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urgency?
The news we get from Israel is totally
different to that received by the world
and I pray this will change under God’s Almighty
hand. All whilst the world and the wicked
are waxing worse and worse. Why does the
enemy of mans’ souls get all the good breaks?
Because we are not praying in that matter?
Many talk of the difficulty in praying
for Israel and the Jews - knowing their
prophesied future - and this may give some direction
and impetus to them, and others, to pray
( dare I use the words “intelligently or moreinformed
manner” ? ). One of my main prayers
is that a great number of Jews will be saved BE-
FORE the Rapture and thus be spared the Time
of Jacob’s Trouble”.
I leave it with you and your esteemed colleagues
to enlighten my feeble thinking. Am I
on your wavelength?
Mr O of Australia
QUESTION
Hello Jacob,
My name is Michael and I am writing to
you in search of answers in regards to King Solomon.
I have heard you mention his affiliation
with wickedness and dark acts.
I have recently found a book ‘The Key of
Solomon The King,’ which I haven’t heard you
or any other Biblical teacher or minister mention.
My questions for you are, ‘Is this book a
genuine writing and practises of King Solomon?,’
What are the origins and are they factual
in your knowledge? Any information that
you may have or know on this subject would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank-you for your time.
God Bless
Mr T of Australia
RESPONSE
Dear Michael:
This book is occultic and is not Biblical,
thus forbidden to us. It is a book of magic used
to invoke demons, angels, cast curses, typical of
books called grimoire. Stay away from it, read
the Bible, know the Lord in whom all power is
vested.
Here is some information on wikipedia on it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_of_Solomon
In Peace,
David Lister
QUESTION
Greetings,
I was wondering if you could please clarify the
truth about water divining and its spiritual nature
and origin.
Thank you,
Mr. N
RESPONSE
Dear George:
Such practices are not biblical. Notice
God’s command to Israel in Deut. 18:9-19.
“You shall not learn to do after the abominations
of those nations. There shall not be found
among you anyone…that uses divination.”
Those who do so, God says He will “cut…off
from among His people” (Lev. 20:6).
To find water, perhaps for a well on your
property, ask God, in prayer, for help in finding
the best place to drill. Then survey the area
around you and find the most suitable place for
the well. Another helpful tool could be the advice
of a seasoned well-driller—who does not
practice water divination.
As to its origin, if God forbids it and says it
is not from Him, that it is a practice of other nations
and an abomination, well that only leaves
either the prince of the powers of the air, or in
most cases, guys out to make a some money
making guesses. Water witching, practiced all
over the world, involves using a Y-shaped stick,
a “divining rod,” to find underground water.
One practicing water witching holds the two
branches of the stick in his hands, while pointing
the rod upward and outward. The idea is
that, as the diviner walks, the rod held in this
position will suddenly jerk downward if and
when water is found, to indicate where one
should, for example, drill a well. Sometimes
water is present at that spot; other times, it is
not, either way, he gets paid.
Martin Gardner, in his work Fads and Fallacies
in the Name of Science, gives valuable
insight into the origin of this practice: “The employment
of various shaped rods for divination
goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and
Egyptians… In the Middle Ages, it was associated
with the power of Satan, although many
churchmen made use of divination rods. The
forked twig, for finding minerals, apparently
did not appear until the fifteenth century when
it was used by German prospectors in the Harz
Mining region. When German miners were
imported to England in the century following,
they brought the practice with them. It was in
England that the use of the twig was transferred
from minerals to the search for water.”
Hope this helps.
In Peace,
David
QUESTION
Hello Margaret,
Would it be possible for someone like me
to ask some questions of someone like Jacob?
Reason is, I would like to ask someone who can
‘think Jewish’, AND can read/understand the
Greek NT. Kinda have confidence in Jacob in
that he’s unafraid to tell it like it is - calls a spade
a spade, and am familiar with his viewpoints
on many articles I’ve read of his and have even
attended his presentation here in Adelaide at
one time. If Jacob is too busy to answer them,
that’s OK, but if you can recommend someone,
I would like to read up on their bio and some of
their articles in order to get an understanding of
their perspective.
Example Question; What was the original
language the NT was written in? There is
a claim by many since that movie ‘The Passion’,
that the language spoken by Jesus and all
those in Judea at that time was Aramaic. The
Catholics claim it was, but they have no integrity
when it comes to upholding Scripture, but
they rather uphold their own dogma, rituals and
traditions, and they are quite prepared to do this
even at the expense of Scripture. If this is true,
and Aramaic was the popular language of the
day, consideration ought to be shown why Pilate
wrote the title over Jesus cross in three languages
Hebrew, Latin and Greek (and NOT Ar-
Letters & Comments
amaic)? Am aware that there are certain words
and phrases in the Gospels that are Aramaic, but
some claim that the whole NT was originally
written in Aramaic, others claim it was Hebrew,
and then later translated into Greek. Am happy
if Jacob knows of an article or book on the topic
that he agrees with, and can direct me there.
Kind Regards
Mr O of Australia
RESPONSE
There are tons of books on something
called ‘manuscript source criticism’ (some
good, some liberal higher critical hatchet jobs).
But if you do not know Greek and Aramaic they
would not be very readable to you.
I would rather suggest you get a paperback
book called ‘The Reliability of New Testament
Manuscripts’ by FF Bruce.
There is a patristic reference from the pre
Nicean church fathers Heggisipus & Papias
(one quoting the other) cited by Eusebius that
Matthew was written in Hebrew. This however
may have meant the Hebrew dialect of Aramaic.
All 20,000 or so ancient Manuscript and
codex fragments we have of The New Testament
are in Greek. Even the Sryriac Aramaic
texts in existence are translated from Greek.
There are people called ‘the Jerusalem
School of Synoptic Research’ who argue without
any manuscript eviodence that the gospels
were written originally in Hebrew. Joe
Frankovich (a Roman Catholic scholar) and
Roy Bevin and R. Blizzard (Campebellite heretics)
are among the advocates of this as are the
late Jewish rabbi Professor David Flusser (who
was a very formidable academic, but he had an
agenda). I believe there is still a semi refutation
of this theory on our website (‘Why I Do
Not Accept The Jerusalem School of Synoptic
Research Theories’).
The internal evidence of scripture however
supports Jesus and the Apostles as having spoken
Aramaic. But speaking and writing are two
different things. This is a complex issue related
to New Testament citations of the Septuagint etc.
The closest major text to what Jesus would have
likely spoken is ‘The Peshita Text’.
Not to be rude or to sound arrogant or elitist,
but unless someone has a knowledge of the
biblical languages it would be rather futile to go
into this much further.
If you are serious about such scholarly issues
of academic theology as textual criticism
there is no substitute for learning it properly. You
might want to begin with on line external courses
from Kings Divinity School where I am a lecturer.
They are hyper linked to the Moriel website.
On our Matthew chapter 16 DVD (available
from Moriel) filmed on location in Israel at
Caesarea Philippe however I dismantle Roman
Catholic arguments on Peter being ‘the rock’
from the Greek and underlying Aramaic and
Hebrew thought. There is also an article on our
website responding to a Roman Catholic apologist
doing the same thing.
This is about all I can tell you at present unless
you wish to seriously study further.
In Christ,
Jacob Prasch/ Moriel
(Philippians 1:6)
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