Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. (Hebrews 2:11)

by Brian Shilhavy

Under the New Covenant that Jesus Christ instituted, there exists a “brotherhood” of believers who are followers of Jesus Christ, and are also the true descendants of Abraham.

The New Covenant is different from the Old Covenant, which is the Law that was dictated to Moses by angels.

The book of “Hebrews” in the New Testament portion of the Bible elaborates on the differences between the two Covenants, and shows how the New Covenant is superior to the Old Covenant.

But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.

For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.

But God found fault with the people and said:

“The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God, and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. (Hebrews 8:6-13)

The first 11 chapters of the book of Hebrews is written like a legal argument, proving the superiority of the New Covenant over the Old Covenant.

The first couple of chapters of Hebrews establishes the fact that Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah, was superior to the angels who gave Moses the Old Covenant on Mt. Sinai, and it also establishes the “brotherhood” of believers.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.

He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises.”
(Hebrews 2:9-12)

Jesus is superior to the angels who delivered to mankind the Law of Moses, because all the angels could do through the Law was to show how sinful man was, because no human being can perfectly follow and keep the Law, except Jesus Christ.

Jesus, who was born from the Virgin Mary and did not inherit the sin of Adam which was passed down through to his descendants through the fathers, led a perfect, sinless life, and never broke the Law.

So when he died the physical death, which is the result of mankind’s sin inherited through Adam, he defeated death and Satan.

He was made “holy” by God the Father, and in turn all true believers in Jesus Christ are also made “holy” and are “of the same family.”

Being part of this family has nothing to do with the groups you belong to, whether those groups are religious (including and especially Christianity), ethnic, or any other way of classifying human beings.

You’re either part of the family of God and a member in the brotherhood of Jesus Christ, or you are not.

Christianity and the “Church” Cannot Save You!

I have already established over the years that in the New Testament portion of the Bible, you will not come across anything that talks about or defines the religion called “Christianity”, because the official religion of Christianity was established in Rome in the 4th Century by the decree of the Roman Emperor. See:

Fact Check: “Christianity” and the Christian Religion is NOT Found in the Bible – The Person Jesus Christ Is

I have also frequently written about how the English word “church” is a poor translation for the Greek word ekklesia that is used in the New Testament’s original language, and means “assembly” or “congregation.”

The other common Greek word used throughout the New Testament for “assembly” or “congregation” is sunagoge, usually translated into English as “synagogue.”

Most of us in Western Culture who speak English have been conditioned to believe our whole lives that “churches” are for Christians, and “synagogues” are for Jews.

We can thank King Jimmy of England for this, as his first “authorized” English version of the New Testament chose to use “church” as the translation of ekklesia, to support his authority over the “Church of England” which was often at odds with the authority of the “Catholic Church” ruled by the Pope.

Now, when we come to these verses in Hebrews Chapter 2 which define the “brotherhood” of Jesus Christ, we can see that all the modern English translations of the Bible do NOT use the English word “church” for verse 12:

He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises.” (Hebrews 2:12 – NIV84)

The Greek word translated as “congregation” here is ekklesia. Some other modern translations use “assembly” here.

The only English version that I have that translates ekklesia in this verse as “church”, the English word used over 90% of the time in the New Testament for ekklesia, is the older King James Version:

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. (Hebrews 2:12)

But even the modern KJV has now switched to “assembly.”

Why?

Because this verse is a quote from the Old Testament book of Psalms, in the 22nd Psalm, and there could be no “Christian Churches” since it was written before Jesus was born.

Not even the older King James Version would dare to use “church” in this Old Testament Psalm:

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. (Psalms 22:22 KJV)

So being a “Christian” and belonging to a “Christian Church” will not save you, nor will it automatically make you a member of the “Brotherhood of Jesus Christ.”

The brotherhood of Jesus is based on whether or not you truly believe in Jesus Christ, and have the same Holy Spirit dwelling in you as Christ did.

This is observed by others not based on what you believe or your Christian “doctrine,” but on how you live your life.

Jesus was ultimately arrested, and then executed, and he told his followers that the path he walked while on this earth was the same path his followers would have to walk:

Then he said to them all:

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?”

(Luke 9:23-25)

Almost all of the early followers of Jesus Christ recorded in the New Testament faced persecution, death threats, and time in jail or prison, including: Peter, John, Andrew, Paul, and others.

Paul made it very clear that following Christ will lead one to persecution and trials:

You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured.

Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:10-13)

This is the price we pay for being part of the brotherhood of Jesus Christ.

And those who attack and persecute us, the “evil men and impostors“, are almost always from the religious classes, such as Christians and Jews who believe that they are a “special class”, the “chosen ones”, who then try to impose their will on everyone else who does not agree with them, which can include murdering them.

