BOTTICELLI - TRIAL OF MOSES - PAGE 5
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Elijah Meets Jezebel |
Finest robes |
- We start off thinking about Ishtar and the idea that maybe
she's a little nicer than we thought.
- If you look at the
ancient teachings of Babylon, Ishtar was the one who saved
everybody.
- Everyone then says that can't be true because
the New Testament says Jezebel is an idolater and she taught
the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
- And of course she was a 'prostitute' and that couldn't be
good.
- Additionally, her worship and symbols are referenced in the Old Testament, often
conflated alongside the worship of Baal and Astarte, and sometimes as the
Queen of Heaven.
- While Ishtar is not directly named, her influence is suggested through the condemnation of similar idolatrous practices
as Jezebel.
Jezebel wealth |
- The biblical narrative of Elijah and the Queen of Heaven primarily involves Queen Jezebel and her persecution of the prophet Elijah.
- Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab, was a strong supporter of the Baal cult and actively worked against the worship of the God of Israel,
YHWH.
- After Elijah's dramatic victory on Mount Carmel, where he defeated the prophets of Baal, Jezebel threatened to kill him.
- This led Elijah to flee for his life.
- At Mount Horeb,
YHWH recommissioned Elijah and instructed him to anoint new leaders and to continue his prophetic ministry.
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While the term "Queen of Heaven" is not directly used
in connection with Jezebel in the context of Elijah's
story, it is associated with other goddesses in the
Hebrew Bible, particularly in Jeremiah including Anat,
Ashtoreth, and Astarte.
(Assistant)
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Clashing |
- In the biblical narrative, Elijah, a prophet of YHWH, clashes with Jezebel, who the Hebrew identified with the goddess Ashtoreth/Astarte and her husband King Ahab, who promoted the worship of Baal.
- Elijah's conflict with Jezebel and Baal highlights the struggle between the worship of YHWH and other deities in ancient Israel.
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Jezebel, the Phoenician princess married to King Ahab of Israel, was a staunch devotee of Baal and actively promoted his worship,
and she persecuted those who opposed.
Fire from above |
- Elijah, a prophet who fiercely advocated for the worship of YHWH, confronted Ahab and Jezebel, challenging the prophets of Baal to a contest on Mount Carmel.
- Elijah proposed a test to determine which God was the true God.
- He and the prophets of Baal would each prepare an altar with a sacrifice, and the God who answered by fire would be acknowledged as the true God.
- The outcome was that the prophets of Baal failed to get a response from their god, while Elijah's sacrifice was consumed by fire from heaven, proving YHWH's power.
Jezebel vilified |
- Could the real story be that Jezebel, the foreign
woman, is introduced as an oppositional character to elevate
the character of Elijah and establish the authority of YHWH.
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Accounts of Jezebel in
the Book of Kings exposes the ways in which women who challenge the power structures and religious authorities of men are demoralized and hyper-vilified.
- The Bible presents Jezebel as an epitome of foreign women who deserve horrific consequences
but why did Elijah flee from her?
- Could it be that she
had more power than the men are letting on.
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Jezebel is a foil in the story of male power struggles over prophetic and royal leadership. (Robyn J. Whitaker)
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Is it clay or mud |
- And remember, YHWH divorced Asherah and deleted the
divine feminine aspect from his 'religion' story which has
resulted in huge problems in the world, such as 'feminism,'
which should not have to even exist.
- There are no biblical grounds for the existence of a
'Jezebel spirit' and this was another made up term to demonize
women.
Roaming spirit |
- What about every time you heard a preacher rant about
'Jezebel spirit' it has more to do with their own fear of
losing control.
- And yes, the scripture records the
history of Queen Jezebel, wife of Ahab, who died a violent
death, but no where does it say she became a demon or evil
spirit.
- Or for that matter, any kind of roaming
supernatural force of manipulation.
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There is not even one reference to 'Jezebel spirit' in the Bible and it's not even eluded to or hinted at. But that hasn't stopped pastors, prophets and power hungry pulpits from using that term to weaponize the name of an ancient queen to silence, control and manipulate the very people that Jesus came to set free. (ken.arrington)
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Broken vessel |
- So where did the theory come from, well the church made
it up, and despite people claiming they've seen others 'saved'
from the spirit, you have to remember that people experience
the power of God despite bad theology.
- Jesus heals, even
through cracked vessels, but that doesn't mean every label or
judgment we devise is true.
- And notice oftentimes the
term is thrown out when someone asks too many questions or
goes against the narrative and they're 'challenging
authority.'
Dangerous image created |
- But it goes much deeper than that, because the idea of
Jezebel spirit was also racialized and it was often used as a
code word for black women in the 19th and 20th-centuries.
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And they were portrayed as hypersexual, unruly and dangerous,
a stereotype that was used to justify abuse, violence and
systemic oppression.
- The churches all ran with it and
spiritualized it so now it's not just about control, it's
about preserving patriarchy and it's about white supremacy
wrapped in revivalist language.
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It's about silencing the prophetic under the guise of
discernment, that chill in the room when a woman
speaks up and speaks with power? That side eye when
someone refuses to bow to a narcisstic leader? So they
slap it with the label, 'Jezebel.' (ken.arrington)
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Manipulating |
- They're not rebuking a demon, they're reestablishing
dominance and it's a manipulation tactic, a power move, a
cheap parlor trick to make the sheep fear each other instead
of questioning their shepherd.
- Because if you can paint
someone as dangerous, you don't have to listen to them, you
simply 'cast them out.'
- Except the Bible does not support
this idea and Jesus never mentions a Jezebel spirit and Paul
doesn't warn about it either.
- That's because it's not
about some mythical seductress hanging around in the pews, the
real danger is pulpits that demonize dissent and systems that
confuse control with holiness.
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The misogynistic logic of patriarchy is curiously circular: women cannot govern because they never have. But this big lie rests upon a bed of induced historical amnesia, the work of numberless erasures and omissions, collectively sending the message that the women who have ruled haven’t earned the right to be remembered. (Shelley Puhak,
Time)
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Real spirituality |
- The moment someone is accused, there is no deliverance
because the accusation is not about freedom, it's about
control and it creates an isolation zone around the victim and
protects leaders from being questioned.
- Real
spiritualists do not need scapegoats nor do they need to rely
on smear campaigns.
- Jesus said, by their fruit you will
know them, and if their teaching method uses control, fear,
silencing and abuse, that is not the spirit of god.
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this is a call to stop using Jezebel as a spiritual boogeyman
because if a church needs to call people witches to maintain
power it's not being led by the Holy Spirit.
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Revelation 2 references a woman like Jezebel but even that is a metaphor, not demonology, this spirit is not in the early church. It's not in church history, its not even in credible theology.
It's found in systems that use fear to silence truth. (ken.arrington)
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Altar for Baal |
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Ahab, the king of Israel takes Jezebel, the daughter of king Ethbaal of Sidon as a wife.
- King Ahab supports Jezebel and her gods and the
scripture shows that Ahab was the primary actor who served, worshiped, and erected an altar for Baal.
- Jezebel remains as a passive and silent spectator in most of
the accounts, however, Ahab is shown time and time again as a
wicked king.
- Elijah accuses Ahab and his father’s house for forsaking the commandments of the Lord and following the Baal, but the ones who will be punished are those who eat at the table of Jezebel.
- How many Christians even recognize
Ahab's name,
surely not like they recognize Jezebel.
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In the Hebrew Bible, foreign women with power, Jael, Rahab, Michal, Ruth, “receive approbation even while engaging in treason, murder, and seduction,” whereas “Jezebel reaps condemnation” because “they support Yahwism, she doesn’t.” (Melissa Jackson)
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Jezebel down for the knockout |
- Not only that, Elijah condemns Jezebel and the dogs eat up
her flesh, what is this all about?
- Well then, is every
prostitute in the Bible the same prostitute, since even if
Mary Magdalene had been a prostitute, or adulterer or whatever
she might have been, does that make her Jezebel, of course
not.
- Why are we so often left with that impression and
it's mainly that all powerful women are bad.
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Her presence and her gods’ presence is questioned by a prophet who was provided with food by the widow of Zarephath in her province, Sidon. She angers the violence inflicted by Elijah in return to the hospitality her people have rendered him. She angers because the hybrid space that was meant to be mutually hospitable turns into a violent space. (Helen Chukka)
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YHWHs Tree of Knowledge |
- Jezebel embraces her gods just as Elijah
embraces his god YHWH.
- When the prophets of her gods are mocked and killed in a most disrespectful way, Jezebel is angered.
- And what's more, YHWH was the national god of Israel,
one of the 72 lower deities appointed by the Most High to rule
the nations and Baal was the national god of Canaan, Jezebel's
home.
- It was about this moment that the Most High
apparently realized
it was time for a changing of the guards because YHWH was the
Old Covenant and that never worked, it was a failure because
no one was ever saved, especially not Jezebel.
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In the face of death,
Jezebel remains fearless. Her fearlessness combined with her reverence to her gods in a foreign land makes her an example for contemporary women. (Helen Chukka)
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Deleted and crossed out |
- This biblical story was written centuries after Jezebel’s
death, and its version of events don’t match up with what
scholars now know to be true.
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The crimes leveled against her include forcing pagan idolatry upon the Israelites and harassing the prophet Elijah,
except Jezebel did not import a pagan god; that deity was
already well-established and Elijah killed hundreds of her
guests.
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In fact, the kingdom already enjoyed ethnic diversity and religious pluralism. But when the fundamentalist prophet Elijah mocked and then slaughtered hundreds who did not believe as he did, Jezebel threatened to punish him. Frightened, Elijah fled and then plotted revenge. All traces of the bold and ruthless queen were scattered to the wind, replaced by those of a placid, devoted mother. (Shelley Puhak,
Time)
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Kicked to the curb |
- After her death, Jezebel was branded a harlot, her real crime, though, seems to have been something else entirely.
- In one translation of the Bible, she dares to tell the male prophet that she is his equal:
'If you are Elijah, so I am Jezebel.'
- The Bible Created a
Blueprint for Vilifying Powerful Women.
- Jezebel had become a convenient shorthand for how to talk about, and disparage, powerful queens.
Stormy day in Zarephath
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- In the story of Jezebel and Elijah and Elisha there
are two women.
- One of them is a widow and Elijah goes to
the widow and resurrects her son.
- The widow is from
Zarephath which is up in Sidon in Lebanon and she may have
followed Astarte (Esther), or the teachings of the stars.
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But wait a minute, Astarte was worshiped by the same people
who worshiped Baal.
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And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? (1
Kings 17-18)
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Esther |
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The history of the stars was a very important teaching and it worked its way down
into Mithraism.
- And this was the story of Esther,
Astarte, Inanna, Ishtar, or Easter.
- Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras.
- The Romans taught this to all their soldiers and this is
where all the Knights and Templars comes from.
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The names Astarte and Esther are linked through the ancient Near East and the symbolism of stars, especially the planet Venus. (Assistant)
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Boot |
- If this teaching went into the military that's got to be
evil right because the military's evil.
- Well today the
military is evil because everything's been taken over by the
devil and everything in the world today has been influenced by
wickedness.
- It's difficult because there's so many loose
ends, if Rome carried these teachings all over the world,
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But Jesus was originally a Caesar and he didn't want to rule
over this world and he said, 'My kingdom is not of this
world.'
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Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” (John 18:36)
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Fish |
- Yet Jesus chose the 12 apostles and 72 others from the
Sanhedrin and that is in apocryphal scripture but
nonetheless it all harmonizes.
- Plus who decided we should
receive some scriptures and reject others because the more of
the scriptures you read, the more you understand.
- We've
got all these missing pieces, that's why you don't understand
anything, someone decided to remove them but who gave them any
right to do that (to all of us).
- We see that the
72 Sanhedrin's got on the boat with Mary Magdaline and went to
France and we had the Fisher King.
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The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian legend, the
last in a long line of British kings tasked with
guarding the Holy Grail. The Fisher King is both the
protector and physical embodiment of his lands, but a
wound renders him impotent and his kingdom barren. Unable to walk or ride a horse, he is sometimes depicted as spending his time fishing while he awaits a "chosen one" who can heal him. (Wikipedia)
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Sanhedrin |
- This was a real government that Jesus established so why
isn't it universal everywhere, well it is.
- That's because
Jesus rules in his own kingdom, he only came down to this
earth to call out a people for his name and tell us not to be
a part of this world.
- So Jesus had the real kingdom but
on this earth he has a type of government but it's not going
to rule the world.
- Jesus knew that his kingdom was not of
this world, he just wanted to remove the Devil's ability to
take out the righteous.
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The Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court in ancient times, acting as a legislative body, trial court, and administrator of religious law. It was comprised of seventy-one members and played a significant role in Jewish society, particularly during the time of Jesus. The Sanhedrin's authority and influence were diminished after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. (Assistant)
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Light of the world |
- Jesus came to tell us what was going to happen, to leave us
with certain talents to work with, but he never said that the
Devil was going to go away quickly.
- He said we would have
to go through this tribulation, a period of time.
- But in
the meantime, his people would be on earth as salt and if the
salt loses its savor it's thrown outside to be trampled
underfoot.
- And that you are the light of the world and
you shouldn't put that light under a basket, instead, you put
it on a hill or a candlestick and you let the world see it.
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You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16)
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Sheep |
- You are the light of the world and you're not going to rule
over others, you're not going to judge, or punish people.
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You're going to be separate and outside of the world but
you're going to be a beacon of light and you're going to be on
the earth.
- There's going to be an administration and
you're going to be like ambassadors to the king who is in
heaven.
- So Jesus does have a kingdom, and the Caesars
went all over the world and that were in all the prophecies
that Judah would have the scepter until he who comes who has
the legal right.
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Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." (John 8:12)
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Elijah can't do it on his own |
- Elijah was the prophet of YHWH and he didn't know what to
do, but Jesus knew everything, he was healing people.
- But
Elijah did heal people and raised the dead, he did a lot of
good things but there's a difference between Jesus and Elijah.
- Jesus was the light, the spiritual, the highest light body,
the only begotten and the Christ.
- Elijah was only
representing the astral, it didn't know everything, it had
power certainly to rule over and he testifies of the Christ.
- But he can't do it on his own, he needs the Christ to be his
Lord to guide and direct.
Moses in the material world |
- Just like Moses represents the physical body.
- Remember,
Jesus said anyone who came before me is a thief and a robber.
- This includes Moses and Elijah who were on the mount of
transfiguration with Jesus.
- Jesus said that Elijah, or
John the Baptist, was the greatest man that ever lived and he
said that is Elijah if you'll receive it.
- How is it that
Elijah is a prophet of YHWH, well so is Moses.
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though Moses never made it into the Promised Land, even though
he made mistakes and wasn't worthy, why wasn't he worthy?
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Well, because he was under the law, just like all of us, he's
the physical body.
YHWH cursed |
- The body was cursed by YHWH and put under this law, that's
the curse.
- Moses didn't know, he's just the body, he's
asking Lord who are you and he doesn't really know.
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Elijah was doing the same thing, he wanted to know who he was
and Elijah was searching because he's the one who brought the
famine.
- He proclaimed that there would be no rain for 3.5
years until I say so and this was because of the idoltry of
Jezebel.
- But Jezebel represented the mortal body too.
Looking for water |
- Except then Elijah ended up wandering around searching and
looking for water.
- He went searching to find the truth
because he's not sure what's going on, there is a change
that's going to happen here.
- That's a transfer of power
and we've talked about them before, like Joseph going down
into Egypt, and others like Naomi and Boaz and Ruth.
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There were different priesthoods and some were higher
priesthoods and some lower, however, all of them were
appendages to the true Melchizedek priesthood.
Moses with Jethro's sheep |
- Moses got the priesthood from a man named Jethro and he was
a herder of Jethro's sheep.
- The sheep are the flock,
which are the people that are learning and following and we're
all sheeple.
- They were all following Jethro and he was a
priest of Midian so you see the priesthood is not just with
Israel.
- The priesthood that Israel had at that time was
simply the Aaronic and it was a lower priesthood and a
appendage of the true priesthood.
- And that was Shem, the
son of Noah, so there were literally other nations that came
down in lineages in different priesthoods.
Ishmael |
- The tribe of Midian had a mountain and the Bible tells us
that Midian was confederate with Esau and Ishmael.
- Most
don't know that, but Esau married into Ishmael's line and if
you look in the Old Testament you'll see that all 3 nations in
that area worship at Mount Seir.
- This is where Jethro was
the high priest and where you meet Balaam.
- Balaam was a wicked prophet in the Bible and is noteworthy because, although he was a wicked prophet, he was not a false prophet.
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All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it. (Obadiah 1:7)
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Balaam |
- Balaam was another prophet of YHWH and when the Israelites
started coming into the land to take over, he wanted to know
what was going on.
- What is this, a change of hands, this
is when the stars of heaven fought that Deborah talked about,
some symbolic poetry and a really big war.
- Jethro helped Moses create a lower priesthood than the Melchizedek
which was a higher priesthood.
- He handed on the priesthood at the well where his daughter
came out to get a drink and Moses was there and helped her get
water.
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From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. (Judges 5:20)
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Woman at the well |
- This is always the same story and Jesus met the woman at the
well with spiritual water and the priesthood is over that and
the woman is a covenant.
- So Moses married Jethro's
daughter, Zipporah, just like Joseph married the daughter of
An (Anu) who was a Sumerian deity and in Egyptian they called
it Ra.
- And who Joseph married was the daughter of Shechem
and that was also the name of a city.
Shechem |
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Now Shechem was also the name of a capital of the
Canaanites, and what doesn't make sense to many is that was
the true priesthood.
- It was the land of Palestine before
Moses ever got there and created the Levitical priesthood, an
appendage to the Melchizedek priesthood.
- So this
priesthood comes from Noah, all the way back to Adam, through
Enoch down to Shem.
- However, there were certain
individuals who claimed they were the heir, such as Nimrod.
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty onec on the earth. He was a mighty hunter befored the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
(Genesis 10:8-10)
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Uruk |
- But there is an heir in all the different nations so each of
the cities they built, such as Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar,
all these city-states and there were 72.
- We see each of
these ancient civilizations, such as Egypt, their kingdom
revolved around this river, the Nile.
- As you go down the
river you pass different pyramids and cities and each of these
represent a different star in the sky in the Milky Way, but
only at the elliptical because they're only the stars that are
the constellations we see going around and around.
Fish |
- That's why there were 72 cities and each was ruled over
by a different god because He divided the nations according to
the number of the gods.
- And if you look at the sky,
that's astrology, there are 72 Deacons and above the 12, but
within that is 72.
- So the 72 constellations are mirrors of
the 72 cities on earth and they always go up a river.
Well water |
- Now you have the same thing in Iraq with the Tigris and
Euphrates and the Indus, and the same thing is true
along the Mississippi.
- Someday we will dig up the records
and find the first city is even today called New Orleans, 'Or'
meaning light and it's always at the base where the river goes
into the ocean at the 33rd parallel.
- The same with the
Colorado River and all the rivers around the world, even the
Amazon, but that's a different story.
Stargazer |
- So you go to the
first city which is always called Eridu and the second was
Uruk, then Babel, and each go up the Euphrates where mankind
first began.
- The gods came and they landed in Eridu whih
rerpresents a place in heaven, in the stars.
- And this is
just symbolic of one of the deities that rule over the world
in its own time because when you're under the influence of
that part of the heaven, you're in that house.
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Eridu is traditionally considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia based on the Sumerian King List.
(Wikipedia)
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Drinking glasses |
- This could be something that happens annually, but we have
another clock or calendar that goes on for ages called aeons.
- So every nation lived on a river and they all had their
first city which is where we all began.
- As the year
passes we go from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of
Cancer which is 47 degrees apart, because there's 23.5
degrees on both sides of the Equator.
- At the same time
the earth is spinning, it's swaying between those 47 degrees.
Going up the river |
- The houses are shifting, one house at a time, one month
at a time and so each month there's another deity that rules
and by that the earth has moved on its axis a few degrees,
then the next town up the river gets to rule.
- So the
first kingdom was Eridu, or the Garden of Eden and we went
forward from there, by the time we got down to Abraham, he
lived in Ur in the Chaldees, just a few degrees above because
he came not long after everything started.
- Whereas we've
been going up the river thousands of years and when we get to
the top then we'll go back down again.
Top dog is a star |
- Each city, or each god has a certain allotted period of
time to rule.
- This is where we get the word Baal, because
it means lord, and there are different lords and there are 72
so each city will have its own lord.
- That's why in the
Bible, notice, the cities that rule change, they start off in
Babylon and later on some other kingdom is ruling.
- And so
they had gods in the winter, and in the spring, at the bottom
of the wheel, and at the top and this was all understood
philosophcally, it was a parable but what happened they became
idolaters.
Anger |
- YHWH was sent to talk to people to make sure
they didn't fall into idolatry, problem is, when that angel
came down and spoke to the people, they rejected the light and
he got very angry, this angel of the Lord, and he fell.
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He was the ruler of the 12, and he made his own 12 and the
order of the universe wasn't necessarily changed in the sense
that we're still going by the same 12 months, the fact the sun
comes up and goes down.
- The only problem is, because YHWH
was at the bottom of the wheel in the darkness and couldn't
see because there was no light, and he said, 'I am god and
there is none else but me.'
Moses aeon |
- YHWH was confused and he became angry and the children
of Israel were going through that period (aeon) where they
were under that law.
- That was when Moses was here and
that was 1,400 years before Jesus, so 3,400 years ago and they
were in a completely different age.
- When Jesus died at
Passover, the beginning of spring, or the Equinox, it would
have been around March 21 so that was the month of Aries and
if you go back to February 21, that is Pisces.
Age of Pisces |
- Each of these ages are 2,000 years so from the death of
Christ, the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ, showing if
you go back 2,000 years we were under the law and that was the
Age of Picses.
- Before that was Aquarius so that's 4,000
years which takes us back to the flood, and that's what this
whole 'water' thing is.
- John the Baptist who came
baptizing with water is that Aryan (Iranian) man.
- The
disciples came to Jesus and asked him where they should
prepare the Passover, and he told them to find the man who has
a water jug and that's Aquarius at the bottom of the wheel,
but when you get to the top of the wheel, he's going to have a
room prepared for you.
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Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”
“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked.
He answered, “When you enter the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him to the house he enters, and say to the owner of that house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room, already furnished. Make preparations there.”
(Matthew 26:7–13)
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Backwards on the wheel |
- That's the room that we're all trying to get to, but it
ccmes after Aquarius, not before, but there's been a teaching
going around started by Crowley and they've been telling
everyone that we're going backwards on the wheel.
- Back
into the darkness, because they want to take us back under the
law.
- They want to take us back to the time of slavery.
- Christ is the lamb of God and he's Aries, and now we're
about to go into Taurus, and that's the bull or El, the
Kingdom of Our Father in Heaven.
- We're going forward to
the wedding, it's a spring or summer event, the great
pentecost.
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Pentecost is a long-standing Jewish harvest party, a Christian celebration as old as Jesus' Church, and a Greek word that means “fiftieth.” When we see the first Pentecost (in Acts 2) in context, it’s not just about God giving people instantaneous multilingual skills or the fiery sign of the Holy Spirit’s presence. This story also marks the beginning of a new world.
(bibleproject.com)
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Sun as it rises |
- What we're talking about is the sun as it rises, Horus
rising on the horizon, being born as it comes up out of the
Egyptian Duat which is the Hebrew Sheol, or realm of the dead.
- We're talking about the sun as it rises and just as Jesus
said, 'Just as you see the sun rising from the east shines all
the way into the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man
be.'
- In the Book of Psalms it talks about the sun rising
like a chariot racing across the sky, this sun of
righteousness that raises up with healing in its wings.
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That begins with the kingdom of our Lord that arrives with the
coming of Christ and we begin to see the dawn.
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The Duat in Ancient Egyptian mythology refers to the realm of the dead or underworld. It is a significant concept in their afterlife beliefs, detailing the journey souls undertake after death, encompassing various landscapes and encounters with deities like Osiris, Anubis, and Thoth. It is represented symbolically with a hieroglyph of a star within a circle. (Assistant)
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Awaking |
- Dawn's early light and we sing that because ancient wisdom
knew they were going into the light, not going back into the
darkness.
- The procession of the equinoxes does not mean
that we need to go backwards, it's an illusion.
- It's all about the sun and
YHWHs kingdom or rule is a whole different kingdom than Jesus'
rule.
- The
Levitical priesthood had a function, it was the law and it was
a tutor that led us to Christ and was the covenant.
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The procession of the equinoxes is a gradual shift in the Earth's orientation relative to the stars, causing the position of the vernal equinox (the point where the sun crosses the celestial equator moving north) to move westward along the ecliptic (the path of the sun) over a very long period. This shift is due to a wobble in Earth's axis of rotation, similar to that of a spinning top. The complete cycle of this wobble takes approximately 26,000 years. (Assistant)
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The law |
- Why would our Lord allow this, why were we under the
law, we were just babies and couldn't take care of ourselves
so he put a steward over us to watch over and make sure we
don't die.
