Adam, Noah, Shem (here we get the word Semite), Heber (here we get the word Hebrew), Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau (Esau which gives us the word Edomite), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph, and Benjamin.

From the above genealogical list, which people are the following?

a) Semites
b) Hebrews
c) Abrahamites
d) Isaacites
e) Israelites
f) Jews
g) Ishmaelites
h) Edomites

Notice, neither Adam nor Noah fit any of these categories because they were born before these people. That is, neither Adam nor Noah is a descendant of these people. Hence, they cannot logically be called any of these peoples. Is Noah an Adamite? Yes. Why? Noah is a descendant of Adam. Is Adam an Adamite? No. Adam is not a descendant of Adam. Adam is the father of the Adamites. Shem, Heber, Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, and all 12 sons of Jacob are Adamites and Noahites. That is, they are descendants of both Adam and Noah. Is Shem a Semite. No. Why? He is the father of the Semites. Shem is not a descendant of himself. Heber is the first Semite, a direct descendant of Shem, followed by Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, and the 12 sons of Jacob, the father of Israel. They are all Semites.

It is at this point we must introduce a most unfortunate word, anti-Semitic. Most people use this word to describe anyone who opposes or even disagrees with the Palestinian allotment to the Jews, including fellow Jews. The list also includes Muslims, descendants of Ishmael. Ishmaelites, or people representing the 12 princes of the Middle East from Genesis 17:20 -- Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kuwait,. Omar, Syria, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Lebanon -- are repeatedly called anti-Semitic. How can these people be called anti-Semitic when all Ishmaelites are descendants of Shem, thus making them all Semites?

We could not even call them anti-Hebrew, for they are all descendants of Heber, the father of the Hebrews. The same could be said for the Edomites, the Turks from Turkey, the descendants of Esau, for all Edomites are both Semites and Hebrews. Anyone who would dare call Ishmaelite Muslims and Edomite Turks anti-Semitic are completely anti-intelligent! They completely ignore genealogy. They may be anti-Israelite. They may be anti-Jewish, but they most certainly are not anti-Semitic. Since many Jews kill other Jews while Muslims kill other Muslims, a much better and more accurate word to define them would be anti-human or murderers -- but not anti-Semitic!

Are all Hebrews Israelites? No. Why not? Heber is not a descendant of Israel. Heber's descendants include Abraham, who fathered Ishmael and Isaac, Isaac who fathered both Jacob and Esau, and of course, Jacob the father of Israel who fathered the 12 sons. So they are all Hebrews. That is, they are all descendants of Heber. Are Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, and Esau Israelites? No. Why? They are not descendants of Jacob. Jacob, who became Israel, is the father of the Israelites.

In the strictest sense of the word, there are no Ishmaelites and no Edomites in this list. Why? Ishmael is the father of the Ishmaelites. He is not a descendant of Ishmael. That is, he is not a descendant of himself. Ishmael is an Adamite, a Noahite, a Semite, a Hebrew, and an Abrahamite. Esau is the father of the Edomites. He is not a descendant of Esau. That is, he is not a descendant of himself. Esau is also an Isaacite as he is a descendant of Isaac, but he is not an Israelite, for the father of Israel is Jacob. Also, brother Esau is not a descendant of brother Jacob. Brothers, by definition, cannot be descendants of each other.

In the strictest sense of the word Israelite, the first Israelite is Reuben, the first descendant of Israel. Jacob received a name change to Israel as the father of Israel. Israel is not a descendant of himself. Hence, the only Israelites in this list are the 12 sons of Jacob. There are no Jews on this list either. There is the father of the Jews, who had Shelah, Pharez, and Zarah from the juicy chapter of Genesis 38. His name is Judah. Judah cannot be a Jew because Judah is not a descendant of himself. Notice that Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Benjamin, and Joseph are not Jews as they are brothers of Judah, and brothers, by definition, are not descendants of each other.

Notice, in the strictest sense of the word, Judah is not a Jew. In fact, in the loosest sense of the word, Judah is not a Jew. Judah cannot be a Jew when Judah had never heard of the word "Jew." In fact, neither King David nor King Solomon had ever heard of this word "Jew." We first find the word "Jew" in 2 Kings 16:5 and 6. "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there until this day."

Mark it and note it: At this point in history, the Israelites had separated into two houses -- the house of Israel and the house of Judah -- and the Israelites were attacking the Jews. The ten-tribe house of Israel comprised Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Ephraim, and Manasseh; remember, Joseph is not on the list. It says in Joshua 14:4: "For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim." The two-tribe house of Judah were Judah and Benjamin.

Remember, Levi was not counted as a warring tribe in Numbers 1 and 2 for Levi was a priestly tribe. Hence, there are 13 tribes of Israel. Levi did not get counted in the numbers for either the ten-tribe house of Israel or the two-tribe house of Judah. This allowed Levi to switch back from the ten-tribe house of Israel to the two-tribe house of Judah without the house of Israel losing a tribe. That is, the ten-tribe house of Israel still had ten tribes when the Levites went back to the two-tribe house of Judah to conduct their ceremonial services unto YEHOVAH God. Hence, there are thirteen tribes of Israel. They are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.

The translators of the 1611 King James Bible sometimes used a simple word to describe a basic concept, which people today have twisted and confused. One of those words is "Jew." So what word were the translators translating? The Hebrew concordance for the word "Jew" gives us #3064 Yehuwdiy: a Judaite. Other words #3061 through 3066: Judah territory, Judea, language of the Jews. So we see that a better translation would have been Judaite, Judean, or people who live and reside in Judea or Jerusalem and speak the Jewish language.

This has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with residency, language and speech of the Jews, dialect, and accent. It says in Matthew 2:1 and 2: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." This is the only verse in the entire Bible that speaks of the Messiah as King of the Jews in a positive way. Mark it and note it: these wise men are using the term "Jew" correctly as a physical location. The Greek word to translate "Jew" was #2453 Ioudaios: country of Judea, Judean. Where was the Messiah born? He was born in Bethlehem, a region of Judea, which would make the Messiah both a Judean and a Bethlehemite. That has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with residency and dialect if the Messiah grew up there.

However, the Messiah was a Judahite since he was a descendant of King David of the Tribe of Judah.

We do know that his parents were Galileans, as they came to Jerusalem to take the census of King Herod. After the census was over and after the Messiah was born, where did they live? They escaped King Herod by moving to Egypt. Hence, for a short time, they were called Egyptians. After King Herod's death, they moved back to Galilee, which made the Messiah a Galilean. The official title of the Messiah was Yeshua of Nazareth mentioned 19 times in the Bible. Nazareth is in Galilee, again making the Messiah a Galilean.

It would be like calling Abraham Lincoln a Kentuckian because he was born in Kentucky, but he grew up in Illinois, thereby making him an Illinoisan. Hence, the Land of Lincoln refers to Illinois, and not Lincoln's birthplace of Kentucky. Naturally, Abraham Lincoln would have the Illinoisan language, speech, dialect, and accent, not a Kentuckian language, speech, dialect, and accent. This would be like saying someone was born in New York City, thereby making him a New Yorker. After birth, his parents move back to their home town of Boston to raise their son. Naturally, their son would now be called a Bostonian. Naturally, a Bostonian would have a Bostonian language, speech, dialect, and accent, not a New Yorker language, speech, dialect, and accent.

Another important point to consider: of the Messiah's 12 disciples, how many of them were Jews? In the strictest definition, only one: Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed the Messiah. He was both of the tribe of Judah and the region of Judea. However, the other 11 disciples were of the tribe of Benjamin and all were found in Galilee, which made them both Benjamites and Galileans. Brothers are not descendants of each other. Hence, these 11 disciples cannot be called "Jews." They are Benjamites based upon tribe and Galileans based upon residency and region.

Do you need more proof? Remember Simon Peter? Peter was in Judea, land of the "Jews." It says in Matthew 26:73, "And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said unto Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee." Question: which speech, the speech and language of a "Jew" or the speech and language of a Galilean? Answer is found in Mark 14:70: "And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto."

The answer is again found in Luke 22:59: "And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying 'Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilean'." So we see that not only was Peter both a Benjamite and a Galilean, but that he had the language, speech, dialect, and accent of a Galilean. Mark it and note it: Peter did not have the language, speech, dialect, and accent of a "Jew" because Peter was not a "Jew."

Also, what were Christians called before they were first called Christians at Antioch? Mark it and note it: They were called Galileans. Remember the promise that YEHOVAH's Chosen People were to receive a new name. Well, neither Jews nor Galileans are new names. They are old names. Logic should tell you that "Jews" are not YEHOVAH God's Chosen People, but Judaites and Galileans are YEHOVAH's Chosen People as they readily accepted their new name of Christian and dropped their old name of Judaites and Galilean. True Christians of an Israelite background simply call themselves Christian.

If you need more proof that the Messiah was only a Jew temporarily by region, read Jesus Christ the Galilean by Pastor Sheldon Emry. However, don't forget that the Messiah was a Judaite (Judahite) since he was descended from the tribe of Judah. I also hope that none of you will ever use the word anti-Semitic to describe people who hate Jews, as anti-Semitic could be used to describe people that hate Muslims, or people that hate Edomites.

The People Called Jews Today

There is much evidence from recorded history that the seed of Esau may certainly and safely be identified with “the Jews” and modern Jewry. There is much in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that points this out when the words indicated above are looked at (see also “Ottoman”). The historian Josephus details much about Esau and gives much coverage of wars and the Amalekites’ continuous hatred of Israel through the time of Antiochus Epipanes until after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. He does not identify Esau with Israel, but with those he calls “the Jews” whom he says were not Israelites.

The Idumeans came also to be known as “Jews” when John Hyrcanus destroyed their cities and incorporated them into the Judean state. He forced observance of circumcision and Israelite laws, and to all outward appearances they became as Israelites.

It is recorded that Aristobulos annexed Iturea and forced them to accept Judaism at about 105 B.C. They no longer were a separated people and they were considered one people by virtue of their embracing Judaism. This mixture, together with others who later took on Judaism, constitute modern Jewry. As such, they have absolutely no right or claim on Palestine today under the Abrahamic covenant.

The binding force of the Judean religious leaders was the Babylonian Talmud. The name suggests that this started to develop when Judah was in captivity in Babylon. This passed on eventually to the religious leaders in Judea at the time of the Messiah. Their religion -- the tradition of the elders -- was condemned by the Messiah. The practice of this religion by peoples of various races has created a pseudo-race which has perpetuated isolation through religion. Marriage was mainly confined to be with people of the same religion and hence with the pseudo-race. This creates the appearance of being a race, but it is not.

Using the Old Testament, or their interpretation of it, as their religion, the Jews of today appear to worship YEHOVAH God. It may be remarked that Roman Catholicism does likewise. But the Messiah said they worship YEHOVAH God IN VAIN. Some may think that they are worshipping YEHOVAH, but they are in the synagogue of Satan. The Messiah says this is so! (Revelation 2:9 and 3:9).

According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Vol. 8, p. 474:

“The Jewish religion, as it is today, traces its descent, without a break, through all centuries, from the Pharisees....The Talmud is the largest and most important single member of that literature”.

The Messiah said that the Pharisees rejected the commandments of YEHOVAH God so that “the Jews” might keep their own traditions (of Babylon). The Talmud represents a defiance towards YEHOVAH God. “The Jews” therefore are still the enemy of YEHOVAH’s people. Any show of their using the Old Testament is a mechanism of deceit!

The Messiah is referred to in the Talmud as a sorcerer, a fool, an idolater and a blasphemer, and that the Messiah committed many horrendous things such as sodomy and beastiality. The Messiah said that their father is a liar and that they are the same. Many Jewish works, including the Talmud, show the hatred of “the Jews” towards Christianity. This is inherent in the nature of “the Jews” according to Ezekiel 35:5. This is a perpetual hatred.

Ezekiel 35:5: “Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the Children of Israel by the force of the sword”.

Just as Satan wanted the Messiah to bow down and worship him, and as Satan wanted to be like YEHOVAH God and be worshipped, so Satan wants to be worshipped today. The Messiah refers to people calling themselves “Jews” (= “Ioudaios” or Judean) who “are not” as being of the synagogue of Satan. So the Messiah says Satan has a synagogue among peoples calling themselves “Jews” today. As the Messiah said in John 8:44 their father was, and still is, the Devil. Would there be a better place to start a deception, than to begin with the seed of Abraham? The Christian denominations still refuse to agree with the Messiah that the synagogue of Satan still exists and is active right through the church age against YEHOVAH’s Israelite people.

