Yahshua and Nakdimon, the People Beater - Jackson Snyder Bile

Yahshua and Nakdimon, the People Beater - Jackson Snyder Bile Yahshua and Nakdimon, the People Beater The Lethal Pharisee Jackson Snyder, August 25, 2005 Jackson Snyder Bible 1Literal Yochanan 3:1 But there was a man out of the Parushim, Nakdimon his name, and a leading-2authority of the Yahudaïm. 2 Out of the night this man came toward Yahshua and said to him, We know you 345have come as a teacher of Elohim, for no one can do these signs that you do if Elohim is not with him. 3 6Yahshua answered and said to him, Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, if anyone is not born from above, that one 7cannot perceive the Reign of Yahweh. 4 Nakdimon says to him, How can a man, being old, be born? He cannot enter the womb of his mother a second time, to go in and be born! 5 Yahshua answered, Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, if a person is not born out of water, he cannot enter in – into the Reign of Yahweh. 6 The one having been born of the flesh, flesh is; and the one having been born of the spirit, spirit is. 7 Be not amazed because I told you so. It is required for you to be born from above. 8 The spirit breathes where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you know not from whence it comes or where it goes. So it is with every one having been born of the spirit. 9 Nakdimon answered and said to him, How can these things happen? 10 Yahshua answered and said, You are the teacher of Israel and you know not these things. 11 Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, that – of what we have known we tell, and of to what we have witnessed we testify – yet you have not all received our testimony. 12 If 89I told you of mundane things and you believed not, how will it be if I tell you of celestial things? Will you all believe then? SNEADS Version John 3:1 But there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, and a leading-authority of the Jews. 2 Out of the night he came to Jesus and said to him, We know you have come as a teacher of the Almighty, for no one can do these signs you do if the Almighty is not with him. 3 Jesus answered and said to him, Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, if anyone is not born from above, that one cannot perceive the Reign of Yahweh. 4 Nicodemus says to him, How can an old man be born? He cannot enter the womb of his mother a second time, to go in and be born! 5 Jesus answered, Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, if a person is not born of water, he cannot enter into the Reign of Yahweh. 6 The one born of the flesh is flesh; and the one born of spirit is spirit. 7 Be not amazed because I told you so. It is required for you to be born from above. 8 The spirit breathes where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you know not from whence it comes or where it goes. So it is with every one having been born of the spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things happen? 10 Jesus answered and said, You are the teacher of Israel and you know not these things. 11 Amēn, Amēn, I tell you, what we have known we tell, and what we have witnessed we testify – yet you have not all received our testimony. 12 If I told you of mundane things and you believed not, how will I tell you of celestial things? Will you all believe then? Director Burgess: Who's the victim? John Anderton: Somebody, Leo Crow. Director Burgess: Who's Leo Crow? John Anderton: I have no idea. But I'm suppose to kill him in less than thirty-six hours. Just imagine … due to the terrorist threat, a new national security law goes into effect authorizing a division of the FBI to order search and seizure warrants for anyone in the nation based on a newly-developed profiling technique that identifies potential terrorists in advance. This profiling is based on not only certain physical attributes of the typical terrorist (whatever that may be), but also on a potential suspect?s religious fervency. One protocol for identifying a potential terrorist is how religious he is – how many times a week he attends worship, if he is seated on the leadership board of a religious institution, how involved he is in community causes, how much time he invests in study and prayer. One evening after eleven o?clock, the terror threat level is elevated to Code Orange (high). Tens of thousands of arrest warrants go out to law enforcement agencies identifying potential terrorists and criminals. The stakes are too high to take chances. By six o?clock in the morning, television and radio news are already reporting thousands of potential terrorists from the “radical religious right” are being rounded up and isolated just in case. You?re fixing breakfast and thanking “God” you?re not a member of the 700 Club when three deputy?s cars scream up your driveway. Now you?re door crashes in, you?re been wrestled to the ground and handcuffed. Your breakfast is left to burn on the gas stove while law enforcement serches the rest of the house. Sounds crazy, no? It couldn?t happen here! But it?s not so crazy. This very thing has happened to fledgling democracies all over the world – sometimes overnight. Iran?s in the news almost every day. Most of us remember what happened there. A quote from the Jimmy Carter Library reminds us: The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran in February 1979 and whipped popular discontent into rabid anti-Americanism. When the Shah came to America for cancer treatment in October, the Ayatollah incited Iranian militants to attack the U.S. On November 4, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun and its employees taken captive. The hostage crisis had begun. Do you remember the Ayatollah? Seventy hostages were held at gunpoint in the American Embassy for 444 days. Some of us vividly remember those days of waiting, watching and praying. We observed that our government seemed to do nothing but give in to the hostage-takers demands. This waiting finally brought down one president and ushered in another, the new far more willing to take action. For soon after, Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi sent a terrorist to Chicago to do murder. In response to this act, President Reagan sent a jet fighter to Libya, pinpointing his home in Tripoli, and bombing it. Though Qaddafi?s still in power there, we?ve not heard a peep out of him since. Since 9/11 and up until now, our nation, known as the “Great Satan” all over the world, hasn?t had another significant act of terror. This is surely because the “war against terror” has been taken to the homesteads of the terrorists. We?re fortunate in my view to have leaders willing to fight fire with fire – fire seems to be the only thing terrorists respect. On the other hand, it I wouldn?t surprise me if we experienced a round-up of religious activists in the near future, just as Japanese-Americans were rounded up sixty-five years ago. It can happen here. I know a man who?d never been in trouble with the law before, publicly arrested at his job for a false charge. The deputies called for the attention of his coworkers during the arrest, roughly handcuffed him and incarcerated him in the general population of a prison for several days until the situation was rectified. When this innocent man was released, he retained a paranoia that paralyzed him thereafter when he saw a green uniform or heard a siren. The man?s employer allowed him back to work after assurances such a thing wouldn?t happen again. Unfortunately, the local authorities misplaced release, and four months later they again showed up at his job and publicly cuffed him. It took hours to fix the mistake this second time, and this time he lost his job. This religious man wasn?t the same for years after. And I thought, if this could happen to him, it could happen to me, or to you. Our day?s terrorism and paranoia parallels that of Yahshua?s day. Terrorists, known as 10Zealots (or Innovators), were as rampant in Yahshua?s Israel as “insurgents” are today in Iraq. Their weapons were just as plentiful then, just not as lethal. Then as now, the government reacted strongly against terror – the police were given authority to arrest any person who deviated from the strange, Pharasaic interpretation of the Law. Not many terrorists were arrested, but many of the members of a sect called “Ha Lakah.” Ha Lakah means, “The Way.” You can read about The Way in your Bible – Acts 9:2. The man responsible for cleaning up The Way was named Saul of Tarsus, an enforcer for a political party called the “Separatists”; we know the party now by the name “Pharisees.” And we know Saul as Paul – the Apostle – who said of himself, I received circumcision on the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; a Pharisee as to the law; as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to 11keeping the law, blameless. Yet I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called 12apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of G*d. It was this Saul / Paul who held the jackets of Stephen?s executors, this Paul, who breathed murderous threats against the Master, this Paul who planned the execution of our forebears in the faith. Many, perhaps thousands, were arraigned in absentia, visited at all hours, arrested and tied publicly, and incarcerated on the weight of false assumptions – and some were murdered while awaiting trial. The Apostle Paul, a Pharisee, was in charge of this, lest we forget. The story in Acts 9 has Paul on the Damascus Road in Syria to arrest a secret assembly of The Way. Did you ever wonder why Paul would leave Israel with his police? Or why disciples would be in Damascus anyway? We understand that the disciples were in Damascus in hiding, terror-stricken by an incident that occurred of late at the Jerusalem Temple, preserved by an eye-witness. It was a day in salvation history we seldom hear about now – no one dares tell about the day Saul and his gang went forth to assassinate James, the brother of Jesus (excerpts – the entire passage is here): Clement of Rome writes, Through seven successive days James persuaded all the people and the high priest that they should receive baptism. But Saul, one of our 13enemies, entering the temple with a few men, and began to cry out, “What mean ye, O men of Israel? Why are ye so easily carried away –led headlong by the most miserable of men?” He began to drive all into confusion with shouting, and to undo what had been arranged, and to enrage the priests with abuse, and, like a madman, to excite every one to murder, saying, “Why do ye hesitate? Lay hands upon these fellows and pull them to pieces!” Seizing a poker from the altar, Saul set the example of smiting. Then others were carried away with like readiness. Then followed a tumult of the beating and the beaten. Much blood is shed; there is a confused flight, and Saul attacked James and threw him from the top of the steps. Supposing him dead, he inflicted no further violence upon him. But our friends lifted him up. We returned to the James? house and spent the night in prayer. Then before daylight we went down to Jericho, to the number of 5000. Three days later we heard that that enemy had received a commission to arrest all who believed in Jesus, and should go to Damascus, and make havoc among the faithful. Through this amazing eye-witness account, we not only learn how “The Way” got to Damascus, but also how religious hatred derailed law enforcement toward personal and even heinous ends. With the role of the real Pharisees in mind, imagine a dark night on the hill of the Olive outside Jerusalem where Yahshua and his students, some of whom violent men, are camping. It?s almost midnight and the camp watchmen, who know danger lurks everywhere, hear the crunching sounds of footsteps approaching the Master?s camp. Zealotes and Iscariot unsheath 14their swords and, out of the darkness, uncover – an armed man in the military uniform of a Pharisee – a child of the devil – and the worst kind of Pharisee – a Nicodemus – and drag him into the light of the Master. We have the Sunday School notion that Nicodemus was a kindly yet misdirected Bible class teacher, bumbling and fumbling his way in the dark to compliment Yahshua on his miracles and inquire about his teaching. But what we know of history teaches us different. Like Saul after him, Nicodemus surely climbed Olivet on a mission of homeland security. His name gives away his profession among the Pharisees: Nicodemus means “people-beater.” {This message is incomplete. If you?d like to add something, please do. klakster@localnet.com} 1 Nakdimon - Nicodemos – Nikodemus – Nikodēmos – “People–beater”- “Overcomer-Conqueror / People.” 2 Leading-authority – archōn. 3 Teacher – didaskalos. 4 Elohim is the proper Hebrew title for Yahweh. Elohim is plural in this case, denoting greatness of being; “Elohim” means “mighty ones” or the “Mighty One” or the “Almighty.” Usually this title is translated from the Hebrew as “God,” the name of Assyrian god the Israelites took into captivity. The name “God” is commonly used in pan-Germanic languages. (See Isaiah 65:11,12.) The Greek word theos, usually translated as the name “God,” is both name and title attributed to Zeus and several other pagan Greek gods. 5 Yahweh – ho theos. Theos used with the article „o? (the) is a gloss over the sacred name “Yahweh.” 6 above – anōthen; also, anew or again. 7 of Yahweh – tou theou. 8 mundane things – epigeia – on the ground (or land, or earth). 9 celestial – epourania – on the sky (or heaven, or extraterrestrial place). 10 The Life of Flavius Josephus, 7: So when Gessius had been beaten, as we have said already, the principal men of Jerusalem, seeing that the robbers and innovators had arms in great plenty, and fearing lest they, while they were unprovided of arms, should be in subjection to their enemies, which also came to be the case afterward; and, being informed that all Galilee had not yet revolted from the Romans, but that some part of it was still quiet; they sent me and two others of the priests, who were men of excellent characters, Joazar and Judas, in order to persuade the ill men there to lay down their arms, and to teach them this lesson, - That it were better to have those arms reserved for the most courageous men that the nation had [than to be kept there]; for that it had been resolved, That those our best men should always have their arms ready against futurity; but still so, that they should wait to see what the Romans would do. 11 Philippians 3:5,6. 12 1 Corinthians 15:9 13 A marginal note in one of the manuscripts states that this enemy was Saul. [This is confirmed by chap. 71.-R.] 14 Swords – Luke 22: 37. For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, 'And he was reckoned with transgressors'; for what is written about me has its fulfillment." 38. And they said, "Look, Master, here are two swords." And he said to them, "It is enough." 39. And he came out, and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him.