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THE JEWISH NATION
& JESUS
by: Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
THE FIRST BELIEVERS IN JESUS WERE JEWISH!
The first believers in Jesus Christ were Jewish. They were called "Maaminim" and comprised a spiritual movement within the scope of Judaism - The Maaminim had their own synagogues - and preached the 'Besorah' (Good News) of salvation.
Dr.
H.H. Goldberg states, "Besides the Perushim (Pharisees), Tzedukim (Sadducees) and Essenes, the 'Maaminim' - were an integral part of the Temple community and 'Ha-aam Hayehudi' (the Jewish people)". For the first eight years after the resurrection of Jesus, the 'Maaminim' ministered exclusively to Jews.
The deacon, Phillip, broke tradition by preaching in Samaria, among that city’s Jewish-extracted, mixed-race population.
Cornelius’ household were the first Romans to accept the gospel - two years later - when ‘Shimon bar Yonah’ (St. Peter) preached to them.
Rabbi ‘Shaul of Tarsus’, a fanatical Pharisee, crusading to exterminate the ‘Maaminim’, met Jesus of Nazareth - in a bright light - on the Damascus Road and was converted.
ST. PAUL MOST EFFECTIVE
Among the evangelists, he was the most effective in converting the heathen.
Gentile believers became known as Christians and their houses of worship, churches (hebrew fem. of synagogue).
At the Jerusalem Council-A.D. 50, the ‘Maaminim’ accepted gentile believers into fellowship - without embracing Jewish customs and disciples - except refraining from idolatry.
The ‘Maaminim’ grew so large that in A.D.
90, Gamaliel II called the ‘Yavneh Council’ of rabbis to stem the growth of the new Jewish movement. It was decreed that a disparaging verse against the ‘Maaminim’ be included in the ‘Amidah’ (central prayer in synagogue service).
PERSECUTION INCREASED ON THE JEWISH
The persecution increased when Rabbi Akiba declared ‘Shimon bar Kochba’ - who led an insurrection against the Romans from A.D.
to - the Messiah. The ‘Maaminim’ remonstrated saying, “There is no Mashiach - except Yeshua”.
Shimon bar Kochba’s “messiahship” was later repudiated by Jewish leaders, but the breach with the ‘Maaminim’ remained. Whatever happened to the Jewish believers? Why did the ‘Maaminim’ - who continued until the fifth century - disappear?
THE HISTORICAL RECORD EXPOSES ONE OF CHRISTIANITY’S MOST SHAMEFUL CHAPTERS.
THE UNRIGHTEOUS TREATMENT OF JESUS’ FIRST FOLLOWERS AND GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE. WHAT PERSECUTING JEWS FAILED TO DO - DESTROY THE ‘MAAMINIM’ - PROUD, BIASED AND SPITEFUL GENTILE CHRISTIANS SUCCEEDED BY THEIR HATE AND REJECTION!
Jewish preachers had converted many pagans to Christ. But after the first century, gentile Christians - who had become dominant - began to persecute their Jewish brethren!
CHURCH FATHERS DEMANDED JEWISH BELIEVERS RENOUNCE THEIR JEWISH PRACTICES
Church fathers and clergy demanded that Jewish believers renounce their Jewish observances and practices.
They forgot that the ‘Maaminim’ in A.D. 50 embraced them - on the basis of their belief in Jesus - without changing cultures.
Now they demanded that the Jews change their customs - as the basis for salvation.
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Regarding the ‘Maaminim’, Irenaeus wrote: “They circumcise their sons, observe their holidays and customs of the Law and lead a life as Jews and love Jerusalem as if it were the House of God”.
ANTI-SEMITISM BEGINS IN A.D. BY NICEAN COUNCIL
The A.D. Nicean Council, with bishops present - no Jews - changed the Resurrection Day from the 14th day of Nisan to a perpetual Sunday.
Hence the gap between Passover (Pesach) and Easter. Note the anti-Semitism: “We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jewsour worship follows amore convenient coursewe desire dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the JewsHow, then, could we follow these Jews, who are almost certainly blinded”.
Eusebius, Vita.
Const. Further humiliations were decreed against the Jews at the Laodicean Synod (A.D. ): “It is not lawful to receive unleavened bread from the Jews, nor to be partakers of their impiety” (Cannon XXXVIII).
A.D. - JEWS MAY NOT APPEAR IN COMPANY OF CHRISTIANS
The Third Synod of Orleans (A.D. ) ordered: “From the Thursday before Easter for four days, Jews may not appear in the company of Christians” (Cannon XXX).
QUINISEXT COUNCIL A.D.
- No priestly order or layman may eat unleavened bread of Jews
The Quinisext Council (A.D. ) stated: “Let no one in the priestly order nor any layman eat the unleavened bread of the Jews, nor have any familiar intercourse with them, nor summon them in illness, nor receive medicines from them, nor bathe with them; but if anyone shall take in hand to do so, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed, but if a layman, let him be cut off” (Cannon II).
DOCTRINE INVENTED SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE TUE ISRAEL
Justin (died ca.
A.D. ), invented the doctrine that Christians are the true Israel and that the Church must reject its Jewish past, His ‘Dialogue with Tryphon’ was riddled with falseness against the Jews.
JEWS CALLED CAINS, MURDERERS & NOT CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD
Tertullian (A.D. ) stated that the Jews were the Cains, the murderers, and “were rejected as the Chosen People of God”.
- ‘Adversus Judaeos’.
Origen (A.D. ) declared the Jews dangerous enemies of Christians, and stirred up the pagans against them.
Jerome (A.D. ) wrote that the Law was God’s deliberate trick to destroy the Jews.
And Bishop Epiphanius (died ca. A.D. ), declared Jewish believers - heretics - because they observed Jewish holy days.
St. Chrysostom (A.D.
) called the synagogue “a brothel, home of vice, refuge of the devil, citadel of Satan”. He stated “God hates the Jews and has always done so”.
How these false statements about the Jews contradict the Holy Scriptures that remind us of God’s great love for Israel and His Chosen People, the Jews!
OFFICIALS DEMAND CONFISCATE & BURN ALL JEWISH BOOKS
In A.D.
, Pope Gregory commanded all church officials in France, England, Spain and Portugal to confiscate Jewish books on the first Saturday of Lent. Subsequent to the decree of A.D. , thousands of volumes - filling 24 wagons - were publicly burned in Paris.
In A.D. , a synod of the archdiocese in Mainz ordered Jews to wear yellow badges.
In A.D. , Jewish men in Augsburg had to sew yellow buttons to their clothes. Across Europe, Jews were forced to wear a long undergarment, an overcoat with a yellow patch, bells and tall pointed yellow hats with a large button on them.
MARTIN LUTHER - TERRIBLE TREATMENT OF THE JEWS
Martin Luther - the great reformer - was no better than the popes, in his treatment of the Jews!
In A.D.
, Martin Luther wrote in ‘On the Jews and Their Lies’: “What shall we do with this rejected, damned Jewish people? I will give my true counsel. First that their synagogues and schools should be set on fire.. Second, that also their houses be demolished and destroyed. Third that their prayer books and Talmuds be confiscated Fourth, that, under penalty of death, their rabbis be forbidden to teachthat their freedom to travel be restrictedand all their money and valuable in gold and silver be taken”.
HITLER AND THE HOLOCAUST
HITLER’S HOLOCAUST WAS A CULMINATION OF YEARS OF ANTI-SEMITISM BY EARLY CHURCH BISHOPS, MEDIEVAL POPES AND PROTESTANT REFORMERS!
May God forgive the Church for all the hatred, bias and erroneous teaching that has fueled the perverse anti-Semitic prejudices for so long.
The Council of the Evangelical Church met in Stuttgart, Germany - October, Lutheran clergymen went on record as saying: “We are bound to our (German) people not only in a community of suffering but also in a solidarity of guilt.
With heavy pain we say: Through us, unending misfortune was brought to many”.
And the German Bishops’ Conference - June 11, - ordered that a special prayer for forgiveness concerning the murdered Jews, should be offered in all Catholic churches in Germany for “the immeasurable guilt which cannot be blotted out by human penance”.
POPE JOHN XXII PRAYS PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS FOR TREATMENT OF JEWS
Pope John XXIII prayed the following prayer of repentance, shortly before his death June 3, “We now recognize that many, many centuries of blindness have covered our eyes so that we no longer see the beauty of Your Chosen People and in their face no longer recognize the features of our first-born brother.
“We realize that the sign of Cain is marked on our forehead.
For centuries, Abel was lying in blood and tears because we forgot Your love. Forgive us the damnation we pronounced unjustly upon the name of the Jews.
“Forgive us for having crucified You a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we were doing.”
It is most unfortunate, that after all the sufferings the Jews have experienced - much of it at the hands of the Roman Church - that it took the Vatican so long to finally recognize Israel as a nation.
No doubt the very recent “turn around” resulted in the Pope’s proposed journey to Jerusalem!
POPE JOHN PAUL II - BEING THE CONSUMMATE POLITICIAN THAT HE IS - REALIZED THE NEED TO DO SO IN ORDER TO BE INVITED TO ISRAEL BEFORE HIS DEATH.
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Jesus of Nazareth had trained His disciples and apostles to preach the Gospel, heal the sick, deliver the afflicted and cast out devils. During his earthly Ministry our Saviour healed multitudes of sick and suffering people, an example to those who would follow Him. He issued the Great Commission and promised to send the Blessed Holy Spirit to empower them for the great work of the Christian Ministry. Does Jesus keep His Word? Yes, He does, and He always will.IN ANY EVENT, THE VATICAN WAS FORCED TO FINALLY CHANGE THEIR BIGOTED AND PREJUDICED ATTITUDE TOWARD ISRAEL!
With the rebirth of the Jewish State however, there is also a re-emergence of the ‘Maaminim’, in Israel.
And since hundreds of thousands of Jews have returned to Israel during this past decade (some of them born again, spirit-filled Christians from South America & Eastern Europe) the Evangelical Christian Church is growing rapidly in Israel.
Praise God!
Dr. H.H. Goldberg, spirit-filled rabbi of a Los Angeles Maaminim congregation says, “A true Jew is committed to God, to the land of Israel and to the Jewish people. And many Jews today believe in Jesus as their Mashiach”.
THE JEWS & JESUS
History of the
Mistreatment & Persecution
of the Jews - Christian Shame
Pastor Max Solbrekken
"Only the people of any country and this includes Ukraine in the full sense - can decide their fate," Putin told reporters after meeting Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
"One can play the role of a mediator, but one must not meddle and apply pressure," Putin said in a tacit reference to Western countries, which have been taking part in negotiations to defuse the Ukraine crisis.
On the eve of the Supreme Court's ruling Friday, Putin had ridiculed Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's call for a repeat of the bitterly disputed runoff - again staking his position clearly on the side of Yushchenko's rival for office, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Some Western countries have issued veiled criticism of Russia for what they contend was meddling in Ukrainian politics. Last week, President Bush said any new election in Ukraine should be free from outside interference - in remarks apparently directed at Russia.
Putin left open how Russia will react to the repeat runoff, scheduled for Dec.
But he said, "Of course we willaccept the will of any nation in the former Soviet space, and will work with any elected leader."
The comment suggested Russia could accept the runoff result, but his criticism of changing laws and his past congratulations of Yanukovych as the winner left it unclear whether the Kremlin considers the new vote will reflect the will of Ukraine's deeply divided people.
Putin rejected Western accusations, saying Russia acted "absolutely correctly" in disputes throughout the former Soviet Union. He suggested forces in the West were seeking to create new divisions in Europe for their political purposes.
"I don't want, as in Germany, for us to divide Europe into Westerners and Easterners, into first-class and second-class people, where the first class people have the opportunity to live by stable, democratic laws and the second category of people are those with, to speak metaphorically, dark political skin," Putin said.
He said the second-class people would be subjected to "a nice but stern man in a helmet who will show them under what political understanding they must live.
And if, God forbid, the ungrateful foreigner resists, he will be punished with bombs and missiles, as it was in Belgrade."
"This I consider completely unacceptable."
Russia vehemently objected to the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, Russia's ally, which badly damaged Russia's relations with NATO and particularly the United States.
Resentment persists over the assault, which ended Serbian forces' crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Putin delivered his comments as EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and other mediators headed to Kiev for new talks with Ukrainian leaders.
In Brussels, EU spokeswoman Emma Udwin said the nation bloc was not seeking to create new divisions over Ukraine.
"We are not meddling in Ukraine; OSCE observers were invited in," she said, referring to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an election-monitoring agency.
Putin suggested voters in Ukraine were now under pressure to support the pro-Yushchenko opposition, which has put hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets and has won the support of many Western countries and organizations.
"Of course, it is completely unacceptable for threats to be addressed to people that leave them with no choice, when one of the political leaders says that 'whatever happens, whatever the result of elections, we will take power - including by force," Putin said.
"This is not just pressure, it is scaring people."
The Ukrainian opposition warned repeatedly before the court ruling that they were prepared to take "immediate adequate actions" if the government tried to drag out the political crisis - an apparent hint at more radical measures.
Since the court ruling, Yushchenko has called supporters not to leave their demonstration in Kiev's Independence Square.
In an interview with Britain's Sunday Telegraph, he spoke more forcefully.
"If the old regime tries to interfere in any way and tries to defy the will of the people and of parliament, we will simply storm our way into the Cabinet office.
Max solbrekken biography Time For Change. Another year has come and gone. The old calendar has been replaced with a new one. All of us are one year older! And for some, there is sadness because loved ones or friends are gone, leaving emptiness, pain and grief!This is what the people expect," Yushchenko was quoted as saying.
CAN WE TRUST
THE RUSSIANS ?
By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, "The thing that disappointed me the most was that Leonid Brezhnev lied to me." How naive can you get?
IN BORIS YELTSIN STATED BEFORE US CONGRESS & THE WORLD - "WE HAVE LIED TO YOU FOR 70 YEARS"
In , Russian President Boris Yeltsin stated before the US Congress and the world: "We have lied to you for 70 years.
I promise you no more lies."
Boris Yeltsin with all his weaknesses (booze, etc) was probably the most honest leader Russia has had. And it is difficult to know what President Putin will do now, given the arrogance of NATO and the European Union and his expertise in information gathering!
That Russia is out for vindication, revenge & respect is no secret!
When you consider that Russia is now viewed as 'not much better' than a Third World Country -with a vast deteriorating and dangerous stock-pile of nuclear weapons - which constantly has to resort to bailouts and handouts from the West, just to keep afloat, then we begin to understand that country.
A MOTHER BEAR BEREFT OF HER CUBS IS VERY DANGEROUS
Russia, having lost control of most of the former Soviet Union’s Republics and having trouble holding on to the ones she still has (e.g.
Chechnya), is hurting badly!
Now with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia soon to enter the NATO Pact, the Russians are feeling frustrated, angry, humiliated and isolated!
NATO'S BOMBINGS OF YUGOSLAVIA WAS THE BOOST THAT RUSSIA BADLY NEEDED
A terrific anger boiled over in Russia, Ukraine, Belerus and even Greece during NATO’s horrific out-of-control bombing & missile attacks on an independent sovereign nation in Europe - who had been our ALLY during two world wars - while Albania & Croatia joined in with the Nazis!
