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As you recover from your Thanksgiving meal today, you have one more thing to be
thankful for.
You can be thankful that the truth is being revealed.
In fact, more truth than maybe you thought ever possible.
And tonight, Michael Rood and Miles Jones reveal the truth that the Hebrew
disciples, who followed a Hebrew Messiah, indeed wrote their gospel accounts in
Hebrew.
And that opens the door to understanding the Bible better than at any time in
history.
Get ready for the second episode of Survival of the Hebrew Gospels.
Because it's the end of the sixth day, the sun has set, and this is Shabbat Night
Live.
As they take this message out into the world.
Well, Shabbat shalom, Torah fans.
Welcome to Shabbat Night Live with Michael Rood.
You know, last week was a blockbuster, and if you missed it, go back and watch
it.
The emerging proof that the Gospels were originally written in Hebrew brings a
whole new twist to what modern Christianity thinks the Gospels are all
about.
Now tonight, we continue that journey with Michael Rood and Miles Jones in the second
of four episodes of Survival of the Hebrew Gospels.
And with that new revelation is a new month.
The ninth biblical month, better known as Kislev, has finally arrived on the
astronomically and agriculturally corrected biblical Hebrew calendar.
It was at this moment in history that the kings from the east were just three weeks
away from reaching their destination to present their gifts to the king of kings.
Yeshua was actually born a year and two months prior to their arrival.
Did you know that?
When they arrived at this house, Yeshua was actually a 14-month-old
toddler.
And those gifts arrived just in time because right after their visit,
Joseph had that vision to escape to Egypt with Mary and Yeshua.
And those expensive gifts would actually provide the money that was needed to
escape and live in Egypt until Herod's death.
Very interesting.
Now, how do we know that?
Well, diligent research on the part of my co-host.
That's how.
The founder of Rood Awakening International, Michael Rood.
Michael Rood.
Thank you.
It's good to be with you, Scott.
Yes, sir.
And good to be exploring this most important topic.
You know, sometimes I assume when I teach this about Daniel, about the wise men,
that people had already read 2 Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and have a
background in this.
But, you know, as I really have gotten to know that the Bible really isn't taught in
churches today.
You know, we get a numbered psalm bite here, a numbered psalm bite there,
and we never find out that Hanani, Ezra, and Mishael, Daniel, were actually
the grandsons of King Yoshiah, the great-grandsons of King Hezekiah under
Isaiah's reign, and that they knew Jeremiah.
They knew these prophecies that Jeremiah had spoken, and Daniel was actually
reading the scrolls of Jeremiah that were written by Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah.
So, you know, we're gonna get into a lot of this stuff in this season, because it
is a feast of dedication that is coming up.
Indeed, yes, and the reason to mention Daniel is because Daniel's, now let me get
this right, so Daniel's treasures actually made it down 500 years later, and that's
what the kings were bringing to Yeshua.
That's right, Daniel was given the revelation of what to look for in the
stars.
This was the Chaldean astronomers, they were Jewish Chaldean astronomers that
he was in charge of for 60 years of his life.
He was a satrap, he was under the emperor, and he was made vastly wealthy.
But, just as Hezekiah was told by Isaiah that your offspring are going to be
eunuchs in the court of the king of Babylon.
And here, Daniel, Hanani, Azariah, and Mishael, they are the eunuchs.
They're put under Ashpenaz, the prince of the eunuchs.
And Daniel has no offspring, but he is made extremely wealthy, he knows the
timing of the coming of the Messiah, and he then puts his treasure into the
hands of these Jewish Chaldean astronomers who watch the heavens for the sign that
Daniel says, watch for this, and then you take my treasure and you lay it at the
feet of my Lord, the king of Israel.
So this was passed down from astronomer to astronomer until the time came,
is that right?
That's right.
Yeah, Jeremiah actually took the temple Torah scroll and put it in the hands of
the priest as they were leaving Babylon, and said, don't forget the Torah,
teach it.
And that's why it was copied over and over and over.
And actually, here at our studio, at A Rood Awakening, we have two Torah
scrolls that were smuggled out of Iraq, and these are the offspring, these are
generations later from the Torah scroll that was handed by Jeremiah to the priest
to take into Babylon.
And they copied it thousands of times through the generations.
Wow, that's amazing.
And I love the fact that all this comes together at a time when people think
Yeshua was born, but well, they got part of the story right, that's when the kings
come.
That's right, we got that part right, but it's not that they got that part
right, it's just that the whole Christmas thing is all based on Babylonian sun
worship, the reincarnation of Nimrod, his little baby Tammuz, on December 25th
at the time of the winter solstice on the ancient Babylonian calendar.
But Yeshua's actual birthday, everyone will be celebrating during the millennial
reign of the Messiah because everyone is required to go up to worship the king,
Yehovah Tzevaot, for the thousand years that he reigns from his throne in
Jerusalem.
That is a fact and that is reality.
Now tonight, you and Myles are bringing up more facts and reality with the survival
of the Hebrew Gospels.
Oh my goodness, this is so incredible that we have these things.
Myles continued to work on this after John Lorquette and Nehemia Gordon did their
presentation on the absence of John 6-4 in all of these ancient Greek documents.
And so they asked for more help on this.
Myles Jones was able to get into not only the Hebrew Gospels, but also the
translation of the Hebrew Gospels in these other languages.
And again, find out that John 6-4 wasn't there.
It was not there.
It was deliberately added by the Bishop of Constantine, Eusebius, in order to
artificially lengthen Yeshua's ministry.
He's the one that came up with this heretical three-and-a-half-year ministry
that we all inherited here in the West.
Wow, amazing.
Now, before we run out of time, I wanna give you a chance to explain
what's in your hand here.
There's another series coming, isn't there?
That's right.
After this, now we're going to get into the mystery of iniquity.
We are reworking this for this next generation.
This is the mystery of iniquity, Antichrist revealed.
These are the legal prerequisites to the return of the Messiah.
These are the things that must take place first.
No, Yeshua cannot return tomorrow, next week, next month, or even five years
from now, because there are things in the Scripture, it is written, and once God
puts a stamp on it and says, it is written, this is my word, nothing can
change it, absolutely nothing.
But yet, Christianity, theology has changed it.
They have neutered the Scripture, and they have taught lies, and I was part
of the teaching of those lies for many years, 20 years, from the pulpit,
teaching the lies that I expose in the mystery of iniquity.
The behind-the-scenes working as the God of this age who has set a snare for the
Christian church, and we're gonna reveal it all.
Wow, very exciting.
Also very exciting, oh, before I forget, you and I are up on the stage coming
Monday for Mission Monday.
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Thank you, Michael, for joining us today.
Thanks, Scott.
Alrighty, well, the Bible may seem Greek to you now, but it's about to become much
clearer, thanks to Hebrew, ironically.
Michael Rood and Miles Jones explain how in the second episode of Survival of the
Hebrew Gospels.
But before that, get your bread and your wine ready to ring in the Sabbath with
Michael right after this.
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The traditions of modern Judaism remind us of what we did during the Temple period.
Not what we did, but they remind us of what we did.
But the followers of Yeshua also have some other traditions, some other things that
are reminders of what has been accomplished for us.
They are reminders of what goes back long before the Temple period, and it reminds
us of what happened the very year before.
The year that Yeshua was crucified and resurrected.
At the Last Supper that Yeshua had with his disciples, the Greek scriptures tell
us that he took artone.
He took leaven bread and broke it.
Of course, the English, the Greek, and all scriptures tell us that this Last
Supper was before the Feast of Passover.
And the following morning, the Pharisees refused to go into Pilate's Judgment Hall
because they didn't want to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
This is not the Passover meal.
And every time we serve bread and wine gives us the opportunity, as Yeshua says,
as often as you do this, you do this in remembrance of me.
And so, as Yeshua said, this represents my body which will be broken for you.
This represents my shed blood.
And he spoke the prayer that the Melchizedek shared with Avraham thousands
of years ago.
Baruch katah Yehovah Eloheinu melech ha-olam, b'rei pri ha-gafen.
Blessed are you, Yehovah, our Elohim, king of the universe, creator of the fruit
of the vine.
And Yeshua took bread.
And he blessed the Most High, saying, Baruch katah Yehovah Eloheinu melech
ha-olam, hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz.
Blessed are you, Yehovah, our Elohim, king of the universe, who brings forth
bread from the earth.
As often as you do this, we do this in remembrance of him.
L'chaim.
20 years ago, I invited a Hebrew scholar over to my apartment in Jerusalem to
present a problem to him.
It was concerning the Gospel of Matthew, the 23rd chapter, which in the King James
read, the scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
Whatsoever they, the scribes and Pharisees, command you to bid and observe,
that observe and do.
I told this scholar, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, I said, there is no way on
God's green earth that Yeshua could ever have said those words.
And he said, what makes you think so?
Well, for the next three hours, I took him through every evidence in the
Gospel record, and at the end of it, he said, I can see that this is a problem,
but this is your problem, it's not mine.
I told him that every extent Greek text said the very same thing, but it
completely contradicts everything Yeshua ever said, and everything he did,
and everything he taught his disciples while training them about the Gospel of
the kingdom.
He said, this is not my problem.
