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(Babylonian/Jewish/Roman water baptism) Water baptism falls into one of those categories that is Biblically commanded for believers but has a counterfeit ungodly duplicate offered by "religion", which duplicate attempts to adulterate and nullify the pure symbolic meaning of what is really ordained of Yahweh God Almighty. From the beginning of Adamic history, the evil usurpers of the Faith have always presented a false yet tainted "clone" of many of Yahweh's holy precepts. They even try to steal the names of our Israel Adamic family, supposing that this will somehow give them privilege to enter into Yahweh's covenants. Notice that as far back as Genesis chapters 4 and 5, Cain's defiled seedline of the people of Nod have children named similar to those of Adam's family. The names Enoch, Lamech, Mahalaheel, etc. were found in both Adam's line and Cain's adulterated line of families. Jesus the Christ our King (Yahshua to some) warned us about false (that is .. close duplicate) Christs, false prophets, and false doctrine. (Mat.24:24; Mat.16:12) The theory that water baptism is the method by which the Holy Spirit is imparted into a believer's heart, and that "you can not have God's Spirit until you are water baptized by immersion" is one of the most deceiving adulterated counterfeit doctrines devised by man made religion to date. "Water baptism for salvation" is classic priestcraft which denies that ETERNAL SALVATION was secured for us before the Earth even existed and was decided in the mind of Yahweh outside of the phenomenon we call "time".... AND that we had nothing to do with, nor had any part in securing this eternal salvation, nor could we ever. (the following lesson parts 1,2,3 explain this in detail as well as explain the different "salvations" mentioned in the Bible) Just where does the doctrine that "Water baptism is necessary to receive God's Spirit" originate??? .... from totally pagan Babylonian priesthood roots that were adopted by Judaism in the Babylonian captivity and spread into denominational Christianity from there. Most Christians think that water baptism is exclusively "Christian", which opinion is incorrect. [More accurately, water baptism that is only symbolic of being cleansed by Jesus Christ's sacrifice is originally Christian.] Water immersion baptism "as a rite to bring down God" is historically Babylonian Jewish and the nonChristian Jews still water baptize today!!! Oblivious to the fact that Yahweh on His own secured our salvation by the sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son on the cross, Babylonian Jewish water baptism is the counterfeit attempt to secure God's favor by initiating a religious rite. The high book of the Jews is not the Old Testament, but rather it is The Babylonian Talmud. This Talmud (condemned by Christ as the "Tradition of the Elders") is a collection of "methods, works, rites, & ceremonies" implemented for the supposed purpose of securing God's blessings. Tradition ceremonialism is the religious focal point of Judaism. The rite of water baptism is included in this non Biblical religion and that specific baptism rite is referred to as "MIKVEH". Below are excerpts from Jewish sources about their rite of Water Baptism (Mikveh) in securing God's attention:
Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Article on Mikveh) ENTERING THE MIKVEH "At the moment of immersion you are as close as you can ever be to God." by Jane Solomon (1996) (excerpt only) "---- immersion in the mikveh is really for you, you yourself. She went on to tell me that when you immerse in the water, you are as close as you will ever be to God - that you have to remove all jewelry, makeup, bits of food in your teeth, dirt under your nails, and so on because there should be nothing at that moment between you and Adonai.(Lord) ------- Then, at the moment of immersion, when you are as close as you can ever be to God - "at that moment," Shira said, you may make a personal prayer, not for world peace but for something in your own life. "The mikveh is for you," she said. "It's a beautiful personal moment. It's just you and God."
From : "Country Yossi: NewYork's Premiere Jewish Magazine" THE MYSTERIOUS MIKVEH WATERS Rebbe's Water is Newest Cure for What Ails You by Rachel Ginsberg Israel Correspondent (2004) (excerpt only)
"All over Israel, people are telling stories of friends, relatives or even of themselves, who have been miraculously cured from an array of ailments with the help of a little vial of water, mikveh water from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. " - - - that dipping in the mikveh after the Rebbe could bring down a blessing for children. Chasidic men immerse in a mikveh every day. The Rebbe had apparently once alluded to Rabbi Leibel Groner that one who immerses after him will have a blessing of fertility. " (The reader can check other Talmudic Jewish sources and will find the same about their belief concerning water baptism)
In the early 1900's the late Rev. Alexander Hislop wrote an expose' of Roman Catholic rituals in his book entitled "THE TWO BABYLONS". Below is an excerpt from page 132 with his historical comments about the Babylonian origin of "regeneration by water baptism". "The doctrine of Rome, however, is, that all who are canonically baptised, however ignorant, however immoral, if they only give implicit faith to the Church, and surrender their conscience to the priests, are as much regenerated as ever they can be, and that children coming from the waters of baptism are entirely purged from the stain of original sin. Hence we find the Jesuit missionaries in India boasting of making converts by thousands, by the mere fact of baptising them, without the least previous instruction, in the most complete ignorance of the truths of Christianity, on their mere profession of submission to Rome. This doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration also is essentially Babylonian. Some may perhaps stumble at the idea of regeneration at all having been known in the Pagan world; but if they only go to India, they will find at this day, the bigoted Hindoos, who have never opened their ears to Christian instruction, as familiar with the term and the idea as ourselves. The Brahmins make it their distinguishing boast that they are "twice-born" men, and that, as such, they are sure of eternal happiness. Now, the same was the case in Babylon, and their the new birth was conferred by baptism. In the Chaldean mysteries, before any instruction could be received, it was required first of all, that the person to be initiated submit to baptism in token of blind and implicit obedience. We find different ancient authors bearing direct testimony both to the fact of this baptism and the intention of it. "In certain sacred rites of the heathen," says Tertullian, especially referring to the worship of Isis and Mithra, "the mode of initiation is by baptism." The term "initiation" clearly shows that it was to the Mysteries of these divinities he referred. This baptism was by immersion, and seems to have been rather a rough and formidable process; for we find that he who passed through the purifying waters, and other necessary penances, "if he survived, was then admitted to the knowledge of the Mysteries."
Heathens tried to copy Yahweh's water symbolism: Water itself being the most common natural resource for cleaning, Yahweh God Almighty had first instructed it's SYMBOLIC USE in the Tabernacle of true Israel (not jewish). The priests washed in a brazen laver before ministering at the altar (Ex.30:17-21). This symbolic act consented to the holiness required in the service of Yahweh God, the only Living God. Subsequently, many superstitious nations in the pre Christian era developed forms of "purification by water rites" in an effort to contact their man made idol gods. What has happened is that when Yahweh Almighty revealed a truth to His prophets or to His nation exclusively, the heathens attempted to incorporate these truths into their religions and in that attempt they inevitably defiled the meaning. Many pagan religions have their versions of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, blood atonements, holy festivals, etc. They are all corruptions of Eternal Truths which Yahweh has reserved for Adamic Israel, today called Saxon Christendom. The"Baptism Doctrine"is no different ... what is rightfully a beautiful symbolic expression of the inner faith of a child of Yahweh has been corrupted by its adoption into heathen cults. The progression of baptism as a ceremonial rite superstitiously held capable of "calling down God from heaven" went from ancient Babylon ,to Pharisaic Judaism, to Roman Catholicism, to Protestant Denominationalism. Sadly, it has now crept into the Christian Israel Kingdom message,once a bastion of truth recently turned into a hodgepodge of universalism mixed with remaining vestiges of Biblical credibility. The following lessons on water baptism are meant to inspire the believer in the all encompassing works of Yahweh Elohim who secured eternal salvation for His family solely on what He has done for us,and not on what we can do by ceremonial rites that will forever fall short of the glory of His salvation. Baptism Continued next Article >>>
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