An Open Letter to Texe Marrs

 Cephas Ministries

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February 9, 2005

 
Texe Marrs Power of Prophecy
1798 Patterson Road
Austin, Texas 78733

An Open Letter To Texe Marrs

Dear Texe Marrs,

This is my first attempt to communicate with you although I have known your voice for many years by listening to your productions. I link to your websites and always admired your fervor and straightforward talk.

Believe me this brings tears to my eyes, because you and some other dedicated Christians brought me through some very difficult years. I was raised in Germany under the Nazi regime no less and came to the U.S. right after WWII being a U.S. citizen by birth.

I was a bit worried at times when your newsletters came into my post office box with swastikas and unseemly characters wondering what people would be thinking, me getting such mail. My whole neighborhood was on my case calling me a Nazi behind my back, I found out later.

One of my neighbors had her family gassed in the holocaust and had good reason to hate Germans
like myself, after all I should have known, I was eleven years old when all that happened in another country outside of Germany hidden away deep in the woods. Germans did not know until the American soldiers discovered it.

To become part of the American mainstream my family and I joined the Mormon Church and I was an active temple Mormon and stayed for 20 years, blind as a bat to the truth. When I retired from state government in Colorado I wanted to go on a mission to Europe but my husband refused to go. In my frustration I went to God and told Him to use me anyway he wanted in a ministry possibly about Scientology. I had some understanding about that organization and felt someone should be bringing that action to the attention of the public.

As you well know, few want to do this kind of work and God had no choice but to let me out of the
cage of Mormonism. He led me to some books in a Bible bookstore about Mormonism and my life
exploded.

The Holy Spirit convicted me of the truth and I had to chose right there, heaven or hell. In my heart I had met God a long time ago because coming through six years of war, bombs flying every day and then coming across the ocean alone at 16 years of age to total strangers, was impossible to do without faith in God.

Well, six months later I was out of Mormonism and found myself confronted with an X Mormon ministry that nobody wanted to run anymore. I already had the Cephas name from a previous venture. The former Mormons taught what Mormonism is all about and I was mortified to say the least. Mormons don't teach the members that because they would run off. They teach Christianity and all else is a secret.

Unbeknownst to you, with your and a lot of other ministries' help my walk began. Through newsletters I grew in knowledge and understanding by ordering tapes and videos and learned what the devil is up to. On the other hand God had me in the Word of God studying it in depth and I grew in understanding.

To make sure I wasn't making a mistake leaving Mormonism I studied their history and everything that was available about Mormonism. Of course I was totally convinced that I would never go back. The courage to stand alone in this field came from teachers like yourself and Ed Decker, Dave Hunt, John Ankerberg, Hank Hanegraaff in the early years and others.

I went to conferences to learn about Freemasonry and all the other cults that are out there. For a while we went through a number of congregations only to find that their messages were canned and repetitive.

Now twelve years down the road in discernment ministry stumbling along, falling, getting back up and standing strong and falling etc. etc., as you well know over the last ten years many devilish waves have come and gone through Christian churches like the Pentecostalism, Charismatic, Word Faith, Positive Confession, Holy Ghost Bartender, etc.. all had an influence on the traditional denominations. Today the denominational church is on its knees bowing to Satan doing his bidding.

In 2003 my husband George quietly slipped out of his body to be with the Lord due to cancer. I was sunk for a corporate officer. None of my family members nor friends wanted to put their name on the ministry. God led me to Nicholas A Stivers .

I have full confidence that he will follow in your footsteps as well, only much more skilled in his deliverance than I am. God generously gifted him with intelligence and fervor to preach the Gospel. I will be discussing the dilemma of the Jews further along in the letter. I'm attaching research Nicholas did for a Catholic in which he discovered why the Jews were in such a dilemma in Europe. It certainly wasn't God but the jealousy Gentiles held for the Jews.

God specifically targeted the Jews to inherit. That is what motivated all the hatred. Gentiles should be grateful to Jews that they misbehaved because it gave Gentiles an opening to participate as well. Sadly enough, this hatred from Gentiles is turning many Jews off that might have been candidates for salvation.

