Biblical Simplicity: Spiritual Revelations for a Physical World

The Creation account and much of Genesis are spiritual revelations rendered into physical descriptive dimensions—realities that are out of this world. The dichotomy between nature (physis) and grace (supernatural) has shaped Western thought, often leading to debates on certainty within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.These debates reflect humanity’s ongoing desire to understand the knowledge of good and evil and the divine image within us. However, this pursuit is fraught with hubris, as reason and presuppositions often distort spiritual truths, keeping us bound to their binary frameworks rather than true first principles. A reexamination of these foundations is necessary, holding firmly to Biblical authority while recognizing the limits of human interpretive methods. Only through exhibiting humility can we grasp how our spiritual fall transforms physical reality.

Adam, HaAdam, and the Two Realities of Creation

The Creation narrative in Genesis begins with HaAdam, a term distinct from the Second Adam in Genesis 4:25. This original Adam marks the revelatory beginning of the Hebrew calendar, about 6,000 years ago. The Previous HaAdam and Eve fell from the realm of Yetzirah (formation) into Assiya (action)—a spiritual descent mirrored in the “skins” they were clothed in after the Fall. Their offspring populated the earth, their lineages connecting with Neanderthals, as corroborated by genetic evidence. These origins, verified by data back 200,000 years, invite us to consider not just who the first humans were, but when and where they existed—a question pointing us toward the heavens, our ultimate destination.

Cain, Abel, and the Spiritual Re-Creation of Adam

Genesis reveals a foundational myth of fratricide in the story of Cain and Abel, reflecting broader human struggles. Cain may symbolize Homo sapiens, Abel the Neanderthals, (who knows?) both representing humanity’s fractured beginnings. However, the narrative introduces a transformative break with the birth of Seth in Genesis 4:25 which is easily missed. This Adam is not HaAdam of Genesis 1–4 but a later spiritually re-created figure. Seth’s lineage is a righteous one, contrasting with the fallen line of Cain who had seven succesive generations.

The Nephilim, or “fallen ones,” emerge from HaAdam’s corrupted lineage. They are perhaps not so much mythical giants but symbolic of spiritual and moral corruption. The “sons of God,” descendants of Seth, sought to redeem the “daughters of men,” the line of Cain, for the seed of the woman is instructive. Yet corruption persisted, eventually culminating in the flood and Noah’s preservation as a remnant of a righteousness man.

The Spiritual Image and Restoration in Christ

The original HaAdam bore the image of God but fell, requiring spiritual restoration. Jesus, the Alpha and Omega as the Second Adam, embodies this restoration, enabling worship in spirit and truth. The Nephilim, described as “fallen faces,” are potentially redeemed in Christ, who restores the divine image to humanity.

The post-Babel narrative connects the Nephilim to the concept of Jinn in Judeo-Arabic traditions, and ultimately to the term “Gentile”. The domain of the nations emerges as contextual where true spiritual transformation long for our mother above. Importantly, these corrupted lineages reflect the powers and principalities that oppose God’s sovereignty, emphasizing that the confusiong term Israel’s identity is spiritual rather than tied to any earthly nation-state that promotes racism and copies this ‘nationalism’ distortion.

The Angel of the Lord and the Messiah’s Mission

Throughout the Old Testament, the eternal Son manifests as the Angel of the Lord, the Word, and the Name of God. The Messiah’s mission unfolds in two dimensions: Messiah ben Joseph, a suffering servant, and Messiah ben David, a conquering king yet to be fully revealed. Jesus of Nazareth fulfills the former and inaugurates the latter, bridging spiritual restoration and physical reality.

In His baptism by John, Jesus submitted to the law, stepping into the role of a Ger Toshav (resident alien) to redeem the lost sheep of Israel. His genealogy in Matthew affirms His Davidic lineage, while Luke’s genealogy emphasizes His spiritual mission. This duality highlights Jesus as both the perfect human and the divine Savior.

Eschatology and the Unity of Humanity

The physical and spiritual dimensions converge in eschatology. While ethnic and cultural Jewish identity remains significant for the sake of the meta-narrative, the ultimate focus is spiritual: the New Jerusalem and the restoration of creation. Nationalisms and racial distinctions fall away in light of the Great Commission, which calls all humanity to the obedience of faith.

Fantasy interpretations, such as angel-human hybrids, distract from the simplicity of the Biblical message. The Nephilim and other elements of Genesis should be understood as symbols of spiritual realities, not as fodder for speculative mythology. The focus must remain on Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of God’s promises and the Savior of all humanity and the redeemed role.

Conclusion: Simplicity in Christ

The 66 books of the Bible provide all we need to know Christ and His plan for humanity. Apocryphal and non-canonical texts may offer historical insights, but they are secondary to the Spirit’s work in illuminating Scripture. Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, is the answer to humanity’s deepest questions about purpose, identity, and salvation.

We are one human race, united in our need for a Savior. Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection empower believers to live out spiritual truths in the physical world. Through Him, we rediscover the divine image and participate in His story—a story that transforms both individuals and creation itself.

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Jesus the Pharisee

The television-style series The Chosen depicts an ‘earthy’ Jesus with lots of humor. Resembling liturgical drama, like The Quran, yes, that’s right, as it was initially intended through the Hadiths. In its fourth season of episodes, controversy lingers through its ecumenical reach. He is exemplified by lead actor Jonathan Roumie as Jesus, testifying through his Catholic/Orthodox faith. While visiting the Pope with creator Dallas Jenkins, criticism has increased with the disclosure of some Mormon producers in the mix.

Strange that Dallas did not invite any Muslim consultant in his panel, like the Messianic Rabbi (who helps explain the two Pharisaical schools) and a Roman Catholic Priest, all included with the Evangelicals; thus, so much for its ecumenism, but a big hit with the masses, as the public gravitates to the dramatic and the series unifying elements. May the show deepen biblical literacy, for it moves ‘the heart,’ and hopefully one’s head’s back to read the New Testament text and seek to live by its transformative message.

One novelty of the series — among the other productions of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, which depict him more celestial — is his engagement between two historically verifiable schools of Pharisees, which the Rabbi consultant does affirm—known as Shammai and Hillel, which play out within the series and the drama. The latter aligned with Jesus’ teachings. The former was in control of the Sanhedrin and nationalists. The Sadducees inspired such nationalism through its political wing in a coalition with King Herod and by a terror wing of extremist assassin Zealots. Jesus recruited from these nationalists to renounce their evil ways; here, this ‘earthy’ Jesus’ pacifism finds traction in a realistic presentation that confronts the hyper—grace & faith only caricature of the proclamation of His gospel with His Jewish observance. 

Thus, amid the many strong words Jesus used against certain Pharisees, probably Shammaites, he most importantly told His followers to obey them (Matthew 23:1- 3), “Do what they say for they sit in the seat of Moses.” Still, conflations of legalists with hypocrite Pharisees permeate our understanding. So, going against those with authority in the Qehela (Cultivated Olive Tree) is a valid question, especially if Jesus was one of the Hillites or at least received by them. What gave him the authority to call out the clergy and highlight a religion, not an ethnic group framed as a nation? Along political lines, it seems that Jesus of Nazareth had no interest in overthrowing Rome. His mission was religious or spiritual.

Moreover, he proclaimed religion as a spiritual action. When Jesus stated: “Don’t do what they do,” he affirmed the Qehal Jew over the Shammuti school or show-off Scribes and Pharisees, including opportunistic sola scriptura bound Sadducees who had no desire for Oral Torah observance. After all, who was the Apostle Paul but a Hillite taught by Gamaliel, who indeed echoed the position of our Lord against the ruling Sadducees and Shammaites, perhaps in a time of political and nationalistic manipulation? Again, these groups received His harshest words. They all went against Jesus of Nazareth and his inspiration toward the mission to the lost sheep of Israel, which came in many varieties due to the diversity of such an ethnic outreach and the grafting in (i.e., Idumea or Edom) and eventually the Gentiles or nations near and afar a process that has happened since Abraham’s Hagar (The Ger). 

Shammaites and Sadducees most likely define the majority opinion of the Jew or Judean ethnocentric nationalists, mentioned in The Gospel of John, who stood against the old faith through political alignments and religious alliances, for their kingdom was the total of this world with or without Rome and where the Idumeans eventually transferred their alignment with power. Christian and ethnic Jewish nationalism is no novelty, and religious conscience is something utterly other than genuinely spiritual. 

Therefore, the impulse of the Great Commission, salvation for all peoples, was also nothing new; it was just ‘Great’ in scope, inspired and aided by Hillite Pharisees onward toward Paul in The Book of Acts. Jesus and Paul were not that different, contrary to popular opinion. They demonstrate that the New Testament, as a text of the Oral Torah, was recorded to create Hebrew believers and to be authoritative in doctrine. The context of the gospel points toward living as the righteous in the security of God’s purposes over earthly aspirations.

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The above comparision is NOT quite right, showing that post WWII Messianic Jewish and Hebrew Rooters are not the Qehela and should not be considered as an authority on Jewish Halakah (Law). Caution is required by Christian use of the term Notzrim in modern Hebrew. Such a direction helps uncover early formative groups indentified in the historical Jesus pursuit some of which are properly analyzed by the following. NOT THIS (1) BUT THIS (2)

The Linage of Paul the Pharisee

Paul’s Arrival in Jerusalem and His Pharisaical Context
“When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: ‘You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.’”
— Acts 21:17–25

Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem reflects the complex dynamics of early Christianity, particularly its relationship with Judaism. This passage presents Paul as a figure both deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and misunderstood as a subversive founder of a “new religion.” Despite this, Paul’s mission aligned with Pharisaical tradition, particularly the teachings of the school of Hillel and his mentor, Gamaliel. His impact on the Western Roman Empire, and possibly even Spain (as some traditions suggest), highlights his pivotal role in spreading the Gospel beyond Judea.

Paul’s Mission and Strategy
Rashi interprets the Apostles as “infecting their culture to sway the Notzri (Christian) faith away from Judaism into Messianic Noahidism; they themselves were not heretics and did so for the benefit of the Jewish people.” Paul’s acceptance within Judea, despite controversy, and his subsequent ministry in Rome demonstrate his unique role in God’s plan to reach the nations. Under house arrest, near where St. Paul’s Basilica now stands, Paul leveraged Roman infrastructure to disseminate his teachings, fulfilling his calling as a doulos (bond-servant) of Christ to the ends of the earth.

Jewish Perspectives on Paul and Early Christianity
Orthodox Jewish sources also shed light on the emergence of Christianity as The Way of the Messianic Hebrews. From the Chazal (Jewish sages) to Yochanan ben Zakkai’s Pharisaic academy at Yavneh, early Jewish thought engaged with the New Testament’s mission to the nations. Notably, Paul’s letters circulated widely and were affirmed as part of this salvation-oriented mission.

Paul’s writings focus on the exaltation of Jesus Christ as Sar HaPanim (“Prince of the Presence”). His cosmic Christology transcends Jesus’ earthly ministry, emphasizing His crucifixion and resurrection as central to apocalyptic and eschatological hope. Paul ties Jesus to the Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), aligning the Gentiles’ inclusion with Israel’s salvific narrative.

Christological Development and Pharisaical Thought
Jewish thinkers like Rabbi Akiva (c. 50–135 CE) and his student, Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai, played pivotal roles in shaping Christological thought. While Akiva initially supported Bar Kokhba as the Messiah, he later rejected him, affirming a more spiritual lineage tied to Sar HaPanim. Simeon bar Yochai’s teachings in the Zohar present Metatron as the perfect man and divine emanation, paralleling Paul’s description of Jesus as Lord our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5–6).

The Piyyutim of Eleazar ben Kalir (570–640 CE) further explored the preexistence and divinity of the Messiah, preserving these ideas into the Middle Ages. Such traditions illustrate how Pharisaical and later rabbinical thought engaged with the concept of the Messiah, including its overlap with Christian theology.

The Continuity of Pharisaical Thought
The narrative in Acts 21–26 underscores Paul’s alignment with Pharisaical thought, particularly its mission to bring the nations under God’s covenant. This continuity is evident in the spiritual genealogy (shellshelit) of rabbis and sages who saw Jesus’ mission as part of Judaism’s broader purpose:

• Rashi (1040–1105): Commented on the intersection of Jewish and Christian missions.

• The Tosafists (12th century): Including Rabbis Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry and Rabbeinu Tam.

• Nachmanides (1194–1270): Bridged Jewish and Gentile understanding of messianic themes.

• The Meiri (1249–1316): Acknowledged the ethical and theological contributions of Christianity.

Later thinkers, such as Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), emphasized Christianity’s role in spreading monotheism and biblical ethics to the nations. Hirsch recognized Christianity’s estrangement from Judaism as necessary to bring the message of the One God to a world steeped in idolatry and immorality. Similarly, Pinchas Lapide and Harvey Falk explored Jewish-Christian relations, highlighting Paul’s significance within the Pharisaical framework.

A Minority Tradition within Rabbinic Judaism?

While the majority of rabbinical Judaism opposed Christianity, minority voices throughout history acknowledged its role in the divine plan. Figures like Jacob Emden (1697–1776) and Isaac Lichtenstein (1824–1908) affirmed the ethical monotheism shared by Judaism and Christianity. Samson Raphael Hirsch noted that Christianity and Islam emerged from Judaism to combat idolatry, immorality, and spiritual degradation.

Conclusion

Paul’s mission, rooted in Pharisaical tradition, was not an attack on Judaism but its fulfillment for the nations. Acts 21–26 reflects the complexities of his role, both within Jewish thought and as a messenger to the Gentiles. The Pharisaical lineage of Paul continues to resonate through Jewish and Christian traditions, affirming Jesus as Yeshua Sar HaPanim, the culmination of God’s covenant with Israel and the nations.

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Simon Cephas - St. Peter & Rome

Rome woooes the senses with Matthew 16:13-20 etched in gold along the Vatican’s towering Basilica’s perimeter under Michelangelo’s Dome and Pieta at the entrance. However, have Evangelicals really understood the text? 

Here, accepting Simon Cephas' confession as the divergence between Rome and Protestants misses the Hebrew reading, with the insertion of Petter (Petra) — a pun often used in Talmudic discussions with Cephas the rock. Such imagery refers to the Maccabean religious absorption of Edom/Petra/Nabataeans. Now comprised of Herodians and Rome, for Simon Peter (a redeemed lost sheep of Israel) was standing before syncretism not contextualization while at Caearea Phillpi among the pagan temples located there. All below the highest peak in the Holy Land, Mt. Hermon; another big rock ‘taking on a life of its own’ within the Jewish fables or sermons known as the Books of Enoch. 

God’s revelation impacts people reckoning with sin and idolatry back through the Persians, Babylonians, Egyptians and those of Ur of the Chaldees who made up Abraham’s apostate family.  Including Esau’s brother and law, Nebaioth (Gen. 25, 28, 36), meaning prophet, who is the Petter Chamor, from the firstborn of Abraham, Ishmael. Whose children are today sadly cast as some evil seed, rather they represent a missiological trajectory to redeem the mixed multitude from the erev rav from where the term Arab originates.

Through the promise of inheritance, Isaac carries the oracles of God for its revelational purpose, Paul’s allegory with Hagar and our Heavenly Jerusalem in Galatians 4 points to the destination of the seed of promise which is available to all people!

So Jesus rode in on a donkey when he came to redeem the lost sheep. Donkeys, needed no explanation from the Good Shepherd, but were slandered into a animal symbol of stupidity in the West. A very clever travel companion who instinctively knows the safest, shortest route, the Donkey is the only contaminated animal (Tumah, not unclean as it is normally translated) holy enough through Pidyon haBen (redeeming the firstborn offspring), as described in Exodus 13. Jesus spoke ‘the Petter pun’ on ‘Ceiphas,’ a hardened sinful man (Luke 5:8) who by his confession becomes holy as an exempt Petter (firstborn) for the lost sheep in the church (Edah) and becomes one of its pillars out of the New Testement. 

Nevertheless, all things whatsoever a Qehel Pharisee like Paul bids must be kept and observed which explains Paul’s authority to rebuke Simon Peter for his ‘cultural ethno-centricity’ as described in the Epistle to the Galatians. Simon understood his ‘exemption’ to bring the gospel to Cornelius in Acts 10, but made a mistake for the perpetual tension that exists between Jewish Qehel observance. Peter having become a Hebrew and following Acts 15 as discipileship as Talmudim with his fellow lost sheep, the 12.  His actions for not fellowshipping and dining with gentiles in Antioch is thus understood as perhaps Judaizing. The heavy yoke Peter mentions at the Jerusalem could be also in view here. I think we are dealing with some very insightful developments in the New Testament texts that have been co-opted by Christendom.

RASHI (Talmud Commentator from the 1100s) states this about the Apostles “who purposely infected their culture in order to sway the Notzri faith away from Judaism (into Messianic Noahides) ; they themselves were not heretics and did so for the benefit of the Jewish people.” Even more conclusive is the Hebrew word Petur, meaning ‘Firstborn’ redeemed also implies ‘exempt’ which describes the role of a Petter Chamor, a Baal Teshuva who guides the Pilgrim Messianic Noahides like Cornelius.  Therefore, Simon Ben Jonah continued the tradition of revelation toward the nations. 

Possibly, the most enduring testament in Rome to ‘Simon St. Peter’ is the Alexamenos Graffiti on Palatine Hill. The academics claim such an animal god was brought from Egypt as an evil demiurge. Perhaps this simple ‘unclean, yet kosher’ donkey harkens us back to how missiology functioned in the Tanahk and LXX through an intelligent illustrative animal and its allegorical significance. Finally, why the pattern of the cross etched upon the beast of burden’s back?  

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The Olive Tree & The Christmas Tree

 

2025 is the 1700 Year Anniversary 

of the Council of Nicaea, 

where Santa Claus ‘decked’ a heretic and 

where ALL of Christianity finds Unity

Did the Nicaean Council finalize the ‘parting of ways?’ No, but it kicked off specific persecution because its Christology was kosher: God from God, Light from Light, the same essence, substance or being as the Father, stands paramount.  Athanasius and Arius become prominent in our theology, evidenced by C.S. Lewis's introduction to a reprint of Athanasius 'On the Incarnation,' which demonstrates a reflection completely oblivious to Constantine's machinations. 

Does the humanity of Christ require a human? No, evidenced by Theotokos (God-Bearer), a term coined in the pre-Nicene era as kosher yet later developed into the ‘Mother of God’ like ‘begotten’ for the Son as a propositional creedal form that diverts from its Scriptural use, distorting their original meaning through human posits rather than than a respective genre found in scripture.

Since Jesus Christ was a “demigod-king”, why not Constantine? But his Arian team didn’t win in 325 as Homoousios prevailed! Still Constantine’s setback from his Arian stance, including Eusebius, was brief. The theological-political-ecclesial merger was set despite the ‘Kosher’ Christology. Moving to Constantinople in 330 and posting the 50 bibles in 331 he suddenly unleashed his wrath on the Holy Land, where he built the first three basilicas in 333 and, in the footsteps of Antiochus Epiphanius, Constantine compelled Christians to abandon Synagogues and forced them to eat pork at Pascha under the pain of death.

 

Nicaea exposes today’s Vatican II’s Jewish apology with the ‘Mother Church’ at the center, leveraging Evangelical accommodation and confusion under Rome's hegemony. After all, two of Constantine’s 50 Bibles remain today, thus, the Codexes Vaticanus and Sinaiticus formed a complete text 1700 years ago. 

The Old and New Testament divisions refer to Israel's covenantal reception, yet the titles force a faulty paradigm as the New Covenant was already given in Jeremiah after the coerced covenant of Mt. Sinai. In other words, discipleship is the ‘obedience of faith’ and the coercive law is for children. Didn’t Jesus say let the little Children come unto me, including the family dog who benefitted from their proximity like the Syro-Phoenican Woman; examples of Pilgrims.

Was the eventual Chalcedonian Christology purely revelatory alignment? I argue it was theo-poltical. Significantly, the ancient churches Armenia, Syria, and the Copts are Mia/monophysite, as is Ana-Baptist Christology, recognizable as Adam Kadmon (The 2nd Adam). These ‘nations’ never had militant expansionist ways after their Christian conversion.

These Christian nations’ Christologies align much better with Old Testament theophanies, where titles within Judaism and names such as Sar HaPanim, or the Netaiot, manifest as a mediator angelic being, one with the Father (Ein sof Ohr) unapproachable light, manifested as the Spirit hovering above the waters, the One who walked in the cool of the day, and the Root of David. 

Finally and why the geneology in Luke 3:38 stands so signifcant: Here the Son of God who with his Heavenly Bride redeems the Sons of Men from their fallen (Nephil ) Cain (Genesis 4:6) ancestry. NOT the myths of Enochian corpus distorting Metatron with The Two Powers in heaven controversy, yet where the victory of Jesus of Nazareth proves Him as the Christ and for which the members of the Sanhedrin tore their garments, yet condemed the innocent Lamb of God for US! 

Evidence of the Oral Torah: The Psalms

In the Book of Numbers (part of the Pentatuch or Torah) the Aaronic Blessing stands foundational. The translation of Bnei (children) is predicated to Israelites. Iterations as ‘blessing and keeping’ are found throughout scripture, however, in Psalm 67 the closest expression shows how the Oral Torah functioned and this is all that really matters! 

In Psalm 87 another subtle clue emerges as the chiastic or parallelism of the text and within the genre known as wisdom literature keeps its symmetry. So do not let it stand alone: for The Lord Loves the Gates of Zions! Yet in Priority!

Psalm 87 texts follows with nations (Babylon, Cush, Tyre et al ) that were blessed and brought into the revlation at Mt. Sinai and the eventual Temple with its Courts for the Gentiles. It is the standard Christianity narrative that missions was geographical in the “Old Testament” and where nations were to come and believe. Yet something deeper and more pervasive continues as the content of Scripture deals with the ‘what and how’ of the Gospel, not necessarily its ‘announcement’ as ‘good news.’ Thus, the end of ungodliness by dicipleship.

Here the Hebrew for ‘Gates’ harkens back to an even more foundational matter; following the ways of the Lord or even the ‘Derekch Haaretz’ (way or law of the land) or perhaps the Noahide foundation for all peoples. Something The Quran and even Augustine of Hippo identified before the Standard Islamic Narrative began and Christianity’s supersessionsim as replacement theology.

Surah 42:13 in the Islamic Quran states: He has ordained for you ‘believers’ (Sabians) the Way (Sharia Gates) which He decreed for Noah, and what We have revealed to you  O Prophet˺ and what We decreed for Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, commanding: “Uphold the faith, and make no divisions in it.” 

Such a verse throws important light on Deen (religion as a standard) and its aim, it is necessary that we should study it to understand it well. Lexically, the word sharaa in sharaa lakum (ordained for you) means to make the way. As a term it implies appointing a way, a code and a rule. Accordingly, in Arabic the words tashri and shariat and shari are understood as the synonyms of legislation and law and law giver respectively. Therefore, let us understand ‘Gates’ as etymologically linked to the ‘what and how’ of the Gospel as ‘the end of ungodliness.’

Esau I Have Hated: The Reason for the Bible.

‘Hated’ in Romans 9:13  Esau’s bad choices

The Church or Edah as a ‘Spiritual Israel’ elected and Esau rejected as a posit of Reformed Covenant Theology must be radically situated to avoid supersessionism. This is a foundational matter as the Reformed are on to something with the corrective ‘Fulfillment Theology’ yet with little sensitivity to valid Jewish sources. Moreoever, the conflation of today’s political Zion/Israelism with Judaism as adopted by Scofield Darbyism should tell us all we need to know, nationalism and racism is always wrong for a believer over their Heavenly citizenship. 

Granted, such futurism may seem plausible in light of current events. That is why Christendom-Edom should make us reflect about the ‘Cultivated Olive Tree.’ We should not flaunt a new religion but understand and accept our grafting into it and become missional people of peace and justice, not simply doctrinal warriors interpreting Romans 9-11 without declaritive action that Jesus Christ is Lord and displaying Him!

Therefore, the historical Esau/Edom rejection framed as ‘non-election’ and extrapolated to any ethnic or spiritual state is wrong and shows the limits of explanation without understanding Abraham’s whole family over confining covenants as interpretive schemes based upon divisions upon the human race. If we say, ‘spiritual Israel’, and trying to avoid supersessionism, then Christians are the redempton of unspiritual Esau or Edom and even so-called ‘Messianic Jews.’ Nevertheless, we are all Hebrews that make up the Commonwealth of Israel.

Why was Esau hated? (Malachi & Romans) Judaism believes that the Torah (instruction) depicts a reality that cannot change, it is truth and the foundation. Thus Esau made many bad choices and took Caananite wives and then was positionally redeemed through Ishmael, by marrying back into the family with one of Ishmael’s daughters.  (Genesis 28:6-9). He lived by the sword and even at his end his head rolled into the lap of Issac according to the Talmuds. This folk tale is significant. Edom means Red and Jesus Christ represents the fufillment of Isaac’s blessing to Esau. (Isaiah 63) Grapes of wrath, saved by His blood.

Furthermore, if we posit just a ‘spiritual Israel,’ but what about Prophets Obadiah, Job, Eliphaz, even Caleb, all Edomites descended from ‘unspiritual Esau.’ Such prophecy and Jewish Midrash help disclose gaps in our understanding of Abraham's covenant children and our limitation with Jacob.  This is the context of Paul in Romans 9-11, Jacob or its nationalistic iteration as Israel is as lost as Esau, acting like he does taking up the sword. In Romans 10:19a - “I ask instead, did Israel not understand? “  (No, but following Judaism should make them understand, Acts 15 with Esau-Edom representing the nations, yes ethnically qualified Jews through observance and the maternal line.)

Then in Romans 10:19b as based upon Moses’s prophecy (Deutoronomy 32:21) reflecting upon the mixed multitude (the erav rav, Arab or Israelites not born of a Jewish mother like Ephrahim and Manasseh yet obedient in their observance): “I will make you (acting like Esau-Edom) jealous by those who are not a nation (Ishmael); I will make you angry by a nation without (knowledge) understanding.” Basically forms of nationalistic Christianity and Islam today by those truly practicing their faith in the messiah.

So Jesus Christ and the Christian Bible is Torat Edom or Red Judaism, a.k.a. as the way back for the lost sheep including the Romanized ethnic jew of Paul’s day and the cultural nationalist gene pool of ours (i.e. the Zionists). Acts 15 extrapolates Edom or Rome to the Nations. The revelation at Mount Sinai with the salvation of the mixed multitude through HaGerim (the Sojourner) was the missiology and process of grafting throughout the so-called Old Testament books and into the Maccabean period that set the stage for the New Testament ‘Mishnaic’ books; authoritative and binding for all peoples in the empire and down until today. 

Like then, so NOW there is a reason for Good News; the announcement of the end of ungodliness. Spiritual globalism exaulting Jesus of Nazareth as our Savior, not race or land politics, all providing the purpose of the Bible for humanity’s redemption. 

But Israel wanted a king (1 Samuel 8) and joined the gentiles, thus standing vulnerable, and inturn denegrated into toxic nationalism evident in the usurping represented as political Zionism and its nation state occupying ‘the Holy Land.’ This continues today not only in Israel but in the USA and in other nations.

The covenantal or dispensational framework or positions juxtaposed will not get us out of ‘the double bind’ we’re in with endless debate on various doctrines, unless we step back properly understand the Abrahamic Covenant with Esau, and not let the bilateral and cohersive aspects of the Mosaic Covenant dictate the larger narrative of the fact that ‘all nations will be blessed.’ 

The Lord’s promises to Abraham will not fail and are ‘spiritual’ and destined for a heavenly Jerusalem. Justice in the ‘Holy Land’ will only come by believers supported by the global church and not political alignments.

Now, you may ask isn’t this an overtly esoteric ‘spiritual’ interpretation? I ask, don’t we all want to be called children of God? Read 1 John.

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The ‘ben Joseph’ Millennium is Over. Gog rages on!

“The Trail of Blood” 

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from a chart made by a European Protestant

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“And it has come to pass in that day, 

The precious light is NOT, it is dense DARKNESS.” Zech 14:6

The “Dark Ages” 

A Messiah Ben Joseph 

‘Millennium” 

for Jacob 

and the righteous 

from among the nations 

The Ben Joseph Millennium is Over, 

The Ben David Messianic Age Awaits… 

and could it be up to HIS PEOPLE? Yes!

Has Gog been unleashed? (Zionist Militant DemoGOGy) Did the satanist Nazis invoke Gog of Magog? Thus the Holocaust, so then merge 1967-68; the 6 Day War and ‘Summer of Love’ etc. Such convergence globalized mammon, violence and immorality with a vengance and has permeated the nations as never before. We are a mess!

I surmise, HaSatan, and unleashed as Gog, was chained with an era of Jewish pacificism that produced a further textual record. For example the Talmuds sprinkeld with flawed human opinions which as not scripture but the target of antisemites who don’t understand its a depository of opinion and holy scripture.  Also the tighly controlled orality of Kabbalah without the textual Zoharism or the physical lineage teaching of the Jews as a sacred seed which makes up the flaw of most of Hassidim.  

The Talmud was put on trial by the Medieval church because they misunderstood Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah Ben Joseph and read the false antichrist Jesus as Christianity’s founder which cannot be substantiated from proper Jewish interpretation and oral tradition. The anti Talmud narrative is frankly a diversion.

True Jacob suffered along with Thyratira under Rome and Byzantium and as dhimmis under Islam. Factions of Judaism was reacting, but the lineage of Yeshua Sar Haphanim remained within its partial hardened klippot (husk) including the damage done by a member of Jesus family Ben Stada perhaps? Gog now unleased rages on through globalization, the fiat financial system and its political expressions funding the militrary weapons and arms complex.

We His collective church (Edah) must ‘Bring back the King” and heal the world for His Iron Rod Rule (a just ledger) to study war no more! The Messiah is at the gates of Edom (Rome) binding the wounds of the world one bandage at a time; individual conversion over collective identity of the household of faith.

Isaiah 63 - His Iron Rod (the pen and ledger) of His word and the grapes must not be ours but His, signifying his shed bood on the cross. It is not a violent coming! Read deeply and be His People of peace!

“For the Earth Shall Be Filled with 

the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord, 

as the waters cover the Sea”

Habbakuk 2:14

The Millennium Timeline: Talmudim from the Nations as Thyratira, coming out from nationalized religion making up the ‘Trail of Blood’ led by a 1000 years of pacificistic Judaism until 1948

964-968: The Messiah Ben Joseph millennium has already begun as predicted by Saadia Gaon. Inheriting the spirit of Messiah Ben Joseph the Scribes and Pharisees become Stateless Pacifists for 1000 years. His work on the Hebrew Calender is important.

927-969 Romanos persecutes Jews and condemns the Bulgarian Church for tolerating Heterodoxy. Sviatoslav I conquers Khazaria. A militant Jewish state disappears. Remember the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN) recorded by the Chinese confirms that the taking of Jerusalem was a messianic imposition that went awry.

👉 Saadia Gaon’s Messianic Computation

From Ariel Cohen Alloro’s Book Cover 

No Endorsement but he does get Esav correct.

The assumption is that Saadia was wrong because Judaism does not always think about the Millennial reign being before Gog. Or is there a difference between the ‘Millennium’ and the ‘Messianic age?’ Outside of the sealed 144,000, the Jews are really not the focus for Christian Eschatology and its interpretations, so have we become the oracle keepers? I think not.

The Book of Revelation’s layers, symbols and parallelisms help show that Saadia Gaon was not wrong and don’t forget Ezekial where spiritual interpretive directions are required. He was talking only about the Millennial reign not the final coming of the Messiah as Ben David because it was a Ben Joseph millennium. But did Messiah Ben David already come that day riding into Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey, or is this in the future? It must be prophetic futuristic according to Christianity and of course Judaism still awaits its Messiah Ben David. 

Perhaps the destruction of Zionism and the State of Israel is the only earthly solution from which the Land is restored and a true highway of righteousness will exist in the Holy Land. “In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth.” (Isaiah 19:23-24)

How will this work out naturally is anyone guess or better yet are we just bound for the Heavenly Jerusalem where our king awaits? I believe such spiritual destination awaits, otherwise we are still divided into races and nationalisms which detract from our collective destination as the natural view implies violence. Still the land crys out for justice.

Thus eschatology should never direct God’s people toward violent vindication or escapism, yet hanging on to our blessed hope and working together to take every thought captive and make the world a better place, in so far, as it is in our individual and collective power to do so. ‘Bloom where you are planted’ and always remember life is short, we shall soon meet Him in the air, because ‘space is the place.’

The Ben Joseph Millennium

A Timeline for Both Groups of Pacifists 

Orthodox Jews 

and the ‘Trail of Blood’

970, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes of the Macedonian dynasty strengthens the Balkan Cathars by transplanting 200,000 more Armenian Paulicians to Europe and settled them in the neighbourhood of Philippopolis (today's Plovdiv, Bulgaria).

986 Judaized Khazars claiming that they killed Jesus fail to convert Vladimir I of Kiev to their faith.

1018 Bulgarian Empire is annexed.

1054 The Great Schism means that Roman Catholics begin to crack down on Sabbath keepers.

1057-1075 Cathar Patarenes reach Milan. 

Diocese of Bosnia came into existence between 1060 and 1075

1119-1312 Mohammedan Christian Templars

1143 Catharism can be clearly identified in Cologne.

1180s John Kinnamos describes the the Gálycians as practising Mosaic law while other sources call them Meshulam.

1185–1396 the Paulician Alevi Asen dynasty establish the Second Bulgarian Empire.

Cathar Lollards in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 14th century who were akin to the Fraticelli, Beghards, and other sectaries similar to the recusant Franciscans.

Cathar Boghards

Cathar Waldenses - The Petter Chamor - Peter Waldo of Lyon

Bohemian Brethren already in 1310

The Dominican Bernard Gui, Inquisitor of Toulouse from 1308 to 1323, published a manual detailing how to dispose of Cathars. In Bohemia, as much as one quarter of the population kept seventh-day the sabbath in 1310.

By 1350, all known remnants of the movement had been extinguished in Octania. Many Occitan courts had been patrons of the troubadours, and their destruction resulted in the gradual deterioration of troubadour practice and the immigration of most troubadours from Southern France to royal courts in Italy, Spain and Hungary.

The Bohemian reformation was also inspired by the ideas of Conrad Waldhauser d.1369 and Johann Milíč of Kroměříž d.1374 as well as the Lollard theologian and philosopher John Wycliffe 1328-1384; Matthew of Kraków 1335-1410; Matthias de Janow 1350–1394 and Jan Hus 1370–1415

Petr Chelčický 1390-1460

1420s-1430s The Hussite Bible is written in Hungarian.

Zakharia 1470-1491

Two priests, Dionysius and Alexis, convinced by Zacharias, and four Jews who had recently come from the South, spread the news of this doctrine broad, and arch-priest Gabriel was among the many who were converted. In 1491, Skhariya the Jew was executed in Novgorod by the order of Ivan III. In 1504, diak (secretary) Ivan-Volk Kuritsyn, Dmitry Konoplev and Ivan Maksimov were burnt at the stake. Other adherents were banished, imprisoned, or excommunicated. Feodor Kuritsyn's adherents' club ceased to exist.

William Tyndale 1494–1436 included the Apocrypha

Katarina von Bora Luther 1499–1552 (I exclude her raging prolific husband as he was too impatient through his apocalyptic diatribes against the Jews which did not help as the Nazi’s used his work to scapegoat for the Holocaust. Calvin would be included with Luther and their opposition to the ana-baptists)

7th Day Anabaptists

Swiss Brethren 1525

Wilhelm Reublin 1484-1559

Jacob Hutter 1500-1536

Oswald Glaidt

Andreas Fischer

Menno Simmons 1496-1561

The Bloody Theater—more commonly known as Martyrs Mirror— assembled by the Dutch Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght and published in 1660

John Smyth 1607

Seventh Day Men 1600

Hamlet Jackson 1614

Hamlet established the Mill Yard Seventh Day Anabaptist Church in 1617 which converted Theophilus Brabourne by 1628 and Henry Jesse by 1645. In 1650, Brabourne's pupil, James Ockford, published in London the book The Doctrine of the Fourth Commandment, Deformed by Popery, Reformed & Restored to its Primitive Purity. The work convinced a Baptist called Peter Chamberlen who led the first Baptist service at Millyard Church in 1651.

Jacobus Arminius 1560–1609 (with all due respect to my Calvinist brethren, think political manipulation and worldly state nationalism, not the doctrines of grace in a vaccum, no matter how true and precious they may be, yet he adapted ana-baptist ideas)

Stephen Mumford 1664

Stephen fled to the Americas establishing the Seventh Day Anabaptist Church in Newport which converted John Rogers & James Rogers Jr. in 1674.

Many Shabbatis fled the Ottomam Empire at this time due to the imprisonment of the Shabbati teacher and ‘so-called failed Jewish Messiah Tsvi Ben Mordechai in 1666 who provoked so much Jewish history after his ‘so-called’ conversion under the Ottoman caliphate.

John Wesley 1703-1791

John Wesley was an Anglican convert to Moravian Anabaptism in 1735 which he left to establish Methodism in late 1739 having decided that Moravians were guilty of a heresy in what he called ‘quietism.’ Nevertheless, he continued to promote self-discipline as an essential element in self-reformation. The dichotomy within modernity of the individual and the collective is perhaps the most difficult to reconcile.

Baptist Confession 1660 with ana-baptist influences, yet with an explicit denial of the movement influencing the emerging Calvinist Baptist hegemony.

(XIX. That the poor Saints belonging to the Church of Christ, are to be sufficiently provided for by the Churches ) After Charles II, the non-conformists like John Bunyan were jailed, yet Cromwellian sentiments remained, still the document was wholistic. The famous 1689 London Confession, virtually following the famous 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith (a religious statement coupled with Westphalian Christian Nation State fervor), some who were also Lord’s Day Sabbatarians, however explicity states that the ‘Jewish’ Sabbath had been abolished. 

George Whitfield (Calvinist Baptist, Friend of John Wesley) and Presbyterianism was instrumental in the colonial era or grass roots faith aiding the founding of the USA through influential Free Masons and Deists by separation of church and state. Still the English called 1776 and the succesive War of Independence ‘the Presbyterian Revolution,’ thus the ubiquity of Evangelicals influenced by Calvinist and Arminian interpretations mixed with the state church impluse found through out all denominations to one degree or another. As today many sadly have remained divided under such Westphalian political hegemony coupled with the trumph of The House of Orange in 1688 who set into motion the divide, i.e. the Christian Right and the Progressive Left. Nevertheless, a diverse array of Christian denominations found haven in the original 13 Colonies. i.e. Pennsylvannia - Quaker with Anabaptists; Rhode Island - Baptist; Maryland - Roman Catholic; New England - Congregationalist; Virgina - Presbyterian et al, the first historical layer of America’s ‘Christian Nation’ temptation.

Rachel Harris 1809-1868

in 1844, Rachel Harris Oaks Preston, a Wesleyan 7th day Anabaptists was responsible for inadvertently kickstarting the Church of God 7th day and the Whiteist movements when she converted a Millerite Methodist minister Frederick Wheeler to Seventh Day Sabbatarianism. Ellen G. White took the Sabbath into the Adventist Zeitgiest in a simular direction like the audacity of the Anglican John Nelson Darby. 

Messianic Shabbati Hebrews

The Subbotniki were a peaceful group of Messianic Kibbutzniks who identified as Hebrews but not as Jews. Their independence was compromised by organizations like Irgun in 1940s before the current State of Israel and thereafter.

The Christian & Missionary Alliance 1884 Not normally 7th Day but hopefully Lord’s Day Sabbatarians as former Presbyterian Minster A.B. Simpson and his wife Maggie’s remains rest in property that NOW (2021) belongs to a Viznitz Hassidic Yeshiva, a pacifist group differing from Chabad whose Kiruv project affirms political Zionism.  Yet groups like the Haredim Viznitz, mostly, and Satmar absolutely, reject such Zionism. I think A.B. and Maggie are quite happy where they rest.

According to Jewish Halakah; A.B. and Maggie’s graves should not be exhumed, but NY state laws require public access. At least this is what I have understood concerning the sale of what was once the property of the Alliance as Nyack College. Yes, Gog has also deeply damaged Evangelicalism. The battle rages on…


… and all those forgotton before the throne.

American director of Neturei Kata David Weiss interviewed by Jo.