Use this when you have four Sundays, not eight — especially the October around the anniversary of October 7. Hang line for every week: You cannot hate the root and love the fruit. The canary is an alarm in the mine, not a claim the Jews can be erased. Genesis 12 is why they cannot.
Week 1 · Root
The root they want to cut
The Jews. The covenant. The God who is one, personal, and moral. Hatred of the Jews is not a racial, economic, or policy problem. It is a worldview war. “The hatred of the Jews is, at its deepest root, the hatred of God.”
October 7 named the hour. Bari Weiss: it is never about the Jews; it is an early warning system. Charlie Kirk’s killing is the proof that the gas in the mine does not stop with them. Christians are next. Do not let the pew treat this as someone else’s issue.
Read: Part I (chs. 1–3). Preach: Genesis 12:1–3; Romans 11:28–29. Ask: What would it cost us to say the Jews cannot be erased?
Week 2 · Gift
The gifts we forgot
Abraham. Imago Dei. A moral universe. Cahill: we dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Churchill, 1920: the ethics the West received from the Jews built civilization out of the wreck of Rome. Every hospital, university, and legal system that protects the innocent is fruit of that root.
You cannot hate the root and love the fruit. Those who celebrate the fruits while despising the root are sawing off the branch on which they sit.
Read: Part II (chs. 4–7), especially Chapter 6. Preach: Genesis 1:26–27; Exodus 20. Ask: Which fruits of the West are we enjoying while despising the givers?
Week 3 · Horror
Why they must be erased
They cannot eliminate God, so they try to eliminate the people most visibly associated with Him. Hitler against the Ten Commandments. Dara Horn: the world loves dead Jews. Egypt to Auschwitz to a massacre the West celebrated. Isaiah 5:20 — calling murder “resistance.”
Name October 7 as murder. Do not baptize it. The oldest hatred is a diagnostic, not a side issue.
Read: Parts III–IV (chs. 8–14). Preach: Isaiah 5:20; Romans 1. Ask: Where has our language already inverted good and evil?
Week 4 · Church
The church that looked away — and the remnant that did not
Germany was a 95 percent Christian nation. The Sacred-Secular Divide taught the church that public hatred of Jews was someone else’s problem. Replacement theology. Lost Hebrew roots. After October 7: the same silence, produced by the same formation, in a different century.
Presence: show up when Jewish neighbors are targeted. Voice: preach Romans 9–11; say Kirk out loud. Action: educate, pray Psalm 122:6, become Righteous Gentiles — not for evangelism that instrumentalizes friendship, but for genuine human connection.
Understanding without action is simply a more educated form of complicity. We know. If we are silent, it is choice. This is the hour.
Read: Parts V and VIII (chs. 15–17, 24–27). Preach: Romans 9–11; Psalm 122:6. Ask: What will presence, voice, and action look like in this city this month?
The study guide is already in the book: 4–6 questions per chapter, 90-minute leader’s guide, glossary. Ship the book as the text. Do not wait for a separate curriculum. Full eight-week map: For Pastors and the print one-pager.