Israel (as the Only People Known as YHWH's Sheep) to Recognize Yeshua as Her Savior/Shepherd
O God, why hast Thou rejected us forever? Why does Thine anger smoke
against the sheep of Thy pasture? Remember Thy [Israelite]
congregation, which Thou hast purchased of old, which Thou hast
redeemed to be the tribe of Thine inheritance; and Mount Zion, where
Thou hast dwelt. (Psalm 74:1-2)
All of us [Israel] like sheep have gone astray, each of
us has turned to his own way; but YHWH has caused the iniquity of us all
to fall on Him. (Isaiah 53:6)
Hear the word of YHWH, O nations, and declare in the coastlands afar
off, and say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him
as a shepherd keeps his flock." For YHWH has ransomed Jacob, and
redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. (Jeremiah
31:10-11)
"My people have become lost sheep...." Israel is a scattered
flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured
him [the house of Israel] was [Shalmaneser] the king of Assyria, and
this last one who has broken his [the house of Judah's] bones is
Nebuchadnezzar [the King] of Babylon. (Jeremiah 50:6-17)
... thus says YHWH God, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep
[Israel] and seek them out. As a shepherd cares for his herd
in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My
sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were
scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. And I will bring them from the
[heathen] peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to
their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the
streams and in all the inhabited places of the land. I will feed them in
a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights
of Israel. There they will lie down in good grazing ground, and they
will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed My
flock and I will lead them to rest," declares YHWH God. "I will seek
the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and
strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will
feed them with judgment." (Ezekiel 34:11-16)
"Then I will set over them [Israel] one shepherd, My
servant David [prophetically used for Yeshua the Christ since King
David was already dead when this prophecy was made], and he will feed
them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd. And I, YHWH, will
be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I, YHWH,
have spoken." (Ezekiel 34:23-24)
"Then they will know that I, YHWH their God, am with them, and that
they, the house of Israel, are My people," declares YHWH God. "As
for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I
am your God," declares YHWH God. (Ezekiel 34:30-31)
Shepherd Thy people [Israel] with Thy scepter, the flock of
Thy possession which dwells by itself in the woodland, in the midst
of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days
of old. "As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I
[YHWH] will show you miracles." (Micah 7:14-15)
[Yeshua to the twelve apostles] ...but rather go to lost sheep of
the house of Israel. (Matthew 10:6)
... He answered and said, "I [Yeshua] was sent only to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew 15:24)
"I [Yeshua] am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His
life for the sheep [Israel]." (John 10:11)
"I [Yeshua] am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and My
own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I
lay down My life for the sheep [house of Judah in Judea]. And I
have other sheep [house of Israel scattered abroad in Gentile
countries], which are not of this fold [having been divorced]; I
must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall
become one flock with one Shepherd [in fulfillment of Ezek.
37:15-23; Mic. 2:12-13; 5:2-5; Hos. 1:11]." (John 10:14-16)
"My sheep [Israel] hear My voice, and I [Yeshua - Jer.
24:71] know them, and they follow Me...." (John 10:27)
Peter, an apostle of Jesus [the] Christ, to those who reside as
aliens, scattered ["Israelite resident(s) in Gentile countries"
- Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible] throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are
chosen.... (1 Peter 1:1)
... You [Israelite resident(s) in Gentile countries - 1 Pet. 1:1]
were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to
the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. (1 Peter 2:25)
It is important to note that God, in Jeremiah 50:17, included all
twelve tribes in His prophecy: "Israel is a scattered flock, the lions
have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was
[Shalmaneser] the king of Assyria [who took primarily the house
of Israel into captivity], and the last one who has broken his bones is
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon [who took the house of Judah into
captivity]." It was these lost and scattered sheep to whom Yeshua (Jesus' given Hebrew name)
was sent:
... thus says the Lord YHWH, "Behold, I Myself will search for My
sheep [Israel] and seek them out." "...I will seek the lost,
bring back the scattered.... Then I will set over them one
shepherd, My servant David [prophetically used for Yeshua], and he will
feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd."
(Ezekiel 34:11, 16, 23)
In fulfillment of these prophecies, Yeshua declared:
"I [Yeshua] was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel." (Matthew 15:24)
"My sheep [Israel] hear My voice, and I [Yeshua] know
them, and they follow Me... (John 10:27)
Which People Hear the Shepherd's Call to Salvation, Respond and Claim Yeshua as Their Messiah and Savior?
Jews
Certainly not the Jews! The Jews reject the Christian religion, and with
the utmost vehemence they denounce Yeshua. In the Talmud the Jews both
malign and denigrate Yeshua the Christ:
KALLAH 1b, 18b: Once when the Elders were seated at the Gate, two
young men passed by, one of whom had his head covered, the other his
head bare. Rabbi Eliezer remarked that the one in his bare head
[Yeshua] was illegitimate, a mamzer. Rabbi Jehoschua said
that he [Yeshua] was conceived during menstruation, ben niddah.
Rabbi Akibah, however, said that he was both. Whereupon the others
asked Rabbi Akibah why he dared to contradict his colleagues. He
answered that he could prove what he said. He went therefore to the
boy's mother ... and said to her: "My daughter, if you will answer
truthfully what I am going to ask you, I promise that you will be saved
in the next life." She demanded that he would swear to keep his promise,
and Rabbi Akibah did so - but with his lips only, for in his heart he
invalidated his oath. Then he said: "Tell me, what kind of son is this
of yours?" To which she replied: "The day I was married I was having
menstruation, and because of this my husband left me. But an evil spirit
came and slept with me and from this intercourse my son was born to me."
Thus it was proved that this young man [Yeshua] was not only
illegitimate but also conceived during the menstruation of his
mother....*
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*It is demonstrated in the book
The Gospel According to the Jews, Called Toldoth Jesu: The
Generations of Jesus that the Jews understand the above story
from the Kallah to refer to Yeshua and his mother, Mary. Regarding the
Tol'doth Yeshu, Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., stated: "We can gather
from it what was the view of the Jews on the life and teaching of Jesus,
from the fifth to the tenth centuries." Joseph Klausner, Jesus of
Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1953) p. 53.
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YEBAMOTH 4, 3; 49a: R. [Rabbi] Shimeon ben 'Azzai said: I found a
genealogical roll in Jerusalem wherein was recorded, "Such-an-one
[Yeshua] is a bastard of an adulteress."
SANHEDRIN 67a: Of all who are guilty of death by the Law, he
alone.... This is what they did to the son of Stada in Lud, and they
hanged him [on a cross] on the eve of the Passover. For this son
[Yeshua] of Stada [Mary]** was the
[illegitimate] son of Pandira [a Roman soldier].
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**In Hagigah 42, another book of
the Talmud, it is verified that this dissertation regarding "Stada" is
about Mary, the mother of Yeshua.
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SANHEDRIN 107b: Mar said: Jesus seduced, corrupted, and destroyed
Israel.
