EZEKIEL

and YHWH’s

Judgment

for the

Good News

PEOPLE

VOLUME XIII

The Congregation

EZEKIEL and YHWH’s

Judgment for the

Good News People

Volume XIII--The Congregation

by

an unworthy servant

And you shall know the truth,

and the truth will make you free.

(John 8:32)

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Contents

Volume XIII--The Congregation

CHAPTER PAGE

- Cover Page 1

- Title Page 2

- Contents 3

- Publisher’s Preface 5

Part LL--The Jewish Enigma

184 Attitude Toward Jews and Judaism 6

185 Race and Religion Enigma I 11

186 Race and Religion Enigma II 19

187 Religious Hypocrites 33

Part MM--The Called Out Ones

188 Qahal Ha ELOHIM 46

189 The Seven Assemblies 52

190 Sardis 65

191 Introduction to Philadelphia 74

192 20th Century Pioneers/Contributors 84

193 More on Philadelphia 102

194 Still More on Philadelphia 115

195 Laodicea 127

196 Other Sabbathkeeping Groups 135

197 The Obedience Issue 137

198 Fellowship 142

Part NN--Sin

199 Racial Pride 154

200 Evil People and More Evil Leaders 163

SHEERIT YISRAEL

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Calder, Idaho 83808, USA

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Chapter 184--Attitude Toward Jews and Judaism

What is Needed

Any person who undertakes a serious study of the Word, with a view of obeying it, must quickly come to grips with the reality that a new and different attitude and perspective is needed on the question of the Jews and Judaism.

As detailed in the former chapters, there was substantial good in Second Temple Judaism and in the Second Temple synagogues. This is a hard pill for Christians to accept. But it is the real world in terms of the Scriptures. This conclusion is not something this writer has dreamed up from the Old Testament. No, it is the absolute truth and teaching of the New Testament (NT).

It is the New Testament which tells us about YESHUA, Shaul, Kefa and the other persons in YESHUA’s movement and the eventual Apostolic Assembly. We know from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, etc where those people worshipped and indeed how they worshipped in terms of procedures, liturgy, music and so forth. We know because the New Testament lays it out.

Yes, the NT unmistakably teaches that the Apostolic Assembly was made up of religious Jews or House of Yisrael Israelites who, out in the Diaspora, were in the process of conversion to Judaism. That’s the real world. Of course, of supreme importance, we know that YESHUA, Shaul and many, most or all of the others in YESHUA’s group were religious Jews of the Hillel Pharisee persuasion.

But Change Came In

Now, in citing the marvelous and wonderful benefits of Second Temple Judaism, this writer is simply not suggesting or implying that the succeeding years didn’t see some modifications in the ideology and framework of Judaism, following the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans. It’s too bad, but some changes were introduced into Judaism which were not good after 70 CE.

These changes have been detailed in previous chapters. They need no further focus here. Suffice to say, the Jewish devotion to the Talmud on a law and authority level is not good. Yet, the Talmud is an outstanding book for true believers to study because it explains and clarifies so much of the New Testament and the life of YESHUA and the other members of His group.

However, to the credit of the many dedicated and conscientious Jewish people, sages and scholars over the years, much of the culture and mental outlook on life and religion has been preserved in modern Orthodox Judaism. This is not to say that modern Orthodox Judaism is near the admiral level of Second Temple Judaism. It is not! But it is close and so close that a believer must respect it.

On this reasoning, it is also useful to realize that there are many important distinctions and differences between the Orthodox Judaism of Sephardim as opposed to Ashkenazi Jews. Manifestly, the Sephardim are far closer to truth and righteousness than the Ashkenazim.

It seems that the Ashkenazi European Jews have been heavily influenced by the evil thinking of Amalekites who have come to that definition over the years.

Undoubtedly, it has been the evil Amalekites and their propensity for sin to have allowed the development of the current Reform Jewish movement and its fall-outs. While the Conservative Jews are substantially better than Reform Jews, they too have some problems.

The Real Needs

Based upon the above remarks and the findings detailed in the former chapters on Judaism, any open student of truth must turn to Judaism to find answers on worship procedures, liturgy, music, congregational prayers and so forth, as found in modern Orthodox Judaism. As will be conclusively proven later herein, Christian worship simply will not fit the needs of truth and righteousness.

Hence, there must be a turn to Judaism and to it with an open attitude and not being close minded, as is true with so many Christians and Christian denominations.

The Historic Problem

As noted earlier, historic Christianity has always had a basic hatred and animosity toward Judaism. Interestingly, Christians have not had a particular dislike or hatred toward racial or ethnic Jews. But their venom has always been turned toward Judaism and any Jew who is religious and sincere in practicing Judaism.

The Christian predecessors in ancient sun worship Greece started this vile hatred of Judaism with the death of Alexander the Great. The Greeks were not able to convert the religious Jews to the Grecian sun worship faiths. So the Greeks responded with enormous hatred toward the Jews who wanted to keep their Scriptural Hebrew faith.

Historically, for vast centuries, the Christian hatred and opposition to Judaism was out in the open. Religious Jews were slaughtered by the thousands and/or millions. All they had to do was give up their faith. But many religious Jews refused.

The same problem has also faced so-called Gentiles or goyim (in the Hebrew), in reference to people who are not Jews. Any person who has practiced many or any of the Scriptural requirements of the Old Testament has been in trouble in the secular society for the past 2,000 years.

It’s been all right to obey OT commandments which promote humanism and define man’s duties, needs and requirements with other men. But when a person undertakes to show love to The MOST HIGH and observe things which will demonstrate that love (like in keeping certain religious feasts, eating certain food or engaging in certain liturgy in worship), the person is then in trouble.

Since some form of religious freedom has come about in the last one hundred years in much of the Christian West, things are not as bad now as they once were. It used to be that if you tried to keep the Seventh day Sabbath and the watching society found out about it, you would be burned alive at the stake. The Christian world presently does not impose that punishment upon people obeying the Torah.

But the groundwork is being laid on right now in the New World Order to re-impose that former dictatorial religious state. It’s coming. We can be sure of it--not whether, but only of when.

The Jewish Role

In describing the great hurt and persecution which has come upon good religious Jews over their acts of faith and obedience of the Torah, it must be noted that the Jews themselves have somewhat brought on the punishment which has befallen them.

The worst thing which the Jews did was to allow John Hyrcanus and his colleagues to forcibly convert the diabolical, Satan directed Amalekites before 100 BCE. These workers of evil and depravity, in the form of the Herods and the Herodians, brought enormous hurt upon good Jews. Surely, they were the main force to perpetuate the Roman wars and the destruction of Jerusalem.

With the conquest of Jerusalem, many or indeed perhaps most of the Amalekite workers of evil vanished from the ranks of Jewry. Many of the Amalekites in the Jerusalem area were killed and destroyed by the Romans. Others fled Palestine for the North. And many, of course, sold out to the Romans and became Roman citizens (this gave the Romans a surge of Amalekites into its ranks).

Not content with being largely free of the Amalekite children of Satan, world Jewry in the 8th century CE allowed the Khazars of Eastern European (who seem to be the very Amalekite people who had earlier fled Palestine) to convert to Judaism and reassert their work of destruction once more. This was a terrible blunder by the Jewish leaders to allow these Amalekites into their midst.

Much of the persecution and trouble on the Jews in Europe in the succeeding centuries came about precisely because of the presence and works of evil from these Satanic people. This was certainly true in the pre WWII days, when Germany, under Adolf Schicklgruber, turned against the Jews to punish and hurt both good Jews and bad Jews.

As noted earlier, and as will be proven later herein, it was the Amalekite workers of evil who completely set WWII up. Amalekites--like the Roosevelts, Schicklgruber and likely Churchill (whose mother was evidently an Amalekite Jewess)--led the way in murdering and killing millions of people in Europe.

In discussing the work of these Amalekite Jew workers of evil, it must be said that huge numbers of Amalekites have also converted to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and other worldly religions. Too, many of them are outright atheists.

But regardless of their religions, many of them are in the US and White British Commonwealth nations where they have been accepted and allowed into leadership roles--just as happened in the first century BCE and first century CE in Palestine. The Jews made a mistake in those days and the gullible Christian goyim have done the precise same thing in the last couple hundreds of years in the US and Britain.

Therefore

This exact situation therefore brings into play something that few people are ever able to grasp in today’s modern world. There is a sharp distinction between true, religious Jews (who probably have some good Adamic gene lines) and the evil Amalekite children of Satan who pretend to be Jews (but are not Jews).

True Jews and the Jewish religion (other than the Reform religion which is basically evil) are good things. The Amalekite Jews are bad. It has been and will continue to be the Amalekite Jews who have brought such great hurt on not only the good Jews, but indeed upon the world at large.

The Confusion

Certainly, the world at large, and particularly the world of Christendom in the US and White British Commonwealth, is totally lost in trying to recognize this distinction in the broad classification of the Jews. People simply are unable to distinguish between the Jewish religion and good Jews and other ethnic Jews who are actually Amalekite sons of Satan.

This indictment applies to the whole world. It seems to affect all of Christendom, to include even the world of Christian Identity. It appears that there are few, if any, persons out there claiming to be Christian Identity adherents, who have the foggiest notion of what Judaism is and is not and what and who the Amalekites are and who they are not. People are simply lost on these issues.

What is sadly needed is a whole new approach to the Jewish question. Assuredly, this new approach will come about in the world tomorrow when YESHUA rules this globe directly. But the need is ever present in the world right now.

This writer has broached this difficult theme at length in the previous chapters addressing Judaism and the Jews. But in an effort to reduce the dilemma down to its basics, the following chapters will present the reality of the problem and particularly of it in terms of the modern Christian Identity movement.

There may be only a few people who do grasp the significance of the problem. But hopefully, there will be some out there who benefit from the following presentation made in this production.

This outline of the problem and an attempt to understand it will set the stage for succeeding commentary on what should comprise the age end congregation of righteousness. In order to properly address this coming ideal entity, it is imperative that the student of truth have some perspective on the Jews and the importance of Judaism.

Chapter 185--Race and Religion Enigma I

The Topic of Race

Although there is no intent presently to rehash the several previous chapters in this publication on race, there is a need to point out something which the reader perhaps has not yet grasped in the context of why this theme was handled the way it was herein.

Race, racial differences and racial identifications are profoundly important topics in YHWH’s Word. This reality is in sharp contrast to what the modern Christian culture and society tell the dumb sheep under their control.

The Scriptures offer an abundance of data on race and acknowledge that The ELOHIM has made a large number of His decisions based precisely on this factor--whether anyone likes it or not.

It is The MOST HIGH Who has chosen to make the primary separate races of humans/humanoids (Adamite, behemah and chaiyah). Put another way, The ELOHIM, Himself, has created the three major races of White, Black and Red peoples. He is responsible for the different races!

These all were good creations. They were all made for various purposes, whether any modern Christian can understand them or not. From these basically good creations, Satan and men collectively have chosen to alter The SUPREME’s creations, as if there was something inherently wrong with them (as they were created by The CREATOR).

Beyond the basic three races, Nachash quickly seduced Eve and apparently introduced a fourth racial type into history. Shortly thereafter, the messengers also came down and cohabited and crossed with the various humans/humanoids.

And very quickly (pre-flood and later), the Adam kind began miscegenating with the descendants of Kain, the behemah, the chaiyah and messengers to produce a whole variety of mamzer and nokri/nekar peoples which today are found all over the globe.

With these numerous acts of miscegenation to produce the great racial variations found today, they clearly constitute efforts on the part of Satan and limited little men to change and alter the basic separate creations of humans/humanoids which The HIGHEST created as good at the beginning.

Why would anyone want to change the marvelous and perfect creations of wonderful true Black, White and Red peoples into imperfect, flawed mongrels? Why would anyone want to change what The MOST HIGH created as good into something that is obviously not good? Yet, this has happened and is happening regularly.

Addressing the Differences

Of course, this production has had to deal with the various words used by YHWH in His Book to describe the different classes of so-called human beings (the different races) and outline His plans for them in the context of the creation and in the definition of who are the people of the Good News.

Despite this necessity, however, it must be realized that there are enemies of truth out there in the world who will take these words and misuse them by attacking this effort as racist of some sort. People can and do easily twist truth in order to serve their own evil purposes.

Never mind what the Scriptures say, these wretched souls will burn the midnight oil in an effort to condemn, hurt and punish, if possible, this work simply because the (politically incorrect) subject of race (however important it is in the Word) is a taboo topic which no one can dare address in today’s contemporary society. To be politically correct, this issue must be swept under the rug.

Perhaps one of the main problems is that whenever the Amalek-Edomites claim to be The MOST HIGH’s chosen people (Israel), society looks upon this as being normal and good. But let any other group come along and claim to be The ELOHIM’s chosen people (Israel) and they are immediately branded as racists. And if they are White, they are furthermore called White supremacists.

Christian Hatred

As suggested earlier, this hysteria has created a situation whereby society at large has a great fear of the Judeans, as was true in YESHUA’s day (Jo 7:13). While the general public has this incredible fear of the Judeans, it is interesting that most Christians have a most extraordinary hatred of the Jewish religion, in particular, though there aren’t many around with the same passionate hatred of Jews racially or ethnically.

The position of Christians historically has been that racial and ethnic Jews are wonderful people if they abandon Judaism and convert to Christianity. This was always the cry in the dark ages when Rome ruled the world and persecuted “religious” Jews without mercy.

During the Spanish inquisition, the only way out for a religious Jew to survive was to abandon his faith and become a Christian. Specifically, he had to submit to Catholic Christian baptism (“Hunted Heretic,” p. 6). Jews were either baptized or they had better flee for their lives because Catholic authorities would murder them if they were caught.

Once the most vile, evil and diabolical Amalek-Edomite of all has left Judaism and declared himself a Christian (even if he still is a secret Satanist in his heart), he will be accepted by the Christian Israelite community with open arms--all the while that these Israelites foolishly ignore his real plan and purpose of destroying them because he positively hates them as a result of his blood and seed lines.

The exception on this racial acceptance, if there is one, is primarily among Christian Identity religious adherents, so-called right wing participants and historic Nazi figures. A relatively “few” of these people have “supposedly” had enormous hatred for both Judaism and Jews without distinction.

But there is little or no proof of this alleged hatred because there have been any number of Amalek-Edomite Jews in the German Nazi party (including the Nazi leader Adolf Schicklgruber, himself); the American Nazi party; the Ku Klux Klan; and more recently, in the modern Christian Identity movement.

There is also some question about the incredible hatred which the modern Arabs bear for Jews. Some of this hatred seems to be along racial or likely political lines and not involving religion at all. Arab hatred of Jews was outlined in a former chapter and will be further addressed in later chapters.

Some Examples From History

Even one of the most famous, alleged, Jew haters in American history, Gerald L. K. Smith (who was an ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ Church), really had no particular problem with the Jews, per se.

As his biographer Glen Jeansonne mentioned, Smith believed that Jews could become religious brethren by renouncing Judaism (which he considered to be the forces of the Devil) and accepting “Christ” (“Gerald L. K. Smith, Minister of Hate,” p. 102). In 1964, Smith publicly supported Christian Jew Barry Goldwater for president, per Jeansonne (ibid, p. 166).

The same condition existed with Martin Luther of the 16th century--who had a fantastic reputation for anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. But this reputation collapses when one looks more carefully at the real thinking of the famous reformer Martin Luther. An article by Rick Aharon Chaimberlin on “The Judgment” in the Oct-Dec 1999 “Petah Tikvah” (p. 14-15) laid out some interesting things about Luther.

As Chaimberlin wrote, Luther, at first, wrote and spoke well of the Jews. Apparently, he did so in the context that he expected them to join in with his brand of Protestant Christianity that was developing. When they did not abandon Judaism to join him, he turned on them with a vengeance.

One must understand that this Luther hatred of the Jews was not really a racial hate at all. He hated Judaism. Any Jew willing to convert to Christianity was a good Jew. Any Jew who refused to convert was a bad Jew. Luther took his hatred out on these so-called bad Jews who would not convert.

This “Petah Tikvah” magazine quoted Luther from “The Jew in the Ancient World” by Marcus (p. 167-169), which was cited by William Nicholls in “Christian Anti-Semitism.” The essence of this Luther condemnation was an attack upon Judaism. Luther argued that the synagogues should be burned down, that Jewish prayer books and the Talmud be kept from them, and that “rabbis” be forbidden to teach.

