Because it is the only English version of the Bible fully Jewish in style and presentation that includes both the Tanakh (“Old Testament”) and the B’rit Hadashah (New Covenant, “New Testament”). Even its title, the Complete Jewish Bible, challenges both Jews and Christians to see that the whole Bible is Jewish, the B’rit Hadashah as well as the Tanakh. Jews are challenged by the implication that without it the Tanakh is an incomplete Bible. Christians are challenged with the fact that they are joined to the Jewish people through faith in the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus) — so that because Christianity can be rightly understood only from a Jewish perspective, anti-Semitism is condemned absolutely and forever. In short, the Complete Jewish Bible restores the Jewish unity of the Bible. Also for the first time the information needed for the synagogue readings from the Torah and the Prophets is completely integrated with similar use of the B’rit Hadashah.

This week we have a very sensitive and difficult subject to address. I urge you all to read it with care and prayers. As we are going to be talking about those who go from Christians to Messianics and then convert to Judaism and deny Yehshua,

I have received many emails from other people who are waking up from the Christian churches and begin to see they have to keep Torah.

They then enthusiastically begin to learn Hebrew and to study with a passion. As they go and search for more information from outside the bible sources they eventually run into the Jewish anti-missionaries.

Then once that happens I begin to receive emails from these people who will no longer read anything written by Paul and condemn me for quoting any of his epistles.

And it is not too long after this that they stop reading the New Testament all together.

And then they announce that they are going to keep Torah and will no longer follow Yehshua and deny that Yehshua was and
is the Messiah.

There is also one dream text in which eating pork is a bad omen. Yet it is clear that pork was a regular part of the diet in Mesopotamia.

Some Hittite rituals require the sacrifice of a pig. Milgrom observes, however, that in such rituals the pig is not put on the altar as food for the god but absorbs impurity and then is burned or buried as an offering to underworld deities.

Likewise in Mesopotamia it was offered as a sacrifice to demons. There is evidence in Egypt of pigs used for food, and Herodotus claims they were used for sacrifice there as well. Egyptian sources speak of herds of swine being kept on temple property, and they were often included in donations to the temples. The pig was especially sacred to the god Seth.

Most evidence for the sacrifice of pigs, however, comes from Greece and Rome, there also mostly to gods of the underworld. In urban settings pigs along with dogs often scavenged in the streets, making them additionally repulsive.

The attitude toward the pig in Israel is very clear in Isa_65:4; Isa_66:3, Isa_66:17, the former showing close connection to worship of the dead. It is very possible then that sacrificing a pig was synonymous with sacrificing to demons or the dead.
IVP Bible Background Commentary

CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS (ON THE LAND)
God draws a strict line of demarcation between light and darkness, night and day, black and white, right and wrong, clean and unclean.

God makes the rules, and man must make his decisions according to God’s rules.

Isa 66:17 those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after ‘One’ in the midst, eating flesh of pigs and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,” declares יהוה.

You Are What You Eat – The Science Behind God’s Dietary Laws

For those Christian who thinks we are under the law, well I hope you watch this video and decided for yourself if it is better follow the God given food menu that suitable for our human consumption,

Why does the bible forbid the eating of pork, shellfish, mice and ravens?

Because these animals were never meant for human consumption.

They were designed by God to clean up the filth and rotting corpses of the world.

Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are both scientifically accurate and sound medical advice.

God designed everything in the universe, including our bodies.
Don’t you think He would know what is good (and bad) for it?

God never abolished His dietary laws, which were designed for the benefit of mankind. He designed our bodies, as well as the bodies of these animals that are deemed unclean.

Take note:

Keep in mind that the higher the percentage the less toxic to the human body.

The lower the percentage the slower the growth rate of the culture and therefore the higher the toxicity of the sample being tested.

Remember

High percentage

(76% and up)= good to human body)

low percentage

(75% or less) = destructive and / or poisonous to human body

Beast (clean) – herbivorous

Calf 82%

Deer 98%

goat 90%

ox  91%

Sheep 94% – lamb chop lover

Beast (unclean)

Black bear 59%

camel 41%

cat 62% eat rats

dog 62% – those who like to eat dog meat take note – scavengers, can be carnivorous. I remember I gave my dog eat raw flesh  the bed bugs left the dogs body does not want to suck dog’s blood.

fox 58%

grizzly beat  55% – carnivorous

groundhog – 53% – pig family

hamster 46%

opossum 53%

horse 39% – wow so toxic?  herbivorous?

Rabbit 49% – those who like rabbit meat

rat – 55% – scavengers brings disease bubonic, remember the black death

Rhino 60%

squirrel 43%

pig 54% – pork lovers

Birds (clean)

Goose 85%

chicken 83%

duck  98%

pigeon 93%

quails 89%

Swan 89% – this is Chinese say want to eat tian er rou

Turkey 85% – yea going to have turkey for Hannukah??

Bird (unclean)

Crow 46% – scavengers we can see many in our country just watch what they eat.

Owl 62% – eat rats also carnivorous

red tail hawk 36% – carnivorous – a type of eagle

sparrow hawk 63% – carnivorous

Fish (clean) with scale and fin notice fish has higher percentage than land animals

Black bass 80%

Black drum 105%

Blue fish 80%

carp  90%

cod 98% white meat – quite expensive most mother use this to cook porridge for their children

croaker 90%

Halibut 82%

Herring 100% – wow 100%

pike 98%

salmon 81% – not very high percentage it is orange meat.

smelt 90%

sea bass 103%  – available at most supermarket

Blue fin tuna – 88% – not high either dark red meat,

Fish (unclean) without scale or no scale n fin

Cat fish 48%

eel 40% – it was said that during 2004 tsunami the eel was found eating dead human flesh – toxic

porcupine – 60%

pofeur 51%

sand skate 59% – seabed cleaner?

dogfish shark 62%

stingray 40% – alas those who like eat stingray take note toxic

toad fish 49%

I. When was Jesus (sic) born?

A. Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E.

B. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus’ birth. The earliest gospel – St. Mark’s, written about 65 CE – begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus. This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in or knowledge of Jesus’ birthdate.

C. The year of Jesus birth was determined by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk, “abbot of a Roman monastery. His calculation went as follows:

a. In the Roman, pre-Christian era, years were counted from ab urbe condita (“the founding of the City” [Rome]). Thus 1 AUC signifies the year Rome was founded, 5 AUC signifies the 5th year of Rome’s reign, etc.

b. Dionysius received a tradition that the Roman emperor Augustus reigned 43 years, and was followed by the emperor Tiberius.

c. Luke 3:1,23 indicates that when Jesus turned 30 years old, it was the 15th year of Tiberius reign.

d. If Jesus was 30 years old in Tiberius’ reign, then he lived 15 years under Augustus (placing Jesus birth in Augustus’ 28th year of reign).

e. Augustus took power in 727 AUC. Therefore, Dionysius put Jesus birth in 754 AUC.

f. However, Luke 1:5 places Jesus’ birth in the days of Herod, and Herod died in 750 AUC – four years before the year in which Dionysius places Jesus birth.

D. Joseph A. Fitzmyer – Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America, member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and former president of the Catholic Biblical Association – writing in the Catholic Church’s official commentary on the New Testament, writes about the date of Jesus’ birth, “Though the year [of Jesus birth is not reckoned with certainty, the birth did not occur in AD 1. The Christian era, supposed to have its starting point in the year of Jesus birth, is based on a miscalculation introduced ca. 533 by Dionysius Exiguus.”

E. The DePascha Computus, an anonymous document believed to have been written in North Africa around 243 CE, placed Jesus birth on March 28. Clement, a bishop of Alexandria (d. ca. 215 CE), thought Jesus was born on November 18. Based on historical records, Fitzmyer guesses that Jesus birth occurred on September 11, 3 BCE.

II. How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25?

A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.

B. The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time. In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs: widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season).

C. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.

D. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.

E. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.

F. The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that “the early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that Christ was born in that Month, but because the Heathens’ Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into Christian ones.” Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians.

G. Some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were intentionally revived by the Catholic Church in 1466 when Pope Paul II, for the amusement of his Roman citizens, forced Jews to race naked through the streets of the city. An eyewitness account reports, “Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily.”

H. As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18th and 19th centuries CE, rabbis of the ghetto in Rome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the city streets to the jeers of the crowd, pelted by a variety of missiles. When the Jewish community of Rome sent a petition in1836 to Pope Gregory XVI begging him to stop the annual Saturnalia abuse of the Jewish community, he responded, “It is not opportune to make any innovation.” On December 25, 1881, Christian leaders whipped the Polish masses into Antisemitic frenzies that led to riots across the country. In Warsaw 12 Jews were brutally murdered, huge numbers maimed, and many Jewish women were raped. Two million rubles worth of property was destroyed.

III. The Origins of Christmas Customs

A. The Origin of Christmas Tree

Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”. Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church.

B. The Origin of Mistletoe

Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female Nanna. Druid rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim. The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with the Druidic sacrificial cult.

C. The Origin of Christmas Presents

In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas (see below).

D. The Origin of Santa Claus

a. Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was only named a saint in the 19th century.

b. Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil” who sentenced Jesus to death.

c. In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There Nicholas supplanted a female boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to fill the children’s stockings with her gifts. The Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult. Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.

d. The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshipped a pantheon led by Woden –their chief god and the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw. Woden had a long, white beard and rode a horse through the heavens one evening each Autumn. When Nicholas merged with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter clothing.

e. In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should) distribute gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th.

f. In 1809, the novelist Washington Irving (most famous his The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle) wrote a satire of Dutch culture entitled Knickerbocker History. The satire refers several times to the white bearded, flying-horse riding Saint Nicholas using his Dutch name, Santa Claus.

g. Dr. Clement Moore, a professor at Union Seminary, read Knickerbocker History, and in 1822 he published a poem based on the character Santa Claus: “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there…” Moore innovated by portraying a Santa with eight reindeer who descended through chimneys.

h. The Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast almost completed the modern picture of Santa Claus. From 1862 through 1886, based on Moore’s poem, Nast drew more than 2,200 cartoon images of Santa for Harper’s Weekly. Before Nast, Saint Nicholas had been pictured as everything from a stern looking bishop to a gnome-like figure in a frock. Nast also gave Santa a home at the North Pole, his workshop filled with elves, and his list of the good and bad children of the world. All Santa was missing was his red outfit.

i. In 1931, the Coca Cola Corporation contracted the Swedish commercial artist Haddon Sundblom to create a coke-drinking Santa. Sundblom modeled his Santa on his friend Lou Prentice, chosen for his cheerful, chubby face. The corporation insisted that Santa’s fur-trimmed suit be bright, Coca Cola red. And Santa was born – a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and commercial idol.

IV. The Christmas Challenge ·

Christmas has always been a holiday celebrated carelessly. For millennia, pagans, Christians, and even Jews have been swept away in the season’s festivities, and very few people ever pause to consider the celebration’s intrinsic meaning, history, or origins. ·

Christmas celebrates the birth of the Christian god who came to rescue mankind from the “curse of the Torah.” It is a 24-hour declaration that Judaism is no longer valid. ·

Christmas is a lie. There is no Christian church with a tradition that Jesus was really born on December 25th. ·

December 25 is a day on which Jews have been shamed, tortured, and murdered. ·

Many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced on earth.

1. Exodus from Egypt (Deut. 16:3) – remember your humble beginning

Exo 13:3  And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Deu 5:15  And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and יהוה your Elohim brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore יהוה your Elohim

Deu 7:18  you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

Deu 8:2  “And you shall remember that יהוה your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not.

Deu 16:3  “Eat no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came out of the land of Mitzrayim in haste – so that you remember the day in which you came out of the land of Mitzrayim, all the days of your life.

2. Receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai (Deut. 4:9-10)

Deu 4:9  “Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.
Deu 4:10  “The day when you stood before יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorĕḇ, יהוה said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I make them hear My Words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and teach them to their children.’

3. Amalek (Deut. 25:17-19)

Deu 25:17  “Remember what Amalĕq did to you on the way as you were coming out of Mitsrayim,
Deu 25:18  how he met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in your rear, when you were tired and weary. And he did not fear Elohim.
Deu 25:19  “Therefore it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you blot out the remembrance of Amalĕq from under the heavens. Do not forget!

4. The sin of the Golden Calf (Deut. 9:7)

Deu 9:7  “Remember, do not forget how you provoked to wrath יהוה your Elohim in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of Mitsrayim until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against יהוה.

5. The Sabbath (Ex. 20:8)

Exo 20:8  “Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart.

6. Miriam (Deut. 24:9) – Lashon Hara – evil talks

Deu 24:9  “Remember what יהוה your Elohim did to Miryam on the way when you came out of Mitsrayim.

Num 12:10  And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look: Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam, and look: a leper!

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Num 15:38  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them to make tzitziyot1 on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit1 of the corners. Footnote: 1See Explanatory notes – “Tzitzit” – plural Tzitziyot.
Num 15:39  “And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring,

2Co 6:14  Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

2Co 6:17  Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.

Dear Friend,

Are you afraid of dead and evil spirit? I recommend you to  put the trust in Christ  once you have Christ in you, 1Jn 4:4  ………., you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

When you preach the gospel do not defile yourself by indulging in pagan practice in order to win others to Christ that is not the way to do it. If you want to obey God do not mixed pagan and things of God.  The Old and New Testament teaches us not share table with demon and participate in their practice.

1Co 10:21  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord

Christian if you study the Torah which Genesis – Deuteronomy was forewarn not to practice idolatry or emulate the ways of pagans.

We are told to walk righteously, free from idolatry, pagan practice and be the salt of the earth, it is the work of the  Holy Spirit to convict sinners to repentance. We are to be the mouth pierce to the lost world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5AD0AtK-4

The Jonah Code – DISC 2 (2 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7nyGWdPN-E&NR=1

The Jonah Code – DISC 3 (3 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDN5GcYpNmA&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 4 (4 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3-Do29B6c&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 5 (5 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXV2S_XFWQw&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 6 (6 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BQQJAPJkGM&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 7 (7 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUex97r7R1c&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 8 (8 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKklB2vNnE&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 9 (9 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtmso6VIAO0&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 10 (10 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AkQ3HJFic&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 11 (11 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Q9DgiaqU8&feature=related

The Jonah Code – DISC 12 (12 of 12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5wlXL1zrg&feature=related