Passover, Bernie Sanders, Israel, and Terrorism

From Passover to Bernie Sanders to terrorism in Israel, welcome to Thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

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Okay. Uh I I don't want to make this the major subject. I'm going to talk about Bernie Sanders and Israel in a moment. But because this just did happen today. Because these are breaking news items from earlier today.

I need to discuss them as we're in the thick of the political campaign. I have a video I just recorded that we'll post as we have. as we have opportunity. But But Uh Donald Trump Today Said two things. on T V that were very disturbing.

There are many who feel that he will be the champion of conservative Christians, that if elected, you know, he said it, that he'll protect Christians and he wants to get Christ back in Christmas.

Okay, that's kind of immaterial to me, getting Christ back in Christmas. There are a lot of bigger issues, but fine, great.

Okay, I understand that. And I believe he sincerely believes that. When he says that he'd be the best friends Christians have ever had and all of that. Unfortunately Unfortunately, number one. He uh has spoken about exceptions.

For abortion, the Republican platform has consistently said that it is a pro-life platform, so there are no exceptions for rape or incest, as agonizing as these questions are. And as much as society can say who gives you the right to impose that on the woman, if you believe the baby is a baby in the womb, that life begins at conception, then you can't punish the baby for what someone did to the woman. right? You can't punish the baby either. If life begins at conception, then you don't kill the baby.

He said that he would want those exceptions introduced to the Republican Party platform, which is a critical pro life issue. Or you start to compromise that you have now gotten away from a pro-life position. That's one. The second thing, and not being pragmatic here, if we have to push through a bill, at least we can get this bill through. Let's say that would be the platform.

Then he was asked about transgender issues. And he was critical of what North Carolina did. Public safety, common sense, saying that a man, biological male, shouldn't be able to go into a a locker room with with a with a woman, with a woman or a girls, common sense, safety. He was critical of that. And yeah, a lot of it is just common sense, but a lot of it's from conservative Christian values as well.

And then he said, yeah, if someone identifies as transgender, they should be able to use the bathroom of their choice.

So, and then Ted Cruz, yes, you know, I've endorsed Ted Cruz, but Ted Cruz came out and of course jumped on it and says, Is the whole world going stark, raving mad? That's the one that's championing Christian values, conservative Christian values.

So if you're expecting Donald Trump to be the champion of conservative Christians, conservative Christian values, think again. We come back, Bernie Sanders and Israel. Change the world. Change the world. God of light, hear our cry.

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Michael Brown. No. You had more Muslims voting for you in places in states like Michigan. Are you proud that as a Jewish candidate you got an overwhelming majority of Muslims voting for you in America? That is the best of America.

Wow.

So, Bernie Sanders has a lot of Muslim support, even though he is a Jew. That is interesting. This is Michael Brown. It is Thoroughly Jewish Thursday. Any Jewish-related question that you have for me, give me a call today.

Passover is coming in just a few days.

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So let's just listen a little bit more. to Bernie Sanders, uh some of his views, and and this is this is why I've taken such exception to his policies. Uh we'll go to uh clip number two, and he's on with uh I keep forgetting how to pronounce the name. Chenk Uger.

Sorry for the mispronunciation. Of the young Turks talking with Senator Bernie Sanders. Clip number two. If you're going to ask for policy positions, as you just indicated, What are the policy positions that you would want? I want Secretary Clinton, if she's the nominee, to come out.

for a Medicare for all. single-payer healthcare system. I want 15 bucks an hour as a minimum wage. I want to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. Flint, Michigan is not the only community in America that doesn't have safe drinking water.

Our roads, bridges, rail system is in disrepair. I want a vigorous effort. to address climate change. I mean, I mean, I am very worried. I mean, I talk to these scientists.

This planet is in serious danger. And you can't cuddle up to the fossil fuel industry. You've got to take them. on and also what is resonating and I believe very important. making public colleges and universities tuition-free.

Wall Street tax on speculation to pay for that. ending all these corporate loopholes. Those are some of the demands we make. All right, some of the demands we would make.

So he is utterly. Utterly.

socialist, we know that. But what about his views on Israel.

Now he made an infamous misstatement. He said, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it was over 10,000 innocents who were killed with Israel's war on Gaza. And But War on Hamas in Gaza.

Now, he was just a little bit off. Just a l little excuse me a little bit. little bit off. And he Over 10,000, right? According to Hamas.

One thousand four hundred sixty two civilians were killed. Out of a total of the 2,251 Gaza fatalities during the 51-day conflict. All right? That's according to Hamas. 1,462 out of a total of 2,251.

So that would be like me saying, I forget Bernie Sanders' age. What is he like 450 years old? I don't have that in front of me. What's the population of America? Is it like 2 billion people?

I don't have it in front of me. I mean, that's off. But not only so. The fact of the matter is that That Israel went out of its way to avoid civilian casualties. The reports by Hamas were way, way too high, as it's been seen that at least half of the casualties were males of fighting age.

Ah, how does that happen? Otherwise, you'd expect disproportionate numbers of women and children. No, it was quite the opposite. And some have said it was the most carefully executed war in modern recorded history because Israel went out of its way to avoid the civilian casualties that Hamas was basically setting up.

So he's completely wrong there and completely unsympathetic to what Israel deals with on a regular basis, including the bus bombing a couple of days ago. And by the way, CNN initially reports it as a bus fire, and BBC reports it as a bomb blast, but doesn't say it's a terrorist attack. It's incredible. I mean, the history of how CNN and BBC and others, major media, have reported the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years is mind-boggling. We've talked about it on the air.

We've documented it for you previously. But Bernie Sanders hires a woman to be his outreach coordinator, Simone Zimmerman, to be his Jewish outreach coordinator.

So she's going to help build more bridges to Jewish voters and things like that. Unfortunately, she has a scathing a history of scathing criticism of Israel's policies. And there was a Facebook rant a couple years back that was recently uncovered in which she stated that Prime Minister Netanyahu was quote an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative blankhole. accusing him of sanctioning the murder of two thousand people the prior summer, and closing with FU, BB. Yeah.

And this this is the one that he hires as his Jewish outreach Coordinator. You're talking about a real, real miss there.

Okay, so let's see what he says on this interview on the Young Turks. Clip number five, talking about Gaza.

Now, this goes back, it's almost a month ago, but I just wrote about Bernie Sanders, and these things are in the news with the recent terrorist attacks in Israel.

So I'm revisiting all of this. Clip number five. In Gaza unemployment is forty four percent. That community remains in destruction. There's massive poverty.

massive water problems, massive problems. You cannot be a President of the United States without understanding that. I don't know how you bring peace to the Middle East if you're just one-sided. You've got to embrace both people. And as a Jewish person.

I have found, and this is so disturbing, so many similarities between Palestinians and Jews. Under proper circumstances, people can and should get along. Mr. Sanders, Bernie. Why is unemployment so high in Gaza?

because of Hamas. not because of Israel. There was a thriving economy when Israel was there. There was a developing economy when Israel was there. Once Israel Gave up Gaza without any conditions.

And once the people voted Hamas into power, it has been horrific. It has been oppressive. Bernie. All the money. that is going in to gaza all the international aid where is it going Is it rebuilding hospitals and schools?

Is it rebuilding the infrastructure there? Is it helping with employment? Is it helping with development? The answer is a big fat no. N O No.

It is going to build terror tunnels. Hamas is regularly doing, Israel just uncovered a mass of one as many as what, 100 feet deep. to try to get into Israel to perpetrate terror attacks. It is going into weaponry and spreading propaganda. Fact.

It is not helping the people, and then some of the Hamas leadership is getting rich off of it. Yes, I'm all for fair treatment of the Palestinians, but the issue there is Hamas. and on their state-run TV. Al-Aqsa TV in in Gaza, and then the Palestinian Authority TV in the so-called West Bank. Th the This is continually inciting people to violence.

teenagers to commit violent acts. I I I talk about this in my article. Um Just from one Jew to another. You can read it on stream.org where I'm urging Bernie to stop with the Israel bashing. Early this year, An Israeli mother of six was stabbed to death.

by a Palestinian terrorist. She saved the lives of her children by not letting him pull the knife out of her.

So he was trying to pull the knife out to stab others and other family members, kids arrived, and he ran off without being able to pull the knife out and stab them. That's how she died. At her funeral the next day, her eldest daughter, seventeen, mourned. She was not there in time to save her mother, who had Whom she called her best friend, yet in the days following the murder, she and her father made clear they would not give way to bitterness. and hate.

As for the woman's 15-year-old killer, Israel's claim that it was Palestinian Authority TV that incited him to act, noting, quote, in the period of time preceding the terrorist attack, 15-year-old! In the period of time preceding the terrorist attack, the murder had watched Palestinian Authority television, which presented Israel as a state that kills Palestinian youths.

So he gets worked up and he goes out. and kills this mother of six Bernie, that's where your indignation should be focused. One more clip from Bernie Sanders. Let's go to clip number six, same interview on the Young Turks, where Bernie Sanders weighs in on Prime Minister Netanyahu. Clearly there are Awful people on both sides.

Who, for their own political gains, are fomenting hatred, and there are very decent people on both sides who understand that the future is peace.

So when you're talking about the awful people on one of the sides, are you referring to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump?

Now, I was, to say the least, probably Netanyahu would not be the first person that I would invite to the Oval Office. Whoa. Whoa. He's going to put Netanyahu in the same class. As Palestinian terrorists As come off.

as awful, evil people. on both sides Yikes. Talk about misguided. Talk about ironic that the most prominent Jewish candidate we've yet had for President of the United States is the worst Israel basher we've seen. would make Barack Obama, President Obama, seem like a friend of Israel.

Champion. for Israel. 866-34 TRUTH We will be right back with your calls. O God of burning, cleansing flame. Say It's the line of fire with your host, Dr.

Michael Brown. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34TRUT. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. That's uh that's from a video.

From a couple of weeks ago, with Ted Cruz rolling matzah in. An Orthodox Jewish matzah. bakery. Yeah, and they're singing Dianu, Dianu, which is enough for us.

So it's just interesting that on the Republican side, you had people like Mike Huckabee. And Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Carly Ferrein and others, staunch, staunch friends of Israel. And certainly Donald Trump. Despite his waffling statements, well, I remain neutral and I stand with Israel, a far better friend of Israel. Then a Bernie Sanders.

And yet Bernie Sanders is the Jew. Interesting. 866-348-7884.

You've got Jewish-related questions on this Thurley Jewish Thursday. We've got Jewish answers for you. New Jersey, John, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you for taking my call, Doctor Brown. Sure thing.

I just had a question. I know Passover is coming this Friday. And I've been studying Exodus twelve, and I was just had a few questions about it. Um, the first was um I know that the household the man of the household had to go and and find a lamb or choose a lamb. Did that have to be inspected by a priest or did he do that?

And the second question is, I know that they take the land for four days. And I was just curious what they do with the land for those four days. And the four days, what's the verse you're reading on that? I'm sorry, I don't have it right in front of me. It's it's Exodus chapter twelve, and I believe it was from the tenth.

They were to take it from Nisa. I'm sorry, Abib, the tenth day to the fourteenth day. Got it. Uh Okay, I mean obviously when they were About to leave Egypt, there was certain pressure in terms of what was being done. But as to the first question, the idea that a priest would be able to inspect a lamb for every Israelite family.

Would be a bit of a stretch.

So, where it says your lamb should be without blemish, a male, a year old, you may take it from the sheep or from the goats, it doesn't say.

Alright, does doesn't say that um That it had to be inspected by the priests. Traditions develop over a period of years, but no, it doesn't mention it that excuse me. And in the context here, so beginning, tell all the congregation of Israel on the 10th day of this month, every man shall take a lamb, and then they keep it until the 14th day of the month. To my knowledge, in ancient Israel, nothing was done with the lamb. It's an interesting question as to why it was set apart.

It could just be make sure it's done well in advance, and this is the safety way of doing it. There may be other things that went into it that we don't know about, and then Jewish traditions can develop as to why. But there is no instruction that was given. We have no knowledge from ancient Israel as to what they actually did with the lamb during that time. Just basically Um You know, from the surface of it.

It would tell you that it was just to to have things ready well in advance. And this way it's done, and there's full preparation. But beyond that, We don't know. Again, all kinds of interesting traditions develop around things where you have these interesting questions in Scripture and that Scripture doesn't fill them in for us. And often rabbinic Judaism fills them in.

You know, Jewish tradition fills them in. And uh uh but that's again just tradition, it's not actually fact. But good questions, I appreciate them. Thank you so much. God bless.

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Now, look, the first believers. Certainly, not all of them, but many of them certainly had an understanding. of of Passover. How do I know it?

Well, a couple of ways. One, I'm talking about First Gentile believers, sorry to be clear. First Gentile believers. Of course, the Jewish believers did as part of their heritage and calendar. But.

For Gentile believers, The issue is this. Many of them were in the synagogue when they heard Paul or someone like that preach. Why were they in the synagogue? They had not converted to Judaism. they had not taken on the full yoke of the law.

they had not, say, the men, been circumcised and then immersed in water. No, but they were in the synagogue. They were called God-fearers, and they were viewed as righteous Gentiles, Gentiles who revered the God of Israel, who turned away from idols, who followed several basic moral commandments. And that was it. We would know them today as following the seven Noahide laws based on some deductive reasoning from Genesis, the ninth chapter, that these are universal principles for the entire world.

What was revolutionary now, when Paul and others would preach, that you can have equal status with the children of Israel without having to become a Jew or keep the entire law, that was what was so revolutionary.

Now We know then that they would have been familiar with the calendar of Israel because they were in the synagogues. They would know when the feasts were being celebrated and the principles of rest on the Sabbath and the reading from the scriptures. They would hear all that.

So when Paul writes to the Corinthians, if you read Acts chapter 18, you'll see that he first connects it with. These God fearers in the synagogue.

So, some of the first Gentile believers in Corinth were those that Paul met in the synagogue. It's stated plainly there. If you read 1 Corinthians the 18th chapter.

So, what happens is that These Gentiles understand the calendar so that Paul can say in 1 Corinthians 5: let us keep the Passover.

Now, he may be speaking metaphorically. And he's talking about a spiritual application of the Passover, but they were certainly familiar with it. They were certainly familiar with the Passover because of being in the synagogue.

Now, again, Thessalonians, many of them came out of idolatry, and they would not have been as familiar with these things. Although, even in the idolatrous world, if they had Jewish communities in their midst, they would still know something about the Jewish cycle of life or the Sabbath rest or things like that. But it's Critically important for all followers of Jesus to understand the meaning of the Passover. To understand its purpose in ancient Israel and its fulfillment through the Messiah, not to separate it as a new holiday called Easter, but rather to celebrate the death and resurrection of the Messiah within Passover. To me, that's the ideal.

Go ahead, celebrate his death and resurrection, and what's called Easter. Fine. But the better thing to do would be to do it in the midst of the Passover season. As the one great celebration, deliverance from bondage in Egypt, and now deliverance from bondage in sin through the blood of the Lamb. All right, friends, just a quick reminder: I haven't spoken about it much on the air, but we've got a great resource offer, a special Jewish resource offer.

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A cappella dienu with a jazz feel. Nicely done. 866-345. For truth.

Number to call. Let's take some calls and we'll go back to talking about Passover and other Jewish-related issues today. Ah, that's the Maccabees. Oh, very cool name. The Maccabeets.

All right, we go to Puerto Rico, our friend Michael. Welcome to the line of fire. Doctor Brown, how are you? Doing great, thanks. Yes, sir.

I'm debating this the law and grace. And the only The only law and grace paradigm that I that I find that's consistent with all of Scripture is that Judaism is the national religion of Israel, of the state of Israel. and and is a legitimate expression of faith in the in the Word of God.

So In my opinion, When Paul was talking about um The law is vanishing. What he was referring to was the theocratic nation state was vanishing at that time, but not that the Judaism as a religious faith was vanishing. but that the theocratic state was vanishing.

So law and state were one and the same in the mind of Paul. Yeah, but that's actually not what it says, though. I appreciate the point about the theocratic state, but you're talking about Hebrews, actually, Hebrews, the eighth chapter. And there it's very explicit in terms of what it's talking about. It's talking about the sacrificial system and the earthly priesthood and things like that.

And that's why he says plainly that if there's a change in the priesthood, then there has to be a change in law. It's got nothing to do with a theocratic kingdom or anything like that.

So, in speaking of a new covenant, 8.13, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

So when you read Hebrews 7 and 8, the context there, it's quite explicit. It's talking about the earthly priestly ministry, the temple system, the sacrificial system. We now have a new and better high priest after the order of Melchizedek, which means it's no longer a primary priesthood through Aaron, which means there has been a change. And he quotes from Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to 34, which explicitly contrasts the new and better covenant with the Sinai covenant.

So we're no longer under the Sinai covenant. That's what was growing old and ready to vanish away.

Now there's a new and better covenant. It is to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It is God putting his laws and teachings within our hearts so that it becomes our nature to follow him. And then because of Israel's role to be a light to the nations, it now becomes extended to the nations through the Messiah. But that's clearly what it's talking about.

Read Hebrews 7:8, it's pretty explicit. Yes, it's talking about the law, but to have a point of view of Judaism that is consistent with the prophecies, we have to if there's going to be a third temple, then that means that the the temple system, at least not not let's say Leviticus, the sacrifices were fulfilled in Christ, In Yeshua, but the grain offering was perpetual, and certainly the calendar offerings.

Well uh but they were no they were Michael the the grain offerings weren't perpetual the all all the all the offerings were stated as perpetual. The grain offerings were only offered if the temple was standing. Israel didn't offer them otherwise. If you look in volume four of my series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, you'll see there that most of the things having to do with the priesthood, blood sacrifices and various things, were for all generations, forever. And they find their culmination in the Messiah.

And because of Israel's failure, God makes a new and better covenant. I would encourage you to read Hebrews over and over and over. Get that in your system, and don't worry about a third temple for now. I thank you for the call. Angel World Fire we want for fire we want.

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Welcome back to Thoroughly Jewish Thursday. Yeah, I mentioned this a couple times, but since it is Thurley Jewish Thursday, I'll mention it once more. It was really very, very interesting when John Kasich was going through the religious part of Brooklyn and you know, with matzah being made and things like that. And then on the way out of the matzah factory, he makes his comment. Obviously, he wanted to say something kind of as a Christian, bridging a gap to the Jewish men there, the religious Jews.

And he says, Yeah, you know, it was. Christians, you know, remember the Passover where we put the blood, the Israelites put the blood on the lampposts. He meant to say the doorpost, but you know, slip of the tongue, said lampposts. And he said, Yeah, you know, it speaks to us of the blood of Jesus.

So, just not what you would want to say at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish bakery. in Monsa Factory in Brooklyn. And one of my ultra-Orthodox friends commented that he's not going to get any votes from that part of Brooklyn. Interestingly, Ted Cruz did super, super well in communities like Burrough Park and Williamsburg, which are heavily populated by very religious Jews. Of course, it didn't help him in the state overall.

And obviously his New York values comment didn't play well in other parts of the state, but certainly in New York City. But in any case, in any case, that was just kind of interesting. One guy called yesterday, he said he thought it was great. He thought John Kasich was being like a bold evangelist, but I don't think that was his intent. 866-34TRUT.

We go to Alexandria, Virginia. Larry, welcome to the line of fire. Thank you, Dr. Brown. You're welcome.

I have two questions. I'll make it fast. If you don't have time to answer both, that's fine. But my first question. is in uh Luke 22 forty four.

It was brought up in a s a Study that. that Jesus His sweat became like drops of blood. Um I I can't find anywhere that it was actual blood. Yeah. the studies I've been to, both of them, everybody in the studies believed It to be blood.

And then they tell me, Larry, it's really not that important. The important thing is that he was in Angles.

Well to me, if Jesus is has blood coming out of his pores, Has a significant meaning, so I'd just like to get to the bottom. If it truly was blood, or Or was it just a an an analogy or a Trying to express something. And and um Yeah, go ahead. And then the other question was Uh and then Another study in Hebrews, I believe. I don't remember what verse it was, but it mentions where.

It's impossible to bring back to repentance someone who once experienced. The goodness of God. Right, it's in the sixth chapter. But tell you what, since it's thoroughly Jewish Thursday and we are focused on Jewish-related questions, specifically Jewish-related questions. I I'll answer both quickly, okay?

First, in terms of Jesus sweating blood, did he really sweat blood? I have read of cases where people actually experienced something like that in the midst of intense anguish.

So Is it something that is biologically possible to our knowledge? From what I understand, yes. That being said, The text says it was as it were. drops of blood. and it could be read either way.

It could be that it it appeared to be drops of blood. Or that it really was drops of blood. Either way, it would be highly unusual. When does your sweat look like drops of blood? It doesn't.

So it was either literally drops of blood The agony, the anguish was so intense that there were literally drops of blood, or the agony, anguish so intense that whatever was coming out of his skin looked like drops of blood. presumably the former.

So it does describe that very, very intense agony in a very, very unusual way. That's certain. As for the Hebrew sixth passage, It does say there that it's impossible for those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift if they fall away to be renewed in repentance. I'll read it. It is impossible in the case of those who've once been enlightened, who've tasted the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away to restore them again to repentance since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

So some would say Once someone knows the Lord and falls away, they can never come back. The problem is the rest of the New Testament says explicitly the opposite. The rest of the Bible does. Calling on backsliders to return. The end of James, Jacob, the fifth chapter, explicitly speaks of that.

In Luke, the 15th chapter, the prodigal son, the whole history of Israel.

So that can't be what it's saying: that if someone who once knew the Lord turns away, they can never come back. Others say, well, it's really speaking of Israel. And the Jewish people who experienced all of God's ways and goodness and promises and power, but then turn away from the Messiah. They can't come back to repentance, but then the question would be, well, why can't they come back to repentance? The best way that I can understand this first, Larry, is this.

That It says, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt, that this, in all likelihood, is speaking of Jewish. Believers. who have turned away. and have now gone back to Jewish practices, thereby rejecting the Son of God. Thereby crucifying him once again and holding him up to contempt.

And in their mind, they still have repentance, they still have forgiveness of sins, they still have the Sinai covenant, they don't need this Jesus. And there is no repentance for them. As long as they are in that state, in other words, in their minds as Jews returning to the Sinai covenant to the exclusion of the Messiah, they were still fine. They were still right with God. He's saying, No, impossible.

If they will renounce their sin, if they will renounce their rejection of the Messiah, if they will renounce their embracing of a Jewish religion that excludes the Messiah and thereby crucifies him again, Then they could be restored. That's how I understand it, but it's a very difficult passage, Larry, and there's a lot of dispute. Over it. Thanks for calling. 866-6666.

Three for truth. We go to Boston with Joseph. Welcome to Thurly Jewish Thursday on the line of fire. Hi, Doctor Brown. Hi, this is Joseph.

How you doing? Thank you very much for having me on, and I highly respect you. Thank you. I love listening to. I had a I hope I don't offend you with this question.

I don't think I will, because I think it can handle any question. But there's a video there's video circulating around YouTube, and he he was a man, a Jewish man from the Harvard Square area in Cambridge. And he has a lot of like sort of Of anti-he's an Orthodox Christian now, he was Jewish, and yet he. Talks about all these conspiracies within Judaism and anti-Christian sentiments and all this type of stuff. Have you ever heard of him before and I don't know what your opinion might be about it?

You're speaking of brother Nathaniel, correct? Yes. He's off the wall. The poor guy is absolutely off the wall. That's how you get an internet following.

You're completely off the wall. I've watched a few of his videos. And he is way out there in every kind of conspiratorial thing. Tell you what, he makes Bernie Sanders look like Israel's best friend, you know, with all the Israel bashing that Bernie Sanders does. I actually have a video where I respond to Brother Nathaniel.

And some people said you shouldn't have even taken time to do it. I thought it was important to do.

So if you go to my YouTube channel, Ask Dr. Brown, A-S-K-D-R-Brown, and then just search for Brother Nathaniel or just put Nathaniel in there. You will absolutely. You'll absolutely get my take on it on one particular point he's made.

So, yeah, just way out there. And then the way he looks. And you know, that whole thing adds to kind of the internet intrigue because he's so far out there.

Now, I have read that the Russian Orthodox have repudiated him. I don't know how widespread that is, but I did read it. And said he's not officially with us or whatever. But you can check out my video at the Ask K. Dear Brown, Ask Dr.

Brown YouTube channel. Thanks for the kind words, Joseph. God bless you. Thank you very much. All right.

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You'll see once again it's written with love and compassion for those who struggle. But boy, is it time for us to say enough, enough? Enough with the insanity. No, I'm not calling someone who identifies as transgender insane. I don't know the struggles they're going through and how long they felt what they felt, and I want to help them from the inside out.

I'm saying what we are doing as a culture is insane. It is insanity. And I close the article by asking, or stating if we don't make a correction now, then we may end up being required to uh to have litter boxes in the bathrooms for those who identify as cats. Yes. There are There Are such People.

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Sure. Welcome back to the line of fire on this Thoroughly Jewish Thursday. Michael Brown, delighted as always to be with you. 866-345. For truth.

We go back to Boston. Jonathan, welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr. Brown. How are you?

Doing very well, thank you. Great. Thank you for your ministry. You're very welcome. Um I I have a son's friend who Uh Judaism, um He he's Well, I I have to I put it this way, I have trouble discussing the difference between Israelites, Jews and Hebrews.

And I know Judaism is more than just. uh the Jewish religion. Um but How can I get into an intelligent conversation, especially since I don't I don't have a defense for when he starts talking about this.

So, what's the point he's making? What's his argument? I think the point he's making is that Jews is just a religion, and that's it. If you're from Israel, you're an Israelite. And.

Um I Also, he would You know. Right, so what he has to understand is there's right, there's a difference. Let's put the Hebrew to the side for the moment. There's a difference between. uh being Jewish and practicing Judaism.

Judaism is religion. Being Jewish is ethnic.

So if now you can become Jewish by converting to Judaism, so there is a religious part to it, but ask him, can you be an atheistic Jew? Can you be a secular Jew? Of course, the answer is yes, it's been through history.

So, if the Bible is the authority in this, there were many times where the people of Israel were distant from God. We're not following his commands, but they were still Israelites. God never said, you're not Israelites. He just said, you're not following me. You're not being Israelites in the spirit.

You're being disobedient.

So, to be an Israeli, that means that you are a citizen of Israel or even a native-born. To Sam and Israeli I'm not an Israeli. I'm a Jew. I'm part of the people of Israel, but I am not an Israeli. And I'm not an Israelite.

An Israelite. As terminology is used, would be someone who was part of Israel in biblical times in Israeli. is a citizen of the State of Israel today. Especially native-born. A Jew.

Is someone who is part of the historic people of Israel, regardless of that person's particular religious practices. I just wrote an article to Bernie Sanders from one Jew to another. I'm a Jewish follower of Jesus, and he's a secular, non-religious Jew who barely believes in God. And yet we're both Jews. And that would be the heritage part you talked about.

Yes, yes, if you have in common. Yeah, yeah, that we are both descendants from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are both descendants from the people of Israel. We're both descendants of the same ultimate bloodline from which, say, Paul came. And Moses came.

And Isaiah came. We came from that same ultimate bloodline as part of the people of Israel.

So Israelite refers to someone from Israel in biblical times. Israeli is a modern citizen of Israel. But the nation of Israel as a whole, that's Jews worldwide. And look, if you live in Israel, many Israeli Jews are very secular, totally non-religious at all. They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the feast.

Many of them, totally non-religious. And yet there's still Part of the people of Israel.

So Judaism as a religion, being Jewish. Is both ethnic and and religious, but you can be an ethnic Jew without being religious. Right.

Okay. Great. Hopefully that will help. All right? It will.

Thank you. You're very welcome. 866-34 Truth Wilmington, Delaware. John, welcome to the line of fire. How are you doing, Dr.

Brown? Doing well, thank you.

So with Passover coming up, What would in your In your opinion and personally, what do you do? How do you interpret the last upper What like should it? celebrate it regularly? Do you do it once a month, like Messianic Jews, do it you know, from what I understand, to pass over and that's it.

Some do it monthly, some do it every week, every day. What do you think Jesus meant when he said, Do this in memory of me? Yes, certainly he was now making clear that within the Passover. The Last Supper, the Passover meal, that this was to be. done with him as the center now.

recognizing the the symbolism having to do with his body and his blood as he became the Passover lamb. and the one through whom we get deliverance from bondage. But there's also no question that this was now to be instituted on a regular basis. How regular is a subject that the New Testament does not address explicitly. There are arguments that whenever the believers would gather together in a home.

They would have what you'd call a love feast together. They'd have a fellowship meal, and this was part of the fellowship meal. In others, you have the indication that this was more of a liturgical thing that was done just in the context of a church service. I've been part of assemblies that had communion every week. I've been part of assemblies that have communion once a month.

I know families that have communion in their homes on a regular basis. Certainly, it should be something done corporately on a regular basis, not just at the Passover.

So the Last Supper from the Passover, done in a unique way with all of the elements of the Passover meal, now in a scale-down way, just partaking of the bread and the wine slash grape juice for many today, that that is now something that is on a more regular basis, not just once a year. And that's certainly what the Messiah was indicating, and it's certainly how his first followers practiced it. We have every indication that this was done on a regular basis. The question is exactly how there's some dispute and debate and how frequent there's dispute and debate. And I believe there's liberty there.

But it should be something regular in our own lives as believers, regular in our congregations. I have friends that don't hand out the little pieces of matzah, the little wafers, and the grape juice or wine. Instead, they do it in the context of a communal meal. That everybody in the congregation gets together or in a house group, they get together. They have a meal.

And in the midst of the meal, they partake of this as part of a larger celebration and then specifically remembering the Lord. The key thing is that we do it in remembrance of Him until He comes, as Paul lays out in 1 Corinthians, the 11th chapter. Very good. Thank you very much. You're very welcome.

All right, friends, out of time here, but not quite, not quite.

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So call 1-800-278-9978 to order. That's 1-800-278-9978 or go to askdrbrown.org. My bottom line today with Paul, I say, let us celebrate the Passover, remembering the blood of the Lamb. From Passover to Bernie Sanders to terrorism in Israel, welcome to Thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

Um It's time for the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and president of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34 Truth. That's 866-34 Truth.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome to Thoroughly Jewish Thursday as we get ready for the Passover season in the Jewish world. 866-34TRUTH. If you have a Jewish-related question, a religious, excuse me.

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Here is something really interesting. The uh memory T V. Is it's the Middle East Meteor Research Institute. It's an incredible resource, memory, M-E-M-R-I, memorytv.org. And when you go there, you'll find latest comments, sermons from a mosque in Egypt, from a Muslim preacher in Iran, from Palestinian Authority TV.

And it's all, you'll see the actual footage, and then it's translated into English. And then you can even click on another page and just read the transcript. And it's shocking stuff. When you hear some of the things being preached in mosques, and you've got this guy screaming and yelling, and taking out a sword, or holding up suicide vests, and here's a guy going to destroy the Jews, and it's actually happening. It's actually happening.

So here's something fascinating though. A Saudi Arabian author, Sa'id al-Surrahi, Has said that the ogre of Isis emerged from our history books. This is Saudi Arabian author Saying this February 12th. 2016. He's an author and literary critic.

And he said this in a T V interview on Sky News Arabia, February 12th. 2016. So the interviewer says you want Said that ISIS emerged from the history books, please elaborate. And he says, Sir, let's read our history. How did Islam spread?

As we know, Islam spread to the east and to the west. It spread westward through the various conquests, the battles, the commanders, the dead, the stormed cities, the burnt ships. We know every detail of this history, each and every commander and house. But tell me, do we really know how Islam spread to the East? How did it reach India, Sri Lanka, Java, the Philippines, and South China?

We don't know how the forefathers of all these millions of people became Muslims. The reason we don't know this is that history linked the spread of Islam to the sword, the battles, the killings, and the wars. It does not tell us how model conduct can spread Islam among people. This is an amazing statement. Therefore, when ISIS wanted to fight in the name of Islam, they evoked a history that links the spread of Islam with wars.

We have no history to tell us how model conduct can spread Islam. We need to know how Islam entered the Malay archipelago with no killings, no battles, no commanders, no burnt ships. This is absent from the religious discourse. Yes, it is absent from the religious discourse and from the history books. That is why ISIS draws upon the history books as well as upon the extremist rulings in the books of jurisprudence.

When you break ISIS down, you find extremist jurisprudence and history linked to battles and blood. Isis is the sum total of all the mistakes with which we failed to deal until the ogre we call Isis emerged. You understand that? He's saying that Islamic history And radical Islamic rulings in the past have been the things that have given birth to ISIS. Have been the things that have Allowed ISIS to say, hey, we are Muslims and we are doing what the Quran says, what Muhammad did, what Islamic tradition says, and what Islamic history teaches us.

And this is a Saudi Arabian author making that statement. God bring awakening and enlightening to the Muslim world. May they even look further and discover who Jesus the Messiah is. We'll be right back. Change the world.

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Yeah. Welcome to Thorley Jewish Thursday. Michael Brown, your Thorle Jewish host today. It's interesting. When I came to faith in Jesus.

My dad was thrilled to see me off drugs. once he saw was serious, How are you gonna feel when you find out your fifteen year old kid is shooting heroin? Right.

So he was thrilled to see my life turned around, but then said, okay, we're Jews. We don't believe in Jesus. And then he wanted me to talk to the local rabbi. And then when he heard I was going to get baptized, that's when he got a bit more concerned. He thought, well, this is more serious, and we're we're Jews.

Now, we weren't religious Jews, but my father felt deeply enough about being a Jew and Judaism that he didn't want his son to be baptized. And he asked the rabbi, Well, Man, my son's going to be baptized. The rabbi said. Hey, he says there'll be a baptized Jew. In other words, don't get too upset about it.

He's still Jewish.

Now, there's some who say, no, no, I'm no longer Jewish. There's some Jews who say that. But the normal historic position would be wanted you die at you. And of course, by embracing the Messiah of Israel, they are My Jewishness has been heightened. My appreciation for the Jewish calling and purpose has been heightened and deepened.

I quite assure you, I would not be reading the Bible in Hebrew on a regular basis if not for coming to know Jesus as the Messiah. That was, if I'd lived long enough, I just would have been a secular Jew. 866-34TRUTH. Yeah, what's a juboo? Jubu.

Jewish Buddhist. It's actually a term. Jews in the West were the highest number of converts to Buddhism. in what sixties, early seventies thereabout. Uh yeah, and and became a big movement.

So they there are lots of books on this, but Jubu. That's the term. Jewish-related questions, 866-348-7884. Let me illustrate this for you. With a Jewish joke.

Are you ready? There was a Jewish man living In a Catholic community, the only non-Catholic in the community, a few decades back. Where the Catholic Church had a no meat on Friday rule.

So you could eat fish on Friday, but no meat. And this is a devout Catholic community, so they lived by this, but every Friday. The Jewish guy would not only cook steak, but he'd cook it on a grill in his back yard. year-round. And it it was maddening.

that here's the one day you can't eat meat. And it would just kinda it was a small community, the smell of the steak would just just kind of waft through the the air. And people would smell it outside their homes and And they were getting frustrated. It's hard enough not to have meat, you know, for them. No matter how much you want it that day, you can't have it.

But with this guy cooking steak, it was getting maddening, so the They said to the priest, Father, you've got to do something. Please, you've got to. You've got to help. And he said, Well, I'll see what I can do.

Well, he begins to visit the Jewish guy, and over a number of weeks, Excuse me, the the Jewish man. converts to Catholicism. Wow.

And for a few weeks all is well. No steak? No smell of steak, everybody's happy. And then suddenly Steak. He's cooking steak So a few of the people called the priest and said, Father, he's cooking steak again.

So the priest goes straight over to the house, And he says, what are you doing? I said, what do you mean what am I doing? He said, You're not allowed to have steak, it's forbidden. You can't have meat on Friday. He said, It's not steak, that's fish.

He said, Well, what do you mean? That's a snake. He said, No, no, no, father, that's that's that's not a steak, that's fish. He said, What are you talking about? That's a steak, it's a piece of meat, it's red meat, it's a steak, it's from a cow, you can smell it.

That's that's meat. That's that's a steak. He said, No, no, father, it's not a steak, it's fish. He said, I learned that from you. He said, What are you talking about?

You learned it from me. He said, Remember a few weeks ago, Father? He said, You. brought me over in the sink in the kitchen. and you said a few words and then you sprinkled water over me.

A few times And you said, you're no longer a Jew, you're a Christian. He said, Well, I did the same thing. He said, I got that steak at the store. I sprinkled some water over it. I said, You're no longer a steak, you're a fish.

Ah.

So, the whole punchline being you can sprinkle water on the person, it doesn't stop them from being a Jew any more than sprinkling water on a steak. Makes it into a fish. The question is, what kind of Jews will we be? Will we be faithful to God? Will we honor God?

Will we be loyal to God? Will we follow His commandments? What does He want us to keep? Will we embrace His Messiah? Will we be a light to the nations?

Will we glorify the God of Israel in the earth? Who will we be? How will we live? That's the question. I share the gospel with someone.

I tell them about. Jesus, I'm talking to a Jewish person. And they said, I was born a Jew, I'll die a Jew. I said, Yeah, you're correct. You will.

You were born a Jew, you'll die a Jew. What kind of Jew are you going to be, though? You're going to be a Jew with whom God is pleased. You're going to be a Jew that. It's blessed by God, that honors God.

That's the question. Yeah, born a Jew, die a Jew. Correct. No one's arguing that. That's why you can be an atheistic you.

You can be a Jewish Buddhist. You can be a Jewish Hindu. You could be a Jewish Muslim, still still Jewish. Mm-hmm.

Now, do they have Jews for Allah? Actually, I saw a website like that one time. Yeah. Jews who had converted to Islam. Yeah.

But one of the words that we never use in sharing the gospel with a Jewish person is convert. Oh, you're being deceptive. No, we're being truthful. One of my friends asked What it was like to be a converted Jew. He said, I don't know, because it's not a sin to be a Jew.

He said, I'm a converted sinner. We are converted from sin. But we're not converted from EJ. I'm not a converted male. I'm still a male.

I'm not a converted human. I'm still a human. Right, I'm converted center.

So, to say I'm a Jewish convert to Christianity, no, I'm not. That's a mistaken description. I'm a Jewish follower of Jesus. a a convert from sin. and from the power of Satan to the power of God and to a holy life.

That's the conversion. That's why we don't use the word convert. That's why we don't use the word cross a lot because it's associated with crusades and butchering of Jewish people. It's associated with anti-Semitism and Jewish history.

So we talk about Jesus dying for our sins. We don't deny that on the cross, but if you put certain words out to a Jewish audience, often they are off-putting. Yeah, you gotta convert. We're here as Christ Crusaders. holding up a big cross and saying convert to Christianity You talk about a wrong message to send to a Jewish person.

Not only is it a non-historical message, because it's absolutely contrary. to what would have been the reality in the first century. before there was such a thing known as quote Christianity. of the Christian religion. This was understood as a Jewish faith that was now open to the Gentiles.

As opposed to a foreign faith that Jews had to enter by abandoning their old ways. Look, there are even. There are even Baptismal formulas from the Middle Ages. Where for a Jew to be baptized, he would have to renounce his heritage. He would have to renounce all connection to the Jewish people.

He would have to renounce circumcision, renounce Sabbath, renounce Passover. renounce Hebrew names for his children. He would have to renounce everything Jewish. He would have to embrace eating pork. he would have to curse the rabbis and venerate Mary.

Yeah, I have these. Copied out in my book, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood. In fact, if you take advantage of this week's special resource offer, the Real Kosher Jesus, the hardcover edition, with the DVD, it's actually of my testimony from LSD to PhD with a special Jewish outreach focus in that. If you read that, you'll get a glimpse of some of the horrors of church history. in terms of pushing Jewish people away.

Think of that. In order to follow the Jewish Messiah, you have to cease being Jewish. What? In order to embrace the Messiah of Israel, you have to cut off all connection. to the people of Israel.

What? In order to embrace the Messiah of Israel, You have to embrace eating pork and venerating Mary. What? Talk about something blasphemous, talk about something horrific, talk about something that is the exact opposite. of of the the messianic faith.

That came to Jewish people, through Jewish people, and is about a Jewish Messiah. Wow, but that's what happened. When believers lost sight of their roots. That's what happened. when Gentile believers failed to heed what Paul wrote in Romans 11.

So we know the sin of the Jewish nation in not embracing the Messiah as a nation, the leaders not embracing him. as a nation. Then we know the sin of the Gentile church through much of history, cutting itself off from its Jewish roots, becoming arrogant and thinking we are the new Israel and we have replaced the old Israel. and it ultimately led to the shedding of much Jewish blood through history, shamefully. That's why it's so thrilling to see for so many decades and and centuries as a small remnant Christians who, because they love the God of Israel and love the Scriptures, love the people of Israel.

It's very special in God's sight. 866-34 Truth will be right back. Around the new time, shake the nation, change the world, change the world. Give us strict to always do what's right. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr.

Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. And the fire of God insilence you. Were led in innocence, you led anon.

It is the Passover season coming this weekend. Morty gets singing about Jesus Yeshua. the Lamb of God. the fulfillment of the ancient Passover rite. eight six six three four truth You've got Jewish-related questions.

We've got Jewish-related answers. May I encourage you during this special holiday season where. Jews around the world will gather for Passover meals called the Seder. where Jews who are not religious will even gather with families to celebrate. pray that eyes would be open.

prayed that the message of the Messiah would go forth, Pray as Jewish followers of Jesus, make him known through the Passover rites that eyes would be open and hearts would be changed. Pray that the church would take hold of its Jewish roots, not for the purpose of Gentiles becoming Jews. but for the purpose of embracing The rightness of the faith for the purpose of having our roots rightly established. For the purpose of rightly understanding the word and the larger mission and calling of God's people. Eight six six six six six six six three four eight seven eight eight four.

I do want to talk about media reporting about Israel. I mentioned it in the first hour. How Uh How CNN reports On the bus bombing in Israel on Monday.

So bomb explodes on one bus, fire catches on a neighboring bus. 21 people injured, some critically. One mother describing how she's looking for her daughter and finds her, and she's burned over her whole body. Then sedated in the hospital. I mean who oh gosh.

15-year-old girl, I think it was just. Just terrific. And how does CNN initially report it? Bus fire. Bus fire This has happened so many times.

Boss fire. you know, a a couple years back. A couple years back when there was a tragic shooting. Ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem called Harnof. And Palestinian terrorists went in as religious Jews, rabbis, were praying.

So this is very, very early in the morning. And stabbed and hacked some to death, and then there was a shootout and A Druze policeman was killed, but the the the pictures from the synagogue and the path of blood and the bloody books and prayer shows, it was absolutely horrific. And I believe family Members wanted people to see not the bodies, but the bloodbath in the synagogue. How did it originally get reported on CNN? It was a mosque.

Not a synagogue. And then you'll read: you know, four Jews, one Palestinian, or two Palestinians killed in conflict. Uh, you know, uh sh something like that. the way it gets reported is so completely misleading.

So This it's been documented from LA Times to BBC. We've posted these things and I've talked about them on the air. That uh Studies were done over periods of time, and say, like the early 2000s, and let's say that Israel. launched missiles against Palestinian terrorists. They would say Israel launches missiles, Israel kills Palestinians.

They would be the aggressive ones, and they would clearly be responsible for their actions, et cetera. Then, turn it around, if it was Palestinians attacking Israelis, it would say, Two Israelis die in bombing. Uh bomb goes off. uh kills two in ambulance. bomb just bomb just went off?

Whose bomb? Who placed it? Why not say it was terrorists? Why not say it?

So, uh remarkably, remarkably. This is the way things are reported.

So BBC reports on the bombing on Monday. They say it was a bombing, their initial reports, but they don't say it was terrorist. Israeli government raised its terrorist attack? It was clear and evident to the Israeli government. Terrorist attack.

No, no. Just a a vomiting. It was a bus fire, a bombing. Mm-hmm.

So there's an article on camera. Today, this is the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. Time Magazine Ignores Facts to Denigrate Israel by Ricky Hollander. Time Magazine has a long and unfortunate history of anti-Israel media bias. dating back many decades.

In May 1977, a Time magazine article introducing Menachem Begin, Israel's newly elected Prime Minister, began by citing all the negatives attributed to him by his critics before infamously noting that his name rhymes with Fagin. The villainous Jew from Oliver Twist. with all the anti-Semitic implications invoked by the comparison. Time magazine, nineteen seventy seven.

So they know since then Time Magazine has periodically published egregiously biased and misinformative articles and negative features about Israel, its leaders, and society. And it goes on with further examples. Wow, look at this. Magnitude of Time magazine's anti-Israel bias was evidenced in the frank anti-Israel imagery. On a September 2010 cover displaying an is a large Mogan David So the Star of David.

Comprised of daisies with the headline, Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace? And a story that once again invoked anti-Semitic stereotypes.

So this month, April, there were two misleading Time magazine features on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including one a photo essay in Hebron. and two an article about a controversial decision by a Haifa High School principal to abolish An annual trip to Holocaust sites in Poland.

So The article, April 5th, 2016, called The Cauldron of Hebron, consists of a gallery of fifteen captioned photos by Beirut-based photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli. Accompanied by a short descriptive essay by Times former Jerusalem Bureau Chief Carl Vick, whose anti-Israel bias has been well documented by Camera. Again, this is camera.org to look for analysis of Middle East reporting. And it was edited by international multimedia editor Andrew Katz. The feature presents a one-sided view that depicts the Palestinians as Hebron's natives, oppressed by Jewish colonialists.

Palestinians are shown as victims of or demonstrators against Israeli persecutors, while Jewish residents of Hebron, who are not photographed, are caricatured as interlopers guarded by an army of soldiers who torment or kill Palestinians. This is a perspective that erases Jewish history and reality. Is a perspective that favors the Palestinian narrative and denies the millennia-long historic Jewish presence in a city. counted as one of Judaism's four holy cities. For example, one photo caption uses only the Arabic term Ibrahimi Mosque To describe the biblical cave of the patriarchs.

One of Judaism's holiest sites talk about putting out a narrative, putting out a narrative completely, completely. In. uh Palestinian terms. Yes, there are issues in Hebron, and That needs to be addressed in terms of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where we can address Israel. But the one-sided presentation, this is just so typical.

and your average person doesn't recognize it. And um Anyway, second article, I won't get into that right now, but check out camera.org for more. We'll be back with your Dirty Jewish. Shit. The next time change the world.

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Michael Brown. Welcome back to our Thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcast for all those just joining me now. This is Michael Brown. Thanks so much for being with us. Passover season this weekend.

You see why this separation between Passover and Easter? Because in the fourth century, under Constantine, the church of that day decided to make a formal break. from following the Jewish calendar. And there was a dispute between the Eastern and Western Church over when to celebrate the Passover, when to or when to celebrate Easter, I should say. And should it be done in conjunction with the Jewish calendar and Jewish calculations?

Or should it be done Uh separately. And Constantine did not want the Jewish connection.

So tragically. Rather than Christians celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus at the same time that Jews are celebrating the Passover. and celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus in the context of the Passover. Instead, it's two separate things as if they're two separate Religions almost two separate gods. That's a shame.

But it came out of anti-Semitism in the early church. 866-34TRUTH. We go to Des Moines, Iowa. Paul, welcome to the line of fire. How you doing, Doc?

I call you a doc because I call you Doc because I was in the Navy and that's what we called all our doctors. That's fine. Hey, I just I understand you're trying to write a book or think about one about how Christianism had come to the United States. I was uh No, it's not that exactly right, but that that's okay. I I am in a book I'm working on now, I am talking about some of the strong early Christian influences on on early American history for sure.

Okay. Yeah. Well, I I was kinda going along with that 'cause I was I was Just recently I was tracing my family heritage back mainly 'cause of my great grandmother. I'd seen a picture of her and got a little details. She was a mixed race.

Of Native American, African, and European, and the European. It was from Aponoose County in Iowa, and that's when it was still a territory at Missouri.

So Um What I'd found out is she uh her Father. was, um Um both a Mennonite or uh Moravian in that kind of concept because the the area was uh Moravian, Iowa.

So they took that church name, that that faith that they had, the Brotherhood Church, and implemented that township.

Well The friendship there gathered all kinds of people, hated slavery. I hate to jump in, but time is short. We got a break coming up.

So if you could jump to the punchline, I know there's a whole story here. The punchline is real quick. I found out that my mother, he was. was Jewish in that whole process. Uh Copeland was the name English Dot com.

Jewish descent. And so So I just wanted to know exactly where there is a divide now? Can I still call myself Jewish? When I contacted the Israeli state, they said, well, if you find your mother and grandmother, yeah, she can't. If you can demonstrate, if you were trying to become an Israeli citizen, Paul, this would be the only reason it would be relevant.

If you were trying to become an Israeli citizen, And you could demonstrate. That your mother was Jewish. Not that she had. you know, a fraction of Jewish blood going back six generations. But if you could demonstrate that she was Jewish.

In the case of my mother, even though she and my father were not religious Jews, they still got married and had what's called a ketubah, which is the Jewish document of the, that's the Jewish marriage.