We too have a problem with the Alliance to Zionism but it has nothing to do with that issue. We have a problem with Christians who get sucked into being used by the politicians to do their bidding, joining in creating world wide business ventures and fighting wars to get it done in the name of democracy. Not only do Christians become responsible for murders, receiving millions of dollars that are used for social issues
rather than the Gospel, like building hospitals, schools, infra structures, etc. world wide and political propaganda where they lose their identity and are now submerged in the war between republicans and democrats causing family feuds.

You see it is all about bringing the church down. Making it go away because it is the cause of all wars and destruction according to the young atheist authors. They advise that Faith people should all be shot or locked up. Take the label off completely and we will have peace is the message now. Guess what: Yesterday they recommended Yoga exercises for school children and workers on breaks in the daily news and offered that it not be called 'Yoga Meditation' but simply relaxing because they have found that that is very effective.

The new purpose driven movement is really doing a number on the church and people are beginning to put two and two together and are leaving the churches and causing division in families. You know what God does to us when we disobey.

It happened to me when I stepped into Mormonism. God allows us to become deluded so we can't find our way out of a paper bag and I mean it. I could not figure out what the problem was in the Mormon Church. I knew there was one but couldn't get to the bottom of it. They seemed so together in the way
they ran the church that in my mind it had to be of God. I never saw one Mormon disagree with the leadership. Like robots, they said 'yes' to everything because the issues were for the common good.

I'm in shock how these powerful evangelists that I listened to for years and enjoyed can be running the broad road and now I'm doubly shocked to find discernment ministries losing it. I found out that Watchman Fellowship who was also a big help in my learning process went the way of Billy Graham and has lured all but a few under his wings and made them sign off on ecumenism. He called on me a number of times but I refused to bow to this system.

Some months ago I began hearing that you have turned a corner and are condemning all Jews to hell
without exception. At first I didn't want to admit it to myself, I thought maybe there was something that you just didn't bring up to assure us that you were still on the same path we are. I'm always on overload with work because Cephas Ministry is a very busy place. I did my hard copy newsletter Christmas for the whole year and I did Scripture studies for each month with you in mind. I wanted to verify if I had it right because in my mind teaching the way you do, it couldn't be that you didn't have it right. It had to be me.

I was planning to share this information with you then. The result was that my memory was serving me correctly. The Rapture is still there and happens simultaneously with the Day of the Lord. Jesus will call the Church out of here before the Tribulation. The WORD OF GOD, THE BRIDE AND THE BRIDGEGROOM will be gone. There will be complete spiritual darkness. When Jesus physically comes back to the Mount of Olives to reveal to the Jews that He is the same whom they crucified, they will recognize him by the scars they inflicted. Jesus wishes to be in all glory and His glory will be increased to the max due to the darkness. It will blind the soldiers involved in Armageddon and they will not be able to see who they kill and go at each other.

Jesus cannot be considered a warmonger ever. God is Love, Jesus is Love and the Holy Spirit is Love. They don't teach war or hatred. God found a beautiful way of taking care of His problem with humanity since He is determined to get a human family. He dedicated His most prized possession, a second human being who did not betray Him as the first one did and became God's first truly permanent eternal human Son.

God now had a way of begetting more children because Jesus told us how to become God's Children. By allowing the Holy Spirit to come into us just like He came into Mary is how we become God's family.

Many Christians believe that simply by doing the prayer of salvation, the Holy Spirit is in them. Well I did the prayer many times before I landed in the Mormon Church and had I truly received the Holy Spirit that would not have happened. What I lacked was the Word of God in my head. I had not studied the Word is why I couldn't see what was wrong.

Obviously we see a major problem today with that kind of Christianity. It is not doing what one would expect from a truly born again Christianity. They obviously are not obedient to the WORD. Their Shepherd who should be their only shepherd never became their shepherd or they would be able to discern where their leaders are taking them.

An evangelist called me from England. You always come up in our conversations sooner or later and I shared what I had heard about your ministry from many to see what his opinion was and he reassured me that it was misunderstood and to stop worrying about it. I did until my December newsletter online was published and I advertised your videos 'Zionism and Christianity: Unholy Alliance' and 'Why the Middle East Bleeds'.

