ALMIGHTY GOD PETERED-OUT

Pilate, who authorized that Jesus be crucified, despite knowing his innocence, did so to prevent the wrath of the Jews against the Roman government. Jesus said to Pilate, who seemed sorrowful for what he was about to do, “You would have no power over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore, the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of a greater sin” (John 19:11).

That “one” could be Judas or someone else. Judas did hand Jesus over, but not to Pontius Pilate. Caiphas handed Jesus over directly to Pilate to do the bloody thing. It may have not been Caiaphas, the chief priest, who did so literally, but he was the responsible party. Scripture identifies Caiaphas as the “one” who handed Him over to be crucified:

Jesus said to His disciples, “You know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified. Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.” (Mat 26:2-5)

The festival is the feast of unleavened bread. The festival lasts for seven days of which in the last day no work could be done (Lev 23:8). It was to be a “convocation,” and “This day shall be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever” (Exod 12:14). A ‘convocation’ is when the people assembled, in this case, to glorify God who had delivered them.

When the chief priests and the elders assembled, that was the Passover convocation. The convocation of the Jews was not stupid, for they said, “or their may be a riot among the people.

Jesus, indeed, was killed before the Passover Sabbath began, on Friday, April 3, AD 33. If Jesus had been killed on the Passover Sabbath, supposed to be a day of rest, the elders and chief priests knew there would be a riot. They were adamant about not working on the Sabbath and the Passover Sabbath was a festival. It could be that killing Jesus, which was work, could not be done on the day of rest, and especially during the Passover festival.

It is to be noted that Jesus was the Passover ‘Lamb’ of God. He would need to be killed in preparation for the Sabbath. Jesus, as the sacrificial Lamb of God was legally killed, according to Mosaic Law. He was killed at a legal time but not for a righteous cause.

The sacrificial lambs were always a vicarious sacrifice to God, but here they were really killing God in the form of a sacrificial man. Note that they did not kill God, but they did sacrifice His perfect flesh, just as the sacrificial lambs were to be the firstborn, perfect, and without blemish.

It is obvious that the people did bring their sacrifice to the altar of the Sacred Cross, but unknown to them all, it was God making the sacrifice Himself because it was His own flesh that was the sacrifice. No more vicarious sacrifices would do; it had to be God Himself.

Many think that it was not God that suffered on the Cross, but His Son. We think of the sacrifice as His Son; and  Jesus was the ‘Son’ in a sense — genetically so — but within that flesh was the very Substance of God.

However, God did not die that day. If God had died, then there would be no salvation. God did suffer death, but that was the flesh. God took on flesh so that He could feel our pain. His agony was not so much the pain that He endured, but that His creatures were such great sinners that He must suffer death so that they need not!

The Holy Ghost left Jesus as He died. Jesus lost His ‘Virtue’ (dynamis in the Greek). God Himself, in a spiritual sense, died that day, losing His Dynamics. To put it another way, God healed the world by losing immense Virtue. He died because for a time, He spent His Almightiness to save His Creatures, then like in the beginning, after generating Adam, God rested on the Sabbath Day!

God is not dead; He never was! To put it mildly, and Peter would understand, in modern vernacular, God was Petered-out; just as Peter denied Him thrice — once for the Father, once for the Son, and Once for the Holy Ghost; people still deny His Substance left behind — the Holy Spirit.

 

GOD RESTING AFTER THE CREATION

HAVING A RIGHT PERSPECTIVE OF YOURSELF

The disciples followed Jesus wherever He went. Disciples were not the same each time, but probably a rotation of people. For instance, many of the same crowd that waved palm leaves when Jesus entered Jerusalem for his impending triumphal ride were likely there the following week when He was crucified and yelling, “Crucify Him!”

Disciples were not just followers of Jesus but pupils. They followed Jesus to learn about Him. Of course, Jesus was God in the flesh, just as He contended, but was seen by many as a king of Judea. Those who followed Him would soon discover that he was a different sort of fellow; He was not a ‘king’ but more so a servant. He was very unlike King Herod or his eldest son.

His kingdom was and is not of this world, but His pupils knew history; kings had power and those who followed kings obtained power, so their question should have been anticipated, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” They were there to learn, so this was a very significant question.

Who do you think is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? not withstanding the obvious; that God is the greatest there as He sits on His throne.

They were seeking who of themselves would be greatest in the Kingdom of God. Usually, the greatest in the kingdom would be the royal family — anyone of the gens of the king. Usually, the oldest son would be greatest and at that period in Israel’s history, Antipater should have been the greatest there. He, however, was killed on orders of his father, as one of the contenders for Herod’s throne. Antipater was noted for his deception, blaming everybody but himself to be adversaries of Herod.

Antipater was the epitome of who should not be the greatest in the kingdom of Herod. He was a plotter and schemer. He believed that as the oldest that he deserved to be king.

Herod had eliminated many who would have been greatest in his kingdom and most of those were his immediate family.

Herod had tried to eliminate Jesus as one of the contenders for his throne. He tried to murder Jesus, the newborn king, in the massacre of the innocents. In his will, Herod, according to Josephus, plotted revenge that after he died, his death would not be announced, but the contenders for his throne be slaughtered.

Antipas died because of he was the eldest and would be king based on the law of primogeniture. However, Caesar would need to ordain any candidate for kingship.

Antipas was far from innocent. He was the author of court intrigue. Herod would determine who would be his heir and it would not be Antipater, Mariamne (his wife), Alexander nor Aristobulus (his sons), or even other close relatives. Who would be greatest in the Herodian kingdom changed from day to day.

No wonder the students questioned Jesus about the line of descent in His Kingdom. Would it be one of the apostles? One of the Herodians, A member of the Sanhedrin? One of the chief priests? Or even one of them?

Jesus proved to be different; “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 18:3).

Both Alexander and Aristobulus were humble and neither ever sought to be king, but like Jesus, they were killed.

Antipas was arrogant and deceptive. His M.O. was to diminish others to elevate himself. As it turned out, the Herodians skipped a generation. Herod Agrippa (the grandson) was the last king of Judea, replacing the Herodian throne that had been empty since AD 6.

There was no king in Israel, and just as in days past, things went wild! During the time of the judges, “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6). The same was true when Judea had no king from AD 6 to AD 41 from the day of Jesus’s majority until after His death.

Jesus was obviously the greatest in the kingdom of Judea when the disciples asked that question. Were they aware that Jesus was the legitimate king of the Jews as the ‘son of David’? Surely, as students they would know that. Wisely, though, they were more concerned about the Eternal King and His court, not just the Judean kingdom which was just a small part of the Herodian kingdom.

By asking that simple question, they identified Jesus as ‘King of kings.’ They wondered who would be next in line in heaven after Jesus, in the same manner as who was in line for the Herodian throne.

By the same token, the apostles were wondering about that as well, to wit: 

Answered Peter and said unto Him, “Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed you; what shall we have therefore?” And Jesus said unto them, “Verily I say unto you, ‘That you which have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel’” (Mat 19:27-28)

 The short answer may have been, all you apostles will be equal but none but Me shall ever be king in heaven!

Those who followed Jesus all the way to their deaths would be judges, and there would be one King. Unlike Herod, Jesus would never need to worry about who would be king!

Jesus told the disciples the first step to greatness: You need to get there first before you worry about that! “Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 18:3).

Jesus was King of Heaven because He was the gens of God and the only legitimate heir to the Throne by blood. His was by the Law of Primogeniture — the firstborn son who should be king.

To enter the kingdom of God required conversion, a turning around, perhaps back to newborn children. In other words, to enter the court where God sits requires a rebirth (‘born again;’ John 3:7) wherein those who are converted are done so by engendering from God above.

