Biblical History Part 7
With Whom did Jesus Fight?
Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
January 1, 2017
Scripture reading: Genesis 27:41 “And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father [Isaac] blessed him [Jacob]: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother, Jacob.”
We have seen in our Biblical History studies, several different races of people. The Canaanites are one interesting group of people that the Judeo-Christian movement (branch of Roman Catholicism) cannot answer with a consistent view on their issue of equality. The Canaanites became a mongrel mix from Canaan, a descendant of Ham, and the Kenites, who were descended from Cain. Many of these people, in the days of ancient Israel, had very tall and strong giants living among them and mixing with them.
The Judeo-Christian will agree that the Canaanites were to be completely killed by God’s people. They were instructed by God’s own words. He didn’t instruct His people to send missionaries first with the intent to try to convert some of them; but to kill every man, woman, child and infant, including even their animals. There is not one descendant of the Kenites or Canaanites who ever heard [obeyed] the words of God. They are not, even once, referred to as being His sheep.
But the answer of the Judeo-Christian is “That was the Old Testament. We are living in the New. The death of Jesus Christ hadn’t happened yet, and when that occurred a major change happened. One of the major changes was that Jesus’ death was for all races of people from His death forward not backward.”
What? It wasn’t a redemption for anyone who lived prior to His death? Adam? Seth? Noah? Abraham? Isaac? Jacob? Joshua? Samson? Samuel? Joseph? Moses? Judah? David? John the Baptist?; Just to name a few of the millions of God’s people who lived prior to the death of their Kinsman-Redeemer. They were not saved from their sins by the death of Jesus Christ?
They had previously been given a temporary one-year-atonement by an annual animal sacrifice that was abolished when the death of Jesus Christ once and forever superseded that sacrifice. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ did away with all the animal sacrifices, and His death did not have to be repeated, as the animal sacrifices were, over and over each year. It was a onetime event that applied to all His people whether they lived before or after the atonement that guaranteed the provisions of the Abrahamic covenant.
So, if Jesus Christ did not die for any of the Canaanites who lived before His death, why would He die for any who lived after His death? The same is true for all the other races and mongrels: the Chinese, Black Africans, Indonesians, Eskimos, Koreans, New Guineans, Canaanites, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, Shelahites, Mexicans, etc. Many of these people never heard of Jesus Christ, let alone believe in Him.
And if he did die for any of the other races, where in the Holy Scriptures is the recording of this earth-shattering, drastic sudden change? Who was the first non-Israelite that became a part of the “covenant of blood”? It would have to be prominently displayed in the Holy Scriptures as it would nullify the covenant that He had made with His people. For all peoples would now be equal; they could all be His children.
Is it the same as “Christ’s Mass” or “Christmas” which has no reference in the Bible as being one of God’s feast days. There are many verses that depict Israel celebrating the Feast Days of Tabernacles, Day of Atonement, Trumpets, Passover, Pentecost, Jubilee, but not even one verse instructing His people to celebrate this birthday of their god which is celebrated in the wrong season and is celebrated in a “universal” atmosphere.
In fact, it is the birthday of a multitude of false gods. But the birthday of Jesus Christ was during Tabernacles, in the fall, not in the beginning of winter. His death was on Passover, not Easter. The Judeo-Christian does not keep God’s feast days. They are told to keep feast days that have no mention at all in the Holy Scriptures, i.e. Christ’s Mass and Easter. And these special days are supposed to be a test of one’s Christianity. It is nothing more than pure insanity.
Or is it like today which is called New Year’s Day by our secular society. It is nowhere found in Scripture that this is the New Year—at the beginning of winter. The first month of our year, as it is in most of the world, is January. It is because the world has adopted the Roman Catholic calendar. The first month in the Bible is in the Spring time, in the month when Passover is held (Exodus 12:2). It is when things begin to come alive once again after a season of temporary death and decay. It is the time when Israel left Egypt and started their journey to the Promised Land.
Exodus 12:2: “This month [Nisan, March-April] shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you [Israel].”
“The Roman Catholic Church hates all Protestants, and the Bible. The Jew hates the White Race of Jacob/Israel and their Savior Jesus [Christ]. What a pair! Satanism is all that we have now in all the Israelite nations ruling in the Parliaments, Congress, Courts and all the religions” (quoted from personal letter from Bara).
Catholic translated into English means “Universal.” Who else believes that salvation is now available to all races? Who now believes that we should celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ who died for the sins of all the world, without a word about this, exhorting us to do so, in all the Bible. As Pastor Mark Downey said in his last sermon we are commanded to do the following:
Deuteronomy 4:2: “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”
THE REASON ESAU HATED JACOB
We saw in our introductory Scriptural verse that Esau hated Jacob and waited until after the death of his father to slay him. And why did he want to slay him? It was because Jacob received the covenantal blessing from their father that he was originally supposed to receive. What was the blessing that Jacob received that would cause Esau to want to murder him and his descendants for over three millennia? What was in that blessing that forever has the descendants of Esau focused on an intense hatred of Israel.
Genesis 27:28-29:
28) “Therefore God gave thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:
29) Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.”
These two verses tell the reader of the important truth of Isaac’s blessings to Jacob. It contained 10 major blessings to Jacob and his seed. The 10 blessings are still in effect to this day:
- God would give Jacob and his seed the dew of heaven
- The fatness of the earth
- Plenty of corn
- Plenty of wine
- People would serve Jacob’s seed
- Nations would bow down to Jacob’s seed
- Jacob’s seed would be over Esau and his descendants
- Esau and his descendants would bow down to Jacob’s descendants
- Those who curse Jacob and his descendants, would be cursed
- Those who bless Jacob and his descendants, would be blessed
Very shortly after Jacob received this ten-fold blessing by his deceived father, Isaac, Esau returned with his killed deer. After fixing the venison, he went to his father and told him to eat and then bless him. His father, the Scriptures then tell us, “trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? Where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten all before thou camest, and have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed” (Genesis 27:33b).
Isaac was totally deceived. And he was very exceedingly troubled. He had blessed Jacob thinking that it was his older brother, Esau. Jacob had the skins of goats put on his hands and neck to imitate the body of Esau, but he still had his own voice. He smelled like Esau, but it was because he was dressed in the animal-smell raiment of the hunter. Isaac, at the time, was partially blind and was convinced that he was blessing Esau. He predicted that Jacob would be blessed above Esau in both material and spiritual things. He thought he was predicting that Esau would be blessed more than Jacob. No wonder Esau was upset!
Whoever blessed Jacob and his descendants would be blessed, and the contrary was also true. Who do you think cursed Jacob? And if they cursed Jacob, are they not cursed! Didn’t Esau curse Jacob, over and over and over?
Genesis 27:34-38:
34) “And when Esau heard the words of his father; he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
35) And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
36) And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? For he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
37) And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what shall I do now unto thee my son?
38) And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Jacob received the blessings that he would dwell in a land that would richly supply him with plenty to eat. People would serve him and nations would bow down to him and he would be lord over Esau and his descendants. And whoever cursed Jacob and his descendants would be cursed; and whoever blessed Jacob and his descendants would be blessed. Would failing to receive this blessing make a person want to murder the recipient of this blessing, even if it was your own twin brother and especially if it was stolen from you by deceit?
When their mother [Rebekah] was experiencing a difficult time when she was pregnant, it was said to her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels: and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger” (Genesis 25:23).
The Bible repeats several times over that Jacob and Esau are not created equal. The elder shall serve the younger is proof of this. And this is repeated in the New Testament. In Romans, chapter nine, verses 11-13:
11) “(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth),
12) It was said unto her, The elder [Esau] shall serve the younger [Jacob].
13) As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
Esau hated Jacob. But God hated Esau. That is what the Bible tells us. These two rival nations have been fighting ever since they were in the womb for over 3,000 years!
Question: If you believe that this prophecy about Jacob is true, then how could the “equality of all the races” be true? Weren’t certain people to serve Jacob? Weren’t there nations that would bow down to him? Wasn’t he to be lord over Esau? And wasn’t this to continue to the present time?
But Esau pleaded with his father to give him a blessing. What did Isaac finally bless Esau with?
Genesis 27:39-40:
39) “And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40) And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shall serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”
Esau passed this hatred to his offspring, for they consistently were always ready to war against the descendants of Jacob all down through history. Esau would survive by the sword. And he had one little sliver of hope. There would come a time when he would break Jacob’s yoke from off his neck! When did that happen? We will report on that in a future sermon.
But first we read in the Bible of Esau’s grandson, Amalek and his descendants who were the first to attack Israel as they entered Canaan. The Amalekites fought in the Bible against:
- Moses
- Joshua
- The judges
- King Saul
- King David
In the first battle against Israel, God had declared that He will have war with the Amalekites from “generation to generation” (Exodus 17:16). God would fight against the seed of the Amalekites, the grandson of Esau, forever. If you were a descendant of Amalek, would you love a God who said that He would fight against you forever? There is no indication that this war would ever end peacefully.
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In that battle, the Amalekites were defeated because Moses had to sit on a rock with Aaron on one side and Hur on the other, keeping Moses hands raised with the rod of God. If Moses’ hands were raised up, the Israelites prevailed; when his hands fell, the Amalekites prevailed. That is why Aaron and Hur had to help Moses keep his hands raised up in a position of surrender to God’s will.
The Amalekites also caused King Saul to lose his kingship, because the first Israelite king failed to eliminate all of them from the earth but saved the rival king of the Amalekites. God commanded Saul to “go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but, slay both men and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” (1 Samuel 15:3).
That was genocide. Why did God want King Saul to complete eradicate the Amalekites? Did the Amalekites curse Jacob’s seed? Then they would be a cursed people; and they were. How are they equal?
THE HATRED CONTINUES
And then we go all the way to the birth of a little boy who the king of Judea tried to murder. Why?
Matthew 2:16: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.”
Now who was Herod? In the footnote of the Scofield Bible on page 993, it says that Herod’s family was nominally Jewish but was from the lineage of Idumaean (Edomite). The Jewish scribes who wrote Scofield’s notes messed-up; for they wrote that Herod was an Edomite and Jewish. And that is surprising to many Christians of today and it is true. Herod was a descendant of Esau/Edom.
But how could Herod, who was an Edomite, be part of the seed of Jacob? The Edomites were the first Jews in the world. Herod was an Edomite Jew. He was not in the line of Jacob. It was the line of Esau that was Jewish; not the line of Jacob!
But it is just not the Scofield notes that say that Herod was Jewish. Even The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, page 592, says “from then on [Edomites] constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants.”
The Encyclopedia Judaica, The Jewish Encyclopedia and the Antiquities of the Jews also gives the same information. The descendants of Esau became Jews. Which also means that the descendants of Jacob were never Jews, unless they were proselytized or interracially married.
Herod, the Jew, had inquired of the wise men who had come from Persia to give gifts to the future king of Israel. Why would Herod attempt to deceive the wise men and murder this little boy who was born of a pure-blooded Israelite woman? It was because Esau hated Jacob. Esau’s descendants hate Jacob’s descendants. Therefore, Herod hated Jacob. And that is the reason Herod hated Jesus Christ, the descendant of Jacob; that is the reason that all Jews hated Jesus Christ; that is the reason that all the Jews today still hate Jesus Christ.
Herod was not trying to murder another Jew. It wasn’t Jew against Jew. It was the old story of Esau verses Jacob.
From our last study, do you remember who died giving birth at Bethlehem? It was Rachel who died giving birth to her second son, Benjamin. There was a prediction made by Jeremiah that was fulfilled on that murderous day. The prophecy is given in Jeremiah 31:15 and it repeated in Matthew 2:18.
Matthew 2:18 “In Ramah, was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and would not be comforted, because they are not.”
Jeremiah 31:15: “Thus saith the LORD, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.”
Almost three decades later, we find another tale of unprovoked hate against the ministry of Jesus Christ. The Pharisees, after Jesus healed a paralyzed man, were so infuriated that they held a council meeting to decide how they could eliminate His influence on the people. They decided to kill Him because He had healed a man on the Sabbath Day.
Matthew 12:14 “Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him [Jesus], how they might destroy him [Jesus].”
I went to church for years and never heard this verse used in a sermon. I wasn’t taught that it was the Edomites who were the original Jews. I was taught that it was the twelve sons of Jacob who were the Jews. How could the Edomites and sons of Jacob both be Jews?
I wasn’t taught that it was the Edomites who hated Jesus Christ from his birth. I didn’t know it was the Pharisees who held a council and plotted how they might have His ministry destroyed. Now, who were the Pharisees?
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, one of the leading authorities on Judaism asserted:
- “Phariseeism became Talmudism
- Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism
- Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism
But throughout these changes of name…The Spirit of the ancient Pharisee survives unaltered.” This well-known Rabbi writes that the modern Jew is descended directly from the Pharisees.
The Pharisees were not 100% Edomite but they had very quickly killed off many of the true Israelites that had once held that position and substituted their own kind (Edomites) in their position in the Sanhedrin. The Pharisees and Sadducees were almost all Canaanites or Edomites by the time of Jesus Christ. They had no need to repent, for they couldn’t. One doesn’t have to repent for who you are, but only for what you have done. The Pharisees and Sadducees were not from a physical seedline of the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but from a seedline of the devil.
Jesus referred to them as being “Serpents and the offspring of vipers” and asked “how can they escape the damnation of hell?” (Matthew 23:33). Pharisees (there were a few exceptions: The Apostle Paul, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, etc.) revered the “traditions of the elders” over God’s Holy Word. They were in competition with the Sadducees for power and influence.
The Sadducees were humanists. They were wealthy and of high position who lived for one life only and rejected the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And John the Baptist identified the Pharisees and Sadducees as a brood of vipers, because he knew that they were racial mongrels just like they are today.
Question: How could these vipers turn into the sheep of God in just a matter of a couple of years? Both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are quoted from the Bible asking the question “how can these vipers escape the damnation of hell.” Judeo-Christians say that they can. They claim that in less than three years, Jesus died and rose again so that any person who was living from that time onward could be saved. And that would include these vipers that Jesus Christ drove out of the House of the LORD.
If the doctrine of the Judeo-Christianity is correct, that would mean that we have no genetic enemies. It is only spiritual enemies that we now have.
The battle between Cain and Abel is over.
But is Genesis 3:15 still in play? “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Is there enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman today?
Is Genesis 3:16 over? “Unto the woman he said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Because of the sin of Eve, the man is to rule over her. But the husband having rule over his wife went out with the Jewish-led feminist movement in the middle of the 1900’s. All genders are now said to be equal.
The battle between Esau and Jacob is over.
“Esau hated Jacob and sought to slay him.” Esau became the Jews and Jacob became the Christians. Therefore, the Jews hate and have as their life-time goal to destroy the Christians.
The Jews say in their Talmud that Jesus Christ was a mongrel, the offspring between the prostitute Mary and a Roman soldier. He was crucified for His hatred against the Jewish nation and is now in hell boiling in a pot of hot semen. I would say that Esau still hates Jacob.
The battle between Canaan and Israel is over.
“Cursed be Canaan.” Are the Israelites allowed now to marry a descendant of the Canaanites? Since 1967, in the United States, the federal law states that any person can marry any other person, no matter what his/her race, religion or creed may be. That is directly against the Law of God and we should not keep it.
Matthew 12:3-4:
3) “Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4) And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.”
The Jews once again show their hatred of the King of Kings. This was the tenth time they had plotted the murder of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 21:45: “And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.”
Jesus spoke of the parable of the householder where the householder killed the son who was the heir. The householder reasoned that they would seize upon the inheritance once the real heir was dead. Sounds like what Esau would do: kill all the descendants of Jacob so the inheritance would go to him, since there was no one else left to give it to. In other words, they think that if they kill off all the rightful heirs, then Esau would be eligible to receive the inheritance.
John 2:14-15:
14) “And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15) And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables [Strong’s #5132: also a counter for money (fig. a broker’s office for loans at interest).”
Verses like this one shatter the Judeo-Christian’s diminutive view on God: God is love. This verse depicts him as driving out the Jewish money lenders out of the temple with a whip. This was the first time that Jesus purified the temple.
Mark 11:15: “And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;”
This tells of Jesus’ second cleansing of the temple during His life which is also written about in Matthew 21:12.
Matthew 23:13-36: Jesus pronounces eight woes against the scribes and Pharisees. It is a scathing rebuke, constantly referring to them as being serpents and a generation of vipers.
Luke 4:28-30:
28) “And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29) And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
30) But he passing through the midst of them went his way.”
Almost immediately in Jesus’ ministry, the Jews tried to kill him. Right after the temptation of Jesus, He, within a couple of days, went to his hometown of Nazareth and went to the synagogue. While there He read from the book of Isaiah and gave a short commentary. The effect of His short sermon produced the wrath of many in the synagogue. The Jews immediately led Jesus to the brow of the hill to cast Him to His death. Esau hated Jacob.
John 5:18: “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
The Jews sought to kill Jesus because He claimed equality with God. This was right after they had wanted to slay Jesus because He had healed a person on the Sabbath (John 5:16).
John 7:1: “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”
Jesus ministry still had a way to go and the Bible says that He walked in the northern parts of Israel, not the southern part. The reason: Because the Jews sought to kill him. Much of Jerusalem was where the Edomite Jews had residence. There were a few Judahites living there, but the vast number of true Israelites (mostly from the tribe of Benjamin) lived in northern Galilee.
John 7:25: “Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they [Jews] seek to kill?”
It was common knowledge among the inhabitants of Jerusalem that the Jews sought to kill Jesus.
John 7:30-32
30) “Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
31) And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
32) The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.”
The Jews [Pharisees and chief priests] plotted to arrest Jesus with the intent to kill Him for claiming that He was from God.
John 7:40-44:
40) “Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
41) Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come of Galilee?
42) Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
43) So there was a division among the people because of him.
44) And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.”
This was another attempt to kill Jesus, but it failed. Esau hated Jacob.
John 8:59: “Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.”
Jesus, before the Jews tried to kill him once again, refuted their claim that they were children of God. He said that their father was the devil and they had the same attributes as he had. Immediately before they tried to stone Him to death, He told them that He was before Abraham was.
John 10:31: “Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.”
The Jews once again attempted to kill Jesus by stoning for claiming His Deity. They responded to a question asked by Jesus that they were stoning him for blasphemy and because he, being a man, maketh himself God.
John 10:39: "Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,”
The Jews, for the seventh time, attempted to kill Jesus. This time it was for His teaching about His Deity.
John 11:47:“Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees, a council, and said, What do we? For this man doeth many miracles.”
The chief priests and Pharisees plotted against Jesus. They held a council meeting and decided to kill him.
John 11:53-54:
53) “Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
54) Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.”
The Jews made a determined effort to kill Jesus for the ninth time. Jesus refrained from going to Jerusalem because of their desire to kill him.
John 11:55-57:
55) “And the Jews Passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56) Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
57) Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.”
The Jews sought to kill Jesus even at the Passover Feast. The gave a commandment that any who saw Him might tell them where He was, so they could arrest Him.
John 12:9-10:
9) “Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10) But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;”
The chief priests (Jews) even desired to kill Lazarus because of their hatred for Jesus. Esau hated Jacob.
John 18:3, 10, 12: Jesus was arrested by Jewish soldiers.
John 18:13-14: Jesus was tried by Jewish leaders who had already decided on His guilt.
John 18:28-40; 19:1-7, 12-15: The Jews were adamant in their desire to kill Jesus. These verses tell of the time when Jesus is taken before Pilate. The Jews constantly keep the theme that Jesus must die.
John 19:16-18: The Jews led Jesus away to be crucified.
There are more scriptures that I could give, but if you are not convinced yet that it was the Jews who hated Jesus Christ and killed Him, more verses wouldn’t help. You will never believe.
The Israelites were mainly in the islands in western Europe, the continent of Europe, Babylonia, Assyria, and across the Caucasus Mountains. There was less than 2% of all Israelites who ever heard Jesus Christ preach.
Millions of Christians sing this hymn during Christmas season and didn’t realize what they are singing: "Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, born is the King of Israel.” They are singing that Jesus Christ was born to be King of Israel; not the King of China, or the King of the Zulus, or the King of the Mexicans, or the King of everyone in the whole world.
And there is the Hallelujah Chorus that says:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah.
The kingdom of this world, Is become the kingdom of our Lord, And of His Christ, and of His Christ; And He shall reign for ever and ever,
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
And He shall reign for ever and ever.
King of kings, forever and ever, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
And Lord of lords, forever and ever, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
King of kings, forever and ever, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
And Lord of lords, forever and ever, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
King of kings, forever and ever, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
And Lord and lords,
King of kings and Lord of lords, He shall reign forever and ever,
And He shall reign forever and ever.
King of kings! Forever and ever,
And Lord of lords, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
And He shall reign forever, forever and ever,
King of kings and Lord of lords,
King of kings and Lord of lords,
And He shall reign Forever and ever,
Forever and ever and ever and ever.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
What is the significance of the Old Testament stories? Why are they important to know if they do not have any meaning in today’s world? Who are the Jews? Who are the true Israelites? Who are the people of the covenant that God made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Isn’t that exclusive?
I became disenfranchised from the mainstream church when I noticed the amount of times the Jews tried to murder Jesus Christ. And then they finally succeeded. It took me many years to figure out that they were not the seed of Jacob.
Then after His death, it was the Jews who bribed the guards to disregard the resurrection of Jesus. Then after Christianity began, they murdered almost all His disciples and many of His followers. They brought false doctrine into the churches. And it hasn’t ever stopped. Esau still hates Jacob!
Hebrews 13:20: “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,”
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel.
To be continued.