- So YHWH gave us the law, but if any of the
laws are bad, our Father gave us the freedom to do anything we
want.
- Except you have to have love to do anything you
want, and you also must have wisdom and you must be mature.
- A small child may have freedom and do anything he wants but
he has a nurse watching over him telling him he can't go
outside and he's sucking off her teet.
Wintery |
- Sometimes there's a reason we're put under law, under
restrictions, but our Father never allows us to be under any
restrictions unless it is good for us and he never does it
just abitrarily.
- Our Father in Heaven never punishes, and
he would never punish us just because he likes to see punishment.
- Except we're in the lower realm here and it's our teacher and it's
harsh, it's a harsh taskmaster.
- So we have this story,
just like we have the story that Moses forms a lower appendage
of the Melchizedek priesthood with Jethro.
Blind deity |
- We just assume that we take up the Bible story where
this blind, angry deity takes over the world and creates
confusion so that the world doesn't understand these
mysteries.
- He doesn't allow us to have knowledge and then
he puts us under his law and makes us his slave.
- YHWH
purchases us like a prostitute, and we're the prostitute, and
this is the covenant he gave us.
- Because we were only
babies and we were put under this harsh taskmaster and we were
nothing but slaves under the steward.
Harsh taskmaster |
- Jesus went away and
when he came back he found out the harsh taskmaster's were persecuting us and
his vineyard was dying.
- Speaking to the Sanhedrin, Jesus
told them he was going to take away the keys from them, the
Aaronic priesthood that Moses created, the Levitical
priesthood.
- He was taking it away from them and giving it
to the one who's producing fruit.
- The original vineyard,
the garden, is going to produce fruit, we've got to have the
Tree of Life.
- Somewhere along the line, things got really
bad because YHWH took away the ancient esoteric wisdom and
confused the language and people became idolaters because they
didn't understand.
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Jesus tells a parable about a landowner who plants a vineyard, leases it to tenants, and is met with violence when he sends servants to collect his share of the produce. The tenants kill the servants, and ultimately, the landowner's son, whom they throw out of the vineyard and kill. This parable is interpreted as a representation of how the religious leaders of Israel (the tenants) have rejected God's messengers (the servants) and will ultimately reject and kill God's son (Jesus). (Assistant)
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Ea Enki tantrum |
- Well if Dumuzi is the savior and he saves his
sister-wife, Ishtar who travels down to hell to wrestle the
Tablet of Destinies out of the hands of Ea Enki or YHWH.
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They got over the Abyss, the lower carnal region so human
beings began to think this was real, not just a parable.
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The Tablet of Destinies, a central artifact in Mesopotamian mythology, is a clay or stone tablet upon which the fates of gods and humans are inscribed. It embodies supreme authority and grants its holder the power to rule the universe. (Assistant)
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Working woman |
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This is because the teachers didn't teach us to listen to the
Holy Spirit and this is what Ishtar represents, she went down
into the body, the flesh, as the Holy Spirit to teach.
-
YHWH in his pride made Ishtar a slave and pronounced her anethema
and called her an abomination.
- And he judged Jezebel
harshly as well for worshiping the god of her nation instead
of Israel.
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Ishtar is a prominent Mesopotamian goddess primarily known for her roles as the goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is a complex figure, evolving across different cultures (Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian) and time periods. Ishtar is often associated with the Sumerian goddess Inanna, and her mythology explores themes of love, war, death, and rebirth. (Assistant)
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Idol |
- This is where it gets tricky because it doesn't say in
the New Testament that Ishtar is an abomination, what it does
say is that the worship of idols is an abomination.
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From there the priesthood scaled down and turned into a lesser
priesthood.
- For periods of time, certain kingdoms ruled
so we see Jezebel making a political alliance with Ahab.
-
Remember Ahab is the king of YHWH and he's not so wicked he's
just kind of confused, and so is Elijah in a sense.
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Ahab was a king of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria),
the son and successor of King Omri, and the husband of
Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. He is depicted in the Bible as a Baal worshipper and is criticized for causing moral decline in Israel, though modern scholars argue that Ahab was a Yahwist himself. (Wikipedia)
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Apostle |
- Both
Ahab and Elijah knew that society couldn't have all this
prostitution and idolatry, although Elijah still hadn't seen
the light, he was still human and hadn't seen Christ.
- But even the apostles didn't recognize Christ even after
he was with them for years performing miracles in front of him
and it wasn't until after the resurrection that they
recognized Christ.
- Elijah
had not yet gone to Mount Horeb and when he went up the
mountain of light he had a revelation of what the true deity
is because this is a process and he was searching for the
truth.
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Then a voice said to him, “Elijah, what are you doing here?”
He replied, “Lord God who rules over all, I’ve been very committed to you. The Israelites have turned their backs on your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They’ve put your prophets to death with their swords. I’m the only one left. And they are trying to kill me.” (1
Kings 19:14)
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Drought |
- That's what the astral body does, it's out there
looking, searching for the testimony of the truth.
- So it
comes to the stream which dries up because YHWHs laws are
causing drought.
- YHWHs about to no longer be the true
deity and it won't be long, the children of Israel will be
scattered in all the world.
- Because of the wrath of YHWH,
he will abandon them and they'll be just lost.
- So in the
meantime, something's got to be done and Elijah the prophet
was trying to find the Lord, trying to understand the truth.
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"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known". (1
Corinthians 13:12)
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Famine |
- Jezebel cannot be the representative of Ishtar (Astarte)
or Zoroastrianism, even though she's from there.
- That's
because the widow that has the son that Elijah resurrects
doesn't have a husband, and she is the true representative of
Zoroastrianism.
- She doesn't have a husband because during
the famine, he died, and she's looking for another husband,
someone to feed her.
- A husband is someone who gives you a
covenant and Ruth had to marry Boaz in a Leverite marriage to
continue the priesthood because it was about to be finished.
- Elijah wanted Zoroastrianism to continue, so he resurrected
the widow's son.
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Zoroastrianism is an ancient Persian religion, one of the world's oldest monotheistic faiths, founded by the prophet Zarathushtra (also known as Zoroaster). It centers on the belief in one God, Ahura Mazda, and a cosmic struggle between good and evil. Zoroastrians believe in the ultimate triumph of good and the restoration of a perfect world. (Assistant)
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Jezebel idol |
- Jezebel wanted to take over the world by force, she
wanted to deceive, and she wanted idolatry.
- That's
because she was mortal and was thinking
in terms of this physical world and power, greed and
materialism.
- Things like jewels and buying and selling,
but that's not what Ishtar (Astarte) was about.
- Ishtar was decked
with gold and beautiful things but Ishtar went down into hell
and lost it all.
- But she didn't care about that, she
cared about the destiny of the souls of men.
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Jezebel (died c. 843 BCE) was the wife of King Ahab, who ruled the kingdom of Israel. By interfering with the exclusive worship of the Hebrew God, Yahweh, by disregarding the rights of the common people, and by defying the great prophets Elijah and Elisha, she provoked the internecine strife that enfeebled Israel for decades. She has come to be known as an archetype of the wicked woman. (Britannica)
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Dumuzi |
- The earth went through winter and it's dying and it
needs a savior.
- That's Tammu (Dumuzi), heaven's got to
go down there and save Ishtar.
- But YHWH took Babylon and
made it confusion so Jezebel is an alliance with Ahab and what
you have to know is there's a lot of secret little codes in
the Book of Kings.
- Names like Ahab and Obadiah
and the meanings of some of these names.
- Elijah got rid
of the Baal prophets, or the Lord, the husband that had been
relegated to confusion and didn't know what was going on, he
was about to die from famine.
- They didn't have any more
truth, they were losing it.
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Tammuz (Dumuzid) is a sun god perhaps best known as the main lover of Ishtar (Inana). Originally known as Dumuzid the Shepherd, he was a fertility god. (Assistant)
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Astral body |
- Elijah was the only one who was sincere enough, even
though he was the astral, he's not the physical, he was a step
up.
- He had a physical body, but he had learned to use his
astral and eventually he's going to perfect that and go up in
a firey chariot in the sky.
- He's going to leave and move
on to heaven, but on earth there's got to be a representative
of the Lord and it's got to be the highest representative of
truth that the world will receive.
- So for a period of
time the world is blind and we're all under this confusion.
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The astral body is a subtle body posited by many philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the mental body, composed of a subtle material. (Wikipedia)
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Astral knowledge |
- In the next chapter we read about a man named Elisha,
and Elijah as he's leaving in the firey chariot, his mantle or
cloak, which represents his authority or standing.
- The
astral teachings that he knew and understood when he went to
Mount Horeb and learned all these things and he had a portion
of spirit, of knowledge.
- As he's ascending and testifying
of greater things, a prophet named Elisha comes along.
-
Interestingly, as soon as Elisha receives the mantle he's now
a prophet and Elijah's gone.
- There were 42 children who
came out to greet him and they said something derogatory and
Elisha cursed them.
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Elisha went from that city to Bethel. He was walking up the hill to the city, and some boys were coming down out of the city. They began making fun of him. They said, “Go away, you bald-headed man! Go away, you bald-headed man!” (2 Kings 2:23)
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Cursed child |
- After Elisha cursed the children, 2 she bears came out
of the forest and eat 42 of the children!
- What a crazy
story and it's kind of the same as the story of Jezebel, at
first it doesn't make any sense.
- Why would Elisha, a
prophet of the Lord who possessed twice the spirit and
knowledge or power than Elijah had, because Elijah asked
Elisha want he wanted before he left in his chariot.
- So
Elisha asked him for double portion of his spirit.
- This request is interpreted as Elisha desiring to be Elijah's successor and to inherit a greater measure of God's power and anointing than other disciples.
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And it came to pass, when they had gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee.” And Elisha said, “I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.” (2 Kings 2:9)
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Firey |
- Elijah told Elisha that he asked him for a hard thing so
he told Elisha if he could see him when he's taken up then
you'll get what you ask for.
- Elisha stands there and he
see's Elijah go up in a firey chariot and he gets the mantle
and now he has a double portion of spirit.
- What is this
story of this prophet Elisha that would curse children.
-
From there, Elisha went up to Bethel which is the House of El
and this is where the group of small boys harassed him and
chanted, 'Go up baldy,'
Sacred grove |
- What does 'go up' mean while he's going to Bethel, a
high place, as he's going up a mountain, a sacred grove, the
Gate of El, that's where they worship El Elyon.
- And
what's with 'baldy' why were they calling Elisha that, well it
wasn't because he was an old man, it was because he had a vow
and was a Nazarite priest.
- They would take vows and let
their hair grow really long, and if they cut their hair they
no longer had any power.
- This is what happened to Samson,
who was also a Nazarite, when Deliah cut his hair, he no
longer had any strength and this is because Samson is a
parable about a sun god.
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Samson was a Nazarite, meaning he was set apart for God from birth. God commanded his parents to abstain from certain things during his mother's pregnancy, and Samson himself was to abstain from wine, strong drink, and unclean foods, and his hair was never to be cut. This vow was meant to indicate his special dedication to God and his role as a deliverer of Israel. However, Samson frequently violated his vow, particularly regarding his hair and association with dead bodies. (Assistant)
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Sun rays |
- Just as Elisha is a parable of the sun, the same as
Samson, and bald head, really means 'ball' or round like the
sun.
- The hair is the rays of the sun and when they're cut
off that means that the sun doesn't have any power and it's
dying.
- It's going down over the horizon, this is an
astrological story about the sun.
- So you've probably
figured out by now that this is symbolic.
- What are these
2 she bears, there's no mistaking what these bears are,
they're in the sky because it's astrology.
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You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2:10-11)
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Night sky |
- We were talking about Elisha being the sun and the bears
represent Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- The Great Bear and
the Little Bear, they're talked about in the Book of Job
and the bear has cubs and it's an allegory.
- As Samson, also a sun symbol, had 7 locks of hair and they
represent the rays of the sun.
- A lion's mane, which is
another symbol there, is the sun's strength because the lion
is in Leo and that's up there on the top in the scorching heat
of August.
- But Elisha is now at the winter solstice where
the sun is at it's weakest, that's the shortest day of the
year.
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Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? (Job 38:32)
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Dark winter day
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- So Elisha is called baldy because the sun is so weak it
has no rays during the winter solstice.
- This is winter
when the sun goes down to the Tropic of Cancer.
- At this
point, there's no way to go but up because you've reached the
bottom of the wheel and that's Christmas, December 25th and
the sun has to climb back up to the summer solstice, which is
Cancer.
- And that is why these children are taunting
Elisha with 'go up you bald head,' they wanted him to rise.
- But you can see that Capricorn is a goat, and that's because
goats climb and that goat is going to climb the mountain.
Temple of Baal |
- There are two mountains, one at the bottom and one at
the top, two solstices.
- The sun, like a goat, starts to
climb to the throne where it's going to be enthroned in the
heavens.
- When Samson lost his hair, they took him down to
this Temple of Baal where there are two pillars and he is
standing by them and asked someone to help him put his hands
on the pillar.
- He prays Lord let me take them down and
then Samson parts the pillars, just like Janus with two faces,
and that represents Janus who's at the bottom of the wheel.
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Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. (Judges 16:29)
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Samson and harlot |
- It's January, and December 25 is when January begins and
Janus had two faces, one looking in the past and the other
toward the future because that represents the solstice.
-
Samson goes to Gaza and he sees a harlot there and he went
into her, and here's the harlot again.
- If you've ever
read that story and thought, what the heck is that prophet
Samson doing with a harlot?
- Her name is Delilah and she's
from the Philistines, she's not even Israelite, isn't that
unlawful, why would he marry a Philistine.
- They were
having a war with the Philistines and he took up with some
harlot it just never made sense.
Night falling |
- That's because it's a parable about the sun going down,
and he's dying and losing his hair.
- He's losing the rays,
his power, but he's going down there to save his Deliah, to
save his Mother Earth.
- The people of Gaza noticed Samson
had come in there, so they surrounded the palace, or the place
that he lay in wait for them.
- They kept silent all night
long and said, 'let us wait until the morning and then we'll
kill him.'
- Samson lay until midnight and then at midnight
he arose.
Samson at the gates |
- Samson took ahold of the gates of the city, and two
posts and he pulled them up along with the bars and he put
them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the
mountain which is opposite Hebron.
- Samson wanted to die
with the Philistines and they worship Dagon, who was the
father of Baal and it's all the same religion.
- Dagon was a prominent deity in the ancient Near East, often associated with fertility and grain, and sometimes depicted as a half-man, half-fish creature.
- While some accounts link him to the sea, others emphasize his role as a provider of agricultural wealth.
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Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived. (Judges 16:30)
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Bars on the gates |
- Samson pushed with all his might and the temple came
down and he killed everyone there, all the prophets of Baal.
- Just like Elijah did, so it's really the same story and
another way to tell a story.
- When we talk about midnight,
that's the solstice, the middle of the night.
- Midnight on
the daily calendar or daily clock occupies the same space as
the middle of winter or the solstice.
Widow's son |
- The winter solstice is also one of the reasons the
Freemasons are called the 'widow's sons.'
- You've got the
old son, or the father who dies at winter, before it rises
again with the new sun.
- So the child then is the widow's
son.
- Soon after, Jesus went to Nain with a large crowd
and his disciples.
- As he approached the gate, a dead
person was being carried out, the only son of his mother.
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Reminescent of the widow's son that Elijah raised up.
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Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” (Luke 7:11-14)
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Lineal priesthood |
- So who is the widow, when Isis' husband Osiris died he
left her a widow, when Nimrod died he left Semiramis a widow
and these are transfers of power.
- What Jesus was really
doing was a little like what Elijah was doing, and a little
like what Jethro was doing.
- The time had come for a new
age and Jesus was restoring or resurrecting the lineal
priesthood to power and rejecting the Jews and their kingdom.
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The researches of the initiate in the Mysteries of Osiris were still further extended to include man’s true home, that higher section of the mental or heaven-world in which the ego functions in his causal body; and at the same time the great ceremony of raising was explained in many layers of interpretation as the descent of the Logos into matter, His mystic death and burial, and His rising again to a kingdom without end; and also as the personal descent of the soul into bodies, his resurrection from the death-in-life of the lower worlds of form, and his reincarnation upon earth once more. (C. W. Leadbeater)
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Simba |
- This is everywhere, modern movies like the Lion King
and Simba is surrounded by his enemies, the Lion King is the
sun and he has the mane which is the rays.
- So he's the
widow's son, and Simba is helpless and weak just like the sun
when it begins.
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And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. (Luke 7:15-17)
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Skywalker |
- There's also another good example in the movie Star
Wars because Luke Skywalker, and Luke means the light so
he walks across the sky.
- He's always the hero and you see
Darth Vader was wearing black.
- So you see this is a very
important story and it's told in all the movies and fairytales
and in the Bible as well.
- All the ancient poetry such as
Dante's Inferno it's a story that's been told
thousands of times.
- That's because this is the story of
life.
Idolatry |
- After Elijah heard about Jezebel murdering Haman and
taking the field by force, something the true Ishtar would
never do.
- Turning the nation into idolatry and making it
a nation of prostitutes and then the Lord told Elijah, 'Go
return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus and you must
come into Hazael,' which means El sees and he was the king
over Syria.
- Elijah must anoint Jehu grandson of Nimshi to be king of Israel and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from the town of Abel-meholah to replace
Elijah as His prophet.
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No one was more determined than Ahab to
disobey the Lord. And Jezebel encouraged him. Worst of
all, he had worshiped idols, just as the Amorites had done before the Lord forced them out of the land and gave it to Israel. (1 Kings 21:29)
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Sheep salvation |
-
Jehu is YHWH is he, Hazael is El See, and Elisha is a very
interesting word because 'Eli' is god but who is god here,
that's Shua.
- In the name 'Yeshua,' shua is part of a longer word that means
'salvation' or 'God saves.'
- But we're not talking about
Yeshua because Jesus doesn't translate to that and it's not a
transliteration of Joshua but that is for a different day.
- Just the shua part means savior or salvation.
Transfer of power |
- Shua in
Hebrew is salvation but it doesn't mean that YHWH (Yahweh/Yeshua) is
salvation.
- Jesus is Shua and as Luke says, Jesus is the son of the Most
High and here we have that El is Jesus.
- Then Elijah
(John) is told that he must anoint Elisha (Jesus) in place of
himself as prophet, so Elijah which is 'God is YHWH,' is now
being replaced with 'God is Jesus' and this is the transfer of
power.
- The Lord goes on to say that you will anoint
Elisha son of Shaphat from the town of Abel-meholah (dancing
meadow) to replace you as my prophet.
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He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. (Luke 1:32)
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YHWH puts to death |
- And the one who escapes Hazail, or El Sees, he sees
everything, so if you escape El Sees then Jehu, who is YHWH
will put you to death and the one who escapes YHWHs sword,
Elisha will put to death.
- This is saying that the true
father of the deities, El, will see everything and the
physical material realm of YHWH will make sure he punishes you
and puts you to death.
- But why would Jesus put anyone to
death, except he doesn't have to because YHWH puts everybody
to death.
- YHWH doesn't like anyone and no one can meet
his standards and he is in this material world so he puts
everyone to death.
- The only one that YHWH doesn't put to
death is his bestial kingdom, the dragon and the false prophet
and Jesus will put them to death.
Standing up |
- Then the Lord said he had left 7,000 living in Israel
and this is a literal number and has a symbolic nature.
-
It refers to a certain number that are chosen or elected and
they had not bent their knee to Baal nor had they kissed him.
- So accordingly he went from there and found Elisha while he
was plowing with 12 spans before him which represent the 12
signs of the zodiac and obviously this is astrology.
- He
with the 12th and so Elijah crossed over to him and threw his
official garment and at that he left the bulls.
- Jesus and
Elijah had bulls, what is this talking about, well they didn't
worship them.
- These bulls represent the brute nature that
is within all of us.
Donkey or bull |
- The bull is a domesticated animal and Jesus came riding
into Jerusalem on a donkey.
- This showed that he could
control and he had dominion over this physical, material
nature.
- He used them to plow the ground and to make
fertility.
- Astarte, Enlil, Zeus, they were fertility, and
they fertilized the world so that's what that's about.
-
But Elisha finished plowing with his bulls and said goodbye to
his family and went and followed Elijah.
Melchizedek priesthood. |
- Then the story goes on that now that Elisha had a double
portion of power he's now the successor.
- This is
explaining the transfer of the astral, or this world, and the
kingdoms of this world and this lower priesthood that Elijah
had, that was transfered and now had double power and that's
the Melchizedek priesthood.
- It was restored with Elisha
who represented the true Melchizedek priesthood and being
restored in Jesus Christ.
- The story continues on with his
bald head and he goes down to the winter solstice and is
reborn and this is the whole story that we have about Jesus in
the Bible.
Moses stumbling |
- Some of these verses from the Book of Kings
have been so hard to understand they've been a huge stumbling
block to be able to comprehend the Old Testament.
- So much
of this was confusing because Jezebel looked so similar to
Ishtar (Astarte).
- It says in the New Testament that
Jezebel was bad and we don't tolerate that and she taught them
to eat things sacrificed to idols.
- But the thing is, even
though she was like Ishtar, Jezebel was in rebellion and she
was not to be confused with Ishtar.
Obedient widow |
- The widow who was obedient to the prophets and taking
note of the transfer of power because there is a measure of
obedience that we have to have.
- In the New Testament the
apostles say that we have to obey the rulers that are over us.
- That's because we don't want anarchy and they've been
assigned by Our Father in Heaven that knows most of the world
needs a tutor.
- Sometimes we get into these periods of
time where it seems like everything is evil and so bad, and
that happened to apostle Peter who said, 'I have to obey God
as ruler, rather than man.'
- That happens when a wicked
king like Herod arises and you have to flee to Egypt.
Political idols |
- Jesus did tell us to abide until he comes and
obviously we're not saying that if the government says to bow
down to their idols we're going to do it.
- Or if the
government tells us to eat poison we should do it, no that's
not what this is about.
- We're just talking about
submission to what the Lord has allowed so if they come and
take us away to crucify us, Jesus said to go willingly.
-
Peter wanted to take his sword and Jesus told him to put his
sword away.
- We turn the other cheek, we go the extra
mile.
Bound |
- Jesus also said if any of you are a slave and you
can become free, than do it and he's not saying you must free
yourself, if you are bound under this law in this material
world then bear it with grace.
- Why would we do that,
because that's the way we're going to find deliverance.
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Because we have to know that Our Father in Heaven loves us and
he's watching over us.
- We rely on his salvation, if we
tried to take it into our own hands, for instance, there were
those on the ark with Noah who tried to steady it but they
ended up falling down dead because that wasn't their job.
Mirror |
- We have to be able to open our eyes and see that
Our Father in Heaven rules the whole universe and nothing is
going on without His knowledge.
- If you see people dying
or in pain or suffering, they're going through their own
trials and the Lord will not let them bear any more than they
can.
- Because we live in this dog eat dog material world,
that's the system we live under, it's not a good system but we
bear up under this persecution.
- Trusting in the Lord that
if we have faith and are searching, seeking and knocking, the
Lord will open the door.
Stones to throw |
- If there's injustice, the Lord will make it right,
he'll watch over us and take care of us, for those who have
faith and trust in him.
- It's not be taking it into our
own hands through retribution because that's saying you don't
have trust and faith in the Lord.
- That you don't believe
he's watching over so you're going to take things into your
own hands, that's really a lack of faith.
- But we have to
be more spiritual minded and realize these people hurting us
are ignorant and don't know what they're doing.
Spiritually wounded |
- So we have to try and forgive them and we're in a
very difficult situation here because we're just material
beings, we're not as wise as the Lord.
- If we see someone
and we take vengeance, we might hurt them spiritually in the
long run so we have to trust that the Lord's going to work
with them and guide them.
- That's not our job, our job is
to show them the light and how to love and to forgive them.
Rights |
- Because we do have rights, but as Christians we're
not worried about our rights or the material world, but as a
father with his children, or our brothers and sisters.
-
These are our family and we've got to try and help them and
turn the other cheek because we're trying to save them and
snatch then out of the fire.
- So it takes wisdom to have
faith and trust and knowledge to know that the Lord is always
with us.
Observing |
- Because Elijah was in a position of authority, he
didn't run ahead of Jesus and try correcting him for any
mistakes he may have made.
- You may see others doing
a poor job and know you could do much better but that's not
your job or your place.
- If that person is truly doing a
bad job, then the Lord will work it out.
- It doesn't mean
that we consent to any evil, or any plot to hurt other people,
but in a case where they're requiring us to do something evil
we simply say no.
- We don't fight back or take our
authority that far, but we have to bide our time and wait upon
the Lord.
Ishtar saves |
- We've been going through this for thousands of
years and the Lord understood our condition, that we were like
little children and we were growing, learning and evolving by
the things in which we suffered.
- Growing from grace into
grace, and glory into glory and if we had been able to receive
the higher priesthood thousands of years ago, the New
Covenant, undoubtably the Lord would have given it to us then.
- He gave us the best direction and guidance that he could
have because he loves us, and we need to accept what the Lord
gives us, and be thankful and always pray.
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