God engendered to make Adam in His Image by breathing life into his forehead. As such, God imbued the mind of Adam with His Image, or Shadow. In other words, Adam had the Holy Spirit of God placed in his soul to make it alive.

Hence, born again is to die to the world to live in the realm of God. A Christian dies to the world by circumcising the heart, or the flesh.

Conversion is basically allowing God to cut off the flesh, not just the foreskin, but all the desires of all the flesh. The flesh is full of pride and lust. It is the idol to whom people bow and it requires appeasement.

To appease Antipas would have meant that Herod and Caesar would both agree to make him king. That would satisfy his fleshly desire to be great. However, Antipas died without ever becoming king.

Jesus satisfied his own qualification, speaking with the authority of God: “Whosoever therefore shall humble Himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 18:4).

Jesus was noted for His humility; He was the Servant of servants — He would even wash the feet of the apostles. He humbled Himself and qualified as greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, and for any others to be greatest there, they must follow His example.

“Whosoever” — any of them, not just the apostles — must humble themselves. That is to see themselves in a proper perspective; that they are of the Wicked One and deserve death. That is because their gens are of Satan (Lucifer) who seeks to be greatest in the Kingdom of God (Isa 14:13-14). The fact that any person seeks to be great disqualifies them as potential kings or even judges.

Rather than be concerned about greatness in heaven, they should have asked the question that Nicodemus asked, “How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?” (John 3:4). Of course, Jesus revealed how to be born again, but for now settle that you must be turned around from what you are; you must be changed.

That raises another question, just what are you before rebirth?

David found out and revealed it; “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51”5).

Rather than formed in the Image of God, the image was of the Wicked One (nahas) — like a snake.

You must have a right perspective of who you are. You must never have undue self-esteem because that is a prideful perspective. Like He called the Pharisees, ‘vipers,’ Jesus would see any sinner in the same perspective. We all are like our ‘father,’ the devil (John 8:44) and that is not something to have pride in, nor is it righteous to behold yourself with high estimation.

To change requires that you are not what you could be to be what you must be. Pertaining to your own selves, in the New Testament there are only two must be’s: (1) You must be born again (John 3:7), and (2) you must be saved (Acts 4:12).

‘Rebirth’ is the cause and ‘saved’ is the effect. Hence, to be made great requires rebirth by the Spirit of adoption by God (Rom 8:15). To enter heaven requires a great change, from a natural born child of the devil to a supra-natural child of God.

Just like Tiberius Caesar was adopted by Augustus to make him great in the manner of his adoptive father, anybody must be adopted God and be of His Household to be made great.

Humbling oneself is the criteria that Jesus used. That means understanding that you do deserve neither heaven nor greatness, but know that you are like a beast that desires a regenning to even be of God’s kind!

When John Newton wrote the song, Amazing Grace, he got it mostly right. ‘Such a worm as I,” is very close to, Such a snake as I.

To contend for greatest first requires that you understand that you are not now great. You must reconcile that you are more brutish than godly and seek genetic improvement that only God can provide. It is a simple procedure — you must see Jesus as God to be born again. It is not what you do, but to understand just who God IS and that as God, Jesus can do it, albeit you cannot change who or what you are by yourselves.

If you had the power to do that, then you would be the god. Humbling yourself is understanding that there in One True God and that is neither you nor any other contender for greatness.

 

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)

 

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[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.

THE DEEP STATE BEHIND THE CRUCIFIXION - Final Part

  Books could be written on the events on the day that Jesus was crucified, but I kept this brief so that it could be read in one sitting... even all five parts.

  Just as Antichrist, whoever it is that has Satan in him, will have a high position in politics and his false prophet, a high office in the church. It is important to know who, what, and why Jesus was crucified so that Christians understand that some wicked government and corrupt religious figure will work together to have the "Final Solution" for Christians just as Hitler did for Jewry.

