The Nasoreans, whose theologians were the Essene Monks of Qumran, took the position that the Temple in Jerusalem was profane. It is not clear whether it was the building or the sacrifices in the building that were profane, but they certainly denied that the priesthood was performing the sacrifices in the correct and proper way. As they hardened that position, they began to think about the nature of sacrifice and especially about what kind of worship existed before Moshe instituted the bloody sacrifices set forth in the Torah.
Professor Jodi Magness has said that she has found bones buried at Qumran in a ritual like way. The bones had been gnawed indicating that the meat had been taken off of them through eating. This position supports the conclusion that ritual acts of sacrifice were taking place at Qumran. However, a more radical position was also developing at the headquarters of the Nasoreans represented by John the Baptist. That position reflected on Melchizedek, a very important figure in Essene theology, and noted that the sacrifice of Melchizedek was bread and wine. These more radical followers of Essene Theology argued that the worship of G-d did not always require the killing of animals, but was allowed by Moshe with the provision that the sacrifice be to the one G-d. The others argued that the shedding of blood was the only way to forgive sin. This issue was very important to the followers of Jesus who supported John's position.
Jesus believed that there must be a resolution to the question of bloody sacrifice. He suspected that the only solution was the acknowledgment that abolishing bloody sacrifice required the spilling of blood. After He came to recognize Himself as the Priest-King Melchizedek returned he began to contemplate the idea of a formal act of bleeding in which his blood would become the central event that changed the bloody sacrifice to the sacrifice of Melchizedek. He decided that the institution of a new sacrificial system or rather a return to the older sacrificial system required an event and an act of sacrifice so he chose Pesach, a feast which centers on a perfect lamb being slain and its blood placed in the form of a cross on the door post of ones house, and which also centered on bread and wine. The gospels set us up for this event from day one. John announces Jesus as the Lamb of G-d. Isaiah 53 calls him the Lamb silent. So on that fateful day at the Seder of the Essenes, Jesus says that the bread will be the Body of the sacrifice in his sacrificial system and that the wine will be the Blood in his sacrificial system. He then proclaims that he has arranged to be arrested and that one of them had cooperated in that act. He is arrested, acts as the silent Lamb, and is crucified so that his body physically represents the symbol which would be created by dabbing the blood on the doorway. In this way, he pays the price of changing the sacrificial system from the one proclaimed by Moshe in the Torah to the earlier one used by Melchizedek, whom Jesus was.
It takes much time for the Jewish followers of Jesus to get the full import of his act. They fail to understand that the Temple is ended, that the bloody sacrifice is over, and only with the destruction of the Temple do they finally get that point. In the book, Kerygmata Petrou, translated by Theodore A. Dornan and Jackson H. Snyder, Chapter 36 and 37, Clement says that Peter spoke about the bloody sacrifice:
"When meantime, Moshe, the faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of bloody sacrifice to idols had been deeply ingrained into the people from their association with Egypt, and that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them, he allowed them bloody sacrifice, but it be done only to YHVH that by any means he might cut off one half of the deeply ingrained evil, leaving the other half to be corrected by another, and at a future time; by Him, namely, whom he said Himself, 'A prophet shall YHVH your Archangel raise unto you, whom you shall hear even as myself, according to all things that he shall say to you. Whosoever shall not hear that Prophet, his spirit shall be cut off from his people.'"
Clement argues that Peter had said that Jesus was that Prophet, as, of course, all the followers of Jesus believed. He had the power to change the Law so long as he did it in accordance with the Law. As the new Law Giver, he was empowered to change the sacrifice. He did this and that is what happened to eliminate the bloody sacrifice from our religion.
Instead of the bloody sacrifice, Nasoreans weekly remember, as do all Jews, the Seder Meal in the Kiddush service at sundown on a Friday night, but Nasoreans recognize in the bread and wine the sacrifice of Jesus and of the true Lamb and recognize further that the High Priest Yeshua ha Meshiach, Jesus the Christ, pours out for us his blood as is taught in the Letter of Barnabas to the Hebrews (Hebrews in the New Testament) as we celebrate the remembrance of that night. Our daily imperfections, those minor sins that do not separate us from G-d, but taint our spirits, are taken away when we regret them and confess them. Major sins are taken away in the act of mikvah, baptism. The Lamb of G-d continues to pour out his multiplied blood for us and all mankind on the HaKapporet in the Temple Above.
There will be a new Temple, but it is profane before it is built. It is the house of demons, the seat of AntiChrist and those that would build it are blasphemers and heretics, damned forever by their act. There is no need for a temple as the Holy Spirit is Tabernacled in every assembly which meets in the Name of Yeshua. At the moment of our celebration, YHVH is with us, Emmanuel is present and our celebration is HaMakom, the Place that G-d has Chosen.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
The Image of the Invisible G-d
There is a hymn that was chanted by the earliest believers in Yeshua ha Meshiach (Jesus the Christ). The writer of Colossians (1:15+) decided to include that hymn in his letter to the Colossians. The letter clearly reflects the teaching of the Apostles and especially of the High Priest and Bishop, Ya'akov, brother of Yeshua. It says:
He is the image of the invisible G-d, the firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
the visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to him,
making peace by the blood of his cross, whether those on earth or those in heaven.
These words are strange to a Christian, but they would have resonated clearly with a Nasorean. Nasoreans believe that the True G-d, El Elyon, created the Archangel of the Presence by emanation in the beginning. He formed him from the Divine Light of the First Ray and then this being, this first Adam, created all other things, the multiverse, the Archangels, the Elementals, the souls of Man, and Adam himself. So it is true that YHVH-Metatron-Yeshua is the Creator of all things visible and invisible. When the author of the hymn mentioned the four divine orders -- thrones, dominions, principalities and powers-- it was to declare the absolute sovereignty of Our G-d. He, although not the true G-d, is the most powerful being in our multiverse, Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer.
Jews and Christians will ask appropriately where I got all this information. I looked at the Torah, the source of truth. There it was in Exodus 23:21; it says: "for my name is in Him". This Archangel has the very nature of G-d and at his center is the Divine Light from which he was formed. He is the sole being in heaven and on earth that can forgive sins.
Now the passage clearly says that the Primal Adam, YHVH-Metatron-Yeshua, pre-existed before any thing else existed and it is His Power that holds the universe in place.
The second verse then says that this being YHVH-Metatron, the Archangel of the Presence, was incarnated for its says: He is the Head of the Body, the Church. In terms of our Kabbalistic truth the key words are Rosh meaning Kether, the Crown, and Body meaning the Chaim Etz, the Tree of Life within us and around us, the Assembly he calls it.
The hymn then says that this being dies. Well in some of his incarnations he has not died. Enoch did not die. Melchizedek did not die. Noach died. Joshua bar Nun died. Sholomoh ha Melech died. Yeshua ha Cohen died. Yeshua ha Meshiach died. But each of these beings was raised from the human death to the Throne of Heaven when their bodies and the Divine Spirit within them united again with its source, the Primal Adam.
The last verse reiterates the message of Exodus. The fullness of the Archangel was pleased to dwell on Earth. However, the passage makes it clear that it was not the death of Yeshua that reconciled man with G-d, but rather the shedding of his blood. Why? Because one cannot change the law without the shedding of blood. Yeshua once and for all declared the bloody sacrifices ended and paid the price for the return to the sacrifice of Melchizedek, whose reincarnation he was. We therefore are reconciled through the sacrifice of bread and wine and are free from our sins. This change occurred not only on earth, where it was decreed, but also in heaven, where he took up his miter as High Priest of Heaven, and mediated forgiveness.
So on this Christmas Day, remember that Yeshua ha Meshiach, the returned King of Jerusalem and High Priest of El Elyon, was born, probably not today, but this is his official birthday, and that he mediates for us today before the true G-d, El Elyon, whose very son he is. The angels proclaimed it and the Archangel Gavriel said it: He shall be called the Son of Elyon.
He is the image of the invisible G-d, the firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
the visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to him,
making peace by the blood of his cross, whether those on earth or those in heaven.
These words are strange to a Christian, but they would have resonated clearly with a Nasorean. Nasoreans believe that the True G-d, El Elyon, created the Archangel of the Presence by emanation in the beginning. He formed him from the Divine Light of the First Ray and then this being, this first Adam, created all other things, the multiverse, the Archangels, the Elementals, the souls of Man, and Adam himself. So it is true that YHVH-Metatron-Yeshua is the Creator of all things visible and invisible. When the author of the hymn mentioned the four divine orders -- thrones, dominions, principalities and powers-- it was to declare the absolute sovereignty of Our G-d. He, although not the true G-d, is the most powerful being in our multiverse, Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer.
