Are Jews the Chosen People? This is racism! Why are Jews considered God's chosen people? The Second Ecumenical Council recognized Jews as God's chosen people.

Who is the chosen one? - One who is able to complete the assigned task. For there is no chosenness without a goal. When, for example, it is necessary to build a stove, they choose not a genius of mankind, but a master stove maker. And the Jewish people were chosen as the most capable of preserving the most important Revelation to humanity about the coming to Earth of the Savior of the world - Christ, Who will free man from slavery to sin. The Jews kept this Revelation in writing. However, the leaders of the people deeply distorted the image of Christ the Messiah. They turned the King of holiness, love and truth of the eternal Kingdom of God into a universal earthly king who will give the fullness of earthly blessings. Notice when Christ said: No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be zealous for one and despise the other. If you cannot serve God and Mammon, then the Pharisees laughed at Him (Luke 16:13, 14), openly showing their god. Father Alexander Men said this very precisely: “ the idea of ​​the Kingdom of God in Judaism is the idea of ​​the external triumph of Israel and its fantastic prosperity on Earth" Therefore, the bulk of the Jewish people, brought up in such religious materialism, did not accept the coming Lord Jesus Christ, calling man to the fullness of spiritual and moral purity and to the achievement of eternal life in God.

At the Cross of Christ the final division of Israel into two parts took place (see: Luke 2:34): small herd chosen ones remainder(see: Luke 12, 32; Rom. 11, 2–5), who accepted the promised Christ and thereby preserved the covenant of election, which became the beginning of the Church, and the other part - those who became embittered, who finally lost this election by their betrayal of the Kingdom of Heaven for the sake of the kingdom on the ground. This includes the harsh words of rebuke from the prophet Isaiah: I called, and you did not answer; He spoke, and you did not listen... And leave your name for My chosen to be cursed; and the Lord God will kill you, and call His servants by another name (Isa. 65: 12, 15). This is another name - Christians (Acts 11:26).

The taking away of chosenness from Jews who do not accept Christ is spoken of many times in the Gospel: I tell you that many will come from the east and west and lie down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven; and the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:11-12); or the parable of the evil vinedressers: Therefore I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people bearing its fruits (Matthew 21:43).

This is how Judaism arose, which, unlike the Old Testament, is essentially an ideology, not a religion, and prepares for the coming of its earthly Christ (Antichrist).

Through many centuries and countries, an ancient motif is heard about the chosenness of one people by God. About his special mission in this world and significance.

You might think that we are talking about Jews. Not at all, this motive was also characteristic of other peoples. Arabs, Americans, Germans, Japanese, Russians and many others. Americans believe in their mission to promote democratic values. Russians sincerely believe in their chosenness of God (an apostolic people, a God-bearing people) and the great mission of the Russian people. The only people capable of being compared to the Jews in terms of “God’s chosenness” is only us.

Of course, such ideas of national greatness (national megalomania) are characteristic of many nations. But in Russia such conditions were created that this idea took on unimaginable dimensions and scope, and a special Christian connotation. The difference with other nations is that their idea of ​​greatness is associated with heroic victories over the enemy and the subsequent expansion of territories, up to world domination.

In our case, our national idea of ​​greatness lies in being chosen by God. The fact is that the Russian people are great martyrs, bringing the light of goodness and justice to the world. In our special mission in the world.

God assigned him a “special ministry” contained in his history and in all the manifestations of his life. Only he can save the world, because “he carries within himself the true teaching of Christ» .

Russian messianism is a worldview in which it is the Russian people who act as the Messiah, the Savior of the world. Behind this lies not only Faith in the Russian people, but also in their special destiny, where there is a place for a truly Russian feat, before which the whole world will bow.

All historical periods of Russian statehood: Muscovite Rus' - Imperial Russia - Soviet Russia (USSR) - Present-day Russia passed under the sign of God's chosenness and messianism.

The emergence of an idea:

The First Rome became Christian under King Constantine the Great, who almost simultaneously founded the Second Rome in the eastern part of the empire. And after the fall of the first Rome under the blows of the barbarians, the Second Rome became the undoubted capital of the Orthodox universal kingdom.

Subsequently, the popes laid claim to the restoration of the Roman Empire, but never received legitimate rights to do so, and with the split into the Latin heresy they completely ceased to belong to Orthodoxy.

The Second Rome remained the reigning city until it accepted the Union of Florence with the Latins, retreating from Orthodoxy, and then suffered punishment for this in the form of defeat from the Turks. Responsibility for the fate of Orthodoxy fell on Rus', which in a religious sense had long been part of the Byzantine Empire, since the Epiphany in 988.

Elder Philotheus also reminded of this obvious continuity in his message to the Moscow Grand Duke Vasily III Ioannovich, son of Sophia Palaeologus: “You are the only Christian king in all the heavens. It is fitting for you, the king, to hold this with the fear of God. Fear God, who gave you this, do not rely on gold, wealth and glory, for all this is collected here and remains on earth here.”

The idea of ​​the Russian people being chosen by God is increasingly spreading in the consciousness of Russian society, and this is undoubtedly reflected in the literature of the 15th-16th centuries, when “Moscow publicists... boldly proclaim Rus' as the “New Israel”, “Zion”, the kingdom, which “the Lord Christ likened to the old power opposite Jerusalem”, the “promised” country.”

And so, through writers, philosophers, historians, these ideas developed and turned into a national Russian idea. The idea of ​​Holy Rus', Moscow - the third Rome and God's chosen Russian people and messianism.

The Russian people, after the loss of God's chosenness by the Jewish people, "are now the only people in the whole earth who are 'God-bearers,' coming to renew and save the world in the name of the new God, and to whom alone the keys of life and the new word have been given." (F.M. Dostoevsky)."...Holy Rus' will be filled with the smoke of incense and prayers and will prosper, like a heavenly shrine." (Monk-seer Abel, 1796 about our time).

Later, these ideas were introduced into Bolshevism, where the proletariat became the messiah, and the goal was the construction of world communism.

After the fall of the USSR, pre-revolutionary ideas resurfaced, and the church actively began to promote them to the masses. False myths about the Russian people began to shine with a new light, Russian culture again became “inseparable” from the church, and Russia again regained its old goals. About the modern Russian national idea and its consequences.

Representatives of the power vertical benefit from the socially supported image of the Russian people uniting and saving other small and weak nations. And they began to build a state doctrine on this.

Here, the “spiritual” and “fair” Russian society is contrasted with the Western, unspiritual and materialistic world. And the Russian people, thanks to their spiritual qualities, work as a “fastening slurry,” a gray mass of cement connecting the peoples of Russia in time and space.

And the highest goal of “Holy Rus'” is to keep the world from evil. That’s why we go into all sorts of holes like Syria as peacekeepers, trying to bring justice to the world. Forgetting that there is no justice in our country.

We are a holy people, bearers of the true faith (truth, culture, outlook on life). A people bringing light to other nations. And around us are evil hordes of enemies who want our division, weakening and death. But the Russian people bravely endure suffering and believe that everything will be fine in the future. God will not abandon us. And then we will all be taken to the kingdom of heaven (socialism, empire, just state, heavenly democracy, heavenly communism). But for this you just need to be patient.

The very idea of ​​God's chosenness and the special mission of the Russian people stands on three pillars.

1.Moscow – the third Rome.2.God’s chosenness of power.3.God’s chosenness of the Russian people.

Moscow is the third Rome.

This idea points to Russia's succession to the two great Romes. In this regard, Russia is the only stronghold of Orthodoxy in the world, of the correct Christian faith. And as a stronghold, it must protect itself from the corrupting influence of the West. Russia has its own special way in everything, and Western scenarios will not fit here.

Not to mention the “Third Rome” as the navel of the Russian land.

As the Third Rome, Moscow claims supremacy over all Christians in the world and the exclusive right to carry the mission of Christianity to other nations. Which, by the way, infuriates the Catholic world immensely.

Under the conditions of the state, the ideas of bringing the eternal to the people have changed into a special uniting Europe with Asia and the regulating function of Russia in politics.

“The goals of our foreign policy are strategic, non-opportunistic in nature and reflect Russia’s unique place on the world political map, its role in history and in the development of civilization.

We will undoubtedly continue an active and creative course towards strengthening global security, non-confrontation, and effectively countering challenges such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, regional conflicts and crises, terrorism and the drug threat.” - Putin said to V.V.

This idea combined spiritual and imperialist views, justifying the desire for world domination through an educational mission. What makes Russia, in the eyes of the Russian people, the only one worthy to rule the whole world. We are a holy martyr people, and we are worthy of this role. If only because the culture and religion of the Russian people in the last few centuries have been under the sign of Christ the Savior. Or simply because we are the most correct in the world. And Americans are stupid. And everyone else too.

God's chosen power.

The fact that power comes from God is written in the sacred scriptures. But the very idea of ​​a “special” ruler given by God in the Russian tradition appeared around the 15th century. Again, thanks to Filofeevism.

Elder Philotheus put the Moscow prince on a par with Emperor Constantine the Great, calling the latter the prince’s ancestor: “Do not transgress, O king, the commandments laid down by your ancestors - the great Constantine, and the blessed Saint Vladimir, and the great God-chosen Yaroslav and other blessed saints, their root and up to you"

The emperor was considered the earthly bearer of the idea of ​​Byzantium's chosenness. Anointing to the throne was a sacrament that supposedly destroyed all sins committed before the coronation. Thus, the emperor literally became a “living saint.”

As the heirs of Byzantium and descendants of emperors and saints, the Rurikovichs, Romanovs, and any rulers in Rus' received a “holy aura.” So Stalin became “God’s anointed” to defend Rus'.

“The Great Patriotic War was a global, trans-world battle of good and evil, the Orthodox spirit of Russia with the rationalistic, pseudo-Christian spirit of the West, from the depths of which materialism, Marxism, fascism and Satanism emerged...

...Glory to God, who granted our people the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War under the leadership of the great leader Stalin." Archimandrite Peter (Kucher) writes, showing the ideas of God's chosenness in all its glory.

Similar ideas resulted in the canonization of the royal family and the cult of veneration of some criminal rulers.

And attempts to present the current president as the “savior of Russia” from various troubles. Some possessed people have already painted icons,

In addition, Putin was presented with a copy of Monomakh's hat. Let me remind you that it personifies autocracy, the chosenness of the kings by God, and the inheritance of the “right path” by Russia after Byzantium. Only a real Russian Tsar is worthy of possessing it.

As a result of the above, faith in the good Orthodox Tsar-Father was given to us by God, who knows better how to live. And we, poor and poor, cannot understand his great plans. A holy kingdom must be ruled by a holy king. And he will solve all the problems, arrange everything, because people simply don’t get into such positions without “God’s help.”

God's chosenness of the Russian people.

This idea suggests that the Russian people are the bearers of the true faith. The Messiah people bring light to other nations. A people who bring goodness. Our task is a feat for a great goal. We will not settle for anything less. Here it’s either “Holy Rus' – the True Church of the whole world” or “Building world communism”, or something similar.

Naturally, as an ascetic people, the Russian people must have special features. Solzhenitsyn, beloved by many, kindly noted them for us:

Trusting resignation to fate, tolerance. Favorite Russian saints are humble and meek prayer books, martyrs. Russians have always approved of the meek, the humble, the holy fools.

Compassion; willingness to help others by sharing your daily needs;

The ability to self-denial and self-sacrifice;

Willingness for self-condemnation, repentance - and public; even exaggerating one’s weaknesses and mistakes;

Spirituality.

These traits were promoted by the church, the communist party, and the current government. Because it is beneficial for statehood. But it is not at all useful to our people.

Unfortunately, many people follow these traits in their daily lives. What it creates is a sluggish, inactive human society inhabiting Russia.

On the other hand, the ideas of God's chosenness turn us into proud people. All nations except ours are flawed. We laugh at Americans, Ukrainians, Belarusians and others. This attitude is very noticeable from the outside. Of course, this scares off other nations; they see us as terrible chauvinists. But how can they understand us? They are not God’s chosen ones.

Conclusion.

God's chosenness is still the main idea of ​​today's Russia. It has almost become part of our flesh and blood and has become a constantly and imperceptibly present part of the Russian mentality.

It forces us to deny the experience of foreign countries. Since we know in advance that their path does not suit us, we have our own holy path.

God's chosenness makes our country a renegade on a global scale. And at the same time, it forces us to take the place of an arbitrator all the time, a separate “fair” side in disputes.

This dissociation from other nations only grows stronger over the years. And with the change of power it only intensified. USSR against imperialist and capitalist countries. Today's Russia is against the World Government, the State Department, the Arabs, the Masons and England. We still “bring the light”, we are not like everyone else. For this we suffer and bear our “cross”.

And, by the way, we do not like Jews who are trying to take away from us the palm in the field of God's chosenness and martyrdom.

“Moscow is the Third Rome” is a statement deeply rooted in the soul of every Russian. He talks about the need for Russia to rule the world. It is Russia, and not America, that should dictate to the world how to live, since we are the most correct and fair.

Such statements in themselves do not contribute to world peace, irritating political partners and heads of state, who in turn consider themselves God's chosen ones.

God's chosenness places the entire existence of the state in close connection with the church. It is the raising of these ideas in society that contributes to the intervention of the Russian Orthodox Church in politics.

God's chosenness turns fraternal nations away from us. After all, we treat them with disdain. We are RUSSIAN, and they are some kind of crests and Bulbashi.

On a personal level, being chosen by God is the cause of unreasonable pride in oneself, country and culture. Because of it, we deny the dark milestones of our history and some true traits of the Russian character (rebellion, belligerence, vindictiveness).

Rejection of your true essence leads to inner emptiness and lack of motivation. The efforts of the enemies of our people have formed a false image of the Russian people in culture, giving false guidelines in life. The image of a martyr, harnessing for a long time and never harnessing, no matter how much you humiliate him, prevents us from seeing our own face.

The idea of ​​God's chosenness also suggests that our ruler, in any case, is a saint and sent from heaven. Many perceive the current president this way, calling him the “savior of Russia”, not believing their eyes, statistics and price tags. And he, without a doubt, considers himself a “national leader” and an uncrowned monarch. ( Otherwise, why would he need Monomakh’s hat, he shouldn’t go to a bakery shop!)

I do not deny the need for a sense of Russian greatness. But our task is to reject this imposed messianism based on Christian “virtues.” The Russian people should be a hero and an example for others, and not a sufferer with a forehead beaten by a rake. We must stop holding other nations together, and start holding our own people together.

For more than one century, the theme of God's chosenness of the Jewish people has haunted the minds of mankind. The paradox is that Jews, recognizing the right to be called “chosen,” often refuse the imposed label. There is no uniformity on this score in the scriptures.

Controversial topic

For Jews, the topic of being chosen by God has always been special. But lately she has become painful. Representatives of Jewry complain that other nations see chosenness as a doctrine of superiority and thirst for world domination.

Indeed, the cornerstone of many conspiracy theories is the idea of ​​some kind of world government consisting of Jews, exploiting the rest of the Earth's population and striving to reduce its number as much as possible.

But even for the average person who is not a Jew or a supporter of conspiracy theories, God’s chosenness of the Jews causes, if not irritation, then at least bewilderment. The rabbis here take a dual position: they believe that the concept of “God’s chosen people” in its current sense is a product imposed by Christian ideology, but at the same time they recognize that the chosen mission of the Jews remains in force, since the Covenant of Moses with God has not been canceled.

However, even in the latter there is no unity among the Jews. In the religious circles of Judaism, there is a position that only strict adherence to the commandments makes Jews the chosen people, while the Orthodox claim that even a Jew who leads an exclusively secular lifestyle can be considered “chosen.”

For what merit?

A person inexperienced in religious knowledge may ask the question: for what merits did the Jews acquire a privileged position in the eyes of God? To do this, you need to turn to religious texts.

In the Torah (Book of Breishit, chapter 12:1-3) God says to Abraham: “Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father’s house to the country that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”

The very concept of the chosenness of the Jewish people was first voiced approximately 1300 years BC (500 years from the time of Abraham) on Mount Sinai by Moses, who conveyed the words of God: “So speak to the House of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel... If you will obey Me and keep My covenant, then you will be My chosen one out of all nations” (Exodus 19:3-6).

According to Judaism, a Covenant was concluded between God and the Jewish people, which can be interpreted both as a blessing and as a huge responsibility placed on the Jews. Orthodox publicist Sergei Khudiev writes that God's election differs from man's. If we choose for something, then to God it is an act of pure, freely given grace, which is not associated with any merit.

This idea is conveyed by the Bible, which emphasizes that the Jews were chosen not for merit, but in order to save all humanity. According to the Old Testament, the pagan peoples were unable to accept the incarnate God, and therefore the people of Israel had to prepare them for the coming of the Messiah.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov clarifies this issue. The Lord, in his opinion, did not choose the Jewish people. God chose Abraham. While many representatives of the human race were mired in pagan cults of worshiping a whole host of gods and deities, Abraham was faithful to the one God - the creator of all things on earth. And only later was chosenness related to the whole people.

Not elected, but appointed

Upon careful reading of the Bible, you will notice that the word “God’s chosen” does not accurately convey the meaning of the relationship between God and the Jewish people as reflected in the Holy Scriptures. “I have formed this people for Myself,” it is said on the pages of the Old Testament (Is. 43:21). It turns out that the people are not chosen by God, but created by God.

As one rabbi wittily remarked about the chosenness of his people: “Jews did not participate in the elections, no one elected them, they were simply appointed.”

The Apostle Paul says that the Jewish Old Testament law is “a teacher for Christ” (Gal. 3:24). This strange word becomes clear if we establish its Greek basis. The original Greek contains the word “pedagogon”, but it is not equivalent to the word teacher, which is close to us. In the ancient world, a teacher was a slave who closely monitored the child so that he got to school on time, did not play pranks and did not waste his energy.

Likewise, the Law of Moses, which the Jews were entrusted to implement, in its true sense does not so much teach as it warns. It is no coincidence that among the 613 commandments of the Pentateuch there are 365 prohibitions and 248 commands. The original mission of the chosen people of the Jews was to warn other peoples from abusing dangerous beliefs.

One of the attributes of the pagan cults practiced in Canaan, Phenicia or Carthage was such a terrible rite as infant sacrifice, confirmed by modern archeology. In these circumstances, Joshua’s orders to scorch the land of Canaan no longer seem so terrible from people whose religious minds had become so clouded that they sacrificed their own firstborn to their god.

“Fanaticism is tolerated in the Bible - in the face of pagan extremes, it is a lesser evil than indifference,” notes Russian theologian and philosopher Andrei Kuraev in this regard.

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Thousands of years have passed since those distant times. Are the people of Israel still forced to fulfill their mission? In the New Testament era, many deprived the Jews of this creative role. The Apostle Paul, endowing Christianity with universalism, contrasted the saving Gospel with the outdated Law. The Christian Saint interpreted Judaism as a “passed stage,” thereby diminishing the theological significance of Judaism in New Testament times.

In 2010, Middle Eastern bishops meeting at the Vatican passed a resolution demanding that Israel stop using the Bible to justify injustices against Palestinians. “The rights to the 'Promised Land' are no longer the privilege of the Jewish people. Christ abolished this right. The Chosen People are no more,” the Vatican resolution stated.

For Jews, such a statement became another reason to declare that the idea of ​​​​God's chosenness was adopted and transformed by Christianity. According to the concept of medieval theologians, the mission of Israel ended with the birth of Jesus Christ in its midst. “Israel in the flesh” was now the Christian Church.

Perhaps the numerous troubles that befell the Jewish people with the advent of the Christian era are evidence that Israel’s mission is over? In the 19th century, the Russian saint Theophan the Recluse expressed his interpretation of this theological question: “Whoever God has chosen will punish him for correction, will deprive him of His mercy for a while, but will not completely reject him.”

One of the documents of the World Council of Churches of Protestant Communities for 1988 states that the Covenant between G-d and the Jewish people remains in force. Anti-Semitism, like any teaching that condemns Judaism, must be rejected.

Compensation for humiliation

All the complexity and inconsistency of the issue of God's chosen people in the modern world lies in the dilemma: dogmatically, the Jewish people remain the chosen people of God, but no one can explain how this should manifest itself in real life, other than a declaration.

In the eyes of the anti-Semitic part of the public, God's chosenness of Jews is expressed in their disdainful and arrogant attitude towards other peoples, in the privileged possession of rights and opportunities that are not given to mere mortals.

Stepping away from anti-Semitic rhetoric, one can try to understand what the special status of modern Jewry is. The famous translator of the Koran, Valeria Prokhorova, writes that “after a slave existence in Egypt, the sons of Israel became free, received abundant lands and prosperity, each of them was like a king.”

This aspect was also considered by the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev: “There is a Jewish conceit that irritates. But it is psychologically explainable: this people was humiliated by other peoples and they compensate themselves with the consciousness of being chosen and their high mission.”

The desire to gain self-esteem after many years of deprivation and humiliation was imprinted in the genetic memory of the Jewish people and was expressed in gaining protection, including through a sense of superiority and the achievement of status and wealth.

Andrei Kuraev sees a prophetic pathos in Jews, repeating “we are responsible for everything.” Quite often one has to notice, writes Kuraev, that an ethnic Jew who becomes an Orthodox priest becomes a person of the “party” and extremes. He cannot limit himself simply to the circle of his parish or monastic duties. He needs to “save Orthodoxy.”

Interfaith conflict

The Russian writer Yakov Lurie, explaining the Jewish phenomenon, noted that the issue here is not the Old Testament or nationality. “It is something intangible and elusive as a whole,” Lurie writes, “it is an extract from all elements that are fundamentally hostile to the moral and social order established on Christian principles.”

Indeed, the modern idea of ​​Jewry being chosen by God can also be explained through a conflict with Christianity. After all, Christianity, in fact, applied those rights and responsibilities of God’s chosen people, which Moses presented to Israel, to itself - “once not a people, but now the people of God” (1 Pet. 2:10).

One of the preachers of Jewish nationalism in Russia, Sergei Lezov, sees the anti-Semitism of Christianity in the fact that it has “usurped Israel’s claims” to the exclusivity of its relationship with God. At the same time, fighters against anti-Semitism go further and demand that Christian peoples, in repentance for the crimes of pagan German Nazism, adopt a view of Israel as a people that still preserves its chosenness of God in absolute uniqueness.

For the Protestant theologian Oscar Kuhlman, there are two understandings of national messianism, between which there is an impassable line: does the chosen people exist in order to serve all of humanity, or so that all of humanity, having come to its senses, serves him.

Covenant under duress

The Talmud says that when the Jewish people stood at the foot of Sinai, God announced to them that if they refused to recognize Him, He would order the mountain to cover the entire Jewish camp with its mass, and the Jews, out of fear, against their will, feignedly agreed to serve Jehovah. The Law of Moses was therefore a great bondage for the Israelites (Shabbat 88:1).

If we were called to court, says Rabbi Solomon Yarhi, and asked why we do not adhere to what was told to us at Sinai, then we could answer that we do not want to know what was imposed on us by force. So, should the Covenant received by the Jews under duress be considered valid?

God-fighting motives were noted back in the days of the first Patriarchs. It is no coincidence that when Jacob was blessed, he received the name Israel - “He who wrestles with God.” “You have fought with God, and you will overcome men” (Gen. 32:27,28), the Creator admonished him.

The desire for freedom also manifested itself in the heirs of Jacob. They were interested in everything that the Torah prohibited. This is how Kabbalah arose - preaching magic and astrology and denying the One Personal God-Creator. The pagan doctrine of transmigration also found a place in the house of Israel.

Jews created a religion of self-deification, says Andrei Kuraev about Kabbalah. They finally gave in to the desires of their hearts, which the Prophets had forbidden them to do. The Prophets are gone, and the Grace of God is gone. "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! how many times have I wanted to gather your children together, as a bird gathers its chicks under its wings, and you did not want to! “Behold, your house is left to you empty,” Christ addressed the children of Israel (Matthew 23:37).

Israel, for whom the Covenant turned out to be a heavy burden, having given in to the temptations of secret knowledge, has largely abandoned God's chosenness. Christianity values ​​Israel's historical mission more highly than Israel itself, wrote Catholic theologian and French Cardinal Henri de Lubac. – Israel exists not for its own sake, but for the sake of all humanity.

Henri de Lubac compared the Jews to the eldest son, who in a famous parable did not want the Father to accept his younger brother. Israel gave Christ to the world, but they themselves did not notice it. As a result, according to the theologian, when, at the end of its providential mission, Israel desired to maintain its privileges, it became a usurper.

And so, at the decisive moment of the coming of the Son of God, the devil was allowed to achieve enormous success, which introduced a special tension into the course of history: he seduces into the greatest possible crime - deicide! – the leaders of God’s chosen people, playing on their materialism and national pride. Under the influence of the devil, they lost faith in the immortality of the human soul and therefore rejected the Messiah, since He brought His promises of the Kingdom of God not on earth, but in Heaven, and not only to Jews, but to all people ready to follow God's Law.

The Jews themselves recognize this in their own way: “This is a general and characteristic feature of the worldview of Judaism, for which true spirituality always realizes itself in material", Christ transferred salvation "to mystical areas inaccessible to the perception of the ordinary person,” explains the International Jewish Newspaper in the article “Why Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.” Even the obvious miracles of Christ and His miraculous resurrection were not accepted by materialist Jews.

Only a small part of Jewry, faithful to the law and the prophets, understood the true meaning of their chosenness by God and, becoming the first Christians, conveyed this chosenness to all Christian humanity. These Jewish Christians also became the first martyrs to fall at the hands of the Jews. The majority of Jews, not accepting Christ, continue to wait for the “other”, the earthly “Messiah”, who will lead to earthly dominion, chosen precisely for this purpose, in their opinion, by the Jewish people. As Christ said about this: “I came in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; and if another will come in his name, you will receive him"(John 5:43; emphasis added). The Church calls him the Antichrist.

Thus, the devil stole from God His chosen people and made from them in humanity his own people and his own materialistic religion, which became the basis for the development of the “mystery of lawlessness” (2 Thess. 2:7), that is, for the establishment of satanic domination on earth. “You know neither Me nor My Father... Your father is the devil and you want to do the lusts of your father; he was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:19,44; emphasis added) - such is Christ’s sentence to the Judaizers who rejected Him. (It should be noted that the very word “Israel” in Hebrew means “fighter of God,” which providentially indicates the proud obstinacy of the chosen people in their relationship with God.)

That is why, under the influence of envy and pride, the Jewish high priests, scholars and elders condemned Christ in violation of their own legal process. The accused was not given a defense lawyer, he was convicted without testimony based on a false interpretation of the words of the Accused Himself, the accusers themselves were the judges, and they held the trial at a prohibited time on the eve of Saturday, they beat the Accused, they did not wait the required day for reflection between the interrogation and the verdict, were not given the opportunity to appeal their decision.

They condemned Christ to crucifixion on a trumped-up charge, the falsity of which they themselves recognized(we will give below quotes from Matthew 25–27; Mark 12–15; Luke 20–23, highlighting confirmation of this in italics). Anticipating their murder plot, Christ told them a parable about the evil vinedressers who killed the Son of the Owner of the vineyard, after which the high priests wanted to kill Him even more, “for understood that He spoke this parable about them. And watching Him, they sent wicked people who, pretending pious, would have caught Him in some word in order to betray Him to the authorities and the power of the ruler,” but they did not succeed. Then " Satan entered into Judas" and through him taught the Jewish leaders "to take Jesus cunning and kill", "many bore false witness on him". They could have arrested Christ during the day, because He openly taught the people, but they preferred to arrest Him at night, because they were afraid of the people. They handed him over to Pilate with the false accusation that Christ “corrupts our people and forbids giving tribute to Caesar, calling Himself Christ the King.”

The high priests knew perfectly well the Old Testament and God's prediction that the Messiah would be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver that would go to the potter (Zech. 11:12–13), and they paid exactly that amount to Judas for his betrayal. They were not stopped even by the repentance of Judas, who returned the money to them with the words : « I sinned by betraying innocent blood. They told him: what do we care??; but, realizing the sinfulness of their act, the pieces of silver did not dare to “put them in the church treasury, because that's the price of blood", and bought land with them potter.

Neither Pilate nor even Herod found “This man guilty of anything of which you accuse Him.” Pilate "knew that the chief priests had betrayed Him" out of envy”, and three times invited the assembled people to release Christ, “This Righteous One.” But three times the people, prompted by the high priests, shouted: “Crucify, crucify Him!”; “Let him be crucified!.. His blood be on us and on our children»!..

As can be seen from the description of the execution, the words of Christ: “Father! let them go, they don’t know what they’re doing!” (Luke 23:34) - referred more likely to the Roman executor soldiers who nailed Him to the cross than to those Jews who, by deliberate lies, achieved His crucifixion. Christ said about them: “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin... If I had not done among them deeds that no one else had done, they would not have had sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father” (John 15:22-24).

“How will you escape from condemnation to Gehenna?.. I am sending you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some you will kill and crucify, and others you will beat in your synagogues and drive from city to city; May all the righteous blood shed on earth come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, ... whom you killed between the temple and the altar. Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you! how many times have I wanted to gather your children together, as a bird gathers its chicks under its wings, and you did not want to! Behold, your house is left to you empty” (Matthew 23:33–38).

