Obviously, I am an antisemite. Of course, the proper definition of the word “antisemite” is anyone Jews do not like. Further, it identifies anyone who resists Jewish manipulation and their predatory agenda. The Apostle John was just such an antisemite, calling Jews the Synagogue of Satan. I’m going to outline how they went from God’s Chosen to Satan’s Chosen.
The Nation of Israel was called into covenant with Jehovah for one purpose: His divine glory. The glory of God is His reputation via His revelation of how we must live in this world, and how He pours out blessings on those who embrace that truth. Israel’s primary mission was to breathe life into divine revelation and open a highly visible path for the world to find peace with God. It didn’t take them long to reject that mission. Over a number of centuries, the Lord worked with them according to His revelation, showing extreme indulgence and patience. In the end, He sent His own Son to clarify things.
Jesus’ teaching, backed up by His miracles, pointed out just how lost they had gotten from the path of peace with God. At that point, they had moved so very far from God’s purpose that they could not recognize this Son, and they had Him crucified. Their vicious spite was palpable, even from this distance.
The Bible points out how the Jewish leadership had become obsessed with the covenant blessings, but rejected their covenant obligations, which was their identity. They came to the believe God owed them because of their racial/ethnic identity. It was outlined in the Wilderness Temptations of Jesus. They demanded that God provide for them abundant wealth, spectacular miracles that entertained them, and political dominance over the whole world. They considered themselves the only real humans, while all Gentiles were animals, a different species entirely. The leadership even went so far as to regard their own peasants as subhuman.
Satan wanted Jesus to become the Messiah they were expecting. He refused, becoming instead the Messiah that was actually promised. The difference between the two was shocking, and resulted in His execution.
The miracles of Jesus continued and expanded among His followers after the Day of Pentecost. The Jewish leadership took counsel and sought ways to silence this movement that was so galling to their sense of privilege. When persecution failed, they began sending crafty rabbis to seduce the churches the Apostles had planted. Very early, the Judaizers developed a mind-bending strategy of deception. At first it was meant to seduce them into coming back under the Talmud. This didn’t work too well, so the emphasis shifted to simply disrupting genuine faith itself.
It was no different from the counsel of Balaam used against them centuries ago. The Judaizers sought to seduce the Christians away from faith so that they lost their miraculous powers, which miracles was a burning flame of ignominy for Jews. It kept the culpability for the Cross in their faces. So the Judaizers brought things back into the realm of human reasoning where they knew they could dominate, having long mastered such things (they had embraced Aristotle’s epistemology after Alexander the Great passed through Palestine, developing a special talent for legalism). As long as Christians clung to faith, they could easily reject Jewish lies. So the long term strategy was to weaken Christian faith by pulling things back down to the realm of human control.
The primary power of the Judaizing influence was to complicate things intellectually. This was their home ground in spiritual warfare. Pulling all questions down into the sphere of human intellect was the very nature of the Fall in the first place. The Forbidden Fruit symbolized the choice to approach questions from human capabilities, instead of trusting the revelation of God and keeping personal loyalty to Him. Thus, asserting the dominance of the fallen human intellect over faith through the heart and convictions was the key to Jewish leadership gaining control over the Christians.
The battle lines drifted as the Jewish leaders perfected their craft. Since God would not grant them a Messiah to their liking, they would become their own Messiahs. They would seize from the Gentile world the things they lusted for in this world, and reject the otherworldly path of the true Messiah. Since they rejected the reign of their God and the Messiah’s spiritual kingdom of hearts, their God cut them loose. But they refused to disband as a nation, and so Satan was quite happy to take over the position as their national deity.
Satan had not lied to Jesus about those things he offered in the Wilderness Temptation, but the deception was in the unspoken assumption that the things he offered were worth having. The Jews are now the Chosen people of the Prince of This World, and they would come to dominate wherever there was no Covenant protection. Every human activity that is not specifically and explicitly under the Covenant of the Messiah now belongs to Satan. And Satan uses the Jewish people to dominate his realm. He gives his servants what he offered Jesus, and it’s not worth having.
Throughout history, the Jews maintained their obsession with dominating the Gentile world through deception and manipulation. They tricked the early Christians into seeking to answer the Judaizers’ intellectual challenges instead of relying on faith. They tricked the early churches into seeking relief from persecution by encouraging church leadership to seek political solutions. Thus, Constantine was able to seduce the church leadership into an alliance that served only the human political agenda of government. It also put things squarely in the Jewish home ground for battle.
The obsession of the Jewish leadership has never changed: They are determined to seek ethnic advantage in every situation by using deception and manipulation. They have always sought to degrade and destroy every nation, government and people while building up their own. They have refused to assimilate into any country, holding themselves separate and privileged. While they have admitted as much in their own writings, we can see it clearly through the evidence of how they act in every context throughout history.
