Month: November 2023

Evil Minds—Hamas, Sodom, the Antediluvians

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Why do certain people seem to be evil from the moment of birth and others have good deeds throughout their lives? Could it be that there is an inherited evil that passes down through the family tree? Is their actual DNA affected? For instance, if we consider the mindset of Hamas, we have examples of this evil being cultivated in the schools and by the parents, but is it only a cultivated evil? What if the children were adopted and raised in a peaceful environment? What then? Or would they still have tendencies to kill and deceive? Why do Arabs in the Middle East, for the most part, hate the Jews and desire to eliminate them? Has this attitude come down from Ishmael and Esau and the other sons of Abraham’s concubine Keturah? As one Christian Arab explained recently, people in the West do not understand the mindset of Arabs in the Middle East. They do not think like Westerners. These people often kill their own children and wives for any little disobedience or assumed disgrace. There is no compassion. Stealing is rewarded with cutting off a hand, and second occurrence cuts off the other hand. Then, of course they cannot feed themselves so they die. Women who are suspected of indiscretion with another man are killed even when there is no proof. Fear reigns where there is no mercy.

Maybe this seems like a judgmental or even racist attitude, but what about Biblical texts that seem to go along with this?

Sodom and Gomorrah:

Abraham begged the Eternal to consider saving Sodom if only 10 righteous people were found there, hoping to prevent the destruction. As we can imagine, little children and babes were wiped out by the fire and brimstone along with all the guilty adults, except the five rescued by the two angels who visited Lot the night before. Those kids were not the innocent victims of God’s wrath—The Eternal knows what He does! And as we see later even the two daughters of Lot produced, through incest, two nations that continually provoked the sons of Jacob. What was the inherent evil of Sodom that cursed that generation to carry the same evil to the extent that there was no escaping the doom of a fiery destruction? Incest and immorality are like a cancer on society. Killing, rape, thievery…all these bring evil upon an entire population.

The Flood:

When the Creator saw before the flood that the thoughts of men on the earth were “only evil continually;” He declared to Noah:

Gen 6:13: “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”

Was there really no redemptive cure for the little ones who had not yet tasted the pleasures of outright evil? According to the story, there was no man, woman or child who boarded the ark with Noah and his family of eight. And regarding the account that Noah preached for 120 years to try to save some, this is not part of the story as given in Genesis. Noah and his family were the only living humans who were counted as worthy to be saved by the Eternal. What happened that the entire remainder of humanity had corrupted themselves to the point of being unredeemable? It is interesting to note the two lineages and their descendants. Cain’s lineage and Seth’s lineage. The sons of Seth were the ones who carried the line of the righteous…Enoch, Methuselah, Noah. And it seems that after the flood, the sons of Noah were split into the lineage of the righteous and the lineage of the evil Canaanites. Did Canaan do something that corrupted his lineage to the point that Israel was commanded to exterminate all of the Canaanites in the land? Why good lineage and bad lineage? Are some sins so evil that the following generations are cursed to the point that few if any escape?

Are there peoples on the earth today who are unredeemable? Is there something that has conquered the minds of the multitude so that they cannot choose good over evil? In the current was with Hamas and the atrocities that have been committed against innocent children, women, and elderly, as well as soldiers and civilian men, it is apparent that the evil is foremost in their thinking. There is nothing good left in a person who one brags about personally raping and killing innocent people. The person who does these things has gone beyond the ability to repent. A power of evil controls him and he is subject to this power of destruction. He is tied by the cords of his own sins and cannot release himself. He/she has gone too far.

Sin Passes Down from Generation to Generation:

When God gave the commandments at Sinai, he declared that He would “visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” Exo 20:5. If the parents do not repent of their sins, is there hope for the children? There are rare instances for sure, but the tendencies to continue in the path of evil are overwhelming. Maybe there is such a thing as corrupted DNA. The science of how evil takes over a mind from habitual abuse and sin is horrific. Would I dare say there is no escape? There are examples of repentance, but few. No one knows the exact level at which a person cannot escape—nor repent.

On the other hand, it is written in Ezekiel:

Eze 18:20 – “The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”

I have always quoted this verse as giving hope for those with bad parentage, but this is not saying that the children will be righteous without an intense struggle. Perhaps it gives an inkling of hope that a son or daughter can mend his ways and turn from the evil of his parents. And we see that though the sins of the fathers are not charged to the children, their own sins continue to abound unless they find personal strength to resist. Finding strength in the outstretched Hand of the Most High God is the only path to overcoming.

The outlook of earth’s decline from morality to outright evil is grim. Are we to the point in earth’s demise that there is no returning from the evil rampant among us? Is there hope that a few bright lights will stand for truth and bring a final repentance and return to righteousness such as has not been seen for many generations? Or will Divine wrath again be necessary to cleanse the earth of the evil and prepare a home for those who hold onto the Divine Covenant which insures righteousness and justice in the land?

Yours in the Hope of a Better World…Soon!

