ON FEAR

Did King Herod believe that Jesus was the expected Messiah?

Herod was a Idumean, not a Jew, but had been persuaded to become a Jew, ostensibly to be accepted by the Jews as king. Undoubtedly, he knew scripture. Apparently, he could not quote it but questioned those around him about Christ. 

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. (Mat 2:4)

 Herod asked them about Christ! He did not question the claim of the wise men; he accepted at face value what they claimed. Herod could see the same thing in the sky that the wise men saw, if he only looked. He never questioned that the heavens had directed them to Judaea. They were in search of God and Herod, paranoid that he was, feared the time had come, perhaps because he had been so evil, killing off his own family members who were in contention with each other for the kingdom.

Herod could appoint his own successor, Whoever, it would be necessitated the approval of Caesar.

This child Jesus had the credentials to be king of the Jews and paid taxes as the heir (son) of David. Caesar was a fair man with civil law and taxation would be the evidence that Jesus was in fact heir to the throne. Not only that, but that Jesus was a Jew who would be a fitting ethnarch for the kingdom of the Jews.

Caesar would, in fact, leave the Judaean throne vacant after Archelaus was deposed by him in 6 A.D. Pontius Pilate would be the “hegemon” (Mat 27:2) — “a legatus Caesaris,’ an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor. (Strong 1890).

Pilate, as was the custom, was the “right hand” of Caesar, and in the absence of Caesar was Caesar. That was Roman Law.

Herod was king because of the grace of Caesar who could either appoint or not appoint to the throne anybody he pleased but preferred those with a bonified claim.

Herod seemed to know that Jesus could, if He pleased upon maturity, exert His right. Herod took Jesus seriously and recognized that Jesus is the Christ.

Scripture uses the expression, “should be born.” In the Greek that phrase is one word — “gennao.” It is not “should” but simply “engendered” (ibid). The expectation, or fear, of Herod had become real. The child, Jesus, fit the identity of the Messiah perfectly. Herod understood that Jesus was the expected Christ.

Herod, at that very time was deathly ill. He had recently changed his will, knowing full-well that his days were numbered. Even knowing that he was as well be dead; his concern was not with his own well-being, but who would succeed him. As such, Herod feared the infant Jesus more so than any of his own heirs.

Upon maturity and long after Herod had died, Jesus said, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Mat 10:28).

Herod killed the bodies of the pretenders to the throne in the Massacre of the Innocents that occurred immediately after he died, according to Josephus. He could not kill their eternal souls, but Herod, even on his death bed, feared that those innocent people were out to kill him in person.

According to the truth that Jesus shared, anybody, even Herod, should fear Him — the Christ — because Jesus had/has the power to destroy both the body and soul in Hell, as He said.

Herod feared the baby Jesus, not because He had power over his eternal destiny, but because Jesus could have his throne, and had the credentials to do so. Everybody recognized Jesus as the “son of David” and of the gens, or family of the legitimate king that God had appointed to the throne so long ago.

The paranoia of the king was not Jesus himself but that he was “born” — gennao — and was of the gens of David.

Gens is Latin for “family.” Herod feared Jesus not because He was the Son of God but because, he was the “son of man,” David, and had the genealogy to validate it.

Why the genealogy in the Book of Matthew? Because it proved that Jesus, through his supposed father, Joseph, was the heir to the Davidic throne and was of the House of David. Herod nor his family were not; they were genetic Arabs (Edomites). Herodians had no legitimate claim to the Judaean throne.

It appears that Herod believed that Jesus was the Christ but only of the House of David. He did not fear Jesus because of His power over his soul but because of his power over the throne. He, perhaps, accepted Jesus as legitimate king contender but not as God Himself who was gennao of a virgin and of God. That Jesus was born in Bethlehem was particularly upsetting because Bethlehem was the place of the birth of David.

Herod had surely read, “David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah, whose name was Jesse” (1 Sam 17:12) and that the prophet Micah designated David’s heir to come: 

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2)

 Ephratah is the place near Bethel, where Rachel died and was buried (Gen 35:16). Jesus was from the very place where Rachel, the ancestor of David was buried. Perhaps Joseph owned the very land that had been in the family since the time of Jacob. Herod feared the genome of Jesus, not the Spirit of God in Him. He feared the “Israel” in the veins of the Christ because Rachel, like Eve long before, who was the mother of all the living, she was the “mother” of all the Israelites.

Herod was king not only of Judaea but much of the kingdom of David. He had hopes that the Herodian Kingdom, through his heirs, might encompass the entire Kingdom of David, and already pretended to that notion. But here came one born of David who was bonified heir to the Davidian Kingdom, causing Herod to fear the little baby!

Herod had them all killed who his soldiers found, but not among them was Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. It was not yet time for Jesus to die until Herod was proven dead, and Himself proven the rightful heir to the throne.

Jesus was crucified, not so much that He claimed to be God in the flesh, for that seemed absurd, but because He was the legitimate heir to the throne and all those factions that screamed for his death were politicians: Hasmoneans, Herodians, Pharisees, Sadducees, and especially both the chief priest representing the inherited (genetic) house of Annas whose current heir was Caiaphas, the son-in-law of Annas after each of Annas’s sons had been chief priests.

Even the priesthood had become political since the time of John Hyrcanus II, the Hasmonean king and high priest. Caiaphas would aspire for the throne in the manner of Hyrcanus.

Jesus was not crucified because He was God but because He was the Good King that they would not follow, after having followed for so many years the wicked King Herod. They would have to change their lifestyles and become holy as He is Holy!

What is the one characteristic in this age which the public dislikes in candidates? Those who are holy. Holy contenders for higher office are rejected because they are holy. Why so? Because then, they fear that they too would need to be holy.

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IDENTIFYING THE ANTICHRIST

 Herod’s pretense was that he wanted the child Jesus found to worship Him. Herod believed in Jesus! Herod even feared Jesus, but he did not worship Him at all; he only sought to kill the child to prevent Him from governing Judea — his own kingdom in which he himself would decide who ruled it. Herod decided in favor of his son, Archelaus, despite the Jewish belief that Jesus would govern Judea (Mat 2:6). Herod, remember, was only a pretend “Jew.”

So, you believe in Jesus? So do devils (Jas 2:19). Herod had a “devil” in him. Not only a devil but “The Devil.”

We learn from the Book of Job that Satan, the Devil, travels “to and fro in the earth” (Job 1:7) — not necessarily only within this planet, but from the netherworld to this world. Hence, he can only be one place at one time, and he would wisely select when and with whom he appeared, as he did with righteous Job. (“He” is used for convenience, although Satan is neither male nor female, but physically androgenous, and is whatever it needs to be for the occasion. Keep that in mind as you read.)

But who is the Christ? God in the flesh who gives life.

Who is the Antichrist? Satan in some material image (Gen 3:1) who authors death and can appear to be a serpent, or even a man or woman. (I believe that Lilith was the female appearance of Lucifer that Isaiah wrote about as the “screech owl;” 34:14)

Who is the Antichrist? “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22). Herod denied that Jesus was the rightful ruler of Judea, according to scripture (again in Mat 2:5-6). He denied the genealogy of Jesus as the son of David and the Son of God.

He denied Jesus and sought to have him put to death. Hence, Herod was “The Antichrist” at that time. Each time has its own Antichrist, for as scripture says, “Even now are there many antichrists,” as John wrote (1 John 2:18).

There are not many Antichrists at a given time because Satan is limited to one place and one space at a time.

Unlike God who is omnipresent, Satan is not. Josephus, in the Antiquities of the Jews, indicated that “Herod died in Jericho, after an excruciatingly painful, putrefying illness of uncertain cause, known to posterity as "Herod's Evil” as Wikipedia paraphrase it.

Herod’s Evil was surely Herod with Satan in him. Since Herod was the “greatest” in the Holy Land, Satan would have selected Herod to murder Jesus. Surely, Herod was The Antichrist at that time, and afterward, perhaps, the possession would be passed onto the chief priest, Caiaphas (Mat 26:57).

So, there it is. Satan himself came to tempt Jesus (Mat 4:1) but that came after Satan in Herod failed and before Satan in Caiaphas succeeded. As such, Satan was certainly greater than Herod the Great, but even Satan failed to “kill” Jesus. Caiaphas failed as well because it was God the Father who sacrificed His only Son.

How did Satan try to kill Jesus? Just like Satan tried to kill Adam and Eve — by tempting Jesus. Falling for temptation is death. The flesh lives on for a spell, but the soul dies. Nobody ever killed Jesus because His Soul never died; it experienced death but lived on.

The soul is immortal in the sense that it either experiences Paradise or Hell, but Hell is a living death.

Just as Judas did not kill Jesus but it was Satan in him, if Herod had succeeded, it would have been Satan in him as well.

Therefore, just as is written, Lucifer thought, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north” (Isa 14:13).

“North” therein is ambiguous, meaning either directional or mystical. As an Idumean, “North” would be in Judea! Perhaps Isaiah was shown what would happen at the birth of Jesus when Herod tried to depose Jesus.

Herod saying to the wise men, “Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” (Mat 2:2). Herod was king of the ethnic Jews as well as Idumean, Samaria, and so forth — all of Jewdom. Only Judea was ethnically Jewish because Samaria had a Babylonian mixture, so says Josephus, and Idumeans were only Jews in the flesh by circumcision.

Today, people pretend to be what they are not! The Samarians pretended to be Jewish by having a similar government, temple, and Holy Mountain, but inwardly they remained Babylonians.

The Edomites were Idumeans in the flesh but cut off the foreskin to playact as if they were bonified Jews. The Jews went along with their façade.

The point to this commentary is that not only did Judas have Satan enter him, but so did Herod.

“Antichrists,” whoever they are, are the chiefest of those who are against Christ at any given time in history. As such, important world leaders who do evil have Satan in them and are Antichrists. Among them, of course, was Adolph Hitler because he was both antisemitic and Fuhrer.

Who would be the Antichrist of this era? Some world-leader with Satan in him. Many seem to be him, but there remains only one person who is The Antichrist. Unknown is who she, he, or it is!

Satan is a shapeshifter, as ancient sacred literature (The Books of Adam and Eve and the Book of Jasher) reveals.

The best deception in this age of technology would be that while we are expecting a man, or even a woman, with Satan within; it just might be a super-computer with artificial intelligence like the world has never seen before, or either a man or woman with artificial DNA (Wikipedia’s synthetic DNA).

A woman? It was Lucifer that entered Eve, he  it did not enter Adam. Prepare yourselves not to be surprised who the host of Satan might be next! Keep in mind that Satan enters the most powerful and in Judea at that time, it was Herod.

Judas was the subsequent host of Satan as is written (Luke 22:3). He was not powerful but sought to be! Imagine the name that he has made for himself. He has gone down in infamy as the man who killed Jesus. The Antichrist is always the person who thinks that he, she, or it is the one with that power.

This commentary was not planned with this ending. It was merely exploring the events that led up to the massacre of the innocents. However, that it was Satan in Herod became a plausible theory; and add to that, Satan was not great but the Antichrist, if this commentary is true, and the useful fool of Satan for his conspiracy.

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A CORONATION STORY

 Still not a Christmas story…. this commentary is about a “Coronation” of the King and the real “Caesar.”

Do not let the map intimidate you; it is not complicated.

Wise men from the East, not specifically Persia, but likely kings in eastern Roman provincial Syria shown on the map. Judea was just small part of provincial Syria, and each division had its own king who paid tribute to Rome.

 

Figure 1:Roman Province of Syria (bing)

 

The custom of the kings in the Roman Empire during the time of Herod was for kings to accept each other as kings before Caesar would honor their position. That recognition, according to Flavius Josephus in The Wars of the Jews, was called giving them their right hand for security to make a league with each other (allegiance).

As such, Caesar was the authority and each king had allegiance to Caesar and to each other. A league is an informal alliance and essentially many becoming one in purpose. Of course, the purpose was to maintain order in the Roman Empire to please Caesar.

When Jesus was born, a league, or alliance, was formed. Scripture is written about the wise men, or kings from the East, “We have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship Him” (Mat 2:2).

“Worship” in that English translation is a bit strong. Perhaps it was to prostrate themselves as the Greek word, proskyneo means. They would have come to respect Jesus, not to worship Him as God necessarily. Prostration was to pay homage to the newborn king. Homage is “something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another” (Merriam-Webster 1982).

It seems that the kings from the East came, not so much to worship Jesus in a religious sense, but to give Him the right hand of allegiance.

Why would that anger Herod the Great? Kings from the East, according to Josephus, had once paid homage to Herod by giving him their right hands. He was surely angry because it was them that would choose his successor. That would upset him because Antipas, his eldest son, had done the same thing as well as his sons Archelaus and Alexander. Not only his sons, but Herod had suspected his wife, sister, and brother of paying homage to others.

The life of Jesus was in danger and His parents fled to Egypt until Herod was dead. That did not take long because soon Herod was dead, and his purge of the innocents did not occur until his will was fulfilled and implemented as if he was still king in 4 B.C. when Jesus was about two years old.

Herod did not pick his successor as he had so often; the Romans divided the Herodian kingdom into three kingdoms: Herodians Archelaus, Antipas, and Philip.

Archelaus became “ethnarch” of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea — the king of the ethnic and spiritual Jews. He and he alone became king of the Jews, but he was removed in 6 A.D. by Augustus Caesar and the Jews were officially without a king… they thought! Jesus was the legitimate King of the Jews until the time of His crucifixion, then the grandson of Herod, Agrippa, became king of the Jews from 41-44 A.D, only after Jesus had risen.

Agrippa was the last king of the Jews. All the while, while on Earth, Jesus was ex officio “King of the Jews” because he had the right hand of legitimacy offered by the kings from the East, and Pilate, acting as Caesar, designated Jesus as rightful heir.

Pilate had written above the head of crucified Jesus, “King of the Jews” while both Tiberius and the future Caesar, Caligua, were in Capri usurping their duties.

Pilate said, “I find no fault in this man (Luke 23:4). What was Jesus accused of? Two things: (1) That He was king of the Jews, and (2) that He claimed to be God. Well, Pilate as the acting “Caesar” made that claim as well!

In effect, when Pilate washed his hands of the injustice, he was proclaiming Jesus to be King. He allowed the crucifixion because it was the Supreme God who was passing judgment on Himself. Pilate had recognized that Jesus was indeed “King of the Jews” as well as God. His handwashing was resignation of himself and designation of Jesus as Prelate, Potentate, King, and Caesar.

As such, Pilate did as the wise kings had done — proskyneo — he paid homage to Jesus as “King of kings; Lord of lords,” as is written about Jesus, “The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15).

Potentate (dynastes) capitalized is “The Great Authority.” Pilate took a knee to Jesus by recognizing that He was both King of the Jews and the LORD GOD. By doing so, Pilate was a wise king, as prelate, or acting Caesar in the absence of Caesar. As such Pilate had the authority of Caesar and by saying that Jesus is who He says He is, Jesus was ordained to be the universal “Caesar” — The Supreme Ruler and God! And He still is.

 

THE SHADOW WITHIN

Our sermon Sunday was mostly about John 8:12. I thought it expedient to take a short detour from the Book of Matthew; today that one verse will be analyzed. Jesus was explaining to those around him after the escapade with the fallen woman the following: 

KEY VERSE: Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

 Jesus seems to be recalling the creation: 

² …The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (Gen 1:2-4)

 John had written that Jesus was there in the beginning (John 1:1-14) and Jesus validated that. John wrote, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:15). John understood very well that Jesus and Yahweh are one existence with One Spirit (Gen 1:3) and in Truth (objectivity).

That was how Jesus explained to Jews that He is the One True God whether He existed in the Person of God or in the Spirit of God. Since Jesus is no longer with us, we again worship Him in Spirit just as the Jews did for millennia.

However, let’s examine the key verse more thoroughly; Jesus said “I AM” (Ego Eimi in the Greek). We now take that declaration lightly and gloss over it when we speak. When we say “I am hungry, I am tired, I am sleepy, I am deserving” and such, that is our ego speaking, the part of us that is as god. Jesus was pointing out, very modestly, to those who saw the woman accused, that they are not the gods; that He is the Great “I AM” when Moses encountered Him. Like Moses, only Jesus would be the Supreme Judge.

Secondly, that they are not the “light,” but He IS. His exact word was in the Greek, “phos,” metaphorically, “of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it” (Strong 1890). On the other hand, that can be taken literally since God is Light and Jesus is God manifested, then Jesus is the Light. Also, literally, light is energy and is the transmission power in a thermodynamic standpoint. Jesus validated that He is the Creator.

At the Creation, Jesus was the “Bringer of Light” to generate existence. Science uses the Greek word “phos” to describe light bringing “phosphorus.”

On the other hand, the angel of death, “Lucifer,” means the same thing. Jesus is the true bringer of life and Lucifer only a false image — a “shadow” of Jesus.

The Light that Jesus revealed to Adam was truth… eat and you will die. The so-called “light” that Lucifer revealed was you will not die. The former was truth and the latter deception, or “darkness.”

In the key verse, “darkness” is where we must not walk, according to Jesus. Of course, “walk” is figurative from the Greek transliteration, peripateo — literally to “tread around” in life (ibid).

So, we must not live in darkness, but what is darkness? Again, we turn to the Greek because we know it does not mean that we must not be nocturnal like the most dangerous beasts. That would be easy to do but somewhat paranoid. We would be like children afraid of the dark.

God does not want us to fear the night but fear the forces of darkness; to “be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). The “darkness” that the Devil walks in is the darkness, not of night, but untruths and deceptions.

Darkness is not the night but “skotia” — the unseen, or things outside the objective senses. The English word “scotoma” has the same root as skotia — skotos.

A scotoma is “a spot in the visual field in which vision is absent or deficient” (Merriam-Webster 1982). For example, it is things in the field of view that goes unnoticed in the mind.

I saw an accident wherein a young girl died. Her parent’s lawyer asked of me one question, “Was there anything in your view between you and the girl’s vehicle?” to which I replied, “No.” However, the police report indicated that there was another car between me and her vehicle. That was a scotoma as well, not in a medical sense but psychologically. My “truth” was false because my mind did not register what my eyes were seeing. In psychology a scotoma is a spot in the objective field of thought that goes unnoticed.

Sometimes, we prefer darkness!  Many put their heads in the proverbial sand to exist. The book, Not My Kid, is the perfect example. Before this generation, parents refused to accept the fact that their own children use drugs. It is easier to be a parent if the illusion that it is not your child which is the problem but 98% of the other children!

Unless the eyes of people are corrected to see scotomas, they remain in the dark from an objective standpoint. That is no different than the parents who construct a wall between them and the truth. Their psychological scotoma must be revealed by accepting the truth. They must have light shined onto their minds to reveal the truth. Nobody likes that bright light, either  from the chair of the optometrist, from the couch of the psychologist, or the truth from the mouth of God.

Jesus revealed the scotomas of those who accused the woman. Before he asked, “Who is without sin?” they only saw the woman’s sin. After asking that, they all went their separate ways and walked away because of the truth that they all were sinners. The “Tekton,” removed the malady from their eyes by making them see the truth. They walked away but with better inner vision. The scotoma that prevented them to see themselves in a proper light was removed by the Word of God.

There was an “original sin” and the Tekton performed the same “surgery” so to speak.

The first scotoma caused original sin. Eve (the female Adam) had only the knowledge of good. Evil was the scotoma of which she was unaware because it was not in her range of knowledge. She was not conscious of wrongdoers or wrongdoings.

“The serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made” (Gen 3:1). Literally, where translated “serpent,” it is nahas (image) (Strong 1890). Eve was looking at Lucifer, the beautiful angel — the bringer of light but not recognizing his nature within. Subtlety is “cunningness” as some versions translate it.

