If you can't guess the people I have in mind, I'll give you some clues --- clues found in a major world religion that is many centuries old. I'll call it Religion X.

Religion X traces its roots back to the First Couple, Adam and Eve. They were on earth before any other form of worship --- before Islam (appearing 14 centuries ago), before Hinduism or Buddhism (appearing 25 centuries ago), before even the worship of various gods in Mesopotamia (60 centuries ago).

Early on, Religion X'ers were told by their God: "Love your neighbor --- and even the stranger who dwells among you --- as much as you love yourself" (Leviticus 18:19; 19:34; Deuteronomy 10:19). But it wasn't long before Religion X began rebelling against the laws of the One who had blessed and preserved it so much. In response God warned: "All those who hate me love death."

After centuries of hating their God (which predictably led to hatred of fellow humans, God's creations), Religion X'ers were allowed by God to be conquered and transported to ancient Babylon where they experienced a 1,600-year-long "vacation."

If you haven't guessed yet, the religion I'm describing is Judaism, the religion of my people. But don't stop reading. The most shocking stuff is just ahead!

While in Babylon, the "wise men" among our people began formulating new laws which supposedly supplemented and explained the time-tested Old Testament writings. But the new rules actually contradicted and eventually replaced the original laws!

The "new and improved" laws are collectively known as the Talmud. Even though rabbis are Talmudic experts, probably not one Jew in a thousand (and not one non-Jew in ten thousand) knows what is in the Talmud. Without further delay, here's some of the Talmud's "wisdom" (plus sources):

(I) THE TALMUD HATES SCIENCE:

• Hyenas turn into bats after seven years, and later on turn into thorns and demons (Baba Kamma, 16a).

• Being naked in front of a lamp causes epilepsy (Pesahim, 112b).

• There's medicinal value in dirt found in an outhouse's shadow, also in a white dog's excrement (Gittin, 69a,b).

  (II) THE TALMUD HATES FEMALES:

• The birth of a girl is an unhappy event (Baba Bathra, 16b).

• It is never good to talk too much to women including one's own wife (Aboth, 1.5).

• All women are "temperamentally light-headed" (Kiddushin, 80b).

• It is okay to divorce your wife if she spoils your food, or if you find a more beautiful woman (Gittin, 91a).

  (III) THE TALMUD HATES CHILDREN:

• It is lawful for a girl three years old to have sexual intercourse (Abodah Zarah, 37a; Kethuboth, 11b,39a; Sanhedrin, 55b,69a,b; Yebamoth, 12a,57b,58a,60b).

• When a man commits sodomy with a boy under nine years of age, it "is not deemed as pederasty" (Sanhedrin, 54b,55a).

• Sexual intercourse with a boy under the age of eight is lawful since it isn't fornication (Sanhedrin, 69b).

  (In other words, Religion X became X-rated! Is it any wonder that many Jewish persons today are liberally involved with the current sexual revolution and are even favorable towards legalization of adult-child sex?)

  (IV) THE TALMUD HATES ALL NON-JEWS:

• Since all Gentiles are only animals, all Gentile children are bastards (Yebamoth, 98a).

• When a non-Jew robs a Jew, he has to pay him back, but if a Jew robs a non-Jew, he doesn't have to pay him back. Moreover, when a Gentile kills a Jew, the Gentile must be killed, but when a Jew kills a Gentile, "there is no death penalty" (Sanhedrin, 57a).

• It is okay to "use subterfuges" in a court of law in order to cheat a non-Jew (Baba Kamma, 113a).

  (V) THE TALMUD HATES CHRIST AND CHRISTIANS:

• Jesus was born a bastard (Jewish Encyclopedia, "Jesus"; Yebamoth, 49b).

• Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a whore and "played the harlot with carpenters" (Sanhedrin, 106a,b).

• Jesus "practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy" (Sanhedrin, 43a).

• Jesus was punished and sent to Hell where he ended up in "boiling hot excrement" (Gittin, 56b,57a).

• Christians will go to Hell "and be punished there for all generations" (Rosh Hashanah, 17a).

• Those who read "the works of the Judeo-Christians, i.e., the New Testament" will end up in Hell (Sanhedrin, 90a).

• The books of the Christians "may not be saved from a fire, but they must be burnt in their place, they and the Divine Names occurring in them" (Shabbath, 116a).

  (Now you know what's been inspiring many of the anti-Christian attitudes and actions these days.)

Whenever anyone claims that for 1500 years the Talmud needlessly aggravated Gentiles (who in turn put Jews into ghettos and even the Holocaust), Jews can look at even earlier history and claim that the "anti-Jewishness" of the New Testament forced Jews to hit back with their printed version of the Talmud.

Actually the New Testament, like a newspaper, merely reflects the true condition of Judaism at that time. If someone could prove that damaging descriptions of Jews never appeared before the New Testament, that would be one thing. But during many centuries prior to Jesus or any Christians, Jews were saying and doing the same things that we find them still saying and doing during New Testament days!

If the New Testament record of their words and works is "anti-Semitic," is the Old Testament record of the same rebelliousness just as "anti-Semitic"?

A while ago I was talking with a young woman in Los Angeles who is training to become a rabbi. I asked her about the Talmud. (She seemed shocked I should know so much about it already!) "Oh," she said, "I don't think it's as relevant as it once was." When I told her that the "hate" movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" was an amazingly accurate reflection of the Talmud --- and that more such "hate" films are in the works because Hollywood takes the Talmud seriously --- she had no explanation.

In the future when "hate" laws are passed, will the incredibly hate-filled Talmud and some hate-promoting film studios be swept under the rug?

You know what? I found out that some of the past leaders of my people lied when it came to science, women, children, non-Jews, and Christianity and its leader. I found out that Jesus is the only Messiah and Saviour for everyone on earth. I found out a lot when I prayed to Jesus and said "If you really are who you say you are in the New Testament, please reveal yourself to me and I will follow and trust you forever."

Guess what. He did and I have been. Sure there are cheap imitations of the real thing (anything of value is counterfeited), but once you really connect with Jesus, you'll know everything you need to know about salvation---your own salvation!

Not only is genuine salvation free, it makes a person free!

"Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And do not have the understanding of a man.
I neither learned wisdom
Nor have knowledge of the Holy One (Qadoshim).

Who has ascended into heaven, or descended?
Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name, and what is His Son's name,
If you know?

Every word of God (Eloah) is pure;
He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Do not add to His words,
Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar"
(Prov.30:2-6, NKJV)

"Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against Yahweh and against His Anointed, saying,
"Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us."
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
Yahweh shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
"Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion."
"I will declare the decree:
Yahweh has said to Me,
'You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.'"
Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Serve Yahweh with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him."
(Psalm 2, NKJV)

These passages provide a basis for establishing that much of what is reported from Matthew to Revelation is not heresy (as it is certainly viewed by some / most Jews) and the question of whether it is heresy turns on whether the man Ya'hshua (Jesus) of Nazareth IS Messiah (Christ) or NOT. It seems to me that this hinges on two things:

The one is whether He was anointed by God (Elohim) and the works should provide sufficient evidence that He was at the very least a GREAT PROPHET. It is my understanding that neither Jew nor Moslem dispute the fact that there was a prophet with the name of Yah'shua (Jesus) and he did perform miracles. The dispute is whether he was a prophet LIKE Moses as distinct to THE prophet foretold by Moses, etc., and this supposedly hinges primarily on the problem of prophetic perspective which results in the first and second coming being compressed into a single coming. Hence, from a Jewish perspective, Yah'shua (Jesus) cannot be Messiah because He did not fulfill ALL Messianic Prophecy.

To return to the objective. The works that Yah'shua (Jesus) performed have NOT been sufficient to persuade the Jews for 2,000 years therefore, on their own, they will not bring us to the point where "all Israel will be saved".

At this point, it seems to me that the most critical objections have been eliminated and that we are at a point where any thinking Jew can agree that if Yah'shua (Jesus) was not the Messiah, He certainly met many of the Messianic requirements in terms of being anointed, etc., and that much of what has been taught regarding Him is NOT heresy but possible.

At this point it seems necessary that we digress from scripture to harsh historical reality.

Whether one is a Messianic Israelite, Messianic Jew, Messianic Gentile, or a Christian, one must recognize some realities.

• 1. Yah'shua was a Judahite (Jew), not a Greek, so the use of Jesus Christ (a Greek name) is immediately a stumbling block which must be explicitly discounted. We must approach the Jews with Him as Yah'shua the Messiah (the Hebrew - whatever spelling you feel comfortable with) and NOT Jesus Christ;

• 2. The Gentile, Roman church departed from innumerable truths of God's Word in the first 600 years AD, including actively changing the Sabbath to the day of the Sun (Sunday), changing the Messiah's birth date from Tabernacles (or Pesach, depending on your point-of-view) to the birth date of the Sun (25 December), doing away with all sorts of other things;

• 3. People who call themselves "Christian" are guilty of massive atrocities against Jews and Moslems since about 300 AD which is about the time that the Roman Church passed an ordinance that permitted the murder of any person who did not accept Jesus Christ. This birthed the Crusades, etc. Some believe that the concept of Jihad (Moslem Holy War) was birthed in reaction to the "Christian" crusades! They learned from the Christians and yet, today, most Christians speak ill of the Moslems!

Again, there is much, much more, most of the marriage doctrine of the "Christian" church and most of the rites are pagan. Most even moderately informed Jews know this.

It is extremely sobering to sit down with a well informed Jew and ask them to tell you why Jesus cannot be the Messiah and why the Christian faith CANNOT be what it claims to be. Ask that question and then keep silent for two or three hours and listen to what you are told. Don't argue JUST LISTEN, you will be SHOCKED!

The ONLY answer with regard to this point and taking the Gospel to the Jews is, as a point of departure, for any person who calls themselves Messianic or Christian to recognise the sins of their forefathers in the faith, repent and seek the forgiveness of the person they are seeking to minister to BEFORE THEY ADDRESS ANY OF THE OTHER POINTS. When a Mesianic Jew was speaking at two business conferences in Israel in 1996, the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) instructed him to repent before the entire conference for what had been done in the name of "Jesus Christ" and to ask forgiveness. At least five or six elderly Jewish men subsequently came to him with tears in their eyes to thank him!

We too often ignore the power of repentance! It is a vital component of presenting the TRUE GOSPEL to the Jews. We MUST HUMBLE OURSELVES AND SEEK FORGIVENESS even if we ourselves are not the representatives of the apostate believers who in the name of Rome or Constantinople oppressed and murdered Jews, even if the vast majority of these Jews were not, in fact, descendants of Abraham at all, even if their forefathers were responsible for inciting so much hatred long before Christians came onto the scene (see Article #1 above)! There is much repentance to be done by Judah, Ephraim and the Japhethites who came to "dwell in the tent of Shem" and masquerade consciously or unconsciously as true Hebrews:

"May God (Elohim) enlarge Japheth,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem"
(Gen.9:27, NKJV)

From Yahweh's perspective it really doesn't matter what your racial origin is anyway. He is not interested in such things. But since many of the people who call themselves Jews at least acknowledge the Tanakh (Old Testament) we have a basis of showing them the truth of the Messiah.

There would therefore seem to be two aspects in resolving the issue of whether Yah'shua (Jesus) could have been and was the Messiah to the contemporary Tanakh-accepting Jew:

The first is to identify and show them the many dozens of key Messianic scriptures which really do fit Yah'shua unbelievably well. Most Bibles contain lists of these with their New Testament fulfilments.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. "I will put My Spirit (Ruach) within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them" (Ezek.36:26-27, NKJV)

Talmudic Judaism has had many messianic claimants, none of which have come remotely close to fulfilling all the messianic prophecies. The latest one, a Lubovicher from Israel, recently died and his followers have desperately tried to show that he rose from the dead after three days. Only Yah'shua (Jesus) son of Joseph has ever fulfilled all the messianic prophecies in the Tanakh.

Hate begets hate, murder begets murder in an endless cycle of retalliation and bitterness. Talmudic Jews and Arabs are not alone in participating in such endless spirals of violence. History is splattered with the blood of many nations bend on revenge. We have only to look at the triangle of hatred that is the curse of Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, and Muslim Bosnians & Albanians.

