The world is still reeling from the effects of the September 11, 2001, attack upon America by way of the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the World Trade Towers in New York City. Much has already been written and much more will yet be heard about these heinous acts of terrorism. However, next to nothing has been said about the identity and millennia-long history of those involved in these events. The reason for this is found in the fact that few people today know the identity -- that is -- the biblical identity of today's Arabs, Jews, and Anglo-Americans. Furthermore, most people are unaware that the identity of all three groups are intertwined and have been since the times of biblical antiquity. Moreover, few people know that the basis for what occurred on September 11, 2001 is found in the religious rivalries of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Let's now look at some of the players and their involvement in world affairs today.

Understanding Terminology

It has often been stated that Abraham was the first Jew. The Bible, however, never calls Abraham by that term and for good reason. The word "Jew" is merely the modern English contraction for the word "Judahite" or "Judean." Thus, the question is not really whether Abraham was a Jew or not; but rather, WAS ABRAHAM A JUDAHITE? That is, was Abraham of the tribe of Judah? Obviously not, for Abraham preceded the tribe of Judah by three generations.

Abraham was a Semite (a descendant of Shem), and he was also a Hebrew (a descendant of Heber, or Eber). But to say that Abraham was a Judahite is to say that he descended from his own great-grandson! That is impossible.

The word "Hebrew" comes from Eber, who was born in about 1732 B.C. (Genesis 10:24). Many people are Hebrews -- including the Arabs. Six generations later, Abraham was born. He, too, was a Hebrew, but not a Judahite (Jew). All the descendants of Abraham's grandson, whose name Jacob was changed to Israel, are Israelites. And the balance of the Old Testament is concerned almost wholly with these people and those nations with which Israel came into contact. After their sojourn in Egypt and their exodus through the Red Sea under the leadership of Moses, who was not a Judahite (Jew), they were formed into the Nation of Israel at Mount Sinai.

"Now if you will obey My voice in deed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:5-6).

The descendants of Judah (Hebrew: Yehudah) were known as Yehudim, which means "Judahites." The New Testament that we have, written in Greek, uses the term Ioudaioi, which is best translated "Judeans."

It is somewhat confusing that almost all Bible translations employ the word "Jew" instead of Judahite or Judean. But once we learn to read Judahite or Judean, the distinctions in the Bible between Hebrews, Israelites, and "Jews" is clarified. But let us concentrate for now upon the various meanings of the Biblical term "Judahite."

The Bible uses the word "Judahite" in three distinct ways: (1) one who is of the tribe of Judah in the racial sense; (2) one who is a citizen of the southern Nation of Judah, including the tribes of Benjamin and Levi; it may even include Canaanites and Edomites who are citizens of Judah; (3) one who is a follower of the religion of Judah as given by Moses and the prophets.

This usage is found in Esther 8:17 and Romans 2:28, 29.

Modern Jews are essentially divided into two major categories, ethnically and culturally: Sephardim and Ashkenazim.

The former are primarily of Spanish origin; the name Sephardim being derived from Sepharad, the Hebrew word for Spain, and are likely the closest to actual Semitic Jews that can be established. They were expelled from Spain toward the beginning of the sixteenth century A.D. and immigrated to the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans.

As late as the 1960s the Sephardic Jews numbered only about 500,000, compared with the Ashkenazim of the same period estimated at approximately 12 million.

The Consequences of Misidentification

The United States supports the spurious State of Israel in Palestine to the tune of about $4 billion dollars per year. It has not been lost on the Arab nations that the State of Israel could not exist and could not be stealing their land if it were not for the United States' assistance. Therefore, the September 11 attack of 2001 upon America is connected to the Zionist conquest of Arab lands and the murder of Arab lives which are, unfortunately, financed by American tax dollars under the guise that today's Jews are Israelites. In other words, this terrorist incident is, at its core, unequivocally linked with the question: "Who are today's TRUE Israelites?" It also reveals just how important the answer to this question should be to our families, our friends -- and to each of us individually.

Because America has misidentified Israel and, consequently, backed the Zionist movement, many in the Arab world have become the avowed enemies of both Israelis and Americans alike. As described in The Jewish Almanac we, indeed, have an identity crisis as it concerns those involved in the events of September 11. And we will continue to have this crisis, and the horrific consequences that accompany these cases of misidentification, until we figure out "who is who" as it pertains to Edom, Israel and the Jews.

The Edomite Connection

The nation of Judah, comprising the Israelite tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, were conquered and deported to Babylon 600 years before the Messiah. After a 70-year captivity, about 50,000 of them returned to rebuild Jerusalem. Ezra and Nehemiah both had a difficult time keeping them from intermarrying with the heathen who had settled in Palestine during their absence. They often had to institute reforms to cleanse the people and even the priests from these unlawful marriage relationships. (See Ezra 2:62; 9:1, 2; Nehemiah 7:64; 12:23-30).

About a century and a half later when Alexander the Great conquered the known world and set up his Greek empire, the Greek language began to become the dominant language of the world. It was not long before the Hebrew term Yehudah ("Judahite") was replaced by the Greek term Ioudaioi ("Judeans"). This is why the New Testament that we have (written in Greek) speaks of Judeans instead of Judahites. However, both terms have roughly the same meaning.

Between the time of Nehemiah and the birth of the Messiah, the problem of intermarriage increased. The climax of the problem came about a century and a half before the birth of the Messiah, when the Judean, John Hyrcanus, conquered the heathen cities in Palestine and forced the Canaanites to become Judeans ("Jews"). Josephus, the Judean historian, writing in about 95 A.D., wrote of this:

"Hyrcanus took also Dora and Marissa, cities of Idumea (Greek form of Edom), and subdued all the Idumeans; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would be circumcised, and make use of the laws of the Judeans; .and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, and the rest of the Judean ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Judeans" (Antiquities of the Jews, Bk. 13, ch. 9, par 1).

A footnote in Josephus quotes Ammonius, an ancient grammarian, who says further:

"The Judeans are such by nature, and from the beginning, whilst the Idumeans were not Judeans from the beginning, but Phoenicians and Syrians; but being afterward subdued by the Judeans and compelled to be circumcised, and to unite into one nation, and be subject to the same laws, they were called Judeans."

This same footnote also quotes Dio Cassius (c. 155-c. 235 A.D.), Roman statesman and historian of Greek and Roman origin:

"That country is also called Judea, and the people Judeans; and this name is given also to as many as embrace their religion, though of other nations."

You would think that since the Edomites hated the Judahites so much, that they would only tolerate their religion as long as they were forced to, yet they ended up embracing it and flourishing under it. So much so -- and to such an extent did they influence the Romans to favor them -- that the Romans appointed one of them as governor of Judea, overlooking the choice of many true native Judahites for the position.

Josephus continues his history of how the Judahites incorporated the Edomites and Canaanites with a history of the son of Hyrcanus, named Aristobulus:

This all took place at least a century before the Messiah. It is obvious, then, that by the time the Messiah was born a great host of the people living in Judea were Canaanites and Edomites by race, although they were Judeans by religion and by citizenship. Even the ruling dynasty of the Herods were Edomites. Josephus speaks of "Herod, who was no more than a private man, and an Idumean, i.e., a half-Judean" (Antiquities of the Jews, Bk. 14, ch, 15, par. 2).

The Romans appointed Antipater (an Idumean or Edomite) to the position of governor, and he later appointed his son Herod as King of the Judeans. Herod was condemned by the Messiah, and evidently killed all the first-born of the Judahites in an attempt to kill the prophesied Messiah at birth. If this was their level of influence (through lies and corruption) in politics, you can only imagine the influence they eventually gained in the Temple with the priests of Judah -- the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Accordingly, Josephus always esteems Herod an Idumean, though he says his father Antipater was of the same people with the Judeans, and a Judean by birth, as indeed all such proselytes of justice as the Idumeans, were in time esteemed the very same people with the Judeans.

Most -- or even all -- of the Judeans who denied the Messiah were Edomite imposters, and most of those who accepted him were TRUE Judeans of the line of the tribe of Judah. Those who did believe in the Messiah eventually became known as Christians and not Judahites any longer, and the Edomite Judeans, who were particularly strong and numerous in the synagogues, became the Talmudic Jews of the Middle Ages -- and the Jews who also converted a half Mongoloid people (the Khazars) to Judaism, a distorted form of the belief in the God of Abraham (YEHOVAH) mixed in with all sorts of anti-Christian hatred and ridiculous Dark Ages customs and beliefs.

The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, p. 41, says: "EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY."

"...in the days of John Hyrcanus [end of the 2nd. century B.C.]...the [non-Israelite] Edomites became a section of the Jewish people" ("Edom," Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem, Israel: Encyclopaedia Judaica Company, 1971, Vol. 6, p. 378).

"They [the non-Israelite Edomites] were then incorporated with the Jewish nation..." ("Edom, Idumea," The Jewish Encyclopedia, New York & London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904, Vol. V, p. 41).

"...from then on they [the non-Israelite Edomites] constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod [King of Judea] being one of their descendants" ("Edom (Idumea)," The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977, p. 589).

"...they [the Edomites] were hereafter no other than [non-Israelite] Jews" (Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, Grand Rapids, MI: Dregel Publications, 1960, Book XIII, Chapter IX, Verse 1, p. 279).

The Esau-Edomite nation ("Idumea") ceased to exist as a separate nation at this point in history. And yet the Bible is clear that Edom would be the enemy of. Israel in the latter days. How could these prophecies be fulfilled, if there are no Edomites left in the world? There is only one nation in the world that can prove ancestral ties with Edom -- and the Jews themselves claim that dubious distinction!

The Jews have thus adopted the materialistic and anti-God attitude that characterized the father of the Edomites, Esau. As judgment for their sins, including that of the crucifixion of the Messiah, YEHOVAH God cast them out of Palestine in 70 A.D., whereupon they fled to North Africa and Spain. We find what happened to them in The American People's Encyclopedia for 1954, p. 15-492, under "The Jews":

"Following their dispersal many spread across North Africa to Spain and during this movement converted many of the Berber tribes to Judaism."

This had little effect on physical type, since most of the Berbers were likewise of Mediterranean race. That portion which moved into Spain and later northward achieved considerable wealth and prestige and became known as SEPHARDIC JEWS.

There are two main racial branches of modern Jewry: the Sephardic Jews of Western Europe and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Thus far we have dealt only with the Sephardic Jews, and in conclusion we may say that according to historians the Sephardic branch of modem Jewry is a mixture of Judean blood with that of Edom, Syria, Canaan, Phoenicia, and North Africa.

In our study of the origins of this Eastern European branch of world Jewry, we shall allow the historians to tell the story. The history of the Ashkenazi Jews is almost unknown today, in spite of the fact that there are 327 books in the New York Public Library alone that deal with this history -- in addition to the Jewish Encyclopedia. It is the story of the Khazars and their conversion to Judaism:

"In the year 740 the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews. It is from this grouping that most German and Polish Jews are descended, and they likewise make up a considerable part of that population now found in America. The term Ashkenazim is applied to this round-headed, dark-complexioned division" (The American People's Encyclopedia, 1954, p. 15-492).

In the 1960s, the number of Sephardim was estimated at 500,000. The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 181).

"That the Khazars are the lineal ancestors of Eastern European Jewry is an historical fact. Jewish historians and religious textbooks acknowledge the fact, though the propagandists of Jewish nationalism belittle it as pro-Arab propaganda" (Alfred Lilienthal, What Price Israel, p. 222).

"CHAZARS: a people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia" (Jewish Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, 1925).

Thus we see that the Jews themselves are well aware of the Khazar origin of Eastern European Jewry. But who were the Khazars? Where did they come from? Again, we shall allow Jewish historians to answer our questions:

"The Khazars were not 'Semites.' They were an Asiatic Mongoloid nation. They are classified by modern anthropologists as Turco-Finns racially" (Dr. Benjamin Freedman, Facts are Facts, p. 41).

"KHAZARS: A Mongolian people who embraced Judaism and flourished from the 8th through the 10th centuries on the territory extending between the Don and the Volga rivers, and the shores of the Black, Caspian, and Azov Seas. The story of the existence of such converts to Judaism reached the Jewish statesman Hasdai ibn Shaprut of Cordova in the 10th century. As a result, Shaprut wrote a letter which was ultimately received by Joseph, king of the Khazars...In his reply, king Joseph gave a detailed account of the history of the kingdom of the Khazars..." (The New Jewish Encyclopedia, 1962).

"Joseph then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish nationalist, proud of wielding the 'Scepter of Judah,' he cannot, and does not claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah's third son, Japheth; or more precisely to Japheth's grandson, Togarmah, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes. 'We have found in the family registers of our fathers,' Joseph asserts boldly, 'that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilli, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the sons of Khazar, the seventh...'" (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, p. 72).

"For the sake of piquantly it should be mentioned that the Ashkenaz of the Bible refers to a people living somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Ararat and Armenia. The name occurs in Genesis 10:3 and 1 Chronicles 1:6 as one of the sons of Gomer, who was a son of Japheth. Ashkenaz is also a brother of Togarmah [and a nephew of Magog] whom the Khazars, according to King Joseph, claimed as their ancestor" (ibid., p. 181).

Thus we see that the Khazars themselves claimed that their ancestry came through Japheth's grandson Togarmah, the brother of Ashkenaz. Strictly speaking, then, the Ashkenazi Jews are misnamed, for they are not directly descended from Ashkenaz, but from his brother. However, this matters little to us in this article, so long as we recognize that nine-tenths of world Jewry today is of Togarinah, rather than of Israel. The Bible says in Genesis 10:1-3:

"Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gamer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gamer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah."

It was the progeny of these same "Jews" who, by way of interbreeding, became part of the Khazar kingdom, and who, between the seventh and ninth centuries A.D., adopted the religion of Judaism. According to the previously cited Jewish encyclopedias, it was these Khazar Jews who were the progenitors of the vast majority of today's Jewish people -- including today's Zionist Jews who spuriously claim right to the land of Israel, including that which was previously owned and controlled by the Palestinian Arabs. Consequently, the majority of today's Jewish people are known as "Jews" -- NOT because they are descended from Jacob/Israel -- but because their Edomite/Khazar progenitors adopted the religion of Judaism. The authors of The Jewish Almanac (1980) obviously recognized that today's Jews are rarely genetic Israelites. The first chapter is entitled, "Identity Crisis." The first sentence succinctly admits to this anthropological fact:

"Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew" ("Identity Crisis," The Jewish Almanac, compiled and edited by Richard Siegel and Carl Rheins, New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1980, p. 3).

This fact is confirmed by several other Jewish sources such as The Jewish Encyclopedia (1905), The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (1941), the Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971), The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (1977), as well as individual Jewish authors such as Nathan M. Pollock, Professor of Medieval Jewish History of Tel Aviv, Bernard Lazare, Robert Quillan, Dr. Benjamin Freedman, Arthur Koestler, James Yaffe, Paul Meyer, and many others.

As Arthur Koestler pointed out earlier, Togarmah was a nephew of Magog. Here the plot begins to thicken, for most students of Bible prophecy will immediately recognize that name from reading Ezekiel 38 and 39. In this passage, Togarmah, Magog, Meshech, and Tubal are all mentioned in connection with the great end-time invasion of the land of Israel. They are pictured as INVADERS, not Israelites. The identification of the Jewish Khazars with Gog and Magog is very old. Koestler writes on page 81:

"At some date earlier than 864, the Westphalian monk, Christian Druthmar of Aquitania, wrote a Latin treatise Expositio in Evangelium Mattei, in which he reports that 'there exist people under the sky in regions where no Christians can be found, whose name is Gog and Magog, and who are Huns; among them is one, called the Gazari (Khazars) who are circumcised and observe Judaism in its entirety.' This remark occurs a propos of Matthew 24:14 which has no apparent bearing on it, and no more is heard of the subject."

