Prayer for the removal of the Wittenberg Judensau

Father in Heaven,

You created people of every nation, and set Israel apart from all other nations for your purpose of world redemption. From Israel, you brought forth Jesus the Messiah for the salvation of all, Jew and Gentile, who entrust themselves to him. He is our shalom, having removed the hostility between us and united us in himself.

Therefore, we call upon you, O God, to bring about the removal of the Judensau in Wittenberg, and others like it in Europe, by the hand of Protestant Christians as an act of repentance. We ask for forgiveness for the severe offence which the Protestant church has committed in the name of Christ against the Jewish people. As belonging to Messiah, we are humbly grateful to be counted as descendants of Abraham, and we sincerely pray for reconciliation with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: the Jewish people, whose divine election is irrevocable and who have yet a particular, noble purpose to fulfil in the age to come.

Blessed are you, O LORD our God, who reconciles Israel and the nations in Jesus the Messiah.

Amen

(Originally written on 11 January 2017 and shared on a petition to remove the Wittenberg Judensau; updated post here.)