Well a Jewish woman came undone. She was very upset and let me know it. How dare you advertise this in your ministry? She wanted it off the shelf, which got my gander up because we still have the freedom to put in a bookstore whatever and I take full advantage of that because I truly appreciate that freedom after the Nazi Regime experience.

Well I told her that I would do some further research and confessed that I was wondering myself what had
happened to you. One thing about the Holy Spirit, His timing is His signature. I had just been to the post office and here was your last newsletter. Well, nothing could have been clearer than what you laid out in front of me on paper. I had to admit that they were all reading correctly. I was rationalizing like I had in Mormonism I didn't want to give you up. You were one of my pillars that stood strong for me and kept me standing. I am going to attach my written Scripture study to this letter and I hope you will take a look at it and think it through.

I think what happened to you are some videos about the Kabbalah and the German Propaganda. I believe the videos did a number on you. The young man who produced them is just in the early thirties on fire for God. His wife left him. I do believe the Kabbalah videos did a number on you. They made you angry
and the devil walked in on that anger and is breaking down your ministry. Just about everybody knows you who goes to church and they are all worried about you. I know you have had a lot of mail about it too.

You said so in your last newsletter and on your tape. I was an admirer of Walter Martin and still am, but the same thing happened to him and a number of other discernment ministries. They ultimately went to post tribulation. Cephas Ministry has had many attacks about being Scriptural which means that we believe in a pre tribulation Rapture because it is in the Bible. These stories that are running around the Internet about is Post tribulation is being pushed by Jews because they want us to be there when all hell breaks lose. The church to them is protection but the problem is that the Tribulation is solely about the Jews, to get them to their knees and repent which isn't going to happen. Jerusalem is the city on seven hills. God plans to save a remnant in the latter part of the Tribulation by replacing their flesh hearts which are scarred from lying and irretrievable.

God plans to pore a double portion of rain (anointing) on the remnant, biblically it is the early and latter rain
in one shot, to retrieve them and even plans to remarry the prostitute because He promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations. Abraham was a Gentile until God chose him due to his obedience to God, to be the father of Israel and all Israeli males had to be circumcised. That was the mark that they belonged to God.

Due to Mormonism and mandatory genealogy research, I did a lot of research. From chapter 3, of my unpublished book: 'Prove Me The Lord Says' by Rita Williams (1994) titled 'Underneath Are His Everlasting Arms' describes my Jewish experiences. After WWII when occupation by Russians, English and American troops took place their discoveries were made public. In the meantime the military occupation had discovered the (supposedly) original audiotapes of the holocaust occurrences and presented them over the radio to the general German public. It was the final straw for me. They described
that they were using human skin to make lampshades in the prisons and told one gory story after
another.

I wanted to leave Germany and never see that country again. This horrible discovery about human beings could only result in an indescribable trauma to a young person of fifteen. It had suicidal effects on me and created fear of mankind, which submerged eventually into the recesses of my mind. Those memories had to become a closed book for all concerned to go on living.

The disappointment in patriotic young people who were drilled for years to love their leader was deep. I don't know to this day what my parents knew. The closed doors were between parents and their children. They never discussed it later either. I only know that I had no idea until it was broadcast over the radio after the war. Many years later I discovered I had a Jewish grandmother, fourth generation, and the only reason we did not get caught was one letter was removed from her maiden name, which hid her Jewish ancestry.

In going back into my family history, I found my family very involved in protecting Jews. It began during the sixteen hundreds. A mayor of Luebeck, Germany purchased an estate named Moisling. A Danish king
insisted that the mayor protect this estate permanently for Jews. Albrecht Schroeder in 1984 wrote the following book `Wegweiser durch die Geschichte der Juden in Moisling and Luebeck'. He put the history together in his book. In the sixteen hundreds Jews came from Portugal, Poland, Russia and Hamburg, Germany to Luebeck looking for protection. Luebeck is a port on the East Sea, a free city in Schleswig Holstein.

