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发帖数: 38403 | 1 Many denominational Christians and even church leaders are under the
mistaken belief that Jesus was a Jew. But nothing could be further from the
truth.
Judea and Galilee were two separate states and political entities, as
illustrated on the map of Palestine in the time of our Saviour in your Bible
. Jesus Himself was not a Jew (Judean) or resident of Judea, He was a
Galilean or resident of Galilee (Matthew 26:69; John 7:41), and a Judahite
or descendent of the Tribe of Judah. The Judeans of prominence were not of
the Tribe of Judah, but of Edomites. Pilate was being ironic when he wrote
the sign "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Judeans" for the Cross (John 19:19)
. That is, "the Galilean who was King of the Judeans," as in "Queen Victoria
of England, Empress of India." Jesus grew up in Nazareth in Galilee. His
disciples were fishermen from the Sea of Galilee. And although He visited
Jerusalem, he spent most of His life in his home country of Galilee. John 7:
1, "After this Jesus stayed in Galilee; for He could not walk in Judea,
because the Jews sought to kill him." His followers were constrained "for
fear of the Jews" (John 7:13, 19:38, 20:19).
Why was this?
Psalm 83:3 says God's elect are "hidden" or protected ones, and that they
are under attack from a coalition of evil groups led by Edom. Who was Edom?
Esau, the brother of the patriarch Jacob, became the ancestor of the people
called Edom, or Idumea. The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus,
XIII ix 1; XV vii 9 instructs us: John Hyrcanus forcibly assimilated the
Edomites as a national group and they became "Jews" in about 120BC. The
Jewish historian Josephus, who lived just after the time of Christ, wrote, "
They [Edom] were hereafter no other than Jews'. The Jewish scholar Cecil
Roth in his Concise Jewish Encyclopedia (1980) says on page 154, "John
Hyrcanus forcibly converted [Edom] to Judaism. From then on they were part
of the Jewish people. In the Talmud the name of Edom was applied to
Christian Rome, and was then used for Christianity in general".
Terrible judgements against Edom are made in most of the prophecies of the
Old Testament. For instance, Isaiah 34, 63, Jeremiah 49, and the entire book
of Obadiah.
Isaiah 63:1-6, "Who is this coming from Edom . . . in garments stained with
crimson? It is I [the Lord] who speak in righteousness and am mighty to save
."
"Why are your garments red, as if you had trodden the winepress?"
"I have trodden the winepress alone: and of the people there was none to
help Me. In My anger I trod them down, trampled them in My wrath. Their
blood splattered My garments, and all My clothes are stained. For the day of
vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. . . I will
tread down the people in My anger, and bring their blood upon the ground".
These verses refer to Revelations chapter 19:11-21, when the Word of God
destroys His enemies: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse:
and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True. . . His eyes were as
a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns, and He had a Name written
that no man knew but Himself. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood, and His Name is called The Word of God. . . and He trod the winepress
of God’s fierce anger".
Jehovah of the Old Testament "hated Esau (Edom), against whom He has
indignation forever" (Malachi 1:2-4). If Jesus will destroy Edom when He
returns, then Edom is present today, and obviously evil, anti-Christian, and
anti-Semitic.
The Edomite, Antipater, became the Procurator of Judea in 47BC. Ten years
later his son Herod actually became "king of the Jews," initiating the
Edomite dynasty which ruled Palestine under Roman authority for over a
hundred years. The Edomite assimilation opened the way for the virtual
takeover along the lines predicted by Ezekiel and stimulus for an influx of
population from the arid country of Edom into the more hospitable
environment of Judea, an influx obviously encouraged for political reasons
by the ruling Herodian dynasty. Edomites would have been appointed to the
most influential positions, in order to extend and consolidate Edomite
authority over the land and its people. Herod became notorious for his
massacre of infant boys two years old and undger," a supernaturally inspired
attempt on the life of Christ (Matthew 2:16). Herod's son Herod Antipas,
continuing the work, and was responsible for the gruesome murder of John the
Baptist (Matthew 14:6-12).
Christ demonstrated a very real antipathy towards the people called Jews, in
Bibles published after about 1776, but who would be more accurately
described as Judeans, or residents of the Edomite-dominated territory of
Judea. Jesus said to the Jews "You do not believe because you are not of My
sheep" (John 10:24-27). "I was only sent to the lost sheep of the House of
Israel" (Matthew 15:24). In fact, Christ referred to "those Jews (or
residents of Judea regardless of religion, race or color) who believed on
him," as "of their father the devil" for although they were children of
Abraham, they were not children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and heirs of
the blessing of Abraham, nor did they have the faith of Abraham, and were in
all probability descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Esau (John 8: 31,44). In
contrast, Jesus instructed His disciples - who were from Galilee of the
Gentiles, not Judea (Acts 1:11; 2:7) - to pray to And in Revelation 2:9 and
3:9, Jesus speaks of "those who say they are Jews and are not, but are the
synagogue of Satan".
The Jews shouted "Crucify Him!" (John 19:15); "His blood be on us and on our
children" (Matthew 27:25). In an appropriate turn about, when Jesus returns
, their blood will stain His own garments. The spiritual leaders of the Jews
were the Pharisees, who not surprisingly were associated with the (Edomite)
Herodians (Matthew 22:15-16; Mark 3:6; 12:13). Jesus repeatedly condemned
the Pharisees as "hypocrites" (Matthew 15:7; 22:18; 23:13,15,23,25,27-27).
He also called them "serpents, the offspring of vipers" (Matthew 3:7; 12:34;
23:33).
"Jesus spoke to the crowds only in parables" (Matthew 13:10-17). Why was
this? Many nominal churches and Sunday schools teach that Jesus used
parables to make His teachings clearer. But all four Gospels say the
opposite. When Jesus was asked why He spoke to them in parables, He replied
"Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
but to them it is not given" (Matthew 13:10-11; Mark 4:11-12; Luke 8:9-10;
John 12:37-44). Brother Branham simply said, Jesus spoke in parables to thin
down the crowds.
Jesus told "those Jews who believed in Him . . . You are of your father the
devil, and lust for what is forbidden. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him . . . as he is
a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:31-44). This characteristic is
confirmed by the dictionary definition of the verb jew .
But do Jews ever come up with such brazenly audacious lies, lies so enormous
in scope and implication as to qualify as "chutzpah," so admired by Jews?
Norman G. Finkelstein of the City University of New York says:
"The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through
its deployment, one of the world’s most formidable military powers, with a
horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a ‘victim’ state, and
the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired
victim status. Considerable benefits accrue to this specious victimhood –
in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified" (Finkelstein, The
Holocaust Industry (2000) published by Verso, p. 3).
In other words, Finkelstein exposes the HYPOCRISY.
Some further quotes:
"In an authoritative study, Leonard Dinnerstein reported: Sixty thousand
Jews . . . walked out of the concentration camps. Within a week more than 20
,000 of them had died." But ‘As it entered into negotiations with Germany [
just two years ago, in 1999], the Holocaust industry demanded compensation
for 135,000 still living former (camp inmates).’
On page 83 he notes that ‘The Israeli Prime Minister’s office recently put
the number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million.’
Finkelstein exposes the LIES.
On page 127 he further notes ‘If 135,000 former Jewish slave laborers are
still alive today, some 600,000 must have survived the war. That’s at least
a half-million more than standard estimates. . . If Jews only constituted
20% of the surviving camp population and, as the Holocaust industry implies,
600,000 Jewish inmates survived the war, then fully 3 million inmates in
total must have survived. By the Holocaust industry’s reckoning,
concentration camp conditions couldn’t have been that harsh at all; in fact
, one must suppose a remarkably high fertility and remarkably low mortality
rate. . . If, as the Holocaust industry suggests, many hundreds of thousands
of Jews survived, the Final Solution couldn’t have been so efficient after
all – exactly what Holocaust deniers argue" (pp. 127-8).
"Both my father and my mother were survivors of the Warsaw ghetto and the
Nazi concentration camps. . . One of my father’s lifelong friends was a
former inmate with him in Auschwitz, a seemingly incorruptible left-wing
idealist who on principle refused German compensation after the war.
Eventually he became a director of the Israeli Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem.
Reluctantly and with genuine disappointment, my father finally admitted
that even this man had been corrupted by the Holocaust industry, tailoring
his beliefs for power and profit. As the rendering of the Holocaust assumed
ever more absurd forms, my mother liked to quote (with intentional irony)
Henry Ford: "History is bunk." (ibid. p. 7).
"The Holocaust proved to be the perfect weapon for deflecting criticism of
Israel" (ibid p. 30).
"Much of the literature on Hitler’s Final Solution is worthless as
scholarship. Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense
, if not sheer fraud." (p. 55).
"Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the
wonder is that there are so few skeptics". (p. 68).
"Annual Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust are a national event. All 50
states sponsor commemorations, often in state legislative chambers. . .
Seven major Holocaust museums dot the American landscape. The centerpiece of
this memorialization is the United States Holocaust museum in Washington. .
. [This] museum’s annual budget is $50 million, of which $30 million is
federally subsidized." (p. 72). (This is in spite of the fact that, as he
points out on page 32, per capita Jewish income in the US is almost double
that of non-Jews).
"With a reelection campaign looming, Jimmy Carter initiated the [US
Holocaust Museum] project to placate Jewish contributors and voters, galled
by the president’s recognition of the "legitimate rights" of Palestinians.
’ (p. 73).
Finkelstein exposes the SWINDLE, a word formerly most often associated with
Jews.
"The Holocaust" is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust. Like
most ideologies, it bears a connection, if tenuous, with reality. The
Holocaust is not an arbitrary, but rather an internally coherent construct.
Its central dogmas sustain significant political and class interests." (p. 3
). And:
"The Holocaust may yet turn out to be the "greatest robbery in the history
of mankind". . . The Holocaust industry has clearly gone berserk." (p. 138-9
).
Is this evaluation fair?
Have a look at a typical account by one of the seemingly endless number of
survivors: Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys: a woman survivor’s true story of
Auschwitz (Granada/Ziff-Davis, 1947, 1972).
The blurb on the cover of the book quotes the New York Herald-Tribune: "
Passionate, tormenting". Albert Einstein, the promoter of the US
construction of the bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is quoted as
offering "You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now
silent and most forgotten (sic) speak."
Lengyel says:
"After June, 1943, the gas chamber was reserved exclusively for Jews and
Gypsies. . . Three hundred and sixty corpses every half-hour, which was all
the time it took to reduce human flesh to ashes, made 720 per hour, or 17,
280 corpses per twenty-four hour shift. And the ovens, with murderous
efficiency, functioned day and night. However, one must also reckon the
death pits, which could destroy another 8,000 cadavers a day. In round
numbers, about 24,000 corpses were handled each day. An admirable production
record, one that speaks well for German industry." (Paperback edition, pp.
80-81). [No trace of any remains of or in ‘death pits’ has been found.]
This implies almost 100,000 corpses per four working days, or a million in
40 days, or six million in 240 days (eight months).
Could this claim be a misprint?
Kitty Hart, in spite of her name, a Jewish survivor born in Poland, fully
confirms these figures:
"Working around the clock, the four units together could dispose of about 18
,000 bodies every twenty-four hours, while the open pits coped with a
further 8,000 in the same period." (p. 118; Return to Auschwitz - paperback
edition by Granada (1981, 1983).
According to the cover blurb, "The subject of the award-winning Yorkshire
television documentary of the same name." "Both engaging and harrowing . . .
an important addition to the growing holocaust literature, very little of
which conveys so courageously both the daily torment and the will to survive
" – Martin Gilbert, The Times.
Martin Gilbert, indefatigable Jewish campaigner on behalf of the ‘Holocaust
’ and biographer of Winston Churchill, adds to the rich flavour and makes
his own numerical claims, certainly not without chutzpah:
In his book Auschwitz and the Allies (1981) he states:
"The deliberate attempt to destroy systematically all of Europe’s Jews was
unsuspected in the spring and early summer of 1942: the very period during
which it was at its most intense, and during which hundreds of thousands of
Jews were being gassed every day at Belzec, Chelmo, Sobibor and Treblinka."
(p. 26).
If we assume a minimum figure of 200,000 per day, this amounts to say one
million over a five-day working week, or 6 million in six weeks, and this
does not include the truly awe-inspiring claims for Auschwitz put forward by
Hart and Lengyel with Gilbert’s blessing.
A detailed forensic examination of the site of the wartime Treblinka camp,
using sophisticated electronic ground penetrating radar, has found no
evidence of mass graves there.
For six days in October 1999, an Australian team headed by Richard Krege, a
qualified electronics engineer, carried out an examination of the soil at
the site of the former Treblinka II camp in Poland, where, Holocaust
historians say, more than half a million Jews were put to death in gas
chambers and then buried in mass graves.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1997), for example, "a total
of 870,000 people" were killed and buried at Treblinka between July 1942
and April 1943. Then, between April and July 1943, the hundreds of thousands
of corpses were allegedly dug up and burned in batches of 2,000 or 2,500 on
large grids made of railway ties.
Krege's team used an $80,000 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) device, which
sends out vertical radar signals that are visible on a computer monitor. GPR
detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil structure to a normal
effective depth of four or five meters, and sometimes up to ten meters. (GPR
devices are routinely used around the world by geologists, archeologists,
and police.) In its Treblinka investigation, Krege's team also carried out
visual soil inspections, and used an auger to take numerous soil core
samples.
The team carefully examined the entire Treblinka II site, especially the
alleged "mass graves" portion, and carried out control examinations of the
surrounding area. They found no soil disturbance consistent with the burial
of hundreds of thousands of bodies, or even evidence that the ground had
ever been disturbed. In addition, Krege and his team found no evidence of
individual graves, bone remains, human ashes, or wood ashes.
"From these scans we could clearly identify the largely undisturbed
horizontal stratigraphic layering, better known as horizons, of the soil
under the camp site," says the 30-year old Krege, who lives in Canberra. "We
know from scans of grave sites, and other sites with known soil
disturbances, such as quarries, when this natural layering is massively
disrupted or missing altogether." Because normal geological processes are
very slow acting, disruption of the soil structure would have been
detectable even after 60 years, Krege noted.
While his initial investigation suggests that there were never any mass
graves at the Treblinka camp site, Krege believes that further work is still
called for.
"Historians say that the bodies were exhumed and cremated toward the end of
the Treblinka camp's use in 1943, but we found no indication that any mass
graves ever existed," he says. "Personally, I don't think there was a mass
extermination camp there at all."
Krege prepared a detailed report on his Treblinka investigation. He says
that he would welcome the formation, possibly under United Nations auspices,
of an international team of neutral, qualified specialists, to carry out
similar investigations at the sites of all the wartime German camps.
(Sources: "'Vernichtungslager' Treblinka: archaelogisch betrachtet," by Ing.
Richard Krege, in Vierteljarhreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, June
2000 [4. Jg., Heft 1], pp. 62-64; "'No Jewish mass grave' in Poland," The
Canberra Times, January 24, 2000, p. 6; "Poland's Jews 'not buried at
Treblinka'," The Examiner [Australia], Jan. 24, 2000. Information provided
by Richard Krege; M. Weber and A. Allen, "Treblinka," The Journal of
Historical Review, Summer 1992, pp. 133-158; Y. Arad, "Treblinka," in I.
Gutman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust [New York: 1997], pp. 1481-1488.) | E*****m
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: Many denominational Christians and even church leaders are under the
: mistaken belief that Jesus was a Jew. But nothing could be further from the
: truth.
: Judea and Galilee were two separate states and political entities, as
: illustrated on the map of Palestine in the time of our Saviour in your Bible
: . Jesus Himself was not a Jew (Judean) or resident of Judea, He was a
: Galilean or resident of Galilee (Matthew 26:69; John 7:41), and a Judahite
: or descendent of the Tribe of Judah. The Judeans of prominence were not of
: the Tribe of Judah, but of Edomites. Pilate was being ironic when he wrote
: the sign "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Judeans" for the Cross (John 19:19)
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