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For some of the new readers of Bet Emet Ministries the topic of this article might be alarming if not troublesome. I want to speak about "proof-texting" in the writing of the New Testament; in particular when it comes to recording "fulfilled Messianic prophecy." When I began to study this area of Biblical studies years ago as an ordained Pastor to say I was alarmed at what I began to see and uncover is an understatement. But after a couple of years of study I began to see the big picture and felt "better" about Jesus and his role in the New Testament. This will all come into focus when you get enough parts of this "theological puzzle" so relax but listen to what is being said next.
Not every "prophecy" in the New Testament is "Messianic" even though it is presented in such a fashion.
Not every "fulfillment" of Messianic prophecy in the New Testament is a "fulfillment of Messianic prophecy" even if presented as such!
In fact the vast majority of "fulfilled prophecies" concerning Jesus as recorded in the New Testament are "NOT MESSIANIC" at all.
Answer for yourself: How can that be? I have a Bible no less that is supposed to be a faithful translation from the Hebrew Scriptures with the quotes of Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament that show me it is a "fulfillment"...do you mean to tell me that "somehow" they are not "fulfillments" after all?
That is exactly what I am saying and you will see in just a second what I mean. You see what you don't know at the present is that those responsible for the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek changed and altered multiple Hebrew texts in order to write their own sect's religious beliefs in this Greek translation. This was done in order that the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, would have their own "Divine" book from God that would tell the Greek speaking world that "they" were correct in their beliefs and that the Greek speaking world needed to accept these same Essene religious beliefs since they supposedly came from God!
There is only one problem!
In this corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures by the Essenes prophecies were created, altered, changed, added to, deleted, combined; a host of literary techniques were used by them to destroy the Divine revelation that Moses, David, Solomon, and the Prophets had preserved up to that point. In so doing a host of Astro-theology was included among the pages of these falsified Greek passages and not the human Messiah in the Hebrew Jewish Scriptures was now transformed into a Cosmic-Solar Godman that has little if anything to do with the human Messiah prophesied for generations. Now few know this because great efforts have been expended not only by these Essenes to cover such corruptions of the Hebrew texts but the Greek and Latin/Roman Church Fathers who were themselves also involved in Sun-worship will be instructed by these Essenes and adopt similar beliefs that are only reinforced with this corrupted Greek Old Testament of Essene Origin. Later these falsified prophecies and verses will be completely lifted out of context by these later Gentile Fathers and redactors of the New Testament and the myth is perpetuated. All the while the Rabbis and Jews of Palestine know the difference; their Hebrew Scriptures were safeguarded and remained basically unchanged while the Greek world is given the corruptions as "Divine Revelation." And later you and I go into a Christian Book store and buy a Bible that we think is faithful to the Bible Jesus used...and nothing could be further from the point and we never know it. One thing is for sure...the orthodox Jews of today KNOW IT....sadly few tell us. I was lucky enough in my years of study to run across this information. I could not believe it and only after encountering such alarming news in several books read over basically a year I was compelled to begin to check out the matter in my defense of my Christianity since being an ordained Pastor. What I would uncover over the next two years would lead to my resignation as a Pastor at a mega church in Dallas. Now the information I uncovered is presented on these various websites for the readership of Bet Emet and other truth seeker
In fact, and this is a sad thing to say, most if not almost all of the "fulfilled prophecies" recorded in the New Testament are purposeful misquotes of the Hebrew Scriptures, purposeful mistranslations of the Hebrew Scriptures, a collection of Hebrew passages take completely out of context and made to apply to Jesus regardless if they were intended to refer to him or not. As if that is not bad enough many of these "fulfilled prophecies" are simply made up out of thin air and are just created lies. But to the reader that does not posses competency with the true Hebrew Scriptures and the Jewish Bible in it's original language before it was corrupted in translation into the Greek by these Essenes then this information is not only "new" but "startling" to say the least! It is almost unbelieveable...that is until you see the texts compared....one by one...over and over again...until the scope of such deception became alarming apparent. Tears will flow...and hearts will break at what you will find. The harsh reality will hit you like a mack truck...that you have spent most of your Christian life in idolatry and blasphemy of YHWH and never knew it because a Astro-Cosmic godman was given to you in your Christian Bibles instead of the human Jewish Messiah of Israel. This is the Essene-Christian legacy to which we have fallen and not know it...that is until we die and find out face to face with YHWH; but then it is too late to do anything about the idolatry and blasphemy such corruptions of the Hebrew Scriptures has done to us.
Answer for yourself: But you never heard this before have you?
Of course not. The reasons are many. First of all the Bibles we Christians and followers of Jesus carry are forged and not truthful to the Hebrew Scriptures in hundreds of places. I am not speaking of the innocent varieties of interpretations of selected passages. I am speaking of the theological agendas that went into the purposeful corruption and alteration of the Hebrew Scriptures when they were translated into the Greek by the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, and later by the Greek and Latin Fathers who continued in their path with further alterations and corruptions to the Old Testament and the later English translations of now both the Old and New Testaments.
Be not mistaken about this: if corrupted Hebrew texts are taken from the forged Greek texts are later quoted in the New Testament then we still end up with falsehoods in the New Testament and also understand that the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with such lies and falsehoods....no matter what emotions you have when reading it. We end up as religious Pavlof's dogs conditioned to respond with emotion to falsehood...and all the while God knows the difference...but we don't!
Understand that when you corrupt the Hebrew Scriptures with a "theological agenda" within the passages as did the Essenes then any reader of them that is not acquainted with how the true Hebrew Scriptures were written will fall into such a deception and trap when reading this fraudulent translation. Later when again translated into English and again having not the skills required to read Hebrew then you fall into more deception when reading the English Old Testament as taken from this corrupted Greek translation and the error is only perpetuated by quotes from these corrupted texts when found in the New Testament. Lastly when all the quotes of the English Old Testament is repeated in the New Testament and again comes from the corrupted origin in the Greek Old Testament then many of the verses and supposed "fulfilled" prophecies are nothing more than further corruptions and untruths, but again you don't know this because you again lack the skills to read Hebrew or don't posses a Hebrew-Jewish Bible that can show you these corruptions. That used to be...that is until I began the most serious study of my life as a Pastor...and after two years of laborious study I was almost devastated as what I uncovered. I realized that I was not a follower of the Historical Jesus at all; rather I was a follower of a cosmic space man that never existed outside of the personification of the stars, heavens, and nature. This fact is presented in detail on other websites in order that the reader can trace such a theological invention from start to finish. Only in seeing such evidence for yourself can you be fully persuaded as I was that we have followed lies and not the truth concerning Jesus.
You need to purchase a Stone Edition Tanakh or JPS Hebrew/English Bible to see these alterations for yourself as you compared line upon line with your supposedly faithful translation of the Christian Bible. Next you only need time to compare these "Messianic verses in context" with those in your English Christian translations to see these things for yourself. If you were to start with the Hebrew Scripture and trace their translation into the Greek in the LXX, known as the Septuagint, and then their further translations into the many and varied Christian Old Testaments and the later quotes of them in the various versions of the New Testament as well as read them in context then and ONLY then could you see fully this "path of corruption" as I have detailed above. I have done such studies over ten years now and the results of such investigative study are in the websites of Bet Emet Ministry. Because of this discovery it is important that we as followers of Jesus and Christians understand how "proof-texting" was used by the writers of the New Testament to create "fulfilled prophecy" about Jesus when it reality it was never "fulfilled anything" in the first place and had nothing to do with him. Again this information is not intended to hurt anyone but let us be real for a moment.
If this is "fact" and it is and if it can be proven and it can then don't you want to know the truth about God, His Messiah, and Jesus before we die?
Answer for yourself: How do you think Jesus would feel that his legacy seeing that millions of people believe lies about him? Would not the truth concerning this man be to his honor rather than his shame?
The basic
technique that the writers of the New Testament used to analyze and
corrupt the Jewish bible
in making Jesus to be the "fulfillment
of hundreds of Messianic prophecies" can be explained as a parable.
The Dubno Maggid who was great Jewish teacher over 200 years ago
originally told the story. He lived in Europe.
The story goes: there was a man who was taking a walk through the forest and comes across a tree. On the tree is a target, as is used for target practice. Right in the middle of the bull's eye, exactly dead center of this bulls eye is an arrow. There are no bad shots around the area of this bulls eye, there is only this one shot and it is a perfect hit right in the middle! The man continues his walk through the forest and comes across the same thing. Another tree with an arrow dead center in the bulls eye! This scene of a tree with an arrow dead center in the bull's eye repeats itself as he continues his walk through the forest. He becomes taken back by this impossible site of every tree with an arrow perfectly dead center in the bulls eye and seeks the individual who is shooting these arrows. Eventually he comes across a man with a bow and arrow and quiver and asks the man - are you the man who was shooting those arrows?
The man says; yes. He then says; I am amazed, how do you do that? The man answers; It's very easy. You see first I shoot my arrow into the tree and then I draw the target around it!
This story paints the picture of how Christianity basically approached the Jewish bible.
The belief that Jesus was the Messiah is the starting point for these New Testament writers. Understand I have no problem with anyone in that day who hoped Jesus would be the Messiah or even today for that matter. Desperate times inspire hope and Messianic fever was everywhere in the first century. The great need of the Jewish people in that day was deliverance from Rome and their oppressions. But the corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Holy Word of God in producing a document to espouse one's sect's religious beliefs in a cosmic-Godman as did the Essenes is not only a crime against God but Truth itself and blurs the truth about the real Messiah promised by God. The Essenes, known as proto-nazarene Christians, were apostates from normative Judaism and it is time to come to terms with this fact as we show on our other websites.
We must make a point right now in order to not confuse the reader. The Essenes corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures was not, I said not, to predict or prophesy "Jesus," rather they were promoting a solar concept familiar to all Gentile Sun-worshipping nations. That concept was of an Angel-Messiah of sorts which originally was nothing more than the personification of the Sun, Heaven, Stars, and later Nature. However over time such allegory and metaphor becomes literal and some 100 years after such forgery of the Hebrew texts by these Essenes they first applied such "theologies" to their Teacher Of Righteousness. Then almost one hundred years later again such "theologies" was applied to Jesus after his death.
Next it is important to understand, and time and space does not permit here to do it, but the writers of the Gospels as we have them today are not Jews...if anything Jewish oral traditions are later again redacted and the documents in the New Testament are the creations of Gentile Church Fathers over hundreds of years. Again I don't expect you to believe this in light of the "traditions" we hear in church but honest scholarship over time prove this beyond any doubt to the investigating student. Next, these writers of the New Testament "Jesus story" must prove their "religious belief connected to the Jesus figure" by going back in the Greek Old Testament which was already corrupted and this they did. Understand these Gentile writers and redactors of the New Testament were either former or present Sun-worshippers as well. Just look at Constantine in the 4th century which espoused Sun-worship along with Christianity and sixty years after the Council of Nicea which was under his control will we have the formal acceptance of the Roman New Testament. The influence of such forces and their corruptions of the true texts are undeniable when you compare the New Testament texts with the true passages in the Hebrew Bible. Do it please!
It was easy to search the Greek Bible, already corrupted as you know, for solar/Astro-theological concepts about this Godman and apply it to Jesus who was made God by Rome at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. They only had to search the Greek Bible to find proof-texts for their beliefs that was associated with Jesus and record such in the ever growing New Testament and out comes "fulfilled prophecy." Thus working backwards, if you will! The Christian/Hebrew-Christian will boast that there are hundreds of passages in the Old Testament (as they call it) which prove that Jesus was the messiah. Events in one's life is then either "created" or read back into these "religious Hebrew texts" or "twisted to make fit" in order to make connections in one way or another to make it seem if these events in one' life were "fulfilled" prophecy. This could be done to anyone not just Jesus. Since we are working backwards of sort then anyone could be make to look as if they and their lives were fulfillments with just a little textual creativity and that is what we find when we take time to look closely. One only need to take an event in the life of an individual or create one and then tie it to something said by Moses, the Prophets, or others and arrange the verse "creatively" to make it seem if they were talking about such an individual.This has been done and it passed off as "Messianic prophecy" when it fact it is not!
The test that
you can perform regarding Christians claims that certain chapters in the
Old Testament are speaking about the messiah (Messianic prophecy), is to
make believe that you are reading this chapter an hour or a hundred years
before the birth of Jesus. Then ask yourself, "what about the chapter
would let you know that it is referring to the Messiah?"
To
take it one step further, what about the chapter lets you know that it is
speaking about THE MESSIAH JESUS? Answer- Nothing! You see if we refer
again to The Archer and the Arrow.
Christianity/Hebrew-Christians have shot the arrow (riding on the arrow is already the belief that Jesus is the messiah). Therefore anything they come across in their corrupted Old Testaments that seems to back up their belief is used. However when the passages are examined in the proper Hebrew bible context one sees that they do not back up the Christian/Hebrew-Christian claims as I will show in the following articles beyond any doubt!
Understand that I believe in the Messiah but what I know that you have yet to come to terms with most likely is that the true Messianic Hebrew Prophecies in the Hebrew Bible that remain unaltered today simply have not happened nor been fulfilled....by anyone! This was the "mark" so to speak to identify the anointed of HaShem..His Messiah. In the wake of the failure of the true Hebraic Messianic Promises to be fulfilled then then we must wait like the Jews before identifying "THE" Messiah. So they wait. But to corrupt these Hebrew Scriptures and adulterate the Jewish Bible in order to put forth one's own brand of religious agenda or theological belief is a travesty and brings the curse of God. There are reasons why the Messianic prophecies were not fulfilled and it is not the failure of Jesus or any Messiah in waiting.
The time for the Messiah to appear has come and gone. If one believes the Hebrew Prophets he was once among us and now is not!
Answer for yourself: Was it Jesus and it just did not "happen" as expected? Most likely yes!
But what I take great aversion to, and you should as well, is the corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures in the "selling" of Jesus to the world as "THE" Messiah when in fact we cannot say for sure because the true Messianic Prophecies remain unfulfilled. We at Bet Emet have devoted a whole website to the Messianic problem and I refer you to it for further studies in this area to finally arrive at the truth concerning the Jewish Messiah.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THESE FOLLOWING ARTICLES REVEALING FALSE "MESSIANIC PROPHECY
The ways that Christian/Hebrew-Christians misappropriate the Jewish bible.
2. Preceding many of the prophetic verses which are quoted is the assertion, "What was said through the prophet was thus fulfilled." In this way the writers of the Christian Scriptures endeavored to show that the Tanakh anticipated and predicted the events recorded in the New Testament regardless whether it did or not! Those happenings, then, are presented as the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures and are considered proof texts.
3. Circular Reasoning.
This
means that you begin with your conclusion and then you work backwards to
prove your point.
Since they believe in Jesus as the messiah, every
chapter in the Hebrew bible that refers to the messiah they
(Christians/Hebrew-Christians) automatically point to it as referring
to-Jesus the Messiah.
4. The purposeful mistranslation or misquotation of the Hebrew Scriptures where words are changed or substituted that brings a completely different meaning than the original author. The techniques employed to establish such "false proof" include citation of verses out of context, mistranslation, and misquotation which goes unnoticed by those unfamiliar with the true Hebrew Scriptures and the Bible that Jesus used.
5. Sometimes a figurative or poetic phrase or an allegory is mistaken for a straightforward statement and made "literal" and vice versa when the intent of the original Jewish writer was different.
6. Sometimes sayings of different Biblical writers, living in different places, and in different centuries are run together and made to read as if it is "one" Scripture when it is not.
7. Often two or more of these above methods are used in a single quotation.
8. Fabricated references that simply don't exist but the uninformed readers would never know because these "creationisms" are worded in such ways to sound "Biblical."
The men who gave us these corrupted Greek Scriptures and the legacy that it produced; namely further corruptions in the English Old Testaments and New Testaments, succeeded more than they ever knew in destroying Divine truth intended for the world. Unknown to the reader at this point most likely is the fact that these Essenes who began such a corruption of the Hebrew Bible when they translated it into Greek did so in order to write in among the passages their own version of their Messiah. Instead of being a human Messiah he was for the Essenes an Angel-Messiah; a Cosmic Godman that finds it's origin in the Osiris "pattern" of Egypt. Remember that Egypt is where these Essenes lived and translated these Hebrew Scriptures and one would expect the find the "Osiris" influence and we do. The Solar/Astral concepts of the ancients which were understood originally as allegory and metaphor became under the the influence of these Essenes "literal" and such concepts were first applied to their crucified Teacher Of Righteousness and later to Jesus some 150 years later. At the same time the normal conservative Jews looked to God for their anointed human leader to arise that would fulfill the long awaited Hebrew Scriptures. These Hebrew Scriptures were not fulfilled by Jesus or anyone else so the Jewish people await their deliverer. After Jesus death and the wars of 70 A.D. and 135 A.D. it was needful to continue to keep alive the hope of the people that the one thought by them to be their Messiah, Jesus, would yet turn out to be the one long awaited for by Israel. The time had come and gone and no Messiah appeared. Instead of trying to understand why the Messianic Kingdom did not come and why the King was not revealed literary efforts were used to bolster hopes and morale by attributing to Jesus and events in his life through proof-texting of these corrupted Greek and Hebrew Scriptures that he had been the Messiah after all and that a return was imminent. It has been over 2000 years as we yet wait. But to the uneducated reader who is unacquainted with the Bible Jesus used which was the Hebrew Scriptures then he only has the ability to read the corrupted English versions of them never knowing that what he is reading is forgery of the true Hebrew Scriptures.
In closing the articles exposing such purposeful corruption of the truth concerning the Jewish Messiah as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures follow in succession on this website. The articles are extensive and it is not a short study but if you want to know the truth and begin to truly honor Jesus and his memory let alone recover Biblical truth long lost and kept from you then this information is essential. My prayer for you is that your heart and mind will be open to repentance as you see for yourself how the precious truths of God's revelation to us was stolen from us by men with "theological agendas." We truly live in a glorious time to day where such knowledge has come to light and where we have the opportunity to recover such truth and help our Jewish brothers and sisters as well as the Christians to come to the unity of the faith though the recovery of Biblical truth...and we have no greater need or place to start than with recovering the truth of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings and what they originally had to say about God's Messiah.