Jews and Christians will ask appropriately where I got all this information. I looked at the Torah, the source of truth. There it was in Exodus 23:21; it says: "for my name is in Him". This Archangel has the very nature of G-d and at his center is the Divine Light from which he was formed. He is the sole being in heaven and on earth that can forgive sins.
Now the passage clearly says that the Primal Adam, YHVH-Metatron-Yeshua, pre-existed before any thing else existed and it is His Power that holds the universe in place.
The second verse then says that this being YHVH-Metatron, the Archangel of the Presence, was incarnated for its says: He is the Head of the Body, the Church. In terms of our Kabbalistic truth the key words are Rosh meaning Kether, the Crown, and Body meaning the Chaim Etz, the Tree of Life within us and around us, the Assembly he calls it.
The hymn then says that this being dies. Well in some of his incarnations he has not died. Enoch did not die. Melchizedek did not die. Noach died. Joshua bar Nun died. Sholomoh ha Melech died. Yeshua ha Cohen died. Yeshua ha Meshiach died. But each of these beings was raised from the human death to the Throne of Heaven when their bodies and the Divine Spirit within them united again with its source, the Primal Adam.
The last verse reiterates the message of Exodus. The fullness of the Archangel was pleased to dwell on Earth. However, the passage makes it clear that it was not the death of Yeshua that reconciled man with G-d, but rather the shedding of his blood. Why? Because one cannot change the law without the shedding of blood. Yeshua once and for all declared the bloody sacrifices ended and paid the price for the return to the sacrifice of Melchizedek, whose reincarnation he was. We therefore are reconciled through the sacrifice of bread and wine and are free from our sins. This change occurred not only on earth, where it was decreed, but also in heaven, where he took up his miter as High Priest of Heaven, and mediated forgiveness.
So on this Christmas Day, remember that Yeshua ha Meshiach, the returned King of Jerusalem and High Priest of El Elyon, was born, probably not today, but this is his official birthday, and that he mediates for us today before the true G-d, El Elyon, whose very son he is. The angels proclaimed it and the Archangel Gavriel said it: He shall be called the Son of Elyon.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Christmas
Christmas means christ mass. It was the Feast of the Incarnation. For centuries, the monarchs of the world have celebrated their birthdays as national holidays and often because of weather those holidays and official birthdays are not done on the actual day of the birth of the King. Likewise, it is certain that Jesus was not born on December 25, 1 CE. The sheep were still in the fields and it would have been very cold in December after dark in the fields. No good shepherd would have had his sheep in the field in December. So, if Christians are celebrating the King's birthday it is not as the actual day, but rather as a convenient day upon which to celebrate the King's birthday.
Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History does not mention Christmas because it was not a holy day for Christians. In fact, the first mention of the Roman celebration of December 25 was in 362 by Julian the last pagan Emperor.
Is it wrong for Jews and Nasoreans to celebrate Christmas? Well, there is no evidence that a Jewish King's birthday was ever publicly celebrated. However, there is no reason not to celebrate the birthday of all the Incarnations of the Archangel and to celebrate them as Christ's Day would be fine. However, it is hard to justify a movement from celebrating the Kings' Birthday to giving vast numbers of presents to other people and to eating and drinking oneself to gluttony. Rather than become involved in that cultural expression, I think that Nasoreans should forego celebrating.
Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History does not mention Christmas because it was not a holy day for Christians. In fact, the first mention of the Roman celebration of December 25 was in 362 by Julian the last pagan Emperor.
The date for Christmas may also bear a relation to the sun worship. According to the scholiast on the Syriac bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi, writing in the twelfth century:
- "It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25 December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and revelries the Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be solemnised on that day." However, this statement directly conflicts with what we know of the early Christians, namely, that they were ridiculed, tortured, and cast apart from operative society precisely because they would not participate in the pagan feasts and celebrations. The early Christians set themselves directly in opposition to the paganism which ruled the day. "Since Christians worshipped an invisible God, pagans often declared them to be atheists."
Is it wrong for Jews and Nasoreans to celebrate Christmas? Well, there is no evidence that a Jewish King's birthday was ever publicly celebrated. However, there is no reason not to celebrate the birthday of all the Incarnations of the Archangel and to celebrate them as Christ's Day would be fine. However, it is hard to justify a movement from celebrating the Kings' Birthday to giving vast numbers of presents to other people and to eating and drinking oneself to gluttony. Rather than become involved in that cultural expression, I think that Nasoreans should forego celebrating.
Messiahs: Jesus
The Archangel of the Presence, the King of the Multiverse, the Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer, in order to meet the requirements of His own law, decreed that his seventh incarnation would occur in the 6th year before the common era. He came in his human form with the body of Enoch and the DNA of Enoch to a young girl, Maryam, who lived in Nazara, a city in the Gilgal (Galilee). He had sent his son, Gavriel, the Archangel, to tell her that he was coming. In fact, he had told the whole world through his Prophet Isaiah, (Isa. 56:1) that Yeshua was about to come. Now, of course, there were many Yeshuas, but the Prophet calls this one My Yeshua.
Now this young girl was betrothed to a man named Yotsef of the House of David. In fact, he was the putative heir to the throne of David. His great grandfather had been the promised Teacher of Righteousness (Joel 2:22) and had founded the Nasorean Sect of Judaism some years before and his grandmother, daughter of the priestly family that led the Nasorean Sect, was married to the putative heir of the House of David and as a result he was the Prince of Judah by right and high member of the anti-Hasmonean faction in Palestine.
Now, the mighty Enoch appeared to this young girl and had relations with her. She was impregnated with the Divine Seed and by a perfectly natural method became pregnant. Yotzef was greatly troubled by this fact as in Jewish law the betrothal period was already a marriage. He decided to divorce privately to keep her from being stoned as an adulteress, but the Archangel intervened and came to him in a dream, like Yotzef of old, and told him that the child was born by action of Holy Spirit and was the Son of G-d. Yotzef was mystified, but took no further action.
Some time later, Yotzef and Maryam were on the way to Jerusalem for the feast of Sukkoth when she came to term in Bethlehem. They had left Qumran earlier that day and had hoped to make Jerusalem, but it was too far for her in her condition. Due to the travelers on the road, there was no room in the Inn for them and the kindly owner of the Inn told them the best he could do was to let them use the stable which was in a cave behind the Inn.
The Archangel decreed that signs should appear in the heavens announcing his birth. A great supernova lasting over two years in its shining appeared first in the sky that Sukkoth and lasted for two years. Angelic hosts appeared to welcome the new born King of the Jews and of the whole multiverse. Shepherds who were still in the fields were informed an came to witness the birth. Born as he was on a particular astrological alignment, the astrologers of the Persian Prophet, Zoroaster, saw and understood the meaning of the star and the alignment. They took some time to come to the understanding and then more time to organize the trip. They came from all over the Persian world to see this child that the Star had announced. It took them two years and when they arrived they found that Yotzef had purchased a house in Bethlehem and they found him and worshipped the two year old wonder child. They also told Yotzef about their encounter with Herod the Great and Yotzef, knowing the King's hatred of the Davidic House, became afraid and decided to move his family to safety in Egypt.
The family stayed in Egypt for a prolonged visit but sometime in the 3rd year before the common era, having learned that Herod was dead, they returned to Nazara on the western side of Lake Kinnaret, the sea of Gilgal. The communities of the Nasorean sect decided to have a great meeting in the 8th year of the Common Era. The Essene theologians of the Order were going to decide whether a young man, a distant cousin of Yeshua's was in fact the Prophet spoken of in Isaiah 40:3. Yotzef brought Yeshua and his younger son, Ya'akov, with him.
The great counsel of the Order debated whether Yochanan, the son of the High Priest Zechariah of the Line of Onias and Zadok, was in truth the Voice in the Wilderness. Then the Holy Spirit moved upon the body and they recognized that Yochanan was the High Priest, Yeshua was the rightful King, and Ya'akov was in fact the Prophet in the Wilderness of Nazara. From that time forward, the three boys were raised together and Yotzef took no further role in raising him.
Yochanan became a great preacher and a true Priest of G-d and many began to come to repentance under his guidance. Yeshua was also under his sway. He helped him and preached with him and organized the Nasorean Order into an effective opposition movement. He worked with the Zealotes to form an effective army against the Romans. Ya'akov watched all of this and tried to understand the Will of the Most High.
Now the Nasorean Order believed that the third Incarnation of the Archangel would reappear. His name was Melchizedek. They spoke of his reappearance often as a sign of the Jubilee. Yochanan ran into problems with Prince Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Gilgal and Perea. He was arrested and murdered for preaching that it was unlawful for Herod to marry his brother's wife while his brother was still living. Yeshua's entire belief system was challenged by the murder.
