The last thing the Roman Slave Masters wanted – was ANOTHER MOSES who would liberate Judea – and Samaria? The last thing Trump and his Neo-Confederate backers, want, is a scholar to prove Jesus, or John the Baptists, was The Second Coming of Moses! Do I make such a claim?
On the night of July 1st. I had terrible dreams and the next day I talked about them with my old friend, Christine Wandel, for several hours. I wrote this in the morning of July 2nd. With the discovery of the Samarian Moses, I might own the solution to they mystery as to why the Jews tried to throw the Savior off a cliff. The Jews owned a hatred of the Samaritan because they owned a different Pentateuch.
John Preco
Presidential Candidate and Proven Prophet
“I had terrible dream last night. There was much destruction to a Islamic nation that pleaded for help. Then, – America was attacked!”
Thousands of Palestinians flee Jenin refugee camp after major Israeli raid
Deputy governor says about 3,000 have left, to be housed in schools and shelters, as Arab states condemn military operation
Bethan McKernan in JeninTue 4 Jul 2023 07.42 EDT
Several thousand Palestinians have fled their homes in the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank after the launch of the biggest Israeli military operation in the area in two decades, Palestinian officials say.
“There are about 3,000 people who have left the camp so far,” the Jenin deputy governor, Kamal Abu al-Roub, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday, adding that arrangements were being made to house refugees in schools and other shelters in Jenin city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service gave the same figure and said it expected the exodus to continue, amid suggestions from Israel that Operation Home and Garden, which began in the early hours of Monday, could last several more days.
Does Putin Control Supreme Court?
Posted on July 2, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Presidential candidate, Niki Haley said “Thank God for the Supreme Court.” Below is a interview of her ideas instigated by the Sons of the Confederacy. Putin and his insane Patriarch – are thrilled by the recent rulings of the Supreme Court, and hope they destroy the left and further divide America. In 1860 the Supreme Court knew the South was seeking help from foreign powers some who offered military help to plantation owners who refused to give up their slaves – that my kin John Fremont was the first to emancipate. Fremont was a co-founder of the Publican Party, a tradional truth Niki and her bloved Secessionists overlook. Racism is their tradition.
“I had terrible dream last night. There was much destruction to a Islamic nation that pleaded for help. Then, – America was attacked!
I am chosen to oppose Kirill who I challenge to debate!”
John Presco
When you believe that someone is truly a godsend, you can excuse anything. It all becomes “for the greater good.” And when that happens, it is a slippery slope to gross abuses of power that continuously increase in magnitude.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/jenin-refugee-camp-west-bank-israel-military-operation
Sound the Shofar
Posted on September 21, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Why arn’t these demonstrations in Israel for Social Justice, being shown on American television?
After being offered several crowns and kingdoms in the wilderness by Satan, Jesus comes unto the Children of God to restore the kingdom God gave unto them. The chief priests tried to kill him after he quoted from Isaiah 61.1-2. Why? Did John the Baptist also call for the restoration of the Jubilee? Is this why they took his head, and not for some dame doing a dance for it? Did not Elijah raise a man from the dead, and was not John the second coming of Elijah?
In October of 2005 I made you a promise – in writing! Let it be!
Jon the Nazarite
“Your sorrow will soon turn to Joy.”
In Luke 4.18-19 we read of the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in a Synagogue in Nazareth. He stands up to be recognized, the attendant hands him the Torah roll, specifically the roll of Isaiah, to read, and he seeks a particular, Messianic passage, Isaiah 61.1-2, Luke 4.18-19).
‘The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because God has anointed me to preach good news to the meek, he has sent me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim liberty to captives and to those who are prisoners, freedom, to proclaim the Jubilee year of the Lord and the day of God’s vengeance’.
The terms that Jesus was using in his discourse were those associated with Sabbatical Years, and with the Jubilee Year that was observed every fiftieth year. In this year all the debts of the poor were absolved, and slaves set free. Jubilee Years were not being celebrated by the Jews in the 1st century, yet the ordinary seven-year sabbatical cycle was very much in evidence among the Jews and Samaritans. The last time the Jubilee was celebrated was in 121 BCE.
I suspect Jesus was calling for the reinstatement of the Jubilee Year and thus the severe questioning from the Jews as to his authority to call for the freeing of slaves, the forgiveness of all debts by the poor who became slaves to fellow Jews in order to pay a debt, and, the non-payment of taxes during the Jubilee Year, which would get him in trouble with the Romans and the wealthy Sanhedrin who approved of Roman rule because it created a upper class, the very thing the Jubilee Year was designed to prevent from being permently established. The wealthy Jews who saw loss of revenue, and the return of lands to the poor tenants, tried to murder Jesus, who I suspect has produced Revelations, proclaiming himself the Alpha and Omega, the first and last days when God will have his vengeance and Judgement. The Jubilee Year began on the Day of Atonement.
Here is the proof that Jesus was preaching Orthodoxy
Jon the Nazarite
The Year of Jubilee:
Redemption and Freedom for the people of God.
“And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven
times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall
be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the
Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day
of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your
land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be
a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession,
and each of you shall return to his family ” (Leviticus 25:8-10, All
scriptures quoted are from the New King James Version unless
otherwise noted)
Every 50 years on the Day of Atonement, God commanded ancient Israel
to observe the Jubilee year. [1] The Jubilee was a time of liberty,
redemption and restoration. In this study we examine the meaning of
the year of Jubilee for both ancient Israel and modern Christians.
The Sabbatical Year
In order to better understand when and how to observe the Jubilee,
we need to look at what is communally called the “Sabbatical Year”
or the “Land Sabbath:”
“And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land
which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune
your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but in the seventh year there
shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the
LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. What
grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor
gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest
for the land. And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for
you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the
stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the beasts that
are in your land–all its produce shall be for food. ” (Leviticus
25:1-7).
Every seven years the land is to rest, with no sowing or harvesting
of crops, and pruning of vineyards (Leviticus 25:1-5). Whatever
grows by itself in the fields or grows on the untended vines shall
not be harvested. But people, especially the poor can go out into
the fields or vineyards and pick what they need to eat (verses 5-6;
Exodus 23:10-11).
Associated with the Sabbatical Year is the “Year of Release.” At the
end of “every seven years” Israelites were to cancel the debts owed
to them by their fellow countrymen. This regulation did not apply to
debts owned by non-Israelites (Deuteronomy 15:1-11). Also, at the
end of every seven years, during the Year of Release, the people
heard the Law of God read to them during the Feast of Tabernacles
(Deuteronomy 31:10-13).
When to Observe the Jubilee
“And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven
times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall
be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the
Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day
of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your
land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be
a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession,
and each of you shall return to his family. ” (Leviticus 25:8-10).
The land sabbaths are crucial in determining when to observe the
Jubilee. Israel is to count seven land sabbaths seven times,
equaling forty-nine years. Then at the beginning of the fiftieth
year, on the tenth-day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement,
the blowing of a trumpet proclaims and consecrates the fiftieth year
as the Jubilee.
What Happens During the Jubilee
“And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a
Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and
each of you shall return to his family. . . . In this Year of
Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.” (Leviticus
25:10, 13).
During the Jubilee land sold outside the family returns to the
family it originally belonged to. Those who sold themselves into
indentured servitude gain their freedom and return home, in some
case to land that in the previous fifty years had passed out of the
ownership of their family to someone else.
Normally, Israelite indentured servants receive their freedom after
serving six years (Exodus 21:2-4; Deuteronomy 15:12-15, 18), liberty
coming during the seventh year. Freedom did not come during the
Sabbatical or Land Sabbath Year. But during the Jubilee all
Israelite indentured servants gain freedom regardless of whether it
is their seventh year of services or not. [2]
Regulations Governing the Jubilee
Now we will look at the regulations governing the observance of the
Jubilee. First, the Jubilee was also a land sabbath. There were two
land sabbaths in a row, the forty-ninth and fiftieth years:
“That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall
neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the
grapes of your untended vine. For it is the Jubilee; it shall be
holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. ” (Leviticus
25:11-12)
During the Jubilee people must not take financial advantage of each
other:
“And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your
neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. According to the
number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor,
and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.
According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price,
and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its
price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of
the crops. Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you
shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God . ” (Leviticus 25:14-
17)
God intended that the Israelites were not to permanently sell their
land. They could redeem their sold land any time before the Jubilee:
“The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for
you are strangers and sojourners with Me. And in all the land of
your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. If one of
your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and
if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem
what his brother sold. Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he
himself becomes able to redeem it, then let him count the years
since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold
it, that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to
have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the
hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the
Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his
possession . ” (Leviticus 25:23-28)
The redemption of a house located in a walled city could occur any
time within a year of its sale. But after one year the sale becomes
final, and the house does not return to its original owners during
the Jubilee. However, the redemption of a house located in village
or city without walls can happen at any time and reverts to the
original family during the Jubilee:
“If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it
within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may
redeem it. But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to
him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be
released in the Jubilee. However the houses of villages which have
no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country.
They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee . ”
(Leviticus 25:29-31)
There were different regulations governing the sale of house in the
cities of Levities. A Levite could not permanently sell his home. He
could redeem the house any time after its sale, and during the
Jubilee the house returned to the family of its original owner:
“Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the
cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. And
if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was
sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee;
for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel. But the field of the common-land of
their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual
possession. ” (Leviticus 25:32-34)
A poor Israelite could sell himself into a type of indentured
servitude. He was to serve until the Jubilee, or until his six years
of service were up, which ever came first:
“And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and
sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.
As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall
serve you until the Year of Jubilee. And then he shall depart from
you–he and his children with him–and shall return to his own
family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. For they
are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall
not be sold as slaves. You shall not rule over him with rigor, but
you shall fear your God . ” (Leviticus 25:39-43)
Non-Israelites slaves did not have the same right to the Jubilee
freedom. They were permanent slaves:
“And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have–from the
nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female
slaves. Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell
among you and their families who are with you, which they beget in
your land; and they shall become your property. And you may take
them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them
as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding
your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one
another with rigor . ” (Leviticus 25:44-46)
An Israelite who sells himself to a non-Israelite has the right to
receive redemption from a family member or even from himself:
“Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one
of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself
to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the
stranger’s family, after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of
his brothers may redeem him; or his uncle or his uncle’s son may
redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may
redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself. Thus he shall
reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be
according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to
him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of
a hired servant for him.
“If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall
repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was
bought. And if there remain but a few years until the Year of
Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years
he shall repay him the price of his redemption. He shall be with him
as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him
in your sight. And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he
shall be released in the Year of Jubilee–he and his children with
him. For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My
servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God . ” (Leviticus 25:47-55)
God also gives instructions on the redemption of land dedicated to
Him and its return to its original owners during the Jubilee:
“If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession,
then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer
of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. If he
dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your
valuation it shall stand. But if he dedicates his field after the
Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according
to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be
deducted from your valuation. And if he who dedicates the field ever
wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. But if he does not want
to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it
shall not be redeemed anymore; but the field, when it is released in
the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall
be the possession of the priest.
“And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought,
which is not the field of his possession, then the priest shall
reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of
Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy
offering to the LORD. In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return
to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a
possession. “(Leviticus 27:16- 24)
Although not located in Leviticus 27, there are instructions
governing the inheritance of land by women, and its impact to the
Jubilee:
“Now the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead the
son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of
Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the
chief fathers of the children of Israel. And they said: “The LORD
commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance by lot to
the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to
give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. Now
if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the
children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the
inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the inheritance
of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot
of our inheritance. ”
“And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their
inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which
they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. Then Moses commanded the
children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: “What
the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right. This is what the
LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, `Let
them marry whom they think best, but they may marry only within the
family of their father’s tribe. So the inheritance of the children
of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one
of the children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of
his fathers. And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any
tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife of one of the
family of her father’s tribe, so that the children of Israel each
may possess the inheritance of his fathers. Thus no inheritance
shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the
children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.
“Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad; for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s
brothers. They were married into the families of the children of
Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the
tribe of their father’s family. These are the commandments and the
judgments which the LORD commanded the children of Israel by the
hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from
Jericho . ” (Numbers 36: 1-13)
The Spiritual Meaning of the Jubilee
Now that we have examined the Old Testament instructions regarding
the Jubilee, we will look at its spiritual meaning. The Jubilee will
help us to better understand God’s love and mercy.
Liberty from Sin
At the beginning of the Jubilee Israel was to “proclaim liberty
throughout all the land to all its inhabitants” (Leviticus 25:10),
and all Israelites held in servitude receive liberty (verses 39-41).
In Isaiah 61 we find a similar statement to proclaim liberty:
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has
anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to
heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the
opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To
comfort all who mourn.” (Isaiah 61:1-2)
This prophecy in Isaiah 61 of the “acceptable year of the LORD,”
which is a time of liberty, appears to be based upon the idea of the
Jubilee year. [3]
At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus quotes Isaiah 61:1-2 to
describe the goal of His ministry. He stopped in the middle of verse
two, because the rest of the passage deals with His second coming:
“So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His
custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood
up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And
when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was
written: The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed
Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of
sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To
proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD. Then He closed the book,
and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all
who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to
them, Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. ” (Luke
4:16-21)
In Luke 4 Jesus is speaking about the spiritual liberty He is
bringing to those in spiritual captivity and oppressed by sin.
According to Jesus “whoever commits sin is a slave of sin” (John
8:34), but through Jesus we have freedom from the slavery of sin
through His sacrifice:
“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into His death? . . . For if we have been united
together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in
the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was
crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with,
that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has
been freed from sin. . . . But God be thanked that though you were
slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you
became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of
the weakness of your flesh.
“For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness,
and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your
members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. For when you were
slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit
did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For
the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from
sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to
holiness, and the end, everlasting life. ” (Romans 6:3-7, 17-22)
The Jubilee is a forerunner of the spiritual liberty that comes
through Jesus Christ. Not only does the Jubilee picture the
spiritual liberty that Christians now have in Christ, but it also
looks forward to Jesus’ second coming, and the physical and
spiritual liberty this will bring.
Liberty from Captivity
As already seen, Jesus began His public ministry quoting Isaiah 61:1-
2, applying those verses to himself (Luke 4:16-21). But, Isaiah 61
is a dual prophecy concerning both the first and second comings of
Jesus Christ. When we examine the context of chapter 61, it becomes
clear we are dealing with the events surrounding the coming
Messianic age. When God will physically and spiritually free all
people held in captivity, whether Israelite or non-Israelite.
During the end time, God punishes the Houses of Israel and Judah for
their sins by sending them into national captivity. The following
verses refer to this future captivity and eventual liberation:
“For behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring
back from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I
will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers,
and they shall possess it. . . . For it shall come to pass in that
day, Says the LORD of hosts, That I will break his yoke from your
neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave
them. But they shall serve the LORD their God, And David their king,
Whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O My servant
Jacob, says the LORD, Nor be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will
save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall make
him afraid. For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you; Though I
make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I
will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in
justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished . ” (Jeremiah
30:3, 8-11)
At His return, Jesus liberates all surviving Israelite captives:
“And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh,
From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be
gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. So it shall be in
that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are
about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in
the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem. ” (Isaiah 27:12-13)
Notice that Israel’s liberation begins when “the great trumpet will
be blown.” According to Leviticus 25:8-10 the Jubilee begins with
the bowing of a trumpet.
Like the Jubilee, during the Messianic Age people return to their
ancestral homes. Not only is Israel liberated from slavery, but they
also return to their ancient homelands:
“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and
all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to
Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil
hearts. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house
of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north
to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers . ”
(Jeremiah 3:17-18)
“Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that it shall
no more be said, The LORD lives who brought up the children of
Israel from the land of Egypt, but, The LORD lives who brought up
the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the
lands where He had driven them. For I will bring them back into
their land which I gave to their fathers.” (Jeremiah 16:14-15)
Liberty through the Resurrection
The trumpet blast of the Jubilee (Leviticus 23:8-10) looks forward
to the future liberty of the Houses of Israel and Judah (Isaiah
27:12-13), it also proclaims the future liberty of all Christians.
At Jesus’ second coming, with the sound of the last trumpet, the
dead in Christ rise, receiving incorruptible bodies. All living
Saints undergo this same “liberation” from physical to spiritual:
“Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed– in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal
has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. ” (1 Corinthians
15:51-52)
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead
in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the
air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord . ” (1 Thessalonians
(4:16-17)
” Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then
all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of
Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And
He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of
heaven to the other. ” (Matthew 24:30-31)
The resurrected or changed Christian will have the same type of
glorified spiritual body as Jesus:
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in
corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it
is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” (1 Corinthians 15:42-
44)
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait
for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly
body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the
working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. ”
(Philippians 3:20-21)
Not only does the resurrection bring glory, but it brings liberty.
Where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty. This applies to the
Christian life now, in that we are now free from sin (Romans 6:1-7,
18, 22), and have the Holy Spirit in us (John 14:17 Romans 8:9 1
Corinthians 3:16 6:19 2 Timothy 1:14). But, it also applies to the
future when we change into spirit, just as Jesus is spirit.
Christians are now going through the transformation, to glory. Our
spirit bodies will liberate us from the flesh:
“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same
image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord . ” (2
Corinthians 3:17-18)
Not only will we experience liberty during the future resurrection,
but so will all of creation:
“And if children, then heirs–heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified
together. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for
the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to
futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in
hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with
birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our
body . ” (Romans 8:18-23 )
Liberated from Satan
The Jubilee also pictures humanity’s liberation from Satan the
devil. As ruler (Luke 4:5-7; John 12:30-31; 14:30; 16:11) and god of
this world (2 Corinthians 4:4), Satan deceives mankind (Revelation
12:9), snaring them and holding them captive:
“Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside,
lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ” (1 Timothy
3:7)
“And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the
devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. ” (2 Timothy
2:26)
Perry Contacted Sweeney
Posted on September 21, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Presidential candidate, Rick Perrry, contacted Denne Sweeney, who I titled my mortal enemy on September 20, 2009. Perry reasured Sweeny that he would not mess with the Confederate flag. Perry made a secret trip to Israel to assure the Zionists he would back them and oppose the President of the United States. This is TREASON!
Jon Presco
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Joyous_Jubilee/message/242
Republican front-runner Perry, the Texas governor, denounced the president’s Israel policy as “misguided and dangerous,” speaking to supporters in New York as the Obama administration worked a few miles away to thwart a U.N. vote to grant formal recognition to the Palestinian Authority.
Perry also accused Obama of appeasement, as did Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who assailed the president from the Midwest.
Perry’s chief rival for the nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, issued a statement accusing Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus.”
The Republican campaigns have similar goals: establish contrasts with Obama on an issue where he’s struggled; chip away at American Jews’ support for Democrats and prove their conservative, pro-Israel bona fides with the evangelical voters who will play a significant role in the GOP presidential primaries.
A 1998 voting guide published by a leading neo-Confederate group and obtained by Salon not only endorses Perry for lieutenant governor but also describes him as “a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.”
Visitors to the Sons of Confederate Veterans website are confronted by a video of a man in a grayuniform who proclaims, “One hundred and fifty years ago the men of the South left our homes and families to protect them from an illegal invasion and to fight for the rights our states held under the Constitution.” He continues: “Too many in your time want to tell lies about us and the reasons we went to war. We fought for you. It is now your turn to stand up to the South.”
The U.S. federal government is described by the group as “an empire”, but not for adventures and misadventures abroad; but for their presence in the south. The League of the South was also strongly-behind him and in fact have endorsed Perry in yeaes past.
Its core beliefs include the abolition of the income tax and central banking, a Southern republic that “revives the use of State Militias in place of maintaining large, standing
Perry’s flirtations with neo-Confederate organizations and symbols — ably documented by Justin Elliott– are so extraordinarily reprehensible that it should immediately and permanently disqualify him from being taken seriously for national office. [Amen!] The Confederacy was not a bunch of generally well-meaning dudes who went a little too far, it was a gang of racist traitors who launched a bloody war to defend a monstrously unjust institution. Having neo-Confederate sympathies in America should be equivalent to supporting the reconstituted Fascist party in Italy, or worse. It should not be considered something that 50 percent of the nation should be willing to look past, or even embrace.
And if that embracing happens it’ll be in part because of a press that won’t explicitly describe a disgusting sentimental attachment to a racist, brutal regime of oppression as anything other than an acceptable ploy to pick up Southern white support.
armies,” and a society that “perpetuates the chivalric ideal of manhood.” The group rejects “the American Empire that now occupies the South.”
This shouldn’t be surprising, but really, is this the guy so many in the GOP are pinning their hopes on? And I’m not getting into that recent-execution bit…
My Mortal Enemy – Denne Sweeney
Denne Sweeny took over the leadership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from
my kinfolk, Anthoney Hodges. Above we see Sweeney ‘The Neo-Confederate Swine’
parading around with grown men in Confederate uniforms carrying Confederate
flags. He is the big guy in gueenish-grey coat. Here are some of the captions
that go with these photos. It sounds like Sweeney is commanding a imaginary army
standing up for “their ancestors” who have risen from the dead, risen from their
graves! Is this Judgment Day, or, Lord of the Rings?
http://the-bohemian-register.blogspot.com/
“Our Texas Division leaders were there standing up for their ancestors. (l-r)
Steve von Roeder, 2nd Lt. Commander; Denne Sweeney, Division Commander; Steve
Lucas, 1st Lt. Commander.
Commander Manning (and George Ballentine) get an audience with Representative
Suzanna Gratia Hupp representing District 54.
Texas Division Commander, Denne Sweeney, gives us our marching orders.”
One could say that when Joe Wilson called our President a liar, and when the
Speaker of the House and President Obama shot Wilson a hard stare, the
make-believe world of Denne Sweeney came alive because that shout is going to
play a big role in American History. Once again, the Confederate Traitors are –
up to bat! But, are they for real? How can they own real credibility if they are
coming out of the Republican Party founded by Radical Republicans who hated
everthing Sweeney stands for, and indeed, wanted to put his kind behind bars and
give their land to their Black Slaves!
No doubt Sweeney and his Swine are Republicans and Evangelicals who have
compromised their alleged Family Moral Traditions by being members of the
Republican party founded by Freethinkers, Ahteists, and Socialists. This has
tainted their make-believe religion founded by John Darby. This membership cast
doubt on their hegemony, their claim God gave them America and the Constitution.
THEY ARE COMPROMISED AND CORRUPTED! They are with sin! They should leave the
Republican Party – post haste – or lose their immortal soul and place in the
Second Coming of their “Killer Jesus” in the End Time Tribulation! Is this
tribulation for real? Will the Cohens rebuild Zion and the Temple?
A year ago I posted this. An hour ago I discovered what I have been searching
for for three years. The De Costa family helped establish Scottish Rite
Freemasonry in America. This family descends for King David, and thus are kin to
Jesus!
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/search?q=De+Costa
Isaac De Costa, one of the deputies commissioned to establish Morin’s Rite of
the Royal Secret in other countries, formed constituent bodies of the Rite in
South Carolina in 1783, which eventually became, in 1801, The Supreme Council of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. All regular
Scottish Rite bodies today derive their heritage from this body.Subsequently,
other Supreme Councils were formed in Saint-Domingue in 1802, in France in 1804,
in Italy in 1805, and in Spain in 1811.[19]
The Rosamond and Hodges family came to own the “Jew’s land” that was owned by
the Da Costa family. Over a year ago I suggested the Neo-Confederate
Secessionists migrate to South Carolina in a New Exosdus, and build the new
Temple of Zion there. However, the Sephardic Jews led by Da Costa Cohens, were
heavily involved in the Slave Trade, and thus – ARE COMPROMISED AND CORRUPTED IN
THE EYES OF GOD AND JESUS!
This is the real Di Vinci Code, the real Rose Line, for this is all revealed in
the search of my Rosy Ancestors. This is the Greatest Story ever told! I have
already gathered most of my Angelic Army from the ranks of my Ancestors. The War
of Words for hearts and minds of the American People is becoming a firestorm!
Who shall lead my Nazarite Army of God? Will it be the Black Madonna my Rosemond
kinfolk worshipped in Holland that we see being carried in the Streets?
Or…………..
John The Nazarite Prophet
The Hodge family purchased land in South Carolina that once belonged to Francis
Salvador, a famous Jew who was killed in the Revolutionary War. This land was in
the 96th district where James Rosamond bought large tracts of land. This land is
titled the “Jews land” in the Hodge family genealogy. The Jews who owned this
land are kin to Jesus.
Rebecca Mendes da Costa also owned much property in the 96th. district. She was
of a famous Sephardic family, too, she kin to Doctor Mendes who tutored the
famous artist, Vincent Van Gough. The Salvador family lived in the Hague.
Francis Salvador, a wealthy Jewish merchant of London, applied to the Earl
Marshall in 1744 for a confirmation of the coat of arms that his father had
borne in Portugal, and on June 18 of that year, he received a grant of these
arms. His grandson, also named Francis, settled on a plantation of nearly seven
thousand acres in Ninety Six District. The lion might represent the tribe of
Judah, and thus the Exilarchs of Portugal.
Today, Congress should take the final step to bring God’s Spiritual Liberation
back into the world. Not since tens of thousand of devout Jews and Saints hurled
darts and stones down upon the Roman legions in defense of God’s House in 70
A.D. has humankind been so free. I have shown that this battle was a Jubilee
Rebellion where Go’el the Redeemer had declared all Jews free of their debts.As
many as two thirds of the white folk who came to America in the early years were
indentured slaves. Today, the descendants of those slaves, along with the black
slaves, forgave those they were, and are in debt to, and with their own money
rescued them from ruin. Many banks backed the slave trade. The Mended de Costa
family founded many powerful banks with profits they made from their involvement
in the slave trade. That these descendants of King David and Jesus could have
become wealthy slave masters, speaks volumes on how cleverly Jesus’ TRUE MESSAGE
and MISSION was oppressed and altered. Today, in the Spirit of Lord’s Prayer and
Divine Forgiveness THE KINGDOM OF GOD find a home in America. This is a Historic
and Biblical event without equal.
Today, every American should know who they are! When our Founding Fathers wrote
the Constitution they did not give black folk their freedom or a right to vote.
They did not give women the right to vote. How then is our Government God-given?
We are Liberated and Redeemed by our Gracious Hearts, our ability to forgive
those who put us in bonds. This is a Great Nation of Free People – free alas –
for We are all Redeemers!
Jon Presco
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/apikefr.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Rite
http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/oct1843/charleston.html
He was the son of Jacob (Alvarez or Alvaro) da Costa, who is probably the Da
Costa referred to in the Thurlow Papers. Jacob da Costa arrived in England with
his family in 1655. He married Leonora (Rachel) Mendes, sister of Fernandez
(Fernando) Mendes, the Marrano physician of King John IV of Portugal.
Moses married his cousin Catherine Mendes in 1698. Catherine had been born in
Somerset House, and was named after Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles
II, who graciously consented to stand sponsor to her. This Catherine da Costa is
supposed to have made, in 1721, the water-colour portrait of her father which
now hangs in the vestry of the Bevis Marks Synagogue. Their children included
Sarah (Simha) Mendes da Costa who married Ephraim Lópes Pereira d’Aguilar, 2nd
Baron d’Aguilar.
Among his descendants were the physicist Edward Andrade and the comedian Sam
Costa.[edit] References
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=310861169670647.
http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/journal-files/Issues/jun03/tresner.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_da_Costa
Birth of the Scottish Rite
Although most of the thirty-three degrees of the Scottish Rite existed in parts
of previous degree systems,[18] the Scottish Rite did not come into being until
the formation of the Mother Supreme Council at Charleston, South Carolina, in
May 1801.
Isaac De Costa, one of the deputies commissioned to establish Morin’s Rite of
the Royal Secret in other countries, formed constituent bodies of the Rite in
South Carolina in 1783, which eventually became, in 1801, The Supreme Council of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. All regular
Scottish Rite bodies today derive their heritage from this body.
Subsequently, other Supreme Councils were formed in Saint-Domingue in 1802, in
France in 1804, in Italy in 1805, and in Spain in 1811.[19]
On May 1, 1813, an officer from the Supreme Council at Charleston initiated
several New York Masons into the Thirty-third Degree and organized a Supreme
Council for the “Northern Masonic District and Jurisdiction.” On May 21, 1814
this Supreme Council reopened and proceeded to “nominate, elect, appoint,
install and proclaim in due, legal and ample form” the elected officers “as
forming the second Grand and Supreme Council….” Finally, the charter of this
organization (written January 7, 1815) added, “We think the Ratification ought
to be dated 21st day May 5815.”[20]
Officially, the Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J. dates itself from May 15, 1867.
This was the date of the “Union of 1867,” when it merged with the competing
Cerneau “Supreme Council” in New York. The current Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, was thus formed.[21]
A French trader, by the name of Estienne Morin, had been involved in high degree
Masonry in Bordeaux since 1744 and, in 1747, founded an “Ecossais” lodge (Scots
Masters Lodge) in the city of Le Cap Francais, on the north coast of the French
colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). Over the next decade, high degree
Freemasonry continued to spread to the Western hemisphere as the high degree
lodge at Bordeaux warranted or recognized seven Ecossais lodges there. In Paris
in the year 1761, a Patent was issued to Estienne Morin, dated 27 August,
creating him “Grand Inspector for all parts of the New World.” This Patent was
signed by officials of the Grand Lodge at Paris and appears to have originally
granted him power over the craft lodges only, and not over the high, or
“Ecossais”, degree lodges. Later copies of this Patent appear to have been
embellished, probably by Morin, to improve his position over the high degree
lodges in the West Indies. [10]
Early writers long believed that a “Rite of Perfection” consisting of 25
degrees, the highest being the “Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret”, and being
the predecessor of the Scottish Rite, had been formed in Paris by a high degree
council calling itself “The Council of Emperors of the East and West”. The title
“Rite of Perfection” first appeared in the Preface to the “Grand Constitutions
of 1786”, the authority for which is now known to be faulty. [11] It is now
generally accepted that this Rite of twenty-five degrees was compiled by
Estienne Morin and is more properly called “The Rite of the Royal Secret”, or
“Morin’s Rite” [12] . However, it was known as “The Order of Prince of the Royal
Secret” by the founders of the Scottish Rite, who mentioned it in their
“Circular throughout the two Hemispheres” [13] or “Manifesto,” issued on
December 4, 1802. [14]
Morin returned to the West Indies in 1762 or 1763, to Saint-Domingue, where,
armed with his new Patent, he assumed powers to constitute lodges of all
degrees, spreading the high degrees throughout the West Indies and North
America. Morin stayed in Saint-Domingue until 1766 when he moved to Jamaica. At
Kingston, Jamaica, in 1770, Morin created a “Grand Chapter” of his new Rite (the
Grand Council of Jamaica). Morin died in 1771 and was buried in Kingston. [15]
. 2. Henry Andrew Francken and his Manuscripts
The one man who was most important in assisting Morin in spreading the degrees
in the New World was a naturalized French subject of Dutch origin named Henry
Andrew Francken. Morin appointed him Deputy Grand Inspector General as one of
his first acts after returning to the West Indies. Francken worked closely with
Morin and, in 1771, produced a manuscript book giving the rituals for the 15th
through the 25th degrees. Francken produced at least two more similar
manuscripts, one in 1783 and another about 1786. The second and third of these
manuscripts included all the degrees from the 4th through the 25th. [16]
A Loge de Parfaits d’ Écosse was formed on 12 April 1764 at New Orleans,
becoming the first high degree lodge on the North American continent. Its life,
however, was short, as the Treaty of Paris (1763) ceded New Orleans to Spain,
and the Catholic Spanish crown had been historically hostile to Freemasonry.
Documented Masonic activity ceased for a time and did not return to New Orleans
until the 1790s. [15]
Francken travelled to New York in 1767 where he granted a Patent, dated 26
December 1767, for the formation of a Lodge of Perfection at Albany. This marked
the first time the Degrees of Perfection (the 4th through the 14th) were
conferred in one of the thirteen British colonies. This Patent, and the early
minutes of the Lodge, are still extant and are in the archives of Supreme
Council, Northern Jurisdiction. [15]
While in New York, Francken also communicated the degrees to Moses Michael Hays,
a Jewish businessman, and appointed him a Deputy Inspector General. In 1781,
Hays made eight Deputy Inspectors General, four of whom were later important in
the establishment of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in South Carolina: Isaac Da Costa
Sr., D.I.G. for South Carolina; Abraham Forst, D.I.G. for Virginia; Joseph M.
Myers, D.I.G. for Maryland; and Barend M. Spitzer, D.I.G. for Georgia. Da Costa
returned to Charleston, S.C., and established the “Sublime Grand Lodge of
Perfection” in February 1783. After Da Costa’s death in November 1783, Hays
appointed Myers as Da Costa’s successor. Joined by Forst and Spitzer, Myers
created additional high degree bodies in Charleston and, by 1801, the Charleston
bodies were the only extant bodies of the Rite in North America. [17]
1. 3. Birth of the Scottish Rite
Although most of the thirty-three degrees of the Scottish Rite existed in parts
of previous degree systems, [18] the Scottish Rite did not come into being until
the formation of the Mother Supreme Council at Charleston, South Carolina, in
May 1801.
Isaac De Costa, one of the deputies commissioned to establish Morin’s Rite of
the Royal Secret in other countries, formed constituent bodies of the Rite in
South Carolina in 1783, which eventually became, in 1801, The Supreme Council of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. All regular
Scottish Rite bodies today derive their heritage from this body.
Subsequently, other Supreme Councils were formed in Saint-Domingue in 1802, in
France in 1804, in Italy in 1805, and in Spain in 1811. [19]
On May 1, 1813, an officer from the Supreme Council at Charleston initiated
several New York Masons into the Thirty-third Degree and organized a Supreme
Council for the “Northern Masonic District and Jurisdiction.” On May 21, 1814
this Supreme Council reopened and proceeded to “nominate, elect, appoint,
install and proclaim in due, legal and ample form” the elected officers “as
forming the second Grand and Supreme Council….” Finally, the charter of this
organization (written January 7, 1815) added, “We think the Ratification ought
to be dated 21st day May 5815.” [20]
Officially, the Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J. dates itself from May 15, 1867.
This was the date of the “Union of 1867,” when it merged with the competing
Cerneau “Supreme Council” in New York. The current Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, was thus formed. [21
[edit] Albert Pike
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 29, 1809, Albert Pike is asserted
within the Southern Jurisdiction as the man most responsible for the growth and
success of the Scottish Rite from an obscure Masonic Rite in the mid-1800s to
the international fraternity that it became. Pike received the 4th through the
32nd Degrees in March 1853 from Dr. Albert G. Mackey, in Charleston, S.C., and
was appointed Deputy Inspector for Arkansas that same year.
At this point, the degrees were in a rudimentary form, and often only included a
brief history and legend of each degree as well as other brief details which
usually lacked a workable ritual for their conferral. In 1855, the Supreme
Council appointed a committee to prepare and compile rituals for the 4th through
the 32nd Degrees. That committee was composed of Albert G. Mackey, John H.
Honour, W. S. Rockwell, C. Samory, and Albert Pike. Of these five committee
members, Pike did all the work of the committee.
In March 1858, Pike was elected a member of the Supreme Council for the Southern
Jurisdiction of the United States, and in January 1859 he became its Grand
Commander. The American Civil War interrupted his work on the Scottish Rite
rituals. About 1870 he, and the Supreme Council, moved to Washington, DC, and in
1884 his revision of the rituals was complete.[22]. Pike also wrote lectures for
all the degrees which were published in 1871 under the title Morals and Dogma of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.[23].
The Jewish Congregation of Charleston
By N[athaniel]. L[evin].
From the destruction of our second Temple to the close of the sixteenth century,
the wanderings of our people may be traced by the bloodshed and cruelties
practised upon and following them. The most horrible persecutions were
inflicted, and the most refined species of torture contrived, to render them
apostates to their religion, and blasphemers of their God. Among no nations was
this fiery persecution carried to a greater extreme than those of Spain and
Portugal. Thousands of our hapless brethren were inhumanely dragged to the rack,
and suffered the severest tortures their bodies could endure: the blazing fagots
of the “auto-da-fe” consumed both parent and child, husband and wife; and while
their quivering flesh betrayed the weakness of humanity, the proud immortal
spirit spurned the gift of life for the price at which it was offered was more
revolting than death in its most hideous form. The most lenient measures adopted
by these nations for the destruction of our people were the confiscation of the
property and the banishment of the Jews from their dominions. The dungeon, the
torture, and the flame, proved ineffectual in apostatizing them; for the
conscientious Jew amid the flames, in his darkest hour of tribulation, called
for aid upon the God of his forefathers, the “God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob.”
The present condition of these countries, shrouded as they are in ignorance and
superstition uncivilized and unrefined, without national resources, their
colonies torn from them by other nations, and intestine wars preying upon their
vitality, proves incontrovertibly that the retributive hand of the Deity is upon
them for their cruelties and intolerance to our people.
When the Jews were banished from Spain thousands fled to Holland, and many of
them sought the western hemisphere, deeming it a securer asylum than any other
land afforded. It was to America, to this great land (in which liberty has
erected her sacred temple) they strained their eager eyes, and from the
persecutions of the old, fled to the new world, to enjoy the great prerogative
of worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences, untrammeled
by priestcraft, or the strong arm of arbitrary rule. Many of the founders of
this congregation were the direct descendants of those Jews who were driven from
Spain by the barbarous decrees of that government. A large number of them
settled in this state, and when the revolutionary struggle commenced, all those
who could bear arms joined the American army, and were zealously engaged in
defending the liberties of their adopted country. They knew full well that
victory would bring them the rich reward of religious and political freedom; and
their ancestors having told them the story of the wrongs they had endured, the
fiery ordeal of intolerance and persecution through which they had passed: the
fathers of our congregation poured forth their energies and blood as water to
possess those great blessings which were denied to their ancestors. Toil,
privations and hardships they endured; deeds of noble and heroic daring they
undertook; and their gallantry was rewarded with the priceless treasure of
religious and political freedom.
As early as the year 5510, (1750th of the Christian era,) the following
Israelites dwelt in this city: Moses Cohen, (under whose auspices the
congregation was formed,) Isaac De Costa, Joseph Tobias, Meshed Tobias, Moses
Pimenta, (a man learned in the laws, who taught the Jewish youth, and manifested
an untiring zeal for the advancement of the religion of his forefathers in this
country,) David de Olivera, Abraham De Costa, Mordecai Sheftall, Levy Sheftall,
Michael Lazarus, and Abraham Nunez Cardoza. The descendants of most of these
persons are now living, and members of the congregation.
Rosamond Press 
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