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IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE IN MINISTRY
I want you to know that when I began studying the Bible and the languages in which the Bible was written over fifteen years ago I never expected to find what I did. It is important for you to know at the outset that I was raised in a tradition "fundamentalist Baptist" home and would later, in answering the call of God in my life, attend Southwest Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, where I received an excellent Bible education (from a Protestant perspective). Let me tell you that while there a terrible mistake occurred .they taught me Greek and Hebrew. Let me explain.
After graduating Seminary with a Masters Degree, instead of pastoring a traditional Baptist church where Sunday School lessons and Sermons are often prepared for you in advance, I became a staff pastor at a rather large nondenominational church in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex where curriculum was not provided and I studied the Bible to get the truths from the text of Scripture which I taught. Was I surprised when studying the Greek and Hebrew behind our "English Bibles". In Seminary the truth is that 2 years of Greek does not really give you a good grasp of the Greek texts of the Bible except in certain places where you were "focused" for class studies. There is a world of knowledge out there when you begin to take passage after passage all the way through the New Testament and begin to randomly look up verb after verb and noun after noun from book to book. For over 5 years, every day I combed through the texts comparing the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words with their normal "English" meanings and that is where I began to see a whole "other religion" behind our Bibles other than the normal Christianity which I was taught. Simply said, if one spends such time in a concerted effort to find the original meanings from the original languages of his Bible then the world of "Jewish Roots" of the Christian faith will explode before his eyes for you, like I, will see that "non-Jews" were keeping the Sabbath and Biblical Feasts and Festivals right along with the Jews both in the Old Testament and New Testaments of our Bibles. But dear ones this information is hidden behind the English texts of our Bibles and you well know that is not our experience in Western Christianity today but yet that is what lies behind the original languages of our Bibles. But it only begins here for this was the "doorway" for me to see just how extensive this "replacement religion" of Rome had become in my life. I was discovering a "Pattern of Worship" in my Bible which Seminary and my Christian religious tradition had never taught me before and I begin to wonder why were were not following this "Pattern of Worship" for after all I reasoned, my Bible should be an accurate translation and not a diversion from the truth. Something was amiss. Let me give you one example before we go on.
It is a fact that is revealed from study that the "non-Jews" of the Bible kept the Passover for thousands of years before the time of the New Testament Jesus and even in the New Testament but the Bible is translated in such a way as to make it appear that only the Jews kept the Passover. The Astronomical importance of the Passover for all of mankind is hidden in the Bible. The New Testament the word used for "Passover" in the Greek New Testament is the word "Pascha" (Strong's number 3957) and it is used 29 times in the New Testament. Twenty-eight times this word "Pascha" has been translated as "Passover", however, in the Book of Acts, the Book that describes the "Birth of the Christian Church", this same word "Pascha" has been translated differently and we find the translators of our Christian Bibles translating "Pascha" as "Easter". Now it appears that at the end of the New Testament the emerging Gentile Church is keeping Easter instead of the Passover.
Answer for yourself: Given that for 28 times these Christian Bibles translators translated "Pascha" correctly as "Passover" then is there a reason or an agenda at work where they refused and went out of their way to deviated from their previous accepted translations of the word "Pascha" by rendering it as "Easter" here in the Book of Acts, the book of the emerging Gentile Church? Were they intending that you keep Easter instead of Passover with the Jews as "non-Jews" can be shown to have done for thousands of years previously? What else have they changed and we not know? Have these translators of our Christian Bibles changed the truth about the nature of God and man, how to get forgiveness of sins, the real Salvation message as given the Jewish nation as inherited from Ancient Egypt, true Biblical atonement, other Festivals and Feasts which it can be shown that "non-Jews" observed, the true Jewish Messiah, and how about Jesus, have they faithfully represented this Jesus to us along with "the Christ"? Should it matter to us that we can find "the Christ" and "Jesus" in Egypt some 10,000 years B.C.E.? What does this do to the "Jesus Christ" of the first century? Was he is two places or did other nations know of this "Jesus Christ" all the way down through history only by other names? Is this a Divine Principle given to mankind and has it faithfully been reproduced by Rome in their New Testament? Well it does not get any easier when you being to look outside this neat little "Roman Christian Box".
For thousands of years the "non-Jewish" believers in God keep the Passover; in fact they did long before there were any Jews. This was God's "Pattern of Worship" and only later did one particular "Passover" in Egypt have dramatic implications for an emerging nation later to be Israel as they separated from Amen worship in Egypt under the leadership of Moses (Akhenaten). So we see in this one example alone that God gave the "Passover" to both Jew and "non-Jew" and Rome changed this Divine Revelation and God's message connected to it for the whole world in the 2nd and 3rd centuries and today in our Churches we keep Easter instead of the Passover. Again, our Jewish Roots have purposefully been obscured and hidden from us by the translators of the Christian texts for we should all be keeping and observing the Passover and not Easter if you are a follower of Jesus and "the Christ".This was done on purpose to give a false idea to the "non-Jewish" reader who simply does not know the difference. This is but one example of hundreds that I discovered in my office during my Pastorate over the years and finally such revelations built up to such a point that I had to resign because I over time I would be ashamed that I was a "Pastor" and was not following "the Christ"; I was following antisemitic Rome and their forged texts which had led astray in my worship of God. In fact the message given me by Rome was 180 degrees opposed to what I would discover during my first 6-7 years of daily study following graduation from Seminary.
One thing is for certain: the original ideas from the Hebrew are meant to be faithfully transmitted into the Greek and again faithfully transmitted into the English.
Surprisingly, after Seminary and doing my own investigative studies of the texts I found out they had not always been faithfully translated; in fact an outright deception had occurred in my Christian Bible!
Answer for yourself: Who was right the Bible interpreted in the original language in which it was written along with corroborative evidence taken from Biblical history, Biblical culture, Archeology, Astronomy, etc.? There are many other areas of study out there that will verify what these original languages behind our Christian Bibles have to say regardless of what our Christian traditions inherited from my parents and religious lay pastor have taught us which today, in the light of modern scholarship, are shown to be deceptions and frauds.
With the aid of a Bible computer, I used the skills shared with me in Greek and Hebrew while in Seminary to research thousands of verbs and nouns in both the Old Testament and New Testament over the next several years. You must understand, that if you only read the Bible in English, then, more often than not, you will lean upon your own understanding and prior indoctrination which is influenced by your own experience from hearing preaching from these forged texts. Your interpretation of your Bible is flawed because you don't know these words behind our Bible or the Jewish Faith from which the emerging Gentile Roman Church split. Instead of understanding the dogmas and religious concepts connected to the original language in which these Hebrew texts were written you have to rely only upon what you were given by Rome in English which is anything but a faithful representation of both the texts and early religious history from that time period in the world. Again, modern scholarship along with archeology is blowing the lid off 1,800 years of Roman darkness masquerading as a Divine Revelation which we know today by the name of Christianity.
Answer for yourself: How does living as a Gentile in the USA help me understand a Hebrew Book?
In other words, if you do not study the Bible in the original languages, along with knowledge of the culture in which it was written and the religion that birth it coupled with the knowledge of unbiased history of the time in which it was written, then you cannot be assured you have the accurate meaning of the message that God intended for you, and more often than not you won't know the truth from fiction!
Most Christians are relegated to reading the Bible only in English
without any background of what they are reading, and more often than not,
can be shown to have an erroneous religious belief system and
corresponding obedience before God and their fellow man because of such
inadequacies. Sadly, to few pastors and teachers in Christianity today
have the necessary skills to "rightly divide the Word" or, if
they were taught them at one time in their life, they fail to put them to
use in their ministry. Sadly, their congregations are deprived of
necessary truths which will have an eternal impact on them after they die.
Having such skills and further developing such skills, I endeavored to be a light in a dark place when affiliated with churches in the metroplex of Dallas-Ft. Worth. After several years of trying to bring repentance and share the many truths I discovered which corrected my "then held" Christian religious beliefs in many areas, and would yours if only you knew, I finally realized that too many pastors in high positions considered themselves infallible, uncorrectable, and unteachable. Repentance was not in their vocabulary. I have one particularly famous pastor tell me, when shown truths from the Bible and original Biblical languages which corrected our Christian position on tithing: "What do you want us to say to the people that we have been wrong?" Well, that's a good start! It is called repentance. Blinded by the false notion that a big church means God's favor, most would not heed sound doctrine and correction from the Word of God when shown them. Sadly, there was only one thing left for me and my wife to do as my studies continues to mount and reassure me that God had shown me these things for a reason; I had resign and begin to teach these truths of God's Word unhindered and uncorrupted, free from the compromise of man's traditions and doctrine and a "paycheck".
Things that I discovered, and hopefully you will allow for me to share with you, is that Gentile believers, both before and after the Jesus kept God's Sabbaths and were expected and commanded by God to observe the Biblical Feasts and Festivals instead of the paganized calendars we have in most churches today.
Gentile believers were also taught to keep and observe the Saturday Sabbath and not the Sunday substitute, and worship God their Father in Spirit and Truth by giving their tithes and offering in specific places designated by Scripture [poor, sick, lamb, blind, deaf, handicapped, uneducated, etc., along with financing the keeping of the Biblical Feasts and Sabbaths].
Dear ones this is not too hard and quite enjoyable for the Christian. But this is only where it begins for when you begin to critically look at the texts of our Christian Bibles and see them for what they truly are, a mass of confusion, contradiction, and negation of prior Divine Truths handed down from the beginning of recorded time, then almost every doctrine we have inherited as Christians from an antisemitic and Jew-hating Rome stands upon sinking sand. What I will say next will shock you; the studies in these areas did me and often broke my heart and brought me to tears as a Pastor before God. If you take up the mantle of study with us you will come to see beyond any doubt that we, as Christians and followers of "the Christ", have been misled and deceived in our understanding of such cardinal beliefs such as the nature of God, the nature of man, forgiveness of sins, the true identity of Satan, the salvation message, acquiring Eternal Life, true Biblical atonement, righteous giving, the appointed times of God and the worship of God connected to these Holy days likes the Equinoxes, Solstices, Festivals, Feasts, the true Jewish Messiah, fulfilled Messianic prophecy, the "Jesus Story", etc. The picture is not pretty when you get to the bottom of this "replacement religion" given the Gentile world in the 3rd century along with the forged Bibles that create such a false faith and deception. In fact it is horrific and the tragic consequences of such religious deception fill the graveyards of this planet in the millions. The train jumped the track with Constantine and the emerging Roman antisemitic church and remains in the ditch today still stuck in the mud of false assurances that we have the truth of God as Christians and are the "light of the world" but yet arrive at such a belief from Bibles given us by Rome that can, without a doubt, be shown to be purposefully misquoted, purposefully mistranslated, purposefully taken out of context and often simply "invented" to give the world a false faith based upon the Roman Jesus. Lost in this translation is the truth of the Hebrew texts that link mankind with the earliest and most glorious understanding of God ever given mankind; by that I mean the first monotheistic religion every given mankind in the beginning of time and by that I mean Egypt. A thinking believer only need to look at the fruit of this "Roman train" during the Middle and Dark Ages and even today with Christian clergy molesting our children in unprecedented numbers to know that there is something tragically wrong with the fruit of this religion let alone its message to mankind. Those who sought to control spirituality, to restrict personal relationships with God, gained prominence within the first centuries of the Christian era. Their beliefs formed the ideological foundation of much of the dark side of the Christian church's history.
I
realized, and I hope you will as well, that just because we have been
taught a certain way in our Christian walk that this does not assure it is
the correct way commanded by God or that it is even pleasing to Him in the
first place. That is why Study is the highest form of worship in Judaism
because you learn the truth for yourself and this "Pattern of worship"
given all mankind to follow
It is to this pursuit that Mary and I have devoted our lives. We feel compelled to share with you these truths for your evaluation and instruction. Not all readers will agree to say the least but if you will respect my attempt to illuminate you and in response lay your emotions aside and begin your own personal study into these areas you will see and confirm for yourself what I am showing you in each article after article. Please understand, much of what I will share will be different from what you have heard, but understand that does NOT mean it is untrue. I will never expose something as "false" without showing you the truth to which we must turn. That is a promise.
Answer for yourself: Is something "true" just because you believe it?
Most of you have not been told the truth by your spiritual leaders.
We call upon you to judge the facts for yourself, for without them you
cannot hope to make an intelligent decision on the matter.
Lastly, we at Bet Emet Ministries are devoted to understanding the Scriptures as God intended: from both a linguistical, cultural, historical, and cultural perspective. From this, and only this, can you and your family be assured you have not worshipped God in vain.
Answer for yourself: If you could be shown that much of what we both believe in our Christian lives based upon these Roman texts we inherited as well as do in Christian worship today is vanity and disobedience to a higher Divine Revelation in God's opinion then would that make a difference to you? Would you change?
Answer for yourself: Surely you would not continue to worship the Father in vain once you came to the knowledge of the truth would you? Well such study will set you free.
Well, dear one, that is to be seen once you are challenged with facts and evidence that cannot be denied; both in this website and the others provided by Bet Emet Ministries. God has allowed you to see this information for a reason and it is my belief that He is calling you to see Him like never before and hear, maybe for the first time in your life, the true message of God intended for all mankind since the beginning of time.
Shalom.