Friday, October 20, 2023

THE MULTITUDE

 We usually gloss over the 'multitudes' in scripture as just many that followed Jesus. There is more to them than that. 

In scripture, the Hebrews were sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; not that they were his sons but were of his gens, as it is called in the Latin. The ethnic area called ‘Judea’ was the home of the Jews, those of the gens of Judah. Israel, which was the northern kingdom was by then not ethnically pure.

Flavius Jospehus wrote that after the defeat of Israel (not to include Judah, as it was called at that time,) that there was a diaspora of the Israeltites eastward and that they were replaced by the Cuthites from near Babylon. Israel had become Samaria, and indeed it was odd that there was a ‘good Samaritan’ because they were not fully Jews and as such they were considered unclean in Judaism.

It is often written that the multitudes followed Jesus (e.g., Mat 12:15). The ‘multitude’ was an admixture of races and even the Gentiles (non-Jews) that followed Jesus. Contrast the commoners (multitudes) who followed Jesus for goodness to the Jewish Pharisees who pursued Him for evil. The root noun from which the multitudes come means “of common thought.” They all followed Jesus because they believed Him to be God whereas the Pharisees challenged that thought.

Jesus acknowledged His Identity: as the Son of man and the Son of God. As the Son of man (huios anthropos), meant that He was beheld to be of the posterity of man, but rather was the ‘Son of God’ (huios theos). ‘Son’ in that instance is not ‘yios’ but ‘huios.’  The former is the first generation offspring, whereas the latter is the posterity of some more ancient predecessor.

Matthew chapter one reveals Jesus as the Son of man, or the posterity of Abraham through Joseph, His supposed father (Luke 3:23). On the other hand, Luke 3:38 presents Jesus as the Son of God, not directly as a parent but as the posterity of the Father.

Note that Abraham was the supposed progenitor of Jesus but the LORD GOD His real posterity. [1]

Just as Cain was the supposed son of Adam (Gen 4:1) and Jesus the supposed Son of Joseph, Isaac was the supposed son of Abraham. The point therein is that all three were the posterity of the LORD GOD. Matthew chapter one stops short with the genealogy of Abraham because that had gone far enough. The next generation would have been the LORD GOD because Abraham had been regenned in the fiery furnace by God.

Terah was, according to the Book of Jasher (chapter twelve), not the father of Abraham. Abraham was created by God (Jasher 12:9). Matthew stopped short because he was well aware of the gens of Jesus went back to God, not to Terah, the supposed father of Abram.

With those things said, Jesus was supposed to be the progeny of Adam but that was not so; He was the progeny of the LORD GOD period because He is God! The flesh of Jesus was no more than the ‘coat of skin’ that God put onto Adam after sin (Gen 3:21). It was the ‘Garment of Adam’ that must be crucified; hence the ‘place of the skull’ (the cranium of Adam). [2]

The crucifixion was much about taking off the flesh of the female Adam and revealing the Spirit of God within — the very Holy Ghost of Jesus that is God’s True Image. (Gen 1:27) [3]

So far, the goal was to reveal why Jesus is God, not just the Son of God. You may ask a not so silly of a question, “Is Jesus now without flesh?”

No, Jesus was glorified at death. By that I mean that His ‘Garment of Adam” was removed and replaced with the unrecognizable glorious flesh of God. (John 7:39). Jesus shed the flesh that Adam wore and replaced it with flesh that God had originally made for Adam; the flesh that kept Adam safe from the fiery darts of the Wicked One. That flesh was temporary until Jesus was glorified alongside Jesus. (Mat 27:53).

Good Friday was beginning of regeneration for Jesus.  First, he shed the flesh of Adam then God would a few days later put onto His Ghost a new skin that was glorious like the one the LORD GOD had made for innocent Adam.

When Paul wrote that “He has made Him to be sin for us” (2 Cor 5:21), that can be taken literally; Jesus arrived on planet Earth with the flesh of Eve — the female Adam. Hence, Jesus is the Son of Man because of Eve who was the ‘mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).

The flesh that died was the flesh that Eve produced. He was born of a virgin; hence Adam’s kind had no part in His coming. The flesh that Jesus gave up on the Cross was perhaps the decadent genetics of the ‘Serpent’ though Eve because it was that day the Crucifixion of Jesus defeated sin. (Sin is more than a virus but a genetic disfiguration within.)

Note that Judas died that same day as Jesus and Satan who was in him had only one place to go. Maybe he vacated the body of Judas and went with the flesh of Jesus to his grave. Not only would sin be carried away from mankind but the Devil as well. (I wish I knew this for certain because it makes sense scripturally, and to be honest, those thoughts were given to me, and I am sure it was from God.)

Lastly, for the multitudes… they were the sons of Man through Eve as well since she is the mother of all. The multitudes included the sons and daughters of Eve, and even Haggar, the mother of Ishmael. The multitudes included the Babylonians and even the Arabs — all the sons of the female ‘Adam.’

When scripture speaks of Adam, it is natural to think of the male of the species. However, it can be concluded that Adam was not the father of all living or scripture would not have assigned that distinction to the female alone. It may have not been the place of the male Adam’s skull but the female’s of Adam’s kind. If that is true, then Jesus died for all the living — the ‘whosoever’ in John 3:16.

The multitudes were the ‘sons and daughters” of Eve, not that Eve was their mother, but that the multitudes were of her gens, or genetics, and not necessarily of the male Adam.

That mitochondrial DNA, call them excess genes, are passed along only by the female of the species, therefor the genetic ‘Adam’ of all mankind — the multitudes — are from Eve. It is her that sinned first, was it not?

The Jews, perhaps, wanted Jesus killed for some hidden reason. Perhaps because the blood of Jesus would make the multitudes equal to them, and indeed it did, “He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly…” (Rom 2:28-29).

Paul was speaking to Gentile Romans and making them Jews, not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. The Romans were part of the multitudes that would soon follow Jesus. They were ‘sons of man’ as well but not the male ‘man’ but the female Adam. They all had the mitochondrial “granular thread’ of Eve within their fleshes.

King Solomon was the first to identify mitochondrial DNA; he wrote, “Or ever the silver cord be loosed” (Ecc 12:6). Literally, the meaning from the Hebrew is when the pale twisted thread becomes distant. (Strong 2006). That may very well describe the ‘granular thread’ of mitochondrial DNA which is passed along through the generations in the ova of women.

Solomon was speaking about DNA in some distant time, perhaps at the Crucifixion when Eve’s DNA would be regenned by Jesus. He did that for the multitudes. He carried away all their “sins that are past” by the propitiation of His blood (Rom 3:25).

Jews are different. They were chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2). Because of the birth of fatherless and motherless Isaac, mankind was redeemed but that would work only for a time. Before Christ was crucified, rest was in Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16). It was by his seed, or DNA, that they were rewarded as the sands in the sea — the granules in the waters — perhaps the semen.

The multitudes were common and many. They were neither chosen nor peculiar; they merely followed. They had very little of the DNA of Abraham within their genes. Jesus would correct that, speaking to Christians, Paul wrote, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…” (1 Pet 2:9).

Why all the turmoil between Jews and the multitude— the rest of us? We are vying to be a special people to God.

When Muhammad came, the battle got fierce because they are now the ‘multitudes.’ Their ‘Jesus’ is Isa who I believe is the Beast of scripture. They in the 600’s AD defected from Judaism and Christianity and created another ‘god’ called ‘Isa’ that has the spirit of Satan in him.

The world will someday, for a short time, be a worldwide caliphate. They seek that and that is in harmony with scripture.

In conclusion, the point is that we are all ‘sons of Satan’ not that we have Satan within us but his genetics. That can only be corrected by gene editing. Jesus did that on Good Friday 33 A.D. and we need no further tampering.

(picture credit; Architectural Digest; 2004 Olympics)




 



[1] I have written before that Abaraham was the supposed father of Isaac in my Daily Thought, Herrin Daily Thoughts: MARVEL NOT! (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

[2] See my book, The Skull of Adam, for more about that topic.

[3] For more about Jesus becoming undone, see my book, Adiol Came Down: Arkhas Came Undone.

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