Ezra’s Error

Ezra/Nehemiah returned from Babylon to Jerusalem and kicked out the high priestly line from Joshua (Yeshua) son of Joseidek and Zarubbabel (line of David). Ezra established the corrupt scholarly rabbinical and scribal system that corrupted Judaism.  Ezra brought Kabbalah from Babylon at the order of Artaxerxes. (Ezra 7:25-26) 

Scholarship (letters) was never the basis for divine authority among God’s people. The consequence of basing religious authority on scholarship was to lead the people away from the truth and the true Messiah.

Ezra displaced the rightful kings and priests of Israel by over-racially interpreting the Law of Moses which proscribed that Levitical priests be married to women from “among their own people”.  Many priests had married converts that were spiritually part of Israel but may not have been ethnically pure. So, Ezra displaced these priests and usurped their power and  calked for the priests to divorce their wives or be exiled.

Malachi was critical of Ezra’s actions:

Mal 2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.  

(Levites were given divine authority and not Ezra’s people)

Mal 2: 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

(Ezra’s appointed rabbi’s and scribes are corrupt)

Mal 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

(Irony that it is Ezra that is “married to a wife of a strange God” and not the Levites)

Mal 2: 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

(God will cut off the master (Rabbi) and scholar (scribe) from Israel)

Mal 2: 16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

(Ezra commanded the Levites to divorce their wives but God tells Ezra that He hates divorce)

Ezra’s corrupt scholarly and racist/ethnocentric interpretations of scripture has led to racism among Jews and Christians. Ezra taught that conversion wasn’t enough but that God respected blood-lines.  Except Ezra is a hypocrite and cast out the Levites and then said if you’re a convert but not “pure blood”,  then your not a real Jew.

So, knowing that “letters” is NOT the basis for religious authority, why has the Catholic and Protestant Churches based their religious authority on the same corrupt scholarly system where authority is based on degrees of divinity and theology?

Why has Christianity based its doctrine on scholarly-derived Creeds?

Do we think its possible that scholarly-derived creeds has led Christians away from the true Messiah in the same way Ezra led Israel away from Jesus Christ?