Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Promise Keepers

http://www.newdaynews.com/openhouse/index.cgi/noframes/read/28638

Prosperity Pimp Creflo Dollar is coming to Kampala, June 13-14, 2007

From
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/03/prosperity-pimp-creflo-dollar-is-coming.html


Prosperity Pimp Creflo Dollar is coming to Kampala, June 13-14, 2007


For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.(Acts 20:29-30)


Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain.(1 Timothy 6:5)


The prosperity pimp Pastor Creflo Dollar, will be in Kampala in June, 2007 . Robert Kayanja the Liar, says 2007 will be a year of perfection because Benny Hinn and Creflo ARE GOING TO VISIT KAMPALA. The truth is that apostasy is going is manifest in Kampala when these two spiritual adulterers show up in Uganda in may and June 2007 respectively .This is not perfection as Robert Kayanja suggests.

Dollar coming to Kampala

http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/news.asp?ID=2931


Spiritual Whore Benny Hinn to visit Uganda in May 2007

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/03/spiritual-whore-benny-to-visit-uganda.html

Hearts of fire for God but Minds on Ice

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/03/minds-on-fire-for-god-hearts-on-ice.html


There is no doubt that the prosperity pimp Creflo Dollar is a servant of the devil as illustrated by the famous quotes from the horse’s mouth, all quotes can be assessed on;

http://www.gospelgrace.com/falseprophets/creflodollar/creflodollar.htm



Creflo dollar’s Famous extra biblical quotes(not in the bible)


But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.(2 Peter 2:1-3)



Creflo Dollar Says - "Jesus didn’t come as God, He came as a man."
(Creflo Dollar, "Jesus' Growth into Sonship," December 8, 15, 2002, Product Number: 3422093, 3132094)

Creflo Dollar Says - “ You’ve got to seek his face not just his hand, if you’ll seek his face he’ll give you what’s in his hand.”

Creflo Dollar Says - "You Are gods" -- Creflo Dollar is echoing the second lie from the serpent in the garden of Eden, "you shall be as gods" (Gen 3:5). It is a very old lie, and blasphemy of the highest order.

Creflo Dollar Says - "Once you begin to realize that you are God's children and you are little gods on this planet." (Creflo Dollar, Audio-Clip, "Creflo Dollar: Christian Celebrity or Charismatic Gnostic?" #0418)
Creflo Dollar Says - "All right! I'm going to say something, you are gods on this earth. And it's about time we start operating like gods instead of a bunch of mere powerless humans." (Creflo Dollar, Audio-Clip, "Creflo Dollar: Christian Celebrity or Charismatic Gnostic?" #0418)
Creflo Dollar Says - "That's why I believe in little lords. Little 'g' turn to your neighbor and say, 'Hello little g'. Come on! Turn aside and say, 'Hello little g.'" (Creflo Dollar, Audio-Clip, "Creflo Dollar: Christian Celebrity or Charismatic Gnostic?" #0418)

Creflo Dollar Says - “The first miracle Jesus ever did was a miracle of luxury… somebody said the lord will meet you need but I don’t know about your desires. Well they didn’t need wine that day…Jesus showed up with an undeniable miracle of luxury and he turned water into wine. “ He leads the people in a repetitive affirmation “c’mon shout it out I’ve got increase on my mind”, “shout it out God has increase on his mind” “shout it out I’ll have increase” “Now.”
Creflo Dollar Says - "We have been losing the battle of words. We have let our body think that it has authority to do what it wants to do. And our body does not have authority to do what it wants to do. Our body must obey our tongue!" (Creflo Dollar, "Establishing the Word of God Part 2," January 30, 2005, Product Number: 8442091)
Creflo Dollar Says - "A son of God, they are those through a understanding of their divine nature, they can operate like God on the earth."
(Creflo Dollar, "Growth Means Change," September 29, 2002, Product Number: 3422093)
Creflo Dollar Says - "And yet we want to continue to live like mere men..You need to begin to act like God on this planet...Do you still go around in that false ignorant humility that you are just mere men?"
(Creflo Dollar, "Growth Means Change," September 29, 2002, Product Number: 3422093)

Creflo Dollar Says - "Words control the body. Oh glory be to God! And regardless of what's going on in your physical body, you got to talk to it. I'm telling you I talk to my major organs...I speak words to it...The tongue in your mouth will control every inch of your physical body! Do not tolerate sickness and disease as long as you got a working tongue that can speak the established Word of God! [Claps] Uh, that's good!"
(Creflo Dollar, "Establishing the Word of God Part 2," January 30, 2005, Product Number: 8442091)
Note: Why does Creflo Dollar wear glasses? Why are his eyes sick? Why does he tolerate it?

Creflo Dollar Says - "I'm telling you, Jesus wasn't poor, and He didn't wear no rags, either. Like we march in on these Easter little plays that we do at our church, with those raggedy sheets on. Jesus didn't have no rags on. He wore designer clothes, honey!"
(Creflo Dollar Crusade, Feb. 9, 1999. Bob Hunter, "Contenders")
Creflo Dollar Says - "When Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished,” He was referring to the Abrahamic covenant....Jesus entered hell with nothing more than His covenant with God...He took back the keys to death, hell and the grave." (Creflo Dollar, Study Notes, Our Authority Through the Covenant, 04/18/04. His website)

Creflo Dollar Says - "Did you know that angels actually listen to and act on the words we speak?...As we have seen, a mighty host of angels is waiting to hear the words of God come out of a believer's mouth...When you have bills that need to be paid, speak the Word. Speak out things like this:
According to Philippians 4:19, my God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I am a tither, and according to Malachi 3:10, God is opening the windows of Heaven and pouring out a blessing for me that I will not have room to contain. Now, according to Hebrews 1:14, I command the angels of God to go forth and minister for me, an heir of salvation.

When angels hear God's Word coming out of your mouth, they go into action, moving and influencing in the spirit realm to make God's covenant words come to pass for you.

What happens, on the other hand, when you speak out the same negative "garbage" of doubt and unbelief that the world speaks? "Bills, bills, bills. We are never going to get caught up? They will probably turn off our lights before we see any money around here."

You have just taken your angels out of the picture. Those words run directly counter to what God's covenant says about your situation. In the presence of those words of doubt and unbelief, they have no choice but to bow their heads, fold their hands, and wait.

They are waiting for you to speak God's Word and do it consistently enough for them to get some provision to you....If you have battled fear, this is a great verse to speak about yourself on a daily basis. You can speak out things like this, "Because I reverence the Lord, His angels camp around me and deliver me from all harm."

That is the kind of talk that will put angels in a position to do that very thing. No mugger, no rapist, no drive-by shooter on earth can penetrate that angelic shield of protection. And when you do find yourself in a sticky situation, this verse promises you deliverance....The most devastating aspect of fear is that, as the reciprocal of faith, it opens the door to the very things you fear most. It is time to get rid of fear! All of the steps you need to take to come out of fear and get into faith are actions:

Start changing the way you talk.
Stop speaking out words of fear and doubt.
Begin to speak God's promises that apply to your situation.
Get a revelation of the ministry of God's protecting angels.
See - with your mind's eye - mighty warrior angels surrounding you on every side.
(Creflo Dollar, "Angels Listen to Our Words," Article C-Faith)

Creflo Dollar Says - "When you are living and walking in the presence of Almighty God, sickness has to go. No disease can withstand His presence. When you live in His presence, poverty and insufficiency must flee. There can be no lack in the presence of the God Who made heaven and earth."
(Creflo Dollar, "Living in the Presence of God," Article C-Faith)

Creflo Dollar Says - If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint him? If Jesus - See God’s already anointed. If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint him? Jesus came as a man, that’s why it was legal to anoint Him. God doesn’t need anointed. He is anointing. Jesus came as a man and at age thirty, God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us and give us an example of what a man with the anointing can do.
....Jesus didn’t come as God, He came as a man, and He did not come perfect.
....But Jesus didn’t show up perfect. He grew into His perfection. You know Jesus - one scripture in the bible - he went on a journey, he was tired. You better hope God don’t get tired. Isaiah 50 says, 50, 60, somewheres says where we have a God who fainteth not, neither is wearied? But Jesus did. If He came as God and he got tired; He says he sat down by the well because he was tired. Boy we’re in trouble.
....And somebody said, well, Jesus came as God! Well, how many of you know the Bible says God never sleeps nor slumbers? And yet in the book of Mark we see Jesus asleep in the back of the boat. (pause) Please listen to me. Please listen to me. This ain’t no heresy. I’m not some false prophet. I’m just reading this thing out to you of the Bible. I’m just telling you, you all these fantasy preacher have been preaching all of this stuff for all of these years and we bought the package! (Creflo Dollar Ministries: World Changers, 12/8/2002)
• Directly contradicts John 1:14, which reads "The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us." Creflo Dollar has the flesh becoming the Word!
• Dollar reduces Christ to an ordinary man who has been anointed, and as Copeland says, even HE could have died for our sins.
• Contradicts 2 Cor. 5:21 "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
• This is a blasphemous statement and blatant heresy on his part.
Watch video on Creflo Dollar: http://biblelight.net/Creflo-Dollar-3.html


Videos

Arrogance : Creflo Dollar calls himself a prosperity fool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHJxXhDTuw&NR

Creflo Dollar 80 dollar million US exposed


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_knKUT586nQ

Creflo Dollar’s Heresies

http://biblelight.net/Creflo-Dollar-3.html


Creflo Dollar denies divinity of Christ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONZ4BVcFo8&mode=related&search


Dollar says if you sing this rap song telling money to come, it will surely come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxLiDrdwPA&mode=related&search

http://www.pulpit-pimps.org/archives/category/pulpit-pimps/dr-creflo-dollar

Dollar says John the Baptist Lost his head , he says do not question because this will lead you to offence just like John the Baptist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM1S4hjt9ns&mode=related&search

http://www.pulpit-pimps.org/archives/2006/11/20/creflo-and-john-the-baptist#comments

http://www.pulpit-pimps.org/archives/category/pulpit-pimps/dr-creflo-dollar

Prosperity Pimps

http://www.pulpit-pimps.org/archives/category/benny-hinn

Creflo Dollar’s heresy teaching on the God man

http://www.letusreason.org/Poptea16.htm


Dollar says God wants people to prosper

http://interactive.creflodollarministries.org/bible/TLP_t.asp
http://interactive.creflodollarministries.org/bible/bsc_entrep_t.asp?site=CDM


Meaning of salvation according to Dollar

http://interactive.creflodollarministries.org/bible/salvation_page1.asp

Heresies by Dollar: See Quotes http://www.bereanfaith.com/heresy.php?action=aquote&id=8

Let us reason was Jesus Rich

http://www.letusreason.org/Wf.27.htm

False teachers, Creflo Dollar teaching on the creative power of words, he says gods with flesh and then gods with flesh produced more gods with flesh

http://www.forgottenword.org/dollar.html


Creflo Dollar: Christian Celebrity or Charismatic Gnostic

http://www.forgottenword.org/dollar.html


History of the word faith movement

http://www.victorstephens.com/wordfaithmovementrev.pdf

Word of Faith Error

http://www.geocities.com/johnandursula/wordoffaitherror


Exposing the word faith movement


http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/word-faith.html

10 reasons to reject word faith theology of people like dollar

Dollar’s word faith movement teaches that Jesus burned in hell, and was born again

http://www.intotruth.org/wof/moreno2.html

http://www.intotruth.org/wof/moreno3.html

How the wealth, health Gospel twists scripture

http://www.watchman.org/reltop/health$.htm


http://www.intotruth.org/wof/tract3.html

Creflo Dollar confuses trinity

http://www.letusreason.org/popteac9.htm

Exposing the teachings of Copeland Creflo Dollar’s mentor

http://www.letusreason.org/Wf22.htm

http://www.letusreason.org/Wf21.htm

Kenneth Copeland false prophesy

http://www.letusreason.org/Wf19.htm


Creflo Dollar and Joyce Meyer are serving the Devil together


http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/word-faith.html#jmeyer

http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/12609.html?1141862514

http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/3/1996.html?1143907347

Joyce Meyer says what you say is what you get, word faith GM food

http://www.wfial.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=resources.meyer&badUrl=http://www.wfial.org:80/resources/meyer

Cult or Christianity, Creflo dollar’s World changers

http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1110077704

http://woodlawnyouth.blogspot.com/2006/09/friday-false-teachers-creflo-dollar.html

See Creflo Dollar’s Domonionist Theology


http://creflodollarministries.org/pdf/1004CYW.pdf

Overview of Creflo Dollar’s teaching

http://www.truerepentance.org/heretic/prosheresy/cdollar.html

Rick Warren’s Spiritual Junk food

http://simplyagape.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

Summons


Apostasy Posing AS Revival


http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=&sermonID=121105103854


A call for separation

The true saints of the Lord Jesus Christ in Uganda should SHUN Creflo Dollar’s crusades and meetings in Kampala. The Messages of new age prosperity pimps like Dollar appears ‘sweet’ however there is no doubt that that it is spiritual junk food from the devil himself. Word faith preachers like Creflo dollar are ministers of the devil working for the Masonic new world order. They are twisting the gospel so that the Masonic new world order overtakes the saints unawares. No wonder many come from America, the harlot behind the Masonic new world order. DEAR UGANDAN SAINTS THE TIME TO SEPARATE OUR SELVES FROM APOSTASY IS NOW. Many saints have been wondering why TBN preachers like creflo Dollar preach a gospel that is too difficult to understand, yet Christ and his apostles preached a very simple gospel. After reading this article there should not be any doubt in your mind that such prosperity preachers are of their father the devil who was a liar from the beginning because there is no truth in him(John 10:44).


We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.(1 Corinthians 4:10-14)



They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.(Hebrew 11:37-38)

Be ware of Freemasons

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/02/ugandan-saints-be-ware-of-freemason.html

Awake Africa: America is not a Friend

http://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment47.htm



TBN Robert Kayanja's RIOT, A Rebellious Inverting Of Truth

http://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment64.htm


Prosperity Doctrine is a flawed

http://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment43.htm


Prosperity Gospel - A Gospel Of The Antichrist

http://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment53.htm

hSPIRITUAL FORNICATION AND DOMINIONISM IN THE UGANDAN CHURCH

ttp://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment61.htm


You are not gods saints

Prosperity Pimps like Dollar, Kenneth Copeland Joyce Meyer and the like base on Psalms 82:6, and John 10:34-36 to defend the junk gospel that we are gods. This is the same lie traded around by the new agers and kabbalists who are arguing that you have power with in you to change your destiny, in short you are a god. Being created in God’s image does not make us gods, there is only one God, existing in three persons(trinity) , thus if we are gods this contradicts the trinity in the bible and hence propagates pantheism which is biblically nonsensical. Being given authority by God(the judge of judges) to judge does not make us gods, but creatures created in God’s image and given power to judge on his behalf(judge with justice). This genesis(Genesis 3:5) lie from the devil that we are gods was a lie then and is a lie now. THE DEVIL HASN’T CHANGED, HAS HE?


Word faith pantheism

http://www.gotquestions.org/pantheism.html

http://www.gotquestions.org/Word-Faith.html

http://www.gotquestions.org/prosperity-gospel.html


Ye are gods, what does it mean

http://www.answering-islam.de/Main///Shamoun/john10_34-36.htm

Profile of the Word faith Movement

http://www.watchman.org/profile/wordpro.htm

World faith GM Food

http://www.wfial.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=resources.meyer&badUrl=http://www.wfial.org:80/resources/meyer

http://www.wfial.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=resources.oprah&badUrl=http://www.wfial.org:80/resources/oprah

Kabbalah Witchcraft and End time deception

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2006/12/kabbalah-witchcraft-and-end-time.html




Saints remember God is not controlled by the law of faith.

While teaching his disciples how to pray, the Lord Jesus Christ told them to pray that …thy will be done (Mathew 6:10). This scripture points to the absolute sovereignty of God. All our prayers whether based on faith or not can not override the will of God as word faith preachers are teaching. God is not a creature controlled by human will, faith and emotions. Many so called born again Christians in Uganda spend a lot of time praying in the church, on the hills and else where.


They appear to be doing what the bible tells us to all do i.e. to pray without ceasing (1 Thesa.5:17), however a close look at their prayers reveals that they have been poisoned by the word faith gospel (you are gods gospel) .Many are praying that their will be done- I WANT A BIG CAR, GOD, I WANT A TALL HUBAND-GOD, I WANT A BROWN WIFE-LORD, I WANT TO LIVE IN MUYENGA, I WANT TO GO THE UNITED STATES.


We must always pray that God’s will be done in our lives-even if it means persecution and death. I have reliably learn’t that some ladies in Uganda pray that saints’ marriages break so that they take over the husbands. THIS IS SURELY WITCHCRAFT. I think you can see where the word faith( you are gods) gospel can lead to. I KNOW WE ARE POOR AND DESPERATE BUT THIS DOES NOT GIVE US LICENSE TO TWIST SCRIPTURE TO SATISFY OUR LUSTS. Many pastors and saints do not believe the coming doom and gloom in Africa and all over the world because they have been deceived by the word faith movement that they can change God’s will. WATCH THAT NO BODY DECEIVES YOU.

hStrange Anti-Christ Gospel of free will being taught today

ttp://www.antichristconspiracy.com/PDFDocs/Antigospel.pdf


Woman Claims that Pastor Robert Kayanja(married to Jessica kayanja) is her husband and should Mary her. The woman claimed that she has been getting revelations since 1988 that kayanja is her husband. She even reported the case to the police. SERVE YOU RIGHT PASTOR KAYANJA, YOU ARE ENJOYING THE FRUITS OF THE WORD FAITH GOSPEL YOU HAVE BEEN PREACHING OVER THE YEARS.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/58/60/415828/Robert%20Kayanja




God Bless you,

Kizito Michael George

Saturday, July 05, 2008

WHAT DID THE FOUNDING FATHERS THINK ABOUT GUN CONTROL?

http://www.thejackal.freeservers.com/about.html

Peter

From http://web.archive.org/web/20051109080402/http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/rlister/cath/cath2.htm


 


 













Was Peter the First Pope?



by the late Rev. Alan Carl Prior

Simon Peter is addressed by our Lord Jesus in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew in these words: "And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."


Because of this passage there is a vast system of religion built upon Simon Peter. Three things in this ecclesiastical system are avowed about him.


1. That Peter ruled the Church.


2. That Peter ruled the Church in Rome. Jerome (d. 240 A.D.) declared that Peter, after being first bishop at Antioch, and after labouring in Pontus, Galatia, Asia, Cappadocia and Bithynia, went to Rome in the second year of Claudius (about 42 A.D.) to oppose Simon Magus, and was bishop of that Church for 25 years, finally being crucified head downward in the last year of Nero's reign (67 A.D.) and was buried on the Vatican hill.


3. That Peter's tomb and his bones are under the high altar of St. Peter's Church in Rome.


There is no intimation in the Scriptures that the words of our Saviour addressed to Simon Peter made him ruler and head of the church. In the Greek there is a play upon his name -"Thou art Petros (a stone) and upon this petra (a stratum of stone) I will build my church," I Peter 2:5 says, "Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house." I Corinthians 3:11 says, "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."


The meaning is self-evident. The foundation, 'the petra,' upon which Christ will build His church is His deity, which Simon Peter has just confessed upon a revelation from the Father. The stones out of which Christ will erect His church are believing disciples, one of whom is Peter himself.


The keys of the kingdom here given to Peter as a representative disciple, with the authority of binding and loosing, are given to all the disciples in Matthew 18:18 and in John 20:23.


PETER IN THE EARLY CHURCHES


Was Peter ever the ruler of the Church? of any Church, any time, any place?


Not that anybody knows of. The pastor and leader of the Church at Jerusalem was James, the Lord's brother (Acts 12:17; 15:13-21; 21: 18; Gal. 2:9). This Scriptural account of James is confirmed by Josephus in his Antiquities XX, 9, 1, where James' martyrdom is described. Josephus never heard of Simon Peter, but the Jewish historian knows all about the faithful pastor and leader of the Christian Church in Jerusalem.


Notice in Acts 8:14 that Peter is "sent" by the Apostles along with John to Samaria. Peter is not doing the sending; somebody else is.


