The Truth About Jews and the Slave Trade

We're going to tell you the truth, the real truth about Jews and the slave trade today. Welcome, welcome, friends, to our Thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcast, 86634-TRUTH, 86634-8784 is the number to call. It is Thoroughly Jewish Thursday, which means any Jewish-related question you have of any kind, Jewish-related, Israel-related, Hebrew-related, Islamic prophecy-related, Jewish background to New Testament-related, it is conspiracy theories against the Jews-related, any question like that, by all means, give me a call. And I, in particular, invite those who differ, those who have different perspectives, those who believe I'm wrong about Israel and the Jewish people as far as fulfillment of prophecy, those who differ with my assessment about contemporary anti-Semitism, those who believe I'm wrong about Jesus being the Jewish Messiah, we always invite you to call 86634-TRUTH.

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What is the real truth about the Jewish people and the slave trade? As we do our show each week, there's a live stream on Facebook, a live stream on YouTube. So along with people calling in, comments are being posted. Now, sometimes I'll see them passing by in front of me on my screen, but for the most part, I don't see the comments and I can't interact with them. In other words, if you throw questions up on there, I'm not able to interact with them during the show.

But every so often, my staff will pull something up and put it to my attention. So I noticed someone named Maxwell posting and all these challenges and kind of taking over the thread last week on Facebook and then he's saying, they won't answer. I'm trying to call in, they won't answer.

I'm thinking, we don't discriminate against who we answer. The call screen is the only thing they know is that if you call within two weeks, then you're on a list, not to be brought on the air, to give time to others and opportunity to others to call. That's the only thing. That's it. So no one is not answering your call because they don't like what you have to say.

No, that's not the case. You may call in and want to talk about something that's contrary to the subject matter that day and you'll be told to call in another day, but otherwise no one was stopping. And then he said, they're not answering because I'm going to embarrass Dr. Brown on the air. So anyway, I noticed right at the end that he called in. So here's the call.

This is what actually happened. I want to play this from last week. Maxwell, great. You're going to embarrass me.

They won't pick up Dr. Brown knows me. I'd embarrass him. Maxwell, I have no clue who you are, but go ahead and embarrass me, please. You got the listening world. Please go for it. You don't remember me from the NOAA question?

You don't remember that? But anyway. I've been asked hundreds of thousands of questions, sir, over the years, but go ahead. All right. All right. I noticed that we're not live.

That's the first thing I noticed, but that's okay. Maxwell, we are live. I'm looking at the clock.

You got a minute and a half before we go off the air, but we are live, sir. So I don't know what world you're in, buddy, but I want to hear from you. I want to know what you're thinking. Go ahead. Okay. All right.

So I'm a student of history and I know that the Jews were involved in the slave trade and a major part of the slave trade. False. We're talking about reparations. Totally false. 100% false. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Maxwell, that's false. That's false. That's true. The Louis Farrakhan books have been demolished, destroyed, refuted. Jews played a minor role in the slave trade.

Jews played a minor role in the slave trade. Fact. I'll tell you what, Maxwell. Here's the deal. When you speak ignorance, you embarrass yourself.

When you hear... So tell you what. I posted my source from a Jewish source on your page on Facebook.

Maxwell, the things have been demolished. This is not a hack job. This is the straight truth for you. Okay. Now, can you answer my question? Okay. What part do Jewish people have to pay in reparations to black people?

Well, I would say that if you look at black crime on Jews in recent years, which is much higher than... You're a Russian bot now? You just spread your eyes? All right. So I just wanted to give them a second to see. This is some of the nonsense we deal with.

All right. So the problem is that many people believe this to be true. Many people have added this into the list of evil things that Jews do, and Jews played a dominant role in the slave trade. Now, what really popularized this was a three-volume series that was published without a specific author's name from Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan's organization, and Farrakhan being one of the most prominent anti-Semites in the modern world in America. Volume one was devoted to this. So this was the cover of the book, and it proclaimed this.

It said the secret relationship between blacks and Jews, volume one, and specifically the Jewish role in black slavery, the Jewish role in black slavery. I see that referenced all the time. I see it referenced in tweets.

I see it referenced in quotes, popular media, and I'll show you how it spread in black circles and white circles. A few years ago, first major Women's March, March on Washington, Anti-Trump March, one of the main founders and organizers was Tamika Mallory. Tamika Mallory, a black woman, all right? And Tamika Mallory had previously referenced this here. Look at this story about Tamika Mallory.

So this is going back again, three years she was involved with Women's March, one of the key initial founders of this march. And American Spectator did a story understanding the roots of Tamika Mallory's obsessive Jew hatred. And when you scroll down in the article to point number five, Tamika Mallory, Jew Hatred and Farrakhan, as Tablet Magazine reports, Mallory privately has blamed Jews for the slave trade that brought African Americans here. The allegation that Jews bear a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people and were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade is remarkable for its ignorance, blind hatred, and bigotry against Jews. On the other hand, it's a core element of the Louis Farrakhan Jew hate narrative. Tamika Mallory is an integral part of that hate machine too.

She has imbibed at the well. All right, so here you have an example of a black leader who has taken in this Jew hatred and who believes these lies that Jews played a dominant role, a prominent role in the slave trade. And let's go over to the white side, a famous anti-Semite, David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, involved in the political scene in Louisiana. So what does David Duke say? David Duke has an article, how long will the Jewish role in slavery be hidden? And he's got this chart, Jewish control over American slavery. So here you've got a white anti-Semite, a black anti-Semite, and they're pointing to this same nonsense, the same alleged Jewish role.

Now, I want you to hear this. This is from a book by Jewish historian Eli Faber. We're going to be quoting from it extensively in this broadcast. And in his book about Jews and the slave trade, where he sets the record straight, he says this, and he's talking about Harvard professor, African-American, Henry Louis Gates. He writes, these views quickly attracted a following as Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairperson of Harvard University's Afro-American studies department, and a good friend of President Obama, by the way, noted with grave concern in 1992 in an essay in which he decried the rise of anti-Semitism among African-Americans. Gates described the Nation of Islam's publication as one that, may well be one of the most influential books published in the black community in the last 12 months, and wrote that its conclusions were, quote, in many circles increasingly treated as damning historical fact. And he goes on to say this, among significant sectors of the black community, this brief, that Jews were inordinately responsible for the enslavement of Africans, has become a credo of a new philosophy of black South affirmation. Gates characterized the book the secret relationship between blacks and Jews as, quote, the Bible of the new anti-Semitism. As such, the volume represented a new, if not wholly original, contribution to the corpus of anti-Semitic ideas, to the litany of Christ-killer, well-poisoner, usurer, unscrupulous businessman, ruthless banker, conspirator bent on world domination, and racial polluter, was now added the label of slave trader.

The late 20th century thus bore witness to the creation of a new myth regarding Jewish malevolence, as well as Jewish responsibility for mankind's suffering. So the book that I was quoting from by Eli Faber, let me put the cover up for you, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade, Setting the Record Straight, which is exactly what he does. I bought another book.

These are two of the most important. This one I bought physically, that one I got on Kindle to read, but another book that I have, Saul Friedman, Jews and the American Slave Trade, Jews and the American Slave Trade, another book that sets the record straight, detailed scholarship. And I'm going to show you the fundamental error of the Farrakhan book, he didn't write it, but his team, the secret relationship. We're going to set the record straight.

We're going to cast out error by presenting the truth. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome back to our Thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcast. If you have a Jewish related question, 866-34-TRUTH is the number to call. So what is the truth about Jewish involvement in the slave trade? Now, interestingly, you have examples of Arab Islamic involvement in slave trade going into Africa and bringing slaves out, oh, back in the 600s, documented as early as 641, something that was practiced in Islam with Arabs and Muslims for many, many centuries, and in some parts of the world still practiced to this day. So it's interesting when you have the Nation of Islam trying to sing out Jews when they must know about the historic Arab slash Muslim role in slave trade long before Jews or Christians were involved in it and even ongoing to this day. Let's put that aside and let's say, hey, either way, guilt is guilt. Jewish responsibility is Jewish responsibility. And Eli Faber and other Jewish scholars would agree. So first, look at Faber's description of the horrors of the slave trade.

Just to draw us so we feel it again. He said, despite assiduous efforts by historians since Philip D. Curtin published his seminal study of the size of the slave trade in 1969, we should probably never know in all its grim and cruel enormity how many men, women and children on the continent of Africa were trapped in the net of the Atlantic slave trade, wrenched from their homes and their families, marched in chains to the coasts and transported across the seas during an era that lasted well over three centuries. Millions were condemned to spend the remainder of their lives in servitude and to witness the enslavement of their children. Many more did not survive the Atlantic crossing, perishing instead on vessels swept by disease from a profound depression that the historical record tells us frequently sees many of the captives in its grip. Still others die within a few years of arrival, toiling on the plantations and in the minds of Europe's colonies in the Western Hemisphere. So Faber paints a picture, drastic picture of the horrors of the slave trade.

And all that is, they're just words. Who can imagine how horrible it was, how terrible it was, how evil it was? What kind of role did Jews play? And what's the secret that is being covered up? That's what we really need to know. So I'm going to continue to quote from Faber, again, just a top scholar in the subject and a highly reliable book.

This is what he says. That Jews participated in the slave trade, sometimes by investing in companies engaged in it, sometimes as the owners of slave ships, and that they owned slaves when they settled in the Americas, are matters that have been known from a substantial body of works produced by Jewish historians. In other words, there's no secret. This is nothing that's been covered up. This is nothing that's been hidden. There's nothing that the Jewish community hasn't talked about openly and documented, even for a couple of centuries. And you can go to a standard Jewish reference book like Encyclopedia Judaica, dozens of volumes, and look up the lengthy article on slavery and the slave trade.

It'll lay things out. There's no secret to that. But here's the long and short of it. On the one hand, Jews were like everybody else. They participated in the slave trade, especially Jews in the South. And you have examples of rabbis preaching to justify the slave trade, and you have examples of rabbis being involved in the abolition movement, just like their Christian counterparts. You say, well, then Jews were like everybody else. Well, no, no, no.

Here's the thing. The lie is that Jews played a disproportionate role in the slave trade. The reality is they played a very, very, very minor role, one reason being that very few Jews owned plantations. So very few Jews overall would have slaves. Yeah, they had slaves like everybody else. But because of line of work and background and jobs they'd been allowed to have and not have through the centuries, you ended up with very few Jewish plantation owners. And the fatal flaw of the Nation of Islam's secret relationship between blacks and Jews that has been so devastatingly exposed and demolished for decades now for anyone that cares to know the facts and the truth, the fact is that comparisons were not adequately done.

In other words, this is a hypothetical. You might have a statement, every Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina owned slaves or every Jewish plantation owner owned slaves. You know, there's one Jewish plantation owner.

That was it. The others didn't have plantations. Or, yeah, Jews owned slaves here and cumulatively, again, just numbers I'm making up to make a point here.

You get all the data in the books. But say Jews owned 400 slaves in this community. Right.

And the overall community had 30,000 slaves. So the comparisons aren't there to show you the minor role was played. So let's read some more favor. Let's see what he has to say.

Just waiting for our clip to come up in front of me. Here we go. Knowledge that Jews had participated in slavery was not, however, restricted to a small circle of scholars writing esoteric monographs per professional audience. Many more studies could be cited to demonstrate that Jewish historians have neither overlooked nor denied the fact that members of the Jewish faith participated in the institution of slavery.

Insofar as Jewish historians were concerned, there never had been anything secret about the relationship between blacks and Jews during the era of slavery. Contrary to what the title of the tract that appeared in 1991 that indicted the Jewish people for their involvement in the enslavement of Africans implied. Okay, so what's the reality then? Let's get to the summary. What's the reality here?

So just a couple more slides from Faber as he lays this out. In recent years, interest regarding the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery in the Americas has stemmed from allegations that they predominated in the slave trade and that they owned slaves well in excess of their proportion among the white population. This study argues that they did neither. To the contrary, their participation in the slave trade and then the ownership of slaves was quite small.

When compared with their non-Jewish contemporaries, their involvement was one that had little impact. These are the facts. This is history. Here is the article that Maxwell cited last week posted on Facebook to say, you see, these are Jewish scholars who say this. I'm getting this from Jewish scholars.

It's Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789 to 1865, Address of the President, Bertram W. Core and Publications to the American Jewish Historical Society, volume 50, number 3, March 1961, pages 151 to 201, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Yes, that is a major study. I wonder if folks have actually read it. They cited it. Have they actually read it?

Here, let me go on. This is what the author Corn dealt with and favorite summarizes it. He identified Jewish slave traders in Curaçao in the late 17th century in Jamaica during the 18th century and still others in Colonial Philadelphia, Newport, and Charleston. Later in the United States, southern merchants, auctioneers, and commission agents who sold slaves included two leaders of the Jewish communities of Mobile and Columbia during the 1850s. For, quote, at no time did southern Jews feel tainted by the slave trade and others.

They were involved with it like everybody else. To provide perspective and balance, however, Corn noted, the very article that Maxwell said proved his point and that others point to, other anti-Semites point to, is proving their point. He says this, at no point, excuse me, to provide perspective and balance, however, Corn noted that the total activity of all southern Jews engaged in the slave trade probably did not equal the turnover of the largest single non-Jewish firm which specialized in slaves, a statement he made in his earlier essay.

So, he has the article Encyclopedia Judaica, and he says this, and this article, which is considered to be a very important article. When you actually read it, again, hear this, to provide perspective and balance, Corn noted that the total activity of all southern Jews, all southern Jews, total activity, engaged in the slave trade probably did not equal the turnover of the largest single non-Jewish firm which specialized in slaves. In other words, if you actually read the article, you cite the article, you throw it up on Facebook, you throw it up on social media, look, this proves my point, this is from a Jewish scholar, you read the article and the Jewish scholar says, yeah, Jews were involved, here's this, we know this, no secret here, just repeating what's been known, summarizing it, putting it out, it's terrible that we participated at all, these are the realities, but the sum total, everything that Jewish slave traders were involved with, and you could come up with similar data when you go to England and look at their involvement in the slave trade there, as these books that I referenced get into by Friedman and Faber. So, when you total up all the activity of the Jewish slave trades, it doesn't even amount to just one firm, one non-Jewish firm, and there were many, many, many, many. So, the bottom line, Jews, like other Americans, sinfully participated in the slave trade, and there were Jews also who protested against it and were part of the abolition movement, but the Jewish involvement overall, one, because of small Jewish population overall, two, because of small Jewish ownership of plantations, it ended up being minimal. That is the reality. It is a bald-faced lie, a bald-faced lie demolished by facts that Jews played a disproportionate role in the American slave trade. Scholars have demolished it for years. If you love the truth, join me in exposing error and demolishing lies.

Share the video. Let's get the word out. Truth will set people free from all kinds of lies. Oh, there's no excuse, no excuse for any Jewish participation in the slave trade, any more than Christian participation or human participation. It means a sinful blight on human history. The problem is, basically, every religion on one level or another, and peoples from all over the world participated in it.

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You'll find the info. Okay. And just a quick reminder, just a quick reminder. We're going to go to the phones. Last week, my friend Scott Volk on the air, right about this time, a few minutes after this, surprised me, surprised himself by saying, hey, any donations that come in directly through the show, people give on Facebook, et cetera, I'm going to double that. And we got a few hundred dollars in that day because we don't normally get donations on Facebook because that's just our means to be a voice to you. And YouTube limited, you know, normally donations come through email and responses like that. Anyway, anyway, he then texted me after the show and said, hey, listen, Mike, anything up to five thousand that comes in, I'm going to double, double that for Jewish outreach and you have a week to get it.

So we just sent out an email today. We probably got in, I don't know, six, seven hundred dollars from last week, but sent out an email, got, excuse me, a few thousand more. So I think right now you probably need about a thousand, fifteen hundred, somewhere around there to get it doubled. So your gift of ten dollars becomes twenty, your gift of fifty becomes one hundred, your gift of one hundred becomes two hundred. So if you're able to stand, well, it's just it's a neat opportunity to have funds doubled for Jewish outreach, Jewish ministry, just on Facebook, click on donate, give whatever you can. You feel prompted to YouTube the dollar sign beneath the chat window and otherwise just go to AskDr.Brown.org. Click donate and designate Jewish ministry and your gift today will be doubled.

