The "Synagogue of Satan"

The Synagogue of Satan is mentioned by Jesus in the Bible.

"During his life Jesus taught repeatedly concerning his enemies. In John chapter 8, the Pharisees encountered him in the temple. In verse 33, they claimed "We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man." In verse 37, Jesus said, "I know ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me", but in verse 39, he said, "if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." How could they be Abraham's seed and not Abraham's children? And how can they claim never to have been in bondage?"

"We are not told just who the enemies of Jesus were. In John 10:26, Jesus said, "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.""

Go to Chapter 15: The Man of Kerioth to learn about the Synagogue of Satan!

THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD

An Alternate Theory Linking Prophecy and History

Copyright © 1988 by Roger Rusk --- ISBN 0-945378-00-9

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Chapter 15. The Man of Kerioth

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Who is the man of Kerioth? What in the world is Kerioth? Kerioth is a city. We read of it first in the Bible in Joshua 15:25 in a list of cities conquered by Joshua when the children of Israel came up out of Egypt and entered the Promised Land. This list is introduced in Joshua 15:1 as "the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward ..." More familiar cities in this area were Hebron and Beersheba.

There were other cities which used the name Kerioth, a word which means "city". There was Kerioth-Arba, a name for Hebron. There were others, which used the name in combination, the English spelling varying, such as Kerioth or Kirjath.

However, the one in Joshua was known as Kerioth-Sepher or Debir, the city of letters. It was located north of Beersheba and southwest of Hebron. It has an interesting history in that it was finally occupied by the Edomites.

Originally, the Edomites lived in the territory southeast of the Dead Sea, south of the country of Moab. The descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Edom, occupied the region southwest of the Dead Sea. It was the Amalekites who blocked the passage of the children of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. There is an account of a great battle between Israel and Amalek in the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Exodus which ends with the words, "The Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." Neither would Edom allow the children of Israel to pass through their land, as related in Numbers 20:14-21. Israel had to march east of Edom and Moab in order to reach the Jordan River near Jericho.

These people and other descendants of Esau harassed Israel throughout the Old Testament period. During the days of Samuel, King Saul was instructed to smite the Amalekites, but he would not finish the conquest. He chose instead to spare the life of Agag their king, and take much booty. Samuel told Saul, in I Samuel 15:23, "Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king."

Both David and Solomon had trouble with the Edomites. The prophet Obadiah tells of the actions of the Edomites when the Babylonians captured Jerusalem. Among other acts, Obadiah says that the Edomites cast lots upon Jerusalem even before it fell; they prevented the children of Judah from escaping; they delivered the fleeing people of Judah to their enemies; and entered and looted the city. Obadiah's words are harsh, in verse 16, "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever." In verse 15, "As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." In verse 21, "And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's."

After the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon, the prophet Ezekiel says of Edom in Ezekiel 25:12-14, "Thus saith the Lord God, because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them, therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom . . . and I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God." In a prophecy concerning God's judgment of the nations in Isaiah 34:5-6, we read, "For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,... for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea." And in verse 8, "For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion."

Idumea is but the Greek name for the country of Edom. Bozrah was the capital city of the Edomites. Remember that Edom is Esau.

When the Lord returns to take vengeance on his enemies, on whom will he pour out his anger? In Isaiah 63:1-6, there is a clear statement concerning the object of his displeasure. There is a presentation of this action in the form of a question and answer revelation.

Question: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? Answer: I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Question: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? Answer: I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people, there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood will be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

At the last end of the Old Testament, in Malachi 1:1-4, we read, "I loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountain and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Esau saith, we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, the border of wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation forever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel."

Thus, throughout the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, Esau-Edom is presented to us as the adversary of God's people and of God Himself. We wonder about God's intention to use evil men to further his purposes in world affairs. Paul discusses this problem of our understanding in Romans 9. In verse 10 we read, "But when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated." Paul then asks, "Is there any unrighteousness with God?" and continues to give Old Testament examples of God's sovereign will. Again, Paul asks "Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, 0 man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"

Another example of this thought is found in Daniel 4:17, where Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar, "that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the basest of men". This concept will account for such men as Lincoln, Washington, Luther, Columbus, but also for Nero, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin. Remember that God always makes use of sinful men in his program. Is there any other kind standing around that he can use? We can only bow before his sovereign will and praise him for his mercy. To summarize, God chose Edom for a special role in his program.

There is some interesting history concerning Edom in the centuries between the Old and New Testaments. Following the conquest of Jerusalem by Babylon, a number of Edomites moved into the vacated regions of southern Judah. There were additional migrations of Edomites into this territory when the Nabateans moved against the Edomites from the east. By the time of the Greek occupation of the country, this territory in southern Judea was called Idumea, the country of the Edomites. At one time it included the city of Hebron, not far south of Jerusalem. It certainly included Kerioth, which was south of Hebron.

The following is taken from The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume III, page 479. "The investigation of the actual history of these southern immigrants and that of the passages which directly or indirectly concern them here converge. From the Judean genealogies in 1 Chronicles 2 and 4, it has long been seen that the tribe of Judah after suffering heavy losses, ostensibly before the monarchy, was built up again through Calebite and other clans of south Palestinian and Edomite affinity. These became genuinely "Israelite" and finally (presumably during the Exile) moved northward to the neighborhood of Jerusalem; indeed, as late as the days of Nehemiah, traces of Calebites can be found among the leading men who helped to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The evidence, on the face of it, might seem to point naturally to a Judah of semi-Edomite origin, the creation of David, in whose early days these clans had an independent existence in the south of Judah (I Samuel 26:31). It is quite in agreement with this perspective of history that the Chronicler, after describing the singularly mixed constituents of the new Judah (Benjamin can also be included) proceeds to represent a temple service inaugurated by David, where the names of prominent Levites are appreciably of semi-Edomite, south Palestinian, and nonIsraelite origin. Hence, it is possible to trace a close connection between (a) the southern clans who became Judean, (b) the temple personnel, and (c) the families of the scribes."

During this period of history, the Jews enjoyed intervals of independence, but no king of the House of David ruled over them. The High Priest in Jerusalem was accepted as their leader in all matters political and military. One such high priest was John Hyrcanus, who, in about 125 B.C., conquered Idumea, forced the men to undergo circumcision and to adopt the Jewish laws. Josephus says of them that thereafter they became none other than Jews. The entire community of Edomites became proselyte Jews.

Herod the Great was such an Edomite Jew. He was appointed King of the Jews by the Romans. When the wise men came to Jerusalem and asked "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" is there any wonder at the outburst of Herod who felt threatened and ordered the slaughter of the infants in Bethlehem? It was in the character of an Edomite to be an adversary on the occasion of the birth of the Savior. The descendants of Esau had played this role throughout Old Testament times. Always the hinderer. Would it not also be appropriate for Esau to have a hand in the events surrounding the death of the Savior? We return to the original question: Who is the man of Kerioth? The Hebrew word for man is ISH. Therefore the man of Kerioth can be written as ISH KERIOTH. In the Hebrew language as well as the Greek there is no letter H. Instead, there is a breathing indicated. More accurately, then, the expression becomes IS KERIOT. ISCARIOT! JUDAS, THE MAN OF KERIOTH! Judas as Edomite? Why not? He certainly was no Galilean: he is never called a Judean. He is always indentified as Iscariot or Judas the son of Simon Iscariot. A family of the town of Kerioth.

How appropriate for an Edomite to have a hand in the death of Jesus in the light of the long history of the Edomites as the opposer of Israel. In most Bibles, in the account of the betrayal of Jesus, there is in the margin a cross reference to Psalm 41:9, which reads, "Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." Whose heel? Esau's heel! Remember when the twins were born to Rebecca that Jacob took hold of Esau's heel? Lifting up the heel was a sign of contempt or disdain. The phrase in Psalm 41 literally reads, "He has shown me the bottom of his foot."

If Edom was on hand at the birth of Jesus in the person of Herod, then it is fitting that Edom was on hand at the death of Jesus in the person of Judas. Edomites, the people against whom the Lord has indignation forever (Malachi 1:4).

Were there others? During his life Jesus taught repeatedly concerning his enemies. In John chapter 8, the Pharisees encountered him in the temple. In verse 33, they claimed "We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man." In verse 37, Jesus said, "I know ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me", but in verse 39, he said, "if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." How could they be Abraham's seed and not Abraham's children? And how can they claim never to have been in bondage? These statements can be reconciled if we consider that the covenant line came through Jacob and not Esau, that the children of Israel (Jacob) were the covenant children of Abraham and that the seed of Esau (Edom) were not. Furthermore, the Edomites were not in bondage to Egypt when Israel was, nor were they carried into captivity by Assyria or Babylon. Although proselyte Jews, the Edomites, living in the south of Judea, had their own army and entered Jerusalem for a time during the siege of the city in 70 A.D. This was at the invitation of the Zealots who held the city hostage necessitating the actions of the Romans.

We are not told just who the enemies of Jesus were. In John 10:26, Jesus said, "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you." Who are his sheep? Was not Jesus using a figure from the Old Testament known to his listeners? In Psalm 78:52 we read, "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock." There are other similar references in the Old Testament.

Psalm 79:13. "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever."

Psalm 95:7. "For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand."

Psalm 100:3. "Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."

In Jeremiah 23 and Ezekiel 34, it is plain that the children of Israel were considered God's sheep. Then in John 10:26, is Jesus speaking to men not of Israel?

In Matthew 21:33-46, Jesus tells the parable of the wicked husbandmen. The parable speaks of the mistreatment of God's messengers over a considerable period of time, so it must have applications to Old Testament days. Then, in verse 37-38, we read, "But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us seize upon his inheritance." Just what is the inheritance of the son? Is it not all the kingdoms of the world? Psalm 82:8 reads, "Arise, 0 God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations." Also, in Isaiah 65:9, we read, "And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there." Psalm 22:28 states that "For the kingdom is the Lord's", and in Revelation 11:15, the great voices in heaven say, "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever." All this and more is the inheritance of the son.

Jesus is teaching that the right of inheritance is challenged by unfaithful and wicked men. Who are they? In Matthew 21:45, we read, "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that He spake of them." In Matthew 23:13, Jesus utters these words to His detractors, "But, woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." Hinderers and obstructionists.

In Matthew 23:29-36, Jesus spoke concerning His parable of the wicked husbandmen we find in Matthew 21. Jesus described the activities of those anti-God pretenders, and spoke of their continued opposition to the messengers of God in generations yet to come. The Book of Acts reveals the zeal with which the opponents of the Gospel pursued the Apostle Paul throughout the cities of the Roman Empire.

In the parable of the pounds in Luke 19, Jesus referred to citizens who hated Him and sent a message to Him, saying, "We will not have this man to reign over us." At the conclusion of the parable, in verse 27, Jesus said, "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither and slay them before me." The gentle, loving Jesus said that. Here, Jesus is speaking of judgment, not of the gospel of persuasion, "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). Also see Romans 9:18-22.

It was the high priest John Hyrcanus who made the Edomites to become proselyte Jews in the late second century B.C. Immediately following the death of Hyrcanus, the Pharisees became the dominant sect within Judaism. The two movements then grew together until New Testament times. We do not know how many of the Edomite proselytes became Pharisees but the antichrist nature of both is evident. In 1 John 4:3, we read, "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh in not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."

Jesus was in continual conflict with the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees. He was challenged by them on the basis of their own legalistic interpretation of the Law, the system of interpretation Jesus calls the traditions of the fathers. This was not a reference to the Old Testament teachers and prophets, but rather to the oral tradition of teachers known as Rabbis which developed after the return of the Jews from Babylon, during the period between the Old and New Testaments. These teachings became the basis for the teachings of the Pharisees of New Testament times.

In the latter part of Matthew 5, Jesus countered the restriction of the letter of the Law as taught by the Pharisees by the wider and more spiritual intent of the Law. In verse 20, he said, "For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." In Matthew 15, the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem asked, "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?" Jesus counters with, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" He gives them a quotation from Isaiah which closes with, "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

In Matthew 16:5-12, Jesus taught his disicples a lesson concerning bread, which concluded with, "Then understood them how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."

There was little in common between the messages of Jesus and the teachings of Judaism of his day. It is questionable to ever use the phrase, "Our Judeo-Christian" heritage or tradition or culture. The late Stephen S. Wise, chief Rabbi of America, said, "The return from Babylon, and the adoption of the Babylonian Talmud, marks the end of Hebrewism, and the beginning of Judaism." The article on JUDAISM in the New Bible Dictionary edited by Dr. J.D. Douglas, begins with, "Judaism is the religion of the Jews in contrast to that of the Old Testament. While in any full study of it, it would be natural to start with the call of Abraham, this would be solely as an indispensable introduction. Judaism should be regarded as beginning with the Babylonian exile." The Rabbi, Synagogue, Talmud system was certainly not the Priest, Levite, Temple system. Yes, we have an exceedingly rich heritage in our Hebrew-Christian tradition which teaches us about life, but the term Judeo-Christian is a misnomer.

The Talmud is the written collection of the teachings of leaders of the Jews from the time of their Babylonian captivity. Some of the early written traditions were made an integral part of the Law of Moses and together known as the Torah, "Instruction".

After 70 A.D., the Jews continued to offer resistance to the Romans wherever Jews were in any sizable number in the cities near Palestine. This opposition became very disruptive of civil order in many places, so much so that the Roman Emperor Hadrian, in 135 A.D., forcibly deported Palestinian Jews to cities further west in the Roman Empire. There was already a large Jewish enclave at Alexandria in Egypt, and several lesser ones in the cities of Asia Minor. A large group of these deportees were settled in Spain, known as Sepharad. These Sephardim, or Spanish Jews, became the nucleus of Judaism in western European countries for some centuries to come. They used a short version of the Talmud, known as the Jerusalem Talmud. The Jews in eastern Mediterranean countries continued their scholarly pursuits, and by the sixth century A.D. had added a great amount of material to their version of the Talmud, known as the Babylonian Talmud.

While western Europe lay sleeping during the dark ages, events were happening in the region north of the Black Sea which would bring great changes in the subsequent history of the Jews. A sizable kingdom developed in this region which has been largely ignored by Western historians. The people of this Khazar kingdom were related to the Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, and Turks. In their legends about their origins there are repeated references to Gog and Magog, Togarmah and Japheth. They cannot be considered of Mediterranean origin by any serious student. They were certainly not of the stock of Abraham nor even Semitic.

When the Mohammedans swept the world in the seventh and eighth centuries, the Khazars, who were a pagan people, were faced with a dilemma. They were being pressured by two strong religious movements; Christianity from Byzantium and Islam from the South. Somewhat as a polictical expediency, in the middle of the eighth century, the king of the Khazars chose Judaism as a state religion as a ploy to fend off the onslaught of the two more aggressive religious parties. Jewish Rabbis were brought in from Asia Minor to teach a whole nation a new religion. The story is told in the first article, CHAZARS, in Volume IV of the 1905 edition of The Jewish Encyclopedia. It is told in greater detail in a book entitled "The Thirteenth Tribe" written by Arthur Koestler, a well-known Jewish author, published in 1978.

The Khazars flourished for a few short centuries. Their kingdom was finally destroyed by the Rus and other invaders from the North. By the late 12th century, the Mongols were moving in and very little was left of Khazar culture. Great numbers of the Khazar Jews had moved into Poland and later into East Germany, which the Khazars called Ashkenaz. These eastern European Jews subsequently have been known as Ashkenazim.

