Using the Ariel bombing as an excuse, Christian cults operating in Israel under the name Messianic Jews, particularly in Arad, have begun a campaign of hate against Jews.
Like Scientologists, the cults calling themselves Messianic Jews claim that they’re being persecuted. Numerous videos across YouTube with titles like “Now This is Why Everyone Hates Jews” document clashes that they generate with Jews. Meanwhile more “sympathetic” stories are being run on the Jerusalem Post which relies heavily on Christian dollars about how they’re persecuted. Not a word about the violent attacks, fraud and child abuse perpetrated by these cult members or their rabid hatred of Jews.
These cults calling themselves Messianic Jews operating in Israel are non-Jewish and actually violently hateful toward Jews. They sometimes try to disguise it with a Pro-Israel veneer but give them 5 minutes and they begin ranting about Pharisees and the Synagogue of Satan, Kabbalistic Satanism and really unleashing a vile torrent of filth. Aviad Cohen’s old videos before he had them taken down (formerly 50 Shekel) and a prominent cult member were typical of these.
The Messianic Jews are really Non-Jewish Christians with messed up belief systems ranging from carrying out present day sacrifices to believing that Jesus (or as they call Jesus, Yeshua) came on a UFO. They’re into defrauding people, bringing them into the cult and working them non-stop and siphoning away their life savings. Just like Scientology.
But these phony cults which call themselves Messianic Jewish synagogues and come with fake Rabbis don’t just take advantage of Jews, they take advantage of Christians. Rabbi Ari Crockett is a typical example. Messianic Jewish cults may call themselves Jewish but they’re mostly made up of Christians, which means they target Christians for cult membership. Christians who sympathize with them should remember that their sons and daughters could be next and that while that these fake Messianic Jews may talk a lot about Jesus, they’re no different than the Moonies or Harei Krishnas or any other cult.
They target both Jews and Christians for their cults. They use lies and deceit. They have lawyers to protect their cult leaders from their crimes. They use violence and terroristic threats. And their goal is to take control of people’s lives.
The most famous Messianic Jewish cult died horribly at Waco Texas when they murdered Federal agents to protect their child molesting leader, David Koresh. Like most messianic groups, they were mostly Christians with a handful of Jews. They were filled with hate for the outside world by their leader and willing to do anything.
It’s natural that Jews in Israel don’t want such people or such cults setting up shop. Just as virtually no country in the world allows them to set up their cults. So they’ve resorted to a Pro-Israel veneer running sites like IsraelToday.co.il that pretend to be Pro-Israel on the surface to shake down Christians and Jews for money. At Arad and with thugs like Eddie Beckford leading them, it’s easy to see their real face. Despite all the lies put out on the web by their messianic cult, the messianic cult in Arad, Eddie Beckford and his followers are the primary source of hate waging a ruthless campaign against the Jews of Arad.
In the town of Arad Messianic cult leaders like Eddie Beckford have waged a campaign of hate against Jews while using Messianic outlets to present themselves as innocent victims. Yet the above video which shows Eddie Beckford trying to run down a Jewish man doesn’t show an innocent victim. There are other videos that show violent assaults. Yet Beckford’s Arad cult has successfully blanketed YouTube with numerous videos filled with hate for Jews while portraying themselves as the victims based on a shouting match with some Orthodox Jews. What their videos don’t show is the violent assaults they’ve committed against Orthodox Jews.
Jews should stand with our fellow Jews of Arad against Eddie Beckford and his creepy cult and hateful intentions. Donate to Yad Leachim’s programs and flag the Arad videos as hateful if you come across them.
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This is the most ridiculous tripe every put on the web. First, you make a ridiculous accusation of “violent attacks, fraud and child abuse perpetrated by” Messianics and fail to substantiate them; then you make a totally specious connection of the Branch Davidians with Messianic Judaism when there is in fact no connection (and you don’t even try to substantiate that). You show clips of video which show us no context and no substantiation that they are what you claim, videos that look pretty staged, BTW.
Substantiate your claims, if you can, or repent of your lashon hara.
Having seen a HaEretz report with some actual substantiation, I want to apologize, because it looks like yes, there is some violence on the part of Messianics in Arad. But you CONVENIENTLY do not point out that they are not the only ones engaging in it, nor did they instigate it. It is the Haredi who have been attacking the Messianics; when the Messianics fight back, suddenly they are a violent cult. They are not right to act as they do (though I have no problem with self-defense), but they are not as you depict. Your analysis is slanted and ignores the fact that they were attacked.
If the Haredi wish to demonstrate peacefully, they can do so. They have assaulted the Messianics, and that is wrong. The retaliation beyond simple self-defense on the part of the Messianics is also wrong, albeit understandable. It should stop, but so should the attacks by the Haredi, as should the false accusations. Messianics do not engage in forced conversions. Messianics do not coerce. It is central to Messianic theology that choices must be individual and not forced.
Branch Davidians were Messianics, http://dan.tobias.name/controversies/davidian/
it simply isn’t talked about very much because the well funded messianic movement finds that sort of thing embarrassing
She is a member of the Davidian faction which presently controls the property, and is probably the author of most of the material up on the walls. The door to the building she was in was labeled “Messianic Jews,” and she regards the Davidians (a splinter group from the Seventh Day Adventists, which observe the Jewish sabbath) as the true spiritual descendants of the Jewish people.
The Haredim have protested against Messianic cults. They’ve shouted slogans and held up signs. Sometimes they’ve shoved and blocked the way. In response people like Beckford have carried out violent physical assaults. The messianic cult in Arad began the violence, and just like at Waco, they’re eager to play the victims.
Messianic cults target minors. They practice deceit at every turn. They conceal their real affiliation and once people join their cult, their self-esteem is often undermined and their resources drained and their lives taken over.
So save the BS for someone else
In regards the Branch Davidians, I’ve not seen anything ever that shows what you claim. There may be some people claiming it, but the article shows clearly they splintered from the Seventh Day Adventists, which has no connection whatsoever with the Messianic community. Just because they called themselves Messianic Jews didn’t make them a part of our community. Their doctrines are totally alien to the Messianic faith.
And all the reports — other than those from the Haredim — indicate the Haredim began the violence. And what is their “real affiliation” and where is your substantiation for your other claims?
I just put up a link demonstrating that members of the Branch Davidians describe themselves as Messianic Jews.
David Koresh started out in the Southern Baptist Church, which funds many of the messianic jewish groups out there. He joined a a splinter Adventist Church that was blatantly Messianic influenced
As you well know, there’s a direct bridge between Seventh Day Adventists and Messianics and even the mainstream Adventist Church conducts Messianic Jewish services and runs at least one Messianic Adventist synagogue in Israel. They even have a fellowship.
http://adventistmessianicfellowship.com/
The real affiliation of the Messianic Arad Church is a messianic Christian cult which claims to be Messianic Jews. Even though Eddie Beckford is a black Catholic from Harlem.
The Branch Davidians call themselves “Messianic.” Well, there are sects of mainstream Judaism that use that term too. The Davidians are Messianic in the sense that they believe in a Messiah, but they have personified this in modern times to physical people currently living. This is far less like the Messianic Jews in Arad and more like… oh, say, the Lubavitcher Chassidim who think their Rebbe Schneerson was/is the Messiah. You say, “As you well know, there’s a direct bridge between Seventh Day Adventists and Messianics,” well, no, I don’t know that. Simply because the SDAs have glommed onto the Messianic movement and started one or two congregations doesn’t make them part of the Messianic community.
You keep labeling Messianics as a “Christian cult.” Funny, Christianity doesn’t feel the same way, especially when they find out we stress Torah Observance.
There’s no branch of Judaism that calls itself Messianic. There are a wide variety of cults that call themselves Messianic Jews, their commonality is belief in the Christian savior Jesus Christ and attempts at integrating some fragments of Judaism
And I couldn’t care less whether you think Adventist Messianics are a legitimate Messianic movement or not. The one other constant in the Messianic movement is the constant infighting over who is a legitimate part of it or not. Since you’re all Christian cults, I couldn’t care less.
The Branch Davidians like some Adventists self identify as Messianics. Those are facts.
Messianics do terrible harm to christianity too. They pretend to be jewish and infiltrate churches to destory them.
You know they lie to the Jews and to the Churches. I found on one of their sites how they will refuse to say trinity and gospel and Jesus because it scares people off! Can you imagine they lie and cover up what they really believe .
My husband saw many people taken in by them . It is all about getting membership for money. Certainly the more members the more money these people make for themselves.
But as a Methodist, I find them just a cult.
Responding to Samurai Mohel: There’s no branch of mainstream Judaism that calls itself messianic? In their official name, no. But most of Judaism is messianic. It is a messianic faith! Yes, many branches have decided — counter to all Scriptural evidence — that Israel is its own Messiah, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t messianic. And there is a large (and growing) messianic movement within the Lubavitcher Chassidim that say Schneerson is Messiah. Or do you worm out of your comment by claiming that any Jews who believe in any personified messiah are no longer Jewish? You know, it’s pretty funny for a guy who calls himself by the name of a pagan religious cult (the samurais were a militaro-religious cult) to be slamming other Jews with different beliefs as “cult members.”
To Leonardo & Margo: I don’t know who you’re talking about, but you’ve encountered very poor examples of Messianics. The vast majority of the Messianic community is nothing like that.
Congrats Adam, you’ve moved from subtle to outrightly blatant dishonesty. As before Messianic Judaism refers to a variety of Christian cults, some backed by Baptist churches, who believe in Jesus.
Actual Jews have always believed that God sends Messiahs. As he intervenes in many ways to save us, from you. But they worship God who sends them. Not the men themselves. That is the difference between our two religions. Ours believes in God. Yours believes in a man.
The rest of your pathetic attempts at an argument aren’t even worth answering.
Wow….this website is as legit as a $6 bill. Your claims are unfounded and typical of anti-missionary paranoid inflammatory nonsense. You, my friend, are not a Jew but a practioner of lashon hara and have your portion with the wicked in the place of the damned.
Dude you have a severe case of paranoid delusion with a healthy dose of just plain “liar” tossed into the mix. I am a Jew, born to a Jewish mother (and father), raised in an Orthodox home by my Rabbi grandfather and I made the choice to accept Yeshua as Messiah. I’ve met soooooo many Jewish believers that I really couldn’t count them if I tried. None of the Messianic “Jews” I met were non-Jews – those who were born Jewish are always going to be Jewish. There are Messianic non-Jews, Christians who choose to adopt a Jewish lifestyle – but I’ve yet to meet one who introduces themselves as “genetic” Jews. As for the Branch Davidians, what a stupid thing to toss into your otherwise insane article – it’s so pathetic – Koresh’s group (Branch Davidians) are off-shoots of 7th Day Adventists and none of them claim to be Jews.
What a crock. Want to learn about truth and life – with a healthy dose of common sense? Go read (redacted site of an idol worshiping heroin addicted fraud claiming to be Jewish)
Haza, nice that you learned about Lashon Hara. Now try and skip back to the commandment about not having any other Gods.
“Leah”, you guys need a new routine. Every single messy out there does the same “I’ was an Orthodox Jew and my grandfather was an Orthodox Jew routine.” I remember Rabbi Ari Crockett claimed his grandfather was the Kohen Gadol of New York City. Man, I didn’t even know New York City had its own Kohen Gadol.
Very few of you are actual Jews ethnically. None of you are Jews by religion. Want a healthy dose of common sense? Whether you’re Jewish or not, stop worshiping a man and start worshiping God.
IR A IDIOT THOSE ARE DIFERRENT MESSIANICS THOSE ARE MESSIANIC SHITES
If can jump in here with a response to Adam–Of the established branches of Judaism–Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist not one accepts Jesus as the messiah.
We believe in a messianic era and that a messiah will usher it in–a Jewish man, entirely mortal, who observes every mitzvot, unlike jesus who violated several commandments and the had the audicity to claim he was god. G-d is not a man.
Lastly, as for the messianic non-jews/christians interested in the Jewish lifestyle and worship…these are probably people who would be thrilled to learn about the Noachide Laws and the truth about G-d, who is noncorporeal.
Vernon Howell’s Branch Davidians were a renegade off shoot of the Seventh Day Adventist cult and they are both cults. The Messianic Jews or Jews for Jesus have nothing to do with them. Leah is right I also know so many Jews who are Messianics and have retained their Judaic roots. Until the Romans and Greeks took over Christianity and it became Catholic and Orthodox, and before Constantine legalized Christianity in the 4th Century, most of the early Christians were Jews themselves.
This bashing of Messianic Jews makes me think whether you bashers are being anti-Semitic or antichrist? I don’t understand it. Christians have done so much to help Israel did you forget the help of Christians like Lord Balfour, Oscar Schindler, CUFI, Miep Gies, the Poles who hid the escapees from Sobibor and President Lyndon B. Johnson?
Only the Reform sect believes in the Messianic Age. This belief is in error. The Tanach and Nevi’im support that a real physical Messiah will come as King and Elijah will procede Him. Also, the Jewish belief on Jesus of Nazareth varies from sect to sect and Jew to Jew, the Messianics believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Karaites believe Jesus a Prophet, the most rabid, hateful Jews believe Christ never existed and most others believe something else like Jesus was a great teacher or rabbi only, etc.
I just don’t understand the hatred. The Gentiles who persecuted the Jews, the Romans, Russians, Germans, Hitler, Nicholas Chadeev, the Spanish Inquisition, Torquemada, Phillip II, the pogromites, George Lincoln Rockwell, Frank Collin and Fritz Kuhn are all dead or forgotten in this new liberal age of understandingl Just let it go alright if Jews become filled with hate to whoever are we any better than the those who hate US?
One more thing, if you argue that the Messianics are a cult they will just throw the Khabballah and the Talmud as cultic right back in your face!
7th day adventists are no cult but a well respected religion that the rest of mainline Xianity butchered and murdered throughout history.
They also went to concentration camps for being Sabbath keepers.
You messy antics reek of lies and rotten cheese.
I’ve already established the linkage between the Branch Davidians as a Messianic cult.
There is no such thing as Messianic Jews. Only a variety of Messianic cults, most of them composed of non-Jews, who hate each other. The venom directed by Jews for Jesus (a Baptist backed corporate cult) at looser Messianic cults and right back alone is legendary.
Jews do not become Messianic. Messianics are usually Christians, sometimes with Jewish roots somewhere, who drift out of established churches into Messianic cults. They work hard on paper to try and convert actual Jews but rarely succeed.
Jews do not believe in your dead mangod. And never will. Even early on the majority of Jesus’ followers were not Jews.
don’t understand it. Christians have done so much to help Israel did you forget the help of Christians like Lord Balfour, Oscar Schindler, CUFI, Miep Gies, the Poles who hid the escapees from Sobibor and President Lyndon B. Johnson?
Are you really this stupid? Schindler was helping Jews escape the mass murder being perpetrated against them by millions of Christians. Christians have spent 2000 years killing Jews in the name of your perverted pagan heresy. And today you still keep on trying to wipe us out, spiritually if not physically. Yeah I can’t imagine why we aren’t bigger fans of yours.
Just let it go alright if Jews become filled with hate to whoever are we any better than the those who hate US?
We’re not filled with hate. We just know the truth and your lies won’t change that.
As if this person who appropriates the name of a tzadek like Rabban Gamliel is a real Jew. What a farce.
These messianic protestants are as phony as anything can be. Their entire focus is to preach to Jews . Most of their churches are filled with goyim prancing around doing lewd mixed dancing and so called “davidic” dances that look like the dance of the 7 veils.
Its awful.
What exactly is a real jew? While we can argue descendancy from a Jewish mother and grandmother, that no longer seems to be a sufficient halacha since the OrthoNazis have decided that no Jew who accepts Y’shua as moshiach can remain a Jew…. its nice to know they have finally found someone to spew their hate towards besides the reform movement. But who does haShem claim is a Jew? A son of Avraham who keeps Mitzvoth would seem to be a good description… what then is Mitzvah haShem… but to love justice, to eschew mercy, and to walk humbly with your creator. Perhaps is was in the spirit of this true halacha from on high that the Sanhedrin of 33 CE turned over that nice Yid from Nazareth, Y’shua benYossef to be brutily murdered by the Roman Pagans… and perhaps that is why an innocent widow and her two adopted sons, all sabra by buirth and jews by definition are houded and harrassed on a daily basis by the haters of jews, the Gur Hassidim who worship their rabbis halacha above Torah Moshe and Halacha haShem. If a true jew is one who keeps the commandments of the Most High then these Gur Hassidim who persecute widows and orphans for sport are more like Haman than Y’hudah, who at least cared enough for his brother yossef to intervene and preserve his life.
How long must we as Jews (ALL JEWS NOT JUST MESSIANICS) put up with the Tyranny of the Orthodox, with their halacha of hate, and their oral Torah of shame. It is time to rise up and reclaim the faith of Avraham for his children and to embrace hashems provision of his own son as the perfect Chatta’ah for A’von.
Kiss the son lest he be angry.
Rav Yossef
http://www.messianicdefenseleague.com
I’m sorry Hank McCoy, but calling yourself Rav Yosef and trying to use Jewish and Yiddish words does not make you Jewish.
And a graduate of Faith Bible College calling Jews, Nazis while pretending to be Jewish is both disgusting and pathetic, and typical of your fraudulent and hate filled “Messianic movement”
I could correct your many errors, both biblical and spelling, but it’s pointless. You’re a liar and you know you’re a liar. Your hate for Jews is masked by a futile attempt to masquerade as a Jew only in order to spread more hate.
Who is a Jew? A Jew does not worship idols. A Jew does not worship men. Now beat it Hank.
Kiss my ass and stop misrepresenting Tehilim.
Father Connor McBean
I really don’t care what your “real name” or how many names you use. Exposing con artists like you isn’t my full time job. On the other hand you obviously want attention so your rants in favor of your undies wearing mangod named Pedro or Jesus can go in the recycle bin.
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Hi
I am from South Africa and a German citizen who converted from Lutheren-christianity to the Messianic Jewish belief.
Searching for the good news of Adonai , I came accross this website, WOW !
I wonder what Adonai must think of His chosen children?
WHAT A SHAME !
Shalom
You can’t “convert” from Lutheranism to Messianic, that’s a lateral move within Christianity from one pagan belief to another.
We know what G-d thinks of us and we know what your “master race” thinks of us, Robert. And if you use the name of G-d in vain on this blog again you will be deleted.