Post by Linda LeePost by EliyahuBs'd
Shalom dear readers,
Hereby I want to tell you about the one true God, and give you
shocking facts and data that has been suppressed by the Christian
church for 2000 years. This was done by, amongst other things, burning
Bible translators on the stake, mass burnings of Bible translations
and corrupting Bible translations.
https://sites.google.com/site/777mountzion/12
Please send this message to every Christian & messianic Jew you know
and/or post it on every messageboard you can find. One way of loving
God is making Him known amongst the nations. One way of loving your
fellow man is revealing the falsehood he has been exposed to.
Eliyahu
"Introduction.
For almost 2000 years the Jewish people have not recognized the New
Testament, although all those who contributed to the New Testament
were Jewish. All the writers of the New Testament were Jewish, but
nevertheless the Jewish people reject that which 1,000,000,000 people
consider to be the word of G.d."
So if Yahashua`/Jesus and his apostles and early disciples were simply
Jews just like yourself, as you appear to be saying, are you claiming
that the Jews in the first century did not condemn Yahashua`/Jesus and
his apostles and early disciples as blasphemers because he called
himself the Son of God, and did not condemn Yahashua` the Messiah to
be put to death by the Romans, nor imprisoned and beat the apostles
after Yahashua`'s death? It seems to me that modern-day Jews are more
like the Pharisees and Sadducees who rejected and condemned them than
you are like the Messiah, his apostles, and his disciples.
Bs'd
Your messiah was a false messiah who didn't fulfiill the messianic
prophecies. Who wants to be like a false messiah and his followers?
Post by Linda Lee"The Old Testament can without any problem stand on his own, without
the New Testament."
If that is so, then all the prophesies of the OT concerning the
Messiah have not ever been fulfilled, so are you saying all those
prophesies were false?
Of course they are not false. It is just that they have not been
fulfilled yet. The messiah has not come yet.
Post by Linda LeeHow can the OT "stand on his own" without the
fulfillment of its prophesies of the Messiah in the NT?
There is no fulfilment of OT prophecies in the NT. That is just lies
and rubbish. The messiah hasn't come yet, so those prophecies have
not yet been fulfilled.
Post by Linda Lee Where is your
proof those prophesies will EVER be fulfilled if Yahashua` was not the
embodiment of the prophesied Messiah? The OT cannot stand alone.
The messianic prophecies are NOT fulfilled by JC.
Here are a few examples from my homepage here: https://sites.google.com/site/777mountzion/12
Micha 5:2-9; "But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among
the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of
old, from everlasting. Therefore will he give them up, until the time
that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his
brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. And he shall stand
and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of
the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for NOW shall he be great unto
the ends of the earth. And this man shall be the peace, when the
Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our
palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight
principal men. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the
sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he
deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when
he treadeth within our borders. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in
the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon
the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of
many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion
among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down,
and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be
lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut
off."
Here we have very clearly physical redemption from earthly enemies:
"And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword", "Thine hand
shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall
be cut off." These are very clear verses that can not be
misinterpreted; when the messiah comes the Jewish enemies are going to
be slaughtered. And the one coming forth from Bethlehem is to be a
ruler in Israel, that is a king, or maybe nowadays a president, but
not a wandering preacher and miracle healer.
Zacheriah 9:9-10; "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,
and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and
the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he
shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea
even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth."
They say that he did ride on a donkey, like the whole Middle East in
those days, but that is where it stops. He did not bring any peace,
the battle bow, the horses and the chariots, symbols of war, were not
cut off from Jerusalem, and his dominion was not from sea to sea and
to the ends of the earth; as a matter of fact, he did not have any
dominion at all.
In order to get around this problem, the Christian church invented the
"second coming". However, nowhere in the Hebrew scriptures is it
written that the messiah would come once, get himself killed, and come
again in a second coming. This is a pure rationalization of Jesus'
failure to function in any way as a messiah. Nowhere in any of the
above prophecies does it indicate that there will be a gap of at least
2000 years between the birth of the messiah and the redemption.
Nowhere does it speak about a messiah being tortured to death and
coming back thousands of years later.
Jeremiah 23:5-6; "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and
prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his
days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is
his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
Jeremiah 33:14-16: "IN THOSE DAYS AND AT THAT TIME, will I cause
the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall
execute judgment and righteousness in the land. IN THOSE DAYS shall
Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name
wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness."
When the branch of righteousness springs forth to David, when the
messiah comes, THEN, IN THOSE DAYS, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem
shall dwell safely. That means that it is impossible to squeeze in two
thousand or more years between the coming of the messiah and the
redemption of Judah and Jerusalem. Out goes the 'second coming'.
However, there wasn't any redemption in the days of Jesus. Forty years
after his death, in 70 CE, Jerusalem was totally destroyed by the
Romans, the second Temple was burned down, and the Jews exiled. No way
that the above prophecy was fulfilled.
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Isaiah 11; "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the
LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither
reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he
judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and
he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the
breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall
be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of
Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."
Also here we have a messiah who is going to kill the evil people: "And
he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the
breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." And after that we get
the better world, when it says: "The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and
the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them etc." This is what is supposed to happen, as soon as there shall
come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse (the father of King David)
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots; that is as soon as the
messiah comes. Nowhere here is mentioned that the messiah will be
killed and that these prophecies will happen at least 2000 years
later. On the contrary; when the messiah comes redemption comes. And
also for this messianic prophecy you don't have to be a brain surgeon
or a rocket scientist in order to see that it is not fulfilled.
Nothing of this all was done by Jesus. Conclusion: He was not the
messiah.
And what proof do we have that God is going to fulfill those
prophecies in the future?
God has fulfilled already so many of them, I have faith he will also
fulfill the last ones about the messiah.
See how God is fulfilling the prophecies about bringing the Jews back
to Israel.
He did fulfill the prophecies about exiling them, and many others.
Here is something about why the OT is divinely inspired:
I believe that the Hebrew Bible is inspired by God, but with an
declining grade of inspiration.
The Torah, the five books of Moses, have the highest grade of
inspiration. After those come the prophetic books, with a lower grade
of inspiration, and after those come the "writings", which are books
like Esther, Proverbs, Job, Chronicles, etc. The writings start with
the Psalms, and they have the lowest grade of inspiration.
When using simple logic, we see that the additions to the Hebrew
Bible, like the NT, are not divinely inspired, and are therefore
rejected.
The Koran, partially based on the NT, collapses together with the
NT.
But why should we believe that the Hebrew Bible is divinely inspired?
Well, maybe because half the world (that is 2 billion Christians and 1
billion Muslims) believe that it is divinely inspired? The law of
the big numbers?
Queen Victoria of England once asked her prime minister, Benjamin
Disraeli: "Give me a proof that God exists." The answer was: "The
Jews, your Majesty!"
The history of the Jews should be enough proof of divine intervention
with that people. They left an enormous mark on the history of
mankind, and are still doing so. Mark Twain wrote about that the
following:
"To conclude. - If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but
one per cent. of the human race. [the correct number is only 0,2%] It
suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the
Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is
heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet
as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly
out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to
the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music,
finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of
proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has
done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself,
and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian
rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-
stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a
vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held
their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in
twilight now, or have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was,
exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his
parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and
aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces
pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"
The whole story of Mark Twain, "Concerning the Jews" can be found
here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1898twain-jews.html
The Jewish people make up about 0.2% of the world population.
Of all the Nobel price winners is about 30% Jewish. A 150 fold over-
representation.
Of all the official world chess champions is more than 50% Jewish. A
250% over-representation. Or, put in a percentage: A 25000% over-
representation.
Somebody on a religious message board started a discussion with the
following message:
"In the Bible it is written that whoever blesses the Jews, will be
blessed by God, and that those whom curse the Jews, will be cursed
themselves.
Isn't that proven in the ancient and modern history?
When a country was good for the Jews, that country was doing well.
And when the authorities turned against the Jews, than that country
went downhill fast.
When you look in the present, then you see: America supports Israel,
en their own Jewish Americans; America is economically and military a
superpower.
Europe: Sometimes positive, mostly neutral or critical towards Israel
and the Jews: Second rate economic superpower, and military dwarf.
Moslim countries: Very hatefull towards Israel, and to Jews in
general. Economically, military and culturally very backward.
What do you think about this?
An example: In the sixteenth century the Spanish deported all the
Jews. They were welcomed by the Netherlands and in the Ottoman
Empire. Culturally en economically it went from there downhill with
the Spanish, this despite their colonial empire. The Dutch and the
Turks had from then the wind in the back."
On this I answered: The above is simply a fact.
This is also confirmed by an enormous anti-semite, the founder of the
car factories; Henry Ford. He wrote a terribly anti-semitic book,
titled: "The International Jew", and in there he confirms the above.
Here is an excerpt from that book:
"There is a curious fact to be noted in connection with the
persecution and consequent wanderings of the Jews about Europe and
that is: wherever they wandered, the center of business seemed to go
with them. When the Jews were free in Spain, there was the world's
gold center. When Spain drove out the Jews, Spain lost financial
leadership and has never regained it. Students of the economic history
of Europe have always been puzzled to discover why the center of trade
should have shifted from Spain, Portugal and Italy, up to the northern
countries of Holland, Germany, and England. They have sought for the
cause in many things, but none has proved completely explanatory.
When, however, it is known that the change was coincident with the
expulsion of the Jews from the South and their flight to the North,
when it is known that upon the Jews' arrival the northern countries
began a commercial life which has flourished until our day, the
explanation does not seem difficult. Time and again it has proved to
be the fact that when the Jews were forced to move, the center of the
world's precious metals moved with them."
That book can be found here: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
For my quote go to the end of chapter 13.
These remarkable facts are the sign which God has put in the Jewish
people.
God made a covenant with the Jewish people. About that covenant the
Jewish people said: "Everything the LORD has said, we will do and
hear". Ex 24:7.
Implied in that covenant is a blessing and a curse. When the Jews
break the covenant, the curse is poured out upon them.
When they uphold the covenant, beautifull blessings will be bestowed
upon them.
Like this it is written about the curse:
Leviticus 26:14-39: “But if you will not listen to Me and will not
perform all of these commandments, if you consider My decrees
loathsome, and if your being reject My ordinances, so as not to
perform all My commandments, so that you annul My covenant, then I
will do the same to you; I will assign upon you panic, swelling
lesions, and burning fever, which causes eyes to long and souls to
suffer; you will sow your seeds in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
I will turn My attention against you, you will be struck down before
your enemies; those who hate you will subjugate you, you will flee
with no one pursuing you.
If despite this, you do not heed me, then I shall punish you further,
seven ways for your sins. I will break the pride of your might; I will
make your heaven like iron and your land like copper. Your strength
will be spend in vain; your land will not give its produce, and the
trees of the land will not give its fruit.
If you behave casually with Me and refuse to heed Me, then I shall lay
a further blow upon you; seven ways, like your sins. I will incite the
wildlife of the field against you and it will leave you bereft of your
children, decimate your livestock, and diminish you; and your roads
will become desolate.
If despite these you will not be chastised towards Me, and you behave
casually with Me, then I too, will behave toward you with casualness;
and I will strike you, even I, seven ways for your sins. I will bring
upon you a sword, avenging the vengeance of a covenant, you will be
gathered into your cities; then I will bring pestilence among you and
you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy. When I break you
the staff of bread, ten woman will bake your bread in one oven, and
they will bring back your bread by weight; you will eat and not be
sated.
If despite this you will not heed Me, and you behave toward Me with
casualness, I will behave toward you with a fury of casualness; I will
chastise you, even I, seven ways for your sins. You will eat the flesh
of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. I will
destroy your lofty buildings and decimate your sun-idols, I will cast
your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and My Spirit will
reject you. I will lay your cities in ruin and I will make your
sanctuaries desolate; I will not savor your satisfying aromas. I will
make the land desolate; and your foes who dwell upon it will be
desolate. And you, I will scatter you among the nations, I will
unsheathe the sword after you; your land will be desolate and your
cities will be a ruin. . The survivors among you; I will bring
weakness into their hearts in the land of their foes. The sound of a
rustling leave will pursue them, they will flee as one flees the
sword, and they will fall, but without a pursuer. They will stumble
over one another as in flight from the sword, but there is no pursuer;
you will not have the power to withstand your foes. You will become
lost among the nations, the land of your foes will devour you. Because
of their iniquity, your remnant will disintegrate in the land of your
foes; and because the iniquities of there forefathers are with them as
well, they will disintegrate.”
Deuteronomy 28:15-69: “But it will be that if you do not hearken to
the voice of the Lord your G.d, to observe, to perform all His
commandments and all his decrees that I command you today, then all
these curses will come upon you and overtake you: Accursed will you be
in the city, and accursed will you be in the field. Accursed will be
your fruit basket and your kneading bowl. Accursed will be the fruit
of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your
cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats. Accursed will you be
when you go in and accursed will you be when you go out. The Lord will
send in your midst attrition, confusion, and worry, in your every
undertaking that you will do, until you are destroyed and until you
are quickly annihilated, because of the evil of your deeds, for having
forsaken Me. The Lord will attach the plague to you, until it consumes
you from upon the ground to which you are coming, to possess it. The
Lord will strike you with swelling lesions, with fever, with burning
heat, with thirst and with sword; and with wind blasts and with
withering, and they will pursue you until destruction. Your heavens
over your head will be copper and the land beneath you will be iron.
The Lord will make the rain of your land dust and dirt; from heaven it
will descend upon you until you are destroyed. The Lord will cause you
to be struck down before your enemies; on one road you will go out
against him, but on seven roads you will flee before him; and you will
be a cause of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Your carcass
will be food for every bird of the sky and for every beast of the
field and nothing will frighten them. The Lord will strike you with
the boils of Egypt, with hemorrhoids, with wet and dry boils, of which
you can not be cured. The Lord will strike you with madness and
blindness, and with confounding of the heart. You will grope at
noontime as a blind man gropes in the darkness, but you will not
succeed on your way; you will be only cheated and robbed all the days,
and there will be no savior. You will betroth a woman, but another man
will lay with her; you will built a house, but you will not dwell in
it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not redeem it. Your ox
will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat from it;
your donkey will be robbed from before you, but it will not return to
you; your flocks will be given to your enemies, and you will have no
savior. Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, and
your eyes will see and pine in vain for them all day long, but your
hand will be powerless. A nation unknown to you will devour the fruit
of your ground and all your labor, and you will be cheated and
downtrodden all the days. You will go mad from the sight of your eye
that you will see. The Lord will strike you with a foul boil, on the
knees and the legs, that cannot be cured, from the sole of your foot
to your crown. The Lord will lead you and your king whom you will set
up over yourself to a nation that you never knew, neither you nor your
forefathers, and there you will work for the gods of others, of wood
and stone. You will be a source of astonishment, a parable, and a
conversation piece, among all the peoples where the Lord will lead
you. You will take abundant seed out to the field, but you will
harvest little, for the locusts will devour it. You will plant
vineyards and work them, but you will not drink and gather in, for the
worm will eat it. You will have olive trees throughout your
boundaries, but you will not anoint with oil, for your olives will
drop. You will bear sons and daughters, but they will not be yours,
for they will go into captivity. All your trees and the fruits of your
ground, the chirping locust will impoverish. The stranger who is among
you will rise higher and higher, while you will descent lower and
lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be a
head, but you will be a tail.
All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you,
until you are destroyed, because you will not have listened to the
voice of the Lord your G.d, to observe all His commandments and
decrees that He commanded you.
They will be a sign and a wonder in you and your offspring forever,
because you did not serve the Lord your G.d amid gladness and goodness
of heart, when everything was abundant. So you will serve your enemies
that the Lord will send against you in hunger and in thirst, in
nakedness and without anything, and He will put an iron yoke on your
neck, until He destroys you. The Lord will carry against you a nation
from afar, from the end of the earth, as an eagle will swoop, a nation
whose language you will not understand, a brazen nation that will not
be respectful to the old nor gracious to the young. It will devour the
fruit of your animals, and the fruit of your ground, until you are
destroyed; it will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, offspring of
your cattle or flocks of your sheep and goats, until it causes you to
perish. It will besiege you in all your cities, until the collapse of
your high and fortified walls in which you trusted throughout your
land; it will besiege you in all your cities, in all your land which
the Lord your G.d has given you. You will eat the fruit of your womb,
the flesh of your sons and daughters, which the Lord your G.d had
given you; in the in the siege and distress that your enemies will
distress you. The man among you who is tender and very delicate will
turn selfish against his brother and the wife of his bosom, and
against the remaining children that he has let survive, not to give
even one of them of the flesh of his children that he will eat, not
leaving anything for him, in the siege and distress that your enemy
will distress you in all your cities. The tender and delicate woman
among you, who had never tried to set the sole of her foot on the
ground, because of delicacy and tenderness, will turn selfish against
the husband of her bosom, and against her son and daughter, against
the after birth that emerges from between her legs, and against the
children that she will bear; for she will eat them in secret for lack
of anything, in the siege and distress that your enemies will distress
you in your cities.
If you will not be careful to perform the words of this Torah that are
written in this Book, to fear this honored and awesome Name; Y-H-W-H
your G.d, then The Lord will make extra ordinary your blows and the
blows of your offspring; great and faithful blows, and evil and
faithful illnesses. He will bring back upon you all the sufferings of
Egypt, of which you were terrified, and they will cleave to you. Even
any illness and every blow that is not written in this Book of Torah,
the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. You will be
left few in number, instead having been like the stars of heaven in
abundance, for you will not have hearkened to the voice of the Lord
your G.d. And it will be that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to
benefit you and multiply you, so the Lord will cause them to rejoice
over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from
the ground to which you come to posses it. The Lord will scatter you
among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the
earth, and there you will work for the gods of others whom you did not
know, you or your forefathers, of wood and stone. And among those
nations you will not be tranquil, there will be no rest fore the sole
of your foot; there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, longing
of eyes, and suffering of soul. Your life will hang in the balance,
and you will be frightened night and day, and you will not be sure of
your livelihood. In the morning you will say: “Who can give back last
night!” And in the evening you will say: “Who can give back this
morning!” – because of the fright of your heart that you will fear and
the sight of your eyes that you will see. The Lord will return you to
Egypt in ships, on the road of which I said to you: “You shall never
again see it!” And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your
enemies as slaves and maidservants; but there will be no buyer. These
are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to seal
with the Children of Israel in the land of Moab,”
And like this it is written about the blessings:
Leviticus 26:1-13; “If you will follow my decrees and observe my
commandments and perform them, then I will provide your rains in their
time, and your land will give its produce and the tree of the field
will give its fruit. Your threshing will last until the vintage, and
the vintage will last until the sowing; you will eat your bread to
satiety and you will dwell securely in your land. I will provide peace
in the land, and you will lay down with none to frighten you; I will
cause wild beasts to withdraw from the land, and a sword will not
cross the land. Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of
you will pursue ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by
the sword. I will turn my attention to you, I will make you fruitful
and increase you; and I will establish My covenant with you.
You will eat very old grain and remove the old to make way for the
new. I will place My Sanctuary among you; and My Spirit will not
reject you. I will walk among you, I will be G.d unto you and you will
be a people unto Me. I am The Lord (Y-H-W-H), your G.d, Who took you
out of the land of Egypt from being their slaves; I broke the staves
of your yoke and I led you erect.”
Deuteronomy 28:1-14; “It shall be that if you hearken to the voice of
The Lord, your G.d, to observe, to perform all of His commandments
that I command you this day, then The Lord your G.d will make you
supreme over all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will
come upon you and overtake you, if you listen to the voice of The Lord
your G.d: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be
in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, and the fruit
of your ground, and the fruit of your animals; the offspring of your
cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats. Blessed shall be your
fruit basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you
come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord shall
cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before
you; on one road they will go out toward you and on seven roads they
will flee before you. The Lord will command the blessing for you in
your store houses and your every undertaking; and He will bless you in
the land that The Lord , your G.d gives you. The Lord will confirm you
for Himself as a holy people, as He swore to you; if you observe the
commandments of The Lord your G.d, and you go in His ways. Then all
the peoples of the earth will see that the name of The Lord is
proclaimed over you, and they will revere you. The Lord shall give you
bountiful goodness, in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of
your animals and the fruit of your ground, on the ground that The Lord
swore to your forefathers to give you. The Lord shall open for you His
store house of goodness, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in
its time, and to bless all your handiwork; you shall lend to many
nations, but you shall not borrow. The Lord shall place you as a head,
and not as a tail; you shall only be above, and you shall not be
below; if you hearken to the commandments of The Lord your G.d, that I
command you today, to observe and to perform; and you do not turn away
from any of the words that I command you today, right or left, to
follow gods of others, to worship them.”
These curses and these blessings are a sign in the Jewish people
forever.
And that these blessings and curses come true, time and time again in
the Jewish people, even a blind person can see that.
There is no other people in the world whose members rise time and time
again to such extreme heights, and there is no people in the world
which is time and time again so horribly persecuted as the Jews.
The non-Jews know there is something different about the Jews. That
is clear because of the abnormal fixation of the whole world on the
Jews.
That is clear because of the fact that the holy books of a small
shepherd tribe from the Middle East are considered divinely inspired
by half the world.
It is clear that the miracles which God is working in the Jews, both
in the past and in the present, are a positive proof for the existence
of the Jewish God.
And there are of course the codes which God has hidden in the Torah:
On Torah, Science, and Using Your Abilities for the Sake of Hashem.
Mr Harold Gans is a fascinating personality. An accomplished
mathematician, he spent 28 years working for the National Security
Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland. About 18 years ago, he began to
realize that he needed to use his talents to better serve the Ribono
shel Olam, and he became involved in researching and disseminating
knowledge of the Torah codes as proof of Torah min Hashamayim.
Subsequently he developed a series of lectures on Torah and science,
which he presented to varied audiences. Many have been inspired by his
lectures to learn more about Judaism and have ultimately pursued a
Torah life.
The most compelling aspect of Mr. Gans' philosophy is the message he
wishes to give Hamodia readers: Everybody has some talent that he or
she can use to serve Hashem and to make a difference in the Jewish
community. Even those who do not feel capable of becoming great
talmidei chachamiem have been endowed with some other talent which can
be put to good use. We visited Mr. Gans in his home, where we were
shown fascinating examples of Torah codes, learned about his various
lectures, and most of all, were inspired by his lecture.
What is your background?
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Torah Vodaath Elementary
School, and Gur Aryeh (a division of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin)
for high school. I received a bachelor of science degree in
mathematics from Brooklyn College, and a master of arts degree in
mathematics from the Belfer Graduate School of Science of Yeshiva
University, where I was a National Science Foundation fellow.
In 1968 I was hired by NSA, and eventually became a senior cryptologic
mathematician. In that capacity I headed a groep of thirty individuals
who were developing mathematical tools to be used by cryptologists to
break military and diplomatic codes.
In 1968 I relocated from Silver Springs, Maryland, to Baltimore, still
employed by the NSA. In Baltimore, I met Rabbi Shlomo Porter, director
of the Etz Chaim Center for Jewish Studies. He was, and still is,
heavily involved in kiruv, and is very successful in that capacity. I
had never seen anything like that before; I had heard of kiruv, but
had never experienced it first hand. I was amazed and even jealous of
his positive impact on the Yiddishkeit of the many people he worked
with.
Interestingly, he later told me he was given a bracha by Rabbi Yaakov
Yisrael Twerski zt”l, the Hornosteipler Rebbe of Milwaukee, that
people should be envious of and emulate his accomplishments.
I began to wonder how I would be able to make an impact on the world.
One of my heroes had long been Rabbi Mike Tress, z”l, a businessman
who used his organizational skill to serve the klal. I knew that
Hashem gives every person skills and abilities that can be used to
serve Him and impact klal Yisrael. I understood how a talmid chacham
or a wealthy businessman could serve klal Yisrael, and I even
understood how a plumber or a technician could serve by working for a
shul or yeshivah or by helping Jewish families, but how could a
mathematician serve klal Yisrael?
A few years later I heard about the Torah codes. By nature I'm a
skeptic, and I need scientific of logical proof to be convinced of any
unusual claim. My wife encouraged me to research the topic, and I
agreed = in order to prove to here that it was nonsense. I attended an
Arachim seminar, heard a lecture on the Torah codes, and could not
find a single flaw in the material. I went home and reproduced their
experiment myself, and achieved the same results.
Subsequently I attended an Aish HaTorah Discovery seminar and came to
understand how many people were fascinated by these codes and other
evidence of Torah min HaShamayim. I also realized the impact that this
material was having on their lives, because it was proof that the
Torah could only be given by G-d. I realized that I could combine my
skills as a mathematician and computer programmer and my expertise in
public speaking to research and lecture on the Torah codes.
I felt that I had found my calling – the way that I could serve the
Ribbono shel Olam using my unique talents and abilities. Subsequently
I volunteered as a lecturer for Aish HaTorah, and was given the
opportunity to lecture in cities all around the world.
What are the Torah codes? How does math fit into the picture?
Torah codes refer to information that is encoded in the pesukim of the
Torah. Math is used to calculate the probability of finding those
letters in that specific configuration and spacing. The average person
cannot find and properly evaluate these codes; one has to be looking
for specific patterns, and then use computer programs to locate them.
We then use statistics to calculate the probability of these patterns
appearing randomly in the Torah. If the probability is less than one
in a thousand, we reject the possibility that it happened by chance,
and the patterns qualify as an authentic code. This criterion was set
by non-Jewish statisticians for establishing the veracity of the Torah
codes.
The concept of the Torah codes is not new. References to codes in the
Torah can be found in the thirteenth century commentary on the Torah
by Rabbeinu Bachyei, as well as in the sixteenth century Pardes
Rimonim by Harav Moshe Cordovo. Shortly after World War II, Harav
Mochoel Ber Weismandl, zt'l, wrote about codes in his sefer Toras
Chemed.
In recent years, the first individuals to research codes
scientifically, were Dr Eliyahu Rips, a professor of mathematics at
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Mr Doron Witztum. They designed
what is known as the “Great Rabbis Experiment”, in which they found
the names of Gedolim from the nineth to the eighteenth century encoded
in the Torah, in unusual close proximity to the dates of each ones
birth and death. Over 150 pairs of names and dates taken from an
encyclopedia were used in their experiment. Then they calculated the
odds of this happening “by itself” and obtained a probability of 1 in
62,500. This is more than 62 times stronger then the 1 in 1000
criterion mentioned above.
I performed a similar experiment and found the names of these Gedolim
together with the cities of each ones birth and death. The outcome of
this experiment has a probability of 1 in 250,000 of being due to
chance.
Whenever there is a major world event, we often find words describing
that event, with related dates, encoded in close proximity in the
Torah. We have found codes describing 9/11, the assassination of Osama
bin Laden, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011, the
capture and execution of Saddam Hussein, the 2004 tsunami in Asia, and
the disastrous re-entry of the spaceship Columbia that carried Israeli
astronaut Ilan Ramon.
We have done studies by taking the same words found encoded in the
Torah and searching for them in many control texts, such as Hebrew
translations of secular novels, but the probability never comes out
low enough to qualify as significant.
I understand that non-religious Jews find this inspiring, but what
about your typical frum-from-birth Jew? Why does he need to know about
this?
