PORTION “PARASHA” OF THE WEEK – 6 OF 7 BALAK - DESTROYER By: Julie Parker Copyright © - Numbers 22:2 to 25:9 - Micah 5:6 to 6:8 - Jude 1-25 - 2 Peter 2:1-22-Revelation 2:14-15 Marcion then proceeded to teach that the grace of God superseded the law (Torah) and he declared that God had rejected His Old Testament. He argued that the Old Testament was a book of wrath and inferior to the New, “the book of love” and hence had no part of authoritative revelation. He actually fought to have it removed from canon. Rejected as a heretic later in life, his prolific anti-Semitic writings still served to greatly influence the original King James Bible translation. Justin Martyr in 160 CE introduced a new doctrine regarding the church in his bold decision to proclaim and teach that the “appropriation of the title Israel” was to belong only to the church. This attitude caused the onset of Replacement Theology, which holds that all the blessings of Yahweh in the Word should be interpreted as being bestowed upon the church, while all the curses are poured out on the Jews. The church fathers preached the triumph of “the elect” (the Church) over “the rejected” (the Jews), thus justifying to themselves their inferior view of the Jew and projecting the Church as the living witness and the One True Faith (now known as Christianity). Justin Martyr also charged that the Jews crucified Christ and during this period Jews were labeled “the Christ-killers.” He also declared: “Jewish cities are burned with fire and that Jews are desolate, forbidden to go up to Jerusalem for you have slain the Just One, and His prophets before Him; and now you reject those who hope in Him.” The Epistle of Barnabus is a second century writing that used the Greek word “Deicide” (the killing of God). This depicts ignorance of Yahweh’s plan of redemption laid out in the Word from the beginning of creation in Genesis. It also reveals anti-Semitism as an increasing cancer that was growing within the now, non Jewish Church of Christ. As a result of this new thinking, the early church fathers proceeded to alter the original words of the Apostles. It has been documented that certain changes were made in the apostolic record. As a result, these changes were adopted into the understanding of the church in the second, third and subsequent centuries. Plato’s Greek mindset and ideas had totally infiltrated God’s Judaic church. The church had moved further away from the betrothal/marriage ceremony with Yahweh at Mount Sinai and moved closer to the Mars Hill of Greek mythology. Origen in the third century CE was responsible for introducing the term “legalism” into the Church vocabulary when referring to Yahweh’s Torah. This usage continued throughout history and became a term synonymous with Judaism and/or condemning people when studying the Old Testament for direction in life. Judeophobia, anti-Semitism and an anti-Torah spirit were truly alive and flourishing within what was supposed to be the Messiah’s Hebraic church. Yahweh’s true remnant was forced to break away and go underground to escape this hatred and persecution from Rome. In 312 CE, Constantine recognized Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. We may have been taught that Constantine brought Christianity to the pagans, but more accurately we find he succeeded in bringing paganism to Christianity. By this time the Church differed greatly from that which Messiah preached to almost three hundred years earlier. The Church of Messiah had become the Church of Rome. Yahweh’s true doctrine Torah (also known as the gospel/good news of the Kingdom of God), was buried amongst religious ceremonies, rituals and beliefs of the Babylonian pagan religion, which date back to Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. Nonetheless the Church institution still called itself by the name of Christ. The Babylonian Mystery religion now wore a new cloak – Christianity – but at its center was the worship of Diana, the daughter of Zeus, masked as Mary the mother of Yeshua. All things Hebraic or Judaic were shunned. The Feasts of the Lamb, including Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits and Tabernacles, were replaced with feasts to Ishtar and Tammuz (Easter and Christmas). Yahweh’s Sabbath day of worship on the seventh day of the week, was replaced with Church worship on Sunday, the Sol dei (day of the sun) the first day of the week. Constantine’s Christian Creed and the Council of Nicea in 325 CE, in the name of Christianity, asserted everything relating to God’s Torah and everything considered Judaic or Hebraic be cast out in the formation of God’s universal state church. Eusebius Epiphanius (315-402 CE), later known as the father of church history and the Catholic Council of Laodicea in 365 CE, did much to remove all signs of God’s/Yahweh’s religion in relation to the people. Chrysostom (344-407 CE) preached “the Jews are worse than wild beasts, lower than the vilest animals…”
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