“Freedom
of conscience has been declared everywhere, so that now only years divide us
from them moment of the complete wrecking of that
Christian religion... But, in the meantime, while we are
re-educating youth in new traditional religions
and afterwards in ours, we shall not overtly lay a finger on existing
churches, but we shall fight against them by criticism calculated to produce
schism...”
(Protocol
17)
“REGENERATION”
YOUTH CAMP
Every summer John
MacArthur and Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California host a youth camp and church
carnival. Regeneration Summer Camp draws 800 to 1,000 high school age youth from
Grace Community Church and MacArthur-related churches all over the United
States. The five day
camp is traditionally held at the end of July and culminates in a church
Carnival immediately following the Sunday evening service. For many years Regeneration Summer Camp
was held at Glorieta Camp in New Mexico but the venue changed in 2013
to Point Loma Nazarene University.
Grace Community Church also sponsors a
Juniors’
Winter Camp for
grades 4 through 6
at Forest Home Camp and Retreat Center.
Forest Home Conference Center in San
Bernardino, CA was established in 1938 by Henrietta Mears
to train promising young men such as Billy Graham and Bill Bright, the founder
of Campus Crusade, to be agents of change who would draw Christians into the global
ecumenical and interfaith movement. Teachers at Forest Home included Billy Graham,
J. Edwin Orr,
Harold Ockenga
and Charles Fuller, who with Orr and Ockenga co-founded the
National Association of Evangelicals.
Charles Fuller was also the founder of
Fuller Seminary and worked closely with John MacArthur’s father, Jack
MacArthur, who directed the
Charles E. Fuller Evangelistic Foundation which funded Fuller Seminary in 1947.
Today Fuller Theological Seminary is an ecumenical think tank which has
fostered, nurtured, and promoted the apostasy of the Christian church globally. For more
information, please read
John MacArthur's Father's Involvement at the Highest Level of the World
Ecumenical Movement.
Point Loma Nazarene University in San
Diego, CA was originally
the headquarters of the Theosophical Society and is also the alma mater of James and
Shirley Dobson. Point Loma Nazarene University’sCampus Tour
actually features a tribute
to the Theosophical Society. (See
“Focus on the Family Ties to The Theosophical
Society”) The Theosophical Society was founded in 1885 by Madame Helena P.
Blavatsky to promulgate the secret doctrine that a hidden
Spiritual Hierarchy ofAscended Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, who are
advanced spiritual beings, are guiding the evolution of humanity toward
perfection and immortality.
Glorieta Camp in New
Mexico was owned by
the Southern Baptist Convention for 50 years but sold in 2013 to a for profit
organization, Camp Eagle. The SBC sold Glorieta Camp for $1 and paid below market
prices to homeowners on leased land who had been given assurances they would
receive fair market value for their homes. Technically, it was LifeWay
Ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention which owned and sold Glorieta,
making it possible for the
SBC to avoid the bad publicity.
A former
member of Grace Community Church expressed genuine concerns about the events of the 2010 Regeneration
Summer Camp held
in Glorieta, NM
and the Grace Community Church Carnival which followed:
“At
this year’s
event, Rick Holland, John MacArthur and Austin
Duncan attended and preached. GCC also invites several other churches in
various states. The camp was 5 days of
‘activities’—small
groups, dozens of games...a well-known
‘Christian’
rapper, Austin and Rick taking stage and rapping, more games (some starting
as late as 10:00PM). These games were continuous the whole conference.
I’ve
been told that one game involved teams trying to avoid touching a pig’s
head.
“...we attended a
CARNIVAL at GCC last night. Another unbelievable event—20+ ‘activities’,
including bowling, face-painting.... judging from the Carnival activities, I
would say that GCC needs no help planning these pagan activities... And I
kept noticing one child after another being paraded up to ‘pose’ for a
picture after the wicked adults had painted their faces...’”
Pagan activities? Face
painting? Pigs
head?
The major festivals of the
pagan world are Samhain (October 30-31), Imbolc (February
1-2), Beltane (April 30-May 1) and Lughnasadh
(August 1).During these celebrations, pagans honor their false gods by
painting their faces and bodies and participating in warrior games, fertility (sex)
rituals and even animal and human sacrifices.
As previously stated, John
MacArthur’s
“Regeneration”
youth camp is traditionally held at the end of July and generally coincides
with the dates of the Celtic Druid festival of Lughnasadh. 1.The 2010
camp/conference was held from
July 26-30, and the
annual Grace Community Church
“Carnival”
which followed fell on Sunday, August 1, the feast
of Lughnasadh:
This summer Sunday-evening event has
become a family favorite. Join us after the evening service for a great time
of games, food, and fun. Activities for all ages and interests will be
available across the campus.
Summer Family Fest: Building the Family
One Blast at a Time
“Since early times
carnivals have
been accompanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry
that had their origins in pre-Christian pagan rites, particularly fertility
rites that were connected with the coming of spring and the rebirth of
vegetation.” (Pagan
Revelry: The Days Are Evil)
According
to the
Fellowship of Isis, Lughnasadh is also the Celtic Druid
“Festival of
Regeneration,” the name
chosen for John MacArthur’s
annual summer youth camp:
“(Druids Calendar) August 1 (Kerea 22), widely known also as
Lammas and Lughnasadh, is the feast of regeneration.
“From The Coming Age
issue 11 (Lux Madriana):
“Regeneration.
The festivals of late summer open the great Mysteries of Life cycle which
spans a quarter of the year. They celebrate the Goddess as the Source of all
life, the Creatrix and Sustainer of the cycles of existence through which
the soul moves. The ultimate revolution in the life of every soul... turning
back to the Goddess is particularly a subject for meditation during the late
summer and autumn. The symbol of the Festival of Regeneration is the
ear of corn... This festival is concerned with the movement between lives
and the resurgence of new life, celebrating the Mother of our rebirth and
the Daughter as Our Lady of the Dark Gates, She who guards and guides all
souls in the transition from one life to the next. For each soul must pass
through many existences, on this world or elsewhere... Throughout this
journey [back to the Goddess] our Lady is watching over us, giving us life
and strength. Ears of corn and bread made from the new wheat may be offered
at the Rite on this day.”
The feast
of Lughnasadh on August 1
is “the last of the four
great fire festivals of the Celtic year,”
during which the
veil between the material world and the spirit realm is lifted. The period preceding the actual feast
is set apart for rituals invoking the pagan gods:
“One of several historic sources for the four Celtic fire festivals Imbolc, Beltaine, Lughnasadh and Samhain is the early medieval Irish tale
‘Tochmarc Emire’... One of these days is Lughnasadh, marking the beginning of fall. It takes
place on the 1st of August, a date internationally
agreed upon, or on the day of the full moon next to this date, if you
want to celebrate when the ancient Celts probably did.” (The
Order of Bards & Druids)
“Celebrated on August Eve or August 1, this is the last of the four
great fire festivals of the Celtic year... Often, celebrations would last
for weeks or even the entire month beginning mid-July and commencing thru
mid-August... Lughnasadh is ruled of the celestial lion, Leo... Typical astrology places Leo from
July 23 to August 22... As Leo is
ruled by the sun, and at Lughnasadh, we honour the sun God in his
role as the provider of the harvest; the life-giving rays of the sun enabled
the fields to grow.”
(PaganFest)
“Lughnasadh or Lughnasa ... is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season that was
historically observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Originally it was held on 31 July–1 August,
or approximately halfway between the summer solstice and autumn equinox
However, over time the celebrations shifted to the
Sundays nearest this date. Lughnasadh is
one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals; along with Samhain, Imbolc and
Beltane.”
(Lughnasadh)
According to Wikipedia,
“Lughnasadh is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and is
believed to have pagan origins. The festival itself is named after
the god Lugh.” (Lughnasadh)
“Lugh,” which means Shining One (‘Lucifer’?), was a giant of the Nephilim in
Genesis 6.
“The Nephilim: These were the Sons of God who in Genesis interbred with
humans, creating a race of giants. They were called
‘The Watchers’
in The Book of Enoch.
“The Tuatha de Danaan: This was a race of Celtic giants and father
gods. Like the Cainites and other giants, they were said to dwell in
underground kingdoms or inside hollow mountains. One of the chief deities
was Lugus, a name that translates to
‘Shining One’,
revealing an astonishing connection to Sumer’s deified giant kings.”
“The Irish Sun God, Lugh, literally
‘the shining One,’
was a god of skills and was even said to be able to come into human form
worship among the Druids for whom he was the primary deity. He was also the
God of the Harvests, Fire, Light, and Metallurgy, and he was the protector
and defender of the weak and ill. As the King of the Tuatha De Danaan, a mythical
race of early Celts, he was one of the consorts of Dana, the first Great
Mother Goddess of Ireland. As such, much of the Celtic Lughnasadh
celebration focused on him. Though this
Sabbat is named in honor of a god, the Goddess aspect features prominently,
too. The Irish Goddess Dana, as Lugh’s
Queen, is also venerated... The Goddess is honored and thanked for brining
forth the fruits...”
(p. 174)
The festival of Lughnasadh
was also called Lammas and the
“feast
of first fruits” in order to Christianize/Judaize
its forbidden customs and dissociate it from the Druid god, Lugh.
“In some English-speaking countries
in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas,
‘loaf-mass’),
the festival of the wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the
year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new
crop, which began to be harvested at Lammastide. The loaf was blessed, and in
Anglo-Saxon Englandit might be employed
afterwards to work magic:... a book of Anglo-Saxon charms directed that the
lammas bread be broken into four bits, which were to be placed at the four
corners of the barn, to protect the garnered grain. In many parts of England,
tenants were bound to present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords on or
before the first day of August. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it
is referred to regularly, it is called
‘the feast of first fruits’.
The blessing of first fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and
Western Churches on the first or the sixth of August (the latter being the
feast of the Transfiguration of Christ).” (Lammas)
Lugh was a mighty warrior
and the Celtic god of war—a giant like
Nimrod, the mighty hunter of men who defied God.
(Gen. 10-8-9) Lugnasadh was therefore an ancient warrior festival which
included “funeral games”
alleged to have been held in honor of Lugh’s
deceased foster mother, Talti. It is more probable that the “funeral” was for the
human victims who were sacrificed.
“Recent evidence that Druids
possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a
massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery,
archaeologists say. After a first century B.C. visit to Britain, the Romans came
back with horrific stories about these high-ranking priests of the Celts, who
had spread throughout much of Europe over a roughly 2,000-year period.
Julius Caesar, who led the
first Roman landing in 55 B.C., said the native Celts ‘believe that the gods delight in the slaughter of
prisoners and criminals, and when the supply of captives runs short, they
sacrifice even the innocent’...
Recent gruesome finds appear to confirm the Romans’
accounts, according to Secrets of the Druids, a new documentary airing
Saturday on the U.S. National Geographic Channel.”
(Druid
Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism)
The ancient festival of
Lughnasadh was also a festival of
“warrior magic”
invoking the warrior god through ritual magic.
Initiation rites,
chanting and dancing in circles incited the warriors into a frenzy, creating altered states and
a group mind which lowered inhibitions regarding the taking of human life.
LAMMAS: CELEBRATING THE FRUITS OF THE FIRST HARVEST
Anna Franklin and Paul Mason, Lewellyn Publications, 2001
CHAPTER 7: WARRIOR MAGIC
“The Traditional Craft
celebrates Lughnasa as a festival of warrior magic and male energies. the
warrior here is a psychic warrior; his weapons are his body, mind, and spirit.
These must be trained to work in harmony. The warrior faces his own fears; he
develops his spiritual courage and hones his will.” (Lammas:
Celebrating the Fruits of the First Harvest,
p. 138)
“The
Deities
of Lughnasadh are Danu (Anu), the Mother of Gods and Men, and
Lugh, the patron
of scholars, craftsmen, warriors and magicians.”
(The
Druid Way)
“Lughnassadh
is named for the Celtic God Lugh. The derivation of his name is a bit obscure
but may mean ‘light.’
He is viewed as the God of many different things including: 1) sworn contracts.
2) the plow. 3) the master of the fields. 4) the young warrior and champion
of the gods. 5) a thunder god. 6) the bringer of storms. 7) a lightning
god. 8) the supreme craftsman of all crafts.”
(Wisdom
of Wicca)
“Lugh - The
Solar god of the Gallicans (Celts). Could Lugh be the origin of the name Lucifer the Light Bringer?
1. Ireland, Wales. The Shining One;
Sun god; god of war; ‘many-skilled’; ‘fair-haired
one’; ‘white
or shining’;
a hero god. His feast is Lughnassadh,
a harvest festival... ‘He was carpenter, mason, smith, harper, poet,
Druid, physician, and goldsmith. War, magic, commerce, reincarnation, lightning,
water, arts and crafts, manual arts, journeys, martial arts, blacksmiths, poets,
harpers, musicians, historians, sorcerors,
healing, revenge, initiation, prophecy.’
(Celtic Deities)” (LUCIFER:
More On Lucifer)
The warrior theme is apparent in John MacArthur’s Regeneration Camp as seen in
the photos below, which show many campers with painted faces and bodies
participating in games that are traditionally held during the
festival of Lughnasadh.
WAR-PAINT & THE WAR CRY
These Regeneration campers and counselors are emulating the
Celtic Warrior spirit.
According to
National Geographic, the ancient Celts were a warrior culture, “a
civilization of aristocratic warrior tribes. The word
‘Celtic’
comes from the Greek Keltoi, first appearing in the sixth century
B.C. to describe
‘barbarians’
living inland from the Mediterranean Sea.”
“For hundreds of years the Celtic warrior
represented the quintessential barbarian warrior to the settled peoples of the
Mediterranean... Their attacks on the battlefield were fearless, wild and
savage, but they were also skilled and deadly....
“The Celts were a warrior culture. Fighters were admired like
heroes and courage in the battleground was an important virtue. The Celtic
elite fighters functioned as models, which should inspire other warriors by
their courage. The Celts cut off the heads of killed enemies and collected
them...
“One of the main motivations of Celtic
warriors was the pursuit of glory and to this end the Celts loved exhibition
when in battle... Warriors often painted themselves with woad, a blue dye,
or
used war cries
in order to intimidate their enemies.
Celtic warriors would also wear horned helmets or helmets topped with horse
tails into the battle to intimidate their enemies and make themselves appear
taller...” (Celtic
Warriors)
FACE & BODY PAINTING
In
his commentary on Leviticus 19:28, British theologian Adam Clarke noted the
striking parallel between the marks on the body which were customs in ancient pagan
idolatry and the mark of the Beast that will be mandatory during the
Tribulation.
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks
upon you: I am the LORD.”
“It was a very ancient and a very general custom to carry marks
on the body in honor of the object of their worship... Most of the barbarous
nations lately discovered have their faces, arms, breasts, etc., curiously
carved or tattooed, probably for superstitious purposes. Ancient writers
abound with accounts of marks made on the face, arms, etc., in honor of
different idols; and to this the inspired penman alludes, Revelation 13:16,17;
14:9,11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4, where false worshippers are represented as
receiving in their hands and in their forehead the marks of the beast.”
Interspersed among the Regeneration Camp and Forest Home Camp photos are
pictures and information from pagan sources which expose the pagan origins of
these customs. Regeneration and Forest Home campers may not realize it but
they are
“learning
the way of the heathen”
which God has forbidden His people to do:
“Thus saith
the LORD, Learn not the way of the
heathen...
“You
can make stencils to use when body painting, using symbols that represent your
particular religion, or totem animal, or you can also use
Celtic knotwork.
Each is common. Face painting is always fun for everyone, especially the
kids!...”
(Lughnasadh:
Activities at Lammas)
“...faces blackened with
soot
or red ochre. English Morris men can be found with
faces painted in various colors including red, yellow,
black, and green.
Such traditions are constantly being reinvented... For your Lammas
celebrations, you can paint on tribal marks
and Celtic patterns, or make up yourself and your friends to represent totem animals
associated with the
festival... Children find face painting great fun, and it is perfectly safe.”
(Lammas:
Celebrating the Fruits of the First Harvest,
p. 142)
“Celtic
Tradition says that Pictish warriors painted their bodies with woad to present
a threatening appearance to their enemies. Woad is a yellow flowered plant,
and gives a blue color, much like that of blue jeans today... You can make
stencils to use when body painting, using symbols that represent your
particular religion, or totem animal, or you can also use Celtic knotwork.
Each is common.
“Face
painting is always fun for everyone, especially the kids!... Paint your face
to look like your totem, or to look threatening, much like the warriors
did in their time...”
(Lughnasadh:
Activities at Lammas)
“Julius
Caesar tells us (in De Bello Gallico) that the Britanni used to
colour their bodies blue with vitrum,...The
northern inhabitants of Britain came to be known as Picts (Picti),
which means ‘painted
ones’ in Latin, and
may have been due to these accounts of them painting or tattooing their
bodies.” (Wikipedia)
“And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his
image, and receive his mark
in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of
his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:”
(Rev. 14:9)
“The
overarching theme of Chinese sexology, of course, is the union of yin
and yang.”
“Resonating on many levels, it is physically man and
woman and metaphysically masculine and feminine. As technical terms in
sexology, yang may refer to the male gender, the male member, or
sexual essence; whereas yin may refer to the female gender, the
private parts of both sexes, or sexual secretions. Leaner and more
abstract than such mythical personifications as Venus and Apollo or
Shiva and Shakti, the yin-yang paradigm nevertheless gives ample
scope for man and woman to play the roles of heaven and earth and adds a
metaphysical dimension to the commerce of the bedroom... The
glorification of yin in early Taoist philosophy, and the emphasis
on the balance of yin and yang in traditional Chinese
medicine, gives way to the search for pure yang in alchemy,
meditation, and sexual yoga.”
Source: Art of the Bedchamber: The
Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women’s
Solo Meditation Texts, Douglas Wile, Feb 1992.
The campers and counselors in this section are displaying
Wiccan hand signs
which reveals they are Wiccans, Druids or other pagan cult and that they
are invoking pagan gods at the Lugnasadh / Regeneration festival which is Camp
Regeneration. According to Crafting Wiccan
Traditions
by Raven
Grimassi, the
upraised thumb and pinky finger on the right hand is the sign for invoking the
“Horned God.” The same configuration on the left hand invokes the “Crescent
Crowned Goddess.” The upraised forefinger and pinky finger is the Wiccan
gesture for banishing spirits, i.e., the Holy Spirit. These hand signs are
used in Wiccan rituals to establish communication with demonic spirits. The
author of Crafting Wiccan Traditions also sells stone images of the
Horned God and Crescent Crowned Goddess in his
store for only $200.
This camper/counselor is invoking the Horned God
and the Crescent Crowned Goddess.
The next photo is Pastor Rick Holland, one of the three leaders of Camp
Regeneration in 2011. For 25 years Rick Holland served as the Executive Pastor
of Grace Community Church under John MacArthur. Note Pastor Holland’s
hands in the photo below. He is summoning the Horned God and the
Crescent Crowned Goddess as he preaches to the youth assembly. This is
also a Masonic hand signal. It is unnatural to do, especially with both hands,
accidentally.
Rick Holland is not blessing the youth but is casting a spell on them.
“A
wandless spell is a spell which is
performed without the use of a wand. This form of magic can be particularly
volatile, and can only be used effectively by powerful and disciplined wizards
and witches. Sometimes, specific hand gestures focus the power of the spell
and guide it to the target. This magic can be coupled with silent magic
to cast spells under any circumstances.”
(Harry
Potter Wiki)
“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
beast:
and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto
the beast?
who is able to make war with him?”
Revelation 13:4
THE SACRIFICIAL PIG RITUAL
Another tradition of Druid festivals and
John MacArthur’s
Regeneration Youth Camp is the sacrificial pig. Offering a ritually
sacrificed pig is performed on Lugnasadh not only in covens but in synagogues and churches as well as Regeneration Camp:
“In some covens (and in synagogues and some churches) a part of the August harvest is placed on the central
altar as an offering of thanks to the bountiful deities...
“Lughnasadh has always been a Sabbat where only grains and
vegetables were sacrificed, as animal sacrifices were usually reserved for the
autumn holidays. But in Romania’s Transylvanian Alps, high in the dark
Carpathian Mountains, there is a ritual enacted on the
first Sunday of every August that has obvious pagan roots and does involve
animal sacrifice. At daybreak, a procession of peasants take a
live sow up the steep slopes of Mt. Chefleau where
it is ritually slain in thanks for the abundant
harvest. The blood of the animal must be allowed to flow into the earth. Then
the fingers of the right hand touch the blood on the ground and are used to
mark the sign of the cross—for protection and self-blessing—on the forehead.
For centuries the local priests in this deeply Catholic land have tried to no
avail to put a stop to this odd and ancient ritual. The peasantry, though they
now offer their thanks and prayers to the Christian God, are convinced that
their next harvest would be blighted should this ritual ever be allowed to go
unobserved.
