​​In fulfilling our call to culturally reconnect our people to the Holy Covenants: The Church at Victorville and the Kingdom of Yisrael Community Network do declare and decree; that the Hebrew Yisraelite demonizing of the word 'Christian' as representing the false church is etymologically incorrect, historically inaccurate, structurally short-sighted and strategically unwise.

 

The Truth:

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The first-century Messianic Yisraelites, being fluent in Koine Greek, the "Ebonics" of their day, undeniably referred to themselves as Christianos - which is simply a Greek word, later translated into the English word 'Christian,' and derived from the root word 'Christos,' meaning "an anointed one" (1 Kefa-Peter 4:16; Acts 26:28-29).

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The Messianic-Christian churches were gradually driven underground by a treacherous Roman military campaign, targeting the 'Desposyni' - Yahushua's Davidic kinsmen - who presided over all Christians, until their three-hundred-year-plus rulership was overthrown and usurped at the onset of Roman Catholicism (Eusebius - Church History: Book II, Chapter I; Book III, Chapter XXXII).

 

The Melchizedek Order of the Royal Priesthood, duly restored by Christ, was co-opted by the counterfeit Roman religion; founded on the Babylonian, pseudo-Christian Mithraism of Emperor Constantine I, and formalized at the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, early in the fourth century.​

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Finally, Hebrews, the fact that many Messianic groups embrace the word 'Christ,' and yet demonize the word 'Christian,' is a glaring example of our cultural arrogance - in alienating the vast majority of the very people we seek to restore, based on a word that actually means "an anointed one."

 

So - how can religious "churchgoers" who neither know nor obey the true Christ be Christians? 

 

In fact, when we as Hebrew Yisraelites in Christ designate the followers of Catholicism and "Judeo-Christianity" as Christians, we legitimize the same religious systems we reject - by referring to the false shepherds, and the enslaved followers they have defiled, as Christianos: "anointed ones." YAH forbid.

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Today, the man-made religion referred to as Judeo-Christianity is a universal, multi-denominational, profit-driven "non-profit" corporation, consisting of many warring factions; with each variation rooted in the pseudo-Christian Catholicism of fourth-century Rome.