Revelation 12:10-12
King James Version (KJV)
10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
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As the Christian re-conquest gained momentum, Jews in these newly re-conquered Christians territories began to suffer from increasingly harsher persecutions.
In their blood-thirsty vengeance against the Muslims, the Spanish Christians included the Jews, whom they put in the category of infidels.
In 14th century Barcelona, for example, the whole Jewish community was murdered by a rioting mob. First given shelter by some Christians, these Jews were pressured to convert. Those who did not were refused protection.
Writes Professor B. Netanyahu in his 1,400-page work, The Origins of the Inquisition, quoting an eyewitness account of the time:
"Those of them who refused to accept baptism were immediately slain, and their corpses, stretched in the streets and the squares, offered a horrendous spectacle." (p. 159)
Just how many Jews converted in these forced mass conversions that accompanied the Christian conquest of Spain? Estimates rage between tens of thousands to as many as 600,000. (See The Origins of the Inquisition, p. 1095.)
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/cc/48951681.html
Tidbits of Torah:
You seem to be a student of the Old Testament or the books of Moses and the Prophets; So therefore, you are pobably familiar with the concept that history repeats itself, or rather those that claim to be the children of God repeat the same errors: Israel disobeyed God Almighty several times from the times of the Patriarchs- Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, all the way through the times of the Prophet Malachi; So there was an Egyptian bondage, then the WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 YEARS (of which Moses did not enter the Promised Land for disobeying), also a Babylonian Captivity...
Let's not forget the Assyrians that destroyed the Northern Kingdom: Israel and dragged the inhabitants into bondage..
after that the area is susequently inhabited by "Samaritans'.
These calamities were brought upon the descendants of Jacob because of disobedience. Nothing has changed - the same principle that applied then, apllies now (in my humble opinion).
14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
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17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
II Chronicles 36:14-18.
Shalom! Jesus is the Messiah!
Tidbits of Torah:
I in no shape or form condone the atrocities comitted by the Inquisition or the other crimes perpetrated by the whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church; it is neither Christian, nor has any benevolent purposes on Earth. It instead is the very seat of Satan in the world. This organization is back at its old tricks again in the current Crusade against Islam (a melange of Jewish, Catholic and Nomadic customs), another pagan religion ROME fomented more than one thousand years ago through its monks and their influence upon Muhammad and his henchmen.
So, I in no way excuse the Spanish and the Catholics for persecuting the Ladino (Sephardim) Jews of Iberia. This was atrocious, but the Jews had lived in harmony with the Muslim Moors in the areas that were "liberated by the Spanish catholics who naturally expelled not only Moors, but also Jews, simultaneously.
It was only natural!
What were they to do?
Send the Moors over Gibralta to Morroco, and allow the Jews to stay?
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