 So, on this Good Friday, good for us, consider this commentary in whole and see how politicians and religious figures have and will continue to persecute Christians.

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  Resuming with the events of Good Friday, they were “good” for all mankind except for Jesus Himself, in that He redeemed all mankind. Only one week before, Jesus was celebrated as a king on Palm Sunday, but now palm fronds were replaced with cat-o-nine-tails as they scourged the Creator:

¹ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. ² And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, ³ And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote Him with their hands. (John 19:1-3)

  God would go through with it this time! This time? Was there a time before?

  Hundreds of years before, on Mount Moriah, the “Passion Play” had been acted out. It was not a “play” but much like a wedding rehearsal, for the soon to come “wedding” of Jesus, the Groom, with His “Bride,” the Church.

  The Bible seems to be a “book of coincidences,” but the death of Jesus was preplanned to every jot and tittle. The prophets and psalmists revealed the “script” well in advance and God even had an “opening act” before the main “Passion Play,” and the lead roles were played by father Abraham and His only remaining son, Isaac (since Ishmael had been emancipated).

  God had given Abraham specific instructions, to wit:

And He said, “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of” (Gen 22:2)

  But did not Abraham have two sons? Was Ishmael not still his son? There was a difference between Isaac and Ishmael; the latter was the son of Abram and Hagar, in sin. As such, Ishmael was “shapen in iniquity” just like David admitted that he was (Psalm 51:5). Ishmael was born, like Cain, of the Wicked One.

  I have written before that Isaac was perhaps the son of God alone; that he was born of God in a barren womb, based mostly upon, “The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him,” and ““Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” (Gen 22:2,17). [1]

  Isaac was the Son of God, if that is true, and Abraham was about to sacrifice his son born of God; not that Isaac was Jesus, but that he was an imperfect sacrifice before the final sacrifice would be provided by God. Whereas Jesus was born in a clean virgin womb, Isaac was born in a defiled womb, so his sacrifice would be somewhat like an animal sacrifice, and imperfect.

  Now back to Jesus. Many believe that Jesus was crucified on Mount Moriah, and on the same mountain that Isaac was to be sacrificed. From Gen 22:2 above, Abraham was to take Isaac to the “land of Moriah,” to some mountain in the place Moriah. Mount Moriah, in scripture is literally, the mountains of Moriah. [2]

  Traditional sites of holy places were established by Helena, Constantine’s mother, years later. It makes sense that Isaac was presented to die in the mountains of Moriah, and that Jesus was crucified on one of the mountains of Moriah; perhaps the same mountain that may or may not be at traditional “Calvary.”

  Now consider, Jesus who on whom the soldiers, “platted a crown of thorns.” Is it merely coincidence that the ram that God provided, a sheep, would have about its head thorns in a thicket, and that Jesus would also wear a crown of thorns? God plans with great details, but a ram would not do, being an adult sheep, but the Lamb of God, Jesus would suffice. At both times, God provided the sacrifice and each time it was innocent “sheep.”

  After scourging Jesus and dressing him in royal apparel, they said, “’Hail, King of the Jews!’ and they smote Him with their hands.”  Jesus never claimed to be king of the Jews and never sought royal garments. In fact, the “coats of skin” of a lamb, just as with Adam and Eve, made those who would put it on, “royal priests” (1 Pet 2:9). The color purple represents Lucifer in symbiology. They as well said, This king is Lucifer!

  The crowd wanted Jesus to be a criminal to Roman Law — to be King of the Jews — without Caesar’s approval. If that was accepted as the narrative, then the Jews’ hands would be clean of shedding the blood of the innocent one, much in the same manner as Herod’s murder of the innocents was carried out after his death because of a false narrative.

  Many deny the slaughter of the innocents because Herod never did that when he was king of the Jews. However, as it turned out, in death, he did murder the innocents, and in like manner, Herod, in death, but living in his seed, did finally slaughter the Most Innocent — Jesus. The spirit that was in Herod the Great, remained in Herod Antipas who was, like Cain, of the Wicked One!

  As the prelate of Caesar, Pilate as well as declared Jesus, “King of the Jews,” when he said, “Take ye Him, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him” (John 19:6). With that said, the Roman prelate, in the absence of Caesar, found Jesus innocent of all charges; that He was not King of the Jews, but Lord God of all!

  After Pilate vindicated Jesus, the Jews continued their charade: “Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar” (John 19:12). That is a true statement. Only Caesar could declare kings, but that applied only to his realm, called “Syria” at that time, but was inclusive of all the Kingdom of David.

  However, Jesus did not make Himself king as accused, but was God, the Father, who willed that He be King, not of this world, but in another realm just as Jesus tried to explain (John 18:36). Caesar had no authority outside his empire, and heaven was certain out there!

  Therein was also a lie as usual: Jesus never spoke against Caesar, instead declaring what was Caesar’s was Caesar’s. Jesus laid no claim to Syria in the Roman Empire but to Paradise in heaven. Caesar was not Zeus, so why would he care?

  Finally in verse fourteen, Pilate made it clearer when he declared, “Behold your King!” Jesus was not a Roman’s king but their King on whom they had been awaiting ever since John Hyrcanus was priest and king of the Jews. As it turned out, within 300 years, Jesus would be Gentile King as well, since they too are the “whosoever” in John 3:16 as the sign implied in verse eleven.

  When Jesus said, “It is finished,” and bowed his head, to give up the ghost, what was finished? All the previous Covenants, the “Ten Prescriptions” for Eternal Health, the complete covering of the fleshes of men by those who would “wear” the Holy Ghost, the redemption and resurrection of Adam as Jesus was raised from the dead, Satan himself, sin defeated, the defiled blood of all of Adam’s kind cleansed and made anew, and the glorification of Jesus (John 7:39). All things theretofore that were promised was finished, and the land of milk and honey (Paradise) was willed to all who would go in!

 And let us not forget the Temple that was never the Will of God at all; no longer would the Presence of God be covered, but the curtain that concealed Him was torn (Mark 15:38) so that all could see that the Face of God is called, “Jesus.” The revealing of the supra-nature of God was finished.

  Longinus finished the provenance. He was the centurion who pierced the side of Jesus to release the Virtue (dymamis) so abundantly that all can be healed. “And when the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that He so cried out, and gave up the Ghost, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God’” (Mark 15:39)

  Longinus said it almost rightly. It should have been “is the Son of God” not “was” because although dead, that Man was very much still alive in Spirit, as He demonstrated when He saved Dismus that day, and withered the limb on which Judas hung, thereafter, to finish off Satan by delivering him and sin to Hell.

  Longinus was persuaded that the man, Jesus, is the Son of God. What persuaded him of that? He saw that the Holy Ghost of that man was God Himself. Like Luke at the baptism of Jesus, perhaps Longinus saw the Ghost of Jesus in bodily shape! Just as the apostles had seen that Jesus and Yahweh are one at the Transfiguration, Longinus saw the same at the Glorification of Jesus (John 7:39)

  Because all those who sought power over Jesus failed, those who see Jesus as God and who has the Power (Virtue) to heal broken spirits, then it is those who are royal priests and as such are remade in the image of God.

  Those who seek power, such as the chief priests, the Herods, the Pharisees, and even Simon Magus; lose but those who are like Simon the Cyrene and carry the Cross of Jesus have the privilege of being servants to the King. That is what the priests were meant to be, but throughout the centuries, they became more like Lucifer.

  Jesus paid it all with His own life, and now anyone can reap the wages that He paid. It is low fruit hanging from the Tree of Life that is in reach of all who will eat of it!

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[1] Herrin; “Marvel Not!”; July 13, 2021; https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2021/06/marvel-not.html)

[2] Herrin;  “Emmanuel: God’s House”; Jul 26, 2021; https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2021/07/emmanuel-gods-house.html)

(picture credit: Consisntious Catholic; "St.Longinus")

THE DEEP STATE BEHIND THE CRUCIFIXION - Part 4

  According to precedent established throughout Roman rule, before any pretender to the throne was killed, he had to be brought before Caesar in Rome. That had been the case for Herod’s three sons and even his wife, Meriamne, who by intrigue were considered guilty of sedition against King Herod the Great.

  Jesus went before the chief priests and the Sanhedrin, then to Pilate, then to Herod Antipas, and then back to Pilate. None of the leaders wanted the blood of the Messiah on their hands, and finally Pilate washed his hands of the blood of Jesus. Somehow, they all knew what they were doing, and Jesus knew that they knew what they were doing. The only ones that did not know, according to Jesus, were those who performed their job, which was assigned by Almighty God as nothing could happen unless allowed by the Father (Rom 8:32).

  Thus, those who were the instruments of death were cleared by Jesus who judged them ignorant of what they were doing. They had no idea that they were killing God Himself. Jesus took umbrage at those who knew what they were doing.

  Herod Antipas was playing the role of king of Judaea but was only a tetrarch, meaning that he shared power with the other Herods. He had no authority over Jesus and seemed to realize it. Those who killed Jesus were the “Church” of that time who was a government itself. The ecclesia killed their own God who they claimed to worship. Never had the chosen ones killed their own god, so that makes the Sanhedrin the exception, and Christianity exceptional. But even they were weak because God killed God. Like Judas down below in Gehenna, Jesus on Calvary sacrificed Himself. The big difference is that Judas with Lucifer in him pretended to be God, but Jesus was the real deal.

  Judas’s self-sacrifice had no efficacy, but the Self-sacrifice of God redeemed all mankind. What was the difference? Judas sacrificed himself because he was guilty of all charges, but Jesus was innocent of all of which he was accused. That He is God is the only truthful thing of which He was charged. Judas was not God but had the pretender to the throne of God in him. His sin was even greater than the chief priests.

  If the law had been just, then Jesus would have been taken to Caesar just as Paul was years later. After going through many of the same mock trials of Jesus, Paul appealed to Caesar as a Roman citizen. It was his birthright because of where he was born. Paul was subject to the laws of Caesar but Jesus to Jewish, or Mosaic Law. The Law of Moses was responsible for the death of Jesus, and God knew that when He made the Law.

  To this day, Mosaic Law continues to “crucify” Christ over and over, if it was possible, just as Paul suggested to the Hebrews (Heb 6:6). God used His own Law as a means of justifying Himself dying for the sins of mankind.

  Up to this time, Caesars had been fair and friendly to Jews and Jewish Law. Jews had always appealed to Caesar for impartiality. Herod the Great always appealed to Octavian for impartial judgment. When Jesus was accused, Tiberias Nero was Caesar, and at that time, he was kind to the Jews.

  Given his demeanor then, Jesus would have been judged impartially by Roman law in Rome. That would not happen because it had to be the Law of the religion of Yahweh for the sacrifice to be acceptable. It could not be an unclean Gentile but a ritually washed chief priest that made the sacrifice himself for it to be pleasing to God. That was the ritual from the Law of Moses.

  Two could not be chief priests in Mosaic Law. It had to be one. The legitimate chief priest was Caiaphas. He had to be the one to make the sacrifice, and it had to be in the Holy of Holies.

  The Most Holy Place is where God IS. It was once under the Tree of Life, then in the Tabernacle of God wherever in the wilderness, and finally in the Temple itself. By then, it had been made unholy by merchants.  Therefore, the Most Holy Place was Calvary. It was there that the Presence of Yahweh appeared to witness His own Flesh perishing.

  God was there on the Cross, not just His Person (Jesus) but His Mind and Spirit. Jesus asked His Father why He had forsaken Him (Mat 27:46). The crucifixion was an anti-transfiguration. On the Mount of Transfiguration, the Presence of the Father had entered the Son, and at the baptism of Jesus, the Holy Ghost had done the same. God in three substances was on the Cross. Yahweh felt pain and showed His Face and His Innermost Being all at the same time on Calvary.

  Both the Father and the Holy Ghost removed themselves from Jesus. That isolation was perhaps the Man Jesus experiencing Hell for mankind for all of Adam’s kind.

  What would have Nero done to Jesus at that time? Administered Roman law fairly and impartially. Perhaps, he would have asked, Why do you foolish people desire to kill your own God? Pilate washed his hands of the matter; and he represented Caesar. What would have Caesar done? The same thing! He would have sent Jesus back to the Sanhedrin for them to kill their own God. He had no authority over Jesus because Caesar allowed the Jews to live under their own laws unless it countered Roman law.

  After leaving Judas, perhaps Satan entered Caiaphas. Satan had to be in Caiaphas for him to knowingly kill his own God. As it turns out, Caiaphas may have considered himself to be God. From an ancient inscription, ruled authentic, his granddaughter’s ossuary read, “Miriam, daughter of Yeshua, son of Caiaphas, Priest of Ma’ aziah from Beth ‘Imri” (Wikiepdia, “Caiaphas”).

  Caiaphas named his son “Jesus” and Jesus, son of Caiaphas named his daughter “Mary.” Certainly, he was not honoring Jesus but mocking Him. He appears to be Antichrist after Judas.

  By the time Paul appeared to Nero, the nature of Tiberius changed, and he became Nero. His name changed from Tiberias (“Good Vision” in the Hebrew) to Nero (“Black”). As biblical custom goes, his nature changed from good to black, and many theologians believe that Nero was Antichrist when Paul was killed, Christians were persecuted, Rome burned and blamed on Christians, and Paul was beheaded. Tiberias would have been a “familiar friend” of Jesus just as Psalm 41:9 implies about Antichrists, Lucifer and Judas, and as it turns out, about Nero Caesar.

  Throughout this commentary, I have stated that they knew who they were about to kill. When they came to take Jesus away, they asked Jesus His identity, and Jesus responded truthfully.  “As soon then as He had said unto them, “I am He,” they went backward, and fell to the ground” (John 18:6).

  Something is not so obvious in English. His exact words in Greek were Ego Eimi. In the Hebrew that is JHWH, or as written in the English, the “Great I AM.”

  Jesus identified Himself to the chief priests, Judas, and the others, as God Himself! No wonder they fell to the ground; they were marveling because they believed that He was who He claimed to be. If they had not believed, they would have laughed and called him “crazy” as some had done before! They knew that they were about to kill their own God!

  With that explained, it sheds light on Jesus’s Words, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7). They marveled, were not born again, but were accomplices in killing God.

  What is the process of rebirth? Jesus had foretold of this event when He said, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). They were about to lift up the “Son of Man” indeed. As they lifted the Cross of Jesus, down below the son of man (Adam) was lifted on his tree by the hands of himself. Rebirth is looking at the two trees, the two sacrificial deaths, and choosing the right “Tree” just as with Adam and Eve.

  Because the Jews had chosen the Serpent on his pole, King Hezekiah had that “tree” destroyed. When Jesus made the acceptable sacrifice on the Tree of Life, it withered the Tree of Knowledge and the limb broke, Judas fell, and Lucifer was exposed as the “worm” he was.

  When Jesus died, that is what happened to Satan in Judas, as the pole of Moses was the symbol of the Judas Tree. Many forget the sacrifice of Judas by his own hands, and still try to redeem themselves by the Tree of Knowledge. It is not what anyone knows, but what they believe and who they trust! Trusting over time is faith whereas knowing may be believing but doing nothing with that belief.

(picture credit: Everyday Catholic; "Repay to Caesar What is Caesar's)