Bible Believers' Newsletter 1372
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word. Your brother-in-Christ
The end-time evangelism was not sent to preach confessing heathens out of darkness into Light (Matthew 28:18-20), but to awaken virgins asleep in the denominational darkness of Rome and her once Protestant daughters and preach Christ's Bride into the threefold process of the rapture (Revelation 18:1-4; I Thessalonians 4:16). Although William Branham's ministry restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God (Malachi 4:5, 6b; Revelation 10:7), most within the circle of this Message have the "letter only," and without God's "quickening Spirit" their understanding remains overshadowed by the traditions of men. Our guest contributor, Pastor Eli James from Chicago, chops down this denominational overgrowth to bring Christ and Lucifer, the Tree of Life and the intellectual Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, into open ground (Ezekiel 28:12-13).
Pastor James hosts two radio talk-shows and is the author of, "The Great Impersonation: How the Anti-Christ Has Deceived the Whole World." His contribution exposes the duplicitous philosophy of those who have launched vexatious and frivolous litigation against your Church and Christianity generally. It is presented for the edification and correction of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ and desire to serve Him more perfectly through the knowledge of the Truth (John 8:32).
In a court hearing last year the Judge asked me what I thought of the Jew's religion. If he is sincerely seeking to know the answer the Judge will find it in the mind of God expressed in the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible upon which he asks witnesses to swear to speak the truth. I believe the Judge is obligated to understand the Book upon which he calls others to take oath. He seems not to realize that God granted free moral agency to all men. Jews like everyone else are entitled to worship as and what they choose. The Judge's question was uncalled-for since we have never interfered with Jewish liberty, and throughout the twelve years during which they have insulted and defamed us in the national media by a series of unprovoked baseless and foolish lies that have created a false record in media agencies throughout the nation, we have "turned the other cheek".
Those who heard the "Shout" of the Message will grow to maturity in the unity of the faith by the "Voice of the Archangel," which in His earthly sojourn exposed the false identity, fraudulent history and unscriptural religion of those God set at enmity with the children of Adam, the descendants of Israel and the Kingdom of God, which is His Church (Genesis 3:15). "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever," separating Light from darkness.
The great flurry of media reports at the time stating senior officials in the US Administration, from the conspirators, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Colin Powell, Condaleesa Rice and the CIA's George Tenet, to the janitor, were all warned by intelligence sources that CIA officer Osama bin Laden (shown here with US Secretary of State, Condoleesa Rice, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, now officially named the George Bush Center for Intelligence). Israeli interests were about to attack the WTC in New York, orchestrated to point the finger away from the reality that 9/11 was an "inside job".
Now for the Good News: the teaching sermon Le Stature de l'Homme Parfait has been added to our French language area.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Large crowds gather for pro-regime rallies in Iranian cities in support of Khamenei
January 12, 2026 — Very large pro-government 'counter protests' have taken over whole areas of cities Monday, including in the capital x.com. The Trump administration was quite out front with saying it would "stand" with the Iranian people, and even protect them if they come under assault from government forces. This allowed Iranian leadership to tell people in the streets that they are doing the bidding of foreign powers like the US and Israel. Iran says it is "prepared for war" but ready to negotiate with the US based on "mutual respect and interests," after US President Donald Trump said Tehran called to negotiate as his administration weighs possible military intervention during widespread anti-government protests.
The Trump administration was quite out front with saying it would "stand" with the Iranian people, and even protect them if they come under assault from government forces. This allowed Iranian leadership to tell people in the streets that they are doing the bidding of foreign powers like the US and Israel. Full story: zerohedge.com
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to social media to congratulate the participants of today's pro-state rallies in Tehran, attendance at which numbered in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands . . . there have also been hints from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel would like to destroy Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles, making that another likely topic for negotiations, Abdi said. If Trump went ahead with military strikes, it's possible that "this human rights lens" would provide cover "for the US and potentially Israel . . . to go after ballistic missile facilities".
'The Medium is the Message' and the Message is a Lie
January 9, 2026 — Legacy media would have us believe that elected President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was "captured" by US forces. This is nonsense.
More accurately, US forces committed Supreme International Crimes by bombing the sovereign nation of Venezuela in an operation that culminated in the kidnapping of its elected President in the longstanding context of stealing Venezuelan resources and imposing hegemony. ((1) Ben Norton, "admits he wants to take Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations ." Geopolitical Economy, 19 December, 2025. (Trump admits he wants to take Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations). Accessed January 8, 2026. See Daniel Kovalik.
Legacy media would also have us believe that Venezuela is responsible for the scourge of drug abuse in the US Absent from this narrative is the fact that the CIA and the US military has long been implicated in drug trafficking in Afghanistan, in Latin America (including Venezuela) and beyond. (2)
Finally, colonial media would have us believe that Venezuelans are generally supportive of Washington's crimes. Absent from this narrative and its selected videos are videos showing widespread anger at Washington's criminality, and demands the release of Maduro and
his wife.
Media that falsifies current and past events in favour of imperial narratives is a disservice to us all. After all, Canada, too, is in Washington's crosshairs. Prof. Chossudovsky notes in "President Trump's Ultimate Intent: The Annexation of Canada, The Annexation of Greenland, the Militarization of the Arctic. Militarization of the Western Hemisphere."
President Elect Donald Trump had intimated in no uncertain terms that Prime Minister Trudeau should become Governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. This was no joking matter. Canada described as the 51st State of the USA signifies the outright Annexation of Canada. (3)
Washington's international criminality is no joking matter. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Notes
(1) Ben Norton, Trump admits he wants to take Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations." Geopolitical Economy, December 19, 2025. Accessed 8 January, 2026.
(2) Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, (Neocolonial Drug Trafficking and the British Empire's Opium Wars. Today's 'Narco-States' and The Laundering of Drug Money Global Research, January 7, 2026. Global Research Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed January 8, 2025.
See also: Hypocrisy unmasked: US accuses Maduro while own drug cartels thrive journalist Mark Taliano.
(3)Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, President Trump's Ultimate Intent: "The Annexation of Canada, The Annexation of Greenland, the Militarization of the Arctic. Militarization of the Western Hemisphere" Global Research, January 6, 2026). Accessed January 8, 2026.
Zelensky's Final Days: implicated in the Trump Attack & Murder of Charlie Kirk?
November 30, 2025 — Operation Midas continues. Following the indictment of Oleksiy Chernyshov (former Deputy Prime Minister), the resignations of Israeli-Ukrainian Herman Halushchenko (Minister of Justice) and Svitlana Grynchuk (Minister of Energy), and the flight of Israeli-Ukrainian Tymur Mindich (a business associate of Volodymyr Zelensky), heads continue to roll. There is talk in Ukraine of Zelensky's possible escape; he is expected to travel to Greece on Sunday and then to France on Monday. It seems the self-proclaimed president had foreseen the purge with the arrest last month of Volodymyr Kudrytskyi (head of the state-owned electricity company Ukrenergo), but he did not anticipate the scale of the crackdown. The final blow could come from former MP Artem Dmitruk of the "Servant of the People" party, who for the past month has accused Zelensky of involvement in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the successful one against Charlie Kirk. The "core nationalists" are mobilizing to retain power. They are currently preparing a new coup.
Russia celebrates the capture of the super-strategic city of Pokrovsk, while Kyiv Independent acknowledges Moscow's control as it makes substantial progress along the front line.
With the exception of the unwavering support of the European Union and most of NATO (with intermittent support from the United States), the Khazar comedian Zelensky (whose term ended last May) now appears to have met his expected end, following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to the White House on November 7, where he obtained a waiver from Trump allowing him to purchase Russian hydrocarbons for at least a year.
It turns out that Tymur Mindich, Zelensky's initial business partner, fled Ukraine in the face of a joint investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the FBI (sic!), thanks to his possession of an "Israeli passport" (sic!). The Kyiv Independent reveals the stench of Mindich's transactions, dubbed "Zelensky's wallet."
Zelensky is the antithesis of Midas: everything he touches, if he doesn't corrupt it, he destroys. The Mindich scandal has infected the Ministries of Justice, Energy, and Agriculture. It should be noted that this 46-year-old "filmmaker" was also a "business partner" of the Khazar oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, now a refugee in Israel and the true architect of Zelensky's rise to power. What a Khazar trio that Kolomoisky, Zelensky and Mindich, linked to Netanyahu
Grok, owned by Elon Musk, exposes the "Israeli ties" of the Khazar Mindich and his fiduciary triangulations in Cyprus, whose Greek side has become the "second Israel" in the Eastern Mediterranean, and even in the British Virgin Islands, where, incidentally, the Calderonist criminal (supporter of Mexican President Felipe Caldern, president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012) Genaro Garca Luna, imprisoned in the United States, also laundered money.
The fate of the comedian Zelensky was already sealed as soon as he confronted the world's leading military power, Russia.
In the unfortunate circumstance of Zelenskys double defeat, both domestic and foreign, his involvement in the attack against Trump in Pennsylvania, whose Khazar governor Josh Shapiro was a member of the
Israeli army and in the murder of the "Christian nationalist" Charlie Kirk.
The millenarian Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, had called for an end to aid to Ukraine and advocated for the return of Crimea to Russia just days before his death.
Nearly two months ago, Ukrainian parliamentarian Artem Dmitruk stated that Zelensky was involved in the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump: I say this with full responsibility: Zelensky is involved in the attack on Trump s life and in the murder of Charlie Kirk, both ideologically and practically.
Dmitruk added that the Zelensky regime is capable of assassinating anyone, from an ordinary citizen in Ukraine to the President of the United States.
As if that weren't enough, TASS commented after the failed attack in Pennsylvania that "a radical and promoter of US aid to Ukraine had fired shots not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida."
Dmitruk is investigating the notorious Ukrainian bank Sense Bank for money laundering intended to finance terrorist attacks around the world.
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Matthew Whitaker, deployed FBI agents to the notorious Sense Bank, which was nationalized by Zelensky in 2023 and is involved in or has been involved in terrorist money laundering operations with strong ties to the Ukrainian-born Russian Khazar, Mikhail Fridman.
The old legend about Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe, already seems like a fairy tale in the face of sinister global crime, triangulated between Ukraine, Israel, and Cyprus by the Khazarian triad of Zelensky, Kolomoisky, and Mindich, which has also persecuted the majority of Christians (Orthodox and Catholic) in Ukraine. It seems that Trump is preparing Zelensky's funeral. Full story: voltairenet.org
The Battle to Save the Gift of Life
January 13, 2026 — There is something deeply disorienting about an intelligence service addressing a foreign population in the middle of live unrest, in their own language, telling them to take to the streets, and then casually implying it is there among them. Mossad's recent message on X does exactly that. It is chutzpah of an obscene order.
In late December 2025, as street protests were unfolding across Iran, Mossad posted a message in Farsi on its official account. The Jerusalem Post immediately amplified it, quoting its central lines urging Iranians to "go out together into the streets" and asserting that Mossad agents were "among you in the streets."
Through that amplification, the message acquired international reach and functioned as a deliberate act of psychological pressure on the Iranian state.
The protests in Iran erupted amid genuine economic collapse: the rial had fallen to roughly 1.42/1.445 million per dollar, inflation approached 42 percent, and basic necessities had moved beyond reach for large segments of the population. What began with shopkeepers shuttering stores in Tehran quickly spread nationwide. Into this volatile reality, an Israeli intelligence service-long practiced in the shadow theater of security alerts and covert murderous actions-inserted itself as a public political actor.
Such behavior signals a shift in statecraft that demands a name . . . Psychological warfare moves from the back channel to the main stage . . . The consequences follow a rigid script . . . Political space contracts. Civilians pay the price.
Iran's response unfolded exactly along this script. Long subjected to external pressure-most notably US sanctions, reimposed and intensified through the September 2025 UN snapback mechanism and widely recognized as the primary driver of the currency crisis-and facing documented efforts at Israeli infiltration aimed at destabilizing the regime, Iranian authorities recognized Mossad's unusually overt Farsi message for what it was: further confirmation of foreign incitement and active penetration. The result followed predictably-mass arrests, sweeping internet restrictions, and violent crowd dispersals. Precisely the outcome Mossad's intervention sought to provoke.
The same dynamic unfolded in Venezuela. A bolivar that lost roughly 80 percent of its value in 2025, projected triple-digit inflation, and widening black-market exchange gaps produced acute social hardship. Against that backdrop, President Maduro explicitly framed sectors of the opposition as vehicles of Zionist influence, alongside invoking US sanctions, alleged CIA drone strikes on Venezuelan territory, and public authorizations for US operations. Those claims supplied justification for military deployments, mass detentions of opposition figures, and systematic criminalization of dissent as foreign conspiracy, a near mirror of the script now playing out in Iran. . . . The Jerusalem Post's amplification of Mossad's Farsi message loses any appearance of anomaly. The act becomes legible. As a Zionist outlet, the Post extends the psychological operation's reach: projecting Israeli penetration and strength, reinforcing domestic morale, signaling deterrence to adversaries, and exploiting authentic economic grievances—currency collapse, inflation, daily hardship—to destabilize Iran while remaining insulated from consequences imposed on Iranian civilians . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: "By Way of Deception Thou (MOSSAD) shalt do War".
UK, Germany, France Push New Plan to Appease Trump on Greenland
January 13, 2026 — Country after country that refused to play by the so-called "democratic rules of the game" got bombed or overthrown by NATO and the West . . . lying in ruins and societal fragmentation. "We've had American intervention in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, maybe Greenland where he would blow up NATO. Did you see the Brits and Germans are putting troops in Greenland because they want to send a message. How is this leading to price stability, bringing down costs?"
"A group of European countries, led by the UK and Germany, is discussing plans for a military presence in Greenland to show US President Donald Trump that the continent is serious about Arctic security and to try to tamp down American threats to take over the self-ruling Danish territory," reports Bloomberg . . .
Exposing the DISTURBING ISRAELI Lobby inside Australia
August 22, 2025 — Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr. Once a co-founder of the Labor Friends of Israel with Bob Hawke in 1977, Carr has undergone a dramatic transformation—from being hailed in Tel Aviv as an "honourable Gentile" to now becoming one of the loudest critics of Israel's brutality in Gaza. Full story: youtube.com
Is Iran really behind Australia's Anti-Semitic Arson Attacks?
September 27, 2025 — Join criminal lawyer, Nick Hanna, as he investigates the Australian Government's claim that Iran's IRGC organised antisemitic arson attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. In doing so, Hanna examines the alternative theory that Israel is responsible for the fires . . . The government has established a shred of evidence Full story: youtube.com
Mercedes Relocates Production to Hungary, 20,000 Germans to Lose Jobs
January 12, 2026 Mercedes, named "Most Attractive Employer" in 2024, now directly employs more than 5,000 people in Hungary . . . The plant will produce high-tech components for both civil and defense applications, focusing on electromobility (e-mobility), hydrogen vehicles, and renewable energy power plants, alongside some military electronics. It's Rheinmetall's first major site outside Germany that combines civil and defense activities under one roof, creating jobs and positioning Hungary as a hub for future technologies.
Full story: zerohedge.com
Western Imperialism Engineered Crisis in Iran to 'Rip the Country Apart'
January 12, 2026 — The United States, along with its regional proxy Israel and the European Troika, tries to destabilize Iran to rip the country apart. Failing to achieve this purpose during the 12-day war, they now want to use violent protests like the Arab Spring in 2011 to achieve the same objective. In recent months, the rate of inflation in Iran has been high, ranging from 40% to 50%. The US unilateral economic sanctions have hurt the country's international trade. As sanctions tightened, Iran's national currency, the rial, plummeted in value, reaching about half of its original value by late December. "Israel ran a covert influence operation using fake accounts and AI-generated content to promote Iran's exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi and push for restoring the monarchy."
However, the real intention of the imperialists is to rip the country apart and control its oil, as is being done in Venezuela. They have used all sorts of propaganda in the form of false reports and videos made up by artificial intelligence to aggravate the crisis . . . On January 11, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the Parliament Head, said Iran recognizes peaceful protests over economic concerns but stands firmly against armed terrorists.
"To prevent miscalculation, understand that should you [Trump] take action to attack Iran, both the occupied territories [Israel] and all American military centers, bases, and ships in the region will be legitimate targets" . . .
The Iranian government should be wary of controlling inflation, particularly the price of food items. The Iranian people must be aware that Israel and its Western culprits intend to partition and destroy Iran, not be fooled by their propaganda, and be prepared to defend the country. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Taking advantage of these protests, the Western media spread propaganda to destabilize Iran. They propagate Reza Pahlavi's speeches, the son of the last Shah of Iran, as a candidate to bring back the monarchy in Iran. According to Haaretz,
Comment: Zionist President Donald Trump "Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. "They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS." Trump concluded the post with a stark promise, writing, "HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!!" Bluff! Trump's "help" is military farce in the Caribbean.
Republican House Oversight Committee to Hold Bill Clinton in Contempt
January 13, 2026 — Comer told reporters on Capitol Hill that the vote to subpoena Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been bipartisan and unanimous.
"No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions. And that's why the Democrats voted along with Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton," he said . . . Full story: westernjournal.com
Comment: President Trump isn't the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein—as Bill and Hillary Clinton are both refusing to testify in front of Congressional investigators over their relationship with the dead sex-trafficking pedophile, escalating a monthslong battle with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY). (zerohedge.com).
September 26, 2022 and the end of Shemita (the Sabbath Year)
September 22, 2025 " We are about to experience two events described in the Bible, called the end of the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee year. Throughout history, economic actions are associated with these events. The sacred year commences in Nissan or Abib while the civil year commences in the month of Tishri. The Bible describes the seven-year-cycle, ending with a Sabbatical Year (Shemita), wherin the land must rest. Every seventh cycle of Shemita, is a Jubilee-year; or great reset when debts are met. Right now the US is about to erase student debt.
The last sabbath year was in 2014-2015 and the last Jubilee-year was in 1972-1973, less than a month from the end of the current Shemita as well as the current Jubilee-year.
Historical events
On January 6th, I published my Predictions for 2022, where I wrote about a financial crisis, much worse than in 2008. This was before the war in Ukraine and the exponential price growth of several crucial commodities, which are all said to be consequences of the war. Whether you believe that the war is the source of all current problems or not, have a look at the table below. It's a short list of events that have corresponded with the Shemita since 1900, Full story: dagruneflaaten.com
The number 5786 primarily refers to the current year on the Hebrew Calendar, which began at sunset on September 22, 2025, and will end on September 11, 2026, marking a period associated with themes of divine connection, spiritual awakening, and transformation, linked to the Hebrew letter 'Vav' (six) and the 'Peh' (mouth/word). It also appears as a biblical reference in Strong's Concordance for the Hebrew word 'avar, meaning "to blind," make blind, or put out (eyes), either physically destroying eyesight or figuratively darkening moral perception.
The first century historian Josephus himself noted two prophesied worldwide destructions"one, "by the violence and quantity of water" (Noah's flood)"and the other, yet future, "by the force of fire" (Antiquities 1.2.3; Nahum 1:5-6; Obadiah 18; Malachi 4:1-3).
The next Sabbatical Year is scheduled for 2028-2029 (Hebrew year 5789), which is when the land rests in Israel, following a seven-year cycle crossing into a season of profound global shift that will affect individuals, families, churches, and nations.
We are close to the third day of close of the 6,000 years before our thousand year sabbatical rest (Hosea 6:1-3). Number 7 speaks of completion and perfection through warfare (Revelation 19). Followed by Eternity in the eighth day following the destruction of Satan and the renewed heavens and earth. As the sun set on September 22, 2025, the Hebrew calendar entered a New Year" 5786, the Feast of Trumpets. The Hebraic year 5786 and a prophetic signpost of a "Massive Shift" unlike anything we have witnessed before. God is inviting His people to partner with Him as heaven touches earth in unprecedented ways.
YOM KIPPUR: The Day of Atonement
While many modern Jews consider the practice barbaric, a chicken is slain by a rabbi, (a white rooster for a male, a hen for a female), then the owner of the chicken takes it by the legs and swings it around over his head, while reciting a prayer to God that all his sins during the year are transferred to the chicken. This practice presumably arose as a substitute for the azazel, the "scapegoat" described the Torah, which also symbolically received the sins of the people and carried them out of the camp. In these customs we see another of the many pictures we find throughout the Talmud, symbolic of the atoning Messiah who was to come, about whom the prophet said "the Lord visited on him the guilt of us all" (Isaiah 53:6). Full story: britannica.com
Comment: Evolutionists will wait a long time for a chicken to morph into the kinsman Redeemer of Leviticus 25 and the Book of Ruth. Chickens are not man's "near kinsmen" as the Israelitish high priest Caiaphas acknowledged when he said, "You know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people" (John 16:7-8). In Leviticus 23, Moses prophesied the hour, day, and month, while Daniel prophesied the day, month and year in which Israel and the Jews would kill that Man, Jesus Messiah. The Day of Atonement was Calvary confirmed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Old Testament saints.
Leviticus 23:23-32 commands all Israelites to "afflict their soul" on the Day of Atonement, acting in pantomime how the remnant 144,000 will mourn when they recognize the nation murdered Messiah (Daniel 9:24; Zechariah 12:10-14). Jews magnify the offence with the mockery of chicken kapparot.
Kol Nidre: Prayer of the Synagogue of Satan
By Pastor Eli James
Psalm 64, "Lord, listen to my complaint: Oh preserve my life early from the conspiracy of these wicked men, from the noisy gangs of criminals. They cut me down with sharpened tongues; they aim their bitter words like arrows straight to my heart. They shoot from ambush at the innocent, shooting unexpectedly and without self-reproach. They encourage each other to do evil. They meet in secret to set their traps; they say Who can see us? They keep a sharp lookout for opportunities of crime, for the inward thought of every one of is deep. But God Himself shall shoot an unlooked-for arrow, and they will be wounded suddenly, because their own tongue will bring them to ruin, and all who see it shall scoff at them. Then everyone shall stand in awe, proclaim this act of God, and learn to know His work. The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and trust in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glorify".
Introduction
I believe it was Cicero who said, "The first casualty of war is the Truth." The second casualty is innocence, because even the innocent are thrown into the fire unwillingly; and innocence turns into doubt and cynicism. Their pastors tell them, We are all "saved."God loves everybody".
"Does God love Satan, Cain and Esau?" (Obadiah 1; Malachi 1;1-5). And what of their followers and kinsmen? Would they not use lies as their principal weapon against the children of God?
Those who call upon the lovely Name of our Lord Jesus Christ must wake up to the fact that Judaism is a religion of lies. That so few people understand this demonstrates how well the rabbis and their followers conceal their conceit for themselves and their hatred for Christianity. But certain undeniable facts emerge which cannot be explained away. The Kol Nidre prayer is one such undeniable fact.
One of the biggest lies the rabbis have passed off to an unsuspecting humanity is that Judaism is the religion of the Old Testament. But Judaism is the antithesis of Yahweh Torah, the faith of ancient Israel. In order to convince us of their authority, the rabbis frequently mention the Torah and make a great show of parading the scrolls over their heads in processions. The Old Testament was written by Moses and the prophets: some were Levitical priests; none were rabbis, and none were Jews.
As a rule "Torah" means Talmud, the deceit being justified as the alias "Oral Torah." The word "Torah" does not refer to the Bible in Sanhedrin 59a: "A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs" (Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. V, "Gentiles" p. 619-622).
Moses was not a Jew, he was an Israelite. The Jewish people emerged from the forced assimilation of the Edomites with the Israelite people of Judea in about 125BC under John Hyrcanus. During the chaotic transition from Greek to Roman rule, Antipater, an Idumean and the father of Herod the Great, laid the foundation for Herod's ascension to the throne of Judea by currying favour with Rome. Thus a descendant of Esau would seek to recover the blessing forfeited to Jacob, in vain setting up a natural so-called Jewish kingdom to rival Messiah's spiritual kingdom as it was being fore-announced by John the Baptist.
Popular ignorance of the Jewish religion and Jewish people is endemic in Christendom as is ignorance of Christianity itself. "Christendom is destroyed for lack of knowledge: because it has rejected knowledge, God has rejected Christendom" (Hosea 4:6; Revelation 18:4).
Jesus said, "If you continue in My Word, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31-32). Christians need to become aware of the fact that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament. Judaism is the Great Pretender, a hybrid religion that appropriated the Old Testament and then claimed authorship. The Bible is NOT a Jewish Book, and Jesus was NOT a Jew. The reality is, Judaism is a religion of lies that impersonates the faith of Israel as the Jewish people impersonate the Israelite race. The Persecution Myth promoted from cradle to grave by the rabbis is a rationalization for their pre-emptive "do unto others before they do unto you".
Let's see what the Bible and Jesus Himself had to say about these Jews: "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill Him" (John 7:1).
"You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Behold, I will send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, All these things shall come upon this generation" (Matthew 23:33-36).
"You are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44).
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles concurs: the second meaning of the noun "Jew" is "applied to a grasping or extortionate usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains or deals craftily;" while the verb means, "to cheat or overreach."
The typical Judeo-Christian, (an oxymoron), is unaware that Jesus spoke in such grave condemnation of the Jews because unregenerate ministers ignorantly present them as "G-d's chosen people," but the word "Jew," coined in the late eighteenth century, means "Judean" (Strong's Concordance #2453: Ioudaios, meaning "of a country," "Judean"), that is, any person who is a resident of Judea regardless of religion or race. The Israelites of the House of Judah were just one of several ethnic groups that inhabited Judea at that time so it is erroneous to suggest that all Judeans were of the Tribe or House of Judah. Jerusalem was a cosmopolitan city at the crossroads of international trade. "Jew" is an unscriptural modern English word. Jews were Judeans who pretended to be of the race and heritage of Judah.
The rabbis use the word "Jew" masterfully to deceive the world into thinking these people are Judahites and therefore Israelites. King Herod is a perfect example of this subterfuge. He was a non-Judahite Idumean who became a Judean by residency. This rabbinical deception prevents men from differentiating Judahites who were Israelites of the House of Judah from Edomites who became Judeans by citizenship. As we come out of Babylon, we must bring our brothers and sisters, parents and children out with us. The contradictions between the words and the reality must not be compromised. We must speak the truth in love, and they must learn to read the Bible.
Judaism and the Tradition of Hypocrisy
Jesus said: "Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is
hypocrisy" (Luke 12:1). The religion known as "Judaism" today was called "Pharisaism" in the time of Jesus and was not the faith of Moses and the prophets (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith, p. XXI; Matthew 15:1-9).
Now, no hypocrite will ever admit to being one. The case must be proven because the perpetrator will never incriminate himself. However, the Pharisees have exposed their hand in this regard. They have composed a prayer which glorifies hypocrisy. Centuries old, it is recited by every pious Orthodox Jew three times at their annual Day of Atonement ritual.
Here is the text of the prayer:
"All vows, obligations, oaths or anathemas, pledges of all names, which we have vowed, sworn, devoted, or bound ourselves to, from this day of atonement, until the next day of atonement (whose arrival we hope for in happiness) we repent, aforehand, of them all, they shall all be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, void and made of no effect; they shall not be binding, nor have any power; the vows shall not be reckoned as vows, the obligations shall not be obligatory, nor the oaths considered as oaths." (The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume VIII, p. 539 further exposes this hypocrisy; also, William N. Grimstad, Talk About Hate, Colorado Springs, Colorado: Council on Hate Crime, 1999, p. 254).
The first question any Christian should ask is this: "How can anyone who disavows all vows for the coming year be trusted?" Can such a person make an honest, guileless statement, or are all of his pronouncements filled with guile and wile, just waiting for the opportunity to test the innocent and naïve Christian?
The Jewish Talmud is full of commands that Jews should take advantage of Christians whenever they can get away with it. (See the Talmud, Baba Kamma 113a; 37b; Baba Mezia 24a; Sanhedrin 57a; 76a). Fear of retribution is the only thing preventing them from practicing the Kol Nidre moment by moment. The ancient idea of a Jewish Utopia is one in which only Jewish law applies. (Their Noahide Laws were introduced in the United States by presidential decree in 1991). The Kol Nidre is the signature of Judaism and reveals the true nature of the Jewish mind. No other type of mind would conceive or recite such a prayer.
Two Witnesses
For this analysis of the Kol Nidre, I am going to rely on two witnesses, both Jewish. My first witness will be an article by Rabbi Michael Balinsky entitled "Why Kol Nidre?" It was published in the Jewish United Fund News of September 1995 (page 79). Rabbi Balinsky is a Jew's Jew, one who faithfully and shamelessly promotes Judaism over all other faiths. I am first going to reproduce his article in toto so that you can read it for yourself without any input from me. But I do want you to take note of any rabbinical doublespeak and rationalizations that I will analyze later. Then with Samuel Roth, author of the book, Jews Must Live, I will take it apart in the next section. His book exposes the duplicity of Judaism and how this duplicity infects the minds of individuals and their culture.
Why Kol Nidre?
By Rabbi Michael Balinsky
Special to JUF News
The setting for Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur is religious theater par excellence. The Ark is open; the Torahs surround the Bema; the element of white, signifying purity, is abundant; and the haunting melody of Kol Nidre awakens in us the awareness that today our lives hang in the balance.
But as the chazzan begins to sing the words, and you begin to look at them, questions arise. It is as if the form is much more important than the content.
Why begin this day with a prayer, Kol Nidre, that fails to mention G-d and the important themes we associate with the day: repentance, atonement, life and death?
Why recite what is, in essence, a highly technical legal formula that appears to be far from uplifting?
If anything, it is the opposite. The words admit failure; we will not succeed and fulfill what we claim.
More poignantly, we begin Yom Kippur by directly contradicting an explicit biblical law that commands us to fulfill our vows and forbids us to relinquish them (Numbers 30:2). To begin Yom Kippur by reciting Kol Nidre, a prayer that releases us from our vows, violates a commandment from the Torah, and seems a most peculiar way to begin a day in which we seek forgiveness.
The questions are not new, and many have offered approaches to deal with them. I want to suggest an additional approach, synthesized in part from material gleaned from many teachers.
The idea that forgiveness is possible for the Jewish people is rooted in the biblical narratives of the golden calf episode in Exodus 32-34 and the spies' journey to Israel in Numbers 13-14. These chapters should be studied with particular attention to the prayers of Moses to G-d and their use in the Yom Kippur liturgy.
Forgiveness is possible because of the precedent of the golden calf story, in which G-d forgives the Jewish people for their sin of idolatry. The root of G-d's forgiveness is found in Exodus 34:6-8, in the 13 attributes of G-d, which constitute the central part of the Selichot prayers leading up to and including Yom Kippur. Without them, Yom Kippur would not be possible.
When the people built the calf and began to worship it, Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Torah from G-d. When G-d informed him of what was taking place, and His decision to destroy the people, Moses pleaded with G-d not to do it. The text says, "Vayhal Moshe." (Exodus 32:11), and Moses implored G-d. A brilliant connection is made between the word "vayehal" here (Exodus 32:11) and "yo yahel devaro" (Numbers 30:2), a person cannot annul his vow.
Commenting on this passage, the Rabbis qualify (without any solid textual basis for doing so) that others may release one from his vow. A person must keep his word, but another person has the authority to release him from his vow. Playing on the similarity in words, vayehal and lo yahel, the Rabbis suggest that, while on Mt. Sinai, Moses released G-d from his decision to destroy the people.
Put more dramatically, Moses recited Kol Nidre for G-d.
The implication is that our recitation of Kol Nidre is not only for ourselves, but also for G-d. We begin Yom Kippur by declaring that the Jewish people must live. Beyond that, we assert that our role on Yom Kippur is similar to that of Moses, praying for forgiveness for the Jewish people.
This may also be a key reason for the fast. The Torah records that while Moses was on Mt. Sinai, he neither ate nor drank (Exodus 34:28). Standing in the presence of G-d and praying for the Jewish people placed Moses beyond the need for physical sustenance. It is possible, then, that our fast is not a symbol of affliction and need, but rather, a recognition that, like Moses, we pray to G-d unencumbered by the need for physical nourishment.
According to tradition, it was on Yom Kippur, after Moses had procured forgiveness for the people, that he descended from Mt. Sinai with the Tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Thus, the day became etched as a day of forgiveness and reconciliation. The Rabbis add that in addition to the Tablets, Moses came down with the Oral Law that G-d had taught him while on Mt. Sinai.
Fundamental to Jewish belief is the notion that the Torah comprises two halves: the written Torah, the Five Books of Moses, and the Oral Torah, the process of interpretation and exegesis. For a Jew to study Torah is to engage both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah of interpretation. This means that Yom Kippur is not only a holiday of forgiveness, but also the holiday that celebrates the inauguration of the Oral Torah.
We begin Yom Kippur with Kol Nidre, the prime example of this Oral Torah. The Written Torah is explicit (Numbers 30:2); vows must be fulfilled. As noted above, the Oral Torah, with no real basis in the Written Torah, comments that others can release a person from his vow, a conclusion that emerges only from an interpretive tradition. The Oral Torah, in this case, radically reinterprets the Written Torah. And the prime illustration of the validity of this process of interpretation is Kol Nidre. Our foremost teacher is Moses, who boldly released G-d from his vow to destroy the people, and in doing so began the legacy of Oral Torah, courageously and brilliantly interpreting the word of G-d.
The possibility of repentance, so central to Yom Kippur, shares a similar theme with the Oral Torah. As we saw, the Oral Torah enables us to interpret the Written Torah. What appears to be fixed is not absolute. Repentance follows in the same direction. An act which is sinful does not have to be absolutely recorded as such. Through genuine repentance, it can be transformed into a meritorious deed.
Both Oral Torah and repentance are acts of interpretation. No matter how much our lives appear to be rooted in one direction, repentance allows for change, a new direction, and enables us to interpret where we have been and to generate new possibilities.
Kol Nidre is a potent prayer. What at first appears to be merely a legal formula is really a profound statement of Jewish faith. Kol Nidre teaches us that we are heirs to a dynamic tradition that allows us to engage with G-d in a bold manner. It teaches us that our Torah is alive through the Oral Torah. And it reminds us that repentance enables us to have a creative encounter with our lives, in which we can create new directions and interpretations for that which appears to be fixed.
Rabbi Michael Balinsky is director of Hillel at Northwestern University and vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis.
Sources:
Exodus 32:11: Vayehal Moshe, But Moses implored G-d saying "Let not your anger, O Lord, blaze forth against your people. . ."
Exodus 34:5-6: The Lord came down in a cloud . . . The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord! The Lord! A g-d compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin . . . "
Exodus 34:28: "And he (Moses) was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights he ate no bread and drank no water: and he wrote down on the tablets the terms of the covenant, the Ten Commandments".
Numbers 30:2: "If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge (lo yahel devaro); he must carry out all that has crossed his lips".
Kol Nidre: "All vows, prohibitive vows, oaths, vows of dedication, konam-vows, konas-vows, and equivalent terms that we have vowed, sworn, declared, and imposed upon ourselves from this day of atonement, may it come upon us for good. Regarding them all, we regret them. Let them be released, forgiven, erased, null and void. They are not valid nor are they in force. Our vows are not vows. Our prohibitive vows are not prohibitive vows. Our oaths are not oaths".
Presented with such an combination of truths, half-truths, fibs and fabrications as contained in the above article, a Christian has to wonder if what is stated can be taken seriously. Is Judaism so at odds with the Bible that any rabbi can simply negate the Law of God by declaring it subservient to the "Oral Torah"?
Deuteronomy 4:2 is explicit:
"You SHALL NOT add unto the word which I COMMAND you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that you may KEEP the commandments of the Lord your God which I COMMAND you."
Rabbi Balinsky's article admits that there is a whole lot of diminishing and countermanding going on here, illustrating the Eastern philosophy that is the root of the Babylonian Talmud. As Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan explained: "One of the leading principles of the mystics was the sacredness and secrecy of self-knowledge and the true knowledge of the gods. This wisdom was, they thought, unfit for, perhaps even dangerous to, the ordinary human mind; or in any case liable to perversion and misuse, and loss of virtue if revealed to the vulgar and unpurified spirits. Hence they favoured the existence of an outer worship, effective but imperfect, for the profane" (Indian Philosophy). Can Balinsky weasel his way out of this? Let's see how well this rabbi can dance.
The good rabbi admits that Numbers 30:2 is just as explicit as Deuteronomy 4:2; but that does not prevent him from reinterpreting this verse to mean the exact opposite of what it says. This is the rabbinical method and tradition. I can't wait to hear how Deuteronomy 4:2 is confabulated, with "boldness" and "repentance," into allowing all rabbinical opinions to overturn any Scriptural verse that does not suit them. What can we say about a religion that goes around posturing as the safekeeper of God's Law when what they really do is mock it?—pretending to have originated it while at every opportunity they negate it!
I will now comment on select quotes by the good rabbi:
Rabbi Balinsky: The setting for Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur is religious theater par excellence
That it is, just as all of Judaism is a pretence of Mosaicism. Hence, Judaism is theater, par excellence.
Why recite what is, in essence, a highly technical legal formula that appears to be far from uplifting?
If anything, it is the opposite. The words admit failure; we will not succeed and fulfill what we claim.
More poignantly, we begin Yom Kippur by directly contradicting an explicit biblical law that commands us to fulfill our vows and forbids us to relinquish them (Numbers 30:2). To begin Yom Kippur by reciting Kol Nidre, a prayer that releases us from our vows, violates a commandment from the Torah, and seems a most peculiar way to begin a day in which we seek forgiveness. Where is the proof that Moses "came down with the Oral Law"? Where does it say that in Scripture? By whose authority does Rabbi Balinsky make this statement? The rabbis even admit that the Oral Law has no basis in Scripture, so why should anyone take it seriously? If the Written Law is contradicted by the Oral Law, how can the Oral Law possibly supersede the Written Law? Justly did Jesus Messiah say of them: "Thus have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition . . . But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Now do you understand why the rabbinate hates Jesus with such a passion? Its because He exposed them for the liars, scoundrels and hypocrites that they really are!
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This is quite a stunning admission. It is not as though the good rabbi does not understand that he is countermanding an explicit command of Moses! We have to ask: "Who is a rabbi to contradict the Word of God?" And "Who are the Jews to presume to contradict the Word of God?" And, is this not that same as putting words in God's mouth?—presuming to speak for God? – Deuteronomy 18:20!
