Fighting Anti-Semitism...with Truth

Sheree & Perry Trotter

Back in early November, I wrote a post entitled, "Anti-Semitism is Not Absurd." A news article about a modern example of anti-Semitism commented that it was "absurd"; I stated it was evil and devilish. This morning, by way of The Berean Call's "Search the Scriptures 24/7" radio program, I discovered Perry Trotter, and his production of a work called              
Shadows of Shoah.

Please visit their website: shadowsofshoah.com

From the website....

Project History: While visiting friends at Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, Israel, in 2008, Perry and Sheree Trotter interviewed and photographed seven Holocaust survivors. More recently they met and photographed nineteen survivors in cooperation with Sydney Jewish Museum and Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre and a smaller number here in New Zealand. At time of writing they have photographed over thirty five survivors. Shadows of Shoah photography and interviews will continue as long as there are survivors living.

Why is this important? I've been involved in public ministry for about 18 years now, since coming to faith in Jesus Christ back in 1995. Early on I ran into people - strange people - who held strange beliefs and philosophies. I can remember very clearly one man I was witnessing to on Shelden Avenue, the main west-bound street in the downtown area of the college town of Houghton, Michigan.  He classified people into groups by their eye color: blue eyes being superior, dark brown Semitic eyes being the lowest and most inferior, and shades in between being a mongrel mixture. He made some comment about mud...some strain of Aryanism perhaps? Since I was preaching on the street at the time, I used that as a springboard to show that it wasn't eye color or skin color, but a problem of sin that separates us from God, and that God will accept any person of any eye or skin color, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Aren't you glad that is true?

As ambassadors for the King of Kings, we need to expose lies and theological error when we encounter it. If you are reaching out to the lost world around you, as Jesus commands, you will run into this. Find and use resources to be prepared to answer or respond properly, speaking the truth in love, so that the error is exposed, the truth is made known, and ultimately, that we present the truth of God's word so that others understand and come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus.