Several weeks ago, Nehemia Gordon started a firestorm when he released what he had
found more than 18 years earlier.
While searching the microfilm archives at Hebrew University, that's when he first
came across the Hebrew Gospels.
Not only was he looking for the Hebrew Matthew, but he found other Gospels that
no one had looked at these manuscripts before.
When he took the microfilm back to the librarian, after finding the Hebrew
Gospels, these other Gospels, the librarian asked him a question.
Did you find anything interesting in that microfilm?
And he didn't want to answer because he did not know who knew about this.
And he said to the librarian, why do you ask?
And the librarian says that no one has ever checked that out.
No one has ever seen this documentation before.
He was the first one to look at it because anything that is done in Hebrew,
in the Gospels, this is of no concern to Hebrew scholars for the most part.
And it's of no concern to Christian scholars because they have stood on the
ground that the Gospels were all done in Greek and all the scholarship has been
done in Greek.
And even though we have 250,000 variations in the 5,000 Greek manuscripts that exist,
and there are questions that are posed that were not answerable until the ancient
Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew came out.
And so there are literally treasures that have been hidden for hundreds,
yes for now, more than 1,000 years, 2,000 years, that our guest on this
program has been deciphering and tracing these things back.
And so I've asked Miles Jones to come back.
He's a PhD in linguistics, a PhD in education, and he is the one that
deciphered the code, the writing of God that is at Mount Sinai.
And Miles, it's good to have you back with us.
It's good to be here.
And I'm excited about this, what you're doing right now.
I know that you're in the middle of writing a book at this point.
And when we talked on the phone, you decided that it was more important to
get this message out than to wait for the completion of the book.
And I appreciate that.
I want to have you back on when the book is completed and for you to continue this
adventure, because this has only just begun at this point.
Well, thanks for that.
I appreciate it.
And I will be back.
There will be more.
I have prophesied a long time ago that when I started this five years ago,
that once the cat was out of the bag, the Hebrew Gospels were out there.
All the libraries and churches and museums that are sitting on copies of it,
because it is a forbidden manuscript.
Remember, the Messianic Church has been hunted to extinction, they thought.
And the Hebrew Gospels were targeted for extinction because they were a threat to
the authority of the church, to Greek primacy, to Greek scripture, to the Greek
church, to Latin primacy, to the Latin church, the Roman church.
So it has been targeted.
But the church is a spiritual battleground.
There were a lot of people that did not agree with that and they hid their copies
in the sub-basement, if you will.
In fact, the Hebrew Gospels that I am translating, and have been for the past
five years, they were bound beneath a 100-page document in Hebrew called the
Tales of Sindabar.
So unless you read the first 100 pages, you didn't realize there was a Hebrew
Gospels there of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
And it was underneath that, under the pages, it was all bound together,
a codex that was bound together.
And so this was just overlooked.
For 500 years, in the belly of the beast, in the Vatican itself.
And I really believe that, you know, attitudes changed after the Holocaust.
There's been a lot more openness on the part of the church.
They're not threatened anymore by this, which is good.
It's progressive.
It's good.
Give them credit where credit is due.
They have been open about this.
The Vatican has released this document to me so I could study it and other documents
that we're talking about.
It's been so exciting the past few weeks because they're starting to pop up like
flowers in the spring.
Exactly like I said, once the cat is out of the bag, there's no reason to sit on
these valuable documents anymore that were forbidden by the church.
Now the Vatican leading the way, that is starting to happen.
So Nehemia and I have been busy.
Nehemia was studying the oldest manuscript of the Hebrew Gospels, the Shem Tov
manuscript of Matthew.
And I was studying the second oldest, about a hundred years later, but done in
the same area of Spain, Catalan, ancient Sepharad.
And when we got our energies together, it was pretty...
lots of sparks were flying.
Well, we have from the Vatican Library, we actually have the photographs of the
manuscripts and we're working right now to get the permission for publication so that
everyone can have these.
Where Nehemia is working on this in an attempt to do a coffee table book to where
we not only have the photographs on parchment, as far as the Gospels are
concerned, but also the modern transcription and the modern translation.
He's already been working on this in the Book of Revelation from the British
Library.
But for believers to have it, especially Messianic Jews in this generation,
to have those ancient documents reproduced, have this on the coffee table,
this is going to open up so many incredible doors.
The most incredible is the truth of the Word, the sacred Word of God.
I always tell people, the question always comes up, what difference does it make
whether it's written in Greek or in Hebrew?
And I say it doesn't make any difference unless you care about the truth of the
Word.
You know, everything gets filtered through another language, another culture,
a whole other way of thinking, through Greek thought.
In fact, Yeshua the Messiah himself becomes a Greek philosopher.
And the differences are significant.
Right, from that perspective, from that inaccurate perspective.
And as I say, okay, we have to admit that we have most of the Gospels and most of
the translation have come from Greek.
But the first thing we have to understand that even though these are Greek words,
this is not a Greek culture.
It has to be interpreted and understood through a Hebraic understanding.
And that's the only way it can be done.
We have so many things, the unsolvable mysteries in the Greek that are translated
over to English that translators and modern readers just gloss over.
They read right by.
They know that they don't understand it.
But they don't go back to the simplest understanding that everyone to whom it was
originally addressed, they understood this with absolute clarity.
Right.
Well, since the beginning of Christianity, since the beginning of the textual history
of the Bible, they have been correcting it from the Hebrew Gospels in the beginning.
But then once it was translated into Greek and then into Latin, they wanted to get
rid of the Hebrew because it was a threat to the authority of the church.
Right.
And there are so many points of clarity in the Hebrew version of the Gospels and what
we see in the Vatican.
Right.
There are differences.
In the first pages of Luke, what do we find that is just about universally denied
now even among the Messianic Judaism cult, the people that try to attach rabbinic
Judaism and make a Messianic version of it, they want to say that the name Jehovah
was not known and no one spoke that.
And here we see in the Gospel of Luke, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, with all the vowel
pointings.
That is the latest manuscript to come out and it's a new one.
And it's highly significant that the Messianic, because whenever you see Hebrew
Gospel, we're talking Messianic scribes because the Judaic church...
That's an important thing to...
They were being prosecuted for this by the Christians.
So they were burning the Hebrew Gospels and the Gentile church, the Greek church
and the Roman church, they were burning the Gospels and the people along with it
that held to those ideas.
So this, the Messianic church was targeted.
The whole was persecuted for 2,000 years and the Hebrew Gospels were targeted for
extinction.
So the story has been that supposedly all the authors of the books in the New
Testament were Hebrews, right?
But yet, however, we're expected to believe that every single original
manuscript was written in Greek.
Does that make any sense?
Not even according to the early church fathers.
They admitted that Hebrews was written in Hebrew.
Duh!
And Matthew was written in Hebrew.
We have to ignore all of that because we're buying into a spin.
We're buying into a narrative of the Greek church, of Greek primacy of Scripture.
And that just won't hold up.
It's spin.
Spin was not invented in this century.
It has been with us a long time.
But they could enforce it with the power of capital punishment.
If you didn't go along with what they said, you would burn at the stake and your
manuscripts along with you.
So the manuscripts themselves, the Hebrew Gospels are the primary
landmark, the primary markers of the greatest story never told.
The survival of the Messianic church underground throughout 2,000 years.
They mark what it is, where it happened and what happened because only Messianic
scribes are going to be...
because they're risking their lives.
You'd be burned at the stake for this.
Not only it was absolutely against church doctrine, it was a mortal sin to translate
the Bible into the vernacular, into the language that would be Hebrew,
of course, or Roman, or any of the languages of the people that wanted to
read the Bible.
And that continued on down, right down, even the translation over into English.
They were burning people at the stake.
They were executing them.
They were trying to get the language of the Bible into the common parlance,
what everyone spoke on the street.
Even just for reading it in the vernacular language, you could be burned at the
stake.
And so you imagine what it was.
And that's why they thought that all of the extant copies of Matthew had been
obliterated by the time of the Declaration.
They certainly tried, however.
Right, and that was what was thought.
And they tried to lay that thing out, that that's what happened.
But we know that the persecution by Rome to obliterate these manuscripts,
that was a very real thing.
Oh, absolutely.
That thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of believers lost
their lives for trying to maintain.
And so that's why I say, everyone that we've got, even in King James,
this is not to be treated lightly.
This was written in blood.
Yes, it is.
Probably about a million Christians had been martyred by the church itself over
that time.
They say, church history says, that the persecution of the Christians
ended with Constantine, but that is a totally false statement.
It just morphed.
And now it was the church itself that was executing fellow congregants in order to
achieve doctrinal purity, right?
In order to be, to win the doctrinal lottery, because the church that won,
whose doctrine won out, was going to sit in the seat of power over all the churches
of the earth.
That's what they thought.
That's right.
And that's why the Pope, or it was Constantine who named himself Pontifex
Maximus, which is the title of the high priest of paganism.
But then it went from there to where he was almighty God upon the earth.
He was the vicar, vicariously Christ.
Almighty God upon the earth, and his authority is not to be challenged.
He called himself the 13th Apostle.
In fact, he created a huge church with 12 coffins around his, where he was the
leader, or symbolic of the leader, in place of the Messiah.
And he tried to get the remains of all the apostles to put in these coffins.
The hubris is pretty breathtaking, right?
But all kings claimed their authority by divine right.
So why should we be surprised that Christianity was used in this way?
And Eusebius tried to create this myth.
He was the one, Eusebius of Caesarea, who was a flunky, I guess is the word,
of Constantine.
He wrote The Life of Constantine.
He wrote The History of the Church.
He wrote the book In Praise of Constantine.
He was a bishop of Constantine.
He was a flunky of the truth.
But he created the three-and-a-half-year ministry, which had never been thought of
before, which you talked about in The Chronological Gospel, and proved
definitively that it could not have been a three-and-a-half-year ministry.
It wasn't one 70-week ministry.
And that's something that you spent a great deal of time researching on,
because it took me 20 years to ferret that thing out, that it is impossible to put
together the Gospels with a three-and-a-half-year ministry.
It's nonsense.
It contradicts the testimony of the other three Gospels.
And even in John, they never mentioned any of the feast days more than one time.
If it was three-and-a-half years, you would have four Passover's.
You'd have three Sukkot's.
You would have all of these, and they never mentioned more than one time.
It was clearly a one-year gospel.
John 6, 4 was an insertion, mistakenly by a Greek copyist or perhaps by Eusebius
himself to promulgate the three-and-a-half-year ministry because it
signaled the end times.
When the Messiah would return, he would rule over all the nations of the
earth and he would end the persecution of Christians.
Well, who did that?
Constantine.
So he is the vicar of Christ who's finally returned, returned to his throne in Rome,
not in Jerusalem but in Rome, to rule over mankind.
But he was not the Messiah.
He was a false Messiah because he took the bishops up on a tall mountaintop
symbolically and said, if you will just bow down to me, I will make the church the
premier religion of the world.
And they bowed down to him.
And that's what happened.
And at that point...
Isn't that what Satan took Yeshua up to a high peak and said, bow down to me and all
these kingdoms will be yours?
That's exactly my point.
So what did Constantine do that we know he was a false Messiah?
Well, this is when, up until then, the Messianic Church and later the
Nazarene Church and the Apostolic Church were a part of the Judaic religion.
All Christians, whether Jews or Gentiles, were really considered a part of Judaism.
It was a sect of Judaism.
It was accepted as such.
It was Constantine who finally finalized the divorce.
It had growing anti-Semitism.
Constantine effected the divorce.
From now on, all Messianic believers, Jewish or otherwise, would be considered
heretics.
They would be burned and their books would be burned along with them.
And that is the pattern that they pursued for the next 2,000 years of persecution of
the Messianic Church.
But they failed to extinguish it.
The churches survived.
They sparked the Reformation.
They also sparked the Renaissance because they had put...
Well, they had forbidden, really, the study of Hebrew and the study of
Greek.
So how did they do that?
So we lost all the Greek masterpieces that formed the model of Western civilization.
That's why they called it the Dark Ages.
They came back in from the East through Arabic translations that were translated
by Messianic scribes in the Messianic Church, the resurgent Messianic Church in
Spain.
So it played a huge part in sparking the Renaissance and the Reformation.
So it was...
The church has been there all along.
It's been a really important factor in the survival of the true Word because they had
gospels that they held on to outside of the long arm, the grip of the Roman
Church, which was trying its best to burn them all.
And how would they do that?
Because they don't know Hebrew, right?
They don't even want anybody studying Hebrew.
So how would they do that?
Well, they just burnt all Hebrew manuscripts.
So for a period literally of a thousand years from the time of Yeshua,
Hamashiach, there were no Hebrew manuscripts.
Now remember, this is from a society that has been the most literate society in
history.
The Jews, right?
And the Messianic Jews had the same educational tradition.
No Hebrew manuscripts at all.
Zero.
Zip for a thousand years.
They were all burned, right?
Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and they date to the second
century.
So that reduces it to an 800 year period of absolute silence on Hebrew manuscripts.
But obviously they were stashed away because they're afraid of them being
destroyed.
So this discovery now of the Hebrew Gospels is just epic.
It is so exciting.
This is a story, I call it, the greatest story never told.
I don't think I'm going to let you completely steal that one.
I may have stolen it from you already.
That fits so much with the Gospels.
Because nobody is teaching what Yeshua taught.
And that's what he said.
He told his disciples, you make disciples and teach them what I taught you.
Instead what we get are sweet baby Jesus stories and all sorts of insipid drivel
that is passed off instead of teaching what he taught.
Because that is the Gospel of the Kingdom.
