Judaism is NOT What You Think

[Music] [Music] many people today equate modern Judaism with Biblical Judaism what they often don't know however is that Judaism underwent a mass of reformation after the time of Christ in fact Judaism wasn't even monolithic at the time of Christ there are various factions which we see in the gospels like the Pharisees and the Sadducees as well as others like the essenes the Jews that followed Christ along with the Gentiles who were also grafted in were known as Christians meaning little christs initially Christianity was considered just another Jewish sect before it became clear that these were

separate religions practically all of the Jewish groups at the time required sacrifice in the temple after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD as predicted by Jesus and the gospels the Jews could no longer make these sacrifices the Jews who rejected Jesus were forced to confront this matter and the factions quarreled amongst themselves eventually what emerged was effectively a reformed version of the Pharisee party known as Rabbi Judaism the rinic Jews developed new doctrines centered around the Old Testament and a collection of Rabbi writings known as the talmud today there are various Jewish sects

as with Christianity and Islam but in an effort to address the most pure and ancient form of Judaism that exists I will focus on Rabin Judaism which was established about 1500 years ago after all the other branches of Judaism historically speaking stem from this one Speaking of little known information about Judaism let's talk about the talmud this document was completed around 500 or 550 ad which just as a reminder is over 100 years after the New Testament was canonized it is essentially the Jewish response to Christianity more broadly the tud is considered the oral law

of Rabbi Judaism and is actually given greater weight than the Old Testament this is a very important piece of information for many modern American Christians to know about Judaism interestingly the TAMU doesn't actually reject the miracles of Jesus rather it claims he performed them through magic or sorcery it quite explicitly claims that Jesus intentionally LED some of the Jews astray by performing magic through idolatry this is consistent with what the Pharisees claimed in Matthew 9:34 when they said that Jesus quote casts out demons by the ruler of the demons and in Matthew 12:4 when they

claimed Jesus quote does not cast out demons except by bizel the ruler of demons between the time of Jesus's crucifixion and the destruction of the temple in 70 AD there were a number of miraculous Omens that occurred which the talmud reports the Eternal fire in the altar refused to remain lit and the bronze gates to the temple opened on their own Josephus a Jewish historian at the time ALS Al adds his own observations he claimed there was a bright light in the altar at 3:00 a.m. also known as the witching hour for those who don't

know a cow brought for sacrifice which gave birth to a lamb and apparitions of Chariots and armies flying through the sky above the land of Israel these Omens ceased after the destruction of the temple the contents of the talmud are quite telling about how the Jews felt about Jesus his mother and those who followed him the text makes extremely Blasphemous claims about Jesus so listener discretion is advised the town mood states that Jesus is burning in a pile of excrement in hell that all Christians will join him and that his mother is a it claims

Jesus was a bastard child and that he was constantly giving into sexual sins had orgies sex Cults Etc it boasts that the Jews were right to crucify Jesus because in their view he deserved it but that's not all according to the tud Gentiles I.E non-jews are like animals should be killed Etc we are all lesser beings than the superior Jewish Master race you see they even have a special term for us non-jews are called go this clearly demonstrates that Judaism is an ethn religion which looks down upon everyone who is not Jewish I find it

very ironic that we are lectured by historians that it's bad to look upon someone because of their race or religion and yet these same historians often conveniently Overlook the dogmatic actually bigoted views of Judaism and if anyone thinks I'm sensationalizing any of this feel free to review my sources in the description or see the book Jesus and the tud by Peter Schaefer it's also important to remember while discussing these matters that this text is considered holy to Jews now perhaps this is my Christian bias coming out but the T mood almost sounds like demonic propaganda

to me perhaps it was the angel of Light That appeared in their altar at witching hour that influenced them speculation aside all of these details are very important and and I wish more modern American Christians would know about them especially before supporting all of Israel's military escapades so the next time someone like Ben Shapiro appeals to judaic Christian religion remember what their holy text says about Christ and his followers hopefully we can see by now that judeo-christian is a total misnomer moving on let's talk about the continuity between the second temple Jewish worship and the

early Christian Church in fact there is actually no break from the Old Testament to the new Orthodoxy is the continuation and fulfillment of what God was doing with Israel in the Old Testament when properly understood we see that the church is Israel St Paul calls the church quote the Israel of God Abraham Isaac and Jacob are our fathers in the faith because we have been grafted in as St Paul explains in Romans if this sounds foreign or strange just consider all that we inherit from the second temple Jewish period the early Christians worshiped in the

synagogue they only stopped when they were kicked out but afterward they maintained most of what they already had both Orthodox Christians and Orthodox Jews use incense and worship we both read Psalms in our services Orthodox Christian chanting is very similar to what one would hear in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue today rather than bringing out the Torah we process with the gospel book rather than sacrificing an animal Christ is the Eternal sacrifice in the Eucharist a sacrifice of praise as we say in the Liturgy the way we build our churches Finds Its origins in second temple

Judaism the book of Hebrews makes no sense without the context of Jewish Worship ining Christian worship our liturgy has distinct parallels to the visions of heavenly worship revealed to Moses Ezekiel Isaiah and John and therefore cannot be done away with without doing irreparable damage to our faith our priest's vestments even have many parallels to the Priestly vestments of the Old Testament we also have an unbroken Apostolic succession back to the time of the apostles who were ordained by Christ who himself is of the order of mzc it was prophesied in Psalm 109 1110 in the

mastic text that the Christ will be of the order of mzc and will rule at the right hand of the Lord where does Jesus go when he ascends to the right hand of the father as we recite in the Creed therefore Jesus himself is the connection to the priesthood of Israel the great high priest as St Paul calls him in Hebrews compare this to rabic Judaism which lacks a temple and therefore lacks a sacrifice there is also no legitimate claim to the Old Testament priesthood as the lineage has been broken as a sidebar everything I've

mentioned against Jewish worship can also be applied to Protestant Christians as well as they have little to no continuity with the worship of those at the time of Christ if one wants to learn more about the continuity in early Christian worship with the second temple Jewish period I would highly recommend the book Orthodox worship by Benjamin Williams and Harold anall or see the video I have linked in my sources titled Christian worship in the Old Testament now many Christians today believe that the modern-day nation state of Israel is equal to and synonymous with the entity

called Israel in the Old Testament however Orthodox Christians believe this to Simply Be A word concept fallacy built upon Protestant theology that hasn't existed for more than 100 years this perhaps warrants its own discussion at a future point but I will briefly address this here as I believe it is relevant after all one's theological position on this has direct pragmatic geopolitical ramifications this is why many evangelicals are zionists after all but simply Israel refers to those who are faithful to God all throughout the Old Testament the Jews are struggling to be faithful to God they

do well for a while then they fall away and turn to their Idols then they get back up again rinse and repeat and I'm not picking on the Jews here this is not exclusive to them this is an archetypal problem we go suffer from this too okay nonetheless there are always individuals throughout these times in the Old Testament that remain faithful to God these are the true Israel now fast forward to the time of Christ in John 14:6 he boldly States quote I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the

father except through me either what Jesus says is true or it is not if what he says is false then he is a liar and therefore not Lord see the problem God does not make a dual covenant either people accept the Messiah or they don't this is a watershed moment Jesus tries his best to save the Jews his people his entire Earthly Ministry was to the Jews it was only when they rejected him and finally crucified him that the Jews sealed their fate and showed their true colors they rejected Jesus's call to repentance and rather

chose to kill him their own Messiah recall what the Jews wrote about Jesus in the talmud recall how the Jews ignored the warnings had their Temple destroyed and priesthood removed they have no claim to the auth autic religion of the Old Testament that was fulfilled in Christ and in the Orthodox Church which the talmudic Jews de facto rejected now I'm not saying all Jews are bad or that they can't repent for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God after all the earliest Christians ethnically speaking were Jews so was Jesus himself but

Jesus also had some Choice words for the Pharisees of his time he calls them brood of vipers he Ed them from his temple with a whip even calling them blasphemers and saying that they have become a synagogue of Satan in the Book of Revelation and he calls them that twice as father step D young once famously said Jesus was acting very un Christlike the point is this those who are faithful to God belong to God modern day Jews reject Jesus the Messiah therefore they are the spirit of antichrist as St John says in his first

epistle 2:22 quote who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ he is Antichrist who denies the father and the son St Paul calls the church the Israel of God in Galatians 6:16 therefore we understand that the church is Israel this is the only coherent way to understand the connection between the Old Testament and the new obviously this could be expanded upon but I cannot do this topic Justice on my own if anyone would like me to bring on a priest to discuss this further feel free to let me know in

the comments for now I've included a link to an article on this in my sources now let's take a look at some of the Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament there are many prophecies alluding to the coming of the Messiah also known as the Christ which simply means anointed one the Psalms contain several Messianic prophecies as well as prophecies about the Virgin Mary Psalms 16:10 prophesies that the Messiah would resurrect from the dead quote for you will not abandon my soul to shol or let your Holy One see corruption recall Jesus's resurrection as well as

his raising Lazarus prior to his crucifixion Psalm 11822 through 24 states that the Messiah will be rejected by his people quote the stone which the builders rejected has become the Chief Cornerstone this was the Lord's doing it is marvelous in our eyes this is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it according to Jeremiah 3131 the Messiah will make a New Covenant behold the days are coming declares the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah Micah 52 prophesies

that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem but you Bethlehem Epi though you are little among the thousands of Judah yet out of you shall come forth to me the one to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth are from old from Everlasting Malachi 3:1 states that a messenger would precede the coming of the Messiah behold I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his Temple even the messenger of the Covenant in whom you Delight behold he is coming says the Lord

of hosts this is fulfilled in the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel tells Mary that she will bear the Messiah Zechariah contains multiple prophecies about the Messiah Zechariah 9:9 prophesies that the Messiah will come riding on a donkey Rejoice greatly oh Daughter of Zion shout oh daughter of Jerusalem behold your king is coming to you he is just and having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey a cult the fo of a donkey this was fulfilled on Palm Sunday at the triumphal entry of Jesus just before his crucifixion Zechariah 11:12 says that the Messiah will be

betrayed for 30 pieces of silver then I said to them if it seems good to you give me my wages but if not keep them and they weighed out my wages 30 pieces of silver Judas the one who notoriously betrayed Jesus was paid 30 pieces of silver the book of Isaiah contains many Messianic prophecies Isaiah 7:14 claims that the Messiah would be born of a virgin therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign behold the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emanuel Isaiah 40:3 prophesies that there will be

a forerunner to the Messiah quote the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God the voice of the one crying in the wilderness was none other than John the Baptist who lived in the wilderness and according to tradition was raised by Angels Isaiah 53:3 says that the Messiah will experience suffering and will be rejected by his own people he was despised and rejected by Men A Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief and is one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised and we esteemed him not two verses later it specifically details the crucifixion of the Messiah on behalf of mankinde but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds we are healed this entire chapter is one long Messianic prophecy but I'm only selecting a few verses for the sake of time verse 12 states that the Messiah will be crucified with criminals therefore I will divide him a portion with the many and he shall divide the spoil with

the strong because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors yet he bore the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors again Jesus was crucified between two thieves Daniel is another book known for Messianic prophecies Daniel 7: 13-14 states that the Messiah will be called the son of Mane I was watching in the night visions and behold one like the son of man coming with the Clouds Of Heaven he came to the Ancient of Days and they brought him near before him then to him was given dominion and

glory and a kingdom that all peoples Nations and languages should serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass pass away and his kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed Jesus often refers to himself throughout the gospels as son of man Daniel 9: 26- 27 is also very explicit about the manner in which the Messiah will be killed as well as the timing after the 62 weeks the anointed one AKA Christ shall be put to death yet there shall be no upright judgment for him and he shall destroy the city and

the sanctuary with the prince who is coming and they shall be cut off with a flood and to the end of the war which will be cut short he shall appoint the city to desolations then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week and in the middle of the week my sacrifice and drink offering will be taken away and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolations and to the end of the time an end to the Desolation shall be appointed this prophesies that the Messiah would be killed before the destruction

of the temple in 70 AD among other historic events even all the way back in Deuteronomy there were Messianic prophecies Deuteronomy 18: 15 through 19 says the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst from your brethren him you shall hear according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly saying let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God nor let me see this great fire anymore lest I die and the Lord said to me what they

have spoken is good I will raise up from them a prophet like you from among their Brethren and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all that I command him and it shall be that whoever will not hear my words which he speaks in my name I will require it of him despite the quantity of passages I've quoted here this is actually not an exhaustive list of these prophecies nor are my explanations of them very thorough simply take a look at all the proph phes in the Old Testament

that came true in Jesus I included a list of 47 of them along with the corresponding New Testament passages which demonstrate their fulfillment in my sources even Josephus the Jewish historian said that Jesus quote was perhaps the Messiah concerning whom the prophets have reported wonders I think the average person can look at this and understand that this is all too elaborate to be fabricated especially when one realizes these texts are written by by different authors at wildly different locations and points in time and all of them point to Jesus as the Messiah it's one of

the strongest cases for Christianity but that's not all let's take a look at the various theophanies in the Old Testament there are many instances throughout the Old Testament where God reveals himself to mankind these are called theophanes a few examples where he reveals himself include him walking in the Garden of Eden the Three Angels which appeared to Abraham in Genesis often referred to as the hospitality of Abraham Moses in the burning bush the angel of the Lord going to war in fourth kingdom2 Kings 1935 and the figure standing in the fiery furnace in Daniel this

points to another person of the godhead and reveals that he is not simply a Unitarian Transcendent deity rather he also has an ability to manifest himself imminently within creation from the Christian Perspective we would argue that this is the second person of the godhead a second hypostasis as the fathers would put it from the Christian Perspective we would argue that this second person in the godhead a second hypostasis as the fathers would put it is the pre-incarnate Christ this is made abundantly clear in the opening of The Gospel of John quote in the beginning was

the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the Darkness did not comprehend it what St John is doing here is exting Genesis chapter 1 by parting it he is saying that Jesus who is the word of God was present and took part in the creative act in Genesis 1 this is

why in Orthodox iconography Jesus is present in the Garden of Eden because properly understood this is what the Book of Genesis itself is saying it very clearly lays the groundwork for the Trinity from the first three verses quote in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth the Earth was without form and void the darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters then God said let there be light and there was light verse one identifies the father verse two identifies the Holy

Spirit quote hovering over the face of the waters verse three identifies the word of God Christ as God spoke creation into existence St John is expanding this idea and applying it to Jesus identifying him as God Christ and Creator all at once but it's not simply St John making this claim Jesus himself provocatively reveals himself as the Messiah in various ways throughout all four of the Gospel accounts he even reveals himself directly as Yahweh just to take one quick example recall what I shared from my monastic friend on Mount AOS to recount Yahweh is the

Hebrew tetragram for God's name in the Old Testament what doesn't come across in English translation however is that each of those letters stand for something when fully spelled out Yahweh means behold the hand behold the nail as far as we know from reading the gospels it's not immediately apparent to the disciples exactly who Jesus is when when Jesus commands Thomas to put his hand in his side and his hand what he is doing is directly connecting himself to the personal name of God in the Old Testament Yahweh before I wrap up here the idea of

there being multiple persons in the godhead is not simply something that Christians made up later rather it was a pre-existing idea within second temple Jewish thought these are what the Old Testament theophanies point to the Christians got it from the scriptures the Trinity was revealed in its fullness at the baptism of Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost I would highly recommend father Steven D Young's book religion of the Apostles for more on this history later on the Jews would scrub this belief from their religious Paradigm entirely in their post-christian Reformation their

reaction was to simplify God into One Singular Transcendent being what do they do with all these theophanies in the Old Testament one might ask well this is for the scholars and rabbis to debate of course as I am coming to a close here I want to take a moment to highlight the literary genius and Beauty portrayed in the biblical narrative Jesus inverts the curse of the Fall whereas Eve eats the forbidden fruit from a tree and receives death causing the fall of Man kind this is contrasted by Jesus who is hung on a tree whose

body and blood we must consume in order to receive life and therefore he thus redeems mankind Jesus was buried in a tomb in a garden and destroyed death again the parallels to Eden are clear Mary mistook the Risen Lord as a gardener which is a reference to the cherubim who guard Eden the point is this Christ inverts the curse and restores Humanity to its former glory all of this is intentional and it could not be more clear that he is the Messiah but the Redemption doesn't end there Pentecost is the inversion of the Tower of

Babel when man tried to build his way to God God came down and dispersed Mankind and Confused their language by contrast at Pentecost God comes down and unifies Humanity both linguistically and with the power of the Holy Spirit again let's look back on what has become of Judaism what does messiah even mean to Modern Jews many don't even believe it refers to a literal person at this point the goal of Judaism is also very limited and narrow it is primarily an ethn religion whose aim it is to acquire land for the Jews where they can

work out their salvation and who knows what happens with everyone else compare this to Christianity where all are free to accept Christ Christianity subverts the debased human tendency to exclude others for superficial reasons the Christian faith cannot be the ethn religion that Judaism inevitably has become because as St Paul says quote there is neither Jew nor Greek for you are all all one in Christ Jesus all are welcome to be grafted into the church that may come at the cost of inconvenience or being Outcast by family or the natural struggle in life that is repentance

but in Christianity all are welcome this is why it is such a shame what Judaism has become it has neutered the faith of Abraham blasphemed their Messiah and produced a weak incoherent conception of God clearly from these prophecies and theophanes anyone with eyes to see can witness that the scope of Christianity is Cosmic not merely geopolitical we don't need to look very far to realize that those masquerading as the Jews of the Old Testament today are simply not who they claim to be the talmud clearly displays their outright contempt and hatred of Jesus his mother

and his followers the fact that they crucified their Messiah ignored the Omens that followed had their Temple destroyed priesthood removed and still doubled down and went their own way just goes to show how blind they became they create elaborate alternative explanations for everything in the Old Testament that seems to point to Jesus and perform Olympic worthy exegetical backflips to Simply deny the obvious that they were wrong with all this context in mind I feel confident in saying that Rabbi Jud Judaism is a demonic religion the Jews clearly do not worship the same God as the

Christians because the Christians worship a trinitarian God and the Jews worship a unarian God just like the Muslims some may wonder why I spent so much more time on Judaism than Islam the reason for this is because Rabin Judaism laid the groundwork for Islam there is no use in picking sides or choosing which religion is worse because the son of Satan is still Satan at the end of the day the reason I am being this Stern is because I do not tolerate blasphemy of my God the huus of judaic religion has led them on a

path to reject their own Messiah and it is truly sad I put all this together not to mock Judaism but rather to inform people on what Rabin Judaism really is because many Christians and perhaps even some Jews may not know these things I pray that Jews today open their hearts and that many of them come to repentance God does not have an ethnic preference he loves Mankind and desires all to be saved especially the Jews to whom he came first to the Lord laments what has become of the people he once chose but he will

not force anyone's will we can only Point them to Christ and pray oh