If you're supposed to be down at the wall, davening at five o'clock in the morning,
with long pail, it's a black hat, and an overcoat at 100 degree temperature,
that's your problem, it's not mine.
But, he said, but this is not my problem, but this is my field of expertise.
This is an apparent contradiction, an apparent contradiction in an ancient
text.
I'll see what I can do.
Nehemia then went to some of his professors, colleagues at Hebrew
University, and dug into the ancient Hebrew Matthew.
Now, I was already aware of George Howard's work, the Hebrew Gospel of
Matthew, but I didn't find the solution here.
Why?
Because George Howard deliberately mistranslated this particular verse,
because it didn't fit his theology.
It didn't fit his Christian theology, so he mistranslated what was originally
written.
And this was originally written, the Hebrew Matthew, as Nehemia Gordon
traced it out by a Jewish physician in Spain.
Since that time, Nehemia Gordon has now unearthed over 28 ancient Hebrew
manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew.
And that has provided us not only the answers to that very verse that brought
Nehemia to my apartment that 20 years ago, but it has also solved so many other
problems.
But I have with me, again, this week, Dr. Miles Jones.
Dr. Jones has uncovered the earliest Hebrew manuscripts of the Gospels.
And can link them all the way back to the original first century.
This has taken him years and years of work.
This is work that has not really been in Nehemia Gordon's field of interest because
of his background as an Orthodox and now a Karaite Jew.
But to someone who has been raised as a follower of Yeshua, who knows that he is
the prophet whom we must hear and obey, it is in Miles Jones' most direct interest
and field of expertise as a linguist, as a PhD, to dig into this.
And what he has uncovered is now going to take some time to unpack.
Miles, thanks for coming back because now we get to go into the real meat of what
you have been doing.
Your whole life has been now boiled down to the focus of what you have found in the
ancient Hebrew Matthew and the other Gospels.
And the other related materials and the prefaces.
This has been an eye-opener.
I mean, really, the gates of knowledge, as it mentions in the last days,
will be wide open and knowledge will just be pouring forth.
In the book you talked about, in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, it very clearly
says in Hebrew, that do what he says.
Moses.
Do what Moses says.
What Moses says.
But do not follow their talking out in my saying.
And George Howard just couldn't accept that it wasn't like it was in all the
Greek.
In the King James.
So he wrote, do what they say, and put it in parentheses, right?
But he mistranslated it because he just couldn't believe it wasn't like the Greek
Bible.
But this is a really important book because his Hebrew Matthew is one of the
surviving documents in the Hebrew manuscript tradition.
And that is a fantastic thing.
I not only went to Israel and found the earliest copy of the Gospels in Hebrew,
the earliest manuscript, but along the way we discovered there are other manuscripts
that are part of the Hebrew manuscript tradition that survived outside of the
grip of the Roman church.
And that's a huge step forward.
And you've actually seen that which Nehemia told me about more than 20 years
ago, there were other manuscripts but he can't tell me about them right now.
And I said, oh, because we can't let it out at that point.
Because they weren't in full control at that point and they could just disappear.
But these are the things that now, more than 20 years later, you have been
able to dig into and trace the lineage of the Messianic Jewish church, the Messianic
believers, and follow Jesus in that line, you have been able to trace them through a
lot of the world and through many different translations.
And that's what I'm very excited about.
Your book is absolutely fantastic.
The Sons of Zion versus the Sons of Greece, which is subtitled The Survival of
the Hebrew Gospels and The Survival of the Messianic Church goes along with that.
And it never died.
It's been there.
I mean, it took on different names, the Neo-Messianic movements of medieval
Europe, but it never died.
And the Sabbatarians, which came to the United States, they were Messianic,
they were Neo-Messianics.
But you have, what you have, we wouldn't have discovered any of this without
discovering the Hebrew Gospels.
Now, Nehemia found 38 copies of Hebrew Matthew scattered all over Europe in
addition to the 14 we already knew about.
So that's 40 Hebrew Matthews that were out there translated by Shem Tov.
And the one I looked for was not, it was not the Shem Tov manuscript.
But if you can bring up this slide here on the Trail of the Hebrew Gospels,
the Hebrew Gospels had survived in Spain.
There's attestations of them.
And we have the proof because we have them now.
Okay, can you take us on the journey to get us to Spain?
I know it is a circuitous route, but the believers, under great persecution
in Jerusalem, moved out from Jerusalem.
Then they moved out from Antioch.
They moved out around the world and then it developed into other languages.
And so tell us that story because a lot of our people out there just don't know the
impact of the Notzrim, those who are followers of the Netzer, Yeshua of
Nazareth.
The Nazarenes, the Netzerim, that's what they were called.
They weren't called Christians.
Right, yeah, that was first in Antioch, which is named after Antiochus Epiphanes,
okay?
So it's a pagan city.
That's where they were first called Christians.
But Notzrim, that's what, they're still known among the respectful Orthodox Jews
today, Notzrim.
Followers of Yeshua, followers of the Nazarene.
In Spain, the Arabs call them Nazarenes.
So they are still going by that name.
But the important principle to remember about these Hebrew manuscripts is that
when you see a Hebrew manuscript, it's written by a Messianic scribe.
I mean, Shemtov was not a Messianic.
He wrote the first one.
But these were Messianic communities that are keeping these alive because only
Messianics would have the skills to do it, the Hebrew skills to do it, and the belief
system.
Because holding, having the Hebrew Matthew or the Hebrew Gospels in your hand was a
death sentence.
It was condemned by the Jews.
It was condemned by the Gentile Christians.
So the only people that would risk their lives for this book were Messianic
believers.
So you can trace the communities of Messianic believers, of which there were
many, by where you find these Gospels.
Now, the one I did, I was called to work on was, I was called to go to Israel and
find it.
It was not, you know, and there wasn't any other place I could have gone.
I could have gone to the Vatican, but they kind of hide those things away.
Right, now, just in the last month, Nehemia was able to get into the Vatican,
inspect some ancient Hebrew schools, and go into the Vatican junk box,
which has the Gospel of John, and the Gospel of Luke, and another one,
which we're not gonna talk about yet.
But, and this was, they were done by Messianic Jewish scribes, and the name was
there, Yodeh Vaveh, with all of the vowel points.
I know, that's so exciting.
Oh, yeah, the Messianics never forbid, it was the Pharisees that forbid the
speaking of the name.
The Messianics, Yeshua said, I have taught my father's name.
I've declared your name to my disciples.
And I will declare it.
I mean, that's the prophecy in Psalm 110.
Yeshua's still alive, and he's declaring it through his people today.
Right, so the idea that he would actually use the name of a Greek god speaking to a
Hebrew audience, he would have been stoned immediately.
I mean, so that did not happen.
That is the weak link in Greek primacy of the Bible.
And they say that when he spoke to his Hebrew audiences, he quoted from the
Septuagint.
It did not happen.
Oh, my goodness.
It did not.
This is just spin that's out there.
Yeah.
So there was fake news going back 1,600 years and further.
Well, they were trying to convince people that Hebrew was a dead language in the
first century, but then the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered from the second
century on almost 1,000 documents written in Hebrew.
Right.
That put the line to that.
Who's last, who's got duty in the kitchen?
I mean, it was the language that they spoke, the language they wrote in.
Their community rules that they followed.
But there's so many lies have been told trying to suppress the story of the
Messianic Church, the true story.
And that's what we were talking about.
The early Nazarenes were told by Yehovah, by an angel of Yehovah, that when the
Romans surround the city, leave and go.
And they went to Pella, where they established a community.
Some later on went back to Jerusalem.
Others stayed in Pella.
And others went on to Sephirot in Spain, the largest community, more Jews and
Messianic believers there than anywhere else in the world.
Because by this time...
Yeah, and to think that only Jews, Orthodox Jews went to Sephirot,
they went there.
No, no, the Messianics, everyone, they had to bail out of the country.
Yes, they did.
And there was a very, we have knowledge of a very early Messianic community there.
In fact, it was established by Paul, among others.
They believed that James also went there and his body is entombed in St. James
Compostela.
Now, I don't know if that's really his bones or not, but he was reported to have
gone there.
Paul went there.
He said it was his great desire to take this trip into Sephirot.
And he wrote in Romans, I think, that I will meet you when I go through
Rome on my way to Sephirot.
Well, he did go to Rome in chains.
And he was held in house arrest for two years.
And he was released because no one came from Jerusalem to condemn him.
But no one came to defend him either.
So there was a Jerusalem church that kind of was very suspicious of this Gentile
mission.
But Paul left, and as far as we know, from Clement of Alexandria and others,
for example, he did go to Spain as a first century contact.
And then he returned back through Rome where he was arrested again.
And this time he was crucified.
So this is the story, and it's an early one.
It starts way back in the first century.
The fact that you can still piece it together is truly miraculous.
Because I was told to go get these documents.
I'm not that smart, you know.
But I was literally, Jehovah called me and said, go to Israel, find the earliest
manuscript of the Gospels in Hebrew, that specific.
I went there and I found them.
And I worked with them wonderful people at the National Library.
And they have done a huge database of all Hebrew manuscripts, handwritten,
manuscript is handwritten.
And they have a database.
We just sat down in front of the database and I said, here it is.
It's a 14th century manuscript from Spain.
But the prefaces to it were written by Jerome who wrote in the fourth century.
