John Macarthur Passes into Glory

One of the most faithful and gifted Bible teachers now has gone to have eternal discussions and debates with his good friend Dr RC Sproul, as now they both can see that they were wrong in some of their theology and can now joke about it
 
John MacArthur often spoke of his grandfather's tract, "Why You Can't Rub Out the Jew"

It took some effort to track it down, but I believe this is it...

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"WHY YOU CAN’T RUB OUT THE JEW!"

By Dr. Harry H. MacArthur (1890-1950)

"The Jew is often referred to as “the man without a country.” From another viewpoint, the Jew is the only man on earth who has a country promised to him by the original Creator of all things - a country on this earth forever. On the deed of the gift are the words: ‘I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD’ – and there is no other nationality that can show such a claim to any portion of the earth. Since the Almighty has spoken and has laid down the boundaries of the land that is to be Israel’s, how foolish it was for the wise of the earth to talk of colonizing them in Madagascar, Australia or Tanganyika!

This by no mean signifies that every individual Jew has a portion in that promised land, for those who have chosen the way of sin and unbelief have their portion with all others who reject the Lamb of God, but it does mean that “when the Deliverer shall come out of Zion,” the remnant from the “time of Jacob’s trouble” will have their portion in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and never again shall they be made afraid.

No nation can trace its lineage by the clear light of religious history so far back as the Jew. They had literature before most nations had letters, a literature that is today more widely diffused than that of any other people. In comparison with the Jews, the nations making history today are but babes.

Some uninformed Christians today fume because prophetic teachers have so much to say about the Jews. That is because they know not their Bibles. The Jew is the key to prophecy, and all prophecy is intimately concerned with the Jew.

When we speak of the Jews we are speaking of a people that had their origin in a miracle. From 90 year-old Sarah, sterile and past hope, was born Isaac, from Isaac came Jacob, and from Jacob the twelve tribes of Israel. In the course of natural events, Isaac could not have been. By the power of God he came into being and from that point, a nation clothed in the supernatural stood up on its feet and began its strange march down the centuries (Genesis 12:1-2).

No other nation in history has had such manifest and visible tokens of the divine presence. For them the Red Sea was driven back and the Jordan parted. They were miraculously fed in the wilderness, sheltered and guided by the divine pillar of fire. For them the sun and moon were stayed in their courses that their enemies might be cut down. They began as a miracle, and their endurance to this hour is a miracle.

Renan wrote: “The philosophy of history fails utterly to account for the Jew.” Hegel confessed that, like a dark enigma, the history of the Jew had tormented him all of his life. Mark Twain said: “All things are mortal but the Jew, all other forces pass, he remains.”

During the 30 centuries of her existence, Jewry has been perpetually stumbling on the verge of the abyss of annihilation, yet always has she recovered her footing and in the hour when nations worked hardest to wipe them out, they multiplied more rapidly than ever. Why? The Word of God has the only answer, and whether some like it or not, stern facts prove the Bible true.

Lord Beaconsfield said: “The attempt to extirpate the Jew has been made under the most favorable auspices and on the largest scale for the longest periods of time. Egyptian Pharaohs, Assyrian kings, Roman emperors, Scandinavian crusaders, Gothic princes and holy inquisitors have alike devoted their energies to the fulfillment of this common purpose. Expatriation, exile, captivity, confiscation, torture on the most extensive ingenious and massacre of the most extensive scale have been tried in vain. The Jew, however, remains!

Like it or not – their preservation is the miracle of history.

Like it or not – the number of the eminent Jews in the world is and always has been out of all proportion to their population. And not because they plotted to put themselves in places of eminence, but because of sheer brilliance and application. Their positions on the faculties of the universities are awarded by competitive examinations, where names are not even signed to the papers, yet under these conditions, they have won out in outstanding proportion.

Jealous as we may feel, the fact is that most of us are greatly indebted to the Jews. It was Jewish money that financed Christopher Columbus and made possible discovery of this county. It was Jewish money that carried through the Revolutionary War. Haym Salomon was the Jewish broker who almost single handedly carried Jefferson, Monroe and Madison through the days of financial difficulties, bringing America to victory. Rarely did Salomon ask interest on his loans and frequently he made loans knowing they could never be repaid. He died in squalor, his lungs choking with tuberculosis. Nothing was done to repay his heirs and nothing to perpetuate his memory.

