GDL Edition 1 of 2022

Gospel Defence League
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“...contend earnestly for the Faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” Jude 3
1666 and the SABBATEAN ROOTS of the
NEW WORLD DISORDER
“Salvation comes through sin. Redemption is achieved through deception.”
The False Messiah of 1666
In 1666 Sabbatai Zevi declared himself to be the messiah.
More than half of the world’s Jewish population in the 17 th
Century came to accept and follow him as their messiah.
Sabbatai Zevi, who proclaimed salvation through sin, was
condemned as a heretic by many contemporary Rabbis.
“Then, if anyone says to you, behold, here is the Christ, or
there he is, do not believe him. For false christs and false
prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders,
so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.”
Matthew 24:23–24
“Take heed that no one deceives you.” Matthew 24:4
“For many will come in My Name, saying, I am the
Christ and will mislead many.” Matthew 24:5
Salvation Through Sin
Sabbatai Zevi was born on 1 st August 1626, in Anatolia,
present day Turkey. He was a Sephardic Jew, ordained a
Rabbi in Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey). Sabbatai Zevi was
active throughout the Ottoman Turkish Empire, teaching
from the Talmud and the Kabbalah. Sabbatai Zevi’s
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message of redemption through sin was enthusiastically received
by many. Fast days became days of feasting, sexual promiscuity,
adultery, incest and orgies. He taught that every Law was to be
broken. Religious taboos such as against eating of pork and every
form of sexual immorality was not only permitted but encouraged.
Eccentric Mystic
Sabbatai Zevi (1626 – 1676) was described by his contemporaries
as an exceptionally charismatic Rabbi and Kabbalist, an eccentric
mystic who attained a massive following of more than a million
devotees during his lifetime. The publication of the Lurianic
Kabbalah made Zevi extraordinarily popular in the 17 th Century
amongst Jewish people throughout Europe and the Ottoman
Empire.
The Kabbalah
The Lurianic Kabbalah promoted an occultic deeper meaning for
Jewish mysticism drawing from ancient Babylonian occultism
and numerology.
The Occultic Power of Dates and Numbers
Sabbatai Zevi emphasised the magical supernatural relationship
between events and time, through letters and numbers. The
numerological value of dates contributed greatly to the widely
held expectations and hopes of the Jewish messiah to arrive on the
18 th day (6+6+6) of the 6 th month, of the year 1666.
Visions and Dreams
One eyewitness, Rabbi Leib Ben Ozer, wrote that Zevi was:
handsome, possessed an enchanting presence and singing voice.
Many wrote that there was none like Zevi in stature and his face
burned with intensity like fire. Many of his contemporaries claimed
to have been converted to following Zevi when he appeared to
them in dreams by the side of their beds. Many Rabbis of the time
publicly testified to having seen visions in which Sabbatai Zevi
appeared to them by their beds. They would awake professing
belief in him as messiah!
Messianic Expectations
Professor Gersham Sholem explained that a sincere expectation
has arisen in the psyche of many Jews that their messiah would
come and lead them back to establishing a Jewish homeland.
Manic–Depressive Psychosis
According to some critical interpretations of his behaviour,
Sabbatai showed signs of what modern scholars call manicdepressive
psychosis. He publicly displayed ecstatic behaviour,
often followed by bouts of depression and seclusion.
Sufi Mysticism
However, many of his modern-day followers argue that his
behaviour was simply what one should expect from religious
mystics such as a Sufi: meditative chanting, trances and ecstatic
dancing.
The Sufi Connection
According to Professor Avraham Elqayam, a faculty member
of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Bar-Ilan University in
Israel, Sabbatai frequently engaged in Bektashi Sufi rituals. In
fact, Sabbatai Zevi’s grave site in Albania remains a Sufi shrine
to this day.
Expelled
Zevi’s socially immoral and religiously unacceptable behaviour
led to him being expelled from Smyrna around 1650. For years he
wandered through Greece, Thrace, Egypt and Syria.
Rabbi Nathan of Gaza
However, in 1665 his life changed forever when he met Rabbi
Nathan of Gaza, in Palestine, who persuaded him that he was
indeed the messiah to usher in a new age. Rabbi Nathan convinced
Sabbatai Zevi that he needed to formally reveal himself in the
year 1666 to fulfil messianic prophecy.
Acceptance and Rejection
Zevi soon gained further support from the Diaspora by promising
Jews a return to their homeland and a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.
Although Zevi received strong support and was very popular
amongst Jewish people, the leading Rabbis of Jerusalem rejected
Sabbatai’s claims that he was the messiah. The Rabbis of Jerusalem
ordered him to leave the city, or be excommunicated.
Phenomenal Growth
Sabbatai returned to Turkey where the Sultan of the Ottoman
Empire allowed him free reign to build up a phenomenal
following. Jews from all over the world, from England to Persia,
from Germany to Morocco, from Poland to Yemen, poured into
the Ottoman Empire to see, hear and meet their messiah.
“Your Head or The Turban!”
However, after Sabbatai publicly proclaimed that the next
year the temple in Jerusalem would be rebuilt, the Sultan was
galvanised into action. Fearing a revolt that would lead to this
province declaring independence from the Ottoman Empire, the
Sultan confronted Sabbatai Zevi with the choice of either publicly
converting to Islam, or being beheaded. As the Sultan delicately
put it: “Your head or the turban!” The turban was a symbol of
converting to Islam.
Apostasy
It came as a shock to many of his supporters that their supposed
long-awaited messiah denounced his Jewish faith on the spot and
chose to wear the Islamic turban to keep his head! Zevi publicly
converted to Islam and adopted a new Muslim name: Aziz Mehmed
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Effenti — (“Power of Mohammed”). From then on Zevi was on
salary as a servant of the Sultan with the cryptic title: “Keeper of
the Gate.”
Conversion to Islam
Zevi continued unabated in his messianic activities and also
continued to receive the full support of the Islamic authorities and the
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. While Sabbatai’s formal conversion
to Islam dismayed and disillusioned many of his followers, many
took it as a sign to also convert to Islam, while maintaining their
Jewish identity and mystical Kabbalah Sabbatean practices.
The Dönmeh
One of these Sabbatean cults, primarily located in Anatolia (modern
day Turkey) were called the Dönmeh, which translates to religious
converts (a derogatory term which they themselves never used).
To Build Back Better
Sabbatean followers explained his apparent apostasy as a “descent
into the grossest reality, or husks, of creation” in order to “reclaim
the lost sparks of divine light” to repair the world! These Kabbalist
concepts were used to justify his heretical, apostate and degenerate
behaviour.
Redemption Through Deception
According to Reb Yakov Leib Hakohain, the current director of
Dönmeh West, a Californian Sabbatean organisation founded in
1972: Sabbatai’s conversion to Islam was not an act of cowardice,
or apostasy, that betrayed the Jewish people because his conversion
was one of the mystical Ma’asin Zarim that the messiah was destined
to perform based upon their reading of the Kabbalah.
False Conversions to Subvert Religions
In keeping with Isaac Luria’s prophecies in the Lurianic Kabbalah,
these actions of breaking laws, being a false convert, deception and
degeneracy, were essential to bring about conditions that would
set the stage, initiate, or directly expedite the fulfilment of Jewish
messianic prophecy. Jews were to play an active role in bringing
about and bringing forth god’s kingdom on earth by infiltrating,
subverting and destroying every other religion and kingdom on
earth.
To Harness Evil for Good
The Kabbalah teaches a mystical synthesis between pagan teachings
which preceded the Torah and gnostic elements of Judaism. The task
is not to destroy evil but “to return it to its source.” To “include the
left within the right, to uplift the fallen sparks.” The Chaldean, or
Babylonian, mysticism and occultism provided “the most authentic
version of the Kabbalah.”
To Undermine and Replace Every State and Religion
This new “philosophic paradigm provided a spiritual justification
for proactive Zionism to bring about the formation of a Jewish
state” which would undermine and replace all other states
worldwide. The mystical Lurianic Kabbalah transformed the
messiah from a popular conquering national hero to a supreme
cosmic conqueror.
Build Back Better
The goal was not merely the emancipation of Jews from the
yoke of the Gentiles, but of fundamental transformation of
the entirety of creation affecting material and spiritual worlds
alike. This was to lead to, in the words of Gersham Scholem:
“A ratification of the primordial catastrophe of the breaking of
the vessels (Shevirat Hakelim).” Or repairing the world. The
goal was to break everything down so that it can be “built back
better.”
Deliberate Degeneracy
According to Sabbatai Zevi, the acts that God’s people must
take include deliberate forays into the world of sin, where “the
illusory nature of evil could be more readily exposed and the
sparks elevated to their source.”
Infiltration and Subversion
With the declaration of Sabbatai Zevi as the messiah in 1666,
the Zionist goal of infiltrating, subverting and ultimately
replacing every other religion and kingdom and transforming
every government on earth into a new world order became a
central focus.
The New Age
Rabbi Nathan of Gaza declared that they were entering into a
new age where all religious laws prior to Sabbatai Zevi were
essentially “obsolete.” Now traditional religious taboos such
as eating of pork, which was forbidden by Jewish dietary law,
was abolished. Former fast days were now to be feast days.
Making the Forbidden Permissible
One of the oft quoted prayers of Zevi was: “Blessed art Thou
Lord our God, King of the Universe, who makes the forbidden
things permissible.”
Strange Acts to Rescue Divine Sparks
Sabbatai Zevi declared that his duty was to descend through
the gates of impurity into the impure realm of Kelipot and to
“rescue the divine sparks” still imprisoned there. The messiah
was constrained to commit strange acts (Ma’asim Zarim)
which included apostasy, adultery, theft, idolatry, deception
and covetousness. All of these breaking of every Law of God
was “necessary” for the fulfilment of messiah’s mission.
Paradoxical Psychology
The psychology of the Sabbateans was utterly paradoxical.
Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)
1. Abolition of private property
2. Heavy progressive income tax
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance
4. Confiscation of the property of all
emigrants and rebels
5. Central bank
6. Government control of
communications and transport
7. Government ownership of factories
and agriculture
8. Government control of labour
9. Corporate farms; regional planning
(redistribute population to abolish
distinction between town and country)
10. Government control of education.
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Essentially its guiding principle was: whoever is
as he appears cannot be a true believer. In practice,
this meant that true faith could not be faith which
men publicly profess. On the contrary, true faith
must always be concealed. For a Sabbatean it
is their duty to deny their true faith outwardly,
because it is a seed planted in the bed of the soul
and it cannot grow unless it has first been covered
over.
Through Concealment and Deception
This theme of a secret, hidden, or occultic,
identity, became part of this Sabbatean religious
philosophy. In essence, a true act cannot be
committed publicly, to be seen by the world. Like
true faith, a true act must be concealed. Because
only through concealment could it negate the
falsehood of what is explicit.
A Revolution of Values
So, through a revolution of values, what was
formally sacred became profane and what was
formally profane, became sacred. The Sabbatean
Sect which flourished during the lifetime of
Sabbatai Zevi and afterwards continued to indulge
in wife sharing, religious sex orgies, adultery and
incest.
Comparisons and Connections
It is thought by some scholars that Zevi had some
deep connections with the Bektashi Sufi order of
Islam. Some similarities through the Sabbatean
Dönmeh and the Bektashi Sufi practices include
the deliberate violation of Kashrut/Halaal,
ritualistic group sex and wife-swapping, ecstatic
singing, or chanting, mystical Kabbalah and
belief in the hidden occultic reading of the Torah
and the Koran.
The Festival of the Lamb
The Sabbateans in Salonika regularly held a
celebration on the 22 nd Day of the Hebrew month
of Adar, known as The Festival of the Lamb. This
festival included getting drunk and extinguishing
the lights. In the total darkness there was religious
sexual sharing of wives and daughters.
can germinate in salvation. This conveys the Sabbatean
theology in a nutshell: Salvation comes through sin.
Redemption is achieved through deception.
The Sabbatean Roots of Freemasonry and Marxism
According to Gershom Scholem: Sabbateanism is
the matrix of every significant movement to have
emerged in the 18 th and 19 th Century, from Hasidism,
to Reformed Judaism, to Freemasonry and Marxist
Revolutionary Communism.
To Establish a New World Order
Sabbatean believers teach that they are the champions
of a new world order which will be established by
overthrowing the values of all other religions and
kingdoms. They teach the “holiness of sin.”
Jacob Frank – The False Prophet of Sabbatai Zevi
Fifty years after the death of Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob
Frank was born. Jerry Rabow in his book The Untold
Story of 50 Jewish Messiahs, reported that Jacob Frank
believed that he was the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi.
What Was once Forbidden is Now Commanded
Jacob Frank continued and extended the paradoxical
teachings of Sabbatai Zevi declaring that with the
coming of the messianic age, Zevi had transformed
sexual prohibitions of the Bible into permissions and
obligations. The only way to purify the soul is through
sexual immorality and orgies. Debauchery is therapy.
The Therapy of Debauchery
Jacob Frank asserted that the God of the Bible is
evil and Jews need to reject every moral law and
commandment. The only way to a new world order was
through the total destruction of Christian civilisation.
Jacob Frank insisted that child sacrifice, rape, incest
and the drinking of blood were perfectly acceptable
and necessary religious rituals. Salvation is through
sin. Redemption is achieved through deception.
Domination Through Infiltration
Jacob Frank also convinced his followers that the only
way for their special form of Judaism to survive was
for them to outwardly become Christians just as the
Dönmeh had descended into the world of Islam.
Regeneration Through Degeneration
Purification Through Transgression
Their teaching was that as a grain of wheat must Jewish authorities in Poland excommunicated
rot in the earth, before it can sprout, so the deeds Frank and his followers and rejected his concepts of
of believers must become fully rotten before they purification through transgression.
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Apostacy and Debauchery
Jacob Frank then converted to both Islam
and Catholicism. He held annual spring time
Lamb Festivals which consisted of drug use,
sacrifice, nudity and the exchanges of spouses
and daughters for immoral religious sex. Frank
preached that true Jewish believers were to
cross every boundary, transgress every taboo
and to mix the sacred with the profane. Eve
Frank (1754 – 1816) his daughter, was called
the holy matron of the Sabbatean movement.
She served as a central figure in the sex rituals
of the sect in Poland.
Influential Recruits
Jacob Frank had approximately 50,000
disciples. But, although his following was
smaller than that of Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob
Frank’s cult would grow to become far more
influential as it recruited some of Europe’s
most influential royalty, nobility and the
richest bankers on earth.
Most Corrupt and Terrifying
Gershom Scholem describes Jacob Frank
as: “One of the most frightening phenomena
in the whole of Jewish history, a religious
leader, who for whether purely selfish motives,
or otherwise, was, in all his actions a truly
corrupt and degenerate individual.”
Follow Their Messiah into the Abyss
Jacob Frank taught that one has to free oneself
from all laws, conventions and religions, to
adopt every conceivable attitude and to reject
it, to follow their messiah step by step into the
abyss. The annihilation of every religion was
the true way.
Cast Down to The Bottom of The Abyss
In order to ascend one must first descend. No
man can climb a mountain until he has first
descended to its foot. Therefore, we must
descend and be cast down to the bottom rung,
for only then can we climb to the infinite. This
is the principle of “Jacob’s Ladder”, which is
“shaped like a V.” “I did not come into this
world to lift you up, but rather to cast you
down to the bottom of the abyss.”
Rejecting All Law and Authority
Jacob Frank taught antinomianism, the rejection of all law and
Libertinism, the rejection of all authority. He demanded from his
followers voluntary abasement and utter shamelessness. A Sabbatean
needs to be able to commit every sin without any sense of shame,
remorse, or guilt.
Nihilism and Deception to Destroy Christian Europe
Jacob Frank’s Kabbalist interpretations led to Nihilism. He taught that
one conquered through deception. Frank taught that Israel’s exile was
not a consequence of its sins at all, but part of a plan to bring about the
destruction of all Gentiles throughout the world. To establish a Jewish
state back in Palestine was not sufficient. The whole order of the world,
especially Christian Europe, must be subverted and destroyed.
The Illuminati and Rothschild Connections
In his classic book, To Eliminate the Opiate, Rabbi Marvin Antelman
revealed that Jacob Frank got his financing from the Rothschild financial
empire based in Frankfurt and worldwide influence by his alliance with
Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati.
Rothschild and Weishaupt Form the illuminati with Frank
When Jacob Frank entered Frankfurt, an alliance had already begun
between Mayer Amshel Rothschild, the immensely wealthy banker of
Frankfurt and Adam Weishaupt who was the son of a Jewish Kabbalist
Rabbi in Bavaria. Educated by Jesuits, Weishaupt became a Roman
Catholic priest and then formed an alliance with Mayer Rothschild.
The Launch of The Illuminati New Age
On 1 st May 1776 Weishaupt chose the timing of the launching of the
Illuminati in accordance with Sabbatean Kabbalist teachings. He chose
the 1 st May because May, the 5-month added to the first day equals
6. He chose 1776 because the 4 numbers of this year add up to 21
(1+7+7+6 = 21). Also, the sacred number 6 + 21 = 27, another number
with occultic Kabbalist powers. They believe this because it is formed
by multiplying three by nine. Weishaupt carefully chose this date
because he believed that even the greatest plans would be doomed to
failure if not carried out at the most numerically advantageous time.
Revolutionary Goals
Adam Weishaupt, Mayer Rothschild and Jacob Frank launched the
Illuminati on 1 st May 1776 in Frankfurt with the long-term political
goals of:
1. Abolition of all monarchies and all governments.
2. Abolition of private property and inheritances.
3. Abolition of nationalism.
4. Abolition of the family and the institution of marriage.
5. Abolition of all religion.
6. Establishment of compulsory communal education for all children.
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Little Saint James island
lies to the southeast of Great Saint
James island in the United States
Virgin Islands. Both were owned
by Jeffrey Epstein.
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Communist Agenda
Anyone who has read Karl Marx’s Communist
Manifesto of 1848 will immediately recognise
the Illuminati agenda clearly articulated.
Understanding the Times and The Threat
It is impossible to understand the present Cancel
Culture, BLM, Gender Confusion, Lockdown
Lunacy, Masquerade Madness, Covid Cult,
Salvation by Vaccination, Christphobia,
Hollywood Degeneracy, Indoctrination through
Education, Mainstream Media, United Nations
and European Union pronouncements and
activities without understanding the Sabbatean
roots of the New World Disorder.
The Jeffrey Epstein Connection
In many ways Jeffrey Epstein epitomises the
Sabbatean religion. The weird cubic temple with
Islamic type dome on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island
which reportedly led down to an underground
chamber has been described as a sex-dungeon
and Luciferian temple. The building is painted
with blue and white stripes, the same colours
as the flag of the State of Israel. Jeffrey Epstein
certainly seemed to epitomise the Sabbatean
philosophy of unrestrained sexual debauchery
and deception.
The Harvey Weinstein Hollywood Connection
So too did Hollywood producer, sexual predator
and rapist Harvey Weinstein and many of his
highly influential friends, which include world
leaders. Understanding Sabbateanism helps
one understand the times and the threat that
confronts us.
“While they promise them freedom, they
themselves are slaves of depravity.”
2 Peter 2:19
Dr. Peter Hammond
Gospel Defence League
PO Box 36129
Glosderry 7702
Cape Town South Africa
info@gospeldefenceleague.org
www.GospelDefenceLeague.org
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