Michael L. Brown - Our Hands Are Stained With Blood: The Tragic Story of the Church and the Jewish People

From Holy Laughter to Holy Fire: America on the Edge of Revival

Israel's Divine Healer (Studies in Old Testament Biblical Theology)

It's Time to Rock the Boat: A Call to Gods People to Rise Up and Preach a Confrontational Gospel

Whatever Happened to the Power of God: Is the Charismatic Church Slain in the Spirit or Down for the Count?

How Saved Are We?

The End of the American Gospel Enterprise

Compassionate Father or Consuming Fire? Who Is the God of the Old Testament?

Let No One Deceive You: Confronting the Critics of Revival

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MICHAEL L. BROWN

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It is said of a good book, "I could not put it down." I must say of Our Hands Are Stained With Blood, "I wanted to put it down, set it aside, not read it or deal with its is- sues"-but I couldn't. The Lord would not let me put it down. I was too convicted. Convicted of my ignorance. Ignorance of the spirit of anti-Semitism that has been in the Church and in many so-called Christians throughout history. I did not know the extent of persecution by Gentile "Christians" toward our Jewish brethren in the past. I know it now-thanks to Mike Brown's thorough research and indisputable historical facts. The statements of Christian leaders of the past toward the Jew left me shaken and awakened.

What scares me is that a similar spirit of anti-Semitism is in the Church today among some segments of the Body of Christ. This has come in the form of a popular teaching circulating in the Church today called "Replacement Theology," the idea that the Church is the new Israel, and that the Church alone is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies regarding God's covenant with the Jewish people. If you have struggled with this question out of either ignorance or personal conviction, I challenge you to read chapters 12 and 13 of this book prayerfully. Mike's interpretation of the apostle Paul's teaching on who is Israel and who is a Jew is indisputable. To any sincere student of the Word these chapters will forever establish in your mind and heart that we Christians are not the new Jew or true Jew, that God has not and never will forsake His people, and that the possession of the Land by Israel is a right not granted by man but miraculously promised by God in perpetuity.

This book is therefore a wake-up call to the Church. As a pastor I want all anti-Semitism to stop at the church door. It must have no place among true Christians. Wherever we see this attitude raise its ugly head we must work to change it. And may intercessors be raised up to pray for the gospel to go "to the Jew first."

I consider myself to be a lover of Israel and of the Jewish people. But there were blind spots in my vision toward the Jews. Mike Brown's message made me, I believe, better prepared to pray for and work toward the peace of Jerusalem.

My prayer is that you will be as deeply moved as I was by this book, and that you will see that it gets in the hands of pastors, Christian leaders and laymen, as I plan to dowhether they are sensitive to Jewish issues or not. No one can be the same toward the Jewish people, both those who believe in Jesus and those who do not, after reading Our Hands Are Stained With Blood.

Don Wilkerson

Times Square Church

This book needed to be written. Gentile believers need to know what was done to the Jewish people over the centuries in the name of Jesus.

We Gentile believers need to understand the pain and suffering that countless pseudo-Christians have brought upon the Jewish people. Only then can we even begin to comprehend the depth of the pain and sorrow they have endured at the hands of so-called "Christians".

Although much of what you will read cannot be attributed to genuine Christian believers, some of it can. There is an unnerving trend toward a renewed anti-Semitic spirit, even among Christians, not only in the United States, but worldwide.

We need to understand our responsibility "to stand in the gap" on behalf of God's still-chosen people. Genuine prayers of intercession need to be offered on the behalf of Israel. Heart prayers of repentance need to be offered on behalf of those genuine Christian brethren who have carried and still do carry such hate in their hearts. Resolve must be born deep in our spirits that will expose anti-Semitic attitudes both in ourselves and those around us.

Finally, we need to be reminded to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, as the Scripture commands us to do, that the glory of the Lord might subdue the earth, and that at His coming, there would be a Bride made up of Jewish and Gentile believers alike, standing together in genuine unity and in the bonds of peace.

In a speech delivered in 1985, Richard Von Weizsaeck- er, the President of Germany, made these important remarks:

The Jewish nation remembers and will always remember. We seek reconciliation. Precisely for this reason we must understand that there can be no reconciliation without remembrance. The experience of millionfold death is part of the very being of every Jew in the world, not only because people cannot forget such atrocities, but also because remembrance is part of the Jewish faith.'

Yes, "remembrance is part of the Jewish faith." Over and over, God commanded His people Israel to remember and never forget:

Remember the day you stood before the Lord at Horeb... Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm....

Remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt....

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years...

Remember this and never forget how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the desert....

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt....

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt....

Do not forget!2

This is a lesson we Jews have learned well: Our painful history is indelibly inscribed in our souls. But there are others who cannot remember because they have never known. In the words of the Catholic scholar Edward Flannery:

The vast majority of Christians, even well educated, are all but totally ignorant of what happened to Jews in history and of the culpable involvement of the Church .... It is little exaggeration to state that those pages of history Jews have committed to memory are the very ones that have been torn from Christian (and secular) history books.3