Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

In spite of unbelief of most Jews around the world, there has always been a nucleus through the centuries who believed God’s promises – and who even recognized and admitted that the dispersion of Jews all over the world was God’s judgment because of their sin. Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides), the famous Jewish physician and philosopher, whose family had fled from Islamic persecution in Spain to, of all places, Fez (and who himself had to flee from Morocco later), wrote in his “Epistle to Yemen” in 1172: “It is…one of the fundamental articles of the faith of Israel that the future redeemer of our people will…gather our nation, assemble our exiles, redeem us from our degradation…. On account of the vast number of our sins, God has hurled us in the midst of this people, the Arabs, who have persecuted us severely…as Scripture has forewarned us…. Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they…” (Isadore Twersky, ed., A Maimonides Reader [New York, 1972], 456-57).