I. Opening

Introduction:

This paper and presentation is a short power point defense of Paul against the charges and claims of his accusers.

The division which is caused by accepting or rejecting Paul's epistles and Apostleship is exactly what the enemies of Christianity want.

The division between those accepting Paul and those accusing Paul are mainly because of poor Greek to English translation and lack of correct context and of certain scriptural knowledge. This presentation, study, and closing argument is an attempt to explain and clarify who Paul was, what he taught, and why Paul is so misunderstood.

Paul's epistles manage, arrange, and explain everything from the prophecies of the Old Covenant, to Jesus Christ's purpose, life, message, death, resurrection, the changes and transition that occurred between the Old and the Renewed Covenant, and he explained how we are to live according to The Belief (the Faith of Jesus Christ).

Paul connected the dots for the 'lost' sheep regarding their history, heritage, identity, and relationship to their kinsmen and to their God.

Paul was appointed by the Lord as a manager of His household. The Household of the Most High.

None of the other Apostles explained as clearly and detailed as Paul did as to why the sacrificial rituals ended with Christ's final sacrifice, the purpose of the priesthood and why it had to end, the office of Melchizedek, or the connection between grace and the commandments. None of them exposed the Edomite Jews as impostors and differentiated them from the children of Jacob as Paul did.

Paul taught what Jesus Christ taught, and explained in detail the transition from the Old Covenant to the Renewed Covenant for his Israelite kinsmen.

Just because one does not accept Paul, and one does, does not mean there should be division which causes enmity and separation between our kinsmen. This is sinning and missing the mark of duty.

Kinsmen who disagree about Paul should not condemn one another over it, whichever side of that disagreement they land on.

Now we may have differences of beliefs that cannot and should not be accepted. Such as believing Jesus was a Jew, or that 'church' doctrine is scriptural, or that the Jews are the Israelites of the bible. Those who believe these lies are the type of kinsmen/women we cannot and should not fellowship with. We can try to show them the truth, but ultimately, they are worshiping another god, following false doctrine, are confused about who is who, and they unwittingly support the ungodly who hate our Lord.

There is a difference between unlearned ignorance and willful ignorance.

If Paul is a fraud, then yes, we must remove his epistles, Acts, Luke and 2Peter.

I want to emphasize that Paul is rejected mostly because of bad translation.

If you don't know any Greek, if you don't know biblical history, if you don't know who is Jew and who is Judah, if you don't know who is Gentile and who is 'lost' Israel, and if you don't know the Old Covenant and how it is connected to the Renewed Covenant and what occurred before, during, and after Jesus Christ's first Advent, then you can easily believe Paul to be a false Apostle.

Paul must be given a fair trial and the evidence of his defense must be examined.

With correct Greek translations and meanings, with correct knowledge of who is who, who is Jew and who is Judah, who is Gentile and who is 'lost' Israel, and with the correct understanding of what was 'done away with' and 'what remains' in the Renewed Covenant, then you will easily believe Paul to be an Ambassador of the Gospel and that he was indeed appointed 'Manager of the Family of God'.

Jesus Christ and His 12 Apostles turned the world right-side up and Paul was the one who organized, explained, and managed the household of The Belief, because Jesus turned Saul right-side up.

I ask those of you who are anti-Paul, what if Paul was a Messenger of God?

Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.

13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels (messengers) unawares.

Geneva: '...receiued Angels into their houses vnwares'
Scriptures 2009: 'Do not forget to receive strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained messengers.'
Textus Receptus: 'Of hospitality, be not forgetting: for through this some were oblivious when lodging messengers.'

1Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Kepha (Peter); and I of Christ.

1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

‘Christ’ in verse 13 should read: 'Is the Anointed divided?'. Meaning, 'are the Anointed children of Jacob divided in mind and opinion because you like the preaching of this one over that one?'

In other words, if those who accept Paul believe the same Gospel as those who do not accept Paul, then why are you divided?

1Corinthians 3:1 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones but as to fleshly, as to babes in Messiah.
3:2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able,
3:3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is envy, and strife, and divisions among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?
3:4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not fleshly?
3:5 What then is Apollos, and what is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each?
3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but Elohim was giving growth.
3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is any at all, but Elohim who gives the increase.

Court Case #4ICU812: The People VS Paul of Tarsus

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, this case is a case against Paul of Tarsus. This is a hearing of determining whether Paul of Tarsus is a chosen vessel unto God, or whether Paul of Tarsus is a fraud and an infiltrator. This is a case against Paul of Tarsus in which this man has been accused of preaching another gospel other than that of Jesus Christ, and many other heresies.

It is the mark of a true Israelite to examine both sides of a case before making a judgment.

I'd like to begin this closing statement by presenting some little known information about Paul of Tarsus.

In Hebrew the name *Saul* can also be spelled the same as the Hebrew word *sheol (Sha'ul)*, which refers to the abode of the spirits of the dead, a reference to the grave. The dispersed nations of the children of Israel that heard the Gospel message which Paul brought to them, were dead in their sins and dead in their relationship to Yahweh which the purpose of the Gospel message was to restore.

The Greek word, *saulos*, is an adjective and according to Liddell and Scott can mean 'straddling'. This describes the ministry of Paul, who 'straddled' both the Judaism the Israelite remnant adopted from the Jewish Pharisees, and the paganism of the dispersions of Israel. Paul straddled both the Old Covenant scripture of the Hebrews and the Good News of the Renewed Covenant, in order to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom to Israelites who forgot who they were and Whose they were.

The word from which the name Paul is derived is not from Hebrew. It is a Latin word: *paulus* meaning 'little', which perfectly describes how Christianity began.

The Gospel was in the hands of a very few selected and chosen men. The Greek word *paula* is a feminine form, and when expressed in the masculine form it would be *paulos*, and it means 'rest'. The children of Israel can only find rest in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in obedience to the commandments of God, which are repeated components of Paul's message.

Both of Paul's names, *Saul* and *Paul*, can be related to aspects of his ministry and mission.

Paul of Tarsus was not spreading his own gospel, he was spreading the same Gospel Jesus Christ taught and Paul explained some very important things which without his epistles the Good News could not be fully understood. Paul knew many things which the other Apostles did not understand.

By stripping away Paul's epistles, the 'lost' sheep of the house of Israel would not properly understand the work Messiah did on the pale (cross). Paul in his epistles explained Grace, Mercy, the end of sacrifices and rituals, the end of the priesthood and why it had to end. Paul explained the marriage relationship between the two houses of Israel and Judah and their Kinsman Redeemer Jesus Christ. Paul taught his people their true identity, their history and traditions, and to keep the Feast Days. Paul taught Torah and the commandments of God. Paul quoted, cited and referenced the Old Testament Prophecies almost 300 times. Paul’s letters were corrections, warnings, and guidance to the early assemblies that were already being infiltrated by false brethren and Judaizers.

I ask the jury to be fair by examining both sides of the case. You have already heard the prosecution's case. I ask that you only hear the defense before you make up your minds.

Paul's epistles, when surface read from the KJV and other translations, show Paul of Tarsus to be a Universalist, preaching his own gospel, a Jew, doing 'away with the law', and bringing the Gospel to Gentiles. This is the problem with accepting his epistles at face value, because these are poorly translated from the Greek, and we all know that the scriptures have also been heavily tampered with, as there are over 24,000 errors in the Bible’s translation.

Paul's epistles, when read from properly translated Greek, show Paul of Tarsus to be a true manager of the family of the house of God.

May I draw your attention to the inconsistencies of the prosecution. The use of certain words such as 'Gentile' and 'Jew' have been used to label Paul of Tarsus as a Jew, that he was bringing his message to Jews, and then to Gentiles which the Lord Jesus Christ explicitly commanded not to do.

Let the court see from the evidence provided (links at end) that the word 'Gentile' simply means *a nation or race of people*, and *does not mean non-Jew (a later addition to the definition)*, and does not belong in the Hebrew scriptures because it is a Latin word.

The word 'Jew' is not a manuscript word at all — the Hebrew Scriptures, the Greek New Testament, and Jerome's Latin Vulgate contain no such spelling. What they contain is Yehudi in the Hebrew, Ioudaios in the Greek, and Iudaeus in the Latin, all rooted in Judah. The modern English form descended from these through Old French (giu, juieu) and Middle English (Giw, Iewe, Jeu) before settling into 'Jew' only after English spelling standardized the letters I and J as distinct, centuries after the manuscripts were written. That is a long linguistic road from 'Judah' to 'Jew,' and one must carefully examine the context of every use of Ioudaios to determine who is Jew and who is Judah — because after the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus I conquered Idumea around 125 BC and forced the Edomites to convert, the territory and its mixed population, Israelite Judahites alongside ‘converted’ Edomites, were governed as one province, Judaea, and called by the same name. Almost no one in that time, or today, makes that distinction — which is why true Israelites are, in ignorance, giving up their identity, while Edomite Jews are, deliberately, claiming it.

Paul of Tarsus cannot be blamed for changes made to the scriptural identity of Israel, and he cannot be blamed for the ignorance and lack of being educated in history, identity, geography, Hebrew and Greek.

May the jury please keep in mind, that all these arguments against Paul of Tarsus come from the beliefs based on the Masoretic and inaccurate English translations, and the many sources and references are drawn from Communists and Humanists, sexual deviants in the clergy, and Jewish magicians.

Paul's accusers are very crafty and can twist things to appear to be showing Paul to be false.

Unfortunately many good people get caught up in the vicious cycle of anti-Paulism, mainly because the original Greek is not examined and because they lack some historical and scriptural knowledge.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I will now present a summary of the major accusations against Paul of Tarsus along with the defensive arguments.

II. Who Is Paul, and Who Was He Sent To?

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of being a Jew.

I again bring your attention to the deceiving word 'Jew', which replaced the original words identifying those of the house of Judah, who are not Jews.

Scripture never once calls Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob a "Jew" — the word did not exist yet, and could not, since it descends from Judah, and Judah did not exist as a nation until centuries after these men lived. Mordecai, Esther, Jesus, Aquila, Priscilla, and Apollos are called Ioudaios in the Greek, a word properly rendered Judaean or Judahite, not the later English word "Jew." Paul's accusers collapse all of these distinct, specific identities into one modern label so they can call Paul the same thing.

Yes, Paul claimed he was a “Jew”, twice. (Acts 21:39; 22:3)

The evidence provided (Jew or Judah? links at end) shows that the word 'Jew' properly translated reads Judaean in the Greek.

When Paul claimed he is a 'Jew', he is stating he is a Judahite of the tribe of Benjamin.

The tribe of Benjamin was prophesied to be Jesus Christ's ambassadors in Jerusalem.

1Kings 11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may have a light alway before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there.

All the Apostles, including Paul, were Benjaminites — with one exception. Judas, surnamed Iscariot, is commonly understood to have taken that name from Ish-Kerioth, "man of Kerioth," a town in the southern territory of Judah (Joshua 15:25). Unlike the other apostles, who were Galileans, Judas came from the south — from the very region where, a century before his birth, the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus I had conquered Idumea and forced its Edomite population to convert. Scripture does not explicitly name Judas an Idumean, and the defense will not claim more than the evidence supports. What scripture does show, repeatedly, is that Judas was the one apostle who sided against the Christ: the group's treasurer, a thief, and finally the betrayer.

The same caution applies to the word Ioudaios itself, which by the first century covered a mixed population — Judahites, Benjamites, Levitical families, proselytes, and incorporated Idumeans (Jews) alike — and could not settle a man's ancestry or loyalty by itself. Acts 13 shows both sides of that coin in the same passage. Paul and Barnabas preached first in the synagogues of the Ioudaioi at Salamis (Acts 13:5), the dispersed communities who already held the Scriptures and the promise of the Messiah. In the very next verses, Luke introduces a very different man carrying the same label: "a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew (Ioudaios), whose name was Barjesus" (Acts 13:6), who worked to turn the deputy Sergius Paulus away from the Gospel. Paul's rebuke of him was severe: "O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?" (Acts 13:10). That charge — child of the devil — was leveled at what Barjesus did in actively opposing the Word, not at some claim about his ancestry. The word Ioudaios covered the synagogue that welcomed Paul's message and the sorcerer who fought it, in the same chapter. Context, not the label alone, tells you which is which — and Paul's accusers, who never make that distinction, have no ground to call Paul a Jew simply because the (mis-translated) word “Jew” appears twice in his own mouth.

The defense now enters into evidence exactly whom Paul was sent to reach, because the same ignorance that mistakes Paul for a Jew mistakes his mission field for the heathen world at large.

Let the record show exactly whom Paul was preaching to when he traveled through Asia Minor and wrote to the churches of Galatia.

Galatians 1:1-2 Paul, an apostle...and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia.

Galatia takes its name from the Gauls, called Keltoi and Galatai by the Greeks, the same Celtic peoples who overran Asia Minor near 278 to 277 B.C. and settled the region that bore their name ever after. This is not a fringe reading of scripture. It is recorded plainly in the ordinary reference works of history and etymology, that the Galatians of Paul's epistle were Celts, the same stock as the Gauls of France, the Britons, the Irish, the Welsh, and the Highland Scots.

These Celtic tribes did not spring from nowhere in the third century before Jesus Christ. They descended from the Israelites who had crossed the Caucasus after the Assyrian captivity, moved up into northwestern Europe, and a portion of whom migrated back south into Asia Minor, arriving in the very territory Paul would one day address as brethren. When Paul reminds the Galatians of the law of Moses, of the Abrahamic covenant, of redemption from the curse of the law, he is not instructing pagans who had never heard of Abraham. He is speaking to a people with a genealogical, ancestral connection to the Old Covenant, which is precisely why he can rebuke them, in chapter 3, for turning back to the beggarly elements of law-keeping they already half-remembered from their own bloodline.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

A man does not tell strangers with no connection to Abraham that they are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise. He tells kinsmen. Brethren is G80 adelphos –of the same womb, same national ancestry.

The same distinction holds for the order in which Paul carried the Gospel, and it is worth entering into the record before the twelve tribes themselves are called as witnesses.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of bringing the Gospel to the Jew first, then to the Gentiles.

Again, may I draw attention to the fact that the words 'Jew' and 'Gentile' are counterfeit words with inaccurate meanings, and that Paul himself never used them the way his accusers do. In Romans 2:9–11, Paul lays out the judgment of God: "Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew (Ioudaios-Judeaean) first, and also of the Gentile (Greek Israelites). But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew (Ioudaios-Judaean) first, and also to the Gentile (scattered House of Israel in Greece)." The word rendered "Jew" is Ioudaios — Judaean. The word rendered "Gentile" here is not ethnos or goyim, the general word for "nation" or "peoples." It is Hellēn — Greek. Paul is not contrasting Judahites against an undefined mass of foreign races. He is contrasting Ioudaios and Hellēn, the same pairing he uses throughout Acts and Romans for Israelites scattered among the Greek-speaking world, and he uses this same order in Romans 1:16: "To the Ioudaios first, and also to the Greek."

That order is not arbitrary. Zechariah prophesied, "Yahweh also shall save the tents of Judah first" (Zechariah 12:7). Judah stood at the center of the covenant administration — the Temple was in Judaea, the priesthood operated in Judaea, and the Messiah came through Judah. There were Israelite Judahite Judaeans and Canaanite-Edomite Judaeans living in that same territory, and Paul did not bring the Gospel to the Canaanite-Edomite Judaeans. Paul brought the Gospel to the Judahite Judaeans first, exactly as Zechariah said, then to the dispersed nations of "lost" Israel living throughout the Greek-speaking world — the same Hellēn Paul names in Romans.

Paul's point in Romans 2 is that privilege does not exempt anyone from judgment. The same covenant order runs both ways: judgment comes to the Judahite first and also to the Greek, and so does blessing. Those who possessed greater knowledge carried greater responsibility. Paul concludes, "For there is no respect of persons with God." The covenant order remains — Judah first, then the dispersed Israelites — but God's judgment is impartial within that order. This is not "Jews versus Gentiles," the reading the churches default to. It is accountability within the covenant order God established among His Israelite people of the two Houses of Israel and Judah, and Paul did not bring that Gospel to Jews, in the modern sense of the word, at all.

Having established whom Paul addressed as kinsmen, let the record now show that Paul himself never once confused the children of Jacob with the children of Esau, no matter how thoroughly his accusers confuse the two.

Paul knew who the Jews were and who the Israelites were.

In Romans 9 Paul identifies his own people Israel by addressing them as 'the Anointed', 'brethren (G80 adelphos)', 'kinsmen according to the flesh', 'Israelites', 'to whom pertains the position of sons', 'the glory', 'the covenants', 'the giving of the Torah', 'the wisdom and the promises', 'that they are of the fathers concerning the flesh whom Christ came for and is blessed by God'.

Paul then states that these Israelites are the seed of Abraham, the called out seed of Isaac who begat Esau and Jacob.

Paul then recalls the history and prophecy of these two *goyim* brothers.

Romans 9:11 (For *the children* being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election (choice) might stand, not of works (sacrificial rituals), but of Him that calleth;)

9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

In the same chapter Paul explains to his Israelite kinsmen that Yahweh is the potter, Isaac was the lump of clay, and Esau and Jacob are the vessels. Esau a vessel of dishonor and wrath fitted for destruction, and Jacob a vessel of honor receiving mercy, compassion and loving-commitment, which Yahweh had afore prepared unto glory.

Then Paul says this to his Israelite kinsmen...

9:24 Even us, whom He hath called, not of the Judaeans only, but also of the Gentiles (dispersed Nations of Israel)?

Paul then references the prophecy in Hosea regarding the Israelites that Yahweh divorced and scattered among the nations.

Romans 9:25 As He saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto Me in the land; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not My people, You art My people; and they shall say, You art my God.

Paul also quotes Genesis 22:17; Deut 29:23 and Isaiah 1:9, 10:22, 28:22; Jeremiah 49:18, 50:40 and Amos 4:11, which are all prophecies concerning his Israelite kinsmen.

Paul knew who his kinsmen were, and who the Jews were after Jesus Christ gave him a reboot on the road to Damascus, deleted his Judaized malware, and downloaded the truth and appointed him 'Manager of the Family' of Yahweh.

Paul explains the difference between Jacob and Esau in 2Thessalonians.

He speaks of the mystery of the man of lawlessness, referring to whom Jesus Christ revealed who this was in John chapter 8.

Paul speaks of the wicked men who have not faith, which correctly translated reads '\...The Faith is not for all'.

Paul knew Elymas the scorcerer was a Jew. He identified him as: 'full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

In Acts 13 Paul is addressing the congregation in Antioch of Pisidia, whom he reiterates in many ways that they are his 'brethren' (adelphos), 'men of Israel', 'the people whom God chose', and Paul included some family history and family name drops of Samuel, Saul, David, and that Jesus Christ is the promised seed of David. Paul mentions John the Immerser, and then again addresses his audience as 'brethren', and 'children of Abraham'. Paul preaches Christ and Paul quotes Isaiah 53:11, 55:3, Psalm 16:10, Jeremiah 31:34 and Habakkuk 1:5, because Paul is reminding this congregation who they were.

Paul knew who the children of Jacob were, and who the children of Esau were.

He addresses his Israelite kinsmen in every epistle, and he teaches them their identity and exposes the Edomite (Jewish) Judaeans as false brethren.

Genesis 36:8 ​​ Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

“Edom is in modern Jewry.” —The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol.5, p.41

• “No one can deny that the Jews are a most unique and unusual people. That uniqueness exists because of their Edomite heritage…” — Manifesto of the “World Jewish Federation”

Historical details showing Edomites merged into Judea, forming the core of modern Judaism:

• Edomites moved into Judea during the Babylonian exile, and later were absorbed into Judean society under John Hyrcanus around 120 B.C. — Scribner’s Dictionary of the Bible, Funk & Wagner’s New Standard Bible Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia Vol.5 p.41

• “Historical documents … refer to their tradition that their ancestors originally came from the region of Mount Seir, which is Edom, the home of the Edomite Jews… The Jewish Encyclopedia has six pages on it…”

• See Jew or Judah? (covers historical merger of Idumea and Judea) link at end

And Paul's own sworn testimony, given at the risk of his life, settles the question of whether the Israel he spoke of was still standing in his day, or had vanished into legend and metaphor.

Let the jury weigh Paul's own testimony, given under oath in his own defense before kings and councils, that all twelve tribes of Israel remained in existence in his day, neither destroyed, nor absorbed, nor spiritualized into some vague company of all believing peoples of every race.

Three theories have always been offered to explain away what happened to Israel after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities: that the Jews of Judaism are Israel, that the Christian Church itself has simply become Israel in some spiritual sense with no bloodline attached, or that Israel was quietly amalgamated into the heathen nations and disappeared as a people. Paul answers all three, from his own mouth, under oath, as a witness testifying to his own identity and to the continued existence of his kinsmen.

Romans 9:3-5 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.

Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Notice the precision of Paul's own evidence, offered as though he stood before a judge and had to prove his case: himself, alive and testifying; his Israelite blood, still running in his veins from Jacob; his descent from Abraham by name; and his specific tribe, Benjamin, not a vague or general claim but a documented genealogy. A man does not offer this kind of exacting testimony unless the fact of Israel's continued, unbroken existence as a people is precisely what is being disputed and precisely what he intends to settle.

He does not rest his case on his own word alone. He calls three prophets as witnesses that a scattered, divorced, and renamed people would nonetheless remain Yahweh's own and be found again.

Romans 9:25-26 As He saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Romans 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Romans 11:2-5 Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed Thy prophets... But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Hosea speaks to the divorced and scattered northern house. Isaiah speaks to a remnant preserved though scattered as the sand of the sea. Elijah is answered by Yahweh Himself that even in the days of deepest apostasy a remnant of the northern kingdom remained who had not bent the knee to Baal. Paul assembles this testimony precisely as a man builds a legal case, witness upon witness, because the question before him was never in doubt in his own mind: Israel was not destroyed, not dissolved into the nations without a trace, and not replaced by any church of mixed and undocumented ancestry claiming the name by profession of faith alone.

And Paul was willing to be bound in chains and to die for exactly this claim among the other two truths he would not recant. Standing before King Agrippa II, in chains, on trial for his life, this was his own defense.

Acts 26:6-7 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

Twelve tribes, Paul says, under oath, before a king, at the risk of his own life, serving Yahweh fervently and without ceasing, in his own day, in the first century. Not an extinct people. Not a metaphor. Not a Church absorbing every race under heaven by profession of belief alone. Twelve tribes, still in existence, still scattered, still being sought and gathered, and it was to gather them that Paul spent his life and, in the end, laid it down.

III. Was Paul Truly Called and Sent?

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of changing his name.

Acts 13:9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,)

Let the jury understand that many men in scripture had more than one name.

Saulos was also called Paulos.

Saul already had two names.

Tarsus was a Hellenistic city with many Greeks and Judahites living there.

Paul's Greek name was Paulos and his Hebrew name was Sha'ul.

Saul was born a Roman citizen.

Paul used his Roman name when he started bringing the Good News to the nations of 'lost' Israelites because that would be the more familiar name to the Greek speaking Israelites to which he ministered to.

A change of name settles nothing about whether a man was actually called. Let the record turn to the credentials themselves.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of lacking the two witnesses required by the law.

The prosecution leans hard on this one. Deuteronomy commands that no matter be established except by the mouth of two or three witnesses, and Paul's accusers insist his conversion and his commission have no such witnesses standing behind them. No witnesses, they say, no apostleship. Muhammad had none. Joseph Smith had none. And Paul, they say, is cut from the same cloth.

Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Let the jury read the statute in its own context before accepting the prosecution's use of it. Deuteronomy 19 is not a law governing the calling of a prophet or the commissioning of a servant of Yahweh. It is a law governing an accusation, a courtroom matter, a slanderous charge brought against a man, exactly the same law that let Cain walk free of the charge of murdering his brother, and that let the woman taken in adultery walk free of the charge brought against her, because in both cases the accusers could not produce two witnesses. It has never governed how Yahweh calls a man to His service.

And whoever wrote that statute did not himself have two witnesses standing behind his own calling. Moses did not. Abraham did not. Joshua did not. Gideon did not. Samuel did not, and it is Samuel's own book that tells us plainly why Israel trusted him anyway.

1Samuel 3:19-20 And Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

Israel did not know Samuel was a prophet because two witnesses signed an affidavit. They knew because when Samuel spoke, it came to pass. That is the sign, and it is worth more than any witness a courtroom could produce, because it cannot be bribed, coached, or mistaken.

The defense submits that Paul had this same sign. The lame man at the Beautiful Gate whom Peter raised up in Acts 3 has his exact counterpart in the lame man at Lystra whom Paul raised up in Acts 14, down to the leap and the walking. The viper at Malta that fastened on his hand and left him unharmed, the storm at sea whose outcome he foretold to the letter, the healings on that same island, all of it happened with Luke standing at his side as an eyewitness, not secondhand.

And even setting the signs aside, Paul was not short of witnesses in the ordinary sense either. Luke recorded the event. Ananias was sent to him in a vision and laid hands on him. Peter himself calls Paul "our beloved brother" and places his epistles alongside "the rest of the scriptures."

2Peter 3:15-16 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Now consider the accusers' own inconsistency. They accept Matthias as the legitimate twelfth apostle, replacing Judas, on the strength of a single passage found nowhere but the book of Acts, the very book they tell you cannot be trusted because it is a secondhand account. And Matthias was chosen by the casting of lots, a flip of the coin, with no vision, no voice from heaven, no witness at all beyond the drawing of a straw. If two witnesses are the standard, Matthias fails it first. The accusers cannot have it both ways, accepting Acts when it hands them Matthias and rejecting Acts when it hands them Paul.

If the Gospel fits, you must acquit.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of confessing, in his own mouth, that he remained an unrepentant Pharisee, the very sect Jesus Christ warned His people to beware.

Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

The prosecution wants the jury to hear this as a confession of unchanged loyalty, as though Paul stood before the council and declared himself still an enemy of The Way. Let the record show what actually happened the day before this statement was made.

Acts 21:30-31 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Paul had been dragged out of the temple by a mob bent on killing him, rescued only by Roman soldiers, and by the time he stood before the council the next day he had already been struck across the mouth on the high priest's order. He was a man fighting for his life among a divided court, half Sadducee and half Pharisee, and he knew that the Sadducees denied any resurrection of the dead while the Pharisees affirmed it. He named the one point of Pharisaic doctrine that happened to still be true, the resurrection, and used it to split his accusers against one another. That is not a confession of loyalty to the sect Jesus Christ condemned. It is the same tactic Abraham used before Abimelech when he called Sarah his sister to save his life, true enough in the narrow sense, spoken under threat, and never counted against him.

Genesis 20:11-12 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Abraham is not struck from the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11 for that day's fear. Paul does not deserve to be struck from his apostleship for the same kind of day.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of an apostleship the Prophets never foretold and Jesus Christ Himself never mentioned by name, and of standing as an uncounted thirteenth apostle against the plain word of Revelation.

The accusers point to Amos, insisting that Yahweh does nothing without first revealing it to His servants the prophets, and that since no prophet ever wrote the name Paul, his apostleship cannot be of Yahweh.

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.

The defense does not dispute the verse. The defense disputes the use made of it. Nowhere among the Prophets is the name of Matthew written, or Bartholomew, or James the son of Zebedee, and yet the accusers do not throw these men out of their apostleship for want of a prophecy naming them. The Prophets reveal the plan of Yahweh, not the roster of every man who will carry it out. Noah was told the flood was coming; he was not told the day the dove would return with an olive leaf. Abraham was told he would father a multitude of nations; he was not told how his own life would be spared along the way. Even John the Baptist, whom Christ called the greatest born of women, sent his own disciples from prison to ask whether Jesus truly was the One, because the details of his own calling had not been laid out for him in advance. The overall plan is revealed. The particulars are not, and Paul's naming is a particular.

As for Christ never mentioning Paul, the reason is found in Christ's own instructions to the Twelve.

Matthew 10:5-6 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

That commission was never intended to stand forever unchanged, and Christ said so plainly before His ascension.

Luke 22:35-36 And He said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said He unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Jerusalem first, then Judaea and Samaria, and only then the uttermost parts, where the scattered and lost sheep of the house of Israel had wandered among the nations, called in the scripture by the very word the translators corrupted into "Gentiles." Paul was not sent where Christ forbade the Twelve to go in that limited, early commission. Paul was sent, in the appointed season, to gather the same lost sheep of Israel that commission was always meant to reach, once the time had come to reach them where they had been scattered.

Last, the accusers turn to John's vision of the New Jerusalem.

Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Either Yahweh cannot count, they say, or Paul is a thirteenth man who does not belong among the twelve names. But this same vision counts twelve gates for the tribes of Israel in the same chapter, though scripture itself lists thirteen tribes once Ephraim and Manasseh are both counted in Joseph's place. Twelve is the number of the pattern, the number of governance and order, not a headcount that excludes every name beyond it. The accusers cannot use the number twelve to strike Paul from the apostleship without first striking Ephraim or Manasseh from the tribes of Israel, which they will not do, because they know the number twelve was never meant as an arithmetic trap.

Was Paul sent the way scripture says a man is sent?

Was Isaiah claiming to be the Christ when he said "The Spirit of Yahweh GOD is upon me; because Yahweh hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;..."?

How do we know Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or any of the other prophets were sent?

Where are their witnesses? Yes, those prophesies came true which proved they were men of God.

When Paul's message was preached, did he not further the spread of the Gospel resulting in the explosion of Christianity?

It's not Paul's fault his message was Judaized, misunderstood, and then Universalized.

Apostello is G649, a verb, and means set apart, (by implication) to send out (on a mission).

We know the 12 Apostles were sent out by Jesus Christ Himself.

Let's examine who else was sent.

John the Baptist. Matt 11:10.

The angels were, are, and will be sent. Matt 13:41.

Jesus was sent. Matt 15:24.

Laborers of the vinyard were sent. Matt 20:2. These are witnesses and converts.

The Prophets were sent. Matt 23:34.

Ananias was sent to Paul. Acts 9:17.

Paul was sent by Jesus. Acts 26:17.

The Word is preached by those sent by God. Rom 10:15.

Where are the witnesses to some of those on this list?

Jesus told us to rightly divide the truth, and to judge people by their fruits.

Paul's accusers say God didn't use wicked people like Paul.

Have you forgotten that we are all sinners, and unrighteous until we repent and change our ways?

Have you forgotten about David, who was an adulterer and murderer?

What about Aaron, the first Levitical high priest who made the people a golden calf?

Saul, the first king, chosen by God and who would disobey God and fall from grace?

Jonah who tried to run from his mission and God?

Matthew the tax collector? Nobody likes tax collectors.

Yahweh was more than willing to forgive Paul, because no one is beyond the saving grace of Yahweh.

Paul is simply the best example of a two-fold child of hell practicing Pharisee to be converted to true Christianity. Paul is no different than a Judeo pastor who was teaching false Christianity and then slapped with the truth and coverted. Showing that Yahweh can call, influence, and use the worst of us and redirect us back to Him. It's our choice if we respond to that Divine Influence or not.

If you remember the parable of the treasure hid in a field, Saul was one who fits the analogy.

Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

When Jesus Christ opened Saul's understanding, he abandoned the sect of the Pharisees and their teachings, the lifestyle, and the persecuting of Christians, and he took on the dispensation (which is the management of the family- G3622 oikonomia) and became the Manager of the House of Yahweh.

Today’s Judaism is connected with the Jewish Pharisees (with the key line quoted):

• Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (1939–43), vol. VIII, p. 474, “Pharisees.”
  “The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees. Their leading ideas and methods found expression in a literature of enormous extent… The Talmud is the largest and most important single member of that literature….”

• Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), “Pharisees.”
  “With the destruction of the Temple the Sadducees disappeared altogether, leaving the regulation of all Jewish affairs in the hands of the Pharisees. Henceforth Jewish life was regulated by the Pharisees… Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and thought of the Jew for all the future.”

• Jewish Virtual Library, “Pharisees, Sadducees & Essenes.”
  “The most important of the three were the Pharisees because they are the spiritual fathers of modern Judaism.”

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Pharisee.”
  Notes that Pharisaic teaching on the Oral Law “remains a basic tenet of Jewish theological thought,” and after 70 CE “it was the synagogue and the schools of the Pharisees that continued to function and to promote Judaism,” underscoring the Pharisaic-to-rabbinic continuity.

• Society of Biblical Literature (Bible Odyssey), “Pharisees and Rabbinic Judaism.”
  “Conventional wisdom says that the rabbinic movement was born of the Pharisaic [movement]… Later rabbinic sages espoused teachings… ascribed to the Pharisees….”

• See Pharisees link at end

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of changing the testimony of his conversion.

The Defense has provided a side-by-side chart showing the three accounts of this experience which took place on the road to Damascus.

We can plainly see in this side-by-side chart that Paul's account did not change. We must also consider that there were 25 years between the first account and the last account. Have you ever told the exact same story with the exact same details 25 years later? We cannot condemn Paul for this.

If you read the Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the accounts are the same but the wording is not exact. If you read the books of the Kings and Chronicles, the accounts are the same but the wording is not exact. If you read different translations of the Bible, the accounts are the same but the wording is not exact.

Why is Paul the only one scrutinized?

Paul's accusers claim that Jesus quoted Euripides' from his play The Bacchae written in 406 BC when Jesus Christ said the phrase "kick against the pricks".

Here are some explanations to consider:

Uta Ranke-Heinemann (a converted Catholic) says, in Putting Away Childish Things, page 163, the really strange thing is that with both Jesus and Euripides we have the same "familiar quotation" and the same situation. In both cases there is a conversation between a persecuted god and his persecutor. In the Bacchae the persecuted god is Dionysus and his persecutor is Pentheus, king of Thebes. Just like Jesus, Dionysus calls his persecutor to account, "You disregard my words of warning . . . and kick against the pricks a man defying god."

-Paul when first confronted by Jesus is representing the law of Moses to prevent and root out blasphemy, as was Pentheus and no doubt making use of whatever aspects of Roman law he could to demonstrate the blasphemy against Caesar as well as Yahweh since Rome had final Imperium.

It must be understood that Saul the Pharisee was in reality representing the Jewish perversion of the law of Moses to root out blasphemy against Judaism, which Saul was caught up in.

-Jesus is not afraid of the obvious parallel between His divinity and humanity and the Demigod's. This story is designed to create in Greco Roman world, a culture that would understand what is at stake when God claims to be the source of law vs man claiming to be that source.

-Jesus is raising the same issue with Saul. Saul is (as a Pharisee, in his own mind) righteously defending the people against incursions against the law using the law to suppress the divine ecstasy of Christians claiming to be filled with the Holy Spirit. As was Pentheus. -Saul repents, Pentheus does not.

Another use of the phrase "kick against the pricks" "comes from Aeschylus (525--456 B.C.), Agamemnon, line 1624--or lines 2341 & 2342 at (see Stewart Custer, Witness to Christ, BJU Press, p.164). We do not readily think of the risen Christ quoting a Greek playwright (in Hebrew, no less!), but since Paul's educational background included the study of the "Greek classics," Jesus used Paul's familiarity with the work of Aeschylus to reveal to Paul the futility of resisting His grace.

Jesus as usual brings together all of history to make His points through the ages to everyone He speaks to.

Jesus, Peter, and Paul taught repentance. James taught forgiveness and conversion.

Paul taught repentance in Acts 17:30; Rom 2:4; 2Cor 3:18-23, 7:8-10; 12:21; Eph 1:7; Col 1:14, 2:13, 3:13; 2Ti 2:25; Heb 6:1,6, 12:17.

Paul admits being a sinner 'saved' by Christ.

1Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Paul knows he sinned and persecuted the true Christians and regretted it (Acts 22:4, 26:11; 1Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13). He admitted he was the foremost of sinners.

The next accusation we would like to expose is that Paul was said to be the apostle warned about in the book of Revelation regarding the assembly at Ephesus.

Paul's accusers claim that Ephesus was praised by Jesus Christ for trying them who say they are apostles and are not, and for rejecting the accused so-called prophesied false apostle Paul.

I'd like to remind the jury and the court, that Paul founded the assembly in Ephesus.

When you read this in the KJV it states that Paul is speaking to Gentile aliens with no hope and God called people of all ethnic backgrounds because God's grace is for all.

When you read this in the proper Greek, then you will see why Paul is misunderstood.

Paul addressed the Ephesians as 'saints', and reminded them that they were Israelites who were alienated from the covenants and promises and their God because of their sins and are now cleansed by the blood of Christ.

The KJV translated the verb 'alienated' into 'aliens', a noun, which changes the whole context. This occurs often in the KJperVersion. Paul's accusers would do better to scrutinize the KJV translation than to condemn Paul because of the these counterfeit versions, which are all edited by freemasons.

Sir Francis Bacon was the editor of the KjperVersion. A known freemason and sorcerer.

Paul also did many miracles in Ephesus. He founded the assembly there in 52 AD. Paul led the assembly in Ephesus for 3 years, then Timothy, and later John. Paul spent his time weeding out false doctrines, false apostles, and pagan practices.

It must also be understood that an assembly is not the 'church'. The modern 'church' is an institutionalized tax-exempt building filled with ‘religious people’ who know not what they worship and don't know who they are.

An assembly is ecclesia in the Greek, which is a gathering of true Christian Israelites, wherever they gather, such as in a building, an assembly hall, in homes, or by a riverside.

Having established that Paul's call and commission meet every standard scripture actually sets, the defense turns to the character of the man himself — because his accusers have not stopped at questioning whether he was sent, but have gone on to question what kind of man he was once he got there.

Paul is accused of claiming to be our Father.

Paul of Tarsus founded many assemblies and he nurtured them, exhorted them, encouraged them, and loved them as a father.

2Corinthians 6:13 But for the same reward -- I speak as to children -- open wide your hearts too.

Galatians 4:19 My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

1Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, Elohim also, how set-apart and righteously and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe, 11 even as you know how each one of you, as a father to his children, encouraging and comforting and bearing witness to you, 12 that you would walk worthily of Elohim who is calling you into His own reign and esteem.

Hebrews 2:13 (Quoting Isaiah 8:17-18) And again, "I shall put My trust in Him." And again, "See, I and the children whom Elohim gave Me."

Is Isaiah claiming to be the Father too?

Hebrews 12:5 And you have forgotten the appeal which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, nor faint when you are reproved by Him, 6 for whom Yahweh loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He receives." Paul quotes Proverbs 3:11-12 here.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of authorizing himself.

Let the jury consider this example.

Luke 9:49 And John answered and said, Lord, we saw one casting out devils in Your name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

9:50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

So I ask the jury. Was this man casting out devils in the name of Jesus 'sent' or 'called of God'? Where are his witnesses to his ministry? Jesus approved of this man.

Paul did not usurp authority over the Apostles. Paul was humble.

1Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ (the Anointed-meaning the Israelites);

2Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Authority as a group, not Paul the dictator. His teaching is from Jesus Christ and is for building and not for destroying. If you read verse 7, Paul is stating that the group has authority.

Verse 7 in the Greek: You must look at things according to appearance. If one is confident in himself to be of the Anointed (an Israelite), he must again reckon this by himself; that just as he is of the Anointed (an Israelite), even so are we.

In other words, nobody is above anyone else because we are all of the Anointed group. We are all Israelites.

Another mistake people make is not understanding the word 'christ', which means *anointed*. It is a reference to Messiah, but sometimes is a reference to the Anointed seed of Israel, the body of obedient Israelites.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of taking money and charging for his evangeling.

Paul was a tentmaker and provided for himself.

Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them (Aquila and Priscilla), and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands (Paul's hands) have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak concerning need: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

1Thessalonians 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and hardship: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable (a burden) unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

2Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought (without paying for it); but worked with labour and toil night and day, that we might not be chargeable (a burden) to any of you:

Paul's accusers say he robbed the assemblies.

2Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Did Paul admit to robbing other assemblies?

Robbed is G4813 which does mean to rob, to despoil. The related word is G138 and akin to G142 which means to raise up, elevate, draw up, to appropriate what is taken, to apply to any use.

G142 is used in instances such as 'take up thy bed, take My yoke upon you', 'took up the body', 'took up the fragments of fish remaining'.

The Greek reads: Other ecclesias I despoil (legally) getting provisions dispensing them toward you.

The Macedonians contributed money to Paul for him to visit the other assemblies.

2Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and in need, I was chargeable (a burden) to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. (Php 4:15-18)

This is an example of the Anointed body of Israelites supporting other assemblies.

In 1Corinthians 16 Paul gives instructions for the collection which he has the assembly choose who will deliver it to the saints in Jerusalem. Paul also instructs the Galatians to do the same.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of accepting the status of being one of the gods, and he didn't deny being a god.

When Paul and Barnabas were in Lystra, Paul healed a lame man. The people held them as gods come down in the likeness of men. They called Barnabas and Paul Jupiter and Mercury.

Acts 14:15 (Tearing their garments) And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Does it seem like Paul's accusers have not read Paul's epistles?

Paul of Tarsus is accused of claiming he was Christ, or even co-redeemer with Christ.

Acts 13:47 For so hath Yahweh commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of the nations, that you shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Was Isaiah co-redeemer with God too?

Paul quotes Isaiah 42:6, 49:6 and Luke 2:32 which are prophecies of any of Yahweh's servants who restores the tribes of Jacob throughout the Good News.

Paul was not claiming that he was the Saviour. Salvation means mortal preservation and when one hears, understands, and continues in the truth, they are preserved in this life and delivered unto the next.

Paul was obeying the sayings of Yahweh through Ezekiel (ch 33), because when you warn the wicked, and he taketh not warning, his blood shall be upon his own head. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

Galatians 4:14 And my trial which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Received is G1209 dechomai and means to accept, meaning, to embrace, to approve.

The Galatians received Paul as a messenger.

The correct Greek translation reads: '...,*like* Jesus Christ' (not *as*). Meaning Jesus was also a messenger of God. One who brings good tidings.

Paul stated he was a 'servant and bound of Yahweh and Jesus Christ' in Romans 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1; 2Thessalonians 1:2; Philemon 1:1 and Hebrews 10:34.

'Called of or by Christ' in 1Corinthians 1:1; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; Colossians 1:1; bound to the commandment of God and Christ in 1Timothy 1:1.

The Anointed (Christ) is a reference to the children of Israel in Rom 9:3; 1Cor 12:12, 2Cor 1:21; Gal 3:16, 29; Eph 3:4 and Col 4:3 (Christ is not a mystery, the identity of the Anointed people was a mystery, and still is in denominational churchianity); Philip 1:21.

In Philippians 3:10-11 Paul states he wants to know Christ more, and Paul knows he's not 'saved' yet but rather that he must press on to lay hold of that which Christ has laid hold of, referring to the resurrection from the dead.

Paul did not claim he was Christ, or even that he was a co-redeemer. Paul clearly states that he believes in Jesus Christ, and that the prize of eternal life is not guaranteed until this test called life ends. Paul exhorts the Philippians to continue to walk by the same rule and be of the same mind, and to become joint imitators with Paul. Paul ends chapter 3 stating who his Saviour is and that they await the Kingdom of Heaven.

Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Messiah,

Paul of Tarsus is accused of saying he should be imitated.

Who should we imitate? Paul? Or Jesus?

If Paul is imitating Jesus, wouldn't we be imitating Jesus if we imitate Paul?

'Of me' is G3450 and means I, me, my, of me.

When Paul said "my kinsmen", did he mean his kinsmen or Christ's? Or both?

When Paul said "my gospel", did he mean his gospel or Christ's? Or both?

When Paul said "my God", did he mean his God, or Israel's God? Or Both?

When Paul said "my speech, my preaching", did he mean his own, or Christ's? Or Both?

When Paul said " Timotheus my beloved son", did he mean Timotheus was his actual son, or did he mean his kinsmen of the flesh?

When Paul said "my little children", did he mean his children, or did he mean Christian converts?

When Paul said "you all are partakers of my grace", did he mean his grace, or did he mean they partake in the same Divine Influence and favor as was given to him?

When Paul said "David was raised from the dead according to my gospel", did he mean he resurrected David, or will David be resurrected by the same gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul preached?

Paul of Tarsus is accused of misquoting the OT and abusing the sayings of the prophets.

Paul quotes, cites, or references the Old Testament 268 times. Hebrews 29 times. For a total 297 times.

Jesus Christ quotes, cites, or references the OT at least 62 times.

Paul and Christ both paraphrased, referenced, cited, and alluded to quotes in the OT.

Why is Paul condemned for the same thing Jesus Christ did?

The defense closes this case not on argument alone, but on the testimony of the very apostle whose authority Paul's accusers claim to defend.

Paul's accusers reject Peter's 2nd epistle.

Peter does not speak loosely here. He affirms directly that Paul writes according to wisdom given to him, that his writings carry authority, and that they are consistent with the same message Peter himself preaches. That places Paul's letters within the same body of truth — not separate, not contradictory, not optional.

2Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Paul's accusers seize on "hard to be understood" as though Peter is warning that Paul is generally confusing or unreliable. That is not Peter's meaning, and the context proves it. "These things" cannot be assumed — it must be traced backward to what Peter has actually been writing about for the entire chapter: the Day of the Lord, judgment by fire, the destruction of the elements, and the exposure of every man's works. Paul writes about the identical subject, using the identical language — "the Day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night" (1Thessalonians 5:2), "the day of Jesus Christ" (1Corinthians 1:8), "the day of Christ" (Philippians 1:6, 10), "the day of the Lord Jesus" (2Corinthians 1:14). Peter and Paul are addressing the same subject with the same framework. The difficulty Peter names is not Paul's writing ability or deep knowledge of Torah or the Greek classics. It is the depth of the subject itself — the timing of the Day of the Lord, the suddenness and scope of its judgment, and the true nature of the destruction it brings.

Peter names exactly who distorts this teaching: "the unlearned and unstable," men without grounding or discipline, who twist Paul's writings the same way they twist the rest of scripture. This is where 'elements' (Greek stoicheion) and 'melting with fervent heat' get misread as the literal dissolution of the physical universe, when the consistent scriptural use of 'elements' points to foundational systems, structures, and traditions — the collapse of corrupt structures, ideologies, and institutions, not the annihilation of creation. It is where "thief in the night" gets turned into secrecy instead of suddenness, and where the judgment pattern itself gets reversed. Read together, Paul and Peter describe the same order every time: the wicked are removed first, and the righteous remain and inherit — the same pattern as the wheat and tares, where the tares are gathered and burned and the wheat is preserved. Systems that teach the righteous are removed first invert that pattern by isolating verses out of the very context Peter is warning against.

This is the actual stakes of rejecting Paul on Peter's authority: not a minor disagreement over a difficult writer, but the loss of a major portion of the church's understanding of judgment and fulfillment, built by wrenching both apostles out of the context in which they were always meant to be read together.

Paul is accused of being unaccepted by the other Apostles and Christians.

Those who accompanied Paul, taught with him and were colleagues of him.

These, according to scriptural accounts and are listed, were:

Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Manaen, Silas, Timotheus, Gaius, Aristarchus, the disciples, the brethren in Jerusalem, James, Sosthenes, Timothy, Silvanus, and Peter.

Acts 13:1 Now there were in the assembly that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 15:40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by (being given over to) the brethren unto (by) the grace (Divine influence) of God.

Acts 16:3 Him (Timotheus) would Paul have to go forth with him;\...

Acts 19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre. 19:30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not (to protect Paul from the mob).

Acts 20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

Acts 21:17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. 21:18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present. 21:19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

1Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

2Corinthians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

1Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the assembly of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

If Paul of Tarsus was not called by the Lord, then how do you explain the miracles of healing during his ministry?

Paul performed miracles in Iconium in Acts 14:3-4.

Paul healed a lame crippled man at Lystra in Acts 14:8-18 giving the glory to God.

Paul exorcized a damsel possessed with a spirit of divination in Thyatira in Acts 16:18 in the name of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh worked special miracles by the hands of Paul in Acts 19:11-12. Even his handkerchiefs and aprons were brought to the sick and they were healed and evil spirits went out of them.

Paul healed Eutychus who fell from the 3rd floor and died in Acts 20:10-12.

Paul was not harmed by a viper in a wood pile that bit him on the island of Malta (Melita) in Acts 28:5, and healed the fever and bloody flux of the father of Publius in verse 8.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Paul of Tarsus has been slandered and accused of almost everything the prosecution can throw at him, hoping something sticks.

The evidence and the facts remain. Paul was a Manager of the Family of God (oikonomia). Paul explained the transition of the Old Covenant promises made to our ancient Israelite ancestors and their fulfillment in the Renewed Covenant with their descendants. Paul reminded his Israelite kinsmen of their identity, who they were and Whose they were, that the Levitical laws of ordinances, oblations and rituals expired, and the mediating priesthood of men and the blood sacrifices expired at the cross. And Paul taught his kinsmen how to return to their identity, their heritage, to their Israelite traditions, to brotherly love, and to their God, and to continue walking in The Way.

Paul taught to imitate Jesus Christ as he and other faithful Christians did. To obey the gospel, obey the commandments, keep the sabbaths and remember the feast days, and to press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of Yahweh in Christ Jesus.

IV. How Far Did His Commission Reach?

Paul was entrusted with the dispensation of the Household of God.

Paul of Tarsus was the one who was chosen by Jesus Christ to manage (oikonimia) the transition of the Renewed Covenant promises made to Israel onto the nations of 'lost' and scattered Israel.

I draw to your attention the fact that when Israel, in the BC days, filled up their sins against Yahweh, He divorced them and scattered them among the nations where they are still to this day walking in darkness, ignorant of their identity, and blinded. Most of our 'lost' kinsmen today are marinating in their pew in the 'churches' believing they are 'saved' and worshiping a Jewish Jesus.

Israel was blinded by God.

2Chronicles 7:14 If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for He (Yahweh) hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in.

The Covenant was made, the warnings were given, the people did not return to Yahweh, He divorced and scattered them, blinded them, and promised them reconciliation. Jesus Christ reconciled them, Paul is the one who explained the mystery of what happened to them.

This would be a good time to remind and inform the jury that Paul was a 'Manager of the Family of God'.

The word is 'dispensation' in the scriptures.

The Greek word is G3622 oikonomia

Defined as:

1) the management of a household or of household affairs

1a) specifically, the management, oversight, administration, of other's property

1b) the office of a manager or overseer, stewardship

1c) administration, dispensation

1Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if involuntarily I had been entrusted a *dispensation* of the gospel, 18 what then is my reward? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without cost, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from all, yet have I made myself servant unto all, in order to win more.

All, every, and whosover, in the context of scripture and the Good News, is always referring to Israelites. Paul's teachings are no exception, because he plainly states who he is speaking to every time. (All, every, whosoever) see links at end

Ephesians 1:10 That in the *dispensation* of the fulness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him:

Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the *dispensation* of the grace of God which is given me for you:

Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a servant, according to the *dispensation* of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations.

The mystery that was hid from ages and generations is the mystery of who these 'lost' Israelites are and Whose they are.

Israel was divorced from Yahweh starting in 745 BC. Scattered among the nations and alienated from God because of idolatry and mixing with the heathen nations.

Paul of Tarsus was entrusted with the dispensation of God. To manage the Good News and manage the assemblies.

Paul's epistles are, in effect, Israelite Heritage, History, and the Good News, explained plainly for people who had forgotten all three. That is why the bulk of what he writes is correction, reproof, exhortation, and warning — because false brethren and Judaizers were already infiltrating the assemblies in the first century of Christianity.

Dispensation is also defined as G3623 oikonomos

Defined as:

1) the manager of household or of household affairs

1a) especially a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born as was usually the case, a freed-man or a slave) to whom the head of the house or proprietor has intrusted the management of his affairs, the care of receipts and expenditures, and the duty of dealing out the proper portion to every servant and even to the children not yet of age

1b) the manager of a farm or landed estate, an overseer

1c) the superintendent of the city's finances, the treasurer of a city (or of treasurers or quaestors of kings)

2) metaphorically the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise *steward* (oikonomos), whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

1Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and *stewards* (oikonomos) of the mysteries of God. 4:2 Moreover it is required in *stewards* (oikonomos), that a man be found faithful.

1Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good *stewards* (oikonomos) of the manifold grace of God.

Paul of Tarsus was an apostle, which means a delegate, an ambassador of the Gospel, a commissioner of Jesus Christ, a messenger, he that is sent. Paul was an *oikonomos*, a steward to the Household of God. Paul was made an *oikonomia*, the Manager of the Family of God.

Yes, an apostle is specifically applied to the twelve of Christ, but the definition includes a broader sense applied to Christian teachers.

In the second set of examples of stewardship above (Luke 12:42; 1Cor 4:1-2; 1Pet 4:10), are examples of other managers of the family of God. How would we know if any other men who are stewards of God were really sent by Him? Why are they not in question? Why is Paul singled out?

A manager must have a household to manage. Let the record now show exactly which household Paul was sent to.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of being a Universalist and bringing the exclusive message of the Gospel to Gentiles and the rest of the world.

I'd like to remind the jury, and provide the evidence that it's not Paul's fault that his message was universalized due to the tampering of scripture, and the ignorance of the fact that scripture has been tampered with, especially when it comes to the word 'Gentile' which simply means *nations* (Gentiles ​​ see link at end). In scripture this word identifies Israelites at least 80% of the time, Adamic kinsmen of the Israelites about 15% of the time, and it identifies the Canaanite/Edomite and heathen about 5% of the time.

If Paul is charged with universalizing the message, then why not Jesus Christ as well? Matthew 28:19 ("teach all nations") John 3:16 ("loved the whole world"). Why not any of the other apostles and disciples who used the words 'all, every, whosoever, and Gentiles'?

John 3:16 itself proves the point rather than undercutting it. 'The world' there is kosmos in the Greek, not oikoumene — the word Luke uses for the inhabited, civilized earth when he means the whole Roman world (Luke 2:1; Acts 11:28; 17:6; 24:5). Kosmos does not carry that meaning. It means an ordered system, a particular world under discussion, to the exclusion of others — the same word used for the world before the flood that God destroyed (2Peter 2:5; Hebrews 11:7), and for the world of God's elect as opposed to the world of the wicked. Christ Himself was speaking to Nicodemus, a master of Israel, about Israel, when He said it. And 'whosoever believeth' is no better translated as an open invitation to every race on earth — the Greek behind it means 'the entire one,' referring to the entire nation under discussion, determined by context, not an unqualified 'anyone at all.' The same Gospel of Mark that records 'go ye into all the world' (kosmos again) also records Christ's own instruction to His disciples: 'Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel' (Matthew 10:5-6). If 'all the world' meant every race without distinction, Christ contradicted His own command in the same breath. It did not, and He did not.

It's not Paul's fault people do not know that 'Gentiles' (a Latin word) replaced the Hebrew word *goyim* and the Greek words *Hellen* and *ethnos*, and simply means *a nation, tribe, or race of people*, and does not mean non-Jew. These Hebrew and Greek words identify Jews as *goyim* and *ethnos* as well.

How else do you explain two *goyim* brothers inside the womb of Rebekah, a supposed Jewess?

It's not Paul's fault people don't study, or would rather believe someone who is ignorant or unlearned.

Paul's gospel was not Judaism, Paul's gospel was later Judaized. (Judaism see link at end)

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of preaching to the Gentiles.

Again, I remind the jury that evidence of the misuse of the word 'Gentiles' is provided. (Gentiles see link at end).

Paul did not teach universalism, Paul taught 'lost' Israelites their true identity. These Israelites are wrongly titled 'Gentiles'. Today's 'lost' Israelites wrongly identify as “Gentiles”.

The word 'Gentiles' never once appeared in the original Hebrew or Greek manuscripts. It is a Latin translator's word — gentilis, meaning simply 'of the clan' or 'non-citizen of Rome' — that only later, in the hands of the Latin church, shifted to mean 'pagan,' then 'non-Christian,' and finally, centuries after that, 'non-Jew.' The actual biblical words are goy / goyim in the Hebrew (used over 557 times) and ethnos / ethne in the Greek (used 164 times), and both simply mean nation, people, or tribe — never 'non-Jew' or 'heathen' by definition. Context alone determines which nation is meant. Genesis 25:23 calls Jacob and Esau themselves 'two goyim... in thy womb' — two nations, both of them descended from Isaac. Deuteronomy 32:28 calls Israel itself a goy 'void of counsel.' Romans 9:24-26 has Paul directly quoting Hosea to identify the ethnos he addresses as those who were once 'Lo-Ammi,' not My people, and are now called the sons of the living God — scattered Israel, not foreigners to Israel. The word simply cannot mean 'non-Jew,' because scripture uses it for Israel constantly, including for Israel's own brother and enemy, Esau (who is the father of the Jews). Paul was never preaching to Gentiles in the modern sense. He was preaching to nations — and the evidence throughout his epistles shows which nations he meant.

Paul reminded the Romans they were Israelites of the seed of David. Many Romans were Judahites.

Paul reminded the Corinthians, who were Dorian and Danaan Greeks, that they were Israelites of the house of Judah.

Paul reminded the Galatians, who were Celtic and Germanic tribes, that they were Israelites.

Paul reminded the Ephesians, who were Dorian Greeks, Roman Judahites, Phoenicians, and Ionian Greeks, that they were Israelites.

Paul reminded the Philippians, who were Macedonian and Dorian Greeks, Trojans and Thracians, that they were Israelites.

Paul reminded the Colossians, who were Dorian Greeks, that they were Israelites.

Paul reminded the Thessalonians, who were pagan Israelites, that they were Israelites.

Paul was revealing the mystery of their identity and relationship as family members of the genetic Adamic household of Abraham. That they were children of Jacob Israel. Many of them didn't know these things, just as those of our race in the 'churches' today are oblivious to their identity and what the Scriptures actually say.

The jury should see that Paul went explicitly to the 'lost' sheep of the house of Israel scattered among the nations. The assemblies he taught in were Israelite assemblies.

It's not Paul's fault that his accusers lack historical knowledge, do not know the migration patterns of the Israelites since the Exodus, the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities and where they went after those exiles, or that people lack understanding of the original Hebrew and Greek words and meanings that clearly identify who is who.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of going against Jesus Christ's commandment to go only unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

This first commission Jesus Christ sent His disciples on was local — the cities in and around Judaea. Go to the lost sheep in Judaea first (Zechariah 12:7). They went to teach in their cities (Matthew 11:1). The disciples didn’t go far, because we then see Jesus and His disciples again in chapter 12.

Jesus Christ's own ministry shows exactly who those lost sheep were and where He went to find them. Isaiah prophesied of the northern regions, "The land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali... Galilee of the nations" (Isaiah 9:1), and Matthew directly applies that prophecy to Jesus Christ: "The people which sat in darkness saw great light" (Matthew 4:16). Christ's ministry begins prominently in Galilee, Zebulun, and Naphtali — not Jerusalem. Galilee was not Jerusalem's equal in the eyes of the ruling establishment. Jerusalem by the first century was dominated by Pharisaic and Sadducean authority, Edomite and Idumean Herodian influence, and a corrupted, Rome-appointed priesthood. Galilee, by contrast, represented the northern tribal regions, the dispersed Israelite populations, the fishing and agricultural common people of the covenant. The Jerusalem establishment despised it for exactly that reason: "Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet" (John 7:52); "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46). Yet the overwhelming majority of Christ's ministry — the Sermon on the Mount, the parables, the healings, the feeding miracles, the training of His disciples — took place in Galilee, among the common covenant people, radiating outward from there (Matthew 4:23, 4:17). Jerusalem enters the Gospel narrative mainly at the feasts, in confrontation, and in the Passion week. The geography itself testifies to who Jesus came for: the Shepherd the prophets foretold, sent to gather, feed, and restore the scattered flock of Israel (Ezekiel 34:23; Micah 5:4; John 10:11), not to court the ruling authorities in Jerusalem. "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24) is not a throwaway line. It is His mission statement, and Galilee is where He carried it out.

We see Jesus Christ state His Gospel being preached in the whole world in Matthew 26:13, and here in chapter 28, before He ascends, He commands His disciples to teach all nations.

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:
28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

This later commission was the command to go to the lost sheep scattered everywhere outside of Judaea. "All power" declared in verse 18 is total authority in heaven and earth, the fulfillment of Psalm 110 and Daniel 7 — not a change of audience. "All nations" translates ethnos, the same word used throughout scripture for the scattered peoples of Israel, not an unqualified command to every race on earth. "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" confirms that this commission is instruction into obedience and alignment with the law, not a lawless universal invitation — the same law Paul's accusers claim he abandoned.

Did Christ intend for the Apostles to go to every nation and race, or did Christ command the Good News to be preached to every nation of the children of Israel?

Was John teaching the universalism of the modern churches when he wrote that Christ was "the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world" (1John 2:2)? John's "ours" means his immediate believing Israelite brethren, the ones he is directly addressing throughout the epistle. Christ functions there as advocate and propitiation — not a vague, emotional forgiveness detached from the law, but the lawful satisfaction of the law's own requirement, since the soul that sins still owes its debt. "The whole world" cannot be read apart from that same covenant framework. Kosmos (world) does not mean the whole human race indiscriminately; the word itself means an ordered system, not "everyone everywhere." John ties it to those under the law, those needing redemption from the covenant penalty, the scattered children of God, the wider Israelite world beyond his own local assembly (John 11) — consistent with Christ sent to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 10:6, 15:24), and the New Covenant made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah together (Jeremiah 31; Hebrews 8). John was not extending the propitiation beyond the covenant. He was extending it beyond one local congregation to the entire dispersed covenant people. Why is Paul condemned for using the same language?

The people Paul, the other Apostles, and Christ brought the Gospel to were Israelites. Paul did not go to Jews, Gentiles, or the other races. If you know your history, and the identity of the nations mentioned in scripture, then you know Paul went to the lost sheep scattered among all the nations.

Jesus's disciples and the Israelites of Judaea were not keen to who was Jew and who was Judah, that much is evident. Paul may not have known the difference either while he was a Pharisee, but when Jesus dealt with Paul on the road to Damascus, Christ gave him understanding — evident in Paul's epistles, where he differentiates between the children of Jacob and the children of Esau, the vessels of mercy and the vessels of wrath, the saints and the man of lawlessness.

How many of our people today are not keen to who the Jews really are, what a Gentile really is, and who true Israel is?

And the same commission that carried Paul east to Galatia carried him, by the consistent witness of the earliest Christian historians, west as well — to the very edge of the known world.

Let the record further show where Paul's own commission finally carried him, to the utmost bounds of the west, to the very islands the ancient world called the edge of the earth.

Paul himself wrote to the Romans of his desire to press on past Rome into Spain, and the testimony of the earliest Christian historians, writing centuries before any denominational stake was raised in the question, holds that he did not stop there. Clement of Rome, writing within living memory of Paul's own death, described the apostle preaching righteousness to the whole world and reaching the limits of the west. The defense will not overstate what is legend and what is attested history, and there is a difference. A manuscript circulated as the Sonnini fragment, purporting to be a lost chapter of Acts describing Paul's landing in Britain, is tradition, and not generally accepted as scripture. But the tradition it carries is not invented from nothing. It is echoed, independently, across thirteen centuries of English and Continental scholarship: by Tertullian in the second century, who wrote that the parts of Britain inaccessible to Roman arms had been subdued by Christ; by Eusebius; by the Venerable Bede; by Archbishop Ussher; by Bishop Burgess of St. David's, who called the evidence for Paul's British journey as substantial as any historical fact could require; and by the plain, standing fact that the great cathedral at Ludgate Hill in London bears not the name of the city, as every other English cathedral does, but the name of Paul himself, built, by long tradition, on the very rise where the apostle once preached to the Celtic-Israelite inhabitants of Londinium.

Whether or not every particular of the tradition can be nailed down to the historian's satisfaction, the destination it points to is not in dispute among the witnesses: Britain, Gaul, and Spain, the lands of the very Celtic and Cimmerian tribes descended from the tribes scattered in the Assyrian captivity, the same Danites who left their name across a continent in the Danube, in Denmark, in a hundred rivers and provinces marking their trail west. Paul did not wander toward the ends of the earth by accident. He went where the lost sheep of the house of Israel had already gone, because that had been his commission from Ananias in Damascus from the very first day.

V. Did Paul Do Away With the Law?

Paul of Tarsus is accused of doing away with the law.

The Priesthood was not qualified to 'do away with' or 'add' any laws.

It was the prophets who prophesied of a change. May I draw your attention to...

Daniel 9:27 (The angel Gabriel speaking) And He (Jesus) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations He shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Jesus Christ did not do away with the law, He fulfilled the law. The context is not the Commandments. The context is the sacrificial rituals. The law of the priestly ordinances.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

The Gospel of Ebionites reads: "I am come to do away with *sacrifices*, and if you cease not sacrificing, the wrath of God will not cease from you." (Epiphanius,  Panarion 30.16,4-5)

Jesus Christ did not do away with the law or the prophets (or the Psalms). Christ fulfilled the Levitical law of sacrifice and proved the words of the prophets of God. The Levitical ordinances (which were added Gal 3:19) were the shadow (a schoolmaster), Jesus Christ was the substance those shadows pointed toward. He fulfilled the sacrificial atoning ordinances of the old covenant system. He also assumed the office of the priesthood and became our High Priest of the order of Melchizedek.

Paul was teaching that the rituals, the priesthood, the men-priests as mediators, and the Levitical ordinances and oblations were what was 'done away with'. The old system expired.

The people did not understand this and this is what Paul was explaining.

The 'churches' today still do not understand this, which is why they eat pork and other unclean animals, don't keep the Sabbaths and memorial of the Feast Days, and they don't care about the 10 Commandments because they think 'grace' makes them bulletproof, and because they declared they are 'saved' (by their own mouths) they can't lose their salvation.

But the law was not 'done away with', the priesthood and the rituals were 'done away with'.

Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

2:16 And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off (scattered Israelites), and to them that were nigh (Judaean Israelites).

The *law of commandments in ordinances* are the Levitical ordinances. Jesus Christ's death made void the priesthood and rituals.

Ferrar Fenton's translation reads (*works* of the law) as *rituals* of the law.

The KJV uses Works of the law in: Rom 9:32; Gal 2:16, 3:2,5,10.

Deeds of the law: Rom 3:20,28.

Paul was teaching that the rituals never saved anyone. That it was a temporary yearly sacrifice and atonement. Men-priests, the blood of animals, and rituals cannot save you.

The law was not 'done away with', because having and following The Belief (the Faith of Jesus Christ) does not void the law, it establishes it. Paul taught that all the other commandments still stand and when we sin we must come to Jesus Christ. The compunction to repent, ask for forgiveness and to continue in The Way comes from Divine Influence and the law written on our hearts.

Deuteronomy 30:10 If you shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn unto Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

1Kings 8:58 That He may incline our hearts unto Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

Solomon commanded his son to guard the Torah and write them on the tablet of your heart. (Prov 3:3, 7:3) Torah simply means ‘teaching/instruction’.

Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

The written law was written on our hearts in the Renewed covenant because it is now up to us to follow the law written on our hearts, rather than depend on a priesthood and rituals (which could never save).

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Yahweh, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Hebrews 8:10 and 10:16 shows the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:33.

2Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Yahweh; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people:

Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith Yahweh, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Paul did not teach the law was 'done away with'. Paul taught that the law of ordinances of the priesthood and the rituals were 'done away with'.

The 'churches', seminaries, the Jews, and Paul's accusers cannot tell the difference between the Levitical ordinances and the Commandments. Paul was not an antinomian (against the law).

Paul’s accusers claim Paul says it’s now o.k. to eat unclean animals and meat sacrificed to idols (Rom 14:21; 1Cor 8:4-13, 10:19-29) when Jesus said not to eat meat sacrificed to idols (Rev 2:14, 20).

Paul did not teach that the food laws were 'done away with'. The 10 Commandments and the food laws are still in effect, and Paul was not an antinomian (against the law).

The context is not unclean animals.

The context is partaking in the ceremony and ritual sacrifice of meat to little ‘g’ gods.

Paul taught not to partake in the sacrifices and eating with those sacrificing to idols. Paul emphasized not to put stumblingblocks before the weak who had a conscience about eating sacrificed meat. Pork is not the subject, as pork was not, is not, and will not ever be considered food (Pork see link at end). The unclean animals were designed by God as land and water waste management. He did not change their biological and environmental functions at the cross. A set-apart people do not eat the things the heathen eat.

There is a difference between attending fellowship dinners among pagans sacrificing animals to other gods and fellowship dinners among Christians who simply just buy their meat, take it home, pray over it, and eat it.

Unless you had a farm in those days, you had to buy your meat in the marketplaces which were attached to the temples. Back then, just like today, the family farms were put out of business and the people lived in the cities, so many Israelites had no choice but to buy their meat at the pagan markets.

Romans 14 does not open with swine or shellfish. It opens with a dispute over conscience: 'Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs' (Romans 14:1-2). The contrast Paul draws is between a man who eats generally and a man who restricts himself to herbs — not between a man who follows Leviticus 11 and a man who does not. Leviticus 11 was never a doubtful matter; Yahweh did not say the swine might be unclean, He said 'he is unclean to you' (Leviticus 11:7). Paul opens this chapter addressing something else entirely: disagreements among believers over food and conscience, not the reclassification of animals God had already classified. Even the word 'meat' misleads modern readers — in the Greek it is broma, simply 'food,' the same word used of the herbs and fruit given to Adam (Genesis 1:29), and Esau's 'morsel of meat' in Hebrews 12:16 was a bowl of lentils. Paul is not conducting a review of Leviticus 11. He never says the swine is now clean, that shellfish are now clean, or that the law has changed. He says only that believers should not judge one another over disputed matters of conscience — 'let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth' (Romans 14:3)

Paul taught brotherly love over doubtful disputations that divide. To not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

In Romans chapter 14 Paul emphasizes the food laws. He explains that many people became vegetarians because they didn't want to eat the meat sacrificed to idols, and that others did not care if the meat was sacrificed to idols or not.

The context is not unclean animals. It never is. The unclean animals are never considered food by God. The context is arguing over personal decisions about eating or not eating meat sacrificed to idols.

The Torah observing Judaean Israelites did not eat unclean animals, and the clean animals that were sacrificed to idols were considered 'common' by the Judaeans. Defiled and profaned. The Judaean Israelites also considered the Greeks and other pagan nations as 'common'. Uncircumcised.

Peter's vision in Acts chapter 10 was about Yahweh teaching Peter that the Greeks and other pagan Israelites were now made clean through the blood of Jesus Christ.

The pagan Israelites that became Christian needed to stop eating unclean animals, and animals sacrificed to other gods, and also to stop condemning each other for their eating habits. And that if you are not sacrificing to Yahweh, then you are sacrificing to idols.

1Corinthians chapter 8 is about food offered to idols.

Paul tells the reader exactly what he is discussing before he begins: 'Now as touching things offered unto idols...' (1Corinthians 8:1). The subject is food connected to pagan temple worship, not the classification of clean and unclean creatures — Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are never mentioned in this chapter, not once. In the ancient world, most meat sold in the public markets had passed through a pagan temple first. That created a real question of conscience: does eating it make a man complicit in idolatry? Paul's answer is that the idol itself is nothing (1Corinthians 8:4), so the food is not mystically contaminated — but that knowledge does not excuse a man from wounding a weaker brother's conscience. Paul's own conclusion states his concern in his own words: 'if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend' (1Corinthians 8:13). That is not a man arguing that unclean animals are now food. That is a man arguing that a brother's conscience outweighs personal liberty — the same principle as Romans 14, addressed to the same problem, in the same Corinth where meat sold at market so often came from a temple.

1Corinthians 8:10 For if any man see you which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Paul was teaching his kinsmen 'don't be a bad influence to those struggling with trying not to eat foods sacrificed to idols'.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new month, or of the sabbath days:

The context of chapter 16 is a criticizm of the 'commandments of men'. Paul explains that Christ's death voided the priesthood and its rituals as well as the added decrees and commandments of the Pharisees that governed over the details of the lives of the Judaeans.

Paul was not teaching that you could eat whatever you wanted, that you don't have to keep the sabbath day or remember the feast days, and not to judge each other. Paul was teaching not to condemn each other over decisions in food (which would not include eating unclean animals), not to condemn in drink (which does not mean you can be an alcoholic), and not to condemn in sabbath observance (which can be kept Saturdays, Sundays, or by the Solar Calendar), and not to condemn each other over these things.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of teaching that genealogy was not important.

1Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions (causes disputes), rather than godly edifying (G3622- oikonomia) which is in faith (The Belief): so do.

Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

The myths and endless genealogies are referring to how the Greeks and other pagans claimed their ancestry was from the gods. Zeus, Ares, Apollos, unions of gods and earthly mates.

You have to have some understanding of the Greek mind of the day to comprehend what Paul means by endless genealogies. Obviously the 'churches' and Paul's accusers are not aware of this, which shows that a lack of scriptural, historical, and classical knowledge leads to accusing Paul unfairly.

Edifying is G3622 oikonomia in 1Timothy 1:4 and should have been translated 'management of the family': '...not giving heed to endless genealogies, which causes disputes rather than *management of the family* of Yahweh which is by The Belief.'

Being the manager of the family of Yahweh is being an edifier. One who builds and does not tear down.

I ask the jury, was Paul causing disputes, or was he managing the family of God in teaching them to abandon claiming that they were descendants of pagan gods?

The distinction the defense has just drawn — the law of the Lord standing, the ordinances of the Aaronic priesthood ending — is not a convenient modern gloss. It is the precise distinction the Greek itself makes every time Paul uses the word "law," and it is worth showing in full, because it answers the double-talk charge before it can even be raised.

Paul is accused of speaking with a forked tongue whenever he uses the word "law," first defending it, then setting it aside, as though he cannot make up his mind.

The charge assumes that "law" means one single thing everywhere Paul writes it. It does not, and the fault is not Paul's, it is English's. Greek had a separate word for every shade of the concept that English forces into one four-letter word, and once the distinctions are restored from the Greek, the supposed double-talk disappears entirely.

Let the record show four distinct things Paul means by "law," never confused in the Greek even where the King James flattens them into one word.

The law of the Lord is the law given to Moses at Sinai and recorded in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the commandments, statutes, and judgments governing the civil, military, economic, and social life of Israel. This law Paul never once sets aside, and says so in his own words.

Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

The ordinances are a separate matter entirely, added afterward, not part of the original law given at Sinai but layered onto it to give the Aaronic priesthood its function, its sacrifices, its rites of the tabernacle and temple.

Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

These ordinances required blood, the blood of bulls and goats, a shadow and a temporary covering pointing forward to a sacrifice that had not yet been made. When Paul speaks of "the deeds of the law" by which no flesh is justified, he is speaking of compliance with these ordinances, this system of animal sacrifice for covering sin, never of the commandments themselves.

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Sin's law is a third and altogether different thing again, the universal law of death that fell on Adamic man, the wage every man of every race pays once for disobedience, regardless of what commandments he was ever given to keep.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

And the law of faith is the fourth, the belief that the one perfect sacrifice of the Son has replaced the blood of bulls and goats as the covering for sin, so that a man is no longer justified by the ordinances of the Aaronic priesthood, the deeds of the law of sacrifice, but by faith in what Christ did once for all.

And the priesthood that remains once the ordinances end is not a vacancy. It has a name, and it predates Sinai by centuries.

Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Read Paul's supposed contradictions again in light of these four meanings and not one of them survives as a contradiction. When Paul says the law is holy and just and good, he is speaking of the law of the Lord, the commandments. When he says a man is not justified by the deeds of the law, he is speaking of the ordinances, the blood sacrifices of the Aaronic priesthood, made obsolete the moment Jesus Christ became the final and perfect sacrifice. He is not straddling a fence. He is using a precise vocabulary that the translators collapsed into a single English word, and his accusers, reading only the English, mistake his precision for evasion.

Hebrews 9:9-10 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

The ordinances stood only until the time of reformation. The law of the Lord was never given an expiration date, the prophets never gave it one, and Paul never gave it one either.

Let the record further show that Paul's national message, and not merely his teaching on personal salvation, rests on a priesthood scripture names only three times, yet which explains everything the accusers claim Paul contradicted himself about: the Order of Melchizedek.

Melchizedek appears first in the days of Abraham, centuries before Sinai, before the law of ordinances existed at all, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, who blessed Abraham after Abraham's own act of setting a kidnapped kinsman free and dealing rightly with the wicked kings who had taken him.

Genesis 14:18-20 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Melchizedek appears a second time in the Psalms, where Yahweh swears an oath that cannot be repealed, unlike the Aaronic priesthood which passed from father to son by descent and died with each man who held it.

Psalm 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

And Melchizedek appears a third time, at length, in the epistle to the Hebrews, where Paul makes the point plainly: this priesthood has no genealogy, no beginning of days, no end of life recorded, because it is not the Aaronic order that came later and passed away, but the pattern of priest-king righteousness that stood before Sinai and outlasts the ordinances that were only ever meant to be temporary.

Hebrews 7:1-3 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him... Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

The defense submits that this is the very thing Paul was declaring when he wrote that Christ became a High Priest forever, not after the order of Aaron, which required constant repetition, constant blood, constant mediation by sinful men standing between the people and Yahweh, but after the order of Melchizedek, which required none of that, because it existed and was declared righteous before the ordinances were ever given. (Priesthood see link at end)

This is also why the question of who penned the epistle to the Hebrews, disputed since the early centuries of the Ecclesia, changes nothing about Paul's case. Whether the hand belonged to Paul himself, or, as some careful readers of the Greek have argued, to his companions and fellow-laborers Aquila and Priscilla, named as his friends in his final letter to Timothy, the doctrine it contains stands as a second witness in full agreement with everything Paul taught elsewhere about the ordinances passing and the law of the Lord standing.

2Timothy 4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

A man does not keep close fellowship for years with people who teach a doctrine he rejects. If Hebrews came from Paul's own circle, it corroborates him. It does not contradict him.

The prophets themselves anticipated exactly this shift, from a system of animal sacrifice back to a system of righteous judgment after the pattern that stood before Sinai.

Isaiah 1:11, 16-17 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats... Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed.

Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old.

As in the days of old, before the ordinances, when Abraham dealt in righteousness and Melchizedek blessed him for it. This is Paul's national message alongside his personal one, that the Household of Yahweh was never meant to govern itself forever by the ordinances of a priesthood that required constant blood and men-priests. It was always meant, in the fullness of time, to return to the older, higher, unrepealable priesthood of righteousness after the order of Melchizedek, standing in Jesus Christ, its eternal High Priest.

Having settled what was and was not done away with, let the record turn to a cluster of smaller charges that all rest on the same misunderstanding — that Paul spoke with an authority, or a message, of his own invention.

Paul of Tarsus is accused of preaching his own gospel. Paul has been accused of teaching that the people would be judged according to his own gospel.

Let the record show that Paul described The Gospel as:

My gospel in Romans 2:16, 16:25; 2Tim 2:8.

The gospel of God in Romans 1:1, 15:16; 2Cor 11:7; 1Thes 2:2,8-9; 1Ti 1:11.

The gospel of peace in Romans 10:15; Eph 6:15.

The gospel of Christ in Romans 1:16, 15:19,29; 1Cor 9:12,18; 2Cor 4:4, 9:13-14; Gal 1:7; Php 1:27; 1Thes 3:2; 2Thes 1:8.

The gospel of His Son in Romans 1:9.

The gospel of the uncircumcision in Gal 2:7.

The gospel of your salvation in Eph 1:13.

Our gospel in 2Cor 4:3; 1Th 1:5; 2Th 2:14

Isaiah said 53:1 "Who has believed OUR report?"

Paul attests Yahweh is the author of salvation: 1Thes 5:9; 2Ti 2:10; Tit 2:11; Heb 2 and 5.

In the epistle to the Romans, Paul called the gospel "my gospel" twice. Paul also in Romans calls his gospel, the gospel of God 2x, the gospel of peace 1x, the gospel of Christ 3x, and the gospel of Yahweh's Son once, all in Romans. Paul uses these terms interchangeably throughout all his epistles.

I ask the jury, if you were a Christian and accepted and lived by the Gospel, and witnessed to others of the Gospel, wouldn't you call it yours as well? It's a message of Good News, which is for you, so it becomes your Good News as well. It's OUR Good News. The fact that Paul clearly does not state or imply that the Gospel is his alone is evident, because he also identifies the Gospel with God, peace, Christ, the Son, the uncircumcision, yours, and ours.

If the Gospel fits, wear it!

Paul's accusers claim Paul never mentions the Kingdom of Heaven.

Paul mentions the Kingdom of God in Acts 14:22, 19:8, 20:25, 28:23 (the kingdom of God and of Jesus, the Torah, and the prophets), 28:31 (kingdom of God and of Jesus); Romans 14:17; 1Corinthians 4:20, 6:9-10, 15:24 (kingdom of God and of the Father), 15:50; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 5:5 (kingdom of God and of Christ); Colossians 1:13 (kingdom of His dear Son), 4:11 (kingdom of God); 1Thessalonians 2:12; 2Thessalonians 1:5; 2Timothy 4:1 (kingdom of God and Jesus Christ), 4:18 (His heavenly kingdom); Hebrews 1:8 (kingdom of the Son who has the sceptre of righteousness), and 12:28 (the kingdom of the Mediator of the Renewed Covenant).

The 2nd Advent is the return of Jesus Christ. This is Judgment Day, this is the Wedding Feast, this is the kingdom coming down from above and being established on the earth.

We see Paul teaching the kingdom of God, the Father, the Son, the heavenly kingdom, the righteous Mediator, and the kingdom of Christ.

Kingdom of God is G932 and G2316.

Kingdom is basileia (bas-il-i-ah) and means royalty, rule, a realm, reign. The right or authority to rule over a kingdom. The royal power of Jesus as the triumphant Messiah. The royal power and dignity conferred on Christians in the Messiah's kingdom. Used in the Renewed Covenant to refer to the reign of the Messiah. It is more of a condition, not a piece of real estate. A kingship, or reign.

Though Paul did not use the exact phrase 'kingdom of heaven,' neither did Mark, Luke, John, Peter, James, or Jude — and neither did Matthew himself except when reporting Christ's own speech in that one Gospel. 'Kingdom of heaven' is not a phrase with special theological content that Paul was obligated to reproduce. It is a Jewish reverential substitution, a scribal habit of avoiding the divine name in common speech by saying 'heaven' instead of 'God' — the same impulse that produces 'G-d' in modern Jewish publications. Matthew, writing for an Israelite Judaean audience steeped in that convention, wrote 'kingdom of heaven' where every other New Testament writer, including Matthew himself elsewhere, wrote 'kingdom of God.' They are the identical phrase, the identical reign, the identical Kingdom — proven inside Matthew's own Gospel, where he uses both interchangeably for the same thing. Demanding that Paul, writing epistles to Greek-speaking assemblies across the Mediterranean, reproduce a scribal reverence-habit specific to one Gospel writer's Judaean audience is not a serious charge. It is asking why Paul didn't write in Matthew's dialect. Paul preached the Kingdom of God constantly, by name, in nearly every epistle he wrote — the record already entered above proves it — and Kingdom of God is Kingdom of Heaven. There was never a gap to explain.

In 2Timothy 4:18 Paul mentions Christ's heavenly kingdom.

Paul used the word 'heavenly' 15 times.

Paul mentions the 'heavenly' vision in Acts 26:19; he differentiates between those that are earthy and those that are 'heavenly' in 1Corinthians 15:48-49; he mentions God, and blessings in the 'heavenlies' in Christ in Ephesians 1:3 and 20, and 2:6, and 3:10. Paul speaks to his Israelites kinsmen in Hebrews 3:1, calling them 'set-apart brethren' and partakers of the 'heavenly' calling of the Emissary and High Priest of our confession in Jesus Messiah. In Hebrews 6:4 he mentions the 'heavenly' gift and the Holy Spirit, and in Hebrews 8:5 and 9:23 describes the pattern of the 'heavenly' things found in the BC part of the Covenant and how they were purified according to the Torah and the blood of Christ. He also explains the already prepared and coming kingdom in Hebrews 11:16 and that we are the 'heavenly' Jerusalem and we are being drawn near the gathering and assembly of the first-born which are written in 'heaven' in 12:22-23.

The kingdom of Heaven or of God is not mentioned in the Old Testament.

Wisdom 10:10 is the only mention of the Kingdom of God in the BC literature.

Wisdom 10:10  When the righteous fled from his brother's wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours

James did not mention the kingdom of Heaven or of God directly, but did teach that those rich in The Belief (the faith) are heirs of the kingdom which is promised to those who love Him.

Peter in both his epistles did not mention the kingdom of Heaven or of God directly, but did teach of the everlasting kindgom of Jesus Christ.

Jude did not mention the Kingdom of God or of Heaven.

John did not mention the Kingdom of Heaven in his 3 epistles or Revelation.

Why is Paul the only one accused of not mentioning the Kingdom of Heaven?

Paul of Tarsus is accused of teaching his own commandments.

Paul's opinions were made known.

Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

Paul quotes the OT if you go back and read verse 4.

3:4 Let it not be! But let Elohim be true, and every man a liar, as it has been written, "That You should be declared right in Your words, and prevail in Your judging."

Yahweh speaking: Job 40:8 Wilt you also disannul My judgment? wilt you condemn Me, that you mayest be righteous?

Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded (surrendered) your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield (present) your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

6:20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free (apart) from righteousness.

John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Paul taught to follow the commandments. Paul taught that sin still abounds. Paul taught that practicing sinners were servants of sin.

When Paul did not have an OT verse to cite, he spoke as a man, he spoke from his opinion, and he made it known.

1Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

Paul, writing during a time of heavy persecution of Christians, was responding to a letter concerning matters of marriage and other various matters concerning respect between brethren.

Paul gives his advice regarding circumcision and stated that every man, when they are called, whether they are circumcised or not, that it's more important to keep the commandments of God, rather than cause division over it. That's why he said in verse 20 "let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called."

Paul circumcised Timotheus because Paul was respecting the elders in Judaea and rather than argue, he avoided division by circumcising Timotheus (Acts 16:3). Paul was not 'doing away with' circumcision, which is an Abrahamic covenant, he was simply saying that if you were called as an uncircumcised adult you were not compelled to get circumcised at that point. Circumcision of the heart is what mattered. Newborn males however are to be circumcised on the 8th day according to the law. The topic of circumcision in these passages *was in context of the path to salvation*, which doesn't depend on being circumcised.

In Romans 2:25 Paul states that circumcision is beneficial, but if you don't follow the Torah then the fact that you are circumcised does not benefit. And those who are not circumcised but follow the Torah are counted as one who is circumcised and Torah abiding. Paul was differentiating between 'lost' uncircumcised Israelites who followed the law on their heart unwittingly and the circumcised Judaean Israelites who knew but didn't follow the Torah. Paul was saying it's the circumcision of the heart that matters, backing up 1Samuel 15:22 'to obey is better than to sacrifice', and Hosea 6:6 "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings", and Mark 12:33 'loving your kinsmen more than burnt offerings and sacrifices'.

Paul stated he and the Israelite Judaeans are the circumcision, and that they shouldn't trust that being circumcised guaranteed salvation.

Paul explains all this in 1Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians where he stated he was a Hebrew circumcised on the eight day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Paul gives his advice regarding slaves and bondman, teaching forgiveness and brotherly love.

Paul gives his advice for the unmarried and the widows

1Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy (favor, Divine influence) of the Lord to be faithful (trustworthy).

Judgment is G1106 gnome, which means opinion, counsel, advice, knowledge, view, thought, mind.

Paul reminded them that this was a time of persecution, and not a good time to start a family.

Verses 12-40 are all Paul's opinions which he repeatedly makes known.

1Corinthians 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress,

7:29 But this I say, brethren,

7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare (put a restraint) upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Keep Yahweh first is what Paul taught when giving his own advice.

With the law, the priesthood, the gospel, and the genealogies all accounted for, the defense turns to the one word Paul's accusers claim he redefined beyond recognition: righteousness.

Paul taught that righteousness through The Belief justifies.

Paul taught that the Torah was not made void through The Belief (faith), rather that The Belief (faith) established the Torah.

Paul explains in Romans that Abraham was counted righteous because he had the right belief, not because he performed rituals.

Christ died and rose, so Paul was teaching his kinsmen that Yahweh desired mercy not sacrifices, and that the sacrifices were no longer needed. They never 'saved' anyone anyway.

VI. Was Paul a Liar, or a Man of His Word?

Paul is accused of being a liar who confessed to using deception for God's glory.

Paul's accusers claim he admitted he was a liar, and that he confessed to using the art of a lie to extend the glory of God.

Romans 3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

On the surface, to the unlearned and the lazy student of the word, this sounds like Paul is admitting he's a liar. It is not. Verse 7 is the last of four objections Paul raises and answers in this chapter, and none of them can be understood pulled out on its own.

Paul opens by anticipating the obvious objection to everything he argued in chapter 2: if outward identity and possession of the law do not justify a man, then what advantage is there in being of Judah? Paul answers, "Much every way" — chiefly, that the oracles of God, the law, the prophets, and the covenant revelation itself, were entrusted to Israel through Judah, not to the world at large (Romans 3:1-2). He then raises a second objection: if some within Israel did not believe, does that make God unfaithful to His promises? "God forbid," Paul answers. God's faithfulness never depended on man's obedience, and the failure of many does not nullify the covenant promise to the whole — the same remnant principle Isaiah already established (Isaiah 10:22). A third objection follows: if man's unrighteousness only makes God's righteousness stand out more clearly, is God unjust to judge that unrighteousness? Paul rejects this outright — if that argument held, God could not judge the world at all, and judgment remains just regardless.

Verse 7 is the fourth objection in this same sequence, and Paul is not confessing anything. He is stating the accusation his enemies were already making against him and against the Gospel he preached: that if a man's "lie" only makes God's truth abound more, causing His truth to be praised, then how can that man still be judged a sinner for it? Paul's answer in the very next verse makes his position unmistakable: "And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just" (Romans 3:8). Paul names this a slanderous report about himself, states plainly that this is not his teaching, and pronounces damnation on anyone who actually believes it. He is not admitting to lying for God's glory. He is quoting the accusation, in order to condemn it, exactly as this defense is doing to every other charge in this case.

There were some who actually accused Paul of saying we should sin so that good would come out of it. This is certainly not what he said, and he indicated that the judgment received for holding to that lie would be justified. Even though the Lord is able to bring honor to Himself by judging sin in the individual, that sin is never justified. Consider the words of the Lord to the woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. When she repented, the Lord said to her, "GO, AND SIN NO MORE."

Two truths stand at the end of this passage, and they answer the charge completely: God remains faithful to His covenant regardless of human failure, and human failure never excuses sin or removes a man's accountability for it — which is the opposite of what Paul's accusers claim he taught.

VII. Witness by Witness Through the Epistles

The accusation that Paul Judaized Christianity and handed it to Gentiles is about to be answered by a numbers game.

The accusation that Paul Judaized Christianity and offered it to Gentiles rests entirely on bad translation and generations of repeated misunderstanding. It is easy to see why anyone unlearned in the Greek, or content to 'just believe' without examining the text, would accept it at face value. The number of times Paul actually quotes the Old Testament to his own kinsmen tells a different story.

297 times Paul quotes, cites, or references the OT to his Israelite kinsmen. Reminding them of their history and heritage. Paul addresses in every epistle who he is talking to by calling them 'brethren', 'saints', 'called', 'chosen', 'children of God', 'of the forefathers', 'of Abraham's seed', 'the anointed seed of Isaac', 'the called out and set-apart of Jacob'. 'Children of the promise', 'heirs of the covenants', 'vessels of honor and mercy', 'members of the body of the Anointed Ones'.

In every one of Paul's epistles Paul teaches his kinsmen to keep and follow the law and commandments. He taught who Christ was according to the flesh, His lineage, His purpose, the prophecies about Him, that He is the author of their Salvation, the Good Shepherd, their Propitiation, their High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek, the Son of God.

Romans — 105 citations of the Old Testament

In Romans Paul quotes, cites and references the OT 105x.

Paul's message to the Roman's was exclusive. He was writing to Israelites in Rome.

The Roman's were descendants of the Zarah branch of Judah. These were the wild olives.

He refers to them as 'brethren' and 'saints' and that they are 'called'.

The only people referred to as saints in all of scripture are Israelites.

In chapter 1 Paul is speaking to the Israelite Judaeans who had the Torah, the heritage, the history, remembered the prophets, and knew of the power and glory of Yahweh, and that they had no excuse for turning from The Way.

In chapter 2 Paul explains that the scattered 'lost' nations of Israel did not have the Torah, forgot their identity, history and heritage, forgot the prophets and prophecies, and that when they did the things written in the law by nature, they were showing the work of the law written on their hearts.

Paul explained in chapter 3 that both the house of Judah in Judaea and the scattered 10 tribes of Israel (outside Judaea) were not righteous, and even if the Judaeans sacrificed, they were still not justified by the sacrifices and rituals.

In chapter 4 Paul teaches his kinsmen of the promises made to the seed of Abraham, which the Romans are the posterity of.

In chapter 6 Paul teaches his kinsmen that Christ died for their past sins and that they must now walk in newness of life. The old man is crucified with Him, the former condition of sin under the bondage of the law, which is a reference to the Levitical priesthood, meaning its ordinances and sacrificial rituals were 'done away with'. They were no longer needed because Jesus Christ was the last sacrifice and He is now the reigning priest and mediator to the Father for us.

Paul explains the law of marriage to his kinsmen. That the woman is bound by the law to her husband. So as a wife, Israel sinned by rebellion and idolatry, so Yahweh divorced them and scattered them among the nations in 745 BC. Paul explains that the husband, Yahweh, had to die in order to be released from the law of marriage. Yahweh died in the flesh as Jesus Christ, and now Israel is freed from the penalty of death and the law of marriage, and can now be married to Christ.

Paul continues to inform these Romans that they were children of the promise and are the called out seed of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, whom he refers to as vessels of mercy.

Paul contrasts them from the children of Esau whom he refers to as vessels of wrath fitted for destruction.

Paul teaches these Romans that there is no difference between the Israelites of Judaea and the Israelites dispersed and scattered among the nations, and that they are all under the covenant and promises of Abraham because they are all the literal children of Abraham who forgot who they were. And this was because Yahweh blinded them when He divorced them (Deut 29:4; Psa 69:23; Isa 29:10), but He also promised them reconciliation, which was fulfilled in Jesus (Jer 31:31-37).

In chapter 11 Paul was telling the Israelite Judaeans not to be jealous that the scattered 'lost' nations were to receive the same favor (grace) as themselves. That the lump (Jacob) is holy (set-apart), the root and branches were holy (Israelite Judaeans), and so were the branches. The broken off branches were the Romans and other scattered 'lost' Israelites who forgot who they were and Whose they were.

Paul closes Romans out talking about the 'mystery'. The mystery was who they were. Regathering and restoration.

Paul also reminds them to follow the Torah, to love one another, to walk in The Way, to witness to one another and spread the truth and Good News, and edify the body of the Anointed.

1Corinthians — 72 citations of the Old Testament

Paul quotes, cites and references the OT in 1Corinthians 72x.

The Corinthian were Dorian and Danaan Greeks of the House of Judah.

Paul founded this assembly. He instructed them to rebuke sin and taught them The Way of Christ.

Paul calls the Corinthian assembly saints, which only the seed of Isaac are called. He also calls them brethren. He tells them that both the Judaean Israelites and Greek Israelites are of the Anointed of Yahweh and that they have His Spirit while there are those born of this world that do not have the same Spirit.

Paul was made aware of a fornicator in the assembly and instructed them to cast him out of the congregation and have no dealings with him. Righteousness cannot fellowship with unrighteousness.

Paul also condemns homosexuals, and fornicators.

Paul receives most of the attacks on his writings by homosexuals, and fornicators.

Paul also speaks on marriage and offers his opinions on certain issues relating to marriage when he had no commandments of Christ to give. He gave his best judgment according to scripture.

Paul taught that those who didn't want to eat food sacrificed to idols should not be burdened and beat down by those who didn't have a conscience about it.

Paul also had to explain why he provided for himself, because the false apostles were robbing and taking advantage of the congregations.

Paul also explains that the Corinthians were descendants of the Israelites and reminded them of what Yahweh had done for their ancestors. Paul was also teaching them that there were many scattered Israelites all over the Greco-Roman world that were their genetic brethren.

Paul taught that you must understand what you are doing when you partake in the Lord's Supper.

Paul taught that we each have different gifts and services but we are all part of the same body. Each one of us is an important member. Paul teaches of brotherly love and edification of the body.

Paul preaches of the resurrection of Jesus and the gospel message of reconciliation.

Paul instructed the Corinthians to put aside a collection for the poor in Jerusalem and that they should appoint some of their own congregation to bring the contribution to Jerusalem.

Paul taught these Israelites their heritage and that they should keep the memorial of the Feast Days.

2Corinthians — 21 citations of the Old Testament

In 2Corinthians Paul quoted the OT 21x.

In Paul's second (third letter) to the Corinthians we see that his pastoral counsels were followed, the fornicator was ejected from the congregation, he repented and was allowed to return.

Paul again addresses the Corinthians as 'saints' and praised them for doing right.

Paul again speaks of the necessity to follow the law, but also have mercy and brotherly love.

Paul speaks about our spiritual clothing (Shekinah Glory) at Judgment Day, which we receive if we followed The Way.

Paul teaches that we be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. And that our bodies are a temple so we must not let Jewish Jesus dwell within us, and then Jesus Christ can receive us.

Paul warned of false apostles and 33K denominations preaching of another Jesus that would claim Christianity. Do not accept them.

Paul defends his ministry, the gospel of Christ, and that he did not take money from the assemblies, rather he instructed the assemblies to collect, appoint, and disperse the collections, so Paul would be above reproach.

Paul praised, encouraged, and loved his assemblies, and he felt like their father because he brought them the gospel and he watched them grow in it.

Galatians — 24 citations of the Old Testament

Paul, in Galatians, quotes the OT 24x.

Paul brought the gospel to the Galatians, who were mostly Celtic/Germanic tribes. These were the descendants of the ancient Israelites that were scattered among the nations.

In chapters 1-5 Paul explains that the sacrificial rituals and the priesthood were 'done away with' when Christ died. These were not the 10 Commandments, these were the 'works of the law' (rituals, deeds of the law). The ordinances of the priesthood were what expired.

Paul was teaching these Israelites their heritage, their identity, and that they were freed from the rituals of the law.

Paul refers to the Galatians as 'saints' and 'brethren'. Paul differentiates them from the Edomites (Jews) and explains how he used to be aligned with them (as a Pharisee) and persecuted the followers of Christ in ignorance.

Paul explains that he was appointed to bring the gospel to the uncircumcised, which is a reference to the scattered 'lost' tribes of Israel.

Paul explains that the sacrificial rituals did not save anyone, and now they were made void by the sacrifice of Christ. Paul explained the function of the ritual laws and that they only served as a foreshadow and schoolmaster for what Christ fulfilled. To keep sacrificing was to deny the work of Messiah. The purpose of the Torah was to reveal condemnation and prevent sinning.

Paul reminds these Galatian Israelites of who they were, and that they were Abraham's seed and were under the covenants and promises made to Abraham.

Paul then instructs them of general living among each other starting in chapter 6. Brotherly love, humility, witnessing of the truth, and doing good, because they are of the household of The Belief.

Ephesians — 12 citations of the Old Testament

Paul quotes the OT in Ephesians 12x.

The Ephesians were Dorian Greeks and Roman Israelites, Phoenicians, Ionian Greeks and other branches of scattered Israelites.

Paul addresses them as 'saints', 'brethren', and teaches them that Jesus was the Anointed, and taught them things concerning the Kingdom of Yahweh. That these Israelites were chosen by God. Paul speaks of their heritage and the promises made to Abraham.

That these Ephesians were dead in transgressions and error, ignorant and alienated from God through their wickednesses. That they are shown favor and given the gift of salvation through The Belief.

That they should be established among the number of Christ Jesus for good works which they should walk in.

That the work of Christ on the cross reconciled both the house of Judah in Jerusalem with the house of 'lost' scattered Israel into one body.

Paul explains he was given the duty of Manager of the Family (oikonomia), and his purpose is to make known the mystery of the Anointed, which is simply reminding them who they were and Whose they were.

Paul exhorted them to be followers of God. Walk in love and eschew the evil.

Paul expounds on the commandment of honoring your parents, which includes honoring your ancestors and your heritage.

Paul also teaches to put on the whole armor of God.

Philippians — 13 citations of the Old Testament

In Philippians 13x Paul quoted the OT.

The Philippians were Macedonian Greeks, Danaan Greeks of the tribe of Dan, as well as Trojan and Thracian Israelites.

Paul addresses them as 'saints' and 'brethren'.

Paul praises them for continuing in the truth and for examining those things that differ, in order that they would remain pure and not stumble unto the day of Christ. Paul praises them for having the same love and being of one mind.

Paul speaks of the humility of Christ.

Paul sends Timothy to care for them because Paul cannot because he was in prison.

Paul warns them to beware of dogs and evil workers, which is a reference to the Canaanite and Edomite, false brethren, and Judaizers.

Paul reminds the Philippians that he was an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew. As a pharisee he thought he was doing right and that he was following the Torah, but as he found out he was on the wrong team, and following the wrong Torah.

Paul told them to imitate him and walk as an example of a citizen of heaven. Paul taught to do what they've learned and not to 'just believe'.

Colossians — 4 citations of the Old Testament

Paul quotes in Colossians the OT 4x.

The Colossians were Dorian Greek Israelites.

Paul addresses them as 'saints' and 'brethren'.

Paul praises them for continuing in The Belief and for being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in knowledge and understanding.

Paul speaks of the Supremacy of Christ. Paul teaches them to stay grounded in the Old Testament history and heritage and be settled in the Gospel that has been prophesied of, and fulfilled by, taught by, and sent to the Israelite Judaeans and to the scattered 'lost' sheep of the house of Israel by Jesus the Messiah.

Paul speaks to them of 'the mystery of the ages which is now made manifest to His saints'. The mystery was who they were.

Paul criticizes the 'commandments of men' and warns them not to be deceived by enticing words.

To avoid vain philosophy and deceit. Referring to Greek mythicism and the religion of the Pharisees and the 33K versions of Christianity we now have today.

Paul taught them that the rituals, the priesthood, and even the handwriting of ordinances of the Pharisees and Sadducees was 'done away with'.

Paul taught not to let anyone judge you in food, drink, holy days, new months or sabbaths. So long as one is doing these things in alignment with The Way. Paul was preaching brotherly love and avoiding doubtful disputations that divide.

Paul also warns them of false preachers and teachers.

Paul teaches of the Christian life, putting off the old man and putting on the new man renewed in knowledge and obedience.

Paul tells the Israelite Colossians that they are chosen and set-apart of God.

Paul also speaks of rules for Christian households.

1Thessalonians — 2 citations of the Old Testament

In 1Thessalonians Paul quotes the OT 2x.

The Thessalonians were mainly Pelasgian, Phoenician, and Aeolian Greek Israelites that were recently pagans.

Paul addresses the Thessalonians as 'brethren', 'saints', and 'chosen ones'.

Paul praised them for imitating Christ and receiving the Word in much tribulation.

Paul reminds the Thessalonians of who they were, and that many of them suffered the same things as their brethren in Judaea by the Edomite Judaean priesthood. The Jewish priesthood forbade the Apostles to speak to the scattered Israelites because they didn't want them to receive the favor of God, realize who they were, and realize who the Jews really were.

Paul taught them to live clean, righteously and in brotherly love.

Paul preaches of the coming of Yahweh, so whether relaxing or watching, simultaneously together to Him we should be living.

2Thessalonians — 2 citations of the Old Testament

2Thessalonians Paul quotes the OT 2x.

Paul clarifies the first letter. He also speaks of Judgment at Christ's coming.

Paul warns of deception and a falling away.

Paul speaks about the man of lawlessness, and the mystery of lawlessness.

Paul explains that The Belief (the faith) is not for all, because he knows that The Belief is not able to be received by the Edomite Judaeans, or anyone who is not of the Household of God.

1Timothy — 13 citations of the Old Testament

In 1Timothy the OT is quoted, cited or referenced 13x by Paul.

Timothy was a frequent companion of Paul.

Paul placed Timothy over the assembly at Ephesus.

Paul instructs Timothy with practical matters affecting assembly organization and the character of ministers.

Paul refers to Timothy as a 'purely bred child in faith'. Timothy's mother was a Judaean and his father was a Greek. Both were Israelites. Paul is stating that Timothy is an Israelite and of the same faith and seed of Abraham.

Paul warns of false teachers and other doctrines. Paul states that the law is good and lawful, and that the law is for the lawless and disobedient.

Paul states the requirements of Bishops and qualifications for Deacons.

Paul warns of the latter times and how many people will depart from The Belief and give heed to doctrines of devils and seducing spirits.

Paul tells Timothy to remind them of the doctrine of Jesus Christ and to continue in it. To fight the good fight of The Belief (the faith) and maintain good works.

2Timothy

Paul talks about Abraham and our ancestors in the second letter to Timothy.

He gives Timothy encouragement and tells him to hold fast the Gospel, faith, belief and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Paul tells Timothy to endure as a good soldier of Jesus Christ and avoid being entangled in the matters of this life.

Paul reiterates that Christ was of the seed of David and those who endure will obtain the preservation and salvation which is in Christ Jesus.

Paul taught to study to show yourselves approved and to rightly divide the word of truth.

Paul reminds Timothy to teach those things from the law, the prophets, and from Christ.

Paul foretells to Timothy of the godlessness of the last days, and how there will be 33K forms of godliness that are not of God, referring to all the so-called denominations claiming Christianity. Paul speaks about the God-given delusions to those who refuse to be inspired of God, refuse to be corrected or instructed in righteousness, and refuse the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Paul taught Timothy to proclaim the Word, stand ready to bring proof, and exhort with all forbearance and instruction.

Titus

Titus was associated with Paul very early in Paul's missionary work.

Titus was the minister of the Israelites in Crete, an island in the Mediterranean. Dorian and Danaan Greeks, Romans, Galatae (Kelts), Saxons and Parthians.

Paul's letter to Titus was a condensed code of instruction for the assembly in doctrine, morals and discipline, which Titus himself was to be a personal example.

Paul calls Titus a 'purely bred child of faith' just as he did Timothy, as both of them were Israelites of the faith and seed of Abraham.

Paul states that an overseer must be a blameless steward of God.

Paul warns not to give heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men. To avoid claims being descended from the genealogies of the ancient pagan gods. To remind the people that they are not descendants of mythical gods, but that they are the descendants of the living God. They were Israelites.

Paul instructs Titus to teach sound doctrine, in charity, and in patience.

Paul reminds Titus the he and his kinsmen are a peculiar people and redeemed from iniquity by the blood of Christ.

Paul teaches to maintain good deeds.

Philemon

Paul's letter to Philemon was a private letter. The occasion of the letter was the return to Colossae of one of Philemon's servants who had robbed him and escaped to Rome, where he came under the influence of Paul.

Paul addressed Philemon as a brother, a follower of The Belief, and one who shows love toward all saints.

When Philemon's servant Onesimus met Paul, he became a believer.

Paul exhorted Onesimus to do what was right and return and pay off his debt to Philemon.

Paul was also challenging Philemon to do the right thing and forgive Onesimus.

Hebrews — 29 citations of the Old Testament

Hebrews 29x Paul quoted, cited, or referenced the OT.

Hebrews was written to Israelites, as Israelites are Hebrews. The Hebrews included those of the remnant of 40,000 who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity, and also of the dispersed Israelites from the Assyrian captivity still living in the Greco-Roman world. The 'lost' sheep of the house of Israel. They are also addressed as 'holy brethren', which means Sacred kinsmen of the flesh, the Anointed seed of Isaac.

Hebrews opens up referring to the Israelites of the BC days, and how on many occasions Yahweh spake by the prophets of Jesus the Anointed. The Kinsman Redeemer of the people called by His name, who were given the law, married unto, covenanted with and made promises to. The people who broke His laws and covenant, were divorced and scattered among the nations, and promised reconciliation through the blood of Messiah whom Yahweh said "Sit on My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool". Paul states that Christ is above the angels.

That Christ was made a little lower than the angels so He could suffer death on behalf of His people.

Paul states that He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all sprung from one, which is why Christ calls us 'brethren' (G80 adelphos – of the same womb, same national ancestry). Paul also states that Christ was of the seed of Abraham.

Paul teaches history and heritage, and ancestry as he relates accounts of Moses, the forefathers, the Exodus. He speaks of the Rest that will come, but that Rest will not come until there is obedience to the law.

Paul explains the Levitical Office and its ordinances, and how the sacrifice of Christ was the last sacrifice so the laws of the sacrificial rituals were what was 'done away with'. The need to sacrifice animals for sin expired. The priesthood and its oblations were 'done away with'. The need for priests as mediators between man and God expired. The whole law of Levitical ordinances were 'done away with' because Christ fulfilled them all, made the final sacrifice, and became the High Priest and Mediator between man and God.

Paul explains that there was a change in the law, which was prophesied by the prophets, and this change was a result of the work of Christ on the cross.

Paul explains that Jesus Christ assumed the eternal priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek.

Paul explains the difference between the spiritual man and the natural man. That one has the spirit and can receive things of the spirit, and one does not have the spirit and cannot receive the things of the spirit.

Paul preaches to continue in The Way, for if they shall fall away they crucify the Son of God afresh.

Paul teaches to imitate those with The Belief so they too may receive of the promises made unto Abraham.

Paul explains that when Christ became our High Priest, the Old Covenant was Renewed and made Better because the change was from men priests making temporary atonement with animal blood, to Jesus the eternal High Priest making a permanent propitiation with His blood.

The law was written on our hearts and obedience to His commandments is desired over sacrifices and rituals.

When we sin, we come to Jesus Christ our High Priest and repent, ask for forgiveness, and sacrifice the sinful man/woman, and continue to seek and follow our Kinsman Redeemer.

That the just shall live by belief.

Paul dedicates chapter 11 to the examples of belief. The faith (belief) of the forefathers.

Paul begins with Abel, Enoch and Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the Judges, the Kings, the Prophets. They all did not see the prophecies come true, yet they fully believed and proved their belief by their works and their allegiance.

Paul teaches of the example of Jesus, the author and finisher of The Belief.

Paul reiterates the disobedience of the fathers of our flesh.

Paul warns of rejecting Yahweh's grace.

Paul reminds his kinsmen of their Uncle Esau, who despised his race and gave up his birthright when he married the daughters of the Hittites.

Paul reminds us that our God is a consuming fire.

Paul teaches to let brotherly love continue. Paul taught the second Great commandment.

Paul spoke of the coming Kingdom and the Great Shepherd of the sheep.

Fourteen epistles, fourteen assemblies, and in every one of them the same voice, quoting the same Torah, to the same kinsmen, without a single exception. That is not the record of a man who abandoned his people's law for a universal religion of his own invention. It is the record of a man doing one thing, consistently, from Rome to Colossae.

VIII. The Evidence Stands

Paul's accusers teach that the book of Acts is a fraud because they say the Holy Spirit was given before the first Pentecost recorded in Acts 2:1.

May I draw your attention to the fact that the Holy Spirit was upon Israelites since the BC days.

In Luke, Jesus taught the disciples how to pray, and that you can ask for the Holy Spirit.

Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil (base), know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?

Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey Him.

Backed up by:

1John 3:24 And he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us.

Paul's accusers argue that the disciples were already given the Holy Spirit when Christ ascended.

John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:

In Acts chapter 2:

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Judaeans, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

The verses following states there were Israelites from Parthia, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Cyrene, and Rome.

So the disciples who apparently already received the Holy Spirit in John 20 were with all these other devout Israelite men when they too received the Holy Spirit at the first gathered Pentecost after Christ's ascension.

Acts and Luke are not fraudulent documents. They are backed up by the prophecy of Joel which is fulfilled in Acts chapter 2 forward unto today and until Christ returns.

Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My spirit.

The book of Acts is not a fraud, and neither is the hand that carried its record down to us across two thousand years. Let the record show exactly how well that hand has been kept.

Let the record show the manuscript evidence itself.

The witness of the manuscripts themselves stands for Paul, and against the notion that any man's hand could strike his epistles from the Household of Yahweh without their absence being immediately and permanently obvious.

No other document of antiquity survives in the copies that the scriptures do. Compare the New Testament's several thousand surviving manuscripts and early translations against the mere handful that preserve Thucydides or Tacitus, historians no one seriously doubts. Sir Frederic Kenyon, a foremost authority on the ancient text, put it plainly.

Frederic Kenyon, "Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts": The number of manuscripts of the New Testament, of early translations from it, and of quotations from it in the oldest writers of the Church, is so large that it is practically certain that the true reading of every doubtful passage is preserved in some one or other of these ancient authorities. This can be said of no other ancient book in the world.

Paul's epistles are woven into that great body of ancient witness at every turn, quoted, copied, and translated by hand across every century since, in numbers no forger and no council of bishops could ever have coordinated. If it were possible for corrupt men to strike an apostle's writings from the record and have the world none the wiser, they had every incentive to try it long before this present generation was born to hear the charge repeated.

Yahweh has preserved His Word, every word of it that proceeds from His mouth, exactly as He promised. Heaven and earth will pass away before that Word does.

IX. Closing Summation

I ask the jury, and all who hear this case In Paul's Defense. Does it sound like Paul was a Jew? Does it sound like Paul taught our Gospel heritage to the other races? Does it sound like Paul was teaching another gospel?

If you know who is who, if you know the Word of God, if you know some history, and if you know that the English perversions do not portray the same message as the Greek and older translations, then you should be able to see that Paul was not a Jew, not a universalist, and not teaching another Gospel. And you should be able to see that Paul was indeed the Manager of the Ecclesia. He was the building Administrator of the House of the Most High. An Overseer. He organized the assemblies, he provided the tools needed to build, and he provided step-by-step instructions from the doctrine of Jesus Christ on how to build the Kingdom.

Without a Manager, the job would be disorganized, incomplete, and not pass code.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Paul of Tarsus has been singled out, defamed, abused, and unfairly blamed by his accusers because of their lack of scriptural knowledge, the bad translations of his writings, and the repeated misinterpretations of his teachings.

Paul of Tarsus has been accused of destroying Christianity. Judaizing Christianity and universalizing the exclusive message intended for the children of Israel and bringing it to the rest of the world's races. Paul has been accused of teaching his own gospel, teaching Jews first and then Gentiles. Paul has been accused of 'doing away with the law'.

Ladies and gentlemen, Paul of Tarsus was a servant of the Most High Yahweh Elohiym, given correction and instruction in the truth, appointed Manager of the Family of the Household of God, and made an ambassador of the Good News and he was Divinely ordained to bring it to the 'lost' scattered children of Israel who forgot who they were and Whose they were.

Paul is the one with the knowledge and understanding who explained the mystery of who they were.

Paul is the one who taught what took place when Jesus Christ died. Why the Levitical ordinances and sacrifices had to end. Paul explained the marriage relationship between Israelites and their God and why God had to die.

Paul loved his people and risked his life to spread the Gospel.

Paul of Tarsus had beneficial knowledge from his time as a Pharisee. Paul was educated in the Torah, in Greek literature, in many languages, and in interpretation and explanation of prophecy. Paul was able to relate to the Greek Israelites and the Judaean Israelites because Paul was able to speak to each of them in their languages so they could understand.

If we didn't have Paul to explain the transition from the Old Covenant to the Renewed Covenant, the relationship between the two houses of Israel and Judah, the work Jesus Christ did, and the expiration of the Levitical priesthood and blood rituals, then who would have explained all this?

Even Jesus Christ's disciples did not understand much of what they were taught, some were doubters, some had to be told things 3 times, and Jesus exhorted His disciples for being 'without understanding' many times, and this is also why Messiah appointed Paul as the Manager of the Family. To organize, to reprove sin, to call to account righteousness, to separate Judaism from Christianity, and to convict sin to bring discernment to the faults and errors of false doctrine.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, Paul of Tarsus is innocent of all these false accusations, trumped up charges, outright lies, crafty twisting of doctrine, and bad doctrine due to bad translations. Paul of Tarsus cannot be blamed for poor scholarship, blatant 'just believing', lack of scriptural understanding, inaccurate translations, and repeated misunderstandings.

I would like to ask the jury to search their heart, and ask the Father above to give them discernment. To give their verdict with concern, based on evidence according to the facts, and to judge rightly.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I leave you with this to consider. We have had the name of Yahweh removed from scripture, we have had our identity removed and lost the racial connection to our identity, we have forgotten the rich history of our ancestors by losing the OT to identity theft, we have been denied the historical details of our heritage and important teachings by the dispensationalist concept, we are now being denied the books of Luke, Acts, and 2Peter, and we are being denied the epistles of Paul which teach us who we are, and Whose we are, and that we must still obey and follow The Way, and that the rituals and sacrifices expired, and the epistles which connected the OT prophecies made to the BC Israelites with the AD Israelites in Christ's time and today.

Paul's epistles are the connective tissue which binds the history, heritage, identity, prophecies, covenants, promises, law, and Gospel to the children of Jacob Yisra'el.

Paul of Tarsus is an oikonomos, which means a Manager of a Household. He was appointed the Oikonomia of the Family of God, which means the Administrator of One's property.

Will we allow the oikonomos of the family of God to be taken away too?

What will be left after that? Matthew, Mark, John, James, and Jude. I'm sure after Paul is removed, they will be next on the chopping block.

Brothers and sisters of the jury, whether you give Paul of Tarsus a guilty or innocent verdict, let's continue in brotherly love and peace.

Yahweh gives each of us different levels of understanding. The test is brotherly love amidst these disputations.

If Paul was a false Apostle, teaching another gospel, was a Jew, and was against the law, and a deceiver, then his epistles should be removed.

But, Paul was a vessel chosen by Jesus Messiah to be the Manager of the Household of the Most High Yahweh Elohiym who spread the same Gospel to the children of Israel that Jesus Christ taught.

If the Gospel fits, you must acquit!

Let Brotherly Love Continue

Links:

ALL, EVERY, Whosoever ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/all-every-whosoever/

Twelve Tribes ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/the-twelve-tribes/

Jew or Judah? ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/jew-or-judah/

Houses of Israel and Judah ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/houses-of-israel-and-judah/

GENTILES  ​​ ​​​​ http://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/gentiles/

Esau Edom ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/esau-edom/

JUDAISM ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/judaism/

PHARISEES ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/pharisees/

Priesthood  ​​​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/the-priesthood/

Pork ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/pork/

What was done away with? ​​ https://www.thinkoutsidethebeast.com/what-was-done-away-with/

Short Article http://fgcp.org/content/anti-paul-movement-jewish

The Anti-Paul Movement is Jewish

by Paul Opvolgende Vonkpost

Please be aware of the anti-Paul movement, it was set up by the foe (today's Edomites) to fordo (destroy) the Israel Insight.

This movement twists what Paul says in order to make him look like a huckster but who are the hucksters in this world? The Jewish Encyclopedia and other Jewish writings makes makes it clear that one of the greatest of the foes for Judaism is Paul. The Jews spew hatred upon Paul.

“Needless to say, observant Jews objected to Paul, ... whom they saw as the worst kind of heretic. Indeed, because of Jewish complaints against him, Paul was arrested by the Roman authorities, held for a time under house arrest, and finally executed in or around 67 CE (the year of the start of the Great Revolt against Rome in Israel.)” Rabbi Ken Spiro

“Jews don’t like the apostle Paul. ... Paul was the twister, and can’t be forgiven. “Jesus, yes; Paul, never!” as one Jewish biographer of Paul puts it. As a zealous convert who equated the Torah with death, Paul is deemed the father of anti-Judaism (the theological critique of Judaism as a religion), the grandfather of anti-Semitism (the hatred of Jews as people), and the inventor of the theology of the Cross (an excuse for many massacres of Jews). Even Friedrich Nietzsche, no friend of the Jews, said Paul “falsified the history of Israel so as to make it appear as a prologue to his mission” and was “the genius in hatred, in the standpoint of hatred, and in the relentless logic of hatred.”  JUDITH SHULEVITZ 

The Jews have taken away the OT by saying it is for Jews and the OT they have given us is a rag, the 1000AD Masoretic OT. They have also taken away the Apocrypha saying it is not inspired, then Revelation is so-called anti Semitic, now Paul's books are no good so we must also get rid of the writings of Peter because Peter has this to say of Paul...

“...our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”

So then all we are left with are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The anti-Paul mob argue amongst other things, that the Bible is of 66 books thanks to the books of Paul being in them, namely 27 for the NT and 39 for the OT , thus in all 66 books. Their logic is thus that this evil number is somehow proof that Paul's book should not be in the Bible. It is a sort code or proof in your face almost, that Paul should not be in the Bible resting upon the strength of this argument.

Whoa ha ha and LOL! Sorry, had to laugh. What a crummy argument! It is almost as if it came from a Khosherdale (Hollywood) scriptwriter. The Bible is only 66 books if one uses the Protestant Bible, but the Catholic Bible is 73 books, and the Eastern Orthodox is of 78 books! Now each one has 27 for the NT. So 66 is supposedly an evil number because it has two 6's in it, but the 'evil' number is in fact of three 6's, and the bible with or without Paul's books does not tally to 666 books. What's more, the Bible at the time of Christ was the LXX which is made up of 54 books, so, plus the 27 and we do not have 66. What we have is 81. So their numerology is not a witship (science) but nitwit-ship.

It is thus not Paul that is twisting fact, but the Anti-Pauls! This argument they give proves the Jewish nature of the movement's roots as it gives credence to the Masoretic text as if it is the real OT, how?

Quite simple, the movement insists on the so-call fact of 66 books. But the only Bible of 66 books is the one that uses the Masoretic text, a Pharisee, Rabbi, Jewish, Edomite, sect of Babylon who cobbled and bastardized the true OT into a Rabbinical dialect (wrongly called Hebrew) using an Assyrian alphabet, the so-called square Hebrew text (which the true Hebrews never used). Now that should send alarm bells ringing for every Israelite believer (and if it doesn't, then become a Buddhist or whatever).

The Bible that Jesus used was the LXX (Septuagint), so the true number of Biblical books is 81 and CAN NEVER be 66. 66 is only doable by using the Rabbinical rag called the Masoretic text in conjunction with the 27 NT books.

Conclusion; it is not the books of Paul you need to toss out, but the books of the swarthy-pig Rabbis!

Lastly, read the below...

A FEW NOTES ON THE ANTI-PAUL DOCTRINE

By Pastor George Southwick

WE have to guard with jealous care “the faith once for all delivered unto the saints.” There are among us (ANGLO-CELTIC-SAXON ISRAEL IDENTITY) those who dishonor the Canon of Scripture by their criticisms of it, its integrity has been denied and its authority challenged. The Holy Spirit has been grieved thereby and withdrawn His actions from us. Pride of intellect and heart is responsible for it all. Surely, “an enemy hath done this!”

For any Bible truth teacher-preacher to deny Paul’s Apostleship as spurious, calling him a “false Apostle”, an “extortioner,” etc., and also to claim Paul is related to the Herodian family Romans 16:11, (see: Art. ARISTOBULUS Hastings Dict. of the Bible Vol. 1 Page 148.) Therefore Paul’s ancestry is part EDOMITE is abominable conjecture. For any so-called Anglo Celtic-Saxon teacher-preacher to advance the idea that Paul’s struggle with “flesh” and “spirit” was between his EDOMITE FLESH and his ISRAELITE FLESH is worthy of severest censure. Nowhere does Paul say he is Edomite - rather quite the contrary. Philippians 3:1-7. BEWARE of those who contradict Paul and call him part Edomite. This is error!

For any Bible truth teacher-preacher who claims that Jesus prophesied in John 5:43 of the coming of Saul of Tarsus “in his own name” ... thus becoming a bombastic egotist because Paul used the term “I” so many times, is a most ridiculous theological position - BUT VERY DANGEROUS. In John 5:17 the word “them” means Jews who sought to kill Jesus. The whole passage is spoken to THEM ... THE JEWS NEVER HAVE RECEIVED PAUL TO THIS VERY DAY. It is the ISRAELITE HOSTS who have received Jesus AND Paul; for he wrote:. "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ;"  - 1Corinthians 11:1; Jews have neither followed Christ nor Paul!

For any Bible truth teacher-preacher to discredit second Peter as “spurious” and “doubtful” because of Chapter 3:15-16 shows an unwillingness to face up to the facts of the Canon. For 2Peter 1:16 recognizes God’s Word as inerrant. Please note Robert Young’s opening paragraph in his LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE “Preface to the Revised Ed.” Among other things he states... “there can be no reasonable ground for denying the inspiration of the N.T. by any one who holds that of the Old, or who is willing to take the plain unsophisticated meaning of God’s Word regarding either.”

What shall we do with those teachers who deny the veracity and authority of Paul’s Epistles, yet lay great stock in the book of Luke which admittedly is a product of the travelling companion of Paul? Certainly this makes such a teacher look foolish!

Three times Paul speaks of “MY GOSPEL” in his Epistles, Romans 2:16; 16:25, 2 Timothy 2:8. We find that ORIGEN, EUSEBIUS, and JEROME believed that Paul meant by this phrase the Gospel according to Luke. While earlier IRENAEUS wrote, “Luke the companion of Paul, committed to writing the gospel preached by the latter. Luke wrote TWO books, examination of LUKE’S GOSPEL reveals the Greek wording and doctrinal content are strongly Pauline in character. Surely a man is known by the company he keeps!

NOTE: Results of this ANTI-Paul position can become catastrophic as far as all that we hold spiritually dear. If we listen to any ANTI-PAULINE teacher and accept this position: what shall we do with William Pascoe Goard’s classic book on ROMANS? I for one will not discount the work and belief of worthies in Israel. I must be true to the testimony of the vast host of Identity Leaders. THEY REJECTED ERROR especially when it came to the veracity of the Canon, the revelation of God’s Word from Genesis clear to the Book of Revelation. I follow their footsteps - I reject this Anti Paul abomination! It will desolate your heart and life in New Creation realities and sever the flow of the Holy Spirit among God’s People Israel.

• To be Anti-Paul is to tear the living heart out of the New Testament. Paul is a Second Moses to the Israel people; he gives great explanations of the New Covenant of Jeremiah given to both Israel and Judah. Paul defends the LAW ... he does not discount it as dispensational teachers claim.
   

• To be Anti-Paul leaves a mighty void in human and spiritual history. For Augustine, Luther and Wesley all mark their conversion experience to words written by the Apostle Paul. And what shall we further say of the ten major men of the Protestant Reformation? Shall we strike all these from human history as “false” or “deceived” men? Shall we belittle them as following a false teacher? PAUL. The idea is preposterous!
   

• To be Anti Paul opens up a Pandora’s Box among people as to what is inspired in the Bible and what is not. The Canon is a sacred Ark, man’s unsanctified hands are not to touch it. Will this foolishness never end? QUESTIONING GOD’S WORD DENOTES UNBELIEF!
   

• To be Anti-Paul lays that person open to the full force of Rationalism, Modernism, and “doubt” far worse than any NEO-ORTHODOXY ever dreamed of!
   

• To be Anti-Paul is an outright denial of the Providence of God in settling and arranging the Canon of Scripture as we know it. Of this Scripture the God of Israel is most jealous! The whole question is: MAN’S MOUTH versus GOD’S WORD!
   

• To be Anti-Paul claiming he has no corroborating witness to his “conversion” and that it would not stand up in Court today is merely rank conjecture. Moses had no corroborating witness when he saw the Burning Bush! If we discount the one ... why not the other? This is inconsistency drawn out!
   

• Denial of Paul’s Apostleship is in accord with modern Rationalism, Deism, and the Freethinkers school. ALL approach the Scripture with a MODERN SCIENTIFIC MIND! All this is in accord with the German School of destructive higher criticism of the Old Testament. So now Anglo-Celtic-Saxon Israel is invaded with so-called teachers who will finish the job of “unbelief” in Israel by working over the Epistles of Paul. What “folly in Israel!” All this is antagonistic to the spiritual Evangelical position in Israel and much more in accord with the Liberal Modernists of our present day.
   

• To be Anti-Paul is outright denial of the heart of the New Testament as we know it. This “view” the rank and file of Christians on the North American Continent will not accept! Here is the open door through which Anglo-Celtic-Saxon Israel Identity people enter into the charge of “CULT.” And I believe the charge would be justifable. Either believe the Bible ... or reject it in part, or in toto - that is the basic question. The ATHEIST is more honourable than “certain teachers who have crept in unawares”. Atheists REJECT the Bible wholly, not in part!
   

• To be Anti-Paul incurs the WRATH of Fundamentalists against the Kingdom Teaching. It gives them a theological ATOM BOMB to blow the AngloCeltic-Saxon message to smithereens. This doctrine plays into their hands.
   

• Anti-Paul doctrine is anti-supernatural in a respect not only to the conversion of Paul, but of any one’s conversion and testimony. If Paul was not converted in the light of internal evidence then nobody is converted.
   

And now we come to the nitty-gritty. To be an Israelite born into this world is not enough! Such doctrine violates all Scripture of Old and New Testaments. Israel collective and individual are called to “repent and believe the Gospel.”

These are just a few reasons....

Paul wrote to Corinthian believers of the many ADVERSARIES who were opposing his work; in writing to Philippian believers he identified many as ENEMIES OF THE CROSS: and to Roman believers (Israelites) he spoke of those who were ENEMIES OF THE GOSPEL.

The Apostle Peter in his second Epistle has a remarkable discussion of false prophets, 2:1-3, cf: 1 Peter 4:14. The word translated “evil spoken of” is translated BLASPHEMEO. The denial of Paul and his Epistles would bring down the wrath of Peter upon any Bible truth teacher’s head as teaching “DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES” in the light of Peter’s words concerning “our beloved brother Paul”.

Concerning Paul’s terrible indictment of the Jews 1Thessalonians 2:15-16 should cause us to realize that he (Paul) was “more up to date” than most Christian people today! It is simply Incredible that so-called Kingdom Israel teacher-preachers would deny this.