An empty house is the deprivation of the Jews' chosenness, which, according to the Apostle Paul, passes to Christians: “If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:29). This meaning of the transition of chosenness to other peoples who have adopted Christianity is expressed in many parables of the Gospel: about the transfer of the vineyard to other winegrowers - “the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who bear its fruits” (Matthew 21:41-43); about the Master of the house, closing the gates for those in whose streets He taught, but dissolving the gates for those who “will come from the east and the west, and the north and the south, and will sit down in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29); about the Kingdom of Heaven, which is like a wedding feast: “those who were called were not worthy,” which is why it was commanded to invite “everyone you find” (Matthew 22:2–14); the same meaning of the parable of those invited to supper (Luke 14:16–24).

This is what the rational logic of the Jewish high priest Caiaphas, who falsely condemned Christ to death, turned out to be: “It is better for us that one man should die for the people, than that the whole people should perish” (John 11:50). The Son of God died for people and rose again, defeating death, and the people who doomed Him to death perished spiritually.

From this amazing tenacity with which the Jewish leaders insisted on the crucifixion of the Son of God, who performed miracles obvious to everyone, preached love between people and attracted many people (this is the reason for the envy of the leaders!) by preaching salvation in the Kingdom of Heaven - it becomes clear that even then The devil managed to raise conscious liars in the chosen people, who, because of their pride, were ready to serve evil and make lies their weapon in the struggle against God Himself for earthly power.

After the resurrection of Christ, they tried to silence this miracle with lies and bribery, slandered Him and made Him their main enemy. They erased from the Old Testament all the fulfilled prophecies about the coming of Christ and reinterpreted these texts into their main source of “law”, which stands above the Bible - the racist Talmud. He claims that God's promises apply only to the Jews, who are promised dominion over all other nations of the world, and they must serve the Jews like cattle.

And especially Talmudic Judaism is directed against Christianity. A well-known Jewish historian admits that the Jews “ranked Christians much lower... the pagans... A curse was pronounced over the Christian scriptures... The formula of a curse over the Menaians (Jews who converted to Christianity) was introduced into daily prayer. The reason for this: Christianity teaches that the promises of God are intended for all people, regardless of nationality - Thus, Christianity was perceived by the Jews as an existential enemy, abolishing the Jewish national chosenness of God with all its desired privileges of earthly domination.

Thus, hatred of Christ became an integral part of Judaism, which continues to this day. Christians are prescribed to be treated worse than cattle. This hatred permeates the entire Jewish code of conduct, compiled in the 16th century on the basis of the Talmud - “Shulchan Aruch” (translated as “The set table” with the “selected dishes” of Judaism). This book can be downloaded for free using the link provided.

In this code, Christians are equated with “idolaters” (Akum) and, upon seeing their temple, Jews are ordered to pray to “God” for the destruction of this “place of idolatry,” as well as to destroy objects of “idolatry” and “call them shameful names.” “Whoever sees the houses of Akums is obliged to say, when they are still living in them: “The Lord will destroy the houses of the arrogant” ...” And if these dwellings have already been destroyed, one should praise the Jewish “god.”

Gentiles are compared to feces; “it is forbidden to save them when they are close to death... they cannot be treated, even for money, except in cases where hostility can be feared... it is permissible to test medicine on Akuma to see if it is useful.” The marriage of Jews with Akums is not recognized: “this is only fornication”; the seed of a Gentile is “considered as the seed of beasts”; If a non-Jewish servant dies of a Jewish owner, the owner “is not given words of consolation,” but must be told: “May God compensate you for your loss,” in exactly the same way as they say to a man when his ox or donkey dies.” It is forbidden for a Jew and a non-Jew to cook in the same pot, but “it is permissible to add food for dogs in the pot in which they cook for themselves.”

“There is no deception in relation to a non-Jew... it is permissible to deceive him in a calculation or not to pay him, but only on the condition that he does not suspect this, so as not to desecrate the Name [of the Jewish “god”]... the money of Akums is, as it were, the property is ownerless and everyone who came first will take possession of it.”

Of course, in achieving his goals, the main methods of the new Jewish “father” are also recommended - lies, slander, provocative methods towards non-Jews to lure them into a trap. But all this must be done secretly, “so as not to desecrate the Name of G‑d.” That is, the Jewish “god,” whose name is forbidden to be written in full, allows and even recommends to his “children” any crimes against non-Jews, as long as this does not become known. To disguise such an attitude in front of non-Jews, hypocrisy is prescribed: outward display of friendly feelings (“on the holiday of Akum, rejoice with them in order to avoid hostility, because this is only a pretence”) and hiding one’s true intentions with distracting maneuvers. In particular, to destroy an unwanted person, “one must look for ways and means to drive him out of the world”, “one must entangle him in every possible way in order to cause his death. For example, when you see that one of them has fallen into a well and there is a ladder in the well, then hurry to pull it out, saying: “Here is my concern - I need to get my son off the roof, and I will now bring it back to you,” etc. P.".

A Jew is allowed to take a false oath to a non-Jewish court - he only “must declare the oath invalid in his heart.” A Jew is forbidden to testify against a Jew in court, and the violator of this prohibition “must be driven from the world... it is a good thing to kill him, and everyone who kills first gains merit”; “all residents of the area are guilty of participating in the expenses made in order to drive the traitor out of the world” - apparently, such mutual responsibility, even in crimes, strengthens Jewish solidarity in confrontation with the non-Jewish world.

(We will show further how this morality was manifested among Jews in politics and in wars - in contrast to the traditional Russian: “I’m going to attack you!” Where Jewish forces operate, one should always keep in mind the possible use of such morality, deception and provocative traps. Many authors refer to the so-called “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” - from our point of view, this is not an authentic Jewish document, but an anti-Jewish one, introduced into circulation by fighters against the dominance of Jews to discredit them, but at its core correctly reflecting the morality of the “Shulchan” aruha". Therefore, it is better to refer not to the “Protocols”, but to the indisputable texts of the original source.)

“As a reward for such faith, the Messiah will come and pour out his wrath on the Akum.” On the eve of the Jewish Passover, a special prayer is read to the Jewish “god” about the “shedding of wrath” on the non-Jewish peoples: “Pursue them, O Lord, with wrath and destroy them from under heaven”...

Let us emphasize that these are not private statements of individual Jewish “sages” (one can also find more aggressive instructions among them, for example: “kill the best of the goyim”), but officially recognized laws, mandatory for study in Jewish schools and for implementation, which pre-revolutionary “Jewish Encyclopedia" calls "a prescription of the rules of life", it is "an invaluable reference book due to its clarity and accuracy." (And now the head of the Executive Committee of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in the Russian Federation, Rabbi Z. Kogan writes, addressing his fellow tribesmen, that this is “a textbook of the Jewish civilization of our time... This book is absolutely necessary for you. You can act as it is written , and be sure that we have fulfilled the will of the Almighty." Chief Rabbi of the Russian Federation A. Shaevich confirms: "The interest in this book has exceeded our wildest expectations. A huge number of grateful responses from a variety of people have been coming to us throughout this time. An even greater number of letters contain urgent requests for help in purchasing...” We will give examples from this modern edition in Chapter V.)

That is why at all times, and especially in the Middle Ages in Christian Europe, the “unfortunate Jews” were expelled from almost all countries. Even some Jews, like the philosopher M. Buber, realized that the cause of anti-Semitism was in themselves: “We only say “no” to other peoples, or, perhaps, we ourselves are such a denial and nothing more. This is why we have become the nightmare of nations. That is why every nation is obsessed with the desire to get rid of us...”

And that’s why the Jews expelled from Christian Europe played “an outstanding, not to say decisive, role” in the creation of the United States, stated the Judophile scholar W. Sombart; At the same time, during the exterminatory privatization of the “no man’s” continent, tens of millions of indigenous inhabitants were destroyed - “like cattle.”

(In fairness, we note that part of Jewry, trying to get rid of racist pride, created in the 19th century “reformed Judaism”, which applied God’s commandments to all people, and not just to Jews, but it remained an insignificant movement, which is very indicative of the prevailing spiritual state Jewishness.)

Of course, such a people, who chose the devil as their father and, through their lust for earthly domination, served to build the kingdom of the Antichrist, could no longer be for God an environment suitable for the embodiment of the proper order of earthly life. The transition of chosenness to Christians (Matt. 23:33–38; Gal. 3:28–29) also meant the formation in Christian nations of a special type of statehood serving God’s purposes—this will be discussed in more detail later.

Now let us note that the entire drama of human history develops between these two opposite spiritual poles and ideals of earthly statehood: Orthodox, serving the Law of Christ, and anti-Christian, serving the “mystery of lawlessness” of the Antichrist. Without realizing this, the direction of human development in the last two thousand years is unclear. That is why, and not at all because of so-called anti-Semitism, we, together with other Orthodox authors, are forced in our book for the historiosophical analysis of any era, including ours, to constantly turn to the role of extremely influential anti-Christian Jewry - also for the benefit of the Jews themselves, identifying from among them those capable of realizing the essence of this phenomenon, for their salvation. Its satanic essence was noted even by such intellectual philosophers (not at all “anti-Semites”) as Father Pavel Florensky, Father Sergius Bulgakov, A.F. Losev. The latter, for example, directly stated:

“The historical carrier of the spirit of Satan is Jewry... Jewry with all its dialectical-historical consequences is Satanism, the stronghold of world Satanism... Israel is the principle of falling away from Christianity and the stronghold of all world malice against Christ.” For this “anti-Soviet” work, in 1930 he received 10 years in the camps.

In connection with Christ's words about the "father" of the Jews, it should also be noted that the Talmud was supplemented by the occult teachings of Kabbalah. Any occultism is a connection with demons; in this case, it became a means of contact between the Jewish “wise men” and the new father Satan in order to attract his help in earthly affairs. Ritual human sacrifices are also connected with this (which has been indisputably proven by famous scientists) in order to appease the “father” and bring the Jewish kingdom of the “messiah”-Antichrist closer.

Already in the Old Testament, God Himself and His prophets often condemn the ritual sacrifices of children to the idols Baal and Molech, which were performed fallen into lawlessness Jews: they “sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons” (see: Ps. 106:37–38; Ezek. 16:20; Isa. 57:5; Jer. 7:31; 2 Kings 17:17 and etc.). It is not surprising that after the greatest Jewish lawlessness - the crucifixion of the Son of God - such sacrifices were again demanded by the new Jewish “father”, who hated the image of God in people. And, apparently, Satan is most pleased with innocent and pure victims, like babies in general were in pre-Christian times, and then Christian children became.

Kabbalah places the Jewish desire for world domination on an “absolute” basis: the “God” needs the Jews and is embodied in them to dominate the world through them. This occult side of Judaism, which justifies evil as a product (along with good) of the same “god,” is kept a special secret by Jews...

The onset of the “mystery of lawlessness” in the earthly world was facilitated by another important feature of Judaism. Not believing in the immortality of a person’s personal soul, the Jews saw all their values ​​only on earth and, more than other peoples, rushed to possess them and to usury. The consequence was the dominance of Jews in world trade and world finance since pre-Christian times, which is why they settled around the world along trade routes and “lines of monetary power” in greater numbers than they lived in Palestine; The words “Jew” and “usurer” have become synonymous among many peoples. All this is proudly recognized by many Jewish authors, for example, the mondialist ideologist J. Attali. In his new book “Jews, the World and Money” he gives this phenomenon the following explanation (we quote in translation, preserving the features of the original):

“The Jewish people made money a unique and universal instrument of exchange, just as they made their God a unique and universal instrument of superiority... In this cruel world, ruled by force, money gradually turns out to be the highest form of organization of human relations, allowing one to resolve violence in all conflicts, including religious ones. The authors of the Talmud were themselves, for the most part, traders and economic experts...”

“Isaac and Jacob confirm the need to get rich in order to please God... God blesses Isaac's wealth and allows him to buy the birthright from his brother Esau - this is proof that everything has a material price, even in the form of lentil soup... Money - a machine that transforms the sacred into the secular, liberates from coercion, channels violence, organizes solidarity, helps to resist the demands of the Gentiles, is a wonderful means of serving God.”

About usury, Attali cites the teaching of Rabbi Yaakov Tam: “This is an honorable profession, usurers earn money quickly and enough to abandon other professions and devote themselves to religious pursuits.”

