Month: May 2018

CAL BERKELEY ALUMNI TRIP TO ISRAEL MARCH 15-26,2018

 

TEL AVIV AND THE OCEAN, NORTH DISTRICT OF ISRAEL AND JORDAN
AND THE RIVER, JORDAN THAT IS,

RETURN TO CALVARY, JERUSALEM ISRAEL
(SEE LAST JULY”S POSTING FOR RETURN TO
CALVARY; BAPTIST CHURCH 123 WEST 57th St, THAT IS,
AND THOUGHTS ABOUT KYOTO JAPAN AND THE RIVER, FLORENCE
ITALY AND THE RIVER,
PROVENCE FRANCE AND THE RIVER); 
TEACHINGS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO SAINT MOSE’S SOUL WHEN IT GOT TO HEAVEN.

SHAVOUS PENTECOST TEACHING:
PARABLE OF THE FRIEND WHOSE SOUL IS GLORIFIED TO BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A TREE OR FLOWER


NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER IN US, MAY 2, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

One Beginning Location of the Road to Calvery, in what seems like a long time ago.

 

 

 

 

 

Prayers for the Month of May 2018:
“To see God more clearly,
to follow Him more nearly,
to love Him more dearly.”  St. Augustine

Prayer meditations on the National Day of Prayer May 2, 2018:

Looks like President Trump is going to have to pay the piper and will be lucky if they don’t impeach him.

When you lie to reporters, even if you aren’t sent to jail for it, you are lying to the American people and are subverting our Democracy as much if not more than the Russians were trying to.

I did not vote for President Trump but was glad to see him get elected because both of the Clintons, if you count them a group, are admitting national leaders who have lied to us.

As, Ms Daniel’s lawyers said, and a lot of FBI agents whom integrity President Trump has tried to subvert for his own personal goals, the “Chickens (your lies) have come home to roost.”

“Friends don’t lie.” and “To have a friend, be a friend.”

Some Omer counting thoughts about the Kingship of Friendship:

44th day Gevurah of Malkuth  “A friend in need is a friend indeed. Contribute to the needs of God’s people [sharing in the necessities to the Saints]; pursue the practice of hospitality.” St. Paul Romans 12;13
45th day Tiferet of Malkuth
“By seeing good in other: with God’s help, We see the Christ in you. ” Let your love sincere, a real thing.” Romans 12:9
46th day Netzach of Malkuth
By standing by our friends:
We will walk with you till the Son of God always shines.
“Hate what is evil [loathe lying and all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good.” Romans 12:9
“Rejoice with those who rejoice [sharing others joy], and weep with this who weep [sharing other’s grief].” Romans 12:15

We are all fallible humans, but some of us are “humans of God” and feel compelled to repent and correct our mistakes, not concatenate our lies, when they are pointed out to us.

@realDonaldTrump So you do know what the word Truth means after all? Good for you and good for Rudi Giuliani for getting you to admit it. If the President of our country, if the USA does not tell the truth, to US and others then you and it are nothing. Something to pray about?

Prayer discussions with the Jews for Jesus Messianic Jewish Organization about the trip:

 

 

 

 

 

JEWS FOR JESUS AND JESUS FOR JEWS Topic: Simon Stout’s reply to my prayer questions

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Article #703
Subject: Simon Stout’s reply to my prayer questions
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/26/2018 11:06:22 AM
Message: Hi, friends, this is Andrew Harrell talking with you. I was recently in Israel and interested in
finding there where the Messianic Jews who followed on after Joseph Rabinowitz worship. Is it
anywhere in Jerusalem? I went to Christ Church at the joppa gate and they didn’t know. He was a friend
of my great grandfather Adoniram Gordan. I am a Christian zionist Jew
I have a website and email address at http://www.ourprayergroup.blogspot.com and
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org andrewharrell@yhwhschofchrist.org. I have to go now. Thanks for your
help in advance.
God Bless
Dear Andrew,

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for writing to us at Jews for Jesus. I’m Simon from our offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.

There are quite a number of Messianic Congregations throughout the country, though I’m not sure
which ones have been directly influenced by the teachings of Joseph Rabinowitz. As the Messianic
Body in Israel was only a handful of people during his lifetime, and has now grown to nearly 10,000 – it
is possible that we have all been influenced by his teachings.

I do know that one of our staff members wrote a short article about him 20 years ago:
https://jewsforjesus.org/blog/joseph-rabinowitz-and-the-messianic-movement-the-herzl-of-jewish-
christianity/

Many Blessings in Messiah,

Simon Stout
Executive Assistant
Jews for Jesus Israel
simon.stout@jewsforjesus.org

—–Original Message—–
From: web.contact@jewsforjesus.org 
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 11:30 AM
To: Jews for Jesus 
Subject: General Questions

First Name: Andrew
Last Name: Harrell
Email Address: andrewharrell@yhwhschofchrist.org
Phone: 601-636-0938

Add/Reply to this prayer posting

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Article #704
Subject: my prayerful reply to Simon’s helpful reply
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/26/2018 11:07:21 AM
Dear Long Time Prayer Friend Simon,

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your very helpful reply to my question about any living legacy of Joseph Rabinowitz

in Jews for Jesus Prayer Services. I have been to several Orthodox Saturday Sabbath Torah services
and noted that the Torah is carried up to the Bimah in the center by attendees. I even did it myself in a
Messianic service on Simhas Torah in a Northern VA congregation in 1983 I think. I also noted that the
Name of God YHWH is not used in the prayer verses but Adonai or H’Shem or Yod Yod.

Have you considered using YHWH Adonai in the Amidah prayer requests as Joseph Rabinowitz did to
indicate that you believe that for some of us the Messiah, Jesus has already come?

Also, you might want to carry both the New Testament and the Torah up to Bimah in order to read both
Testaments in the service. I know in some Messianic Jewish books on the Torah study, John Parson’s “A
Year Through the Torah” for instance both testaments are studied and read.

You could also ask people to come forward like like in a Baptist Church and accept Christ in the service.
In my opinion you could be more like “Jesus for the Jews”, like I AM, if you did this.

Blessings in Christ,

Andrew W.

Dr. Andrew W. Harrell

YHWH School of Christianity 

Particiants

 

Mr. Lester Archer, Evanston, IL

Mr. Burton Brnstetter and Mrs. Hannah Branstetter

Mr. Dave Solberg and Mrs. Maggie Solberg

Mr. Thomas Elder III and Lucinda Elder,

Mr. Herbert Engstrom and Mrs. Mary Engstrom

Dr. Andrew W. Harrell

Mr. Vince Resh and Mrs. Cheryl Resh

Mr Tzon Shin Ueng and Mrs. Su Fang Ueng

Mr. Thomas Zurfluh and Mrs. Ellen Zurfluh

 

I also want especially to thank Mark Werner, regular member of ourprayergroup.blogspot.om for prayoing with me during these 11 day that all would go well. Since he has  been to Israel before and expects to return soon, I have asked him to add any comments he has on the photos and contemplative prayer discussion text.

 

And, my yardman Tim and housekeeper Robin who watched over the house while I was gone and prayed several times before and aftee the trip with me.

 

Ron Lahad, a former Israeli army commander, and international security trainer, was the Odessey’s Unlimited Tour Director. He was in charge of logistics for the trip and assuring we had a safe and pleasant trip. I asked Ron if he knew Major Golan in the Israeli army officer who came to Vicksburg in the 1990s and I had dinner with, at Walnut Hils I think, and with a Brigader General in Israeli Army Intelligence in order to help them learn about ways of testing Armoured vehicles, to measurer their obsorbed power at the driver’s on and off road.  According to Ron, Major Golan has been promoted and is now Vice Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army. I wish now general Golan well and hope he still wishes me well as well.

 

Some of Mark’s prayer emails:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Resh has been a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley since 1975. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organiaiton and other United Nation organizations for over 20 years in evaluating the human impacts on water resources in developing countries in Asia and Africa. He has taught about these water and environmental issues to over 20,000 Berkeley undergraduates. His spouse Cheryl has been Vice-Chancellor to UC Berkeley for financial aide before she recently retired.

 

Shabbos March 17 was spent in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Joppa, and Sunday March 18 in Tel Aviv and Monday March 19 in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv and upper Galilee-. What a wondelful, beautiful beachfront area to jog along in the morning. Looking out the Dan Hotel is a good place to see the sunset on the beach.

 

‘The vibrant city modern city of Tel Aviv was built along the Mediterranean in 1909. Today it is Israel’s arts and culture capital.

 

 

 

 

 

Our tour featured going through the Independence Hall where the state of Israel was declared in 1948 and now is a museum of the history of Zionism. We visited the white city around Rothschild Boulevard. Baron Rothschild provided a lot of the funding from Europe to start the country in the last century. It comprise the world’s largest collection of Bauhaus buildings. After having lunch together at a local restaurant. We headed to the nearby town of Jaffa, visiting the ancient port, flea market, and reconstructed Artist’s quarter of galleries and boutiques.”

 

 

 

Figure 1 Sunset from the beachside walkway at the Port of  Tel  Aviv.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 2 Port of Tel Aviv

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 3 Theodore Hertlz, one of the main founders of modern Israel. When modern Israel started in 1948. Nobody spoke Hebrew back then, There was a group of 56 settlers which became 66 families Maier Mayor one of the major founders of Tel Aviv, said “ A blessing will come out of this”. His prophecy was fulfilled in 1948

 

In the 1940s there were only about 100 Talmud strudents. So the state of Israel exempted them from Army service, Muslims also don’t have to serve if they don’t want to.

Of the British, the famous Lawrence’s friend, General Wingate, a special forces operator who died later in a glider raid in Burma,  and Winston Churchill also played a large role.  It was here the Balfour Declaration was proclaimed started the state.

 

There is on one side an  intellectual and spiritual help from the secular and  Hasidic Jewish Zionists:

 

In 1800 the Sephardim constituted 95 percent of the Jews in Palestine, but by 1840 this fell to just less than 70 percent.  The more secular Sephardim were from Turkey, Syria, the Balkans and were joined by Sephardic Jews from the Barbary States of North Africa shared a common mode of prayer and used a similar pronunciation of Hebrew”. In their prayer service they tended not to emphasize belief in the immenent coming of the Messiah as much as the Ashkenazi.

In the 1840s they were replaced more by Askenazi Jews from Russia and Poland. And some from Romania and also Austria Hungary. They believed their presence would hasten the arrival of the Messiah and embraced a mystical version of Hasidic Kabbalism based on a personage known as the “Baal Shem Tov” master of the Good Name, that Name being of course the  ancient four-letter Tetragrammaton, YHWH, YHWH Adonai, YHWH Sabaoth,  of Jewish and Pythagorean Christianity.

 

In the book, the Making of Modern Zionism, the intellectual origins of the State of Israel by Shlomo Avineri we have names cited like:

 

1)Nochman Krocmal in his book The Guide to the Perplexed of our Time, attempted to show that maintaining a Jewish identity did not contradict the universal philosophical imperatives of Kantian and Hegelian idealism. Human history is not a series of meaningless occurances, there is a telos to history. Society, the nation, the spirit or ruach of the nation, are the main subjects of history. He sees the Jews as a nation one of the many nations that contributed to world history, introducing the concept of One God and his manifestation in human history. At the point where Judaism became a world religion through its offspring Christianity Hegel had ended his dialectic. But, Krocmal continued it making the rationale for the existence of the people of Israel in their separateness and apartness from a world of paganism. Hegel had argued that the victory of Jewish monotheism in the form of Christianity made the separate existence of Israel superfluous. And, in fact Krocmal could point to the fact that after the Romans and the Greeks, the Jews did  not disappear from the historical scence.

 

2)Heinrich Graetz To Graetz the Jews are a nation possessing historical continuity and a story unfolding  in time and place, undergoing changes and transformations like other nations. He takes issue with tradional Christian historiography which loses all interest in Judaism after the destruction of the second temple. He sees Judaism not only as a national phenomenon but also inextricably bound to the Holy Land of its birth. He sees Judaism not as a revealed religion, but as “revealed legislation”. It is also  characterized by the special emphasis it puts on the futre as an essential moment of its own self-consciousness. But, he sees Jesus as not unique, but just one of several Jewish leaders of the time.

 

3)Moses Hess  (1812-1875) The founder of German Social Demoracy, his remains  were reinterred in the cemetery of the first Kibbutz near Lake Tiberias. But, he ended up arguing that  Jews suffer from a lack of universal consciousness and have a future in modern times only as individuals and not as a collective entity, and as individuals they should merge into the general universalism. Her in the heart of Europe the New Jerusalem will be built.

 

4)Yehuda Alkalai remained within Orthodox Judaism and its quest for redemption rooted in the traditional Messianic yearnings of Jewish Religion. Everyone should be taught spoken Hebrew in order to create a unifying mode of communication. He believed in the traditional appearance of the Messiah Son of David, who will be preceded by a first Messiah, called the Son of Joseph, taking the vision of both of these people as a person. Since he believed both of these had not come yet, he obviously did not accept standard Christian theology that Jesus Christ is already both of these people.

 

5)Perez Smolenskin (1842-1885) One of the founders of arguments for Jewish emigration out of Russa to the West. To North America, England, South Africa, Argentina and also Palestine. He lived through the wide-spred pogroms of 1881, mainly in the southern district of Russia where the population was densest. He create a group of Jewish maskilim or enlightened ones. He turns after an initial rejection to the land of Palestine as a place to develop national consciousness that will provide a collective solution to the problem of how to develop Jewish identity.

 

6)Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922) Associated with the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken, everyday language for the Jews.

 

7) Aharon David Gordon The first significant Jewish thinker whose ideas emerged from a confrontation with the reality in Palestine itself. He founded a Labour Zionist party in Russia and Palestine., not guided by doctrinaire socialism, or mobilizing all our national energies through manual labour. and considered the Exile as a way of rebirth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And on the other side of the still active theological divide: there are us and our friends the Christian Zionists in the 19^th and early 20^thcentury:

A good reference for some of the history of this is “The Lord Shaftesbury Origins of Evangelical Christian Support for a Zionism Jewish Homeland.” By Donald M. Lewis, Cambridge U.Press.

 

The letter of British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour of 1917 certainly changed the political factors in Europe helping to change history and establish a Jewish state in Palestine:

 

“I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of his majesty’s government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

 

His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, an will use their best endevours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

 

I should be grateful if you should bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.”

 

But, what historical factors and changes in the 19^thcentury in the mindset of British Victorian evangelicalism preceeded and led to this declaration  in the 20^thcentury?

 

According to the historian Babara Tuchman, who has studied both China and Japan and IndoChina during World War II and also the Holy Land then and before, book” “The Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze age to Balfour.” The main reason was the legendary history of travels of Biblical teachers and prophets from ancient Palestine to Britian.”amongst these travellers according to Ms Tuchman were the Biblical Gomer, a descendent of Noah, the ancient Phoenicians, Roman Britians, Joseph of Arimathea in whom tomb Jesus was buried, the first Crusaders, including King Richard, many Middle age Pilgrims, Henry VII who first published an English translation of the Bible in 1538, merchant naval adventurers to the levant in the Elizabethan age. English Puritans interested in Calvanistic prophecy in 1649,

 

However, I believe more in the affect of the French Englightment and Revolution, Scottish and English Enlightenment during the late 18^th century going into the 1^st half of the 19^thand the development of English and German pre-millenialist high Calvinistic theological prophecy.

 

 

Both Martin Luther and John Calvin had a consistent position when  they were preaching that denied any ongoing significance to Jews and Judaism. This theological position goes back to Augustine. However as early as 1590 in the reformed Calvinist theology scholars were rejecting both of these theological opinions.

“The Puritan Revolution and its subsequent failure had long-term implications for Judaism in England and in America. Religious non-conformity was immensely strengthened by the Great Ejection of Puritan clergy from the Church of England in 1662.”

“The decisive turning point in Christian-Jewish relations can be traced to the impact of the French Revolution on European Protestantism, and especially on British Evangelism… One of the most striking features of this change was the creation of a small but growing missionary movement that was determined to take the message of the Gospel to the four corners of the earth. There was also an impact of German speaking  pietism and a growth of  philosemitism (Philo-Semitism or Judeophilia is an interest in, respect for and an appreciation of Jewish people, their history and the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile.)

in the English speaking evangelical world” Op. cit. pages 33,37,49,50

 

In 1809 the  London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews (LSJ) was founded.

 

Charles  Simeon (1759-1836) Was an influential Anglican minister in the first half of the nineteeth century who inspired generations of Cambridge undergraduates in the importance of jewish evangelism, but not as much the prophecizing of their return to Palestine. “He retained his postmillennial perspective and never embraced the new Adventist interpretations that were to emerge in the 1820s.”op cit. page 61 He stands in a tradition of teaching of esteem toward the Jews. “Calvinist interpretations of scripture which nurtured the new teaching of esteem had a great impact on the attitudes of English-speaking Protestants toward the Jews. During this period there was an explosion of interest in the imminent return of Christ, known as the Second Coming. Upon the scheme of postmillenism the return of Christ would occur after the inauguration of the thousand year reign of Christ. In its nineteenth century form premillenialism had a key role for Jews in the final events of World history., something that is also shared with Pietism’s “hopes for a better future”..the leading prophetic writers who came to light in the 1790s (Scott, Faber, and BichenO) were postmillenialists who insisted on giving the Jews and their restoration to Palestine a promiment place in their prophetic schemes….It is a common mistake of historians to ascribe nineteenth century evangelical interest in the Jews to premillennialism.  What the prophetic minded who made so much of the Jews had in common was not premillennialism or postmillenialis, but a shared Calvinism what resonated with the idea of the divine “election” of the Jews. This

 

 

 

 

“High Calvinism” is a strong rejection of the Catholic tradition of Natural Law, with its emphasis on a common human nature on the one hand, and with Romanicism’s emphasis on the distinct and peculiar characteristics of “nations” on the other.” Op. cit. pages 66.67,68

 

 

What is the difference between “High Calvinism” and “Low Calvinism”?  Here is an excerpt from a discussion about it on the internet www.puritanboard.com:

 

 

 

According to the infralapsarian view the order of events was as follows: God proposed,

 

 

 

 

 

1. to create;
2. to permit the fall;
3. to elect to eternal life and blessedness a great multitude out of this mass of fallen men, and to leave the others, as He left the Devil and the fallen angels, to suffer the just punishment of their sins;
4. to give His Son, Jesus Christ, for the redemption of the elect; and
5. to send the Holy Spirit to apply to the elect the redemption which was purchased by Christ.

According to the supralapsarian view the order of events was:

1. to elect some creatable men (that is, men who were to be created) to life and to condemn others to destruction;
2. to create;
3. to permit the fall;
4. to send Christ to redeem the elect; and
5. to send the Holy Spirit to apply this redemption to the elect

The question then is as to whether election precedes or follows the fall.​

 

 

 

William Wilberforce was a chief architect of the remarkable growth of evangelical influence within the Church of England.

 

 

Henry Drummond (1786-1860) English banker, politician, member of the Royal Society  and writer helped found a Catholic Apostolic Church along with Edward Irving and Robert Haldane in 1826, was a member of Parliament associated with the Conservative Party.

 

 

 

 

 

A High Calvinist (as opposed to his more famous namesake Henry Drummond, 1851-1897  another evangelist, but more of a liberal Methodist who taught the importance of Natural Law and not predestination,  wrote the famous Christian classic “The City Without a Church”. He was a friend of my great grandfather, Adoniram Judson Gordon also a pre-millenenist like the earlier Henry Drummond).

 

In 1929 Henry Drummond, the High Calvinist, published six theological points on which his school of pre-millenenist theology could agree on:

 

1)This dispensation or age will not end insensibly but cataclysmically in judgment and destruction of the church in the same manner in which the Jewish dispensation ended.

2) The Jews will be restored to Palestine during the time of judgement.

3) The judgement to come will fall principally upon Christendom.

(in fact looking back on it it as occurring during the American Civil War, World War I and II, it fell on both Christendom and later on Judaism).

4)when the judgement is passed, the millennium will begin (looking back on it I believe that we are now in the new millennium)

5)The second advent of Christ will occur before the millennium (this has in fact occurred for a lot of us I believe).

6) The 1260 years of Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 ought to be measured from the reign of Justinian to the French Revolution. The vials of wrath (Revelation 16) are now being poured out, and the second advent is imminent.

 

Eg. Ezra Stiles at Yale and Asa McFarland in 1808 voiced the opinion. That the fall of the Ottoman Empire was imminent and would bring about Jewish Restoration,. In 1825 Morecai Noah founded a national home for the Jews on Grand island in New York as a way station on the way to the Holy Land. In 1844 George Bush a professor of Hebrew at New York University and cousin of an ancestors of the President’s Bush, published a book “The Dry Bones of Israel Revived”. Restoraionist theology , Chjarles Simeon as Postmillennial, and James Frere, James Stewart and Edward Irving who were Pre-milliennialists, during this period was inpsirations for the first American missionary activity in the Middle East. In 1878 as the Niagara Bible Conference there was a 14-point Dispensationalism, Pre-millennisalist declaration..In 1890, the tycoon William Blackstone published a book about the need for Jews to convert to Chrisitianity either before or after the second coming.

 

In Britian, in 1831 McCaul was appointed president of an Anglican society for Jewish missionary service.  Lord Shaftesbury, the British Foreign Secretary , perhaps as Bible conscious as Cromwell, established a consultate in Jerusalem in 1838 to reflect his zeal for this ancient people. In 1841 a joint Anglican and German Pietiest bishopric was established in Jerusalem.

 

 

 

 

 

 In 1849 the Anglican Christ Church was built in Jerusalem by the London Society for Promoting Judaism (LSJ) and it still functions today inside the entrance to the Joppa Gate of the Old City and just next to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Via Dialorasa, which itself it at the end of a pathway from the present Western Wall below the city going to the Church of the Holy Seplucher following the Holy path of Jesus’ cruxification after his entrance on Palm Sunday, going up to the Most Holy of Holies in Herod’s Temple.  Shaftesbury  was perhaps the main instrument of implementation of a Chritian pre-millenianist Zionism during this period. It was has vision that there be an Anglican Israel.

 

 

 

In 1839 The Church of Scotland sent missionaries to report of the condition of Jews in Palestine..In 1840 the Times reported the the British Government was considering jewish restoration. One prominent figure  who supported the restoration was William Hecler, an English clergyman who was also the chaplain of the British Embassy in Vienna, later to become a close friend of Theordore Hertzl.

 

 

Joseph Rabinowitz, a close friend of co-founder of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Adoniram Judson Gordon,  is sometimes said to be the Theodore Herzl of Messianic
Judaism. 

He was born and lived in Kishinev Russia (the area is now a part of
Moldava and the Jews there suffered much from Chrisitans). In 1881 he and has
brothers set up a Jewish agricultural society there. Believing the only
future for Judaism depended on it restablishming itself in the Holy Land, in
1882 he travelled to Palestine to set up a community of believers there. He
converted to Chrisitianity (chose to believe in Jesus Christ as God’s Son,
believed in Him as a savior and a brother, and was baptized a Christian in
Germany in 1885). He believed “our brother Jesus” to be the key to opening
the way for Jews to return to the Holy Land. A Christian council in London
was set up for his support in 1887 and he travelled to the U.S. to spend 35
days and attend the Moody Bible conference in Chicago in 1893. There he
shared a room next to A.J. Gordon at the conference. He was declared by him
(Gordon) to be a new Isaiah.

 

 

 

 

 

He chose to use the name YHWH in his group’s prayer service as opposed to the
name Adonai to reflect their belief that the Messiah for Judaism had already
come in the person of Jesus Christ.

Joseph Rabinowitz’s Seven articles of faith: 

 

 

 

 

 

1. I believe with perfect faith, that our heavenly Father is the living 
and true, and eternal God who created heaven and earth and everything visible 
and invisible and invisible through His Word and His Holy Spirit. All things 
are from Him. All things are in Him. All things to Him. 
2. I believe with perfect faith that our heavenly Father has, according 
to His promise made to our forefathers, to our prophets, and to our King 
David, the son of Jesse, raised unto Israel a Redeemer, Jesus, who was born 
of the virgin Mary, in Bethlehem the city of David, who suffered, was 
crucified dead and buried for our salvation, rose again from the dead, and 
liveth, and sitteth at the right hand of our heavenly Father, from thence he 
shall come to judge the world, the living, the and the dead. He is the 
appointed King over the house of Jacob forever, and of His dominion there 
shall be no end. 
3. I believe with perfect faith, that by the counsel of God and His 
foreknowledge, our fathers have been smitten with hardness of heart for sin 
and for rebellion against our Messiah, the Lord Jesus, in order to provoke 
the other nations of the earth unto jealously, and to reconcile all through 
faith in Christ, by the word of His Evangelists, in order that the knowledge 
of Jehovah should cover the earth, and Jehovah be King over the whole world. 
4. I believe, with a perfect faith, that through faith in Jesus, the 
Messiah alone, without the works of the law, a man may be justified; that 
there is but one God, who justifies the circumcised Jews by faith, and the 
uncircumcised through faith and that there is no difference between a Jew and 
Greek, between bond and free, between male and female. There are all one in 
Christ. 
5. I believe with a perfect faith, in a Holy Catholic and Apostolic 
church. 
6. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. 
7. I wait for the resurrection and renewed life of the dead, and for the 
life of the world to come. Amen. 

For Thy salvation, I wait, O Lord; I wait, O Lord, for Thy salvation, O lord 
for Thy salvation I wait. 

In a debate between Rabinowitz and other Jewish rabbis in Kishinev Russia in 
1884 these articles were compared with those of the Church of England and the 
differences were argued between Ziegler a brother in-law of Faltin 
representing the orthodox Jews and Rabinowitz and other Hebrew Christians 
present. 

It was noted that the first four articles are in almost perfect agreement 
with the first four Christian ones. However, Rabinowitz omits mentioning that 
there are three persons of one substance in the godhead. Yet he affirms that 
God creates and upholds everything by His Word and His Holy Spirit. 

See “Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement” by Kai Kjaer Hansen, page 
98. 

There is also a statement of his twenty-four and twelve articles of faith in 
chapter 8 of the book “Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement” by Kai 
Kjaer Hansen 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Holy Land itself in 1936 Charles Orde Wingate earned the rank of Captain in the British Army, learned Hebrew, and served three years in Israel as a British intelligence officer.

He organized and trained “Special Night Squads”, comprised primarily of haganah fighters who were successfully employed throughout the Yishuv  (a term referring to the body of Jewish residents in the land of Israel). He was called “ha-yedid”, the friend.

 

 

Recently at the Third International Christian Zionist Congress held in Jerusalem February 1996 issued a proclamation that the modern ingathering of the Jewish People and the rebirth of the nation of Israrel are in fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, as written in Both the Old and new Testament.

However, in 2006,  the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Catholic), the Syriac Orthoxdoc Archdiocese of Jerusalem, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem land the Middle East and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land published a declaration rejecting Christian Zionism as substituting, in its view, a polical military program in place of the teachings of Jesus Christ.[1]

 

 

A short summaryof some the attempts of Hitler’s Germany to stop development of a Jewish Holy Lnad:

Early invovlvement of the NAZIS in the middle East and Levant

 

Like Nietzche, who taught a theory of salvation based on human will to power by itself without God’s help,But, they taught, after it could be useful to them,  that Islam is not a religion of slaves, but of warriers.

 

Before and after World War I, Sefardic Jews already in Israel along with about 1,000,000 Arabs. After the Nazi targeted them, a vast majority of  250,00 Ashkenazi Jews began to migrate to Israel, The British agreed to help them make Israel their official State.

 

Amin Al Husani, whom the British gave the name, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a messianic Arab leader who was charismatic, and an anti semite trained by the Nazi.

 

1936-39 he  inspires some Arab nationals to attack, terrorize the British, the Jews, along the Arab moderate majority who still believed in a peaceful reconciliation with Israel. He is made a wanted man by the British and flees to Germany on November 25,1941 to study with Hitler whose books he had studied and whom he idolized. Hitler hands him over to the head of SS Himmler and he becomes one the head SS operating the Middle East then and after the War. Hitler pronounces him the “Further of the Middle East” and He goes back there and teaches that Islam is not a religion of Peace but of Warriers with a deep hatred of Jews Jewish liberalism from Europe.

In early 1945 Himmler sent the Mufti to Britian to  recruit a volunteer Mufti Divison in the German SS of 26,000 men.

 

The Germans created propaganda to undermind British and Jewish goals and exploit Arab nationalism resistance against Jews and convince thme that there is a Koran teaching that now is the time to start a “Jihad” against Israel which makes the slaughter of the Jews a religious responsibility. The current hatred of Jews in the Middle East by terrorist organization like Hamass goes back to this period. He, the Mufti, visited Sachenhausen concentration camp to learn how to organize the abduction and interment of Jewish detainees in Israel.He requested Eichmann to expand the “final solution” progam to Israel by sending Nazi advisors to Jerusalem to register detainness for concentration camps He had already created a downsized version of this when the chief Nazi expert on building concentration camps, Walter Rolfe foolowed Rommel around in his attempt to cross the Nile into Egypt. Over 25000 interned Jews were murdered in North Africa before the allies we finally able to stop Rommel at the Battle of El Amin. If we had lost nothing would have stopped them from completing this.

 

After the War the French briefly held the Mufti in custody, but he escaped and returned back to Jerusalem as the most well known leader against Zionism and enlisted help in murdering and intimidating those Middle Eastern leaders who wouldn’t go along with his post war Nazi policies. He enlisted his cousin to assassinate King Husailn of Jordon who wouldn’t agree to go along.

 

Information on Ex-Nazi activites water WWII

 

After World War II, Otto Skozeny was the main person responsible for helping the Mufti convert Arabs in the Middle East to Nazism. Paradoxically, he may have been working for the Israeli’s and Amerians while doing this. After his comrades helped him escape from an American prison were he was being held, he trained about 400 Werewolfs to operate in Austria and Hungary. These were small groups of 4 to 5 independently operating sabateurs. He wrote the 1^st terrorist manual for interrupting lines of communications, and railroad with improvised explosives while blending in with the local populations. He became a propaganda element of Goebbels married up with military units. But, in the end these behind the line troops were only able to kill about 1000 allieds, so he turned to using them to set up what later became the rat-line escape routes down through Italy to Egypt , later Argentina, and Spain.

 

Skorzeny, after holding up in the Alps, he decided to give himself up again to the Allied and conduct his rat line operations from inside of prison, communicating through some of his agents he had already trained. Eventually in 1948 he he steps out of prison with the help of these former Werewolf agents and hide out for a while in France, Spain, then Argentina (where we think Hitler had escaped to from Narvik Finland and was living at this time,.. or possibly not if Hitler thought Skorzeny was being run as an Allied agent against him… it would have made sense for the allies to let him escape and track him in order to find out where Hitler might be.).

 

Wherever he went, after WWII, it seems Skorzeny was involved in organizing ex-Nazis after the war for political military intrigue.  When he went to Argentina he was Eva Peron’s bodyguard.  He travelled to Ireland and bought a house there in the late 1950s organizing ex-Nazi’s there and finally died of cancer in Spain, in the mid-1970s. As mentioned he was in charge of Nassar’s military terrorist operations, earlier, against Israel before the 1967-68 Arab-Israeli war. I seem to remember information about him being involved with General Schwarzkopf’s father, along with Kermit Rossevelt, and the US in overthrowing Mossedeqh and installing the Shah as head of Iran. Since he had been in US custody after the war and debriefing, presumably, interrogated, tracked very thoroughly after then. The fact that he was running pro neo-Nazi activites after that was obviously known, if not also sponsored by the CIA for counterintelligence purposes.

This is very troubling as a possible source of our own, the US’s involvement and self-creation of the cold-war against Russia for our own purposes and interests similar to Skorzeny’s and Hilter’s during this time period of our nation’s history.. Richard Helms, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger bear a lot of the responsibility for this.

 

Even though it is said he died of cancer in Spain in the 1970s he was possibly killed by the Israeli’s after they finished using him to assassinate the heads of the Egyptian and Syrian Biological and Chemical Warfare programs. They certainly had the justification, the means, and ability to do it using some type of biological poison developed from information from experiments at Dachau on malaria and other biological weapons he and Borman and Hilter traded to the us after the war in order to be allowed to continue operations if not against us, against the communists.

 

Henry Kissinger, and Richard Helms must have been the ones in 1973 who helped Walter Raufe, Skorzeny’s assistant relocated to Chile, start concentration camps there. This enabled the assassination of Allende through guns smuggled in a diplomatic pouch, as reported in Congressional oversight hearings and books on the subject that I read and listened to at the time while in Washington DC. Allende was supporting communist control of the country. Richard Nixon, George Bush Senior and the people who helped them in the CIA in the 1950s, clearly know a lot more about this then they have told us in the famous Congressional hearings in the early 1970s which prohibited the CIA from conducting any more assassinations of State leaders.  The rest of us have not figured out enough about how this happened and why, I don’t think,…yet

 

In Northern Italy, after Hilter’s people visited the lakes with mosquito malaria biological warfare vectors, Anopheles, developed in research at Dachau about 100,000 contracted malaria and either died or suffered painful injuries. This program was developed by Erich Martinez, Hilter’s friend, In Numerberg, Dr.Claus Schilling, another SS biological warfare expert who worked at Dachau and had coordinated Nazi research in this with Japan where they developed how to produce Black Bubonic plague vectors in Manchuria for air release on the western cities of US. They was a famous U-boat information exchange in which he met the head of Japan’s program in the middle of the ocean under water and exchanged all the information from both programs. 

 

In operation Axis conducted by the Nazi’s in October 1944 against Jews in Palestine. It aimed at establishing an intelligence base in Mandatory Palestine, radioing information back to Germany and recruiting ad arming anti-British Palestinians by buying their support with gold. The plan failed and no significant meaningful action was taken by the commandos. But, according to some authors the plan included a well thought strategy to posion the drinking water of the residents of Tel Aviv. British and German archives have yieled no information about it. But, Tel Aviv is surrounded by swamping marshes and there has been problem with malaria since first creation after World War I.  Is it possible Schilling and Martinez’s Anopheles mosquito vectors were the planned method of attack? Martine and Schilling and Walter Raufe were captured by the Allies and Israelis and used as counterintelligence agents against Syria and Egpty high up in their proposed developed of Chemical and Biological Warfare programs after the war. Maybe this is what Netanyahu is referring to when he is talking about it now, with hints that they used Skorzeny, but not talking about it by explaining enough about it for the rest of us to understand the complete harmful double dealing deceit in it.

 

All of 55 SS officer’s all under the command of Wolfe, who was later turned by the American’s and the Israelis and helped us stop the development of use of this type of biological warfare, along the Nazi nuclear development program in Egypt and Syria. During this combined intelligence operation large number of Nazi  SS were infiltrratrated to Egupt to work under Nassar by Skorzeny. Skorzeny himself was caught several time then either release or along to stage prison escapes by his Allied captures in order to use him to assassinate the program leaders under Israeli and possibly US direction.

 

In 1953 Skorzeny arrives in Egypt and is appointed the Eqyptian leaders military advisor to set up Arab guerrileas in 1950s and 1960s he trained the PLO;sYassar Arafat, Sadam Husainn they developed rockets in Egypt to be used against Israel.

In 1956 a Egypt outs British advisors and Nassar is in charge.

 

Ever since 1948 a small bands or raiders under Skorzeny’s direction had been attacking Israel.

260 Israeli are killed or injured in 1953.

He even treained some American Neo-Nazis in Egypt to help all .

All opposition parties and 75,000 Egyptian Jews were expelled.

Then he relocated to Spain where he starts the “Paladan” group and operate from there.

Boith the Grand Mufti and Skorzenzy lived well into the 1970s.

 

 

 

 

Now back to the narrative of our Cal/Berkeley Alumni Association trip to Israel, 2018:

 

On Sunday morning at Mt. Carmel I had a good discussion with Hadassah, one of the modern Jewish settlers whose husband now works for Microsoft in Seattle. She is an artist who practices modern expressionism or Dadaism as defined in the period after World War II in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Spain. Why Dadaism, because Daaism had to do with expressing feelings where therr is no meaning and purity after the destruction of society. So, some of the pictures she paints look like they are part of a Buddhist Bardo, where God may or may not be in control. This is what Purgatory is called by Christians, but we believe God is in control of it. 

Also, we had a discussion with Tom Elder, one of our group, who is an agnostic. His name is the same as Jesus’ Apostle St. Thomas, so one might expect him to be the “doubter” of the group.  He believes if you, a human, ever “felt” the power of God you wouldn’t be able to “know Him”. But, I believe that if you ever have “known God” you would not need to feel Him to know He exists. So, Tom are you saying that Jesus who has and still is a human, never felt God, or that after feeling the power of Him,  HimSelf, His Father, and the Holy Spirit, and the  on the cross He wouldn’t still believe in Him. I would have to disagree about that, from my own experience. I still feel the healing power of the Blood of Jesus, His Father in Heaven, and the Holy Spirit, coming down from the Cross inside of me, from back then in my past,  and I still believe I still know all Three of Them.

“If you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can move these mountains.” Gospel of Matthew, Jesus talking about the peaks around the Lake Tiberias region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 4 Valley of Tears, as seen from Mt. Bental, in the Golan Heights, where a crucial tank battle was fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War between  Israel and Syria. This was the fourth largest tank battle ever fought and  of the most heroic and important. The Golan heights is very strategic because its rocky slopes make armoured movement impossible. And if the roads are blocked with obstacles it is even more difficult to move through. 1400 Syrian tanks sup;imented by special attack vehicles, armoured briding vehicles attacked 177 Israeli vehicles. Today the Israeli Air Force helps to dominate the Golan Region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the recent discoveries of highed valuable Natural Gas fields, the Natural Gas being needed as an alternate energy source and for proposed de-salinization plants  to replace dwindling water resoures on both sides of the Golan, it is an incentive for the Iranians them trying to retake this former Syrain territory below and bethind the Golan heights, the Israeli Army is also probably studying it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5 Ruins of Capernaum, where Jesus started his ministry, reading from the seven Hatorah’s of Isaiah. St, Peter, St. Andrew, John and Jesus all lived around here.on Lake Tibereas. It deeply feels like my home, as much as my wonderful house on Drummond St. in Vicksburg, MS, feels like home to me. And, in the area around it there is a good place to fish. Here in Israel, Lake Galilee is a good to place to fish because fish lay their eggs on its shores, around Vicksburg it is because of the many fishing ponds and lakes around the backwater floods here when the winding Mississippi River reaches flood stage. Because of the water resource problems in Israel, there didn’t seem to be any danger here of flooding from the water overtopping the shores of Lake Galilee into this ancient, venerable, important teaching site sacred to Christian Judaism.

 

 

 

On March 19, if I have the dates right, we went to the Synagogue of Jesus, Saint Peter and Saint Andrew where Jesus initiated his ministry in North Israel teaching the seven HaTorahs of Isaiah.  And, we also went to the Mt. of Beatitudes where he basically finished it teaching a form of the Jewish Daily Hallel, the Ashre,  the way to happiness, Psalms 145-150 where he summarized his whole Christian Jewish teaching about how to act in order to have a happy life.

 

 

 

Before you say the Daily Hallel in your Jewish Christian prayers it is customary to wake up with 15 or so blessings from the Jewish morning prayer service,  say  the Baruch H’Omer, blessed is He who speaks as well as acts, put on the Tefillim with its four blessings from the Torah and say the Shema.

 

 

Blessed is the One*

 

 

 

 

 

The joy that is in this song proceeds from my mouth to thank, to praise, to glorify my creator.

Haray…nay m’zamen et pay l’hodot ul’halayl ul’shabe..ach et bor’ee.

Baruch shamar v’hayah holam. Baruch Hu.

Blessed is the One by whose speech the world came to be. Blessed is He.

Baruch oseh b’raysheet.

Blessed is the One who creates everything.

Baruch omayr v’oseh.

Blessed is the One who creates by speaking.

Baruch gozayr vm’kayaym.

Blessed is the One who sustains by decreeing.

Baruch m’rachaym al ha…retz.

Blessed is the One who has mercy on the earth.

Baruch m’racharm al hb’rayyot.
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Blessed is the One who has mercy on all creatures

Baruch m’shalaym shachar tov leerayav

Blessed is the One who rewards those who fear him.

Baruch chay lad v’kyam l’ne…tzach.

Blessed is the One who lives forever and endures for all eternity.

Baruch phodeh vmatzeel. Baruch sh’mu.

Blessed is the One who saves by redeeming. Blessed is His name.

* here are some thoughts and comments on this wondelful prayer, gained after many years of praying it: Among many of the purposes and benefits of this prayer
it helps us better understand how our faith is “The light of the One increasing”.
The One God in this prayer is undivided, but he is also an individual inside
of multiplicity. He speaks as well as acts. That is He does what He says, acting by speaking (decreeing). He has created all of us…and, He is compassionate to us all as different types of beings. Thus, when we dedicate
the merits of our own actions to the glorification and sanctification of His Name, YAH YHWH ADONAI SABBAOTH, we are at the same time dedicating them for the benefit of “all sentient beings.” We have preserved in Him the name of a responsible person that we can dedicate the merit of our work to… not just an absolute consciousness inside of us all. Our God is both the “Totum Bonum” (total good) and the “Summum Bonum” (highest good). This prayer affirms that, for us, He cannot have one of these titles and purposes without the other; and not the other without this one.
He or she who has God’s love in their heart and knows the total good that God has placed in our souls and spirits…they are themselves a source and blessing of His or Her hope and this Good unto others.
He or she who has God’s love in their heart and knows the highest good that God has placed in our souls and spirits…they are themselves a source and blessing of His or Her faith and this Good unto others. 

Morning Blessings
(to be said upon arising)

 

 

 

 

 

My God, the soul you have placed… within me it is pure. You created it; You formed it; You breathed it into me; You keep it within me; and You will eventually take it from me… and return it to me in the time to come. So long as my soul is within me, I gratefully acknowledge your presence… Adonay my God and my ancestor’s God, Master of all creation, Lord of all souls, Blessed are you, Adonay, who restores souls to dead corpses.

In the prayers below you will note an important change from the current standard Jewish prayer book translations of these prayers, in addition to different transliteration schemes from the standard Ashkenazi. The Name of God YHWH Adonai, has the Pythagorean Christian Russian Christian Zionist,   tetragrammaton Name of God YHWH placed before the Name of God Adonai in the prayers.  This is because before reaching this point in our prayer we should have already sanctified the Name of God YHWH at the top chakra of the Holy Spirit coming down from Heaven to Earth to help us in our prayers. This is in accordance with Jesus Christ’s procedures in the Lord’s Prayer where he instruct to sanctify the Name of God YHWH, as standard procedure like He wore on the Essence Tefillam Shema prayers that He started then, His, Jesus Christ’s prayers, then, and still does now, every day.

Elohay n’shamah shenataeta… bee t’horah hee. Atah boratah, atah yotzeratah, atah n’pachtah, v’atah m’smarah b’keer’bee, v’atah ateed l’talah meem’ehnay… v’l’hachazeerah bay l’ateed l’bo. Kal z’man shehan’shamah v’ker’bee modeh aenee l’pneach… Adonay elohay v’elohay a’botay, rabon kal h’maeseem aedon kal n’shamot. Baruch atah adonay ham’chaezayr n’smot l’pgadeem mateem.

1) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler…of the Universe who opens… the eyes of the blind.

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam, pokay’ach eevreem.

2) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who clothes the naked.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam malbeesh aerumeem

 

3) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who releases the bound.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam mateer aesureem.

4) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who lifts up the bent over.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam zokayf k’fufeem

5) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who spreads out the land on the water.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam rokay h’aretz al ham’ayeem

 

6) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who has provided my every need.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam sheasah lay kal tsar’kay 
7) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who makes firm our steps.

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam hamaycheen meetsaday g’aver 

 

8) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who strengthens Israel with might.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam ozer Israel b’gevurah

 

 

9) Blessed are you, Lord, our God… Ruler… of the Universe who crowns Israel with glory.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam oter Israel b’teefarah 

 

10) Blessed are you, Lord, our God…Ruler… of the Universe who gives strength to the weary.

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, Elohenu… melek… h’olam h’noten layoayf poaych. 

 

12) Blessed are you, Lord, who compassionately bestows goodness to those of his people who have struggled to understand him..

 

 

 

 

 

Baruch atah YHWH Adonay, gomayl h’asadaym tobaym l’amo Israel. 

 

 

 

 

 

On March 20 we went to Nazareth to visit the Church of the Annunmciation

 

 

 

Figure 6 Mosaic from the Church of the Annuciation in Nazareth where the archangel Gabriel gave Mary some good news.

 

 

 

Some thoughts and words I told St. Mary and others of the group visiting the Church of Annunciation, Palm Sunday trip, March 2018:

The purpose of visiting this place is to listen and be silent, in order to hear the still small voice of God, and what He is telling you here. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you”,You can talk the talk, but if you do not listen you are not walking the walk.

 

 

Jesus was in the line of David through his father Joseph. St. Mary practiced then and still does, like our travel partner Mary Engstrom, a method of contemplative prayer in which you construct first a series of denial that anything bad has happened, and then affirmations, that, if it is God’s will the good we seek will manifest itself in our lives. This theology is alive today  in the Unity School of Christianity’s teachings of the Christian Scientist Charles Fillmore.  The way to help all of us as Jesus did is to listen to each of us individually.

 

 

 

 

 

Today wherever you are you can “Be Still and Listen to the Still Small Voice of God” for your guidance.  As the Zen Buddhist’s teach “What is the sound of One hand clapping?” It is the sound of the Alpha and the Omega in our Eternal consciousness of God’s Truth Trying to guide us forward, helping us to just keep on going like we are going, forever, Eternally.

