To the Jew first and to the Gentile - Come let us reason together.

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Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (or Gentile nations.)

Romans 2:10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

Psalm 122 - I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together: Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. For there do sit thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD said to Avram, Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your fathers house, to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the eretz (earth) be blessed.

Deuteronomy 6: 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

It is time for Jews and Christians to forgive and forget the past and move ahead as one in Messiah.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.

John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans. 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him. Yeshua answered him, Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cant see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mothers womb, and be born? Yeshua answered, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cant enter into the Kingdom of God! That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Dont marvel that I said to you, ˜You must be born anew. The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but dont know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered him, How can these things be? Yeshua answered him, Are you the teacher of Israel, and dont understand these things? Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you dont receive our witness. If I told you earthly things and you dont believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didnt send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesnt believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesnt come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.

Acts 3:11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and Yochanan, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomons, greatly wondering. When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. 16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Messiah Yeshua, who was ordained for you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ˜The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people. Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ˜In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. God, having raised up his servant, Yeshua, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness.

Why has God allowed judgment and tragedy, such as the holocaust, to fall on the Jews if they are His chosen people?

Ezekiel 5:5 Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her. 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you; 8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and where unto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds. Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, the LORD, have spoken it;) when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread; and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, the LORD, have spoken it.

John 10:22 - It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Jerusalem. [the "Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for "Hanukkah," a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.] It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. The Judeans therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly." Yeshua answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one."

Revelation 1:12 - I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden menorahs. And among the menorahs was one like a son of man, [Daniel 7:13] clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Sheol [or, hell]. Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter; the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden menorahs. The seven stars are the angels[messengers] of the seven assemblies. The seven menorahs are seven assemblies.

Even though it is clear from the message of the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant or Testament) that Yeshua came to teach all about the Kingdom of God, His first coming was for the chosen people of God - the Hebrews. But as many of them rejected him and those of other nations received Him, He gave the message of the Gospel to the whole world - so that all might be saved.

Matthew 15:21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!” But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.” But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.” But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Matthias (Matthew) 8:5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.” Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, “Most assuredly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, but the children of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.” Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.

Yeshua said to his disciples and followers in Matthew 23:39 - For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! (Baruch haba b'shem Adonai.)

In Revelation 22:17 - The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.”

Shaul of Tarshish or Saul (Paul) was educated under Gamaliel and a Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin. He was zealous in persecuting Jews who confessed Yeshua as Messiah.

Acts 9:1 - But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.” The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.” But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem. Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.” But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized. He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus. Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God. All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!” But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Shaul had great love in his heart for his own people. The books of Hebrews and Romans in the New Testament are filled with strong arguments to convince his Jewish brothers and sisters that Yeshua Jesus was indeed Yeshua ha Mashiach, Jesus the Christ.

Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.” Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.” The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “To your seed,” which is Christ.
Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

Romans 10 and 11 - Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down); or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)” But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith, which we preach: that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Romans 11 - I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always.”
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written,
“There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.”
Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?” For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.


The Jewish family is very close knit and important to the culture. There is often a high emphasis on education and worldly success. Although many Jewish people are secular, they are searching for God and have wandered into new age or other false beliefs. Many Jews believe that they cannot become a Christian and still be a Jew. Unfortunately, many Jews persecute other Jews who believe in Jesus, just as followers of Islam may persecute those among them who have converted to Christianity.
There is an anti-Yeshua or anti-Jesus mindset among many Jews because Rabbis or other Jews have taught them so. Modern Judaism can be traced back to the Jewish religious leaders who were in power at the time that Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem. The Sadducees and Pharisees of Yeshua's time hated Jesus because he exposed them as hypocrites.

Matthew 21:23 - When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?” Jesus answered them, "“I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?”" They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.” They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, "“Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but he didn’t go. Which of the two did the will of his father?”"They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, "“Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. For John (the baptizer) came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’ So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”"
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.” Jesus said to them, "“Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’ “Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”"
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet. Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, "“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’ Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’ For many are called, but few chosen.”"
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone. Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "“Why do you test me, you hypocrites? Show me the tax money.”" They brought to him a denarius. He asked them, "“Whose is this image and inscription?”" They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, "“Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”" When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’ Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
But Jesus answered them, "“You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”"
When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? ” Jesus said to him, "“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”"
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,saying, "“What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?”" They said to him, “Of David.” He said to them, "“How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand,until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’ “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”" No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, "“The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men. But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it. He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”"

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, "“You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”"


The Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 A.D. or 70 C.E. because of Jewish resistance to Roman ways. When the Temple was destroyed, there could be no sacrifices and no need for the priesthood. In 90 C.E. at the council of Yavneh, the sons of the Pharisees, who were largely behind Yeshua Jesus' execution, redefined Judaism. Jews today reject Jesus either knowing or without knowing that they have been taught by the corrupt Pharisees of Yeshua's time.


John 11:45-57 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

Some Jews believe that Christians are anti-semitic because of the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust or other persecutions of the Jews throughout history. In the same way, some Christians believe that Jews hate them because they persecute them using their power in matters of banking, business, media or daily life. There has been bad blood for too long and Satan has taken full advantage of it to turn Jews and Christians at odds to each other when they should be embracing one another and working together - we believe in and serve the same God - the most High, Elohim!

Christians or followers of Jesus (Yeshua) believe that Jesus is the Christ or Messiah. The word Christ comes from the Greek word Christos which means anointed one or Messiah. So, Jesus Christ means Jesus Messiah or Jesus the anointed one of God. Christianity stands or falls on Jesus being the Messiah. There is no doubt to followers of Jesus (Yeshua) that He is the Christ. But, those who do not believe might see Christians as the enemy because Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to God the Father - just as Jesus said about Himself. Yeshua (Jesus) also died for all our sins - He was the innocent sacrifice that was acceptable to God for all our transgressions of God's laws for all time. He died so that we might be one in the spirit and might have life eternally without the stain of sin that separates us from the Father God.

Jesus is God, but he came to earth - the Word of God in the flesh - and became a Jewish rabbi who challenged the Jewish religious and political leadership of His time. The challenges that Jesus faced are the same as we face today - evil oppressors trying to control the world and make people and things the way they want them to be. Why in Israel - why in Jerusalem? God chose it because it was His chosen place - where his Holy City would be built on Mount Zion. The Holy Name of the Lord GOD can be seen from an airplane - naturally carved into the shapes of the mountaintops and mountainsides where Jerusalem is built. Jebus or Salem was the home of the pre-incarnate Christ - the priest Melchizedek. It was the same place where Abraham was led to sacrifice his son Isaac - on Mount Moriah, where the Temple Mount is today and has been since Solomon built the first temple and then King Herod the second.) Jesus made the choice to die on the cross. God could not have been crucified unless He chose to do so. Jesus was the son of God - God in the flesh - the Word of God. He died as an everlasting sacrifice for the sins of all people in the world. All we have to do to receive the pardon He died to give us is to believe, trust and have faith in Yeshua or Jesus. He will save us and send His Holy Spirit to teach us, to guide us and to lead us on our journey to become more like God and to know Him better.

Abraham left his idol worshipping relatives in Ur of the Chaldees in present day Iraq to follow God across the desert to a new land - present day Israel. Along the way, Abram fathered Ishmael with his wife Sarai's servant girl. The Arabs claim Abraham as their father through Ishmael. Hagar, a servant girl of Abraham's wife, was the mother of Ishmael. Sarah suggested to Abraham that he lie with Hagar to have a child since he and Sarah had none. Hagar and Ishmael wandered off into the desert when Abraham sent them away because of strife in the camp after Sarah bore Abraham a blood son, Isaac. Abraham and Hagar prayed that God would spare Ishmael and bless them. God promised to make Ishmael a great nation. He did and today they are challenging the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for the land that God promised to Israel. That land has also been claimed by the nomadic Arab tribes and the Arabic natives of Palestine that have shared it with them for centuries. Numerous Bible scriptures encourage men to live in peace with their neighbors - in as much as it is possible to do so. But, it's difficult to remain at peace with those who are dedicated to your destruction.
Isaac was the father of Jacob who was the father of the 12 sons after which the 12 tribes of Israel are named. Through the ages, the Hebrews married and mingled with other semitic people in the region and only a small remnant of the truly pure racial and religious nation of Israel still exists. After centuries of racial and social mixing with Arabs, Persians, Turks and Caucasians - against the commandments of God - the majority of Jews no longer follow the dictates of the Bible. Judaism has been reformed and liberalized. Many Jews prefer to support socialist, leftist politics that are ultimately against the nation of Israel in the Biblical sense.


Who are the people that God is speaking about in the following verses from The Revelation of Jesus Christ?

Rev. 2:9 I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Rev. 3:9 - Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Genesis, Chapter 10 - Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

In that passage we read about the sons and grandsons of Noah's third son, Japheth - Gomer, Ashkenaz (the ancestor of the Ashkenazy Jews that migrated to Eastern and Western Europe and the United States?) and Togarmah, from which the so called Turkish tribes descended. These peoples migrated from Turkey (Noah's Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat in modern day Turkey) and the northern Arabian peninsula through the Caucasus mountains into regions that would later become Armenia, Russia, Georgia, Turkistan, Uzbekistan - largely a part of the former Soviet Union. The same names - of the sons and grandsons of Noah - are mentioned in the last days passages of Ezekiel 38 and 39 and in The Revelation of Jesus Christ. These passages from the Bible are about the spiritual purification of the nation of Israel and the destruction of the enemies of the people of God; the separating of the wheat from the chaff; the emergence of the true remnant of the people of God from out of great tribulation.

Ezekiel, chapter 38 - The word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh (Russia,) Meshech (Moscow,) and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; Persia (Iran,) Cush (Ethiopia,) and Put (Libya) with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples and they shall dwell securely, all of them. You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
Thus says the Lord GOD: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device: and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it? You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against Eretz-Israel, says the Lord GOD, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in Eretz-Israel; so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every mans sword shall be against his brother. With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel, chapter 39 - You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD. I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am the LORD. My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the day about which I have spoken. Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and thebucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of theweapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD. It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the eastof the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord GOD. They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a mans bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. You, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves,and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel,that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls,all of them fatlings of Bashan. You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord GOD. I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day and forward. The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. They shall know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.

Revelation, chapter 20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

The Thirteenth Tribe is a fascinating exploration about where the majority of modern-day Jews - the Ashkenazi - actually came from. What are the origins of the Jews who migrated to Western Europe from Eastern Europe and Russia?

The actual site of Mt. Sinai is in question among scholars and explorers. The person who determined where Mt. Sinai should be located on the map, in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, was Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor, Constantine. There is a Catholic monastery at the Egyptian location of Mt. Sinai. The actual location is clearly told here in the Torah (O.T.) -
Exodus 3:1 - Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Exodus 3:12 - And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people OUT OF EGYPT, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

Moses was to bring the children of Israel from Egypt to a mountain in Midian, near Jethro's home, in a foreign land. Midian (meaning - a son of Abraham,) is in current day Saudi Arabia. Jethro lived near the town of Al Bad which is about 15 miles from Jebel el Lawz - the mountain of the Laws. That is what the local Arab people have called the mountain for centuries and they insist that this is the location. Why doesn't the Saudi government open the area for tourism instead of keeping it fenced as an archeological site? The Mt. Sinai on the Sinai Peninsula is a more accessible site and closer to more travelled roads. Did Helena and Constantine (the founders of the Roman Catholic religion) have anything to do with choosing the site? After all, Helena is credited with identifying the location and the mapmakers have kept the location there ever since.

The site is guarded and surrounded by a fence, topped with barbed wire, and closed to the public. On separate expeditions, explorers Ron Wyatt and Bob Cornuke travelled there and photographed the actual site. According to them, the ruins of the pillars of the 12 tribes are there. Also found is the Rock which flowed forth water (another O.T. type, or foreshadowing, of Jesus Christ - the source from whom living water flows and the Rock of Ages, the cornerstone that the builders rejected - Jesus, the foundation stone of the faith and of the Church.) Erosion on the rock and in the path of the flow of the water is seen; the altar of the Golden calf is there - and the most astonishing site is the blackened top of the mountain due to the Holy fire of God - the very presence of God! The entire top of Jebel el Lawz is burned black. It is not a volcanic peak. The rocks on top of this mountain are granite rock and they have been melted! Some sample rocks were brought home and analyzed, found to be burned, melted and not made of obsidian or other dark lava rock. Wyatt's information was presented on PAX TV's Encounters with the Unexplained on November 9, 2001. Cornuke returned and released a video called In Search of the Real Mt. Sinai after which the Saudi government closed the site. None of this evidence is found at the Egyptian Sinai location, although it is a much more rugged mountainous area and perhaps more overwhelming to see while being more accessible to tourists. Some have suggested that this is the reason for the maintenance of the official site here - that it is more appealing to tourists and therefore more money can be made from the tourist trade.

Explorer Bob Cornuke's Base Institute website.

About Wyatt's expeditions and photos.


Comments on Wyatt's expeditions and other thoughts about the location of Mt. Sinai.

In the New Testament, the mountain is mentioned in -

Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Agar is another spelling of Hagar, the bondwoman servant of Abraham's wife Sarah.

Many Jews do not see the close connection between themselves and Christians - rather, they see Messianic Jews or evangelical Christians and missionaries as a danger to Judaism. Here, some of those issues are addressed.

Judaism and Jesus don't mix.
Judaism teaches the laws of God in the Torah and studies the Prophets and other writings in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. Modern Judaism also refers to the Talmud - a collection of rabbinic writings that interpret the Bible along with many man-made laws added to them. All the Jews will not recognize Yeshua as Messiah - many have and many more will. Messiah will come, He will return again, when the remnant of His people call out - Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD. The remnant of Israel that returns to the fold and recognizes Messiah before or when He comes again, will return to their rightful place as co-rulers of the Kingdom of God that will be established at the coming of Messiah. The teachings of Yeshua were about the Kingdom of God - not to establish or further any religion.

Yeshua said -

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus is venerated as one of Islam's prophets. Does this make Islam a sect of Christianity?
No. Islam is more an oppressive political system than a religion. Followers of Muhamed don't believe Jesus is the son of God, they don't believe he actually died on a cross and they do believe that he will return with Mohammed at some future point - to encourage Jews and Christians to convert to Islam or be beheaded!
Much of the Koran reads like a paraphrase from the Old and New Testaments (with errors) and with the addition of Jihad and other Islamic doctrines and directives to either convert or kill the infidels. Who are infidels - Jews, Christians and all those who will not convert to Islam. Why are Jews and Christians still at odds with one another when Islam calls us infidels that must be converted or killed? Much of the Koran may have been written by a captive Jewish scribe or rabbi, perhaps even Christian Jews, who were beheaded afterward so that Mohamed could take credit for the work of others. Muhammed was illiterate - he could not read nor write. He was likely murdered by Arabs or Persians who did not agree with what he was doing. Allah, a lunar deity, was one of over 600 pagan gods being worshipped in the region. Why Mohammed chose that one is unclear - perhaps Satan influenced his choice as well as the writings in the Koran.

Satan attempts to counterfeit or take over all that is God's. God, of course, either causes or allows all things to happen as He is working out His will and great plan for the nation of Israel and the rest of the world. Look at the Temple Mount - the Dome of the Rock sits atop Mt. Moriah over the very stone where Abraham took Isaac to be sacrificed.

Judaism has no human sacrifice.
Neither does Christianity. Yeshua, the son of God, voluntary gave himself to die as the one and only atonement for the sins of the world - the One, True, spotless, sinless Passover Paschal Lamb chosen by God. In the Torah or Old Testament, God commanded Abraham to take Isaac, his only blood son, to Mount Moriah and sacrifice him - a human sacrifice. In this, God tested Abraham to see if he was truly obedient. When God saw that Abraham was willing and about to sacrifice his son, the ram was provided for the sacrifice. This event was also a type or foreshadowing of the coming sacrifice that God himself was going to make - the willful giving of His only son, Yeshua. In the book of Judges, chapter 11, we read about Jephthah, who made a vow unto God that he would offer a burnt offering of that which came forth from his doors when he returned home from defeating the children of Ammon. The first that came forth from his house was his daughter and he made good on his vow. This was human sacrifice by a Hebrew. The scripture says nothing about God telling Jephthah not to do it. But, God, in the whole Bible, has plenty to say about not making vows. And what about the commandments in the Torah about stoning to death those who did not keep certain commandments or those who sinned in certain ways? This is not human sacrifice but it is the judgment of God being carried out by the Hebrew people who were not perfect - none of them. That is why we find in the B'rit Chadashah (New Testament) book of John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

The upper room where Jesus shared the last supper with his disciples is a room with a stained glass window, once lettered in Arabic as the site of an historical Islamic place of worship long after Jesus was there. Just inside East Jerusalem, the garden tomb outside the old city gates where Jesus is thought by many to have been laid to rest after being taken down from the cross on the hill above (the place of the skull or Calvary) is one of the most beautiful and spiritually alive places for believers in Yeshua. There is a feeling of the presence of God there - the Holy Spirit. On top of the hill, there is (or was) a muslim graveyard and within sight of the garden tomb is (was) a bus station spreading smelly exhaust fumes through the air to the nearby Christian place of worship. If you look up from the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus wept and prayed on the night of his betrayal, you can see the sealed Eastern Gate. In front of it is another muslim graveyard. Suleiman, for a time an Islamic ruler of Jerusalem, had the gate sealed and the graveyard placed there in the belief that no Jewish Rabbi would walk through it to enter the city. This is the lack of faith that he had in the One, True God. When Messiah returns, neither the cemetery nor the sealed Eastern gate will pose a barrier.

Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

As for the doctrine of the Trinity, is not the Hebrew letter shin, that is part of the name of God, a letter with 3 crowned, curved vertical strokes arising from its foundation or base? Does it not have a numeric value of 300? 3 is the number of the trinity and 300 is "3" with 2 zeros added - a 3-digit number.
From Strong's Hebrew dictionary - 430 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty. see HEBREW for 0433 - 433 'elowahh el-o'-ah; rarely (shortened) eloahh {el-o'-ah probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410; a deity or the Deity:--God, god. See 430. see HEBREW for 0410 see HEBREW for 0430.

The name for God used in theOld Testament (Torah) is a Hebrew word that is plural.

There is a map on page 193 of "How to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and the prophets" by Israel Ministry of Tourism Guide School graduate and tour guide Hela Crown-Tamir. According to the text, "The land surrounding the Old City clearly shows the Hebrew letter 'shin' in the topography." The right curved vertical stroke of the letter 'shin' runs along the Kidron Valley, between the Mount of Olives and the Eastern Gate, the Temple Mount and the City of David. The middle curved vertical stroke runs through the lower city along the Tyropoeon (Central) Valley, near the Dung gate and on the other side of the Temple Mount. The left curved vertical stroke curves along the Valley of Hinnom.
A God, who created the universe, is certainly capable of being 3 in 1 - God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit - the One who speaks with, comforts and directs us now that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father on their thrones in Heaven.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Even a three-fold commandment to love the Lord.

The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross was once for all. God gave his son voluntarily, Yeshua came to earth voluntarily, knowing His mission. His great love for us was the giving of his own, sinless life in place of a system of ritual animal sacrifices that were repeated daily and at apponted times during the year that never would be able to atone for our sins once and for all. But, God deemed the death of His own son as worthy so that all who believe and have faith may be saved and seen by God through the sinless righteousness of His son. Our own works can and will never save us or justify us. None of us can keep the law in all its points. Somewhere, we always fail.

King David wrote in the Psalms -
51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. (else: or, that I should)
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Many Christians do not believe that it is proper to force their beliefs on anyone else. But, if someone shows an interest in our faith, we will gladly speak with them about it. Christians or followers of Yeshua (Jesus) hope to bring the gospel message to Jews and Gentiles alike. We are commanded to do so by God - to refuse to "witness" to Jews or to speak about Yeshua with them would mean disobedience to God.

The divinity of Jesus was not an idea that took time to develop among his followers, particularly his disciples. Judas Iscariot (realized Whom he had betrayed and that he was tricked by the Jewish religious leaders who feared Jesus and by the zealots who were disappointed that Jesus was not the warrior Messiah they had been awaiting - the one who would free them from Rome. Judas Iscariot hung himself on a cliff, perhaps overlooking the valley of Gehenna, after casting away the 30 pieces of silver he had been paid by the Temple leaders for revealing where Jesus would be that night. "Doubting" Thomas, who believed after Jesus appeared to him after His resurrection, and the doubts of any of the core group of apostles and followers disappeared after the resurrection. And while mentioning that subject, faith in Yeshua as Messiah, Lord and Savior really does stand or fall on the resurrection, doesn't it? For an examination of that topic in depth with proofs, please read this page - The Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Many Jews reject Jesus because he did not fulfill the prophecies of the "warrior" Messiah who would liberate his people. Jesus, Yeshua - which means salvation - will fulfill that when He returns for the second time to establish the Kingdom of God in Jerusalem. Jesus came the first time as the suffering Messiah to save - once and for all without need for further sacrifice - all those who would believe and turn from their sins.

A search using keywords Jesus, Messiah, prophecy, prophecies, fulfill, fulfilled will return many pages that demonstrate how Yeshua has fulfilled the prophetic scriptures concerning Messiah - and Jesus is also reflected as a type or foreshadow many times in the Torah.

Konig.org

Outreach to Judaism

God on the net

greatcom.org

endtimes.org

Of the many places that Jesus is revealed in the Tanakh (Old Testament - Torah, the Prophets and the Writings) here are just a few.

Perhaps the most striking passage is this one where the exact words of Jesus on the cross ( My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) and the details of his suffering (they pierced my hands and my feet; They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture) are written down by David, centuries before the crucifixion.

Psalm 22 - My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? (Aijeleth: or, the hind of the morning) (helping: Heb. my salvation)
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. (out of: or, sundered) My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(Jesus rose on the third day after going to Hades to seize the keys of hell and death from Satan - his body was not corrupted or decomposed.)

Psalms 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. (set: Heb. anointed) (upon: Heb. upon Zion, the hill of my holiness)
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. (the decree: or, for a decree)
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 53
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? (report: or, doctrine?: Heb. hearing?)
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (we hid: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us)
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (wounded: or, tormented) (stripes: Heb. bruise)
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (laid: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him)
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (from prison: or, away by distress and judgment: but, etc) (was he: Heb. was the stroke upon him)
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. (death: Heb. deaths)
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (thou: or, his soul shall make an offering) 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Many believe that this passage is clearly speaking about Yeshua, Jesus, the Holy sacrificial lamb of God who was slain for the sins of all the world.

There are many more passages in the New Testament or B'rit Chadashah - Matthew 5:17, Matthew 22:36, Mark 16:14, entire book of Romans, Romans 1:16, Romans 2:9, Romans 11

There is no true Christian faith or Christian church (body of Christ on this earth) without the law and the prophets. Jesus said -

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Because of the great commission -
Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Because Yeshua, born a Jew, brought the message of salvation and the coming Kingdom of God to the Jew first. Many Jews knew that He was Messiah; many did not and rejected him. So, the Gentile nations, as branches, were grafted into the tree, the roots of which are Jewish.

Romans 1:16 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.

Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 11 11
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

There is much more to be written - but this is more than a start on the road to understanding if you are truly seeking the One True God.

Jesus challenged the Jewish religious establishment and their financial relationship with the Roman government. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus challenged the Rabbis who were not keeping the Law of Moses. Those religious leaders were keeping the man-made laws that they and other rabbis had added to the commandments of God. They taught the people to keep the man-made rules. Jesus spoke out against them publicly in the Temple courtyard and elsewhere. His challenge to their authority guaranteed that they would not only hate Him but seek to kill Him. It didn't even occur to them that He was God because they couldn't conceive of the fact that God would become a man and challenge their authority over the people. This is problem with many religious leaders of all faiths. They believe in their man-made rules and regulations more than they do the Word of God. And they don't recognize God because they are so wrapped up in the things of this world.

If you have never read any of the Gospel accounts, I would challenge you to read all four of them. They are available as the first four books of the New Testament or B'rit Chadashah. They are available in just about any language and there is a Hebrew translation of the B'rit Chadashah. Each one was told by a different person, so it has a slightly different point of view of the same facts. Matthew, a tax collector, begins with a genealogy that traces mankind from Adam to Abraham to Moses to David to Yeshua (Jesus.) Who better than a tax collector to know people by their family lines? In chapters 5-7, Matthew details the Beatitudes and the profound teachings of Jesus known as the Sermon on the Mount. Luke, a physician, gives a very detailed account of events with the Sermon on the Mount beginning in Chapter 6. John refers to himself in his account of the Gospel as the disciple that Jesus loved. His is a very clear account of Jesus as the Word of God - the Word made flesh. John's account is a loving account and he gives the most detailed writing about the Passover meal that Jesus celebrated with His disciples - known as the Last Supper.

Sometimes loving one another is difficult because of so much ingrained hatred. When people are taught to hate from an early age, it's very hard to overcome prejudices even if they are not true. Jews and Christians are persecuted because they are the people of the one True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Many Jews believe that Christians are not part of this family. But, the Tanakh is full of history about God's chosen turning away from Him and not following His statutes and commandments. There has always been a faithful remnant of God's people among the Jews. When many of the Jews turned away from God and followed after other gods, idols or no god at all, He allowed many from the nation of Israel to be spiritually blinded. God offered the promises and the blessings promised to the seed of Abraham to the Gentile nations of the world through His son, Yeshua. The Tanahk or Old Testament tells this story but it is veiled or concealed. The New Covenant or the B'rit Chadashah reveals that the appointed times and much prophecy is fulfilled in Yeshua ha Mashiach or Jesus the Messiah - Jesus the Christ. All the books in the New Testament are about Yeshua and His followers. Jesus and his 12 disciples (like the 12 tribes of Israel) were all Hebrew. In the early days of the Christian faith, all the followers of Jesus were Jewish. Their stories were told and written down by Jews and Gentile Christians who believed that Yeshua was Messiah. They walked with Him throughout all of His ministry and His suffering.

God tests, tries and judges his own. God allowed the nation of Israel, the descendents of Abraham, to be taken into captivity and dispersed all over the world. With Jewish influence, the British government paved the way for a Jewish homeland in Palestine after World War I. Before during and after World War II, many Jews returned there. Some Jews are persecuted because they try to defend their own homeland. Some Jews and Christians are persecuted because they stand against evil and encourage people to turn back to God and away from sin. Righteous Jews and Christians need to stand together as brothers and sisters in the faith against the evil of the world. Forgive and forget the errors of the past. Yes, there were some Jews who persecuted and even helped to crucify Jesus Christ - but Jesus laid down his life willingly so that the world might be saved from sin - He was the Passover Lamb, the Paschal Lamb of God that would be the eternal sacrifice for sin. Jesus loved enough to forgive from the cross those who hung him there - Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

I Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

The gift of eternal life is freely given to those who trust in Jesus as their savior. Those who believe, pray, read the Bible and allow themselves to grow in spirit and truth by trusting in Jesus and in the guidance of the Holy Spirit are brought into the family of God and will spend eternity with Him. You can read more about Jesus in the Gospel of John.

Topics.
The Good News - the Gospel of John.
The Sermon on the Mount
The Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Paley's Evidences of Christianity
Sherlock's The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Words of wisdom and warning.
The Authority of the Holy Scriptures - the Bible.
The Sign of Jonah.
The Two Babylons.
Thoughts.
Thoughts for today and every day.
...a refiner and purifier of silver.
Prophecies confirming Jesus as the Messiah.
To the Jew first and to the Gentile - Come let us reason together.
The Way.
Spirit.
Atheism.
Belief in God or science?
Old fossils?
Evolution or devolution?
The Shroud and The Sudarium.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Blood and Flesh.
Christmas.
Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.
How should followers of Jesus live?
A praise and worship leader gone astray?
St. Valentine's Day.
The influence of feminism, new-age and pagan philosophy in the church.
God, the Father.
Marriage is for one man and one woman.
Touchy subjects.
The apostate church.
The last days.
Ancient conflict - Isaac vs. Ishmael.
A Tale of Two Films - The da Vinci code and The Passion of The Christ.
Current events and topics.
Fascism.
To veterans and to those who serve in the armed forces.
The world.


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