2. 2 222 PENING low the Shofar

3. 3 333 PENING Why do we blow the Shofar? Exodus 19:16 “On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and there was the sounding of a very loud SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.” Because this is the way G-D begins sacred assemblies

4. 4 4444 HEMA ISRAEL Hear oh Israel Shema Israel Adoni Elohaynu ( Hear oh Israel the L-RD our G-D) Adoni Echad ( The L-RD is one )

5. 5 5555 hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA? Because Messiah said it was the greatest Commandment Mark 12:28-29 28And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “ Which is the greatest commandment of all ?” 29And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:”

6. 6 66 e-nay Ma Tov Behold how good - Psalm 133:1 Am He-Nay Maw tove Behold how good Oo-maw nye—eem And how pleasant it is Shevet aw-heem For brothers to dwell Gum Yaw Hawd In unity

7. 7 77 men CL 3 A A-men ….A-men….A-men, A-men, A-men Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Blessed be the Name, blessed be the Name Baw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-ach Blessed be the Name of Messiah

8. 8 88 -Seh Shalom CL3 Play Em Em O-seh Shalom Beem rue-mawv Am D7 G Em Who yah-seh Shalom aw-lay-nu Am D7 G V'al kol Yees-raw-ale Em Am Em Bf7 Em B'-eem rue Eem rue Ah- main -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Em Am D7 G Ya-a-seh sha-lom Ya-a-seh sha-lom G Bf7 Em Shalom aw-lay-new V’al kol Yees-raw-ale Sing twice 2X

9. 9 ring our gifts to the altar We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise Unto the House of the LORD (2 X) And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with thanksgiving And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with joy

10. 10 Parsha 29 May 2010 - Behaalotecha Torah: Num. 8:1-12:16Torah: Num. 8:1-12:16 Haftarah: Zech. 2:14-4:7Haftarah: Zech. 2:14-4:7 Brit Hadashah: Rev. 11:1-19Brit Hadashah: Rev. 11:1-19 We read: Num 1-14We read: Num 1-14 Zech 2 1-17 (whole chapter)Zech 2 1-17 (whole chapter) Rev 11 1-19 (whole ChapterRev 11 1-19 (whole Chapter

11. eview It was called the “Oral” Law because it was passed down from generation to generation orally. But it was never designed to be binding!

12. eview Yeshua called the Mishna “The traditions of the Elders”. These traditions are “fences” around the Torah put there as a guard for protection for us. Yeshua even quotes from the Rabbis of the Mishna including Rabbi Hillel. We have to remember that Yeshua Himself said “Do as the Pharisees say”.

13. eview The Mishna is a commentary on the Torah and the Gamara is a commentary on the Mishna. Together, they make up the Talmud.

14. eview The Talmud is not without it’s faults. There are inaccurate facts/data and even moral problems with some of it’s writers.

15. We talked about some of the Rabbis of the Mishna like Rabbi Hillel, Rabbi Gamaliel and Rabbi Eliezer (who was more then likely a Believer in Yeshua). We also learned that the word Talmud comes from the word “study” or “learn” in Hebrew. eview

16. We also learned that there are 2 Talmuds. The Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud. And the man who put together the Babylonian Talmud was Judah HaNasi. (In Talmud 101 class 9 we discuss the Jerusalem Talmud) eview

17. The Mishna has 6 Sederim (Seder = Orders) or books and they have tractates or essays within each order. eview

18. Then we studied about the Nazerite vow in tractate Nazir of the Talmud. We learned there was a life long vow and a temporary vow that couldn’t be under 30 days. We also looked at a few Biblical Characters who took the vow like Samuel and Samson as well as their mothers. eview

19. We read some New Testament passages that showed the vow being kept by Believers AFTER the death and resurrection of Yeshua. That in turn leads us to the conclusion that it can also be kept today. eview

20. his Class Love of Talmud What is Kabala Hebrew idioms and customs. Introduction to The Zugote! More about the Tannaim. Meet “The Other”

21. Love of Talmud The Talmud is more then just a book of rulings. It records the thoughts of over two thousand years of the national life of the Jewish people. Many of our oral traditions were carefully gathered, preserved and endeared by the people. To the untrained eye it may at first seem tangled and confused

22. Love of Talmud But to the student it is a logical work which compares, investigates develops and instructs. It also at times is imaginative and poetic. It has extended commentaries, occurrences affecting those who prepared it Philosophical treaties, stories, traditions and parables.

23. Love of Talmud It’s masters were often martyred and their academies destroyed even outlawed but for every Rabbi killed and every Yeshiva burned to the ground 3 new ones sprang up. These Rabbis of the Talmud were incredible men In order to be eligible as one of these Masters they had to be linguists…

24. Love of Talmud Masters in science, mathematics, botany, natural history and also familiar with the arts. Now, it’s often taught that Rabbi simply means “teacher”. That grossly minimizes and understates the position. One didn’t become Rabbi easily.

25. Love of Talmud In the minds of the people this was the greatest of all ranks even higher then a priest or a noble.

26. Love of Talmud The Talmud is where we can meet the minds of ancient Jews and sages who have tried to encounter G-d in intellect and spirit.

27. Love of Talmud It also gives a peak into Judaic humor… for example. There’s a famous, funny story… A Talmudic teacher from Odessa received permission to visit Moscow. He got on the train and found his seat At the next stop a young man got on and sat next to him. The Talmudic scholar looked at him and thought, “This fellow doesn’t look like a peasant… If he isn't a peasant he probably comes from this district. He must be Jewish since after all this is a Jewish district. So if he’s a Jew where could he be going? I’m the only one in our district who has permission to go to Moscow. Wait, just outside of Moscow is a little village called Samvet

28. Love of Talmud And you don’t need special permission to go there. But why would he be going to Samvet? Oh he’s probably going to visit one of the Jewish families there. But how many Jewish families are there in Samvet? There’s only 2, the Bernsteins and the Steinbergs. The Bernsteins, oy what a terrible family they are. He must be going to see the Steinbergs. But why is he going? The Steinbergs only have girls… unless he’s married to one of them. So which daughter did he marry?

29. Love of Talmud Sarah married a lawyer from Budapest and Esther married a businessman from Zhadomir. So it must be Sarah's husband which means his name is Alexander Cohen if I’m not mistaken. But if he comes from Budapest, with all the anti- Semitism there he must've changed his name. What’s the hungarian equivalent of Cohen? It’s Kovac! But if he changed his name he must have some kind of special status, probably a doctorate from a university.” At this point the Talmudist turned to the young man and said, How do you do Dr. Kovac?” The startled man said “I’m fine thankyou, but how do you know my name?

30. Love of Talmud The Talmudist said, “Oh, it’s obvious”.

31. Love of Talmud The Talmud almost invites you to participate in it’s discussions and some of the matters are left unresolved. The rule is that every opinion is to be treated with respect, but we don’t always see that for example between the house of Shammai and the house of Hillel at times. But it should be noted that Hillel and Shammai were actually friends.

32. Kabala Is NOT Talmud There are many layers to the Talmud not as many as the Bible of course but still many layers. Unfortunately there are many Talmudists today who dig down too far and try to uncover layers that aren’t there. Those talmudists eventually go into Kabala and Zohar.

33. Kabala Is NOT Talmud You may have heard of Kabala. Many movie stars and musicians claim to be Kabalists.

34. Kabala Is NOT Talmud They’re really not Kabalists, they’re getting a very watered down version of Kabala but they donate a lot of money (Madonna 5 million so far) so the Kabalist teachers humor them.

35. Kabala Is NOT Talmud What the word Kabala means is “receiving” and what it teaches is Jewish mysticism. It derives from a collection of books called the Zohar which means “splender” in Hebrew. It was written by a man named Moses de Leon in the 13 th century AD. He said he found these ancient writings and that they dated to antiquity.

36. Kabala Is NOT Talmud Moses deLeon wrote these works himself and even his wife said that the writings were false after he passed away. Most Jewish scholars today are well aware that these writings are fake as do most Kabalists but these Kabalists still think Kabala is relevant.

37. Kabala Is NOT Talmud The point is, it is important to understand that Kabala and Talmud are not the same thing and do not go hand in hand as many Kabalists profess. Now let’s look at some Hebrew idioms.

38. Hebrew Idioms Matt 6: 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Eyes are the window to the mind? What does this mean???

39. Hebrew Idioms A good eye in Hebrew means to be generous. An evil eye means to be stingy. The Bible and the words of the Rabbis explain this clearly. "he that has a good eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor," Proverbs 22:9 The Talmud says…

40. Hebrew Idioms A good eye gave fortieth, the house of Shammai say, the thirtieth part; a middling one, the fiftieth; and an evil one, the sixtieth part," Mishnah Trumopt, 4:3. The Talmud tells of 'trading, dedicating' and 'giving with a good or an evil eye’.

41. Hebrew Idioms Now understand… And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee Matthew 18:9 Yeshua wasn’t saying we should mutilate ourselves. He was saying be generous!

42. Hebrew Idioms Here's another idiom (Gen 29:31) And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. Seems clear, Jacob hated Leah.

43. Hebrew Idioms But here's the problem, the verse right before it says that he loved Leah. That's very confusing if you don't understand the idiom here. In Hebrew the word “hate” can sometimes mean "loves less", it depends on the context.

44. Hebrew Idioms So that piece of information comes in handy when we read in the New Testament in Luke (Luk 14:26) If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

45. Hebrew Idioms Yeshua was only saying that you have to love Him more then anyone else. You have to love him more then even yourself. He doesn’t want us to “hate” our families, only love them less then we love Him.

46. Hebrew Idioms G-d did hate Esau, he considered him a profane man. Love is not in the context. And remember there are different words for hate in Hebrew.

47. Hebrew Idioms Now lets look at an ancient Hebrew custom and see what we can find. Mat 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Mat 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

48. Hebrew Idioms A Pastor friend of mine asked me one day about this verse he said, "Ya know. I understand that we're supposed to make Jesus number one in our lives, but every time I read this passage it makes me feel like Jesus was being too hard on this man. He lost his dad and all he wanted to do was bury him. Couldn't Jesus have allowed him that one courtesy?".

49. Hebrew Idioms I felt bad when he asked me because he had obviously struggled over this passage for some time and he couldn't reconcile it or make any sense of it. But if he had known about Jewish custom, this passage would've made better sense to him. Yeshua wasn't saying here, “Don't bury your dad!”

50. Hebrew Idioms Matter of fact, the Bible says we should honor our mother and our father. (Deu 5:16) Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. That's one of the Ten Commandments! If you left dad out to rot, is that honoring your father?

51. Hebrew Idioms But in first century Judaism when a person died they would put them in a tomb. Then after the body had decomposed, they would collect the bones and put them in an ossuary (burial box), this was called the “second burial”.

52. Hebrew Idioms It took a long time for the body to decompose, many, many months. So they would often leave the bones for 1 year or more all together.

53. Hebrew Idioms So this man was really saying, “Let me take a year off, I'll do the second burial then I'll follow you." This second burial was not Biblical, it had a PAGAN ORIGIN And Yeshua spoke against it here. Yeshua doesn't like things that are rooted in Paganism. So He wasn't saying, “don't bury your dad”.

54. Hebrew Idioms He was saying, “Don't take a whole year before you become one of My disciples AND don't practice this pagan ritual of a second burial.”

55. Hebrew Idioms One last item to look at today. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven” I’m sure you’ve heard many different teachings on this one like:

56. Hebrew Idioms “One of the gates of the old city walls was called “The Needle Gate” and it was too small for a camel to go through” Variations on this theme include that of ancient inns having small entrances to thwart thieves,

57. Hebrew Idioms Or the story of an old mountain pass known as the "eye of the needle", so narrow that merchants would have to dismount from their camels and were thus easier prey for brigands lying in wait. Though these make for wonderful illustrations and Sunday morning sermons…

58. Hebrew Idioms There was no such gate or pass etc. We know each and every gate that was in the walls and none of them were called “The Needle Gate”. There is no evidence of a pass with such a name, it’s all a myth. Again the problem comes from not knowing Hebrew

59. Hebrew Idioms In Hebrew the word for “camel” is the same as it is for “rope”. It’s obvious that the Greek translator of the New Testament got the words mixed up from the original Hebrew and translated gamal to “camel” instead of to “rope”. Yet more evidence of an original Hebrew text.

60. Hebrew Idioms Which makes for the common Hebrew idiom, “It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle then for (fill in the blank here with anything that would prove difficult ie a Preacher to get his facts straight).

61. Hebrew Idioms A typo destroys many a “God breathed sermon”. Why are so many “words from the Lord” incorrect? And why is it so often accompanied by “the anointing”? See Idoms page See previous graphic

62. Meet The Zugot! Before the Tannaim were the Zugot! The Zugot refers to the period between 300 BCE - 70 CE Zugot in Hebrew means “pairs” two of them always stood at the same time at the head of the Sanhedrin, one as president ("nasi") and the other as vice-president. There were 5 pairs of Zugot.

63. Meet The Zugot! The period of the Zugot begins with Yose b. Yoezer and Yose b. Yohanan and ends with Hillel and Shammai. (Hillel and Shamai were the last of the Zugote and the first of the Tannaim.) So lets look at the first of these Zugote

64. Meet The Zugot! Yose b. Yoezer and Yose b. Yohanan ruled during the Maccabean wars. This was the time of Chanukah. Yose belonged to the party of the Chasidim, and was a decided adversary of Hellenism. Not only Hellenism but any kind of assimilation. He was against Jews living outside of Israel

65. Meet The Zugot! He declared all other countries unclean! (Shab. 46a). He’s also the one responsible for declaring glass to be Levitically unclean (because it was generally made by pagans). The next pair of Zugot extended it to metal as well.

66. Meet The Zugot! On most other rulings he wasn’t very strict at all and was nicknamed “Sharaya” which means “one who permits”

67. Meet The Zugot! Yose ben Yoezer was distinguished for his piety, and is called “The pious of the priesthood“. He professed great veneration for scholars, one of his sayings being: "Let thy house be a meeting-place for the wise; powder thyself in the dust of their feet, and drink their words with eagerness" (Abot iv. 4).

68. Meet The Zugot! Yose didn’t meet with a good end. Yose was among the sixty pious men who, at the instigation of the evil high priest Alcimus (traitor), were crucified by a Syrian general (I Macc. vii. 16). On Yose’s way to being crucified the evil Alcimus said to Yose….

69. Meet The Zugot! "See the profit and honors that have fallen to my lot in consequence of what I have done, whilst thou, for thy obstinacy, hast the misfortune to die as a criminal." Yose, quietly replied, “If such is the lot of those who anger God, what shall be the lot of those who accomplish His will?" Alcimus said to him "Is there any one who accomplished His will more than thou?"

70. Meet The Zugot! Yose said "If this is the end of those who accomplish His will, what awaits those who anger Him?"

71. Meet The Zugot! Yosi b. Yohanan President of the Sanhedrin in the second century B.C. and also a native of Jerusalem. Yosi taught on generosity. One of Yosi's sayings was: "Let thy house be opened wide; and let the needy be thy household (Abot i. 5).

72. Meet The Zugot! Even though Yosi B. Yochanan disagreed with Yosi b. Yoezer on many things, he did agree with him that countries other then Israel were “unclean”.

73. Meet The Zugot! The next set of Zugot were Joshua b. Perachyah and Nittai of Arbela. Joshua b. Perachyah was known for his teachings on gentleness in judgment and friendship and this comes across in one of his most famous sayings… Get thee a teacher; win thee a friend; and in judging incline toward the side of innocence

74. Meet The Zugot! When John Hyrcanus began persecuting the Pharisees, Joshua b. Perachyah fled to Alexandria; but he was recalled to Jerusalem when the persecutions ceased and the Pharisees again triumphed over the Sadducees (Sotah 47a,

75. Meet The Zugot! Nittai of Arbela (Mattai) He taught against being unequally yoked. Not only in marriage but in all one’s dealings and associations. He wrote… “Withdraw thyself from an evil neighbor and join not thyself unto the wicked.”

76. Meet The Zugot! He was a bit harsher then his counterpart, Joshua b. Perachyah, so we see a kind of Hillel/Shammai thing starting to take place in the Zugot at that time

77. Meet The Zugot! The next set of Zugot was Judah b. Tabbai and Simeon b. Shetach. Judah b. Tabbai once made a mistake and sentenced an innocent man to death. He then resolved to judge only according to Simeon b. Shetach.

78. Meet The Zugot! After this incident the Talmud says you could often find Judah at the gravesite weeping over the innocent man.

79. Meet The Zugot! Simeon b. Shetach had to flee as well from the Sadduceean persecutions but when he was able to return he became president of the Sanhedrin.

80. Meet The Zugot! Powers often shifted back and forth between the 2 parties. After Simeon took back control he discarded the penal code which the Sadducees had introduced as a supplement to the Biblical code. So not only the Pharisees had a supplement to Scripture, so did the Sadducees (Karaite).

81. Meet The Zugot! By restoring Pharisaic rules and regulations he was called “The Restorer of the Law”

82. Meet The Zugot! The last pair of Zugot before Hillel and Shammai were Shemaiah and Abtalion Shemaiah (“whom Yehovah heard”) was president of the Sanhedrin before and during part of the reign of Herod

83. Meet The Zugot! He and his colleague Abtalion are termed in Pes. 66a the "gedole ha-dor" (the great men of the age) Now you might recall my teaching on Herod the Great When I explained how in the beginning of Herod’s reign (before he was King), Herod was brought before the Sanhedrin

84. Meet The Zugot! because Herod on his own responsibility had put to death the leader of the national party in Galilee, Hyrcanus permitted the Sanhedrin to cite him before the tribunal. Herod appeared, but in royal purple robes, whereat the members of the Sanhedrin lost courage. But one of the Rabbis stood up and said ore:

85. Meet The Zugot! “He who is summoned here on a capital charge appears like one who would order us to execution straightway if we should pronounce him guilty. Yet I can blame him less than you, since ye permit such a travesty of justice. Know then that he before whom ye now tremble will some day deliver you to the executioner."

86. Meet The Zugot! The Rabbi who said this was Rabbi Shemaiah. You can find this account in Sanh. 19 in the Talmud as well as in Josephus, "Ant.“ His (Rabbi Shemaiah) favorite teaching was “Love handicraft, shun power, and make for thyself no friends of worldly might.” It was because of Rabbi Shemaiah that Rabbi Hillel was appointed Nasi of the Sanhedrin.

87. Meet The Zugot! What happened was Rabbi Hillel was returning to Jerusalem for one of the Feasts. Shemaiah and Abtalion had passed away quite some time before and the sons of Bathyra had taken over as the leaders of the Sanhedrin. The problem with these sons was they weren’t good at leading, they didn’t know Scripture as well as the people thought they did and the Sanhedrin was looking to replace them.

88. Meet The Zugot! Hillel had been a disciple of Shemaiah and when he came to Jerusalem there was a discussion in the Temple concerning the Passover Lamb.

89. Meet The Zugot! It was basically a discussion concerning if one could do the work necessary to prepare the sacrificial lamb on the Sabbath. And they took this matter to the sons of Bathyra and they didn’t know and couldn’t remember what the ruling was. So they asked “Does anybody know the answer to this?”

90. Meet The Zugot! Well, someone in the crowd piped up and said “there is a man who has come from Babylonia he is called Hillel the Babylonian. He was a pupil of Shemaiah. He may remember and perhaps he can help us”

91. Meet The Zugot! So Hillel was brought before them and he recited all the necessary laws and rulings and even all the various arguments from each side of the issue and the Sanhedrin were highly highly impressed. Even the sons of Bathyra were amazed and they made Hillel Nasi right on the spot. His memory had paid off well here.

92. Meet The Zugot! But the story is kind of ironic because Hillel later became notorious for his terrible memory. Soon after he was appointed a question was brought to him they said “Master, what is the Law if a man brings a slaughtering knife on Shabbat, is he allowed to carry it?”

93. Meet The Zugot! Hillel’s reply was, “I know I have heard this ruling before but I’ve forgotten it. Leave this to the people of Israel, even though they are not prophets, they are the sons of prophets and surely in practice they’ll know what to do”. The Life and Teachings of Hillel By Yitzhak Buxbaum

94. Meet The Zugot! Abtalion Abtalion and his colleague Shemaiah are the first to bear the title darshan (Pes. 70a — meaning "preacher"), It was probably by no mere chance that their pupil Hillel was the first to lay down hermeneutic rules for the interpretation of the Midrash;

95. Meet The Zugot! Although Shemaiah was an enemy of King Herod, Abtalion was a friend of the King. (He may have been a direct descendent of Sennacharib King of Syria.) Abtalion used his influence with the people in persuading the men of Jerusalem, in the year 37 BC, to open the gates of their city to Herod the Great. The king was not ungrateful and rewarded Abtalion with honors.

96. Meet The Zugot! Abtalion taught on the importance of proper doctrine. We see this reflected in his saying… Ye wise men, be careful of your words, lest ye draw upon yourselves the punishment of exile and be banished to a place of bad water (dangerous doctrine), and your disciples, who come after you, drink thereof and die, and the name of the Holy One thereby be profaned."

97. Meet The Zugot! So that’s a brief description of the Zugot.

98. More About The Tannaim! The Tannaim are divided into 6 different generations. The “First Generation” of Tannaim were Rabbis like Rabbi Hillel, Rabbi Shammai

99. More About The Tannaim! Second Generation: Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh (grandson of Gamaliel I ), Rabbi Eliezer.Gamliel Gamaliel I

100. More About The Tannaim! Third Generation: The generation of Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues. Fourth Generation: The generation of Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehuda and their colleagues. Fifth Generation: Rabbi Judah haNasi's generation.

101. More About The Tannaim! Sixth Generation: Rabbis Shimon ben Judah HaNasi and Yehoshua ben Levi, etc.

102. More About The Tannaim! These generations of the Tannaim are the ones we as Believers want to focus on the most. These are the Rabbis of the second temple period who will give us a better perspective of the First Church.

103. More About The Tannaim! Our goal as Believers should be to get back to our New Testament roots in order to become more like Yeshua

104. The Other There was another Rabbi of the first generation of the Tannaim I’d like to introduce you to. Elisha Ben Abuyah Born before the destruction of the Temple and lived even into the second century

105. The Other He was the son of a rich and well-respected citizen of Jerusalem, and was trained for the career of a scholar. In his earlier days, the Pharisees were very proud of him but something happened later that angered some of the Pharisees

106. The Other They wouldn’t even call him by name. From then on he is called “The Other”. Some historians think he became a Gnostic some think he became a follower of Philo. But there are others who think he became a Believer in Yeshua.

107. We don’t know for sure but we do know he was caught having “forbidden writings in his coat” Which could’ve been writings from the Saducees or… writings from Messianic Jews. A teacher in the bet ha- midrash in the Temple and the famous Rabbi Meir was his student. They remained friends long after Elisha was labeled a heretic. The Other

108. One thing for sure though, if Elisha was a true heretic Rabbi Meir would never have been friends with him Many of the terrible things attributed to R. Elisha in the Talmud are unreliable due to the hatred towards him from the later Rabbis. The Other

109. And the reason most Jews today want to make him out to be a heretic rather then a Christian is because they don’t want to have to face the possibility that they may have lost yet another “once great rabbi” to the Messianics. The Other

110. The interesting thing to note is that as you study Talmud you begin to see just how widespread Messianic Judaism was in the first century. The Other

111. The Church has tried to make it into a small rebel/radical uprising. It’s like saying the Republican party is an isolated group in Georgia and not 50% of the country which often dictates federal policy! Information helps us find the truth! The Other