According to Christian scholars by c. 100, “normative Christianity” was beginning to appear as a separate religion within the general cultural framework of Hellenistic Israelism. A body of teaching was established to appeal to the pagan worshipers living in the Roman Empire. However, they wanted its authenticity to be guaranteed by reference to the apostles and the MASHIACH. It was represented by an ordered hierarchy that could claim descent from apostolic times. Libertinism and docetic beliefs that were incorporated in Gnosticism challenged the “normative faith.” Many schisms occurred in the body of believers as, for them, the Law and its shackles were dead. Thus deviation in morals accompanied deviation in belief. The Israelites who remained part of Christianity did not accept the teachings of Rome at first, which ended in persecution and death for many of them. Christianity was a new religion in which the life of the savior god as Jesus Christ evoked many different responses among the Hellenistic-Israelite congregations that heard them.
Some of the responses were rejected, while others fell within the framework of orthodox belief and practice. As a result, “Orthodoxy” and “heresy” were simultaneous and ongoing developments throughout the sub-apostolic period. The Liturgy adopted in Christianity over which the bishop or presbyter presided were expected to be the same in every Christian community. These practices incorporated the pagan rituals which they believed paralleled the Priesthood of the Levites. The writer of 1 Clement states that “the Master commanded us to celebrate sacrifices and services, and that it should not be thoughtlessly or disorderly, but at fixed times and hours” (1 Clement XL.2). Baptism was used as a formal entry into the church. In the ceremony described by the writer of the Didache, the convert was “sealed” in the faith, just as the proselyte was sealed by circumcision (Didache VII. 1 for the ceremony). It is believed that the person went down into the water “dead” and came up “alive,” mystically united with Christ and prepared to live and die to him. The water, according to Hermas, was the “seal.” The Eucharist was reserved for baptized Christians, and the prayers and reading followed the pattern of the synagogue Sabbath liturgy. Thus, in form came out of Israelism, the Christian church’s order and developed its Christ-centered Liturgy by the End of the first century designed to knit together Christians “from the four winds (Didache 10.5).
As the authority at the time, the Roman Christian church included the pagan mysteries into its practices and persecuted those of Israelite heritage who would not accept these teachings. Although reference is made in 1 Peter of the persecutions, historical records between 70 and 95AD remain blank. So it appears that Rome did not engage in the persecution and destruction of the Israelites. However, today those who have adopted or were born into the Christian faith have no idea how this religion began. They have been indoctrinated and believe that its practices will lead to eternal life in Heaven with God, who is their father, and Jesus Christ, his son. Yet, my research reveals that these doctrines are an extension or a revised version of the pagan teachings of the Greeks, Romans, and the Middle East used to replace the traditions of the Hebrew Israelites, which made it possible for salvation to be extended to all people from every nation.
Nevertheless, this was never the plan of the Highest YAHUAH, but a corruption of his blueprint that he made to save his chosen people scattered to the four corners of the earth for disobedience of his Law. They equated the Roman God Jupiter with the Greek God Zeus or Dyaus Pitar, Diovis Pater, or Zeus Pater, whose exalted title was Optimus Maximus. (Others included: Juno with Hera, Mars with Ares, Minerva with Athena, Neptune with Poseidon, and Venus with Aphrodite.) Zeus is still worshiped today as Jesus Christ, considered the God of light, lightning, thunder, rain, and storm. It is believed that he prescribes and orders human affairs, which soothsayers use to predict by signs in the heavens or the flight of birds, and is the guardian of laws and oaths. Today, his sanctuary, or Temple, is still located on the Capitoline Hill in Rome called Jupiter Capitolinus. Mars, whom the Greeks identified as Hera, is the war god whose sacred symbols are the lance and shield, and his sacred animal is the wolf. Mars was honored in the first month, which later was changed to the third month of the Roman calendar, and March was named after him.
Janus was the God of beginnings and was invoked at the opening of all events. The New Year January is derived from Janus. The name is also used as the first day of the month, the first hour of the day, the entrance or door of a home, or a city gate. Zepho was Esau’s grandson, the first of his lineage to become king in Kittiym after they engaged him to fight their wars. His name was later changed to Janus, and they worshipped him as a god. He reigned in Kittiym, which later became Rome for fifty years before his death.
