Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda
Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land.
After receiving complaints, Aharon said, he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and drove through the neighborhood, urging people to turn over the material to Jewish religious students who went door to door to collect it.
"The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a synagogue," he said.
The newspaper Maariv reported Tuesday that hundreds of yeshiva students took part in the book-burning. But Aharon told The Associated Press that only a few students were present, and that he was not there when the books were torched.
"Not all of the New Testaments that were collected were burned, but hundreds were," he said.
He said he regretted the burning of the books, but called it a commandment to burn materials that urge Jews to convert.
"I certainly don't denounce the burning of the booklets, he said. I denounce those who distributed the booklets."
Jews worship from the Old Testament, including the Five Books of Moses and the writings of the ancient prophets. Christians revere the Old Testament as well as the New Testament, which contains the ministry of Jesus.
Calev Myers, an attorney who represents Messianic Jews, or Jews who accept Jesus as their savior, demanded in an interview with Army Radio that all those involved be put on trial. He estimated there were 10,000 Messianic Jews, who are also known as Jews for Jesus, in Israel.
Police had no immediate comment.
Israeli authorities and Orthodox Jews frown on missionary activity aimed at Jews, though in most cases it is not illegal. Still, the concept of a Jew burning books is abhorrent to many in Israel because of the association with Nazis torching piles of Jewish books during the Holocaust of World War II.
Earlier this year, the teenage son of a prominent Christian missionary was seriously wounded when a package bomb delivered to the family's West Bank home went off in his hands.
Last year, arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church used by Messianic Jews and set the building on fire, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack. No one claimed responsibility, but the same church was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/orthodox-jewish-youths-burn-new-testaments-in-or-yehuda-1.246153
Book Burning: A True Christian® Tradition
The burning of books is nothing new to True Christians®. We invented the practice over two-thousand years ago as a way to promote our faith in the Lord Jesus. In the early days of Christianity, when new believers in Christ were converted, they were naturally moved by the Holy Spirit to grab as many books as they could and pitch them into a fire.
Unlike the sissy "Jesus is Love" fake-Christians (whom both the Lord Jesus and we loathe) we have running around today, the early followers of Christ were never ashamed to burn books. In fact, if you ever find yourself being grateful for the destruction of most of the works of pagan nincompoops like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, you have a Christian to thank! In the Book of Acts we learn that anyone who wants to follow Jesus, should get ready to start burning books at the drop of a hat. The Book of Acts teaches us that burning someone's books is a great way spread God's word.
"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." Acts 19:19-20
In the aftermath of September 11th, a spiritual awakening is sweeping across the United States of America. One of the great signs that the Holy Spirit is moving in the hearts and souls of Americans is our glorious and sacred return to the practice of book burning. Secular humanists and Atheists have spent hundreds of years trying to make "book burners" look bad. Oftentimes the media paints a terrible image of book burners. "They make us out to look like fanatics or Germans," said one Christian. Did you know that a militant homosexual named Ray Bradbury, even wrote a popular book called Farenheight 451 about book burning? He made Christians out to look like fools! Well, Mr. Bradbury, if you are still alive, and God hasn't sent you to Hell yet, we'd like you to know that Farenheight 451 is also a book that can be burned. And nobody would miss it!
The truth is, burning a book is one of the most loving things a Christian could do for a person they really care about. The Landover Baptist Church is proud to be sponsoring America's Largest Book Burning on Satan's Birthday, October 31st. This will be the third consecutive year we have held the event. Last October, we had 152,800 American Christians show up for the event. We burned over 3.4 million books! That's right! Don't let the numbers dissuade you from holding a book burning at your local church this Halloween. Thousands of churches in America have collected millions of Harry Potter books to be burned that very night. As a Christian, you should be eager to participate in this Bible based tradition. Burning books just like the first Christians did in New Testament is a great way to say "no" to Satan and "yes" to Jesus.
As most Christians already know, the Harry Potter book series is the most evil and dangerous set of books to be released this century. "The Potter series is worse than pornography. The books are even more dangerous than the Satanic Bible," reports Pastor Deacon Fred, "At least with the Satanic Bible, young people know that the book was written by Satan. The Devil just changed his name to J.K. Rowling this time." The release of the fifth book in the Harry Potter series has been delayed because Christians have been praying to God that he will send angels to scramble Satan's brain and force him to admit Rowling's spent body to a mental hospital so that the whole series will never be completed.
To celebrate the delayed release of the fifth Harry Potter book and the post September 11th return to American Christian values, The Truly Saved® all across America are calling upon the name of Jesus this Halloween to decrease the number of Harry Potter books currently circulating in America by at least 70%. "We're giving True Christian® school children the Biblical authority to remove these evil books from their school libraries, bookstores, homes, grocery stores, and anywhere they find them," said Pastor Deacon Fred. "All they need to say is, Jesus wants me to take this book! Friends, let's help this great Country return to it's True Christian® roots. Wont' you please set up a Holy Ghost book fire at your local church? Thank you." http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
Messianic Jewish missionary campaign launch in central Israel
Controversy over use "Yeshua" or "Jesus"? - Rabbi Kravitz: "They tell you not say they believe that Jesus is God '
The Messianic Jewish organization Jews for Jesus is to the chagrin of many Orthodox Jews began a missionary campaign in an area in central Israel, where since the reestablishment of the Jewish state in 1948 no significant missionary activity would have occurred. In that area, the satellite towns around Tel Aviv is Jews for Jesusmissionaries taken to the streets last week in Hebrew, English and Russian to witness their faith that Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah.
Fun part of the campaign mission is to place thousands of "traffic fines" under the windshield wipers of parked cars. Only when the irritated driver 'fine' turns, he reads the real message: "You can rest assured that someone has the fine already paid for you ... He is Yeshua (Jesus) called. " Then, in short the gospel of the New Testament interpretation, namely that Jesus died for the sins of mankind, after three days God raised from the dead and that anyone who accepts this gospel shall be saved.
The text emphasizes that his name was Yeshua, which is close to the Hebrew word for "salvation", and not Jesus, as you always told. " It is not yet clear why this argument is used as Iesous (Jesus) Greek (sound) translation of "Yeshua". Because the New Testament was written in Greek "Jesus" in the pagan world Yaysoes read and pronounced, and later translated into Latin as Jesus. In addition, the name "Yehoshua" and "Yeshua" by the Jewish (!) Translators of the Septuagint Greek translation of more than 200 x Iesous, which every argument that "Jesus" not "His real name" would be-defeating. (2)
However, Jews for Jesus emphasizes the Jewish dimension of Christianity, said the deceased on May 19 Martin 'Moshe Rosen, who founded the organization in 1973 that "we no form of practicing Judaism, but Christianity. " The website of the Messianic Jews is therefore emphasized that Judaism "never saved anyone," was how the law scrupulously honest and it is respected. "In Judaism is no salvation, because Christ does not fit into Judaism." (3) As not one major newspaper, advertising agency or media channel the advertising campaign for the shipment to print or broadcast, hasJews for Jesus decided that the media campaign which included free-books are offered over the Internet to perform. It also called to pray that "there are no ads will be removed as a result of the Yad L'Achim organization hareidi." Yad L'Achim director Rabbi Shalom Lifshitz stated that it is time to change laws Israeli evangelism, and ' this kind of wild, criminal missionary activities, which will have tragic consequences, stop. " Current law prohibits the offering money to anyone to repent and to evangelize children. Bentzion Rabbi Kravitz, founder and director of Jews for Judaism International , are the kind of 'deceptive tactics' that Jews for Jesus uses generally accepted in the evangelical Christian world. "It is now second nature to church members for their Jewish friends to tell them at once and Jewish, and Christian can be. In Israel, promoting the Jews for Jesus missionaries, along with some 20,000 Israeli converts, Jesus as the exclusive Jewish Messiah, but deliberately avoided telling them to believe that He is God. " (1) For over 2000 years ago, the Jewish scribes quite strange that Jesus said He was God (John 8:58: "Verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, YHWH (I am) . "Because to yourself to God as set by death, would the Pharisees him immediately with stone kill (verse 59). In addition to the bulk of the Jews and all Muslims also deny various Christian churches and groups to the Deity of Jesus Christ, that this aspect with Jesus' resurrection from the dead, one of the most controversial and most fiercely contested basic elements of the biblical gospel. (Dutch site translated)
Source: http://xandernieuws.punt.nl/?r=1&id=590539
BOOK BURNING IS NOT NEW
Jehoiakim is remembered for burning the manuscript of one of the prophecies of Jeremiah. Jeremiah had criticised the king's policies, insisting on repentance and strict adherence to the law. Another prophet, Uriah ben Shemaiah, proclaimed a similar message and was executed on the orders of the king. Jeremiah was spared from this fate, perhaps because he was well-connected
External links
Mesopotamian Chronicles: all Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
Literature: Aa list of relevant secondary literature
Synchronistic King List, Assyrian King List: translations and bibliographies
Cuneiform sources for the history of Hellenistic Babylonia.Edition and Analysis: information about the BCHP Project
The following is a list of artifacts, objects created or modified by human culture, that are significant to the historicity of the Bible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artifacts_significant_to_the_Bible
Third Jewish revolt
Also called: Bar Kokhba revolt; Third Jewish-Roman war
Depending on definitions: Second Jewish revolt; Second Jewish-Roman war
Hebrew: ha-mered ha-gadol
Rebellion by Jews of Judah against the Romans, lasting 3 years, 132-135 CE.The revolt began as a reaction to Roman plans to found a colony on the site of Jerusalem, as well as against restrictions onJewish practice, like the prohibition of circumcision. The leader of the rebellion was Simon Bar Kokhba, who would be the leader of a new Jewish state lasting for about 3 years, taking the title Nasi Israel, Prince of Israel. Bar Kokhba was understood as a Messianicfigure by many Jews of his time.
History
130: Emperor Hadrian visits Jerusalem, making a promise that the Jewish community understands as a positive initiative to revive the Jewish capital and institutions.
132: Jews of the region revolts after finding out about Roman plans to destroy Jewish sites and regulations. The revolt is lead by Bar Kokhba, who gains immediate success and soon takes control of Jerusalem.
— The Romans launch a great campaign on the Jews, fighting would cause great losses on both sides.
135: Romans first take control of Jerusalem, Bar Kokhba relocates to Bethar (south of Caesarea), where the final battle is fought. All fighting Jews are killed, and all Jews are even expelled from Jerusalem, and a general regulation hindering their access to Jerusalem would be imposed.
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