Last day to take advantage of this. 866-348-7884. Let's go to the phones and we'll start with Luke in Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome to the line of fire. Thank you for having me.

Thank you. And so here, I guess I have a, it's kind of a long question, but I'll try to get to it. I always try to explain that and like Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. But then someone explained to me that Messiah simply means anointed one as a person who occasionally emerges among the Jewish people to restore order and liberate them. And he actually said that by that definition, King Cyrus would be considered a messiah.

And so I was kind of baffled by that description. Yeah. So I guess the best way to clarify the question is, say I don't know anything about Judaism or Christianity or human history. What would be the best way to describe Messiah and why should I care? Yeah.

So the first thing is what that person did was a complete smokescreen and they probably know it well. In other words, the Hebrew word Messiah is used for numerous people in the Old Testament. It's used for King Saul. It's used for King David. It's used in theory for any king of Israel or Judah. Cyrus in Isaiah 45 strikingly is called the Messiah. The high priest was HaKolhena Messiah, the anointed high priest. So it was someone who was anointed for service or raised up for particular service. And the words used for many different people in the Hebrew Bible. But Judaism then develops the idea of the Messiah.

And whoever you spoke with, if they knew enough to say the first part, they knew the second part. It's not just any anointed person. In Jewish tradition, this becomes a very, very clearly developed idea, that there will be a son of David, so in the royal line of David, who will rule and reign as king, that Jewish tradition, because of their emphasis on rabbis and learning, Jewish tradition develops him into an image of a great teacher and rabbi. So he will lead the Jewish nation in obedience to God, observing the Torah. He will fight the enemies of the Lord. He will regather the exiles. He will rebuild the temple.

He will establish God's kingdom on the earth. That's what they're expecting the Messiah to do, to be a human being anointed by God who will be from the line of David and will do all the things I mentioned. I mean, it's even very specifically laid out in Jewish law how to recognize him. So this is over the centuries what Judaism developed. So what we are expecting Jesus to do when he returns, to destroy the wicked, to establish God's kingdom on the earth, to bring about that era of universal peace and righteousness where nations beat their swords into plowshares, etc., that's what Jewish people are expecting the Messiah to do when he's revealed.

So why should it matter? Because if we want to see God's kingdom on the earth, if we want to see an end to war, if we want to see universal peace where the whole world worships God, we need the Messiah. Jews would say, well, that proves Jesus isn't the Messiah because he didn't do that. We would say, no, Jews have a partial understanding of Messiah. First he must come and die for our sins and be a priestly redeemer.

He will return and do the rest. So that's the simplest way to look at it. If you want to get more background info, get my book, 60 Questions Christians Ask About Jewish Beliefs and Practices, 60 Questions Christians Ask About Jewish Beliefs and Practices. And we go through the various Jewish concepts of Messiah and many other things as well. All right.

All right. And I guess, and just to add to that, and because it's very important, it's also important that people were non-Jews as well because of what Jews did. Yes, yes, absolutely. And for a Jewish person, when the Messiah comes, then the nations will be instructed and follow the ways of the Lord. Our point would be, according to the prophetic scriptures, the Messiah will first be rejected by the people of Israel, the message will go to the whole world, and then the Jewish people will embrace him. So it's a both and historically.

And without the Messiah, we would emphasize that there is no salvation, there is no redemption, that he is God's agent of redemption. Hey, Luke, thanks for asking. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Yep. 866-3-4-truth.

So again, I don't get to see comments unless they're especially posted. But this is, friends, this is what we deal with. When we just go through fact, fact, fact, fact information.

