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Anti-semitism is a false flag operation, July 12, 2021.

Introduction.

One of the more distressing things that has happened over the last couple of years

is that our old equilibrium has been not cock-eyed.

This is certainly unsettling, but Christians can reassure themselves of the fact

that our sovereign God knows how to practice creative destruction,

and that he has done this signature move often whenever people are as haughty as we have been.

That is what we are seeing going on all around us now.

While trusting in his sovereign purposes, I want to note that one aspect of our old equilibrium

was the fact that anti-semitism did not have nearly the foothold here in America that it has had in Europe.

There were important gospel reasons for this, but in certain important respects

I think this is not changing and not in a good direction.

But the anti-semitism I'm going to be talking about is not the central problem.

This is simply one of the fruits that the rancid tree of envy will inevitably grow.

It is the canary that calmed out in the mind.

It is the first couple of coughs in a six month losing battle with lung cancer.

I'm not fitting into anybody's shoebox.

Because I'm going to be walking through a minefield here,

I thought perhaps the best way to begin might be by strapping on a pair of snow shoes

and just tromping my way across.

This I propose to do by cramming a bunch of disparate facts into just one paragraph,

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