SHABBATH 104b: Rabbi Eliezer said: "Did not [Yeshua] the
son of Stada [Mary] practice Egyptian magic? ... he was a fool,
and we do not pay attention to what fools do."1
Under the heading "JESUS IN RABBINICAL LITERATURE," The Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia confirms that the previous Rabbinic statements
from the Talmud pertain to Yeshua:
JESUS IN RABBINICAL LITERATURE ... in Jewish history Jesus was not
an outstanding figure; the impression which he may have made on the
Judaism of his time can have been neither deep nor lasting .... That
he is mentioned by name in rabbinical literature is beyond question;
but what is said of him amounts to hardly more than a vague and
careless remembrance of one who for a while "troubled Israel."
There is enough in rabbinical literature to show that the
historical Jesus of Nazareth is really mentioned there. It is stated
(Sanh. [Sanhedrin] 43 a), "On the eve of Pesach [Passover] they
hanged Jeshu Hanotzri [Yeshua on a cross]. And the crier went forth
before him forty days (saying) Jeshu Hanotzri goeth forth to be stoned
because he hath practised magic and deceived and led astray Israel."
The last sentence is repeated (Sanh. 107 b)....
All the above passages are contemporary with the Mishnah. They inform
us of a person who was called Jeshu Hanotzri, who had disciples,
in whose name his followers cured or attempted to cure sick persons, who
practised magic and deceived and led astray Israel, and who was tried
and put to death for so doing.... The conclusion follows that either
the historical Jesus of Nazareth is here referred to, or else some
wholly unknown man of the same name and dwellingplace and living at the
same time. There can be no question that the reference is to the
historical Jesus.2
Under the heading "JESUS OF NAZARETH," The Jewish Encyclopedia
states the following regarding references to Yeshua in the Talmud and
other Jewish sources:
JESUS OF NAZARETH: ... in the life of Jesus ("Toledot Yeshu,") that
originated in the Middle Ages. It is the tendency ... to belittle the
person of Jesus by ascribing to him illegitimate birth, magic, and a
shameful death.
The earliest authenticated passage ascribing illegitimate birth to
Jesus is that in Yeb. [Yebamoth] iv. 3.
... It is certain, in any case, that the rabbinical sources
also regard Jesus as the "son of Pandira [a Roman soldier]" ...
although it is noteworthy that he is called also "Ben Stada [son
of Mary]" ... (Shab. [Shabbath] 104b; Sanh. [Sanhedrin] 67a).
...All the "Toledot [Yeshu]" editions ... declared him
[Yeshua the Christ] to be a bastard.
...witchcraft [is] attributed to Jesus in the "Toledot
[Yeshu]."
... As Balaam the magician and according to the derivation of
his name, "destroyer of the people," was from both of these
points of view a good prototype of Jesus, the latter was also called
"Balaam [by the Jews]."
... It is clear, therefore, that the Jewish legends deny the
resurrection of Jesus; the halakic assertion that Balaam (i.e.,
the prototype of Jesus) had no part in the future life must also be
especially noted (Sanh. x. 2). It is further said: "The pupils of the
recreant Balaam inherit hell" (Abot. v. 19). Jesus is accordingly, in
the following curious Talmudic legend, thought to sojourn in hell. A
certain Onkelos b. [ben] Kalonikos, son of Titus' sister, desired to
embrace Judaism, and called up from hell by magic first Titus, then
Balaam, and finally Jesus, who are here taken together as the worst
enemies of Judaism.3
Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz also admitted in the foreword to the
Babylonian Talmud that Yeshua is mentioned in the Talmud:
After the invention of printing, stupid and over-zealous censors
not only expunged the few passages that refer to [Yeshua]
the Founder of Christianity .... Only one edition of the Talmud
has escaped defacement at the hands of the censors, having been printed
in Holland.4
During the seventeenth century the Talmudic elders demanded that the
passages referring to Yeshua, quoted from the Talmud, be censored.
D.P.L.B. Drach, who was brought up in a Talmudic school, reproduced the
following edict which was issued during that time:
This is why we enjoin you, under pain of excommunication major, to
print nothing in future editions, whether of the Mishnah or of the
Gemara, which relates whether for good or evil to the acts of Jesus the
Nazarene, and to substitute instead a circle like this: O, which will
warn the rabbis and schoolmasters to teach the young these passages only
viva voce [orally]. By means of this precaution the savants
[scholars] among the Nazarenes [Christians] will have no
further pretext to attack us [Jews] on this
subject.5
Zohar 3, 282 tells us that Yeshua died like a beast and was buried in
the "dirt heap [sometimes translated or interpreted by the Jews as
"dung heap"] ...where they throw the dead bodies of dogs and asses,
and where the sons of Esau [Christians per the Zohar] and of
Ishmael [Turks per the Zohar], also Jesus and Mohammed,
uncircumcised and unclean like dead dogs, are buried."6
Many prominent Jews (both first-century Judahites practicing Judaism
and later Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews) have been quite outspoken in portraying
Yeshua the Christ as a liar, heretic, blasphemer, deceiver and false
prophet. Many have gone so far as to revel in the fact that Yeshua was put
to death.
Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, Chief Priests and Elders*
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*The Gospels depict J. [Jesus] and
the Pharisees as mutually hostile...JESUS," The Standard Jewish
Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday& Company, Inc., 1977) p.
1041.
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... some of the scribes said to themselves, "This fellow
[Yeshua] blasphemes." (Matthew 9:3)
... the chief priests and the elders of the [Jewish] people
were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named
Caiaphas; and they plotted together to seize Yeshua by
stealth, and kill Him. But they were saying, "Not during the
festival [of Passover], lest a riot occur among the people." (Matthew
26:3-5)
... the high priest [Caiaphas] tore his robes, saying, "He
[Yeshua] has blasphemed! What further need do we have of
witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the blasphemy; what do you think?"
They answered and said, "He is deserving of death!" Then they spat in
His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him.
(Matthew 26:65-67)
In the same way the chief priests also, along with the
scribes and elders, were mocking Him [Yeshua], and saying, "He
saved others; He cannot save Himself He is the King of Israel; let Him
now come down from the cross and we shall believe in Him." (Matthew
27:41-42)
... the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with
Pilate, and said "...[Yeshua] that deceiver...." (Matthew
27:62-63)
... there were some of the scribes sitting there and
reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak that way? He
[Yeshua] is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"
(Mark 2:6-7)
...the scribes ... were saying, "He [Yeshua] is possessed
by Beelzebul [Satan]," and "He casts out the demons by the ruler
of the demons." (Mark 3:22)
... the chief priests and the rulers and the [Jewish]
people... kept on calling out, saying, "Crucify, crucify Him
[Yeshua]!" And he [Pilate] said to them the third time, "Why, what
evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death; I
will therefore punish Him and release Him." But they [the chief
priests and rulers of the Jews] were insistent, with loud voices
asking that He [Yeshua] be crucified. And their voices began to
prevail. (Luke 23:13-23)
The Pharisees therefore said to Him [Yeshua the
Christ], "You are bearing witness of Yourself; Your witness is not
true." (John 8:13)
....the chief priests and the Pharisees ... from that day on they
planned together to kill Him [Yeshua the Christ].... Now the
chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone
[among the Jews] knew where He was, he should report it, that they
might seize Him. (John 11:47-57)
When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out....
And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" They [the Jews]
therefore cried out, "Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!"
Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief
priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." (John 19:13-15)
Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, 1901, 1933
I took up the challenge and told why I reject the Divine
Messiahship of Jesus, without any attempt at concealment of my
attitude towards the idolatrous features of orthodox Christianity....7
We [Jews] do not believe that Jesus is in any unique sense the Son
of God.8
Bernard Lazare, 1903
... they [the Jews] are the enemies of God and
Jesus Christ ... in their daily prayers they curse the Saviour
under the name of the Nazarene....9
Abram Leon Sachar, 1930
Jews have known little of him and have wished to know
less. Throughout their long history he [Yeshua the Christ] was
not, to them, the Prince of Peace, the harbinger of goodwill.
...it was impossible for Jews to regard the Prophet of Nazareth
[Yeshua the Christ] as other than the scourge of God, a fiend
unmentionable. It was natural for legends to grow up about him,
libelling his name and perverting his messages.10
Ben Hecth, 1931
One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the crucifixion
of Christ. Intellectually it was a splendid gesture. But trust
the mob to bungle [it]. ...if I'd have had charge of executing
Christ, I'd have handled it differently. You see, what I would have
done was had him shipped to Rome and fed to the lions. They
[Yeshua's followers] could never have made a savior out of mince
meat.*11
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*The Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia had the audacity to laud Mr. Hecht as a great author
and movie producer who had a "fabulous mind:' as a "romantic realist"
and as a talented genius who displayed "profound humanity and universal
sympathies."
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Samuel Roth, 1934
We despised the goy, and we hated his religion [Christianity]. The
goy [non-Jew, Christian Israelite], according to the stories
crooned into the ears of the children, wantonly worshipped an
unsightly creature called the yoisel [Yeshua] - and a dozen names
too foul for repetition. The yoisel had once been a human being and
a Jew [Judahite Israelite]. But one day he [Yeshua] had gone out of
his mind, and in that pitiably bewildered state announced that he
was the Lord God himself. To prove it, he offered to fly over the
populace like an angel. With the help of a page blasphemously torn out
of Holy Writ, and placed under his sweating arm, the yoisel did fly over
the multitudes of Jews in the crowded streets of Jerusalem. So
impressive a spectacle did he create that even the most pious among the
Jews were moved in his direction. But Rabbi Shammai, angered at the foul
impudence of this demented creature, and fearful of a possible
religious crisis on earth, tore out two leaves from the pages of Holy
Writ, and placing them one under each arm flew even higher than the
yoisel with only one page of Holy Writ for motor power. He flew over the
yoisel himself and urinated over him. Instantly the power of the
yoisel's bit of Holy Writ was nullified and the yoisel fell to the
ground amidst the jeers and taunts of the true believers in the streets
of Jerusalem.12
Harry Waton, 1939
...Jesus is a dead God...13
Moses Guibbory, 1943
... Jesus, as the heir of Chattath-Rahab the Nachash, is that
Satan whom the Christians, in all their denominations and sects ...
for over nineteen hundred years, worshipped as their saviour-god....
14
... Jesus is the Satan.15
Dr. Benjamin H. Freedman, 1947
The reason it [the State of Israel] is called the "Holy Land" today
is because Jesus of Nazareth lived and died there. To Christians He
is the Son of God and Saviour. To Mohammedans He is a great prophet.
To official Jewry, He [Yeshua the Christ] is an executed
blasphemer.16
Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., 1953
Judas Iscariot became convinced that here [in Yeshua] was a
false Messiah or a false prophet, erring and making to err, a beguiler
and one who led astray, one whom the Law commanded to be killed,
one to whom the Law forbade pity or compassion or forgiveness. Till
such time as Jesus divulged his messianic claims to the disciples at
Caesarea Philippi, Judas had not thought to find in Jesus more than might be found in
any Pharisaic Rabbi or, at the most, in a Jewish prophet. But after this
revelation to the disciples at Caesarea, and to the entire people at
Jerusalem, Judas expected that in the Holy City, the centre of the
religion and the [Jewish] race, Jesus would demonstrate his claims by
mighty works, that he would destroy the Romans and bring the Pharisees
and Sadducees to naught; then all would acknowledge his messianic claims
and all would see him in his pomp and majesty as the "final saviour."
But what, in fact, did Judas see? No miracles (Matthew alone tells
how Jesus healed the blind and lame in the Temple, matters unknown to
Mark), no mighty deeds, no one is subdued by him, the mighty Messiah
escapes nightly to Bethany; except for "bold" remarks against the
tradition of the elders [Judaism] and vain arrogance, Jesus reveals no
plan by which he will effect the redemption. Was it not, then, a
"religious duty" to deliver up such a "deceiver" to the [Roman]
government and so fulfill the law: Thou shalt exterminate the evil
from thy midst?17
While reflecting upon Judas, we can see that Mr. Klausner considered
Judas as the righteous one and Yeshua as the one deserving death. Mr.
Klausner continued:
What is Jesus to the Jewish nation at the present day? To the
Jewish nation he [Yeshua] can be neither God nor the Son of
God.... Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and
blasphemous, but incomprehensible. Neither can he [Yeshua], to the
Jewish nation, be the Messiah: the kingdom of heaven (the "Days
of the Messiah") is not yet come. Neither can they regard him as a
Prophet.... Neither can they [Jews] regard him as a lawgiver or
the founder of a new religion [Christianity]....18
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, 1954
It [the New Testament] presupposes the concept of "Jesus of
Nazareth as a divinity [God], a concept which we [Jews] do not
accept ... we do not accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ [the
Messiah]."19
Rabbi Meir Kahane, 1989
I have not the slightest sympathy for Christianity or Jesus.
As a believing Jew, not only is Jesus not "God," but he is
neither Messiah nor prophet. For the Jew he was a blasphemer, one
who attacked the Torah [in actuality Yeshua attacked the tradition of
the elders that later became the Talmud] as unchanging divine law and
who was a false prophet and heretic.20
The Jews, who find themselves in agreement with Rabbi Meir Kahane, fit
the description of "the antichrist" rather than the description of "the
Chosen People." Note that the Jews' beliefs and behavior match those of
the antichrist as described by the Apostle John:
Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ
[the Messiah]? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the
Father and the Son. (1 John 2:22)
...many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who
do not acknowledge Jesus [the] Christ as coming in the flesh. This is
the deceiver and the antichrist. (2 John 1:7)
The Jews very definitely do not consider Yeshua as their Messiah. If
Yeshua is not the Jewish Messiah, then who is? The Jews believe that they,
themselves, are their own Messiah. Their "sacred" books and many of their
prominent members boast of this:
The Babylonian Talmud
KETHUBOTH 111a, note 4: The throes of mother Zion which is in labour
to bring forth the Messiah - without metaphor, the Jewish
people.
The Cabala
The Jew is the living God,* God
incarnate: he is the heavenly man. The other men [non-Jews] are
earthly, of inferior race. They exist only to serve the Jew. They
[non-Jews] are the cattle seed.21
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*Compare this pronouncement with 2
Thessalonians 2:3-4: "Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not
come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above
every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in
the temple of God, displaying himself as being God."
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
... he [the Jew] is ... the "man of sorrows" whose affliction
is to bring healing to the world and to lead many to righteousness.
(Isa. 1ii. 1iii.... ).22
Elie Wiesel, Author
... the sacrifice of Isaac prefigures the holocaust [of the
Jews rather than prefiguring the sacrifice of Yeshua]....23
Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthall, Author
The personification of the deity in Jesus gave Christianity a
spiritual warmth which formalistic and legalistic Judaism lacked. A "God
with a face" is a Divine Being of immediate and intimate meaning to
humans. But ... [the Jews] possessed their advantage of a direct
approach to God without the need of an intercessor. Gradually,
however, the "Jewish people" has become the intermediary between Yahweh
and those who would worship him.24
Leon Simon, Author
In a word: Hebraism [Judaism] tends to insist on the Hebrew
nation [the Jews] as the mediating term between its individual
members and the infinite....25
Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise
You will understand me when I say to you that Jews cannot accept
Jesus or anyone else as the one redeeming, atoning Son of God. We
believe we have access to God without intermediary. Such is the
teaching, implicit and explicit, of Israel [the Jews].26
Moses Hess, Author
Every Jew has the making of a Messiah in himself, every Jewess
that of a Mater Dolorosa [Mother of Sorrows - Yeshua's mother] in
herself.27
Mr. Hess also said that the aim of the Jews must be a "Messianic
state" in which to prepare mankind for the revelation of the
"divine essence."28
Baruch Levy
The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It [the
Jews] will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other
races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and
by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will
everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this new world
order29 [the] Children of Israel [the Jews misnamed] will
furnish all the [non-Jewish] leaders without difficulty into the hands
of the Jews.30
Rabbi Roland Bertram Gittelsohn
What do Jews believe about the Messiah? ... they do not expect the
Messiah to be the Son of God. Most non-Orthodox Jews hinge their hopes
more on a messianic age than on an individual messiah.31
Rabbi Gittelsohn quoted an unnamed rabbi as saying:
There is a spark of messiah in each of us; when we [Jews] succeed
in putting together all our individual sparks, the result will
constitute the coming of the messiah!32
Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., Author
Thus the whole people Israel [the Jews misnamed] in the
form of the elect of the nation gradually became the Messiah of the
world, the Redeemer of mankind.33
The following excerpt appeared in the Greeley (Colorado)
Tribune, and it sums up the difference between the Christian
Messiah and the Jewish messiah(s):
Hebrew Christians
Opponents say it's impossible
By Mary Hines
Tribune Staff Writer
The concept of a Hebrew Christian is a theoretical impossiblity,
says Rabbi Harley Karz-Wagman of the Hillel Foundation in Boulder
[Colorado].
"By the Jewish perspective, the Messiah is a human being who
is not devine..." said Karz-Wagman
"This is obviosly different than the Christian version of Jesus.
By the Christian view, Jesus is obviously the saviour."
"They [the Christians] take verses quoted from the
Bible....trying to show that the Messiah is Jesus," said Rabbi Avram
Rothman, executive director of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation of
Colorado....
"For instance," he said, "[Danny] Miller's quotes about
the suffering and triumphant Messiah are traditionally understood by
Jews to refer not to an individual [in particular Yeshua the
Christ], but to the Jewish people instead..."
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Keep the foregoing comments of these two Rabbis in mind as you read the
description of the antichrist in the Bible. The antichrist is scripturally
described as a plurality of people who neither believe that Yeshua is the
Messiah, nor that the Messiah appeared in the flesh. If you have
difficulty with the antichrist being a plurality of people carefully read
the following verse again:
... many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not
acknowledge Jesus [the] Christ as coming in the flesh. This is [they
are] the deceiver and the antichrist. (2 John 1:7)
Is it not intriguing that the same plurality of people who best fits
this description of the antichrist are also those who claim that they, as
a plurality of people, are the Messiah in the flesh?34
Regarding a treatise by Francisco de Torrejoncillo entitled Sentinel
Against the Jews, Bernard Lazare commented:
Written in Spain at the beginning of the seventeenth century.... It
consisted of fourteen books and showed that the Jews were presumptuous
and liars, that they were traitors ... that they were
turbulent, self-conceited, seditious, that the church preserved them
only that in their [the Jews'] midst might be born their Messiah
the anti-christ, who will be vanquished to allow Israel [the Jews] to
recognize his [their] error.35
Biblically, "sheep" were always Israelites. The Jews are definitely
not the sheep who have heard and heeded the Shepherd's call.
Instead, many Jews fit the description of the "wolves in sheep's clothing"
of whom Yeshua warned us in Matthew 7:15. In order to fully heed Yeshua's
warning regarding wolves, one should also beware of those who masquerade
as sheep, claiming to be Israelites, but who are instead imposters. This
brings to mind again the passage in Revelation:
... I [Yeshua] will cause those of the synagogue of Satan who say
that they are Jews [Judahite Israelites] and are not, but lie
- behold, I will make them [those non-Israelite Jews] to come and
bow down at your [Christian Israelites'] feet, and to know that I
have loved you. (Revelation 3:9)
Yeshua exposed the scribes and Pharisees as being:
... whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but
inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even
so you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you [scribes
and Pharisees] are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matthew
23:27-28)
If this statement was true for the Judahite Israelites of Yeshua's day
who were practicing Judaism, how much more so would it be true for today's
Khazar Jews who are not what they have made themselves to be?
Furthermore, modern-day Jews themselves have admitted to being the wolves
instead of the sheep:
The goyim [non-Jews] are a flock of sheep, and we [Jews] are
their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of
the flock.36
Celto-Saxons
Notice the Jews not only admitted that they are the wolves, but they
also identified "the goyim" as the sheep. Those who are honest with the
history of Christianity know as an indisputable fact that the Celto-Saxons
("goyim" or "sheep" to the Jews) are the people who have principally
responded to the Shepherd's call.
Israel to Recognize YHWH as Her God
"...the days are coming," declares YHWH, "when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not
like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them
by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...." "But this is
the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those
days," declares YHWH, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I
will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My
people. And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each
man his brother, saying, 'Know YHWH,' for they shall all know Me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them," declares YHWH, "for I will
forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." (Jeremiah
31:31-34)
... son of man [the Prophet Ezekiel], take for yourself one stick and
write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'
[the two southern tribes]; then take another stick and write on it, 'For
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his
companions' [the ten northern tribes]. Then join them for yourself one to
another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. And when
the sons of your people speak to you saying, Will you not declare to us
what you mean by these?' say to them, 'Thus says YHWH God, "Behold, I
will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the
stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My
hand."' And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before
their eyes. And say to them, 'Thus says YHWH God, "Behold, I will take the
sons of Israel from among the nations [Gentiles] where they have gone, and
I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and
one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two
nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. And they
will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their
detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver
them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them. And they [the house of Judah and the house of Israel]
will be My people, and I will be their God."' (Ezekiel 37:16-23)
... finding fault with them, He says, "Behold, days are coming... when
I [YHWH] will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
the house of Judah.... For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel ... says YHWH.... And I will be their God, and they
shall be My people. And they shall not teach every one his
fellow-citizen, and every one his brother, saying, 'Know YHWH,' for all
shall know Me, from the least to the greatest of them." (Hebrews
8:8-11)
When Left to Themselves Which People Instinctively Believes That YHWH Is Their God?
Jews
Some people would say that this characteristic fits the Jews. But does
it? Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits noted a distinct difference between the god of
the Jews and the God of the Bible when he stated:
When Christians use the term "Judeo-Christian," "Judeo" means
something fundamentally different from what is Jewish for the Jew.
Nor does Judaism have a common spiritual patrimony [heritage] with
Christianity in the Patriarchs and the Prophets: in Jewish
understanding, [YHWH] the God of Abraham is not the triune deity of
Christianity.37
In an address before the New York Free Synagogue another Jew, Rabbi
Emil Gustave Hirsch, stated the following:
Scholars ... had demonstrated that Talmudic tradition and all it
inculcated as obligatory had passed through many channels, widening and
varying its currents as the days proceeded and that in many matters,
Talmudism was a clear departure from Biblical theory and practice.
Even the central tenet of Judaism, the concept of the Godhead, other
investigators had pointed out, had developed and changed in content
and formulation in obedience to the rhythm of changing thought.38
The truth of this statement is also demonstrated in the following
quotations. In his book Jews Must Live, for example, Samuel Roth
offered this interesting insight into Jewish thinking about God:
... the Jewish form of prayer differs both in heart and in outline
from any other species of prayer in the world. The difference is the
difference between one approach to God and another. Mohammedans and
Christians humble themselves before their deities. The Christian in
church. The Mohammedan wherever he may happen to be when the muezzin
announces the hour of prayer. The Jew has everything very carefully
arranged. God belongs in the synagogue. He, the Jew, belongs in the
marketplace. God has only one business. It is to look after the
prosperity of Israel [the Jews misnamed]. The Jew walks briskly
into his synagogue three times a day, at set hours, to remind God of
this important business.39
The Jewish Encyclopedia also reveals this Jewish arrogance under
the heading "Judaism":
JUDAISM: ... the prophetic spirit of the Jewish nation ...
transformed YHWH, an original tribal deity localized on Sinai and
connected with the celestial phenomena of nature, into the God of
holiness ... the moral governor of the world.40
In his book Rome and Jerusalem, Moses Hess wrote in the same
vein:
Judaism would have shared in the fate of those offshoot
religions which froze into dogma and perished in the destructive
conflict with modern science, were it not the creator of its own
lofty concept of God, were its religious teaching not the product of
its own living experience.41
This same blasphemy was committed by Joseph Kastein in his book
History and Destiny of the Jews:
It was not God [YHWH] who willed these people [the Jews] and their
meaning. It was this people [the Jews] who willed this God and
this meaning.42
The following comment concerning Moses Hess appeared in Rabbi Maurice
Joshua Bloom's preface to Mr. Hess's book Rome and Jerusalem,
wherein the Jewish people are equated with God:
The same humanitarianism led Hess to propose the
establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine "in order to
realize the historical ideal of our [Jewish] people, an ideal
which is neither more nor less than the reign of God upon
earth."43
Moses Hess reiterated this belief in his book Communist Credo in
Questions and Answers:
Our God is nothing more than the human [Jewish] race
united in love.44
Remember that to the Jew, only Jews constitute the human race.
All other people are goyim or cattle.
Quite creatively and blasphemously, Harry Waton made the Jews and
Jehovah (YHWH) synonymous:
The name Jehovah consists of four letters: Yod, He Vav He. ...the
letters [Y H W H] symbolize the physical form of man....
Physically and spiritually man [the Jew] is the epitome
[personification] of Jehovah. In man [the Jew] Jehovah
realizes himself...
... Judaism is the perception of this eternal and infinite idea of
Jehovah [YHWH], and the endeavor to realize this idea.45
Since Jehovah is the God of evolution, history and destiny, it
follows that Judaism is the only religion that is evolution, history and
destiny. Like Jehovah, Judaism speaks the language of I Am Becoming
what I Am to Become.46
The whole Bible was written in accordance with an infinite
mathematical system [Cabalism]. Now, the numerical value of the
name Shaddai [one of God's names] (in Hebrew) is 314. And the
numerical value of the expression (in Hebrew): And he was
gathered to his people - is also 314. This is the meaning of the
expression used by the Bible upon the death of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It means that Jehovah [YHWH], as the tree of eternal life, continues
to live in the Jewish people.47
...The rabbis begin to speak in their own name. And
the Talmud tells us of cases in which some rabbis even overruled
Jehovah [YHWH]. This process went so far that some rabbis
declared, that the Zaddick - the righteous man - can order and Jehovah
must comply with the order. Thus we see a complete turn of the table. At
first man was entirely dependent upon Jehovah, and now Jehovah became a
mere servant of man. What does this show? It shows the ordinary
process of intellectual and spiritual evolution.48
In his book The Nineteenth Century and After, Professor F.A.
Ossendowski, another Jew, demonstrated that Judaism and Bolshevism
(Russian Communism) are essentially one and the same thing. Having
demonstrated this fact, he further stated:
Bolshevism dispersed these illusions. It showed the
Russian soul in its nakedness, with its unsatisfied lust for
destruction, blood and revenge, a [Jewish] soul which has torn into
rags the idea of God and religion.49
In a letter to Benjamin Rush, an American Revolutionary patriot, Thomas
Jefferson summed up the Jewish attitude toward God:
Their system [the Jews' religion] was Deism [human reason versus
God's revelation] ... their ideas of (God) and of his attributes were
degrading and injurious.50
Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal revealed how the Jews have replaced the
worship of YHWH with the worship of themselves:
In contemporary Judaism the worship of the state of Israel and its
symbols has been gradually and unfortunately crowding out the worship of
the One God.51
In a sense the Judeans and those who followed, the Jews, by
substituting tribalism for universalism [salvation for all mankind],
became abject idolators of the new polytheism - nationalism. Their
relationship to God was subordinated to their relationship toward one
another.52
In his book God and Israel, Rabbi Solomon Goldman revealed the
same facts about the god of the Jews:
God is absorbed in the nationalism of Israel [the Jews
misnamed]. He [the Jew] becomes the national ethos [god or
guiding belief].53
Karl Marx emphasized the need to destroy the concept of God:
The idea of God [YHWH] is the keynote of a perverted
civilization. It [YHWH] must be destroyed.54
The criticism of religion ends with the [Jewish] teaching that man
[the Jew himself] is the supreme being [God] of man.55
James Yaffe reported that Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham,
Michigan Temple saw no need for God:
... the whole concept of God [YHWH] is outdated; Judaism
can function perfectly well without it.56
In agreement, Mr. Yaffe then commented:
... it seems we must agree with Rabbi Richard Israel, who writes
in Commentary's symposium on Jewish belief, "...[the current
discussion on] the Death of God will cause Jews to ask, 'So what else is
new?'... The Jewish funeral was a much more private affair. We buried
him [YHWH] quietly and in the middle of the night.57
In an address delivered in 1910 before the New York Free Synagogue,
Jacob Henry Schiff declared:
"Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God is the only God" has a living
meaning, who carries within him the conviction that the day will come,
and labors to bring it nearer when the Unity of God and the brotherhood
of man will be universally recognized, is a Jew.58
The Cabala echoes the blasphemous idea of Jewish divinity:
The Jew is the living God, God incarnate: he is the heavenly man.
The other men [non-Jews] are earthly, of inferior race. They exist only
to serve the Jew [as God]. They [non-Jews] are the cattle seed.59
True Christianity understands that the Messiah is God, or at the
very least, a part of God is the Messiah. Consequently, any person or
group claiming to be the Messiah, as the Jewish people do, are in essence
also claiming to be God! You might recall that in his book The
Messianic Idea in Israel, Joseph Klausner wrote:
Thus the whole people Israel [the Jews misnamed] in the form of
the elect of the nation gradually became the Messiah of the world, the
redeemer of mankind.60
Mr. Klausner later identified who the Jewish people believe the
"Redeemer" is:
God alone is the redeemer.61
Since to the Jews' way of thinking they are the "redeemer of
mankind," and since they believe that the redeemer is equivalent to God,
then the Jews are also claiming that they are the Messiah and thus God
Himself!
Let there be no mistake, YHWH is not the God of the Jews. The
Jews have instead attempted to make themselves their own god. History
reveals that "in the days of John Hyreanus (end of second century B.C.E.)
... the Edomites became a section of the Jewish people"62 and
that "from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people.63 We can take comfort from the Prophet Obadiah that God does
not intend to allow the Edomite Jews to continue claiming the
exalted position of being God:
The vision of [the Prophet] Obadiah. Thus says the Lord YHWH
concerning Edom.... "Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you are greatly despised. The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock, in the loftiness of your
dwelling place, who say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to
earth?' Though you [Edom] build high like the eagle [often
representative of God - Ex. 19:4], though you set your nest among the
stars, from there I will bring you down" declares YHWH. (Obadiah 1:1-4)
Celto-Saxons
From the preceding testimony it is quite apparent that YHWH is not
the God of the Jews. On the other hand, the following evidence irrefutably
substantiates that the Celto-Saxons instinctively worship YHWH.
For example, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, accused the Israelites of
saying: "We trust in YHWH our God" (2 Kings 18:22). "IN GOD WE TRUST"
appears on the coins of which nation? The Celto-Saxons may not know that
they are Israelites and that YHWH is the personal name of their God, but
when they speak or think of God (whether or not they follow Him) they are
speaking about the Creator, YHWH. Once again Justice David Josiah Brewer
confirmed this in his speech at Harvard University:
In many State Constitutions we find in the preamble a declaration
like this: "Grateful to Almighty God." In some [states], he who denied
the being of God was disqualified from holding office. It is again and
again declared in the [U.S.] constitution that official oaths shall
close with an appeal, "So help me, God." When upon inauguration, the
President-elect each 4 years consecrates himself to the great
responsibilities of Chief Executive of the [American] Republic, his vow
of consecration in the presence of the vast throng filling the Capitol
grounds will end with the solemn words, "So help me, God." In all our
courts, witnesses in like manner vouch for the truthfulness of their
testimony. The common commencement of wills is "In the name of God,
Amen."
... it is of still more significance that there are no contrary
declarations.... In none of them is Mohammed, or Confucius, or Buddha in
any manner noticed.64
In the court case of People vs. Ruggles, New York's Chancellor
James Kent rendered an opinion which provided the reason for the above
stated significance:
Nor are we [Americans] bound, by any expressions in the [U.S.]
constitution, as some have strangely supposed, either not to punish at
all, or to punish indiscriminately the like attacks upon the religion of
Mahomet [Islam], or of the Grand Lama [Buddhism], and for this plain
reason, that the case assumes that we are a Christian people, and the
morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity and not
upon the doctrines or worship of those [two or any other] imposters
[false gods or prophets].65
In Democracy in America French statesman and author, Alexis
de Tocqueville, related the following which certainly testified to
America's widespread belief in YHWH:
Whilst I was in America, a witness, who happened to be
called at the assizes [judicial inquest or session] of the county of
Chester (State of New York), declared that he did not believe in the
existence of God [YHWH], or in the immortality of the soul. The judge
refused to admit his evidence, on the ground that the witness had
destroyed beforehand all the confidence of the Court in what he was
about to say.66
The New York "Spectator" on August 23, 1831, relates the fact in
the following terms: The Court of Common Pleas of Chester county [New
York] a few days since rejected a witness who declared his disbelief in
the existence of God. The presiding judge remarked that he had not
before been aware that there was a man living who did not believe in the
existence of God; that this belief constituted the sanction of all
testimony in a court of justice, and that he knew of no cause in a
Christian country where a witness had been permitted to testify without
such belief."67
Just how emphatic the founding fathers of America were about their
allegiance to YHWH and His Laws is revealed in some of the legislative
records of New England:
Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially
characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of
Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of Connecticut begin with the penal
laws, and ... borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ.
"Whosoever shall worship any other God than the Lord [YHWH]," says the
preamble of the Code, "shall surely be put to death.68
There is no question which God is referred to in the following two
charters:
1609 - Second Virginia Charter - Purpose: "to live in fear and
true worship of Almighty God, Christian peace, and civil quietness."
1610 - New England Charter -Aims in settling America: "to increase
the knowledge of the Omnipotent God and the propagation of our Christian
faith.69
"Almighty" and "Omnipotent" are terms used only of YHWH, the God of
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel and Christian Celto-Saxons.
Regarding the Christian Celto-Saxon pioneers in this new country,
the 1879 McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader stated:
They [the early Celto-Saxon settlers] were emphatically a people
whose God was the Lord. Their form of government was ... strictly
theocratical [divinely guided and influenced by YHWH and His
Laws].70
Not only do early charters and constitutions acknowledge YHWH as the
God of this nation, but current constitutions do as well:
In addition to the nation's united expression of faith in God,
each individual state has separately acknowledged God [YHWH] as
Sovereign and as the Author of liberty. The Legislative Service of the
Library of Congress has compiled the provisions of State constitutions
relative to the Supreme Being.71
George Washington's prayer, which we previously quoted in part,
began "Almighty God" and continued with the following words:
[Almighty God] Endow with the spirit of wisdom those [Christian
Celto-Saxon Americans] whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of
government, that there may be peace and justice at home....
President Washington's prayer ended with this request:
In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and
in the day of trouble, suffer not our [Christian Celto-Saxon America's]
trust in Thee [Almighty God] to fail. Amen.
To which God was President Washington petitioning that our trust
should never fail? Everyone understands that it was YHWH, the God of the
Bible. When Celto-Saxon Americans put "In God We Trust" on their coins,
they were referring to the God of the Scriptures, not to Buddha, Shiva,
Allah, Confucius or any other spurious god or prophet. As the gospel
spread throughout Europe, the British Isles and then on to the North
American Continent, it was inherent for the Celto-Saxons to follow and
worship the God of the Christian Bible. Christianity replaced the pagan
customs that Israel had adopted when she was divorced from God and
subsequently scattered throughout the heathen world. As recently as 1959
Herman Wouk had to admit that the West worshiped the God of Moses:
There is no God in the West [Celto-Saxon America] to this hour but
[YHWH] the God of Moses."72
In July 1991 our U.S. Congress invited a Black Muslim to offer
prayer before a Congressional session. Scripture outlines this as idolatry
in the eyes of God. There are those who viewed this bold departure from
established Christian custom as proof that we are not a Christian nation.
However, this one idolatrous act is the only instance in over two hundred
years when Congress has not opened with prayer to Almighty God (YHWH),
which proves that it was an exception to the rule. This act emphasizes our
history of adherence to our Christian faith and our unwillingness to
consider the worship of imposters. We find recorded in the book of
Hebrews:
..."Behold days are coming, says YHWH, when I will effect a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .... And I
will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach
everyone his brother, saying, 'Know YHWH,' for all shall know Me, from
the least to the greatest of them." (Hebrews 8:8-11)
Today, you do not have to teach the Celto-Saxons that the God of the
Bible is their God. They have to be taught out of this innate
belief in order to be persuaded to believe in a god of some Eastern religion.
Just the opposite is true with the other races. While not many
Celto-Saxons today know YHWH intimately, all Celto-Saxons begin with an
instinctive understanding that YHWH is God.
Israel to Possess YHWH's Holy Spirit
"...listen, O Jacob My servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
thus says YHWH who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help
you, 'Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; and you Jeshurun whom I have
chosen. For I will pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on the
dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring [the remnant of
the nation of Israel], and My blessing on your descendants; and they
will spring up among the grass. (Isaiah 44:1-3)
A Redeemer [Yeshua] will come to Zion, and to those who turn from
transgression in Jacob," declares YHWH. "...as for Me, this is My
covenant with them," says YHWH: "My Spirit which is upon you [the
remnant of Israel], and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall
not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor
from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says YHWH, "From now and
forever." (Isaiah 59:20-21)
...He [YHWH] said to me [the Prophet Ezekiel], "...these bones are
the whole house of Israel [all twelve tribes]...." "Therefore prophesy,
and say to them, 'Thus' says the Lord YHWH.... And I will put My Spirit
within you [the remnant of Israel], and you will come to life, and I
will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, YHWH, have
spoken and done it," declares YHWH. (Ezekiel 37:11-14)
'As for the promise which I [YHWH] made you [Israel] when you came
out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!' (Haggai
2:5)
... let all [twelve tribes of] the [whole] house of Israel know
for certain that God has made Him both Lord and
Christ - this Jesus whom you crucified. Now when they [the
Judahite Israelites celebrating the Passover in Jerusalem] heard this,
they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" And Peter said to them, "Repent,
and let each of you, be baptized [immersed in water] in the name of
Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your
children [the house of Judah], and for all who are far off [the divorced
and scattered house of Israel], as many as the Lord your God shall call
to Himself [the remnant of Israel from all twelve tribes]." (Acts
2:36-39)
Which People Have Been Given YHWH's Holy Spirit
The indwelling Holy Spirit is an integral part of salvation in
Yeshua the Christ:
...You [Roman Christian Israelites - Rom. 4:1; 9:23-26] are not in
the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of [the] Christ he does not
belong to Him [he is not a Christian, a son of YHWH]. (Romans 8:9)
The indwelling Holy Spirit is given only when a person, in faith and
repentance, is baptized (immersed in water) into Yeshua the Christ for the
forgiveness of sins - Acts 2:38. Can there be any doubt which people
exhibit the indwelling of God's Spirit? The same people, who recognize
YHWH as their God and have responded to the New Covenant call of salvation
in Yeshua the Christ, are also those who have been indwelt with the Holy
Spirit. No one would dare claim that this description fits the Jews! The
three spiritual aspects or characteristics examined in this chapter fit
only the remnant among the Celto-Saxon descendants of Israel who have
obeyed the Gospel of Yeshua the Christ.
End Notes
1. Pastor Iustin Bonaventura Pranaitis, The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians (Saint Petersburg, Russia: Imperial Academy of Sciences Printing Office, 1892) pp. 28-41.
2. "Jesus in Rabbinical Literature," The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, NY: Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Company, Inc., 1942) vol. 6, p. 87.
3. "Jesus of Nazareth," The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904) vol. 7, pp .170-172.
4. Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Foreword to the First Editon, The Babylonia Talmud (London, UK: The Soncino Press, 1935) p. xxiii.
5. David Paul Louis Bernard Drach, De l'Harmonie entre l'Englise et la Synagogue, quoted in Douglas Reed, The Controversy of Zion (Durban, Natal, South Africa: Dolphin Press (Pty) Limited, 1978) p. 90.
6. Pranaitis, "Zohar," p. 36.
7. Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, letter to Jennie and Leo Waterman (sister and brother of Luise Waterman Wise), in the autumn of 1901, Carl Hermann Voss, ed., Stephen S. Wise: Servant of the People, Selected Letters (Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969) p. 195.
8. Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, letter to Mrs. Donald MacIntyre, 9 October 1933, Carl Voss, ed., Stephen S. Wise: Servant of the People, Selected Letters (Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969) p. 195.
9. Bernard Lazare, Anitsemitism: Its History and Causes (New York, NY: The International Library Publishing Company, 1903) p. 164.
10. Abram Leon Sachar, A History of the Jews (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968) pp. 124-125.
11. Ben Hecht, A Jew in Love (New York, NY: Covici Friede Publishers , 1931) pp. 120-121.
12. Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live (New York, NY: The Golden Hind Press, Inc., 1934) p. 74.
13. Harry Waton, A Program for the Jew and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York, NY: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939) p. 120.
14. Moses Guibbory, David Horowitz, trans., The Bible in the Hands of Its Creators: Biblical Facts As They Are (New York, NY: The Polygon Press, Inc., 1943) p. 1506.
15. Guibbory, p. 1532.
16. Dr. Benjamin H. Freedman, "Economic Council Letter, No. 177 (October 15, 1947)," Palestine (New York, NY: National Economic Council, Inc., 1947) quoted in Destiny Magazine, 28 January 1948.
17. Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., Herbert Danby, D.D., trans., Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1953) p. 325.
18. Klausner, pp. 413-414.
19. Rabbi Joachim Prinz, testimony before the New Jersey Supreme Court, "Tudor vs. Board of Education of Rutherford, 14 N.J. 31 (1953) certiorari denied 348 U.D. 816 (1954)," quoted in Leo Pfeffer, Church State and Freedom (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1953) p. 459.
20. Rabbi Meir Kahane, The Jewish Press (New York, NY) 6 January 1989, p. 49, quoted in Pastor Michael Watson, The Kingdom Messenger (Grants Pass, OR) vol. 2, no. 1. Rabbi Meir Kahane was the founder of the Jewish Defense League, a militant organization, designed to combat so-called anti-semitisim.
21. "Cabala," quoted in Dr. Edward R. Fields, Judaism: The World's Strangest Religion (Marietta, GA: The Truth at Last, Publishers) p. 8.
22. "Judaism," The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904) vol. 7, p. 363.
23. Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966) p. 100.
24. Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Other Side of the Coin (New York, NY: The Devin-Adair Company, 1968) p. 100.
25. Leon Simon, Studies in Jewish Nationalism (London, UK: Longmans, Green and Company, 1920) p. 36.
26. Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, letter to Mrs. G.S. Best, 15 December 1938, Charles Hermann Voss, ed., Stephen S. Wise: Servant of the People, Selected Letters (Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969) p. 231.
27. Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem, 1862 reprint ed. (New York, NY: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1958) p. 15.
28. Hess, p. 18.
29. For a deeper understanding of the "New World Order," listen to the message The New World order: Whose Agenda Is It?
30. Baruch Levy, letter written to Heinrich Karl Marz, quoted in La Revue de Paris, 1 June 1928, p. 574.
31. Rabbi Roland Bertram Gittelsohn, The Meaning of Judaism (New York, NY: The World Publishing Company, 1970) p. 50.
32. Gittlesohn, pp. 50-51.
33. Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., The Messianic Idea in Israel (London, UK: Bradford & Dickens, 1956) p. 163.
34. For a more in-depth look at the identity of the "anti-Christ," refer to 10 Overlooked Characteristics for Identifying the Antichrist.
35. Bernard Lazare, Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (New York, NY: The International Library Publishing Company, 1903) pp. 165-166.
36. Protocol 11, Article 4, Sentence 1-2, Victor Emile Marsden, trans., Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, 1905 and subsequent editions (of this appendix — in its original form), reprinted (Boring, OR: CPA Books) p. 35.
37. Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits, Judaism in the Post-Christian Era (1966) p. 80.
38. Rabbi Emil Gustave Hirsch, quoted in Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses (New York, NY: Bloch Publishing Company, 1910) vol. 2, p. 73.
39. Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live (New York, NY: The Golden Hind Press, Inc., 1934) p. 72.
40. "Judaism," The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904) vol. 7, p. 368.
41. Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem, 1862 ed. reprint. (New York, NY: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1958) p. 19.
42. Joseph Kastein (Julius Katzenstein — pseudonym), History of the Jews (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1936) p. 12.
43. Rabbi Maurice Joshua Bloom, preface to Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem, ed. reprint. (New York, NY: Philosophical Library, Inc., 958)
44. Moses Hess, Kommunistisches Bekenntnis in Fragen und Antworten — Communist Credo in Questions and Answers, p. 190, quoted in Richard Wurmbrand, Marx & Satan (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, Good News Publishers, 1986) p. 91.
45. Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York, NY: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939) p. 113.
46. Waton, p. 114.
47. Waton, pp. 133-134.
48. Waton, p. 219.
49. Professor Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, The Nineteenth Century and After (London, UK: Constable & Company, Limited, 1926) p. 30.
50. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1803, quoted in Michael Ledeen, "Should Jews Fear the Christian Right," Moment: The Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion, October 1994, p. 47.
51. Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Other Side of the Coin (New York, NY: The Devin-Adair Company, 1965) p. 62.
52. Lilienthal, p. 64.
53. Rabbi Solomon Goldman, God and Israel, quoted in Douglas Reed, The Controversy of Zion (Durban, Natal, South Africa: Dolphin Press (Pty) Limited, 1978) p. 48.
54. Heinrich Karl Marx, quoted in Richard Wurmbrand, Marx & Satan (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, Good News Publishers, 1986) p. 59.
55. Wurmbrand, p. 25.
56. James Yaffe, The American Jews (New York, NY: Random House, 1968) p. 161.
57. Yaffe, p. 161.
58. Jacob Henry Schiff, quoted in Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses (New York, NY: Bloch Publishing Company, 1910) vol. 2, p. 127.
59. "Cabala," quoted in Dr. Edward R. Fields, Judaism: The World's Strangest Religon (Marietta, GA: The Truth at Last, Publishers) p. 8.
60. Joseph Klausner, Ph.D., The Messianic Idea in Israel (London, UK: Bradford & Dickens, 1956) p. 163.
61. Klausner, p. 522.
62. "Edom," Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, Israel: Encyclopaedia Judaica Company, 1971) vol. 6, p. 378.
63. "Edom (Idumea)" The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977) p. 589.
64. Associate Justice David Josiah Brewer, address at Harvard University in 1905.
65. Chancellor James Kent, People vs. Ruggles, 8 Johns (NY) 290 (1811), quoted in Leo Pfeffer, Church State and Freedom (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1953) p. 665.
66. Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, trans., Democracy in America (New York, NY: The Colonial Press, 1899) vol. 1, p. 311.
67. de Tocqueville, vol. 1, p. 311.
68. de Tocqueville, vol. 1, p. 37.
69. Walter S. Remmie, "This Is a Christian Nation," Kingdom Digest (Irving, TX) July 1981, p. 28.
70. William Holmes McGuffey, A.B., McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1879) p. 225. William Holmes McGuffey, an American preacher, was a professor at Miami University, president of Ohio University, president and professor at Woodward College, and professor of the University of Virginia, who also wrote the McGuffey's Spellingbooks. More than one hundred twenty million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold.
71. Pat Brooks, et.al., "50 Evidences that the U.S.A. is 'Constitutionally Christian!," Appendix D, Freedom or Slavery! (Fletcher, NC: New Puritan Library, 1990) p. 159. Pages 159-165 contain the pertinent portion of all 50 state constitutions.
72. Herman Wouk, This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959) p. 181.
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