WEEKLY WARNING WORDS
June 16, 2004 - Week 39 - The Truth & Nothing But The Truth - A Board Game
BY DR. BRUNO J. KEITH
Make your own chess or checkers board with all 64 squares of the same light color. Print numbers in the darker color in any good order. Cut or cast a die or 2 dice (wood, plastic, glass, metal) & paint numbers from 1 to 6, or dots, on the surfaces. Paint 2 to 6 small stones, pawns or similar pieces, each in a different color. Set them according to the number of players on or near square 1 & roll the dice, one person after the other, perhaps in order of their seats. You can only advance if you had a 6 = . Follow directions if your next roll gets you on square…
2 - You may advance 4 sq. if you read correctly in the Bible, Exodus IV, Israel was the "first-born of God". If you dream, or prevaricate, that this quote refers to Jesus of the Gospels, return to sq. 1 & move forward after your next 6 because you violate the gospel of truth.
5 - If you understand Jeremiah XXXI as the first preaching of Zionism: Rachel does not need to wail for her children "for they shall return from the land of the enemy", move to sq. 8. If you are a historic revisionist, move back to sq. 3.
7 - If you blame today's Jews for what the Gospels & Mel Gibson preach happened to an itinerant Jewish preacher nearly 2000 years ago, you violate the laws of the Bible which ordain that children must never suffer for proven misdeeds of their parents. Your prejudice & vacuous hate takes you back to sq. 1. (See also Jeremiah XXXI, XLVI & many similar allusions. If you believe in the Old Testament's 2 more quotes of Jeremiah XXXI, you must accept that "everyone shall die for his own sins" & crimes, move 3 sq. ahead.
9 - If you read Isaiah XI as announcing the coming of Jesus, go back to sq. 6 as a prevaricator. If you understand it as the prophet's & his people's longing for peace & better times, you are the decent interpreter of ancient language. Advance 3 sq. (The Hebrew word "Messiah" translates as the "Anointed" [King]. But of the 4 evangelists only Mathew & Luke make Joseph descend from King David & immediately void that claim by making Jesus the sperm of the Holy Spirit. Mark & the very Greek John don't know that the expected Messiah has to stem from royal seed. Yet, all 4 deny the spiritual heritage by not quoting 2 independent, reliable & historic, contemporary witnesses among verified literate personages among real Jews, Romans, Greeks, Aramaeans or others who saw, heard & verified the Christ, Greek for Messiah. No sq. forward for searching for underlying facts & true history. Certainly no heaven's reward for just believing in the unbelievable. You have to deserve your wages by giving your all. Don't be a tax dodger. But never mind; commit many crimes. Jesus has forgiven them all and you.)
11- If you find 100 predictions by Jewish prophets about the cruelties of the Medes, Assyrians & Babylonions, 3 steps ahead. If you find in the Old Bible anything as evil as proclaimed in "Revelations" of the John of Patmos piece & the nasty prospect of a Christian "Armageddon", the finder's reward should be 9 sq. forward. That Joe couldn't have been a Jew. Perhaps he and Paul (Saul) were Greeks who were biased haters although pretending to be of Jewish ancestry. They certainly rejected the Sermon of the Mount. For that criminality back to sq. 1.
13 - If you actually believe that many references of the Old Testament refer to the coming & going of Jesus, step 3 sq. in the direction of your choice. But if you scrutinize such quotes & find them to be obvious historic events or premonitions of Jewish seer, you deserve to advance to sq. 16.
15 - Isaiah XXXVI & XXXVII have a mighty Assyrian general speak Hebrew. Still he couldn't conquer Judah. If you apply this as a parable to today's Jew-haters, go forward 3 sq. If you don't, return to sq. 12.
17 - Isaiah XL delivers the text for Handel's powerful composition "The Messiah". Could this Jewish romance of love & peace replace the teaching of hatred in the name of the "Prince of Peace"? Agree & advance 3 sq. Side with Gibson, St. Paul, St. Bernard & millions of other evil anti-Semites, you deserve to go back to sq. 1.
19 - Isaiah XLII must be read & understood as written: "My servant… my elect" is Israel when it desires "to bring forth justice in agreement with truth… As a light for the gentiles… to get (the) captives out of prison" like the Jewish exiles out of Mesopotamia. If you see it that way, 3 sq. forward. If your phantasy sees this as a thought of Jesus, go 3 sq. to the rear as a corrupter of more ancient prophets.
21 - This original good-heart direction of a great Jew is accepted & followed as a model for the golden deeds of Friends (Quakers), Seven Days Adventist, Universalists & Humanists. If you agree with them & Jews that they meant to end the shame of any slavery, advance 3 sq. If you alter obvious content to accept St. Augustine's & Luther's cheap idea that you will go to Heaven for merely believing in their Son of God without such and similar good works, you are deserving of the Hell of going back to sq.1.
23 - XLIII, XLIV to XLVII outline the original thoughts of Jews & Zionists: "My sons from afar, My daughters from the ends of the earth…. I am the Lord & beside Me there is no Savior." On your "yes", go ahead 3 sq. If you still think all these chapters are about Jesus, back 3 sq.
25 - There are no honest references to Jesus in Isaiah XLIX to LVII as a special Son of God & Jesus's purported mission. Must you not accept those many "good messages" as said, written & explained without obfuscation, redirection & falsehoods? It clearly says & means: "You are My servant Israel….I am the Lord, your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob…O Zion….Jerusalem, free yourself from the bonds around your neck….your God reigns…." The overlong descriptions of Jewish suffering at the hands of barbarians does not allow these chapters to be highjacked by traitors to Holy Scripture. 3 sq. ahead if you must approve. 3 sq backward if you love the wordgame of obvious falsehood & deceit.
27 - Isaiah LVI again stresses the holiness of the Jewish Sabbath which Jesus and his 12 boys belittle & profane with clever trickery. But even Jesus & his disciples would not have obeyed Emperor Constantine when he ordained that Sunday was to be the Christian Sabbath. If for once you disagree with Constantine I & successive Christian leaders, go forward 3 sq. Otherwise you are condemned to return to sq. 24.
29 - Isaiah LX: "The City of the Lord, Zion, the Holy One of Israel" for Israel but not for others. Agree & march 3 sq. ahead. Give it to Arab conquerors & haters of Israel - 3 sq. backward.
31 - Isaiah LXI: "…the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings (=Evangelium in Greek or Gospel in ancient Germanic) to the humble…to heal the broken-hearted…to proclaim liberty to the captives…" The Jewish mission has been to free the slaves whatever the cost. The next chapter clarifies the issue: "…say to the daughter of Zion, see your salvation comes….Call them the holy people, the ones redeemed by the Lord…" Now you know that Israel is not only the Son of God but also His daughter. Agree? 3 moves forward. If you insist that all those words of prophetic consolation proclaim Jesus, your dishonesty deserves to move back 9 sq.
33 - Jeremiah has been abused to create ever more cults of negativism. In whatever language you read his beautiful but sad expressions of great giftedness, you could cry for redemption from our world of misery. If you see good poetry running amock, 3 sq. forward. If you continue to exploit this prophet for your untruths, superstitions & irrationalities, go back to sq. 30.
35 - Jeremiah XXIX advised Jewish exiles: "Build houses & live in them. Plant gardens & eat their produce….Seek the welfare of the city (state) where you live…. Pray to the Lord for it. Its welfare will be your welfare." In obedience & by their nature, Jews have almost all been good citizens in their countries. Agree & move 3 sq. ahead. If you lie along with the hate-filled anti-Semites that Jews conspire against their home countries to rule over non-Jews, go back to sq. 1.
37 - If you admire Jeremiah's courage when prophesying defeat, exile & slavery in spite of threats to his life, mistreatment, torture and starvation by royalists, you deserve to gain 3 sq. If you are a conservative liar & blame today's Israeli government for dishonesty, wonton aggression & the shedding of innocent blood, you must start again from sq. 1.
39 - Did Jeremiah really predict the defeat of Egypt while he was forced into exile right there? And could he really prophesy the defeat of the Chaldaeans (Babylonions) by Elam, Media (& Persia)? If you agree that great insight, foresight & logic could make a harassed genius "guess" the probable truth, move 3 sq. ahead. If you venture to assume that those chapters were added by later generations, you may also go ahead. For whoever authored the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", was good at copycatting the style of an admirable old Jew.
41 - If a peripatetic Jesus could read, or had a perfect memory, he could have taken all his clever sayings from the Chinese, Indians, Greeks & Romans; from all Jewish teachers & prophets, from Job, Proverbs & the many renowned sages, especially from his older, more cultured & cautiously wise contemporary, Rabbi Hillel. That great teacher had left Mesopotamia for his homeland even while Roman tyranny devastated & impoverished "their Palestine" like all other colonies which dared to feel free. The "Sermon of the Mount" contains much of his prayer for the dead. But Jesus, Joshua, was never mentioned by Hillel or any other knowledgeable contemporary. If you also feel free, even among zealous terrorists, move ahead 3 spaces. If you accept as proofs what later generations of Greek culture concocted, move back 3 paces.
43 - The prophet Ezekiel has God address him dozens of times as "Son of Man". If you consider this very human, 3 sq. forward. If you see this as the equivalent of "Son of God", your ambitious equal those of Jewish patriarchs of old. But your illogical conclusions condemn you to go back 3 sq.
45 - Rabbi Hillel was a few decades older than Gibson's Jesus, more sedentary, most peaceful, well-adjusted & cautious in his loving language. Therefore, he survived the Jesus of the New Testament without ever noticing much uproar. While the first few generations of Greeks, turned Christian pseudo - Jews, created ever more true-believers, faith-healing proselytes & immediate Jew-haters in Roman Greece, they began to fill a small booklet with fables, parables, legends, paradigms & speeches to procreate The New Testament and ever more unknown witnesses to their new facts. If you really know these are all true, you may advance 3 sq. If you sometimes doubt what was instilled in you when a very young child, your sincerity will be likewise rewarded. 3 sq. ahead.
47 - Do you know how the conquering Romans treated people who openly despised Roman laws & culture? Their dictators, emperors & proconsuls robbed them of all possessions. There was no private property tolerated & certainly no silver, gold, copper or iron. The vanquished lived on weeds, the bark of trees and their faith in a future on earth. Only the tax collectors ("Publicans") & the prostitutes earned Roman "talents" for betraying their people. So, who were the money changers Jesus drove out of the 2nd Temple? But did Jesus & his twelve boys not invite themselves to their weddings, death commemorations, births & make-shift festivities? So, how sincere is his condemnation of wealthy followers or sinners? If you consider those stories divinely inspired, move back 3 sq. If you know true history & are a little skeptical, move forward 3 sq.
49 - The Pharisees may have been the poorest true-believers in Judaism. They could not be bought by Rome like the Greek-educated Sadducees. If Caiphas, a Roman partisan, was made the ruler of the Temple & their tool, he is only known to the New Testament. If most Jews followed Jesus & his miracles, who are those who screamed: "His blood be on us." If you think that was possible, you don't know your Bible. 3 sq. back. If you know that was so, you are a hater & must also return to sq. 45.
51 - For each correct answer 1 sq. forward. Who bought parcels of Canaan from the previous conquerors? Abraham (Genesis XXIII), Jacob (Genesis XXXIII), King David (Second Samuel XXIV), Baron Hirsch, the Zionists. Likewise for the first non-Jewish Zionists: King Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Byron (Hebrew Melodies), George Eliot (Daniel Deronda), George B. Shaw (St. Joan), Lord Balfour, Winston Churchill.
53 - 1 sq. forward for each correct guess: Who were the original Jewish Zionists? God, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Zerubabel, Ezra, Nehemia. All Jews wishing on Passover Eve (Seder): "Next year in Jerusalem."
55 - Who deserves credit for the reestablishment of old-modern Israel? (1 sq. forward for each correct contribution): Lord Balfour, Winston Churchill, Chaiim Weizmann, Harry Truman. (Many Arabs may add Adolf Hitler who forced many Jews to flee to the "English" Palestine.)
57 - How many wars were forced on young Israel & when? 1 sq. forward for each correct date: 1948, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1982 (to save Lebanese Christians from assassination by savage Palestinians), the permanent intifada instigated in all Arab mosques, schools & homes.
59 - Who were the foremost enemies of the reborn Jewish state? (1 step forward for each correct answer.) All Arabs, leaders of the British Labour Party, Pope Pius XII, all neo-Nazis.
61 - Name 3 Jewish Nobel Award winners out of hundreds of Jews in many different countries? If you can also name 3 Jewish superstars in many walks of life, 1 step forward for each will get you to sq. #64 as the winner. If not, you can only reach the finishing square by having your dice roll the exact number necessary.
"Alia iacta Est." The die is cast. (Gibson crossed the Rubicon like Julius Caesar & started his uncivil war. Next week back to our battle for homeland security.
Week 40 - June 23, 2004 - Problem Solving