There are several answers to this question. First of all, it is
obvious that these codes are not due to chance, that is something
Hakadosh Baruch Hu put into the Torah. How can we not be interested
and inspired by them?
Second, Chazal tell us that in the days before Moshiach, knowledge of
the Torah will increase. Several Rabbanim, including Harav Moshe
Heineman, feel that these codes are one of those ways.
The third, and perhaps the most important reason is, that as much as
we hesitate to admit it, there are many of us who can benefit from
ways to strengthen our emunah. Often, after I lecture to frum
audiences, people come to me saying: “I have always believed in
Hashem, but these codes have strengthened my believe.”
I often get calls from yeshiva bachurim who have questions in emunah.
They find that the code and some of the other scientific material that
I lecture on give them the chizuk they are searching for.
There are significant numbers of frum people who need reinforcement in
their emunah, so that they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the
Ribbone shel Olam wrote the Torah and rules the world. The Torah codes
offer such reinforcement. This kind of powerful evidence is something
that we cannot just ignore.
But weren't the Torah codes disproven in the scientific world?
The controversy began shortly after Mr. Witztum and Dr. Rips published
a paper on their “Great Rabbis Experiment” in the journal Statistical
Science in 1994. It reached a point where the same journal published a
paper written by an Australian computer scientist who purportedly
refuted the Torah codes and claimed the 1994 paper was a hoax.
Statistical Science refused to allow Rips and Witztum to print a
defense of their paper – something which is unheard of in professional
science literature, where the standard rule is that if a refutation of
a scientific paper is admitted for publication, the author of the
original paper is always given a chance to respond first.
In fact, Witztum and Rips were told that they would be given a chance
to respond, and then the journal backed down and would not allow it.
In 2006, at the 18th International Pattern Recognition Conference,
which took place in Hong Kong, there were six papers published in
support of the Torah codes. All of these papers were subject to peer
review, which means that fellow scientists reviewed the papers and
could note any flaw in the research or logic that they might find.
Were they to find an uncorrectable flaw, the paper would be rejected.
One of the papers that I co-authored proved that the original paper
describing the “Great Rabbis Experiment” was not a hoax, and that the
experiment with the rabbis and the cities of their birth and death was
valid. That paper referenced the critic's 1999 Statistical Science
paper, so that the reviewers could easily refer to it. According to
scientific rules. In order for critics to disprove the Torah codes,
they would have to find fatal flaws in each of the six papers
presenting a different approach and a different code. This happened
five years ago, and to date not a single flaw was found in any of
these papers. Therefore, for all intent and purposes, the Torah codes
have been scientifically proven, and the debate is over.
Unfortunately, most people don't know the critics have been disproven.
When scientists come up to me and try to dispute the validity of the
codes, I ask: “Can you find a fatal flaw?” They pause, and say: “No.”
What about the Jewish world? Do all of the Rabbanim agree to the
validity of the Torah codes?
There are critics in the Torah world, but not among the Gedolim. Mr.
Witztum and/or Dr. Rips have obtained haskamos for researching and
teaching the Torah codes from Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt'l, and,
ybl'c, Harave Shmuel Auerbach, Harav Matsyahu Salomon and Harav Moshe
Heinemann.
Harav Heinemann stated: “There are sources for the codes in Chazal.
The Chasam Sofer wrote about them – without the use of a computer – as
did Harav Michael Ber Weismandl. There is no question that they are
authentic.”
Can you give me an example of a Torah code?
There is an excellent example of a Torah code that revolves around the
Mumbai massacre in 2008. This code was discovered by researcher Dr.
Moshe Katz, and has an interesting story.
A few years ago I was in Israel, where is was scheduled to lecture on
the codes at Aish HaTorah. The day before the lecture I visited Mr.
Witztum, and told him about the Mumbai code. He asked me what
probability was associated with that code. When I replied that it had
not been calculated, he categorically dismissed the code. When I
subsequently told him that I was going to present the code the next
day, he exclaimed: “How can you present the code, without a
probability having been calculated?” I told him that there was nothing
he could say that would change my mind. I had already decided to
present it as an “esoteric observation”, rather than as a code, since
the associated probability was unknown. The next day, as I was driving
to the lecture, my cell phone rang. It was Witztum: “You must present
the code”, he insisted. He had stayed up half the night researching
and augmenting the code, and came up with a probability of 1 in
666,666 for the words “hatkafah” (the attack), “terror”, “Islami”, “in
Bombay” and “b-Beit Chabad”, all encoded near each other.
However, there was more. Dr. Katz had also found a picture of the
sefer Torah that had been torn during the attack on the Chabad House.
There was a bullet hole in the Torah, in the same place in the Torah
where the words k'ra, sefer, en Torah (“a sefer Torah was torn) were
encoded in the same pesukim!
Now, what is the probability of that happening by chance? There HAS to
be a higher being who wrote that Torah, knew this attack would happen,
and placed the code exactly in the spot that He knew the bullet would
penetrate thousands of years later. When I presented the code,
together with this story, a man literally fell of his chair.
Can you describe the lectures that you present on Torah and science?
I have two different lectures on the codes, one is standard, the other
goes into more detail. There are four other lectures I have developed
that use science to prove the authenticity of the Torah and the
existence of a G-d who created and is still involved in the universe.
In “Searching for G-d in a Test Tube” I present various scientifically
based lines of evidence that the Torah is true and that there must be
a Ribbono shel Olam running the world. Using statistics, we can proof
that things are not happening by chance. One illustration is the
miracle of the Persian Gulf war in 1991. It is well known that there
were 39 scud missiles fired at Israel. At least 9 of these fell in
residential areas, and there was only one death. Can we proof
scientifically that this was a miracle? In order to proof the
miraculous nature of this event, we need to examine what happens
outside of Israel.
On February 26, 1991, fell in Saudi Arabia, killing 27 people. On
October 8, 1980, three scuds fell in Dizful, Iran. The average number
of deaths per scud was 36.7. In Yemen in May 1994, there were three
Scuds, with an average of 14.7 deaths per Scud. Based on these
numbers, the probability of nine Scuds killing only one person is one
in nine hundred million trillion trillion trillion – that's a fraction
that has 43 zero's after the decimal point. That is a miracle!
Similar statistical results are obtained with Katyusha rocket attacks,
and suicide and car bombings, providing powerful mathematical evidence
that there is a Higher Being Who is truly watching over the Jewish
people.
The “Signature of G-d” lecture demonstrates that the universe is
balanced in such a way as to be perfectly suited for the existence of
life. There is a plethora of scientific evidence to show this. It is
highly improbable that this could have happened by chance. There are
many examples of this fine-tuning. One example of many is that if the
electromagnetic force that bonds all atoms and molecules would be four
percent weaker, there would be no molecules. This phenomenon, known as
“the anthropic principle”, is considered one of the most compelling
and intractable problems in theoretical physics today. The existence
of a Divine Creator neatly solves this conundrum.
The third lecture discusses the origin of life. The probability that
the smallest peace of DNA, an essential component of all cells, began
by itself, is so infinitesimal small that for all practical purposes,
it is impossible that it could have happened anywhere in the universe
since the beginning of time.
Scientists can offer no explanation. They can't disprove it, and yet,
they don't want to admit the existence of G-d. Biologist and Nobel
prize laureate George Wald once said that he prefers to believe in the
impossible rather than the alternative – which is believe in a
supernatural creation.
Where have you lectured?
I have lectured in eleven countries around the world for Aish HaTorah,
as well as several other organizations. I deliver an average of fifty
lectures a year in some twenty cities, with about sixty to 120 people
attending each lecture.
Before I speak or meet people who will ask me questions on emunah, I
daven to Hashem that I will find the right answers. I do not charge a
honorarium
for these lectures, they are done solely to help Klal Yisrael.
Are these lectures successful in inspiring people to become observant?
Occasionally I do receive feedback. A few years ago I was in Passaic,
New Jersey, for Shabbos, visiting a family member, and we davened in
the Bais Torah U'Tefillah, which is under the leadership of Rabbi
Menachem Zupnick. Rabbi Zupnick asked me to deliver a fifteen minute
talk at seudah shelishis. I used the time to speak about creation.
A year later, I met a frum looking young man, who approached me and
said: “Mr. Gans, because of you I am religious today. You see, I live
near a shul in Passaic, and I used to look out of my window every
Saturday afternoon and see all these Jews go into the synagogue. I
wondered what they did in there. One day I decided I would find out.
The next Saturday, I donned a kippah, and entered the shul. I saw a
table laid out with all sorts of goodies, and decided to stay. Then, I
heard you speak. In those fifteen minutes you highlighted so much
wisdom from the first three pesukim in Bereshis that I new I had to
find out more. Today I am completely shomer shabbos.
This is one story out of many.
This is really very fascinating! Any final message?
I just want to reiterate that one does not have to be a talmid chacham
or wealthy to serve Klal Yisrael. I just wanted to serve Hashem, and
He showed me the way.
Every person can serve Hashem in his or her unique way. Everyone has
some talent, some skill that can be channeled properly. If one has the
will and desire to do so, and asks Hashem for help, He will surely
show him the way.
And there is of course the fact that the Jewish religion, in
contradistinction to ALL the other religions, did not start with a
revelation to one man, but a revelation to a nation of millions of
people.
That says it all.
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