For Jews, hired labor is considered reprehensible: “An important point: everyone must at all costs avoid agreeing to forced labor that makes one dependent, since obeying someone is tantamount to returning to Egypt... This prohibition explains why, for centuries, Jews most often refuse to join large organizations and prefer to work for themselves.”

Yudophil V. Solovyov wrote that “Jews are attached to money not at all for the sake of its material benefits alone, but because they now find in it the main instrument for the triumph and glory of Israel.” However, the very Jewish goal of earthly triumph was materialistic - that is why the devil managed to saddle the Jewish people to steal the earthly world from God and establish the kingdom of the Antichrist. In this sense, anti-Christian Talmudic Judaism can be called the most materialistic religion, in which “service to God” so merges with the passion for profit that one is replaced by the other: money becomes the Jewish “god” - the prototype of this was the worship of the Jews of the horned “golden calf” described in the Old Testament. . It is no coincidence that Attali, in the first of the above quotes, compares money with the Jewish “god”.

June 20, 2017

The question: why are Jews the chosen people of God arises among people for two reasons - from a lack of understanding of what it means to be chosen and because of envy. Others, who do not have such questions, simply do not pay attention to why God chose the Jews as His people. If he chose, then it’s necessary, He knows best.

Envy gave rise to hatred, as evidenced by history, when for two millennia, pretenders to God's chosen people - Christians and Islam - forced Jews, on pain of death, to accept their religion.

Such facts show how difficult it is to be chosen when, because of your chosenness by God, you are destroyed as an enemy of humanity.

What does chosen mean?

The best, the most outstanding, the most selected. Library of Selected Writers. Selected Society. Selected circle of people.

(Explanatory Dictionary of Ushakov)

What was special about Abraham? He was the first Jew to be chosen.

1 And Yahweh said to Abram, Get thee out of your land, from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

2 And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

3 And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse; and all the families of the earth will be blessed by you.

(Bereishit 12)

Already in these verses we see why Abraham was chosen. Abraham was originally named Abram. This name meant father of a strong people . When the treaty was concluded with Abram, his name was changed to Abraham - father of a great people.

Abraham had no children. His new name reminded him of his oath to God. After going through great trials, Abraham gave birth to Isaac.

Why does the Tanakh tell such a long genealogy? This genealogy from Abraham pointed to his promised son, the Messiah. It is through him that the main promise will happen - and all the families of the earth will be blessed by you .

The chosenness of Abraham, and through him and his descendants, is a blessing for all the nations of the world. But, as mentioned above, this chosenness was misunderstood by other religions, which subsequently led to the Holocaust.

Why God chose the Jews to be His people

Why God chose Abraham was because he was qualified for the task. However, at that time, there were already large and small kingdoms, and Abraham was a simple shepherd. He did not have his own kingdom, and he was not a king. His offspring were the fewest and most defenseless.

15 Remember His covenant forever, the word that He commanded for a thousand generations,

16 Which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.

17 And He made it a law for Jacob,

18 To Israel, by an everlasting covenant, saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, your inheritance,”

19 When you were few in number, few, and strangers (were) in it.

20 And they went from nation to nation, and from kingdom to another.

21 He did not allow anyone to oppress them, and He punished kings for them.

22 Do not touch My anointed ones, and do not harm My prophets.

(1 Divrei HaYamim 16)

Protecting His people, the Almighty through him preserved for all mankind the blessing of Abraham, which, through the Messiah Yeshua, brought the once lost immortality.

Having chosen an insignificant race, the Almighty formed from it a great nation, which was to proclaim the glory of Jehovah. All the evil that exists in the world is carried on the shoulders of the chosen Jewish people. Even when the Messiah came, the Almighty sacrificed His people to save the pagans, who, unfortunately, did not appreciate this.

25 But I, brothers, want you to realize the truth that Elohim previously kept secret, but has now revealed, so that you do not think that you know more than what really is. [The truth] that hardness of heart, to some extent, has come upon Israel until the full number of the goyim comes in!

26 And that in this way all Israel will be saved. As the Tanakh says: ‘And a deliverer will come for Tziyon and for those who turn away from wickedness in Yaakov - the word of Yahweh!

27…This is my covenant with them…This is why Jacob’s sin will be forgiven.’

28 In relation to Bsur Tova, they are hated for your sake. But regarding election, they are loved for the sake of the Patriarchs,

29 for the gifts of Elohim and His calling are not subject to revision.

30 Just as you yourselves were formerly disobedient to Elohim, but have now received mercy because of the disobedience of Israel,

31 So Israel is now rebellious, so that Elohim will show mercy to him if you show him the same kindness that Elohim showed you.

32 For Elohim has imprisoned all mankind in disobedience, that he might show mercy to all.

(Letter to Rome 11)

No other people could have endured as much bullying and persecution as the Jewish people endured.

You chose us, Lord, among other people,

He stubbornly established us under the sun...

You see, the boy is standing over his grave

He asks: “Don’t look, my mother!”

The world remembers the treasures of past centuries -

After all, the heritage of our ancestors is priceless.

And the crystal bowls of children's heads

Fanatics are crushing against the walls!

And the crushed flesh seemed to scream:

“God of our fathers, we remember with blood:

Among the nations of the earth you have chosen us, Lord,

You marked us with difficult love,

You, Lord, chose us from millions of children.

We died before you, O God,

You collected our blood in large jugs -

Because there is no one else.

Inhaling the smell of blood like the smell of wine,

Having collected every drop of it, O God,

You, Lord, will exact punishment from our murderers in full.

From the silent majority - too...

The last cry rings: “Mom, don’t look,

This spectacle is not for women.

We are also soldiers on this path,

Just a little smaller.”

And they executed the children at the graves... At this hour

People slept peacefully in the world.

You have chosen only us among the nations under the sun.

You marked us with difficult love.

The scaffold is wet with blood, the ax is jagged,

And the Holy Father in the Vatican

Doesn't want to leave the beautiful cathedral -

Look at the pogrom, at the slaughter.

Understanding this, one can see why God chose the Jews to be the chosen people.