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‘Rabbi’ declares Eddie Long ‘King’
ReligionNewsBlog.com • Thursday February 2, 2012
The story of embattled megachurch pastor Eddie Long is growing ever stranger.

In a service last Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georgia, a visiting speaker declared Long ‘king.’

‘Rabbi’ Ralph Messer told the enthusiastic congregation, “He’s a king. God’s blessed him. He’s a humble man. But in him is kingship. In him is royalty. In him was a land of Israel. In him was a k chromosome…he was brought through the slaves, raised up in a city and God now wants to release a new anointing.”

Long was then wrapped in Torah scrolls — which Messer claimed were found at Auschwitz and Birkenau — raised aloft by four men, and paraded about the stage.




Ralph Messer is President and Founder of Simchat Torah Beit Midrash in Centennial, Colorado. He is part of the so-called Hebrew Roots Movement, which advocates a return to Torah observance.

Anthea Butler, associate professor of religion at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in her column at Religion Dispatches

I spoke with the Rev Dr. Wil Gafney, Hebrew Bible Professor at Lutheran Seminary about the video, and she responded that Long’s “rabbi” Messner is not a member of any traditional Jewish movement, he did not represent any recognizable Jewish thought or practice in his misrepresentations of the Torah. Moreover, she remarked, “it is unfortunate that the speaker chose to plunder the sacred traditions of Judaism as he invented novel interpretations of biblical texts and imagery to affirm and elevate a leader who had admittedly broken the sacred trust between pastor and congregant.”

Last December Eddie Long announced he was taking some time off after his wife of 21 years filed for divorce.

He returned to the pulpit on January 15 and declared ““2012 is here! Shake off the remorse, shake off the depression, shake off the financial burden, start using your hands again and reconstructing! God is more about your future than he was about your past.””

In September 2010 Long was sued by former New Birth members Anthony Flagg, Spencer LeGrande, Jamal Parris and Maurice Robinson, who alleged the preacher used his influence, trips, gifts and jobs to coerce them into sexual relationships.

The lawsuits were settled last May after months of mediation.

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Honestly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!

Probably do a little of both sis.

Looks like King Ed is gonna be redeemed by an apostate and he's gonna be a huckster for the Hebraic roots movement now selling all the rabbis schofars, prayer shauls, ect. New Hope deserves the bondage their king ois about to put them under. First it was financial bondage nopw here comes law keeping.

I saw this little snip it on Wretched with this crazy thing. I was sitting here in awe of what I was seeing. I know that his wife did file for divorce. I was not happy to hear that because I jsut hate anyone going thru it but I also know that he was accused of having homosexual activities. So I understood and felt she was right in her decision. Then I heard she was taking him back and standing behind him in saying that none of that stuff happened. I know that he was on the Word Network. I think that he is no longer on television now. I think that no one was willing to put him on. That was until this video of him being carried around in a chair by these fellows. Wow!!!

Signs and wonders will be use by the false prophet and the AC...

I stay clear of churches with their 'signs and wonders',and stick to 'faith only.'

eddiemcmillion wrote:I saw this little snip it on Wretched with this crazy thing. I was sitting here in awe of what I was seeing. [color=#FF4000]I know that his wife did file for divorce. I was not happy to hear that because I jsut hate anyone going thru it but I also know that he was accused of having homosexual activities. So I understood and felt she was right in her decision. Then I heard she was taking him back and standing behind him in saying that none of that stuff happened. [/color]I know that he was on the Word Network. I think that he is no longer on television now. I think that no one was willing to put him on. That was until this video of him being carried around in a chair by these fellows. Wow!!!

She is doing this to keep the money train from being derailed. His inistry is all about the money so if she leaves it will hurt the cash flow. This woman is used to kiving like a Queen so if her King s income is hurt so is her lifestyle. If the congregation of New Hope is too stupid to vote him out then they deserve the bondage their under is what they deserve.