Ken Johnson

 

Find out what Ken Johnson says about Hebrew Roots.

“Hebrew roots may turn into we are better jews than you(s) so we are going to kill you” Ken Johnson

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call yeah so you brought this up to me
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and you showed me this video
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why don't you kind of start off telling
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us like what we're getting into
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yeah so Ken Johnson is somebody that you
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may have heard of and we definitely have
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used him he translated a bunch of the
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Dead Sea books like Enoch and Jasser and
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we've looked at those and use
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those and read those and he has some
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some some pretty cheap copies of those
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books that you can order and have and so
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hey you know he he's somebody that I
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guess I've never really heard talk until
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recently and you know I just knew I knew
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that he didn't share the same beliefs
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that we do but hey you know it's one
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thing to know that and then to hear him
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talk so I used to listen to prophecy
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Watchers a lot with Gary Stearman kind
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of when I was waking up to Torah and
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it's it's ironic if you go watch this
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video
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behind Gary you will see a menorah and
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what else a shofar yeah those were all
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proudly displayed behind him and it's
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kind of like that's weird you know that
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he seems kind of trying to make this
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connection but it seems so far off yeah
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but but Ken Johnson it's definitely not
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a fan of the Hebrew roots and in what we
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do and he has some interesting things
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and I also go
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I don't think Ken knows anybody that
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does Hebrew roots I don't think he knows
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one person from the video that they put
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out and didn't know wouldn't seem like
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it yes so like I think he's talking
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about somebody and something that he has
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no idea what he's talking about and so
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Ken if you ever listen to this Hey
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reach out to us we'd be happy to talk to
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you yeah anytime about this and and put
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a face you know well to an ideology
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maybe yeah I don't know if we put my
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face on anything nobody wants to see
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that but because I've definitely got the
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face made for radio but so here we are
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on radio and but yeah I would love to
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talk to Ken about those things and and
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explain to him maybe a little bit more
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about who we are cuz clearly he's got
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some misconceptions yeah about who we
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are what we do and that's what we're
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gonna kind of take a look at right yeah
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so let's start right here and so in and
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so in this video if you do go watch it
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at some point Ken Johnson talks about
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acts 15 and says we don't have to keep
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Jewish law at six minutes and eight
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seconds he says this
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yeah so everyone likes to use x-15 as a
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as a this these are the rules we follow
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now as acts 15 and so in verse 10 there
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it says now therefore why tempt to you
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Elohim to put a yoke upon the neck of
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the disciples which neither our fathers
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nor we were able to bear so what do you
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think he's talking about the yoke of the
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disciples there so the yoke that they're
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trying to put on okay so standard
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understanding of this right right your
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your Christian theology is gonna tell
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you that this is Torah right here he's
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talking about but the context tells us
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that he's talking about salvation
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through keeping Torah rotten so and I
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also believe he definitely and then in
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Matthew but these two scriptures are
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tied together Matthew 11:28 through 30
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come to me all ye who are tired from
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carrying heavy loads and that will give
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you rest place my yoke over your
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shoulders and learn from me because I am
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gentle and humble then you will find
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rest for yourselves because my yoke is
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easy and my burden is light
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and he is definitely comparing his
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commandments which were not new they
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were the same ones that he'd said before
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yeah since he was the word the Word made
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flesh and he is saying that these men
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these Pharisees came along and put
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unrealistic burdens upon people and tie
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and he says that over and over that he
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tied these hid the men were tying these
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heavy burdens on each other and they
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themselves are new than willing to lift
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a finger to help them lift them right
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and he's saying my my yoke is not like
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that right but there is a yoke yes yes
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we like to think that well Messiah
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brings freedom he does mm-hmm it's with
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this idea of
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freedom to write that's kind of how we
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look at it we look at it with some
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Western mindset our freedom to do
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something instead of a freedom from
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something mm-hmm well I think we kind of
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look at it like the the old flag with
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the snake don't tread on me how dare you
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tell me I can and can't do anything
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right and and yeah definitely there was
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something else that come and came to
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mind but I'll think about it later so so
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he started making this comparison
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between those who are messianic and
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those are Hebrew roots and so he has
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some quotes here and he talks about how
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down the Jewish side that are the
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Messianic side and he said something
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along the lines if Messianics are great
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Hebrew roots were causing them lots of
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problems right he said he has friends
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that are Messianics and Messianics are
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great mm-hmm so his darn Hebrew because
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he broods guys yeah messing it up for
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everybody and you know and then he's
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talking about the Hebrew roots people
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and he says we're Gentiles that somehow
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think that they are to follow the law
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everyone follows the the law everyone
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should be kosher or be executed what so
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that's the stance he is assigning to
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Hebrew roots folks that somehow the
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thought is the ideology is well you need
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to keep kosher oh you're gonna be
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executed now I don't know if he's read
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through Torah but the clean and unclean
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laws the punishment for that was not
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execution hmm there were there were laws
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where the with capital punishment shaven
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unclean food laws was not one of them no
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no definitely not so and I'm also like I
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don't know anybody that's that has a
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YouTube channel that has a website that
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any kind of fault nobody that I've ever
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listened to I'm yeah I'm sure there's
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somebody out there there's all kinds of
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people out there that say crazy stuff
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so yeah there may be somebody out there
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but nobody we know yeah
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comes out ever and talks about how we
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should kill people because they don't
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follow Torah right I've never heard that
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or no no that was really stretching it
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and so that was a bizarre don't get it
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he also said that Messianics teach
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Gentiles are not to follow Mosaic law
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and you know that that may be may be
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true right there there the stances that
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Noahide laws right mm-hmm and that the
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Gentiles
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you know once again he's talking about
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Hebrew roots calling them Gentiles and
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that that says Gentiles who think we
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should follow Mosaic law Gentiles are
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forbidden to do such things that was a
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direct quote from him saying that we are
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not there's a Gentile you are not even
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allowed to follow mosaic rule right he
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said you're not allowed to do certain
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things in his example was the it was
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rules for the priests right not anyone
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could be a priest right so that was his
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kind of his justification mm-hmm for for
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how about it Gentiles weren't a lot so
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you couldn't be a Gentile and be a
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priest well you can you couldn't be a
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Jew and be a priest either mm-hmm right
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yeah yeah cuz the Jew is who Jew is who
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ya from Judah right yeah mm-hmm
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tribe about one specific tribe so right
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and so I also go and I would say to Ken
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Johnson if you're listening to this
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which which I know he is that you that
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you don't know maybe you need to
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research that of what truly is a Jew and
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who that is you know and I know that a
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lot of people say you know district
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tribute people who follow Torah and call
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them Jews but but but we have learned
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differently you know that is one
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specific tribe right that you're
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referring to any time you say that and
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there's another quote here that I
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thought was really interesting Gary
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Stearman quoted scripture that
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talks about the heart of man is to keep
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the law about 12 minutes in until we
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have that as we saw yeah okay we'll come
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back to that one in a minute so Oh
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and so then Gary Stearman does say you
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talk about Jewish holidays dot dot right
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and then if you're following out can we
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be honest series yes to me can we be
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honest the Jews were one of twelve
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tribes no one in Christianity seems to
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remember this now as a Christian growing
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up I knew this and they set it all the
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time I didn't - so it's strange to me
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that guess you're smarter than me I will
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no comment I can I can neither confirm
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nor deny no so yeah there's it's funny
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because you you you spend time in
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certain circles and you know there's
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things you hear all the time then you
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talk to someone else and they're like no
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I've never heard that before and it kind
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of blows your mind like oh because you
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think it's common knowledge well that
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happens a lot with stuff that you pick
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up on and it's like I'd never heard out
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so it's it's pretty common well growing
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up I always thought Jews were Jewish
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people who you know I didn't even really
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know what it meant but it's like the
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people in the Bible you know they were
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juice I'll juice I love every one of
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them yeah so that's all I knew I didn't
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know that it was I didn't know the
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history of how it you know went from the
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tribe of Judah to Yehuda or Yahoo's and
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ended up giving short shortened to - Jew
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mm-hmm yeah so this was always kind of
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tricky for me because it seemed like
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when I started coming into Torah I don't
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know if you ran into this but it was
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like all the things that the people I
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kind of grew up with in Christianity
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I like bring up some of this Torah stuff
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that aligned with Christian thinking
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like well we're where the Israelites
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right now we're claiming to be Israelite
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and the
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all of a sudden they were like it was
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they were gaslighting me like this no
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what are you talking about yeah okay
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song I'm thinking boys a movie oh but
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point being that somehow they just
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forgot all about the fact that this is
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what we grew up learning and this is
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what they were teaching me you know as
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oh yeah there were 12 tribes and oh yeah
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we're Israelites it's like and all of a
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sudden you bring up Torah and they they
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forget those things because you have to
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because if you accept that now you have
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to start changing the way you're
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thinking about certain things yeah no I
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tried to find the song but I couldn't Oh
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shucks you slow so and also King Johnson
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said the book of Acts says you are to be
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circumcised or die and then he talks
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again circumcise or die yeah and then he
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talked about how the Gentiles who think
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we should follow Mosaic law yeah he kind
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of ties those things together
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it's he's he's saying that the same
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people in the book of Acts that are
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saying be circumcised or die are the
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same as these Hebrew roots Gentiles
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saying that we should follow the Mosaic
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law and we'll have a quote here later
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that kind of shows you where he's kind
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of tying these things together pretty
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incredible and then Ken Johnson says
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Gentiles quote unquote Gentiles can eat
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anything as long as they don't eat it
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with the blood from Genesis 9 and then
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our question is can we be honest Noah
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was he a Gentile uh he was a dude right
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there were a lot of Jews in his day yes
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uh-huh
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false there were he was he's free range
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for all that yes yes and yet he knew
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clean and
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and then it's ironic too that the guy
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who helps and helps bring you know and I
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will back up just a second so I'm not
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trying to be critical of Ken Johnson I
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greatly appreciate his work I greatly
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appreciate that he's gleaned information
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from the Dead Sea Scrolls and kind of
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brought it to life and put it in modern
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English and put it in people's hands and
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you know he definitely I feel like has
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been used by the father to to do that
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and in those translations that he's done
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it have definitely benefited me
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benefited me but in some of the stuff he
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did like the book of Jasher clearly
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shows that abraham was not what you
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would ever call a quote-unquote Jew like
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I said it's before that even happened
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and he was clearly the son of an idol
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maker clearly what you would classify as
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Gentile he was called out of that
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lifestyle and called to be different in
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a young age and he crossed over and that
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that is much more of a theme than being
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a bloodline deal because he was not
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bloodline right yes yeah Hebrews caught
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one who crossed over right now I don't
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know how many people understand the
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Genesis 9 thing because this was a kind
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of a big one that that new people came
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to get tangled up in you know much about
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that that verse that he's pointing to
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there he was talking about Noah when he
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got off the ark and he made this
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sacrifice and that's that's about what I
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remember about it yeah so Yahweh says
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now you can eat all things all creatures
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are good to you something similar to
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them and then he says but they forget
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this part just as I've given you every
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green herb to eat now can you eat every
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green herb or do some kill you some kill
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you I'm just ask Chris McCandles who
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died in Alaska and a bus and he would
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tell you if he can talk because if
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not alive and you don't ask him that's
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necromancy yes this is bad we don't
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recommend that please don't do that but
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he clearly ate the wrong berry he's no
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longer with us
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yeah so I'm not running around eating
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poison ivy mm-hmm
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call me crazy I don't know what you guys
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do in Texas but MPA we don't play that
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game but yeah so there there is a
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stipulation given to that all all
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animals no no that's a that's a good
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good observation about it too and
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clearly there was a distinction made
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between clean and so so it's like so you
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want me to believe that
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there was this extra work and effort put
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into the animals on the ark of cleaning
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unclean and then all of a sudden the
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flood is gone everything's dried up and
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like gone yeah that whole clean and
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unclean that we made you load up on the
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ark head that would that's all right and
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then you bring it back later I mean yeah
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you have to look at it in the context of
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worries right now and what Noah already
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knows like this was one of the things
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that I would bring up early on is so
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there's it's it's this whole idea of a
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schizophrenic Elohim right it's well
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there's clean and unclean laws then
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there's no one clean and unclean then
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there's clean and unclean again and now
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no clean and unclean again in this let's
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give it the bunny ears quote-unquote
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dispensation in this dispensation and
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then hey bunnies are unclean yes true
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we'll give them living bunny ears and
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not eat them but then in the Millennium
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right it's back again somehow
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no it's is it yes or no or who can keep
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track of all the mind changes of this
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never changing yeah he so can if you're
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listening I challenge you to consider
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those things about you know why did
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clean it and clean what was it such a
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deal on the ark because the other
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question is did they come two by two on
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the ark right everyone says yes yes yes
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I love this one everyone play along at
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home
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and indulge me Matt if you will oh I
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love to indulge it yeah I live to do
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that exactly how many of each animal did
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Moses take on the ark Moses see you're
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supposed to play along but yes I'm sorry
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most people do not catch staff and his
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Ten Commandments yeah so obviously
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people will say to write and then you'll
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say well no it was Noah that took the
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ark and then you can correct them with
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the number as well it's just kind of
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funny okay yeah I always tell people but
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y'all nice people my people go straight
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to two-by-two right but no I do
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appreciate you bringing up the fact that
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this isn't like a put-down session on
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Ken this is yeah this is you know we're
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trying to air out some some
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misunderstandings here and hopefully you
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know that comes across properly yeah
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yeah yeah yeah and then Ken Johnson also
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says Hebrew roots may turn into we're
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better Jews then you I don't know why I
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say use there but so we are going to
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kill you oh oh this use gotcha okay
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right now so this is remember a couple
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slides ago we said that this would come
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back yeah so I do you know anyone in
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Hebrew root saying well even on the
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verge of saying if you will better Jews
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than you so we're gonna kill you no I
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don't know anybody that's ever said that
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so and if they have you know they are
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some whacked-out person who is a cult
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leader and probably is doing lots of
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really weird stuff yeah but that is
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definitely not a mainstream no no and
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and and definitely just like anything
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that you look at there are they're crazy
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weird outliers and anything that you
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look at but in the bell curve yeah yeah
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yeah so but there is zero of that and in
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this theology we're not attempting to be
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Jews
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Christianity has very little grasp of
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who Ephraim is and so you know we're not
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trying to and we don't want to be what
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what okay and I say when I say Jews I'm
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using Jews in the sense of who Gary
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Stearman and Ken Johnson defined as Jews
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as being people who follow man-made
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Torah and follow kebab Kabbalistic
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teachings helmet right yeah all these
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writings that were done and put more
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weight sometimes on that writing and
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tradition than they do scripture itself
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we want no part of that and we that
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that's the same as going to you know a
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like a Catholic Church and bowing down
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and kissing the ring of the Pope it's
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the same same deal right oh yeah so the
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that and I didn't have much grasp of
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Ephraim Ephraim is monumentally
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important and I heard none of that in in
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terms of growing up none of them and so
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you and especially the the prodigal son
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story I had never put two and two
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together that identifying that as Judah
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and and Ephraim mm-hmm well we are
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always I was always taught that was the
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Gentiles oh you know yeah like the
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Gentile that and then the houses were
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getting reconciled but that's yeah but
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that wasn't right it is what you just
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said Ephraim and the two sticks becoming
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one right a same kind of concept so if
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you're if you're slim on your Ephraim
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understanding look into effort you need
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to crack that book open and research it
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so because it will help open your mind
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and to to that understanding ken johnson
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also says Paul says for no reason to
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allow ourselves to be circumcised and I
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believe that he there was some scripture
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is calling us out of Galatians yes
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there was a t-shirts oh yeah yeah
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Galatians and I think this was 13
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minutes in he said don't allow yourself
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to be circumcised and then but but at
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the same token when you research this a
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little bit you do find that Paul
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circumcised Timothy a Greek right well
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and here
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apparently Paul said for no reason but
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there's a reason for him to do that to
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Timothy right yeah yeah so there there
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are certain reasons to do it
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yes mm-hmm and we could probably have a
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hole actually I think when we did if you
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look back at our collation study we
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discussed a circumcision quite a bit and
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I believe we may have even used the term
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bag of foreskins or something that well
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we did but that's what they were doing
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can we be honest they were that's just
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so gross so you want to think about it
25:22
so I had to bring it up again Ken
25:24
Johnson as a Roman can he said okay so
25:28
Ken Johnson is quoted as saying as his
25:31
Roman converts it Roman converts yes
25:36
let's go Ezra thank you is Roman
25:39
converse it would be illegal to keep the
25:42
Feast a tabernacle so saying that
25:44
everyone that is converted from you know
25:47
Roman thinking it would be illegal for
25:51
us to keep Feast of Tabernacles and so I
25:53
ask you to refer to Ezra 44 Zechariah 14
25:57
Isaiah 66 23 from what information will
26:01
44 oh yes I'm gonna say yes I think I
26:07
actually in my mind I may have combined
26:08
Ezra in Ezekiel and set called them
26:11
Azariah or something yes find that 1/2
26:16
inches so Ezra 44 yes thank you for the
26:20
clarification is a major minor prophet
26:23
yes yes so and once again you know I do
26:26
want to say we don't claim to be experts
26:29
we don't claim to know everything there
26:31
is to know and we're
26:33
a quest for truth hey I think I've heard
26:36
that somewhere before
26:36
mmm that was a long time ago Rob Skiba
26:40
if you he used to do a thing called
26:42
quest for truth oh I was thinking that
26:45
was a Monty Python saying no no no those
26:48
are the coconuts you hear over there but
26:52
anyway we are in a quest a quest for
26:55
truth too you know on our own trying to
26:58
figure these things out and so right but
27:01
but it does now I I'll throw this in
27:06
recently I've been having a discussion
27:08
with someone where I've been accused of
27:12
have dismissing or throwing out
27:15
scriptures in order to prop up my stance
27:19
right but in order to say something like
27:23
kena's implying here he's not implying
27:27
it he's directly saying it you have to
27:29
throw out scriptures like Ezekiel 44 in
27:32
Zechariah 14 in Isaiah 66 where clearly
27:36
it's a new covenant time period where
27:41
all flesh comes performing to keep
27:43
Sabbath's and new moons all flesh comes
27:45
before me for a feast of tabernacles
27:47
that's not broken down and did you and
27:50
Gentile no no I mean you have to ignore
27:53
that to make this claim mm-hmm yeah no
27:57
let's go and then Ken Johnson also talks
28:01
about at the end of each age and the
28:04
Gentiles who think that we should follow
28:07
Mosaic law yes sir to me this was a this
28:12
is kind of a I hate to use the word
28:15
trigger but I don't know if we can even
28:17
say that but but so whenever I feel
28:22
triggered right so if you're triggered
28:25
by the word triggered problems yeah so
28:29
whatever what and anyone's saying at the
28:32
end of each age what does that make you
28:35
think of dispensationalism yeah exactly
28:40
me too so this to me is a red flag
28:41
already yeah ding ding ding ding and if
28:44
you don't know what that is
28:44
you should probably gonna let that up
28:46
then learn what that is yeah 119
28:49
ministries has a good good teaching on
28:51
dispensationalism yeah yeah definitely
28:54
and then Deuteronomy 14 21 it's the
28:58
scripture where they talk about feeding
29:00
the dead animal to a stranger and when
29:03
we went and licked that up in Hebrew the
29:05
word is how do you say that girl looks
29:10
like to me ger a temporary inhabitant
29:14
not someone grafted in so you know there
29:17
are different words in Hebrew you know
29:19
for instance not long a few weeks ago we
29:22
looked at the bond servant - who was a
29:25
part of a like your family and did what
29:29
you did and at the end of their in
29:32
indenture indentured servitude they
29:35
could make a decision at the point when
29:37
you had to release them because it was
29:39
in law it was in Torah to release them
29:42
you know they could make a decision and
29:43
be pierced and and be your servant that
29:47
person is somebody that is becomes like
29:51
a family member and they're not a not an
29:55
alien or stranger they're they're part
29:57
of the family and so this word here is
29:59
definitely different this is a temporary
30:02
inhabitant as somebody that wasn't
30:04
grafted in but he went on and on about
30:05
this one point for quite a while yeah
30:08
this was so we take the alien and
30:12
Sojourner and time into this stranger
30:15
concept the stranger is someone that's
30:17
just hanging out for a while and they're
30:18
not hanging around forever they're not
30:21
trying to be proud of you they're coming
30:23
through town and this I will say though
30:28
that this verse always perplexed me why
30:30
were able to do that ya know it's like
30:34
it comes across as a different standard
30:37
right but it's it's someone who's
30:40
rejected being grafted in with you yeah
30:45
I think it probably is when you read
30:48
Paul and he talks about the weaker
30:50
brother
30:53
you know there's some of that language
30:55
that might even be connected to this you
30:59
know their conscience you know they're
31:01
not there and so it's not a deal to them
31:04
yeah and I wonder how much of it to is
31:06
is not why wanting to watch his creation
31:11
go to waste
31:12
also yeah yeah yeah that could be it too
31:14
so definitely something to ponder we're
31:17
not saying we have that one figured out
31:19
and so I thought this was so interesting
31:21
and as he talked as he said this I was
31:25
like what what did you just say Gary
31:27
Stearman and he has this quote about how
31:29
he said and he fit he seems very sincere
31:34
at this point and also say I like Gary
31:36
Stearman he's watched him before I ain't
31:39
never seen it before but nefeli comes
31:40
across very Cindy seems very genuine I
31:43
don't doubt that he's a great guy I
31:44
don't doubt either one of these are
31:45
great people and and do good things and
31:49
so but he said it was the heart of man
31:52
to keep the law twelve minutes in and
31:56
and he talked about how he felt with
32:00
some of his congregants when he would
32:01
preach that and I was like why yeah of
32:06
course I mean yeah you were testifying
32:09
to this very thing that you are trying
32:12
to attack yes it is in us to do these
32:15
things right that's the whole concept of
32:18
the new covenant mm-hmm and if you and
32:20
if you just to me if you just think
32:22
about it in an opposite way you know so
32:24
okay so what's the opposite of this it
32:29
would be the thing that is on the other
32:32
side of the discussion yeah you know you
32:36
know a so if you're not keeping law you
32:41
are keeping lawlessness yeah and so we
32:44
know we know that that's not a good
32:47
thing exactly he also puts in this
32:50
concept of it's it the heart of man to
32:52
keep the moral law mm-hmm all right so
32:55
fine find that in your scripture
32:58
somewhere mm-hmm ken johnson says
33:01
galatians is about quote don't let
33:04
yourselves be circumcised
33:06
sir you're a debtor to the whole law
33:08
then Paul circumcised Timothy causing
33:11
him to be a debtor to the whole law why
33:14
would he do that to someone that Paul
33:16
he's a character
33:17
when in Rome right do as the Romans do
33:21
yeah so on this one now it does say that
33:29
in there don't let yourself be
33:31
circumcised or you're a debtor to the
33:33
whole law mm-hmm but that's not what
33:36
Galatians is about Galatians was about
33:40
well what we talked about last time
33:42
right it was Paul is combating an
33:45
argument of salvation through the law
33:48
yeah and that's why it's important to
33:51
bring up things like if you think the
33:55
law is gonna save you and you get
33:58
circumcised to prove it now you got to
34:00
keep the whole law because your intent
34:02
is salvation because I'm circumcised
34:06
when that's not that's not Torah and
34:09
that's not what Paul preached yeah yeah
34:12
let's go
34:14
ken Johnson said I also said Jews should
34:19
say state Jews and Gentiles state
34:21
Gentiles you guys quit mixing it up here
34:23
it's making it too confusing and then
34:26
you read Ephesians 2:12 Galatians 2:15
34:30
and you see these terms by Baal who talk
34:34
about how we all are one in Yeshua right
34:40
neither Jew nor Greek right slave or
34:44
free may on their female yes now that
34:47
doesn't mean what the spirit of the age
34:50
is talking about it means we all know
34:53
what a Georgia knee but yes that whole
34:58
concept when he is saying just a Jews
35:00
and Gentiles state Gentiles where where
35:02
do you come up with that where who says
35:04
that now I think what he's trying to go
35:08
with is where it says if you're
35:12
circumcised stay circumcised let the
35:15
uncircumcised you know if you came in
35:17
uncircumcised
35:19
stay uncircumcised
35:20
now we know that there's more to that
35:24
because of Ezekiel 44 talking about the
35:28
new age the new temple no one can come
35:31
in who's not circumcised the flesh and
35:33
hurt so so you got to go into the into
35:37
detail of what he's Paul saying when he
35:39
says that but it's not saying what ken
35:42
was telling him is no and I really think
35:44
on that circumcision concept that's
35:46
something you really got you gotta go
35:47
all the way back to the beginning and
35:49
look and see like we know we talked
35:52
about it in Galatians but about how
35:55
Jacob and Esau were different and they
35:58
both had a circumcision of the flesh you
36:01
know I don't see the reason to think
36:04
that they didn't and but they are two
36:08
very different because one had a
36:10
circumcised heart the other didn't and
36:13
one was blessed and the other one was
36:16
not and so I mean he does does have a
36:20
blessing on him but it's but there's
36:23
definitely a clear difference in there
36:25
is this concept of having a circumcised
36:27
heart is is something right right
36:33
because then Timothy would have not
36:36
stayed a Gentile then right by that by
36:40
that law oh and then we get into about
36:43
15 minutes into that video starts
36:44
talking about holidays which is always a
36:46
hot button and one that we have to deal
36:49
with and for instance you know I just
36:52
requested Passover and feast of
36:58
unleavened bread off at work and you
37:01
know it's causing me a little grief
37:03
because this is our busiest time of year
37:05
and you know they they weren't too happy
37:10
about it and they're saying things like
37:11
well we're just so we're not gonna pay
37:14
you for your time and the and then I
37:17
explained it I was like you know this is
37:18
a religious holiday for me right and
37:20
then they you know they cater to that oh
37:24
so oh we don't want to be sued so I'm
37:29
like okay well so and that kind of
37:32
changed the argue
37:33
a little bit you know when they when I
37:36
explained it to him that way but but the
37:38
holiday thing you know definitely and he
37:42
gave this this concept of in Ezra that
37:46
there was null affection and he said
37:48
that you don't throw it away you just
37:51
nullify it it's like if I could if I was
37:53
good at editing I would take sections of
37:57
that video and have him saying nullified
38:00
nullified over and over and over or
38:01
something you know yeah make a make a
38:03
gif or a jiff what do you say gif or Jif
38:06
I don't like to be put on the spot like
38:09
that but I say gif because the G in
38:15
American says good the G in American
38:19
right we're how do you spell American
38:22
with the G am G I'm Rickon okay all
38:27
right thank you for clearing that right
38:29
up for everyone we do give spelling
38:33
lessons on the side so if you need help
38:35
with that just go just a sample yeah
38:38
just call one eight hundred seven longe
38:40
and we'll get you hooked up on that I
38:42
did call when I had my own John and I
38:47
can't remember
38:48
and somebody did answer it and I was
38:51
like oh who are you what do you have my
38:53
phone number anyway maybe one day we'll
38:59
call that live on some on our broadcasts
39:02
and that's thank you and have a
39:03
conversation okay maybe we should do
39:05
that sounds like a great idea yeah so
39:07
anyway what were you gonna say anyway so
39:09
yeah this concept is gonna come up again
39:11
later and they'll be more points to
39:13
bring up on the don't throw it away just
39:14
nullify it thing and he's saying that
39:18
this is a Jewish concept and he's all
39:20
about it so but yeah I think there's
39:26
there's better example lay down and look
39:31
at Ephesians 2:12 and Galatians 2:15 for
39:34
more information so and then I put the
39:37
definition of nullified then it to make
39:41
legally null and void invalidate and
39:45
then you know Ken Johnson said if
39:47
Holliday has paganism it needs nullified
39:51
not done away with I'm like huh yeah why
39:57
nullify according to this definition
40:01
says to make null and void and validate
40:04
it's almost like it means done away with
40:08
very similar I think if if we're going
40:14
to say we want to nullify abortion which
40:17
we we would like to do that I think most
40:20
people would understand that that means
40:22
what do away with yes oh like Matthew
40:29
five and you didn't come to to nullify
40:33
the law or void null and void void the
40:37
law he came to fill fulfill it yeah so
40:43
he didn't come to do away with the law
40:45
so if we go to the judge and they
40:48
nullify our ticket was that mean I think
40:52
they've done away with it I think so too
40:55
but the point here I can never in my
40:58
wildest imagining hey if a holiday has
41:03
paganism don't do away with it
41:07
violet I know I was gonna nullify it
41:11
I'll which does mean do away with I
41:14
don't it's a weird situation is kind of
41:18
a a concept yeah like just like
41:21
dispensationalism doesn't mean time
41:24
period but that's how it to use right
41:26
mm-hmm so um the whole yeah you it's all
41:34
throughout scripture don't do what the
41:36
pagan heathens are doing so I don't know
41:39
how yeah you have to twist Scripture so
41:43
much to get into to to try to balance
41:50
out the the scales when you're bringing
41:52
stuff up like this yeah agreed
41:55
so then he gets touches the cult subject
41:58
and so and you know as soon as he said
42:00
the word cult
42:01
like wait wait what did you just say
42:03
cult we're going here are we okay we're
42:06
going here alright can let you know and
42:09
then when he went on this to me I you
42:15
know this is a part of it where I start
42:17
to you know to get maybe a little angry
42:19
at him and you know and up until this
42:21
point you know I'm like yeah you know
42:24
he's a guy he he's just like us he
42:27
doesn't have it all figured out but when
42:28
you start going down this road that's
42:30
that's a different tone that's a
42:33
different attitude and I'm like wow and
42:36
he said his quote was a cult cult
42:38
according to Church Fathers
42:40
ding-ding-ding-ding alert red flag
42:43
Church Fathers first off I don't even
42:46
know who you know is he referring to
42:49
mmm-hmm as anyone who denies the
42:52
divinity of Messiah or Trinity and show
42:57
me in Hebrew show me in the Greek where
43:01
you know the concept of the Trinity is
43:05
found and so that mean that that is
43:08
something you've got a research and
43:09
figure out and I will be the first to
43:11
say that is a complicated subject and my
43:15
belief on the Trinity is that we have
43:19
some words to kind of hang on something
43:21
that is so complex that our human feeble
43:24
little human brain can't understand
43:26
because it is such a wild concept and he
43:31
gave us some words in some ways to try
43:33
to try to put a frame around it to help
43:35
us understand what it is and one day
43:37
we're gonna truly find out what all that
43:40
all that meant and we're gonna go oh
43:42
that's how that works
43:43
right and we'll act like we knew it all
43:45
along oh yeah I knew it was something
43:47
like that
43:48
yeah and will be this evening and I
43:50
think I think there are a lot of people
43:51
that do admit that but but well my point
43:54
in all this is we all should use
43:57
scripture over these Church Fathers
44:00
anytime somebody starts bringing up the
44:02
Church Fathers I it does not sit well
44:05
with me and this I knew who are those
44:07
guys who cares what they said just like
44:10
me you shouldn't care what I say or what
44:12
Jake says what
44:14
the texts say that's what matters yeah
44:16
and I think very early on in my walk
44:20
here this before I even knew this Torah
44:26
thing existed I this was kind of one of
44:31
the first questions that kind of I took
44:34
a serious look at the Trinity and what
44:37
what Christianity professed about it and
44:41
that kind of got me down the road of of
44:46
asking more and more questions but and
44:50
this question right here of what a cult
44:54
is and it being defined as denying the
44:57
divinity of Messiah right never once do
45:02
you see someone especially Yeshua when
45:07
people are asking them what do I need to
45:09
do to be saved when they come to Paul
45:11
and say what's the deal what do I got to
45:14
do never once do they say you have to
45:16
believe this yeah
45:18
now in order in order to be in good
45:20
standing so when the church likes not
45:24
like it's a test
45:25
oh so you you want to follow me to
45:28
explain to me how am i you know how can
45:34
I be the the son the father yeah I mean
45:38
you don't see any conversation like
45:40
there's no lift must estimate no yeah we
45:48
have all people and you had plenty of
45:50
opportunity to bring it up yeah and they
45:52
never do and it comes down to this this
45:56
note you put here about I went online
45:59
and I actually googled this where this
46:01
came from and so the first offense that
46:04
the doctorate of Trinity was in the
46:06
early third century by the early church
46:08
father how do you say his name
46:10
Tertullian he explicitly defined the
46:13
treaty as Father Son and Holy Spirit and
46:15
definitive theology against Firaxis
46:17
though he noted the majority of the
46:20
believers in his day found found the
46:22
issue with his doctrine so that's where
46:24
it comes from it comes from that one
46:26
particular person is kind
46:27
yeah you know can consider the father of
46:31
that if you will
46:32
yeah Tertullian it kind of sounds like a
46:35
type of pasta maybe maybe maybe to
46:39
tortellini
46:40
maybe this okay it makes me think of the
46:44
bread and sauce we talked about at some
46:46
point hmm we need to stop doing this one
46:49
we're hungry and I guess so and then you
46:52
know his definition of a cult is anyone
46:56
who claims a belief that theology is
46:59
opposite and you know that one I was
47:03
like okay so maybe you know are you
47:07
saying that Paul himself was was part of
47:11
this because Paul himself says I do what
47:15
I don't want to do and so I'm like do
47:21
you really mean what you're saying there
47:23
because don't we all have beliefs that
47:28
we don't act on and sometimes do the
47:30
opposite and things we know to be true
47:33
and sometimes you know we know we're not
47:35
supposed to we know we're supposed to
47:37
follow the laws of man and we're know
47:39
we're not it's probably supposed to
47:40
speed but just sometimes do you go 70 80
47:43
90 miles an hour
47:46
yep probably you probably do I do so and
47:51
Matt can be found at no I'm so I think
48:00
maybe another way to look at this is
48:03
that perhaps he's he's trying to say
48:07
that you claim that you're a Christian
48:11
see and this is very confusing to me I'm
48:14
not exactly sure where he's trying to go
48:16
assist because they in the video he he
48:19
brings up the example of it's like a
48:21
Christian claiming to be it's like
48:24
someone claiming to be a Christian but
48:26
then doing the opposite things a
48:29
Christian would do and sure but that
48:33
doesn't make it a cult you know and he
48:38
brings up like a Hindu or
48:41
doing the same thing yeah if you're
48:43
claiming to be a Muslim but you do the
48:45
opposite of what a Muslim would do
48:47
that's not what it called it yeah so I
48:49
can remember back in back in the day
48:52
when I was a kid and I was in school and
48:55
I think I was working on a college
48:58
degree and which I did obtain and I
49:01
thank you thank you yeah it's actually
49:04
right there and that that's you you see
49:06
it but but I can remember being in some
49:09
class and we were talking about cults
49:12
for some reason and I can remember the
49:15
definition and isn't passed out some
49:17
kool-aid
49:17
yes they did they and I said I'd pass on
49:21
the blue kool-aid but the but the
49:25
definition of a cult was probably it so
49:27
a sociology class and it might have been
49:29
a class in which we dealt with social
49:31
problems that we saw in society and this
49:35
was about the time of David Koresh and
49:38
because I'm old and but but I can
49:41
remember in that class the definition
49:43
they gave me of a cult was it's
49:47
something that has a very strong a must
49:50
dictator like leader that is charismatic
49:54
and you know gets people to believe in
49:58
this this thing and rallies I'm around
50:01
but the but there's a central figure
50:03
that is the that that's part of the cult
50:07
thing and you know that doesn't that's
50:10
not happening in Hebrew roots there's
50:11
not like one central person there are
50:14
same the leader of yeah mm-hmm it's
50:17
Yeshua yeah no right and there are
50:20
definitely some people that follow
50:21
different things but but yeah I don't
50:25
know any one person that's claiming to
50:27
be the be-all end-all and you have to be
50:30
like them and look like them and I think
50:31
of David Koresh and yeah he was a cult
50:34
leader absolutely and so so can I do
50:38
take offense when you tried to say that
50:41
what we're doing is a part of a cult
50:45
so you serve that this is incorrect and
50:47
and I would be I would love to have the
50:50
discussion with you and explain to you
50:53
what we do
50:55
it looks like and how it is nothing like
50:59
a cult and so I mean if you have watched
51:02
this Ken Johnson and you're kind of on
51:04
the fence about you know this movement
51:07
and what we're doing just know that that
51:09
is that is incorrect this is nothing
51:11
nothing like any of that right and then
51:18
he talks about replacement and you know
51:23
in replacement theology and in the
51:26
Hebrew roots they did you know now I
51:29
can't remember oh so his point on this
51:32
and it was kind of confusing to me could
51:37
because it's not what you typically hear
51:39
he's saying that replacement theology in
51:44
terms of Hebrew roots is that that the
51:49
Hebrew roots people are trying to
51:52
replace the Jews you want real Jews
51:55
right and it's us that are the chosen
51:59
people now growing up my understanding
52:02
of replacement theology was while the
52:05
church replaces it replaces Israel
52:08
essentially so that's to me that's a
52:12
Christian ideology is this replacement
52:14
yeah it's enough of Christianity yeah to
52:17
me it is definitely so when I heard him
52:19
bring this up pointing it at Hebrew
52:22
roots it didn't make much sense to me
52:25
mmm-hmm yeah because he said that Hebrew
52:28
roots denied user Jews claim Paul is
52:32
apostate claim no new covenant
52:34
replacement theology and you know yes
52:39
I've heard some people be very very
52:41
harsh on Paul and and make those claims
52:44
but but but that doesn't mean that every
52:48
person that is in Hebrew roots thinks
52:51
that about Paul I think Paul with it
52:53
that's a mainstream yeah yeah that is
52:56
very much a minority opinion and and
52:59
most of us go Paul is was very smart and
53:03
he understood this Torah at a level that
53:08
I think
53:08
that yeshua wants us all to be ad yeah
53:11
but step one is you have to know the
53:14
Torah and Paul knew it yeah it's you
53:17
can't know what Paul wrote until you
53:20
read what he's read exactly you could
53:22
put that it's gonna be on our next shirt
53:23
right there that's right mm-hmm I mean
53:26
say why for in the Sabbath Island shop
53:28
yes also would have to be coming up soon
53:31
if that'd be coming soon yes No yeah
53:36
early on I was seeing people that were
53:39
like if you look at the black Hebrew
53:43
Israelites hmm they're kind of in this
53:45
deny the Jews arduous situation and and
53:49
I started calling around on the
53:52
fellowship finders and I I'd hear people
53:57
say well you know we we don't even think
54:00
the New Testaments valid anymore and
54:02
they would take Paul right and we'll
54:05
take Paul out of it so I was hearing
54:08
these things ruin people that were now I
54:10
won't say they were Hebrew roots because
54:12
I didn't ask them and they were confused
54:15
yeah but so early on and even now I
54:21
don't necessarily tie myself to Hebrews
54:23
but of the people that I know that do
54:27
right it's they're not saying this stuff
54:30
yeah no hmm so so I don't know yeah well
54:37
then how do you say that word right
54:39
there
54:40
suppression ISM supersessionism that's
54:44
it yes yeah replacement theology is a
54:47
Christian doctrine ding-ding-ding just
54:49
what you said it's a Christian doctrine
54:51
which asserts that the New Covenant
54:53
through Jesus Christ Sir Percy
54:55
supersedes the Old Covenant which made
54:58
excuses
54:58
exclusively for the Jewish people in
55:01
Christian I say it supersessionism
55:06
humanity supersessionism yeah is a
55:08
theology view on the current status of
55:12
the church in relation to Jewish people
55:13
in Judaism it holds the Christian Church
55:15
has succeeded the Israelites is the
55:18
definitive people of God so it's exactly
55:21
what you were saying
55:22
that that it is confusing because that I
55:26
just went and googled replacement
55:29
theology and I'm pretty sure that came
55:31
up and brought maybe the Wikipedia page
55:33
is pretty easy to find that I'm like
55:35
well what are you talking about cuz
55:37
seems the opposite of what you just said
55:39
can ya please define that can and then
55:43
Gary Stearman goes on to talk about law
55:45
vs. grace and a paradigm shift is needed
55:49
right so my my idea is that there's a
55:57
paradigm shift needed Gary Stevens idea
56:01
is and there's always this we have to be
56:06
there has to be this conflict between
56:09
law and grace
56:10
it's either law or its grace so you can
56:13
can be both right and the paradigm shift
56:16
is we need to come away from this law
56:18
versus grace it's how do they work
56:21
together
56:22
yeah because otherwise you're lawless
56:27
right Hebrews says that you don't want
56:31
to insult the spirit of grace right Paul
56:35
says all the time shall we continue in
56:38
sin that grace may abound that's
56:40
insulting the spirit of grace by the way
56:42
he says by no means right so do not
56:45
continue transgressing the law just
56:48
because you have grace if you're doing
56:50
that you're insulting the spirit of
56:52
grace and Hebrews a very harsh about the
56:56
people doing that and it's it's that in
57:00
the it's in the context of the person
57:04
who falls away from the faith
57:08
hashtag once saved always saved right oh
57:10
my gosh don't even get me started on
57:13
that I remember I've heard that
57:15
conversation recently where people are
57:17
like one side always say I'm just like
57:20
well I can't even can't even go into
57:23
this but but this law verse is a grace
57:27
thing - it's like you you don't know
57:29
what happened at Mount Sinai do you you
57:33
forgot the
57:35
there was this calf and the people made
57:38
it literally while Moses is that they're
57:42
getting probably at the very moment when
57:45
they when the commandment is read about
57:49
not making and having any other God
57:52
before him
57:53
that's about the minute this probably
57:55
went down yeah and and the father comes
58:00
down on the mountain is like Moses look
58:02
at those people your people down there
58:05
and he was ready to wipe him out and
58:08
because Moses who represents a type and
58:11
shadow of Yeshua himself steps in and
58:14
goes hey wait a minute wait a minute
58:15
this this I get it you're right you
58:19
could destroy them all and repopulate
58:21
this whole thing and start over with me
58:23
yes yes it could be done but you know
58:26
that's grace that's that's that's the
58:29
that's exactly and people forget that
58:32
they just think everything in the Old
58:34
Testament is nothing but law yeah and
58:37
harsh and you know I talked to I like
58:41
that by the way that's a good it's law
58:43
and grace happening at the same exact
58:45
time yeah that's a good point but yeah I
58:48
just talked to someone today about how
58:52
we were talking about New Covenant
58:55
because I've been having a discussion
59:00
with someone else about it and currently
59:02
I'm a little misunderstood on my
59:04
standing on that but that's off topic
59:07
but the point being I brought up well so
59:14
the Old Covenant is is likened to law
59:18
it's you know tied together with the law
59:21
and the New Covenant is tied together
59:22
with grace right it's this age of grace
59:26
right so I said well wasn't there
59:33
grace before and this person didn't know
59:38
about grace and mercy in the Old
59:42
Testament it's all over the daily now
59:44
that existed yeah
59:46
yeah so it's everywhere it's not a New
59:50
Testament concept it's a reminding
59:54
people there is grace and mercy mm-hmm
59:57
no and it's a physical playing out of
60:02
that grace and mercy no no for sure
60:06
Gary's sermon also taught okay so we're
60:09
gonna go back to the holiday thing and
60:11
at some point Gary sermon says if it's a
60:14
secular holiday it's perfectly fine
60:16
right there's no rule against secular
60:19
holiday and my thing is who says that
60:22
who says right I
60:26
I know scripture doesn't say that yes
60:29
no there isn't there there's never
60:33
grounds to be secular right it's you're
60:36
never okay now you can be doing secular
60:40
things right it's not it's not a thing
60:44
let's do a mean it's okay for your kids
60:46
to watch the Disney that's what the
60:51
going rate is apparently yeah they're
60:54
all about family it's family right it's
60:57
just a secular family thing yes and
61:00
there was a time when I used to think
61:01
that about Disney and had no clue and
61:04
then when my eyes were opened I was like
61:06
oh my gosh yeah definitely so if you've
61:11
never looked into that look into that
61:13
and then so he goes in and he talks more
61:17
about he talked about the pan
61:20
Babylonians everything was pagan and
61:23
they talked about the Nullification and
61:26
then he talked about how at some point
61:29
in here at the conversation about 1959
61:32
it so it's about the nineteen minute
61:34
mark in that video where you start to
61:36
see this and he talked about the
61:39
Christmas tree and how it wasn't it's
61:42
not the Asscher pole so those those of
61:45
you that have read Jeremiah where it
61:47
says they cut down the tree and off
61:50
dawned you know thought it was silly
61:53
yeah
61:54
they dust on his some doth word in there
61:57
yeah and any
61:59
like that Christmas tree that's not that
62:03
because that was a living shrine yeah so
62:09
and and when you cut down the tree it's
62:13
no longer living
62:14
it can't be an Asscher a tree and then
62:18
my question is this why do you water the
62:22
tree when you cut it and put it in your
62:24
house and so I'm like so I would tell
62:28
you Ken Johnson I used to be a science
62:30
teacher and so Ken please explain to me
62:32
I mean I understand kind of what you're
62:34
trying to say but do this little
62:36
experiment at home mr. Johnson is take a
62:40
piece of celery and put it in a glass of
62:44
kool-aid and you know see what happens
62:48
with the xylem and phylum that are in
62:50
the celery in you talent you know yes it
62:54
technically is not alive anymore but
62:56
somehow it transports material so it's
63:00
veins somehow it continues to live yes
63:03
yes just like this Christmas tree
63:05
somehow soaks up the water into its
63:09
system so you know it isn't a stage of
63:14
life still yes still I mean sure it's
63:19
struggling for gasping for water
63:22
apparently then yeah you can you can see
63:25
it's still taking in nourishment mm-hmm
63:28
and then that quote there - that made me
63:32
chuckle - there's nothing pagan to it
63:35
I'm like well maybe your definition of
63:38
pagan is different than my definition of
63:40
pagan I don't know pretty pagan quite
63:44
pain you show me in scripture where it
63:46
says hey you guys you know what this is
63:50
how you know and now that Yeshua is no
63:54
longer with us
63:54
this is how we're gonna celebrate him is
63:57
we're gonna go cut a tree down and bring
64:00
it in our house and put some lights on
64:01
it and we're gonna say this is him hmm
64:05
there's no scripture that even remotely
64:08
talks about it except for Jeremiah and
64:11
it clearly says
64:12
don't cut tree and do something with it
64:15
and so I'm gonna lean to Jeremiah on
64:18
this and go there's something there that
64:20
I'm not supposed to do yeah and even if
64:22
you don't even if you don't see Jeremiah
64:25
that way it says don't worship me you
64:29
know the way that the heathens worship
64:31
their gods mm-hmm and clearly we can
64:35
look in history this is a way that the
64:37
heathens would worship their gods
64:39
clearly it's not the way
64:40
Yeshua worshiped it's not the way Paul
64:43
worship mm-hmm Paul says walk as I walk
64:46
as I walk as Messiah walks right I says
64:49
walk as I walk none of them will walk in
64:51
over to the old Christmas tree no no
64:55
they weren't and they certainly weren't
64:56
bowing down to it getting their presence
64:58
and once again it's not an idol but
65:01
people do bow down to it put their head
65:04
down low as they reach down to get the
65:07
presence tell me that's not bowing so
65:11
and then you know he went on to talk
65:16
about at some point they even there was
65:20
a monk who used a Christmas tree put it
65:22
upside down to teach the Trinity barely
65:27
birth Martin Luther was quoted at some
65:28
point saying there's nothing pagan with
65:30
it you know church father said it
65:36
no it must must be true so what it said
65:39
so shall it be done yes yes I think
65:42
that's the way it goes right that's the
65:44
quote that's how they say in
65:45
Pennsylvania anyway yeah mm-hmm but but
65:50
definitely research if you've never
65:51
researched the Christmas tree and pagan
65:54
traditions you should do that because
65:57
you know that did raise a lot of
65:59
questions for me because I I always knew
66:03
that issue wasn't born on December 25th
66:06
and and in Natalie they even say this in
66:09
that video you know and yes correct
66:12
but there is no scripture that you can
66:16
convince me that the traditions and the
66:21
things that we do at Christmas are
66:22
things that are commanded
66:24
and that we're supposed to do now I
66:27
there now I know there's like warnings
66:33
and stuff that Yeshua and Paul give its
66:38
although with Old Testament but but just
66:41
to be on the same page with someone who
66:43
would be talking about this is there
66:46
somewhere where it might say that
66:52
holding to the traditions of men or
66:54
something not that is a good thing not a
66:57
good thing it's always right was a bad
67:00
thing and clearly if nothing else on its
67:06
face you'd have to say this is a
67:07
tradition of man for sure yeah at the
67:10
very that's your low bar mm-hmm and that
67:14
is an argument I've had with people
67:16
before where I've said show me in
67:18
scripture where I'm supposed to worship
67:19
baby Jesus in the manger and always you
67:22
know everything goes back to tell the
67:24
good nights in my life and wait no what
67:27
and in that moment of dear baby Jesus
67:31
six pound 8 ounces laying there in the
67:34
manger you know unfortunately that movie
67:39
in that section did strike such a chord
67:42
about how people want to think about
67:44
Jesus you know he's a little baby he's
67:46
cute he's harmless she can kind of
67:48
cuddle him in your arms and that's
67:51
that's where they want to keep him at
67:52
you know they want to keep him right
67:54
there that's easy until that's part of
67:56
the you know what happens at Christmas
67:58
is there that's the part of him they
68:01
want to remember they don't like to talk
68:03
about the part of him when he's riding
68:05
the white horse and the blood comes up
68:07
to its bridle that they don't know that
68:10
guy yeah literally
68:12
right so and they're gonna be surprised
68:15
when they see him and the other thing I
68:18
think you've gotta research is go back
68:20
and look at that Golden Calf story and
68:21
that's what really did it for me is when
68:23
I started looking at that story and
68:25
realized that people build this calf you
68:28
know first they go to Aaron and they're
68:29
like Aaron no Buster's calf and then and
68:32
then there's so many questions I have
68:34
about that story where I'm like Aaron
68:37
where
68:38
seems like a pretty stand-up guy and
68:40
he's like okay that people would do this
68:43
I'm like what happened are you afraid
68:46
they're we're gonna kill you then maybe
68:48
he was I don't know
68:50
well to hear his side he just threw the
68:52
goals in and hops you just pop right out
68:54
but when the people are like we did this
68:57
in honor of you you know that's exactly
69:00
what they say and you know it goes into
69:03
that argument of what people say about
69:05
Christmas is it's not how it's it's how
69:09
I make it that's what it means
69:11
yeah yeah I think yeah we lose focus on
69:17
lose track of the fact that it doesn't
69:19
matter how we look at it it's how does
69:21
he look at it and I got an experiment
69:23
for you Jake to try this and so you're a
69:26
married man
69:27
and you definitely have loved other
69:28
loved ones in your in your life but you
69:31
know the wife is this important thing
69:33
and sometimes this man you know we
69:35
definitely don't want to be like our oh
69:38
excuse me our grandfathers and fathers
69:41
that we're like woman I told you I love
69:44
you 35 years ago and I'll let you know
69:47
if that changes so you know I don't know
69:50
anyone i don't recommend taking that
69:55
approach in case you know it's probably
69:58
not gonna go well but you know the
70:01
little experiment that you can do to see
70:04
if does it matter what your intent is
70:07
versus what the card is you know there
70:09
was a time in my life when I get so
70:11
annoyed and let go it certain holidays I
70:14
used to celebrate who I don't celebrate
70:16
anymore and all these people are
70:18
standing looking at these gift cards and
70:19
they're just reading them and picking
70:21
them up and then it's taken forever for
70:23
these people to make a decision and if
70:26
you haven't noticed sometimes I can be a
70:28
pretty decisive clear and cut and to the
70:30
point person and I remember thinking it
70:33
was a lot of fun I have the kids up with
70:35
me and like my kids watch this and I
70:37
just close my eyes I'd go right up to
70:39
the card rack and just be like yep
70:43
that's what that's what mom gets I just
70:46
close my eyes and pick it out and if it
70:47
says happy birthday son
70:50
mom this guy didn't wanna stand there
70:53
forever it became kind of a fun thing
70:57
but I got lots of laughs out of it but I
71:01
can tell you that you know when I give
71:03
that to my wife and and I take a sharpie
71:06
and go um scratch that out wife yeah and
71:11
give that to her you know it just it's
71:12
not quite the same same and so so I
71:16
don't really get to take something that
71:19
is pagan and mark it up and change it
71:22
and and then give it to them and go this
71:26
is what I mean yes he doesn't have to
71:28
accept what you're offering yeah yeah
71:31
yeah and in my wife and no way you know
71:34
thought it was funny my kids thought it
71:36
was funny and I like telling that story
71:38
but but yeah she was not amused and I
71:42
didn't earn points with her but I mean
71:45
that's just that's just what I did
71:48
gasps so anyway it is kind of a fun
71:54
thing to try as a social experiment okay
71:56
we'll see if that happens
71:58
yeah Andy Andy really shows in him since
72:01
you said how well it turned out yes yes
72:03
and you really show them who's boss when
72:06
you do that the people standing around
72:08
trying to figure out what card to get
72:10
they don't even notice
72:11
yeah I bet in my mind it seems like this
72:14
great thing and they're just like oh he
72:18
rules it there he's in charge yes I'm a
72:23
legend in my own mind Jake yes so it's a
72:29
small place so and I theta peers this is
72:33
our last of my slide won't go anymore so
72:37
was there anything I'm looking back at
72:40
my notes and you know this video is
72:43
about 25 minutes and
72:48
so anyway well yeah we noticed some
72:52
issues that were brought up and some
72:54
falsehoods being spread about Hebrew
72:56
roots and so we wanted to kind of
72:59
address it and once again I do reach out
73:02
to Gary Stearman in Ken Johnson and I
73:04
would love to have them talk to us about
73:08
these things and I am by no means I'm
73:10
trying to spread hate I'm not trying to
73:13
spread rumors I'm not trying to spread
73:16
gossip I would love to have face-to-face
73:19
conversation with them about who we are
73:21
what we do and I think they're all
73:24
confused about these things and yeah and
73:26
so anyway I think that's it yeah and I
73:31
think I think we covered it all right
73:34
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74:06
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74:12
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74:21
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