The Character of Jewish People
By Parthenia Stout in Thailand
Since I have been with Jewish people in California for about 10 years and in Israel for 3 years living among the Jews I have been able to see some character traits, and God has given me a love for research.
As I have been studying other missionary findings of the Karen tribe from their research I find that no one so far has begun looking at them from their Jewish character: always from a Gentile/Christian teaching. It makes a great big difference. Since I have been here and said to people that they may be Jews from long ago, they are not much interested as they know nothing about the Holy Land or that Christians and Jews worship the same God and read the same scriptures. They have no knowledge of the feasts that God laid down for the Jewish people to remember God and what he did for them.
That is why I look for traits that may tell me that Karen people are some of the lost tribes of long ago. They have inter-married as they traveled from country to country and their features and coloring have changed as well as not much curly hair. Most have the straight black hair of the Chinese and many have Chinese features. In pastor Timothy’s church I see more men with a bit of curl or a slight wave in their hair.
Some people have told me they had been in Mongolia, China, and Tibet, and India as well as other countries. There is a great mystery I have not solved yet and that is why they have --so far--not mentioned any leader of the Jews such as Moses or Abraham. Nothing about Joshua or Egypt. But then it may have been so many years ago that it did not make as much impression on them as their memory of God and the beginning of the book of Genesis. Or the missionaries could not tell what they were saying!
Here are some of their songs/poems handed down from generation to generation. Mostly it is grandfather to the children, and to the grandchildren as in Deuteronomy 6:4-7. These poems have been much the same as told by many missionaries of different denominations. It is true that the missionaries had to translate, but we have to accept that they did the best they could. Poems are a very Jewish tradition. The Psalms contain much poetry as well.
“The omnipotent is Y’wa; him have we not believed.
Y’wa created men anciently;
He has a perfect knowledge of all things!
Y’wa created men at the beginning;
He knows all things to the present time!
O my children and grandchildren!
The earth is the treading place of the feet of Y’wa.
And heaven is the place where he sits.
He sees all things, and we are manifest to him.
Here is another stunning example of what is so clear in their hearts.
Y’wa formed the world originally.
He appointed food and drink.
He appointed the “fruit of trial”
He gave detailed orders.
Mu-kaw-lee (satan) deceived two persons.
He caused them to eat of the fruit of trial.
They obeyed not; they believed not Y’wa…
When they ate of the fruit of trial,
They became subject to sickness, aging, and death…
Many people in the world do not have this truth, yet it has come down through the Karen generations, you must agree this is a miracle of God preserving their word for--- how long?
Here is one that is so Jewish in thought about God’s name.
O children and grand-children! Love Y’wa, and never so much as mention his name (lightly).
If you speak his name (lightly),
He goes farther and farther from us!
O children and grandchildren! Do not be fond of
Quarreling and disputing, but love each other,
Y’wa in heaven looks down upon us.
And if we do not love each other,
It is the same as if we do not love Y’wa. (This is all over the Bible.)
Alonzo Bunker lived among the Karen for 30 years and listened to the late-evening teaching by Karen Bukhos who were thought of as Prophets. At the end of the teaching they would rise and extend their hands as if in benediction. AND THERE IS MUCH MORE TO THESE ANCIENT TALES.
