"~uest Autho~
practicing "heresy." Heretical ~1 tree. The Church must thank
God for the root! practices included failure to eat m
pork; failure to work on Satur- Let us decisively sever all ties r
day; failure to wear one's best I, with the sinful prejudice of the
Inquisition. It is an inexpres- clothes on Sunday; keeping the
biblical feasts; observing any sively disgraceful past.
The Inquisition would have Jewish customs of any kind; say-
burned Peter and Paul at the ing any Jewish prayers; prepar-
ing food according to "Jewish" stake!
Law; associating with non-bap-
tized Jews; and intermarriage eRRIBLe
d 4 ~J of children of Marrano families W,A IC PA$'t
with children of other marrano
families. According to Romans 11:11,
/ "salvation has come to the Violators, or those merely ac-
cused of being violators, would Gentiles to make Israel envi-
have their property confiscated. ous." When the Jewish People
see that it is the Gentiles who They would be subjected to
harsh confinement and hor- have Israel's Messiah, then Is-
i! rific methods of torture, lead- rael will become envious. But
ing to mock trials, degradation has the Church made Israel
and often death at the stake. If envious?
those sentenced to die would Let me translate for you the
words of an Israeli writer who renounce their "heresies" and
expresses the heart of many of publicly confess the Faith, then
the Church would allow them his people: "Instead of bring-
"mercy:" they would be stran- ing redemption to the Jews,
gled and then put to the flame, the false Christian messiah
burned dead instead of alive! has brought down on us base
libels and expulsions, oppres- It is estimated that 30,000
Marranos were burned at the sive restrictions and burning biblical position?
of \[our\] holy books, devastations and de- stake in Spanish Inquisitions from the Fif- Let's go back to the Gospels. Jesus did not
teenth Century until 1808. In addition to structions. Christianity, which professes to come to abolish the Law and the Prophets,
this, in 1492, all non-baptized Jews were infuse the sick world with love and compas- but to fulfill them. (matt. 5:17-20) (Fulfill
sion, has fixed a course directly opposed to expelled from the country. Stripped of their and abolish can 'l have the same mean-
this lofty rhetoric. The blood of millions of possessions, and without any means to de- ing - they are juxtaposed to make a point.
fend themselves, the sentence of this mass our brothers cries out to us from the ground: e l.)
expulsion against these poor souls was vir- 'No! Christianity" is not a religion of love, but Rather than taking the Law away from
tually a sentence of mass death. Those who a religion of unfathomable hate! All history., Israel, God promised to put it in their hearts.
"converted" did not fare much better - they from ancient times to our own day, is one The New Covenant does not do away with
were treated as second class citizens by the continuous proof of the total bankruptcy of God's Law. It makes it relevant in a new and
other Catholics, and just one wrong move this religion in all its segments.'" living way.
could consign them to the fire. Also, hear author, Eliezer Berkovits, from Let's get more specific: Where do the
The Judaism of that day did not know his book Judaism in the Post-gt~ristian Scriptures clearly and decisively make Sun-
Jesus the Messiah. The Church of that day Era: "After nineteen centuries of Christian- day into the Sabbath? (Forget about later
failed to reveal Him. What was a Jew to do? ity, the extermination of six million Jews, Church tradition. What does the Bible say?)
He could only look forward to expulsion, tor- among them one-and-a-half million chil- Then why are Jewish Believers who set aside
ture, humiliation, servitude or conversion to dren, carried out in cold blood in the very Saturday for Sabbath worship considered di-
a lifeless religion. That which called itself heart of Christian Europe, encouraged by visive? Where does God say to forget the bib-
the Church, was steeped in darkness. the criminal silence of virtually all Christen- lical feasts? Then why are the Jewish Believ-
As far as history is concerned, the Inquisi- dom, including that of the 'infallible Holy ers who celebrate the feasts instead of later,
tion ended over a century, ago. But the spirit Father' in Rome, was the natural culmina- man-made holidays, accused of "going back
of the Inquisitions lives on. There is still a tion of this bankruptcy. A straight line leads under the Law?"
passionate desire to rid the Church, espe- from the first act of oppression against the "...do not boast over those \[natural\]
cially its Jewish Believers, of all Jewishness Jews and Judaism in the Fourth Century to branches. If you do, consider this: You do
- even though the Messiah is a Jew! Where the Holocaust in the Twentieth." not support the root, but the root supports
does the Word say to Jewish Believers, "If you Other Jewish writers record synagogues you." (Romans 11:17-18)
want to follow the Lord, you must abandon being set ablaze while "Christians" marched The wild olive branches (Gentiles) have
your people and your Law?" Is this really a around it singing "Christ We Adore Thee," been grafted into the natural (Israelite) olive
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