WHAT HAS ISRAEL GIVEN TO THE WORLD?

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GIVEN TO THEWHAT HAS ISRAEL

WORLD?

Prof. Dr. Detschko Svilenov

ISRAEL - CONFERENCE

Bern, SWITZERLAND

February 22, 2009


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IMPRESSUM:

Auhor: Pro. Dr. Deschko SvilenovRedakion: Sabine LenzenPrin: Disribuion: Wolgang u. Helena Hoppe

Ringsrasse 12D-86420 DiedorDeuschlandel. 0049 (0)8238 4049E-mail: [email protected]

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Ladies and Gentleman and dear friends of Israel,

I gree you all o odays Israel conerence and hank you rom myhear or he opporuniy o speaking a his meeing. Is an honor orme because my connecion o his counry and people gives brings megrea joy. I brings new Biblical knowledge and awakens houghs oplaces, evens and people who are conneced wih our aih and values.I is a real privilege o speak abou a counry which has such inuence

on he pas and uure o world hisory and whose inuence is sill eloday.

Firs o all, I hank you, dear Werner, or he personal inviaion andsecondly or he reedom o speak abou odays opic as I choose.

Sill, i is somewha o a mysery o me as o why I should be given

such a grea honor. I come rom a background in medicine and heolo-gy and or 38 years was acive in he area o medical research. My wieis also a docor, as well as boh o our sons. Te oldes son is a docorin Bulgaria and he younger a denis in he USA. For 25 years we have

been acive in missionary service on a volunary, par-ime basis. Iis a grea blessing or us o be able o disribue he word o God inour couny o o cial sae schools. wo childrens Bibles, a Chrisianehics book and he New esamen coninue o be prined or hepas 15 years (in all, 42 ediions wih a oal disribuion o 2.7 millioncopies). In his way a new generaion is reached wih he word o God.Tere are copies on he book able or you o ake wih you.

Perhaps his inviaion comes in connecion wih my counry Bul-garia; one o he only counries which was able o save Jews rom de-srucion during he Second World War. I will reer o his laer on.

My presenaion oday should serve as a small oken o appreciaion


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and hanks o he Messianic Jews in Israel whom I know and care or,as well or whom I pray. I have no righ o be known as an exper onIsrael; in spie o his he counry and people have a special place in my

hear and his is a good reason or me o speak abou Israel.

I would like o presen he ollowing aspecs during odays sessi-on:

1. Why am I speaking abou such a opic and wha is my moiva-ion?

2. Te uniqueness o he Jews and heir counry.3. Wha have he Jews given o he world?4. Wha has he world and wha have Chrisians done or Israel?

Wha are hey doing oday?5. Wha does Israel mean o me as a Chrisian?

Why am I speaking about such a topic?

Te opic Israel has become a daily opic in he world oday. Tisiny naion o 7.2 million people has become he cener, and ouch-sone, o world poliics. Sixy-Five years ago Israel did no exis. odayhe whole world speaks abou his counry. Israel is a opic o conicin he Unied Naions and he cener o discussion in he capials ohe world. Almos daily i is menioned on Radio and V programs.Newspapers give coninual repors abou Israel. Israel is oen picuredas an aggressive naion concerned only wih making war. Te saisicsspeak o he greaes people migraion in he hisory o he world andravel agens rank Israel as ravel desinaion number one. Te primaryChrisian religions would raher ignore Israel. For many evangelicalChrisians he Jews are a people o be prayed or, and or he Islamic

world, is greaes enemy. In spie o his, here are hundreds o non-church riends o Israel groups, organizaions, movemens and re-

lie works which have aihully sood behind Israel, invesing much


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love and help or his people. Tere is even he danger or some suchChrisian groups ha Israel orms he purpose o heir exisence asChrisians and becomes he cener o heir Chrisian lives. I was con-

cerning such a danger ha Werner Scherer wries, Our uure doesno depend on Israel, raher our aih in Jesus Chris and His promisesconcerning each believer and concerning Israel. (Idea-Spekrum, 36,March 2008) Sill, he world mus undersand ha he meaning o Is-rael is much greaer han mos people hink.

I is no easy or a speaker o choose a opic concerning Israel which

has no already oen been addressed. Rarely has any oher counry inhe world received such atenion in poliics, religion, aih, miliaryec. as Israel does, sill o his day. oday here is an enormous amouno inormaion in various orms oered o us. On he Inerne alonehere are 303 million his under he word Israel. Te lieraure which Ihave used is lised in he Appendix.

One gains he impression ha wo poliical rons have been or-med: on he one side Israel and on he oher side he remaining nai-ons. Tis moivaed me o speak abou he ineracion beween Israeland he world. Tere is no much inormaion o ound concerninghis opic. Te one-sided media repors are silen abou he huge con-ribuion which Israel has given o he world. We mus never orgeall ha mankind as received rom Israel which has oally alered is

course and does so oday. Wihou Israels conribuions he worldwould no be wha i is.

In order o give somehing, one mus rs have received somehing.Inelligence, eor, wealh and power are gis. I canno give anyhing

which I don already own. When my cup overows, I am able o giverom i. When my ligh is brigh, I can also be a ligh o he world.

Bu his presens many quesions which beg o be asked:


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Who gave o Israel ha which i possesses and why o hispeople? Does God love he Jews more han he Geniles?

Wha was he will o he Giver?

Wha is he receiver doing wih ha given? Wha should hereceiver give and wha should he keep or himsel and no oohers? Should he inermingle wih ohers? Tink o he Haw-dala esival o he Jews.

In which relaionship does he receiver sand in relaion o hegiver, hen and oday? And wha is he resul or Israel and orhe world?

My opic, Wha has Israel given o he world as well as he quesi-ons saed above, allow me rs o all, in he orm o a general survey,o menion some o he superlaives and disincives o his people.

World hisory has nohing o compare o he hisory and survival oIsrael. Hisory knows only one Person, whose Lie and work is disincrom and incomparable o, any oher person in he world. Tis is he

Jew and Son o Man, Jesus Chris. In he second place are he people oIsrael hemselves who are also as unique in all world hisory, meaningha no oher people in he world is like his one group. O course eve-ry naion has is own characerisics and unique heriage which ohersdo no. Bu when he superlaives surpass a cerain number, hen weare speaking abou a unique naion. Such is he case concerning he

Jews alone.

Wherein does the uniqueness of the Jews

and their nation lie?

Here I would like o menion 12 poins:

1. Te name of the nation: From he changing o he name Ja-cob ino Israel (Ex. 32) his naion, which came rom his man, re-


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ceived is name. Te exac ranslaion means, God rules. Te nameo his naion and is land was no hough up by man, bu is o Divineorigin.

2. Te history of the nation: Te hisory o he naion beganwih a single man, Abraham, whom God called 4,000 years ago. Goddeermined he beginning o his naion. Israels hisory covers hecomplee specrum o human lie. Tis hisory knows he peak o com-mimen o Gods word and will, as well as he deph o ailure and he

worship o oreign gods. oday, 60% o Israelis consider hemselvesaheiss. Te land isel is equally ull o sharp conrass and opposi-

es: shimmering sunligh and pich black nighs; bleak wilderness andgrea ruiulness; winding mounain chains and deep valleys; scor-ching hea by day and dank cold by nigh; ender blossoms and horny

brushwood; modern aricles or daily use and age-old radiions. Israelis a naion a he cross-secion o hree coninens, lying beween 2oceans and 3 desers. Te iner-play beween all hese acors creaes aunique variey in he smalles o areas, creaing 5 ascinaing zones o

vegeaion.3. Te Hebrew language: Te Hebrew language is also unique.

Aer 2,400 years his language experienced a re-birh and became hecommon language o a modern naion. Ta Israel, aer housands o

years, would rever o is ormer language is prophesied in he Old e-samen. (Jer. 31:23) Tis is a linguisic phenomenon wihou compa-rison.

4. Te prophetic promises: Israels uniqueness is ounded onDivine prophesies. Tere is no oher naion where similar, down ohe nes deail, prophesies are menioned, making Israel Gods ime-piece or he naions. Te land isel received his naion rom God

wih he promise ha i was an eernal possession.5. Te dispossession and repossession of the land: No oher

naion in he hisory o mankind was wice hrown o is land, scate-red over he ace o he earh and reurned o he same area. Survivalas a naion and people under hese condiions was only made possible


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hrough he inervenion o God. No oher people group in he worldhas such a hisory. Tere have been larger and more powerul naions

which have disappeared in he pas. Te Assyrian and Babylonian na-

ions are no in exisence oday. No oher naion has experienced asmuch ribulaion in he course o hisory and is accordingly so depen-den upon hope. Te survival o he Jewish naion is a miracle wihoucomparison.

6. Te world-wide immigration of the Jews: Te world knowsno greaer wave o immigraion han he Jews who in he las 60 yearshave immigraed o Zion rom 144 counries. I mus ask mysel, Wha

has moivaed over 3 million immigrans since 1882 o move o Isra-el? Why, a his poin in ime, are he Jews coming home o Israel indroves? Normally, people immigrae or nancial or securiy reasons.Neiher he rs, nor he second reason applies o Israel. Israel is nohe riches naion in he world and similarly no he saes! Ten why?I have only one answer: bu when he ime was ullled Havingno Sae or 1,900 years and hen building one up rom nohing, hi-

sory has no comparison. Righly does Mark wain sae he quesi-on, Where does he secre lie concerning his immoral people? Te onlypossible answer is: Te secre o he immoraliy o he Jewish naionlies in he one rue God Himsel. Only in his way can we undersand

why in he naion o Israel, especially in he ciy o Jerusalem, has beenpopulaed; a srong, unknown and myserious power is a work whichpulls a he Jewish hear. Napoleon is quoed as having one ime said,

A naion which weeps a he loss o is homeland 1800 years ago wihouorgeting i, such a naion will never die. Tis naion can be cerain ha iwill reurn o is homeland.

7. Gods calls Israel My people: Tere is no oher naion in heworld whom God calls, My people, whose choosing and loving hispeople ullls he crieria o bless i. God has said, Blessed is everyonewho blesses you. (Numb. 24:9) Bu here is also no oher naion, whicha all imes, has aced so much hared han he Jews. Wih he passageo ime his hared has aken on dieren names: i began as religious


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ani-Judaism, hen urned ino racis ani-Semiism and recenlypresened isel as poliical ani-Zionism. Tis hared repeaedly ledo acs o mass desrucion. For his reason he survival o Israel can

only be explained in connecion wih he Bible. A conrmaion o hisruh in our ime is seen in Iraqs abandoned eor o atack Israel. Inhis o cial repor, George Sada, a high ranking Iraqi Air Force general,and Chrisian, saes: In November 1990 I made a erriying discovery:Saddam gave a command o he Iraqi air orce o begin preparaions or alarge scale air atack on IsraelI would begin wih wo massive atackswih hree chemical weapons: he nerve gas abun, as well as Sarin 1 and

Sarin 2. Te mission would include 98 o our bes fgher jes. On Decem-ber 17 we received he news (om Saddam) which we expeced. I wen asollows, I hereby issue he order ha we begin he atack wih he blessingo Allah. Bu hen he Lord inervened and he Americans atacked Iraq,hence he atack on Israel was sopped!!! Aer he frs srike by he Ameri-can Cruise Missiles, which desroyed he mos imporan command ceners,Saddam called he high ranking o cers in order o discuss he siuaion.