Everyone is either part of the Brotherhood of Satan or the Brotherhood of Jesus Christ

The Brotherhood of Satan is best illustrated by Freemasonry, which is called by some “the oldest religion in the world.” See (over 240,000 views):

Insider Exposes Freemasonry as the World’s Oldest Secret Religion and the Luciferian Plans for The New World Order

But ANY “brotherhood” that is based on Satan’s world system, is in opposition to the Brotherhood of Jesus Christ, which is why we are the minority and are attacked so often, especially by the religious groups, like Christians.

Christianity is one of the largest, if not THE largest, networks of the Brotherhood of Satan.

I know this through experience, because I used to be a major leader in this brotherhood before I left the Christian Church.

I was educated in one of the largest and most influential Zionist Christian schools in the U.S., and spent much of my younger years as part of a Southern Baptist Church in Chicago.

The last article I published this week prior to this one, showed that there are just as many pedophile pastors and leaders in the Southern Baptist churches as there are in the Catholic churches among pedo Priests. See:

Four Decades of Predatory Sexual Abuse by Prominent Southern Baptist Leader and Judge

Let me give an example in my own life about how this “Christian Brotherhood” works.

In 1991, when the Persian Gulf War had just broken out after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, I was in the process of applying to the Southern Baptist’s Foreign Mission Board (FMB), because I was fluent in Turkish, and was going to start being trained in business in the Central Asian countries that spoke some form of Turkish.

I was about to start working with a Southern Baptist businessman, who wanted to open a trade office in Baku, Azerbaijan, which had the closest version of Turkish in Central Asia that is similar to “Istanbul Turkish”, the language I was fluent in at that time.

Kurdish refugees from northern Iraq started streaming across the Iraqi – Turkish border, opening up the doors for NGOs and other groups, all coordinated by the UN, to start trying to rescue the Kurdish refugees who were quickly dying.

President George Bush sent his Secretary of State, James Baker, into the area to observe what was happening, and the U.S. established a “no fly zone” over northern Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein’s military from bombing Kurdish cities and towns.

The Southern Baptists, who had many thousands of Christian medical missionaries working all over the world, also wanted to go in and set up a dispensary to treat the refugees.

But they did not have anyone in their system yet who was fluent in Turkish, and so they called me and asked me to coordinate the relief efforts on the Turkish side, based out of the city of Diyabakir, where they then ferried medical personnel and supplies down into the camps of refugees in northern Iraq.

The U.S. military had also made the airport of the Turkish city of Diyabakir their main military base, relocating military assets from their main base in Turkey to the east of there.

So I flew in with a team of doctors and medical personnel, as well as one other translator who was fluent in Arabic, to serve on the Iraq side of the border.

I had to coordinate everything on the Turkish side, since I was the only one fluent in Turkish.

My team leader, who was head of the Kurdish people outreach for the Southern Baptists, started connecting with all of the military leaders in Diyabakir who were also members of the Southern Baptist Church. He referred to it as “the good ole’ boy network.”

By taping into this network, I was able to work side-by-side with the U.S. military in coordinating getting our supplies and medical personnel down into northern Iraq, as I was considered a member of this group, this “brotherhood.”

If I needed to go down into the camps and find my team leader to see what supplies and personnel they needed sent in, all I had to do was contact the correct officer in the military who was also a Southern Baptist to get a ride on one of the military Chinook helicopters to get down into the camps and back.

And our well-trained medical professionals saved a lot of lives.

Of course, if the CIA had never tried to get the Kurds in the north of Iraq, as well as the Shiites in the south of Iraq, to revolt and try to overthrow the Sunni government of Saddam Hussein that was in power at that time and anti-Israel, none of this would have even been needed.

My involvement in this “brotherhood” at that point of my life before I left the Christian cult, also shows that while these Satanic systems and “brotherhoods” are evil, there are still good people involved with them, because they are not yet wise enough to know that these are brotherhoods of Satan.

We don’t need them. They cannot save you, and that includes Christianity and ALL of the various Christian churches and denominations.

Yes, it is a difficult and mostly lonely path to walk down, choosing to only belong to the brotherhood of Jesus Christ, but we have the superior power and the Truth!

When I look at my life today, and think about what it would be like if I stayed in the Church and became, perhaps, some kind of resident undercover “missionary” in Turkey or one of the Turkic republics in Central Asia, compared to how God led me to instead start selling coconut oil from the Philippines, start Health Impact News and expose the evil in the U.S. Government regarding harmful nutritional advice, the dangers of the medical system and vaccines, the topic of “Medical Kidnapping” and child trafficking, I am not sorry one bit for leaving Christianity, because now I am truly free to pursue the Truth wherever it leads, and my work has reached literally hundreds of millions of people for the past 25 years.

Yes, I have paid the price for doing so, with years of litigation against the FDA, the IRS, and many others who have tried to destroy me, which continues to this day with former colleagues now trying to destroy me and my businesses.

But it’s worth it, because I can call Jesus my brother, and that’s all that matters in the end. I know that my “big brother” is stronger and more powerful than all of my enemies combined.

Get out of the Brotherhoods of Satan, and become part of the Brotherhood of Jesus Christ!

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the congregation, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. (Ephesians 1:17-23)

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