A friend of mine, who works as a missionary in the Republic of Israel, told me of an experience he had nearly a year ago. He was in deep prayer:

The Lord led me to ask Him to forgive the Jewish people for acts of murder that they as a people have committed", he reported. "Some of these acts of murder were identical to the acts of the Palestinian suicide bombers.

As early as 100 B.C.E., we have testimony of Jewish people who essentially committed suicide in order to give expression to their hatred of foreign rulers. When the centurion arrested Paul, he asked him if he was not that Egyptian who led out four thousand "murderers" into the desert (Acts 21:38). The word for murderers in the Hebrew translation is Sicarii, Jewish zealots who assassinated both Romans (and Jews who they believed collaborated with them.) They did this in public places and some lost their lives because they were naturally caught.

This spirit pervades this region. In 1000 C. E. (ie A. D.), there was an Islamic ruler in southern Syria who, for the right price, sent out assassins on suicide missions. They murdered at least one of the crusader kings of Jerusalem and several other prominent people among them.

The scriptures tell us "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Gal 6:7) Whenever we sow, we reap much more than we have sown, whether we are Jews or not and whether we are believers or not, because this is also true in the spiritual realm.

In the mid-forties, before Israel was declared a state, at lease two Jewish organisations planted bombs in market places here in Israel that killed many women and children. In 1956, Jewish soldiers pulled Arab women and children out of a bus, because they were late coming back from the fields, (there was a curfew in operation), lined them up and shot them all. There were no men among them with the possible exception of the bus driver. (Now two of Israel's former prime ministers, Menachem Begin and Yitschak Shamir, were both members of one of these organisations. They were responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children.)

I shared the burden that the Lord had shown me with about four leaders in the land, via email and received a single response from a prominent intercessory ministry, who picked up the burden to pray also.

I share this with you, because for the last few weeks, there have been no fatalities from suicide bombers. Several have been caught even before they planted the bombs, something that has never happened before. Now, of course, we do not ascribe this to our prayers alone, I know that the Lord has probably spoken to others as well, to pray in this way, asking Him to forgive the Jewish people for their acts of murder. Innocent blood, whether Palestinian or Jewish, cries out from the ground to God for vengeance, AND HE WILL TAKE VENGENANCE.

PLEASE PRAY WITH US, ASKING THE LORD TO FORGIVE HIS PEOPLE FOR THE ACTS OF TERRORISM THAT THEY THEMSELVES COMMITTED.

PRAY ALSO THAT THE BODY OF MESSAIH IN THE WILL TAKE UP THIS BURDEN AND REPENT ON BEHALF OF THE JEWSIH PEOPLE FOR THEIR SINS. (See Lev 26:40 - 42 were the people are required to repent for the sins of their forefathers and Dan 9:1 - 19, where Daniel repents not only for his own sins and those of the people, but also for the sins of his forefathers.)

I don't know how this comes across on paper, but we always maintain a sympathetic attitude to the Jewish people.

Yahweh bless you and keep you. Yahweh make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. Yahweh lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

All Messianics are aware of the fact that the Jews celebrate the seven mandatory festivals of Yahweh, plus Hanukkah and Purim, to which has been added much tradition. Many are aware that the Jews have created other festivals and holidays to commemorate secular events like the foundation of the Israeli State and a memorial to the Holocaust, but what most Messianics may not realise is that they have added (in time honoured apostate tradition) other festivals of a definite PAGAN origin (for which they were condemned in Biblical times) which are even today bringing Yahweh's wrath upon them. One of these is the festival of Lag B'Omer.

This year (2002) Lag B'Omer fell on 30 March and contains elements reminiscent of Bacchus and Molech worship. Excess alcohol consumption marks the beginning of the festivities and results in wild ecstatic dancing as people become demonised and collapse on the ground. Every year over 200,000 ultra-orthodox Jews get together on Mount Meron right next to Safed. There is no explanation for this celebration in any Jewish sources. However, it does not give glory to Yahweh and many believe that it is tied in to the worship of Molech and child sacrifice. There has always been a powerful occultic backlash when believers have prayed against demonic forces involved in this festival. So if you do go into interession at this time, remember to cover yourself properly.

Yah L'achim is a virulently anti-Christ organisation in the Republic of Israel that sends out spies to Messianic and Christian organisations and assemblies/churches. Having infilitrated them, mobs are often sent around to believer's and especially foreign missionaries' homes. Frequently the Israeli police do nothing to intervene in such situations. On the eve of the millennial shift the Israeli state used "millennial fever" stirring up unrest as the excuse for the explusion of large number of Christian and Messianic missionaries.

Whatever we as believers may do, we must never respond in kind to such antimessiah forces which will increase everywhere as the Second Coming approaches, no less in the Republic of Israel than anywhere else. In 1 Kings 4:29 we read: "Yahweh gave Solomon (Shlomo) ... LARGENESS OF HEART, even as the sand that is on the seashore". Yahweh gave Solomon largeness of heart in order to accommodate all His people. The Hebrew word means "width" or "wideness". From this root comes the words "street" and "Rechovot" the name of the third well that Isaac dug and over which there was no contention. I can also mean a "wide space." May The Lord Yah'shua (Jesus) give us all "wideness of heart" so that our hearts can accommodate not only all the saints but even our enemies in love and prayer.

Lublin was, before the war, a major centre of Talmudic Judaism. The Nazis built a concentration camp at Majdanek in 1941 and murdered most of them. The holocaust has made an indellible mark on the Jewish mind which will probably never be erased from their psyche. Many of their fears and complexes, and irrational and reflexive backlashes against criticism of their faith, stems from this horrific time. The story I am about to tell today will show a rather unfamiliar and unusual way to approach Talmudic Jews with the message of salvation but which I feel will characterise the path of witness which lies before us in these end-times.

A reason many people refuse to accept the Messiah Yah'shua (Jesus Christ) is because of family curses that may extend back many generations. Such curses are often also the cause of bad health, poverty, failed marriages, alcoholism, and so forth. For not only are Jews opposed by the powerful occultic spirit of Talmudic Judaism which keeps them in bondage, but also by a paralysing spirit of fear caused by such things as the holocaust. In the minds of most Jews, the Nazis were "Christians". Therefore to them Nazi = Christ. False though such an association is (for no true Spirit-born Christian would ever do such an evil), it is nevertheless a demonic block that has to be confronted.

A lady called Manya who came for deliverance ministry. During the deliverance session she felt inspired to pray for three of her deceased Polish-Jewish relations whom she saw in vision with her eyes wide open. She was astonished to to find that these three relatives brought with them hundreds of dishevelled Polish Jews, heads lowered, filing out of concentration camps and shuffling towards the altar in the Protestant Church where the session was being held. When Manya was about to walk up the aisle to receive the Eucharist (Lord's Supper), she felt impeded because it seemed to her that all the aisles were jammed with this refugees. As she continued to pray, Manya saw Yah'shua (Jesus) standing at the altar waiting to welcome them. They approached and looked up at Him and then started to dance and sing Halleluyahs as the angels led them up into a bright light behind the altar.

Even after the meeting was over, more refugees continued to stream up the aisle. Manya and several other people srayed in the church praying for all Jewish people although there had been no mention of Jews. They saw many of them being set free at the altar. Manya's husband, a minister, shared in this very real experience and was so much affected by it that he called together his congregation and held a Eucharist of the Resurrection when he returned home. He had witnessed how Yah'shua (Jesus) frees and releases those who come to Him not only during the Eucharist but outside it. Thus Yah'shua (Jesus) asks us to continue to love the dead (not try to communicate with them ... that's spiritualism and it is forbidden) for whom we have prayed, both during and after the Eucharist.

This kind of intercessory work is essential and is intimately connected with the spirit of Elijah even as it is recorded:

"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord (Yahweh) comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse" (Malachi 4:5-6, NIV).

Elijah preceded Elisha, whose ministry was one of judgment and redemption, to "Elijah" will be sent to prepare Yahweh's people for Yah'shua's coming. John the Baptist administered in this same spirit, "in the spirit and power of Elijah" (Lk.1:17; cp. Mt.11:13-14; 17:12-13; Mk.9:11-13) who was a prophet. It is the calling of end-time prophets to minister in the same spirit, not just on behalf of the living but on behalf of the dead through intercessory prayer. And whilst all those who accept Yah'shua (Jesus) as Messiah possess a portion of this spirit (since the testimony of Yah'shua/Jesus is the spirit of prophecy - Rev.19:10), we are all responsible for praying for our family lines.