Te frs hing ha he said was o he Commander o he Air Force, saingha he should orge he atack on Israel. Now is oo lae, he said. Weneed o hink abou a lo o oher hings righ now.

8. Te number of Jews living in Israel: I is unusual ha o he13 million Jews worldwide only 5.5 live in Israel and ha he oher7.7 million are living in 144 counries across he globe. Te dispersi-on (Diaspora) among he naions has a 2700 year hisory, beginning

wih he deparure o he Israelies ino Assyria in 722 BC. unil hedesrucion o Jerusalem by he Romans in 70 and 135 AD.9. Te percentage of Jews in the global population: Te Jews

make up jus 0.2% o he oal world populaion. Under normal cir-cumsances one should have hardly heard o hem. Insead, he worldhas heard, and hears, abou hem coninually. Te Jews play an undis-pued role in sociey and culure; in science and medicine. I is unu-sual ha 27% o all Nobel Prize winners come rom his single, inycounry. Tere are naions ha do no have one Nobel Prize winner.


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Tis small naion, locaed in a landmass o 22,000 square kilomeers,2/3 o which is covered by deser, is known as he people o booksand publishes over 4,000 new iles in Israel annually. Tere are over

3,500 archeological digs in Israel. Te UNO ranks he Jews as he mosinelligen people in he world. Te enumeraion o hese superlaivescan be expanded in each direcion!

10. Te capital of Jerusalem: Now we come o he mos asci-naing disincive concerning Israel; he capial ciy, Jerusalem. o-day Jerusalem is one o he oldes coninually inhabied ciies in he

world. No oher ciy in he world has experienced as errible a ae

as Jerusalem. No oher ciy in he world has been more ough overhan Jerusalem, he ciy o peace.And nowhere has so much blood beenshed han in he holy ciy o Jerusalem. Because o war, opposiion andearhquakes his ciy has experienced more desrucion han mos ci-ies. In is 3,000 year hisory his ciy has experienced siege, capiviy,and desrucion by heahen naions covering a period o 2,535 years(586 BC.-1949 AD). In he course o hisory, Jerusalem was atacked

in war 69 imes wih 17 dieren naions calling hemselves he rulerso Jerusalem. Why is here such a remendous ineres in his ciy? Ihas no grea signicance, power, or glory and no special naural loca-ion or beauy; as, or insance, Swizerland. I was no locaed on aninersecion o major highways, and has no luxury or riches o speako. I was buil on bedrock and did no possess erile surroundings.Tere was really no logical reason or he naions o desire his ciy.

Jerusalem owes is unique signicance and ame o oher reasons hanhose concerning he grea ciies o he world. I is a unique world ciydue o he revelaion o God ha ook place here which has penera-ed he whole world and does o his day. Te honor and signicanceo his ciy has alone o do wih he Lord: I is called he ciy o heLord (Is. 60:14). From his ciy has gone ou he word o he Lordand he blessing o he naions (Is. 2:3). God Himsel has said con-cerning his place, Tis is My resing place orever; here I will dwell, orI have desired i. (Ps. 132:14). I is he ciy rom which he salvai-


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on o he world was obained. (Jn. 19:30) I will be he holy ciy ohe new heavens and he new earh, coming down ou o heaven omGod. (Rev. 21:10) Jerusalem is no only he place where Jesus was

crucied and resurreced. I is he place o which He will reurn. TeDivine choice o Jerusalem doesn jus make i a unique ciy, bu alsohe objec o consan and deep-seaed conic as in no oher ciy inhe world. Te enemies o Israel know ull-well ha his ciy sandsa he hub o he world. Tis is he only explanaion why he powerso darkness have sough or housands o years o do away wih hisciy, in ha eiher direcly or indirecly hey have declared a holy war

agains i. Aer hey ailed wih miliary power o do so, and canno doso, hey have made he ciy ino he cener o he wo larges religionsin he world, each declaring he righ o call i he Holy Ciy, evenhough he name Jerusalem never appears in he Koran and whichMohammed never visied. In his way he world atemps o ideniyhe holy ciy o God, Jerusalem, wih he earhly and ransien ciy oBabylon, hoping o mingle, and possibly wipe i ou; he single goal

being o hwar he plan o God. Bu God says, I will reurn o Zion andwill dwell in he mids o JerusalemBehold, I am going o save My peopleom he land o he eas and om he land o he wes; and I will bringhem back, and hey will live in he mids o Jerusalem. (Zech. 8:3,7,8)

All his is aking place beore our eyes oday! Te Bible eaches haman, spiriually speaking, can only belong o one o wo ciies, eiherhe heavenly Jerusalem or he worldly Babylon. Te bigges problem

in Chrisianiy is neiher persecuion, nor Aheism, nor Heahenism,raher, much more, is removal rom he oundaion o he gospel andhe secularizaion o he Chrisian lie. Te Bible calls his, limpingbeween wo opinions (1Kings 18:21) or ciizenship in boh Jerusalemand Babylon. For many Chrisians i is easier o ignore he claims oGod han o rejec he claims o he world. Such mus know: Te Bibleis no a menu rom which I may choose wha I please. Te Bible o-ers an emphaic Eiher-Or principle: Eiher knowing Gods will anddoing i, or jus speaking abou i.


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11. Gods revelation of Himself and His word: A urher disinc-ive, which no oher naion in he world possesses, is ha God has re-

vealed Himsel and His word hrough he Jewish people and has come,

hrough hem, o be he Savior o he world. Trough his naion Godhas begun a plan o save humaniy and wih his naion He will ulllhis plan. For his reason God commissioned he rs Jews, Go inoall he world Laer on, his commission was aken over by manyoher naions and is being accomplished o his day hrough hem. Inhe hisory o Gods people one nds a powerul symbol which hasgrea meaning or every individual. Te ime o he calling o Abraham

o he enrance ino he Promised Land reec hree disinc phases oa persons lie.

