"in his name shall the Gentiles trust" - What is Impossible without Interference by the God

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What is Impossible without Interference by the God

It is astonishing that Jewish people have survived these 4000 years as a unique and independent tribe since God's approval of Abraham and his becoming the ancestor of Jewish people around 2000 BCE.

But they had faced the danger of extermination or disappearance in history thrice before the emergence of Christ Jesus.

They were made salves of Egyptians but were led out of Egypt by Moses and rescued by the God around 1200 BCE.  Then they fell in the Babylonian captivity around 590 BCE but freed by a Persian king around 540 BCE to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.  Finally, the Jewish people got into the fatal confrontation with the Roman Empire to lose their Temple in Jerusalem and get dispersed from Palestine.

However, by compiling the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, etc., they consolidated a new phase of Judaism to survive as a tribe although members of the tribe were scattered across the Roman Empire and beyond.

But, it was after Christianity was born that Jewish people launched fatal wars against Romans.  And while Jewish people were wondering across the Roman Empire, Christianity was gaining public notion and recognition in the Empire to become the sate religion of the Roman Empire, although, through severe struggles and frictions.  

Therefore, it is rather thought that there must have been some influence of Christianity favorable for Jewish people.  Romans must have come to realize importance of the Jewish tribe from which Christianity had been born.  Even many Jewish documents such as the Talmud were compiled while the Christian Bible was being created, so that Jewish people could keep their integrity and uniqueness.  It is as if Judaism had been competing with Christianity in making sacred documents.

Although the Roman Empire collapsed around AD 500, Christianity continued to survive and prevail in whole Europe, making Europeans have special interest in Jewish people, which must have strengthen self-consciousness of Jewish people to save them from oblivion in history.

Jewish people must have fled to various regions around Palestine after the Jewish Roman Wars and the fall of Jerusalem, but Jewish people who mostly moved to the territory of the Roman Empire, which finally accepted Christianity as its state religion, could survive to date.  Christianity must have contributed to survival of Jewish people in whatsoever mysterious ways.

It is true that Jewish people have suffered persecution in Europe some times, but there must have been also conditions necessary to save them from such godless hideous acts.  For example, it is mostly Christian Americans that saved Jewish people from Hitler and Nazis.       

No matter how much Jewish people think that Christians believe in a wrong religion, it is in the world where Christianity has been dominant that Jewish people has succeed in surviving.  Real Christians cannot deny that their religion is based on Judaism and Christ Jesus was born as a Jewish man, so that they cannot exterminate Jewish traditions and Jewish people.  This traditional condition of Christianity must have saved the Jewish tribe from extermination and oblivion in history in these 2000 years or since the era of the Roman Empire.

In this context, it can be thought that the God sent His Son among Jewish people before the fatal wars against Romans, so that the Jewish tribe would not be lost.  The God sent Moses when Jewish people were about to disappear in Egypt; He sent Daniel and other prophets when they were in captivity in Babylonia; and finally He sent His Son when they were almost doomed to perish in wars against the Roman Empire.

Put simply, Jewish people owe their existence today to Christ Jesus from this historical point of view as much as to Moses, Daniel, and other prophets.  Indeed, it must be impossible without interference by the God for a tribe to survive 4000 years.

As other examples in terms of survival of major tribes over thousand years, we may point to the Han Chinese and Japanese.  But, their histories and stories might belong to other paradigms of culture and religion.  (So, the fact should not be held low account that the corona-pandemic was generated in China.)

      

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Matthew 12  King James Version
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: