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Messianic Noahites


Messianic Noahites are the Edomean-Ishmaelite people of a Petter Chamor (Sefer Hasidim Siman 191) who take the same stance as Judaism against the Jesus of the Talmud Gittin and agree with the Tosafist tradition of the pre-Holocaust Ashkenazim and Romaniotes that there is no relationship between him and the NT Jesus of Nazareth who Messianic Noahides see as yet another appearance of the Neti'ot, Sar HaPanim.

When it comes to an academic analysis of their faith, Messianic Noahites are basically NoahiteAnabaptists who consider Sar HaPanim as their own personal Messiah who they believe appeared as Rebbe Yehoshuah Minzaret and study Melave Malka as a result.

The term Messianic Noahite is more specific than Messianic Hebrew (which includes all Muslims/Ishmael and Christians/Edom) because it implies only Christians and Muslims for Judaism although they could be from any of several other faiths as well. Because of their friendly attitude towards people of other faiths, Messianic Noahides are sometimes mistaken to be an Ecumenical movement but are not.

In Late Antiquity Arabic they were called Tsabian.

Messianic Noahides denounce Messianic Jews as a Synagogue of Satan and consider Messianic Noahide Judaism as the only legitimate form of, or antidote to, Messianic Judaism. Messianic Noahites come together to study the Nicene Bible with Jewish teachers in the Bei Abedan but are not organized in their own Church, rather, the term is used collectively to refer to individuals who support or maintain Pharisee publications as their only Courts of Justice.

Judaism retains more knowledge about the Messiah than crossed over into Christianity and does not oppose any individual's belief in one person or another as one's own personal Messiah. Messianic Noahites focus on the role of the Messiah Ben Joseph called "Righteous Messiah" and Yeshua in the Metsudah Machzorim and described as the Sar HaPanim Neti'ot in sufficient detail by Rabbeinu Bahiya.

The closest in affection to Messianic Noahites are the Netzarim because they are not proud, except that Messianic Noahites aren't a circumcised, Anti-Pauline Adoptionist sect of Shomeir-Torah who pretend to be Jews.

Messianic Noahides have existed throughout the Christian Era usually going by the name the Baptism to be distinguished from the Circumcision. The Baptism refers to non-Jews who are grafted into the Hebrew Olive-tree by their faith.

The Bohemian Reformation came to the attention of Orthodox Jews who followed Rashi's interpretation of the start of the Messianic Era based on Daniel 9 and 12. These Taborites were eventually hunted down and escaped to Kiev under the leadership of Skhariya (a.k.a. Zakhariya, Skara; Russian: Схария, Захария, Скара) the Jew where they were known as Judaizers. Zacharia ben Ahron ha-Cohen was a scholar from Kiev whonwas brought to Novgorod by Mikhailo Olelkovich from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1470. In reality, Messianic Noahides do not Judaize but maintain a clear distinction between themselves and Jews.

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