The First Palestinian Half Jews

The Palestinians' ancestry begins many millenia ago.

FINAL TRIAL OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TOGETHER - THE ONLY TRUE ISRAELO-CHRISTIANS THE PALESTINIANS

FINAL TRIAL OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TOGETHER - THE ONLY TRUE ISRAELO-CHRISTIANS THE PALESTINIANS

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THE FINAL TRIAL OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TOGETHER

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THE TRUE DESCENT OF JESUS CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET

The Justice of God: Gaza, the Camp of the Saints

THE TRUE DESCENT OF JESUS CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET

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Palestine Cry: Traditional Catholic Prayers: Traditional Catholic Prayers: The Justice of God: The True Descent of Jesus Christ: The Antichrist and the False Prophet

Much more recent than the Palestinians were "The First Palestinian Half Jews." They began with Herod the Great and continued with Herod Antipas and thereafter.

The Herodian half Idumean "dynasty," of Herod Antipas was the first instigator of the first persecution of Jesus as a baby and the final persecution of Jesus when He was an adult and His crucifixion, and earlier, they were the persecutors who put to death John the Baptist.

Herod Antipas' father was Herod the Great. (Great means 'elder' and nothing else - the Herodian family was an amalgam of the Diabolic intrigues of the type that centuries later were hallmarks of, amongst other infamous despotic dominions, the Borgias and the Sicilian Black Hand and the Cheka-NKVD-KGB of the Bolshevik Anti-Christian persecuting Judeo-Masonic-Communists of Russia.)

Herod the great

Herod, surnamed the Great, called by Grätz "the evil genius of the Judean nation" (Hist., v. II, p. 77), was a son of Antipater, an Idumæan (Jos., "Bel. Jud.", I, vi, 2). The Idumæans were brought under subjection by John Hyrcanus towards the end of the second century B.C., and obliged to live as Jews, so that they were considered Jews (Jos., "Ant.", XIII, ix, 4). Yet Antigonus called Herod a half-Jew (Jos., "Ant.", XIV, xv, 2, and note in Whiston), while the Jews, when it furthered their interests, spoke of Herod their king as by birth a Jew (Jos., "Ant." XX, viii, 7). Antipater, the father of Herod, had helped the Romans in the Orient, and the favour of Rome brought the Herodian family into great prominence and power. Herod was born 73 B.C., and he is first mentioned as governor of Galilee (Jos., "Ant.", XIV, ix, 2). Here the text says he was only fifteen years old, evidently an error for twenty-five, since about forty-four years later he died, "almost seventy years of age" (Jos., "Bel. Jud.", I, xxxiii, 1). His career was more wonderful than that of many heroes of fiction. Among the rapidly changing scenes of Roman history he never failed to win the goodwill of fortune's favourites. In 40 B.C. the young Octavian and Antony obtained for him from the Roman senate the crown of Judea, and between these two powerful friends he went up to the temple of Jupiter to thank the gods of Rome. Antigonus was beheaded in 37 B.C., and from this date Herod became king in fact as well as in name. He married Mariamne in 38 B.C., and thereby strengthened his title to the throne by entering into matrimonial alliance with the Hasmoneans, who were always very popular among the Jews (Jos., "Bel. Jud.", I, xii, 3). - The Catholic Encyclopedia 1910, in the public domain.

NOTE IN THE BELOW THAT ANY SECULAR ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE GODLESS DEPRAVED MURDEROUS UTTERLY DIABOLICALLY CRUEL TYRANNICAL RULE - "PRAGMATISM" - OF THE HERODIANS AS SOMEHOW UNDERSTANDABLE OR HAVING ANY KIND OF DECENT QUALITY TO IT IS SIMPLY A SIGN OF THE GREAT APOSTASY TODAY.

Herod Antipas (ruler of Galilee) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Herod Antipas, (born 21 bc—died ad 39), son of Herod I the Great who became tetrarch of Galilee and ruled throughout Jesus of Nazareth’s ministry. In The Gospel According to Luke (13:32), Jesus is reported as having referred to him with contempt as “that fox.”

About 4 bc Herod Antipas inherited part of his father’s kingdom after the Roman emperor Augustus had adjusted his father’s will. He restored the damage caused in the period between his father’s death and the approval of the will, restoring two towns, one of which he renamed in honour of the Roman imperial family.

He divorced his Nabataean wife, the daughter of Aretas IV, king of the desert kingdom adjoining his own, to marry Herodias, formerly the wife of his half brother. The marriage offended his former father-in-law and alienated his Jewish subjects. According to Mark 6 and the parallel accounts in Matthew 14 and Luke 3, when John the Baptist, one of his subjects, reproached Herod for this marriage, Herodias goaded her husband into imprisoning him. Still unmollified, she inveigled her daughter, Salome, to ask for the Baptist’s head in return for dancing at her stepfather’s birthday feast. Antipas reluctantly beheaded John, and later, when Jesus’ miracles were reported to him, he believed that John the Baptist had been resurrected. When Jesus was arrested in Jerusalem, according to Luke 23, Pilate, the Roman procurator of Judaea, first sent him to Antipas, who was spending Passover in the capital, because Jesus came from Antipas’ realm. The Tetrarch was eager to see Jesus, expecting more miracles, but soon returned him to Pilate, unwilling to pass judgment.

Some time earlier, Antipas had built the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, partly modelling it after a Greek city, but though he erected statues in the Greek manner in his palace, his coins bore no images. He also encouraged the Herodians, well-to-do Jews who supported him and were tolerant of Roman authority.

Herod’s closeness to the imperial family resulted in his choice as a mediator in the Roman–Parthian talks of 36. To his credit the conference was a success, but Antipas’ haste to report the news to Rome aroused the hostility of Aulus Vitellius, legate of Syria, later emperor. About 37, the Nabataean king Aretas IV, whose daughter Antipas had repudiated, attacked Herod’s realm, inflicting severe damage. When the Tetrarch appealed to Rome, the Emperor sent Vitellius, who, still nursing his resentment, availed himself of every possible delay. After Caligula became emperor in 37, Herodias, envious of her brother Agrippa I’s success, persuaded her husband to denounce him before the Emperor, but the intended victim, Caligula’s close friend, anticipated Antipas and levied charges, partially true, against him. Caligula banished Antipas to Gaul, where Herodias accompanied him, and her brother added the tetrarchy to his domains.

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From ABD:
HEROD ANTIPAS (PERSON) (Gk Antipas]. The son of Herod the Great who, in 4 B.C., inherited from his father the territory of Galilee and Perea, which he governed as Tetrarch until A.D. 39. Antipas is named simply “Herod”—not “Antipas” or “Herod Antipas”—in Josephus, in the NT, and on his own coins (Hoehner 1972: 105—106). The NT gospels mention him in two important contexts. First, because his marriage to Herodias (see below) was harshly criticized by John the Baptist (who preached in the Perea area), Antipas had John arrested and beheaded (Matt 14:1—12 = Mark 6:14—28 = Luke 9:7—9; cf. also Ant 18.5.2 §fl17—119). Second, because he was ruler of Jesus’ home province of Galilee, Antipas was given an opportunity to question and ridicule Jesus during his trial before Pontius Pilate (Luke 23:6—12).

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Antipas had first been married to the daughter of Aretas, king of neighboring Nabatea. When Antipas divorced her and married HERODIAS, trouble ensued. First, the marriage to Herodias apparently was considered unlawful by some traditionalists, including John the Baptist (Matt 14:4). Herodias was Antipas’ niece (daughter of Aristobulus and sister of Agrippa 1); in order to marry Antipas, she had first to divorce another uncle (Antipas’ half brother), by whom she had had a daughter, Salome. (On the problematic identity of this first husband, see HEROD PHILIP) Second, Antipas’ divorce enraged his former father-in-law, the king of Nabatea; but since a disputed boundary was also at issue, we cannot be entirely sure whether the divorce was a cause or a symptom of the quarrel between the two rulers (Ant 18.109—13). Aretas attacked, and in the subsequent battle Antipas’ forces were soundly defeated. Antipas appealed to Tiberius for assistance, and the emperor instructed Vitellius, Roman governor of Syria, to capture Aretas dead or alive (Ant 18. 113— 15; see ARETAS). The defeat was all the more serious for Antipas since some of the Jews considered it to be divine retribution for his execution of John the Baptist (Ant 18.116—20).
From: The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 3, ISBN 0-385-19361-0
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