Written by From the Series: “The Lie of the Chosen: Pharisees, Talmud, and the Antichrist Spirit”
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Not All of Israel Is of Israel
In the Gospels, Jesus Christ did not preach hatred — but He did preach truth that cut like a sword. And no group He confronted more fiercely than the Pharisees — the religious elite of His day.
He called them:
- “Sons of hell” (Matthew 23:15)
- “Whitewashed tombs” (Matthew 23:27)
- “Blind guides” (Matthew 23:24)
- And even: “Children of the devil” (John 8:44)
These were not casual insults. They were divine indictments.
Because Jesus wasn’t attacking “the Jews.”
He was confronting a spiritual system of corruption — the same one that would later become the foundation of Talmudic Judaism.
This article is the beginning of a reckoning — with the spiritual war between the truth of Christ and the Antichrist spirit of the Pharisees.
1. Who Were the Pharisees?
The Pharisees were a powerful sect within first-century Judaism — obsessed with oral law, tradition, and legal authority. They created layers of rules beyond the written Torah — rules they claimed were passed down from Moses, but which had no divine origin.
They wore long robes, sat in seats of power, and claimed the right to interpret God’s will — while silencing prophets, manipulating scripture, and plotting to kill the Messiah Himself.
“You nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”
— Matthew 15:6
2. Jesus’ Direct Confrontations With the Pharisees
The Gospels are crystal clear: Jesus didn’t just disagree with the Pharisees — He exposed them as enemies of God.
a. John 8:44 — “You are of your father the devil”
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning… there is no truth in him.”
This is perhaps the most powerful statement Jesus made.
He identifies lying, murder, and spiritual deception as the Pharisaic legacy — not Abraham, not Moses, but Satan.
b. Matthew 23 — The Seven Woes
Jesus levels a spiritual sledgehammer:
- “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”
- “You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces.”
- “You clean the outside… but inside you are full of greed and self-indulgence.”
- “You are like whitewashed tombs… full of dead men’s bones.”
- “You build the tombs of the prophets… whom your fathers killed.”
This is not just moral critique — it is prophetic judgment.
c. Matthew 12:24 — Accusing Jesus of Demon Power
“This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons.”
They accused Jesus — the Son of God — of serving the devil.
There is no clearer sign of spiritual inversion.
This is Druj — the Lie — calling Light “darkness.”
3. Jesus Didn’t Condemn All Jews — He Condemned a Spirit
- He loved the poor, the repentant, the humble.
- His disciples were Jewish. His mother was Jewish.
- His mission was to fulfill the law, not to destroy it — but to break the chains of legalism and elitism.
Jesus was a Jew by birth, but a prophet of universal truth — and He stood against the Pharisees not because of race, but because of righteousness.
4. Why This Matters Now
The Pharisees did not die with the Temple.
They evolved into the rabbis, the Talmudic authorities, the builders of modern Judaism — a system that continues to this day.
And the same spirit — legalistic, elitist, anti-Christ — lives on.
Jesus warned that the Antichrist would not be a beast from outside, but a man of lawlessness who sits in the temple of God, proclaiming himself divine.
“Beware the leaven of the Pharisees.”
— Jesus, Luke 12:1
We were warned.
The Battle Begins
This series will not shy away from what must be said.
The spirit that murdered the prophets, that crucified Christ, that mocked His name in the Talmud — is alive, but it is not eternal.
Asha will prevail.
Truth will rise.
And the light of the Good Mind will expose the Lie, no matter how long it has worn a religious mask.