Koestler continues with the story of Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveler who visited Gazaria (the Khazars) in 922 A.D., concluding his account of his travels with these words:

"The Khazars and their king are all Jews. The Bulgars and all their neighbors are subject to him. They treat him with worshipful obedience. Some are of the opinion that Gog and Magog are the Khazars" (p. 46).

There is also evidence of an Edomite connection with the Khazars. The Jewish Encyclopedia, in commenting on the letter which Hasdai ibn Shaprut wrote to King Joseph, says: "In this letter Hasdai speaks of the tradition according to which the Chazars once dwelt near the Seir (Serir) Mountains." The Bible identifies the Edomites as having lived in Mount Seir in Genesis 36:8, "Thus dwelt Esau in Mount Seir; Esau is Edom."

"Edom" literally means RED, and it is certainly no coincidence that the major theorists and financiers of world communism have been Jews. That they should pick red as the color of their Edomite banner is quite fitting. However, this color was associated with the Khazars many centuries earlier, according to Koestler on page 135:

"The legends which circulated among Western Jews in the Middle Ages provide a curious parallel to the Russian bvlinda. To quote Poliak again: 'The popular Jewish legend does not remember a Khazar kingdom but a kingdom of the RED JEWS.'"

When the Khazar empire was finally destroyed by the Russians from the north, the Khazar-Jews began to disperse into what is now called Poland and Germany, as well as into other Eastern European lands. However, they continued to multiply and remained the most populous branch of world Jewry.

The destruction of the Khazar empire brought many Khazars into contact with their fellow Jews of the Sephardim. Together, they continued their anti-Christian activity, mainly through their practice of usury, until finally the Christian nations of Europe began to banish them.

As they left, their usurious monetary practices left with them, and the European Renaissance began. Koestler quotes Cecil Roth, a Jewish historian, as writing: "In a sense, the Jewish dark ages may be said to begin with the Renaissance" (p. 178). Thus, YEHOVAH God blessed the Christian nations when they expelled His enemies of Edom, Gog, and Magog.

However, the tide changed when these Khazar-Jews of Gog and Magog finally succeeded in overthrowing the Russians in what became known as the Communist Revolution. This was carried out with the monetary backing of the Jewish banking houses in Western Europe and America. Thus, the rise of Togarmah, Ashkenaz, Gog, Magog, Meshech (ancient name for Moscow), Gomer, and Tubal (ancient name for Tobolsk) as prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is none other than the rise of the Bolshevik Khazar Jews of Eastern Europe. Prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes, but as long as the true racial origin of the Jews remains hidden from Christians, few will understand how it is being fulfilled.

The Soviet Khazar-Jews of Gog, Magog, and Togarmah have already invaded Palestine and stolen it from the Arabs, as Ezekiel prophesied. The Arabs, who know the origin of the vast majority of the Jews entering Palestine today find it difficult to understand why Americans would support such an invasion. The Khazars were the traditional enemies of the Arabs during the Middle Ages, and so they recognize the true nature of the invasion.

The Jews who control the Soviet government have tried to cover their historic tracks in order to prevent the Christians in the West from dropping their support for Jewish Zionism. They know that without such support from the Christians, their entire venture would be jeopardized. Thus, Arthur Koestler states on page 93 of his book:

"It is sad to report in this context that more than a thousand years after the events under discussion, the Soviet regime has done its best to expunge the memory of the Khazars' historic role and cultural achievements."

The Soviet Jews have also taken great pains to convince the Christian West that it is no longer controlled by the Jews and that somehow the Jews have lost control of Russia after having ruled it during its early years. Thus, they have staged Jewish "demonstrations" in Moscow, emphasizing the "downtrodden Jew" theme, so that the government would be "forced" into allowing the Jews to leave Russia. Is it not strange, however, that similar demonstrations by Christians receive no publicity in the Jewish-controlled media? Is it not strange that Christians are NEVER allowed to leave? Is it not strange that Jews are the only class in Soviet Russia that is privileged enough to leave at all?

For documentation with names, places, dates, and pictures of the Bolshevik Jews who took over Russia in the so-called "Russian Revolution," see Behind Communism, by Frank Britton.

What is it, then, that the Jews today wish to hide from the Christians? This question goes far deeper than merely the Jewish identification with Edom. The implications of this identification involve the history of the ancient conflict between Jacob and Esau over the birthright, or who the chosen people of YEHOVAH God really are.

Jacob and Esau were twin sons of Isaac, the son of Abraham. In Genesis 25 we are told that these twin sons appeared to struggle with each other even before they were born (verse 22). Esau became the firstborn, and so the birthright was supposed to be passed on to him. However, YEHOVAH God had rejected Esau before they were even born (Romans 9:11), and thus Jacob eventually inherited the birthright. The tension between the two brothers grew after Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a pot of lentil soup, and culminated when Jacob disguised himself as his hairy brother, convinced his father that he was Esau, and earned his father’s blessings.

When Isaac's wife Rebecca gave birth. The first child that came out was red, hairy and fully developed. They named him Esau, which means “made” or “complete.” Gripping his older brother’s ankle in a bid to emerge first, the other, fair-skinned baby appeared shortly after. He was thus named Jacob, meaning “ankle.” Jacob would later argue that he was the firstborn, because he was conceived first, making him the true first child. The Midrash gives the analogy that when one puts two balls in a narrow tube, the ball that goes in first comes out last. So, too, Jacob was “placed first in the tube,” i.e., conceived first, so he came out last. Esau’s skin was so red that Isaac was afraid to circumcise him, deciding to wait until he was older and his complexion improved.

Jacob went on to father the Israelite nation, and Esau became the progenitor of the Edomites who battled against the Horites and destroyed them. Esau took over the region of Mount Seir that was named for Seir the Horite (Genesis 14:6, 36:20). It is specifically noted as the place where Esau made his home (Genesis 32:3; 33:14, 16; 36:8; Joshua 24:4).

Esau and his descendants became known as the Edomites, and built their cities in the rugged mountains overlooking the Arabah. Teman and Bozrah were strong mountain fortresses, which overlooked and threatened to control routes through the Arabah. Edom became a fierce enemy of Israel. Their control of the mountainous region threatened Judah's control over the Arabah, and the routes which led to Solomon's port city, Ezion-geber. David would later conquer Edom, and station troops in the land. The Edomites received damning curses for their role in Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem.

When Esau was 40 years old he married two women from the land of Canaan. This made Isaac and Rebecca very sad, because these women did not worship YEHOVAH God. Scripture explicitly states Esau's wives "brought grief" to Isaac and Rebecca. This grief was more than likely twofold; grief over Esau taking from the daughters of Canaan, and grief over the fact these Canaanite women were idolaters. Their influence on Esau would not be good. Rebecca further uses this as an excuse to send Jacob away to find a wife from among their own people, as YEHOVAH God had ordered Abraham to do.

Esau was extremely angry over the turn of events -- angry at Jacob and angry at Jacob's God (YEHOVAH). From that point in history to the present time, Esau has always struggled to regain the lost birthright. Edom became one of Israel's most bitter enemies, constantly at odds with the Israelites from whom they were related. The children of Esau want more than anything to be regarded as the "chosen people," and if YEHOVAH God will not choose them and bless them, then they will choose themselves! And they have done so by careful planning and by calling themselves Judeans and their plans Zionism. They have succeeded in gaining a great deal of support among the Christians, whom they have deceived by hiding their true history.

Thus, we see the tremendous importance of discovering the true origins of the Jews. If the Christians had known that the Jews were of Edom, Gog, Magog, and Togarmah, they would not have been tricked into supporting the State of Israel and Jewish causes around the world.

The Messiah told a parable in Luke 19 of "a certain nobleman" who was to leave and then return (speaking of the Messiah's ascension into the clouds and then later reappearing). He gave his SERVANTS money with instructions to increase it in his absence. Verse 14, however, tells of another class of people who are not his servants: "But his CITIZENS hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us."