This is actually a first century.
And we have authenticated it on this show, actually.
We talked about the authentication that proves it came from a first century
source.
So these prefaces, they have turned out to be a big key because this is, as far as
the opening, the preface to these different Gospels gives history in it.
So it's not just the text itself, it's the other notations that you get that
piece the whole story together.
Right, because Jerome wrote these and he had, you know, when he, he translated the
Hebrew Gospels into Latin and Greek.
I mean, he says so four times in his writings.
So he used them because he said there have become so many versions, so many
corruptions of the Gospels.
There are as many differences as there are copies of the text out there.
So he said, you have to go back to the fountainhead, the authentic Matthew.
And he was clearly referring to the Hebrew Matthew, the Hebrew Gospel, which he
translated.
And he wrote his prefaces to it at that time in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek.
So these prefaces to the Gospels are really rather renowned in the world.
And what you see here, if you can show on my screen, you have the prologue to
Matthew in the Hebrew Gospels from Catalonia that I'm translating.
So...
Okay, so Catalonia, this is part of Spain.
And it still exists, Catalonia still exists around Barcelona area.
So he says, the first evangelist wrote this in the Holy Tongue from memory to his
brother.
So the Holy Tongue, the Lashon Kodesh, always refers to Hebrew.
And you can see the page that's actually in the Hebrew Gospels right there.
And then in the preface to Luke...
And so this is not the Shem Tov.
No, this is not the Shem Tov.
Right.
But they both, but what we...
Here's the thing, there's so many correlations between the Shem Tov
manuscript and the Hebrew Gospels from Catalonia, in Matthew, of course,
because he just did Matthew, that they have to be from the same source.
There's no other way.
There are different, the similarities, a long list of similarities that are
exactly the same.
There are no other version of the Gospel anywhere.
They have to come from the same source.
However, it's not simply a copy of Shem Tov.
Right, right.
Because there's too many differences for it to be a copy.
So Shem Tov, Ibn Shaprut, he was a physician, and in his book, Evan Bohan,
the Touchstone, he then copied the manuscript that he had of Matthew,
and he put it in this book so that the Jews could defend themselves during the
disputations with the Roman Catholic Church.
And so the Hebrew Matthew was in Spain, there is no question.
And so that's been the main source for Nehemiah, but here you are presenting,
and people are seeing, for the first time, from the Catalan.
And that's a second source that authenticates the survival of the Hebrew
Gospels in Spain, in that same area.
Because Shem Tov was required to engage in a debate.
This is a ploy.
The Christians were trying to force Jews to convert to Christianity.
So they would get one of their leaders to engage in a debate with, and they would
always pick Jewish converts to be their arguers, their debaters.
Because nobody understood the Bible like they did, the Hebrew Bible.
Right, right.
So you'd have basically Jews and Jewish converts conducting this debate,
and if they lost, they would force their entire community to convert to
Christianity.
So they were forced conversions.
So Shem Tov wrote this, and he also wrote polemical arguments in there.
But he had to write an accurate copy of Matthew, that would be stupid.
To say something that was not in there, or to try and change it, that would be
absolutely insane.
And then, one of the big arguments is, is that you, the Catholic Church,
aren't doing what Yeshua said.
Yeah.
Okay?
So you're getting on us Jews for not doing, but you're not doing.
Yeah, that's...
But he won his argument, and to Pedro de la Luna, who was a bishop, who later
became Pope, and that was the last time he ever had a fair debate between these two.
They would set it up and drag it on for years.
These people didn't have any way to support themselves.
So, it was just totally...
It became a joke.
But he was providing them...
Well, it's kind of like the legal system in the United States now, where they drag
you before court, and you spend millions of dollars defending yourself from false
accusations, and just to drain the people to where they will finally confess to
doing something they didn't do.
We've had this happen in current administration.
But this was a long history.
The Messianic Church didn't just disappear in the thousand years from 400.
Constantine was the one who finally divorced everything in the New Testament,
what we call Christianity now, was part of Judaism.
The Nazarenes were a sect of Judaism.
So it's all really the proceedings from a divorce court, which finally, the final
cord was cut when Constantine formed the Greco-Roman Church, and declared,
divorced himself from the Judaic Church, and from the Messianic Church,
because they were the real chosen people.
They were believers, and they were declared heretics, and he began
prosecuting them.
So in that fourth century period, he, many of the Jewish Christians there,
because their whole church left in mass, and went up to northern Italy,
to Lombardy, and the area of the Alps up in northern Italy.
I gotta stop you right here, because this we've got to explore.
The Constantine, what he really did, because this is finally developed into
modern-day churchianity.
And so it's gonna take a while to explore that, but we are going to give everyone
out there an opportunity to stand with this ministry.
