A Brief Refutation of the Heresy that the Jews of Today are Gentile Khazars Having Converted to Talmudic Judaism in the 800s
There is a seemingly universal acceptance of a “doctrine of faith” among the American patriot community, and others, that the “Jews” of today are in fact Gentile Khazars having originated out of a Gentile Kingdom known as Khazaria in the mid 800s. Before beginning this brief refutation we must first know that the English Bible of the Protestant Reformation, the AV1611, stoutly condemns such a notorious heresy having first originated in Jesuit-controlled Austria in the late Nineteenth Century.
According to the Word of God, historic Israel was a nation composed of a race of people with a distinct language (Hebrew), a land or geographic location and a culture (including circumcision) founded upon the Torah—the five books of Moses. The foundation for the creation of this sovereign nation was the Abrahamic Covenant. This Covenant, also called “the everlasting covenant” in Isaiah 24:5, promised a “land,” a “nation” and a “blessing” to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3). That land was further described in Genesis 15:7, and the Promise was sealed with a set of blood sacrifices with Abram asleep, the LORD passing as a “burning furnace” between the pieces of those cut up sacrifices thereby making the Abrahamic Covenant a UNILATERAL (one-sided) Covenant (Genesis 15:8-21). Thus, Abraham and his descendants have no obligation to do anything to bring that covenant to pass. The Abrahamic Covenant is absolute, cannot be annulled, and is “without repentance” (Romans 11:29). The sign of this Covenant of Promise to Abraham and his seed was circumcision of all males (Genesis 17:7-10).
An additional promise to Abraham was that he would have a singular “seed” (Genesis 22:18) in which all the nations of the earth would be blessed, which seed was Christ (Galatians 3:16). This Covenant of Promise was passed from Abraham to Isaac; from Isaac to Jacob; and from Jacob to his twelve sons. These are four of “the promises made unto the fathers” (land, seed, blessing and singular seed) which the Lord Jesus Christ came to “confirm” (Romans 15:8). Again, these promises are UNCONTITIONAL, meaning that Abraham and his physical posterity have no conditions to fulfill in order for the Abrahamic Covenant to be brought to pass, this Covenant having never been completely fulfilled. It is God, for his holy name’s sake, Who will ultimately fulfill the promises herein stated. This fact is extremely important when addressing the subsequent Mosaic Covenant which covenant was CONDITIONAL, as we shall observe in Deuteronomy 28.
As we know, Israel was given the Mosaic Covenant, which Covenant was CONDITIONAL; that is, if the nation was to enjoy the blessing of the land promised to Abraham, then she was commanded to obey the Law of Moses. There were two parties to the Contract, Jehovah and Israel. Both parties had duties and obligations to fulfill. Israel’s obedience brought God’s blessing; Israel’s disobedience brought God’s cursing and ultimate removal off the “promised land” beginning in 606 BC via the hand of Babylon. But the land never ceased to belong to Abraham’s physical seed. Why? Because the land promise given to Abraham and his physical seed was “without repentance.” This fact is key in discerning which people have title to the land today called Israel in the Middle East. Does that land belong to the Jews or to the Arab Moslems? Do the Arab Moslems (called Palestinians by Rome) have any legal title to Gaza or the West Bank? The Abrahamic Covenant answers the question providing that the Jews who call themselves “Jews” today are in fact true Jews, also called “Hebrews” and “Israelites,” inhabiting a portion of the “promised land” at this moment. Biblically, all three terms—Jews, Hebrews and Israelites—are synonymous, remembering that “the Jews” have a “religion” distinct from their race (Galatians 1:13-14). We must not forget that the Apostle Paul was a Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin (Philippians 3:5); that he was an Israelite and a physical seed of Abraham (Romans 11:1); and that he was a Jew of Tarsus (Acts 21:39), who before his salvation in Messiah Jesus, was a Pharisee (Philippians 3:5) practicing “the Jews’ religion” (Galatians 1:14). We agree that there were certain Gentiles in the past who converted to the Jews’ religion (Esther 8:17; John 12:20-22; Acts 2:10, etc.), but they never became Hebrews as a race. They remained Gentile proselytes and were distinguished as such by the priests who kept the genealogical records in the Second Temple. These Gentiles, were never considered racial Hebrews within the nation of Israel; they remained only Gentile converts anticipating the fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant—the coming of that “seed” who was Messiah. Their Gentile seed was mixed into the nation and absorbed, as were the descendants of Gentiles Rachab and Ruth, but the gene pool of the twelve tribes has not been corrupted or substituted with Gentile peoples known as “the Khazars.”