Here's someone named Victor. This man is white supremacist and using propaganda, white supremacy, as an ideology and a belief system wrapped in rest and Christianity. The white supremacists are honestly scared because they feel they're losing their grip on power and fear now drives their every instinct. It's pointless trying to reason with the ignorant narrow-minded white supremacist. Okay, so friends, this, Christianity was the main ideology used to enslave and justify slavery. Christianity was one of many things. A misinterpretation, a blatant 1,000% misinterpretation of Christianity was used as a justification for slavery. And it was Christians who fought and died to free the slaves. And it was Christians who led the abolition movement.

But you see, someone like Victor, what pains me is whether it's just blind hatred or giving over to a spirit of deception or believing outright lies for lack of pursuit of truth, that there's that level of blindness. In other words, you could show two plus two equals four. No, that's white supremacy. You could show the opposite as ABC. No, no, no. That's just the way the ruling classes put it, that there's no reasoning.

And then we're told we're the ones that are unreasonable. Victor, pick up the phone and call with your data. Pick up the phone and refute the factual data that I have presented here.

Pick up the phone and call us, 866-344-TRUTH. Did I hurt your feeling by speaking the truth about your false Christianity, your brainwashed ignorant blacks with low esteem and lack self-respect to bite into? Again, this is, and look, friends, I specifically quoted David Duke as well as Tamika Mallory to say this anti-Semitism and white circles and black circles. And historically, historically, it's been white anti-Semitism that has been so terribly destructive. Hitler. Need I say more?

Stalin. Need I say more in terms of their Jew hatred? So we understand this is a universal sinful disease. But what is just utterly remarkable is the extraordinary level of ignorance. No concept of Christianity spreading through the continent of Africa in incredible ways and countries that were dominant Islam now turning more and more and more to Jesus and blacks coming into liberty in the sun and these blacks now going from Nigeria and other countries to preach the gospel around the world.

Some of the greatest students we had in our ministry school, some of the finest Christians I know are black African Christians living in Africa doing an incredible job. But you have this type of blindness, ignorance. That's that's what hurts me is that people are blind. What hurts me is that Jesus, the Jew, who is not black or white, Jesus, the Jew, died for this man's sin to set him free.

And he's so blind either by hatred or ignorance or what he's lived through in society that he can't see the truth that can deliver him. That's what pains me. That's what pains me. All right. Back to the phones.

Let's go to Ron in Ontario, Canada. Welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr. Brown. Hey, man. Well, this has been a heavy subject. Yeah. I want to get to my question in a moment, but Dr. Brown, weren't there rabbis, New York rabbis, two or three or four, whatever, who were with Martin Luther King from the beginning back in, what, 64, 65, before the Selma Bridge crossed over? Weren't they involved?

Oh, yeah. They're prominent. Jews were prominently involved. We've seen this many times in the civil rights movement. They felt that they were their brothers that they felt that they could relate to the oppression of the blacks, that they were both nations of liberated slaves, that Jews had been hated around the world simply because of their faith, that blacks had been hated around the world simply because of their skin color and, you know, one race, one religion.

And they they felt they could relate. One of the most famous pictures from the civil rights era is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century from Jewish Theological Seminary, walking arm in arm with Martin Luther King. Yeah, Jews were prominently involved. There was a rabbi spoke right before King at the March on Washington, a white rabbi. Tragically, things have really degenerated in black-Jewish relationship in recent decades. And I'm not ascribing blame to either side. It's just happened.

But absolutely, there was deep union then in those early days. So what part of truth does Farrakhan not get? Yeah, well, here's the deal.

When you are. Come on, Dr. Brown. Yeah, look, here's here's the thing to look at. And he's Farrakhan is is also a man for whom Jesus died and a man that's done tremendous damage with his lies and misinformation, especially in influencing many blacks to to to look to Islam or the specific brand of the nation of Islam. But again, if you just want to look at guilt, if you just want to look at history, then Islam has a long, ongoing history with slavery, Arabs going into Africa and taking slaves, going back into the seventh century. So going way, way before Portugal and Spain and others began with their horrific acts. So, again, no justification pointing to someone else does not justify.

But if you want to point a finger, something that's longest and still ongoing, then point to the Islamic world and slave trade. I'd be right back with your question. Welcome back to Thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

I'm going to get back to Ron in Canada in a moment. But, you know, over the years we have demolished the lies of black Hebrew Israelites. And when we've posted factually, just looking at, say, a key scripture, ninety nine percent of the comments are just, you know, I devil, you eat, I might lie. In other words, nothing dealing with the facts, nothing dealing with the substance, just an irrational attack. Just very, very simple and irrational attack. I talked about Jesus, white Jesus, black Jesus, Jewish Jesus.

You can you can search for that on our YouTube channel or on my on our home page, AskDrBrown.org. But the bottom line is, no, Jesus was not a black African, though he's not a white Caucasian. He's a Middle Eastern Jew. You see people in like Egypt today would have looked very similar to that. One factual statement we have from within one hundred years of the time of Jesus, a Jewish rabbi in Israel saying that Jews are not like the Germans, Caucasian, white. They're talking about leprosy and skin disease and things like that.

And they're talking about skin color, not like the Ethiopians, but more like boxwood, which is the light brown color. So we're talking facts from information here, not what you think, what I think. I just want to urge people, stop thinking with your emotions. Stop thinking just because of brainwashing information you've had from any side. All right. And go back and study because the truth will set you free. All right. So, Ron, on a different note, your question, sir.

OK, thanks, Dr. Brown. Yeah, I'm involved in a Bible study and I just wanted to read a sentence here and I just wanted your comment on it. It says, Messianic Judaism does believe in a coming rapture, so to speak. The Torah and the prophets speak of it frequently and it appears in this Torah portion. I want to ask you, where in the Torah, if there is something in the Torah that it eludes, insinuates, and talks about this upcoming rapture, is there any credence to that?

No, sir. The only thing they could potentially try to argue is that God took Noah and his family out during the flood, but he didn't. He gave them a way to get through the flood. They would argue that Lot and his family was taken out of Sodom and Gomorrah before the fire fell. Of course, he's just moved nearby.

He's not ready. Just moved nearby, given a place of refuge where the wrath is poured out. We would counter that by saying, hey, just just looked at just look at Exodus, where the plagues on Egypt fell. But then they didn't touch Israel. Israel wasn't taken out.

They were just protected. So, no, there is no there's no emphasis or reference to of any kind to a rapture anywhere in the Torah. Of course, you're not going to find it anywhere in the Bible.

Does it reference the Torah portion specifically? No. Yeah, if you if you spot it, just just shoot us. Shoot us a note. But no, I you're familiar with FFOZ.

I know Ryan worked for you for some. Yes, yes, absolutely. Yes. Well, this is a Bible study I've been taking with FFOZ for the last couple of years.

And it's called Shadows of the Messiah. And he gets into this stuff. And I don't know, it's overwhelming to me. Well, just well, step back. You want to be edified and help. Not everything.

You know, some things help one person and it's not another cup of tea. But ask Ryan specifically where the rapture is is allegedly referenced. So, hey, Ron, thank you for the call. By the way, I love it. I love it. Here's what's happening now in our in our YouTube chat as our team is as filling me in.

I love it. All the anti-Semitic lies and garbage are coming to the surface. It's like you turn the light on and suddenly, you know, to use an analogy, I'm not calling these people roaches, but to use an analogy that you turn the lights on and roaches where suddenly they go scattering everywhere and they get revealed.

So here or conversely, use this image. You turn the light on at night and all the bugs come flying to it. I'm not calling these people bugs. I'm not calling these people roaches. I am not calling anti-Semites bugs or roaches.

I'm using an analogy that the moment we shine the light on the lies of Farrakhan, that the moment we shine the light on the lies of anti-Semitism, that the moment we shine the light on black lies and white lies against the Jewish people, the anti-Semites come flying and now filling our YouTube chat with all kinds of lies, nonsense, garbage and in keeping with the pattern, not one of them has the guts to call. You got time to sit. You're listening. You're watching. I'm looking. We have phone lines open. We have phone lines open.

Not one of you has the guts to call. Isn't that interesting? But what I love is the things get crazier and crazier.

I'm a Sabatini-Frankist. They get crazier and crazier and it just reveals the darkness. It reveals the error. So here's the deal. We're going to keep shining the light and friends, as you give, as you give and help us, you help us shine the light and expose the error.

Why did Ashkenazi persecute all over Jewish tribes? Yeah, just why not call in with your questions? Tell you what, tell you what, we're going to make life easy for you. We're going to make life easy. 20 minutes from now, 20 minutes from now, we're going to be on YouTube exclusively.

So not on radio, not on Facebook. We're going to be exclusively on YouTube in 20 minutes. And I'm going to be interacting just with YouTube questions. So all the anti-Semites, Jew haters, liars, conspirators, deceived ones.

Yes, from my perspective, you're deceived and you're lying. I'll interact with you then during the YouTube chat. Let's talk facts and information. If for some reason you can't, maybe you're in another part of the world, you can't call in now.

Or on your job, you can type something that you can't call. Wonderful. 20 minutes from now, 4.15 Eastern time, all the anti-Semites, Jew haters, conspiratorial theorists, join us and I will present truth to refute, rebut, demolish your error.

Challenge me based on facts. How's that? Ask Dr. Brown on YouTube, 20 minutes from now. Okay, back to Cary, North Carolina. Greg, what's your question, sir? Hey, I was just wondering if you were familiar with Lon Solomon. Sure.

I mean, we're not friends. I imagine he knows of me, but I've known of him and, you know, well-known pastor in the Maryland, Virginia area for many, many years and a Jewish believer in Jesus. Yeah.

Okay. I wasn't sure because I've listened to him quite frequently and I didn't know if he was still currently doing the pastor in the church or not. I didn't know what his current status was or anything. Yeah, honestly, I mean, I'll type in his name here. I haven't followed his ministry again.

I never visited his church. Lon Solomon Ministries, president and founder of Lon Solomon Ministries. Yeah, it looks like he's still active. And let's see, you've got a 30-minute radio broadcast on 650 stations around the U.S. That's a lot more stations than I'm on. So, yeah, I think active. His testimony, he's known as a Jewish man who's come to faith in Jesus and is pastoring a Christian church and doing Christian ministry.

He's not so much involved in Messianic Jewish ministry or congregations or apologetics in that respect, but has a fine ministry as a teacher and preacher of the word. Hey, thanks for asking. All right, thank you.

Sure thing. All right, 866-344-TRUTH. All right, on the Truth Network also. There you go. So on our same network here. All right, our buddy Eddie in New Haven, Connecticut. What's your question, sir?

Dr. Brown, I knew you had a little opening there, so let me call you quick. Second Chronicles Chapter 7, if everyone knows basically if my people are called by my name, would humble themselves, is that still valid today, or was that like a temporary promise of God? Right, so it's an always principle. So in other words, if the people of Israel did that today in Israel, it would draw a divine response of mercy and forgiveness. You say, how does it apply to America today? Well, the general principle would be if any nation would turn to God in repentance and ask for mercy, just like the people of Nineveh did in Jonah's day, God would have mercy. Proverbs 14-34 says that righteousness exalts a nation, sin is their approach to any people. But specifically, what we can do is as believers within America, we can do the repenting. In other words, this is not specifically a promise to America. It was a promise to ancient Israel, and it's an ongoing promise that would apply to the Jewish people today. But what we can do as tens of millions, maybe 70, 80, 90 million Americans who profess to be followers of Jesus Yeshua, if we will repent, if we will cry out, if we will ask for mercy, if we will say, God, we have sinned, we are guilty, have mercy on our land, the place where we live, it can be applied. So it's a secondary application because my people called by my name, my nation, that would be as if America was Israel.

So that's not the case. But as believers within the nation, we can do the repenting. At the very least, it can apply to us as believers. But our petition is for the land as a whole. So the principle of Jeremiah 29, that when you are in exile, pray for the well-being of the city as it prospers, you will prosper. So here in reverse way, we're asking for mercy.

And as we repent, we're asking God to have mercy on the land as a whole. Hey, Eddie, thanks for the question. We are out of time. But 15 minutes from now, you can join us on YouTube. So do that. OK, 15 minutes from now. Ask D.R. Brown on YouTube. All the anti Semites, Jew haters, conspiracy theorists. You're welcome back. Let us have it out. Fact versus fiction.