We are at war with two ancient enemies at the same time, but because most of the attention is taken by Yishmael in the form of physical attacks by Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizballah, et al., little notice is given to the spiritual attacks being inflicted by Eisav via the Christian evangelistic onslaught. Until now, that is.
A few courageous Jews have risen up like the righteous Pinchas before them to do battle with the perpetrators carrying out a three-thousand-year-old plot originally hatched by the wicked Bilaam. And in similar manner to our ancestors, a great outcry has been heard against them: “This not the Jewish way, they are desecrating G-D’s Name.”
Yishmael comes with outward hatred – both in word and in deed. But, Eisav is more clever. He disguises his hatred with expressions of love and friendship. And Am Yisrael is still falling for the same ploy. The Talmud in Sanhedrin 106a describes the conspiracy wherein the women of Midyan were sent to entice the men of Klal Yisrael to immorality and idolatry – an act of hatred disguised as “love”.
Tanchuma, Balak 18, also provides additional detail:
“A Moabite girl lures an Israelite into her store. Following that, the girl says to the Israelite, ‘You are like one of the family. Sit! Choose what you like!’ and a jug of Ammonite wine is sitting by her. The wine of the nations had not yet been prohibited, later on, our sages forbade their wine to prevent intermarriage, wine being a factor in generating intimacy. The girl comes out in jewelry and perfume, and entices him, saying, ‘Why do we love you but you hate us? Take this vessel for free! Surely we are all descendants of one man, Terach, father of Abraham.’ “
This is the same tactic being used today by the so-called Christian Zionists. And it is all for the purpose of mixing with us and blurring the boundaries that G-D established, in order to ultimately assimilate us [as “The One New Man”] and thereby destroy us. As the wisest man who ever lived once said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
From Tomer Devorah, here.
