. We are the object of our religious life. Our relief, our satisfaction, our happiness. It is the way it has always been.

And its character yet remains. Even in its best charismatic forms. We have not seen this. And repented. For the misuse of God. In the framing of a religious life. In which our personal and selfish interests are foremost.

It has no interest in a kingdom come. It certainly doesn't want to experience the inconvenience. Let alone be an object of opposition or persecution. Better to supply a religious accommodation. And sanctify the purposes of the state.

And give its imperialist ambitions a little religious aura. This is not only Germany's sin. It's the sin of Christian nations everywhere. And the decline of Great Britain is the evidence. The land of Spurgeon and George Whitefield.

The great missionaries. Is the land of the rock punk culture. And its celebrated Christianity. Has a funeral for Princess Diana. Who is a jet set princess of the worst kind. Such is the bankruptcy of British Christianity.

I waited for the British church to express its prophetic voice. To protest the celebration of this pagan. And her illicit relationship with a Muslim prince. Not a word. Not a statement. Even in its prophetic publications.

The Gospel to Israel and the Apostolic Mandate

Yet there's a repentance for which God is waiting. But it's not for our relief. It's for his. For we have offended against him since time memorial. And what rubs the salt into the wound. Is not to offend against him as pagans.

But as Jews and as Christians. Who share together the same mentality. Of a religious convenience. That serves the purposes of man. And is entirely indifferent to the purposes of God. Ultimate idolatry.

Performed in the name of God himself. And still continuing. In seeking this cathartic relief. At Israel's expense. And the fact that this relief is never obtained. Needs again and again to be repeated.

Shows how questionable are its motives. And how unrecognized. The church wants to repent on Israel. I'll give you a good reason. Your failure to have made known to the Israel in your midst. The reality of its own Messiah and God.

In whom you professed to believe. Allowing them to coexist side by side. To have their own religious institutions. As if somehow the synagogue is a valid religious reality. And not a statement of continuing Jewish apostasy from Christ.

Is there any nation in the world. That has had a longer Jewish presence than Germany. And has so little affected them by your witness. We had a direct mandate in scripture. This gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.

To the Jew first. And then also to the Greeks. God's priority, God's order. Which we consciously circumvented. Because the Jews are so intimidating. And so bright. And intellectual. And professional. And their lives seem so well ordered.

Better than ours. How dare we tell them that they are lost without our Christ. In whose name Jews have suffered historically in Germany. Such an obedience to the requirement of Jesus as Lord. Has got to appear to Jews as being utmost arrogance.

Who would dare perform it. Only one. That one who is truly repentant and broken. And has so descended into death. Which is what repentance is. A burial of the inadequate religious life. And a coming forth in a newness of life.

That does not need Jewish approval. And is willing to bear the offense. Of the gospel itself. In that you have failed. You have not maintained an apostolic witness. To that people whom God has placed in your midst.

It's the statement of your failure. The betrayal of the kingdom. And it's gone on historically. And never been recognized. Nor acknowledged. As sin. And therefore continues still. The scandal of the Jew is something that polite Christianity cannot afford.

Radical Christianity and Apostolic Identification

And if German society has been anything it's been polite. It's more important to be polite than to be radical. No wonder Nietzsche said God is dead. He showed no evidence. In polite German Christianity.

For a Christianity that is polite is not Christian. It's a contradiction in terms. The very nature of the faith is radical. And will always bring upon itself reproach. It's a reproach for which German Christians were unwilling.

Of course Paul said he would wish himself accursed for his brethren's sake. That they might know Christ. Of course that's Paul. That's not us. That's a man speaking as a Jew. In his fleshly ethnic identification with his own people.

Of course we could not be expected to have a burden like that. Really? Well I want to raise a question. Is Paul crying out in Romans 9 out of his Jewishness? What he is in the natural? Or is he crying out as an apostle?

And that the grief he's expressing is not some ethnic identification. But that of the high priest and the apostle of the faith himself. If that's true. Then there's a possibility for an identification with the Jewish people.

That is beyond sentiment. It is the deep heart cry of God himself. For which we would be willing to forfeit our own salvation. Did Paul have it because he was a Jew? Or because he was an apostle? I'm not talking about his title.

I'm talking about his apostolic union with God. His repentance was authentic. It was not a little feeling sorry. It was a man who went down into death. And everything that he celebrated as a man and religiously died with him.

All his categories. Went into death. And he was raised to newness of life. There's no one in whom the resurrected Christ had greater continuation than the apostle Paul. That's what he meant when he said for me to live as Christ.

