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Harry Bethel of Bethel Ministries is a man who loves to pretend he's a "good Christian" while at the same time bashing God's Chosen, using any means possible. We've therefore decided to accept Harry's public challenge for somebody to take him on concerning his holocaust article. Because his endlessly long article is filled with insignificant "stuff" and "fluff" and personal opinions that have no relevance to the subject at hand, we've only posted what we deemed important. We have also reported him to the Anti-Defamation League. If interested, you can view the entire article on Harry's site at the above link.
THE HOLOCAUST FROM A SCRIPTURAL PERSPECTIVE
The Holocaust Was God's Judgment, Not Merely Persecution
by Harry Bethel
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The Netzarim response:
Even Harry's title makes no sense. Since YHWH (Yahweh) sent Yeshua to be the Final SIN Sacrifice for the entire world, then why would He single out His "Chosen" whom He promised to love forever, to suffer at the hands of that crazed Nazi, Hitler? What did "the Jews" do that was any worse than what Christians or Muslims are doing by not turning to YHWH or obeying His "forever" commands, such as the Seventh Day Sabbath and the Biblical Feasts? What are they doing (or have the done in the past) that is any worse than what the world's atheists or satanists are guilty of? Their punishment was to be scattered into the nations, not to be tortured by the likes of that Gentile wacko, Hitler.
Jews OBEY God's commands. They aren't ignoring God's commanded mo'edim (appointed Feast times) and they haven't made up any paganistic "holy days." Believing Jews - unlike Harry and most other Christians - don't ever allow "unclean food" to cross their lips. And those who already believe in Messiah Yeshua (our Savior's true Name, which means "YHWH is Salvation") know that He was a Torah observant, seventh day Sabbath and Biblical Feast-keeping, kosher JEW, not some man who came to take the place of God, the Father and do away with His original Divine Instructions, without which, man would have NO blueprint for moral, holy living...
By the way, we ask the forgiveness of the TRUE Christians who are reading this; those who ARE "saved" and treat their fellow human beings according to the Scriptures. While we believe Christianity as a whole to be off the mark, we also realize there are GOOD Christians who do their best to adhere to God's Word. Anything that sounds harsh in this article is directed at Christianity and at Harry; not to the ordinary, God' fearing Christian.
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Harry continues:
NOTICE: I do not advocate illegal discrimination or racism or violation of civil rights of Jews or any other group. This article and website is NOT anti-Semitic. Christians should love the Jews and pray for them.
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The Netzarim response:
What a hypocrite! "Christians should love the Jews and pray for them." Then why does he spend so much time making them look like monsters? Harry has jumped on the "hate the Jews" bandwagon, picking and choosing scriptures to suit his agenda, and even listing secular hate-mongers to "prove" his point about how "bad" the Jews are....
The Jews, being Torah observant, are a lot closer to God than Harry with his Torah-less "Jesus" who supposedly came to abolish all of the Father's original DIVINE Instructions and to abolish the need to obey God....Harry's "Jesus" in no way resembles the actual Messiah who walked this Earth and personally showed people the proper way to obey God; the One who came, not to "proclaim the cross" but rather, the Kingdom of God:
Luke 4: 43 "But he (Yeshua) said, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent."
Acts 28: 23 "From morning till evening the Apostle Paul explained and declared the Kingdom of God and tried to convince people about Yeshua from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets."
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Harry continues:
CHALLENGE TO THE READER: I challenge you to read this entire article and tell others about it or refute with the truth any false statements in it so that I can correct them. Of the many thousands who have read this article not one has ever refuted anything in it.
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The Netzarim response:
The problem is, we know from experience that Harry ignores those of us who challenge him. He also doesn't bother responding to any Biblical PROOFS on his website or via email. He has a history of ignoring and pretending "nobody ever refutes" him - which makes him a liar and deceiver.
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Harry continues:
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them" (Ephesians 5:11).
I love Jews. I am a spiritual descendent of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (Galatians 3:29; 4:28-31). My surname is a Hebrew name and means "house of God." I love Arabs. And by God's grace I love all my enemies. Notwithstanding these true declarations I just made, anyone who writes anything exposing the misdeeds of the Jews is automatically attacked and summarily labeled "anti-Semitic" and a "Jew-hater." So be it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it, and error is error even if everyone believes it.
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The Netzarim response:
Notice how defensive he gets! He just admitted he "gets attacked" for his anti-Semitic posturing - yet, above, he says NOBODY, out of the "thousands" who have supposedly read this particular article, has bothered to challenge his supposed Biblical proof about the evil Jews....
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Harry continues:
Jews claim to be God's chosen people, but they were His chosen people. Only the elect of the Jews (which is an extremely small minority) will be saved.
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The Netzarim response:
"Were" His chosen people? What changed? Where do the scriptures say ANYTHING about a "small minority" of Jews? If "the Jews" WERE (past tense) His Chosen, then why do we find the following scriptures to show otherwise?
Genesis 12:3 - "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.
Romans 11:11-12: "But I say: Have they so stumbled as to fall entirely? May it never be! Rather, by their stumbling, life has come to the Gentiles for (awakening) their jealousy. And if their stumbling was riches to the world, and their condemnation riches to the Gentiles; how much more their completeness?"
If it hadn't been for God's CHOSEN being scattered into the nations (Ezekiel 36:19) who were ultimately referred to as "Jews," YHWH and Yeshua would have remained the best-kept secret of tiny, little Israel, and the rest of the world would still be writhing in Paganism. One cannot condemn those Jews who are not yet Believers in Christ because God hasn't opened their spiritual eyes, yet. They are, however, Torah observant believers in YHWH, which brings them a lot closer to God than any Christian who ignores God's original divine teachings in favor of Sun-day worship and paganistic "holidays".
We hope Harry pays special attention to these scriptures:
Jeremiah 31:35-37: This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar- the LORD Almighty is his name: "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD, "will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me." This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done," declares the LORD.
Romans 11:25-27: "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
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Harry continues:
Many Jewish groups cry, "Anti-Semitic! Anti-Semitic!" when they read or hear of anything that exposes their sins and evil deeds. In fact, the Jews claim that the New Testament is "anti-Semitic." According to their reasoning, the Jewish Old Testament would be much more "anti-Semitic" than the New Testament! God repeatedly judged the Jews, including killing many thousands at a time for disobeying Him. One well-known Jewish organization whose main purpose is to attack others who they claim are anti-Semitic issued a statement saying that the claim that Christ was crucified by the Jews is "appalling, historically false and deeply offensive." But this article will clearly refute that lie.
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The Netzarim response:
No, actually "the Jews" cry "Anti-Semitic! Anti-Semitic!" whenever they read or hear of supposed Christians who, rather than to concentrate on showing them the truth of YESHUA, they dig up the past and list all kinds of negative junk about them. (We'd also like to know makes pork eating, Sun-Day keeping, Christmas and Easter celebrating Christians like Harry think they could ever present God's real Messiah to "the Jews" when they themselves don't have a clue about God!)
So, what Harry is actually saying above is that "the Jews" (unlike the wonderful, godly Christians who never, ever sin and who aren't ever guilty of lying, murder, divorce, engaging in homosexuality, or obtaining abortions, etc) need to be exposed for their supposedly evil deeds by someone like the perfect "Christian" Harry who is prone to lying, deceitfulness and sarcasm (as evidenced throughout his entire website, especially whenever he refers to "the Jews").
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Harry continues:
I am no more anti-Semitic than God is. Their argument is with God, to whom they will give account on the Day of Judgment. This article reveals what God says about the Jews as recorded in His Word, and exposes many of their wicked deeds. If you want to take issue with me concerning the truths revealed in this article, then save yourself some time and read the entire article and don't jump to conclusions or try to judge my motives. Of the many thousands who have read this article not one has refuted anything in it. The reason no one can refute this article is because you cannot refute the truth. I am no longer responding to emails from anyone attacking me because of the truths presented on this web page.
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The Netzarim response:
Harry has apparently never heard of the Third Commandment which says not to use YHWH's Name in vain. Harry obviously doesn't realize that he will be among those Yeshua will "spit out of His mouth" upon His return to Earth (Revelation 3: 16) because not only is he NOT obeying God, but he dares to use God's Name in vain and bash His Chosen....
Whether Harry likes it or not, The Refiner's Fire has refuted his fluffy churchianity several times - and he has never once bothered to stand up for himself. That is because he knows he can't. The "truths" of Harry's website come straight from his father, Satan, because his site oozes with "picked and chosen" scriptures that support his own agenda and do nothing to further the Kingdom of God.
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Harry continues:
The Jews throughout much of the period covered by the Old Testament were generally a stiff-necked people in rebellion against God:
A few examples are:
When the Jews made and worshiped the golden calf while Moses was on the mountain with God. God had 3,000 Jews killed by the sword for that sin (Exodus 32).
When the Jews complained about the manna from heaven that God provided for them, He smote them "with a great plague" (Numbers 11:33).
God condemned the rebellious Jews (all the men who were 20 years old or older except Caleb and Joshua) to die in the desert where they had to wander for 40 years (Numbers 14:29-35).
God killed 14,700 Jews with a plague because they rebelled against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16:41-49).
God said, "My people are destroyed for lack of [rejection of] knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee...I will also forget thy children (Hosea 4:6).
NOTE FROM THE REFINER'S FIRE: Harry goes on to list several more scriptures to prove how evil "the Jews" were, and if you're interested, you can read them in the article on Harry's site; most people "get the picture."
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The Netzarim response:
Hosea 4:6 was referring to Israel, not just "the Jews." Anyone who believes in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is part of Israel....If Harry had used a GOOD Bible translation instead of the error-ridden King James (which erroneously suggests turtles can be offered as sin sacrifices, and renders useless all of Acts 12 because of James' use of the word "Easter", etc.), he might have noticed that his translation was "off". What that scripture actually says is: Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for want of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as cohen for me. Because you forgot the Torah of your God, I will also forget your children. Harry and every other Christian in the world doesn't bother with the "Torah of your God," so he actually has no right to bash "the Jews" for being guilty of doing the same! The fact that he is doing just that shows him up for the raving hypocrite he is!
So, God "divorced" Israel, but Harry obviously forgot to read THE REST of those scriptures in CONTEXT because, further along, down through Jeremiah 3 and on into chapters 4 and 5, etc., YHWH makes comments such as:
Jeremiah 3:11 " 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever.
Jeremiah 3: 14 "Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you - one from a town and two from a clan - and bring you to Zion. 15 Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. 16 In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the LORD, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. 17 At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. 18 In those days the house of Judah will join the house of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your forefathers as an inheritance.
The above are just a couple of examples. Harry needs to read on through chapter 5 and beyond and to see the many, many times God tells Israel He will take her back! Then he needs to re-read this: Genesis 12: 3 "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." Harry has obviously forgotten that he is "blessed" through the Jews....
Romans 11:25-27: "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
One wonders if Harry happened to notice that Jeremiah 3:9 (right after the "divorce certificate" which Harry so proudly proclaimed God gave Israel) it says: 9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
What is it that Christians do every Christmas, Harry? They do the following that God warned His people NOT to do:
Jeremiah 10: 1 Hear the word Adonai speaks to you, house of Isra'el (which includes ALL believers, both Jew and Gentile)! 2 Here is what Adonai says: "Don't learn the way of the Goyim (Gentiles), don't be frightened by astrological signs, even if the Goyim are afraid of them; 3 for the customs of the peoples are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest; a craftsman works it with his axe; 4 they deck it with silver and gold. They fix it with hammer and nails, so that it won't move. 5 Like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch, it cannot speak. It has to be carried, because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of it - it can do nothing bad; likewise, it is unable to do anything good!"
So, before Harry or any other Christian can legitimately cast stones at "the Jews" they had best clean up their own back yards, first!
At this point we must also ask Harry, what he thinks should be done about you Christians who are guilty of changing the Name of our Savior along with the dates of His birth, death and resurrection and coming up with their own "holy days" of Christmas and Easter, both of which are steeped in paganism....While we're at it, since he's alluding to the fact that Christians are sinless and "the Jews" are evil, let's name just a few CHRISTIAN "stiff-necks", hypocrites and/or weirdos who have fallen from grace or gathered cult followings: Pastor Ted Haggard, Jose Luis De Jesús Miranda, Todd Bentley, David Koresh, Rev. Sun Yung Moon, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jim Jones....
The ONLY reason God isn't zapping people into oblivion today for their deliberate sinning is because of the death of Yeshua; judgment will come after they die. This is why today God has allowed man to basically "do his own thing" - but judgment IS coming and it is also coming for the more than 33,000 Christian denominations which are guilty of twisting the Word of God and ignoring His Torah....Hardly anybody walks the way Yeshua showed us how to walk!
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Harry continues:
The Jews, generally, rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Savior and conspired to kill Him:
The reason that John the Baptizer, a Jew, came baptizing with water was to reveal Jesus to Israel (the Jews) (John 1:31).
Jesus came to His own (the Jews), but His own received Him not (John 1:11).
When Jesus healed a lame man on the Sabbath, "the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His father, making himself equal with God" (John 5:18).
NOTE FROM THE REFINER'S FIRE: Again, we've deleted much of this section to save time and space. You can view the whole list in his original article.
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The Netzarim response:
The thing is, Yeshua came to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to show man that man had twisted the Word (just like man is still doing today!); and He was attempting to show them the error of their ways. For instance, the rabbis had turned the Sabbath into a burden by insisting that one was guilty of "work" on the Sabbath over the slightest thing, such as getting out of bed. Yeshua picked grain and healed on a Sabbath to illustrate that the Sabbath was meant as a REST from the work of the week. "Rest" didn't mean that you had to leave your poor donkey in a ditch with a broken leg until after the Sabbath, or that you couldn't feed your family or change your babies' diapers....
The rabbis who had (like today's pastors) puffed themselves up with titles and prestige and couldn't handle being told by this Nazarene who dared to stand up to them, that they were wrong! That is why, in the end, they wanted him dead. People still react the same way today! The Refiner's Fire has received SEVERAL death threats from Christians, including Christian pastors, who were angry over the fact that we teach Torah. None of them had the intelligence to realize that Torah is God's DIVINE Instructions, without which we would have NO blueprint for moral, holy living! Without Torah, we wouldn't have a definition for SIN! Sin is transgression of the Torah (Leviticus 4:13, 1 John 3:4) ....
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Harry continues:
Why is there a dislike and even hatred for the Jews among some societies throughout the world? Is it because they are honest and love their Gentile neighbors? Or is it because many of them are known for their shrewd and dishonest business tactics and love of money? Or is it because many of them have the desire to control politically, financially, and in other ways, the Gentile countries in which they live?
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The Netzarim response:
Let's see...how many Gentiles can we dig up who are guilty of the same? Harry's argument is not Biblical here; it's simply full of his own opinions. He can prove NONE of the things he says because his references come from the minds of "white supremacists" and "Neo-Nazis" and their ilk.
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Harry continues:
Following are some quotes from famous people concerning the Jews:
From tapes released by the National Archives, in a recorded conversation between President Nixon and Billy Graham in the Oval Office in 1972, Graham said concerning the Jews and their domination of the media, etc., "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain." Nixon said to Graham, "You believe that?" Graham replied, "Yes sir." Nixon replied, "Oh boy. So do I." Then Nixon said, "I can't ever say that, but I believe it." Graham later in the conversation concerning the Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media said, "But they [the Jews] don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them." Nixon replied, "You must not let them know." Graham, referring to the Jews, also said, "They're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff." (Upon exposing this conversation Graham said, "...I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon...")
The apostle Paul wrote concerning the Jews, "You who brag about the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? As it is written: 'God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you'" (Romans 2:23-24).
Justin Martyr, in 116 A.D. wrote, "The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith."
Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, general, 1806, "The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers, falling into disgrace when they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it...The evils of the Jews stem not from individuals but from the fundamental nature of this people."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), nineteenth century writer wrote in Harpers Monthly Magazine 9/1899, "In the U.S. cotton states, after the [Civil] war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the Negroes' wants on credit, and at the end of the season was the proprietor of the Negroes' share of the present crop and part of the next one...The Jew was always ready to lend on a crop. When settlement day came, he owned the farm...In England of John's time everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands...He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago, and Austria a couple of centuries later...I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and aim of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since."
