We’re fast approaching the closing of “Sukkoth,” the Feast of Tabernacles which comes to us at the end of each year in the Jewish calendar. And I hope we’ve had a Feast in Tabernacles not just a Feast of Tabernacles. If not, it’s never too late to begin.
The central theme of this Feast isn’t so much the hut or booth as much as the family and members of God’s congregation coming together. What good is a hut (or booth) if our visit and discussion is all wrong and irrelevant?
To me, Sukkoth is about families coming together to enjoy God’s presence, His provision and protection. Please notice I said, “Families” because it’s a time when children bring their children and their children’s children to assemble in an outside booth to celebrate God’s faithful goodness throughout the entire year.
I am one hundred percent convinced that the only method we’re going to survive the onslaughts that lie ahead and are already among is by celebrating perpetual Sukkoths by families joining together to pray, to learn and to share each others goods. Today we call this community—the assembling of saints (Jew or Gentile Christians).
During my adolescence, we had no space in the church building for our growing Sunday School class so we often met under a Mesquite tree outside, or in the shade provided by the side of the church building. Some of my best prayer and bible studies with men have been under a huge oak tree with low reaching branches. These trees remind me of our family trees—families connected like branches to the trunk and the trunk to its roots.
During my elementary years we’d spread open some harsh and thorny bushes in order to make our own little succa or hut in the middle of it. This little thorny hut served as protection from our imaginary enemies. We even had secret entrances into it.
The only way we’re going to survive the grave challenges coming at us today—such as the biggest tax hikes in America’s history coming up in 1/11—will be by our tabernacle lifestyle. This is how God’s family will overcome through its hardy sense of devotion to God, to family and to community. There’s no other way to endure what’s ahead without God in the middle of our community life where we all pull together.
Don’t you think it’s time to get real about the fact that God is preparing us on how to return to a lifestyle of modesty, simplicity and integrity of heart?
In closing, let me say that when David sang the 27th Psalm, the 4th verse gives us the heart of a Tabernacle lifestyle. But in verse 5, he reminds us that God will keep us safe in the “shelter of his Tabernacle.” Then in verse 6, David declares that he’s not going to moan and groan while he presents his sacrifices but shout with joy and with music to the Lord.
May we learn to live in the daily Sukkoths of our life in God!
Hag Sameah – Happy New Year!
Dell
PS, My new book, “Out from Hiding” will be coming off the press shortly. It highlights the fundamental evidences that corroborate the assumption that many Latinos have Sephardic Jewish roots. Some of these evidences include DNA, Onomastics (the origen of Sephardic surnames), material evidences such as artifacts and epigraphy, the historical record, oral histories and personal prognostications...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Goodbye Tabernacles?
We’re fast approaching the closing of “Sukkoth,” the Feast of Tabernacles which comes to us at the end of each year in the Jewish calendar. And I hope we’ve had a Feast in Tabernacles not just a Feast of Tabernacles. If not, it’s never too late to begin.
The central theme of this Feast isn’t so much the hut or booth as much as the family and members of God’s congregation coming together. What good is a hut (or booth) if our visit and discussion is all wrong and irrelevant?
To me, Sukkoth is about families coming together to enjoy God’s presence, His provision and protection. Please notice I said, “Families” because it’s a time when children bring their children and their children’s children to assemble in an outside booth to celebrate God’s faithful goodness throughout the entire year.
I am one hundred percent convinced that the only method we’re going to survive the onslaughts that lie ahead and are already among is by celebrating perpetual Sukkoths by families joining together to pray, to learn and to share each others goods. Today we call this community—the assembling of saints (Jew or Gentile Christians).
During my adolescence, we had no space in the church building for our growing Sunday School class so we often met under a Mesquite tree outside, or in the shade provided by the side of the church building. Some of my best prayer and bible studies with men have been under a huge oak tree with low reaching branches. These trees remind me of our family trees—families connected like branches to the trunk and the trunk to its roots.
During my elementary years we’d spread open some harsh and thorny bushes in order to make our own little succa or hut in the middle of it. This little thorny hut served as protection from our imaginary enemies. We even had secret entrances into it.
The only way we’re going to survive the grave challenges coming at us today—such as the biggest tax hikes in America’s history coming up in 1/11—will be by our tabernacle lifestyle. This is how God’s family will overcome through its hardy sense of devotion to God, to family and to community. There’s no other way to endure what’s ahead without God in the middle of our community life where we all pull together.
Don’t you think it’s time to get real about the fact that God is preparing us on how to return to a lifestyle of modesty, simplicity and integrity of heart?
In closing, let me say that when David sang the 27th Psalm, the 4th verse gives us the heart of a Tabernacle lifestyle. But in verse 5, he reminds us that God will keep us safe in the “shelter of his Tabernacle.” Then in verse 6, David declares that he’s not going to moan and groan while he presents his sacrifices but shout with joy and with music to the Lord.
May we learn to live in the daily Sukkoths of our life in God!
Hag Sameah – Happy New Year!
Dell
PS, My new book,“Out from Hiding” will be coming off the press shortly—I’ll keep you posted. If you're interested in obtaining a copy as soon as it's off the press, send me an email at negevdell@hotmail.com.
The central theme of this Feast isn’t so much the hut or booth as much as the family and members of God’s congregation coming together. What good is a hut (or booth) if our visit and discussion is all wrong and irrelevant?
To me, Sukkoth is about families coming together to enjoy God’s presence, His provision and protection. Please notice I said, “Families” because it’s a time when children bring their children and their children’s children to assemble in an outside booth to celebrate God’s faithful goodness throughout the entire year.
I am one hundred percent convinced that the only method we’re going to survive the onslaughts that lie ahead and are already among is by celebrating perpetual Sukkoths by families joining together to pray, to learn and to share each others goods. Today we call this community—the assembling of saints (Jew or Gentile Christians).
During my adolescence, we had no space in the church building for our growing Sunday School class so we often met under a Mesquite tree outside, or in the shade provided by the side of the church building. Some of my best prayer and bible studies with men have been under a huge oak tree with low reaching branches. These trees remind me of our family trees—families connected like branches to the trunk and the trunk to its roots.
During my elementary years we’d spread open some harsh and thorny bushes in order to make our own little succa or hut in the middle of it. This little thorny hut served as protection from our imaginary enemies. We even had secret entrances into it.
The only way we’re going to survive the grave challenges coming at us today—such as the biggest tax hikes in America’s history coming up in 1/11—will be by our tabernacle lifestyle. This is how God’s family will overcome through its hardy sense of devotion to God, to family and to community. There’s no other way to endure what’s ahead without God in the middle of our community life where we all pull together.
Don’t you think it’s time to get real about the fact that God is preparing us on how to return to a lifestyle of modesty, simplicity and integrity of heart?
In closing, let me say that when David sang the 27th Psalm, the 4th verse gives us the heart of a Tabernacle lifestyle. But in verse 5, he reminds us that God will keep us safe in the “shelter of his Tabernacle.” Then in verse 6, David declares that he’s not going to moan and groan while he presents his sacrifices but shout with joy and with music to the Lord.
May we learn to live in the daily Sukkoths of our life in God!
Hag Sameah – Happy New Year!
Dell
PS, My new book,“Out from Hiding” will be coming off the press shortly—I’ll keep you posted. If you're interested in obtaining a copy as soon as it's off the press, send me an email at negevdell@hotmail.com.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
ANOTHER 911!
NOTE: Today is 9-11 (Sept. 11th, 2010). A few days I posted this message in my monthly newsletter. If you’re interested in subscribing to it, send me an email to negevdell@hotmail.com.
Two days before the infamous 9-11, I spoke on the title: How to dial God’s 911. (It was based on Psalm 91.1) This came after an incredible vision God gave me while in the Rockies during the preceding summer. It was an amazing experience which I’ll never forget.
Here we are at the eve of another 9-11 (September 11th). No, I’m not saying this day is marked for another terror attack here in our nation–not that I know of.
This year, 9-11 falls just one day after the Feast of Trumpets also known as Rosh Hashanah, which is also the Jewish New Year. In fact, it’ll fall exactly one week before the holiest day in the Jewish calendar known as Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Just a few days later, we’ll be celebrating Succoth also known as the Feast of Tabernacles which begins the eve of September 23rd.
Although I’ve stated that I do not know, by fact or revelation, of any terror attacks planned against our nation on that day, I do know such attacks are being planned against Israel at this very time.
In fact, Debkafile reports that the U.S. has warned Syrian president Bashar Assad regarding plans to attack Israel. Debka says that “The Obama administration has sent… Bashar Assad a stern warning that he will be held personally accountable and face consequences if Israel and the Palestinian Authority are subjected to a terror campaign—whether by Hizballah or the Palestinian extremist groups based in Damascus.”
In the past, I have heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver some pretty hefty speeches but none like the one he delivered before the U.N. Assembly in New York a few weeks ago on June 13th. When I heard and read his statement all I could say was, “Wow and AMEN.” Here’s what he had to say:
"I promise to all Muslims around the world - if your plan will be carried out, to destroy the State of Israel, God forbid, I assure you that we have submarines with nuclear warheads missiles and we have nuclear warheads missiles outside the borders of Israel, these missiles will destroy major European capitals, along with Mecca and Medina and all the Arab oil fields."
In my newsletter last month, I delivered a “Word of Caution” regarding the time period between October and the ending of January 2011 (i.e., 10/10 – 1/11). I asked you to be very prayerful about incidents that could take place during this time and to keep a particular eye open for 10/10/10. At this time I have nothing more to add to this word of caution other than to say, it looks more serious than we think. You see, what shakes Israel also shakes America; and what shakes America shakes Israel. Let’s be more prayerful than ever as we stand watch and in the gap for Zion and also our homeland.
On a totally separate note, I want to advice my faithful readers to keep me in our warmest prayers as I’m putting final closure to my new book that’ll come out in a month or two. The title is, “OUT FROM HIDING.” It’s a book that’ll provide evidences which point to the reality of Sephardic Jewish roots among many of my Latino brethren. These evidences point to the historical record, material evidences (such as artifacts), onomastics which deals with the origins of Spanish/Sephardic surnames and DNA which presents us an irrefutable source of scientific knowledge on this subject. I earnestly believe it’ll be the best book I’ve yet to publish. I’ll be taking orders later on.
