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Brother, why persecuteth me thou? by Simon Altaf http://www.abrahamic-faith.com |
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Now that may seem a bit odd title at first that usually as a Christian believer in Yeshua (Jesus) I am being persecuted by my so called brothers and sisters, what a strange thing to happen? While the Muslims who should be persecuting me are bewildered around me, they are confused whether I am Jewish or Christian and the Christian are bewildered whether I am Christian or Jewish also but the spewed hatred is not coming from the Muslim camp but the Christians instead!!! Sometimes I wonder if they really know Yeshua or is it the 1600 years of ignorant teachings that has caused the brainwashing in the churches. This is why I say that Protestantism is the daughter of Catholicism even today, the often lame excuse they usually give you is that you are Judaizing, when clearly they are the ones pushing you to do things of Roman-ism such as Easter and Christmas, both are related to false goddesses and have been married into true Christianity. Who will tell them that this is so? What brings this in the Christian camp? Ignorance, lack of knowledge and wisdom.
If you have come to this webpage looking for answers then you have been directed to the right place by Him who we call Lord and saviour, I was directed by the Lord to write this page this morning as a sister in Christ wrote to me distressed because she had decided to OBEY YHWH and His ordinances (Chukim) and His mishpatim (Judgements) but her husband an unbeliever decided that his wife had gone whacky saying I want to keep kosher and want to obey the Lord's feasts so he could not understand this behaviour and started hating her. I have been through it praise YHWH and I can tell you the experience is not new to me, you need to have thick skin to survive the onslaught. The reason for this hatred is simple, you have decided to identify with Israel and her God and remember Israel are His chosen people. Did that register? ISRAEL are HIS ONLY people!!! Oh shucks I forgot to mention the church or is it that good word we use to show everyone we know Greek, oh yes Ecclesia. However the word Ecclesia did not originate in the New Testament writings but it originated with the Septuagint (this is the translation of the Hebrew Bible done in Greek some 250 years before Yeshua was born translated in Alexandria (Egypt) by seventy two Jewish scholars for the Jews living in the Diaspora). Yahweh has only one chosen people not two, one BRIDE not two, these are the twelve tribes of Israel. I can hear you moaning already , don't make me tribal man! The church has their version of replacement theology where the church replaces Israel and we live happily ever after and the Muslims too have their version where the Muslims replace the Jews and Jesus for some of them was a Palestinian freedom fighter and let's kill and drown all the Jews in the sea and live happily ever after. Of course taking over the Israeli lands and happily ever after for them means now let's just kill the Christians its their turn and after that they will start killing each other, the Shi'ites have been killed in Sunni majority countries for years and now they have their chance so it is payback in Iraq for a short while at least. My suggestion to get rid of this confusion in both of these camps is to read the article http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/Bible/True_Israel_or_Church.html to get a better understanding of who we are in Messiah. The behaviour that is done by many of these replacement theology crowd is totally unacceptable and prejudiced because they claim to follow the Jewish Messiah who is Jewish by the way or was He Jewish only at His birth or according to them somehow when He grew up He lost His Jewish background? This is why perhaps the Jesus they protray is not Yeshua on the church windows that grew up in Bethlehem but this depiction of the German Jesus with blonde hair and blue eyes or did I mistake that for the Scandinavian Jesus? I don't know but there are many Jesus' floating around. We have the Muslims version called Isa, we have the replacement theology version who is a blonde hair and blue eyes, we have the Mormon version of Jesus, we have the Jehovah's version of Jesus but the Bible only ever talks about one authentic version of Jesus called Yeshua of Nazareth or Yahushua if you want to pronounce His full extended name so check His authenticity next time you see Him. Make sure He is wearing His tallit and tzitzits because that is what He went around in Nazareth with. Ask Him why these people are confusing Him when He left so much evidence for these things in the Bible.
The Hem of His garment was the "tzitzits" by the way if you did not know, the translators do such a superb job by hiding the truth, good isn't it try to make the Bible Western?
However good news folks, my friend Moshe who is a Jew does translate this more accurately in his Restored Edition Bible which I rate as the Best Bible translation in the world, at least he knows how to translate the words right and I can trust him being a Jew he has no agenda but to show people Yeshua is the Messiah. While most of the West have already hijacked true Christianity and replaced it with their own pagan version.
Yeshua of Nazareth by the way kept the feasts unlike that German Jesus and that awful Muslim Jesus who wants to kill both the Jews and the Christians and who wants to deceive the Muslims into hell. Well Yeshua is alive today and was raised after His death so if He has the same body and same blood group then I wonder what blood group He could be?
Do you think He could be Jewish, maybe this is why He is a called God of Zion thus He is a Zionist but that is a bad word right so let's not call Him Jewish but let's call Him European shall we after all we must keep the peace and be politically correct and all that. Righty ho.
Who is this king I wonder? The Muslims say we want our own king and the Christians say let's not upset the Muslims but the Jews say lets give a piece of our land to help them settle so they don't kill our children but the God of Israel says: "I have set my King on the holy hill of Zion", by the way I wonder who this king is, could this be Yeshua of Nazareth? Maybe I don't have to win the UK national lottery to buy land in Israel, it is so expensive but it is easy just to say I am a Palestinian and I have been living here for thousands of years and claim a piece of it. Well is that not what the Palestinians are doing? The nice European people are so good that they are giving the Palestinian people lot's of money to buy more weapons to help them destroy those bad Jewish people who helped us destroy Saddam Hussain's Osirak reactor in 1981, I believe Europe just came $76 million to Hamas. Had it not been for that we may have been struck by Muslim terrorists with biological weapons on our home ground. Do you think that those bad Jews will help us with destroying the Iranian reactors? Again the Europeans procrastinate and twiddle their thumbs and don't know what to do with the nice Muslims like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who want to finish off where Hitler left off. Well somebody has to do Satan's job, he is not going to do it himself in his incorporeal body is he? Why do they hate me?
I know you don't like it and it is like bitter herbs but we identify with the God of Israel and He identifies with us, if He was oppressed then at some point we are also "oppressed", the pattern is repeated and can be seen repeating in many nations with Christians being tortured and killed.
A little persecution is good for the soul, it is refreshing to stand and quarrel, this we do all the time in the Middle-East, we quarrel about everything so getting slapped around for the God of Israel a bit is good for our souls too, it refines our character and here this is our test for being with the God of Israel who was hated, slapped, spat on and beaten up badly and so are we sometimes. This is why the Muslim converts do not fall by the wayside but the Christians born into their Christian cushy lifestyles don't know what it is like holding on to their faith just fall by the wayside some of them don't even know who Jesus of Nazareth is, they are just born into Christian background families mistaking it for salvation. There were good English men like William Tyndale who was burned alive for his faith but where are the William Tyndales today? Remember he who endures to the end is saved so you and I must endure in our righteous conduct with God, avoid the luke warm crowd and pray for those who hit us to have understanding so if they hit you and beat you up then be prayerful to Yeshua to bring understanding and wisdom for our persecutors. It is like a boxing match the only thing is you are the punch bag and are being refined and hardened. Since Yeshua was oppressed likewise we will be oppressed too, this is a spiritual pattern and remember Israel is also being oppressed, the spiritual pattern repeats in our God and in His people (us). When we leave what we were born into (Islam in my case) (nominal Christianity in yours or atheism in some others basically any sort of ism) you or me accepted Yeshua of Nazareth thus you and me were grafted into the one olive tree completely becoming one with Israel THE OLIVE TREE. Remember the exodus from Egypt where the Israelites were persecuted by Pharaoh as slaves, they only became slaves because they departed from His Torah? Now you see they were persecuted too and the pattern did not stop there, it happened in Persia again with people like Haman who were born as a result of our disobedience not to wipe out the Amalekites, the reason for the Purim festival and it happened in Babylon (slavery) now again today in Israel where the nations hate the Jews and in Europe they have labelled Israel as a world threat to peace. Can you believe it that radical Islam goes marching, killing, beheading, chopping, maiming, blowing up trains, planes and horses but no one marked Saudi Arabia as a world threat. I find this amazing don't you? How many olive trees do we have? Two, one wild and one natural, one Israel and one non-Israelite (Roman 11:17), since we are grafted in to the natural olive tree we are Israelites. If your behaviour is still like the wild olive tree then you will hate both the Jews and your brethren (Gentiles grafted in). This is churchianity and hypocrisy, this sort of behaviour should drop and repentance should follow if you have a humble heart, its bad enough living with the Muslims and their hostility, I mean their "love" because they "love" to persecute us and ultimately kill us. Was it not the puritans who in their zeal had the witch trials and was it not the Christian Luther who hated the Jews and wrote such filth against them. So many of these people have blood on their hands especially against the Jewish people. Yeshua died for us yet He did nothing wrong, our sin was upon Him. Today if I have eternal life it is because He took my sin as a substitute offering and became my propitiation, my Yom Kippur, praise to the God of Israel and for my Jewish Messiah yet why do we despise "Yom Kippur" yet this is exactly what YESHUA FULFILLED? Luther rejected certain prophets of the Bible
He rejected other books from the Bible such as Hebrews, James, Jude and the book of Revelations. Now these are naughty comments from Luther, the churchianity love him so much but what a bad ugly rude guy this was.This is not all and you thought the Muslims were bad and evil and you know some of these Muslims are bad and evil but there are those who may be open to learning the truth and it is those we must reach! Luther Said: Persecute The Jewish People
He wrote other such comments which I find are so sick to read coming from a claimed Christian...
Now you know Christian bias, however even amongst the Christians there is a growing movement of those who are beginning to understand the everlasting nature of the God of Israel and His commandments being ETERNAL and HOLY, His Holy days and His eternal time plan. Many of these fall into the Messianic camps, some have been going since last ten years but like anything Satan just won't give up and he is busy attacking them and now some of these are beginning to reject Yeshua as part of the Triune Godhead. Sad they cannot see Satan and his vile attacks. When I started wearing the Tzitzits I have had some interesting looks from different Christians of amusement and bewilderment, little do most of these people realise that YHWH's Torah is HOLY and UNCHANGEBALE yet they want to force a change but He who gives us His written words says "Malachi 3:6 I change not".
In Islam there is something called Sunnah and that means that you act and do things like their prophet Muhammad did to be like him. So if he killed people would it not be right to be doing this today? If he robbed would it be Sunnah to do this today? Likewise I want to be like Yeshua of Nazareth so I can do the Sunnah and be like my saviour. He was a kosher, feast keeping, Torah abiding Jew so likewise I try to be a Kosher feast keeping, torah abiding person in YHWH's kingdom of Israelites. You can call me sunni Christian if you like because to me this means I walk just like Yeshua walked and am blessed to walk His walk. So next time someone hates you for doing these things be it Christian or Muslim give a loud praise to YHWH and keep moving with our Lord and saviour. The Christians who hate Torah commandments give me so much headache at times but the nice Muslims offer to take that head ache away by chopping my head off. I don't know whether to accept the help of Muslims or Christians but for now I think an aspirin will do the job better. I have a friend who was born into a Catholic family, then he became a believer with Pentecostal/Charismatics but he realised something was not quite right so then he learnt of the Hebrew roots of his faith and Yeshua convicted him to drop all the wild olive tree habits and adopt the natural olive tree habits, i.e. wear tzitzits, keep the sabbath, keep the feasts and as soon as he started doing this then guess what? Here comes persecution with in. First his family started hating him that he is weird and then his church started hating him and finally he left that church and YHWH placed him amidst the Jews in Israel where today he goes around singing Hebrew songs from the Bible which the Lord taught him. Yet this person never dropped his belief that Yeshua is the Messiah, YHWH is triune, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and He was still persecuted but the Jews love him because he identified with Yeshua's brothers and His people. I have another friend who was born into an African family now don't say I have a lot of friends because it is good to have good friends and this friend left his churcy talk and German Jesus and then started walking like Yeshua of Nazareth. Yes that is right, he started wearing Tzitzits, you must be thinking he is crazy too and he started going to a messianic fellowship, he would not eat unclean foods and his family thought our son is gone off the wall and behaving badly. Isn't it funny that when you walk with YHWH people think you are behaving badly but when you go around shouting abuse to your mother, using foul language and sing in prose like emnem (Marshall Mathers) then people like you and call you a good singer and you sell lots of records and make a lot of money. Muslims on the other hand go around blowing themselves up as suicide bombers their mother's say what a nice hero my son is and they rejoice and eat candy and celebrate death and murder of innocent people aka of those bad guys the Jews and call the Muslim who blew himself or herself up a good freedom fighter aka shaheed (martyr)! Unfortunately the only freedom he/she was fighting for was his own body's to escape it to get paradise so he can go and have an orgy in heaven with 72 times 72 virgins. That is a lot of virgins don't you think but you ask that is just not possible because YHWH said "thou shall not murder", so how can we justify such murder? The Jews are not even allowed to complain because they are Jews and their blood is cheap. Many times the Muslims spill it while other times peace searching Jews themselves sell their brothers to the Arabs by giving up their land like Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and some other whackos. We live in a crazy world friends just make sure not to get involved with the loony tunes. It is very hard for us to explain to Western people that faith is not separate from your culture in fact the two are intertwined in one and this is why Muslims live the way they do or even Jews live the way they do but we must keep striving to live and OBEY YHWH because we serve a Holy God and this is the way we live for those who have WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING.
If you found the Torah way then you have found WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING so keep with it. Remember whenever Israel will live in obedience this is what the people will say around about them.
Kudos to those who keep the Torah and Walk in the sunnah of Yeshua. Simon Altaf is a prophecy expert and author who has debated many people on different aspects of the Bible, he is the author of three books http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/Books/books.html one co-authored with Walid Shoebat another prophecy scholar and his personal friend. He has consistently warned the Church of its lax attitude towards Israel and the Jewish people and the dangers posed to the world by Islamists. We must be careful not to reject YHWH's holy commandments and His people Israel as non-essential. This is our call to re-examine our attitudes towards our brothers the Jews and repentance of any error in our life for our current and past mistakes before the great King of Israel returns to judge us all. ______________________________ WE
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