AND THAT SETTLES IT!"

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1 "GOD SAID IT... I BELIEVE IT... AND THAT SETTLES IT!" (Or Does It?) By William N. Hollis, M.A. MOST OF US HAVE SEEN THIS declaration on bumper stickers around the country from time to time and, perhaps, have even had one on our own car. I like the sticker. I only wish that it were true! Certainly what God said is truth, but I am not at all certain that the proud wearer of the bumper sticker "believes it, and that settles it," though they may say that they do... and exhibit a bumper sticker to prove it! However, if we submit some of the following scriptures to them which are all in the Holy Bible, we find that many of them absolutely do not believe what God has said. The purpose of this tract is for you to discover whether or not you are a true believer in God's word. Every scripture below is accurately quoted and located for you in the KJV Bible, along with a scoreboard, so that you may see for yourself if "God said... that settles it!" THE JEWS ARE GOD'S CHOSEN RACE Heresy #1: The "Establishment" 1 Church teaches that the "Jews" are the Chosen Children of Israel in the Bible. Absolutely nowhere in the Bible does it say in scripture that the "Jew" is an Israelite or that an Israelite is a "Jew." Please note that we said "in scripture." Chapter headings and footnotes which are found within the scriptures were placed there by man over the centuries and often do not say what the scriptures relate. For example, they will often state that the "Jews" did this or the "Jews" did that, when upon reading the scriptures below these headings, we find that the terms "Israelite" and "Hebrew" were actually used instead of the term "Jew" Footnotes often follow this same pattern. Let us now go to God's word, the Holy Bible, and see what it says about this teaching of the "Establishment" Church - that "the Jews are the Chosen race of God." THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: ISAIAH 41:8 1 Search the web for corporation church and read why churches should not incorporate or become 501c3 exempt.

2 "But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen..." God used the term "Israel" not the term "Jew;" which was not in the original King James Bible but appeared in translations after 1745 A.D. It is a Shakespearean term. JEREMIAH 50:17 "Israel is a scattered sheep..." We see in these scriptures that God chose Jacob (Israel) and that Israel is referred to as "sheep." JOHN 10:25-26 "Jesus answered them (the Jews), 'I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believed not, because ye (Jews) are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.' " DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO THE JEWS HAVE THE SAME GOD AS DO CHRISTIANS Heresy #2: The "Establishment" Church teaches that the Jews have Jehovah-God, the great "I Am" of the Holy Bible... they just don't have Jesus Christ. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: JOHN 12:44 "Jesus cried and said, 'He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on Him (God) that sent me.' " I JOHN 4:6 "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us, he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error." JOHN 8:47 "He that is of God heareth God's words; ye (the Jews) therefore hear them not because ye are not of God." II JOHN 1:9 "Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and Son." i.e., no Father, no Son - no Son, no Father! 2

3 DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO JESUS CAME TO THE JEWS: BUT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE HIM Heresy #3: The "Establishment" Church teaches that Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) came to the Jews, but they just did not believe Him, or in Him. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: MATTHEW 15:24 "But He (Jesus Christ) answered and said, 'I am not sent but (only) unto the lost* sheep of the House of Israel.' " We have already seen that God chose Israel, that Israel is Jacob and his twelve sons, that these "Children of Israel" are God's sheep. Now we find that Jesus Christ came only to them - because He said so! We find also that His sheep hear His voice and believe! They believe because they were given "ears to hear and eyes to see." LUKE 19:10 "For the son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost*." *The word "lost" here is the same word (#622 in Strong's Concordance) which is used in Matthew 15:24 above, and they both have the exact meaning as the one used in Luke 15:9: "And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me: for I have found the piece which I had lost." In the previous scripture to this one (8th verse), Jesus tells us that she lost a piece of silver, yet the "Establishment" Church teaches that Jesus was searching for "lost souls." Now we know the truth which He stated in Matthew 15:24. He came to seek out the "lost sheep of the House of Israel," which is exactly what He stated in this verse. JOHN 8:39 "They (the Jews) answered and said unto Him, 'Abraham is our father.' Jesus saith unto them, 'If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.' " We know now that Jesus came to Israel and not the Jews, because the Israelites were taken captive to Assyria ( B.C.) and never returned to the "Promised Land." As punishment for returning to the worship of Baal, God had caused Israel to "lose their language and lose their identity!" Since Jesus made these statements in Judea when he was completely surrounded by 3

4 Jews, who by no stretch of the imagination (or scriptures) could be considered "lost" in the sense that one loses a coin, we can be assured that our Lord certainly knew what He was talking about when He told us that He "came only to seek and to save the lost sheep (1sraelites) of the House of Israel!" DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO THE GOSPEL WAS TAKEN TO THE GENTILES Heresy #4: The "Establishment" Church teaches that, since the Jews did not accept Jesus Christ or His teachings, it became necessary for the Gospel 2 to be taken to the Gentiles (any race but the Jews), and this is precisely what the Apostles did. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: MATTHEW 10:5 "These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, 'Go not into the way of the Gentiles ' " This teaching is so clear, and from Jesus' own mouth, that we will quote no other scripture to support it. It should be authoritative enough, if you truly believe in Him. Think of it... if the Apostles had gone to the Gentiles as the Church teaches, then they would have disobeyed Jesus' command, and if so, His election of Israel "from the foundations of the earth" would not stand. Subsequently, He would not be God! Fortunately for us, the Apostles did go to "the House of Israel, scattered abroad" (lost within the term GENTILE), and not the Jews. DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO JESUS CAME TO DIE ON THE CROSS Heresy #5: The "Establishment" Church teaches that Jesus Christ came to die for our sins, and this was His chief mission here on earth. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: 2 The term 'Gospel" simply means "good news." Whereas the death and resurrection of our Lord was truly good news, the gospel that Jesus Christ preached, "The kingdom of God is at hand," was the "good news" proclaiming the Kingdom on earth which was soon to be established with governments based on God's Law, the Ten Commandments. 4

5 MATTHEW 15:24 "But He (Jesus Christ) answered and said, 'I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.' " 3 This was the mission of Jesus Christ: to feed and succor the Israelites, though small in number who could still be found living among the Jews, with His Truth. Armed with the Word of the Lord, they would go to the "lost sheep of the House of Israel, scattered abroad." The Word was that the "Kingdom of God is at hand." Had the act of going to the cross been Jesus' primary mission, it wouldn't have taken Him three years to get there. Listen: JOHN 11:53-54 "Then from that day forth they (the Jews) took counsel together for to put Him to death. Jesus, therefore, walked no more openly among the Jews..." This scripture clearly states that from that time forward, Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) chose not to be seen among the Jews. Why? If He only came to die on the cross, as the Church teaches, then this was as good a time as any. The answer is simple: Jesus had not finished feeding His sheep. He was still seeking "that which was lost" among the Jews in Judea. He did not "find" many in Judea or Jerusalem, however, and that is why he lived in Galilee and ministered there most of the time! He "found" eleven of his twelve Apostles there and they were all from the tribe of Benjamin. Only Judas Iscariot was from Judea and could rightly be called a "Jew." Did you ever stop to think that if everyone had been as the Jews and not believed in Jesus Christ - that He was the Messiah and had come from God - then we would not have had the Messiah because He would not have been God? But, fortunately for us, God chose a race of people from the "foundations of the earth" and gave them "ears to hear and eyes to see" so that they would believe... form bodies of believers (churches) and fulfill His commission to Israel to be His "witnesses" to the four corners of the earth. MATTHEW 18:11 "For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost (Israel)." Here, in the words of Jesus himself, He tells all with "ears to hear" that His mission was to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. In the tenth chapter of the book of John, Jesus tells us, "My sheep hear my voice and they follow me," and in the 11th verse, He very plainly states, "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." Please note that this was after He had found "the lost sheep," "fed those lost sheep" and sent those "lost sheep" as disciples to "the lost sheep of the House of Israel, scattered abroad." 3 Some 3.5 million Israelites, who were taken captive by Assyria in B.C. from the Northern Kingdom of Israel, removed to the Caspian Sea area, and never returned. 5

6 THE CHURCH IS ISRAEL Heresy #6: The "Establishment" Church teaches that the Church is now Israel. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: PSALM 89:34-37 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah." The "Establishment" Church would have us believe that for some strange reason, which is never explained, God forgot all of his covenants with David (the seed of Israel-Jacob) his father, Isaac, and his father, Abraham. Can God lie? The verse above tells us that He will neither break nor alter (change) what has gone out of His mouth. All that we need to do here, then, is to find what God had to say about "Israel," his chosen people, and whether they became a Church or not. DEUTERONOMY 7:6 "For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee (Israel) to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the earth." II SAMUEL 7:24 "For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever, and thou, Lord, art become their God." The two scriptures above tell us that Jehovah-God chose Israel over all of the people living on this earth, and that they would be his people for ever. Does this sound like a "Church" to you? DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO MOSES WAS A JEW Heresy #7: The "Establishment" Church teaches that Moses, to whom the law of Jehovah-God was given, was a Jew. First, it is important to know that absolutely nowhere in the Bible, in any of the translations which I have examined, have I found a scripture which states that "Moses was a Jew." Secondly, it becomes imperative for us to define the term "Jew" in order to determine whether or not Moses was, in fact, a Jew. The purpose of a dictionary is to give us the accepted and correct definition 6

7 of a word. Not heresay, but "what does Webster's say?" Well, let us see what Mr. Webster has to say about the term "Jew." Webster's New International Dictionary gives us the answer: "Jew: 1. Originally a member of the tribe of Judah; 2. Member of the kingdom of Judah; 3. Anyone whose religion is Judaism." 4 Number one definition (original) is anyone who was a member of the tribe of Judah... one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (a completely racial meaning). Since the Bible teaches us that Moses was a member of the Tribe of Levi and not of Judah, he cannot be called a Jew by this definition! Number two definition states that a Jew was anyone who resided in the Kingdom of Judah. (A resident of Texas is a Texan... a geographic nomenclature.) This definition of the term "Jew" was in use during the time of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Moses died on Mt. Nebo, some 1200 years B.C., and never entered the "Promised Land." He, therefore, could not be called a Jew by this definition! Number three definition states that a Jew was any person whose religion is Judaism, "the religion of the Jews." Again, this certainly could not have been Moses' religion since the Bible teaches us that Judaism did not appear until after the Jews returned from their "Babylonian Captivity" in 515 B.C., some 700 years after Moses' death. We see here that the term "Jew" devolved from its original racial meaning, to a political or geographic meaning, to one's religious preference, none of which applied to Moses. Therefore, it is more than certain that Moses, under no circumstances ever could be honestly called a Jew. The Bible teaches us, along with a little help from Webster's, that this teaching of the "Establishment" Church is a complete lie... a gross heresy! DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO DAVID'S THRONE ABOLISHED? Heresy #8: The "Establishment" Church teaches that the earthly throne of King David was abolished when the Kingdom of Judah was taken captive to Babylon in 585 B.C., and that it will be re-established in Jerusalem upon the return of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who, at that time, will occupy this throne. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: PSALM 89:29 4 Judaism was called "the tradition of the Elders" in the Bible, and Jesus abhorred it. 7

8 "His (David's) seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven." II SAMUEL 7:12-13 "And when thy (David's) days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his (David's) kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever." As you can clearly see, this is not a "Church;" it is the seed (progeny) of David which will "endure for ever." This covenant is already fulfilled as pointed out in verse twelve of the above quotation. David's kingdom was already in existence (he was the King of Israel), and the kings who were to reign over this perpetual kingdom were to "proceed out of David's bowels." This doesn't sound like the First Baptist Church to me! DO YOU BELIEVE IT? [ ] YES [ ] NO JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY Heresy #9: The "Establishment" Church teaches that Christianity (Christ's teachings) evolved from Judaism. The importance of this heresy is second only to the false teaching that the "Jews" are the "Children of Israel" in the Holy Bible and it has appeared upon the scene in this century! It is a product of our media hype. You will not find this heretical term in the Bible, nor will you find it in the works of Luther, Wycliff, Cover-dale, Huss, Knox, Calvin, or in any pronouncement of King James! It is a false teaching of the "Establishment" Church! If the Jews were God's chosen race of people and their religion, Judaism, was the religion of Moses in the Old Testament, then the term "Judeo Christianity" would perhaps be correct, because Jesus Christ, being God in the flesh of the Holy Bible, cannot contradict Himself. But since the Jews are not the Chosen (see Heresy #1) and their religion, Judaism, came from Babylonia and not from the Old Testament, Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) rejected it out of hand! Therefore, Christianity, the religion of Christians, which was taught by our Lord, Jesus Christ, cannot possibly have come from Judaism, "the religion of the Jews." THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: MATTHEW 15:6 " Thus have ye (Pharisees-the teachers of Judaism) made the commandment of God none effect by your tradition." 8

9 MARK 7:5-9 "Then the Pharisees and Scribes asked Him (Jesus) 'Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?' "He (Jesus) answered and said unto them, 'Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups, and many other such like things ye do.' "And He said unto them, 'Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.' " COLOSSIANS 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." MATTHEW 23:15 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves!" From the above scriptures given us by Jesus Christ (God in the flesh), we learn that Judaism was, in fact, "the traditions of men, or the Elders," and that this worship nullified the "commandments (or religion) of God." We learn that "in vain do they (Jews) worship me, teaching for doctrine, the commandments of men." This is all that need be said on the subject. Jesus plainly tells us that the religion of the Jews is the "commandments of men" and that this so-called worship of Him was "in vain" or for naught! Therefore, the term "Judeo Christianity" is a counterfeit term, and is against the teaching of our Lord, Jesus Christ! ASSYRIA: ISRAEL'S GREATEST CAPTIIVITY Heresy #10: The "Establishment" Church teaches that the Kingdom of Israel, which was taken captive to Assyria, amalgamated with the Assyrians and, for this reason, they are lost to history! THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: AMOS 9:9 9

10 "For, lo, I will command, and I will sift 5 the House of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." II SAMUEL 7:23 "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to Himself " II SAMUEL 7:24 "For thou (God) hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever: and thou, Lord, art become their God." JEREMIAH 31:35-37 "Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; the Lord of hosts is His name." "If those ordinances depart from before me,' saith the Lord, 'then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.' " "Thus saith the Lord; 'If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,' saith the Lord." The Assyrian Captivity of the Kingdom of Israel in B.C., which comprised all ten tribes of Israel and the majority of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, constitutes by far the most important of the three captivities of Israel listed in the Bible. Yet the "Establishment" Church is completely silent on this important event! We all know, more or less, of the Egyptian Captivity, with Moses leading the Children of Israel (not Jews) out of Egypt and into the "Wilderness" for forty years. And most of us have heard of the Babylonian Captivity and about the "Jews" returning to Jerusalem from that place. What we have not been taught, however, is the numbers of the Children of Israel, God's Chosen, who participated in these captivities! Brown's Bible Dictionary estimates that between two and a half to three million Israelites followed Moses out of Egypt, and that some one and a half million members of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah were taken captive into Babylonia from their homes in Judea. However, the Bible records only approximately 43,360 as returning seventy years later to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem! Brown's Bible, as well as numerous secular sources, estimates that between three and four million members of the Kingdom of Israel were taken captive to Assyria! Yet, we were never told this. Amazing, isn't it? In sheer numbers alone, this is by far the most important of the three captivities. However, the fact that this nation of people, representing all of the twelve tribes and a great majority of God's Chosen people, was to lose both its language and identity while in captivity, but would escape and migrate north and west to become the people to whom Jesus Christ would send His Apostles so that His Church could be formed - is of much greater 5 "Heb.: cause to move." In other words, Israel will be moved among the other nations of the world, but they will not be lost as a people. 10

11 importance to Christians and the Christian Church! If Israel became amalgamated with Assyrians, and for this reason became lost to history, as the "Establishment" Church teaches, then the scriptures quoted herein, would be a lie, as would countless others throughout the Holy Bible! Thus far, we have dealt with erroneous teachings (heresies) of the "Establishment" Church. We have brought only a few of the most serious ones to your attention, though there are numerous others which you can discover by reading, studying, and rightly dividing the Word of Truth - the Bible! God admonishes us to do so! The "Establishment" Church is remiss in another area which, when brought to the surface, takes on a significance almost equal to its heretical teachings. We are talking about the fact that there are numerous, great and necessary teachings within the scriptures which almost never receive even casual mention from the giant podiums of Christianity. The most important of these neglected teachings is the one which we will consider first. THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST Lost Teaching #1: The "Establishment" Church is completely silent on who the enemies are of Jesus Christ, the Christian Church and Christians. Sunday after Sunday, the gilded pipes of myriad organs drum out the great Christian hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the bass notes actually sound like the roll of drums "marching as to war." Thump... thump... drugs are killing our children... thump... thump... pornography in our local stores, our theatres, our TV screens... thump... thump... teenage pregnancies, rapes, suicides, and condoms to our school children... thump... thump... lawsuits taking God out of our classrooms and public places... thump... thump... yes, yes, yes... we are ready to fight for our Christ, our homes, our families, our schools and our churches. But our shepherds will not tell us who our enemies are! BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: Philippians 3:18 "For many walk (non-believers in Christ), of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ." I JOHN 2:22-23 "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." 11

12 We learn here that those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior are the enemies of Christ. They are the ones behind the lawsuits which take Christ out of the public schools and his Cross out of the public parks, etc. A cursory examination of this litigation will bring this fact to light. MATTHEW 10:34 "Think not that I (Jesus Christ) am come to peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." If our Pastors would preach all of the Bible to us, we would know the above scriptures as well as we know John 3:16 or Malachi 3:10 (tithing). The Lord has now given you, through this ministry, a knowledge of who our enemies are and our leader, Jesus Christ, has given us a sword. NO ONE IS NEUTRAL ABOUT CHRIST Lost Teaching #2: The "Establishment" Church does not teach the doctrine of "No Neutrality" with Jesus Christ. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: LUKE 11:23 "He that is not with me (Jesus) is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth." MARK 9:40 "For he that is not against us is on our part." LUKE 9:50 "And Jesus said unto him, 'Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.' " Thus, we can easily see by our Savior's own words, that there is absolutely no neutrality as far as He is concerned. Behind every movement to abolish Christian values and teachings, (i.e., the family - the sin of adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty, etc.) in our Christian society, you will find a non-believer heading it up! 12

13 RACE IS IMPORTANT WITH GOD Lost Teaching #3: The "Establishment" Church ignores entirely the scriptures which deal with race in the Bible, yet they constitute approximately 75% of the entire Bible. In fact, the "Establishment" Church teaches that race and genealogies are unimportant. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: GENESIS 21:12 "... for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." Abraham was called by God to father the Chosen race. Abraham had a son by Sarah's bondwoman (Hagar) and six sons by Keturah. But God chose Abraham's son by Sarah, his wife, through which the Chosen "seed" was to pass. If race is not important to God, then this seems a lot to do about nothing! GENESIS 24:3-4 "And I will make thee (his trusted servant) swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac." Isaac, of course, was a Hebrew (not a Jew) of Chosen race of God, and the Canaanites were of Cain, a different race. This was Abraham's plea to his oldest servant, who had charge over all of his possessions. Remember, Abraham was called of God, and God caused his wife Sarah to conceive at the age of ninety and bear a son, Isaac, whom God named. Abraham was called by God because he did God's bidding, and it was God's will that Isaac's seed be protected and kept within his own race. These verses and countless others within the Bible can have no other meaning. NEHEMIAH 13:27 "Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?" EZRA 10:10-11 "And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, 'Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.' Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do His pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives." The Bible is literally full of racial descriptions, genealogies, racial characteristics, and accounts of Jehovah-God purging Israel of its strange wives, children, etc. Racial purity and heritage is important with God! 13

14 GOD SEPARATED ISRAEL FROM JUDAH Lost Teaching #4: In 925 B.C., Jehovah-God separated the twelve tribes of the Children of Israel. Ten tribes, plus a portion of the tribe of Benjamin, became the Kingdom of Israel, with the city of Samaria as its capitol and Jereboam I as its king. The remaining portion of Benjamin, along with the tribe of Judah, became the Kingdom of Judah, with the city of Jerusalem for its capitol and Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as its king. The "Establishment" Church teaches us that all prophecies regarding Israel in the Bible relate to the Jews because the Jews are "All Israel," so they say! BUT THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS: I KINGS 12:23-24 "Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the Children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me (God).' They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord." This was the Lord's message to Rehoboam, the king of Judah, after the ten and a half tribes had pulled out of the confederation to form the Kingdom of Israel with Jereboam as its king. God said simply, "Rehoboam, leave them alone... this division of the tribes is my doings." I KINGS 22:10 "And the king of Israel and Jehosophat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne, having put on their robes " II SAMUEL 11:8 "And when he numbered them in Bezek, the Children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the Men of Judah, thirty thousand." II SAMUEL 11:11 "And Uriah said unto David, 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in their tents.' " JUDGES 10:9 "Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin (house of Judah), and against the house of Ephraim (Israel): so that Israel was sore distressed." There are literally hundreds of verses such as these throughout the Bible. It is of interest to note here that the first time that the term "Jew" is used in the Bible finds the Kingdom of Israel allied with the Kingdom of Syria and "they came up to Jerusalem to war. At that time Rezin, King of Syria, recovered Elath to Syria and drave the Jews from Elath." You have probably never heard these scriptures quoted from the pulpit of your church, but they are there nevertheless, and all scripture is for our profit. 14

15 THE GIFT OF EXHORTATION Lost Teaching #5: The Apostle Paul compares a Church body to that of a human being. The Church body has different members with different talents, but all members are necessary in order to have a complete body. One of these members (gifts) is that of "Exhortation." From Webster's: "Exhort: to urge, to urge earnestly by advice, warning, etc., to do what is proper or required; admonish strongly; Syn. urge. See Hortatory." From Webster's: "Hortatory: to incite, encourage, to urge." Job compares this to a "plumbline" which is used by brick masons to keep their bricks level... in line. The "Establishment" Church has completely omitted this important gift and teaching. BUT THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES: ROMANS 12:4-8 "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members, one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showest mercy, with cheerfulness." Without an Exhorter stirring up and straightening out the membership when it errs, you do not have a complete Church body. A COUNTERFEIT LAND GRAB Lost Teaching #6: The "Establishment" Church teaches that the "Jews" are Israel and, therefore, the Promised Land belongs to them, because Jehovah-God covenanted Palestine to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). Every facet of this teaching is false! We can be absolutely certain of this fact because the Holy Bible tells us so in simple terms. Therefore, no interpreter or commentator will be needed for the following scriptures. They speak for themselves. All that we need to do is to let them do it! Let them say what they say and mean what they mean. The answer is here. 15

16 BECAUSE THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: EZEKIEL 11:14-15 "Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 'Son of Man, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all of the House of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem (Jews) have said, 'Get you far from the Lord: unto us (Jews) is this land (Palestine) given in possession ' " Here we have the Prophet Ezekiel, an Israelite, prophesying to the Lost House of Israel, of which he is a member, and telling them that the Jews, who at the time of his prophecy (595 B.C.), not only were occupying their land but were brazenly claiming that the land was theirs "in possession." Note that they did not claim "Divine Rights" or a title policy to the land... it was theirs simply because they possessed it! But what does Jehovah-God, who owns both the earth and our entire universe, and who gave the land to Israel and not the Jews, have to say about this great land grab? Listen: EZEKIEL 36:5 "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, which have appointed my land unto their possession with the joy of all their heart, (but) with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.' Our Lord speaks to us very succinctly about these counterfeit Israelites, who have 'appointed His land unto their possession;' but with God, possession is not nine-tenths of the law. It is no law at all! God gave the land to Israel... not the Idumean-Edomite Jews. We know this, because the Bible tells us so! ISRAEL TO LOSE THEIR IDENTITY Lost Teaching #7: The Holy Bible gives numerous "birthmarks" of Israel which, if studied in the proper light (open God's word and let it speak for itself), would eventually bring one to the factual knowledge as to whom and where the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel are! After all, the Bible teaches that "they are not all Israel, who are of Israel." But for the lost teaching, how did Israel lose their identity and why? THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: ISAIAH 28:11 16

17 "For with stammering 6 lips and another tongue will He (God) speak to this people (Israel)." ISAIAH 42:16 "And I will bring the blind (Israel) by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them." EPRHAIM-ISRAEL TO BECOME A COMPANY OF NATIONS Lost Teaching #8: The "Establishment" Church is completely blinded, but seems to be happy with this handicap, which has resulted from their heretical teaching that the Jews are Israel when, in fact, only a miniscule portion of them are blooded Israelites. The Lost Teaching which we are about to prove to you is another "birthmark" of Israel. You see, not only was the "seed of Abraham to become a multitude of people," but specifically the seed of Jacob (Israel) was to become "a nation, and a company of nations!" After you learn this Biblical truth, ask your Pastor where all of these nations are, among the Jews? Listen: GENESIS 35:11 "And God said unto him (Jacob-Israel), 'I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations will be of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loins.' " EPHESIANS 2:12 "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." ISRAEL TO LIVE IN THE ISLANDS AND COASTLANDS Lost Teaching #9: This is a most interesting teaching found within the covers of your KJV but, to my knowledge, it has never received light from the pulpits of the "Establishment" Church. 6 Language is one of the chief means of identifying race. It becomes more than interesting then, that Strong's Concordance informs us that the Hebrew word for "stammering" is "GAEL." Young's Analytical Concordance lists "stammering" as "LEAG," By combining these two words we have "LEAGAEL," which reads the same from right to left as it does from left to right. "LEAGAEL" is an early name for the Irish people. (The right-toleft Phoenician and the left-to -right Hebrew!) This is known as "rightly dividing the word of truth," which in II Timothy 2:15, our Lord commanded us to do and He will "approve" of us for doing so. 17

18 After learning of it, you may want to ask your Preacher why. The teaching? Israel: to live in the "islands of the sea and the coast lands" of the earth. Appalled? You should be. In fact, a natural feeling is to be irate at the fact that you have never in your been taught this truth before. To find Israel now, all that you have to do is get your atlas out and study the geography of the earth. In short time you will be looking at Australia, New Zealand, the British Isles (Brith lsh=hebrew for "Covenant Man"), Norway, Sweden, Denmark (literally, Dan's Mark), Holland, Canada, the United States of America, South Africa, plus the Falklands, the West Indies, the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, Saipan, and most of the South Pacific Islands and coastlands. Amazing, isn't it? If the Jews were Israel as the Church teaches, then they would have to be all of these nations, and occupy all of these lands! YES, THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: JEREMIAH 31:10 "Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, he that scattereth Israel, will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock." ISAIAH 41:1 "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgement." ISAIAH 49:1, 3 "Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from afar; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And said unto me, 'Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.' " We learn here that Isaiah was fashioned in his mother's womb to be a prophet from Israel, and was given the knowledge from God who both called and instructed him where to find the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. Therefore, he knew that they were in the isles and coastlands! ISRAEL TO LEND TO OTHER NATIONS, BUT BORROW FROM NONE Lost Teaching #10: Folks, this teaching from the Bible, which gives us another identifying mark of Israel, has been shoved so far back into the dusty, moldy, unopened pages of God's word that most of you will not even believe that it is in the scriptures! It is there, however, and we will discover for the very first time that an outstanding "fingerprint" of Israel is that they will lend and not borrow. 18

19 This teaching is so plain that it must have necessitated a conspiracy to keep it from surfacing. Now that it has been exposed, you must be asking yourself this question: How can this be the Israeli government which has just pressured our government into backing a ten billiondollar loan? Or: How can this lost teaching fit the Israeli government in Palestine when we all know that they are receiving over half of our Foreign Aid and have been for decades? THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US: DEUTERONOMY 15:6 "For the Lord thy God blesseth thee (Israel), as he promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee." Since each scripture is quoted verbatim from God's word, and supports the premise for which it is quoted, a person who truly believes "If God Said It" must, of course, answer "Yes" to each question. A "No" answer would be against Jehovah-God's very own words. By counting five (5) points for each "Yes" answer, a perfect score would be one hundred (100). It is my prayer that you will make a perfect score, even though most, if not all, of these scriptures will not be familiar to you they are still God's message to us. Remember: "All scripture is given us for our benefit!" If we want to be "approved" by God, we must adhere to the admonition found in II Timothy 2:15: "Study to show thyself approved unto God: a workman, that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Test your friends at school, at work, at church... They need these teachings, too! YOUR SCORE 19