Judaism was the bastardized faith created during the quiet years by the Pharisees.
>On John the Baptist being the last of the line of Aaron, very well researched and thought out. Which I will look more into. I thank you for what you’ve posted.
And, yes, I agree on the difference between “Hebraism” and “Judaism.” I think the author of the book of “Hebrews,” with all that is taught there, would agree with what you have here.
I do wonder, however, why you haven’t said more about the “bastardized faith by the Pharisees.” Surely you must know that beimg bastardized. it has also been “paganized?”
I refer to the “Babylonian” Talmud, and Kabbalah, the latter an occultic brew of pagan mysticism and magic, conjured up by the Pharisees after the fall of Jerusalem, 70AD. Now being passed off under the name of “Judaism.”
Which neither John the Baptist, nor Jesus, taught.
Because my focus was to show that John was the Last True High Priest.
More can be said about the way the bastardized faith by the Pharisees.
But doing it here would have distracted from my subject matter.
Maybe I will do a commentary on it sometime, because I do agree with you.
OH, and if I do, I would also probably tie in how the Roman Catholic Church parallels with Judaism in the way they twisted things.
Basically, the Roman Catholic Church recreated the Sanhedrin and the Priesthood, only they did it for Christianity.
I would start a huge argument though, and that is something I must truly pray over so I can do it truthfully and in a delicate way.
Who knows. If the Holy Spirit leads me I will.
Mind you, I did not set out to write what I wrote. I started with a short post of a thought on FaceBook, and as I was finalizing it, it ballooned into what I posted here.
That happens to me a lot. A simple comment I write will turn into a 5 page commentary that I write when the Holy Spirit leads me.
Tye Babylonian Talmud was the written down Oral Torah of the Pharisees.
Rabbinical Judaism is the reimagined Pharisees sect of 2nd temple Judaism.
Christianity is the other surviving sect of 2nd temple Judaism
Clement of Alexandria taught that the bestowal of the six blessings necessitated the end of biblical Judaism within the seventy weeks (9:24). He referred to the Temple’s destruction in the language of Daniel’s weeks. He wrote, “Vespasian rose to the supreme power and destroyed Jerusalem, and desolated the holy place” (STO, XXI, 142–143).
Origen (185–254 A.D.) was a student of Clement of Alexandria. It seems quite certain that he agreed with his teacher that the terminus ad quem of the seventieth week was the destruction of the Temple. “The weeks of years up to the time of Christ the leader that Daniel the prophet predicted were fulfilled” (TPR, IV:1:5).