Lucifer, with his body of knowledge, knew how to create blind spots. He was not a bringer of light at all but the bringer of darkness. Eve saw the bright angel, but the image was hidden out of her field of vision. The “serpent” was not an animal at all but the image of the alien “Beast” — the dark angel, Lucifer. The image was there all the time, in the “shadow” (Jungian) of Lucifer. In other words, the “Serpent” is not a snake at all but the nature of the angel of Lucifer.

That nature remains in us due to the original sin of Eve. We have that same scotoma in our natures that must be removed. Jesus came to re-engender sinful mankind to escape from our selves. No longer is it “I am” but He IS God!

That the cunning nature of Lucifer is what she could neither see nor understand was the scotoma in the eyes and mind of Eve.

Jesus fixed that… sort of. Rather than repairing her limited vision and increasing her knowledge, God put onto her and Adam coats of skin (Gen 3:21). Some believe that those were skins from lambs that God killed as a blood sacrifice for their sin, but I see it as the “Comforter” — the same Spirit of God that Christians “wear” today, according to Jesus, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:6).

We still all have scotomas as sinful beings who are depraved, but “wearing” the coat of the “Lamb of God,” Jesus, is our protection. His Word allows us to see the entire field of vision and thoughts. His Spiritual “Coat” reveals the truth and exposes scotomas of the eye, of the flesh, and of the mind.

One of the worst scotomas exists in the flesh. Every nuclear cell in our bodies contain lusts in our DNA. The only way to expose the scotoma of lust is to be born again with the nature of God in us — to be changed in the twinkling of the eye from an old creature to a new one, and again in the very image of God; not a perfect image until the flesh is changed as well at the rapture.

We all lust. The men who ostracized the adulterous woman lusted as well, probably even as they accused her, they wanted her. The first step in regeneration is for the scotoma of the flesh to be revealed to the mind. Jesus did that by asking, “Who is without sin?” There was none but Him alone!

We all, even Christians, walk as if we are without sin. We all have that same scotoma. That is the cunning of the Serpent that still lurks in our genes. He put a scotoma in our minds that we are without sin or even if we live in sin, God is so gracious that there will be no death for us!

John baptized for repentance to obtain the remission of sins. Before anyone can repent, the scotoma must be recognized, I have sinned and come short of the glory of God… I am not pure and holy at all as I might seem to be but hidden inside is a genome that I cannot rid myself of. Jesus can do it! He can change who you are.

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POLITICAL INTRIGUE AROUND JESUS

 What is truth? It is when the claim matches reality. Since scripture is truth, then it must be believed. Today’s commentary is about King Herod’s anxiety about the coming of the “newborn king.” That was part of the true Christmas Story!

Anxiety is “an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical signs by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one's capacity to cope with it” (Merriam-Webster 1982).  The verses for the day follow: 

¹ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, ² Saying, “Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.” ³ When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. (Mat 2:1-3)

 Herod was “troubled;” he suffered anxiety to put it in medical terms. He was likely wary with paranoia, unable to eat because food is not good in a troubled state, probably could not sleep, and his thoughts overwhelmed him; What if the people accept this newborn king as rightful heir to the throne of Judea, not just ethnic Judea, but all of Herod’s holdings thanks to Caesar.

Herod had handled Cleopatra of Egypt quite well, according to the historian Flavius Josephus. She had tried to seduce him in the same manner as Potiphor’s wife had tried to seduce Joseph long ago in Egypt.

King Herod at that time,, who was in love with his wife, Mariamne, the Hasmonean princess, rejected the advances of Cleopatra, the lover of Herod’s sponsor, Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony).

The tributary of Rome, Syria, was most of what was the Promised Land excepting some Persian territory adjacent to the Euphrates. Herod even had hopes of gaining Nabatea, the Arabic land given to Cleopatra near the Dead Sea.

Both Antony and Octavian (the future Augustus Caesar) ruled all of Syria along with Marcus Aemilius in the second Roman triumvirate. After the death of Aemilius and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra, Augustus became the Caesar.

Herod was friend and ally of Marc Antony but upon Antony’s death, Herod quickly and wisely changed his allegiance to Octavian without blinking an eye. He was the man of steel as he faced death by Octavian, the enemy of Antony. However, faced with a newborn baby, Herod suffered anxiety. Even with the seductress, Cleopatra, who was after Herod’s land, Herod remained steadfast and sure.

Herod was paranoid in some respects, but maybe just wary of the truth. His first son, Antipater, by his first wife, Doris, made him that way. Antipater portrayed his half-brothers, Aristobulus and Alexander, as conspirators to Herod’s throne. Antipater even successfully implicated his wife, Mariamne, in the court intrigue. Herod, had them all successfully killed, and even in death, death reigned. Later, he discovered the truth about Antipater and had his third son killed.

Herod was so paranoid of those who wanted to be king, according to Josephus, that his last will and testament was that all those who were pretenders to the throne be executed all the while that they thought Herod was still alive. Obviously, two legitimate heirs to the throne were Joseph and Jesus, “sons of David.” Wisely, an angel warned Joseph and they escaped the wrath of Herod in Egypt.

Scripture says that “men from the East” came to honor the newborn king. That was a slap in the face from kings to the East who had been in alliance with Herod and all friends of Caesar.

Those kings, however many they were, were wisemen in that they were looking for the future king that was legitimate. Of all those involved in the pursuit of kingship, Jesus was the true heir and of the gens, or family, of David, unlike Herod’s heirs who were Idumean (Arab) genetically, but Jews superficially by religion. Herod was a good Jew not because he was the line of Jacob or David, but because he was a lover of Antony and later Augustus.

Those kings, however many there were, at one time, according to Josephus, had given Herod the right hand of friendship. The right hand of friendship was given as security to others as a symbol of respect for their lives. Get this… Herod was secure, he thought, as a friend of allied kings all the while neglecting the security of Jesus as “Yahweh Saves”!

Those kings, once friends of Herod, were now friends of Jesus because they recognized the baby Jesus as rightful heir to the throne of all the Kingdom of David as God promised Abraham. No wonder, the lineage of Joseph is given back to Abraham!

The wise man, surely kings as other writings say, were “wise” in the sense that they recognized the “star” of David as a pointer to the newborn son of David. The star was “aster” in the Greek — a star, but the root noun indicates motion — stronnyo, a “spreading.” (Strong 1890).

Stars do not move in the sense that their motion is visible. It had to be some other feature in the skies that changed motion.

In 6 B.C., there was an unusual planetary alignment as the sun, Jupiter, the moon, and Saturn all lay in the constellation Aries. This alignment was the “spreading” or positioning of heavenly bodies that they followed. It did not move but set the time and was as such a “heavenly clock” pointing toward Pisces coming out of Aries, the Age of the Ram, ostensibly of Abraham, into the dawning of the Age of Pisces, the Christian Era.

It was the heavens that the astrologers followed, not specifically one star. They followed not the alignment but the time. It was the time for God to come to take His rightful Throne!

Herod seemed mocked by the wise men and ordered the death of them “from two years old and under.” As it turned out, it included all the contenders to the throne including the baby Jesus. Why is under two so important?

Jesus was born in 6 B.C. if the alignment is proper dating. Herod died in 4 B.C., and it was at his death that the edict was sent forth. The legal will of Herod verified that Jesus was born in 6 B.C.  The Bible had it right all the time!

The wise men asked, ““Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” Herod heard of them asking that question. They were not looking for him because Herod’s Palace was the obvious place to look for him. Herod was about to die and he knew it; he had made out a new will and was deathly sick. As it turned out, by the time of the maturity of Jesus, the kingdom of Herod was divided into three parts with Herod Archelaus as ethnarch of Judea (Jews) having that position until 6 A.D.

As such, when Jesus was crucified, there was no ethnic king of solely Judea. They did in fact crucify the King of the Jews as Jesus was the supposed son of Joseph and the family of David.

Romans recognized supposed sons; even Octavian was the adopted, or supposed, son of Julius Caesar and he became king of kings as Caesar. Jesus was as rightful to Herod as Octavian was to the Julian throne.

The wise men — kings — even when Herod was alive, gave Jesus the right hand of friendship — the security that He would be King. They did not follow their hearts as is in vogue today, they followed God who pointed from above and He showed them truth.

As it turns out, the Christmas Story was not about peace at all but politics and court intrigue. Jesus acknowledged that; “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Mat 10:34). The sword that Jesus spoke of was the lance that was used to pierce his side because the crucifixion was also political intrigue; all those who sought his death were seeking power, even some of his own apostles!

The twelve apostles, disputing among themselves, asked of Jesus, “Who should be the greatest?” (Mark 9:34) in His Kingdom. Until they truly saw Jesus, even they were after power in the regime of Jesus, the Jewish ethnarch, not understanding that He would be the “Caesar” — “King of kings; Lord of lords” upon His decease (Rev 19:16).

Ironically, at that time, there was no king on Judea and no effective Caesar in Rome, and it seems that Pilate was acting “Caesar” [1] and as he washed his hands. Pilate was recognizing Jesus as the “Caesar” of them all.

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[1] Both Tiberius and Caligua, the future Caesar, were off on the island of Capri at the time of the death of Jesus, both neglecting their duties.

ADOIL COME DOWN (AGAIN)

 As people read the Bible, they gloss over what seems trivial or at least not significant. Every word in the Bible is divinely inspired and taken to be the very words of God.

Matthew chapter one is the beginning of a “last chance.” God tried everything to win the hearts of fallen men and this would be His last. As such, the gospels could be subtitled, “The Last Hope.” Just as the ark of Noah was the beginning of a second chance and the Ark of God a third chance, Mary, as the Ark that carried God, is the last chance.

In other words, God had a purpose. He had come down in many forms: the Voice in the garden, a man who wrestled with Jacob, a burning bush, a cloud by day and the fire by night, and the “Angel of God” in spiritual, or glorious, flesh.

The New Testament is the Last Covenant and the Old Testament with its many Covenants would be probated as the Last Will and Testament of God, but first, God must be made man to inherit the landed estate that He made in the beginning.

Now, consider the following passage: 

²³ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. ²⁴ Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: ²⁵ And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus. (Mat 1:23-25)

 The significance of that is Mary shall “bring forth” a son.

Note what Eve said in the beginning: “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1). Mary brought forth a son whereas Eve herself got the man as if she had done a miracle! The focus of Matthew was on God, but in Genesis, on Eve.

Mary brought forth the Son of God to correct the sin of Eve who caused the son of the Wicked One, Cain (1 John 3:12).

Whereas Mary brought forth God in glorious flesh, Eve had delivered “Lucifer” in corrupt flesh. The mistake of Eve would be corrected, and Mary would deliver new genetics to make mankind humane, or upright, again.

Eve had been engendered from below and Cain was delivered, but Mary was literally engendered from above, translated wrongfully perhaps, “born again” (John 3:7). So, just as Jesus was engendered from God above in the manner of Adam, mankind could be engendered from above in the manner of Eve who was the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).

It is to be noted that Mary’s experience was spiritual, and that Eve’s was likely by carnal knowledge. Therefore, Mary was not immaculately conceived but a clean “vessel” just as Eve was the dirty vessel for Cain; dirty in the sense that she had sinned.

So, Eve made Cain who was essentially, in comparison, the “son of Satan,” but much later, Mary brought forth without her doing anything, the “Son of God.”

Cain as the son of the Wicked One and Eve, who was the mother of all, caused a degeneracy. No longer was mankind upright and not even “man,” but a subspecies of another kind. As such, since “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), then the species of man is less than the glory in which God created Adam in the first place. The glory was replaced with “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) which is depravity.

We think of ourselves as “human beings” — upright beings. Uprightness can perhaps be taken two ways: morally like God and standing upright like Jesus would on the Cross. [1]

Mary brought forth (carried) the second upright man, the “last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45). Jesus was delivered to the world upright in form and Spirit for He was the first without sin who lived. (Perhaps Abel was without sin, but the son of Satan, Cain, killed him). There is another example where Cain’s and Abel’s contest is glossed over.

It may be that Eve birthed Satan, having the Spirit of Lucifer, called the “Serpent;” Eve claimed to have created him in the flesh. (Chew on that hypothesis awhile.) Cain was not of Adam or scripture would have said so. However, Jesus was of God because scripture does say so!

The angel said to Mary, you “shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, ‘God with us.’”

Tikto (“bring forth”) is literally “produce” from the seed of God. Mary did not contribute by things that she did to provide the substance of Jesus; God did it all. Contrast that with Eve who took entire credit for Cain (Gen 4:1).

God planted a “Seed” from Himself into the side of Eve, just as He did in the beginning with Adam (“waters” in the creation story is the very “Semen” of God.) Since Adam and Jesus were made glorious and neither were a result of carnality, then both were clean beings. (Jesus, like Adam, was tempted, but contrary to Adam, Jesus prevailed over temptation and was without sin.)

Adam was “the image of God” and was perfect (Gen 1:31). Jesus was the “last Adam,” and also the Image of God and He too was made perfect. In other words, “Jesus” — God With Us (Emmanuel) — is God who came to this realm in the belly of Mary. Jesus was indeed the “last Adam” because Adam was intended to be as glorious (upright in stature and nature) like Jesus.

Note that Jesus, being “God with Us,” is not a just another human being but the very Image of God. Jesus is not another being but God standing upright in all respects.

Why would God come down? To engender from above — to regenerate mankind — to do it again as He did in the first place. Then God breathed life unto Adam and Adam became a “living soul” (gen 2:7). God did that from above. Adam was made alive; he was transformed from an image to a living being.

Regeneration is the same event; the material substance of Jesus came from the side of Mary but the Spiritual substance from the Breath of God. God was with them in the beginning as the Word (John 1:1) and God was with us in Mary. God had done the same thing the second time, or maybe even after many previous times: with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, and such. All but Jesus sinned, and that would not be sufficient, so God came down Himself to rebirth mankind.

Jesus came to die, and it was God who came. Jesus was the physical substance of God, the Father with the Seed, and then the third substance was added at the baptism of Jesus — the Holy Ghost of Jesus came down unto Him in bodily shape (Luke 3:22).

Not to get ahead of the story, but it was more than the Person of God — Jesus — that suffered death on the Cross, but all the substances of God. More on that much later.

The birth of Jesus is Adoil coming down again for Arkhas to become undone a second time.

God became undone in the same manner as Arkhas came undone in the Book of Enoch. [2]

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[1] Herrin’s theory of evolution is devolution; that Adam was created upright both spiritually and physically but that Cain, the product of Satan, may have been both spiritually declined and stooped over like the Beast that he had become. Performing as usual, God made man upright again in stature and now offers the possibility of uprightness spiritually with a new birth.

[2] Refer to my latest book, Adoil Came Down; Arkhas Came Undone.

ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Final

 Artificial intelligence is indeed intelligence but operationalized by artificial methods that are synthesized. It is synthetic intelligence. The question is can that intelligence be trusted?

Albert Einstein and Michio Kaku have indicated that God did the creating. That is the science, like it or not.

Existence is so perfect and all systems so harmonious that probability does not explain it. For those who believe that the complex order of the universe was random, then your science teacher must have been a super salesman! Perhaps you bought into many things that are not true; perhaps that fetal stages of human development are alien beings that should be destroyed!

God is without a Name. He just IS the Name. He is the “Intelligence” that planned the cosmos and created life. That is the science according to the two leading scientists of our day.

Intelligence is understanding that all that you can both see and sense took an Intelligent Existence to generate it.

David wrote the thoughts of God, “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Psalm 14:1). A fool, says Merriam-Webster, is “a person lacking in common powers of understanding or reason.”

They may even have much knowledge but little intelligence because intelligence is the processing of knowledge. What keeps fools from processing their thoughts adequately? Blind belief and trust in fallacies. Human beings are born with a propensity to doubt God. That is genetic because of original sin. Adam doubted God because he trusted his own eyes. Because he was fooled, God preserved the fool.

Those who are intelligent should recognize reality as truth — Paul wrote about God, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20). Understanding that what you see is not all there is to it, is intelligence because visible things that were made, not just happened, are the proof.

Tell us how the cosmos was made if it was not by God. Even the most intelligent believe in the “God Particle,” Higgs Boson, but do not believe that Higgs was intelligent. Many of those “fools” believe in an “idiot god” who could not plan anything.

Just as Paul approached the most intelligent men in Athens, he said to them: 

As I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, “To The Unknown God.” Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (Acts 17:30)

 The intelligent Greeks, full of wisdom, were ignorant; they failed to understand the knowledge that they had. They had intelligence through study but reasoned wrongly. 

With that said, human intelligence is faulty because the truth is somehow shaded. There is a mental block in the minds of many that hides the truth. David called it “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) and indicated that it was genetic (shaped in iniquity).

Iniquity, also called “depravity” is denying the existence of God and considering oneself the god. To be honest, the “Serpent” told the truth but twisted it a little, to wit: 

God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Gen 3:5)

 What is the lie in that statement of truth? They were already as God! God made them that way; and He was not concerned about them being as Himself but as their new “god” Lucifer, not the LORD GOD that they knew Him to Be!

Therefore, in the beginning all things were good (Gen 1:31). There was no knowledge of evil but through symbiosis with Eve, mankind received synthetic knowledge, or evil — a genetic inclination to do wrong things, even while knowing what is good. It is coming short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). The glory of the two were the good countenances and genesis in which they were created.  The “Serpent” despoiled their God-given genetics, and thereafter all mankind would sin.

Foolishness can be identified by those who sin because as such, they are the “gods.” On the other hand, whatever, “ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor 10:31). Denying God is not glorifying God.

Your unknown “god” may be anything but the real One True God who is identified as Jesus. He proved that with His death and resurrection.

The acting Caesar, Pontius Pilate, [1] was an intelligent man. He validated the claim of Jesus! “Caesar” ordained Jesus as God but so many fail to believe that! Pilate was no fool. He would have seen the Holy Ghost in bodily shape (Luke 3:22) leave Jesus and understand that Jesus was the material substance of God! He saw Jesus “un-transfigured” (come apart) and believed.

Since Pilate, the acting Caesar, saw the truth, he was made free. He washed his hands of the lie and was no longer a part of the “Luciferin Conspiracy” (Isa 14:12-14).

The Book of Daniel, especially chapter eleven, speaks of immediate prophecy for that time. It really happened, but then it quickly switches to the end of times. The implication is what happened in Syria (the Holy land) so long ago would be repeated at the end of days. One specific verse is of interest because it is the only place in the King James Version of the Bible translated “intelligent” of “intelligence.” 

For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. (Dan 11:30)

 Chittim, or Kittim, is specifically the island of Cypress but is taken widely to be people anywhere west of ancient Syria — the Levant. In the Greek era, the Kittim were the Romans.

Now let’s examine the Jews in Hellenistic times (under Greek rule).

Many of the Jews became so Hellenized (like the Greeks) that, according to Josephus, they became uncircumcised.

Because the Olympiad was done naked as was the Greek custom, Jews who competed in the events somehow were made to appear that they still had the foreskins of their genitals intact. They were “trans-helens” who appeared in public events as if they were Greeks. Worse yet, the Greeks accepted those who thought that they were Greeks as Greeks! They pretended that the façade was true.

Just like so many Americans today, the Greeks knew they were frauds and played along with their façade. The Jews were never Greeks but synthetic, or artificial, beings who fantasized to make a famous name for themselves. (What is happening now is not a new thing but just more prevalent.)

Perhaps the audience at the forums really accepted the notion that those Jews were really Greeks. They did not believe what they saw but what the fake Jews wanted them to see!