And this is something we do with every broadcast, because every broadcast that we
do, with our entire staff, everything we do in this ministry, and getting this out
on broadcast television, everything is done at great expense.
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I don't want to hear you teaching anything about the prosperity, gospel, and all that
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Well, he didn't really say that.
I'm saying that, because that's not what we do.
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I interrupted Dr. Miles Jones as he was reading the prologue to the Hebrew Gospel
of Luke by Jerome.
These are the things that he has uncovered in the archives in Jerusalem, and he's
gonna go in a lot more detail and take us to a greater part of the world than this.
But, Miles, take us to Jerome's prologue.
Well, this is putting together that really exciting story of the movement of the
Messianic Church.
And in the prologue to Luke, it's amazing that you can find these clues,
if you look hard enough, that tell the story.
But in the prologue to Luke, it said the Gospel was already written for those in
Judea.
And right here, it says, and Matthew in Lombardy.
Now, remember, we talked about...
Northern Italy.
This is where the Jewish Christian Church went when they were run out by persecution
in the time of Constantine.
But it probably started earlier than that in the time of the Nero's persecution in
64, in which Paul was.
Right, and this was before the temple was destroyed.
Right, it is.
So you had a large Jewish Christian community there, and there were Gentiles,
too, by this time.
But they were one.
They were one.
Because Luke was in the synagogue in Antioch.
Right.
And that's where Simon of Cyrene ended up.
Barnabas, Silas, Timothy.
We've got the who's who right there in Antioch being spread out from there out to
the Gentiles.
See, after Jerusalem was wiped out by the Romans and the temple was destroyed,
the Jews and the Messianic Church moved up to Antioch.
And it was the center of the entire Christian world for centuries until about
the seventh century.
Right.
So it was in the Book of Acts, it was the center.
It was.
And then, when basically Israel was destroyed, alia capitalina, Jerusalem
became persona non grata, or really, any Jew prohibited under penalty of death
from entering into, and so that's the real dispersion.
Right, it is.
And the Romans were trying to wipe out the Jews, but when Christianity became the
Roman church and married with the Roman military, they were trying to wipe out the
Messianic Church.
This was the true competitor to their claim to being the original church.
They were not the original church.
And if anyone inherited the mantle of the chosen people, it was the Messianic Jewish
Christians.
They were Jews who believed and continued to believe and spread throughout the
world.
And Antioch was a big center of that, spread throughout the world.
So they were a big community in Rome, and it left Rome under persecution by
Constantine and went up to Lombardy.
So when I first read this, it seemed like a really obscure reference.
I couldn't even understand why it was in there.
What could that possibly mean that Matthew was published in Lombardy?
But that's where the Messianic Church went when the divorce was final.
At the time of Constantine and the Greco-Roman church appeared and married
the brutal Roman state, they started persecuting everyone who didn't go along
with their doctrine.
And so the Messianics went up to Lombardy and that became the center of spreading
the Messianic Church all the way through Europe.
It did not disappear.
They just suppressed that evidence because they don't want anyone to know about it,
right?
The whole contribution of the Messianic Church has been suppressed over the
centuries.
Of course, cult heretics, their names, their reputations were blackened.
They were burnt alive, along with their books, along with their scriptures.
And that has been the story from that time until now.
But they never disappeared.
They held on to their faith and they moved into all the countries.
And you have the neo-Messianic churches in Europe, the Cathars, the Waldensians.
This is what the group in Lombardy came to be called, Waldensians, because they lived
in the valleys, the Waldenses.
And that's where they lived.
And they kept getting pushed farther and farther up into the Alps by persecution,
but they were never destroyed.
And the persecution also, they ended up here in North Carolina.
They did.
Valdez, North Carolina.
The Waldensians here.
Yes.
So this is really an outgrowth.
And here we have Matthew's Gospel being published to the Lombards and the
Waldensians.
And so, you know, it's not dying.
It's just that Constantine brought in the mixture of all this pagan sun god worship
and mixed it in with a little bit of the Bible, a little bit, but this guy was a
complete biblical illiterate.
I would call him, you know, a biblical moron.
Well, he was a follower of Mithra.
And so he brought in all of these pagan Mithran holidays.
Right, Mithra's birthday, December 25th.
Look it up in the Encyclopedia Judaica or the...
Right, well, the birthday of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun, you know.
And this was started with Nimrod and Semiramis way back.
It's always been, you know, December 21st.
And it followed through all kinds of cultures.
And, you know, this is the queen of heaven, right?
This is Ishtar, this is Esther, the Babylonian sex goddess.
Aostra in the Anglo-Saxon.
Ashtoreth in the Middle East.
Same thing, same counterfeit religion.
So the first century Jewish believers, followers of Yeshua, read the scripture.
They refused to fall in line with the worship of all these pagan sun gods,
refused to disavow themselves with the Torah because that's the foundation for
everything.
It's the schoolmaster that leads us to the Messiah.
It's what Paul was quoting from constantly in order to prove to the Jews that Yeshua
was the Messiah.
They didn't forget it.
It's the modern Christian church that's the outgrowth of this pagan, godless Roman
empire.
It is, and the Messianic church would not submit to worshiping the resurrection day
on the feast day of Ishtar, a Babylonian sex goddess.
They just would not.
And they called him Quarto Decimans, which means 14, for Nisan 14.
They held to the original Passover, as did all of the Neo-Messianic churches
throughout Europe, including the Celtic Church of St. Patrick.
And it wasn't without bloodshed.
Hundreds of thousands and millions died.
If you count the Reformation and the religious wars, millions were martyred for
holding on to their faith, and hundreds of thousands of Neo-Messianic martyrs.
In fact, they had a school of martyrs, which all of their preachers went to to
prepare them.
And they were prepared, and they were martyred, so it was totally against Roman
law, and Roman law was the state then.
And that school of martyrs was in Lombardy, the center of the Messianic
movement that spread throughout all of Spain.
The Waldensians, it was the Waldensian movement, the Cathars in southern France,
the Conversos in Spain, the resurgence of the Messianic church, with all these Jews
converting, as many as a quarter million Jews at the peak were Conversos.
Because there were a lot of Jews.
There were half a million Jews in Spain.
So that massive resurgence of the Messianic church, the true Messianic
church, and many of them, not all of them, but many of them insisted on having the
word, the scripture in the holy word.
I mean, it's a Hebrew God, it's a Hebrew story, right?
It's a Hebrew boy made good.
It was his apostles were Hebrew.
The story was told in Hebrew, and it was written in Hebrew, and they still had
those Hebrew gospels.
They had survived.
So they were going to have the gospel in Hebrew, which, of course, was condemned
many of them to die in the Inquisition.
But the Inquisition was started primarily, specifically, to crush the Messianic
church in Spain.
Let's go back to this document, this Gospel of Luke, Jerome, and his
preface on it.
Now, give us a background to Jerome.
Jerome is assembling these scriptures.
They were, the scribes were not being real faithful to keep the purity of this,
and so he needs to go back to the original, and so...
Right, that's what he does, and they don't like it.
Now, he was a church man, he did what the church wanted, but he knew, in this case,
the Greek manuscripts were all corrupt.
Now, that happened in any language, but they were so corrupt that he said,
we have to go back to the fountainhead, the authentic Matthew.
Okay, now, he's known as the one who compiled the Vulgate, and so give us the
background.
He compiled the Vulgate, the Latin, and because, you know, that's the...
They already had a Greek compilation by Eusebius in 320.
So this is 380 now, when he did this, so now they needed a Latin one.
Because remember, these are not the earliest, most authentic compilations of
the Bible.
Those were the Itala Bible, which was the Bible of the Waldensians in Lombardy.
That was their Bible, their beloved Bible, which was based on the Hebrew Gospels,
and then the Greek compilation of Lucian of Antioch, and that's called the Received
Text, and it was used all over the world, because remember, and so the church rushed
out and brought out a Greek compilation of the Roman doctrine, right?
But you had the Lucian text, which was based heavily on the Itala.
They were both based heavily on the Hebrew Gospels.
So this was the Received Text of the Bible, and this was the true version of
the Bible.
So Eusebius and Jerome played kind of fast and loose and put in it what the Pope and
the other religious leaders wanted.
So they were significantly different in ways that we have talked about,
because they changed things in order to fit their doctrine.
I mean, a lot of them were simple things, like they never used the word menorah,
which was designed by God on Mount Sinai.
They always used candlesticks.
They eliminated the name of God, which is the biggest abomination ever.
They abolished the name of God, changed it to a Greek god.
They needed to make a Greek church, they needed a Greek god, a Greek Jesus,
Greek scripture, Greek liturgy, and they did.
They changed it, they just changed it.
They changed the sacred name of God.
So that was no longer in the Bible, and it was clearly prohibited in the New
Testament.
Although, even when Yeshua is quoting from the Old Testament, now that is obviously a
change.
This is the weak link in Greek primacy.
Yeshua and his apostles would never, ever have substituted the name of the
Greek god for Yehovah.
Never would they have done that.
And it was not prohibited in the first century.
That prohibition didn't happen until the second century, when the Roman church,
not the Greek church, the Greek had, they had sparked a revolution trying to do
this.
Now the Roman church was doing it, and they were more brutally effective than
the Greeks were, apparently.
But they prohibited the name of God, and the Jews had to decide.
Well, are we gonna lose a whole generation of priests?
This is something, it must be understood, is that the Romans, the Romans,
and this is the time of the Roman Catholic church, it's not yet in full bloom,
but the Romans forbid the speaking of the name, and were burning Jews in the streets
by wrapping Torah scrolls around them and setting them on fire, killing them.
And that's why the Jews then said, the rabbis said, okay, we're gonna make a
law that prohibits the people from speaking the name.
That way, at least they're obeying us.
They're not obeying Rome.
That's where the whole prohibition came.
Yes, yeah, it did.
And it was imposed by the Romans.
You know, it's called making a virtue of necessity.
We either lose a whole generation of rabbis, or we make this change.
And so they did, that's exactly what they did.
We've been meaning to tell you guys, that you knuckleheads, that this is too
sacred a word for you to even speak.
So it'll only be done in the temple once a year.
However, they never, the Jews, and Nehemia made this quite clear in his
book, Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence, they never forgot the true name
of God.
And it is in the Hebrew Bible, 6,782 times, as Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh,
right?
So really, it was only the vowels that were missing.
But he made it very clear from his research that they had never forgotten the
true name of God.
Now, maybe the ordinary Jews did, but the cognoscente and the rabbis,
they knew what the true name is.
He said he has never met a rabbi that thought the real name of God was Yahweh.
That is a Gentile invention.
It doesn't even fit the prescriptions of Hebrew grammar.
You can't say it that way.
You can't say it.
And now, even in Rome, even in the Vatican, in the junk box, the Gospel of
John, the Gospel of Luke, that has the name with all the vowel points.
The Messianic's never.
On Yehovah and of Yeshua, both of them.
That's right.
And you know these were written.
Remember, if it's a manuscript on the New Testament, it was written by Messianic
scribes.
So the Messianics, the surviving communities here and there, and they are
the ones who would have been preserving these Bibles.
They were preserving the name of God, the actual, and writing it down.
This was written.
This was used in the first century.
You know, Yeshua used it.
You know, he said, I have kept these vows in your name.
I have declared your name unto them, and I will declare it.
And that was a prophecy from Psalm 110.
So he was doing exactly what he was told to do, declaring the true name of God to
these people.
It was not prohibited at that time, first century.
That was a second century prohibition.
But people are confused about this, because, you know, you've got all these
lies told, and confusing the issue is the first thing you wanna do.
So how did Jerome handle this?
He's got the Gospel of Luke.
He's got it in Hebrew.
He's going to be moving it over into Latin.
How did he handle the name?
Who's this?
Jerome.
Oh, Jerome.
Well, it was eliminated from the New Testament, so he eliminated the New
Testament.
Apparently, he took his quotations from the Hebrew Bible, but he erased the name
of God and replaced it with a Latin name.
Okay.
Dios.
What's that?
Dios.
Oh, okay.
They use it in Greek.
Right, mm-hmm.
So they used all the new names.
So they definitely manipulated the Bible.
Right, well, it's wrong to forbid the speaking of the name, to begin with,
to erase the God of Israel.
It's like, as long as you just call him Theos, you know, God, Dios, God,
it's nothing, you know?
So there's no personal, Yehovah means he was, he is, and he will forever be.
That's the meaning of his name.
That is exactly the meaning of it.
And so they gotta get rid of his personal name because they're worshiping another
god.
Yes, they are, it is another god.
And this clearly prohibited in the Old Testament.
So this is the, I think this is the largest thing.
But there are many, many, many other examples of their changing the Bible to
suit.
And they played fast and loose with it.
When you read it, I mean, you kind of gasp when you see some of the things that they
actually changed.
So, I mean, you know, you are blessed.
It says everywhere where my name is remembered, I will come to you and I will
bless you.
You're blessed just for remembering the name of God.
And it says in the Old Testament that blessed is he who knows the joyful sound
of Yehovah, right?
So just knowing the pronunciation of it is a blessing to you.
Father, have mercy on the souls of everyone who has adopted the paganism of
Rome, who has been so overcome by the world that they can no longer hear your
voice.
They no longer have a desire.
I ask you to put a fire in their soul.
Burn away anything that's precious to them that is keeping them from your heart,
from understanding the very words of the prophet, the prophet we must hear and
obey, and the words of Jeremiah, who is calling us all to repentance in
this day and age.
In Yeshua's name, I pray this, amen.
Amen.
Well, Shabbat shalom, Torah fans.
Shavua tov.
Have a good week, and we'll see you back here next week because the story is going
to continue.
It's gonna heat up a little bit, so strap it on.
Have a good week.
We'll see you back here with Myles Jones on Shabbat Night Live.