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‎”We therefore conclude that the civil government, as soon as it discovers abominable heresies by which the glory of Christ is diminished and the salvation of souls prevented, is in duty bound, yea that it has the office, to wield the sword and to exercise its full authority against those errors which bring divisions among the people and other great calamities, as we have experienced more than once. And if the teachers of false doctrines will not be convinced of their error, nor desist from their preaching, let the government use its power and compel them to refrain from their mischievous work, so that the true doctrine, and the proper worship of God, may be retained pure and unadulterated, that peace and harmony may prevail.”

Martin Luther

‎”There are two governments: the one religious, by which the conscience is trained to piety and divine worship; the other civil, by which the individual is instructed in those duties which, as men and citizens, we are bound to perform”

John Calvin

This one thing I add more; that it is the duty of a christian magistrate, or at leastwise of a good householder, to compel to amendment the breakers and contemners of God’s sabbath and worship. The peers of Israel, and all the people of God, did stone to death (as the Lord commanded them) the man that disobediently did gather sticks on the sabbath-day [Numbers 15:32-6]. Why then should it not be lawful for a christian magistrate to punish by bodily imprisonment, by loss of goods, or by death, the despisers of religion, of the true and lawful worship of the sabbath-day? […] For it is a heinous sin and a detestable schism, if the congregation be assembled, either in cities or villages, for thee then to seek out byways to hide thyself, and not to come from there, but to contemn the church of God and assembly of saints: as the Anabaptists have taken an use to do.

Henry Bullinger, Fifty godly and learned sermons divided into the five decades containing the chief and principal points of Christian religion, ed. Thomas Harding (1849-52 Parker edn; 4 vols, Grand Rapids, 2004), i, 261-2.

Escondido, Radical Two Kingdom “Theology,” is a complete innovation. It is true that one can find the “Spiritual nature of the Church,” in Reformed Church history but the “Spiritual nature of the Church” and R2K are related the same way that a guppy and Godzilla are related.

‎”This argument has been harmoniously received and even become common in the opinions of the schools of orthodox theologians, which state that the magistrate ought to be the keeper of both Tables of the Law. Indeed, he is the keeper, to take care that the business he has been commissioned with is carried out in the same manner which the Lord has commanded him.”

Johannes Piscator

“Argument 4. What the Magistrate is fore-prophesied to be under the New Testament, that he must discharge with all the power God hath given him, and that perpetually, and not by the tie of a judicial and temporary law, which binds for a time only. But the Magistrate is fore-prophesied Isa. 49. 23. and 60. 10 Rev. 21. 26. to be a Nurse-father to the Church under the New Testament, to keep and guard both Tables of the Law, and to see that Pastors do their duty, to minister to the Church by his royal power, yea when the fountain shall be opened in David’s house, that is under the New Testament, he shall thrust through the false Prophet that speaketh lies in the Name of the Lord, Zach. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.”

Samuel Rutherford

“But this is not arbitrary to him, for he is the minister of God, (Rom. 13:4) and the judgment is the Lord’s (Deut. 1:17; 2 Chron. 19:6). And if the Magistrate is keeper of both tables, he must keep them in such manner as God has delivered them to him.”

George Gillespie

“The Magistrate is not merely appointed by God as both the keeper and avenger of the second Table, but certainly also, and especially, of pure religion, with respect to which he keeps an external discipline.”

Philip Melanchthon

‎”Therefore, in regard to this very subject of which we here treat, since we have the clear word and command of God, by which magistrates are ordered to punish blasphemy. And in addition (as we demonstrated above) this is particularly the duty of the Magistrate, to take care that sins against the first Table are avenged”

Theodore Beza

“Illustrations and reasons of the law of Moses I never take from the Talmud. The oral traditions of the ignorant rabbis …(give) not the sense of the Mosaic writings. Many of the laws of the Pentateuch would make a strange figure indeed, if we were to interpret them as the Pharisees did, whose exposition, according to Christ’s declaration, in many cases served to inculcate doctrines and precepts directly the reverse of what Moses had taught and commanded… even with regard to Jewish antiquities, prior to the Babylon captivity, the Talmud is … an impure source of information … a book … which appeals only to oral tradition can tell us nothing worthy of credit …”

Johann David Michaelis
Professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages
University of Gottingen
Commentaries on the Laws of Moses

There seems to be no end of books that one can access in order to develop an apologetic against some heresy or mutated form of Christianity. Books revealing the flim-flam man and occult background of Joseph Smith and Mormonism. Books revealing the lunacy of the Millerites and Ellen G. White and Jehovah Witnesses. Books exposing Islam, Hinduism, and Armstrongism. You can purchase handy dandy fold out pamphlets that list the ways in which the false religions are heretical. You can find the testimonials of former adherents of false religions writing on how they were saved out this or that heresy or apostasy. However, despite all this glut of information there is comparatively little in the publishing world exposing Judaism for the false religion it is, and this despite that the Christian Scriptures refer to the Jewish faith as a “Synagogue of Satan.”

Part of the reason for this is that with the advent of Dispensationalism, Zionist interests have co-opted and blunted the Christian faith’s witness against the evil worldview and faith system that Judaism is. Indeed, so infected is certain quarters of the Christian Church in the West with Judaism that some ministers teach that those who call themselves “Jewish” don’t need to be saved like other people. (I say, “call themselves ‘Jewish'” because of the large question of whether or not those who insist that they are racially Jewish are indeed racially Jewish. Arthur Koestler’s book, “The 13th Tribe” calls the Jewishness of Jews into serious question.)

Also, there is the reality that the Money Interest which is largely controlled by the elite class who some call “Jews,” likewise controls much of the publishing industry.

Indeed, things are so badly on this score that the West is often referred to as having a “Judeo-Christian” faith when in point of fact no such creature exists. To talk about the “Judeo-Christian” faith is like talking about a chaste whore or a Vampire who is allergic to blood. In brief, the idea of “Judeo-Christian” is a severe contradiction.

However, the lacuna of books and literature dealing with the unseemliness of the Jewish Faith as it contributes to a Christ hating worldview has begun to be filled by Michael Hoffman in his book, “Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit,” and it’s more accessible popular version, “Judaism’s Strange Gods.”

Hoffman’s books is dedicated to exposing Judaism for what it is, seeking to convince the reader that the Jewish faith is just another version of pagan humanism. Hoffman’s exposure of Judaism has him convinced that “this book may be banned, suppressed, and otherwise proscribed and forbidden because of the documentation it bring to light concerning the religion of Orthodox Judaism.”

Because of the unnatural fusion that has occurred between some expressions of Christianity and Judaism that was mentioned earlier Hoffman can only to hope his work can gain traction not only in the face of a hostile publishing industry but also in the face of a hostile Church. With the writing of this book Hoffman has armored up in the midst of those wielding hostile hammers. Understanding that with his book he has placed himself between the hammer of modern Judaism and the anvil of contemporary Christianity Hoffman laments, through the voice of Puritan William Prynne, about how contemporary Christianity is a obstacle to progress in evangelizing Judaics.

“Another reason that so-called Christian ministers, bishops and priests, assist the rabbis in keeping Judaic people in thrall is the ‘Money Engine’: ‘By this history we may perceive what a prevailing engine the Jew’s money is, both to serve into Christian kingdoms, though the most bitter, inveterate, professed enemies of Christ himself, Christians and Christianity, and how their money can induce even Christian princes to perpetrate most unchristian and antichristian actions; and enforce by threats and violence, even converted Christian Jews to renounce their Christianity, and apostasize to their former Jewish errors which they had quite renounced. And do not they still work by the self-same money engine? Preferred by too many Christians, before Christ himself and Christianity.'”

Hoffman’s concern in the book is evangelistic. He has sincere hopes that perhaps there may be those through the writing of this book who may be converted from Judaism to Biblical Christianity. Hoffman realizes that he will be pilloried for being a “hater” and a “anti-semite,” but he rightly asks how loving is it to not challenge a faith system that holds people in a terrible bondage. Hoffman insists that the love of Christ constrains him to rip the scab off the oozing wound that is Judaism with the hope that a healing salve can be placed upon it unto conversion.

“If we teach you nothing else, God grant you the grace to understand that it is the rabbis who are the world’s most flagrant and virulent Jew haters. This is a book of love, reflecting the love of God for all people, Judaic or Gentile, who are hostages to darkness. There are no hidden agendas or motives. All who say otherwise are liars and have for their patriarch, the Father of Lies.”

Shortly into his book Hoffman makes a key distinction that will be seen throughout his book. Hoffman distinguishes between Jews and Judaics. Hoffman labels Jews as those who are genetic descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but includes also in the definition of “Jew” all those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ citing I Peter 2:9. However, one must keep in mind here that Hoffman is saying that there are those who are Physical Jews and those who are Spiritual Jews. Some Physical Jews may be Spiritual Jews (Christians) but not all Physical Jews are Spiritual Jews. Hoffman distinguishes Jews from Judaics who he denominates as followers of Judaism regardless of their ethnic heritage. (Doubtless here Hoffman has the Khazars especially in mind.)

Ironically enough, even though percentage wise, very few who claim to be Jews racially are actually racially Jews, the Judaics who inhabit Judaism along with their addlepated hyper Dispensational Christian minister allies insist that Judiacs are saved is by race alone — a race which they do not, in a large number of cases do not even belong.

Like all men, Judaics and Physical Jews alike must be saved by looking to God’s Christ alone in order to be delivered from their Synagogue of Satan. Hoffman’s book is written in hopes that Judaics and Jews might be saved.