Many believe that one of the two witnesses in Revelation 11:3 is the translated Elijah and this may well be true (the other being Moses) but more importantly these two end-time "spirits" will prevail over the remant believers - the spirit of Elijah (healing the generations) and the spirit of Moses (the restoration of Torah and judgment).

The prophecy of Malachi is a double one. On the one hand, it looked forward to the first advent of the Messiah who was visited by Moses and Elijah (representing also the Law and the Prophets) on the Mount of Transfiguration in front of Peter (Kefa), James (Yak'ov) and John (Yochannan) and the judgment of Israel (Judah) for rejecting the Messiah. This rejection has resulted in the terrible sufferings of the Jews who were sent into exile (again) for nearly 2,000 years, as well as those gentiles (like the Khazars) who linked themselves to them by converting to Talmudic Judaism. This passage in Malachi therefore applies both to the First Advent of Christ as well as to the Second. And as believers we stand as an army of John the Baptists operating in the spirit of Elijah and called into intercessory prayer for the living, our ancestors, and the ancestors of others who come to us for help.

The land of Israel, then under Roman occuptation, was indeed struck with a curse and it became a barren and unproductive place for many generations. But the second curse, which is of world judgment, will affect the whole planet, as is graphically described in the Book of Revelation and elsewhere. The Book of Malachi is, in fact, a shadow of the Book of Revelation.

The story of Manya, and indeed of many others, brings hope to Talmudic Jews. It shows that Yahweh loves them and is offering them salvation and peace if they will but receive the Messiah Yah'shua (Jesus Christ). It has been my pleasure to lead Jews to Christ and to watch their spiritual transformation as they have accepted Yah'shua as the long-awaited Messiah. But it has also been my sorrow to watch many of them reject His Deity and to fall back into the demonic clutches of Talmudism with all its racism, hatred and murderous intent. We have a work to do that affects not only those who are alive in this world but those who are languishing in the world of spirits awaiting the resurrection. It is for us to turn our hearts forwards to the unsaved around us, and backwards to our ancestors in intercessiory prayer.

The doctrine that Israel consists of all the descendants of Jacob who have received Yah'shua (Jesus) as their Messiah (Christ) plus those gentiles who accept the same and are grafted into Israel, is liked neither by Torah-rejecting "orthodox" Christians espousing the erroneous "Replacement Theology", by Messianic Jews who think they alone are the inheritors of the Holy Land, nor by unbelieving Talmudic (for the most part, Khazar) Jews whose feelings towards anyone who accepts the Messiah (or whatever stripe) are most clearly reflected in this letter which I obtained on 15 March 2003:

"Christian State of Israel??? You got to be kidding me. Why would Jews embrace the gutter faith of christerdom. You scumbags have been killing Jews for the last 2000 years and you think that we are going to accept your murderous creed? Let me tell you something: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A JEWISH NATION, IT DOES NOT MATTER IF WE HAVE OUR HOMELAND, THE JEWISH NATION WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED, NO MATTER HOW JEWS ARE KILLED BY YOU christers & AND YOUR towelheaded PARTNERS IN CRIME."

Both 'Jews' and 'gentiles' acknowledge that the tribes are all mixed either with each other or with the gentiles. This being the case, how can there be twelve separate tribes in their own allottments in the millennial Holy Land as depicted by Ezekiel? Then there are the 'Christians' who claim that the 'Church' and 'Israel' are two separate entities, but when you ask them to identify and point out 'Israel' can show you the Republic of 'Israel' and the mixed bag of Khazars, Ethiopians and others who live there or around the world. Ask them where the 12 separate tribes are and they have no idea. For them a 'Jew' somehow encompasses them all and they don't even consider the Northern Kingdom's dispersion.

