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"If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain; if I command the locusts to ravage the land; or if I let loose pestilence against My people, when My people, who bear My name, humble themselves, pray, and seek My favor and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear in My heavenly abode and forgive their sins and heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:13-14
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The latter days of the 20th century were perilous times and these early days of the 21st century are treacherous. The comparatively orderly world system of two opposing superpowers has given way to a world fraught with the danger of terrorism and loss of freedoms.
An iron fist in Moscow had controlled the eastern block of the Soviet Union. Many nations and nationalities were subdued behind the Iron Curtain. The ancient hatreds of these subdued nations for each other were kept in check. Ethnic and national stirrings, as well as antigovernment activities, were crushed and not tolerated. Human rights were nonexistent and the power of the secret police was everywhere. Poverty of the working class was paramount. Even with all of this governmental abuse, there was a stability and peace, of a sort albeit at the cost of the loss of human rights.
The western block emerged from World War II led by a strong and powerful United States of America. Human rights, integrity, personal, and religious freedoms were the hallmarks of America. The highest standard of living the world has ever seen was obtained and flaunted before the rest of mankind. The United States is envied, emulated, and hated by the world.
For peaceful purposes, the United States poured out trillions of dollars in foreign aid to nearly every nation on earth, even to its sworn enemies. This was done in an attempt to buy the friendship and love of the nations of the world but, Scriptures states these are "hired lovers." This is a fulfillment of an ancient prophecy:
Since friendship and love cannot be purchased, the world has continued to hate the United States while taking its money and plotting its downfall.
The United States has lost the "pride of its power" (Lev 26:19) because they have spurned their CREATOR and rejected His way. Therefore, He says to Israel that their enemies:
Our purpose is not to prove or to disprove any of the "inspired" books which claim Abraham as the beginning of their religion, but simply to point out that they are all at variance with the Hebrew Scriptures. There is confusion in the three main religions of the world--Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. All three claim to have descended from Abraham and use the ancient the Hebrew Scriptures, yet each of these religions are vastly different from each other. Furthermore, each has its own "inspired" set of writings which all differ from each other and each one supersede the Hebrew Scripture text in the mind set or paradigm of each group.
In Jewish eyes their own special books can and do supersede the Torah. Once while I was attending a Jewish Sabbath, service the topic of the speaker was "wearing fringes [Heb. tsiytsith]." 7 The speaker stated, "Fringes must contain a blue thread on the hem of a person's outer garment." He then said, "But, in the Talmud the Rabbis decided not to include a blue thread in the fringes; which I might add," he said, "is contrary to the Torah." 8 The prayer shawl I was given to wear had no blue in its white tassels.
On the subject of Scriptural characters in the Koran notice what the Britannica states:
In addition my former Sabbath keeping Christian church would pick and choose and take things out of context to formulate doctrines. They pulled Isa 28:10 out of context:
"Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little."
It was used completely out of context to prove that it was okay to take things out of context -- when the very context of those verses warned not to take things out of context, because:
Isa 28:13 That they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught."
Of the Mormons, a subset of Christianity The Encyclopedia Britannica states:
The Mormons claim that both the OT and the NT were corrupted over time, and in any conflicts, The Book of Mormon takes precedent.
Right or wrong, the Mormons have a separate book, The Book of Mormon, which in their mental paradigm does supersede the Hebrew Scriptures.
We believe that the Hebrew Scriptures stand alone as the sacred word of the CREATOR of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As such we feel it is our obligation to ferret out the doctrines of the CREATOR as found within the Hebrew Scriptures and to make them available to Israel.
We believe the United States, most of the former British Commonwealth of Nations, and most of the democracies in Europe have descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These nations are the lost ten tribes of Israel and are referred to by the name of Israel. The nations of Israel also include the Jews who are the House of Judah.
The mission of United Hebrew Congregation (UHC)
is to support, encourage, and educate those individuals whom
YHWH (ETERNAL CREATOR) has called to the understanding that He is the one true Mighty One of Israel who created the heavens, seas, dry land, and all that in them is.
We feel it is our obligation to tell the peoples of Israel who they are, tell them what ETERNAL states is wrong with what they do, and then warn them to return to the ONE true CREATOR.
1. Ephraim in particular refers to the British, and Manasseh to the United States. However, both are a part of Israel as explained in our article "The Two-fold Aspect of the Promises to Abraham -- Judah's Scepter and Joseph's Birthright.
2. A. Words enclosed in brackets [ ] are added by the author unless enclosed within quotation marks. Unless noted, all scriptural quotations are from The New King James Version and emphasis is the author's throughout.
3. See our article The Two Fold Promises to Abraham; The United States, Britain, and the Jewish People in Prophecy.
4. Reference our article "New Proof of the Messiah."
5. Anytime we refer to the Hebrew Scriptures we are referring to what is commonly called the Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures. However, we consider them to be the only Testament or Covenant, if for no other reason than they are the originating source from which the others sprang
6. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, vol. 26, p380.
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Num. 15:38-39 Speak to the children of Israel: 'tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the Commandments of YHWH and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,'"
8. I will not divulge the professor's name. However I will tell you he was a visiting professor from Hebrew University.
9. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, vol. 15, p898.
10. 10 Ibid., p900.
11. Ibid., vol. 18, p842 and 843