The number of Jews receiving Nobel prizes is very large, indicating great achievements in science and other worthy causes for the blessing of humanity. Here are some of them: Baeyer - Chemistry, 1905; Michelson - physics, 1907; Ehrlich - medicine, 1908; Lippermann - physics, 1908; Metchnikoff - medicine, 1908; Heyse - literature, 1910; Asser - peace, 1911; Fried - peace, 1911; Baray - medicine, 1914; Willstatter - chemistry, 1915; Haber - chemistry, 1918; Einstein - physics, 1921; Bohr - physics, 1922; Meyerhof - medicine, 1922; Franck - physics, 1925; Hertz - physics, 1925; Bergson - literature, 1927; Landsteiner - medicine, 1930; Warburg - medicine, 1931; Loewi - medicine, 1936; Ossietzky - peace, 1935. Fourteen of these were German Jews and four more were Austrian Jews.

Others, who were some of the greatest helpers of humanity in our age, are: Waksman - discoverer of streptomycin, used to destroy tuberculosis and many other diseases.

Dr. Joseph Goldberger - discoverer of the prevention and cure of pellagra, a disease which, in the South, killed 7,000 and crippled 250,000 yearly. Dr. Goldberger injected himself with the discharges of the dying people, thereby using himself as the guinea pig. He earned comparatively nothing during his lifetime, but his widow was awarded a pension by Congress in 1929.

Poliomyelitis, in the beginning of the 1950’s was considered the most feared killer and crippler of children, and because of this, was called Infantile Paralysis. Through the instrumentality of Dr. Jonas E. Salk, assisted by the staff of the Virus Research laboratory in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the Salk vaccine was brought into being. The doctors of America wanted him to receive at least a dollar for each child inoculated, but Dr. Jonas Salk, a Jew, would accept no such financial remuneration. Had his desires been monetary, he could have received countless millions. Today, this crippling disease is hardly remembered.

Atomic energy - Thousands of our boys have been spared, for while Germany killed the Jews, she died, and as Americans protected them, she lives. Through the efforts of Einstein, Bohr, Fajans, Franck, Hertz, Meitner, Admiral Strauss, Lilienthal, Rabi, Oppenheimer, Michelson, and many others, we have the atomic bomb, protecting our country even today and making nations respect us.

The Miami Daily News carried this item.

“A Nazi who has syphilis must not allow himself to be cured by salvarsan, because it is the discovery of the Jew, Ehrlich. He must not even take steps to find out whether he has syphilis, because the Wasserman reaction used for the purpose is the discovery of the Jew.

“…A Nazi who has heart disease must not use digitalis, which use in heart disease was developed by a Jew, Ludwig Trabo. If he has a toothache, he will not be able to use Novocain, for he will be benefiting from the work of a Jew, Solomon Stricker. Typhus must not be treated, for he will have to benefit by the discoveries of Jews, Widall and Weill. If he has heart disease, he must not use insulin, because of the research work of a Jew, Minkowsky. If he has a headache, he must shun ovarmidon and antipyrin, discovered by Spiro and Eilgoe. Anti-Semites who have convulsions must put up with them for it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreach, who thought of using chloral hydrate…”

As a minority group and because they are the one international people, they have been blamed for almost everything, even the black plague of the fourteenth century. In recent years they have been charged with a plot to overthrow all Gentile governments.

And, so, down through the history of the world runs this bloody stream of Jewish persecution, A new tide of hate is rising over the earth in our day and the sorrows of the Jew cry to Heaven for mercy and judgment. Hatred of them has become a fetish with millions of pagans and, strange to say, some deluded Christians have yielded to the influence of the vicious propaganda of hate.

No wonder a great British statesman and educator said recently. “The lights of Europe are going out one by one, the light of culture, learning and human kindness. They are going out because the deified monster, Hitler, is swallowing them.”

Those words are exactly in line with the judgments pronounced by the Word of God. The words of Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the world be blessed,” have not been abrogated by God.

Let all who would persecute the Jew read:

Jeremiah 30:11, 16-20: “I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not have thee altogether unpunished. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity, and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an outcast saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.”

If you think the Jew can be destroyed, read Jeremiah 31:35-37: “Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.”

Every Christian with any capacity for spiritual discernment knows that back of the hatred of the Jew is Satan himself. If anything proves the existence of a personal devil, anti-Semitism does. Satan knows that Israel gave us the Book he most despises, the Book that foretells his undoing. Satan well knows that the precious blood that flowed for the sinner’s cleansing came from the wounds and the opened side of a Jew (John 4:22). Satan knows that the scepter has not departed from Judah and that it is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah who will yet rule over the earth.

And Satan knows that nothing so effectually stops the inflow of spiritual blessing from the heart of a Christian as an infection of the virus of Jew-hate. May God fortify the spirit of every reader of these lines against the satanic influences abroad everywhere today, even robbing many a church of divine blessing!

Indeed may every true follower of the Lord exert every effort to combat this present wave of world anti-Semitism. May he pray that everyone may find that individual peace with God and that serenity of mind which is possible only through a faith and trust in the Atonement (Kippora) provided by the Sacrificial Death of the One of 1900 years ago, Isaiah 53 (why He died – an atonement for our sins), and Zechariah 12 (when Israel shall accept her Messiah).

