Dear Saints,

There exists at the root of Judaism a poisonous lie, which should not surprise us when we understand that Judaism is a counterfeit religion pretending to be the faith of the ancient Israelites, when it is not.

Judaism is in fact the continuation of the Tradition of the Elders, which the Pharisees taught and practiced for their own gain, and which Christ condemned so vehemently.

Matthew 15
Then Jesus was approached by Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem, who asked, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

He answered them, “Why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition? For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death. But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,” he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have nullified the word of God because of your tradition. Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

“This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.

They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines human commands.”

Jesus also called the Tradition of the Elders ‘The Tradition of Men’.

Mark 7: 8
“You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

The Tradition of the Elders was an oral tradition of man-made interpretations of the written law given to Moses. This oral tradition ran side by side with the law of Moses, though in eventual practice it came to usurp and replace the original written law. Which is why Jesus said to the Pharisees:

Matthew 15:3
“Why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition?”

It was this unwritten Oral Tradition of the Elders which eventually became the religion of Judaism. Long after the destruction of the 2nd Temple, when Babylon became the world-center of Rabbis and synagogues, the Oral Tradition of the Pharisees was finally written down in the form of the Babylonian Talmud.

This is admitted by Jewish Rabbis themselves:

“The Talmud, then, is the written form of that which, in the time of Jesus, was called the Traditions of the Elders, and to which he makes frequent allusions.”

– Rabbi Michael Rodkinson (From ‘The Jewish Mentality’, by M. Hoffman)

And by the Jewish Encyclopedia:

The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees.

– 1943 Jewish Encyclopedia (pg 474)

It should therefore not be so surprising to find that the codification of the Tradition of the Elders known as Judaism is built upon a lie.

It is a lie repeated in the form of a story within the Oral Tradition, and recorded in the Talmud. The story goes something like this:

While Holy Yahweh was talking with Moses upon the mountain and giving His laws to pass on to the Israelite tribes waiting below, the Most High also whispered words into the ears of a select group of Hebrew elders. In these whispered words, it is claimed, Holy Yahweh passed on secret wisdoms and understandings to the elders concerning things He did not disclose for Moses to record in stone. Twisted things. Reasons and rationales on why everything being disclosed to Moses should be understood in a different way, or discounted altogether.

This is the man-made fable which the Tradition of the Elders/Judaism tells to itself as a foundational myth.*

*(And if this is anything but man-made fable – if anyone was whispering secret words into the ears of certain elders – then it was not the Most High but the Most Low, the Serpent).

When Jesus confronted the Pharisees, it was their Oral Tradition that he called out so strongly. Because what the Pharisees preached was a cage of man-made rules and rituals concerning every little minutiae of Hebrew life, ranging from the most righteous height of a compost pile to how vegetables should or should not be chopped up before eating. Christ condemned these religious beliefs as a “burden” that were impossible for the faithful to carry.

It was the breakings of the Oral Tradition, of these minute man-made codes and rituals which oversaw everything, for which Jesus and His followers were most often criticised by the Pharisees:

Matthew 15:2
“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread!“

This was in relation to the ritual washing of hands before eating.

Matthew 5:43-45
“You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.”

Hating your enemy was not a teaching from the written law of God, being the law of love. The Hebrews were called upon to hate the enemies of Yahweh, not their own enemies.

The Oral Tradition of the Elders however, as handed down word-of-mouth for generations with one new corruption after another, taught otherwise. It taught a law of hate. Hate for all those who are not your own kind.

This was why these religious leaders were considered the Father’s enemies by Christ. Because with their ‘Traditions of Men’ they had entirely inverted the meaning of Yahweh’s law to suit their own vain desires.

Worshiping the Snake

In terms of inwards lawlessness, the Oral Tradition was a form of worshipping SELF. Of following what appeared to be a holy and righteous life while following the sins of vanity and pride. The Pharisees were puffed-up in their own SELF-righteousness.

In terms of outer practice, the Oral Tradition was a form of legalism. It involved men thinking of arguments and not-so-clever loopholes that allowed them to circumvent the Ten Commandments while retaining an outwardly holy appearance.

Matthew 23:27-28
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”

In their puffed-up vanity, the Pharisees believed they could add their own traditions and expansions to God’s law. They believed that Yahweh’s word was subservient to their own misinterpretations. And this tradition of man-made reasoning carried on into what later became known as Judaism, in which the Rabbis would endlessly debate and interpret the laws of God, and still do so to this day.

Rabbinic Judaism therefore is a form of religious ‘lawyer-ism’.

Indeed, in the New Testament whenever we read of the word ‘lawyer’, it is always used in regards to ‘those who interpret the Mosaic law.’

This is what seemingly brought Christ into such contention with the Pharisees of his day. For he called out their man-made legalism as being wholly unlawful in the eyes of God.*

*(the ‘legalisms’ that we all witnessed during the modern-day Covid Hoax are a good example of man-made legalism being used to overturn Common Law, which itself is based upon God-given law; also a good example of how ‘legal’ and ‘lawful’ are wholly different things).

In their SELF-led legalism, the Pharisees annulled belief in the the teachings of the Old Testament to the extent that their forefathers killed every prophet of God who they could get their hands on, and even ultimately condemned Christ to be crucified upon a cross by the Roman occupiers.

Luke 11:47
“Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.“

Matthew 23:34-36
“Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.”

On a deeper level, a spiritual level, it was more than their legalism however which brought Christ into such contention with these religious leaders.

Luke 11
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell (Gehenna)?”

These are some of the strongest words of condemnation which Christ uses during the entire time of his ministry.

They are much like the fiery words of John the Baptist:

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”

Vipers. Snakes. People condemned as sons of Hell (Gehenna).

The snake represents the devil in this world. It represents the worship of SELF, of vanity and ego and self-direction.

John 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If Yahweh were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from Yahweh. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My words. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks in his character, because he is a liar and the father of lies …”

According to Christ the Pharisees were murderers and liars, snakes and the children of Satan pretending to be the children of God.

And this is the very same Tradition of the Elders which was later codified into words in the form of the Babylonian Talmud, Judaism’s most highly revered holy book.

The Oral Tradition of the Elders became Judaism.

This is considered an historical fact not only by Jewish Rabbis but by Christian commentators too:

https://biblehub.com/topical/t/tradition_of_the_elders.htm

The Tradition of the Elders eventually became codified in the Mishnah, a written compilation of Jewish oral traditions, around the end of the second century A.D. The Mishnah, along with the Gemara, forms the Talmud, which remains a central text in Rabbinic Judaism.

Judaism annuls and circumvents the commands of God. Its forefathers, who followed the Oral Traditional of the Elders over the written laws of Moses, killed the prophets sent to them by Yahweh. They eventually rejected and had crucified the very Messiah the Israelites had been waiting for.

So how can there be such a thing as Judeo-Christianty?

But It Says Jew In The Bible

This single, confusing word ‘Jew’ has lead to one of the greatest counterfeits of truth ever seen in the history of man.

The word Jew does not mean Hebrew or Israelite. It means a follower of Judaism, which is the written form of the Tradition of the Elders – that perversion and annulment of the old Hebrew faith.

The word Jew is found nowhere in the original texts of the Bible. It was added in MUCH later through translations, after Judaism had long become its own formalised religion based upon the Babylonian Talmud.

When you read the word ‘Jew’ in the Bible, the original word is either ‘Hebrew’ or ‘Israelite’, or when in relation to the tribe of Judah, ‘Judaite’. In New Testament instances, when speaking of the people of Judea in a provincial sense, the word found in the original texts is ‘Judean’.

It is only when the word ‘Jew’ is used in relation to those of Judea in Christ’s time – when the Pharisees and synagogues were firmly in control of the Temple and religious life – that it has any real relevance at all. From the ‘Judean’ of Christ’s time comes the more modern translation of ‘Jew’. But this in no way represents the greater 12 tribes of Israel, those Hebrews of the Old Testament, nor their original covenant with Yahweh, since by this time their religious leaders did not even believe what Moses had taught.

John 5:46
“If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

For whatever reasons, this word Jew was added in across the entire Bible as a title for all the original tribes of Israel, from ancient times to the time of Messiah, confusing the issue thoroughly.

In our understanding of this matter, we will suffer less confusion and deception if we drop the word ‘Jew’ entirely in our head when reading the Bible or when thinking of the ancient Israelites. If we use the original God-given names instead, Israelite or Hebrew or Judean, our understanding will begin to clear.

In the book of Revelation, Christ condemns the ‘Jews Who Are Not Jews’ when he says, ‘I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be JEWS, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan’. When we read this scripture, we will have a clearer understanding of what Christ actually said and meant if we drop the translation ‘Jew’ and simply use the word that Christ actually used, which is ‘Judean’.

This scripture should really read: ‘I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be JUDEANS, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan’

This is of crucial importance for our understanding of the ‘Synagogue of Satan’.

The True Seed Of Abraham

Jews claim to be the true seed of Abraham, and therefore those promises and blessings which Yahweh made to Abraham and his seed belong to them.

But are they the true seed of Abraham?

Galatians 3:14-29?
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be cancelled or amended. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

Galatians 3:?
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

We are saved not through race, but through faith.

The true seed of Abraham was never about race. That was simply the material vehicle through which the Remnant was carried and preserved.

It was always the Remnant of true BELIEVERS who Yahweh was preserving as His Chosen Children. It was the earnest BELIEVERS, those with a fear for Yahweh, who were the true Israelites of old – those who did not bow the knee to Baal, and instead held fast to the commandments of the Most High, awaiting for their prophesied Messiah in the form of Jesus/Yahshua:

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 53: ‘The Suffering Servant’
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted …

When the prophecies and promises of Abraham’s seed were finally fulfilled through Christ Jesus, the SAINTS became the modern Israelites. True Israel of today is the Christ-following ecclesia of the last two thousand years.

Therefore, those who bless the SAINTS are those who will be blessed. And those who curse the SAINTS are those who will be cursed.

Not ‘Jews’. The saints!

When we take this into account, where then does Judaism stand in relation to this matter of true Israel?

It stands as counterfeit. As a lie from the Father of Lies.

John 8:44
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires.”

But like all things of the devil, it is built upon shifting sands and cannot stand forever.

And Christ had a message for the Pharisees and Rabbis:

(Matthew 15:12-13)
Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you not know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.”

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these last days.

Colin Buchanan

thiswisefool@protonmail.com

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