The connection to Jews with Luebeck's city council dates back to 1350. The population in Luebeck blamed Jews for the Black Plague that killed thousands of inhabitants of Luebeck. People had large families up to eighteen children to get a few through. Whole families passed away and many of the dead were leaders in city council positions. Their death created major problems. The Jews were in dire need of immunity. Forced out of various surrounding countries, the citizenry allowed them to settle on the outskirts.
Johann von Moisling was the original owner of the Moisling Estate in the 13 hundreds. Ownership went to a knight von Ossenbruegge who participated in the holdings of the Catholic Holy Ghost Hospital in Luebeck. In 1440 ownership came into my family line to knight von Darsow. Gotthard von Hoeveln, another ancestor, took over in 1648. He allowed the Jews to settle in the Moisling Estate against the will of Germans in surrounding areas in 1665. The estate continuously under attack by Luebeck's citizenry did not slow the flow of Jews from other parts of the world because there was protection developing from Denmark.

In the meantime, the ownership of Moisling transferred to Gottschalk von Wickede, a direct ancestor who asked for asylum for the Jews who had permission to settle at Moisling. In 1686 Danish King Christian V sanctioned the bid to authorize Jews to live at Moisling under the protection of King Christian V. They also received the right to build their own Synagoge.

In 1641 the nobleman Gottschalk applied for freedom of trade between the Jews and the Germans and the mayor granted permission. Animosity between citizenry and Jews persisted. The Jews who tried to live in Luebeck proper had to return to the Moisling Estate. It came under the jurisdiction of Danish King Christian VI in 1661. The Germans could not compete with Jewish craftsmanship. The city council of Luebeck forced to start monitoring Jews made passports available to them to trade in Luebeck. In the 17
hundreds after much pleading they dropped the passports but only for a short time.

The Jews still did not have full citizenship in Luebeck in the 18 hundreds. In 1811 under French occupation all brotherhood agreements liquidated, gave the Jews access to all cities of Schleswig Holstein, although the struggle over Moisling continued. The estate had remained in the family, except a few years. Another family member Mattheus Rodde in 1788 considered to be the richest person in Luebeck, assumed administration of the Moisling estate. Although he made lease payments many months in advance, Moisling was continuously under attack from the city council of Luebeck. Eventually the supervision of the estate transferred under duress back to the city council of Luebeck. Rodde left the estate and resigned from the city council. That particular family name died out but other parts of that family still exist including myself.

The importance of the last family `Rodde' involved with Moisling became apparent in a coin collection. Several coins, coined in 1717 with the Rodde family crest and another with a bust of Rodde, on one side and Luebeck's crest on the other side are part of the collection. The good soil of the estate was exceptionally productive. Moisling played a major role economically and politically. During Napoleon's occupation Moisling dissipated by the French Marshall Bernadotte setting up his quarters on the estate. Bankruptcy took place.

The fields wasted and the meadows became swamps. An old brewery perished. Mathaeus Rodde had invested a lot of money but all was lost. The Jews remained at Moisling through the nineteen hundreds. The last administrator of the estate was again a member of my line named Langbehn. The oldest grave at
the Moisling cemetery dates back to 1720. Estate Moisling was among the casualties of World War
II as was most of Luebeck. Because Luebeck was a world trade center and highly esteemed, much
money flowed through the citizenry.

The city became a Catholic focal point for a host of beautiful Cathedrals. Many damaged Cathedrals are restored to perfection except one. It commemorates what all the Cathedrals had suffered through. The Danish King Christian V banished from his throne and Denmark over the Jews, lays in his grave with his Queen in one of the Cathedrals in memory of his love for them. The main house of Moisling was torn down in 1970 and there stands now a Library among other city buildings. As a memorial there is also a `House for All'.

The Moisling cemetery is still proof of the colorful history that happened in this area. Oddly enough, many involved in protecting the Jews were of nobility and knighted. They belonged to `Zirkel Companies', linking them into Freemasonry. In checking the International's Freimaurer Lexikon the Zirkel Companies originated from Rosicrucian Orders.

The sheer horror of the Holocaust seeks the obvious question: Why? Satan knows scripture better than the top Bible scholars. He knows that his time is getting very short. He also knows that the Jews are still the central actors in God's End Time drama.