And this is where the real separation with the Messianic believers in the synagogue
system because Yeshua stood up against rabbinic Judaism.
He stood up and vehemently violated the rules and regulations that were eventually
encoded in the Talmud.
But the invented rules and regulations, the Takenot of the Pharisees, he stood up
against and that is why they were plotting to and then finally delivered him to the
Romans for his execution because he was stripping their authority.
And heaven was endorsing it by these incredible miracles.
Every miracle that Yeshua did, he was deliberately violating Pharisee
law.
And so now when the believers, the followers of Yeshua, which are called
followers of the way throughout the Book of Acts, these people are, they're really,
there's a war going on in the synagogue system to where the Pharisees are trying
to hang on to their religion and the followers of Yeshua are trying to teach
the Torah, clean Torah, not with all these rules and regulations added but to
separate the rules from men from the living word which is Yeshua's instructions
which he is following exactly and showing us how to live out what Moses gave us from
the mountain.
Right, so you've got these two forces there.
They were trying to separate themselves from the commandments of men, the Takanot,
the things that had been added on to the Judaic religion and keep what was right.
At the same time, they were trying to remain imitators of Yeshua HaMashiach by
keeping the feast days and the other commandments that were still relevant.
Obviously, animal sacrifice and a lot of the temple ceremonies and stuff,
they were abrogated with the crucifixion, the sacrifice of the Son of God.
Well, they didn't discontinue until the destruction of the temple though.
No, they didn't.
That's correct.
But that happened upon his crucifixion really and then the whole temple was
destroyed 40 years later.
But the temple was broken and defiled and profaned on the crucifixion.
To clarify on this, the Pharisees records tell us that 40 years before the
destruction of the temple that the Yom Kippur sacrifice and miracle, the miracle
that took place on Yom Kippur of the scarlet cord turning white that it never
happened again.
And when 40 years before and according to Maimonides and the Jewish scholars,
the destruction of the temple was in 68 of the Common Era.
It was the year before the 380th Greek Era that the temple was destroyed.
What is 40 years before that?
It's 28 of the Common Era the year Yeshua was crucified.
So when he was crucified from that moment on the Yom Kippur sacrifice, the miracle
that happened, that heaven endorsed this, the miracle never took place again and
they still have to acknowledge this today and if they could, if the Pharisees could
wipe that out and pretend it didn't happen they would do it.
But they can't do it because they documented it themselves.
This is what happened.
The year Yeshua was crucified, the Yom Kippur sacrifice and miracle never
happened again.
And year after year until the temple was destroyed this was an omen.
And there were several just deeply troubling omens.
And so this is what we have in Hebrews is that the sacrifices that were done,
and this is important for people to understand, the sacrifices that were done
were to remind us that we broke the blood covenant and we incurred the death
penalty.
So instead of being killed immediately as God said, stand back Moses, I'm gonna kill
them all right now and start over with you.
Instead Moses interceded and the Almighty then put in place the sacrifices.
And that is when Moses went back up to the mountain and the Almighty gave him the
detail concerning the brazen altar of sacrifices.
And sacrifices were added because of the transgression, breaking the blood
covenant.
But when Yeshua paid that penalty, bam!
No longer was that miracle shown from heaven.
No longer was it acceptable.
The sacrifice of that twin goat, that baby twin goat.
It was shown...
The escape goat.
That's right.
Never, never was effectual again.
And so that very moment, that is when the death penalty was paid.
And that's what it was.
And people do not realize the whole role of the Messianic church, the true church,
the original church has been totally downplayed.
They were the seminal central player in the first centuries of the Christian era.
The apostles went to all corners of the world and they carried the Hebrew Gospels
with them.
Before Rome even became an established church.
Right.
Rome's not even in the picture.
They're not in the picture yet.
There were some people there, but it was the Hebrew apostles who took it.
They took the Hebrew Gospels.
We have in the early literature, we have it cited as being found in
obviously in Israel, but also in Egypt, in Syria, in Yemen, in India, in
Constantinople, in Alexandria.
Just all over the place, the Hebrew Gospels had been taken and they were
teaching from that.
They were teaching from that word, from the Hebrew Gospels.
And all of that is ignored.
They made the seedbed of Christianity, which spread into the Greek churches,
into the Gentiles, mostly Greek, and that changed everything.
Let's trace this back for the people for a few minutes.
Because the apostles stayed in Jerusalem.
The sent ones, they didn't go on from there.
They stayed in Jerusalem and this is when Saul was sent by the Pharisee Sanhedrin
over to Damascus to continue to arrest believers and he was sent to the
synagogues to arrest believers, follow Yeshua in the synagogue and bring
them back in chains.
And of course this resulted in Yeshua appearing to him and so finally he comes
back to Jerusalem.
When he comes back, the apostles are afraid of him.
But Barnaba was there in Damascus and he said, no, he's changed.
He's boldly preaching Yeshua.
And so you have Barnaba and Shaul who are going in and out of Jerusalem and great
things are happening.
But Shaul then starts contending with these Greek proselytes and they get all
fired up because they want to hold on to their Judaism.
They want to hang on to their Pharisaism.
And so they're in conflict.
And so then Shaul gets taken over to Caesarea where he gets on a boat and goes
up to Tarsus.
But what Barnaba does is he goes up and he goes up to Antioch.
And it says as the apostles spread out from Jerusalem, they went just to the
synagogue preaching only to the Jews, not the Gentiles.
The Samaritans by Philip, yeah, but that didn't go very far.
But it was the Messianic believers who took it to Antioch and then Barnaba went
down and got Shaul.
Shaul went back there.
And this is where as you pointed out in your research, that Luke was in Antioch.
And so we have the first time that in Antioch, Gentiles are in the synagogue
with the rest of the believers.
And the Messianic Jews in the synagogue and what happens with that?
That's when they first became known as Christians.
So we have Gentiles.
By Gentiles who are in the synagogue.
Notarim, Nazarene.
That's right, the Notarim.
But that changed the church.
But Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles.
And many of the Jews in the diaspora had lost their Orthodox Judaism.
They had lost it.
But they became believers but they did not come back to doing all the laws and the
customs of the rabbinic tradition.
The Orthodox believers in Yeshua in Jerusalem were zealous for the law.
So you have this contradiction.
Right, but zealous for not only the law, but you have those who are Pharisees.
Believers who were Pharisees who are holding on to rabbinic tradition.
And that's where a big conflict comes in.
It will always throughout the book of Acts.
That is the conflict.
And that is what caused the divorce between the Greek church and the Messianic
church.
It is this conflict.
This is why they were so upset with Paul because they believed he was teaching this
that it was okay for them to not obey the law.
Because the Judaic believers, James the just, the brother of Yeshua and the
others, they wanted them to come back into the fold and begin to practice the law.
And this is really why so many people say that the Christian church is really based
more on Paul than it is on Yeshua.
Because he carried the banner of this outreach to the Gentiles which was moving
further and further from the law.
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Well, we've got to take a break right now because as this debate is going to heat up
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this message out into the world.
And then you're going to have the Gentiles and especially the Romans come in and
attempt to crush and destroy the authority of Yeshua and replace him with the vicar
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We're back with Miles Jones and things are heating up here on the A Rood Awakening
studio because we are exploring things back in the foundation of the Christian
church as it was first called Christians in Antioch.
But what was going on?
These were Messianic Jews that were going to the synagogue.
And this is something Miles and I, as we were discussing this, we felt that
this needed to be clarified.
As we see in the book of Acts and in Shaul's letters, is that we have
believers, followers of Yeshua who were Pharisees.
And they have brought with them all of their Rabbinic Takenot.
All of this oral law that they've grown up with their whole lives and they cannot
separate the oral Torah that they were taught and the Torah of Moses.
And this is where Yeshua puts the knife down.
He said, I did not come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword.
And he put the blade down between the law of Moses, which are the commandments of
God, and the invented rules and regulations of Pharisee-ism which they
built an entire religious system on that.
So you've got believers who are still in the grasp of Pharisaic Judaism in Israel,
and Shaul is making that knife point, that knife cut.
But now, we have Shaul's writings and the teachings that were done at that time,
that everyone was understanding this division that was going on.
But now, we've come to the point where we have Gentiles interpreting the scripture
in Shaul's letters from their Gentile perspective and not knowing that Shaul is
not speaking against the Torah.
Never does.
And he is an observant Jew himself.
But the big animosity toward him was that they said he was teaching the diaspora
Jews and the Gentiles that they did not have to follow the law.
And this is when they came to Jerusalem.
But what was he really saying?
You don't follow what law?
The oral Torah of the Pharisees.
Well, this all came to a head in Jerusalem.
This is in Acts 15 where they all got together and they made a determination
based on the guidance of the Holy Spirit that those under the circumcision could
follow the law.
Believers in the Messiah could follow the law.
But those that were uncircumcised did not have to become circumcised and therefore
did not have to obey all of the commandments.
Oh, absolutely not.
No, no.
What James quotes, he quotes what the Gentiles have to do.
He quotes it right from the Torah that the Gentiles have got to not be worshiping
other gods.
They can't be committing fornication or erva matters.
They can't be sexually...
that has been dedicated to foreign gods.
These are all things in the Torah.
And the whole situation is that, again, you have these anal retentive
Pharisee believers who are trying to put all of the oral Torah upon the believers.
Upon the Gentile believers.
There are things that don't even apply to Gentile believers such as circumcision.
Since when does this sign of the covenant between God and Abraham that all the land
from the Euphrates to the Nile belongs to the sons of Israel?
Gentiles don't get to get in on that unless they want to.
But to enter into the covenant with Yeshua, into the renewed covenant,
that doesn't require Gentiles to go under that particular thing.
That's one thing.
But then when it comes to all the Takenot of the Pharisees, that's what everyone is
saying.
No, the Gentiles don't have to do that.
The Gentiles, the Torah, and this is what it says, the Torah is taught every week in
the synagogue.
The Gentiles want to come in and learn the Torah like they are in Antioch,
in the synagogue, then they have to abstain from these things.
Because if you don't agree to that, you don't even come into the synagogue.
You know, if you don't want to give up your worship of pagan gods, don't darken
our doorstep.
If you want to commit Erevah matters, if you want to live a homosexual
lifestyle, then you don't come in.
That's what it's saying.
And they did.
They continued to attend synagogue, sometimes church as well, on Sunday.
But they attended synagogue up until the 4th century when... There was church on
Sunday?
There was later on, yes, the church on Sunday, the Lord's Day, right?
That happened in the 2nd century, they started to split away and have
different cousins.
Well, we're back in the 1st century, but take us through, because you've done
some research in Yeshua's dynasty, the family dynasty, and tell us a little
bit of what you found.
This is part of the greatest story never told, because they took a sharp right turn
halfway through Acts.
And after that, everything in the New Testament is basically about Paul and the
Gentile church.
So that's what happens after the Gospels.
And they moved away from the Messianic Church as fast as they could.
The Gentiles, yeah.
And they already started to add in some of their pagan traditions.
Yes, Constantine did that.
Religious syncretism, you know, Christmas, Saturnalia, you know,
Easter, the feast day of Easter, a Babylonian sex god.
And those that did not follow that would not worship the resurrection of the Son of
God on the feast day of a Babylonian sex goddess.
That's right.
They were declared heretics.
They were called Quarto Decimans, which is Latin for 14, because they held
to the 14th day of Nisan, which is the day that Yeshua was sanctified with his own
blood as the day of resurrection, of the day of the crucifixion,
and then the resurrection three days later.
So these people were targeted for extinction.
Right, because if you've got to have Good Friday and Easter Sunday and try to get
three days and three nights in there, you can't do it.
So anybody that celebrates the crucifixion of Yeshua on the correct day and can
calculate three days and three nights correctly, we've got to annihilate these
people.
We've got to kill them, and that's what they did.
They hunted them down and killed them.
So if you could count to three, basically, you're dead.
Okay?
You've got to admit whatever the Pope says, that's right.
That's it.
The Pope is God.
That's it.
Now what would have happened if they hadn't taken this sharp turn into the
Gentile Greek church, focused all on Paul's message, the message to the
Gentiles, this is what you would have seen.
Because the Messianic church continued and I swear, this is probably going to blow
your mind, you'll never hear this from the pulpit, but the Jesus dynasty continued...
Oh, that's why you're here and not behind a pulpit.
Okay, go ahead.
The Jesus dynasty continued to build the Messianic church.
And this is all in Scripture.
Of course, there's plenty of argument about it.
Okay, now we're going to separate the Jesus dynasty.
We're not talking about him and Mary Magdalene getting together and having
offspring that will become the kings of Europe.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about the Yeshua dynasty.
Okay, now we've clarified that.
This is fascinating, ladies and gentlemen.
His parents were Joseph and Miriam, we know about them.
Joseph and Miriam.
But Joseph had a brother named Cleopas.
And Miriam had a cousin, Elisheva, who married Zachariah.
They gave birth to John the Baptist, the second Messiah.
He was...
There was the prophecy of the two Messiahs.
All the Hebrews at that time knew it.
Now, Yeshua was a Messiah, but he was also the Son of God.
There was a difference.
But Cleopas, the brother of Joseph, he had two sons, James and John,
and Jude Thaddeus, who both became apostles.
So these were relatives of Yeshua who became apostles.
He also had a daughter, Salome, who married Zebedee, and she had two sons,
who also became apostles.
That's James the Greater and John, the Apostle John.
Cleopas also had another son, Simeon.
And Simeon took over.
Now, after the crucifixion of Yeshua, the Messianic Church in the very,
very difficult times was taken over by James the Just, who was a very righteous
man.
He was a very Orthodox Jew, but he was a believer in the Messiah.
After he was, all of these people were... Right.
He was not a Pharisee as we think of Orthodox Jews today.
He was very definitely a believer.
He was dedicated to the accuracy of the Torah and living it.
But in many ways, he was a perfect person for the times because he satisfied the
Jews' fears about people leaving the law, and yet was a believer, a very strong
believer in the Messiah.
In fact, he was crucified for it by the temple priests.
He was stoned to death by the temple priests, as were all of these descendants
of Yeshua.
But after James the Just was stoned to death for expressing a belief in the
Messiah, they wanted him to tamp that down on Passover.
Instead, he went out and said, what do you expect me to say?
He's sitting on the right hand of God and will return.
So, you know, he's the son of God.
So they didn't get what they wanted.
So they had Doug stoned to death.
Simeon took over the Messianic church at that point.
And Simeon was the son of Cleopas and Miriam, the uncle of Yeshua.
He took over the church, and he was the one who led the flight to Pella when the
Romans surrounded the church in Jerusalem.
And they went to Pella and saved the Messianic church.
The Pharisees went to Jamnia and reorganized the Judaic church.
All the other sects were wiped out.
You know, the Zealots, the Essenes, all of them, the Sadducees were all wiped
out.
Only the Pharisees and the Nazarenes.
Right, the Sadducees, that's the Zadakim priests.
They are in charge of the temple.
The Pharisees, however, in charge of the Sanhedrin, they went out to Yavneh,
and that's where they started their academy.
I was just...
These are the two sinners now.
Taking objection to your terminology, Jewish church, speaking of the Pharisees,
because... No, you're right.
They instituted Phariseeism in a large way.
Before they were a sect... Right, they were in control.
All the priests are dead.
Now it became Judaism.
Before they were a sect, now it became Judaism and reinforced by law.
So after...
James suggests Yeshua's brother guided the church for 30 difficult years.
Simeon led them in the escape to Pella, where many of them went on to Sepharad in
Spain and took the Hebrew Gospels with them.
After his crucifixion, his brother Jude took over the church.
Very aged at this time, his youngest brother in his 90s, probably 95,
when he took over the church.
And Jude's two grandsons also were leaders in the church.
They were also crucified by Trajan, the Roman emperor.
But their son, one of their sons, Judah Kyrios, which means Judah of Christ,
was the last Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem.
What happened under Constantine...
And you don't hear about any of this.
Have you ever heard this?
Do not think of the pointy hat.
These are leaders.
They are men that lived, wore normal clothes like normal people do,
and they were elders.
They were responsible and they were overseers.
No fish hats.
No, that's exactly right.
He was the leader of the movement.
Later, they called him a bishop.
They reinvented the church.
He would have never been called a bishop in his time at all.
Right.
And he wouldn't have worn a fish hat or anything like that.
But again, this is what in our culture, everyone thinks of that.
So that's why the terminology, that's why the little fight with the
terminology, the little backlash from me because I know how you're using the
terminology and I'm interpreting it from a Hebraic perspective.
You know, what it's like really living in Israel.
That's the whole conflict, isn't it?
We've got this Greek perspective that has been laid upon us in the Bibles we all
have and read.
And then we've got the Hebrew perspective which has some really significant
differences.
It tells the same story.
And the Hebrew Gospels.
It's still the story of the Gospels.
It's still the sacred word.
Right.
But there are significant differences.
Absolutely.
Crucially important to understanding our Messiah who walked the earth and was a
Jew.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, this is why we are taking these paths down
here so that, you know, okay the story remains the same except there are
significant differences and undertones and things that you will never see in Greek.
You'll never see in English.
You'll read the English Bible and New Testament the rest of your life unless
you're reading the chronological Gospels in which I do all the notations so you can
understand it.
But you'll read right past these things and never know what it's talking about.
Right.
I mean the fact is, the truth and this is the truth.
The Greek Gospels, because the Messianic Church was a threat to them, they
basically wrote the Hebrew Messiah out of the message and made him a Greek Christ.
They wrote the Messianic Church out of Church history as if it didn't exist and
wasn't the central player in the early centuries in spreading the Word to all
corners of the earth before the Rome Church even came into being.
And also it wrote the Hebrew Gospels out.
They didn't exist.
And that's the story.
Even though all the early Church Fathers said they did.
75 attestations to them in the early Church literature.
Nobody, nobody said that they didn't exist.
You know, nobody did.
They were quotations of the Hebrew Gospels.
But now you even suggest that they do exist and I'll tell you the termites come
out of the woodwork.
If you're in seminary you better pick another profession because you are not
getting it.
You're not getting a piece of paper.
You're not getting it.
Now this is what really happened.
The story never told.
And you can see it on this chart right here.
And you can see that the right side of the chart, the Greek Roman Tradition is what
we get taught.
But this left part of the chart you see, and that's the Messianic Tradition started
much earlier.
The original church was that of the Messiah.
The Messianic Church.
And it you know, it divided into two parts.
The followers of John were the Ebionites.
And they went a little different direction in doctrine, but they were believers.
And then the Nazarenes, the Nazarene were the followers of the Messiah.
And the Apostles were also followers of the Messiah.
So they went out into all corners of the world and started the Apostolic Church we
call it, or the Apostolic Churches which gradually became, most of them became
Gentile Churches.
But not all of them.
And again, when we say the word church it's not a stained glass pile of brick on
a corner with a steeple on it.
They met in the home throughout the book of Acts.
Good point.
Better to say congregations.
That's right.
It's congregation.
They got together in the circle.
It wasn't like they had somebody the Holy Pontiff sitting up front disseminating
information.
No, everyone, everyone had a psalm, a hymn, a revelation.
It was real life.
And that's why all the synagogues started in the home.
And all the synagogues are where no one can speak.
The words that mean in Hebrew were congregations really.
In Greek became ecclesiastica and synagogue.
And then they separated the meaning of those two as one was uniquely Jewish and
one was Christian.
Never.
That's not the way it was written in the Bible, in the Gospels.
It was congregations, groups of believers.
So they weren't churches.
But what you have, they weren't churches in the sense of buildings.
They were churches in the sense of congregants.
Not of buildings.
Don't think of buildings.
It was these apostolic churches, the apostles, who took and created the
Greek church.
Remember, we've already been decades and even centuries down the road before there
are many Greeks until they overwhelmed the number of Jewish Christians that were out
there.
But you had the Greek church start...
Just because of the proliferation of the Gospel in the Gentile world.
They were catching on.
And so eventually there became more Gentiles than Jews.
But the Jews were the ones that gave their lives to get the good news of their
Messiah out to the Gentile world.
And then the Gentiles started mixing in their pagan sun worship.
They did.
Constantine in particular.
You know, Christmas, Saturnalia, Easter, the feast day of Easter.
And of course they turned Sukkot into All Hallows Eve, the day of the dead.
Halloween.
That never quite took.
Right, right.
But they tried.
That was really Samween, the worship of the god of death.
But then the Catholic church tried to change it into, they tried to sanctify
this worship of the god of death.
And so now we see what happened.
Okay, we're going to sanctify what God says can't be sanctified.
Do not learn the way of the heathen.
And they did what the heathen do.
And now what do we see in our culture?
Did the church really reform Halloween?
Or is it still the worship and celebration of the god of death?
It still is.
They couldn't do it.
They didn't do it because they were disobeying the Torah.
Don't do this!
And they did it specifically and this is not hidden doctrine.
They were openly saying they were changing the feast days in order to not be
celebrating at the same time as the Jews.
So you can see how that rankled the Messianic church.
They were not going to start worshiping the crucifixion of their Messiah on the
feast day of Easter.
And so, remember...
They got a good Friday when Dag on the Fish got his worship.
That's what Rome did.
Instead of on the day that the Passover lamb is sacrificed the 14th.
That's where the fish symbol comes from.
But keep this in mind.
Any day is a good day to worship the Messiah.
I don't care what day it is.
Whether it's Easter or the 25th of December.
Any day is a great day to worship the Messiah.
But just be aware when your church puts on this marquee, come worship Easter with us.
Just remember where that came from.
Yeah, just imagine the bare-breasted guy's fertility.
You might as well put the front cover playboy up in front of the church.
Come worship Easter.
Because that's what it is.
So now Messianics are declared heretics because they refuse.
They are going to imitate Yeshua.
They're going to imitate the Messiah.
And they're going to worship on the feast days that are established and commanded of
them in the world.
Keep these feasts forever because they're all, as Shaul said, these are all
prophetic shadow pictures of good things to come.
They are the mechanism whereby the Almighty tells us the end of time from the
very beginning.
These are his kadosh mikra, his holy rehearsals and these rehearsals go on
forever.
The feast of tabernacles was not fulfilled when the word was made flesh and
tabernacled among us.
It's not even fulfilled in the millennial reign when Yeshua tabernacles on earth and
everyone must go to his birthday party in Jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles.
And if they don't, it's not going to rain on them.
No, it's not fulfilled until the last time when the new heaven and new earth,
new Jerusalem comes down and we tabernacle with the Father and with Yeshua forever.
Shabbat shalom, Torah fans.
Have a good week.
We'll see you back here next week for the rest of the greatest story never told.
Bye-bye.