Notice in Acts 15:14-21 that at the Jerusalem conference, after Peter made his speech and Paul and Barnabas made their speeches, it is James who delivers the final verdict.


WAS PETER EVER IN ROME?


The second avowal of the Roman hierarchy concerning Peter is that he was bishop of Rome from 42 A.D. to 67 A.D., when he was crucified under Nero.


If Peter was in Rome during those years, then the New Testament cannot be relied upon. There is not the faintest, slightest historical foundation for the fiction that Peter ever saw the city of Rome.


1. Paul was converted about 37 A.D. He says in the first chapter of Galatians (Gal. 1:13-18) that after his conversion he went into Arabia, "then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days." This takes us to 40 A.D. and Peter is still in Jerusalem.


2. Sometime during these days Peter made his missionary journey through the western part of Judea, to Lydda, to Joppa, to Caesarea, and back to Jerusalem (Acts 9, 10, 11 ).Then came the imprisonment under Herod Agrippa I and the miraculous deliverance by the angel of the Lord (Acts12). Peter then "went down from Judea to Caesarea and there ebode" (Acts 12:19). Hered Agrippa died not long after these events (Acts 12:20-23). Josephus says that the death of Agrippa occurred in the fourth year of the reign of Claudius. This would be about 45 A.D., and Peter is still in Palestine.


3. Paul writes in the second chapter of Galatians that 14 years after his first visit to Jerusalem to visit Simon Peter, he went again to see him, The first journey was 40 A.D., 14 years later brings us to 54 A.D., and Peter is still in Palestine.


4. Information about Peter is not so specific after 54 A.D., but in the opening verse of his First Epistle, the Apostle of the Jews addresses the Jewish believers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia.


It may well be that the Apostle spent some years travelling and working among these "elect sojourners of the dispersion."


This we do know. When Paul wrote his first Epistle to the Corinthians (about 57 A.D.), Peter was travelling in the company of his wife (I Cor. 9:5).


The suggestion that Peter spent those years in the Provinces named accords with his residence in Babylon from whence he wrote his Epistle (I Peter 5:13).


5. In about 58 A.D. Paul wrote a letter to the Church at Rome. In the last chapter of that epistle Paul salutes 27 persons, but he never mentions Simon Peter. If Peter were "governing" the Church at Rome, it is most strange that Paul should never refer to him.


Romans 1:13 shows that the Church at Rome was a Gentile church. At the Jerusalem conference (Gal. 2:9), it was agreed that Peter should go to the Jews and Paul to the Gentiles.


The gospel ministry of Paul was motivated by a great principle which he clearly repeats in Romans 15:20: "Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation." A like avowal is made in I Corinthians 10:15,16. Where no other apostle had been, there Paul wanted to go. Having written this plainly to the people at Rome, his desire to go to the Roman city would be inexplicable if Peter were already there, or had been there for years.


6. Paul's first Roman imprisonment took place about 60 A.D. to 64 A.D. From his prison the apostle to the Gentiles wrote four letters - Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon. In these letters he mentions many of his fellow Christians who are in the city, but he never once refers to Simon Peter.


7. Paul's second Roman imprisonment brought him martyrdom. This occurred about 67 A.D. Just before he died, Paul wrote a letter to Timothy, our "11 Timothy." In that final letter the Apostle mentions many people, but plainly says that "only Luke is with me." There is never a reference to Peter.


We have gone throughout those years of 42 A.D. to 67 A.D., the years Pater is supposed to have been the prince and bishop and ruler of the church at Rome. There is not a suggestion anywhere that such a thing was true. Rather, the New Testament clearly and plainly denies the fiction.


BABYLON AND ROME


In I Peter 5:13, Peter says, "The church that is at Babylon saluteth you." Some suppose "Babylon" is a cryptic word for Rome.


There is no evidence that Rome was ever called "Babylon" until after the Book of Revelation was written. The Revelation was written about 95 A.D., many years after the death of Simon Peter.


If I Peter 5:13 refers to Rome, then Simon Peter did not write the letter, and we have a forgery in the Bible.


Peter's method and manner of writing are in no sense apocalyptic. He is direct and matter-of-fact. That this man Peter, plain of speech almost to bluntness, should interject into the midst of his personal explanations and final salutations such a mystical epithet, with no hint of what he meant by it, is beyond credulity.


Peter says the elect in Babylon send greetings to the Jews of the Dispersion in Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia. "Babylon" is no more cryptic than "Pontus,'' "Asia" or the rest. He means what he says. His "Babylon" is the Babylon on the Euphrates. It is a part of that eastern world where Peter lived his life and did his work.


Babylon, in the time of Simon Peter, was no longer a great world capital, but it was still inhabited by a colony of people, mostly Jews. Among those Hebrew friends he won many to Christ, and those Jewish Christians sent greetings to their fellow Jewish Christians in Asia Minor where Peter, it seems, had previously done a blessed missionary work.


Peter was never in Rome. Nor was he ruler over any church. Nor did he have any keys to give to anybody else to hand down to others. He was a stone, one out of many with which God is building His spiritual house in earth and in heaven.





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The Lost Tribes/Japan Theory

From http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracam2.htm


This page is from Chapter 1


Israelites Came To Ancient Japan


Chapter 2
The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Myanmar, and China



What Are Israelites?


Around the time of 1900 B.C.E., there was a man named Jacob who was the ancestor of the people of Israel. Later Jacob's name was changed to Israel.
Israel had 12 sons, who were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zevulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin. The descendants of these sons formed 12 tribes of Israel. These 12 tribes are called "Israelites".
When they had territories in Canaan (Israel, Holy Land), the tribe of Levi did not have a territory for they were the tribe of priests. Instead, the tribe of Joseph was divided into the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh and have their own territories. Thus the land of Canaan was divided into 12 territories.
Later, the 12 tribes of Israel experienced the height of prosperity in the time of King Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E.. But after Solomon died, the united kingdom of Israel was divided into two countries: One is the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the other the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The Northern Kingdom is also called Samaria, the Southern Kingdom is also called Judea.
The word "Jews" is used basically for the people and descendants of Judea, the Southern Kingdom, but sometimes used for the same meaning as Israelites.
The Ten tribes of Israel belonged to Samaria, the Northern Kingdom of Israel. They were Reuben, Gad, Ephraim, Issachar, Zevulun, Naphtali, Asher, Dan, Simeon, and Manasseh. While the other tribes belonged to the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
In the 8th century B.C.E., the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the army of Assyrian empire, and the Ten Tribes of Israel was led captive and compelled to march to the land of Assyria. They did not come back to the land of Israel. They are so called "the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel."


Josephus Wrote About the Lost Tribes of Israel


Where was the exact place of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel to be carried captive in Assyrian Empire? The Bible records:
"the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." (2 Kings 18:11)
These places are located in today's northern Iraq or Northwest Iran called Kurdistan. The Ten Tribes of Israel were firstly compelled to emigrate there, and this is also a starting point of our research.
There is a Jew named Josephus Flavius, a very reliable historian who lived in the first century C.E.. In his book of history, there is a description about whereabouts of the Ten Tribes:
"...the Ten Tribes who are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, whose numbers cannot be estimated." (Antiquities 11:2)
Josephus wrote that in the first century C.E., the Ten Tribes of Israel lived as an immense multitude beyond Euphrates River. This may mean that some of of them lived in the close area east of Euphrates River and others moved to a place far beyond east of the Euphrates.


The Lost Tribes of Israel in Afghanistan


The Bible mentions the cities of Medes, today's Iraq and Iran, as the locations of the Assyrian exile of the Ten Tribes of Israel. It is an accepted tradition that the people of this area are from the Assyrian exile.
It seems that later, many of the Ten Tribes of Israel moved to the east along the Silk Road. We find the descendants of them in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Myanmar (Burma), China and other countries, which are along the Silk Road. I will have a brief explanation about them in this chapter. The information is mostly from the books which were written by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and published in Japan, and "Beyond the Sambatyon, The Myth of The Lost Tribes" written by Simcha Shtull.
East of Iran is Afghanistan. There are so many tribes in Afghanistan with names that have Yusuf in the name as Yusufzai, Yusufuzi, Yusufzad, etc.. Yusuf means Joseph and Yusufzai means children of Joseph.
They claim their origin to be from the Lost Tribes of Israel, that is, from the tribes of Joseph, which are the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh and are a part of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. They also call themselves Bani-Israel meaning children of Israel. Their tradition is that they were carried away from their ancient homeland.
Formerly they were shepherds in search of pasture but they gave up their nomadic life and settled into village communities. The people of Yusufzai live separated from the rest of the world by mountains and difficult rivers and it is hard to find them. They marry among themselves.
Today they are devout Muslims but have Hebrew names, wear the fringes which only Jews and Japanese Shinto priests wear, light candles for the Sabbath on Friday night which only Jews do (The Sabbath is from the sunset of Friday until the night of Saturday). They also have the custom called peyot (side-curls) which is to have curled hair of about 10 centimeters long in front of both ears. This is a custom which only Jews have and which may very well be of the Lost Tribes of Israel.


Pathans As the Descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel


In Afghanistan and Pakistan, there also live people called Pathans numbering about 15 million. They live mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as in Persia and India. Most of them are Muslims but they have a tradition of being of the Lost Tribes and have Israeli customs.
According to a book written by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, the Pathans have custom of circumcision on the 8th day. This is a known Jewish custom, and is the oldest Jewish tradition. Rabbi Tokayer once told me that he had witnessed and been present at a very joyous circumcision ceremony on the 8th day after birth among the Pathans. Muslims have custom of circumcision but it is not on the 8th day, usually at the age of 12.
The Pathans have a sort of small Tallit called Kafan. This is a 4 cornered garment which they tie strings similar to the fringes (Jews call them Tzitzit) and is one of the oldest Jewish traditions going back to the Torah and it is a sign of their Israeli origin.
The Pathans have custom of the Sabbath, Israeli tradition of the day of rest. On the Sabbath they do not labor, cook or bake. The Pathans prepare 12 Hallot (traditional Jewish bread, Leviticus 24:5) in honor of the Sabbath as was done in the ancient Israeli temple. One of the significant indicators proving the Israeli origins of the Pathans is the lighting of the candle to honor the Sabbath. After lighting, the candle is covered usually by a large basket. The candle is lit by a woman past her menopause. This is the same as Israeli custom.
Pathans have custom of Kosher, diatary laws same as Jews. Pathans do not eat horse or camel meat, which is most common in their area but forbidden to Jews. There is some evidence to their not eating meat and milk together which is also an ancient Israeli tradition. And they have a tradition regarding differentiating between pure and impure birds which means permitted and not permitted birds similar to the Torah.
Some still wear a small box which Jews call Tefillin (phylactery) containing a verse of the Bible. This box resemble Japanese Tokin of Yamabushi's forehead, too, which I will mention later. This is an ancient custom of Israel. In the Jewish box there is the verse of Shema Israel, that is, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!" (Deuteronomy 6:4) This custom of Tefillin came from a verse of the Scriptures, "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8).
It is interesting to note that the Pathans retain family names of the Lost Tribes such as Asher, Gad, Naphtali, Reuben and Manasseh and Ephraim. Among them there are people who are called by these names, which are of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. There are also people who are called Israel, Samuel, and so on, which are never found among the Muslims.
The Pathans were mostly called "Bani-Israel" meaning children of Israel even though they live today as devout Muslims.
The legal system which is known as Pashtunwali, the law of the Pashtu, is very similar to the Torah, which is the holiest Jewish book and the book of ancient Jewish way of life. There are pages and even complete books among the pathans and they honor greatly what is called Tavrad El Sharif (the Torah of Moses), and they rise at the mention of the name of Moses even though it is not important in Islam.
Besides the oral tradition related by the elders of the tribe, there are also interesting testimonies of keeping of scrolls of genealogy among the tribes, reaching back to the Fathers of the Jewish nation. These scrolls are well preserved and some are written in gold on the skins of a doe.
No less interesting and significant are the names of the tribes which bear close resemblance to the Tribes of Israel. The Rabbani Tribe is really Reuben, the Shinware Tribe is Simeon, the Lewani Tribe is Levi, The Daftani Tribe is Naphtali, and the Jaji Tribe is Gad, and the Ashuri Tribe is Asher, The Yusefsai Tribe is children of Joseph, and the Afridi Tribe is really Ephraim. These are the names of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
The Pathans themselves point out the differences between the original names of the tribes and their present names are because of the different dialects of the languages so that, for instance, Jaji was actually called Gaji for the tribe of Gad.
Women of the Pathans keep laws similar to the Jewish laws regarding menstruation. During this time and for 7 days after, no contact is allowed with the husband. After this period, the woman immerses in a river or spring or in a bathhouse if a natural spring is not available. This is exactly the same as the Israeli tradition going back to the days of the Bible.



The Lost Tribes of Israel Who Came to Kashmir


Leaving Afghanistan and Pakistan where the Pathans live, when one goes east, it is the State of Kashmir in northern part of India which is west of Nepal.
There are 5 to 7 million people there. Generally speaking, they have clearer complexions and are different from the other citizens of India. An Interesting tradition is passed down among the Kashmiri people regarding their ancestry from the Lost Tribes of Israel.
The people in Kashmir perform a feast called Pasca in Spring, when they adjust the difference of days between the lunar calendar and solar calendar and the way of this adjustment is the same as Jewish. Several books are published on this. The Udu language which is used in Kashmir includes many words of Hebrew.
In Kashmir, various places are called with Israeli names, like Har Nevo, Beit Peor, Pisga, Heshubon. These are all the names in the land of the Ten Tribes of Israel.
The same thing is true in the names of people, male names, female names, and names of village. For example, one of the tribes of Kashmir is called Asheriya which is Asher, the tribe of Dand is Dan, Gadha is Gad, Lavi is Levi. The Tribe of Shaul is the Hebrew name of King Saul. Musa is Moses, Suliamanish is Solomon. And you also have the tribe of Israel, the tribe of Abri which is the tribe of Hebrew, and the tribe of Kahana which is the word for Jewish priest.
There are also 50-75 names of places in Kashmir which are in fact the Hebrew names that ancient Israelites were very familiar with. There is a place called Samaryah which is Samaria. Mamre is Mamre, Pishgah is Pisgah, Nabudaal is Mt. Nevo, Bushan is Bashan, Gilgit is Gilgal, Heshba is Heshbon, Amunah is Amon, Gochan is Goshen, Median-pura is Midian, and Guzana is Gozan which is a place name in Assyria and the very place where the Ten Tribes of Israel were deported.
The name Israel is very common among them as it is among the Pathans, and this name is never used among the Muslims.
The history of the Kashmiris is shrouded in mystery as is the history of other people in that region. Most Kashmir researchers are of the opinion that many inhabitants of Kashmir are descendants of the Lost Tribes who were exiled in 722 B.C.E.. They wandered along the Silk Road into the countries of the East, Persia and Afghanistan until they reached the Kashmir valley and settled there.
The priest Kitro in his book, the General History of the Mughal Empire, said that the Kashmir people are the descendants of the Israelites. The priest Monstrat said that in the time of Vasco da Gama in the 15th century, "all the inhabitants of this area who have been living here since ancient times can trace their ancestry, according to their race and customs, to the ancient Israelites. their features, their general physical appearance, their clothing, their ways of conducting business, all show that they are similar to the ancient Israelites."
Among Kashmiri people there are customs to light a candle for the Sabbath, have sidelocks, beards, and emblem or design of the Shield of David (Star of David) just like Jews do.
In an area which is on the border of Pakistan, called Yusmarg (Handwara), there lives a group which to this very day calls itself B'nei Israel meaning children of Israel. Many of the inhabitants of Kashmir say that this is the ancient name of all the people of Kashmir. The two primary historians of Kashmir, Mulla Nadiri, who wrote The History of Kashmir and Mulla Ahmad who wrote Events of Kashmir have established without a trace of doubt that the origins of the Kashmiri people are to be found in the people of Israel.
In Kashmir there is a strange legend which says that Jesus did not die on the cross but in his search for the Ten Tribes reached the Kashmir valley and lived there until his death. They even point to his grave in Kashmir.
This is very much like a legend which exists in Japan (Herai village, present Shingou village in Aomori prefecture), where they also have the legend that Jesus came to Japan and died there. They even point to his grave. It seems that sometimes the legend of coming of Jesus and his tomb is born where the Ten Tribes are said to come.
In Kashmir, there is another strange tradition of a small community next to the Wallar Link who point out the grave of Moses. There is yet another tradition in connection with King Solomon according to which even King Solomon reached the Kashmir Valley and through his wisdom aided the people of Kashmir by successfully regulating the Jalum river. This tradition is also connected to a place called Solomon's throne which is situated above the capital of Kashmir, Srinagar. Isn't it strange and fascinating that there are historical and even folkloristic tales of ancient Israeli heroes in these strange and exotic places?
These also strangely resemble the legends of Japan. There is so called the grave of Moses on Mt. Houdatsu in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, and also a legend says that many secret treasures of Solomon are kept in Mt. Tsurugi in Shikoku, Japan. What is this phenomenon?


The Lost Tribes of Israel Who Came to India and Myanmar,


In the mountainous region which lies on both sides of the border between India and Myanmar (former Burma), lives the Menashe (Shinlung) tribe which numbers between 1-2 million people. They intermarried with the Chinese and look Chinese-Burmas, but the entire tribe is conscious of their Israeli ancestry.
Recently, Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail, who is the president of Amishav, an organization in Jerusalem for the search of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, went to Myanmar and investigated the Menashe tribe.



Menashe people with Rabbi Avichail (right)


The word Menashe appears often in their poetry and prayer. It is the name of their ancestor and they call themselves children of Menashe (Beni Menashe). When they pray, they say, "Oh, God of Menashe," which is from the name Manasseh, a tribe of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
According to the history which Menashe people say, they were exiled to Assyria in 722 B.C.E. with other Tribes of Israel. Assyria was later conquered by Babylon (607 B.C.E.), which was later conquered by Persia (457 B.C.E.), which was later conquered by Greece of Alexander the Great (331 B.C.E.), when the people of Menashe were deported from Persia to Afghanistan and other places.
There Menashe tribe became shepherds and Idol worshipers. They were later conquered by Islam and forced to convert to Islam. Because of their speaking Hebrew they were called the Semitic speakers. Throughout this entire period they possessed a Hebrew Torah scroll which they guarded with their elders and their priest.
Among them there were those who left Afghanistan and migrated eastward until they reached the area of the Tibetan-Chinese border. From there they continued into China following the Wei River until they reach the central China, near Kaifeng. They settled there at about 231 B.C.E..
But the Chinese were cruel to them and made them as slaves. Some of them escaped and lived in caves in the mountainous areas called Shinlung, which became another name for the tribe of Menashe. They are also called the cave people or the mountain people.
Menashe people lived in caves in poverty for about two generations but they still kept the Torah scroll with them. But they started to assimilate and have Chinese influences. Later they were banished from their cave area and went west through Thailand and eventually reached the area in Myanmar.
There they wandered along the river until they reached Mandaley. From there they reached the Chin Mountains. In the 18th century a part of them migrated to Manipur and Mizoram which are in northeastern India. Generally, they maintained the tradition about their wandering and they realized that they were not Chinese even though they spoke the local language.
They call them themselves Lusi which means the Ten Tribe ("Lu" means tribes, and "si" means ten).
According to the history which Menashe people state, when they were banished from their cave area they lost their Torah scroll when or perhaps it was stolen or burnt by the Chinese. But the priests of the tribe of Menashe continued to hand down their tradition orally including their ritual observances until the 19th century.
They had kept the custom of circumcision, which when it became difficult was no longer practiced but they blessed the child in a special ceremony on the 8th day. They also had holy days which were very similar to the Jewish days.
The following poem accompanied them throughout their migrations. It is a traditional song about the crossing of the Red Sea which was written by their ancestors. This is the English translation:


We must keep the Passover feast
Because we crossed the Red Sea by dry land
At night we crossed with a fire
And By day with a cloud
Enemies pursued us with chariots
And the sea swallowed them up
And used them as food for the fish
And when we were thirsty
We received water from the rock


This content is similar to the experience of Israelites written in Exodus. The people of Menashe call their God Y'wa, which is the same as Biblical God's name Yah, or Yahweh.
In every village they had a priest whose name was always Aaron, the brother of Moses and the first Jewish priest. One of his duties was to watch over the village.
The priest wore a tunic and a breastplate and an embroidered coat fastened with a belt and a crown on his head. And they always sang about Menashe at the beginning of each gathering.
Rabbi Tokayer says that he met this group in the jungles of Burma in 1963 or 1964 and he can describe their offerings and sacrifices as exactly the same as was offered in the Bible.
Recently a return to Judaism began. Several thousand people of Menashe decided to observe the laws of the Torah and returned to Judaism. They have synagogues in Manipur, Assam, and Mizoram. There are also those who emigrated to Israel. Thousands long for returning to Israel.


The Lost Tribes of Israel Who Came to China


In the mountainous area of northwest China, west of the Min River, near the border of Tibet, in Szechuan lives an ancient people called by the Chinese, Chiang or Chiang-Min, who numbers about 250 thousand people.
In 1937, a book was published entitled, China's First Missionaries, subtitled, Ancient Israelites, by Rev. Thomas Torrance, who was a missionary in this area of China and was the first to write about this tribe and what he believed to be their ancient roots of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
According to the reports by Torrance, he believed that the customs, rituals, modes of thought, domestic and religious practices of the Israelites who were the contemporaries of Amos, Hosea and Elijah, were found within the Chiang people of northwestern China. Torrance was basically very impressed with the simple monotheism of this people in China in an area where the term God was not even known.
The language of the Chiang tribe had been forgotten and they had also lost their ancient script. Today they speak Chinese.
They themselves see themselves as immigrants from the west who reached this area after a journey of three years three months. The Chinese treated them as Barbarians, while Chiang people related to the Chinese as idol worshipers.



Chiang Min people (Photo: Thomas Torrance in 1920's)


Hate and enmity existed between the Chinese and this tribe for a long time. They lived independently until the middle of the 18th century when they became part of the general population to earn more freedom. The religious pressure from the Chinese, the spread of Christianity, and the influence of intermarriage caused the Chiang tribe to generally and greatly give up their special monotheistic way of life.
However it is still possible even today to learn about the past traditions of the Chiang tribe through their customs and their faith which they still keep. This tribe had been living a special Israeli way of life since the time of B.C.E..
According to their tradition, the Chiang tribe is the descendant of Abraham and their forefather had 12 sons. Those among them who did not take Chinese wives after their victory in war still look Semitic.
They believe in one God whom they call Abachi meaning the father of heaven, or Mabichu, the spirit of heaven, or also Tian, heaven. As a result of Chinese influences they all call Him God of the mountains as the mountains are the central place for worship of God.
Their concept of God is that of an all powerful God who watches over the entire world, judges the world fairly, rewards the righteous, and punishes the wicked. This God gives them the opportunity to do repentance and to gain atonement for their actions. In times of trouble, they call God in the name of "Yawei", the same as Yahweh.
They also believe in spirits and demons and they are forbidden to worship them, but this is probably a Chinese influence. In the past they had written scrolls of parchment and also books but today they only have oral traditions. They themselves do not understand the prayers that they recite every week.
The Chiang tribe lives a very special way of life based on the offering of animal sacrifices which seems to have been seen among the Ten Tribes of Israel. It is forbidden to worship statues or foreign gods and anyone who offers a sacrifice to another god faces the death penalty.
These priests wear clean white clothes and perform the sacrifices in a state of purity as the priests in ancient Israel did (1 Samuel 15:27). I recall that Japanese Shinto priests also wear clean white clothes at holy events.



A priest of Chiang Min tribe (Photo: Torrance in 1920's)


The priest of the Chiang tribe wears a special head turban. The priest is ordained in a special ceremony in which sacrifices are also offered. Unmarried men may not be a priest, which was the same in ancient Israel (Leviticus 21:7, 13).
The altar itself is built of earth which is molded into stones which are then laid one on top of the other without being cut of fashioned by any tool of metal. It is important to remember that in the Torah, the ancient altar could not be made of cut stones (Exodus 20:25), since the sword or whatever tool to be used to cut the stone was also an instrument of war and harm.
The main part of the service is performed at night perhaps to conceal it from other Chinese or because of the special effect of the silence and the tranquility of night. This was also ancient Israeli tradition. It is interesting that the important rituals of Japanese Shinto religion are also performed at night.
Before the offering of sacrifices, one is required to wash one's self and one's clothing and to dress in clean garments. Sacrificial animals themselves must be washed and purified. There is a special place for purification and washing. The elders and priest place their hands on the head of the sacrifice which is to be slaughtered then offer their prayers.
Circumcision is not performed. It seems to have obsoleted. But after the 7th day or at the eve of the 40th day of the child's life, a white rooster is slaughtered in the child's honor and he is given a name.


Ancient Jewish Communities in Kaifeng, China


As I mentioned before, Menashe people once went to the region near Kaifeng, China. The Jewish community in Kaifeng is most famous as the very ancient one which had existed since the time of B.C.E..
Kaifeng was the former capital for several dynasties in China. The Jews there did not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, which is a custom of Israelites, and their religion was called by the name meaning this.
There are still a few thousand Jews in Kaifeng. They had maintained some Jewish tradition. In Kaifeng they had a synagogue. They intermarried with the Chinese and look Chinese.
We can trace the history of Israelites in China to very ancient times. According to a stone monument in Kaifeng, Israelites already came to Kaifeng in 231 B.C.E.. Many Israelites or Jews lived in parts of China even before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E..


The Lost Tribes of Israel Went East Along the Silk Road


I have mentioned above about the people of the Yusufzai and the Pathans in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the people of Kashmir, the Menashe tribe in India and Myanmar, and the Chiang (Chiang-Min) tribe in China. These places are all along the Silk Road. Are these all where they went?
Otherwise, were there any other people who went further east along the Silk Road?
Where is the destination of the Silk Road? Japan. Did the Ten Tribes of Israel come to Japan?
If the Ten Tribes came to China, we must say that there is a strong possibility that they came to Japan also, for next to China is Japan. But someone may think, "There is a sea between China and Japan, which makes it difficult to get to Japan."
However, it was not a big problem for the Israelites. Scholars say that Israelites already traded in the time of King Solomon (the 10th century B.C.E.) with India and other countries of the Mediterranean Sea with a fleet of ships (see 1 Kings 10:22, Some of the words are from Sanskrit). Israelites knew well about ships even in the times before the country of Japan started.
The Silk Road was actually Silk Roads because there were several roads on the land and the sea already in the time of B.C.E. The Israelites were experienced people for getting across the ocean.


To be continued to:
Chapter 3 - Did the Lost Tribes of Israel Come To Ancient Japan?


