Rome and Her Children Excommunicated

Rome and Her Children Excommunicated
The Chief Rabban of the Nesarim states in his article "True Direction for Real Progress" that "the first followers of Rabbeinu Yeshua were Jewish. Jewish fishermen to be exact. Rome came late on the scene, as did Greece and the environs. It was Greece and Rome that expressly shed off any semblance of Jewish faith from the First Century Congregation, thus divorcing itself from the "Early Church". Both Rome and Greece appointed gentile leadership over Jerusalem and repeatedly ignored warnings about this. The Jewish Community of the Nesarim actually excommunicated Rome and all her children."

In his article, "The Smoking Gun," Rabban Mar Andreos states: "What about the idea that Rome somehow became the temporal seat of authority? In the year 318 CE, six years before the Council of Nicea, a letter was sent from Mar Yosip, the Patriarch of Jerusalem in exile to Bishop Silvester of Rome. In this important letter, it is made very clear that Jerusalem, and NOT Rome was always supposed to be the temporal authority of Mshikha's Holy Assembly on the face of the earth! That no other entity or institution could make such a claim and had Divine Authority whatsoever."

In his book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (New York: Bantam, 1983^*), Martin Malachi writes concerning the historical visit of the Shemishqo (Desposyni) to pope Sylvester in 318 CE:

"A meeting between Silvester and the Jewish Christian (sic) leaders took place in 318.... the issues were very well known, and it is probable the Joses, the oldest of the Christian Jews, spoke on behalf of the desposyni and the rest.

That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, "belonging to the Lord." It was reserved uniquely for Yeshua's blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Yeshua's family---Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Yeshua. Neither Silvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him, ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descent from Yeshua's own family. One from Joachim and Anna, Yeshua's maternal grandparents. One from Elizabeth, first cousin of Yeshua's mother, Mary, and Elizabeth's husband, Zachary. And one from Cleophas and his wife, who also was a first cousin of Mary.

There were, of course, numerous blood descendants of Joseph, Mary's husband, but only those persons in bloodline with Yeshua through his mother qualified as desposyni...."

"Ever since the Emperor Hadrian had conquered Jerusalem in the year 135, all Jews, and that included Jewish Christians, had been forbidden to enter Jerusalem under pain of instant death...."

"They therefore asked Silvester to revoke his confirmation of Greek Christian bishops in Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, in Alexandria, and to name instead desposynos bishops...."

"Silvester curtly and decisively dismissed the claims of the Jewish Christians. He told them that the mother church was now in Rome, with the bones of the Apostle Peter, and he insisted that they accept Greek bishops to lead them.

It was the last known discussion between the Jewish Christians of the old mother church and the non-Jewish Christians of the new mother church. By his adaptation, Silvester, backed by Constantine, had decided that the message of Yeshua was to be couched in Western terms by Western minds on an imperial model.

The Jewish Christians had no place in such a church structure. They managed to survive until the first decades of the fifth century. Then, one by one, they disappear.... But most of them die---by the sword (Roman garrisons hunted them as outlaws), by starvation (they were deprived of their small farms and could not or would not adapt themselves to life in the big cities), by the attrition of zero birthrate....The desposyni have ceased to exist. Everywhere, the Roman pope commands respect and exercises authority."

"...within twenty years of Silvester's death, the Roman legions were defending Constantinople, which Constantine had only finished building. The mortar was still wet....Constantine's dynasty lasted sixty years, during most of which time he was busy repelling Goths, Franks, and Alemanni from the borders of the empire. (All the effort he put into building Constantinople didn't help much.) After his death in 337, his three sons succeeded him. The last of these, Constantius, died in 361. By the time of Emperor Gratian's death (383), the Balkans had been ceded to the Goths. By 405, the Romans had evacuated Britain. Soon Spain fell to the Vandals. In August of 410, Rome itself was plundered by the Goths under Alaric."

Part of the Letter Sent to Pope Sylvester

Sylvester ignored the warning and the entire Roman Church was excommunicated by the Holy Assembly of Jerusalem in exile. The excommunication included the entire so-called "Eastern Orthodox Church" and subsequently all of Rome's children (Protestants, etc.)

{To be continued}

^*I have used "Yeshua" where Martin Malachi uses the word "Jesus".

- Compiled by Rabbi Yisrael ben David, Jerusalem

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