If "they are not all Israel who are of Israel" (Rom.9:6-7, NKJV), then what of those who are not of Israel and who say they are? And is it not beyond the realms of possibility that people who say they are one thing - however passionately they may believe it to be so - may not actually be so? Is it unreasonable to posit such a question? In Germany after the war many Turks migrated there seeking work. Today they call themselves Germans of Turkish origin. In a thousand years after further amalgamation would they still use such a distinction? They would probably just call themselves Germans and by intermarriage acquire German surnames. And yet they would not be ethnic Germans.

This is not, I hasten to add, a question of racism. I personally do not care what race people come from. They are all the same to me and I treat them all alike. Pole, Arab, Jew, Turk, German - they are all equal to me. And to Yahweh our Father who is no respecter of persons they are all His spiritual offspring. There are no pure races anymore anyway. We are all mixed. And this is what Yahweh promised Abraham - He said that all the nations of the planet would be blessed by seed, and they have. Through diaspora and various other means the blood of Israel has mingled with all nations and all races. Black, white, brown, or yellow, there you will find the seed of Abraham. There you will find Israel.

I think Yahweh has effected a brilliant coup with makes nonsense of the racism of Jews, Arabs, and anyone else who thinks they belong to a 'master race' or to a 'racial apple of God's eye'. The only people whom God favours are those who love and obey Him. They are the apple of His eye. And yet we are led to understand in Ezekiel that there will be 12 distinct tribes, in Romans that "all Israel will be saved" (Rom.11:26), and in Hebrews (quoting the prophet Jeremiah) that Yahweh will make a covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah - with both Houses (Heb.8:8)? Yes, these things are all written, and if you believe in the infallibility of Scripture, as I do, then you are forced to deal with them. And finally, the Book of Revelation tells us that the New Jerusalem will have 12 gates for each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, proving that they are destined to remain as separate entities into the eternities (Rev.21:12-13).

You and I may not have labels on us but I promise you that if you are a genuine believer in the Lord Yah'shua (Jesus) and you obey Torah that you are marked by heaven as belonging to one of the Twelve Tribes, whether by descent or by adoption. If you are a Torah-observant Christian you are Israel - and there is no other Israel, republics or religious groups of the same name notwithstanding. You may not be in the Holy Land right now but that doesn't mean you aren't going to be there some millennial day. And a day will come when the Master will separate us out by our tribes and command us to take up our inheritance in that land of our forefather Abraham. And though Talmudic Jews may rant and rave as the writer above did, it will do them no earthly or heavenly good because they will be displaced by haShem if they have not repented and received the true Messiah whom they have reviled, persecuted, and killed. If they receive Him, they will be forgiven. If they do not, they will be cast out of the land which they are illegally occupying, along with all the other heathen who name other gods.

"I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, "LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"? But what does the divine response say to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." Even so then, at this present time 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? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor,Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear,To this very day."

And David says:

"Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always." I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

"The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them,When I take away their sins."

Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! "For who has known the mind of Yahweh? Or who has become His counselor?" "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?" For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen" (Rom 11, NKJV).

This then is the warning to all true Jews - the Judahites, or descendants of Abraham by race and not by religion - if you don't repent and accept Yah'shua (Jesus) as your Messiah, you will as a Branch be cut off (above left). For Israel - as Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Paul clearly teach - consists of both Judah and Ephraim (above right), which become a single Tree or House of Israel. And if you are neither Judah nor Ephraim, and yet are claiming to be so, you will be exposed as liars and counterfeits unless you repent and be grafted into the Tree of Israel in the manner designated by Yahweh.

So how will all Israel be saved? Isn't that obvious? Only those who believe in Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) will be saved, and only those who believe in Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) are Israel. It follows, then, that all Israel will be saved since all true believers are saved. And it also follows that all those who receive the Messiah are natural Israelites and those who do not are not ... once their opportunity to repent has passed. And since none of us know when that will be, it is best we leave such judgment in the hands of the Elohim (God).

I get all kinds of hate mail from both Talmudic and (sadly) sometimes Messianic Jews who are offended because I challenge the history of their national origin. One man recently wrote to me and without even introducing himself or trying to make human contact, decided he would lecture me as a teacher and I, as his unwilling pupil, to prove that he knew more than I did about Torah and that therefore I had no business observing it. He demanded, therefore, that I tell him the three types of Jew. To which I replied:

"Orange Jews, Apple Jews, and Apricot Jews"