The citizens thus describe the Edomite Judeans of the Messiah's day perfectly, for they were citizens of the remains of YEHOVAH's kingdom on the earth. At the return of the nobleman (the Messiah), he gave each servant what he deserved. However, verse 27 says: "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, BRING HITHER and slay them before me." In other words, bring them back here to Jerusalem and execute them! It was necessary that they be brought back to the place where they committed their crime, in order that they could be judged legally and properly. We have similar laws in America, where the criminal must be tried in the county where the crime was committed. So we see that the Messiah actually prophesied the return of the Jews to Palestine -- NOT to inherit the kingdom, but to be judged for their refusal to have the Messiah and YEHOVAH God rule over them!

In the first chapter of Malachi, the prophet reveals the activities of the Edomites in the latter days in reference to their false Zionism:

(2) I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye [Israel] say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau [Edom] Jacob's brother? saith the LORD; yet I loved Jacob,

(3) And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

(4) Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and rebuild the desolate places; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they [Israel] shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

We see from this passage that YEHOVAH God had laid Esau's mountain (nation) and heritage waste and had given the birthright to Jacob instead. But Esau rebelled against YEHOVAH God and vowed to return to Palestine and rebuild. YEHOVAH's verdict is that He will allow the Edomites to rebuild for a season, but eventually He would "throw down" all they have built.

At that time, YEHOVAH says, those Edomites would be known as "the border of wickedness" and would be called "the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever." They would no longer be known to the world as YEHOVAH's chosen people, but as the accursed people of Edom, those who absolutely refuse to have the God of Jacob rule over them, those who hate the God who "stole" the birthright from their father Esau thousands of years ago. They will never forgive YEHOVAH God for doing that to them, and they would rather die than acknowledge Him as their King. Thus, the Messiah told the Judean Pharisees:

"The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you."

Another Old Testament prophet who speaks of Edom in the latter days is Ezekiel. Chapters 35 and 36 of Ezekiel speak of the bloody character of the Edomites (35:5, 6), their envy and hatred of Jacob for being chosen of YEHOVAH God (35:5,11), and their burning desire to possess Palestine:

"Because thou [Edom] hast said, These two nations [Israel and Judah] and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there" (35:10):

"Thus saith the LORD God: Because the enemy [Edom] hath said against you [Israel], Aha, even the ancient high places [centers of Baal worship] are ours in possession" (36:2):

"Therefore thus saith the LORD God; Surely in the fire of My jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea [Edom], which have appointed My land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey" (36:5).

Notice in 36:2 quoted above that Edom's motivation in possessing Palestine is NOT that they may worship the God of Israel, YEHOVAH, but that they may possess "the ancient high places," which were the hills on which the "groves" were situated. These are the holy places of the Edomites and Canaanites, whose national religion was Baal worship! All religions have sacred spots that are meaningful to their respective religions. The Edomites are no exception. The Edomite Jews covet Palestine in order to repossess the sacred sites of their Baal religion! Obviously, Dr. Bailey Smith was correct when he said that YEHOVAH God does not hear the prayer of a Jew. It would be blasphemous to teach that YEHOVAH God would hear an unrepentant worshipper of Baal or any other false religion.

The book of Obadiah deals entirely with this conflict between Jacob and Esau. Verses 18, 19, and 21 conclude this book with the following proclamation by YEHOVAH God Almighty:

"18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it."

"19 And they of the south [Judah] shall possess the mount of Esau."

"21 And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's."

Thank YEHOVAH God for this great promise. The evil designs of Edom, with their confederates of Gog, Magog, and Togarmah, shall not succeed. Their bloody scheme of Red Communism shall not ultimately prevail. The Messianic Age shall not be ruled by Esau's "Messiah," but by Jacob's. The true Bride of the Messiah shall be given her rightful position in the kingdom, for YEHOVAH God has chosen her.

It is obvious to all that the Jews hate the Messiah and Christianity. The facts above reveal the true origin of that hatred; namely, the Jews today are Edomites and Khazars, and their allies from Eastern Europe are Gog and Magog! Thus, they are merely fulfilling Bible prophecy.

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