Again as we know, the Hebrews were moved off the land as foretold by Moses. The LORD’s removal of the Israelites off the land given to them through Abraham via the Abrahamic Covenant was to be international. This removal has come to be known as the “Diaspora.” There is even a plant called “the Wandering Jew.” During the past 2000 years, from 70AD to the present, the racial Jews have been dispersed among the nations, preserved by God for the future fulfillment of his UNCONDITIONAL promises made to His Friend and servant, Abraham. It is for this reason that the Prophet Malachi declared in 3:6:
“For I am the LORD [Abrahamic covenant-keeping Jehovah] I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”
And again in Ezekiel 11:16:
“Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.”
And again in Hosea 3:4-5:
“For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod and without teraphim:
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.”
During this time of international Disapora, the racial seed or physical descendants of Jacob—the man renamed Israel—would be preserved. This sovereign preservation of a race yet to inherit the promises, given to the fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, would include the preservation of their language (Hebrew) and their culture (circumcision, synagogue attendance and dietary laws, etc.) so as to distinguish them as a peculiar people among all of the Gentile nations. Unfortunately during the Diaspora the racial Jews/Hebrews/Israelites would be “the tail” of all nations and fiercely persecuted as we read in Deuteronomy 28:64-67:
“And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor they fathers have known, even wood and stone.
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of they life:
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.”
In short, this means mass persecution of the Hebrew/Jewish race throughout the Disapora, which prophecy was reaffirmed by Messiah Jesus in Luke 21:22-24:
“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people [“lao” from “laos”—a people, tribe, nation; all those who are of the same stock and language (Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 372)].
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
Therefore, the international Dispora and accompanying persecution of the racial Jews/Hebrews/Israelites was foretold by Moses and confirmed by Christ. The reasons for this are two: the breaking of the Mosaic Law and the rejection of their Messiah. And it is most notable that Rome has always been the font of anti-Jewish fury, and the impetus of the persecution of Jews. Thus the LORD is using the devil to fulfill the words of His prophets.
By logical extension, if the Jews are to be persecuted among the nations while in international dispersion (in which persecution historic Bible Believing Protestant and Baptist nations have never engaged unless their governments have been usurped by the Jesuits), these Hebrews must be recognizable to all Gentile nations into whose lands the Israelites have been driven. The racial identity of the Jews, prophetically speaking, can never be lost or secretly replaced by Gentiles posing as racial Jews. If this substitution can be done, and the Jews as we know them today are not in fact racial Jews, then their persecution cannot be fulfilled as foretold above. Therefore, the theory that Gentile Khazars replaced the Jewish race, as we know that people of today, is in fact a religious heresy and historical non-event.
THE KHAZARS
Of the Khazars we read from a document condemned by the Papacy’s Index of forbidden books. That document is The Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, 1903, Volume XIV, pp. 59-60. A few portions are as follows:
“This vanished people, . . . as Khazirs in Armenian and Khwalisses in Russian chronicles, . . . occupied a prominent place amongst the Byzantine state-system. . . . the Khazars are an historic figure upon the borderland of Europe and Asia for at least nine hundred years (190-1100 A.D.). The three hundred and fifty ears 600-950- mark the epoch of their greatness, but their rise can be trace for four centuries before, and their decline for one hundred and fifty years to follow. Their home was in the spurs of the Caucasus and along the shores of the Caspian—the ‘sea of the Khazars;’ and their cities, all of them populous and civilized commercial centers, were Itil, the capital, upon the delta of the Volga, the ‘river of the Khazars,’ Semender (Tarkhu), the older capital, Khamlidje or Khalendsch, Belendscher, the outpost towards Armenia, and Sarkel on the Don. They were the Venetians of the Caspian and the Euxine, the organizers of the transit between the two basins, the universal carriers between East and West; and Itil was the meeting-place of the commerce of Persia, of Byzantium, of Armenia, of Russia, and of the Bulgarians of the middle Volga. . . . in its zenith Khazaria extended from the Dnieper to Bolgari upon the middle Volga, and along the eastern shore of the Caspian to Asterabad.