Jesus warned, "Beware of the leaven of the [Jewish] Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" (Luke 12:1). Jesus, many times, called the Jews hypocrites. It is interesting that the Greek word from which we get the term "hypocrite" means "actor." We need to beware of the hypocrisy of the Jews. They pretend to be righteous but are dead in their trespasses and sins. Jesus told the Jews that unless their righteousness exceeded that of the Jewish scribes and Pharisees they would in no case enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:20). In order for one to be counted righteous, one must have been born again and have the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. Unless Jews have been born again they are Christ-rejecters.
NOTE FROM THE REFINER'S FIRE: We have purposely left the rest of this section out because it has absolutely NO relevance to this article as it consists of extra-biblical rants and opinions about Jews by various people, including atheists and other unsavory characters, designed to spawn hatred against "the Jews." We will not waste time and space responding to anything outside the Bible. You can view this section in full on Harry's site.
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The Netzarim response:
And how many Jews since time immemmorial have been persecuted and killed "in the Name of Jesus" ever since the advent of Catholicism and Christianity? How many times did YHWH, the FATHER, warn His Chosen to stay away from the Gentiles? How many covenants did He make with Gentiles? Hmmm, let's see...Oh yeah - NONE! Not even the New Covenant was made with Gentiles; it was made with the Houses of Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 31:31) both of which were Torah observant as God commanded in Numbers 15:13-16!
Numbers 15: 13 "'Everyone who is native-born must do these things in this way when he brings an offering made by fire as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. 14 For the generations to come, whenever an alien or anyone else living among you presents an offering made by fire as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, he must do exactly as you do. 15 The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD: 16 The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the alien living among you.'"
Since Harry mentioned Romans 2:23-24, let's go a little further and examine these verses IN CONTEXT, using Andrew Gabriel Roth's Aramaic English New Testament:
Romans 2: 22. And you who say, Men must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? And you who condemn idols, do you plunder the sanctuary? 23. And you who glory in Torah, don't you, by acting contrary to Torah, insult Elohim himself?[1] 24. For, the name of Elohim, as it is written,[2] is reviled among the Gentiles on your account. 25. For circumcision profits indeed if you fulfill [3] Torah: but if you depart from Torah, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.[4] 26. And if uncircumcision should keep the precepts of Torah, would not that uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?[5] 27. And the uncircumcision, which from its nature fulfills Torah, will judge you; who, with the Scripture and with circumcision, transgresses against Torah. [6] 28. For he is not a Jew who is so in what is external (alone): nor is that (only physical) circumcision, which is visible in the flesh.[7] 29. But he is a Jew who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from Elohim.
[1] Rav Shaul (Paul) here also shows that he expects the name of Elohim to be a singular, fixed "sacred" vessel. He is quoting (as it is written) from Ezekiel 36:20 and alluding to the next verse after it, viz: "But when they came to those nations, they caused My Set Apart Name to be profaned in that it was said of them: These are the people of YHWH, but they had to leave His land. Therefore, I am concerned for My Set Apart Name which the House of Israel have caused to be profaned among the nations." One way to profane the Name is by substituting the Name of YHWH for Pagan names that YHWH Himself has not ordained. This, of course, was done at the hand of many translators and theologians who imposed their own ideas into the text. Another common way of profaning The Name is to proclaim His Name, but not do the things He commands.
[2] Fulfill means to properly understand and manifest that understanding of Torah through accurate practice.
[3] If someone is circumcised because of their culture but not taught that it is a sign of the covenant with Awraham and to walk in that covenant, then his circumcision is irrelevant for purposes of the Malchut (Kingdom of) Elohim. A person must enter into Covenant with YHWH to claim any legitimacy (or credit) for his circumcision. See Circumcision in Appendix.
[4] Yes, because the action of keeping the precepts of Torah, the obedience and the knowledge of YHWH must first precede the act of circumcision. Awraham was counted righteous before he was circumcised because he had Faith to observe all that YHWH commanded.
[5] Those who are not as yet circumcised in the flesh but who fulfill and observe Torah, will judge those who are circumcised and know the scriptures well, but who transgress against Torah. Torah has equal weight; no one can observe some precepts and ignore others, yet hold themselves to be qualified enough to judge others.
[6] Because a person could be physically circumcised and be a thief, liar, murderer, etc.
[7] Far be it, or, as it appears two lines later, May it never be! = khes, is the strongest negative that exists in Aramaic. It is close to the idea of "Elohim forbid!"
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Harry continues:
There were more than 50 Jews appointed to government positions in the Clinton administration, including the Secretary of State, CIA Director of Operations, Under Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Attorney General, Presidential Policy Advisor, Assistant Secretary of State, Counsel to President, and Deputy Chief of Staff. These more than 50 appointees do not include lower-level jobs and more than 20 Ambassadors to foreign countries.
Likewise, there were more than 30 Jews appointed to government positions in the Bush administration, including Chief of Staff, Head of Homeland Security, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Speechwriter, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, White House Political Director, Deputy Secretary of Defense, White House Political Director and White House Press Secretary. Those more than 30 appointees do not include lower-level jobs and many Ambassadors to foreign countries.
All of this is phenomenal since Jews compose less than three percent of the U.S. population!
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The Netzarim response:
And his point is? Is it that "the Jews" supposedly forced their employers to hire/appoint them, or that they somehow weaseled their way in? There seems to be no end to Harry's hatred of the Jews. Instead of spending his energy trying to "show them Jesus" or doing something positive with and for "the Jews," he spends ALL his time being negative towards them! Some "good Christian" example he is....
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Harry continues:
Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, pronounced judgment on the Jews for rejecting Him:
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The Netzarim response:
He was NOT "God Incarnate". "Incarnate" denotes someone died and came back to inhabit someone else's body. GOD cannot die nor be born....
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Harry continues:
When the Jewish chief priests and elders questioned Jesus' authority He said to them, "I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people [Gentiles] who will produce its fruit" (Matthew 21:43).
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The Netzarim response:
Let's show Harry what the Aramaic English New Testament by Andrew Gabriel Roth says about the meaning of Matthew 21:43:
Matthew 21: 43. Because of this I say to you that the Kingdom of Elohim will be taken from you and will be given to a people who bear fruit.[1]
[1]This warning applies to every generation that upholds man's religious traditions as majority. Many leaders of the "chosen people" openly deny Torah and Mashiyach in favor of their own traditions, making themselves enemies of the Kingdom of Elohim.
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Harry continues:
When the Jews cried out over and over to crucify Jesus, and Pilate wanted to release Him, all the Jews said, "Let His blood be on us and on our children!" (Matthew 27:25).
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The Netzarim response:
Let's show Harry what the Aramaic English New Testament by Andrew Gabriel Roth says about the meaning of Matthew 27:25:
Matthew 27: 25. And answered all the people and said, "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."[1]
[1]Exodus 20:4 is being referenced here, which indicates that YHWH visits sins up to the fourth generation. Some of the Sanhedrin were concerned that Y'shua was innocent; they concluded that if he was innocent, a worst case scenario would bring a curse on them lasting four generations. However, if Y'shua was guilty and if the Romans became angry, they feared Israel would be wiped off the face of the earth, hence, not only four generations but all future generations would be affected. This idea was also stated by the high priest in John 11:48. This grossly misunderstood (or twisted) verse was fashioned into a "the blood curse" by Christians against the Jewish people.
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Harry continues:
The Jews generally rejected Jesus, the true Messiah, therefore Jesus cursed the fig tree, which represents Israel, saying, "May you never bear fruit again!" (Matthew 21:18).
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The Netzarim response:
Let's show Harry what the Aramaic English New Testament by Andrew Gabriel Roth says about the meaning of the fig tree:
Matthew 21: 19. And he saw a certain fig tree by the road and came to it and he did not find anything on it except only leaves. And he said to it, Let there never again be fruit on you forever! And at once, that fig tree withered.[1]
[1]The fig is first mentioned in Genesis 3:7. The Law of First Mention provides a remez (hint) of the symbolic meaning of the fig tree. It is connected to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and relates to judgment between good and evil. The fig tree represents the Beit Din (House of Judges), or the Sanhedrin which in that generation were found wanting and without fruit (see the parables of the fig tree, Matthew 24:32; and Luke 13:7. In Luke 10, seventy are sent out, correlating with the seventy elders of Israel in Shemot/Exodus 24. Oftentimes the Olive Tree which represents Israel, is erroneously confused with symbol of the Fig Tree.
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Harry continues:
The apostle Paul (a born-again Jew) said that the minds of the Jews have been made dull and to this day a "veil" covers their hearts when the Old Covenant is read, and only in Christ is it taken away (2 Corinthians 3:14-16).
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The Netzarim response:
Let's show Harry what the Aramaic English New Testament by Andrew Gabriel Roth says about 2 Corinthians 3:14-16:
2 Corinthians 3: 14. But they were blinded in their understanding because until this day, when the Ancient Covenant is read, the same veil rests upon them; nor is it manifest (to them), that it (condemnation) is abolished by the Mashiyach. 15. And to this day, when Moshe is read, a veil is thrown upon their hearts. 16. But when any of them is turned to Master YHWH, the veil is taken from him.[1]
[1] The reading of Torah does not blind, nor does the reading of the "Renewed Covenant" bring Grace: but in each, one must "turn to Master YHWH with their hearts" to remove the veil. MarYah/YHWH is used here (in the Aramaic in which the original NT was written), rather than Y'shua. Rather than people turning to Y'shua as the deciding factor, the point is that both Jews and Gentiles must be truthful, and not just use prayers or Scripture readings as some sort of magical incantation, but to turn their hearts to YHWH. In many places Y'shua teaches that he came to bring Glory to the Father, and to turn hearts unto YHWH.
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Harry continues:
Reportedly, in 1977 Israel passed a law that prohibits anyone, including Christians, from leading the Jews to change their religion.
There is good reason to believe that the coming Antichrist will be a Jew:
Speaking of the Antichrist in Daniel 11:37, the Word says, "He will show no regard for the God of his fathers [the Jewish Patriarchs]." The Young's Literal Translation, the NKJV, and others, and the margin in the NASB render the passage as saying "God" not "gods."
"Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist---he denies the Father and the Son" (1 John 2:22). All Jews who are not born again deny that Jesus is the Christ, therefore, they are antichrists. (Of course, this is also true of Gentiles who deny that Jesus is the Christ.)
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The Netzarim response:
What a crock of baloney to insist the "Antichrist" will be a Jew! The Antichrist is not just a single person but a whole SYSTEM of belief! Muslims are anti-Christ, not the Jews who are waiting for their Messiah to come and don't yet realize that He has already come! Why should Jews believe in the Christian, watered-down version of Messiah? That would be going against GOD's Instructions!
With everything Harry says, he shows that his knowledge of the Bible doesn't even fill a thimble....
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Harry continues:
All Jews who are not born again do not honor Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him" (John 5:23).
All Jews who are not born again are not worshipping God the Father, no matter how "religious" they are. Born-again Christians are the only ones on the entire planet who worship and honor the one and only true God. All others worship a figment of their imagination. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).
Satan entered Judas, a Jew, before he betrayed Jesus (Luke 22:3). Judas was a liar, deceiver, lover of money, hypocrite, and a type of Antichrist.
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The Netzarim response:
Satan has also entered Harry Bethel, a Christian who has chosen to IGNORE God's Torah and doesn't see a problem with the fact that he perpetuates the LIE that "Jesus" was born on December 25th, and that He rose on Easter Sunday. Harry can't even bring himself to use the PROPER NAMES of God or admit that he, himself is a liar who suggests nobody has ever challenged this article....
Harry needs to know that all Christians who worship "Jesus" aren't saved because they have placed Him ABOVE The Father and ignored the Father's "forever" commands to keep the Seventh Day Sabbath and the Biblical Feasts, and to remain kosher! Yeshua was Torah observant, so why aren't Christians? Born again means you now do your level best to be GODLY - so how come many Christian churches and their thousands of "denominations" are filled with UNGODLY people who break God's commandments every single day? How come the prisons are filled with criminals, many of whom describe themselves as Christians?
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Harry continues:
Satan will enter the Antichrist at or near the beginning of the Great Tribulation, giving him all his power (Revelation 13:2). Jerusalem will become spiritually like Sodom in the last days (Revelation 11:8).
The Jewish Prayer-book says, "At the end of days he will send our anointed, to deliver those who wait for the final deliverance." He will be a Jew because the Jews would not accept a Gentile as their Messiah. This man, instead of being anointed by God, will be empowered by the father of lies, Satan.
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The Netzarim response:
Obviously Harry is a "pre-tribber" - another thing that reveals he doesn't have a good grasp of the scriptures. According to the Scriptures, Yeshua will return towards the END of the seven year peace treaty that the "Antichrist" has made with Israel.
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Harry continues:
What should be the attitude of Christians toward Christ-rejecting Jews?
Christians should love the Jews just as we should love the heathen in Africa. As the Lord leads we should evangelize the Jews with the true Gospel message, which includes the necessity of repentance and receiving Jesus Christ as the only way to God the Father and to heaven. Paul wrote that "all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:26), but the apostle also wrote that "though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant shall be saved" (Romans 9:27). All true Israel is only a remnant. During the Great Tribulation 144,000 Jews will be saved, but this is only a small remnant compared to the millions of Jews living today. The Christ-rejecting Jews are no different than anyone else who has not repented of their sins and been born again. Pray for the Jews (and the hateful Messianic Jews), love them, ask God to have mercy on them, and share the true Gospel with those who will listen.
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The Netzarim response:
Harry, Harry, Harry - only 144,000 Jews will be saved? Again, this man is amazingly Bible illiterate!
The 144,000 refers to a type of people, rather than the numerical sum; 10 = testimony 12 = the Yisrael of Elohim; 10 x 10 x 10 is a three fold testimony representing YHWH Eloheinu YHWH Echad; 12 x 12 is the Israel of Elohim who are spiritually re-born in Mashiyach. These sing the song of Moshe and have the Testimony of the Lamb. This can also be understood as "the 144,000's" (plural); a Kedoshim (Set Apart) people. There is a Mishchah (anointing) placed on this faithful remnant, according to Torah (Moshe) and Mashiyach. If Harry knew some Hebrew and had the ability to understand God's Word, he might have known this....
In this article Harry also makes the ridiculous statement that "the Jews killed Jesus." Perhaps he needs to re-read the Gospels which tells us there was a "mixed crowd" there on crucifixion day and that the Gentile Romans pulled out his beard, spat on Him and nailed Him to the cross:
Matthew 27: 27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
Harry apparently isn't smart enough to realize that, as a believer, he is part of Israel! Israel consists of all those Moses brought out of Egypt, including their Gentile wives and whoever else chose to come along (which means Harry should be Torah observant)! Romans 9:27 is NOT referring to "the Jews" as a separate entity. The "remnant" refers to ALL believers, which means there is a very small number of people who will actually end up in heaven. Why? Because most don't bother to OBEY God! Christians, unfortunately, don't realize they've been duped by their pastors, etc., who have hammered into the Christian mind that all they have to do to get to heaven is to "believe in Jesus." They don't realize that once you "believe" you should also be DOING His "forever" commands....
Harry would also do well to remember this: Romans 10: 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
After all the horrible things Harry has written about "the Jews" he insists we should "love them." That is absolutely the epitome of hypocrisy! (Notice he puts us Jews in the same category with the "heathen in Africa.")
The truth is, no real Jew who knows the Tanach (what Christians call "Old Testament") would EVER accept the Torah-less Christian "Jesus." No real Jew would ever shove paganism down the God's throat by schlepping in a Christmas tree to decorate for "Jesus" or pretending that an egg-laying rabbit (symbol from Ishtar, the goddess of fertility) has anything whatsoever to do with the resurrection. And no real Jew would ever pretend that one doesn't have to obey the commands of our Creator.
FINAL THOUGHTS: At the bottom of his article, Harry has posted a "commentary" by some anti-Semitic wacko whose comments clearly mirror those of "white supremacists" and other ungodly types, which we are not going to bother posting, but which - again - you are welcome to view on Harry's site. The bottom line is, Harry Bethel wants the world to believe he's a "good, kind-hearted Christian" who just wants to get "the Jews" saved, while doing his level best to stab them in the back at every turn. We wish Harry well, but we are glad we are not him because, come Judgment Day, as he will have a lot to answer for!
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