Gods chosen people Gods chosen people were the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, a genetic bloodline. They were also known as Hebrews speaking the Hebrew language. Hebrew must not be confused with Yiddish even though they both use the same alphabet. Are the Jews the same as the Israelites? No. The Jews are of mixed races some of which existed alongside the Israelites. The Jews are not a race but followers of the Talmudic Judaism religion. Jews can be anyone that embraces their religion. Jews of various races can be found all over the world. 95% of Jews are descended from the Khazars whose ancestors never set foot in Palestine! So only 5% can claim any sort of connection to Canaan. The word Jew is a relatively modern word. According to the corrected version of the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the first occurrence of the word “Jew” in English writing was in Greaves “Seraglio”, written in 1653. The word Jew did not appear in any printed Bible before 1729 when it was used in the Daniel Mace New Testament. The first full version of the Bible to contain the word Jew was the 1750 Douai Bible. The word Jew did not appear in the Geneva Bible, nor in the original King James Bible of 1611 however it made its first appearance in the 1769 Revision. By the mid 19th century the word Jew had become inextricably linked to usury, extortion and other organised crime, so much so that the Jews were not too happy about being called Jews any more. At one time during the emancipation era there was a tendency among Jews to avoid the application of the term [Jew] to themselves; and from 1860 onward the words Hebrew and Israelite were employed to represent persons of Jewish faith and race...” (Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1901-1906, under “Jew (the word)” The statement above is revealing. If these people were truly Hebrews and Israelites, why did it take them 4,000 years to get around to using those names to describe themselves? The Israelites spent every waking hour anticipating and looking forward to the arrival of their Messiah. They knew that all they had to do was accept Him and they would become joint heirs to the Kingdom, which they fully expected Him to reinstitute at His arrival. However, the parable of the wicked husbandmen (Matt 21:33-41) tells us that the Jews were planning to kill Jesus and steal the inheritance from Him. If the Jews were Israelites, why would they have to steal the inheritance from anybody? And how could they steal it? You cannot steal what is rightfully yours. The parable makes no sense whatsoever, unless you realise that the Jews were not Israelites, in other words they had no option but to steal the inheritance as it didnt belong to them and never could. Speaking to the so-called Jews who were of the sect of the Pharisees (or Judaism) Jesus said, You serpents, offspring of vipers, how can you escape being sentenced to hell fire? Therefore take notice, I will send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify; and some of whom you will flog in your synagogues, and persecute from town to town, that upon you may come all the righteous blood that has been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I assure you, all these things shall come upon this race (Matthew 23:33-36). Jesus identified these so-called Jews as the descendants of Cain, Edomites who Oadiah 10 tells us they are to be cut off forever. Speaking to His elect Church Jesus said, I know your affliction and your poverty, but you have heavenly riches, and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan . . . Take note, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are impostors who lie, to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you (Revelation 2:9; 3:9). Speaking to Cain God said, What have you done? the voice of your brothers blood cries to Me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brothers blood from your hand (Genesis 4:10-11). Speaking to Christs end-time Bride regarding the Words of Jesus, the prophet William Branham said, Here is a verse that will bear considerable thought, not only because it is most peculiar in its contents, but also it is virtually repeated in an age that is over a thousand years later. To begin with, the word, Jews, does not describe the religion of the Jewish people. It refers only to the people of Judah and has the same precise meaning if I were to say I am Irish born. These people were saying that they were actually Jews, real Jews by birth. They were liars. They were not Jews by birth and they werent Jews by religion. The Jews that descended from Esau want to claim back this inheritance and that is why they wanted to kill Jesus. (John 7:1), After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. According to Strongs Greek Lexicon, the English word Jewry in this verse was translated from the Greek word Ioudaia feminine for the land of Judea. Modern translations no longer use the word Jewry but the correct translation, Judea, as in the New American Standard Bible: And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee; for He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. The New International Version uses the same word. However, these translations continue to improperly use the word Jews in the same verse. A consistent translation would read: He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Judeans were seeking to kill Him. The point is that one who is called a Jew in the Bible is not necessarily a chosen man of God, a follower of Moses and the prophets, a member of the tribe of Judah, an Israelite, or even a Semite, but one who is a resident of Judea, A Judean. But a well-organized and well-financed international pressure group created a so-called secondary meaning for the new word Jew which is not the understanding intended by the Scripture of truth. Those who call themselves Jews today falsely imply they are somehow descendants of the tribes of Israel and chosen of God. Yet few of them are Jews as they are not Judeans, or residents of Judea. Jesus is referred to as a so-called Jew (which He was not) for the first time in the New Testament in the 18th century editions in the English language of the 14th century first translations of the New Testament into English. Had Jesus been a Judean it is very likely He would have been an Edomite, not a kinsman to Adam, and thereby disqualified from being the Holy One of Israel, the last Adam, who was born to redeem the first (Leviticus 25; Ruth). Were Jesus a so-called Jew He would not have been Messiah whom the Lord prophesied would dwell in Galilee of the Gentiles (Isaiah 9:1-7). Jesus did not live in Judea and dared not walk in Jewry (i.e. Judea), for fear of the Jews who sought to kill Him. The word Jew does not appear in any of the following Bibles. In the 1380 Wiclif Edition in English the Gospel by John XIX.19, reads ihesus of Nazareth kyng of the iewes. Prior to the 14th century the English language adopted the Anglo-Saxon kyng together with many other Anglo-Saxon words in place of the Latin rex and the Greek basileus. The Anglo-Saxon also meant tribal leader. In the Tyndale Edition of the New Testament in English published in 1525 Jesus was described as One of the Iewes. In the Coverdale Edition published in 1535 Jesus was described as One of the Iewes. Also in the Coverdale Edition the Gospel by John, XIX.19, reads Iesus of Nazareth, kynge of the Iewes. In the Cranmer Edition published in 1539 Jesus was described as One of the Iewes. In the Geneva Edition published in 1540-1557 Jesus was described as One of the Iewes. In the Rheims Edition published in 1582 Jesus was described as One of the Ievves. In the King James Edition published in 1611, also known as the Authorized Version, Jesus was described again as one of the Iewes. The forms of the Latin Iudaeus were used which were current at the time these translations were made. The “New Covenant,” as recorded in Jeremiah 31, was made with the house of Israel. Hebrews 8 verifies it with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Yet church leaders teaching is to the effect that this Covenant, which was to make Israel a Christian people, just didnt work with Gods People the Jews, but that a Gentile people somehow just happened to accept the New Covenant. Just who are these Gentiles that seemed to have usurped Israels place? Today Christians believe that the Gentiles referred to in the New Testament were non-Israelites. This is quite wrong. When the Lord Jesus arrived on the scene He, according to prophecy, was to bring the Gospel of the Kingdom to His own people first, the House of Judah, at least as they existed in Palestine at that time, the Edomites were, of course, part of Judah by then and had totally usurped the Kingdom, as they are on the verge of doing again this very day. Only once the House of Judah rejected Him, was it to be taken to the House of Israel, who were still lost or properly in exile. The House of Israel are often referred to as Gentiles in our English translations, even though there was no such equivalent word in the Koine Greek. The Greek word “ethnos”, from which the word Gentiles is incorrectly translated, actually meant simply “people” or “nation”, but was properly used meaning “people of ones own kind”. If the speaker were referring to foreigners/other races then the word “barbaros” would have been used. We need to be clear about who the “ethnos” were in the New Testament, and not use the word “Jew” in place of “Israelites” which is what the translators have done. This action by the translators has completely changed the way todays Christians view their whole concept of who Gods chosen people were. Cornelius, to whom Peter is speaking in Acts 19:28, was the first Gentile, actually the first Israelite of the House of Israel, to receive the Gospel. This should give you a clue as to who actually are the Israelites of today. The vision Peter received was to show him that it was now OK to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles to the House of Israel, which up until this point had been forbidden. Cornelius was Roman, but in Romans 7, the Romans were Israelites as also were the Greeks which is mentioned many times in the New Testament. When Jesus said on the cross Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. He was talking about the Romans who were Israelites but didnt know it. He most definitely was NOT talking about the Jews who He tells you, in the parable of the wicked husbandmen (Matt 21:35), knew very well who He was and exactly what they were doing. Genesis 49:10 prophesied, The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be. Judah was the largest and the most influential of the twelve tribes with the governing right. Jacob prophesied it would maintain its pre-eminence until Shiloh, or Messiah, came. He would then take headship and receive the allegiance of true spiritual Israel as Isaiah 9:6-7 foretold. Matthew 1 and Luke 3 trace Jesus’ human lineage to David, Judah, Jacob and Abraham. Jesus took the sceptre from Judah and we who receive Him as Messiah give Him our allegiance. It is taught that Jesus came to the Jews, but in John 10:25 Jesus said to the Jews, “But ye believed me not because ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me”. In Matthew 15:24, Jesus said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Modern Christian teaching would suggest that Jesus didnt quite mean what He said. The question is; which people are the “sheep” who knew Him and have followed Him for the last 1900 years? In the days of His flesh few of the citizens of Judea were Judahites. Some belonged to one of the other tribes of Israel, and many were descendants of Esau (Edomites) who had assimilated and become co-religionists with the Judahites and remnants of the other tribes in the hybrid religion of Pharisaism developed during the captivity in Babylon. This is the religion of the Talmud and is called Judaism today; Jesus condemned it since it is the antithesis of the Mosaic Law and the prophets and makes the Word of God of no effect (Matthew 15:1-9). All of the Jews in the New Testament could, quite rightly, claim descent from Abraham and Isaac but not Jacob. This only applied to a small minority as the majority were of different races. This descent claimed by these Jews is because Abraham and Isaac had other children but because they were not descendants of Jacob they were not Israelites. Also it must be realised that Isaacs firstborn son, Esau, sold his birthright to Jacob for some food. Genesis 27:39-41, Isaac, Esaus father said to him, Your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; you will sustain yourself by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; but you will finally take the dominion and break his yoke from your neck. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing which his father bestowed on him: and Esau said to himself, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. Esau/Edom, the so-called Jew, has been killing Jacob/Israel from that day to this. His had took dominion over the Israelites after John Hyrcanus defeated and forcibly assimilated Edom into the kingdom of Judah 100 years before the birth of Christ. Hence Jesus would not live in Judea for fear of the [Edomite] Jews who will rule Israel unto the consummation of life on earth (Daniel 9:27; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:1-2, 8). Today most people think of Jews as the people of Israel, but that is not correct. An Israelite was one who had descended from Jacob. In Jesus time individual Jews may or may not have descended from Jacob, but they all recognized Pharisaism and not the Law of Moses. An indication has been shown as to what race the Israelites are today. Both the Romans and the Greeks was, by todays racial definition, white Caucasian, this is obvious when looking at their historical statues of that time. You do not need to be an anthropologist to see that todays Romans (Italians) and Greeks do not share the same ethnicity as those in Bible times. The change came about through inter-racial marriage. The last reference to the Israelites in the Bible is 2 Kings 18:11 when they were carried off to Assyria. At this point you need to look to historical evidence for what happened to the tribes that were taken to Assyria.
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