The arrogance of NATO terribly upset China and other nations as well.
And the lies that were told by President Clinton & NATO spokesmen justifying the war, together with outrageous lies about the damage inflicted upon the Serbian Military Machine, ARE NOW BEING EXPOSED!
NATO’s constant ferocious bombardment of Yugoslavia, destroying power grids, oil depots, water facilities, automobile factories, bridges, buses, trains, schools, prisons, hospitals and even cemeteries made the Russian’s blood boil!
During the height of the inhumane campaign and after NATO murdered in cold blood - premeditated murder - nearly 20 civilians at the television station, 68, young Russians who had been evading conscription into the army, joined up to fight NATO!
I think that great anti-Communist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn said it best?
“I don’t see any difference in the behaviour of NATO and of Hitler. NATO wants to erect its own order in the world and it needs Yugoslavia simply as an example: We’ll punish Yugoslavia and the whole rest of the world will tremble.”
PRESIDENT CLINTON TOLD THE TRUTH FOR ONCE
President Clinton told the truth for once when he elaborated: "If we’re going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be the key; That’s what this Kosovo thing is all 's globalism versus tribalism."
The war had nothing to do with refugees.
As a matter of fact, it was NATO who created most of the refugees - It had to do with the economy and the New World Order!
The Russians were outraged. The speaker of the Russian Duma stated: "Yugoslavia annoys NATO because it conducts an independent policy, does not want to join NATO and has an attractive geographic position."
COPTIC CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED BY MUSLIMS ASK, "WHY NOT PROTECT US"?
Freda Lindsay reports in 'Christ For The Nations' (October ):
"The Coptic (Christian) American Union blasted the US official (Balkans) positionwhich seems to favor Muslims against..
ChristiansOur women are raped, our children kidnapped, our community being ethnic cleansed by a government which is receiving US foreign aid".
Watchmen from Jerusalem - 6/99).
Carousel: By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D. The Bible clearly outlines the sins of Israel, which at one time held a special relationship with God. In this article I compare Israel's backsliding to the Church of Jesus Christ's seemingly constant drift from our amazing spiritual beginning until the present!.
WHY NOT US? "In Beirut, … the World Maronite (Christian) Union said, "Why is the US government mobilizing to solve the issue of Kosovo by bombing Orthodox Serbia, while we Christians of Lebanon were invaded by the Syrian army in with total US endorsement?'
Dr. Mohammed…for the South Sudan (Christian) Movement in America said…“In South Sudan, we lost million people, mostly Christians because of…Islamic attacks…Yet we never saw US fighter bombers in our skies…Are white Muslims more valuable than Black Christians”?
Terry Madison of Open Doors says Saudi Arabia "has the dubious title of being the world’s worst persecutor of Christians, closely followed by Afghanistan, Sudan and China." Assist Communications - 7/9/99).
Freda Lindsay writes: "In Desert Storm, the US went to war with Iraq to protect the Saudis; our soldiers are still there!
Why does the US continue to support countries that are antagonistic toward Christians? America's Future?"
"In a National Post, June 23, article titled, 'Globalism's First Victim', author David Orchard writes: The idea that NATO attacked Yugoslavia to solve a humanitarian crisis is about as credible as Germany's claim in that it was invading Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities." The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported the first registered refugees out of Kosovo on March 27 - three days after the bombing began.
Max solbrekken wikipedia God showed Forth His Great Power! My Personal Experiences in San Salvador! By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D. Due to my close co-operation with the churches in Norway and many crusades across the world and because of the dire need for the genuine Gospel to be preached in Latin America we decided to enter the dangerous nation of El Salvador in The crowds came as thousands of Christians and others attended the crusade and there were great altar calls and miracles of healing as God stretched forth His hand of power!Civilian casualties after 21 days of bombing exceeded all casualties on both sides in Kosovo in the three months before the war.
"In an all out effort to convince public opinion that Yugoslavia deserved the onslaught, Western politicians and media are churning out endless accusations of Serb atrocities, while the proven and infinitely greater atrocities of NATO- launching an aggressive war, using internationally outlawed cluster bombs and firing depleted uranium ammunition into Yugoslavia - are buried."
"Why did NATO attack Yugoslavia and why are Serbs - Canada's staunch allies in both world wars, with million dead resisting Hitler's Nazis and Italian fascism - being demonized?"
"Most 19th-century wars were over trade.
When the United States invaded Canada in , Andrew Jackson declared, 'We are going tovindicate our right to a free trade, and open marketsand to carry the Republican standard to the Heights of Abraham.' In , Britain demanded China accept its opium and attacked when China said no. When Thailand refused British trading demands in , Britain 'found its presumption unbounded' and decided 'a better-disposed King be placed on the throneand through him, we might, beyond doubt, gain all we desire'."
"In , NATO said it was attacking Yugoslavia to force it to sign the Rambouillet 'peace agreement' (even though the Vienna Convention states that any treaty obtained by force or the threat of force is void)."
"Significantly, Rambouillet stipulated: 'The economy of Kosovo shall function in accordance with free-market principles', and 'There shall be no impediments to the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital to and from Kosovo'.
CAN THE RUSSIANS TRUST US?
Can we trust the Russians?
I don't think so! The Word of God tells us that one day Russia will join with Germany, Turkey, Ethiopia, Libya & Iran and they will march against Israel. (read Ezekiel 38 & 39)
Almighty God will then fight for her people as He did in the Yom Kippur War () when Arab commanders left their tanks fully operational with motors running: as they fled in fear.
When they were interrogated, the Arab prisoners related how they had seen men dressed in white flowing garments with flaming swords - no doubt angels of God - so they fled for their lives!
NATO & THE EUROPEAN UNION HAVE ONE GOAL - TO SET UP THE NEW WORLD ORDER
CAN THE RUSSIANS TRUST US? Definitely not!
NATO and the European Union have one goal and that is to set up the New World Order and inadvertently have made everything ready for the Antichrist when he arrives on the scene!
One thing is certain: President Clinton and NATO have put into place the Armed Force that the European Union needed and couldn't organize until the Yugoslavia War.
It will eventually become the Anti-Christ's 'Armed Forces'. That is how close we are to the Coming of Jesus!
JUDGMENT IS COMING TO THIS WICKED WORLD
Recent reports confirm that Russian generals were involved in Ethiopia's victory over Eritrea. And Russia is helping Iran to build a nuclear reactor!
German companies have been deeply involved for the past decade or so supplying Saddam Hussein of Iraq with materials and technology in his building of facilities that produce poisonous gas and bacterial agents for germ warfare, with their government looking the other way!
Japan is heavily into re-arming due to fear of North Korea, China has stolen all USA's vital nuclear secrets - atomic, neutron & hydrogen bombs - and recently two laptop computers, with the CODE WORD for their atomic secrets, spy networks and the 'Mother Lode' of the world's most advanced technology - have been stolen from their top security labs!
And the European Union (EU) has made it known that they do not need the USA or NATO any longer.
They now have their own 'Armed Forces' capable of settling all conflicts in Europe - even in Ukraine - as well as North Korea, if necessary!
Some historians believe that the Clinton Whitehouse will go down in history as the most corrupt of any in the USA.
It’s ironic when you consider the mindset of Americans: "After his impeachment by the US Congress, President Bill Clinton was voted the most admired man in that country; even though only one out of every ten surveyed said they believed he was trustworthy & honest"!
THE JUDGMENT OF ALMIGHTY GOD IS GOING TO FALL UPON THIS WORLD
The JUDGMENT OF GOD is about to fall upon this wicked world and the USA with their greed, corruption & perversion are going to be in the forefront of the judgment because of their sin.
And here in Canada, we’re not far behind.
O’ God help us is my prayer! Amen.
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