Post by John on Apr 8, 2019 22:10:45 GMT
Jesus is not who you think He is!
I will tell you the actual story of Jesus and how the events went in actuality. Jesus was born into a family who were among the poorest of the poor. They lived in a tiny village in the rural north, they owned no land, his father was the equivalent of a day laborer and he probably died when Jesus was a boy (given that he's not mentioned among Jesus’ living family at the time of Jesus’ mission).
And he lived at a time of great distress when the Jewish nation was occupied by the Romans, who had ousted the legitimate leaders and put their puppets in power, including Temple priests who were not Zadokites (or even Aaronids or even Levites) and therefore were not qualified for that office.
As a result, Jews were divided into 3 broad camps — assimilationists who supported or tolerated Helenization, insurgents who carried out a populist campaign of revolt, and apocalyptics who held that God would not tolerate the situation and therefore the End of Days must be imminent.
Jesus went south to Judea and became a disciple of John the Baptiser, an apocalyptic prophet. When Herod had John executed, this would have had a profound effect on his followers, who likely would have seen the beheading of God’s prophet as yet another tick closer to the final hour, perhaps the final outrage triggering the terrible Day of the Lord.
After John’s death, Jesus apparently rethought his own role in the End Times, and took up the mantle of gathering together the righteous few who would survive the wrath of God and be granted perfect immortal bodies and live on in the paradise on earth that God would establish when God ruled directly from the Jerusalem Temple.
At the core of Jesus’ apocalyptic worldview was the notion that God would judge everyone by their own measure. The greedy and cruel and irreverent would be destroyed, while the poor and humble and merciful would be exalted.
This is why Jesus preached destruction and judgment upon the Temple leadership and the wealthy rulers while exhorting his followers to practice poverty and forgiveness.
Of course, the Romans did not tolerate anyone saying publicly that the gods hated the rulership and intended to depose them. So when Jesus did just that in the Temple courtyard, and drew attention to himself by creating a disturbance, they found him guilty of sedition and executed him, as Herod had done to John.
I will tell you the actual story of Jesus and how the events went in actuality. Jesus was born into a family who were among the poorest of the poor. They lived in a tiny village in the rural north, they owned no land, his father was the equivalent of a day laborer and he probably died when Jesus was a boy (given that he's not mentioned among Jesus’ living family at the time of Jesus’ mission).
And he lived at a time of great distress when the Jewish nation was occupied by the Romans, who had ousted the legitimate leaders and put their puppets in power, including Temple priests who were not Zadokites (or even Aaronids or even Levites) and therefore were not qualified for that office.
As a result, Jews were divided into 3 broad camps — assimilationists who supported or tolerated Helenization, insurgents who carried out a populist campaign of revolt, and apocalyptics who held that God would not tolerate the situation and therefore the End of Days must be imminent.
Jesus went south to Judea and became a disciple of John the Baptiser, an apocalyptic prophet. When Herod had John executed, this would have had a profound effect on his followers, who likely would have seen the beheading of God’s prophet as yet another tick closer to the final hour, perhaps the final outrage triggering the terrible Day of the Lord.
After John’s death, Jesus apparently rethought his own role in the End Times, and took up the mantle of gathering together the righteous few who would survive the wrath of God and be granted perfect immortal bodies and live on in the paradise on earth that God would establish when God ruled directly from the Jerusalem Temple.
At the core of Jesus’ apocalyptic worldview was the notion that God would judge everyone by their own measure. The greedy and cruel and irreverent would be destroyed, while the poor and humble and merciful would be exalted.
This is why Jesus preached destruction and judgment upon the Temple leadership and the wealthy rulers while exhorting his followers to practice poverty and forgiveness.
Of course, the Romans did not tolerate anyone saying publicly that the gods hated the rulership and intended to depose them. So when Jesus did just that in the Temple courtyard, and drew attention to himself by creating a disturbance, they found him guilty of sedition and executed him, as Herod had done to John.