“Modern covens that wish to mimic this custom, especially those
following Slavic traditions, might choose to bring a pig (even a small guinea pig would do) into
the Lughnasadh circle and honor it. Pigs
have been sacred to the Mother Goddess in
almost every culture on earth, probably because they efficiently convert small
amounts of raw grain quickly into large amounts of lean meat, therefore the
pig symbolizes abundance just like the Goddess of the Harvest. Use red wine
spilled on the ground to represent her blood and mark yourselves with
equilateral crosses or pentagrams as a way of self-blessing.” (Sabbats: A
Witch’s Approach to Living the Old Ways, Edain McCoy, p. 175)
“The pagan Anglo-Saxons performed
animal sacrifice in honour of the gods...
There are several cases where animal remains were buried in what appears to be
ritualistic conditions, for instance at Frilford, Berkshire,
a pig or boar’s
head was buried with six flat stones and two Roman-era tiles then
placed on top... Archaeologist David Wilson stated that these may be
‘evidence of sacrifices to a pagan god.’
(Anglo-Saxon
Paganism)
“In some cases, animal skulls, particularly oxen but also
pig, were buried in human graves, a practice that was also found in
earlier Roman Britain. Certain Anglo-Saxon burials appeared to have
ritualistic elements to them, implying that a religious rite was
performed over them during the funeral.”
(Wikipedia)
“The pig and its wild relative, the boar, are probably the most important totem
animals of the Gaelic Celts, particularly in terms of their connections
with the Otherworld, as providers of spiritual nourishment. When we
consider that the Celtic / Gaelic system is in fact two systems,
incorporating the
‘realms of the moon’ and the
‘realms of the sun’, that
have over time merged into one system, we begin to realise why the boar
and the sow have become the totem animals par excellence of the Gaelic
Celts. They represent the twin forces of masculinity and femininity - the
wild, untamed boar, the warrior’s challenge, and the sow as the giver of
Life and Death… In the ancient Celtic system the boar is associated
with the South and the element of Fire. It is connected with the life
giving power of the sun. At thefestival of Beltaine
pigs bladders used to be carried by the Fool...
“On a spiritual level the boar acts as a guide that
leads the warrior-hunter on a quest to the
Otherworld... The boar is also the traditional food of the
Samhain feast, a time when the two worlds meet..’” (Dalraida
Celtic Heritage Trust)
“Lugh’s father is Cian of the
Tuatha Dé Danann, and his mother is Ethniu, daughter of Balor, of the Fomorians. In Cath Maige Tuired
their union is a dynastic marriage following an alliance between the
Tuatha Dé and the Fomorians. In the Lebor Gabála Érenn Cian gives the
boy to Tailtiu, queen of the Fir Bolg, in fosterage...
“When the sons of Tuireann: Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba kill Lugh’s father, Cian (who was in the form of a
pig at the time), Lugh sets them a series of seemingly
impossible quests as recompense. They achieve them all but are fatally
wounded in completing the last one. Despite Tuireann’s
pleas, Lugh denies them the use of one of the items they have
retrieved, a magic pigskin which heals
all wounds. They die of their wounds and Tuireann dies of grief over
their bodies.”
(Wikipedia:
Lugh)
“Lughnasadh is one of the Celtic
quarter day festivals, celebrating the beginning of the
harvest and the ripening of first fruits. This is a time for friends to
come together, unite, feast, dance and be merry. Our previous Lughnasadh
celebrations have often included burning a wicker man, vegan feast,
lamb or pig spit-roast, games
and challenges, community-focused ritual, usually finished off with some
drumming and dancing around a big
bonfire.” (beltane.org)
Dancing around a pig’s
head mounted on a makeshift altar is an annual ritual at Camp Regeneration
as it is in many pagan cults and cultures during festivals held to honor
their false gods.
“THE PIG SACRIFICE OF ISHTAR”
The Sabbath Covenant
website blasphemes Jesus Christ as
“The
Pig Sacrifice of Ishtar,” the Anti-Christ,
and
promotes “True
Messiah Yahshua”
as the Passover Lamb:
“Christianity
literally robs us of the sign, the seal, and the deliverance of YHVH and
our salvation teaching us a lie:
The Sign is Sungod Day
The Seal is the believe in The Trinity
The Sacrifice for Salvation is through the Easter Pig of Ishtar
named Jesus
“This
‘image
of man named Jesus’
is the image of the False Messiah or Anti-Christ based not on Yahshua
the Jewish Rabbi and Messiah (as we have been led to believe) but rather
Tammuz the second member of the Babylonian Trinity.
Jesus represents The Pig
Sacrifice of Ishtar (ham on Easter) in name and ritual as I
will prove. The True Messiah Yahshua
represents the Passover Lamb.”
The Pig Sacrifice of Ishtar at
Regeneration Camp?
The Fellowship of Isis“celebrates the Goddess”
on the Feast of Regeneration:
“(Druids Calendar)
August 1 (Kerea 22), widely known also as
Lammas and Lughnasadh, is the feast of regeneration.
“From The Coming Age
issue 11 (Lux Madriana):
“Regeneration.
The festivals of late summer open the great Mysteries of Life cycle which
spans a quarter of the year. They celebrate the
Goddess as the Source of all life, the Creatrix and Sustainer of the
cycles of existence...” (Fellowship
of Isis)
The pig is sacred to the Great Mother Goddess and, in some
cultures, a pig is sacrificed in her honor on the feast of Lughnasadh / Regeneration.
“As the King
of the
Tuatha De Danaan, a mythical race of early Celts,
Lugh was one of the consorts of Dana, the first Great Mother Goddess
of Ireland. As such, much of the Celtic Lughnasadh celebration focused
on him. Though this Sabbat is named
in honor of a god, the Goddess aspect features prominently, too. The
Irish Goddess Dana, as Lugh’s
Queen, is also venerated... The Goddess is honored and thanked for
brining forth the fruits...”
“But in Romania’s Transylvanian Alps, high in the dark
Carpathian Mountains, there is a ritual enacted on
the first Sunday of every August that has obvious pagan roots and
does involve animal sacrifice. At daybreak, a procession of peasants
take a
live sow up the steep slopes of Mt. Chefleau
where it is ritually slain in thanks for
the abundant harvest. The blood of the animal must
be allowed to flow into the earth. Then the fingers of the right
hand touch the blood on the ground and are used to mark the sign of the
cross—for protection and self-blessing—on the forehead.” (Sabbats:
A Witch’s
Approach to Living the Old Ways, (p. 174))
Note that the Druids require that the blood of
their pig sacrifice flow into the ground in order to “regenerate” the
earth.
“The live sow...is ritually slain... The blood of the animal must be
allowed to flow into the earth.”
John MacArthur claims that the blood of
Jesus Christ flowed down from the cross and soaked into the ground.
“That
is to say they believe that the blood of Christ was all out of His body;
every drop and it was fully collected as eternal: Never stayed
on the cross, never stayed in the ground,
was then transported to heaven where it remains now eternally...
those views, may I say, are non factual and non biblical...”
(The
Precious Blood, Part 1)
MacArthur ridicules the doctrine of the blood atonement and those
who hold fast to the truth:
“The
third thing they say, which is a corollary following on that, is that it
is preserved in heaven.
It is presently preserved in
heaven.
In Hebrews, you'll notice...I want to show you the verses that they
appeal to...
“And
they take it that when it says he entered the holy place that is the
presence of God. He entered
through His own blood means that He took His blood in there.
His resurrection body they believe was bloodless. And that His blood was
eternally separated from His body
so he entered into heaven
in His glorified body, which is bloodless, carrying His blood in some
large receptacle, where it is forever preserved in heaven. …
...And the reason it is preserved in heaven
takes us to the fourth point in their view and it is this point. That it
is still being poured out on the heavenly mercy seat.
That there is in heaven some kind of mercy seat,
as there was in the Old Testament tabernacle and temple,
and that blood is still being poured out. For that they go to
Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 24 where it says, ‘Speaking of heaven you
come...verse 2...to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and when you come to the heavenly Jerusalem you come
to myriads of angels, you come to the general assembly, the church of
the firstborn, you come to God, the Judge of all, and you come to Jesus,
the mediator of a new covenant, and you come to the sprinkled blood.’ So
they say the sprinkled blood is still in heaven still being sprinkled.
And as one man said to me, ‘My sins were literally washed away by the
pouring out of the literal blood of Christ on the literal mercy seat in
heaven.’ So the blood is still being poured out in heaven.
And every time a person a is saved, in some way
their sins are washed away by the pouring out of that blood on a
heavenly mercy seat.” (The
Precious Blood, Part 1)
To further
discredit the doctrine of the blood atonement MacArthur attaches it to the
false “blood of God” teaching—that
Jesus had “divine blood”—a
heresy which denies His humanity and work as Mediator between God and man.
“The fifth and final
point that they make is that because of this when the Bible speaks of
the blood of Christ it is never speaking symbolically. It is never
speaking symbolically. The actual fluid is meant, in each case, and does
have saving properties, saving capabilities. They go back to chapter 9
of Hebrews and verse 13, ‘For if the
blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who
have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more
will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works?’
So they see, here it is, the literal blood of Christ is literally
cleansing the conscience from dead works. Now do you have it? Let me
review it.
They say the blood of Christ was not human; it was
divine. It was the blood of God. As the blood of God it was
eternal and incorruptible. Since it is eternal and incorruptible it is
preserved forever in heaven. In its preservation in heaven it is still
used by being poured out a heavenly mercy seat to wash away the sins of
those who are being saved. Therefore, when we look at the blood of
Christ in the Scripture and we see it referred to, it is that actual
literal blood which is being referred to not a symbol for death.
“As
the blood of God it was eternal and incorruptible. Since it is eternal
and incorruptible it is preserved forever in heaven. In its preservation
in heaven it is still used by being poured out a heavenly mercy seat to
wash away the sins of those who are being saved.
“Now,
all of those views, may I say, are non factual and non biblical and they
represent a misunderstanding of those passages.”
(The
Precious Blood, Part 1)
John MacArthur’s
position is that salvation was accomplished by the death of Jesus
and the word blood is merely a “metonym” or substitute word for
death. However, death can be applied to any number of pagan
saviors who did not shed their blood on a cross for the forgiveness of
sins. (See:
Copycat
Saviors Debunked) Which may explain MacArthur’s
contempt for the blood and for the
Word of God, which teaches that Jesus Christ, the great High Priest of our
profession, fulfilled the Levitical law that required the high priest to
carry the blood of the sin offering into the most Holy Place and to sprinkle
it on the Mercy Seat.
Leviticus
16
14 And he
shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy
seat eastward; and before the mercy seat
shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for
the people, and bring his blood within the vail,
and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before
the mercy seat:
Hebrews 9
6 Now when
these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second went the high priest
alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for
himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all
was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing:
9
Which was a figure for the time then
present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that
could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But
Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but
by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us.
John
Calvin, a Jew, did not miss the typology of Christ’s
fulfillment of the Levitical law:
“Then
the meaning is, ‘No wonder if the rites of the Law have now
ceased, for this is what was typified by
the sacrifice which the Levites brought without the camp to be there
burnt; for as the ministers of the tabernacle did eat nothing of it, so
if we serve the tabernacle, that is, retain its ceremonies, we shall not
be partakers of that sacrifice which Christ once offered, nor of the
expiation which he once made by his own blood;
for
his own blood he brought into the heavenly sanctuary that he might atone
for the sin of the world.’” (Commentary on Hebrews
10:13)
Disdaining the types and
figures
which God used in Scripture (“there
is in heaven some kind of mercy seat”),
John MacArthur trifled with the blood atonement by mocking it as a “fantasy and fetish about the
blood”:
“Now,
all of those views, may I say, are non factual and non biblical and they
represent a misunderstanding of those passages. This is
not new. I want to give you a sense of history. The source of much of
this thinking was generated by a man named J.A. Bengel, B-E-N-G-E-L. He
was born in 1687 and he died in 1752… And the current movement is
Bengelian theory revisited. It’s
an echo of this fantasy and
fetish about the blood.” (The
Precious Blood, Part 1)
Charles
Spurgeon had a few words to say about MacArthur’s “fantasy and fetish about the blood”—
“ALL through Holy Scripture you constantly meet with the
mention of ‘blood.’ ‘Without shedding of blood is no remission.’ ‘The
blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin.’ ‘Ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the
precious blood of Christ.’ The word ‘blood’ is recorded over and over
again, and if any complain of the preacher that he
frequently uses this expression, he makes no kind of apology for it, he
would be ashamed of himself if he did not often speak of the blood.
The Word of God is as full of references to blood as the body of a man
is full of life and blood.” (“Blood
Even on the Golden Altar”)
Spurgeon preached often about
the sprinkled blood on the Mercy Seat and had strong words for those who
deride it:
“Albeit that the guilty are taken up to dwell with God,
and our poor prayers are accepted of God, neither we nor our prayers
carry any defilement into the holy place, because the atoning blood is
there beforehand…
“When Aaron had thus filled the place with the
sweetly-perfumed smoke, he took the blood of the bullock of the
sin-offering, and carefully sprinkled it seven times on the mercy seat,
and on the ground around the mercy seat. What a
mercy it is for you and me that the spot where we meet with God is a
place where the blood of the great sacrifice has been sprinkled, ay, and
that the ground of our meeting with God, the place on which the mercy
seat rests, has also the blood mark upon it!
“We are unclean by nature, and by practice, too,
what could we do without the sprinkling of the blood? See how the Lord
insisted upon it in the case of his ancient people,
yet there are some in these modern times who
deride it. God forgive their blasphemy!” (“Blood
Even on the Golden Altar”)
Spurgeon asked, “What could we do without the sprinkling of the
blood?” Christians through the centuries have found relief
and consolation by trusting in the blood of Jesus to cleanse and deliver
them from sin, and from its guilt and condemnation.
Blessings that spring from our
reliance on ‘nothing
but the blood of Jesus’ are: eternal life (John 6:53),
propitiation
(Rom 3:25), justification (Rom
5:9),
redemption and
forgiveness (Eph 1:7; Col 1:14),
peace (Col 1:20),
access (Heb 10:19),
cleansing (1John 1:7; Re 1:5)
and victory (Rev. 12:11). See also: “The Efficacy of the Blood of
Christ.”
