Was Yeshua (Jesus) a Pharisee?

Nehemia Gordon writes: “A recent review of my book The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus claims that Yeshua did in fact support the “god-given” authority of the Pharisees who sit in the Seat of Moses. One of the main claims in the review was that Yeshua upheld the Pharisee Oral Law. This is a common argument put forward by Oral Law-believing Messianics.”

Read the Full Article here: Was Yeshua a Pharisee?

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Were the 10-Tribes of Israel ever really “LOST”? (Part-1)

The Song of Moshe (Moses) indicates that 10-Israel would ultimately be forgotten to history because they neglected and forgot the Rock, the El, that delivered and preserved them in former times.

Deuteronomy 32:26 “I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;”

During a conversation with Moshe, יהוה gets angry with Israel and threatens to blot out their name from history, but then decides against it.

Deuteronomy 9:24 “Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’”

Many hundreds of years later, the patience of יהוה runs out and He accomplishes the threats mentioned to Moshe previously. He allowed the Assyrians to bring a devastating end to the Northern Kingdom of Israel and over the next 2700 years, the 10 Tribes of Israel become commonly known as “the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel”. Yet, even though the Prophet Hosea indicates the Northern Kingdom would cease to be “a people”, they are promised to become a great multitude and promised to be remembered again as “the People of El” in the Latter (Last) Days. Read it for yourself:

Hosea 1:9-11:
(9)And יהוה said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your El.”
(10)Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place where it is said to them, “You are not My people,” it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living El.”
(11)And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and they will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.”

Hosea 2:23 “I will sow her for Myself in the land, and I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion,
And I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ and they will say, ‘You are my El!’”

Apparently Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) also considered 10-Israel to be “lost” at the beginning of the First Century CE:

Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.”

Mark 10:5-6 These twelve Yeshua sent out after instructing them: “Do not go in the way of the gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; (6) but rather go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.“

Most Christians who read the above verses perceive this “lost” state as something just figurative or spiritual, without considering the possibility that the House of 10-Israel was both spiritually and physically “lost”. Those ignorant of the Two House reality of course think of just the Jews (the Southern Kingdom of Jew-dah). Yet, an interesting study is this: To what regions or peoples did the Disciples of Yeshua go to in the years following his death and resurrection? They followed his orders and went to lands inhabited by the scattered and lost sheep of 10-Tribe Israel. Yet this begs the question: How could 10-Israel be “lost” if the disciples knew where to go to find them? One could argue they knew the general directions or general peoples of scattered Israel. They were certainly not “lost” to the Great Shepherd, Messiah Yeshua, but most of their populations likely did become lost to themselves. The disciples were the fishermen prophesied in Jeremiah 16:16 and Yeshua said he was going to “make them fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).

Note: as shown by the Prophet Hosea earlier, “the peoples” of the dispersal aren’t to be remembered as “Israelite” or “the People of El”, but Flavius Josephus indicated they dwelt in the regions of Scythia, Saka-India, Media, Persia, Parthia, etc… regions apparently known to the disciples. For more details and references, see “Fate of the Apostles” on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library website.

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“Hebrew Yeshua vs Greek Jesus” by Nehemiah Gordon

This is a rather long video. But it gives profound insights into the “Oral Torah” of the House of Judah (Jew-dah) and makes an attempt to reconcile Matthew 15 with Matthew 23, where Yeshua seems to both condone and then reject the “traditions of the elders”… that is: commandments added to what יהוה instructed Moshe (Moses).

Nehemia Gordon’s book by the same title is also something I highly recommend. It can be purchased here. Even so, the video is more entertaining.

If the video freezes at any point, you can drag the slider forward and backward to cause Google to reinitialize the video. Seems to be a buffering problem for some people.

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Using the DNA of Saka-related peoples to find the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel

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Genetics and Ancient History (especially Parthian-Saka-Scythian history) are extremely complicated and riddled with speculation and assumption on almost every level. Even so, the two fields of study are quickly becoming synergistic allies in the search and discovery of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.

Parthian-Saka-Scythic-related peoples are by far the most probable candidates for being descendant of those 10-Tribes of Israel scattered and deported by the Assyrian Empire between 740-722BCE. The list of reasons is too long to innumerate fully here, yet a short list of the thought pattern is provided below:

There is no doubt the founder of these peoples was a founder of a “multitude of nations”. The mysterious question is: Who was this Founder? We believe he wore a “Coat of Many Colors”!

This thought pattern is outlined in greater detail in Israelite and Noahic Haplogroup (DNA) Hypotheses.

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Forbidden Archeology: Question the Establishment and lose your Job

My interest in the following short videos is largely in the display of how the “Scientific Establishment” filters (or covers up) evidence that breaks from its so-called “consensus”. In the 6 part series of videos, you won’t hear the reliability of Radio-metric dating questioned, you won’t hear how exponential human population growth discredits the old-human paradigm, and you won’t hear the Biblical Great Flood account mentioned at all. Even so, you will see in perfect clarity how the scientific community frequently fails to consider evidence outside their predominant pet (and I would say, “religious”) theories.

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Considering the global catastrophe of the Great Flood of Noah’s day and considering the advanced peoples that lived before the Flood would answer many of the questions raised by the previous videos… and yet… that specific catastrophe goes strangely unmentioned.

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