Theudas was condemned for his sexual sin and subjected to a period of excommunication in cave 8 at Qumran. Ananus the Elder now came forward as the Sadducee Pope with more liberal views than Matthias.
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Thursday September 1, 1 AD. Noon. Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:15)
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15. kai katebē Iakōb eis Aigypton. Kai eteleutēsen autos. Kai hoi pateres hēmōn.
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15. And Jacob went down at
Egypt. And
He
ended. And the
Fathers of
Us.
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15. After 12 hours Jacob-Heli's ceremony of retirement was completed at Ain Feshkha. . Theudas was present as a deputy abbot the subordinate of Ananus the abbot.
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Monday September 5, 1 AD, solar 30th. Qumran. (Acts 7:16)
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16. kai metetethēsan eis Sychem. Kai etethēsan en tō
mnēmati hō ōnesato Abraam timēs argyriou para tōn huiōn
Hemmōr en Sychem.
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16. And they (RLR to Fathers v.15) were with-placed
at
Shechem. And they (Fathers) were placed in the
tomb
in which Abraham bought with a
price of
silver beside of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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16. Ananus the Elder was made Pope
with the title Abraham, supported by the Magus. Both had a liberal view of
morality and did not respect the Jerusalem temple, holding that the zeal of the ascetic discipline was
a sufficient substitute for temple attendance. Both received fees from
proselytes.
On his promotion day, the 30th,
Theudas was punished for his sexual sin according to communal laws.. He was
subjected to a season of excommunication, by being placed in cave 8 at the end
of the Qumran
esplanade. (This was the cave of the "resurrection". (See Photos C & E above.)
It was on the west side of cave 7
which was the cave of the David king. Ananus and the Magus had the use of the
pair of caves as an "unclean place". Ananus stored in cave 7 the fees of
proselytes, paid in silver through a levite. Cave 7 was also "Shechem" to the
Magus, who had a meeting-place for proselytes at Shechem in Samaria
(Genesis 34:2
Shechem son of Hamor, Hebrew for "ass"). In the imagery of Beasts for unclean places,
the proselyte was called the "ass", and his deputy the "colt". The caves, which
were used for a sabbath latrine, were equivalent in uncleanness to the Manger,
the building a kilometer south of Qumran where the pack animals were stalled, which was used for a
latrine on weekdays.
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Theudas was also condemned for misusing mission property.
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Wednesday September 7, 1 AD, Qumran.
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14. dapanēsantos de autou panta egeneto limos ischyra kata tēn
chōran ekeinēn, kai autos ērxato hystereisthai.
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14. He (RLR to newer son Theudas
Lk 15:13)
having spent
All things, there
came about a
strong
famine
according to that
region. And
He
began to be lacking.
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14. Theudas was also accused of
misusing mission funds controlled by Archelaus at Qumran. On Wednesday September 7, 1 AD, the
40 days' fasting began, for the September beginning of the north solar
quartodecimal year. It was held by the proselytes at Qumran in the outer hall and
its annexe. Theudas in incarceration also observed it.
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James the brother of Jesus was born in September. For Pharisees, he was the legitimate heir of the Davids and Jesus was illegitimate because of his pre-nuptial conception. For Sadducees, Jesus was the legitimate heir. Matthias the strict Sadducee conceded the high priesthood and papacy to Ananus the liberal Sadducee.
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17. Kathōs de ēngizen hochronos tēs epangelias hēs
hōmologēsen ho theos tō Abraam, ēuxesen ho laos kai eplēthynthē
en Aigyptō.
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17. As the
time of the
Promise
neared which
God
confessed to Abraham, the
people increased.
And he (people Joseph )
multiplied in
Egypt.
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17. At the intercalated 31st, Friday September 23, 1 AD, it was
the end of a 40 year period observed as a New Exodus, when they should "enter
the Promised Land" of political power. It was the Herodian version of the
prophecy, dated from September 40 BC, the Herodian north lunisolar milllennial year
3901. When there was no fulfilment and a correction was to be made by a change
in leadership, Ananus the Elder came forward, promising to gain the high
priesthood of the Jerusalem temple. Matthias visiting the council conceded it to him,
as well as the position of Pope.in the Hillel succession.
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Photo U. A tunnel in the wady bank, north of Mird-Hyrcania.
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Photo V. Inside the tunnel.
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Gentiles of both Dan (celibate) and Asher (married) were taught by Joseph.
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PARABLE OF SOWER
Wednesday December 21, 1 AD.The pentecontad 29/IX. 3 pm Mird-Hyrcania.(Mark 4:16)
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16.kai houtoi eisin hoi epi ta petrōdē speiromenoi, hoi
hotan akousōsin ton logon euthys meta charas lambanousin auton.
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16. And
These Ones
become.
Who (new subject) sown upon the
stony places,
Who
when{hotan they
hear the
Word
immediately{euthys}
with
Joy receive it (Word).
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16. At the December pentecontad,
when women of the Therapeuts were present at Mird-Hyrcania, Gentiles of both
Dan and Asher attended. Both used the tunnels at the stone-littered wady for
their rite of "birth", the monastic Gentiles of Dan using the one on the north side. (See Photos U & V above)
In the
meal-room in the west wing Lysanias was given a further privilege, taught by
Joseph to give a short prayer in Hebrew at 3:00
pm, followed by his own prayer in Greek at 3:03 pm.
The elderly woman Anna, the Sarah,
was present, equal to the Asher Gentile.
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Wednesday December 21, 1 AD.The pentecontad 29/IX. Midnight. Ain Feshkha.
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17.kai ouk echousin hrizan en heautois alla proskairoi eisin. Eita
genomenēs thlipseōs ē diōgmou dia ton logon euthys skandalizontai.
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17.They (RLR to hoi, wheat
Gentile Lysanias v.16) do not have
Root in
Themselves,
nevertheless
they (Themselves)
become towards-season. Then having
come-about{erchomai} a
tribulation
or
persecution because of the
Word
immediately{euthys}
they (Themselves) are
scandalized.
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17.
At midnight a
repeated ceremony for Joseph and Mary was to be held at Ain Feshkha, three
months after the birth of James. Joseph with the non-monastic Lysanias left Mird-Hyrcania
at 3:05 pm, walking
9 hours to arrive at Ain Feshkha at midnight. They joined Antipas, head of the married class, who would
intercalate the following year. The meeting was the occasion for doctrinal
disputes. Antipas held that Gentiles could only be admitted to the ministry if
they were circumcised, not permitting Lysanias to say his Greek prayer.
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In December Theudas being released from incarceration allied with the Magus. In order to remove him from Archelaus and the scandal, it was decided that he should be taken to Antipas' house on the Tiber Island in Rome. Theudas would be a pastor in the house of Antipas, who did not observe Jewish food laws when he was in Rome.
Since the Tiber Island was also Joseph's mission center for Gentiles, Joseph and Mary accompanied Antipas, the Magus and Theudas. They took with them the 3 month old James and the boy Jesus, aged 7.
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Thursday December 22, 1 AD, the solar 30th. Ain Feshkha.
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15. kai poreutheis ekollēthē heni tōn politōn
tēs chōras ekeinēs. Kai epempsen auton eis tous agrous autou
boskein choirous.
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15. He (Theudas autos Lk 15:14 )
traveling clung
to a 1 of the city-ministers of that
region. And he (the 1) sent him
(Theudas) at the
fields of him (Theudas) to feed
swine.
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15. On the solar 30th, his promotion
day, Theudas was released from his incarceration and joined the Magus,
accepting his more liberal views. It was agreed that the Magus, Theudas and
Joseph would go to Rome with Antipas, to continue mission from his house on the Tiber Island. Antipas when in Rome did as Rome did, not observing the
Jewish food laws forbidding eating pigmeat. Theudas was to act as pastor in his house. It
would remove him from the sexual scandal.
Joseph took Mary and his family with
him for a term that would last three years.
The baby James was 3 months old, and
the boy Jesus, aged 7, went to Rome at an impressionable age. He was the legitimate heir of the
Davids by the Magian-Sadducee standards prevailing on Tiber Island.
The party left for Rome the day after the
pentecontad, 30/IX, Thursday December 22, the day when Therapeuts set out on
journeys. The sea journey would take 6 months.
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Photo UU. Tiber Island.
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Figure 8. The ruins of Ain Feshkha
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The missionaries arrived in Rome in June 2 AD. Joseph, in good standing as a dynast as long as he kept the dynastic rules, received a stipend from the mission funds. He acted as Theudas' partner in mission and helped him financially. But Joseph began to be influenced to loosen his strict Essene moral code.
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Wednesday June 7, 2 AD, Pentecost. Rome, Tiber Island.
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16. kai epethymei chortasthēnai ek tōn keratiōn hōn
ēsthion hoi choiroi, kai oudeis edidou autō.
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16. He (RLR to him, Theudas v.15) lusted
to be given
foodstuff out of the husks which the
swine
ate. And
No one gave to him (Theudas)
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16. In Antipas' house on the Tiber Island there was a loosening
of strict sexual standards, influenced by Roman customs. At Antipas' table,
which Theudas joined, there was an atmosphere of lust. Ordinary food for
hunger eaten by Antipas, the "swine", was treated as if it were the sacred
meal. Joseph had some conflict. As a dynast who kept the strict rules he was
paid a stipend to support his family, and so was a "hired servant". He gave
financial help to Theudas his partner in mission who was dependent on the
charity of Antipas. But Joseph also began to loosen his code over the next
three years, not observing the strict dynastic rule of sexual separation from
his wife between births. He would thus commit "fornication with his wife", the
sin named in 4Q 270, fr. 7.
TIBER
ISLAND HOUSE OF
ANTIPAS. It was the same shape as Ain Feshkha,with four wings
around a courtyard, the usual design of a Roman house. In the south-east
corner the Dan Gentiles met with the Magus for monastic teaching in their
"garden of Eden".
This part was called the Figtree, for the tree from which Adam and Eve made
their garments. It became politically opposed to the Vineyard, the house of the
royal Herods in Rome to which the young prince Agrippa came when he was ready for
his higher education.
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The pesher gives no further events
until 4 AD.
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JUNE 4 AD
In June 4 AD at the end of a 2 year term Theudas left Rome to join the war effort in the homeland. When he arrived back he joined the militant new sect of Judas the Galilean. The Magus and Joseph stayed behind on the Tiber Island until the following year. Antipas returned with Theudas.
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DECEMBER, 4 AD
Judas the Galilean founded a new sect at Qumran and Ain Feshkha on December 1, 4 AD. At the same time Simeon led their opposition, the peace party at Mird-Hyrcania. Simeon had been told that Joseph with the Magus in Rome was also inclining towards militarism and was not observing dynastic marriage rules, with the result that his stipend had been withdrawn.
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Midnight beginning Monday December 1, 4 AD. 1st of Julian month, solar unintercalated 30th. Qumran,
Ain Feshkha and Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:18)
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18. achri hou anestē
basileus heteros ep' Aigypton hos ouk ēdei ton Iōsēph.
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18.
Until{achri} of which
another
king
stood up upon
Egypt.
Who (new subject) did not
know{oida} Joseph.
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18. At midnight beginning Monday December 1, 4 AD, the 1st of the
Julian winter month that was observed by the Diaspora mission, Judas the
Gailiean founded a new militant party at Qumran and Ain Feshkha. In the words of Josephus, he was a sophist
who "founded a sect of his own", the militant "fourth philosophy"
(Josephus, Antiquities 18, 23;
Josephus, Wars of the Jews 2, 118).
As a monastic he took over the Qumran school and its scribal
facilities, as well as Ain Feshkha for militant Therapeuts. Judas formed a militant party using
the animal emblems of the Dragon, the Calf and the Beast. He himself, the actual
leader, was the Beast, using the Lion emblem of the Davids and Therapeuts. He
upheld Archelaus as the Calf, the emblem of the Raphael of the four Living
Creatures. Since Archelaus supplied money from the Qumran vaults for the war
effort, he was called the Golden Calf, and for physical reasons the Fatted
Calf. The Pharisee high priest Joazar Boethus, although a moderate, was for
nationalism. Playing the part of Pharaoh in the Exodus liturgy, he was also
called the Dragon. In Revelation 12 and 13 these figures, the Dragon and the
Beast, appear.
Since Judas took over the Qumran scriptorium, and since
Joazar Boethus was a Pharisee, the party of Scribes and Pharisees who appear in
the gospels was now formed. In the gospel period the successor of Judas the
Galilean was Judas Iscariot, and the successor of Joazar Boethus was Caiaphas.
Simeon, Simon the Essene, of the
peace party, was beginning his retirement on this day. As an elderly man he
would go down from the monastic rigor to live in the abbey as a grade 4 bishop.
That meant that he had joined the Therapeuts. He would be able to act at their
Exodus liturgy as the "Moses", leading the choir of men and teaching from the
Law. In his abbey status he had become a "Who", one who had come down from the
supreme priestly leadership. He could act for the peace party in the place of
Theudas, who was a "Moses" when he was in Sadducee mode, but now was acting as
a militant "Joshua".
Simeon had been informed by Theudas
that Joseph, still in Rome, was compromising the strict dynastic rules and his salary
had been withdrawn. Simeon endorsed the action, so that he "did not know
Joseph", using the verb for "know" that applied to abbey knowledge.
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Monday December 1, 4 AD. 1st of Julian month, solar unintercalated 30th. Noon. Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:19)
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19. houtos katasophisamenos
to genos hēmōn ekakōsen tous pateras tou poiein ta brephē
ektheta autōn eis to mē zōogoneisthai.
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19.
This One having made down-wise the
kindred of
Us, made
bad the
Fathers to
make the
babes of them (Fathers)out-placed not to
live.
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19. Judas the Galilean brought Theudas into the Magian party, into the branch that demanded circumcision for Gentiles Uncircumcised Gentiles of Asher were treated as females, and of Dan were classed as "babes", not permitted to receive "life" through initiation.
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Simeon completed his retirement, becoming the "Moses" of the peace Therapeuts. He allied with Ananus the Elder, who was working to become high priest and so bring the country to a pro-Roman peace.
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Tuesday December 2, 4 AD. The December early intercalation
for the south solar 3941. Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:20)
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20a. en hō kairō
egennēthē Mōysēs. Kai ēn asteios tō theō.
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20a. In which
season Moses was born, and
became beautiful to
God.
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29a. On Tuesday December 2, the 31st
for the winter intercalation before the south solar year 5 AD, Simon the
Essene completed his retirement. Becoming a lay bishop with the Therapeuts,
he wore a purple vestment instead of an Essene white robe,and was appointed a
peace party deputy to the abbot Ananus the Elder, who was now working to be
appointed high priest by Rome.
For the south solar intercalation
year 5 AD, an early intercalation was made the previous winter, as is shown in
(Luke 13:1),
en autō tō kairō, "at the same season". It
thus brought the 31st to near the solstice, combining it with the meeting days
at the season that included January 1.
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On March 1 5 AD, Simeon began his re-education in the abbey discipline at Mird-Hyrcania, as a subordinate of the abbot Ananus.
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20b hos anetraphē mēnas
treis en tō oikō tou patros.
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20b
Who (new subject,
Simeon) was nurtured 3
months (month 3) in the
House (masc.) of the
Father .
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20b. On the 1st of March, 5 AD, Simeon, observing the
Julian calendar as the abbeys did, began his education in the doctrines of the
Therapeuts, in the north part of the ground floor meal-room in the west wing at
Mird-Hyrcania. He was the subordinate of the abbot Ananus.
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On the Tiber Island in Rome Joseph said to the Magus that his stipend had been withdrawn for not keeping the dynastic marriage rules.
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Wednesday March 4, 5 AD. Tiber Island, Rome. The solar 1st beginning
the 40 days fasting at the south solar intercalation.
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17. eis heauton de elthōn ephē, Posoi misthioi tou patros
mou perisseuontai artōn, egō de limō hōde apollymai.
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17. He (SRLR to Nemo, Joseph, Luke
15:16) coming at
Himself
stated, "
How many
hired servants of the
Father of me have an
overflow of
loaves I am
destroyed here in a
famine ".
