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nation void of understanding . . . </SPAN></U></P> </LAYER></DIV><DIV ID="Text110LYR" CLASS="TextObject"><LAYER ID="Text110LYR" VISIBILITY=INHERIT TOP=54 LEFT=17 WIDTH=566 HEIGHT=4731 Z-INDEX=2> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; One has to distinguish between church-bashing and telling a very unflattering truth. It is a fact that there is much error and falsehood in the history of the Church corporate, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Now, I was taught that when pointing the finger at anybody else, I must remember that three fingers are pointing back at me and the thumb is pointing toward heaven, where I should be looking. One cannot question the truth of any analogy when it causes one to humble themselves and be circumspect. Nevertheless, we can t avoid the elephant in the corner of the room. This article is not devoted to Israel s mistakes but to the Church s. This is not denying we made mistakes. We certainly did and we certainly were ignorant of many things. Each generation was blessed, praised or condemned by God for their virtues and vices. But as an institution he never said we were perpetually and completely void of understanding.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; And yet this is the prophecy of the Church that Moses was given in his <A HREF="../html/the_song_of_moses.html">song of departure</A>:  I will provoke them [Israel] to jealously with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. Ancient Hebrew was a language of communicating in little bursts forward, advancing cautiously to the point. A statement was made, then the next statement reflects a piece taken from the earlier one, and it is progressed with. On a graph it looks like advancing bars, each overlapping the one before it a little. Moses statement is a text book example of that form of communication.  Them that are no nation definitely means a people but they are not one political or ethnic entity.  Nation void of understanding, however, qualifies that this non-ethnicity is indeed mighty and large enough to rank as a nation.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; I don t think anybody can disagree with this as a clear prophecy of the Christian Church corporate. Even Paul caught the inference and mentioned it. The difference is that he didn t realize the rift between Jewry and Christianity would last so long and that Christianity initially would absorb so much paganism. More than anything, it is the paganizing of Christianity centered in Rome and Constantinople that ultimately repulsed and very frequently angered Jews. We were the ones who had awaited the Messiah. The Messiah was to make the whole world one, Jews and Gentiles together in peace and righteousness. But look at what Rome was doing? We were getting persecuted and cut out of the picture. We didn t think that was the way it was supposed to work. And certainly there wasn t supposed to be any <A HREF="../html/trinity.html">trinity</A>, Latin concepts, and Hail Mary, Mother of God, with or without the football. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Let s pursue what happened here. The Church looks back on 2000 years regarding it as a period of triumph when according to scripture the institution as a corporate entity was one that would anger Jewry, and it was an institution that was void of understanding. They are harsh words, but they are Moses and, in truth, they are God s words. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Moses long <A HREF="../html/the_song_of_moses.html">song of departure</A> is a general chronology of all that will happen to Israel. It begins at Dev. 32:2 and ends at verse 43. It makes it very clear at the end (in verses 39-40) that God will stand upon the earth. In between, Moses speaks at length of how Israel will provoke God with idols and with worshiping other gods. In verse 19 it reads:  And the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">ORD</SPAN> saw and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters, and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what will happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom there is no faith. </P> <P>&nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">They have provoked me to jealousy with <I>that which is</I> not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">22 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">For a fire hath been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">23 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">24 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"><I>They shall be</I> consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of <I>serpents</I> creeping on the ground. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">25 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror <I>shall issue</I> out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 9pt;">26 </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men; but I feared it might provoke the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say,  Our own high arm, and not the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, hath done all these things. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Therefore God would not destroy us entirely. He declared he would repent himself (verse 36) when he sees how feeble we have become in his forsaking of us. Instead he declares to them (in verse 39)  See now that I am he and the famous verses follow of God being on earth and lifting his hand <I>to</I> heaven. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; The subtlety of prophetic context is amazing. Not only did the wording prepare our fathers for the advent of God among us, but now, in retrospect, we see how the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> is calling out to us after so long a captivity and scattering to  See now that I, even I, am he -- that Jesus is God with Us. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; But during this long captivity we have been provoked to jealousy by the Church or corporate Christianity. Yet we must ask, what have we seen in this time? </SPAN>Regardless of New Testament warnings about mixing paganism with the church, angel worship and prayers to  saints dominated Christianity for over a thousand years, and it is still a major factor in the Catholic superstition. Much of the form and substance of Roman and Greek orthodox worship was merely the  christianizing of Roman and Greek paganism, with its patron deities, penates, and many household idols. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bizarre misunderstandings of actual Christian ritual crept in early. Transubstantiation is one. This is the belief that the wine and bread of the Eucharist actually becomes the blood and flesh of Jesus upon ingestion. This distorted belief became even more distorted before it reached the ears of Roman governors. Once it did, they were sure Christians were cannibals and atheists. It was their solemn duty to civilization to wipe out this bizarre cult. Thus, the major Christian persecutions ensued. Transubstantiation&nbsp; is still endorsed by Catholicism and, amazingly, Lutheranism.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; The christianizing of paganism worked in the opposite direction as well-- the paganizing of Christianity.&nbsp; It is an unusual mixture that produced much of Catholicism and eastern Orthodox cosmic mentality. Asteroth had been called  Queen of Heaven by the pagans. Hera was wife of Zeus and Queen of the gods. Not so surprisingly Mary began to figure in the Christian pantheon as a deity or demigod. She became  Queen of heaven and Mother of God. Gross, to say the least. Many saints were incorporated into the divine sphere, just like the lesser Greek gods and demigods were satellites for the major Olympian gods. Mary and Jesus occupied the top, being surrounded by demigods now called saints. Apostles were a major part of that sphere, and certain saints just like their patron deity predecessors protected certain activities and patronized certain and specific areas of everyday life, like the kitchen, the field, animals, etc. Statues are still paraded around on saints days, carried upon a large platform just like in the days of Roman and Greek festivals when the idol was brought out and paraded around.&nbsp; </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; To medieval Jews this <I>was </I>Christianity. And, <I>in fact</I>, it was. This was not an era where you disagreed with the hierarchy and formed your own church down the road. You were rooted out and torched. You didn t agree with this form and appearance and you had to keep relatively quiet and obscure. The corporate church, visible and powerful, was paganized. Sometimes the rituals were so close to pagan rituals and festivals that names had merely been changed. Apollo was gone, so was Aphrodite. In their place were saints. Cold idols were dressed in different, less skimpy clothes, but idols they were. Demigods were no more, but man could still rise to be quasi divine by being an exceptionally good Christian. Heroes like Hercules had done so, but not by being a good Christian but by being a great humanistic mighty man. Now those exceptionally righteous became saints. They, too, received prayer from mortals, and assisted them. This is <I>not </I>a saint. This is a demigod, pure and simple.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; On top of them all was  God. The God was the God of Israel, and Jesus was the  Son, who, as far as Jews were concerned had been a carpenter in Nazareth long before. It must have been an interesting source of frustration to medieval Jews to walk about Europe and be confronted with statues of Jesus, Mary, and who knows else, all these Jews of 1000 or more years before.&nbsp; Apostle images were everywhere-- 12 Jews who lived a long time ago. Paul was being preached by all the clergy-- another Jew with ideas hard to understand. How bizarre in Jewish eyes! The whole world was changed in veneer and some practices; images in stone were different, but underneath it all it was remarkably the same as Greco-Roman paganism. The same name was even kept: Roman Catholic, the Universal Roman Religion of the Caesars and Empire. The difference now was that it was all cannibalized to hold biblical motifs, and the pantheon was replaced by Jews. The supreme God was acknowledged to be the God of Israel. In fact, Christianity insisted there was no other God. Though they prayed to a myriad of forms, none would ever form an image of  God. This was stopped at Jesus and Mary.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; We were scattered about the earth, strange outcasts amidst a former paganism dominated by the bible stories of God s great doings. We were persecuted as  Christ killers, even though that entire generation had perished long ago. All western religion came from our own background, though now it was twisted and perverse. The temple had long been destroyed, and we had been in captivity for over 1000 years. By the time of the Reformation, about 1400 years. Longer than any time before. No prophets. No continuing revelation. Scattering-- according to scripture a sign of God s curse and not blessing. </P> <P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> And it shall come to pass that as the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> will rejoice over you to destroy you; and ye shall be quickly removed from the land, into which ye go to inherit it. And the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> thy God shall scatter thee among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone, which thou hast not known, nor thy fathers. Moreover among those nations he will not give thee quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of thy foot have rest; and the L</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"> shall give thee there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul. And thy life shall be in suspense before thine eyes; and thou shalt be afraid by day and by night, and thou shalt have no assurance of thy life&  </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Was this because of the direct word given to Moses by God on Horeb? He said he would raise up a prophet from amongst us, like Moses, born of our people, and if we didn t hearken unto him, he would take vengeance on us. Could all this persecution and scattering be the result of not hearkening unto  that prophet? But how could Jesus be that prophet? After all, look at the nations and how idolatrous they are. True, it is now tailored to a Jewish motif . . . but look at it all! Sadly, it was such a nation void of understanding that it was unrecognizable to Jews as related to anything in scripture. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Reformation brought with it something more tolerable to Jews: no idolatry of any kind. The Protestants had no statuary and condemned the Church of Rome for allowing itself to become so pagan and corrupt. But though Protestantism rebelled against the authority of Rome, it did not rebel against many of the tenets that Rome itself had inherited from the early Greco-Roman church. The foremost was <A HREF="../html/trinity.html">Trinity</A>, the peculiar and very unbibilical view in a god who was a triad. Such a concept was well known in paganism, especially Egyptian and Roman religions. It is very possible that the Capitoline triad of Juno, Jupiter and Minerva served as the inspiration to mold God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost into one entity and yet keep them as separate entities fulfilling different aspects and functions. (See <A HREF="../html/the_shema_one_.html">Echod</A>)</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Luther seemed a Godsend. He believed that reformation from Catholicism would reveal the truth of Christianity to Jews. When Jews didn t convert, he became rancid against them. We were  vermin. Not an endearing term. Was it just us  dirty Jews, or were there things in Protestantism that seemed wholly unbiblical? Well, there was hardness on our parts, too, but Protestantism and Lutheranism were carrying over some peculiar ideas. God would not have us absorbed, and one of the worst carry-overs among Protestantism was the vulgar <A HREF="../html/supersessionism.html">supersessionism</A> which would have destroyed Israel as a people. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Hand-in-hand with this concept went the concept of the  <A HREF="../html/_old_testament_.html">Old Testament</A> . With the Scriptures accorded secondary status the idea of a <A HREF="../html/trinity.html">Trinity</A> went unchallenged. This was outright paganism to Jews. There s an old joke about a Jew in Rome who gets run down outside of a church. People gather around and a priest comes running out concerned for his salvation and kneels beside him.  My son, do you believe in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit? The Jew looks up.  I m dying and he asks me riddles? </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Because Protestantism s avid evangelizing a new form of Gnosticism emerged-- vain theorizing inspired by New Testament passages. Before Catholicism squelched it, <A HREF="../html/gnosticism.html">Gnosticism</A> had thrived amongst the Greek Christians through rationalizing Jesus with Greek concepts. The orthodox church attempted to fight it with Scripture, but soon Gnostics like Marcion did away with Scripture and relied on selective New Testament books and arguments. He created a sect of Christianity that lasted for a few hundred years. He advocated celibacy and other ideas based merely on passing comments by his favorite apostle, Paul. The new Protestantism would wipe out the paganism of Rome and its attraction to Mary and saints, but it carried over the concepts of <A HREF="../html/supersessionism.html">Supersessionism</A> and used it to anchor many unusual doctrines derived from a purely Pharisaic use of the New Testament. Oy. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; A major confusing one was to do away with Israel as an entity. References to  true Israel and  all Israel is not Israel and  Israel of God were taken out of their Hasidic sense and declared to be referring to the true Church. Many Gentile fundamentalists believe that any reference to Israel really refers to them now because Israel typified the Church in the  Old Testament. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremiah 23 makes it plain how the word of God is to be proclaimed, if one truly has it. None of the apostles asserted this for their own writings. They insisted that Scripture be used as the authority of the church. With time, however, that  nation void of understanding turned the books it liked into the New Testament and ordained these as the words of God. For Protestantism, teachings largely derive in a Pharisaical manner from New Testament passages. Your personal acknowledgment of doctrines, often manmade and derived from expressions or even just a word in the New Testament, indicated whether you were saved or not.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; So many teachings, often contradictory, have come from Protestantism that it is not possible to even touch on them all. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yet God s hand has not been hidden all this time. He is breaking up <A HREF="../html/christian_canon___creeds.html">Christian Phariseeism</A> to open the doors for Jews. <A HREF="../html/supersessionism.html">Supersessionism</A> is crumbling as a result. An adulation (not always good, of course) of Jews has emerged from many sects in Christianity. This often protects a growing Jewish Messianism from more fundamentalist supersessionists and missionaries who seek to stop the  Sabbath keepers. Messianic Jewry is beginning to thrive. The hand of God is obvious, and it should cause chills upon the nations spines. He said he would restore Israel. This means the children of Jacob, the Hebrews. This means more than politics. He is restoring his soul to his people that we should not be void of understanding. God has plundered the nations and taken those who believed upon him. In the midst of their foolishness he has been gracious.</P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Many of the fundamentalists are greeting many of the changes as signs of the last days apostasy, an apostasy they can t even find in scripture (and which contradict the gospels and Isaiah 9). They wait eagerly for Christ to return, seeing all the immorality in the Church as a sign of his coming.  Liberals are allowing anything. The church traditional, that  nation void of understanding, is beset by many factions. Its eyes are off of a movement which is in God s own hand: Messianic Jewry-- true Judaism. </P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp; Hard days come. Jewish believers are fighting being absorbed. But a strange thing has happened to mainstream Jewry. In only 40 years of secular liberalism we have arisen to  play, to forget God s moral codes, to forget our past, and to be worse in sin than the nations. But now a new generation is seeking God in substance, seeing how easily the old generation, steeped only in mere ritualistic traditions, went backsliding. It is now that God is calling his people back. Messianic Jews must start proclaiming the good news maintained in the first benediction of the <A HREF="../html/shemoneh_esreh_.html">Amidah</A>. God has sent the Redeemer promised to us. God is one. <I>He has walked among us</I>. Jacob will believe this. Search the great vault of history and see how his word cannot be voided. </P> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(0,51,102);">Behold, the eyes of the Lord G<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">OD</SPAN> are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: That they may possess the remnant of mankind, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN> that doeth this. Behold, the days come, saith the L<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt;">ORD</SPAN>, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 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