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Seed of Abraham

by Bridget Howe
03/09/19
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The Seed of Abraham

In 1981, I joined the Army. My first permanent duty assignment was in a place called Wildflecken in what was then West Germany in 1983. My unit sat atop a hill in the sleepy little German village. The streets were made of cobblestones, and everything on the post was either up or downhill. The post was originally the place that housed Hitler’s secret service. It was so secret that no vehicles were allowed up on that hill. They traveled by horse. The buildings still had rings on the outside walls where the horses were tied up. During the war, the trees were tied together over the rooftops so that the post could not be seen from the air. The cobblestone streets were built by the Jews, and it was the Jews who climbed to the tops of the buildings and raising white flags which made it possible for allied forces to locate the post from the a

While I was stationed there, I attended the post chapel regularly on Sunday. The chaplain gave us a Bible reading schedule to read the Bible through in a year. I was a relatively new Christian, and I had not read the Bible through from cover to cover so I decided to keep to the schedule. While I was reading the story of the relationship of God to Israel, the spirit spoke into my heart, and I sensed that loving God meant loving the Jews also. Though I had been taught that the church had replaced the Jews as God’s chosen people, I believed differently after I read his word

I had an opportunity to travel to Amsterdam, Holland and visit the House of Ann Frank. I saw the secret door to the room where the Jews were in hiding behind the toilet. The house was sparse looking, and they had pictures of Ann Frank on the wall. I never traveled to Auschwitz or Dachau, but there was plenty of literature around with those horrible black and white photos of emaciated, naked, dead bodies piled in a hole and men and women running around in striped pajamas with a gold star on their shoulders etc. I did not know that much about the Holocaust except that Hitler killed 6 million Jews.

I left the Army in 1988. In 2007, I began researching my first book, If the West Falls(2011, WestBow Press). The title was based on the statement made by a Yugoslavian Priest concerned about the youth of his country who were too easily buying into communist ideals. The Priest said, ‟Tell the Americans to hang onto their freedom. It is bad here, but we have hope. We can always run to the west, but if the west falls there will be no place left for our children to run.” He was speaking to Maria Anne Hirschmann otherwise known as Hansi, the subject of the book Hansi; The Girl Who Loved the Swastika (Hirschmann, 1973). Maria, who goes by the name Christine now, was speaking to a group of soldiers at the post chapel in Wildflecken. I never forgot what she said.

Turning page after page as I researched, I learned some shocking things about the Holocaust. My fingers flew over my keyboard sometimes with tears streaming down my face and sometimes in mad furry (Oh, you wicked, filthy ...!)The prime movers in the Holocaust were actually wealthy powerful Jews. Rothschild, a Jew and head of Federal Reserve banking cartel, and his business friends bankrolled Hitler. Hitler did not rise to power on his own. He was in the employ of the banking cartel and big business in Europe and the US. Rockefeller, also a Jew who owned Standard Oil in the US, fueled the Luftwaffe. The British objected because they were being pounded by the Germans, and they set up a blockade so Rockefeller rerouted his supply channel through the Panama Canal.

Those behind the Holocaust were men who believed in a superior race, the same group of people were behind racial cleansing and forced sterilization here in the US. A US supreme court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1927 ruled that it was better to sterilize criminals and mentally defective people rather than allow them to continue to propagate their inferior offspring. This decision inspired the Holocaust in Germany.²The Jews had an opportunity to leave Germany and other European countries where they were living prior to the beginning of the bloodshed, however, they had homes where they were living and did not want to uproot their lives. When the British White Papers declared that the British would no longer support a Jewish state, the Jews were no longer allowed to leave Europe. That’s when the bloodshed began.

The allied forces entered the war, as a point of fact, because Hitler stopped serving the banking cartel. They wanted him to borrow money from them. The banking cartel loves war. They make money from war. The borrower is a slave to the lender. Hitler decided he did not want to be a slave. So he began bartering for goods and services, and there was no debt incurred on either side. Hitler was turning against those who put him in power, and he was also planning an attack on the US. Therefore it suited the purposes of those who put him in power to expose him and remove him from his position. This would also certainly explain why the yellow Star of David was plastered on the shoulders of European Jews during the Holocaust. It is the symbol of the Rothschild family, and Hitler had a falling out with Rothschild. His smear campaign against the Jews included a caricature on a poster of a wicked looking man with a big crooked nose on his face. These posters were plastered all over Germany and elsewhere in order to persuade the population to cooperate with Hitler in targeting the Jews.

The actual figure of 6 million Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust has come into question. Statistics which include records of the population of Jews in Europe before and after the war do not support the six million figure. It is also possible that a large number of people who were only part Jewish associated with the Jewish community were included in that figure and lists compiled from family records of the Jews themselves comes to around 4 million. However, there are duplications in those lists so an exact figure could not be reached. It appears that the figure 6,000,000 is a figure that has been reported in the newspapers since around 1900 and has come up over and over again not necessarily associated with the Holocaust in Germany. An article that chronicles the appearance of that number in news articles is at balder.org titled 140 Occurrences Of The Word Holocaust & The Number 6,000,000 Before The Nuremberg Trials Began. The article was updated in 2017 and the author feels that the figure is a propaganda tool.

For four years I pulled books and articles and read page after page. I learned that Hitler’s father, Alois, was actually the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and Baron Rothschild of Vienna. After WWII the Hitler family was investigated, and a secret document revealed that Anna Schicklgruber was a servant in the Rothschild home when she conceived. When it was discovered she was pregnant she was dismissed from her employ with the Rothschild family. This may also be another reason why Hitler turned against the Jews. 

The modern Jewish state now exists as the result of much blood sweat and tears of the Jewish souls who fought the battle. One of the fallouts of that battle is this alleged constant friction between Jews and Arab peoples. We have all been led to believe that Muslims and Jews are all arch enemies and that they hate each other. However, they don't necessarily see things that way. This is one of those politically manipulated tensions. It suits the purposes of those in power sometimes behind the scenes for the Jews and Muslims to hate each other so they deliberately stir up trouble. This is called a strategy of tension, and it has been used by intelligence communities for hundreds of years around the globe. This was the case when a number of Jews were killed in an uprising in Iraq. The British orchestrated a situation that resulted in Jews being blamed for something that was not their fault. The Muslim neighbors of those Jews actually fought to defend them.⁴So what political purpose would causing trouble for the Jews in Iraq serve? The same as the political purposes of those who put Hitler in Power. They wanted the Jews to leave and go live in Israel. The Rothschild family had a lot to do with establishing the state of Israel, and the Rothschild family symbol is on the Israeli flag. They wanted to create a Jewish state, and they needed Jews to populate the land. However, the Jews did not want to leave Iraq for the same reason they did not want to leave Germany and other countries in Europe. They were at home there, and they were comfortable. Not all Jews living in Israel are Zionists either. Zionists tend toward violence and aggression in maintaining a Jewish state. There are a large group of Jews who protest the violence known as Jews Against Zionism.

Now, there is a body of research that would indicate that the Jews of Europe are not actually descended from Abraham but from the Khazars who converted to Judaism at the behest of their leader, King Bulan. This would have occurred in the 7th century AD. Prior to this, the Khazars were involved in phallic worship which included detestable sexual practices, human sacrifice, and cannibalism. King Bulan apparently didn’t approve. He brought Jewish Priests down from Babylon to train these occult worshipers how to worship God. The language that European Jews speak, Yiddish, has no resemblance to Hebrew whatsoever, but they use the Hebrew alphabet. So it is believed that the Khazars, who had no written language, adapted the Hebrew alphabet to their own language.

Some have gone as far as saying that the real descendants of Abraham are now extinct. However, we know from reading scripture that the Jews cannot be extinct. Yair Davidiy, a Messianic Jewish author, scholar, and researcher living in Jerusalem, has made a considerable effort researching the lost 10 tribes of Israel. He asserts that the lost tribes occupied the area in the Don and Dnieper Rivers of the Ukraine.⁵The names of places such as Denmark, the rivers Danube, Don, and Dnieper whisper evidence of the presence of the tribe of Dan. Remember that the original Hebrew did not contain any vowels. The nikud, which are notations in Hebrew indicating vowel sounds, were not introduced until 10 centuries AD. So the name Denmark would have been written Dnmrk. The difference in the sound of the vowel e and a in negligible in pronunciation. Danmark sounds almost exactly the same as Denmark. Dnieper would have been written Dnpr. The pronunciation issue is the same as with the name Don as opposed to Dan written in Hebrew Dn.

There is also a legend that indicates that Jeremiah the Prophet took two of King Zedekiah’s daughters with him when he fled Judah. The daughter Tea-Tepi, according to the legend, became the crowned Queen of Ireland and her offspring have since ruled in Ireland, Scotland, and England. Other researchers have debunked that legend as there is apparently no record of any such thing in the annals of ancient Ireland. It would be nonetheless interesting to pursue further investigation. Of course, there is a large population of Irish Jews and we have to ask where they came from? It is also true that the main language spoken in the tree countries currently is English, not Hebrew. Nevertheless, there is a hint of truth in this legend in the word British. It sounds much like the Hebrew word for covenant, berit. Again in ancient Hebrew, it would be written brt which could easily be pronounced brit. Thee sound is there whether you are trying to pronounce it or not. The ish is the Hebrew word for man, human or people. The word British would mean covenant many people of the covenant. However, DNA researchers have indicated that the Irish DNA originated in northern Spain.⁶It is also ironic though, if not telling, that the red hair gene is most popular in the Irish. Remember that Esau, Isaac’s other son, was red-haired. Most of the articles I read about the Irish and Jews said that the Jews didn’t arrive in Ireland until around the 1300s. Time for digging deeper. I love a mystery. ‟It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, and the glory of Kings to search it out” (Proverbs 25:2).

I attend a Messianic Jewish synagogue now on Saturday, and a Nazarene church on Sunday. I enjoy the ethnic worship at the Synagogue, and the teaching of Rabbi Silverman is wonderful. He was raised in a traditional Jewish home and converted later to Christianity. His teaching is very on target and he always pulls the story right out of the scripture and explains it from his rich knowledge of the Jewish faith, culture and ancient history. He weaves the truth of the story right into his understanding of the character of God and how our God redeems us.

One Saturday morning it was raining, and I was assisting my elderly mother into her wheelchair trying to get her inside the Synagogue. Jeff Rubenstein came along and grabbed her wheelchair for me whisking her in out of the rain while another Asian woman held an umbrella over my head as I pulled my purse out of the back seat and locked the car up. They are kind to us. They really are.

That Saturday we honored the Jews who were shot at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. I was amazed by the story of the Jewish doctor, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, who ran into the gunfire hoping to save someone who had been shot. He was shot and killed himself, but this man left a tremendous legacy of kindness. He treated aids patients. He hugged them and held their hands without gloves. He kept his aids patients alive longer than anyone else.⁷It is very interesting to me, and comforting, that a member of the Rothschild family, Dr. Allan Rothschild, also a faithful Jew, worked with Dr. Rabinowitz when he was in residency. "He was a kind, joyful man. I always enjoyed sharing patients with him because he liked to teach and did it with a smile. . . . We were both active in our synagogues and we always had a lot to talk about."⁸There were 10 other people killed in that incident including the brothers, Cecil and David Rosenthal; an elderly couple Bernice and Sylvan Simon; retired accountant Melvin Wax; Irving Younger; 97 year old Rose Mallinger whose daughter Andrea was also injured in the shooting; retired research specialist Joyce Fienberg; dentist Dr. Richard Gottfried who shared a practice with his Catholic wife, Peg Durachko; and 71 year old retiree, Daniel Stein. All of them were precious, beautiful people. It was also a Jewish doctor, Jeff Cohen, who was director of the medical team that treated the injuries of the shooter, Robert Bowers. There were also several members of that team that were Jewish.⁹ And irony of ironies, an Iranian college student studying here in the US, Shay Khatiri, was resting on the sofa in the home of a Jewish friend when he heard about the devastating incident. He started a Go Fund Me campaign for the Tree of Life Synagogue and raised $300,000.¹⁰

Anti Semitism continues to raise its ugly head. I suspect that it has often been a function of the ambitions of those involved in the intelligence community globally. My father was anti-semitic. He had a Jewish business partner once who cheated him, and it rather soured his attitude toward the Jews. He used to tell me, when I was a child, that he was discriminated against when he was in the military because people thought he was a Jew. He was a medic in the US Air-force. I guess that could have been an issue in WWII. His last name was Whetstein and he had a Jewish nose. I didn’t know what a Jewish nose was when I was a child. I didn’t know about the Holocaust. I didn’t know Jews had noses that were different from anyone else’s. My father changed his name to Howe which was his father’s birth mother’s name. I didn’t know it, but Howe is also an Irish Jewish name.

I was painting pictures for a friend of mine who went to Israel to minister to the Jews three years running. One of the pictures I painted was of the Tower of David. I sat looking at my work, and suddenly there was something like a minor explosion inside of me. My father had a Jewish nose. Boom! Why did my father have a Jewish nose? I went looking for answers. There were a lot of roadblocks. There was an adoption, and the courthouse burnt down. My sister did the DNA test. She is one-quarter German Jew. We have the same father but different mothers. Her mother, my stepmother, is Filipino. My sis has a mish-mash of other things in her DNA including a pinch of New Zealand. If she is 1/4 Jewish that means our dad was half Jewish and his father was a Jew. If his father was a Jew then he had two Jewish parents. The DNA test people later changed the designation from German Jewto Germanic which tells me nothing. I suspect some political manipulation going on here. My sister found some of our long lost relatives who told her that there was no adoption. Okay? Dad always said there was an adoption. Was he just trying to hide his Jewishness? He wouldn’t be the first Jew to try to hide. Lots of Jews have hidden their Jewish identity at times and in places where it was not safe to be Jewish. For example, in Ireland in the 14th century the Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism or lose their children, therefore they practiced in secret. Some raised their children to be good Catholics, and many Irish Jews grew up not knowing they were Jewish. My father’s mother was a devout Catholic. My father grew up listening to her playing the piano and singing Ava Maria every morning.

It gives one pause to reflect. The Khazars were forced to convert to Judaism on pain of death. Then the Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism on pain of death or loss of their children. It should explain why the Jews for many years have carried a deep hatred for Christians. Not to mention that Roman Catholicism of birthed in the 4th century when Christian Constantine persuaded the Christian church fathers to incorporate pagan practices into the worship of Yahweh to encourage the pagans to come to church. Constantine was absolutely pagan though some have believed that he converted. He didn’t. He wanted only one religion in his empire and that was the worship of the sun god. Prior to this, the Church worshipped Yahweh on Saturday, which was the day Yahweh established for his worship. They began worshipping on Sunday because that was the day the pagans worshipped the sun god or otherwise known as Rah. The mixing the worship of Yahweh with pagan practices was strictly forbidden in the Torah. The Jews were exiled from their homeland for such sins. They understandably resent the Christian church claiming associated with Yahweh and even the attitude that they are superior to the Jews because they accepted Jesus and the Jews didn’t. Also for years, Jews were told that they could not be Christian unless they abandoned their traditional practices. The Messianic Jewish movement is a reaction against this teaching. Messianic Jews still practice their traditional Jewish faith but they also believe in Jesus so they understand all they do in light of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Jews are not the only ones with a distinctive nose. The trait is actually called and Roman nose, and it is not specific to Jews, and not all Jews have a Roman nose. Although in my opinion, the Roman nose makes one very attractive, the nose does not make a Jew a Jew. It is the heart that makes a Jew a Jew (Romans 2:29). Arabic peoples also have Roman noses as do also people from India as well as American Indians. Speaking of, there is a large body of research and some very convincing evidence that Indigenous peoples are also Jewish. War Chief, Joseph Riverwind, of the Northern Arawak Nation, the indigenous peoples of South America and the Caribbean is also a Messianic Jew who has an American Cherokee wife. Chief Riverwind explains, “Among my people, our ancient name for God is Yah Yah ‘The Supreme Spirit of Spirits’, very similar to Yahweh. . . . Among my wife’s ancestors, the AniKituwahYah (Cherokee), they called God YoHeWaH. And the similarities don’t stop there. They carried an ark into battle, celebrate seven feasts, kept a seventh day of rest, had cities of refuge, and don’t eat pork.”Chief Joseph Riverwind, who refers to the creator as Yah Yah, sings Shema to his people ‟Shema, Shema, nayena, popaska hoya yah.” which is translated, “Listen, listen, people, as you gather together, we will dance before the creator.”The Hebrew word Shema literally means hear. There is much debate regarding evidence that Indigenous people are descended from the lost tribes of Israel. Though there is overwhelming evidence, there are those who want to debunk the evidence out of hand. Riverwind feels that it is political. Their motivation, he feels, is the same as those who are trying to say that the original Hebrews of Israel are now extinct.¹¹

The seed of Abraham, the Hebrews who are most generally referred to as Jews even if they are not of the tribe of Judah, are people dearly beloved of God. There are righteous Jews and unrighteous Jews. There are faithful Jews and Jews who have no faith in God at all. There are some who don’t know they are Jews. There are Jews who practice witchcraft. And Abraham had more than his two sons Ishmael and Isaac. Abraham had six sons born to him by his wife, Keturah, whom he married after Sarah died. One of those sons was Midian and it was to the land of Midian that Moses ran when he fled Egypt. The article at ccg.org, Descendants of Abraham Part V: Sons of Keturah, discusses the locations of the descendants of Keturah including the Greek Isles. God, after all, did promise to make Abraham the father of many nations, not just one. Ishmael had 12 sons as did Isaac. God knows their seed all by name as the stars in the sky. He knows their numbers which are greater than the sands of the seashore. 

Jeremiah 33:20- 22 So says YAHWEH, If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and there should not be day and night in their time, then My covenant with My servant David may also be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My attendants. As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of My servant David, and the Levites who minister to Me.¹²

Psalms 139:7 - 10 Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your face? If I go up to Heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there! If I take the wings of the morning, dwelling in the uttermost part of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me; and Your right hand shall seize me.¹³

Psalms 25:4-5 Make me know Your ways, O YAHWEH; teach me Your paths; lead me in Your truth and teach me; for You are the Elohim of my Y’shua; on You, I wait all the day long.¹⁴