Rabbi Balinsky: Forgiveness is possible because of the precedent of the golden calf story, in which G-d forgives the Jewish people for their sin of idolatry. The root of G-d's forgiveness is found in Exodus 34:6-8, in the 13 attributes of G-d, which constitute the central part of the Selichot prayers leading up to and including Yom Kippur. Without them, Yom Kippur would not be possible.
(Exodus 32:33). The idolaters had committed the unforgivable sin; it was the nation that was forgiven, not individual Israelites. God's promise was to lead the nation to the Promised Land.
Rabbi Balinsky: When the people built the calf and began to worship it, Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Torah from G-d. When G-d informed him of what was taking place, and His decision to destroy the people, Moses pleaded with G-d not to do it. The text says, "Vayhal Moshe." (Exodus 32:11), and Moses implored G-d. A brilliant connection is made between the word "vayehal" here (Exodus 32:11) and "yo yahel devaro" (Numbers 30:2), a person cannot annul his vow.
Yes, this commandment from Scripture is clear and unequivocal. The only way to disannul such a vow is to plead with the other party to do so. Anything else turns the vow into a lie; and unlike rabbis, He does not approve of cleverly-worded lies. The "good rabbi" is telling us that God approves of these lies! God forgave the nation, not the individual sinners.
Rabbi Balinsky: Commenting on this passage, the Rabbis qualify (without any solid textual basis for doing so) that others may release one from his vow. A person must keep his word, but another person has the authority to release him from his vow.
"another person" means a rabbi. But the Bible allows no such thing. Parties to contracts (vows, obligations, agreements) must renegotiate the terms of the contract in order for any change to take place. Thus, the ONLY person who has any power to change or annul the contract is the person with whom the agreement was made. No third parties have ANY say in such agreements. Only the Jewish religion makes any such contrary claim. But the Commandments are in a completely different category. "THOU SHALT NOT" is not in the form of an agreement. It is a command that we do not the option of disobeying without incurring a penalty. Obviously, the rabbis feel differently.
Rabbi Balinsky: Playing on the similarity in words, vayehal and lo yahel, the Rabbis suggest that, while on Mt. Sinai, Moses released G-d from his decision to destroy the people.
This is ridiculous. More Jewish fables and hocus-pocus! Since when are we allowed to transform a "play on words" into doctrine! Moses did not have the power to "release" the Lord God from anything. If He hears our pleas, it is His pleasure to accept or deny them. No human, including any priest or rabbi, has any power or authority to "release" God from anything. The rabbis employ such language to use as a precedent for later distortions of Scripture. In this case, Rabbi Balinsky uses this language as a false premise for an even more gigantic rationalization.
Put more dramatically, Moses recited Kol Nidre for G-d.
What Satanic insolence! Can you believe this presumptuousness? Is this rabbi not spitting in the face of God? Where is the proof of this statement? What possible evidence could there be for such a ridiculous claim? This is Pharisaic, rabbinical prevarication, through and through! That God would accept such a prayer from Moses would be for Him to deny His declaration that He is the author of Honesty and Truth. You might as well throw the Bible away if you believe what this agent of Lucifer is saying.
Rabbi Balinsky: The implication is that our recitation of Kol Nidre is not only for ourselves, but also for G-d.
This is blasphemy, folks! In other words, God "forgives" false vows in advance! This makes a mockery of Scripture! This is a denial that Truth has any meaning. It denies God's omniscience.
Let me ask you, "Are the thoughts of God eternal?" If you can see this, you will see many things. God is unchangeable in both essence and behaviour. God is infinite in His abilities so therefore He as God must be omniscient. If He is omniscient, then He is not now learning, nor is He taking counsel even with Himself, nor is He at any time adding to His knowledge. If He can add to His knowledge, then He is not omniscient. The best we could say is that sometime He will be. But that is not Scriptural.
He IS omniscient. He has never had a new thought about anything because all His thoughts He has always had and always will have, and knows the end from the beginning because He is God. THUS THE THOUGHTS OF GOD ARE ETERNAL. THEY ARE REAL. They are not simply like a man with a blueprint he has drawn up and which one day will be translated into substance and form, but they are already real and eternal, and part of God. Psalms 139:15-16 explains this as does John 1:1: "The Logos or Word pre-existed time, and the Logos was with God as His unexpressed thoughts, and the Logos was God" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 149:3).
God's Word is Spirit expressed in a form we can receive by faith and be born of eternal Life (John 6:63). Malachi 3:6, "I am the Lord, I change not." Matthew 24:36, "Heaven and earth shall change, but My Words shall not pass away." If God's Word can change it is not eternal.
Rabbi Balinsky: We begin Yom Kippur by declaring that the Jewish people must live. Beyond that, we assert that our role on Yom Kippur is similar to that of Moses, praying for forgiveness for the Jewish people.
On the contrary, Moses was an Israelite of pure Adamic descent. There was no kinship between Moses and the Jewish people. Since they derive from non-Semitic Ashkenazim (95%) and Sephardic Edomites (5%), there were no Jews at all at Mt. Sinai. There were Israelites but not Jews. The placement of Jews in this scene is rabbinical fabrication designed to falsely equate Jews with Israelites in our minds. But Rabbi Balinsky's implication is even more chilling, namely: "We Jews can "release" God from our vows "just as Moses did." How quaint! How devious! How Luciferian! And you thought you knew something about Judaism!
Rabbi Balinsky: According to tradition, it was on Yom Kippur, after Moses had procured forgiveness for the people, that he descended from Mt. Sinai with the Tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Thus, the day became etched as a day of forgiveness and reconciliation. The Rabbis add that in addition to the Tablets, Moses came down with the Oral Law that G-d had taught him while on Mt. Sinai.
In his Foreword to the Soncino Talmud, the Very Rev. The Chief Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz wrote: "The Talmud is the product of Palestine, the land of the Bible, and of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization. The beginnings of Talmudic literature date back to the time of the Babylonian Exile in the sixth pre-Christian century before the Roman Republic had yet come into existence." In other words, the Oral Law or Talmud had its genesis in Babylon, NOT Egypt.
Still enthusing over the Babylonian derivation of Pharisaism, Rabbi Hertz continues: "When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish center for a longer period than any other land; namely from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian Era — 1626 years.. . . . [Rabbi] Akiba [15BC to AD132] was the author of a collection of traditional laws out of which the Mishnah actually grew. . . The language of the Mishnah is Neo-Hebrew, a natural development from Biblical Hebrew . . . there is in it a large admixture of Aramaic, Greek and also Latin terms. . ." Obviously not the vernacular on Mount Sinai.
So if we take the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire at his word, the Talmud, Oral Torah or Oral Law is of somewhat more recent composition than the Pentateuch or Torah which pre-date the Babylonian exile by about 900 years. Can Rabbi Balinsky be mistaken?
Rabbi Balinsky: Fundamental to Jewish belief is the notion that the Torah comprises two halves: the written Torah, the Five Books of Moses, and the Oral Torah, the process of interpretation and exegesis. For a Jew to study Torah is to engage both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah of interpretation. This means that Yom Kippur is not only a holiday of forgiveness, but also the holiday that celebrates the inauguration of the Oral Torah.
And this is nothing but a gigantic lie. Is this not Lucifer saying to God, "I overrule you"? Is this not the very pride by which Lucifer was cast out of heaven? The essence of the "Oral Torah" is that the rabbi can interpret the Written Torah any way he wants. Like lawyers setting legal precedents, if a rabbi has made a statement in contradiction to the clear Written Torah, the "Oral Torah" becomes valid and authoritative interpretation! God is His own Interpreter. He interprets His Word either by bringing It to pass, or by sending a vindicated prophet. The test for a prophet is that anything he says in the Name of the Lord will be in absolute agreement with the Word of every previously vindicated prophet, and that it will come to pass as stated (Numbers 12:6; Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 18:15-22). The Talmud makes the Word of Moses and the prophets of no effect to its believers since it is their antithesis (Matthew 15:1-9). So Rabbi Balinsky's assertion that the Oral Torah was delivered by Moses to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai is PURE FABRICATION. Besides, there were no "Jewish people" at Mount Sinai.
"Yom Kippur is not only a holiday of forgiveness," it is a prophetic pantomime of Israel's rejection of Messiah and soon-coming mourning when faith "finishes the transgression, makes an end of sins and reconciliation for iniquity, brings in everlasting righteousness, confirms the prophetic vision, and anoints the Most Holy" — the Son of David, King Jesus Messiah with His Bride and Queen, the elect Church.
Rabbi Balinsky: We begin Yom Kippur with Kol Nidre, the prime example of this Oral Torah. The Written Torah is explicit (Numbers 30:2); vows must be fulfilled. As noted above, the Oral Torah, with no real basis in the Written Torah, comments that others can release a person from his vow, a conclusion that emerges only from an interpretive tradition.
Note this admission, "the Oral Torah, with no real basis in the Written Torah." The rabbinate knows full well that their Oral Tradition cannot stand up to Scripture. The choice is very clear: the Bible or the "Oral Torah."
Rabbi Balinsky: The Oral Torah, on this case, radically reinterprets the Written Torah. And the prime illustration of the validity of this process of interpretation is Kol Nidre. Our foremost teacher is Moses, who boldly released G-d from his vow to destroy the people, and in doing so began the legacy of Oral Torah, courageously and brilliantly interpreting the word of G-d.
. . . to mean the EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS! Of course, this article was not meant for Christian eyes or ears. The Jewish Encyclopedia (Vol. V, p. 619 – 622) is still more open about Sanhedrin 59a, threatening death to any Jew who revealed the "Torah" laws (by which is implied the fraudulent "Oral Torah" or Talmud) to Gentiles "for such knowledge might have operated against the Jews in our opponents' courts."
Let us fully understand what we are dealing with: "The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees. Their leading ideas and methods found expression in a literature of enormous extent, of which a very great deal is still in existence. The Talmud is the largest and most important single member of that literature"(The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII., p. 474).
Should Christians accept the interpretations of the unrepentant successors of those who crucified Messiah? Why are your pulpitmasters not warning you about these wolves in sheep's clothing who feign piety at every opportunity? "Because they believed not the revelation of God's unchanging Word, but had pleasure in human reasoning against the faith," and that is the mark of the beast (II Thessalonians 2:12). The majority of ministers are as deceived as their congregations.The Jewish masses are deceived as well, for the rabbis have convinced them that the world is out to get them. Judaism is a religion of paranoia.
Rabbi Balinsky: The possibility of repentance, so central to Yom Kippur, shares a similar theme with the Oral Torah. As we saw, the Oral Torah enables us to interpret the Written Torah. What appears to be fixed is not absolute. Repentance follows in the same direction. An act which is sinful does not have to be absolutely recorded as such. Through genuine repentance, it can be transformed into a meritorious deed.
What an amazing piece of doublespeak! "What appears to be fixed is not absolute"! "Through genuine repentance, it can be transformed into a meritorious deed!" Isaiah 5:20-21, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight"! The amazing thing is how anybody can take a rabbi seriously!
Rabbi Balinsky: Both Oral Torah and repentance are acts of interpretation.
I have always "interpreted" repentance to mean genuine regret for previous sins committed and a sincere desire never to repeat those sins again! Obviously, that is not the interpretation of the Oral Torah or the Kol Nidre!
Rabbi Balinsky: No matter how much our lives appear to be rooted in one direction, repentance allows for change, a new direction, and enables us to interpret where we have been and to generate new possibilities.
The chameleon changes colors to suit the times and the circumstances.
Rabbi Balinsky: Kol Nidre is a potent prayer. What at first appears to be merely a legal formula is really a profound statement of Jewish faith. Kol Nidre teaches us that we are heirs to a dynamic tradition that allows us to engage with G-d in a bold manner.
Rabbi Balinsky: It teaches us that our Torah is alive through the Oral Torah. And it reminds us that repentance enables us to have a creative encounter with our lives, in which we can create new directions and interpretations for that which appears to be fixed.
Next time you have a "creative encounter" with a Jew, remember the Kol Nidre!
Rabbi Michael Balinsky is director of Hillel at Northwestern University and vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis.
The Chicago Board of Rabbis stands condemned by their approval of the teachings of this professor!
For good measure, here is Balinsky's text of the Kol Nidre repeated. Let it sink this time:
Kol Nidre: All vows, prohibitive vows, oaths, vows of dedication, konam-vows, konas-vows, and equivalent terms that we have vowed, sworn, declared, and imposed upon ourselves from this day of atonement, may it come upon us for good. Regarding them all, we regret them. Let them be released, forgiven, erased, null and void. They are not valid nor are they in force. Our vows are not vows. Our prohibitive vows are not prohibitive vows. Our oaths are not oaths.
I have regretted some of the vows I have made, but it has never occurred to me to "reinterpret" them so as to annul them. Only the Jews have the chutzpah to declare themselves sacrosanct in this manner. It is a most Satanic perversion of Scripture. Judaism is the religion of the devil based upon fraudulent authority as Jesus said — pretence built on a mountain of lies (John 6:44; Revelation 2:9; 3:9).
Samuel Roth on the Kol Nidre
Rabbi Balinsky has demonstrated for us how the Jewish mind fabricates, prevaricates and interpolates. It is brainwashing for the Jewish people and it is deception for the masses. The religion of Judaism has raised hypocrisy to the highest of fraudulent arts. It treats truth as a plaything to be used for sport on the unsuspecting masses. Samuel Roth, on the other hand is one of those rare Jews who tells it like it is, even to the point of being tactless. Roth treats the deep, dark secret that Judaism is a mountain of lies as matter-of-factly as one who has been there.
From Jews Must Live:
Certainly no other religion in the world has offered the world a spectacle as contradictory, as malicious, as full of the spirit of unreasonableness as the Jewish recital of the prayer Kol Nidre during Yom Kippur. I suggest that if we are going to start tearing down this great fortress of Jewish religious prejudice and intolerance, Kol Nidre is perhaps the best starting point.
Kol Nidre! What the sound of that word means to a Jew from the first time he hears it in the white twilight of the tall-candled synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, and on through the wilderness of ghetto years, only a Jew can understand! The most intimate memories of childhood, youth and manhood, twine themselves about that tune, and he hangs upon it, as upon branches of a tree, the choicest of his emotions, till to threaten sacrilege against Kol Nidre would seem to threaten life itself.
Here, Samuel Roth reproduces the prayer from the authorized prayer book of the Hebrew Publishing Company:
All vows, obligations, oaths or anathemas, pledges of all names, which we shall have vowed, sworn, devoted or bound ourselves to, from this day of atonement (whose arrival we hope for in happiness) to the next, we repent, aforehand, of them all. They shall be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, void and made of no effect; they shall not be binding nor have any power; the vows shall not be reckoned vows, the obligations shall not be reckoned obligatory, nor the oaths considered oaths. And it shall be forgiven to the whole congregation of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourneth amongst them; for all the people act ignorantly."
Roth's explanation:
And is that, you ask, all of the Kol Nidre? That is all there is to the Kol Nidre, I must answer. In reciting it the Jew solemnly swears before his Lord God that he has only one fealty, loyalty or obligation, and that is to Him, the Lord God. No matter what business he may undertake to promote with his neighbor, be it material or moral, he wants the Lord God to understand in advance that there will be one implicit condition (a condition, however, he does not undertake to explain before entering into an argument): the execution of it must be favorable to Him, the Lord God, or it will be considered by the Jew void, of no account, utterly useless, as if it had never been mentioned, as if nothing related to it had ever been negotiated.
Is the God that you believe in so devious? To "repent" in advance thus means to deceive those who know nothing of such fore-ordained "repentance." If the Jew can get away with it, he will "repent." If the Christian knows Judaism, then the Jew can't get away with it any more.
When the meaning of Kol Nidre became known during the Dark Ages, a cry of rage broke from the throats of the goyim. "In that case," they cried, "a Jew may enter into any arrangement with us, with a light heart. Does his enterprise prosper? Then he abides by the agreement. If not, he can always denounce the whole affair by remembering that in the moment of Kol Nidre, the most sacred of all the moments in the Jew's life, he had practically, fully and without equivocation negated it."
And so it came about that the eve of Yom Kippur became, for the Gentiles throughout Europe, a time for protest against Jewish knavery. Usually the Gentiles living near a Jewish community would announce the coming of Yom Kippur by displaying posters everywhere, reading:
"BEWARE: THE DAY IS AT HAND WHEN THE JEW RENOUNCES AS INSINCERE ANY DEALINGS HE MAY HAVE WITH YOU DURING THE COMING YEAR. BEWARE!"
In many communities legislators considered it necessary to have a special form of oath administered to Jews—an oath intended to negate the oath of Kol Nidre. This oath was known as the Jew's Oath. There were judges who absolutely refused to take any supplementary oath from a Jew, as totally insincere and untrustworthy, and they based their objections chiefly on Kol Nidre.
The origin of this most extraordinary (as well as unwisest) of all Jewish prayers is hidden in the mists of the Dark Ages. No one knows how it came into existence in the first place. No one has any idea how it became so vital a part of the synagogue service. It is only fair to add that, in spite of the general acceptance which Kol Nidre has enjoyed since its inception, there has never been a time when there was a really strong and honest opposition to it among Jews. Of the six Gaonim of the two Babylonian Academies, for instance, five placed themselves unalterably against admitting it into the program of prayer for Yom Kippur.
The question must be asked; "Were these Gaonim opposed to the spirit of the prayer or only concerned about the reaction to the prayer by the goyim should they become aware of its content?"
How did it happen, then, that despite the anger of the Gentile world, which considered the prayer a gross and insulting breach of faith with it, and against the advice of the wisest and most pious among the priests of Israel, Kol Nidre was not only adopted in the Prayer Book but achieved such distinction in the Jewish mind that it can be associated in the minds of the people in holiness only with the Ten Commandments?
Amazing that DENIAL of the Ten Commandments could be held in such high regard by those who claim to be the originators of the Bible!—only if it should become necessary, of course!
The retention and magnification of Kol Nidre in the grand order of the synagogue is a characteristic bit of Jewish mob obstinacy—in this case an obstinacy entirely without justification in reason or in history . . . The accepted current version has an important alteration made in it by Rashi's son-in-law, Meier ben Samuel, who changed the original phrase "from the last Day of Atonement to this one" to "from this Day of Atonement to the next one." As if, morally, it makes any difference whether you welsh on an arrangement already made or on one you might make at a later date! [Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume VII, p. 540.]
Hence, the expression "Don't jew me!"
But the height of interpretive shrewdness is reached in the explanation of Rabbi Isaiah of Trani. "Since the Jews come to the synagogue on Yom Kippur to ask forgiveness for all their sins, it is important that they clear themselves of all vows which they might carry out during the following year."
It seems to me that Rabbi Balinsky of Chicago, having several centuries of rabbinical shrewdness to fall back upon, has masterfully outdone Rabbi Isaiah of Trani.
Kol Nidre has dug a trench for itself deep in the heart of the Jewish people. It seems as if to try to undermine it is to undermine the life of the whole people. . . We must unearth Kol Nidre and fling the foul corpse over the rim of the earth, if we are ever to get rid of Judaism.
I have the same objection to Yom Kippur (Day of Forgiveness) that I have to the Catholic institution of Confession. It breeds instability of mind and character. If a man knows that no matter how badly he behaves a whole year, no matter what crimes or iniquities he commits, a day sure to come when all his transgressions, civil and criminal alike, will be forgiven him, it is only human that he should be tempted to do rash, violent things to promote his worldly fortunes.
The Priesthood of Great Pride
The episode in the life of Christ which enraged the Pharisees more than any other was when Jesus healed a man whose friends went to all the trouble of climbing onto the rooftop of the house He was in; and then they lowered the sick man's bed, with him in it, down through a hole in the roof so as to present him to Jesus. Whereupon Jesus said: "Man, your sins are forgiven" (Luke 5:20).
How dare this Nazarene, without their consent, assume the role and authority of a priest! You see, the priesthood doesn't like it when someone outside of their fraternity demonstrates to them that they are obsolete! Worse than that, Jesus was telling them that He outranked them! And that rankled them to no end. "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins . . . "
Like the angels who rebelled against God in heaven, the rabbis rebel against the Gospel, which teaches that those who would lead must SERVE, not DICTATE.
"You know that they who are accounted to rule over the nations exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:42-45).
Notice, He gave His life for many. Not for all.
The rabbi, as the ultimate rebel against God and His Son, cannot bear to serve anyone other than himself. And the rabbinate, which is nothing more than the devil's mutual admiration society, since it has no real power other than deception, must constantly consult the spirit of Lucifer, which always seeks to make evil good and good evil. Fair and gentle minds cannot understand the satisfaction the rabbi gets from a plot well laid and a victim snared. Like the serial killer who likes to see his victims suffer as much as possible, he must first present the victim with a ploy, such as "persecution." Sometimes, the game turns deadly. This is what Judaism did to Czarist Russia.
The difference between a dishonest person and a rabbi is that the rabbi has been practicing his art, not just for a lifetime, but, through his teachers and predecessors, for millennia. He is so good at it that even when he admits to being a liar, he makes himself sound good. The deceptive intellect wants, above all things, to be worshipped. It is more important to him to be "smarter than thou" than to be "holier than thou." By faking the latter he becomes the former to those duped; and he eventually deludes himself into thinking that this can go on forever. Those who desire to be worshipped cannot abide a higher being than themselves, such as the Lord God, whether manifest in the unchanging Word revealed by His prophets, in the virgin born flesh of Adam's kinsman Redeemer, who is the beginning of God manifesting Himself in the flesh of His glorified Family, or as the unseen Holy Spirit. Thus, they cannot serve; they can only dictate. This was the sin of Lucifer.
"Pride cometh before a fall." Does not Scripture teach that Satan will be burned in the Lake of Fire? Did not Jesus question the Pharisees: "How can you escape the damnation of hell?" Hence, their rebellion is complete; it cannot go unpunished. You may try to convert evil; but evil cannot be converted. That is why it IS evil. And evil's favorite sport is pretending to be good and watching its victims suffer.
Conclusion
The rabbis of Judaism have been posturing as both the people to whom the Law was delivered and also as the Keepers of the Law. Both propositions are false. Were it they to whom the Law was delivered, its true watchmen and Guardians, they would keep it. What you have heard from these two Jewish witnesses is a detailed examination of the art of hypocrisy. In this art, the Talmudic rabbis have no equal. Two thousand years of this earthly tradition have made them the masters of the Big Lie as Goebbels said. It has fooled the entire world, except for the elect of Adam's race—Jew or Gentile.
Given all of the foregoing evidence, one can only conclude that the Jewish Day of Atonement is the blackest day of the calendar. It is the day on which the Truth dies and honesty is mocked by Jews the world over. If ever there was a prayer in honor of father of lies, it is the Kol Nidre.
Brother
Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-
time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations
overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available
to teach in your church.
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