A quotation from Koestler's book is appropriate. On page 181, he writes:

"The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The Sepharadim are descendants of the Jews who since antiquity have lived in Spain until they were expelled and settled in the countries bordering the Mediterranean ... In the 1960's the number of Sepharadim was estimated at 500,000. The Ashkenazim, at the same period numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazim Jew... There is no other term to refer to the non-Sephardim majority of contemporary Jewry."

The Khazar Jews were well taught by their Rabbinical mentors whose scriptures were the Babylonian Talmud. The fine shades of legalistic morality, the concept of a people set apart, and the expectation of eventual world dominance were all parts of a religious system transmitted by the Pharisees to the Khazar proselytes. The Jews in political control in the state of Israel today are the Ashkenazim from eastern European countries. The Sephardim in Israel today have difficulty in finding jobs, in getting land or housing, and having adequate representation in political affairs. Yet the Sephardim are the only Jews who have any historical ties to the Jews of the Bible. The Japhetic Ashkenazim have been particularly harsh in their treatment of Semitic Arabs who are the descendants of Abraham and his son Ishmael. The most oppressed and forgotten people in Israel today are the Palestinian Christians who have been almost totally ignored by western Christians.

Do the plans and aspirations of the Ashkenazim extend beyond the borders of the state of Israel, or even of world Jewry?

Just what is the attitude of Jews toward the Christian West? A great number of Jews have lived and prospered in Christian countries. They have become assimilated with our more tolerant Christian cultures. These Jews are largely anti-Zionists. Some, however, have been and are today disdainful of Christianity and oppose it in many ways. Let men speak for themselves.

"We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own." -- Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles p. 155

"You have not begun to appreciate the depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom of not merely the latest great war, but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we will go on doing it. Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone." -- Marcus Eli Ravage Century Magazine February, 1928

"The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the Children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands." -- Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx La Revue de Paris p. 574 June 1, 1928

"I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-idealogical blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish." -- Rabbi Martin SiegelAfeu; York Magazine p. 32 Jan. 18, 1972

"I believe that the active Jews of today have a tendency to think that the Christians have organized and set up and run the world of injustice, unfairness, cruelty, misery. I am not taking any part in this, but I have heard it expressed, and I believe they feel it that way. Jews have lived for the past 2000 years and developed in a Christian world. They are a part of that Christian world even when they suffer from it or be in opposition with it, and they cannot dissociate themselves from this Christian world and from what it has done. And I think that the Jews are bumptious enough to think that perhaps some form of Jewish solution to THE problems of the world could be found which would be better, which would be an improvement. It is up to them to find a Jewish answer to THE problems of the world, the problems of today." -- Baron Guy de Rothschild NBC-TV The Remnant August 18, 1974

Is this not evidence of a plan to take over the control of all wealth and all nations? Is this not the plan to seize upon the inheritance of the Son of God? Is this not the scheme of usurpers and pretenders of authority in the affairs of men? Much has been written, too much to be included here. Reference is made to the Appendix for publications relating to these subjects.

How powerful is this influence? Senator Fulbright of Arkansas said publicly, "The Zionists can count on 75 or 80 senators to give them any thing they want." Fulbright was never re-elected. Congressman Rarick from Louisiana introduced a bill requiring the United States to buy back the Federal Reserve Bank. Rarick was never re-elected. President Truman was pressured into recognizing the new state of Israel in May 1948 within minutes of its claim to independence, leaving our representatives in the United Nations red-faced for two weeks waiting for our State Department to come up with a rationalization for a complete reversal of policy. The list could go on and on.

How strong is this connection that goes back through time to its origins? From Zionism through the Ashkenasim, Khazars, Asiatics, Rabbinical teachers, Pharisees, and Edomites; all the way back to the Old Testament false teachers and prophets? If not biological, at least in spirit this connection is there amongst the opposers of God and his Christ. How can the prophecy of Isaiah 63 ever be fulfilled unless these contenders against the kingdom are here on earth when the Lord comes to take vengeance on his enemies? Remember, Edom is in Jewry. In Isaiah 34:5,6, we read, "For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to judgment .... For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea." Finally, then, retribution shall come to the Man of Kerioth.

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