From time to time, Gentile rulers would get just enough of the gospel truth to realize Jews were the single greatest threat they faced politically. When they began to treat Jews accordingly, Jewish leadership sought ways to undermine and destroy, not just that particular ruler, but the whole national identity of the people. They would infiltrate where they could and prey upon any cultural or political weakness they could find, seducing the people into every vice imaginable, even as they strictly rejected such vices among their own.
At some point, Jews realized that the European people in general, and northern Europeans in particular, were the most resistant to their strategies. So they sought by steps to destroy first the feudal system that was so effective in singling out the Jewish threat. The revolutions of Europe were always provoked by Jewish manipulation. The Enlightenment was a Jewish program to undermine feudalism and secularize government. It destroyed the pretense of faith, and destroyed the belief in ethnic identity among the Gentile nations.
As the years rolled on, the Jews continued to tinker with the effects of the Enlightenment to further degrade the northern European cultural legacy. (I’m not defending that cultural legacy; this is simply an examination of how Jews operate.) It turned into a visceral hatred and attack on white people as a whole. The other branches of human ethnic and cultural identity have been, up to now, not much of a problem for Jews to work around. However, over the past couple of centuries, Jewish leadership have treated the entire range of northern European peoples as their greatest threat.
So here we are in the US today, and just about everything that could have worked to keep the nation viable has been destroyed by Jewish manipulation. It’s not hard to find how they infiltrated academia, organized religion, government and media. They are responsible for middle class materialism, destructive social theories, communism and socialism, feminism, pedophilia, and just about every kind of social rot you can name. See Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique series of books for a solid analysis of this.
Meanwhile, Jews continue to reject any attempt to inject that crap into their own society. They militate against any ethnic discipline but their own. Their primary weapon is to insist that no one notice they keep themselves separate from the very same harm they promote among Gentiles. They are always whining about persecution and oppression, they very thing to do to everyone else. The message they keep pounding is that there is no Jewish conspiracy of any kind, and that Jews are always inherently harmless, and have always blessed the Gentiles with their benevolence. The sheer audacity of their claims is beyond words.
Please keep in mind: Any attempt to use human political or intellectual tools to fight them is a tactical blunder. It surrenders to them the only advantage God has given us in resisting Satan. Satan is the Prince of This World, and anything you can do via reason, education, culture, politics or military action is meeting them on their own battlefield. The only defense against this hideous threat is heart-led faith in the Messiah they rejected. The otherworldly focus of the gospel is the only answer.
Regardless what happens in this world, Satan shall rule over human activity. God has granted Satan that authority. The only way to escape is the Covenant of Christ. Obey the Code of Noah and keep yourselves undefiled by the cares of this fallen world. The Lord will not remove the Jewish threat; He has granted to Satan control over them as part of this world. Don’t leave the boundaries of the Covenant or you will be on Satan’s turf. Our ultimate victory over Satan and his Jews is to stop getting entangled in what they do. Focus on escaping this world, because it has been delivered to Satan.
The best defense is to seize the Covenant they rejected and live by its power. Meanwhile, keep declaring the truth, including the truth about Jews.
This is what the new bikeway signs look like. You can find them scattered all over the Oklahoma City area, wherever these established trails exists. More trails are in the works, and at least one new trail is always under construction somewhere. The city has decided to invest a surprisingly large amount into the project of improving bike routes and walking routes. This specimen stands on the Stanley Draper Lake Trail.
This field has been used for cattle, but only during warmer months. It gets grazed down, and then looks almost like it’s been mowed over the winter months. The creek is nothing special, but it looks rather nice running across the property. In the heat of summer, I often encounter the cows hugging the shady areas in midday.
Not too far away is this even nicer scene. I’ve seen horses on this property from time to time, but not consistently. I recall the little bridge under construction a few years ago. It was previously just a couple of planks. I don’t get out this way too often any more.
County and federal funds were awarded to smaller communities that built bike paths, like this one in Harrah, OK. Of course, the city was supposed to handle the maintenance, but I can tell you they’ve spent very little on that. Large stretches of this path are crossed by tree root swells that make it very rough riding. In a couple of years, the asphalt will crumble off the tops of the roots and it will smooth out just a little. Then a few years after that, large craters will appear as the roots continue breaking the surface. That’s how it works in these small towns.
A mile or so north of Harrah is this row of sturdy Sycamores. Last year someone decided to trim the lower branches on them. I stop here whenever I’m in the area; it’s one of my favorite prayer chapels, and a dandy picnic spot on those long rides. The camera angle doesn’t show all of them, as they aren’t quite lined up neatly.
NT Doctrine — Acts 2
The symbolism is so thick you could cut it with an ax.
The Day of Pentecost is just another name for First Fruits. In this chapter of Acts, we are about to see the first fruits of the New Covenant in Christ. This is by no means a coincidence, but was the hand of God drawing a linkage impossible to ignore. The New Covenant finished the Old, yet much of the Old still lived in the New.