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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Charlie Sheen and 9/11 (Sheen has Jesuit links though which I don't agree with)

From http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/charlie_sheen.htm


 


 


Charlie Sheen is Right About 911!


by David J. Stewart | March 2006
 



Charlie Sheen: 'Challenge Me On the Facts'I'm thankful that actor, Charlie Sheen, has come forward to speak out against the obvious 911 cover-ups.  It couldn't be more obvious that the American people have been greatly deceived and lied to by The White House Administration, and many of their supporters.  There are many unanswered questions surrounding the malicious attacks on 911; but, the most disturbing thing is the UNQUESTIONED ANSWERS which our government has tried to sell us.


The fact that Henry Kissinger was initially chosen by the United Nations to head up the 911 commission is enough damnable evidence in itself to suspect foul play.  Due to public outcry against the decision, Kissinger removed himself.  Since 911, the 911 commission has done nothing but try to whitewash and hide the truth from the public.  There are hundreds of pieces of circumstantial and solid evidence against the George W. Bush Administration, and many others, that they not only had PRIOR knowledge to 911, but they helped orchestrate 911.
 


The Murder of John O' Neill to Cover-up 911


The news media has been completely silent about the unbelievably strange death of former FBI Deputy Director John O' Neill.  It was O'Neill who made the following statement...



"Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi Arabian. The Saudi ruling family has been a major source of funding for terrorists. Both the Clinton and Bush administration impeded FBI investigations into Saudi Arabia. No President has ever had such a close relation with a foreign government as the Bushes have with Saudi Arabia. More than $1.4 billion in investments and contracts went from the House of Saud over the past two decades to companies associated with the Bush family.


As John O'Neill, the FBI's former top bin Laden investigator, said shortly before his death in the World Trade Center, "all the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization can be found in Saudi Arabia." O'Neill also said that America's failure to stop bin Laden could be traced to one word - oil." -SOURCE


Photo to left: The Honorable former FBI Deputy Director John O' Neill


It was because of treasonous acts by officials in Washington that the Honorable John O' Neill resigned his position as FBI Deputy Director.  He refused to be a part of what he saw coming to fruition; but, he didn't know exactly what it was.  When George W. Bush signed Presidential Directive Order w199i blocking the FBI from investigating the suspect terrorists, Mr. O'Neill wanted to wash his hands of the matter.   His "buddies" in Washington pulled some strings and got him a sweet job (so he thought) as Security Director of the Trade Towers in New York.  Guess the date of Mr. O'Neill's first day on the new job?  It was September 09, 2001 ... 911!!!  As planned, John O'Neill was killed (murdered) in the 911 attacksJohn O'Neill was murdered because he was an honest man, a threat to the thugs who had him assassinated.  Yet, you'll never hear about this on FOX News!  The news media purposely slaps Bush's hand on smaller issues, such as open borders, while the big crimes are never mentioned.  Open borders are the least of our problems in America compared to the crimes being committed by Washington officials.  I speak as a concerned U.S. citizen, as a tax-payer, and as a true Christian.


John O'Neill was MURDERED on 911 because the conspirators behind 911 were afraid he WOULD talk, and I know that he would have.  You can't keep an upright man quiet, he will speak the truth.  Don't be deceived by all the propaganda lies about Bin Laden, he's just a show piece (someone to blame).  If you want to identify the culprits behind 911, then look no further than The White House.  Mr. Bush signed presidential directive W199i blocking every investigation into the terrorist's activities.  George W. Bush unbelievably just sat there in Florida on the morning of 911 after being informed that America was under attack. 


"...For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." -Romans 16:18



This is what John O' Neill Feared was Coming!  And they killed him to make sure he didn't talk!
 


People are in Denial


ANY legitimate president would have stormed out of that room!  George Bush just sat there, aimlessly staring like nothing had happened.  Some morons actually believe that Bush sat there to emphasize the importance of education.  No my friend, president Bush KNEW exactly what was going to happen.  FEMA was already in place in New York on the night before 911, setting up camp.  U.S. troops were already sitting on the Afghanistan border before 911.  Several top government officials were warned not to fly on the morning of 911.  The FBI was even performing "mock" terrorist attack drills on the morning of 911.  CNN reported that NO plane ever hit the pentagon.  World Trade Center building # 7 was imploded to the ground on the afternoon of 911...just one block north of buildings 1 and 2 that were detonated.  No plane ever hit building # 7.  Read more.


The American people are afraid to know the truth.  Worse, they fear being rejected and labeled by their friends and family as a "conspiracy nut" if they dare ask questions about 911.  Oh how foolish we are as Americans to be silent and allow these injustices and atrocities to continue.  Wake up thou sluggard...


"How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?" -Proverb 6:9


I heard this on Fox News the other day...



"How could any sane person believe that our government would attack it's own people?" -Fox News, quoting a viewer.


What is so hard about believing that our own government would betray us?  Read about the Northwood Documents, where members of our own government suggested shooting an American commercial jetliner out of the sky, blowing up a ship, etc.  Read about our government deliberately feeding radioactive cereal to kids for experimentation.  How about the CIA and drugs.  How about poor black people being injected with deadly radiation in the 1970's.  How about the Communism of Martin Luther King Jr., and how the government continually praises him as a great American; when in reality, King was part of a conspiracy to subvert America.  No Communist should ever be recognized as a great American!  I'm all for civil rights, but not when immoral things such as abortion and homosexuality are falsely labeled as civil rights.  Being a citizen of the United States does not give anyone the right to sin.  In fact, the respectable Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney said in February of 2006 that a "Criminal Syndicate" is running the U.S.  She is so right!  And so is Charlie Sheen!  Where are America's churches?  I'm not endorsing Charlie Sheen, and I deplore Hollywood; BUT, the man is taking a stand against one of the most crucial issues to America's freedom--what really happened on 911?  Just as when Anita Bryant stood against homosexuality, America's churches are no where to be found.  People in in denial. 


History has often proven that government's do betray their own citizens.  When the Berlin wall came down, historians rushed in and learned that Hitler burned the Reichstag to the ground to create a pretext for war.  Titus did the same thing by setting fire to buildings all over Rome to justify his persecution of the Christians.  In Acts 6:11, some evil people bribed certain men to speak falsely against Stephen, and he was stoned to death as a result.  Why would some idiot ask Fox News how any SANE person could believe that out government would actually attack it's own people?  The answer is obvious ... our government isn't OUR government anymore! 


Here are several shocking articles which you need to carefully read, and then investigate further...



There is so much SOLID evidence indicting the Bush Administration's prior knowledge and key role in orchestrating 911.  This stuff gets even crazier.  Remember the London bombings in July of 2005?  Well, they were exercising the same mock wargames in London at the time of the attacks.  And guess who was in London near the attacks ... Rudolph Giuliani!!!  Here's more on the London attacksWhat was behind the London attacks?  A chilling coincidence?  The truth is surely stranger than fiction.