What Happened at Bethbarah?

by Pastor Don Elmore

July 20, 2014

Scripture Reading: Judges 7:24, 25

This scripture reading tells of the victory that Israel had over the Midianites when they slew the two princes of that nation.  Remember that God had told Gideon 32,000 Test for eliminating men from Gideon's troopstroops that Israel had, they would vaunt themselves against their God, saying, “Mine own hand hath saved me” (Judges 7:2).  So God instructed Gideon to eliminate 31,700 of the 32,000 troops:  Israel only had 300 soldiers left to fight the battle against the Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 7:6).  That is lowering the number of Israel’s army by over 99%!

The army of Israel was cut by over 99+%.  First, all those who were afraid were let go; that was 22,000.  Then 9700 men were let go who drank from the pond by putting their mouth in the water.  This left only 300 to fight against an army of over 135,000!  It lowered the odds from 1 to 5 to around 1 to 500.Gideon's CampaignsThe soldiers of Gideon, which included men (no women) from the tribes of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, Naphtali and later Ephraim pursued after the Midianites and destroyed the enemy leaders named Zebah and Zalmunna and over 135,000 soldiers of the Midianites.   He was so successful that the “men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also; for thou hast delivered us, from the hand of Midian” (Judges 8:22).    Gideon answered:  “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you” (Judges 8:23).

Gideon dwelt in his own house for the last forty years of his life.  And he died when he was a good old age.  And it followed that after he was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot with Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

In Psalm 83, both of these nations, the Amalekites (verse 7) and Midianites (verse 9) are mentioned as being enemies of Israel.  This victory of Gideon is reflected in this Psalm when King David longed for the victory over Israel’s future enemies.  “Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb: yea, all the princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna, (verse 11).”  It looked forward to a time when their adversaries would be confounded forever (verse 18).

False Apostles

by Pastor Don Elmore

July 6, 2014

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 25:1-7

This portion of Scripture gives the reference of when it was spoken:  the fourth year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah.  For twenty-three years, God had sent Jeremiah and His prophets to them telling the Judahites to repent.  Notice they all got up early.  Did any of the Judahites listen?

JUDAH 
 
REIGN 
 
ISRAELREIGN
Rehoboam931-913Jeroboam931-910
ASA 
 
 / 
JEHOSHAPHAT   
Jehoram   
Ahaziah   
Athaliah    17 kings 
Joash   
Amaziah   
Azariah   
Jotham   
Ahaz / 
HEZEKIAH
 
716-687Hoshea 732-721
Manasseh                          Assyrian Captivity 
Amon   
JOSIAH640-608 627--  Started
Jehoahaz 608 23 years
Jehoiakim 608-597 604--  NOW
Jehoiachin597/ 
Zedekiah597-586/ 
Babylonian Captivity                  18 years

You can tell from the chart that the Kingdom of Judah went into the Babylonian Captivity eighteen years after this portion of Scripture was given.  The House of Israel was already taken into the Assyrian Captivity as well as most of the House of Judah.  It was given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim and in eighteen more years Judah no longer existed as a nation.

What is the Bible About?

By Pastor Don Elmore

June 22, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Map of Abram's journey through the Promised LandGenesis 12:6-9

6) “And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh.  And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7) And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:  and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8) And he removed from there unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:  and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 

9) And Abram journeyed going on still toward the Negev.”  

When one reads the Bible what does one find?  The contents are not what the average Christian thinks should be in there.  Most churches do not teach anything about biblical history; only most of their Sunday schools do--if they have one.  But they teach very little about the kings, battles, religious views and genetic purity or mongrelization of each country; and it is totally disorganized.  They believe that it is not important.  Maybe this is one reason that most Christians don’t read their Bibles:  because it is so different from what they are taught in church.

The Bible tells the story of different races, primarily two; one pure and the other mongrel.  What does history have to do with the story of Christ’s birth, death, resurrection and ascensions?   What does the history tell us about personal salvation?  One would think this is what the Bible teaches from what the churches instruct; practically no biblical history.