12. Te wars for survival: A disincive ha no oher naionknows is his: since he ounding o he naion o Israel in 1948, Israelhas had o gh several wars in he gh or is own exisence, whichi has done successully: resisance o coninual rocke atacks, he ex-perience o many suicide atacks, lisening o he consan hreas con-

cerning he exerminaion o Israel, daily lie lived in ear o errorisacs, blasphemies, unkindness, accusaions, and injusice are all akenrom he hands o oher naionsand much more. Nowhere is an Is-raeli sae rom erroris atacks: neiher in a plane nor in a car; neiherin a Synagogue nor in a school; neiher in a resauran nor in he mar-ke; neiher on he sree nor a home. In a cerain way i has becomea modern rend, especially in academic circles, including heologians,

o urn agains Israel. Tou dos prepare a able beore me in he presenceo my enemies; Tou has anoined my head wih oil; my cup overows.(Ps. 23:5) No oher naion in he world would be able o endure underhese circumsances o insecuriy and permanen physical sress. Hi-sory has enough examples. Under hese di cul circumsances Israelhad o lay is oundaion and build a naion. In his sense, he Jews hadenough experience because here was a ime when hey, ook heir loadwih one hand doing he work and he oher holding he weaponeachwore his sword girded a his side as he buil (Neh. 4:17-18) Laer on,


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Rome needed 69 years o pu down he resisance o Israel; he longeswar Rome ever waged agains a naion. Under hese condiions heJews were able o ransorm he deser ino a ruiul garden, bring an

agriculural and indusrial economy rom poin zero and build i inohe highes o odays sandards, bring an economic sandard o livingand social sysem o a level comparable o he mos developed wesernnaions while a he same ime incorporae a wave o immigrans equalo 25% o he oal populaion o Israel. In comparison o Wesern Eu-rope, in comparison o oal populaion, his would be he equivaleno 80 million immigrans. A he same ime, he Wesern European

naions are araid o jus 10,000 immigrans rom ormer easern bloccounries.

I come now o he original quesion regarding he source and goalo all hese privileges, he from where andwhybehind hese maters.

Auomaically, one mus ask he quesion, Why, o all peoples, heJews? Beore ha, a brie saemen:

Te source o all hese privileges is God Himsel, he Creaor o heuniverse. Te whole Bible and he 4,000 year hisory o Israel clearlyconrm, wihou a doub, his conclusion. Te naion o Israel and he

Jews, sand in unique relaionship o he Lord. o no oher naion orpeople has God ever said, My land and My people. Hence, he uni-queness o his naion is o Divine

origin. Te answer o he quesion,Why? is: God longs, hrough hispeople, o work and complee Hisplan or all humaniy. Tereore, Is-rael has become he ool o God orhe salvaion o he world. Tis ishe only reason why God has givenhis naion so many gis, abiliiesand privileges.

And from everyone who has

been given much shall much

be required; and to whom

they entrusted much, of him

they will ask all the more.

(Lk. 12:48)


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What has Israel given to the world?

Tis is he quesion a hand in odays lecure. We could also ask:From ha which he Jews have received, wha have hey given o he

world? No all, by a long-sho! Tey have passed on he Gospel, yewihou imposing he Jewish culure ono he Geniles, nor laying onhem he yoke o over 800 Mosaic laws and regulaions. In his wayChrisianiy could atain is reach hroughou he Genile world (ac-

cording o he Unied Naions 33% o he worlds populaions are no-minal Chrisians), while only .07% o he Jewish populaion conesso be Messianic Jews (a oal o abou 100 Messianic congregaions).

Well leave i o he heologians o work his ou! While he Genilesneeded 1900 years o reach his percenage o Chrisians, he Bibleeaches ha when Chris reurns all he Jews will recognize Jesus ashe Chris, and ha, as a naion; indeed incomparably aser han we,

he ormer heahens. Tis shows ha he accepance o he Messiah byhe Jewish naion as a whole is a mater which he Messiah works byHimsel; as is saed in Zech. 12:10, So ha hey will look on Me whomhey have pierced.

Many Chrisians who are adaman on seeing Israel a Chrisian na-ion as soon as possible are deceiving hemselves. Such good inen-

ioned plans have litle o do wih Gods plan or His people. In hisregard I quoe Doron Schnieder-a Messianic Jew and auhor, I donundersand why so many Chrisians, especially in Europe, are so ecsaicabou he Messianic Jews. I appears as i one has more joy over one Jew whourns o Jesus han over one Genile who urns o Jesus. Biblically speaking,i should be jus he opposie. I is only when he ull number o heahensener he ellowship o God ha he ime will be ripe or he salvaion o allJews, when hey cry o he Lord Jesus a His reurn, Baruch haba beschemAdonai (Blessed is He who comes in he name o he Lord)hen all Is-


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Firs: Te Lord Jesus Himsel gave he answer when He said, orhis I have come ino he world, o bear winess o the truth (Jn. 18:37)So he rs hing which Jesus has given o he world is he ruh. Te

ruh is he mos precious hing a person can ever possess. Te ruhhas been ough over and people have been willing o give heir livesor he ruh. Everyhing in his world revolves around he ruh. Iis he hing which is mos oen atacked, manipulaed, rejeced, kepsecre ec. Which ruh? Te ruh abou God, abou man and abouhe world; he ruh abou he pas, presen and uure o mankind;he ruh abou eerniy and how men ener eerniy.

Second: Chris has proclaimed a oallynew system of values ohe world. Te oundaion o his sysem is he love o God. Te wayo realizing i is hrough aih in Jesus Chris and he goal is eernal lie.Tis value sysem can change a criminal ino a sain, a sinner ino arigheous man, a persecuor ino a missionary and a savage ribe ino apeace-loving and God-earing naion. We know o oher value sysems

which urn civilized people ino erroriss.

