I Guess This Is How GOD’s Chosen People (Jacob) Celebrate Yom Kippur
No, I am not an anti-Semite… if I were, I would have a lot to explain to my great-grandmother’s side of the family. Oh yeah, and to the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth, whom I love and serve.
I am just struck how some religious Jews (who practice Judaism) still want to pretend they are right before GOD. How is attacking your neighbor and burning down his house admissible… and on a holy day, too! This is how the riots that are going on in an Israeli town started, according to media reports:
“Trouble started in Acre after dark Wednesday at the start of the Yom Kippur, the holiest day for Jews, when an Arab drove into a Jewish district, disturbing the start of 24 hours during which many Jews fast and abstain from driving.
As word spread from mosque loudspeakers of Jewish youths stoning the car, Arab crowds responded angrily, causing widespread damage to cars and shops in a main city street.
Relations between Jews and the mostly Muslim Arabs have been sometimes tense in Israel and dog the nature of a peace settlement which still eludes the two communities, 60 years after Israel was established in what was then Palestine.
That is how I know Israel, and any nation called by the LORD’s name, is not right before HIM — we suffer violence. You mean to tell me, on the holiest day for those of Judaism, Jewish men have no problem turning violent because a “stranger” in the land violates their day of observance? Wow. That’s like me sullying my salvation by deciding to beat down a stranger who decides to come into my church and start dancing while we’re partaking of the LORD’s supper. How would I look to my LORD? Israel, O Israel — when are you going to get it, Jacob! Bent out of shape about the Torah, and you still can’t even observe every letter. It appears this young generation really does not know the LORD. Where are the elders who know and remember to remind them of how one must walk before the LORD our GOD?
Rioters in northern Israel torched two houses and badly damaged several others in the third night of tensions between Jewish and Arab residents of Acre, officials said Saturday.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Arab residents were evacuated before their homes were set alight and that nobody was injured. He said police remained on very high alert.
Sami Hawary, an Israeli-Arab resident of Acre who heads a group which works for cooperation between Arabs and Jews, said that during the early hours of Saturday angry Jewish residents set fire to two houses and damaged eight others.
“There were scores of angry Jewish residents, mainly younger people who set fire to the homes, the tension is very high here, things are on a knife-edge,” Hawary told Reuters.

If you want to know why America is falling from grace and everything seems to just be going horribly wrong, consider that this is one of the reasons. Do we really believe it’s all luck or by the work of men that America is perhaps the most blessed and prosperous nation on the planet — or used to be the most blessed and prosperous nation on the planet? It is no accident. The LORD our GOD truly installs and pulls down whom HE will. And what is America doing now? — Making perversion legal?