What's our excuse? What did Paul enjoy that is not available to us? What expression of the resurrection life. Which bears the grief of God for Israel. And the courage to express it. Is not available to us also.

Everything depends on our repentance. Expressed in our baptism. Was it a burial? The only thing that our humanity deserves? For in the flesh is no good thing at all. Or was it a getting wet? Performing a religious obligation.

By those who did not recognize that baptism is a burial. And if they knew it even now. Would not desire it. How shall we expect apostolic reality from a church? That is still alive unto itself. And has never repented unto death.

And wants only relief. And is itself the object of its own consideration. I'm not arguing now for apostolic reality. A form of baptism. Because my preference of course is for the full immersion as burial.

But there are untold millions who have gone down that way. And came up out of that water. No more changed than those who were merely sprinkled. What was their intention? Certainly not death. Not burial.

For they were not persuaded that there was anything about them that required so radical a thing. They are after all nice people. Who need only to be reformed. Or improved. Not buried. You know what I'm saying?

Isaiah’s Call to Warn Israel

The Jew finds us out. And has always revealed the condition of the church. Even Luther's condition. There is something about the unbelieving Jew. That reveals our secret heart. And shows us where in fact we are.

Not only with regard to them. But with regard to God. A really repentant German Christian. Will tell Israel their sins and Jacob their transgressions. Will tell Israel their sins and Jacob their transgressions.

That's what we are told in Isaiah. Do not hold back. Lift your voice like a trumpet. Tell Israel of its sin. And Jacob of his transgressions. And that the holocaust was not some momentary historic aberration.

But the calculated judgment of God. Promised in scripture. In Deuteronomy and Leviticus. In the books of Moses. Of what would befall us in the last days. If we will not acknowledge our transgression. And that of our fathers.

That the sword would pursue us. And terror in the chamber. And the infant and the old man at the bottom. And the young man and the maiden at the top. Exactly the way the bodies were stacked in the gas ovens.

God may deter his judgment. But he will not avert it. For he is not God. And only the people who will tell Jacob their sins. And the judgment that is yet to come. Of which I spoke last night. Of which Jesus spoke.

That there will never again be anything like it. That eclipses all of the suffering of the past. Even the Nazi Holocaust itself. And if that time were not cut short. No flesh would survive. That time is future.

The Need for a Warning About Future Judgment

The conditions for it are already at work. It's near. Who will tell Israel their transgressions? And that you're going to suffer again. For your unrecognized transgression. That instead of coming out of the Holocaust broken and repentant.

To ask why did we suffer this? Where was God? For his covenant people. Unless he was required to be silent. Or as the scripture says to turn his face from us. And that what we have suffered is an exact proportion to our sins.

And the sins of our fathers. For which there has been no capora, no covering, no remission. For without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin. No Levitical priesthood. No place of sacrifice.

No shedding of blood. Two thousand years. Of accumulated Jewish sin. Without a covering. Open and naked to the retribution of the powers of darkness. Only too happy to inflict the judgment. And take a malicious delight in doing.

Instead of crying out what was our sin? We'll cry it out never again. Not us. We may have been victim in the past. In our Jewish defenselessness. But now in the possession of the state. And the apparatus of the state.

Number one world's air force. Military power. Never again. And who contradicts us? Who warns us? Who shows us the word of God? Of the judgments that have come. And the judgments that will come. Only a church that really loves us.

Loves our souls. And wants to save us from the eternal fire. And will speak a warning. That will not be appreciated. That will not be understood. That will invite angry reprisal. Not to offend. And to seek a reconciliation which never comes.

Nor can it come. Is only serving our emotional needs. And offers nothing to the Jew redemptively. It confirms them in their understanding of themselves as victims. After all, for what sin should they have been judged?

They live such a nice bourgeois life. And made their contributions to society. And never hurt anybody. Only those who have the courage to speak to them the truth. Can save them from the judgment that is to come.

Both in time and eternity. So long as they see themselves as victims. Victim of what? Of the church's failure. The bankruptcy of Christianity. And the corruption of the New Testament. That encourages anti-Semitic attitudes.

So long as you condescend to them. You confirm them in their victim mentality. And their condemnation of the church. And the church's message. And the church's gospel. And therefore it robs them of the only hope.

That could save them out of death and hell. Brother, what you're suggesting is frightening. I don't have the courage for it. I don't have the ability for it. That's true. In your present condition. But the resurrected Christ.