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The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 10

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This is a continuation of the story of the first Christian church that was founded outside of Jerusalem after Christ was crucified and resurrected. In the previous issues (Parts 1 through 9) we found that those on the British Isles, particularly at the time of our story, are actually in large part of the lost flock of the House of Israel. Like most Anglo/Celtic and Germanic stock of today, they did not realize that the prophecies of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were actually being fulfilled through themselves. It was Joseph of Arimathea, great-uncle of Yahshua (Jesus) Christ, with a band of devout apostles of Christ, who brought the oral Word to the Isles, in particular to Avalon, later known as Glastonbury, where the first above-ground, open church would be built to worship Christ their Saviour. Yahshua did promise to His flock, “I will never leave nor forsake you,” did He not?

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 9

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We will continue with our story of the first church that was built after our Messiah Christ Yahshua was crucified and resurrected. It was because of Joseph of Arimathea, leading a band of Apostles of Christ, that this came to pass. They were a humble body, dedicated and passionate to the cause of bringing the promise of the Word, the resurrection, to the scattered “lost flock” of Israel that were in the British Isles. These Apostles were simply following Christ’s command from the beginning of His ministry in Galilee, where He began to preach, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ... Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:17-17). And as commanded, Joseph went only to the lost flock of the House of Israel, as later would Paul and others who established the church body across Asia Minor and Europe.

We were looking at George F. Jowett’s book The Drama of the Lost Disciples (TDLD), from Covenant Publishing Company Limited. Before we go any further with the small wattle chapel that was built, or the Apostles that would dedicate their lives (for they are the church), we must come to an understanding of where we have arrived at today concerning this church body.

We left off in our story with the Sacred Thorn bush and its blooming at Christmas time. We see that not only did Jowett find reference to Christmas as being some kind of miraculous, divine time of the year, but he also puts much weight in his comparisons between the “Holy Roman See” and the “Church of England.” Let’s face it, the whole world has been deceived. If possible, the very elect (as Jowett is) shall be deceived (Matt. 24:24). So let’s first remove some lies so the Truth can shine forth.

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 8

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“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the [nations] ... No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servant of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, sayeth the Lord:” (Isaiah 54:1-3, 17,18).

And so it was that by Divine Providence that much of dispersed Israel ended up in the British Isles, as shown by the previous seven episodesof our story. As Joseph and his disciples arrived in Glastonbury, surrounded by Druid Bishops awaiting his arrival to bring the Word, we mentioned that King Arviragus (of the Silurian Kingdom), his brother King Guiderius, and a band of nobles were there to greet them. Quoting E. Raymond Capt, in The Traditions of Glastonbury, p. 41, states: “King Arviragus is recorded as having granted to Joseph and his followers ‘twelve hides’ of land (about 1900 acres), tax free, in ‘Yniswitrin’ ... afterwards called the ‘Isle of Avalon.’ Confirmation of this Royal Charter is found in the official Domesday Book of Britain (A.D. 1086) which states: “The Domus Dei, in the great monastery of Glastonbury, called the Secret of the Lord. The Glastonbury Church possesses, in its own villa, XII hides of land which have never paid tax” (Domesday Survey folio, p. 249 b.). It should be noted that in The Drama of the Lost Disciples, the author George Fusidale Jowett places the date of the Domesday Book as 1066, unlike Capt’s 1086, the former being a harmless error. But the grant recorded these apostles as “Judean refugees”, (in Old Latin ‘quidan advanae’ – ‘certain strangers’, in Late Latin ‘Culdich’, or Anglicized ‘Culdees’).

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 7

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Previously we identified Glastonbury, England as the earliest church outside of Jerusalem. Among these early followers of The Way, the Apostle Philip is referred to by the Gallic Church as the first Apostle to Gaul – today’s France. Yet we will see how it was by the direction of those in the British Isles who would dominate the Gallic scene and catapult its evangelizing efforts, with Saints like Lazarus. This same Lazarus was the one Christ Yahshua raised from the dead. Lazarus later became the first bishop of the church in Marseilles. It is also on record, from the Magna Glasioniensis Tabula, that Philip baptized Joseph of Arimathea’s son Josephes. Upon Joseph of Arimathea’s arrival in Gaul, Philip sent the two together, along with ten other disciples, on to Britain. It is acknowledged from the historians John of Glastonbury, William of Malmesbury and Capgrave that Philip ultimately sent one hundred and sixty missionaries on to Britain from Gaul, to serve Joseph in his evangelizing mission.

Historian George Fusidale Jowett states that a “British Druidic delegation of ‘Bishops’ arrived at Marseilles to greet Joseph” to urge him to return to Britain with them and teach the Christ gospel. Note that these Druids, being ‘Bishops’, should not be viewed in any universalist light, as implied by Catholicism. As shown in previous parts of this treatise the Druids were the learned Elders of all Keltic society, authorities in matters of religion, folklore, engineering, medicine and astronomy, as well as arbiters of conflict. But this particular group of Druids was sent to Gaul by invitation of the British Prince Arviragus, who offered to Joseph and the band a large tract of land which would be a safehaven, and protection against Roman molestation.

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 6

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We have been telling the story of how Joseph of Arimathea, great uncle to our Messiah Yahshua, took Christ’s battered body off of the cross and placed Him in a tomb in Joseph’s garden in Jerusalem. Yet immediately after it became known that Yahshua had risen from the dead, it was the obligation, the desire of His disciples, of which Joseph definitely was, to bring the good news of the resurrection specifically to the lost flock of the House of Israel who were scattered abroad, including “the Isles afar” to the west, the British Isles.

As legend shows, Joseph and a band of devout followers of Christ were cast off of the shores of the Promised Land in an oarless boat without sails because, as it says in the book of Acts 8:1, 4, “there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they, were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles ... Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.” This group of castaways included Joseph; Nicodemus; Luke and Cleopas (who were probably the two men who were walking to Emmaus when Yahshua joined them after He rose from the tomb [Luke 24:18]); Martha, Mary and Lazarus; Joanna and her son who were living with the Bethany family; the man who had been born blind and had been healed by Yahshua; Simon the Cyrenean; the deacons of the first church in Jerusalem (which remained underground at that time due to persecution by the Sanhedrin); and possibly many others that we would not know by name. This was about four years after the Passion of Christ, and Stephen was recently stoned to death at the feet of Saul and a gang of Jewish Zealots. James (Yahshua’s blood kin) and many others, in time would be executed in the Name of Yahshua. “[T]he chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus to death, because that by reason of him many of the [Judeans] went away and believed on Yahshua” (John 12:10, 11).

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 5

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We were last discussing the many different tribes of people who, over the centuries, migrated to the British Isles. But why to these Isles in particular? There must be a purpose for everything – a reason for things to happen the way they do throughout history – or there would be no purpose for the prophets of the scriptures in the first place. Ours would simply be a void ‘religion’ without direction, much like those permeating other societies worldwide. When the glaciers receded from the isles after the last ice age, who established its first societies? Who were these people of whom all the prophets spoke? We must glance back into the history before Christ.

Prior to 2000 B.C., the British Isles were virtually uninhabited, or a virgin land almost devoid of humans. Around 1800 B.C., Hu Gadarn nationalized Druidism there (contemporary with Jacob/Israel), the time attributed to the erection of Stonehenge. Hu Gadarn was the chief patriarch to the peoples of the Isles, known as Hu the Mighty. These people were commanded to commit nothing religious to writing, and they were not permitted to build altars with the use of metal or nails. None of the hundreds of stone megaliths found throughout the British Isles, nor the many found across Europe in their migrations, were built with cut stones, as commanded by Yahweh to His chosen Israel when they would build any altar or temple to His worship (Ex. 20:25). This was a predestined land set aside for His separate people Israel, where He would “watch over them, to build, and plant, saith the Almighty Yahweh” (Jer. 31:28). The Teutonic Israelite tribes (some of whom had migrated to Britain) were those of the Biblical ‘Stone Kingdom’, shown to the prophet Daniel, that would bring down forever the terrible image which represented Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, which he “sawest till that stone* was cut out without hands, which smote the image of the beast upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces” (Dan. 2:34). [*stone = kingdom, not Christ]

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 3

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We were last discussing the facts of the Messiah’s trials and tribulations which led to His crucifixion. Just prior to that, some officers of the Sanhedrin were sent to arrest Yahshua. But when He told them “Ye shall seek me and shall not find me; and where I am, thither ye cannot come. Then said the [impostor] Jews among themselves, Whither will he go ...? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles (Strong’s #1672, ‘Hellen’ or Grecian speaking nations), and teach the Gentiles (sic Hellens)?” John 7:34-35. Even Yahshua’s enemies within the Sanhedrin were aware of the dispersed tribes of Israel 2000 years ago! It was soon after that He was crucified yet resurrected from the dead, defying every principle of their created Babylonian religion of Judaism that they served.

We left off with the great persecution of Christ’s followers that broke out in Jerusalem soon after His ascension. James was beheaded and Peter put into prison (Acts 12:2-4). As mentioned, and as legend shows, Yahshua’s great uncle, Joseph of Arimathea and a band of devout followers of Christ were cast off of the shores of the Promised Land in an oarless boat without sails. Quoting Capt, in his Traditions of Glastonbury, p.37, he states: “... Without sails or oars, they drifted with the wind and the currents arriving unharmed at Cyrene, in northern Africa. After obtaining sails and oars, the little party of refugees followed the trade route of the Phoenician merchant ships as far west as Marseilles, France.

“Cardinal Caesar Baronius (A.D. 1538-1609) was a learned historian and librarian to the Vatican. In his Ecclesiastical Annals, – ending A.D. 1198 (on which he spent 30 years) identifies those that accompanied Joseph as (under section A.D. 35) ‘the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha – their brother Lazarus – St. Eutropius – St. Salome – St. Cleon – St. Saturninus – St. Mary Magdalene – Marcella (the maid of the Bethany sisters) – St. Maxim (or Maximin) – St. Martial – St. Trophimus (Restitutus, the man who was born blind). Mary the mother of Jesus undoubtedly was not left behind.’

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way", Part 2

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This is a continuation in the story of the early followers of the Messiah after the Passion, and the founding of the very first above ground church by Joseph of Arimathea and a band of those who worshiped Christ. They were followers of what was known as ‘The Way’. This is one of those stories that has become obscured as a result of the ravages of history. Yet enough of the pieces of the account have survived to make the narrative creditable which will be documented as we go along. It is very much like the genealogy of Christ when the Edomite Herod family burned all the records of the noble families of Judaea, and the writers of the New Testament had to piece together Christ’s genealogy from private family records and by word of mouth. The Church History, 1:6 by Paul L. Maier, p. 37:

“... So Herod, with no Israelite ancestry and pained by his base origins, burned the genealogical records, thinking he would appear of noble birth if no one were able to trace his bloodline from public documents. A few, however, carefully kept private records of their own, either remembering the names or finding them in copies, and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic birth ...”.

Joseph of Arimathea was Mary’s father’s brother (as stated in the Talmud), making him Yahshua’s great uncle. The Harlein Manuscripts (in the British Museum – 38-59 f, 193 b) further supports this claim that Joseph of Arimathea was uncle to the “Blessed Mary”. It also adds that Joseph had a daughter (aside from his son Josephes), Anna, calling her “consobrina” or cousin of Mary.

The First Open Church, Followers of "The Way"

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Introduction by Clifton A. Emahiser: Jeffrey Crosby has been in prison for some time on a dubious charge where he has helped me a great deal by serving as one of my proofreaders. Previously, I had published an article for Jeffrey entitled Unveiling The Fears And Denials Behind “The Passion Of The Christ”. Crosby has now sent me several drafts on the topic above. After about six weeks of scanning four of his typewritten manuscripts into word processor documents, I came to the realization that an introduction would be in order. E. Raymond Capt has written a booklet entitled The Traditions Of Glastonbury on this same subject. Not only did Capt write a booklet, but he also produced a 53 minute movie by the same title which he later transferred to a VCR format. With this introduction, we’ll start this subject where E. Raymond Capt started his movie by asking a very significant question that William Blake asked in his poem that was later put to music and became a hymn sung in Britain as well as some of her company of nations thusly:

“And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon England’s mountains green?

And was the Holy Lamb of God

On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here

Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!

Bring me my arrows of desire!

Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!

Bring me my Chariot of Fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,

Till I have built Jerusalem

In England’s green and pleasant land .”

Unveiling the Fears and the Denials Behind “The Passion of The Christ”

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In the recent weeks that led up to the release of the movie produced and directed by Mel Gibson, “The Passion of the Christ”, there has been more exposure of the film’s topic and its director, by both Jewish organizations and Christian ecumenical leaders than ever in world history. It has been said to open an issue that has never truly been confronted for the past 2,000 years, since the crucifixion of the one called Yashua ben Yoseph, Jesus the Christ.

Of the five hour interview that was with Gibson, done by Dianne Sawyer, one hour was aired for public review. It must be noted that every broadcasting service and cable network is either owned or operated by Jewish families or organizations, or at the least under said broadcaster’s control and influence of what will or will not be aired. In fact, every press organization, every newspaper or magazine publication, all advertising, virtually all media, is controlled or restricted by the same Jewish organizations or families since the early 1900’s. Other than this production. It has been totally funded by Gibson’s pocketbook, without outside influence. So what is it that a group as powerful as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai-Brith, who is comparable to the National Security Counsel of Judaism, be so concerned with regarding this issue of Jesus’ crucifixion or resurrection? The Jews blatantly admit that they created and own Hollywood, so there should be no cause for alarm when someone outside of the ‘loop’ should portray what more than 80% of the western world accepts as historical facts regarding this Jesus, what was prophesied about Him and the world to come. Or should there be cause for alarm?

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