While he spoke against Jews, Luther did so in the context of them being Jews--religiously. Again, the evidence is persuasive that those Jews who abandoned being a Jew and Judaism in order to convert to Christianity was a good person. There is no question about it whatsoever, Luther hated Judaism and not racial/ethnic Jews, per se.

It seems that any Jew and/or Edomite willing to become a Christian is a good person in the eyes of even the biggest of Jew haters. This is a most fascinating phenomenon because the liberal establishment has come to call these right wing people “White supremacists, racists, anti-Semites, bigots and Jew haters.” In truth, they really have little or no problem with racial Jews or Edomites at all. Their problem is with Judaism.

The one thing that all Christian Israelites (with few if any exceptions) readily agree upon is that they totally hate Judaism and want to see it destroyed, just as the racial Edomites want to see them destroyed. Christians, including right wing types, are typically not racists at all. Their main focus is on religion. They may be religious bigots. But they are not racists in terms of the Jews!

This Christian anti-Judaism goes back a long way. The evidence is most persuasive that it started within Christendom at the very beginnings of Christianity in Rome in c42-50 CE (to be assessed in some detail in later chapters)--although the tragedy was much older, as will be shown in the succeeding comments.

The Real Source of This Hatred

While some persons might try to make a case that the ancient Romans were fairly tolerant of all religions (including Judaism), this is not totally true. The problem with ancient Rome and the Roman Empire is that its culture and civilization was Grecian. This reality will be addressed in some detail in subsequent chapters.

The “Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period” (p. 43) addresses this issue in an article on pagan anti-Semitism. This article suggests that before 200 BCE, there was some pagan neutrality towards the Jews. But as early as 200 BCE, the story was told that the Jews worshipped a donkey in the Jerusalem Temple (per a writer named Mnaseas of Patara).

This article also says that evidence for pagan anti-Semitism primarily developed during the times of the Maccabees. Advisors to the Seleucid king maligned the “misanthropic and impious customs” of the Jews. Apparently, the Romans were not as bad as the Greeks. But even some Roman literature had condemnations of Judaism and Jewish practices (circumcision, Sabbath keeping and not eating pork).

The “Dictionary of New Testament Theology” (DNTT, v. 2, p. 310) has an article which discusses the terms Judah, Jew, Jewish and Judaism from the standpoint of early historical times. This source suggests that the word “Jew” was used by Gentiles as a contemptuous term of abuse and that the Gentile world did not understand the peculiarity and necessary separation (kodesh) of the Jewish people.

Going on, DNTT says that because the Jews could not take part in the Gentile cults and social life, they were regarded as godless, haters of foreigners, and even haters of men in general (yes, pagan Greek sun worshippers looked down upon Jewish followers of YHWH and the Torah as “godless,” just as they still do today in Christendom).

DNTT adds that Alexandrian writers, in particular, spread horrific tales about the history and worship of the Jews which were readily believed and copied. Contempt for Judaism also resulted in hatred which worked itself out in bloody persecutions (per DNTT).

Perhaps some of these tales commenced the incredibly ridiculous theory of Jews sacrificing Christian children at Passover (as is assessed in some detail in other comments herein). This charge is too stupid to be discussed. But it became the real world of Christian thinking for the long, dark ages that the Roman Catholic Church effectively ruled the world and called the shots for secular kings.

More on This Hatred

The above remarks establish the reality that very early in the times of Grecian rule (when the Greeks imposed their culture on the civilized world), enormous hatred was developing for Judaism. This hatred was never against the Jews, per se. Instead it was essentially focused upon the Jewish faith and religion.

Surely, the fact that a religious Jew would not participate in pagan ceremonies, holidays and customs must have been a primary focus of this hatred. If the Jew would but compromise his faith and act like the pagan sun worshippers, then everything would have been all right. He would be a good Jew. And this happened among some Jews in the context of Hellenism. Many Hellenistic Jews compromised their beliefs.

Of course, all that the Greek sun worshippers wanted was for the Jews to do like everybody else--assimilate, mix, integrate and adopt the Greek sun worship religion, culture, gods, holidays, customs and practices (all of these will be addressed in detail in subsequent chapters herein).

Probably, it was the failure of Greek rulers to impose the Greek religion and culture upon the Second Temple Jews which made them such arch enemies of Judaism. This reality has been discussed in previous remarks. Needless to say, the Greeks tried hard to convert the Jews to Grecian thinking. But the work of the Maccabees in the second century BCE put down this evil effort.

The failure to make Greeks out of the Jews must have hurt their pride. After all, they seemed to have success wherever they went in Asia and Europe in making the people adopt the Greek polytheistic religion, culture, philosophy and civilization. It was only in Palestine with the Jews that the Greeks failed.

Hatred for the Jewish Religion

In any case, it was soon established that the Greeks had a passionate hatred for Judaism (not the racial or ethnic Jews, per se). The focus was effectively upon religion. As always, any Jew who was willing to turn from his religion and adopt the Greek religion and culture was a good Jew in Greek eyes. The problem was manifestly those Jews who would not convert.

This prevailing Greek hatred of Judaism (not racial or ethnic Jews) continued through the years until the establishment of Christianity. It was picked upon and became a cardinal part of Christian theology, almost from Christianity’s earliest days.

Certainly, the anti-Judaism position was well established in Christianity and the Roman Empire by the mid second century CE when Justin Martyr wrote his attack upon Judaism (“Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth,” p. 267). Later chapters herein will discuss Christian history in some detail to prove how the seeds were successfully sown for this venomous hatred against Judaism.

In any case, there has been an enormous anti-Judaism motivation within Christendom from its earliest days. This has continued on into modern times. Christians have no problems with Jews, per se (if they turn their backs on Judaism and become Christians). Christians have problems and hatred for Jews who will not abandon Judaism. Judaism, in Christian eyes, is one of the primary enemies of Christianity.

The “Why” For This Continuing Christian Hatred

The question must inevitably surface on the “why” for this incredible hatred by collective Christianity toward Judaism? This writer is convinced that the Christian motivation here is its intense hatred and animosity toward the Torah and YHWH’s mitzwot. Most Christians thoroughly hate YAH’s Torah, as was discussed in comments heretofore.

Sometimes, it is possible to believe that this Christian hatred even extends to the Old Testament YHWH, Himself, and particularly in view of such depraved thinking by early Christians--like the kook Marcion, discussed at length previously. It’s not that any Christians are going to admit it. They won’t. But they do possess these motives which spill over into their hatred toward Judaism.

The problem with Judaism is that it teaches the Torah and obedience of all of YAH’s commandments and not just the few of them that some Christians will highlight and espouse. It’s not to say that Jews understand all of The ELOHIM’s laws (like laws dealing with environmental pollution). They don’t! But they don’t talk against them (as Christians routinely do).

Christians are opposed to such teachings about the Torah and obedience to it. Hence, they respond by criticizing and attacking Jews, the Talmud and the Jewish religion, never understanding what the real problems are in their own Western Christian religion and culture.

If asked, the usual Christian will commence with some diatribe about the Jews rejecting “Christ,” never understanding that people who reject YHWH’s Torah and disobey are themselves rejecting the NT Jewish MESSIAH.

Yes, faith is tied to obedience and works (Jas 2:1-26). It is impossible to have the true gift of faith, described herein, if one is in rebellion towards the perfection, righteousness and love found in YHWH’s Torah.

People may give lip service to and offer meaningless words about some so-called acceptance and belief in Gee-Zeus. But if they reject YHWH YESHUA’s Torah, they categorically reject Him. At least, the religious Jew is informed and intellectually honest on what he believes in his rejection of YESHUA. He is not a hypocrite in this rejection.

Ignorant Christians are generally like other sun worshipping pagans who know not what they believe (I Cor 2:2-16). At best, they may have some zeal for The ELOHIM while in a state of ignorance (Rom 10:2). However, in all cases, they are hypocrites when they claim to believe in Him while rejecting His words and commandments.

The Christian Attitude

The Christian position was well stated by Conservative Vatican leader Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (as cited earlier herein). He created a storm of protests among Jews when he publicly declared that “the Catholic Church is waiting for Israel and Jews to embrace Christianity” (Sep 22, 2000, “Jerusalem Post,” p. 3). Yes, that has been the cry for virtually all of Christianity for 2,000 years.

Christians generally (to include Christian Identity people, almost without exception) want Jews to abandon Judaism and become Christians. Christianity has never hated Jews. What Christendom hates is Judaism! Once a Jew abandons the Scriptural Sabbath and feast days (Passover, Sukkot, etc) and accepts Sunday, Christmas and Easter and once the Jew starts eating pork, then he becomes a good Jew.

In Christian eyes, it is religious Jews who are bad (really because they keep Scriptural feasts and eat Scripturally clean foods). Moreover, it is Jewish men who wear beards and Jewish women who are covered in public--both of which constitute problems in the Christian world. If they would just change and give up those OT practices, they would become good Jews--fully deserving of Christian love, care and concern.

John Sturgnell

There is one more feature of this discussion on race and Judaism which must be acknowledged as being of enormous importance. This condition was brought out by John Sturgnell, former chief editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a professor of archaeology at Harvard University. In preparing his book on “Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls” (p. 260-261), Hershel Shanks interviewed Sturgnell.

Like almost all Christians, all over the world, Sturgnell has absolutely nothing to say against Jews. But he is extremely anti-Judaism. He postulates the Christian position that the Jewish problem would be immediately solved by their “mass conversion” to Christianity.

But Sturgnell goes one step further when he outlined his primary complaint against Judaism. He charged that it “is originally racist...it’s a folk religion; it’s not a higher religion” (“Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls,” p. 260). While Sturgnell was very biased and prejudiced because of his Christian religion, his remarks are interesting, although largely incorrect.

Incidentally, Sturgnell is known to have had a problem with alcoholism (May/Jun 2002 “Biblical Archaeology Review,” p. 33). So maybe, he was drunk when he uttered those words.

While he was editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls (from 1984 to 1990), his work (or lack of work) brought much criticism from other scholars. During his tenure, he only published one volume of material on the Dead Sea Scrolls. This compares with 30 volumes published by his successor Emanuel Tov from 1991 to 2002 (ibid, p. 34). Possibly, when Sturgnell left the scrolls’ project, he left with some bitterness toward the Jews.

Chapter 186--Race and Religion Enigma II

Modern Hypocrite Christian Identity Leaders

Recently, this writer watched a home video documentary put out by “Saxon” productions on Christian “Identity.” The gist of this effort was a short presentation by several of the leading Christian Identity preachers on the subject of Identity and now evident social and moral problems in the United States.

In the presentation, there was much discussion about “God’s law” and the fact that Americans are in rebellion toward that law. Over and over, some of the speakers would condemn the rest of rebellious Christendom for their opposition to the law, as if Christian Identity people know about the law and keep it.

While these speakers could make these statements, one could look at their physical appearances and immediately perceive the absolute sin and rebellion in each of their hearts.

All of them were clean shaven (a couple of mustaches were present) and it is doubtful that there was a one of them who had the foggiest notion that YHWH’s law addresses that question (Lev 19:27). One of the biggest law advocates in the group is reportedly a pork eater which goes to establish that he is a hypocrite for sure. As will be discussed later, the Torah says that they were all in sin!

Going on, one can be sure that the very clothes which they were wearing was in rebellion toward the Torah--probably with mixed blends of cloth since that is mostly what the secular society sells. Indeed, a true commandment keeper must go out of his way to obey YHWH on this mitzwah (Lev 19:19; Deut 22:9-11).

If someone would mention to these preachers topics like physical circumcision, Sabbaths, Scriptural feast days, dwelling in booths at Sukkot, dogs being unclean animals and environmental pollution, they would laugh and make fun of the very suggestion.

You can just about bank on it that not a one of these Christian leaders had any information at all about phylacteries (Ex 13:1-16; Deut 6:4-9; 11:13-21), and talitoth (the plural of talith) with tzitzityot (Num 15:37-41; Deut 22:12). Instead, the film tried to make points by questioning an elderly Jew with a beard, who appeared to be in obedience of these physical laws.

Easy Marks of Identification

Now, these are just some of the physical issues which an observer can immediately spot without even listening to spoken words or attempting to ascertain what is really in hearts. Question, when people refuse to obey even the simplest physical points in the Torah, how in the world can they ever begin to appreciate the weightier matters in the Torah, involving loyalty, compassion, truth and justice?

In listening to these Christian leaders, it was quite manifest that they were all very proud and self righteous individuals (as almost all Christians are). In that sense, they were classic hypocrites (just like almost all other Christians and Jews as well). It is no big deal when a person meets a proud hypocrite because so-called human beings tend to lean in that direction. As Augustine said, pride is the essence of sin.

Thus, if Christian teachers are opposed to physical circumcision of the flesh, it is inconceivable that they would know anything at all about spiritual circumcision of the heart where the evil, proud, vain hearts are cut and crushed and replaced with genuine humility. This whole theme on pride and circumcision was addressed in previous chapters.

Another Illustration of Christian Identity Thinking

For a number of years, there has been a unique Christian Identity preacher named Clyde D. Edminster (or Edminister), who has lived and/or worked out of Western Washington (in the Tacoma and/or Rainier areas). His work was known to me some 20 years ago. Whether he is still in the Christian Identity business or not is unknown now. But his story can be told the way it once was.

This Edminster was/is a classic Christian Identity Sunday keeper who talks about obedience, but doesn’t obey much of anything himself--at least in terms of the Scriptures. He seems to be a Pentecostal or Charismatic Holy Roller, as is true with a huge number of other Washington state, Christian Identity people.

Edminster once published a Christian Identity periodical and used to visit different Identity groups for revivals and/or Christian meetings. Having heard him speak on a couple of occasions, it was apparent to me that he didn’t like Jews (as is the normal Christian Identity mode).

Clyde may not have hated the Jews as passionately as some of the other Christian Identity types, but he clearly was no fan of them (or at least, he was supposedly no fan of Jews, as he conveyed that impression publicly in his meetings). In many of Edminster’s evangelistic and preaching campaigns, he has had a much younger man with him (whose name may have been Smith, as was reported to me).

This younger person was interesting in his own right because he was/is Clyde’s son-in-law and Clyde advertises him as a converted “Christian Jew” in his Christian Identity preaching campaigns. If Smith was/is his name (as was suggested to me), one must be suspicious that his name was something else in earlier years (perhaps Smithinberg or Smithinstein or something else).

Likely, he or one of his paternal ancestors changed the Jewish name to a more Anglo name--like Smith. Presumably, this Edminster son-in-law believes in the Christian Identity message and theology since he often travels with Clyde and seems to present the same pitch and outreach.

Now comes a problem. Why is it or how is it that a Christian Identity, Jew hater can have a Jewish Christian son-in-law and take him to his Christian Identity, Jew hating meetings and proudly introduce him as a Jew? This is quite a paradox and especially since Edminster and his Christian Identity colleagues all accept and fellowship with the Jewish man without a whimper of opposition.

Well, the solution to this dilemma is not so difficult after all in the case of Clyde and thousands of other Jew hating, Christian Identity people. When all of the fat is boiled away (down to the meat of the issue), neither Clyde or most or all of his Christian Identity colleagues hate Jews, per se. What they hate is the Jewish religion (just as is true with Christianity at large).

Since Christian Identity people seem to be more prone to loudly advertise and talk about their alleged Jew hatred (as opposed to what one normally hears from nominal Christians, who tend to be quieter about the subject in today’s controlled society), it appears that they probably have a demonic problem that is fueling their enormous hate. As a minimum, they never understand the issue (just like other Christians).

In any case, when this Smith fellow (or whatever his name was or is) became a Christian and married Clyde’s daughter, he automatically became a good person (in the eyes of the Christian Identity movement).

Now, whether Smith was a true Israelite Jew or an evil Amalekite pretender matters little or nothing in Christian thinking. Once he converted, he became good in the eyes of Christendom and its Christian Identity stooges (another perfect illustration of this Christian Identity hypocrisy surfaces in the case of former Christian Identity leader William Potter Gale, a stealth Jew, who will be addressed in later chapters herein).

Christian Identity people are such gross hypocrites, coupled with some very present ignorance and lack of understanding. Whenever they think about Jews and however much they may froth and foam at the mouth in alleged hatred, the true is that they don’t hate Jews at all. What they passionately hate with venom is Judaism (just like generic Christianity at large).

Earl Jones and the Christian Problem

This production has quoted Christian Identity preacher Earl Jones of Deming, New Mexico from time to time (Jones died in 2001). Mr Jones was an elderly man at his death and was very unique in many ways while he lived. He was an intelligent man and an excellent researcher and teacher (as evidenced in his bi-monthly publication “Intelligence Newsletter”).

Jones was a Christian and specifically a Christian Identity proponent. If he had one weakness, he was like other Christians in that he seemed to be Scripturally shallow and weak in the Word. He was good on history and race, but sadly lacking in terms of comprehending the Book. This is not unusual for Christians. In the generic sense, Christians are grossly inadequate in terms of the Scriptures.

Christians may know some NT verses and can quote them. But tragically, they usually misquote them; and certainly misunderstand them because of the general Christian rejection of the Tanakh. Couple this reality with the fact that most Christians are extremely proud and vain (like everyone else in the world) and some of them are even downright stupid or grossly lacking in any scholarship ability.

There is a great source of pride, arrogance and hatefulness among many of the Christian Identity people. Some groups have significant problems. For example, the Christian Identity newspaper “Jubilee” for Sep-Dec 1999 (p. 12) said that the Christian Identity, Aryan Nations sect (previously cited) was made up of idiots, morons and feds.

Certainly, this is a true assessment for Aryan Nations which not only has a problem with IQ levels, but is entrapped into occult ceremonies, political Nazism and worship and/or adoration of Adolf Schicklgruber (who is addressed in some detail elsewhere herein). Thus, much of the Christian Identity movement is in the buffoon class (and this clearly is true with many of the motion’s preachers, teachers and leaders).

Like generic Christians, the Identity people are Scripturally shallow and filled with intense hatred for the Jewish religion (as discussed earlier). They differ from other Christians (who tend to keep their hatred and animosity quiet toward Judaism), in that they are very vocal and come out in public with their venom (which they express toward all Jews--who are still Jews and have not yet converted to Christianity).

Anyway, Earl Jones was in this class of Christian Identity, Jew haters (despite the fact that he was a man of intelligence and a capable writer and teacher--not on the Scriptures, but on history and race). Regularly, Mr Jones used to put out some very excellent material in his bi-monthly letter. Normally, it was hard to criticize him at all.

Jones Zeroed In On the Talmud

But Jones certainly bombed out in his Jan-Feb 2000 issue (p. 1-4), which was a sad demonstration of his hatred for Judaism (not Jews, per se, if they convert to Christianity, but Jews who choose to remain as Jews). As always in Christian hate, the Talmud and the Pharisees are the whipping posts in discussing Judaism.

Of course, Jones focused upon the Talmud and the Pharisees, neither of which he obviously knew much about. He opened his barrage with a charge that Christianity did not come from Judaism (which he was actually correct on--but in a strange way, not understood by him, as will be proven in later chapters on Christian history).

He then asserted that “Jesus Christ came to save Israel from the Talmudic Pharisees,” by trying to use Luke 1:68-73. Jones went on by charging that the enemies discussed by Zechariah in Luke 1 were the Talmudic Pharisees and that “Jesus” spent his entire ministry countering the effects of Talmudism. Per Mr Jones, the entire chapter of Matthew 23 was dedicated to the problems of the Talmud.

While the case can be made that the NT Zekharyah spoke of the racial Amalekites in his use of the word “enemies” (as cited by Mr Jones), there manifestly was no way that he could have been referring to the Talmud or the Hebrew religion that he was in profound support of.

After all, Zekharyah was a priest intimately involved in both work at the Temple and the development of the Talmud (that was still in the theory stage in those days).

For sure, any person who believed this Jones nonsense still believes in the tooth fairy business. The utter failure of these remarks is assessed in detail throughout this publication at hand. Jones could not have been more wrong on all points (except that Christianity did not come from Judaism--which it categorically did not). He simply never got any thing right in his statements on the Talmud.

In some few of his other charges, Jones did a little better (by getting them partly correct). As he saw the problem, the Talmudic Pharisees controlled both of the governments of Rome and Judea. Per him, it was because of the strong opposition to Talmudism, including overturning the money changers’ tables, which brought about the death of The MESSIAH.

Though he has these complaints wrong, there are some elements of truth present. For instance, the overturning of the money changers’ tables played a key role in the execution of YESHUA (as will be established in subsequent chapters herein on YESHUA’s murderers). It is also true that there were some evil Amalekites in Rome and Judea who were calling the shots (to be later established and proven).

Jones Lacked Understanding

But the thing that Jones was completely ignorant about is the fact that the Amalekites are not religious Jews. They may “pretend” to be religious Jews (just as they pretend to be atheists, Muslims and Christians). But in fact, they are true racial and religious sons of Satan. They are Satanists/Luciferians--which is exactly what Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 say.

As far as the Talmud or the zillions of Christian commentaries on the Scriptures, none of this stuff has any relevance whatsoever to Satanic Amalekites. Of course, some Amalekites may quote and use the Jewish Talmud--just as they may quote and use the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ellen White, Joseph Smith, Matthew Henry, John Calvin and thousands of other Christians.

But all of this is mere window dressing because Amalekites are not interested in any of this stuff--only in the pursuit and promotion of Satanism/Luciferianism and the destruction of Israel. So, what Christian or Jewish books Amalekites use is quite irrelevant. It means nothing!

Previous chapters have already described the Talmud in some detail. There is no need to go though those remarks again. The short of it is that the Mishnah is a commentary on the Torah, and the Gemara is a commentary on the Mishnah. Much of this stuff is opinion and means nothing in terms of authority.

Admittedly, some of it in the Talmud may be irrelevant to the Torah or even be bad information (just as is true with Christian commentators like Ellen White, Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, John Calvin, John Wesley, Joseph Smith, Billy Graham, the Pope, Wesley Swift, Earl Jones, Pete Peters, Dave Barley and tens of thousands of other Christian writers who have written some bad stuff or irrelevant remarks).

Jones Missed the Point

Beyond all of the bad information that Jones passed along in his Jan-Feb 2000 letter, perhaps the worst of it came out when he said. “By historical definition, Phariseeism is Talmudism and a Jew is one who believes in the Talmud. It has nothing to do with race...”

First, all Jews do not believe in the Talmud. Many do, but not all--in NT times or even today (i.e. the Essenes, Karaites and secular Jews, to include Amalekites, can be cited). Next, the Pharisees in Second Temple days were but one sect or part of Judaism. Judaism and the Jewish people were far bigger definitions than just the Pharisees.

The Pharisee dimension (however much modern Christians may not understand the Pharisees or Second Temple Judaism) included YESHUA, Shaul and most of the Apostolic Assembly, as proven earlier. Last, the primary question in the NT is exactly one of race and nothing else.

There is no particular focus or concern over any alleged evils of the religion of the NT people (although some of the sects had problems and shortcomings, which were criticized from time to time by YESHUA and the Apostolic Assembly, but never the theology of the Hillel Pharisees).

Besides the general attitude of disobedience, the conflict, trouble and sin that the Adam kind faced was on race from day three of Adam in the Garden of Eden and on forward. It was on racial sins in Noah’s day and racial sins in Israel in the days of the judges and kings. Racial sins were the point in Second Temple days (in that the Jewish leadership allowed evil Amalekites into fellowship).

There is still a problem today over racial sins (in that the House of Yisrael nations have done exactly what the Jews did some 2,000 years ago when they allowed evil Amalekites into their nation and became subservient to them). There is one major difference on this between the Jews of historic times and the modern Christian Israelites in the House of Yisrael nations.

The difference is that the problem is far more serious today than it was 2,000 years ago. Just as the Jews were unable or did not correctly deal with the difficulty back then, the modern House of Yisrael nations have followed suit in not dealing with the problem of race. Jones completely missed the point.

The Church of Jesus Christ, Christian--A Classic Case

The Church of Jesus Christ, Christian, better known as the Aryan Nations in North Idaho, mentioned above and in earlier chapters, offers perhaps the best illustration of all on how confusion persists in Christendom between race and religion. This group is supposedly a Christian Identity Church. But they are heavily into political Nazism and various occult activities, as noted earlier.

To top it off, this sect is fully devoted to Adolf Hitler. The Church salutes Adolf, praises him, parades on his birthday and effectively adores, worships and pays homage to him. The church magazine, “Calling Our Nation,” had his picture on the front cover of issue #12 of 1999, as the man of the millennium. The interesting thing about this adoration and worship is that Adolf’s biographical information is well known to them.

The “Universal Jewish Encyclopedia,” “Encyclopedia Britannica” and various other biographical sources plainly reveal that Adolf was a Jew named Schicklgruber. His great evil proves conclusively that he was an Amalekite Jew. There can be no dispute on this reality. Yet, the Jew hating people at Aryan Nations love, adore and worship the Amalekite Schicklgruber (just like German Christian Nazis of 70 years ago).

There is no doubt but that the Aryan Nations leadership knows the truth about Adolf because a Jewish Defense League (JDL) man on local radio ridiculed both Schicklgruber and the Aryans for their planned march on Adolf’s birthday in 1998 (surely, the Aryans heard his words). Too, this writer wrote them a letter about it and offered to supply documentary proof on Adolf’s origin if they would contact me. They never bothered to contact me.

So here, we have a group of Christian people who excessively and regularly hate and condemn Talmudic Jews, but who simultaneously love and adore a racial Amalekite who was extremely occultic, evil and corrupt. This reality is an illogical and incomprehensible paradox. These Church of Jesus Christ, Christian people simply do not understand the problem.

Like other Christians, they will complain to no end about Talmudic Jews and then worship and adore an evil Amalekite. Obviously, the truth quickly comes out. The Aryan Nations people are just like other Christians. They hate Judaism and not Jews, per se. Since it is Judaism that they hate (and not Jews), why then do they even use the word Jew in their condemnations. Why not be honest and just address Judaism?

Again, the Problem

There is one undeniable proof of this Christian hatred for Judaism and not for Jews (unless those Jews practice Judaism). In any conversation with most Christians about Jews, it is inevitable that they commence a tirade of hate about the Talmud. Christians like to condemn and blast the Talmud and Talmudic Jews, as if they are the problem (because of Jewish attachment to the Talmud).

The truth is that the Talmud was reality ages before John Hyrcanus went down to Edom and forcibly converted the Amalekites to Judaism. The Amalekites didn’t invent or originate the Talmud. The Talmud is a commentary on the Torah from religious Jews who had been exiled to Babylon or who came back to Palestine from Babylon. It contains a multitude of beliefs, ideas and thinking from many diverse positions.

One can find a host of pro and con arguments in it because the speakers/writers involved were free men who were allowed to have absolute freedom to express their wills and positions without fear or restraint (which is not true in modern America and particularly in modern Christianity where thought crimes and political incorrectness can bring enormous hurt upon a person).

Admittedly, some Amalekites surely made contributions to the Talmud after they came into power in Judea under Herod. But these contributions were made in the context of religious freedom. They could say whatever they wanted to say. And many did (just as many Amalekite Christians make contributions to the various Christian Talmuds).

It is a paradox that the Christian haters of the Jewish Talmud themselves do not have religious and speech freedom. They had better watch out what they say. Actually, Christians need to take a look at the Jewish Talmud and see if they can ever begin to grasp what true religious freedom is. The Jewish Talmud is an expression of genuine, religious freedom.

This genuine and real religious freedom characterized Judaism in the first century when YESHUA lived and practiced it as His religion. Perhaps the case can be made that this religious freedom was the feature which made Second Temple Judaism so good. A man could have and could express an opinion which differed from others without fear of castigation and condemnation for being politically incorrect.

The Real Hate

So the biggest Jew haters in America (to include the Christian Identity people) reveal their true colors. They hate the Talmud and Judaism. In every writing or speech focusing on Jews, a reference inevitably is made to Talmudic Jews. Over and over, the Talmud is condemned/criticized. This is really quite a joke because Amalekites are not concerned with the Talmud, the Tanakh or anything else of a Scriptural nature.

The Amalekites (and even those many who pretend to be agnostics and atheists) are truly children of Satan (both physically and spiritually). Whatever religion they have or express is always in the vein of service to Satan. Yet, ignorant Christians condemn Jews generally (including the Amalekites) over the Talmud (which the Amalekites could care less about).

On rare occasions, some Christian Jew haters will mention the Edomites. But even then, their words are expressed in a state of Christian confusion and not with any evidence of real understanding and knowledge (because these Christians are in a state of ignorance and lack real knowledge and understanding). After all, the problem has been with the Amalekites for 2,100 years plus and most Christians are uninformed on this issue.

Yes, this Christian hatred of the Talmud and Judaism is enormous. It actually goes back even earlier to the Greek sun worship of 2,300 years ago when the Greeks were determined to destroy the OT religion which had found a presence and acceptance among the Jews in Second Temple days (from the work of Ezra and others).

More Astounding Christian Confusion and Hypocrisy

As will be broached in subsequent chapters, this writer lived in Northeast Washington and became acquainted with some Holy Rollers in a divided group North of Colville near the Canadian border, who “ostensibly” keep the Sabbath (apparently, they are not overly committed to it, but do give some lip service to the idea of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue).

By and large, this group of Holy Rollers are Christian Identity people and fantastic Jew haters. In almost any conversation, it isn’t long before they spew out this hatred and bitterness toward Jews.

This writer is also acquainted with an elderly man who is not a Holy Roller. But otherwise, he seems to have quite a bit of fellowship with the Jew haters. This elderly man or old gent was commented upon in preceding chapters on pride and vanity. He is a very proud individual and likes to boast and brag about his “Bible” knowledge.

In any case, he doesn’t share this Jew hatred which most of the others exhibit in conversation. One could almost call the old gent a Jew lover because he does say good things about the Jews and avoids the hatred and animosity. He doesn’t necessarily argue and support the Jews publicly too much in his dialogue with the Christian Identity haters. But privately, he has expressed his pro-Jew position to me.

Now comes the kicker. At a first glance, one would have to suppose that this old gent and the Holy Roller Identity people are in worlds apart and that reconciliation between them is impossible. But in actuality, they are virtually in the precise, exact, same frame of mind in terms of the Jews. You see, the problem is not with the Jews in either case. Both parties have a problem with Judaism.

The Christian Identity Jew haters have no complaints with Jews who abandon Judaism and convert to Christianity. In the view of these Jew haters, their hatred ends if and when a Jew converts to Christianity. So all the hype, talk and foaming at the mouth about the evil Jews is really a gross hatred of Judaism.

The old gent involved is in precisely the same profile. While he does not complain and carry on about Jew hatred, he makes it plain that he hates the Talmud and the Jewish religion. So this is quite a paradox. A group of Jew haters are actually in the same ball park with a Jew lover.

Both parties really have no problem with racial or ethnic Jews, per se. Their whole focus is upon the Jewish religion which they both hate passionately. The writer of this study at hand has seen, known and talked to a number of Christian Jew haters and Jew lovers over the years. And this indictment holds true for all of them known to me. They all hate Judaism--not Jews, per se.

More Christian Identity Hatred and Hypocrisy

This Christian (and particularly Christian Identity) hatred and hypocrisy surfaces in all kinds of strange ways--which can completely leave the student of truth dumb frazzled. For instance, one of the favorite Christian Identity tricks arises when they attack the words and instructions of The MOST HIGH and call them Jewish and therefore not applicable to Christians (usually from the OT, but also the NT on occasion).

Yet, by some strange quirk of intelligence and justice, these same Christian Identity adherents will gladly substitute some man-made rules and rituals that are totally foreign in both the OT and NT. For people with brains above the idiot level, they can quickly ascertain that the substituted doctrines and theology have their basis, in fact, with some bad Jews of over 2,000 years ago. They are totally a product of bad Jews.

The best illustration of this stupidity and hypocrisy concerns the matter of the acceptance of the OT--the Masoretic Hebrew text used by the Jews (which seems to have some support from the previously discussed work at Hebrew University on numerical sequencing codes) or the Greek Septuagint text used by the Greek Orthodox Church. This subject has been described in some detail in prior chapters.