In another
sermon, “When
I See The Blood,” Spurgeon stated, “I do not know how sufficiently to follow
Satan in all his windings into the human heart but this, I know,
he is always trying to keep back this great truth
— the blood, and the blood alone has power to save...
for Christ in
heaven is always presenting his blood before his Father’s
face.”
Why is
MacArthur adamant in
his opposition to teaching the blood atonement as it is presented in the
Word of God?
John MacArthur has stated that
the success of his ministry is the fruit of the ministry of his great
grandfather, Thomas
Fullerton, who was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Prince Edward
Island, Canada, among other high positions in Freemasonry. (See:
John MacArthur:
Freemason) Masonic publications have spread the heresy that
Jesus’
blood was collected at the foot of the cross and carried to Europe and
Great Britain. (See Part 11)
For example, Holy Blood, Holy Grail was coauthored by Michael
Baigent, who was a Freemason, Grand Officer of the United Grand Lodge of
England and editor of Freemasonry Today.
“The myths and stories
surrounding the lost Grail are assuredly old...but it is alleged that the
Grail was the sacred vessel that once contained the blood of Christ. One
story insists that the Grail is a cup from which Jesus drank at the Last
Supper... Another story says the Grail was the
cup held aloft by Joseph of Arimathea at the foot of
the cross to catch streams of blood flowing from the wounds of the dying
Savior. Still another legend insists that it
was Mary Magdalene who held the cup at the
foot of the cross and caught the blood of Christ in her precious jar.
One version of the story claims that Mary Magdalene, traveling under the
protection of her brother Lazarus and Joseph of Arimathea, brought the
Holy Grail to the coast of France. On one point, many of the legends seem
to agree: the Grail was a sacred vessel, holy because it once contained
the blood of Jesus.” (New
Age Journal)
Freemasonry is based
on apostate Judaism and books written by Jewish rabbis, such as Babylonian
Talmud and Kabbalah, which teach that man becomes a god by means of
spiritual enlightenment, as opposed to the forgiveness of his sins by the
shed blood of Jesus Christ. John
MacArthur was mentored by a Jewish rabbi, the late Charles Feinberg, founder of Chosen
People Ministries and the Charles L. Feinberg Center, whose Master of
Divinity program for Messianic Jewish Studies requires intensive study of
rabbinic texts, such as the Talmud.
“These
unique training needs are the focus of a program emphasizing biblical
languages, Hebrew and Greek exegesis, and the
understanding of rabbinic texts.
Essential matters of theology
and practice are treated through
intensive study of Jewish law, religion, culture,
sociology and history. Students are
encouraged to explore this rich heritage,
and to develop effective methods to reach and serve today’s Jewish
community.”
(John
MacArthur’s
Spiritual Mentor a Jewish Rabbi)
The Shulchan Aruch is the Talmudic Code of Jewish
Law studied by Rabbinical students in the Yeshivas and Messianic Jewish
schools such as the Charles L. Feinberg Center, where students are
“encouraged to
explore the
‘rich heritage’”
of rabbinic texts and Jewish law and to take courses at Jewish
institutions. The Shulchan Aruch was authored by Yosef Karo, a
Sephardic Jew and Kabbalist born in Spain in 1488. Leon De Poncins
wrote of the supremacy of this Talmudic Code of Law in his 1929 book,
Freemasonry and Judaism, Secret Powers Behind Revolutions:
“The Talmud is very long and confused;
consequently a learned rabbi, Joseph Karo, composed at the beginning of
the year 1500, a revised abridged, and clear edition called
Shulchan-Arukh, and the reputation and authority of this work have
remained unchanged. It has become par excellence the Judaic code
for Jews of all countries.”
(Poncins, p. 200)
What does the Talmud say
about Jesus Christ and Christians? The Schulchan
Arukh equates a Christian to a pig:
“It
is worthy of note that the following list of unclean things is given in
Biur Hetib, a commentary on the Schulchan Arukh:
“‘A
woman must wash herself again if she sees any unclean thing, such as a
dog, an ass, or People of the Earth; a Christian(Akum), a camel,(47)
a pig, a horse, and a leper.’”
(The
Talmud Unmasked, Chap. 2)
In his 2013 book,
The Return of the Kosher Pig, Rabbi Itzhak Shapira endeavors to
convince the Jewish people that, according to the Talmud and other
rabbincal writings, the Messiah would be divine and, therefore, “Yeshua of Natzeret”
fulfilled the Old Testament Messianic prophecies. In his mission
to win the Jews to “Yeshua”, Rabbi Shapira
finds himself up against two centuries of Jewish
calumniation of Jesus Christ and Christians as “pigs.”
“One of the main differences between modern
Judaism...and Christianity is the division on this important question of
the identity of the Kosher Pig and what he symbolizes... In essence, it
is practitioners of Christianity (and for a moment I will include
Messianic Judaism) who are considered unkosher by their faith in the
eyes of a Jew. The pig in the eyes of Judaism is
the one who adopted this false premise that God will take the form of a
man, which is considered idolatry, k’firah,
in the basic principles of Judaism...
“The bigger question to ask in connection to the pig is:
Who is the one who ultimately is offensive to the Jewish people. The
answer is clear: It is Yeshua or, as some Jews call him, יש״ו (Yeshu) which is an acronym for
‘May his name be blotted out.’
The name of Yeshua represents the greatest name of
uncleanness in Judaism today, as it has throughout the last 2,000
years...
“Even in the traditional Hebrew prayer Aleinu, we read in one
of the final phrases that,
‘they bow down to vanity and empty things.’...
The strong possibility that this particular comment was added to the
prayer clearly emphasizes the deep emotions (not emotions of love) that
most of the Jewish world holds toward Yeshua as the ultimate symbol of
tameh—the unkosher animal forbidden by Jewish dietary laws—the
pig.” (The Return of the Kosher Pig, pp. 9, 11)
“Strangely, in Judaism, the Messiah is likened to
a pig. What a seemingly inappropriate connotation, one would think, as
it represents the symbol of uncleanness among our people. Why a pig? you
might wonder. In Hebrew, the word pig, or hazir, literally means
‘to return.’
Our sages teach us that the rejected Messiah will become pure and clean
again to His people. There is no name that is
hated more than Yeshua’s name, but in fact His name will be
brought back to the lips of every Jew in exaltation in the days ahead of
us.” (Yeshua,
The Kosher Pig)
A typical Jewish response to
Rabbi Shapira’sReturn of the Kosher Pig:
“The bottom line, no matter how Messianic Jews try
to ‘spin it’ in the present with various new tricks, Yeshua will never
be Kosher just as no matter the number of times one scrubs a pig will
ever make the pig Kosher either!...
“Can there be a greater stumbling block than
[Christianity]? All the prophets spoke of Moshiach as the redeemer of
Israel and their savior, who would gather their dispersed ones and
strengthen their [observance of] the mitzvos. In contrast [the founder
of Christianity] caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their
remnants to be scattered and humiliated, the Torah to be altered, and
the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the L-rd.”
(Expurgated by medieval Christian censors from the Mishneh Torah of
Rambam, Chapter 11)” (Menashe’s
Blog)
“Itzhak
Shapira, Jewish Mystic & author of the Kabbalistic book,
‘The Return of The Kosher Pig,’ to Benny Hinn: ‘The Hebrew
words SERPENT & MESSIAH are the SAME WORD.’
“One of the main teachings of Shapira is that Christianity
is Edom, which is responsible for the current 2,000-year
exile of the Jews. This fable is expounded upon in the
kabbalistic mystical book, Kol HaTor, and in the 1932
book, The Jewish Utopia, by Rabbi Michael Higger.
“While claiming to be a follower of ‘Yeshua,’
(Again,
Yeshua is NOT Jesus)
Shapira has made countless videos in which he vehemently
tells Christians to leave Christianity and return to
Judaism. According to the Midrash, the mystery of
the kosher pig's return is summed up in an end-time paradigm
shift scenario in which Christianity undergoes a spiritual
transformation and rejection of Jesus Christ as the Messiah,
which renders them kosher.”
Rabbi Shapira
states
that, in Judaism,
“There
is no name that is hated more than Yeshua’s name,”
referring to the name of Jesus. Elizabeth Dilling wrote similar words in
her 1963 classic, The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today:
“The
ultimate object of hatred in Talmudic Judaism is Christ, and the targets
of Talmudic hatred are not just Gentile non-Jews, ‘the people who are like an ass—slaves
who are considered the property of the master’
(Talmud,
Kethuboth 111a). Of these non-Jews, the
Christians are most insanely hated and loathed because their doctrines
are the opposite of every Talmudic doctrine. They rank
not just as animals,
like the rest of non-Talmudic humanity, but
almost as vermin, to
be eradicated. Language in the Talmud is virtually exhausted to find
foul and hated names for Christians...
Christ is always the ‘idol’
denounced by the Talmud, while real
idolatry in regard to spirits, planets,
child burning to
Molech, Baal filth, are
permitted in
Judaism.
“Characteristic
of charging as a crime against others what Talmudists themselves are
doing, a Sanhedrin passage denounces
Christ as a sorcerer
(Talmud,
Exhibit 76).
It was to refute this
Talmudic teaching of hate against Christ,
that Martin Luther wrote his ‘Shemhamphoras’
on the charge that Christ did His miracles by sorcery, using the
Tetragrammaton, which, in some Talmud passages, He is said to have
stolen and hidden in His flesh!” (Chap.
3, The Talmud & Bible Believers)
In his 1892 book,
The
Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians,
Rev. I. B. Pranaitis disclosed why the name of “Jesus”
is infrequently mentioned in Jewish writings:
“Since
the word Jeschua means
‘Savior,’ the name Jesus rarely
occurs in the Jewish books. It is almost always abbreviated to Jeschu,
which is maliciously taken as if it were composed of the initial letters
of the three words Immach Schemo Vezikro—‘May
his name and memory be blotted out’.”
(Chap.
1)
The Zohar, which is the
foundational work of the Kabbalah, which is Jewish occultism, calls
non-Jews
“pigs”
and other unclean animals, as opposed to Jews whom
God has given the distinction of being “men”:
“In continuation of the Zohar there it is written:
“...in a similar fashion [as it is with the holy
spirit of ‘man’ apure animals – the Sulam] it is concerning Satan’s
camp, which is impure. The spirit
which spreads to the other nations stems from the impure side,
and is not the aspect of ‘man’ – and therefore
it is not called by this name and does not have a share in it. [As was
mentioned previously, ‘You are called men, etc.’ – the Sulam]...
the Torah started describing them with the words,
‘And these are impure for you’ –
such as the
pig, birds, and
animals of Satan’s camp. The spirit which permeates them is called
impure, and their bodies are the dress of that spirit, therefore it
says, ‘flesh of pig’ – pig is it
inside, and the flesh is only the dressing of the ‘pig.’”
(Come
& Hear)
I.
B. Pranaitis wrote that the Talmud also teaches that Christians are pigs
and must be shunned
“because
they are given to the shedding of blood”
which brings to mind John
MacArthur’s
accusation of having a
“fantasy and fetish
about the blood”:
“An Israelite must not associate
himself with the Akum
[Christians]
because they are given to the shedding of blood.”
“Buxtorf (Lex.) says:
By wild pig the author here means the
Christians who eat pork and, like
pigs, have destroyed the vineyard of Israel, the City of
Jerusalem, and who believe in the
‘suspended’
Christ. Else the letter ain is
dropped in this word because they, as worshippers of Christ who was
hanged, are also dropped.’
(The
Talmud Unmasked, Chap. 2)
In his book, Rabbi Shapira argues that
“Yeshua” upheld the Torah,
and that
“a great crime was
committed against Yeshua over the last 2,000 years by those who claim to
represent him.” In stating this, he makes a distinction between the
Jewish Messiah, Yeshua, and the Christian Messiah, Jesus, whom he
rejects as the
“Son of God” along with the
Trinity.
“In this book, I present the case for the Divine
Messiah differently. I approach the matter through the eyes of a Jew who
has heard from missionary and others in the past about
‘Jesus Christ,’
but never about Yeshua haMashiach. Let me state up front that I am not a
missionary and the goal of the book is not to convert anyone to
Christianity, either. However, I do believe that there is
great significance in the name Yeshua rather than Jesus.”
(p. xii)
“...I suggest we view Yeshua in a slightly different light than
‘God,
the Son’
as he is known within the Trinity and Christian circles.”
(The Return of the
Kosher Pig,
p. 265)
Rabbi Shapira does not believe or teach the triune
Godhead, that God exists three Persons, but that God manifested
himself as
“Yeshua”
and takes on many other forms or manifestations as well.
“...in the Hebrew Scriptures, HaShem takes a human form through a
reduction or tzimtzum... The
conclusion is clear—HaShem,
blessed be his name, can take any form he chooses to take as long as he
does not violate his own words. Even in the Shma, we see a
remez that God is one (echad) but can take many
manifestations since his name is repeated
three times in the prayer... HaShem can take as many
manifestations through tzimtzum as he chooses in order to
accomplish his purpose.”
(p.
274)
“The Messiah represents the
manifestation of HaShem through
tzimtzum. HaShem is one, yet has many manifestations. The
word one, or echad in Hebrew, can mean multiple parts and
can be compound in nature.”
(p. 276)
“If we are honest, faithful, and truthful to the voice of
Moses and the Prophets, we will conclude that our Messiah is
not a fleshly king
but rather a heavenly
king who will reign over Zion.” (p.
279)
Rabbi Shapira is a Modalist which is one who
conflates God the Father and Jesus Christ. His book, The Return of the Kosher
Pig, is setting up the Jewish people to receive a false messiah
– another Jesus
– Yeshua haMashiach who is a
“non-fleshly, heavenly manifestation”
of God rather than the incarnate Son of God:
“Modalists deny the Trinity yet acknowledge Yeshua or
Jesus as God. The problem is that the unity of the individual persons is
taken to the extreme where Jesus is the same person as the Father or
where they are merely different manifestations of God...
“Shapira spends the majority of the video trying to
demonstrate that YHWH or Ha Shem is a compound unity by quoting the
Zohar, a Kabbalistic text, and quoting from the TANAKH. However, 13
minutes roughly in the
video, Shapira says the following:
“The Zohar explains that God is truly a compound unity,
ok, and to argue that this is not is arguing against Judaism. That is
why when a man approached Yeshua and asked him what is the greatest
commandment, Yeshua replied in Mark 12:29 Shema Yisrael Adonai
Eleheinu Adonai Echad. Christianity on the other hand misunderstood
its compound unity and understood that God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are all three different
personas, well that is not true either. That is not the point I bring in
my book and that's not what I believe. I believe
that God is a
compound God, he is ONE and he is absolute, without beginning and end,
but at the same time he can manifest himself in anyway he chooses for.”
(Warning:
The Modalist Heresy of Itzhak Shapira)
The hidden agenda of Messianic Judaism
–
the milieu in which Rabbi Shapira ministers and John
MacArthur was mentored
– is to reimage the origin of the Christian
faith and teachings of Jesus and to reimage Jesus as the false Messiah
of Rabbinical Talmudic Judaism (“Yeshua”)
who will be acceptable (kosher) to the Jews. In other words, whereas
“grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17), “Yeshua” will teach
and uphold the corpus of Rabbinic, Talmudic and
Noahide laws, falsely named
“Torah.” As one Messianic pastor put it,
“Recent...scholarly studies cast new light upon the
historical background and foundational formation of Jesus teachings in
the Old Testament. This evidence is bringing about a
reimaging the faith and practice of Jesus
from being a rebel or entrepreneur of a new faith to a refiner and
preserver of the preexisting faith of Israel.
“The modern church, overall, lacks this knowledge.”
3.
There are
solid reasons to believe that ancient Israel was the polluted fountainhead
of the Druidic pig and human sacrifice.
“There are
many other examples, however, of customs linking the Celtic Druids
specifically with Israel. English historian, Williain Borlase, in his
Antiquities Of Cornwall (1754) presented many pages of such
evidence: Druids worshipped but one God and allowed no graven images,
identical to the Hebrews, and in contradistinction with almost all other
ancient religions.
“Consecration
was by sprinkling with blood,
as in the Old
Testament Hebrew worship. Druid priests were clothed in white, similar to
the Hebrew priest’s white ephod;
sacrificial victims were bled to death, and the blood
was collected in basins which served to sprinkle the altars;
bulls
were sacrificed, and the image of a bull (the heraldic sign of the Hebrew
tribe of Ephraim) was carried into war.’ While they performed their
horrid rites of human sacrifice,
the drums and
trumpets sounded without intermission, that the cries of the miserable
victims might not be heard.’ (Compare Jer. 7:31-32, the Hebrew/Phoenician
place of human sacrifice was called Tophet, meaning 'the drum’).
They prayed with uplifted, hands, examined entrails for necromancy, and held
the oak in veneration. The Druids used the magic wand in imitation of Moses’
rod, poured libations, sacrificed upon the tops of rocks, investigated truth
by lots, anointed rock pillars with oil, and marked out boundaries with
stones. (pp. 104-132, 161) In these and so many other distinctive ways, the
religious customs of the Celts and Hebrews bear an unmistakable resemblance!”
The Anchor Bible Dictionary
identifies the area of Mount Hermon where the tribe of Dan relocated and
intermarried with the Hittites, who had intermarried with the fallen
angels as the
sacred site where ritual sacrifices were offered.
“Hittite and biblical records support the use of Hermon as a dwelling
place of gods... Ritual centers were located at the foot of Hermon:
Baal-gad...in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon (Josh.11:17) and
Baal-hermon (I Chr. 5:23).” 4.
The Hittite and
Biblical records also document the ritual sacrifice
of pigs by the Hittites, presumably at Mount Hermon with the Danites, whom
God judged for their human sacrifice and swine offerings.
“Outside
of the Pentateuch, the Hebrew Bible refers, rather obliquely, to the
prohibition against pork only three times, each in Isaiah (65:2-5; 66:3;
66:17; Ackerman 1992:203). Isaiah 66:3 contrasts proper cult performance
with acts that are prohibited:
‘Whoever
slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices
a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain
offering, like one who
offers swine’s blood; whoever makes a
memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These
have chosen their own ways, and in their abominations they take
delight.’
“Each of these ‘abominations’ alludes
to magical performances that had a certain currency in the larger world
of the eastern Mediterranean. The quintessentially pagan custom of
worshiping cult images is the least obscure of these, but the
Hittite evidence may hold the key to
helping to clear up the enigma of the others. We know, for instance,
that the Hittites
resorted to
battle-line human sacrifices on more than one occasion: ‘If the troops
are defeated by the enemy, then they prepare the offering behind the
river as follows. Behind the river they sever a human, a billy-goat, a
puppy (and) a piglet.
On one side
they set halves and on the other side they set the (other) halves...
Then on one side they burn a fire before the gate (and) on the other
side they burn a fire. The troops go through, but when they come
alongside the river, they sprinkle water over them(selves)...
“The Hittite rite may not be so far
removed from the covenant-making ceremonies of Syria-Palestine if the
propitiation of malevolent forces and the restoration of divine good
will can be thought of in terms of a covenant.”
Many of
the blasphemous references to Jesus Christ have been expunged from the
Talmud and other rabbinical writings, however, the frequent use of the
pejorative
“pig”
to slander Christians makes it difficult to resist the suspicion that the
pig’s head mounted on a makeshift altar (trash can) at Regeneration Camp
is intended to mock Jesus Christ or Christians, or both. The pig’s
head may even prefigure decapitated Christians who refuse the mark of the
Beast
– the Jewish occult symbol of the
Six-Pointed Star
– during the Tribulation period. Or it
may represent the total destruction of Christianity, as stated in the
Protocols of Sion.
“Freedom
of conscience has been declared everywhere, so that now only years divide us
from them moment of the complete wrecking of that
Christian religion... But, in the meantime, while
we are
re-educating youth in new traditional religions and
afterwards in ours, we shall not overtly lay a finger on existing
churches, but we shall fight against them by criticism calculated to produce
schism...”
(Protocol
17)
Notice
that in the process of destroying the Christian religion the youth are
being
“re-educated”
in “new traditional religions”
and
“afterwards”
in the religion of Talmudic Judaism.
“New traditional religions”
refers to ancient pagan traditions such as Druidry, Wicca and Freemasonry.
Re-educating Christian youth in pagan and Talmudic religion requires
transitioning them away from Christian doctrine, which John MacArthur does
well in his popular book Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in
Christ. Re-education
also involves mind control tactics which degrade young people to the level
of slaves. (See:
Parts 2-5: John MacArthur’s
Slave Book)
There is an understated pig
theme at Camp Regeneration which is the grand theme the festival of
Lugnasadh, the main event of which is sacrificing a pig in honor of the
Goddess. The Camp Regen pig motif is carried even further
with
a mortifying game in which Christian youth are made to slog in the mud
like swine.
3.
“Hebraic Studies That Present a Striking Case for
Reimaging the Historical Development of the Faith and Teachings of Jesus,”
John K. Cairns, June 2013, pp. 9-10.
4. Freedman, David Noel. The Anchor Bible
Dictionary, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1992, p. 158.
