March 21, 2011 journal, when you hear it wrong from the church we are surely in trouble. "Heard a message yesterday where the Pastor referred to "when the Jews were slaves in Egypt". These type comments reveal a total lack of understanding concerning Biblical history which leads to great confusion and very bad theology in modern Christianity.. The term "JEW" did not exist until 10 tribe Israel and Judah separated into two kingdoms after the death of Solomon and hundreds of years after the Children of Israel or Hebrews had been liberated from Egypt. This term was short for "Judahite" and referred to a member of the tribe of Judah. The meaning of this word changed over time to include all those living in the region of Judea much like everyone living in South Carolina is called a South Carolinian. At the time of Christ the term JEW applied not only to true descendants of Israel such as Paul, who called himself a Hebrew of Hebrews but it was also applied to the Edomites (Idumaeans) who were forcibly converted to Judaism in 125 BC. In fact, at the time of Christ, it was these converts, the children of Essau, that held power in Palestine. Herod the Great was an Edomite and the Pharisees were predominately Edomite. They had basically hijacked the religion changing the Laws of God by their traditions which they later wrote down to become the Talmud (Traditions). One must remember what God said about Jacob and Essau, "Jacob have I loved and Essau have I hated". Some of the most notorious characters of the Bible were Edomites; Agag, Doeg, Haman, and Herod to name a few. At the time a Christ a great number of those called Jews were not Hebrews, even though they had descended from Abraham through Essau. After the time of Christ, Gods wrath fell on that ungodly generation in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the refugees (predominately Edomite Jews) were dispersed throughout the known world. Many moved into Europe and various places in the Middle East. They started the Knights Templars (aka Masonic Order) and returned to Jerusalem to recover the gold from under the temple mount under the disguise of the "Crusades". This gave them the ability to gain great power in Europe as money lenders. They also ran the slave trade in ancient Rome and modern America (Aaron Lopez). These for the most part are referred to as "Sephartic Jews" (sp?). Hundreds of years later in south west Russia an entire tribe of people converted to this religion. This tribe, known as the Khazars (Chazars) converted in mass as ordered by their ruler. It is the descendants of these individuals that today make up the power base of modern Judaism. They are internationalist operating without borders and with no allegiance to anyone except their twisted idea of ruling the world. They control the banks, the media, education, and hence governments in most western nations. They founded the idea of Zionism and established the nation of Israel. They have absolutely no blood ties to the Hebrews of the Old Testa-ment but are now called "God's Chosen people" by historically ignorant Christian people. Hence, the bad theology that is being spewed from pulpits and the confusion of modern Christianity. Paul called them "Contrary to all men". Christ called them "the synagogue of Satan" "The Truth shall set you free". The writer of the above did not sign the article. I stand with this man in the witness of Israel. There are so many distortions but this is the truth spoken. One supporting website Iamthewitness.com confirms the accuracy of this statement. The nickname "Jew" did not exist prior to 300 years ago. Before then it was Yews. I refer to Christ as Yesu, to God as Yahweh. Christ and God are one appearing in 3 persons. Even if the J character appears in the Bible it has been put in modern additions.