Isaiah the Prophet of Catastrophes
Planet X, and the Catastrophic Apocalypse as the Sun's Twin Star makes a "Pass-over" of Planet Earth at the End of Days
Isaiah 24:19-20 - "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression there-of shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again."
In the early years of the existence of Planet Earth's remolding and reforming, the Creator of the Universe unveiled what were later be called the "Acts of the Creative Power of G-d." Even before the era of Adam and Eve in the garden called "Gan Eden", the forces of nature, under the control of the Almighty G-d of Creation, the universal forces were at play with the remodeling and remolding of Planet Earth in preparation for a homeland for humans of His Divine Creation.
The forces of nature came from the celestial angelic powers that were under the guide and command control of heaven at the Throne of the Divine. Each planet we can observe in the heavens today are vortex zones or conduits where the power of the Divine streams through them to the object of His distain and judgment or the recipient of His protection and redemption.
The Middle East was the center of then-known world but the power drama was centered around the city's post Babylonian and Persian exile fortified city of Jerusalem. It was not until the height of the power of the Kingdom of Judah when the prince descendants of the famed rulers of Jerusalem, King David and Solomon, became a threat to the Assyrian Empire.
This was an imperial state known for its ruthless and merciless cruelty upon the inhabitants of the region. This real-life drama was being portrayed daily around the world by the ruthless power of the Assyrian King Sennacherib.
Isaiah the Prophet, Seer and Counselor of the Kingdom State of Judah
Per the historical insights of the Rabbinic literature, the Prophet Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar. (Sotah 10b). He was the son of Amoz, the brother of King Amaziah of Judah as noted in the Talmud tractate Megillah 15ra.
As such the Prophet Isaiah was the uncle of King Hezekiah and therefore a cousin of King Uzziah; in whose reign the "sun stopped and turned backwards" in days of an earthquake that was documented by the visual testimony displayed on King Uzziah's sundial.
Isaiah the Prophet, Seer and Counselor of the State
King Hezekiah (729-686 B.C.E.) with all the citizens of Jerusalem were sitting inside the walls of Jerusalem while the huge force of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (705-681 B.C) were assembling outside on the surrounding plains. A vast sea of warriors in full military armor were glistening in the sun, 185,000 in all, was an ominous site to behold.
The Prophet Isaiah had an illustrious career as historian, cosmologist, and prophet, and he also had the ear of the king. It was the Prophet Isaiah with the apt attention and blessing of King Hezekiah that a massive preparation was made to fortify the city of Jerusalem.
As Isaiah sat in the counsel of the King Hezekiah, he waited as Hezekiah was now standing before the Shekinah in the Holy of Holiest, with clothing rent, begging and beseeching the guidance of HaShem as he presented the demands of surrender by the Assyrians to the last remnant of God's people.
2 Kings 19:19 – "O Lord G-d of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are G-d, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. Now therefore, O Lord our G-d, I pray, save us from his hand, kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord G-d, You alone."
The Prophet Isaiah, the court counselor and seer was about 65 years old. He had an illustrious career as an historian, cosmologist, and prophet: and he also had the ear of the king.
It was the Prophet Isaiah with the apt attention and blessing of King Hezekiah that a massive preparation was made to fortify the city of Jerusalem. This included drilling a tunnel under the City of David so that the water supply sources would be protected and sustain the Jewish people inside the walls of Jerusalem.
So, a tunnel was carved under Mount Zion, by the order of the King, Hezekiah and the external source of water at the Gihon Spring was directed under the wall of the city and fortified outside against the military forces of Assyria.
This was the last reference to the Ark of the Covenant, the Cherubim and the Shekinah in Hebrew scripture. When Isaiah received the diplomats of the king's court with the demands of the king of Assyria, Isaiah had already done his homework.
The Prophet Israel was also a ancient chronicler of the ancient catastrophes of old, as he studied avidly the history of G-d's people. He knew well the history of catastrophic deliverances for the Hebrews. He was assured that even with a remnant, the L-rd of hosts would defend His own. So, he said;
2 Kings 19:5-7, Isaiah 37:6 – "Thus says the L-rd: 'Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have. Surely, I will send a "spirit" upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'"
Judaean King Hezekiah and Jerusalem endured a siege led by Assyrian king Sennacherib when his 185,000 warriors were destroyed by a Bolide Fire from the Heavens.
There was at one location that was Jerusalem's most vulnerable military asset; there was one spring, the Gihon Spring, that provided a continuous flow of water for the Jewish people literally trapped inside a city and whose destiny appeared to be on the pathway of eventual national annihilation.
The Massive Water Tunnel carved under and inside the walls of Jerusalem from the Gihon Springs higher up protecting a water supply for the population of the city of Jerusalem.
As Isaiah sat in the counsel of the King Hezekiah, he waited as Hezekiah was now standing before the Shekinah in the Holy of Holiest, with clothing rent, begging and beseeching for the guidance of HaShem as he presented the demands of surrender by the Assyrians to the last remnant of G-d's people.
2 Kings 19:19 – "O Lord G-d of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, you are G-d, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, Now therefore, O Lo-rd our G-d, I pray, save us from his hand, kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the L-rd G-d, You alone."
King Hezekiah's Tunnel in Old City Jerusalem
So, a tunnel was carved under Mount Zion, by the order of the King, Hezekiah and the external source of water at the Gihon was directed under the wall of the city and fortified outside against the military forces of Assyria.
This was the last reference to the Ark of the Covenant, the Cherubim and the Shekinah in Hebrew scripture. When Isaiah received the diplomats of the king's court with the demands of the king of Assyria, Isaiah had already done his homework. He was also a Searcher, as he studied avidly the history of G-d's people. He knew well the history of catastrophic deliverances for the Hebrews. He was assured that even with a remnant, the L-rd of hosts would defend His own. So, he said,
2 Kings 19:5-7, Isaiah 37:6 – "Thus says the L-rd: 'Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have. Surely, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'"
An Electrical Bolt shoots down upon the Middle East like a "blast" (bolide of fire) outside the walls of Jerusalem while King Sennacherib's 185,000-man Assyrian Army were destroyed
This translation (NKJV), though technically is correct in its translation, "Surely I will send a "spirit" upon him", may have considerably missed the literal impact of a literal historical catastrophic event.
The most literal word for "spirit" should be a "Blast" as in the Hebrew, the word translated is ruwach or ruach (Strong's 7307) means a wind resembling a violent exhalation, a tempest, an angry breath and by extension a region of the sky with a giant stellar blast from the heavens
Electrical Bolide or Flue or "Blast" of Immense Stellar Energy
What a difference this meaning takes! G-d did not send his 'Divine Spirit' as some would consider his Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh. As Sennacherib had 'utterly destroyed' the lands in this scorch earth massacre, so also the L-rd of hosts would treat him; as the king and his forces would be utterly destroyed by G-d's ruach, or bolide "blast" from the heavens.
The land surrounding Jerusalem was soon a metal filled vortex zone as the almost 200,000 military warriors laid on the ground and around them lay their military hardware, shields, swords, helmets, and body armor.
The landscape outside the wall of Jerusalem was soon to become a "ground" where a powerful magnetic bolide would be "cast down" upon the field of sleeping soldiers. The hundreds of acres of served as a reception ground as a field of metal drew to the earth a million-volt flue or bolide of fire from the heavens.
Bolides of Fire cascading over the Earth are part of G-d's Divine Act of Creation and Judgment: like the Bolide Blast of G-d that destroyed the 185,000 Assyrian Army outside the walls of Jerusalem
The Nation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel first felt the long arm of human terror in 725 B.C.E. when Shalmaneser V (727-722 B.C.E.) invaded Israel and marched on to Samaria, the capital city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel located in Shomron and Judea today called the "West Bank". For three years, the capital city lay in siege and finally fell to its destruction in the year of 722 B.C.E.
During the final onslaught by Sargon II, (722-705 B.C.E.) general of the army and eventual successor to Shalmaneser; the Northern Kingdom of Israel also felt the wrath of Assyria. Judah, in the 4th year of Hezekiah, also now came under the control of Assyria by sending tribute to the Assyrians.
So, in 722 B.C.E., House of the Northern Kingdom of Israel went into exile; an exile which has never been completed and whose dry bones have not been restored to this day, per the prophecy of Ezekiel 36. (Ezekiel.36:1-14)
The Hebrew speaking Rabshakeh, chief cup bearer and spokesman for Assyrian King Sennacherib
The Prophet Isaiah was powerful human force representing the messages and warnings from the One G-d of Israel. The symbiotic relationship between the Prophet Isaiah and King Hezekiah was a powerful human force that was in an alliance with the angelic powers of the Divine.
What is known is that Hezekiah, between the years of 701 and 690 B.C.E., spent extensive preparations to fortify the city of Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:2-6) awaiting the final onslaught.
It was during this time the famous Hezekiah's tunnel was carved beneath the limestone mountain called Mount Moriah. The Jewish tunnelers bore a 1777- foot tunnel from the well of Gihon in the Kidron Valley to the lower Pool of Siloam inside the walls of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 32:4,30, 2 Kings 20:20).
As such the residences inside the walls of Jerusalem had a continuous supply of water even during a siege; even to this present day. This was documented on an inscription found in the tunnel in 1880, now residing in the Archeological Museum at Istanbul, which states:
The King Hezekiah Siloam Tunnel Inscription Stone
Archeological Museum at Istanbul - "The tunnel was bored. And this was the manner in which it was cut. While (the workmen were) still (lifting up) axes, each toward his neighbor, and while three cubits remained to be cut through, (there was heard) the voice one calling the other, tunnel was bored, the stonecutters, struck, each to meet his fellow, ax against ax; and the water flowed from the spring to the pool for 1,200 cubits (1,700 feet), and the height of the rock above the heads of the stonecutters was 100 cubits."
The location in Hezekiah's Tunnel where King Hezekiah's Siloam Tunnel Stone was taken from the wall of the Tunnel
Contrary to modern chronology, Sennacherib did not bring his forces to the walls of Jerusalem on 701 B.C.E., but more than likely about 684 B.C.E. On that day, the mighty forces of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria were annihilated by a mighty bolide, "Blast", the electrical bolt or flue of millions of volts of electricity that was heard across the land.
It incinerated the entire military force of 185,000 warriors, who were camped outside the walls of Jerusalem. The army, lying with the ground strewn with the iron helmets, iron coats of mail, iron javelins, and iron leg armor, became a vast grounding site for a cosmic electrical bolide. According to the prophecy of Isaiah:
Isaiah 37:6 - "And he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
It appears that Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.E.), the successor to Sargon II, had made a military incursion into the kingdom of Judah, the first, around 701 B.C.E., the 14th year of Hezekiah. (1 Kings 18:13) he attacked the fortified cities of Hezekiah and carried off tribute and booty. Hezekiah repented and offered to pay tribute.
Though Hezekiah ruled from 729-686 B.C.C., the first fifteen years were co-regent with his father, King Ahaz (735-715 B.C.E.). So, fourteen years after he became sole rule in 715 B.C.C., Sennacherib came to Jerusalem and boasted that he made Hezekiah "prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage".
Per the historical documents in the royal histories of the kings of Judah, Hezekiah paid 300 talents of silver, in which he had to clean out the coffers of the Temple of G-d, and 30 talents of gold, in which he had to tear down the front doors of the temple and remove the gold overlay in which he had earlier restored when he repaired the Temple of Solomon.
