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Thursday 30 July 2020

JACOB PRASCH: METATRON HERESY REFUTED BY ONE FOR ISRAEL

In yet another a desperate attempt to prove his Metatron heresy, Prasch recently put up a video on YouTube from ONE FOR ISRAEL.

Dr Eitan Bar, ONE FOR ISRAEL'S Director of Evangelism and Apologetics has unequivocally refuted Prasch's claims concerning their use of the Metatron as Jesus Christ in Jewish evangelism.

Eitan Bar: "On the issue of 'the Metatron' - I do not believe in the Metatron nor that he exists. I only see him as a fictional character, an imaginary mythical figure who I only refer to, as a rabbinic myth. The only purpose in referring to this concept is to show Orthodox Jews that the concept of 'the son of God' exists in their literature as well, and therefore the concept of Yeshua, the Son of God is not a "pagan non-Jewish" one, as most rabbis today will claim against Christianity."


Metatron - Hasidic Jewish Evangelism and Jacob Prasch

"Dr. Eitan Bar is a native Jewish-Israeli follower of Yeshua. He serves as ONE FOR ISRAEL’s Director of Evangelism & Apologetics since 2013. Under Eitan’s creative leadership ONE FOR ISRAEL’s media evangelism has become the primary source through which Israelis and Jewish people around the world engage with the message of Yeshua. The fruit of this labor includes over 100 Million views of our evangelistic videos, which has also drawn a lot of attention from national Israeli media outlets." 

Sunday 26 July 2020

ANDY WOODS FALSE REPORTING: TWITTER ~ STAR OF DAVID HATEFUL IMAGERY?

PPOV Episode 133. The GREAT GLOBAL RESET - Pt. 3. 7-24-20.
According to the Campaign Against Antisemitism, several Twitter users reported that their accounts were locked after they posted the Jewish symbol the Star of David during July. Andy Woods and Jim McGowan of Sugar Land Bible Church were quick to point the finger, but their accusations regarding Twitter's alleged antisemitism are false. (37:00 mark) Woods and McGowan must have been aware that Twitter acted quickly to correct their error two days prior to the date they recorded this video.



Woods continued: "There is so much complete and total nonsense floating around today concerning the Star of David. ..Wikipedia were trying to link the Star of David, which is the national symbol for Israel, to Satanism, the occult and the pentagram. Folks that is just rubbish and that is just absolute insanity.."  Actually Wikipedia does not link the Star of David to Satanism or the occult {1}

Woods went on to make the false assertion that the Star of David comes from the oracle of Balaam in the book of Numbers:

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth. (Numbers 24:17).

This verse is a reference to the Messiah! There is no evidence whatsoever that this verse relates to the Star of David!

Encyclopedia Britannica: "The Jewish community of Prague was the first to use the Star of David as its official symbol, and from the 17th century on the six-pointed star became the official seal of many Jewish communities and a general sign of Judaism though it has no biblical or Talmudic authority." {2}

M. Hirsch Goldberg in his book The Jewish Connection states: "The Star of David is not of Jewish origin - and the ancient Israelites never used it as their religious symbol" (they used the Menorah or Seven Candlestick). {3} 

A short excerpt of my previous research into this subject in 2017 below reveals some disturbing facts.
(See Further Links below for the full article)

In reality the hexagram star is the star of rephaim/repham/remphan and has particular evil connotations in both the Old and the New Testaments. Remphan has links with Moloch, a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice. Stephen condemned the practices associated with "Moloch and the star of your god Rephan" shortly before he was stoned (Acts 7:43; Amos 5:26). This particular star god is known both as Rephan and Kalwan (Hebrew Chiun). Kewan is probably the Old Babylonian Kayawanu for the planet Saturn. Stars are often associated with, and named after, specific pagan gods, for instance Aphrodite is Venus, Zeus is Jupiter etc. The "host of heaven" presented a particular temptation for the ancient Israelites towards false worship (1 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:1). The Israelites were censured for false worship of the sun god Adrammelech (2 Kings 17:31) and Amon (Jeremiah 46:25); the moon goddess Anammelech and Diana/Artemis (Acts 19:24-35); and Merodach/Marduk (Mars?) (Jeremiah 50:2). Stars are sometimes illustrative of angels and fallen angels in the scriptures. (Job 38:7; Revelation 1:20; Revelation 12:4). John erroneously fell down to worship at the feet of an angel (Revelation 22:8). Satan himself, the "shining one" translated "star of the morning", masquerades as an angel of light. (Isaiah 14:12; 2 Corinthians 11:14) in the place of Jesus Christ, the bright morning star. (Revelation 22:16). The Masonic Dictionary provides convincing evidence that the "star of Remphan" refers to the Seal of Solomon.

The Star or Shield of David became an official symbol of Judaism after it was chosen to represent the First Zionist Congress in 1897 by secular Jew, Theodore Herzl. Herzl was the President of World Zionism and the founder of the First Zionist Congress, the political movement created to ensure a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Edmond de Rothschild, the real power behind Zionism, worked closely with both Theodore Herzl and his successor, Chaim Weizmann. Rothschild told Weizmann: "Without me Zionism would not have succeeded...."  Hence, the “Rothschild Hexagram” was adopted as the "flag of Zion" in 1948. When the Flag of Israel was unveiled, it met with tremendous opposition from many Jews who were aware of its historical connection with the mystery religions as the symbol of Moloch:

"..the symbol continued to be controversial for many years afterward. When the modern state of Israel was founded, there was much debate over whether this symbol should be used on the flag." {4} 

Opposition to the hexagram star symbol necessitated significant revisionist propaganda in order to transform it into an acceptable Jewish symbol. The saying: "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it" is attributed to Joseph Goebbels. The often repeated revised explanation for the hexagram star is as follows:

"The two blue stripes represent a tallit or prayer shawl, and both sides of the split Red Sea that the Hebrews walked through as written in the Book of Exodus." 

"The Star of David also represents the Jewish identity of Israel, as well as the culture and history of the Israeli people." {5}

In reality, the star of Remphan morphed into the occult Seal of Solomon and the Rothschild Hexagram aka the Illuminati Hexagram. I view Magen David as a satanic facade in order to obscure the true demonic history of the Star of Remphan. Even the designation 'the shield of David' is a misnomer. With no scriptural basis and all the evidence of evil and death attending this symbol prior to the 19th century, the hexagram is surely not God's choice for the symbol of Israel. This symbol evokes the propensity for the ancient Israelites to worship the true God and other gods concurrently. We therefore have the usurper, the so called Star or Shield of David, competing with the menorah for precedence. 

I can't imagine what Andy Woods' motives are for making such deceptive assertions, but his assumptions regarding the Star of David have no factual basis whatsoever. I caution those who follow Woods to be very wary indeed. (1 John 4:1).

Monday 20 July 2020

TRINITY LIFE CHURCH LEICESTER: PRAY FOR CHANGE

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:29-30).



In this short video we see David and Susan Hind of Trinity Life Church Leicester (Assemblies of God) with the same old "revival" mantra that we have heard repeated year on year from charismatic and Pentecostal leaders. They never question why their "revival" mantra never comes to anything.

Susan Hind begins the mantra by quoting the first part of Jeremiah 33:9, which she says, over the years, many people have prayed "over our city". TLC are not particular about accurately quoting the scriptures, and what Susan Hind says does not come from any bible translation that I know of. The ESV translation is below:

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it. (Jeremiah 9:33).

Susan Hind: "Right now the eyes of the world are on Leicester and Leicestershire... so what about if God was about to break in to our city and county?"

David Hind continues with the words from the song "Change" by Bright City:

We can see a change coming
Our God is here to save
We can see a change coming
The streets are filled with praise
We can see a change coming
The church will take her place
We can see a change coming
Revival’s on its way 
{1} 

David Hind: "God is at work here in Leicestershire."  Hind should be fearful about praying Matthew 6:10: Your kingdom come, your will be done.. He continues: "..and for the name of Jesus to be honored.. Jesus take your place here in Leicestershire." These words are very likely to come back to bite him. God will not bless the false shepherds of the ecumenical movement ~ they will be held accountable. (Ezekiel 34:2-5).

THE QUESTION IS: WILL THEY CHANGE?
In general, the "professing church" seem oblivious to the fact that the present situation may in fact be a judgement from God, not only upon our godless nation, but also upon mainstream apostate "Christian" denominations. These false teachers go through the same old "revival" routine, never mentioning the blood of Jesus or repentance, and never warning the body of Christ about the impending crisis that will come upon the whole world in the shape of the Antichrist. (1 John 2:18).

This is what they do: They take a verse of scripture out of context and make it applicable to their own delusion. In this case Susan Hind inaccurately quotes half a verse of scripture that actually applies to Israel's future restoration.

I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness. Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times. And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me. (Jeremiah 33:5-8).

The entire context of Jeremiah 33 concerns Israel's iniquity and the promise of her final future restoration when Jesus Christ, the Messiah whom they rejected, returns. The time of "cleansing" refers to “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7) during the great tribulation. Surviving Israel will trust in their Messiah and be grafted back into their own olive tree (Romans 11:24). The apostle Paul writes: And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” (Romans 11:26-27 cf. Zechariah 12:10, 13:1, 14:4; Matthew 23:39; Acts 3:19-22).

The Hinds attempt to shoe horn Jeremiah 33:9 into some magical "revival" can be found nowhere in the scriptures. At the same time, they choose to ignore essential prophetic material specifically applicable to the last days, warnings that believers urgently need to hear:

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. (Matthew 24:3-8)

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.. while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:1-5,13).

And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. (Luke 13:23-24).

The Ticking TLC Time Bomb

Since David Hind's controversial appointment at TLC in 2007, many things have taken root that are contrary to the scriptures. The leadership at TLC have a troubling "carry on regardless" mindset, ignoring both the scriptures and the genuine concerns of godly believers.

  • LOTTERY FUNDING = UNGODLY APPROVAL OF GAMBLING
  • PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IS PROHIBITED AT OPEN HANDS AS A CONDITION OF RECEIVING BIG LOTTERY FUNDING
  • TLC MUST DEMONSTRABLY BELIEVE AND ABIDE BY UNBIBLICAL SECULAR EQUALITY VALUES AS A CONDITION OF SECURING LOTTERY FUNDING
  • THEOCRACY: UNBIBLICAL TOP HEAVY LEADERSHIP (ACTS 15:22)
  • NEPOTISM: SENIOR FAMILIAL APPOINTMENTS
  • ROCK MUSIC VERSUS WORSHIP
  • CHURCH GROWTH BASED ON THE MEGA CHURCH CAMPUS MODEL 
  • VIOLATION OF THE SCRIPTRUAL BLUEPRINT FOR AUTONOMOUS CONGREGATIONS (ACTS 14:23)
  • HOST TO FALSE TEACHER/PROPHET MARK STIBBE IN 2011
  • VALIDATION OF ARCH DECEIVER AND NECROMANCER BENNY HINN IN 2014
  • INVOLVEMENT WITH ECUMENICAL CHURCHES TOGETHER IN 2014
  • ECUMENICAL ALPHA COURSE 
  • ENDORSEMENT OF ECUMENIST BILLY GRAHAM
  • ENDORSEMENT OF SMITH WIGGLESWORTH'S FALSE END TIME REVIVAL PROPHECY
  • ADAM SIMMONDS ILLEGAL REMOVAL OF TWO OF MY POSTS IN FEBRUARY 2014
  • BLATANT SATANIC 666 DISPLAY AT OPEN HANDS 6 DEGREES COFFEE HOUSE


David Hind's early compromise with ecumenism continues to be an issue as he participates with more than 100 churches in the ecumenical event ~ Praying For Leicestershire. {2} True believers should "mark and avoid" those leaders/churches that have taken part in this event, some of whom are named below:

Mark Pasimupindu - Church For All Nations International
Josh Gardiner - Associate Pastor KingsGate Community Church
Andrew Upton - Knighton Free Church
Elaine Sutherland - Vicar Holy Trinity Church
John McGinley - Associate Vicar Holy Trinity Church/New Wine leader
Martyn Snow - Bishop of Leicester
David Hind - Trinity Life Church
Susan Hind - Trinity Life Church
Odeh Akatu - Trinity Life Church
Rachel Bhanu - Chroma Church

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. (Romans 16:17).


Thursday 16 July 2020

JACOB PRASCH: METATRON IN PLACE OF JESUS CHRIST

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12).

Moriel's 2007 article in Afrikaans (excerpt translated into English below) is unequivocal in identifying the Metatron as Jesus. This is not an Acts 17:22-23 apologetic to an "unknown god" as Prasch has recently claimed, rather it is a devious attempt to substitute Jesus Christ with a named mythical Jewish figure. (Titus 1:14).

 

https://www.moriel.org/teaching/sermons-in-afrikaans/metatrone-afrikaans.html

Prasch condemns the Kabballah as "absolutely occult".  He goes on to say: "It comes from Babylonian gnosticism repackaged in Jewish terminology, but it is of occult origin. It is a false belief system of a corrupted Judaism that denies its Messiah." {1} By some perverse reasoning, Prasch uses the Kabballah, a source that he absolutely condemns, in order to insert the occult mythical figure the Metatron in place of Jesus Christ into the very Throne Room of God! (Revelation 5:6).

Prasch and Jews For Jesus

Prasch was heavily involved with the ecumenical Messianic Jewish Christian organization Jews For Jesus after leaving a cult called "Forever Family". Jews For Jesus gave Prasch financial assistance in order to help him get through seminary, and this seems to have been the point at which his Jewish "adventure" began.

Prasch: "One thing I know for sure is that I would not be in the ministry today if it were not for the way that God used Moishe Rosen and Jews For Jesus." {2}

Coincidentally, Jews For Jesus also cite some disturbing comparisons between the Metatron and Jesus in their article "Kabbalah's Best Kept Secret?" {3} 

Prasch is (supposedly) against the ecumenical movement, and yet he associates with, and approves of, Anglican ecumenists and false prophets David Noakes and Clifford Hill of Issachar Ministries. {4} Prasch could hardly have been unaware of Jews for Jesus radical ecumenism.

UK Apologetics Library: "Jews for Jesus participated in the first ecumenical conference that I attended with press credentials. It was New Orleans ’87. There were about 35,000 people in attendance representing some 40 denominations, and one-half were Roman Catholics." {5}

Prasch's Fake Jewish Paternal Ancestry

Chris Rosebrough recently debunked Prasch's alleged Jewish paternal ancestry. In the process he discovered that Prasch's bogus certification of his family tree is actually a Nazi document dated the 5th of June 1939, and that Adolf and Wolff Brasch from Leipzig are not listed in Prasch's ancestry. {6}



Prasch's alleged ID certificate is actually an application form to replace lost immigration documents:



Prasch giving the horned hand signal whilst displaying his Nazi document

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. (2 Corinthians 11:4).

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.. (Colossians 2:18 cf. Revelation 19:10).

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11).

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21:8).

Monday 13 July 2020

JACOB PRASCH'S LIE: JACOB WRESTLES WITH THE METATRON ~ NOT IN THE ZOHAR!

And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. (Genesis 32:24).

To put the record straight  - Prasch's claim that the angel who wrestled with Jacob in Genesis 32:24 is the Metatron in the Zohar is completely false. 

Chabad.org: “'A man wrestled with him: our sages explained that this was the ministering angel of Esau.'”5 A commonplace of Talmudic and midrashic literature is that every nation has its own angelic “minister” who represents its interests before G‑d. It is Esau’s angel, then, who attempts to frustrate Jacob’s mission. {1} 

The Jewish Virtual Library identifies Samael, a major name of Satan in Judaism, as the angel who struggled with Jacob: 

"Samael retains the role of prosecutor in the account of Ḥama b. Ḥanina (c. 260 C.E.; Ex. R. 21:7), who was apparently the first to identify Samael with Esau’s guardian angel during the struggle between Jacob and the angel. His name, however, does not appear in Genesis Rabbah (Theodor ed. (1965), 912), but he is mentioned in the old version of the Tanḥuma, Va-Yishlaḥ 8. In the parallel version in Songs of Songs Rabbah 3:6, the amora has Jacob saying to Esau: “your countenance resembles that of your guardian angel,” according to the version of the Sefer Mattenot Kehunnah (Theodor ed.). Surprisingly, in the section of the Midrash Yelammedenu on Exodus 14:25, Samael fulfills a positive function during the dividing of the Red Sea, pushing back the wheels of the chariots of the Egyptians. In gematria, Samael is the numerical equivalent of the word ofan (“wheel”; in Ms. British Museum, 752, 136b; and in the Midrash Ha-Ḥefeáş“ ha-Teimani, which is cited in Torah Shelemah, 14 (1941) to this verse)." {2}

Rashi's interpretation of VaYeiavek:

"On his way to meet Eisav, Yaakov encounters and fights an angel, and when describing this struggle, the Torah uses the expression, “VaYeiavek Ish Imo,” “And a man (the angel) wrestled with him [Yaakov]” (BeReishit 32:25).
Rashi explores the root of the word “VaYeiavek,” and offers two explanations. In his first explanation, Rashi quotes Menachem ben Saruk, a great grammarian, who identifies the root origin of the word “VaYeiavek” with that of dust, “Avak,” in that when two people struggle in a field, they tend to kick up dust.

In his second explanation, Rashi associates the root of “VaYeiavek” with the Aramaic word “Avak,” which means intertwine. When two people wrestle, they hold onto each other, and their bodies seemingly interlock. Because they are holding onto each other, it may even seem as if the two are hugging each other and showing affection." 
{3}

Ohr Somayach: "Parshat Vayishlach ~ Returning home, Yaakov sends angelic messengers to appease his brother Eisav. The messengers return, telling Yaakov that Eisav is approaching with an army of 400. Yaakov takes the strategic precautions of dividing the camps, praying for assistance, and sending tribute to mollify Eisav. That night, Yaakov is left alone and wrestles with the Angel of Eisav. Yaakov emerges victorious but is left with an injured sinew in his thigh (which is the reason that it is forbidden to eat the sciatic nerve of a kosher animal). The angel tells him that his name in the future will be Yisrael, signifying that he has prevailed against man (Lavan) and the supernatural (the angel)." {4}

The only place I can find information that vaguely identifies the Metatron as the angel who wrestled with Jacob is the occult site circle-of.light.com:

"In the world of Jewish mystics, came to hold the rank of the highest of the angels despite his not being mentioned in the Scriptures. The meaning of his name has never been satisfactorily explained although one interpretation of it is "one who occupies the throne next to the Divine throne." It could also be derived from the Latin 'metator', a guide or measurer." {5}

None of Prasch's material has any citations whatsoever  ~ we simply have to take his (unreliable) word for it!
Below: Prasch's book Harpazo: The Intra-Seal Rapture of the Church (2014) page 17:

Friday 10 July 2020

JACOB PRASCH: THE BLOOD OF THE GOAT!!!

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins" (Hebrews 10:4).





The Red Heifer Part 1 by Jacob Prasch:
"Jesus is typified not only as the Lamb of God and the Scapegoat, but also as the Red Heifer - the Corbanim. The Red Heifer completes our cleansing and purification - Tumiah and Tahera in our lives." {1} 
(Notice the application of the first person plural pronoun 'our' and the present tense).

Prasch's various references to the blood of the goat:

Prasch refers to "the blood of the scapegoat" at least twice in his video The Red Heifer Part 1 {1} 

 "How many songs have we heard about the blood of the scapegoat?"

"We know that Jesus is the Lamb, but most Christians don't realise He is also the goat." 

 "Thank you Lord for the blood of the goat." 

"Why do you need the blood of the goat as well as the blood of the Lamb?" 

In his video, The Life Is In The Blood at Fellowship Bible Chapel, Prasch teaches that the goat released into the wilderness (i.e. the scapegoat in Leviticus 16), had to die. {2}

Prasch: "..so they had to take it 90 stadia..  into the wilderness of Judah and push it off a cliff, this was the Azazel. The Azazel still has to die you understand. They tried to take Jesus and throw him off the cliff..  They had the wrong goat - you understand. He was the other goat - He had to die in Jerusalem. It was the Azazel who died outside Jerusalem.. (!!) they had the wrong goat.. The Jews tried to identify Jesus with the Azazel and tried to push him off a cliff.. (Luke 4:29). (12:30 mark)

Jesus died outside the city of Jerusalem:  

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. . (Hebrews 13:12-13 cf. John 19:20).     

Benson: "..the expression, without the gate, was of the same import as without the camp in the wilderness. Wherefore criminals, being regarded as unclean, were always put to death without the gates of their cities." {3}

Prasch makes at least five assumptions from the Mishnah! (Titus 1:14).
  1. Jesus is the goat. 
  2. The scapegoat was pushed off a cliff.
  3. The scapegoat shed its blood. 
  4. The scapegoat has the status of a sacrifice.
  5. When the Jews attempted to throw Jesus down a cliff in Luke 4:29 they identified him with Azazel. 
In Leviticus 16, the scapegoat was one of a pair of goats. One of the goats (not the scapegoat) was sacrificed as a sin offering. The living goat, the scapegoatwas sent into the wilderness, taking with it all the sins and impurities of the people of Israel:

Then he shall take the two goats and set them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel. And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD and use it as a sin offering, but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel. (Leviticus 16:7-10)

And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness. (Leviticus 16:21-22).

Mishnah Yoma 6:6: "He (the conductor) divided the tongue of crimson wool: the half of it he tied to the rock, and the second half between his [the scapegoat's] horns; he pushed him down backward. He went rolling and falling down; he did not reach halfway of the mountain before he became separated limb from limb. He [the conductor] returned to sit down under the last booth, till dark. And since when became his clothes unclean? After he had issued from the walls of Jerusalem. R. Simeon says: After he had pushed it down from the rock." {4}

The fate of the scapegoat in Yoma 6:6 is ambivalent and contradicts the scriptures. The Torah repeatedly refers to it as "×”ַשָּׂעִיר ×”ֶ×—ָ×™"‎5 and speaks of it merely being sent away rather than ritually slaughtered or killed. This ritual finds a close parallel in the leprosy purification process described only two chapters earlier in Vayikra 14. There, the Torah similarly mandates the bringing of two birds,7 one of which is slaughtered while the second is set free.8 Rabbinic tradition, however, dictates that the Azazel goat is to be thrown off a cliff.9 What leads the Rabbis to adopt this position, and how can it be squared with the plain reading of the scriptures? Additionally, if the goat is indeed killed, does it have the status of a sacrifice?10 {5}  

The Jews attempt to throw Jesus down a cliff finds a possible parallel in Chronicles 2:25:12 i.e. this method was used as an improvised method of execution in Amaziah’s treatment of the Edomite prisoners. "This form of punishment is only mentioned in 2 Chronicles 25:12; but in Phocis it was the punishment for sacrilege. (Philo.)" {6}

Ironically, Prasch recently attempted to defend his "Metatron" heresy, stating that he only uses rabbinic sources for the purpose of evangelizing ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jews based on Acts 17:23. He condemns Kabballah and the Rabbinic tradition as "absolutely occult". {7} There does not seem to be a satisfactory explanation as to why Prasch taught this heresy at the non-Jewish church Devore Truth (Community Church of Devore) CA in 2019. {8} Prasch's distortion of the scriptures with the Mishnah when teaching "The Blood Of The Goat" to non-Jewish congregations such as Fellowship Bible Chapel is yet another instance of his duplicity.

Azazel appears in the bible as an obscure entity that receives a scapegoat of sin from Aaron in Leviticus 16. However, the Book of 1 Enoch and other apocryphal texts refer to Azazel as a Watcher i.e. a fallen angel who corrupted man and opposed God.

The Book of 1 Enoch is generally not considered to be canonical. However, a number of Christian denominations accept it as having some historical or theological interest. 1 Enoch contains unique material regarding the origins of demons and giants, the reason some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why the Great Flood was morally necessary, and prophetic exposition of the millennial reign of the Messiah. {9} 1 In particular, the story of Azazel in 1 Enoch appears to have a connection with Genesis 6:4 and the biblical account of the fall of the angels located on Mount Hermon. 

And AzâzĂŞl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. (1 Enoch 8:1-2).

Thou seest what AzâzĂŞl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn: (1 Enoch 9:6).

Interestingly, the account of Azazel's punishment in 1 Enoch 10 has some similarities with the scapegoat rite:

And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind AzâzĂŞl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in DĂ»dâêl, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by AzâzĂŞl: to him ascribe all sin.' (1 Enoch 10:4-8)

We should completely reject Prasch's heretical rantings on the subject of "the blood of the goat".

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. (Hebrews 9:11-14).

He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:8–10).


Prasch in his Grateful Dead sweatshirt


1. https://youtu.be/vbLD38QbgYA
2. https://youtu.be/T8ECIQKH6pI
3. https://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/13-12.htm
4. https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t03/yom11.htm
5. http://alhatorah.org/Why_is_the_Goat_Sent_to_Azazel/1/en

6. https://biblehub.com/commentaries/luke/4-29.htm
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFQxYVf-gQ&t=1616s
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XpTfqX0Uk&fbclid=IwAR0RvxENr3PGYAsnWQtI89tMQe25xfUpenjjmN9T_U_9Mp_Sw7He1CSOcB8
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch

Further Links

Why is the Goat Sent to Azazel?

http://alhatorah.org/Why_is_the_Goat_Sent_to_Azazel/2
Book of Enoch
https://book-ofenoch.com/
Azazel 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel#cite_note-Orlov-13