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    Jewish believers have been called by many names, among them Notzrim (Nazarenes), Ebionim (Ebionites meaning “poor of this world, but rich in faith”), maaminim (believers), minim (heretics), anusim (forced converts), meshumadim (apostates), Hebrew Christians, Jewish Christians. In the last thirty...
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    Here is a collection of quotes.. http://jerusalemcouncil.org/articles/reference/history-torah-observant-believers/
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    http://www.yahweh.org/publications/fsdy/fs32AppG.pdf Because the Smyrnaean letter known as the Martyrdom of Polycarp states that Polycarp was taken on the day of the Sabbath and killed on the Great Sabbath, some believe that this is evidence that the Smyrnaeans under Polycarp observed the...
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    An Irish presbyter, Columba, feeling himself stirred with missionary zeal, and doubtless knowing the wretched condition of the savage Scots and Picts, in the year 565 took with him twelve other missionaries and passed over to Scotland! (Clintock and Strong's Cyclopedia, Vol. II, page 601.) They...
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    Irenaeus, who followed the Sunday custom, also stated, however, that bishop Polycarp (a disciple of John the Apostle) of Smyrna (c.69-c.155) in Asia Minor, one of the Seven churches of Asia, was Quartodeciman, celebrating on Nisan 14. Shortly after Anicetus became bishop of Rome in about 155...
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    It is clear that the Culdees were much closer to the Jewish Christianity than the Catholic Church, and that they preserved many unusual customs. For example, clearly they were Sabbath-observers, abstaining from work on the Seventh Day of the week. And here are some other such traditions they...
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    The New Covenant Faithful

    There is Biblical and extra-Biblical evidence that such Messianic Jewish community life existed. Ya-akov (James) wrote to the "twelve tribes scattered among the nations" (James 1:1), giving advice on their community life that he assumed was made up mainly of Jewish followers of Yeshua. In two...
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    Another branch of the Messianic Jewish faith flourished in South-West India for about 1400 years, in the Malayali-speaking state of Kerala. Jews and Hindus already living in the area were evangelized by St. Thomas, and their customs, worship, and identity was uniquely Judeo-Christian. NSC...
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    Archbishop Menezes of Goa, convened the Synod of Diamper in 1599, in Kerala. There he ordered all the texts of the syrian nasranis to be burnt. The purpose stated by Menezes was to erase all legacies of antiquity and Jewishness of Jesus teachings. They completely obliterated the records of early...
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    It's all a pretence ... No one keeps the feasts of Jehovah today.

    Here are some quotes that show that the earliest believers followed the Feast Days.. John Chrysostom said, "The festivals of the .. Jews are soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts. There are many in our ranks...
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    That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, "belonging to the Lord." It was reserved uniquely for Jesus' blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had...
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    The term Subbotniki means "Saturday People" and is used to describe Russian peasants who left the Russian Orthodox Church in the 16th Century and who started practicing Judaism. One of the Russian rationalistic bodies known under the general name of "Judaizing sects" (see Judaizing Heresy). On...
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    Persecutions and Atrocities on the Vaudois, says: "They observed the seventh day of the week according to the commandments, immersed for the believers baptism, and kept the Passover or the Lord's Day, once a year in the first month." p. 348-349...
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    William Jones, in History of the Christian Church, says: "Investigators made a report to Louis XII, King of France that they had visited all the parishes that they (Waldenses) dwelt and had inspected their place of worship and found no images nor signs of the ornaments belonging to the mass not...
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    We learn from the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, by Brown, article Pasaginians," that: "A denomination which arose in the twelfth century, called the circumcised. Mosheim says, 'the meaning of the term Pasaginian is unknown, but they seem to have been a remnant of the Nazarenes.' They...
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    From Blunt's Dictionary of Sects and Heresies, we read: "They observed the Law of Moses (except as to sacrifices) circumcision, the Sabbath, distinction of clean and unclean foods all forming part of their system and hence, they were also called, 'Circumcisi, circumcissi, or circumsisi. ...
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    http://www.messianicassociation.org/profiles.htm 1506 - Alfonso de Zamora - Rabbi Alfonso de Zamora, a Rabbi, publicly declared his faith in Messiah Jesus in 1506. Working with Paul Nunez Coronel and Alfonso d'Alcala, two other Jewish believers, he uses his knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic...
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    Ignatz Lichtenstein (1824 - October 16, 1909) was an Hungarian Orthodox Rabbi who wrote "pamphlets advocating conversion to Christianity while still officiating as a Rabbi. Mein Zeugnis [“My Testimony”], Heft II (Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1886). Die Liebe und die Bekehrung [“Love and Conversion”]...
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    I didn't know this but the blood line of the Passagii may have been Levi. http://www.britam.org/levi.html
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    The Passagii, or Passageni, a sect whose name is first mentioned in the acts of the synod of Verona, seem to have been unique in that they required the literal observance of the Mosaic law, including the Jewish Sabbath and circumcision. It is possible they are identical with the Circumcisi...
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