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Who Were the Pharisees and Saducees? WHO WERE THE PHARISEES AND SADUCEES? “What right have you to declare My [God’s] statutes [write man’s vain law], or take My covenant [the Bible] in your mouth, seeing you hate instruction and cast My words behind you? When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought that I was altogether like you; but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes. Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and to him who orders his conduct aright [and bases it on God’s laws] I will show the salvation of God.” [Psalms 50:16-23, Bible, NKJV] "Politicians Prefer Unarmed and Illiterate Peasants!" [SEDM] "POLITICS": (Greek "POLY"= many) + ("TICS"= blood sucking parasites) [SEDM] Who Were the Pharisees and Saducees? 1 of 71 Copyright Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, http://sedm.org Form 05.047, Rev. 10-4-2016 EXHIBIT:________ DEDICATION “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their [the Pharisees] own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.” [Rom. 10:3, Bible, NKJV] _______________________________________________________________________________________________ “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle with flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the [political] rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. “Stand therefore, having girded your waist with Truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one [corrupt employees of the government]. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying, always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to the end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” [Ephesians 6:11-20, Bible, NKJV] _______________________________________________________________________________________________ “And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one [Satan, the ANARCHIST] will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one [Satan, the ANARCHIST] is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the [LEGAL] lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. [2 Thess. 2:6-12, Bible, NKJV] Who Were the Pharisees and Saducees? 2 of 71 Copyright Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, http://sedm.org Form 05.047, Rev. 10-4-2016 EXHIBIT:________ TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ........................................................................................................................................ 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................... 3 LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................. 3 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ................................................................................................................. 3 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 11 2. Philosphical basis of the Pharisees and Saducees ....................................................................... 12 3. Who Were the Pharisees and Saducees? ..................................................................................... 14 4. Differences Between the Pharisees and Saducees ...................................................................... 25 5. Antinomian Christians .................................................................................................................. 29 5.1 The Problem of Hyper-Grace ............................................................................................................................. 29 5.2 How to Help Hyper-Grace Enthusiasts ............................................................................................................... 31 5.3 Questions for Christians who claim the Old Testament Law doesn’t apply to them .......................................... 34 6. Specific Subset of Old Testament Biblical Law that has been repealed .................................. 38 7. The THREE types of Biblical laws: GOVERNMENT law, HUMAN law, Church law ........ 39 8. Defenses against Modern Pharisee Lawyer Tactics ................................................................... 44 8.1 Tools to rebut Government, Legal, and Tax Profession Deception and False Propaganda of Modern Pharisee 44 8.2 Tools to rebut Private Sector Deception and False Propaganda of Modern Pharisees ....................................... 44 8.3 How choice of law rules are illegally circumvented by corrupted government officials to illegally enforce franchises, kidnap your legal identity, and STEAL from You ........................................................................... 45 8.4 Forcing governments to disclose when and how PRIVATE property was converted to PUBLIC property ....... 48 8.5 Remedies against illegal franchise enforcement ................................................................................................. 52 8.6 Franchise enforcement outside of federal territory is a criminal act of “simulating legal process” .................... 56 9. Why there aren’t any honorable Pharisee lawyers willing to expose and fix this fraud ........ 58 10. Are You Anti-Semitic? .................................................................................................................. 59 11. Rebutted False Arguments Against This Memorandum ........................................................... 60 11.1 ARGUMENT: You ought to consider other religious texts. The Bible is not the inerrant word of God ........... 60 12. Conclusions .................................................................................................................................... 61 13. Resources for further study and rebuttal ................................................................................... 61 14. Questions that Readers, Grand Jurors, and Petit Jurors Should be Asking the Government63 14.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 63 14.2 Findings and Conclusions ................................................................................................................................... 63 14.3 Section Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 63 14.4 Further Study On Our Website: .......................................................................................................................... 64 14.5 Open-ended questions ......................................................................................................................................... 64 14.6 Admissions ......................................................................................................................................................... 65 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Three Categories of Biblical Law. .......................................................................................................................... 43 Table 2: "National" v. "Federal" ............................................................................................................................................ 47 Table 3: Rules for converting private property to a public use or a public office ................................................................. 50 Table 4: Rules for converting private property to a public use or a public office ................................................................. 52 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Constitutional Provisions Who Were the Pharisees and Saducees? 3 of 71 Copyright Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, http://sedm.org Form 05.047, Rev. 10-4-2016 EXHIBIT:________ Art. 4, 4 ...............................................................................................................................................................................
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