Paul's Missionary Journeys - Part 1

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

February 2, 2025

Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:28  

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

This is one of the verses in Scripture that is used the most to destroy the continuity of the Old Testament with the New Testament. It is used by many to say that there are different kinds of people addressed in each of the two Testaments:

• The Old Testament: the Jews. In Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College, December 2024, page 2, “We read in the Old Testament of God’s special covenant with the Jews, who are repeatedly described as a ‘chosen people.’”

What book in the Bible, chapter, and verse?

• The New Testament: Everyone in the world, including the non-Jews, who are called the Gentiles, or Greeks. In the Hillsdale College’s previous article, page six, it says that in Christianity, “salvation was open to every human being.”

What book in the Bible, chapter, and verse?

Do you think that these savages are open to Christianity?

The purpose of this sermon is to show that it is the literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that are the people of both Testaments. I should add that it is not “Testaments” but should be “Covenants. ”Israel is the only people of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31 and Hebrews 8:8).

Hebrews 8:8 quoting Jeremiah 31:31 capitalized:  “For finding fault with them [not everybody], He [LORD God of Israel] saith, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.”

Then, in the next verse, the statement is made which connects the two covenants. There is only one people who God led out of Egypt:

Hebrew 8:9a quoting Jeremiah 31:32a capitalized:

9a) “Not according to the covenant [old covenant] that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of EGYPT…”

It is only possible to make something new for two different groups of the same people, if you made something old for them previously. What if you hadn’t done anything in the past with them, can you make a new contract, or will it just be either old or new; it is just neutral. If the Abrahamic covenant is the Old Covenant, then what is the New? And wouldn’t the New Covenant be for the same people that the Old Covenant was for? Doesn’t Hebrews 8:8 and Jeremiah 31:31 tell us who the New Covenant was made with? Why do most Christians deny it?

The Old Testament (Covenant) was written for the kingdom of Israel. They split into two separate kingdoms, and most of the inhabitants were eventually divorced by Almighty God. The New Testament (Covenant) was to reconcile both kingdoms back to their God and to themselves. That is why the “gospel of the kingdom” was preached as the New Covenant began. The two kingdoms were to become one again. Both Testaments (Covenants) are for the same people – Israel.

But Judeo-Christianity denies this in their theology. They say instead that the Old Testament (Covenant) was written for and about the Jews, while the New Testament (Covenant) was written for and about the Jews and the non-Jews (Gentiles) or everyone who is alive from His resurrection to now(as Hillsdale College article previously stated).

How could this arrangement be called new, if the New Covenant was for different people than the Old Covenant? The New Testament is not a world history book; it doesn’t say anything about the history of the Chinese, for example.

Both the Jews and Israelites are the main people of the Bible. The Bible records many of their battles in the past and predicts their end battle. All other races are either not mentioned at all or are mentioned when they are used to inflict punishment on His people.

There are two main choices:

1. Israel is the exclusive people of both covenants, or
2. The Jews are the exclusive imposters of the Old, and the inclusive people of the New.

They both can’t be true. Which one is correct?

If Judeo-Christianity (or “Antichristian-Christian") is assumed to be correct, there are still major problems with their theology. Genesis informs the reader of a very significant covenant that was made between Almighty God and part of His people. God chose Abram, later changed his name to Abraham, to be the person who He would make an everlasting covenant. And, along with this covenant, He made promises that He would give to Abraham and part of His seed. It would go through Abraham, his only son with Sarah, Isaac (not Abram's seven other sons), and his grandson Jacob (not his twin brother Esau). And He called Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob over and over in the Bible.

God eventually became the husband to these descendants of Jacob/Israel and married them at Mt. Sinai. God had preserved them during the seven-year famine and eventually brought them out of Egypt and gave them the land occupied by the Canaanites. His people became a kingdom, as He was their King.

But a lot had changed by the time Saul (the Apostle Paul) was born in the region of Cilicia, Asia Minor or modern-day Turkey. Israel had asked their prophet, many years previously, to tell their king, the LORD God of Israel, to abdicate the throne. They requested one of their people to be the king, like the other nations had. They wanted a visible, earthly ruler to fight their battles and judge them, instead of relying solely on God who they perceived as an unseen power. God granted their request and abdicated the throne and chose who their kings were to be.

