Page 39 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Acts 7:39-44
“And our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned
back to Egypt, saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led
us out of the land of Egypt - we do not know what happened to him.’ And at that time they made a
calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. But God
turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the
prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was
it, O house of Israel? You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rompha
(Saturn), the images which you made to worship them. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’”

Stephen, the first Christian martyr, testified of the Jewish people’s ceaseless spiritual adultery as they
adopted the gods of other nations. As he was concluding the last words he would utter, Stephen
declared, “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting
the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did” (Acts 7:51). Nothing had changed between
the time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon circa 600 B.C. and the time of Christ. The Hebrew people
remained wayward in their hearts. Pretending to be zealous for Yahweh and His word, they were in
fact children of the devil as Yahshua testified.

John 8:42-44
Yahshua said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I proceeded forth and have
come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. Why do you not
understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the
devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.”

Rather than being the devoted students of God’s word that some perceive the Jews of Christ’s day
to have been, they had gone so far astray in their hearts that they did Satan’s bidding by putting to
death the Lord of glory. Is it too much to believe then, that these same men, and their descendants
over the next centuries, would embrace a Babylonian festival to Saturn/Satan while covering it over
with a thin veneer of Judaism in the same manner the Christians did with Christmas and the Roman
Saturnalia? The Hanukiah is the “Flame of the Chaldeans” embraced once more by the descendants
of Abraham. Satan had brought the Hebrew people full circle. The called out descendants of
Abraham had returned to the idolatrous worship of their forefathers.

Flame/Light of the Chaldeans