The Christian Journey Out Of Babylon

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It is undeniable that in order to perform his dirty work of Deception, Deviation and Destruction, haSatan has constantly brought his deceptive message of syncretism and confusion to all those who would gullibly or willfully follow it; and he has done it by continuously planting his evil moles (secret agents) into the Christian congregations. Observe what Yeshua said in that respect:

Matthew (Mattithyahu) 7:15-16   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁵ Watch out for the false prophets — those who come to you in the cloak of a sheep, but within are vicious wolves. ¹⁶ By their fruits you will recognize them. Are thorns gathered from a bunch of grapes, or thistles from fig trees?

Now, what were the fruits of moles like Paul of Tarsus and his anti-Torah teachings? The following is a short inventory of the fruits of Paul and the wrongly-called "fathers of the church":

1. Lethal abandonment of Torah,
2. Easy "believism",
3. Grace without responsibility,
4. Dead faith without works,
5. False spiritual assurance,
6. Widespread hypocrisy,
7. Fake love,
8. Ferrous doctrinal intolerance,
9. Curses and excommunications,
10. Interminable divisions,
11. Entrenched syncretism,
12. Occult practices
13. Anti-Semitism,
14. Closing the door of the Jews to Yeshua's Message,
15. The Catholic enterprise,
16. The Orthodox endeavor,
17. The Evangelical business,
18. Ecclesiastical hierarchy,
19. Obscurantism of the Middle Age,
20. Murderous Crusades,
21. Deadly Inquisition,
22. Rapacious Pogroms,
23. Countless Christian wars,
24. Savage extermination of millions of Indians in North, Central and South America,
25. and many, many et ceteras.

Now, many would naturally argue, "How could these people have ever been moles? Don't you see that many of them were martyrs of the faith?" Well, first of all, martyrs of what faith? Theirs, Paul's, or Yeshua's? Yes, it is true that many were martyrs, but does dying for one's own beliefs — and even later on being canonized and promulgated to be correct by other Christians — make any teaching to be right? It is not my intention to insult anyone but the following comparison from history comes to mind. We know that many Nazis and communists suffered and died for their outrageous beliefs; did dying for them made them to be right? Can the promulgation by kings, scholars or theologians make any doctrine or a certain lifestyle to be right? Absolutely not! What makes any doctrine or lifestyle correct is its validation by the Written Torah and by the words of Yeshua, which never contradicted Torah.

These moles were deceived deceivers. HaSatan deceived them — by many means of misleading visions and miracles, or by vain philosophical excercises — and then he led them to make sacrifices, and even to give their lives, for no reason other than his disdain for humans. They were satanic pawns, who probably did not even know it.

Matthew (Mattithyahu) 15:13-14   (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹³ And he answered saying, "Every plant which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Let them go. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, they will fall both into a pit.

Now, I do not mean to say that all of the wrongly-called "fathers of the church" were as hypocritical as Paul of Tarsus was, much less that all of them went to Hell for their deception. I am not the Judge of such eternal matters; no human being should ever attempt to exert such a kind of Judgment. What I judge — and so should you — is the false teachings of these MEN, through the consequences that such deceptive doctrines brought upon humanity. As a matter of fact, it was those men who always attempted to confidently sit on the Judging Throne of the Highest One, blessed be He. History clearly shows that they constantly give themselves the right to pass judgement concerning the Redemption (Salvation) of others. They accused of being a "heretic" anyone who would dare dissent from their syncretized ideas as well as their Babylon-originated traditions. This they surely did when it was them the heretic ones! (Remember, a heretic is the person who deviates from a certain established way; and they had deviated from the Torah Way to Jerusalem established by YHWH on Horeb.) Not only did they do that, but they took captive with them many generations of Gentile Christians who came after them and blindly believed their Babylonian doctrines of demons. Since then, and following their bad example, Christians have been consumed by the unspiritual obsession of analyzing other people's lives and opinions so as to find out if they are in the "right" doctrine or not, and then establish if they are "saved" or not — . It was that sinful tendency which brought upon humanity the countless horrors and evil disasters narrated in the pages of so many history books. Again, remember that we can judge the actions and words of people; but we cannot do so neither with their standing with the Almighty, nor concerning their eternal End — much less punishing them on account of our dubious judgement.

All Christians indignantly say, "But I haven't done such things. I would never do them!" And that is very true; but at the same time they unknowingly support the very doctrinal tenets that provoked such horrors. Nothing happens in a vacuum; those demonic horrors were slowly cooked in some distorted doctrinal juices. The doctrinal poison of Babylon that Paul of Tarsus and his following "fathers of the church" injected (syncretized) into the simple Messianic Torah Judaism that Yeshua left when he went to Heaven, fructified into "Gentilism", thirst for control, intolerance and hatred; and naturally it was all that what gave rise to such despicably inhuman consequences. As a simple way of comparison, let us observe that meanwhile many Germans did not commit any crimes against humanity during WWII at all notwithstanding, as a group, they were not entirely innocent. Why? Because they believed Hitler, supported his government or, at least, did not oppose the Nazi creed which gave rise to the Hitlerist unthinkable crimes. Did that belief, support or inactivity not make them partially guilty too? It certainly did. My dear reader, to be honest with oneself in the Presence of the Highest Judge is a hard but necessary thing to do. Please, do not let yourself be offended by my words; just give them a careful consideration at the personal level.

Christians want to proclaim the Good News of the Redemption in Yeshua, but to do that as he intended they need to totally "get out from Babylon," instead of staying inside of her, and then bringing others in. How could they ever help people out of Babylon if they stay inside of her themselves?

In the first century of the Common Era, most Gentiles who heard and accepted the Good News of Redemption through the Jewish Messiah thought that they could keep, and adapt to their new Faith (syncretize), the main elements of their previous heathen religions. They did so as well with their main cultural elements, elements which had originated in Babylon under the auspices of demonic Nimrod (Bel) and his satanic wife Semiramis (Beltis). the early Christians wanted to retain these elements because they were so used to them, and they did not see any spiritual or sociological damage in them. They were dead wrong! But the tendency did not stop in the early times; it still continues undeterred.

For ages missionaries — well-intentioned or not, the effect is the same — have tried to adapt scriptural terms, concepts and customs to those who were aliens to them; it is that way that syncretism ensues and perpetuates. These people do it sometimes because it is really very difficult to make their new listeners understand their new concepts and mores. On the other hand, others do it because they see that if they do not syncretize different beliefs and cultures, they will fail in their efforts due to the natural rejection that people feel for anything that goes against their inherited habits, traditions and culture. Such is the high price of mass evangelism — a high price which is easily seen all along world history in the last 1900 years, and even in our own days. These nice evangelists, sacrificial missionaries, ignorant pastors and misguided teachers dismiss the fact that the Concepts, Traditions and Culture of Judaism, as found in Torah (which they call the Law), were not only given but ordained by the Almighty Himself. And according to Torah, the Jewish Religion and Culture was YHWH-ordained for all generations to follow. They ignore that when this YHWH-given Religion, Traditions and Culture are not contaminated with man-made adaptations and syncretism are absolutely Perfect. Obviously, haSatan will try to demerit it and if possible destroy it on a constant basis. Sadly, since almost the very beginning Christians disregarded the fact that Babylon and Jerusalem are completely antithetical and totally irreconcilable. Because of this it is absolutely impossible for us — and unacceptable to YHWH and His Messiah — to try to live with one foot in each one of these Roads.

Revelation (Gilyanah) 3:15-16
¹⁵ I know your actions, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot; ¹⁶ but because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I intend to spit you out of My Mouth.

Revelation (Gilyanah) 3:3
³ So, remember what YOU [ Jewish disciples ] have received [ the Mitzvot or Commandments of Written Torah received through Moses at Horeb ] and heard [ the clarified Mitzvot of the Written Torah they had heard directly from Yeshua ]; and keep it; and repent. Therefore, if you do not wake up, I will come — like a thief — and you will not know at what hour I will come to you [ to judge you according to the Mitzvot of the Written Torah ].

Please, observe the past tense of the verbs "received" and "heard." At first, almost everyone would gladly agree with the Fact that after Messiah went to Heaven there would be absolutely no room for any new teaching whatsoever. But after considering the implications of it, it may be very difficult for many to accept such a clear axiom.

A New Teaching After Yeshua?

If Yeshua was the Messiah his teachings were Perfect. Now, if the Teachings of Yeshua were Perfect, then how could anyone else dare come after him with new explanations which contain a totally new different theological model, and new religious concepts? After all, Yeshua himself did not bring any new Model! The Model that Yeshua taught — and lived by — was already an ancient one in his Second Temple times. It was Torah! — the old and perfect YHWH-given Jerusalem Model. Yeshua just explained it, differentiated it and cleansed it from many man-made regulations [ ma'assim b'takanot ] that had crept into it with the passing of time. It was due to that reason that he renewed it to the pristine condition in which it had been when it was given to Israel by Elohim at Mount Horeb. Messiah did not changed Torah because he was very aware that it was the Model given ONCE to the Set-Apart ones from among the nations, i.e. Israel, by the Heavenly Father. Why? Because He was Messiah, the Greatest Torah Teacher, the Ultimate Jewish Teacher. He taught strictly according to what He had heard from his Father in Heaven — the very Father Who had given Torah to the world through Israel, the Ancient of Days Who never changes His Mind — EVER!

On the other hand, if new Teachings were needed after Yeshua, then that would mean that his Teachings were incomplete, and therefore imperfect! That way he would not have been the prophesied Messiah of Israel! The implications of this evident deduction is shocking when it is realized by those who advocate the new teachings brought in by Paul of Tarsus after Messiah — I was one of those, and I repented with great sorrow in my heart. This is one of the many reasons for which true Messianic Torah Judaism rejects the new teachings that Paul of Tarsus brought in. It is because of this — and many, many other things — that we in Messianic Judaism consider Paul to have been a 'navi sheker' (false prophet) and one of the "wolves in sheep's cloak" that Yeshua had predicted would arise after his departure to his Father. Paul not only did not spare the flock, but he changed the times and the seasons of Torah too — the work of an anti-Messiah indeed.

Paul not only denied Torah in practically every way, but he attacked Torah as something weak that kills and destroys man, instead as a Good set of Instructions given by Adonai to save the people of Israel — and all Gentiles who would voluntarily unite to it, thus becoming Jews — from many of the dangers, sins and problems proper to "Babylonianism." Christians dismiss the fact that it was Torah that gave the proper legal Fundament for the Sacrifice of Messiah, the Lamb of YHWH. In other words, Torah makes Yeshua's Sacrifice valid, and therefore effective for all of us, Jews and Gentiles, even to these days. (I will deal with this issue in depth in another paper.) If Torah was not active anymore in our own post modern times, the Sacrifice of Messiah would be of no effect for us. If Torah would become annulled in the future, then we should all end up in Hell because the efficacy of its sacrificial laws were established as eternal, so that our Redemption may be eternal.

1 Chronicles 16:15

  (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
¹⁵ Remember forever His Covenant, the Word He commanded to a thousand generations.

Psalm (Tehillim) 105:8

  (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
⁸ He [ YHWH ] remembers His Covenant forever, the Word He commanded to a thousand generations.

Psalm 111:9

  (YAA.  Ya'akov's strict translation)
⁹ He [ YHWH ] sent Redemption to His people; He commanded His Covenant forever — Holy and Awesome is His Name!