Black Hebrews/Israelites

One of the main scriptures these individuals uses to substantial that they are the true Israelites is based on Deut 28:48.

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therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

As you read further down in this chapter, we know this cant be the Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade 916th-19th Centuries). Since they had buyers from different countries around the world.

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68The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

The reason why the group of people referred to here in this chapter isn’t the Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is because they:

The reason why the group of people referred to here in this chapter isn’t the Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is because they:

Didn’t offer themselves for sell when they got to America! And there were buyers all over the world for African labor, unlike the persons mentioned in verse 68 which had no buyers!

Ethiopian Jews are legitimate Jews. but they have a hard time trying to trace their lineage back to them.

The entire doctrine of Hebrew-ism is undermined by their own proof text.

The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament 28:15-68: Covenant Curses

Assyrian kings of the seventh century coerced their vassals into supplying troops for their military campaigns. One way then for Israelites to return to Egypt in ships would be in the Assyrian campaigns launched from the Phoenician coast in which they were obliged to take part. This represents continued oppression by foreign enemies, as the curses have detailed. Another possibility would include falling victim to Egypt’s slave trade in Syro-Palestine, where the slaves were often transported by ship.

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9I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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9I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

Eisegesis - reading one’s own agenda and bias into the scriptures.

They do not perform Exegesis- property interpreting scripture in it’s proper context.

Who was talking? John. He was referring to Jews during his day who didn’t believe in Jesus. these non-believing Jews persecuted the Jews who were followers of Christ. John himself was a physical Jew and came against those who claim to be Jews but weren't believing in Jesus.

A Handbook on The Revelation to John Revelation 2:9

Their detractors falsely claim to be Jews. What does this mean? We must keep in mind the fact that John, the writer of Revelation, is himself a Jew. The term may be used in the literal sense of people of the Jewish race, and given the large number of Jews in Smyrna, it is probable that these are Jews. But in denying their claim to be “Jews,” John is using the word in the extended sense of “God’s (chosen) people,” which Jews claimed to be. For him it is the Christians, and not the Jews, who are the chosen people (see Paul’s definition of authentic Jews in Rom 2:28–29; 9:8; Gal 6:15–16). John’s position is that Christians are the true people of God. If translators feel that translating Jews literally will give the wrong impression to readers, it will be helpful to say “those who say (claim) to be God’s people, but are not.”

This scripture is not talking about Jewish people today supposedly “lying” about being physical Jews. The Black Hebrews are painting their bias upon the scripture.

“The Serpent Seed Doctrine”

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13Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

This doctrine asserts that Satan had sexual relationship with Eve and she gave birth to Cain. may racist groups hold this doctrine to claim that other races they do not like are descendants of Stan. the Black Hebrew claim that Jews are the descendants of Cain. This doctrine is not of biblical basis.

When Eve said she was deceived, they imply that the word deceived means seduced. meaning the serpent seduced her into having sex with her.

Deceived - nā·šā - meaning to cause someone to depart from a truth. The word is used 16 times in scripture and never hints to sexual misconduct.

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1Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”

This scripture tells us who Cain’s father was… Adam, not satan.

Another theory that the Black Israelite promote is the

Khazar Theory

the Khazar were a Turkic nation whose semi-nomadic empire stretched from Southern Russia to the Caucasus Mountains. Some have proposed that the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe had fled from Khazaria, and therefore they came from the Caucasus, not the Middle East, and thus have no physical connection to the “true” people of Israel.

Some believe that they aren’t true Jews by blood but imposters. Black Hebrews say they are “Fake Jews”.

Facts about this theory:

There is no evidence that a Khazar race decided to claim that is was Jewish and then moved to Germany.

Alexander Beider wrote an article debunking this theory in “Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof”