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Once there was a man named Abram. His name was changed to Abraham. He came from Ur, a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. He had a son named Isaac. Isaac had two sons; Esau and Jacob. Esau being first born was supposed to receive the inheritance but, he was a wild man and got in with the wrong women; Canaanite women. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of pottage and Jacob with the help of his mother Rebecca received the blessing of his father Isaac. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel. Jacob/Israel became the patriarch of the Children of Israel. Esau became patriarch of the Edomites.

Israel was a man. As the patriarch Israel had 12 sons through two sisters Leah and Rachel and their handmaids Zilhah and Bilhah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Asher, Gad, Issachar, Naphtali, Zebulon, Joseph and Benjamin. These twelve sons were the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel. These were the Israelites; the Children of Israel were the sons of Jacob/Israel that wound up in Egypt with all their descendants for 430 years. These children of Israel were led out of Egypt by Moses. At Sinai they received the Law and were given the chance to become a Holy Nation among the nations of all mankind. When the Children of Israel went up into the land of Canaan they were told to slaughter the Canaanites and take their land. Ever disobedient the Israelites did not kill all the Canaanites but fell in with them in their wicked ways; the Israelites inter-married with them and whored after their gods.

Yet, the Israelites established themselves in the land of Canaan under King Solomon which had overseen the building of the first Temple. All the 12 tribes of Israel were united under Solomon. Yet, Solomon got into magic and women and fell out of God’s favour. He died and his son took the throne.

Then there was a revolution. 10 of the tribes formed their own Kingdom of Israel. Subsequently, Judah and Benjamin formed their own Kingdom of Judah. Immediately the Kingdom of Israel became wicked and descended into Golden Calf worship, paganism, Baal worship, child sacrifice and more. The Kingdom of Israel were captured by Assyria 750BC; carried out of the land of Canaan never to return; dumped in the Medes what is today northwest Iraq.

The Kingdom of Judah maintained the Law and sacrificial atonement practices given to Moses, worshipping in the Temple built by Solomon at Jerusalem during the time the Kingdom of Israel descended into idolatry. Yet, about 140 years after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel the Kingdom of Judah finally succumbed to idolatry; paganism, child sacrifice and more. The Kingdom of Judah were captured out of their land and taken to Babylon.

From the time of Moses, the Israelite people having been 430 years in Egypt had a peculiar language evolved from what Abraham had spoken of Ur. Today, this language is known as ‘Paleo Hebrew’. The Kingdom of Israel took that language with them when they were captured to Assyria and from there it morphed into other languages.

The Kingdom of Judah took ‘Paleo Hebrew’ to Babylon but began to use the Aramaic language during their 70 year captivity. [Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and has been continuously spoken and written for over 3,000 years. It served as the primary lingua franca of the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Persian Empires and remains a liturgical language in Judaism, Christianity, and Mandaeism.]

The Kingdom of Judah were not in captivity in Babylon because God had given them an all-expenses paid 70 year 1st class vacation. No. They were in Babylon because they had gone wrong; wickedly wrong. During their time of captivity a certain wicked ‘Tradition of the Elders’ began. This was a verbal tradition of Rabbis and Priests discussing and determining the various ways in which The Law could be interpreted. Eventually these discussions would become known as the Babylonian Talmud.

When 50,000 odd Israelites returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple, which had been destroyed during the wars that resulted in their captivity to Babylon they brought two developments with them; Aramaic language, and the ‘Tradition of the Elders’.

This was about 530BC. About 325BC Alexander the Great conquered the region. Greek became the lingua franca of the broader region as a result. The ‘Paleo-Hebrew’ of the Kingdom of Israel under Solomon was effectively all but lost save where it became oral knowledge only as Aramaic and Greek had taken over.

Around 285BC, Israelites practising their Mosaic Law faith living in Alexandria were asked by King Ptolomy to translate their ‘Paleo-Hebrew’ scriptures into Greek. 70 Israelites from the various tribes completed this request and produced The Septuagint LXX. From the turn of the century the Septuagint LXX became the scriptures of the Second Temple, in Judea, in Jerusalem and throughout the wider region in synagogues wherever the practice of Judaism existed. The Septuagint LXX are the Old Testament scriptures used and referenced by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, which wrote their New Testament scriptures in Greek.

The Septuagint LXX continued to be used by the burgeoning early Apostolic Church. In 105AD, the Christ-hating Pharisees rejected the Septuagint and began work on their own corrupt, Christ-denying Old Testament scriptures which, would eventually become known as the ‘Masoretic’ text.

“The word Masoretic derives from the Hebrew term masorah (מָסוֹרָה), which literally means “tradition” or “to transmit.” Ai Brave

Early versions of this text would be used for the Old Testament portion of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Bible.

“The Latin Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible, primarily the work of Saint Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 AD to revise the existing Vetus Latina Gospels. This translation became the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, affirmed at the Council of Trent (1545–1563), and served as the standard text for over a millennium until the promulgation of the Nova Vulgata in 1979.”

Interestingly, from about the time of Jerome’s work the Christian world went into The Dark Ages.

“The Dark Ages typically refer to the Early Middle Ages in European history, a period that lasted from the late 5th century to the 10th century (approximately 476 to 1000 AD).” Ai Brave

So, very sadly, a certain ‘Hebrew idolatry’ would begin to poison the scriptures with this corrupt mess created by Jerome (Hebrew ‘Masoretic’ Old Testament mixed with Greek New Testament), and it continues to this very day.

As Christians we are constantly assailed that we are borrowing somebody else’ Messiah as if to suggest that this Messiah were not our Messiah. We are often told that there are ancient Hebrew, ‘original’ Hebrew Scriptures. Yet, there aren’t any ‘original’ Hebrew Scriptures; those scriptures have been lost, or perhaps destroyed. If you want ancient ‘original’ scriptures, and ones that actually matter having been translated by Israelites more than 250 years before Christ, you need to read The Septuagint LXX. The Brenton Edition is a good edition. The Septuagint were the scriptures to which Christ and His Apostles referred and they were in use easily for 500 years before Jerome produced his Latin Vulgate Bible.

It was the Christ-denying Pharisees clinging tenaciously to their Old Covenant religion of atonement through rituals under their command which, 105 years after the death of Christ rejected the Septuagint to begin writing their own scriptures to suit their own agenda – of course!

Folks, these early versions of what would become known as ‘Masoretic’ scriptures were doctored to change timelines and scrub passages so the fulfilment thereof by Jesus Christ could be denied. Yet these are the scriptures people refer to as ‘original’ Hebrew Scriptures. The true original ‘Paleo-Hebrew’ scriptures used by actual Israelites 800 years before Christ were lost.

Or, perhaps they were destroyed.

Folks, here we are some 1700 years later with all kinds of religious garbage based on corrupt Hebrew scriptures proclaimed as ‘original’ in tow. Yet, Paul embodies the story so simply; an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin which, became what would later be termed a ‘Christian’. He progresses from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant; the New Covenant the Israelites were to proclaim to the world.

So, if you are a Christian stop listening to this idea that you are borrowing somebody else’s Messiah, that some people known today as ‘Jews’ are still ‘chosen’ and preferred above you or somehow to be revered. Those are all fancy stories from frauds and charlatans. You need more than stories. You need the salvation of Christ which, He has never denied you but the priesthood has.

Post-Script:

The historical record we have traced has the potential to throw people at the Babylon period, to which my old mate quipped ‘Babylon is where it all becomes confused’. Indeed.

Apparently the Israelites of the Kingdom of Judah had also become known as ‘Jews’. Or had they?

For those of you that are familiar with our series ‘All The Jews Fit To Print’ you may recall that in Part 7 we did an overview of the scriptures; the chronology of the various books as per the time of writing and the development of the appearance of the use of the word ‘Jew’ which, of course is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures until it suddenly explodes in the Babylonian Captivity period, particularly in the Books of Esther and Ezra. Both these books were written by the Israelite scribe Ezra which, was descended of the Levitical priesthood. The idea that suddenly an Israelite of such lineage was popping off with the word ‘Jew’ when it never previously made much appearance in Scripture could lead some to conclude that indeed the Israelites of the Kingdom of Judah captured to Babylon had become known by their captors as ‘Jews’. However, not only does that not make any sense, the historical record of Scripture leaves us other facts to attest to the contrary; Israelites of the Kingdom of Judah captured to Babylon had not become known as ‘Jews’ at all; the usage is pure modern Scripture corruption.

‘What is this historical record?’ you ask.

In Part 7: ‘Of Sewing & Seeds’ we established that the word ‘Jew’ appears 8 times in 7 verses: 4:12, 4:23, 5:1, 5:5, 6:7, 6:8 & 6:14.

The historical record can be found in good ol’ Jerome’s Latin Vulgate which, was the first Bible to openly use early versions of the Pharisee corrupted Old Testament mixed with the Greek New Testament. Yet, what do we find in the Old Testament Book of Ezra in the Vulgate?

‘notum sit regi quia Iudaei qui ascenderunt a te ad nos venerunt in Hierusalem civitatem rebellem et pessimam quam aedificant extruentes muros eius et parietes conponentes’ Ezra 4:12 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘itaque exemplum edicti Artarxersis regis lectum est coram Reum et Samsai scriba et consiliariis eorum et abierunt festini in Hierusalem ad Iudaeos et prohibuerunt eos in brachio et robore’ Ezra 4:23 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘prophetaverunt autem Aggeus propheta et Zaccharias filius Addo prophetantes ad Iudaeos qui erant in Iudaea et Hierusalem in nomine Dei Israhel’ Ezra 5:1 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel.’ Ezra 5:1 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘oculus autem Dei eorum factus est super senes Iudaeorum et non potuerunt inhibere eos placuitque ut res ad Darium referretur et tunc satisfacerent adversus accusationem illam’ Ezra 5:5 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘et dimittite fieri templum Dei illud a duce Iudaeorum et a senioribus eorum domum Dei illam aedificent in loco suo’ Ezra 6:7 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews, and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its place.’ Ezra 6:7 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

“Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.” Ezra 6:7 KJV (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘sed et a me praeceptum est quid oporteat fieri a presbyteris Iudaeorum illis ut aedificetur domus Dei scilicet ut de arca regis id est de tributis quae dantur de regione trans Flumen studiose sumptus dentur viris illis ne inpediatur opus’ Ezra 6:8 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

‘seniores autem Iudaeorum aedificabant et prosperabantur iuxta prophetiam Aggei prophetae et Zacchariae filii Addo et aedificaverunt et construxerunt iubente Deo Israhel et iubente Cyro et Dario et Artarxerse regibus Persarum’ Ezra 6:14 Vulgate (Bold, Red & Underline mine)

First, if we look above at Ezra 5:1 we can clearly see that the same latin root word Iudae gets an ‘a’ to make Iudaea for Judea; the land of Judea. This same root Iudae also gets an ‘os’ added and should be translated as ‘to the Judeans’ but is translated in modern English as ‘to the Jews’. Oi ve!

If we look above at Ezra 6:7 I’ve added the KJV for comparison. Folks, where was the KJV written and when? Oh yes, that’s right it was written in England under Catholic King James in 1611. Hmm, how curious. The KJV translators have gone and added another usage of ‘Jews’ that is clearly not in Jerome’s Vulgate. By the 1600s of course, the translators were working with the ‘official’ Masoretic Text of the Old Testament, or what are now referred to as the ‘original Hebrew’ Scriptures. Of course, they weren’t original at all but were written centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple, the very same Temple that was the subject of this verse in Ezra 6:7 no less.

‘It was meticulously copied, edited, and augmented with vowel points, cantillation marks, and marginal notes by Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes between the 7th and 10th centuries CE. ‘

So, there it is folks, the word ‘Jew’ is purely a modern corruption and brazen lying.

Now, while we are here, let’s just note some very interesting British history that I recently stumbled across in a very important article ‘Patriot Pastors Vs the Judaized Church’:

‘We know that Oxford University has long been associated with the Rothschild family. Home of the Rhodes Scholarship, Cecil Rhodes was funded by the Rothschilds.

“Oxford, the university town in England, is world-renowned for the scholarship of Oxford University. Yet the city boasts a little-known history too: Oxford was once home to a flourishing, vibrant Jewish community — one of the most significant in all of England.

Jews came to England in 1066 when the French nobleman William the Conqueror invaded England. Jewish bankers had long supported military campaigns and infrastructure projects in France, and soon Jewish communities were lending money to support the nobles and kings in England as well.

Oxford became one of the largest Jewish communities in England, and Jewish families lived in a central area called “the Jewry.” One of Oxford’s central avenues today, St. Aldates, was once known as Great Jewry. By the end of the 11th Century, about 80-100 Jewish families called Oxford home. They made their living as shopkeepers, money lenders and landlords. As students flocked to Oxford, historians estimate that about 10% of lodging was rented out by Jews. The community was a distinguished one, with rabbis and scholars presiding over an educated, pious community.

Strictly speaking, the colleges that make up Oxford University weren’t a formal university when they were first founded; they were more like a cluster of independent schools. But it is notable that one of the oldest colleges was founded by a Jew. Balliol College, University College, and Merton College were the first colleges to be incorporated in Oxford, between the years 1249 and 1264. Merton College was established in 1264; its deed of sale is the oldest surviving document in Oxford and shockingly, it is written in Hebrew.’

So there it is folks, all corrupt lying rotten garbage emerging from Roman Catholic Britain no less.