parousia70 said:
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I'm wondering what you think constitutes
a "Jew" in God's eyes?
The 144,000 from the 12 tribes of Isreal. The Elect that will be saved from tribulation.
Yes, those of the
faith of Jesus........
Rom 3:22
and the righteousness of God
is through
the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, -- for there is no difference,
Gal 2:16
having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through
the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
Gal 3:22
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
This verse doesn't say "or" but "
and".........
Rev 14:12
Here is
the patience of the Saints;
here
are those who keep the commandments of God
AND the faith of Jesus.
History of God's Holy Bible and the so-called Jews
The Etymology of the Word "Jew" In his classic Facts are Facts, Jewish historian, researcher and scholar Benjamin Freedman writes:
What is a Jew?
Speaking to His elect Church Jesus said,
"I know your affliction and your poverty, but you have heavenly riches, and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan . . .
Take note, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are impostors who lie, to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you" (Revelation 2:9; 3:9).
Speaking to the so-called Jews who were of the sect of the Pharisees (or
Judaism) Jesus said,
"You serpents, offspring of vipers, how can you escape being sentenced to hell fire? Therefore take notice, I will send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify; and some of whom you will flog in your synagogues, and persecute from town to town, that upon you may come all the righteous blood that has been shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I assure you, all these things shall come upon this race" (Matthew 23:33-36).
Jesus identified these so-called Jews as the descendants of Cain.
Speaking to Cain God said,
"What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand" (Genesis 4:10-11).
Speaking to Christ's end-time Bride regarding the Words of Jesus, the prophet William Branham said, "Here is a verse that will bear considerable thought, not only because it is most peculiar in its contents, but also it is virtually repeated in an age that is over a thousand years later. . . To begin with, the word,
Jews, does not describe the religion of the Jewish people. It refers only
to the people of Judah and has the same precise meaning if I were to say I am Irish born. These people were saying that they were actually Jews, real Jews by birth. They were liars. They were not Jews by birth and they weren't Jews by religion."
(The word Jew was coined by Nebuchadnezzar's troops as an abbreviation of the word "Judean." A Jew or Judean is one who is a resident of Judea regardless of his religion, race, or nationality. Every resident of Palestine is a "Jew" whereas the so-called Jews living abroad are not Jews at all, neither by residence, nor by birth, nor by religion. This is confirmed by the
Bible in the Old and New Testaments, Jewish historians such as Josephus, Professor of Medieval Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, A. N. Poliak in his book
Khazaria (1944, 1951); American historian Professor Dunlop of Columbia University in his article on the Khazars in the
Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971); Noam Chomsky in his book,
Fateful Triangle, Arthur Koestler in his masterpiece,
The Thirteenth Tribe; Professor Heinrich H. Graetz in his
History of the Jews, p. 141 (1891-98); Soviet archaeologist M. I. Artamonov in
Istoria Khazar, Benjamin Freedman in
Facts are Facts, Chief Rabbi of the United States, the late Steven S. Wise, the Message of William Branham the Prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7,
every Jewish and all Gentile encyclopaedias affirm that barely any so-called Jew is an Israelite let alone Semitic.
Note also that
Judaism is Pharisaism based on the Talmud, which is the antithesis of pre-exilic Yahweh Torah or Yahwism, the Law and the Prophets, and accursed of God in Matthew 15:1-9, and Moses in Deuteronomy 5:22; 12:32).
"If all this is true, what were they? They were a deceived people who were already part of the church. They belonged to the false vine."
(Brother Branham is explaining how the Roman Catholic church, which organized at the Hegelian dialectic of the First Nicea Council in AD325, had its beginnings as the First Church of Rome founded in AD36 by the apostles Junias and Andronicus (Romans 16:7). This church apostatised when the elders, who had emigrated from Judea to escape the persecution of the Jews (Acts 8:1), were subsequently expelled from Rome by Emperor Claudius along with all Judeans (Acts 18:2). It was thirteen years before the Judeans could return, and when the Christian elders returned they found the First Church of Rome would not repent).
"They were not of the true church,
but of the false church because God said
"they were the synagogue of Satan." Now the word for synagogue is not the same word we use for church. In the Bible, church means, "the called out ones," or the "summoned ones." The Psalmist said of these elect people,
"Blessed is the man whom THOU CHOOSEST, and CAUSEST to approach unto Thee, that he may dwell in Thy courts" (Psalms 65:4). But the meaning of synagogue is "assembly or gathering." This can be good or bad, but in this case it is bad, for these are they whose assembling is not of God but of their own selves. Isaiah said of them,
"Behold, they shall surely gather together, but NOT BY ME: whosoever shall gather together against Thee shall fall for Thy sake" (Isaiah 54:15). And since these were surely against the true vine, God will one day deal with them in destruction."