This world of turmoil will in due time be pacified by the visible reappearance of the Messiah of Israel. In the meantime, there is peace and joy and eternal life available to every individual heart by faith in the Great Sacrificial Death on his behalf."
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Good morning, crossnote;

Thank you for sharing and remembering the life of John Fuller MacArthur, Jr. Back when I enrolled at seminary I studied his book, The Master's Plan for the Church which taught me about leadership, Church polity, topical and expository preaching. I still have his book right next to my desk.

What made you decide to share "Why You Can't Rub Out the Jew" ?

I'll make the time to read it today.

God bless you, brother.

Bob

 
Hi Bob, the Jews longevity has always been an enigma to me as well as the ongoing antisemitism throughout the ages. So when I heard the title of this booklet, it stirred my curiosity. IMHO, it is well worth the read.
For the Jewish nation and people, we as Christians must avoid the 2 extreme views, as one holds to God still hving a Covenant with them, but that is false, as Jews and Gentiles ONLY are both saved under the New Covenant , while the other extreme is God has no more dealings with them, but israel shall be restored at Second Coming event
 
For the Jewish nation and people, we as Christians must avoid the 2 extreme views, as one holds to God still hving a Covenant with them, but that is false, as Jews and Gentiles ONLY are both saved under the New Covenant , while the other extreme is God has no more dealings with them, but israel shall be restored at Second Coming event

Both the Abrahamic covenant and the new covenant are unconditional. I hope that is not an extreme view.
 
That's one extreme, (dual Covenant), the other extreme is called replacement theology, where God has no more dealings with the Jews.
I hold to Baptist Covenant theology, and have been accused of holding to replacement, but not true, as just hold that right now any Jew is saved same way any Gentile is, and like Spurgeon, see Israel being reborn to Yahweh at Second Coming event , so Church right now spiritual Israel, but national israel still has a purpose under God in future
 
I hold to Baptist Covenant theology, and have been accused of holding to replacement, but not true, as just hold that right now any Jew is saved same way any Gentile is, and like Spurgeon, see Israel being reborn to Yahweh at Second Coming event , so Church right now spiritual Israel, but national israel still has a purpose under God in future
I would agree, except nowhere in Scripture do I see the term 'spiritual Israel'. Does 'spiritual Israel' face the same possibility of curses that national Israel did?
 
I would agree, except nowhere in Scripture do I see the term 'spiritual Israel'. Does 'spiritual Israel' face the same possibility of curses that national Israel did?
No, for the spiritual Israel are the heirs of Abraham, those now in the New Covenant, as Old one was conditional and new one unconditional
 
No, for the spiritual Israel are the heirs of Abraham, those now in the New Covenant, as Old one was conditional and new one unconditional
Is the promise found in Jer 31:5-7 conditional (Mosaic) or unconditional (Abrahamic)?

Jeremiah 31:35-37 NKJV
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): [36] "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever." [37] Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.

Since the qualifications are impossible, I'd call it unconditional.
 
Is the promise found in Jer 31:5-7 conditional (Mosaic) or unconditional (Abrahamic)?

Jeremiah 31:35-37 NKJV
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): [36] "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever." [37] Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.

Since the qualifications are impossible, I'd call it unconditional.
That would be desribing th New Covenant that national israel will be under at Second Coming event, but not right now
 
No, for the "spiritual Israel" are the heirs of Abraham, those now in the New Covenant, as Old one was conditional and new one unconditional

Fine, but I still do not see in Scripture, the label 'spiritual Israel'( post #13) attached to believers.
The concept is there, as in saved jews and Gentiles now part of one Body, co heirs of Abraham, hence church is "spiritual Israel"

Good morning, crossnote and YeshuaFan;

You are correct, crossnote.

I get what
YeshuaFan is sharing, but Scriptures always trump concepts. Concepts relate to ideas, good points, etc...but it does not equate to Truth. Truth is Scripture, both are God's Word and we should keep that in the mix.


Can I offer a suggestion. When having these discussions let's be conscious of the new disciples who are reading our forums and "sprinkle" more detail or Passages. Sure, they can post their question but many new believers don't. Let's give them a chance to be a part of this learning topic.

God bless
you all, and thank you.

Bob
 
Can I offer a suggestion. When having these discussions let's be conscious of the new disciples who are reading our forums and "sprinkle" more detail or Passages.
I guess I could "sprinkle" more detail" by agreeing that the Church is spiritual Israel yet without the 'curses' and certain privileges, such as ...
Romans 3:2 KJV
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Oracle: (Webster definition) a person (such as a priestess of ancient Greece) through whom a deity is believed to speak.

I would take that to mean a Prophet, which the Church has not had in nearly 2000 years, just as Israel had no Apostles.
 
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