The Jew(s),
the Yahudi, and the Israelites?
Updated Sept. 25, 2024
Definition - Jew (Historical) - any
individual who is a member of the Jewish People and is united to them by the
religion called Judaism.
Jew Modern definition – Any
individual that decide to call themselves a Jew. Religion or race has no
bearing on the word Jew, since to be Jew is not a racial definition.
The Question of who is a Jew has arisen
with particular urgency today, especially in the Modern State of Israel. This
is because of intense pressure from the Movements of Reform and Conservative
Jewry, who feel that they have been excluded or more precisely, that
Conversions performed by their Rabbis have not been recognized by Israeli
authorities. Another major factor is the immigration of hundreds of thousands
of individuals from the former Soviet Union, many of whom claim that they are
Jews and who were in fact persecuted in their home land because of that
identification, but who may not, according to the Halachic definition, be a Jew’.
‘According to a strict Halachic definition, the
answer to the question of who is Jewish is clear. A Jew is someone who either …
is a child of a Jewish mother or is a Convert to Judaism who, after a period of
serious and verified study of the Principles of the Faith and the Laws of
Judaism, has done the following: Accepted upon him or herself the Yolk of the
Kingdom of Heaven and the Yolk of God's Commandments, Immersed himself or
herself in a Ritual Pool of Water known as a Mikveh, symbolizing Rebirth, if a
male, has undergone the Process of Brit Milah’.
Note: the forgoing
quotes
were taken from the ‘Jewish101’ web-site. - To be a Jew you need to be a member of the
Jewish religion, i.e. to believe in Judaism and if a male be circumcised . . .
. . not much more.
Modern uses of the word Jew(s) - A
word that is incorrectly used in many English Bibles, as a simile to translate
the Hebrew word Yahudi.[1]
The word Jew(s) has now also become a synonym to translate or replace the word ‘Israel
or Israelites’. Both of these uses are false and deceptive word associations.
The English word ‘Jew’ has no association or relationship to the descendants of
the original 12 Biblical tribes of Israel nor does the word Jews relate to the
descendants of one of the 12 Biblical tribes named ‘Yahudah’. The word ‘Israel’
however, is a Biblical word that correctly does refer to the collective 12
tribes that stem from the ancient Biblical Israelites. The Biblical word ‘Yahudi’
singular does refer to a descendant of ‘one’ the 12 tribes of Israel that was
named after one of Jacob’s son called Yahudah. See word definitions below.
The word ‘Jew’ is an adopted word. It is not
found in the Hebrew Bible or in the writings known as the Greek New Testament.
The word Jew originated early in the 15th century because the letter ‘J’ did
not exist until introduced as a vowel difference by printers of early English
Bible translations. A Note: The word definitions in this document along with
their associate English definitions have been ‘transliterated’ from Hebrew words
used in the Hebrew Bible and/or from the Aramaic, or the Greek words in the writings
of the New Testament as noted. For other words, the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek
words have been placed into English letters using a transliterated form so when
the word is pronounced in the English language, the resulting sound will
closely approximate the sound of the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek words.
In some English Bibles, the word
Jews (the plural form) is used to replace the Aramaic word ‘Yahudim’ (plural) which
would be the people, or a ‘Yahudi, Yahudy’ (in singular) as a native or person
dwelling on a portion of Palestinian land that was once known as the Kingdom of
Yahud, or Yahudah. However, unlike the word Jew or Jews, the word Yahudim (plural)
would also include the people of any diverse racial group who were living in
the region of the Southern Kingdom of Yahud/Yahudah. Even the occupying Romans
dwelling there during the First Century could be Yahudim. This is like using
the word ‘American’ to refer to any of the many diverse peoples that are living
in the country called America.
Note: Note how the
word ‘Jew’ or ‘Jews’ is often incorrectly translated or substituted for
the correctly transliterated and like-sounding words from the Hebrew Bible as
shown in ‘bold’ type below.
Word Definitions:
Yahud, (Aramaic) means
‘Yah[2]
is praised’ in Hebrew. It is also a word corresponding to the Ancient Southern
Kingdom[3]
and the land area or ‘Kingdom of Yahud’. This land area was named after Yahudah
meaning ‘Yah be praised’ one of the 12 sons of Ya'aqob (Jacob) Israel, ‘Yahud’ is
also a singular form of the name Yahudah – often incorrectly translated as Jew,
Judea, or Judah in many English Bibles.
Yahudain, Yahudean, Yahudym, or
Yahudim, (Aramaic)
all are like-sounding words in English. It is a plural word defining the
inhabitants (of anyone) living in the Ancient Southern Kingdom of Yahud -
incorrectly translated as Jews, or Judeans, in many English Bibles.
Yahudah, (Hebrew)
means ‘Yah be praised’ in Hebrew. It is the compound name of the fourth son of
Ya'aqob/Israel – also a word corresponding to the Ancient Southern Kingdom[4]
and the land area or ‘Kingdom of Yahudah’ - Incorrectly translated as Judah,
Jew or Jews in many English Bibles.
