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Judaic Study Jacob Prasch
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SORTING FACT FROM FICTION
What does the Word of God Actually Say
About Midrash?
“Now the remainder of the deeds of of Abijah,
and his ways and words are written in the
‘MIDRASH’ of the Prophet Iddo”. (2 Chronicles
13:22)
(Directly from the God-given text of original,
divinely inspired Hebrew canon.)
“As to his sons and many oracles [burdens]
against him, and the reconstruction of the
House of God, behold these are written in the
‘MIDRASH’ of the Book of kings. Then Amaziah
his son became King in his place”.
(2 Chronicles 24:27)
(Directly from the God-given text of original,
divinely inspired Hebrew canon.)
Yes friends, it is a fact; it is there in Scripture.
“MIDRASH” is plainly taught in the Word
of God. It is cited as a valid historical source
and as a theological source of a prophetic interpretation
of scriptural events and biblical history.
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There are examples of pseudo-Scripture
such as the Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, etc.
and non-Apostolic pseudigraphical Epistles.
We are even told in Scripture that there were
forged and counterfeit Epistles circulated in the
1st Century by heretical deceivers in the early
church who tried to deceive believers into believing
they were authored by the actual Apostles
(e.g. 2 Thessalonians 2:2). So too there are
later post-apostolic rabbinic mishrashim (midrashic
writings of later rabbis) having no more
to do with scriptural references to Midrash than
the later Gnostic forgeries of the Gospel have to
do with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Those today who reject Midrash out of
hand normally do not even know what it is.
Those rejecting Midrash and those citing its inclusion
in God’s Word because of later rabbinic
distortions of Midrash are no different than the
later Marcionite heretics who wanted to throw
out Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as corruptions
in a time when Gnostic literature was becoming
rife in the early church; they do and say
the same precise things today. Such so-called
“scholars” and “experts” are dangerous because
they do not know Greek and Hebrew but rather
pretend to have expertise where they have none.
(Much like the Jehovah’s Witness cult founders
Charles Tase Russell and Judge Rutherford
and home economics teacher Gail Riplinger of
the King James Version-Only Movement who
also cannot read biblical languages. She is also
a categorical fraud misrepresenting herself as
knowing things she has been publicly proven
not to know).
Such dishonesty, pseudo-academic pretense,
and phony scholarship is particularly true
of ultra-Calvinist Peter Glover and Richard Eng-
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strom, Barbara Aho, Wendy Howard, Wendy
Buester, Tom Lamb, and Victoria Dillen of the
cultic Ruckmanite extreme axis of the KJV-Only
lunatics who lift up a 17th Century translation of
a translation above the original Hebrew, Greek,
and Aramaic autographs which God inspired.
God’s Word itself however, teaches plainly
that the authority and priority is on the original
languages of the original divinely inspired
manuscripts (Nehemiah 8:8) and not on a translation
of a translation produced between 17 and
23 centuries later after initially God breathed
His Word and inspired its authorship.
It is not that we have a problem with the
KJV itself or with the legacy of godly men like
Tyndale and Coverdale. As we have written
multiple times, the KJV is a valid translation that
God has used and is superior to most modern
translations in its accuracy. We say this despite
the fact that King James himself was an Anglo-
Catholic homosexual son of the Roman Catholic
Mary Queen of Scots who, like his mother,
murdered born again Christians and drove the
Puritan Pilgrims out of Britain and into Holland
or across the Atlantic on the Mayflower. These
persecuted Christians, of course, rejected what
they saw as a Roman Catholic 1611 KJV that
included the Apocrypha as Canon and listed
Roman Catholic feasts of Mary as holy days
and so forth. They preferred the Geneva Bible
to the KJV for bringing the Gospel to America.
Yet we still respect the KJV, but have no respect
for KJV Only-ism or the proven charlatans who
propagate it such as Gail Riplinger.
It is little wonder that most of the disinformation
about Jacob Prasch regarding what
God’s Word says about Midrash are from this
Ruckmanite camp. They must hold up their
17th Century translation of a translation above
what God breathed for the same reason that
Rick Warren’s followers use Eugene Peterson’s
The Message or some other twisted paraphrase.
If they dislike or disagree with something that
God placed in His Word they simply mis-translate
it out of His Word and remove it.
Unfortunately the KJV, otherwise a very
good translation overall, in this particular case
mistranslates what God inspired as “Midrash”
into “stories”. (Other versions use “treatise”).
We take issue with how the Hebrew has been
translated for this particular word, not with the
quality of the KJV overall.
God warns us of those who subtract from
His Word. The translators of the KJV themselves
certainly did not have this aim; most
were heroically martyred for the name of Jesus
and were faithful to the best manuscript record
available to them at a time of upheaval and persecution.
Those with their anti-Semitic Jew-hating
agenda who simultaneously and hypocritically
claim to worship the God of the Jews and
believe in the Jewish Messiah reject what God
originally breathed by rejecting Midrash. Hence,
they need a translation that does not accurately
translate or footnote the places the term occurs.
Jesus (Yeshua) is still rejected by most
of His own people due to the lie of Talmudic
Judaism invented by rabbis, but God has not
rejected them (Romans 11:1), will graft them
in again (Romans 11: 25), still loves them as
a nation and a people for the sake of the Patriarchs
(Romans 28:29) even in their lost state of
unbelief, and has never withdrawn His elective
or prophetic calling of them (Romans 11:29).
To them moreover still belong “the oracles of
God” (Romans 3:2) and the New Covenant
was made with them (Jeremiah 31:31, Romans
9:4). The tense of the Greek word “belongs” is
present continuous active – the covenants and
Scriptures still belong to Israel; non-Jews are
merely grafted in and unbelieving Jews are cut
off until and unless they accept Christ.
Those rejecting that Midrash is found in the
Scriptures boast against the natural branches –
which Christians are commanded not to do (Romans
11: 18), for the covenants with Israel and
patriarchal promises are the ‘”reza” or “root” of
the church. They seek to turn what was given as
a Jewish book into a non-Jewish one; they Hellenize
a Hebraic faith and are as wrong on one
extreme as Judaizers seeking to place believers
into bondage to Mosaic Law and compulsory
Torah observance are on the other.
Secondly, because “Midrash” is in there,
they remove content from the Word of God.
(Deuteronomy 4: 2, Revelation 22: 19) God
warns that such people doing this will be proved
to be liars (Proverbs 30: 6). That is exactly what
God calls such people: “liars”. But what does
the New Testament teach us about Midrash?
What are the differences between scriptural and
rabbinic Midrash? What does Jacob Prasch and
Moriel think of Talmudic Judaism?
1. Talmudic Judaism is not the Judaism of
Moses and the Prophets; it is a false religion
mixing truth and error, camouflaging both error
with truth and elements of truth with error. It is
a fabrication of the rabbis predicted in Jeremiah
2 that rejects its own Messiah Jesus (Yeshua)
who is the promised “fountain of living waters”
(Jeremiah 2:13, John 7). It replaces what God
gave Moses with a distortion largely invented
by Yochannon Ben Zakai, Rabbi Akiva, the
Gaonim, Rashi, Rambam, Railbag, Isaac Luria,
and later chassidic mystics like Baal Shem Tov.
Caballah and its arch work Zohar is occult in
origin and nature and is a pseudo-Judaization of
Babylonian Gnosticism. Much as Liberal Protestantism,
Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism,
and cults such as Mormonism distort and
re-write Christianity into a system that is unbiblical,
the rabbis did the same with Talmudic