An
Opinion Paper
Former
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said, “There is no such
thing as a Palestinian.”
Well,
come to find out, Golda was quite wrong. While traversing throughout
history going back 35,000 years ago and forward to Jesus, it seems
that Palestinians were there in the Middle East long before anyone
calling themselves a 'Jew.'
First
there was the Neanderthal Man, which was not genetically modern
humanoid. Jump ahead 31,700 years to the Ice Man (3,300 B.C.) found
in northern Italy (but from southern Italy). A 2012 paper by
paleontologist John Hawks suggests that “the Ice Man had a higher
degree of Neanderthal ancestry than modern Europeans.” Since the
Neanderthals lived in Europe and the Near/Middle East and evidently
did not adapt as well as the Cro-Magnums intelligence-wise, they died
out but their ancestry is evident in the Ice Man. Cro-Magnums are
fully human beings.
The
Anatolia Region, 9,000 B.C., was bordered by the southern Turkey
border and Iraq, Syria and close to the Near East. This is in
present-day southeastern and center of Turkey. These people existed
in the Neolithic Age. This was 5,700 years before the Ice Man died.
Jump
ahead 7,508 years more to 1492 B.C. when Thutmosis II ruled Egypt
with his half sister and wife Queen Hatshepsut. It is written that
Hatshepsut was the young woman that found Moses around 1520 B.C.
Give or take five years, Thutmosis III was born in 1490 B.C. to Iset
when Moses was 30 years-old. Some writers believe that Moses was
concerned about whether he would be Pharaoh but was already not
concerned with riches and he refused to be called 'the son of the
Pharaoh's daughter.' Moses insulted his step mother by turning his
back on everything she thought was important. Both Thutmoses II and
Hatshepsut were out to kill Moses for different reasons (the II to
make his son the III heir) and were both 'Pharaoh's of the
oppression.'
When
Moses left Egypt, he went to Median. If 'Median' is a religion, it
honored many gods. If it is a place, it is above Egypt in the Levant
region (between Anatolia and Egypt on the Mediterranean) and perhaps
where the one-god, WHW, began. Most believe that area now includes
most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus,
Turkey's Hatay Province and sometimes Iraq or the Sinai Peninsula.
However, other researchers contradict this and say he was in the land
of Midian, which is by the Gulf of Aqaba in Arabia on the east side
of the Red Sea.
The
next year after Moses left, Thutmosis II died and Hatshepsut began a
co-reign with Thutmosis III. In 1458 B.C. Moses' mother, Hatshepsut,
died at about 77 years old. Eighteen years later was the Exodus in
1440 B.C. when Moses was 80 years-old and Thutmosis III was 50. Some
say that this group was made up of at least two different peoples
from the Kingdoms.
By
the time the 'Hebrews' left Egypt and went to Canaan in about 1440
B.C., that Egyptian strip was now Phoenicia, occupied by the old
Canaanites, owned by Arabians and the exodus people avoided them. It
must be noted that these departing people, from 600,000 to two
million, stole Egyptians utensils and their armies pursued them only
to turn back after a bad storm. Some believe the soldiers drown.
According
to the Bible, it took these people 40 years to make a 250 mile trip
that should have taken one month. Some researchers believe that is
because those people lived in Midian at Mount Sinai, not the Sinai
peninsula, for a long time. They also believe that after the
Egyptian soldiers trapped the exodus people at Nuweiba beach, a
sediment land bridge enabled them to cross the Red sea but collapsed
on the army.
Egyptian
records put the influx closer to 1600 B.C. and the departure around
1440 B.C. The 1440 B.C. makes more sense because once these people
got back to Canaan, Solomon's Temple was built in about 965 B.C. He
was the son of David.
Some
documents state that the Pharoah Merneptah (1213 BC to 1203 B.C.)
waged a great battle with 'the Nine Bows' at Perire in the western
delta. The Egyptians won and laid waste to the land and took 9,000
prisoners. The Bows were led by the King of Libya with a concurrent
revolt in Canaan involving Gaza, Ashkelon, Yenoam and the people of
Israel.
Is
it possible that these 9,000 prisoners could be the Influx of people
into Egypt that is known as the Exodus people, which would make the
captivity 200 years and not 400? Some sources say these people
multiplied too much and outnumbered the Assyrian leadership and were
told to leave Egypt. The Old Testament states that Moses came back
and led them out.
By
1200 B.C. in Palestine, Canaan was divided into three areas:
Palestine, occupied by the tribes of Israelites; Aram, occupied by
the Armeans; and Phoenicia, occupied by the old Canaanites. So
historical records show that Palestine was there first, not the
Kingdom of Israel. In about 1200 B.C., Israelites (Israel league)
stormed Palestine from Egypt delta and southern deserts.
The
Kingdoms of Israel and Judah had major conflicts because Reboboam in
Judah taxed northern Israel. Reboboam sent for Jeroboam (who left
for Egypt because of Solomon) for his people to be under him but
Jeroboam wanted their sufferings to be less and Reboboam said they
would be more so Jeroboam became 'king of Israel' and honored gods
called Ba'al, and Reboboam was in the House of David in Israel. It
was Jeroboam and about 10,000 prominent citizens that were expelled
to Babylon in 722 B.C.. According to Kings 1, “19 So Israel
rebelled against the house of David, unto this day. {S}”
Reboboam
then took his people to Schechem, a Canaanite city and also the
capital of Israel. So, there was a major separation between 'the
people of Israel.' Recent
scholarship, however, is inclined to think that the real schism
between the peoples did not take place until Hasmonean times when the
Gerizim temple was destroyed in 128 B.C. The script of the Samaritan
Pentateuch, its close connections at many points with the Septuagint
and its even closer agreements with present Hebrew text, all suggest
a date about 122 B.C. In 122 B.C. 'Jews' revolt under Bar Kokhba and
the final Disapora of the 'Jews' begins.
Josephus
gives the following account of the erection of the Gerizim temple:
Manasseh (King of Judah, only son of Hezekiah, who died in 643 B.C.,
whose only son was Amon) married a foreigner and was threatened by
'Jews.' Manasseh cooperated with the Assyrians and revived the
rural economy in the area. Some say that the trade led to great
disparities between rich and poor, which in turn gave rise to civil
unrest and as a result, some speculate, the Deuteronomist author or
editor of 2 Kings later reworked the traditions about Manasseh to
portray his outward-looking involvement in trade as, effectively,
apostasy.
The
Temple story is further complicated in time with the Samaritans
altering their copies of the Pentateuch by substituting Gerizim for
Ebal in Deut. 27:4 and by making an interpolation in Ex 20, and so
claimed divine authority for the site of their temple. Antiochus
Epiphanes, at the request of the Samaritans, consecrated it to
Jupiter, the defender of strangers (2 Macc. 6:2). John Hyrcanus
(reigned as high priest 134 - 104 B.C., died 104 B.C.) destroyed the
Temple in 109 B.C.
But this split has an earlier
history beginning with Judah and his two wives Leah and Rachel, who
were in Egypt at the time of the Exodus. This does coincide with the
possible return to 'the promised land' being around 1400 B.C. because
this Israel nation (10-tribe confederation) idea was well established
in about 922 B.C. This would have given the two young women time to
have children. Leah is Jacob's first cousin and could have had blue
eyes.
With
the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite
tribes decided to form a strong centralized monarchy to meet the
challenge, and the Tribe of Gad joined the new kingdom with Saul as
the first king. The Tribe
of Gad was a part of a loose confederation of Israelites.
After Saul died, the tribe of
Gad went to the northern kingdom under David who had been King of
Judah, but was now king of all Israel. But Rehobaum, the grandson of
David, in about 930 B.C. split from the House of David to reform a
Kingdom of Israel named the Northern Kingdom. Then the story goes
into Solomon burning incense, dying, and his servant Jerobaum ruling
as the King of 'Israel.' The Assyrians exiled the southern kingdom
to Babylon about two hundred and eight years later.
It
is contended that around 900 B.C. Hebrew elders in Palestine began
writing (or copying) the Old Testament, which is close to the time
the 'Hebrews' got back to Canaan and it is possible that Moses did
write most of it. Moses did dwell in the area of Mt. Sinai where it
is said he could see Canaan. These people were separated by their
genetic makeup, by their physical characteristics and their beliefs.
The question at that time was, 'Do we honor God Yehwah or do we honor
Ba'al the devil?' After the exodus, most of those people had finally
come to grips about honoring one god and not separate idols such as
Ba'al. One thing all these people were arguing about by the time of
Christ was believing in one god and honoring Mosaic law. Jesus said
the Kingdom of God was already on earth, a God more powerful than any
man.
To
differentiate those people living from the Middle East to Europe at
that time, it is best to use language and characteristics that each
had in common. The Hittitie Dynasty began in Anatolia in 1450 B.C..
The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian language with phonemic
vowels. A northeast Caucasion language was spoken in several
countries including Russia and Turkey with smaller communities
scattered throughout the Middle East.
Unlike
the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians, those Anatolian
possessions were peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia. The
Hittites were centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia by 2000
B.C.. (1,300 years after the Ice Man). The Hittite Kingdom at the
height of its power was the strip of region of Canaan and above,
taking up the center of what is now Turkey. Egypt ruled the area
from Canaan south into Egypt.
Some
say that “Tribes
were either semetic or non-semetic which referred to their language
of origin, and they were all middle eastern. The ancient tribes of
that area were Ugarit, then Canaanite, then Hebrew, then Israelite,
to modern day Israeli. The ancients of Mesopotamia were originally
non-semetic, until they were invaded by King Sargon who was from a
Semetic tribe and changed the language from Sumerian to Babylonian,
which grew into Akkadian and Assyrian.”
In
918 B.C. Shisank, a high priest of Amon (Judah), stormed Palestine
and robbed the temple in Jerusalem, devastaded (sic) Edom (to the
south) and north Israel. These people of Amon worshiped idols. Some
scholars, such as Abraham Malamat, assert that Amon was assassinated
around 640 B.C. because people disliked the heavy influence that
Assyria, an age-old enemy of Judah responsible for the destruction of
the Kingdom of Israel, had upon him. The Hebrew Bible records his
reign of about two years from 642 to 640.
In
803 B.C., Assyrian king Hadad-Nirari conquers Palestine states and
Philistines. The Philistines and Hittites spoke an Indo-European
language and the Semites from Canaan and the Amorites did not.
However, considered 'distinct' from the generic Canaanites/Amorites
are the Semitic Aramaens, Moabites and Ammonites.
There
WAS a Kingdom of Israel (tribe) from about 930 BCE to 720 BCE. North
became the Kingdom of Israel and south was the Kingdom of Judah.
They separated after the death of Solomon. In 722 B.C. the second
Assyrian king banished over 10,000 people from Samaria (in the center
of the Kingdom of Israel) to Babylon and this was also about the time
the Book of Moses was completed. Some people escaped to Jerusalem.
Although
it is said Jesus lived in Nazareth, major excavations between 1955
and 1990 show that the settlement apparently came to an abrupt end
about 720 B.C., when many towns in the area were destroyed by the
Assyrians so by Jesus' birth, Nazareth was very small.
Also,
although the Franciscan archaeologists at Capernaum found walls and
pavements dating from the second millennium B.C., they discovered
nothing from the entire Israelite period (1200 - 587 B.C.). If this
is true, it could mean that the word 'Israelite' did not come about
until Jesus' time.
In
586 B.C., Zedekiah and others defied Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar II
who sacked Jerusalem (in the Kingdom of Judah), destroyed Solomon's
temple and ended the Kingdom of Judah and took more people into
captivity. Again, those people were sent to Babylon. Ezekial of the
bible was taken to Babylon as a captive and 'Jews' were dispersed
throughout Europe. Solomon's temple in Palestine (Jerusalem) was
repaired again on March 10, 515 B.C. when the Persian king Cyrus II
allowed them to do that. It was a modest version of the first. In
445 BC Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.
525
B.C. the Persian empire takes Afghanistan and defeated “the
Armenians.” In 301 B.C. the Ptolomies and Seleucids divided
Anatolia. As
people populated Europe, the distinction of 'white' versus 'semitic'
became evident. The Celts were in Northern Italy and then went into
western Europe. During the next three hundred
years, the Romans ruled that area and took the area around Milan,
Italy away from the Celts. In 44 B.C. Cesar was murdered by Roman
leaders wanting a return to the Roman Republic.
On
April 17, 6 B.C. there was a rare alignment with the constellation
Aries, marking an important date for the ancient astrologers who say
it could be the year Jesus was born. Mary and Joseph took the child
Jesus to Egypt to protect him but when Herod the Great died in 4
B.C., attended by Celtic bodyguards, they returned. This gives
credibility to the assertion that Jesus was born in 6 B.C.
In
2 A.D., Roman decree permitted people in that area to follow their
own religious customs and not the Romans' of 'many gods.' By 6 A.D.,
Judea was absorbed into the Roman Empire. In 20 B.C. Herod began
renovation of the Second Temple, the Herod Temple (the one the Romans
destroyed in 70 A;D.). It is believed that Herod was not ethnically
a 'Jew' because he led a Roman army into Judah and conquered it by
force. Herold the Great also built the city of Masada. Herod
Antipas was King in Jesus' time.
In
3 B.C. the Star of Bethlehem was seen and one year later, Jupiter and
Venus were aligned. It is said that the Three Magis went looking for
Jesus when they saw the star and after their visit is when Joseph
took Mary and the child to Egypt for safety. At that time, Jesus
would have been two or three and Herod said to kill male babies in
Nazareth 12 months and younger. There is no solid evidence that this
slaughter of perhaps 20 babies occurred.
In
29 A.D., John the Baptist was beheaded by King Herod Antipas and
Jesus moved to Capernaum, which was on the north shore of the Lake of
Galilee. Around 30 to 33 A.D. Pontius Pilot orders Jesus' death. It
is thought that Jesus died on Friday, April 3, 33 A.D., which would
have made him about 39 years-old.
Flavius
Josephus wrote much about the Essenes and the people of that time.
In fact, he fought at Masada against the Zealots in the First Revolt
by the 'Jews.' In 70 AD, the Zealots fled Jerusalem to Masada, where
they lasted for three years. The Romans knew the Zealots started the
First Revolt. Some historians contend that the 'Jews' at Masada were
stealing from the Romans who wanted them gone. They would not leave
the mountain-top area so the Romans chose to starve them out. After
a year, the Zealots were all found dead, a result of suicide. The
Jews of today hold Masada as a symbol of 'Never again.' The Masada
incident is not mentioned in the Talmud. It is possible that the
people at Masasa were the future 'Jews.' It states in John, that
'the people feared the Jews.'
John
9:22, “His parents said these things because they were afraid of
the Judeans, for the Judeans had decided that if a man would confess
him to be The Messiah, they would cast him out of the synagogue.”
This fear is repeated in John 7: 11-13, John 19: 38, 7:13.
In 12:42 he says, “Many also among the Leaders believed in him, but
they were not confessing him because of the Pharisees, lest they
would end up outside of the synagogue.”
According
to Josephus, two woman and five children managed to hide during the
suicides and told him that their leader, Elazar ben Yair, believed
that the Lord had turned against the 'Jewish' people. He told the
men to kill the women and children and then kill each other. He did
not want them to be slaves so they destroyed everything but food to
show the Romans they did not starve to death.
In
70 A.D. the 'Jews' revolt against Rome, Jerusalem was destroyed and
Herod's temple was burned. Nothing much is heard about the 'Jews'
until about 1255 A.D. when a young 'Christian' boy was playing ball
and he fell in a Jewish cesspool and his body was found 26 days later
when some Jews congregated there in Lincoln. They were accused of
killing the boy 'for his blood' and 100 Jews were executed. The
Crusades were from 1096 A.D. until 1272 A.D.
THE
INHABITANTS OF PALESTINE IN JESUS' TIME
There
were ethnically different people living throughout the area of
Palestine and Judea by the time of Dead Sea scrolls, which were dated
to around 167 B.C.. They were discovered in 1946 A.D. Before the
discovery of the DSS, the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible
dated to the early Medieval period (Masoretic Text).
Slightly
before and after Jesus' time, there was much disagreement of who to
worship or follow. There were many different sects during this time,
such as the Essenes, that practiced celibacy, daily immersions and
abstinence from worldly pleasures. The Essenes were of the Second
Temple Judaism. They lived in Qumran, which was
along the northwest area of the Dead Sea where the DDS were located
inside clay pots that were Essenian. It seems these people did not
write the scrolls but were involved in the production and collection
of the scrolls. They were not Pharisees or Sadducees. There were
thousands of them living throughout Roman Judaea. These Essenes do
not describe the Jews of today.
We
know one King of the Kingdom of Israel, Jeroboam I, honored Ba'al
and it seems to be his people that were banished to Babylong in 722
B.C. (and perhaps again in 586 B.C.) when the First Temple was
destroyed. Whoever these people were that kept getting persecuted
and banished to Egypt or Babylon, there seemed to be a very small
number of them by the time of Jesus and were located in Canaan and
Samaria. He was not one of them by heredity and was more likely
genetically Anatonian or was Celtic.
PHYSICAL
DESCRIPTION OF JESUS
For
the last part of this discussion about 'who are the true Israelites,'
we will talk about the descriptions of Jesus (Yhshua) written by
people who knew him personally. In the Archko Volume, chapter
'Gamaliel's Interview,' it states:
“His
hair is a little more golden than hers (his mother Mary), though it
is as much from sunburn as anything else.” “He is tall, and his
shoulders are a little drooped; his visage is thin and of a swarthy
complexion, though this is from exposure. His eyes are large and a
soft blue, and rather dull and heavy...”
Pontius
Pilate describes Jesus of Nazareth as more a friend of the Romans
than of the 'Jews':
“His
golden colored hair and beard gave to his appearance a celestial
aspect. He appeared to be about 30 years of age. Never have I seen
a sweeter or more serene countenance. What a contrast between Him
and His bearers with their black beards and tawny complexions!”
Pilate
stated further, that he sent his secretary into the crowd listen to
Jesus and, “my secretary reported that never had he seen in the
works of all the philosophers anything that compared to the teachings
of Jesus. He told me that Jesus was neither seditious nor
rebellious, so we extended to Him our protection. He was at liberty
to act, to speak, to assemble and to address the people. This
unlimited freedom provoked the Jews – not the poor but the rich and
powerful.”
“Later,
I wrote to Jesus requesting an interview with Him at the Praetorium.
He came. When the Nazarene made His appearance I was having my
morning walk and as I faced Him my feet seemed fastened with an iron
hand to the marble pavement and I trembled in every limb as a guilty
culprit, though he was calm. For some time I stood admiring this
extraordinary Man. There was nothing in Him that was repelling, nor
in His character, yet I felt awed in His presence. I told Him that
there was a magnetic simplicity about Him and His personality that
elevated Him far above the philosophers and teachers of His day.”
And
Publius Lentrelus, a resident of Judea in the reign of Tiberius Cesar
writes:
“There
lives at this time in Judea a man of singular virtue whose name is
Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a prophet, but his
followers love and adore him as the offspring of the immortal God.”
“He
is a tall man, well-shaped, and of an amiable and reverend aspect;
his hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling into graceful
curls, waving about and very agreeable crouching upon his shoulders,
parted on the crown of the head, running as a stream to the front
after fashion of the Nazarites. His forehead high, large and
imposing; his cheeks without spot or wrinkel, beautiful with a lovely
red; his nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; his beard,
and of the color suitable to his hair, reaching below his chin and
parted in the middle like a fork; his eyes bright blue, clear and
serene. Look innocent, dignified, manly and mature. In proportion
of body most perfect, and captivating; his arms and hands delectable
to behold.”
APPLYING
THE INFORMATION
My
educated opinion is that Jesus' (Yhshua) heritage did not originate
in the area of Judea, although he was born in Judea in what is the
West Bank, six miles south of Jerusalem. His physical features are
more akin to Celtics that had been in the area for hundreds of years.
The question of 'Who are the Israelites' and 'Who are the Jews' is a
bit more complicated.
Jesus
is said to have told Nathanael, according to the Aramaic Bible in
Plain English (John 1:47), “Yeshua saw Nathaniel when he came to
him and said about him: 'Behold, truly a son of Israel in whom is no
deceit.” The word, 'Israelite,' then, seems to be more of a
description or metaphor for a Good Man, or 'of good heritage,'
possibly originating from the House of David. Excavations in that
area where Jesus lived found no evidence of 'Israelites.' Some
translators of Hebrew say 'lite' means 'enter' so perhaps the meaning
is 'entering Israel' or 'entering the kingdom of God.'
On
the question of the Jews, we know there were no people called 'Jews'
in Jesus' time. The people were all 'citizens of Judea' and had the
same traditions and ceremonies created through persecutions, hardship
and slavery. We know there were Semites and Greeks and Egyptians in
the area and that those in the north, where Turkey is today, spoke an
Indo-European language. The confusion seems to be the use of the
word 'Hebrew.'
Some
scholars believe that 'Hebrew,' as language
studies, are interwoven with cultural studies and the term also came
to describe the extended cultures and ethnicities, as well as the
history of these varied peoples as associated by close geographic and
linguistic distribution. If not by language, at least they were able
to read each other's books.
While
there is nothing in the Hebrew Bible that states Jesus was 'Hebrew,'
it is interesting that
in
that Bible (assembled well over a century before Jesus' time), the
word 'Christ' (Χριστός)
was
used to translate the Hebrew. 'Christ' is derived from the Greek
Χριστός
(Khrīstos)
meaning
'the anointed' or 'the anointed one,' a translation of the Hebrew
מָשִׁיחַ
(Māšîaḥ)
usually
transliterated into English as 'Messiah.' In Matthew 16:16, the
apostle Peter's profession “You are the Christ” identified Jesus
as the Messiah in post-biblical usage. 'Christ became viewed as a
name, one part of 'Jesus Christ,' but originally it was a title
'Jesus the Anointed.'
Jesus
was not 'Hebrew,' although his legal father, Joseph, was of the line
of Abraham. His mother, Mary's genealogy is not known. It is said
that her parents were Joachim and Anne. Muslims believe Mary spent
many years living outside the Temple in an apartment on the grounds.
The meaning of 'virgin' in Christ's time was a woman that was not
married, a maiden. All the peoples in that area of Judea and
Palestine practiced the same customs and ceremonies. One problem
with the Old Testament is that many names, authors and dates have
been removed so the Book seems fragmented. Also, the old scriptures
are regional and apply to the area they were written in. If Jews of
today were truly 'Hebrew,' they would say that people who expose them
would be 'anti-Hebrew' and not 'anti-Semitic.'
The
argument between the people in that area before, and for a while
after the Exodus, seemed to be between honoring many gods or one god.
This split up families. By Jesus' time, many had adopted the
one-god concept. Under Roman rule, the Rabbis and Pharisees became
powerful and greedy, all living in a tight-knit area. Jesus did not
live among them but did chastise them for their greed. Some say
Judaism should be more correctly called 'Pharissism.'
There
was no 'religion' in Jesus' time. Jesus was not against Caesar and
the 'Jews hated Rome,' although the Romans were very tolerant of
their customs but taxed them heavily for the exemption to practice
what they wanted. Perhaps that is why Jesus said, "Render unto
Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that
are God's."
But
Jewish sites such as http://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel
contend that there were only two expulsions of 'Jews.' One in 586
B.C. and the other in 70AD. They do not mention the people who were
in Egypt from the Exodus and state that 'Jews' came into existence
after “a Jewish people which has existed since it received the
Torah in Sinai.” This would explain the difference between those
exiled and how the 'Jews' came into existence later. 'Jews' were the
people hiding in Jerusalem from the first banishment to Babylon and
then living back in Jerusalem under the Pharisees and Rabbis of
Jesus' time. They were also the ones that killed themselves at
Masada. Even Jews today say that, “Two thousand years of wandering
brought the Jews to Yemen, Morocco, Spain, Germany, Poland and deep
into Russia.”
Later,
Jews called the Books their Torah (meaning 'instruction') and it
seems they may have made some additions and deletions. Different
faiths have a different number of books in the Old Testament. The
books can be broadly divided into the Pentateuch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament
And
on the question of the Temples, none were constructed by 'Jews.' The
first one was built by the returning people of Egypt in about 931
B.C. by Solomon. He raised up a labor force out of all Israel of
about thirty thousand men. So the first Temple was not built by
Egypt or any other foreign nation, although Phoenician craftsmen were
employed to actually build the Temple. It took seven years to build.
The First Temple was dedicated to Yehweh, the God of Israel, which
would make sense as descendants of David. The Second Temple was
clearly owned by Rome.