Shalom…
L’Shana tova,
Dell
Friday, July 2, 2010
WHEN IT’S OK TO FORGET
Everybody has heard of the Scripture that tells us to 'forget things of the past because God is doing something new.' (Isaiah 43:19) However, just days ago I heard the whisper of God telling me: "I'm making a new beginning out of a new beginning."
In other words, God is taking the very seed from within a new fruit He has created in order to do something even more special for a specific purpose.
After almost 15 years of traveling across America and especially the Southwest, I'm finding a brand new breed (seed) of Sephardic Jews with Latino roots that longing for a more intimate relationship with God than ever.
This breed of Sephardic Anusim has one thing in common--unquenchable passion for what is true. At last, I'm finding Sephardic Latinos that aren't compromising their values and principles in order to please or appease people. They're retrieving most of their ancestors' virtues that were passed down to them in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the Southwest.
Another thing that separates them from all the rest is that they aren't gliding through the clouds of presumption, addicted to lifeless theologies or liturgies. They're not mere spectators but the very spectacles in God's ancient pathway. (Jeremiah 6:16) These folks are in touch with reality--from Capitol Hill and the Oval Office all the way down (or should I say up) to the grassroots where people are at right now. These folks are distinguished by a deep and genuine sense of "comunidad" (community). They are fully aware that without an integral commitment to comunidad they're sunk in today's malaise of troubles.
In other words, these people--Sephardic Latinos are in touch with the depth of true spirituality as well as the rudeness of reality. They've not given in to the deceptive illusions of today's chaotic mess in our government, politicians and those in positions of inbred power.
The folks I'm speaking about are 3rd, 4th, 5th generation American Latinos that have hid their true Sephardic identity for over 500 years and are coming out of hiding and taking possession of their God-given purpose and inheritance.
In recent past, I’ve begun to see something very spectacular to me. I'm now seeing that these people are sparking new hope and casting renewed light among the American Indian tribes and nations. New hope is arising within Indian Reservations as they too discover their roots and their destiny in life. I know we've got a long way to go but don't forget God's doing a new thing from within a new thing. I think we're alas finding the gold within our soul that was taken from us many generations ago.
I am totally convinced that in these perilous days, God is raising up a segment of His holy remnant that we've never realized even existed. God is also cleansing the chalkboard of our brain regarding our many misconceptions and misperception of the Sephardic Latinos as well as the Native Americans that live all around and among our people. God is crushing old fables, false myths and foul stereotypes in order that we begin to see the truth concerning our people and where we fit in these end-times which lead to Messiah's coming.
For more information on subjects such as this, visit my website at
www.4sephardim.com and feel free to send me a note when you wish.
Shalom!
Dell
Dell F. Sanchez, Ph.D.
In other words, God is taking the very seed from within a new fruit He has created in order to do something even more special for a specific purpose.
After almost 15 years of traveling across America and especially the Southwest, I'm finding a brand new breed (seed) of Sephardic Jews with Latino roots that longing for a more intimate relationship with God than ever.
This breed of Sephardic Anusim has one thing in common--unquenchable passion for what is true. At last, I'm finding Sephardic Latinos that aren't compromising their values and principles in order to please or appease people. They're retrieving most of their ancestors' virtues that were passed down to them in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the Southwest.
Another thing that separates them from all the rest is that they aren't gliding through the clouds of presumption, addicted to lifeless theologies or liturgies. They're not mere spectators but the very spectacles in God's ancient pathway. (Jeremiah 6:16) These folks are in touch with reality--from Capitol Hill and the Oval Office all the way down (or should I say up) to the grassroots where people are at right now. These folks are distinguished by a deep and genuine sense of "comunidad" (community). They are fully aware that without an integral commitment to comunidad they're sunk in today's malaise of troubles.
In other words, these people--Sephardic Latinos are in touch with the depth of true spirituality as well as the rudeness of reality. They've not given in to the deceptive illusions of today's chaotic mess in our government, politicians and those in positions of inbred power.
The folks I'm speaking about are 3rd, 4th, 5th generation American Latinos that have hid their true Sephardic identity for over 500 years and are coming out of hiding and taking possession of their God-given purpose and inheritance.
In recent past, I’ve begun to see something very spectacular to me. I'm now seeing that these people are sparking new hope and casting renewed light among the American Indian tribes and nations. New hope is arising within Indian Reservations as they too discover their roots and their destiny in life. I know we've got a long way to go but don't forget God's doing a new thing from within a new thing. I think we're alas finding the gold within our soul that was taken from us many generations ago.
I am totally convinced that in these perilous days, God is raising up a segment of His holy remnant that we've never realized even existed. God is also cleansing the chalkboard of our brain regarding our many misconceptions and misperception of the Sephardic Latinos as well as the Native Americans that live all around and among our people. God is crushing old fables, false myths and foul stereotypes in order that we begin to see the truth concerning our people and where we fit in these end-times which lead to Messiah's coming.
For more information on subjects such as this, visit my website at
www.4sephardim.com and feel free to send me a note when you wish.
Shalom!
Dell
Dell F. Sanchez, Ph.D.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Turkish Flotilla Vs. Israel
On Memorial Day, Israeli commandos swarmed the Turkish flotilla of six ships which allegedly contained humanitarian supplies aimed for Gaza. Israeli intelligence dropped the ball when it came to the fact that those “humanitarian workers” might be violent. Armed with knives, pipes and various forms of propelled objects that cause injury, they severely beat up and injured ten Israeli commandos. What’s most amazing is that these commandos were only armed with “paint-ball rifles” such as those used to disperse rioters and a hand gun. After some serious physical attacks on these commandos, they were finally given permission to use their handguns. They fired rounds at the legs of their attackers and drove them away.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, there are now two more ships being launched from Turkey this week to the same blockage where Israel has repeatedly ordered them not to enter. Israel has clearly stated they can aim their humanitarian ships to the Port of Ashdod, which is right next to Gaza. It is believed these ships could be led by war ships as well as fighter jets from Turkey–so much for the chilly relationship between Israel and Turkey which is now icy cold.
In the midst of these new Israeli crises, we continue to read headlines such as:
“Israel braces for Turkish, Hizballah, Hamas reprisals…”
“Syria has 1,000 ballistic missiles zeroed on Israeli targets…”
“Iran test-fires same missiles as handed to Hizballah…”
“(PA Minister) Abbas: We deal with U.S., Not Israel…”
What’s my opinion you ask? Thanks for asking.
I have been in a kibbutz immediately next to the Gaza border which abuts Egypt many times. The sounds I’ve heard by day and especially at night are quite telling. There hardly was a night when I wouldn’t hear constant automatic gunfire, explosions, fighter jets and helicopters flying overhead.
Every single night, after the loud chanting of Moslem clerics over loud speakers, I knew what would happen right after that. No, the worshippers didn’t come out passive and peacefully but fuming with violence, hatred and mocking Israeli soldiers patrolling our narrow border between that Palestinian village and our kibbutz. I think the worst night I had was when from midnight until the dawn, radical, terror-bent Palestinian Moslems made all kinds of noises in form of waves. The noise makers were lined up against the border fence in the south-end of the village, as far as I could hear, and continue in northerly waves all night long. They made different noises such as roosters crowing and donkeys hee-hawing. They ended their noises with the squawking of large black crows at the dawning of the new day. At this point they synchronized their squawking with the actual noises these crows would make every morning. It gave me the creeps because of their proximity. I thought they’d invaded our kibbutz for sure.
So what am I trying to say? I am asking you, why do you think this flotilla was at this blockage at armed with food, medicine and cement? Why at this particular time? Simple!
Everyone has heard reports that Israel will be attacked this summer by the Hizballah terrorists, by Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and possibly Iran. We also know that Gaza Palestinians do not need food nor medical supplies because Israel provides all this to them. But in their anticipation of war against Israel, they know Israel will cut supplies instantly. They know they’ll need surplus food, water and medical supplies for their casualties.
But what about all that cement? It’s been confirmed over and over again that these Palestinians continue to dig tunnels; so they need concrete for their smuggling underground canals. And…they also need it to build stronger concrete bunkers against Israeli raids, rockets and missiles.
So what can we do? There are thousands and perhaps millions of Pro-Israel Zionists all across our hemisphere. There are also Sephardic Crypto Jews into the millions in the Americas. We need to mobilize ourselves in prayer first. We need to pray the prophecies God has in His Word against these enemies of “the apple of God’s eye,” Israel. After all, the voice of one calling in the Desert to prepare the way for the Lord can now be heard louder and is more urgent than ever!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
Dell
Visit my website at: www4sephardim.com -- check the publications page for books I've published and teaching DVD's I've produced.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, there are now two more ships being launched from Turkey this week to the same blockage where Israel has repeatedly ordered them not to enter. Israel has clearly stated they can aim their humanitarian ships to the Port of Ashdod, which is right next to Gaza. It is believed these ships could be led by war ships as well as fighter jets from Turkey–so much for the chilly relationship between Israel and Turkey which is now icy cold.
In the midst of these new Israeli crises, we continue to read headlines such as:
“Israel braces for Turkish, Hizballah, Hamas reprisals…”
“Syria has 1,000 ballistic missiles zeroed on Israeli targets…”
“Iran test-fires same missiles as handed to Hizballah…”
“(PA Minister) Abbas: We deal with U.S., Not Israel…”
What’s my opinion you ask? Thanks for asking.
I have been in a kibbutz immediately next to the Gaza border which abuts Egypt many times. The sounds I’ve heard by day and especially at night are quite telling. There hardly was a night when I wouldn’t hear constant automatic gunfire, explosions, fighter jets and helicopters flying overhead.
Every single night, after the loud chanting of Moslem clerics over loud speakers, I knew what would happen right after that. No, the worshippers didn’t come out passive and peacefully but fuming with violence, hatred and mocking Israeli soldiers patrolling our narrow border between that Palestinian village and our kibbutz. I think the worst night I had was when from midnight until the dawn, radical, terror-bent Palestinian Moslems made all kinds of noises in form of waves. The noise makers were lined up against the border fence in the south-end of the village, as far as I could hear, and continue in northerly waves all night long. They made different noises such as roosters crowing and donkeys hee-hawing. They ended their noises with the squawking of large black crows at the dawning of the new day. At this point they synchronized their squawking with the actual noises these crows would make every morning. It gave me the creeps because of their proximity. I thought they’d invaded our kibbutz for sure.
So what am I trying to say? I am asking you, why do you think this flotilla was at this blockage at armed with food, medicine and cement? Why at this particular time? Simple!
Everyone has heard reports that Israel will be attacked this summer by the Hizballah terrorists, by Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and possibly Iran. We also know that Gaza Palestinians do not need food nor medical supplies because Israel provides all this to them. But in their anticipation of war against Israel, they know Israel will cut supplies instantly. They know they’ll need surplus food, water and medical supplies for their casualties.
But what about all that cement? It’s been confirmed over and over again that these Palestinians continue to dig tunnels; so they need concrete for their smuggling underground canals. And…they also need it to build stronger concrete bunkers against Israeli raids, rockets and missiles.
So what can we do? There are thousands and perhaps millions of Pro-Israel Zionists all across our hemisphere. There are also Sephardic Crypto Jews into the millions in the Americas. We need to mobilize ourselves in prayer first. We need to pray the prophecies God has in His Word against these enemies of “the apple of God’s eye,” Israel. After all, the voice of one calling in the Desert to prepare the way for the Lord can now be heard louder and is more urgent than ever!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
Dell
Visit my website at: www4sephardim.com -- check the publications page for books I've published and teaching DVD's I've produced.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Immigration Reform
--Where do you stand?—
There’s a lot of confusion regarding illegal immigration today. Many have formed opinions or taken a position based on media reports and political debates. Let’s ascend above this for a minute and consider some other perspective.
A lot of Americans have never even seen a Mexican alien. Most everyone has seen Latino tourists spending mucho dinero but not hard working, family loving aliens. Others have established a stereotype based on a very narrow perspective.
Personally, I have seen both extremes. I know people who are actively involved in helping aliens. I also know deer hunters that have told me they use aliens for target practice when they’re crossing down their hunting lease. Some hunters set traps for them while others leave their cabin doors unlocked with food on their shelves for them to come in and eat while they’re out.
The Bible has a lot to say about aliens. The Hebrew meaning of the word alien points to a sojourner that lives in constant fear because of his status. Exodus 22:21 says, “Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.” Zechariah 7:10 reads, “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor…”
Personally, I’m a third generation and my wife is a fourth generation American. Our grandchildren are fifth and sixth generation our great granddaughter is seventh generation American. (Our forefathers were on this side of the border before the Southwest was part of the USA.) Despite this, I know the feeling of living in fear and intimidation during my growing up years as I visited parts of my native city where I wasn’t welcomed.
How can we secure our borders and deal with illegal immigration in a prudent and humane way? Simple–God has blessed America with incredible genius. When we pool knowledgeable people with a caring heart together, there is a spark of the miraculous that emanates from these interactions. Sure, things get heated at times because iron sharpens iron and sparks fly all over the place. But we ascend to even higher planes through these interactions.
We need to challenge our local and state leaders to put pressure on our national leaders so that they might begin to identify leaders in different fields of our society to address this issue. We do not want a bunch of politicians to control this operative. We need professors, lawyers, physicians, plumbers, carpenters, scientists, school teachers, housewives, ranchers, farmers. We also need theologians and philosophers from among our Jewish and Christian communities. Not to forget–we urgently need grassroots folks of different ethnicities to sit alongside these elite thinkers of our day; and to come up with recommendations that can serve the needs of our citizenry as well as the aliens that have always and shall always live among us.
Above all, we need to put God and godly people in the middle of this. We’ll need an army of people praying all across our nation. Failure to do this in a humane manner could spell chaos and a possible insurrection that’ll only maximize our problems all across our 2000 mile U.S.-Mexican border.
We can’t afford to alienate over 500 million neighbors to the south of us because of arrogance or fear. America is going to need all the friends it can get within our hemisphere as more and more nations are antagonistic towards us and some are developing methods of mass destruction such as nuclear and chemical and biological technologies–all aimed at us!
Me? I’m for laws and procedures that are just as well as merciful. Let’s not forget that most of us are the descendants of aliens from the four corners of the earth. Some of us have been here a bit longer while others have seemingly been here forever.
Finally, let’s remember what the Christian New Testament says about father Abraham within this same context. -- By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger (alien) in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. Hebrew 11:9-10.
It’s time to serve as lights beaming in the darkness of today’s national crises. We’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.
Shalom,
Dell
PS, Please visit my website at www.4sephardim.com. Pray for us and help us continue to beam the message of truth by reading my books and viewing my instructional DVDs. Also consult my blog at: www.obadiahsrevelationtoday.blogspot.com.
There’s a lot of confusion regarding illegal immigration today. Many have formed opinions or taken a position based on media reports and political debates. Let’s ascend above this for a minute and consider some other perspective.
A lot of Americans have never even seen a Mexican alien. Most everyone has seen Latino tourists spending mucho dinero but not hard working, family loving aliens. Others have established a stereotype based on a very narrow perspective.
Personally, I have seen both extremes. I know people who are actively involved in helping aliens. I also know deer hunters that have told me they use aliens for target practice when they’re crossing down their hunting lease. Some hunters set traps for them while others leave their cabin doors unlocked with food on their shelves for them to come in and eat while they’re out.
The Bible has a lot to say about aliens. The Hebrew meaning of the word alien points to a sojourner that lives in constant fear because of his status. Exodus 22:21 says, “Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.” Zechariah 7:10 reads, “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor…”
Personally, I’m a third generation and my wife is a fourth generation American. Our grandchildren are fifth and sixth generation our great granddaughter is seventh generation American. (Our forefathers were on this side of the border before the Southwest was part of the USA.) Despite this, I know the feeling of living in fear and intimidation during my growing up years as I visited parts of my native city where I wasn’t welcomed.
How can we secure our borders and deal with illegal immigration in a prudent and humane way? Simple–God has blessed America with incredible genius. When we pool knowledgeable people with a caring heart together, there is a spark of the miraculous that emanates from these interactions. Sure, things get heated at times because iron sharpens iron and sparks fly all over the place. But we ascend to even higher planes through these interactions.
We need to challenge our local and state leaders to put pressure on our national leaders so that they might begin to identify leaders in different fields of our society to address this issue. We do not want a bunch of politicians to control this operative. We need professors, lawyers, physicians, plumbers, carpenters, scientists, school teachers, housewives, ranchers, farmers. We also need theologians and philosophers from among our Jewish and Christian communities. Not to forget–we urgently need grassroots folks of different ethnicities to sit alongside these elite thinkers of our day; and to come up with recommendations that can serve the needs of our citizenry as well as the aliens that have always and shall always live among us.
Above all, we need to put God and godly people in the middle of this. We’ll need an army of people praying all across our nation. Failure to do this in a humane manner could spell chaos and a possible insurrection that’ll only maximize our problems all across our 2000 mile U.S.-Mexican border.
We can’t afford to alienate over 500 million neighbors to the south of us because of arrogance or fear. America is going to need all the friends it can get within our hemisphere as more and more nations are antagonistic towards us and some are developing methods of mass destruction such as nuclear and chemical and biological technologies–all aimed at us!
Me? I’m for laws and procedures that are just as well as merciful. Let’s not forget that most of us are the descendants of aliens from the four corners of the earth. Some of us have been here a bit longer while others have seemingly been here forever.
Finally, let’s remember what the Christian New Testament says about father Abraham within this same context. -- By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger (alien) in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. Hebrew 11:9-10.
It’s time to serve as lights beaming in the darkness of today’s national crises. We’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.
Shalom,
Dell
PS, Please visit my website at www.4sephardim.com. Pray for us and help us continue to beam the message of truth by reading my books and viewing my instructional DVDs. Also consult my blog at: www.obadiahsrevelationtoday.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Nightmares of the Holocaust–Memories of the Inquisition
–What’s the difference–
Everybody knows what “holocaust” is but no one knows what an “Inquisition” is.
Of course, I’m generalizing a bit. In a nutshell, an Inquisition is a type of holocaust such as the one Spain perpetrated on Jews a few hundred years ago. An Inquisition is also a holocaust that Mexico followed up on after that Jews fled from Spain and Portugal to Mexico.
On April 19th all Jews and Zionists will celebrate Memorial Day, remembering the horrific tragedy of Hitler’s Holocaust. Then the 20th, we will celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.
With profound respect and heaviness of heart I want to say that while I was a young boy, I remember the horrific travesties of the Holocaust that took place during World War II. Some of my extended family members fought in this gruesome war. But what lies even more heavily in my soul is the fact that we’ve either forgotten–or we never knew about an earlier Holocaust that affected tens of thousands of our Spanish forefathers that fled the literal flames of the Inquisition in Spain and then Portugal and then Mexico and other nations in Latin America.
My point is this: there is no difference between a people that suffered at the hand of their perpetrators one year ago as opposed to one decade ago. Pain and suffering was present in both cases. The presence of such trauma did not go away–it remains there as a memorial.
A people that suffered in Hitler’s Holocaust 50 years ago is no less and no more than the people that suffered in the Spanish Inquisition 500 years ago. Hitler’s fiery ovens were no more and no less than the burnings at the stake of the Inquisitions. The confiscation of goods and property were the same in both cases. The raping of women and girls and even young boys were the same. The kidnappings of their children were no different–a kidnapped child is the same whether it was 50 years ago or 500 years ago. The collective unconscious in both cases is quite similar if not the same. The outcry of the human soul is the same. The demand for justice is exactly the same.
Hitler used Ghettos and Spain used Barrios to hold the Jews under siege. Hitler enforced their wearing a Star of David to distinguish them from all others. Spain used the San Benito which was the vesture filled with insane emblems to demonstrate who was a Spanish (Sephardic) Jew.
It is nothing short of a miracle we have children of the Holocaust survivors today. It is just as much a miracle, and more so, that we have survivors of the Inquisitions that besieged Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba and most Latin American nations including the State of New Mexico in the United States of America.
I wish to God that someone would build a museum of all the atrocities caused upon the Jews of Spain–the Sephardim, the Anusim. There is a major museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem. In fact, there are more than 20 small and large museums in foreign countries and at least two others in Israel. In our nation there are approximately 25 such museums, the largest one being in Washington, DC. But they have little if any information about the Spanish Inquisition with its tentacles in Iberia and throughout Latin America, and as stated previously also in New Mexico.
I happen to have two dear colleagues that deals with the Holocaust survivors in Israel. I personally know a couple of Jewish individuals who are children of Holocaust survivors. I’m glad to report that despite their parent’s traumas, they have managed to grow up and make something very special of themselves. But as a mental health professional, I do not need a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass to detect the effects of their parent’s trauma.
On the other hand, I happen to know hundreds and thousands of descendants of the survivors of one or more Inquisitions but their stories are not known. In many cases, they are seen with suspicion and cynicism when they tell a small portion of their forefathers’ plight. I am however glad to report that the extended Jewish family is slowly coming around to believe their reports as they become knowledgeable of what actually took place in their histories. But something of a miraculous dimension needs to take place in the halls of the Israeli government in order that these Sephardic Anusim souls are reckoned with in a just and merciful manner.
I am not advocating that any system become gullible to believe anything without proper evidence or due process. But I am declaring that it is high-time that new case law begins to be written along with new policies and procedures that can best deal with such cases. After all, God has given us an amazing tool that is called the brain in order to accurately process intelligence in a wise and prudent manner. But this is going to demand a major amount of change. This means that those that are in positions of power will need to get out of their presumptive boxes in order to hear, see and perceive what is taking place all across the Americas including Iberia and other foreign nations where there are yet Sephardic Jews in virtual hiding.
It is time for the secular as well as the religious Jews to come together in order to create new pathways that begin to open up, perhaps, small gateways for bona fide cases of Sephardic Anusim. It is time that Israeli politics and religious extremism be put on the shelf until this issue of the awakening of the sleeping giant of Sephardic-Anusim is compatibly dealt with.
In closing, I am convinced we need each other. Sephardic Anusim needs to reconnect with the people as well as the land of their Jewish forefathers. But on the other hand, I’m convinced that Israel needs to stretch out her arms to embrace their “orphaned” brothers and sisters as they cry out for a little help. Frankly, I shall go out on the limb to declare something very dear to my own heart.
Israel needs the Sephardic Anusim more than the Anusim needs Israel. Most all of the Sephardic Anusim in America that I know, that are longing to make Aliyah are quite resourceful, industrious, loyal and committed Zionists. They may not know half as much about the rudiments and the thousands of years of the Jewish experience. They may not even know what terms such as “halacha” means neither by definition nor by religious expression, but one thing I do know–they are very teachable. They are pliable and changeable.
The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion stated that if anyone wants to be a Jew, let him. I am sure he wasn’t referring to “come one, come all.” But I am convinced, after studying his memoirs in the Ben Gurion Heritage Institute in the Negev one summer, I discovered that Ben Gurion knew Israel would need my people, the Sephardic Anusim for such a time as this. I have read many of his speeches and public statements and I happen to know that Ben Gurion was a strong believer in the Prophets of the Bible, the Tanakh. His young assistant was once asked by a journalist if Ben Gurion ever sought advice from other; and the young aide said: “Yes, only after he has sought the Prophets.”
I therefore, appeal to the “powers that be” in Israel and the Jewish leaders throughout the globe to take a second and more cautious look at what the holy Prophets have to say about the people I am here advocating for. And…and, I’m also appealing to nuestra gente (our people) to learn to love one another, to bear one another’s differences, to unite under a common-cause banner and to never forget the past of our forefathers’ history lest it repeats itself in our day.
Shalom!
Dell F. Sanchez
PS, what you have just read is a statement which I make in my new book that’s about to be published this summer. In it I deal with the hard facts and evidences of Sephardic Anusim roots among many Hispanic/Latinos. I refer to DNA, material evidences, onomastics, history and oral histories. If you're interested in my coming your way to give a lecture or set of seminars, contact me at: negevdell@hotmail.com
Everybody knows what “holocaust” is but no one knows what an “Inquisition” is.
Of course, I’m generalizing a bit. In a nutshell, an Inquisition is a type of holocaust such as the one Spain perpetrated on Jews a few hundred years ago. An Inquisition is also a holocaust that Mexico followed up on after that Jews fled from Spain and Portugal to Mexico.
On April 19th all Jews and Zionists will celebrate Memorial Day, remembering the horrific tragedy of Hitler’s Holocaust. Then the 20th, we will celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.
With profound respect and heaviness of heart I want to say that while I was a young boy, I remember the horrific travesties of the Holocaust that took place during World War II. Some of my extended family members fought in this gruesome war. But what lies even more heavily in my soul is the fact that we’ve either forgotten–or we never knew about an earlier Holocaust that affected tens of thousands of our Spanish forefathers that fled the literal flames of the Inquisition in Spain and then Portugal and then Mexico and other nations in Latin America.
My point is this: there is no difference between a people that suffered at the hand of their perpetrators one year ago as opposed to one decade ago. Pain and suffering was present in both cases. The presence of such trauma did not go away–it remains there as a memorial.
A people that suffered in Hitler’s Holocaust 50 years ago is no less and no more than the people that suffered in the Spanish Inquisition 500 years ago. Hitler’s fiery ovens were no more and no less than the burnings at the stake of the Inquisitions. The confiscation of goods and property were the same in both cases. The raping of women and girls and even young boys were the same. The kidnappings of their children were no different–a kidnapped child is the same whether it was 50 years ago or 500 years ago. The collective unconscious in both cases is quite similar if not the same. The outcry of the human soul is the same. The demand for justice is exactly the same.
Hitler used Ghettos and Spain used Barrios to hold the Jews under siege. Hitler enforced their wearing a Star of David to distinguish them from all others. Spain used the San Benito which was the vesture filled with insane emblems to demonstrate who was a Spanish (Sephardic) Jew.
It is nothing short of a miracle we have children of the Holocaust survivors today. It is just as much a miracle, and more so, that we have survivors of the Inquisitions that besieged Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba and most Latin American nations including the State of New Mexico in the United States of America.
I wish to God that someone would build a museum of all the atrocities caused upon the Jews of Spain–the Sephardim, the Anusim. There is a major museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem. In fact, there are more than 20 small and large museums in foreign countries and at least two others in Israel. In our nation there are approximately 25 such museums, the largest one being in Washington, DC. But they have little if any information about the Spanish Inquisition with its tentacles in Iberia and throughout Latin America, and as stated previously also in New Mexico.
I happen to have two dear colleagues that deals with the Holocaust survivors in Israel. I personally know a couple of Jewish individuals who are children of Holocaust survivors. I’m glad to report that despite their parent’s traumas, they have managed to grow up and make something very special of themselves. But as a mental health professional, I do not need a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass to detect the effects of their parent’s trauma.
On the other hand, I happen to know hundreds and thousands of descendants of the survivors of one or more Inquisitions but their stories are not known. In many cases, they are seen with suspicion and cynicism when they tell a small portion of their forefathers’ plight. I am however glad to report that the extended Jewish family is slowly coming around to believe their reports as they become knowledgeable of what actually took place in their histories. But something of a miraculous dimension needs to take place in the halls of the Israeli government in order that these Sephardic Anusim souls are reckoned with in a just and merciful manner.
I am not advocating that any system become gullible to believe anything without proper evidence or due process. But I am declaring that it is high-time that new case law begins to be written along with new policies and procedures that can best deal with such cases. After all, God has given us an amazing tool that is called the brain in order to accurately process intelligence in a wise and prudent manner. But this is going to demand a major amount of change. This means that those that are in positions of power will need to get out of their presumptive boxes in order to hear, see and perceive what is taking place all across the Americas including Iberia and other foreign nations where there are yet Sephardic Jews in virtual hiding.
It is time for the secular as well as the religious Jews to come together in order to create new pathways that begin to open up, perhaps, small gateways for bona fide cases of Sephardic Anusim. It is time that Israeli politics and religious extremism be put on the shelf until this issue of the awakening of the sleeping giant of Sephardic-Anusim is compatibly dealt with.
In closing, I am convinced we need each other. Sephardic Anusim needs to reconnect with the people as well as the land of their Jewish forefathers. But on the other hand, I’m convinced that Israel needs to stretch out her arms to embrace their “orphaned” brothers and sisters as they cry out for a little help. Frankly, I shall go out on the limb to declare something very dear to my own heart.
Israel needs the Sephardic Anusim more than the Anusim needs Israel. Most all of the Sephardic Anusim in America that I know, that are longing to make Aliyah are quite resourceful, industrious, loyal and committed Zionists. They may not know half as much about the rudiments and the thousands of years of the Jewish experience. They may not even know what terms such as “halacha” means neither by definition nor by religious expression, but one thing I do know–they are very teachable. They are pliable and changeable.
The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion stated that if anyone wants to be a Jew, let him. I am sure he wasn’t referring to “come one, come all.” But I am convinced, after studying his memoirs in the Ben Gurion Heritage Institute in the Negev one summer, I discovered that Ben Gurion knew Israel would need my people, the Sephardic Anusim for such a time as this. I have read many of his speeches and public statements and I happen to know that Ben Gurion was a strong believer in the Prophets of the Bible, the Tanakh. His young assistant was once asked by a journalist if Ben Gurion ever sought advice from other; and the young aide said: “Yes, only after he has sought the Prophets.”
I therefore, appeal to the “powers that be” in Israel and the Jewish leaders throughout the globe to take a second and more cautious look at what the holy Prophets have to say about the people I am here advocating for. And…and, I’m also appealing to nuestra gente (our people) to learn to love one another, to bear one another’s differences, to unite under a common-cause banner and to never forget the past of our forefathers’ history lest it repeats itself in our day.
Shalom!
Dell F. Sanchez
PS, what you have just read is a statement which I make in my new book that’s about to be published this summer. In it I deal with the hard facts and evidences of Sephardic Anusim roots among many Hispanic/Latinos. I refer to DNA, material evidences, onomastics, history and oral histories. If you're interested in my coming your way to give a lecture or set of seminars, contact me at: negevdell@hotmail.com
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