Myth: God gave the Jewish people the land of Israel
There is a great lie being perpetrated on the Church and its people today.
Recently that lie reared its ugly head in a gathering of a thousand pastors in Jerusalem by the Friends of Zion (FOZ) led by Christian Zionist Mike Evans and included a speech by the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Mike Huckabee basically told his pseudo–Christian Zionist flock to go back to America to proclaim in the churches that the Israel of the Bible is the same Israel today, and God gave the Jewish people the land of Israel. Those statements are both myths and lies as I am about to try to show.
It is only fitting that Zionist “Christians” who make such a lie as their own theology and belief system is also based on faulty theology which is Israel-centered and not Christ-centered; in fact, the typical Christian Zionist will not take any time to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jewish people, because they believe that God has blessed them as “the chosen people” forever and they do not need Jesus to save them simply because they are Israel.
This is another lie, and heresy, that go against all the teachings of the apostle Paul and is in violation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no salvation by race before a God who does not regard persons, but looks on the heart of the person.
First, let us tackle the two lies, the first lie that the Israel of the Bible are same as the Jewish people in land of Israel today.
But before we even do that let us look at the religion of the Jews today.
First, the religion of the Jews today is not the same religion of the people of biblical Israel, they no longer even hold the same book. Today Judaism holds to largely and teaches all its religious schools on not the pure ancient Hebrew scripture of the Holy Bible, but the Babylonian Talmud.
What is the Babylonian Talmud?
The Babylonian Talmud is a huge compendium of ideas, writings, commentary, and interpretations of the rabbis and scribes from Babylonian Jews following the Babylonian captivity of the house of Judah, or the Jews of Israel. The Babylonian Talmud is not just based upon the written law of YHWH, rather is largely based upon the newer traditions which developed in post exile Babylon called the Halakah, or the oral law, or oral torah. The Jews developed this in an attempt to keep the law of God, but created an oral tradition which could not be written down, which was forbidden, by the rabbis largely until 600 AD when all the oral law and elements of the written Law of YHWH was combined in the Babylonian Talmud.
Deuteronomy 4:2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of YHWH your God which I command you.
Jews today live by the Talmud and its tradition of their forefather’s the scribes and Pharisees who Jesus condemned when he walked the earth during his short-lived ministry on the earth.
Jesus rebuked the scribes and Pharisees when he said,
Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Oddly enough, most Jews today may not be born from Hebrew origins, but are more than likely proselytes to Judaism meaning the religion of the Pharisees from the Babylonian oral traditions of the Babylonian Talmud.
There are three kinds of Jews today in the world; you have the Ashkenazim, the Sephardic, and Mizrachi.
The first, the Ashkenazim, are the largest group of Jews today in the world, the Sephardim are less populated numbers of Jews today, and Mizrachi are African and Middle Eastern born Arab Jews are even smaller.
The Sephardim are the first group of Jews, or biblical Judahites descended of the house of Judah, of Judah and Benjamin, who come directly from the holy land and were taken away into Babylonian captivity and later returned to the land, and rebuilt the temple, and Jerusalem walls, and repopulated the land up to the birth of Jesus Christ. Seventy years later, in 70 AD, they would suffer the destruction of their temple, and in time, be scattered out of the land of the of Israel and to find themselves all over the world. The Sephardim were first waves of Jews to cover much of the Middle East and later Europe and eventually travel far to the Americas.
The Sephardim were the first wave of Judahites, hence Jews. They were the bringers of the law and originators of the later Oral Law and they would in time make new converts of Gentile peoples who were not born of the same lineage of Shem, the blessed son of Noah and ancestor of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The Sephardim are the main group who would also later suffer persecution in Europe and from the early rise of Eastern Byzantine empire and Western Catholic State Church are the same Jews would suffer during the Crusades and be persecuted by Christians across much of Europe.
About the time of the early Middle Ages there arrived another wave of Jews, the Ashkenazim.
The Ashkenazim are Eastern European and Russian originated Jews.
Today there is much confusion as to the origin of these Jews, because they do not match the physical character traits of the Sephardim, and they do not possess the same linguistic traits, and Jewish books, authors, and sources of history of the Jews seem to point to non-Shemitic origins of the Ashkenazim.
While at the same time it is possible they could possess some of the original Israelite tribes of Judah and Israel lost in to the Gentiles, increasingly the evidence seems to point to Gentile origins for the bulk of these newer Eastern European and Russian “Jewish peoples.” The Sephardim introduced their beliefs in the written law and oral law to non-Jews and we have occurring such a case in the vast history of the Jews.
In about the year 740 AD, the Gentile Khazar kagen (king) chose to convert to Judaism.
The entire Gentile kingdom (over time) radically changed and adopted all of its laws, rituals, customs, and names, and literally rewrote their own new history.
In a huge text book titled "A History of the Jewish people" edited by H.H. Ben Sasson, and five other Jewish Scholars at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on page 394–5 of the 26th chapter entitled," Diaspora Configuration and Jewish Occupation Patterns at the beginning of the Middle ages," subsection, "Jews as Colonizers," it states the following:
[Author's notes in parenthesis]
"By the end of the eleventh century the Jews [western Sephardim Jewry] were recognized as a colonizing element in both Moslem and Christian Spain , as well as in the German Empire. The bishop of Speyer felt that his city had gained importance when he succeeded in attracting a group of Jews from Mainz to a newly added suburb (1084).
In the early Middle Ages the Jewish faith gained additional adherents when many members of the ruling class of the Khazar kingdom on the estuary of the Volga to the Caspian Sea, headed by their king, adopted Judaism as their religion."
(Page 394–5 of the 26th chapter A History of the Jewish People, edited by H.H. Ben-Sasson entitled," Diaspora Configuration and Jewish Occupation Patterns at the beginning of the Middle Ages," subsection, "Jews as Colonizers")
Recorded in an ancient Hebrew text document, named the Khazar Correspondence, in which is an exchange of letters between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish chief minister of Caliph of Cordoba, and Joseph, King of Khazars.
The Khazar Correspondence took place roughly after 954 and before 961. Hasdai Ibn Shaprut is said "to be one of the most brilliant figures in the 'Golden Age' (900-1200 A.D.) of the Jews in Spain."
In this reply from the Khazar "king Joseph," to Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Khazar Correspondence details a brief history of the Khazars and their claim of origin as recorded below:
"We have found in the family registers of our fathers that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the son's of Khazar, the seventh..."
(Source: The Thirteenth Tribe, Conversion by Arthur Koestler, page 89)
Togarmah, was one of the sons of Gomer, son of Japheth, the father of the Gentiles.
The Khazars (or Chazars) were from a huge population of Turkic Gentile peoples related to Japheth, who lived in region of what would be lower Russia, (Armenia) between the Black and Caspian Seas, by the Don and Volga rivers.
Before the Khazar's conversion to Judaism, it is believed the Khazars were believers in a form of paganism; worshiping the sky and spirits and idols.
One account of the Khazar's conversion is recorded in the al-Bakri's Book of Kingdoms and Roads (eleventh century):
"The reason for the conversion of Judaism of king of Khazars, who has previously been a pagan, is as follows. He adopted Christianity. Then recognized its falsehood and discussed the matter, which greatly worried him, with one of his high officials. The latter said to him: O king, those in possession of sacred scriptures fall into three groups. Summon them and ask them to state their case, then follow the one who in possession of the truth.
So he sent to the Christians for a bishop. Now there was with the king a Jew, skilled in argument, who engaged him in disputation. He asked the Bishop: 'what do you say of Moses, the son of Amran, and the Torah which is revealed to him?'
The Bishop replied: 'Moses is a prophet and the Torah speaks the truth.'
Then the Jew said to the King: He has already admitted the truth of my creed. Ask him now what he believes in.'
So the King asked him and he replied: 'I say that Jesus the Messiah is the son of Mary, he is the Word, he has revealed the mysteries in the name of God.'
Then the Jews said to the king of the Khazars: 'He preaches a doctrine which I know not, while he accepts my propositions.' But the Bishop was not strong in producing evidence. Then the king asked for a Muslim, and sent him a scholarly, clever man who was good at arguments. But the Jew hired someone who poisoned him on the journey, and he died. And the Jews succeeded in wining the king for his faith, so that he embraced Judaism."
Source: The Thirteenth Tribe, by Arthur Koestler, page 78.
It is believed that the initial first conversion, which took place early (740 A.D.), was of the Karaite Jewish sect. This was a sect of Judaism known as the Karaitesm, a fundamentalist Jewish sect that originated in the eighth century Persia, who held more strictly to the Old Testament Hebrew Torah and not much else.
However, the Karaites were considered to be a "heresy" by the Talmudic rabbis who held a belief that the Babylonian Talmud (or the oral law), was the way, not adhering strictly to the literal Hebrew written Torah.
Later the Khazars were introduced to the Babylonian Talmud from the Sephardic Jews traveling in the regions.
It is not only Jewish historians who show that the Gentile kingdom of the Khazars converted to Judaism, a recent study in DNA also shows a correlation to the Ashkenazim and Gentile Turkish roots.
Amazingly a recent DNA study of the Ashkenazim revealed the following amazing report in 2017 entitled The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish, which show that Palestinians have more Levantine DNA linking them to Middle East origins than recent Ashkenazim Israeli Jews.
Note the use of “AJs” in the DNA researcher's findings refers to Ashkenazi Jews.
"Recently, the geographical origins of Ashkenazic Jews (AJs) and their native language Yiddish were investigated by applying the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) to a cohort of exclusively Yiddish-speaking and multilingual AJs. GPS localized most AJs along major ancient trade routes in northeastern Turkey adjacent to primeval villages with names that resemble the word “Ashkenaz.” These findings were compatible with the hypothesis of an Irano-Turko-Slavic origin for AJs and a Slavic origin for Yiddish and at odds with the Rhineland hypothesis advocating a Levantine origin for AJs and German origins for Yiddish. We discuss how these findings advance three ongoing debates concerning (1) the historical meaning of the term “Ashkenaz;” (2) the genetic structure of AJs and their geographical origins as inferred from multiple studies employing both modern and ancient DNA and original ancient DNA analyses; and (3) the development of Yiddish. We provide additional validation to the non-Levantine origin of AJs using ancient DNA from the Near East and the Levant. Due to the rising popularity of geo-localization tools to address questions of origin, we briefly discuss the advantages and limitations of popular tools with focus on the GPS approach. Our results reinforce the non-Levantine origins of AJs…
The Genetic Structure of Ashkenazic Jews
AJs were localized to modern-day Turkey and found to be genetically closest to Turkic, southern Caucasian, and Iranian populations, suggesting a common origin in Iranian “Ashkenaz” lands (Das et al., 2016). These findings were more compatible with an Irano-Turko-Slavic origin for AJs and a Slavic origin for Yiddish than with the Rhineland hypothesis, which lacks historical, genetic, and linguistic support (Table 1) (van Straten, 2004; Elhaik, 2013). The findings have also highlighted the strong social-cultural and genetic bonds of Ashkenazic and Iranian Judaism and their shared Iranian origins (Das et al., 2016).
Thus far, all analyses aimed to geo-localize AJs (Behar et al., 2013, Figure 2B; Elhaik, 2013, Figure 4; Das et al., 2016, Figure 4) identified Turkey as the predominant origin of AJs, although they used different approaches and datasets, in support of the Irano-Turko-Slavic hypothesis (Figure 1A, Table 1). The existence of both major Southern European and Near Eastern ancestries in AJ genomes are also strong indictors of the Irano-Turko-Slavic hypothesis provided the Greco-Roman history of the region southern to the Black Sea (Baron, 1937; Kraemer, 2010). Recently, Xue et al. (2017) applied GLOBETROTTER to a dataset of 2,540 AJs genotyped over 252,358 SNPs. The inferred ancestry profile for AJs was 5% Western Europe, 10% Eastern Europe, 30% Levant, and 55% Southern Europe (a Near East ancestry was not considered by the authors). Elhaik (2013) portrayed a similar profile for European Jews, consisting of 25–30% Middle East and large Near Eastern–Caucasus (32–38%) and West European (30%) ancestries. Remarkably, Xue et al. (2017) also inferred an “admixture time” of 960–1,416 AD (≈24–40 generations ago), which corresponds to the time AJs experienced major geographical shifts as the Judaized Khazar kingdom diminished and their trading networks collapsed forcing them to relocate to Europe (Das et al., 2016). The lower boundary of that date corresponds to the time Slavic Yiddish originated, to the best of our knowledge…"
“We then carried out a supervised ADMIXTURE analysis (Alexander and Lange, 2011) using three East European Hunter Gatherers from Russia (EHGs) alongside six Epipaleolithic Levantines, 24 Neolithic Anatolians, and six Neolithic Iranians as reference populations (Table S0). Remarkably, AJs exhibit a dominant Iranian (88%˜) and residual Levantine (3%˜) ancestries, as opposed to Bedouins (14%˜ and 68%˜, respectively) and Palestinians (18%˜ and 58%˜, respectively). Only two AJs exhibit Levantine ancestries typical to Levantine populations (Figure 1B). Repeating the analysis with qpAdm (AdmixTools, version 4.1) (Patterson et al., 2012), we found that AJs admixture could be modeled using either three- (Neolithic Anatolians [46%], Neolithic Iranians [32%], and EHGs [22%]) or two-way (Neolithic Iranians [71%] and EHGs [29%]) migration waves (Supplementary Text). These findings should be reevaluated when Medieval DNA would become available. Overall, the combined results are in a strong agreement with the predictions of the Irano-Turko-Slavic hypothesis (Table 1) and rule out an ancient Levantine origin for AJs, which is predominant among modern-day Levantine populations (e.g., Bedouins and Palestinians).”
The authors of the DNA study concluded the following:
“The meaning of the term “Ashkenaz” and the geographical origins of AJs and Yiddish are some of the longest standing questions in history, genetics, and linguistics. In our previous work we have identified “ancient Ashkenaz,” a region in northeastern Turkey that harbors four primeval villages whose names resemble Ashkenaz. Here, we elaborate on the meaning of this term and argue that it acquired its modern meaning only after a critical mass of Ashkenazic Jews arrived in Germany. We show that all bio-localization analyses have localized AJs to Turkey and that the non-Levantine origins of AJs are supported by ancient genome analyses. Overall, these findings are compatible with the hypothesis of an Irano-Turko-Slavic origin for AJs and a Slavic origin for Yiddish and contradict the predictions of Rhineland hypothesis that lacks historical, genetic, and linguistic support (Table 1).”
(Source https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2017.00087/full)
If the Ashkenazim, which are the predominant populous of Jews worldwide today, exhibit such a low yield of Levantine DNA, or lack Middle Eastern roots, then clearly, they are not the same people who came out the Bible or biblical land of Isael and Judah, rather they are recent converts to a recent religion named Judaism from Pharisaical Babylonian Talmudic persuasion.
Indeed, the book The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler published the following quote:
In the second part of this book, "the Heritage," Mr Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research in support of a theory that sounds all the more convincing for the restraint with which it is advanced.
Yet should this theory be confirmed, the term "anti-Semitism" would become void of meaning, since as Mr. Koestler writes, it is based " on a misapprehension shared by both the killers and their victims. The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated."
So, the statement that the Jewish people today are the same Biblical peoples of Israel in the Bible is false and a common myth, a lie, propagated by those ignorant of Jewish history.
Next, we will look at biblical Israel in the Holy Bible.
It may surprise the reader to learn that the term “Jew” is nowhere to be found in the Torah, or first five books of the written law of YHWH God.
In fact, the words “the Jews” are not found in the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First and Second Samuel, and the book of First kings.
Nor are "the Jews" found in the books of First Chronicles, or the book of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon.
The words “the Jews” (meaning the house of Judah) are found in books of 2nd Kings, 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel.
The first mention in the Holy Bible referring to “the Jews” comes in Second Kings 16:6 after Israel was split into two separate kingdoms of the house of Israel, and the house of Judah; the house of Judah was henceforth known as “the Jews.”
2nd Kings 16:6
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
The term the “Jews” was sort of a slang word in the Holy Bible to denote only the house of Judah.
Let us look at the Hebrew word used to designate the words “the Jews” meaning those of the house of Judah.
Hebrew Yëhuwdiy
03064 Yëhuwdiy yeh-hoo-dee’
patronymically from 03063; adj pr gent; [BDB-397b] {See TWOT on 850 @@ "850a"}
AV-Jew 74, Jew + 0376 1, Judah 1; 76
1) Jew
So why the absence of the “Jews” from the first huge section (first 11 books) of the Bible history?
Because the people of Israel were not known in the Holy Bible text as being “Jews,” or “Jewish,” they were only known as “Israelites.”
The children of Israel were not Jews!
They were, in fact, Israelites, born of Israel, born of their Syrian forefather Isaac, born of the Hebrew Abraham.
So now the question turns to “who was Israel?”
Israel, was the name God gave to Jacob, and Jacob was not a Jew either. Jacob, or Israel, had twelve sons, and one daughter who became the children of Israel.
Now of Israel’s children, Israel had a son named Judah. The name Judah is much later where we get the term “the Jews,” from, because they are related to the tribe of Judah, and later the tribe of Benjamin, one of Judah’s eleven other Israelite brothers who joined Judah to form the house of Judah.
So, the tribe of Judah is where we have any connection to the Jewish origins. Judah is also the only tribe that holds the scepter. Judah is also the tribe out of which king David will come, and through the lineage of David, Jesus the Christ.
Having said that, you will never see the actual word "Jewish" in the Holy Bible book of Genesis, or Exodus, you will only find the name "Judah" or "the men of Judah." With that understating JESUS was a JUDAHITE, and not a Jew, or “Jewish,” in any modern sense.
Who was the Israel of the Holy Bible?
Perhaps a better question is Who is Jacob?
Jacob was the son of Isaac, whom was the son of Abraham of the Hebrew line of Shem.
Now Jacob is a person— a person whose name was changed by Almighty God to the name of "Israel"
Israel/Jacob, the Holy Bible records, has 12 sons or 12 children.
Exodus 1:1-5
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. [2] Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, [3] Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, [4] Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. [5] And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
The Holy Bible refers to Israel's sons as "the children of Israel."
The children of Israel were not Jews, but they received the law at Mt Sinai, and the promised land later, and in time, would thrive in a united kingdom under king David and reign as 12 united tribes until under king Solomon’s reign, when the king’s worship of idol of the foreigner’s gods causes YHWH to break the kingdom into two parts forming two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The Bible records that Solomon in his old age breaks God’s commandments by worshiping the idols of his many foreign wives and thus God removes the kingdom from Solomon, and leaves him only one tribe under the rule of his son Rehoboam. Rehoboam receives the tribe of Judah.
The Bible records that Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, dealt harshly with the other tribes and thus the other tribes form a confederacy against Judah. But then one of the tribes, named Benjamin, joins with Judah, and thus begin the formation of the House of Judah. This division of Israelites tribes also forms the House of Israel comprised of ten tribes. The House of Israel is ruled by a new king Jeroboam.
The northern house or kingdom of Israel consisted of 10 Israelite tribes.
The second grouping is known by the slang word “the Jews" or the southern house/kingdom of Judah those two tribes and a minority of another tribe. Thus, we have two kingdoms, or two houses, which comprise all 12 tribes of the "children of Israel," but only two full tribes make up "the Jews."
So, what happened to the house of Israel and the house of Judah according to the Holy Bible?
Over the next several hundred years the two kingdoms would clash with one another and become less obedient to YHWH and his holy laws, and commandments, sinning greatly before God. Both Israel and Judah sin so greatly that finally God has had enough, and God decides he will remove his chosen people from off the land of Israel. First, YHWH uses the Assyrian Empire, which arose to power, to come and remove the ten tribes of the house of Israel away to Assyria. Then, about 136 years later, God uses the next rising empire, the Babylonian empire, to come and remove the sinful house of Judah away to Babylon.
The first captivity mentioned was the Assyrian Captivity in 722 BC, when the Assyrians came and took away the ten tribes of the house of Israel to Assyria. The northern kingdom of Israel was removed from the land and transported north past the Euphrates River to the land of the Medes. During this captivity of Israel, a small portion of Jews of the house of Judah also were taken along with Israel to Assyria, but the over whelming majority of Jews, or Judah, were left behind by God as a remnant.
About 136 years later, after the first Assyrian captivity in the year 586 BC, YHWH brought the Babylonian captivity on the house, or kingdom of Judah, for its many sins against YHWH and breaking his commandments. According to the Holy Bible, Judah was to taken away to Babylon for seventy years of captivity. The temple of YHWH was burned to the ground and all the holy treasures were taken to Babylon. The majority of Israelite Jews were taken away to Babylon, this comprised of 90% or more of Judah staying in Babylon captivity. A very small minority of Jews is recorded to have stayed behind as a remnant of Judah in the land of Israel surrounded by foreigners, some whom were implanted by the Babylonians.
The Holy Bible records that at the end of Seventy of years of captivity in Babylon, the Jews, a very small minority of Jews of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, numbering 42,360, return by decree of the Persian king to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and then rebuild the temple that was destroyed by the Babylonians seventy years prior.
The story of Israel in the Bible is such that the ten tribes of Israel are scattered across the regions of the Gentiles, having been taken away by the Assyrians north of the Euphrates River, to regions far away from the land of Israel.
Several hundred years have passed, and the majority of Judah, or the Jews, are scattered across Babylonia, Persian regions, and other Gentile territories.
It is in Babylon that Jews, eager to uphold to the law of God, begin to formulate an oral tradition towards the written law of YHWH; this oral law, or Oral Torah, becomes the foundation, or roots, of what is become known as ‘Judaism,’ a new religious current which soon grows, and as a fever takes over many of the remaining Jews in the land of Israel. Over time many Jews will begin to migrate and travel from Babylon and other regions to the land of Israel, and worship at the rebuilt second temple.
During the next several hundred years of time, the Persian empire would fall to the Grecian empire, and the Greeks would fall in time to the Roman Empire. During this time Judaism is a strong religious force in the remnant of Judah, or the Jewish people. Many non-Jewish races of peoples of the lands such as the Edomite peoples during this period are converted to Judaism.
The nation of Esau (the biblical enemy of Jacob/Israel), Idumeans of Idumea, from the southern part of ancient Palestine from Mt Seir, about a hundred or more years before the birth of Christ in the reign of Jewish leader John Hycranus, converted the entire region of Idumeans to Judaism. Thus, all the biblical remnant of Esau, was made Jewish by the time Jesus walked upon the earth.
"..the whole of Palestine was the ancestral heritage of the Jewish nation. In that heritage there was no room for foreign cults, as evidenced by the CONVERSION of IDUMEA....Idumea, with its two main cetres of Adora and Marissa, was annexed to Judea, and it population was CONVERTED to Judaism.
...The fact that Idumeans of the Second Temple period lived in the ancient patrimony of biblical Judah must have confirmed him [John Hyrcanus] in the conviction that his policy befitted the circumstances and that the Jewish population of the country was strong enough to succeed the whole absorption of the Idumeans. The conversion of the Idumeans was the first of its kind, as it was of an entire race rather than of a few individuals. The Jewish religion fell on fertile soil in Idumea; and the Idumeans soon became an integral part of the Jewish nation, and before long their upper classes occupied key social and governmental positions in the Hasmonian Kingdom. From then on the JUDAIZATION of the WHOLE OF PALESTINE became a permanent element of Hasmonean policy.
At the time of John Hyrcanus' death, in 104 BCE, Jews were expanding their borders everywhere in Palestine...
...completed the conquest of Galilee and defeated the Ituraeans, who seem to have ruled over Upper Gallilee. Like the Idumeans before them and in line with the policy of developed by John Hyrcanus, they were converted...
The conquests by John Hyrcanus and Aristobulus increased Judea to several times its former size. Not only had virtually the entire population outside the territory of the hellenistic cites come under Jewish rule and became part of the Jewish nation, but even some of the hellenistic settlements, such as Beth-shean, Samaria, and Marrisa, were taken."
(Chapter 15 "The Hasmonean State, A History of the Jewish People, Edited by H.H. Ben-Sasson Pages 218-219)
Thus, you have not only Edomites, but much later, Gentiles who are proselytized into Judaism and become as Jews.
The ten tribes of Israel are more than 700 years long gone into the Gentile nations of the earth. The Jews have been scattered all through the Persian and Middle East regions as well as living in the land of Israel. The Jews are the sole remnant of Israel now, which will wait for the prophesied Messiah, the Christ of the Israel’s prophets who foretold his coming.
Judaism is now the main religious current of the day, and a religious group known as the Pharisees, who hold to the oral laws interpreting God’s written law, are the high order of the day for the Jewish people of Israel. It is during this backdrop of time under Roman rule that the Christ of Israel, JESUS, was born.
When Jesus arrives on the scene, about 30 AD, as a grown young man, Jesus proclaimed the coming kingdom of God calling for all to repent of their sins. Jesus had a two-fold mission, first to have a mission to Israel, or the Jewish remnant of Israel. Jesus goes throughout Judea and the regions of Israel and teaches in the synagogues, healing many as he went along, and teaching about God’s law and the ways of God his Father, and to seek the righteousness of God. Jesus chose twelve disciples from among Israel to help his ministry. Jesus proclaimed he was sent chiefly to the lost sheep of Israel, all twelve tribes, though only the tribes of the house of Judah was visibly the remnant left that Jesus chiefly ministered to. Jesus Second mission was also to the Gentiles, and Jesus taught and healed a few Gentiles, when he traveled through the Gentile territories within the land of Israel. Lastly, Jesus came to proclaim the New Covenant YHWH made with the children of Israel, and prepare to offer himself for the sin of the world, to die a bloody death for the sin of all Israelites and Gentiles.
Forty years later in 70 AD the Roman armies attack Jerusalem days within the Passover, and more than a million Jews perished in the siege, and the second temple of Jerusalem is destroyed; many hundreds are put to death in crucifixions, 97,000 Jews are enslaved, and many more flee the region from the Roman’s rule.
The Jews throughout largely reject the Gospel of Jesus and continue to hold to the Old Testament law and Jewish Judaism, as the chief basis for Jewish religious leadership.
Israel, the ten tribes of Israel, is lost and dispersed among the Gentile nations, far beyond the river Euphrates just below the Caucasian pass, which led into Eurasia and Europe.
The ten tribes of Dan, Naphtali, Asher, Zebulun, Issachar, Gad, Reuben, Levi, Simeon, and Joseph disappeared into “the Gentiles” according to the Bible narrative, never to return to the land of Israel.
Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
There is another myth that Christians believe today, about the Gentiles being meant to mean to those people not of Israel, or non-Jewish, and this is also incorrect, for, as I have just shown, ISRAEL WAS LOST INTO THE GENTILES!
The notion that Christians have today about the Jewish people being all of the 12 tribes of Israel today, is also incorrect, for over 70% of Israel HAVE NEVER BEEN JEWISH OR JEWS.
Next we will briefly look at the lie, and myth, of God giving the Jews the land of Israel.
Christians have believed a myth that the Jewish people deserve all the land of Palestine, and this is also therefore incorrect, for the land of Israel largely belongs to the ten tribes of Israel, not to the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
The ten tribes cannot be found in mass among the Jews today, for they were not Jews to begin with, nor did they practice Judaism. THEY WILL LARGELY BE FOUND AMONG THE GENTILES.
Today the Jews in the state of Israel are trying to violently annex territory from Semitic Arab Palestinians that God never gave, or ordained to be given, to Judah, or the Jews, for it BELONGS TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WHO ARE TODAY ARE CHIEFLY FOUND IN THE GENTILES.
Understanding that the Jews are not all of Israel, and that Jesus sent his disciples to preach the gospel first to the Jews of Israel, and then sent them to the Gentiles, it is easy to see that God is seeking out his lost sheep of Israel, those of Judah and those of Israel disguised as Gentiles, for Israel was lost into a sea of Gentiles and became as the Gentiles.
This helps to explain why the apostolic Church was made of Jews and Gentiles.
Romans 1:16-17
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Today, incorrectly, Christians see the Church as the Gentile church, when they are in fact partly of ancient lost Israelites, both Jews and Israelites who are in Christ Jesus, representing the new covenant ISRAEL OF GOD.
The Church of Jesus Christ has in its membership of Israelites and Strangers, Gentiles, who have come to faith in in Jesus Christ whereby they enter into the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31)
Jeremaih 31:31-34
Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith YHWH: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know YHWH: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith YHWH: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
The remnant of living physical Israelites and Strangers, Gentiles, today who have come to faith in Jesus Christ become Spiritual sons and daughters of God as fulfilled ISRAEL, and whereby the Stranger and foreigner to the covenants, and promises given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are accepted by YHWH into the inheritance of ISRAEL (Isaiah 56)
Isaiah 56:1-8
¶ Thus saith YHWH, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 ¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to YHWH, speak, saying, YHWH hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith YHWH unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to YHWH, to serve him, and to love the name of YHWH, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
Thus, the two, Israelites and strangers, become One people of GOD, through faith in JESUS, becoming as the ISRAEL of GOD.
Ephesians 2:11-22
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Therefore, it matters not who your ancestors were, as long as you believe in God's Son, JESUS.
This applies to unbelieving Gentiles or unbelieving Jews; they both must come to believe in Jesus Christ (John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.) to become the sons of God. God, clearly, has and has fulfilled that plan for Israel through and only through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This brings us back to the chief liars and heretics, the pseudo–Christian Zionists.
Today the Church of Christ has been infected by Judaism again, in the modern teachings of Zionist “Christians” who teach a new perverse gospel that the Jews do not have to have faith in Jesus Christ, but are the elect of God given a special privilege to worship as Jews, and their Judaism, and one day (in the false doctrines of the “seven-year tribulation” where the so called “secret rapture” takes place before the “seven-year tribulation” of the Jews) they believe that the Jewish people will be saved simply because they are Israel.
Immediately Paul in his letter to Galatian church, then infected by those Judaizers who wanted to bring the church back under the burden of corrupt Judaism, begins rebuking the Galatian church for following the corrupt ideas of others who began to preach or teach another form of gospel.
Read what Paul says.
Galatians 1:6-12.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 10 ¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul writes if anyone, or anything, that preaches, or teaches, another gospel than that which was preached unto the Church; let that person be accursed of God.
Jesus labeled those, who spread lies, and damn lies, such as Mike Huckabee, who has made repeated lies defending the Zionist regime regarding denying what is clearly the racist Israeli Gaza Genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place on the Palestinians, the children of Shem and Abraham.
As Jesus once said to the Pharisee Jews of his day,
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Pseudo-Christian Zionists, who put all their faith in the Zionist Jewish state, have built their house upon a sand bed for a weak foundation of the leaven of the Pharisees.
Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Jesus said:
Matthew 7:21-27
¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
I thank and praise God for his Word written in the Holy Bible, and his Holy Spirit which leads me into all truth from being a loyal student of God’s Holy Word. Thank you, Jesus, for your death on the cross and for making salvation available to anyone who believes in you in truth. Because we believe in you Jesus, you have given us your Holy Spirit to know and discern the truth in a dark world full of lies of the devil. Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, YHWH!
Do you know Jesus?
He died for your sins?
Are you covered by the blood of the Lamb of God slain for the sins of the world?