Having access now to the Royal Archives of Sennacherib in Nineveh, we find Sennacherib's claim that he had receipts of 'thirty talents of gold and eight hundred talents of silver," together with a great treasure of gems, couches of ivory, valuable woods, and 'all the king's valuable treasures." (SDA Bible Commentary Vol. 2 pg. 956)
Some scholars think that during this campaign, when he took the fenced cities, he also laid siege to Jerusalem. Others suggest that Sennacherib returned later, laid siege to Lachish, while he sent Rabshakeh, the chief cup bearer and spokesman for the king's envoy, who was obviously multi-lingual as he spoke Hebrew, to deliver an ultimatum to King Hezekiah.
While this ultimatum was being delivered, it was learned that Tirhakah, king of Cush, an Ethiopian ruler of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, was in route to engage in battle with Sennacherib. (11 Kings 19:9)
Historical documents depict that Tirhakah was born in 708 B.C.E. At the age of 7, he was unable to wield an army against Sennacherib, so Tirhakah was also co-regent, with his brother, Shabataka (700 – 684 B.C.E.), in 690 B.C.E. and reigned alone from 684 to 664 B.C.E. What we do know is that Hezekiah died in 686 B.C.E. Seven years later King Sennacherib was assassinated (681 B.C.E)., so Sennacherib's confrontation with Hezekiah was sometime between 690 to 686 B.C.E.
If there is a conclusion to this story, the Neshama Soul of King Sennacherib will someday in the future be placed the body of another Military Force Commander at the end of days. In the next article, we will explore who this military archetype will become at the "end of days" when the final calamities will fall upon the nations of the world. At the "time of the end" these celestial calamities will bring the divine judgment of G-d upon all peoples; depending upon our relationship, obedience and alliance with the powers of the heavenly archons.
Isaiah 37:36 - "Then the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when the people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses-all dead. So, Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.
Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reined in his place."
Then the promise came to King Hezekiah from the Prophet Isaiah for his people:
2 Kings 19: 29-31 (Isaiah 37:30-32) – "This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself and in the second year what springs from the same; also in the third year; sow and reap.
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. And the remnants who have escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this."
Here were the blessings of the G-d of Israel, blessings that once again will reign down upon not only the Jewish people's but also upon the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Ezekiel 36:22-23, 24-28 (parts); 33- - "Therefore, tell the house of Yisra'el that Adonai Elohim (L-rd G-d) says this:
'I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Yisra'el, but for the sake of my Holy Name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you went. I will set apart my Great Name to be regarded as holy, since it has been profaned in the nations – you profaned it among them.
They will know that I am Adonai,' says Adonai Elohim, 'when, before their eyes, I am set apart through you to be regarded as holy.
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all countries, and return you to your own soil. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you…I will cleanse you from your uncleanliness…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside …You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors.
You will be my people, and I will be your G-d…When the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause cities to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt. The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.
They will say, 'the land that used to be desolate has become like Gan Eden (Garden of Eden)…Then the nations around that remain will know that I, Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai, have spoke; and I will do it!"
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Is Obama, the Machiavellian "Black Prince" the Reincarnation of the Pharaoh of Egypt
"But I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments." (Exodus 7:3-4)
(Photo: Pete Souza/ Official White House Photo)
One of the hidden and most misunderstood tenants in the Jewish historical lore is the role of reincarnation known by the Talmudic Sage Mystics known from the intense training through the Zohar, the classic texts in the hidden Kabballah.
As written in the Zohar, "In the final days before the revealing of King Messiah (Melekh HaMaschiach), all the historic enemies of Jerusalem and the Jewish people will be reincarnated and they will live to see and experience their final judgment.
They will live on earth during this last generation before the final battles for the sovereignty of Jerusalem as the Solar Rex Capital of our Solar System are completed. During these last epic years of earth's history, during this cosmic era, each one of these imperial tyrants against Israel will meet their divine judgment during the final battle of GogUMagog. When these "end of days" are over, they will all be destroyed by the wrath of G-d.
It was during these last Sabbatical Week of Years, as prophesied in the mystical and esoteric Jewish texts, the first of the reincarnations of the kings of ancient renown was Saddam Hussein the tyrant of Iraq who ruled in the land of Ancient Babylon. Saddam Hussein believed that the Soul of King Nebuchadnezzar was reincarnated into his soul.
He was so proud of this fact that in his reincarnation role of King Nebuchadnezzar, he commissioned a reconstruction of the august entrance to the City of Babylon and even had the bricks used in the pavement inscribed with these words: "To King Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of Saddam Hussein."
The Prophet Daniel speaking to King Nebuchadnezzar concerning his Dream of the Great Statue of King Nebuchadnezzar
Hussein was mimicking the original Nebuchadnezzar, who was said to have inscribed his name on the bricks when he built cities in his time. Hussein was hanged on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet. The tenth of Tevet is a fast day commemorating the day Nebuchadnezzar began the siege on Jerusalem that led to the destruction of the Jewish Temple.
The Abandoned Al Faw Palace of Saddam Hussein after his Capture and Hanging in Iraq
Every year, in the Spring, the Jewish holiday of Purim is commemorated as a victory of the Jewish people over the evil plan of Haman the descendant of King Agag the Amalekite. His purpose was to destroy all the Jewish people living in the satraps of Persia. This intended Persian Holocaust was aborted by the Divine intervention of G-d.
It was the Persian Shah, King Cyrus the Great, who was also known as King Achashverosh in the Persian court was truly the military leader of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Consider this fact; it was a military ruler of the Lost Ten Tribes of the Pasargadae Tribe who emancipated the Jewish people and sent them back to their Jewish homeland in Jerusalem.
The effect on the psyche of the Jewish people is vividly portrayed every year in the Jewish Festival of Purim. This was expressed very clearly by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu when he addressed the US Congress in 2015 on the eve of Purim. At that time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the role of the Obama White House concerning the nuclear deal with Iran on the day before Purim.
There before the House of Congress, he compared Modern Iran with Ancient Persia. The Jewish holiday of Purim today commemorates our victory over Haman, a resurrected evil Amalek prime minister to King Achashverosh in the Persian court.
Three years ago, then-President of Israel, Shimon Peres, a secular Jew who was raised and trained as a Roman Catholic Jesuit, and not known for his religious piety to the G-d of Israel, personally spoke to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef that the virulent anti-Semite, the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the reincarnation into a modern-day Haman.
Yet Ahmadinejad was more than just a modern-day Haman. Ahmadinejad was Jewish, a virulent anti-Semite Jew, who was known by Rabbi Marvin Antelman, former Chief Justice of the American Jewish Supreme Court as a JINO, "Jew in Name Only".
The Erev Rav: the Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert
It does not take a modern Persian Jew to seek to destroy the State of Israel. More explicitly it was the "Erev Rav" who created the "Golden Calf" and were dancing in orgy around their idol because they were too impatient to wait for Moshe to return down from the Mount called Sinai with the 10 Commands written as the Law of the Covenant.
Today, the Erev Rav, who live in the land of Israel are not just secular Jews like Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, but also those who hang their destiny not to piety to HaShem but like the former Prime Minister Arial Sharon who created the settlement movement a homeland for the Jewish people in Gaza and the region of Shomron and Judea. He was also involved in the creation of gambling casinos for his own financial mammon (financial wealth).
Sharon also tore down all the homes and their synagogues of 10,000 observant Jews in the Gaza Strip, in 2005 where they were a thriving community who grew bug free produce and flowers in nurseries to send to Europe and gave the Mediterranean Beaches back to the Amalek's of today; the Hamas of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, the protégé of the infamous Yasser Arafat.
Queen Esther in the Persian Palace of King Ahashverosh (King Cyrus the Great)
Many numerologists have noted that the gematria, or numerical value of words based on Hebrew letters, of "Haman", is 95. Is it comprehensible today that the Haman of ancient Persia was also reincarnated into the modern Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates our Jewish victory today over the evil Hamans of old. He was the imperial adviser to King Ahashverosh (King Cyrus the Great} whose real name was Darius I in the Persian court. Persia is today of course Iran.
As we have noted above, in the Hebrew biblical gematria, the numerical value of the Hebrew words based in the TaNaKh (Hebrew Bible) and applied to the gematria of the name of "Haman" is 95.
The name with the same gematria today is "Mahmoud" as in the name of the recent Persian Prime Minister "Mahmoud" Ahmadinejad". That same name is also the cloned into the virulent anti-Semite, non-elected President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, who sought and was refused by the United Nations to give the Palestinians their own nation.
Today, Abbas is seeking to resurrect a Nation of Palestine by begging the new President of the United States, a Lost Ten-Tribed Israelite, President Donald Trump to finance and build an airport for the Palestinian peoples, to build them a port city on the Mediterranean, build them malls and shopping regions in the tribal homelands of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel in the mountains of Shomron and Judea.
President Donald Trump at the Kotel in Jerusalem
This past week, on May 22, 2017, after a visit with the Saudi Royal Family who are of Jewish ancestral roots, President Donald Trump with wife, Melania, flew to the State of Israel for a 24-hour visit. Their they were welcomed as royalty by the Jewish people.
US President Donald Trump (C-R) and First Lady Melania Trump (C-L) lay a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem
It was there that President Trump visited and prayed at the "Kotel" the most sacred site for the Jewish people in Jerusalem and laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum. He donned a kippa and gave a short speech outside the Hall of Remembrance where he laid a wreath together with first lady Melania and rekindled the eternal flame. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner also attended the ceremony.
Holocaust survivor Margot Herschenbaum was brought to tears at Yad Vashem after a replica of her late sister's personal album was gifted to US President Donald Trump during his visit to the memorial. As President Donald Trump spoke:
President Donald Trump - "This place and this entire nation are testimony to the unbreakable spirit of the Jewish people and the hope that light can shine the path beyond the darkness."
Trump donned a kippah and gave a short speech outside the Hall of Remembrance where he had laid a wreath together with first lady Melania and rekindled the eternal flame. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner also attended the ceremony.
It was days earlier that Mahmoud Abbas met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office that he called Trump "insane" when Trump recommended to Mahmoud Abbas to stop all financial aid to the Palestinian martyrs and their families when they insist on daily targeting the Jewish people in Israel for death.
The hidden secret is the fact that the Palestinian Ishmaelites are a parasitic "Non-People" originally ordered by the Ishmaelite nations of the Middle East to take possession of the Land of Israel when the Jewish peoples announced their Declaration of Independence as a Jewish Nation rising out of the British Mandate on May 14, 1948.
At that time, the Nations of Islam attacked the fledgling State of Israel. They lost the war. At that time, the Palestinian "non-peoples" tried to return to the former Middle Eastern lands of the Ishmaelites after the war. What they discovered was the fact that all the nations and kingdoms in the Middle East refuse to accept them, support them, or claim them a one of their own Ishmaelite brothers. So:
First we have "Haman" the Agagite whose gematria is 95.
Second we have the hidden Jew, the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was a virulent anti-Semitic Jew whose gematria of his name "Mahmoud" was also 95.
Third we now have "Mahmoud" Abbas the non-elected President of the Palestinian Authority whose hidden mandated is to "Drive the Jews into the Sea" and whose gematria of his first name, "Mahmoud" is also 95.
On June 7, 2017, the Jewish people around the world will celebrate "Jerusalem Day". This is a Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City of Jerusalem in the aftermath of the June 1967 Six-Day War... The following day, June 7, 1967 (28 Iyar 5727), Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem.
Now 50 years later we can celebrate with them as the Holy City of Jerusalem is becoming more a more a "Sacred Place" where the we can perceive the divine emanations of elevated consciousness coming into our lives.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, who is a Lost Ten Israelite of Irish Illuminati fame flew first to land of Saudi Arabia, where the Saudi royalty still within their heart the sacred memories that they are of Jewish bloodlines. There in Saudi Arabia, President Trump and Melania were treated like royalty.
The next day, they landed at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport seeking to begin negotiations between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
President Trump needed to consider seriously that the Hebrew biblical gematria identified "Haman" the Prime Minister of Ancient Persia, who sought to exterminate the Jewish people in a Persian Holocaust was the first Holocaust creator. The Jewish people were saved by the intervention of the Jewess Queen Esther.
Today, American President Donald Trump is seeking also peace between the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel but the Nation of Persia keeps seeking to create a new Jewish Holocaust.
Yet, Trumps presidential predecessor, the "Black Prince" of Islam was recently revealed within the hidden passages of the Zohar, when it predicted:
The Zohar – "A man, unsuitable to rule (the world), will be 'brought to power' in the very Last Days . . . there will be other men similarly undeserving to be leaders at that time."
Are we prepared today, like the Pharaoh of old, to also find that there was an incarnation of the ancient Pharaoh of Egypt in the days of Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our leader and teacher) who the One G-d of Israel came and placed the Neshama soul of the Pharaoh of Egypt upon the "Black Prince of the Oval Office" while president of the United States of America?
Is Obama the modern holocaust creator who refused to accept his ruling mandate of the G-d of Israel to free the Jews from the clutches of the Ishmaelites? Did the G-d of Israel harden the heart of Barack Obamas so that his hidden agenda has been a constant threat of a new holocaust against the modern Nation State of Israel.
In the TaNaKh (Hebrew Bible), the ancient Pharaoh of Egypt was an obstinate ruler, who adamantly persisted in leading his best trained army to plunge into the boiling waters of the Red Sea. This historical Egyptian ruler left Egypt without a Pharaoh. With the death of his first-born son, the heir to the throne of Egypt, the largest empire of that era was without a ruler nor a protector.
If we look over Planet Earth's landscape, the now former American President Barack Obama has many parallels to the ancient Pharaoh of Egypt. He does in hindsight appear to be the reincarnation of the ancient Pharaoh of Egypt, the largest empire of its age.
In our modern world age, the United States is clearly the largest imperial militaristic power on earth today. Yet, the former American President Barak Hussein Obama squandered the assets, power and might of the modern age leading the United States of America into virtual bankruptcy. During the eight years of his presidency, his suitability for the office of the President of the United States has dogged him ever since before he was elected.
Obama was thrust into the national spotlight when as a Junior Democratic Senator, he gave an untelevised keynote address at the Democratic convention in 2004. It was at that time that he introduced to the American nation the man who was his Secretary of State, John Kerry, a man who is arguably was better suited for the Oval Office but is equally a JINO (Jew in Name Only) and not a friend of Israel.
A senator from Chicago, Obama was unknown with no experience in many key areas, most notably the national economy and foreign policy. These two areas are today in shambles as he exited the role as the president of the United States. Another telling clue to can be found through Torah codes methodology. The name 'Obama' appears twice in the entire Bible, using the seven-letter-skip-forward pattern, which is considered to give the most significant results.
The first biblical passage which captures the name of "Obama" was discovered in the Book of Jeremiah 46:26-28, which verses deal with God's promise to bring the house of Jacob back from Egyptian captivity. The name of Obama is contained within them.
Jeremiah 46:25-26 – "And I shall deliver them into the hands of those who seek their souls, and into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonia and into the hand of his servants; but thereafter you shall have rest, as in the day of old – the word the word of HaShem.
It was right at the beginning of his presidential career that Obama was searching for his messianic destiny and discovered it with searching into the esoteric sources of the Divine. It was during Obama's first presidential campaign that he made the seemingly insignificant promise that he would give a major address to Muslims from a Muslim capitol during his first few months as president.
Barack Obama in his famous "New Beginnings Speech in Cairo, Egypt on June 4, 2009
True to his word, on June 4, 2009, he made his famous "New Beginnings" speech in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. In that speech that he announced he would begin negotiations with Shiite Iran and would oppose Jewish settlements in the West Bank. He clearly landed on the wrong side of G-d, whom he does not listen to, and set out his destiny against the G-d of Israel.
Obama, like the Egyptian Pharaoh, his heart was hardened by the Divine to begin the division of the House of Ishmael and the House of Abraham.
Over the months and years, this Machiavellian Black Prince showed no regard to the American Covenant with the G-d of Israel, and the Constitution of the United States that was based upon the Torah's universal principles of righteous government.
He quickly opened the gates of our national security to the Ishmaelite Persian enemy who negotiated with America while screaming "Death to America".
As reported by the Pew Research Center, in the past 15 years, the United States has admitted 399,677 Christian refugees and 279,339 Muslim refugees into the United States. In the past year of 2016, 84,995 refugees entered the United States, effectively meeting the 85,000 ceiling set by the Obama administration at the beginning of the year 2016.
The Obama White House set the goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. in the fiscal year. This goal was exceeded, and refugee status was given to 12,587 Syrians. Nearly all of them (99%) were Muslim and less than 1% were Christian. As a point of comparison, Pew Research Center estimated Syria's religious composition to be 93% Muslim and 5% Christian in 2010.
He soon began his debacle of secret destruction upon America as hundreds of thousands of Syrian Ishmaelites slowly, secretly began to infiltrate the American subculture and disappear.
The "Black Prince" unwittingly set off a cascade of geo-political events during his "New Beginnings" speech that cast the Middle East into a fiery inferno. Eighteen months after his "New Beginnings Speech in Cairo, Egypt, the winds of change cascaded around the world as the entire Middle East exploded into the "Arab Spring" in 2010 imploding many Islamic nations in its pathway.
The Fiery Inferno of the Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian vegetable peddler in Tunesia started the Arab Spring
It was in Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian vegetable peddler set himself ablaze in the town of Sidi Bouzid after his cart was confiscated by a policewoman, Tunisian municipal officer Faida Hamdy who slapped him and spat in his face.
The world stopped in shock as the decades of long-simmering frustrations over injustice, poverty and the greed of the political elite now began to spill across the Ishmaelite political landscape and the Arab Spring of 2010 erupted.
The Lavish Lives of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali with wife, Leila Trabelsi fleeing Tunisia
On January 14, 2011 – Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled from Tunisia after 24 years of rule along with his despised wife, Leila Trabelsi, who stripped the Tunisian Central Bank of their Gold Reserves
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
On February 11, 2011, the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was forced from the Egyptian office of the Presidency on February 12, 2011, as Egyptian demonstrators faced off with the Egyptian police in the Cairo streets leading to Tahir Square.
Hosni Mubarak becomes the second Egyptian ruler forced from office of the presidency after 30 years in power. The aftermath of the initial protest of a human torched body in Tunisia ricocheted throughout the Arab world. The protests continued to escalate throughout the Arab world.
Protestor looking at a Burned Armored Vehicle in downtown Egypt on January 28.
With the use of Facebook, the protests that continued in Tunisia erupted with greater intensity and violence in the Nation of Egypt. Hundreds of the protestors died in the hands of the Egyptian security forces until the Egyptian army took reigns of the government. Amidst the wild celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Mubarak was forced from office.
Egyptians praying in the Tahir Square in front of Army Tanks during the Revolution of January 28, 2011
On February 15, 2011, the Libyan protestors revolted against the violent regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan protests then turn violent.
Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi
Protests that erupt in the east after the arrest of human rights lawyers quickly turn violent after the Gaddafi regime responds with massive force. Within three days, opposition supporters were now in control in Libya at the second largest city of Benghazi and the government began to see massive defections of his own military forces.
On March 14, 2011, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States sent a join expedition into Bahrain to give support of the Sunni Ali Khalifa monarchy secondary to a Shia uprising by the Shia majority living and working in the country.
The Torching of the Benghazi Consulate with the death of American Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens
On March 17, 2011, the UN Security Council passed a no-fly zone over the country of Libya as the military forces of Gaddafi closed in upon the second largest city of Benghazi. It appeared that the forces of Gaddafi were preparing to massively suppress the city.
Two days later NATO warplanes and missiles began to bombard Gaddafi's army positions when the American Consulate was torched that lead up to the American debacle in Benghazi when the American Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean were caught in a fire-storm and lost their lives.
Obama and Hillary watching spell-bound to the destruction of the Benghazi Consulate
According to investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, the Benghazi Embassy was a cover to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria of which he cited a anonymous former senior Defense Department intelligence officer stated: "The consulate's only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role."
One day later, on March 18, 2011, the death toll in the Middle East expanded exponentially as extremism was blooming into an exploding cauldron. Demonstrations began to explode in the Nation of Syria where Syrian government military forces shot five protestors Deraa in the south of Syria.
Mass Exodus from Yarmouk a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Damascus since 2013
Here started the uprising of the Syrian peoples against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Seven months later 3,000 Syrians were dead in a Syrian uprising and exploded into a civil war that by April 2016 the United Nations and the Arab League Envoy to Syria estimated that 400,000 had died, plus 50,000 children in the Syrian civil war by the spring of 2011.
Yemini President Ali Abdullah Saleh
On June 3, 2011, the Yemini President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a palace bombing in the capital city of Sana. Protestors arose by the thousands as hundreds of protestors were killed. He was evacuated but escaped for treatment in Saudi Arabia.
On August 3, 2011, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was put on trial as the political pressure mounted. Arabs across the Middle East watched the former dictator who ruled with a strong hand wheeled into court in a stretcher, along with his two sons, who were hated and despised by the Egyptian populous.
By August 21, 2011, the Libyan rebels were on the road to Tripoli, the capital city. The NATO's bombing of Libya was under international attack and France under the rule of French President Sarkozy was under investigation of helping and assisting the escape of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi fled to his hometown and birthplace at Sirte where he was later captured hiding in a concrete pipe.
The Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Sirte Libya on October 20, 2011
Today, we can only look at the past with hindsight, and iconic memories. What we have seen is that over the years, Obama squandered the military protective shield around America. He began the secret process of opening the gates in the Middle East and promoted the rise of the militant Islamic forces seeking a New Muslim Caliphate in their bid to conquer the world.
Like the Pharaoh of Egypt, Obama's behavior in addressing the rise of Nuclear Iran, he displayed a clear disregard in the nuclear negotiations with Iran and the world's foremost anti-Semite, the Shiite Ayatollah of Iran, Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, who toppled the 38-year Western Persian ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 and transformed the Ancient Land of Persia into a Shiite Islamic nation.
Obama's connection to the nuclear deal with Iran was only with obstinacy, as if a divine force was hardening his heart. His heart was hardening to the Jewish peoples
At the same time Obama was promoting the destruction of Syria with anti-Syrian militants with Shi'ite military warriors seeking to destroy the independent and proud Kurdish warriors to the north. He held within his heart the desire to collapse the entire Sunni Muslim states but also to destroy the Jewish State of Israel.
As such, akin to Obama's Muslim faith, he would soon open a corridor to turn the entire Middle East into their long awaited messianic era as they wait for the Shi'ite messiah to arrive, the "One" called the "Mahdi" who by expectation will reign over Planet Earth.
The rise of ISIS and the rising Sunni Caliphate was controlled directly by President Barak Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Here they provided the Shi'ite Islamic Nation of Iran with the diplomatic laxity to create nuclear weapons.
It is easily see the forces of the divine weighing down upon the former resident in the Oval Office in Washington as he donned the ancient stubborn behavior of the Egyptian Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus.
This time, Obama opened the gates for Ancient Persia to become a nuclear nation. He was persistent in making pointless attempts to deal diplomatically with a nation that has continued to openly state its wish and intention to destroy the western world. Such was the rise and fall of the iconic equivalent of the irrational stubbornness of the ancient pharaoh in Egypt in the face of divine intervention.
With the Pharaoh refusing to release the Children of Israel from Egypt when G-d hardened his heart, the Pharaoh made a decision that turned Egypt from being the leading military ruler of the then known world into a leaderless ruin.
Like many leaders of the past, Obama has his part to play in relation to the Jews and to the land of Israel. His role, foretold thousands of years ago, fits uncannily into the timeline of the messianic age, leading to hopes that despite the temporary triumph of Israel's enemies, all will be defeated to bring redemption for the Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Obama clearly was courting the destruction of his own nation. He considered passing the Iran nuclear deal a victory even though it meant short-circuiting the Democratic process with a shaky veto and endangering the unity and future success of his political party, his country, and the doctrine of freedom and democracy which he claims to uphold. The naivete and weakness of Obama's foreign policy decisions were on the precipice of the cliff hovering over the destruction and downfall of America.
Like many leaders of the past, Obama had his part to play in the final "dramatic act" of the "Drama of the Ages" in his relationship to the Jews and to the land of Israel.
Obama's role, appears was foretold thousands of years ago, but only today we can see that it fits uncannily into the timeline of the messianic age, leading to hopes that despite the temporary triumph of Israel's enemies, all will be defeated to bring redemption.
In the Bible, Pharaoh was recognized as such a leader, obstinately leading himself and his army directly into the Red Sea, leaving his country leaderless and without protection.
American president Barack Obama is a parallel pharaoh figure in today's world. His suitability for the post has been an issue that has haunted him since before he was elected.
However, it is unnecessary to search esoteric sources to find this connection. During Obama's first presidential campaign, he made the seemingly incongruous promise that he would give a major address to Muslims from a Muslim capitol during his first few months as president. True to his word, on June 4, 2009, he made his famous "New Beginning" speech in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. In that speech that he announced he would be negotiating with Iran, and opposing Israeli settlements.
His behavior connected to the nuclear deal with Iran was obstinate, as if a divine force was hardening his heart. He showed a clear disregard for national security, providing weapons and resources to Iran while they screamed 'Death to America' in the streets.
Providing such a country with nuclear weapons, and persisting in clearly pointless attempts to deal diplomatically with a nation that has openly stated its wish and intention to destroy the western world, is the modern equivalent of a Pharaoh's irrational stubbornness in the face of divine intervention.
Like Pharaoh who refused to release the Jews when God hardened his heart, a decision that turned ancient Egypt from being the rulers of the world into a leaderless ruin, Obama was courting the same destruction of his own nation.
He considered passing the Iran nuclear deal a victory even though it meant short-circuiting the Democratic process with a shaky veto and endangering the unity and future success of his political party, his country, and the doctrine of freedom and democracy which he claims to uphold. The naivete and weakness of Obama's foreign policy decisions may well mean the downfall of America.
Like many leaders of the past, Obama has his part to play in relation to the Jews and to the land of Israel. His role, foretold thousands of years ago, fits uncannily into the timeline of the messianic age, leading to hopes that despite the temporary triumph of Israel's enemies, all will be defeated so redemption will come to all 12-Tribes of the House of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:22 – "They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god (atheism); they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people (Palestinians) who do not have a nation; I will provoke them with a vile nation (North Korea).
For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the depths of the nether-world (She'ol), and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains."
The world is appears is turning upside down. We fear that we are losing our own destiny yet are heartened by the fact that the G-d of Israel has stated in clear unequivocal terms that he will protect his own.
You might want to visit the following BibleSearchers Reflection research articles as we watched with "eyes that can see" during the fall 2006 to spring 2007. The Bush White House was determined to finish and destroy the nuclear capacity of Ahmadinejad regimen in Tehran, Iran. It did not happen.
Along came Obama the Black Prince of the Apocalypse. He instead opened the gates of destruction awakening America to their continental destruction by nuclear destruction or by "global catastrophes" known as "Acts of G-d".
The G-d of Israel chose otherwise and here again we are on the threshold of World War III as Obama's America White House is now fading into history. NATO, United States, Russia and China are all posturing and positioning their political and military assets again in the Middle East. Has the "Appointed Time" of B'itah arrived in 2017 when we see Redemption come with G-d's harsh and heavy hand?
You have now been exposed to uprising of the Arab Spring and the warring era between 2009 to 2017 as harsh realities are preparing to settle upon this earth.
You are welcome to revisit the anticipation of the "War of Civilization" during the years of 2006-2007 in the BibleSearchers Reflection articles, for the globalist's expectations have not changed; but America's White House presidential occupant has changed. What will be Trump's future prophetic destiny?
Go to – "Is the "War of Civilization" about to Erupt in the Persian Gulf" – 10.6.2006
Go to – "Wake Up World – The "War of Civilization" is all about Israel" – 11.4.2006
Go to – "The Map of the 'New Middle East'" – 11.2.06
Go to - "The Pathway of NATO and the 'New Middle East'" – 01.2007
Nuclear Iran Series
"Retired Major General Paul E Vallely admits; 'Iran has Nuclear Weapons'" –
Nuclear Iran Part One – 5.23.10
"Iran had Nuclear Weapons, Cruise Missiles in 2008 and Russia did Not give it to Them – Directly" -
Nuclear Iran Part Two – 5.23.10
"President George W. Bush signed 2008 State of Emergency, feared Nuclear North Korea, prepared to Launch Attack on Nuclear Iran"
Nuclear Iran Part Three – 5.24.10
"Is America preparing for a 2010 Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur War with Israel against Iran?" – 5.25.10
Nuclear Iran Part Four - 5.25.10
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This Supernal Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the "Land" for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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The Arraignment and Interrogation of the Prince of David; Rabbi Yehoshua called the Nazarene
Looking at the Death of Yehoshua (Jesus) from the Perspective of First Century Orthodox Pharisaic Judaism and the Essenes
A Model of the Palace Residence of the High Priest Family of Ananus the Elder
The Plague of the Sadducean Families allied with the Disciple of Shammai the Great
Talmud, Pesahim 57
The Modern Red Heifer that may fulfill the Torah commands in the Cleansing of the Ashes of the Red Heifer
The Palace of the High Priest
The Outer Courtyard
The Residence of the High Priestly Family
The Prison Cells and Isolation Chamber
The Arraignment of Yehoshua the Prince of David
The Inner Prison Courtyard Caves
The Amazing and Hidden Ancestry of the Prince of David Yehoshua whom the World today still calls Jesus.
The Prince of David, Yehoshua, known as "Jesus" in today's modern world was born a Prince of David and heir to the Throne of Kings David and Solomon. Being a descendant of the Jewish Exilarch, Zerubabbel the Prince of Israel who took the Jewish people back to the land of Judea, Yehoshua was heir to the throne of Babylon, Zerubabbel's first "foreign wife" Amytis, the daughter of Babylonian Emperor Amel-Marduk, the grand-daughter of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Their descendant was Jacob ben Matthan, the reigning Patriarch of Jerusalem, whose marriage was approved by the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem for by 4 CE, all the lineages of the approved Jewish descendants by Zerubabbel's third Jewish wife Esthra through their first son, Shazrezzar were now extinct and the Jewish cleric, Ezra the Scribe's edicts; To become a Jew your mother must be a Jew" had now become null and void.
Yehoshua's Great Grandfather was the Prince and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Jacob ben Matthan, who was the Nasi or president of the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem from 32 to 23 BCE. He was sent to Egypt by King Herod to aid Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt and Mark Anthony in the war against Octavian of Rome. Jacob returned to Jerusalem with a new wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem, the posthumous daughter of Julius Caesar in Rome and Cleopatra of Egypt after the death of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony.
Jacob the Nasi Patriarch of Jerusalem first brother was Prince Hizkiah (Ezekias) who was called "The Zealot" who died in 4 BC at the hands of Rome for his uprising against the Roman dominion over ancient Judea. Jacob's second brother was Judas "of Gamala" was called the "Galilean" who died in 6 CE also in rebellion against Rome.
Out of the marriage of Prince Jacob ben Matthan and Cleopatra II of Jerusalem, the daughter of Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, they had a son about 29 BCE whose name was Joseph. His literal name was Joseph O'Pheroah (29 BCE-26 CE) or literally called "Joseph the Pharaoh". That made Yehoshua also the heir not only to the Throne of Kings David and Solomon but also to Ancient Egypt and Rome for Cleopatra II was the posthumous daughter of the relations between Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and Julius the Caesar of Rome that made the young Yehoshua the potential heir of the throne of Ancient Rome, for "Joseph the Pharaoh" (Yosef O'Pheroah) the genetic father of the Prince of David Yehoshua.
Yehoshua's maternal uncle was the "Richest Man in Jerusalem", Joseph of Arimathea, a Metal Merchant called a Roman Decurio who had the mining contract with the Roman Caesar to extract the strategic military metals for Rome, lead and tin off the Cornwall Coast of Ancient Britannia. Joseph of Arimathea was the son of Matthat ben Levi, who was executed by King Herod the Great for Joseph of Arimathea sat on the "Hereditary Seat of Kings David and Solomon" in the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and was a member of the Roman judicial council in Jerusalem.
Joseph of Arimathea was the half-brother to the biblical Heli of the Luke's lineage who real name was the Prince Alexander II Helios, was the son of the last Maccabean Queen Alexandra II, so through Miriam his mother, Yehoshua was the heir to the Maccabean Throne when Prince Alexander II Helios was drowned in the Herodian pool in Jericho, no doubt by the long arm of King Herod the Great who was threatened by the any of the royal claimants to the Throne of Ancient Judea.
Yehoshua's mother, Miriam is two thousand years later the most admired woman in the 1st century Temple of Herod culture. Miriam's mother, Anna (Hannah) was the wife of Prince Alexander II Helios, the heir to the Maccabean throne. She was one of three daughters to the High Priest of Jerusalem Yehoshua III also called the "High Priest Jesus III or Joshua III". The High Priest Yehoshua III was also killed by King Herod's long arm of justice for he was strongly promoting the defense Ancient Judea against Rome.
The High Priest of Jerusalem, Yehoshua III (Jesus III) being the father of Anna, and the grandmother Miriam, also a Princess of King David and Solomon, Miriam, the High Priest's granddaughter, also gave Miriam's son, Yehoshua (Jesus) heir to become not only the High Priest of Jerusalem but also to become the defacto King of Israel.
Now we can see in this historical document why Yehoshua was such a threat to the ruling high priestly family of the House of Ananus and the reigning High Priest Caiphas who was the son-in-law to Ananus the Elder.
It was on the Palace of Ananus the Elder that the proceedings began for a "trial for life" against the Nazarene. It was initiated by the ex-officio high priest of Israel.
The initial interrogator was the most potent enemy of Yehoshua, the Patriarch of the feared and often accursed high priest family, Ananus the Elder. This family came under the specific condemnation over thirty years later by the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus. He investigated the last years of the Jewish people before the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE. Concerning Ananus the Elder, Josephus wrote:
The Hole in the Ceiling where Yehoshua was Lowered into the Isolation Pit in the Basement of the Palace of Caiphas and Ananus the Elder – Photo by Robert Mock
Flavius Josephus – "Now, as soon as Albinus was come to the city of Jerusalem, he used all his endeavors and care that the country might be kept in peace, and this by destroying many of the Sicarii; but as for the high priest Ananus, he increased in glory every day, and this to a great degree, and had obtained the favor and esteem of the citizens in a signal manner; for he was a great hoarder up of money: he therefore cultivated the friendship of Albinus and of the High Priest Yehoshua III by making them presents; he also had servants who were very wicked, who joined themselves to the boldest sort of the people, and went to the threshing floors, and took away the tithes that belonged to the priests by violence, and did not refrain from beating such as would not give these tithes to them. So the other high priests acted in the like manner, as did those his servants, without any one being able to prohibit them; so that (some of the) priests, that of old were wont to be supported with those tithes, died for want of food." (Josephus, Antiquities, XX,ix,2)
During the initial interrogation, the High Priest Joseph Caiphas was not present near the vicinity of the family Palace residence. This may have served to give him plausible denial and not make him culpable with the Romans later.
According to Torah Law, Caiphas was mandated by the Divine presence to meditate in his temple residence, bringing his thoughts in harmony with the Almighty One of Israel.
In the hours before the Pesach lamb was to have been sacrificed, the high priest was making desperate moves to save his power and authority from this one minor rabbi, a true Prince of the Dynastic House of Kings David and Solomon that sought to return the Temple of Herod, Inc. back into a "House of Prayer".
Matthew 21:13 – "And He said to them, 'It is written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a 'den of thieves."
The Floor of the Ancient Palace where Yehoshua was Lowered from the "Hole in the Ceiling into the Isolation Pit awaiting His Sanhedrin Trial – Photo by Robert Mock
As archaeologists would later reveal, the residence of the High Priest was a palatial palace with many numerous mikvah baths, pools, and fountains. It was also a fortified residence with its own security guard including a prison with holding cells for prisoners and iron racks to bind prisoners like the Nazarene for beating and punishment.
Included in this interrogation center was an isolation cell as secure and severe as the feared Mamertine Prison (Tullianum) in Rome where enemies of Rome such as Jugurtha and Vercingetorix were strangled or as political prisoners were executed by being thrown off the Tarpeian Rock.
Mamertine Prison in Rome
This prison was described by the Roman author Sallust around 40 BCE as "about twelve feet deep, closed all round by strong walls and a stone vault. Its aspect is repugnant and fearsome from its neglect, darkness, and stench."
One may get the impression that the Jewish people were a powerful people in the Roman society. Composing 10% of the population in all the Roman Empire, the wealth of the empire of Rome came from the super-rich Jews such as the Roman mining Decurio from Britain, the Prince of David called Joseph of Arimathea and one of the leading Elders of the Sanhedrin; and the wealthy grain magnate called Nicodemus.
They both had residences in Jerusalem and Judea. This gave the impression that the Jewish influence in Roman economic life was as prominent in Roman society as it is today in Greco-Roman influenced societies of America and Europe.
The Site of the Palace of the High Priests Ananus and his son-in-law Caiphas, now the Church of St. Peter at Gallicantu – Photo by Robert Mock
The Jewish religion was a religion of great antiquity and respected by the Roman government of Augustus Caesar. Though the Jews were subject to the Roman government, the land of Judea was also Rome's breadbasket. The land was fertile with rich farmlands and large forests in the days of Yehoshua.
The Roman government usually treated its subjects with benign neglect after they had been truly pacified and willing to work as subjects of Rome. Yet, the Jews were different. Though used to living under the foreign governments of Babylon and Persia, the Jews under Rome were a sociological mix; bred with fire and brimstone. It was known that the Roman hatred of the Jew grew out of the virulent hatred of the Jewish zealots to Rome. It was Hillel the Great who recognized this effect.
Yet, the moderating attitude of the disciples of the Great Hillel was no longer felt within the temple culture in Jerusalem. The disciples of Shammai, the brooding isolationists that hated all gentiles were in control of the Pharisee educational system and great cultural fences were being set up around temple Judaism of the Prince of David, Yehoshua's day.
Looking from the Road heading down the Mount of Olives towards Gethsemane over the Jewish cemetery, the Kidron Valley (center) towards the Mount of Zion and the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu at the site of the Palace of Ananus the Elder and Caiphas, the high priests (see blue roofed building) – Photo by Robert Mock
It was not the minute parsing of Torah regulations that cast such a devastating effect on Jewish society, but the pall of corruption within the temple priesthood cult. The corruption was so great that the Sons of Ananus and the Sons of Boethus were virtually hated in Jewish peasant society. Their servants and slaves were like mad dogs in abusing the people.
It was not just the savagery of the servants of the high priest that brought this distain but the desecration of the Sanctuary and the graft and thievery in the Bazaars of Ananus alongside the temple that flamed the fury of the Jews in Jerusalem and Judea.
It was popular curse of the peasants and working class that left this Talmudic testimony of the popular sentiment of distain for the high priests families that controlled the sacrificial system of the Temple of Herod.
The Plague of the Sadducean Families allied with the Shammai the Great
"What a plague is the family of Simon Boethus; cursed be their lances!
What a plague is the family of Ananos; cursed be their hissing of vipers!
What a plague is the family of Cantharus; cursed be their pens!
What a plague is the family of Ismael ben Phabi; cursed be their fists!
They are high priests themselves, their sons are treasurers, their sons-in-law are commanders, and their servants strike people with staves."
To fulfill the commands of the Torah, soon only the very elite could afford the exorbant prices for the ashes of the red heifer that were required for ritual purity and proper Torah observance. The rude poverty of the masses with filth and hunger and unwashed fringes on their garments were only a symptom of how low the respect for the Torah had become as the Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Prince of David, Yehoshua walked among the throngs of the poor and the disenfranchised of Jewish society.
The Ashes of the Red Heifer that fulfilled the Torah commands in the Purification Rites of the Jews
Within the ancient commands from their God were the rites for the purification of the entire population, not just the wealthy and the beautiful. As written in the Torah, anyone who touched a dead body was ritually unclean. They were required to cleanse themselves with the sprinkle of the water which contained even the micro-fragments of the ashes of the red heifer.
The Interior of the Church of St. Peter at Gallicantu on the site of the Palace of the High Priestly Family of Ananus the High Priest – Photo by Robert Mock
Taken from the ritual sacrifice of that rare mutation of the red cow, only those that did not have more than two white hairs on their entire red hairy body at the age of two were proclaimed as pure and acceptable to the G-d of Israel.
The ashes of red heifer were so priceless that they were a treasure more valuable than the most costly pearl of great price. The ashes of the red heifer were treasured as a temple heirloom throughout the generations.
How purification came from such a ritual was a scientific mystery that even the great wisdom of Solomon could not understand. All Jews, regardless of wealth, were equal in the eyes of G-d and so they equally had access to this national treasure.
The Security Observation Deck looking down into the Isolation Pit where Yehoshua may have been Imprisoned – Photo by Robert Mock
According to the traditions of the Jews, the House of Ananus had virtual possession of the office of the high priest of Israel, the ashes of the red heifer were available to rich and poor alike.
Soon these "ashes" like the office of the high priest went for the price of the highest bidder. Only the very elite, the wealthy, and the powerful were allowed to touch the dead and be cleansed of their impurity.
The masses of people would be segregated and denied from access to their G-d. The poor mothers of Israel would have to remain unclean, not able to purify their bodies of the blood of their offspring by the purification sacrifice. Even the price of the doves, for the purification offering for the first born, were raised to such astronomical prices that many daughters of the Holy One would be left out, unclean.
Their cry against the Sadducean priests, carried down through the centuries in the verses in the Talmud, were only a vague echo of the intense passion and hatred of the people to the Temple leadership of King Herod's Temple.
This impending trial of the Rabbinic Prince Yehoshua revealed two facts by the extra judicial acts of the House of Ananus against Yehoshua. It revealed the fear of the temple leadership to Yehoshua for they "feared the people" who were followers of him.
The High Priest was desperate to push this trial with the greatest speed because of Caiphas' insecurity by the great popularity of the Nazarene with the Jewish pilgrims arriving in Jerusalem for the festivals from Galilee.
It also suggested that Caiphas, the high priest, had some secret intelligence concerning the Roman procurator with prior intrigues and covert attacks against the Caesar of Rome that would prevent any retaliation by the Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate.
To accomplish what did happen on that day of Passover were the acts of desperation, collusion, and conspiracy. It took all the forces of the families of the controlling elite to bring about the event that they hoped would topple the magnetic spell of Prince Yehoshua in the land. It would be a conspiracy that would include many in the great aristocratic families of the Sadducean oligarchs of Judaism.
If we were disciples of Rabbi Yehoshua in first century Judea, the city of Jerusalem would have looked much different. There on the southeastern slopes of Mount Zion are the archeological remains of one of the finest palatial residences in Jerusalem. Nestled in the heart of the wealthy and elite sector of Jerusalem, was the home of the wealthiest family in Jerusalem. Outside this residence was an austere nondescript exterior that was constructed by blocks of Jerusalem stone.
It was not one house but a series of homes, offices, courtyards, gardens, and an elaborate number of ritual mikvah baths. Alongside was a sentry watchtower with a turreted tower. The palace actually was a fortified residence with its own special guard detachment with barracks with underground prisoner cells and interrogation chambers.
"Peter Denies Christ" – Painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1660) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The palatial residence of the Sadducean high priestly family called the House of Ananus was the most powerful and feared family in Judea. The residence was connected to the temple complex by an overhead causeway, whose archeological remains can be seen today. This is where the powerful elite and the wealthy returned to their homes from the temple. It was also where the members of the Sanhedrin, officials of the high priest court, and the high priest family could traverse in safety to the temple and its courtyards without becoming in contact with the masses of people below.
Inside the palace was not just a residence but a hidden government within the temple aristocratic government. Inside the outer gate was an external courtyard paved in white marble and encircled about with official buildings in service to the High Priest; tax collectors, administration offices, and courtiers in service to the court of the House of Ananus.
Soon to arrive in this courtyard would be the two disciples of Rabbi Yehoshua; Simon bar Jonas, later called the Apostle Simon Peter, and Yohannes, later called the Apostle John. It was John whom the textual evidence suggests that he may have been a Levite who apparently had inside connections with the family of the high priest. Yet the evidence later may even suggest a more profound identity of the "other disciple" that Simon Peter followed.
John 18:15-16 – "And Simon Peter followed Yehoshua, and so did another disciple (John). Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Yehoshua into the courtyard of the high priest. But Peter stood at the door outside.
Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter in. Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, 'You are not also one of this man's disciples, are you? He said, 'I am not.' Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself."
The Floor of the Ancient Palace where Jesus was Lowered from the "Hole in the Ceiling into the Isolation Pit awaiting His Sanhedrin Trial – Photo by Robert Mock
So began the trilogy of denials that soon crucified the old Simon from Galilee and resurrected the new spiritual Peter within. Here is where the Apostle Peter began a new life as an international emissary for his Master Yehoshua.
When we dissect the testimony of the author of the Gospel of John, we begin to understand that Ananus was seeking or procuring witnesses during the initial accusation phase of the interrogations.
The disciple, Simon Peter was brought into the residence of the high priest by "another disciple" that was known to the high priest. Simon Peter was soon released as an "unreliable" witness with the mixed testimonies that he rendered so had to wait the outcome of the interrogations in the outer porch or the "place of the blowing (beth chatser) along with the temple guards and servants of the high priest.
Yet, the "other disciple", Yohanan Eleazar, known to us as Lazarus, was a member of the Sanhedrin, yet it appears that he was not to be a part of the criminal court, and was privileged to watch the entire trial proceedings as an inside observer. He later gave his testimony with these words:
John 21:24 – "This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true."
Inside the outer court was the inner courtyard of the palace. Here in true oriental fashion was the private residence of Ananus the Elder plus the residence of each of his five sons plus his daughters and their families. It was one of these daughters whose husband, Joseph Caiphas, was the current reigning high priest of Israel. Nearby was a smaller court where the rooms for the specially selected private bodyguards for the entire House of Ananus were housed.
The Residence of the High Priest Family
Whereas the outside of the palace was nondescript, the inside of the private residence was a paradise. In the inner court were the gardens of the High Priest where the air was a mixture of intoxicating scents and aromas of flowering trees and gardens surrounding swimming pools and mikvahs.
Nearby was a park laid out with the tall cypress, outlined with flowering oleanders of pinks, red, and yellows and the flowering ethrog (citron) trees that surrounded the pools of waters.
Highlighted was a rose garden, the favorite flower of the Jerusalem aristocracy with brilliant cascading mounds with a million shades of color.
During the hot summer days when the hot parching winds blew in from the Dead Sea and the wilderness wadis to the east of Jerusalem, water became a luxury item. The populous of Jerusalem lined the troughs for the meager trickle of water coming down from the Gihon Spring to the pool of Siloah.
The water skins carried by the water carriers to the more affluent were easily stolen by the parched residents desperate for nourishment during the days when the hot sandy air filled the sky.
In contrast, within the court of the high priest, fountains of bronzed lions spouting with dancing waters, were artistically placed within and surrounding the pools. Special lead pipes, whose lead and tin were mined by Jewish Saracens in the Cornwall region of Britain, took the water from the temple to the gardens of Ananus.
They laid along the side of the pipes bringing the blood of the sacrifices of the lambs and oxen from the temple for fertilizer for the soil. The gardens, though ritually contaminated with the blood of the animals, bloomed with a rare richness and radiance rarely seen in any horticultural paradise. Surrounding the pools were nests for flocks of white turtledoves.
Inside the home were marbled stairways leading to hallways of Corinthian columns with cedar beams supported by the capitals of these majestic columns. Surrounding the halls were tapestries and mosaics of fine wood, all engraved, embroidered, or interwoven with Jewish religious symbols.
Beyond the hall of columns was the great reception hall, the de-facto throne of Jerusalem, for within this one residence resided three high priests, Ananus the Elder, his son Eleazar, and son-in-law, Caiphas, with their families. Within the same residence, the future high priests were being groomed; Jonathan, Theophilus, and the most articulate, brash and brilliant, Ananus the Younger.
The dining hall of the family overlooked one of the most beautiful vistas in the whole city. The temple of Herod to the northeast, in all its glory, rose like an eleven-story building from the Kidron Valley. Across the ravine of the Kidron Valley rose the majestic Mount of Olives with a northern and the southern eminence, the later called the Mount of Offense.
It was actually on the Mount of Offense that gave the best view of ancient Jerusalem, for it being directly east of the old city of David to the south of the Gihon Springs. It was this same mount that commanded an opposing central view from the dining terrace of this priestly family.
The Prisoner Cells below the Palace of Caiphas and Ananus the Elder – Photo by Robert Mock
Over and around the archaeological remains of rock cut dwellings, cellars, cisterns, prison houses, isolation chambers and stables is a remarkable basilica of contemporary and ancient lines, called the Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu.
It was constructed by the French monastic order called the Assumptionists in 1933 to commemorate the site where the Apostle Peter denied Jesus three times.
Mural of the Nazarene being Lowered in the Isolation Pit – Photo by Robert Mock
Christian and Jewish Messianic followers of Yehoshua both attest that it is believed that here that the Davidian Royal claimant Yehoshua was kept in isolation after his arrest. It was also here that the interrogation by Ananus the Elder, the chief priests, scribes and Shammaite Pharisees, who sought His death, was conducted in the darkness of the hours after midnight.
About six hours later, Prince Yehoshua was raised from the isolation pit and sent over to the Sanhedrin for trial the next morning. As the hours after midnight wore on, Rabbi Yehoshua was at the mercy of the hired servants and security detail hidden beneath the residence above of the high priest.
Luke 22:63-65 – "Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat him. And having blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face, and asked Him, saying, 'Prophecy! Who is the one who struck You? And many other things they blasphemously spoke against him."
Unable to extract any implicating testimony from Yehoshua nor able to find two recognizable witnesses with collaborating and converging testimony against him, the prosecution case appeared to falter. The gospel testimonies suggest that Caiphas was not a part of the early midnight interrogation in the palatial residence. He was required to remain on the temple court in a purified state during the Passover celebration.
What is known is that Yehoshua was arrested without charge, taken for interrogation in a private residence, imprisoned, assaulted, and abused with torture in order to extract damaging evidence against Him. John the Beloved was the only disciple who had security access to the residence of Ananus the Elder. The Apostles John's testimony, we find interesting:
John 18:19-24 – "The High Priest (Ananus the Elder) then asked Yehoshua about His disciples and His doctrine. Yehoshua answered him;
Yehoshua HaNotzri - "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jew always meet, and in secret I have said nothing. Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them, indeed they know what I said.
And when he had said these things, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, 'Do You answer the high priest like that?' Jesus answered him 'If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike Me?"
Today this monumental residential palace of Ananus the Elder has been located and archeologically excavated. It was first mentioned in the historical texts by the Jewish Pilgrim from Bordeaux, who in 333 CE visited the city of Jerusalem and later wrote his memoirs. Here he recounted traveling from the Pool of Siloa over to Mount Zion where in route one would come across the house of Caiphas the High Priest.
Anonymous Pilgrim from Bordeaux – "Also as you come out of Jerusalem to go up Mount Sion, on the left hand, below in the valley, beside the wall, is a pool which is called Siloe and has four porticoes; and there is another large pool outside it. This spring runs for six days and nights, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, it does not run at all, either by day or by night.
On this side one goes up Sion, and sees where the house of Caiaphas the priest was, and there still stands a column against which Christ was beaten with rods. Within, however, inside the wall of Sion, is seen the place where was David's palace. Of seven synagogues which once were there, one alone remains; the rest are ploughed over and sown upon, as said Isaiah the prophet (Isaiah 1:2.4-8; Micah 3:9-12)."
The Inner Prison Courtyard Caves with Isolation Pit beneath the Palace of Caiphas and Ananus the Elder – Photo by Robert Mock
Later, John documented that after Prince Yehoshua was kept in the darkness of the night in the palace of the high priests, he was again transported to another location.
John 18:24 – "Then Ananus sent Him bound to Caiphas the high priest."
We now know that the high priest was still at the temple, in preparation for the upcoming Pesach festival, or else he would have been ritually contaminated. In an impure state, he would have been unable to preside as the high priest at the slaying of the Pesach Lamb.
Israeli Tour Guide Depicting how the Prisoner's Hands were Strapped to Iron Rings in the Holes above while they were Beaten and Tortured – Photo by Robert Mock
Luke and Matthew bring more details to the story, with the following historical details of the transportation not just to Caiphas, the high priest, but to the "Council", or the Great Sanhedrin in the Chamber of Hewn Stones, for trial.
Luke 22:66 – "As soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led him into their council …"
Matthew 27:1 – "When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Yehoshua to put him to death."
It was here that the Great Sanhedrin sat in judgment in trial of this Galilean Rabbi called Yehoshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene). It was a remarkable event of travesty in judicial history that occurred that morning.
The prior evening was cold, not unlike the spring of 2007 where snow covered the city of Jerusalem up to the early part of April. The secret interrogation proceedings in the residence were not discussed in Luke's history, except for the identity crisis of the "brave" Galilean bodyguard of Yehoshua, Simon Peter, who so valiantly fought in an armed struggle for Yehoshua, and cut off the ear of the high priest's servant.
Peter was now fearfully sitting around the outer courtyard fireplace when his identity was recognized three times by servants and accomplices of the high priest. With fear stricken eyes, he denied knowing his Master, three times. As the rooster crowed at the break of dawn, a new spiritual Peter arose from his moral execution to a new identity with his Lord.
It was John, the "disciple that was known to the high priest" (John 18:15) and could only give a first-hand testimony of this evening, who wrote:
John 18:12-13 – "Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him. And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiphas who was high priest that year.
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The History of the Passover in the Days of the Nazarene
Looking at the Death of Yehoshua (Joshua) from the Perspective of First Century Orthodox, Judaic Judaism and Essenism
The First Pesach in the Land of Egypt
Passover compared with the Festival of Unleavened Bread
Passover in the Days of the Rabbi called Yehoshua Ha Notzri (Jesus the Nazarene)
Model for the Calendar of Events on the Passover on 30 CE
The Pesach Traditions of the Last Supper
The Pesach Traditions of the "High Sabbath"
Pesach and the Three Days of the "Sign" of Jonah
Behind the Railing, the Ancient First Century Maccabean Pathway felt used by Yehoshua and His Disciples – Photo by Robert Mock
The modern Torah Seder is not the same that the Hebrews observed while in Egypt and the Sinai desert. Babylonian influence, such as the Seder egg, crept into the more primitive Palestinian Seder rites that soon disappeared after being augmented by the influence of the Babylonian Haggadah.
In a way, we can call the modern Passover Seder a Jewish festival where the instructions on how to practice or perform this Seder is spelled out in instructional manuals, called "The Haggadah".
Was it not the commands of the Go- of Israel at Sinai, who stated?
Walking further down the Ancient First Century Maccabean Pathway from the House of Caiaphas to the Kidron Valley below – Photo by Robert Mock
The Egyptian Temple in Dendura where the goddess of Hathor resided in the Days of the Exodus
The shadow-picture in Egypt to the Israelites was now about to see its complete fulfillment sixteen hundred years, or 40 generations later. Only a few hours after the Last Supper, the "Only Begotten" firstborn "Son of G-d" would be impaled, like the Korban lamb, His blood splattered on the upright wooden tree (stake) so that all the world, who had "emuna" (faith) in the sovereign G-d of Israel would be saved from eternal death.
John 3:16 – "For HaShem so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For HaShem did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved."
The Secured Nazarene Michvahs nearby to the Tomb of King David – Photo by Robert Mock
While the Passover was a Memorial Day symbolizing suffering and death, the Festival of Unleavened Bread was a celebration of joy for the Hebrews. Their days of slavery and servitude to the Egyptians were over. While the Passover had only one sacrifice, many sacrifices were to be offered these seven days during the Festival of Unleavened Bread, as an aroma that was pleasing to the Almighty One of Israel.
Numbers 28:24-25 – "In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the L-rd; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work."
While the 14th day of Nisan was day of Passover, the 15th day of Nisan was the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread. There were several distinctions that separated the Passover from the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
The Passover was a memorial of suffering and grief, while the Festival was a festival of joy.
The Passover was a work day. It was a preparation day for a memorial that would culminate in a feast of bitter-delight. The first day of the Festival was a High Sabbath, like the Seventh-day Shabbat, in which no work was to be done.
While the Passover was a work day, buying and selling was done in the temple bazaars, where the lambs were purchased to be used for the memorial feast, the High Sabbath of the Festival, was a Shabbat, where buying and selling was prohibited.
The Passover was highlighted by one sacrifice, the Pesach lamb, the blood of sacrifice for salvation from death, and a meal of bitter-sweet remembrance. The Festival was highlighted by many sacrifices that were to be a delight to the Lord.
The unleavened bread at Passover was to represent the slain life of the Pesach lamb looking forward to the future slain "body" of the Korban Pesach Lamb of G-d that was without sin (Matthew 26:26). The unleavened bread at the Festival was to represent "sincerity and truth" in our relationship with the divine with a transparent life without the leavening of sin.
The Passover was a memorial that was to be observed by only the circumcised Hebrews while the Festival of Unleavened Bread was a festival open to all participants; circumcised and uncircumcised; Jews and Gentiles alike. (Exodus 12:19 vs. Exodus 2:43)
Yet, something happened, when the Jews were taken to Babylon in the 6th century BCE. The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread began to merge into one festival. This historical fact is confirmed by the Encyclopaedia Judaica:
Encyclopaedia Judaica – "The feast of Passover consists of two parts: The Passover ceremony and the feast of Unleavened Bread. Originally, both parts existed separately; but at the beginning of the (Babylonian) exile, they were combined." (Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 13, p. 169)
By the time of the first century, when Prince of David called Yehoshua began his rabbinic yeshiva in "Halachic Torah observation', there was practiced during the Passover Festival season several different times in which the Passover Seder was observed.
In as much as Prince Yehoshua (Joshua) was a Jewish rabbi, the practice of a Passover Seder would be whether He accepted the traditions of the Sadducees ("Sunrise Reckoning where the day begins at sunrise"), the Pharisees ("Sunset Reckoning where the day begins at sunset"), the Essenes (the Passover was always celebrated on the eve of Wednesday, per their (solar calendar), or the Galileans and other pilgrims from the Diaspora where a "Double Passover" was observed.
It was a little more complex, as the Pharisees in control of the synagogues and religious education in Judea in the days of Jesus were from the School of Shammai.
The Pharisaic traditions of the Essenes were probably more closely akin to the revered School of Hillel the Great. Here is where we see the great debates of Rabbi Yehoshua who sided with the Pharisees of School of Hillel.
Yehoshua was challenging the halakhic rulings of the Pharisees of the School of Shammai, in defense of the Hasidic Pharisees of the School of Hillel the Great.
Excavated Site of the Subterranean Mikvahs for the Hebrew Nazarene Synagogue (Ecclesia) next to the Tomb of King David – Photo by Robert Mock
To add even more complexity, Yehoshua the Rabbi was from Galilee, and could have observed the "Double Passover Seder" per the traditions of the Galileans in the Diaspora. Yet, as a Hasidic rabbi, who followed the Torah, above the letter of the law, the Prince of David and now Rabbi Yehoshua adhered more closely to the Passover observations of the great Rabbi Hillel and his Av Beis Din, the "Father of the Court" of Hillel's Sanhedrin; Menahem the Essene.
Therefore, Yehoshua may have observed the Passover in a manner closer to the non-sacrificial observing, vegetarian Essenes who rejected the corrupt "traditions of men" by the Pharisees of the School of Shammai and the corrupted temple sacrifices by the Sadducee high priests.
As the month of Nisan, it was the month in which the Festival Year of the L-rd began. Per the biblical commands of the L-rd, it was to begin on the sighting of the "New Moon" over Jerusalem, called the Rosh Chodesh Nisan (First day of the month of Nisan).
Yet, there were neither telecommunications nor international media to notify the Jews around the Roman Empire, or the Babylonian Diaspora that the Jewish Passover season had now begun.
Pilgrims coming from Babylon had to make personal preparations in advance in order to participate in the Temple of King Herod Passover season in Jerusalem. Knowing with great certitude when the festival would begin was of great importance.
Even the sighting of the New Moon could have been in question, so a "Double Passover" began to be observed; on the 15th and 16th days following a 29 day month, and the 14th and 15th days after a 30 day month.
Either way, the 15th day of Nisan was observed as the "High Shabbat" of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was also a "High Shabbat", or a second "Sabbath" which made the Festival of Unleavened Bread an eight-day festival like the fall Festival of Sukkot (Feast of Thanksgiving).
On the 1st day of Nisan in 30 CE, the signal flares spread from Jerusalem to the Euphrates Valley where most of the Jewish pilgrims came from. As explained in the Mishnah in Rosh Hashanah 22b:
Rosh Hashanah 22b – "At first they used to kindle flares, but after the misleading deeds of the Samaritans it was decided that messengers go forth...And where did they kindle the flares? From the top of the Mount of Olives (they signaled) to Sarteba, and from Sarteba to Agrippina, and from Agrippina to Hauran to Bet Baltin (a Babylonian city near the Euphrates). They did not go beyond Bet Baltin, but there the flare was waved to and fro and up and down until a man could see the whole diaspora before him like a sea of fire."
During the next 14 days, we witnessed the following: the Passover Lamb was selected in the fields on the 10th day, and brought into the city of Jerusalem, just after Yehoshua strode in through the northern Damascus Gate on a donkey into the city of Jerusalem to the awaiting throngs of pilgrims with palm branches, waving and shouting, "Hosannah to the Son of David, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the L-rd. Hosannah in the Highest" (Matthew 20:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19)
The Stone Carved Steps Leading into the Subterranean Mikvahs of the Hasidic Nazarenes – Photo by Robert Mock
The next three days (10th, 11th and 12th), the Pesach Lamb was inspected for its ritual purity within the courts of the temple. At the same time, the Lamb of G-d was inspected for His theological and Torah observance purity according to the Torah: the Law given to Moses.
During these three days, Yehoshua had virtual control of the temple as the people were flocking to witness the healing physical, and spiritual power of the Galilean rabbi who brought in living color how the "kingdom of G-d" could become a living reality someday in the future when the "Era of the Messiah" will begin.
On Tuesday evening, the 13th of Nisan, the Nazarene met with His disciples in the Essene Quarters, and there in the Upper Terrace over the Tomb of King David, he as a human being participated in a Passover with his disciples without the Pesach Lamb, ala vegetarian per the customs of the Essenes in Qumran, in what we know today as the Last Supper.
When the Last Supper was over, Yehoshua with His disciples left for the final time, towards the Mount called Zion. Yehoshua was now outside the protective custody of the Essenes. Together they walked down the paved Maccabean pathway near to the gate near the Palace of the High Priest, and then down into the Kidron Valley and beyond.
They were going to a place where they could rest in the garden district of the Mount of Olives looking directly towards the temple of Yahweh. The night was one of agony, broken with the sounds of an armed multitude.
The Stone Steps Leading Down into the Mikvah Baths of the Early Nazarenes under the Leadership of James the Just, brother of Yehoshua – Photo by Robert Mock
The hopes of the messianic fulfillment for the redemption of National Judah from Rome were on the verge of being crushed. Bound by a mob, Yehoshua was taken back to the palace of the high priests where he would undergo interrogation, torture, imprisonment and abuse.
On Wednesday, the 14th day of Nisan, as daylight began to break over the western slopes of the Hills of Moab east of Jerusalem, Yehoshua was taken to the Council of Hewn Stones, where the Great Sanhedrin met in an emergency meeting, near the high priest's temple residence.
Here Caiphas was residing in ritual purity for the preparation of the lambs that were to be slain on the temple mount that day. It is estimated that upwards to 300,000 lambs were prepared to be eaten by the Jewish pilgrims over the next twenty-our hours for the three million Jewish Passover participants.
It was on Wednesday evening, the eve of the 15th of Nisan, per the traditions of the Sadducee's, that the first Passover Seders were conducted. This was in observance to the Temple calendar that was in the control by the Sadducees ruled by the families of the high priests, the House of Ananias.
As the Passover lamb was being slain on the court of the Temple at the ninth hour, the Pesach Lamb of G-d was hanging from a tree with a cross-arm gallows in fulfillment of the commands of the Torah:
Deuteronomy 21:20-23 – "And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'this son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you shall hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your G-d is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of G-d."
This sounds reminiscent of the charges by provocateurs that were placed against Yehoshua. These charges would later set the stage for the accusations that He would face during the interrogation proceedings, imprisonment in the Palace of the High Priest, and the trial later in the Great Sanhedrin that eventually led to His acquittal but eventual conviction of death for blasphemy by the High Priest Caiphas of the House of Ananias:
Matthew 11:19 – "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors, and sinners!' but wisdom is justified by her children.'"
With the Passover festival was over, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread arrived on Thursday, the 15th of Nisan. As ruled, according to the "Double Passover" traditions, the Diaspora Jews continued to arrive from Galilee and the Babylonian Diaspora.
The 15th day the Passover was celebrated and supported by the Shammaite Pharisees. This second "sunrise" Passover influenced by the Babylonian pilgrims would be celebrated twenty- four hours after the traditional "sunset" Sadducee Passover Seder, on the 14th of Nisan.
By the 16th of Nisan, Friday, the preparation day for the weekly Shabbat, Yehoshua had been in the tomb for two nights and two days. Then Yehoshua rested in the grave on the seventh-day Shabbat, the 17th of Nisan, this time in celebration of the creative act of His Father, who through Yehoshua, the incarnated "Soul of Metatron", the Angel of the Presence of the Divine who stood as the defense attorney before the Court in Heaven in the 7th Heaven of the Tiferet of the Sefirot of the World of the Divine.
Israeli Tour Guide, Ronni, at the Site of the Hebrew Nazarene Mikva Baths – Photo by Robert Mock
In the Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum 21, there was reported an ancient tradition that Yehoshua ate the Pesach meal on Tuesday evening, the eve of the 13th of Nisan. He was later arrested on Wednesday and crucified on Friday. (J. Danielou, "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Primitive Christianity" (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1958, rep. 1979, 26-29; J. Jeremias, "The Eucharist Words of Jesus" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966), 24-25; quoted by Kenneth F. Doig, "Doig's Biblical Chronology – Exact Dating of the Exodus and Birth and Crucifixion of Jesus")
The ancient third century Syrian Eastern Catholic Christian traditions, called the "Catholic doctrine of the Twelve Apostles and the Holy Disciples of our L-rd", relate that the Last Supper was a Pesach meal, per the solar sunset calendar of the Essenes.
It was the Essenes and the Hasidim, who opposed the Sadducees as corrupt priests. This Passover Seder even occurred before the slaying of the lambs which happened on Friday as prescribed by the Sadducean Temple Lunar Sunset Calendar; three-days later on the eve of the seventh-day Shabbat.
We also have the ancient traditions of the Essenes that are now more fully understood after the revelations of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran. It was on July 2006, that BibleSearchers introduced the life and works of the Torah giant, Rabbi Yacov Emben, defender of the Torah in the days of the messianic heresy of Shabbatai Zevi, and later the studies on Rabbi Jacob Emden, by orthodox Rabbi Harvey Falk, in the BibleSearchers reflection articles, titled, "Jesus the Pharisee from the School of (Beit) Hillel in the Eyes of Talmudic Scholar, Rabbi Jacob Emden" and "Rabbi Harvey Falk defends 'Jesus the Nazarene's Mission to the Gentiles".
These were later followed up with the articles, "The Essenes, the Hasidim and the Righteous Gentile of the Nations" on September 2006 and "Jesus the Nazarene and the Pharisees of Beit Shammai" on April 2007.
It is interesting that the Last Supper does not reflect any roasted lamb and would reflect a vegetarian tradition, as accepted in the Essene tradition, who felt that the first century temple culture of the Sadducees and the Pharisee of Shammai was corrupted.
It is also interesting that this vegetarian tradition is reflected also in the modern Jewish Pesach Seder, where the Pesach Lamb in symbolized by a lamb shank bone, but no meat is eaten, where we know that the Passover lamb could not be sacrificed in the temple court with the destruction of the Temple of Herod in 70 CE.
During this same era of time, the disciples and followers of the Nazarene were now under the leadership of James the Just, the brother of Yehoshua, who was known for his great piety.
Also during this same era, it is believed that the "House with the Upper Room" was converted into an Hasidic Orthodox synagogue called the "Hebrew Nazarene Ecclesia This ultra-Orthodox synagogue did institute historically a non-sacrificial Passover Seder and festival in the Temple of Herod that was presided by James the Just, the brother of Yehoshua, who represented the Nazarenes as their high priest.
James the Just, in accordance with the ancient literature also became the Nasi of the Nazarene Sanhedrin and served as the High Priest of the of Israel. Clearly the traditions do reflect that the real Pesach Lamb of G-d that was slain, fulfilled the role of the traditional Pesach Lamb.
As the Omens against the Jewish temple service unfolded over the next forty years, the evidence became more clear that the temple sacrificial service presided by the Sadducean high priests was not pleasing to the G-d of Israel and was rejected.
The Site of the Last Supper, located over the Tomb of King David – Photo by Robert Mock
As accounted in the Gospel of the Apostle John, after giving them the re-Newed Covenant with partaking of the Bread and Wine, Yehoshua confronted Judas Ischariot with his demonic mission and offered to him leavened bread sopped in wine in symbolism that the last of the leavening was leaving this upper terrace as the time for the Passover had now arrived in the land.
John 19:31, 33 – "Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a 'high day"), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away…But when they came to Yehoshua and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs."
This apparent insertion into the gospel text, of unknown origin and date, has set the tone and the dating for the death of Yehoshua for almost two thousand years. In the Hebrew traditions, the High Sabbath was called the "Shabbat haGadol" or the Shabbot, or mandatory rest days during festival or feast days. (Leviticus 23:7, 8, 21, 24, 27, 28, 32, 36, and the 39) The weekly seventh-day Shabbat always occurred on the seventh-day of the Jewish weekly cycle-. Yet, the festival "High Shabbat" was a floating Sabbath that occurred any day of the week.
Many Christian traditions later following the Orthodox Roman Catholic Church's tradition that Yehoshua died on the "cross" on Friday, the preparation day for the Jewish Shabbat. Unfortunately, that acknowledgment of the seventh-day Sabbath by the Christian traditions did not reflect in the Catholic recognition of the sanctity of that sacred day in celebration of the creation of the world, as commanded in the 4th Command of the Decalogue.
Exodus 20:8 – "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your Go-d. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the L-rd blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The messianic Nazarenes, or the Jewish followers of Yehoshua as their Jewish messiah, could easily reflect that Yehoshua did lay in the tomb and "rested" on the day that He and His Father in heaven celebrated as a day of rest from their mighty "Acts of the Creation" of this Planet Earth.
During the Festival of Passover (Pesach), the 15th and the 21st days of Nisan were "High Sabbaths", yet they did not necessarily fall on the seventh-day Sabbath as they were floating Sabbaths. Yet the days before the 15th and the 21st day were preparation days for the festival Sabbaths.
This difference in the interpretations in the "High Sabbath" between the Jewish and Catholic Christian traditions makes a profound difference in the interpretation of which day Yehoshua (Joshua/Jesus) was crucified, or hanged from a tree.
The Christian Catholic tradition has proclaimed that the preparation day before the crucifixion of Yehoshua was on Friday before the Passover Sabbath that was the seventh-day, which happened to be the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath. The Hebrew-Jewish traditions do not recognize the Catholic Christian traditions that the "High Sabbath" was the merging of the Seventh-day Sabbath and the Festival Sabbath of Passover.
Instead the Jews proclaim that the "High Sabbath" was the Festival Sabbath that was on any day of the week, Sunday through Saturday. The Christian Catholic traditions have "High Holy Days" that are associated with their Christian festivals but the Hebrew-Jewish traditions do not have any references in the Torah, the TaNaKh, or the Talmud of any "High Holy Days" associated with the Jewish festivals.
There is yet another interesting "Sabbath" that also is identified with the Passover Shabbat. The "Great Sabbath of Passover" is called the "Shabbat haGadol" or the "Sabbath" that is five days prior to the day that the Hebrews were to leave Egypt.
As recorded in the Jewish traditions and their oral writings, called the Oral Torah, the Israelites were commanded by Moses to take a lamb and tie it to their bedpost on the 10th day of Nisan.
Suddenly the Egyptian people noticed that a significant number of lambs were being bought on the Egyptian market and inquired why. They were informed that the lambs were to be used as a Paschal Offering, sacrificed in preparation for the next coming plague, the Plague of the Firstborn.
The Egyptian firstborn were inflamed and demanded that the Pharaoh immediately release the Hebrews, which he refused. A civil war broke out and the Egyptian firstborn attacked the Egyptian army of the Pharaoh which resulted in the death of many of the Egyptians that committed atrocities to the Hebrews. Even though the Egyptian priesthood was incensed that the Israelites were sacrificing an Egyptian deity, a lamb, they also were helpless and powerless to intervene.
It is interesting that the day of the "Great Sabbath of Passover", "Shabbat haGadol" on the 10th of Nisan in 30 CE, the high priest was returning from the fields to bring in the chosen Pesach lamb. Coincidently, simultaneous to that moment of time, according to the testimony in the 1st Temple of Herod Era CE" that Yehoshua rode in through the northern Damascus Gate into Jerusalem on a donkey, arriving as a Davidian royal claimant, they were also bringing in the Pesach Land and the historical tradition stayed
that he symbolically became the Pesach Lamb of G-d.
The Exterior of the Upper Terrace of the House where the Last Supper was Held with Yehoshua and His Twelve Apostles – Photo by Robert Mock
It was early in his ministry, the wedding at Cana was over and Yehoshua was heading to Jerusalem with his new disciples in the spring of 28 CE. He promptly went into the temple's Bazaar of Hanan and there made a very political and provocative move.
He took a "whip of cords" and drove out the servants of Ananus the Elder that were selling the sheep and the oxen for the temple sacrifices. He then threw over the tables and stalls of the money exchequer of the temple as the money exchangers fled in terror from His presence. The exchange rates were now scalping the peasants, while the gold of the Jews was flowing into the Temple of Herod, Inc's coffers in increasing amounts.
Yehoshua then walked to the sellers of the doves, whose prices had risen to such extravagant prices that the poor "daughters of Israel" were no longer able to redeem themselves and their child in the temple of the Lord and were now pronounced unclean. To the sellers of the doves He shouted:
John 2:16 – "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"
The "Jews", whom the Jewish peasants called the "chief priests", the "temple scribes", and "synagogue rulers", the "Pharisees of the School of Shammai", confronted Yehoshua to question, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?" (John 2:18)
They wanted a supernatural sign to prove to them His authority that He had the authority to desecrate the business and temple management system. Yehoshua told them, they would someday see the "sign":
John 2:19 – "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"
Their response was as profound as their lack of spiritual insight:
John 2:20 – "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
The Mikvah Baths of the High Priests of the House of Ananias – Photo by Robert Mock
It was on the road to Caesarea Philippi, north of Galilee, that Yehoshua confronted His disciples with the question, "Who do men say that I am? (Mark 8:16) At that time the populous in Galilee were talking among themselves that the Nazarene was "John the Baptist", "Elijah" or one of the prophets. He then asked, "Who do you think that I am?" It was Peter, the son of Jonah (Simon bar Jonas), who proudly proclaimed, "You are the Maschiach (Messiah)." (Mark 8:28-30)
Since the days of the kings of the Children of Israel, it has been accepted in Jewish halakha that there can be a "Messiah" in every generation of G-d's Chosen People. It was King Hezekiah in the days of King Sennacherib when the City of Jerusalem was surrounded by the Assyrian Army who was chosen to be the messiah of his generation. Was not King Cyrus the Great also chosen to be a messiah of his generation, also?
As Yehoshua and his talmidim, Simon Peter, were looking eye to eye, the awkward moment became silent tense, for the Yehoshua then warned them that they were not to tell anyone their feelings about His messiahship.
The Nazarene then began to open to them the revelations about His future mission and the implications upon His and their lives.
Mark 8:31 – "And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again."
It was near to the close of the Nazarene's ministry. The miraculous feeding of the five thousand had made Yehoshua a popular folk hero to the Galilean peasants. The account of the transfiguration of Yehoshua by the chosen three disciples had made Him a messianic hero to His chosen twelve.
He then sent out his seventy chosen disciples, who may have later made up His Nazarene Sanhedrin of Seventy to harvest the souls desiring to be participants in the "kingdom of G-d" from the surrounding villages.
They returned from reaping the harvest for souls to be put into service for the one they believed was the "Messiah of their age". When they returned, they told of stories of their power over the agencies of Satan. The thrust of the messianic mission of Yehoshua was quickly expanding.
Then in Jerusalem, He was healing a person who was aphasic, or could not speak. He was called a "mute", and the cause of being unable to speak, and the thrust of His healing was by casting out a demon from his body. Yehoshua was immediately attacked as being "Beelzebub, the rule of the demons", and wanted to know His "Sign" for His healing authority.
Matthew 12:39-42 – "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except for the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and there nights in the belly of the great fish, so a will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.
A Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater one than Solomon is here."
The "Jews", (temple and synagogue leadership) after His death and resurrection, were now able to reflect upon the "Sign of Jonah" that was sought by the temple rulers, Pharisees, and scribes. Spiritual understanding was now to be transformed into a literal reality.
From Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday day and night, and whole day of the Seventh-day Shabbat (Sabbath), Yehoshua a lay in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.
With the temple guards protecting the exterior of the tomb to prevent the disciples from stealing His body, Yehoshua arose in a second cataclysmic earthquake, one in which the bowels of the earth would give up Yehoshua as the "first fruits" of the "dead" along with a whole company of resurrected saints that were later carried back to that other dimensional realm where the Temple of Heaven was located.
The sun was setting over the horizon and the preparation day for the Sadducean Passover was about to begin. The disciples were clueless on what was about to shatter the reality of their life.
They had been learning how to be in covenant with the G-d of Israel with their Hasidic Master, who lived a life of Torah above the letter of the law. They were now given a re-Newed covenant, not a New Torah, that was coupled with the sacrificial offering of the Pesach lamb and the redemption of bondage from the slavery of sin. They began to wonder, what was coming next?
Yehoshua sat back on His sofa in the upper terrace and with his talmidim (disciples) surrounding Him sitting on mats on the floor, began a lengthy discourse. He would send their minds to the throne of the Almighty One, revisit the relationships of the World of the Divine, and begin to dismantle their messianic anticipations that were premised only on the salvation of the Jews and the Zionistic anticipation of a global messianic State of Israel.
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