Tirdly: Jesus Chris is he greaes social reformer in he world.Te world owes Him he aboliion o slavery as well as he esablish-men o he digniy o women. Tink abou he way women were view-ed in oher religions and socieies, and sill are: as an iem o be usedand an insrumen o biological reproducion or Homo Sapiens.

Fourhly: Science and law, religion and ar, hisory and philosophy,as well as all oher areas o human civilizaion esiy wih one accordo he deep inuence which Jesus Chris has exercised on he worldand sill does. Trough Him he hisory o mankind, our complee ca-lendar, has been divided ino wo epochs: a lie beore and a lie aerChris.

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Chris. Sir Francis Bacon, Newon, Paseur, Carl v. Linn, Faraday, Pas-cal, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell, Kepler; many researchers who helped makeground-breaking scienic discoveries, were ollowers o Jesus. When

he world-amous paining, Te Las Supper, was compleed, Leo-nardo da Vinci invied a riend and asked him, Wha do you like besabou he picure? Te man answered quickly, Te cup maser, hecup. Is anasic!. Is ha so? answered he painer, aking he brushand erasing he cup rom he mural. Wha have you done maser! I

was so wonderul! Leonardo answered, Nohing is o overshadow heace o my Savior! How do we explain he overwhelming inuence o

Jesus Chris on he lie and hinking o he greaes genius o all ime?

2. Te Bible

I was hrough he Jews ha he world received he word o God,hrough which we, he heahens, have come o know God and comecloser o Him. Many superlaives describe his ancien book. Te Bib-

le is he mos ranslaed book in he world: i has been ranslaed inoover 4,000 languages and dialecs; i has even been ranslaed inoBraille. I is also he mos published book in he world, in par or who-le, wih a oal o abou 60 million copies in prin. I is he bes-seller oall ime. Te Bible does no conradic science. I is he oundaion ohuman culure. Te Bible works a undamenal change in people andleads o change in he oulook o sociey and he moraliy o humaniy.

A aher gave his son a Bible and wroe he ollowing words o dedica-ion inside, My Son! Eiher his book wih keep you rom sin or sinwill keep you rom his book.

3. Great individuals

In is 4000 year old hisory, Israel has given he world a long liso people who have made major conribuions o he developmen oscience and culure. I will name jus a ew:


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a. In he area aih and religion: Wha would biblical Chrisia-niy be wihou Paul o arsus, wihou he Disciples o Chris, wi-hou Moses and David, wihou he Old esamen prophes? All o

hem were Jews and were used o God o reveal Himsel o he world.Trough hese men God planed he roos o he Chrisian aih. I washrough hem ha Jews and Chrisians became he wo pillars o heMessianic body. Every Chrisian mus accep and recognize a Biblical-ly-oriened ie o he roos o his aih.

b. In he area o medicine, 52% o all Nobel Prize winners are

Jews. I will menion here jus a ew o he mos well-known names owhom mankind owes much hanks:

Paul Ehrlich: Te ounder o immunology and hemaology. He de-veloped he so-called, magic ball, he medicine Neosalvarsan whicheecive in he reamen o Syphilis.

Selman Weksman: one o he leading micro-biologiss in he world

and ounder o ani-bacerial research.Gregory Pinkas: he discoverer o he Ani-Baby pill and ounder o

amily planning.Jonas Solk: he discoverer o he vaccine agains polio (so called Po-

liomyeliis).Augus von Wassermann: he leading Baceriologis and Serologis.

He was essenial o he discovery o modern eaching on immunology.

He discovered he blood reacion in Syphilis which is named aer him(he so-called Wassermann reacion) and made valuable conribui-ons in he area o uberculosis and cancer research.

Nosradamus: he well-known docor and pharmacis rom hemiddle-ages; alhough he is beter known in hisory or his prophesiesand orune-elling.

c. Te ve leading nuclear physiciss in he world were Jews.Tey brough on a whole new epoch in world hisory, he Aomic Age.


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In all, 36% o he Nobel Prize winners in he area o nuclear physicissare Jews. I menion a ew:

Alber Einsein: he mos imporan physicis o he 20h cenury.He developed he epoch-making work on he Teory o Relaiviy.Laer he discovered law saing he equalibrium beween mass and en-ergy. He developed he Quanum Teory. In 1939 he wroe a leter oPresiden Roosevel and he US governmen inorming hem abouhe possibiliies o aomic weapons and paved he way or he develop-men o he aomic bomb.

Niels Bohr: he second mos imporan physicis o he 20h cenury.He is known world-wide as he aher o he modern Quanum Teo-ry. He developed he so-called drople model o he aomic nucleusas well as he Teory o Nuclear Fission. His research in he area oaomic srucure won him he Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In 1943he also paricipaed in he developmen o he aomic bomb in heUSA.

John von Neumann: developed he oundaions o modern mahe-maics and is applicaion. Wih his work in he area o he heory opossibiliies he ounded and developed economic mahemaics. Du-ring he 2nd world war Neumann played a deciding role in he develop-men o he aomic bomb in he USA.

Leo Szilard: was one o he leading nuclear physiciss in he world.Beginning in 1939 he played an essenial role in he sar o he Ameri-

can developmen o he aomic bomb and also in he developmen ohe nuclear reacor. He belonged o he ask-orce which in 1942 puhe rs nuclear reacor in he world ino use.

Rober Oppenheimer: was Einseins successor a he Insiue oAdvanced Sudy in Princeon (USA). Beginning in 1943 Los Alamos(USA) was consruced under he leadership o Oppenheimer; i wasa his sigh, where he so-called Manhatan Projec produced hers aomic bomb. Oppenheimer qualies as he Faher o he AomicBomb, bu laer condemned is urher use aer seeing he ouwor-


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king on he Japanese ciies o Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He exercisedremendous inuence on he American governmen, especially on issecuriy and deense policies. He was chairman o he Commitee on

Aomic Energy. Laer on, Oppenheimer devoed himsel o he buil-ding o he hydrogen bomb in he USA. His wo books have becomeknown around he world: rs, Science and he Common Undersan-ding and secondly, Te Open Mind.

Max Born: wih his 20 scienic books and 300 essays in scienicjournals has le a huge heriage behind in heories o modern physics.He ormulaed he dynamic o crysal latice as well as conribuing

much in he area o opics and he Elecro-Magneic Wave Teory oLigh. In 1954 he received he Nobel Prize or physics.

d. 40% o all Nobel Prize winners in Economics, 19, 5% o allNobel Prize winners in Chemistry, 12% o all Nobel Prize winnersfor peace and 10% o all Nobel Prize winners or literature are Je-

wish. In percenage here is no oher people wih so many Nobel Prize

winners as he Jews, a ac which speaks or he essenial role hey haveplayed in he hisory o mankind. In addiion, here are he some well-known names in he areas oculture, ideology, politics, science andart which have played an essenial role in he worlds philosophical,poliical, and social developmen:

Philosophy. I will only menion wo people who have had a pro-ound inuence on he hisory o mankind:

Karl Marx was born ino Rabbinical amilies on boh he ahersand mohers side. He was he mos inuenial poliical philosophero he 19h cenury. oday, a quarer o he world is sill inuenced byhe ouworking o his philosophical and poliical hinking. Tink oChina, Cuba, and Vienam ec. Te counries o easern Europe, as

well as he ormer Sovie Union, will be sruggling or many years o

overcome he consequences o a poliical sysem which is called Com-


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munism, an ideology which is dicaed by he so called, CommunisManieso and laer on communicaed in Das Kapial auhored byKarl Marx. From personal experience I mus say ha reedom rom

Marxis hinking and policy will ake decades and will require he e-or o a generaion.

Baruch Spinoza is he second philosopher who, hrough his ahe-isic hinking and criicism o he Bible, was he predecessor o hepurely scienic world-view which laer was known as Raionalismand Panheism (God is presen in all o naure), which has developed

oday ino liberal heology. I Einsein, Bohr, von Neumann, Szilardand Oppenheimer were inuenial in he developmen o he nuclear

weapons, hen Karl Marx and Baruch Spinoza were inuenial in de-veloping anoher ideological aomic bomb called Communism, Ahe-ism, and Liberalism. Is desrucive inuence will las or decades andsend millions o people o heir deahs; an incomparable conribuionin he loss o human lie.

Politics. Tere are many Jews who have appeared on he poliicalsage who have le a deep mark on world poliics and have deermi-ned he ae o many people and coninens. Here jus a ew o he keygures will be menioned.

Benjamin Disraeli was he acing Prime Miniser o England on wo

occasions. A he Berlin Congress o 1878 Disraeli blocked he dis-persion o he urks rom he Balkan naions by he Russians. Hencehe urks were allowed o remain in souheas Europe and laer beginhe process o he spread o Islam hrough Wesern Europe and odayseek membership in he EU. Disraeli played an inuenial role in heepochal change in European poliics rom an agriculural ino an in-dusrial sociey. He belonged o hose Jews who were no ashamed oheir heriage, bu raher were proud o i. When a high ranking poli-ician made a derogaory remark abou his Jewish origins, he replied,


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When your oreahers were sill a heahen ribe, mine were sandingas priess in he emple o God.

Leo rosky was Lenins mos inimae co-worker. He worked as ajournalis in Vienna, Zrich, and Paris, and paved he way or Lenin inWesern Europe. He organized he Ocober Revoluion o 1917/1918in Russia and was ounder o he Red Army. rosky was he rs o-reign miniser, and miniser o he miliary and communicaions in heSovie Union and ounder o he world renowned newspaper Pravda

which proclaims he ideals o Communism o his day.

I Marx was he greaes promoer o Communism, rosky and Le-nin were he poliicians who brough abou he realizaion o Com-munism world-wide and brough abou a new epoch in which dica-ors played an inuenial role in hisory. Beginning in he 60s o he20h cenury, names like David Ben-Gurion, he ounder o he Saeo Israel; Henry Kissinger, he mos amous proponen o peace be-

ween wes and eas during he years o he Cold War, US Secrearyo Sae as well winner o he Nobel Peace Prize; as well as Richard(Dick) Cheney, he mos inuenial vice-presiden, mus be menio-ned because o he marks hese hree high ranking poliicians have le

behind.

Culture, Science, Economics, rade, Sports

1. Lieraure (Auhors and Poes)-Heinrich Heine; Max Brod; Au-hor Miller; Sean Zweig; Franz Kaa

2. Music (Composers, Conducors, Pianiss)-Leonard Bernsein;Jaques Oenbach; Arhur Rubinsein; Johann Srauss; VladimirHorowiz; Oto Klemperer

3. Economics and Banking-Mayer Rohschild4. Acing- Charlie Chaplin; Kirk Douglas5. Psychology- Sigmund Freud


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6. Journalism-Teodor Herzl; Ludwig Schneider7. Ar-Max Liebermann; Ephriam Moses Lilien; Felix Nussbaum;

Bernhard Berenson

8. Film Producers- Cecil De Mille; George Gershwin; Samuel Gold-wyn

9. Spors-Boris Becker; Mark Spiz10. Boany-Ferdinand Kon11. Hisory-Joseph Flavius

Did you know?

David Schwarz, he invenor o he airplane, was a Jew. Levi Srauss, he invenor o Blue Jeans, was a Jew. Kasimir Funk, he discoverer o viamins, was a Jew. Franz Boas, he aher o Anhropology, was a Jew. Te rs cell phone was consruced in Haia. Te mos museums in he world are locaed in Israel.

Israel, by percenage o populaion, owns he mos paens inhe world.

Israel belongs o he greaes ouris atracions and is regardedas he mos imporan pilgrim sigh in he world.

Israel, designaed as a non-Moslem counry, has he highespopulaion percenage o Muslims world-wide (19%)

Israel has is own saellie in space.

Israel owns he mos solar-powered waer sysems world-wide. Israel is he larges supplier o soware o he corporaions oFord and Boeing

Israel developed he s Ani-Virus program or compuers. Israel has he highes concenraion o high-ech indusries in

he world and, aer he Unied Saes and Japan, is he hird lar-ges high-ech naion in he world, including he area o milia-ry developmen. Wih he mehod o Nanoechnology, Israeliscieniss have achieved an unusual record: hey have packed


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he enire Hebrew Bible ono a gold-plaed silicon chip, smal-ler han he head o a needle. Tis achievemen in he area omicro-echnology is conained in he Guinness Book o World

Records. In he 1990s, Israel achieved he highes level o economic

growh among indusrialized naions in he world, wih a grow-h rae o 3.5-6.7%. oday Israel belongs o he leading 20 indu-srialized naions o he world wih a gross naional produciono $18,000 per person.

In spie o he manipulaion presened in he media, Israel is

he mos peaceul naion in he world. Te wo olive bran-ches, which are he naional symbol he naion o Israel, heMenorah, compose he symbolic desire or peace among he

Jewish people. (Gen. 8:11) Te world is in need o more inor-maion and compassion in order o recognize, accep and acaccording o his desire o Israel.

Israeli researchers were he rs ones o successully comba a

brain umour wihou operaing. Tere are sill abou 250,000 survivors o he Holocaus living

in Israel, 1/3 o whom are living in povery. 2,000 years ago Israel was he greaes missionary sending

counry in he world which oday has become he mos needymission eld in he world. Some European counries are hea-ding in he same direcion.

4. Te Star of David

Te nex hing ha Israel has given o he world is he Sar o David(Davids Sign)-a Hexagram (six-sided sar), he shores message manhas received rom God: he symbolic image o he relaionship be-

ween God and man. I is hrough he Sar o David ha we have heollowing message communicaed o us:

1. Man received his lie rom God (he riangle poining down-


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ward). God longs ha man reurns o Him (he riangle poining up-ward).

2. Te upper corner symbolizes God as he Creaor o he universe.

Te lower le corner poins o man as he creaion o God. Te lowerand upper corners on he righ reer o he universe. Te upper lecorner reers o he revelaion o God. Te lower corner reers o hesalvaion o mankind hrough Jesus Chris.

3. Te six corners reer o he six days o creaion.4. Te wo inerwine riangles poin o he universal principle o

he riniy: God he Faher, God he Son and God he Holy Spiri.

Man is also made up o a riniy: Body, Soul, and Spiri; as well as ina spiriual sense, Jews, Geniles and he church o God, or body oChris.

5. Te Sar o David can also be seen as a symbol o he uniy be-ween Jewish and Genile Chrisians. Te New Man symbolized in hewo inerwining, equilaeral riangles.

What has the world done with these many contributions

made by Israel?

1. I has mixed Jesus Chris wih many oher auhoriies and in acparially replaced Him. Te Chrisian aih has become a religion, orWellness Chrisianiy. Jesus has become jus one among many pro-moers o religion in he world.

2. Te word o God is no aken seriously. I has been rejeced, li-beralized and mixed wih human hinking and hence become relaive.Pars o i are aken ou and oher hings added.

3. Te messengers and aihul servans o God are persecued anddeclared o be undamenaliss and anaics. Many are killed as mar-yrs.

4. Te world has proed rom he gis and achievemens o he

Jews and does so o his day.


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5. Te world has been blinded and does no wan o accep hemessage communicaed hrough he Sar o David. Sill oday his sarspeaks o people all oher he world, hrough housands o Synagogues

and hrough Israels naional ag.

From his summary he ollowing wo very imporan conclusionscan be drawn:

1. On he whole, he Jews have given he naions much o isel,bu no all. Te Jews have never los heir own ideniy and naionalpride, a characerisic which no oher naion in he world has mainai-

ned.2. Everywhere ha he Jews have been, during he las 2,768 years

o slavery and exile, hey have invesed an enormous amoun ino localculure, science, poliics, economics and prosperiy o he naions andhave improved he repuaion o hese counries. Tis is wha he Jewshave given o he world.

What has the world done for the Jews

and what is it doing today?

Firs, wo imporan observaions:

1. Spiriually speaking, he Bible speaks only o hree caegories

o people: Jews, Geniles and Gods church. (1Cor. 1:22-24;10:23).2. Te 4,000 year hisory o Israel can be broken up ino he ollo-

wing pars:

Life as nomads, 250 years (2,000 BC-Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) Lie as slaves, 890 years (Egyp, Assyria, Babylon, Alexander

he Grea, Polemy, Rome)

Lie wandering in he deser, 40 years (Moses)


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Lie as a naion, 887 years (Teocracy, Judges, Kings, Ezra,Nehemiah, Maccabees)

Lie in he Diaspora, 1878 years (Scatered among he nai-

ons) Lie in he new sae o Israel, 60 years (since 1948)

Tis shor overview shows ha he people o Israel have spen 2/3o heir exisence among he naions where hey sough o survive.One can divide he naions which have surrounded Israel ino he ol-lowing groups:

1. Naions which were hospitable o he Jewish people and gavehem he opporuniy o ataining he highes poliical posiions in po-liics, science and social sanding. One hinks o Joseph, Esher, Dis-raeli, rosky, and Dick Cheney.

2. Naions which were unloving o he Jews, in which hey wereorced o live amids hard work, jealousy, hared and persecuion. One

hinks o Egyp, Babylon, Persia, Rome, and he Sovie Union (du-ring he ime o Salin), as well as he European naions (during heime o Naional Socialism), when millions o Jews were oblieraedand many people in Europe were enriched hrough he wealh heyle behind. However i would no be correc o hink only o he de-srucion o he Jews during he ime o Naional Socialism. Tis wasonly a small porion o he mass desrucion o Jews which ook placeover housands o years. One mus also no orge ha he number onon-Jews who were killed during he ime o Naional Socialism was9 imes higher (over 45 million). Te vicims o he Holocaus inclu-ded 5 million Slavs (Russian, Polish ec.) and 1 million oher ehnicgroups (Gypsies, among ohers). I is no known o me i hese groupshave received reribuion rom Germany or wha happened duringhe Holocaus.

3. Naions who have exended love o he Jews and saved hem

rom desrucion during World War II. Tere are only wo counries


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which did so, namely Bulgaria and Denmark. Trough wo key gures,he German diplomas Georg Duckwiz in Denmark and he Bulga-rian King Boris III, who was also German, 7,500 Jews were saved in

Denmark and 50,000 Jews were saved in Bulgaria. Whereas Duckwizwas able o ee o America, King Boris III paid wih his own lie or hesalvaion o ohers. He reused o sign he direcive or he deporaiono he Bulgarian Jews. Shorly hereaer he was dead. Te 50,000 Jews

who were saved immigraed o Israel aer he war. For heir hank-ulness o King Boris hey ereced a memorial in Israel, he so-called,Bulgarian Fores wih he inscripion, o His Majesy, King Boris

III, naional hero and saviour o he Jews. Tere is more inormaionin Te man who sopped Hiler, he second Schindler writen by heIalian Jewess, Gabrielle Nissim; as well as Beyond Hilers Grasp-heheroic salvaion o he Bulgarian Jews by he American Jew MichaelBar-Zohar. Or one can visi he Jewish Museum in Soa. I is incon-ceivable o me why almos no one in Wesern Europe knows abou hesalvaion o 7,500 Danish Jews and hardly anyone abou he salvaion

o 50,000 Bulgarian Jews. Perhaps his is due o he 50 year Commu-nis rule in Bulgaria. Sill oday my counry enjoys a good relaion-ship wih Israel and sand aihul and rm o his people. Our smallrelie organizaion, wih is headquarers in Ulm, souhern Germany,mainains a riendly relaionship o he rabbinic leadership in Bulga-ria. Since he poliical change in 1989 we have been able o ranspormany goods o he Bulgarian Jews. My wie has been he amily docor

o he Chie Rabbi.4. Te ourh group includes almos he complee Arabic world,which obviously does no show any love o Israel and never has. Tiscan be raced back o he conic beween Sarah and Hagar. Te nu-merical proporion o 670 million Arabs o 7 million Israelis (1 Jewo 96 Arabs) orms a considerable hrea which should be aken se-riously. Tere is much lieraure available on his opic. I would per-sonally srongly recommend Ludwig Schneiders, Israel als Heraus-


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orderung (Te Challenge o Israel) and he magazine, Israel Heue(Israel oday).

5. Wha have he Chrisians done, and wha are hey sill doing, or

Israel?

A his poin we need o menion 2 caegories o Chrisians:

a. Te large and small Chrisian religions (Caholics, Proesanand Orhodox) on he one side.

b. Te pracicing Chrisians on he oher; meaning hose Chrisi-

ans who belong o he church o God and live according o a Biblicalaih. (Ma. 16:18; 1Cor. 10:23) Im convinced ha everyone here o-day is aware o wha Im saying. Tese wo caegories o Chrisians areo wo dieren worlds, a whole oher opic.

a. Unil he hird cenury, he Genile world idenied Chrisianiywih he Jewish religion and considered i a sec rom Palesine. Te

Jews hemselves suered under his repuaion, alhough hey hemsel-ves did no proess o be Chrisians bu raher persecued hem. Wihhe inroducion o Chrisianiy as he sae religion by Consaninehe Grea, he Chrisian aih became a religion, which laer spli oino he hree main branches and developed ino counless dierensecs. All 3 main Chrisian religions ailed o undersand he roll Israelplays in Gods plan o salvaion and headed down a long pah o Ani-

Judaism, one hinks o he Crusades, he Inquisiion, Luhers posii-on on Israel and he unloving reamen o he Jew by he Orhodoxchurch. All hree religions sough o ake possession o he Holy Ciiesand o consruc convens, monaseries and missions. oday here are520 Chrisian esablishmens in Israel. Is a paradox: hese religionsgladly possess he holy land, bu hey wan o hear litle rom he Jewshemselves. Te poliical changes o he las 30 years have promoedsome olerance, bu no human love.


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b. Te oher caegory o Chrisians, Chrisians whom he Lord Je-sus calls My Church, have undersood he plan o God wih Israeland have aken he people o God ino heir hears, being evidenced

in heir hinking and acions owards hem. Tese Biblically oundedChrisians pray or Israel, love and comor his people and do heir

bes o make heir love visible. Tis conerence on Israel oday is a signo such love.

What can we learn from Israel?

We can learn somehing very imporan or our personal lives asChrisians rom he hisory o Israel. For housands o years God has

been speaking o us hrough His people. Te ollowing can be aken asa grea encouragemen o us rom he hisory o Gods people:

1. Te calling o Abraham was done a he iniiaive o Godourcalling as Chrisians was as well.

2. Te way o Israel has been he way o suering and conic, ohae and persecuion, o alling and geting up; he way o esing, pro-mises and hopeour pah as Chrisians is as well.

3. Like a red cord, he love and aihulness o God is seen in Hispeopleo us, Gods chosen, i is as well.

Tank you very much or your atenion.


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