God's final judgment will not take place according to scripture unless there are Jews in the world and they are in possession of Jerusalem in Israel. As many others, I agree with the following theory: that the principality of satanic origin sparked the Holocaust in effort to keep biblical prophecies from coming true!

Hitler's mad plan was to kill all the Jews. He planned to conquer the world. Satan would have won his eternal battle because the `End Time' prophecies could not come true. Adolf Hitler was his agent in this crime, and his memoirs of the `final solution' in eschatological terms prove a remarkable knowledge of Scripture. Hitler's crimes and cruelties were inconceivable to the human mind. During the last half of this destructive and most disruptive of all wars Hitler became very cruel. When he knew he could no longer win the war, he wanted to drag millions of lives with him into hopeless defeat and death. In his years of warlord Hitler never expressed any sympathy or regret for the people, German or otherwise, who had suffered and died.

The lost lives, the smashed bodies and the human tragedies did not exist for him. In the end, nothing existed except his demands, his intentions, his decisions and his megalomania. He acted with extraordinary deliberation.

On May 30, 1942, three years before he died, he: "I do not doubt a single second that we shall win in the end. Fate has not led me this far for nothing, from an unknown soldier to the Fuehrer of the German Army. The gods love those of whom they ask the impossible and who ask the impossible of them. I may not be a light of the church, a puppeteer, but deep down I am a pious man, and believe that whoever fights bravely in defense of the natural laws framed by God and never capitulates will never be deserted by the Lawgiver, but will in the end receive the blessings of Providence."

On October 27, 1942, `Commando Order' issued calling for the `slaughtering to the last man of all enemies on commando missions in Europe or Africa'. Hitler owed a few of his political successes to women, and had offered a host of different explanations for his celibate state. He did not marry Eva Brown until the very last day of his life.

It was later discovered by Mormon genealogists that he was already married which was not public information. When his career had begun to decline in 1944, forced to change his mind, he said: "The fact is that we are weak creatures and that there is a creative power. To deny it would be sheer stupidity." Little had remained of the young firebrand determined to destroy the church with dynamite, convinced that `thinking' man could master the whole world. Hitler had contempt for the `educated'. Hitler knew so much about the organization, arms and leadership. He understood equipment of every army and navy on earth.

It was hard to fault him." His own Field marshal plotted Hitler's overthrow that failed. Hitler, Goebbels and others from his inner circle committed suicide in 1945. He stripped Goering of all his honors stating: "I expel former Reichs-Marshal Hermann Goering from the party and withdraw from him all the rights that were conferred upon him by the decree of June 29, 1941. Goering committed suicide in 1946. Another partner in crime addressed by Hitler was Himmler: "Before my death, I expel the former Reichsfuhrer of the SS and the Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler from the party and his state offices. Martin Bormann, Dr. Goebbels and others have prepared to die with me. They will remain as close to me after my death as I hope my spirit will continue to dwell among them and accompany them always."

A claim that love and loyalty to his people had guided all his thoughts and actions was as characteristic of Hitler as his monumental self-delusion and the assertion that no mortal before him had dealt with such
weighty decisions. Not even at the very end of his life did he feel the slightest sense of personal responsibility for the collapse of the insane plans he had drawn up twenty years earlier. In contrast to what he had said in `Mein Kampf', he had become convinced that `mental race is tougher and more lasting than natural race'. He called it a `sad demonstration of the victory of the spirit over the flesh'.

His view of the German master race had changed since Landsberg: `Lacking the elite we needed,' he confessed on February 14, 1945, `we had to make do with what human material we found. The result shows it.' Adolf Hitler died in the concrete bunker buried under the Reichschancellory garden in Berlin. Hitler killed himself about 3:30 p.m. on April 30, 1945. The man who was born Easter Eve, on Buddha's birthday and died on the afternoon of Walpargis Night, the annual festival of satanism! A Soviet enlisted man named Dmitrivich Churekov stumbled unto a small crater near the bunker entrance. He spotted a gray army blanket sticking out of a rubble-filled crater, so he began digging.

He soon discovered the half-charred remains of Eva Braun-Hitler and Adolf Hitler (This is one account of his remains). On September 27, 1991 war criminal Klaus Barbie died of cancer in Lyon at 77. His
final comment: "What is there to regret? I am proud to have been a commanding officer of the best military outfit in the Third Reich, and if I had to be born a thousand times again, I would be a thousand times what I have been." Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the Army, executed at Nuremberg in 1946, noted in prison: "I cannot recall being so divided in my feelings towards any other man as I was towards Hitler. My emotions ranged from reverence and admiration to hatred.

In summary by the comment Hitler made when he called it a `sad demonstration of the victory of spirit over flesh', he admitted himself to be an occultist. He believed that he could develop the god-man (spirit man) without God by artificial means. This same concept is taught in Freemasonry, New Age teachings, occult teachings, eastern religions and Mormonism.

Regeneration is God's choice and comes solely through repentance of sin and the acceptance of Jesus Christ being God in the flesh, believing in only One God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost as one triune God. Hitler rejected Him by making himself the `I AM' god. He accepted the temptation that Jesus rejected in Matthew: "Matthew 4:8-9 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. " Matthew 4:8-9

Satan uses scripture to build his power structures and as in other cults, it allows men to become gods for a short season only to be destroyed forever. He wishes to do that with every Christian, but especially those who have the potential of bringing people to the truth. Hitler had that potential. He could have brought 66 million people to Christ...

The Jews were having their problems. There were no fewer than ten pretended `messiahs'. These Jewish claimants gathered many of followers with promises of physical redemption and deliverance. Disappointment, sorrow, and sometimes-total destruction followed. The Brit Hadasha (New Covenant) mentioned three of the false messiahs. Theudas boasted himself to be a `savior', and he attracted about 400 people. Opponents killed him and scattered his followers. Then Judas of Galilee arose, probably contesting the Roman registration for taxation. He gathered a large following, but he too perished and his followers were dispersed. The third figure mentioned is `that Egyptian', who led people to follow him to
the wilderness.

Adversaries pursued his followers. They escaped and went into hiding. Outside the New Covenant records we learn of Simon of East Jordan who crowned himself king. He burned the royal house in Jericho and the homes of the rich, before dying in combat. Another messianic claimant, `the wonder working Bedouin', slain after he promised the people liberty if they would follow him to the desert. According to the historian, Josephus, aroused Jewish people wanted to wage war against the Romans in 68 - 70 C.E..

A prophecy contained in the Holy Scripture convinced them to believe that a man would arise who would rule over the whole World. A famous false Messiah, however, arose in the early second century. He was Simon Bar Kosiba.

The Jewish leadership of the time under Rabbi Akibah proclaimed him Messiah. He changed his name, which can mean `son of a liar', to Bar Kochba. It means `son of a star.' In support of his messiahship, they applied to him a prophecy out of the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament: `There shall arise a kochav (star) out of Jacob'. Bar Kochba sought to overthrow the yoke of Roman rule and regain independence for the nation. A Talmudic passage describes both his military seal and his arrogance: "There was Bar [Kochba] who had an army of 200,000 men. He had a finger cut off each of his men to show their prowess and fearlessness. When he went out to war he said: `Master of the Universe, do not help us and do not help our enemies'.

There was great confidence that Bar Kochba would succeed; in fact Jewish coins were minted with
the inscription `year one' and `year two' of the freedom of Jerusalem." By 135 C.E., however, the Romans crushed the campaign. This campaign caused tens of thousands slain and a large part of the Jewish Community to be driven out of Jerusalem. Enemies of this movement took thousands of Jews captive and sold them into slavery by forcing them into slave ships and many died. The Roman rulers changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. They hoped to wipe out its spiritual significance for the Jewry. To remind the Jews, they engraved the figure of a swine on the marble gate that led to Betlechem (Bethlehem). In spite of the immense disaster brought on by Bar-Kochba, claimants to the office of messiah continued to appear in Jewish history. Probably the most prominent false messiah who came after Bar Kochba was the 17th century Turkish Jew, Shabbetai Zevi. He proclaimed himself to be the messiah, and traveled
widely to Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and other places. He attracted rabbis, scholars and common people, and concocted a strange mixture of teachings and bizarre customs, based on kabbalism, and in part on a manic depressive psychosis.

When finally arrested by the Turkish authorities and given the choice between death or converting to Islam, Zevi chose Islam. His followers, however, continued to explain his conversion in a way favorable to his claims to messiahship. Shabbateanism survived to the 18th century. Though there are today no official claimants, hassidic Jews (as in the Chabad movement) often look to their Chief Rabbi as a possible messiah. A revered leader of Jewish sect died on June 12, 1994 at age 92 who was believed to be the Messiah of tens of thousands of ultra Orthodox Jews. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson was a charismatic leader and his followers are hoping for his resurrection, a miracle from God to confirm that he is the long awaited messiah.

Schneerson transformed the Lubavitcher movement from an isolated sect into a major force in Judaism and is the seventh in a dynastic line of Lubavitcher `rebbes', or grand rabbis, dating to 18th century Russia. The sect has more than 1,000 education and cultural centers around the globe. It is estimated that he had up to a million followers. Although he never made any claim on divinity, many came to believe him to be immortal and to be the one who would bring an era of peace, prosperity and heaven on earth. Why did these false messiahs attract many Jewish people? No doubt it is normal for an oppressed people to seek to throw off the yoke of oppression and to long for liberation from foreign bondage.

Moses showed the people what a `Redeemer' could do and how few people could escape the grasp of a powerful nation. The wars of the Maccabees also proved that a minority with God can be victorious over a heathen majority. They believed: `with God all things are possible.' The Jewish people related their
oppression to national sin.

The Babylonian captivity resulted in a rejection of sinful idol worship in Israel. A partial and spiritual restoration followed. The Maccabees sought a purge of nonreligious Jews. Again a partial restoration followed. The more the people believed they were faithful to the Torah; the more intolerable and impossible became the thought of heathens ruling over them. They believed that if they resisted under a messiah, like Hezekiah and Judah Maccabee, God would vindicate them and give them victory.

Most of the false messiahs also appealed to the Torah and to immorality of paying taxes. They said that it was not right to pay taxes to Caesar, since they used some of the money to support heathen temple worship. This appealed to the masses, especially the economically depressed among them. Jewish leaders during the first century, also deduced from Scripture that the time of the Messiah was near. However,
the false messiahs did not have the characteristics of the Messiah of Scripture.

They did not seek to prove their messiahship by their lineage, but by the power of the sword. They appealed to physical deliverance. The Old Testament prophesied that the Messiah was to have proof of his
descent from King David. He was to bring peace and a kingdom that was eternal. The inner spiritual person yearned for redemption, and the time seemed right. Yet all have sinned, and "there is no righteous person who does good and sins not." To cleanse the people, the priesthood offered animal sacrifices (korban) daily in the Jerusalem Temple.

These sacrifices alone were not enough. The prophets had already pointed that out in their messages. The
people were offering sacrifices without sincerity. Even with these sacrifices there was still the longing for the Messiah in the hearts and hopes of the people. The prophets also foresaw that God would provide a special korban and kohen g'dol (High Priest) who had done no violence, "neither was there any deceit in His mouth." Of this one, the prophet goes on to say, "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Isaiah 53:10-12 Only such a pure and perfect sacrifice was acceptable to God for atonement. Yeshua (Jesus), the Nazarene, was different from the others. Yeshua performed verifiable miracles; neither did He come in his own name but came in the name of his Father in heaven. He did not appeal only to the Jewish people, but attracted many Gentiles as well. While He was aware of the wickedness of Roman rule, He took the Roman denarius and pointed out there should be no concern with Roman money that bears the image of the heathen Caesar by a truly spiritual person. The main concern should be `to give to God what is God's.' He saw his own people in sin, and his call, therefore, was first for his own to "repent, for the kingdom of God is near." He declared that "except you repent, you shall all... perish."

Josephus the historian who was living during the early first century said: "In those days was Yeshua, a wise man, if we can call him man. He did miracles... He attracted many of the Jews and Greeks. He was
Messiah." Today in 1994, the struggle for the Jews in Israel is about retaining the inheritance of their land according to God's mandate in the Scriptures though their government has different goals. Israeli government wishes to participate in the global strategy for worldwide commerce and peace and has relinquished God's holy ground. There is more of that to come to get an apparent peace in the Middle East.

The leadership wishes to give Palestinians the West Bank in compliance with peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Developments in the Middle East are an indication that time is getting short. Peace treaties are being signed and point to the major seven-year peace treaty predicted in the Gospel. The incident in the West Bank was the first time soldiers physically evacuated settlers since September, 1993 Israel-PLO accord promising Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza strip and the West-Bank town of Jericho. The group
behind the settlement, `This is Our Land,' opposes any form of Palestinian sovereignty. `Tonight we start here, and we will continue until the government falls,' said spokesman Shmuel Seket as soldiers led him away. The group of extremists advocates evicting Palestinians from occupied lands. The mainstream settler's group, the Settler's Council, denies it. By June 1994, Palestinians had taken over the West Bank and their leader spoke of a Holy War and assured people that he means to occupy Jerusalem. Scripture written has this to say: "This is what the LORD Almighty says: `You who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were there when the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD Almighty, let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built. Before that time there were no wages for man or beast.

No one could go about his business safely because of his enemy, for I had turned every man against his
neighbour. But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,' declares the LORD Almighty. `The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people. As you have been an object of cursing among the nations, O Judah and Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.' This is what the LORD Almighty says: `Just as I had determined to bring disaster upon you and showed no pity when your fathers angered me,' says the LORD Almighty,' so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.

These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; `do not plot evil against your neighbour, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,' declares the LORD. Again the word of the LORD Almighty came to me.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. "And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD. "And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and
cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you." Zechariah 8:9-23

Anybody who studies the Old Testament gets upset at the Jews and how they treated God. But what God was trying to reveal to us was our human nature. They were Gentiles with a scar on their penis to remind them every time they took their penis out that they were God's people. God proved that believers can't become believers by being born to certain families. The circumcisions were the only difference between Jews and Gentiles. All humans carry this rebellious spirit because of Adam and the only way around it is to submit to God. God's anger and hurt is certainly contagious.

We wish to defend God and God was so gracious in Christ Jesus. He forgave all sinful behavior including the Jew's. If we represent God, we must run there. We can't participate in spreading hatred. That isn't what God had in mind when He sent Jesus Christ His only begotten Son. God wants to beget more sons instead they are driven away with hatred for Jews. After all Jesus is a Jew, a Hebrew. We are to preach the good news to Jews first and then to Gentiles.

The Jewish dilemma changed when the United States was founded in the 1776. The U.S. became a haven for Jews because of the Constitution was written for them. My personal belief is that the United States was the most successful country ever created because it opened its arms to the Jews and protected them once and for all.

I worked with a group of Jews in Miami when Jerusalem was calling them back to Israel. Although they had not even visited Jerusalem it pulled on them like magnet to go back and many did. God gave Jews special talents that nobody could compete with because he wanted them to preach the Gospel to the world which didn’t happen. They used these talents serving Mammon (money) instead. Money is the root of all evil. Money is what causes major ministries to derail.

Orphaned at a very young age, poverty is what motivated Hitler to become the most talked about politician ever. Money also inspired the Catholic Church leaders to install all the lies that are running around in Catholicism.

See Nicholas’ report about the effect of Catholicism on the Jews. Texe Marrs, the flock Jesus has gathered is small and you are one of the pillars of God’s Tabernacle if you come back to the road that few will find. Your ministry is falling apart even while we are having this discussion. People are informed today due to Internet. Things get around like wild fire. We, Nicholas and I, humbly pray for the Lord to inspire you to get back to the Word and teach the truth for your ministry's sake. They need your strong witness to remain for them to help them maintain. There are too few left.

May the Lord bless you with a continued hunger for the Biblical truth as we share His love for you,

Rita Williams (p)
Attachment from Nicholas A Stivers are additional historical facts about Israel.

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