My Understanding of The True God - Cathrine Thomas (robert munsch read aloud TXT) 📗

4. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

(Righteousness means putting things straight, making things correct: for example, we are all equal, whether we are rich, poor, black or white, men or women.)

5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
(What righteousness did he perform? He said he would not even allow someone to attend a funeral: how righteous was Jesus? He said let the dead bury themselves. I find this unacceptable. Faithfulness does not apply to Jesus either: he claimed to be God.)

6. And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
(Did the calf and the young lion feed together? Now if Jesus was the Servant or the Messiah, who was the little child?)

7. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
(I don’t think this was happening in Jesus’ time. Is this happening now?)

8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

(NOTE: “the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord”: is it?)
10. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.

(Let us pay attention to this: he “standeth for an ensign of the peoples”: an ensign is a flag or a standard: he will be a leader for the people; “unto him shall the nations seek” (some one that all nations will look up to); “and his resting-place shall be glorious”. But Jesus’ resting place was that of a criminal.)

11.And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

(Isaiah says, “… the Lord will set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people”. Why do Christians say that Jesus is coming back again for the second time? Surely if Jesus is correct, he came back the second time when he rose from the dead, therefore he is coming back for the third time? Besides, Mohammed claims that Jesus sent him, so maybe you need to say the fourth time?)

12. And He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

(An “ensign” means a flag for the nations, and “the dispersed” means the people spread out over a wide area, of Israel: Israel is not a country, but Jacob whose name God changed to Israel. And the Lord “will gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth”: there will be a gathering or a reuniting of the people of Israel and Judah.)

13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
(There will be no envy or harassment among the peoples of Judah or Ephraim.)

14. And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they spoil the children of the east; they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

15. And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind will He shake His hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry-shod.
(Only now is “the tongue of the Egyptian sea” drying up. Was this happening at the time of Jesus?)

16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, that shall remain from Assyria, like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Let us now look at what Zechariah writes about the Messiah.
Zechariah 3:
8. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign; for, behold, I will bring forth My servant the Shoot.
(In my Bible the word “Shoot” is “Branch”.)
9. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
(The way I see this is that God will remove the iniquity of that land in one day, the land where the Servant of the Lords is born. The word “iniquity” means immoral or grossly unfair behaviour.)

Zechariah 6:
12. Then speak to him, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying: “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch, from his place He shall branch out, and He shall build the temple of the LORD;
(The word “branch” is repeated twice in this verse: first, as the name of the servant of the Lord of hosts, and, second, as the verb “branch out”. The “Branch” will “branch out” to build the Temple of the Lord.)

13. Yes, He shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and He shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

(The Lord of hosts said that the Branch would build the temple of the Lord, but Jesus did not do so. What do the words, “counsel of peace”, have to do with Jesus? The Romans crucified him, because he was preaching in the streets, against God’s word and claiming to be the Messiah.)

Let us now turn to Jeremiah and consider some of the Christian celebrations.
Jeremiah 10:
3. For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

4. They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5. They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

(Jeremiah writes about trees that are decorated “with silver and with gold”. It would appear that celebrations similar to the Christian celebration of Christmas happened long before Christianity. Jeremiah calls these customs “vanity”. It is not only at Christmas time but also at Easter time. Why do Catholics and Christians buy Easter eggs and chocolates? What have they to do with the death of Jesus? Christmas and Easter are times when people waste money.)

Let us compare the Christian celebrations with the Jewish celebrations. At Passover the Original GOD wants us seven weeks after the festival of unleavened bread to give out of our own freewill to the less fortunate than we are. The festival of weeks, the festival of tabernacles, which should happen in the seventh month, is the gathering of the crops: everyone should rejoice, and no work should be done for seven days. What is the difference between Jesus and GOD? The original GOD wants righteousness; he wants us to rejoice in Him for what we have.
My reading of the Torah tells me that Jesus could never have been the Messiah. Why would God have sent the Messiah about 2019 years ago and not let there be peace now? We are all meant to believe in the Original GOD, but we are very far from that: my own flesh and blood has gone their own way, avoiding me as I believe in ONE GOD and only GOD. Why does not the rest of mankind believe in the ONE GOD, the only God? But the Torah does say that your family will hate you for your love of your God, and Isaiah 51:7 states: “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, you people whose heart is My law: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their insults.”

Isaiah tells us that the Messiah/God’s Servant will come from a far-off country:

Isaiah 46:11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have a purposed it; I will also do it.

Isaiah 52:15 So shall he startle many nations, kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which they had not been told them shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall they perceive.

(He will “startle many nations”: the word “startle” means “shock” or “alarm”. Isaiah writes that “kings shall shut their mouths because of him”, but kings did not shut their mouths when Jesus spoke; they crucified him.)

The prophecy of the Book of Daniel gives us great wisdom and understanding about the coming of the Servant/the Messiah. I shall start with Daniel Chapter 11 where Gabriel tells Daniel his dream of what will happen in the latter days,

21. And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give honour and royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
(Jesus came peacefully and plotted to seize the kingdom by “intrigue” and claimed to be the Servant or Messiah.)

22. With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.
(Because of what Jesus did, “the prince of the covenant” has been broken as Christian people now believe that Jesus is the Saviour or Redeemer and coming again. The prince of the covenant should be the Messiah, and many of us will not recognise the true Messiah when he comes.)
23. And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people.
(Jesus performed miracles, foretold the future, and “became strong with a small number of people”: Jesus and his apostles were only a few, 12 apostles, who, it is claimed, took over the role of the 12 tribes of Israel.)

24. He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers; he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.
(Jesus went around with his teachings, but he did not do what his fathers and forefathers did: they believed in God the almighty and no other. Jesus planed against the strongholds of the Jewish faith and went up against God’s law.)

25. He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but