The
First Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C. when those people in Judah
under Jerobaum were banished to Babylon by the Assyrians. This
Temple in Jerusalem laid in ruins until Herod the Great reconstructed
it in the first century B.C. It is said that Herod had architects
from Greece, Rome and Egypt plan the construction and that during a
Passover visit by Jesus, the 'Jews' replied that it had been under
construction for 46 years.
The
second Temple, Herod's Temple, was built over the first Temple of
Solomon and that location is considered to be where the Dome of Rock
is in Jerusalem. So it seems that under Roman rule, those 'Jews'
living in Jerusalem adopted Herod's Temple as their own and this is
what has given rise to the idea of the Wailing Wall...that it belongs
to 'their people.' It was those Pharisees and Rabbis who Jesus
reprimanded that also were responsible for his death.
There
is much overt hatred among many modern-day Jews against everyone else
that I would call Judaism a negative religion. As Robert Farrar
Capon stated, “Too often this leaves people mindlessly committed
to the institution or clan that stewards the traditions, rather than
the God who surrounds each of us with his love.”
Pontius
Pilate stated in his writing that giving Jesus permission to speak
freely provoked the Jews, not the poor but the rich and powerful.
The 'rich and powerful Jews' must have been the Pharisees and Rabbis
living in Herod's Temple. Also, in some modern translations of the
New Testament, John uses the word 'Jew' and in Aramaic translations
he uses the word 'Judeans,' which I believe is more accurate.
In
1929 (A.D.)the Palestinians revolted against the Jews because of
economic reasons. Arabs attacked Jews, who fled Jerusalem, and Brits
attacked Arabs. The Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause
of the violence "without which in our opinion disturbances
either would not occurred or would not have been little more than a
local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards
the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and
national aspirations and fear for their economic future.” It was
Palestinian land but the worst was yet to come.
The
bombing of the King David Hotel, in Jerusalem, on July 22, 1946 was,
according to former Ambassador Edward Peck, an attempt by a militant
right-wing Zionist underground organization, the Irgun, to get the
British out of the area. The Jewish militants tried to blame the
bombing on Muslims by disguising themselves as Arabs. The building
contained the British military command and their Criminal
Investigation Division and they had already raided the Irgun's
buildings and confiscated their documents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
The
Dead Sea Scrolls contained five books in one single roll. They are
also called the Books of Moses and The Pentateuch. Samaritan
Pentateuch has close connections at many points with the Septuagint.
The
adoption of the Pentateuch as the sacred text of the Samaritans
before their final schism with the Palestinian Jewish community
provides evidence that it was already widely accepted as a canonical
authority in that region.
Now,
if there were now two separate nations in the Middle East called the
SCEPTRE and the BIRTHRIGHT in about 922 B.C., brought about Rachel
and Leah, and the north had all the tribes under the house of David,
then the other family was supposed to bring about the Messiah. Since
Jeroboam was only a servant to Solomon and 'when Solomon died he was
attended by Celtic bodyguards,' is it possible that the heritage of
Jesus' mother is Celtic?
The
Old Testament books were written from about the 15th or eighth
century B.C. up to around the first century B.C. when they were
finally hidden in caves, depending on whether or not you believe
Moses wrote the beginning. Although the books address one god and
its connection to man, this seems to be the only difference
separating those people from ones that believe in many gods. Many
gods honors the created and one god, the creator.
But
a main point is that many texts, including the Samaritan
Pentateuch,.are similar. Protestants defend the Masoretic text's
authority and argue that the Samaritan text is a late and an
unreliable derivation from the Masoretic. There are thousands of
differences between these texts but they are mostly similar. So, it
seems that whatever the original text was, it was rewritten to apply
to the people that followed certain leaders and their language.
Written by different authors, who they were or when they wrote it or
sometimes what they originally wrote, are erased from time. The Old
Testament was supposed to be divinely inspired.
I
found in Kings 2 that the Samaritan alphabet was “was used by the
ancient Israelites, both Jews and Samaritans.” There were no
'Jews' in Christ's time but it does show there is a separation
between 'Jews' and Samaritans. Also are mentioned Sepharvites, the
inhabitants of Sepharvaim, planted by the king of Assyria in Samaria
who worshiped many gods. Could these be today's Sephardic Jews—the
only true ethnic Jews?
According
to one writer, “This is an interesting insight because it requires
a distinction between the Heberite Irish and those stemming from
Spartans/Sabina/Suebi...in the same way that I should realize a
distinction between the Iberi of Spain and the Sephardic "Jews"
that named Spain. Again, there may have been a distinction between
the Abreu/Abruzzo peoples and the Sabina. Again, the Kabeiri cult
versus Saba-Zios.
Okay,
fine, the Manto-branch Avars lead to Italian Alba and then Scottish
Alba. It makes sense that while the Albanians were the Aryan side
("alba" = white), the Manto term, belonging to the Cadusii,
depicted the Hebrew/Semite side. Perhaps Manto was the same as
Manes/Mannae.” http://www.tribwatch.com/manto.htm
“
The
son of Manto and Tiberinus was made "Ocnus," which reflects
"Cycnus" (Ligurian swans/Savona?) too much to be ignored.
Indeed, It is said that Ocnus founded the Etruscan region of Mantua
(modern Montova) in Lombardi (north Italy). Therefore, once again (as
with the Caelians) we see that Alba leads to Etruscans. As Manto was
a Tiresias bloodline, it explains why the region of Dauphine was
immediately west of northern Italy.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocnus
The
author of these web sites also believe that a sun-god toting eagle
could have been a pre-Roman symbol of the Caucasians and that “the
Semite side of Arabs, contrary to what we are told repeatedly by
Arabs, may therefore be, not in Abraham's 'holy' son, Ishmael, but in
the Kabala Semites.” http://www.tribwatch.com/coatDagestan.gif
The
author concludes with, “Why was one of Saturn's moons given the
name, "Albiorix," after (a) tribe? I would suggest that
people now in charge of naming planets knew of this tribe's
background in the evil god, Saturn. The so-called Golden Race of
ancient times belongs to Cronus = Saturn. That's what the Golden-Dawn
Illuminati of today still honors, the Golden Age ruled by the Golden
Race. In their minds, the Golden Age is the time wherein dragon-line
Hebrews everywhere are at the steps of rulers, pulling their strings
to the point of manipulating markets to the advantage of their own
financial interests.”
Yhshua
spoke Aramaic, one of the many languages spoken to the north (where
Turkey is today) and throughout the Middle East. The Dead Sea
Scrolls were written in these languages; Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
There is an argument among researchers that the New Testament was
written in Greek for wider distribution. Aramaic is still spoken by
the existing Assyrians of Iraq, Iran, northeast Syria and Southeast
Turkey. The original old language that most likely Moses wrote in
was Chaldaean (as translated in the Septuagint). Yhshua
was a good man, an 'Israelite.' He was not Semite and did not
profess to be a King.
Jews
today have no more property ownership in the Middle East than did any
of the Ten Tribes. They only had a 'kingdom of Israel' for two
hundred years and that broke in two. That land has belonged to
Palestine and Judea for thousands of years. There was no land
ownership because the Semites were a wandering group of people.
Egyptians wrote about facts and those men of the Old Testament wrote
about their lineage, history, persecution and enslavement and that
they 'hoped' someday God would release them from bondage and make
them rulers of the earth. Although today Jews are 'rulers of the
earth,' their Messiah never came. 'Israel' will always be captive.
“Unlike
the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians...” is another
example of how 'race titles' change in ancient Middle East.
Pharaohs, Abraham and Judah all married their half-sisters but when
Lot had children by his two daughters (Moabites), that broke the
purity of his lineage and separated these Semitic groups even
further.
Recent
DNA studies reveal the Ice Man had an early DNA called K1ö
and that another early DNA
group called the mtDNA Haplogroup K, is rarely found in Europe but
that 32% of Jews have it and K reaches a level of 17% in Kurdistan.
“Multiplex assay study was able to confirm that the Iceman's mtDNA
belongs to a new European mtDNA clade with a very limited
distribution amongst modern data sets. Thus, it is possible to
detect three individual female ancestors, likely from a
Hebrew/Lavantine mtDNA pool, whose descendants lived in Europe/”
On an 18 November 2005 broadcast of the 'Today Show, during an
interview with Dr. Spencer Wells of the 'National Geographic
Genographic Project, host Katie Couric was revealed to belong to the
haplogroup K..
Must
of the information on the internet and even modern Bibles, have
substituted the word 'Jew' for anything that might relate to the
words 'Judean' or 'Israelite.' Because of this corruption, and
because most people cannot read Hebrew, the people that today call
themselves 'Jews' have successfully put themselves into the places of
holy men and kings (aka Hebrews). They have successfully put a
persecuted people of ancient times who owned nothing, into the places
of people in the Bible that were not 'Jewish,' so that they could
claim Palestinian land as rightfully theirs.
Since
1948, the Jews of Israel have reduced the Christian and Muslim
population into fractions of what it was pre-1948. After the 1967
Six Day War, they also kicked out most of the indigenous people of
the Sinai Peninsula including the Arab Bedouins. If, as Jews claim,
they are the people God loved, why do they murder, lie, steal and
segregate themselves? That is not what Jesus said was an
'Israelite.' In contrast and sensibility to what Golda said is an
ancient Arab proverb: “Men resemble their times more than they
resemble their ancestors.”
The
people that call themselves “Jews” today will not be content
peacefully visiting the sites they consider holy. It is not about
'visiting' for them: It is about owning all the property in the
Middle East so that they can successfully trade places with the true
'Israelites' that believed Jesus' message. Does the ancient Jewish
mind still think in terms of 'the temple' that they 'will never
forget' but never owned?
The
Exodus people built the Solomon Temple in 931 B.C. because they had
just returned from Egypt where they had helped the Egyptians build
their structures. Jews consider Herod's Temple theirs including the
wall also built around the city. 'Jews' did not build them. This
reminds me of 'Crystal Night' when Hitler burned the Jewish merchants
out but the property was mostly owned by Germans. And then, Jews in
the United States put in insurance claims about it. What happened on
Kristallnacht is
no different than what happened in 70 AD so the question is: What is
it that Jews do that ticks other people off?
I
believe what they do that makes other people upset is that they act
like single-minded con-men. They act like some ancient money changer
in the Temple. People don't like any Group coming in and bilking
them out of money to the point the Group is now in charge. Maybe
because of their persecution complex and shame for having Jesus
murdered, they will never assimilate because to do that would cause
them to lose the identity they have falsely adopted and without that,
they would just be the con-men they really are. And it IS that
identity that protects them.
CONCLUSION
My
conclusion is that for thousands of years B.C., most of the people in
the Middle East were of Semitic origin. With all the foreigners
coming in to trade, they tried to maintain a pure lineage but that
was not possible so when a family broke away or had a different
mission, it started another tribe. An American black cannot trace
his linage back to an African from the 1600s any more than a Jew can
trace his back to Abraham. In the case of the 'Jews,' however, they
broke away because the Rabbis and Pharisees were responsible for
Jesus' death.
And
think about this: If Roman Emperor Constantine, 272 to 337 AD, had
not thought up the idea of creating a 'religion' to control the
people that only followed Jesus' teachings and his cross, none of
this might have happened, even the Catholic Church. We still might
be worshiping many gods. Jesus' followers, after 270 years, still
hadn't organized anything.
While
people today attach the word 'religion' to these beliefs, in ancient
times gifts from nature were honored as gods. Greeks had Zeus and Romans had Jupiter. There were gods for
everything from fertility to rain. Hinduism is considered the oldest
'religion' and it developed when the Aryan peoples migrated to
Northern India and put their traditions into writing (1500 B.C.).
The term 'religion' originated from the Latin noun 'religio,' that
was nominalized from one of the three vergs: 'relegere' (to turn to
constantly/observe conscientiously); to 'religare' (to bind oneself
[back]); and 'reeligare' (to choose again). Of
course, Constantine chose Latin for the Catholic Church.
“Aryan
means nobility and tolerance and pertains to the ancient Zoroastrian
'religion' of Iran. The Aryans, set in a time frame of twenty
thousand or so years ago, were the original Aryans or Indo-European
people of the days of yore. They have no connection to any Western
political group. They were noble and tolerant people who considered
all races equal and maintained that the righteous men and women of
every country reached God - as was proclaimed by the ancient Avestan
scriptures such as the Fravardin
Yasht.” Sound
a bit like Jesus' message?
“Positively
understood, then, religion is “a reconnecting to something
important.” Negatively understood, religion simply means “a
return to bondage.” and the concept of religion has been closely
associated with the repetitious tying of oneself to inherited beliefs
and behaviors, traditions and theologies. Too often this leaves
people mindlessly committed to the institution or clan that stewards
the traditions, rather than the God who surrounds each of us with his
love.” Robert Farrar Capon
It
is this word, 'religion,' that James plays with in James 1:26-27,
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is
this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep
oneself unstained from the world.” So, if your deeds are pure and
you help people, that is your 'religion.' Robert Capon continues
with the idea that the opposite of Pagan religions is the worship of
a deity that is used to identify someone's internal beliefs which may
or may not be associated with any genuine faith.
So
it seems logical that Constantine saw the benefits of organizing
people by their beliefs and giving those beliefs a name....religion.
The
Exodus people built the Solomon Temple in 931 B.C. because they had
just returned from Egypt. It was Arabs that saved art and literature
during the Dark Ages and it was Moors that built sophisticated
metropolitan nations in what is now Spain and England, not the Jews
living today in Israel.
I
think the 'Judeans' that the people in John were afraid of were the
Zealots, the precursor to today's Jews. It seems to be that people
from Judah or Samaria were the ones being taken as slaves and I
believe that is why Jews call their religion Judaism, which only came
about after they adopted the Torah. They did not gain power until
Herod the Great built his temple, which is the same thing that
happened when Jews were given Palestinian land for the state of
Israel.
I
remember in Bible History class in the Old Latin Church, we were told
that Jesus going to a wedding in Canaan and telling the story of the
good Samaritan were unusual because these people were looked down
upon.
Jews
call themselves 'Jews' whether they are Zionists, Ashkanazi,
Shepardic, Mizrahim or Hasidic, but they are all strongly united
under the ideology of Judaism. Many Americans believe that 'Jew' is
a religion, that is how confounded it is. They hide behind laws they
say they created for the American black. But in the end, if you
identify one crooked Jew, you have attacked ALL the Jews.
We
know the Gospels were written at least 50 years after Jesus died and
during this time the 'people were afraid of the Judeans,' not the
Romans. These zealots must have started treating the followers of
Jesus badly and casting them out of their synagogues and that
separated 'the Jews' from the others in the house of David.
Jesus
was most upset with the high priests in Herod's Temple. Jesus was
pro-Roman and 'Jews hated Rome,' so Jesus could not have been one of
them. The word 'Israelite' seems to be more of a description for
good people that believed Jesus was the Son of God and therefore
followed the line of David than any distinct race and 'Hebrew' seems
to be more linguistic and cultural than racial, similar to Latin.
We
are all Sons of God if we listen.
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