It was no longer possible to confine this large body of disciples in the Upper Room where Jesus held His last Seder with the Twelve. They had taken over the whole structure, including the courtyard, and likely scattered around to other places for sleep at night. On the Day of Pentecost itself, they were packed into the house to celebrate together.
We have no record of what folks outside this home experienced, but those inside heard a very loud roaring sound coming down from the sky. It fell upon the entire structure, accompanied by a stirring of the air like a gentle breeze, but by no means matching the howling sound of wind. One of the Hebrew words used for the Spirit of God is commonly translated as “wind” or “breath” — this was the breath of God.
With the wind came fire. Like the wind, it was not damaging, but a manifestation powerful enough to leave no doubt it was beyond human ken. Luke chose odd words to describe this glowing presence that divided and distributed itself above the heads of everyone in the building. They were all filled with the divine Presence, something that had been quite rare up to now. Instead of a miracle for a limited purpose and time, this was a permanent change in the very nature of the people there.
Luke says the primary result is that everyone was driven out of the house and into the streets, proclaiming the glory of God in different languages they had never learned. Keep in mind that a great many Diaspora Jews from all around that part of the world traveled to Jerusalem for Passover and stayed until after Pentecost. All of these Jews were fluent in different languages, representing the wide array of locations where they lived the rest of the year. The Spirit of God enabled the disciples to speak in all of these languages. Even some Gentiles in town heard their own languages from places where there were no resident Jews.
Most of these people knew little, if anything, about the rabbi that had recently been executed, and about the large number of His followers. Most of these folks from out of town had not seen the miraculous signs, so this scene really puzzled them. Meanwhile, some locals suggested cynically the whole group was drunk.
While the rest of his group were drawing the Diaspora Jews and Gentile foreigners, Peter managed get the attention of the locals, addressing them directly. He noted that such a large group was unlikely to be drunk at 9AM, especially on a day when every observant Jew was fasting until just about that hour. Besides, drunks seldom spoke eloquently at all in any language, much less to prophesy of Jehovah’s mighty miracles. Peter connected this manifestation with the words of the prophet Joel (2:28-32) about the coming of the Messiah.
When Peter got to the line about calling on the Lord for redemption, Peter pointed out how Jesus had fulfilled this prophecy. He did not shrink from blaming the locals for the mistaken execution of Jesus, yet assured them that God was not caught off guard and had been ready to resurrect His Son. To make sure they understood this, Peter referred to David’s prophecy in Psalms 16:8-11. There, David talked about how the final heir in his dynasty would rise from death to reign. It wasn’t David himself that rose; he was still in a grave that anyone could visit right there in the city. Rather, it was a prediction of the Messiah who would not rot in any grave.
Peter boldly claims that all those from the group preaching on the streets had seen the risen Messiah first hand. Even now, said Peter, He reigns from Heaven. Then he specifically warned that those who rejected or opposed the Messiah would be crushed under His feet.
A significant portion of the crowd was struck with conviction. Peter’s words are so easily missed by modern Gentile readers, though. First, the Covenant of Moses had always demanded repentance, to turn away from sin. In this case, it would mean disavowing the crucifixion and embracing Jesus as whom He claimed to be, the Messiah. As a sign of the new loyalty to the Messiah, they should participate in the old Mosaic ritual of cleansing in water, but now in the name of Jesus the Messiah, cleansing away the old life and living in the new life of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the eyes of the Jewish leaders, this was a form of treason, had they considered what this all meant. It meant repudiating their Jewish national identity in favor of a higher claim on their loyalty. Those who were able to do such a thing would find this same power and enlightenment was theirs. Notice how Peter says no man can choose this for himself, but it is the Lord who chooses and calls, and human national identity means nothing.
The preaching continued off and on for some hours until some 3000 had joined this group, embracing the ritual baptism and committing themselves to their Lord. Over the next few days, this commitment bore fruit. The Twelve performed miracle signs and those who learned the teachings of Jesus were changed by the unanimous miracle of the Holy Spirit living within.
Many of them felt compelled to stay in the city with this growing household of faith. They executed sales of various properties, some with significant holdings back in their Diaspora homelands. Grasping the nature of their New Covenant identity, they acted as if it was their real family household and began sharing their wealth. They were one tribe, and everyone was their brother or sister. Having found a family worthy of such commitment, they never went back to their Diaspora homes, but stayed in Jerusalem. The permanent population of the city grew massively in just a few days.
Meanwhile, a significant number of locals also joined in this new life. Instead of crushing the movement, the Jewish rulers found themselves inundated with these followers of Jesus right in their own capital, swarming into the Temple daily, and running around the city streets with irrepressible joy. And their numbers just kept growing.