The Jews and later the Romans were so naïve that they believed that Herod’s long dead son, Alexander, was alive and well and made him the king of the Jews. Only Caesar who knew the truth because he had been well-acquainted with Alexander exposed “fake Alexander.”

The point is that people are always ready to believe the lie, whatever it is! They want things to be the truth so badly that they even believe fake things… like genitalia can be changed and fake leaders are true leaders. Does that sound true to you in modern times?

Now consider Daniel 11:30. Chittim (the western world) will have a new leader (“he”) who “shall even return and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.”

The Holy Covenant is the Truth and Promise of God. It was always the same, but misunderstood covenant, going from the Edenic, to the Noahic, to the Abrahamic, to the Mosaic, to the Davidic, to the Priestly, to the Covenant of Grace. All those Covenants of the Old Testament were fulfilled by Jesus.

That leader will have “intelligence” not with him but have it himself.

Now recall the commentary in part two that Wikipedia has been converted to DNA. [2] Why would Wikipedia do that? Obviously, to provide the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to some world leader to make him, her, or it the “god” (the Antichrist). Think on that; the hyperlinks of Wikipedia create a tree of all kinds of knowledge, some truthful and some misinformation.

Perhaps the leader bearing that intelligence will not be a person but a thing, perhaps an artificial intelligence! All the while that we are looking for a man, perhaps the focus should be on artificial intelligence to be engendered in some man or woman… engendered in the sense that it is genetic from the intelligence of the world. That is opposed to “born again” of Christ that is literally “engendered from above” [3]

“Chittim,” in this age, are still western peoples. Perhaps it is not Europeans that are the “intelligent” ones but Americans, or perhaps it is NATO! Who knows for sure? Why all the American biogenetic laboratories in the Ukraine? Who knows whether for good or for evil?

Wikipedia seems to be open, but just try to change their versions of the facts. Wikipedia is a closed informational system that misleads that it is open.

The “truth” is what is written by 120,000 participants. To be honest much of it is great and I use it often in my references. However, with so much use, I can easily spot misinformation. There is a slant to truth and Wikipedia, according to one of its two developers, says it is slanted. You have been exposed to untruths on the web, and someday, somebody might be genetically endowed with all those untruths in their DNA to mandate what you must believe.

The technology for that has already been developed with the gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9. To have you believe as they dictate, all that needs to be done is another “Eve scam” — eat… it will be good for you. You will not die!

Death, as written in an earlier part, is not de-animation but changed inside genetically as Eve was beguiled. Beguiling is apparently removing truth and goodness and replacing it with disinformation and evil. How better to do that than genetically, hence the name of the book, “Genesis.”

The Book of Revelation is essentially “Re-Genesis,” and it makes sense that the Devil Antichrist has the same modus operandi as in the beginning. He, she, or it may endeavor to change the DNA of human beings to deprave them even more. Perhaps the inoculation of Wikipedia into the flesh of the people is the way to spread the virus of sin even further.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can easily fool about anyone. Just recently a parent was fooled by the voice of her daughter that was cloned to sound like her and have her countenance. (Hill 2023). If AI can fool mother, AI can fool you!

The question is whether the knowledge will be installed within a robot Android or whether a person will be endowed with synthetic DNA. Either way, artificial intelligence can be as convincing as the “Prince of the Power of the Air” that persuaded Eve that an ugly demon was a beautiful angel to be trusted! [4]

Of course, there is much more scripture, especially about the dangers of reliance on the flesh, but also about current technology. I end this commentary with a warning; remain sober and vigilant to not be devoured (1 Pet 5:8).

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[1] Tiberius was secluded on an island at that time and the next Caesar, Caligua, was there with him. As such, Pilate was the de facto Caesar who had the power and authority to judge as was the custom with the Jews, according to Flavius Josephus.

[2] In my book, The Omega Variant, I contend that the purpose of Wikipedian DNA might be to provide to the Antichrist all the knowledge of the world in over 300 languages.

[3] The title of one of my books; subtitled Born Again.

[4] I have written before that the “Serpent” is the inner being, or countenance, of the angel, Lucifer, or the “Shadow” within it. The “Serpent” would be the Jungian archetype within the light-bringing angel.

ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Part 2

 Intelligence has a dictionary definition but is essentially a person’s capacity to understand the body of knowledge.

Think of intelligence as mental work. In the Greek that is katergazomai and is used to “work out your own salvation.” (Phil 2:12) in contrast to ergazomai — physical work.

For instance, physical works, like being good, are of no efficacy, but mental works, like considering the Word of God and becoming persuaded that Jesus is God, the Messiah/Christ, is solterial. For instance, “(King) Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.’”

Becoming a Christian is transformational — “born again” (John 3:7); not born in a physical sense but transformed from a wicked one to a righteous one. You think and God does the transformation. The transformation is spiritual and authentic. It can be measured by the goodwill (agape love) that Christians have for others, Christians or not (John 13:34).

The point is that God does the “rebirthing,” not us. It is real, not a false transition (synthetism) but reality. Reality is in correspondence with the truth.

The change is whenever a sinner comes to realize the truth and agrees with it — that Jesus Christ is God and that only He can defeat death. (That’s what the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus proved.) That was not synthesized by God but performed. Jesus’s death and resurrection were not  magician’s tricks but the real deal.

Intelligent people consider that knowledge and believe it to be true. Intelligent people ask such things as these: 

·         The cosmos exists; how and why did it come about?

·         I am alive for what purpose?

·         Shall I always exist in some form?

·         Or as Pilate asked, “What is truth?”

·         Is Jesus God as He demonstrated with the unquest-ionable evidence?

 What you see and even things that you cannot see are evidence of God. Because you do not believe the evidence does not make existence unreal.

Essentially, since God is “Existence” then by questioning the evidence is questioning God. Existence is physically the body of knowledge of all things, and the source of that knowledge is not synthetic but reality.

Now back to “duplicity” from part one. Eve’s name means “Duplicity.” Why? Because she knew the truth but was deceived into accepting the falsehood that although God revealed the truth, the real truth was stated by Satan — God is wrong; you shall not die.

God said truth but Eve accepted another version, and as a result, her mind was sort of in duplicate… she held two opposing versions of the truth in her mind at the same time. In other words, even if the Beast messed with her flesh, it messed with her mind as well. (Her left brain was confused and her right brain caused her actions, so God had mercy on her.)

Since the time of Eve and original sin, duplicity is genetic in everyone since we all are of her progeny; we all believe the lie even whole professing to know the truth.

“Born again” is when God corrects the inherited duplicity and makes us free from the cunning of the Wicked One…. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Because we know the truth does not mean that we do not sin, but sin knowingly with eyes wide open like the man, Adam, in the beginning; for which Christians must continually repent.

The substance that intoxicated Eve to beguile her was in one of two things: either the “Serpent’s” venom or in the fruit, or perhaps both.

Psychologists have unwittingly validated the process of duplicity: Adam was created with one brain but somehow with two hemispheres — the left one with cognition and the right brain with action. In scripture, the left brain’s work is katergazomai and the right’s ergozamai, the former thought work and the latter physical work.

The cunning “Serpent” as it was called, knew that if it could control the thoughts of Eve, then it could control the behaviors of Eve. That is the same promise still in use to this day. The Serpent used deceptive propaganda (misinformation) to persuade Eve to change her actions; her not even knowing that she was about to change her nature from good by adding evil to it.

The other day, I asked my son, “How would a smart man kill you?”

“He did not know,” he said, “because he had never thought about it.”

“They” (killers) know that. They depend on you not knowing how to kill. I revealed to him new knowledge — the best killers will somehow get you to kill yourself. They well deceive and/or bully you so long, that suicide is inevitable, and there is no physical evidence that a person is murdered.

Right now, much of the world is stalked. Not with killers with guns but with evil-doers with processes. Perhaps one of those processes is artificial intelligence.

Consider the book 1984. Winston Smith was stalked. Sure, there were people stalking him, but the weapons were not guns but cunning; they like the Serpent long before confused reality. As it turns out, the government could change reality. Many people just accepted the lies, but Winston questioned their version of truth.

The government was patient with him and force-fed him new “truths.” They got him to question reality, even while knowing that he himself had altered reality. It took repetition, and as it turned out, continual repetition make one “truth.”

Right now, you have heard lies repeated every day, and most of you are beginning to believe that technology is for the good of mankind.

Eve thought that and Adam knew better, but when she ate, Adam was soon conditioned to believe the lie. He had no body of knowledge of evil to refute the Serpent, and because people nowadays have buried their heads to truth in virtual sand, they have no knowledge about anything except their favorite sports teams, actors, and drugs of choice.

In the book, Brave New World, the drug, soma, did what propaganda now does. It confuses the left brain’s cognition to allow the right brain to do whatever it wants to do.

Soma just means “body.” Huxley, the author, provided a significant truth — behavior was controlled by the “body” of knowledge that was put into it. That body of knowledge was limited to whatever substance was in the soma. In other words, the behaviors of the people were controlled by drugs, and when that failed, then by repetition. Propaganda slowly does what drugs do quickly.

The “Serpent” (image, nahash, of Lucifer) was synthetic in a real world. Satan did not need to be in the forbidden tree because his demon spirit was there. He is the “Prince of the Power of the Air” — his spirit that work in his children (Ephes 2:2).

Not a Serpent at all, but an evil spirit was in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Evil knowledge was planted in the mind of Eve, and she saw an illusion, and was delusional as she thought the Spirit was another being like her. In the Books of Adam and Eve, both Adam and Eve fell for those illusions many times.

“Artificial intelligence” is a synthesis. It is also a form of duplicity. Symbolically, artificial intelligence is like the spirit of Lucifer.

Many important people fear artificial intelligence because it is a cunning (duplicity) way of altering our behaviors. They fear that the machine’s thinking will be convincing; so convincing that it can persuade people to think and behave differently.

If original sin was Lucifer doing that, the Big Lie is some great power may do it again. It worked once, why not again… and again… and again?

In a previous book, [1] I wrote about Wikipedia and its self-confessed contents. Wikipedia is the body of knowledge of the whole world whose contributors are 120,000 unidentified people whose motives may be either good or for evil. The originator of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, now questions his own creation! He understands that it was meant for good but can be and is used for evil purposes.

Wikipedia is in over three-hundred languages. It is the entire global body of knowledge that, according to Wikipedia, has been digitized and converted to synthetic DNA. The intent of artificial intelligence is revealed in an article by that name: 

You awake one morning to find your brain has another lobe functioning. Invisible, this auxiliary lobe answers your questions with information beyond the realm of your own memory, suggests plausible courses of action, and asks questions that help bring out relevant facts. You quickly come to rely on the new lobe so much that you stop wondering how it works. You just use it. This is the dream of artificial intelligence. (Lemmons 1985)

 Artificial intelligence can induce paranoia in the victims and make them doubt reality and behave irrationally just as if they are on drugs. They do what bullies can do with guns and such, but they use knowledge against the victims. All “they,” whoever they are, need to do is convince you that ordinary coincidences are nefarious stalkers, and before you know it; invisible powers drive people to the point of suicide. That is now possible! Artificial intelligence can work behind the scenes to cause you to murder yourselves.

Let us suppose that you have done something wrong. We all have. Because we have done wrong, guilt ensues with the fear that we have been found out and maybe in danger from the police or others. To be honest, God presents unwelcome knowledge to the sinner to induce guilt and repentance. However, nefarious things can do the same thing.

Many have felt danger when a policeman is behind their cars. That is because they know that they have done wrong. The policeman can be there for any reason, but for some, he is there to get them. That is paranoia. You may not be the focus of attention, but your mind says he is there to get you.

As a teenager, whenever my minister preached about sin, he was after me, or so I thought. In later years, he told me that it was not me that he pursued but whoever applied it to themselves.

Artificial intelligence can be after me, after you, or after anyone because it may have the entire body of knowledge of each of us, knowing our likes, our habits, our “sins,” and our secret lives.

Artificial intelligence can know about us and have the entire body of knowledge of the world (Wikipedia) to compare us to.

What if artificial DNA is put into a man? That man could then be the Antichrist. What if the synthetic DNA of Wikipedia was put into a machine? Whereas a man could be detected and jailed, a machine that could outwit man and without emotions could not only become superior but maybe indestructible. Furthermore, it could kill with impunity!

The “Serpent” was perhaps an invisible creature — a seraph — but that creature had both the knowledge of good from God and evil against God. He confused all of mankind did he not?

What if that demon comes back, not as a man, but as a machine whose knowledge base is so comprehensive, and its credibility so believed, that it becomes the god?

Like Elon Musk believes, artificial intelligence may be a threat to mankind. Not only that but it could be a competitor to God!

In scripture, the name “Elon” means “judge” (his position as judge comes from the Book of Judges.)

 “Musk” comes from the Sanskrit muska, meaning “scrotum” (Etymology 1995). Names in scripture reveal the purposes of significant people. Elon is a very significant person who knows the world (Tesla) and the cosmos (SpaceX). He also knows the dangers of artificial intelligence because he innovated it. When the author notes the danger of his “Frankenstein Monster” perhaps the monster should be stopped!

Symbolically, Elon Musk has the balls in his scrotum to judge his own inventions, and because he fears what he has created, I fear it too!

(To be continued)

(Picture credit; Network World; "World's Fastest Supercomputer")

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