Suffice to say, people with some honesty, intelligence and integrity must wake up and have brains enough to understand that the Hebrew OT is not an invention of the Jews. The Jews didn’t originate it or dream it up. It came from The CREATOR, Himself. The only tie it has to the Jews is that YHWH committed His Word, the Hebrew OT, to the Jews for preservation and transmission (Matt 5:18; 23:1-3; Rom 2:17-20; 3:2).

Romans 3:2 is profound and cannot be confused. The ELOHIM committed His Words in Hebrew to the Jews. These Words were not those of the Jews, nor did they belong just to the Jews. The only issue is that The HIGHEST chose the Jews to serve Him. He did not choose the Greek Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Church, the British people or the modern Christian Identity movement.

He chose the Jews (obviously religious Jews and not Judean Amalekite tares). And the Jews have done their job. They have preserved and transmitted the Hebrew OT forward to our time in the Masoretic text (which is amazingly accurate, per the Dead Sea Scrolls).

Conversely, the Septuagint is largely an origination and production of Jews (surely, bad Jews), who took liberty with the OT text and hurt it profusely in Greek.

Scripturally Shallow Christian Identity People

Now, in modern times, the uninformed and Scripturally shallow Christian Identity motion has come forward to denigrate and condemn the Hebrew OT (as originated by YHWH and preserved by the Jews)--while simultaneously giving credence and authority to a Greek translation with much corruption and great variation, as generally made by apostate or at least bad Jews. This situation is just totally insane.

Carrying this one step forward, many of the Christian Identity people are now charging that the luni-solar calendar used by religious Jews has to be wrong since it is Jewish. Thereupon, they substitute a solar calendar invented some 2,100-2,200 years ago by Amalekites or apostate Jews (in the books of Enoch and Jubilees). Much of the demonized Holy Roller movement does this as well.

These Christians simply cannot get it through their unscholarly heads. The luni-solar Scriptural calendar comes from The MOST HIGH. It is found in the OT Scriptures. It was invented by Him and not the Jews. The only thing that the Jews have done is to use it (this issue will be addressed in later chapters herein).

Next, Scriptural feast days and Sabbaths (originated by YHWH and outlined in His Hebrew OT) are called “Jewish” and therefore are not for Christians (per the theology of the generic Christian Church).

Yet, these same Christian hypocrites have tried to substitute festivals which owe their origin to the ancient sun cults, apostate Jews or Amalekites. The Jews did not invent the festivals and Sabbaths of Leviticus 23. They came from The ELOHIM.

Surely, this mass of Christian confusion must be attributable to incredible stupidity or at least gross hatred and opposition to Judaism and/or anything Jewish. While many Holy Rollers and Christian Identity people are the worst in support of this stupidity, they are not the lone rangers. Many other Christians share this same thinking.

A Real Paradox

The above presentation on the Christian Identity movement on its absolute hatred and animosity toward Judaism (and not against Jews, per se, if they convert to Christianity) raises a fascinating fact of reality. As just noted, the Christian Identity motion is exactly like the generic world of Churchianity on this astounding hatred for Judaism.

As outlined above and as will be commented upon in later chapters, this incredible hatred goes back to the Greek sun worship religion and culture--which has definite links and ties to Christendom, as will be established in succeeding chapters herein. The hatred of Judaism is quite old among evil people who are opposed to the Torah and righteousness.

As noted earlier, the main problem with Judaism from Second Temple days until now (in Christian eyes) is that it is based upon a measure of acceptance, respect and obedience of the Torah.

This condition infuriates false religions and pagan religious worshippers. They hate righteousness and anybody and anything that would dare begin to approach righteousness (yes, they hate the Torah and the Talmud which is a commentary on the Torah).

This Christian Identity hatred is much like the entire Christian definition. The primary difference between the Christian Identity people, as opposed to Christians generally, is that the Identity people tend to be big mouths who proclaim their hatred in public pronouncements. They are not humble or quiet about it.

Contrariwise, most of Christendom keeps their hatred of Judaism bound up inside of themselves. All or almost all Christians hate Judaism and the Jewish religion. Some, like the Identity people, are vocal and out front with this hatred, while most others are more reserved and quieter with their hatred.

Now, the paradox surfaces. Though these hypocritical and ignorant Christian Identity persons are essentially the same in disposition as generic Christians, the Christian world passionately hates its own Christian cousins in the Identity movement. Thus, most Christians hate both Judaism and the theology and beliefs of the Christian Identity motion (because of the race factor and not over the hatred for Judaism).

Significantly, most of the Christian Identity believers tend to love their Christian brethren and accept this Christian hate without a whimper or complaint. Sometimes, so-called “loving” Christians get so worked up with their hatred for their Identity brethren (who they basically agree with) that they commit acts of violence and terrorism against their brethren (to be proven in subsequent chapters).

This very obvious paradox conclusively proves that Christianity has some definite problems. The whole motion hates Judaism. Yet, those that publicly speak out are hated by the rest of the faith (who share the exact same hatred, but do so without any public proclamations about it). Here, one can easily talk about Christian hypocrisy and ignorance.

Not only is there this gross state of hypocrisy and ignorance prevalent in Christendom at large, but it is part and parcel of the Christian Identity movement. It looks like the Christian Identity people would have brains enough to figure out what has happened to themselves in the over all Christian definition, but they never seem to catch on. Truly, ignorance and hypocrisy dominate both factions of Christianity.

Yes, Hate

Probably, this is a good place to recall some previous comments on the incredible ability of Amalekites to hate and especially to hate Christian Israelites. Yes, it is true that the evil Amalekites are extraordinary haters of all true Israelites. It is in their blood and they carry this hate with them to the grave--often unconsciously.

But in all fairness, the Christian goyim generally and the Christian Identity goyim particularly also hate as much or almost as much. Of course, the Israelite goyim really hate the Jewish religion while the Amalekites genuinely hate racial Israelites (as noted earlier and to be further described in the succeeding chapters).

While both groups of haters are filled with incredible hate and with an unexplainable passion and commitment, there is at least one primary difference between the Amalekite hatred of Israel and the Christian Identity goyim hatred of Judaism.

The Amalekites are usually very intelligent people. Their hatred is on a much smoother, intellectual level. They are tough fighters on both the inside and outside. The same thing cannot be said for the hatred of the Christian goyim.

Many of the Christian goyim and especially Christian Identity goyim are either extremely stupid or alternatively, ignorant and uninformed. In their state of stupidity or ignorance (whichever the case may be and there is a difference between being plain stupid, as opposed to being ignorant, uninformed or misinformed), the Christians are not open to the teachings of the Word, but seem to be in tune with demonic spirits.

In any case, Christian goyim are no match for crafty, foxy, clever, Amalekite bankers/masters of deceit and evil. But aside from that, the truth remains that the stupid or ignorant (whichever) Christian Identity goyim are also filled with indescribable hatred for Judaism. This hatred is manifested in a passionate, stubborn, rebellious fashion which simply will not allow them to listen to the Words of the Torah.

Several of the Christian Identity preachers are, in particular, so filled with hatred for Judaism that it is impossible to talk to them or have dialogue. The evidence is most persuasive that they will only listen after going through the fire of persecution and suffering. The commencement of tribulation upon Christian Identity people seems assured. It will be addressed in subsequent chapters.

The Race-Religion Dilemma, Revisited

The point of this is that the religion that a person may publicly subscribe to means little or nothing in the long pull in the context of persons who were alleged to have Jewish connections. Jews can turn to any religion (including Judaism, Christianity, etc). But what is important about them is their works, deeds and acts--which can be indicative of their true, racial origin--whether of Yisrael or of Esau and the Amalekites.

The tragedy here is that so many dumb Christian goyim look upon the Jewish religion as the culprit for the evil that the Amalekites do. Famous Jew haters, like Gerald L. K. Smith, discussed earlier, have always laid the Amalekite problem on the Jewish religion. Some fools even hate all of the collective Jews on the premise that the Jews are bad people because of their Jewish religion. Yes, fools make Judaism the culprit.

These ignorant fools believe that once an evil Amalekite becomes a Christian, he, all of a sudden, is a good person. This is ridiculous. An Amalekite can’t change his spots (his racial genes) by changing his religion--nor can a leopard change his spots, as the Word says. In fact, no one can change his genetic profile upon changing his religion.

Ignorant Christian goyim can never understand that the wretchedness from the Amalekites comes not from their religion, but from their genes. Amalekites are born to be evil. Whether they are raised in the Jewish or Christian religion or convert to a different religion means nothing--zero. And that’s why numbers of Amalekites are out in world and are supposedly not connected to the Jewish people in any manner.

Amalekites are not evil because they have ties to Judaism or Christianity or anything else. They are evil because they are Amalekites. Amalekites represent the totality of evil and wretchedness in the world, as understood and taught by good Jews 2,000 years ago (in the synagogue piskas and from people like Yeshua Ben Sira).

A final word must be said here about two pretenders (who claim to be Jews) but are far afield from the good features of Judaism. These two are Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Ruth Bader Ginsberg of the US Supreme Court. All one must do is look at these two individuals and their identity surfaces at once. You don’t even have to wait and fool around with deeds to recognize whom you are dealing with.

In the view of ignorant and foolish Christians, they would look upon Foxman and Ginsberg as good candidates for conversion to Christianity. Supposedly, if these two very obvious Khazars would just convert to Christianity, they would be good people. Oh, how utterly stupid! In the eighth century, religious Jews thought that if people like Foxman and Ginsberg would convert to Judaism they would become good Jews.

This is absolutely ridiculous and out of the question. The genes which these two alleged Jews were born with define them and their works positively. These two persons seem to epitomize what one would expect to find in the Amalekite workers of evil (who are totally devoted to the destruction of the Christian goyim in the House of Yisrael nations).

Chapter 187--Religious Hypocrites

Hypocrites in Second Temple Days

In His indictment of the evil scribes and Pharisees of Second Temple days, The MESSIAH criticized them for tithing to the enth degree while ignoring the weightier matters in the Torah, such as judgment, loyalty and faith (Matt 23:23).

The point of this is that they correctly should be doing both--keeping the literal, physical aspects of the Torah, along with its spiritual, weightier considerations. They all apply, and they all apply equally with the same force and authority. The violation of any one of them is wrong.

Is it conceivable that the Pharisees would have been right in Second Temple days to keep the more complex, weightier matters of YHWH’s Torah while simultaneously ignoring the certainly obvious physical aspects which were more clear in terms of obedience? All it takes to become a sinner is a violation of any one of YHWH’s mitzwot.

And it doesn’t matter whether it is a minor physical issue or a more subtle spiritual question. A violation of either one produces the same judgment--a death sentence for sin. Like Yakov wrote, a violation of any one point in the law makes the sinner guilty of all points and deserving of the same death as a person who is guilty of all points (Jas 2:10).

In other words, the person guilty of one minor point is just as guilty and just as deserving of death as is the most evil person of all who has violated all points. Who is the biggest sinner? Could it be Adolf Schicklgruber or how about Slick Willy Clinton?

Any man who has ever violated any one of YHWH’s mitzwot (whether it is physical circumcision or spiritual circumcision) becomes guilty of all of it (in terms of sin and death) and just as guilty and condemned as Adolf Schicklgruber or Slick Clinton.

Of course, in His day, YESHUA found many, many, proud, self righteous hypocrites among the Jewish leadership. The same situation can be found today in the same Jewish leadership. Yes, many, most or all of them are proud hypocrites.

Christians Too

But yes, the same indictment pertains to Christian leaders, the Christian public and indeed the people of all other worldly religions as well. We’ve all got the problem, and there are no exceptions. If the reader believes he is an exception, he is surely a liar and there is no truth in him.

However, there is an important difference between religious Jews and religious Christians on the hypocrite theme. At least, religious Jews (as proud, self righteous and hypocritical as they may be) acknowledge, teach and support YHWH’s mitzwot (though they may not obey them personally--like US Senator Joseph Lieberman, who is almost all smoke and mirrors).

Wicked Christians don’t even do that (other than the Identity types, mentioned earlier and to be further discussed in later chapters. They talk a good tune, but are hypocrites personally for their blatant disobedience--just like some of the Jews in Second Temple days). Like YESHUA said, blessed is the man who does and teaches the least of YHWH’s mitzwot--whatever that least might be (Matt 5:19).

Not only do men generally have an enormous propensity for hypocrisy, but it is commonly found in religious people, as just noted. Yes, religious Jews and Christians are hypocrites, just like everybody else in the generic population. This phenomenal presence of hypocrisy ushers one back to the hate category, discussed previously.

Yes, coupled with hypocrisy, Christians and Jews alike also have a fantastic linkage to hate in the human heart--also like everybody else in the general population. Manifestly, hatred and hypocrisy go hand in hand and seem to be two of the attributes of evil found today commonly in all men.

Anti-Judaism

Of course, the whole problem in Churchianity (as outlined in the preceding chapters), to include Christian Identity, is that there is a basic hatred and opposition to YHWH’s Torah--which becomes manifested in hatred toward Judaism. As the Apostle Shaul correctly observed, the human, carnal mind has basic hatred toward The ELOHIM and will not be subject to His Torah (Rom 8:7).

In the case of Christendom, she takes this hatred out on the Jews in the context of the Jewish religion and particularly the Talmud. This writer has seen a number of Christian books which have been written to attack the Talmud by quoting some reference involving opinion which means little or nothing in terms of reality.

A good illustration of this is a recent book by Christian Identity leader Colonel Jack Mohr on “The Effects of the Talmud on Judeo-Christianity.” While Mohr may never begin to grasp it; but in truth, the Talmud has evidently never had any impact upon Christianity. Christians don’t read or obey the Talmud and they are abundantly ignorant about what it says. They passionately hate it!

Thus, even Christian Identity and right wingers take their frustrations out on Judaism and the Talmud, never understanding that religion is not the problem. In their view, any Edomite willing to convert to Christianity is all right. The problem is with those Jews and Edomites who will not abandon Judaism (at least, from the typical Christian’s viewpoint).

David Flusser, Revisited

This whole dilemma brings to mind some of the scholarly works of Professor David Flusser, formerly of Hebrew University (where he taught Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity), quoted several times herein. Flusser’s “Judaism and the Origins of Christianity” compiled a number of his excellent articles written over the years.

In this volume (“Judaism and the Origins of Christianity,” p. 390-465, 617-644), Flusser raised questions over the validity of the NT books of Matthew, John and Revelation because of the alleged anti-Judaism in them.

He suggested that these books were all written later than what their contents would suggest and even allowed that whole parts of the book of Revelation was effectively plagiarized from other works and rewritten many years after the fall of Jerusalem. In the case of Matthew, he allowed that there were several “redactors” who revised the book over the years (ibid, p. 552-587).

Flusser seemed to want to believe that these alleged anti-Jewish tendencies came into being in the Greek stages of the “Gospel” writings (ibid, p. 552). In this instance, he implied an original Hebrew story of YESHUA which was later rewritten by various writers and ultimately in the final Greek forms of the “Gospels.”

He indicated that there was a process of de-Judaisation of “early Christianity” (ibid, p. 552). The writer of this present study agrees that there was an early de-Judaisation of the NT Good News, but would disagree with Flusser that Christianity is even in the Old or New Testaments. In other words, Christianity is not the religion of the Scriptures.

In any case, Flusser interpreted the traditional Christian view from the NT as being “anti-Judaism,” especially in Matthew and John (ibid, p. 552, 575, 595). As David Flusser saw it, this anti-Judaism is only slowly disappearing. The writer of this study would suggest that there is little or no reason to believe that the anti-Judaism of Christianity is disappearing at all.

Present, But Subtle

The hatred problem discussed above and in preceding chapters is that the Christian anti-Judaism is more subtle and discreet than it has been in earlier years. With the Christian West’s focus on secular humanism, it has become politically incorrect to criticize and condemn popularly accepted religions (like Judaism, Catholicism, and most large Protestant faiths).

It’s all right to condemn (and murder, as in the case of the Branch Davidians at Waco, TX) minor, insignificant Christian sects (and some minor Ultra Orthodox Jewish groups, as will be later established) which do not parrot the politically correct position of the secular society. But it is out of the question to publicly attack one of the world’s politically correct and approved religions.

Thus, the present Christian society has backed off from some of its previous public condemnations of Judaism. Despite this “public” back-off, the basic hatred and anti-Judaism feelings are still present in not only Christendom, but the world at large. It’s just that those feelings are now latent or subdued and not as readily visible as they once were. They are still out there.

In the age end, they will resurface with a vengeance when the Beast man, the False Prophet and Satan, himself, assume open rule of the world’s peoples and nations. True Judaism will assuredly become politically incorrect during the great tribulation. Liberal Jews, so anxious to see the Davidians murdered, should keep this reality in mind. One day, the shoe of persecution will be put on their feet.

The anti-Judaism seems to be as strong as ever. Not only is it as strong as ever, but there is no way that it is going away now or in the future, as long as the Christian religion prevails in the civilized West. In any case, it must be acknowledged that Flusser’s conclusions do have some merit in terms of reality and in the context of how Christians view things.

Yes, Christians are very, very anti-Judaism. Yes, Christians believe that the NT has many, many remarks communicating anti-Judaism. Yes, Christians believe that not only Yohanan, Mattityahu and Shaul were opposed to the Jewish religion, but they actually believe that YESHUA and the entire Apostolic Assembly were opposed to Judaism.

Jews Too

Tragically, many Jews share the same thinking as the Christians in believing that the NT is anti-Jewish in all respects--in terms of both secular and religious Jews. The comments of David Flusser were just quoted above on his beliefs. Additionally, a previous chapter herein cited a Jewish friend of this writer in Israel who believed in YESHUA, but yet rejected the NT because he thought it was anti-Semitic.

This strong Jewish feeling of adversity toward the NT has plagued Jews for ages. Inevitably, Jews will quote this alleged anti-Semitism, never understanding the problem at all. Even in modern times, Jews are consciously aware of this allegation.

The Oct 4, 2002, “Forward” (p. 3) had a story on “Goldhagen’s Latest Says Church Has a ‘Bible Problem’” which reported on the writings and thinking of well known Jewish author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. For some time now, Goldhagen has been quick to criticize and condemn Christians for various and sundry things.

The Catholic Church’s actions in WWII, in support of Schicklgruber’s persecution of the Jews, has received particular attention from Goldhagen. Beyond Catholicism, Goldhagen has also went after the New Testament, charging it with so-called anti-Semitism.

Recently, Goldhagen has charged that the Catholic Church should expunge all of the alleged anti-Semitic comments in the Greek NT (ostensibly, to make it more acceptable to Jews). Though the Roman Catholic Church may or may not entertain these suggestions, one can be sure that Protestant Christians will be more reluctant to now commence a “re-editing” of the Scriptures (or will they?).

Of course, Goldhagen’s ideas are too evil and wretched to even be entertained by people of true faith and belief because the problem is not over the words in the NT; but rather, over how they are interpreted and understood. This issue will now be broached next.

The NT Is Not Anti-Jew or Anti-Judaism

In truth, this Christian and Jewish thinking won’t hold up to the light, although there is an abundance of highly critical remarks about certain Jews (correctly Judeans) by particularly the Apostle Yohanan in his various writings.

Thus, some students of the Word have concluded that Yohanan was a very anti-Semitic person. And here, one can quote the above remarks of Daniel Goldhagen and David Flusser, and the words of the previously quoted Darrell W. Conder and others.

Actually, this thinking completely misses the point about both the NT and Yohanan. Yohanan was a religious Jew and probably a racial Levite. Since he spoke the Semitic Hebrew, he hardly would have criticized himself. He was not stupid, nor was he a hypocrite.

In fact, he thought so well of his Jewishness and Judaism that he actually wrote and quoted YESHUA as saying that the Samaritans worship that which they do not know while the Jews worship that which they do know--for salvation is of the Jews (Jo 4:22).

The point is Yohanan was not anti-Jew or anti-Semitic. He was very pro Jew and pro Judaism. Actually, as several previous chapters have demonstrated, Yohanan’s problem was not over true Jews and Judaism; but rather, over illegal Amalek-Edomites calling themselves Jews.

Consequently, in the real world of things, anti-Judaism is not the message of the NT at all--despite its popularity and acceptance in the entire Christian West. No! The truth is that YESHUA, Kefa, Yakov, Yohanan, Mattityahu, Shaul and on and on were all religious Jews. Never once did they speak against Judaism or even utter words of possible condemnation/criticism of Judaism as a religion.

They always spoke well of their Jewish religion. Moreover, there is no way that they could ever be called anti-Semites (since they were all Shemite Hebrews, speaking the Semitic Hebrew language). Yet, the NT leaders spoke the strongest possible words of condemnation against certain evil Amalek-Edomite Judeans (living principally in the Jerusalem area) who were pretending to be Jews, but were not Jews.

These Amalek-Edomites were actually sons of Satan--belonging to the synagogue of Satan (correctly Satanists/Luciferians, consciously or not), though many of them pretended to be Shammai Pharisees (just as they today pretend to be persons they are not). Thus, the NT focus is not on the Jewish religion at all. Instead it is a matter of race!

Blood Libel, Revisited

The Amalekite tie to Satan brings up another point. Historically, Christians accused Jews and the Jewish religion of sacrificing Christian children at the annual Passover ceremony (as mentioned earlier). Now, it appears that Arabs have picked up on these allegations and are busy promoting them (as discussed elsewhere herein).

These blood libel allegations are too ridiculous to be discussed (and particularly in the context that true, religious Jews would ever drink unclean blood which is categorically prohibited by the Torah). But they have persisted.

While true, religious Jews would never even think about drinking blood of so-called human beings, one must allow that the evil Amalekites would not only do it, but they would provide the leadership for others to ritually murder innocent White children and drink their blood.

As will be broached in a later chapter on the super rich and their linkage to Satanism, there is much evidence of child murders and sacrifices as a part of that phenomenon. Since many of the Amalekites are both in the wealthy and Satanist’s categories, it must be allowed that some of them (along with other Satanists) have engaged in child murders. Surely, the Amalekite Satanists have led the way in this evil.

But there is no way that this charge can be laid to the Jews and Judaism. Truly religious Jews would never participate in such barbaric practices. To the extent that Satanists (Amalekites and/or Christian goyim Satanists) might practice human sacrifice is another matter. But the charge should not be laid to the overall Jews (as traditionally happened in Christendom and now among the Arabs).

Yes, Race is the Issue!

This whole race-religion dilemma brings to mind the situation with the Canaanites and the extermination order YHWH gave Israel (as previously elaborated upon). Christians will argue to no end that the problem with the Canaanites was their religion which necessitated their slaughter. No! The problem was their racial condition, as the Book assuredly communicates.

The prophet Yirmeyahu may have had this issue in mind when he asked if an Ethiopian can change his skin or if a leopard his spots; how then, can people who are accustomed to do evil turn to do good (Jer 13:23)? Well, evil people may turn to do good. But it is no easy proposition, as the remark plainly suggests (actually, it requires YHWH’s intervention).

Of course, uninformed Christians believe that all an Amalek-Edomite has to do is convert to Christianity and then he will all of a sudden become good and do good. How ridiculous! It is in their hearts and genes to do evil and most of them have rolled in wickedness during their entire lives. It matters not one whit whether they call themselves Jews or Christians, they have precisely the same motivation.

The apparent Amalek-Edomites--Adolf Schicklgruber, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Karl Marx, Adam Weishaupt and so forth--were just as wicked and depraved as Christians as any Edomite Jew ever was. Nothing changed in their lives (or their father’s lives) on conversion to Christianity.

The previously quoted Amalekite, Harold Wallace Rosenthal, wisely said: “We are what we are! No matter what we join or adopt it doesn’t change what we are. I am a Jew and nothing can change me because I take up another religion. Such stupidity!” (pamphlet, “The Hidden Tyranny,” p. 40-41). Other chapters herein have or will discuss Rosenthal’s thinking more fully.

Christian Identity Jew Haters, Revisited

The former chapters mentioned a number of modern Christian Identity Jew haters who typically start in on the Jews by referring to them as Talmudic Jews. In fact, much of their venom and hate is not placed upon the Jews, per se; but rather, it is spewed forth upon the Talmud. Christians passionately hate Judaism and the Talmud.

In terms of this traditional Christian hatred of the Talmud and Judaism, the just offered remarks above, in this section on the reality that religion has no impact upon the wicked Amalekites, are interesting and would appear to be contrary to the ideas exhibited by the Christian Identity people (with their hated of the Talmud and Judaism).

If the villains in the world were Judaism and the Talmud, it would suggest that the Amalekites were good people before they converted to Judaism and adopted the Talmud. But that’s simply not the real world, per the Scriptures, cited heretofore. The Amalekite Khazars were always evil.

More on Amalekite Khazar Evil

In fact, “Encyclopaedia Judaica” (v. 10, p. 948) was quoted earlier which said that the central Jewish authorities (in Iraq) had little interest in the Khazars (following their conversion to Judaism in c740 CE) partly because of their imperfect adherence to Judaism and their retention of a number of pagan (shamanist) customs, dating back to their Turkic past.

In his video on “Come Lord Jesus,” Catholic Priest John O’Connor makes the case that the Khazar kagan or emperor adopted Judaism in hopes that it might introduce some morality, honesty and character into his people. Before the conversion, they were extremely immoral, dishonest and evil people. As O’Connor notes, the conversion meant nothing to them. They were just as bad after conversion as before.

Conversion to Judaism meant absolutely nothing to these evil Amalekites. They were evil before conversion. And they were still evil after conversion. There is no way that the case can be made that the Talmud made these Amalekite Khazars wicked. They have been that way all of their lives, and the Talmud and Judaism had no impact upon them at all.

The same is true when Amalekites supposedly convert to Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism or any of the other worldly religions. Religion simply means nothing to these evil Amalekites.

Like Harold Wallace Rosenthal said, quoted above, nothing will change them. The reason is because their evil is racial and genetic. Categorically, it is not because of their religion (whatever that religion might be).

Any ignorant Christian trying to say that the Talmud and/or Judaism makes people evil is simply lost as to reality. This is not true and cannot be true--and certainly, in the context of the Amalekites who are born and live their lives as evil people.

Surely, when one converts today to Judaism (like Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr, etc), their lives are not changed to evil by the Talmud. The truth is that most of these people were extremely wicked and depraved before conversion. If anything, they become better people after conversion than they were before. No one can argue that the Talmud made Davis or Taylor more wicked than they had been earlier.

All Edomites?

Having made this charge against the Edomites and their genes, it must be observed that this writer is not making an indictment against all (100%) of the Edomites. It is “possible” that a few of them (an isolated one or two here or there) “may” have some sense of honor, integrity and character, as pointed out in a prior chapter (although ancient Jews contended that the Amalek-Edomites are totally evil).

To whatever extent some Amalek-Edomites could be involved in generic Orthodox Judaism, one would have to speculate that their presence is limited (since Amalekites do not normally flock to righteousness). At a first impression, it would be easy to believe the same thing about the modern Ultra Orthodox and Hasidim sects (to be later addressed).

However, the Eastern European ancestry and history of the Ashkenazi Ultra Orthodox do raise questions because of the huge presence of Amalekites in Eastern Europe. Plus, it must be remembered that the modern Hasidim do not represent the same type of people and theology found in the Second Temple Hasidim, as outlined earlier.

The modern Hasidim have connections to the Kabbalah (which arose in the last 800 years) and are far more prone in worship to ecstasy, mass enthusiasm, close-knit group cohesion and charismatic leadership (as is also found among Christian Pentecostals and Charismatics).

In a way, it’s possible to see some obvious similarities (in the sense of supposedly being super righteous in ritual) between the current Ultra Orthodox and the Haverim and Shammai Pharisees of Second Temple days (which were heavily infiltrated by Amalekites). So some caution is called for in trying to ascertain the presence and influence of evil Amalekites in all portions of modern Judaism.

Although these very conservative Jewish movements surely are not predicated upon Amalek-Edomite participation, direction or support, one must be prudent and allow that there could be some Amalekite membership in especially those Ashkenazi groups.

Such involvement would likely not predominate since the Amalek-Edomites have more often tended to identify with the liberal Reform/Reconstructionist movements in the West.

More

Thus, it’s not to say that all Edomites are automatically morally corrupt and depraved--although many of them assuredly are since it is something that is in their genes. It is theoretically possible (although not absolutely certain) that there are even some good Amalek-Edomites out in the world; or certainly, a few with some sense of honor and honesty (perhaps if they have a suitable mix of non-Edomite genes).

This is the same type of conclusion that must apply to Blacks. All Negroes are not automatically stupid and/or criminals. There might be a few out there who are not (again, depending upon their mix of non-Black genes). Clearly, the issue focuses on the norm and standard and not the complete spectrum of possibilities in a bell curved distribution.

Modern fools can look perpetually at cities like Cairo, Calcutta, Mexico City, Nairobi, Lagos, New York, Washington, DC and on and on and never understand what the problem is in these places for the great depravity and social sickness.

Inevitably, they ignorantly will try to blame the weather, climate, geography, etc--never understanding that the problem in all these locales is race! It is people that create the crime, sickness and squalor in Washington, Calcutta, etc.

Just as more and more Western cities become like Calcutta and Mexico City, in terms of demographics (New York and Los Angeles are fast approaching that level right now), they will duplicate those places in other respects as well. The whole issue facing man is genes and race!

The Edomite Strength in Kosovo

The year 1999 was ablaze with the problem in the Balkans between the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians. While it is true that Slick Clinton was one of the primary antagonists to bring on the war, death and mayhem in the region, there were other issues at stake to induce Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic to force the Albanians out in the guise of alleged “ethnic cleansing.”

Most persons suppose that the conflict has been one of religion--in that the Albanians are Muslims while the Serbs are Christian Orthodox. But the truth is that the primary problem is not religion. It is race. The Serbs are racially from Japheth while the Muslim Albanians are Edomites. The two factions have deep seated racial hatred that goes back 600 years ago when the Ottoman Turks conquered and ruled the area.

Northern Ireland

The years of conflict between Irish Catholics and the Protestant British offer another interesting example. At a first glance, one may suppose that this is a classic illustration of religious antagonism. No, this is not true. This conflict goes back centuries and it is basically due to racial factors. The confusion surfaces because the races involved parallel two religions.

As pointed out in previous comments, some part of the Palestinian Phoenicians apparently migrated to Ireland and settled at an early time. While these Irish Gaelic Phoenicians miscegenated greatly with earlier peoples and later migrations (like the earlier mentioned Danites), they have predominated in the South of Ireland and have produced the very red headed and red complexioned peoples known today as Irish.

These Phoenicians became Catholic Christians at an early time while people that came over from Scotland and England to later settle in Northern Ireland have become Protestant, as is the situation found in most of Britain and Northwest Europe. These Phoenician descendants of Esau have a perpetual hatred toward many of the Protestant British peoples. And they haven’t given upon this hatred over the centuries.

Thus, the main participants in this conflict have been the Irish Phoenicians (essentially Catholic) and British peoples (mainly Protestant). So the two major populations now in Northern Ireland are at serious odds and constantly fighting each other. It has largely been the Phoenicians who have been the primary antagonists. They have pushed and provided the impetus for most of the trouble.

Numbers of both Protestant and Catholic theologians have tried to promote peace between these peoples. But the Irish Phoenicians will not even listen to their own Catholic leaders because the problem is genetic and not religious. This conflict will end when the Edomites finally gain the upper hand (as appears to be the case with the 1998 peace accords worked out).

The Paradox

The amazing thing about this Edomite conflict with others is that even the Protestant Christian world is on the side of the Edomites and not their opponents. The same paradox surfaces in the just cited Serb-Edomite conflict involving Eastern Orthodox descendants of Japheth. For example, Kosovo, though historically a Serb land, was divided between Christian Serbs (from Japheth) and Edomite Muslims.

The stupid, gullible Christian world (in Europe and North America) sided with the Moslems and literally destroyed the White Christian population in Kosovo and turned the province over to the Muslims. With their success in Kosovo, the Edomites next turned their attention to the conquest of Macedonia (where the population is mainly Christians from Japheth, but with a minority Muslim Edomite population).

Naturally, the gullible, stupid Christian world has jumped in to support the Edomites in this conflict. The Muslim Edomites are carrying on their war of killing or expelling all of the Christians from the area. Though the Edomites are a minority, they likely will have continued support of the stupid worldly Christians until they achieve ultimate success--unless, by some chance, Russia intervenes on the side of the Christians.

Christian Conversion Changes Nothing!

Returning to the Canaanites and all of their cousins and relatives, to include the various mamzer, nokri and dog peoples as well, there is just no way that any of these persons are going to change their genes upon conversion to Christendom in the present age. Obviously, that was behind YHWH’s extermination order for the Canaanites.

Yet, Christians will argue to no end that upon conversion, Canaanites and Edomites automatically become good people producing good deeds, as if the problem was always one of religion. No! The problem was always one of race--not religion. Hence, when these persons or the behemah or chaiyah convert, it means nothing though Christians continue to believe that a leopard can change his (genetic) spots.

Just as Christians will argue on and on about this message on race, clearly demonstrated in The ELOHIM’s Word, they will argue on and on about how bad and terrible Judaism is, never understanding that the problem is not with the Jewish religion; but rather, it is with certain wicked Amalek-Edomites who by and large can never be classified as truly religious Jews at all.

In the main, it is also doubtful that Satanic Amalekites even read the Tanakh or the Talmud. To whatever extent they do, it is a certainty that they use these writings in the same way in which they use Christian writings, the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and anything else they can use to support their overall agenda of deceit and treachery to destroy Israel.

If an Amalek-Edomite has any true and honest feelings toward Judaism, it probably only exists in the context of saying the annual Kol Nidre prayer (mentioned elsewhere herein).

Also, it appears that some of them have turned to the modern Kabbalah movement (as discussed earlier, in the context of what’s happening in Hollywood). This occultic Kabbalah motion seems to be something which would appeal to evil Edomites.

Can Race Change?

In a word, the problem is race (just as it was in Yehoshua’s day and earlier in Noah’s time)! The point of demarcation between the subjects of religion and race is that religions can change and do change. But racial factors essentially are fixed and cannot change by persons living here in the flesh (without a supernatural intervention). This is why race is such a profoundly important theme in YHWH’s Word.

The sun worshipping practices of Rebekah, Rachel and Leah could and evidently did change. But the leopard is not about to change his spots, nor is the Edomite about to change the diabolical evil in his heart toward Yisrael.

Categorically, the flesh of men cannot and will not change through any efforts of men. If and when there is an alteration of the flesh, it will only come with a miraculous act by YHWH to impose the change. Not only is it impossible to change the spots on a wicked Edomite, but the same problem is faced by all of so-called humanity in terms of the carnal flesh (i.e. pride and vanity).

Will the Edomites ever give up this hatred and animosity toward Yisrael? Well certainly, not here in the flesh in this present age. How about in the future? Of course, when YHWH resurrects dead Adamites in a future age for the process of reconciliation and change, some Edomites could conceivably be included.

If Edomites can be classified from Adam, then they will perhaps have a future calling in which they will change--because of the possible supernatural intervention of The ELOHIM to force them to go against their basic fleshly nature and genetics of evil (although Obadiah 1:18 makes it doubtful). If it can happen, YHWH can do it!

What Christian Israelites can’t seem to understand is that there is a vast difference between Judaism (which is a fairly good religion, in comparison with other worldly faiths), all Jews (many of which are good figs/people) and the evil Edomites who are not Jews at all; though many of them pretend to be Jews and call themselves Jews--while really being secret members of the synagogue of Satan (Rev 2:9; 3:9).

The point being is that the Christian Identity movement and indeed Christianity, in general, need to re-examine their religious beliefs and stop this Jew and Judaism hating which is unscriptural and contrary to truth.

This Hatred is Wrong!

While the Amalek-Edomites are the most diabolically evil people of all history and need to be recognized for what they are, the true believer should not even hate them--as wicked and depraved as they are, as discussed previously (Deut 23:7).

Incidentally, mention of Moshe’s words, that the true believer must not even abhor a wicked Edomite, brings to mind the situation with these wretched Edomites (whether they pretend to be Jews, Christians or whatever). They almost without exception are thoroughly filled with a diabolical and passionate hatred for all true Israelites, as noted previously (including both true Jews and persons of the lost tribes).

Since this hatred is genetic, there is no need to suppose that many or any of them are necessarily even conscious of it. It would be foolishness to charge them collectively with any conscious conspiracy of hatred toward Yisrael (although there may be some conspiracies involved in some of their specific acts against true Israelites, to be described later in the context of the Amalek-Edomite bankers/masters).

If there is an overall conspiracy of hatred, it probably exists in the supernatural world of mental telepathy where Satan and demonic powers use mental telepathy to direct these evil Edomites in specific acts against true Israelites. Back in the 1950s, the Edomites pushing racial integration on American Whites were surely motivated and focused by demonic powers using mental telepathy.

The Edomite purpose has always been to destroy Yisrael for the last 3,900 years, as mentioned often in this work.

It is because of their unbelievable animosity, coupled with their great power in Yisrael, that the typical Christian Israelite can never understand them and their true motive to destroy Yisrael (and they are “not” attempting to do this by advocating Judaism). This is especially true whenever the topic of race comes up.

The Amalek-Edomite bankers/masters in control of the Western Christian civilization do not want this race theme ever broached by anyone, because an investigation of it can eventually lead a person into an appreciation of who these evil Edomites really are and what their genetically inspired plan and purpose is for the lost House of Yisrael.

More Hate

Tragically, many Christians and particularly Christian Israelites choose to help the Edomites by hating Judaism and the Jews collectively, as if they are the source of the problem. Of course, neither the Jews or Judaism is the problem.

The problem has always been one of evil Amalek-Edomites posing themselves as Jews to bring on persecution and hatred of a lot of good Jews.

What a tragedy it has been for innocent and good Jews who stupidly allowed themselves to be linked to the vile and corrupt Amalekites (just as the modern Americans are doing). Amalekite evil has brought much harm and hurt upon good Jews.

Clearly, it is a part of the overall plan and purpose of these Edomites to bring hatred into the minds of collective Israelites to make Jews hate Christian Israelites and to make Christian Israelites hate good Jews and Judaism. Surely, the Edomites and their father Satan are behind all of this animosity. This whole episode is a great tragedy for all Israelite brethren--whether Christians or Jews.

Chapter 188--Qahal Ha ELOHIM

The Congregation of Believers

One feature of modern Christianity is the focus upon a physical building, and a membership or grouping of people centered around that building or facility, in the context of the church. While other discussions herein, in subsequent chapters, focus upon the undesirable features of such a facility, it is still prudent to consider some NT texts which are related to the idea of an assembly or congregation of people.

The first thing which strikes one is the presence of the phrase “Church of God,” found some twelve times in the KJV of the NT (Acts 20:28; I Cor 1:2; 10:32; 11:16, 22; 15:9; II Cor 1:1; Gal 1:13; I Thes 2:14; II Thes 1:4; I Tim 3:5, 15).

If there is a NT organizational name for the true believers and followers of YESHUA (in the Nazarene sect of Judaism, as is elsewhere described herein), assuredly it would have to connect in some way to this NT phrase (but in its original Hebrew).

An examination of the word church indicates that it is incorrectly translated (per other commentary, elsewhere herein) from the Greek “ekklesia,” which more correctly means a group or assembly of people called out of the population at large. In this sense, the ekklesia is an assembly of called out ones.

The basis for ekklesia is, of course, the comparable Hebrew word which is qahal (with long “A’s,” although some persons incorrectly transliterate it as qehal)--which means an assembly specially convoked, or a congregation as an organized body (per Brown, Driver and Briggs’ “A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament”).

The English word “God” (which has a very bad meaning, as will be subsequently demonstrated in a later chapter herein) comes from the Hebrew EL, ELOAH or ELOHIM. In Nehemiah 13:1 (after the return of the Jews to Palestine, following the Babylonian exile or captivity), one finds this very phrase “Qahal Ha ELOHIM.” It appears in the KJV as “the congregation of God.”

At the outset, it must be noted that this qahal is a reference to people. The same conclusion applies to the Greek ekklesia. There is nothing in either word which will permit an attachment to the idea of a building or physical facility.

Such usages and concepts are strictly a product of Christian Church thinking and not the Scriptures. In the Word, YAH’s building for worship is called a House of Prayer for All People (Isa 56:7; Matt 21:13).

The Synagogue

In the Greek NT, the Greek word sunagogee (meaning a synagogue) is the physical place where believers worshipped. Within Judaism, the synagogue is often called and/or referred to as a house of prayer for all people, in the sense of Isaiah 56:7.

If there is any doubt whatsoever about the fact that the New Testament believers worshipped regularly (at least weekly) in the Jewish synagogues, the student of truth only has to check the usages of the Greek “sunagogee.” The Greek NT refers to Jewish synagogues some 57 times and almost always in the vein of the worship site of YESHUA and His disciples.

Tragically, most English translations don’t always translate the Greek sunagogee as synagogue (as happens at Acts 13:43 and James 2:2), but the linkage is manifestly clear otherwise. Beyond these 57 uses, it is also absolutely fascinating that the Greek episunagoge” is likewise used (at II Thessalonians 2:1 and Hebrews 10:25). This term correctly means “going to synagogue” (as is discussed elsewhere herein).

In another interesting revelation, the Greek “aposunagogos” is one more important tie to synagogue where it is used at John 9:22, 12:42, and 16:2, in the sense of being expelled or put out of the synagogue and congregation (as happened to believers in later years, long after the NT was written--as is also described at length elsewhere herein).

The point is that believers in YESHUA in New Testament days worshipped in Jewish synagogues. There is never one instance or recorded record where any believer worshipped in a Christian Church. Christian Churches and ignorant Christian preachers teach this nonsense. But the church possibilities are categorically absent in the Greek New Testament.

More

Before leaving this sub-topic, it should be noted that there is one more Hebrew word which is sometimes translated and used in reference to the Congregation of Israel. This word is “edah.” Per Young’s “Analytical Concordance” (p. 107), edah means “an appointed meeting.”

Apparently, the difference between edah and qahal is that edah means the physical assemblage of the congregation in one, single, called meeting or assembling together; while the word qahal is a little broader, with an application to the collective people in the congregation (the general membership, so to speak), in the sense of being in the overall group.

In his audio tape on the “Synagogue,” Dean Wheelock suggests that in the Scriptures, the Hebrew word qahal is translated in the Greek to the word “ekklesia.” Thus, in Greek translations, qahal usually comes out as “ekklesia.” But in some 36 instances in the Septuagint, it appears as “sunagoge” or synagogue in English (“Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament,” v. II, p. 1991).

If there is a difference between qahal and ekklesia, it is that, in the OT, qahal refers to the collective people of Yisrael called out of all the nations at large; while in the NT, the word ekklesia refers to the individual Israelites in the Israelite election called out from the general population.

The Synagogue Organization

Per Wheelock (in his audio tape on the “Synagogue”), the basic synagogue organization seems to match the pattern used in the assembly organization in the NT.

In the synagogue, all older men were known as elders (probably, all the male members over age 30 fit into this category). This body of elders would choose a board of 3, 7 or 12 elders as the basic policy making group over the synagogue (with the approval and concurrence of the congregation). In later synagogues, this group was typically made up of 12 elders.

Governing board member positions were not normally full time jobs, nor were they commonly paid positions. If any were full time, they were paid, but at a subsistence level only. In other words, it was not a job to make money. This board would choose one of its own to be the president of the synagogue (called the nasi), who served one year and could not succeed himself. The position of nasi circulated within the board.

Next, there was a “beit din,” or house of judgment, in the synagogue (of three or more elders) to adjudicate conflicts or problems in the fellowship.

Last, the board would appoint a member of the congregation to be the shammash (to be shortly addressed), who typically was the only full time worker. He was the man who took care of the synagogue and performed physical functions in the meetings. In larger synagogues, the shammash may have had one or more assistants to help him in his work (some of these could be full time paid positions as well).

The synagogue was the community center and focal point of fellowship for the members, plus being a house of prayer and worship of The MOST HIGH. Study and the learning of truth and righteousness were among its many purposes. Therefore, the teaching of Hebrew and the Torah (during the week and on Sabbaths) was crucial. In Second Temple days, the synagogue school was the place for educating children.

Some larger cities may have had two or more synagogues. Wheelock suggests that in such cites or areas, there was a governing board of 12 elders (men) who oversaw all the synagogues. Finally, in Jerusalem, there was the Sanhedrin, made up of 70 members, plus a nasi. The Sanhedrin was a national or international organization, overseeing all synagogues and offering final judgment on all conflicts and questions.

Apparently, this basic organization is what the NT laid out for the Apostolic Assembly. First, there was an international organization. And evidently, each local congregation also had its own organization. Wheelock suggests that there were some explicitly Messianic synagogues (just as is true today). Assuredly, they would have followed the basic synagogue organizational pattern.

In the international organization, there was an overseeing board of twelve elders, called apostles (Acts 1:26). In the case of the generic Apostolic Assembly, it is evident that appointment to this overseeing board was a lifetime appointment.

Next, for the international organization, there likely was a NT council of 70 elders (as was the pattern during the Exodus and possibly in the NT--Num 11:16; Lu 10:1-17). Probably, council members served as judges, as was the pattern from the Exodus. Finally, there was a group of seven shammashim (plural of shammash), who took care of the congregation (Acts 6:5).

The Ministering Functions

To benefit the functioning of this qahal or congregation of believers, the NT reveals a series of operations, services and gifts that serve and profit the collective body; which, by the way, is one of the great mysteries of the Scriptures--the mystery of the Body of The MESSIAH, the Congregation (I Cor 12:27; Col 1:18, 27). It will be assessed in more detail in a subsequent chapter.

The NT reveals these five officials, workers or servants of the Assembly--apostles (from the Hebrew saliah), prophets, evangelists, shepherds (called pastors in the KJV) and teachers (Eph 4:11). Some students of the Book suggest that these duties are actually functions and that the shepherd function is combined with the teaching operation (per Dean Wheelock, in his audio tape on the “Synagogue”).

Apparently, any of these servants, or other members of the Body, can also provide these additional functions--discerning of spirits, working of power/miracles, dispensing healings, providing helps or government, understanding of different languages and interpreting other languages (I Cor 12:28-30).

Within these classifications, some of the jobs or duty positions involved the role of an overseer or supervisor (which the KJV defines as a bishop), while others were helping or assisting positions, such as the shammashim (who are generally called deacons in the KJV).

Although most of these duties were accomplished by the elders, it’s possible that other persons in the Assembly could carry out some of the functions. For example, women could be teachers of other women and children (but never of the collective congregation). In other cases, the supervising board made the determination (and possibly the chief shammash somewhat) of who would do what.

The workers of the assembly were the ministers of the group. They were effectively servants or bond slaves. Again, they served as either overseers or assistants (board members were certainly overseers, while most of the shammashim were assistants).

In all cases in the NT organization, all workers were servants of the congregation. They were expressly forbidden from lording over the membership (as is found in the secular world and in other religions). No titles were used. All persons referred to each other only as “brother” (Matt 23:8; Acts 9:17; 22:13; I Cor 5:11).

Thus, the most important and highest ranking officials to the lowest ranking persons in the Apostolic Assembly were all addressed only as “brother” with no distinctions in titles (clearly, this reality has never been a part of traditional Christianity).

The Gifts

To accomplish these just mentioned services, functions or duties (within the collective Body of The MESSIAH), a series of spiritual (intellectual and mental) and/or physical powers (gifts) were dispensed to the Apostolic Assembly, in the context of the Baptism of The RUACH HA KODESH and/or the Baptism of Fire (to be discussed later).

These gifts were: faith, words of wisdom, prophecy, discerning of spirits, words of knowledge, works of power-miracles, gifts of healing, uses of different languages, interpretation of other languages, teaching (of doctrines), diligence to lead (in administration and government), exhorting, mercy or cheerfulness to show mercy, simplicity of giving, service (to the Assembly), revelation of the knowledge of mysteries, speaking, strength, love, sound mind (wise discretion) and spiritual understanding (Rom 12:6-9; I Cor 12:3, 8-10; 13:1-13; Eph 3:16; Col 1:9; II Tim 1:7).

In an assembly or meeting of the Body, different people could offer or have available the following for service to the group: a revelation, prophecy, different foreign language, interpretation of a foreign language, psalm, hymn, spiritual singing and praising, prayer, testimony, healing, casting out of bad spirits and exhortation or preaching--as may be relevant and appropriate, and by all means in an orderly controlled fashion, per the decision of the nasi or shammash (I Cor 14:3-5, 26; II Cor 12:19; Eph 4::17; 5:19-20; Col 1:3, 9; 3:16; I Thes 5:17; II Thes 1:10; I Tim 1:11).

All of these gifts, services, operations and offices were to provide for the perfecting of the called out ones, for a work of service to others, and to effectively build up and edify the collective assembly or Body of believers.

Three of these gifts are intellectual in content. These three--knowledge, understanding and wisdom--were assessed in some detail in prior chapters. Hence, there is no need to repeat that presentation.

But the point must be made, in respect to these three gifts as well as all the others, that no organizations now evident in Christendom in 2003 seem to exhibit any evidence of the actual outpouring by The HIGHEST of these gifts on any religious organizations now in existence.

To Be Reinstated

Just as the first century CE Apostolic Assembly had these persons, operations, services, gifts, etc, there is every reason to believe that they will be reinstated with the Philadelphia Assembly, as it is formed in the age end (to be discussed in later chapters hereafter).

In offering this likelihood, this writer certainly is in no way endorsing any organized Christian Church now claiming these activities/attributes. The present manifestations seem to be all false and demonic, and particularly in the modern Pentecostal and/or Charismatic movements (as will be proven in later chapters herein).

Chapter 189--The Seven Assemblies

An Overview of the Seven

As noted in other remarks herein, the first three chapters of Yohanan’s record of YESHUA’s revelation focuses upon the famous seven assemblies (the Greek ekklesia, meaning the called out ones; in Hebrew, ha qahal, as discussed in the prior chapter) of true believers in the election (the election are mentioned with some discussion in several other places in this study).

Most of the seven assemblies, mentioned by Yohanan, have been or will be commented upon to some degree elsewhere in this study. But this and the next chapters bring all seven together to demonstrate their linkages and supply some further historical and doctrinal information about each one of them.

While these seven specific groups (or congregations) certainly existed in Asia Minor in apostolic times (as named), there are some prophetic aspects of YESHUA’s revelation which have been largely misunderstood in historic Christianity.

It’s very probable that those seven congregations in Asia Minor (at Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea--Rev 1:11) were indicative and reflective (from the perspective of doctrinal beliefs, obedience and faith) of the whole, entire Apostolic Assembly at large when those words were written (c64-66 CE).

In other words, one could find other congregations and groups of supposed believers throughout the Roman Empire which were of the same type, caliber and nature as the one at Ephesus.

This same statement can be made for the other six groups as well. In future remarks in this and succeeding chapters, this line of thinking will be elaborated upon in connection with the writings of Shaul to congregations with those same characteristics.

Beyond the Apostolic Age implications, it is manifest that those seven assemblies (in type) will exist in the age end when YESHUA returns to commence His millennial rule of planet earth--just as they contemporarily existed when He came in c70 CE (this early return was broached previously).

Christendom has typically misunderstood these prophecies and erred when she has tried to link them to Christianity--often in the context of so-called church eras and time spans. In terms of the typical fulfillment of these wonderful prophecies, they apply to Sabbathkeeping groups in the age end (as suggested in other presentations in this study) in contrast to Sunday keeping Christendom.

Yes, They Were Sabbathkeepers

This is a profoundly important distinction to understand. The letters to the seven congregations in Revelation 1-3 address Sabbathkeeping, Messianic groups. There are no Sunday keeping organizations in that list of seven. The fact that at least five of those seven groups have decided problems and shortcomings does not alter the reality that they are Sabbathkeepers, nor should it surprise anyone.

Tragically, there are many Sabbathkeeping believers in YESHUA today who are filled with gross shortcomings, just like those five assemblies.

About all that one can say for most of these Sabbathkeepers is that they do possess the sign of the Seventh day Sabbath, and have some measure of faith in a Jewish MESSIAH, as described in the NT (howbeit, that faith is generally distorted and confused).

The Whore and Her Daughters

Otherwise, the book of Revelation assesses Sunday keeping Christianity in Revelation 17 where the whore woman represents the mother church of Christendom--the Roman Catholic Church.

This harlot mother church has daughters which came out of her (Rev 17:5). These daughters are harlots, just like their mother, with very few, if any, real differences.

This whole system, with its sign of Sunday worship (per Rev 17:5, in the KJV, in the word MYSTERY--meaning a secret sign or symbol, just as the Seventh day Sabbath is a sign to Sabbathkeepers), will be described in detail in later chapters herein.

As mentioned above, the seven assemblies were all in existence when The MESSIAH returned around 70 CE. Moreover, these exact, seven assemblies will be contemporarily present, in the world and in the same defined types when YESHUA returns the next time, perhaps in Yechezkel’s 37th year (Rev 2:5, 16, 25; 3:3, 11, 20). Apparently, they will each claim to be the bride of YESHUA at that time (Isa 4:1).

In other words, all of the different Sabbathkeeping groups and people accepting the NT, now in the world, can eventually be classified by one of the seven Scriptural types.

It should be noted that the seven prophetic types of congregations were/are sequential in appearance in history, and they present definite links between each other. In other words, they all seven connect sequentially, one to another (actually, via an old mail route in the ante-type in the first century CE, and with organizational and geographical connections in the type since 70 CE).

Some Background

Remarks to follow below and in other presentations herein have or will describe what happened in the then existing seven congregations when YESHUA returned around 70 CE for the faithful of the collective Apostolic Assembly. Philadelphia and perhaps some part of the other groups were alive to meet Him when He returned.

The rest of the 144,000 Shavuot election of 70 CE paid for their sins and shortcomings by going through the then great tribulation (c66-70 CE). After being sealed, most of them were slain by the beast power (Rome), and thus became overcomers (which qualified them for the election).

When YESHUA came for the elect still alive in about 70 CE, the rest of the Shavuot election, then dead and in their graves, were resurrected to life to go to heaven with YESHUA and the election then still alive. This group has been in heaven, along with the Passover harvest, for the last 1900 plus years (Rev 6:9-11; 7:9-17).

With the death or removal of the people of faith from the seven assemblies by 70 CE (the ones who became overcomers), in the seven assemblies, there still were numbers of people left in those groups who were not overcomers or otherwise too young for redemption (perhaps under the age of 30).

But they were members or participants in the five assemblies which had gross shortcomings (omitting certainly Philadelphia and Smyrna, which were clearly in other categories). In other words, these persons did not measure up to the requirements necessary for reconciliation, deliverance and salvation at that time.

Some of these Sabbathkeeping hanger-ons seem to have provided the impetus for the development of what came to be called the Ebionites. These Sabbathkeeping Ebionites existed (under great persecution from Rome) with some semblance of identification and organization from time to time, in the rough period of 70 to 600 CE.

Otherwise, in the remnant of the Sabbathkeeping assemblies in 66-70 CE, a number of other persons were very weak in faith and shallow in truth. They quickly abandoned the Sabbath and the developing Ebionites to join in with Eastern, Chrishna sun worshippers to form the basis of the earliest of the Sunday keeping, Eastern, Christian Churches. This group paralleled the time frame of the Ebionites (c70 to c554 CE).

These Eastern, Sunday keeping Christians never did set well with the developing Roman Catholic Church in the West; although they shared many of the same, sun worship doctrines and teachings. It was this situation which gave rise to the Western Roman Catholic conflict with the Quartadecimancins, to be described in later chapters.

More Entities, Now Extinct

In time, these Eastern Christians either came under the domain of Rome (by 554 CE, under Justinian) or disintegrated (although some remnant of them apparently formed the eventual, Eastern Orthodox, Christian Churches).

Through the years, another Sunday keeping group (called Paulicians), independent of Rome, slowly developed in the East from some of the fragments of the old, Eastern, Chrishna-Christian church.

These Christian Paulicians existed, mainly in the East, from about 500 CE to about 1000 CE. Though they were Sunday keepers and maintained much of the traditional Christian faith found in the Roman Catholic Church and the eventual Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Paulicians never really submitted to either power. They maintained their independence and were, thus, heavily persecuted and driven underground.

Contemporary with the Paulicians, there was a second, Seventh day, Sabbathkeeping entity, which organized from a combination of the Paulicians and the fading remnant of the Ebionites. This new Sabbathkeeping group was called the Athingians.

But over the years, the Paulicians and Athingians both died out--perhaps because of the awful persecution by the world ruling, Roman Catholic Church.

The basis of this loss surfaced when some new ideas combined with the old, fading Paulicians to form a new, Sunday keeping Christian entity called Bogomils (in Bulgaria), Cathari (in Germany) and/or Albigenses (in France). They lasted from c950 CE to c1400 CE.

Furthermore, there was a new Sabbathkeeping group which developed from a marriage or link between the Bogomils and the old Athingians, which were then fading out of existence. This new group was the Pasagians. The Pasagians seem to have been fairly observant of the Torah. Not only did they keep the Seventh day Sabbath, but they practiced circumcision and obeyed the literal requirements of the Torah.

Ephesus

It was the Bogomils, Cathari and/or Albigenses who provided the foundational support for the development of the next sequential group, the Waldensians, which spread across Europe, primarily as a result of the preaching and teaching of one Peter Waldo, around 1170 CE. Perhaps Waldo infused some new thinking and dedication into the former groups (opposing Rome and then fading out).

Interestingly, the Waldensians seem to have carried different names in the different areas where they existed. Thus, they were also known as Beguines, Beghards, Petrobrussians, Picards, Lollards, Sabbati, Arnoldists, Insabbatati, Vaudois, Henricans and Lombardists.

Why the different names? Evidently, because the groups were underground, widely separated and had little contact with each other, they went by different names in different areas.

The Roman Catholic persecution was enormous and the dissenting groups left little or no histories to reveal their inner workings. Most of what is known about them comes from Catholic authorities, who hated them and called them heretics. Rome was careless in discussing these different groups and made no effort to understand their connections and/or differences.

In time, these Waldensians spread out across Europe and even into the British Isles. Most of them were Sunday keepers; though some or all of the Sabbati, Insabbatati, and Picards and perhaps even a part of the Lollards were acknowledged Sabbathkeepers. These Sabbathkeepers probably learned about the weekly Sabbath from the Pasagians, who were then fading out of history.

It is these Waldensian Sabbathkeepers who formed the basis of Yohanan’s letter to Ephesus. They clearly started in the 12th-14th centuries in Europe and persisted through the years and must be present today.

Certainly, Sunday keeping Waldensians are still alive and functioning. Many of the Sunday keepers migrated to Burke County, North Carolina in the late 19th century. Some are also still to be found in Northern Italy.

Theologically, Yohanan’s remarks at Revelation 2:1-7 and Shaul’s letter to Ephesus, categorically affirm the theology of the Waldensians (some of this thinking has been or will be commented upon in other chapters herein).

The Waldensian Sabbathkeepers share this basic, same theology with the Sunday keepers, but essentially differing only on the Sabbath question.

One of the key points in the Waldensian identification was their rejection of the priests of Rome (the Nicolaitanes, as will be addresssed in some detail in later chapters) and their decision to accept The MESSIAH YESHUA as their MEDIATOR with The EL (instead of the Roman Catholic Church). In other words, they discovered YESHUA, Whom they had not known or understood beforetime in Catholicism.

In broaching the Nicolaitanes, it must be said that while the Waldensians discovered the evils of this philosophy of Catholicism the same finding cannot be attached to the rest of Christianity. Indeed, almost without exception, Christian preachers dominate and lord over their lay people flocks (which they often look upon as the dumb sheep).

In particular, this Nicolaitane attitude becomes manifested as pride, arrogance and meanness in many/most Christian leaders (to include most of the leaders in the other assemblies cited by Yohanan in Revelation 1-3). Even much of the Sardis Church of God and Sacred Name movements and the Christian Identity motion (to be defined and addressed in later comments herein) have the same attributes.

For example, the Worldwide Church of God (WWCG) and its fall-out groups (especially the Global/Living Church of God, but the others as well), the Bethel Assemblies of Yahweh and most Christian Identity groups are/were all characterized with leaders filled with pride, arrogance and mean spirits. The one thing which is just not commonly found among these persons is any semblance of humility.

Not only did the old WWCG have this problem in its leadership (from Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong on down the line), but after this group began breaking up in the late 20th century, the fall out preachers continued to maintain the same pride, arrogance and meanness.

This writer is acquainted with some of these former WWCG big shots who became Sacred Name leaders. The problem is seemingly present with all of them. They all seem to be proud, arrogant and mean-spirited (and also fairly shallow in Scriptural knowledge and understanding, beyond what they learned from the old WWCG).

Along with the pride, arrogance and meanness, most of these leaders are obsessed with titles of importance (condemned in Matt 23:7-12, as discussed elsewhere herein). The Sardis and Identity groups love the titles pastor and elder--though both titles are never used by anyone in the Book (in addressing people). As noted earlier on pride, most all persons look for opportunities to be elevated and lifted up in front of others.

Smyrna

Next, in sequence, the early 15th century CE saw the work of a Catholic priest named John Huss in Bohemia. Huss was a brilliant man, a powerful speaker and apparently a man of some faith. He beheld the efforts of his church to come to Bohemia and sell indulgences (discussed elsewhere herein) and he didn’t like what he saw. So he spoke against Rome.

And as was her usual response, Rome didn’t approve of this dissension and proceeded to burn poor Huss alive at the stake in 1415. But Huss had started a fire that would not soon go away. His teachings set the stage for the development of the later, Sunday keeping Hussites or Bohemian Brethren and even the eventual Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Very early, the developing Hussites came into contact with some neighboring Waldensians who were in Bohemia in numbers. Significantly, a Waldensian bishop or elder named Stephen was one of three Waldensian ministers who laid hands upon and ordained some of the ministers in the developing Bohemian Brethren group, arising from the work of Huss.

Importantly, one Waldensian group, called Grubenheimers (because the members hid themselves from the Roman Catholic authorities by hiding in caves or caverns), amalgamated early on with the developing Hussites.

The contacts and linkages between the Sunday keeping Waldensians and Hussites in Bohemia were both significant and relevant in Europe in the 16th century.

The Roman Catholic Church didn’t approve of the Hussite breakaway in Bohemia. So she quickly dispatched an army there to force them back to Rome or kill them, as the case may be. A number of battles were fought and perhaps the most notable one was when a one-eyed Hussite general, named John Ziska, defeated the Catholics at the battle of Mount Tabor in c1427 CE.

Soon thereafter, Ziska and his Taborite followers must have come into contact with Waldensian Sabbathkeepers. Consequently, this Hussite group accepted the Sabbath and formed what was to become the “Sabbatarian” organization of Eastern Europe.

While many of the Sabbathkeeping Hussites stayed in Eastern Europe over the years (with many going to Russia), numbers of the Sunday keeping Hussites (later called Moravians) migrated to Pennsylvania and North Carolina (where they settled Old Salem in the 18th century).

Doctrinally, the previously mentioned Sabbatarians match up to Revelation 2:8-11 and Shaul’s epistle to the Colossians. Some of their history and teachings have been commented upon in prior chapters and need no explanation now. The one idea which describes them is that they early on discovered that YHWH’s Word was to be their rule of faith.

Pergamos

This takes one to Pergamos. In time, many of the Bohemian Brethren found their way into Switzerland in the early 16th century when the Protestant Reformation was beginning as a result of Martin Luther’s work in Germany.

Luther nailed his famous, 95 theses to the door of the Wittenburg, Germany Catholic Church in October 1517. This began the Protestant Reformation and the message of justification by faith.

By the 1520s, quite a Protestant center had developed in Zurich, Switzerland where the Reformer Ulrich Zwingli was in charge and busy teaching the new Reformation message. Some of Zwingli’s students began to perceive that the Protestant break with Rome was not heading in the right direction. This dissatisfied group included people like Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and Simon Stumpf.

They came to be called the left wing radicals of the Reformation. By 1525, they met independently and formed the nucleus of the Anabaptist movement (which advocated rebaptism for believers, who had been baptized as infants in the Roman Catholic Church). Historically, the Sunday keeping Anabaptists were closely linked to the Sunday keeping Bohemian Brethren then in Switzerland.

This early Anabaptist baptism was still by the Catholic sprinkling or pouring method. Immersion was to come on the scene later with the Baptist denomination which evolved from the preceding Anabaptist movement (along with the Hutterites, Amish, Mennonites and Quakers).

Soon, Sunday keeping, Anabaptist preachers were reaching much of Europe and Britain. Some of them went to Bohemia which was still a hot bed of religious fervor.

One early leader of the Anabaptists in Bohemia was a man named Oswald Glait. By 1528, Glait had come into apparent contact with European Sabbatarians and accepted the Sabbath. Just as the Anabaptist faith reached Britain, so did the Sabbath beliefs of the Anabaptists also evidently arrive in England.

But there was much persecution of dissenters in Britain and particularly during the reign of Bloody Mary in the mid 1550s--before Elizabeth assumed the throne. Therefore, some of these early re-baptizing believers (called Separatists) fled Britain and went to Holland and eventually to America, as the later Baptists.

Growth

Thus, the Anabaptist movement was slow in getting started in England. However, with the rulerships of first Elizabeth, and later James I, things began to loosen up a little. Soon, the Baptist movement became a reality in Britain.

With this Baptist presence in Britain, it was logical that some of them would, in time, accept the Sabbath. In c1617, they did so and eventually founded the previously mentioned Seventh Day Baptist (SDB) denomination.

By the late 17th century, and into the early 19th century, Baptists were surfacing in America in numbers (perhaps initially because of the work of Roger Williams of Rhode Island). In Rhode Island, they established both Sabbath and Sunday keeping congregations, which quickly spread out in all directions.

By the 19th century, the Baptists were significantly present all over America--although divided into many, many, different, Baptist groups, as has been a common, Baptist problem for much of its history.

In theology, the SDB stem from the Pergamos assembly and are defined in Revelation 2:12-17. Shaul’s writing to Romans also presents an outline of their doctrines which are basically justification by faith and adult believer’s baptism. The Sunday and Sabbathkeeping Baptists are basically the same in beliefs except for the Sabbath question.

In the way of a classic fulfillment of Rev 2:13 (in the vein of the Pergamos martyr Antipas), it is fascinating that one of the facts of history associated with the Seventh Day Baptists in England is that the pastor of the White Chapel or Bull-Stake Alley Sabbatarian Baptist Church (in 1661) was John James who was hanged and his body quartered (his head was cut off and put on a pole opposite the church by the King Charles people for daring to say that “Jesus Christ” was the king of England, Scotland and Ireland--per Church of God historian Richard Nickels).

One more relevant fact of history about Pergamos concerns Revelation 2:14-15 in that Pergamos would adopt and follow both the doctrines of Balaam (on racial integration, miscegenation and amalgamation) and the Nicolaitanes. Both of these doctrines are manifestly present in the modern Seventh Day Baptist Church.

Thyatira

This takes the student of truth up to the year of 1831 when a New England Baptist farmer named William Miller began teaching that the year 1844 would spell the end of the world and the second return of the Christians’ Gee-Zeus.

At first, Miller preached to local Baptist congregations in New York and New England. But his message caught on and his outreach was soon over much of the US and especially to the Midwest. His motion became known as the Second Advent or Millerite movement.

By 1844, problems developed when Miller’s dating scheme proved to be wrong. Simply stated, YESHUA did not return that year. Therefore, the Sunday keeping Adventists were in quite a quandary and split into several different factions.

One Sunday, at a Millerite meeting in Washington, New Hampshire, a Seventh Day Baptist woman, named Mrs Rachel Oakes, was present to hear a sermon by Adventist preacher Frederick Wheeler. After services, Mrs Oakes asked Wheeler about the Seventh day Sabbath and when was he going to obey it. Soon Wheeler and many of his people became Sabbathkeepers.

Thus, the Seventh day Adventist (SDA) group was born and quickly gained some prominence from the efforts of the prophetess, Mrs Ellen White. From the beginning, the early Seventh day Adventists had much contact with the Seventh Day Baptists and actually used some of their literature and tracts on the Sabbath.

Manifestly, Thyatira is the SDA with her false Jezebel prophetess, Ellen G White, who has taught the SDA people many bad teachings over the years. Yohanan’s message (Rev 2:18-29) and Shaul’s letters to Thessalonians sum up the SDA theology. Their focus has been on prophecy and the return of The MESSIAH.

Incidentally, though this writer makes the case that the Seventh day Adventist Church must be Thyatira, the point has to be made that the SDA Church itself claims to be the Laodicean entity. This is fascinating that a modern Christian Church would want to be and claim to be the Laodiceans. But it represents the real world out there for the Adventists in the early 21st century.

As a matter of information, this writer has known several SDA people over the years. While they are extremely Scripturally illiterate, they do keep the Sabbath and accordingly have something in common with me.

One day, in a conversation with an Adventist minister known to me, the question was posed to him on why would the SDA people want to be known as Laodiceans (in view of the great condemnation and criticism cast upon Laodicea in the Book)? The man involved could not or would not answer me.

If the reader wants to have a real revelation about the ignorance in the SDA Church, all he has to do is ask an Adventist about why he or she wants to be known as a Laodicean. This simple question can throw an uninformed Adventist follower of Ellen White into a state of shock.

A False Prophetess

With just a minimum of Scriptural understanding, the developing SDA people should have had brains enough to see through Ellen White and perceive that she was a false prophetess. At least, her visions generally had some false information present, perhaps often mixed in with some true information.

In her first vision in December 1844, she allegedly saw the Adventist people on their way to heaven. This vision alone should have been enough to alert observers that something was wrong with poor Ellen. But most of them evidently failed to pick upon the truth.

Initially, Ellen and her husband James White were not Seventh day Sabbathkeepers. They opposed the Sabbath and labored against it.

But when it became obvious that the Spirit of Truth was being very successful in putting the Sabbath message over, Ellen changed her tune and had a vision in support of the Sabbath (but one which tragically had some bad information included on The MESSIAH resting in the grave on the Sabbath day and being resurrected on Sunday morning--as was proven wrong in a preceding chapter herein).

In one vision, Ellen saw a long haired “Gee-Zeus” in a white robe in heaven. Like the others, this one should have alerted witnesses that something was very wrong with Ellen (the issue of men wearing long hair is discussed in detail elsewhere herein, as addressing the subjects of beards and hair length for men. Suffice to say, it is a sin for a man to wear long hair, as Shaul so correctly pointed out).

Perhaps one of the most prominent SDA leaders was Captain Joseph Bates of Massachusetts. From the beginning, Bates didn’t believe in the visions of Ellen White. Obviously, it would take some real convincing to change his mind.

Being a sea captain, Bates had some knowledge of astronomy and particularly heavenly signs (which were used in navigation). In November 1846, Ellen had a vision in his presence, specifically designed to convert him to her cause.

She had a vision in which she described certain astronomical features--like the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus in sequence. She reported four moons around Jupiter, the belts or bands around Saturn and six moons around Uranus. This demonstration from a young girl, supposedly uninformed on astronomy, deeply impressed Bates. Thus, he became a follower.

Ellen had it right about the sequence of the three planets. And in terms of 1846 scientific and astronomical knowledge, she would have been right on her other remarks. But ultimately, she had it wrong on the number of moons around each of the planets (as subsequently proven from discoveries in modern astronomy since 1900).

For example, it is now known that Saturn has 30 moons and Jupiter has 39 moons (Jun 7, 2002, “The Week,” p. 20). Some eleven of these 39 satellites around Jupiter were discovered in 2002 (ibid, p. 20). Obviously, Ellen had it grossly wrong in terms of reality, although she probably looked good in 1846.

So, where did Ellen get her information? Would The MOST HIGH (or Satan) have given her some bad data to impress Bates? Or could she have come up with this thinking on her own (thinking which was contemporary and accepted as true by many persons at that time)?

Well significantly, Bates had written a tract on “The Opening Heaven” on May 8, 1846. In it, he discussed the very things which Ellen saw in vision. All things considered, it seems almost a certainty that Ellen had access to this tract before she had her vision. She must have memorized the pertinent points which would be needed, under demonic control, to influence Bates.

In 1847, Ellen had a vision which supported the shut door theory, prevalent among the early Adventists (mentioned in “A Word to the Little Flock”), although she later tried to deny it. This belief was predicated upon the so-called close of probation and that the door was shut for salvation.

However, over time, all of those early Adventist people died. Since then, the SDA Church has added millions of members to her membership rolls. This fact alone would ostensibly prove how utterly false Ellen’s visions were--if church membership equates to being saved in some manner (which it doesn’t).

More on Ellen

One of Ellen’s favorite tricks was to occasionally criticize or rebuke some of the various Adventists for alleged wrongs. One time, in 1882, SDA preachers E. P. Daniels and E. R. Jones were preaching in Michigan, while Ellen was apparently in Colorado. Allegedly, one of the men made an offensive remark to someone. The church gossip was that it was Daniels (when in fact it was Jones).

In any case, the gossip reached Ellen. So she conveniently had a vision, supposedly from heaven, to castigate and condemn Daniels for the remark. In the August 14, 1883, “Review and Herald Supplement,” Daniels set the record straight. The point of this was that Ellen got the wrong man--evidently based upon church gossip.

There were numerous other prophetic failures for anyone interested enough to spend some time with her prophecies and truth.

But there is more to come on the situation with poor Ellen. The Nov 1981 “Evangelical” magazine had a story on “Visions or partial complex seizures” by Dr Delbert H. Holder, a pediatrician with subspecialist interest in neurology. Holder suggests that her visions were a type of epileptic seizure, arising from a head accident she had as a child.

Some persons make a case that Ellen was a prolific writer of many very successful books. And in fact, she was--both in quantity and in distribution.

However, there are other persons who will argue about the value and truth of those works. As a minimum, she was notorious in plagiarizing from other writers, as is now a known fact. Poor Ellen stole whole blocks of material from other writers for her own books (without giving credit).

The Shallow Adventists

From time to time, in this study at hand, mention is made of the manifest problem that the Seventh day Adventists have had in Scriptural understanding. In essence, the SDA people are extremely shallow on the Word. They don’t seem to know much at all--unless it is something which Ellen G. White or the SDA leadership discovered and focused upon.

While the typical Adventist knows little or nothing from the Word, they are almost all extremely knowledgeable and informed on Ellen. They love her words and writings; and many of them devote their lives to the study and contemplation about her, and what she has said about things. What a tragedy it has been that these people haven’t adopted the same fascination and devotion to the Scriptures.

Anyway, this writer has recognized this pathetic reality on the mentality of the typical SDA person. Accordingly, this study recognizes that condition from time to time herein. However, this writer has not been the lone ranger in the discovery of the problems Adventists have over the Book. Sabbathkeeper Daniel Botkin mentions his difficulty with them in the Jul-Aug 2001 “Gates of Eden.”

In his early life, Botkin, like so many others, was a Sunday keeping Christian. However, from time to time, he came across the fourth commandment and a need to address it. In an article in this cited Gates (p. 15), he claims that he was open minded and eventually had some contact with the SDA people--viz:

“As a young believer I had studied the subject (of the Sabbath) as best I knew how. I had even talked to some SDAs (Seventh Day Adventists) about it, but they could not refute the objections I had read in some anti-Sabbath literature. Even though I was very willing to be persuaded, the Adventists did not know the Scriptures well enough to persuade me.”

Obviously, Botkin came to the same conclusions which the writer of this production determined long ago about the SDA people. Simply stated, they are extremely shallow on the Scriptures. This reality hurts them when they try to present truth. True, they have had enormous growth in numbers. But this growth cannot be traced to truth. Instead, it surely represents the strength of their overseeing spirit or spirits.

By the way, this mention of Daniel Botkin necessitates some remarks about him which will be very important in broaching the Laodicean entity in a later chapter. Botkin (a Pentecostal/Charismatic in theology) came out of the “Jesus People” movement of the 1960s. In time, he adopted the Sabbath and today seems to be linked in with the Messianic Jewish motion, which is heavily into Pentecostalism.

The Bottom Line

With the 1844 Adventist failure, the essence of the Millerite movement split into several different directions, as described above. Some Millerites soon became Seventh day Adventists while others came to form the eventual Advent Christian Church or one of the other Sunday keeping groups which didn’t last long. This set the stage for the next group--Sardis--which will be addressed in the following chapter.

Chapter 190--Sardis

Sardis

In the late 1840s, a former Millerite preacher named Joseph Marsh of Rochester, NY, came to learn about the importance of an organizational name (which he understood to be the “Church of God,” as promoted by John Winebrenner and a Reform Church of God group in Pennsylvania) and information on the coming millennium on earth (which came to be called Age to Come Adventism).

In time, Marsh came into contact with other persons who accepted the same views (like O. R. L. Crozier, Ephraim Miller, and J. M. Stephenson).

Most of these persons were former Millerites, although some new blood and thinking came into the group in the context of Benjamin Wilson (an immigrant from England and former member of the Disciples of Christ Church, who lived in Geneva, Illinois), and John Thomas (later founder of the Christadelphians).

The Disciples of Christ Church was a descendant of the work of Thomas and Alexander Campbell, just as was true with the Church of Christ and possibly the Christadelphians as well. It might be that both the Disciples of Christ and Church of Christ had some success in Britain as well as the US. Clearly, these two groups are close kin and are linked into the definition of the Campbellite motion.

Through the contact with John Thomas and Benjamin Wilson, the developing Age to Come Adventists had clear ties to the later Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ and Christadelphian denominations (as well as the Campbellite Christian Church denomination). By the 1850s, these Adventist people were beginning to form state conferences and have periodic meetings--often with nearby Advent Christian groups.

In the 1870s and later, the early Age to Come people had some periodic contact and linkage with Charles Taze Russell and the developing Jehovah’s Witnesses (as will be assessed in a later chapter herein on the Witnesses). Not only did Russell have ties to some of the Age to Come people, but the theology of the later Jehovah’s Witnesses was heavily influenced by Age to Come doctrines.

Adolph E. Knoch, leader of the Concordant Publishing Concern of Saugus, California, was another important linkage for the Age to Come Adventist people in still later years.

Actually, along with Knoch and the Concordant Concern, the Age to Come people over the years had some contact with a number of the leading spokesmen for the “salvation of all” belief which was one of the important doctrinal fall-outs of the old Millerite movement and one which was diligently promoted by Knoch.

In time, this Age to Come Adventist organization (Sunday keeping) centered in the Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio) and adopted the denominational name of the Church of God Abrahamic Faith. The early Abrahamic Faith people located their headquarters in Oregon, Illinois where it stayed until the late 1980s, when the group’s home office moved to the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Gilbert Cranmer

In the meantime, the Seventh day Adventists were also growing in the Midwest--especially in Michigan where they established their headquarters (at Battle Creek, before moving it in later years to the Washington, DC area). One of their ministers in Michigan was a man named Gilbert Cranmer, who became dissatisfied with the prophetess Ellen G. White and left the SDA Church.

In the period 1858-1860, Cranmer apparently came into contact with the Church of God name movement and Age to Come Adventism (largely founded by the just mentioned Joseph Marsh) and adopted its theology, with the addition of the Sabbath which he had gotten from the SDA people.

In any case, Cranmer combined the different theologies and laid the groundwork for the whole Sardis movement, starting with the mother Church of God (7th Day) and her many offshoots and fragments which have developed over the years--including much of the Sabbathkeeping Sacred Name element and many of the Pentecostal and/or Charismatic groups (which will be assessed in the following chapters).

Sardis is clearly represented by Yohanan (Rev 3:1-6) and in Shaul’s two letters to the Corinthians. This study has presented some of the Sardis beliefs in some detail from time to time and will outline more in subsequent chapters. The Sardis focus has centered upon the assembly entity in the context of group name and organization and Age to Come Adventism.

While Shaul’s two letters to the Corinthians communicate much about the Sardis people and the Sardis theology, two points from I Corinthians seem especially pertinent. First, this effort has been notorious for splitting and fragmenting (as has been true with the Baptists, who split and divide for almost any reason).

And second, Sardis has similarly been notorious for allowing the Pentecostal and Charismatic advocates into its fellowship (as just noted above). Both of these theological options have hurt Sardis, as will be further covered in comments to follow.