 

There is a beautiful pathway underneath the frescoes over what we now know was Mary’s house.

 

 

March 20-21

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 7   Boat from the same time like the one St. Peter, St. Andrew, fished in.. During the time it was used Jewish zealots were hidden in caves surrounding the shore of Lake Tibereas defending the area against attacking Roman Legions. We think the occupants of this boat were killed as it was sunk during a Roman attack.

 

 

The boat was discovered in the mud on the shore of the Sea of Galilee-Lake Kinneret, in January 1986, by two kibbutz members of kibbutz En Gev. It is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for the kibitzers because of the endless stream of tourist money it will generate for the kibbutz. It should be thought as a blessing left for the current inhabitants of area by the former Christian Jewish people who lived there, the souls of Saint Andrew, Saint Peter, and Jesus Christ still living and dwelling here in this place similar to the way they did so long ago.

In order to “raise it up” from the sea bottom where the mud had acted as a preserving agent for it, to bless us visiting it in the new millennium, at first a small pit was dug around the boat and the mud cleared within it. Mud was removed from numerbered boxes within it. The pit was deepened and enlarged and a suspended platform constructed to enable the excavators to dig without causing damage to the boat. While the excavation was in progress a constant spray of water was maintained to protect it from exposure to direct sunlight. Fiberglass ribs were installed between the original frames and the craft was filled with polyurethane foam. Tunnels were dug and filled with the foam which hardened to serve as external supports and encase it in a fiberglass cocoon. A tiled reinforced concrete pool was built to shelter it during the conservation process. Finally a steam shovel cleared a channel from where it was resting to allow it to float to the present exhibit area where it is now on display to the public.

The original construction of the boat, as compared to other mediterranean vessels of this classical period,  turned out to be quite fascinating in itself. The keel and planking had bee edge-joined in the classical fashion using mortise and tenon joints locked on place with tapered hardwood pegs. There are twelve wood types that comprise the boat: christ thorn, carob, aleppo pine, hawthorn, cedar, tabor oak, sycamore, laurel, willow, judas tree, plane tree, atlantic terebinth. The frames were made from naturally curved tree crooks and branches, mainly oak and provided transverse support. The vessel provides a major contribution to the study of water transport and the history of the Galilee area.

This type of boat was surely that from which Jesus taught the crowds and also gave his famous advice to Simon Peter:  “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch”  Simon answered: “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But, at your word I will lower the nets. When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.”

 

 

Figure 8 The River Jordan, flowing out from the southeast corner of the Sea of Galilee southwards at the Yardenit Christian pilgrimage site. Perhaps it is where Jesus was baptized by John, perhaps, being a spiritual descendant of 

To the southeast from here across the river Jordan is the Mt. Gilead region in Jordan which Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Manasseh, which fell to Machir Manasseh’s firstborn, who became the father of Gilead Joshua 17:1, 22:9Joshua, who followed Moses in our sequence of types of Christ, stepped over the River Jordan on twelve stones each representing the 12 tribes of Israel,  We have the verse of the book ofJeremiah, 50:19 “I will bring Israel again to its pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.”Jeremiah 8:22“Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physic there?Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”Hosea 6:8  “Gilead is a city of whose who work iniquity it is stained with blood.”Amos 1:3 Thus says YHWH: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.”

 

Contemplative prayer and meditation for spiritual enlightenment, salvation, freedom from suffering and ills can be thought of as crossing a river of eternal, semi-eternal life, from earth on one side to an eternal kingdom of heaven in and on earth on the other side.

traditional afro-african southern us spirituals:

 

 

 A teaching from the ancient Holy City of Safed Israel

 

The town if full of shops selling jewery, artwork, calligraphyt

Importnt Christian Jewish Kabbalah teaching:

 

 

 

Figure  10  Torah Ark in Synagoge of the ARI (Rabbi Isaac Luria)  

Story about what happened to Moses when he became a Saint and arrived in heaven.

There is a crown of Moses on the top of the Ark.  Here is an important teaching

Of why Moses was only a type of Christ and not the fullness of the glory of God’s Son on the Menorah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo due to Cheryl Resh

It consists of a short dialogue between God and Moses after his soul finally became a Saint, through redemption in Jesus Christ, and ascended to heaven.
The 1000 year old, but not 3000 year old teaching of these Kabbalists asserting that God is a Verb, and hence by sin of omission that He is only a Verb, can be found in the book Shulcan Aruch (prepared table0, Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation), and the Torah commentary Zohar.

 

Here is my parable about it:

God said, “How are you doing old friend, what is my Name?”,  then Moses said: “Your Name Lord God Almighty is a verb that says “I AM WHO I AM, OR I AM THAT I AM.”
But, God said, “No, you got it wrong, my Name is not only a verb, which by itself is not a sentence or Truth or the Truth which my Name is, but My Name is “ IAM the Way (a verb), the Truth (a sentence), and the Life ( a person).”
“I guess I AM going to have to send My Only Son, as a person, down to heaven on earth to be the Life and the Way, in order that all humanity can be Truth or the Truth as well as you and I.”

 

March 22

 

 

Figure 11 Thanks to Ron’s security contacts, our group was allowed to ascend to the top of platform where we believe Herod’s Temple was formally situated. It wasn’t crowded during this time of day in the morning and there is a very good view of all of Jerusalem from here.

Downloaded from the Internet:

 

Inside the Dome, Photo due to Cheryl Rosh

 

 

 

 

 

 

information from the internet:
“The Temple Mount, where the First and Second Jewish Temples once stood, is the holiest place for the Jewish people.


( comments from Andrew: To give equal time to Ron and many other orthodox conservative and reform Jews who don’t believe this, they claim that when the Temple was destroyed the Presence of God left the place and since that time it was transferred to the Western Wall, God instantiated in space and time as a wall, an obstacle to us attaining our spiritual goals and perfections.. But, I believe that our God is much more omnipresent and compassionate than that, instantiating Himself as as perfect “emptiness” a “righteous dharma Truth” as the Quran foretells and seals to help Muslims learn about Him, even though they claim it is impossible to “know” Him in the fullness of Truth in Him that His Son Jesus became and still is, or definitely not in whatever or some sense that we want to spiritually. Perhaps the ancient temple of Herod or Solomon will be rebuilt in the future. I do not know, and so far it has not been given to me to prohesize about this. So far, from talking to God about it a little, it seems to me He is satisfied with the current situation in which Israel has been restored to His Homeland, his descendants are as manifold as the stars, and the Throne of Christ, God’s Only Son Jesus Christ has been restored inside the hearts and minds of those who believe in Him and call upon Him as their Savior and Lord of all.)

 Today, two famous houses of prayer – the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock – the third holiest site for Muslims – reside on the Temple Mount. For the Jews, the Temple Mount – Mount Moriah – is sanctified by the belief that here God’s divine presence (the Shchina, in Hebrew) resides for eternity.1 For Muslims, “Haram esh-Sharif” (“the Noble Sanctuary”) – the Arabic term for the Temple Mount – is sanctified by Muslims’ belief that adjacent to where the al-Aqsa mosque stands was the destination of the Prophet Mohammed’s Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem on his winged steed (al-Buraq) and that it was from this spot that the Prophet ascended to heaven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Important Note: Since I made this trip with UC Berkeley friends in 2018 I have discovered the exciting archeological UTube tours of Israel by Joel Kramer, a Christian Evangelist who married a Mormon and has help start a Biblically based ministry that explains Mormonism to Christians.

This spot where I am pictured here below the Menorah is right next to where we now think the Last Supper and Pentecost was experienced an celebrated by the 12 Apostles after Christ’s death and resurrection at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher already discussed. Joel, in his UTube tape on his tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher explains why we are now pretty certain this Church and not the Garden Tomb is the actual site of the crucifixtion and resurrection.  Constantine’s Church was built over the remains of an earlier site going back to the Time of the Roman Emperor of Hadrian [verified by inscriptions on the building materials going back to this period]. The newly discovered [in the last century] Church of the Apostle here is now a Jewish Synagogue, and we are pretty sure, also the first Christian Church, used during the period after 33 AD in the first century with an apse in which a Jewish Torah was placed [probably the Greek Septagiant Torah and not the present day Mesorah Hebrew translation]. The synagogue is called the “Tomb of David” because in the book of Nehemiah this area of the city of David and the caves across the valley, by the wall of Hezekiah, is referred to as where Saint David’s ancestors were buried and probably where His bones are located]. Joel thinks the actual tomb of David is not in this synagogue but in the caves across the valley and what he says in the Tube videos seem to make sense to me. But, for sure, if this building was where the last supper took place and a Jewish Church was located here for services with the Torah apse window pointed toward the site of the crucification and not the Holy Temple itself it makes sense that it is the “First Church of Christianity” and one of the Holiest if not the Holiest [the Holiest being the Church of the Holy Synagogue itself] Christian sites in the World.  notes and timeless historical comments and discussions added by Dr. Andrew W. Harrell 2/10/2010  URL as of 2/2020 of start of Joel Kramer’s fascinating UTube sites is:https//www.utube.com/watch?v=fx3qtmik_Fg. He is a Utah Mormon pastor who studied archeology in Hebrew University in Israel. There is a 16 part Christian archeology video series of his many investigation and explorations of ancient Biblical places in the Holy Land he made you can find at his website mrm.org.

 

 

Many Jews claim that the western wall is the most Holy Place of Judaism. It is said that when Herod’s temple was destroyed, God’s presence left it and entered the Western Wall. I do not agree, for as I believe that God is not always a Verb, so on the other hand, He is not always a wall. He does not play favorites either very often. Now the archangel Gabriel is a Verb, and the archangel Michael is wall. These two highest totum bonum, summan bonum, total good, highest good, angels which sit on the top of God’s Holy Temple indwelling us today, as a Holy Ark of the Covenant are pretty much the highest expressions of God, meaningfully and intellectually. But, God’s presence, His instantiation in our human souls as a Holy Spirit indwelling us as the Lord God of Hosts, overwatches both these main archangels in an intellectual nothingness and without meaninfulness of Peaceful Spirit, Peaceful Truth, even as the current Haram El’ Shariff on the Temple Mount does, and even as His Highest Good, Peaceful knowledge of Himself dwelling through His Name YHWH Christ, Jesus Christ, YHWH Saboath, does, even as it becomes a 1,2,3,infinity like the Torah being a Tree of Life bearing these good fruits of the Holy Spirit indwelling in us in the multiple image and likenes of Himself, overseeing The One image and likenss of Himself, His Only son Jesus, as a Tree of Eternal life, which balances out and controls and expresses both His left and His right hands expressing Himself through us, indwelling as a Holy Spirit in us.

Tradition says it that King David always contemplated the Menorah at the different Holidays of YHWH during the year while he was in the wilderness.
If you believe that Saints are real people living today among us you can meditate on the candles of the Menorah as types of Christ, branches of righteousness in God’s Eternal Tree of Life.
What are the liberal Protestant theological beliefs required to understand how people’s eternal soul’s can be living Saints among us?  I believe you have to be a mathematical theologian like Plato and me and believe that numbers have a reality inside of people and us and the World.  During October we will be studying some of the complicated details of this theology starting from my review of UC Berkeley philosophy professor’s Oxford U. Press book “On What Matters” which states the opposite arguments for a logical positivist approach to theology and ethics which I don’t believe.
See http://www.bit.ly/LIGHTANDDARKNESS for a posting of this review at our amateur theological website.  For an opposite theological view, but, a conservative Protestant one, you might want to read Dennis P. Hollinger’s book “Head, Heart and Hands:Bringing Together Christian Thought, Passion and Action” which tries to argue that all this complicated “head” theology is not needed.

 

 

 

During Passover and Easter  Shavuous and Pentecost we meditate on the name YHWH YHWH as the concept of a concept which forms in us the Seven Great Jewish Kabalistic Tree of Life  concepts of 1)Chesed (Loving Kindness), 2)Gevurah (strength), 3)Tiferet (Beauty) 4) Netzach (the key to patient victory in Jesus Christ), 5) Hod (obedience to Christ), 6)Yesod (righteousness in Christ Jesus), 7) Malkuth (Kingship). Thus for 49 days we count the Omer and think about Chesed of Chesed, Chesed of Gevurah, Chesed of Tiferet and so forth. You might well ask, “Where are the important Kabbalistic great ideas of “Chokhmah” , wisdom, and “Binah”, spiritual understanding during these 49 days? They are Tree of Life gifts from God as intuitive knowledge, and not meditative contemplative knowledge,  from your indwelling Holy Spirit from Him to You during these days.”If you can’t find him inside of the intuitively given human heart indwelling in you during this time, you can’t find Him anywhere.” But, just keep on going like you are going, doing this every year and He will place “an open door, that can’t be shut” inside of your heart like already promised to us and make you an important part of His “Tree of Life” that  bears good fruit, these gifts, eternally in all of us. He will give you a “clean white robe”, and a “precious stone”, or perhaps all twelve, of one of the tribes of Israel like which Saint Joshua walked over to get to the other side of the River Jordan inside of your soul and the soul of the World around you and us. For a clearer theological organization of this total meditative scheme you might want to study and meditate using the divine order of thoughts explained in  http:/bit.ly/SavedbyHolySpiritandJesus.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, see the amateur theological teachings at http://ourprayergroup.blogspot.com, Holecaust remembrance day trip to New Orleans, LA for more details of how lighting the Menorah and practicing Judaism on Hanukkah can help us understand the deconstruction and resurrection of the World after the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd coming of Jesus Christ, Christ jesus.

 

 

Speaking of how God’s Name indwells us and our Names as a Eternal Tree of Life:

On the Sabbath March 24, we visited Yad Vashem the Jewish memorial to six million Jews who perished during the Holecaust.

It’s design is inspired by the verse from Isaiah, chapter 56:5

 

 “”And I gave them a Name on their houses and doorways and guideposts that shall not be cut off.”

Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018

 

Somewhere around the 2^nd Temple period the prophet Isaiah started writing and Jews started intermarrying. In order to create a distinct genome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Scultpure art work in Yad Vashem garden area.

          Picture of Moses leading the Israelites across the Nile. Cheryl took the photo. I think it is from an art shop in Safed.

 

 

On the bus ride to Masada, the celebrated mountain stronghold sitting atop an isolated mesa at the edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea, where vastly outnumbered Jews held out against a three year Roman seige, survivors committing suicide en masse… from Qumran, adjacent to which the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956, Ron asked the question: “What is the Army of God, God’s favorites?”
I was inspired spontaneously to reply:
“God does  not play favorites. (whether or not He plays dice}”

 

 

 

 

 

I guess I should have said, “God does not always play favorites”, sorry Ron

 

Figure 14

 

 

Haas Promenade observation terrace view of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount from a street parking lot overlook. Jerusalem is sometimes called the “city of gold”, sacred to the world’s three great religions it sits in the Judean mountains between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern tip of the Dead sea.  The view is from the east looking west, toward the  old city wall and the Via Dolorossa and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Jaffa Gate. To the left is the Jerusalem Peace Forest, Mt. of Remembrance, and Vad Vashem. Mount Moriah is to the right of the golden dome on the temple mount, that would make Mount Zion at the upper left corner of the photo I believe. Someone who was there around 1800BC when Abraham first arrived in the area might want to correct me.

 

 

 

 

 

This area from which the picture was took looks toward Mount Morah, Genesis 22:4-5, where Abraham first saw Jerusalem and from where tradition says that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his Son Isaac. It is in this chapter of Genesis in this place where God’s Name Most sacred four-letter name YHWH appears in the Old Testament used as YHWH Yireh or God will provide, or God will provide by seeing, or God will provide by guiding us toward this providence.

 

 

Children drawing water from “Mary’s Spring” in Jerusalem.

Also on this west side, not visible is the village of Ein Karem (the “spring of the vineyard” the childhood home of John the Baptist, who is another main forerunner of Christ, and which has a nice restaurant and water well, Mary’s spring*. According to Jewish Christian tradition, before Israel in the wilderness broke camp to conduct movement [the same Blessed Spiritual movements of our souls forward in the world which now occurs on Pentecost/Shavuous just as it did after Jesus was crucified and resurrected) supernatural healing waters surrounded and separated different parts of the encampment into a Divine, Holy Spirit order for movement]. Five churches the visitation church for the annunciation of John, Russian and Greek Orthodox monasteries, and a Catholic monastery of Notre Dame. We visited this site earlier in the previous day for a light lunch. Even today, the Holy Spirit directs Christians Jews forward as a Shepherd, Jesus Christ indwelling us being the first fruits of this Divine Comforter, Director forward of our soul’s movements in Eternal Time.

Garden and Pool area in the Courtyard of the King David Hotel, of the Dan Hotel chain in Israel, across the Valley from the Jaffa Gate where if you walk across to it and enter, you will encounter many Muslim shops and vendor stalls in the narrow walk way to the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Between that and the western wall is the King David Hotel near the Jaffa Gate where we stayed.  The Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives are near and off to the right,

Now, back to how to invoke God’s Name as a Holy Spirit comforting and guiding us forward on 
Pentecost/Shavuous.

This area from which the picture above overlooking Jerusalem looks toward  Mount Morah, Genesis 22:4-5, where Abraham first saw Jerusalem and from where tradition says that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his Son Isaac. It is in this chapter of Genesis in this place where God’s Name Most sacred four-letter name YHWH appears in the Old Testament used as YHWH Yireh or God will provide, or God will provide by seeing, or God will provide by guiding us toward this providence.

In invoking God’s Name in this way there is a Biblical sequence of prayer contemplation and meditation:  1)  YHWH Shammah or the Lord  is Present as a Presence or  I AM God,  2) YHWH Yireh, the Lord is our Providence of Faith, and sustenance , initiating it in us, 3) YHWH Naseh the Lord is our upholder, our supporter the One who catches us when we fall, 4) YHWH Rohi The Lord is our guide or shepherd, 5) YHWH Nissi, the Lord is high and lifted up as our banner who lifts the road up to follow in front of us and keeps us pointed in that direction, 6) YHWH Mekadishem  The Lord is our Sanctifier, 7) YHWH Tzedkanu  the Lord is our righteousness, All these seven uses of the Lord’s Name in the Old testament have their Biblical chapters and verses, and can even be meditated on as prayer centers in the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you,  see elsewhere in the Bible and in our Jewish Christian prayer site posting and discussion areas for more on this.

Why in the Lord’s prayer do we say first “Lord may thy Kingdom come, and then Lord may thy will be done.”
We say this first because if we want to know God through our own prayer words, through the knowledge, coming down from Him or Her indwelling in our topmost Chakra, the thousand lotus pedal Sahasraha spiritual center to which our souls ascend to heaven above us when we die and come back down again in themselves inside of us, still indwelling as spiritual knowledge of God as part of the Eternal soul’s going through karma in the bardello, if we have any, Jesus didn’t, and back down toward the divine lotus feet of what has already happened to us, now in this life and also in our past lives, in order to be known as divine truth indwelling as a glorification up there in heaven and down here on earth in our souls eternally we first need to have the Divine Name YHWH instantiated well and known well in us first, then later the knowledge happens as the spiritual instantiates itself for the second and third time in a divine truth or logical syllogism which has three comings, three happenings and then more, 1,2,3, infinity in me and also you.

Here, for instance, is an arrangement of some of them, inset in verses from the Book of Micah, in the important Tashlich, washing away, prayers said a couple of days before the Jewish High Holy Days prayers each New Year:

In distress I called(YAH) upon YAH,
with abounding relief (YHWH Nasi…Levicticus) YAH answered me,
YHWH is with me (Emmanuel of the Book of Isaiah)
I do not fear (YHWH Rohi Psalm 23)
What can man do to me? (YHWH Eloheynu Psalm 99:8)
YHWH is for me (YHWH Rapheka Exodus 15:20)
So I shall see the downfall of my enemies (YHWH Mekeddeshem Exodus 1:13)
It is better to take refuge in YHWH (YHWH Sabaoth Samuel 1:1) than to rely one man
It is better to take refuge in YHWH than to rely on princes (YHWH Adonai).
Yah, O God, who is like you (beyond wisdom, enthroned in wisdom inside of all of us)?
Who pardons iniquity (YHWH Elohim full of grace, immanence, and understanding)
and overlooks transgression (El…The Lord most high, raised up, and full of mercy)
for the remnant of his heritage (Strong and upholding justice)?
Who has not retained His wrath eternally. ( YHWH Sabaoth….Patient)
For he desires kindness (YHWH Elohim.. Obedient)!
He will again be merciful to us (YHWH YHWH… the beauty and glory  of what is beautiful and glorifiable…when God is One, His Truth is One, when God is Two His Truth is Two, when God is Three His Truth is You)_,
He will suppress our iniquities (El Shaddai The Holy One of Israel, Blessed be He).
And, cast into the depths of sea all our sins (YHWH Adonai… The Lord God Himself, Yourself as an indwelling Holy Spirit);
Grant Truth to Jacob (YHWH Rohi… The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, He leads me, peacefully, in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s Sake. Psalm 23),
kindness to Abraham (YHWH Nissi, The Lord is my banner, the shield and blessing of Abraham which protects us from harm.  Exodus 17:15)
As you swore to our fathers (YHWH Yireh… The Lord shall be the One who sees the Christ in us
and provides for us Genesis 22:8-14)
YHWH Shammah (The Lord is present in His temple among us  Ezekiel 48:35).

Just around the corner in the Garden of Gethsemee from this area is where Jesus prayed before he was condemned and crucified. You might wonder whether Jesus also thought at this point whether God was only testing Him here as He did Abraham requiring Him only to sacrifice His Son, only to be told at the last minute that it wouldn’t be required.  But, we know that Jesus had already understood all of this, that the sacrifice would be his life as well as his Son when he confronted Satan in the wilderness trying to convince that total obedience to God in this wouldn’t be necessary.

You can  see parts of the old city of David, and the Jewish Quarter, some of the gates of the Eastern Wall, the Dung Gate with the Hurva Signagogue on its left, where you enter to go up to the Dome of the Rock, and a corner of the Western Wall.

On a clear day you can see forever. When we pray contemplatively for this we declare YHWH Shammah YHWH Yireh, God is present, God sees for us. A lot of what we see contemplatively is through dreams. Or in what the Buddhists call a semi-ambulatory enhanced light state that prophets that ancient and current day prophets spend a lot of time in while they are praying contemplatively.

 

 

In part of the photo back behind and to the left of the Dome of the Rock, you can see the Church of Domitian where St. Mary fell asleep after Jesus died and ascended in her dreams to Heaven with Him.

 

The Church of the Holy Sepuchere is now considered to the buriel place of Christ. Built around 300AD by Constantine, he excavacted the top and sides from where is was originally and much more overhanging  large rock cave. If this is infact the site, Both Jesus’ and Joseph’s crypt were part of a larger complex of burial caves covered by this overhanging rock before is was excavated by Constantine.

 

In the 19the century some Protestant Academics believed, because of the verses in John 12, saying the place where Christ was entered was near a large garden, which this area is not that this was not the correct site and also they argued that at the time of Christ it was forbidden to have burials inside of the city walls, which this area is. A hilly area with an outcropping of rock which looks somewhat like a skull can be found acroos town But, this area has of tombs now been dated as to have been used at least 800 years before Jesus’ time.

 

There is a fascinating discussion of the Church on the National Geographic Explore Channel program Secrets of Christ’s tomb on the 1016-17 excavation and restorations which were conducted t the Church of the Holy Sepuchlar.. In the center of the rotunda of the main floor of the church is a structure called the aedicule which contains the tomb under a vault which had not been opened for restoration for thousands of years until then It contains a Crusader cross carved about 1100 AD, but the main rock has been dated back to 300 AD confirming that it was probably built by Constantine.  On the second level of the Church is said to be the site of Golgotha itself where the cross stood. It is hard not to be suspicious that these two sites are inside the same Church, that the cross is is so close to the tomb. But, its possible.

The building and the aedicule has been damaged by fires during the Muslim conquest which occurred befoee the Crusaders were in charge. But, now it has been restuored and shored up structurally so that it is safe to go it. There was also a brief mention of the new discovery of a possible tunnel escape route, hewn out of the solid rock 30 feet  below the crypts and caves and with a staff straight up leading out.  Was this tunnel part of Constnatine construction in the Church or did it exist earlier in the time of Christ  Ron didn’t get into any of this, I wonder if he is aware of it. When we arrived it was 1155 on Palm Sunday and the procession of the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem was just departing after the Mass. Ron took us into the Syrian chapel where Joseph of Arimathea’s crypt is and where the mass was conducted and we lit candles.

 

I have added here some thoughts above taken from Wikepedia article on the Church of the Holy Sepulchar.  Also I have attached some words our long time prayer friend of the 1980s,1990, 2000 and beyond Pope John Paul II, including some of his thoughts upon visiting this Holy Place.   He conducted this Mass at the Catholic shrine on the other side of the Church where some teach Jesus’ body was placed in a Casket to bury it.  But, I believe his bones and flesh and spirit were just left to dissolve into a a non-existent, non-entombed purgatory, since there was no Karma left in his spirit and soul at this time, as there usually is in most of his followers who participate in his death through following this pilgrimage procedure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 11Mosaic inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchar which encompasses inside itself the ground on which Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross and the tomb of Joseph of Arimethea where he was buried and resurrected. That is if you don’t believe General Gordon who instituted a Garden Tomb across the city, It does seem a little suspicious that they would have crucified him so close to the tomb where he was resurrected.

 

Here are some “Mug Shot” cell phone photos, my friend Herb took of us (some earlier in the trip on the bus and other stops) as we passed through Christ’s tomb, in that place (Calvary), at that time (Palm Sunday):

 

 

 

Figure 4 Ron Lahad

 

 

 

 

Figure 5 Thomas Zurfluh

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 6  Ellen Zurfluh

 

 

 

 

Figure 7 Su Ueng

 

 

 

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 Figure 8 Tzon Ueng

 

 

Figure 9 Maggie Solberg

 

 

  

Figure 10Dave Solberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 11 Cheryl Resh

 

 

 

 

  

Figure 12Vince Resh

  

Figure 13Herb Engstrom

 

Figure 14 Mary Engstrum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 15Andrew Harrell

 

 

 

Figure 16 Tom Elder

 

 

 

 

Figure 17 Cindy Elder

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 18Hannah Branstetter

 

 

Figure 19 Bud Branstetter

 

 

Figure 20 Lester Archer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 12 Picture taken from inside the crypt of Joseph of Arithemeia itself where our Lord and Savior was entombed nearby and rose again after dying in order to save us all. I lite a candle in the antechamber next to the tomb and said the prayer:

 

“Blessed be Him who is blessed. In the Name of the Father, YHWH Christ, the Son YHWH Christ, and the Holy Spirit.YHWH Christ” In order to try and help both His soul and ours Eternally. “Dying He destroyed our dying, rising, He brings New Life again.”

Candle someone lite in the antechamber to the cave of Jesus’ entombment. I think it was me. Photo by Cheryl.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 21  Palm Sunday Light from the sky over Jerusalem Israel on our Lord’s final place of entombment, before ascension back to heaven 49 days in the Omer prayer count later on Shavuous, Pentecost

 

 

When Jesus’ soul died it did not enter the Bardo or Purgatory in order to be resurrected. This is because it was already pure and merciful and blessed and did not need to have any of what the Hindus call Karma worked out. The men of God of Israel who were prophets like Jesus lived in caves to meditate in order that in meditation they could withdraw their senses from worldly experiences in order to self realize themselves through concentration of the mind in order to stop the fast part of their minds from thinking and leave room in order to hear the divine superconscious still small voice of God that led them forward in time. Prophets were not buried in the ground using the Egyptian practices in order to be resurrected at some time later after they had traversed a series of encounters with good and bad angels. This practice was adopted by the Christian Church as a merciful act because most Christians have not yet attained the level of Spiritual englightment and knowledge that the FirstBorn of Creation, God’s only Son, the Christ, finally incarnated in us to order to help us and save our souls with his physical fullness, spiritual understanding, wisdom, love, faith, hope in short a complete logical presence. Or instantiation of the individual and the group divine indwelling in us as the Lord God, YHWH Adonai of Hosts, the Holy Spirit YHWH Sabaoth..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Jesus passed forward and ascended into the right hand of God the Father, dwelling in Heaven down here on earth among us,  in a bodily temple as Pope John Paul II so beautifully and wonderfully explained in his New Millenenium homily above, in order to judge us all correctly when and if we try to follow this course, this position eventually passed, for a while* to St. Paul , Romans 11:1 who was in the direct blood linel from the Benjamites who returned to Jerusalem 1 Ch 9:7-9 and Esther or Hadassah, Est 2:15

 

 

 

 

 

*But, not necessarily forever, even if you are a Catholic. I need to be careful here to respect the fact that it certainly seems like it was in Karol Wojtyla during year 2000, and still is to a great degree. Karol’s birthday, re-birth day, by the way, is May 18, one day before the Christian Jewish Holy Spirit re-brith in us day, Shavuous, this year, on our prayer group 2018 Calendar.

 

And Mordecau Est. 2:5. Jesus was in the direct blood line from King David through and the 2^nd temple period time of Isaiah , Hezekiah, along the Jewish genotype was not established genetically until when Jews started intermarryin only among themselves some time after 2^ndtemple. Which makes this part of the blood line less definitive, physically.

See the website Bibleworks.com and the book Life at the Time of Jesus by Miriam Feinberg-Vamost for much more information about this.

 

Back then, Jesus told Saint Andrew that he would become a seed, a concept of thought, fallen to the ground to be reborn. He would and did become a boddhisatta, a knower of the Christ, the Divine Sattwa (Sanskrit word for Divine instaniated mind, containing within itself, the past, the present, and the future, as it is manifested as Eternal knowledge of the Divine Mind as the Christ indwelling in us). He told Him, as I believe, although it is not in the written Bible we have given to us, that he would know that He Himself was the branch of righteousness, from which the seed falls to the ground, and from which the branch grows out of the ground as the seed of a seed, the concept of a concept. The Buddha, the One Buddha who is God’s Son, Christ Jesus.

 

On the menorah which we meditate on as the Christ during Hanukkah, there are seven branches of righteousness, or eight if you count the development of Israel’s shepherds or souls in the Bible. Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, is the seventh, the “Good Shepherd who is willing to die in order to be reborn in us, as another one of us, a the same one of us, forever more.

 

 

 

 

And, if we believe we are going to be able to live as redeemed humans and Saints in a post-milleniam World, in a “City without a Church” as St. John and Henry Drummond, the liberal Methodist have believed in, then we are going to have to teach ourselves how to understand the World we live in, not as a Totalitarian Church, but a more Democratic and Republican Church with respect to both political viewpoints, of both the have and have nots, like the US Constitution has helped us and our US social system to achieve in its last 250 or so years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A full Kaddish combined with a rabbi’s Kaddish for Christians who study the Torah, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah and pray the Amidah***** (for those who pray it, may it be a sealing, filling, anointing of the Holy Spirit inside of us) 
preliminary notes on the transliteration scheme used for this translation of the Kaddish as it compares to the more tranditional Ashkenazi Hebrew to English one: 
Ashkenazi English ei iff ay (iff is a mathematician’s shorthand for if and only if) s iff t bb iff bh w iff silent h at end of word ee iff e or i v iff b u iff o 
Yit’gadal v’yit’kadash sh’mayh raba. 
May (God’s) great name grow sanctified in us 
(Amen) 
B’alama de b’ra cheer’otayh. 
In the world that he created and willed. 
V’yam’laych mal’chotayh, b’chayaychon v’b’yomaychon 
May he establish this sovereignity in your lifetime and in your days. 
vb’chayay d’chal bayt Is’raayl. 
And in the lifetimes of all Israel. 
B’agala vbhz’man karayv 
May these days (that have been foretold) come quickly and soon. 
v’am’ru: Amen (here the people say amen) 
Y’hay sh’mehh raba m’barach l’olam vl’al’may al’maya. 
May his great name be blessed in the universe inside of that which flourishes (or prospers) inside of the flourishing (prosperity) 
Yit’barach v’yishtabach v’yitpaar v’yitromam v’yitnashay v’yithadar v’yitalehh v’yithalal sh’mayh d’khuhd’sha b’rayach Hu 
(B’rayach Hu – Cong.) 
Blessed and praised and glorified and exalted and supported and strengthened and raised up and praised Holy in worshipful song be the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He. (here the congregation says Blesed be He) 
L’ayla meen khal beer’cata v’shayrata tuhsh’bh’chata v’nehchehmata, 
Though its well-being flourishes beyond all blessings and songs…praises and consolations. 
damayran b’al’ma. Vam’ru: amayn. (amayn-cong.) 
That are said where it prospers (or flourishes)…now we say Amen (here the congregation says amen). 
Kabayl b’rachmaym vbh’ratzon et t’pheelatanu. Accept our prayers with compassion and favor (cong.) 
Teet’paybayl tz’lot’hon v’bhaot’hon d’chal bayt Yisrael kadam Abohon day bheeshamay. 
May the prayers of all Israel be accepted by their Father in Heaven. 
Al Yish’raayl v’al rabbanayn. V’al tal’maydayhon v’al khal tal’mayday tal’maydayhon. Va’ khal man d’as’qayn b’oray’ta, dhay b’at’ra hadayn v’day b’khal atar v’atar. 
Upon Israel, upon the teachers, their disciples and all of their disciples and upon all those who engage in the study of Torah, who are here or anywhere else. 
Y’heh l’hon vl’chon sh’lama rbha, cheena v’chees’dha v’rach’mayn, v’chayayn adaychayn, vm’zonay r’vaychay, v’phehr’aqana meen k’adam abohon dhay beesh’maya (v’araa). V’am’ru: amayn. (amayn – cong.) 
May they and you have abundant peace, grace, kindness, mercy, long life, ample nourishment, and salvation from before their Father who is in heaven (and on earth). Now we say Amen (here the congregation says amen) 
Y’hay sh’alma raba meen Sh’maya, v’chayaym (tobaym) alaynu v’al chal Yish’rael v’eem’ru: amayn. (amayn-cong.) 
May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life(goodness) upon us and upon all Israel. (here the congregation says amen…) amen. 
Asehh shalom bheem’romayav, Hu bh’rachamayav y’ashehh shalom alay…yanu v’al chal Yeesh’raayl. V’eem’ru. (amen- cong.) 
May He who makes peace in the high heavens, may He, in His compassion, make peace upon us, and upon all Israel. (here the congregation responds amen) Amen. 
*****The Kaddish is somewhat of a different prayer than the Kaddosh (some of the Kaddosh prayers are included the April 10 posting of this blog). This posting has the Amidah with its 18 intentions and requests said to God to give us knowledge of him, his Son, his Holy Spirit in us and their will for us for our repentance, forgiveness, redemption, complete healing, a good year, justice for us, peace in and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, answers to our personal intentions, and thankfulness for the nearness of his Son the anointed One, the Christ to us and all Israel during the year. According to tradition the Amidah needs this full Kaddish to come after it for its completion…the earlier blog posting also includes the Baruch shamar v’hayah holam..omayr v’oseh, Baruch Hu (the blessing of the One who acts as well as speaks and by whose speech the world came to be), the Ha El, Et Shem, and Shoken Ad prayers and the Yishtabach which embellish and add to the Kaddosh) The Kaddish blesses God in all directions (10 in fact) inside and outside of the present moment in the world to come on earth and in heaven (above, below, around…past, present, future). Thus when we say it we don’t request a change in our situation only our awareness or mindfulness of our circumstances in it. The Kaddosh blesses God and exalts God in an upwardly direction toward his throne or most high place in the heavenly  realms. All study of the Torah, all blessing prayers of the departed souls of those near and dear us can benefit from a Kaddish. And, all prayers in which we request God’s help and providence in more human terms can benefit from a Kaddosh. This prayer is addressed to Christians because there are many complexities and traps involved in learning Judaism as a Christian and I believe this blessing is much needed nowadays to bless, help, and benefit us all together as servants of God. The full Kaddish which contains additional lines requesting Our Father in Heaven to hear and answer the prayers in the Amidah is,by tradition, said at the completion of this service. The rabbi’s Kaddish blesses us and our study of the Torah whether we are in Church (Temple or Synagogue) or not. Combining the two eliminates any confusion about whether we, who write these prayers, want all of the prayers of our brothers and sisters in Christ, who are trying to learn things as they go along, to be answered. 