Ethnology—Few points have been more disputed than the origin of this interesting people; and there is still no consent amongst authorities upon the subject. They are assigned to the Turkish stock by Lathan and Howorth, . . . and have even been claimed as Jews on account of their use of the Hebrew character and the profession of the Hebrew faith amongst them. But their geographical position, their history, and the contemporary witness we have as to their physical character, their language, and their own national tradition, may be accepted as conclusive proof that the Khazars were an indigenous people of the Caucasus, and near akin to the [Orthodox] Armenians and the [Orthodox] Georgians. . . . Nevertheless there are many points connected with the Khazars which indicate a close connection with Ugrian or Turkish peoples. . . .
There were Khazars and Kara (black) Khazars. The ‘Khazars’ were fair-skinned, black-haired, and of a remarkable beauty and stature; their women indeed were sought as wives equally at Byzantium and Baghdad; while the ‘Kara Khazars’ were ugly, short, and were reported by the Arabs almost as dark as Indians. The latter were indubitably the Ugrian nomads of the steppe, akin to the Tartar invaders of Europe, Huns, Bulgarians, and Hungarians, who filled the armies and convoyed the caravans of the ruling caste [again illustrating White supremacy and Black subordination as decreed by Noah]. But the Khazars proper were a civic commercial people, the founders of cities, remarkable for somewhat elaborate political institutions, for persistence, and for good faith—all qualities foreign to the Hunnic character.
They are identified with good reason . . . with the . . . ‘White Khazars’ who appear upon the lower Volga in the Byzantine annals, . . . There was throughout historic times a close connection which eventually amounted to political identity between the Khazars and the Barsileens (the Passils of Moses or Chorene) who occupied the delta of the Volga; and the Barsileens can be traced through the pages of Ptolemy . . . to the so-called Royal Syths, . . . whose political superiority and commercial enterprise led to this rendering of their name [Scythians being equated with uncircumcised barbarians by the Apostle Paul in Colossians 3:11]. Such points, however, need not here be further pursued than to establish the presence of this white race (‘La Race Blonde’ of Klaproth) around the Caspian and the Euxine throughout historic times. They appear in European history as White Huns (Ephthalites), White Ugrians (Sar-ogours), White Bulgarians. They were the carriers between Europe and the farthest East. . . . They bore the brunt of each of the great waves of Tartar conquests, and were eventually overwhelmed. . . .
[Thus the Khazars were merchants of the White Race and traceable to the Royal Scythians some of which adopted Judaism. They were highly developed in the arts, quite intelligent, produced beautiful women who were sought out as wives by surrounding nations, and were eventually overrun by the Tartars.]
History.—From out of the mass of this white race of the steppe the Khazars can be first historically distinguished at the end of the 2d century of our era. . . .
In the interval between the decline of the Mohammedan empire and the rise of Russia, the Khazars reached the zenith of their power. The merchants of Byzantium, Armenia, and Baghdad met in the markets of Itil . . . and traded for the wax, furs, leather, and honey that came down the Volga. So important was this traffic held at Constantinople that, when the portage to the Don was endangered by the irruption of a fresh horde of Turks (the Petchenegs), the emperor Theophilus himself dispatched the materials and the workmen to build for the Khazars a fortress impregnable to their forays (844). Famous as the one stone structure is in that stoneless region, the post became known far and wide amongst the hordes of the steppe as Sar-kel or the White Abode. Merchants from every nation found protection, justice, and perfect good faith in the Khazar cities. The Jews, expelled from Constantinople, sought a home amongst them, developed the Khazar trade, and contended with Mohammedans and Christians for the theological allegiance of the pagan people. The dynasty accepted Judaism (circ. 740), but there was equal tolerance for all, and each man was held amenable to the authorized code and to the official judges of the faith which he professed. . . .
It was, however, from a power that Constantine did not consider that the overthrow of the Khazars came. . . . Oleg, the Russ prince of Kieff, passed through the Slav tribes if the Dnieper basin with the cry ‘Pay nothing to the Khazars’ (884). The kingdom dwindled rapidly to its ancient limits between the Caucasus, the Volga, and the Don, whilst the Russian traders of Novgorod and Kieff supplanted the Khazars as the carries between Constantinople and the north. When Ibn Fadlan visited Khazaria forty years later, Itil was even yet a great city, with baths and market-places and thirty mosques. But there was no domestic product of manufacture; the kingdom depended solely upon the now precarious transit dues; and the king or great khakan was a roi fainéant hidden from the sight of men, the actual administration being in the hands of a major domus also called khakan. At the assault of Swiatoslav of Kieff the rotten fabric crumbled into dust. His [Oleg’s] troops were equally at home on land and water. Sarkel, Itil, and Semender surrendered to him (965-969). He pushed his conquests to the Caucasus, and established Russian colonies upon the Sea of Azoff. The principality of Tmoutorakan, founded by his grandson Mstislav (988), replaced the kingdom of Khazaria, the last trace of which was extinguished by a joint expedition of Russians and Byzantines (1016). The last of the khakans, George Trula, was taken prisoner. A remnant of the nation took refuge in an island of the Caspian (Siahcouye), others returned to the Caucasus; part emigrated to the district of Kasakhi in Georgia, and appear for the last time joining with Georgia in her successful effort to throw off the yoke of the Seljuk Turks (1089).”
Thus we see that according to this record the Khazars were of the White race and at the apex of their power were great merchants, honest and just. The ruling dynasty adopted Judaism, but the pagan Khazarian people generally refused. Khazaria ultimately had a large Moslem population and in the end was overrun by the Orthodox peoples of Byzantium and Russia. It is most enlightening that no mention is made of the Khazars adopting Judaism, though Jews were present in the kingdom and greatly increased the wealth of Khazaria via their God-given commercial skills necessary for the preservation of the race during the Disapora. Again, no mention is made of the Khazars embracing Judaism; only the ruling dynasty adopted “the Jews’ religion” in 740 AD most assuredly for political and commercial reasons.
Dr. Peter Ruckman, though not as precise as the author would prefer, summarizes the matter quite succinctly when he writes in his Israel: A Deadly Piece of Dirt, (Pensacola, Florida: BB Bookstore, 2001) pp. 207-209:
“On the evening of the Bolshevist Revolution, there were still 3,000,000 Jews in Russia; many of them took Communist posts in Lenin’s dictatorship.
When these Jews became ‘commissars,’ they were all labeled as full-blooded ‘Reds;’ so, much of the anti-Semitic literature in America between 1920 and 1980 blames the Jews for the promotion of Communism. Along with this one will find (in the radically anti-Semitic publications in Europe [put forth by the Jesuits]) the false information to the effect that every Jew in America is really a Russian ‘Khazar.’
This means that any right-wing Conservative—especially the Roman Catholic Conservatives—can safely persecute Israel (or ‘Israelites’ or ‘Jews,’ etc.) and get away with it without incurring the curse that God mentioned to Abraham (Gen.12:1-3), which was passed on to Isaac and then Jacob and then to the twelve literal Jewish TRIBES. . . .
The way that American Catholics try to get out from under this curse—so they can treat Jews the way Hitler treated them—is to pretend that the modern Jew is not the real ‘Israel.’ Conservative Protestants produce Scripture to support this delusion (Rom. 2:29) [refusing to distinguish those who are “Jews inwardly” referred to in this scripture, and those who are racial Jews as were the Apostle Paul (Acts 21:39) and the Apostle Peter (Gal. 2:14)]. . . .
The ‘party line’ with British-Israelites, Black Muslims, and ‘Yawehists’ is that the modern Jew is nothing but a mongrel half-breed Jew, ‘like the ones who killed Jesus Christ.’ If you can couple the Khazars with the Protocols [authored by French Jesuits in their Community of Sion in Valais just prior to the Dreyfus Affair] (see App. 1), you can carry out Adolph’s ‘final solution’ without any qualms of conscience. That is the material on which he ‘cut his teeth’ in [Jesuit-ruled, Roman Catholic] Vienna before World War I.
‘Khazaria’ was a land of nomad, heathen Russians who lived in central Asia between the Black and Caspian Seas. They stretched inland (north of the Georgia-Armenia area by about 400-500 miles; extending from Guranji on the east, to the Oxus River, to Buda and Kazimierz on the west). The Jews of the Diaspora had the good fortune to lead one of their kings (Bulan) to become a convert to Judaism (see Esther 8:17) in A.D. 700 [A.D. 740]. A later king (Obadiah) invited Rabbis into Khazaria to set up a ‘Supreme Court.’ It had seven judges; these judges were two Jews, two Christians, two Moslems, and one ‘heathen.’ (A fair and square set up if you ever saw one!).
In A.D. 970, Russian troops attacked Khazaria, and by 1016, they had overrun it and driven every Jew out of Russia or Byzantium (Constantinople) or to seaports on the Mediterranean in Greece, Albania, and Turkey. There is no historical evidence, whatsoever to prove that one single Jew in Europe or America is (or ever was) a ‘Khazar.’ If either case were true, it would mean nothing. Every ‘Caucasian’ in America today was certainly not from the Caucasus (A Caucasian) in his former ‘estate.’ Hundreds of thousands of them had been Germans, Irishmen, and Englishmen; and thousands of them had been Frenchmen, Slavs, and Italians. ‘Khazaria” went out of business more than 900 years ago.”
Khazarian Empire At its Height, 9th Century A. D.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, Fifteenth Edition, (Chicago: William Benton, 1974) Volume V, p. 788.
In conclusion, the teaching that the Jews of today are not true Jews, that they are in fact Gentile Khazars who converted to Judaism in the Eighth Century is a heresy secretly espoused by the agents of Rome. Though the king and a few nobles evidently converted to Judaism, the White Khazars of the Empire never became Jews. Therefore, the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe are not Khazars, but indeed racial Jews springing from one of the four women having birthed the twelve sons of Jacob. (We need not forget that though Leah and Rachael were sisters and therefore of the same race as was Jacob, handmaids Bilhah and Zilpah were not of the same race, possibly darker and thus the reason for the racial diversity of true Jews, the Ashkenazi being lighter and the Sephardic Jews being darker.) Further, we regard the Khazarian heresy as a justification to persecute those who are described by the Lord Jesus Christ in Revelation 2:9 as those who:
“. . . say they are Jews [physically] and are not [Jews “by nature” (Gal.2:15) or “indwardly” whose “circumcision is that of the heart” (Rom.2:29)].”
In conclusion, in light of the everlasting, UNCONDITIONAL Abrahamic Covenant; in light of the present international Disapora as foretold by Moses; in light of the LORD’s promise to preserve the physical descendants of Jacob during this Diaspora; in light of the continued persecution of the Hebrew/Jewish race for the last nineteen centuries with more to come including “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7); in light of the fact that Israel must exist as a nation prior to the Second Coming of her rejected Messiah (Ezekiel 38:8); in light of the fact that Jerusalem must be inhabited with “Jews” before the return of her Messiah who will place his feet on the Mount of Olives just as he left the earth (Zechariah 14:4; Acts 1:11); in light of the fact that a third temple must be built in order for the “sacrifice and oblation to cease” at the command of the Roman “prince that shall come” being “the abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27; Matt. 24:15); we believe that the present population of the nation of Israel is composed of Jews, 80 percent being racial Jews, 20 percent being Jews by religion. We believe that these people have an inalienable, God-given right to their land and that the Gentile Arab Moslems are merely pawns to be used in Rome’s anti-Israel agitation purposed to kill more racial Jews, while the Pope’s Masonic Jewish Zionists continue to make concessions to Rome.
Therefore, though the LORD Jesus Christ has established the nation of Israel via the agency of Satan using his popish Jesuits, we believe that the nation is composed of Jews, not Khazars, and that these racial Jews have a right to possess that land without obedience to the Mosaic Covenant, that covenant having been done away with by the sacrifice of Christ, evidenced by the tearing of the veil ‘from the top to the bottom” in the second temple immediately after the death of the Lord Jesus (Matt. 27:51).
Eric Jon Phelps
P.O. Box 306
Newmanstown, PA
17073