HOW Can the ANTICHRIST TRICK the Very ELECT ?

The first ancient trick foisted upon GOD’S people is recorded in Genesis: 

Yea, HATH GOD SAID . . . ?

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, 

Yea, hath God said,

John 5:1 ... IRENAEUS Against ROOD ( i.e., Against Heresies )

IRENAEUS

MICHAEL ROOD

IRENAEUS AGAINST ROOD

(  that is, Against Heresies )

Is Mr. Rood a Gnostic ? What would Irenaeus say ?

A Re-post from October 19, 3017 . . . 

Syrian IRENAEUS Describes the 5 POINTS of HIS+ CROSS...

In detail, IRENAEUS  describes 

the 5 points 

of the CROSS 

Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA 

               Photo courtesy of  Mustard Seed International
     The Brazen Serpent Monument 
over-looking Mt. Nebo, Jordan

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IRENAEUS, ( c. 120 - 202 ), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1,  Irenaeus Against Heresies , Book 2, Chapter 24, Section 4.  ~  In dealing with heretics, "The Folly of Arguments Derived by the Heretics from Numbers, etc." 

4. But that this point is true, that that number which is called five, which agrees in no respect with their argument, and does not harmonize with their system, nor is suitable for a typical manifestation of the things in the Pleroma, [yet has a wide prevalence,] will be proved as follows from the Scriptures. 

Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters;

Agape (love), too, consists of five letters; and our LORD, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men. 

Five virgins were called wise by the LORD; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish. 

Again, five men are said to have been with the LORD when He obtained testimony from the FATHER, — namely, Peter, and James, and John, and Moses, and Elias. 

The LORD also, as the fifth person, entered into the apartment of the dead maiden, and raised her up again; for, says [the Scripture], “He suffered no man to go in, save Peter and James, and the father and mother of the maiden.” 

The rich man in Hell declared that he had five brothers, to whom he desired that one rising from the dead should go. 

The pool from which the LORD commanded the paralytic man to go into his house, had five porches. 

The very form of the cross, too, has five extremities, two in length, two in breadth, and one in the middle, on which [last] the person rests who is fixed by the nails. 

Each of our hands has five fingers; we have also five senses; our internal organs may also be reckoned as five, viz., the heart, the liver, the lungs, the spleen, and the kidneys. 

Moreover, even the whole person may be divided into this number [of parts], — the head, the breast, the belly, the thighs, and the feet. 

The human race passes through five ages first infancy, then boyhood, then youth, then maturity, and then old age. 

Moses delivered the law to the people in five books. Each table which he received from GOD contained five commandments. 

The veil covering the holy of holies had five pillars. 

The altar of burnt-offering also was five cubits in breadth. 

Five priests were chosen in the wilderness, — namely, Aaron, Nadab, Abiud, Eleazar, Ithamar. 

The ephod and the breastplate, and other sacerdotal vestments, were formed out of five materials; for they combined in themselves gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. 

And there were five kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua the son of Nun shut up in a cave, and directed the people to trample upon their heads. 

Any one, in fact, might collect many thousand other things of the same kind, both with respect to this number and any other he chose to fix upon, either from the Scriptures, or from the works of nature lying under his observation.

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The folly of arguing that there IS NO "CROSS" upon which Y'SHUA+ the M'SHIKHA was crucified is apparent. 

Is it not folly to CHANGE a word in the Holy Writ ... without some linguistic authority to do so ?  

Yet, the Netzarim Publishing house's version of the New Covenant, translated by Mr. Andrew Roth , has done this very thing. 

Is it not folly  to  IGNORE the Early Church apologists who wrote about Pre-Nicene Christianity in the 100 to 200's AD ... and pretend we know better than these early followers of Y'SHU+ who obviously were taught by men who were taught of the Apostles and Evangelists and Disciples of Y'SHU+ ... firsthand ?  

Yet, the AENT published by the Netzarim Publishing House has done so. 

Is it not folly  to cast aside the wisdom of Justin Martyr, Ignatius, and Irenaeus .... and establish one's own doctrine which conflicts with these martyrs of Y'SHU+ ? 

Yet, the Netzarim's AENT has done so.

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In the coming months and years, fellow followers of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA, we will 

ALL NEED TO ADHERE 

to sound doctrine and to each other, 

as the kingdom of the 10 Kings of Revelation 17:12   wreak havoc with us all... beheading us, driving us from our homes as the Syrians have been driven, marking us and our homes with the "N" for Nazarene , as has been done in Iraq.

Times are NOT going to become "better" but rather, worse as the time approaches of His+ 2nd Appearing. 

Be wise, be wise. Tolerate only the TRUTH+... for in HIM+ will be our only place of safety on planet earth.

Thousands have already paid the price .... just like the Early Christians did .... for following Y'SHU+.  Do not think for a moment that we will escape the wrath and demonized policies of the 10 kings, set to destroy the human race. Christians and Jews especially are targeted. 

Maranatha, LORD Y'SHU+, Maranatha. 

PASSOVER PREPARATION.... Fleeing From LEAVEN

or... the time The Apostle John fled from the Heretic Cerinthus .... 

Agnus Dei-- The LAMB+ of GOD
by Giulio Romano
Drawing: ink on paper c. 1540

Courtesy of www.angelfire.com

Fleeing from LEAVEN...

Hippolytus, AD 170-236, 

a Bishop of Portus, 

disciple of Irenaeus

… who was the disciple of Polycarp

… who was the disciple of John. 

from Irenaeus Against Heresies, ANF Vol. 1...

There are also those who heard from him [ i.e., Polycarp / Sr.JH ] that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.” 

And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, “Dost thou know me?”

“I do know thee, the first-born of Satan.”

Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; 

as Paul also says, 

“A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”

[ ***  ANF vol. 1, Irenaeus Against Heresies , BOOK 3, Chapter 3, section 4, page 416 (hard copy) [ pages 826-827, Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com. See the additional information at the end of the post for references in the Ante-Nicene writers and the context for this excerpt./ Sr. JH ]

Now, WHO was this abominable heretic Cerinthus of AD 100, 

... and what did he teach?  

Here is what the Early Church writers recorded about this man who was considered a fore-runner of some gnostics.  

Unfortunately, the teachings of Cerinthus have made their way into the "golden, best, and historic" version of the Netzarim edition of their New Covenant. 

 CERINTHUS

ANF vol. 5, Hippolytus, The Refutation of All Heresies  Book X, Chapter 17, page 147 hard copy, [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 303-304. ]

Cerinthus, however, himself having been trained in Egypt,determined that the world was not made by the first God, but by a certain angelic power. And this power was far separated and distant from that sovereignty which is above the entire circle of existence, and it knows not the God (that is) above all things.

And he says that Jesus was not born of a virgin, but that He sprang from Joseph and Mary as their son, similar to the rest of men; and that He excelled in justice, and prudence, and understanding above all the rest of mankind.

And Cerinthus maintains that, after Jesus’ baptism, Christ came down in the form of a dove upon Him from the sovereignty that is above the whole circle of existence, and that then He proceeded to preach the unknown Father, and to work miracles.

And he asserts that, at the conclusion of the passion, Christ flew away from Jesus, but that Jesus suffered, and that Christ remained incapable of suffering, being a spirit of the Lord.

 Now, here is the LEAVEN of the Ebionite heresy, which has also made its way into the "golden, best, and historic" Netzarim volume. 

THE EBIONAEANS

ANF vol. 5, Hippolytus, The Refutation of All Heresies  Book X, Chapter 18, page 147 hard copy, [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 303-304. ]

But the Ebionaeans assert that the world is made by the true God, and they speak of Christ in a similar manner with Cerinthus.

They live, however, in all respects according to the law of Moses, alleging that they are thus justified.

  

The item below is from ANF Vol. 5, Hippolytus Refutaion of All Heresies, BOOK 7, page 114, Chapter 22 [  [Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com , page 235.]

CHAPTER 22

DOCTRINE OF THE EBIONAEANS

The Ebionaeans, however, acknowledge that the world was made by Him Who is in reality God, but they propound legends concerning the Christ similarly with Cerinthus and Carpocrates.

They live conformably to the customs of the Jews, alleging that they are justified. according to the law, and saying that Jesus was justified by fulfilling the law.

And therefore it was, (according to the Ebionaeans,) that (the Savior) was named (the) Christ of God and Jesus, since not one of the rest (of mankind) had observed completely the law.

For if even any other had fulfilled the commandments (contained) in the law, he would have been that Christ.

And the (Ebionaeans allege) that they themselves also, when in like manner they fulfill (the law), are able to become Christs; for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in a like sense with all (the rest of the human family).

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Purge out 

therefore 

the old leaven, 

that ye may be a new lump,

as ye are UNLEAVENED.

For even 

CHRIST our PASSOVER

is sacrificed

for us. 

Therefore let us keep the feast,

not with old leaven,

neither with the leaven of 

malice and wickedness,

but with 

the UNLEAVENED BREAD+

of purity and Truth.

I Corinthians 5:7, 8 

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 This is the section about POLYCARP AND JOHN in its fullness. 

*** FROM ANF vol. 1, Irenaeus Against Heresies , BOOK 3, Chapter 3, section 4, page 416 (hard copy) [ pages 826-827, Master Christian Library , Version 8, CD-Rom, 2000 Ages Software, Rio, WI / www.ageslibrary.com ]

4. But Polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had seen Christ, but was also, by apostles in Asia, appointed bishop of the Church in Smyrna, whom I also saw in my early youth, for he tarried [on earth] a very long time, and, when a very old man, gloriously and most nobly suffering martyrdom, departed this life, having always taught the things which he had learned from the apostles, and which the Church has handed down, and which alone are true.

To these things all the Asiatic Churches testify, as do also those men who have succeeded Polycarp down to the present time, — a man who was of much greater weight, and a more steadfast witness of truth, than Valentinus, and Marcion, and the rest of the heretics. He it was who, coming to Rome in the time of Anicetus caused many to turn away from the aforesaid heretics to the Church of God, proclaiming that he had received this one and sole truth from the apostles, — that, namely, which is handed down by the Church.

There are also those who heard from him that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.”

And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, “Dost thou know me?”

“I do know thee, the first-born of Satan.”

Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; as Paul also says, “A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”

PARACLETE in PRE-NICENE Writings: Irenaeus (c. 120-202)

IRENAEUS, a Bishop at Lyons, (Gaul or France),  died with thousands of his flock, like a true shepherd, in the massacre of Emperor Severus, pg. 310, Introductory Note.  He was "probably born in Syria and removed in boyhood to Smyrna", according to Intro. Note on page 312. Irenaeus was "acquainted with Polycarp ( martyr and disciple of the Apostle John ) in his early youth," page 315, footnote 4. Some resources say Irenaeus was taught by Polycarp. Circa 120-202 AD.

IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES

(excerpts) The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, Book 3, Chapter 17, sections1, 2 & 3, pp.444-445. Reference data at the end of the blog. 

CIRCA 180 AD, E/W (estimated from dates given for other Book 3 citations and  E and W indicate Irenaeus was considered a writer from both the Eastern and the Western locales, according to David W. Bercot. See reference at the end of the blog.)

ALSO: See the the note about the 32 Syriac fragments of the Irenaeus text at the end of the blog.

NOTE: Comments in green are from the Order of the GOOD SHEPHERD+; extra words in black are in the text from the editors. Color added to pronouns, etc., for clarity.

Yellow highlights show that the First Church, established by Y'SHUA+ HA MASHIYACH+ through the work of His+ hand-picked Apostles ( picked both before and after His+ Crucifixion) , ALWAYS translated Paraclete as COMFORTER, ADVOCATE, or INTERCESSOR.... but never "REDEEMER", as the "golden, historic, and best" Aramaic-to-English translation has translated Paraqlita (Paraclete).

CHAPTER 17

THE APOSTLES TEACH THAT IT WAS NEITHER CHRIST NOR THE SAVIOR, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO DID DESCEND UPON JESUS. THE REASON FOR THIS DESCENT

1.  It certainly was in the power of the Apostles to declare that CHRIST descended upon JESUS, or that the so-called superior SAVIOR [came down] upon the dispensational one, or HE+ Who is from the invisible places upon him from the Demiurge*; but they [the Apostles] neither knew nor said anything of the kind: for, had they known it, they would have also certainly stated it. *[ term the Gnostics used: Gnostic subordinate “deity” who is the creator of the material world  / SJH]

But what really was the case, that did they record, [namely,] that the SPIRIT of GOD as a dove descended upon HIM+; this SPIRIT, of Whom it was declared by Isaiah, “And the SPIRIT of GOD shall rest upon HIM+,” as I have already said.

And again: “The SPIRIT of the LORD is upon ME+, because HE hath anointed ME+.” That is the SPIRIT of Whom the LORD+ declares,

“For it is not ye that speak, but the SPIRIT of Your FATHER which speaketh in you.”

And again, giving to the disciples the power of regeneration into GOD, HE+ said to them,

“Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of THE FATHER, and of The SON+, and of the HOLY SPIRIT.”

For [God] promised, that in the last times HE would pour HIM [the SPIRIT] upon [His] servants and handmaids, that they might prophesy;

wherefore HE did also descend upon the SON of GOD, made the Son of Man, becoming accustomed in fellowship with HIM+ to dwell in the human race, to rest with human beings, and to dwell in the workmanship of GOD, working the will of THE FATHER in them, and renewing them from their old habits into the newness of CHRIST.

2.  This SPIRIT did David ask for the human race, saying, “And stablish me with THINE all-governing SPIRIT;” Who also, as Luke says, descended at the day of Pentecost upon the disciples after the LORD’S+ ascension, having power to admit all nations to the entrance of life, and to the opening of the new covenant;

from whence also, with one accord in all languages, they uttered praise to GOD, the SPIRIT bringing distant tribes to unity, and offering to THE FATHER the first-fruits of all nations.

Wherefore also the LORD+ promised to send the Comforter, Who should join us to GOD.

For as a compacted lump of dough cannot be formed of dry wheat without fluid matter, nor can a loaf possess unity, so, in like manner,

neither could we, being many, be made one in CHRIST JESUS without the WATER from Heaven.

And as dry earth does not bring forth unless it receive moisture, in like manner we also, being originally a dry tree, could never have brought forth fruit unto Life without the voluntary RAIN from above.

For our bodies have received unity among themselves by means of that Laver [ Baptism ] which leads to incorruption; but our souls, by means of the SPIRIT;

Wherefore both are necessary, since both contribute towards the life of GOD, our LORD+ compassionating that erring Samaritan woman — who did not remain with one husband, but committed fornication by [contracting] many marriages — by pointing out, and promising to her LIVING WATER,

so that she should thirst no more, nor occupy herself in acquiring the refreshing water obtained by labor, having in herself WATER springing up to Eternal Life.

The LORD+ receiving this as a gift from His+ FATHER, does Himself+ also confer it upon those who are partakers of Himself+, sending the HOLY SPIRIT upon all the earth.

3. [ …… ] This SPIRIT, again, HE+ did confer upon the Church, sending throughout all the world the Comforter from Heaven,

from whence also the LORD+ tells us that the devil, like lightning, was cast down.

Wherefore we have need of the DEW of GOD, that we be not consumed by fire, nor be rendered unfruitful,

and that where we have an accuser there we may have also an Advocate,

the LORD+ commending to the HOLY SPIRIT His+ own man [ i.e. the Believer ], who had fallen among thieves, whom HE+ Himself + compassionated, and bound up his wounds, giving two ROYAL DENARIA;

so that we, receiving by the SPIRIT the image and superscription of THE FATHER and The SON+, might cause the denarium entrusted to us to be fruitful, counting out the increase [thereof] to the LORD+.

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NOTE OF INTEREST in the INTRODUCTORY NOTE, p. 313:

In the year 1857 , there was also brought out a Cambridge edition, by the Rev. Wigan Harvey, in two octavo volumes.

The two principal features of this edition are: the additions which have been made to the Greek text from the recently discovered Philosophoumena of Hippolytus; and  the further addition of 32 fragments of a Syriac version of the Greek text of Irenaeus, called the Nitrian collection of Syriac MSS. in the British Museum.

These fragments are of considerable interest, and in some instances rectify the readings of the barbarous Latin version, where, without such aid, it would have been unintelligible.  The edition of Harvey will be found constantly referred to in the notes appended to our translation.

REFERENCES

NOTE: Material is from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volumes 1-10,  American Edition ( a reprint of Christian Literature Publishing Co. 1886), 2nd printing 1995, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA. ISBN 1-56563-087-4

Some supplemental information and dates are from: David W. Bercot, editor, A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998. ISBN 978-1-56563-870-9

Digital Copy from: The Master Christian Library Version 8 CD-ROM 2000 Ages Softward, Rio, WI  www.ageslibrary.com

NOTE: This Digital Copy of the ANF does NOT contain any Introductory Notes from the translators and editors, no footnotes, and no elucidations and comments at the end of the books, although these helpful items are contained in the hard copy listed above.

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