Perceptions

People have recorded in them the strangest of stereotypes.

Mention to them God and they immediately think of someone sitting on a throne.

Mention Obama and they think of some black guy who has to be as brilliant as they are because they voted for him.

Mention Jew, Esther, Purim, and people conjure up like Hollywood, some dark eyed, dark haired, olive complected Jewish lady.

The problem with stereotypes is not the stereotype, but that most are formed with a lack of information.


I was reading in one of my favorite books in the Bible today by the Holy Spirit's guidance the story of Esther. I always in musing in this trouble world as a form of comfort, ponder the women of the Bible as they are so spectacular.
I love these women from Hannah, who was Samuel's Mother in creating him by a prayer, Ruth in her being adopted into Israel as a Moabitess, leaving all behind. There is the Virgin Mary who astounds me in Gabriel the Archangel coming to her and telling her she was pregnant by God when being pregnant and not married would get her stoned, and she simply accepted it in Faith.
That is one amazingly brave Lady.

Then of course there is Esther who the Jewish Feast of Purim remembers when God delivered the Jews from annihilation.
I suppose it might surprise people to learn that Esther was not Jewish in the least. It is recorded in the book of Esther that her Uncle Mordecai who was her adoptive father according to Hebrew Law, is listed as a son of Kish who is a Benjaminite.
Kish was the father of King Saul of Benjamin.

Benjamin was one of the 12 sons of Jacob who God changed his name from usurper to Israel, one who contends with God.
Benjamin's mother was Rachel, the same mother of Joseph, whom the Americans and Anglos come from.
Judah, or the father of the Jews whom David and Jesus are numbered in Judeaens, mother was Leah, Rachel's sister.

The reason Esther is mislabeled as a Jew is because God separated the Kingdom of Israel due to sin after Solomon's death. The northern 10 lost tribes of which America is a part of, was headed by Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph's sons, along with Dan.
They were exiled by Assyrians to what was northern Iran and gave name in antiquity to the Aryan of Indian folklore, before migrating northwest into Europe.
As Joseph had 2 shares in the tribes, there were 13 tribes really.

The southern kingdom or House of Judah, contained 3 tribes who were labeled Jews.

Levi born of Leah was expelled by King Jeroboam, "lest the Priests lead the 10 northern tribes back to Jersusalem and Judah control due to the Temple".

And, Benjamin, who was a small tribe that was almost eradicated by the first Civil War in American history over sex crimes.

So it was Judah which led, Levi the Priestly tribe and Benjamin as part of the Josephite tribes which made up the "Jews".

Benjamin is thought to be part of the Galileans of Jesus time which stood out in the Bible like sore thumbs. That sore thumb is evident today in the people of Iceland are Benjamanites. They are a mix as most northern kingdom tribes in being fair skinned with brown or blue eyes, and, blonde hair or brunette.
Yes Esther in all likelihood was not recognized as a Jew by the Persians who are light skinned too, because she did not at all look like the stereotypical Jews.

For the record, King David is described as "ruddy" which means pink skinned. He might have been even red haired, which is a trait that marks the Israelitish peoples across the globe as they are the only ones who have that gene which keeps popping up.
I had a very swarthy, dark haired teacher who was simply gorgeous, who was married to a Germanic dark haired guy, and they produced as red haired child. That red hair and freckles is a gene which is part of the Israelite peoples who are as diverse today in skin tones and colors as they were in Jacob's family.
I will not get into the genetics, but Jacob was the one who by pealing poplar and other sticks and laying them before breeding animals, actually produced spotted, striped and black animal offspring.
There are very complex visual and literal genetics going on in these Israelite peoples.

So the fact is Queen Esther is of the Rachel line and Benjaminites are as different in look from a Judahite as a Texan is from someone from New England.

God loves diversity and that is why he made so many varieties and His children have that trait as if you look at tomatoe seeds, Americans have created thousands of varieties to their forever drive of changing styles.

God also is not allot like who people think God is. God is likened and likens Himself as a Shepherd, Gardener, Advocate, A Dweller in Tents, a Nomad on the move, a Fisherman, a Trapper, a Warrior, a Carpenter etc...
Yes He is King and Lord, but God is not a city dweller in mindset. He is King David, Peter and Abraham. Men of the open spaces and making their living off the land, connected to the land and quite at home in those places.
He leads in those places in this era of time the location which is best suited for transforming the human soul into the human Spiritual being to inherit the Kingdom of God.

The interesting part is conjecture leans toward the fact that while Jesus was absolutely of the tribe of Judah, his Uncle who is the Virgin Mary's' brother, Joseph of Aramathea, who is mentioned in the Bible as "the other Joseph", because he according to Hebrew Law became Jesus legal father after Joseph the carpenter died, married a Lady of Magdala, who the Bible shows is Mary Magdalene.
See the horrid perverse DaVinci Codes have no clue in their reprehensible fiction that Mary and Jesus were having sex and producing children. Jesus was chaste and Mary Magdalene was his step mother.
That is why there is this close relationship between them, because Jesus was the oldest male when His Uncle was away, and that is why the Jews dragged Mary to be judged by Him and stoned for adultery.
That was His legal responsibility.

So there was no sex, there was only family and a step mother who owed her step Son her life, because He saved her.

The interesting part is Mary Magdalene was likely of the Benjaminite tribe, so Jesus was adopted into that family tribe too.

Perceptions are rarely how things really are. A Sephardic "Jew" is who people think Esther is, but Esther was a Benjaminite. God is in that same parallel and He reveals Himself readily to those who seek His Truth.

If one looks at Barack Obama, one finds a white guy, with Ishmaelite bloodlines and Hamite bloodlines in the minority, who according to Biblical and any law is a foreigner, as both his parents legally were British subjects.

The facts are what matter in this and not the stereotypes which at times are formed from people's weaknesses. History looks a great deal different than what people think and if people would stop making choices out of fear based on those weaknesses, the world would be a much more civil and peaceful place according to God's will.

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