For Jews Only, Part 40: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part G)

Nothing’s changed… besides it’s better than what the Gentiles are going to receive for doing it wrong, if that’s any consolation.  It’s the only role on earth that guarantees salvation.  Whereas, you Gentile Christians had better make sure your act is the right one, for the same guy that you claim to follow, said:  The Jews that fall over me shall be broken, but the Gentiles whom I shall fall upon shall be pulverized into dust.

What is dust, is dead; but what is broken can be healed.  Christian Jews have a very special gift from God to help the Gentiles believe the truth about Jesus, but don’t expect to be thanked for doing it.  Rather than worry about people hating you for doing God’s work, prepare yourselves for the slaughter.

Now, if Jews are sent to help the deceived Gentiles believe the truth about Jesus (the gospel), then there must be lies about Jesus; and if all the people who claim to believe in Jesus, and God, and the Bible, cannot find a lie about Jesus, it’s because they are the liars!  For salvation is of the Jews! Otherwise, Jesus was the liar!  And you Gentiles are following Him in vain!

If the Messianic Jews hide their talent your Father in heaven gave you, which is the ability to teach the truth about God and Jesus, you will be treated just like the Gentiles when Jesus comes, because you were sent to save them.  This is why the prophet Ezekiel said, If you see a man erring and you do not correct him, and he dies in his sin, you are guilty of his blood; but if you tell him to correct his error, and he dies in his sin, you are blood guiltless (not guilty).

Therefore, your own Jewish families, who think you are nuts, will be much better off than you on Judgment Day.  Each of you Jews has to learn respect for the other, which is love.

The Jew called to work for the Messiah in Christianity is not wrong, but is misguided until they give up the Roman lie that Jesus is God and the Scriptures will heal them.  The non-Christian Jews are called by the same God to reject the false Messiah of the Gentiles that is now presented to the world, even though they are using Jesus’ real name.

The Jews will be saved by their faith in keeping the commandments in their Bible; while the Messianic Jews will only be saved if they keep the commandments in the whole Bible and accept the truth about God the Father and Jesus the Son.  Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians must prove their faith by keeping God’s commandments.  Therefore both sides of the Jewish question will be saved by faith.  For the just live by faith.

The time has come for each of you to learn you are two parts to the same plan of God, which is why the book of Revelation Chapter 11 speaks about two olive trees.  An olive tree in the scriptures represents Israel or the Jews, and the Bible is telling us there are two parts of Israel.  One Jew is called to represent the Messiah Jesus for the Gentiles and the truth about Jesus and God, who are actually our long lost brothers known as the ten lost tribes of Israel.

The Church of Jesus is for Jews only!  Jesus threw the doors of Judaism open to all Men, because the Jews had made their religion a private club.  When God had intended them to proselytize the whole human race.  Jesus commanded the Apostles to search for the lost sheep of Israel.

Yes, the lost ten tribes of Israel, who were scattered amongst all the nations over three thousand years ago, were recalled back to Israel.  God called them out of the East, the West, the North, and the South, long before the Diaspora when Rome scattered the Jews of Jesus’ time around the Roman empire.

The Jews of today are from the three unlost tribes of Israel.  The ten lost tribes were Israelites, Jews if you will.  They are they who know His voice and follow Him.  The regathered lost tribes do not know they are the lost Israelites.

Thousands of years have separated them from the knowledge of their forefathers and from their God of Israel.  Yet, God had a plan for them prophesied in the Old Testament.  God did not forget them.  He just punished them for worshipping idols; but He promised to deliver them from the hands of Pagans who mistreat them.  He promised to gather them out of the east and the west, and from the north and south, into a new land.

This is a mystery I show you… the church!  It is the gathering of the children of God back to Israel into a new land called America.  Therefore the Jews called to work for Jesus are supposed to be gathering the lost Israelites back unto the Father.  The problem is the converted Messianic Jews don’t know it.  You are the kings and priests promised to reign with the Lord; but the Gentiles have robbed us of our heritage; and have made us believe we Jews must join them.

No! No! No!  Christianity is a Jewish religion and God was merciful enough to allow Gentile heathens to join us.  For salvation is of the Jews! Not the Gentiles!  Wake-up Jews!  The Thieves, who have taken God’s kingdom by force, have set the Jewish people against each other.  Don’t fall victim to the Gentiles.  Unite in love and judge not your brother.  For if you love your brother, you know God; but if you hate your brother whom you can see, how can you say you love God, whom you cannot see?  Liar!  You walk in the darkness even now, but you Jews are not the children of darkness, but the children of the light.