After only three kings, (Saul, David, and Solomon), the first from the tribe of Benjamin, and the other two from the tribe of Judah, the nation became split into two separate kingdoms:  Israel to the north and Judah to the south. The tribe of Benjamin wanted to join all the other triboson the north who opposed the obsessive tax their king requested. But Almighty God chose them to be the “light” and “salt" to Judah and to be the only tribe, besides most of the tribe of Levi, with the House of Judah.

Over 900 years later, the Apostle Paul was born. What tribe was he from? There are several scriptures that give a clue about this answer.

Acts 21:39:  "But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.”

The KJV says that Paul was a Jew in this verse and also in Acts 22:3.But that is the wrong translation, because the word “Jew" should not be in the Bible. The correct translation for “Jew” is “Judean”. There were two main groups of Judeans in Jerusalem or Judea in Christ’s time:

1. Edomite Judeans (Jews), and
2. Israelite Judeans (House of Judah; Israelites). 

The context, or other verses, will inform you which one is correct.

For example, Romans 11:1 should convince the reader whether Paul was an Edomite Judean or an Israelite Judean.

Romans 11:1:

1. “I say then, Hath God cast away His people? God forbid. For I [Paul] also am an:
2. Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the
3. Tribe of Benjamin.”

Paul informs the reader that he is from the kingdom of Israel, for he was of the tribe of Benjamin; the tribe who was given to Judah to be the “light” and “salt” both to them and later to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. This indicates very plainly that He is not an Edomite Judean or a Jew.

1 Kings 11:36:  “But unto his [David’s] son will I give one tribe [Benjamin], that David My servant may have a light always before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there.”

As you look at the map of modern-day Turkey, you will see many of the cities and areas where dispersed Israelites were living, like Ephesus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Tarsus, and Attalia. The Apostle Paul and others, like Barnabas, traveled over this territory on several missionary expeditions. 

Paul was born in the city of Tarsus, which is located on the southern end of Cilicia of modern-day Turkey, that borders on the Mediterranean Sea. And it would be in Asia Minor that Paul’s first missionary journey would take place. He would have a variety of different experiences during his journey. But how did it start?

Saul saw a great light while he was on the road to Damascus, Syria.  He fell to the ground, became blind and was led by the men who were with him to a certain house in this capital city. It was while Saul was there, that he received a vision from God saying that a man by the name of Ananias would come to him, give him back his sight, and give him aid.

Ananias was summoned by God at the same time:

Acts 9:15: “But the Lord said to him [Ananias], Go thy way: for he [Saul/Paul] is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel”(KJV).

The word “Gentiles” was translated from the Greek word “ethnos” and was translated in the King James Version as:

• Gentiles, 93 times,
• Nations, 64 times,
• Heathen, 5 times, and
• People, 2 times.

Do you think that the translators of the King James Version, over four hundred years ago, chose the correct word to use? Was Paul chosen to be a preacher to the “Gentiles”, or the “nations” or the “heathen” or the “people?”

Is this one a better translation?

Acts 9:15:  “But the Lord said unto him [Ananias], ‘Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one [Saul, Paul], to bear My name before the nations and kings [of those nations]– the sons also of Israel [in those nations];” (Young’s Literal Translation).

WHO DID PETER AND PAUL WRITE LETTERS TO?

Let’s compare who the Apostles Peter and Paul wrote to according to the Bible:

1 Peter 1:1: “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

I looked at 39 different Bible Versions and looked at how they translated this part of the verse in the KJV: “…strangers scattered throughout…”(I didn’t repeat identical or closely identical translations).

• “Temporary residents of the Dispersion”
• “Elect exiles of the dispersion”
• “Exiles scattered to the four winds”
• “Exiles scattered throughout the provinces”
• “Pilgrims of the Dispersion”
• “God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces”
• “Elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion”
• “To the saints who are living in”
• “God’s chosen strangers in the world of the diaspora, who live in”
• “God’s chosen people, living as aliens in the Diaspora”
• “To [the] sojourners of [the]dispersion”
• “God’s chosen people who live as refugees scattered throughout the provinces”
• “God’s chosen people who are temporary residents [in the world] and are scattered throughout the provinces”
• “To the chosen ones who are living as aliens in the Diaspora”
• “To the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion”
• “To God’s chosen people who are away from their homes and are scattered all around the countries”
• “To God’s own people scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners”
• “Choice sojourners of the dispersion”
• “Elect sojourners of the dispersion”

iPhone takes the consensus from the different versions, then a much better interpretation of this verse could be made. The KJV’s“…strangers scattered throughout…”, would be “God’s chosen people who are living as refugees in the dispersion…”

To further identify who Peter meant as “strangers” is to read what Peter writes about these “strangers” in the second chapter of his letter to the Christian/Israelites of Asia Minor in the first century:

1 Peter 2:9-10:

“But ye [the Christian/Israelites of Asia Minor] are a:

• Chosen generation [race],
• Royal priesthood,
• Holy [separate] nation,
• Peculiar people; 

that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you:

• Out of darkness into
• His marvellous light:

Which in time past:

• Were not a people, but are
• Now the people of God:
• Which had not obtained mercy, but
• Now have obtained mercy.”

Now, who is this that Peter is describing? There is only one group of people that fits the ten bullet points listed above. 

1. Who was the chosen race? Israel.
2. A royal priesthood for what God? The LORD God of Israel.
3. A separate nation of what? Israel was to be a separate nation with God as their king.
4. And a peculiar people of Whom?

Probably the most common usage of the word peculiar today is referring to someone or something that is strange, odd, or uncommon. Yet alternative meanings in the dictionary still tell us that this word can be used to describe something or someone that “belongs exclusively to some person, group, or thing.” The original meaning of the Greek words translated “peculiar” in this verse is indeed what is meant in this passage.

As we compare the different English translations of this verse and consider the alternative meaning of the word peculiar, it becomes clear that peculiar in this verse is referring to the fact that these new Christians of Asia Minor are a “special people” because they were chosen from before the foundation of the earth to be “God’s own possession. ”They are Israelites who were divorced and now are God’s people once again. There isn’t any Oriental, or Negroid, or Pacific Islander, or Aboriginals or anyone else who has the attributes described in these two verses.

In verse nine, Peter says that the “strangers” were the people who were called out of darkness into His marvelous light. There was only one people (see my previous sermon, “The Chosen Tribe”) who were called out of darkness into His light.

Peter said to the chosen race that he was writing to them who:

• Had been called out of darkness, and
• Had been called into His marvelous light.

They had been divorced, condemned to the darkness of being without Almighty God. The tribe of Benjamin was rejected from being a part of the House of Israel but was given by God to be a “light” for the tribe of David who was in the House of Judah.

And in verse ten, Peter explains that these same people were:

• At one time in the past not the people of God, for they were divorced, but
• Are now the people of God. 

It was in reference to people who:

Received “no mercy” from God when they were taken in captivity as prisoners by the Assyrians, but now, they have obtained “mercy” as they, for the first time, have had their sins forgiven by the sacrifice of their sinless Redeemer. Their divorce is now over, as they are able to marry the risen Christ.

This can be shown directly from the book of the prophet Hosea:

Hosea 1:6:  “And she [Gomer] conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him [Hosea], Call her [Hosea's daughter] name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.”

Peter is writing to these descendants of the House of Israel, not the descendants of the House of Judah, or anyone else who was or is living in the world.  Peter wasn’t writing to the Assyrians, Canaanites, Kenites, Edomites, Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Saudi Arabians, Incas, Koreans, Costa Ricans, Mexicans—just one House out of the two houses of His covenant people.

In the next chapter of the book of Hosea, it says about these same people (House of Israel):

Hosea 2:23:  “And I will sow her [House of Israel] unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her [House of Israel] that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them [House of Israel] which were not My people, Thou [House of Israel] are My people and they [House of Israel] shall say, thou art my God.”

That fits perfectly. The people that Peter was addressing were the descendants of the House of Israel who were residing in modern-day Turkey in the dispersion. 

THEY ARE TO REMARRY THE RISEN CHRIST

While Israel was still married to her husband, the LORD God of Israel, she became adulterous. She worshipped other gods, or symbolically, she had other lovers. Because Israel did this, the Almighty God divorced her, and she became captivated by several foreign nations [Syria, Assyria, Babylon, etc.] as part of her judgment. She was no longer married to the God of Israel, for God gave his wife a bill of divorcement that was in effect for over 700 years until Jesus Christ was born of His mother Mary. 

Jeremiah 3:8:  “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”

His divorced wife had “no hope” (Ephesians 2:12). She would stay divorced for the rest of time unless something miraculous happened. There was nothing that she could do. Her husband had been faithful to her. It was she that had been unfaithful to Him.

God loved his wife with an everlasting love. According to God’s law, could they just forget everything that happened and get remarried again? No, they couldn’t. They could have if neither one of them had another lover, but one of them, His former wife, had many lovers.

If one of them died, then the law of their first marriage would be over. Then, the remaining spouse would be free to marry someone else. It was the husband that died. He couldn’t die unless He gave up His Spirit on His own. He had no sins to pay, but He died for all the sins that His wife had/will commit. 

But the husband was dead, how could He remarry his first wife? There was only one way. He had to rise again, and she “who had all her sins paid for” could remarry the risen Christ, who was also her first husband.

Romans 7:4:  “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law [of the first marriage] by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”

The Judeo-Christian makes the mistake of saying that God married the Jews in the Old Testament, but in the New, He will marry a new wife – someone else. It will be a mixture of all the races of the world – as they say, Jew and Gentile. And they say nothing about the divorced House of Israel being put back together with the House of Judah. What a mess!

Christian-Identity is in the minority of Christianity that says that Peter and Paul were preaching to the former divorced wife of God – which the KJV and others refer to as “Gentiles” or “Greeks.” For over 700 years, they had been divorced and had migrated from Assyria and Syria and traveled to Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, the British Isles, France, Spain, Portugal,etc.

The apostles were preaching the “gospel of the kingdom” telling them that their Redeemer had died, paid for their sins, and was resurrected. Their divorce was over. The two kingdoms that had been in existence for almost 1000 years were to be one kingdom once again; “two sticks would become one” (Ezekiel 37:15-20).

Now, how is this message of any interest to anyone who is not a part of these two kingdoms? For example: What would this regathering of these two kingdoms mean to the Philistines of Palestine? They weren’t a part of either kingdom. What would this mean to the Incas of South America?They never even heard that the two kingdoms existed for thousands of years. They never had any involvement with these two kingdoms when this was written. This is true with most of all the other nations of the world. 

WHO WERE THE GALATIANS?

Who were the Galatians that Peter and Paul’s letters were addressed to? It was to the people who lived very close to where the Apostle Paul was born. It was to the Israelites of Asia Minor.

Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1:1:  “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.”

And Paul wrote in Galatians 1:2:  "And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:”

• Peter wrote to the Galatians and to the rest of Asia Minor who were in dispersion,
• Peter identified them from the book of Hosea as being the former divorced House of Israel,
• Paul’s first missionary journey was mainly to the Israelites Galatians in Asia Minor,
• Paul later wrote to the Israelite Galatian churches.

First half of Paul’s first missionary journey

Saul/Paul was an Apostle for about 31 years, from 37 A.D. till he completed his writings in 68 A.D.—two years before over a million Jews were destroyed in the battle of Jerusalem with the Romans. Saul/Paul had quite a life:

• He was, in his youth, in the religion of the Jews, persecuting the followers of Jesus Christ,
• Confronted when he was going to imprison the followers of Jesus,
• Converted in a miraculous way,
• Was blinded for three days, before he was healed,
• Spent three years [in Arabia and Damascus (Galatians 1:17, 18)] learning the message of Christianity,
• Stoned (the Jews thought to death),
• Raised back to life,
• Expelled from cities, attempted to be murdered on multiple occasions,
• Imprisoned,
• Belittled,
• Performed miracles,
• Hated,
• Loved,
• Envied,
• Contradicted,
• Blasphemed,
• Persecuted,
• Preached to the lost sheep of the House of Israel who were living in Asia Minor, Greece and Italy,
• Was one of Christianity’s greatest missionaries,
• Wrote almost half of the New Testament books,
• Went to Spain and the British Isles in his fifth missionary journey. The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles is a short text purporting to be the translation of a manuscript containing the 29th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, detailing Paul the Apostle’s journey to Britannia, where he preached to the dispersed Israelites. The text made its first appearance in London in 1871. It is available in a 1982 edition by E. Raymond Capt.
• Tradition holds that he was beheaded in Rome and died as a martyr for his faith.

The brethren that the Apostle Paul wrote letters to, were among some of the cities that he visited in his missionary journeys: 

• Asia Minor (modern Turkey):  Ephesus, Colossae, Galatia
• Macedonia (modern Greece): Philippi, Thessalonica
• Achaia (modern Greece):  Corinth
• Italy: Rome

And curiously, John wrote admirations and criticism from the Spirit to the seven churches, which are also in the province of Asia in Asia Minor, which are recorded in the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3. So, there were missionary journeys and letters written to a lot of churches in Turkey, Greece and Italy in the New Testament.

Seven churches referred to in the book of Revelation.

THE APOSTLE PAUL’S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (ACTS 13-15)

Where did the Apostle Paul go on his first missionary journey? He, along with Barnabas, who was from Cyprus and the tribe of Levi, traveled with Paul on their first missionary endeavor. It was the church in Antioch of Syria that they had been in for a while, and it was this church that the Holy Spirit instructed to separate Paul and Barnabas for their missionary journey. So, after the church disciples (Christians) ... 

Acts 13:3b, 4:  

“…fasted and prayed, they [prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch, Syria] laid their hands on them [Paul and Barnabas] and sent them away”

4) So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, departed unto Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.”

Shortly before this happened, the disciples of Jesus, at the church in Antioch of Syria, were for the first time identified being Christian. Paul was one of the disciples who were called Christian!

Acts 11:26:  “And when he [Barnabas] had found him [Saul/Paul], he brought him unto Antioch [Syria]. And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much [many] people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch [Syria].”

Here is a quick review of the Apostle’s Paul first missionary journey:

• Paul and Barnabas first sailed to the island of Cyprus, which was Barnabas’ home country. They arrived at Salamis, Cyprus and taught in the synagogues along with John Mark, Barnabas’ cousin. The three continued preaching across the whole island and finally arrived at Paphos on the opposite side. In Paphos, the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, summoned Paul and Barnabas because he “desired to hear the Word of God” (Acts 13:7). However, a Jewish false prophet and magician, Elymas, tried to prevent the proconsul from coming to faith. Paul, “filled with the Holy Spirit,” struck this child of the devil, Elymas, blind thus performing his first miracle (Acts 13:9–11). Upon witnessing this miracle, the proconsul believed. Paul and Barnabas then set sail from Paphos to go into modern-day Turkey,  Perga in Pamphylia,  while John Mark set sail to return to Jerusalem (Acts 13:12, 13).
   
• In Turkey, Paul and Barnabas made their way to Antioch (Asia Minor) where they taught in the synagogue, and many believed. However, the following week, when nearly the entire city gathered to hear their preaching, some Jews began contradicting and stirring up persecution against Paul and Barnabas. After this rejection of the gospel from the Jews, Paul said, “we are turning to the nations” [in the dispersion] (Acts 13:46).  Acts 13:48 records that “when the Gentiles [nations] heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
   
• Eventually, being driven out of Antioch of Asia Minor by the Jews, Paul and Barnabas went to Iconium and taught in the synagogue there. Many Israelites believed, and Paul and Barnabas performed signs and wonders during their stay in Iconium. Over time, however, the city became divided between those who followed the Jews and those who sided with the Apostles. When Paul and Barnabas learned that their opposition was planning to stone them, they fled to Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding area (Acts 14:5, 6).
   
• In Lystra, Paul performed another miracle—healing a man who had been crippled since birth. Unfortunately, the miracle caused the people to believe that Barnabas was the god Zeus, and that Paul was Hermes, the messenger and chief spokesman of the gods. Paul and Barnabas had to work hard to convince the people that they were mere men and prevent them from making sacrifices to them. Then Jews from Antioch in Asia Minor and from Iconium came and persuaded the crowds to stone Paul. After the stoning, Paul was dragged out of the city and left for dead. However, when the disciples gathered around Paul, he got up and walked right back into Lystra. The next day, Paul and Barnabas went to Derbe and shared the gospel of the kingdom; many more disciples were made (Acts 14:8-20).
   
• Upon completing their time teaching in Derbe, Paul and Barnabas retraced their steps returning through Lystra, to Iconium, to Antioch in Turkey to encourage the believers there and appointed elders in each church before making the trip home to Antioch in Syria. To get from Antioch in Asia Minor to Antioch in Syria, they passed through Perga and set sail from Attalia, taking the time to share the gospel in both places (Acts 14:21-46).
   
• The entire missionary journey is believed to have taken twelve to eighteen months, thus putting Paul and Barnabas home in Syria around AD 48. In Antioch in Syria, Paul and Barnabas “gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles [nations]” (Acts 14:27).This first missionary journey helped spread the gospel and prepared Paul for his other journeys in the years following.
   
• One should notice from Paul’s missionary journey, that from Elymas, the Jewish magician, to the preaching in the synagogue in Iconium where one part of the people was on the Jews side and the other on the side of the Apostles, to the Jews who got upset in Antioch and Iconium and came to Lystra and persuaded the people to stone Paul, that Paul and Barnabas faced major battles from the Jews. The question that all Christians today should answer is “Why was it always the Jews?”

Now think about this for a minute. The Jews tried everything they could to stop the ministry of the Apostle Paul, even assassination. They killed many of Christ’s disciples and tried to destroy the church that was started by Christ. Now, almost two millenniums later, the Jews control our nation. The Christians state that Israeli is our only ally in the Middle East so, we must defend them with all our might. 

Are they now our friends, after killing our Redeemer, many of His Apostles, many of His churches, and many of His followers? The Jews, whether they are Kenites, Canaanites, Edomites, or Ashkenazim, have been a major problem for thousands of years and our fathers in the past have kicked them out of their cities, states and nations over one hundred times (See An Anti-Semitism True Story for the dates and countries and also "Little Known Facts about Jews" point #4 for a summary list).

And do you know that almost three centuries before the Protestant Reformation began, the Catholic:

King Louis IX, considered it his duty to treat the Jews of France sternly. In 1244, it was made known to him by Pope Innocent IV that the Talmud (The Teaching) of the Jews contained blasphemies against Jesus and His Mother, as well as a rule of life that has as its end the abuse of Christians.

For instance, the Talmud refers to Jesus Christ as a fool, insane, a conjurer, a magician, and as being buried in Hell. The Jews in the Talmud refer to the Virgin Mary as a prostitute. Among the wrongs against Christians (Goi or Goyim) enumerated in the Talmud are the license to commit usury when dealing with Christians – a crime which the King ordained to be condemned across France, applying to all of his subjects. A Jew may also pretend to be a Christian in order to deceive the same, according to the Talmud.

Further, a Jew may lie in order to condemn a Christian….” (The Barnes Review, November/December 2024, page 6).

So, King Louis IX had a legal examination to determine the fate of the Talmud. There were four prominent rabbis defending the Talmud and the trial, which lasted for many days, began. The rabbis defending the Talmud lost its case and all copies of the Talmud in the nation (France) were rounded up. Over10,000 handwritten books (including all the Talmuds) were destroyed in a huge bonfire on June 17, 1242.

The city of St. Louis, Missouri is named after this king of France; King Louis IX who was later made a saint in the Catholic Church. So, if you are/were a Catholic, do you think that your Church was wrong in making this King of France a saint for telling the truth about the Jews?

But over 500 years after this happened in France, the Jews were granted their emancipation in the same country, this time by Napoleon. In 1808, and after 1810 when the “infamous” decree was relaxed, the Jews of the French Empire were the only Talmudists in Europe to enjoy the freedom to practice their religion, given an official status, with rabbis officially recognized by the state.

And since that time, the Jews have been emancipated practically throughout all the world, and now they control all the Israel nations. Do you think that all the Israel nations are being grossly deceived? The Jews and their ancestors have always been our enemy for over six thousand years.

Revelations 20:8:  “And [Satan] shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”

In closing, here is an email we received Wednesday January 29, 2025:

“Please consider me an FGCP adherent.

My (not) evangelical church is soo PC and zionistic it stinks.

The pastor is jewish, the sub pastor is jewish, and told the congregation to get vaccinated. They preach the gospel, but are silent on the social ills of today very weak on eschatology, there are jewish flags and menorahs in the church offices. Why do white people fall for these deceptions? I am seeing how manipulated they are; and did  I say the new building they just built was 20 million? Yep, lot of money is required to keep their business going. Oh yea, the pastors say Abraham was jewish; also Jesus was jewish. Even fundamentalists preach this nonsense. I am finally done with the jesuit controlled church.”

To be continued.

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel.