In 1996 my wife and I went on a Bible Lands tour to Israel and Jordan. That trip changed my life and my entire way of understanding the Bible. It became quite obvious that the Bible was written by Jews, to Jews in the Hebrew Culture of more than 2,000 years ago. Much of the time we try to understand the Bible based on a Western Culture in modern times. That is not to say that we misinterpret the Bible because of this (although sometimes that may happen). What it means is that we miss so many wonderful nuggets that God has for us just because we do not always understand the Scriptures as the people to whom they were written understood them.
Shortly after returning from the Holy Land trip, my pastor asked me to put together an elective Sunday School class on understanding the Scriptures through the culture and customs of the Bible lands and people. I put together a six month course which I taught five or six times on Sunday mornings, twice on Wednesday evenings and twice on Sunday nights. From that study came the book, which you will see on subsequent pages, entitled Finding Jesus in the Old Testament (the Jewish Scriptures). It started out simply as a personal study, but after three years I realized that I had a book.
During this time I also came into contact with the Messianic Jewish Movement. These are Jews who continue to practice Judaism, but who have come to the understanding and believe that Jesus of Nazareth was and is the Jewish Messiah; and they have come to faith in Him. They meet in Messanic Jewish Synagogues all over the world. There are over 100,000 Messianic Jews now in the United States, and other congregations in virtually every country of the world. Numerous such congregations have sprouted up in Israel. The movement began right after the birth of Israel in 1948; but it mushroomed following the Six Day Yom Kipur War in 1967, in which Israel took control of the City of Jerusalem.
I believe this phenomenon is fulfillment of Bible prophecy concerning the end of the age. I also have discovered that these "believing Jews," looking at the Scriptures from a Jewish point of view, find many wonderful spiritual tidbits that most of us Westerners overlook. My beliefs have not changed. My theology has not changed. However, I see so much more in the Scriptures than I ever did before. My desire is to pass this along to others, perhaps you, with the aim of seeing you become a more knowledgeable, enthusiastic and dedicated follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.
During this period of time, I have developed two other deep seated interests that have become a part of Ken Williams Ministries. The first is the Creation/Evolution Controversy. The second has to do with restoring the true history of these United States of America.
Evolution is a religious belief system. When I was in school, evolution was taught as fact. However, since that time new discoveries have brought the entire evolutionary theory into question. Even the theory's most ardent supporters have to admit that there are major flaws with the system. Virtually every point fails the test of true science. Neither Creationism nor Evolutionism is science. Both are belief systems based on science. Biology, chemistry, biochemistry, geology, etc. are sciences. Creationists and Evolutionists use the very same facts of the various sciences to postulate their conclusions. The difference in their conclusions is predicated on their foundational assumptions which are not scientific. If you believe there is no God, and therefore anything supernatural is impossible, you can make the evidence say anything you want to make it say. If you believe in a Creator, the very same sets of evidence show His creation. Today, there is much more evidence to point to a Creator than to Evolution. We will look at that in depth.
"What is wrong with our history," you ask? Answer: it has been changed to eliminate the reasons and purposes behind what happened. Read a history of the United States written before 1930; then read a history of the United States written in the past 25 years, and you will scarcely be able to tell that you are reading the history of the same country. The Social Architects and Revisionists have attempted to rewrite our history to show that our founding fathers created a secular government and wrote the idea of "the separation of church and state" into our constitution. That is a lie! The term "separation of church and state" never appeared in any official government document until 1948, when it appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court decision. It was a 4 to 3 split decision, and two of the four Justices who voted in favor had not read the decision before giving it their approval. That 1948 ruling has been used to turn the First Amendment to the Constitution completely around to mean the exact opposite of what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote it. Other portions of the Constitution have also be reinterpreted to mean something different than the authors intended. And, again, that is just the beginning.
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