Splinters; Foreign Rule During the Judges; Early Migrations; Push and Pull of Evil

We all have had splinters, little bits of wood that pierced our skin. The smallest splinters seem to hurt the most. Last week we noticed from the book of Judges that most of the Israelite tribes merged with the surrounding nations. This is one way that the Israelites were splintered. Another way they splintered is in the worship of the gods of those nations who lived among them. At the time that Jacob’s heirs left Egypt Yahweh judged Israel as a nation or as one group. After the northern and southern kingdoms split, but before they went into captivity, Israel was judged as two nations. After the captivities we see that Yahweh does not judge Israel as a nation. Then after Jesus Messiah came to earth Israel was once again not judged as a nation. We can see that there was a change in the way that Yahweh dealt with Jacob’s heirs depending on the time period we look at. After the northern kingdom came out of captivity some people entered back into Samaria as a mixed people, but under the authority of Assyria. After the southern kingdom came out of captivity, they were initially under subject to Assyria. Then the entire region was under the Greeks and then under the Romans up until the Messiah came. Not all of the Jews from the northern kingdom left Assyria and not all of the Jews of the southern kingdom left Babylon. From the time of the Judges when the Israelites first settled in their Promised Land, they were put under subjection to several other nations. 

The flannel graph version of Israel in the Promised Land doesn’t show us that Israel was not her own nation almost upon immediate entry into the land of Shem. What implications does this have? How can people claim to be heirs of Jacob when the nation was mixed over and over? If we look at some of the practices of worship that the Israelites should not have partaken in, will we see a correlation to a splinter group today?

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Jdg 3:6  And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Jdg 3:7  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

This was not the first time that the children of Jacob served fake gods. Remember the golden calf in the wilderness? How is it so easy for these people to keep worshipping false and phony gods?

Jdg 3:8  Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

After eight years the Israelites cried out to Yahweh. It took eight years for them to realize that they had made a mistake. It took eight years for the people to realize that Yahweh’s plans would benefit them rather than the fake gods of the groves of Astaroth and Baal 

Jdg 3:11  And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

What happened after forty years? The fact is that not all the people wanted to serve Yahweh. Some people probably continued to worship Baal and Astaroth in secret, but the majority had shifted back to Yahweh. Then they shifted back to the false gods again. 

Jdg 3:14  So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

First they were under foreign rulership for eight years and now it is for another eighteen years. 

Jdg 3:30  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

They had rest for eighty years but after eighty years the majority shifted from Yahweh to Baal and Astaroth 

Jdg 4:1  And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

Jdg 4:2  And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

Jdg 4:3  And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Israel went from eight years of foreign rulership and oppression, to eighteen years, and now to twenty years of foreign rulership and oppression. Deborah’s song tells us that after this the land had rest again.

Jdg 5:31  So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

The majority shifted again. 

Jdg 6:1  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Eight, eighteen, twenty, and now seven years under foreign leadership. Gideon defeats Midian. 

Jdg 8:28  Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

As soon as Gideon was dead the majority shifted back to the fake phony gods once again. 

Jdg 8:33  And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

Jdg 8:34  And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

Jdg 8:35  Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

How does this compare to our own time period? Do people appreciate the sacrifices of the WWII generation? Do people even care any longer? Before the United States was attacked, there was a large faction of communists attempting to persuade people to allow socialist/communist leaders to rule the country. They attempted to sneak in socialism, to draw the nation into communism. The splinter groups that want to dominate everyone else, happen in every nation. They are still trying to dominate everyone today.  

The people had peace for forty years but forgot all about their previous captivities. At this time the Judges rose up as rulers. There are a series of Judges who rule in Israel, but when the majority shifts again from worshipping Yahweh they add even more gods to the mix. What implications does this have? It is certainly easier to eradicate one false god with all its idols then it is to eradicate many gods and all the idols associated with them. 

Jdg 10:6  And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

Jdg 10:7  And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

Jdg 10:8  And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Jdg 10:9  Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

Jdg 10:10  And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

We see that in the east Israel was under rulership of the Amorites, while in the west Israel was under rulership of the Philistines for eighteen years. This time when Israel cries out to Yahweh, Yahweh doesn’t deliver them immediately.

Jdg 10:11  And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

Jdg 10:12  The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

Jdg 10:13  Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

Jdg 10:14  Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

Jdg 10:15  And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

Jdg 10:16  And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Eventually Yahweh Elohim delivers Israel from the Amorites, but again the splinter group that opposed Yahweh gained ground. The shift back to false gods takes place again while Israel is under Philistine control. Then Samson is born. 

Jdg 13:1  And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Eight, eighteen, twenty, seven, ?, and forty years, Israel is under foreign rulership so far. Notice at this time period Samson almost married a Philistine woman. While his parents were not pleased and though he didn’t marry her in the end, there was a common mixing among the people. The Israelites were judged twenty years and then another twenty years under the Philistines. While all this was going on there were times of famine and people moved to neighboring countries. 

Rth 1:1  Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Rth 1:2  And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

Rth 1:3  And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Rth 1:4  And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

Rth 1:5  And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

We know the story of Ruth and how she is part of Jesus’ lineage even though she is a Moabite. Ruth came to Judah of Israel with Naomi after her husband died. Naomi lost her two sons and husband in Moab, but gained her daughter in law Ruth. This tells us that people were migratory at the time of the Judges. Ruth married her late husbands relation, Boaz. They had a son Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. Boaz was a rich land owner who had servants. What does this tell us? Even though the country was going in and out of foreign rulership, some people still had businesses and still prospered. Some people lived in one place on farms, others moved all over the region as ranchers and laborers. We see from Ruth’s story that there is a very small percentage of people from the tribe of Judah who can be called Jews, even at this time period. 

Also at the time of the Judges we have the story of Moses’ grandson, Jonathan, who was a son of Gershom. Jonathan was a Levite who went to work in the house of Micah among his idols. This tells us that there was already a breakdown of the Levitical priesthood. There were too many old Levites, and the younger Levites had to find other places to live and work. There was supposed to be Levites living in every tribe but apparently some tribes could not sustain too many Levites. 

Judges 18:30 And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. 

31 So they set them up Micah’s graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh. 

 The Amplified Bible. (1987). (Jdg 18:30–31). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

It would seem that people thought having more idols was a good thing to simply add to worshipping Yahweh. We see how the nation wavered in and out of worshipping Baal and Astaroth, as well as other gods. When the tribe of Dan passed through Micah’s land in Ephraim on the way to their own land they heard Jonathan worshipping in the house of idols and suggested he come with them to be their Levite. They took all of Micah’s idols with them too. It is almost as if no one had a conscience regarding idol worship, not even Moses’ grandson. The fact that Jonathan is Moses’ grandson is hidden from most texts, attempting to make this someone else. The Masoretic alterations here are trying to hide the shame of Moses’ grandson, because it degrades Moses himself. And just like this alteration we cannot trust that there are pure hereditary Jews from Judah, nor can we trust that those who claim to be Jews truly practice the worship of Yahweh. 

The last story that finishes up the time of the Judges is the incident of gang rape from the tribe of Benjamin. Not only was the time of the Judges filled with idol worship but sexual perversions as well. There is never a good reason to rape anyone. Rape is an act of violent dominance. The fact is the men from Gibeah Benjamin, demanded to rape a Levite. This seems odd and we will never hear this spoken of in a Sunday sermon, but the men became hostile and violent, demanding that the Levite be thrown out of a kind hospitable man’s home. The practice of hospitality was a Levitical law. People were supposed to be hospitable to others passing through their towns and provide food and shelter for a night. The men of Gibeah knew where this Levite was staying and demanded the host throw his guest out to them. I suppose we could wonder if they never heard the stories of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, yet even if they did, they didn’t care. This is not love or godliness, this is evil. 

Why were these men of Benjamin practicing gang rape? Why were they doing exactly what the Sodomites had done, raping people that were traveling through their city? As we know, the mixed tribes that ended up in Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim after the battle of the five armies were heirs of the Nephilim. This is a common practice among those tribes. What we also know is that the other tribes found this so appalling they killed all the men of Benjamin. 

The host tried to negotiate with the men, volunteering his own daughter as well as the Levites wife. The men didn’t want the women. But they eventually threw the wife of the Levite outside. The men gang raped her all night long. At dawn they let her go and she died on the front porch of the kind host’s house. The Levite took her dead body home, cut it up, and sent pieces to the other tribes with the explanation of what happened. 

It seems the Levites wielded no spiritual power as Moses and Aaron did. This Levite did not rebuke the evil men, did not curse them, and did not go out to them himself, he threw his wife out to them. If she had lived he would have probably disposed of her. The Levite did not behave in love or holiness. He did not protect his wife. He seems to be afraid of the men of Benjamin. He doesn’t seem to speak to the men himself, his host does the negotiating and he doesn’t mind if the host’s daughter is sent out to be raped either. No one can have a high opinion of the Levites from the book of Judges. 

While this story is so tremendously awful we can understand the progression of evil that occurred. The tribes did not do away with the idols and altars of the Canaanite gods. They mixed with the Canaanites and they splintered and floundered back and forth, from practicing evil, to worshiping Yahweh. Evil simply became rooted into this culture. It was quite easy to include booths for male and female prostitutes in the temple, because there is a long history of these behaviors in the land. Even though the Israelites kept going back under foreign rule, they never really eradicated the evil splinter groups. The evil splinter, splintered further into various gods and various ritual worship, including rape and human sacrifice. Can we ever point to a time when these things were not present in Israel? No. Not even during David’s rulership, as there were many evil people from Israel that hated David as well as the Philistines. 

This is why there was a need for a Messiah. People didn’t live the way Yahweh prescribed for very long. As we know, we can only count three passovers, Samuel’s, Hezekiah’s, and Josiah’s before Judah went into captivity. With this in mind, we should ask ourselves why they would reject their Messiah? Many people knew the prophecies, many people were waiting and expecting a virgin to conceive. What then caused the rejection of Jesus Messiah? 

Is it possible that there was a splinter group that came out of captivity that was not really interested in the Messiah but instead was interested in gaining power over the masses like communist dictators? Once the Pharisees came into power they had no intentions of giving up their positions to any Messiah, let alone to Jesus who was opening the eyes of people born blind. It did not matter how many miracles he did they were not interested in Yahweh they were interested in themselves. The Pharisees were not going to step aside and take directions from Yahweh Jesus Messiah. They controlled the temple and they allowed temple prostitutes into the first century. They had money, prestige, and all the finer things in life. Jesus called them “sons of hell”.  

The Zealots were trying to end Roman rule in the first century. They sprung up from the age of the Maccabees, with the same mindset of trying to make Israel her own nation. The Pharisees had no problem with this idea because it would only benefit them if Israel was a sovereign nation. The Zealots thought that the Messiah would free Israel from the Romans. The Pharisees were not going to step aside even if Jesus did free Israel from the Romans but they played a “wait and see” game. Meanwhile the people heard that the Messiah would deliver Israel so they assumed the same thing, that Jesus would free Israel from the Romans. None of the prophets ever said this. The prophets said that the Messiah would rule from Israel, but somehow people thought the timing was during their day, not in the future. Yahweh Jesus Messiah will not disappoint. He will rule and reign from Jerusalem for one thousand years. 

When we look at these early days of Israel in the Promised Land we see why the rest of Israel’s history looks the way it does. There has always been a pushing and a pulling from evil taking over the minds and hearts of the people. People have splintered in many different ways. Satanic rituals have been practiced in secret, but today they are out in the open. To most people it is a hideous thing to wear an abortion pin which suggests that the wearer loves dismembering babies in utero and selling their body parts to pharmaceutical companies. They are splinters. Most people don’t even bother to watch fake award ceremonies where news organizations boldly proclaim they are “ready to worship”. The show itself is a celebration of hell and eternal death, luring the innocent in. They are splinters. And while all this is going on most people would not allow their child to attend a satanic after school club let alone attend a satanic worship event. It is when people are in despair that they realize they have forgotten Yahweh Elohim. Then they turn to Him to fix the mess they are in. Hard times make people question their spiritual walk. There are people who claim to be Jews but they are not. We can understand the splinters better now. We can see the wrestling between Yahweh and evil in our communities. As Solomon rightly noticed, there is nothing new under the sun.

Mixed Not Pure; Canaan’s Double Curse; Practicing Evil in the Promised Land; They Say But They Are Not

The mixing of tribes and races, ethnos, has not really been understood from the perspective of early Hebraic history. Our elementary Sunday school teachings do not explain the mixing of genos. We understand that the Nephilim were on the earth before the flood and after the flood but we have missed the human/angel mixing after the flood. We imagine that the Israelites were not mixed among the other nations, but in fact the Israelites have a very deep history of mixing with other nations after the flood. We imagine the Israelites were a pure people persecuted by everyone else. We imagine the Israelites did not have any control over their own bad fortune. Our imaginations are not accurate and need to be altered to reflect what is written in the Bible. 

What if mixing with certain nations back in the early days of Israel caused a large splinter group? A group that claims that they are Jews, but does almost everything against the precepts of Yahweh. What if that splinter group became dominant elites in the world and fooled people into believing that they are really the pure Hebrews. Wouldn’t this be a great place to hide, behind the idea of being a poor persecuted Jew? Any time the elite dominant splinter group would be called out for bad behavior, their accusers could be called anti-semites to shut them up. They would be called “goy” to denote they are a lower class of people. While we are kept busy looking over here, at who is Jewish and who is not, the real division we should be looking at is who rejects Jesus and who does not. 

The true worshippers of Yahweh needed the Messiah to reconcile them back to Yahweh because everything became defiled. The bloodlines were defiled. The temple was defiled. The holy days were defiled. Yet when the Messiah came, the defiled people calling themselves Hebrews rejected Jesus. Jesus reminds us in his letters to the churches that there are plenty of people who filtered into the synagogues and churches who say that they are Jews but are not. Jesus is telling us that we are not to look on these people with any special reverence. Why? Because by rejecting Jesus they are going to die in their sins, they are not saved. Also, they are not prophets because they cannot have the Holy Spirit in them when they reject Jesus. Yet somehow many people give special honor to these Jesus rejecters. 

The separation of the land had its origins with the sons of Noah. Noah cursed Ham’s fourth born son, Canaan. It is suspected that Ham not only saw Noah naked, but castrated him, thereby stopping him from having a fourth son. This is why Canaan, Ham’s fourth born son, was cursed by Noah. That curse is still in effect today. Yet Canaan also cursed himself. If this double curse only affected Canaan and his descendants then we might say “who cares, he got what was coming to him”. But this double curse affected the majority of the children of Israel. Why? Because the Israelites mixed themselves with the doubly cursed lot. 

Moses wrote the book of Jubilees and explains that Canaan would be a servant to all. 

Jubilees 7:8 And Ham saw Noah his father naked, and went out and told his two brothers (ridiculed his father to his two brothers) who were outside. 9 Shem took his garment and arose, he and Japheth, and they placed the garment on their shoulders and went backward and covered the shame of their father, and their faces were backward. 10 Noah awoke from sleep and knew all (abuse) that his younger son had done to him. He cursed him saying, “Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be to his brothers.” 11 And he blessed Shem, and said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. 12 God shall enlarge Japheth, and God shall dwell in the dwelling of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.” 13 Ham knew that his father had cursed, him, his younger son, and he was displeased that he had cursed him, his son. And Ham parted from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 124). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.

The Elohim is dwelling in the tents of Shem. This tells us that it would be the line of Shem that the Elohim would be made known through. Shem started a school in his land, in what is now called the region of Jerusalem.

Jubilees 9:14 Thus the sons of Noah divided to their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, and invoked a curse on every one that sought to seize any portion which had not fallen to him by his lot. 15 They all said, “so be it; so be it “ (amen and amen) for themselves and their sons forever throughout their generations until the day of judgment, on which the Lord God shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, that they have filled the earth with, which are transgression, uncleanness and fornication and sin.

Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 128). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition. 

Canaan had a problem. Canaan moved into Shem’s region. At that time Shem and Eber taught Canaan’s descendants about the Elohim as well as Shem’s and Japheth’s descendants. Canaan and his descendants cursed themselves. This is their second curse. The first was due to Noah’s castration, the second was disregarding Noah’s orders not to take anyone else’s land. 

Jubilees 10:30 Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brothers, said to him, “You have settled in a land which is not yours, and which did not fall to us by lot, do not do so. If you do you and your sons will be conquered in the land and be accursed through a war. By war you have settled, and by war will your children fall, and you will be rooted out forever. 31 Do not live in the land of Shem, for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. 32 Cursed are you, and cursed will you be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.” 33 But he did not listen to them, and settled in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the border of Egypt, he and his sons until this day. For this reason that land is named Canaan. And Japheth and his sons went towards the sea and settled in the land of their portion, and Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he begged Ham and Asshur and Arpachshad, his wife’s brother for a portion, portion, and he dwelt in the land of Media, near to his wife’s brother until this day. 34 And he called his and his son’s dwelling-place, Media, after the name of their father Madai.

Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 129). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition. 

The Canaanites were twice cursed by their own hand. Abraham married a Canaanite woman, had six sons with her, and sent them south, away from the area because he knew that they would be killed if they resided in Shem’s portion. 

Gen 25:1  Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Gen 25:2  And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

Gen 25:3  And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

Gen 25:4  And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Gen 25:5  And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

Gen 25:6  But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Jasher 25:1 It was at that time that Abraham again took a wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land of Canaan.

Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 223). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition. 

By the time the Israelites were in the desert on the way back to Shem’s land, the Canaanites were well established and great in number. But there was something else. Somehow the Canaanite people, as well as the tribes in the surrounding areas, grew exceptionally large in physical stature. 

Numbers 13:32 G2532 And G1627 they brought G1611 an astonishment G3588 of the G1093 land G3739 of which G2679.2 they surveyed G1473 it G4314 to G3588 the G5207 sons G* of Israel, G3004 saying, G3588 The G1093 land G3739 which G3928 we went G1473 in it G2679.2 to survey -- G1093 [²a land G2719 ³devouring G3588 ⁴the ones G2730 ⁵dwelling G1909 ⁶upon G1473 ⁷it G1510.2.3 ¹it is]; G2532 and G3956 all G3588 the G2992 people G3739 whom G3708 we see G1722 in G1473 it G435 [²men G5244.6 ¹ are exceedingly tall].

  33 G2532 And G1563 there G3708 we saw G3588 the G1095.2 giants; G2532 and G1510.7.4 we were G1799 [³in the presence of G1473 ⁴them G5616 ¹as G200 ²locusts]; G235 yes, G2532 even G3779 so G1510.7.4 we were G1799 in the presence of G1473 them.

Moses told us that the Nephilim were on the earth in the days of the flood and after that. We see many tribes of descendants of the Nephil after the flood. It would seem that Canaan’s heirs mixed with the fallen angels as did the other tribes of that time period. 

The Israelites did not defeat the Canaanites at this time, they were too afraid to fight. So they wandered until that entire generation had died. The Israelites ended up having to fight against the giants anyway as the Amalekites and Canaanites came down to fight them, but this time Yahweh was not with the Israelites and many died (Numbers 14). Later they had to fight Og, King of Bashan as well. When they finally did enter the promised land they started mixing with the tribes that they had not driven out. 

Jdg 1:27  Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Jdg 1:28  And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

Jdg 1:29  Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

Jdg 1:30  Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

Jdg 1:31  Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

Jdg 1:32  But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

Jdg 1:33  Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.

Jdg 1:34  And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

Jdg 1:35  But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

Jdg 1:36  And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

We see that several of the Israelite tribes did not drive out the Canaanites or the non-Hebraic tribes but started living among them. Some paid tribute to the Israelites but not all. Judah and Simeon, as well as the house of Joseph, (which did not include Manasseh and Ephraim), drove out the Canaanites. The tribe of Judah drove out more people than anyone else. They were true warriors. The tribes of Benjamin, Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan, did not drive out the Canaanites. They lived among them instead. We find out in the book of Numbers and in Joshua that the tribes of Reuben and Gad inherited their land in the north country early on, driving out the inhabitants there. It is interesting that on the border of Reuben and Gad is where the city of priests was located. The Levites were not to own property or possessions and were to live in each tribe. The only one that we do not know as to whether they drove out the Canaanites or not is the tribe of Issachar. They are included in Deborah’s song as being with Deborah and Barak, but not mentioned otherwise. Issachar settled just south of the  Sea of Galilee. 

Let’s stop for a moment and take the thirty thousand foot view. Everyone uses the term “Jew” or “Jewish”, denoting that they come from the tribe of Judah. This is a widely accepted term. Sometimes people say that they are from the tribe of Levi or they are Cohens. No one claims to be from any other tribe. Is this because Judah and Simeon drove out the Canaanites while most other tribes mixed? Simeon soon merged with Judah. When Jesus says “they say they are Jews but they are not” does he mean that Judah was less mixed than the other tribes? Thus denoting that the other tribes are not “Jews” but instead mixed nations who claim they are not mixed. Or are people claiming their lineage is from Judah so they can claim Jerusalem and the southern kingdom as their heritage? Wouldn’t this give them control of the temple as well? What if the mixed tribes are claiming to be unmixed, and then dominating the unmixed people? Again, would the mixed tribes hide behind the Jewish religious moniker to seem holy and trustworthy, but in reality subvert the world?

The angel of Yahweh has a message for Israel in the promised land. 

Jdg 2:1  And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

Jdg 2:2  And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

Jdg 2:3  Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

Jdg 2:4  And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Jdg 2:5  And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

But then:

Jdg 2:11  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

Jdg 2:12  And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

Jdg 2:13  And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Yahweh confronts the children of Israel via his angel, saying that they were to have thrown down the altars of the former inhabitants, but they didn’t. This is a very important point. It did not take any time at all for the people to be led to worship false idols, stars, angels, etc. They forsook Yahweh once they got settled and they also brought into their regions the gods from Egypt. 

Jdg 3:1  Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Jdg 3:2  Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

Jdg 3:3  Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

Jdg 3:4  And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Jdg 3:5  And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

Jdg 3:6  And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Jdg 3:7  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

By chapter three of Judges we see the Israelites mixing with tribes, some of which were heirs of the Nephilim. This genetic mixing means that there are very few “pure” Hebrews in Israel from this time forward. It is nice to pretend this didn’t happen, or that it didn’t happen often, but from this point forward Israel goes into the service of other nations repeatedly until the time of Saul, the first king. What we want to realize is that if someone calls themself a Hebrew they are probably not a pure blooded Hebrew traced back to Shem and with no angelic alterations to their genetics.  

Moses made provisions for people to convert to being a follower of Yahweh and laid out the process that non-Hebrews were to follow. The point we have to understand is that even today people claim a lineage that the Bible tells us was altered from the time of entering the promised land. We should consider all people worshipping in Judaism as converts instead or hereditary Jews. 

We know Ezra split families that had mixed with the Babylonians when they came back to Judah after the captivity. However the families had been mixed before the captivity. This tells us that there were probably not many pure blooded tribes that went into captivity and even less that came out of captivity. 

We can see the problem here, the mixing of genetics and the mixing of religious worship, means that there is very little purity among Israelites. Jesus the Messiah, who comes out of the tribe of Judah, changed the dynamics for worship and how to approach Yahweh. It is not necessary to be Hebraic to know Yahweh. However there are may people who claim to be Hebrews, who practice the false religious practices of the heirs of the Nephilim as well as Judaism. How do we know this? These practices entered into the temple and remained for over four hundred years. 

We can only count three passovers mentioned after the exodus passover. Samuel is reported as holding a passover. Hezekiah tried to clean up the southern kingdom, yet they were not ready for passover in the first month but used the provision of having passover in the second month. It took Josiah fourteen years to clean up the southern kingdom and then they held the passover in the first month. Yet today’s Jews celebrate passover every year, with no sacrifices, and no temple. The temple itself was defiled after the kingdom split, for the next four hundred years until it was destroyed in the time of Ezekiel. The priesthood was defiled and as Ezekiel tells us the Levites will not serve in the millennial temple but the Zadok priests will. 

We can see that the Israelites were infiltrated with Nephil practices and Nephil genetics early after entering the promised land. When we look at the evil rituals that king Manasseh allowed we can see that there is very little about the temple we can trust to be from Yahweh. Yahweh did not institute the booths of the Sodomites in the temple or the child sacrifice in the fires of Moloch. Yahweh did not institute the worship of the constellations, stars, or planets. 

Jesus understood that the people who claim Judaism and worship in the temple after captivity had defiled the temple with the appointment of Jonathan Apphus as high priest; a man with a non-Aaronic lineage, was a non-Levite, and a man of blood. The same occultic rituals prior to the captivity crept back into the temple after Jonathan Apphus. They all say they are Jews but they are not.

Today, worshipping Yahweh does not take a building, as in a temple or church. All it takes is a willing heart to confess Jesus as Lord and to believe that he rose up on the third day. That is it. People do not need to bring a cow to a temple for a sacrifice. We simply confess Jesus before others and he cleanses us from our sins. The early church had to fight the oppressive elitist Jews for their freedom to worship Jesus Messiah. 

Jesus says this:

Rev 2:9  I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Jesus says that the people persecuting the believers in Him as Messiah are not really Jews, they are from the synagogue of Satan. Were these the hereditary Israelites of the synagogue of Satan who served Baal and the groves in Judges 3? Were they of the synagogue of Satan when they brought evil ritualistic practices into the temple? Were they of the synagogue of Satan when they killed and persecuted the prophets?

Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Were these Jews of the synagogue of Satan when they harassed Jesus and his followers? Were these Jews of the synagogue of Satan, when they forced the Romans to crucify Jesus? Were these Jews of the synagogue of Satan, when they persecuted the disciples for preaching about Jesus the Messiah? 

Why does Jesus say that the people who call themselves Jews are not really Jews but of the synagogue of Satan? Were the true Hebrews genetically altered when they entered their land and did not get rid of the Canaanites? Is this why the Israelites started worshiping the way the Canaanites did? Is this why they mixed genetically? Isn’t this why they are under a double curse? Are the Jews who continue to reject Jesus of the synagogue of Satan? They are not of the synagogue of Yahweh. 

We have this very strange situation and we have to look beyond the cut and dried. There are many honest people who believe that their lineage is Israeli and they have moved to Israel to live and worship and await the Messiah. The Israeli elites in government however forced the people to be immunized with a genetically altering poison. Why would the elites do that to the working class? Since it is obvious that the majority of Jewish people are not worshipping in the synagogue of Satan, is this an attempt to alter something in them so that they would be more adaptable to the defiled practices of the elites? Would this also be a way to decrease the population in their nation? If the entire working class became sickly, will they depend on their government more? 

What if the people really are of Hebraic ancestry but the elites are not? Is it possible the elites are attempting to alter people’s genetics to harm the non-Nephilim bloodlines and make them more like the Nephilim bloodlines Are they attempting to block the “god gene”? Who is in charge? Who is gaining from experimentation on an entire country and its people?

The dilemma in Israel is that Judaism is a national law, societal law, and a religion. There is no separation in the minds of the people as to whether they obey the government or the rabbis. Independent thinking is frowned upon. We see this same pattern repeated over and over in the old covenant history. Bad kings with bad ideas forced the people into bad behaviors. 

Here is the solution. Yahweh Jesus Messiah. We have all been immunized without knowing what animal cells were in those injections. Some of us were forced to be immunized with the new MRNA injections. Jesus is the answer. We cannot begin to understand the evil intent that Satanas has for all humans, but we can know Jesus and his intent for our lives. Ultimately our bodies are corrupted and the corruptible must put on incorruption. That happens after we die. Death for the believer in Christ is not the end, it is the beginning of eternal life. In the meantime we have the Holy Spirit to guide us regarding how we are to live. If the Holy Spirit gives us a physical remedy for our physical needs then we would be wise to follow though. 

Peter told us that angels sinned. Our issue is not as much with fallible relatives and fallible genetics as it is with the angelic class that left their habitation to alter humanity for their own purposes. It would seem their progeny wants to continue to alter the genetics of humanity for their own purposes. They are hybrids and they want to rule over us. They want to change us. They want our bodies to be broken for their own advantage. No matter our ancestry, Yahweh Jesus Messiah changed our eternal death to eternal life.