Most people have heard of Jesus Christ, considered by Christian followers to be the Messiah who lived over 2000 years ago. But very few people have ever heard of Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself to be the Messiah in 1666. He amassed a following of over one million believers, half the world’s Jewish population during the 17th century, by proclaiming that redemption was available through acts of sin.
Considered a heretic by many of his contemporary Rabbis, nonetheless, his fame extended far and wide. Sabbatai’s adherents planned to abolish many of the ritualistic observances, because, according to the Talmud, inthe Messianic time there would no longer be holy obligations. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sexual promiscuity, adultery, incest and religious orgies were encouraged and practiced by Sabbateans.
After Sabbati Zevi’s death in 1676, his philosophy would be continued, and expanded on, by his Kabbalist successor Jacob Frank. Frankism, a religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on the leadership of the Messiah claimant Jacob Frank. He, like Zevi, would perform strange acts that violated traditional religious taboos, such as eating fats that were forbidden by Jewish dietary laws, ritual sacrifice, promoting orgies and sexual immorality.
Jacob Frank would eventually enter into an alliance formed by Adam Weishaupt and Meyer Amshel Rothschild called the Order of the Illuminati. The objectives of this organization was to undermine the world’s religions and power structures, in an effort to usher in a utopian era of global communism covertly ruled by their hidden hand: the New World Order.
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