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17. March, 5 AD, was the south
solar intercalation year 3941 (corresponding to 33 AD in the gospel period, the
year of the crucifixion, which included a 40 day period,
Acts 1:3.) The 40 day
fast held by solarists in these years began on the solar 1st, Wednesday March
4. Joseph under the influence of the Magian Seekers-after-Smooth- Things had
loosened his dynastic sexual code and his stipend had been withdrawn. He turned
to the Magus for advice. He spoke of the Chief Pilgrim in Rome, the man who was the
predecessor of Peter. This man was of a lesser standard of education, and
worked in Rome
for a short term. He observed the rules of sexual separation. Being of a lower
grade, he worked with Dan Gentiles only. He had advanced them to the point of
adding one as a 13th at the Jewish table, receiving the leftover fragments of
the 12 holy loaves. For his work he was given a stipend by Jacob-Heli in charge
of Gentile mission.(1 Corinthians 9:5, Peter and James, the successor of
Joseph, received the stipend of dynasts. Their wives lived with them as a
Sister)
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Joseph planned to return to the homeland to join the peace party of Jacob-Heli. He would confess to him his sin against Essene sexual rules.
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Wednesday March 4, 5 AD. Tiber Island, Rome
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18. anastas poreusomai pros ton patera mou. Kai erō autō,
Pater, hēmarton eis ton ouranon. Kai enōpion sou.
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18. "Having
stood up I will
travel
towards the
Father (Jacob-Heli) of me. And I
will say to him, Father, I have
sinned
at
Heaven. And
before{enōpion} you.
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18. Joseph continued to the Magus
that he had seen the error of his ways and decided to return home as a
penitent, joining the peace party of his father Jacob-Heli. He knew that under
Ananus as abbot there would be a more liberal sexual code.
Joseph said, "I have returned to
celibacy. I will travel as a missionary back to the homeland and stand in
front of Jacob-Heli at Mird-Hyrcania. I will say to him, ' Father, I am a
sexual sinner by the standards of the Essene Zechariah the Zadokite, having
caused a pre-nuptial conception and not keeping the rule of separation. Restore
me as your servant, a lay bishop standing behind you on row 12.'
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Wednesday March 4, 5 AD. Tiber Island, Rome
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19. ouketi eimi axios klēthēnai huios sou. Poiēson
me hōs hena tōn misthiōn sou.
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19. "
No Longer I am
suitable to be
called a
son of you.
Make me
as a
1 of the
hired servants of you.
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19. "Now in March 5 AD it is the end
of a New Exodus of 40 years from March 36 BC, the south lunisolar generation
year 3901. Having returned to celibacy I am qualified to be a lay bishop and
your deputy. Restore my stipend so that I am equal to the Chief Pilgrim."
Joseph and the Magus then set out on
the 6 months sea journey from Rome to the homeland. Antipas had returned with Theudas.
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Photo R. Mird-Hyrcania. Entrance to cells on the south flank.
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Photo S. Mird-Hyrcania. Inside the entrance to a cell.
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Photo T. Mird-Hyrcania. Modern frescoes on roof and wall of a cell.
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At Pentecost Simeon was instructed in the teaching for Gentiles by Anna, the elderly woman who was the alternate head of Asher female ministers.
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Wednesday June 3, 5 AD, Pentecost, at Mird-Hyrcania (Acts 7:21)
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21. ektethentos de autou aneilato auton hē thygatēr Pharaō
kai anethrepsato auton heautē eis huion.
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21. He (Who Simeon Acts 7:20b )
being out-placed, the
daughter of Pharaoh
lifted up him.
And she nurtured him (Simeon) to
Herself at a
son.
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21.Simeon in the status of novice
was defined as a "babe", so was instructed by the Mother Sarah, Anna of Asher,
at present under the authority of Joazar Boethus the reigning Pharisee high
priest. As women used the cells under Mird-Hyrcania, she taught him
there.
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Wednesday June 3, 5 AD, Pentecost, at Mird-Hyrcania (Acts 7:22)
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22. kai epaideuthē Mōysēs
pasē sophia Aigyptiōn, ēn de dynatos en logois kai ergois autou.
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22. Moses was taught as a
Child 1 in
All
Wisdom (fem.) of
Egyptians. He (RLR to masc. Moses)
became
powerful in
Words. And
Works of him (Moses)
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22. Simeon at grade 8 was taught by
the wife of Antipas, the deputy of Anna. At noon he was brought up to the meal table as a
levitical bishop equal to Jacob-Heli. Lysanias was promoted to a Nazirite Elder
by the liberal Sadducee Ananus
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In September 5 AD the process leading to the Roman occupation began. The peace party at Mird-Hyrcania led by Simeon set about having Archelaus removed. "In the 10th year of Archelaus' rule the leading men among the Jews and Samaritans, finding his cruelty and tyranny intolerable, brought charges against him before Caesar." (Josephus, Antiquities 17, 342-344)
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Joseph and the Magus arrived back in the homeland after their six months' voyage. Joseph joined the abbot Ananus the Elder at Mird-Hyrcania.
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Tuesday September 1, 5 AD, Julian 1st and also solar
31st, midnight. Mird-Hyrcania. (Luke 15:20)
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20a. kai anastas ēlthen
pros ton patera heautou.
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20a And he (participle subject RLR
to Joseph before speech Luke 15:17) having
stood up came
towards the
Father (Ananus) of
Himself.
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20a. Joseph and the Magus arrived back from Rome in
September. Joseph was received as a celibate lay bishop by Ananus the abbot at
Mird Hyrcania. Ananus could work with the Magus in Diaspora mission, both
having "zeal", the doctrine that ascetic works substituted for temple attendance. Both were thus
counted as Samaritans, meaning opposition to Jerusalem.
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At the auspicious date Tuesday September 1, at noon, Simeon called a council meeting at Ain Feshkha. Joseph was present, and so also was Lysanias, who was being encouraged to use his influence against Archelaus.
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Tuesday September 1, 5 AD, noon. Ain Feshkha.(Acts 7:23)
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23. Hōs de eplērouto autō tesserakontaetēs
chronos, anebē epi tēn kardian autou epikepsasthai tous adelphous
autou tous huious Israēl.
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23.As was
fulfilled to him
(Simeon- Moses v.22) a 40
year
time, it went up upon the
heart of him (Simeon- Moses) to episcopal-visit the
Brothers (Joseph)
of him (Simeon-Moses). (In apposition), the
sons of
Israel. (Lysanias).
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23. Tuesday, September 1, 5 AD, was a significant
date that combined the unintercalated south solar 31st with the Julian 1st of
the month. It was also the main end of the 40 year New Exodus from September 36
BC, the south lunisolar generation year 3901. It was interpreted as an
auspicious date for political action, the plan to remove Archelaus. Simeon
called a council meeting at Ain Feshkha, including Joseph who had now returned.
Lysanias, a grade 5 Nazirite who was also a subordinate of Jacob-Heli, was
present, as the one whose political influence would bring about the removal of
Archelaus.
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At the council Simeon promoted Lysanias and punished Theudas for his militancy.
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Tuesday September 1, 5 AD, 3:00 pm, Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:24)
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24. kai idōn tina adikoumenon ēmynato kai epoiēsen
ekdikēsin tō kataponoumenō pataxas ton Aigyption.
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24. And he (Simeon-Moses)
seeing{eidon} a
Certain One
anti-righteous he (Simeon-Moses) aided. And he (Simeon-Moses)
made out-righteous to the oppressed man, he (Simeon-Moses) having struck the
Egyptian.
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24. Simeon on row 10 on the
intermediate platform at Ain Feshkha looked down the steps to row 13, where
Lysanias the Asher Gentile was permitted to pray. He was still being treated
as inferior to Jewish celibates. Knowing his political influence with Rome, Simeon who was leading
the action against Archelaus promoted Lysanias and appointed him tetrarch of Abilene in north-east Transjordan. From there he
would be able to influence the Roman governor in Antioch. Lysanias adopted the title of a
previous tetrarch of Abilene
(Josephus, Antiquities 14, 330;
Josephus, Antiquities 15, 92).
In Luke 3:1 a successor
appears, again using the title.
Simeon also punished Theudas for
his militancy.
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Tuesday September 1, 5 AD 6 pm, Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:25)
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25. enomizen de synienai tous
adelphous hoti ho theos dia cheiros autou didōsin sōtērian
autois, hoi de ou synēkan.
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25. He (SRLR to Egyptian Theudas) held from the
Law the
Brothers to
understand that
God through a
hand of him (God) might give
Salvation to them (Brothers),
Who
(new subject. plu rep Lysanias ) did not
understand.
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25. Theudas argued from the
practice of Therapeuts that Ananus should re-appoint Joseph as the Joshua for
the New Holy War that should now begin, using the Sadducee methods of
persuasion instead of arms. The Gentile Lysanias, however, was not given the status of a Jewish bishop.
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Death of Zechariah
At the following Day of Atonement, Friday September 11, 5 AD, Zechariah the descendant of the Zadoks was killed as he officiated on the
prayer platform treated as the Holy of Holies at Mird-Hyrcania. His assassin
was an agent of Judas the Galilean.
Luke 11:51 describes the murder. To perform the atonement,
Zechariah stood in front of the altar of incense on the upper half of row 7,
sprinkling the blood on the incense altar that would effect the atonement. He
was killed and thrown down from the platform to the ground floor, which stood
for the House (oikos) the part of the sanctuary that was not the Holy of
Holies.
Zechariah's heir was the 12 year old John the Baptist. Simeon
guided him in joining the Plant-root, a breakaway faction of monastic Essenes
who were politically involved. In 26 AD John the Baptist became its head as
the Teacher of Righteousness. Subsequently the pacifist Essenes, of the kind
described by Josephus, moved their sanctuary and monastery to a new position on
the Mediterranean coast, where Essenes are subsequently named
(Josephus, Wars of the Jews 2, 567).
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On the Day of Atonement, at the death of Zechariah, Ananus the abbot immediately replaced him as the Zadokite. Simeon became his deputy.
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Friday September 11, 5 AD, the Day of Atonement at Mird-Hyrcania.
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20b eti de autou makran
apechontos eiden auton ho patēr autou kai esplangchnisthē kai dramōn
epepesen epi ton trachēlon autou kai katephilēsen auton
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20b
Still he (RLR to Father v 20a, Ananus abbot)
having-from
afar, the Father (Simeon)
saw{eidon}
him (Ananus abbot). And he (Father Simeon) had
compassion.
And he (Father Simeon)
running
fell upon the
neck of him
(Ananus abbot). And he (Father Simeon)
kissed him (Ananus abbot).
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20b At 4 pm on the Day of Atonement, when the
atonement ceremony concluded, Zechariah was killed. As the position must
always be filled and John the Baptist the son of Zechariah was only 12 years
old, Ananus the abbot immediately acted as the successor, giving to the Annas
priests the functions of the Zadokites.
The implication was that abbeys,
formerly treated as inferior because they permitted marriage, had become equal
to monasteries. Simeon illustrated this byceremonially traversing the ground
floor area under the platform standing for the Holy of Holies. He began at row
12, corresponding to the "entrails" in the Heavenly Man imagery.
Then he went up to row 8, which lay
under the row for the Ark on the platform above. Row 8 on the ground floor stood for
the "neck" of the Heavenly Man. Ananus stood on row 7, under the position of
the Zadokite when he performed the act of atonement. Simeon gave Ananus a holy
kiss, expressing the fact of their equality in ministry, as Judas Iscariot was
doing when he kissed Jesus in Gethsemane (Mark 14:45).
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In December Ananus further promoted Lysanias, who used the Peace emblem and the sign of the cross
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26. tē epiousē hēmera ōphthē autois
machomenois kai synēllassen autous eis eirēnēn eipōn, Andres,
adelphoi este. hinati adikeite allēlous.
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26. Ar the
tomorrow day{epiousios} he
(SRLR to God Acts 7:25) was
seen{horaō}
by them (RLR to Who plu.rep.Acts 7:.25 Lysanias)
fighting.
And he (God) reconciled them (Lysanias) to
Peace saying, "
men{anēr}, you are
Brothers. In order that you make
One Another
unrighteous"
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26 At the meeting on December 1,
which was also the solar 31st, Ananus again honored Lysanias, whose help was
needed for the political plan. Lysanias was already acting as a missionary for
Sadducee spiritual warfare. Ananus made him a deputy for a Gentile abbey using
the Peace emblem, saying, "Lysanias, you are equal to a Jewish presbyter. You use the
Sadducee sign of the cross in mission, and you treat the married Antipas as
inferior."
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Figure 14 Judea, Samaria, Galilee, and Syria in the First Centuries BC and AD
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At a council near the December solstice the tetrarch Antipas complained that the tetrarch Philip was taking over his territory of Perea.
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Thursday December 17, 5 AD, solar 30th, the day after the pentecontad. Noon. Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:27)
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27.ho de adikōn ton plēsion apōsato auton eipōn,
Tis se katestēsen archonta kai dikastēn eph' hēmōn.
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27. The one who was making the
neighbor
unrighteous put-from him (neighbor ), saying to him, "A
Certain One has
stood-down you as a
ruler. And a
judge upon of us."
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27. At the council near the
December solstice there were disputes over mission booundaries. In Transjordan. Damascus and Arabia were defined as
neighbors, not being part of Jewish territory. Mission to them had been conducted from Iturea-Trachonitis in the NE
under the tetrarch Philip Herod, and from Perea in the SE, which was part of
the territory of Antipas the tetrarch of Galilee. With the appointment
of Lysanias to Abilene in the NE, the tetrarch Philip was pushed down to Perea,
taking over the functions of Antipas and promoting Gentiles. At the council
Antipas attacked Philip for the intrusion. As is reflected in
Revelation 22:11,
the 4 corners in the X shape were associated with "holy"; celibates in the NE;
"righteous", Nazirites in the NW; "unrighteous" married in the SE; and
"filthy", Romans in the SW. An archon, "ruler", was the head of mission
at one of these corners in the X shape. Jacob-Heli was the judge at the NW.
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Thursday December 17, 5 AD, solar 30th. 3 pm. Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:28)
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28. Mē anelein me sy theleis hon tropon aneiles echthes
ton Aigyption.
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28. You (Philip tetrarch) exercising
will, not to
lift-up me(Antipas) in the way that you
lifted up the
Egyptian
Yesterday."
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28. Antipas continued, " You, Philip
Herod, do not have the authority to exile me, as I am a married man who cannot
be excommunicated or exiled. But on this his promotion day, the 30th, you have exiled
Theudas to Damascus for militancy."The exile would take effect after a 6 months
period of probation, in June 6 AD.
It was at this time that Antipas
changed his politics to support Judas the Galilean and the militarists, as is indicated in
Acts 5:37
(below). The Gentiles
Antipas upheld were now the nationalist proselytes. As Judas the Galilean
needed financial help after Archelaus had wasted so much, he called on the rich
Antipas to help him with the insurrection he was preparing.
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At midnight beginning Friday the solar 31st at Mird-Hyrcania, preparations began for Joseph and Theudas to be re-instated by Simeon.
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Midnight beginning Friday December 18, 5 AD, solar 31st. Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:29)
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29.ephygen de Mōysēs en tō logō toutō, kai
egeneto paroikos en gē Madiam, hou egennēsen huious dyo.
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29. Moses fled in
This
Word . And he (SRLR to This Word Joseph)
came about in a
beside-dwelling in an
Earth
Midian, of whom it (Earth Joseph) begot
Son 2.
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29. Simeon -Moses then left Ain
Feshkha and returned to the sanctuary at Mird-Hyrcania, reaching it after 9
hours. He was with Joseph there. Joseph stood as a penitent for judging outside
the north end of the west wing meal-room, near the fire that was called the
Burning Bush. With him was Theudas as the deputy abbot, also a penitent.
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Theudas expressed repentance for his sexual sin and his militancy and was admitted as a lay bishop to the peace party in the abbey.
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Friday 31st December 18, 5 AD. Noon. Mird-Hyrcania.
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21. eipen de hō huios autō, Pater, hēmarton eis ton
ouranon, kai enōpion sou, ouketi eimi axios klēthēnai huios sou.
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21. The
Son said to him (RLR
to Ananus last auton in Lk 15: 20b), "
Father (Ananus abbot), I have
sinned at
Heaven, And
before{enōpion} you, I am a
suitable one at the
No Longer, so may be called a
Son of you."
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21. At noon Theudas made his confession to the abbot
Ananus. He said, "Abbot, I have committed sexual sin as an associate of the
Magus. At the end of the Herodian New Exodus I am qualified to be a lay bishop,
standing behind you as a deputy to advise (CD 13:5-6) when you come to visit
the congregation."
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Simeon, accepting Theudas' repentance, arranged the ceremony for his re-appointment as deputy abbot. He was vested in a single long white robe, and given the ring, sandals, and charity jar of a traveling missionary bishop.
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Friday December 18, 5 AD, intercalated solar 31st, 1 pm. Mird-Hyrcania.
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22. eipen de ho patēr pros tous doulous autou, Tachy
exenengkate stolēn tēn prōtēn kai endysate auton, kai dote
daktylion eis tēn cheira autou kai hypodēmata eis tous podas.
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22. The
Father said
towards the
slaves "
Quickly
bring the first robe. And dress him (Son Theudas v.21). And give a ring at the
hand of him(Theudas). And
sandals at the
feet .
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22. At 1 pm, the hour for beginning preferred by
Therapeuts, Simeon on row 13 stood in front of the cardinal who was the third
in an abbey hierarchy. He said, "At 1 pm bring a levite's long white robe, the first of the Zadokite
robes (Ezekiel 44:17). Robe Theudas with it. Since he is also a bishop,
place a ring on the ring finger of his right hand to show that he is "married"
to his community. To show that he is not a sanctuary priest with bare feet
Exodus 3:5 but a missionary traveling outside, give him sandals to wear
(Mark 6:9). He will place the bishop's jar for shared welfare tithes beside his feet.
"
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At midnight on Friday, the beginning of the Julian sabbath, Simeon said to the cardinal, "Bring the Calf emblem of Archelaus and kill him symbolically. Let us offer prayers, hold a sacred meal and sing hymns".
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Midnight beginning Saturday December 19, 5 AD, at Mird-Hyrcania.
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23. kai pherete ton moschon ton siteuton, thysate kai phagontes
euphranthōmen
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23. "and bring the Fatted
Calf,
sacrifice. And
eating let us
rejoice."
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23. Simeon, leading the party of
citizens working for the removal of Archelaus, called for midnight, the hour for the Calf, to
be observed by bringing the embem of the false Calf, Archelaus, and destroying
it, so as to symbolically kill him. A midnight sacred meal was to be held, with the singing of hymns.
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Joseph's return to the peace party and the Essene discipline was also celebrated.
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Saturday December 19 5AD, 12:05 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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24. hoti houtos ho huios mou nekros ēn kai anezēsen, ēn
apolōlōs kai heurethē..
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24. "that
This One the
Son of me(Simeon)
became
lifeless. And he
lives , he
became
destroyed. And he is
found." They (slaves v.22)
began to
rejoice.
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24. Simeon continued, "Joseph has
been excluded to grade 11. But he is now restored as a lay bishop for Gentiles. He was in Rome, but he has rejoined
the homeland peace party". At 12:05 am the service began with the singing of a hymn.
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JANUARY, 6 AD.
At midnight beginning Friday January 1, 6 AD, Jacob-Heli
came to the New Year celebration at Mird-Hyrcania.
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Midnight beginning Friday January 1, 6 AD. Mird-Hyrcania(Luke 15:25)
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25. ēn de ho huios autou ho presbyteros en agrō.kai hōs
erchomenos ēngizen tē oikia, ēkousen symphōnias kai chorōn,
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25. The
Son of him (RLR to
This One Son, Joseph v.24) the
Elder
became in a
field. And as a
Coming One{erchomai} he
neared the
house (fem. form), he
heard symphony. And dances.
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25 Jacob-Heli acted as a grade 5
Elder when teaching Asher Gentiles as the Sower in the cells under
Mird-Hyrcania. With them he observed the Julian calendar and New Year's Day. At
midnight beginning
New Year's Day he took his place on the stand outside the meal-room and heard
the musical instruments on the open air platform above the upper part of the
room. The liturgical dance of the Therapeuts was being performed, celebrating
the end of the New Exodus extending from December.
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Jacob-Heli, who preferred to speak Hebrew, summoned the chief celibate Gentile of Dan who understood Hebrew. He asked if the Greek language with the T sign of the cross was being used.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 12:01 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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26. kai proskalesamenos hena tōn paidōn epynthaneto ti an
eiē tauta.
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26. And he (RLR to Elder v.25,
Jacob- Heli) calling-towards a
1 of the
children 1, enquired," (
what) might
these things
become."
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26. Still outside, Jacob-Heli
summoned the chief celibate Gentile of Dan and asked if the Greek language was
being used, with the T sign of the cross.
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Jacob-Heli was informed that Lysanias as tetrarch of Abilene had used his influence with Quirinius the Roman governor in Antioch to have Archelaus dismissed.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 12:03 am. Mird-Hyrcania .
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27. ho de eipen autō hoti, Ho adelphos sou ēkei, kai
ethysen ho patēr sou ton moschon ton siteuton, hoti hygiainonta auton
apelaben.
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27. He (addressed, Dan Gentile )
said to him (RLR to Jacob-Heli v.26), "The
Brother of you has come. And the
Father (abbot Ananus) of you has
sacrificed the Fatted
Calf,
that he ( Father Ananus) has received him (Fatted Calf )
healthy."
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27. The Dan Gentile said to
Jacob-Heli, "Lysanias has used his influence against Archelaus.The abbot Ananus
has repeated the destruction of the Calf emblem at midnight. Ananus has removed from Archelaus
the right to use the baptismal cisterns and property at Qumran".
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At the Julian beginning of the day and year Ananus accepted the position of pro-Roman high priest, with Simeon as his deputy.
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Friday January 1, 6AD. 12.05 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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28. ōrgisthē de kai ouk ēthelen eiselthein. Ho de patēr
autou exelthōn parekalei auton.
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28. He (RLR to Father Ananus v.27) became
wrathful. He (Ananus) did not
will
to come at. The Father(Simeon) of him (Ananus) coming out
called-beside him (Ananus)
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28.At 12:05 am Ananus on the upper platform declared
that he was pro-Rome. He did not act as a village priest but as a high priest.
Simeon acted as his paraclete, his deputy.
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At 3 am Simeon permitted Jacob-Heli to treat uncircumcised Gentiles of Asher as being in the class of proselytes of the Way. The group that would be led by Peter, James and John in the gospel period was thus formed.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. 3 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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29. ho de apokritheis eipen tō patri autou, Idou tosauta etē
douleuō soi kai oudepote entolēn sou parelthon, kai emoi oudepote edōkas
eriphon hina meta tōn philōn mou euphranthō.
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29. He ( Jacob-Heli addressed in v.27) having
answered said to the
Father (Simeon) of him (Jacob-Heli), "
See{eidon},
so much
years I
slave for you. And
Not-When
a commandment of you I have
come-beside{erchomai}. And to me at
Not-When you have given a
kid in order that with the
friends of me I
rejoice.
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29. Jacob-Heli said to Simeon, "At
this 3 am dawn
hour when the beginning of the Julian year is observed by pilgrims and Asher
Gentiles, I minister with married workers. Since full proselytes have the
emblem of a Goat, relating them to the pilgrim Sheep, the uncircumcised
attached to proselytes have the emblem of a Kid, a young goat. You now give me
that emblem, to use for these Gentiles, relating them to Jewish pilgrims. I lead a hymn at the
close of the night vigil."
The category of Jewish pilgrims with
uncircumcised Gentiles of Asher was thus formed. In the gospel period their leaders would be
Peter, James Niceta ("wheat") and John Aquila ("barley").
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Jacob-Heli continued that Archelaus and his wife Glaphyra had been finally expelled.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. 3:30 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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30. hote de ho huios sou houtos ho kataphagōn sou ton bion
meta pornōn ēlthen, ethysas autō to siteuton moschon.
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30."
When{hote} the
Son of you,
This One.
(Lysanias) (In apposition) he the one eating-down the
living
of you with harlots has come. You have
sacrificed
for him (RLR to Son, Lysanais, not to the participle) the Fatted
Calf.
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30. At 3:30 am, the separate prayer time for superior
Asher Gentiles,
(Revelation 8:1)
Jacob-Heli continued to Simeon, "Lysanias is
now a bishop beside you. Archelaus with his wife Glaphyra holds a wrongful
sacred meal for the congregation, using the income from workers. You, Simeon,
have now repeated the breaking of the emblem, and have given to Lysanias the position
and property of Archelaus."
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Simeon told Lysanias that the property of Archelaus was to be given to his order of Asher in Syria.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. 4am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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31. ho de eipen autō, Teknon, sy pantote met' emou ei, kai
panta ta ema sa estin.
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31. He (addressed, Simeon) said to
him (RLR to Lysanias given the position of the Fatted Calf v.30), "
Child 2 , you at All-when
become
with me. And
All things mine
become yours.
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31. Simeon said to Lysanias. "You, a
Gentile of Asher,
have become my equal. You now act at Herodian times, at 4 am,.the hour for teaching
Gentiles (John 1:39, 4 am and 4 pm). The property of Archelaus is to be given to your order of
Asher in Syria.".
(Josephus, Antiquities 17, 355,
"the territory subject to Archelaus was added to the province of Syria").
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Simeon added that Anna was to replace Glaphyra as the head of Asher, and that Lysanias' deputy, the "Barley" Gentile, was accepted as a bishop in the homeland.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. 6 am. Mird-Hyrcania.
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32. euphranthēnai de kai charēnai edei, hoti ho adelphos
sou houtos nekros ēn kai ezēsen, kai apolōlōs kai heurethē.
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32. "
Rejoice
(sing hymns. 6 am sunrise by women). And it is a duty to be
joyful, that the
Brother of you (Lysanias)
This One
became
lifeless. And he (Brother, This One) has
lived, And a
destroyed one. And he is
found."
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32. Simeon continued to Lysanias,
"At 6 am sing
the sunrise hymn. The new head of Asher in place of Glaphyra is to be Anna,
called "Joy". Your subordinate, the Gentile "Barley" has been promoted from grade 11 to be a Gentile lay bishop.
He was based in Rome, and he is now accepted by the homeland peace party."
(The Barley Gentile was the
predecessor of John Aquila, called Brother in
Mark 1:19, the subject of the
feeding of the 5000 at the barley harvest,
John 6:9)
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On the same New Year's day at noon, at the end of the 40 year New Exodus counted from January 1, Ananus was preparing to mount the steps leading up to the prayer platform at Mird-Hyrcania.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, noon. Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:30)
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30. kai plērōthentōn etōn tesserakonta ōphthē
autō en tē erēmō tou orous Sina angelos en phlogi pyros
batou.
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30. And
year 40 being
fulfilled, there was
seen{horaō}
to him (RLR to This Word Joseph in Acts 7:29) in the
wilderness of Mount Sinai an
angel in a flame of
fire of a
bush.
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30. The 40 year Herodian New Exodus
from December 36 BC could also be counted from the following January 1, and
observed at noon
as the high point of the day. Outside the north end of the west wing at
Mird-Hyrcania, steps led up to the platform, as was also the case at Qumran. As at Qumran, a large circular fire
stood beside the steps, used for cooking the holy loaves. The oil lamp used
for lighting it was placed in the same row.
Joseph stood there, ensuring that
the perpetually burning fire stayed alight.
Exodus 3:4-6. Ananus the abbot stood
at the foot of the steps, preparing to go up to the platform, which had been
the substitute Holy of Holies since the Qumran sanctuary had been transferred there after the earthquake
of 31 BC.
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Ananus led by his deputy Simeon reached the platform.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 12.03, pm on the Mird-Hyrcania platform.(Acts 7:31)
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31. ho de Mōysēs idōn ethaumazen to horama.
Proserchomenou de autou katanoēsai egeneto phōnē kyriou.
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31. Moses
seeing{eidon}
wondered at the
vision. As he (vision Ananus) coming-towards to
observe, there
came about a
Voice of a
Lord.
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31. At 12:03 pm Ananus had reached the platform. In
his white abbot's robes Ananus stood on row 7, with Simeon on row 10 at the
edge of the platform. Ananus used row 7 when he needed to understand and
speak Greek. He summoned the other two leaders following him up the steps to
stand on either side of him. Then he spoke as the Pope from the platform.
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Joined by the Magus
and by Jacob-Heli, Ananus on row 7 announced the new regime, which would continue
the Diaspora mission structure under Herod the Great, but with no Herod.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 12:05 pm on the Mird-Hyrcania platform. (Acts 7:32)
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32. Egō ho theos ton paterōn sou, ho theos Abraam kai
Isaak kai Iakōb. Entromos de genomenos Mōysēs ouk etolma katanoēsai.
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32. "I the
God of the
Fathers of you (Simeon), the
God
Abraham. And Isaac. And Jacob. Moses having
come-about trembling did not
dare to
observe.
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32. Ananus announced that he was
now the head of the mission in both the homeland and the Diaspora. There would
be no royal Herods. With the Therapeuts of the homeland he acted as priest to
pilgrims. In the Diaspora he was the Pope Abraham at the Jerusalem center. The Magus
was his Isaac, the patriarch of the east, allied with him because both held
the Diaspora outlook that ascetic discipline replaced temple attendance. Heli
was his Jacob, the patriarch of the west. The patriarchs stood on either side
of him on row 7. There was no place in the Diaspora system for the elderly
Simeon, who did not speak Greek.
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At 3:00 pm when the sabbath began Simeon stood on at the dais step of the ground floor. He was told by Ananus to pay money from the welfare jar for the Roman taxes, as was done on the 1st of the Julian month.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 3:00 pm. Mird-Hyrcania.(Acts 7:33)
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33. eipen de autō ho kyrios, Lyson to hypodēma tōn
podōn sou, ho gar topos eph' hō hestēkas gē hagia estin.
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33. The
Lord (Ananus) said
to him (RLR to Simeon v.32), "Loose the
sandal of the
feet of you, for the
place upon to which you stand
becomes
holy
Earth."
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33. At 3 pm on Friday January 1, when the sabbath
began, Simeon stood on row 13, the dais step. The row, where congregation
members knelt to receive the sacred meal, was a "Holy Earth" to "Heaven" on the
platform above. Simeon as a levitical bishop had the right to receive the
welfare tithes from the Diaspora paid to the bishop (CD 14:12-15). He did not travel
himself, but placed the jar on the sandal of a traveling missionary, its lid
tied on with the sandalstraps. When he spent the money he untied the straps. He
was told by Ananus to pay money from the welfare tithes for the Roman taxes, as
was done on the 1st of the Julian month.
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When the Friday meeting ended at 3:05 pm , Ananus said to Simeon that they would take advantage of the Julian sabbath to walk the 9 hours from Mird-Hyrcania to Ain Feshkha, arriving midnight. They were concerned because both Joseph and Theudas had begun to turn to militancy again.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD, 3:05 pm. Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:34)
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34. idōn eidon tēn kakōsin tou laou mou tou en
Aigyptō, kai tou stenagmou autōn ēkousa, kai katebēn exelesthai
autous, kai nyn deuro aposteilō se eis Aigypton.
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34. "
Seeing{eidon} I Ananus have
seen{eidon} the making
bad of the
people of me, the one in
Egypt.
And the groaning of them (RLR to Son 2 Acts 7:29) I have heard. And I go down to
lift-up them (son 2 Theudas ). And
now{nyn}, come, I
send-from{apostellō} you ( Simeon) at
Egypt."
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34. Ananus continued to Simeon, " I
have sent Joseph down to the congregation, for renewed militancy under the
influence of the Magus at Ain Feshkha. Theudas has also returned to his
commitment to martyrdom. I intend to exile him. At this time, 3:05 pm, you and I will walk 9
hours to Ain Feshkha, arriving at midnight, the Julian sabbath."
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At the Friday midnight meeting at Ain Feshkha Simeon was not respected by Theudas.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. Midnight ending January 1 at Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:35)
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35. Touton ton Mōysēn,
hon ērnēsanto eipontes, Tis se katestēsen archonta kai dikastēn.
Touton ho theos kai archonta kai lytrōtēn apestalken syn cheiri
angelou tou ophthentos autō en tē batō
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35. This Moses, whom they (Theudas v.34)
denied saying, "A
Certain One has stood-down you as a
ruler. And
judge."
This One (accus.) God. And a
ruler. And a
ransomer (accus.) he (ruler) has
sent-from{apostellō} with a
hand of an
angel the one
seen{horaō} by him (ransomer) in the
bush.
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35. At the council at midnight at Ain Feshlka, Theudas
refused to recognize the authority of Simeon-Moses to represent the high
priest Ananus. Theudas said, "Lysanias has arranged for you, Simeon, to stay
in Jerusalem, the center of the geographical X, to say the 12-12 and 6-6 prayers. Jacob-Heli
will be the judge in the NW of the world."
Ananus took charge of Theudas. He
appointed him to the NE corner of the X, Damascus. Joseph would go with him to conduct
mission in Damascus, paying initiation fees for celibate Gentiles, their
"ransom",out of the Poor tithes. Qumran taken back from Archelaus would be an abbey school under
Ananus, linked with Damascus and the east. Joseph would tend the fire there as
the servant of Ananus
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On his 12th birthday, Jesus became the legitimate heir of the David line because the liberal Sadducee Ananus was the high priest.
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23. toutou ho theos apo tou spermatos kat' epangelian ēgagen tō
Israēl sōtēra Iēsoun.
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23. Of
This One (Joseph)
God
from the
seed according to the
Promise led to
Israel a
Savior Jesus.
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23. The 12th birthday of Jesus was
celebrated both on the 1st of the Julian month and at the solar equinox, as was
the case for all royal persons. Having been born in March 7 BC, he was 12 in
March 6 AD, celebrated first on Monday March 1. It was the age for his Bar
Mtizvah, the first form of initiation for a boy. It was symbolised as a
"birth" - into manhood. If Caiaphas the Pharisee had still been high priest,
he would have been declared illegitimate and not given the ceremony. But Ananus
was now appointed by the Romans as high priest, and his liberal Sadducee views
meant that he accepted that Jesus, conceived at the time of his parents'
binding betrothal, was legitimate. Jesus went through the ceremony as the heir
of the Davids after Joseph, who would succeed his father Jacob-Heli. He was
called a Joshua, meaning Savior, because he was the acting crown prince to
Joseph as the acting David.
Jacob-Heli his grandfather, as the
David who was Israel, was present at the ceremony, acknowledging Jesus as
continuing the dynasty.
The day was also one for the
"Promised Land", the end of the New Exodus, as an extension to March of the
expectation for December and January 1.
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At midnight beginning March 1, 6 AD, the Roman occupation came fully into force, implemented by a census.
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Midnight beginning Monday March 1, 6 AD, the solar unintercalated 30th.
(Luke 2:1)>
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1.Egeneto de en tais hēmerais ekeinais exēlthen dogma
para Kaisaros Augoustou apographesthai pasan tēn oikoumenēn
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1. It
came about
in the Days Those, a
dogma
came out beside of Caesar Augustus to be written-from
All the
household.
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1. March 1 in 6 AD fell on a Monday
that was also the unintercalated solar 30th of the south lunisolar year 3941. The
Roman occupation came officially into force on the 1st of the Julian month. As
is recorded by Josephus, it was marked by a census imposed by Quirinius the
governor of Syria.
He was also liquidating the estate of Archelaus, and required written records
of its extent
(Josephus, Antiquities 18, 2 ).
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Qurinius the Roman governor in Antioch followed Roman policy in becoming a nominal adherent of the ascetic mission.
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Midnight beginning Monday March 1, 6 AD. (Luke 2:2)
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2.hautē apographē prōtē egeneto hegemoneuontos
tēs Syrias Kyrēniou.
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2. This a
first census
came about{erchomai} with Quirinius one
governing Syria.
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2. Quirinius was the Roman governor
based in Antioch in Syria. He became a nominal adherent of the ascetics' religion. He made a
census of the mission property west of Jordan.
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The Ain Feshkha building was registered as the property of Antipas Herod. Thomas Herod, aged 12, the same age as Jesus, was present with his relative Antipas. He was taught by the Magus.
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Midnight beginning Monday March 1, 6 AD. Ain Feshkha. (Luke 2:3)
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3.kai eporeuonto pantes apographesthai hekatos eis tēn heautou
polin.
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3. And
All Ones
traveled to be written-from,
Each One
at the
city of
Himself (gen.).
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3. The building at Ain Feshkha
belonged to Antipas Herod. In its SE corner, the drain-room, celibates and
proselytes were taught by the Magus, making it their "city", a monastic area.
It was called the Figtree as an "Eden".
Thomas Herod, aged 12, the same age
as Jesus, came there also. As the chief Proselyte he was regularly associated
with the celibate Gentile of Dan.
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At 12:05 am Joseph with Antipas and Thomas left Ain Feshkha and walked 2 hours up to the queen's house, which stood inside the dividing wall, a kilometer south of the Qumran plateau. It was the building in which the heir of David belonging to the Essenes should be born. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony of the 12 year old Jesus was to be held there, as he was now recognized as legitimate. Jacob-Heli as the head of the David dynasty, his grandfather, was present.
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Monday March 1, 6 AD, 12:05 am to 2:05 am. From Ain Feshkha to the queen's house.
(Luke 2:4)
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4.anebē de kai Iōsēph apo tēs Galilaias ek
poleōs Nazareth eis tēn Ioudaian eis polin Dauid hētis
kaleitai Bēthleem, dia to einai auton ex oikou kai patrias Dauid
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4. He (RLR to Each One v.3, Thomas)
went up. And Joseph from
Galilee
out of a
city
Nazareth
at
Judea
at a
Certain
city
of David (gen.) called Bethlehem, because of him (Joseph) to
become
out of a
house
(masc). And of a family of David (gen.).
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4. Thomas being the same age as
Jesus accompanied Joseph, together with his relative Antipas. Joseph's place at
Ain Feshkha was in the west wing, in the north room. At 12:05 am he with Antipas and Thomas
left the building by the narrow door, the northern one of the pair in the east
wall, and walked for 2 hours up to the queen's house inside the dividing wall,
a kilometer down from Qumran. The queen's house lay in line with the southern esplanade
of the Qumran
plateau. It was a building belonging to Jacob-Heli to which Dan Gentiles and
proselytes also came. In that building the legitimate Davids were born, from
the time the Essenes took the heirs of David into exile with them to Qumran. It was consequently
called their "Bethlehem". Joseph went to its room for married couples. Jacob-Heli
was present as head of the dynasty.
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Joseph was to be registered as an owner of the queen's house. In the room for married couples, Mary and Jesus met them. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony of the 12 year old Jesus was to be symbolised as a "birth" from Mary. She was in the sexually separated state, equivalent to being betrothed to Joseph. She held Jesus close, as if she was pregnant with him and about to "give birth" by handing him over to his father.
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2:05 am Monday March 1, 6 AD, at the queen's house (Luke 2:5)
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5.apograpsasthai syn Mariam tē emnesteumenē autō,
ousē engkyō.
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5. to be written-from with Mary betrothed
to him (Joseph v.4), she
becoming (as if) pregnant.
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5. Joseph's ownership as one of
the Davids was to be registered. at this building belonging to them. In the
room for married couples he met with Mary, who acted as the Miriam of the
Therapeuts. She was in the separated state of dynasts between conceptions,
equated to that of being betrothed without sex. As Jesus was now to be "born",
initiated at the age of 12, he stood close to her for the symbolic birth, to be
handed over to his father.
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The ceremony for the 12 year old Thomas Herod, with Antipas acting as his godfather, was performed at 2:05 am. At 3:00 am, at the 12th anniversary of Jesus' birth, his Bar Mitzvah ceremony was commenced.
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Monday March 1, 6 AD, 2:05 am and 3:00 am, at the
queen's house(Luke 2:6)
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6. egeneto de en to einai autous ekei eplēsthēsan hai hēmerai
tou tekein autēn.
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6. It
came about in them
(RLR to All Ones v.3, Antipas)
becoming there, the
days were
fulfilled
for her (Mary) to bring forth.
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6. The ceremony for the 12 year old
Thomas was held first at 2:05 am in the room for orphans, with Antipas as his godfather in
the place of his father since both his parents (Herod the Great and Mariamme
II) were dead. He had been disinherited by his father, so was classed as an
orphan, representative of the orphans whom the Essenes nurtured in the queen's
house. At 3:00 am it was the time for Jesus' ceremony to begin, when Mary was to enact
giving "birth" to Jesus.
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Mary performed the symbolic birth of Jesus. He was defined as legitimate, a first-born royal son. He was to begin his education from his actual birthplace, in the Manger outside the dividing wall. He was dressed in the short robe of a 12 year old altar boy and was taken out to the building. Neither Antipas nor Joseph, being in the married state, would be admitted to the guest seats in the Qumran vestry. They with their families stayed in the queen's house for the next 24 hours, celebrating the birthdays of the two boys.
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Monday 3:00 and 3:05 am in the queen's house and nearby Manger.(Luke 2:7)
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7.kai eteken to huion autēs ton prōtotokon. Kai esparganōsen
auton kai aneklinen auton en phatnē, dioti ouk ēn autois topos en tō
katalymati
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7. And she (Mary) brought forth of her the
Son
the First-born. And she dressed him in a short garment. And he (Joseph v.5) laid him (Jesus) in a
Manger.
For to them (SRLR to Antipas v.6) there was not a
place in the
guest room.
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7 At 3:00 am Mary performed the symbolic birth,
sending Jesus away from her into the care of his father. He was treated as the
legitimate first-born of the royal line. In imitation of the Child Samuel
(1 Samuel 2:19) he was dressed in a short
vestment, worn for a boy's service at the holy table in the sanctuary. Joseph
then took him through the wall to the building outside the wall that was used
for stabling transport animals and for the royal mule. He was to begin his education
there, at the lowest point, from which he would rise.
For Antipas as a married man it was
not permitted to go as a guest to the sacred noon meal at Qumran They with their families stayed at the queen's house for
the next 24 hours, celebrating the birthdays of the two boys.
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Photo W. The Mar Saba monastery. From Picturesque Palestine, 1880.
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Photo X. Corner where the wady Kidron turns from north-south to east.
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Photo Y. Hillock at the corner.
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Photo O. The aqueduct on the west of Mird-Hyrcania (on skyline).
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On the same day at Mird-Hyrcania , an Exodus procession was held to dramatise the Roman occupation. It was the beginning of another 40 years, interpreted variously as a New Exodus for the peace party and a New Holy War for militants.
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Monday March 1, 6 AD., solar 30th, 9 to noon. Mird Hyrcania.(Acts 7:36)
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36. houtos exēgagen autous poiēsas terata kai sēmeia
en gē Aigyptō kai en Erythra thalassē kai en tē erēmo
etē tesserakonta.
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36.
This One
led them (RLR to Son 2 Theudas Acts 7:35), having
made
marvels{teras}. And
signs in an
Earth
Egypt. And in a Red Sea. And in the
Wilderness
year 40.
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36. On the same day at
Mird-Hyrcania an Exodus procession was performed to celebrate New Year's Day.
It was the beginning of another 40 years, interpreted variously, as a New
Exodus for the peace party and as a New Holy War for militants.
Theudas as the Chief Therapeut was
both a Moses and a Joshua, governed by the political swings in Alexandria. As a pro-Roman
Sadducee he was a Moses; but, as an anti-Roman Pharisee (Saddok -the Pharisee of
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 3),
he was Joshua, Jesus Barabbas of Matthew 27:16,
alternative texts. He was now in militant mode, and his persona as Moses was
taken by the Chief Pilgrim. This man led the procession along the familiar
pilgrim route from the wady at the foot of Mar Saba, starting 9 am, through the
"Emmaus" corner as the Earth Egypt at 10 am, to the beginning of the aqueduct as
the Red Sea at 11 am,
and finally at noon to the Wilderness, the place for hermits at the steps at
the north end of the meal-room.
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Simeon informed Lysanias that Ananus had approved an independent abbey for Gentiles to be set up in Antioch under the Sadducee Matthias.
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Monday March 1, 6 AD, solar 30th, 3 pm. At Mird-Hyrcania.(Acts 7:37)
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37. houtos estin ho Mōysēs ho eipas tois huiois Israēl,
Prophētēn hymin anastēsei ho theos ek tōn adelphōn
hymōn hōs eme.
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37.
This One
is the
Moses the one saying to the
sons of
Israel, "A
Prophet to you
God will cause to
stand up
out of the
Brothers of you,
as me."
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37. At 3 pm the hour when pilgrims and Gentiles were
permitted to pray, Simeon-Moses said to Lysanias, now a lay bishop
integrated into the Israel of the Exodus, "Ananus intends to make the Sadducee
Matthias, who was exiled to Antioch in December 1 BC
(Acts 5:36 pesher) the abbot of an independent Gentile abbey in Antioch. It is in communion
with the centers for Asher in Tyre and Sidon. The "Barley" married Gentile will be based in Sidon. The Gentile abbey will stay in fellowship with Essenes under Simeon in Jerusalem."
This verse records the foundation of
the Antioch abbey where the Christian party was formed in 43-44 AD.
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The Chief Pilgrim, the predecessor of Peter, was appointed the first bishop of the Church (ekklesia), a name for the community of pilgrims and Asher Gentiles who would later be led by Peter, James and John. The document that became the Sermon on the Mount was given to Matthias.
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Monday March 1, 6 AD, 3:05 pm. At Mird-Hyrcania. (Acts 7:38)
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38.houtos estin ho genomenos en tē ekklēsia en tē erēmō
meta tou angelou tou lalountos autō en tō orei Sina kai tōn
paterōn hēmōn, hos edexato logia zōnta dounai hēmin.
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38.
This One
becomes the one
coming about in the
Church in the
wilderness with the
angel
speaking
to him (This One) in Mount Sinai. And of the
Fathers of
Us.
Who (new subject) received
living sayings to give to
Us.
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38. At 3.05 on the platform at
Mird-Hyrcania Ananus gave the spoken prayer, and in unison with him the Chief
Pilgrim gave a prayer at the foot of the steps near the fire, the place for
hermits. The Chief Pilgrim, the predecessor of Peter, was to be the first
bishop of the Church (ekklesia) the community of pilgrims and Asher
Gentiles who passed through the area of hermit huts on their way to Qumran. On their way they
were taught the law in the abbey at Mird-Hyrcania, calling it their "Mount Sinai". They slept in tents as a camp,
giving rise ro the definition of village members as "camps". Since camps were part of the Exodus experience,
the Chief Therapeut attended at their times of prayer.
Matthias was present at the Council
from his Antioch abbey.
He received from Ananus as the "Abraham" in succession to Hillel the document
containing Hillel's teachings to proselytes. It would later be placed in
Matthew's gospel by Matthew Annas the successor of Matthias and James Niceta
the successor of Lysanias. It contained much of the content of the Sermon on
the Mount. Matthew's gospel was said to be derived from collected Logia in Hebrew
(Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3. 39, 16)
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On the same day the leaders walked for 9 hours from Mird-Hyrcania to Ain Feshkha, for the solar 31st beginning midnight. Theudas resumed his role of pastor and guard to the married class.
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Midnight beginning Tuesday March 2, 6 AD, the unintercalated solar 31st, at Ain Feshkha(Luke 2:8)
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8.kai poimenes ēsan en tē chōra tē autē
agraulountes kai phylassontes phylakas tēs nyktos epi tēn poimnēn
autōn.
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8. And shepherds
became in that
region
out of doors. And they (shepherds) guarding watches of the
night upon the flock of them (shepherds).
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8. After their prayers at 3:05 pm at Mird-Hyrcania, the
leaders including Theudas walked 9 hours through the Wilderness of Judea,
reaching Ain Feshkha at midnight. The solar 31st, unintercalated, was on Tuesday March 2.
Theudas at Ain Feshkha resumed his
role of pastor in Antipas' house. Being also a guard, he stood at midnight on the equivalent of the
south base in the courtyard.
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Figure 10a. The Tower.
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At 12:05 am the Magus, Ananus and Theudas took their positions in the two-storey structure at Ain Feshkha.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD, the solar unintercalated 31st, 12:05 am and 1:05 am. Ain Feshkha.(Luke 2:9)
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9.kai angelos kyriou epestē autois kai doxa kyriou
perielampsen autous, kai ephobēthēsan phobon megan.
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9. And an
angel of a
Lord
stood-upon
to them (shepherds Theudas v.8). And a
Glory of a
Lord
shone-around them (Theudas). And they (Theudas)
feared with a
great
Fear.
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9. At 12:05 am Theudas went in to the west wing
for the vigil from midnight. On the upper floor of the two-storeyed cathedral, the Magus
stood as a monastic superior beside the opened hatch. On the intermediate floor
Ananus the abbot stood on row 7 center, with a lamp to be used for the reading
of the Law of Moses. Theudas stood in the levite position beside the east center.
At 1:05 am
Theudas dressed in black moved to the center of row 7 to read the Law, while
Ananus moved back to row 6.
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At 2 am Ananus directed Theudas to give the reading from the Prophets, which now included the Logia with Hillel's teaching. For this lay part of the service Mary arrived from the queen's house, permitted to attend as a member of the congregation, accompanied by Thomas.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. Solar unintercalated 31st, 2 am. Ain Feshkha.(Luke 2:10)
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10.kai eipen autois ho angelos, Mē phobeisthe, idou gar
euangelizomai hymin charan megalēn hētis estai panti tō laō,
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10. And said to them (Theudas v. 9) the
angel, "Do not
fear,
for
see{eidon} there is
gospel-preaching for you (Theudas) for
Great
Joy, the
Certain One (feminine) to
All the
people.
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10. At 2:05 am it was time for the reading of the
Prophets, the second division of the Old Testament, the book that contained
the Law, the Prophets and the Writings (called Tanak from the Hebrew initials).
Ananus directed Theudas to change from his black vestment into ordinary clothes
and to stand on row 10 at the edge of the intermediate platform. The Logia, deriving
from Hillel, were now included with the Prophets, and were thought of as
gospel for Sadducees to give to Gentiles. They could be heard by Mary, who had
left the queen's house at midnight and come down two hours to Ain Feshkha. She attended the lay
part of the service in a seat in the congregation on the ground floor. Thomas,
classed with females as Chief Proselyte of the female-Gentile order of Asher, had come with her, 24 hours after his Bar
Mitzvah ceremony.
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At 3:00 am it was 24 hours after the Bar Mitzvah of Jesus, who was to be a "Joshua". Jacob-Heli and Joseph were still with him at the queen's house.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. Solar unintercalated 31st, 3:00 am. Ain Feshkha (Luke 2:11)
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11. hoti etechthē hymin sēmeron sōtēr
hos estin Christos kyrios en polei Dauid.
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11. for there is
born to you (Theudas)
Today a
Savior.
Who
becomes a
Christ a
Lord in a
city of
David."
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11. At 3 am Ananus said to Theudas, "Jacob-Heli is
still at the queen's house as head of the Davids, with Joseph and Jesus, 24
hours after Jesus' Bar Mitzvah. The Davids will be the spiritual kings under
the Annas priests as both high priests and rulers. The men are waiting to go up
to Qumran for the
noon sacred meal."
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. Solar unintercalated 31st, 3:05 am. Ain Feshkha (Luke 2:12)
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12.kai touto hymin to sēmeion, eurēsete brephos esparganōmenon
kai keimenon en phatnē
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12 And this to you (Theudas) the
sign, you will find a
Babe in a child's clothes. And lying in a
Manger.
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12. At 3:05 am the Writings, the third division of
the Old Testament, were to be read. Theudas was told that the Bar Mitzvah of
Jesus would not be complete until it was repeated at the equinox 31st and
Hebrew was used.
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At the noon meal in the Qumran vestry the new regime of Ananus was celebrated and he was proclaimed Pope.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD, solar unintercalated 31st, noon,
in the Qumran monastery vestry (Luke 2:13)
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13.kai exaiphnēs egeneto syn tō angelō plēthos
stratias ouraniou ainountōn ton theon kai legontōn,
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13. And
suddenly{exaiphnēs} there
came about{erchomai}
with the
angel a
multitude of a
heavenly
army, they (participle plural to Theudas v.9) praising
God. And
saying,
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13. At the noon sacred meal in the Qumran monastery Ananus, authorized
by Rome, took
over for his liberal Sadducee regime. According to the usual practice the cover
was removed at noon, so that the light of the sun shone down suddenly on the ground
floor. On the prayer platform the abbot Ananus and his deputy Theudas stood.
Theudas would teach Gentiles by the methods of Sadducee spiritual warfare. Theudas proclaimed
that Ananus was the Pope, the successor of Hillel ("praising") the first Abraham.
Theudas said,
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Theudas hailed Ananus on the prayer platform as the equal of the Zadokite. On the dais step on the ground floor Matthias the abbot to Gentiles, using the emblem of the dove of peace, sat beside Joseph as the Adam to Dan Gentiles.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD, solar unintercalated 31st, 12:05
pm, in the Qumran monastery vestry. (Luke 2:14)
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14.doxa en hypistois theō kai epi gēs eirēnē en
anthrōpois eudokias
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14. A
Glory in highest things to
God. And
upon of
Earth
Peace in
Men{anthrōpos} of
goodwill.
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14. "Ananus is the equal of the
Zadokite on the platform. Gentile members of Matthias' abbey sit on row 13, with their
Peace emblem, the dove. With Matthias sits Joseph, who is the Adam and
Suffering Servant to Dan Gentiles studying at Qumran."
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At 3:05 pm Matthias went up to the prayer platform to say the prayer on behalf of pilgrims and Gentiles. It was now time for celibates to set out for the Manger, the latrine they used on weekdays, taking an hour for the 1 kilometer slow walk. They would go through the queen's house inside the wall.
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Tuesday, March 2, 6 AD, solar unintercalated 31st, 3:00 pm. Qumran vestry.
(Luke 2:15)
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15.kai egeneto hōs apēlthon ap' autōn eis ton
ouranon hoi angeloi, hoi poimenes elaloun pros allēlous, Dielthōmen
de heōs Bēthleem kai idōmen to rēma touto to gegonos ho
ho kyrios egnōrisen hēmin.
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15. And it
came about
as the
angels
came-from from them(Men of goodwill, Joseph, v.14), the
shepherds
spoke
towards
One Another, "Let
us come-through
until{heōs} Bethlehem. And let us
see{eidon} this
statement the one
come about, which the
Lord made
known{ginoskō} to us."
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15. At 3:00 pm Matthias left Joseph to go up to the
platform to say the 3:05 pm prayer on behalf of pilgrims and Gentiles. Theudas replaced
him on the dais step, saying a prayer in front of Antipas on row 12. It was
now time for celibates to set out for the Manger, the latrine they used on
weekdays, taking an hour for the 1 kilometer slow walk. They would go through
the queen's house inside the wall. Theudas said that they would see there the
Dan Gentile, who did not follow the latrine rule but gave teaching to women at 4 pm, as permitted by the liberal
Sadducee.
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Antipas arrived at the queen's house at 4:00 pm. He was there equal in status to Mary. At 4:05 pm Joseph was at the Manger outside the wall. Jesus, his ceremony to be completed at the equinox, was in the section for postulants.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD., solar unintercalated 31st, 4:00 pm at the queen's house, 4:05 pm at the Manger. (Luke 2:16)
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16.kai ēlthan speusantes kai aneuran tēn te Mariam kai ton
Iōsēph kai to brephos keimenon en tē phatnē.
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16. They (One Another Antipas v. 15) came hastening. And they (Antipas)
found Mary. And Joseph. And the
Babe lying in the
Manger.
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16. At 4 pm Antipas arrived at the queen's house
where he joined Mary, as a celibate woman grade 5 was equal to a married male
presbyter. Joseph had come down with Antipas. He joined Jesus, who was
resting in the section for postulants.
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At 6 pm in the Qumran vestry the Dan celibate Gentile was permitted to say a prayer on the dais step.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. 6:00 pm. In the Qumran vestry (Luke 2:17)
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17. idontes de egnōrisan peri tou rēmatos tou lalēthentos
autois peri tou paidiou toutou.
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17. They (One Another Antipas v.16)
seeing{eidon} made
known{ginoskō}
around the
statement
spoken to them (Antipas)
around
This Child 1.
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17. At 6:00 pm in the Qumran vestry the Dan Gentile was
permitted to say a prayer on the dais step row13. Both he and Antipas were
bilingual. Antipas stood further back on row 10 to instruct him in the words. The Dan
Gentile stood on east center to say the prayer in Hebrew, then on west center
to say the prayer in Greek.
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At 6:05 pm congregation members in the pews were permitted to offer spoken prayers, taught by Antipas and Theudas.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. 6:05 pm in the Qumran vestry. (Luke 2:18)
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18. kai pantes hoi akousantes ethaumasan peri tōn lalēthentōn
hypo tōn poimenōn pros autous.
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18. And
All Ones
hearing
wondered
around the things
spoken
under the
shepherds
towards them (All Ones, Antipas).
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18. Antipas then came forward to
row 12, with Theudas on row 13. In the pews on rows 15 and 16, congregation
members were now allowed to say such a prayer, taught by Antipas and Theudas.
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Mary at the queen's house stayed in the rooms for female celibates, as a bishop. She guarded the property of the Chief Proselyte Thomas Herod.
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Tuesday March 2, 6 AD. 7 pm at the queen's house. (Luke 2:19)
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19.hē de Mariam panta synetērei ta rēmata tauta
symballousa en tē kardia autēs.
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19. Mary
kept
All Things, these
statements, throwing with in the
heart of her.
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19. At the queen's house at 6:05 pm, Mary had now returned to
the celibate state, living in the rooms for Virgins. As bishop she guarded the
property of the Chief Proselyte Thomas Herod, who was equal to the Dan celibate
Gentile.
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Theudas and Antipas had to sleep at Ain Feshkha, not at the monastery.
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20. kai hypestrepsan hoi poimenes doxazontes kai ainountes ton
theon epi pasin hois ēkousan kai eidon kathōs elalēthē pros
autous.
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20. The
shepherds
turned under,
glorifying.
And they (shepherds, Theudas)
praising
God
upon to
All Ones
to whom they (shepherds, Theudas) heard (repeat after). And they (Theudas)
saw{eidon} according as it was
spoken
towards them (Theudas).
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20. At 7 pm Theudas went from the south-west
queen's house to the Ain Feshkha marriage house where Therapeuts and married men
slept. He and Antipas conducted the 9 pm bedtime prayers from row 13. Theudas gave a reading from
the law using the lamp. He again proclaimed Ananus as the Pope. Then Theudas went to
row 12 and Antipas to row 13, to teach the prayer to the congregation on rows
15 and 16.
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MARCH EQUINOX, 6 AD  
After March 1 Judas the Galilean began his armed uprising against Rome. By midnight beginning Thursday March 18 the Roman power was again demonstrated and Judas was defeated. He took refuge in the Essene monastery in Jerusalem. Joseph gave him protection, for he also was enraged by the loss of national independence. Joseph had thus become complicit in the uprising. Antipas had given financial help to Judas. He decided to depart in June for his house in Rome.
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Midnight beginning Thursday March 18, 6 AD, the solar 30th. Jerusalem. (Acts 5:37)
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37.meta touton anestē Ioudas ho Galilaios en tais hēmerais
tēs apographēs, kai apestēsen laon opisō autou. Kakeinos apōleto,
kai pantes hosoi epeithonto autō dieskorpisthēsan.
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37. After this thing Judas the Galilean
stood up in the
days of the census. And he stood-from the
people
after him. And
That One was
destroyed. And
All Ones
as many as were
persuaded by him were scattered.
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37. At midnight beginning the solar 30th at the
equinox, the census was repeated for the members attending the council
meetings. It was the crisis for Judas the Galilean, whose uprising had failed.
He hid in the Jerusalem monastery. Joseph gave him help, and thus became complicit
in the rebellion. Judas was arrested by the Roman authorities. Antipas, who
had joined his movement and given him financial support, decided to go and live in his house in Rome.
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Theudas had become militant with Joseph, turning against the peace policy of Ananus. At 3 am on the Thursday he left Mird-Hyrcania and walked due east for 9 hours to Ain Feshkha, reaching it at noon for the council held at the meal.
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Thursday March 18, 6 AD, Noon at Ain Feshkha (Acts 7:39)
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39. hō ouk ēthelēsan hypēkooi genesthai hoi
pateres hēmōn alla apōsanto kai estraphēsan en tais
kardiais autnōn eis Aigypton.
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39. To whom (hos Matthias Acts 7: 38) the
Fathers of
Us did not
will to obey,
nevertheless
they went-from. And they(Fathers)
turned in the
hearts of them (Fathers) at
Egypt.
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39. Theudas had left Mird-Hyrcania
at 3 am and
walked 9 hours due east to Ain Feshkha, arriving at noon for a council meeting to discuss the
failure. Following Judas the Galilean he was now the militant Pharisee Saddok
again, having rejected the discipline of Matthias, the strict Sadducee for
Gentile abbeys. Theudas sat in the bishop's position on row 10 upper west.
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At the noon council at Ain Feshkha, following the crisis, the decision was made to abandon Jerusalem and continue mission from Damascus and its dependency in Caesarea.
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Thursday March 18, 6 AD, Noon. Ain Feshkha. (Acts 7:40)
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40. eipontes tō Aarōn, Poiēson hēmin theous hoi
proporeusontai hēmōn. ho gar Mōysēs houtos, hos exēgagen
hēmas ek gēs Aigyptou, ouk oidamen ti egeneto autō.
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40. They (RLR to Fathers v. 39, Theudas) saying to Aaron, "
Make for us
gods the ones
traveling before us. For
This Moses.
Who (new subject, Simeon-Moses) led us
out of the
Earth
Egypt, we do not
know{oida}
T
came about to him".
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40. Ananus had come to the council,
called to discuss the crisis. Its decision was to move to Damascus and its
dependencies and abandon Jerusalem. Ananus, high priest in Jerusalem, was no longer recognized as Pope Abraham, and reverted to
his title Aaron, that of the priest in the Exodus liturgy. Simeon would remain
at Mird-Hyrcania and Jerusalem, but the Damascus mission would not recognize him, nor use the Sadducee T
sign. The Magus was to take the place of the Zadokite as "gods" (plu.rep.) in Damascus, for mission to the
east. Ananus would lead an abbey in Caesarea, where there was an associated Magian monastery, for mission
to the west. Ananus could work with the Magus in terms of their mutual "zeal",
ascetic practices replacing temple attendance.
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The mission funds were now diverted from Jerusalem and paid to the Magus, for use in Diaspora mission to east and west.
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Midnight beginning Friday March 19, 6 AD, the solar intercalated 31st. Ain Feshkha.
(Acts 7:41)
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kai emoschopoiēsan en tais hēmerais ekeinais kai anēgagon
thysian tō eidolō, kai euphrainonto en tois ergois tōn cheirōn autōn.
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41. And they (RLR to gods v.40) made a
Calf in the
Days Those. And they (gods) led-up a
sacrifice to the Idol. And they (gods)
rejoiced in the
Works of the
hands of them.
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41. The Magus appointed Theudas as
the new Raphael to replace Judas the Galilean. Prayers were held at midnight, and the mission money
given to the Magus, who kept it as the Golden Calf. He led hymn singing, and
accepted the gifts that came from the western Diaspora.
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Another account of the day of Jesus' 12th birthday is given
in the Book of Revelation, Revelation 12:1-6. That book, from Jewish Christians, carried
the theory of pesher to heights above those of the gospels and Acts. Reflecting
Matthew 16:19,
that what is done on earth is also done in heaven, and vice
versa, its surface form depicts supernatural events done in heaven. Its pesher,
however, gives a detailed account of events on earth, the history of the
ascetics' mission between 1 AD and 114 AD. It agrees with and fills out what
is given in the gospels and Acts.
The word-for-word pesher of the passage has been published
in my Jesus of the Apocalypse (Transworld Doubleday, 1995). Its main
points may be summarised here.
On the surface, "a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman
clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet....She was with child, and she
cried out in her pangs of birth...Another portent appeared, a great red dragon,
with seven heads and ten horns...The dragon stood before the woman about to bear
a child, that he might devour her child...she brought forth a male child, one who
is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to
God and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness...to be nourished
for 1260 days."
The mythical imagery sits oddly with the exact number of
days. But they are a sure sign to the pesharist that the solar calendar is in
use, and that the mythical form covers exact historical events. For the calendar
expert, the number says a great deal. The date of the event was Friday, March 19, 6 AD. A royal birthday was observed on both the 1st of the Julian month,
and at the 31st near to the equinox or solstice. This is an account of the
second Bar Mitzvah of the 12 year old Jesus, at the more Jewish version of the
occasion.
The 1260 days give the main clue. The date was at the end
of a 3 1/2 year period during which the desolation of the temple was observed, following
the 3 1/2 years or "half-week" of
Daniel 9:27. A year in the solar calendar
lasted 364 days, and 3 1/2 years totalled 1274 days (364x 3 = 1092 + 168 = 1260).
The 1274 days could be reckoned from feast to feast, from Tabernacles 15/VII
in the earlier year to Passover 14/I in the later year. 14 days before
Passover, the 31st that was inserted at the beginning of each season fell. That
was day 1260, 14 days before day 1274. The event took place on the 31st at the
Passover (March) season, in a year that came at the end of a set of quartodecimal
years. The year 3941 from creation (as was believed after the correction in the
1st century BC) was a quartodecimal year, and it occurred in both the south
solar version in 5 AD and the south lunisolar version in 6 AD. Since other
gospel sources placed the literal birth of Jesus in March, 7 BC, then his 12th
birthday, when he was "born" at his first initiation, was in March, 6 AD. It
was the south lunisolar 3941, and the date was the intercalated 31st on Friday
March 19.
Since March 1, the Julian observance of the birthday, there
had been critical political events. The Roman occupation had been confirmed and
expressed through the census of property. Ananus the Elder the pro-Roman
Sadducee had been appointed high priest in place of the Pharisee Joazar
Boethus, with the consequence that Jesus was declared legitimate. The uprising
of Judas the Galilean had been put down, and he himself had been temporarily harbored
by Joseph in Jerusalem, with the consequence that Joseph was now a wanted man. Taking
24 hours for the walk, he made his way to the Wilderness of Judea for refuge,
arriving at Ain Feshkha at midnight beginning the Friday, and by 2 am managed
to arrive just in time at the queen's house 2 hours up for his son's ceremony.
Mary with Jesus had begun the ceremony alone, enacting the
"labor pains' with her child standing close to her. But she had to deal with
Joazar Boethus, the deposed Pharisee high priest, the Dragon who had played the
part of Pharaoh in the Exodus liturgy. He was present at 2 am for the Bar Mitzvah of the other 12 year old, Thomas Herod, of Pharisee descent on his
mother's side. For Joazar, Jesus was illegitimate and should not be honored as
a successor of the Davids. So he tried to "devour" the child, prevent the
ceremony from continuing (v.4).
Joseph arrived at 2 am just in time to bring the news that
not only the Sadducees, but also the Magians with whom he was now allied, held
that the child was legitimate. The Magians had honored the child at the time of
his literal birth. So the ceremony was completed for Jesus as a true David, one
who would "rule the nations with a rod of iron", in the words of the royal coronation
psalm,
Psalm 2: 9.
He was then "caught up to God and his throne", that is taken
up to the Qumran buildings where he would be enrolled in the abbey school. The
platform in the Qumran vestry was the place for the high priest, where he sat
on a chair called a throne to give judgement.
Mary stayed in the queen's house until 5 am, the time for female ablutions. Then she went south to Ain Fehkha by 7 am, and 9 hours later, at 4 pm, was in the underground cell at Mird-Hyrcania, the "wilderness"
where women hermits lived. Her place was prepared by "God", authorised by the
Sadducee priest Ananus, who approved the ministry of women.(v.6).
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Figure 1. The Qumran buildings
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Qumran continued as an abbey school, remote from Jerusalem, where Ananus and the Magus taught. Jesus was admitted according to routine procedure on Saturday afternoon, March 20, after he had completed both Bar Mitzvah ceremonies.
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Saturday March 20, 6 AD, 3:30 pm and 4 pm. At Qumran north base location 100.
(Luke 2:21)
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21.kai hote eplēthesan hēmerai oktō tou peritemein
auton, kai eklēthē to onoma autou Iēsous, to klēthen hypo
tou angelou pro tou syllēmphthēnai auton en tē koilia.
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21. And
when{hote} were
fulfilled 8 days (day 8) for to
circumcise him (SRLR to God v.20). And the
name
of him (God) was called Jesus, the thing called
under the
angel
before him (Jesus) to be conceived in the
womb.
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21. Qumran continued as an abbey school, remote from Jerusalem, where Ananus and
the Magus could continue to teach. Jesuswas admitted according to routine
procedure on Saturday afternoon, March 20, after he had completed both Bar
Mtizvah ceremonies.
Day 8, with the noun placed before
the numeral, meant the early beginning of Sunday, day 8. For the version of
the sabbath that had begun Friday at 3 pm, Saturday at 3pm was the time when travel was permitted,
treated as the early
beginning of day 8. Jesus was at the queen's house an hour south of Qumran, and would arrive at
his new school at 4 pm.
The first "him"in v.21 refers back
to theos in
Luke 2:20, giving a parallel to
Acts 7:8, where it also
seems to mean that "God" is circumcised. As "circumcision" means the initiation
of a 12 year old boy, the meaning here is that before his arrival the abbot
Ananus enacted the reception of Jesus in the abbey school in order to show
approval. As a sign of solidarity and equality the abbot, unlike the monastic
"despot", identified with all members of his abbey, playing their roles for
them to learn. The time, 3:30 pm (hote) is an indication that Jesus was not present.
The boys at the queen's house were not permitted to leave until 3 pm, the end of the strict
sabbath, and they then walked for an hour up to the Qumran north base. Ananus
as the "angel"repeated the procedure, recording Jesus' name as part of the
process of enrolment.
Because of the doctrinal difficulty
of the RLR of the first "him", the D text, which fully understands the peher
and makes alterations according to its practices, substitutes to paidion
(see the Nestle-Aland textual apparatus). Jesus at grade 8, that of a novice,
could be called paidion.
The "womb" was a name for the north
base outside the Qumran vestry, at the time the "Mother", "Sarah" (the matron) stood
there to receive new boys. They were at first taught from there, and would sit for
tuition on the stone bench in loc. 100 that is still visible there.
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On Sunday March 21 Theudas completed the ceremony of his promotion to the position of the levite Raphael. As now the Scribe, he was to teach writing to Jesus, from the Qumran north base.
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Sunday March 21, 6 AD. 3.30 pm. Qumran
north base. (Luke 2:22)
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22. kai hote eplēsthēsan hai hēmerai tou katharismou
autōn kata ton nomon Mōyseōs, anēgagon auton eis
Hierosolyma parastēsai tō kyriō,
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22. And
when{hote} there were
fulfilled the
days of the
cleansing
of them (RLR to Theudas Lk 2:.20) according to the
law
of Moses, they (Theudas) led him (Jesus v.21) at
Jerusalem{Hierosolyma}(plu. form) to stand-beside to the
Lord.
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22. The following day, Sunday March
21, continued the 1st of the solar calendar that had begun on the Saturday
evening. The 1st was the day for the promotion of priests and levites. They
began at the low grade of a postulant "leper", and worked their way up through
a "cleansing of the leper" (Mark 1:40-42). This was a monastic rule, as had been practiced by
Simeon. After 24 hours, at 3:30 pm, Theudas at Qumran completed his promotion ceremonies as the Raphael replacing
Judas the Galilean. Theudas was now a Scribe, who would teach writing to Jesus.
To begin his lessons, Theudas brought him beside Ananus the abbot at the north
base.
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Thomas, the same age as Jesus, was being enrolled at the same time. Having been disinherited by his father Herod the Great he was classed as an orphan, and was put in the care of Anna, the Mother Sarah of orphans.
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23. kathōs gegraptai en nomō kyriou hoti Pan arsen
dianoigon mētran hagion to kyriou klēthēsetai.
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23. According as it is
written in a
law of a
Lord that, an
All male opening a
Mother will be called
Holy to the
Lord.
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23. Thomas Herod, the same age as
Jesus, was being enrolled with him. Having been disinherited by his father
Herod the Great, he was counted as an orphan, so was cared for by the woman who
acted as Mother Sarah to orphans. Orphans, who spent their lives as acolytes in
a monastery, were called "Holy Ones", a term that became "Saints".
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Thomas and John Mark, also the same age as Jesus, were to be fellow-students with him, both classed as orphans whose adoptive father was the abbot Ananus.
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Sunday March 21, midnight beginning Monday March 22. Qumran
north base. (Luke 2:24)
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24. kai tou dounai thysian kata to eirēmenon en tō nomō
kyriou, zeugos trygonōn ē dyo nossous peristerōn.
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24. And to give a
sacrifice
according to the thing said in the
law of a
Lord, pair (2) of turtledoves
or 2 chickens of
doves.
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24. At midnight, following a prayer, the boys were
sent to the "pantry" annexe attached to the Qumran outer hall, their sleeping quarters (Loc 86 ). They were
guarded by Theudas at the door. It was the dormitory also for Gentile boys of
the order of Dan. John Mark, the same age as Jesus, was to be a fellow-student
with him. John Mark and Thomas had related emblems, both being classed as
"orphans" of grade 8 (2 in the pre-iniiate hierarchy). John Mark was "turtledove
2" and Thomas "chicken 2 of a 'dove". The "dove" was the abbot Ananus when "in
the body"(Luke 3:22).
(This room loc 86, was where Peter
James and John, of the village status of "boys"slept durng the Thursday night
before the crucifixion, (Mark 14:37-41).
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JUNE, 6 AD.  
At the last possible chance for the Herodian New Exodus, Ananus, still acting as high priest in Jerusalem, came to Mird-Hyrcania. In his other role he was a priest to Diaspora Jews who saw no need to attend the Jerusalem temple. He retained his connection with the Magus at Qumran. The decision was now made to transfer the Essene substitute sanctuary from Mird-Hyrcania to Damascus. Since Diaspora worship was as valid as that in Jerusalem, the move would allow true worship to continue, and would give refuge to men who were wanted by Rome, such as Theudas and Joseph.
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Tuesday June 1, 6 AD. Unintercalated 31st. for SLS 3941. Noon. Mird-Hyrcania
north base. (Acts 7:42)
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42. estrepsen de ho theos kai paredōken autous latreuein tē
stratia tou ouranou, kathōs gegraptai en biblō tōn prophētōn,
Mē sphagia kai thysias prosēnengkate moi etē tesserakonta en tē
erēmō, oikos Israēl.
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42. God
turned. And he (God, Ananus)
gave-beside
them (RLR to gods, Samaritan Magus, v.41) to
worship{latreuō}2 to the
army of
Heaven, according as it is
written in a
book of the
Prophets "Not slain beasts. And
sacrifices you have brought to me
years 40,
house (masc) of
Israel.
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42. On June 1, 6 AD, the unintercalated 31st
coinciding with the Julian 1st of the month, the end of the 40 year New
Exodus, as an extension from December 5 AD, was again observed at noon. This was the last possible
chance for the Herodian New Exodus. A major adjustment was needed
Ananus was still serving in the dual
role of high priest in Jerusalem and abbot for Diaspora Jews who saw no need to attend the Jerusalem temple. At
Mird-Hyrcania the Jerusalem connection was preseved under the influence of Simeon and
Jacob-Heli. Following Essene practice, there were no animal sacrifices, and
prayers were a substitute for sacrifice. On June 1 Ananus arrived at the
Mird-Hyrcania abbey, having come due east from Jerusalem. He was half-way to Qumran, and so acted also as a levite to the Magus at Qumran, whose deputy was now
the militant Theudas.
In the north part of the abbey on
the ground floor, Ananus with Jacob-Heli made the decision to allow the
substitute sanctuary that had been set up at Mird-Hyrcania to be again
transferred, this time outside the country to Damascus. It would be in accordance with the belief that worship in
the Diaspora was as valid as worship in Jerusalem, and would protect the men such as Theudas and Joseph who
were wanted by Rome following their complicity with Judas the Galilean.
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Ananus prepared for the transfer by bringing out the plan of the Essene substitute sanctuary that belonged to Jacob-Heli. Called "the tabernacle of David", it had the physical dimensions of the wilderness tabernacle, as had been illustrated at Qumran. He also brought out the emblem of Joseph, the Star of David.
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Tuesday June 1, 6 AD. Mird-Hyrcania.
north base. (Acts 7:43)
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43. kai anelabete tēn skēnēn
tou Moloch kai to astron tou theou Hraiphan, tous typous hous epoiēsate
proskynein autois. Kai metoikiō hymas epekeina Babylōnos.
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43. You (plu.) received-up the
tabernacle of Moloch. And the
Star of the
God Raiphan, the types which you (plu.)
made to
worship{proskyneō}
at them (types). And I will cause you to with-dwell (abbey) beyond Babylon."
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43. In preparation for the move, Ananus
fulfilled scripture by bringing out the plan of the sanctuary that belonged to
Jacob-Heli, who in Hebrew was called Melek, king, pronounced also Moloch, and
rendered in Greek as Malchus. The plan, which had been used at Qumran, gave the substitute
sanctuary the physical dimensions of the wilderness tabernacle. It was called
"the tabernacle of David" in
Amos 9:11, quoted in reference to Damascus in CD 7:15-16.
The emblem of the David prince,
Joseph, was the Star of David. He had worn it at the birth of Jesus, when he
guided the Magians
(Matthew 2:2-9). Joseph still acted as the deputy of the
Magus, as he had done in Rome. The scripture verse identified the Magus as the god
Raiphan, since he claimed to be a "god", a graduate acting as priest in the
Diaspora, in the terms of 4Q400. These objects were made ready to take to Damascus, an outpost of the Babylon monastery as it had
been in the time of Hillel.
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The transferred sanctuary was set up in the monastery in Damascus, its records collected in the Damascus Document. Joseph and Theudas, always partners in mission, were based there, called the Star and the Sceptre.
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Wednesday June 2, 6 AD, Pentecost. Mird-Hyrcania.
north base. (Acts 7:44)
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44. Hē skēnē tou martyriou ēn tois patrasin hēmōn
en tē erēmō, kathōs dietaxato ho lalōn tō Mōysē
poiēsei autēn kata ton typon hon heōrakei,
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44. The
tabernacle of
witnessing was to the
Fathers of
Us in the
Wilderness, according-as he
speaking to Moses ordered to
make
it (tabernacle) according to the type which he (Moses)
saw{horaō}.
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44. Theudas came to Mird-Hyrcania
the next day, for Pentecost and was given the plan. Ananus, saying his prayer with the Essene Simeon, obtained
Simeon's agreement that it was the authorised plan.
The transferred sanctuary was set up
in the monastery at Damascus. The records of the Damascus mission were collected in the Damascus Document (CD). In
one passage (7:15-21)
it gives scripture verses interpreting the move, including the one on the
tabernacle of David from (Amos 9:11),
and also a passage from
(Numbers 24:17) about the Star
and the Sceptre. It gives the pesher of these: the Star is the Law-Interpreter (1QS
6:6-7 a levitical deputy) who will come to Damascus, meaning the David appearing as the Messiah. The Sceptre is
the "Prince of the whole congregation", a military figure in 1QM 5:1, meaning
Theudas.
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Since there was now no Essene sanctuary at Mird-Hyrcania, Simeon (Simon the Essene) moved to the Essene Gate in Jerusalem. On the solar intercalated 31st, Friday June 18, Joseph came there with the boy Jesus, in order to obtain an Essene ruling on the question of his legitimacy. Jacob-Heli and Ananus were also present.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. Solar intercalated 31s. Noon. At the Essene Gate, Jerusalem
north base. (Luke 2:25)
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25. kai idou anthrōpos ēn en Ierousalēm hō
onoma Symeōn, kai ho anthrōpos houtos dikaios kai eulabēs,
prosdechomenos paraklēsin tou Israēl, kai pneuma ēn hagion ep' auton.
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25. And
see{eidon} a
Man{anthrōpos}
became in
Jerusalem{Ierousalēm}
(sing. form) to whom a
name Simeon. And
This Man{anthrōpos}
righteous. And
good-receiving,
One receiving (Simeon, participle to subject of last verb) a
paraclete of
Israel.(gen.) And a
Spirit
became
holy
upon him (one receiving, Simeon).
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25. Since the Essene sanctuary had
left Mird-Hyrcania, there was no reason for Simeon, Simon the Essene, to be
there. He remained at the Essene Gate in Jerusalem, returning to his own baptized name. On the solar
intercalated 31st, Friday June 18, Joseph came there with the boy Jesus, in
order to obtain an Essene ruling on the question of his legitimacy.
Jacob-Heli of the peace party was
also present Simeon received Joseph as the deputy of Jacob-Heli in the Nazirite
state. Ananus was present, as a levitical bishop who could act in the place of
Simeon.
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The abbot Ananus warned Simeon not to admit the Magus to his Jerusalem table. But the Magus included the heir of David in his Diaspora leadership structure.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. Solar intercalated 31st. Essene Gate, Jerusalem
north base. (Luke 2:26)
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26. kai en autō kechrēmatismenon
hypo tou pneumatos tou hagiou mē idein thana ton prin
hē an idē ton Christon kyriou.
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26. And there
became
revealed to him (RLR to Simeon v. 25)
under the
Spirit the
Holy not to
see{eidon}
Death
prior he (RLR to Death)
saw{eidon} the
Christ of a
Lord (gen.).
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26. Ananus drawing on his authority
as abbot warned Simeon not to admit the Magus to his Jerusalem table. But the
Magus did include the heir of David in his Diaspora leadership structure.
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At 3:00 pm Jacob-Heli stood on the north base outside the Cenacle building. Joseph brought Jesus to stand on the south base. Joseph was preparing for a ruling on his legitimacy derived from traditional Essene practice.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, solar intercalated 31st. 3:00 pm. North base outside the Cenacle building in Jerusalem(Luke 2:27)
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27. kai ēlthen en tō pneumati eis to hieron. Kai en tō
eisagagein tous goneis to paidion Iēsoun tou poiēsai autous kata to
eithismenon tou nomou peri autou.
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27. And he (RLR to Christ,
Jacob-Heli, v.26) came in the
Spirit
at the
temple. And in the parents to lead in the
Child 1 Jesus, them (parents) to
make
according to the custom of the
law around him (Jesus).
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27. At 3:00 pm Jacob-Heli stood on the north base
outside the Cenacle building in the position of the priest. Joseph brought the
12 year old Jesus to stand on the south base. A decision was to be made about
his legitimacy according to the community's traditions of celibacy.
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Simeon treated Jesus like a foundling. Inside the vestry, Ananus sat in a position subordinate to Simeon, but prepared to defend his view that Jesus was legitimate.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. North base and inside Cenacle vestry 3:05 pm(Luke 2:28)
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28. kai autos edexato auto eis tas angkalas kai eulogēsen ton theon
kai eipen,
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28. And
He received him (child Jesus) at the
arms{angkalē}. And he
blessed
God.
And he (SRLR to God, Ananus) said,
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28. Simeon, replacing Jacob-Heli on
the north base. enacted the treatment given by Essenes to infant foundlings,
holding him with the long sleeves of his robe. They went inside the vestry,
where Ananus sat west beside Simeon as a sign of his subordination. Simeon gave
the blessing on Ananus. Then Ananus (not Simeon) said,
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Ananus pointed out that Simeon as the supreme monastic allowed a monastery graduate to act as a cardinal in Gentile abbeys, so was not so strict about holiness as homeland Essenes.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. 3:05 pm. In the vestry of the Cenacle building in Jerusalem
(Luke 2:29)
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29. Nyn apolyueis ton doulon sou, despota, kata to rēma sou
en eirēnē.
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29. "
Now{nyn} you
release the
slave of you,
despot, according to the
statement of you in
Peace.
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29. Ananus said, " At 3:05 pm in
village places, you, Simeon in your role as an absolute authority in a monastery,
allow a celibate lay graduate of your monasteries to serve as a cardinal in a
Gentile abbey. So you are not as strict about levitical holiness as are traditional
homeland Essenes."
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When the evening lamp was lit on Friday at 3:05 pm, the early beginning of the sabbath, Ananus said that his learning showed that Jesus was legitimate and would be the Joshua for a new Holy War.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, 3:05 pm. Inside the meal-room of the Cenacle building in Jerusalem (Luke 2:30)
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30. hoti eidon hoi ophthalmoi mou to sōtērion sou.
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30. "That my
eyes have
seen{eidon} the
Salvation of you".
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30. Ananus continued, "At this 3:05 pm beginning of the sabbath
evening, when the lamp for study of the law is lit, I see Jesus on row 10, and
say from my learning that Jesus is legitimate, and will be the Joshua for a new
Holy War".
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Ananus continued that Simeon treated Jesus and Thomas as orphans, destined to serve always as acolytes preparing the holy table.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, Cenacle building, Jerusalem (Luke 2:31)
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31. ho hētoimasas kata prosōpon pantōn tōn laōn.
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31. "Which (neut., Salvation) you(Simeon) have
prepared according to the
face of
All the
peoples
(gen.)
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31. Ananus continued, "You, Simeon,
cause the two "orphans", Jesus and Thomas, to serve as acolytes, preparing the
holy table from the dais step.
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But Ananus argued that his authority as high priest in the Jerusalem temple outweighed that of Simeon, and his view that Jesus was legitimate should prevail.
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Friday January 1, 6 AD. 6 am. Mird-Hyrcania. (Luke 2:32)
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32. euphranthēnai de kai charēnai edei, hoti ho adelphos
sou houtos nekros ēn kai ezēsen, kai apolōlōs kai heurethē.
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32. "
Rejoice (sing hymns. 6 am sunrise by women). And it is a duty to be
joyful, that the
Brother of you (Lysanias)
This One
became
lifeless. And he (Brother, This One) has
lived, And a
destroyed one. And he is
found."
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32. Simeon continued to Lysanias,
"At 6 am sing
the sunrise hymn. The new head of Asher in place of Glaphyra is to be Anna,
called "Joy". Your subordinate, the Gentile "Barley" has been promoted from grade 11 to be a Gentile lay bishop.
He was based in Rome, and he is now accepted by the homeland peace party."
(The Barley Gentile was the
predecessor of John Aquila, called Brother in
Mark 1:19, the subject of the
feeding of the 5000 at the barley harvest,
John 6:9)
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At 4:00 pm the procedure for the sabbath use of the latrine began (a rule that was subsequently applied on Good Friday, with significant consequences). Ananus as now the superior came out to stand on the north base, with Simeon as subordinate in front of him. At 4:03 pm they left to go outside, and Anna stood on the north base. Joseph permitted her to give a spoken prayer on behalf of Asher Gentiles.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, 4:00 and 4:03 pm at the north base outside the vestry. (Luke 2:33)
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33. kai ēn ho patēr autou kai hē mētēr
thaumazontes epi tois laloumenois peri autou.
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33. And
became the
Father
(Simeon) of him (Light, Ananus). And the
Mother, they (participle
subject RLR to parents subject of infin v.27, Joseph)
wondering upon to the things
spoken around him (Father Simeon).
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33. At 4:00 pm the priests began the procedure for
the use of the latrine on Friday in accordance with the sabbath rule (a rule
that had significant consequences on Good Friday). Ananus, now accepted as the
superior, stood on the north base, with Simeon as his subordinate in front of
him. Then they left to go outside and were replaced at 4:03 pm by Anna. She represented
Asher Gentiles, and she was now permitted by Joseph to give a spoken prayer on
their behalf.
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At the informal meeting replacing a saced meal on Friday at 6:00 pm in the vestry, Simeon sat on row 13 beside Joseph, and Mary stood in the position of a household servant behind them on row 12. Simeon remarked that the status of Jesus remained ambiguous, but that he would be accepted by the Annas Sadducee priests. This would mean that the Greek language and ways would supersede the use of Hebrew.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. 6:00 pm. On rows 12 and 13 of the Cenacle vestry. (Luke 2:34)
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34. kai eulogēsen autous Symeōn kai eipen pros Mariam tēn
mētera autou, Idou houtos keitai ptōsin kai anastasin pollōn en
tō Israēl, kai eis sēmeion antilegomenon
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34. And Simeon
blessed them
(parents, Joseph, vv. 33 and 27).And he said
towards Mary the
Mother of him, "
See{eidon},
This One lies at
falling and rising of
Many in
Israel, And as a
sign said-against."
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34. At 6:00 pm on Friday evening there was no meal
for Essenes, only an informal meeting. Mary and Joseph were invited by Simeon,
as there was no sacred meal, forbidden to women. Simeon sat on row 13 with
Joseph beside him. He opened with a lay blessing on Joseph. Mary in the
position of a servant in the household stood behind them on row 12. Simeon
discussed the decision concerning Jesus, saying, "Jesus, who is now sitting on
row 15 in the congregation, remains illegitimate for some but legitimate for
the Annas priests. They will allow him to follow the dynastic rule, that of
the Davids under Jacob-Heli. It will mean that Sadducee customs prevail, Greek
is used, and Hebrew will no longer be used for the grades in the school
system."
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Simeon added that Greek philosophy was being taught by priests through bishops in Sadducee abbeys.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD. 6: 00 pm Inside on rows 12 and 13 of the Cenacle vestry. (Luke 2:35)
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35. hopōs an
apokalyphthōsin ek pollōn kardiōn dialogismoi.
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35. The
how may be given a
revelation out of the
dialogues of
Many
hearts.
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35. Simeon continued, "In the
Sadducee abbeys a penitent is given secret teaching of Greek philosophy from
the priest through the bishop".
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On Friday, the solar intercalated 31st, the intercalation to the post-position began. As Ananus the Sadducee high priest was now the "Abraham", Anna as "Sarah" changed from Pharisee to Sadducee views concerning uncircumcised Gentiles of Asher. She was a bishop under the authority of the cardinal in Gentile abbeys.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, 6:05 pm. At the north base outside the Cenacle vestry(Luke 2:36)
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36. kai ēn Anna prophētis, thygatēr Phanouēl,
ek phylēs Asēr, hautē probebēkuia en hēmerais pollais,
zēsasa meta andros etē hepta apo tēs partheneias autēs
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36. And there
became Anna a
prophetess, a
daughter of Phanuel (gen.), out of a
tribe of Asher.
This One (fem.) was advanced in
Many
Days, she having
lived
with a
man{anēr} (gen.)
years 7 from the
Virginity of her.
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36. At the north base outside Anna remained
as the Sarah. She was a female bishop. As a teacher of Gentiles she observed the
post-position of the solar calendar. Its intercalation of 17 1/2 days to Tuesday April
6 had now begun, on Friday the intercalated 31st. The same intercalation was
made at the same time on Good Friday
(Matthew 27: 62, tē epaurion).
She was now 98 years old, and in 2
BC when she was 91 she had reached the age of the biblical Sarah when she bore
Isaac (Genesis 17:17,21).
She was then made the "Sarah" to the Pharisee Joazar
Boethus as the Abraham, becoming the "daughter of Pharaoh"
Acts 7:21. In 6 AD, year 7 from that
date, Ananus the Sadducee became the "Abraham", and she changed to become his
"Sarah". She was now a subordinate of the Sadducee cardinal who was third in the
abbey hierarchy, his title Phanuel, named among heavenly powers in the Enoch
literature, eg 1 Enoch 40:9. In this role she could be called a Virgin as the
"wife" of the Zadokite equivalent (Ezekiel 44:22).
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, 6:05 pm, at the north base outside
the Cenacle vestry. (Luke 2:37)
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37. kai autē chēra heōs etōn ogdoēkonta
tessarōn, hē ouk aphistato tou hierou nēsteiais kai deēsesn
lateuousa nykta kai hēmeran.
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37. And she a
Widow
until{heōs}
years
84, she did not depart from the
temple, with fastings. And prayers
worshipping{latreuō}
Night and Day
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37. 6 AD was also year 84 from
Queen Salome's foundation of the female order of Asher in 79 BC. As Anna served
in ministry she was also a Widow, an ordained minister according to the
provision of
(1 Timothy 5:9). She was permitted to stand on the north base outside
the Cenacle vestry to announce the intercalation, with its accompanying fasting.
As the Friday was the Night position 31st, and the post-position would be
Tuesday in the Day position, "Night" preceded "Day" in the formula referring to
the double position. The Roman taxes of Gentiles were paid through her.
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At 9 pm, the village bedtime, at the Essene Gate synagogue, she confessed Ananus as the high priest. Addressing the congregation, Ananus as priest said the prayer for the hour standing next to Jacob-Heli as king. On either side of them Antipas as head of the married class stood in the Gershon position, and Joseph as a bishop in the Kohath position for proselytes.
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Friday June 18, 6 AD, 9 pm at the Essene Gate. (Luke 2:38)
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38. kai autē tē hōra epistasa anthōmologeito tō
theō kai elalaei peri autou pasin tois prosdechomeneois lytrōsin
Ierousalēm.
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38. And at the
same
hour she (Anna) having stood upon,
confessed to
God. And he (SRLR to God, Ananus)
spoke
around him (RLR to Israel, Jacob-Heli, v.34) for
All Ones receiving a
ransoming of
Jerusalem{Ierousalēm} (sing.form).
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38.
At 9 pm, the
village bedtime, at the Essene Gate synagogue, she confessed Ananus as the high
priest. Addressing the congregation, Ananus as priest said the prayer for the
hour standing next to Jacob-Heli as king. On either side of them Antipas as
head of the married class stood in the Gershon position, and Joseph as a bishop
stood in the Kohath position for proselytes.
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SUMMARY OF EVENTS BETWEEN 6 AND 29 AD
By the end of June, 6 AD, the stage had been set for the
crucifixion. The successors of the leaders of this period were those who subsequentl,y
were involved in the crucifixion. The two "thieves" - zealots - who were
crucified were successors of the Damascus party, Simon Magus of the earlier
Magus and Judas Iscariot the successor of Judas the Galilean. The third man,
Jesus, was the successor of Joseph his father. The alterenative for
crucifixion on his third cross was Theudas himself, now an old man.
Jesus by personal inclination was a member of the peace
party, but had developed in a direction that superseded all factions. He had
lost the sympathy of incumbents on both sides, and was betrayed by both in
order to get rid of what they saw as an impediment to their heroic struggle.
Yet the crucifixion was not the turning point. It was simply
an episode in the process that had begun. What had been a mission to bring to
the world the insights of Judaism had at first barely tolerated the interest of
pagan Gentiles. They were looking for something better than paganism, and were
already on the way, enlightened by philosophy and the elements of physical
science. When they met the theological purity and ethical rigor of Judaism, a
fusion began that was neither Jewish nor pagan. By the year 44 AD, which was
the real turning point, they were ready to finish the process that had been
going on for a century. Gentiles had taken the effective positions in the
established hierarchy, and had only to admit that a new religion had been
formed. When they adopted the name Christian, it was an acknowledgement that their
Jewish matrix had dropped away.
Once the Romans occupied Judea in 6 AD, it was only a matter
of time for the Gentile version of the religion to develop. Jesus was 12 years
old when he witnessed these events from his school in the Qumran monastery. As
he matured, his family history and his high intelligence brought him into
sympathy with men participating in the inevitable change.
The parable of the Sower continued the history of Gentile
mission, moving to the next quatrodecimal intercalation year in the north solar
series, 15 AD. It was in that year, in June and December, that the seed "fell
among thorns".
The "thorns" were the Annas priests, who served in abbeys
among the thorn-bush in the barren Wilderness of Judea, and who used a thorn as
an emblem in their headdress. The crown of thorns worn by Jesus at the
crucifixion was a headdress from their party. Paul's "thorn in the flesh" (
2 Corinthians 12:7)
was Jonathan Annas, whose activities were a major factor in
the period of Acts.
Ananus the Elder was followed in 15 AD by his son Eleazar
Annas. He continued the process of advancement of Gentiles with which Jesus in
his youth became involved. The "seed" who "fell among thorns" was the successor
of Lysanias. Eleazar allowed him to kneel - "fall"- for prayer, but "choked
him" by still denying Gentiles the right to preach.
(Mark 4:7). He "did not bear
fruit" because he was not permitted to receive the fees for membership that
were paid to Jewish missionaries. In December the "divisions of the aeon
(calendar disputes), the "deception of riches" (misuse of Gentile fees for
personal gain ) and the "lusts around the Remnant" (homosexual proselytes )
"choke the Word (Joseph) and it becomes unfruitful".
(Mark 4:19).
Jesus at the age of 23.
Jesus' ideals were first expressed at the time of his formal
initiation at the age of 23.The story in
(Luke 2:41-51) of the "child Jesus",
apparently 12 years old, employs a chronological device to convey the fact that
it was 17 AD, "year 12" by a reckoning from the first of the Annas priests that
had been adopted. For this method, 5 AD was year 0 and 6 AD year 1.
In late 16 AD Jacob-Heli died, aged 96. His son Joseph then
became the successor of the David dynasty, using the title David.
Eleazar Annas son of Ananus was then the high priest, so Jesus as legitimate became
the crown prince of the line. When he underwent his decisive initiation at the
age of 23 on March 1, 17 AD, it was in that role.
Eleazar Annas had the same liberal attitude to
uncircumcised Gentiles as all the Annas priests. It was a counterpart to their
attitude to women, to whom they gave ministry. For "year 12", that is 17 AD,
the gospel accounts of two women say that they were "born" or began a process
in that year, "12 years" being read as "year 12"
(Mark 5:25,
Mark 5:42).
Joseph had maintained the attitudes he had adopted in 6 AD
in association with the Magus. He held Jesus to be legitimate, and was
anti-monarchist. As there were now no ruling Herods and the Annas priests had
taken over their office, Joseph could work with them. His own position as the
David was enhanced by being made their deputy in the role of mystical king
without a ruling function. But he had also become anti-Roman, which meant that
he continued to require Gentiles to become proselytes.
Jesus, however, followed Eleazar Annas in supporting the promotion
of both women and uncircumcised Gentiles. He would carry the latter practice to
the limit, eventually giving them full equality with Jews. In the story of his
initiation, he called Eleazar Annas his Father - the usual title of the Pope -
in a way that set him against his own father.
The term "parents" in the story, in plu.rep.
(Luke 2:41) has the
special meaning of the "Adam", the first parent, who was responsible for
teaching the celibate Gentiles of Dan in their "Eden". Their monastic practice brought them very close to full
proselytes. Both kinds were to be found at Mar Saba, the building in the Wilderness of Judea through which Jewish pilgrims and
Nazairites passed.
Photo W. The Mar Saba monastery. From Picturesque Palestine, 1880.
When the "parents" left Jerusalem and went away
(Luke 2:44),
it meant that Joseph had gone to Mar Saba. The pesher shows that he took Jesus with him, in
order to go through a ceremony of appointment to this highest Gentile class.
They left the Essene Gate synagogue on Monday March 1 at 3 am, and made the 12 hour walk down the wady Kidron until they
reached the building that was even then on the height of the cliff (built up in
its present spectacular tiers in the 19th century). Reaching it Monday 3 pm, they stayed for 12 hours and returned, arriving at the
Essene Gate on Tuesday at 3 pm.
When Luke 2:43
says that Jesus had stayed in Jerusalem and his parents did not know it,
the pesher is that Jesus held the views of the pro-Roman faction who were not
afraid to appear freely in Jerusalem at
this time, whereas those like Joseph who were hostile to Rome preferred their places of refuge
in the Wilderness of Judea. Jesus did not stay, but observed the date in Jerusalem, for menō "to stay"
(Luke 2:43)
has this special meaning. Joseph did not "know"him, using the verb ginōskō,
because he recognized that Jesus was not one of the gnostics, the Magians (gnōstoi)
whom they met at Mar Saba
(Luke 2:44).
On their return to Jerusalem Jesus showed Joseph that his
attitudes were even more advanced. He was not content with initiation into the
more elementary form of schooling which proselytes and Dan Gentiles were given,
but wanted admission into the higher monastic school system that was available
at the Cenacle building. At the north base outside the vestry, called the
"temple" because the temple tithes were placed there, Jesus took the position
of an undergraduate student. His teacher stood on the base and Jesus sat in
front of it, listening and questioning as a student was expected to do.
Mary was permitted to sit in the congregation at the time of
the evening meal in the vestry. Jesus was at first allowed to sit only on a
lower row, with Mary behind him. As she held pro-Roman Sadducee views, she
spoke to him as an equal of the Gentile
of Asher. Jesus then came forward to the dais step, his initiation being
completed. He had now entered the class of dynastic celibates who would defer
marriage until the age of 36, devoting themselves entirely to study and the
company of fellow-scholars.
The parable of the Unrighteous Steward
Luke's parable of the Unrighteous Steward
(Luke 16:1-8) is shown
by the structure to be set in 17 AD, the year of advances for women and
Gentiles under Eleazar Annas. Its surface story is that a steward (oikonomos)
was threatened with dismissal because he had been wasting his master's goods.
He saved himself by reducing the amount of money that debtors owed. A man who
owed 100 measures of oil was required to pay only 50, and a man who owed 100
measures of wheat was required to pay only 80. The Lord (kyrios) commended
the steward for his action, for "the sons of this aeon (aiōn)
are wiser above the Sons of Light at the generation (genea) of
Themselves".
As in all cases of the use of numbers by these Pythagorean
Essenes and Therapeuts, there is a neat answer, and only one answer. All of the
figures 10, 8, and 5 go evenly into the number 40. A period of 40 years was
part of the New Exodus scheme of the Therapeuts. During each of such periods a
revised version of the mission was set up. It would bring in income from the
initiation fees, needed for the religious purposes of the mission. Different
kinds of initiates would be given varying lengths of education according to
their ability. Some would be given 4 years, paying their initiation fee (the
"ransom for their soul" of 4Q159) at the end of the 4 years. Over the 40 years
there would be 10 sets, so that the man in charge of their kind, in one of the
provinces, would have to pay 10 lots of income to the superior. The man in
charge of all 10 provinces would have to pay 100 lots to the supreme head.
Those initiates who were capable of it were given 8 years of
education at the monastic level. In one province, there would be 5 sets in the
40 years, bringing in less income but higher quality. The supreme head would
receive 50 lots from all 10 provinces.
The debtors in question owed their fees in oil and in
wheat.These products were the emblems of the different kinds of Gentiles, of
Dan and Asher. At first, they were not given the same length of education as
Jewish initiates. But in the reform of 17 AD this was changed. The chief
celibate Gentile of Dan had led a class given only 4 years, up to the grade of
decisive initiation at grade 7, so he had owed 100 measures of oil. He was now
given a monastic education of 8 years, with only 5 lots in the 40 years, so he
now owed only 50 measures, his debt reduced.
The man who owed fees in wheat was the chief Gentile of
Asher, whose emblem was wheat. This was the married class of Gentiles, who like
married Jews were given only 4 years, so he owed 100 measures of wheat. He was
now given an extra year to bring him from the grade of initiation up to the
grade of deacon, grade 6, the highest form of ministry allowed for married men.
With this improvement, he owed 8 sets of 5 years in 40 years, so 80 measures of
wheat in the 10 provinces.
The steward was Theudas, still a leader of the mission,
changing again in the Alexandrian fashion to sympathy with Gentiles. The Lord
of the parable was Eleazar Annas, the high priest in Jerusalem and the supreme
head of mission. The youthful Jesus, aged 23 at his own initiation in 17 AD, admired
him and his policy, calling him Father in contrast to his own father who now
preferred mission to proselytes. The relevance of the final saying about the
Sons of Light is that the Essene monastics, calling themselves Sons of Light in
some of the Qumran documents, still insisted on circumcision and the adoption
of Jewish identity, and so were losing many Gentiles, "the sons of the aeon",
who had adopted a different chronological scheme in the revised form of the New
Covenant.
"Themselves" (heautoi) in the final saying means
Antipas Herod, always identified by this term, the plu.rep. of Himself (the
Magus). In 17 AD Antipas had gained the favor of the emperor Tiberius by building
the city of Tiberias and calling it after him
(Josephus, Antiquities 18, 36). He was
now the dominant Herod, receiving the mission income, and the policy
consequently changed so as to grant greater privileges to Gentiles.
The Good Soil
According to the final division of the parable of the Sower,
the seed at last fell on good soil in 29 AD, at the end of the jubilee. The
year 29 AD was the 15th year of the emperor Tiberius, the beginning of the
gospel period, when Jesus began his ministry
(Luke 3:1). That year saw the
culmination of Gentile mission that had been going on throughout the jubilee since
21 BC. All was now ready for the development of the Christian church.
Mark 4:8 and
Mark 4:20 describes this stage.
In December- January 29- 30 AD a new educational system
for Gentiles was announced, to cover the period of 30 years that was believed
to be all that was left until the Eschaton, the year 4000, in 60 AD. The number
30 was capable of being divided into periods in the same way as the generation
of 40 years. It was "good soil" because the longest possible education, of 10
years, was to be given to intellectually capable Gentiles. There were 3 such
periods in the 30 years, so the seed would produce 30-fold in the 10 provinces.
Others with more limited capacity would be educated for 5
years - the 5 years that had been given to the "wheat" by the unrighteous steward.
With 6 such periods in the 30 years, there would be a 60 fold increase in the
10 provinces. A third group, those who were capable of less, would be given 3
years, making 10 periods and a 100 fold increase. The greater income would come
from those with less capacity, in accordance with the principle of "babes" and
"the mature" that governed the pesher device.
Parable of the Good Samaritan.
The parable of the Good Samaritan
(Luke 10:30-37) is in Luke's jubilee series, recording the history of Gentile mission. The Good Samaritan
story is placed at the pentecontads in 29 AD. Whereas the gospels record the
history of Jesus from that year onwards, this parable records the concurrent
history of John the Baptist and of Jonathan Annas, which set the scene for
Jesus.
John the Baptist, assuming leadership as the Teacher of
Righteusness in 26 AD (CD 1: 10-13), had adopted the zero jubilee that had been
added in 21 BC when there was no Restoration at the corrected year 3920. A way
out of the disappointment had been found by saying that the first jubilee since
creation should have been called a 0, and on this basis 3920 would not come
until 29 AD.
By 29 AD the hope for a Restoration had taken a new turn. It
had been intended for the Davids, the only candidates for a divinely approved
kingship. But now there was a new claimant, the man who aimed at restoring the
Herodian monarchy, who would become Agrippa I. Having been educated in Rome and
spent all his income on lavish entertaining in the hope of gaining the court's
favor, he was expelled by the thrifty Tiberius. He returned to his homeland,
bankrupt, in 23 AD. He attempted suicide, but was rescued by his relatives. It
appears from the pesher that he sought spiritual help from John the Baptist. At
the time of this parable he was closely allied with him.
The season for the Restoration would be the one favored by
the faction approved by heaven. It was hoped for in March, but when it did not
appear it was deferred until Pentecost in June. When it did not appear at that
date, John the Baptist was made to suffer. Whereas he had been preaching
successfully at the Essene Gate in Jerusalem, making proselytes in the
tradition of Hillel, he was demoted to the secondary proselyte synagogue at Mar
Saba, 12 hours down the wady. That place was called "Jericho" when the servants
of Agrippa were present at councils there, for the Herods had a palace in the
literal Jericho. So John the Baptist "went down from Jerusalem to Jericho".
Jonathan Annas was the current son of the Annas family, five
of whom would hold the high priesthood during the 1st century AD. As the abbot
at the Mird-Hyrcania abbey, he was closely involved with the ascetics, and
would use their influence to gain the high priesthood of the Jerusalem temple
for a short period in 37 AD. He was and remained a central figure in the life
of Jesus.
Jonathan was the Good Samaritan. He was called a Samaritan
because Sadducees, active in the Diaspora, did not consider the Jerusalem
temple to be the center of the world. "God does not live in a temple made with
hands"- the words of Jonathan as Stephen in
Acts 7:48.
Their main mission center was in their abbey in Caesarea in Samaria. Their pro-Diaspora attitudes
but not their politics were shared by the other kind of Samaritan, the Magians
of West Manasseh. Jonathan with all Sadducees stood for peace with Rome, and Simon
Magus for power over Rome through war when it was necessary. He was the "Bad
Samaritan", the word kakos "bad", used for his activities.
The reduction of the Baptist's power at the non-fulfilment gave
new confidence to the militants of the orders of Ephraim and Manasseh. They
were "thieves" because with the help of Theudas they had used the mission funds
to buy arms for their insurrections against the Romans. The leader of West
Manasseh, now Simon Magus, claimed to be a priest and accepted that title. The
leader of East Manasseh, now Judas Iscariot, was his levite. When the Baptist
was attacked and discredited at the council - left "half-dead" because he was
on the way to excommunication - they "passed by on the other side".
In September the Baptist at the age of 36 followed the
dynastic marriage rule as his Zadokite lineage required. In December he was
sexually active, so could no longer function in his office. While the surface
sense of the parable appears to say that the Good Samaritan took the Baptist to
the inn, the application of the rule of the last referent gives a different
sense for the events of the December pentecontad and subsequent days.
Agrippa was frequently found at Mird-Hyrcania, where mission
funds were stored in what had been Queen Salome's treasury. In the parable he
is called the "innkeeper" (pandocheus). After he returned, bankrupt, he
had allied with whichever faction in the mission would give him mission funds.
Judas Iscariot, the levite, was willing to give him support, representing a
royalist faction. Judas controlled the tithes that were paid for welfare for
the poor under the rule of CD 14: 12-15. It was Judas, the levite, who was
brought by the Good Samaritan from Mar Saba to Mird, both men riding on
donkeys, which were used for levitical transport.
Agrippa at Mird-Hyrcania was the head of the order of
Nazirites, as is shown in
Josephus, Antiquities 19, 294. He himself practiced
periods of Nazirite retreats from marriage, over a number of days determined
according to the grade letter. As the highest in the order, he was a Nazirite
for 100 days. Since Nazirites shaved their hair and beards when they returned
to marriage, they were said to be "shorn", and likened to sheep. Agrippa
appears as Sheep 100 in Luke 15:4.
While following the Nazirite vow he went down to the grade of a levite.
The Nazirite was a married man responsible for supporting
his family.Since he did not work during his retreat period, he could not pay
the welfare tithe for the poor that was due at the end of the month, and his
brother or another man acting as a brother paid it for him. Then when the
brother took his turn for the vow, the other man paid for him. The payment was
due on the 1st, the day after the end of the solar month. At the rate of a
denarius a day earned by workers
(Matthew 20: 2), the brother paid 2 denarii,
one for himself and the other for the Nazirite. It was the levite Judas who
paid that amount to Agrippa the innkeeper in v. 35 of the parable.
The maximum length of retreat, 100 days, was not in accord
with the structure of the solar calendar, for which a season of three months
lasted 91 days. Judas paid the money after the end of the third month, on the
solar 1st, as is made clear by epi tēn aurion in v. 35, "upon the
Tomorrow", meaning the solar 1st. In the year 29 AD in December, that date
fell December 24. There were 9 days, inclusive, from December 24 to January 1.
On January 1, 30 AD, Agrippa was to begin the new dating that was preserved in
much of Acts. He continued his 100 days up to and including that day, 91 + 9 =
100. Judas had paid the money on the solar 1st, but Agrippa was to continue the
use of the Julian calendar, observing the 1st of the Julian month as a feast
day. So when he finished his vow, January 1, he would give Judas his turn and
pay for him.
At the same time, the levite "cared for" Jonathan Annas the
Good Samaritan. Money that was needed for the support of abbeys came from the
welfare tithes for the Poor. Judas, administering that fund, supplied the
abbeys with what they needed, so cared for them.
Those at Mird-Hyrcania were, then, Agrippa the "innkeeper",
Jonathan Annas the abbot, and Judas Iscariot the levite. The Baptist had been
left behind, to enter his marriage period. Agrippa with his customary
manipulatve skills had brought together both anti-Roman militant royalists led
by Judas Iscariot, and pro-Roman Sadducees led by Jonathan Annas. It was
characteristic of the manipulative skills illustrated throughout his career.
But when further elements came into the mix, the alliance did not last.
By June of 30 AD the Twelve Apostles had been formed under
the leadership of Simon Magus, in opposition to Agrippa's ambitions. They
included Jesus, whose prospects as a returning David had been undermined by
Agrippa. From that time the actual history - by contrast with the apparent
history- was that of the maneouvres of Agrippa to obtain the return of the
Herodian monarchy, playing off the factions against each other, sometimes
winning and sometimes losing. In the course of it the factions themselves made
changes, sometimes anti-royalist, sometimes ready for a better monarchy. Behind
it all lay the power of Rome, and the tensions between those who thought it
heroism to resist Rome at the cost of their own lives, and those who saw in Rome
a more civilised way of life.
These tensions were the reason why Jesus was crucified. A
full and detailed account of the event is given in the gospels, and may be
discovered by the same methods that have yielded a full history from other
parts of the gospels and Acts.
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