Ariella

Israel at War—Who are the Innocents?

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Is it right to cut off the innocent along with the wicked? This past week we saw in the Parsha the plea of Abram for the city of Sodom (Genesis 18). And it seemed reasonable, to save the city for a few innocents, but when the Eternal allowed Abram to work the numbers down to 10, He immediately headed out leaving Abram thinking that nothing was going to happen. But it did! In today’s situation, can we use that story to define how far Israel has a right to destroy the Palestinians left in Gaza? And are they innocent civilians?

Let’s look at another bible story. When Korah Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16) coveted the position of leadership to the point of wanting to replace Moses and Aaron, they and all they owned were swallowed up by the earth opening it’s mouth. Surely there were innocents that were destroyed! What about the wives and children? Well, we are not told but often families stick together in their opinions and sometimes wives even drive their husbands to do things they would not have otherwise done. But we don’t know. And the kids? Why them? We are not told. Ok, so God did it and He knows best, right?

So today we have a hostile aggression into the land of Israel by the enemies of the Jewish people. So there are children in their midst, and yes we have seen movies of the children being trained to shout, “kill the Jews!” Are they innocent? Weren’t we innocent? Do we have to protect those who hate us when they have just savagely murdered our children and elderly—some holocaust survivors? What kind of moral equivalence is this? And what about what the Bible says regarding an eye for eye and tooth for a tooth (Exodus 21)?

Here is another scenario. Let’s suppose that some among the Gazan civilians decide that they want to stand with Israel and would somehow indicate that they did not want to support Hamas? Would it be right to go in and rescue them? Israel has actually offered this! And the fact that they do not express this? Does this mean that perhaps they are totally in support of what happened? And how is it that it was not only Hamas monsters that came through the fence, but many civilians joined in the murders of our people? Are they not all guilty?

It is true that much of the world does not give Israel the right to defend itself. They take up the theory that Israel must not kill civilians even though we lost over 1400 peace loving civilians who were not staging any kind of war against Gaza. Try as we may to show that the Palestinians are not so innocent because they have stood with the evil Hamas, the world joins in a loud and hostile cry oposing anything we do as evil and unfair. World leaders work to convince our government to submit to their idea of justice. The question is—Will Israel bow down to these evil suggestions?

It doesn’t matter that the entire group of the massacred innocent in our land, all them were innocent—none were fighters threatening Gaza.

And no it doesn’t matter, the world says, Israel has no right to wipe out those who chant slogans to annihilate the Jews and take over this beautiful Promised Land so that it no longer exists.

Why did God in the Bible tell Israel to utterly wipe out certain groups of people who inhabited the land? Is this an exaggerated account? The outward reason had to do with the temptation to worship the idols of these peoples who were present in Israel. They performed child sacrifice and other inhumane things for their gods. Because they were not fully destroyed, Israel began to participate in these things and ultimately had to be expelled themselves from the land of Israel.

So what is our position today? I say as many more are saying in a louder and louder voice: Let Israel destroy her enemies! Do not hinder our progress. To destroy Hamas and their supporters is to give the entire world a little more time to develop justice and peace.

Go IDF! Do not hold back!

Israel en Guerra: ¿Quien Mata a las Inocentes?

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¿Estaría mal juzgar a los inocentes junto con los malvados? La semana pasada vimos en la Parashá la súplica de Abram por la ciudad de Sodoma (Génesis 18). Y parecía razonable salvar la ciudad para unos pocos inocentes, pero cuando el Eterno le permitió a Abram reducir los números a 10, inmediatamente salió dejando a Abram pensando que nada iba a pasar. ¡Pero así fue! En la situación actual, ¿podemos utilizar esa historia para definir hasta qué punto Israel tiene derecho a destruir a los palestinos que quedan en Gaza? ¿Y son civiles inocentes?

Veamos otra historia bíblica. Cuando Coré Datán y Abiram (Números 16) codiciaron la posición de liderazgo hasta el punto de querer reemplazar a Moisés y Aarón, ellos y todo lo que poseían fueron tragados por la tierra abriendo su boca. ¡Seguramente hubo inocentes que fueron destruidos! ¿Qué pasa con las esposas y los hijos? Bueno, no nos lo dicen, pero a menudo las familias se mantienen unidas en sus opiniones y, a veces, las esposas incluso obligan a sus maridos a hacer cosas que de otro modo no habrían hecho. Pero no lo sabemos. ¿Y los niños? ¿Por qué ellos? No se nos dice. Ok, entonces Dios lo hizo y Él sabe mejor, ¿verdad?

Así que hoy tenemos una agresión hostil a la tierra de Israel por parte de los enemigos del pueblo judío. Así que hay niños entre ellos, y sí, hemos visto películas de niños entrenados para gritar “¡maten a los judíos!” ¿Son inocentes? ¿No éramos inocentes? ¿Tenemos que proteger a quienes nos odian cuando acaban de asesinar salvajemente a nuestros niños y ancianos, algunos sobrevivientes del holocausto? ¿Qué clase de equivalencia moral es ésta? ¿Y qué pasa con lo que dice la Biblia sobre ojo por ojo y diente por diente (Éxodo 21)?

Aquí hay otro escenario. Supongamos que algunos civiles de Gaza deciden que quieren apoyar a Israel y de alguna manera indican que no quieren apoyar a Hamás. ¿Sería correcto entrar y rescatarlos? ¡Israel realmente ha ofrecido esto! ¿Y el hecho de que no lo expresen? ¿Significa esto que quizás apoyan totalmente lo ocurrido? ¿Y cómo es que no sólo fueron los monstruos de Hamás los que atravesaron la valla, sino que muchos civiles se sumaron a los asesinatos de nuestro pueblo? ¿No son todos culpables?

Es cierto que gran parte del mundo no le da a Israel el derecho a defenderse. Adoptan la teoría de que Israel no debe matar civiles a pesar de que perdimos a más de 1.400 civiles amantes de la paz que no estaban librando ningún tipo de guerra contra Gaza. Por más que intentemos demostrar que los palestinos no son tan inocentes porque hayan apoyado al malvado Hamas, el mundo se une en un grito fuerte y hostil oponiéndose a cualquier cosa que hagamos por considerarla malvada e injusta. Los líderes mundiales trabajan para convencer a nuestro gobierno de que se someta a su idea de justicia. La pregunta es: ¿Israel se doblegará ante estas malas sugerencias?

No importa que todo el grupo de inocentes masacrados en nuestra tierra, todos fueran inocentes, ninguno era combatiente que amenazara a Gaza.

Y no, no importa, dice el mundo, Israel no tiene derecho a eliminar a quienes corean consignas para aniquilar a los judíos y apoderarse de esta hermosa Tierra Prometida para que ya no exista.

¿Por qué Dios en la Biblia le dijo a Israel que eliminara por completo a ciertos grupos de personas que habitaban la tierra? ¿Es esta una cuenta exagerada? La razón exterior tenía que ver con la tentación de adorar a los ídolos de estos pueblos que estaban presentes en Israel. Realizaban sacrificios de niños y otras cosas inhumanas para sus dioses. Debido a que no fueron completamente destruidos, Israel comenzó a participar en estas cosas y finalmente tuvieron que ser expulsados de la tierra de Israel.

¿Cuál es entonces nuestra posición hoy? Digo como muchos más dicen cada vez con más fuerza: ¡Que Israel destruya a sus enemigos! No obstaculices nuestro progreso. Destruir a Hamás y a sus partidarios es darle al mundo entero un poco más de tiempo para desarrollar la justicia y la paz. ¡Vaya delante ejercito Israeli! ¡No te detengas!

What Happened to THE NAME?

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Why are Jews prohibited to pronounce the Holy Name of their God? Where and when did this start? Was it a law given by Moses or at some later time? Today our people are burdened with laws that they know nothing about where they were derived, laws that make little sense to the logical mind and because they conflict with the written Word of Hashem, the Bible takes a back seat and few if any understand it or give it credibility.

There is much that happened in history to remake the Jewish religion. This religion was tailor made to allow Jews to practice in the exile without a High Priest and without a temple. This was prophesied in the writings of the prophets. One of these; very specific regarding the lack of Temple service and priesthood, Hosea 3:4 says:

כי ימים רבים ישבו בני ישראל אין מלך ואין שר ואין זבח ואין מצבה ואין אפוד ותרפים׃

“For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.”

And so it has been ever since the return from Babylon before the second temple was built. The following link will take you to a You Tube that is just now available after months of research in historical and Jewish religious books including Mishnah Talmud. This video is a must see for understanding a little of the background as to why Jews are not allowed to speak or pray in the name YHVH (יהוה). To do so carries a curse that prohibits the speaker from taking part in the world to come. To see this history, go to this YouTube channel and watch parts 1 & 2. There will soon be other videos to watch on this and other topics by Deb (Devorah Yocheved). See Bio below.

To learn the origins of the Jewish prohibition for speaking The NAME, go to the YouTube channel: Torah Origins with Deb; and watch: The NAME Unspoken: parts 1 & 2.

For part one click here

For part two click here

About Deb:
Deb and her husband moved to Israel in 2013 and presently live in northern Israel. Deb has over 28 years of trial practice as an attorney in the United States. As a commercial litigation attorney licensed in Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, she was involved in cases representing Banks, Tobacco, and Big Pharma. Among other things, she dealt in cases of abuse of power by government and organized criminal activities, and the US bank liability laws.

Having witnessed corruption, deceit, fraud and abuse of power at the highest levels and in every quarter, Deb is now prepared to expose big religions, traditions and other institutions that have claimed authority in the NAME of the Creator through false swearing and deceitful lies.

Yours for an earthshaking view of History and Biblical Torah,

Ariella