“And in those days died Jannes king of the children of Kittiym, and they buried him in the temple which he had built for himself in the plain of Canopia for a residence, and Latinas reigned in his stead” .
(Jasher 74:6)
Latinus, another name for Lotan for which the language Latin is named, was another descendant of Esau of the land of Seir who reigned in Kittiym, Rome, for forty-five years. Minerva is the goddess of wisdom and the patroness of the arts and trades. She was later associated with war and represented as wearing a helmet and carrying a shield and spear.
The Romans also believed that the welfare and safety of their people and the state depended on the protection and goodwill of their deities. These were included in religious rituals and added to Christianity. The emperor was given the priestly power and his secular power to perform in the affairs with the title Pontifex Maximus. Today, the title is assigned to the pope of Rome, who sits in Caesar’s seat as the king. They also solicited omens, portents, and divine messages beyond their borders. Magic and astrology were also used in the early Christian church as they are today. Expert sorcerers were believed to have the power to contact a deity to induce their numen in a particular way to achieve a specific objective. Similar to this magic was astrology. The stars were divine, and their celestial motions, especially solar or lunar, had religious significance beyond the surface as natural phenomena. They believed that positions of the heavenly bodies at the time of someone’s birth determine the individual’s destiny.
Many other beliefs found in the Egyptian and Greek mythologies were recast in a Roman context and added to their Christian text called the New Testament. Scholars of the Middle Eastern mystery religions state that the first Middle eastern mystery cult adopted by the Romans due to an oracular command was the worship of Cybele, the goddess of the Phrygians. However, my research shows that the people of Kittiym Rome, including Javan, later the Greeks, the sons of Japheth who was Noah’s second son, first settled the area allotted to them after the Tower of Babel’s scattering. The sons of Japheth were classified as the gentiles in Scripture, and historical records show that they worshipped their dead ancestors, who they believed inhabited the celestial bodies. When Esau-Edom joined with the nations that became Europe through warfare and other treaties, the area was then called Europe, and Kittiym, Rome, was one of the nations that the descendants of Esau mixed his seed.
However, scholars say that in 204 BCE, a black meteorite stone representing the foreign goddess was solemnly installed on the summit of the Palatine amid public cheering and incense fumes. A temple was later erected on the hill where an annual celebration was held from April 4 to 10th in commemoration of the goddess’s arrival. The Romans named her the Great Mother Goddess of Idaea or Ida. The festival of Cybele-Attis was held on the spring equinox and lasted four days from March 22 to 25th. On the first day, the trunk of a pine tree wreathed with violets and draped with woolen cloth was carried ceremonially into the Temple. At this time, an effigy of the god Attis, Cybele’s lover, who was alleged to have died by emasculating himself up under a pine tree, was fastened to the decorated tree trunk. On the second day, a procession of mourners followed the statue of the goddess Cybele through the streets. They screamed, whirled, leaped, and in their frenzy, slashed themselves with knives and swords. On the third day, the bloody passion drama reached its climax. The novitiates sacrificed their virility by emasculation so that they could share Attis’s resurrection. The severed organs were offered on the altar of the goddess Cybele. The puppet was then removed and laid in a tomb, while the castrated initiates watched and fasted until the next morning. On the fourth day at dawn, the tomb was opened, and the crowds of worshipers shouted in joy because the god Attis was resurrected and the tomb was empty. The festival ended with a joyous procession carrying the black meteorite stone representing Cybele to the river, ceremonially bathed it, then returned to its sacred place in the Temple.
There were other rituals performed only by the emasculated initiates. The ceremonies consisted of an initiatory rite, known as taurobolium, and a sacramental meal. The taurobolium was a baptismal font in the form of a pit into which the newly installed members descended to stand under a grating that supported a sacred bull. The sacrificial bull was ceremonially slain on the grating so that its blood ran over the inductees below, who, by the rite, were considered purified. The ritual of purification was followed by a sacramental meal, at which the inductees shared a sense of oneness or unity as they ate from a common drum and drank from a common cymbal. The comparison between the aspects of the rites associated with Cybele-Attis and the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ is stunning. Two coincidences stand out: first, the site of Cybele’s Temple is where the basilica of St. Peter’s stands today; and second, the annual spring celebration of the death, burial, resurrection, and discovery of an empty tomb is featured both in the ancient rites of Cybele-Attis and the annual spring celebration of Easter, or Pascha, which commemorates the death, burial, resurrection, and discovery of the empty tomb of Jesus Christ (S.A. Nigosian, 2000).
Moreover, the worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis was also prominent. Her statutes and temples adorned Syria, and a great temple was built for her at the foot of the Acropolis in Greece. The statue of Isis represented the Mother Goddess with her suckling infant son, Horus. They became an object of veneration in the Greco-Roman world. And some scholars think that Christian images and statutes of the Madonna and child are Mary and the infant Jesus, who resemble Isis and her son. Like the Catholic Christian church still believes today, the goddess Isis was regarded as the symbol of maternal love, protection, creative life, and purity. She was regarded as the queen of Heaven. Her cult attracted a large following, and two festivals are celebrated in her honor. The spring festival coincided with the Egyptian harvest, while the autumn celebration consisted of a four-day dramatic festival. On the first day of the autumn festival, actors impersonated several Egyptian deities, including Isis and Horus, who wept, wailed, and searched for the body of Osiris. On the next two days, portions of the body of Osiris are found, refashioned, and resurrected by Isis. On the fourth day, great rejoicing took place because Osiris had been resurrected and become immortal. The devotees of Isis could celebrate her assurance of life after death and immortality by drinking the milk of Isis from a chalice in the shape of a woman’s breast. Those who put their trust in Isis did so in the conviction that she would intercede on their behalf with Osiris when they appeared before his throne of judgment and that Osiris would in no way deny immortality to those for whom Isis interceded. The belief in Mary, the mother of Jesus, is prominent in Roman Christianity, and she is revered and believes to intercede on behalf of Christians.
The Egyptian god Serapis was also associated with the mythology surrounding Osiris. The name is a Hellenized combination of Osiris and Apis, the Egyptian bull god. The cult had its origins in Alexandria, Egypt, and identified with Osiris, the god who ruled the dead and shared immortality with them. The worship of Serapis, like the other cults, invaded every imperial province of Rome. However, according to the scholars, in 390 CE, with the aid of Patriarch Theophilus, the Roman emperor Theodosius burned the Temple of Serapis. Thus, between the reigns of the emperors Theodosius and Justinian, the worship of all gods they deemed foreign were removed, including the Highest ELOHIYM of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Many Israelites were persecuted by enslavement, death, and destruction during this interval in favor of Christianity. However, based on my observations, the pagan gods were not removed but infused into the religion of Christianity. The Laws and traditions of the Israelites were obliterated. The emperors Theodosius and Justinian are said to have been the most brutal in their attacks against the chosen people of the Highest.
Another of the foreign religions implemented by Christianity was the worship of the Persian (Iranian) god Mithra. The god Mithra became the most popular and most widespread. The temples of Mithra had been established in the first century B.C.E. from India to Scotland. Mithra was believed to be the invincible god of war, the protector of stable government, and the upholder of social justice and brotherhood. Mithra was the Lord of heavenly light, he was identified with the sun, but he was the god of cattle, agriculture, war, and Truth. In addition, Mithra was one of the judges who welcomed the souls of humans after death and, as the god of immortality, conferred everlasting life on his faithful followers. According to the narrative, the god Mithra was born miraculously in a cave on December 25. The event was witnessed only by some shepherds who worshiped the newborn god with their gifts. From infancy, Mithra’s mission was to become master of the earth. To that End, he made the sun subject to his will and, as a consequence, was identified with it. He considered it his duty to sacrifice a bull, the pristine Creation of the ancient Iranian god Ahura Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism. Christianity applied all these characteristics to Jesus Christ, their savior god. The Persians believed the bull’s soul to be the generative source of all celestial elements and its body the source of human life and all life on earth. Above all, Mithra was the savior god who protected his devotees in this world and granted them salvation in the next. India still upholds these traditions and beliefs, and where people are starving to death from the lack of food, they refuse to eat the cow or bull, which is said to possess the soul of their ancestors.
The Roman Catholic Christian church applied these practices of the Mithraic congregations to their devotees and Priesthood. The congregations consisted only of male communicants, gathered in small numbers of about one hundred in underground or subterranean meeting places because Mithra was born in a cave. Members passed through seven orders or degrees, including an initiation ritual, in which the outline of a cross was branded on their foreheads. Like the devotees in the Cybelian tauroboliums, the inductees stood under a grating on which a sacred bull was ceremonially slain, drenching them in the bull’s blood. They also took an oath never to reveal the secrets of the order or mysteries of Mithra. Induction into higher orders involved purification; baptism by fire, a ceremony that required postulants to submit to a sign marked on their foreheads with a hot iron; and the sacraments of bread and wine, representing mystical union with the god Mithra. Sunday was holy to the followers of Mithra because it glorifies the sun god, Mithra. December 25 was hallowed because it was the birthday of Mithra, and devotees kept a vigil on a preceding night.
According to the scholars, the striking parallels between Mithraism and Christianity hardly need to be pointed out. Both taught that their founders were mediator savior gods, through whom the world would be judged. Both taught the doctrines of Heaven and Hell, the last judgment, and the immortality of the soul, and that the sources of good and evil are in a state of perpetual conflict. They both offered the sacraments of baptism and communion and observed Sundays and December 25 as holy days (S.A. Nigosian, 2000). However, my research shows that none of these practices were ever part of the traditions of the Israelites and cannot be found in the Torah or Tanakh, or any of the Hebrew literature. Yet, they are all part of the Christian teachings spread throughout the world as the one true religion of their savior god, Jesus Christ, who died to bring salvation to the world. A false pagan religion, indeed with a god that cannot save anyone, including the descendants of Jacob-Israel.
I am humbled by my understanding of this Truth and write with boldness because I now know that a great deception has been imposed on the world. The Highest YAHUAH has called me to do this research. And I have humbly sought his guidance. I hope you ask YAHUAH Most High to lead you to all Truth because what we were taught is a lie. He knows that most people would not accept the Truth even when it is written in black and white because of the indoctrination of Babylon. However, he has chosen at least one-third of Israel who will be alive at the return of the MASHIACH to be aware and to have accepted the Truth about their identity and the prophecies that pertain to them. Therefore, I am compelled to write what I know to be the Truth.
Ezra’s vision shows what would happen in the last days, a period that has lasted for centuries. He asked for the interpretation, and the Highest told him what to expect.
“Afterward saw I the same man come down from the mountain and call unto him another peaceable multitude. And there came many people unto him, of whom some were glad, some were sorry, and some were bound, and other some brought of them that were offered: then was I sick through great fear; and I awaken and said” .
(4 Ezra 13:12-13)
Ezra then asked the Highest to show him the interpretation of the vision.
“For as I conceive in my understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind! For they that were not left behind were in heaviness. Now I understand the things laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them and those left behind. And he answered unto me, and said, The interpretation of the vision shall I show you, and I will open unto you the thing that you have required. Whereas you have spoken of them left behind, this is the interpretation: He that shall endure the peril in that time has kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works and belief toward EL SHADDAI. Know this, therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than they that be dead” .
(4 Ezra 13: 16-24)
Brothers and sisters, if you want to live with expectant hope in the kingdom that the Highest YAHUAH has prepared for his chosen people, it is important to know and learn the truth about the false religious system that has deceived the entire world. The Israelites who will still be here and alive are considered more blessed than those who have died and have been taken away by the various plagues throughout the centuries. Despite the teachings of Christianity that being left behind is a tragedy, the disaster was for an innumerable number of Israelites destroyed by the plagues, and the trouble was and is “Jacob’s Trouble.” Yes, the entire world went through the events and is still going through them today. Still, it had a greater effect on the descendants of Jacob, who sinned against the covenant of the Highest. Historical evidence shows they are the people who were destroyed and still have no memory of who they even are. The prophecy of Ezra shows that every Israelite that YAHUAH will gather of the peaceable multitude would not all be awakened to the Truth and have accepted it. Therefore, some will have joy because they have the hope of being redeemed. Some will be afraid and sorry for their disobedience, while the other third will still be bound in their rebellion and stiff-neckedness. So, be not afraid if you are here and feel like you are left behind because the Highest says you are more blessed. Our brethren who experienced the disasters, persecutions, and destruction in the former years that they have hidden from history were in dire straights, and it was not good for them. However, the Highest YAHUAH will be merciful to all of those of Israel who remain when he returns. I encourage you to come out from among the religions of this world that have taught us lies!
ALL PRAISE TO THE HIGHEST YAHUAH!
SHALOM!
SOURCES:
