Paul the false apostle of Revelation 2:4

Please email me if you have any questions or comments to Biblical researcher, Douglas Nicholson email douglasnicholson(at)lasttrumpet.org

ONLY THE DEVIL WOULD TEACH THAT YOUR NOT UNDER GOD'S LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS ANY MORE!

“Paul is to Christianity what Joseph Smith is to Mormonism “

Paul is really Apollonius "Pol" for short who wanted to start up his own new "universal religion" and Paul “Pol” did and its called Christianity. Paul bogus sect and Paul’s disciples were first called Christians at Antioch, Acts 11:26. There were no Christians in Jerusalem before 70 AD a recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus

Matthew 10:5 These twelve Yeshua sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles

Paul is that false apostle that the Lord spoke about in Revelation 2:2 see the proof here and more !

Proving that Paul is the false apostle from Revelation 2:2 is very easy thing to do.

What is hard is for people to do is to accept that fact. It is an emotional shocker to discover this for most.

The rabbinic Jews, a cult, add their bogus book the Takkanah of the rabbis (rabbinic laws), Mishna, oral traditions and more.

All Christian sects, a cult, have their bogus book, the writings and teachings of Paul. (Meet on Sunday's, celebrate for Christmas) Paul is the noted Greek philosopher "Apollonius" who shows up after the Lord's ministry only as an attack from the devil upon the Lord's ministry. Lord Yeshua who always taught for everyone "to always be Torah observant." Lord Yeshua and Torah (the Word of God) are one in the same. Torah was given directly by God to Moses.

John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (Lord Yeshua is saying that Torah and Him are one in the same. The Way, the Truth and the life are all Hebraic metaphors for Torah or for being Torah observant.)

More proof Torah "God's law' has not been done away with. When the Lord returns, this on a specific Yom Kippur we read "He wore clothing dipped in blood" so we know that this a Yom Kippur event and His name is "The Word of God" which is Torah" the instructions from God for everyone to live by. Revelation 19:13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Torah)

Only the devil would try to get you away from being Torah observant anymore, to live a life as a Torah-less pagan sinner. All Christianity practices for pagan sun god imagery worship it did not begin with Constantine it began with Paul. Paul's real name is Apollonius "Pol" for short. Apollonius means follower of Apollo, the pagan sun god. Paul is the chief spokes person (anti-messiah) for the new religion that Paul alone invented. Paul's bogus sect and bogus disciple's were first called Christians at Antioch Acts 11:26. No Christians in Jerusalem before 70 AD as recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Lord Yeshua is of the Essene sect, a highly devout Torah observant sect of non rabbinic practices. From the Hebrew word Ossim meaning "doers of Torah." They are also called "sons of light" John 12:36 "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Yeshua spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them (Light is a Hebraic metaphor for Torah)

Lord Yeshua warns about those who are not Torah observant, those who practice (live a life) for lawlessness "a Torah-less life style"

Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (Are Christians Torah observant? No! They are the foolish virgins of Matthew 25) All Christians will get "left behind" not one Christian will ever be raptured. The Christian pre wrath rapture notion (precept) is a complete lie. (Prepare for the worst now! The "times of Jacob's trouble" WWIII, are soon upon us.) Review our ministry studies and our Blog updates to learn more.

Matthew 13:41 "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,(practice lawlessness only means not living a life of being Torah observant, the rejecting being Torah observant which is the unpardonable sin that the Lord spoke about in Matthew 12:31 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy (rejection) against the Spirit (Spirit of Truth which is a Hebraic metaphor for Torah) will not be forgiven men. (The rejection of being Torah observant is the unpardonable sin, this taught by Lord Yeshua here in Matthew 12:31) Who do you put your trust into? Paul and pro Paul pastors or do you trust in the Lord? This is also a test from God from Deuteronomy 13:3. The testing from God is very common. Who do you love "obey", Paul or the Lord?

Are pagan people Torah observant? No! Are Christians Torah observant? No! Is Satan Torah observant? No! John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth (Torah), because there is no truth (Torah) in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. (Truth is a classic Hebraic metaphor for Torah, its the only TRUTH in the universe, because it is the God breathed instructions given to Moses for everyone to live by) Exodus 12:49 "One law (Torah) shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you."

Matthew 23:28 "Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Without Torah observance)

Matthew 24:12 "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.(Lawlessness only means not being Torah observant)

The Lord's brother James hated Paul and warned about Paul. Letters found with the Dead Sea Scrolls written by James called Paul "a spouter of lies" see the books by Dr. Robert H. Eisenman. The epistle of James was written in part for the trial of Paul at the church of Ephesus (Revelation 2:2) where Paul is that false apostle the Lord spoke about and was tried, found a heretic and expelled. Paul mentions this fact in 2Timothy 1:15 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me,"

The Lord wants you and everyone to be Torah observant of Lord Yeshua. (Don't add don't subtract, Deuteronomy 4:2)

You can read the testing "qualifications" for any prophet or for a cult, this from Deuteronomy 13:1-10, if its not Torah observant of Lord Yeshua, it is a cult or of a false prophet.

Douglas Nicholson / Last Trumpet Org Ministries / Newport Beach, CA / 949-705-6907

Please email me if you have any questions or comments to Douglas Nicholson email douglasnicholson(at)lasttrumpet.org

Also you dont want to be "judged" for belonging to a pro Paul fellowship, be it any Christian sect, Messianic Jewish Congregation etc. Go and keep all the Sabbaths of the Lord of Leviticus 23 on your own at home if you have to or just meet with like minded people "who are against Paul" at home fellowships. You dont want to be judged for being belonging to pro Paul fellowships. Paul is a proven false prophet and is a test from God, see Deuteronomy 13:3.

Not sure what to do? All things by prayer, go ask Lord Yeshua what you should do, He is our Great and Only teacher.

Matthews 23:8"But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren.
Matthews 23:9"Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
Matthews 23:10 "And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.
Matthews 23:11"But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Deuteronomy 5:29 'Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments (All God's laws), that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

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Just to encourage you, my wife couldn't accept another pastors comments warning about Paul. She was "converted" in one day from your material. Good job

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From: Carina of Charlotte, NC
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Subject: hello, your article about Paul as a false prophet was awesome!

Hello Douglas,

I happened to find your website when my husband told me Paul is a false prophet and was never considered an apostle. I already heard about this a while back, but I had to brush up on scripture pertaining to it. Your are doing a great work. Please keep it up.
Carina

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Subject: Have a question or comment regarding the false apostle Paul study

My mother rest her soul, tried for years to prove to others that Paul was not what he professed to be. She was scoffed at by almost everyone that she avowed to. I know that she went to her grave with the truth in her heart and she never wavered. If she were alive to today she would be ecstatic to know that so many others are seeing the truth.

Help this page to go viral. Tell your family and friends everywhere, there is still some time to save them. If you’re pro Paul you’re not saved. The Lord returns on Yom Kippur 2015 beyond any doubt, of the Fall Feast of the Lord, "Day of the Lord" also WWIII will happen before this event, the US is forcing China into WWIII so tough times are just ahead, the "times of Jacobs troubles" this to bring Israel to repentance. Also America is being set up for a takedown; America is really being judged for being gay tolerant and other evil practices. See our other studies for more insights. I, this ministry and this page need your prayers too!

From the time of the recapture of Jerusalem on June 7th 1967 till Messiah comes will be the 7 weeks of years, or 49 years are equal to 17640 days needed to fulfill this prophecy! Daniel 9: 25

Proving that Paul is the false apostle from Revelation 2:2 is very easy thing to do. Also proving Paul is a false prophet is very easy to do.

What is hard is for people to do is to accept this fact. It is an emotional shocker to discover this for most.

It is like finding out that your spouse has been cheating on you, lying to you all along and doing so with a big smile on their face!

Also when you find out that Paul is the false apostle of Revelation 2:2 all sects of the Christian religion everywhere is destroyed because it is solely invented by the false apostle Paul.

Paul's bogus sect that Paul alone invented "the Nazarenes" Acts24:5 and Paul's disciples of Paul's bogus sect were first called Christians at Antioch! Acts 11;26

Act 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples (only of Paul) were first called Christians in Antioch.

None of the seven churches (of pagan sun god worship practices) that Paul started are ever mentioned in the book of Revelation. Why? They are Torah-less! Part of the proof for not being Torah observant, not under the law, is that they meet on Sunday each week, they celebrate December 25th as their god's birthday which is really the rebirth of the pagan sun god day and Christians practice for many things of pagan sun imagery worship. All Christianity practices and teaches for lies, the lies of the false apostle Paul. Does your pastor or leadership teach for the false apostle Paul? Then he or she is a liar too.

Sense all Christians are without Torah observance, they are with out our Lord Yeshua who taught as a primary ministry doctrine to always be Torah observant.

The way, the truth and the life are all Hebraic metaphors for Torah or for Torah observance

John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (Meaning Torah and our Lord Yeshua are one in the same)

Can you come to the Father, who is in heaven, without being Torah observant? NEVER! Lord Yeshua Word that He speaks about is God's Torah! (The instructions from God for everyone to live by)

When you deny Torah, i.e. claiming your not under the law anymore, you also denying Lord Yeshua (Which is what Satan does) and when you deny the Deity of Lord Yeshua, Him and His Word, that is the definition of a cult.

Matthew 12:31 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit ("Spirit" here is used as a Hebraic metaphor for Spirit of TRUTH, which is the God breathed Truth called Torah) will not be forgiven men. (Meaning the rejection of being Torah observant is the unpardonable sin that Lord Yeshua is teaching about in this passage) Christians falsely take the Bible for literal on many of the Hebraic idioms and Hebraic metaphors found in the Bible

James the Lord's brother in letters found with the Dead Sea Scrolls called the false apostle Paul "the spouter of lies" meaning Paul teaches away from the TRUTH, which is the law, which is God's Torah. Are you Torah observant?

All sects of Christianity is a Torah-less religion, not of God. It is solely the invention of the false apostle Paul. It is a full blown cult and is easily proven as such.

Also why would the Lord allow such a thing to happen to so many people? The bottom line is this, the Lord is simply "testing" you and everyone on Torah knowledge and practice for it, this from Deuteronomy 13:3

Deuteronomy 13:3"you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul (to love God with all your soul and heart simply means "to always keep all the laws and commandments of God")

All of Christianity is solely based on the bogus notions and teachings from the false apostle Paul who claimed a bogus ministry to the gentiles. (The pagan sun god worshippers)

Torah observance has never gone away "being under God's laws and commandments". Only the devil would teach that you’re not under the law any more.

There are only 12 apostles of Yeshua, read Revelation 21:14, the Lord does mention a false apostle, who is Paul in Revelation 2:2

Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (There is no 13th or 14th apostle)

Paul is the proven false apostle of Revelation 2:2. Find out here who Paul really is! You must fully reject Paul because God is" testing" everyone regarding Paul,

Paul the false apostle; the one the Lord Yeshua spoke about in Revelation 2:2

It is Paul, who is a Pharisee who the Lord called all Pharisees a brood of vipers (Satan worshipers), Paul's bogus sect the "Nazarenes" that Paul solely invented that became what is all of Christianity today. Paul's bogus disciples were first called Christians at Antioch, Acts 11:26. It is a Torah-less religion not of God, it meets on Sunday, Christians do not observe the Feasts of the Lord of Leviticus 23 and they celebrates December 25th as the birth date of their god. December 25th is when pagan celebrate the rebirth day of their pagan sun god and goes back to Semiramis, Tammuz and Nimrod. See the weeping for Tammuz, Ezekiel 8:14-18 God calls all forms of sun god worship an abomination. Christianity practices for sun god worship and this is why you see all the sun god halo and golden disks in Christian art. The original nativity scene is of Semiramis and baby Tammuz, the re-birth of Nimrod the sun god and why you see so much sun god imagery worship practices in the Christian church. The Lord Yeshua was born on Sukkoth, of the Fall Feast of the Lord where God tabernacles with man and this is easily proven from Scripture, Surf the net for "when was Yeshua born."

Acts 24:5 "For we have found this man (Paul) a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Paul claimed to be a Pharisee, Phil 3:5 and never stopped professing this. Yeshua "Jesus" called all Pharisee's including Paul the Pharisee, a brood of vipers, Satan worshippers, not of God. (Matthew 23:33 "Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?) This because of the Pharisaic replacement theology of the placing of rabbinic laws equal or above God's Torah, (God’s laws). Listen to the short study on the bogus concept of the Takkanah of the rabbi's explains what rabbinic Judaism is about.

Rabbis laws are sometimes called "Oral Traditions,” Mishnah, Talmud or Takkanah of the rabbis) Yeshua speaking to all rabbinic Jews in (Mark 7:13 "making the word of God (Torah) of no effect through your "Oral traditions" (rabbinic laws) which you have handed down. And many such things you do.") Paul may have been a scholar of rabbinic Judaism, but all of rabbinic Judaism is not of God, it is strictly of man, manmade laws and decrees. It's a full blown cult! The Lord Himself called all Pharisees "rabbinic Jews" “a brood of vipers," Satan worshippers. Also the Lord Yeshua was only killed with a bogus rabbinic law, nothing from God's Torah.

Yeshua is of the Essene sect of Israel from the Hebrew word Ossim, meaning "doers of Torah" The Essene are also are called the "sons of light" The Essene are a highly devout Torah observant sect of Israel. The Essene are the ones who gave us the Dead Sea Scrolls. Flavius Josephus also records the Essene and the other sects of Judaism during the time of Yeshua. There were no Christians in Jerusalem before 70 AD. All Christianity is of the false apostle Paul's bogus sect the Nazarenes that teaches people away from being Torah observant any more.

John 12:36 "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Yeshua spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

You can read a very distinct Essene sect of Israel concept and precept in Yeshua words from Luke 20:34-38 this concerning the resurrection. This teaching easily proves that Yeshua is of the Essene sect of Israel. There were no Christians in Jerusalem before 70 AD as recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. The term Christian first originated in Antioch regarding only Paul's bogus sect the Nazarenes, that Paul solely invented, it is not of Yeshua. Paul is of the devil. What did Paul encounter on the way to Damascus? Only a bright light, who is Lucifer, who lied and pretended to be something that he is not. Also that bright light that Paul encountered never said that Paul would be an apostle. Yeshua taught to His disciples before His hasty departure back to heaven, you will not see me again till later because He going to heaven, to the Father. John 16:16 Paul’s bogus ministry born of the Damascus road bright light encounter of Lucifer is a post show attack upon the true ministry of Lord Yeshua and His true apostles. And used the sun god pagans of this world to promote it everywhere, falsely teaching people they are not under God laws and commandments anymore and is still practices for sun god imagery worship.

I also answer questions about the false apostle Paul on my YT feedback comment page (This is very insightful for all the questions that I get asked over and over again)

Interesting Paul also fits the bill for the Benjamite wolf prophecy from Genesis 49:27 Paul claimed to be of the tribe of Benjamin, Philippians 3:5

In the book Jesus Words Only, chapter 14 presents the case that Paul fulfilled the Ravening Benjamite Wolf Prophecy as found at Genesis 49:27. See this chapter at JesusWordsOnly

Please ask me any questions you have that want to present in your case about Paul. I am glad to answer all questions and hear out peoples arguments about Paul. I get these kind of emails from people all the time. I am just trying to help set people free of the bogus notions about Paul. Send me an email to Douglas Nicholson email

For a simply cut to the chase test to see if Paul is legitimate, simply use God's test from Deuteronomy 13:3 that we are commanded to use from God.

Deuteronomy 13:3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ( To love God with all your heart and with all your soul means are you Torah observant as the first thing in your life? Are you keeping all the laws and commandments of God as your FIRST LOVE, in your life?) Torah is also called the "instructions of God" for everyone to live by.

Lord Yeshua passes this test from God. His primary ministry doctrine is for everyone to always keep all the laws and commandments of God, Matthew 5:19-20

Paul fails this testing of a true prophet of God and teaches people away from the need for being Torah observant anymore.

Are Christians Torah observant? No! Why not? All Christians only cite the false apostle Paul as the reason why they are not Torah observant?

Here is a scary thing, some people are very emotional and very bent for Paul's bogus teachings. Why then will some not let go of Paul? The Lord said things will turn to concrete in the last days in what you believe in, so you will be locked into and JUDGED for both for good beliefs or for evil notions, so bust away from Paul fast, why still can or spend eternity in hell if you don't repent. Don't be wise in your own eyes, seriously do your own homework regarding the false apostle Paul. (A big hint, its easier to let go of Paul if your Torah observant, when you have the TRUTH, Torah, as an OS of the mind, nothing is above Torah, not the lies of the devil or of anyone) Christians do not practice for being Torah observant.

Revelation 22:11 "He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still."

Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth (Torah); For You have magnified Your word (Torah) above all Your name. (YAHWEH)

So can read that nothing is above God's Torah, not any of the devils lies. What did the Lord use during His time of testing in the wilderness, He used Torah to rebuke the devil and you can too if you practice for being "Torah observant," Lord Yeshua is always our example to live by. Go learn how to be Torah observant NOW. The world is sinking fast, get into the life boat called "Torah observant" Torah observance is call LIFE, Torah is also the Way and the Truth, these are Hebraic metaphors for Torah.( John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.) Meaning no one gets to heaven unless your Torah observant of Lord Yeshua, you have to keep all God's laws and commandments, its an easy thing to do as the apostle John teaches. 1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments (all laws). And His commandments are not burdensome.

It’s a shocker to many who find this out. Why would God allow this to happen? Bottom line, God is testing you! "for the LORD your God is testing you" Deuteronomy 13:3. So do your homework, you’re being tested on this regardless, and this will affect your destiny. Paul is a bad guy that you have to fully reject. All of Christianity is of Paul's invented sect the Nazarenes, Acts 24:5 there were no Christians in Jerusalem before 70AD as this is recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. They were first called Christians at Antioch. Yeshua is of the Essene sect of Israel; from the Hebrew word Ossim, which means "doers of Torah." The Essene and the rabbinic Jews, the Pharisees hated each other’s sect. The Essene separated themselves from the Temple because the Essene thought it was corrupt in its practices for rabbinic Judaism. The Essene is Torah observant sect of non rabbinic practices from which Lord Yeshua is from. The Essene are, also called the "sons of light" Light is a Hebraic metaphor for Torah, to see the proper path that God wants everyone to be on. (John 12:36 "While you have the light, (Lord Yeshua, who gave Torah to Moses) believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Yeshua spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.)

Did Yeshua, the son of God come to start up a new Torah-less, religion called Christianity? Would God who personally gave Torah to Moses and sent His only begotten son, Yeshua, to teach people away from being Torah observant, the laws and commandments of God anymore? Only Satan and his minions would do that, the pastor snakes out there teach for Paul bogus "faith only" doctrine and falsely teach people that are no longer under God's laws anymore. Yeshua primary ministry doctrine is for everyone to always keep all the laws and commandments of God. Matthew 5:19-20. Are you giving your time and money to a pro Paul pastors, who has a big infectious smile, with lots of charisma, sincere charm and knowledge for spin? Who in reality is sending people to hell? Get out of all Sunday school teaching places and into Torah observant teaching places of Lord Yeshua, NOW. Time is running out quickly. The world is soon being judged with war and famine and more for not being Torah observant of Yeshua, these are God's Torah judgments, read about them from the Torah, Deuteronomy 28:15-69 and Leviticus 26:15-46. There is just one Torah for everyone! Exodus 12:49 One Torah shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourned among you

Yeshua taught to always be "Torah observant" and keep the faith of Yeshua, Revelation 14:12 which means you must be a Saint grade person, a Torah observant person of the Lord. Only Saint grade persons rose from the dead with Yeshua. (Matthew 27:52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised ;) The law has never been done away with on the devil would teach for that. Is someone is trying to rip you off as a snake oil salesman, a flim-flam man? It was the serpent in the garden, Genesis 3:4, that taught to put doubt in Eve's mind about keeping the commandment of God any more. Nothing has changed. You must keep all the laws and commandments of God, to be a Torah observant person of Yeshua. To always keep all the laws and commandments of God is a major theme throughout the Bible. Only the devil would teach that you’re not under the law any more.

There are no saved Christians of any flavor, sect or denomination, not one! Christians are a Torah-less religion, not of God, they meet on Sunday, not the commanded weekly Sabbath, they do not observe the Feasts of the Lord of Leviticus 23, so they don’t obey Yeshua’s Word which is Torah. Christians practice for sun god imagery worships practices, they meet on Sundays, celebrate December 25^th as the birth day of their god, which is the rebirth day of the sun god called Apollo in the Greek. In Revelation 9:11 Apollyon "Apollo" means "destroyer" and this is another name for Satan who destroys lives by deceiving people into not obeying God this by keeping all of God’s laws and commandments called Torah. Ever left anything in the sun? The sun will destroy it, the paint on car or home, your skin and more. The Lord refers to (where Satan's throne is) in Revelation 2:13, this is located at Pergamos. There use to be a huge temple and a giant sized statue of Zeus, the sun god, sitting there on Satan's throne. The remains of an alter and stadium to Zeus can still be seen today. Pergamos is also where the Olympics began, they hosted the Olympics in honor of their king of gods, Zeus. So countries would send their best athletes there to compete in front of Zeus, the sun god. Modern sun god worship began with Semiramis and baby Tammuz as the supposed reincarnated Nimrod, which is the original nativity scene. Nimrod and Semiramis and baby Tammuz are black. Some solid research has proven that the name "Jesus" is really the masking of the name Tammuz. Yeshua's real name is Joshua or Yĕhowshuwa` Why not use His real name Joshua when doing the various translations of the Bible? It is telling and speaks of a crafty, deceitful agenda. Also why did the Christian translators use the pagan sun god term Easter, Ishtar when the term that best describes the spring feast of the Lord is Passover or is that too Jewish? Are the Pauline Christian translators trying to teach people away from keeping the law? Satan is Torah-less and wants all of his followers to be Torah-less too. Are Christians Torah observant? NO! Who taught Eve to rebel against keeping the command of God? The serpent. It’s been that same battle from the beginning, to always keep all the laws and commandments of God and is a major theme throughout the Bible, see for yourself. Have you been deceived?

Paul’s real name at his birth is Apollonius, Pol for short, which means follower of Apollo, the Greek sun god. Apollonius of Tyana "Pol" was a top noted Greek neo-Pythagorean philosopher who wanted to use Greek philosophy to solve the world’s problems and this explains why not a single word that Paul wrote in any of Paul’s epistles gives the actual teaching of Yeshua, nor does Paul even mention even one of Yeshua’s parables; instead Paul spreads his own philosophy and his own ideas. Paul never knew Yeshua. Paul is that false apostle that the Lord spoke about in Revelation 2:2. There is only twelve apostles (Revelation 21:14 on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.) Also Lord Yeshua was born on Sukkoth, of the fall feasts of the Lord where God tabernacles with man and this is easily proven in Scripture using the Hebraic perspectives. Surf the net for “when was Yeshua born.”

All modern sun god worship goes back to Semiramis and Tammuz and Nimrod, which is the original nativity scene and sun god worshiping which is of Satan "a replacement theology" and really goes back to the Nephilim with the various types of pyramids and other structures found globally, if you do your homework. All Christians are the foolish virgins of Matthew 25, all Christians are not saved, not one. Christians are self righteous, meaning they don’t practice for obeying God’s Torah, they are not Torah observant, this because of Paul's bogus teachings, so they obtain their righteousness from their own notions, it is not of God. All Christianity is a cult solely invented by the false apostle Paul of Revelation 2:2 . There only 12 apostles, Revelation 21:14. Review my study here on the false apostle Paul to learn more. We are commanded to fully reject Paul and all false prophets, all paganism and this is a test of God for everyone, from Deuteronomy 13:3

There is still some time to repent. Once you find out Paul is bogus as is all Christianity by doing your own homework, all you can then do is to "cut bait" to get away from all of Christianity fast and then to go and practice for being Torah observant of Lord Yeshua! It is easy to do, just takes some practice to get up to speed on being Torah observant. It’s not difficult at all. Don't believe the lies, the rabbinic Jews make their followers jump through all sorts of hoops and Yeshua warned about the doctrines of the Pharisees, the takkanah of the rabbis, also called "oral traditions" and how bogus their rabbinic laws are. (Matthew 23:4 "For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers) This is what the apostle John taught about being Torah observant. (1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments (all God's laws). And His commandments are not burdensome) It’s not tough at all; it just takes some practice for it. See my studies on what to do for being a Torah observant follower "disciple" of Lord Yeshua. EASY! (Matthew 11:30 "For My yoke (yoke to Torah observance and to the Lord) is easy and My burden is light.") Unlike rabbinic Judaism, a cult of men, who the Lord said lay heavy burdens (bogus rabbinic laws) on the people. FYI: some red flags to help spot rabbinic Judaism, the spelling of God and Lord with a dash, i.e. G-d and L-rd, the wearing of white only Tzitzits with no blue thread, the wearing of Yarmulkes and the practicing for Chanukah which is not found in Leviticus 23 it is of rabbinic Judaism, don't practice for rabbinic Judaism, it’s not being Jewish, its being a rabbinic when you do those things. The rabbinic Jews have lots of other bogus rabbinic laws. Lord Yeshua is of the Essene sect, a highly devout Torah observant sect of Israel, from the Hebrew word Ossim meaning "doers of Torah." The Pharisees "rabbinic Jews" and the Essene hated each other’s sect. (Matthew 15:13-14 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.”Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.") That is the pit of hell, the Lord is also speaking of about all the Christian sects too. Here the Lord Yeshua speaking about the rabbinic Jews (Matthew 23:33 "Serpents, brood of vipers! (Satan worshippers) How can you escape the condemnation of hell?) Everyone needs to be Torah observant of Yeshua, (Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness (Torah observance) exceeds the righteousness (of "oral traditions" the takkanah of the rabbis) of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.) Meaning, you must be Torah observant if you want to go do heaven, well do you?

Please email me if you have any questions or comments to Douglas Nicholson email or want to know how to be Torah observant.

I am getting lots of emails from people from all over the US on "how to go about" being Torah observant. Again, a very easy thing to do, see my studies found within the directory page on what to do. Also click on this link seeking fellowship at a Messianic Jewish Congregation? Things to think about. God will only remember His children by those who keep His Sabbaths. (Leviticus 23, Exodus 31:13, Isaiah 56:3-6 and Isaiah 66:22-23)

Blessings, Douglas Nicholson / Torah observant of Lord Yeshua of non rabbinic practices /

Please see our notes below on Paul the Pharisee. Lord Yeshua called all Pharisees, including Paul, a brood of vipers, Satan worshippers.

Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

The book of James was written for the trial of Paul at the church of Ephesus. The trail that Yeshua spoke about in Revelation 2:2 where Paul was found to be a heretic and was expelled.

Paul in 2Timothy 1:15 affirms his excommunication from the church of Ephesus "Asia". " 2Timothy 1:15 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me,"

Not a single word Paul wrote in any of Paul’s epistles gives the actual teaching of Yeshua, nor does Paul mention even one of Yeshua’s parables; instead Paul spreads his own philosophy and Paul own ideas. Paul never knew Yeshua! Paul is really a top noted Greek Neo-Pythagorean philosopher during that time. We have lots of proof for this, read further on and also see our comparison chart below of Paul and Apollonius.

Paul also fails the testing of a true prophet of God found in Deuteronomy 13:1-10. Paul teaches people away from the need for "keeping God laws" any more.

Yeshua "Yeshua" passes the testing of a true prophet of God found in Deuteronomy 13:1-10. Yeshua primary ministry doctrine is for everyone to always keep the commandments of God. This is also a major theme throughout the Bible for everyone to always keep the commandments of God. Click here to see it

In Acts 26:16 the bright light "Lucifer" encountered by Paul said Paul would only be "a minister and a witness" to serve for the bright light. Lucifer is the one who teaches people away from keeping the commandments of God, just like the serpent did to Eve in the garden, Genesis 3:1-4. Nowhere does it say in the Bible that Paul would be called to be an apostle. That is a title Paul gave to himself. There are only 12 apostles, see Revelation 21:14

Ask yourself, did Lord Yeshua come to start up a new religion? No Yeshua is and always will be King of the Jews. You can become a Torah observant person of Lord Yeshua. That is what Yeshua meant by being "born again." See our other studies as well. See our study on How to be Saved also see our study on rapture vs. resurrection.

Would the Holy Spirit of Yeshua "Yeshua" ever teach people away from the need for keeping any of the commandments of God anymore? No! Paul's spirit is the spirit of anti-Christ for Paul's replacement religion called Christianity. Christianity falsely teaches people no longer any need to keep the commandments of God any more, teaching to put doubt in people’s minds about keeping the law, just like the serpent did to Eve in the garden. Genesis 3:1-4

There are many other conflicting teachings from Paul. We are here to expose the false apostle Paul of Revelation 2:2. Paul is the Christ figure of Paul's new religion called Christianity. Christians meet on Sunday, Christians are not Torah observant, they celebrate Christmas, the rebirth of the pagan sun god day and this goes back to Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz and that nativity scene you see each year. God calls sun god worship an abomination Ezekiel 8:14-18 Christians celebrate Easter, which is Ishtar which is Semiramis which goes back to sun god worship. The Lord's Passover is celebrated when God commanded it to be celebrated and not on any other day, Leviticus 23:5. The queen of heaven spoken about in Jeremiah 7:18 and elsewhere in Jeremiah is "Semiramis." God forbids sun god worship, Deuteronomy 17:3 "who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

Simply as a test, God is testing everyone on Paul. Will you hearken to the words of the false prophet Paul and stop obeying God's laws or will you obey God and keep God laws? See Deuteronomy 13:3-4 regarding God's big test. Hebraic testing is very common. (I wrote a response to this very question)

Deuteronomy 13:3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13:4 "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Remember the Jews rejected Paul’s false teachings, Acts 21:21 "but they have been informed about you (PAUL) that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses (THE LAW), saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

Acts 21:28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man (Paul) who teaches all men everywhere against the people (the Jews), the law (Torah), and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

Yeshua primary ministry doctrine is for everyone to always keep all the commandments of God. Matthew 5:19 "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

If you fail this test of God from Deuteronomy 13:3 you will follow Paul into hell. It is just that simply.

Deuteronomy 13:3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13:4 "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Please watch the short video above to learn more about Paul. I also share lots of great notes and observations below! Be sure to get the book Yeshua Words Only, by Bible scholar Del Tondo and top attorney. It is free to read online. Del Tondo has a web site by the same name YeshuaWordsOnly and enjoys answering questions. I enjoy answering questions too! Please email to Douglas Nicholson

Who is Paul? Paul is really a top Greek neo-Pythagorean philosopher from Tarsus who had studied several belief systems and wanted to start his own new religion based on Greek philosophy to solve the world’s problems. Paul is really Apollonius of Tyana.

Paul is also the fulfillment of the prophesized Benjamin wolf prophecy from Genesis 49:27. Yeshua also warned about Paul and Paul "false gospel" message. Paul claimed to be of the tribe of Benjamin and a Pharisee. Yeshua taught that the Pharisee's would not inherit the kingdom of God because of placing their "oral tradition" practices being placed equal or before Torah observance. All Christians are followers of Paul and practice Pauline oral traditions, also the extra Biblical practice of Christmas, Easter and Sunday worship. Yeshua speaking from Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness (true Torah observance) exceeds the righteousness (oral traditions teachings) of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (The Pharisee back then are today's Orthodox Jews. Please go and ask any Orthodox Jew about why they wear "white only Tzitzits?" It is only because of their "oral tradition practices. Tzitzits are commanded by God to have a blue thread in them Numbers 15:38-41) so they are putting their oral tradition practices BEFORE Torah. There are lots of sects of Judaism, not just one. The white only Tzitzits is proof the Orthodox Jews are denying Yeshua "Yeshua" first coming and also denying the keeping of the commandments of God with their oral tradition practices, OUCH! All Christians are guilty of "oral tradition practices" as well and will not inherit the kingdom of God. These are the foolish virgins of Matthew 25 that Yeshua warned about.

Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness (true Torah observance) exceeds the righteousness (oral traditions teachings) of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:

Genesis 49:27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil."

Though I was raised in a Christian home, I do know many of the false Christian dogma and precepts that Christians hold to. I teach for everyone to fully reject Paul as a false prophet and is the one Yeshua spoke about in Revelation 2:2. “how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:"

I work as full time Biblical researcher and have been studying and debunking Paul who is that false apostle of Revelation 2:2, this for a long long time now.

The reason why so many people cannot spot Paul as a false prophet is because they are not Torah observant. Torah is also called "Truth" or "the Truth" as a metaphor. Until a person gets "Truth" inside them from truly being Torah observant, keeping all the Sabbaths of the Lord of Leviticus 23 and keeping all the commandments of God it will be very difficult to spot Paul as a false prophet. Its a super natural thing. Being Torah observant will change you forever! 1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome

1John 2:4 He who says, "I know Him," (Yeshua) and does not keep His commandments (God's laws), is a liar, and the truth (Torah) is not in him

What do you do once you spot or find a false apostle like Paul, the Lord commended the church of Ephesus, of Revelation 2:2 for having a trail (researching the matter) then found Paul a heretic and then expelled Paul. Just do the same! We are commanded to reject all false prophets, (Deuteronomy 13:1-10) if your pastor is echoing the teachings of Paul that makes him a false prophet too. You might have to find a fellowship that does not teach for the false apostle Paul. If that is not possible for your area, then you might as well stay at home or go find like minded people to have fellowship with. You don't want to be judged for being in a pro Paul fellowship. Get out now! You must be Torah observant, (see Matthew 5:19-20) if you want to go to heaven.

Those who are not Torah observant will always believe lies (the pagans i.e. gentiles). Torah is called TRUTH, it is God breathed and nothing is above God's Torah

Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name (YAHWEH) For Your lovingkindness and Your truth (TORAH); For You have magnified Your word (TORAH) above all Your name. (Lies can not even be above God's Torah) That is why Torah is called TRUTH as a metaphor also called, the Way the Truth and the Life (tree of life).

John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil (You who are Torah-less), and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth (Torah), because there is no truth (Torah observance) in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Does your leadership teach to be Torah observant? Why not? Yeshua taught to always be Torah observant as a primary ministry doctrine Matthew 5:19-20.

Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness (Torah observance) exceeds the righteousness (of oral traditions, of rabbinic practices) of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Yeshua is teaching “be Torah observant” if you want to go to heaven. Then you must never practice Torah plus for the things of rabbinic Judaism, called the Takkanah of the rabbis, the “oral traditions” the laws and decrees of the rabbis which the rabbis have placed above God’s Torah, that is not possible, see Deuteronomy 4:2. All rabbinic Judaism is a cult of men. (Matthew 23:33 "Serpents, brood of vipers! (Satan worshippers) How can you escape the condemnation of hell?) Paul never stopped professing to be a Pharisee and even bragged about Phil 3:5. Paul never understood God’s Torah, so Paul is not of Yeshua. Yeshua is of the Essene sect of Judaism, a highly devout "Torah" sect of Judaism, from the Hebrew word "Ossim" meaning "doers of Torah" The Shema essentially means the same thing "to hear and obey" be a doer of God's Torah. There were no Christians in Jerusalem before 70 AD as recorded by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. The term Christians was first coined by Paul's bogus sect “the Nazarenes” at Antioch Acts 11:26. Lord Yeshua did not come to start up a new Torah-less religion, would God’s only begotten son do such a thing? Never! All Christianity is a Torah-less religion, not of God and practices for sun god imagery worship practices, Christmas (rebirth of the sun god day), Easter (Ishtar) and meets on Sunday with it origins of Semiramis, baby Tammuz and Nimrod. Satan is also called the sun god, Apollyon in the Greek, the destroyer; he too is Torah-less. (Rev 9:11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.(Apollo)) Paul is the founder and the anti-Christ figure of Paul’s new Torah-less religion, not of God, called Christianity. Paul real name is Apollonius, Pol for short. Apollonius means follower of Apollo. James the Lord's brother called Paul, the "spouter of lies", this with letters found with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Please Email me if you have any questions or comments to Biblical researcher Douglas Nicholson.

Paul is a Pharisee (A Jewish sect of Oral Traditions practices, the Takkanah of the Rabbis) Takkanah of the rabbis is made laws of man added to God's Torah. This is not possible! Deuteronomy 4:2

None of the apostles of Yeshua are of the Pharisee sect of Judaism. Yeshua apostles are of a devout Torah sect of Judaism and warned many times of the bad doctrine of the Pharisees

Paul professed being a Pharisee several times. Acts 23:6, Acts 26:5 & Philippians 3:5

Philippians 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Yeshua taught that none of the Pharisees, including Paul, would inherit the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness (true Torah observance) exceeds the righteousness (of Oral Tradition teachers) of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

John the Baptist, the cousin of Yeshua said this of the Pharisees (rabbinic Judaism) Takkanah of the rabbis, today's Orthodox Jews. Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers!" Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Search the word "Pharisees" in a Bible utility program and see how often Yeshua speaks against the bad doctrine of the Pharisees, which is the Takkanah of the rabbis.

Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

It was the Takkanah of the rabbis, (made up laws of the Pharisees) that had put Yeshua to death (Laws not found in the commandments of God)

Mishna Sanhedrin VII, 5 . the judges arise and rend their garments and never again sew up the torn parts’

Now here is the passage proving which rabbinic law of the Pharisees was used to kill Yeshua

Mark 14:60 And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Yeshua, saying, "Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?"
Mark 14:61 But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
Mark 14:62 Yeshua said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."
Mark 14:63 Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "What further need do we have of witnesses?
Mark 14:64 "You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
Mark 14:65 Then some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to say to Him, "Prophesy!" And the officers struck Him with the palms of their hands.

The accusation stemmed from a Sanhedrin law; Mishna Sanhedrin VII, 5. It reads: ‘The blasphemer only incurs guilt if he utters the secret name of God..when this sentence is pronounced.. the judges arise and rend their garments and never again sew up the torn parts’. See our study on rabbinic law solely used to kill the true and only Messiah of Israel, Lord Yeshua. This can be read in Mark 14:60-65

In order for them to accuse the Messiah, He had to proclaim to be YHWH (their God of Israel) and to speak the name (their rendition of misuse or blasphemy).

Mr. Del Tondo is a practicing attorney here who wrote a great and exhaustive book about Paul's teachings which are very contraire to the teachings of Yeshua and proving beyond doubt that Paul is a false apostle and the same one that Yeshua spoke about in Revelation 2:2

The book "Jesus Words Only" in English, Spanish and Italian. All chapters online in PDF or html

I have met with Mr. Del Tondo several times to have lunch and to discuss Paul and things of theology. He lives near by my location in South Orange County. He is an absolute genius! He also speaks Spanish and Italian

I have worked with pastors who held five PhD's behind their name and Mr. Del Tondo posses more Biblical insights and understanding then any pastor that I know of. Mr. Del Tondo is a very humble man too. He is willing to share with any who will listen. Be sure to get his book and be sure to visit his web site with lots of recent updates.

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So many people miss out on understanding this concept! Christians miss out because they are taught there is no longer any need to be Torah observant. Sense Christians are not Torah observant or study Torah at the commanded Saturday Sabbath they miss out on the understanding this concept. The testing of a true prophet of God comes ONLY from Torah and not from anyone one else!

Another prophet of God or apostle can not validate another prophet as being legitimate. Only Torah (the Commandments) can validate a true prophet of God and not anyone else!

Torah teaches that if a prophet of God teaches to take a person away from being Torah observant to any part of the law you are commanded to fully reject that prophet as a false prophet. This is a test of God for everyone!

Deuteronomy 13:3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Loving God with all your heart and soul means to be fully obedient to the commandments of God

Deuteronomy 13:4 "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

If the prophet teaches that the Saturday Sabbath is changed to another day like Sunday. That is a false teaching.

Act 20:7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.

This passage from Acts 20:7 also dose not changed the Devine commanded appointments with God found in Leviticus 23.

Also the keeping of the commanded feasts of the Lord as found in Leviticus 23 has never gone away and in fact is very prophetic and everyone must keep theses ALWAYS.

Yeshua warns in Luke 13:24-27 if you do not remember to be Torah observant and to keep all the Feasts of the Lord, the Devine appointments with God that He will not remember you!

Luke 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Luke 13:25 "When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from,' ( I don’t remember you)

Luke 13:26 "then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.'

Luke 13:27 "But He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, (I don’t remember you) where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.' (vs. "doers of Torah)

We read in Acts 21:21 where James, the brother of Yeshua and head of the Jerusalem church is questioning Paul about Paul’s false teachings against Torah

Act 21:21 "but they have been informed about you (PAUL) that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses (THE LAW), saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

Paul is busted big time for teaching against Torah and this make Paul a false prophet.

Now in Acts 21:27-28 we read where the Jews from Asia, most likely from the Ephesus area have spotted Paul and are warning other Jews about Paul’s false teachings against being Torah observant “ teaching against keeping the commandments of God.”

Act 21:27Now when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia , seeing him (Paul) in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,

Act 21:28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man (Paul) who teaches all men everywhere against the people (the Jews), the law (Torah), and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

So we read that Paul is busted again by “eye and ear witnesses to Paul’s false teachings against Torah. Jews don’t take lightly bringing up charges against someone unless they have the hard core needed proof, the needed witnesses.

False apostles do exists! Yeshua “Yeshua commended the church in Ephesus for rejecting false apostles which must be based on teaching away from the keeping of the commandments of God. Gosh, is it any wonder who Yeshua was referring to back then who that false apostle was? Paul spent time in the Ephesus area!

Revelation 2:2 "I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

Yeshua our living Torah, teaches and rebukes churches in book of Revelation for the eating foods sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2:14 "But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20 "Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols

For many the finding out that Paul is a false prophet is a very large hard pill to swallow. Yet how has this gone unnoticed for so long? This is because Christians, a religion started by Paul are taught by Paul writings. Paul’s teachings are then echoed from their respective pulpits that “the law was done away with!” So when Christians read the commandments of God they just discount them as something of the past and serve no real purpose anymore. ALL the Sunday churches are the foolish virgins as found in Matthew 25.

Luke 16:17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Messiah Yeshua declared that He and the Father are one in the same!

John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John 14:9 Yeshua saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

So when Yeshua is talking about “keeping My commandments” Yeshua is not teaching about some other commandments. Yeshua is talking about “the commandments of God” Torah, the first five books of the Bible. These are foundation for a proper walk with God.

Yeshua taught John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Yeshua is referring to the commandments of God, Torah! Not some other commandments.

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

One of the main themes of the Torah is to love God by ALWAYS KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS. Yeshua is God in the flesh and Yeshua is also our LIVING TORAH! Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel that gave the commandments to Moses !

Paul teaches that the Law of Moses (Torah) was given by angels and not directly by God. Galatians 3:19-29 . This is incorrect ! The law was given directly by God to Moses.

Paul has more to say about the angels. In chapter 4 of Galatians, Paul will say that because the Law was given by angels, why do we want to be subject to those who are not gods? (Galatians. 4:8.) This also clearly proves that Paul is teaching away from Torah, the law of Moses. Thus making Paul a false prophet as found in Deuteronomy 13:1-5.

Paul clearly says the Law was not given by God. See chapter 5 of the book Jesus Words Only , subtopics of Denigration of the Law as Given by the Angels and Paul Says the Law Was Ordained through Angels

Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven

This has been the battle from the beginning and still is true for today! It began when the snake "Satan" who taught Eve to put "doubt" in keeping the commandment of God as we read in Genesis 3:1-5 Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Today there are many false teachers out there who are teaching people to put doubt in the keeping of "all the commandments of God.' They teach false things like "we are not under the law any more but under grace" Remember the commandments of God are forever! And you as the "commandment keeper of God" are responsible for yourself to keep all the commandments of God and must reject also false teachers or God will allow you to follow false teachers into hell.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

"iniquity" in this passage is the Greek word "anomia" which dose not mean "lawlessness" it is rather "a negator of the law."

The person Apollonius of Tyana was born in Asia Minor . The apostle Paul claims to be raised is Tarsus ! And so dose Apollonius. The are so many parallels between the persons of Paul and of Apollonius which proves beyond any doubt to be one in the same person

Apollonius grew up in his early youth studying at his near by pagan temples in Asia Minor and then went to study more and became an outstanding Greek scholar. Apollonius then took his studies to even higher levels and went to study with the best spiritual scholars the Asia and India areas. Upon Apollonius return to the Asia area he then went on to Jerusalem and then later when to start up his own religion called Christianity. Apollonius desired to start his own new religion based on his vast knowledge of peoples, languages and various belief systems. Apollonius himself was a devoted sun god worshipper, Mithraism. So Apollonius took what he thought was the best spiritual attributes that would work well with "all the cultures of the world" and then formed this new universal religion which is now called "Christianity."

In Catholicism you see the "sun imagery, icons and practices" everywhere. You also see this in your protestant and nondenominational churches as well. The Eucharist wafer is often framed in a sun. The Protestant version sometimes called a "communion service" and also has it origins from Egypt. All of these Sunday practices stems from sun god worship and practices. When Jesus is talking about do this in remembrance of me, that event is only occurring at a Jewish Passover Seder! Sunday Christians don't practice the prescribed Jewish Passover Seder at all, the commanded Feasts of the Lord as found in Leviticus 23.

Catholics also believe they are actually consuming the actually body and blood of Christ. That is cannibalism! Also the consuming of blood is prohibitive in Torah. Deuteronomy 12:23 "Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat. 12:24 "You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 12:25 "You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

Much of the Mysteries of Mithras religion "sun god religion" had originated in area of Tarsus where Paul was from. Paul also known as Apollonius. Apollonius grew up in these pagan temples. Paul on his road Damascus experience encountered "a bright light." Acts 9.

On the other hand all the apostles of Yeshua even after Messiah's death and resurrection met Messiah Yeshua face to face. The name Apollonius means "Destroying."

Constantine was a sun god worshipper and promoted the sun god religion called Christianity. Constantine maintained the title of "Pontifus Maximus" the high priest. On Constantine coins were inscribed "Sol Invicto comiti" which means, committed to the invincible sun.

Circa 313AD Constantine declared December 25th as the Feast of the Nativity this would later on become "Christ-mass" as the birthday of Jesus. The Romans called December 25 Saturnalia which means the birthday of the "unconquerable sun" Feast of the Nativity goes back to and is referring to Semiramis and Tammuz

The truth is Yeshua was born on Sukkoth! THIS IS A PROVEN FACT and can easily be proven from Scriptures. It is not a mystery and yes we do know exactly when Messiah Yeshua was born. Sukkoth is a Jewish fall feast of the Lord and normally occurs around September. Go surf the net for "When was Yeshua born"

Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The festival of Mithras' birth was December 25th. All sun god worshippers cite December 25th as the birth date. Birthday for Tammuz (Nimrod is reborn)

"Nimrod's religion is identified in scripture with Satan -by reading Isaiah Chapter 14 and in Revelation Chapters 17-18.
By history we can prove that Babylonian religion invaded he whole world and is the basis for every system of idolatry,
and is the theme of mythology, though the names of the gods are different because of the various languages in the world.
The world's major religions can be traced back to ancient Babylon. Satan is known as the father of lies which deceived the whole world
(Genesis 3:1, John 8:44, Revelation 12:9), and Nimrod was the human "father" of all false religion."
--World Religions by David Terrell

"Tammuz became symbolized by the golden calf. Semiramis became known as the "queen of heaven,"
and was the prototype from which all other pagan goddesses came."
--World Religions by David Terrell

All of Christianity is a counterfeit religion. They teach and cry out claiming to be legitimate but in reality they are a counterfeit. They meet on Sunday and they all have rejected Torah, the commandments of God.. These are the "foolish virgins" as found in Matthew 25 and will get left behind..

The Jews have left Egypt and have separated themselves with the giving of God's Torah. The instructions of God. The commandments of God

Exodus 12:49 One Torah shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Numbers 15:16 One Torah and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you

Numbers 15:29 Ye shall have one Torah for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Apollonius (means follower of Apollo, the pagn sun god)	Paul "Pol" for short
Born 4 BCE	Born c. 2 CE?
Birth miraculously announced by a supernatural being
Was the son of a god, sun god (Apollo) and a mortal woman
Raised in Tarsus	Raised in Tarsus
Religiously precocious as a child	Religiously precocious as a child
Asserted to be a native speaker of Aramaic	Claimed to be a speaker of Hebrew
Associated with wise men or magi
Had a disciple named Damis from Asia Minor	Had a disciple named Demas from Asia Minor
Had an associate named Titus	Had an associate named Titus
Associated with a Demetrius	Associated with a Demetrius
Associated with a Stephanus	Associated with a Stephanus
Influenced by Plato	Influenced by Philo/Plato
Renounced wealth	Embraced poverty
Followed abstinence and asceticism	Followed abstinence and asceticism
Wore long hair and robes	Wore long hair and robes
Discussed eunuchs for the kingdom of Babylon
Was unmarried and childless	Was unmarried and childless
Was anointed with oil
Went to Jerusalem	Went to Jerusalem
Spent much time at Antioch	Spent much time at Antioch
Made missionary journeys around Mediterranean	Made missionary journeys around Mediterranean
Traveled to the East for three years, where he was taught by sages "various pagan beliefs leadership" to create a "universal religion"	Traveled to the East for three years, where he claimed he was taught by Jesus.
Wrote epistles instructing followers in spirituality	Wrote epistles instructing followers in spirituality
Spoke in metaphors	Used philosophy
Fought wild beasts at Ephesus	Fought "wild beasts" at Ephesus
Saw and predicted the future
Performed miracles	Performed miracles
Healed the sick	Healed the sick
Cast out evil spirits	Cast out demons
Raised the daughter of a Roman official from the dead
Famed far and wide	Well known in Paul's Christian communities around the Mediterranean
Religious reformer	Religious reformer
Spoke authoritatively to pagan sun god temple priests	Spoke authoritatively to temple priests
Spoke as a "law-giver"	Claimed special authority above God's Torah. Teaching not under God's laws anymore
Founded a religious community at Corinth	Founded a religious community at Corinth
Was on a mission to bring Greek culture to the "barbarians"
Converted "unrefined" people to himself	Had his own decipels and followers
Believed to be a "savior" from heaven	Is the anti-messiah figure of Paul's new religion, Christianity
Worshipped as a god	Mistaken for a god
Accused of being a magician
Had his life threatened	Had his life threatened
Brought before a king, whose righteousness he challenged
Was accused of killing a boy (this done a pagan sun god satanic sacrifice)
Condemned by Roman emperor	Condemned by Roman emperor
Imprisoned at Rome	Imprisoned at Jerusalem and Rome
Miraculously escaped prison	Miraculously escaped prison
Was shipwrecked	Was shipwrecked

Paulinism: Is the term is used to describe the type of theology of Paul. It places Paul's authority above that of Yeshua "Jesus."

Paulinist: "A Paulinist is one who emphasizes teachings of Paul at odds with those of Yeshua "Jesus." Yeshua always taught as primary doctrine to always keep ALL the commandments of God

Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion

In his books The Mythmaker and Paul and Hellenism, Talmudic scholar Hyam Maccoby proposed a theory that Paul was actually a Gentile raised in an environment influenced by the popular Hellenistic mystery religions centered on dying and resurrected savior deities, who later converted to Judaism, hoping to become a Pharisee scholar. (There are no passages in the Talmud to validate this.) He found work in Jerusalem as a police officer of the Sadducee High Priest, who was at that time a de facto Roman quisling in Jerusalem . Paul's work persecuting the enemies of the High Priest led to an internal conflict in his mind, which manifested itself while he was travelling to Damascus on a covert mission. Maccoby believes that Paul's revelation was thus actually a resolution of his divided self; Paul subsequently fused the mystery religions, Judaism and the Passion of Jesus into an entirely new belief, centered on the death of Jesus as a mystical atoning sacrifice. Maccoby considers Paul's claims to a Jewish background and Pharisaic education to be false, claiming that a number of passages in Paul's writings betray his ignorance of the Jewish Law. Maccoby also contends that Paul invented many of the key concepts of the Christian religion, and that the Gospels and other later Christian documents were written to reflect Paul's views rather than the authentic life and teaching of Jesus.

Constantine was a devoted "sun god" worshipper, just like Apollonius and during the time of Constantine, Constantine put together the biggest scam the world has ever known "to take people off of the commandments of God" with a contrivance through using the false teaching of the false apostle Paul and Paul's new mystery religion called "Christianity." The false apostle Paul is a complete fraud and is not of God. The Roman Catholic church is a complete fraud. It is a "sun god" pagan church clocked to deceive and take people off the commandments of God ! Just like the snake did to Eve!

"Apollonius of Tyana the Nazarene" by RW Bernard is very good book with lots of great insights to who Apollonius is, how the alias Paul came into play and things that occurred at the Council of Nicea

Constantine on YouTube, this an OK overview, yes the birth of the pagan "Roman Catholic Church" called Christianity they meet on "sun day.".

Even today you can see the pagan sun god imagery all over the place within the Catholic church and its "sun day" practices. .

The last three chapters of Judges tell a story of how the Tribe of Benjamin could have become extinct. The point of the story isn't seen until we come to chapter 21

Genesis 49:1And Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:

Genesis 49:27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil."

Please see study on the Benjamite prophecy who is a sheep in wolves clothing. ( the following is snipped from Douglas Del Tondos' site)

Who is the Benjamite Wolf?
Verse	Characteristics
Matt. 7:15	"ravening wolves" are "false prophets"
Matt. 7:15	"ravening wolves" appear as "sheep," i.e., claim to be Christians.
Genesis 49:27	In latter days, Benjamin shall be a "ravening wolf."
Genesis 49:27	This "ravening wolf" from Benjamin's tribe first shall kill its "prey" in the morning.
Genesis 49:27	Later this "ravening wolf" from Benjamin's tribe will "divide the spoil" i.e., plunder and divide its prey.
Rom. 11:1 Phil. 3:5	Paul is of the tribe of Benjamin.
Acts 7:58 8:1-3	Paul starts out participating in murders of Christians.
Gal. 2:9	Paul later divides the church along Gentile-Jew lines, reserving for himself the right to recruit Gentiles, claiming the Jerusalem church relinquished the Gentile-mission exclusively to Paul.
Ezek. 22:26-32	The "ravening wolves" will come who do "violence to the Law," and who teach the people to "hide their eyes from the Sabbath," and to no longer discern clean food from impure food, etc. These wolves are associated with those who "have false visions" and "divine" lies in the Lord's name.
Rom. 14:5; Col. 2:14-16	Paul, a Benjamite, came claiming visions of Jesus, and taught the Sabbath rule was a shadow of things to come, and no one can any longer judge another on failure to keep the Sabbath.
2 Cor. 2:14; Gal. 5:1; Rom. 7:1 et seq.; Rom. 10:4; 2 Cor. 3:7; Gal. 5:1; Col. 2:14-17; Rom. 3:27; Rom. 4:15; 2 Cor. 3:9; Gal. 2:16; Gal. 3:21; Col. 2:14	Paul, a Benjamite, came claiming visions of Jesus, and on that authority taught the Law was abrogated, abolished, done away with, nailed to a cross; it was against us, etc. This same Paul said Jews are released from the Law and if they follow Christ instead, He has set them free from the Law which is death and bondage. This same Paul taught the Law was given by angels who are no gods, and Paul asked `why would anyone anyway want to submit to the weak and beggarly angels (elements)' who are no gods?
Romans 14:21;1 Corinthians 8:4-13; 1 Cor. 10:19-29; 1 Tim 4:4.	Paul, a Benjamite, came claiming visions of Jesus, and on that authority taught all foods were pure, including meat sacrificed to idols.

At the finding of the Dead Sea scrolls we learn a lot more about the early church days and how the early church leadership named the identity of the false apostle Paul as the “Wicked Priest” and “The Liar.” The term wicked is often used to referrer to someone who is without Torah, which are the commandments of God. So the false apostle Paul is being looked upon as a false prophet in the early days of the church whose teachings are contrary to the Word of God. The recent Dead Sea scrolls writings of John warns about the false apostle Paul, the “Wicked Priest” and “The Liar”

This from the book “James, the Brother of Jesus by Robert Eisenman ISBN 1842930265

An interloper, Saul a descendant of the Herods, later to exchange his Jewish name for that of Paul, appeared with self appointing claims to leadership, all the while maintaining important contacts with Roman officials, becoming a double agent for them. Often defending foreign ways, Paul chose some (i.e., Cornelious) to become cofounders for his new brotherhood of believers into a new religion, not just for Jews only, nor centered from Jerusalem, the sacred city of the Jews, but from a new base, the foreign city of Antioch, thereby establishing the newly amalgamated religion acceptable to foreigners, called "Christianity."

Many of James' followers, born Jews, fled eastward into the desert " land of Damascus ," eventually to become known as the site of Qumran . Sermons of James found among the Dead Sea Scrolls thundered against "the Enemy" and "the Liar," referring to someone daring to teach differently than the cherished standards of observant Jews while he, James, continued to teach and extol the "Way of Righteousness."
Adversarial letters went out accompanied by blatant denials with skillfully rearranged events and place names in parodies devised to belittle James and his message. Later they became known as the "Epistles of Paul." Paul, admittedly a mixed-breed Herodian, had also claimed to be "a Pharisee of the Pharisees," yet introduced co-mingling of foreign Mystery Religion rituals. The Jewish Passover became subject to rearrangement, intermixed with the very ancient sacrificial meal of blood/wine and body/bread of a dying foreign god.

Some others in the early days of the church also reject Paul’s teachings as going against the Word of God. The Ebonite’s were a Judaeo-Christian sect that keep Torah, the commandments of God yet rejected Paul’s teaching.

Sect of Judæo-Christians of the second to the fourth century. They believed in the Messianic character of Jesus, but denied his divinity and supernatural origin; observed all the Jewish rites, such as circumcision and the seventh-day Sabbath; and used a gospel according to Matthew written in Hebrew or Aramaic, while rejecting the writings of Paul as those of an apostate

The Ebionite and Nazarene, these Jewish sects rejected the false teachings of Paul.

Josephus reports four main sects or schools of Judaism: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots. The earliest followers of Jesus were known as Nazarenes, and perhaps later, Ebionites, and form an important part of the picture of Palestinian Jewish groups in late 2^nd Temple times.

The Ebionite/Nazarene movement was made up of mostly Jewish/Israelite followers of John the Baptizer and later Jesus, who were concentrated in Palestine and surrounding regions and led by "James the Just" (the oldest brother of Jesus), and flourished between the years 30-80 C.E. They were zealous for the Torah and continued to walk in all the mitzvot (commandments) as enlightened by their Rabbi and Teacher, but accepted non-Jews into their fellowship on the basis of some version of the Noachide Laws (Acts 15 and 21). The term Ebionite (from Hebrew 'Evyonim) means "Poor Ones" and was taken from the teachings of Jesus: "Blessed are you Poor Ones, for yours is the Kingdom of God" based on Isaiah 66:2 and other related texts that address a remnant group of faithful ones. Nazarene comes from the Hebrew word Netzer (drawn from Isaiah 11:1) and means "a Branch"—so the Nazarenes were the "Branchites" or followers of the one they believed to be the Branch. The term Nazarene was likely the one first used for these followers of Jesus, as evidenced by Acts 24:5 where Paul is called "the ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes." Here we see the word used in a similar way to that of Josephus in writing of the four sects/schools of Judaism: Pharisees; Sadducess; Essenes; and Zealots. So the term Nazarene is probably the best and broadest term for the movement, while Ebionite (Poor Ones) was used as well, along with a whole list of other terms: Saints, Children of Light, the Way, New Covenanters, et al. We also know from the book of Acts that the group itself preferred the designation "The Way" (see Acts 24:14, 22, etc.). The term "Christian," first used in Greek speaking areas for the movement, actually is an attempt to translate the term Nazarene and basically means a "Messianist."

The Essenes (possibly from 'Ossim, meaning "Doers of Torah"), who wrote or collected the Dead Sea Scrolls, pioneered certain aspects of this "Way" over 150 years before the birth of Jesus. They were a wilderness (out in the Arava, near the Dead Sea--based on Isaiah 40:3), baptizing (mikveh of repentance as entrance requirement into their fellowship), new covenant, messianic/apocalyptic group (they were expecting three redemptive Figures—the Prophet like Moses and his two Messiahs), that saw themselves as the remnant core of God's faithful people—preparing the Way for the return of YHVH's Glory (Kavod) as set forth in Isaiah 40-66. They too referred to themselves as the Way, the Poor, the Saints, the New Covenanters, Children of Light, and so forth. Perhaps their most common designation was the Yachad--the brotherhood or community, and they referred to themselves as brother and sister. They were bitterly opposed to the corrupt Priests in Jerusalem , to the Herods, and even to the Pharisees whom they saw as compromising with that establishment to get power and influence from the Hellenistic/Roman powers. They had their own developed Halacha (interpretation of Torah), some aspects of which Jesus picks up (ideal of no divorce, not using oaths, etc.). They followed one they called the True Teacher (Teacher of Righteousness) whom most scholars believe lived in the 1st century B.C.E. and was opposed and possibly killed by the Hasmonean King/Priests at the instigation of the Pharisees. John the Baptizer seems to arise out of this context and rekindle the apocalyptic fervor of the movement in the early decades of the first century C.E.

So, the terminology is flexible; there are a variety of self-designations used by the Jesus movement, most of which had previously been used by the Essenes. In that sense you might call the Jesus movement a further developed messianic "Essenism," modified through the powerful, prophetic influence of Jesus as Teacher.

Later, when Christianity developed in the 3rd and 4th centuries and gradually lost its Jewish roots and heritage, largely severing its Palestinian connections, the Gentile, Roman Catholic Church historians began to refer to Ebionites and Nazarenes as two separate groups—and indeed, by the late 2nd century there might have been a split between these mostly Jewish followers of Jesus. The distinction these writers make (and remember, they universally despise these people and call them "Judaizers"), is that the Ebionites reject Paul and the doctrine of the Virgin Birth or "divinity" of Jesus, use only the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, and are thus more extreme in their Judaism. They describe the Nazarenes more positively as those who accept Paul (with caution) and believe in some aspect of the divinity of Jesus (virgin born, etc.). What we have to keep in mind in reading these accounts from the Church fathers is that they are strongly prejudiced against this group(s) and claim to have replaced Judaism entirely with the new religion of Christianity, overthrowing the Torah for both Gentile and Jew.

I think it best today to use the collective term Ebionite/Nazarene in an attempt to capture the whole of this earliest movement, and it would be useful to revive the term Yachad as a collective designation for the community of the Hasidim/Saints. I use Ebionite/Nazarene as an historical designation to refer to those original, 1st century, largely Palestinian followers of Jesus, gathered around Yaaqov (James) in Jerusalem, who were zealous for the Torah, but saw themselves as part of the New Covenant Way inaugurated by their "True Teacher" Jesus. James is a key and neglected figure in this whole picture. As the blood brother of Jesus, authority and rights of guidance were passed on to him. When he was brutally murdered in 62 C.E. by the High Priest Ananus (see Josephus, Antiquities 20.197ff), Simeon, a second brother [sic "cousin" according to Hegesippus] of Jesus took over the leadership of the Jerusalem based movement. Clearly we have the idea here of a blood-line dynasty, and according to the Gospel of Thomas, discovered in 1946 in upper Egypt, this dynastic succession was ordained by Jesus himself who tells his followers who ask him who will lead them when he leaves: "No matter where you are, you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being" (GT 12). Indeed, when Simeon was crucified by the Emperor Trajan around 106 C.E., a third brother of Jesus, Judas, took over the leadership of the community.

As far as "beliefs" of the Ebionites, the documents of the New Testament, critically evaluated, are among our best sources. There are fragments and quotations surviving from their Hebrew Gospel tradition (see see A. F. J. Klijn, Jewish-Christian Gospel Tradition, E. J. Brill, 1992), as well as the text of "Hebrew Matthew" preserved by Ibn Shaprut, and now published in a critical edition by George Howard (The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, Mercer University Press, 1995). Based on what we can reliably put together from other sources we can say the Ebionite/Nazarene movement could be distinguished by the following views:

1) Jesus as the Prophet like Moses, or True Teacher (but not to be confused with YHVH God of Israel), who will anoint his Messiahs on his right and left hand when he is revealed in power following his rejection and death. These two figures, the Davidic Nasi (Prince of the Yachad) and Priest, will rule with him in the Kingdom of God .

2) Disdain for eating meat and even the Temple slaughter of animals, preferring the ideals of the pre-Flood diet and what they took to be the original ideal of worship (see Gen 9:1-5; Jer 7:21-22; Isa 11:9; 66:1-4). A general interest in seeking the Path reflected in the pre-Sinai revelation, especially the time from Enoch to Noah. For example, divorce was shunned, even though technically it was later allowed by Moses.

3) Dedication to following the whole Torah, as applicable to Israel and to Gentiles, but through the "easy yoke" halacha of their Teacher Jesus, which emphasized the Spirit of the Biblical Prophets in a restoration of the "True Faith," the Ancient Paths (Jeremiah 6:16), from which, by and large, they believed the establishment Jewish groups of 2nd Temple times had lost.

4) Rejection of the "doctrines and traditions" of men, which they believed had been added to the pure Torah of Moses, including scribal alterations of the texts of Scripture (Jeremiah 8:8).

How the earliest group(s) viewed Paul is unclear. By some reports he was tolerated or accepted as one who could go to the Gentiles with a version of the Nazarene message (Acts 15, 21). Others apparently believed he was an apostate from the Torah and founder of a new religion—Christianity.

Either Paul went by the name of Apollonius or the Roman commander knew about Apollonius the Egyptian false prophet and what Apollonius looked like.

Also of notice, Apollonius also approved of Titus and the taking of Jerusalem. Titus also invites Apollonius to come see him as a soothsayer " a divinatory" "able to see the future events" for Titus future behavior as a ruler. Page 197,198 The Monist, Volume 13

Antiquity Unveiled: Ancient Voices from the Spirit Realms Proving Christianity to be of Heathen Origin

Google online book The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana By Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx

Google online book The Gospel of Apollonius of Tyana By Kenneth S. Guthrie

The apology and acts of Apollonius and other monuments of early Christianity edited by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare

Apollonius, Jesus and Paul: Men or Myths? http://www.truthbeknown.com/apollonius.html There is a nice comparison chart between Paul and Apollonius showing both to be one in the same.

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Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion

Who is the Benjamite Wolf?

Google online book The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana By Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx

The apology and acts of Apollonius and other monuments of early Christianity edited by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare