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THE IDENTITY OF THE ANTI-CHRIST
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2013-12-26T03:06:18.000Z
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Can we know who the Anti-Christ is? Think about this. As I was watching a story about the Pope, the following thoughts penetrated me. The Anti-Christ will be just like that. No, the Pope is not The Anti-Christ! He will exhibit the same characteristics of the Pope. He will be kind, loving, compassionate, merciful,forgiving,peaceful, and not judgmental. This present Pope is being admired all over the World. </span><br></br><br></br><span class="font-size-4">How popular will…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Can we know who the Anti-Christ is? Think about this. As I was watching a story about the Pope, the following thoughts penetrated me. The Anti-Christ will be just like that. No, the Pope is not The Anti-Christ! He will exhibit the same characteristics of the Pope. He will be kind, loving, compassionate, merciful,forgiving,peaceful, and not judgmental. This present Pope is being admired all over the World. </span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-4">How popular will you be when you proclaim this Truth? Do you see how Christianity will be totally fooled by The Anti-Christ? They will accuse us of having the spirit of The Anti-Christ. Tremendous Persecution will follow. Hold on tightly to the Messiah, He will never leave you or forsake you.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-4">Shalum my Friends</span></p>
THE TAPESTRY OF MY LIFE
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2013-12-22T23:30:01.000Z
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2720"><font id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2719" size="4">The Tapestry Of My life</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2723"><font id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2722" size="4">I was born to a Jewish Father and a Polish Catholic Mother in the 1950's. My parents agreed on raising me Catholic to bring peace to the family. Prejudice was alive and well on both sides of the family. Because of…</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2723"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2722">I was born to a Jewish Father and a Polish Catholic Mother in the 1950's. My parents agreed on raising me Catholic to bring peace to the family. Prejudice was alive and well on both sides of the family. Because of the History of the Church and the Jewish People, Jewish Family was aghast at the Marriage. On the Catholic side because of prejudice there were Catholic Family Members that were aghast.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_4104"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_4103">You would have to know my parents and family members on the Catholic side to comprehend the love I was showered with. My parents always showered me with love, no matter what. I was really fertilized with love, and sadly, a lot of people never experienced this kind of love. It was unconditional love.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2727"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2726">The Jesus I knew as a child shined through the Catholic Side of the family. I only met my Jewish grandmother one time, and I was sick that day because my Mom did not have very nice things to say about her, and I was filled with anxiety that day. My Jewish Grandmother showered me with love that day, and the anxiety vanished. My dear Mom did not comprehend what it would have been like to walk in her shoes. There would be tear stains on this, if it was something I sent you in a letter, because tears are flowing now. Beautifully, at the end of my Jewish Grandmother's life, her and my Mom reconciled.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2729"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2728">Be patient with me, the Tapestry is just beginning. As a little child, as was in awe of “God”, and loved to hear the stories about Jesus. The Catholic Church I attended was gigantic, and the smell of incense on “High Holy Days” was wonderful and enchanting. When I had my first communion I sincerely asked Jesus to come into my heart. It was a splendid day for me that day. Because we were never taught to read the Bible, I never grew spiritually.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">A good part of my life was wasted because of this error. It was like having a shoot of a plant come up, and then have that shoot buried in layers of soil. It would not be until 1980 that the shoot was uncovered and watered with Living Waters. I gave my life to Jesus that day and it carried me through thick and thin times. I became a “Jesus Freak” and wanted everyone to know this love that I had found. I left the Catholic Church in 1987, when I learned the history of the Catholic Church and the Jewish people</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">I did street witnessing for a number of years. Yes, I was the person you tried to avoid on the streets. I was going to track you down and pester you until you accepted him in your heart. I was like zealousness on steroids.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">There was a dramatic change in my life a few years ago when I learned the history of the Catholic Church and the Sabbath. When I learned it was the Catholic Church who changed the Sabbath, and then bragged that they did it , and said the whole Protestant World bows to their command, I became very angry and said this former Catholic is not bowing.. I stopped going to Church then, and started observing the Sabbath. I had started identifying myself as A Messianic Jew in 1997 due to a Church secretary reminding me that I was Jewish because of my Dad's bloodline.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">This Year brought about the most dramatic changes in my life. When I learned the Father and the Son's true names, I was blown away. The first time I said the Father's Name it was like love personified on the spot. At this point a battle ensued. I had heard so much about “Sacred Namers” , and the danger of that. I t was not until I started studying that I came to learn that the Name I uttered was His True Name.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_3636"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_3635">I had heard so many negative things about the “LAW” that it blew me away when I learned that the word “LAW, was translated improperly. It means teaching and instruction. It is a loving Father;s teachings that provides a protective fence around His sheep. He does not want to see His sheep hurt, and His instructions are meant to protect us from that hurt.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">At this part of my life all I could see was the ugliness of the Catholic and Christian parts of my life. I do not like people lying to me, and I was really hurt that it happened not once, but twice in my life. I was like thrilled on steroids that I had been delivered from the Catholic Church and the Christian Church. I unintentionally hurt a lot of people because of my zealousness to tell them this wonderland Truth.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">I now know that all of this was a tapestry. All I could see was the messed up part of the back side of the tapestry of my past. Without the back side, the beauty that is on the side people see, would not be beautiful. I am thankful for this journey of my life because it has brought me to my destination.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2852"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_3634">You may be wondering what happened to the Jesus Freak the serious Christians would love. I am now a Yahuah and Yahusha ( The Father and Son's True Name) Freak. I am also a Torah (wrongly translated “LAW”) Freak. I was a Spirit Filled, tongue talking Christian from 1987 on.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2478"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2477">My Dear readers you may not understand how I turned on the name “Jesus”. When I learned that their was no letter “J” in the alphabet until about 500 years ago, and that the letter “S” on end of his name is only there to signify it is a male deity, I was blown away again. My dear friends and readers. There is a counterfeit for every thing that is real. Unless you study history, you cannot distinguish between the counterfeit and the real. It may look and feel real, but you could be totally found to be foolish.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2845"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_2844">I no longer identify myself with Christianity, Judaism, or Messianic Judaism. I am a follower of Yah and His Scriptures. I learned that the word “Bible” originated from a pagan deity. The Scriptures I study now, have no pagan names in them. You do not realize that you will not understand the so called “New Covenant “ unless you understand the Torah ( The first five books of the Scriptures). When I was a “Christian” even though I was on fire for Jesus, I would still get a little antsy when Services would last longer. Now, on Sabbath it is not unusual of spending 3 and a half hours or longer studying is Word and worshiping. Time is of no essence now, studying and fellowshiping.</font></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_4107"><font size="4" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387745711558_4108">It says in the Book of Proverbs: What is His Name, What is His Son's Name?, tell me if you know. His Name is Yahuah and His Sons Name is Yahusha. The majority of the World does not know His Name. His Name is set apart from every other name. Tell Him that you want to know the Truth about His Name. He will not disappoint you. Billions of people do not know, I pray you will not be one of them</font></p>
A FOLLOWER OF YAH
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2013-12-09T08:00:00.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p><font size="2"> <span class="font-size-5">TO GIVE YOU an update, i am now a </span></font><span class="font-size-5"> follower of Yah. I do not identify with Judaism, Messianic Judaism, or Christianity. All three have been corrupted and use pagan names</span> such <span class="font-size-5">as Lord, God, Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5">I was so disgusted once I learned the Truth and seen how Satan has invaded things. Yah wants us to be separated from…</span></p>
<p><font size="2"> <span class="font-size-5">TO GIVE YOU an update, i am now a </span></font><span class="font-size-5"> follower of Yah. I do not identify with Judaism, Messianic Judaism, or Christianity. All three have been corrupted and use pagan names</span> such <span class="font-size-5">as Lord, God, Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5">I was so disgusted once I learned the Truth and seen how Satan has invaded things. Yah wants us to be separated from paganism. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Judaism and Messianic Judaism also despise His Name using such terms as Adonai and Ha Shem. He wants His Name to be declared, proclaimed , worshiped, and not hidden or changed.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><br/> I am now studying Ancient Hebrew and am blown away by what I have learned. The following is an example. We have all heard the name Yahweh. That name correctly translated gives you his Real Name. The is no "e" in the ancient Hebrew and there is no "w" in the Hebrew Alefbet. The Yah is right, the "w" is an "oo" sound. Therefore it is Yah U Ah. That is the Father's Name</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">There is also no "o" sound in the Ancient Hebrew. The word "shalom" is Shalum. There is much more but these two examples will suffice. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">I also do not use the word Yeshua any longer. <span class="ft"><span>Yeshu</span>.</span><span> </span><b>...</b><span> </span><span class="ft">letters as an acronym: Yimach SHmo V'zichrono, <span>meaning</span>, “<span>may his name</span> and memory be <span>blotted out</span>. Do you see how Satan has tricked people. The Son's real name is Yahusha, which means Yah's salvation, or deliverance.</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><span class="ft">I do not judge you or condemn you for using names different than what I use. I do this in love. Please consider what I wrote.</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><span class="ft"> Shalum my Dear Brothers and Sisters</span></span></p>
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WHAT IS THE MESSIAH'S REAL NAME?
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2013-10-17T09:00:00.000Z
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<p>I have not written anything for a while now. I have done much study and prayer and research over this past time. I used to be really resistant to Set Apart Believers and Sacred Namers. Consider that some Jewish people curse the name of Yeshua using the first 5 letters of that name: Yeshu (a curse meaning “may his name and memory be blotted out”). They would not be able to use that curse word with His Name starting out with YAH. Please prayerfully read the following information. I will…</p>
<p>I have not written anything for a while now. I have done much study and prayer and research over this past time. I used to be really resistant to Set Apart Believers and Sacred Namers. Consider that some Jewish people curse the name of Yeshua using the first 5 letters of that name: Yeshu (a curse meaning “may his name and memory be blotted out”). They would not be able to use that curse word with His Name starting out with YAH. Please prayerfully read the following information. I will not argue over this, and know that I love all of you.</p>
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<div><div><div><div><p align="left">Shalom! You are most welcome to call Messiah by the name of Yeshua if you please, BUT Scripture through the Hebrew Strong's disagrees with you!</p>
<p>See the WHOLE TRUTH below . . .<br/> Strong’s or any Hebrew concordance will show you salvation is “Yesha” from Hebrew Strong's #3468, [not “Yeshua”].<br/> yesha: deliverance, rescue, salvation, safety, welfare<br/> Original Word: יֵ֫שַׁע<br/> Part of Speech: Noun Masculine<br/> Transliteration: yesha<br/> Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-shah)<br/> Short Definition: salvation<br/> Word Origin<br/> from yasha<b> </b></p>
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<p align="left"><b><br/></b> <br/> The word "Yesha" comes from the Hebrew ROOT WORD "Yasha" . . . see below!<br/> Hebrew Strong's #3467: <br/> According to Act 4:12 there is ONLY ONE NAME given by which we can be saved (not many names)!<br/> yasha: to deliver<br/> Original Word: יָשַׁע<br/> Part of Speech: Verb<br/> Transliteration: yasha<br/> Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-shah')<br/> Short Definition: save<br/> Please NOTE that both Strong's 3467 and 3468 ends with "sha" and NOT "shua"! </p>
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<p>"Shua" is Hebrew Strong's #7769 and means:<br/> "a cry for help".<br/> shua: a cry for help<br/> Original Word: שׁ֫וּעַ<br/> Part of Speech: Noun Masculine<br/> Transliteration: shua<br/> Phonetic Spelling: (shoo'-ah)<br/> Short Definition: help</p>
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<p>What does the Hebrew Strong's say about "Yeshua" . . .<br/> Hebrew Strong's #3442:<br/> Yeshua: Jeshua (NOT SALVATION)<br/> Original Word: יֵשׁ֫וּעַ<br/> Part of Speech: proper name, masculine<br/> Transliteration: Yeshua<br/> Phonetic Spelling: (yay-shoo'-ah)<br/> Short Definition: Jeshua<br/> Word Origin<br/> the same as Yehoshua, q.v.<br/> (from the Strong's, we CLEARLY see that "Yeshua" DOESN'T mean "salvation" or "to save", UNLIKE the Hebrew Words "Yesha" meaning (salvation) and "Yasha" meaning (to deliver and save)! </p>
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<p>If we go to the WORD ORIGIN of Yeshua (Strong's #3442), we find the following:<br/> Hebrew Strong's #3091<br/> Yehoshua: "the LORD is salvation," Moses' successor, also the name of a number of Isr.<br/> Original Word: יְהוֹשׁ֫וּעַ<br/> Part of Speech: proper name, masculine; proper name, of a location; proper name<br/> Transliteration: Yehoshua<br/> Phonetic Spelling: (yeh-ho-shoo'-ah)<br/> Short Definition: Joshua<br/> Word Origin<br/> FROM -- Yhvh (which should be Yhuh according to the ancient Hebrew of Scripture) and yasha</p>
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<p>Here again we see that the WORD ORIGIN for the Name Yehoshua are a combination of the Name of the Almighty (YHUH from the Ancient Hebrew) and the Hebrew word "yasha", which is Hebrew Strong's #3467, meaning "to deliver" and "save" as ALREADY mentioned!</p>
<p>Isa 43:11, Yo'el 2:32, Act 2:21 and Rom 10:13 clearly teach that YAHUAH (The Father) is the Savior, but we all know that He saves THROUGH His Son (Mat 1:21)!<br/> Hence Messiah's Name comprise a COMBINATION of the Father's Name and the Hebrew word(s) for salvation (Yesha and Yasha) . . .<br/> YAHU-ah (The Father) + ya"sha" = Yahu-sha, NOT Yeshua!</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="592" valign="top"><div><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">Names give <strong><u>IDENTITY</u></strong>.</font><p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><em>1. the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.</em></font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><em>2. condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is.</em></font></font></font></p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#000000"><em>3. the state or fact of being the same one as described.</em></font></font></font><br/>
<p>The actual word "Name" not only means "character and reputation" but also a literal written and spoken word (name).</p>
<p>Strong's gives the definition of the Hebrew word "shem" which is translated as "name" all throughout scripture as: </p>
<blockquote><p>Strong's # 8034 <strong>Shem</strong>; a primitive word [perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064]; an <strong>appellation</strong>, as a <strong><u>MARK</u></strong> or<strong><u>memorial of individuality</u></strong>; by implication honor, authority, character: - + base, [in-] fame[-ous], name[-d], renown, report.</p>
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<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">It's standard that when we meet someone the first thing we want to know is their name. Most of the time parents give their children a name even before they are born. <strong>Imagine parents deciding that a name wasn't important and therefore making the choice not to name their child!</strong> That would be ludicrous. Have you ever been around someone for a bit and they kept calling you the wrong name? It's annoying, isn't it?<br/></font>
<p align="center"><font size="4"><strong><em>"Therefore My people shall know My Name..."</em></strong> </font></p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">If you want to be His people, then you <strong><u>must</u></strong> know His Name. Most of the world calls Him by a generic title like "God" or "LORD." What most don't know is that this has been intentionally done by the "Holy Roman Church," as well as perpetuated by many "Jewish Rabbis." As a matter of fact, the Creator talks about this in Yermeyahu (sn- Jeremiah) 23:26, 27:</font><br/>
<p><em>“Till when shall it be in the heart of the prophets? – the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart, <u><strong>who try to make My people forget My Name</strong></u> by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbor, as <u><strong>their fathers forgot My Name for Ba</strong></u><u><strong>al</strong></u>.”</em></p>
<p>Not only have most forgot and not known His Name, but they've substituted it for pagan names- "Baal" and "God." Are you ready for a shocker? Just look at what the definitions for "Baal" and "God" are:</p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">Hebrew-</font><br/>
<p>Our Creator has a Name, and it's certainly not "LORD" (Baal). Many will get upset by finding this out and react in several ways, but this can be easily proven (We'll provide you with access to our advanced research that will prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt).</p>
<p><strong>GOD</strong>- According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, GOD is the common Teutonic word for a personal object of religious worship, applied to all the superhuman beings of the heathen mythologies. The word "god" on the conversion of the Teutonic races to "christianity" was adopted as the name of the One Supreme Being. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary agree that the origin is Teutonic paganism.</p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">Who would imagine that the WHOLE WORLD would be DECEIVED? This includes all of us! Those of us who put this site together admitted that we were deceived and decided to <strong>repent </strong>and turn to the truth. Once a person humbles themselves and repents the "blinders" come off and all truth begins to be revealed. This is the truth. You'll have the chance to do the same and repent if you haven't already.<br/> (Messiyah) whom You have sent."When it comes to Eternal Life most people get caught up into the "emotion" of a prior decision they had made based upon the information they had available to them at that time (received from tradition- ie. family or church). It's tough we know, but one has to have a continual desire for the truth. The reason we mentioned the above verse is because it says that Eternal Life comes from "knowing" who the only Creator really is. Knowing Him starts with knowing His name. This is typically how all relationships begin- knowing what a person's name is. In fact the word "name" comes from the Paleo-Hebrew word "per-shem" (per name), which is where we get the english word "person" from. So a person's name is actually who they are and how they are identified! Pretty simple, huh?<br/> <br/> So let's get down to the Truth of what The Name of the only Creator/Savior is as well as what the name of His Son is. We will also elaborate on several of the "true" names of the Prophets and the Apostles. This allows us to begin to know the truth. The rest of the Scriptures begins to come together and make sense once you get the "names" straight.<br/></font>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000"><em>Mishle (sn- Prov) 30:4-6</em></font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000"><em>4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? <strong>What is His name, and what is His Son's name</strong>, If you know?</em></font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000"><em>5 <strong>Every word of Eloah [sn-God] is pure</strong>; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. 6 <strong>Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar</strong>.</em></font></p>
<p align="center">This Mishle (Proverb) challenges us to see, and expects us to know the Name of the Father and the Son. It also challenges that whoever adds to His Words will be found to be a liar, and no liar will inherit Eternal Life (see Rev 21:8). This is where it gets exciting, because now you will never have to guess what our Creator's or Savior's name is. We will also provide you with undisputable proof that His Name is what we show you it is. There have been many who have been close but have missed. This is important because there is POWER and SALVATION in His Name. As a matter of fact His Name is so important that the Scriptures tell us that Acts 2:21 that whoever calls on his NAME shall be saved. The Scripture attaches knowing His name to Salvation (pretty important, huh?).<br/> <br/> The Creator Himself wrote His Name with His finger on the Ten Commandments. He spells it . <font size="2">This language is commonly called Paleo-Hebrew. <br/> <br/> In "Hebrew" His name is spelled <font size="1">.<br/></font> <br/> Both these languages equal His name to be <strong>YAHUAH</strong> (pronounced: <em>yah-hoo-ah</em>). As a matter of fact all languages pronounce it the same, because you do not change the "pronounciation" of a name (even your name is pronounced the same in every language). Again, names do not change in pronounciation! There literally is no doubt whatsoever that this is His Name, and we can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt (check out our link <strong>"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.promotethetruth.com/id8.html" title="4 Undisputable Facts"><font color="black"><font color="#0000CC">4 Undisputable Facts</font></font></a>")</strong>.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2">Now comes the real shocker! How many of you have believed that the name of Creator's one and only Son was "Jesus?" This will break many hearts like it did ours at first, but the Son's Name is for an absolute fact <strong><u>not</u></strong> "Jesus." The Son of YAHUAH bears His Father's name. His name was YAHUsha. "YAHU" is short for YAHUAH, and "sha" means Salvation in Hebrew. When we put the two together we get YAHUsha, which means "YAHUAH is Salvation." YAHUsha was the name He carried while here on earth. After His resurrection he has been given the name above all names, YAHUAH the Savior. <strong>Again, He and His Father bear the same Name!</strong> It's pretty simple when you let it be what it is. We can prove this also beyond a shadow of a doubt. Let's give you a few quick Scriptures that will allow you to piece this together. The Savior, YAHUsha, said in <strong>Yahuchanon</strong> 5:43 (sign name and corrupted to John):<br/> <br/> <em>Yahuchanon (sn- John) 5:43 "I have come <strong>in my Father's Name</strong>, and you do not receive Me; <u>if another comes in his own name</u>, <u>him you will receive</u>."<br/> <br/> Yahuchanon (sn- John) 10:25- YAHUsha (name corrupted to Jesus) answered them "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's Name, they bear witness of Me."</em></font></p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black">Now look closely at these two simple but powerful verses for a second. First of all in Yahuchanon (sn-John) 5:43, the Savior gives an incredible prophesy (prediction) that has literally come true. His Name has been changed by corrupt humans influenced by Shatan (Satan). He said clearly that "I have come in My Father's Name." Now if you know the Father's Name you will be able to know the Son's Name. The Father's Name is <strong>YAHUAH</strong>. So that means that all or part of the Son's Name will have YAHUAH's Name in it. All you have to do is look at some "Original and/or Early Textual Scriptures," and it will be very obvious to you. That is why throughout this site we put different pictures of some Original or near Original Texts for you to observe.<br/> <br/> But look at the verse (Yahuchanon 5:43) a little closer and you will see the remainder of the startling prophesy come true. YAHUsha says that He comes in His Father's Name and "you do not receive me." Then He says that if <strong><u>another</u></strong> comes in his own name, him you will receive. What is the Name of the true Savior? YAHUsha (now YAHUAH the Savior or Mashiach). What is the name of "another" that most are calling the Savior? "Jesus" (derived from IeSus a Latinized Greek pagan name). Folks, as startling and shocking as this may be, it's easy to see if you love the truth. If you <strong>don't "love the truth,</strong>" then Scripture tells us you will be <strong>sent a delusion</strong> in your mind so that <strong>you </strong><strong>will actually believe a lie </strong>that leads to your own destruction (see 2 Thess 2:9-12). This is no game here. You need to get the names right based on what the only Creator, YAHUAH, has spoken.Important Note: The name "Jesus" did not appear on the face of the planet until the year 1628 in the 5th edition of the King James Versus. "Jesus" came from the corrupted name the translators of King James used, "Iesus." You can see a picture of a page (Matt chapter 4) out of the 1611 King James which shows the Savior's Name changed to "Iesus" (once you're there click on the pic to enlarge):<a rel="nofollow" href="http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5038/pttkjv1611jq6.jpg" target="_blank"><font color="black"><font color="#990099"><strong>Click Here</strong></font></font></a>. The name "Iesus" in Greek means "Born Of or Out of Zeus." Pretty shocking, huh? But it's true. The Greeks had tons of "sun god" and "pagan" worship. "Sus" is the ending of many pagan names that honored "Zeus"-- example: Pega<u><strong>sus</strong></u> and Tar<strong>sus </strong>(Tarsus literally means "The sweat of Zeus"). This is crazy, but true.<br/> <br/> YAHUsha reiterates in Yahuchanon 10:25 that the works that He does are in His Father's Name. Now look at the conclusion of that verse, He says the works that are in His Father's Name tells who He is! What's the Father's Name? <strong><u>YAHUAH</u></strong>. Who is the Savior of the world? YAHUsha (now Yahuah ha Mashiach). His Name bears witness to who the Savior is-<strong><em>YAHUAH is Salvation</em></strong> (YAHUsha). He has been given The Name that is above all names (Phil 2:9). The Name that is above all Names is<strong>YAHUAH</strong>. So, let's start today as a people to "Get The Names Staight!" This is the "key to opening up the treasures of wisdom.<br/> <br/> The Power is in His Name. Deliverance is in His Name. <strong>IMPORTANT: Salvation is in His Name!</strong>There is <strong>no other Name</strong> by whom you <strong><u>must</u></strong> be saved (Acts 4:12). There are not 2 Saviors. There's only one Savior, and He will not share His esteem with any other Name.<br/> <br/> Take a look below and see from some of the "Original and/or Earliest Texts" how many times the Name of YAHUAH is mentioned. You will notice that the writing is a little bit different for all the words except for <strong>YAHUAH </strong>. The reason for this is because the writers of the Text spelled YAHUAH's Name the same way that YAHUAH Himself spelled His Name on the 10 Commandments. Now if He spelled His Name with <strong>His own finger</strong> to establish who He is and what His Name is, what gives anyone the right to think they can change it?After looking at the document below we will expose the <strong>true names</strong> of many of the Prophets and Patriarchs of the Scripture that gives incredible <strong><u>evidence</u></strong> of who the Creator is and how important Names are to Him.</font></div>
<div><p align="center"><br/> <strong><em><font size="1">This is a 2,000 year old Original Text of Tehillum (sn- Psalms) found at Qumran, Israel. This was written around 50 B.C. This is an example of the type of Scripture that the Savior read from.<br/> <br/> Careful examination of this text will show our Creator's Name, -YAHUAH, appears "7 "times in this short amount of Scripture.</font></em></strong></p>
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<div><p>Now look at <strong>Acts 10:43</strong> for one of the most obvious clues to who the Name of the Savior is and how important Names are.<br/> <br/> <strong><em>Acts 10:43-</em></strong><em> "</em><strong><em><u>To Him all the Prophets witness</u></em></strong><em> that, </em><strong><em><u>through His Name</u></em></strong><em>, whoever believes in Him will </em><strong><em><u>receive remission of sins</u></em></strong><em>."</em></p>
<p>Now, this "Correct Names" subject moves beyond being just a cool study to one that deals with Eternal Life. Let's break this verse down so that you will have no doubt what it's talking about. First of all it says "<u><strong>To Him ALL THE PROPHETS witness</strong></u>." Here's the definition of the word <strong>witness</strong>: "<em>To provide or serve as evidence of;To attest to the legality or authenticity of by signing one's name to.</em>"<br/> <br/> The interesting fact about this is that <u>nearly all of the Prophets carry a part of<strong>YAHUAH's</strong> Name in their Names</u>. As a matter of fact tons of people's name in the Scripture have part of YAHUAH's name in their name. And whenever His Name is found in one of their names it gives a "witness" and "testifies" to who YAHUAH is! Let's take a look at some of the names of the Prophets, Patriarchs, and People of the Scripture to see if we get a clue who the Creator and the Savior is.<br/> <br/> We'll start by looking at the books of Scripture that were named after a person. This is amazing!<br/> <br/> IMPORTANT: The correct "title" for the Creator is "Eloah" and not the pagan title "God." Take special note of this, so that this gets corrected to the proper Title for YAHUAH. By the way, don't just take our word for it, go and study all of this on your own. You'll be completely amazed at how much has went into deceiving the world!</p>
<p><strong><u>Names of Books of the Scripture</u></strong></p>
<p>Joshua- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YAHUshua</strong>= “YAHUAH is Salvation”</p>
<p>Samuel- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>ShamAHuel</strong>= “Listen to YAHUAH your Eloah”</p>
<p>Isaiah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YeshaYAHU</strong>= “Salvation is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jeremiah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YirmeYAHU</strong>= “The Resurrection/Rising is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Ezekiel- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YAHchezqel</strong>= “YAHUAH is a Righteous Eloah”</p>
<p>Daniel- Real Name is <strong>DaniYAHel</strong> “The decision is YAHUAH's our Eloah”</p>
<p>Hosea- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>HosheAH</strong>= “The Deliver is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Joel- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YAHel</strong>= “YAHUAH is Eloah”</p>
<p>Amos- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>AHmoce</strong>= “YAHUAH’s Burden”</p>
<p>Obadiah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>ObadYAHU</strong>= “The Servant of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jonah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YonAH</strong>= “YAHUAH provides Warmth”</p>
<p>Micah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>MiykahYAHU</strong>= “Who is like YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Nahum- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>NachUm</strong>= “Comfort comes from YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Habakkuk- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>ChabaqUq</strong>= “Embrace YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Zephaniah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>TsphanYAHU</strong>= “The Secret is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Haggai- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>ChaggaYAH</strong>= “The Celebration is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Zechariah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>ZacharYAHU</strong>= “YAHUAH Remembers”</p>
<p>Malachi- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>MalakiYAH</strong>= “Messenger of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Job- <em>Real Name is</em> <strong>YAHshub</strong>= “YAHUAH Will Return”</p>
<p>Ezra- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>EzrAH</strong>= “Our Help is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Nehemiah- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>NechemYAH</strong>= “Consoled by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Matthew- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>MatithYAHU</strong>= “The gift is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Mark- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>MarkU</strong>= “Man of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Luke- <em>Real Name is</em> <strong>LukAH</strong>= “The Light is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>John- <em>Real Name is</em> <strong>YAHUchanon</strong>= “YAHUAH is Grace”</p>
<p>Timothy- <strong>Timotheos</strong>= “Dear to ELOAH”</p>
<p><font color="#000000">Titus- <strong>Titos</strong></font></p>
<p>Philemon- “Friendly”</p>
<p>James- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YAHcob</strong>= “YAHUAH rises up”</p>
<p>Peter- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>KephAH</strong>= “The Rock is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jude- <em>Real Name is </em><strong>YAHUdAH</strong>= “YAHUAH’s Worshipers and Followers”</p>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><em>This is amazing to find out! Nearly every one of their names has a part of YAHUAH's name in it. And everyone of their names "testifies" and tells something about who YAHUAH is to us that believe in and call on His Name.<br/> <br/></em> Now let's continue on by looking at the first Chapter of MatithYAHU (sn- Matthew). It gives the geneology from AbrAHam to the Savior YAHUsha the Mashiach (MessiYAH):</font>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong><u>1<sup>ST</sup> Chapter of MatithYAHU (The Gift is YAHUAH) verses 2-16</u></strong><strong>:</strong></font></p>
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<p>Abram- AbrAHam- “The Father YAHUAH of a Multitude”</p>
<p>Isaac- YAHsaac- “YAHUAH Laughs”</p>
<p>Jacob- YAHcob- “YAHUAH Succeeds”</p>
<p>Judah- YAHUdah- YAHUAH’s Worshipers and Followers</p>
<p>Perez- means “A Break”</p>
<p>Zerah- ZerAHk- “The Rising of Light is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Hezron- Chetsron</p>
<p>Ram- RaAHm “YAHUAH Is the Highest”</p>
<p>Amminadab- AmiynAHdaab- “People of YAHUAH are at Liberty”</p>
<p>Nashon- NAHchshon- “YAHUAH’s Enchanter”</p>
<p>Salmon- SalmAH- “Clothing Provided by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Boaz- Bo’az</p>
<p>Rahab- RAHchaab- “YAHUAH is Proud”</p>
<p>Obed- Owbed- Serving</p>
<p>Ruth- RUth- “YAHUAH’s Friend”</p>
<p>Jesse- YeshAHy “The Existence of YAHUAH Continues”</p>
<p>David- Da'ud- “Love YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Solomon- ShalomAH “The Peace of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Uriah- UwriYAHU- “The Flame of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Rehoboam- RachAHbam “The people of YAHUAH has Enlarged”</p>
<p>Abijah- AbiYAHU “Fathered by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Asa- AHca “YAHUAH Heals”</p>
<p>Jehoshaphat- YAHUshaphat- “YAHUAH is the Judge”</p>
<p>Joram- YAHUram “YAHUAH Raised”</p>
<p>Uzziah- UzziYAHU- “Strength of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jotham- YAHtaam- “YAHUAH is Perfect”</p>
<p>Ahaz- “AHchaaz- YAHUAH is the Possesor”</p>
<p>Hezekiah- YAHchizqiYAHU- “Strengthened of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Mannasseh- ManAHshah- “YAHUAH Made Me Forget”</p>
<p>Amon- AHmon “YAHUAH Trains”</p>
<p>Josiah- YoshiYAHU- “Founded of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jeconiah- YakonYAHU- “YAHUAH Will Establish”</p>
<p>Shealtiel- ShaltiYAHel- “I have asked YAHUAH Eloah”</p>
<p>Zerubbabel- Zarubaabel</p>
<p>Abiud- AbiyhUd “Renowned is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Eliakim- ElYAHqiym “Eloah YAHUAH is Raising”</p>
<p>Azor- AzzUr “Helpful is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Zadok- TsAHdoq “YAHUAH is Right”</p>
<p>Achim- YAHqiym “YAHUAH Rises”</p>
<p>Eliud- EliUd “God YAHUAH of Majesty”</p>
<p>Eleazar- ElAHzaar “Eloah YAHUAH is Our Helper”</p>
<p>Matthan- Mattan “A present”</p>
<p>Jacob- YAHqob- “YAHUAH Succeeds”</p>
<p>Joseph- YAHceph “YAHUAH Increases”</p>
<p>YAHUsha “YAHUAH is Salvation”</p>
<p><strong>-End of Names from MattithYahu 1:2-16 (I think we are starting to get the point of who the Creator and the Savior is- <u>YAHUAH</u>).</strong></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2"> <strong><em><font color="#3C11CB">All the names above are just from the 1st Chapter of MatithYAHU!<br/></font></em></strong> <br/> Now to drive home the point, let's look at a list of other names in Scripture that reveal who the one and only Eloah and Savior is:<br/> <br/></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><strong><u>More Names<br/></u></strong></font></p>
<p>Adam- Real Name is <strong>AHdam</strong>= “YAHUAH’s Mankind”</p>
<p>Eve- <strong>ChavAH</strong>= “The Life-Giver is YAHUAH</p>
<p>Joseph- <strong>YAHceph</strong>= “YAHUAH Increases”</p>
<p>Samuel- <strong>ShamAHuel</strong>= “Listen to YAHUAH your Eloah”</p>
<p>Job- <strong>YAHshub</strong>= “YAHUAH Will Return”</p>
<p>Moses- <strong>MoshAH</strong>= “The Rescuer is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Aaron- <strong>AHaron</strong>= “YAHUAH is Exalted”</p>
<p>Elkanah- <strong>ElqanAH</strong>= “YAHUAH Eloah has Obtained”</p>
<p>Jeroham- <strong>YAHrocham</strong>= “YAHUAH is Compassionate”</p>
<p>Hannah- <strong>ChanAH</strong>= “Favor of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Amoz- <strong>AHmots</strong>= “YAHUAH is Strong”</p>
<p>Jotham- <strong>YAHtaam</strong>= “YAHUAH is Perfect”</p>
<p>Ahaz- <strong>AHchaaz</strong>= “YAHUAH is the Possesor”</p>
<p>Hezekiah- <strong>YAHchizqiYAHU</strong>= “Strengthened of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Joab- <strong>YAHab</strong>= “YAHUAH Fathered”</p>
<p>Jehoshaphat- <strong>YAHUshaphat=</strong> “YAHUAH is the Judge”</p>
<p>Abiathar- <strong>EbYAHtaar</strong>= The Father YAHUAH of Abundance”</p>
<p>Seraiah- <strong>SeraYAH</strong>= “The Prevailer is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Benaiah-<strong> BenaYAHU</strong>- “The Builder is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Saul- <strong>ShaUl</strong>= “Ask YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jonathan- <strong>YAHUnataan</strong>= “YAHUAH Gives”</p>
<p>Hilkiah-<strong> ChilqiYAHU</strong>= “Portion of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Benjamin-<strong> BinYAHmiyn</strong>= “Son of YAHUAH’S Right Hand” (prophesies the Savior)</p>
<p>Jehoiakim- <strong>YAHUyaqiym</strong>= “YAHUAH will Raise”</p>
<p>Zedekiah- <strong>TsidqiYAHU</strong>= “The Right of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Gedaliah- <strong>GedalYAHU</strong>= “Great is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Hizkiah- <strong>YechizqiYAHU</strong>= “Stengthened of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Amariah- <strong>AmarYAHU</strong>= “Promise of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Josiah- <strong>YoshiYAHU</strong>= “Founded of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Josedech- <strong>YAHUtsadaq</strong>= “YAHUAH Righted”</p>
<p>Berechiah- <strong>BerekYAHU</strong>= “The Blessing of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Asahiah- <strong>AsaYAH</strong>= “The Maker is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Shallum- <strong>ShallUm</strong>= “The Reward is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Shebaniah- <strong>ShebanYAHU</strong>= “The Prosperer is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Benaiah- <strong>BenaYAHU</strong>= The Builder is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jesiah- <strong>YishshiYAHU</strong>= “The Lender is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Zebadiah- <strong>ZebadYAHU</strong>= “ The Giver is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Joelah- <strong>YoelAH</strong>= “The Ascender is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Obadiah- <strong>ObadYAHU</strong>= “Serve YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Pelatiah- <strong>PelatYAHU</strong>= “The Deliverer is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Hananiah- <strong>ChananYAHU</strong>= “Favor from YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Rephaiah- <strong>RephaYAHU</strong>= “The Cure is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Shechaniah- <strong>ShekanYAHU</strong>= “The Dweller is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Shemaiah- <strong>ShemaYAHU</strong>= “The Listener is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Neariah- <strong>Ne’arYAHU</strong>= “Servant of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Elioenai- <strong>ElYAHehnay</strong>= “Towards Eloah YAHUAH are my eyes”</p>
<p>Hodaiah- <strong>HowdavYAHU</strong>= “Majesty of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Eliashib-<strong> ElYAHshiyb</strong>= “Eloah YAHUAH will Restore”</p>
<p>Pelaiah- <strong>PelaYAHU</strong>= “The Distinguisher is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Dalaiah- <strong>DelaYAHU</strong>= “Lifted by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Reaiah-<strong> Re’aYAHU</strong>= “Seen by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Kolaiah- <strong>QowlaYAHU</strong>= “Voice of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Maaseiah-<strong> Ma’aseYAHU</strong>= “The Work of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Noah- <strong>NoAHch</strong>= “The Rest is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Shephatiah= <strong>ShephatYAHU</strong>- “The Vindicator is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Ahaziah=<strong> AchazYAHU</strong>- “Seized by YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Amaziah= <strong>AmatsYAHU</strong>- “Strength of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Azariah= <strong>AzarYAHU</strong>- “The Helper is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Jecamiah=<strong> YaqamYAHU</strong>- “The Riser is YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Nedabiah=<strong> NadabYAHU- </strong>“Free Offer of YAHUAH”</p>
<p>Pedaiah= <strong>PedaYAHU</strong>- “Redeemed by YAHUAH”<br/> <br/> <strong>As we can clearly see the names of these many people give us incredible insight as to who our Creator and Savior is. The Savior, YAHUsha, clearly said in YAHUchanon (sn- John) 5:43 that "I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive."<br/> <br/></strong> This is exactly what's happened. Most people are calling the Savior "Jesus," and "Jesus" sounds nothing like <strong>YAHUsha</strong>. It's a sad fact, but the entire world has been deceived as prophesied in Rev 12:9. Now our Creator, YAHUAH is calling men and women everywhere to repent (see Acts 17:30). There is only One Name given among men by whom we <strong><u>must</u></strong> be saved (see Acts 4:12), and that name is <strong>YAHUAH ha Mashiach</strong>(MessiYAH). Now that the Savior has risen He has been given the Name that is above all Names- That's why He is now YAHUAH ha Maschiach (MessiYAH)!</p>
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<p>The following coversation occurred with a friend over several days. This came off of my Facebook page. I am sure you will be able to relate to this. Pray for Brenda :…</p>
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<div><div><div class="UFICommentContent"><a class="UFICommentActorName" href="https://www.facebook.com/ron.weiss.982">Ron Weiss</a><span> </span><span>Brenda: I am blown away that you are such a smart person, and cannot see that Christianity is Bablyon. Yeshua did not come to start another religion. Man created Christianity, not Yeshua. When you wre grafted in, you were grafted into a Jewish root, and now you are Israeli. Gentile means Pagan, you are no longer a Pagan, unless you choose to call yourself that. You will be living in Israel for 1,000 years or longer. Yeshua is not a Gentile, but Christianity has made Him into one. The Jewish people have been resistant to Jesus becasue all of the hideous things done to them have happened in that name. It was not done in the Name of Yeshua, which was His birth name.</span></div>
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HAPPY YOM TERUAH
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-09-05:5544986:BlogPost:23422
2013-09-05T20:00:00.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>Once agains, Truth, trumps tradition. Bablon infects both Judasim and christianity. The Feast of Yom Teruah is a perfect example:</p>
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<p>Once agains, Truth, trumps tradition. Bablon infects both Judasim and christianity. The Feast of Yom Teruah is a perfect example:</p>
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<div id="yiv6230601261yui_3_7_2_40_1378407125025_39"><span class="font-size-4"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">DO NOT ADD TO, NOR TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORD! Is it not good enough? Me thinks.... ummmmm YES! THE WORD IS GOOD ENOUGH. Happy Feast of Trumpets. I will be back in 5 months to say "L'Shana Tova!" (To a Good Year!) </font></span></div>
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FOR YOUR ANTI-TORAH FRIENDS
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2013-09-04T11:30:00.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74328284?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74328284?profile=original" width="539"></img></a> I found the following to be something that can be used mightly to challenge your Anti-Torah friends.…</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74328396?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74328396?profile=original" width="482"></img></a></span></p>
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YESHUA OR JESUS
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-31:5544986:BlogPost:23244
2013-08-31T19:36:00.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>This is another excellent article that I found. I myself used to follow a Gentile Jesus , but I now follow a Jewish Rabbi who is Yeshua. There is a vast difference between Yeshua and Jesus. Enjoy.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Your Jesus and My Yeshua</span></p>
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<p>This is another excellent article that I found. I myself used to follow a Gentile Jesus , but I now follow a Jewish Rabbi who is Yeshua. There is a vast difference between Yeshua and Jesus. Enjoy.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Your Jesus and My Yeshua</span></p>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2114"><span class="font-size-4">Defining a person is never easy, especially when the person in question lived 2,000</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2116"><span class="font-size-4">years ago in a culture much different from our “modern” Western society. Then making</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2118"><span class="font-size-4">that person the cornerstone of one of the world’s three monotheistic religions compounds</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2120"><span class="font-size-4">the difficulty exponentially. Then adding to the confusion and difficulty, millions of people</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2122"><span class="font-size-4">and thousands of different groups study this person and each develop their own opinion</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2124"><span class="font-size-4">and their own beliefs about him and what he taught. These are precisely the problems that</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2125"><span class="font-size-4">exist around Jesus. Some say he was a pacifist, other say he was vegetarian or vegan,</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2127"><span class="font-size-4">others say he was a prophet, God incarnate, a moral teacher, a wacko, a myth and on, and</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2129"><span class="font-size-4">on, and on. There are several ways one can go about defining who this man was, and what</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2130"><span class="font-size-4">he believed. You can go to your pastor, or other spiritual guide, you can go to history</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2132"><span class="font-size-4">books, the Bible, or countless other religious, historical, or academic works. But after you</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2135"><span class="font-size-4">reports and be no closer to an answer about who Jesus was. Answering the popular</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2136"><span class="font-size-4">question, “What would Jesus do?” becomes impossible, when all these factors are taken</span></div>
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<div><span class="font-size-4">Before I continue much further in this discussion let me explain some of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">assumptions I am proceeding with. I know that it is never very scholarly to begin with any</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">assumptions, but should I take the time and attempt to explain everything in this work it</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">would extend into volumes. To make things easier I will lay the groundwork and go from</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">there. First, I believe that the Bible is absolutely correct as it was when originally written in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the original languages by the original authors. There have been translation errors over the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">years, but by going to the original languages these can be overcome. Second, I believe in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Hebrew and Aramaic primacy of the New Testament1</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">. While the Greek is the most</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">prevalent and most scholars say that the Greek is the most ancient, I don’t believe it is. It</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">makes very little sense to me that a group of Hebrew men would write these letters, most</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of which were addressed to congregations who met in the synagogues of various cities, in a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">language other than their native one. If one takes the time to look into the Greek of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">New Testament it becomes clear that the writers wrote with very bad grammar. The Greek,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">however, follows the rules of grammar for Hebrew and Aramaic. Third, I hold firm to the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">belief that the modern view of Jesus is incorrect and does not accurately define either the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">person or teachings of Yeshua, the first-century rabbi who was firmly grounded in the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">teachings of Torah. Lastly, while I believe in the overall accuracy of the New Testament2</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">, I</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">(along with the New Covenant writers) give greater primacy and authority to the written</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">1</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Andrew Gabriel Roth goes into this topic in greater detail in his “Aramaic English New Testament”. I highly</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">recommend this book.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">2</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Brit Chadasha or New Covenant in Hebrew – 3 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Scripture of the Tanach3</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">. With these four foundations in place I can continue. There are</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">others, but they can be discussed as they are brought up.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> First of all, who is Yeshua? The entire world, it seems, has heard of Jesus in one way</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">or another, but Yeshua? Who’s he? In the most basic understanding Yeshua (ישוע) is the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Hebrew name for Jesus. It is by this name that His mother Miriam (Mary) would have called</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Him. In Hebrew it means Yah4</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Saves. The name Jesus technically has no meaning. It is not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">a Hebrew word, nor is it Greek or Latin. Despite the fact that it has been adopted in English</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and every other modern language in some form, it is actually a contrived name. It comes to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">our modern use through various linguistic twists and turns, but originates from the Hebrew</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name Yeshua. It was taken from Hebrew into the Greek (the trade language of the Western</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Roman Empire) as the New Covenant writings of the first disciples of Yeshua were</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">translated. In Greek His name is Ιησους (Iesus). (There is no “Y” or “SH” sound in Greek, so</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the “I” and “S” sounds were substituted.) From there it moved to Latin (the common</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">language of Rome) as Iesous and over time into English as Jesus. The letter “J” is a relatively</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">new and sound was not distinguished from the letter “I” until 1634.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> An interesting lesson in linguistics, but does it really matter what we call Him?</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Aren’t Jesus and Yeshua still the exact same person despite what language is used for their</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name? This is one of those differences between our culture and society and that of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Master. In Hebrew (as with most Eastern cultures) names have significant meanings. To</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">change the name is to change the meaning of a person’s life. It was no small thing for YHVH</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to change the name of Avram to Avraham. YHVH was not only changing his name, but</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">showing him a new purpose and promise in life. The name of Yeshua reveals both the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Messiah’s mission and identity. When Gabriel told Yoseph (Joseph) that, “you shall call His</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name Yeshua, for He will save His people from their sins5</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">” (Matt 1:21) he was telling Yoseph</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that the baby to be born to Miriam had a purpose given by YHVH, and that the child was in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">fact YHVH in the flesh! He was told that Yah saves – if this child was to have any hope of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">bringing salvation to His people He had to be YHVH Himself. Gabriel did not say, “You shall</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">call His name Jesus,” and if He did Yoseph would have replied, “Huh?” The meaning would</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">have been lost, and in many ways so too would have been the promise behind Messiah.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Names and words (especially words in Scripture) have meaning, and when we change a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">word or a name we run the danger of changing the meaning. Time and culture have</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">removed us from Yeshua and the very meaning of His life and thus His mission. If we are to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">be like Him and do the things that He taught, we must endeavor to regain that which was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">lost. Moses said, “Now, therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">3</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Old Testament. Tanach is a Hebrew Acronym for the three parts of this writing, Torah (Instruction), Nevi’im</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">(Prophets), Ketuvim (Writings).</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">4</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Yah is short for YHVH (יהוה) the covenant name for the Creator.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">5</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> All quotes from the Bible are taken from the New American Standard unless otherwise noted. – 4 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that this nation is Your people. If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?” (Ex 33:13, 15-16) The</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">people of YHVH are known by His presence with them, His character being imprinted on</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">their lives. If His people don’t know who He is and what He expects, how can they be any</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">different from those around them? Out prayer should be the same as Moses, “Let me know</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Your ways that I may know You.” The rest of this article will examine how the use of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name “Jesus” is a symptom of the greater problem that we don’t really know who He is and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">what He wants from us.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Let me make it clear that I am in no way saying those who have been saved in the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name of Jesus are not really saved. I am sure that in some cases this is true, not because of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the name, but because of their heart. It is upon the heart that YHVH looks, and I cannot</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">judge the heart, except when the Father reveals – and I will not do so now. I will, however,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">question later on in this article what salvation actually means.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> So, how are Jesus and Yeshua different? The differences in their lives begin at their</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">birth. The story of the birth of Jesus is known worldwide. It is one of the most celebrated</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">events of the year, observed even by those who do not call him their master. Jesus was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">born to the Virgin Mary around Christmas time (though we do not really know for sure</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">when he was born, some say it was around September 29). Most will admit that he was a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Jew, but the image we hold of him is more European, tall with long flowing brown hair – we</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">have all seen the pictures. His birth was heralded by angels to shepherds and the Magi – a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">mysterious lot of pagans from the East who were seeking the king of the Jews, and he was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">soon hunted by Herod. Jesus’ birth is honored today with the decorated Christmas tree and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">gift giving. The symbolism of Jesus in Christmas have been told and retold throughout the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">years, to the point it has become almost impossible to remove him from the holiday,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">though there is an effort in some quarters to do so.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The problem is that almost none of this is true of Yeshua. Yeshua was born around</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the year 6 BCE to the virgin girl Miriam (Mary), but it was not around December 25. In fact</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">we can reasonably state that He was born on the 15th day of the Hebrew month Tishrei6</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> –</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the first day of Sukkot (Feast of Booths)7</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">. Sukkot is one of the feasts of YHVH in Leviticus</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">23. This date holds important significance in the understanding of Yeshua and His role as</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Messiah. Sukkot was given to the children of Israel as a celebration of the end of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">harvest and as a reminder of their time in the wilderness after YHVH rescued them from</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">6</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Also known as Eitanim</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">7</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> For more information on how this date can be calculated go to:</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.shalomalyisrael.org/files/birth_of_yeshua.pdf" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">http://www.shalomalyisrael.org/files/birth_of_yeshua.pdf</a> – 5 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Egypt. Throughout Scripture it is seen as a time when YHVH will dwell with His people and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">give them rest. When Yochanan (John) said, ”And the Word became flesh, and dwelt (or</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">made His booth) among us,8</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">” he was referring to Yeshua and this feast. It is an eight day</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">celebration, with a Sabbath rest on the first and last days, in addition to the weekly Sabbath</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that typically falls somewhere in between. In Hebrew the number eight symbolizes eternity</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">as well as a new beginning, and shows the fulfillment of YHVH’s promise to forever rescue</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">us from the bondage of our sins, through His dwelling with us. Yeshua, the one who would</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">save His people from sin was born on the first day of this feast and circumcised on the last</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">day, the eighth day in accordance with the command given by YHVH to Avraham9</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">. The</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">meaning is immense. For believers today it is a reminder of Yeshua, and His purpose in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">coming to dwell on earth – that we might be restored to YHVH and again walk with Him in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the cool of the day. It is also promise of His return, and a picture of His completed work in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the world and in us.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Yeshua was a Hebrew, born to parents of the tribe of Judah (Jews). He was Jewish</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">not only in nationality, but in culture, faith, and practice as well. After His birth His parents</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">brought the sacrifice required by Moses to the Temple (Luke 2:22-24); He was brought to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Temple and showed He was well versed in the study of the Torah (Luke 2:46-47); He</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">kept Sabbath (Luke 6:1-11), Passover (Luke 26:20-35), and even Hanukkah (John 10:22). In</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">every one of Yeshua’s parables and teachings, His Jewish culture and heritage can be seen.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Yeshua even said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel” (Matthew</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">15:24)10. Because of the 2000 year gulf between us, it is often hard to see or understand the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">culture of Yeshua. The New Testament has been so engrained into the Western mindset</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">through the lens of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Hellenized Greco-Roman teaching that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">it is often thought of as a 17th century European book, when it is in reality a group of first</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">century Middle Eastern letters. While we do not know what He looked like, we can assume</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">he looked much like the native Middle Eastern people of today: shorter, olive skinned, dark</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">curly hair, brown eyes. The lack of any images of Yeshua is in itself in keeping with Hebrew</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">culture and more importantly the Torah of Moses. Deuteronomy 4:15 says, “So watch</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day YHVH spoke to you at Horeb</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">from the midst of the fire, so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female.” Yeshua the man was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Torah observant and never allowed men to worship Him, only YHVH, His Father in Heaven.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Yeshua’s birth was, like the story of Jesus, announced by messengers from YHVH to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">a group of shepherds, and Magi from the East came and visited Him after following a star.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">8</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> John 1:14</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">9</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Genesis 17</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">10 This does not mean “gentiles” cannot be saved, nor does it refer only to Jews – the Jews only make up a part</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of Israel. This will be discussed more later in the article. – 6 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The Magi, however, were not a group of pagan astrologers who were looking for the king of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Jews. Why would they care about the king of a backwater Roman colony? Andrew</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Gabriel Roth says this of the Magi, “Magosi or Magi refers to the astrologers/astronomers</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">who were originally taught by Daniel the Prophet while in Babylon. These men are neither</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">sorcerers nor Pagans, but fearers of Elohim11 who were patiently awaiting the coming of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Mashiyach12. What they had learned from Daniel was becoming a reality, they had traveled</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to bear witness of Mashiyach’s birth and bring the good news back to their homeland.”13 It</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">is well established that there was a large Jewish community in Babylon; these were people</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">like Queen Esther who did not return to Israel with Ezra and Nehemiah. Even today there is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">a Jewish community (though much smaller) in modern day Iraq – the site of ancient</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Babylon. The Magi had kept their ties with the Torah and knew what the signs of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">promised Messiah were as they were described in Scripture. Daniel the prophet taught</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">them well.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The history lesson is neat, but how important is it really? Will knowing or not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">knowing these things change my salvation? Probably not, but by misunderstanding these</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">things a door is opened to other teachings that will. 2 Peter 1:3 says, “… His divine power</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Him…” The wonder of His revelation in Scripture is that it provides for us everything. Just</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">as the manna in the wilderness provided for all the nutritional needs of the Israelites for 40</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">years, so does His word teach us how to live in the physical world around us and the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">spiritual world we don’t readily see. If Peter is right, then our understanding of Messiah</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">must be based on the Scripture that He Himself wrote and not on the tradition of men,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">whose corrupted minds cannot understand YHVH’s ways. If we misunderstand the earthly</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">beginnings of the man who was from the beginning, how can we hope to understand the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">rest of what He taught and did? Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 46:10 says, “Declaring the end from the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure’”. To understand Yeshua’s</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">ministry we must understand Him from His beginning. Not only His earthly life (discussed</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">here), but also Yeshua from the beginning of time, as the very Word of YHVH (discussed in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the next section).</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Beginning with the birth of these two men (Jesus and Yeshua) we see immediately</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that they are not the same. They cannot be if we insist on celebrating the birth of Jesus on</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">December 25, a date linked with demonic, pagan religious rites. Before Christianity adopted</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">this date as the birth of Jesus in the late 4th century, cultures around the world</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">commemorated their pagan deities on or around the winter solstice. In the Germanic</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">11 Hebrew for God or Mighty One</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">12 Messiah</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">13 From the “Aramaic English New Testament” pg.5 Copyright 2010 (hereafter referred to as AENT) – 7 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">countries, this time was used to worship Oden, who flew around the sky at night and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">decided who would prosper or perish14. Romans honored several of their gods during this</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">time. Saturn, the god of agriculture, was worshiped with a month long celebration where</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">peasants and masters switched places (similar to Boxing Day) and business and schools</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">remained closed so everyone could partake in the hedonistic parties that dominated the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">city. The feast of Juvenalia was also celebrated commemorating the children of Rome.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">December 25 marked one of the most sacred days of the year and the birthday of the god</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Mithras, an infant god.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Constantine was one of the first to bring together the pagan holidays and the birth</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of the Christian Christ.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, better known as Constantine I or</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Constantine the Great, was born around the year A.D. 275 – almost three</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">centuries after Jesus. He worshipped the pantheon of Roman gods as all his</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">predecessors had done and especially the Roman sun god, Sol. However, as</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">he was traveling to battle his most powerful rival in Italy, Maxentius, at the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Tiber River in A.D. 312, he had a vision. In that vision, he reported seeing the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">cross of Christ superimposed on the sun with the words, in hoc signo vinces -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">“in this sign you shall conquer.” After winning the battle, he became a strong</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">champion of Christianity. The very next year, he met with Emperor Licinius,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the ruler of the eastern provinces, to sign the Edict of Milan giving equal</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">rights to all religious groups within the Roman Empire. He returned property</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">seized from Christians, built a great number of churches, donated land, and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">convened the first Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 to deal with false teaching</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">within the church. Although he didn’t completely leave his pagan roots and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">wasn’t baptized until A.D. 337 on this deathbed, he did much to further the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">growth of the church.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Either as a means to unify his empire, or to make converting to Christianity</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">easier, Constantine sought to blend Christian and pagan traditions. At that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">time, two prominent pagan winter festivals were celebrated. The first,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">starting on December 17 and lasting seven days, honored Saturn, the Roman</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">god of agriculture. The second, starting on December 25 and lasting through</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">January 1, commemorated the birth of Mithras, the Persian god of light.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Constantine merged many of the traditions from these festivals with the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Nativity story in the Bible and Christmas was born. From its beginning,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Christmas was a holiday (or holy day), gifts were exchanged, families and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">14 <a href="http://www.thehistoryofchristmas.com/" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehistoryofchristmas.com</a> – 8 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">friends gathered to feast, and a birth was celebrated; just like in the Roman</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and Persian festivities.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The first mention of December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth is found in an</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">early Roman calendar from A.D. 336.15</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Early church fathers, men who did not understand the Hebraic culture Messiah came</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">from, began to suggest possible dates to the birth of their Christ as early as 221 CE. Sextus</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Julius Africanus theorized that Jesus was conceived around the spring equinox, thus putting</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">His birth around the end of December.16 In reality they were trying to rationalize their</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">traditions, and to justify the command of Caesar to celebrate Jesus’ birth at the end of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">year instead of looking to Scripture and seeking for the answer there.17 If Christians then</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and now would have simply believed what Peter said in his letter they would have</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">discovered the answer already written down in Scripture. The information given in Luke</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">concerning the birth of Yochanan and the accounts of the priesthood in the Tanach give us</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">every indication that His birth was on the 15th of Tishrei.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The problem with celebrating His birth at the wrong time is that it isn’t true. And if</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH doesn’t lie, then this time of celebration is not from Him. To further confirm the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">matter we have to ask, “would YHVH, who is One18, allow His worship to be mixed with</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">pagan worship?” No! The use of mistletoe, Santa Claus, the yule log, gold and silver</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">ornaments on a tree and so many other things come directly from paganism. Jeremiah</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">10:1-5 speaks of decorating trees with silver and gold for pagan idolatry. Every time in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Scripture a tree is used for worship, it is always pagan in nature. How can we be so</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">presumptuous as to argue that the Creator won’t care if we use a pagan ritual as long as it is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to worship Him? Regardless of the intent this is still idolatry, and syncretism. YHVH said,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">“And My glory I will not give to another.19” How can we be so presumptuous as to think</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that allowing pagan gods to influence the way we worship the Creator is okay? The</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Israelites did this over and over, and never did YHVH say, “They mean well,” or, “I know</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">their hearts are in the right place.” Each time He brought correction, and would not allow</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">His glory to be shared. When Israel was at Mount Sinai they created a golden calf and said,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">“This is your god, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Tomorrow we will</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">have a feast to YHVH.20” YHVH’s response was to bring a plague on the people, and 3,000</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">died that day for their sin. Are we so arrogant as to believe that YHVH will not do the same</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">15 <a href="http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/emperor-constantine-faq.htm%C2%A0" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/emperor-constantine-faq.htm </a></span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">16 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%C2%A0" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas </a></span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">17 Though there have been those to question the celebration of Christmas, the Puritans for example.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">18 Deuteronomy 6:4</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">19 Isaiah 48:11</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">20 Exodus 32:4,5 – 9 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to us? His wrath has not come down as quickly, but as Isaiah says, “For the sake of My</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">name I delay My wrath, and for My praise I restrain it for you in order not to cut you off.21”</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">If His wrath has not descended upon us yet it is only to give us time to repent. But I would</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">dare to say that His wrath has begun to be poured out; we have just been so disconnected</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">from His ways that we haven’t seen it.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">It is just as evil for His people today to raise a false image of who Messiah is, and say,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">“This is Jesus, our savior, and these are his teachings,” when they are not, as it was for the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Israelites in the desert to raise a golden calf and say, “Here is YHVH who brought us out of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Egypt.” We have distanced ourselves from understanding who Messiah is, and from</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">knowing His purpose that we no longer serve the same Master as the first disciples.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Because of time, culture, ignorance, and because of untaught and unstable men who twist</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Scriptures, the message of Messiah has been changed. Yeshua has been changed into</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Jesus. And our very salvation is at stake. YHVH Himself said, “My people are destroyed for</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">My priest. Since you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I will also forget your</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">children.”22</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH told the people that because of their rebellion at the incident of the golden</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">calf, “I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people.23” YHVH cannot</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">live among an unrepentant rebellious people. How can we, who are to be the temple of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">living Elohim, claim to live with Him when we have accepted false teaching about His very</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">nature into our lives? How can His presence dwell in such a temple? Will He not depart,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">just as He did in the book of Ezekiel and won’t the temple again be left desolate?24</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Seven times in the book of Isaiah we are told, “Remember the former things long</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">past, For I am Elohim, and there is no other; I am Elohim, and there is no one like Me,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">pleasure.25’” By going back to the beginning of time and Scripture we can gain a better</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">understanding of who Messiah is and what His message is to us today. We must remember</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that Yeshua, the Word26, was with YHVH in the beginning (and was YHVH). He is the word</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">spoken that brought the universe into being. He is the promised Word given to Abraham,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and He is the spoken Word (Torah) given to Moses on the mountain. He is all these and we</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">must begin to understand Him in these capacities if we are to understand His requirements</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">21 Isaiah 48:9</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">22 Hosea 4:6 – Emphasis mine</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">23 Exodus 33:3</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">24 I do not mean the loss of salvation by this, but that YHVH can and will withdraw His hand of blessing and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">protection when His people have unrepentant sin (Deuteronomy 27-30).</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">25 Isaiah 46:10</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">26 John 1 – 10 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">on our lives. How can we follow Him, if by denying the promised Word to Abraham and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">disobeying the spoken Torah we deny the very substance and purpose of who Yeshua the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Messiah is?</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Many think Messiah (or Christ in Greek) is just part of His name, but it is a title, a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">description of His purpose in coming to earth. Messiah in Hebrew means “anointed one.”</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">It is not only a term referring to Yeshua, but any person who is anointed, or who has been</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">commissioned for a special purpose. In 1 Kings 19 YHVH commanded the prophet Elijah to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">anoint Elisha as prophet in his place. In Leviticus 4, the High Priest of Israel is called</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">messiah, or the anointed one and is given the commission of bringing the sacrifice before</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH to atone for the sins of the people. King David was also called messiah, the anointed</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">king of Israel27. In just these three instances we see, not only others who served as an</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">anointed one, but also catch a glimpse of what the ultimate Messiah, Yeshua, was to do. He</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">was to serve as a Prophet who would point the way back to the ways of YHVH, as a Priest</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">who atoned for the sins of His people, and as King who would lead and protect His people.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The primary purpose of each of these roles, and thus of Messiah Himself, was to point</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">people back to the ways of YHVH, back to the instructions (Torah) of righteous living, and to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">show them how to regain that which was lost since Adam – intimacy with YHVH.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH’s plan for His creation is seen at its fullest in the Garden of Eden. It was here</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that Adam walked with YHVH in the cool of the day. There was an intimacy that YHVH had</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">with His creation that He desires to bring us back to. Because of the deception of Chavah28</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and the rebellion of Adam they were cast out of the Garden and the intimacy they had</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">experienced with their Creator ended. But YHVH’s promise of restoration was immediate.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Speaking to the serpent He said, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">on the heel.”29 The serpent here is Satan; in Hebrew this is not a name, but a description.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Hasatan (הסטן) in Hebrew means “the accuser”. Hasatan’s goal is to introduce us to sin,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and then go before YHVH and accuse us, thus continuing the separation between YHVH and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">His beloved creation. The promise that the Seed would come and crush the head of the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">accuser is not only a promise to put an end to the evil one, but to put an end to his right to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">accuse us. The only way that can happen is for us to be brought to a place like Yeshua,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">where only false accusation can be brought before us because we have walked in the ways</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of YHVH, and are blameless. This is the purpose of Messiah.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">I was always taught growing up that in order to live in the righteousness that Jesus</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">taught we had to, “Love the Lord your God, and your neighbor as yourself.” In short, love is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the answer. How to love was the question of debate. Some denominations say that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">27 2 Samuel 22:51</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">28 Eve</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">29 Genesis 3:15 – 11 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">baptism was a requirement for salvation; others that speaking in tongues was. Another</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">group says that speaking in tongues was not only an indicator of the lack of salvation saved,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">but probably also a sign of demon possession. Some see Jesus as a pacifist and that all war</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">is wrong, and some believe in the “just” war idea. Still a whole other group teaches</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that…and on, and on, and on. There is a consensus among Christians of all denominations</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that the teachings of Jesus lead to life. He even said, “I am the way and the truth and the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">life, no man comes to the father except through Me.”</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">30 So if we are to receive life we must</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">understand the truth of what He taught. And because we have not understood who Yeshua</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">is, we have not clearly understood what He taught. We have had glimpses of this truth that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH has used for His purposes, but there has also been misunderstanding and mixture</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that have crept in, changing the message of Messiah, and changing the way we are</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">considered righteous before YHVH.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">There is a huge disconnect between Christianity and Judaism, and it is more than</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">just belief or not that Jesus is the promised Messiah. Christianity teaches that Jesus fulfilled</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Torah, the Law of Moses. He lived the perfect life according to the Law, because we</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">could not, and because He filled those requirements we are no longer are obligated to be</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">bound by the Law. Judaism teaches that salvation is only obtained by performing mitzvot</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">(good works), because without a temple sacrifice is no longer necessary31</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Neither of these beliefs are entirely correct. Yeshua did live a perfect life, and He did</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">follow all the commandments of Torah that pertained to Him32. But He didn’t follow the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Torah so that we didn’t have to, nor did He teach that. In fact if He would have taught that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">His followers were not required to obey and follow Torah, He would have been discredited</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">as a prophet and as Messiah. Deuteronomy 13:1-5 says:</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">wonder, then the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams;</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">for YHVH your Elohim is testing you to find out if you love YHVH your Elohim with all</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">your heart and with all your soul. You shall follow YHVH your Elohim and fear Him;</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">30 John 14:6 – This is an example of bad Greek writing. In Greek and English you don’t separate items in a list</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">with and, you only use it for the last item. With Hebrew, however all items of a list are separated with this</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">conjunction.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">31 There are of course many flavors of these teachings, and some groups would take an altogether different</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">stance, but these cover a majority of the 2 groups.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">32 He did not and could not complete all the commandments. For example He did not perform the commands</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that pertained only to women, or to the Levites, or to the Priests. – 12 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">has counseled rebellion against YHVH your Elohim who brought you from the land of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">which YHVH your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">among you.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">In Yeshua’s entire ministry He never taught against the Torah of Moses. In fact, He did just</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the opposite. Matthew 5 says this:</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah (Law) or the Prophets; I did not come</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Torah until all is accomplished.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.33</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Yeshua also said, “But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.34” James 1: 17-18 says, “Every</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">good and perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of Heavenly Lights with</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">whom is no changing, not even the shadow of change. He saw fit, and gave birth to us by</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Word of Truth, that we might be the first-fruits of His creatures.35” When the Torah was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">given on the mountain, if they would have physically looked up they would have seen the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">cloud, and the smoke, and the lightning on the mountain; they would have beheld the glory</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of YHVH. When they looked up and beheld their salvation what they saw was Torah coming</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">down from the mountain, from the Father of Heavenly Lights. Torah came down first in the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">form of the written Word, and then in the form of the Living Word, who is Yeshua the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Messiah, the embodiment of the written Word, the same as the written Word. To accept</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Jesus, but to reject Torah is to reject Yeshua, and reject YHVH’s salvation36</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">The observance of Torah does not save, but is rather the instructions of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">righteousness that YHVH has given to His people to guide and teach them. One is only</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">saved through faith made possible by the sacrifice of Yeshua. None of us keep the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">commands of YHVH fully, but how can we expect YHVH to accept us if we willfully reject His</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">instructions of righteousness? This is not to say that anyone who doesn’t follow Torah isn’t</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">saved. We have all walked in ignorant blindness of some sort. But YHVH’s expectation is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that we walk out of that blind darkness into the light. YHVH is showing His people the Truth</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">33 Emphasis mine</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">34 Luke 21:28</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">35 AENT</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">36 Remember Yeshua means “Yah saves” – 13 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of Torah, and upon hearing this message He expects them to repent. There is a danger to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">ignorance, “Many will say in that day (the Day of Judgment), “Master, Master, did we not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">many miracles? And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me you</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">who do not practice Torah.37” Most English translations read, “depart from Me you who</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">practice lawlessness.” Yeshua’s audience however was made up of Torah observant Jews</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">who understood that lawlessness is to be without the Law of Moses – Torah. This is why</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Yochanan said, “Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">lawlessness (Torahlessness).38”</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Some have taught that while Jesus kept the commandments and taught others to do</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">so, his followers began to realize the “truth” of his ministry after his death and that the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">requirements of the Law had been lifted. If they had done this, they would have disobeyed</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Master, because Yeshua said before He ascended into Heaven, “Go therefore , make</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">disciples of all nations and immerse them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Ruach haKodesh39</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">. And teach them to keep all that I have commanded you. And</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen”40</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Another common response to this is, “That was for the Jews, and since I’m not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Jewish I’m under grace.” YHVH’s path to righteousness is the same for all people in all</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">times. A Jew is justified the same way as a gentile, and a person who lived before Yeshua is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">saved the same way I am. Romans 2:11-12, “For there is no respect of persons with Elohim.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">For those without Torah, who sin, will also perish without Torah; and those under Torah,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">who sin, will be judged by Torah.” YHVH does not, cannot show favoritism. If He set</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">requirements on Moses, then He must also set those same requirements on me, else he has</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">shown one of us favoritism.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Careful examination of the Tanach shows that the Torah was not just for the Jews.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">First of all, the Jews make up only a part of the 12 tribes of Israel. At the time of the split of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">unified kingdom of Israel, 10 tribes moved to the North and 2 tribes to the South. The</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Southern tribes began to be called Jews during the time of their exile to Babylon because</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">they were primarily made up of the tribe of Judah. The Torah was given to all 12 tribes and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to the sojourners and aliens with them. “There is to be one Torah and one ordinance for</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">you and for the alien who sojourns with you.41” These commands were given to all who</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">sought the Creator of the universe. Even Noah had an understanding of the commands of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH. In Genesis 7:2-3 YHVH commands him to take 2 pairs of the unclean animals and 7</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">pairs of the clean animals. Clean and unclean were understood a thousand years before</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">37 Matthew 7:22-23</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">38 1 John 3:4</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">39 Spirit of Holiness or the Holy Spirit</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">40 AENT – Emphasis mine</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">41 Numbers 15:16 – 14 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Moses. In Genesis 2 the understanding of the seventh day Sabbath is given. YHVH’s Torah</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">is timeless, and did not begin with Israel at Sinai. It existed before the creation of the world</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and is the standard by which YHVH measures all His creation.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Are Christians, then, to become Jews? No. But all those who seek to follow YHVH</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">are required to obey His commands and seek after Him in the way that He has set forth.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH has defined those who do this as Israel. No matter what culture a person comes</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">from, or what language they speak, they are always welcome to come to the Father, and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">when they do they are grafted into His family, called Israel. Romans 11 gives the picture of</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the olive tree and its branches that are either natural branches that have been cut off</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">because of unbelief, or wild branches that have been grafted in. The tree is Israel, and the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">natural branches those that are of the physical descent of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">(whose name was changed to Israel). The wild branches are the nations of the world.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">YHVH’s requirements are that we remain attached to the tree, Yeshua, the Word, Torah.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">I am the Vine of Truth and my Father is the Cultivator. Every branch that is on Me</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that does not give fruit, He takes away. And that which bears fruit He prunes it that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">it might produce more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word which I</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">have spoken with you. Abide in Me and I in you, as the branch is not able to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">produce fruit by itself unless it should abide in the vine. Likewise you are also not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">able unless you abide in Me.42</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">A deeper discussion of Israel’s identity can be found in the book, “Redeemed Israel –</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Reunited and Restored” by Batya Wootten.43</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> It seems to me that what is often missed in many Christian circles is the beauty and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">freedom Torah brings. The Law of Moses is seen by many to be bondage. I had that</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">impression for many years. But that idea doesn’t line up with passages found throughout</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the Tanach that say, “Teach me, O YHVH, the way of Your statutes, and I shall observe it to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the end. Give me understanding, that I may observe your Torah and keep it with all my</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">heart. Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.”44 The writers</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">of this Psalm and the rest of the Tanach knew the beautiful freedom they had in Torah.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">They loved the commands YHVH gave because they understood they led to life. They were</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">not in bondage by keeping them, but rather they walked in freedom. Their whole hearts</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">were dedicated to following the Torah, the commands, and the instructions YHVH gave to</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">them through Moses. Despite coming against the Pharisees because they brought the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">people under true bondage with their teachings and their additions to YHVH’s Torah, He</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">said of them, “The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses. Therefore, whatever they</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">42 John 15:1-4 AENT</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">43 Another book I highly recommend.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">44 Psalm 119:33-35 – 15 -</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">say to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">do not do.”45 YHVH said through Moses, “So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">by which a man may live if he does them; I am YHVH.”</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">46 Paul quoted this passage in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Romans 10:5, “For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">based on the Torah shall live by that righteousness.” Torah produces in us righteousness,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">and that righteousness brings life! The love of Torah is so important, and the accuser has</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">been too successful in convincing us to revile the life that YHVH gave us.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"> Many will say that I am preaching a doctrine of salvation by good works. In fact,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">nothing is further from the truth. My works can never save me. Because I live underneath</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">the curse of Adam, all my works, done by my own power, are filthy rags before YHVH.47</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Only faith can save. But what is faith? In order to answer this question many quote</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Hebrews 11:1, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">seen”,48 and would then say that faith is belief in those things that we hope for, and things</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">that we cannot see. This misunderstanding has perpetuated the doctrine that all you have</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God, born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, was</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">crucified, and was raised from the dead 3 days later; then you will be saved. This teaching is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">not true. Brad Scott points out that faith is not the things hoped for, or the things not seen,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">but is the substance and the evidence of those things. Faith is not merely belief, because</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">belief has no substance. Ya’akov (James) the brother of Yeshua was a man well versed in</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Torah defined faith this way:</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say,</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">“You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">show you my faith by my works.” You believe that Elohim is one. You do well; the</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">demons also believe and shudder. You are you willing to recognize, you foolish</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">works when he offered up Isaac his son on the alter? You see that faith was working</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of Elohim. You see that a man is</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">works is dead.</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">45 Matthew 23:2-3 The Scriptures</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">46 Leviticus 18:5</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">47 Isaiah 64:6</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2142"><span class="font-size-4">48 KJV – 16 -</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2140"><span class="font-size-4">Faith begins in the heart, and as it grows it works to the outer man where it manifests as</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2139"><span class="font-size-4">works. If that faith is in YHVH, Creator of the heavens and earth, those works will follow</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">after His ways, the way of Torah. It is still the faith that saves, but as Ya’akov said, without</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2174"><span class="font-size-4">the works faith is dead, and how can something that is dead lead to life?</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2173"><span class="font-size-4">If Jesus was born on (or near) Christmas day, fulfilled the Law so that we don’t have</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2171"><span class="font-size-4">to, and was the founder of Christianity then he is not Yeshua, the promised Messiah who</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2169"><span class="font-size-4">would bring the people of YHVH out of bondage to their sins and back to the ancient path.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2167"><span class="font-size-4">Yeshua said in Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say in that day, “Master, Master, did we not</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2165"><span class="font-size-4">prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2163"><span class="font-size-4">many miracles? And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me you</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2161"><span class="font-size-4">who do not practice Torah.” Yehoshua (Joshua) said, “If it is disagreeable in your sight to</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2159"><span class="font-size-4">serve YHVH, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve; whether the gods of your</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2157"><span class="font-size-4">fathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living;</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2155"><span class="font-size-4">but as for me and my house, we will serve YHVH.49” These are not considerations to be</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2153"><span class="font-size-4">taken lightly. To not know who Yeshua really is leads to error, and ultimately to death and</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2151"><span class="font-size-4">eternal separation from YHVH. Will you follow Jesus who man has defined and developed,</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2149"><span class="font-size-4">or will you follow Yeshua who is the Word from the beginning and the perfect image of His</span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4">Father?</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2147"></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377673796703_2146"><span class="font-size-4">49 Joshua 24:15</span></div>
TORAH NAILED TO THE CROSS?
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-31:5544986:BlogPost:23242
2013-08-31T19:30:30.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>The Berean Report has some excellent articles. Check ou this one:</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">DID JESUS (YESHUAH) NAIL THE LAW (TORAH) TO THE CROSS?</h1>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">In Acts 17:11 Paul talks about the Berean’s and says, “Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.”…</span></p>
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<p>The Berean Report has some excellent articles. Check ou this one:</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">DID JESUS (YESHUAH) NAIL THE LAW (TORAH) TO THE CROSS?</h1>
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<div class="entry-content post_content"><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-63" alt="laws nailed to the cross" src="http://bereanreport.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/laws.jpg?w=109&h=150" width="109" height="150"/></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">In Acts 17:11 Paul talks about the Berean’s and says, “Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” What scripture were they examining? They were examining the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. The New Testament did not exist at that time. When Paul was preaching the good news and writing letters to the church and new potential converts, not all of the converts were reading the Old Testament to see if what he was saying was true or not. Unfortunately, today’s average Christian (follower of Yeshuah) could be placed in the same category.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">With that in mind, lets address the law of God and who it applies to. All throughout the Torah Yahweh makes it clear that the rules for Israel were to be an example for the rest of the world on how to live and run their nation. Anyone who wants to serve the God of the Hebrews (Yahweh) had/has to go by the same set of rules. Yahweh, Yeshuah, and all the prophets say this over and over again. The covenant he made with Levi was only if Levi and his sons would follow God and His torah. The new covenant is that Yeshuah, through the order of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek">Melchizedek</a> became the high priest because the sons of Levi (the priestly line) broke their part of the covenant which was contingent on their actions whether or not the covenant would be canceled. The covenant of the torah (which was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai) is eternal whether we choose to keep it or not. This is why we do not read about the suffering servant in the prophets until after the Levitical priesthood was failing to do their job. This is why there is such a disconnect between Jews and Christians because the Jews still believe the Levitical covenant is still in tact and they do not need a replacement (Yeshuah). That is the covenant that was nailed to the cross in a matter of speaking. It is imperative that we make the distinction between covenants. There is a misconception in Christianity that there are only two covenants which is false. There are several that God made throughout the human narrative and each has different expectations and rules. Some are eternal and others are contingent. For example the covenant with Noah is eternal, YHWH will never flood the entire earth again. The covenant with the tribe of Levi was not eternal; it was contingent on their obedience to the torah. The torah that was given on Mt. Sinai was eternal regardless if we keep it or not. If we are followers of Yeshuah whom was a Hebrew that kept the torah (eternal) and consider ourselves grafted in through Him, then we are obligated to keep the torah (eternal) until heaven and earth pass away. A great example of the Levites being replaced would be Samuel. God chose him because the Levites of his time were so wicked that God raised Samuel up as the high priest and prophet. Another example of how God is looking for obedience rather than lineage was Caleb. Caleb was a Ceenite not an Israelite yet he received a portion of the promise land because he was more obedient to the torah than other Israelites who were part of the 12 tribes. I don’t discredit a persons attempt to understand the gospels based on what they were raised to believe but sometimes we have to remove the glasses we were raised to wear and begin to see things from a different perspective. Jeremiah 16:19 says, “O LORD (YHWH), my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction (End Days), The Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.” Will man make gods for himself, which are not gods?”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">I think the reason this debate is so hard for followers of Christ to entertain is because they are afraid of being deceived, which is a valid concern, however, if we are looking to the scriptures like the Bereans did, which including the Torah and the prophets, for direction, we cannot go wrong and perhaps the deception we are afraid of has come from the fact that we have been told that the old is obsolete. This is a blanket statement that needs to be broken down. Believers need to read the Torah, Joshua, and the Prophets in a chronological complete context before trying to interpret the gospels. The bible is like a map and if you are zoomed in on a small town, it is hard to understand how to get to that town unless you zoom out to see the whole map. Most interpretations are solely based on the gospels, which does not give the researcher a clear context of what the writers of the gospels (Paul, Peter, etc.) were addressing and what they were not addressing. This is very common for “sound-bite theology”. Did Jesus nail the law to the cross? Did Jesus come to fulfill the law? Yes! Which law or what part of it? The book of Hebrews and the book of James shed a lot of light on this issue. The covenant that is addressed in Hebrews is the one He made with Levi, not the Torah (Commandments/Instructions of God) that were given on Mt. Sinai. There is a reason that Martin Luther wanted these book banned from the cannon of scripture. One reason in particular is the fact that it pointed back to the seventh day Sabbath which is a part of the creation story and the Ten Commandments given to Moses. This is why the Ten Commandments say,<em><strong>“remember”</strong></em>. The seventh day sabbath was established at creation. In Hebrew the word “remember” translates as “to guard” which means it is of value and can be taken away. We can see a representation of the sabbath being taken away by the fact that so many Christians are under that the sabbath is on Sunday which is a Catholic ordinance and the the seventh day rest of Yahweh. This is a whole different discussion so I will get back on track. It is very clear that the author(s) of Hebrews is clarifying the difference between Gods instructions and the Covenant with Levi and his descendants. For example, in the beginning of Hebrews in Chapter 4 the author talks about the promise of rest (The Sabbath/Ten Commandments).</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Hebrews Chapter 4 goes as follows:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“<b>4:1 </b>Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. <b>2 </b>For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they (the Israelites before Yeshuah Came) also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard. <b>3 </b>For we (followers of Yeshuah) who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> “AS I (YHWH) SWORE IN MY WRATH,</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> although His (YHWH’s) works were finished from the foundation of the world.</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> <b>4 </b>For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS”; <b>5 </b>and again in this passage, “THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.” <b>6 </b>Therefore, since it remains for some (those who are obedient and follow Yeshuah united with faith) to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, <b>7 </b>He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David (the line of David) after so long a time just as has been said before (referencing back to their disobedience and why they were not able to enter the rest),</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> <b>8 </b>For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. <b>9 </b>So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. <b>10 </b>For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> <b>11 </b>Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience (Not keeping the Torah).</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em> <b>12 </b>For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. <b>13 </b>And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. <b>14 </b>Therefore, since we have a great high priest (Yeshuah) who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. <b>15 </b>For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin (What is the definition of sin?). <b>16 </b>Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Hebrews goes on to talk about the real reason Yeshuah had to come which was to become the eternal high priest and make it so that all who believe and take on the purification process of Yeshuah the eternal perfected high priest, they could then enter the holy of holies and communion with YHWH because the Levitical priest failed to do their job. There is nothing in the scriptures that says God’s instructions for life were done away with or invalid, in fact, Matthew 5:19 states that,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“Whoever then annuls one of <b>the</b> <b>least</b> of these commandments, and teaches others to do <b>the</b> same, shall be called <b>least</b> <b>in</b> <b>the</b> kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great <b>in</b> <b>the</b> kingdom of heaven.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Matthew 5:18 says,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“For truly I say to you, until <b>heaven</b> <b>and</b> <b>earth</b> <b>pass</b> <b>away</b>, not the smallest letter or stroke shall <b>pass</b> from the Law (Torah/God’s instructions) until all is accomplished.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Luke 16:17 goes on to say,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><em>“But it is easier for <b>heaven</b> <b>and</b> <b>earth</b> to <b>pass</b> <b>away</b> than for one stroke of a letter of the Law (Torah) to fail.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Based on what we know about what we just learned in Hebrews about Yeshuah fulfilling the priestly aspect of the Levitical covenant, Matthew and Luke are not talking about the Levitical covenant and based on deductive reasoning the Torah is still in tact or at least until heaven and earth pass away which seems highly unlikely. This means that YHWH desires that we keep His commandments and that Yeshuah is now the high priest there fore making it possible to enter into the holy of holies through His sacrifice. Next time we are going to talk about whether Yeshuah is Yahweh or an Angel that was seated at the right hand of the Father. Trinitarians get ready.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">-The Berean</span></p>
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ESAU EFFECT IS?
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-24:5544986:BlogPost:22944
2013-08-24T21:19:05.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>I encourage you the listen to this message. Kimberley is very gifted and presents this difficult Truth in a very easy manner:</p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Algerian" size="7"><strong>The Esau Effect</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_intro.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><strong>Listen here</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong> to find out why this information is important for…</strong></font></p>
<p>I encourage you the listen to this message. Kimberley is very gifted and presents this difficult Truth in a very easy manner:</p>
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<p align="center"><font size="7" face="Algerian"><strong>The Esau Effect</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_intro.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><strong>Listen here</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong> to find out why this information is important for you!</strong></font></p>
<p><img src="http://themessianicmessage.com/beast.jpg" width="475" height="424"/></p>
<p align="center"><font size="6"><strong>What is going on behind the scenes?!</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Have you been wondering how America has so suddenly been flipped upside down?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>How did we get Communism in the White House?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>How is Islam so suddenly rising to prominence in America?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Do you feel overwhelmed by it all?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Does everything seem to be coming at you like an explosion?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>And do you ask yourself how the changes in America will affect the entire world?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know that Islam is only a small part of the problem?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know there is no direct prophecy about Islam?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know it was Esau, not the Greeks, that created democracy? It's in your Bible! And it has profound ramifications in prophecy for these end times.</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Then, why is Islam such a force in the world today?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>What other forces are work?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>And WHO is behind it all?</strong></font></span></p>
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<li><p align="left"><span class="font-size-4"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>What is in store for the future?</strong></font></span></p>
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<p align="center"><br/><span class="font-size-4"><font size="4"><strong>Find out the answers to these questions and who it is that is pulling the strings!</strong></font></span></p>
<p align="center"><font size="3"><strong>It is important to listen to these in the order presented for the fullest understanding</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 1 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_1.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau The Man</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 2 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_2.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau The Spirit</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 3 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_3.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau At The End</strong></font></a></p>
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CHRISTIANS NEED TO RETURN TO NAZARANE JUDAISM
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2013-08-23T09:55:17.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>The following article is a superb article on Nazarene Judaism: </p>
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<h2 class="page_title"><span class="font-size-4">A Return to Nazarene Judaism</span></h2>
<div class="entry entry_page"><p><span class="font-size-4"><em>By J. Jury.</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Here’s a fact that may come as a surprise to some: the earliest followers of Yeshua the Messiah did not call themselves “Christians,” but “Nazarenes.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">You may be asking…</span></p>
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<p>The following article is a superb article on Nazarene Judaism: </p>
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<h2 class="page_title"><span class="font-size-4">A Return to Nazarene Judaism</span></h2>
<div class="entry entry_page"><p><span class="font-size-4"><em>By J. Jury.</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Here’s a fact that may come as a surprise to some: the earliest followers of Yeshua the Messiah did not call themselves “Christians,” but “Nazarenes.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">You may be asking yourself, “Why is this important?” and “How does this impact my faith?” This article will give a general overview of who the Nazarenes were, what they believed, and most importantly, why it all matters.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Who were the Nazarenes?</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">There were several sects of Judaism in ancient times; most prominently featured in the New Testament is, perhaps, the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and, from historical record, we also know the Essenes took a place of prominence during the first century AD. It may come as a surprise to some that the origin of the Christian church was actually a sect of Judaism- like the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes- known as the Nazarenes, of which Paul is said in Acts 24:5 to be <em>“a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.”</em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Prior to the establishment of gentile Christianity, but after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Yeshua into the heavens, the message that Yeshua gave his apostles to carry out to the nations began to spread like wildfire. One major factor that contributed to the rapid growth of this Nazarene sect was their openness to the inclusion of non-Jews into their community. Unlike the other Jewish sects of the day, which did not share this fervency for the inclusion of non-Jews, the Nazarenes identified Yeshua as the <em>“light for the nations”</em> mentioned in Isaiah 9:2, 42:6, 49:6, and 51:4, and they recognized that God desired for His kingdom to be called <em>“a house of prayer for all peoples.”</em> (Isaiah 56:7) The Hebrew version of Matthew 16:18, from which the Nazarenes most likely read, even records Yeshua as having said, <em>“I will build My House of Prayer,”</em> rather than “church.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">So while it is true that the Nazarenes were most definitely a Jewish sect in terms of their functions and society, it is also true that they were open to the acceptance of non Jews.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>What did the Nazarenes believe?</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">The Apostle Paul, being a ringleader of the Nazarenes, and being the most prolific author of the New Testament letters, was recognized by the leadership of the Jerusalem assembly as a missionary to those from the outside nations. While James was left with the governing oversight of the Jewish side of the Nazarene movement, the apostle Paul held the distinct responsibility of bridging the gap between the Jewish and the non-Jewish adherents of the Nazarene movement. He did this, like his rabbinic contemporaries from the Pharisees, by writing halachic observances of the Torah, specifically pertaining to inclusion of non-Jews in the community.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">This puts the New Testament in a very interesting light, as a book of Nazarene doctrines, taught by the Nazarene ringleaders. One might even say that the New Testament was to the Nazarenes what the Talmud was to the Pharisees, or the Dead Sea Scrolls was to the Essenes: a collection of sacred texts that was never meant to replace the Old Testament, but was meant to properly interpret it for application to daily sectarian life.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">While we know extensively about the belief systems of Christianity, we will have to dig deep into historical sources to get a glimpse into the belief systems of the ancient sect of the Nazarenes, the predecessors of Christianity. So without further ado, the following is a list of quotations from historical accounts, documenting some of the beliefs of Nazarene Judaism.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes kept the Torah</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law.” – Jerome, <em>On Isaiah</em> 8:14</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] have no different views, but confess everything in full accord with the doctrine of the Law, like the Jews, except that they are supposedly believers in Christ.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.7.2</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes believed in Yeshua as the Messiah</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] believe that Christ, the son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary, and they hold him to be the one who suffered under Pontius Pilate and ascended to heaven, and in whom we also believe. But while they pretend to be both Jews and Christians, they are neither.” – <em>From Jerome to Augustine</em> (Letter 75)</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] acknowledge both the resurrection of the dead and that all things have been created by God, and they declare that God is one, and that his Son is Jesus Christ.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.7.3</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes read from the Hebrew Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] read from the Gospel which is of the Hebrews.” – Jerome, <em>On Isaiah</em> preface to book 18; see also <em>On Isaiah</em> 11.2; <em>On Ezekiel</em> 18.7; <em>Dialogue against Pelagius</em> 3.2; and <em>On Matthew</em> 12.13, 23.35.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well, as the Jews do. For they do not repudiate the Law, the Prophets, and the books which are called Writings, by the Jews and by themselves.” – Epiphanius of Salamis,<em>Panarion</em> 29.7.2</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] are perfectly versed in the Hebrew language, for the entire Law, the Prophets, and the so-called Writings- I mean the poetic books, Kings, Chronicles, Esther and all the rest- are read in Hebrew among them, as of course they are among the Jews.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.7.4</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] have the Gospel according to Matthew in its entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this as it was originally written, in the Hebrew alphabet.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.9.4</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[Heggesippus the Nazarene] quoted some passages in the Hebrew tongue from the Syriac (Aramaic) Gospel according to the Hebrews, showing that he was a convert from the Hebrews, and he mentions other matters as taken from the unwritten tradition of the Jews.” – Eusebius of Caesarea, <em>Ecclesiastical History</em> 4.22.7</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes were a sect of Judaism</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] were Jewish, were attached to the Law, and had circumcision.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.5.4</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] are easy to detect and, rather than being heretical Christians, are Jews and nothing else.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.9.1</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes were not called “Christians”</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] did not give themselves the name of ‘Christ’ or Jesus’ own name, but that of “Nazarenes.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.1.2</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“But at that time all Christians alike were called Nazarenes.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.1.3</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] found that he had been conceived at Nazareth and brought up in Joseph’s home, and for this reason is called “Jesus the Nazarene” in the Gospel… they adopted this name, so as to be called ‘Nazarenes.’” – Epiphanius of Salamis,<em>Panarion</em> 29.5.6</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“No wonder the apostle [Paul] admitted to being a Nazarene! In those days everyone called Christians this because of the city of Nazareth- there was no other usage of the name at the time. And so people gave the name of ‘Nazarenes’ to believers in Christ, of whom it is written, <em>‘he shall be called a Nazarene.’</em> (Matthew 2:23) Even today in fact, people call all the sects- I mean Manichaeans, Marcionites, Gnostics, and others- by the common name of ‘Christians,’ though they are not Christians. However, although each sect has another name, it still allows this one with pleasure, since the name is an ornament to it. For they think they can preen themselves on Christ’s name- certainly not on Christ’s faith and works!” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.6.5-6</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Nazarenes were not accepted by the Pharisees</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“[The Nazarenes] are different from Jews, and different from Christians, only in the following ways. They disagree with Jews because of their belief in Christ; but they are not in accord with Christians because they are still fettered by the Law- circumcision, the Sabbath, and the rest.” – Epiphanius of Salamis, <em>Panarion</em> 29.7.5</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">“To the Jews [the Nazarenes] are very much enemies. Not only do Jewish people bear hatred against them; they even stand up at dawn, at midday, and toward evening, three times a day when they recite their prayers in the synagogues, and curse and anathematize them, saying three times a day, ‘God curse the Nazarenes.’ For they harbor a further grudge against them, if you please, because despite their Jewish origin, they preach that Jesus is the Christ.” – Epiphanius of Salamis,<em>Panarion</em> 29.9.2-3</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Corruption of the Nazarene Sect</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">It was not significantly after the death of James, Paul, and the rest of the original leadership of the Nazarene community that widespread misunderstanding of the relationship between Yeshua’s followers and mainstream Judaism entered the church. Early on in the transition from “Nazarene Judaism” to “gentile Christianity,” a pagan movement known as Gnosticism began to prevalently infiltrate the assembly. They derived their name from the Greek word for “knowledge,” and believed, among other things, that salvation came from the acquisition of esoteric knowledge apart from works or lifestyle (Garr 49). This belief in salvation-by-knowledge was diametrically opposed to the understanding of salvation in both Rabbinic and Nazarene Judaism, that salvation comes by faith in God, as evidenced by a lifestyle of dedication and perpetual observance of God’s commandments and goodness towards fellow mankind. (Micah 6:8, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Mishnah Avoth 1:2).</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Marcion, an early second century Gnostic teacher, was among the earlier pioneers of the Gnostic infiltration of the Nazarenes. The ideas he introduced merged Gnostic ideals with Jewish principals, creating a theology that was sharply dualistic and violently antagonistic toward Judaism. The result was a portrayal of God as found in the Hebrew Scriptures as both harsh and legalistic, and distinct from Yeshua, who was identified as the God of love depicted in the writings of the Apostles. <em><a name="sdfootnote1anc" href="http://torahdrivenlife.com/?page_id=602#sdfootnote1sym" id="sdfootnote1anc"></a><sup>1</sup></em> This schism was furthered by the fact that the harsh God of the “Old Testament” was labeled as the “Jewish God,” in sharp contrast to Yeshua, who came to be known as the “Christian God.” Although Marcion himself was branded as a heretic, and was subsequently removed from the church, the influence of his teachings, as well as other Gnostic ideals, continues to remain to this day, especially his efforts to remove all evidence of Judaism from Christianity.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Upon the removal of Marcion, his followers, and all the other Gnostics from the church, one would assume that the relationship between Judaism and early Nazaenes would continue in peaceful bliss. Ideally, the Nazarene assembly should have continued to be an active part of the Jewish synagogue. Professor Joseph Tyson at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, noted that, under the established system, “Christians would continue to hear readings from the OT and thus be led to understand the story of ancient Israel as part of their own history… They would be able to see Jesus as part of an ongoing history and as a participant in an ancient and vibrant Jewish culture.” <em><a name="sdfootnote2anc" href="http://torahdrivenlife.com/?page_id=602#sdfootnote2sym" id="sdfootnote2anc"></a><sup>2</sup></em> But this is not exactly how events unfolded. Marcion was not alone in his dualistic approach to the Hebrew Scriptures and Yeshua, and the next wave of change would come from inside the assembly.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Justin Martyr, a non-Jewish church father in the mid-second century CE, presented a very similar approach, one which, though less disdainful of Judaism and the Torah than Marcion, nonetheless called for separation between Christianity, as religion exclusively of non-Jews, and Judaism. His sole mission was to undo the unifying work of the Apostle Paul; instead of bringing together the Jews and those from other nations, Martyr focused on an absolute divorce of one from the other.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Martyr, along with later church fathers, laid the foundation for the separation between the Nazarene assembly and the separate and distinct Christian religion. The “gentile church” was then officially formed when the Roman Emperor Constantine, in an attempt to unify his kingdom, merged the Greco-Roman culture of the pagans with the culture of an ever-growing people group who had accepted Yeshua as the Messiah and had kept God’s commandments contained in the Torah. The result of this unholy merger was the coming about of a new religion based upon gnostic, pagan, and Jewish theologies and ideologies, and this religious hodge-podge came to be known as “gentile Christianity.” It became a crime against Roman law not to profess Christianity, even to the point of death; so naturally, the pagans chose to “convert” to the new religion rather than to suffer the death penalty. Hence, their “conversions,” done in name only, brought with them a strong pagan influence into the assembly.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">As a result of the massive influx of pagans into the theological diversity pool, pagan concepts and holy days were now both recognized and “Christianized”, to the exclusion of anything considered remotely “Jewish”, which was to be rejected and replaced by pagan Roman principals.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">The following examples show how the Scriptural principals that God laid down for His people mingled with pagan practices and beliefs and became “Christianized” for the gentile church.</span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Scriptural principals that God laid down for His people…</strong></span></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>…mingled with pagan practices and beliefs…</strong></span></td>
<td align="center" valign="middle"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>…and became “Christianized” for the gentile church.</strong></span></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">The seventh-day Sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11, Hebrews 4:9).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Worshiping the sun god on the first day of the week (Sunday).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Based upon the assumption that Jesus came out of the tomb Sunday morning, Sunday became known as “the Lord’s Day” and by 363 CE keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was outlawed by Roman authorities.</span></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Celebrating Passover (Exodus 12:1-28, 1st Corinthians 5:8) as a symbol of God’s grace, followed up by the First Fruits offering (Leviticus 23:10-14).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Worshiping the fish god (Dagon) on the sixth day of the week (Friday), and celebrating the festival to the queen of heaven named Easter (aka Ishtar, Astarte, Asherah, etc). This pagan festival involving (among other things) sacrificing newborns and dipping eggs in their blood as a fertility ritual.</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">“Good Friday” was instituted, using Jesus’ death as a scapegoat. Easter was affixed to always fall on a Sunday, transitioning from worshiping the queen of heaven to being centered around Jesus’ resurrection, but many of the practices and observances thereof remained the same.</span></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Circumcision- a token sign of the Abrahamic covenant, made in the flesh, also representing circumcision of the heart (Genesis 17, Deuteronomy 10:16, Jeremiah 4:4, Acts 16:1-3).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Circumcision of the flesh was both foreign and repugnant to the Greco-Roman culture, and was outlawed by Antiochus Epiphanes IV in the early 2nd century BCE. Although the Maccabean revolts temporarily restored peace to the Jewish way of life, the hostile pagan attitude toward circumcision continued.</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Circumcision became exclusively of the heart- and those who practiced circumcision of the flesh became legalists and Judaizers.</span></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Eating clean meats- God instructed a diet that is beneficial for the human body that He Himself designed. Additionally, He only permitted clean meat to be sacrificed in His temple to Himself, and called unclean meat “an abomination” (Leviticus 11).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Unclean meats were ritually consumed by pagan cultures, who recognized no distinction between what God calls “clean” and “unclean”. In fact, sacrifices to pagan gods (as opposed to YHWH) were frequently unclean meat; Antiochus Epiphanes IV specifically sacrificed a pig upon the alter of God in an effort to desecrate the Temple of YHWH.</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Jesus’ statement in Mark 7:18 that “…whatever goes into the man from outside can not defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purging all foods” was grossly misinterpreted to indicate that Jesus had declared all foods clean. The fact is that Jesus had just rebuked the Pharisees for placing their ritual cleanliness traditions over the actual commandments of God. The specific issue Jesus taught here was that ritual hand washing could not render oneself unclean, since the body itself purges all food, and had nothing to do whatsoever with the consumption of unclean meats.</span></td>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Worship of YHWH as God alone- based on the oneness of God.“YHWH is our God; YHWH is one.” (Deuteronomy 6:4)</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">Many ancient pagan cultures worshiped a pantheon of deities, but frequently a pattern of three stood out. In elements of Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian mythology these generally consisted of a sort of primal self-proclaimed god (Osiris / Baal / Nimrod), with the queen of heaven by his side (Isis / Semiramis / Astarte), and their resurrected son (Horus / Tammuz).</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span class="font-size-4">This pattern spread also to Christianity, and came to encompass the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus.</span></td>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">This is the origin of “gentile Christianity” as it is known today.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Why do the Nazarenes matter?</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">The historical record, which has been discussed above, shows us very clearly that “Christians” and “Nazarenes” are not simply two terms for the same thing. Now I would like you to stop and think about this for a moment. If the majority of the Messiah-following world adheres to the principles of gentile Christianity, yet the Messiah’s first followers followed the religion of Nazarene Judaism, then we are faced with a pandemic of misunderstanding- on an epic scale- of the character of the Messiah. We have just discovered that the “first Christians,” for lack of better term, believed and practiced things that are vastly far removed from the practice of the church today.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Historically, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Protestant Reformation, which did indeed help to shake out many of the pagan institutions that were inherited from the merging together of Nazarene Judaism and Roman paganism. While the Protestant Reformation was a good first step, it cannot be our only step in coming out of Babylon. If we are to seriously evaluate our faith, and sincerely desire to return to the path laid out by God, we must be willing to take the next step away from the pagan practices that have been forced into the church.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>How do we make the next step?</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">We must embrace the Torah as the path to God’s instructions in righteousness; not for salvation, for it is true that man has always been saved by faith, and yet faith without obedience to God’s commandments is meaningless; for if we love God, we will keep His commandments! We must celebrate not the pagan holy days, but God’s Biblical holidays! We must hold firm to the covenants of our forefathers, in keeping the Sabbath, as a Sabbath, and on the right day; circumcision, not only of the heart, but of the flesh also; and the kosher diet; for if we believe that our bodies are the temples of God, then we need to be treating them in the manner that He expressed His temple was to be kept.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Ultimately, we must abandon the institutions of gentile Christianity, and return to our roots: Nazarene Judaism.</span></p>
<div id="sdfootnote1"><p><span class="font-size-4"><a name="sdfootnote1sym" href="http://torahdrivenlife.com/?page_id=602#sdfootnote1anc" id="sdfootnote1sym"></a>1For more information, see <em>Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church</em> by Ron Moseley.</span></p>
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<div id="sdfootnote2"><p><span class="font-size-4"><a name="sdfootnote2sym" href="http://torahdrivenlife.com/?page_id=602#sdfootnote2anc" id="sdfootnote2sym"></a>2For more information, see “Anti-Judaism in Marcion and His Opponents” published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College.</span></p>
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CHRISTIANITY IS A MUTATION
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2013-08-19T08:30:28.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p><span style="font-size: 19px;">I heard Brad Scott give the following illustration: He said that scientifically when something starts out one way and ends up looking totally different from that way , it is scientifically considered a mutation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 19px;">Jewish believers were considered in the beginning as a sect of Judaism and then turned into the exact opposites when Christianity was hatched. Christianity does not represent anything…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 19px;">I heard Brad Scott give the following illustration: He said that scientifically when something starts out one way and ends up looking totally different from that way , it is scientifically considered a mutation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 19px;">Jewish believers were considered in the beginning as a sect of Judaism and then turned into the exact opposites when Christianity was hatched. Christianity does not represent anything Judaic.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Original Jewish believers loved the Torah, honored the Sabbath, kept the Dietary Food instructions, and honored the Feast Days. Only a minority of a minority of Christians today do the same</span></p>
TECHNOLOGY FORETOLD IN THE BIBLE
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2013-08-15T23:47:55.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>I found the following article and believe you will be blessed by it also:</p>
<div><strong><em>Technology Foretold</em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>By Nathan Jones</em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>August 15, 2013</em></strong></div>
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<p>I found the following article and believe you will be blessed by it also:</p>
<div><strong><em>Technology Foretold</em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>By Nathan Jones</em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>August 15, 2013</em></strong></div>
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<p> People are always surprised when I tell them that as Bible prophecy foretells future events, it also reveals some interesting circumstances that would require modern technology for these events to occur. Here are some examples: </p>
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<div><p><br/><strong>1) Increase in Knowledge</strong> - Daniel 12:4 reads, "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." </p>
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<p>These words were spoken to Daniel when he asked for an explanation of some of the end-time prophecies that had been given to him. In short, he was told that<em> the prophecies would not be understood until the time came for them to be fulfilled</em>. We must be living in that time because the rapid pace of modern scientific discovery is enabling us to understand Daniel's prophecies for the first time.<br/><br/><strong>2) Transportation</strong> - Again, the context is from Daniel 12:4 concerning the "time of the end." The closer we get to the return of Jesus, the more people will travel faster and farther. Stop and think of how we traveled just a single century ago. We've traded our horses in for automobiles, speedboats, jets, and rockets.<br/><br/><strong>3) Mark of the Beast</strong> - Revelation 13:16-17 reveals that the Antichrist will control all buying and selling in the Tribulation economy. How does he achieve this? He does so by requiring his name or number to be put physically on each person's forehead or right hand. What kind of technology could enable such a mark? Likely tattoos with magnetic ink and readers, or possibly an RFID chip. And most certainly computer networks, e-commerce and the Internet will play a part.<br/><br/><strong>4) World Evangelism</strong> - Jesus in Matthew 24:14 declared, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." </p>
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<p><em>Technology is playing a big part in evangelism today and will continue to do so during the Tribulation.</em> The whole world will even witness the death and resurrection of the <em>Two Witnesses</em> at the mid-point of the Tribulation. That means mass communication devices such as satellites, cell systems, cameras, television, and the Internet.<br/><br/><strong>5) Image of the Antichrist</strong> - Revelation 13:13-15 reveals that an image made in the likeness of the Antichrist will be given the appearance of life and be able to cause "fire to come down from heaven." </p>
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<p>We live in the only time when this could be done with modern technology, utilizing pyrotechnics or lasers for the fire and robotics or holograms for the "living" image.<br/><br/><strong>6) Population Explosion</strong> - Revelation 9:16 and 14:20 contain prophecies that at the end of the Tribulation the decimated world population will still be able to produce a two hundred million man army that originates from the East and marches to their slaughter at Armageddon. That is possible only because of the exponential population growth of today. <em>And what has produced that? Medical technology.</em><br/><br/><strong>7) Nuclear Weapons</strong> - Nuclear weapons are strongly suggested in horrific descriptions of future calamity such as "their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet" (Zechariah 14:12), "the sky receded like a scroll" (Revelation 6:14-15), and "men will faint from terror... for the heavenly bodies will be shaken" (Luke 21:26). </p>
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<p>With tens of thousands of nuclear bombs sitting unused, their time is short until launching. Complex technologies such as heavy metal refinement, nuclear plants, and inter-continental ballistic missiles for deployment are involved.<br/><br/><strong>8) Limits on Technology</strong> - The events of the Tribulation also give us an indication of just how far technology can be allowed to go, and it's not that much farther. Take, for example, the fact that rare earth metals vital to the construction of today's technologies are quickly running out. </p>
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<p>Or consider the fact that future events prophesied in the Bible involve all people, but only people on this earth. That pretty well makes it clear that we will not be colonizing any moons or planets in the near future. Plus, the destruction of infrastructure and power grids along with solar disruption by the end of the Tribulation may reveal why the soldiers at Armageddon are pictured as using horses and primitive weapons. Man's technology, along with most of the earth, will have been decimated.<br/><br/>We live in a time like no other, where dizzying strides in technology make end-time scenarios finally a reality. </p>
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Here is an excellent analysis of Messianic Judaism:
GOODBYE MESSIANIC JUDAISM!
by Avram Yehoshuawww.SeedofAbraham.net
Since 1983, I’ve watched Messianic Judaism grow and considered myself and my …
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<h2 align="center" style="text-align: start;"> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Here is an excellent analysis of Messianic Judaism:</span></font></h2>
<h2 align="center">GOODBYE MESSIANIC JUDAISM!</h2>
<p align="center"><span><strong>by Avram Yehoshua</strong></span><br></br><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/">www.SeedofAbraham.net</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>Since 1983, I’ve watched Messianic Judaism grow and considered myself and my congregation…</p>
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<h2 align="center" style="text-align: start;"> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Here is an excellent analysis of Messianic Judaism:</span></font></h2>
<h2 align="center">GOODBYE MESSIANIC JUDAISM!</h2>
<p align="center"><span><strong>by Avram Yehoshua</strong></span><br/><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/">www.SeedofAbraham.net</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>Since 1983, I’ve watched Messianic Judaism grow and considered myself and my congregation a part of it, even though we were never officially a member of either the MJA (Messianic Jewish Alliance), or the UMJC (Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations). To my surprise, the Lord would not let me officially align myself with either group. Over the years I came to see why.</p>
<p>At first, what I thought was poor theology on their part, concerning Torah for both Jew and Gentile, would change when the leaders ‘saw the Light’. But over the years, it's only gone from bad to worse, and I’ve felt saddened by the infant that had so much potential, only to become a disobedient and rebellious child. It’s time for me to move on. I no longer feel that Messianic Judaism is capable of reversing its theology on Torah. It's become an institution set on defending its position against the Law at all costs. Because of this hardening, I no longer feel a need to try and correct it, or get excited about what ‘so and so’ says, etc. It can go on the way it wants to, without me. They have resisted the Spirit of the Lord in this vital area. <br/><br/>It wasn’t until I read a letter explaining the vision of the original leaders, that it all came together for me. Rev. Dan Juster, part of the leadership of the Union of Messianic Congregations for many years, in a letter <sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en1">(1)</a></sup> to Boaz Michael of First Fruits of Zion states,</p>
<blockquote><p>‘the founding fathers of Messianic Judaism intended Messianic Judaism only as an evangelical outreach to unsaved Jews.’</p>
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<p>Rev. Juster goes on to say that it was never the intention of those men to walk in Torah, for themselves or for the Gentiles. In the same article, Boaz Michael goes on to relate how, ‘at Messianic Jewish functions’, pork chops were served and ‘none of the assembled leadership even raised an eyebrow.’ I too can attest to the dietary laws being pushed aside at UMJC regional conferences in Glorietta, New Mexico (Dt. 19:15; Mt. 18:16).</p>
<p>Then, after reading a position paper of the UMJC in April 2005 by Rev. Daniel Juster and Rabbi Russ Resnik<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en2">(2)</a></sup> (the current Executive Director of the UMJC), where they explain the dominant theological position of Messianic Judaism on the Law (One Law Movements), and lay out the agenda and theology of the founding fathers of Messianic Judaism, I was certain that Messianic Judaism was not for me. I had placed my hope on the wrong horse. (For my ‘reply’ to their article, please see my Articles section; it'll be under Miscellaneous.) Messianic Judaism was never intended by the founding fathers, or the current leadership, to take the people into Torah. It was only a ruse to use, hoping that the Jewish person who didn’t believe in Jesus would see that the Jewish believers were still ‘Jewish,’ and be saved. Sabbath and Passover were only deceptive tools in this charade. The founding fathers, as well as the current leadership, do not hold Torah, Sabbath and Passover as holy. It’s only (Jewish) cultural window decoration to win the Jewish people to a Law-less Christ.</p>
<p>The very thing that Paul was accused of, which was a slanderous lie (that he taught Jews to forsake Moses; Acts. 21:21), the Messianic Jewish movement now teaches. Paul went out of his way, ‘bent over backwards’ so to speak, to negate and dismantle the lie, by aligning himself with four men under the Nazarite Vow, and was purified with them, in the Temple (Acts 21:23-26) to show us that he still kept the Law, ALL the Law. (If he was ready to offer sacrifice, and Acts 21:26 clearly shows us this (Greek text, NASB, etc.), then all the Law was still valid, not just the so called ‘moral laws’ that both the Church and the Messianic Jewish leadership restrict themselves to.)</p>
<p>There was nothing more emphatic that Paul could have done to dispel the vicious rumor and to show all that he still kept the Law of Moses (Acts 21:24; see also, Acts 16:1, 3; 18:18; 23:1-5; 24:17-18; 25:8; 28:17; Rom. 3:31; 7:7, 12, 14; 1st Cor. 7:17-19). How is it that the majority within Messianic Judaism, while giving some lip service to Torah, think otherwise?</p>
<p>The Torah reality of the Apostles and early believers, both Jewish and Gentile, was quickly lost in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Empire (70 A.D.), and the emerging Roman Catholic Church which would extinguish the fire of Torah. In the 1960’s, the Lord began to move through a number of Jewish people who believed in Jesus to begin congregations whose main focus was on reaching out to the Jewish community that they were a part of. They met on Sabbath and wore the tallit and yarmulke to attract Jews to Jesus. Unfortunately, their attitude toward the Law was as perverse as the churches they came from. This attitude prevails among most in the Messianic Jewish community today, as exemplified by Rev. Dan Juster and Rabbi Russ Resnik.</p>
<p>Some of these Jewish and Gentile believers though, much to the chagrin of the Messianic leadership, began to get a sense of their biblical roots. Back in 1983, after seminary at Oral Roberts University, where I learned that the Law was ‘done away with’, the Holy Spirit challenged my view of the Law of Moses. Finding out about Messianic Judaism, I thought it was the vehicle that the Spirit of Yeshua would use to lead both Jew and Gentile into Torah observance. In fact it was, in spite of itself. Many have come out of it with Torah in their hearts, contrary to what the leadership would have.</p>
<p>Over the years, the main Messianic Jewish organizations have denied their heritage for the porridge of the Church. I had hoped that in time, the non-Torah observant group would be won over to the theological position that all should walk in Torah and we could live happily ever after. That hope died some time ago. Now it’s being buried.</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism has not totally failed. It has, and is, accomplishing the purpose of the original organizers. It has received many Jewish people whom they make to walk like the mainstream Gentile Church, only meeting on ‘Sabbath’ instead of Sunday and doing Passover demonstrations to win more Jews, and wearing the trappings of the Orthodox Jewish community (the kipa, the tallit, etc.).</p>
<p>If a Gentile or a Jewish believer ‘makes waves’ though, and declares that Torah is sacred, they are escorted out of the congregation, just as they would be in say, a Baptist or Pentecostal church. This is why I am writing this article. It’s time to leave ‘Messianic Judaism’ behind me, as I did the kipa and the Star of David when I found out that neither one of them was biblically based, and both of them reflect paganism. If we are called to walk in God’s Truth, how can we espouse pagan things, and perverse interpretations of God’s Word? By one’s very use of the kipa, they endorse it as ‘holy’ and ‘of God’. And by one’s neglect of Torah, they say that it’s not holy.</p>
<p>Anyone can say that the lights of a Christmas tree represent the Light of Jesus. But is there any biblical reference to support this? Anyone can say that the Star of David is ‘Jewish’, but there is no biblical reference to support this, or the kipa. In fact, secular and pagan history tell us that they were both part of paganism, and still are. This is why believers should separate themselves from these things, and others like it. (See Articles: Jewish.)</p>
<p>Stopping the Gentile from walking in Torah is a theological perversion that comes from a faulty interpretation of Acts 15:20 (See Set My People Free! Acts 15:20), as well as some portions of the letters of Paul that deal with Torah and Salvation. And of course, leading a Jew to his Jewish Messiah, but not teaching him to walk in Torah, is an ultimate irony.</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">What Messianic Judaism Could Have Been</p>
<p>Dr. Howard Ervin, the first Baptist pastor in New Jersey to be filled with the Holy Spirit in the 1960’s, told his Hebrew class on Psalms at Oral Roberts University in 1981 that, ‘The only thing Greek about the New Testament are the words.’ I didn’t fully understand it then but over the years the Holy Spirit has shown me what he meant. Even though most of the original writings were in the Greek language<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en3">(3)</a></sup> the reality that the words sought to convey were of a Hebraic nature.</p>
<p>The Creator God did not come to the Greeks, or to the Romans, or to the Chinese. He chose the Seed of Abraham, to not only save from Egyptian slavery, something that he did for no other people, but He also chose to wrap Himself around them with His divine words and manifestations. Consequently, the Reality of the God of the Universe is interwoven with His people Israel. Their holy Book, unlike any other ‘holy book’, is the only true reflection of the Nature and Will of the Creator. All other ‘holy books’, no matter how much they imitate the true one, always have deception in it. A glass with 90% water but 10% arsenic, will still kill you. This is the spiritual problem with other so called holy books (even Jewish ones; more on that in a moment).</p>
<p>The Hebrew Scriptures reflect the Living God and His understanding of Reality. All the other cultures had words for god, salvation and sin but only one, the Hebrews, knew the One True God, His salvation, and His Words of Life, the Torah. To fully understand the New Covenant, one has to understand that it too is Hebraic in nature.</p>
<p>To understand the New Covenant from the Hebraic Perspective is to see it as an extension of the Old, not a completely new and separate reality as the Church has taught for 1,900 years. To fully understand the New Covenant is to see it as a rose on the stem of the Old Covenant, both thriving and alive.</p>
<p>You’ve heard it said that things translated from one language to another, lose something in the meaning. This is true for two reasons. One, the other language may not have the exact meaning for the actual words being used. And two, which is the greater reason, is that what is reality for one people, may not be for another. An example of this is to relate baseball, an American reality, to a person from say, Finland. They might understand a part of it because the Finns do have words for ‘ball’ or a piece of wood that we call a ‘bat’. But baseball is not a sport of national proportions in Finland and because of that, they don’t have a conceptual tree to hang ‘baseball’ on. It therefore holds no value to them other than that they recognize ‘ball and bat’ in Finnish. And there’s no emotional excitement at the mention of say, the Yankees and the Red Sox in game seven of the American League Championship Series.</p>
<p>This is a problem with scholars of the Greek language and Western mindset who come to the New Covenant with a theological bias against the Law of Moses. Yes, they can translate the words, ‘ball and bat’ but they fail to properly interpret how the game is played. After all, isn’t that what a translation is all about? It’s supposed to tell us what the Greek words mean in relation to Jesus and to us.</p>
<p>Each culture sees reality through their own eyes. Their experiences as a people are unique to them. Just think in European terms and you’ll see this. What does it mean to be a German or a Frenchman or an Englishman? Or in terms of the States, what does it mean to come from Brooklyn or Alabama or California? This is one reason why it’s important, but not essential, to know Hebrew. What we really want to know is the Hebraic (biblical) reality to the Word. And this can come through in English, if properly interpreted. What was the ancient Hebraic mindset? There are many (Western) Hebrew scholars but most of the time they fail to understand the Reality and Hebraic mindset behind the Greek New Testament. Therefore, they present us with what they think, which, in terms of the Law, is diametrically opposed to what the Holy Spirit has written in those passages.</p>
<p>The foundation is Yahveh and His Torah (Law), for Yahveh is one with His Torah. The Law is literally, His very Words which were written down, which is also a synonym for Messiah Himself as The Word of God (Rev. 19:13). To artificially separate Jesus from say, the dietary laws, Sabbath or Passover, is like trying to separate Yahveh from what He said on Mt. Sinai to Israel (Ex. 20:2-17; commonly called the Ten Commandments). God’s Word is ‘one’ with Him. It’s by His Word that we know Him and by His Word that we can know what is good and evil (sin), in His eyes (Dt. 12:8; 21:9). Today, even without knowledge in the Hebrew language, one can grasp the concept that Torah is for them to walk out in their lives. But this only comes through the Holy Spirit as the Church has demonized Torah. To not know and walk in His Torah is to be open to deception and a sinful lifestyle. Millions of believers have accepted counterfeit hundred dollar bills from Satan, through the Church, thinking they were from God.</p>
<p>Only when one is intimately aware of what a biblical ‘hundred dollar bill’ feels like, will he be able to discern God’s Truth from Satan’s counterfeit. For instance, bank tellers who handle real bills many hours every day are able to immediately know the counterfeit when it comes across their hands. That’s because they already ‘have a feeling’ for the Real Thing and so instantly they notice when something is not like it. Only by intimate knowledge of Torah can one know what is real and what is false. The Church is a perfect picture of this, in reverse.</p>
<p>Too many of God’s people have been deceived by the master Counterfeiter into believing that things like Sunday, Easter, Christmas and the eating of pig are of Jesus. That’s because they were told that the Law was done away with, believed it, and didn’t have the foggiest notion of the divine Gift that Satan took away from them. So Satan replaced it with his imitations, and false interpretations of the New Covenant at the point of the Law. And ‘biblical’ exegetes and commentators for the last 1,900 years, like the Pharisees before them, have given the Church ‘Scripture’ to validate worshipping Jesus on pagan holy days and in pagan ways. Please realize that the Pharisees could ‘back up with Scripture’, their traditions that nullified the Word of God. As King Solomon once said, ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’ (Eccl. 1:9).</p>
<p>If the believer had known Torah, it would have been impossible for Satan to have deceived him with the counterfeit. Without touching upon how God could allow the Church to be blind to Torah for almost 2,000 years (isn’t that what everyone says when something goes wrong?), we see that Daniel prophesied that such would happen!</p>
<blockquote><p>‘And he will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times (Feasts) and in Law. And the saints will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time’ (Dan. 7:25).</p>
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<p>Understanding the Scriptures from a Hebraic perspective reveals to us how the Messiah calls us to walk with Him, both Jew and Gentile. There is more to the Word than initially meets our eye. And there is more to the Word that does and would effect us, to walk in His Way, if we only understood what the Church intentionally buried 1,900 years ago, and continually demonizes. For it’s by our understanding that we follow the Lord and obey His Will, the Scriptures. But if our understanding is faulty on a grand scale, involving not just us but everyone around us, we all fail to do His Will at those points of ignorance and satanic deception.</p>
<p>Too many times I’ve heard people use the expression, ‘Oh, that’s Jewish’ as though it being Jewish was something ugly, and couldn’t possibly be that it was meant for them too. They don’t realize that the very reason why the Sabbath and Passover are ‘Jewish’ is because God gave it to His people Israel. The biblical things that the Jewish people have are from God. It wasn’t as though the Jews came up with the Law themselves. When we understand this Reality, of what God has called Israel to be, we understand who our God is, for His Words reflect Who He is. Now this doesn’t mean that everything Jewish is of God, no more than everything Christian is of Christ. There is sin in the Camp of the Jews because they have perverted much of the Word, but that just seeks to contrast God’s Word for those who know it. And there is sin in the Camp of the Church because they have thrown out much of God’s Law and replaced it with Satan’s ways. We cannot know what sin is, and consequently what pleases Him, if we don’t know His Words, the Law (Rom. 7:7).</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism could have been the vehicle that lit the Way for the Church to walk on God’s pristine Path of Holiness. But she is blind to Torah and has failed to walk on that Path herself.</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">Torah: The Gift From God for His Bride, Israel</p>
<p>The Revelation at Mt. Sinai, with God taking a wife (Israel), and sharing with her His desire for her (His Commandments; i.e. His Words), reveals the Will of God. No other people had this. And no other people walked in this relationship, for better, and more times than not, for worse (due to Israel’s carnal nature, sins of rebellion and disobedience to God’s Torah), than Israel. Does God’s will on sin change? Is He not the same yesterday, today and forever? So how can one possibly think that Sabbath has given way to Sunday? Where is any Scripture in the New Testament to declare such a major change? There is not one Scripture in the New Testament that decrees it as such.</p>
<p>Torah is the epitome of God’s Love to Israel. Yahveh has revealed Himself to His people and in this, He has revealed what is pleasing to Him and what is sin in His eyes. Yeshua, far from negating the Torah (Mt. 5:17-19), declares in Mt. 22:40 that the Law is God’s definition of love: ‘On these two Commandments’ (love God and love your neighbor), ‘hang the whole Law and the Prophets.’ Every law, every Commandment, every statute, has its ‘reason for being’ in showing us how to love God, or how to love each other. Every one of them. With the coming of Messiah would that change? The only thing that changed was us. We died to self (Rom. 6), that we might live in Messiah and walk as He walked (1st John 3:1-5). Now, with His Spirit residing within, we can follow Him. We can be like Him. Was it sin for Him to eat pig? How could it not be sin for us then? Would it matter if one was born a Gentile? Since when does race determine what is sin or not? God determines what is sin, for Jew and Gentile.</p>
<p>How Gentile Christianity, early on (about 100 A.D.), in the form of the Roman Catholic Church, demonized Torah, is open for all to see. It’s an historical fact and a theological perversion from Hell as the Prophet Daniel tells us (7:25). But how anyone calling themselves a Messianic Jew can say Torah doesn’t matter, is not only a gross perversion, it’s completely absurd. A Jew, called by God at Mt. Sinai to walk in His Torah forever (Jer. 31:31-34; Ezk. 36:24-27; Mt. 5:17-19; Rev. 12:17, etc.), now comes to believe in the Jewish Messiah and Presto!’, ‘like magic!, he’s released from walking in Torah? One has to do theological gymnastics beyond Olympic dimensions to carry that banner proudly. If Jesus hadn’t kept Torah they would have some foundation for believing what they do. But they get around His Torah keeping by saying that ‘it all changed with His Death.’ Strange, there doesn’t seem to be anything that He said about that happening. If anything, He says the exact opposite (Mt. 5:17-19). What would change is that we would die to self so that we could be filled with His Spirit to walk as He walked. And when one truly understands the New Covenant, they can see that Torah is still very much alive and well, deep within its inspired pages (See Law 102).</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism could have been a voice crying in the wilderness of pagan Christianity, proclaiming His Righteous Truths, in a fuller, clearer and Hebraic way. But Messianic Judaism failed to do this, and will continue to fail. Once a movement becomes an institution, the preservation of the institution becomes the reason for its existence, and not God’s Truth, even though the leadership may genuinely believe it’s walking in (all of) God’s Truth. One can look at the Catholic Church, with their perverse doctrines and pagan practices (Sunday, Easter, Christmas, demonization of Torah, a ‘Mary’ who is worshiped as a perpetual virgin who never died and is herself, divine, a clergy that can’t marry, and so have extramarital affairs or become pedophiles; etc.), to see an institution where most of its billion adherents, thinking themselves ‘saved’, will spend eternity in Hell. It’s very sad, but Satan is real. And then there are the Protestant and Pentecostal churches that have taken much from Catholicism and don’t want to realize it or don’t want to deal with it (Sunday, Easter, Christmas, demonization of Torah, etc.).</p>
<p>No, this thing called Messianic Judaism will continue to grow the way we see it, till Messiah comes back because the Messianic leadership is very cozy with the Church and with their misunderstanding of Torah. The mainline Messianic Jewish movement is nothing more than the Church in Jewish clothes. What a pity and what gross sin.</p>
<p>Why has Messianic Judaism failed to walk in Torah? As the founding fathers and the current leadership tell us, it was never intended to raise the banner of Torah, for Jew or Gentile. It’s just a Jewish church that meets on Sabbath, sings Jewish songs and eats bagels and cream cheese. Another reason it was doomed to fail is because Messianic Judaism embraces a rattlesnake called Judaism.</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">Why The Term, Messianic JUDAISM?</p>
<p>One of the problems with the Messianic Jewish movement is the attaching of ‘Judaism’ unto ‘Messianic’. In this, Messianic Judaism is true to its title as having incorporated the perversion of Rabbinic Judaism into itself. Why some Jewish believers in the 1960’s took on the term, Messianic Judaism, is easy to see, but so extremely unfortunate. It seems to have doomed the movement to failure from its inception. In Hebraic thinking, one grows into the meaning of their name. That’s why God changed Jacob’s name (deceiver), to Israel (one who wrestles with God and finds favor with God and man; a prince).</p>
<p>Any entity that believes in Yeshua, that uses the term, ‘Judaism’ will grow into a Judaism of sorts. And that’s exactly what we have seen in the last 50 years of Messianic Judaism. It’s one part Orthodox Judaism, one part Kabbalah, one part Talmud, one part Church, and four parts polluted.</p>
<p>Judaism today, with its Rabbis, is nothing more and nothing less than the spiritual descendants of the Pharisees of Yeshua and Paul’s day. Yeshua said in Matt. 16:6, ‘Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’ Why would anyone want to use a name that is associated with those who hated Messiah?</p>
<p>In the days of Moses and King David, there was no religion called Judaism as we know it today. The Hebrews were known as the people of Yahveh (2nd Chron. 7:14), just as the Moabites were known as ‘the people of Chemosh’ (Num. 21:29; Jer. 12:14-16; 48:46), and all other peoples were known by their gods (Jer. 49:1). Judaism doesn’t even allow the use of even saying the Name, Yahveh. This is an indication of how far away from God’s Truth they are.</p>
<p>The way of life (Torah), that Yahveh gave to Israel from Mt. Sinai is vastly different from Judaism. Yahveh gave Israel the Tabernacle, Priesthood and sacrifice (for the forgiveness of sins, etc.), along with prophet and king. Judaism doesn’t have any of these. Judaism is a pale and perverse reflection of what God gave to Moses.</p>
<p>Israel worshiped Yahveh with sacrifice which was the core of the Mosaic Covenant and shows us how Yahveh could dwell among sinful Israel. Sacrifice, priesthood and the Temple were put on hold in 70 CE (AD), when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed by the Roman Army, and Judaism, the religion of the Pharisees and Rabbis, took over.</p>
<p>In the days of Yeshua there was no religion called Judaism, for even the Pharisees and Rabbis went to the Temple and sacrificed. The High Priest was the leader of the people, not the Rabbis. There were many sects within the Jewish people that vied for the attention of the people as ‘the right way’ to walk out the faith and Law of Moses. There were the Essenes, the Zealots, the Pharisees, the Sadducees and approximately twenty other smaller sects. And those Jews who believed in Yeshua, after His resurrection, became one sect among the other Jewish sects. But we don’t find any ‘Judaism’, or Messianic Judaism at that time.</p>
<p>In the days of the Book of Acts, the believers were called (and called themselves), a number of different things. The most common was (the followers of) ‘the Way’ (Acts 9:2; 18:24, 25, 26; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14), and even the Roman administrator, Antonius Felix spoke of them like that (Acts 24:22). They were also known as a ‘sect’ within the Jewish people (Acts 24:5; this time being called the sect of the Nazarenes), and the implication is that it was seen as a heretical sect by the Jewish authorities (Acts 24:14; 28:22).<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en4">(4)</a></sup></p>
<p>The believers were seen as one sect among the other sects of the Jewish people (Pharisees, Acts 15:5; 25:5; Sadducees, Acts 5:17; Essenes, etc.). Of course, at Greek speaking Antioch (Acts 11:26), they were called ‘Christians’, where both Jewish and Gentile believers kept Torah, a somewhat different form of Christianity than is currently practiced today. What? Does someone think that those Gentile Christians there met on Sunday and kept Easter when a delegation is sent to Jerusalem to find out what the Gentiles among them had to do in order to be saved (Acts 15)? Were the Gentiles meeting on Sunday and the Jews on Sabbath? There is no Scripture to support such a position, especially when we know that, according to documented Church history, Sunday and Easter didn’t appear among the Gentile followers of Yeshua till after the Apostles were dead.</p>
<p>It would have been impossible for a movement called Messianic Judaism to have arisen in the days of Peter and Paul. There was no religion called Judaism (except in a general sense to speak of the religion of the Judeans). Why should we belong to an organization that is known as a Judaism that is anti-Messiah? And why should we use the term to refer to ourselves as the ‘true Messianic Jews’ or Torah observant Messianic Jews? It’s pointless as we’re swallowed up in what Messianic Judaism is, despite our pleas to the contrary.</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">The Problem with Judaism</p>
<p>If Judaism were only devoid of Temple, Priesthood, sacrifice, prophet and king, it would be a pale reflection of what God gave to Israel at Mt. Sinai, and that might not be too bad of a thing. But the Rabbis have muddied the pure Waters of God’s Torah. The Rabbis have given the Jewish people Talmud, Kabbalah and a fierce anti-Yeshua spirit, along with perverse interpretations of Torah. Talmud, the writings of the Rabbis and Sages of Israel, is seen as greater than Torah, just the way the writings of the Roman Catholic Church ‘Fathers’ are seen to trump the very Word of God when they clash. Talmud is a massive commentary written over a thousand year period, speaking about various aspects of life and the Commandments, and in some parts, is extremely anti-Messiah Yeshua and superstitious. That’s not to say that there isn’t some good information about the Temple and how they did the sacrifices in the days of Yeshua, etc., but it’s only a commentary by many men. Unfortunately, it’s one of the ‘holy books’ of Judaism.</p>
<p>Then there is Kabbalah. For many centuries the Rabbis themselves, warned against this Babylonian mysticism or witchcraft. But in the last two centuries it has wrapped its tentacles around the hearts of many a Jewish man and woman. Today, most Rabbis endorse and walk in Kabbalah, Babylonian mysticism in Jewish clothes. (See Articles, Jewish)</p>
<p>The Jewish man, in his attempt to walk with God and understand His Torah, has been shackled by Satan through the Rabbis. Their stranglehold over the Jewish people is as real as any Latin American Catholic priest over his superstitious and ignorant parishioners. For the Catholics say to their people in South America and Asia, that they must not read the Bible in their own language. ‘Only the priest can properly interpret the Word of God’, is what they are told. And ‘Anyone who reads it in their own language will go to Hell.’ That’s priestcraft. A satanic stranglehold on the neck of the people. And the Rabbis are identical. With warnings such as, ‘Only the Rabbis can properly tell you what the Torah means,’ and ‘Anyone who reads the New Testament will go to Hell’, they bar Jews from seeking to understand the Word of God for themselves, and shut the door in their face concerning the revelation of Messiah Yeshua.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en5">(5)</a></sup></p>
<p>We can glean some things from Judaism such as ethical behavior (how to love God and one’s neighbor), but the place ‘to go’ is to your Bible, not the synagogue. Ask Yeshua to reveal the Hebraic perspective of it to you. It’s His Way of doing things. We must have eyes to discern God’s Truth (Heb. 5:13-14). He is calling us out of both perverted Camps: Christianity and Judaism, that we might learn to walk with Him, His Way. That’s not to say that we can’t glean wonderful things from both Camps. But perversion is not His Name. His Name is Pure Truth and He is Holy. He is the One True God, which means that He certainly doesn’t want His People immersed in perversion of any kind. His Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding will be beacons of Light to us and others in this world of darkness. Here’s what He says about those who desire ignorance and the way of the crowd:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me. Seeing you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your children’ (Hosea 4:6).</p>
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<p>In 70 A.D. the Temple of Yahveh in Jerusalem, as well as the city of Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Roman Army under Titus. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered and tens of thousands of Jews were sold into slavery. Thus, the religion of Moses gave way to what would become Judaism. With no Temple in Jerusalem, there was no place for sacrifice and priest. Sacrifice is one of the pillars of Torah. Without sacrifice and priesthood there was no biblically sanctioned way for Israel to be forgiven of their sins every year on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16; 23:26-32), or for God to dwell in her midst. And there was no way for the individual Jew to be forgiven for his sins on a daily basis (Lev. 1-6). The ancient faith and practice was gone. Into this void stepped the Rabbis and their understanding of Torah and Messiah Yeshua. And we know from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts, what they thought of Yeshua and His followers. It hasn’t gotten any better.</p>
<p>Judaism officially began in Yavneh (Jamnia), a city on the coast of Israel, south of present day Tel Aviv, by Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, only after the Temple was destroyed. This is the religion of the Pharisees and Rabbis. Judaism is not what Yeshua practiced. If anything, He strove to distance Himself from the Pharisees, Rabbis and scribes, the spiritual ancestors of Judaism, and so should we. When we see Messiah being confronted (Mt. 15:2; Lk. 11:38, etc.), for His disciples not washing their hands according to the (Oral) Tradition of the Elders (which would become the written Talmud), we should take note and be very cautious about taking anything from Judaism.</p>
<p>Many Pharisees (and Sadducees, which don’t exist today), were vehemently anti-Yeshua in their day, as many Rabbis and their followers are today. For those of you who have had any contact with the Rabbis, you know the extent they will go to in order to twist and distort Hebrew Scripture about Messiah ‘to prove’ that Jesus wasn’t the Messiah. And you know the hard attitudes that they express, and demand of their flock, toward Yeshua. All of Judaism is filled with anti-Yeshua teachings and sentiments. Add to this, Jewish customs and traditions that nullify the Word of God and we see why Yeshua warned us about the teachings of the Pharisees (Mt. 16:12). How then could any believer think to take the name, ‘Judaism’?</p>
<p>Then there is a segment in the Messianic community that tells us that we must place ourselves under the authority (and teachings) of the Orthodox Rabbis today. I find that usually what they base their belief on is a perverse interpretation of Matt. 23:2-3 (they sit in Moses’ seat; therefore obey what they say). What did Messiah mean? Yeshua was speaking about (civil) rabbinic legislation and judgments. He wasn’t speaking about sitting in yeshiva, learning Talmud and Kabbalah and donning tefillin. (The Judgment Seat of Messiah, 2nd Cor. 2:10, confirms that the Seat of Moses was a seat of judgment, and that in relation to what Yeshua says in Matt. 23:2-3, Yeshua spoke of following the Pharisees and Scribes in their judicial capacity as judges and legislators, not as teachers of the Law.)</p>
<p>In Yeshua’s day, the Pharisees, Rabbis, scribes, and Sadducees made up the judges of the courts. They also created civil laws for their towns and their cities, just as legislators do today. They were the judges and legislators, and Yeshua was saying that in a court ruling, you must obey the decision of the judges. To ‘sit in the seat of Moses’ (Ex. 18:13), is a euphemism for judging between two or more people. In Yeshua telling His early followers to obey their judgments (against them), He was following the Law of Moses:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Yahveh your God chooses. So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case. You must do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which Yahveh chooses. And you must be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.’<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en6">(6)</a></sup></p>
<p>‘According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you must do. You must not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve Yahveh your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will not act presumptuously again’ (Dt. 17:8-13).</p>
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<p>In Yeshua’s day, the Pharisees and Scribes had seated themselves in the seat of Moses (Mt. 23:2), and this reading is brought out by the Greek text and the NASB.</p>
<p>When a city made a legislative ruling, or a judge-rabbi issued a court ruling involving a believer, or a ruling that effected a community, the believer was to obey it. The believer was not to say that it didn’t effect him because he believed in Yeshua. He was not to say that the judges or legislators had no authority ‘to tell him what to do’, because he only recognized Yeshua as his authority. In other words, he was to keep the laws of the land, just as believers do in the United States, Bolivia, Canada, etc., today. They keep the laws of their respective countries (that don’t hinder their walk with Messiah). Yeshua was not saying that we should do everything religiously that the Rabbis teach. Yeshua was addressing two of the three ‘keys’ that were given to Rabbis upon ordination: the ability to teach authoritatively, to legislate and to sit as a judge. Yeshua addressed their civil authority. Paul conceptually says the same thing in Rom. 13:1-2:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities.’ ‘Therefore, whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.’</p>
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<p>Another problem with someone trying to follow the teachings of Judaism is that it doesn’t speak ‘with one voice.’ There are many sects within the Orthodox and Hasidic communities, etc., and each has their own rabbi that disagrees with the other rabbis. So which sect or rabbi should a believer go to, if they were to misinterpret Yeshua’s words?</p>
<p>Let’s say that an Orthodox rabbi is chosen by a believer to learn from. First of all, the rabbi wouldn’t want to have anything to do with someone who believed in Yeshua, let alone teach him anything. So how can a Jewish believer even consider this, from a natural point of view? And what would happen if a rabbi consented (in the hopes of winning the Jewish believer ‘back to the fold’)? When one sits under a traditional rabbi, they are voluntarily placing themselves under an anti-Messiah authority. This is tantamount to severing one’s spiritual lifeline from Yeshua. You can begin to see the horrific consequences of ‘all that they tell you, do’, taken the wrong way. I know of a number of people who have done this and in a short time, have renounced Yeshua to walk in Orthodox Judaism. Spiritual authority is nothing to play around with.</p>
<p>Yeshua was addressing civil authority for His followers, not theological-Scriptural authority. The Gospels and Acts are filled with accounts of clashes over the very issues of ‘proper’ teachings (Matt. 15:1-20; 23:1-39; Acts 15:5, etc.). How can anyone think that today it would be different? Doesn’t the admonition of Yeshua still stand today?</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees’ (Mt. 16:11; see also Mk. 8:15; Lk. 12:1).</p>
<p>‘But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the Kingdom of Heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in’ (Matt. 23:13).</p>
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<p>The Apostle Paul teaches that each congregation should have its own judges when he rebukes the Corinthians for taking one another to court before the pagan judges (1st Cor. 6:3, 5). He says, ‘Isn’t there any among you who can judge these matters?’ He didn’t say they should go to the Rabbis in their cities for a ruling. And the Apostles in Jerusalem didn’t run to the Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, Rabbis, or the anti-Yeshua High Priest for advice and counsel when they didn’t know what to do concerning the Gentiles (Acts 15:1-7). They called their own council and with the help of The Holy One, they determined the will of the Lord (Acts 15:1-21). They made a decree that all in their community of faith followed. Did it apply to the Essenes? Of course not. Did it apply to the Pharisees and Rabbis? Or course not. Why should we place ourselves under a perverse authority such as Judaism, or even want to use that term?</p>
<p>Are the teachings of the Rabbis any better than their spiritual Fathers? Are the Rabbis leading their flocks into the Kingdom of Heaven today any more than the Pharisees did back then? So how could Yeshua be commanding us to place ourselves under the Rabbis or their teachings? But some believers don’t understand Mt. 23:2-3, and tell us that we are to do everything that the Rabbis say (except for maybe renouncing Yeshua?). With 2,000 years behind the Rabbis, there are far too many perverse, magical, anti-Yeshua and anti-Torah teachings that pervade Judaism. And because Messianic Judaism drinks at the well of Judaism, there are far too many perverse teachings that are magical, anti-Torah<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en7">(7)</a></sup> and anti-Yeshua in Messianic Judaism and they don’t even realize it. ‘Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field’ (Gen. 3:1), which is a reference to Satan (Rev. 12:9; 20:2). Messianic Judaism teaches things that would have shocked the Apostles. (See ‘Jewish’ in my Articles section.)</p>
<p>Today, even in Israel, the Rabbis don’t wield the kind of civil authority over the general population as they did in the days of Yeshua. They are confined to their own sect, except in cases of marriage and divorce, where they have political sway in the Knesset (Congress), of Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>Messianic Judaism is a false epaulet<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en8">(8)</a></sup> for followers of Yeshua, either Jewish or Gentile.</p>
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<p>Messianic Judaism has latched onto a perverse sect of the Jewish people. It seeks to emulate much from the descendants of the very people who vigorously opposed Messiah Yeshua and His followers. It also teaches things that Yeshua warned us against. Did the Apostles attach themselves to the Pharisees and teach their doctrines? How silly. But today, you’ll find doctrines and ‘ways’ of the Pharisees-Rabbis being taught in Messianic Jewish Sabbath schools.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en9">(9)</a></sup></p>
<p>That’s not to say that everything in Judaism is wrong or perverse. There are many things that can be gleaned from it, as well as Christianity. But one has to be mature and discerning in the reality of Yeshua’s Torah to understand the slick counterfeits. In other words, we must have a strong foundation in the full counsel of God’s Word, from Genesis through Revelation.</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism reveals God’s Word to us in a cultural Jewish setting but fails to reveal the Word of God to us, in its Hebraic form. Unfortunately, the trappings of Rabbinic Judaism which it embraces, and its own ‘founding fathers’ which it also upholds, has given us a hybrid religion that isn’t Jewish, isn’t Christian, and isn’t what God wants either.</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism, at the point of Torah, is atrocious and abominable. Most Messianics don’t keep Torah from the heart, even though they may walk in some of it. It’s mostly lip service here in Israel too where many of the Messianic leaders have been raised and nurtured at the fountains of the Church. And of those Messianics that do keep Torah seriously, there are some that tell us that Torah is only for the Jewish believer. How utterly perverse and sinister, creating a theological wall between the Jewish and Gentile believer. This is something that the Apostle Paul spent a lifetime trying to break down. How can it be sin for a Jewish believer to desecrate the Sabbath but not for a Gentile believer? This is nothing less than the creation of two totally different flocks. Theologically, it’s absurd. Practically it’s ridiculous. And spiritually, it goes against the very fabric of the unity that Yeshua and the Apostles sought for all of us (John 10:16).</p>
<p>Some Messianics on the other hand, have gone to the other extreme of adopting the Orthodox Jewish understanding of things. Thinking that Jesus sided many times with what they consider Pharisaic understanding and or a perverse interpretation of Mt. 23:2-3, they make Yeshua out to be a good Pharisee. If Yeshua were part of the Pharisaic camp, do you think that He would warn us against the ‘leaven’ of their teachings (Mt. 16:12)? As Alfred Edersheim rightly says, they ‘corrupted the holy bread of Scripture-truth.’<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en10">(10)</a></sup></p>
<p>If Yeshua were a Pharisee, would He have told them that they had usurped God’s authority and taken over His Vineyard and were about to murder God’s Son (Mt. 21:33-46), and many other parables like it (Mt. 22:1-15)? Do you think the Pharisees would have come against Him (Mt. 12:13-14; Mk. 3:5-6; Lk. 6:7-11) if He taught their doctrines? And how could they have not known that their Camp was where He got His teaching from (Jn. 7:15)? No, Yeshua was not a Pharisee, and if some of the teachings of the Pharisees appear close to what Yeshua taught, good for those teachings. But even those that appear close have been contested as to their appearance being close, but their substance missing the mark (See Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, pp. 362-363).</p>
<p>Others, coming out of the Church, and not having an understanding of Hebraic things, find it enough to sing Jewish songs and dance the Hora (a traditional Israeli dance). When Torah is brought up, they ask their Messianic Rabbis<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en11">(11)</a></sup> and are told that it’s not necessary.</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism is almost as diverse as the different denominations of the Church itself. That’s not to say one can’t find some of God’s Truth in Messianic Judaism or the Church. But both are tainted and defiled beyond correction. The things we see now will remain till He comes. Yeshua is calling many people out of the Church, Messianic congregation and Synagogue, to follow Him into ‘No Man’s Land.’ I have come to call it, The Hebraic Perspective.</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">Why Fight Wind Mills?</p>
<p>Some have advocated that they could change the Messianic movement from within. I don’t think this is possible. Like Don Quixote who fought wind mills, thinking they were evil giants, one finds themselves fighting the air with little if any results being seen, except if one counts frustration.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en12">(12)</a></sup></p>
<p>It’s time to leave the Messianic Camp and follow the Lord out into the Wilderness. He is not going to change that Camp anymore than the Pope is going to observe the Sabbath. As our Messiah said of the ancestors of the Orthodox Community, I say concerning Messianic Judaism: ‘Leave them alone! They are blind and those that follow them will also fall into the ditch.’ And, ‘I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, “Come out of her, My people! So that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues’ (Rev. 18:4).</p>
<p>Messianic Judaism is fatally flawed. Of the two major branches, the MJA is even less conservative than the UMJC. At least the UMJC puts up a ‘Torah front’. But it’s only Jewish ‘window dressing’ designed to lure the non-believing Jew to a Law-less Jesus who happens to have a Hebrew name, Yeshua. Yeshua’s words to the Pharisees applies both to the Church and to Messianic Judaism:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Why do you transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition?!’ (Matt. 15:3) and,</p>
<p>‘Full well you reject the Commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition!’ (Mark 7:9)</p>
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<p>If He spoke that to the heads of the religious establishment in His day, and the Pharisees and Rabbis as everyone knows, are the spiritual Fathers of Judaism, why would any believer in Yeshua want to be part of Messianic JUDAISM?</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">A Solution</p>
<p>We need to get back to God’s Basics and order our lives and beliefs around His Word, not the Rabbis, or the so called Church Fathers, or the Messianic Rabbis. The traditional Rabbis missed the boat long ago, in rejecting and still rejecting Yeshua as the Messiah. The Church missed it when it threw out God’s Torah and called the Jews, ‘devils’ and ‘Christ killers’ and set their theology accordingly. And the so called ‘Messianic Jewish’ community never got it straight either. The disease is incurable as both the ‘founding fathers’ and current leaders of Messianic Judaism insist that heart-felt Torah observance is not for today. Perhaps their children will see through their fathers’ folly and return to the ancient Path.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en13">(13)</a></sup> But it’s not for me to wait around and associate myself with Messianic Judaism any longer, as the past 22 years has proven. It’s time to set out on the Highway of Holiness without them, and pray that they may one day follow.</p>
<p>The Hebraic Perspective seeks to understand the Word of God as He intended it, that we might hold it dear to our heart and walk in it. It also seeks to reveal the traditions of Satan and Man that have posed as ‘the Gospel Truth’, in the Church, the Synagogue, and the Messianic community. Torah, as interpreted by Messiah Yeshua is our goal. How does the Word of God apply to me today?</p>
<p>When I first came into Messianic Judaism in 1983, I couldn’t believe that in all the years that I had already followed Jesus, that my understanding needed to be revamped in many areas. I was not ashamed to call myself a Christian for the first eight years of my life. And then, I was equally pleased to say that I was a Messianic Jew, from year eight till just a few years ago. But the reality of Messianic Judaism, with its fanfare for cultural Jewishness that nullifies God’s Word, and a theology that only plays with Torah, has driven me far from it. The Holy Spirit has led me into ‘No Man’s Land.’</p>
<p>‘No Man’s Land’ is a place between two warring armies, that if one goes, they take their life into their own hands. But this is the place where Yeshua is leading His Bride, to purify her and to give her more of Himself who is Truth. ‘No Man’s Land’ is between Christianity, Judaism and Messianic Judaism. It recognizes Truth in all Camps and accepts it, but it also sees the defiling of the three Camps by their pagan and perverse practices. None of those Camps are a place for a follower of Messiah Yeshua. He tells us:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘If you continue in My Word, then you are truly followers of Mine. You will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free’ (John 8:31-32).</p>
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<p>It’s because He has revealed His Truth to us, that those three Camps are no longer viable places of worship for us. Yahveh says through the Prophet Malachi:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘But who can endure the Day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the Sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to Yahveh sacrifices in righteousness’ (Mal. 3:2-3).</p>
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<p>Yahveh has led us to ‘No Man’s Land’. He is refining us and our understanding of His Word for our lives. As we believe, so we walk. And with each new insight our walk changes, and we find ourselves further away from those three Camps. Praise God for His Mercy to us! He has opened our eyes to His Truth in the midst of all the perversions that we might offer Him sacrifices in righteousness.</p>
<p>The Hebraic perspective is Messiah Yeshua opening up the Scriptures for His people Israel. Now both Jewish and Gentile believer can walk on the King’s Highway as He has always intended. God has always desired for His people to walk in His Ways, His Law. This is brought out in many places of His Word (Jer. 6:16; 15:19; 31:31-34, etc.). One place that also comes to mind concerns unjust weights and measures, which is more a thing of the heart, than of the ancient scale:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘You must do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or capacity. You must have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahveh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt. You must observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them! I am Yahveh! (Lev. 19:35-37)</p>
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<p>His Statutes, His Ordinances, His Judgments and His Commandments are the foundation and pillars of His Justice and Righteousness. We are to have ‘just weights and measures’ and reflect the Lord of Glory in all we do and say by following His Commandments that apply to us. Holiness is God’s perfect will for His people. Yahveh doesn’t want us to walk in anything that doesn’t accurately reflect Him, hence the need for an accurate ‘weight and measurement’ or discernment of His Torah. And that’s why Christianity, Messianic Judaism, and the Synagogue, are not viable options any longer. They all have streams of God’s Truth running through them but the streams are polluted. Why drink from those streams when we can drink from the pure Waters of Heaven?</p>
<p>Yeshua is calling us out, both Jew and Gentile, from the Synagogue, the Church, and from Messianic Judaism, in a similar way He called Father Abraham. Abram left his county, his family, his friends, and his way of life and thinking, to go to a country that he had never been to before. It was here that he learned to trust God in all areas of his life. Of course it can by lonely and a little frightening but it was in this ‘No Man’s Land’ called Canaan that Abram’s belief in God grew so strong, that he was able to obey God when God told Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac (Gen. 22:1-18).</p>
<p>If Abraham is our Father in the faith (Rom. 4:12-16; Gal. 3:29; James 2:21), are we called to anything less? You’ll not find many people there. You may find yourself lonely more times than not but you’ll never be alone. In this too, the Lord is refining us. He reveals to us our weaknesses (just as He did with Abraham when he said that Sarah was (only) his sister; Gen. 12:13; 20:2), so we can cry out for the promise of a new heart (Jer. 31:31-34; Ezk. 36:24-27). Anyone can sing praises to God and dance in the midst of a hundred others doing the same. But can you praise the Lord Most High when He allows Satan to crush you? Can you sing a sweet song to Him then? You’ll only learn how to do this in the Wilderness of ‘No Man’s Land.’</p>
<p>Yeshua is our Head, not the Jewish Rabbinate in Israel or Brooklyn, not the Christian Council of World Churches, and not the MJA or the UMJC. Leave them alone to their internal bickering and in-house fighting over ‘this doctrine’ and ‘that teaching.’ I don’t care what the Baptists or the Rabbis have to say. I don’t care what the Pope issues in his encyclicals. I don’t care what any church or religious group determines, even and especially Messianic Judaism because they have proven themselves worthless concerning Torah observance and pagan things in the congregation. Don’t think so? Go and try to change your pastor or your Messianic rabbi or your congregation. Then you’ll see below their surface smiles, to where their hearts are at for Messiah Yeshua and His Torah.</p>
<p>I am no longer part of the Messianic Jewish movement. I no longer call myself a Messianic Jew.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en14">(14)</a></sup></p>
<p>The movement and the religious description just don’t describe what the Lord wants me to walk in. Why should I define and defile myself with a movement or group of people that, the majority of which, are anti-Torah? Why should I continue to call myself a Messianic Jew? The term has been railroaded by the majority of Messianic Jews who reject God’s holy Torah. I will retrain myself to say something like, ‘I’m a Jew who loves Messiah Yeshua and His Torah.’</p>
<p>What movement did Yeshua belong to? Pharisaic? Sadducean? Essene? He walked alone, like Father Abraham; like Moses; like King David, and like the Prophets. Like most of the ancient people of true faith and love for the God of Israel. We are Israel. I’m not saying that those in Christianity who love Jesus, or those who love Him in Messianic Judaism, or those who love God in Judaism, aren’t either. They just belong to different Tribes.</p>
<p>I don’t call myself a Christian. I don’t call myself a Messianic Jew. I’m not ‘Messianic’ either. There is too much confusion in those groups. Messianic would be a good term but it has been tarnished by Messianic Judaism, and also, by the Hasidic Lubavitch Jews who think that their rabbi who died in 1994 is the Messiah. They too call themselves ‘Messianic’.</p>
<p>Followers of the Way? It’s not without profound significance that the sect of believers in Peter’s day was called, the Way. It’s a designation for Torah and Messiah (Dt. 5:23; 9:12; 11:28; 31:29; Ps. 119:1, 14, 27, 30, 32, 33, Jn. 14:6, etc.). But there are too many other religious groups (and non-religious groups), that use that designation today.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en15">(15)</a></sup></p>
<p>Followers of the Nazarene is nice. But there’s a Nazarene Church and again we run into something that already is established.</p>
<p>I wasn’t called to be part of Messianic Judaism. I was called to follow Yeshua. He didn’t align Himself with any group or sect in Israel in His day. The reason we feel a need ‘to belong’ to a group or organization is very human. We are creatures that desire fellowship. But even this need must be subject to our Master.</p>
<p>God is not interested in Jewish or Gentile believers being turned away from walking in Torah. God is not pleased with the Messianic Jewish movement at the point of Torah. Listen to His Words:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Thus says Yahveh, ‘Stand by the ways; see and ask for the ancient Paths where the good way is, and walk in it. And you will find rest for your souls’ (Jer. 6:16).</p>
<p>‘Therefore, thus says Yahveh, ‘If you return, then I will restore you and before Me, you will stand. And if you extract the precious from the worthless, you will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, but as for you, you must not turn to them’ (Jer. 15:19).</p>
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<p>And Yeshua says to us, ‘Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. But the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it’ (Mt. 7:13-14).</p>
<p>Yeshua is raising up Jews and Gentiles all over the world, to follow Him and His understanding of Torah; not the doctrine of the Pharisees, and not the teaching of the anti-Semitic Church (the ones despising the Jews yet ‘believing’ in the Jewish Messiah). The Lord is raising up many believers who are teaching this to His Body. They begin in small home fellowships, sometimes no more than their own family but then others join them. Praise His holy Name! In this, the saying of Isaiah will be partially fulfilled:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Mountain of Yahveh, to the House of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us concerning His ways and that we may walk in His paths.” For the Torah (Law) will go forth from Zion and the Word of Yahveh from Jerusalem’ (Is. 2:3).<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en16">(16)</a></sup></p>
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<p>And some people will learn through me, via email correspondence, and, establish home groups and teach others around them. And some will be led to seek ordination through me, to establish branch congregations of The Seed of Abraham in their communities.<sup><a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/gmesjud.html#en17">(17)</a></sup></p>
<p>I’d like to end by saying, as ‘for me and my House, we will serve Yahveh’, His Way (Josh. 24:15).</p>
<p align="center">Avram Yehoshua<br/>Ramat Gan<br/>Israel<br/>14 October 2005</p>
<p align="left">P.S. (12 March 2011) I think that a terrific designation is the simple TOFY, which stands for Torah Observant Followers of Yeshua. It says it all and can be used for both Jewish and Gentile believers.</p>
<hr/><p class="style2">Endnotes</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en1" id="en1"></a>1. See Encounters with an Ephramite at <a href="http://ffoz.org/downloads/white_papers/?zoom_highlight=Ephraimite">http://ffoz.org/downloads/white_papers/?zoom_highlight=Ephraimite</a>.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en2" id="en2"></a>2. <a href="http://www.torahresource.com/English%20Articles/OneLawMovement.pdf">http://www.torahresource.com/English%20Articles/OneLawMovement.pdf</a> I read, ‘One Law Movements: A Challenge to the Messianic Jewish Community’, in February 2005. Please see my response to Rev. Juster and Rabbi Resnik, in the Articles section, under Miscellaneous.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en3" id="en3"></a>3. I think that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew, and possibly the first half of Acts. But today we have them in Greek. For a good book on Hebrew ‘being in back of the Greek Synoptic Gospels’ see, Bivin and Blizzard’s, Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus, Destiny Image Publishers, revised edition, 2001.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en4" id="en4"></a>4. It’s unfortunate that the English translations don’t bring out that those opposed to ‘the Way’ referred to them in a heretical manner. Please see The Nazarene Sect at <a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/nazarene.htm">http://www.seedofabraham.net/nazarene.htm</a> for more understanding.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en5" id="en5"></a>5. ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! Hypocrites! Because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Hell as yourselves’ (Mt. 23:15).</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en6" id="en6"></a>6. Here, and in the next sentence, the ‘teaching’ speaks primarily of the verdict that the judge is giving.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en7" id="en7"></a>7. For instance, Nitilat Yadaim, or the ceremonial washing of the hands by the Orthodox, which some Messianics do. Yeshua soundly condemns this (Matt. 15:1-20).</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en8" id="en8"></a>8. J. M. Sinclair, General Consultant, Diana Treffry, Editorial Director, Collins English Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Glasgow, Scotland: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998), p. 518. An epaulet is ‘a piece of ornamental material on the shoulder of a garment, esp. a military uniform.’</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en9" id="en9"></a>9. We find things like the wrong dating of the Feasts (which 90% of the time are not correct dates because they don’t go by the New Moon sightings), the lighting of the Sabbath candles and the saying of the rabbinic prayer, which states that God commanded us to light the Sabbath candles (when He didn’t), the use of the Star of David, the kipa, the teaching of Kabbalah, etc.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en10" id="en10"></a>10. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus The Messiah (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, originally published in 1883; 2000), p. 522.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en11" id="en11"></a>11. I don’t believe that Yeshua would have His shepherds use the term ‘rabbi’, as He specifically tells us not to (Mt. 23:8).</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en12" id="en12"></a>12. Please see <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/don_quixote.html">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/don_quixote.html</a> for why Don Quixote attacked the windmills. The point here is that whatever one’s good intentions are, if they don’t line up with reality, their efforts will be fruitless.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en13" id="en13"></a>13. ‘Thus says Yahveh “Stand by the way, see and ask for the ancient Path where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it”’ (Jer. 6:16). How appropriate for Messianic Judaism today.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en14" id="en14"></a>14. If you find any articles on this web site with Messianic Judaism in it, it’s only because we either haven’t changed it yet to reflect the more proper, Hebrew perspective, or that at the time of the writing, Messianic Judaism was what I was walking in (e.g. in my testimony; My Story).</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en15" id="en15"></a>15. Lao Tzu’s classic text on living is The Way (Tao Te Ching). Most everyone is at least familiar with Te Ching (the Way). It’s more than 2,500 years old and so predates Yeshua by 500 years. There is also ‘People for the American Way’, an organization designed to protect American democracy. And another organization in Britain called, The Way, as well as a search engine by that name, The Way, and hundreds of other organizations, etc.</p>
<p class="style2"><a name="en16" id="en16"></a>16. Note well, how in the verse, ‘Torah’ and ‘Word’ parallel each other. The Torah and the Word of God are one and the same (Dt. 17:11; Ps. 119:16, 43, 67; Is. 5:24, 8:20; Micah 4:2; John 15:25).</p>
<p><span class="style2"><a name="en17" id="en17"></a>17. If you feel led to walk in The Hebraic Perspective, and would like to seek ordination through The Seed of Abraham, please see <a href="http://www.seedofabraham.net/ordination.htm">The Ordination Process</a> (in the Articles section under Miscellaneous), for what that entails.</span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="codeMetallight2"><span class="font-size-3"><font size="3"><i>King James;</i> <br/> <b>Psa 40:6</b> Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; <b><i><font size="3" color="#770000"><s>mine ears hast thou opened</s></font></i></b>: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. <br/> <br/> <i>Hebraic Roots Bible;</i> <br/> <b>Ps 40: 6</b> Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; <b><i><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF">But a body You have prepared for Me</font></i></b>. You have not asked burnt offering and sin offering.</font></span></td>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Clearly, this Messianic psalm makes much more sense when we see the prophecy is about Yahweh the Father preparing a physical body for the eternal Messiah, who was His son, to come and dwell for 33 years as a human being. This is clearly missed in the mistranslated King James version.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Compare the next scripture;</span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="codeMetallight2"><span class="font-size-3"><font size="3"><i>King James;</i> <br/> <b>Mat 19:23</b> Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. <br/> 24 And again I say unto you, <b><i><font size="3" color="#770000">It is easier for a<s> camel </s>to go through the eye of a needle</font></i></b>, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. <br/> <br/> <i>Hebraic Roots Bible;</i> <br/> <b>Mat 19:23</b> And Yahshua said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.<br/> 24 And again I say to you,<b><i><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF"> It is easier for a heavy rope to pass through a needle's eye</font></i></b>, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of YAHWEH.</font></span></td>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">In Aramaic as in Hebrew there are no vowels, simply markings under the words, which many times are not listed. The word for camel in Aramaic is gamla and would look like this "gml". The word for heavy rope is gamala and would also look like "gml" without the vowels. So when the translator translated this scripture from Aramaic to Greek, he simply made a mistake and put camel instead of heavy rope. This is a Jewish idiom. You cannot put a heavy rope through a needle, but if you take it apart strand by strand, then one strand can go through. Yahshua is using this idiom to show that a rich person would need to give up his possessions strand by strand or piece by piece to enter the Kingdom of Yahweh.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Look at another mistranslation from the Greek translation.</span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="codeMetallight2"><span class="font-size-3"><font size="3"><i>King James;</i> <br/> <b>Mar 14:3</b> And being in Bethany in the house of <b><i><font size="3" color="#770000">Simon the <s>leper</s></font></i></b>, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. <br/> <br/> <i>Hebraic Roots Bible;</i> <br/> <b>Mar 14:3</b>And He being in Bethany in the house of <b><i><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Simon the potter</font></i></b>, as He reclined, a woman came, having an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of nard. And breaking the alabaster vial, she poured it down His head.</font></span></td>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">According to the Greek translation there is a major problem here as a leper cannot own property, live inside of Jerusalem nor have feasts that Jewish people would be able to attend. The problem is quickly erased when the Aramaic translation is used as it was simply a mistake of translating into Greek ‘garba’ which means leper instead of ‘garaba’ which means ‘jar maker’. Simon the jar maker fits much better considering the story is about a woman having an expensive jar with expensive perfume. Since vowels are only pointed in Hebrew and Aramaic, both roots would be ‘grb.’</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">There are also almost 100 scriptures in the Tanach (Old Testament) that personify our Savior’s name. Due to the fact that most translations do not use our Savior’s original Hebrew name they totally miss this fact. Look at a few examples below:</span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="codeMetallight2"><span class="font-size-3"><font size="3"><i>King James;</i> <br/> <b>Isa 62:10</b> Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. <br/> 11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, <b><i><font size="3" color="#770000">Behold, thy salvation cometh</font></i></b>; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. <br/> <br/> <i>Hebraic Roots Bible;</i> <br/> <b>Isa 62:10</b>Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people! Raise up! Raise up the highway; clear it from stones; lift up a banner over the peoples. <b>11</b> Behold, YAHWEH has made it to be heard to the end of the earth; Tell the daughter of Zion, <b><i><font size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Behold! Y'shua* comes!</font></i></b> Behold! His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.</font></span></td>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Verse 11 of Isaiah 62 is a Hebrew idiom; ‘raising the stones” is an ancient phrase that was used for a forerunner to go before a King and clear the highway of any potholes or stones for the King’s triumphal passage. (See Mal 3:1).</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Then, in verse 11 it states to tell the daughter of Zion that Yahshua is coming and His reward is with Him (Rev 22:12) to give to each according to his work. There is no way to have the true meaning of this verse without having the proper name of our savior, Yahshua properly transliterated.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">and how He is proclaimed as Messiah in Hab 3:13</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>Shmita Cycle of Three and a half years of Torah readings with Rabbinic commentary. (Triennial cycle Torah portion.)</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>The Septennial cycle (two triennial cycles of three and a half years) of Torah readings used during Temple times. This study explains the background of the septennial cycle. (Triennial Cycle Torah portion.)</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>The shmita cycle sedarim for three cycles, with integrated Tehillim (Psalms) and ashlamtot. Nisan 5765 - Elul 5772. (Triennial cycle Torah portion.)</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>The shmita cycle sedarim for three cycles, with integrated Torah sederim. Nisan 5765 - Elul 5772. (Triennial cycle Torah portion.)</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>The Ashlamtot (Haftarot) for the Triennial cycle Torah (half a shmita cycle) as denoted by Jacob Mann, Isaiah Sonne, and Professor Ben Zion Wacholder.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>A synthesis of annual and triennial cycle Torah readings from the masorah, Professor Ben Zion Wacholder, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia Judaica.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>A brief study on the Hakhel as the peak of the crescendo of the septennial / triennial Torah reading cycle.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/4eclipses.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/30/2013</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/4eclipses.html">4ECLIPSES</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Celestial events for 2002 and 2003.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/beyond.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 03/24/2003</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/beyond.html">BEYOND</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Celestial events for 1999 and 2000.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/celest99.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 04/30/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/celest99.html">CELEST99</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Revelation 12:1 as a celestial sign. Preceded by a spectacular total solar eclipse over Jerusalem.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rev121.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 08/31/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rev121.html">REV121</a></p>
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</td>
<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Mazzaroth chart that includes tribe banners and gems.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/month.doc">D</a></p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 07/05/1998</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/month.html">MONTH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A study on the constellations and how they relate to the Torah.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/mazaroth.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/06/2002</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/mazaroth.html">MAZAROTH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Astronomically significant events.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/celestal.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 09/18/1997</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/celestal.html">CELESTAL</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>An In-depth look at how "signs" are used in the Bible.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/signs.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 01/31/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/signs.html">SIGNS</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>To see a study of past and future celestial signs.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/events.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 07/25/1997</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/events.html">EVENTS</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A heavenly study on the abode of God.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/heaven.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 01/05/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/heaven.html">HEAVEN</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"></td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"></td>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Charts used in teaching book one of the Mishneh Torah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lessons.ppt">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 12/10/2007</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lessons.html">LESSONS</a></p>
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</td>
<td valign="top" width="726"><p>An in-depth examination of the rarest blessing in Judaism: Birchat HaChama - The Blessing of the Sun.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hachama.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 04/06/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hachama.html">HACHAMA</a></p>
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<tr><td colspan="6" valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"><b>FESTIVAL STUDIES</b></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>An overview of the Biblical festivals.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/festival.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 09/06/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/festival.html">FESTIVAL</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Bible study on the Sabbath and how it affects God's people.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/sabbath.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 02/13/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/sabbath.html">SABBATH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Torah study on Rosh Chodesh, the new moon celebration.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chodesh.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/14/2007</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chodesh.html">CHODESH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Our appointments with the Creator of the Universe.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/appointm.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/08/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/appointm.html">APPOINTM</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Bible study on God's rehearsals.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rehearse.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/11/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rehearse.html">REHEARSE</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>An examination of our appointments with HaShem. These appointments have the power to put us in the right place, at the right time, doing the right things.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/settimes.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 08/25/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/settimes.html">SETTIMES</a></p>
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</td>
<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines Shabbat Hagadol, the Sabbath before Passover.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hagadol.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 09/06/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hagadol.html">HAGADOL</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines leaven and its significance at Passover.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chametz.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 04/16/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chametz.html">CHAMETZ</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the Messianic and prophetic significance of Passover.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/passover.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 03/31/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/passover.html">PASSOVER</a></p>
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</td>
<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A chronology that compares Pesach and it's fulfillment by Yeshua.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chronology.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 03/24/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chronology.html">CHRONOLOGY</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the details of our future redemption.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/redemption.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 12/06/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/redemption.html">REDEMPTION</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Messianic Sefardic Passover haggadah. This document shows us the order of the future Messianic redemption and relates it to our redemption from Egypt in the days of Moses. This is the story that is read at the Passover seder on the first and second nights of Passover.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/haggada.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 03/25/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/haggada.html">HAGGADA</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines Passover customs.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/pcustoms.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 04/04/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/pcustoms.html">PCUSTOMS</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the seventh day of Passover.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/seventh.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 04/15/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/seventh.html">SEVENTH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This brief study explains the 'cool down' day after some festivals.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/isruhag.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 05/01/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/isruhag.html">ISRUHAG</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the second chance to celebrate Pesach.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/sheni.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 05/03/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/sheni.html">SHENI</a></p>
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<tr><td height="38" valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the significance of the counting of the Omer.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/omer.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Added 05/28/2000</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/omer.html">OMER</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A glimpse at the significance of Lag B'Omer.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lgbomer.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/22/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lgbomer.html">LGBOMER</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Lag B'Omer - As viewed through sefer Ephesians.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/ephesians.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 04/20/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/ephesians.html">EPHESEANS</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Study on the Feast of Weeks - Pentecost.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shavuot.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 05/01/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shavuot.html">SHAVUOT</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>True freedom is taught by the feast of Shavuot.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/freedom.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 02/15/2006</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/freedom.html">FREEDOM</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Mourning for the loss of the Temple.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/mourning.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 06/18/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/mourning.html">MOURNING</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Torah study on the fast of the fourth month, the fast of Tammuz 17.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tamuz17.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 07/04/2002</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tamuz17.html">TAMUZ17</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Torah study on the fast of the fifth month, the fast of Tisha B'Av.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tishabav.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 7/20/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tishabav.html">TISHABAV</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Torah study on the minor festival of Tu B'Av, the fifteenth of Av.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tubav.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 08/13/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tubav.html">TUBAV</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This Bible study examines the Feast of Yom Teruah, which is the only feast that no man knows the day or the hour in which it starts.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/teruah.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 9/26/2003</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/teruah.html">TERUAH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This Torah study examines the shofar.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shofar.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/15/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shofar.html">SHOFAR</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Is it possible to "know" when Messiah will return?</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/knowday.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/19/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/knowday.html">KNOWDAY</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A mystical look at how the fast of Gedaliah was involved in creation.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/gedaliah.docx">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 02/05/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/gedaliah.html">GEDALIAH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Study on The Day of Atonement.</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/kippur.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 09/23/2001</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/kippur.html">KIPPUR</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Here is a study on the "Awesome Days", the 10 days between Rosh Hasnana and Yom Kippur.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/awesome.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 1/03/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/awesome.html">AWESOME</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath before Yom Kippur.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shuvah.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 09/06/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shuvah.html">SHUVAH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines what the High Priest does on Yom HaKippurim. (The Day of Atonement)</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/kohen.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Added 9/28/1997</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/kohen.html">KOHEN</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the meaning of atonement.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/atonemen.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/19/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/atonemen.html">ATONEMEN</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This Bible study examines the Feast of Tabernacles, which is the feast that celebrates the birth of Messiah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/succoth.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/11/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/succoth.html">SUCCOTH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines Hoshana Rabbah - the day the world is judged for rain.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hoshana.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/23/2005</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/hoshana.html">HOSHANA</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Is it possible to "know" when Messiah was born? Yes!</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/birth.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 12/24/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/birth.html">BIRTH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the Feast of Conclusion to Tabernacles, which is the feast that celebrates the circumcision of Messiah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shemini.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/26/1998</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shemini.html">SHEMINI</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study takes a brief look at Simchat Torah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/simchat.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 3/18/2007</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/simchat.html">SIMCHAT</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers a most excellent lecture on chanukah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lapin.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Added 10/28/1997</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lapin.html">LAPIN</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A mystical study of Chanukah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/connection.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 12/19/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/connection.html">CONNECTION</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the messianic significance of Chanukah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chanukah.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/11/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/chanukah.html">CHANUKAH</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the historical and religious significance of the Festival of Lights.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lights.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 11/15/2010</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lights.html">LIGHTS</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the fast of the tenth of Tevet.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tevet10.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 12/12/2007</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tevet10.html">TEVET10</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines Tu B'Shevat.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tubshevt.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 1/14/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/tubshevt.html">TUBSHEVT</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A brief look at the minor festival of Purim Katan.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/katan.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 02/19/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/katan.html">KATAN</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A Nazarean perspective on Shabbat Shekalim</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shekalim.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 03/26/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/shekalim.html">SHEKALIM</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the significance of Purim.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/esther.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 3/26/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/esther.html">ESTHER</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>A brief study of the red heifer and Shabbat Parah.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/heifer.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 4/05/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/heifer.html">HEIFER</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines the characters in Megillat Esther.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/allegories.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 6/15/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/allegories.html">ALLEGORIES</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study looks at Purim in a new way.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/purim.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 1/27/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/purim.html">PURIM</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>This study looks at why 'purim' forms the name of so many major and minor festivals.</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/purims.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 02/21/2011</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/purims.html">PURIMS</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td valign="top" width="726"><p>From Redemption to redemption - What are the connections between Purim and Pesach?</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="29"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/r2r.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 03/13/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/r2r.html">R2R</a></p>
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<tr><td colspan="6" valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"><b>STUDIES ON TIME</b></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This study depicts the distance between dates on the Jewish calendar and timing coincidences.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/distance.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 04/01/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/distance.html">DISTANCE</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>A Torah study on Elul as a refuge in time as related to the cities of refuge.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/elul.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 07/22/2007</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/elul.html">ELUL</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>Solomon began to build the Temple on the same day that Ezra began rebuilding the Temple. Want to bet what day God has planned to begin the next Temple? This study gives many, many of these kinds of "coincidences". You will see that God has a plan for each day.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/feasts.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p> </p>
<p>Updated 11/25/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/feasts.html">FEASTS</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines cycles of time.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/cycles.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 10/19/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/cycles.html">CYCLES</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This study looks at "time" from God's perspective.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/time.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 07/11/1997:</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/time.html">TIME</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>Bible study on the word "Yovel", Jubilee.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/yovel.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 11/18/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/yovel.html">YOVEL</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This charts shows which years are jubilee years, according to the various opinions.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/yovel1.xls">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 05/01/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/yovel1.html">YOVEL1</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This Torah study examines the merit of our fathers. It is a VERY TIMELY study that examines the peace process in relation to this time of year.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/merit.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 05/13/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/merit.html">MERIT</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This Torah study examines the relationship between the first and the seventh months - the former and the latter rains.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rains.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 11/22/2009</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/rains.html">RAINS</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>A study on the resurrection of the dead with its implications and timing.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/techiyat.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 03/25/2006</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/techiyat.html">TECHIYAT</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>Creation days as reflected in the various millennia.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/millenium.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 06/26/2012</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/millenium.html">MILLENIUM</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This Torah study exames the future from HaShem's perspective.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/futures.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 06/27/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/future.html">FUTURE</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This Torah study exames the Messianic Age and the Olam HaBa, the world to come.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/futures.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 11/14/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/futures.html">FUTURES</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>This study examines God's calendar.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/calendar.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Updated 01/24/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/calendar.html">CALENDAR</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>What does the Bible have to say about the Day of the LORD?</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/day.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 12/05/1997</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/day.html">DAY</a></p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="1178"><p align="center"></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>A look at Y2K through the eyes of the Sages.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/torahy2k.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 8/16/1999</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/torahy2k.html">TORAHY2K</a></p>
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</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>Russian version - What do we know about the day of the Lord.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/russian/lordsdayr.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 06/13/2000</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/russian/lordsdayr.html">LORDSDAYr</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>What do we know about the day of the Lord.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lordsday.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>Added 07/15/1996</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/lordsday.html">LORDSDAY</a></p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="726"><p>In this study I attempt to date some of the events of the book of Luke.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="28"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/luke.doc">D</a></p>
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<td valign="top" width="165"><p>New 12/10/2008</p>
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<td valign="top" width="180"><p><a href="http://www.betemunah.org/luke.html">LUKE</a></p>
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IS ISLAM A PEACE LOVING RELIGION?
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2013-08-15T06:08:35.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>You will discover the truth to this question in the following article:</p>
<div class="Section1"><h3 align="center">Is Islam a peace-loving religion?</h3>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Khoury/index.html">Bassam Khoury</a></p>
<p><b><i><u>Introduction</u></i></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ladies and Gentleman:</p>
<p>This subject is far from easy, for both you, the audience, and for me, because of all the things going on at the current time. I have one of two…</p>
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<p>You will discover the truth to this question in the following article:</p>
<div class="Section1"><h3 align="center">Is Islam a peace-loving religion?</h3>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Khoury/index.html">Bassam Khoury</a></p>
<p><b><i><u>Introduction</u></i></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ladies and Gentleman:</p>
<p>This subject is far from easy, for both you, the audience, and for me, because of all the things going on at the current time. I have one of two choices—and the easier of the two is still difficult. Should I say what is considered politically correct? Or should I tell the truth? I have chosen the latter, believing in what the Lord Jesus Christ says: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free”.</p>
<p>The time limitations we have for this program doesn’t make this job any easier, as it will be difficult to cover so much information or go into much depth in such a short time. But in the next few minutes I will do my best to address the issues of the "use of violence" and of "co-existence with other religions" in Islam.</p>
<p>Let me start by saying that God has given us free will to choose our own belief system. I am a strong believer in freedom of religion, and condemn no-one for believing something other than what I myself believe. I do not wish to offend Muslims by anything I say today, and I hope that you will accept my words in the spirit in which they are meant.</p>
<p>After the terrible events of September 11<sup>th</sup>, we have heard many Muslims saying what Islam does and does not teach with regard to violence towards others, and about the co-existence of Muslims with non-Muslims. Some say that Islam is a religion of peace, that it does not allow the killing of others, and that those who carried out the attacks are twisting the teachings of Islam by claiming to act in the name of Islam. Still others say that Islam does indeed allow the killing of others, and that it is even a noble aim. Who is right?</p>
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<p>Obviously, we cannot judge any religion by just looking at those who claim to follow it. It would be all too easy to point a finger at the many Muslims who have perpetrated violence against Christians, Jews and others over the centuries and conclude that Islam preaches violence, or to point the finger at the many Christians who have perpetrated violence against Muslims, Jews and others and conclude that Christianity preaches violence. This would, however, be quite erroneous. Not all who claim to act in the name of a religion are true adherents to its teachings. To answer the question with which we are concerned today, then, it is necessary to go back to the sources of Islam to see what they have to say about violence and about co-existence with adherents of other faiths. I shall therefore first consider the Qur’an, Islam’s holy book, that Muslims believe was revealed to Muhammad from God, and the Hadith, which are the collections of Muhammad’s sayings and actions. These are the first two sources of Islam<font size="-1"><sup>[<a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Terrorism/peace-loving.html#note1">1</a>]</sup></font> I shall go on to consider the actions of the prophet of Islam and his companions as they were the people that understood the Qur’an the best, and who are taken as role models by Muslims today.</p>
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<p><b><i><u>Abrogation Within the Quran الناسخ والمنسوخ في القرآن</u></i></b></p>
<p>What do we mean by the term “abrogation”?</p>
<p>The Arabic words 'nasikh' and 'mansukh' are both derived from the same root word 'nasakha' which carries meanings such as 'to abolish, to replace, to withdraw, to abrogate'.</p>
<p>The word nasikh (an active participle) means 'the abrogating', while mansukh (passive) means 'the abrogated'. In technical language these terms refer to certain parts of the Qur'anic revelation, which have been 'abrogated' by others. The abrogated passage is the one called 'mansukh' while the abrogating one is called 'nasikh'. (Ahmad von Denver, <i>Ulum Al-Quran</i>)</p>
<p>Understanding the concept of abrogation is very important in order to understand Islam. Within the <em>Qur'an</em> itself are statements which contradict others. </p>
<p>For example, I have recently read an article by Karen Armstrong saying: “the only permissible war (in the Koran) is one of self-defense. Muslims may not begin hostilities (2:190).”</p>
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<p>Others quote verses from the Qur'an like:</p>
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<p><i>“</i><i>Let there be no compulsion in religion” 2:256</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"لا إكراه في الدين"</i></p>
<p><i>“Therefore expound openly what thou art commanded, and turn away from those who join false gods with Allah” 15:94</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i> فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِين" الحجر 9</i><i>4</i><i>:15</i></p>
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<p>These verses seem to say clearly enough that the Qur’an teaches a peaceful response to those who oppose Islam. But there are other verses in the Qur’an which say quite the opposite. For example “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular Prayers and practise regular Charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful” 9:5 (we will have a closer look at this verse later on).</p>
<p>Which verse should Muslims follow? According to the doctrine of abrogation, the later texts supersede the earlier whenever there are inconsistencies, or they are said to “abrogate” the earlier texts. Therefore, a Muslim simply needs to know which verse came earlier, and which came later. The importance of the doctrine of abrogation cannot be understated. In a mosque in the city of Kufa, Ali b. Abi Talib once saw people gathering around the judge, Abdur-Rahman. The judge was confusing that which is permissible with that which is not. Ali asked him whether he could tell the abrogative verses from the abrogated; he said that he could not. Ali then grabbed the man's ear, twisted it, and said: "you perish, and you make others perish. Do not judge in our mosque anymore.''</p>
<p>That is how important it is; the person who doesn’t know abrogation shall “perish and make others perish”, according to Ali Ibn abi Talib.</p>
<p>Returning to the three verses I quoted above, we see that all three were abrogated, according to Muslim scholars.(تراجع كتب الناسخ والمنسوخ لـ ابن حزم، الكرمي، ابن الجوزي، المقري، قتاده،...) (for detailed information check books under titles like <i>The Abrogative and the Abrogated</i> by authors like Ibn Hazem, Al-Karmi, Ibn Al-Jawzi, Al-Muqri, or Al-Nisabouri)</p>
<p>Suyuti in his book استنباط التنزيل (Istenbat al tanzeel) says: “Every thing in the Qur'an about forgiveness is abrogated by verse 9:5.” Al-Shawkani in his book السيل الجرار (Alsaylu Jarar 4:518-519) says: “Islam is unanimous about fighting the unbelievers and forcing them to Islam or submitting and paying Jiziah (special tax paid only by Christians or Jews) or being killed. [The verses] about forgiving them are abrogated unanimously by the obligation of fighting in any case.”</p>
<p>Please note that I am not telling Muslims which verses to follow and which not. As I said earlier, I believe 100% in an individual’s right to choose his or her beliefs. However, what I am saying is that according to the Islamic doctrine of abrogation, these verses are null and void. They are contradicted by later verses, and in Islam it is the later verses which must be followed today.</p>
<p>Let us now look at some of the Qur’an that was not written until later, in Madina</p>
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<p><b><i><u>The Qur’an says:</u></i></b></p>
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<p><i>“Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits, for Allah does not love transgressors”. 2:190</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"قاتلوا في سبيل الله الذين يقاتلونكم ولا تعتدوا إن الله لا يحب المعتدين" البقرة 190:2</i></p>
<p><i> “And slay them (the infidels) wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter” 2:191</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i> وَاقْتُلُوهُمْ حَيْثُ ثَقِفْتُمُوهُمْ وَأَخْرِجُوهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ أَخْرَجُوكُمْ وَالْفِتْنَةُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ وَلاَ تُقَاتِلُوهُمْ عِندَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِيهِ فَإِن قَاتَلُوكُمْ فَاقْتُلُوهُمْ كَذَلِكَ جَزَاء الْكَافِرِينَ" البقرة 191:2</i></p>
<p><i>“And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practise oppression”. 2:193</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i> وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لاَ تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ لِلّهِ فَإِنِ انتَهَواْ فَلاَ عُدْوَانَ إِلاَّ عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ" ابقرة 193:2</i></p>
<p><i>“Fighting is prescribed for you, and you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows, and you know not” 2:216</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i> كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِتَالُ وَهُوَ كُرْهٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْ وَاللّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ" البقرة 216:2</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p>Here we see for the first time that war was permissible. Remember that in the earlier days of Islam, war was not allowed. But these verses abrogate the earlier verses, allowing war both in self-defense and against those who the Muslims did not have a treaty with. However, even these verses were in turn abrogated by these later verses:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of Allah, whether he is slain or gets victory soon shall we give him a reward of great (value)</i><i>"</i><i> </i><i>4:74</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i>فَلْيُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ الَّذِينَ يَشْرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا بِالآخِرَةِ وَمَن يُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَيُقْتَلْ أَو يَغْلِبْ فَسَوْفَ نُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا" النساء"74:4</i></p>
<p><i> “Seize them and slay them wherever you find them: and in any case take no friends or helpers from their ranks.” 4:89</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"وَدُّواْ لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ كَمَا كَفَرُواْ فَتَكُونُونَ سَوَاء فَلاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ مِنْهُمْ أَوْلِيَاء حَتَّىَ يُهَاجِرُواْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَإِن تَوَلَّوْاْ فَخُذُوهُمْ وَاقْتُلُوهُمْ حَيْثُ وَجَدتَّمُوهُمْ وَلاَ تَتَّخِذُواْ مِنْهُمْ وَلِيًّا وَلاَ نَصِيرًا" النساء 89:4</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Allah has granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home</i><i> "</i><i>4:95</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"لاَّ يَسْتَوِي الْقَاعِدُونَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ غَيْرُ أُوْلِي الضَّرَرِ وَالْمُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَنفُسِهِمْ فَضَّلَ اللّهُ الْمُجَاهِدِينَ بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَأَنفُسِهِمْ عَلَى الْقَاعِدِينَ دَرَجَةً وَكُـلاًّ وَعَدَ اللّهُ الْحُسْنَى وَفَضَّلَ اللّهُ الْمُجَاهِدِينَ عَلَى الْقَاعِدِينَ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا" النساء 95:4</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly</i><i>"</i><i> </i><i>8:60</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"وَأَعِدُّواْ لَهُم مَّا اسْتَطَعْتُم مِّن قُوَّةٍ وَمِن رِّبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدْوَّ اللّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ وَآخَرِينَ مِن دُونِهِمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَهُمُ اللّهُ يَعْلَمُهُمْ وَمَا تُنفِقُواْ مِن شَيْءٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ يُوَفَّ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ لاَ تُظْلَمُونَ" الأنفال 60:8</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers: for these are a people without understanding</i><i>"</i><i> 8:65</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"</i><i>يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ حَرِّضِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى الْقِتَالِ إِن يَكُن مِّنكُمْ عِشْرُونَ صَابِرُونَ يَغْلِبُواْ مِئَتَيْنِ وَإِن يَكُن مِّنكُم مِّئَةٌ يَغْلِبُواْ أَلْفًا مِّنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ لاَّ يَفْقَهُونَ" الأنفال 65:8</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Fight them and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you to victory over them, and heal the breasts of the Believers</i><i>"</i><i> </i><i> </i><i>9:14</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"قَاتِلُوهُمْ يُعَذِّبْهُمُ اللّهُ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنصُرْكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُّؤْمِنِين" التوبة 14:9</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued</i><i>"</i><i> </i><i> </i><i>9:29</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"قَاتِلُواْ الَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ وَلاَ بِالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ وَلاَ يُحَرِّمُونَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَلاَ يَدِينُونَ دِينَ الْحَقِّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ حَتَّى يُعْطُواْ الْجِزْيَةَ عَن يَدٍ وَهُمْ صَاغِرُون" التوبة 29:9</i></p>
<p><i>"</i><i>Say: can you expect for us (and fate) other than one of two glorious things (martyrdom or victory)? But we can expect for you either that Allah will send his punishment (for not believing in Allah) from Himself, or by our hands. So wait (expectant); we too will wait with you</i><i>"</i><i> </i><i>9:52</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"قُلْ هَلْ تَرَبَّصُونَ بِنَا إِلاَّ إِحْدَى الْحُسْنَيَيْنِ وَنَحْنُ نَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمْ أَن يُصِيبَكُمُ اللّهُ بِعَذَابٍ مِّنْ عِندِهِ أَوْ بِأَيْدِينَا فَتَرَبَّصُواْ إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّتَرَبِّصُون" التوبة 52:4</i></p>
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<p>Now, what we see here is this: the Quran orders Muslims to fight in order to establish Allah’s kingdom on earth (all of the earth) by any means. Most Islamic scholars say that one verse of the Quran (9:5) abrogates 124 verses, which are basically all the verses that talk about peace and forgiveness. This is the verse that says:</p>
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<p><i> “</i><i>But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular Prayers and practise regular Charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful</i><i>” 9:5</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"فَإِذَا انسَلَخَ الأَشْهُرُ الْحُرُمُ فَاقْتُلُواْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدتُّمُوهُمْ وَخُذُوهُمْ وَاحْصُرُوهُمْ وَاقْعُدُواْ لَهُمْ كُلَّ مَرْصَدٍ فَإِن تَابُواْ وَأَقَامُواْ الصَّلاَةَ وَآتَوُاْ الزَّكَاةَ فَخَلُّواْ سَبِيلَهُمْ إِنَّ اللّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ" التوبة 5:9</i></p>
<p>As we see clearly in this verse (which is commonly called the verse of the sword) there is only one way out for pagans (or infidels) to be spared from being slain. They should <b><i><u>repent, establish regular prayers, and practice regular charity</u></i>,</b> i.e. become Muslims. As for people of the book we read the verse in the same sura v. 29, which tells us the way out of being killed “until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued”</p>
<p><b><i><u>They have to pay protection money and accept to be subdued</u></i>,</b> i.e. second class citizens, even if they live in their homeland. We see this put into practice in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and all the Middle Eastern countries that were conquered by Muslims in the first 100 years of Islam. The ancestors of the Christians who live there now suffered a lot to stay Christian.</p>
<p>Now, there is a fiqhi rule that has to be taken into consideration when studying this:العبرة بعموم اللفظ لا بخصوص السبب, i.e. what is considered is the absoluteness of the utterance, not the specialization of the reason for the revelation. That is, they follow the letter, not the spirit of the law...</p>
<p>In other words Muslims scholars when they make a judgement they consider the Quran and Mohammad in the light of their meaning not in the light of reasons of revelation.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i><u>The Hadeeth</u></i></b></p>
<p></p>
<p>The Hadeeth are the sayings of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. They are the second source of Islamic doctrine. The Hadeeth completely agree with the Quran (concerning violence and co-existence). Hadeeth have the same concept of abrogation, and the same historical characteristics. That is, Muhammad’s teachings were very peace-loving at the beginning of Islam, but then came sayings such as:</p>
<p><u>Ibn Haban in his Sahih, vol. 14, p. 529, narrates:</u> Muhammad said: <i>“I swear by Him who has my soul in his hands, I was sent to you with nothing but slaughter.”</i></p>
<p><u>In his Musnad (vol. 2, p. 50) Imam Ahmed narrates by Ibn Omar</u>: <i>“the Prophet said: ‘I was sent by the sword proceeding the judgment day and my livelihood is in the shadow of my spear and humiliation and submission are on those who disobey me.’”</i></p>
<p><u>Omar Ibn al-Khatab said:</u> <i>“I heard the prophet of Allah saying: ‘I will cast Jews and Christians out of the peninsula and I won’t leave any one in it but Muslims.’”</i> (Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 2, No. 28, from the Muhaddith program<font size="-1"><sup><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Terrorism/peace-loving.html#note2">[2]</a></sup></font>)</p>
<p>Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi report that the prophet said the morning after the murder (of Kab Ibn al’Ashraf), <i>“Kill any Jew you can lay your hands on.”</i> <u>(El beddayah wa alnihaya – Ibn Katheer – vol. 4 – in the chapter on killing Ka’ab bin al’Ashraf)</u></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i><u>1 Muhammad’s actions</u></i></b></p>
<p>Let us now look at the actions of Muhammad, the last prophet of Islam, as the Quran says <i>“</i><i>Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah</i><i>” 33:21</i></p>
<p dir="rtl"><i>"لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِّمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو اللَّهَ وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا" الأحزاب 21:33</i></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Aisha (the beloved wife of Muhammad) said: “His (Muhammad's) character was the Qur’an” (narrated Muslim). Therefore the life of Mohammad reflects an accurate interpretation of the Qur’an.</p>
<p>When we read of the actions of the prophet of Islam, we see many cases of assassination. Most of these cases happened because someone criticized the prophet of Islam in speech only.</p>
<p>We read:</p>
<p>Ibn Ishak said: “<i>The apostle said, “Kill any Jew that falls into your power.”</i> Thereupon Muhayyisa محيصة b. Masud leapt upon Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant with whom they had social and business relations, and killed him. Huwayyisa حويصة was not a Muslim at the time though he was the elder brother. When Muhayyisa killed him Huwayyisa began to beat him, saying, ‘You enemy of God, did you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?’ Muhayyisa answered, ‘Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you I would have cut your head off.’” (El badyah wa alnihaya – Ibn Katheer – vol. 4 – in the chapter on killing Ka’ab bin al’Ashraf)</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i><u>2 `Umayr’s Expedition To Kill Abu Afak</u></i></b></p>
<p>Mohammad once killed a man named (al-Harith b. Suwayd). When Abu Afak wrote a poem objecting to the murder, Muhammad said, <b><i>“Who will deal with this rascal for me?”</i></b> Whereupon Salim b. Umayr, brother of B. Amr b. Auf, one of the “weepers”, went forth and killed him. <u>(Ibn Hisham – Dar el jeel Beirut – 1411 –Vol. 6 - UMAYR’S EXPEDITION TO KILL ABU AFAK)</u></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i><u>3 UMAYR B. 3adi JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN</u></i></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>After Abu Afak was murdered, Asma wrote a poem blaming Islam and its followers of killing their opponenets.</p>
<p>When Muhammad heard what she had said he said, <i>“Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?”</i> Ummayr b. Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said, <i>“You have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!”</i> When he asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences the apostle said, <i>“Two goats won’t butt their heads about her”</i>, so Umayr went back to his people. Now there was a great commotion among B. Khatma that day about the affair of bint [girl] Marwan. She had five sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said, <i>“I have killed bint Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand me if you can; don’t keep me waiting.”</i> That was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma.</p>
<p>The day after Bint Marwan was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they saw the power of Islam.”</p>
<p>(Ibn Katheer el bedayah wa alnehaya – vol. 5 – in the mention of the year 11 of hijrah also found in- Ibn Hisham – dar al jeel Beirut – vol. 6 UMAYR B. ADIYY’S JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN)</p>
<p dir="rtl">(البداية والنهاية ـ ج 5 ـ في ذكر السنة 11 من الهجرة ـ(</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><u><i>4 Killing of a slave woman</i>.</u></b></p>
<p>A blind man had a slave who he had taken a concubine, the mother of his children, who used to abuse the Prophet and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop.</p>
<p align="right" dir="rtl">One night she began to slander the Prophet and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet was informed about this. He assembled the people and said: <i>“I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up.”</i> The man stood up. He sat before the Prophet and said: <i>“Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.”</i> Thereupon the Prophet said: <i>“Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.”</i></p>
<p dir="rtl">«اشهدوا أن دمها هدر» . ) نيل الأوطار للشوكاني _ دار الطباعة المنيرية ـ القاهرة ـ دون تاريخ ـ الجزء السابع. كتاب حد شارب الخمر. باب قتل من صَرّحَ بسب. النبي ـ و في سنن أبي داود ـ مركز الأبحاث والدراسات الثقافية ـ الجزء الثاني ـ باب الحكم فيمن سب النبي.)</p>
<p>(Naylu Al’wtar - Al-Shawkani – Al muneeriah pulishing – Cairo – Vol 7 – Book of Drinking – Chapter on Killing Of One who declared a warning to the prophet - also in Sunan Abi Daowd – Markaz Al’bhath wa aldersat althkafiah – Vol 2 – Chapter the judgment on one who swore to the prophet)</p>
<p><br/><b><i><u>5 `Amr B Umayya</u></i></b><b><i><u> EXPEDITION</u></i></b></p>
<p>Once Muhammad sent one of his followers named `Amr, to murder Muhammad’s enemy Abu Sufyan. However, the assassination attempt failed. As he returned home, he met a one-eyed shepherd. The shepherd and the Muslim man both identified themselves as members of the same Arab clan. Prior to going asleep, the shepherd said that he would never become a Muslim. Umayya waited for the shepherd to fall asleep and thereafter: ”as soon as the bedouin was asleep and snoring I got up and killed him in a more horrible way than any man has been killed.”</p>
<p>Umayya returned and spoke with Muhammad. He relates.... ”He [Muhammad] asked my news and when I told him what had happened he blessed me.”<br/><br/><b><i><u>6 Umm Qirfa</u></i></b></p>
<p>Another example of Muhammad assassinating those who criticised him was when a woman named "Umm Qirfa" (Fatima) was taken prisoner. She was a very old woman. She used to mock Mohammad in speech and poems. Zayd ordered Qays to kill Umm Qirfa and he killed her cruelly, by tying a rope to each of her two legs and to two camels and driving the camels in opposite directions until they tore her in two. (Al ‘saba – Ibn Hagar – vol. 4, page 231)<br/><br/></p>
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<p><b><i><u>Muhammad’s companions</u></i></b></p>
<p>قال الرسول: أصحابي كالنجوم،بأيهم اقتديتم اهتديتم “My companions are like stars, if you imitate any of them, you will, indeed, be guided” <b><i>His companions were those who became Muslims and saw Mohammad while he was alive.</i></b></p>
<p>Yet reading the history of these companions we find some horrifying stories. Some of the incidents below would be considered war crimes nowadays.</p>
<p></p>
<p><b><i><u>Abu Bakr (the first caliph)</u></i></b></p>
<p>Waging war as the ultimate tool for propagating and defending Islam became a rule for who ever was in power and ruling the Islamic society. The first Caliph, Abu Bakr, who took the lead after the death of Muhammad, even launched wars against <u>Muslims</u> to force them to pay dues to him that Muhammad used to collect for himself (as related in the Qur’an 9:103).</p>
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<p><b><i><u>Omar ibn al-Khatab (the second caliph)</u></i></b></p>
<p>Abd Allah ibn Sa’ed (Omr ibn al-Khatab servant) said: <i>“Arab Christians are not Christians, I am not leaving them until they become Muslims or I cut their throats.” </i>(Kanzu ‘umal – al mutka al hindi – vol. 4, No. 11770)</p>
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<p><b><i><u>Khalid ibn al-Walid (the unsheathed sword of Allah)</u></i></b></p>
<p>The letter of Khalid Ibn al-Walid to the people of Madain:</p>
<p><i>“From Khaled ibn al-Walid to Marazebah the people of Faris [Persian people] peace be to those who follow the guidance. Praise God that your servants left you and you lost your possession and have been weakened. Anyone who prayed our prayer and accepted our place of prayer to the East [Qiblah] and ate our sacrifice that would be a true Muslim who has the same privileges and duties as us. When you receive my letter send me the ransom for the hostage we hold and asked for a covenant, or in the name of the God who there is no other god like him I will send you people who love to die as you love to live."</i></p>
<p dir="rtl">"والله الذي لا إله إلا هو،لأرسلن لكم أقواماً يحرصون على الموت كما تحرصون على الحياة".</p>
<p>During the battle with the Persians, and it was very tough war, Khaled said: “O Allah, if you give us victory over them, I swear I won’t leave one of them alive and I will run their river with their blood.”</p>
<p>Then when Allah gave them victory, Khaled send people to call for capturing everyone and asking Muslims not to kill anyone except who refuses to submit. After they captured them, they (the Persians) were brought to the river and were beheaded. The Muslims did that for three days till they had killed 70000.</p>
<p dir="rtl">(أبو بكر الصديق لمحمد رشيد رضا ـ البداية والنهاية لابن كثير في ذكر سنة 12 من الهجرةـ عن برنامج المحدث)</p>
<p>(Abu Bakr – By Muhammad Rashid Rida – “Muhaddith Program”<font size="-1"><sup><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Terrorism/peace-loving.html#note2">[2]</a></sup></font> – And Bedaya wa nehaya –Ibn Katheer – In the mention of year 12 of Hijrah “Muhaddith”)</p>
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<p><b><i><u>Now</u></i></b></p>
<p>I recognize that the information above is too much for some people, but I have used only little of what can be found in the Qur’an, the Hadeeth, and Islamic history books.</p>
<p>We have seen what the Qur’an and the Hadeeth teach; we have seen the actions of the last prophet of Islam, and the understanding of these teachings by his companions.</p>
<p>The question now is how do Muslims reconcile all of this with what we hear many saying; namely, that Islam is a peace-loving religion and it teaches co-existence with all other religions. I would love to believe that Islam is indeed the peaceful religion as many say it is. But until someone gives me a credible and peaceful interpretation of the writings and events I have outlined, I’m afraid I cannot.</p>
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<p>One final thing concerns me. Imam Abu Hammid Ghazali says: <i>“Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible.”</i> (Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, <i>The Reliance of the Traveller</i> ( عمدة السالك ), translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, amana publications, 1997, section r8.2, page 745)</p>
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<p>Ibn Shihab, another Muslim scholar said: <i>“there were only three cases where lying was acceptable: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them).” </i>(More information is provided by William Muir’s “Life of Mahomet”, Volume I, footnote p.88) (Sahih Muslim, Book 32, No. 6303 – from the Alim program)</p>
<p></p>
<p>I hope Muslims can tell us why should we believe what they say about how peace-loving a religion Islam is, when we know that they are permitted to lie in order to achieve a noble goal, i.e. <i>making Islam the dominant religion of mankind. (8:39,40)</i></p>
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<p>These are questions of the utmost importance, and I still hope we will hear an answer one day—before its too late.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>If you have comments, questions, or disagreements please feel free to send me an <a href="mailto:b_k@answering-islam.de">Email</a>.</p>
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<div><br clear="all"/><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"/><font size="-1"><sup>[1]</sup> The other two sources are <i>Ijmaa’</i> (uninmity) and <i>Qiaas</i> (Analogy) <br/><sup>[2]</sup> <a href="http://www.muhaddith.org/">www.muhaddith.org</a></font><p></p>
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THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING
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2013-08-15T05:41:24.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>Here is a great article to inform you on the progress that Islam is making:</p>
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<p>Here is a great article to inform you on the progress that Islam is making:</p>
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<div><i>(1) The magazine editors, not the author, chose the title of this article. Mr. Pipes disavows both its substance and its sensationalistic quality.</i></div>
<div><i>(2) The following text reflects what the author submitted, and not exactly what was published.</i></div>
<div><i>(3) For the text of what was published, see</i><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v42/ai_9079798/print">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v42/ai_9079798/print</a><i>.</i></div>
<div><i>(4) For a discussion of the sentence beginning with "Western European societies are unprepared," see the discussion below, following this article.</i></div>
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<div>Richard Condon, author of <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i>, recently declared: "Now that the Communists have been put to sleep, we are going to have to invent another terrible threat." This is, of course, complete nonsense. Communists have hardly been "put to sleep," but have plenty of punch left in them, especially in the Third World. Further, Americans did not invent the Soviet threat-tanks, ICBMs, and a global ideology made it real enough. And far from needing "another terrible threat" to replace the Soviet Union, we should look to perfecting liberty and free markets here at home. If that's too heady, we ought to be quite happy to go back to watching baseball games or saving money for the next vacation.</div>
<div>Still, let us grant that communism is dead and that the West should beware a fall-back villain; who shall it be? There aren't many obvious candidates. Drug traffickers and apartheidists can do in a pinch; but both of these are minor actors, limited in time as well as space-and reactionary South Africans are not even hostile to the West. Some Americans look to Japan or the Common Market after 1992 as the coming menace; but really, how can democratic countries fill this role? A real enemy must inspire more visceral feelings than do exchange rates and trade imbalances.</div>
<div>And so it is that increasing numbers of Americans and Europeans are turning to a very traditional boogieman-the Muslim. This profound and ancient fear is far from imaginary. The Arab conflict with Israel could escalate to nuclear warfare, as could Pakistan's dispute with India. Iranian terrorism against the West severely wounded two American presidents. Iraqi invasions into Iran and Kuwait represented a plausible effort to grab over half the world's oil reserves.</div>
<div>Nor is the idea of the Muslims as the outstanding threat to Western civilization entirely new. As early as 1984, Leon Uris explained that his purpose in writing <i>The Haj</i>, a novel, "was to warn the West and Western democracies that you can't keep your head in the sand about this situation any longer, that we have an enraged bull of a billion people on our planet, and tilted the wrong way they could open the second road to Armageddon." But Muslim-phobia took off only in 1989, a by-product of the orgy of speculation that accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and the liberation of Central Europe.</div>
<div>Speculations about a Muslim threat divide into two distinct types. Some observers point to hostile states and the military forces bent on <i>jihad</i> (Islamic righteous war). Others focus on migrants to the West and fear a subversion of Western civilization from within. For the latter, the mischief of a Saddam Husayn or Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi poses fewer dangers than that of their followers living in our midst.</div>
<h4 class="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_86">Jihad</h4>
<div>The last time Muslims physically threatened Christendom (a term increasingly coming back into vogue) was in 1683, when Ottoman soldiers camped outside the walls of Vienna. The memory of this event has been revived in the past few years. Thus, William S. Lind (who once served as an advisor to Gary Hart) worries that "the implication of a Soviet collapse, of the disintegration of the traditional Russian empire, might be that Moslem armies would again be besieging the gates of Vienna."</div>
<div>Peter Jenkins, a leading British commentator, concurs. He sees today's problem in light of a conflict going back six and a half centuries: "keeping Islam at bay was Europe's preoccupation from 1354, when Gallipoli fell, until the last occasion on which the Turks stood at the gates of Vienna in 1683. It is once more a preoccupation in the face of the Islamic Revolution." Leonard Horwin, a former mayor of Beverly Hills, neatly doubled the time span in a letter to <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>:</div>
<blockquote>The real confrontation is between Judeo-Christian civilization... and militant Islam.... One thousand three hundred years of militant Islam verify that it cannot tolerate the sovereign presence of the <i>dhimmi</i> ("inferior") people, whether Christian (e.g. Lebanon) or Jewish (Israel) - save so long as the dhimmis can defend themselves.</blockquote>
Looking to the future, editorial writers at London's <i>Sunday Times</i> found that the concept of containment still holds:<br />
<blockquote>Almost every month the threat from the Warsaw Pact diminishes; but every year, for the rest of this decade and beyond, the threat from fundamentalist Islam will grow. It is different in kind and degree from the cold war threat. But the West will have to learn how to contain it, just as it once had to learn how to contain Soviet communism.</blockquote>
Ideological enthusiasms like Marxism-Leninism will wax and wane, these writers are saying, but the Muslim adversary remains permanently in place.<br />
<div>Far from representing the eccentric thoughts of a few commentators, such fears appear to touch a nerve deep in the Western psyche. To cite one piece of survey research, a poll conducted in mid-1989 asked French citizens "Which of the following countries appear to you today to be the most threatening to France?" In response, 25 percent answered Iran, 21 percent the U.S.S.R., and 14 percent the Arab countries in general. More than half the respondents-57 percent to be exact-believed that one or more of the Muslim states are most threatening to France. Similar opinions can be found in the other countries of Western Europe.</div>
<div>Some Muslims, the fundamentalists, encourage these fears. For one, they declare that the great conflict of this age is not that between the United States and the Soviet Union, or between capitalism and communism, but between the West and Islam. They see Russia as part of the West. A member of Hamas, the fundamentalist Palestinian group, holds that "it is a battle of civilizations, and the Russians are part of it." Some Muslims, like the president of Iran, go further and declare that "East and West have joined forces" against Islam.</div>
<div>Fundamentalists boast they will win this battle of titans. Editorialists at <i>Jomhuri-ye Islami</i>, a Tehran daily, put it baldly in early 1990: "Westerners have correctly understood that the world movement of Islam is the biggest threat to the 'corrupt Western empire.'" The newspaper argued that Muslims must prove how "the world movement of Islam" can defeat the West. 'Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, a leading Iranian hardliner, has even greater aspirations: "The world in the future will have several powerful blocs. The Islamic power will play a decisive role in this.... Ultimately Islam will become the supreme power." From Morocco to Indonesia, Muslims of a fundamentalist disposition share this outlook.</div>
<h4 class="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_87">Answering Jihad</h4>
<div>How should the West respond? While the question is too new to have received much attention, the main lines of a response can be discerned. For some, the key step lies in building cooperation between Western states. On the mundane level, industrial democracies should band together and preserve the liberal traditions of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the like; and they should cooperate against terrorism and other acts of violence. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should be extended outside of the European theater. The Strategic Defense Initiative should be developed for use against Iraqi or Libyan missiles.</div>
<div>More imaginative are those notions which would reach out to the Soviet Union-or, more accurately, the Christian portions of the Soviet Empire-as an ally against the Muslims. As the three Slavic republics, the three Baltic republics, Moldavia, Georgia, and Armenia return to their historic allegiances, they can extend the population and geography of Europe. The most provocative notion has to do with building a military alliance with these peoples, and especially the Russians. <i>The Sunday Times</i> calls on the West and the Soviet Union jointly to "prepare for the prospect of an enormous and fundamentalist Islamic wedge," stretching from Morocco to China." In one of the most original geopolitical assessments of recent years, William Lind has suggested that "Russia's role as part of the West takes on special importance in the light of a potential Islamic revival.... The Soviet Union holds the West's vital right flank, stretching from the Black Sea to Vladivostok." Walter McDougall, the Pulitzer-prize winning historian, sees Russia</div>
<blockquote>holding the frontier of Christendom against its common enemy. Should the Russian empire in Central Asia threaten to collapse, a full-scale religious war fought with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons is not impossible. The Iraqis and Iranis have already proven themselves capable of it, and the desperate and frustrated Russians certainly possess the means. Even more than Israel/Palestine, the old caravan routes of Central Asia may contain the site of the next Sarajevo. Which side would "the others, who call themselves Christians" support?</blockquote>
What is one to make of these ideas? To begin with, they are a great improvement over the supine policies that many Western states, especially European ones, have adopted in recent years. It is better to exaggerate the danger of Iraqi thuggery than to lick Saddam Husayn's boots-as too many Westerners have done since the oil boom of 1973-74.<br />
<div>Further, the fear of Islam has some basis in reality. From the Battle of Ajnadayn in 634 until the Suez crisis of 1956, military hostility has always defined the crux of the Christian-Muslim relationship. Muslims served as the enemy par excellence from the <i>Chanson de Roland</i> to the Orlando trilogy, from <i>El Cid</i> to <i>Don Quixote</i>. In real life, Arabs or Turks represent the national villains throughout southern Europe. Europeans repeatedly won their statehood by expelling Muslim overlords, from the Spanish <i>Reconquista</i> beginning in the early eleventh century to the Albanian war of independence ending in 1912.</div>
<div>Today, many Muslim governments dispose of large arsenals; the Iraqi military, for example, has more tanks than does the German and deploys the sort of missiles banned from Europe by the Intermediate Nuclear Force treaty. Middle East states have turned terrorism into a tool of statecraft. About a dozen Muslim states have chemical and biological war capabilities. Impressive capabilities to manufacture a wide range of materiel have been established in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Were it not for the Israeli strike of 1981, Saddam Husayn would by now have his finger on a nuclear trigger.</div>
<div>To make matters worse, Muslims have gone through a terrible trauma during the last two hundred years-the tribulation of God's people who unaccountably found themselves at the bottom of the heap. The strains of this prolonged failure have been enormous and the results terrible; Muslim countries host the most terrorists and the fewest democracies in the world. Specifically, only Turkey and Pakistan are fully democratic, and in those two countries the system is very frail. Everywhere else, the head of government reached power through force-his own or someone else's. As in the rest of the world, autocracy invites leaders to pursue their own interests. The result is endemic instability plus a great deal of aggression.</div>
<div>But none of this justifies seeing Muslims as the paramount enemy.</div>
<div>For one, not all Muslims hate the West. Muslims who most hate the West-the fundamentalists-constitute a small minority in most places. Survey research and elections suggest that dyed-in-the-wool fundamentalists most places constitute no more than 10 percent of the Muslim population. Muslims are not fanatical by nature, but are frustrated by their current predicament. Most of them wish less to destroy the West than to enjoy its benefits.</div>
<div>For another, Muslims are not now politically unified and never will be so. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait made this obvious for the whole world to see, but many other examples come to mind. Lebanon and Syria are in the throes of working out conflicting nationalist claims, Syria and Iraq have divergent ideological programs, Iraq and Iran claim overlapping territories, while Iran and Saudi Arabia espouse contrasting religious visions. Arab unity seems always to fail, as do the other schemes politically to bind Muslims together.</div>
<div>The violence of the Middle East symptomizes these disagreements. The Iraq-Iran war, a purely Muslim conflict, lasted a horrifying eight years consumed in its peak days as many lives as the Arab-Israeli conflict has over four decades. Today Muslims confront each other in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Others of the faithful are at each other's throat in the Western Sahara, Chad, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Indeed, the record suggests that wars between Muslims are two or three times more common than those waged against infidels. Even if Muhammad's people were once again to plan a siege of Vienna, then, their internal disputes would make their effort about as ineffective as their war on Israel.</div>
<div>Then too, there is the fact that more Muslim governments cooperate with the West than threaten it. Turkey is a member of NATO. The rulers of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Indonesia have cast their lot with their Western allies. Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich states have invested so heavily in the West, their interests are directly tied up with it. The picture is hardly one of uniform hostility.</div>
<div>For all these reasons, while <i>jihad</i> may not be utterly impossible, it exists outside the realm of serious discussion about American policy.</div>
<h4 class="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_88">Muslim Immigration</h4>
<div>Ironically, the other worry results from precisely the fact that so many Muslims are attracted to the West. They like it so much they want to be part of it. As David Pryce-Jones notes, millions of Muslims "ask little better for themselves than to abandon their own societies for a European one." The growing Muslim immigration to the West raises a host of disturbing issues-cultural this time, not military-especially in Western Europe.</div>
<div>All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Also, they appear most resistant to assimilation. Elements among the Pakistanis in Britain, Algerians in France, and Turks in Germany seek to turn the host country into an Islamic society by compelling it to adapt to their way of life.</div>
<div>On a small scale, they demand that factories keep to the Islamic calendar, with its distinctive holidays and special rhythms; or that public schools be segregated by sex and teach the principles of Islam. A significant body of Muslims, especially followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, appear to hope they can remake Europe and America in their own image. And they are not shy to say so. The editor of a Bengali-language newspaper in England, Harunur Rashid Tipu, explained that the leaders of the Young Muslim Organisation, seek ultimately "to build an Islamic society here." In the Rushdie affair, the Muslim diaspora in the West and the regime in Tehran created a cultural and political crisis that struck at the heart of Western values of free speech and secularism, confirming the worst fears of many in the West.</div>
<div>Of course, to build an Islamic society means taking political power. And while this is remote, it is just foreseeable. A French woman of North African origins told a reporter, "Tomorrow I will be mayor, the day after president of the republic." In West Germany, one hears it said by politicians that, "In the year 2000 we will have a federal chancellor of Turkish origins." In perhaps the most extreme manifestation of this concern, Jean Raspail, the French intellectual, wrote a novel, <i>The Camp of the Saints</i>, depicting a Muslim takeover of Europe by an uncontrolled influx of Bangladeshis.</div>
<div>Middle East leaders, such as the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia and Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi of Libya, overtly encourage such aspirations. But it is the Iranian government that most aggressively advocates Muslim interests, even to the point of encouraging defiance of the authorities. In one statement, a hard-line Iranian newspaper declared that "the ever-increasing influence of Islam in the contemporary world is undeniable, whether the Western world likes it or not." On another occasion, Tehran warned that Muslims living in the United Kingdom may be forced "to seek ways outside the law to guard their rights."</div>
<div>Understandably, such bellicosity spurs anxiety among Westerners, even fears that Muslims will succeed in subverting the liberal tradition. In London, Peregrine Worsthorne expressed a widespread British sentiment in <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i>:</div>
<blockquote>Islamic fundamentalism is rapidly growing into a much bigger threat of violence and intolerance than anything emanating from, say, the [extreme right] National Front; and a threat, moreover, infinitely more difficult to contain since it is virtually impossible to monitor, let alone stamp out, the bloodthirsty anti-Jewish and anti-Christian language being preached from the pulpits of many British mosques.... Britain has landed itself with a primitive religious problem that we had every reason to suppose had been solved in the Middle Ages.</blockquote>
Similar concerns can be heard in Russia too, where there is less concern about the former Soviet Union's 55 million Muslims gaining independence than that Muslims intend to move north and take over Moscow itself.<br />
<div>These concerns have political potency. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the French movement to oust immigrants, characterizes Islam as "a religion of intolerance" and openly fears "an invasion of Europe by a Muslim immigration." He heads a political party, the National Front, which explicitly advocates expelling immigrants from France. The Republicans in West Germany and xenophobic groups in other countries share Le Pen's outlook and program.</div>
<div>The far right looms large to the Muslim immigrants, insecure and largely disenfranchised as they are. Crude remarks and jokes, especially among Germans ("What is the difference between a Jew and a Turk?" "The Jew already got what he deserves, the Turk has yet to get it") lead some Muslims to worry about a Holocaust lying ahead. Kalim Saddiqui, director of London's Muslim Institute, speaks of "Hitler-style gas chambers for Muslims"; Shabbir Akhtar, a member of the Bradford Council of Mosques, writes that "the next time there are gas chambers in Europe, there is no doubt concerning who'll be inside them." However exaggerated, these statements reflect a genuine apprehension.</div>
<h4 class="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_89">Demography</h4>
<div>Demographic facts underlie Western fears both of <i>jihad</i> and immigration. Population growth permeates the Muslim consciousness with confidence about the future and imbues Westerners with a sense of foreboding.</div>
<div>Muslims number nearly one billion individuals. They constitute more than 85 percent of the population in some thirty-two countries; they make up between 25 and 85 percent of the population in eleven countries; and significant numbers but less than 25 percent in another forty-seven countries.</div>
<div>In contrast to Westerners, who are not able even to maintain their present numbers (today, only Poland, Ireland, Malta, and Israel have naturally growing populations), Muslims revel in some of the most robust birth rates in the world. According to a study by John R. Weeks, countries with large numbers of Muslims have a crude birth rate of 42 per thousand; by contrast, the developed countries have a crude birth rate of just 13 per thousand. Translated into the total fertility rate, this means 6 children per Muslim woman, 1.7 per woman in the developed countries. The average rate of natural increase in the Muslim countries is 2.8 percent annually; in the developed world, it is a mere 0.3 percent.</div>
<div>These higher rates apply in almost every Muslim country from North Africa to Southeast Asia, as well as within the confines of a single country. Take the former Soviet Union: Muslims there sustained a birth rate fully five times that of the non-Muslims. While Muslims constituted only 16 percent of the Soviet population, they accounted for 49 percent of the population increase between 1979 and 1989.</div>
<div>Some see in this demographic imbalance the single greatest challenge to Western civilization. Patrick Buchanan sums up these fears with his customary panache:</div>
<blockquote>For a millennium, the struggle for mankind's destiny was between Christianity and Islam; in the 21st century, it may be so again.... We may find in the coming century that... cultural conservative T. S. Eliot was right, when the old Christian gentleman wrote in "The Hollow Men," that the West would end, "Not with a bang but a whimper"-perhaps the whimper of a Moslem child in its cradle.</blockquote>
High Muslim birth rates already drive politics in the two non-Muslim states of the Middle East. Christians lost control of Lebanon after Muslims became a majority there. The challenge of maintaining a Jewish majority lies near the heart of the Israeli political debate; the local Muslim population keeps up a fertility rate of no less than 6.6 children per woman (1981 estimate). Comparable political tensions have arisen on the fringes of the Middle East-in Ethiopia, Cyprus, Armenia, and Serbia-as the minority Muslim population climbs toward either political power or majority status.<br />
<div>Of course, the situation is very different in the West, but there too Muslim populations are growing. Muslims total 2-3 million in the United States and about 11 million in West Europe. Over 3 million Muslims live in France, about 2 million in West Germany, 1 million in the United Kingdom, and almost a million in Italy. Half a million Muslims live in Belgium. Almost five centuries after the fall of Granada, Spain now hosts 200,000 Muslims. Muslims outnumber Jews and have become the second largest religious community in most West European countries. In France, Muslims outnumber all non-Catholics combined, including both Protestants and Jews. In the United States, Muslims already number as many as Episcopalians; they should become the second largest religious community in about ten years.</div>
<div>Further, the Muslim birthrate far exceeds that of native Europeans and Americans, so that one-fifth of all children born in France have a father from North Africa and Muhammad is one of the most common given names in the United Kingdom. Estimates point to the Muslim population of West Europe reaching twenty to twenty-five million by the year 2000.</div>
<div>Muslim densities are particularly notable in some cities. London is home to a million Muslims and West Berlin to some 300,000. They make up ten percent of the population in Birmingham, the second largest city of Great Britain; in Bradford (where protests against <i>The Satanic Verses</i> picked up steam), they constitute fourteen percent of the population. They make up one-quarter of the population in Brussels, Saint-Denis (a suburb of Paris), and Dearborn, Michigan.</div>
<h4 class="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_90">Responding to Immigration</h4>
<div>Fears of a Muslim influx have more substance than the worry about <i>jihad</i>. West European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene.* Muslim immigrants bring with them a chauvinism that augurs badly for their integration into the mainstream of the European societies. The signs all point to continued clashes between the two sides; in all likelihood, the Rushdie affair was merely a prelude to further troubles; already it has spawned a Muslim political party in Great Britain. Put differently, Iranian zealots threaten more within the gates of Vienna than outside them.</div>
<div>Still, none of this amounts to Richard Condon's notion of "another terrible threat" in any way resembling the Soviet danger. Muslim immigrants will probably not change the face of European life: pubs will not close down, secularist principles will not wither, freedom of speech is not likely to be abrogated. The movement of Muslims to Western Europe creates a great number of painful but finite challenges; there is no reason, however, to see this event leading to a cataclysmic battle between two civilizations. If handled properly, the immigrants can even bring much of value, including new energy, to their host societies.</div>
<div>The United States faces less of a problem, thanks to a long tradition of immigration and the healthy attitudes that go with it. Being an American depends far less on ancestry than on shared values, and this encourages enfranchisement. Meritocratic ethics and an open educational system do much to integrate the next generation. Should fundamentalist Muslims move to the United States and choose to remain outside the mainstream culture, that two can be accommodated, as made clear by the Amish Mennonites in Pennsylvania or the Hasidic Jews in New York City.</div>
<div>There is a final point. The prediction that Communists will be replaced by Muslims as the main threat suggests that ideological divisions will be give way to communitarian ones. And this conforms to Francis Fukuyama's thesis about the end of history-where the "end of history" means not that time when literally nothing happens but (as befits a term coined by the philosopher Hegel) a time of no further advancement in the understanding of the human condition; that is, the moment when no new ideologies can be devised. If history in this sense should end, what one thinks will lose importance; who one is becomes key.</div>
<div>But Fukuyama's prediction seems most improbable. A great and bloody argument over the human condition has been the driving force of history for two centuries, from the French Revolution to the Nicaraguan civil war. Can this deeply divisive intellectual dispute entirely burn itself out, to be replaced by the atavistic hostilities prevailing before 1789? That prospect seems too far-fetched to be taken seriously.</div>
<div>Returning to the issue of Muslims and the West, my skepticism about the end of ideology leads me to the following conclusion: Future relations of Muslims and Westerners depend less on crude numbers or place of residence, and much more on beliefs, skills, and institutions. The critical question is whether Muslims will modernize or not. And the answer lies not in the Qur'an or in the Islamic religion, but in the attitudes and actions of nearly a billion individuals.</div>
<div>Should Muslims fail to modernize, their stubborn record of illiteracy, poverty, intolerance, and autocracy will continue, and perhaps worsen. The sort of military crisis that Saddam Husayn provoked might well become yet more acute. But if Muslims do modernize, there is a reason to hope. In this case, they will have a good chance to become literate, affluent, and politically stable. They will no longer need to train terrorists or target missiles against the West; to emigrate to Europe and America; or to resist integration within Western societies.</div>
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<div>* This sentence has over the years <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=100&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google%20Search&as_epq=brown-skinned%20peoples%20cooking%20strange%20foods%20&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images">attracted considerable attention</a>. My goal in it was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give my own views. In retrospect, I should either have put the words "brown-skinned peoples" and "strange foods" in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own. By way of example of those attitudes, here are some quotations from top French politicians from that era.</div>
<blockquote><div><b><a rel="nofollow">Jacques Chirac</a></b>, then president of RPR (Republican Party) and mayor of Paris, July 1983: "Le seuil de tolérance [de l'immigration] est dépassé dans certains quartiers et cela risque de provoquer des réactions de racisme."</div>
<div><b><a rel="nofollow">François Mitterrand</a></b>, president of France, December 12, 1989: "Le seuil de tolérance [de l'immigration] a été atteint dès les années 70 où il y avait déjà 4,1 à 4,2 millions d'étrangers. ... Autant que possible, il ne faut pas dépasser ce chiffre, mais on s'y tient depuis des années et des années."</div>
<div><b><a rel="nofollow">Jacques Chirac</a></b>, June 19, 1991: "Notre problème, ce n'est pas les étrangers, c'est qu'il y a overdose. C'est peut-être vrai qu'il n'y a pas plus d'étrangers qu'avant la guerre, mais ce n'est pas les mêmes et ça fait une différence. Il est certain que d'avoir des Espagnols, des Polonais et des Portugais travaillant chez nous, ça pose moins de problèmes que d'avoir des musulmans et des Noirs [...] Comment voulez-vous que le travailleur français qui travaille avec sa femme et qui, ensemble, gagnent environ 15000 francs, et qui voit sur le palier à côté de son HLM, entassée, une famille avec un père de famille, trois ou quatre épouses, et une vingtaine de gosses, et qui gagne 50000 francs de prestations sociales, sans naturellement travailler... si vous ajoutez le bruit et l'odeur, hé bien le travailleur français sur le palier devient fou. Et ce n'est pas être raciste que de dire cela."</div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_85_1376543311429_109">Translated into English: "Our problem is not foreigners, it's that there is an overdose. It may be true that there are not more foreigners [now] than before the [Second World] War, but they are not the same ones, and that makes a difference. It is certain that having Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese working here with us creates fewer problems than having Muslims and Blacks. ... How do you want the French worker, who along with his wife earns altogether about 15,000 francs [a month], and who sees across the landing a family with a father, his three-four wives, and twenty or so kids, and which receives 50,000 francs from welfare, of course without working. … If you add to this the noise and smell, well the French worker goes crazy. And it is not racist to say this."</div>
<blockquote><b><a rel="nofollow">Valery Giscard d'Estaing</a></b>, former president of France, September 21, 1991: "Bien que dans cette matière sensible il faille manipuler les mots avec précaution, en raison de la charge émotionnelle ou historique qu'ils portent, le type de problème auquel nous aurons à faire face se déplace de celui de l'immigration vers celui de l'invasion."</blockquote>
<div id="yiv8883189159yui_3_7_2_28_1372066297980_62">More quotations along these lines can be found at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lmsi.net/article.php3?id_article=81">http://lmsi.net/article.php3?id_article=81</a> and<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wwwassos.utc.fr/~plaider/calimero/22/mots_a_maux.html">http://wwwassos.utc.fr/~plaider/calimero/22/mots_a_maux.html</a>.</div>
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<p><b>Question: I am looking for the Talmudic references to the mystery of the scarlet cloth that was tied to the scapegoat and failed to turn white for 40 years after Yeshua died, until the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD. In the same story the Temple doors would open every night until the temple was destroyed.<br/><br id="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_81"/>Answer:</b><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_57"> In the book of Leviticus chapter 15, Hashem instructed Moses and Aaron to select two goats every year for an offering. One was to be used as a sin offering to atone for the sins and transgressions of the people. Once killed, its blood was to be sprinkled on the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant. There Hashem would view the blood of the sin offering and have Mercy on the people and forgive their sins. The high priest would then lay hands on the second goat which was allowed to live and he would confess the sins of the people putting them on the head of the goat. The goat would then bear the blame of all the transgression of the people and would be set free into the wilderness, where Hashem would remember their sins no more. The goat became known as the scapegoat.</span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_58"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_59">Jewish history records that it was common practice to tie a red strip of cloth to the scapegoat. The red strip represented the sin of the people which was atoned for by the red blood on the mercy seat. According to the Jewish Talmud this red strip would eventually turn white, signaling Hashem’s acceptance of the offering.</span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_60"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_61">There is an amazing reference in the Talmud that verifies that after Yeshua was crucified, Hashem no longer accepted the sin offering and the scapegoat offered by the Jewish high priest. The Talmud states</span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_62"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_63"> "Forty years before the Temple was destroyed (30 A.D.) the chosen lot was not picked with the right hand, nor did the crimson stripe turn white, nor did the westernmost light burn; and the doors of the Temple’s Holy Place swung open by themselves, until Rabbi Yochanon ben Zakkai spoke saying: 'O most Holy Place, why have you become disturbed? I know full well that your destiny will be destruction, for the prophet Zechariah ben Iddo has already spoken regarding you saying: 'Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour the cedars' (Zech. 11:1).' Talmud Bavli, Yoma 39b</span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_64"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_65"> </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_66"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_67">It is important to note that this event recorded in the Talmud occurred approx. 40 years before the destruction of the Temple which was destroyed in 70 AD. The date of this amazing event was approx.30 AD, the same time that Yeshua shed his blood as the final scapegoat offering.</span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_68"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_69"> </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_70"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_77_1376543311429_71">But Adonai came as High Priest..not with the blood of goats and calves, but with the own blood he entered the Most Holy Place once and for all, setting people free forever. …And according to the Torah almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is not remission…so Adonai offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation…For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goat could take away sins… By that while we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua once for all….this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God…For by one offering He was perfected for ever those who are being sanctified ..says the LORD: I will put My laws inot their hears, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. Hebrew 9:11- 10:17 </span></p>
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CHANGING BIBLE WORDS
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-15:5544986:BlogPost:22751
2013-08-15T05:21:07.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>The following article is a splendid article showing the double standard in Bible Translations:</p>
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<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_57"><i><big>Changing the Bible's Words to Support Your Own Doctrines</big></i><br></br><br></br>Comments on this article may be sent to …</div>
<p>The following article is a splendid article showing the double standard in Bible Translations:</p>
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<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_57"><i><big>Changing the Bible's Words to Support Your Own Doctrines</big></i><br/><br/>Comments on this article may be sent to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:tovia@yashanet.com">Tovia</a> </div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_58"><i>Christianity likes to point a finger at groups such as Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses, claiming they have a false view of the Messiah and His teachings, going as far as deliberately mistranslating Bible texts -- even adding words to the Scriptures in order to support their doctrines. This may be true, but is the pot calling the kettle black?</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_59">A popular TV Christian television program in the 1990s has been the <i>John Ankerberg Show.</i> It's not available in my part of the country any more, but I did once enjoy watching the discussions and debates this program featured, highlighting the "evangelical Christian response" to; Mormons, Jehovah Witnesseses, Masons, Christian Science, the Catholic Church and other groups. I even ordered a set of booklets from the show years ago, a series called, <i>The Facts On ...</i>, written by John Ankerberg and John Weldon.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_60">Before proceeding, I want to make it clear that I'm not singling out Ankerberg's ministry as being worse than any other Christian group. In fact I would say <i>most </i>Christians would agree with<i> most </i>of the positions this ministry holds regarding issues of faith.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_61">I will start by referring to one of these booklets called, <i>The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_62">Beginning on page 22 of this booklet, the accusation is made that Jehovah Witnesses have wilfully mistranslated certain Scripture verses in their <i>New World Translation </i>(NWT) of the New Testament in order to support their theology, calling them "biased, dishonest and wrong." They compare the NWT to a "correct" translation, in this case, the <i>New International Version </i>(NIV).</div>
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<tbody><tr><td><b>Example #1 is from Titus 2:13:</b><div><i>NWT: "While we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great God and of (the) Savior of us, Christ Jesus."</i></div>
<div><i>(Jehovah's Witnesses have added the word "the" and put it in parentheses in front of the word Savior.) ...</i></div>
<div><i>By adding the word "the" in parentheses, the New World translators obscured the fact that in this verse Paul clearly called Jesus "our God and Savior."</i></div>
<div><b>Example #2 is from Colossians 1:17:</b></div>
<div><i>NWT: "Also, he is before all (other) things and by means of him all (other) things were made to exist."</i></div>
<div><i>(The Jehovah's Witnesses have dishonestly inserted the word "other" twice and placed it in parentheses when this word does not appear at all in the Greek text.) ...</i></div>
<div><i>The Watchtower claims that inserting "other" is justified five times because the context implies it. But the only thing that implies it is their own bias against Christ's deity.</i></div>
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<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_64">The <i>The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses </i>presents other examples as well. The booklet makes it quite clear that adding even the smallest word can alter the meaning of a text, and that this is a "dishonest" thing to do.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_65">Well said, and no argument. But there's a fly in the ointment.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_66">Let's move over to the current "debate" between Christianity and the Torah-observant faith in Yeshua that has reemerged in recent years (after an "absence" of over 1800 years). Unfortunately, the many Christians I've spoken with don't understand what Torah-observant faith in Yeshua means, holding an erroneous view that it's some type of "works based" religion, or an attempt to "put Christians under the Law" -- (Whatever that's supposed to mean.) <b>To make it clear -- Torah-observant faith in Yeshua says you are saved by faith and that anyone ever saved has been saved by faith. </b>The argument is not about salvation, it's about how you live after you are "saved."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_67">Evangelical Christians often state that "we're not under the law," or, "we now follow the 'law of love' or 'law of Christ,'" or, "the Holy Spirit shows us how to live," or, "we live according to grace or Christian Liberty," etc. Torah-observant faith in Yeshua says that all that is true, however, God's Torah is the "How To book" for the believer's lifestyle -- not something so undefined as what Christianity tells people. For a more detailed discussion on this subject, see the article <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yashanet.com/library/underlaw.htm">Not Subject to the Law of God?</a></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_68"><b><big>Example #1 - Colossians 2:16-17</big></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_69">Let's examine a passage in the New Testament, one often used by Christians to show "we are no longer under the Law," which is Colossians 2:16-17. First the translation from the Revised Standard Version:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_70"><i>Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath. These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_71">Here is the same verse from the Good News Bible in Today's English Version:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_72"><i>So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath. All such things are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_73">And finally, from the New American Standard Version:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_74"><i>Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day -- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_75">Most will agree that in this passage, <i>"food and drink"</i> mean the kosher laws, <i>"festivals" </i>means God's appointed times, and <i>sabbaths </i>means the Friday to Saturday evening Sabbath, all of which can be found in the Tenakh, particularly in the book of Leviticus. I would suggest that a concern of much of the letter to the Colossians is one of warning against following false teachings (Col. 2:4-8).</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_76">If we were to take verse 2:16-17 and read them apart from any context, they could very well sound as if Paul were saying to people something like this; "Don't let anyone tell you that you're suppose to do these (Jewish) things -- they aren't what's important as they are only a shadow of what is really important."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_77">Let's take another look at the same verse, only this time we will do two things different.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_78">First, we will delete a single word, the word <i>"only," </i>(or in the other case, the phrase<i> "a mere.")</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_79">Second, we will read these verses with two facts in mind:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_80">a) Paul is writing to gentile believers coming from an anti-Semitic pagan background. Of these new believers, there are some that don't have any respect, or see any need for the "Jewish part" of their faith. This group may be pressuring those who are holding on to their Jewish roots.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_81">b) Paul, as a trained rabbi and Pharisee, and as a believer in Yeshua, believes that the things written about in the Tenakh (Old Testament) are there for a reason, and in fact present a picture of what is to come one day. (i.e., the earthly temple looks ahead to heavenly one, the weekly Sabbath points to a Sabbath rest in the Millennium, Moses as mediator of the first Covenant, points to Messiah, mediator of the renewed Covenant, etc.)</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_82">With all this in mind, we read again:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_83"><i>So let no one judge you in food or drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon, or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_84">If you remove the word<i> "only" </i>(or<i> "a mere" </i>) and read it in the suggested context, you get a totally different message. What Paul's message now says is, "Don't let anyone judge you new gentile believers about the fact that you now keep the (Jewish) Sabbath, festivals and eat kosher, as these are indeed a picture of the wonderful things to come."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_85">By changing one word and considering some pertinent background information, you get an interpretation that is completely the opposite of what Christian Bibles and commentaries portray.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_86">So now what?</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_87">Let's start with this word -<i> only </i>(or<i> "a mere" </i>) - as it definitely sways how one would view how the words before it <i>-- let no one judge you in food or drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon, or sabbaths -- </i>with the words that come after it -- <i>a shadow of things to come.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_88">Does anyone have the right to add or delete such a critical word that can alter the meaning of a text so substantially? Of course not! But here's the rub (as Shakespeare would say) -- the word "only" (or<i> "a mere" </i>) is NOT in the Greek text. It has been added by Christian translators to those translations.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_89">Why? To make the verse "fit" into Christian doctrine developed over the past 1900 years. Words are added to make the verse sound as if Paul were opposed to new (gentile) believers following Torah after their conversion. And though not all Christian Bibles add these words to the text, Christian Bible commentaries teach that Paul is opposed to the Colossian believers following Torah as a lifestyle after they are saved. This is not, however, a position that can be maintained without altering this and other texts and ignoring much else of what Paul said and who he is.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_90">This raises some important questions. Who exactly is Paul? Did his conversion experience make him forget everything he was ever taught? Was everything he learned prior to that all wrong? What message is he trying to get across in this and his other letters? Do his various epistles in fact have very different messages for very different situations? What are the different problems he addresses in these letters and what is his foundation for how to deal with them?<br/><b><br/><big>Example #2 - Romans 10:1-8</big></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_91">Returning to the idea of improper translations, we come to Romans 10:1-8. There are two problems in this section, verse 4 and verse 6. Here is a somewhat typical translation:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_92"><i>"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for all who believe. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them. But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, 'Do not say in your heart 'Who will ascend into heaven?'' (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.' (that is the word of faith which we preach) ..."</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_93">Christians often use Romans 10:4 to show that the idea of a believer following the Torah as a lifestyle is incorrect, after all it "clearly" says: <i>"Christ is the end of the law for all who believe." </i>(Almost all translations read this way.) </div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_94">So they argue, "See, Paul says Christ is the end of the Law and that the righteousness of faith in Jesus is different and better than that of Moses and the Law. How much clearer can you be than that?"</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_95">"Plenty," as that is NOT what the text says.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_96">I defer to a classic Protestant work, <i>VINES Expository of Old and New Testament Words </i>. The word we are concerned with in Romans 10:4 is <i>"end." </i>What does <i>"end" </i>mean? The Greek word here is <i>"telos." </i>Vines shows that the word telos can have various meanings, of which are "goal" and "result" -- and in the case of Romans 10:4, Vines says the correct translation is indeed "goal" and NOT "termination." (i.e., as in the common phrase <i>"the <strong>end </strong>justifies the means," </i>where the end is the goal of what you're trying to do, not something you terminate. Or in the word <i><strong>"telos</strong>cope," </i>a device we use to view stars and planets -- not blow them up!) The context, in fact the whole point of that section of the book of Romans, is to show Yeshua as being what the Torah points to. (What do you know -- context actually matters!)</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_97">A correct translation should read: <i>"Christ is the goal of the law for all who believe." </i>or (better yet),<i> </i>"<i>Yeshua is the goal of the Torah for all who believe,</i>" as the word "law" is word with its own set of "problems." See the article <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yashanet.com/library/underlaw.htm">Not Subject to the Law of God?</a></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_98">Christian Bibles incorrectly translate the word<i> "telos" </i>as <i>"end" </i>and an erroneous doctrine is preached around this verse (and others) to show that "Christ ended the Law," substituting a Torah-based way of living for something else.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_99">A similar mistranslation occurs with the word<i> "but" </i>at the beginning of verse 6. The Greek word here is <i>"de" </i>and in this context, should be translated as <i>"and" </i>or <i>"moreover." </i>This is clearly the case as verses 6-8 explain verse 5, not contrast to it. Paul is showing that the righeousness which is of the Law/Torah is the SAME as the righteousness of faith in these verses by using the same words that described Torah (the WORD of God) to Yeshua (the WORD of God). Paul uses the verse of Deuteronomy 30:11-14 to show that the Torah requires faith first. If Paul wanted to draw a contrast he would have used the word <i>"alla," </i>meaning <i>"on the contrary."</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_100">Christian Bibles, translated through almost two millennia of the anti-semitic theological foundations of the church fathers, mistranslate both <i>telos</i> and <i>de</i> to falsely show some type of contrast between Moses/Torah and Yeshua/Grace. The truth is that Paul proves a similarity and continuation, as God has not changed.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_101">A correct translation of Romans 10:1-8 would be as follows:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_102"><i>"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the GOAL of the Torah. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them. Moreover, the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, 'Do not say in your heart 'Who will ascend into heaven?'' (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.' (that is the word of faith which we preach) ..."<br/></i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_103"><b><big>Example #3 - Romans 3:9</big></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_104">The next example is Romans 3:9. Here Paul is speaking of the "advantage of the Jew," where he uses the word "we" to include himself as a Jew. Many Christian Bibles have the verse beginning as this:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_105"><i>"What then, are we better off than they (the gentiles)? Not at all ..."</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_106" id="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_260">Once again, we have a deliberate mistranslation where you see the words<i> "Not at all." </i>The Greek words here are<i> "ou pantos"</i> which means<i> "not entirely" </i>and does not mean "not at all." In the context of what Paul is writing about there is a world of difference in meaning between "not at all" and "not entirely."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_107">In fact the translators themselves did a sloppy job at mistranslating, as these same Bibles have earlier verses, 3:1-2a, translated:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_108"><i>"What advantage then has the Jew, or what profit the circumcision? <strong>Much in every way! </strong>..."</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_109">Apparently, they forgot to alter that one.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_110"><big><b>IN SUMMARY</b></big></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_111">Why are these verses (and others) translated incorrectly? Why do Christians turn a blind eye to their own Bibles being altered to suit their theology, while accusing others of doing this (Matthew 7:1-5)? What separates Christianity, with its altered Bible text and anti-Torah theologies, more "correct" than religions they themselves condemn?</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_112" id="yui_3_7_2_53_1376543311429_259">To understand fully, you need to know what happened in history -- the history of Christianity not taught in churches. The YashaNet library has many articles dealing with how the 100 percent Jewish faith of Yeshua, Paul and the early believers, was changed to what became Gentile Christianity.</div>
THE PAGAN ORIGIN OF WORDS IN THE KJV AND OTHER MAJOR TRANSLATIONS
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-14:5544986:BlogPost:22568
2013-08-14T06:48:37.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>So many believers do not know the origin of common words in their Bibles. The following article will give you the facts to combat lies that have been passed down for centuries:</p>
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<p>So many believers do not know the origin of common words in their Bibles. The following article will give you the facts to combat lies that have been passed down for centuries:</p>
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<p><span><span><strong><u>The Pagan Meaning Of Common Words Made Popular From KJV And Other English Versions</u></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><strong>TRUE Hebrew Friendly Versions Of The Set-Apart Scriptures Avoid Using Many Or Even ALL Of The Below Words, Due To Their Pagan Origins.</strong><br/><br/><strong>AMEN<br/>Say This Instead: Let It Be, Amein (Hebrew) or Ah-mayn (Aramaic)</strong><br/><br/>The Hebrew of the Ancient (a.k.a. Old) Covenant reveals to us that the Scriptural Hebrew word (which means: so be it, or verily, or surely) is "Amein" and not "Amen." Likewise, the Greek equivalent in the Greek Renewed (a.k.a. New) Covenant is pronounced: "Amein." The Egyptians, including the Alexandrians, had been worshiping, or been acquainted with, the head of the Egyptian pantheon, Amen-Ra, the great pagan sun-idol, for more than one thousand years B.C. Before he was known as (Amen-Ra), he was known as (Amen) among the Thebans.<br/><br/>According to Funk and Wagnall's Standard College Dictionary, AMEN was the god of life and procreation in Egyptian mythology, and later identified with the pagan sun-god as the supreme pagan idol and called "Amen-Ra." Smith's Bible Dictionary and Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought agree.<br/><br/>Our Saviour Y'shua calls Himself "the Amein" in Revelation 3:14. One might ask: Have we been misled to invoke the name of the Egyptian pagan sun-idol at the end of our prayers?<br/><br/><strong>BIBLE<br/>Say This Instead: KODESH (Hebrew) SET-APART SCRIPTURES, Evangel or Besorah (Hebrew)</strong><br/><br/>The term "Scripture (or Scriptures)" is used once in the Book of Daniel and fifty-four times in the Renewed (a.k.a. New Covenant). It refers to the whole book, which is commonly known as "the Bible." The parts of The Scripture, or individual books, are called "books" or "scrolls," which are biblos or biblion in Greek. These words do not refer to the complete writ, The Scriptures.<br/><br/>The word "Bible" for The SCRIPTURES was first used about A.D. 400. The papyrus, on which all documents were written, was imported from Egypt through the Phoenician seaport Gebal, which the Greeks called Byblos or Byblus. This seaport was the home of the Phoenician sun-idol. This city was founded by Baal Chronos and was the seat of Adonis and once contained a large temple of Adonis. The sun-god was associated with the "Lady of Biblos." Both the city of Byblos in Phoenicia and the city Byblis in Egypt were named after the female deity Byblis (also called Byble or Biblis). This idol was the grand-daughter of Apollo, the Greek pagan sun-idol. Byblia was also a name for Venus, an astral goddess and a goddess of sensuality among the ancient Greeks.<br/><br/><strong>CHRIST<br/>Say This Instead: Messiah, Mashiyach (Hebrew) or Messias (Greek)</strong><br/><br/>The Greeks used both the word Messias (a transliteration) and Christos (a translation) for the Hebrew Mashiyach (Anointed). The word Christos was far more acceptable to the pagans who were worshiping Chreston and Chrestos.<br/><br/>According to The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, the word Christos was easily confused with the common Greek proper name Chrestos, meaning "good." According to a French theological dictionary, it is absolutely beyond doubt that Christus and Chrestus, and Christiani and Chrestiani were used indifferently by the profane and Christian authors of the first two centuries A.D. The word Christianos is a Latinism, being contributed neither by the Jews nor by the Christians themselves. The word was introduced from one of three origins: the Roman police, the Roman populace, or an unspecified pagan origin. Its infrequent use in the Renewed (a.k.a. New) Covenant suggests a pagan origin.<br/><br/>According to Realencyclopaedie, the inscription Chrestos is to be seen on a Mithras relief in the Vatican. According to Christianity and Mythology, Osiris, the sun-idol of Egypt, was reverenced as Chrestos. In the Synagogue of the Marcionites on Mount Hermon, built in the third century A.D., the Messiah's title is spelled Chrestos. According to Tertullian and Lactantius, the common people usually called Christ Chrestos.<br/><br/><strong>CHURCH<br/>Say This Instead: Assembly or Fellowship</strong><br/><br/>This is the word used in most English versions as a rendering of the Greek "ekklesia." The Greek word means "a calling out," "a meeting," or "a gathering." Ekklesia is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew qahal, which means an assembly or a congregation.<br/><br/>The origin of the word "church" is kuriakon or kyriakon in Greek. The meaning is a building (the house of Kurios, or Lord).<br/><br/>Dictionaries give the origin of "church" as the Anglo-Saxon root, circe. Circe was the goddess-daughter of Helios, the pagan sun-idol. The word circe is related to "circus," "circle," "circuit," and "circulate."<br/><br/>Circe was originally a Greek goddess whose name was written and pronounced as Kirke. The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, in Germany as Kirche, and in Netherlands as kerk.<br/><br/><strong>CROSS & CRUCIFY<br/>Say This Instead: Execution/Torture Stake & Executed or Tortured</strong><br/><br/>The words "cross" and "crucify" are mistranslations, a "later rendering," of the Greek words stauros and stauroo. According to Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, STAUROS denotes, primarily, an upright pole or stake. The shape of the two-beamed cross had its origin in ancient Chaldea and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz. In the third century A.D., pagans were received into the apostate ecclesiastical system and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols.<br/><br/>According to The Companion Bible, crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian pagan sun-idol. The evidence is complete; He was put to death upon an upright stake, not on two pieces of timber placed at an angle.<br/><br/>According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, in the Egyptian churches the cross was a pagan symbol of life borrowed by the Christians and interpreted in the pagan manner.<br/><br/>According to Greek dictionaries and lexicons, the primary meaning of stauros is an upright pale, pole, or stake. The secondary meaning of "cross" is admitted to be a "later" rendering. In spite of the evidence, almost all common versions of the Scriptures persist with the Latin Vulgate's crux (meaning cross) as the rendering of the Greek stauros.<br/><br/>The most accepted reason for the "cross" being brought into Messianic worship is Constantine's famous vision of "the cross superimposed on the sun" in A.D. 312. What he saw is nowhere to be found in Scripture. Even after his so-called "conversion," his coins showed an even-armed cross as a symbol for the sun-god. Many scholars have doubted the "conversion" of Constantine because of the wicked deeds that he did afterwards.<br/><br/>After Constantine had the "vision of the cross," he promoted another variety of the cross, the Chi-Rho or Labarum. This has been explained as representing the first letters of the name Christos (CH and R, or, in Greek, X and P). The identical symbols were found as inscriptions on rock, dating from ca. 2500 B.C., being interpreted as "a combination of the two Sun-symbols." Another proof of its pagan origin is that the identical symbol was found on a coin of Ptolemeus III from 247-222 B.C.<br/><br/>According to An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, the labarum was also an emblem of the Chaldean sky-god. Emperor Constantine adopted the labarum as the imperial ensign. According to Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols, the symbol was in use long before Christianity. Chi probably stood for Great Fire or Sun. Rho probably stood for Pater or Patah (Father). The word labarum yields "everlasting Father Sun."<br/><br/><strong>EASTER<br/>Say This Instead: Resurrection</strong><br/><br/>Pesach (Hebrew) in english is Passover, Easter is Ishtar, (Semiramis, widow of Nimrod, mother of Tammuz) the name of the bare breasted pegan fertility goddess of the east who came out of heaven in a giant egg, landing in the euphrates river at sunrise on the first Sunday after the veral equinox, busting out turning a bird into an egg laying rabbit. After that point in time the priest of Easter would sacrifice infants and then take the eggs of Easter and die them in the blood of the sacrificed infants. These eggs would hach on 12-25 and that is where that pagan Holy Day comes from.<br/><br/><strong>GHOST<br/>Say This Instead: Spirit or Ruach (Hebrew)</strong><br/><br/>The Greek word 'pneuma' by todays english standards should read spirit, as well with the Hebrew word 'Ruach - RuWach' found in the original Hebrew version of Matthew, also means spirit, not ghost which is "the soul of man; a disembodied spirit." Our Heavenly Father certainly cannot be a ghost for He never had a body to be disembodied from. I can't speak for the King James per-Version crowd who say that he is dead by refering to Him as a ghost but He is very much alive in my life. Y'shua the Messiah certainly was not a ghost since that word was used prior to his birth in the King James per-Version at which time he did not have a body and to say that it was His ghost would to say that He had died previously, before comming in the flesh and that His ressurection was not His first.<br/><br/><strong>GLORY<br/>Say This Instead: Honor, Esteem, Kavod (Hebrew) or Shekhinah (Hebrew), depending on the context</strong><br/><br/>The Greek word doxa in the Greek translations of the Ancient (a.k.a. Old) Covenant and of the Renewed (a.k.a. New) Covenant is usually rendered "glory" in the English versions, a translation of the Latin gloria. The Hebrew word kabod is usually rendered "honour" when applied to man, but rendered "glory" when applied to our Heavenly Father. Doxa means opinion, estimation, esteem, and repute. Kabad means to be heavy or make weighty, and esteem in its figurative sense.<br/><br/>Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language has these three definitions under "glory," as follows: (1) in religious symbolism, the complete representation of an emanation of light from the person of a sanctified being, consisting of the aureole and the nimbus; (2) the quality of being radiant; as the glory of the sun; (3) any ring of light; a halo. Neither the Hebrew words kabod and kabad nor the Greek words doxa and dokeo carry these meanings.<br/><br/>The Church identified Elohim with the sun-idol, which was the prevailing deity of the Roman emperors, the Roman capital, and the Roman Empire. Gloria, a Roman goddess, was personified on an icon as a woman whose upper body was almost naked, holding a circle on which are zodiac signs. In the dictionaries, encyclopedias, and ecclesiastical books are found many illustrations of our Saviour, the Virgin, and the saints, encircled with radiant circles or emanations of light around them. Instead of "glory," such words as "esteem," "high esteem," or "repute," which carries the meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words, can be used.<br/><br/><strong>GOD<br/>Say This Instead: Elohim - Plural (Hebrew), El - Singular (Hebrew) or Eloah (Aramaic)</strong><br/><br/>Gad is a Syrian or Canaanite deity of good luck or fortune. In Hebrew, it is written GD, but with Massoretic vowel-pointing, it gives us "Gad." Other Scriptural references to a similar pagan idol, also written GD, have a vowel-pointing giving us "Gawd" or "God." Gad is identified with Jupiter, the pagan sky-idol or the pagan sun-idol.<br/><br/>The word "God (or god)" is a title, translating the Hebrew Elohim (or elohim), El (or el), and Eloah. However, it is often used as a substitute for the Tetragrammaton (YHWH).<br/><br/>According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, GOD is the common Teutonic word for a personal object of religious worship, applied to all the superhuman beings of the heathen mythologies. The word "god" on the conversion of the Teutonic races to Christianity was adopted as the name of the One Supreme Being. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged agree that the origin is Teutonic paganism. In Indo-Germanic dictionaries, only one word resembles "god." It is ghodh and is pronounced the same. This word means union, also sexual union or mating. According to Luneburger Wörterbuch, the following are the same word: Gott, got, gode, gade, god and guth (gud).<br/><br/><strong>HOLY<br/>Say This Instead: Set-Apart, Kodesh/Qodesh (Hebrew) or Kadosh (Hebrew)</strong><br/><br/>The Hebrew word kodesh and the equivalent Greek word hagios and their derivatives have been translated as holy, hallowed, or sanctified in older English versions, and in modern versions as sacred. Bible dictionaries state that the meaning of kodesh (as well as kadash) specifies "separation." Modern scholars use the words "set apart," "set-apart," and "apartness."<br/><br/>According to Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols, the following is stated about the word HOLY: In practically all languages, the word "holy" has been derived from the divinely honored sun. According to Encyclopedia of Religions, HOLI is the Great Hindu spring festival, held in honour of Krishna, as the spring sun-god. Strong's Concordance refers to "heile" (the sun's rays). This form is almost identical to the German and Dutch equivalent of the English "holy." The German and Dutch word is heilig, which is derived from Heil, the name of a Saxon idol.<br/><br/><strong>JESUS<br/>Say This Instead: YAHshua/YAHushua/Yeshua/Y'shua (Hebrew)</strong><br/><br/>The original name of our Saviour was not Jesus or Iesous, but Y'shua. In our Saviour's word, His Father's Name was given to Him. The Father's Name is YHWH.<br/><br/>Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and the distortion of our Saviour's Name. The first was the superstitious teaching of the Jews that the Father's Name is not to be uttered and that the Name must be "disguised" outside of the temple of Jerusalem. The second factor was the strong anti-Judaism feeling that prevailed amongst the Gentiles. They wanted a saviour, but not a Jewish one.<br/><br/>According to Wörterbuch der Antike, the substitute name can be traced back to the Latin Iesus and the Greek Iesous. Then, it can be traced back to an adaptation of the name of the Greek healing goddess Ieso. The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott, confirm this. To Greeks who venerated a healing goddess Ieso, a saviour Iesous must have been most acceptable, suggests a writer in Philologische Wochenschrift.<br/><br/>Former President of Russia (Mikhail Gorbachev), is known by the Same Name All Over The World! Also, the Singer from Spain (Julio Iglesias) is known by the Same Name All Over The World! In spite of attempts to justify the "translating" of the Father's Name and His Son's Name, it CAN'T Be Done. A Person's Name Remains The Same In ALL Languages!<br/><br/>The father of the Greek goddess Ieso was Asclepius, the pagan idol of healing. The father of Asclepius was Apollo, the great pagan sun-idol. Thus, the name Iesous can be traced back to Pagan sun-worship. There is also a relationship to the Egyptian goddess Isis and her son Isu. According to Reallexikon der Agpyptischen Religionsgeschichte, the name of Isis appears in hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. Isu and Esu sound exactly like "Jesu" that the Saviour is called in the translated Scriptures of many languages.<br/><br/>Esus was a Gallic deity comparable to the Scandanavian Odin. The Greek abbreviation for Iesous is IHS, which is found on many inscriptions made by the Church during the middle Ages. IHS was the mystery name of Bacchus (Tammuz), another pagan sun-idol. These are a few examples only.<br/><br/><strong>LORD<br/>Say This Instead: Master or use His Name!</strong><br/><br/>The title "lord" is applied to all heathen idols, if the word "god" is not used for them. In most cases "lord" and "god" are used interchangeably for pagan idols.<br/><br/>There was an Etruscan house pagan idol whose name was Lar, which signified "Lord." It was also known as Larth, who later on became very popular in Rome and became known as Lares (plural) because as idol statues they were usually in pairs. The Greek equivalent of this name was Heros, which was another name for Zeus. A feminine form was known as Lara, who was the beloved of the god Mercury.<br/><br/>Lar and Larth mean Lord. The letters "th" and "d" were virtually interchangeably used, in various nations. It was also common to find "o" and "a" interchangeably used in Old and Middle English. The word "Lord" can also be traced back to Loride, a surname for the Teutonic god Thor, and to Lordo, another pagan idol.<br/><br/>Instead of "Lord," the word "Master," an exact rendering of the Hebrew Adonay/Adonai and the Greek Kurios, can be used.<br/><br/><strong>TESTAMENT<br/>Say This Instead: Covenant</strong><br/><br/>One of the saddest mistakes of the King James Version is its use of the word "testament" instead of "covenant." According to the Companion Bible, the word "Testament" as a translation of the Greek word diatheke (which means covenant), has been nothing less than a great calamity; for, by its use, truth has been effectually veiled all through the centuries.<br/><br/>A covenant is a binding agreement between two parties; it is a two-party solemn agreement bound by oath. On the other hand, a testament is a written instrument by which someone has disposed of his estate.<br/><br/>This word "testament" as a description of our present spiritual realm is the heritage that we have inherited from Rome, for it has come our way, due to the use of the word "testament" in the Latin Vulgate. The word gives the wrong impression of "receiving only." It contributes to the erroneous teachings of "only believe," "grace only," "good works are unnecessary," "love only." The doctrine of "only believe" is the fruit of the work of the "spirit that works in the sons of disobedience," the spirit in the Man of Lawlessness who instituted this "no-law-religion," the Great Apostasy, the Mystery of Lawlessness.</span></span></p>
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THINK BEFORE YOU DONATE
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Ron J. Weiss
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<p>Many people are so used to supporting major organizations, that they do no do their homework and check out these organizations. The following article will give you the information you need:</p>
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<p>Many people are so used to supporting major organizations, that they do no do their homework and check out these organizations. The following article will give you the information you need:</p>
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<td id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11903"><div class="yiv8986853616ecxyiv460288745ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><u><span>UNICEF</span></u><b><i><span id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_16_1362032980552_46"><br/></span></i></b><span>CEO Caryl M. Stern receives</span><div class="yiv8986853616ecxyiv460288745ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span>$1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE.</span><div class="yiv8986853616ecxyiv460288745ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><u><span>Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause.</span></u></i></b></div>
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<td id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11905"><div id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11904" class="yiv8986853616ecxyiv460288745ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><u><span>GOODWILL</span></u><b><i><span id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_16_1362032980552_47"> <br/></span></i></b><span>CEO and owner Mark Curran profits $2.3 million a year</span><span id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11945">.<i id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_16_1362032980552_48"><br/></i>Goodwill is a very catchy name for his business.</span><div id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11906" class="yiv8986853616ecxyiv460288745ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11907">You donate to his business and then he sells the items for PROFIT. <i id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_16_1362032980552_49"><br/></i>He pays nothing for his products and pays his workers minimum wage! Nice Guy. <i id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_16_1362032980552_50"><br/></i></span><b><u><span>$0.00 goes to help anyone! </span></u></b><b id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11909"><span id="yiv8986853616yui_3_7_2_1_1362032980552_11908"><br/>Stop giving to this man.</span></b></div>
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KNOW WHAT THE BIGGEST LIE IS?
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-14:5544986:BlogPost:22745
2013-08-14T05:34:43.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>Most Christians, and sadly too many Jewish people do not know what the biggest lie is. This is another excellent teaching:</p>
<p>THE GREATEST LIE EVER TOLD<br></br>By Kimberly Rogers<br></br>The Tree is splintered and is lying in pieces. Each piece has its own name called a ³denomination´. The people walk <br></br>around the splinters crying, ³How shall we put the Tree back together again?´ Little do they know that God has a plan <br></br>for His Ecclesia/Church. The first step toward unity is the fixing…</p>
<p>Most Christians, and sadly too many Jewish people do not know what the biggest lie is. This is another excellent teaching:</p>
<p>THE GREATEST LIE EVER TOLD<br/>By Kimberly Rogers<br/>The Tree is splintered and is lying in pieces. Each piece has its own name called a ³denomination´. The people walk <br/>around the splinters crying, ³How shall we put the Tree back together again?´ Little do they know that God has a plan <br/>for His Ecclesia/Church. The first step toward unity is the fixing of our eyes on the one thing that existed in the <br/>beginning, is missing from earth now, but that will exist again in the end ± The Tree of Life.<br/>It started with the False Prophet Spirit that entered the Ecclesia/Church in the early centuries after Yeshua/Jesus¶<br/>ascension. The False Prophet Spirit grew in the Ecclesia/Church until the people believed that the False Prophet Spirit<br/>was the true spirit. <br/>2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity [lawlessness] doth already work: only he who now letteth will <br/>let, until he be taken out of the way.<br/>Satan, the False Prophet Spirit used ministers of the Gospel to teach the greatest lie that was ever told to mankind. It <br/>was a bigger lie than the one he told to Eve in the Garden. Even after the first lie there was hope for all mankind to be <br/>reunified with God. But, this second great lie seeks to remove all hope of complete restoration with God, which is <br/>Satan¶s goal.<br/>1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking <br/>whom he may devour: <br/>Ministers with the same false spirit as those Jews that Yeshua/Jesus rebuked began teaching apostasy almost <br/>immediately after Yeshua/Jesus¶ ascension. They told the greatest lie of their father, the devil, that has ever been told <br/>and the people believed it.<br/>John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the <br/>beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of <br/>his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.<br/>Why did the people believe it? And what was this lie? The people believed the lie because they wanted to believe the <br/>³mystery of iniquity (lawlessness) that already existed.<br/>2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they <br/>received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.<br/>11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:<br/>The False Spirit was already at work leading Believers astray. God would allow this to continue until the harvest was <br/>ripe, then the False Spirit would no longer be just a Spirit within the Church, but would be given physical form.<br/>2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be <br/>taken out of the way.<br/>Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the <br/>cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe<br/>[emphasis mine].<br/>When the time is ripe, the lying False Spirit will become an actual physical man called the Antichrist. Through 2,000 <br/>years of history, the Antichrist spirit has been just that ± a spirit that works in the minds of Believers to maintain belief in <br/>the greatest lie ever told. But, one day, that False Spirit will appear as a man.2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him [the False Spirit in physical form], whose coming is after the working of Satan <br/>with all power and signs and lying wonders,<br/>We must understand the nature and enormity of The Greatest Lie Ever Told. Just what is The Greatest Lie Ever Told? It <br/>is a lie that is so destructive that its damage is immeasurable. This lie is that some of God¶s Word is dead. <br/>Most Believers will deny that this is what they believe, yet they refuse the foundation upon which the Bible is based. <br/>Believers accept part of God¶s Word, but refuse other parts because they have been taught that some of God¶s Word <br/>³died´ on the Cross. <br/>What part of the Bible have Christian Believers refused for almost 2,000 years? The Torah, or what is commonly called <br/>The Law, has been singled out for demise. The Torah is the first five books of the Bible. It is only this section of the <br/>Bible that Christians refuse. The other Writings and the Prophets are accepted. The Prophets are especially respected <br/>by Christians because of the end times prophecies. Christians do not realize that The Torah is richer in prophecy than <br/>any other book of the Bible. So, it is The Torah, the first five books of the Bible that Christians view as a dusty, old and <br/>irrelevant set of grievous and burdensome laws that were nailed to the Cross and made obsolete by Yeshua/Jesus. <br/>Atheists believe that God is dead, but God¶s own people believe that a part of His Word is dead. These two outlooks <br/>have the same result ± they kill God. He is killed by the belief that His Word is dead because God IS His Word. These <br/>same Believers do not probe the mystery that lies before them to inquire further into what John meant in the first verses <br/>of his Gospel.<br/>God¶s Word existed before the foundation of the earth. What Word existed before the foundation of the earth? <br/>Yeshua/Jesus.<br/>John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.<br/>2 The same was in the beginning with God.<br/>3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.<br/>Yeshua/Jesus is that Word John spoke of and that Word is The Torah. At the time of John¶s writing, the common <br/>vernacular usage of the Jews for The Torah was ³The Word´. John specifically referred to The Torah when he wrote this <br/>passage. <br/>Yeshua/Jesus is the same Word/Torah that stood in the Garden. He IS The Torah and The Torah IS the Tree of Life <br/>that stood in the Garden of Eden. <br/>Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law [The Torah]; but let thine heart keep my commandments [The Torah]:<br/>Proverbs 3:18 She [The Torah] is a tree of life [emphasis mine] to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is <br/>every one that retaineth her.<br/>The Torah was in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve ate freely of its fruit. After their sin, they were no longer <br/>allowed to eat from the Tree. They were removed from the Garden to protect the integrity of the Tree of Life until a <br/>means to return to the privilege of eating from the Tree was instituted by God. The means that was instituted by God <br/>was the sacrificed ³Blood of the Lamb. <br/>This point cannot be emphasized enough: The Tree of Life, which is The Torah, was Yeshua/Jesus. These three are <br/>one and the same being. And all three are living ± these are alive. Yeshua/Jesus was there in the Garden with Adam <br/>and Eve. He walked with them and talked with them. Anytime there is a face to face encounter with God, it is <br/>Yeshua/Jesus with whom the encounter takes place. God, Yeshua/Jesus, needed a way to re-institute His Son and Tree of Life/Torah on the earth. It was for this purpose <br/>that God created the Covenant with Abraham. But, Abraham¶s descendants broke the Covenant. For this reason, God <br/>provided a ³new´ Covenant.<br/>Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and <br/>waxeth old is ready to vanish away.<br/>Christians interpret this scripture as saying that the Old Covenant has passed away, but God is actually saying is that <br/>the old approach to the Covenant is passed. Now, the Covenant is no longer kept by our own efforts. We have the <br/>Living Holy Spirit of God living within us so that our obedience to the Covenant, The Torah, will become reality.<br/>Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith <br/>the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall <br/>be my people.<br/>Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I <br/>will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to <br/>me a people:<br/>Yeshua/Jesus is The Torah is the Tree of Life that was in the Garden. Yeshua/Jesus and The Torah and The Tree of <br/>Life are synonymous with each other. These three cannot be separated from each other. These three are the basis of <br/>the promised Covenant that God gave to Abraham. The Covenant, of which there is only one, came to the people of the <br/>earth in stages after Adam and Eve removed themselves from it by their disobedience to it. <br/>What was the result of the disobedience of Adam and Eve? God told them they could eat of any tree in the Garden, but <br/>they were not to eat of the fruit of the ³Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil´.<br/>Let us look at ³Good and Evil´. Satan told Eve that this prohibition had to do with God not wanting man to become as <br/>God was ± divine and having knowledge of all things. <br/>Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:<br/>5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, <br/>knowing good and evil.<br/>The nature of the ³Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil´ was that it mixed good and evil together; it mixed truth with lies. <br/>This was Satan¶s inroad to causing confusion about the ³good´. <br/>Satan causes a little bit of truth to be mixed in with lies. People see these little bits of truth and reason that everything in <br/>the mixture must also be the truth. The ³Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil´ is Satan¶s primary weapon against God in <br/>the war that is still going on between Satan and God.<br/>The reason this works so well is that the minds of humans are deceitful by nature because of the fall of Adam and Eve. <br/>The minds of all humans became a mixture of ³good and evil´. God¶s mind and His Words are pure truth, not a mixed <br/>truth. This mixture clouds our ability to reason correctly about God¶s truth. <br/>There is no mixture of good and evil in any of God¶s Word. There is only truth in God's Word. No evil exists in God's <br/>Word. This includes The Torah. There is no hope of salvation if this is not true because we have to rely on God¶s Word <br/>to guide us safely into our eternal life.<br/>The first stage of God¶s reunification of mankind with Him was in His promise to Abraham that Abraham¶s seed would <br/>bring the living Torah/Yeshua/Jesus/The Tree of Life that was lost in the Garden of Eden back to the earth. This first <br/>stage of redemption became known as ³The Covenant´.Genesis 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;<br/>This was the stage that began the reestablishing of the Tree of Life back to its place on the earth. The sign of this first <br/>stage was circumcision of the flesh.<br/>The second stage was the revealing of the contents and concepts of The Torah/Tree of Life at Mount Sinai. The Torah <br/>was given to the mixed multitude of Hebrews and Gentiles, who became known collectively as the Children of Israel. <br/>This was for those who stood at Mount Sinai and for all those who would come afterward to the very end of time.<br/>Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;<br/>15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here <br/>with us this day:<br/>Paul, whose words have been twisted with lies, understood this. He wrote:<br/>1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;<br/>And did all eat the same spiritual meat;<br/>4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that <br/>Rock was Christ.<br/>Paul¶s exhortation to the re-³New´-ed Covenant Believers was for them to view themselves as the direct descendants of <br/>the generation that stood at Mount Sinai. He knew that the giver of The Torah at Mount Sinai was the same One who <br/>dwelt in a human body, and that believing in Him gave us the same status as those who were at Mount Sinai, many of <br/>whom were not the physical seed of Abraham. But these became the seed of Abraham because they stood with the <br/>Hebrews at Mount Sinai and were called the Children of Israel.<br/>Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.<br/>The third stage in the Covenant process was for Yeshua/Jesus to live among us as The Torah/Tree of Life. <br/>John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, [emphasis mine] (and we beheld his glory, the <br/>glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.<br/>The fourth and last stage in reestablishing the Tree of Life/Torah to all of the inhabitants of the earth is in the coming <br/>Messianic reign of Yeshua/Jesus. <br/>Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be <br/>established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. <br/>3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of <br/>the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways [emphasis mine], and we will walk in his paths<br/>[emphasis mine]: for out of Zion shall go forth THE LAW [emphasis mine], and the word of the LORD from <br/>Jerusalem.<br/>Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of <br/>God and of the Lamb.<br/>2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life [emphasis mine], which <br/>bare twelve manner of fruits [representing the 12 Tribes of the Children of Israel], and yielded her fruit every <br/>month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.Once the Tree of Life/Torah/Yeshua/Jesus is completely restored to the earth, it will never again be violated or <br/>removed. The great deceiver, Satan, will be gone forever and the people of the earth will once again be taught The <br/>Torah.<br/>At that time, God¶s Kingdom will be filled with His people who, while alive on earth, walked in His Ways and in His Paths <br/>and who did not reject His Tree of Life/Torah/Yeshua/Jesus. These will be people who delighted in His Torah (Psalms <br/>1:2) and who did not view His Torah as grievous (1 John 5:3).<br/>Any religion or lifestyle that does not have The Torah as its basis is a religion or a lifestyle that mixes good and evil <br/>because it partakes of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Therefore, that religion is of Satan. Every time a <br/>Believer rejects The Torah as the guiding light of his lifestyle, he is committing the same sin as Adam and Eve. The <br/>original sin, then, is the mixing of God's truths with Satan's lies. <br/>Traditional Christianity has mixed Satan¶s pagan rituals and symbols with God¶s starting almost immediately after <br/>Yeshua/Jesus¶ ascension. In fact, traditional Christianity threw out many of God¶s rituals and holy days in favor of <br/>Satan¶s pagan days and removed the signs of the only Covenant that God gave. This Covenant began in Genesis and <br/>will end with the completion of Revelations. There are not two Covenants, but one built with stages.<br/>What are Satan¶s pagan ways that are accepted in traditional Christianity? The three most common are the teaching <br/>that Sunday is the Sabbath, Christmas and Easter. <br/>What are the signs of the Covenant that were removed? The true Sabbath, which is the 7th day from sundown to <br/>sundown, God¶s Holy Feasts (Passover, Firstfruits, Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and <br/>Succoth), and the dietary laws.<br/>Our worship of God is to happen in a spirit of truth. The guidelines for this kind of worship are only found in The Torah. <br/>Any other kind or worship ± that brings in the trappings and symbols of anything other than what God specified in the <br/>Torah ± is an abomination to God.<br/>We are to repent of our delusion and stop believing the lie that some of God¶s Word is dead so that He can reveal the <br/>truth of ALL scriptures, including The Torah, to us. The Torah is instruction to us about the lifestyle God expects us to <br/>live for this is how the light of God is shed abroad in the world. Where there is darkness, light does not exist.<br/>Shalom,<br/>Kimberly Rogers<br/>Permission is granted to reprint and GIVE AWAY copies of this article as long as credit is given to the author. Changing <br/>this article in any way is a violation of copyright laws and is prohibited. Copyright 2008.</p>
EXCELLENT TEACHING ON END TIMES
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-14:5544986:BlogPost:22564
2013-08-14T05:25:26.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>I encourage you listen to the following teaching. I found it to be a very profound teaching on the end times that many have not connected the dots in this area:</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Algerian" size="7"><strong>The Esau Effect</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_intro.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><strong>Listen here</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong> to find out why this information is important for…</strong></font></p>
<p>I encourage you listen to the following teaching. I found it to be a very profound teaching on the end times that many have not connected the dots in this area:</p>
<p align="center"><font size="7" face="Algerian"><strong>The Esau Effect</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_intro.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><strong>Listen here</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong> to find out why this information is important for you!</strong></font></p>
<p><img src="http://themessianicmessage.com/beast.jpg" width="475" height="424"/></p>
<p align="center"><font size="6"><strong>What is going on behind the scenes?!</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Have you been wondering how America has so suddenly been flipped upside down?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>How did we get Communism in the White House?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>How is Islam so suddenly rising to prominence in America?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Do you feel overwhelmed by it all?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Does everything seem to be coming at you like an explosion?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>And do you ask yourself how the changes in America will affect the entire world?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know that Islam is only a small part of the problem?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know there is no direct prophecy about Islam?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Did you know it was Esau, not the Greeks, that created democracy? It's in your Bible! And it has profound ramifications in prophecy for these end times.</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>Then, why is Islam such a force in the world today?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>What other forces are work?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>And WHO is behind it all?</strong></font></p>
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<li><p align="left"><font color="#AA0000"><strong>What is in store for the future?</strong></font></p>
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<p align="center"><br/><font size="4"><strong>Find out the answers to these questions and who it is that is pulling the strings!</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="3"><strong>It is important to listen to these in the order presented for the fullest understanding</strong></font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 1 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_1.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau The Man</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 2 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_2.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau The Spirit</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Part 3 - </strong></font><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_3.mp3" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>The Esau Effect: Esau At The End</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/esau_effect.pdf" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Read the transcript by clicking here</strong></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://themessianicmessage.com/church%20symbols.jpg" target="new"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>Click Here For Church Symbols Explained In The Esau Effect</strong></font></a></p>
GENTILES AND JEWS WAKE UP!
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-14:5544986:BlogPost:22644
2013-08-14T04:36:22.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<div id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_39"><font class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_56" id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_61" size="+3">Torah, Etz Chaim</font><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_57"> </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_58"></br><font class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_59" size="+2">(Torah, the Tree of Life)…</font><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_60" id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_57"></span></div>
<div id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_39"><font size="+3" id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_61" class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_56">Torah, Etz Chaim</font><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_57"> </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_58"/><font size="+2" class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_59">(Torah, the Tree of Life)</font><span id="yiv9184267688yui_3_7_2_34_1370106943822_57" class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_60"></span></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_61"><i><font size="+1">A wake up call for gentiles and Jews</font></i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_62">Comments on this article may be sent to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:tovia@yashanet.com">Tovia</a> </div>
<hr/><blockquote class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_64"><i>"This situation is similar to one who thinks that he has achieved an understanding of the truth, in one moment, although he has very meager knowledge and made only feeble attempts (at penetrating analysis) and neglected all wisdoms and contented himself with the simple interpretation of the Scriptures ..."</i> <br/><b>- Moses Maimonides, <i>Treatise on Resurrection</i></b><div><i>"Therefore, leaving behind the initial lessons about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity ...</i> <br/><b>- Hebrews 6:1a, <i>Jewish New Testament</i> translation</b></div>
<div><i>"And the word of Hashem became to them like commandment by commandment and commandment by commandment, measuring line by measuring line and measuring line by measuring line, a bit here and a bit there, so that they would go and stumble backward and be broken, be tripped up and caught."</i> <br/><b>- Tenakh, Isaiah 28:13</b></div>
</blockquote>
<div><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_65">There is a similar theme in the above three quotations. Maimonides' words are directed to the person who has received an understanding of the very basics of Scripture, only to develop an arrogant attitude that he now "knows it all." The second statement, from the book of Hebrews, is directed at believers who know some things, encouraging them to not stagnate, but to learn more, as the former could lead to a falling away. The last one, from Isaiah, was directed at those who had strayed completely from the Torah they once knew, and had to be "spoon fed" its truth once again.</span></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_66"><b><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">HE </font><font size="+2">R</font><font size="+1">ESTORATION OF </font><font size="+2">G</font><font size="+1">OD'S </font><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">ORAH - </font><font size="+2">H</font><font size="+1">ISTORICALLY</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_67">What we are seeing in recent times is an enactment of these principles. From a historical perspective, God has been restoring the truth of His Torah on a global scale for much of the past century. Groups such as the Christian Jew Foundation, Chosen People Ministries, Jews for Jesus, Zola Levitt, Jewish Voice and others, began introducing the concept of <i>bringing "Jewishness" back into Christianity</i>. The "early product" that evolved from this was the concept of the "Jewish Christian."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_68">This was only the first step in God's process. Over the past couple of decades, a new phenomenon took root -- the development of <i>Messianic Judaism.</i> Rather than identifying themselves as Christians with Jewish nationality, Jews began to fully retain their "Jewishness," both culturally and religiously. These believers distanced themselves from the "Christian" and "Jesus" labels, calling themselves Jews who followed Yeshua. There was now a clear "choice" for Jews who wanted to follow the Messiah of the "New Testament" -- Jesus and Christianity or Yeshua and Judaism.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_69">On a parallel path, another part of God's plan began to unfold -- many gentiles began to be attracted to this new view of the faith, calling themselves "Messianic believers" or "Messianics." Rather than considering themselves as "Christians," these gentiles, to one degree or another, viewed themselves as <i>coming into the faith of Israel.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_70">But God wasn't done with His work. Most recently, we have seen within the world of Messianic Judaism, a <i>return to "Torah observance."</i> This development has launched a great debate --<i> what is the role of the Torah in the life of the believer? </i>In the lives of Conservative or Orthodox Jews, the Torah is very significant and to be followed to the best of one's ability. Just how much of the Torah was a Messianic Jew to follow? And what about "Messianic gentiles?" Were they to follow the Torah as well?</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_71">Is Torah once again becoming a "stumbling block" for followers of the Messiah? Some say it really isn't that important, some say it is for Jewish believers but not gentile believers, and others say it is for both Jew and gentile.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_72"><b><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">HE </font><font size="+2">R</font><font size="+1">ESTORATION OF </font><font size="+2">G</font><font size="+1">OD'S </font><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">ORAH - IN THE </font><font size="+2">I</font><font size="+1">NDIVIDUAL</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_73">The global resurgence of "Torah-observant Messianic Judaism" and the decades of "change" that led up to it, mirrors what is going on in the lives of individuals around the world today -- including gentile believers. Many of these gentiles are first attracted by the idea that "Christianity has Jewish roots," and begin to read their "Old Testaments" with a new desire to find out "what they are missing." Some progress to a point where they realize "Jesus was Jewish," and add new words to their vocabulary or show a greater respect for things Jewish. These people have begun to open their hearts and minds to more than what they are hearing from the pulpit every Sunday. They are the opposite of the person that Maimonides alluded to (above), not being satisfied with the "basic ideas" they learned in their religion.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_74">Others, as the writer of Hebrews wrote, go beyond even these "basics." Many of these come to a realization that Yeshua actually promoted Torah, and that there is nothing wrong with them starting to do some of these "Jewish things." Some begin to hold Passover seders and others might even visit Messianic congregations on the Sabbath when they get a chance. They may even go as far as purchasing a <i>"Jewish New Testament"</i> to get more insight into what they are beginning to learn.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_75">Then there are those who believe the God of Israel is fully returning them to the faith of Israel (Ephesians 2:10-12). They read what the latest Torah-observant Messianic authors are writing. They view the "popular idea" that Paul preached against Torah in a believer's life, as untrue -- a product of centuries of the "Church's" anti-Torah bias in translation and interpretation. They see the Torah as God's revelation and instruction. Out of love for God, and desire to know more of Him, they begin a journey to incorporate Torah into their lifestyles with the goal that it will become their lifestyle.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_76">These people believe that there has always been, and remains, one Torah for all the people of God - Jew or gentile. Hashem has not changed.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_77"><b><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">G</font><font size="+1">OD'S </font><font size="+2">P</font><font size="+1">ROCESS OF </font><font size="+2">R</font><font size="+1">EDEMPTION</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_78">The process God uses to bring people back to His Covenant, is the same one He has always used in returning those who have gone astray. This process can be broken down as follows:</div>
<ol class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_79" id="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_133">
<li>He reveals His truth to you ("as you are" -- and regardless of where you are)</li>
<li>He takes you away from the confined place you are in (where you cannot truly serve Him)</li>
<li>He replaces the error and fear of your previous way, instructing you in His Word/Covenant</li>
<li>He makes you acceptable to Himself</li>
</ol>
<div><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_80">His process for achieving this can be seen in how He dealt with those coming out of Egypt with Moses:</span></div>
<blockquote class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_81"><b>Exodus 6:6-7 -</b> <i>Therefore, say to the B'nei Yisra'el: "I am YHVH, and I WILL BRING YOU OUT (v'hotzeiti et'khem) from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I WILL FREE YOU (vhitzalti et'khem) from being slaves to them, and I WILL REDEEM YOU (v'ga'alti et'khem) with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I WILL TAKE YOU AS MY OWN PEOPLE (v'lakachti et'khem li l'am), and I will be your God..."</i></blockquote>
<ol class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_82" id="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_134">
<li>He made them "free" through His revelation, they stopped serving Egypt even though they physically remained a bit longer in the land</li>
<li>He physically took them out of Egypt <i>(Egypt = "Mitzrayim" = confined place)</i></li>
<li>He redeemed them by taking them through the waters and delivering the final crushing blow to the Egyptians when the waters annihilated them (thus giving them great confidence)</li>
<li>He took them as His people to the promised land where they would be free to serve Him through His Torah</li>
</ol>
<div><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_83">When Israel came out of Egypt, they stopped for water at a place called Marah. (Exodus 15:22-27) The water there was bitter however. God instructed Moses to take a certain tree and cast it into the water. The water then became sweet. God then followed this up by giving them additional statutes and ordinances, and preparing to test their obedience. </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_84"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_85">===================================== </span><br class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_86"/><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_87">There are several lessons here:</span></div>
<ol class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_88" id="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_135">
<li>God was not "done" with Israel just because He revealed Himself to them and took them out of Egypt (though they may have had reason to believe He was, as the entire plan was not yet revealed). As soon as they get their new freedom, they immediately encounter a "problem."</li>
<li>God immediately showed them that He wanted their relationship to continue and grow (through the miracle).</li>
<li>The fact that a tree was used should not be overlooked, as it is a euphemism for the Torah.</li>
<li>God immediately gives them more of His Torah (statutes and ordinances) as their means for deepening their relationship.</li>
<li>He would then test and refine their faith/relationship to Him through their Torah obedience.</li>
</ol>
<div><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_89">God is consistent. He uses the same process today for bringing people, including gentiles, to Torah:</span></div>
<ol class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_90" id="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_136">
<li>He makes you free by revealing Himself and His Messiah (often within an imperfect setting, i.e., "a church")</li>
<li>He leads you away from where you cannot grow in His Torah (into Messianic Judaism)</li>
<li>He teaches you the deeper truths of His Torah (taking on more of the Torah to learn of Him)</li>
<li>He makes you acceptable to Himself</li>
</ol>
<div><b class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_91"><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">HWARTING </font><font size="+2">G</font><font size="+1">OD'S </font><font size="+2">P</font><font size="+1">LAN</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_93">People, particularly in Christianity, often don't get beyond the first of the four stages outlines above. They are exposed to the elementary (yet critical) teachings of Torah, such as; <i>God is real, God loves you, God wants you to have your sins forgiven, etc.</i>This is all good, but coming to know of God and Messiah is not the end of the road.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_94">As Maimonides wisely wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_95"><i>"There is an immense difference between guidance leading to a knowledge of the existence of a thing and an investigation of the true reality of the essence and substance of that thing."</i><div align="right"><b>Moses Maimonides, <i>The Guide of the Perplexed,</i> Chapter 46</b></div>
</blockquote>
<div><span class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_96">There is no such thing as "perfect stagnation" with regard to your walk with God. If you don't grow, you will rot. The only thing that can thwart God's process is human beings. There are many who get the initial revelation of God through hearing His Torah and reject it outright. Others receive it but for various reasons, fall away. This is the Torah of the Kingdom that Yeshua spoke of in Matthew 13:4-9; 18-23.</span></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_97">Sadly, most of those who claim faith in the "Messiah" today, remain stagnant after they "come to Him." They choose to remain in their "personal Egypt," rather than let God move them out to where He wants them. This is prevalent in both Catholic and Protestant denominations, who like to think they are very different from each other -- but share a critical common theology; <i>the rejection of the place of God's Torah in the life of the believer</i>. They are blinded to the truth of the Scripture verses they so readily quote -- Scriptures that speak of, even warn of, the importance of Torah.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_98">For instance, when Yeshua says that not one tiny part of the Torah is done away with and those who teach otherwise are wrong (Matthew 5:17-21) -- Christianity says He means something else.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_99">When Paul writes that the Torah is not done away with by faith (Romans 3:30) and that those of the Spirit are to follow the Torah (Romans 8:5-9) -- it's all "spiritualized away."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_100">When John in his epistles writes that those who say they know God but don't keep His commandments are sadly mistaken and that these are not new commandments (1 John 2:3-7), and of those entering their final reward being those who kept God's commandments, (Rev. 12:17; 14:12; 22:14) -- well, Christians are taught that this too doesn't mean God's Torah commandments, but instead these are "Christ's commandments."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_101">As if the Father and Yeshua "play by different rules!" Yeshua said they don't (Matthew 5:17-21, John 10:30).</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_102">These teachers and their followers are the likeness of which Maimonides spoke of in his <i>Treatise on Resurrection. </i>They receive a ray of truth -- that God is real and "faith" not "works" saves you. Rather than accepting and growing in God's Torah, they get entangled in the thorns of their denominational doctrine. At some point they will willfully reject the message of anyone coming into their lives preaching that God has not changed and that His Torah remains for today. They respond by reciting what their religion tells them to say, that "they are not under the Law," or have "freedom in Christ," not having the faintest notion of what either means, as they interpret all Scripture from the anti-Torah mindset in which they have been taught.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_103">As one person who recently wrote in to YashaNet said, <i>"<font size="+0">The Church is caught in a loop. They are blind because of the pagan worship and the pagan worship prevents them from seeing the truth."</font></i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_104"><b><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">T</font><font size="+1">HE </font><font size="+2">E</font><font size="+1">ND OF </font><font size="+2">D</font><font size="+1">AYS</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_105">One could ask; <i>Can such a person truly have the Spirit of God in them if they reject the truth of God's Torah?</i> Or could they possess a counterfeit spirit -- one that even says, "Lord, Lord," (Matthew 7:15-23) and does great things in His name, only to mislead them, as it rejects the authority of the Torah commandments of God and practices<i> lawlessness</i> (anti-Torah doctrine).</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_106">This author's personal experience has shown him that there is indeed a spiritual conflict between Torah-based Messianic Judaism and Christianity. For instance, when a "mainstream Christian" is engaged in spiritual discussion with a Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Muslim, Hindu or Pagan, he will typically "keep his cool" as he speaks to the other person, even if they are antagonistic toward him. However, should a Torah-observant Messianic believer challenge this same Protestant, the situation often gets very nasty, very quickly. In such situations, there are indeed spirits in conflict. Can both be of God? (This conflict has existed since the fourth century when Nazarene Jews (those who followed Yeshua) were criticized for having more in common with Judaism [i.e. Torah] than with Christianity.)</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_107">There is a great deception forecast for the "latter days." We are warned of things such as; the <i>"mystery of iniquity," </i>and the error of the <i>"Church of Laodicea,"</i> and the doctrine of the <i>"Whore of Babylon." </i>The three of these share a common thread -- <i>The rejection of God's Torah in the life of the believer </i>-- replacing it with something that looks "godly" (i.e., "freedom in Christ") but is in fact a very ancient lie.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_108">"Iniquity" is defined in Scripture as a violation of Torah. The "Church" of Laodicea is chastised for its spiritual arrogance (going its own way and not following Torah), which the "Church" at Philadelphia was alternately praised for. The doctrine of the "Whore of Babylon" is an ancient one, with its origins in the rejection of the authority of Torah.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_109">The doctrine these all share stems from haSatan, the father of all lies, and can be seen as far back as Gan Edan (Garden of Eden) when he challenged God's Torah (Genesis 3). It was manifested in man with Nimrod at Babel (Genesis 10), someone who once was close to God and could have been mighty in the Lord, but rejected His Torah and went his own way. It is later spoken of by Zechariah (5:6-10) who depicts it as going out into the world from the plains of Shinar in Babylon. Later, it rears its head among God's chosen people in the spirit of Ephraim, who rejected Torah and went into idolatry (1 Kings 12).</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_110">In more "recent" times, it resurrected itself in the years following Yeshua, with the development of the pagan Christianity of Constantine and the Council of Nicea -- which set the tone for hundreds of years of anti-Semitic theology, culminating in the Church of today and its anti-Torah "Jesus."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_111"><b><font color="#800000"><font size="+2">A</font><font size="+1"> </font><font size="+2">S</font><font size="+1">CENARIO </font><font size="+2">N</font><font size="+1">OT </font><font size="+2">C</font><font size="+1">ONSIDERED</font></font></b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_112">The book of Revelation speaks of 144,000 Jews preaching to the world, with countless numbers accepting their message and many of the latter being executed for their faith. Could it be that this audience is to a great extent made up of "Christians," who now receive and accept the whole truth -- that you cannot separate the Tree of Life, the Torah -- from the Giver of Life, Yeshua? Could the comfortable idea of "the Church" being "raptured up" prior to the tribulation be a lie from haSatan and part of the great deception to come?</div>
<div>Perhaps there will indeed be a "pre-tribulation rapture" -- but only those who respect Torah along with trusting Yeshua are taken up? -- Maybe as a warning from God that it's time to "get right" with his Word -- <i>the Torah.</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_114">In fact, there is precedent for this. Many righteous were taken up in Noah's day just prior to the flood killing off the earth's inhabitants, so that they would not have to go through that "tribulation." The congregation at Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13) seems to be promised that they will not go through the tribulation that is to come upon the earth as they are with the One who has the "Key of David."</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_115">Studying the Psalms (especially 118 and 119), it becomes evident that those who can enter through the gate are the righteous, and their righteousness is tied directly to the Torah. Those who are part of faithful Israel (including grafted-in gentiles - Romans 9-11) are included in the wedding of God to Israel and the great Shabbat to follow.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_116">One thing is for certain according to God's Torah. <b>God does NOT marry "the Church."</b> This would be a violation of His Torah, as He has promised to marry Israel (again) after putting her away for a brief while due to her spiritual adultery. The idea that God marries "the Church" is replacement theology, a teaching founded in the same spiritual arrogance mentioned in Revelation 3:17, to which Paul warned gentiles in Romans 9-11.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_117">The gate/door is open for these people in Revelation associated with this key of David through Yeshua. Those in Laodicea are told to knock that they might come in. (A verse often misused as one for "witnessing" when in fact it is addressed to those who are already part of the "Church" of Laodicea.) They knock late as they rejected the Torah when they had the chance. These are the foolish virgins in the parable Yeshua told -- no <i>oil of Torah</i> in their lamps! They were indeed invited, but strayed from the truth.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_118">However, these people are not "doomed," else why would Yeshua tell them to still knock? We know that Yeshua says that those who teach against Torah will be "least in the Kingdom" (Matthew 5:19). Perhaps these people who didn't "make it into the wedding on time," need to be corrected (chastised through the tribulation) before they can take on the role they were supposed to play?</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_119">Scripture supports this idea. In Zechariah 2:14-4:7, the prophet has a vision that he was told applies to the latter days. There was a High Priest named Joshua (not the Joshua from Moses' time). Although he was destined to hold this office, he was not allowed to because he did not respect Torah and sinned. God allows him to be chastised, corrected of his error, and only then does he receive his white robe and is made a priest. In Revelation, we see that those who follow Torah are given the same white robes. (Rev. 7:9; 7:13-14; 12:17; 14:12; 22:14)</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_120">God has acted in this same fashion with Israel (and continues to do so.) They were and are His chosen. They are to be His "light to the world." When they fail to uphold His Torah, He does not terminate His promise -- however He does chastise them -- at times very harshly, as history has shown us, with the promise and goal that one day all of Israel will be saved (Romans 11:26).</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_121">Today, a gentile who "comes to faith" in God, is also given promises regarding his role as a priest in the Messianic Kingdom and the World to Come.</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_122">The question regarding this person is:</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_123" id="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_144"><i>How can such a person hope to be a "priest in the Kingdom of God," if the (Christian) faith he is now part of, teaches that the Torah upon which this priesthood is entirely based in, has no role in his life?</i></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_124">Joshua the appointed High Priest could not fulfill his role without respecting Torah, and had to go through his "tribulation" before he was "qualified." So does Israel. Has God changed? Or will the followers of anti-Torah Christianity who think they're about to be raptured off as the "Bride of Christ," be in for a rude shock, in the near future?</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_125">Scripture, as always, points to the answer ...</div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_126"><i>My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me: Because you have forgotten the law of your God ...</i><b> - Hosea 4:6</b></div>
<div class="yui_3_7_2_57_1376452627549_127"><i>For I am the Lord, I do not change ... Remember the Law of Moses my servant</i> <b>- Malachi 3:6; 4:4</b> </div>
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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ELIJAH PRAYER ARMY?
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2013-08-14T04:28:34.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
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<p>The Elijah Prayer Army is a wonderful ministry I have been praying with for years. I encourage you to also become involved with this Ministry:…</p>
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<p>The Elijah Prayer Army is a wonderful ministry I have been praying with for years. I encourage you to also become involved with this Ministry:</p>
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<em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3398">“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, <strong>because they have</strong> scattered them among the nations and have <strong>divided up my land</strong>.” </em>(Isa 40:1-3)<br/> <br/>The United States of America has once again succeeded in forcing Israel to negotiate the surrender of its heartland, including Jerusalem, to its sworn enemies! It beats all common sense why they keep pursuing this futile issue with such tenacity and why Israel is once again caving in. The Palestinians have no interest in making a lasting peace with Israel. It runs completely contrary to their fundamental convictions. Please <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=181fd3c66e&e=50d43714fb"><strong>click here</strong></a> for proof from their statements!<br/> <br/>Right after the announcement of the renewed peace negotiations, Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash reassured opponents within the Palestinian camp that the present political peace process is just part of a larger scheme to defeat Israel. Here is a quote from an article in<em>Israel Today</em> (July 29, 2013) by Ryan Jones:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=8tpm3hc1ijeik#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="">[i]</a><br/><br/>“In a sermon delivered in the presence of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV, Al-Habbash compared the US-driven peace negotiations to the Hudaybiyyah Peace Treaty concluded between Islam's prophet Mohammed and the Quraish tribe of Mecca.<br/> <br/>“Peace talks with Israel at this time are "the right path, which leads to achievement, exactly like the Prophet [Mohammed] did in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah," Al-Habbash stated, noting that all of the Palestinians' achievements to date "never would have happened through Hamas' impulsive adventure."<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=a09ce236b4&e=50d43714fb" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3400" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3400"><img height="334" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/Screen_Shot_2013_08_13_at_12.03.56_PMc95af7.jpg" width="560" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3399" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3399"/></a><br/> <br/>“Al-Habbash explained that, like Hamas, many of Mohammed's companions burned with anger that their leader was negotiating with the Quraish tribe rather than attacking Mecca. But Mohammed knew that only a more measured approach would lead to ultimate victory.<br/> <br/>“Two years after signing the treaty, Mohammed's forces had gained enough strength and he launched the brutal conquest of Mecca.<br/> <br/>“"This is the example and this is the model" that the Palestinian leadership is following, Al-Habbash acknowledged.<br/> <br/>“Amazingly, all of the doe-eyed Israeli commentators who believe that this round of negotiations is for some reason going to be different from all the previous fail to take the simple step of listening to what the Palestinians themselves are saying.<br/> <br/>“"Abbas is a real peace partner," they shout, while willfully ignoring what Abbas' own ministers are telling the public, in his name and in his presence, without any refutation by the "president."<br/> <br/>[Translation of Al-Habbash's televised speech courtesy of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=bc8dbde9ea&e=50d43714fb">Palestinian Media Watch</a>]” (End quote)<br/> <br/>Nobel Prize winner Professor Yisrael Aumann won the prestigious Nobel Prize for his research in game theory. Among his notable research are findings regarding war and conflict, including the theory that overly simplistic attempts at peace <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=80797b490a&e=50d43714fb"><strong>can cause war,</strong></a> while credible threats of violence can prevent it. He has compared the Israel-Arab conflict to the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=6fb94e8d5a&e=50d43714fb"><strong>"blackmailer's paradox" in game theory</strong></a>. Here are some of his statements from a recent interview,<br/><br/><img height="314" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/F090107NS01_635x357c14ab7.jpg" width="560" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3401" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3401"/>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3402"><span><span>[Professor Yisrael (Robert) Aumann] </span></span></div>
“Aumann is baffled by Israel’s decision to return to negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. It is obvious that peace talks with PA Chairman Abbas are meaningless, he told <em>Arutz Sheva</em>.<br/> <br/>““This whole matter of diplomatic negotiations is absurd. The whole Middle East is going up in flames, there’s chaos in Syria, Egypt, and Iraq – and the Americans are only worried about us,” he said.<br/> <br/>““It’s clear as day that any agreement signed with [Abbas] isn’t worth the paper it’s written on,” he argued. “Abbas cannot sign anything real. After all, as soon as we expelled the Jews from Gush Katif, Fatah was pushed out of Gaza, so his signature means nothing.” Abbas’ PA currently has effective control only in Judea and Samaria, while Hamas controls Gaza. In addition, Abbas’ term in office expired in 2009.<br/> <br/>“Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria only made things worse, he said. “When you demonstrate weakness, that invites further attacks,” he warned.<br/> <br/>“He compared it to encountering a black bear. “If you see a bear, the worst thing you can do is run. That’s the worst, because the bear will chase you and catch you… You also must not approach him, and definitely do not turn your back… You need to stop and look at him, that’s what I always do, and after a few minutes he leaves.”<br/> <br/>“It’s the same way with people… Whenever Israel defeated its enemies – after the Six Day war, the Entebbe operation, the strike on the [Iraqi] reactor – everywhere on earth people told us, ‘Good for you.’ When we expelled Israelis in the Disengagement nobody told us ‘good for you,’” he concluded.”<a rel="nofollow" href="http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=8tpm3hc1ijeik#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="">[ii]</a> (End quote)<br/> <br/>In the end, US pressure to force Israel into this deception will harm the US a lot more than Israel. God will not be silent over this issue! When God restores the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, as He has done over the past century, He will enter into judgment with all nations over the division of His Land.<br/> <br/>It is also written, <em>“On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. <strong>All who lift it will surely hurt themselves</strong>.”</em> (Zec 12:3) The United States of America is no exception! Just as the sun sets in the west at the end of the day, so at the end of this age, the sun is now beginning to set over the West while God’s glory is rising over Zion!<br/> <br/>After Great Britain had issued the Balfour Declaration to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, but then in the end refused to support its implementation, it ceased to be a world power in less than a decade. The same will happen to the US as they now pursue a similar path; it is already happening rapidly under President Obama.<br/> <br/>However, Israel will also be hurt if they continue to pursue these futile peace negotiations. It will be Oslo revisited again with more death and pain. The Oslo Peace Accords led to <strong>more than 1,200 Israeli deaths and 14,000 wounded in terror attacks</strong>! This is equivalent to 50,000 dead and almost 600,000 wounded in the US.<br/> <br/>Only God knows what another disastrous peace agreement with the Palestinians will lead to. But one thing is clear: it will definitely not lead to peace!<br/>
<h2 class="yiv0430246837null"><strong>Pray For a New Leadership</strong></h2>
Not only has Israel agreed to negotiate the surrender of its own heartland to their enemies. The US, who refuses to release the dying Jonathan Pollard, has also pressured Israel to release more than 100 hardcore terrorists with blood on their hands, in order to just start the negotiations!<br/><br/><img height="345" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/isr_prisoner_release_protest_tel_aviv_reuters_08122013_584.jpeg" width="560" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3403" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3403"/>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3406"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3405"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3404">[Demonstrators hold a placard and a picture of an Israeli who was killed by Palestinian terrorists, during a protest against the government's plan to free Palestinian prisoners with blood on their hands, in Tel Aviv on August 12.]</span></span></div>
<br/>As much as we love and appreciate Benjamin Netanyahu and all that he has done and is doing for Israel, and as important as it is that we continue to uphold him in prayer as long as he is in office, we also believe that it is time to pray for a new leadership to come forth in Israel. This is very important!<br/> <br/>If Netanyahu continues with the peace negotiations to establish a second Arab Palestinian state on Israel’s heartland, it will most likely lead, not only to the break up of the present Government in Israel, but also to the breakup of his own Likud party. The result will be very ugly and painful for Israel. One leader waiting in the wings is Danny Danon. Daniel Pipes recently wrote in an article in Jerusalem Post called <em>The Right Moment for Danny Dannon?</em>:<br/> <br/>“‘Lunacy.” That’s how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian Authority as a “goodwill gesture.”<br/> <br/>“He’s hardly alone, as many observers (including myself) are outraged by this move. But Danon, 42, has a unique place in this debate because he (1) sits in the parliament as a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, (2) is chairman of Likud’s powerful central committee, and (3) serves as the country’s deputy defense minister.<br/> <br/>“Danon’s ability to denounce his own prime minister’s actions points to his not being a routine politician. Three qualities stand out: a devotion to principle, a mastery of tactics, and the ability to articulate a vision.<br/> <br/>“Danon has remained true to the core principles of his party and his country. His righteous opposition when his party makes mistakes – such as the 2009 freeze on building residences for Jews in the West Bank, or accepting the two-state solution – shows a strength of character. As he points out, “It’s not easy being in a room of 30 people, alone saying no.”<br/> <br/>“His rise through the country’s national camp institutions reveals tactical skill: serving as assistant to Uzi Landau, as head of the World Betar Organization, then head of the World Likud Organization, as organizer of street protests and challenger to the prime minister for the party’s leadership.<br/><br/><img height="326" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/pic_giant_080613_SM_Danny_Danons_Moment.jpg" width="560" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3407" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3407"/>
<div><span><span>[Knesset Member Danny Danon] </span></span></div>
“These efforts culminated in his strong showing in his party’s electoral list (coming in No. 5) and the jaw-dropping 85 percent of the vote he won in elections to lead Likud’s central committee.<br/> <br/>“With reason, The Forward newspaper calls him “a master of social and conventional media,” and the Times of Israel deems him “a major stumbling block toward Palestinian statehood.”<br/> <br/>“Finally, the vision: Its fullest articulation is found in his 2012 book, Israel: The Will to Prevail (Palgrave), where he sketches an ambitious and contrarian view of his country’s foreign policy.<br/> <br/>“Arguing that “history shows us Israel is often better off when she acts on her own behalf... even if that means contravening the wishes of US administrations,” he concludes that the Jewish state “fares best when she makes decisions based on her own best interests.”<br/> <br/>“Jerusalem, he holds, should pursue its goals “with or without backing from her allies.” This argument, commonplace enough for most states, is audacious in the case of small, beleaguered Israel.<br/> <br/>“Danon’s moment may have arrived. As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the PA, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister (remember “lunacy”).<br/> <br/>“Should Netanyahu feel no longer welcome in his own party and leave it to found a new one (following exactly in Ariel Sharon’s 2005 footsteps), Danon will be a potential candidate to lead the Likud and win a subsequent election.<br/> <br/>“One sign of his rise is the invective used against him. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni coined the term “Danonism” and demanded that Netanyahu reject it. Gideon Levy, an extreme-Left columnist for Haaretz, disdainfully but fearfully writes that “little Danny Danon will be big, the sugar of the Israeli right.... [He] will go far.”<br/> <br/>“Viewed in historical perspective, since the taciturn but principled Yitzhak Shamir left the prime ministry in 1992, his six successors have variously engaged in political betrayal, ethical corruption and delusional egotism. Sharon (2001-06) abandoned his electoral mandate to the point that he had to flee his own party, even as his financial shenanigans had him in constant trouble with the law. Ehud Olmert (2006-09) had to resign due to a cloud of corruption charges.<br/> <br/>“Focused on the Iranian threat, Netanyahu was doing well since 2009, but his recent offer of 104 murderers disturbingly contradicts the electoral platform of half a year ago.<br/> <br/>“On a personal note, through the two decades since Shamir, I have constantly looked for someone with the character, energy, skills and vision to lead Israel. I have known Danon since 2009 and have concluded that he has the necessary qualities. I hope and expect he will stay true to his principles and rise to the point where he can end the recent desultory politics of the Jewish state and bring them in line with the country’s many remarkable achievements.”<a rel="nofollow" href="http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=8tpm3hc1ijeik#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title="">[iii]</a> (End quote)<br/>
<h2 class="yiv0430246837null"><strong>Another Important Prayer Request</strong></h2>
When basically all the nations of the world pulled their embassies out of Jerusalem, after Israel voted to declare Jerusalem to be their eternal, undivided capitol, Christian supporters of Israel took the initiative to establish the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ).<br/> <br/>As the nations of the world now unilaterally reject Israel’s right to Judea and Samaria, a similar initiative is now emerging, this time, however, from Jewish rabbis in Israel! Having noticed the unselfish and unwavering support year after year of the volunteer organization <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=fca7df4af5&e=50d43714fb"><strong>HaYovel</strong></a> led by Tommy and Sherri Waller from Nashville TN, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed has taken an initiative to establish a Christian Zionist Visitor Center on the Mount of Blessing in Samaria, in order to strengthen and encourage Christian support for the so called settlers.<br/> <br/>Rabbi Melamed is Head of Yeshivat Har Bracha and is a prolific author on Jewish Law. He is well known in Israel and has a popular weekly column in the Beersheva newspaper called "Revivim." At the moment he is gathering other rabbis in Israel to get behind his historic initiative with a visitor center open for Christians on the Mount of Blessing.<br/> <br/>We need to pray that Rabbi Melamed will succeed. Melamed has said that it is time for the Jewish people to act like Abraham, and open up the tent in order to receive those that have come to support them. He has gone even further and stated about HaYovel, “If we say no to these people, we will say no to the Messiah!”<br/> <br/>HaYovel Ministries is this year once again mobilizing believers in Yeshua from the nations to help the farmers in Judea and Samaria to harvest their vineyards and olive groves. The number of volunteers is higher than ever this year. It is a fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah, which describes the restoration of Israel and says,<br/> <br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3409">“They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3408">foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers</strong>.” </em>(Isa 61:4-5)<br/><br/><img height="315" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/hayovel.jpg" width="560" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3410" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3410"/><br/> <br/><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3411">We have eight people who are willing and eager to join HaYovel in the harvest in Israel </span>this fall, but they need financial help in order to do so. You can go to our web site to donate money to help them. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thewatchman.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d25319445b557402e5432ea00&id=62aee76dce&e=50d43714fb"><strong>Click here!</strong></a> Please indicate your donation “HaYovel.” Thank you for getting involved in the restoration of Israel!<br/><br/>Let us all do what we can right now to bless and comfort Israel in practical ways. Pray for the work of HaYovel and also help us send people to work with them this fall! If you cannot go yourself you can send someone else.<br/>
<h2 class="yiv0430246837null"><strong>Prayer Points:</strong></h2>
<strong>• Pray that the “peace negotiations” to divide God’s Land will fail and that more leaders in Israel will speak out against the “two state solution”!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3497">“On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3496">All who lift it will surely hurt themselves</strong>.”</em> (Zec 12:3)<br/> <br/><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3471">• Pray that God will send strong confusion and division into the peace negotiations so that they will end as soon as possible!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3498">“The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; <strong>he frustrates the plans of the peoples</strong>. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.” </em>(Ps 33:10-11)<br/> <br/><strong>• Pray that God will raise up new leaders in Israel that will do His will and will refuse to negotiate the surrender of their heartland!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3412">“I have given strength to a soldier. I have raised up a young man from among the people… My powerful hand will keep him going.
My mighty arm will give him strength. <strong>No enemies will require him to bring gifts to them</strong>.
No evil person will beat him down.” </em>(Ps 89:19-22 NIV)<br/> <br/><strong>• Pray for the ministry of HaYovel and that we can send workers this fall to help Jewish farmers in Judea and Samaria!</strong><br/><em>“They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; <strong>foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers</strong>.” </em>(Isa 61:4-5)<br/> <br/><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3413">• Pray that Rabbi Melamed's vision of a Visitor Center for Christian Zionists on the Mount of Blessing will get strong support and quickly succeed!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3502">“Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand… And I will make them one nation in the land, <strong>on the mountains of Israel</strong>.”</em>(Ez 37:16-17,22)<br/> <br/><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3501">• Pray that Israel will continue to build in Judea, Samaria, Golan and East Jerusalem like never before despite international pressure!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3470">“And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’” </em>(Zec 12:5 NKJV)<br/> <br/><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3500">• Pray that God will give wisdom to Israel to deal with the dangerous situation in Syria, Iran and Sinai!</strong><br/><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376452627549_3499">“There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.” </em>(Deut 33:26.27)<br/><br/>May God bless you as watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem!<br/><br/><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d25319445b557402e5432ea00/images/lars_harriet_signature.png"/></td>
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Aborted Human Fetal Cells in Your Food, Vaccines & Cosmetics
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2013-08-13T06:06:35.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p>You will have no doubt that we are in the DAYS OF NOAH when you read the following article:</p>
<p><span>Dr. Helen Ratajczak, a former drug company scientist, just published a comprehensive review of autism research. Buried in her 79-page review, on page 70, are five words that reveal a secret Big Pharma has kept from you:</span><br></br><span>"...grown in human fetal tissue."</span><br></br><span>As Dr. Mercola reports for Health Impact News Daily, Dec. 21, 2011, the line reads (page…</span></p>
<p>You will have no doubt that we are in the DAYS OF NOAH when you read the following article:</p>
<p><span>Dr. Helen Ratajczak, a former drug company scientist, just published a comprehensive review of autism research. Buried in her 79-page review, on page 70, are five words that reveal a secret Big Pharma has kept from you:</span><br/><span>"...grown in human fetal tissue."</span><br/><span>As Dr. Mercola reports for Health Impact News Daily, Dec. 21, 2011, the line reads (page 70):</span><br/><span>"An additional increased spike in incidence of autism occurred in 1995 when the chicken pox vaccine was grown in human fetal tissue."</span><br/><span>But that fact is never disclosed in your vaccine consent form, which is why most people are unaware that cell cultures derived from aborted human fetuses have been used extensively in vaccine production for decades. And vaccine makers are just content that most of the public are ignorant of this most inconvenient truth. For if we knew, we might be dissuaded from getting the vaccine.</span><br/><br/><span>Read more:</span><br/><a href="http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwakeupcallnews.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F08%2Faborted-human-fetal-cells-in-your-food.html&session_token=SBQP0LR68a575SwYE7wbOaCnq8Z8MTM3NjQ1OTQzNkAxMzc2MzczMDM2" target="_blank" title="http://wakeupcallnews.blogspot.com/2013/08/aborted-human-fetal-cells-in-your-food.html" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link">http://wakeupcallnews.blogspot.com/20...</a></p>
PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTERS ENDORSE KILLING NEWBORN BABIES
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-13:5544986:BlogPost:22730
2013-08-13T05:30:00.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<p id="BlogTitle"><strong>Obama Supporters Sign Petition Calling For Killing Newborn Babies Under Obamacare</strong></p>
<div id="BlogContent"><p>Infanticide is now being seriously proposed by some in medical establishment</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> August 12, 2013</p>
<p>A new video by social analyst Mark Dice shows Obama supporters in San Diego signing a petition to back making infanticide (post-birth abortion) legal under Obamacare.</p>
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<p id="BlogTitle"><strong>Obama Supporters Sign Petition Calling For Killing Newborn Babies Under Obamacare</strong></p>
<div id="BlogContent"><p>Infanticide is now being seriously proposed by some in medical establishment</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> August 12, 2013</p>
<p>A new video by social analyst Mark Dice shows Obama supporters in San Diego signing a petition to back making infanticide (post-birth abortion) legal under Obamacare.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XoHFWx5JWEk&t=0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XoHFWx5JWEk&t=0</a></p>
<p>Dice explained that the petition supported giving parents the right to kill children aged under 3-years-old in order to “relieve the burden to deal with the children themselves”.</p>
<p>Others were told that killing babies would “help keep the population down” as they signed the petition.</p>
<p>One man even signed the petition while holding his own child on his shoulders as Dice explained that the petition was to “support infanticide for small children”.</p>
<p>“It’s sort of like infanticide, homicide, it’s the parents’ right to eliminate the burden of having to have to take care of the child themselves,” Dice told another signatory to the petition. “Post birth abortion….It’s like homicide for children,” Dice told another woman.</p>
<p>Once again, Dice illustrated that the public can be made to get behind virtually anything, so long as it’s backed by the words “support Obama”.</p>
<p>In another recent video, Media Research Center reporter Dan Joseph convinced numerous students at George Mason University (GMU) to sign a petition demanding lawmakers legalize “fourth trimester” abortions, in other words killing babies that had already been born.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4v8--9R0I2Q&t=0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4v8--9R0I2Q&t=0</a></p>
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<p align="left">While these videos show how gullible the public is when it comes to supporting the horrific practice of infanticide, something that <a href="http://www.infowars.com/gosnell-worker-heard-baby-screaming-during-live-birth-abortion/">“house of horrors” abortionist Kermit Gosnell</a> carried out on a routine basis, legalizing post-birth abortion has actually been seriously proposed by the medical establishment.</p>
<p align="left">Last year, the University of Melbourne’s Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva <a href="http://www.infowars.com/medical-journalists-call-for-%E2%80%98after-birth-abortions%E2%80%99-say-infants-%E2%80%98aren%E2%80%99t-people%E2%80%99/">wrote a paper</a> arguing that “after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn baby) should be permissible, including in cases where the newborn is not disabled.”</p>
<p align="left">The notion of infanticide was also implicitly<a href="http://www.infowars.com/msnbc-host-says-newborn-infants-dont-count-as-alive/">backed by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry</a>, who recently said that newborn infants don’t count as being considered “alive”.</p>
<p align="left">Facebook @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71">https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71</a><br/> FOLLOW Paul Joseph Watson @ <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet">https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet</a></p>
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<p align="left">Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for <a href="http://infowars.com/">Infowars.com</a> and <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.</p>
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THE FUTURE OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE
tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-13:5544986:BlogPost:22633
2013-08-13T05:25:03.000Z
Ron J. Weiss
http://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/RonJWeiss
<h1>You Only Live Twice</h1>
<h2>Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century?</h2>
<p class="byline"><strong>By <span class="byline_author">Michel Gurfinkiel</span></strong></p>
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<h1>You Only Live Twice</h1>
<h2>Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century?</h2>
<p class="byline"><strong>By <span class="byline_author">Michel Gurfinkiel</span></strong></p>
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<div class="article_content"><div id="article_content_container"><p><span class="dropcap">S</span>amuel Sandler, an aeronautical engineer and head of the Jewish community in Versailles, France, announced a few weeks ago that he’d had the local synagogue registered as a national landmark. “My feeling is that our congregation will be gone within twenty or thirty years,” he told friends, “and I don’t want the building demolished or, worse, used for improper purposes.”</p>
<p>Once the seat of French royalty, Versailles is now among the tranquil, prosperous, and upscale suburbs of Greater Paris. Among the townspeople are executives employed in gleaming corporate headquarters a few miles away. They and their churchgoing families inhabit early-20th-century villas and late-20th-century condominiums set in majestic greenery. Among the townspeople too, are a thousand or so Jews of similar economic and social status who have made their homes in Versailles and nearby towns. In addition to the synagogue and community center of Versailles itself, a dozen more synagogues dot the surrounding area.</p>
<p>So what makes Sandler so pessimistic about the future?</p>
<p>One answer might be thought to lie in the personal tragedy that befell him last year, when an Islamist terrorist shot and killed his son Jonathan, a thirty-year-old rabbi at a school in the southern city of Toulouse, along with Jonathan’s two sons, ages six and three, and an eight-year-old girl. But Sandler had faced his grief with uncommon courage and self-control. Both at the funeral in Jerusalem and in later media appearances, he had made a point of defending democracy, patriotic values, and interfaith dialogue.</p>
<p>Personal experience, then, may play a part in explaining Sandler’s grim diagnosis of the prospects of French Jewry, and by implication of European Jewry at large; but it is far from the whole story. Nor is that diagnosis unique to him. To the contrary, the more one travels throughout Europe, the more one confronts an essential paradox: the European Jewish idyll represented by Versailles is very common; so is the dire view articulated by Samuel Sandler.</p>
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<h3>1. THE PARADOX</h3>
<p><strong>European Judaism <i>looks </i>healthy, and secure</strong>. Religious and cultural activities are everywhere on the rise. Last December, in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, an exquisite new synagogue was inaugurated in Ulm, the most recent in a long series of new or recently restored sanctuaries in Germany. In Paris, a European Center for Judaism will soon be built under the auspices of the Consistoire (the French union of synagogues) and the French government. Many European capitals now harbor major Jewish museums or Holocaust memorials. In Paris, a visitor can proceed from the National Museum for Jewish Art and History housed at the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, a 17th-century mansion in the Marais district, to the national Shoah memorial near the Seine, to the Drancy Holocaust memorial in the northern suburbs. Berlin hosts the Jüdisches Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind; the cemetery-like grid of the Mahnmal, the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe whose concrete slabs are spread over an entire city block in the center of the capital; and another national Holocaust memorial and educational center at Wannsee.</p>
<p>And yet, despite all their success and achievement, the majority of European Jews, seconded by many Jewish and non-Jewish experts, insist that catastrophe may lie ahead.</p>
<p>One does not have to look far to see why. A large-scale survey commissioned by the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) tells a tale of widespread and persistent anti-Semitism. Although the full study is not due to be released until October, the salient facts <a href="http://jppi.org.il/uploads/EUROPEAN%20JEWRY%20%E2%80%93%20SIGNALS%20AND%20NOISE.pdf" target="_blank">have been summarized</a> by EU officials and by researchers like Dov Maimon, a French-born Israeli scholar at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem. Among the findings: more than one in four Jews report experiencing anti-Semitic harassment at least once in the twelve months preceding the survey; one in three have experienced such harassment over the past five years; just under one in ten have experienced a physical attack or threat in the same period; and between two-fifths and one-half in France, Belgium, and Hungary have considered emigrating because they feel unsafe.</p>
<p>Statistics from my native France, home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, go back farther in time and tell an even darker tale. Since 2000, 7,650 anti-Semitic incidents have been reliably <a href="http://antisemitisme.org/" target="_blank">reported</a> to the Jewish Community Security Service and the French ministry of the interior; this figure omits incidents known to have occurred but unreported to the police. The incidents range from hate speech, anti-Semitic graffiti, and verbal threats to defacement of synagogues and other Jewish buildings, to acts of violence and terror including arson, bombings, and murder.</p>
<p>And that is just France. All over Europe, with exceptions here and there, the story is much the same. Nor do the figures take into account the menacing atmosphere created by the incessant spewing of hatred against the people and the state of Israel at every level of society, including the universities and the elite and mass media, to the point where polls show <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-150-million-europeans-anti-semites-or-dangerous-idiots/" target="_blank">as many as 40 percent</a> of Europeans holding the opinion that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians; or the recent moves to ban circumcision and kosher slaughter; or the intense social pressures created by the rise of radical and often violent Islam of the kind that targeted Samuel Sandler’s son and grandchildren (and of which more below).</p>
<p>Statements by EU officials and others, even while they acknowledge the “frightening” degree of anti-Semitism prevalent in today’s Europe, and even while they promise to “fight against it with all the means at their disposal,” also <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-life-in-europe-dying-a-slow-death/" target="_blank">contend</a> (in the words of the prime minister of Baden-Württemberg) that anti-Semitism is “not present in the heart of society” or in “major political parties.” Such bland reassurances have quite understandably brought little comfort.</p>
<p>Against this backdrop, it is little wonder that even so sober an analyst as Robert Wistrich of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of definitive works on the history and dynamics of anti-Semitism, has concluded that although the final endpoint of European Jewry may be decades in coming, “any clear-sighted and sensible Jew who has a sense of history would understand that this is the time to get out.”</p>
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<h3>2. “A SENSE OF HISTORY”</h3>
<p><b>For many European Jews, </b>there is indeed a <i>déjà vu </i>quality to the present situation. Like Israelis, but unlike most American Jews, today’s European Jews are survivors, or children of survivors, either of the Holocaust or of the near-complete expulsion of Jews from Islamic countries that took place in the second half of the 20th century. They know, from personal experience or from the testimony of direct and irrefutable witnesses, how things unfolded in the not too distant past, and how a seemingly normal Jewish life could be destroyed overnight. When anti-Semitic incidents or other problems accumulate, they can’t help asking whether history is repeating itself.</p>
<p>“Call it the yogurt’s-expiration-date syndrome,” an elderly, Moroccan-born Frenchman recently said to me. He elaborated:</p>
<p>Right after Morocco won its independence from France in 1956, my family joined the country’s ruling elite. My father, a close friend of King Mohammed V, had access to everybody in the government. It went on like that for two or three years. Then one day, out of the blue, Father told us we were leaving. We children asked why. “We’ve passed the yogurt’s expiration date,” he said. “We have no future in Morocco; as long as we’re free to go, we must go.” So we left, leaving behind most of our money and belongings. Ever since then, wherever I’ve lived, I’ve been on the lookout for the yogurt’s expiration date. In France, I think it’s close.</p>
<p>To contemporary European Jews like this one, today’s anxieties thus also recall the crucial choice they or their parents made some 30 or 50 or 70 years ago when, having survived the Holocaust, they resolved to stay in Europe—more accurately, in Western Europe, under the American umbrella—or, having been forced out of Islamic countries, to flee to Europe. Was this the right choice, after all? Hadn’t a majority both of the surviving European Jews and of the refugees from the Arab world decided otherwise?</p>
<p>Yes, they had; and here too a little history is helpful. Back in the early 1930s, there were about 10 million self-identified Jews in Europe (including the USSR). There were also others—estimates range from one to three million—who for one reason or another had converted to Christianity but retained a consciousness of their Jewish identity or who had intermarried or otherwise assimilated into Gentile society without converting.</p>
<p>Half of this prewar European population perished in the Holocaust. Of the five to seven million survivors, about 1.5 million emigrated to the newborn state of Israel throughout the late 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Another half-million made it to the United States—a number that would surely have been higher had the restrictive quota system introduced in the 1920’s not still been in place. About 200,000 wound up in Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, South Africa, and Australia/ New Zealand. As for the roughly 2.5 million locked up in the Soviet Union and Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, most made their way to Israel or the United States whenever the opportunity presented itself.</p>
<p>All in all, then, about two-thirds of post-Holocaust European Jews left Europe, and only one third remained. And the same is true of the more than one million Jewish refugees from Islamic countries. Upon being expelled or encouraged to leave, two-thirds headed to Israel and one third to Europe (or, in a few cases, to the United States or Canada). The proportion might vary according to country of origin—90 percent of Iraqi and Yemeni Jews emigrated to Israel, versus just 30 percent of Egyptian Jews— but the total ratio remained two-to-one against the continent.</p>
<p>What then motivated the minority that either stayed in or opted for Europe? For the most part, Jews who before the war had been citizens of Western European countries were eager, once their rights and property were restored, to resume their former life as soon and as completely as possible, even at the price of a certain selective amnesia about their country’s wartime behavior. What the researcher Guri Schwarz observes about postwar Italian Jews can be generalized to others:</p>
<p>What emerges from the Jewish press, from memoirs, and from diaries as well as from declarations of community leaders is the marked inclination to deny Italian responsibility in the origin and implementation of persecution for the period 1938-1943 as well as for the period of mass murder and deportation that followed the [1943] armistice with the Allied forces. This behavior, in many ways similar to that adopted by Jews in other Western countries—such as France, Holland, and Belgium—can be understood if we consider the intense desire to reintegrate into society and the conviction that such a process would be easier if [Jews] avoided attracting too much attention to their specific tragedy.</p>
<p>Another factor here was that many refugees from Islamic countries were technically also West European citizens, and entitled as such to resettlement in the “mother country” with full rights and benefits. This was true of Algerian Jews, who as a group had been granted French citizenship in 1870; of many Tunisian or Moroccan Jews who had opted for French citizenship under France’s protectorate; and of some Jews from Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria who were registered as Europeans under the terms of longstanding contracts between the European powers and the Ottoman Empire. Libyan Jews, as former Italian colonial subjects, were admitted to Italy, and residents of the former Spanish protectorate in northern Morocco to Spain.</p>
<p>As for refugees with no claim to citizenship in a West European nation, they might enter first as asylum seekers and then apply for permanent status. In <i>The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit</i>, her poignant memoir of her family’s “riches-to-rags” expulsion from Egypt in 1956, Lucette Lagnado recalls the “relatively efficient, coordinated system of social services and relief agencies dedicated to helping refugees” in Paris:</p>
<p>Funded by private philanthropists like the Rothschilds, as well as by deep-pocketed American Jewish organizations, the French groups tried to lessen the trauma. Refugees were immediately given a free place to live—typically a room or two in an inexpensive hotel—along with subsidized meals. They were put in contact with officials who would help them find them a permanent home somewhere in the world.</p>
<p>In the end, the Lagnados secured American visas, but many other Egyptian refugees in Paris would strike roots in the “narrow, winding streets” around the relief agencies and the Great Synagogue in the ninth arrondissement, just like previous waves of refugees from Eastern and Central Europe, “old furriers who still spoke German, and Polish, and Yiddish.”</p>
<p>Culturally speaking, many of these new outsiders felt at home in Western Europe. Before the war, the Jewish upper and upper-middle classes in Central and Eastern Europe had learned French and English along with German and Russian and had imbibed bourgeois Western European values. The Jewish elites in Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Iran had also been formed in French, German, or Anglo-Saxon schools. While in Paris, Lucette Lagnado’s French-educated mother, otherwise very Jewish and strictly kosher, would take her regularly to Parc Monceau to remind her that “this was Marcel Proust’s playground. . . . And she said it with so much feeling and intensity that I knew I was expected to absorb the magic.”</p>
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<h3>3. A GOLDEN AGE</h3>
<p><b>Soon enough, another and quite unexpected reason </b>emerged to join or to stay in Western Europe. Old Europe, since 1914 the continent of gloom and doom, war and revolution, physical and moral exhaustion, division and crisis, decadence and tyranny, was giving way to a New Europe: optimistic, free, open-minded, united. Whereas the continent’s reorganization after World War I had been a total failure, the Western Europe that emerged from World War II looked increasingly like a success story—even, as was commonly said, a miracle.</p>
<p>What happened, basically, was Americanization. The U.S.—which this time, unlike after the previous World War, had resolved to stay in Europe—was a powerfully benign hegemon. As Western Europe strove to catch up with American standards of living and the American spirit, Washington provided military security both against Soviet expansion and, within Europe itself, between neighbor and neighbor. This in turn boosted regional cooperation and lent credibility to age-old projects for a European confederation.</p>
<p>The thrust toward cooperation and unification helped the Europeans to make optimal use of the Marshall Plan and other American-sponsored mechanisms and regimes, from the Bretton-Woods agreements to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Organization for European Cooperation and Development, GATT, and beyond. Economic efficiency, combined with the postwar baby boom and the need to rebuild wrecked cities, factories, harbors, railways, and roads led rapidly to prosperity in most West European countries, with full employment, rising wages, and the consolidation or expansion of welfare programs from health care to housing to education. Finally, prosperity fostered political stability, the rule of law, human rights, and religious <i>aggiornamento </i>and tolerance, supplanting, for the first time in a century, the trademark European paradigms of racism, extreme nationalism, and class war.</p>
<p>In spite of occasional setbacks (in particular, the global crisis of the 1970’s) and negative side-effects (including the tendency to forget or to derogate the American role in the European miracle), this virtuous circle would prevail for a half-century. It culminated in the 1989 Western victory in the cold war, the incorporation into the West European fold of almost all of the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe and even three former Soviet republics, and finally the establishment of the European Union in 1993.</p>
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<p>And where were the Jews in this picture? Suddenly, they were welcome in Europe <i>as</i>Jews, to a degree unseen since the Emancipation in the late-18th and 19th century. From despised or barely tolerated outcasts, or more or less pitied victims, they became exemplary and even archetypal Europeans, if not the very embodiment of what the new Europe was supposed to be. Their persecution at the hands of the Nazis, a haunting episode that most Europeans would refuse even to discuss in the immediate postwar era, now served to epitomize what the new Europe was <i>not</i>, and whose recurrence it had been designed to prevent.</p>
<p>Not that this Jewish transformation emerged quickly or fully formed. Michel Salomon, then the editor of the French Jewish monthly <i>L’Arche</i>, devoted a prescient cover story in the mid-1960s to the rise of what he called the new “Atlantic Jews,” but it was only some fifteen years later, in 1979, that <a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/veil-simone" target="_blank">Simone Veil</a>, a French survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and a former French cabinet minister, was elected as the first chair of the newly established European Parliament.</p>
<p>Ironically, the rise of Israel, the main destination of postwar Jews <i>leaving </i>Europe, became another important element in the upgraded status and growing self-confidence of those who had opted <i>for </i>Europe. One might have expected the contrary. To be sure, Israel’s achievements had dispelled many anti-Jewish stereotypes, but many West European Jews were cautious about expressing their solidarity with the state, either out of guilt over not having cast their lot with it or out of fear that they might render themselves vulnerable to the charge of dual loyalty.</p>
<p>All such worries were washed away by the extraordinary popularity that Israel enjoyed in the Western world throughout the 1950s, 60s, and (to a lesser extent) 70s—a phenomenon still awaiting thorough study. One reason undoubtedly had to do with the way a “normal”—that is, recognizably Western—Jewish state helped West Europeans cope with, or forget, the otherwise discomfiting and unassimilable memory of the Holocaust. Another reason was that Israel fit certain political fantasies on both the Right and the Left. Conservative Europeans, then very much on the defensive, were delighted to discover in the Jewish state the best of their own values: the primacy of a national and cultural heritage, technological and military prowess, refusal to surrender to the “barbarians.” For their part, progressive Europeans were happy to celebrate the land of David Ben-Gurion, the kibbutz, and the Labor party as the very picture of their own utopian socialist dream come true.</p>
<p>In whichever form it took, Israel’s popularity reflected positively on Jews everywhere: so much so, that the more European Jews identified themselves with the Jewish state, the easier and the more thoroughly they were accepted as bona-fide European citizens. Indeed, the image generated by Israel, in combination with the optimism generated by the European virtuous circle, helped produce a minor virtuous circle inside the Jewish community itself.</p>
<p>Demographically, the postwar baby boom rejuvenated post-1945 West European Jewry, which was then further enlarged by immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. In France, the Sephardi input was spectacular: between 1945 and 1970, the French Jewish population leapt from under 300,000 to more than 600,000. In Italy, newcomers from Libya and other Mediterranean countries allowed the local Jewish community to maintain its 1945 level (roughly, 40,000 souls) despite emigration and rampant assimilation and intermarriage. In Spain, a shadowy post-Civil War community numbering in the low thousands rose rapidly to 15,000 thanks to immigrants chiefly from Morocco. Smaller inflows benefited other communities from Switzerland to Belgium to Scandinavia.</p>
<p>The quantitative impact of this immigration yielded qualitative results, enabling some communities to reach a sufficient critical mass to sustain Jewish activities. Overnight, it became feasible to provide kosher food, build synagogues, open schools, publish books, and launch media. Sephardi immigrants in particular, being much more traditional and more “ethnic” than the native Ashkenazim, also ranked higher in Jewish self-identification. Despite the internal differences among them—assimilated Jews from Algiers, Casablanca, and Tunis bore little resemblance to the strictly Orthodox Jews from the Moroccan Atlas, the Algerian hinterland, or Jerba in southern Tunisia—all came from countries where religion, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, was the ultimate defining factor in public as well as private matters.</p>
<p>Jewish daily life was remodeled accordingly. France, which in 1960 boasted 40 kosher butchers in all, today has more than 300 butchers and as many stores, including the major supermarket chains, selling processed kosher foods. In 1960, there were four kosher restaurants in the entire country; today there are <a href="http://gurfinkielkasher.blogspot.fr/2013/05/kosher-in-paris-spring-2013_23.html" target="_blank">one hundred times as many</a>. Where Jewish schools numbered about 40 in the early 1960s, with fewer than 2,000 pupils, today there are 286 schools serving 32,000 pupils. Some 45 percent of all Jewish children attend a Jewish school for at least a couple of years, and most study at least for bar- or bat-mitzvah.</p>
<p>Together with the flourishing market for Jewish services and a more tradition-leaning Jewish profile came greater confidence. Earliest to emerge were pro-Israel political activism, increased proficiency in Hebrew, more talmudic studies, and Orthodox revivalism, soon followed by the discovery of Diaspora subcultures and their languages (Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic) and an upsurge in non-Orthodox religious denominations.</p>
<p>In sum, European Jews had entered a golden age, and as news of it spread, more non-European Jews joined the party. In the 1990s and into the first decade of the 21st century, sizable numbers of post-Soviet Jews immigrated to the European Union, chiefly to Germany. Some Israelis, too, moved to Europe, and many others without immediate plans went through the process of reclaiming their parents’ citizenship. For some Jewish or Israeli intellectuals and artists, Europe seemed like a New Jerusalem: more democratic, more promising, and more “Jewish-friendly” than Israel or the United States. There was the benign case of the Rumanian-born Elie Barnavi, a Tel Aviv University professor and briefly an envoy to France who was also closely associated with the Museum of Europe in Brussels and who for a while became a rhapsodist of the EU, which he described as a “democratic Holy Roman Empire.” There was also the grievous case of Avraham Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset and former head of the Jewish Agency who turned against Zionism and publicly urged his fellow Israelis to procure European passports and leave their own benighted country behind.</p>
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<h3>4. SEEDS OF A NEW ANTI-SEMITISM</h3>
<p><b>According to rabbinic tradition, anti-Semitism starts </b>when Jews beguile themselves into thinking they can fulfill their destiny in exile. Indeed, the anti-Semitic threat that so many European Jews worry about today materialized around the year 2000, precisely at the moment when Barnavi and Burg fell in love with the dream of Europe. </p>
<p>This, too, was not a sudden or even a completely unforeseen development: many previous phenomena that in themselves had appeared insignificant or negligible, or could be taken as lingering vestiges of a bygone past, turned out to be portents of things to come. Just as some physical or chemical substances may enjoy half-lives for eons, prewar and wartime anti-Semitism did not vanish overnight on VE Day but for a long twilight period continued to exist under one guise or another right alongside the new, emerging philo-Semitism. Conversely, the cycle of postwar philo-Semitism was still in flower when the latest, full-blown anti-Semitic cycle was getting under way.</p>
<p>For the record, it should be noted that in Eastern Europe and the USSR—the same countries that had hosted the killing fields of the Holocaust—anti-Semitism never really abated after 1945, and at times became even more open and strident than before. This accounts not only for the waves of Jewish emigration whenever the Communists permitted it—and continuing even after the fall of Communism—but also for the recent reemergence of explicitly anti-Semitic parties in Poland, Hungary, Rumania, and Ukraine.</p>
<p>Nor had the transition from anti- to philo-Semitism in Western Europe itself been all smooth sailing. An ostensibly repentant West Germany entertained for two decades a fictitious distinction between hard-core Nazis and ordinary Germans, with the latter category including Wehrmacht personnel and less hard-core Nazis who allegedly had been ignorant of or uninvolved in the Holocaust. This subterfuge allowed West German courts to issue light or no sentences to Nazi criminals who came before them, and to postulate a twenty-year statute of limitations on war crimes. In one highly symbolic gesture in 1955, the West German embassy in France attempted to halt the release at Cannes of <a href="http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/4804/features/through-night-and-fog/" target="_blank"><i>Night and Fog</i></a>, Alain Resnais’ documentary film about the Nazi extermination camps.</p>
<p>During the war itself, Britain, the nation that had heroically carried the full weight of battle from the collapse of France in June 1940 to the German assault on the USSR a year later, simultaneously indulged its own form of benign or not so benign anti-Semitism, especially in the form of governmental hostility directed at Zionism and the beleaguered Jewish populace in Mandate Palestine. In France, after the war, Holocaust survivors sometimes had to go to court to retrieve their home or business, or to win back orphaned Jewish children who had been sheltered—and baptized—by Church-supported networks. The postwar French government routinely upheld most non-political Vichy-era legislation and even kept Vichy coins in circulation while insisting that the Vichy state never really existed in the first place—<i>and </i>that the French state and its bureaucrats had taken no part and bore no responsibility whatsoever in the Holocaust. Jews who had been sent to Auschwitz or other death camps were deemed to be only “political deportees” and, as such, inferior in status to deported French Resistance fighters, despite the fact that the latter were not systematically murdered by the Germans and in general enjoyed a much higher rate of survival.</p>
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<p>None of this is to gainsay the benign transformation in Western Europe that was to come. It is rather to reflect on an irony of history: that the seeds of the new anti-Semitism were being planted at about the same time the old anti-Semitism was giving way. In France, moreover, they were being planted by a most unlikely individual.</p>
<p>In May 1940, as France was reeling under the German onslaught, Charles de Gaulle was a junior member of the French cabinet who supported a merger of the French and British empires: a single army, a single government. A month later, he had become the leader of the Free French, a small group of soldiers, civil servants, and colonial administrators who, in cooperation with the British, were intent on resisting the Nazis and the collaborationist Vichy regime.</p>
<p>In time, de Gaulle would grow suspicious of his Anglo-Saxon hosts and benefactors. Neither Churchill nor FDR, he decided (with some justice), really believed that France would rise again from its abysmal defeat or regain its role as a world power. Nor did they see him and his movement as the legitimate heirs of French sovereignty, even when the entire resistance movement pledged allegiance to him. The Roosevelt administration, in particular, was prepared to bypass him entirely and, after the 1944 landing in Normandy, to subject metropolitan France to Allied military rule.</p>
<p>After the war, de Gaulle’s foreign policy—he was prime minister and then president from 1944 to 1946 and from 1958 to 1969—grew fiercely nationalistic, based on a complete rejection of the West and of Anglo-American hegemony. He withdrew from NATO in 1964, sided with the Communists in Indochina in 1966, and supported Quebec separatism in 1967. Tellingly for our purposes, he also terminated an extremely fruitful cooperative relationship with Israel in science, technology, nuclear research, and armaments. As explained dryly by de Gaulle’s foreign minister, Couve de Murville, this was just a matter of national interest: as long as France maintained its special relationship with the “Zionist state,” it would be unable to enter into a much sought-after grand alliance with the “non-aligned” world and the oil-rich Arab kingdoms.</p>
<p>All of this came as a shock to much of de Gaulle’s constituency at home, which had been quite supportive of Israel. The France-Israel alliance had in fact been engineered in 1955 by Pierre Koenig, a Gaullist defense minister, and later expanded by Pierre Messmer, a Gaullist minister of the armed forces. The president himself had once referred to Israel as “a friend and an ally”—and it had therefore been widely assumed that he would stand by its side during and after the Six-Day War of June 1967.</p>
<p>Instead, just days before the war broke out that would end in Israel’s victory, he struck a “neutral” pose by placing an embargo on weapons deliveries to Middle Eastern belligerents; since Israel was then France’s only customer in the region, “neutrality” amounted to a switch to the Arab side. Then, at a press conference in November, not only did de Gaulle question Israel’s legitimacy as a nation-state but he also denounced Jews in general as an “elite, self-assured, and domineering people,” equipped with “vast resources in terms of money, influence, and propaganda.” I was nineteen at the time and, like most young people in France who were not on the Left, a fervent Gaullist; I remember listening to the radio broadcast and feeling my blood run cold.</p>
<p>Had de Gaulle been a covert anti-Semite all along? Anti-Jewish remarks are to be found in letters that he wrote as a young officer to his relatives after World War I. But in the 1930’s, shunned by the French army’s upper echelon and his former mentor Marshall Philippe Pétain, he had been befriended and supported by Colonel Emile Mayer, a retired Jewish officer and, like de Gaulle himself, a strategic contrarian. During the war, as the charismatic leader of the Free French and head of the French Liberation Government, de Gaulle abrogated the Vichy racial laws in the territories that fell, one by one, under his authority.</p>
<p>In sum, it would be fair to say that de Gaulle had been raised in an anti-Semitic culture, had become relatively unprejudiced in his middle years, and relapsed toward the end of his life. But de Gaulle’s personal feelings are less important than his legacy. In 1967, he was widely criticized for his betrayal of Israel and his anti-Jewish remarks. Still, he was and he remained de Gaulle, a larger than life character and France’s greatest national hero since Napoleon. Thanks to his enormous stature and his major domestic achievement—a new, modernized, and all-powerful state bureaucracy fully committed to his doctrine of “national independence”—the decisions he made and the stands he took would exercise a growing influence not just on France but on all of Western Europe.</p>
<p>The anti-American, pro-Arab, and objectively anti-Israel policies initiated by de Gaulle in the 1960s have remained to this day an essential tenet of French foreign affairs and French political culture, whether under conservative or socialist governments. If they have also spread like a virus into the European Community and the European Union as a whole—and they have—the reason is that the EU’s decision-making process, at French insistence but with British acquiescence, is based on the principle of unanimity or near-unanimity rather than on majority opinion. France may at one point have been the lone country in Europe with an explicitly anti-Israel agenda, but when it came time to formulate an all-European position on the Middle East, the choice was between no position at all or a compromise between, on the one hand, the French line and, on the other hand, the more pro-Israel approach advocated by other countries. Since Europe very much wanted to have, or appear to have, a say in Middle Eastern affairs, it chose the second option, thus turning a tiny minority view into, in effect, half the European view. And since every European country was supposed to abide by the EU’s “common foreign policy,” a modicum of hostility to Israel was now routinely endorsed. </p>
<p>Over the years, the entire European political class has been reeducated into a culture of Israel-bashing. Think of William Hague and David Cameron: as young Conservative activists or backbenchers, these British politicians were as pro-Israel as <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/26/israels-staunchest-ally-stephen-harper-has-transformed-canadas-mideast-policy" target="_blank">Stephen Harper</a>of Canada; today, as mature politicians, they have <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298080/David-Cameron-labels-Gaza-prison-camp-calls-lifting-blockade.html" target="_blank">joined</a> Europe’s anti-Israel choir.</p>
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<h3>5. THE END OF THE DREAM</h3>
<p><b>To the degree that Israel’s popularity </b>had been an important factor in Europe’s postwar embrace of its Jews, the growing rejection of Israel undermined the Jewish image and standing. According to a 2011 study on “intolerance, prejudice, and discrimination in Europe” by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (linked to Germany’s Social Democratic party), 63 percent of Poles and 48 percent of Germans believe that Israel is conducting a genocidal war against the Palestinians aimed at their “obliteration.” The same study found 55 percent of Poles, 41 percent of Dutch, 37 percent of British, and 37 percent of Germans in agreement with the following statement: “Considering Israel’s policy, I can understand why people do not like Jews.”</p>
<p>Still, the Gaullist-inspired reversal of attitude toward Israel would probably not have been strong enough on its own to resurrect old-fashioned European anti-Semitism. It was powerfully abetted by two additional developments.</p>
<p>First, the half-century of Europe’s virtuous cycle started to unravel. From the 1990s on, one could sense growing discomfort with the top-heavy, anti-democratic, and chaotic governance of the European Union. The successive treaties of Maastricht (1992), Amsterdam (1997), Nice (2001), and Lisbon (2007), clumsily mixing heavy-handed overregulation with a free-market economic model, were ratified by national parliaments that were rightly seen as subservient to the unelected European Commission in Brussels, rather than by referendum as most citizens in most countries would have preferred. An exception was the 2005 European Constitutional Treaty, a comprehensive summing-up of Europe’s new institutions; rejected by both France and the Netherlands, the two countries that submitted it to a referendum, it had to be quietly dropped.</p>
<p>Disillusionment with the European project gathered strength after the launching of the euro in 2002, a deflationary “single European currency” that undermined whatever stability in the world economy had been provided by the American dollar, and that was also totally incompatible with the welfare programs ingrained in the culture of many EU members. Not only did the euro fail to sustain prosperity on the Continent—with the exception of Germany, which in time undertook to lower wages and cut welfare payments—but after 2008 it led to a series of national bankruptcies or near-bankruptcies from Ireland to Greece and from Spain and Italy to France.</p>
<p>And where did the Jewish community fit in <i>this </i>picture? Jews had benefited from their identification with the European project as long as “Europe” was a warrant for prosperity and progress. As “Europe” came increasingly to connote disruption, stagnation, and poverty, they were increasingly held in suspicion—guilty by association with a false dream, as it were, and all the more so since many of the charges against the EU (undemocratic, ruled by an opaque clique with no concern for ordinary Europeans) dovetailed with classic conspiracy theories about the Jews.</p>
<p>The second, very large factor working against the Jewish community arose from an abrupt shift in Europe’s demography. In the early postwar decades, population growth had contributed to the era of good feeling. From the 1970s on, everything changed. The European birthrate plummeted, just as immigration from Muslim countries was attaining unprecedented heights. Today, Muslim immigrants and their children amount to 10 percent or more of the population in major countries like Germany and France as well as in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In the United Kingdom and Denmark, Muslims comprise upward of 5 percent of the population.</p>
<p>Estimates of actual figures vary since most European countries do not allow ethnic or religious census or registration, immigrants are reluctant to give accurate information about themselves or their families, and Muslims in particular resort to <i>taqia</i>(dissimulation about their identity and religious practice) when and as they deem it necessary. What is undeniable is that the proportion of Muslims in European society is rapidly increasing, either naturally or by further immigration or by conversion of non-Muslims, and that the proportion of Muslims in the youngest age brackets is much higher than the proportion overall.</p>
<p>The entire French population, including overseas territories, stands currently at 67 million. Some seven to ten million of these—10 to 15 percent—are non-European, mostly Muslim immigrants or children of immigrants. Among younger cohorts, the figures are much higher: 20 to 25 percent of those under twenty-five are of non-European and Muslim origin. Within the next half-century, unless the ethnic French embark on a new baby boom of their own, or immigration stops, or immigrant fertility falls dramatically, France will become a half-Islamic and half-Islamized nation.</p>
<p>This is quite problematic in itself, and all the more problematic to the degree that Islam overlaps with radical Islam: a philosophy and a way of life that reject democracy, the open society, and, needless to add, Jews. Islamists see Europe as an Islamic-society-in-the-making; attempts by ethnic Europeans or by democratically-minded Muslims to reverse that process, or to reconcile Islam with European and democratic values, are regarded prima facie as “Islamophobia”: i.e., a Western war on Islam. Indeed, in the radical Islamic view, any objection or opposition to Islam or to the transformation of Western secular democracy into Islamic theocracy vindicates jihadism as a legitimate form of self-defense.</p>
<p>In <i>Islam: The French Test</i>, the veteran French journalist Elisabeth Schemla, formerly an editor at the leftwing magazine <i>Le Nouvel Observateur</i>, conservatively estimates Muslims in France at seven million. In her judgment, based on survey data, one third of that community—fully <i>two million </i>people—already embrace radical Islam, and the proportion is steadily growing. She quotes Marwan Muhamad, secretary-general of the ominously named Committee against Islamophobia in France (CCIF): “By what right can anyone say that, 30 years from now, France will not be a Muslim country? . . . No one in this country can wrest from us . . . our right to hope for an entire society faithful to Islam. . . . No one in this country can decide French national identity for us.” The Committee’s logo features the capital letters “CCIF” arranged so as to suggest an alternative reading: <i>çaif</i>, the Arabic word for sword.</p>
<p>Mohamed Merah, the murderer of Samuel Sandler’s son and grandchildren, started his killing spree last year by slaying a lone French soldier in Toulouse on March 11. Four days later he shot three more soldiers in the nearby town of Montauban: two died on the spot; the third, severely wounded, is now a quadriplegic. Merah selected his eight victims in order to “avenge” Islam, as he boasted shortly before being gunned down by security forces. Presumably the four soldiers, either of North African or West Indian origin, were guilty of betraying their Muslim brethren by joining an “enemy” army that has been fighting in Afghanistan, the Sahara, and the Sahel, and that defends the (by definition) Islamophobic French state. As for his Jewish victims, are not all Jews the enemies of Palestinians in particular and the worldwide Muslim <i>umma </i>in general?</p>
<p>Manuel Valls, the French interior minister, has warned that the growing radicalization of the Islamic milieu in France is producing “dozens of new Merahs” every year. And France is hardly alone: one need only recall the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/international/europe/03dutch.html?_r=0" target="_blank">slaughter</a> of the film director Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands in 2004; the Madrid train bombings in the same year; the London suicide bombings in 2005; or the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22658398" target="_blank">beheading</a> in London this year of the British soldier Lee Rigby.</p>
<p>Islamist violence is not only a matter of murder or terror—often, as we have seen, directed at Jews. Most frequently it manifests itself in intimidation, taking the form of petty crime and racketeering, threatening behavior on trains and buses, or full-fledged rioting and looting. While not always openly Islamic in character, these acts primarily involve Muslim youths, as was the case in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110400183.html" target="_blank">French riots</a> this year and earlier in 2005, and in this year’s <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10080320/Stockholm-riots-leave-Swedens-dreams-of-perfect-society-up-in-smoke.html" target="_blank">Swedish riots</a>. The implicit message they convey is clear enough: any perceived slight to the Muslim “nation within the nation” is liable to trigger mob violence or even urban warfare. They thereby strengthen the bargaining power of Muslim organizations, especially the radical ones, vis-à-vis the government and the political class.</p>
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<h3>6. CONFRONTING REALITY</h3>
<p><b>For years, some Jewish leaders entertained</b> delusory expectations concerning the rise of Islam in Europe. Some believed that a more religiously diverse Europe would conduce to an even more secure place for Judaism in the long term. Others thought that by joining the fight against such conventionally defined evils as “anti-immigration bigotry,” “anti-Arab racism,” and “anti-Islamic prejudice,” European Jews would earn the affection and gratitude of Islam at large and perhaps even contribute to peace between Israel and its neighbors. Still others were of the view that Muslims would gradually become integrated and assimilated into the European mainstream, just like Jews in the past.</p>
<p>Such hopes are long gone. The sad fact is that many European Muslims subscribe to the unreconstructed forms of anti-Semitism that are prevalent in the Muslim world at large, and are impervious to any kind of Holocaust-related education. In today’s Europe, hard-core anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activity, from harassment in the street or at school to arson and murder, is mostly the doing of Muslims.</p>
<p>Another, opposite set of delusions is also gone: namely, that European Jews could easily or safely take part in a broad alliance <i>against </i>radical Islam. True, there is no doubt that most ethnic Europeans feel as threatened by Islam as do most Jews. A Tilder/Institut Montaigne poll released in April this year found that, with one exception, all religions in France are regarded positively; the one outlier, Islam, is regarded negatively by fully 73 percent of Frenchmen. According to another poll, by Ipsos/Le Monde, 74 percent find Islam “intolerant” and 80 percent believe it is “forcing its ways on French society at large.” A parallel poll conducted in Germany last year yielded similar results, with 70 percent associating Islam with “fanaticism and radicalism,” 64 percent calling it “prone to violence,” and 60 percent citing its penchant for “revenge and retaliation.” In addition, 80 percent of Germans think Islam “deprives women of their rights” and 53 percent foresee a battle between Islam and Christianity.</p>
<p>Is there any comfort to be drawn by European Jews from such findings, on the grounds that, for a change, a different minority has been singled out for aspersion? Alas, there is none. For a variety of reasons and out of a variety of motives—one might list among them the upsurge of an undifferentiated European xenophobia, combined in this case with a felt need to deflect the fear and resentment of Muslims onto an easier target— many ethnic French, Germans, and other Europeans are now of the opinion that Judaism, too, is an alien creed, and must be duly countered or curtailed. In surveys, they point to external similarities between Jews and Muslims: related Semitic languages, insistence on ritually processed food and ritual slaughtering, circumcision, and gender separation. Two-fifths of Britons and up to three-quarters of Germans now oppose circumcision. Last year, after a medical mishap involving a Muslim circumcision, a German court banned the practice altogether for minors; it took parliamentary action to make it legal again.</p>
<p>Ritual slaughtering, kosher as well as hallal, is likewise under threat in Europe. Almost three-quarters of Frenchmen disapprove of it, and almost one-half of Britons advocate a complete ban. Indeed, the practice is already prohibited in five European countries. The most recent to join the ranks is Poland where, only a few months ago, a sparkling new Museum of the History of the Polish Jews opened to great acclaim in Warsaw. “When [Poles and Jews] look in the same direction,” gushed a Polish Jewish businessman at the lavish inauguration ceremonies, “it’s great for [Jews], great for Poland, and great for the world.” Now, in a bitter irony that Samuel Sandler would recognize and appreciate, Poland has effectively <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/07/15/poland-bans-kosher-slaughter/" target="_blank">banned</a> the production of kosher meat.</p>
<p>Some political figures have rushed to condone and encourage these developments. Last year, François Fillon, the prime minister of France in the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy administration, urged both Muslims and Jews to renounce “ancestral traditions with not much meaning nowadays,” like kosher and hallal slaughtering. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, who came in third in the 2012 French presidential race, suggested in <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2012/09/21/marine-le-pen-je-mets-a-la-porte-tous-les-integristes-etrangers_1763542_823448.html" target="_blank"><i>Le Monde </i></a>that both the Islamic female veil and the Jewish male <i>kippah </i>(yarmulke) should be banned in public. In a TV interview on the same day, she conceded that the <i>kippah </i>is “not a problem” in France, but pressed Jews to adjust to its banning anyway as “a small sacrifice” since “laws must apply to all.”</p>
<p>But evenhandedness in these matters is absurd, and wholly unjust. Punctiliousness in ritual observance is far more central to traditional Judaism than to Islam, and there are already many instances where, as the researcher Dov Maimon has detailed, the religious rights of Jews have been set aside by European governments. Above all, putting Jews in the same category as Muslims in order to appear evenhanded requires pretending that they are two of a kind when it comes to the problems each presents to civic and social life in Europe, to democracy, and to Western values. This way lies surrender to blackmail and, eventually, conflict without end.</p>
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<p>Even worse scenarios may be contemplated. Real life is often circular: the farther you travel in one direction, the closer you come to those traveling in the opposite direction. What about a nightmare fusion, at some point in the future, of an anti-Semitic Left, an anti-Semitic Right, and an anti-Semitic Islam? In the case of France, there are ominous precedents: many Frenchmen who started out as fierce anti-German patriots in the late-19th century ended as pro-German activists or collaborationists in the 1930s and early 40s. “Better Hitler than Blum,” went a slogan of French pro-German appeasers at the time of Munich (the reference was to Léon Blum, a Jew and then the socialist prime minister of France). Many right-wingers might feel closer today to the stern creed of Islam than to either Zionism, globalism, or the flaccid morals of liberal democracy.</p>
<p>Alternatively, many prewar left-wing anti-racists and philo-Semites were eventually seduced by Hitler’s “socialist” credentials, and accepted anti-Semitism as part of the package. Following the same pattern, today’s European Left and far Left tend to cultivate Muslim voters at any cost in order to gain an edge over the Right. And indeed, in the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, 86 percent of French Muslims voted for the Left, probably enough to ensure a win in both races. In another exquisite irony, a cottage industry of European academics and intellectuals has taken to promoting Muslims as Europe’s “new Jews” and indicting present-day Jews for betraying their “universalist” mission on earth by “regressing” to a reactionary ethnocentrism.</p>
<p>As for Muslim anti-Semitism, it has been intimately connected with classic European anti-Semitism for more than a century, and has massively borrowed the latter’s doctrines and tropes, from the blood libel to Holocaust denial to the crazed conspiracy-mongering of the <i>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i>. The two brands share a common language, and each sees in the other a mirror image of itself. Much money has also circulated between them. Just as fascist and Nazi funds helped Arab and Iranian anti-Jewish activists in the past, so Arab and Iranian money has been lavished on all stripes of European anti-Semites in our time.</p>
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<h3>7. WHAT IS TO BE DONE?</h3>
<p><strong>The Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky</strong> once famously distinguished between the “anti-Semitism of persons” and the “anti-Semitism of things.” The former category, made up of individuals (including some Jews) with their particular moral or political shortcomings, can be fought, at least up to a point. The latter, which has to do with deep-seated social factors, with demographics, and/or with hard, obdurate, ingrained ideology, is another matter entirely. Of the two varieties, European Jews now confront the second. What will they do?</p>
<p>Emigration, either to Israel or to America, is an option being actively considered. Should this become a widespread choice, it will inevitably be followed by the shrinkage of Jewish institutions, the drying-up of religious and cultural life, the deepening erosion of morale, growing anxiety and fearfulness—and more emigration.</p>
<p>The signs are everywhere. Recently, a leading rabbi in Paris reported that four-fifths of the young people being married at his synagogue no longer see their future in their country of birth. Admittedly, right now everybody in France is pessimistic about the future, especially the economic future; according to a recent poll, more than one in three citizens are considering emigration, and the proportions are higher among the young and the working class. Still, French Jews, and young French Jews in particular, appear to be considerably more pessimistic than others, and more serious about their pessimism.</p>
<p>And it must be said that they have reason. A sense of history, even if unarticulated and perhaps barely conscious, inevitably hovers over today’s situation. Almost a half-century ago, in an essay entitled “Jews and Germans,” the great scholar Gershom Scholem endeavored to locate the “false start” that led from Germany’s guarded mid-19th-century enfranchisement of its Jews, and from German Jews’ grateful embrace of all things German and the dream of a unique German-Jewish “symbiosis,” to the savage German attempt in the mid-20th century to annihilate all the Jews of Europe. While granting that the key to the mystery remained elusive, and that in any case the past could never be “completely mastered,” Scholem dared to hope that increased communication between the parties might yet yield the “reconciliation of those who have been separated.” Dying in 1982, he was spared the need to witness the outcome of his brave hope.</p>
<p>An even longer sense of history might take one back to late-18th-century France, the cradle of the Enlightenment, and to the moment when, during deliberations over the civic enfranchisement of French Jews, the liberal nobleman Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre rose in the National Assembly to declare: “To the Jews as individuals, everything; to the Jews as a people, nothing.” Citizenship for the Jews was to be purchased conditionally, at the price of an end to their communal apartness and to many of their religious traditions.</p>
<p>For the most part, in France and throughout Western Europe, that price was fully and willingly paid. Generations of Jews eagerly pledged their allegiance to the ideals of democracy, patriotism, and religious tolerance, pouring their prodigious talents and energies into making Europe a better place. Over the centuries, in fair weather, the bargain held; in foul, the price would be successively raised, the conditions of acceptance revised, the bargain hedged, until at last the offer was finally, brutally, rescinded in wholesale massacre.</p>
<p>Now, busily building monuments and museums, Europe ostentatiously engages in celebrating and mourning its lost dead Jews of yesterday, whose murder it variously perpetrated, abetted, or (with exceptions) found it could put up with. Meanwhile, it encourages and underwrites the withering of Jewish life today. Once again, Jews are accepted on condition: that they separate themselves from their brethren in Israel and join the official European consensus in demonizing the Jewish state; that they learn to accommodate the reality that so many ethnic Europeans hate them and wish them ill, and that Islamists on European soil seek their extinction; and that in the interest of justifying their continued claim to European citizenship, they accept Europe’s proscription of some of the most basic practices of their faith.</p>
<p>To the dead Jews of yesterday, everything; to the living Jews of today, little and littler.</p>
<p>Can it really be that European Jewry was reborn after the Holocaust only in order to die again? Can it be that, even as Jews, you only live twice? History, of course, is unpredictable except in retrospect. But it would be irresponsible in the extreme to brush off the possibility of demise; “unthinkable” is no longer a word in the Jewish vocabulary. The sober assessment of Robert Wistrich, the instincts of Samuel Sandler and so many other European Jews—these rest on firm foundations. The expiration date looms nearer, however slowly and by whatever intermediate stages it may finally arrive.</p>
<p>A mitigating view of today’s situation might have it that, at the very least, divine providence did beneficently afford to about two million European Jews a brief golden age, a true rebirth, which in turn brought fresh luster to European civilization as well as encouragement and inspiration to millions of their fellow Jews around the world, most especially in the Jewish state. True enough; but what is no less certain is that the end of European Jewry, a millennia-old civilization and a crowning achievement of the human spirit, will deliver a lasting blow to the collective psyche of the Jewish people. That it will also render a shattering judgment on the so-called European idea, exposed as a deadly travesty for anyone with eyes to see, is cold comfort indeed.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="" alt="" src="http://mosaicmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tl_ksg_synagoge_064_zps745fc6e7.jpg" width="450" height="221"/><p class="wp-caption-text"><em><span>The new synagogue in Ulm, Germany.</span></em></p>
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<h3>EUROPE'S JEWISH POPULATION</h3>
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<colgroup><col width="57"></col><col width="111"></col><col width="97"></col><col width="129"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td width="57" height="15"><strong>Rank</strong></td>
<td width="111"><strong>Country</strong></td>
<td width="97"><strong>Jews</strong></td>
<td width="129"><strong>% of Pop.</strong></td>
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<td>France</td>
<td>480,000</td>
<td>0.77%</td>
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<td>U.K.</td>
<td>291,000</td>
<td>0.47%</td>
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<td>Russia</td>
<td>194,000</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
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<td>Germany</td>
<td>119,000</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>5</strong></td>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td>67,000</td>
<td>0.16%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>6</strong></td>
<td>Hungary</td>
<td>48,200</td>
<td>0.49%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>7</strong></td>
<td>Belgium</td>
<td>30,000</td>
<td>0.28%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>8</strong></td>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td>29,900</td>
<td>0.18%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>9</strong></td>
<td>Italy</td>
<td>28,200</td>
<td>0.05%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>10</strong></td>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td>17,500</td>
<td>0.22%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>11</strong></td>
<td>Turkey</td>
<td>17,400</td>
<td>0.02%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>12</strong></td>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td>15,000</td>
<td>0.16%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>13</strong></td>
<td>Spain</td>
<td>12,000</td>
<td>0.03%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>14</strong></td>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td>12,000</td>
<td>0.17%</td>
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<tr><td height="15"><strong>15</strong></td>
<td>Romania</td>
<td>9,500</td>
<td>0.05%</td>
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<p><em><span><br/>Source: <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/jewpop.html#europe" target="_blank">Jewish Virtual Library</a>, 2013.</span></em></p>
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<p><em><em><strong>Unlike most Americans, today's European Jews are survivors, or children of survivors. They know from personal experience how a seemingly normal Jewish life could be destroyed overnight.</strong></em></em></p>
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<p> <strong><em><span>Suddenly, in the aftermath of World War II, Jews found themselves welcome in Europe as Jews, and even as archetypal Europeans.</span></em></strong></p>
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<p><em><strong>According to rabbinic tradition, anti-Semitism starts when Jews beguile themselves into thinking they can fulfill their destiny in exile.</strong></em></p>
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<p><em>David Ben-Gurion meets Charles de Gaulle at the Elysée Palace, Paris, 1960.</em><span> National Photo Collection of the State of Israel.</span></p>
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<p><span><strong><em>Over the years, the entire European political class has been reeducated into a culture of Israel-bashing.</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span><strong><em>63 percent of Poles and 48 percent of Germans believe that Israel is conducting a genocidal war against the Palestinians aimed at their "obliteration."</em></strong></span></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><span><em>Members of the Union of French Jewish Students march in Paris after the Toulouse massacre of March 2012; the banner reads, “Jews murdered, Republic in danger.”</em>Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.</span></p>
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DO YOU HAVE A BIG FAT GREEK MINDSET?
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Ron J. Weiss
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<p>My Big Fat Greek Mindset<br></br>Part 2<br></br>Tim Hegg • TorahResource<br></br>©2007 All rights reserved<br></br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></br>In Part 1 of this article, I outlined several of the major differences between the Greek and <br></br>Hebrew worldviews. We noted two fundamentals of the Greek worldview: (1) that the world of <br></br>ideas reigns supreme over the physical world, and (2) that truth…</p>
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<p>My Big Fat Greek Mindset<br/>Part 2<br/>Tim Hegg • TorahResource<br/>©2007 All rights reserved<br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>In Part 1 of this article, I outlined several of the major differences between the Greek and <br/>Hebrew worldviews. We noted two fundamentals of the Greek worldview: (1) that the world of <br/>ideas reigns supreme over the physical world, and (2) that truth exists in the realm of linear logic <br/>in which the law of non-contradiction exists as a universal reality. In contrast, the Hebrew worldview does not consider the physical world to be inferior to the world of ideas or beliefs, but <br/>views both as necessarily integrated. Moreover, for the Hebrew, block logic rather than linear <br/>logic modeled the obvious tensions expressed in the Scriptures between the infinite wisdom of <br/>God and the finite wisdom of man. While the law of non-contradiction exists within the confines <br/>of each block of logic, it cannot function universally since mankind’s intellectual capabilities are <br/>insufficient to comprehend the full, complete, and integrated wisdom of God. <br/>In this second part of the article, I want to show how the Greek worldview, which was <br/>foundational for the early emerging Christian Church, helped to shape and form a theological <br/>paradigm for Christianity, a paradigm that that was at odds with the Torah and its thorough-going Hebrew worldview.<br/>The Creedal Nature of Christianity<br/>The development of doctrinal creeds is a well attested phenomenon in the early Christian <br/>Church. These creeds were doctrinal confessions of faith formulated to give self-identity to the <br/>Church and especially to distinguish orthodoxy from heresy. It seems very likely that baptismal <br/>confessions as well as liturgical elements (particularly in the ceremony of the eucharist) represent the earliest stages in the evolution of the later ecumenical creeds.1<br/> One of the earliest is the <br/>“Apostles’ Creed,” which though found in various forms, had become standardized by the 4th <br/>Century. Other well known creeds from the early centuries are the Nicene Creed, the Creed of <br/>Chalcedon, and the Athanasian Creed.<br/>What makes the appearance of creeds in the emerging Christian Church important for our<br/>study is the obvious fact that they constituted the accepted “confession of faith” necessary to be <br/>received into the Church. In other words, the creed listed the ideas or theological axioms that <br/>formed the boundary markers distinguishing Christians from non-Christians. Or to put it another <br/>way, one gained the status of being “saved” by agreeing with a particular doctrinal statement. In <br/>practice, therefore, faith was understood as an intellectual agreement with a set of formulated <br/>1. See D. F. Wright, “Creeds, Confessional Forms” in Dictionary of the Later New Testament (IVP, 1997), p. 259–<br/>60; Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols. (Harper & Row, 1931), 1.16.<br/>1</p>