Posted on 05/26/2020 7:15:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m guessing that Swedish Jews didn’t get the Rothschild memo. Their economy’s still open.
A drunk guy staggered off the casino floor into the bar, set down a couple of shoeboxes with holes punched into them and bound with string, and asked the bartender for a drink.
The bartender replied, “you look like you’re in no shape for more alcohol.”
The drunk guy said, “wow, that’s hard to hear. Tell you what — if I show you a trick you’ve never seen before, you’ll *give* me a free drink.”
The bartender said, “try me, there is no trick I’ve never seen, this is Las Vegas!”
The drunk guy pulled the string off one of the boxes, pulled out a burly bright green parrot, took him to the bar’s piano, set him on the keys, and stepped away. The parrot cracked his knuckles and proceeded to hammer out the best boogie woogie anyone present had ever heard.
“Wow! Here’s your free drink!” the bartender said.
The drunk guy nursed that drink for at least a half hour, finally finishing it, and wanting another.
“No, I think you’ve had enough.”
“Hey, if I show you another trick, an even better one...”
The bartender scoffed — “if you can show me a better trick than that one, you can drink the rest of the night for free!”
The drunk guy opened the second box. Inside there was a white rat. The drunk put the rat on a stool next to the piano, adjusted the mike stand, and the rat got up on his hind legs, be-boppin’ and scattin’ his way through a series of old standards. The crowd grew, the tip jar overflowed, and the bartender started serving the drunk guy drink after drink.
As the night wore on, a talent agent wandered in to check out the music. He couldn’t believe his eyes! He went to the bartender and demanded to know, “who owns this act?!?” The bartender pointed to the drunk guy, now passed out on the floor.
The agent picked up the drunk and shook and slapped him to bring him around. “I have to buy this act from you! How much? How much?”
“They’re not for sale, but I’ll sell you the rat for $50,000!”
“I’ll take it!” The agent produced $50,000, in cash, from his hidden money belt, picked up the white rat, stuck him in the box, tied it up, and left with less money and a bill of sale signed by the drunk guy and witnessed by the bartender.
The bartender said, “it’s none of my business, but you’re out of your mind, breaking up a million dollar act for a measly fifty grand!”
The drunk guy just shook his head.
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“Relax. The parrot is a ventriloquist.”
For me, the most pertinent line was:"Antisemitism is the spirit of Antichrist. It is demonic."
Regardless of origin, it describes Antisemitism perfectly.
He came to fulfill the Jewish covenant and grafted in the Gentile believers. Almost from the start, the pagan Gentiles rejected Jewish teaching, and the Jews wanted to stay separate from the Gentiles. The church Jesus started with the Apostles would have resembled more of the Messianic synagogue today. Constantine of Rome was the person that rejected all Jewish things so the pagans would feel more welcome. He even made an edict to abandon all Jewish things or suffer excommunication.
If Christians would study the Jewish history, culture, and laws, so much more of the Scriptures would be explained.
Just as an example, The day that no man knows the day or the hour is explained in the Feasts days of Leviticus 23, but most Christians don't study it. Christians will say you are a false prophet if you say you know, but the Feasts of Trumpets is even called the "day no one knows the day or the hour". In fact it's 2 days and can only start when the new moon is sighted over Jerusalem. 2 witnesses must see the sliver of the new moon and announce it to the High Priest before the day can be declared. It's the only Feast that starts on the New Moon. The rest are in the middle of the month.
When a Christian reads that no man can know the day or the hour, they think that means no man can possibly know. It's like me saying "I will call you next Turkey day". A non American may not know what "Turkey Day means". When a Jew talks about "after the fast" in Acts 27:9, he is saying After the Feast of Atonement. John 10:22 says Jesus was at the Feast of Dedication in the winter. That is Hanukkah.
I've found so much new information and corrected misconceptions I was taught earlier, I have completely rearranged my thinking about Scripture. Most Christians know they have been "adopted" but they don't know what that means. We have to become "Spiritual Israel" to have an inheritance from God the Father. When Jacob was acting "Carnally", God called him Jacob. But when he was fulfilling his Spiritual role, God called him Israel. Re learning the Old Testament from a Jewish point of view helps to learn the New Testament and what Jesus was teaching us. A lot of things we just pass over have such a deeper meaning than we can possibly get unless we look at it from a Jewish point of view. Many Jews have missed their Messiah, but Christians have missed the Law and the Prophets. Look up "The King is in the field" and the month of Elul. That is the month before Tishri. At some Feast of Trumpets in the future, the church will be Raptured. That is the only time the "Last Trump is blown!
1Th 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.
1Th 5:2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
The Jews are expected to know and to watch for His coming. The times and seasons are always speaking of the Feast Days in Leviticus 23. If God tell you to watch therefore, when are you going to watch? In Elul, we repent, for 30 days and prepare as a wise virgin to go with Him. A Jew will repent for 40 days to get to Tishri 10, Atonement. Jesus died on Passover, was buried on Unleavened Bread, rose from the grave on First Fruits, and the Holy Spirit was given on Pentecost. Why would God change His "M.O." and make the Rapture a mystery? Each Elul, we should be fasting, praying and repenting, getting ready for Tishri 1&2. If we don't go, then do it again next year. To think Jesus will come for His Bride on some day He didn't tell her is not the character of God. He always tells the Prophets before He does something. Atonement, or Judgement Day is 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, but if the time weren't shortened to 7 days (years), no flesh would remain. Then Tabernacles will start with Jesus living with us on earth, ruling and reigning for a thousand years with an iron rod. Notice there was nothing about Easter and Christmas mentioned in Leviticus 23. They are pagan days that come from antisemitism. Ezekiel 8 calls them abominations.
I teach Bible study from my home and have had several preachers attend and comment that they were able to learn things they weren't taught in seminary.
One of the things I learned early on was about antisemitism. Thinking Jewish things don't matter anymore, is a form of Antisemitism because it will ALWAYS matter, even to the Last Days. If a Jew hasn't accepted Jesus as Messiah, that is an individual thing, But Israel is the prophetic time clock of God even if no one believes. God came first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles, so Jews always understand Scripture better then Gentiles reading a translation of Hebrew. Many translations have mistakes in them, some changing the meaning completely! Genesis 4:26 is one. At the time of Enosh, men began to "call upon the name of the Lord". It should read, "men began to defile or profane (Strong's H2490) the name of the Lord. There are millions of Christians that preach "the sons of Seth are the Son's of God spoken of in Genesis 6:1. A Jew knows they were fallen angels. Hating Jews and Israel means you hate your brothers and the "Promised Land". That's not good.
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