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Jerusalem Blade · #20 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 12:30 PM

A word on the poem “Spiritual Warfare,” in the event anyone has thought me too harsh – or even anti-Jewish – in my views. I am myself a Jew, and of the house of Levi (my grandmother being Rose Levyn of Manhattan, wed to Mark Rafalsky), and I have seen friends and family perish without Christ – insofar as human responsibility may be assigned in the providences and decrees of God (cf. Acts 2:23) – under the Rabbinic suppression of the truth of my people’s Messiah.

This is a burning issue with me. I post a couple of pieces from the book, A Poet Arises In Israel:

SOVEREIGNITIS

With regard to the church's – both Gentiles and Messianics – attitude to Orthodox Jewry, and their suppression of the saving knowledge of Messiah among their countrymen, I think we have been stricken with a theological malaise called sovereignitis, wherein we overlook and excuse the role and responsibility of men because of our knowledge of the overriding sovereignty of God. I am applying this to the present where the most horrible crimes of spiritual genocide are committed against a people and we are of a mind to "respect the dignity" of the perpetrators because they are clergy or religious. And we get all theological about it and dress the horror of it with verses from Romans so that it even looks sort of Biblical, whereas in reality it far outstrips the horror of Herod's butchering Bethlehem's little lambs before their mothers. Those whom Messiah denounced as sealing off the door of the kingdom to others (Luke 11:52, Matt 23:13), pronouncing divine woes upon them, we want to have a more nuanced view of them, granting them a Biblical dignity, while the screams of their victims resound through the corridors of Hell, and those still in the world soak the ground with their tears and their blood.

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An Alien Regime

There is a phenomenon in the Jewish State that is matched only in nations where entrenched demonic strongholds control much of the religious and/or political life of those nations – such as those under fundamentalist Islamic or Hindu, or communist rule – and that is the legal persecution of believers in Yeshua with government sanction, and violent persecution without government interference.

If it is indeed the case that an alien regime, whose capital is in Gehenna, wields the spiritual scepter in Jerusalem – with considerable political influence – then our strategy of appeasement by avoidance of the prophetic stance will be as effective as British appeasement prior to the Second World War. Gehennian regimes eat appeasers for breakfast.

If it is said, "But they have been the standard-bearers of Judaism for centuries, and through awful persecutions have preserved Torah for our people," it must be noted that that which they have preserved is not authentic Judaism, and all who hold to this spurious version of it shall perish, for it is the devil's snare – this version of Judaism – concocted for the purpose of destroying the nation by sealing it against Messiah's Spirit. The "Torah" they have preserved is not the Torah of Moses at all, for the instruction of Moses pointed to Messiah, and so it was with all the prophets. The "Torah" they preserved is a counterfeit, and all who stake their souls on this teaching will lose them eternally.

To put it plainly, the rabbis have destroyed more souls than ever did Hitler or Hamas. They have destroyed more Jews than all the evil Gentiles and "Christians" up through the ages, by leading us into the dread curses of Moses (the Fifth Book, chapter 28; Isaiah 9:16).

The true story of these things is being suppressed in unrighteousness, and a fresh retelling of it – in the vigor of the LORD's Spirit – will provide an exposure of the evil, and a vision of God's love for His people, and it will happen, for a poet arises in Israel.

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If one thinks this is too in-your-face to be effective, consider that confrontation and exposure – giving those who observe the opportunity to see an interaction between their leaders and a challenger – may be more effective than relevant but low-key teaching. There are many teachers of Yeshua in Palestine. I am something else.

I use the word “Israel” carefully. I am in the true Israel of God, that community of His people which bow the knee to His Son, the Christ, even as Peter reiterated the word of Moses (Deut 18:19) to the nation after Pentecost, saying that those who would “not hear in all things whatsoever [Messiah] shall say unto you…shall be destroyed from among the people.” (Acts 3:22, 23) At that time the Israel of God was sundered from the apostate nation as a butcher cleaves the meat from the gristle. Those who would not bow the knee to the rightful King were cut off, according to the ancient word of warning. The true Israel – the apple of God’s eye – is that holy nation comprised of all people across the globe who love the King and are born of His Spirit, Jew and Gentile alike.

As I said above, David didn’t teach Goliath, he slew him. There is teaching and mercy – and great joy – for those who love the Spirit and word of the Champion and glory of Israel, He whom the Gentiles call Jesus, and the Jews Yeshua.

[Edited on 10-3-2006 by Jerusalem Blade]