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Ohhhh - good grief - What a crock that website is! I wouldn't even waste my time on this junk. I would say that, if your acquaintance chooses to believe "any wind of doctrine" she can take it up with Yahweh on Judgment Day. I guess she's not going to bother asking what the Bible actually says, SANS the personal opinions of blinded jokers like Janet Moser who make Jews out to be "bad people." That woman needs to read scriptures such as the following, because if there's even ONE article on somebody's website that espouses false gospel, then the rest is NOT to be trusted, either - and, let me tell you - that website is full of pure, unadultrated hateful, UNBIBLICAL NONSENSE in which one article is worse than the next; it's cow dung mixed into the cookie dough, and your acquaintance is eagerly gobbling it up!
Genesis 12: "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Deuteronomy 7: 6 For you are a people set apart as holy for ADONAI your God. ADONAI your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure. 7 ADONAI didn't set his heart on you or choose you because you numbered more than any other people - on the contrary, you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 Rather, it was because ADONAI loved you, and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that ADONAI brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery under the hand of Pharoah king of Egypt.
I forwarded your question to a friend of mine (a Jewish Aramaic scholar who has just translated the oldest NT ever found from Aramaic into English and written all appendixes and footnotes from the Messianic viewpoint - which will serve to knock the misunderstandings of Paul's writings out of the water!) and he said there is NOTHING in the Bible that denotes Dan as bringing forth the Antichrist, and they can't force the Scriptures to say things they don't actually say.
Furthermore, who says the tribes are "lost" except for the Christians who've watered down Yahweh's Word by concocting their own god, their own "holy days" and who have turned our Jewish Messiah into a some blond, blue-eyed, wimpy, gay-looking adonis hanging on a cross? Yahweh knows where His tribes are; they aren't lost! And the "antichrist" certainly won't be coming out of HIS TORAH OBSERVANT, CHOSEN PEOPLE who will be returning to Jerusalem via the twelve gates:
Revelation 21:12-13: "Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west."
Note that these are the gates that only those who followed His commandments (Torah) may pass through (Revelation 22:14). There will be no pagan, Torah-less Gentiles, nor FALSE TEACHERS passing through those gates! See a Yashanet study on this.
If these illustrious "scholars" on that website were to get their heads out of their butts and view the Bible from a HEBREW instead of a hellenized Greek viewpoint (which suggests the teachings of Paul were anti-Torah), they might learn a few things. Please read this article about the Mark of the Beast (which, in my opinion, makes a whole lot more sense than a Catholic connection or whatever)! The Pope isn't going around threatening to kill people if they refuse to "convert or die"....
Anyway, the webmaster of "Watch" needs to "watch out" for his/her soul because he/she WILL be explaining themselves to God on Judgment Day for pushing DUNG down the world's collective throat. They're Satan's pawn, nothing more, nothing less. Those people need to be turned in to the Anti-Defamation League!
The Bible tells us that false prophets would abound in the end times, and your acquaintance has chosen to align herself with them if she thinks that anything on that hideous "Watch" site is Biblical....
In the meantime, Andrew Gabriel Roth, author of the Aramaic English New Testament has responded with the following:
There are five times in Scripture where Satan or Anti-Messiah is compared with earthly rulers. It is very common use the metaphor of Satan to evil earthly kings and vice versa.
In these verses, we have LITERAL references to Satan as a presence in both YHWH's court and upon the earth, as an accuser/adversary:
Zechariah 3: 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 YHWH said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! YHWH , who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?" 3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you." 5 Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of YHWH stood by. 6 The angel of YHWH gave this charge to Joshua: 7 "This is what YHWH Almighty says: 'If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.
Job 1: 6 One day the angels came to present themselves before YHWH , and Satan also came with them. 7 YHWH said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered YHWH, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
But moving into the kingly metaphor we have parallel descriptions of Satan as emobided by the king of Babylon:
Isaiah 14: 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. 12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of Elohim; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." 15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit. 16 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, 17 the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?" 18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb. 19 But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, 20 you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again. 21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities. 22 "I will rise up against them," declares YHWH Almighty. "I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants," declares YHWH. 23 "I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction," declares YHWH Almighty.
Ezekiel 28:11-19 follows the same clear pattern (this time with the king of Tyre) as the earthly king was surely not in Eden but his type was. Furthermore, if the TYPE was in Eden, this is a clear Scriptural reference to a fallen angel, ironically being linked to Uriel (El is my light) who kept the way to Eden with the flaming sword. Satan's other name is LIKE Uri-El, as LUCIFER (light-bearer) although later Jewish tradition calls him Samael. Take a look:
11 The word of YHWH came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what Sovereign YHWH says: "'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of Elohim; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. 14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of Elohim; you walked among the fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. 16 Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of Elohim, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. 18 By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. 19 All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'"
Note that in the NT 666 is Nero Caesar so this pattern is carried over. Daniel seems to do it too with the "King of the South".
Isaiah 27: 1 In that day, YHWH will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea. 2 In that day-- "Sing about a fruitful vineyard: 3 I, YHWH, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. 4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire. 5 Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me." 6 In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Now these rabbis you mention--I wonder if they have ever asked themselves why YHWH would want to destroy a regular part of his creation and not say other great beasts? Could it be - just perhaps mind you - that this serpent is the focus of evil like the one in Eden?
Of course the NT directly claims the serpent and Satan are one and the same:
2Co 11:3 - (Show Context!) But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Messiah.
Re 12:9 - (Show Context!) The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Re 20:2 - (Show Context!) He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
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