The mourner’s Kadish or half Kaddish, which is just the first eight lines 
contains ten praises of God’s Name and is said to help someone’s soul be 
blessed by us and God for happiness for a long time. It focuses (by omitting 
the last lines in the prayer referring to the teacher’s and the communities 
intentions) on praying for God’s unfullified purposes and promises in the 
individual’s own intentions to be passed forward in us. So, by omitting the 
last lines this prayer helps the whole community to slow itself down in order 
that we might become more mindful of what the individual’s soul was trying to 
accomplish for God here on earth and continue this forward. I am sure we said 
this prayer for Jesus Christ as YHWH Yeshua, Yeshua YHWH, Jesus Christ when 
He died on the cross and was resurrected, so I would heartily recommend it to 
those who believe trusting in Him can also help there souls fulfill God’s 
promises to them in the afterlife :

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a translation of it, part of which was taken from a Artscroll Mesorah 
series book called the ‘Kaddish Prayer’

Each of the ten praises in Hebrew rhyme so they can work together and be 
memorized better when we say them repeatedly. And you might want to study how 
each of the ten types of Hebrew prayer praise words occur in other parts of 
the overall service during the liturgical year.

May God’s great (Yitgadel) name be 1) exalted and 2) sanctified (Yiskadash)

May He establish His Kingship (and cause his salvation to sprout and bring 
near His Messiah)

during our lifetime and during our days and during the lifetime of all of 
Israel, swiftly and soon.

May His great Name be blessed forever and ever

3) Blessed (Yis’bawrach), 4)lauded (yishtabach), 5) glorified (yispawar), 6) 
extolled (yisroman), 7)upraised (yisnassei), 8) honored (yis’hadaw), 9) 
elevated (yisaleh), and praised (yishalawl) be the Name of the Holy One, 
Blessed be He (even though it is)

beyond all blessings, songs, praises, and consolations that are uttered on 
earth. (let the people say amen)

May there be abundant peace from Heaven and (good) life, upon us and upon all 
Israel (let the people say amen)

May He who makes peace in His heights, may He (in His mercy) make peace upon 
us and upon all those who follow His commandments.

One can compare these 10 types and levels (taken all together) of praise,

 

 

 

 

 

with the 15 sometimes given and taught in the Passover Haggadah service.

According to tradition the 15 levels (and hence the 10 as part of them) 
correspond to the steps in the Temple on which the levites sang Psalms during 
the Holidays and the pilgrims approached the holiest part of the temple 
service.

The other levels given by God as spiritual gifts to those who worship Him 
this way during the Passover Seder are:

Y’Shetabach ( a prayer of ascents… using fifteen expressions to God of song 
and praise…to be said while standing) 


Y’Shetabach sheem’ach laad mal’kay..nu, ha ayl hameh..lech hagadol v’hakadosh, 
basham..aym vba…retz. 

May your name be praised forever, our King, high God, 
our great and Holy King, in the heavens and on the earth. 

L’ach…naeh Adonai E’lohaynu vAylohay a’botaynu, 
For thanks befit thee, Adonay our God and God of our fathers, 

Shayr vchabachah, halayl v’zeem’rah, 
song and praise, uplifted praise and melody, 

az vmehm’shalah neht…zach g’eduhlah vg’borah, t’heelah v’teeph’…ehreet, 
strength and power, eternity, greatness and might, worship and beauty, 

k’duhchah vmeel’chot, b’rachot, v’hodot maytah v’od olam. 
holiness and dominion, blessings and praise, forever are in you. 

Barch atah Adonah, ayl meh..lech gadol bateesh’bahot, ayl hahodaot, 
Blessed are you Lord, high God, greatly lauded King, God of thankfulness, 

Adon haneeph’laot, habochayr b’sheeray zeem’rah, meeh..lech ayl chay 
holamaym.
 
Lord of wonders, Our God, our God of eternal life, who chooses melodious 
songs. 
1) majesty (Malchut), 2) song (Shir), 3) strength (gevurah), 4)power for 
victorious eternal power, which we Christians have named ‘Victory in 
Jesus'(netzach) 5) dominion (mem’shalah)

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Article #392
Subject: Prayed by Jesus, repeated by us
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 2/16/2015 03:12:09 PM
Since it is usually accepted that this prayer predates the Life of Our Lord
Jesus Christ and is fundamental to the Jewish Prayer service, we can assume
and Jesus and His disciples, being good Jews prayed and meditated a lot on
the details of the meaning of it (and still do and will still in the future).
Let the people say Amen 

 

 

 

 

 

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Article #401
Subject: Old Testament Hebrew, Aramaic sources of some of the text of the Kaddish
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 3/5/2015 10:34:48 AM
Tne Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 38
וְהִתְגַּדִּלְתִּי, וְהִתְקַדִּשְׁתִּי, וְנוֹדַעְתִּי, לְעֵינֵי גּוֹיִם רַבִּים; וְיָדְעוּ, כִּי-אֲנִי יְהוָה.

 

 

 

 

 

23 Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make
Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the
LORD

The Book of Daniel, Chapter 2
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then
Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
כ עָנֵה דָנִיֵּאל, וְאָמַר–לֶהֱוֵא שְׁמֵהּ דִּי-אֱלָהָא מְבָרַךְ, מִן-עָלְמָא וְעַד עָלְמָא: דִּי חָכְמְתָא
וּגְבוּרְתָא, דִּי לֵהּ-הִיא.

20 Daniel spoke and said: Blessed be the name of God from everlasting
even unto everlasting; for wisdom and might are His;

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Article #700
Subject: A minyan not required
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/17/2018 05:52:50 AM
Jesus Christ did not believe that a minyan .. ten people were required to pray the Kaddish when
He was Baptised by John, nor in the synagogue when he started His ministry, nor the mount of
beatitude, but there was , nor in the garden of gethsemine or the desert where there wasn’t, nor
did the Old Testament prophets in the mountains or the desert, nor should Christ Jesus, nor
should you anywhere you are .. for wherever you are I AM THERE, I AM WITH YOU FOREVER

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is the definition of the Holy Spirit? 
You might as well ask what is the Kaddish? 

 

 

 

 

 

One short but adequate definition of both of them is : 
The Holy Spirit is the Controller or Director of the Spirit of God as we know 
it in us. [being a Spirit He/It is not a body and not a mind but something 
that has Divine Energy and Life and “Knows” how to express Himself or Herself 
for His and Our benefit outside of us and in us Eternally and in the Present 
Moment]. 

The Kaddish is an ancient way of helping us control the expression of God’s 
Name in us. 

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Subject: Rabbi’s Kaddish
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/17/2018 05:03:13 AM
The full Kaddish contains the additional requests affirmations to our God YHWH Sabaoth that
“Upon Israel, upon the teachers, their disciples and all of their disciple and upon all of those who
engage in the study of the Torah (Old and New Testamens), who are here or anywhere else; may
they have abundant peace, grace, kindness, and mercy, long life, Emile nourishment, and
salvation from before their Father Who is in Heaven (and on earth) .Now respond, Amen. (Cont.
Amen)
Up to now it has been taught put in these verse, Torah but from now we will all Old and New
Testaments. Now respond, AMEN (CONG. AMEN)

 

 

 

 

 

Since we are praying with the LordGod of Hosts here as an in dwelling Holy Spirit of multiple
instantiations of divine angels and human person in dwelling each of us here there can be no
question of whether any of us or all together we have a “minyan…tene” here at this point Now
Respond (AMEN (CONG AMEN)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: 49 great ideas/concepts (along with some additional prayers) to helpcount the omer from Passover to ShavuosAuthor: Andrew W. HarrellPosted: 9/14/2008 01:31:59 PM
Seven Thoughts About Loving Kindness(Chesed)**1stday
Chesed ofChesed
Loving kindness is compassionateand forgiving
(it does not keep a record of wrong)
2ndday
Gevurah ofChesed
Loving kindness is stronger than death(Song of Songs)
3rdday
Tiferet ofChesed
Loving kindness seeks more to givethan receive. (It is beautiful)
4thday
Netzach of ChesedLoving kindness is patient(while having integrity and supporting the rights of others)
5thday
Hod of ChesedLoving kindness is obedient and submissiveto God’swill (it therefore shares in his glory)
6thday
Yesod ofChesedLoving kindness rejoices not in wrongintentions, but in the truth (2 Corinthians)
7thday
Malkuth of ChesedLoving kindness fears God and doesnot consider what will happen toitself.
(This is its royalty)
**note: For those who believe we are at many moments of our lives livingright now, in the fullness of time in God’s heavenly present moment we willreturn to this topic considering passages from the Book of Romans, Chapter12, during week seven of our Pentecost/Shavuos this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Tomorrow, tomorrow, you always come, the Sun, our Son will come up tomorrow.”

 

SELAH n mark…

 

 

 

 

 

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Yes, I got back Monday night. House in good shape thanks for your
prayers.
You know our route from the ternary I gave you. Everything went as
planned, with addition of an exciting trip to the platform of the Dome of
the Rock. Our guides, both the Cal Berkeley professors and an Israeli
former paratrooper were fantastic. I have about 500 photos from my cellphone
and will write up a maybe 200 page blog on it. But, this will take some time.
Bought you some tefillim and a prayer shawl as promised.
If you can come to a Passover Seder friday night at my house I will cook
the meal and show you how to use them.
It starts at sundown, maybe 6pm or so.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I’d like to hear then whats happened with regard to the
city problems we are both facing.

 

 

So glad your home..house is all good and hopefully the neighborhood quiet

 

 

 

 

 

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Shalom brother

 

 

 

 

 

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