Yeshua went into the desert like Elijah and prayed to die. Like Elijah, the Archangel Gavriel came to him and reminded him that Melchizedek was going to come again. He convinced the thirty year old Yeshua in 24 CE that he was in fact the Priest King Melchizedek returned. When he returned to the land of Judah, he began to preach that he was Melchizedek returned with all the authority and power that his return implied. He began to teach a radical philosophy of unity for all Jews and a radical philosophy of resistance against the Romans. He urged the Zealotes army and the crack troops of the Sicarii to prepare for revolution. Like the prophecies of Melchizedek promised, he raised the dead, cast out demons, healed the sick, and preached a strict Torachic code.
All of this cumulnated in 27 CE with a daring invasion of Jerusalem. Over a two week period some one month before Passover in 27 CE, the Zealotes army sent in troops to the city. They found a particular day, a day of Roman atrocity, and rushed into the Temple, took control of the precincts and held it against the High Priest Caiphas and the Roman Procurator. The expected all Israel to rise in revolution. It did not happen. The Romans responded by trying to starve the Zealotes and they began to undermine one of the towers of the Temple wall. Finally, two weeks into the rebellion, the tower crumbled. Jesus fled with his inner twelve. They went to Bethany while the Romans tried to find them as the city filled up with more than a million people for Passover.
On the Sunday before Passover, Yeshua entered into the city again on a foal in fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah (Zech. 9:9) and with that act proclaimed himself the King of Jerusalem because in ancient times the king as part of his coronation ceremony would enter the capital on the foal of an ass. The Romans as usual did not understand what this act meant, but the High Priest did. Jesus arranged for the Nasorean Passover Seder which would occur one day before the Pharisee Passover Seder on Wednesday of that week.
After the Seder, the drunken men, still singing, went out to the Mount of Olives to pray and there Jesus was confronted by the High Priest's police. He was brought to Annas, who was the de facto High Priest and examined and finally the Sanhedrin was called. Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy for declaring that he was the Messiah, but the High Priest knowing that he could do nothing against Jesus brought a different charge against him and sent him to Pilate for judgment. He charged Jesus was sedition and treason for having proclaimed himself the King of Jerusalem. Pilate saw a very diplomatic man, an aristocrat, whom he did not want to kill. He had Jesus' son, Jesus Bar Abbas, in custody and he offered to exchange the father for the son. The people seeing that a live successor could save the movement from death chose to let the father die. Pilate found Jesus guilty of sedition and treason, which, of course, he was , and sentenced him to death on a cross.
Jesus was killed between two of his fellow insurgents. The followers of Jesus in the Sanhedrin had tried to prepare a drug to make Jesus look dead, which was offered to him in a sponge on a stick, but no one was prepared for the lance in the side and Jesus did not recover. However, they spirited the body away and buried someone else in a new cut tomb. The Divine Spirit within Jesus had accomplished His task, the Archangelic Ruach had been perfected and it returned to heaven in triumph, but the body was laid to rest elsewhere.
So, Jesus, the Son of the Most High Ain Sof Aur, the seventh incarnation of the Archangel of the Presence, became the High Priest of Heaven, the Ruler of the Multiverse, the King of Kings.
Now this young girl was betrothed to a man named Yotsef of the House of David. In fact, he was the putative heir to the throne of David. His great grandfather had been the promised Teacher of Righteousness (Joel 2:22) and had founded the Nasorean Sect of Judaism some years before and his grandmother, daughter of the priestly family that led the Nasorean Sect, was married to the putative heir of the House of David and as a result he was the Prince of Judah by right and high member of the anti-Hasmonean faction in Palestine.
Now, the mighty Enoch appeared to this young girl and had relations with her. She was impregnated with the Divine Seed and by a perfectly natural method became pregnant. Yotzef was greatly troubled by this fact as in Jewish law the betrothal period was already a marriage. He decided to divorce privately to keep her from being stoned as an adulteress, but the Archangel intervened and came to him in a dream, like Yotzef of old, and told him that the child was born by action of Holy Spirit and was the Son of G-d. Yotzef was mystified, but took no further action.
Some time later, Yotzef and Maryam were on the way to Jerusalem for the feast of Sukkoth when she came to term in Bethlehem. They had left Qumran earlier that day and had hoped to make Jerusalem, but it was too far for her in her condition. Due to the travelers on the road, there was no room in the Inn for them and the kindly owner of the Inn told them the best he could do was to let them use the stable which was in a cave behind the Inn.
The Archangel decreed that signs should appear in the heavens announcing his birth. A great supernova lasting over two years in its shining appeared first in the sky that Sukkoth and lasted for two years. Angelic hosts appeared to welcome the new born King of the Jews and of the whole multiverse. Shepherds who were still in the fields were informed an came to witness the birth. Born as he was on a particular astrological alignment, the astrologers of the Persian Prophet, Zoroaster, saw and understood the meaning of the star and the alignment. They took some time to come to the understanding and then more time to organize the trip. They came from all over the Persian world to see this child that the Star had announced. It took them two years and when they arrived they found that Yotzef had purchased a house in Bethlehem and they found him and worshipped the two year old wonder child. They also told Yotzef about their encounter with Herod the Great and Yotzef, knowing the King's hatred of the Davidic House, became afraid and decided to move his family to safety in Egypt.
The family stayed in Egypt for a prolonged visit but sometime in the 3rd year before the common era, having learned that Herod was dead, they returned to Nazara on the western side of Lake Kinnaret, the sea of Gilgal. The communities of the Nasorean sect decided to have a great meeting in the 8th year of the Common Era. The Essene theologians of the Order were going to decide whether a young man, a distant cousin of Yeshua's was in fact the Prophet spoken of in Isaiah 40:3. Yotzef brought Yeshua and his younger son, Ya'akov, with him.
The great counsel of the Order debated whether Yochanan, the son of the High Priest Zechariah of the Line of Onias and Zadok, was in truth the Voice in the Wilderness. Then the Holy Spirit moved upon the body and they recognized that Yochanan was the High Priest, Yeshua was the rightful King, and Ya'akov was in fact the Prophet in the Wilderness of Nazara. From that time forward, the three boys were raised together and Yotzef took no further role in raising him.
Yochanan became a great preacher and a true Priest of G-d and many began to come to repentance under his guidance. Yeshua was also under his sway. He helped him and preached with him and organized the Nasorean Order into an effective opposition movement. He worked with the Zealotes to form an effective army against the Romans. Ya'akov watched all of this and tried to understand the Will of the Most High.
Now the Nasorean Order believed that the third Incarnation of the Archangel would reappear. His name was Melchizedek. They spoke of his reappearance often as a sign of the Jubilee. Yochanan ran into problems with Prince Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Gilgal and Perea. He was arrested and murdered for preaching that it was unlawful for Herod to marry his brother's wife while his brother was still living. Yeshua's entire belief system was challenged by the murder.
Yeshua went into the desert like Elijah and prayed to die. Like Elijah, the Archangel Gavriel came to him and reminded him that Melchizedek was going to come again. He convinced the thirty year old Yeshua in 24 CE that he was in fact the Priest King Melchizedek returned. When he returned to the land of Judah, he began to preach that he was Melchizedek returned with all the authority and power that his return implied. He began to teach a radical philosophy of unity for all Jews and a radical philosophy of resistance against the Romans. He urged the Zealotes army and the crack troops of the Sicarii to prepare for revolution. Like the prophecies of Melchizedek promised, he raised the dead, cast out demons, healed the sick, and preached a strict Torachic code.
All of this cumulnated in 27 CE with a daring invasion of Jerusalem. Over a two week period some one month before Passover in 27 CE, the Zealotes army sent in troops to the city. They found a particular day, a day of Roman atrocity, and rushed into the Temple, took control of the precincts and held it against the High Priest Caiphas and the Roman Procurator. The expected all Israel to rise in revolution. It did not happen. The Romans responded by trying to starve the Zealotes and they began to undermine one of the towers of the Temple wall. Finally, two weeks into the rebellion, the tower crumbled. Jesus fled with his inner twelve. They went to Bethany while the Romans tried to find them as the city filled up with more than a million people for Passover.
On the Sunday before Passover, Yeshua entered into the city again on a foal in fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah (Zech. 9:9) and with that act proclaimed himself the King of Jerusalem because in ancient times the king as part of his coronation ceremony would enter the capital on the foal of an ass. The Romans as usual did not understand what this act meant, but the High Priest did. Jesus arranged for the Nasorean Passover Seder which would occur one day before the Pharisee Passover Seder on Wednesday of that week.
After the Seder, the drunken men, still singing, went out to the Mount of Olives to pray and there Jesus was confronted by the High Priest's police. He was brought to Annas, who was the de facto High Priest and examined and finally the Sanhedrin was called. Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy for declaring that he was the Messiah, but the High Priest knowing that he could do nothing against Jesus brought a different charge against him and sent him to Pilate for judgment. He charged Jesus was sedition and treason for having proclaimed himself the King of Jerusalem. Pilate saw a very diplomatic man, an aristocrat, whom he did not want to kill. He had Jesus' son, Jesus Bar Abbas, in custody and he offered to exchange the father for the son. The people seeing that a live successor could save the movement from death chose to let the father die. Pilate found Jesus guilty of sedition and treason, which, of course, he was , and sentenced him to death on a cross.
Jesus was killed between two of his fellow insurgents. The followers of Jesus in the Sanhedrin had tried to prepare a drug to make Jesus look dead, which was offered to him in a sponge on a stick, but no one was prepared for the lance in the side and Jesus did not recover. However, they spirited the body away and buried someone else in a new cut tomb. The Divine Spirit within Jesus had accomplished His task, the Archangelic Ruach had been perfected and it returned to heaven in triumph, but the body was laid to rest elsewhere.
So, Jesus, the Son of the Most High Ain Sof Aur, the seventh incarnation of the Archangel of the Presence, became the High Priest of Heaven, the Ruler of the Multiverse, the King of Kings.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Messiahs: Joshua the High Priest
Three of the Messiachot have the name Yshua -- Joshua son of Nun, Joshua the High Priest, and Jesus of Nazara. The second one of the Joshua messiahs is Joshua the High Priest.
Joshua the High Priest lived in the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel. He was chosen to be High Priest as the first of the priests returning after the exile. The scripture says that Zechariah the Prophet received a message for him from the YHVH which said that Joshua was specifically chosen by the Lord to be His High Priest. Zech. 3:3-5. He gave to Joshua a covenant which said:
"If you walk on my Path and heed my charge, you will judge my house and keep my courts, and I will give you access among these standing here." The promise means that Joshua will have the same access to the Most High as does the Archangel of the Presence and Satan. In effect, this is the proclamation that Joshua is the Messiah and has the power of the Archangel upon him, for only the Archangel can mediate between G-d and Man.
Zechariah goes on to say that the guilt of the land will be taken away. The High Priest was the mediator between this world and the next. His holiness guaranteed that G-d would hear the prayers of His People. His sacrifices guaranteed that G-d would forgive their sins. By saying that he would take away the guilt of the land in one day, he was promising not to hold against the people their failure to keep the Shabbot that had accumulated and caused the destruction of the nation. Never before had their been a High Priest so holy that his acts of sacrifice could nullify the violation of one of the ten words.
In Zechariah 4:14, Zechariah calls Zerubbabel and Joshua the two Meshiachot that stand before the Lord of the Whole Earth. Revelation 11:4 calls the two witnesses of the end Joshua and Zerubbabel and in that passage he adds the idea that they are lampstands. As a part of the ceremony of sanctification of the Sabbath, we light two candles representing these two men that stand eternally before the throne of G-d. They represent the lights on the hill spoken of by Jesus.
In the High Priest Joshua, the Lord revealed his Holiness. Joshua was a strong arm for Zerubbabel and helped to rebuild the Temple, like the Meshiach before him, Solomon. He was wise and committed. Finally, the Prophet Zechariah implies that the Oil or Spirit that causes the world to have Light comes from Joshua and Zerubbabel. In this incarnation, the Lord showed forth his Holiness in full glow.
Joshua the High Priest lived in the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel. He was chosen to be High Priest as the first of the priests returning after the exile. The scripture says that Zechariah the Prophet received a message for him from the YHVH which said that Joshua was specifically chosen by the Lord to be His High Priest. Zech. 3:3-5. He gave to Joshua a covenant which said:
"If you walk on my Path and heed my charge, you will judge my house and keep my courts, and I will give you access among these standing here." The promise means that Joshua will have the same access to the Most High as does the Archangel of the Presence and Satan. In effect, this is the proclamation that Joshua is the Messiah and has the power of the Archangel upon him, for only the Archangel can mediate between G-d and Man.
Zechariah goes on to say that the guilt of the land will be taken away. The High Priest was the mediator between this world and the next. His holiness guaranteed that G-d would hear the prayers of His People. His sacrifices guaranteed that G-d would forgive their sins. By saying that he would take away the guilt of the land in one day, he was promising not to hold against the people their failure to keep the Shabbot that had accumulated and caused the destruction of the nation. Never before had their been a High Priest so holy that his acts of sacrifice could nullify the violation of one of the ten words.
In Zechariah 4:14, Zechariah calls Zerubbabel and Joshua the two Meshiachot that stand before the Lord of the Whole Earth. Revelation 11:4 calls the two witnesses of the end Joshua and Zerubbabel and in that passage he adds the idea that they are lampstands. As a part of the ceremony of sanctification of the Sabbath, we light two candles representing these two men that stand eternally before the throne of G-d. They represent the lights on the hill spoken of by Jesus.
In the High Priest Joshua, the Lord revealed his Holiness. Joshua was a strong arm for Zerubbabel and helped to rebuild the Temple, like the Meshiach before him, Solomon. He was wise and committed. Finally, the Prophet Zechariah implies that the Oil or Spirit that causes the world to have Light comes from Joshua and Zerubbabel. In this incarnation, the Lord showed forth his Holiness in full glow.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Messiahs: Solomon
Solomon's earthly journey was begun with the union of David and Bathsheba. See 2 Samuel 12:24. His name means Peace. Solomon recognized that YHVH was only one of the Archangels, not the only G-d, El. He offered incense and holocausts on the High Place Gibeon to the G-ds of Cana'an. 1Kings 3:4. The Lord Metatron desired to put upon Solomon a mark that would distinguish him from all other men so he gave of him the gift of binah, understanding. It says in 1 Kings, "I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you. " 3:12. This gift of understanding allowed Solomon not only to preserve the chosen people against the surrounding nations and to grow his kingdom, but also it protected him against the attacks from the world of Yetzirah, the evil spirits and demons who would attack his kingdom.
Solomon shared his wisdom with the world. He uttered three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered 1005. He was a botanist and discussed all plants. He was an expert in the dominion over the animals. I Kings 5:12-13. He was chosen to build the Temple of the Lord which lasted for 500 years.
Solomon understood the ways of G-d better than all other people. His book Ecclesiastes is dedicated to the Preaching of the Word. The book begins by declaring that he is the Preacher. He urges man to a spiritual life, declaring that the material life is useless. He says that the spiritual life is better than the material life because the material life will pass away. Even the pursuit of Wisdom is put into perspective for he says: "For in much wisdom there is much sorrow, and he who stores up knowledge stores up grief." Eccl. 1:18. Finally he makes the great claim: For to whatever man he sees fit he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering possessions to be given to whatever man G-d sees fit. " 2:26. Solomon ends his great diatribe on wisdom with these words: "Fear G-d and keep his commandments, for this is man's all, because G-d will bring to judgment every work, with all its hidden qualities, whether good or bad." 12:13.
In the occult world of magic, Solomon is seen as the penultimate magician because of his control of the beasts, the plants, and the world of Yetzirah. It is said that Solomon dealt with Ashmodai himself and prevailed. Solomon's seal locked away evil from the world for the period of his life. Truly Solomon was a savior type in that he brought the respite of a temporary peace.
Solomon shared his wisdom with the world. He uttered three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered 1005. He was a botanist and discussed all plants. He was an expert in the dominion over the animals. I Kings 5:12-13. He was chosen to build the Temple of the Lord which lasted for 500 years.
Solomon understood the ways of G-d better than all other people. His book Ecclesiastes is dedicated to the Preaching of the Word. The book begins by declaring that he is the Preacher. He urges man to a spiritual life, declaring that the material life is useless. He says that the spiritual life is better than the material life because the material life will pass away. Even the pursuit of Wisdom is put into perspective for he says: "For in much wisdom there is much sorrow, and he who stores up knowledge stores up grief." Eccl. 1:18. Finally he makes the great claim: For to whatever man he sees fit he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering possessions to be given to whatever man G-d sees fit. " 2:26. Solomon ends his great diatribe on wisdom with these words: "Fear G-d and keep his commandments, for this is man's all, because G-d will bring to judgment every work, with all its hidden qualities, whether good or bad." 12:13.
In the occult world of magic, Solomon is seen as the penultimate magician because of his control of the beasts, the plants, and the world of Yetzirah. It is said that Solomon dealt with Ashmodai himself and prevailed. Solomon's seal locked away evil from the world for the period of his life. Truly Solomon was a savior type in that he brought the respite of a temporary peace.
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