Yahudi or Yahudy, (Hebrew) like-sounding
words, - the singular (or according to usage the plural) form of Yahudah, the
descendant(s) of, or pertaining to Yahudah - incorrectly translated as Jew,
Jews, Jewish, or Judeans in many English Bibles.
Iouda, or Ioudas, (Greek) -
Transliterations of the Hebrew word Yahudah, or his descendants, from Hebrew
into Greek, into English, living in the Ancient Southern Kingdom of Yahudah -
incorrectly translated as Judah, Judas, Jude, Jew or Jews in many
English Bibles.
Ioudaios or Iudaios, (Greek) from
Iouda – Transliterations of the Hebrew word Yahudim or Yahudah. Context of this
Greek word determines form and meaning - also incorrectly translated as Jew,
Jews, Jewish, Judea in many English Bibles.
Ioudaismos, (Greek) -
Transliterates the Hebrew word into Greek specifically as a reference to the religious
system of the Yahudi - incorrectly translated as Judaism, or Jewism in
many English Bibles.
Juda, (English) -
a word that comes from the Greek transliterated word Iudaios; Iudaios is
the name of a Greek pagan deity.
Jew, Jews, (English)
as noted from the above translations, the word Jew is a manufactured ‘slang’
word, which has misrepresented a number of Hebrew or Greek words compiled into
English, but often mistranslated from the original Greek or Hebrew language into
many English Bibles. Unlike the word Yahud (meaning Yah is praised) the word
Jew has no Hebrew or Greek meaning. A Jew is NOT a person of a special Jewish
ethnic race or of a special people grouping, nor is it always a person that
adheres to a religion called Judaism.
The modern definition for the word Jew is – any individual that calls themselves
a ‘Jew.’ This is about the same as a Christian is simply a reference to anyone
that defines themselves as Christian. Ones belief has really nothing to do with
ones claim to a religion or a belief.
What happened to the actual
Israelites that captured the ‘Promised Land?’
The Hebrew name ‘Israel’ means to strive, to
overcome, and to rule with Al (or El). Al is a short form of the word
Alueim (or Elohim) and has the Hebrew meaning of Mighty-One(s). The name
Isra-el was given to Jacob as his name when he strove and overcame with
Al, (Gen. 32:28). Israel became the name of the Unified Nation that originated
from Jacob’s 12 sons under Moses. However, after the division of the Kingdom of
Israel in about 975 BC, the name Israel came to refer only to the Northern
Kingdom of Israel while the Southern Kingdom was known as the Kingdom of Yahudah,
(after the name of the dominant tribe). The term Israel in the Bible, in
context, can refer to the 12 tribes as a collective whole, or to the Northern
Kingdom of Israel (the 10 ½ tribes).[5]
Summary History of
Israel and Yahudah
The 12 tribes of Israel descended from
the patriarch Jacob, who was renamed Israel by Yahweh. The tribes of
Jacob/Israel became a united ‘Monotheistic National Identity’ under the
leadership of Moses and Joshua, with a Covenant and set of civil laws, rules,
regulations and ordinances that would govern both their religious and civil
obligations before their Almighty Sovereign Creator Power named Yahweh. Note: It is
believed that the Pentateuch (first 5 books of the Bible) was written by Moses
in the early pictographic Hebrew language. But as time went on, things did not go
very well for the Israelites. The Bible says ‘In those days there was no
king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes’ (Judges 21:25).
From the death of
Joshua and his generation of Israelites in time, a new generation arose ‘They
abandoned Yahweh, the
Mighty-One of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and
followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed
themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger. . . . . And even during the time when
judges (Judges 2:4-7) were appointed to rule Israel, and when these attempted
to keep Israel on a righteous path, it was to no avail. Eventually Israel
became disobedient and because if it, the people of Israel endured tumultuous
times of war and captivity from their neighbors, they even had periods of
redemption by Yahweh under righteous judges. But eventually Yahweh had enough,
He decided to prove[6]
Israel, and to teach them that war was not a good enterprise, and sin was not
acceptable to Him. He allowed the same nations that Joshua drove out of the
land to ‘prove’ the new generation. The age of war, capture, and repentance,
was the ‘order of the times’ for the judges of Israel.
Eventually the people desired to have a
King rule them just like the pagan nations around them. In time Yahweh allowed
this, and Saul became king ruling over all the 12 tribes. After Saul, Yahweh chose
David, a member of the tribe of Yahudah, to be king following Saul.
The division between
Israel and Yahudah
After the tribe of Yahudah made David
their king, the Northern tribes of Israel decided to follow Saul’s son
Ishbosheth instead. This led to war between the tribe of Yahudah and the rest
of Israel. ‘Now there was a long war between the house of Saul [Israel] and
the house of David [Yahudah]. But David grew stronger and stronger, and
the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker’ (2 Samuel 3:1). King David however
worked to unite all 12 tribes of Israel, and after seven years and six months
he was welcomed as king over ‘all Israel and Yahudah’ (2 Samuel 5:5).
After David, his son Solomon reigned
over Israel and Yahudah. Although Solomon began with good intentions, he
eventually also disobeyed Yahweh and by doing so he started the beginning for the
future division of his own Kingdom.
‘Thus says the Yahweh, Might-One of
Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the Kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will
give ten tribes to you (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant
David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth
the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the
god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right
in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David’ (1
Kings 11:31-33). Yahweh chose one of Solomon’s servants (Jeroboam) to lead
Israel after Solomon.
Solomon died around 930 BC., and soon
thereafter the Northern 10 ½ tribes sent a delegation to Rehoboam his son,
to ask for relief from the heavy burden of taxes they had been carrying.
But Rehoboam took bad advice and
threatened to raise their taxes instead. This led to the split that Yahweh had
predicted. So why did Israel and Yahudah split? The argument was over taxation,
but Yahweh’s prophecy makes clear the real problem was sin.
The kings Jeroboam
and Rehoboam
After the split, Rehoboam became
king of the Southern Kingdom of Yahudah. The Kingdom of Yahudah was
comprised of the tribes of Yahudah and Benjamin and about 1/2 of the tribe of
Levi, (the tribe that served the temple).
Jeroboam, the former servant of King
Solomon, became king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel as God had promised. The
Kingdom of Israel was comprised of the remaining 10-1/2 tribes, (1 Kings
11 and 12).
Even though all the tribes were
descendants of Jacob, also called Israel, (Genesis 32:28; 35:10) and were known
as Israelites under the single nation with this name, these peoples were now
separated into two Kingdoms, and had become of very mixed character through
intermarrying with the neighboring people, (Judges 3:5-7). For many years wars
and rivalries existed between Israel and Yahudah, (2 Kings 16:5-6).
What happened to
ancient Biblical Israel and Yahudah?
Eventually, because of disobedience,
Yahweh allowed the Northern Kingdom of Israel to be taken into captivity by the
Assyrians, 722-21 in the eighth century BC. The Assyrians took these Israelites
captive in successive deportations and re-settled them in the cities of the
Medes,[7]
(2 Kings 15:29; 18:9-12). Since that time, the Israelite people are known in
history as the lost tribes of Israel. The Yaudi historian
Josephus said, ‘The entire body of the people of Israel remained in that
country of the Medes; wherefore there are but two tribes [Judah and Benjamin]
in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond
Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by
numbers’ (Antiquities of the Jews, 11.5.2, Complete Works of Flavius
Josephus, combined translations of William Whiston, 1867, and the Standard
Edition, 1960).
During the time the people of the
Northern Kingdom were removed from their original ‘holy’ lands, and dwelling in
the land area South of the Caucasian Mountains, they grew to such a large
population that they eventually migrated
toward the far West and then Northwest, (blocked by the Caucasus Mountains to
their North). By their migration from the south of the Caucasus they became
known through their travels as Caucasians. These Caucasian people ultimately formed
the nations of Western-Northern Europe[8]
stretching even to the Northern outposts of Britain. They were then and are now
still known as the ‘lost’ tribes of Israel. Because they lost their religious
leaders over many years, the people of the lost tribes of Israel developed into
pagan. This changed however, when the Roman Empire gained control of most of
Western Europe and Britain. In about 313 AD, Constantine, the then Roman
Emperor forced the people in his Empire (under the threat of death) to accept his
Constantine Roman Christian religion. In the fifth Century AD, Rome was
defeated by waves of Germanic invaders.
Less than 150 years after the Northern
Tribes were taken captive (during the sixth century BC), Yahweh allowed the
people of the Southern Tribes (which had also continued to sin) to fall to the
Babylonian Empire, and many Yahudim were taken as captives to Babylon. After 70
years, they were given their freedom and allowed to return and rebuild the city
of Jerusalem and the temple. Less than 48 thousand ever returned. Although
there had been significant miscegenation among the people of the Southern
Tribes and among the people of the Northern Tribes with other people groups
over their years, under the Judges, and during their respective captivities,
some distinct Israelite groups may have remained in the land when the Romans
conquered Yahudah in 63 BC. This would have occurred prior to the movement of
religious Jews (a non-Israelite group) from Eastern Europe in 1944 under the
League of Nations mandate dividing Palestine between religious Jews and the
Palestinian people. It is very possible some of the people now known as Palestinians
are remnants of the ancient Israelites that remained on the ancient land, that
the imposter Jews are now stealing from them causing today’s continuous wars
between them.
The Two Modern divisions of Jewish
Groups:
Modern Jews divide themselves into two primary
groups. One group refers to themselves as ‘Ashkenazi Jews’ and the other group
as ‘Sephardim Jews’ (or Sephardic Jews). There is a great deal of difference
between these groups. The two groups are not one united people, but are divided
socially, politically, and religiously.
1. Jew – Ashkenazi(m) [9] – this
designation refers to most of today’s American, Franco-German, East German,
Polish, most Russian, and some Central European Jews. Ashkenazi Jews are now
found all over the globe, about half of which are living in the Jewish State
called Israel and about half in the USA, and around the globe. ‘Zionist[10]
Jews’ would also place themselve into the Ashkenazi Jew category.
Approximately 90 percent of the 14 million[11]
or so Jews living on the globe today call themselves Ashkenazi Jews. The word
Ashkenaz, Ashkenazi, or Ashkenazim (plural) is not a generic Hebrew word for
Germany, and it is not a place in Germany. Many modern day Jews (even in
ignorance) have identified themselves with, or are often synonymous with the ‘Ashkenazi
label’. However, the truth is that most of the self-called Ashkenazi Jews have
no racial or blood-line identity with the lineage of a Biblical Semite (which
is what Jews would like a non-Jew to believe). A true racial Ashkenazi would in
fact be a descendant of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah. Such a person should
likely be called a ‘Japhethite Jew’ but not an ‘Ashkenazi Jew’ (that is, if
that person had in fact adopted Judaism as his/her religion). The Hebrew Bible
states in Gen. 10:3 and in I Chron. 1: 6 that Ashkenaz was one of the sons of
Gomer and that Gomer was a son of Japheth, who was a son of Noah. Ashkenaz was
also a brother of Togarmah and a nephew of Magog who the Khazars[12]
an eighth
Century
Turkish tribe, (according to King Joseph a King of the Khazars claimed as being
their ancestor).
The term Anti-Semitism - and the
Ashkenazi Jew(s)
The term Anti-Semite is a phrase
coined by Jews as a ‘catch-all’ term invented by them to be used as a racial
term to benefit Jews (anti-discrimination laws). Jews want ‘Anti-Semitism’ used
as a racist term so they can claim it as a racial slur when applied against
Jews. The problem, however is, that Jews are NOT a Race. They are a
self-segregated people group due to their religion of Judaism. The truth
however, is, that many Jews are atheists and not at all religious. This is no
different as some Christians believe in Christianity or some Muslims are true
believers in Islam. Modern Jews are not descendants from Noah's son Shem, so
the term is miss-applied and cannot be a ‘Race related’ term because Noah had 3
sons. Therefore, if used as a racial term, it can only refer to someone
descending from Noah’s son Shem (if that is even provable). It can, however,
refer to those of Abraham’s descent, which could include many European ‘Caucasian’
people because most are very likely of Semitic-Israelite descent even if they
do not know it. Semites (descendents of Noah’s son Shem) could also include
many Arabs tribes and many Western European Caucasians who descend from Noah’s
son Shem through Biblical Abraham. All three sons of Noah (and Noah himself)
have the same blood line as Shem, so that line would also include descendants
of brothers Ham and Japheth.
Some have said the Ashkenazi Jew came from a
Khazar/Turkish tribal people and are probably proselytes of Mid-eastern
Europeans having rejected Islam by their adopting Judaism beginning about 750 AD.
However, their religion would still not make them descendants from either
Noah’s son Shem or of Japheth, but converts to an ‘Ashkenazi-Talmudic’ system
of Judaism. The coined phrase ‘anti-Semitism’ cannot be a derogative statement
used against the Ashkenazi Jew who is not from Shem. It could however be used
against Arabs and several other people groups that (according to the Bible) do
descend from Noah’s son Shem.
2. Jew, Sephardim – originally
these were called Spanish Jews, but now also scattered over the globe. After
the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser
V, in 745-722 BC, for their sinning against Yahweh,[13]
the ancient Israelites from the Northern Kingdom were exiled into ancient
Assyria, (2 Kings 17:5-7). The Assyrian King imported people groups from his
country Assyria to replace the exiled Israelites in order for him to maintain
and control the land captured from the exiled Israelites. The Sepharvaim of
Assyria is one of these people groups, along with some Cuthahites, and
Arrahites, (2 Kings 17:24). These people inter mingled with each other along
with Edomite people who had migrated Northward from Idumea (field of Edom) into
the area of the original Northern Kingdom of Israel after the Israelites were
exiled. The Sephardim Yahudim (now called Sephardim Jews) are the mongrel
people whose descent comes from a mixture of these Assyrian people probably
also mixed with some of the escaped Israelites, they are also strongly mixed
with Edomite blood. The original land area also became of mixed character from
this diversity of these people, (2 Kings 17:24-41). During the time of the
Messiah Yahshua (aka Jesus), the Sephardim/Canaan people were looked down upon,
considered a lower ‘grade’ of Yahudim (person living in Yahudah) and were
collectively known as the Samaritans, (Matt. 10:5).
The Sephardim Jews were also mixed with the
Assyrian people who descended from the Canaanites (the people who colonized
Carthage). Following the sack by Rome, they adopted the Sepharvaim or Sephardim
name, invented their own form of Judaism and constitute about 5 percent of the
people that call themselves Jews. The Sephardim Jews speak Latino, a mixture of
Spanish and Hebrew. The Sephardim Jews migrated into Spain from the ancient
land area of Yahud and Samaria before, during, and after the destruction of the
City of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD.
Today devout Sephardim Jews still associate themselves
by using their ancient Sephardim name. Although Sephardim Jews originally
settled in Spain, Portugal, the Eastern Mediterranean, Italy, the Balkans,
Salonica and Macedonia, they eventually emigrated into France, England, and
into Western Europe. Unlike the Ashkenazi Jews who have no historical roots, a
national claim, or a blood-line tie whatsoever to any part of Palestine or to
what was the Southern Kingdom of Yahud, a true descendant of the Sepharviam
Jews (Yahudim) would have originated from Northern Palestine. Most were living
in Samaria which was in the land area from which the Northern Kingdom of Israel
was exiled 721 BC under the conquest of King Shalmaneser V, of the ancient Kingdom
of Assyria
Because the Sephardim/Sepharviam Jews are not of pure
Israelite blood they are not direct descendents from the tribe of Yahudah or of
the 12 tribes of Israel. They were called Yahudim as inhabitants or persons
living in the land area of Palestine originally occupied by the ancient
Northern Kingdom of Israel. The Sephardim Jews like the Ashkenazi Jews are not
a Semitic people. The word Sephardim is not a Biblical Hebrew word for Spain,
but the name has become associated with Spain, because many Sephardim people
organized as a distinctive religious group while in Spain. The remaining Jews
(about 5 percent) who call themselves Jews, have an unknown history, most are
likely proselytes to the religion of Judaism.
Yiddish, the language invented and used
by many religious Jews
Modern Jews that practice Judaism speak Yiddish,
which is an amalgamated language that originated in the German Rhineland about
the end of the tenth century (about the same time as the beginning of the
Jewish religion of Judaism). Most of the ‘Hebrew’ spoken in the Modern Jewish
State called Israel is actually Yiddish; Yiddish is not Paleo (ancient) Biblical
Hebrew. Yiddish as spoken by many of today’s Jews was influenced by the
addition of French, Latin, Slavonic, Romance and (increasingly) the English
language, but in essence it is mostly German colored by some Hebrew words and
written with Modern Hebrew (Aramaic) square characters (read and written from
right to left). In other words, Yiddish is a German sub-language[14]
that was formed from the host languages of the many countries where Jews have
lived (and have been expelled from) over the years. Yiddish likely developed
because Jews often lived (or were required to live) segregated lives (in
Ghettos) apart from the people of their host Countries.
Judaism - the Modern Religion of most
Jews
Present day Modern Judaism was formally developed
into its basic cultic (ritualistic) structure about 1,000 years ago, (according
to Jewish history) when a man by the name of Rabbenu Gershon a Khazar of Mainz
Germany, published a ban on bigamy for religious Jews. Rabbenu Gershon is also
thought to be the origin of the title ‘Rabbi’ that has been adopted by many
Jewish leaders that follow his teachings of Judaism.
Gershon was also thought to be deeply involved in
Jewish history and the recorded beginnings of the organized Jewish Ashkenazi
sect and with Franco-German halachic creativity (loose interpretations) of the
Hebrew Bible. Gershon thereby established the beginning of what is now the
modern (ritualistic) religion of Judaism, it is developed by ignoring many of
the original Biblical precepts found in the Hebrew Bible, but in their stead, replacing
them with man-made traditions, customs, and ideology.
Modern Judaism is greatly influenced by the
Babylonian Talmud, an ancient pagan ritualistic system of various extreme (and
misdirected) opinions, interpretations, codes, rules, and numerous fabricated
non-Biblical regulations, along with the Kabala which is basically a collection
of mysticism formulated from a mixture of many previous primitive pagan customs
and cultures that date back thousands of years. Judaism as a religion today has
significantly perverted the Hebrew Bible and is not at all similar to the
precepts outlined for ancient true Israelites as found in the Hebrew Bible. In
Judaism, the writings in the Talmud and the Kabala supersede the writings of
the Hebrew Bible. In other words, for the Jew, the opinions of their Sages, the
written Talmud, and the opinions found in the Kabala are more important and
authoritative then what is written in the Hebrew Bible. In Judaism, customs and
culture have become superior to the Bible. The Country formed in 1948 by Jews,
known as Israel today or the ‘Israeli’ people who are calling themselves the ‘Jewish
State’ have little in common with the ancient Israelites of the Hebrew Bible
except for the territory that the Modern State called Israel is occupying.
Israel as a Biblical identifiable people group remains dispersed among all the
nations of the globe and is still ‘lost’.
When the modern nation of Israel was founded
in 1948, it was established as a haven for Jews. It is the only nation in
the world today that is predominantly formed by migration from people not
related to the ancient tribes of Israel, still supported in ignorance by many
Christians who do not know their Bible. Many Jews have moved there, but over
half of the Jewish people still live in other countries around the world. Some
have mistakenly assumed that because its Jewish founders chose the name Israel,
this nation is now home for all of the descendants of ancient Israel. We must
realize that the Bible speaks of Abraham’s descendants as being an extremely
large number of people—’as the sand of the sea’ (Gen. 32:12). With the modern
nation of Israel’s population approaching 9 million, compared to the earth’s
current population of approximately 7.7 billion, the belief that the modern
nation of Israel represents all of Abraham’s descendants doesn’t adequately
respect nor do justice to the promise God made to this
patriarch. Furthermore, Abraham’s descendant Ephraim was prophesied to ‘become
a multitude of nations’ and his brother, Manasseh, a ‘great’ nation, (Gen.
48:19). The modern nation of Israel has not and cannot fulfill these biblical
prophecies.
After the exile of the Northern Tribes of Israel north
into Assyria and during the Diaspora of 721 BC, and after the migration of
Israel north into Europe from Assyria, the Bible refers to these Israelites as
the ‘lost tribes’. The dispersed Israel has become such a huge population that
it cannot be numbered, and will never again physically fit in the ancient ‘promised
Land’. This is all a fulfillment of Yahweh’s promise to Abraham, (Gen. 14:1-3).
The Palestinians people still living in the area
and controlled by the Jews are a mixture of Arab; some from the original
Palestinian people; some descending from the ancient Philistines, and some are
quite likely descendants of the residual of the actual Hebrew tribes of the
ancient Biblical Israelites. In a unique historical twist the name ‘Palestine’
has become the familiar name for all the land that was at one time known as the
‘Holy Land’. The word Palestine is a derivative from the word Philistia that
formed from the word Philistine(s); these were in fact, the original
inhabitants of the land area, even before the conquest by the ancient
Israelites of the Hebrew Bible.
What on earth is a Judeo - Christian?
Present day true Israelites are an independent
historical Adamic people group. Many of these ‘lost’ Israelites are currently
of the Christian belief, and may be comprised of all the true 12 tribes of
Ancient Biblical Israel. The descendants of these Israelites are now completely
scattered throughout the globe, and will always be living among the nations of
the globe. The Jutes, Danes, Saxons, Angles, Vikings, Celts, and Norman's are
the people that originally comprised ancient Israel of the Assyrian and the
Roman Diaspora. We believe the Central and Western Free European Nations were
established and formed from these Adamic Caucasian Israelite people descending
from the original tribes of the 745-721 BC Diaspora.
The term ‘Judeo - Christian’ is a complete
misnomer. It is a very misleading term that should only be loosely associated
with the common belief in ‘One Almighty Sovereign Creator Being’ called monotheism
(the belief in one God). However, even when using this understanding, Judaism
and Christianity have nothing in common. Christians believe that their one God
is composed of three persons existing in the ‘one being’ the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. The Trinitarian belief is not really monotheism, although
Christians like to believe that their trinity is still somehow monotheistic.
Judaism does not believe that God is a Trinity, so it cannot be Judeo-Christian.
The belief in one Supreme Creator Being ‘true monotheism’ is shared by other
religions including Israelism, and Islam. Judaism remains strongly
anti-Christian due in part to the Christian belief in a Trinity. The addition
by Christians of the Greek New Testament writings believed to be the inspired
word of God, and the belief that the prophet Jesus was God incarnate, also
falls the claim of ‘Judeo-Christian’. Judaism adds the writings of the Talmud
and the Kabala as foundational documents of their belief. However, additions to
the Hebrew Bible are forbidden for those that use only the Hebrew Bible as
their foundational Documents, (Deut. 4:2).
Jews are wise not to promote their anti-Christian
belief because the Jewish State receives approximately three hundred million
dollars of US aid annually and is in debt to America by over 100 billion
dollars. It is very likely that some of this money has been used to develop
their arrogant Socialistic Apartheid State. Also, by using US government aid
Jews have been able build a huge Middle Eastern war machine, and have a
stock-pile of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear). Since 1947 AD, Jews have
stolen land from the aboriginal Palestinian-Arab/Israelite people; and, they
have destroyed their olive groves; their economy and their homes, and they have
influenced gullible ignorant Americans as well as the US Congress to support
all of this deliberate destruction. All of this comes under the false claim of ‘the
need for Jewish security’. Yet, Jews in the Jewish State are by their continued
actions inviting terrorism on themselves from the many desperate people living
in Jewish occupied territory. Those living in occupied territory are prisoners without
hope toward regaining their ancestral homelands and have nothing to lose by
their resistance. The Jewish State has violated every UN mandate for a
Jewish/Palestinian homeland since 1948 AD. To this day Jews continue to oppress
and destroy their Palestinian-Arab/Israelite neighbors.
The one-sided support by the US Government for
the Jewish State has developed and promoted hatred against the United States
Government by oppressed people throughout the Middle-East and the globe. The
America that was at one time in history the most envied and generous nation of
the globe has become by some the most hated of bully nation-builders.
What does all this say about the Christian
leaders of America’s Churches or about the Jewish paid-for-and- controlled
members of the US Congress? Until the Jewish State begins to abide by the many
UN mandates that it has ignored; withdraws from stolen Palestinian lands;
agrees to a sovereign Palestinian State equal in land area to a Jewish State;
begins to show consideration, compassion, and kindness to their neighbors (a
clear Biblical mandate found in the 10 Commandments), and until America begins
to treat the oppressed Palestinian-Arab/Israelite people on an equal footing
with the Jews in their rouge State called Israel, America will certainly
continue to be a target by those who view it as a primary source for oppression
and misery.
The high poverty level in Palestine today contributes
to the great sense of despair for the Palestinian people that has since the
mid-1980’s hastened the rise of global extremist groups. The Jews are simply
reaping what they have sown on their neighbors for over 70 years by actions
that have been completely void of even the most basic of righteous Biblical
principles, all supported by America and America’s ignorant Christians. Jews have
proven themselves not to be friends of the American people.
Summary
According to Jewish sources (from the Jewish
Central Bureau of Statistics), the total world population of Jews today is
about 14 Million. However, the people of Ancient Israel, those from the
original Biblical Israelite Diasporas, now number in the hundreds of millions
and they are now an innumerable population all a fulfillment of the promise to
Abraham, (Gen. 14:1-3). This historical fact is recorded by the Yahudi
Historian Josephus in his ‘Antiquities of the Yahudim’ Book XI, Chap. V, 2.
Where he states the following: ‘wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia
and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates
till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers’. This
is hardly a statement which can be said of today's fourteen million Jews well
over 2,000 years after Josephus wrote this in his record book! If the
descendants of Biblical Israel's immense multitude could not be estimated by
numbers over 2,000 years ago by Josephus, one can only imagine just how vast the
population of Biblical Israel is throughout the globe today.
A final Note: The information in this document is
provided to promote truth and to counter the false and deceptive Jewish global
propaganda effort to obtain domination and Global control. As has been shown,
the truth shows that Jews are basically impostors to the Biblical Israelites
and are simply a religious group. Jews use gullible ‘Christians’ and Western Governments
of countries like Great Britain, Western Europe and the United States and
Canada to do their dirty work using their Military, their Arms, and their
wealth in their attempt to achieve this global domination and control. Jews
have been at this domination attempt since before WWI and have infiltrated the
entire political arms of many Governments by rewarding corrupt and ignorant
politicians amiable toward their global cause. They have done this by using
generous donations for the re-election of pro-Jew politicians orchestrated by
Jewish financed committees like AIPAC - The American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, and AJC - the American Jewish Committee. Jews now own and control major
News media’s and run the world’s largest Banks. Because of their arrogant
attitude, and because the Jewish State has become maligned far from what are
known to be basic moral Biblical principles, the word ‘Jew(s)’ has become a
word reflecting an undesirable people group or person. The US Government
contributes to this by giving this corrupt, apartheid, anti-Christian and soon
to be isolated and walled-in State billions of dollars borrowed from creditors
like communist China, all borrowed money that America’s youth are going to be
burdened for many years to pay back.
About the Karaite ‘Jews’ and ‘Karaite
Judaism’
There are a number of ‘Jews’ who call
themselves Karaites. They believe that they preserve the original religion
Israelism of the Hebrew Bible, and reject later innovations such as the
Rabbinic Oral Law, and the Talmudim. They also believe that every individual is
required to take responsibility for interpreting the Tanach (the Hebrew Bible).
They are a religious group, who may or may not be blood Israelites, but they
are Israelites by keeping Yahweh’s Covenant, rejecting the traditions and
addition of men. They are not in the category of the Ashkenazi or Sephardim Jews. They call themselves Jews, but are actually
(in our opinion) actually ‘True Israelites’ because they keep Yahweh’s Covenant,
and follow the principles in the Hebrew Bible. The Karaite Jews are in a ‘Jewish’
category all by themselves, because they also keep the ordinances.
Karaite Judaism or Karaism practice
what they believe to be the faith of the Hebrew Bible. The word ‘Karaism’ comes
from the Hebrew Karaim meaning ‘Followers of the Bible’. The Karaites
also believe that the Hebrew Bible contains the master plan of the Creator of all
as revealed to the Ancient Nation of Israel through Moses and the Prophets in
order to serve as a ‘Light unto the Nations’. From its very inception ‘True’ Israel's
role has been to teach mankind of the divine will, which endows those who live
by it with eternal life, as it is written: ‘it is a tree of life to those
who keep it’. (Proverbs 3:18).
What then is a ‘True’ Biblical Israelite?
A ‘True
Israelite’ is one that keeps Yahweh’s Covenant/Contract, the 10 Commandments,
(see Deut. 5:2-22). This belief is called Israelism or Yahwism. If a ‘stranger’
(an Israelite of an unknown tribe) also keeps the ‘Covenant/Contract’ they
become a True Israelite and a member of Yahweh’s house-hold by doing so. The
Hebrew Bible teaches that becoming a True Israelite holding the key to life has
everything to do with living righteously; becoming faithful to the principles found
in the Hebrew Bible, from the Almighty Sovereign named Yahweh to the prophets,
(see also Matt. 19:16-17). It would
also stand that the act has nothing at all to do with tribal identity, a known
blood line, or living on a particular piece of land, (Isaiah 56: 6-7). The two large ‘monotheistic’
religions, Christianity and Islam, recognize the truth of the Hebrew Bible, but
they compromise the purity of the divine message by adding their own Books to Yahweh’s
complete and perfect Word. The form of
Judaism commonly practiced today is not ‘True’ Israelism, but Talmudism. Talmudists
corrupt the true message of the Hebrew Bible by adding the teachings of the
Rabbis found in the ‘Talmud’. The fact is, there is not a single reference to
the Talmud in the entire Hebrew Bible. The authentic Yahwistic (Israelism)
religion is based upon that which is taught by the Creator Himself in the
Hebrew Scriptures without addition or subtraction, since it is written: ‘You
shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish
anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your Might-One’
(Deuteronomy 4:2).
In this current era of the Dispersed
Israel, prophecy has ceased while the Almighty ‘hides His face’ for the sins of
Israel. With no living prophets, the only path to knowledge of the divine is
through the Hebrew Bible which contains the complete and perfect instruction of
the divine will revealed to the ancient prophets of Israel. By living in
accordance with the divine instruction, men can be redeemed from sin, as it is
written: ‘When the evildoer turns away from all his sins that he has done
and shall keep all My statutes and do justice and righteousness, he shall
surely live, he shall not die. All his iniquities that he has done shall no
longer be remembered’ (Ezekiel 18:21-22). Yahweh bestowed us with His
perfect instruction out of his immense love and mercy for mankind, as it is
written: ‘Do I indeed desire the death of the evildoer, says Yahweh, do I
not desire for him to return from his ways so that he may live?’ (Ezekiel
18:23).
The Jews living in the State called Israel have
demonstrated the exact opposite by their ongoing actions of terror, theft and
oppression against the Palestinian people (their neighbors) who are very likely
to be the rightful native owners of the Lands called Palestine, and who
actually may also be descendents of the ancient Israelite, even if they lack
knowledge of that probability.
Most Jews, however, have never been descendants
of the Biblical Israelites and did not come to Palestine until the early
1900’s. This makes them illegal immigrants to the land and foreigners that are
simply stealing Palestinian land by masquerading as the descendants of the
ancient Biblical tribes of the ‘Covenant/Contracted’ True Israel.
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[1] The words ‘Yahudi,
Yahudim, Yahud’ and the like, throughout this document are English words
transliterated from their Hebrew originals.
[2] Yah is the English short form of the Hebrew short
form (YH) the name of the Almighty YHWH - meaning ‘He-Is.’
[3] The original
land (Kingdom) of Israel was divided into two Kingdoms about 975 BC, composed
of the Northern Kingdom called Israel, and the Southern Kingdom called Yahud.
[4] The original
land (Kingdom) of Israel was divided into two Kingdoms about 975 BC, composed
of the Northern Kingdom called Israel, and the Southern Kingdom called Yahud.
[5] We say
10-1/2 tribes, because early in the division of the Kingdoms, a portion of the
tribe of Levi remained with the Northern Kingdom. Later those of Levi joined
with the other members of the tribe in the Southern Kingdom.
[6] To establish
the truth or existence of something by providing evidence or argument – here to
demonstrate by adversity that obedience to Yahweh is much better that to engage
in wickedness.
[7] Mede, city
of – Medes a member of an Indo-European
people who ruled an empire northwest of Persia in ancient times, now an area
lying today in south eastern Turkey, north western Iran, north western Iraq,
and Northern Syria. Lying south of the Caucasus Mountains, a natural Northern
barrier between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
[8] Evidence for
this is available from the present day ‘Coats of Arms’ or Crests that are found
in most European Nations influenced by the remnants of the people of Israel
among them. This comes from the Blessings and symbols give to the tribes by
Jacob before his death, (Gen. 49, Numbers 2:1-2).
[9] Ashkenazi –
a son of Gomer, a son Japheth, a son of Noah, (Gen. 10:2-3). NOT a descendent
of Noah’s son Shem.
[10] Zionist - a
Jew who supports the worldwide movement (originating in the 19th century) to
establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948 its function has
been to support the state that is falsely named Israel.
[12] The Khazar
were a semi- nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities
of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of
modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan,
large portions North of the Caucasus Mountains ( Circassia, Dagestan ),
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/Khazars/en-en/
[13] Yahweh, the
name of the Almighty Sovereign Creator Life –Force Essence of the (God) of the
Israelites of the Hebrew Bible.
[14] Chart of
Proto Indo-European Languages, cir. 5000, American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd
Edition.