The word, ”Jews,” cannot always be taken in the way that is commonly accepted. Modern international Jewry is primarily of Edomic or Japheth/Ashkenazim or Sephardim origin, and the Jewish Encyclopaedia agrees that “Edom is modern Jewry”, as quoted earlier. Edomites are not Israelites; it was Esau who sold his birthright. The descendants of Japheth cannot be Israelites. Neither are “Jews” of other races necessarily Israelites by race.

Modern Jewry relates to Edom, Zionism, World Government and the State of Israel, but not to Biblical Israel. At the end of the age it will be the Edomite-Jewish association with their Babylonic enmity that will be burned by fire (Obadiah 1:16-18; Revelation 18:6-8).

But there is a final twist declared in the Encyclopedia Judaica,1971 Vol. 10, p. 23: “Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860”.

This coincides with the cry, “anti-Semitism”. If Zionists began as late in history to pretend that they were Israelites or Hebrews, this confirms the hoax that suggests that “the Jews,” as a general term, are the Israel of the Bible.

The Roll of the Khazars

There is substantial proof that the Eastern European Jew originated from Japheth, and NOT from Shem. As this is so, then this part of modern Jewry is dominated by a non-Semitic people. They could not then possibly be Israelites. The two major groups in modern Jewry are the Ashkenazim (i.e., Eastern) and the Sephardic (i.e., Western) Jew -- but anthropologically they are clearly not the same race! So both could not be who they claim to be if they both claim to be Israel and of the same race!

There are United Nations papers concerning this matter, and one of their researchers, Raphail Patai declares,

“The findings of physical anatomy show that, contrary to popular view, there is no Jewish race (i.e., that among those who call themselves Jews). Documentation suggests that Jews living in one culture are similar anthropologically to the culture in which they live, rather than all being similar to each other in differing cultures”.

This quotation is from the well documented book, The Thirteenth Tribe, by Arthur Keostler. Keostler offers proof that the Eastern European Jew is descended from the large Khazar Kingdom which existed in Russia in the early centuries. The Khazars adopted Judaism as the State religion prior to the eighth century, as a political move to create a buffer between Muslims on one side and “Christians” on the other. Documents and correspondence from that period are still available from as far away as Spain and Egypt. One important fact is that the Khazar people themselves claimed descent from Japheth. They were not Semites so they did not descend from Abraham! Yet they are known today as being “Jews” and to speak against them is falsely said to be anti-Semitic! Recent Russian and Polish archaeological investigations are said to confirm the Khazar/Polish-Jew connection.

The historian H. G. Wells, in The Outline of History, p. 494, says,

“The Idumeans [Edomites] were...made Jews...and a Turkish people [Khazars] were mainly Jews in South Russia….The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea”.

History details the fall of the Khazar empire and how they were driven Westward towards Poland, the Baltic States and Western Russia. There were pockets of Israelites in Europe prior to the Ashkenazim invasion, but they were a different people.

Mr. Keostler says that all the facts about the Jews being one people “looks like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated”.

The Khazars were not "Semites." They were an Asiatic Mongoloid nation. They are classified by modern anthropologists as Turko-Finns racially. From time immemorial the homeland of the Khazars was in the heart of Asia. They were a very warlike nation. The Khazars were driven out of Asia finally by the nations in Asia with whom they were continually at war. The Khazars invaded eastern Europe to escape further defeats in Asia. The very warlike Khazars did not find it difficult to subdue and conquer the 25 peaceful agricultural nations occupying approximately 1,000,000 square miles in eastern Europe. In a comparatively short period the Khazars established the largest and most powerful kingdom in Europe, and probably the wealthiest also.

The Khazars were a pagan nation when they invaded eastern Europe. Their religious worship was a mixture of phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous worship practiced in Asia by pagan nations. This form of worship continued until the seventh century. The vile forms of sexual excesses indulged in by the Khazars as their form of religious worship produced a degree of moral degeneracy the Khazar's king could not endure.

The Conversion of the Khazars

In the seventh century King Bulan, ruler at that time of the Khazar Kingdom, decided to abolish the practice of phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous worship and make one of the three monotheistic religions, about which he knew very little, the new state religion. After a history session with representatives of the three monotheistic religions, King Bulan decided against Christianity and Islam and selected as the future state religion the religious worship then known as "Talmudism," and now known and practiced as "Judaism." This event is well documented in history.

King Bulan and his 4,000 feudal nobles were promptly converted by Edomite rabbis  imported from Babylonia for that event. Phallic worship and other forms of idolatry were thereafter forbidden. The Khazar kings invited large numbers of the Edomite rabbis to come and open synagogues and schools to instruct the population in the new form of religious worship. It was now the state religion. The converted Khazars were the first population of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe. So-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe after the conversion of the Khazars are the descendants of the Khazars converted to "Talmudism," or as it is now known "Judaism," by the mass conversion of the Khazar population.

After the conversion of King Bulan, none but a so-called or self-styled "Jew" could occupy the Khazar throne. The Khazar Kingdom became a virtual theocracy. The religious leaders were the civil administrators also. The religious leaders imposed the teachings of the Talmud upon the population as their guide to living. The ideologies of the Talmud became the axis of political, cultural, economic and social attitudes and activities throughout the Khazar kingdom. The Talmud provided civil and religious law.

The Yiddish Language

Since the conquest of the Khazars by the Russians and the disappearance of the Khazar Kingdom the language of the Khazars is known as Yiddish. For about six centuries the so-called or self-styled "Jews" of eastern Europe have referred to themselves, while still resident in their native eastern European countries, as "Yiddish" by nationality. They identified themselves as "Yiddish" also. There are today in New York City many "Yiddish" newspapers, "Yiddish" theatres, and many other cultural organizations of so-called or self-styled "Jews" from eastern Europe which are identified publicly by the word "Yiddish" in their title.

Before it became known as the "Yiddish" language, the mother-tongue of the Khazars added many words to its limited ancient vocabulary as necessity required. These words were acquired from the languages of its neighboring nations with whom they had political, social or economic relations. Languages of all nations add to their vocabularies in the same way. The Khazars adapted words to their requirements from the German, the Slavonic and the Baltic languages. The Khazars adopted a great number of words from the German language.

"Yiddish" must not be confused with "Hebrew" because they both use the same characters as their alphabets. There is not one word of "Yiddish" in ancient "Hebrew" nor is there one word of "Hebrew" in "Yiddish." They are as totally different as Swedish and Spanish, which both likewise use the same Latin characters for their alphabets. The "Yiddish" language is the cultural common denominator for all the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in, or from, eastern Europe. To the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in, or from, eastern Europe, "Yiddish" serves them like the English language serves the populations of the 48 states of the United States. The English language is the tie which binds them to each other. It is the same with the "Yiddish" language and so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world.

During the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries the rapidly expanding Russian nation gradually swallowed up the Khazar kingdom, its neighbor directly to the south. The conquest of the Khazar kingdom by the Russians supplies history with the explanation for the presence, after the thirteenth century, of the large number of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in Russia. The large number of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe after the destruction of the Khazar Kingdom were thereafter no longer known as Khazars, but as the "Yiddish" populations of these many countries. They so refer to themselves today.

In the many wars with her neighbors in Europe after the thirteenth century Russia was required to cede to her victors large areas which were originally part of the Khazar Kingdom. In this manner Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria were acquired from Russia territory, originally a part of the Khazar Kingdom. Together with this territory the nations acquired a segment of the population of so-called or self-styled "Jews" descended from the Khazars who once occupied the territory.

These frequent boundary changes by the nations in eastern Europe explains the presence today of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in all these countries who all trace their ancestry back to the converted Khazars. Their common language, their common culture, their common religion, and their common racial characteristics classify them all beyond any question of doubt with the Khazars who invaded eastern Europe in the first century B.C. and were converted to "Talmudism" in the seventh century.

The so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world today of eastern European origin make up at least 90% of the world's total present population of so-called or self-styled "Jews." The conversion of King Bulan and the Khazar nation in the seventh century accomplished for "Talmudism," or for "Judaism" as "Talmudism" is called today, what the conversion of Constantine and the western European nations accomplished for Christianity.

"Talmudism" -- the civil and religious code of the Pharisees -- most likely would have passed out of existence like the many other creeds and cults practiced by the peoples in that area before, during, and after "Pharisaism" assumed its prominent position among these creeds and cults in the time of the Messiah. "Talmudism," as "Pharisaism" was called later, would have disappeared with all its contemporary creeds and cults but for the conversion of the Khazars to "Talmudism" in the seventh century. At that time "Talmudism" was well on its way towards complete oblivion.

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