What is Christ's-mass?

by Pastor Don Elmore

June 8, 2013

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 17:1-5

These five verses of Scripture tells us that for an Israelite, the covenant said that serving and worshipping other gods, one of which was the sun-god, was an abomination to God and the penalty for a person caught doing such a thing was death by stoning.  I am happy that this was not true in the United States, for I would be nothing more than a crumbled up mess of broken bones; because I served and worshipped the sun-god for about 2/5 of my life time; maybe even a little bit more.  I was totally ignorant of what I was doing.  I was deceived.

And, even after I told my friends and family that I no longer would exchange gifts with them, I still participated in the family gatherings and watched as family members exchanged gifts with one another, ate the Christmas meal with them (but refused to eat ham), and watched the football bowl games on television.  I did not convince any of them that keeping Christmas was wrong; except my sister and her husband at a later date.

It was not a Merry Christmas” for me during those days.  What had me in a state of confusion was that I knew where Christmas began, but I thought Catholics were Christians!  In fact, I even thought that her daughters (Protestants) were Christians too.  Maybe some of them, over one hundred years ago were, but it is very hard to find one in today’s deceived mess of theology.  Even the Amish and Mennonites of today are a disgrace to their fathers of several centuries ago. 

But that is true with a whole range of things in the world today.  People do what they think is right and not what it says in the Bible.  For example, same-sex marriages are the rage now, for judge after judge is ruling that it is unconstitutional.  How can it now be unconstitutional when for over 250 years it was the law and it was constitutional?  And doesn’t the Bible teach absolutely against this sin and calls it an abomination of God?  God still calls it a major sin.

Destroying the Ban on Interracial Marriage

by Pastor Don Elmore

May 25, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Judges 10:6-9

Judges 3:7-8And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the idols. There the anger of the LORD was HOT against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children on Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.”

What was the sin that was responsible for causing Israel’s God to be hot against them?  Verses 5 and 6 tells his that it was interracial marriages! 

Judges 3:5-6  "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.”

Notice that the 2 ½ tribes of Israel that dwelt on the eastern side of the Jordon, lived in the land that was formerly controlled by the Amorites.  Moab dwelt in the southern portion of this land when they were in existence.

After Israel was delivered from this servitude, they once again committed evil in the sight of the LORD and they were put in servitude to Moab for 18 years.  But after the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raise up a deliverer who freed them from the Moabites and they had rest for 80 years. 

Bloodlines

I recently was sent a book via email that was written by John Piper.  He is one of the leaders of the reformed theology and he has already written twenty-eight books.  He is a Calvinistic preacher, who is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.  The book that I received was entitled, “Bloodlines; Race, Cross, and the Christian.” 

He was born in 1946; four years after I was born.  He lived his youth in Greeneville, South Carolina and when he was sixteen years old his home church voted to not allow Blacks into their services!  He lived in the middle of America’s separatism.  He confesses that he was a Southern racist. 

Well, what changed John Piper from a racist to an integrationist; from a separatist to a person that promotes interracial marriages? 

Who Is The Enemy?

by Pastor Don Elmore

May 11, 2014

Scripture Reading: Luke 12:1-5

The Pharisees were a powerful religious sect who saw themselves as successors of Ezra.  They felt responsible for preserving, interpreting and teaching the law.  But the law to them was not just the books of Moses as revealed by God in the Old Testament, but also the ORAL law that Jesus referred to as their traditions, which led them into obsessions over small facts rather than the heart and essence (weightier matters) of the law.  Jesus told the disciples of the hypocrisy of these people and promised that their works would be made known.  He reassured the people not to be intimidated by these puffed up ones who proclaimed themselves the righteous authority.

Phariseeism is modern day Judaism.  Should we too be afraid of the modern day Pharisees?  What can they do besides kill us?  We shouldn’t be afraid of the jewish influence, but we should fear our own God.       The people who killed our Savior, are laying the framework to kill us.  

Important History Not Being Taught Part 4

by Pastor Don Elmore

March 23, 2014

Scripture Reading: II Kings 17:29-35

The opening scripture reading tells of the history of the portion of land in Palestine known as “Samaria.”  It was the homeland of the tribes of Ephraim and Western Manasseh of the kingdom of Israel [northern kingdom].   But after the tribes of the Kingdom of Israel and most of the tribes of the Kingdom of Judah was captured and put into captivity by the Assyrians; it was repopulated by the five tribes of Babylonians and Lebanon/Syrians.

You will notice that I added Lebanon/Syrians.  That is because when I read my March edition of the Virginia Christian Israelite, written by L. E. Ernst, I was taken by surprise.  How encouraging is it that two different writers are writing about similar issues at the same time?  Let me quote from this article:

“…Today’s Jews may be accurately grouped under two categories:  The Ashkenazim and the Sephardim.  The former grouping comprises some 90% of all modern Jews.  Ashkenaz was the grandson of Japheth.  Japheth was a brother of Shem.  This means that 90% of all Jews are not descended from Shem, hence they are not ‘Semitic.’” 

Let’s review:  Noah had three sons; (1) Ham, (2) Shem and (3) Japheth.   All those descended from Ham are known as Hamites; all those descended from Shem are called Shemites; and all those descended from Japheth are called Japhethites.  Over 90 % of all Jews today are descended from Japheth; less than 10% are descended from Shem:  so how can anyone who is against the Canaanite/Jews honestly be called an “anti-Semite?” 

The Greatest Passover Part 2

by Pastor Don Elmore

April 27, 2014

Scripture Reading: Judges 3:5-7

Do the Scriptures teach that interracial marriages are wrong?  What does this teach? Israel was marrying the other race of Canaanites.  And what god do you serve if you commit or teach interracial marriage?  It is the gods of the Canaanites.

Throughout their history, some of the Israelites intermarried with the Canaanites.  Judah and Simeon did, as well as some of the other descendants of Israel.  Remember that is exactly what Esau had done.  He married three Canaanite women and at least one Ishmaelite woman.  The descendants of Esau are history’s foremost race mixers, hypocrites and promoters of mongrelization.  Racial tension can best be understood through Jewish incitement and social engineering.  Ultimately, the Jewish machinations for breeding out pure races, not just Whites, and ushering breed in an era of one homogenized is nothing less than genocide. 

The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 Edition, Volume 5, Page 4; states this very fact: “Edom is modern Jewry.”  Since Esau is Edom, then Esau is modern Jewry.

The 1984 Jewish Almanac says:  “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an ‘Israelite’ or a ‘Hebrew.’” It is incorrect and blasphemous for Canaanite/Edomite/Jews to call themselves Israelites.  Jacob remained racially pure while Esau mixed his seed with alien wives.  Jews are not part of the White Caucasian race.

The Greatest Passover Part 1

by Pastor Don Elmore

April 13, 2014

Scripture Reading:  II Chronicles 34:1-7

Josiah was King of Judah in the latter days of the kingdom, before it was taken into captivity by the Babylonians.  His grandfather, King Manasseh, was one of the worse, if not the worse King in the history of Judah and maybe in all of Israel.  Manasseh began his reign when he was twelve years old and he reigned for 55 years.  He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

He built the high places which his father, King Hezekiah, had broken down. He reared up altars for Baalim, and made idols, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.  Also he built altars in the house of the LORD.  He caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, and used enchantment, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with a medium, and with wizards.  He made and set an idol in the House of God.  So, Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the nations, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel

Think about that last sentence for a moment.  How bad were the Israelites?  It says that they were worse than the Canaanites. 

The Greatest Passover

by Pastor Don Elmore

Part 1:  The day of our Roman calendar starts at midnight.  Why?  The New Year beginnings at the beginning of winter/summer?  Why does the Judeo-Christian church celebrate Easter? 

Part 2:  What people are the leaders behind race mixing?  Why did all the states in the United States forbid any racial marriages or even dating for most of its history?  Do you understand how dangerous this doctrine is?  And when you practice this belief, what god are you serving?