The Romans Cook the Christian Books

The Roman Flavian family teleports contemporary personalities to a time roughly 40 years earlier when it concocts the Christian myth.

The Real Roots of Christianity

Christian Interpretation of the Tanakh

A famous soccer player makes his pre-existant appearance in the Book of Judges, Chapter 13.

Need Help Making Aliyah?

Are you Jewish and need help making Aliyah?  Nefesh B'Nefesh is the organization you'll want to contact.

 

(This lower-resolution upload of the video has contact details at the end.)

Messianic Passover Seders: an Oxymoron

 

"You cannot eat at the Lord's Table and at the table of demons, too."

"Dove" the Destroyer

In the James Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only", the character named KRISTatos 

informs the viewer:

Milos Columbo. His name came up in connection with a smuggling operation last 

year.  That's the least of his offenses. Drugs, white slavery, contract murder.  In 

the Greek underworld, he is known as "the Dove."  A very sick joke.

Leaving behind the murky world of fiction, where everything is "based on a true 

story", we venture into the supposedly liberating world of history, where fact is 

often concealed.  We turn our attention to a man whose name means "Dove", as if 

some kind of "sick joke":  Titus the Destroyer, known officially as Titus Flavius 

Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, well-known to anyone who has read Flavius 

Josephus' "The Wars of the Jews".  This is "the son" of the 

General-turned-Emperor Vespasian.  Commissioned by his father to carry on 

the Roman war in Galilee and Judaean and to lay siege to Jerusalem, "Hawk" 

would have been a far better name for the man.

Where do we learn that Titus means "Dove"?  On page 130 of 

"Our Italian Surnames", by Joseph Guerin Fucilla, we find that "[t]he Romans 

enjoyed conferring bird names upon their fellow men such as Titus, dove, 

Gaius, magpie, Gallus, rooster..." etc.  (There was a Cestius Gallus, a Roman 

General that Vespasian replaced, a contemporary of the resistance leader 

Simon, making us wonder if this is the cock that crowed three times when Simon 

Peter denied "Jesus".)

Given what we now know about the name "Titus", we can make some sense out 

of the scene of the baptism of "Jesus" by "John", where "the Spirit" descends "in 

the form of" or "like" a dove.  The authors of the Christian "Gospels" or "Good 

News" accounts are informing us that "Jesus the Savior" is none other than "Titus 

the Destroyer".  (Inversion is the simplest of methods of hiding the truth.)  The 

Roman Flavian family (consisting of Vespasian, Titus and Domitian), who reigned 

as Roman Emperor until the end of the "First Century" are sharing an inside joke 

with the Roman elites about how they were able to con some of the Jews into 

worshiping the Emperor, a mere man, as Diius ("God").

The connection in the Christian scriptures doesn't end there.  The Hebrew word 

for "dove" is יונה "Jonah".  With this in hand, we can no make better sense out of 

another "Jesus saying" that is typically interpreting in an altogether different 

fashion than what we will arrive at, "There shall be no sign given ... but the sign of 

Jonas the prophet."  Note that while the other 3 Gospel narratives associate this 

answer to a request for a sign from heaven with the "signs of the times", namely 

the impending destruction of Jerusalem, the Gospel of Mark makes no mention 

of Jonas.  This actually supports my theory that the Gospel of Mark is indeed the  

Priority text (i.e., the first of the canonical Gospels), as scholarly consensus goes, 

and that it was probably authored by Vespasian (Marcus Aurelius-style, meaning 

"on the battlefield", as the later Aurelius is supposed to have done with his Stoic 

philosophical work "Meditations") or one of his people, since it makes no mention 

of his son "Jonas".

So what was this sign of Jonas the prophet?  Well, we know that the prophet Jonah 

went to non-Jewish Nineveh to warn it that it would be destroyed if it didn't repent. 

The inversion of this is a non-Jewish Titus going to a Jewish Jerusalem to warn it 

about the destruction which he would carry out if it didn't follow his orders.  Titus 

the Destroyer was the "Second Coming" of "Jesus", the literary gloss of a Dovish 

Messiah that was retrofitted to recent Jewish history.  As with the expectations 

concerning "Jesus" at his "Second Coming" that are often held by fundamentalist 

Christians, Titus played the role of Conqueror, Destroyer and Judge.

Much more can be said on this and related subjects and I hope to do so at a later 

date.  I owe mountains of credit to the work of Robert Eisenman, Joseph Atwill 

and Cliff Carrington (and to a lesser degree, Barbara Thiering), without whom I 

may not have been able to make these and other important connections.

The Great Debate: JW's Vs. Camping Followers

 

TimKilgore on YouTube uploaded a brilliant little video revealing how the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's (a.k.a., Jehovah's Witnesses) calling Harold Camping a "false prophet" is like the pot calling the kettle black.

Was Joseph the Father of Jesus?

 

Someone made a mistake either in authoring or in copying Luke 2:33 in the Christian scriptures.  Either that or we have an even more intentional mistake in John 6.

Christians/Messianics Reciting the Aaronic Blessing

 

Do Protestant Christians and Messianics have any biblical authority for their practice of reciting the Aaronic Blessing over the heads of non-Israelite people of the Nations?

The Self-Contradictory Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

Comparison of the accounts of Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus reveals contradicting details, even in the same Book of Acts. (9:4;22:7;26:14 and surrounding verses)

The Holy Bible: Open to Interpretation?

Is the Holy Bible, the Scriptures, as open to interpretation as some would have you believe?

Go to the Ant!

An attempt to be inspirational...

What If There is No Hell or Heaven?

Uploaded a timely video about doubts of myself and others concerning Hell and/or Heaven.

Was Gospel-Writer Luke "Lucan" the Roman Poet?

The Blue Letter Bible informs us that the "New Testament" figure Luke's name (more accurately "Lucas" or "Loukas") is a contraction of "Lucanus".

Lucanus was a famous Roman poet of the same time period who is also known as Lucan.  This fellow was a contemporary of Nero, who we know to be a convert to Judaism, thanks to the Talmud and Flavius Josephus (hence his identification as "the First Anti-Christ").

Anyone who has read Robert Eisenman's "James the Brother of Jesus" or Joseph Atwill's "Caesar's Messiah" (independently confirmed by Cliff Carrington's "Flavian Hypothesis") is aware of the complex web of relationships that make up the various "New Testament" figures and prominent influential people of the Roman Empire in the "First" Century.  The probable connection between Luke and Lucan comes only as a bit of a surprise.

What prompted me to take a closer look at this was the Wikipedia entry for Werewolves or Lycanthropes.  Those who have realized that Shaul (sheol) of Tarsus is the ravening wolf of Benjamin and of Matthew 7:15 may have wondered about his relationship to Luke the Physician.  Well, the Greek word for wolf is λύκος and the Greek for "Luke" is Λουκᾶς.  The words might as well be called phononyms. 

This would not be the first time I have found a Christian reference work trying to obscure the relationship between Christian heroes and Roman idolaters.

I'll post more about Nero's conversion and the so-called Apostle Paul as the ravening wolf of Benjamin, later.

Responding to the So-Called Black Hebrew Israelites

Asher Meza has uploaded a number of videos that deal with so-called Black Hebrew Israelite message:

Jewish Response to the Black Hebrew Israelites

A Jewish Response to the Black Hebrew Israelites

A Jew Disproves the Black Hebrew Israelites

The Watchtower's Rabbinically-Calculated Memorial or "Lord's Evening Meal"

Does anyone else find it hypocritical that the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York / Pennsylvania, Inc. bashes the Rabbis (saying things like "God has no more dealings with the Jews") while at the same time relying on the Rabbinical post-"Jesus" intercalated lunisolar calendar for the calculation of Nisan the 14th?

(See April in the following calendar)

Hebrew Calendar (today's is NOT the same as the one used in the 1st Century)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar

Julian Calendar (used then by Jews for "civic matters such as the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials", but only used by the Orthodox Church for moveable feast days, now)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

For those who don't quite get what I'm getting at, so-called Karaite Jews still object to the intercalated calendar used by Orthodox Jews (inheritors of the traditions of the Pharisees) today, preferring to OBSERVE with their eyes the signs in the heavens.

If I remember correctly, I have seen differences between Karaite and Orthodox Jewish Feasts/Festival dates as great as a month!  The crescent moon is EXTREMELY hard to spot with the naked eye.  I have tried!

But what does the so-called "Apostle Paul" say?  "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.  I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." (Galatians 4:10,11)  This because Paul taught AGAINST the Law of Moses, an accusation he tries to avoid ONLY when around Torah-observant Jews.  It would appear that some of the disciples of Paul are just as hypocritical as he was.