The Son of G-d

Yochannan 3:16 says: "For G-d so loved the World that He sent his Only-Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This statement raises the question about other Sons of G-d. Were their others who were considered Sons of G-d?

In the Septuagint Translation into Greek, which was made in the last 3rd Century before the Common Era, it says at Deuteronomy 32:8 "When (El) Elyon divided the Nations (Goyim), when he separated the Sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the Angels of G-d (Aggeloi Theou)." But in the unique scripture tradition among the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls community, to which Yeshua belonged, it says: "When (El) Elyon divided the Nations (Goyim), when he separated the Sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the Sons of G-d (Bnai Elohim)." Both versions go on to say that YHVH's portion was Ya'akov which implies that either YHVH is an angel or a Son of G-d.

In the Septuagint Translation into Greek, Job 1:6 says: "It came to pass on a day, that, behold the Angels of G-d (Aggeloi Theou) came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them." However, the New American Bible, the official American Catholic version of the Bible, says: "And so one day, when the Sons of G-d came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them."

In the Lucan Geneology of Yeshua, Luke 3:38, says in giving the final people in his geneology, "... the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the Son of G-d."

Although the Nicene Creed specifically says that Jesus is the only Son of G-d, that statement is categorically contrary to Scripture. Either the Scripture is the Inspired Word of G-d or it is not. We see from these passages cited above that Sons of G-d can be Angels, Men, and I would argue one other kind of entity, Elementals. I would argue that the Elohim are Elementals. In fact, I would argue that the Elementals are the various earth, water, fire and air spirits which we used to call G-ds. So, was Yeshua the only-begotten Son of G-d?

The answer to this question is likewise not as easy as it would seem. The Zohar, the mystical commentary on the Torah, which, with the Sefer Yetzirah and the Bahir, form the Holy Kabbalah, says that the Archangel Metatron would have seven incarnations. This information is important because the Archangel Metatron is the active agent in the Universe, the King if you will. He has the power to forgive sins. He is obeyed and adored by the Angels and Elementals. He even in the Zohar is equated with YHVH. Therefore, if YHVH, also known as, Metatron, would have seven incarnations, was Yeshua one of those incarnations? I believe He was the Seventh. The first was Enoch whose body was filled with the Spirit of Metatron and became one with the Archangel upon his translation. The second was Noach. The third was Melchizedek. The fourth was Yoshua bar Nun, the aide-de-camp of Moshe, and the one who led the Children of Israel into the Promised Land. The fifth was Solomon the King. The sixth was Yeshua, the High Priest during the time of Zerubbabel and Ezra and the last was Yeshua the adopted son of Joseph whose real father was none other than Enoch, the first incarnation of YHVH. Very really, Yeshua was the Son of the Divine Being, YHVH, the G-d of Israel.

Today, as we celebrate the birth of Yeshua, perhaps we should see it as a reaffirmation that YHVH, the creator and true Son of the G-d El Elyon, the King of the Universe, is anxious to be part of our World. He is not Dead. He lives and continues to minister to us, whether in the form of Yeshua or the form of YHVH. There is truly Hope because He knows what it is like to be Human.

Have the Jews Returned?

Many prophecies predict that the Jews will return to Israel in the Last Days and use this claim to say that it is the last days. However, the claim is neither true nor does it really say what it appears to say. The Judahites or Jews went into captivity in Babylon in the sixth century before Christ. It is not clear how many went to Babylon, but certainly not everyone. It is estimated that at the time of the destruction of the first Temple, there were 50,000 people in Judah and Benjamin had long before been absorbed into that tribe's territory. If the prominent people were taken away and we are generous, we might say that 7,000 were taken away. That number does not consist of all; it consists of 35%. Most of the Jews were left in Judah. 

Now some 70 years later a group of Jews returned to Judah. They purified those who came back and those who stayed and anyone who had a foreign wife was excluded from the people. For the next 1000 years, Babylon and later Babylon and Alexandria were the primary places that Jews lived. The more authoritative Talmud is called the Bavli or Babylonian Talmud as it was written in Babylon were most of the Jewish scholars lived and where its teachings had a greater importance. At the time of Jesus, it is estimated that there were some 16,000,000 Jews in the world who identified themselves as Jewish and may be twice that number that had fallen away due to the captivity. About 1,000,000 of these people lived in the territory of Herod the Great. At the same time, there probably were 1,000,000 Jews living in Parthian territory including Babylon and 1,000,000 Jews living in or around Alexandria in Egypt. It is because the vast majority of Jews did not live in Palestina that Phariseeism or Rabbinic Judaism was able to establish itself as supreme after the destruction of the second Temple. 

At the time of the Bar Kochba revolution in 132 C.E., there were about 2,000,000 persons in the same area as was the domain of Herod the Great. One half of those people were Nasorean Jews, follows of Jesus; the other half were Pharisees. The other 21 sects of Judaism were gone. Between 70 A.D. and 135 A.D., most Jews were forced to leave Judah. 

Today, there are 12,000,000 people who claim to be Jews. But, there are 150,000,000 people who descend from Jacob.  The prophecies of the return that were given by Jeremiah talk about two separate returns. The first return is spoken of in Jeremiah 16:14-15.That prophecy says that G-d will bring the Israelites home from all the lands to which he had banished them. It is important to realize that Israel and Jacob are the same persons, but that Jacob is the man before he was renewed by his struggle with the Archangel of the Presence and Israel is that man after the struggle. Thus, Israelites are believers in the Jewish faith, but the descendants of Jacob may or may not be believers. The first return happened when the Jews came back from Babylon. They were Israelites, all believers. Most of the Jews stayed in Babylon because they were not Israelites, the were not believers. This prophecy has been fulfilled. 

However, Jeremiah 23:7-8 talk about another return. This return will be of all the descendants of the house of Israel. Thus it includes those who remained Jewish after the first return and those who did not. The number included in this return is 150,000,000. Israel today is composed of roughly 2.75 million believing Jews, 2.75 million secular Jews, and 1.5 million Christians, Bahai, Druze, Muslim and other religious groups. So, the Israel of today is neither the result of the first return or the second return. It is not the Israel spoken of in prophecy. 

Many Christians support Israel because they believe that this first prophecy applies to today. It does not. The most orthodox Jews, the Hasids, deny that Israel is the Israel of prophecy. The establishment of the State of Israel is catalyst for the fulfillment of many prophecies, but it is not the promised return. That is still to happen. For that reason, we should not support Israel because it is the Holy Land, but rather because it is a democratic, civilized, modern and forward thinking nation. 

The most important sign of  the End Times has not happened. And we know it. Because the second important sign of the End Times will be the rebuilding of the Temple and that has not happened either. 

Sunrise Services on Easter Morning

The Easter Vigil from the rise of the Antiochan church forward was the central most important religious service of the ancient church. Before that time, the Patriarchs of Jerusalem, all brethren of Yeshua (Jesus) and Ya'akov (James), kept the church pure from the celebration of non-biblical feasts. The Antiochan church was free to take control of the incipient Paulinism after 135 C.E. with the destruction of the Nasorean Church. The Easter Vigil was the climax of a long period of preparation for baptism. 

Around A.D. 150 Christians generally agreed that becoming a Christian involved three stages. The first stage was an initial assent to the faith—what we would call today "accepting Christ as your personal Savior." The second stage was a probationary period during which the new believer was expected to show the sincerity of his or her new faith by a real change in life patterns. Justin Martyr delineates three requirements for this stage: sorrow for sin, learning and accepting the church's teachings, and transforming one's life. The third stage was the baptismal period: believers were required to fast and pray for several days before Easter and were baptized on Easter morning. Through baptism on Easter the new convert participated in the consummation of the Lord's passion and entered into the new life as a Christian sealed in Jesus' resurrection.

By the early third century this pattern had become firmly established. The first stage of coming to faith involved an examination of the circumstances under which the convert came to faith, the testimony of sponsors, and the convert's promise to live as a believer. The second stage involved a full three years of catechetical training. And the third stage, beginning with another examination to determine whether the candidate had lived piously and done good works, took the form of a full week of daily exorcisms, services, prayers, fasting on the final Friday and Saturday, and an all-night vigil of prayer and Scripture reading leading to baptism at Easter dawn.

However, with the rise of protestantism many of the most ancient traditions of the Church were set aside. The Moravians in the United States originated a new tradition of a sunrise celebration in a cemetery to remember the resurrection of Yeshua. 

Come, Come Ye Saints

In the early church, the people who came to believe in the Nasorean faith were called Saints. This was not a name taken light

A Response to Greg Braden's Divine Matrix

In his book, the Divine Matrix, Greg Braden tries to show his belief system in a scientific way. Unfortunately, the basic truth of his book is that we live in a quantum universe and then he ignores that fact. He starts his book with key points and illustrates his meaning in each key point with an anecdote. However, in a quantum universe anecdotes are meaningless because cause and effect are not connected. Thus, he never proves his beliefs; he merely posits them and expects you to accept the belief based on his interpretation of the anecdote. I want to take you through the 20 Key Points in his book and to show you those which are not based in reality. 

Key Point One:  The Divine Matrix is the CONTAINER that holds the universe, the bridge between all things, and the mirror that shows us what we have created. 

In listening to Greg talk, he would have you believe that this Divine Matrix is the "thing" between the points, the filling between matter. Science is concluding that this is called Dark Matter. He calls it something else. Kabbalah would call it Light. Now Greg says that the Thing is the Bridge between all things because he believes that energy can only be transmitted if there is matter to transmit it through. He never proves that such is the case and science does not know that for sure. Lastly, he says the Divine Matrix is the Mirror that shows us what we have created, but we have to get to the end of the book to discover that the Mirror mirrors our feelings, emotions and beliefs. It is entirely in this concept that the book fails. 

The Divine Matrix is before all else and after all else, but humanity, even if you call it human at homo erectus, has only been on the Planet for 4,000,000 years. The Universe is between 13 billion and 20 billion years old. Does he mean to say that the essence of the Divine Matrix depends upon Us? Such egotism. Such hubris. Genetics scientists now say that there have been at least six sentient homonoids and behavorial scientists would say that there are at least five other species that have reached some degree of sentience. They all had feelings, emotions, and beliefs, but Greg makes no allowances for them. 

Key Point Two: Everything in our world is connected to everything else. 

This principle is called the Law of Contagion. It is a basic Magickal law which has been recognized for at least the last 2,000 years. It says that anything which has touched anything else is always connected to it thereafter. Greg says that because all matter and energy once existed in the space of a pea that all matter is connected. The Law of Contagion works but only in the hands of a gifted magician. Nothing new here. 

Key Point Three:  To tap the force of the universe itself, we must see ourselves as PART OF  the world rather than SEPARATE FROM it. 

From the day that we were born, Fowler says, we have been trying to define ourselves as separate from the other, the world, and individual. It is in this act that we develop moral responsibility. Greg would take us back to the selfish, egotistical womb. However, all Magickal theory and all spiritual theory requires us to reject the ego of individuality and become part of G-d or the Matrix. Doing this is just the opposite of finding ourselves and it requires that we empty ourselves, not develop, of our egos. 

Key Point Four: Once something is joined, it is always connected, whether it remains physically linked or not. 

The Key word here is JOINED. A baby is joined to its mother. A piece of bread is joined to a loaf. Mere touching is not sufficient to be a joining. So this principle contradicts the Second Key. However, it comes closer to the meaning of the Law of Contagion. 

Key Point Five:  The act of focusing our consciousness is an act of creation. Consciousness creates. 

This Point is very important for Greg's thesis. I agree that focusing our attention on something can create.  However, Greg implies in his explanation that it is Mankind's focus which creates the Universe. Such Hubris and it denies what is becoming increasingly obvious. Long before there was any other living thing, Life arose on this Planet. The Life was the Planet. The Planet is living. Call her Gaia. She has consciousness. We are parasites on her body. She is infected with us and periodically seeks to remove us from her Skin. Her Consciousness is the source of Life on the Planet. She is neither G-d nor G-dlike.She merely is alive. Like her some animals and plants on this Planet have become Conscious or Sentient. Their attention creates, but She does not need us for Creation to continue and long after she heals her Skin she will remain Conscious, but we will be gone. 

Key Point Six: We have the power we need to create all the changes we choose. 

Sorry, Greg. We exercise our consciousness in the same realm or, as Kabbalah would say it, World, in which the Archangels, the Elohim, Demons, Spirits, the Souls Discarnate, and other Planets, animals, and plants exercise their power. We are not alone and we cannot create without being in harmony with the Consciousness of others. 

Key Point Seven: The focus of our awareness becomes the reality of our world. 

Agreed. Our world is very limited. The blinders on our eyes limit our capacity to see reality and it is limited to  our perception of reality. 

Key Point Eight:  To simply say that we choose a reality is not enough. 

True. 

Key Point Nine:  Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix. Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered. 

Actually, spirituality says, emotions are the source of power. Pure emotions are most powerful. Negative emotions have more power than positive emotions. Positive emotions can be joined together more easily than negative emotions and will last longer. The Sentient who can focus his Emotions has learned to harmonize with the Divine Matrix and his Prayer which originated in the Divine Matrix will be answered. 

Key Point Ten: Not any feeling will do. The ones that create must be without ego and judgment. 

Not true. All emotions are filled with ego and judgment. Only Emotions create. 

Key Point Eleven:  We must become in our lives the things we choose to experience in the world. 

This is an important point which Greg will later contradict. 

Key Point Twelve:  We are not bound by the Laws of Physics as we know them today. 

True. 

Key Point Thirteen: In a holographic "something" every piece of the something mirrors the whole something. 

This is a trick point. What Greg says is true of a hologram. But he will then argue that our Consciousness is holographic. He never proves that to be true. 

Key Point Fourteen:  The universally connected hologram of consciousness promises that the instant we  create our good wishes and prayers, they are already received at their destination. 

Although I do not disagree with the statement, Greg argues that this is true as a result of the hologram. I would argue that as Mother Gaia's consciousness encompasses the Planet, all of our consciousness becomes part of the same field as her consciousness. So the action is on her consciousness which is everywhere and instantaneously felt throughout her being, i.e., she knew that a prayer would be made and she answered instantly. 

Key Point Fifteen:  Through the hologram of consciousness, a little change in our lives is  mirrored everywhere in our world. 

It is here that the logic fails. Greg is free to quote the Kabbalah. The Kabbalah teaches that because of the technologies that we have come to rely upon, our minds have blinders and the blinders have created a husk around the world that stops true Light from descending. The only changes that affect the entire world are changes in the minds of the 36 Tzaddikim. Changes in our minds do not effect paradigm shifts. 

Key Point Sixteen:  The minimum number of people required to "jump start" a change in consciousness is the square root of 1% of the population. 

No. It is 36 specific people, the Tzaddikim. 

Key Point Seventeen:  The Divine Matrix serves as the mirror in our world of the relationships that we create in our beliefs. 

Unproven even by anecdote. 

Key Point Eighteen:  The root of our "negative" experiences may be reduced to one of three universal fears (or a combination of them):  abandonment, low self-worth, or lack of trust. 

So we have the Greg Braden universal basis of problems, the Freud, the James, etc. Why should we accept his as any more logical or provable than the others. 

Key Point Nineteen:  Our true beliefs are mirrored in our most intimate relationships. 

I tend to agree with him, but not for the reasons stated. 

Key Point Twenty:  We must become in our lives the very things that we choose to experience in our world. 

If we choose to become Saints, we have to give up everything to become saints. He argues that all choosing is really leaving a void that we must try to fill. So, what he really is saying is that we should live in ego, in selfishness, in self-interest. I hardly think that is a positive place to be. 

I doubt we will see Greg Braden canonized anytime soon. 

Minorities in Syria At Great Risk

I posted in April about the difficulties that the Christians, Jews, Alawites, Druze, and Kurds are having in Syria. Since I last posted the situation has become more grave. It was reported by the New York Times that the Russian Orthodox Church is strongly supporting the Christians who are mostly Orthodox in Syria. They have put strong pressure on President Putin and  Prime Minister Medvedev to support the Syria regime because that regime has historically been supportive of religious minorities. The Russian Orthodox Church is cognizant that many of the so-called rebels are also Sunni and anti-Christian, Jew, Alawite, Druze and Kurd. They march demanding death to the Alawites. 

Now the Alawites have been massacred by the Shia and the Sunni at least three times in their history. They believe with good reason that when Alawite President Bashar is gone there will be a bloodbath and they will suffer genocide. The Israeli foreign ministry report the Daily Alert also agrees with that assessment. In fact, Sunni terrorists previously operating in Iraq, members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, have begun to return to Syria and they have a history of massacreing their religious enemies. 

The United States, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and China have not offered any solutions to protect religious and ethnic minorities. Until they do, this conflict must not end. The edited and one-sided presentation of American and European press stories must be answered by presenting the other side of this conflict. 

Easter Sun Rise Service

From the death of Yeshua until 135 C.E., the Nasorean Church in Jerusalem, presided over by the relatives of Yeshua, was kept free of any change to the calendar of services. However, after the Bar Kochba revolution, the Nasorean Church was all but destroyed, some say by the collaboration of the Pharisees and the Paulines. Subsequent to the fall of the dynasty of David as rulers of the whole church, the Patriarch of Antioch began to celebrate Pesach as a Christian day, called the Lord's Passover, and it was called Resurrection Day or Pascha. 

The feast of Pascha or Easter became the most important feast in the Christian year and the Vigil service was the most important service of that feast. The people had fasted throughout the forty days prior to Pascha and now the catechumens were brought forth for baptism. At this time, the process of joining the Christian churches took some time. A person must first profess his belief in Christ; then he had to study the traditions and scriptures for a period of time and undergo weekly exorcisms; and then and only then was the person permitted to be baptized into Christ. The event of baptism occurred late at night and often the catechumen came out of the water just as the sun was rising and he or she felt that she had arisen from the dead just as had Christ on that first Resurrection day. 

In 1732, the Moravians, a very early protestant group, had a group of single men go into the local cemetery and there with hymns and preaching they welcomed the new day as a proclamation that Christ had indeed risen and was not in the grave. This tradition quickly spread throughout the protestant churches of the colonies and the idea of an Easter Sun Rise Service became firmly established in protestantism. However, it should be noted that the service is not present in the great historical liturgical traditions of Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. This is a distinctly protestant tradition. 

In Ezekiel 8:16-17, the Prophet describes what he saw in a vision that he was told was happening in Jerusalem. He says:

     Then he (the Holy Spirit) brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and there are the door

     of the Lord's Temple, between the vestibule and the altar, were about twenty five men with their backs

     to the Lord's Temple and their faces toward the East; they were bowing down to the Sun. Do you see,

     Son of Man? he asked me. Is it such a trivial matter for the house of Judah to do the abominable

     they have done here -- for they have filled the land with violence, and again and again they have

     provoked me -- that now they must also put the branch to my nose?

The modern evangelicals have made this blasphemy, this abomination, a thing of great moment. And yet G-d forbids sunrise services as abomination. This is one more sign that the Devil has entered into the modern non-liturgical churches. Do not be led astray. Easter Sun Rise Services are abomination and should be avoided at all costs. 

There Are No Palestinians

Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad told Egypt's Al-Hekma TV on March 23, 2012: 


Every "Palestinian", in Gaza and throughout "Palestine", can prove his Arab roots -- whether from Saudi Arabia, from Yemen, or anywhere. We have blood ties. ... Personally, half my family is Egyptian. We are all like that. More than 30 families in Gaza are called Al-Masri (Egyptian). Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half Saudis. ... Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian, Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are a party of you."

Newt Gingrich said:

"Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire" until the early 20th century, Gingrich said.

"I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it's tragic," he said.

Most historians mark the start of Palestinian Arab nationalist sentiment as 1834, when Arab residents of the Palestinian region revolted against Ottoman rule.

Scripture says that Jacob had a brother named Esau. He was given Mt. Seir as his domain. Mount Seir is specifically noted as the place that Esau made his home (Genesis 36:8; Joshua 24:4). It was named for Seir, the Horite, whose sons inhabited the land (Genesis 36:20). The children of Esau battled against the Horites and destroyed them (Deuteronomy 2:12). Mount Seir is also given as the location where the remnants "of the Amalekites that had escaped" were annihilated by five hundred Simeonites (I Chronicles 4:42-43). Mount Seir is also referenced inEzekiel 35:10 ("A Prophecy Against Edom")

Thus we learn that the Amalekites and the Edomites united to become the hated scourge of the Jewish people. After all, it was the Amalekites that attacked the Chosen in the wilderness and then it was Haman, the descendant of King Agag of Amalek who tried to wipe the Jews out completely. 

The Edomites became the Petrans and they took huge pieces of the the Negev desert and fought the Herods for control of all of Israel. 

Thanks to the Hamas Minister, Gingrich, Scripture, and the Story of Esther we know that there are no Palestinians at all. They are Arabs and not entitled to a single inch of the Holy Land. 

It is time that we recognize that these people of so-called Palestine are liars, thieves, and enemies of G-d's Chosen. They are not really Muslims at all because on this important issue they will not submit to Allah. G-d commanded Saul to eliminate all the Amalekites and we should do that to any one who denies G-d's deed of the Holy Land to the Jews. 

The Lost Girl

A succubus is a demon that assumes a female form to tempt men to intercourse, especially appearing in their dreams. The demon most often assumes enough materiality to be fully present to the man when he is having sex. The victim often describes a tail wrapping itself around his leg. The demon always provides a fine sexual experience and is therefore addictive and hard to break. Although the victim will claim that he has been sexually molested, he is secretly in love with the experience. During the sexual act, the demon will ingest a portion of the victim's nephesh or chi as the orientals would say and, after several of these experiences, the victim often dies. When the demon assumes a male form it is called an incubus, but there is no difference in its form or purpose for having sexual liasons. These are demons. These are evil and even though we may think that the sex is great we will die from it if we continue. 

There is a program on the CW network called The Lost Girl. Truly a double entendre, she is lost in that she does not know facts about her origin and she is lost in that she is a demon damned for all eternity. She is succubus. In this program we have witnessed her using her considerable powers to force men and women to answer questions for her and we have seen men die from her touch, her sensuality. They always die happy. Her closest associates are a human thief and a policeman who is a werewolf. Apparently, he is capable of allowing her to feed on his life force, although he does seem to have to recharge after intercourse with her, but he comes back regularly and wants more. The succubus is a private investigator and is said to be unaligned, that is,  not dark or light. Let there be no doubt, all succubi and incubi are evil. They are aligned to the Dark Side. 

The producers of this show also show a gross lack of understanding of the beings who live in the Third World, that is, the spiritual world. They call the succubus a fae and then claim that the fae also include werewolves, vampires, dwarves, demons, evil spirits, and numerous other elemental creatures. The fae are elementals. Succubi are demons. Vampires are humans without souls. Werewolves are humans under a curse. The producers of this show simply do not understand what they are dealing with. 

Werewolves are under a curse. I have found that generally the curse will allow transformation for the first five or six generations. During the seventh generation, the internal organs begin to malfunction during the transformation and the wolf begins to suffer significant physical problems. During the eighth, ninth and tenth generations of the curse, a curse that can only last for 10 generations, the person will be diagnosed with the disease called lupus. The latin word for wolf is lupus and that is why the disease is called lupus. The person when they get into the sunlight start to have their organs change, rather than in the moonlight, which is natural for the werewolf. The organs cannot complete the change and the person becomes sicker and weaker until they die. However, in the case of one of my disciples, I have found that continuous prayer and finally, an intercession to break the curse, can cure the person of the malady. 

This program has absolutely no useful or instructive information. It is dangerous and should not be view by anyone who is not an adept in spiritual matters. I strongly encourage my readers to protect their children from this program and there is good reason that it is on as late as it is. 

Do not be fooled. Our entire moral base is being challenged by repugnant shows like this one and we should be taking action against the producers who are actively working for the Dark Side. We should be boycotting the advertisers and we should be demanding that the network take the program off. 

Witches and the Secret Circle and Vampire Diaries

Wiccans and witches would have us believe that they are an innocuous alternative religion, a so-called pagan religion. The word "paganus" is a latin word meaning the common folk, often the rural folk, who stuck to popular superstition. While not denying that this is the meaning of pagan and paganism in the classic sense, one has to look at what the original pagans were like. The rural folk practiced sacrifice to a variety of nature g-ds and cursed and blessed those that they dealt with. They went to these nature g-ds seeking favor    to guarantee a good crop, an easy childbirth, a fertile calf or sheep, a fruitful human union, love, marriage, and any number of common human needs. I cannot fault the needs of these people, but I can fault the method of obtaining this favor. In the world, there is a King, a supernatural being, who maintains balance. Whether you call him Ma'at, or G-d, or Jesus, or Yeshua, or YHVH, His purpose in existence is two-fold, to become more holy and to maintain the balance until He obtains true perfection. The Wiccan method of obtaining favor is to seek to unbalance in the world. It seeks to grab, to take, to force the Balancer's hand. Nature through the seven archangels maintains balance; for every act of giving there is a taking and so the world remains in balance. 

Balance can be understood more fully if we conceive that it is a continuum and it can be even better understood if we conceive the ends of the continuum as being True Light and True Darkness. In the interaction of the Seven Archangels, three are on the Dark Side: Hallel, called the Devil; Ba'alzebul, the Demon Master; and Ashmodai with his consort Lilith, the King and Queen of Elohim who have aligned themselves with Darkness. Wicca serves Ashmodai and Lilith. Wiccans seek to serve the Elohim, the Elementals, who were thought to be g-ds in the past. They seek these elemental being's aid in their daily struggles, but these Elementals are inherently attached to darkness and to fostering imbalance. They are contrary to nature and are the opposite of what they seem. They do not support the Balancer in His quest to become perfect. They seek just the opposite, which prolongs the whole worlds separation from the True G-d. 

Wiccans can be divided into traditions, but there is no difference ultimately between the traditions. They can be better divided into those who dabble and call themselves solitaires, selling there souls for pittances,  and coven witches, who begin to understand their innate power and how union can strengthen their greed and lust.  Among some of either group, there are those who have received the Spiritual Gifts, which are neutral, and can be used as tools in their nefarious activities. Some, like my son, can aspire to priesthood in cults dedicated to the ancient elohim. Scripture prescribes death for a witch. As Wicca has successfully claimed religious status in our society, we cannot criminalize or punish those who practice Wicca and it is doubtful that the courts are the best place to judge the seriousness of a person's abilities within the Craft. 

The point and purpose of this essay is to alert everyone to the reality that we are presented. Witches are evil. They choose an evil path. They cannot progress on that path without selling their morality and often without inviting in spiritual entities to live within them, namely, demons. The gifts are not evil, but the people exercising the gifts are aligned to the Dark and are evil. We should not be confused by their evil, but acknowledge them for what they are and, I believe, protect ourselves from their nefarious activities. 

There are two television programs that are currently on the air that glorify witchcraft and are dangerous for children and even adults to watch. They are the Secret Circle, a program about a group of genetically charged power users who have aligned themselves with darkness in opposition to those who seek to do G-d's Will and destroy them, and the Vampire Diaries, a program that paints Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches in nebulous terms so that their immorality and evil is ignored or denied. 

The Secret Circle glorifies teenage crushes, sexual activity, lustful enticements, the use of magic as a game or toy, the misuse of the Divine Gifts which came to them from their bloodlines, and opposition to those who would save them from doing damage to society. The Secret Circle claims that the Witches are Good and the Witch Hunters are Bad, when in reality, just the opposite is true. No one can deny the lack of due process that happened in the period from the 12th through the 18th century when it came to witch trials, but the lack of due process does not deny the guilt of those charged and convicted and executed. We must be aware of the reversal of morality suggested by this program. It is not suitable for anyone, but those trained in spirituality, to see.

The Vampire Diaries glorifies a lust relationship between a human girl, Elena, and her vampire boyfriend, Stefan. In the program, we have seen numerous persons killed as food for these vampires. We have seen Elena's friends turned into vampires. We have seen werewolves introduced as the enemy of vampires. We have seen the murderous hunts of werewolves glorified. We have seen humans slowly coming to accept their interaction with witches, werewolves, and vampires. We have seen a claim made that Stefan and Damon, vicious and soulless vampires, are good and that their progenitures are somehow more evil than they are. We have seen Bonnie, a daughter of a voodoo queen, introduced into magic and witchcraft and seen her growing powers. We have seen the claim made that all her magic is used because she is forced into it. Any person who is familiar with the Spiritual Gifts knows that they cannot be used under duress and that duress cancels their power. Altogether, this series reverses the natural order of morality and glorifies the Dark Side to our children and grandchildren. It even draws adults with low moral awareness into its clutches. The program is not suitable for anyone, but the most spiritually adept, to see and it is difficult to watch without being drawn into sympathy with evil. 

Do not be misled. These programs, along with the others I will discuss in a later blog, are evil. We should boycott their producers, their advertisers, and their stars so that the world will understand that this immorality must cease. 

KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS

The Jewish Publication Society's Tanakh says:

 Deu 4:1  And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

Deu 4:2  Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Jewish tradition believes that YHVH gave to Moshe the 613 mitzvot inscribed in stone and written with his own finger. In the first century, a raging battle was going on in religious circles concerning how to keep these commandments. The Zaddoki said that the Torah's words were to be left just as they were and obeyed exactly as they were stated. The Farsi (Pharisees) who had developed their philosophy in Babylon believed that there needed to be guidance given to the people so that they understood how to deal with limits and meanings within the words. The Nasoreans believed that the words should be taken as they were but that the Holy Spirit would inform the heart as to how to keep the commandments and that the Torah would then be written on our heart as a personal covenant with YHVH.

There is little doubt among scholars that the Zaddoki position represents the position of the elite and priesthood before the captivity. There is also little doubt that the Nasorean position represented the position of the ha am ha aretz, the common people, who  were too poor to be deported by Nebuchanezzer. When the elite returned from Babylon, they brought a different religion, a religion informed by Zoroastrianism and changed irreversibly. The relationship between Israel to Babylon continued long after the Persian Empire was replaced by the Greeks and eventually the Romans.

There were certain ideas which became hallmarks of the Farsi or Persian position.  First, circumcision. The idea of the separation of milk and meat. The tradition of not pronouncing the name of G-d. The introduction of tassels on every cloak and robe came with them. The idea of immersion regularly. Finally, the principle of being a hedge around the Torah to inform the people on the limits and duties concerning each mitzvah.

The Farsi came up with the idea of an Oral Tradition that went back to Moshe and which informed the Jew on every aspect of his life. There is no evidence in the Writings or the Prophets that they had any idea of an Oral Tradition or Law. It was entirely invented by the Farsi. In fact, the idea of an oral tradition is the direct antithesis of Deuteronomy 4:2. The teachings of the Farsi on how, when, where and what limits is in fact an addition to the commandment itself.

So, how do we become informed about when the Sabbath begins, when the New Year begins, when meat no longer has blood in it, etc. It is Jewish tradition, based upon Exodus 13:8, that every Jew was present at the first Passover and every Jew was present at the giving of the Torah when Moshe brought the tablets down from the top of the mountain. We are the chosen of YHVH, his separate people. See Deuteronomy 32:9. We heard the Voice of G-d, all of us, before the event at Sinai. But at Sinai, YHVH's Voice was so loud and challenging that we begged YHVH not to speak to us again. Deuteronomy 4:11-12; Exodus 20:19. We promised that we would listen to Moshe and the prophets after him. All of this happened on the first Shavuot feast that we celebrated as a people. However, after Yeshua left us and went to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to inform us. It happened on Shavuot again, just as before. There the Holy Spirit descended on the 120 gathered in the Upper Room and they again could hear the Voice loudly as they had before, for each of them was present the first time at Sinai and now their request that the Voice no longer speak to them was reversed. Now, we would be informed about how to keep the mitzvot directly by the Holy Spirit and each of us would understand it for himself or herself, writing it on our hearts.

The great fear of the Farsi was and is that every man cannot understand the deep things of Scripture without careful study. That is true. However, not every mitzvah has the same importance for each Jew as another. For instance, the laws relating to the priesthood has little importance to a member of another tribe. The laws related to the land of Israel have a completely different importance to people who live outside the land of Israel. I have found that the Holy Spirit informs me about how She wants me to keep the Torah and so also She will inform you. Further, as we walk on our spiritual path, we find ourselves drawn deeper and deeper into the mitzvot and deeper and deeper into our commitment to YHVH who came as Yeshua ha Meshiach. I am worried when I kill a gnat and I use to be worried only when I intentionally harmed a human. My understanding of "Thou shalt not murder" is greatly increased, because a tzaddik respects his beast. Proverbs 12:10.

In closing, let us remember that we are all called to walk the path through the Gate which is Yeshua. John 1:51. We are called to ascend Ya'akov's ladder. We are all called to become first Friends of G-d, then Servants of G-d and lastly Slaves of G-d. We are called to become Tzaddikkim. The Torah's burden becomes greater the farther you travel even though it feels lighter. It feels lighter because you have already strengthened your spiritual muscles and your muscles carry your burden more easily. Keep the commandments.

A Spiritual Body

In the so-called Patio Tomb, there were several etchings on ossuaries that indicated that the occupants of the tomb believed in resurrection. I am not going to go into those issues because they have been fully dealt with in The Jesus Discovery by Professors James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici. I want rather to deal with the question of what kind of body will be resurrected.

The Nicene Creed says in part: "And I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come." This doctrine, the resurrection of the body, is the issue that is brought into question by the finds in Talpiot, Israel.

Mark's original gospel ends with the statement: "But go and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.' Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Mark 16:7-8. Most scholars agree that neither the Longer Ending nor the Freer Logion were part of the original gospel of Mark. So Mark does not tell us about the resurrection, only that the body is gone.

On the other hand, John tells us about that morning in greater but different detail. As John was the last gospel to be written, but was not written by a Pauline source, we find something else recorded there. John says that Mary of Magdala come to the tomb in the morning, while it was still dark, and found the stone removed. She told Peter and the Beloved Disciple. They saw the burial shroud. They left but Mary Magdalene stayed outside of the tomb. She saw angels in the tomb and when she turned around, she saw someone whom she did not know. John 20:14. Then, Yeshua revealed Himself to her by saying her name. She recognized him and started to touch him. He told her not to touch Him because he had not yet ascended. John 20:17. From this rendition of the story we learn that Mary saw Yeshua, but did not recognize Him. She tried to touch Him, but he indicated that a process was still ongoing and that she should not touch Him at that moment.

According to Luke, a similar problem happened to Yeshua's uncle, Cleophas, and friend. They were walking to Emmaus which is seven miles from the Old City. Yeshua meets them, but they do not recognize Him. He walks with them some distance, but it is only in the act of breaking the bread that Cleophas and his friend recognize Yeshua. Clearly, Yeshua has "ascended", whatever that means, at the time he walks with Cleophas and again like in the case of Mary, it  is an act they were all familiar with which reveals to their eyes and hearts who he is.

Again, in John 21, Yeshua meets with a number of the Apostles and they do not recognize Him until he shows them a sign. Matthew records the same event and in it, even after the sign, some doubted that it was Him.

The issue of what is resurrected must have been an important question in the earliest days and it remains so today. Paul speaks at length about this subject in 1 Corinthians 15. He says:

But someone may say, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?' 15:35.

Paul then argues that the current body can not return any more than a plant when it sprouts continues to have the seed casing as a body. He says that there are heavenly or spiritual bodies and earthly bodies. 15:40. He says that the dead body is a natural body, but is raised a spiritual body. 15:44.

The Paul says: 'Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of G-d ..." 15:50. We shall all be changed. 15:51.
So Paul emphatically denies a bodily resurrection.

Those who oppose the Resurrection and the Ascension doubt the possibility of ghosts, demons, angels, and elementals as well. They have insufficient knowledge of a world that they have never touched or seen a part of. They doubt the possibility of resurrection, not on any rational basis, but on the claim that they have never seen such an event. None of them has ever seen wind, nor seen electrons, nor seen atoms. Yet they believe in each of these things.

On the other hand, those who blindly believe in the resurrection of the body, not only deny the Talpiot Tomb, but in addition claim that a Great G-d can surely find the atoms to put together a physical body for each person.

I have for the past 40 years had a different experience. I have dealt with demons, elementals, angels, and ghosts. I have seen angels when they were in their full form or visible form. I have talked to them and drank with them. I have witnessed their sudden disappearance. I do not doubt their existence. I have talked to them and interacted with them and they are as real to me as you are.

Their bodies are adjusted to what we need to see when they reveal themselves. However, the spiritual body is like their bodies. It is handsome. It is beautiful. It is young looking even if mature. It is worn with dignity and honor. When Yeshua was raised, it was not a physical body which was raised. His bones have been found and unfortunately discarded by the Israeli Antiquities Authority, much to the delight of the Jews, the Catholics, the Protestants, the Muslims and all others. The scientists did them a favor. However, He lives on.

The record of reports indicates that he is muscular, male, able to walk, able to eat, able to walk through walls, able to travel long distances, able to talk and communicate, and charismatic. In the reports, this spiritual body of Yeshua ate, drank, walked, talked, and held the attention of the various groups of disciples. He traveled several hundred miles north from Jerusalem to Galilee. However, he did not look like Yeshua. Those who knew Yeshua recognized this person as Yeshua by acts that he did, not by his visage. As Paul says, we shall all be changed and Yeshua was changed before he ascended.

The Nasorean Orthodox Qahal is inviting the Arian Catholic Church and any other Arian, Adoptionist, or Nazarene groups to participate in a conference on the subject of the plank in the Nicene Creed on bodily resurrection. The Arian Catholic Church has accepted. More information will be forthcoming.

Major Updates on Resurrection

All of you should read my post of April 24, 2011. http://netseri.blogspot.com/2011/04/resurrection.html. I want to make some major updates on this controversy. On Monday, March 5, 2012, Professors James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici will present a new book to the public, The Jesus Discovery. I have read it. It is well written and honest.

The book tells the story of a second tomb, found 200 feet away from the first Talpiot tomb, the one called the Garden or Jesus Family Tomb. This tomb was apparently built by the owner of an rich estate. It is well decorated, great care was taken in constructing it, the ossuaries are well made and filled with bones, and except for an initial survey in 1981, this tomb is undisturbed. The ossuary that takes precedence, the first one in the door, is filled with bones. It has a picture of the Great Fish and Jonah, the Prophet, coming out of the fish's mouth. The scholars agree that this picture is an allusion to the statement of Yeshua that his great sign would be the "Sign of Jonah."  The sign of Jonah is an allusion to Resurrection. This picture is the first of many Christian icons depicting the coming of Jonah out of the mouth of the Great Fish, Leviathan. The picture makes Resurrection a central issue for the earliest Christians, that is, the Jerusalem Church prior to the death of James in 62 C.E. It speaks louder than a thousand words. A second inscription in Greek is on another ossuary which alludes to the Divine YHVH raising some one up. Using the name of G-d on an ossuary would have been a heretical act.

The book adds new information on Mary Magdalene. Mariamene Mara was not the sister or mother of the person named Yeshua bar Yotzef. Tradition would say that the only other person, except blood relatives, that would be buried in the family tomb would be a wife. The evidence points to Mariamene the Lady being the wife of Yeshua ben Yotzef.

The book adds new information on the James Ossuary. Shimon Gibson says that there were 10 ossuaries in the Jesus Tomb when he saw it in 1980. The Israel Antiquities Authority has lost one of the ossuaries. He argues that there may have been an eleventh ossuary. The evidence on the James Ossuary shows 1) that it came from the Jesus Family Tomb, 2)  that it probably was open to weathering for 200 hundred years,  and 3) it was not a forgery. With this additional evidence, the likelihood that this is the Jesus Family Tomb is virtually certain. Certainly, the likelihood is well beyond a reasonable doubt.

The bones of Yeshua were in the ossuary and have been tested.

From this evidence, we can conclude that the man in the ossuary was not bodily resurrected. We can conclude that he was married and had a son who died prior to 70 C.E. We can conclude that the other persons buried in the Tomb were the family of Yeshua, including his mother, Mary, his brother Yoseh (Joses), and his cousin, Matya or Matthew Alphaeus.

It is inconceivable that the person in the Patio tomb would have come to believe in a bodily resurrection for Yeshua and himself from the events surrounding the death of Yeshua. It is also inconceivable that the picture, hand-drawn on the ossuary, in contradiction to the commandment against graven images, would have been placed there had the person not believed that some remarkable event had occurred to Yeshua. We can therefore eliminate the idea of a bodily resurrection from the discussion. The third idea, that Yeshua did not die, and that some one else did, can be eliminated because it would have been insufficient to cause Joseph of Arimathea to violate the commandment and engrave the picture on the ossuary. That leaves a reasonable person with the second possibility.

We can conclude that there was a spiritual resurrection. We can conclude that Yeshua had gotten the body of an Angel. We can conclude that the Angel Yeshua appeared for 50 days before he went up to heaven. This belief is consistent with the early church's belief that Yeshua was an Archangel or the Nasorean belief that He is the Archangel of the Presence, Metatron. This teaching does not change the meaning of the Nicene Creed on resurrection nor does it solve the question of what really happened, but it does prove that the Resurrection is a in a changed body, a spiritual body, a body like an angel or an elemental.

Now, while I cannot speak for the Sanhedrin, I can say that I support the idea of a spiritual body and a spiritual resurrection and declare that such a belief is within the realms of orthodox belief for the Nasorean Orthodox Qahal.

Making Every Serve in the IDF

The military in the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and other countries have become all volunteer. When a country has an all volunteer army it is easier to get into war, because the only people who are fighting want to fight. A citizen army and a Congressional declaration of war guarantees a country will not become involved in expeditions that are contrary to the country's will.

Israel, yesterday took a big step forward to guarantee its army remains a citizen force. Not only is there a draft in  Israel, and Sweden and Switzerland, but now there will be no religious deferment. If there is no religious deferment the government will find it easier to make peace with their neighbors.

I congratulate the Supreme Constitutional Court of Israel for making this ruling. It strengthens democracy in this tiny country.

Kiddush according to the Nasoreans: A Eucharistic Meal

Kiddush means sanctification. It is the first service of the Shabbat. It is the time when we remember Passover and when we make the Thanksgiving sacrifice (Eucharist). What is the meaning of this ritual?

To begin this discussion, we read in Exodus 12:14: "This day shall be a zikaron for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the Lord, as a perpetual institution." Zikaron means remembrance. It is like the bequest of an estate or the marriage ring. It stands in for the entire event of a person's relationship with another. It is a small part of the entire event. But Exodus goes on to explain: "On this day you shall explain to your son,'This is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt'. 13:8. The Haggadah of the Seder Meal has four questions and it explains that if you ask the question, "What does this mean to you?" you place yourself outside of the community, because the Lord wants to emphasize that what he did at the Passover is an eternal act, done for each descendant of Jacob throughout eternity. It is the belief of the Kabbalah that every Jew who would ever live was present at the Passover and at the reading of the Torah in front of Mt. Sinai. Our reincarnated souls were present to assent to the Passover, by placing the blood on the door, and to the covenant by saying yes to it at Mt. Sinai. The concept of zikaron then takes on a greater meaning, because the Event, the Passover, happened to me, not to my ancestors alone, but to me. I remember what G-d did for me. 

Two elements of the Seder Meal are important for the remembrance, the zikaron. They are the Matzah or bread and the four cups of kosher wine, which is a strong wine. We bless the first cup with the Kiddush prayer and sanctify the cup and the day as a holy day. We drink the first cup. Then we break the middle loaf of bread in a stack of three loaves and hide away one half of the bread. The remaining bread is blessed and eaten. Then we bless the second cup called the Cup of Telling or Maggid. It is drunk. Then we have the meal. After the meal, the third cup called the cup of blessing or redemption and it is drunk. Lastly, the cup of praise or the Hallel cup is taken. 

Paul called by us the Liar is the first to write about the Seder that Yeshua (Jesus) celebrated. It is normally called the Last Supper. He begins his discussion of the Eucharist, also called Communion or the Lord's Supper, in 1 Corinthians 10. He says, "The Cup of Blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?" 10:16. The word that is used here for participation is koinonia, a Greek word meaning participation and fellowship and communion. So Paul is saying that when we eat the bread and drink the cup we have returned to the Last Supper and joined with Yeshua in the event. All of those at that table were in koinonia; they participated fully in the event. And the event itself was a participation, a zikaron, of the original Passover. Paul continues with his story in chapter 11 where he says, "For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in anamnesis of me." 11:24. The word anamnesis is the Greek word for the Hebrew word zikaron. Jesus is saying that he has become the Paschal Lamb that is the center of this meal and the Matzah is embued with the meaning of the Body of the Lamb. The whole event is renewed. No longer are we talking about the Exodus Passover, but now we talk about the Renewed Exodus. Jesus is the blood on the door in the form of a cross. Jesus is the Bread of the Feast. Paul goes on, 'In the same way, also the cup, after the supper, saying, 'This is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in anamnesis of me.'"11:25. Jesus is saying then that the Cup of blessing has become the blood of the Paschal Lamb, the same blood that is marked on the door in the form of a cross. When we drink it, we renew the covenant we made with Yeshua and G-d at the time of the Passover and Sinai. 

The last element of this Event is the concept of its ever presence among us. When we do Passover, we relive the event and for those of us who are followers of Yeshua, we also recall and relive the events that happened later, his arrest, his trial, his death, his resurrection, his ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit on Shavuot, at our personal Mt. Sinai. Many will say however that Yeshua is not present really in these events, that he does not show up again when we celebrate them. For those people, G-d did not do these mighty acts for them. Like the evil child of Passover, they are not  part of the Chosen of G-d. They are outside of the community. But Paul's response is timely. He says, "For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself." 11:29. Just as at the event at Emmaus, where Luke records that Cleophas his uncle and another were joined by Yeshua as they walked, they did not recognize him until he took the bread and broke it and gave it to them. Luke 24:13-32. So the eyes of faith will open our hearts to the real presence of Yeshua in the Seder Meal as both the Master of the Meal and the Paschal Lamb. 

Weekly, Jews all over the world, on Friday evening at sundown renew this zikaron of Passover in the Kiddush cup. The bread and wine consumed bring those present into communion not only with each other but with the Paschal Lamb that was slain. He said that where two or more are met together in his name, He would also be and that is not symbolically, but actually. Our sins are taken away during that service if we truly repent and we are sustained and nourished with the remembrance of the events surrounding that day. 

The claim has been made from the early times of the church that this understanding of Yeshua as being the bread and blood is cannibalism. John 6:53-55 makes it absolutely clear that Yeshua is telling us to eat his flesh and blood. However, it is John that tells us that Jesus is the Lamb of G-d. Now, how can Jesus really be a Lamb. He is the Lamb, the Pascha, of Passover in the same way he is both the Archangel of the Presence, who led Israel in the Desert and a Cloud of Fire and Smoke. He is both the Pascha and a Man and we eat the Pascha not the Man. 

Without the saving power of the Eucharist, which the Clementine letters openly assert is the replacement of the Mosaic sacrifice, we are still in our sins, because Hebrews 6 says that after we have been baptized and confirmed and we sin we are crucifying Christ again. Only the Nasorean Sect has this true understanding of Eucharist and the Pharisees are still in their sins. 

Moving to the Desert

It is time to tell the story of why I moved from Kansas City to Council Grove, Kansas.

About a year and a half ago, the Voice said to me, "Barry, you must move from Kansas City." I asked why and it said, "Terrible things are going to happen in Kansas City and in most cities in the world. The cities are going to lose their power and very quickly they will revert to barbarism. The strong men will eat the bodies of babies in the city streets and all the citizens will be slaves or dead." It was very hard to believe what I was hearing, but being a logical and reasonable person and being also a faithful believer and follower of the Voice, I began to make inquiries about one hundred miles south of Kansas City to try to find a place to open a law office. I was going to first commute one day a week and then slowly move to the new area.

My first attempts failed. I waited another six months and during that entire time there was no new business. My money was being used up to get buy and I was starting to live on credit. Then the Voice again spoke on this subject and told me to move out of Kansas City. I went out about forty miles to the West and began looking for office space. I did not find anything. I went another five months. Still there was no new business and I was out of money. I had enough money in August to pay the rent, but I could not pay the utilities, the gasoline bills, the credit cards, buy food, or anything else.

Joshua said to me that I should apply for Section 8 housing where I could take my dog. I found two such places that had openings -- one in Council Grove and one in Lincoln. I went to see them both, but Council Grove was clearly to be preferred. On August 8, 2011, I signed the contract for Council Grove. On August 11, 2011, I started getting cases again and money started flowing in. It has not stopped.

I found a small town of 3,000 in a county of 7,000. These are good people. They are unsophisticated. The have simple faith -- false faith in false gods, but they believe in their false god well. They do good things and live good lives. I have gotten involved in this community in the last six months and the Lord begins to show me what he wants to do. He reminds me that Jesus sent his 72 disciples to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. He specifically said not to go to the Gentiles that could not understand the message. The Lord wants me to begin an active ministry to those who I find are of the Lost Sheep. I find that about 120 years ago many Jewish people came here from Russia and eastern Europe. They converted to Christianity, but they still are descendants of Jacob and are therefore to come home to the truth. See Jeremiah 16: 14-15; and 23: 7-8. It is time to bring these people throughout central Kansas back to the Torah and to the Meshiach of Melchizedek, Yeshua ha Meshiach, who is Jesus our Lord. It is time to call these people back to the faith of the Apostles.

You will find that the website: www.nasori.org; this blog; and a twitter account have been joined and a new push is on to bring the truth to the world. Join us and bring your friends. To those close by, we offer the Kiddush on Friday nights and if enough want it Havdalah on Saturday evening.

Letting Assad Stay

Bashar al-Assad is the President of Syria. He is said to be a dictator, just like his father, and he may well be just like his father. However, it is because he is like his father that he should be allowed to stay in power until a solution to a more serious problem can be found. You see, there are 2.2 million Alawites and Druze and 1.9 million Christians and a small number of Jews among the 19.7 million people. The Sunni majority have attempted genocide on the Alawites and Druze four times in the past and with an almost certain take over by Islamists, if Bashar al-Assad is replaced, there will be genocide again. 

We have seen that in Egypt the 8 million Coptic Christians have been attacked and their churches burned after the revolution. These things did not happen under the previous regime. We have seen in Tunisia threats against the Jewish minority which did not happen under the previous regime. In Iran, we have seen the Jews and Christians harassed and mistreated by the Shi'ite regime which never happened under the Shah. Until some outside body can assure the safety of over 25% of the people who will be in jeopardy, no regime change should take place. 

It is time that the people see that Western and especially American diplomacy in the Middle East have been a failure. American activities have guaranteed that the people did not progress toward democracy or stability. In fact, American activities have given some of our worst enemies access to advanced weaponry to use against us. Israel no longer trusts us. They are busy building new bridges with Cyprus, India, Greece, and Bulgaria because we are no longer faithful friends. Turkey under the generals was a supporter of the West, but under the religious government it is a friend of Iran. In fact, Iran is a democracy. It is just as good a democracy as Pakistan, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, and Russia. Yet because Iran is anti-American, it is not considered a democracy. Democracy, to be successful, requires the development of democratic, secular, institutions in advance of the establishment of democracy. 

War between Israel and Iran is inevitable. The world should stay out of that war. Let Iran fire its one nuke at Israel. Let Israel fire ten in response. Let the Iranians overthrow their leadership in the aftermath. None of the Iranian nukes will get through, even though some of the other missiles will. Israel will be punished because of its refusal to keep the Sabbath and its refusal to remove unkosher food from its markets. But Israel will survive. Iran will be smaller after the war. Kurdistan will be formed as a result of the war. 

We must realize that if Israel is let to have a free hand, Hizballah and Hamas will cease to exist along with most of their supporters. Several million enemies of Israel will die. Israel will annex the West Bank and the Palestinian problem will be resolved in a different, more drastic manner. Israel will follow the Chinese example and outlaw the birth of more than two children per Israeli, including Palestinian, families. This will maintain the status quo. 

Ron Paul would allow the inevitable to happen. Elect him to the Presidency.