The Mystical Rites of our CREATOR

Our secular truth is very fragile. The truths we hold dear depend on their existence mainly from our point of view. One should not be so open minded that your brains fall out, healthy skepticism is a tool, just do not use it to hide behind. While we study and learn, our point of view changes and a truth is seen in a new light. Some of the deceptions created by leaders in the past and continued by leaders today will make you feel cheated, betrayed or just plain angry. I do not wish to offend, but I hope that you will feel energized by the discovery of some new spiritual truths.

There exists a great rift between the scholars and the teachers of the lay people. The faithful scholars know that most of the knowledge has been ignored in the daily teachings. Students regularly ask the scholars, "why were we not taught this?" The teachers feel the students cannot be trusted, or they feel they would lose their financial support from the laity. How sad it is that the teachers, who tutor us in faith, have so little faith themselves in the truth.

Religious leaders - Jewish and Christian - interested in only defending their traditions down play and argue against the importance of the habits of the first Messianic Believers. This is a debate by "blind guides," and a carefully orchestrated political fog to keep the laity distracted. With all of the confusion clouding the issues, to realign the richness of the mysterious Judeo-Christian spirituality and code, you have to return to the original source.

Generally, today’s mainstream Christian teachers say that the original Jerusalem Messianic Church died with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 C.E. Archeology is proving that the Jerusalem Church was not destroyed, but continued. After the destruction of Jerusalem the first Christians fled into the wilderness toward Transjordan, but afterwards they returned again and built their own synagogue. Recently the world’s first church building of the original Jewish Messianic Assembly has been discovered in Jerusalem by a priest/archaeologist Bargil Pixner of the Theological facility at Mount Zion.

The building, with the Upper Room were the original Disciples met, was destroyed. Next to the building, that today houses King David’s sepulchre, is a synagogue that was built when the Messianic Believers returned from Transjordan where they were in hiding from the Romans. The building was used by Messianic Believers because of the direction of the prayer niche. When everybody faces it to pray, the congregation is facing to the direction of the place of Messiah’s resurrection, which is what the Christians did after the Destruction of the Temple. If it was Jewish, it would have faced more to the east to the Temple Mount.

Language can be maddening. The Bible says language was created to confound the people, and Satan uses language to hide knowledge. Remember, "the beginning of knowledge is to call things by their right names." The first place to begin to understand the Jerusalem Messianic Church is to call things by their right names. Many today will say Christianity spread from Palestine - this is simply not true. Technically speaking, the name Palestine was invented in the year 135 C.E. until then the area was called Judea, which was the southern kingdom of ancient Israel.

In the year 132 C.E. the final break between the Jews and Christians happened when a Jewish military leader Simeon-Bar Kochba, which means a son of the star, had in mind to conquer the Romans and restore the kingdom to Israel. When he was organizing the "Second Revolt" against the Roman government, he wanted the Christian gentiles to join in the fight. He was a strong leader and his followers called him the messiah, and said Jesus was only a slave. The Christians turned off by his blasphemy did not help in the fight. For two years the Jews put up a valiant fight, but eventually the Romans gathered an enormous army and they were overrun and slaughtered without mercy. The ancient records say 580,000 Jewish soldiers fell by the sword alone, the horses of Romans were wading in bloody mud up to their girths. This event triggered the final divorce between the gentile Christian Church of the west and its Jewish roots.

In the year 135 C.E. the victorious Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the diaspora, the final solution to the Jewish problem, which banned all Jews from Jerusalem and Israel. As the Roman slave markets became glutted with Jewish captives, he ordered the name of the land changed from Judea to Palestine, taking the name from Israel’s ancient enemy the Philistines. He destroyed anything Jewish, their scrolls, books and their precious Torah. He defiled all the Jewish religious sites, on the Temple mount he built a Shrine to Jupiter, and over the Church of the Nativity he built a shrine to Venus.

To continue to call Judea, Palestine, means you are a party to the lie, and agree with the diaspora started by this vile Roman emperor. To those defenders of orthodoxy, who would argue in favor of continuing to call the area Palestine, answer me this: Emperor Hadrian also renamed Jerusalem, Aelia Capitalina, yet this name was dumped in favor of the original name Jerusalem. Why is the same not done for the name Palestine?

The hot topic in today’s religious market is discovering the Jewish roots of Jesus. Technically speaking: They are only half right, yes there is a lot of Jewishness, He was a middle eastern Jew, who spent a great deal of time outdoors in the desert sun. He walked over the hard rock area of Galilee in sandals by day, and slept under the stars at night. His appearance was not that of a good-looking European, His style was never diplomatic, He never strained to be well liked or to be all things to all people, and His spiritual lessons are based on the Hebrew Bible (Isa.53:2). But Jesus is a Greek name, and searching for the Hellenist Jesus will only take you back to Greece. He was never called Jesus when He lived in Judea, and He would not even turn around if you called Him by that name.

Some will arrogantly say that Christianity is a natural outgrowth of Judaism. Before you get caught up in that debate, you better first define Christianity. What is today called the uncompromising Christian radical right is really a bunch of New Testament liberals. History shows that the Christians are a very compromising group. Christianity today is a mere shadow of it’s founding teaching and practices, and the first Christians would hardly recognize it if they could see it today.

The Greek name which originally referred to the "Gospel" preaching community was Christanoi, which means Christ’s people. The word Christianity is more of a western term begun by Hellenist Greeks as the New Covenant faith spread from Jerusalem. Technically speaking it makes a difference, because these gentiles who made up these mass converts were not knowledgeable in, or did not even care about the Hebrew Bible. Eventually as the faith grew, new schools of "Gospels-only" interpretation sprang up around the Roman empire, and with each one trying to control their religious turf it became a nightmare of ancient world politics, much of which is still with us today.

Dr. Ray Pritz writes in his book Nazaren Jewish Christianity, that the first Christians were Jews from the Jewish Nation, who wanted to continue in their Jewish faith along with their Messianic belief in Yahshua. They were originally called the sect of the Nazarenes (Act.24:5). These first Christians were reformers, and they challenged the establishment orthodoxy, but they never thought of starting a new religion outside Judaism.

That is the essence of why research on the pure theology of the real Messiah make today’s minions of religious orthodoxy a little nervous, because if one is true to their faith, then the question that needs pondering is: If the first Jewish-Christians did not want to start a new religion but thought to reform Judaism, then what did they want to reform it into?

The key lies in a verse in Hebrews 6:20, Yahshua is the High Priest of the ancient Rites according to the order "Malki-Tzedek," or in English, Melchizedek. This mysterious order, first mentioned in Genesis 14:18, and is referenced eight times in the Bible (Gen.14:18-20; Ps.110:4; Heb.5:6,10, 6:20, 7:11, 17, 21). Coincidently, eight is the Biblical number of new beginnings (1Pet.3:20; Gen.17:12; 1Sam.16:1-12).