To be continued…

For Jews Only, Part 38: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part E)

What is a Jew?  The oldest document known to Man, written on that subject, is still with us today.  It is called the Old Testament of the Bible!  It explains the only criteria for being a Jew.

The Bible states, a Jew is a human being that believes in the One God, the same God that Abraham believed; and that person, if he is a male of the species, will have to have the foreskin of his penis circumcised on the eighth day after he is born.

Whether he is a foreigner or born of Jewish parents makes no difference in the covenant God made with Abraham.  He must use judgment and justice as a life style and teach his family likewise.  The last part of the criteria is to teach his family judgment and justice.  Let me put them into a list for easy reference:

1.  Believe in one God who created all things.
2.  All male children must be circumcised on the eighth day after birth.
3.  Husbands must teach their family judgment and justice.
4.  Foreigners must be allowed to join the nation.

Let me clear up two important points here:

One:  The Bible goes on to state that anyone born into the nation of Jews, or a stranger joining the nation of Jews, who does not keep the rules, is automatically rejected by God from being a member of the nation and God will kill that person.

Two:  Today’s nation of Israel has laws on their books concerning, Who is a Jew!

The law of Israel totally bypasses the laws outlined in the Jewish Bible and circumnavigates the rules of God.  The nation of Israel will only accept a person as a Jew, if his or her mother was born a Jew.  Therefore, a Gentile mother married to a Jewish father does not spawn a Jewish offspring.  Only two Jews or a Jewish mother and a Gentile father can give birth to a Jewish child.

This is not only absurd, but also contrary to the rules of the Bible.  Their reasoning is, a child adheres to the teachings of its mother and not its father.  Therefore, a Jewish mother will instill Jewish belief into the child.  Whereas a Gentile mother will instill non-Jewish beliefs into her child, which makes the child a Gentile.

The Bible is clear on this point.  It states both parents can be foreigners and become Jewish.  Therefore, their offspring will be Jewish.  So, the Jewishness of a child is solely dependent upon the decision of the parents to become Jews and live as Jews, and the child’s decision when it reaches adulthood to continue believing in the one God of creation.  In this light, even a Jewish mother, born of two Jewish parents, could have decided to reject her Jewishness and live as a Gentile; which would render her children Gentile and not Jews.

The fact is, the covenant was given to Abraham and not Sarah; and it was Abraham’s virtues the Lord cited, which rewarded Abraham’s children by allowing them to be God’s children; and not because of Isaac’s mother, or her being Jewish; because Sarah was also a Gentile like Abraham!

To be continued…

For Jews Only, Part 37: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part D)

It is this common belief in One God who created everything that has bound the varying races together into a perfectly woven nation called Israel.  It was the only nation on earth where strangers (foreigners) could become full fledged family members without ever being ostracized or reminded that they weren’t really blood brothers.  For no one was a blood brother!  That was the point!  Their blood tie was their common ancestry in Adam and Eve, and not the nation of their fathers.

Only one other nation on earth has taken the identical view toward his fellow man.  No matter what nation a person is born into, the United States of America adopted them, and they became full fledged citizens with all the rights of a home born son!

It is interesting to note the United States was founded during the days of the Spanish Inquisition of Rome.  The witch-hunts were conducted by the same people who protested a century before against the lies being taught by the Roman Church in Europe.  America began with the very same principles as Israel.

While other nations will let you come and join them, you will always be a foreigner amongst their ranks; and when the economy begins to slip, they will always blame you for it.  Although the United States was founded upon the same God of Israel, and the same principles of Israel, and the same Bible as Israel, it is beginning to show the earmarks similar to other heathen nations.

When this type of thinking emerges, let the Jews beware!  Most Jews who read this will be thinking, Not in America; I’m American!  Well the German Jews of the 1930’s had the same flaw in their reasoning.  It was their land.  They were German citizens.  Their families had lived in Germany for centuries.  They had just as much right to be there as anyone else.  I’ve heard every type of argument; but that didn’t stop Hitler’s ovens from consuming them.

Remember Abraham?  He had the sense to listen to God.  He believed what God told him.  He had the brains to get out of Babylon when the message came, before it was too late.  Even Jesus warned the Jews to get out of town when you see hatred on the rise (see Matthew Chapter 24).

Today’s Israel is seeded with Jews who couldn’t believe what I am telling you, until the citizens in their own countries turned against them.  This is similar to the days of Emperor Nero when he burned Rome to blame the Jews.

The Jews couldn’t understand it.  Their families had lived in those nations for centuries.  Yet, the Jews are always considered foreigners when trouble begins.  Scapegoats, because their belief in God differs from the other citizens of the land.

It is this difference that forged the new branch of the human tree known as the Jews; and it is this difference that continually causes the other branches of the human race, amongst whom Jews live, to vomit them out!

The first signal is poverty on the rise and a collapsing economy.  The last sign is the winds of war blowing on the horizon; when people begin to discuss the possibility of war.  This process is similar to the first heart transplants.  The operations were successful.  Everything functioned perfectly; but the body rejected the foreign part, and the patient died!

To be continued…

For Jews Only, Part 36: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part C)

Gentile Christians who hate the sin of their own kind, when they see the Jews persecuted and murdered, should use this acid test to know they are the ancestors of the ten lost tribes of Israel.

The apostle Paul referred to this mystery when he said,

“I say then, Have they (the Jews) stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their (the Jews) fall, salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them (the Gentiles) to jealousy. Now if the fall of them (the Jews) be the riches of the (Gentile) world, and the diminishing of them (the Jews) be the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their (the Jews) fullness?” (Romans 11:11-12)

The apostle Paul is saying that the Jews were made to fall (hence the scapegoat) so the Gentiles would be jealous of the Jews.  A jealous person steals what someone else owns.  This is God’s trick on the Gentile to get them to embrace the Jewish Messiah Jesus.  In doing so, Gentiles would be forced by Rome to hear the Jewish Word of God; through which God could perform His miracle of salvation.

Therefore, if the Jewish Messiah Jesus made the Gentile rich in God’s grace, how much more will God make the Jews rich in God’s grace for having used them to be scapegoats?  This is the true salvation plan. For which privilege Israel will see their God and enjoy eternal life forever!

Woe unto you liars! For you have gone the way of Balaam and Balak, who taught the children of Israel a lie for profit… .

Why did people from every other race under the Sun, leave their original nations and band together into what is known as Israel?  The common denominator that caused the formation of Israel was a belief, rather than being flesh and blood ancestors.  It seems that every nation spawned its share of family members that didn’t agree with their family’s idea of worshipping idols.  It was this central idea that caused the formation of the people called Jews.

Although Abraham did have a son named Isaac, he wasn’t born until many foreign people were already a part of Abraham’s tribe known as the Hebrews.  While every other race had its gods and idols, some of their children grew up resisting this belief.

Some people from many nations believed there could only be one God who created all things.  These are the people God took out of every nation and from every race on earth to become Israel.  They wandered away from their blood relatives eventually finding their way to a herd of people known as the Hebrews.  They found a tribe that believed in one God.  Joining the clan of Israel, which later became known as the Jews.

Even the oldest founding father of the nation of Israel, Abraham, came from a Gentile race known as the Babylonians.  They worshipped idols.  He left home to look for another land because of his resistance toward the gods of his own natural father.  His journey brought him to many lands and peoples.  He finally realized he was alone.  He searched for and couldn’t find a tribe of people who believed as he believed.  So, Abraham became the father of the tribe he sought.

A tribe that would accept anyone into it, who believed in One God.  A nation of people whose only common denominator was their belief in the One God of creation.  Thus, the Hebrew nation was born. Later they would become known as the Israelites. Today they are known as the Jews.

To be continued…

For Jews Only, Part 35: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part B)

Two hundred years ago, God began another new nation of people based upon the same principle as Israel.  The United States of America came into existence by attracting people from all over the world.  Every nation under the Sun has contributed to the children born as Americans.  They too do not have one outward identifying appearance.  Yet, they are all Americans.  Different in size, color, and bone structure; but they have given up their original single mindedness concerning a nation built upon One God.  The God of Israel!

This is their mistake.  The singular principle defining Israel is and was their single mindedness toward their One God.  While America has sold their souls by tolerating foreign gods, just like King Solomon did to acquire wealth: and as King Solomon wound up depressed and broken by allowing foreign gods to be worshipped, so are Americans depressed, who will soon be broken if all Americans don’t return to the God of Israel.

If you have ever visited the land of Israel, you might have noticed the thousands of variations of Jews that live together.  Variations of people who traverse from black skin to very white skin, and all the shades in between.  Variations of people who swing from gray eyes to blues eyes, and from brown eyes to black eyes, and all the varying shades in between.

While the Watussi Negro in Africa are all seven feet tall, and Pigmy Negro were all three feet tall, Adult Jews scale from three feet tall to eight feet tall.  This proves there isn’t one definitive marking for all Jews.  The variations of people also run from Far Eastern Asian Oriental appearances to the Hindu people of India.  There are Negro people from many African nations.  European people from all the nations of Europe.  Arabic people from all over the Middle East, Northern people from Scandinavia and Russia.  The list of different races called Jews is as endless as the stars of heaven.  The conclusion is that the Jewish people are not a branch of the original tree, but a human stew forged by God and grafted into the tree.

A colony of people who herded together; who came from every other branch of the human race to form a new tree that would offer life to the other dying branches of the tree.  Hence, God was grafting the Gentiles into the nation of Israel, until the Romans reversed it.  God in His infinite wisdom, and knowing the future, gathered people from every race on earth to create a new race of people who loved God.

Then God purified the new branch through Jesus, and would cause an evil nation to scatter those people amongst the various branches of the human race for three reasons:

1. To establish God’s judgment and justice in the world.
2. To keep Rome from being able to root the Jews out and genocide  them.
3. To give the Jews the ultimate privilege of following in their Messiah’s footsteps who was the Passover Lamb, to be the scapegoats who would be blamed and killed for the sins of the world.

The Jews would become the blood offerings, like the Messiah Jesus who was the firstborn of many who would be guiltless, yet persecuted and killed.  For which reason Moses the High Priest killed a lamb on the altar (signifying the death of the Messiah), and was instructed by the Lord to take another lamb from the goats (signifying the death of Jewish people).

The priest was instructed to take the goat to the edge of the forest, place his hands upon the goat’s head, and let the goat escape into the wilderness, while he said: may the sins of the world be upon you. Then the goat would be hunted and killed by the leopard with wings like an eagle, for the sins of the world.

For salvation is of the Jews! It is the will of God that Jews be sacrificed, like Jesus, for the salvation of the Gentiles.

To be continued…

For Jews Only, Part 34: Why are the Jews referred to as the chosen people? (Part A)

This question poses two problems.

1. What is a Jew?
2. Where did the Jews come from?

The second question is the easier one to answer.

Since all human beings came from one pair of human beings, namely Adam and Eve, then all the various races on earth are simply branches of that tree.  This fact is no longer theory.  Since the inception of Genetics, scientists have proven the human race stems from a single pair of people.

If all races on earth are the branches of one tree, then Jews must be one of those many branches.  This would be true if the Jewish people stemmed from a single source sometime after Adam and Eve; but they don’t.

The nation that Jews come from is named Israel.  It was unique 4,000 years ago.  It was different than any other nation, or race, on earth.  The difference was within the people of the nation of Israel.  The people were not born from one pair of human beings, which would be the essence of a tribe or nation; but vary widely.

The beginning of Israel was spawned from many of the races of earth.  Each individual race has an outward appearance that can be traced back to an origin, which identifies the race as being the same nation or family of people.  It is similar to tigers and lions.  While both animals are huge cats, they differ in their coloring, size, and shape.  We don’t have to search to see this principle work.

If you go to China, you will find a similar appearance amongst all the people.  Therefore, Chinese people are easily identified by their physical appearance; which appearance separates them from Australian Aborigines, European Whites, or the African Negro.  It is the outward physical appearance of a race that serves to identify it and make it a separate branch of human beings.  Yet, the Chinese, or European, or African, although quite different in outward appearance, are simply different branches, or families, that stemmed from the same two parents known as Adam and Eve!

The first pair of human beings on earth, Adam and Eve, is the root system of the entire human family tree that exists today.  While the Jewish people do not have the same distinguishing mark, or a particular outward facial appearance, neither do they have a similar body structure.  The reason the Jewish people do not have a particular appearance is: the nation of Israel began with defectors who left their original tribes and nations because they rejected the false religious tenets of their nations.  Hence, Israel was populated by people from many nations and became a unique branch of the human tree.

This does not mean that Jews are aliens from outer space.  They did not come to earth from another planet.  It simply means that all Jewish people are descendants of Adam and Eve like every other races of human beings on this planet, but they are not descendants of each other, as in other races.

It would be like a family that was childless.  Although there are ten children in the family, they were not born by the mother and father of their family, since they were adopted.  The Jews are a conglomeration of other races that have joined themselves together to become one nation.

The common denominator in the nation of Israel was, and is, their belief in One God.  The God of Creation!  Therefore, Israel is not a branch of the original tree, but a mixture of all the branches of the original tree, because Israel has pieces taken from all the various branches.

This is what makes the Jewish Nation unique.  They were not born into their nation like the other races, but were grafted together by God to produce a unique independent tree that would give birth to a unique people God could use to teach the other branches about Him.

Somewhere in the history of every Jewish family, the original father of that family came from one of the many Gentile branches of the human tree; and that particular father decided to become a Jew.  So while his children, and their children, are born into the nation, just like in other nations, the various families of Israel do not carry one outward identifying appearance or mark, which distinguishes them as all other races were distinguished on the planet earth until recently.

To be continued…

God Knows Everything

The World God Created

The Creation is not a work in progress. It is an automatic system.

Churches teach that God interacts with the human race and world events on a daily basis, but this is wrong. It does not work that way.

The way the Bible is written seems to be telling us that God interacts with the human race on a daily basis, or from time-to-time; but thinking this is an error since God knows everything.

God finished His creation a long time ago and rested from all His works. Rested means there isn’t anything else for Him to do.

When God was creating, He built in a series of checks and balances as automatic rules or laws, such as: gravity and flight; life and death; male and female; summer and winter; good and evil. Since God knows everything, there are no surprises for Him.

We have surprises heaped upon us, but God is not surprised about anything because He is the One who has orchestrated everything concerning His creation.

God is the only One who knows the future. When God moved the ancient Prophets to write the Bible for Him, He used few words to describe Mankind’s history: past, present and future.

Notice how Jesus says so much with a few words, and when we try to explain what He said, we use volumes to express His statements. God’s vast knowledge of the future is also expressed by using as few words as possible to explain events that may take thousands of years to unfold.

Since eternity is endless, “a thousand years is as one day to the Lord”; and events that occur many times over thousands of years may be spoken about as one single event in time.

The grouping of separate events is the reason the Bible seems to be saying God is interacting with the human race on a daily basis. The key point is: God rested from all His works.

God is not personally interacting with us. Don’t panic! God has not left us to our own devices. He has not abandoned us to a random happening system, which many scientists aspire to believe.

God has prepared all things for us since the beginning, including His beloved Son Jesus, who does interact with each individual on a moment-to-moment basis.

We have not been forsaken or left alone. There is no reason for God to interact with His creation, since His automatic system takes care of us exactly the way God would do it for us, if He were still actively working with us–but He rested!

The Bible relates information, which seems to be saying: God is actively working with us. In a sense, God is interacting with us, but it is indirectly through Jesus, who is your Conscience.

The Greatest Sin

God is not a micro-manager. The greatest sin of present day Christian churches is their teachings that God is a micro-manager of the world. They teach people their God interferes routinely in the daily affairs of human beings, which is not true.

This is why the rulebook, which is the Bible, exists. God gave it to Mankind. It is our job to do what it tells us to do, and not expect God to do it for us.

Since a person can only worship God in spirit and truth, let’s deal with some truth. If God were micro-managing the world, He’s doing a lousy job because we’re losing ground.

On the seventh day God rested from all His works. What part of “…all His works” don’t Christian teachers understand? According to them, God is still working hard to make the world operate and save His children. Wrong! God rested on the seventh day, or the Bible is a liar!!

A question concerning God, war, and catastrophe, asked by people from generation-to-generation, who claim to believe in God, is ‘Why is God allowing this to happen?’ The answer is simple: war and catastrophe are the automatic results of people not believing God.

This is the reason God’s children don’t survive. God’s children are murdered and harmed from generation-to-generation by people who claim to believe in God.

Since their claim is a lie, and their acts prove them liars, and the murder of God’s children is an act demanding retribution, God’s wrath is unleashed upon people and nations, which wrath comes in the form of accidents, droughts, famines, plagues, catastrophes and wars.

“Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.”

God created everything and saw it was good. Then He rested, because there wasn’t anything else to do. What else could God do, if He did everything? The Biblical record shows people dealing with God on an everyday level. Wrong again!!

The ancient people in the Bible were not dealing with God. They were dealing with the Lord God, who was the second in command.

The Bible says no one has ever seen God or heard His voice at any time. Therefore, the ancient Biblical people were not seeing or speaking to God. They were seeing and speaking to an Ambassador whom God sent to the Human Race.

God’s automatic system is interacting with us, so we can say God is doing it for us, or God performed a miracle for us. Even though God is indirectly doing things for the human race through His automatic system, He gets the credit because God is the Creator.

Since God knows all things, He designed a perfect automatic system that already knows how to handle any and all the problems that will ever occur. His automatic system interacts with Mankind, to protect, to provide, to change, to cause, and to punish, the human race on a daily basis.

God Visits His Creation

The Bible tells us that God visits His creation–that’s us! Now, if God must visit us from time to time, and He cannot be seen by any human being, then God cannot turn Himself into a human being to visit us.

Since life depends on God being inside every living human being, and death occurs when God vacates a living human being’s body, then God cannot vacate human beings to visit us without the whole human race dying. Therefore, God doesn’t visit the earth, nor does He visit human beings, because He is already here living inside every one alive.

The visits spoken of by the Bible are explaining that God uses specific human beings, who are His Ambassadors, to visit us. The Ambassadors are the ones who visit us, and not God who is already in them and us.

Since these Ambassadors have a perfect relationship with God, these Ambassadors are used by God to communicate indirectly to us, through them. These type experiences are simply referred to in the Bible as ‘God visits us’.

If God is not managing the world on a daily basis, then we are its managers. This was the original objective designed for the Human Race. This is why God turned His earth over to Adam to manage and care for it.

The first human being was told to tend the Garden and he had control over it. Adam was also given the power to name all the animals, and we’re still naming the new ones we discover.

The most important fact is, God knows everything. He knows the beginning from the end. He views all time like a cinema film. This is how He could write down the future in a book–the Bible. Only God knows the future. Therefore, only God knows the Bible.

The Rapture: fact or fiction?

This question was sent to Elijah at The Underground Bible.

“I researched the word ‘raptos’ of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. I came up with raptos is Latin, the original Greek word for this ‘harpazo’ (anglicized) means either to ’snatch, catch up or pluck’ or to ’save or rescue’. Even though I have problems with preachers who turn one word into a whole theology, especially one with multiple interpretations, in this research I can only say that Paul is saying snatched. BUT, is Paul a prophet i.e. should every word that he writes be taken as a future prophecy? Or as a missionary and disciple whose letters to exhort converts get zealous?”  -William

Dear William,

The first problem is any person doing private research, who is not familiar with the actual language or languages they are researching, results in a non-solution situation. Since, all languages are not translatable without a full understanding of the language. Words cannot be transferred independently, because all words used in a language are dependent upon the text surrounding the word and the use of the word decided upon by the society at the time of its recorded usage.

For example: if the word ‘gay’ in the English language were to be translated from a text today, it would come up as either ‘homosexual’ or ‘happy’ depending upon the text. Yet, if the text were written during Shakespearean times, it could carry a different meaning. Therefore, the time period in which the text was written has a very profound influence upon the words used in any ancient text.

Although translators have been wrestling with the ancient Biblical texts for thousands of years, even the Apostle Paul admits in the book of Hebrews that he is unaware of the actual meaning concerning an Old Testament text written about 1,000 years prior to his birth.

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

-Hebrews 9:1-5

Adding to the dilemma is the fact that colloquialisms, slang, and idioms used during the writer’s time period also add to the problem facing a translator who is thoroughly familiar with a language hundreds or even thousands of years later.

An additional problem is the Hebrew language, which is part of the Aramaic language used in the New Testament, was lost for nearly 2,000 years before it was re-invented by today’s Israeli Jews; plus the same problem facing the use of the Greek language, which is the other part of the Aramaic language of the New Testament. Just take a look at the changes that have occurred in the English language over the past 500 years, from Shakespeare’s time to the re-invention of American English.

Therefore, all this to say: It is an impossible task for a person uneducated in foreign languages to research dead languages. Trying to unravel the use of words in foreign texts is best left to experts who have dedicated their lives to such things. It is even extremely difficult for people who actually live in foreign countries where the specific language or languages are in use as everyday language, because of the changes caused by society as it evolves over time. A person born in a country learns to sense the use of phraseology from birth; which is why they call it the person’s Mother Tongue. Since no one is alive on earth that actually experienced the Biblical languages as a Mother Tongue, it is safe to say unraveling lost languages is not a science.

In your e-mail, you refer to researching the Latin word Raptos. This causes an even greater problem for the translator of Biblical Text, because Latin is referred to as a dead language. This means the language stopped being used by the public thousands of years ago, except for a handful of people known as priests in the Roman Catholic Church: whose dependability and truthfulness has come into question thousands of times during the past 2,000 years. Not to mention that the Romans are the ones who destroyed original scriptures, letters and documents, during the Roman Crusader Wars (10th to 14th centuries AD), or perhaps they have kept the written documents secret.

The documents seized by the Roman Crusaders were produced by the early Church of Jesus and the Apostles. The result of these document seizures was the Roman Church’s Latin Vulgate Bible. Rome had specifically chosen writings of the early church translated into Latin to hide the writings of the Apostles from the public. The Roman authorities then passed a law forbidding anyone, except Roman clergy, to read the Latin Bible, under penalty of death.

The next point concerning the translation of foreign languages like Greek and Hebrew or Aramaic is the many meanings attached to words. You admit this fact in your letter. The Greek word ‘harpazo’, which can be traced to the Latin word ‘raptos’, has at least four meanings that may or may not be similar in meaning; and must be translated according to the immediate surrounding text and the text recorded elsewhere in the Bible concerning the same topic.

I found it interesting that you decided to choose the meaning of the word in question to be ‘snatched’, which shows me that you might be prejudiced against other meanings and have chosen one that suits your beliefs or an idea you have pre-determined to be true. In any research, one must keep an open mind or the research will not render truth.

For example: When a person prays for a new Cadillac automobile, they have already precluded God must give them their desire. Otherwise, they would be praying in God’s will, which is only recorded in the Bible. Since, we are supposed to be following Christ, and Biblical records only show Jesus walking everywhere, except for one incident of riding on a donkey to fulfill a prophecy, I conclude praying for a specific expensive car is not exactly in the will of God.

If a person has any precluded ideas that originated with the Roman Catholic Church about 1,000 years ago to deceive the world, then that information will deter any truth hoped for by research. The Rapture is an idea that did not begin with Darby in England. He merely re-introduced an old Roman idea. Deception can only be overturned  by having an open mind.

Since, the scripture you quoted in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 is not the only place in the Bible that speaks on the subject known as the Rapture, and there are many passages that teach the opposite is true, then my advice is to research the Bible for information on the subject and not just words in foreign languages.

My choice of translating the word ‘harpazo’ is totally opposite the Roman’s choice of ‘raptos’, which is where the word ‘rapture’ originated. My choice of translating the word ‘harpazo’ is the same as the original translators who worked for King James of England centuries ago. My choice is ‘to catch up’, which is the infinitive form of the verb ‘caught up’. A verb that carries a simple meaning: complicated by deceitful or ignorant preachers. It means, you go first and I’ll catch up with you later.

When you apply this meaning to the text surrounding 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which text must also be kept within the boundaries of all the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, then you get a very different picture than that presented by modern Rapture promoters.

The ideas presented in 1 Thessalonians must include the essence of Christianity, which is the resurrection of the dead. This essence can only be interpreted as meaning a person must physically die to experience the phenomenon of being resurrected from the dead. One must also physically die to follow Jesus, who by-the-way also died physically. Jesus also taught us, if it happens to us, it happened to him first. If anyone deserved to be Raptured, it would have been Jesus.

When the pretentious ideas perpetrated by a false Roman theology are stripped away by the application of all the writings Rome made the mistake of publicizing, then the truth floats to the top like oil on water. Rome’s only mistake was allowing anything from an original text to make it into the light.

Rome was deluded by believing they could keep the Bible’s truths a secret, by choosing the most difficult captured documents, and then isolating them from the public by translating them into Latin. Their delusion resulted in the birth of the Protestant Reformation.

The Reformation began an era of protesters opposing the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome believed their endeavors would give them the ability to easily spin their web of deceit around the world, so they could re-introduce buying and selling. Their plan wasn’t easy, but has been mostly successful to date.

Rome’s web has encircled the globe using the name Christianity, but salvation is of the Jews. So, the Roman Catholic Jews left over from the days of the Pharisees, from the Roman Pope down to the Monsignors, should have read the book of Revelation more carefully and paid heed to what Jesus said to the churches while exposing the Romans for what they are:

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.  -Revelation 2:9

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.  -Revelation 3:9

The text in Thessalonians plainly tells us that the people who remain alive on earth, shall catch up with their brethren who have fallen asleep (physically died) who are (spirits), with the Lord in the air. The word ‘clouds’ is a metaphor used to describe God’s children who have been given clean white robes signifying their sins have been forgiven (see Zechariah 3:1-5).

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Do not separate verse 17 above from the context of the verses below, where I have underlined the key phrases:

1 Thessalonians 4:13  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:14  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so (will) them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

1 Thessalonians 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep (from coming with the Lord).

1 Thessalonians 4:17  Then we who are alive and remain (for the coming of the Lord) shall catch up together with them (who have physically died and are coming with the Lord) in the clouds (of dead people) (10,000 times 10,000 who have physically died), to meet the Lord in the air: and then we shall be with the Lord forever.

Here is a simple technique I have taught many people, to gain understanding. Take out extra parts of the sentences to get to the subject matter.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-15 + 17

I do not want you to be ignorant concerning them who have died. Because, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so (will) they which also died (rise again). This we say, that we who are alive and remain (alive) shall not prevent them which are dead (from being resurrected from the dead and being with the Lord).

Then we who are alive and remain (alive for the coming of the Lord) shall catch up with them (by physically dying) and then we shall be with the Lord forever.

I do hope this helps you unravel the meaning of ‘raptos’.

-Elijah

Witchcraft, Astrology and Homosexuality

This question was sent to Elijah at The Underground Bible.

“Hi, I’d like to know what are the truths about man doing Witchcraft and man being Homosexual? What about Astrology predictions and palm reading too? Please help me. I’m 20 years old and very confused with this world. Thanks.” -Style

Dear Style,

Thank you for your questions.

The Bible teaches: Rebellion is the sin of Witchcraft. This means a person using, dabbling, or playing with, witchcraft is doing so because they are rebelling against God.

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” -1 Samuel chapter 15, verse 23

“And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.” -2 Chronicles chapter 33, verse 6

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the desire of the flesh. Now the desires of the flesh are revealed, which are these: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies…” -Galations chapter 5, verses 16, 19 & 20

Man being Homosexual? is explained in the Bible as being a punishment from God for a person rejecting Him.

“The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known about God is revealed in them; because God hath showed it unto them:

Because the invisible things about God are clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are created, even God’s eternal power and (the nature of God (Godhead); so that they are without excuse:

Because, when they knew God, they did not glorify God as God, neither were they thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish brain was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the desires of their own brains, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Who changed the truth about God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use (of their bodies) into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that reward of their error which was justified.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God turned them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient for Mankind…” -Romans chapter 1, verses 18 through 28

What about Astrology predictions and palm reading?

“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times (Astrology predictions), or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits (palm reading), or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.” -Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 10 through 12

I hope this helps you.
-Elijah

Can you recommend a Bible?

This question was sent to Elijah at The Underground Bible.

“Can you recommend a Bible that I can study from? Is the Old King James better than the New King James? Is there another version that is easier to read? Thank you for your help. I’m just trying to find the truth.” -Clayton

Dear Clayton,

Thank you for your question.

The original King James Bible is the best translation in existence, but understanding it easily demands demands a person’s understanding of Shakespearian English be good. Yet, it is not that difficult to get used to reading.

The New King James version is okay, but the author did not understand the Old King James sufficiently to warrant the changes made to it. The original Old King James version, unknown to most Biblical scholars, Pastors, and dedicated Bible Students, contains keys to mysteries hidden for thousands of years. This is the reason I wrote “The Underground Bible”. Unless people and the entire Christian Movement (known as the Church) allow the Bible to dictate its’ truths (instead of preachers), who have camouflaged the truth over the past thousand years of deception, the Bible’s information will be lost.

You may also read a paraphrased version of the Bible. Although, the paraphrased Bibles do not contain the necessary information to unlock the Bible’s secrets, they give you an easier readable Bible that will help you understand the old King James version.

The point is, God wants to see a person struggle with His Word like a wrestling match, before He will give that person the enlightenment inside his or her brain, which will enable the person to understand hidden truths and unlock the mysteries. Everyone does not have to unlock the mysteries. Only those people whom God has chosen, to whom He also gives the drive to hunt and search the scriptures, until they achieve the goal He put before them, must unlock the mysteries to enable them to continue teaching the truth about His Word on earth.

Other people need only achieve believing the Bible was written and preserved by God the Father, which is believing Jesus is the Christ, and applying the faith the Bible presents to them before they physically die, which is to tell others about their belief, to be saved.

I pray God the Father and Jesus His Son that this message helps you in your quest for truth.

-Elijah