Messianic faith is apostolic and essentially pre-Nicene in spite of any
dogmic diversity among the Messianic Jews today. Messianic Jews withered
away for a short while of ca. 1600 years (what do 2000 years mean for
G-d?), especially after Emperor Constantin had initiated the 1st Church
Council in Nicea in 325. In his letter
to the council the Emperor cursed the Jewish nation (cf. Gen=Berçðît
12:3!) as a Deicidal one.
The Emperor convened the Council in order to condemn Arianism, however
he himself adopted baptism from an Arianic bishop later, what shows him
having no comprehension of theology. Therefore
his friend bishop Eusebius of Caesarea seems to have
inspired a letter which names the Jews Deiciders and “polluted
wretches”: “... in the first place, it seemed to every one a most
unworthy thing that we should follow the custom of the Jews in the
celebration of this most holy solemnity, who polluted, wretches! having
stained their hands with a nefarious crime, are justly blinded in their
minds. /.../ it belongs to your ready discernent, both by diligence and
prayer, to use every means, that the purity of your minds may not be
affected by a conformity in any thing with the customs of the vilest of
mankind. /.../ we may have nothing in common with the usage of these
parricides and murderers of our Lord.” This is not only a starting
point for the “theory of the replacement” of Jews by the Gentiles in
the Church. This is also a crime of the replacement of the first
Apostolic Church with a Gentile Church, possibly falsified by Eusebius
himself. In his “History of the Church” he names 15 Jewish bichops
of Jerusalem before its ruination, but there were tens of thousands
Jewish Christians in Palestine at that time. All of them were
exterminated by the Romans together with traditional Jews as rebels, but
Eusebius mentions rebels as having got “deserved punishment”,
similarly as Jerusalem having been renamed to Aelia (consecrated
to a pagan devil, what a “brilliant Christianity”!) However those
rebels did the same as Maccabees, why did Eusebius use a double
standard? Was this because of his pro-Roman position? In other words,
Eusebius persuades the emperor: these were they, cursed Jews, real
enemies of the Empire, who rebelled, not we, loyal Greek and Roman
Christians! It is not comprehensible why did he make an exception
for Y-shua Himself, His Mother, His disciples at all, plus a few dozen
persons more: were they Jews, or not?
It looks like a new Church arose at the expense of authentic first
Christian Church expelled and dispersed by the pagan Roman army. The new
Church of the Gentiles negated the first Church, eradicated even a
remembrance of it and identified it with the whole Jewish nation which
ostensibly repudiated their Messiah unanimously and became a nation of
deiciders. In doing so, the Nicene Church profited in ascribing to
itself all labour of the previous Church and in getting rid of any
competitioner as well as of all Old Terstament prophecies, now declared
to have been revoked. Further in his History, Eusebius mentions
Ebionites as some weak-minded Jewish sect, although there remained many
thousands of very different Jewish Christians under this name up to at
least the 7th c., fully pushed aside by newly created Gentile Church,
while the Jewish Christians were doomed to disappear mostly among Syrian
Christians and this was end of the first followers of Christ, of the
Church of Jacob and Peter-Kepha!
Bloody ethnic conflicts between Jews and Pagan Greeks erupted during
Judean wars, especially during the Kitos war (115–117). Pagans of the
Roman Empire began to perceive Jews as enemies. Those of them who had
accepted Christianity, began to quickly alienate from the Jews and did
not want to be counted Jewish by Roman authorities: this was especially
dangerous, because Roman authorities persecuted them for refusal to
offer pagan sacrifices, a reason of the Jewish war itself. Gentile
Christians in Rome and Alexandria avoided to assemble on Sabbaths in
order not to be confused with the Jews. They only wanted persecutions to
be stopped and they could live as patriots of the Empire. Any memory of
once numerous first Jewish Church could only hinder them in their
rejection of compromising “Jewish customs” (i.e. of G-d commandments
in Torah), because the very this rejection, in turn, was grounded in
ostensible rejection of Christ by the whole Jewish nation.
This was time
when many Anti-Jewish interpolations appeared in texts of the New
Testament (as a result, the Gospel of John is Anti-Jewish entirely, but
the word Sabbath is excluded from Mark 13:18!). Finally we have
no original Gospels today. It was Constantin who stopped persecutions,
however what was the cost? He cursed the Jews legitimizing all
previously accumulated Anti-Semitism and thus negated all the genuine
Jewish apostolic tradition .
The ostracism of the Jews was also a sequel of an ancient
institutionalism, i.e. of a view that only conversion or rejection of
faith by national leaders means actual conversion into this faith, or
its actual rejection by the whole nation. Had 99 % of the Jews accepted
Y-shua‘ as Messiah of Israel, but the king and the high priests not,
then the whole nation should have been cursed, as deiciders. The main
reason was that such a view was very profitable for a new priestly elite
in Roman Empire. No one Gentile bishop in Palestine wanted
restoration of the Jewish Apostolic Church.
Bloody conflicts between colonists Greeks and Jews in Palestine
continued even up to the coming of Islam in the 7th
c. As for Constantin, he had only stiffened imperial laws against
the Jews.
On the other hand, Jews Christians, from their side, were not enough
Jewish-patriotic – they could not participate in Bar Kokhba's
revolt: Bar Kokhba had been proclaimed Messiah, but he was not that of the
Messianic Jews who had already accepted JHS as Messiah. The insurgents
did not want Messianics as well.
The revolt suppressed in 135, the
Messianic Jews concentrated in Pella in Decapolis, where they could not
defend themselves in a devasteted fatherland, increasingly colonized by
the Greeks. In mass they escaped in more secure Syria and Arabia, later
entering Aramaic Syrian Church and various Christian groups in Asia
Minor and Arabia. No one Jewish bishof remained in fatherland, it looked
like all of them had “disappeared”.
The newly established Gentile Church started with cursing all the Jews
as deiciders indiscriminately, except for a few dozen persons. Jews had
to become Gentiles, not Gentiles had to enter the Covenant in the First
Church, otherwise
they were cursed! Why then should one be surprised that multitudes of
former Christians have turned “the Jewish G-d” away today: He is
not our G-d, we have own gods! This is only a final logical sequence
of Eusebius' Anti-Jewish position: a dozen persons, reserved by Eusebius
for his new Church, are no more necessary for Gentiles today.
Thus a possible terrible crime of several leading persons before the
Council of 325 in Nicea can be suspected. Nothing could alienate the
Jews from Christ to such a degree for many following centures as these
persons possibly succeeded to do. No one Jewish “Ebionite” was
invited to the Council, since anyone had been already proclaimed a
“heretic” in advance.
Consequently,
after the Council of Nicea had declared all the Jews having betrayed
JHS, it denied the Jewish calendar calculation of Pesach on Nisan 14.
One of the nearest following regional Church councils (that of Laodicea,
364) prohibited the celebration of G-d-ordained (Ex=Ðemôt
16:22, 23:12)
Shabbat (but
cf. Mt=Mattâj 24:20 !),
as well as other Torah holidays.
Therefore it is questionable whether one can name the Gentile Church (including its mutually cursed
Roman–Constantinople counterparts of 1054, as well as further
splitting Protestant branches – all a result of Gen
12:3 ! )
apostolic
only because of the uninterrupted lineage of laying-on of hands from the
apostles, whose Church was betrayed by this new Gentile Church after
hundreds of uninterrupted hand layings! (As for the same Anti-Jewish origins
of the Protestants, remember Martin Luther, who was the first to convert
Roman imperial - churchy Anti-Judaism into German
racial Anti-Semitism and proposed to
persecute Jews unmercifully, to subject them to forced labor and to set
on fire their synagogues
– sorry for a link to the site of racist scoundrels and enemies of
Christianity, however this is the single site on WEB where the book of
Luther is published, all other publications removed by today
totalitarian “democracy”).
Of course, true believers in traditional Gentile churches always were
and are redeemed by Christ in accordance with their faithfulness and
love to Him, and this has served to fulfil the number of the Gentiles in
the Kingdom of G-d in centuries.
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